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Foster and Friends Vol 130 Tournament Takes
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From a crazy first week of the NCAA mens and women's tournaments, Bud and Mac break down the headlines. Foster and Friends also analyzes the "Chandler Morris Story." The Virginia quarterback is requesting a 7th year of college eligibility and is going to court to fight the NCAA.
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SPEAKER_13Coach, uh, what did you generally what do you think went wrong? What do you mean?
SPEAKER_01Just because you missed a shot doesn't mean something wrong. We had open looks, we had shots at the basket, we had executed plays, and sometimes the ball doesn't go in.
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SPEAKER_06Welcome in. It is Foster and Friends and our tournament takes. Uh, that's the name of the show today, Bud Foster's here. We have a lot to cover, a lot to do uh because of what has happened this past week. The Hubert Davis firing, and also uh we're gonna slip into some football. And a new album has been released. So we'll talk more about that in just a little bit. One of Bud's one of Bud's favorites. So anyway, hey, how are you doing, big guy? You got your you got your members jacket on. You look good today. A little bone.
SPEAKER_16Yeah, I got my uh lunch pail defense foundation vest on, and uh I am I'm feeling I'm feeling good, knees feeling better.
SPEAKER_06That's good.
SPEAKER_16Well, I had a I had physical therapy uh uh yesterday. I have it today. We're going back to back, so it gives me double opportunity to uh punch my therapist, and uh and like I said, that's that's in total respect. I would not do that, you know. But uh he's uh he's getting me to the other side. So everything everything's good. Everything is good. Yeah, we just I just wanted to warm up a little bit more. We had a taste of uh over the weekend, we had a taste of the 80-degree mark again. I know it turned around and it's damn 40, you know. It's like uh but it is marked still.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, you coined the phrase when you coined the phrase physical terrorist, it was one of the great that's one thing. I'm gonna save that, use it somewhere. It's perfect, isn't it?
SPEAKER_16They are the good ones, they the good ones you feel like they're a terrorist. I mean, they are terrorizing your body, and uh, but uh anyway, how are you doing? How's the weather?
SPEAKER_06No, it's pretty I don't I'm not gonna brag. I'm not gonna brag. It's been perfect. If I told you we had rain yesterday, it wouldn't make any difference because it was 80 degrees, and my wife wanted that she went into a uh, you know, one of those pressured water uh kicks cleaning everything under the sun, and I had to man the hose. So I was playing fireman yesterday. So anyway, it's all good. All right, what was your reaction to uh the NC2A tournament? We'll get into the Huber Davis firing uh from this past week, but um the VCU upset, you know, Phil Martelli Jr. loved to see it. Happy for him, happy for VCU, but boy, it cost uh it cost Huber Davis his job.
SPEAKER_16No, uh you hate that. You don't wish that upon anybody, and I know Hubert's one of their own. That's the hard part, I think, in that decision. I mean, he was a player, he was an assistant coach, uh, now has been the head coach, they've had success, went to the championship game a couple years ago, and that's hard. But there's such high expectations of that that program, and uh so that's the last couple years have not been to the standard that they look towards. But I hated it for Hubert. I mean, he had one of the better freshman uh basketball players in the country, you know, and Caleb Wilson, who really just missed the last, you know, what, 10, 12 games of the season. That that was he was a that was a big factor because he was a difference maker. Yeah, and uh, but that just goes to show you the pressure that these guys are on now. With and I know that they were talking about the roster payment um of uh uh of um North Carolina and did they uh underachieved and in the powers that be, I guess they felt that way. And but that's the pressure that now is under on these coaches that if you well, regardless of what the sport is, you know, you pay for the talent, you better win with the talent. If not, your your longevity's not gonna be very long.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yeah, good point. Uh good show today. We're gonna honor Kenny Brooks to continues to win. But Kenny had just some wonderful things to say, and uh he's one of our favorites, and we've talked to him before, so we're gonna do that. Also, the take on the Chandler Morris thing, because right now that's a story that's surfacing, and a lot of folks have stepped up to say, Hey Chandler, uh, and we're talking about the the former quarterback at Virginia. Hey, Chandler, you don't deserve a seventh year, a seventh year because he is taking it to court. We'll get into that. As we said, one of Bud's favorites, mine too, love him to death. They've released a new album. So we're gonna introduce that to you as well. So it's Foster and Friends, NSB Radio Network, the Hubert Davis story. When we come back, this is Foster and Friends.
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SPEAKER_06Welcome back, Foster and Friends. And the sound you just heard, uh, the button that we're listening to was the VCU finish over North Carolina, a 19-point comeback that eventually, uh, this past Tuesday cost Huber Davis uh the job. We'll get into this press conference in just a little bit and also tell you who the who the Tar Heels are thinking about. And you know, bud, you you were discussing money before we uh started to record today. You were talking about money and and all the things going into schools. Now, you know, Carolina's looking at a$700 million uh move of the Dean Dome. They want to take it to a place called Carolina North or something like that. It's an off-campus and a and a lot of stakeholders are saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't move the dean dome. Uh, we like our 21,000 seats. Some of the Carolina officials, the brass, are saying we want 16,000. Maybe they're having trouble selling 21,000 now, which schools do, but they want to move it to off-campus. But like Tyler Hansborough, you know, former center, has he stood up and said, Whoa, whoa, whoa, no, keep it, keep it on campus, keep it right there. You know, so anyway, there's a there's a lot of a lot of talk about a lot of things, a lot of money, but Hubert Davis uh will be replaced after five years.
SPEAKER_16Yeah, I hate to hear that. And I'll go back to this real quick about the facility. I hate to see I'd hate to see them move that off campus. It's it's one of the iconic arenas in college basketball, like rough arenas off campus, but you know, that's uh I just I you think and that's the thing is they do put it, they they pack it. And and I know this, there's they're the the um administrators are looking for ways to yeah, maybe make places a little more intimate, but also make them where they can make money off of them too. So I could see Carolina reducing the seat seating area to you know sixteen thousand, but then also creating more premium type seats, you know, and that would generate revenue uh for basketball more so than maybe you know adding another couple thousand students, you know, in this in the stands. All of a sudden you you create a couple thousand premium seats and suites and boxes that uh but it would cost less to do that than it would to go build almost a billion dollar new basketball complex and that type of thing. But uh uh hey, yeah. You just hate to see I I as being I'm I'm a traditionalist that way. I love on-campus facilities. It's just it's a great atmosphere, it's um, you know, the student body surrounds it. Um, you know, there's just a lot of things that I think uh are positives to having on-campus facilities.
SPEAKER_06Well, when VCU came back in that first-round game against Carolina uh from 19 down, and that was the demise of Hubert Davis, no doubt, uh the press conference was just as salty when Hubert was being questioned about decisions that he had made.
SPEAKER_11Dennis Cox, 999, nine the Phantom Rally. Hubert, why did you go to just a six-man rotation in the second half?
SPEAKER_01Because that was my decision.
SPEAKER_13Coach, uh, what did you generally what do you think went wrong?
SPEAKER_01What do you mean? Just because you miss a shot doesn't mean something's wrong. We had open looks, we had shots at the basket, we had executed plays, and sometimes the ball doesn't go in.
SPEAKER_06Now he said they made plenty of mistakes. Uh he did want to give a lot of credit to VCU.
SPEAKER_01You really want to compliment VCU their resiliency to in down 19 to keep trying to find a way. Also felt like just the small details in order for a team to come back, they have to be good enough and resilient enough to do that, and VCU was, but also believe that there were mistakes made.
SPEAKER_06Hubert Davis was two and two in the round of 64. The previous Carolina coaches 31 and 4. Yeah. So that it made a huge difference.
SPEAKER_16You know, and I saw where uh a stat were Carolina previously, when they were uh ahead by 10, uh they were 48 and 2. So there was only two times that they had lost, you know, on somebody coming back. And so, but this was by far the largest lead. And I will say this, you know, and you and I both know this. VCU is not a slouch program. This is not a that's a basketball right now is a game of runs and momentum, and you know how it is. We've seen it. You one half a team is up by 20, and next thing you know, they're I mean they're hitting threes and bombing threes, everything they're throwing up is going in. Yeah, and then the second half, it's just a it's a tail of two halves, and and that kind of can happen. But uh, you know, I I I just know the expectations at North Carolina are extremely high. And um, and you just don't see, I don't care who the team is, if it's if it's Duke or Michigan, uh, you don't they don't see them giving up a 19-point lead and losing the ball game.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, and then what's and now the interesting conversation is okay, does Carolina stay uh do they stay in the family? Uh what they call the the family. You know, who's out there that would uh you know, would Kenny Smith come in? Somebody even mentioned Jerry Stackhouse come in to coach, uh, but Billy Donovan's now the leader in the clubhouse. Jeff Goodman is a national basketball reporter and analyst, and of course the talk shows were literally burning the airwaves. Jeff Goodman's take on the on the firing.
SPEAKER_14Ultimately it came down to that VCU game, right? You can't blow a 19-point lead against a team that was on the bubble. That that ultimately was his demise here. Other than that, I think even if they had lost a close game to VCU, I think he would have been back. But I think the way it went down, the fan base turning on him, I think at that point, Bubba Cunningham, the new AD, Steve Newmark, and the Chancellor all kind of decided like he he's really not the guy for the future. This isn't good enough for Carolina basketball.
SPEAKER_06You're out amongst those guys who are writing the pretty big checks. You know, I know you are you're having dinner and you, you know, and you you're hearing it. So when you go to dinner, you probably even before like before the the the hiring of James Franklin, you were hearing it, I'm sure. Like, hey, so bud, tell us what's up, right? Yeah, I mean, you're getting those questions.
SPEAKER_16Yeah, and you know, me signing an NDA, I could really couldn't say something, you know. But yeah, but you you know there there's a group of people that are gonna be invested and are invested, and you want to be invested that you would like them to be in the know and you know, without giving anything away, you just gotta let them know that we're we're in a good place, you know. So, but no, and or in this situation, I mean I'm sure um you know, North Carolina just has so much history and tradition and support, uh, particularly from the with their basketball program, that I I think they're gonna go all out in who they can bring in to get them back to being one that they expect to be a top five program year in, year out, you know. And uh so they're gonna go after that kind of guy, and they they'll have the money to do it. And that's and that will be attractive to some of the elite coaches in the country.
SPEAKER_06And collie choupes when you have one injury, and I and you mentioned Caleb Wilson. If you have one injury, I can call I mean that's gonna that's gonna cost you. And and now it costs you a job, you know, because and if Caleb will would Caleb Wilson made the difference, absolutely he would have made the difference. Even if it was they would have won by two or three, I mean, VCU might have still been able to come back, but when you got a guy like that, you can turn to. I play a lot of driveway games where it was, you know, uh, and and I think it was uh just so many great coaches have said, hey, get it to the man, you know, get get the ball to the man in uh, you know, in uh well and and Carolina would have had two big men, yeah.
SPEAKER_16You know, the the the the you know the big kid down low. I mean, he got to do it by himself, but you just think about having those two guys in there. I'm gonna say a couple things though. I I don't, you know, not that I'm in from the state of Virginia, but I do follow, you know, athletics. And you know, I I didn't I didn't like the comment about VCU. I know that was a bubble team, but they were a bubble team because of their league. And um, and I think VCU, if they you put them in the ACC, they'd be surprising how good they are. You and I both know that. They're yeah, they're kind of like they're they're a basketball-only school outside, they don't mean they have other sports, but not football. Yeah, so they are basketball driven, and we know that you don't want to play those guys on a regular basis because they will they'll get after your tail. They're a good basketball program, you know. And uh so I I take offense a little bit to you, but but by the same token, you know, yeah, you don't want to blow a 19-point lead. I don't care to who it is, but yeah, you know, the VCU I think deserves a little more credit than they're getting. They're just not uh also ran, you know, when in my opinion.
SPEAKER_06Very well said. Well, the class of Kenny Brooks came forward again. We jumped to the women's game, and uh, we're gonna feature Kenny coming up also the challenge of Chandler Morris taking his case to court. Does he get a seventh year? Those topics coming up. This is Foster and Friends, and this is the NSB Radio Network. Button I returned right after this. When you walk into a restaurant, say your favorite pizza place, what's the first thing you notice? The way it smells, the vibe, maybe the party atmosphere. If you're traveling in Southwest Virginia or lucky enough to live in the Radford area, hopefully you have visited Brickhouse Pizza, a staple since 1972. Brickhouse Pizza has become a legendary stop. Jeff and Diane's Main Street attraction features artisanal wood-fired pizza with fresh ingredients prepped every day. Brickhouse's pizzas are made with flour imported from Italy. Throw in the recipe for their homemade brew, and you have the recipe for fun. Brickhouse Pizza is open Tuesday through Friday at 3 30. Saturdays at 11:30, and the Sunday brunch begins at 10. Fresh food, cold beer, great times. That's Brickhouse Pizza, 311 West Main Street in Radford.
SPEAKER_09Not one of them has been late to a meeting yet. You know, they always they tell the bus driver yes, sir or thank you every time they get off the bus. And when you have a group like that and they're good at basketball, you better stop and smell the roses.
SPEAKER_06Um, you know, a friend of the program, a friend of a lot of people. And I just wanted to pay tribute in this show today with Kenny. Um being a Waynesboro native makes a big difference too. Uh what he accomplished at JMU and Virginia Tech. Um, he had four straight NCAAs at tech, and now he's got two straight at Kentucky. Uh at JMU, he had 25 or more wins seven years in a row. Uh it just, you know, just so class. And I just I just want, you know, and but I want you to hear some of this too, because um I spent a lot of time with press conferences, and uh Kenny had so many great things to say. He beat West Virginia by a point, they move on. Uh he knows what it feels like, you know, to be at home and to lose by one. West Virginia had the reason regional, but he has a lot of uh great things to say about Mark Kellogg, even to the fact now that he wants to compare notes with Mark Kellogg on the great things that uh West Virginia did.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, it it provided memories, not only for, you know, us because we won, but memories for West Virginia players to be playing in a uh situation in an atmosphere like this. Mark does a tremendous job. Uh I've I've known of Mark for a very long time. We actually exchange pleasantries. We're gonna get together. Uh we have two very contrasting styles. I really would love to learn how he does stuff, and I think he wants to learn how we do some things. Uh but it was just a tremendous weekend for us, uh, our team.
SPEAKER_06You know, I I know it's easy for a guy, bud, in the NCAA uh tournament with all the press conferences and uh, you know, to just go ahead and say niceties, but that's from the heart. Can't everything Kenny says is from the heart. I love the guy, absolutely love the guy.
SPEAKER_16Yeah, he is, you know, we've had him on our show, as you mentioned earlier, and uh one of my favorite people. I mean, just he's he's good people, he's a great basketball coach, but he's a much better person. And what you see is what you get from Kenny Brooks. And for him to say that about Mark Kellogg, who's had a tremendous career in his own right, and but that's cool to see that a guy has that much respect for another coach and uh coach to coach, and then but also wants to see how he can be better from their style of play, from the other schools, and and that's we've always in in in my world at times every year I would try to do some kind of you know professional growth and development, and yeah, you're not gonna change what you do, but there could be a scheme you like or a defensive technique that you like or a blitz that you may add to your deal or a coverage that you can add to a blitz that maybe you thought about, but now you get a chance to see them work. But there's so much you can learn from other people, but finding someone that wants to share that with you and develop that relationship with you is big. And it sounds like uh there's a mutual respect there, but that was a great game in itself, and uh, but that doesn't surprise me coming from Kenny Brooks of what kind of class person he is that he would recognize just because that was a great game, that he recognized the the body of work that Mark Kellogg's done at West Virginia.
SPEAKER_06He got the question about uh is it's is it a time where you start to smell the roses considering your career?
SPEAKER_09Here's Kenny Brooks. I'm I'm too old to be living life and not not stopping and smelling the roses. And uh and and with that mentality, you know, I've I adopted it a couple years ago, and it's allowed me to enjoy moments like this even more so. And we're gonna be prepared. We're we're gonna we're gonna be ready for the next opportunity, but you gotta really embrace it because I got I have a group of young women in that locker room that are so much fun to be around. You know, they're great kids, they're very smart. I think they're like a three point five. Not not one of them have been late to a meeting yet. You know, they always they tell the bus driver, Yes, sir, or thank you, every time they get off the bus. And when you have a group like that and they're good at basketball, you know, you better stop and smell the roses because you you never know. And you want to make sure that you enjoy every second of it. And that's what I'm doing with this group.
SPEAKER_06No, that's where Deion Sanders says, you will you will not wear baggy pants, you will be uh go to class, you will do this, you'll open doors for female, you will do all this stuff to try to, you know, to build adults and and not I'm I mean, I know we have a ton of coaches that do that, but Kenny Brooks is one of the guys that's established a program in every sense of the word. And that's one of the reasons I love the guy so much.
SPEAKER_16Yeah, there's no doubt. I mean, and yeah, he is, and and that's how he was here, is his his student athletes over here. And they're still, I'm amazed by the ones that um I've gotten to know and who they are, and so respectful and that type of thing. I will say, make a comment on what he's talking about about smelling the roses. You know, winning at this level is hard. I don't care. On the court, on the football field, on the baseball diamond, on the tennis court, whatever it may be, winning is hard at the high levels. And, you know, we take it for granted, particularly uh when you you're you're winning 10, 11 football games a year, you're winning 20 plus basketball games a year, you know. And I and and for me, part of what drove me probably to the point where I had some health issues was there were times you didn't I didn't enjoy the win because I didn't feel like we played up on expectations.
SPEAKER_06But great point.
SPEAKER_16That's also that has to go back to the other team and their preparation. Not that we weren't prepared, but they're prepared too. I mean, they've got scholarships too, and those kids have pride too. And they, you know, there's so much that there's times when I reflect back that maybe my career might have lasted a little bit longer if I wouldn't embrace the win sometimes more than that, more than I should have. I mean, I should have, not that more than, but there was times I struggled with boy, we just didn't, you know, we didn't play a great game defensively, but I didn't, so I I'd go home and be scratching my head rather than you know having me a a double T D'O's and enjoying the uh enjoying the win or enjoy now a win vodka, so enjoying the win. But uh you know what I mean. That that's so you get to that point, and good for him that he's not beating himself up over a tough win because hey, you got there's they're all they're all hard, you know, and we got to embrace those. That would be my thing, the young coaches and coaches out there now.
SPEAKER_06We tell our kids all the time not to go back to you know, talk about the classroom at the Dan Patrick School and stuff where uh where I see these kids every day. But a lot of times they turn in stuff that's just average, and I just ask them, why? Why take a few more minutes and make this better? I mean, you know, life is short, yeah, embrace it, but you've also got to have the you know, you've got to have the wherewithals. I mean, I get I get stuff turned in where their heads are cut off, you know, from a video standpoint. I mean, it's it's not anyway. Building a program anywhere, I care if it's the classroom or Kentucky, Kenny Brooks knows how to get it done.
SPEAKER_09We've been a ranked basketball team every week that we've been at Kentucky. And that that's a tribute to my to my staff, to the young people that we brought in, everybody believing in what we're trying to do. And to do this in two years, it's pretty, it's pretty remarkable. So heck yeah, I'm gonna sit back and smell the roses and and really enjoy this uh because you know, we've we've gotten so much support, you know, and that's one of the reasons why I came here. I wanted to come here to be on the stage, you know, as we move forward. We have three McDonald's All-Americans coming in next year, and uh, you know, the trajectory of of Kentucky women's basketball is is on the rise, and uh and it's it's a testament to my the hard work that our kids put in, but also my staff puts in.
SPEAKER_06Kenny was uh Virginia Tech, correct me if I'm wrong. I think 2016 to 2024, he had a uh you know great 69% of games. Uh he won 180 and 82, I think is the number. But anyway, he um you know he wasn't really looking to move, I don't think. I mean, you know, the administration was good to him. He had a couple of great runs and made the final four and you know was starting to make an impact. But uh, you know, all of a sudden, you know, he goes to you know, he gets the opportunity at Kentucky, and sometimes you want to build again. You know, you want to build go ahead.
SPEAKER_16There comes a point in time in your career where you still have the energy to go do that, you know. And uh and but and Kenny's a builder. He did it at JMU, he did it here at Virginia Tech, and he you know, you see his body of work and what he's doing at uh at Kentucky, and and he's relentless in recruiting, he's got a great connection in recruiting his staff, and you hear that um the future's bright with you know what they have coming in uh at Kentucky for next season with the the young players coming in. So he's doing it the right way, too. And that's the thing that you appreciate in in athletics as a head coach that has um he's ethical, he has credibility, he's uh he's got he's relationship driven, and it shows that because his players basically will run through a wall for him because they they love him and know that he has their best interests at heart. And and that that's real with Kennedy Brooks.
SPEAKER_06One more thing before we go, I gotta give true uh give it up to um the Virginia women's team and uh this player by the name of Kamora Johnson. She appeared on on ESPN this past week. Um, she has played 133 of 135 minutes. She went back to back 28 point games. Virginia won three games in five days, including the double overtime win over Iowa. And now they're in the Sweet 16 for the first time in 26 years. That's what we love about March, okay? That's why we are cemented in March. No doubt.
SPEAKER_16I think in the women's tournament, are they like the first uh 11th seed or something like that that's going to the uh on the Sweet 16? I don't know how long, but anyway, congratulations to them, and they've really played well down the stretch.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, good stuff. Anyway, all right, we'll go to break, we'll come back. Uh Bud is gonna play NCAA executive director and czar in this next segment. He doesn't know it. But would Bud give Chandler Morris, the former Virginia quarterback, a seventh year? We'll broach that topic when we come back, fostering friends and the NSB Radio Network.
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SPEAKER_15Suffered an injury in League One and was unable to play the rest of the season. Except he played in game number nine and game number 12. How did you play in two conference games and the national championship game? And say, I was unable to play the rest of the season, therefore my medical red shirt should be granted.
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SPEAKER_06It is Foster and Friends for another weekend, and uh should be uh should be a lot of fun to find out uh you know what teams are gonna move on to the Final Four in uh Indianapolis. This past week we're gonna transition from basketball to uh football. The Chandler Morris story uh got a lot of notice from a lot of people. When I say the Chandler Morris story, uh Mac do tell. Okay, so there's a lot of talk about his case because he became former Virginia quarterback who had a great year. Uh his name is on a growing list of college athletes who are suing the NC2A for an additional year of eligibility. Uh he filed suit last month in Charlottesville Circuit Court seeking a preliminary injunction that would allow him to play in 2026. Well, it has caught the attention of a lot of people who have followed this. And now Garrett Seawright, who is with uh Barrett Media, smart guy, a news editor, says, How can Chandler Morris question the NCAA rules?
SPEAKER_15So the medical red shirt rules are pretty clear. It's essentially, did you play 30% or fewer of your team's games? And if it comes down to a fraction, by the way, they round up. For instance, you played in four games of your team's season, and that becomes three point six, and thirty percent of your 12-game season is three point six, they say, hey, it's four games. Chandler Morris played in four games. He started the season, they say lawyers for him say that he suffered an injury in week one and was unable to play the rest of the season. Except he played in game number nine and game number twelve. How did you play in two conference games and the national championship game and say I was unable to play the rest of the season, therefore my medical red shirt should be granted. Now, it does appear as if he did have a legitimate knee injury that kept him out for a while. But your argument can't be I was unable to play the rest of the season, and then you played the week after Halloween and the week of Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_06So do you want to you want to tackle this? Of course, he wants to waiver, like a lot of guys are going, well, the NFL's probably not in my future, and boy, I I still have a chance to, you know, to make money. But he he's he said that it was prior mental health struggles, and especially during 2022, and he was fighting the injury, and he felt that uh anyway, I should get the extra year, a seventh year. All right, all right, NCAA executive director, newly named Bud Foster.
SPEAKER_16All I can do is laugh, and I'm not dating this because he played at UVA, but you know, I don't know how far we can take this thing. I mean, obviously, I understand there was a COVID year, and that was one thing, but uh and that takes some guys from a five-year to a six-year, but I don't see guys playing more than that at all. And now once it gets now COVID's kind of on the way out, it's um I mean, we've got a rule that you got the opportunity to play five years. I mean, that's and that's enough. And now, do they change the rule that you can play five years instead of four to play five, or you know, or five to play four? Um I'd be for that. But just because the you know, he he I'm looking at he was paid one point five two million dollars last year at the University of Virginia. Now I don't know, and he's his lawsuit estimates, and I don't know how he's looking at this, that he is he should be granted uh uh uh a potential earning of between two million and four point five million. And that's probably a website rating who is is evaluating, you know, that that value. Um but I do know this if he if he does get granted, I mean, you know, Virginia signed as two transfer really good players, one from Missouri and one from Pitt. Yeah that come in. Where is he gonna fit in? Yeah and and probably not at University of Virginia. And um if he does, then it's just gonna create chaos. But I think it's just it's it's creating chaos, period, um you know, in this in this lawsuit. I I personally, this is just my personal opinion. I think there is a I understand the medical situation. I've seen that with some players, and you'd love to they get a year that they get hurt maybe in spring ball or they get hurt in the first day of camp and they lose a year and they've all already been redshirted. I mean, that's just not fair. I you know, and it's I can see one year, but not I mean, I just can't I can't see this um going seven, eight years. I think there's one kid that was been like eight years or something like that.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, Trinidad Chambliss well, well, no, not Trinidad Chambliss, but Trinidad Chamblis got the extra year that nobody and then Diego Pavia lost his appeal because he was he was trying to play the the seventh year or close to the.
SPEAKER_16I mean, if this kid is if this kid to me is is worth that value, then go go play in the NFL. If you think you're now if he doesn't think he's good enough to play in the NFL, I don't know if I want that guy. I want that kind of guy in my own mindset that I want some I want some swagger and you know and some self-confidence. And hey, I want to I want to I want to sign that guy, whether he's a draft pick or he's a he's a you know a free agent, but I want that like Pabia. I mean, Pobby's like, hey, I'm gonna be the best quarterback out there, you know what I mean? And uh so anyway, I just um I'm just that old school that I think uh I mean number one, what's he gonna be? I mean, what is he gonna take any classes? Is he is he gonna try to get his master's or doctorate? Or you know, what's what's he what's he doing? You know, and um because now all of a sudden we are in the NFL pro model that here we we're paying a guy and all he's doing is playing football. And then you know, go on to the next level.
SPEAKER_06By the way, I'm chuckling because I predicted this. I just predicted the response, just so you know.
SPEAKER_16I predicted it has nothing to do with him going to UVA.
SPEAKER_06I understand. I understand that. The NC2A continued to fight the spate of eligibility challenges in court. They released a statement when Morris's lawsuit uh became public. Quote, the NC2A will continue to defend against attempts to rob high school students across the nation the opportunity to compete in college and experience the life-changing opportunities only college sports can create. That was the statement. Well, Chandler Morris is 25. He argues that a 2026 season would constitute only his fourth year of competition due to injury. In his lone season with the Who's last year, he threw for 3,000 yards, 21 TDs, blah, blah, blah, 11 uh program wins, the trip to the ACC title game. He says the mental health issues started when he was a freshman at Oklahoma during COVID-19. Well, Chandler, every person in America was suffering from mental issues.
SPEAKER_16And I tell you what, every freshman, every freshman in America struggles with some mental health with their with a I'm away from home. I'm uh, you know, I'm on my own, I'm competing at a high level. It's, you know, I'm not the only big show on the team, you know. It's just, hey, you put yourself in a, you know, he's just he's in a barrel, you know. I mean, just with so many others. But uh I don't want to hear, I don't want to hear that, you know.
SPEAKER_06That could go on for well, because he said his mental health issues started. He was a freshman at Oklahoma. Uh, COVID hit, and that's why he transferred to TCU to be closer to his family in Dallas. Okay. All's well and good, but it wasn't, you know, your mental issues that you think just because you know that you deserve a a seventh year, but uh good stuff. That's why I brought this to the table because I just knew. Um, but anyway, it's uh NT Core Public, and that story will continue. And there will be uh there will be many others for sure. All right, bud and I will break, we're gonna come back, we're gonna salute a band that uh that that bud just loves. They have a brand new album out, so we are all over the map because it's we just we do it with this show. It's time to listen to the new album of the Tedesky Trucks, and we'll play uh play a little bit of it when we come back. Foster and Friends, NSB Radio Network. Stay with us.
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SPEAKER_06Welcome back. It is Fosterin' Friends and uh a real transition from uh basketball to football to uh music. And uh when I first met Bud and we got to talking about music, we found Bud and I had really a um a shared interest in in uh bands and concerts, and and you know, we're doing we're listening to a lot of the same things. And yesterday, uh, or a couple of days ago, I was driving and I heard that uh on this syndicated radio program, I heard the Tedeski trucks were gonna be on, that they've got a new album. I went ding! I went, okay, there's a topic because I Bud had told me early on um that the Tedesky trucks, and where did you you went to see it was a couple of years ago, right?
SPEAKER_16Did you see them in Roanoke or where did you saw them actually uh Jesse for uh I can't remember it was a birthday or Christmas present. She we went we saw him in Asheville. That was actually before that was actually before Helena came in and and uh tore it up, but uh uh anyway, they were incredible. And uh I've always been an Almond Brothers fan and and uh and just a Derek Trucks uh fan. I mean, the guy the hell on the guitar, you know. And uh, but they I I I got a chance to see them and and just was blown away by just you know, that that level of talent, like you see it in on the playing field. This is their own playing field. These people are just incredible musicians and incredibly talented. And she is Susan Tedeschi, obviously is she reminds me so much of Bonnie Raitt. I mean, that same sound, and but this is Bonnie Raitt with on with amped up on steroids with the the kind of the rock and roll background, a little bit of that uh Derek Trucks and his background with the Allman brothers, you know, and uh comes with. But I I'm really impressed by this album. I've listened to it and uh I've already downloaded a couple tracks for my Spotify play.
SPEAKER_06It's good for you. You gotta have something on the boat. I get it. Um, this the band was formed in 2010. Their first concert was in Savannah. Uh they are based in Jacksonville, just up the road uh from me. And um, so their debut album was in 2012. It was Revelator, but now Future Soul, and uh this is uh this is one of the songs of Future Soul. Here we go. Anyway, the Tedesky trucks, and that's Future Soul, that's a title uh from their uh new album. So you already jumped on a couple of a couple of sound bites, huh?
SPEAKER_16Well, I had that one, and then I'm telling you, the their opening song I like is called Crazy Crying. I I I I like that one, and uh there's there's several others. Like I said, when you turned me on to this thing, they they got a new album out. I uh I I listened to it yesterday, and uh, and there's a couple others that I'm I'm I'm gonna dive into a little bit more, but just because I like them and I like what they're all about and the sound, and and then seeing them in concert was incredible. I know uh they they they're a regular at Red Rocks, which you know I that's a bucket list. I want to go too. I'd love to see quite a venue to uh see live music and and just the acoustics are incredible besides the back the backdrop, you know. So that's a bucket list for me. I'd love to see those guys.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, me too. I'd love to, but they had a live album in 2017, also in uh 2025. And so anyway, have fun every summer, every spring, and then moving into summer. I I I kind of land one album that I'm gonna listen to a lot. It's gonna be like three or four that I that I play, and so I think this is uh this is gonna be one of them too. And uh, but now I will say, as I start, and maybe I'm getting old, as I start to look at uh at concert prices, and I found this I found this cover band that's absolutely fabulous. They're from the West Coast, uh Lean Leonid and Friends, I think. Yeah, they're covering Chicago and Power, and they're covering all these vehicle and I'll march and whatever. So they came to Orlando and they were going to play down uh downtown Orlando with this open venue. I thought I'll just check the concert prices. It's like 375 bucks in row, row XX. It's like, really? I mean, concert price to me. Joe Bonomanza, I used to see Joe Bonomassa for$85. And now when he comes over Orlando, the tickets are$400.
SPEAKER_16Well, we want to want to go to the sphere to see the Eagles. You know, number one, we got a flight of A.
SPEAKER_06How much are those?
SPEAKER_16How much are those? They're now pushing in that$1,819 to$2,000 receipt.
SPEAKER_13Yeah.
SPEAKER_16And so that's per person. That's not for us to combine. But hey, you bring up that band. I heard them, and my brother-in-law, who lives in St. Louis, he's a big uh Chicago jazz guy, all that. And I turned him on to that band, Leonid. And I can't, I'm sorry, I can't see.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, Leonid and Friends. Yeah.
SPEAKER_16Yes. But I mean, he then saw them live. And he said they are incredible. Now I follow them. I follow them on some social media. They're incredible. And then they're playing nearby us. They're either in Asheville or Greensboro or Raleigh, somewhere like that. My brother-in-law encouraged me to go see them, but it's interesting that you bring them up because I've I follow them and they are incredibly talented musicians in their own right as well.
SPEAKER_06There you go. Well, hey, it's been fun. Uh have a good weekend. Enjoy the uh enjoy all the uh the basketball and everything. And we will do this again next week. We're we're we're on this roll with the show, so we're gonna just do it again.
SPEAKER_16Well, and I'm always looking forward to seeing you and hearing your voice and uh and playing up with you after all the shenanigans that we both go through.
SPEAKER_06That's true. For Bud Foster, I'm Mac McDonald. I'm just leaving it right there. For Bud Foster, I'm Mac McDonald. That's Foster and Friends on the NSB Radio Network.
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SPEAKER_12Uh they've been resilient as much as any group I've ever been around. And then for everybody else watching, right, like this is March. This is this is what March does. And uh, you know, I'm really proud of these guys. I've said it a number of times, like they make a mediocre coach look good, and and it's because of these guys, and uh really proud of them.
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SPEAKER_08And it's pretty obvious to me that something needs to be done about this non-conference scheduling. High Point in Miami, Ohio are 2-0 in Quad 1 games. We couldn't get games, they couldn't get games, Akron couldn't get games, UNCW couldn't get games, Belmont couldn't get games. We won 22 of our last 23 games and we didn't move up one spot in the metrics. Not one. We won 22 of our 23. We've won 25 games by double digits. That team right there is a fantastic team that beat five top ten teams. If we can get games like this on neutral courts and some home games, I think we'd know who's really the best teams. I'm proud of these dudes, and we're not just here to win one game, we're here to get the Sweet 16.
SPEAKER_02Great God in heaven, you know I love you.
