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The Valenti Show

Best Of The Valenti Show On 97.1 The Ticket: Should MSU Hire Nick Saban, Ideas To Fix NFL Officiating, And More!

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Valenti and Rico get this week's Best Of started with their response to an absurd take from Gator earlier Monday about wanting MSU to look at hiring Nick Saban for the head football job. Plus, the guys offer some ideas to fix NFL officiating, give an update on the NBA betting scandal, and much more!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's get straight to the people. Can we say that Monday rivalry?

0:04.0

Look, take whatever you want out of Saturday night, whether you're a Spartan or Wolverine, and can we say it?

0:09.5

I started with tinfoil today.

0:11.7

Not a tinfoil hat, more of a tinfoil headband.

0:14.9

I don't think Jonathan Smith coached team Saturday night.

0:17.2

That wasn't even tinfoil.

0:18.5

That was, Mike, that was accurate.

0:20.6

I think everybody, if you were watching the game, you saw that, that the fire and the emotion came from your D.C. Joe Rossi. And he looked like a guy who was out there knowing my job is on the line, fellas. If we're going to go down, you're going to do this my way,

0:41.8

and you're going to listen to everything I say. I don't want anybody saying, I couldn't hear you,

0:47.2

you relayed the message down from the green dot down to, no, no, no, to Jordan Hall,

0:52.6

I'm right here yelling in your face, telling you what defense to play. I'm barking out signals from the sideline. I'm meeting you as you make a good play and you coming off the field. I'm high-fiving you. I'm telling you way to go. You know, things that a coach should do. Jonathan Smith looked like a mannequin wearing a coach Halloween costume. Jonathan Smith was like, wait, I can do that? I can step out on the field. They didn't, they didn't tell me that in the little handbook I got.

1:14.7

It's pathetic. It's the worst the program's ever been. I wasn't alive. I was alive, but I don't remember Muddy Waters. So I can only go back to the last, you know, 40 years. I've never seen the program like this.

1:27.7

Here's the sad reality.

1:28.9

And yes, he's only been here for less than two years.

1:31.4

Maybe I think 20, 21 games.

1:34.3

But Mike, there's nothing that you can say, yeah, but at least he did that.

1:39.6

Like John L. Smith, you know, did some wacky things.

1:43.6

But his offense scored a ton of points.

1:46.8

His defense was horrible.

1:48.3

Correct.

1:49.0

He had personnel.

1:50.1

Like, everybody had something.

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