The Beat of Sports

What is the realistic expectation for FSU just days before their season opener?

After months of speculation we finally got clarity with who will be the starting quarterback for UCF when they open the season against South Carolina State. Matt Murschel joins the show and talks about Gus picking with John Rhys Plumlee, and it's a game week for FSU.

How does the crypto down market impact all those sports sponsorships? Daniel Roberts joins the show to discuss what the market will mean for these large sponsorship deals that league and players have been signing over the past few years.

Last week Tiger Woods and several PGA Tour golfers met to discuss how the tour can complete with the exodus of golfers to LIV Golf. Marc talks about how some of the changes that were discussed sounds a lot like what LIV is already doing, and wonder if this proposed changes are coming too late.

An FSU fan will tell you that their program delivers "the Florida market" with fans stretched across the state. Yes, FSU has fans all over Florida. But they don't add any TV homes that the SEC already doesn't have. Every cable system in Florida already carries the SEC Network, even those in Tallahassee. And all those SEC games airing on the ESPN channels, already air all over the state. The same story applies when Miami fans tell the same thing about what they bring.

Sunday afternoon UCF Head Coach Gus Malzhan named Ole Miss transfer John Rhys Plumlee his starting quarterback. Plumlee gets the nod over Mikey Keene, who started the final ten games of the 2021 season.

The Lions continue their road trip as they square off against Charlotte FC, and Evan Weston joins the show to preview that match and breakdown the victory over the Red Bulls.

High school football is back and JC Carnahan joins the show preview all of the action happening across Central Florida.

The NBA schedule has been released, so how will the Magic schedule help and hurt their chances at improvement this upcoming season?

The news is out that Tthe Big Ten has finalzlied media rights contracts with CBS, Fox, and NBC for $8B over seven years and it will be the most lucrative conference media rights deal in history of college athletics. Marc Daniels joins the show to talk about that deal, what it will mean to other conferences and more.