HOUR 4: MSU Football Revisited + Did Jonathan Smith Know?
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So we've talked about the Scoobel stuff. |
| 0:02.4 | I've talked about a lot today, but I want to bring something back. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'll offer you the listener a chance to comment on this. |
| 0:10.3 | Rico said something that the more I think about it, the more I wonder if it's true. |
| 0:17.5 | So the background of this is you just heard Jeremy talk about this Michigan State punishment, NCAA violations a little bit. |
| 0:24.5 | And look, we had fun laughing about it because it's so absurd, all of this. |
| 0:28.5 | I have no problem if MSU did something wrong, which clearly something happened with this Mel Tucker regime other than the hotel room. |
| 0:36.0 | But the idea that MSU got hammered and Michigan |
| 0:41.4 | skated by writing a check is hilarious. It just is. But also there's a delicious irony in the |
| 0:49.2 | Connor Stallion's game. We have to vacate. We have to vacate that one. So it's fine. Our program's a dumpster |
| 0:56.5 | fire. Cool. But we had talked about, I had made an example of MSU kind of being Jerry |
| 1:03.9 | Falwell about all this. You know, while the pool boy goes to town on his wife, he sat in the |
| 1:08.8 | little holiday in chair in the hotel room. |
| 1:13.0 | Well, that's MSU as a university primarily. |
| 1:18.9 | They just sit there as the NCAA pops another Cialis, and they hand them the gatorade so they don't cramp up. |
| 1:20.9 | It's just, it's this idea in all of this where you go, wow, you really are weaklings. |
| 1:26.4 | But, but only one member of this show is a member of the founders. |
| 1:34.2 | And only one member of this show received acceptance into Harvard. |
| 1:40.0 | Rico Beard said something, and David, could we have appropriate music for this? |
| 1:45.5 | Rico said something that I think is fascinating. |
| 1:49.0 | Why would MSU take it lying down? |
| 1:52.7 | Why would MSU get crushed by the NCAA? |
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