Today's podcast is loaded. Talk a little bit about who ages is an executive and how

was able to pull this deal off getting to that. I also want to do a rant on college football

expansion. Has anyone actually enjoyed this? Any of these fan bases? We've got Bruce Feldman

on the news and notes in the advanced lathe and I chop it up and also talk a little Toronto

and life advice. I spent a lot of time on Sunday with Simmons on our Sunday pods talking

about Minnesota's deal for Rudy Gobert. And as I said, you know, even though I don't

like it, because I think you have to be a Gobert guy to like it. And I become less and

less of a Gobert guy. We talked about it, I think for almost 30 plus minutes. So I don't

need to recap all that stuff. But there was still one part of this that I did want to

revisit that I didn't touch on there. And I think it's important when you're trying to

understand what it's like to do with deal with Danny Ange. I do think it's funny that

Ange is now kind of considered good again. And after this deal happens, they get all these

picks. And it wasn't really about the players. It was all the unprotected picks that they

would get for a Gobert who is a really expensive player who's not. He may be all NBA, but

that's more positionally than it is at any point. Has any of you have any of your friends?

Have you ever sat around going, Hey, who are the 15 best players in the NBA? Do you guys

say Rudy Gobert? I guess if there's one guy that's completely married to the analyst,

he would say it. But it was kind of this victory lap for Ange. And I thought, wait, this

is weird. I thought everybody thought this guy sucked. I know I've got an argument with

people that are on the air about Ange. I don't think he was like a bulls-a-player. So for

an older generation, maybe that carried over as him as an executive. There were lean

years. I think any of you that have listened to me for a really long time, even though I

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