HOUR 3: Saban's Retirement, Problem With College Athletics, MSU Senior Night
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Mike and Rico open hour 3 with a recent ESPN article that detailed Nick Saban's retirement and replacement as head coach of Alabama. This turns into a conversation about the direction of College Football and NIL. Then, they guys end the hour discussing MSU men's basketball's senior night tonight that Rico will be attending.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, 4 o'clock you missed anything. |
| 0:02.0 | Odyssey.com Rewind, including I'm going to speak it into existence. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm going to play the role of LaVar Ball. |
| 0:08.0 | J.J McCarthy is going to be a giant at number six overall. |
| 0:11.0 | We're bringing Go blue to big blue. |
| 0:15.4 | Out of the weekend people into the middle of this week right here right now, |
| 0:19.2 | essentially the giants and Broncos have the same odds to take JJ. |
| 0:25.0 | And I'm all aboard because I don't have a quarterback. |
| 0:28.0 | I don't shake hand across the aisle. |
| 0:29.6 | Yeah, it's my effort of bipartisanship. I wanted to bring this up because it's yet another reason the sport of college football and college athletics at large is dead to me. |
| 0:39.0 | Did you guys see the Nick Sabine piece? |
| 0:42.0 | Rico, I know you did. I don't know if Kenny and Kenny's |
| 0:46.0 | nodding yes okay I'm proud of him because normally he sees Nick Sabon and he just |
| 0:49.5 | starts cursing but I want you to listen to this and again I have no problem if you take pride in the fact that you beating him in his last game that's not what this is about Michigan fan. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm talking about the sport at large because what Nick |
| 1:04.6 | Sabin talks about is every reason I have grown to actually start to loathe |
| 1:10.3 | college athletics. |
| 1:12.8 | So this is a long form piece on ESPN that you can read about how in three days they got to Kay Lindebore. |
| 1:21.1 | But Sabon was upset not only with the way his team played against Michigan, but he was disheartened about what happened afterwards in the Rose Bowl. The article says in the locker room and back on campus when he met with players. He says I want to be clear it |
| 1:34.6 | wasn't the reason but some of the events contributed. Sabin said of his decision |
| 1:39.4 | to retire I was really disappointed in the way the players acted after the game. |
| 1:44.1 | You got to win with class and lose with class. |
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