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TNR 5/4/26 - Hour 3 | Best Atlanta Braves EVER? NCAA Tournament Expansion

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4.9890 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Malik Willis delivers horrible first pitch The Atlanta Braves are off to their best start since 1892 — how is that even possible, and where does this current Braves core rank among the best in franchise history? Joel Klatt talks college football We also dive into Josh Pate’s “Golden Era” of college football and debate which era truly represents the best version of the sport. Was it the BCS? The early Playoff years? The NIL/portal era? Or something else entirely? NCAA Tournament expansion PLUS, LT's Trash presented by Bud Light! SUBSCRIBE: @NextRoundLive - / @nextroundlive FOLLOW TNR ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zlofzLZht7dYxjNcBNpWN FOLLOW TNR ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-round/id1797862560 WEBSITE: https://nextroundlive.com/ MOBILE APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-next-round/id1580807480 SHOP THE NEXT ROUND STORE: https://nextround.store/ Like TNR on Facebook: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Twitter: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Instagram: / nextroundlive Follow everyone from the show on Twitter: Jim Dunaway: / jimdunaway Ryan Brown: / ryanbrownlive Lance Taylor: / thelancetaylor Scott Forester: / scottforestertv Tyler Johns: /TylerJohnsTNR Sponsor the show: sales@nextroundlive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jim Dunaway, Lance Taylor, Ryan Brown, the next round, presented by Bud Light, is on now.

0:11.6

This hour brought to you by our friends at Champy's World Famous Fried Chicken, where Sterling is the owner down at Champy's Chicken.

0:19.3

Megan's worked there since the beginning. She sort of is the right hand, the co-pilot of the ship down there. But I don't talk to Megan anymore because... Uh-oh. Falling out? Well, her and her boyfriend are Canadian fans, Montreal Canadians. Are they from America's hat? Yeah. I mean, I get... Are they? I get... No they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're just, they love hockey. They're Canadian fans. Yeah. She's texting me, I think, other than when my dad died, never. And last night, I get a text at 7.53 after they have won the game two to one to win the series, go Habs go and a blue white and red dot and I just sent her back a

0:57.2

middle. have won the game two to one to win the series. Go Habs Go and a blue, white, and red dot.

0:56.0

And I just sent her back a middle finger emoji back to her.

1:00.0

But other than Megan, go by Champy's and enjoy the great customer service there at

1:05.4

Champy's world famous fried chicken.

1:07.3

Sterling, he's an American.

1:08.5

He cheers for American hockey teams down there on Highway

1:11.7

119 in Alabaster. The chicken is brined overnight cooked to order to hand cut chicken fingers. It is so good.

1:17.0

It is champieschicken.com. The one football thing, LT mentioned it earlier, but wow, the Big Ten,

1:24.0

$1.37 billion in distribution worked out to about $76.1 million per team, Washington and

1:33.6

Oregon taking less for their first year, roughly around $48 million that they're getting,

1:40.1

almost a half billion dollar increase, $490 million increase year to year.

1:45.7

Again, sustainable, I don't know.

1:48.3

That's just massive numbers.

1:50.3

And, you know, I know the allotment of money is going different places and stuff,

1:55.5

but if I'm one of these big 10 coaches, I'm like, look, half of what we're getting every year is going straight to our roster.

2:01.0

I mean, but think about...

2:02.6

And that's a lot of money, by the way. So give me the per team against 76.6. Was that? 76.1 million. Because I thought about this when we were talking about it earlier and you guys were talking about $50 million rosters. I'm like, football, just the media rights and all and the conference palp brought in 76 and you're having to spend 50.

2:20.3

And I know this is coming from different pites, but it's all money.

2:25.2

Yeah.

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