The Beat of Sports

Here we go again, news comes out that UCF schedules a home and home series with a team that isn't Alabama or any other Power 5 school and the Twitter mobs come out. Marc takes this opportunity to remind everyone that no school formally offered UCF a 2 for 1 deal and that Danny White has a philosophy and is going to stick with it.

Tyreek Hill escaped any punishment from the NFL and was at training camp this weekend, he spent time talking to the media about his situation. Fans of the Chiefs were ecstatic to see their speedy wide receiver on the field, but Marc wonders why they are cheering so loudly for him. Are they ignoring all the off the field baggage that surrounds Hill?

After playing for the Knights Tristan Spurlock has spent time in the G-League as well as overseas, but during the summer he has been playing in The Basketball Tournament, the winner take all basketball competition. He joins the show to talk about why he decided to play in the TBT, why the end of games are so competitive, and if there could be a UCF next summer.

Do football programs get better recruits when they spend more money throughout the recruiting process? Andy Wittry from Stadium did a deep dive into the recruiting budgets of several programs to see if money spent leads to better recruits?

This weekend news came out that UCF has scheduled a home and home series with FIU beginning in 2020. This led to members of the national media to criticize Danny White for being too afraid to schedule Power 5 opponents. But Danny didn't stay quiet and took to Twitter to defend his scheduling philosophy.

The Boston Celtics announced yesterday that they signed 4 players including Tacko Fall. So what can Tacko bring to an NBA team, Mike O'Donnell joins the show to talk about that plus Marc gets his thoughts on the proposed changes to the WNBA All-Star Game.

Adrian Peterson has been in the news this week but for all the wrong reasons, basically he is broke. But is there anything that he can do and what can be done for other athletes to avoid this. Richard Hale joins the show to talk about that and other sports law news.

We are just weeks away from the start of the college football season, can you feel it? Mike Huguenin joins the show to preview the upcoming season and some of the things he is looking forward to. Him and Marc discuss the financial woes at FSU and the outrage at LSU for their new football facility.

Yesterday Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer had a couple viral moments during the introductory press conference for Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. Marc talks about how Steve Ballmer is the kind of person that every fan would want running their favorite team, impassioned and willing to spending to help put out a winning product.

When a student receives a scholarship to play sports at a university most just assume it means they can attend the school for free and get the play sports but there is much more to it than that. Greg Warmoth from WFTV joins the show to talk about what student-athletes get when they are on scholarship and how it basically means they are receiving payment.