The Beat of Sports

Richard Hale joins the show for our weekly sports legal segment to talk about Rick Pitino's settlement with Louisville and more.

During the Florida-Kentucky game it looked as though a Wildcat player twisted the ankle of Gator QB Kyle Trask, now there was no penalty called and no punishment has been handed down, but should there be? Marc wonders if this is a situation where the school should do something or if the SEC should handle the discipline.

Emily Giambalvo from The Washington Post wrote about all 47 dogs from Michael Vick's kennel 12 years ago and what happened to them and how they changed an industry.

This weekend should be a big weekend for the Florida Gators as they square off against the Tennessee Volunteers, but it has now become just another week. Marc talks about how this rivalry doesn't have the luster that it once did but it is part of a run for the Gators that could help them win the SEC East.

20 years ago Miami was the talk of college football while they were still in the Big East, but in a few years they would be joining the ACC and in doing so would be part of one of the biggest shift in college football conferences. Marc runs through the history of what happened to the Big East as a football conference and the what if situation if UCF would've had the opportunity to join in.

Rick Allen joins the show to explain what a college athlete today does and can get and what a world would be liked owning their likeness and image and if they were paid

Most college football fans know the buyouts of their favorite teams coaches then they do most phone numbers, let that sink in for a second. Marc talks about how there are fan bases all across the country that are actively hoping that their team loses so that they can make a coaching change, looking at you FSU and Auburn.

Ben Austro of Football Zebras talks how the challenge on Pass Interference has gone in the first two weeks of the NFL season and why the Saints seem to still be getting calls against them.

Both Dan Mullen and Josh Heupel are in similar quarterback situations, they both have multiple options that they can go with. The Gators have both Kyle Trask and Emory Jones and both are expected to play against Tennessee, while UCF has Dillion Gabriel, Brandon Wimbush, and now Darriel Mack Jr in the fold. Marc talks about how both coaches have adapted to the times of getting all their options involving because they need to win now and have options in the future.

From The Athletic Josh Robbins joins the show to explain why the Magic picked up the options of three key players, including Markelle Fultz, which may indicate how healthy Fultz is. He and Marc also discuss how the team is set at the point guard position that they can let Fultz work his way into the starting lineup and if that doesn't happen until December they are okay with that.