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The Compass game is at nine am. It's SMU Louisville. I'll be in studio for that. Well, there we go.

How does Matt money Smith treat a weekend that does not involve the Chargers?

Yeah? I haven't decided yet. I've got an open invitation to Cosm. A friend of mine got one of the box. He's got a box at Cosm for Oregon USC at twelve thirty fantastic. I haven't been there. I haven't either, and I'm like, man, I get a week off of football, do I really? But the rain has impacted the ocean.

Two heads so calcer for boy, is it gonna spend his Sunday watching that team called the Chicago Band.

God. No, I most definitely am not doing NFL football on Sunday, but college football on Saturday. Yes, if I get if I am granted a reprieve from football on Sunday, I do take it, all.

Right, lay it on everybody who may have missed it. It's a big one legitimately in the AFC playoff chase.

I'm taking the points. I told you, I'm gonna take the points. I think Jonathan Taylor can run the football. You know, you can negate those Spagnolo blitzes and all

Does that really come in here just before the football season started and say beware the Indianapolis Colts winning that division and being a surprise team because lou An Arumo is about to do what Vic Fangio did in Philadelphia.

So you said here, that's Oh, I thought you were going to go the path of did anybody come in here and say this is the year the Chiefs finally hit the wall?

I said, Mark, I said that literally within a couple of hours after the Eagles burst their balloon, suddenly the mystique felt on.

They did.

They didn't lose that Super Bowl, they got humiliate.

What's the name of your program, Dave.

It's called Football America there, it asked, So these are the things that it's essentially the uh, it's essentially the Chris rockbit of oh, you want me to celebrate you because you're taking your kid to school.

You'll just celebrate because you're staying out of prison. I'm not merely talking about fall in America, I am. I'm not just giving takes. Well, I'm giving spot on information. A man that puts football in the title of his signature program should be able to deliver these sort of nuggets.

And that's what I mean.

Dasha on Football by Dave damashak if if the higher ups would have allowed, but I was jammed into football America.

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High school football America is going to react the same way we just did.

Right Like, Wait, sir Utah, who canceled Texas Florida California. That that there isn't a California team in there is is beyond egregious. But here's your fun fact.

And again called me p that's the greatest compliment you've ever given me.

Dave. I'm sorry, Dave. But because I call you Dave, I call you shack, I call you Damna sheeck. I think I've I've got to focus, I've got to narrow it into one name.

But here it is, I celebrate you showing up drunk.

Pistachios aren't nuts. They are, in fact droops, the family that includes cherries, peaches, and olives. Mean technically, the pistachio is a fruit, and ultimately what it is is the seeds of a fruit and the outer fruit is removed during processing, and what you're eating when you eat a pistachio is the seed of a fruit.

This could really disrupt as we head down the home stretching the chase for the Chechy Award in the Granddaddy category of a all fruit of the year.

Pistachio could be a point. I've had some of those sweet chili pistachios, or with a little bit of kick to them, the sparacha pistachios. They are a true treat. Top two nut.

But now that it's not a nut, now that it's a fruit, beware, honey crisp apple. Darn right, you may catch a challenge yourself. I have a fun fact if I could throw one in real point for you. Uh, it's November twenty first. This is the wildest sports stat I think for real. Okay, Ken Griffy Junior born on this date among MLB ballplayers is only the has hit the second most. I gotta I gotta get the language

From donor from DeNora, Pennsylvania.

Born on November twenty first, Stan Musual has more home runs than Ken Griffey Junior does career.

That wild right, that is wild? Still wilder?

Do you know that the color orange got its name from from the fruit orange?

And how's that possible?

How did.

How did the fruit precede the color it's in?

It was?

It was?

It a black and white world. It's wild, isn't it? It makes no sense to it? What breaks my brain? Yeah, that's a hard one to reconcile. What came first? The color orange or the orange?

Well, it has to be the color day one, when the fruit started showing up, the colors preceded them, right.

I don't know, it's just a name. Maybe not burt.

Umber, maybe not the maybe not the the real fancy ones, not that, not maybe not the cabernet. But I mean, like you know, red, blue, g I mean, orange had to exist before the fruits came around.

It's it's odd that the fruit. But then again, like if you think about a cherry, there is a color called cherry, but it's cherry red. They put red after it, you know what I mean, Like there there is a you know what I'm saying, Like.

No, because what you're saying is then it would be called the orange orange.

Yeah, yeah, it's a red cherry. It's a black cherry. That's a good point. It is odd. It is very odd, all right, Quick hitsms, quick hits, come make it quick y'all. Oh yeah, all right, We're gonna rip through these because of our fruit nut fun fact and other extensive conversation that we have anytime shit comes in, which is why we love having him. Dodgers non tendered Evan Phillips and

You know, Mark McGuire, who has gotten the similar accusations and Stutch also became a hitting coach. As you know, the Halos have now hired Brady and Anderson to be their hitting coach.

Now, local guy McGuire was mashing home runs, you know, while he was at SC, while he was a USA Olympian before he came across Jose Conseco, and you know, obviously made some poor choices like Barry Bonds did. But Brady Anderson's fifty home runs came out of nowhere. Yes, like, wait, he's got how many home runs?

This guy?

He's got like eight the year before seven, the year before fifty, the.

Guy I always compared to Brady Anderson without the help of anything that, at least as far as I'm aware of, Mark Rippin with the Washington team whose name you're no longer allowed to say, in nineteen ninety one or nineteen ninety two. Yeah, it was one of those two years, fourteen and two, one of the real dominant teams of the Super Bowl era. But it was a fat comp leagu Yeah, it was a FATA compley that they were going to win the Super Bowl. They're gonna win it

Is that wild Williams? Thisman Ripping, Yeah, that's their three Super Bowl championships. It's crazy.

Yeah.

Amidst the in the age of Elway and Aikman and Steve Young and Joe Montana and all the rest of it, Marino couldn't get over the hump even once. Joe Gibbs did it three times with those guys who are borderline.

Hamm and agers ninety one. Mark Rippin throws and remember they said different era thirty five hundred and sixty four yards and twenty eight touchdowns.

Mark Rippin.

Ernest Beiner's back there running the rock and Mark Rippin is freaking slinging it around his receivers. Gary Clark, Art Monk. It is one of the most fascinating teams because none of it makes any sense on a piece of paper. None of it. Wait, those guys are the ones right. It's just absolute madness. Where were we? Lakers have won three in a row. They're off till Sunday. Clippers are four and eleven. Now they're terrible. John Morant wants out

And here's another one in a weekend of games. The teams just can't afford to lose if they want to win their division and make them hey. In January, the Rams, winners of five in a row, hosting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in SOFI on Sunday Night Football.

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Yeah. You know, we we got beat.

And you know the positive of that is we can learn from it and that's and uh and we can be better for it. We'll have that opportunity and that's that's what we'll attack.

The most important lessons to take away from.

That really, I mean that list is really what we're compiling, you know, and uh, you know, any and every way we can.

Any specifically when you think less wise you can.

Take away from you like I said, like I said yesterday, Yeah, we we felt I think that, uh, we got beat every every which way you could be in every every every phase, every situation, situational phase of the game.

Uh, just that.

That's that message. And you know, and even even bigger than that is it's.

Every guy in that room, every every player, every coach, every every staff member.

You know, everybody has uh in their.

Lives had issues that had to be fixed, and we have some football issues that have to be fixed. But everybody's good at it. Everybody knows how to do it. Uh, they care deeply and they're not going to back down. That's that's what we're gonna do.

Because we'll talk a lot about having paid in the veterans.

Where do you think, what's your belief in that group?

Guys?

Yeah, it's like I said, it's the it's the whole team I have faith in and they do as well. I mean very very tough men plus faith. That's uh, that's what I believe. That's what I think of our team and every single guy, uh man, woman in the organization. You know, they've they've all had issues to fix h in their life and in their careers in football.

They wouldn't be here if they weren't good at that. I know they know how to do it. I know they care, and I know they're not going to back down.

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Using Apple car Play or Android Auto road trip all summer with LA Sports that chose some money joining us right now on a game day. He doesn't tell you to avert his eyes and not have a conversation with him when he's on the call number nineteen Ucla vers Presbyterian tonight at seven thirty pm on Big ten Network. He'll be there court side calling it. Dave damashek in for p and joining us now like he knows every Friday at great Don McClain, what's happening, Don, how's it going guys?

Yeah, I'm getting ready to get in the car. We'll see if I've anything left in the tank. After last night's ball game down at the Galen Center, that was wild.

What happened? Share it with us?

Triple game winner at the buzzer from three down two for the win for USC.

Early season college basketball. Don McClain is all over it.

Now.

Let's start there then, Don, because mc cronin said that he doesn't believe in messaging, he doesn't believe in doghouses yeat. The last game, no Donovan dent out there Trent Perry to start the game instead. It was the twos and he said, look, these guys just played better in practice. Your thoughts, well, they may have.

I wasn't at practice, but they may have played better at practice, but it's more about and look, even though he says it's not a message, it was a message to the players that we need to get off the better starts and defensively, they just they won and they took Arizona the wire, but they just haven't had the same urgency, the same intensity on the defensive end, especially the start game. So I think that was why he

Don Uh, we've been over this already, so we don't need to rehash it once again. But of course it's nice to reconnect with donal Klin since this is going on. He broke my heart when I thought he might come to play on the on the banks of the Three Rivers.

He came. I watched him playing time You're here and Don joins.

Us his recruitment was still hanging in the balance when he played in the Dapper Dan Tournament and what was it, nineteen eighty eight.

That's right, that's right, that's that Calipari that was recruiting you. Uh.

Calipari was an assistant for Paul Evans at that time. And Dave, I think I've told you this that that tells you how good of a recruiter is no offense to anybody from Pittsburgh. How good of a recruiter Calipari is that he can get a white kid from southern California to even visit Pittsburgh.

Ah, you would have been the missing piece. But anyway, let's talk about the here and now. Calipari. I don't know how many analytics he's applying here, but the word on the street is as they take over more and more, and it's I guess, sort of old, an old story at this point that the Lakers are lagging a little behind the rest of the league. How say you, are you aware of this and how important do you think it is for them to catch up?

Well, it's interesting because JJ redd it kind of strikes me as an analytics guy, and so maybe that was the case in the past.

I don't know.

I'm not in that locker room. I'm not in those meetings, But you know, everybody's got their own opinion on analytics and how much they should be used. I'm involved with it in the pre draft process that I do in

It's a salary cap league, don It's an intricate salary cap league because of the penalties for first aprin, second apron, all that sort of stuff, Like what do you think, what do you suspect Andrew Friedman in far Hanziety, you're gonna try to dig into try to figure out what the Lakers are doing right or aren't doing right.

Yeah, that's a good question, and you know, I think that's kind of my point. And it'll be interesting to see what happens with two baseball guys coming into basketball and how they can apply what they've used to a great deal of success with the Dodgers into professional basketball. I mean, I think, and I may be speaking way out of turn here, but I feel like analytics is way more applied to baseball than basketball, or should be, at least from where I sit in what little I

It just feels a little bit like a computer is making the difference. And I think that's unsatisfying on a visceral level for diehard sports fans. But what do the analytics, or more importantly, what does Don McClain say about LaMelo ball perhaps being a fit for the Clippers. They obviously goes without saying have not gotten off to a great start. Is you know, LaMelo is now dissatisfied in his situation. Any possibility of that happening.

I mean, there's always a possibility. And here's the thing, Dave, that analytics doesn't measure. And this is where I have a problem with people that only rely on analytics. Doesn't measure heart, doesn't measure toughness, doesn't measure how you are in the locker room, doesn't measure how good of a

But do they need to do something that might feel a little rash to try and salvage this season?

Uh? And I said this last week. You weren't there obviously, Dave. But it just it's it's the same old thing for the Clippers. There's always something, always something, and he usually revolves around Kawhi Leonard and he's not playing and they'll say we're waiting for him to get back, just like they said for the last six or seven years, and

And if it keeps getting worse. The fact that there's an unprotected lottery pick headed to Oklahoma City in this any draft, holy holy right if Boozer's on that team or Demands or one of those guys, my god, yeah, well yeah yeah, And you know.

Again, that's just another fallout from the failed PG Kawhi thing. Like they celebrated when those two came, like they were going to win multiple championships, and they've been to the Western Conference Finals once. As pg's gone and so are all their draft picks.

It's that when I saw that today, unprotected and they're four and ten with the fourth worst or tied for the fourth worst number of wins in the league. That's that's absolutely terrifying considering and by.

The way, in Matt this is a really good this year.

Yeah, really good to the Lakers. Done and Lebron's return twelve assists, one turnover, said that it was laughable that anybody questioned whether or not he'd figure out how to fit in that he can fit in anywhere. I don't know if you had a chance to watch the game against Utah, if you saw the highlights or whatever, but look, he looked great. He was moving the ball, you know, from the corner, from the mid post, and it looked

Hands, Maybe I think that's something to keep an eye on. But I do think, and I think I said this to YOUOT a few weeks ago that I hoped that this was the approach that Lebron would take, did not just come in there and you know, not kick Luca to the side, but try and outduel him or score as many as him. That he kind of took a back seat and became a facilitator in a ball mover. And you know, I think if it's going to work, really work long term with the Lakers, I think that's

I'm glad you brought it up in that way because intellectually, I'm sure Lebron James, and if he can remove the ego of who he is and has been in the league, understands that Luca should be the main man on the team. But obviously heavyweight boxers have a hard time calling it quits when obviously it's done for them. Quarterbacks who are one time superstars have a hard time repressing the desire to be the difference in an offense, to be more of a passenger like Peyton Manning when they won the

Well, I think Lebron is well aware obviously of his legacy, and I think what his motivation would be if it stays the way it is, is to win another championship, and that supersedes everything. When you're done playing, people remember your career for what you did, not really so much individually, but how many championships you won, and that's across the board.

We appreciate it. Don have a great call tonight, Big ten Network, UCLA Presbyterian, check it out. He'll be on the call. Of seven thirty Tip. Thanks Tom.

All right, guys, have a good week at Tip Big thanking it.

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Oh she's dead too soon. She's been dead for a while, so you can boo, you're gonna say it's okay. Also, no longer with us. Joe McDonald celebrated her death, really celebrated. I mean it was an honor. Were you producing his show when she died case part of it?

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So I get it. I feel for the team. Shit have never been hers in the first place, though, that's the problem.

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