The Beat of Sports

Kirby Smart made some headlines last week at SEC Media Days when he proposed moving the Florida-Georgia game out of Jacksonville and back on the schools campuses. David Whitley joins the show and talks about why both schools need Jacksonville more than they realize.

The SEC has won a lot of national championships in the BCS/College Football Playoff era, a lot more than the Big Ten but the SEC is a regional conference. Even with the additions of Oklahoma and Texas, most of the league's fans and alums live in the southeastern part of the country. The Big Ten has alumni in all 50 states and the SEC is not even close in the national distribution of alums like the Big Ten. It's not that there are not alums of SEC schools living in Phoenix. It's just that there are a lot more alums of Big Ten schools living in New York, Los Angeles, Chicao, Phoenix, Denver and on and on.

Camps are about to open and Matt Murschel joins the show with the latest on conference news and what league favorite could struggle.

All of the attention in college football has been on NIL but is there a chance that a union could be coming to college football?

With all of the reporting on the latest when it comes to College Football conference expansion talks Marc points out the bias that a lot reporters have against certain schools entering certain conferences.

The news came out late last week that amid a series of scandals, Vince McMahon is retiring from the WWE. Brian Fritz joins the show to talk about what happens next, and how long the retirement will last.

High school football camps are set to open and that means the season is right around the corner. Dan LaForest joins the show to talks about the upcoming camps, how NIL is about to take over high school football and more.

With the Big Ten media days about to kick off this week, the news on expansion talk has slowed down but Marc has a couple of nuggets which includes discussion involving Stanford.

Downtown Orlando was packed with fans of the growing sport and the thought of the area drawing 80,000 fans for two matches a decade ago was something most would have challenged. Saturday night was a celebration for fans of the sports, local organizers and leaders for putting on these events and a promotion for more nights like this.

The newest big time deal for a quarterback is here and it is Kyler Murray cashing in with a new contract from the Cardinals. Marc crunches the numbers and looks at how much of the salary should be devoted to the quarterback position. The number may surprise you.