The NBA schedule comes out today and are the Knicks back in Donovan Mitchell talks? Keith Smith joins the show to discuss those stories and more from around the association.
The first set of rankings for the AP Top 25 is out, so who got ranked too high? Matt Murschel joins the show to break it all down, talks about his voting process as well as give thoughts on the new football facility opened by the Florida Gators.
The NBA has made Christmas Day a marquee event for the league, but this year they will be facing some stiff completion when it comes to garnering attention because the NFL will also have some games on that Sunday.
In a wild discussion, Marc and Scott try to come up with the all-time Top 5 quarterbacks for the in-state pro teams and it did get a little weird finding a 5th signal-caller for each team.
In a NIL/Pay-for-play era most schools might prefer a portion of the dollars put into facilities shifted to the "collectives" each school has to basically acquire talent. Florida may be one of those schools with deep pocket donors that can build an $85M facility and still come to the table with millions each year to take care of players. But I think we have moved into a different time right now where the barbershop and virtual reality room becomes secondary to the $5M the coach needs to land a top 20 recruiting class.
The college basketball season is still off in the distance but there is some news in college hoops including potential changes to how the NCAA Tournament selects teams. Mike O'Donnell joins the show to discuss that as well as how the sport will handle the NIL world.
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