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Foster and Friends Vol 137 "16-24"
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This week Bud and Mac tackle the debate on the College Football Playoff and possible future expansion to either 16 or 24 teams...as well as the death of NASCAR driver Kyle Busch.
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SPEAKER_10The focus was all on 16 with 8Q. That was it. And we dug in and I shared some metrics that we used to inform our position. I think that's the kind of leadership behavior we want this week.
SPEAKER_01Now, from the NSV radio network, Foster and Friends. Here's Bud and Matt.
SPEAKER_12It is Foster and Friends as we head into the month of June. Hard to believe.
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh. It was uh we got washed out, and uh except for the day of the wedding. And so I was so happy for the bride and groom, you know, as a good friend of ours. Uh daughter got married, and she played volleyball uh at the University of Charleston there in South Carolina, and now is a current uh uh assistant coach at William and Mary. She's marrying, married a um William and Mary grad. He's uh was captain of their football team. Um he's now an assistant coach, so they're both coach at William and Mary, but you talk about tall, athletic looking uh women and then large athletic looking men. I should have been a matchmaker this weekend and and just paired people together and then just set up their future for scholarships for their kids and all kinds of things like that.
SPEAKER_12You could have recruited, raised a little money.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, but there was just uh it was a great wedding. Uh I was just so happy for our friends. Their daughter got married, and um, and then um uh but yeah, it just was uh a bunch of good looking people and um the weather turned out great for the wedding, but other than that, it was just uh it was a washout down in Nag's head over the over the weekend. What is it about eat some good food though? I did eat some good suits.
SPEAKER_12You go to the beach, yeah. That's good.
SPEAKER_02That's good.
SPEAKER_12What is it about linebackers and linemen that just can't wear suits?
SPEAKER_02I mean, yeah, I tell you what, they're they did not look very good in suits now. The the the groom looked very good. The other guys, there were some big linemen, like you said. It kind of, you know, all of a sudden they look good for an instant, and then it just all of a sudden everything started uh uh you know coming undone, you know.
SPEAKER_12Uh yeah, I understand. Hey, we got some great feedback, and uh uh uh just what before we get into today's show, because we got a lot to cover, not only the SEC meetings, but the Kyle uh Bush tragedy and uh just a lot of stuff that happened with the you know of the weekend. There's just been a lot of news, a lot of uh sports things, but we got a lot of uh great feedback, but about uh unscripted. And I had a couple of people who who follow the podcast and also uh in Virginia who listened to the show in Charlottesville and uh and Stanton and our flagship station there with Joe. And and uh, you know, they they just said, man, it was great to hear Bud uh you know get in. I said we we really didn't scrap, you know, we need unscripted four, five, and six because it's like Rocky. We didn't really see we still got so much of Bud's life, you know, um to to cover, but we had we got some great response and uh uh you know our numbers were good and everything. It was uh it was just really you know good to hear. So just so you know. You're still the Pope.
SPEAKER_02You're still the Pope about all that, but it was fun to reminisce, and you know, it's uh sometimes it's for me to recollect some of these things. It's almost if I get asked a question, then it kind of you know kicks in the memory. But if I just want me to talk about it sometimes, it's just you know hard to do. But uh I'm glad to hear we got good feedback. And I did have a couple friends um locally that listened that uh kind of gave me that same kind of feedback.
SPEAKER_12Yeah, that's good. All right, a lot to cover. Uh, we're gonna get into the cowbush thing because Bud, of course, uh follows racing like I do. Uh, an emotional weekend all the way around with uh you know the Coca-Cola 600 as the the you know the ceremony and for for Kyle Bush, his family, and everything. It was really just a crazy weekend. That and we're gonna talk some uh SEC football and uh uh dive into some numbers for you, too. So that that's our show, and we'll continue. I promise you. When we come back, it's Foster and Friends, and this is the NSB Radio Network. Stay tuned.
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SPEAKER_06But to know that the person that helped mold who you were is paying attention, even though you're running against each other, is is super empowering. And it caught me by surprise, and I'll never forget that moment.
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SPEAKER_12It is Foster and Friends, and uh on this uh on this Saturday and Sunday, great to have you. Uh um the bump you just heard uh was the was Bubba Wallace. All the drivers in the world were being interviewed while Bud was on the road on Sunday. Of course, there was a lot of tribute and and really all weekend long after the cowbush death uh and uh and what was going on. I think, and and but I'll uh give you some airspace here in just a little bit, but I think the one thing that touched me over the weekend when the Coca-Cola 600 was about ready to start and they held a service, uh Steve O'Donnell was the is the CEO of NASCAR, and the way that their 11-year-old son, Braxton, held on to his mom and showed he showed an amount of strength for an 11-year-old I don't think I have ever seen. I mean, Samantha naturally uh, you know, it was it was heartbreaking for the family, certainly. I can't find the right words, but this this kid, this 11-year-old kid, um, and they fought through they fought through pregnancy and she had endometriosis and they had she had a miscarriage and they had a lot of, but now, you know, with the two kids. But this kid, Braxton was amazing. And uh, you know, Naska, 41 years old, and I'm trying to learn all I can about sepsis because of of what happened. Okay, now I'm done, I'm done spewing, so go ahead. How did how did when did you first hear about it and how'd you react?
SPEAKER_02Well, I mean, it was just uh I just saw it came across like the um on my phone. It's like, oh my god, and I had to say, are you kidding me? I didn't know if it was real before even before it came like on a ticker or anything. And and uh um, and then my son called me, who is uh loves NASCAR like I do, and always has been a Kyle Bush fan. And uh just was you know, you're just taken back. I mean, just I mean, how can this happen? And you know, he was just talking about a race before that he was having issues, he needed a shot, you know. I don't know what that shot would do, but uh um, you know, he just uh and then to just succumb to this. And as I've done the research, number one, it's just devastating. You're talking about one of the all-time great drivers of in the history of the sport, uh, you know, of uh of race car driving. I mean, the winningest all-time driver, you know, in all series, and and all the guy did was just compete and win. I mean, uh his stat his stats are unbelievable when you start looking at just what he's done, you know, uh in NASCAR. But as I dove into this sepsis, and particularly for young people, um, it's hard to identify and recognize. And I think that's what one of the things they it happened with him. I mean, he'd been battling pneumonia. Um, and I, you know, so and I don't know, I've never had it, so I don't know all the treatments that personally you have to get to um you know to beat that and to get better with that. But uh obviously he's in the middle of a season and he's a competitor and he's moving forward, yeah. And um was gonna set out a race, I think. He was gonna set this race out, right? And uh just to get healthy. And unfortunately, though, he was, I guess, in a simulator, and uh when everything kind of kicked in for him and became unresponsive, and you know, it's just a tragic, tragic loss. But um, I mean, and I got a chance to see the Coca-Cola 600, and I got a chance to see how everybody was reacting uh to him, you know, him and his family. I got a chance to see his family. You know, it brings a tear to your eye. But this guy was just a phenomenal competitor, um, uh, uh, an elite driver, an elite champion. Uh, and you know, you just hate to see uh a great life lost too early.
SPEAKER_12Drivers hated him and they loved him, you know. Like Dale Lernard Jr., they were trying to, I mean, they had so many run-ins, but then later in their life they're trying to figure out how to do business together, you know. The thing about um, so anyway, real quick, a soundbite from Steve O'Donnell, who's the CEO. He held a press conference before he made the uh introductions at the track and had the service uh at the track in the moment of silence. But Steve O'Donnell probably summed uh Kyle Bush's life and career. Uh, you know, he he summed it up pretty well.
SPEAKER_11And all of us um grew up and and watched Kyle be a racer, but we watched him become a husband and a and a father the same way we watched him become a champion. And and we all did that as a family. Uh, we're all part of that. Kyle's parents, Kurt, Samantha's parents, all thinking about you for sure. And Samantha, Brexton, and Lennox um are not just family of a NASCAR legend. They are part of the NASCAR family, and they always will be.
SPEAKER_12All right, CEO Steve O'Donnell of uh NASCAR. It was kind of eerie too, because after Kyle won the truck race uh at Dover, during his press conference, he said, if this is the last race I ever win, you know, he made that comment in the press conference. Like, oh, okay, all right. But the whole the whole managing of if if with the way my wife explained it too, when you get pneumonia, whatever, it's like you've you've got to get to treatment right away because of what with the what sepsis can do. And again, I'm not a doctor, I don't, you know, but it can invade your lungs, and you can literally almost just shut down, you know, breathing and and being able to handle it. So Samantha had three wishes, she said. She went on TikTok, actually did a TikTok video. She said that there were three wishes that Kyle had. One, uh, that she would mentor Braxton in his racing career, two, establish a foundation for infertile families, and three, a stricter medical system with NASCAR. In other words, running more tests on drivers, especially after uh what happened. And Steve O'Donnell said, you know, um, hey, this is uh Kyle Bush is NASCAR, but uh, but he apparently didn't want a a funeral per se or a big uh you know, anything, anything big. And he had he had already put that down in in writing before uh it all unfolded, you know, over the weekend. So yeah, tragic, tragic loss for sure to NASCAR.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you know, you look at that, just what you said in the end. I mean, you you think of these drivers, and yeah, they're they're they're they're not um, you know, they're not NFL football players. Everybody tries to compare, you know, but these guys, they're in a in a car. The temperatures that they deal with, the collisions that they have is probably is worse than football players, you know, and they luckily they don't do it that much, but they a guy like Kyle Bush has been through several in his career. But looking at the health of these drivers is is really, I think, extremely important because it's just a growing season. You think about how many, what is it, 36 races they have, and and I mean it's just and it and they go from a race to their representing their their sponsors. It's just a it's a whirlwind for those guys. And it's it's seven days a week for about you know uh 10 months out of the year. And um, I mean, it's just a I'm sure it's wear and tear on these guys physically, mentally, and on their families. And so I think that there needs to be a look at, you know, um looking after these guys, you know, and it is because it's maybe that people don't look at it being the most grueling because you we drive on the interstate and think, okay, I can go be a race car driver. But if you got in one, if you got in one of those seats that like gonna drive along or any of those kind of things, right? You talk about an you know a rush and an experience, and then you try to put yourself in with 40 other people.
SPEAKER_12Good point.
SPEAKER_02I don't know how those that's a skill set that is second to none.
SPEAKER_12I uh I've we've told the story million times. I did it once at Charlotte Motor Speedway, actually got to drive, uh, climbed into the window, they gave you your steering wheel and uh drove eight laps, averaged like 140 something. It was, I mean, I had a whole new respect, uh, especially coming out of Turnfort Charlotte when the sun's coming over the grandstand and for like a split second you can't see. Yeah. So yeah, it's a whole new respect. All right. Um, anyway, rest in peace, Kyle Bush. All the best to the uh Kyle Bush family. Uh Tony Stewart, who covered the ND500, by the way, and that fantastic finish. But Tony Stewart uh was uh very, very uh he was great. And uh, and and so was Danica and Patrick and their coverage and in covering uh Kyush. All right, so the other major story is happening, uh it's happened this past week in Destin, Florida, the SEC meetings, and uh I'm gonna go over some numbers with Bud and to see if we're ever gonna get to 24, but it's certainly not gonna be, and I'm of course talking about the playoff, it's not gonna be this year. Bud and I come back. This is Foster and Friends and the NSB Radio Network. When you walk into a restaurant, say your favorite pizza place, what's the first thing you notice? The way it smells, the vibe, maybe the party atmosphere. If you're traveling in Southwest Virginia or lucky enough to live in the Radford area, hopefully you have visited Brickhouse Pizza, a staple since 1972. Brickhouse Pizza has become a legendary stop. Jeff and Diane's Main Street attraction features artisanal wood-fired pizza with fresh ingredients prepped every day. Brickhouse's pizzas are made with flour imported from Italy. Throw in the recipe for their homemade brew, and you have the recipe for fun. Brickhouse Pizza is open Tuesday through Friday at 3 30, Saturdays at 11.30, and the Sunday brunch begins at 10. Fresh food, cold beer, great times. That's Brickhouse Pizza, 311 West Main Street in Radford.
SPEAKER_10One of the conference meetings I saw one day a commitment to this number, and the next day a report why it wouldn't work. Like to avoid that kind of thing.
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SPEAKER_12It's Foster and Friends as we get ready to jump into June. Hard to believe that uh and to me officially June 1 means summer is here. So that's uh right around the corner. Uh the bump coming in was uh Greg Sankey talking about the number debate, and he has handled this whole thing pretty well. When I talk about the number, but we're course talking about the CFP. ACC Big Ten, they aren't, you know, they held their meetings, Big 12, they held their meetings. Hey, let's go to 24. They're all ready to jump to 24. But I love Greg Sankey, the SEC commissioner, who says, not so fast. Here's here's what we got. Uh, Greg Sankey could run for uh he could run for president. I I've always liked him even better now because he's just taking this thing in stride. And uh the coaches of the SEC are all saying, we don't make the decision. They're they're all getting asked this past week, all getting asked, you know, they all were quizzed. Do you think we should have 24 teams in the college football playoff? And Greg Sankey's going, not so fast. But should we go to 24 or what should we do? Huh?
SPEAKER_02You know, we've gone round and round with this already, too. But there's it's interesting. I mean, I'm I'm I'm kind of like him. And we talked about it a little bit last week about um, you know, just um or you know, just we've just we're moving so fast, I think. And that's kind of think what Greg Sankey's looking at. I mean, we're I know we're good. We're 12 teams, we're 12 teams through 2026 still, which we've gone from two to four now to twelve, you know, and really just in a short period of time. And we're we're scheduled to go to you know, in 27, 16. Now they're talking about 24. Now, you know, I know what happens when you when you start talking about this. I know what the SEC, they're they're they make so much money and they're such a tradition with their SEC championship game. And I know we talked about this before. I love declaring a champion, and um, I think that's what you play for. That's the cool thing about you know that that's the and I do think this though, what's happened though, and like with the University of Virginia this last year, who had a tremendous year, they got me and then they got kicked that they weren't in the in the playoffs, which I think is totally absurd. I think the two teams that play for the championship probably deserve to be in the playoffs now across the board, across the board, yeah. That make an automatic qualifier that's maybe not like Duke was not in the top 20, you know, um, but which Virginia was in that top, they were in that top tier of the playoff rankings. Uh so one game kind of eliminates them, you know, and being at the championship game. I think it's a body of work besides uh, and that's what the 24 does. But also the 24, they're talking about eliminating conference championship games. And you know, and I'm not a big proponent for and for the the Big Ten to get four automatic bids, the SEC to get four automatic bids, and then you know, the Big 12 and the ACC only get two.
SPEAKER_12Yeah, what four, four, two, one, yeah, as they're modeled.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I don't, I'm not for that uh because it's just the and and to me I don't it's just to me, it's like the SEC and the Big Ten, and they can do that now. They they're the bullies because they they've got the revenue right now. You know, 10 years ago it wasn't that way, but all of a sudden the last 10 years, this financial um discrepancy has just changed the power brokers within this whole thing. And it's really like the Big Ten and the and the SEC have aligned themselves, and now the SEC doesn't want to be bullied by the Big Ten. So they're now talking about, well, we can go do our own thing. You know, there's even that kind of talk right now. And um, and I don't know, you know, how you know they're if they could survive. I mean, I think you know, you just you've got 16 teams. I don't think that's enough uh when it's all said and done. But why doesn't you know just get everybody involved? The SEC, the the Big 12, the Big Ten, the ACC. There's only counting Notre Dame in those four college or conferences, there's 69 teams. I mean, that's enough to really create a tremendous power situation and a tremendous playoff. And then however you work in the group of five, however that type you know that may be, or whether you go regularly. Regulation. I don't know. But I I just, you know, I know the 24 it it creates a wider net uh playoff participation. I think it uh it's kind of like baseball. You know, I remember with baseball when they started doing the you know all the the the um you know the other teams adding the C you know with that initially I was because I was a traditional yeah yeah yeah but it it keeps teams and you know with the with the with the at large or you know the the it it just allows teams to play through to the end, you know, and it gets your you know there's excitement nationwide, there's excitement with your fan base. So I think that's one thing that that that may create a little bit of when you start adding a couple teams, you know, to um to that. I mean there's there's the pros and cons for it. I still believe in a strong and a conference champion. I still believe that's there's merit to that, there's power in that, that's what you're playing for.
SPEAKER_12Um you know, and then uh So you believe in the conference championship game in early December.
SPEAKER_02You think that that's not Yeah, I I don't know if if I both you know there's a if there's a conference championship game or you just there is a true champion and you have a chance to get it. You know, if they're gonna do away with the championship game, you have to have there's and then you have to have just like in the NFL, you have to have um, you know, as far as your uh tiebreaker system and that type of thing. That's kind of what happened with the ACC this year a little bit, you know. Right, right. And you know, um uh but and even Notre Dame and Miami, kind of when it got down to it. Because you play 16 or you do 24, you know, 17, 18, 19, uh and 20 or 25, 26, 27, 28, they're all gonna be upset, you know. But I will say this those those uh fan bases, um, you know, they're gonna be those stadiums, I hope, will be full to the very well with the more home games.
SPEAKER_12I mean, certainly, but you're also getting called okay. Greg Sankey, and you're gonna love this. And as a matter of fact, this might end up as a sticky note on your computer because uh Greg Sankey and I listen to a lot of press conferences, but when he spoke last, I think it was Tuesday, when he spoke last Tuesday, he came up with a phrase that uh uh I just I enjoyed, and you're gonna love it. It's called leadership behavior, and that's what he told his conference, that's what he wanted.
SPEAKER_10What I've encouraged them to do is to fulfill our leadership responsibility to understand before we commit. Don't just pick a number. So remember last year when we were here, the focus was all on 16 with AQs. That was it. And we dug in and I shared some metrics that we use to inform our position. I think that's the kind of leadership behavior we want this week.
SPEAKER_12Yeah, leadership behavior. That's what you know from his ADs and everything. And Clark Lee, the Vanderbilt head coach, who you know, he said, Look, we're all getting asked about whether we should expand. It's not us. You know, Kirby Smart said, I we just want what's good for football. That's what Nick Saban was all about. He goes, We have no say so. It's the ADs and the presidents, you know, and who who are gonna end up voting for it. But as Greg Sankey told the, you know, the typists in the MacBooks, he said, Look, we're not just gonna sit here and pick a number.
SPEAKER_10We have time for decisions about that. Are we committed? We started and nobody followed immediately. They did over time. Um, and it set us apart. So that's not something you just walk away from because in the moment there's a little bit of pressure. You want to be thoughtful about how you do that. And I'd take that back to our view of the playoff. I don't know how other people inform their perspectives. You know, one of the conference meetings I saw one day a commitment to this number, and the next day a report why it wouldn't work. Like to avoid that kind of thing.
SPEAKER_12Yeah, he doesn't want to get into all right, 16th. What are we gonna do? Listen, all right, let's throw it to a vote. Let's vote today. No, he's not.
SPEAKER_02I I get that. Let's let's, you know, we're probably just moving too quickly. And then he wants more, you know, and I understand the Big 12 and the ACC. They just don't they want to be able to get it to where they can have more participants and not just be you know run by the Big Ten and the SEC. But you know, there's so much to talk about the playoffs as they expand because I think it's important, in my opinion. The bowls and the and the home sites and things of that nature, we've got to figure that out because the first round of the playoffs right now, uh they're at they're at the home site of the more higher seat. The second round goes to a bowl game, correct. Which yeah, it's an honor to maybe to have a buy, but there's been only one team that has won that didn't play the week before. And that was Indiana last year, you know, and they didn't have a that's not a home site, you know. And I I think until maybe they get to the semifinal is maybe where you just go to a bowl site. But prior to that, in my opinion, I think it needs to be like an NFL or uh a pro model uh that you play at the higher seed site. I think there's something to that. There's that's part of what you play for the season, too. If they're not gonna determine a uh, you know, like champions, then it goes to that higher seed, you know. And uh so I think that's in that's part of uh, you know, having a good season is having a home field advantage sometimes, you know. And that happens in all all sports other than college football right now, you know. And I do think, and I do think this we wait too long for those teams to play. If you are the higher C team, your season, and that's part of the thing right now, is they want to talk about let's start playing immediately. And I think they do need to do that. I just know this playing in a national championship game, we didn't play for like 31 days until we're gonna be able to do that. That's great. And that's happens here. You you're your teams are playing or setting out for 20 20 days before they play a game, and then missing two weeks of it. Yeah, there's not an advantage to that other than trying to get healthy, but you lose timing. There's a lot of things and variables and factors that go into performance, and I think that affects the performance once all the time.
SPEAKER_12And missing two weeks of the spring semester because they can't get to school because they're so proud. Yeah, with all that. All right. We'll go to break, we'll come back. Are the rich getting richer? We'll explain why. This is fostering friends, and this is the NSB Radio Network. Stay with us.
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SPEAKER_08I think the reports of what people say people are paying based on evaluation of players, I don't think those are necessarily true. Like I saw a valuation of what we pay our roster. I think that's at minimum $10 million off.
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SPEAKER_12Welcome back. It is Foster and Friends. And uh before we, you know, leave today, we got a couple of things of uh business we want to do. And one of the things I want to talk about was uh uh the the roster costs. And there was a release this week, not only Fox News, um, but there is a a new entity, and it's not all that new. There's a guy named Noah Henderson, who uh who is the director of sport management program and assistant clinical professor at Loyola, and he has started a thing called the College Front Office. And the college front office, bud, is uh from him. I listened to a couple of interviews with him, and I'm gonna try to get him on our show um because he is he he is really a proponent of let's try to make things as equitable as we possibly can. Now, uh Steve Sarkezian spoke up at the SEC meetings because he was asked about the roster and how much Texas is saying that they're paying their guys, what their football roster valuation is. Um, it's estimated at 50 million. Steve Sarkezian doesn't think so.
SPEAKER_08I don't think there's a team in our conference that doesn't pay at minimum 30 million for their roster. I think there are some that are close to 50 million. I think the reports of what people say people are paying based on uh valuation of players, I don't think those are necessarily true. Like I saw a valuation of what we pay our roster. I think that's at minimum $10 million off.
SPEAKER_12Okay. Well, according to another report, as I said, so the college front office, uh, they've launched a nil standard website. Okay, and they have this, so they've got the top 25, they got and the ACC and so on and so forth. Texas leads at 47.9 million. That's nil. That's not revenue share. Okay. Miami is two, LSU three, Oregon four, Ohio State rounds out the top five. And then, of course, you know, all the big players are there. Tennessee, Notre Dame, they're in the top 10. I think the SEC had six of the top 15 as far as schools and you know, and and where the money's come from. Now, we have cried and talked and uh all about uh about equitable and equitable rosters. Okay, let's break down the uh the ACC. Miami is the leader at 44.9, Clemson is two, 28.4, Florida State is at 27.6, then there's Virginia at 27.1. They put a lot of money into it, but Virginia Tech is number five at 24.3, just three million behind, as far as the the football team valuations from a name image likeness standpoint.
SPEAKER_02Okay. That that that surprises me because all the teams you mentioned before uh all had winning records.
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SPEAKER_02And you know, we're three and nine. And uh I I that just tells me we're paying good money to bad players. I mean, that's uh I mean really, I mean, where these other programs, you know, they they they I mean Virginia, you saw what what that what that did, and you're talking about at this level, I think three million dollars. Yeah, it may make a difference in a quarterback or a you know, maybe a Russian end or a left tackle. But it's not you know that you're talking about 11, you know, 21 other guys on the field, you know.
SPEAKER_12And you know, Arch Manning takes the the the Texas level up there a little bit. Yeah, the the the only reason this this comes into play, and I'm I'm gonna get back to another point, North Carolina's third from the bottom in the ACC as far as roster valuation, okay, at 22.5. North Carolina and Stanford, which I would, you know, tons of money, they're at 21.3. Okay, what does this mean? Here's what here's what it means. If you've got Stanford at 21.3 and you got Texas at 47.9, okay. I'm just saying that this is a gap that somehow needs to equally we need to, in other words, there needs to be a cap and this needs to be put under control. Am I right? And that's what Noah Henderson is talking about in front office board.
SPEAKER_02Exactly, and that's what all the coaches want too, for the most part. I do believe this. They want can they want to be a governing body, and they're and and but until until we probably get um Congress, this House, the Senate, you know, uh Capitol Hill involved, until we get some kind of antitrust, collective bargaining, all those kind of things involved, um, it's not gonna happen, you know. And um, and it's gonna get to a point if we don't get it under control. You're you're you're you know, you start talking about just how the you're hearing universities and athletic departments crying the blues right now how much deficit they're they're involved in. Um but you can make this thing right with a big time TV contract, and and people are starving for college football to be that. It's the it's the number one sport in in in all of sports, you know, and in fan base and everything. And uh it's exciting, but I think they everybody wants to see it under control, right? And they're all for the players and whatnot, but I do think we need to get it under control and have some kind of cap because we still, as we talked about, there they're still young people, and you can I have concerns about what's gonna happen in a few years from now, the results of some of this thing. We got to get it under control and get the right in the right benefit for these guys as student athletes, because it's men and women in all sports, but we've we've got to get it right for them uh to have a foundation to have them have success out after after sports.
SPEAKER_12You're right. And see, it's a it's a vicious circle with the television contracts, which you know are not totally equitable, but as it goes around in this school, these schools are gonna get more because of this and this and this, you know. And so at some point we're gonna all right. Just for fun, before we uh before we close this segment, how would you like to hear Kurt Signetti's bonus contract and what he did last year? You want to have you have you yeah, I'd like to hear that. Have you looked this up? I thought you would I have not. All right, here was his bonus, here was his bonus. All right, at his last year JMU he made $677,000 at JMU, and then he moved on. All right, so now he's at $11.6 a year in the middle of an eight-year, $93 million deal. That's his contract, okay? Here was his bonuses from last year in the run, 16-0, and what a national, what a quarterback could do for you. All right, his fifth Big Ten win, he got $100,000. His sixth wasn't worth $150,000. The Big Ten championship was a million. The first round appearance in the CFP was $500, the quarterfinal was $600, the semifinal was $700, the national championship appearance was a million, and then when you win it all, it was a two million dollar bonus.
SPEAKER_02Uh, did you do he made another five million dollars on top? Yeah, but whatever. I'm just throwing that number out. I know bonus. That's exactly you know what? Corporate corporate people across the world make big time bonuses for performance, right? And you know, so that's an incentive for him. Now, I'd be curious what his assistants, if they had any kind of that Coach Beamer had for us. Yeah, that we had some incentives for us at you know, and our you have to do that.
SPEAKER_12It's like if you have a sales staff, you see you incentives, you incentify your whole sales staff. That's exactly right.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you know, and that's one thing why I think coach, we had we we our staff stayed with coach for as long as we did because we were we had success. Yeah, we we got we were rewarded, we were rewarded for that success.
SPEAKER_12It's just a matter of taking care of the people who are doing doing the work and getting the wins. So that's why I I had to laugh this past week because when Kurt Signetti finally smiled on the field when he was being interviewed after the championship against Miami, and and this she says, Well, coach, what are you gonna do? He goes, I'm gonna go have a beer. Yeah, no kidding with a five million dollar bonus. Yeah, I understand.
SPEAKER_02I'd have several, I'd have several beers.
SPEAKER_12I'd still be, I'd still be having so anyway. All right, we're gonna break, come back. Um, what should you be watching this summer? You know, yes, summer is for outdoor activities, but boy, there's just a couple of good things that you need to be uh to be watching, and Bud and I are gonna walk you down that path. We'll uh be back. This is Foster and Friends, NSB Radio Network.
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SPEAKER_07Mountain biking, actually. I'm not much of a fisherman. You ride bikes?
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SPEAKER_12Welcome back. It's Foster and friends. So much for uh college football and everything that's happened. Uh, I told Bud that uh I spend way too much time at night with television. But I get wrapped up in series and I get wrapped up in some things. Right now I'm so wrapped up with Beth Dutton, Kelly Riley, who is the British actress, and that's who you just heard coming in uh from a scene from Yellowstone. Uh, she's been described as wild woman, unencumbered, liberating. I mean, that and those are Kelly Riley. Kelly Riley is just fabulous. But Dutton Ranch has got Annette Benning in it now, and is going to be worth you watching because it's more than just ranching and cows and fires and fights. This is a drug cartel is gonna be involved, and it's gonna get really good. Because now uh Rip, who I really, really like, and then but they move from Montana to Texas, so they're in Texas now. Uh a town called Rio Paloma. I don't know if it's a real town or not. In Texas, you become a Kelly Riley fan too, right? So from Yellowstone.
SPEAKER_02I mean, she's one of those women you you you love and you hate and intimidate you all the same, you know. Same time. That's right. A great character, and then I didn't realize she was an English actress till I you know till I pulled up and listened to her talk. And that from a personal standpoint, I love a woman with an accent, you know, a person with an accent, you know. But yeah, um, I tell you what, I mean, it's just uh I'm anxious to watch this because I I I I was a fan of Yellowstone. Um Jesse was not because of the violence and the shoot-em-ups and all those things. She just, you know, uh, she doesn't like this action pack. But uh it doesn't surprise me that uh that there's gonna be violence continues to follow uh the Duttons as and and Rip and Beth as they move forward and uh carrying on that.
SPEAKER_12Well, there's so many, there were so many storylines in Yellowstone. And Kevin when Kevin Costner left, there was rumored that he got in this whole big fallout with Taylor Sheridan, who was writing all the I mean, he's written Tulsa King. So Taylor Sheridan gets all these great characters and writes for him, and he knows he's just everything he touches. But Kevin Costner wanted to do another series, and that's where he did a Western thing called Horizon that failed miserably, and so he stepped away and they killed him on Yellowstone, and now but Rip and they kept Rip and Dutton, uh Beth Dutton together, and uh so Dutton Ranch, you gotta see it. All right, um, transitioning before we leave. We we have we have proud partners, we have really good people. We uh we love our uh you know the people the the envisioned folks and Scott and Becky, and of course, you know, uh just the people who support us. We gotta say something about Charlie Cosmato, huh? What did you mean? Charlie's got some got some good news. River City's got some good news.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he told me over the weekend we were he was at the wedding too. He we were sitting down having a uh having a win vodka.
SPEAKER_12He brought his own, of course.
SPEAKER_02Charlie made us a bloody merry with uh and uh he said, Hey, by the way, I've got great news. The win vodka was just labeled gold, got the gold label um of you know from Virginia ABC. Now he explained the process. To me, but he had to go to Richmond and sit down in front of a group of people. He said the facility was tremendous what they went to, and it's all the brands that are Virginia brands on the wall. It's like it's a big bar, and uh there's whatever the judges or whoever the people that evaluate everything and put the label, but I think there was like 88 uh different brands that they were trying out and when vodka was the top honor. So that is that that really uh it's a process to get on ABC's uh so that promotes distribution then. That promotes distribution it will promote that as well as promote an opportunity to get us on the shelf. It's a process, it's just not one and done when you go to the you know the report. It could be several times before they approve you, but this is a big step. And uh number one, it's a big uh honor for Charlie and and the work that he's put into this thing. And uh I'm happy for him and uh and his partners at River City Distillery. And but this is a this is yeah, this is big news, and and so we're getting closer and closer for everybody in the state of Virginia and around the country.
SPEAKER_12How good is that to be able to get yeah, that's sorry to interrupt you. That's going to enhance your foundation, right? Because he's given money for that's why it's a win, that's why you the lunch pail is on the bottle of of win vodka, right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, right now a dollar of every bottle will go to how about that? You talk about some uh automatic uh help for our our foundation and making an impact. I mean, we're making an impact already, but all of a sudden you talk about you sell a million bottles of wind vodka, that's a million dollars to come to the Lunch Bell Defense Foundation. That's if I can make I've got big visions for Charlie.
SPEAKER_12If I can get him to ship to Florida, I know we're gonna raise money for the for the but you know what, Mac, it's too easy marketing.
SPEAKER_02I mean, you could be uh Miami Dolphin fan. You can say, hey, enjoy your win. Dolphin fans, enjoy your win. You know, Texas Longhorn fans, enjoy your enjoy your victory with a win, you know. That's right. Besides the hookies, you know.
SPEAKER_12That's right. That's what he says in his commercial. It's a good day for a win. So that's uh that's uh congratulations. Well, but hey, have a good weekend. I hope things go well uh this weekend, and um we'll certainly talk to you next week. A lot more to cover next week. So it's good to see you.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you too. I hope uh I hope you have continued great weather. We need to dry out here in Virginia. I mean, it's I'll tell you what, it's beautiful and green, but now it needs to be sunny and bright, and we can get out on the boats and have some uh, you know, yes, exactly.
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SPEAKER_06And he was like, I didn't want to be in the spotlight and take your moment away, but I'm so proud of you. And I don't I don't look for confirmation from from any of the drivers because we're all out here to compete against each other. But to know that a person that helped mold who you were is paying attention, even though you're running against each other, is is super empowering. And it caught me by surprise, and I'll never forget that moment.
