Happy Monday, friends, welcome back. We're together again. July twenty ninth on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston, He's Ose. It is great to be with you. Show fifty two p OH four is now underway. We'll get to this date in history in just a little bit. Tell you about the radio program, which is busy today.
But let's start with scripture Hebrews twelve one. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. So much imagery there, right, all right, let's take that apart cloud of witnesses.
First of all, I hate to be the bearer.
But when a loved one passes on and they love Jesus and they're a Christian, they're not sitting on a cloud.
Looking at your life. You know, I know my mom and dad are down looking on No, they're not.
They're praising Jesus. They're just not Okay, they're not ghosts hanging out checking on what's going on in your life.
All right.
They are worshiping Christ. They are worshiping God. That's what's going on now. The cloud of witnesses here because we cloud were thinking, oh, you know, clouds and heavenly kind of things, and you know they're all just surrounding.
No, no, no, no.
This is referencing those who have gone before us, that have walked the walk of faith. They are witness to what happens as you run this race called life. And the second set of images here is set aside every weight and sin which clings so closely, and run with endurance. You can't run real well with a bunch of weights strapped on your body, and that's what sin becomes.
So let's start there, get.
It all out, spend a little time in prayer, have an awesome day, and we'll share it together here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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Eleven past the hour, The Morning Show. July twenty ninth, seventeen seventy three. More of Van missionaries in I build the first schoolhouse west of the Allegheny Mountains in.
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Seventeen seventy three. First the first Schoolhouse, seventeen seventy three.
That seems a little late. Seventeen eighty six, Pittsburgh Gazette, first newspaper west of.
The Alleghenies, begins publication. Man, what is this about the Allegheny Mountains? Everything was measured by the Alleghany Mountains back in the day. Nineteen fifty eight, President Nina Eisenhower signs the legislation creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration aka NASA. Still, you gotta get to Kennedy. Have you ever been to Kennedy Space Center? Have you taken the big tour, gotten on the bus and gone to the you know, the
hangars and all that stuff. Dude, you gotta get that mic in front of you, But how about get it in front of you then turn it on.
I was like, I think I was like five years old when I went, but I remember a little bit.
Mostly from pictures.
The tour that takes you down to where the Space Shuttle Atlantis is. You go through all of the launch pads, you go by the SpaceX launch pad, and it's just it is so worth it is It is absolutely one of the best tours ever. And to see I've shared before the Atlantis presentation, they kind of take you through
a little movie. You're in this room and they take you through a movie and about the history of Atlantis, and then they show it touching down, its last flight, touching down and at at I want to say Kennedy Space Center, but it could have been Edward's Air Force Base anyway. And then this wall lifts up and you see behind this scrim you're looking at Atlanta. It's right there, and it's it's tear inducing. I mean, it's emotional. Just
it's I share that because we're guilty. Like every state that has an incredible set of monuments or whatever, people that live in those states. I can't tell how many New Yorkers have never been to the Statue of Liberty, never how many people in South Dakota have never been to Mount Rushmore. California's never never been to the Redwood for you know, the the giant trees, the Redwoods, and it just Arizona's Grand Canyon. I mean, it's just it's
nuts because it's just right there. And so you're like, ah, man, but go to the Kennedy Space Center. Do the tour, get on the bus. It is absolutely worth it. And then two thousand and five, astronomers announced the images taken at the Palomar Observatory in California that revealed the evidence of a distant object large than Pluto orbiting the Sun.
That was me. I was orbiting, just larger than Pluto.
Anyway, Today's program third hour sit down with Michael Alford. He's the athletic director, vice president Florida State University, but he is the ady and there's so much to talk about. We have kind of turned July into a state of the knowles thing where we look at the season before because all the sports are done and we're right at the beginning of the new season. Women's soccer is about to begin, Men's football is about to begin, volleyball is about to begin. You're about to get into the new
year of collegiate athletics. The landscape is changing dramatically. So we'll talk with Michael in the third hour, have a good conversation with him. Some great sound for you to hear. Next hour, big stories in the press box. Yes, we're going to touch on the Olympics. But when we come back why I was not here on Friday. It was kind of interesting and so ill it was planned. It
was a planned absence. But I'll share that with you next sixteen minutes past the hour, it is the Morning Show with Preston.
Scott, Iheart's Radio season.
I'll be Monday to you Morning Show with Preston Scott along with Jose.
Can you see.
We're going to try not to have you email Jose right now. We're still working through some issues with his email. But at any rate, great to be with you this morning. And I'm always very transparent with you. I don't I don't think more than I should be. Just we're friends. We hang out together every day. A lot of us hang out every day for hours at a time, and so you know, collectively, I kind of know you. Not everybody obviously, but you know, I kind of get a feel for.
The audience.
And your emails reveal a lot, your phone calls bump it into you out at stores and different places around town.
Hospitals.
So Friday, I needed to have an MRI with anesthesia. I needed to have an MRI done two three months ago and was told the area that needed to be MRI that I would not need to go fully in the tube that I would have my chest and head out and I was like, sweet, no problem with that. But when I got there, the the technician said, no, you're going all in.
I'm like, oh, oh no, I'm not though.
Those words are not going to happen with me today. We'll have to do this another time. He sure, Oh yes, I'm quite sure. Been there, done that. Nope, just even an open MRI. I just yeah, not comfortable in those spots.
You know. Yeah, I'm I'm not like a massively rotund demand.
But you know, I'm a big guy, you know, six four six five, two hundred and fifty five pounds, and you know it's just yeah, no, no, no, no, no no. So I had to go to TMH and get knocked out, and you know, it's a procedure, you know, it's it's a thing. And so I got there first thing in the morning and saw some people that I know from church and said, my, hello is there, and you know, it's almost like what are you in for?
You know kind of thing.
And so I get up to the area and the staff. I just man, it was a great day because I had the a team across the board everybody was just awesome.
And I mean everybody.
From from the young man who had to wheel me from one place to another, just polite and kind and just you know, checking on me.
The nurses in the little.
Area because you're in this you're in an outpatient area where you're not in quote recovery, but you just kind of wake up and you got to kind of go through the process when you're done with it. But so I'm being wheeled out, taken to get my MRI and you know, I've already got my little thing in my hand, so that my little ivy thing where they can put this knockout juice.
And and so.
I'm I'm I'm being wheeled out, and there's a gentleman facing me on a bed heading the opposite way, so his head and my head were facing each other, all right, And so as I'm wheeled by, he goes, missed you on the show this morning. I said, it's our secret. Uh, it's so yeah, it's so I got. I got that. That was funny. I mean, that was just funny.
And then when I'm leaving, you know, they're just you're a little foggy.
In the head after they put you out for an hour and and so I'm just a little bit foggy, but I'm generally speaking, I'm fine. And my son's there taking me home and one of our boys, I should say, we've got a we got a roster full of boys anyway, and then my daughter, but my my eldest son was there and uh and taking me back to the house where I was just going to vegetate for the rest of the day, which I did just fine.
And so.
I'm being wheeled out in the wheelchair and there's this group at the elevators and if you're familiar with TMH, you know elevator B, elevator B, it's the elevator, it's the and there's a bunch of people and I can't tell you how many people double takeed, like, oh, that's that's Preston, and I just gave them a hearty how are you doing there?
You know, just kind of a yep, that's me.
And it gets you know, when someone recognizes you, You just know. And so, anyway, had the MRI, which is why I could not do the show on Friday. It was it was a needed MRI that took a while to go two and so I was a little anxious. My blood pressure is normally very very low. I'm like a one oh nine, one oh eight over sixty five blood pressure guy, and mine was a little elevated. It was good for anybody else, I suppose, but it was
elevated for me. So I was nervous. I had sweaty hands, even though I knew I was getting knocked out, and so as I was getting as, i'd say, we're about to just put me to sleep, I just said to everybody, the anesthesiologist, his assistants, the MRI technicians, I said, since you put people out in here, they probably don't get a chance to say thank you. So I just want to say up front before you put me to sleep, thank you very much for all your hard work, especially
if you wake me back up. If you don't wake me back up, I'll have something to say about it. But they woke me up and all was well, and so we've got that done. So there you go. Twenty eight minutes after the hour. That's why I was going on Friday Morning show at Preston's Got Big Stories are next.
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Take off. The second hour of the program.
We got some great sound for you to hear that I think you'll find at the very least funny amusing. But let's get to the big stories in the press box. Course, the Olympics are underway, and one of the things that I did in my stupefied state on Friday, because you had to be slightly drugged to make it through the opening ceremonies. And it's so regrettable because the opening ceremonies had moments. Thankfully, I went to sleep for a little while. I just just chaoed myself and said, yeah, I need
to lay down for a little bit. But I saw enough to say there were some really cool things that the organizers did of that opening ceremony, but then they ruined it all. They ruined it all by including numerous drag queens, and it was a recurring theme throughout the opening ceremonies. They had three drag queens running the torch. What you had to throw three drag queens in on this But when you put the transgenders up there reenacting Da Vinci's Last Supper painting and you mock Christ. Yeah, no,
it's not funny. And I'm gonna tell you why it's not funny. First of all, the organizers came out with a weak sorry apology. Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. Really, so who's sitting around this massive table? Because I watched the documentary on how they put all this thing together. Who of the dozens of people sitting around No one raised a concern.
You know, we really might offend the majority of people in the country that actually align with Christianity.
You might not know it. I did the digging.
Roughly fifty percent of the French nation identifies with some form of Christianity, whether Protestant or Catholicism. They and Christianity is the number one religion in the world. There are more people claiming that we don't see it enacted that living that way. But you get my point. More people claim to be Christian than any other faith. The spokesperson said, we tried to celebrate community tolerance. Listen, we believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offense, We're
really sorry. That's not an apology. That's an apology for you taking an offense. They're not apologizing for what they did. They're just mad that you're mad that you're offended. That's not an apology. They would never have done that to Islam. They wouldn't have put a likeness of Muhammed in a jet pack and tried to suggest that's how we got off planet Earth on a jet pack. They wouldn't have shown him shoplifting a Bible somewhere, because that's where Mohammad
got his faith is by shoplifting the Bible. They wouldn't have done that. That's where I draw the line. They didn't poke fun at any other faith. No, it was clearly intentional. And listen to this to all of you out there that think Kamala is your answer. First of all, you got warm body syndrome, You're just grateful you got a warm body. And now weekend at Bernie's, President Joe Biden Kamala. What an impressive show by all these beautiful
and diverse people. At the opening ceremony of the Olympics, Director Thomas Jolly did an incredible job and made France look great. America, this is what we need to strive towards. What a naked guy singing a bunch of transgenders mocking Christianity, that's what we need to just remember, that's what we need to strive for. According to Kamala Harris forty minutes past the hour, more big Stories in the press Box next.
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Look, I hope all the Americans win everything they do. That'd be awesome, but I'm just fine if some of them lose. Still a little too much wokeness out there for me in some circles. But at any rate, the Olympics are underway. The opening ceremony really just like, yeah, whatever. It was a shame because there were some really cool moments, and you know, they look, I give them credit. They
pulled off the opening ceremony without a terrorist attack. Now, the rail system got attacked, but it didn't stop anything, and they managed to do it because it's out in the open. There was nothing ever done like it. So good for them on that front. Some other big stories though, Now there's a story out here about US Senator Ron Johnson talking about the assassination attempt of Trump, saying the security agencies, the local police, they were not communicating on
the same channel. I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I think there are some that should have been communicating. But as it was explained to me, siloed communication is somewhat required because you need people that have certain responsibilities talking only to others that have those same responsibilities, And if you get a bunch of cross chatter, you could
really have some trouble. The problem seems to be they didn't have the right teams communicating with each other from interagencies interagency communication, and they didn't have people together in one room. So a call comes in from this person over here, and then they have someone relaying it then to the other teams. That appears to be an issue. Still unsettling what happened there. Joe Biden determined to ruin this country as much as humanly possible. He is going
to propose today some changes to the US Constitution. First of all, if you accept that Joe Biden is authoring suggesting these who in their right mind takes a guy of such declining mental cognitive abilities and says, yeah, we're going to amend the Constitution because of you, Pal, you're having trouble not wetting your pants. I don't think we're going to take your suggestion on the Constitution. Thank you very much. But here's the thing. It's not Joe, it's
behind Joe it's baraque, it's the apparatus. They want to amend the constitution. They want to put term limits on Supreme Court justices. Now, whatever you think of that, this is political. This is all political. They don't like the way this court is put together, and so they want to shake it up by putting term it's in place. Good luck with that, and so you don't doubt our
ability to analyze the effect of certain things. I warned you all about passing the minimum wage amendment and putting it in our state constitution back a few years ago. I warned you. I gave you the math, I did the breakdown. I showed you what it would do with the economy. Let's go to California. The twenty dollars minimum wage has led to eighty nine percent of fast food restaurants reducing hours eighty nine percent. It's been studied.
They know.
So as I told you, the people that's supposed to help that gets it across the finish line, because it just sounds like the thing to do. Are the very people hurt the most. You can't pay people more than what the way the job is worth, and jobs have a determined worth based on the cost and the expenses of producing whatever the good or service is. And if you want to make more money, then you acquire skills
to better yourself. That's what you do. But we've convinced people no, by showing up to any job, you should have a house and a couple of cars.
You should be able to go on vacations. That's not the way it works.
That will stifle productivity, that will stifle going up the ladder of economic gain. That will stifle all of it. Trust the analysis that we offer on stuff like this. Please, that's all I'm gonna say. Please.
Forty seven minutes after some good news coming to the Sunshine State. We'll explain that next.
On news radio one hundred point seven double USLA.
France is going to be a centerpiece topic over these next two weeks as the Olympics get underway. And there, I mean, they're in full swing. Medals are being awarded, USA leading the medal count and that's all fine and well.
I will say this.
Simone Biles as a goat, she is just a gamer. Kind of tweaked her calf ankle looked like it could be either or while warming up, and she's just she just powers through it. She does things that are just remarkable and not to be disrespectful, but for her age. She's in a sport where kids excel because they're they're
they're little, they're pixies, they're they're little people. And in in the in women's gymnastics, it's just it's almost oxymoronic because so often, I mean, think back to Olga Corbett.
Now do you come in each I mean, these.
Were children, arguably children in women's gymnastics. But yeah, it's it's you know, it's gonna be kind of fun to watch some of the events. Some of them are like, eh, I do enjoy some of the really different events I enjoy. For example, I don't know, go figure France, right, you'd think France would win fencing, two US women too, gold and silver and fencing.
And the US woman her second straight gold medal in the Olympics. Come on, how about that on guard indeed? Huh so, yeah, good stuff there. French aviation company.
Aura Arrow.
First of all, I would I would probably.
Say no bonus for you whoever came up with the name of that company, Aura Arrow. It's just weird say it three times, or a arrow or aor a arrow or it's like toy boat, toy boat, toy boat. It's it's harder anyway. They are bringing their first US manufacturing plant two BA Florida. Florida's gonna get it, five hundred thousand square foot manufacturing plant, one thousand jobs, average pay
seventy three plus thousand dollars a year. Hello, They're gonna do a capital investment of one hundred and seventy two and a half million, And it's just it's we need more, a little more of that here in Florida. Texas is getting a lot of that stuff. Sadly, Texas is also a little bit less read than we are. They've got Austin to deal with. Now we have Tallahassee to deal with. Tallahassee's not quite as hip and cool as Austin, and I hope we don't want to be. But Austin is
uber left like ridiculous. Now, there's some people that want to take Tallahassee there, and it's going to be up to those of you that are voting in the upcoming primary, and I mean really the primary, and a lot of you are going to have to get outside yourself and think a little deeper, and if nothing else, listen to me. I don't say that at election time, but I am
on this one. You need to listen to me. You need to go a little deeper and not just go well, they voted for a tax increase, blah blah blah.
No no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
You don't understand what's at stake here. So hopefully you'll be paying attention to what we talk about. But anyway, good stuff coming to Florida. All right, welcome to the second hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Friends.
I'm Preston, that's Jose and welcome ruminators, males and females, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Thanks so much, appreciate it. Next hour, Michael Alford, athletic director of Florida State University, schedule to join us for most of the hour, but.
I want to.
Start to zero in on what we're going to see over the next couple of months. It's funny that the polling shows Kamala Harris nearly a dead heat with don I don't believe it for one second. I just don't.
Polsters will always try to make things well, not always.
Some will try to represent, for example, registrations right now Democrats have thirty eight point two eight percent of registered voters, Republicans thirty point three percent, Independence thirty twenty seven point sixty seven percent, and then there's other political parties, so there are more registered Democrats, so they will justify their polling by oversampling Democrats to Republicans. That's not unusual. What is unusual is that there's just it defies common sense.
Kamala Harris is it's considered to be perhaps the worst elected official in office on a national level period. End will start to dissect her actual record and what she believes and thinks and says in the days and weeks to come, in fact, even starting tomorrow. But this is a parody.
This is somebody who who has taken Kamala sound and offered the following.
I Kamal Harris, Senior Democrat Canada for president because Joe Biden finally exposed to senility debate.
Thanks John.
I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity higher. I'm both a woman and a person of power. So if you've criticize anything I say, you're both sexist and racist. I may not know the first thing about running the country, but remember that's a good thing if you're a deep state puppet. I had four years under the tutelage of the ultimate deep state puppet, a wonderful mentor Joe Biden. Joe taught me rule number one, carefully hide your total incompetence.
I take insignificant things and I discuss them as if they're significant. And I believe that exploring the significance of the insignificant is in itself significant. Talking about the significance of the passage of time, right, the significance of your.
Passage of time.
So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time. And there is such great significance to the passage of time. Another trick is trying to sound black. I pretend to celebrate quantum, and in my speeches, I always do my best Barack Obama pression. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump's tight and Okay, Look, maybe my work addressing the root causes of the border crisis were catastrophic, but my knowledge
of international politics is truly shocking. The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea. It is an alliance that is strong and enduring, and just remember when voting this November, it is important to see what can be unburdened by what has been and by what has been. I mean, Joe Biden, do you think the country went to over the past four years? You ain't seen nothing yet.
There you go.
That's a parody, all right, that's just somebody poking a little fun online. But as is always the case in humor, there is truth because you have to have a core of truth to be able to poke fun, to be humor us because the truth is what people then relate to, and the truth about Kamala.
Is what it is.
So we will unpack and oh, by the way, you can find a bunch of things on our Twitter page that you'll have a good laugh at, including what's coming next. But just remember the polling is not going to be reflective. There is not a chance that Kamala Harris is even with Donald Trump. It's just not a chance because she's just a warm bodied version of the exact same policies, only if left on her own, She's more left than Joe extremely so. So just remember this is all about
a fourth term for Barack Obama. That's what this is really all about ten minutes past the hour back with Yeah, just stay with me.
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Well, if you thought that the Olympics were going to be without politics, the Israeli conflict has already reared its head.
A Tajikstan Judah Judo performer, Judah Judo performer. Uh, you know, contestant, I should say, refused to shake hands with his Israeli competitor. Of course, that's what sportsmanship is all about, right, and instead yelled a la akbar and proceeded to then get injured in his next match and had to pull out of the tournament. And so yeah, sewing and reaping, brothers, sewing and reaping. It's tough, it's it's just one of those universal laws. But what a what a sad sorry thing. Anyway,
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It's brilliant, it's so funny and so accurate, and it actually ties back to what we were talking about last hour, voting for things without really deeply thinking about them. You know, and I hate to circle back to this, but the local elections here in the capital city of Florida are going to test those of you that claim to be
Christians and conservative, more conservative than anything else. If you claim to be a conservative and you don't study the depth of the issues involved, what you get you deserve. We voted for a children's services council that's taking six seven eight million dollars out of the local economy. We told you it was a waste because they don't have a plan, there's no way to measure success. And so now you gave authority to unelected people to raise your taxes whenever they want, and they just did.
They just did.
That's money out of your wallet, that's money out of the economy. And it didn't have to be that way, and for what gain. The local elections, just like the state and the federal, they matter, and you have to think deeper and bigger. Sometimes you just have to say, yeah, I wish I didn't have to vote for this person, but I do. I think we can all relate to that at this point, can't we? Sixteen minutes seventeen minutes now passed the hour back with more here in the Morning Show with Preston Skoy.
Twy two passed the hour.
I don't know if you've heard the issues surrounding the Paris Games and the Sene River.
You heard about any of that? I say, no, sir, have not.
They made it one of their missions to try to get the water quality clean enough so they could do the triathlon, which includes a swimming portion. Otherwise it's not a triathlon. The triathlon involves running, biking and swimming.
Eh. And so there's this big thing the French President, the mayor of Paris saying that they would swim in the river, and the mayor apparently did take a dip the river and hildalgo on July seventeenth, which was twelve days ago, to convince doubters the water would be clean enough. Here's the problem. When she swam in the river, the E.
Coli levels were above the levels deemed safe. Now they're trying to blame recent rainfall. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this has been They've spent I think what's the number, they've spent one and a half billion dollars trying to clean the river. They can't do it.
It's full of sewage and junk.
And so first, how bad is it that they put the athletes on boats on that river? I mean, if someone just casually threw out a cigarette or something, you could see the whole thing blow up.
I'm teasing, of course, but.
As of right now they can't train in the river, and as of right now, it will not be a triathlon. It will be a dual athon running and biking only, which is ridiculous.
I mean, think about it.
What if you're the competitors and you're okay, with biking and running, but your strength is swimming. That's when you gain on the field or you lead the field and you give I mean, that's just not that's not a triathlon. That's not what these men and women have trained for four years, some longer because they didn't make it the last time to the Olympics. They could be training for six or seven years, and this is their moment. And Paris has literally crappy water, literally toilet water in their
sen river. What an embarrassment. Here's another interesting story from the Olympics. The Canadian women's soccer team has been docked six points.
That's the equivalent of two.
Wins in the group stage, which means they started at minus six, which means now they've won their first two matches and they're at zero points to advance. I think they have to beat Columbia. I think it is next. Here's why their coach cheated. Their coach took drones and they flew drones over closed practices of their opponents and were scouting their practices and and I feel bad for the players. The players are saying it didn't help us.
Oh contrere, you beat New Zealand and you were caught flying a drone videotaping making notes of and so the head coach has been removed, flown back to Canada. Her assist didn't gone, their lead analyst gone.
They cheated. They cheated.
Now I feel bad for the girls because they didn't know necessary at least they they're acting as if they didn't know, and that's plausible. Coaches coach did this on her own, and she's done stuff like this before. So she's banned, apparently for the next year, and there's a fine on the team. The team should not make it out of the group stage. They shouldn't allow it. But whatever they conceivably could get out of the group stage. This is no small thing. Canada won the gold in
I want to say, the last Olympics. Surprisingly America wasn't in it. They got knocked out, but in the run of sixteen or something. But here's the big here's why I bring it up. I'm not bringing it up to rub it into the face of the of the Canadians out there. I'm pointing out a principle. And this is for all of you young people, and all of you dads and moms and husbands and wives, all of you it's for all of us. The action of one impacts more than one. This coach's decision to cheat impacted and
hurt everybody on that team. And it's interesting because it's actually a biblical model. It's Jonah. Jonah was running from God and was in sin and went on a boat and the entire ship was going to get sunk in a storm. But they pitched Joanah off because the actions of one impact the entire boat. And so the things we do, they don't live in a vacuum. They impact other people.
You matter. That's let me turn this into a positive. You matter.
Sadly, in this case, the Canadian coach really hurt her team. Twenty eight minutes after the hour, back with the big stories in the press box next. Now, if you're out and around, you can listen to the Olympics on iHeartRadio. We are partnered with NBC Sports in coverage of the Olympic Games, and so you can keep.
Yourself up to date on what's going on.
You know, they're doing a good job with the coverage, as you would expect them to do. The outlets that are available now online through the various streaming services, plus broadcast and the affiliated networks with ESPN, or rather with NBC are staggering. There's obviously some sports I'm more interested in. I'm interested in swimming, gymnastics. Yeah, yeah, But I do enjoy some of the offsports. I do enjoy watching table tennis, ping pong.
It's ping pong. Come on, that's what it is. It's ping pong.
I enjoyed watching fencing, mountain biking. That course was crazy and it was a lot of fun to watch that.
But it's it's underway.
Of course, the opening ceremony was ridiculous, and that is one of the big stories in the press box Paris apologizing organizers because they depicted the Da Vinci painting of the Last Supper with trance, with drag queens with LGBTQ, and they say, you know, we didn't intend to show disrespect to any religion. Well, of course you did. Of
course you did. That's that's just disingenuous. I would respect them if they said, yeah, we took an artistic approach, and we understand we pushed the boundaries and we know that we run the risk of offending people. I would respect that because they know what they're doing. They admitted it. Yeah, that's what we did.
But to say clearly there was never any intention to show disrespect to any religious group.
That's just a lie. It just is and that insults the intelligence of every single.
One of us.
We believe the ambition was achieved. What was that to celebrate community tolerance, tolerance for what? See, that's the thing, tolerance for what If it's tolerance, and if it's about being inclusive, you don't denigrate the largest religion in the world. Now again, I don't believe Christianity really is a religion. Religions are defined by me as man's attempt to reach God. Christianity separates itself because it's God's attempt to reach man. But in the in the broad generic sense of the
term religion, Christianity is the largest. This was intentional. It was not inclusive, because if it were, you would allow you would show symbols of Christianity, if you wanted to put Da Vinci up there, you'd you'd portray the Da Vinci painting. But that's not what you did. And here's the real clincher to settling the issue in the minds of any of you that might be well, you know, you don't know, No, I do know because they never would have done that to Islam. Why because Islamis would
have killed them. They would have put a price on the head of the director and he would have lived the rest of his life worried, just like Salmon Rushdie worried of being assassinated. Now, this was clearly intentional, and Kamala Harris loved it. In fact, quoting director Thomas Jolly, did an incredible job. Made France look great America. This is what we need to strive towards. I'll point out, it wasn't just the drag queens and the transgender last supper.
It's the naked dude, literally, the naked dude in body paint, singing naked. Really, this is what we're going to celebrate in front of the world. Whatever I in my commentary, I said, the lasting legacy of France has always been surrender, and this is an example of surrendering a wokeness. Forty one minutes after the hour, more big stories in the press box.
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All right, friends, welcome Third Hour Morning Show with Preston Scott. We're almost polishing off the month of July, which means the start of the new sports season in collegiate athletics is right here upon us, and that means it's time to meet with the director of athletics for Florida State University. Vice president and our friend Michael Alford joins us.
Michael, good to see you again. It's time for a state of the Knowles. It's my favorite time of the year, Preston when I come on with you, because it tells me the student athletes are coming back. Football practice has started, soccer practice has started, and it's the start of the new year and nothing gets me more excited.
Yeah, before we talk about the new season, I want to look back at twenty three twenty four. What metrics do you use to kind of measure and evaluate men's and women's athletics. Oh, there's several metrics, and you know me, Preston, I'm so analytical and breaks things down by numbers and months and what are we doing here?
But really, the success we've had you had, you had five conference championships, you had six Coaches of the Year, two National Coaches of the Year, seven conference Players of the Year. And then you look at what we did academically with having nearly a three, having a three two, nearly a three to three departmental GPA. I mean that just tells us the type of student athletes that we're bringing into this program that represent Florida State University or
second to nine. They're performing very well in their sport, but they're also doing it across life, and they're going in and they're doing it in the classroom, doing it
in the community. And my job and I talk about this all the time when I'm hiring coaches and I got a new coach, I'm hiring a press conference tomorrow, is bringing people of high character around these young, impressionable student athletes at this time because I do believe eighteen to twenty two you kind of form your opinions of life sure, and may ensure that we have administrators, coaches, people in the weight room, nutrition, everybody associated that cross
the paths of these young men and women daily are people of high character and that we set that culture early. And I think that goes on to the field. And I just think that culture that we've been able to establish goes as a department. We'll go into the field, we'll go into life. We'll also make differences in the classroom. And that's something I'm very proud of the performance that we did last year. Now it's time to close that book.
And we got a whole new set of student athletes, five hundred and eighty of them coming in again here this year to start this season. And it's setting that expectations of excellence. You know, you hear me say it, and I think Coach Norvale says it all the time.
The standard is the standard. We're Florida State University. There's a standard at Florida State academically, at the university, in the community, there's just a standard that we have to live up to from people pre of us to looking at the vision moving forward.
Let's talk about that for a second, because I don't think anybody in your position you couldn't have become an athletic director and been in this world as often as you have for as long as you've been in without having a background at sports. I love sports, I played sports. We all know it teaches about life.
Right.
Every coach, head coach at any sport has a philosophy. How much does that head coach's philosophy then have to merge with the overall? Like you said, how do you make sure that it's the right fit and you do
look for a culture fit. You look for someone who's going to come in with similar core values of what you stand for and what you will not stand for, and also look at that make sure they have a vision of the type of student athlete they want to bring in and that's got to match the type of student athlete we want representing Florida State University and also
the type of program they're going to run. That leads to sess And I'm a big good degree book and I'm a firm believer you put in the proper processes, you're going to have success. And so it's great to sit down with coaches when you're going through this hiring process and talk to them about their processes and what's going to fit. And then it comes down to basically a culture fit. All of our head coaches support each
other like no one else. You go to a softball game, you're going to see Mike Norvale there, You're going to see everyone. All of our coaches are really close knit, and I think that bleeds into the culture that we have. Michael Alford with US Vice President of Florida State University, Director of Athletics, we got a lot to talk about. He's going to be here for most of the hour here in the Morning Show.
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Joe Biden wants to overhaul the US Constitution and put term limits on the Supreme Court. He doesn't like that the Supreme Court has made some of the rulings it's made. So this is what you do. You change the rules, you change, you try to alter things. And this is this is a problem with the left faces when things don't go their way, they don't accept it, and they
will do everything possible. Good luck with a constitutional amendment, knowing the numbers that are required to amend the Constitution of the United States, but any rate, California's minimum wage of twenty dollars has dramatically impacted the landscape of employment inside that state for restaurants. When you raise the minimum wage for people at a fast food restaurant to twenty dollars an hour, first of all, you spark inflation. See any time you artificially impact the cost of anything, you
impact other things. And so by instituting a minimum wage of twenty dollars an hour. Restaurants responded by cutting hours. You may not remember this, but back a few years ago, when the fifteen dollar wage was a big deal, Target bragged about being the first major retailer to raise its minimum wage to fifteen dollars for all workers. But what
they didn't tell you is they cut their hours. So the person that was making, you know, twelve dollars an hour and getting thirty eight to forty hours was suddenly working twenty nine hours at fifteen dollars an hour. They
cut hours, they did worse. But the impact of the wage, because it impacts the cost of a business doing business paying more money for labor, Prices go up, and so all of a sudden, you have this quote living wage that isn't buying you as much as you thought because the prices of everything you have to buy is up, So you don't gain it's in fact ends up being a net loss.
But even worse, you lose jobs.
The restaurant industry, eighty nine percent of fast food restaurants in California, eighty nine percent have.
Reduced the hours of their workers. That's not even that's not staggering, that's not shocking, that's duh.
Yeah, I'm sharing this story in part because I'm begging you to trust the analysis we offer on some subjects.
You say, well, why not all subjects?
Well, I think that, but but there are some that are so fundamental. You know, there are things that we talk about here. It's just my opinion on stuff.
It's just is. You have to agree with that.
Yeah, but there's other things. Now you really need to agree because I'm right, and because the analysis is right, and because people that have done the deep digging and research are right. There are economic principles when it comes to minimum wage. We're learning an expensive lesson here in Florida. You bought into the John Morgan lie on the minimum wage, and now we're locked in forever unless we undo it with another constitutional amendment. Good luck with that. We have
to think about it. We have to raise wages aligning with the consumer price index in perpetuity forever. So as inflation goes up, wages go up. What does that do? Drives inflation up? Trust what we tell you when we do some digging and research and share Check it, yes, check it, but trust that we know what we're talking about here. One last thing, Security agencies protecting Trump did not communicate directly during the rally. It's not as cut
and dry as that. There were clearly communication issues, but I don't believe it's as cut and dry as that. I think there had to be some siloed communications, and experts have told me the same. Anyway.
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The Morning Show with Preston Scott. All Right, we are pushing the envelope.
A little bit around here and being a bit contrarian at a time when the world's saying back up, get out of our face. I'm saying, no, go the other way.
That Christians need to flex their muscles a little bit. And I'm challenging especially you guys out there, but you know this applies to everybody. But I'm challenging you guys, all of you that if you're going to call yourself a Christian, act like it. You know, don't play the game of showing up on Sunday and then being like
the world the other six days of the week. You're certainly not teaching your kids anything, You're not impressing your spouse, you're not showing anything to your coworkers or the people that you run across. And it's not about being perfect, and it's certainly not about being phony.
It's the opposite of that. It's about being real.
And one of the things we started talking about last week was something called the Armor of God, and we talked about what Paul was writing and what was inspiring him as he wrote he was sitting in prison and he was staring at the Roman guards, and he was writing about the fact that we're not wrestling against people, though people are willing vessels for evil, because we're all born with the proclivity to sin. We all are are short, we all fall short, we all make mistakes. Everybody does.
But it's about whether you're going to abide in that or you're going to learn from it and put that in the past and move on. You keep living in those mistakes. And Paul's saying, look our battlefield, though yes, it manifests. Sometimes people are useful to oppose God's will and what God wants to do in the world.
I mean, it's evident everywhere. Right, we play a role.
In understanding that the battle we're fighting is not necessarily against people flesh and blood, but against spiritual powers and forces, and they're out there, and he writes here, finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. This is Ephesian six ' ten, verse eleven. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.
Now I'm gonna pause there.
And last week we talked about the sword of the Spirit, and we explain the difference between the logos and the rama. These are two words in the Greek translation of the Bible that say two very different things. Though Word of God is what's written in English, the root words are very different. And so it's why we learn scriptures to encourage ourselves to speak to things that are going on
in people's lives. You don't necessarily chapter and verse. You're using little parts of the Bible to encourage yourself or to speak to whatever's going on. You remind yourself that when you're going through a tough time, I might be walking through the valley of the shadow of death, but I have no fear because you are with me.
Lord.
That's a rama that is a bit in a piece of scripture. But what I want to challenge you to do is get into Romans chapter six and not Romans Ephesians chapter six, and look at the armor and start to think about what it means day to day, every single day.
Of your life.
I promise you this, If you begin the process of clothing yourself with it intentionally, you will see its impact in your life. I guarantee it. And so we're going to expand on this in the coming weeks. But that's where I want to take you today. Our world is in a rough spot, our culture, our society, and it's time to step up.
Got to do it. You'll be better for it, so will we.
All Right, friends, welcome third hour Morning Show with Preston Scott. We're almost polishing off the month of July, which means the start of the new sports season in collegiate athletics is right here upon us, and that means it's time to meet with the director of Athletics for Florida State University. Vice president and our friend Michael Alford joins us.
Michael, good to see you again. It's time for a state of the knowles. It's my favorite time of the year, Preston when I come on with you, because it tells me the student athletes are coming back. Football practice has started, Soccer practice has started, and it's the start of the new year, and nothing gets me more excited.
Yeah, before we talk about the new season, I want to look back at twenty three, twenty four. What metrics do you use to kind of measure and evaluate men's and women's athletics.
There's several metrics and now you know me, President, I'm so analytical and breaks things down by numbers and months and what are we doing here? But really the success we've had, you had, you had five conference championships, you had six Coaches of the Year, two national Coaches of the Year, seven Conference Players of the Year, and then you look at what we did academically with having nearly a three, having a three two, nearly a three to
three departmental GPA. I mean that just tells us the type of student athletes that we're bringing into this program that represent Florida State University or second to nine. They're performing very well in their sport, but they're also doing it across life, and they're going in and doing it in the classroom, doing it in the community. And my job and I talk about this all the time when I'm hiring coaches and I got a new coach, I'm
hiring a press conference tomorrow. Is bringing people of high character around these young, impressionable student athletes at this time because I do believe eighteen to twenty two you kind of form your opinions of life sure and making sure that we have administrators, coaches, people in the weight room, nutrition, everybody associated that cross the paths of these young men and women daily are people of high character and that we set that culture early and I think that goes
on to the field. And I just think that culture that we've been able to establish goes as a department. We'll go into the field, we'll go into life. We'll also make differences in the classroom and that's something I'm very proud of the performance that we did last year. Now it's time to close that book and we got a whole new set of student athletes, five hundred and eighty of them coming in again here this year to start this season. And it's setting that expectations of excellence.
You know, you hear me say it, and I think Coach Norvale says it all the time. The standard is the standard. We're Florida State University. There's a standard at Florida State academically at the university, in the community. There's just a standard that we have to live up to from people previous of us. To looking at the vision moving forward.
Let's talk about that for a second, because I don't think anybody in your position you couldn't have become an athletic director and been in this world as often as you have for as long as you've been in without having a background in sports. I love sports, I played sports. We all know it teaches about life. Right, every coach, head coach at any sport has a philosophy. How much does that head coach's philosophy then have to merge with
the overall? Like you said, how do you make sure that it's the right fit and look for a culture fit. You look for someone who's going to come in with similar core values of what you stand for and what you will not stand for, and also look at that make sure they have a vision of the type of student athlete they want to bring in and that's got to match the type of student athlete we want representing Florida State University and also the type of program they're going to run that leads to success.
And I'm a big good degreat book, and I'm a firm believer. You put in the proper processes, you're going to have success. And so it's great to sit down with coaches when you're going through this hiring process and talk to them about their processes and what's going to fit. And then it comes down to basically a culture fit. All of our head coaches support each other like no one else. You go to a softball game, you're going to see Mike Norvel there, You're going to see everyone.
All of our coaches are really close knit, and I think that bleeds into the culture that we have.
Michael Alford with US Vice President Florida State Youuniversity director of Athletics. We got a lot to talk about. He's going to be here for most of the hour here in the Morning.
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Scott, affectually known as the ad Michael Alford with us simplify everything a little bit, sense of the seminoles. How about what we put it that way?
Do you ever get to meet with all of the head coaches and their staffs at the same time.
Oh, all the time. I'm having a head coach. What's that like, That's awesome. I'm having a head coaches over for dinner to my house Wednesday night. I do that every year to start off the season. Okay, and then of course I go and I try to make three practices a day, preston to show my face and support three times a day. Now, maybe for fifteen minutes. Sure, But Sarah, who affectionately return call the governor that she takes care of everything in my schedule and everything that
needs to happen. She really runs the athletic department. But you know, she schedules out my day where if soccers in the weight room or soccers at practice, I can stop buy for fifteen to twenty minutes and just let them see that we're there to support them. Let the coaches see that we're there, that we care, and that we're there to support them. And it really makes a difference in the relationships I'm able to build with our student athletes. I make sure I go into the training room.
One thing's Scott Trueluck, who's our head athletic trainer, knows if a kid suffers a major injury, call me, get me out of whatever meeting I'm in, I want to be there when that kid hits the training room because I just think it's important and that goes into the culture that you're not a number, You're a person, correct.
It goes into the culture that we're building, and it goes into the trust and faith that the student as athletes have and what we're trying to provide the winning edge resources for them to compete classroom and on the film you.
Mentioned predecessors and culture, and of course you know, for me, I came here in the at the beginning of the cusp of the Bobby Bowden run and was fortunate to know Coach Bowden before he came to Florida State. But I remember hearing the coaches talk about how they were close to each other, how they could talk to Coach Bowden or talk to Coach Hamilton, or Coach Samurai would talk to this coach. And is that the same type of thing that that's being built or has been built here?
It's it's I think I want to tell you it's getting rebuilt. Okay. Our coaches here are just amazing and what they do and how they support each other and they do You were saying the same thing that used to go on. And I've heard those stories and what coach Bowden the core values? We talk core values earlier, and you feel his core values through the department, through the university, and I fill him through the community. I
think he had that kind of impact absolutely here. But then you look at what the coaches and how they support each other, and they attend each other's practices, they ask each other questions, they ask culture questions. What are they doing to develop these type of processes that lead to the tight knit group that some of our programs have, And it's amazing to see the information that is shared amongst them. And that's really just something that we're really
trying to encourage. And something I try to encourage is get out see what are the coaches are doing. Don't live in your silo. Get out there and learn from each other. And I learned from them and how to be a better athletic director And what can we do to provide those resources for them to go out and have success.
Is it possible to explain how different college athletics has become with the world of NIL and the transfer portal.
It is totally different. I got closer to professional sports. I would say that having ten years in the NFL in a year in the Major League Baseball, it is becoming that it's especially coming in the future in twenty five with the House case that passed, you're really going to develop a contractual relationship with your student athletes more than you do now. And that's something that we understand it. We're prepared for it. We're prepared to have success in it.
But I don't want to lose the relationship that we have with our student athletes and making sure that they understand that we're still there to take care of them while they're at Florida State and more importantly, get that meaningful degree of a top twenty public institution in the left hand and championship rings on the right. I mean, that's our goal for every student athlete.
Well, and the reality is, as has been pointed out, you know the one successful one of the successful campaigns the NCAA rolled out recently is you know, most of the athletes are not going to play pro correct and getting that message to the young people is pretty important. Yeah, very important, And it starts with great families at home, sure and making sure that we're bringing in student athletes here that have a great family home base is also important.
More with Michael Alferd, director of Athletics Florida State University, my guest for most of this hour here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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I bet you've heard that song once or twice.
Listen to it every day is what my alarm clock goes off on gets me going every morning. How long did it take you to memorize the words or do you know them? You had to work on them for a little bit. Yeah, it takes a minute, doesn't it tell me this?
We were talking about how different college athletics has become, and it's not just though for the athletes, it's for the people that love their schools and support their schools. And I've read about other schools fighting the balance. And what I mean by that, Michael is you've got.
Boosters out there, and now boosters are kind of being torn between supporting the infrastructure needs, the program needs, and then there's nil out there and trying to get some of these athletes into the schools and into the programs. How do you walk that tightrope? There's no doubt it is a true balance and where collegiate athletics has gone.
And you know, I chaired in twenty nineteen the NIL of Space and went to the NCAA represented as I asked to represent all the athletic directors across the country and come up with a program. Went to the NCAA and this was when you were Central Michigan. Went to the NCAA in twenty nineteen and put together a program and everything you hear them talk about now is what we presented. Third party administrator agents being registered, everything that
we talked about that needed to happen. And they came to me because of my NFL background and basically collegialize the NFLPA is kind of what we did at the time and presented it and they were afraid of lawsuits. So now I said, well, if you don't do this, the Wild West is going to happen, and it's going to be used one hunderdercent for recruiting purposes. And that's where it became. And now we're trying to dial that back a little bit, but it has changed. You got
to embrace it. I think our fan base has embraced it. We've competed in the NIL space very well, because the transfer portal is kind of the enemy in a way of the NIL. And I you know, and if I'm a perfect storm, well correct me if I'm wrong. I suggested there was a kid at Ohio State freshmen got a massive NIL deal and left after one year, hardly
saw the field. My contention was, they're going to have to be some people that learn an expensive lesson before they It's not that different from rookies, right correct, Untested rookies getting massive contracts, untested freshmen getting these massive endorsement deals.
And you saw, are we really concentrated on retention of keeping players that were already here getting new ones, but keeping players that were here that were established that deserve the opportunity to go out and benefit on their name, image and likeness because they built it up while showing
a seminole. Absolutely, and that was part of our plan with coach Orvel and other coaches in it work and we were able to go ahead and retain our talent that we're here because one, they loved it here, they loved the relationship we had with them, they loved their coaches, and then we were able to offer something else.
Do you ever have a challenge though, where somebody's just kind of they're struggling with where they want to support. They recognize the importance of NIL, but they also see, let's just use dope Campbell. Dope Campbell's going through a huge renovation and there's all kinds of ancillary projects that go with any of this, whether it's football or baseball
or whatever it might be. And they want to give to the program though, too, but they only have so many dollars to give, and that you're one hum percent and the nail on the head President, And that's just discussions we have that we're able to have with our donor base and say what what motivates you to help us? Because we need help across the board, and we do have four hundred million in construction going on right now. We've got a new football facility being built, We've got
Dope Campbell project. I've got a lacrosse stadium that I'm about to build here in the next year because we're
adding lacrosse that starts in twenty five twenty six. So, you know, going to our donor base and asking them to support us and asking them to support our mission and vision more importantly is something that we've had success with the last few years, and I give Stephen Ponder and the Boosters and everyone that works there or tip my hat to them all the time because we have been able to go out and get support and they've
supported us. And when it's come to whether the nil or whether it's the booster side of given to facility projects and everything that we have going on right now, the facilities are ahead of schedule, the new stadium sells, and everything going in Dope Campbell ahead of schedule. Yeah, I was going to ask you to update where what can fans expect to see this season at Dope It'll.
Be temporary seating on the west side. Go to see about half the stadium will be done. They're building down to the temporary seats and then the front part will be temporary seatings for the twenty five twenty fourth season and then next year in twenty five when Alabama opens, they'll finish. It will be completed. So they're going to be doing work is as games. I always say, hashtag partner dust as you're leaving the stadium. You may have to wear a hard hat to get to the concession
standard for this year. But there was never not a good time to do it. Yeah, there is no way to do it. And when you look and do the analytics of it and you look at what other universities have done, we're nine million behind the average average Big Ten team and thirteen million behind the average SEC team
and getting revenue out of their stadium. Why are we in that position of a seventy three year old dol Campbell Stadium Because they have updated the amenities for their fans for many years and kept updating as these seasons went along, and we just did not do that. And now we played a little ketchup on the.
Amenities more time with Director of Athletics Michael Alford here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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Two more fast moving segments. This time always moves really fast with Director of Athletics for Florida State University Michael Alford. And Michael, we were talking about the renovations at Doe Campbell Stadium and all that's gone into that.
You shared something with me that I think is really.
Important, and that is that most of us did not understand the amount of money being spent, and you could argue having to be almost wasted to keep the facility to where you could continue to host games.
Yeah, the deferred maintenance on dough seventy seventy forty years old. Now, I believe you know, the deferred maintenance that we were having to spend every year going into the season just to make sure that we can keep the whole sections available for our fan base structurally. And you know, some of those decisions were made that it's just time, it's time to do some things a little bit, and there is no good time. There's never a good time to rip that band aid off. So how did you arrive
at your overall plan? Well, we hired in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, I hired a company called CSO, who's the greatest in the business. They do every study on any stadium in the NFL, going into different markets, what works, what didn't, And we did a very comprehensive fan study and they came in and sit down with focused groups and sent out and we had one of the best responses that they had ever had from our fan base. Interesting that told us what they wanted, what amenute is
they wanted. We gave pricing models, would you be willing to pay this for a LOWJE box and gave comparisons to other institutions and even some proteins across here, here's what this cost. Would you be willing to have this amenity at this price point? And got that study back analyzed. It worked with our sports architect farm Populous and saying, okay, here are the amenities that our fans want. Let's design something that goes out and meets these price points and
meets these amenities. And we've had extreme success. Right now presenting we've built a preview center. We're doing it the right way where we call you by your rank in the donor organization in the booster club and have you come in and you get to go through the preview center and pick and choose what game day experience you want. Moving forward, and the club seats have been sold, we're starting on chairbacks. Now the whole West side is going
to be chairbacks, starting on that process. The Loas boxes are sold out, the Founders suites are sold, but now we'll get into that next level of working. Also on the South end and the West side don't and we haven't forgotten the East we're going through that and fixing all the ADA requirements. Each seat on the east is going to have a seat cap now that establishes an eighteen inch seat for you that you can sit down in.
So that's going to be coming forward this season. So there's a lot of changes that we're doing to doge to increase the fan experience. Because I always talk about we lead the country, which is we found out in this study and sixty percent of our fan base travels over three and a half hours, And what is our competition? So then you bullet down to who am I competing
for that entertainment dollar? We bring one hundred million dollars to Leon County every year Florida State Football does what can I do to continue keeping that machine rolling for the community other than win games? Other than win games because that plays a role. That plays a role. So you know, they're coming from Jacksonville, They're coming from Mercedes Benz, They're coming from Orlando and going to see the Magic
Bucks games. Miami's one of our largest handhandle is huge, I mean, so they're coming from these stadiums that have some of these amenities already, So how do we keep the entertainment and the fan amenities a dope Campbell's Stadium and modernize it for the future.
Sure, and that was our vision moving forward quickly. I'll make this because we're coming to a break here. What can you say? What do you feel comfortable saying about what fsu acc what that all looks like.
Well, we're going to continue. You know, it's playing out in the court system right now and we're doing our due diligence. We think we have some great points and we're going to continue to move that ball down the I always say, run out that ground ball. Yeah, continue to run it out. But we're also preparing for the future where we think Florida State and Florida State's brand belongs in the landscape of collegiate athletics. Can you tell a guy that played bass? Yeah, that's the analogy. He picks.
Michael Alford with me forty past the hour final segment with the director of Athletics for Florida State University, Michael Alford. This is kind of our annual.
We've turned it into an I think after two you can say the annual.
It is annual. It's the first, it's the second, and then it'll be the third. Annual State of the wholes address here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Just to put a cap on the FSU ACC thing. Do you do you have any anticipated timeframe where there will be some definitive direction that you feel like you'll have
moving forward. Well, we looked at this no one that where collegiate athletics was heading, and we've had deep conversations with the ACC when I became athletic director and Jim Phillips and I have an unbelievable relationship with the respect I have for Commissioner Phillips is second to nine I've known in twenty something years. He is a man of integrity. We tak core values earlier. There's not a man with
better core values than Jim Phillips I have. But you know, we spoke to the ACC and laid out the laid out what our what our concerns were right moving forward. When you say we had that conversation, when was that over two and a half two years and it's been a while, okay, and laid out you know our concerns are because we see that when the media contracts are coming, the SEC the Big ten and negotiated their new deals absolutely.
We saw there's going to be a thirty to forty million delta in that and what they're able to provide, and then we also anticipated what the house case was going to be. We didn't know exactly. We didn't know the roster limits. We didn't know, but we knew the parameters.
We could guess the parameters. And seeing now that that's past, are getting settled in the court system and you're able to go out with these roster limits and able to offer and five scholarships for football, and you're going to have this influx of cash coming to those other two conferences. It's just going to make the separation more, to make it greater. And what I'm concerned about Preston football's football.
You know, people talk about football a lot. My concern is making sure I give the winning edge resources and the scholarship level and everything we can do to that national championship soccer program to line in her softball programs.
What links do in Chris pull. I mean, you look at the success Brooke Niles, You just go down their Brooke Wyke Off, you just go one after another of these great programs and great coaches we have and making sure that we're able to provide them the winning edge resources because the other two conferences have the media support
to do it. They have the media new income of cash coming in and revenue from those media contracts that are allowing them to make a difference in those words, and that that is my concern to keep us at that level across the board, because we have comprehensive excellence at Florida State and I want to continue that the seasons. Right around the corner, you've got the national defending champion soccer program starting in a couple of weeks. How about
this one, I'll give you a stat, Coach Penske. We have seven players in the U twenty World Cup right now, Yes seven, Seven of our student athletes will not be here opening Day because they're representing their countries, the United States or others in the U twenty World Cup. And there are a few that are from the program that are in the Olympics as well. Correct. I mean, what a what an unbelievable program and what he was able
to do last year. I still argue that was the greatest women's soccer team in the history of the NCAA. Just the domination they had from start to finish pretty special. Was pretty special.
Lastly, of course, you've got another season of college football and for a lot of people, I mean, look, it's the big revenue generator and all that, but you're heading to Dublin, Ireland. Yes, how does that happen that you're playing Georgia Tech?
Now? First of all, I mean you just think it ought to be Notre Dame. But anyway, right that came about. I have a great relationship with a gentleman named John Anthony who puts on that game. And literally we're at the Georgia TCU National Championship game in LA and meeting and basically on a paper napkin on a bar, Napkins said, hey, well why don't we do this? But I would not give up a home game for our fans in our community.
So we went out and got Georgia Tech because we were going to play there this year, and to move that home their home game to Dublin so we can have this experience for our student athletes and our fans. And I can't wait to get over there. The game is sold out. How much gear are you selling over there? We're selling a lot, right, what do you expect the fan split? To be. Oh, it's going to be a seventy five twenty five. I mean the response from our
fans for the travel packages that they are. People in Ireland and Dublin are just amazed. And I've told them we're gonna paint those streets Dublin and we're gonna plant Dublin. Guard ain't gold. The Temple bar may have a lot of guard. You might hear war chant going down the streets and Dublin a lot the sassi Ola renegade making the trip. Don't think we didn't try. I know all those people. I had a feeling that wasn't gonna happen. Michael is always thanks for the time. Oh thank you
success this season. Enjoy coming to see you. You do an unbelievable job. Love listening to you in the morning. Thank you, appreciate all the support you do for Florida State and God Knowles.
We love I heartbeing the flagship for FSU athletics. Got a little softball on the air last year.
That was exciting. Always love having all the sports and again, thank you, thank you. Go Knowles.
Michael All for Director of Athletics Florida State University. Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott fifty two minutes past the hour Morning Show Repressors. Scott, I hope you enjoyed the visit, kind of a comprehensive sixty thousand foot view what's going on at FSU, A little behind the scenes on what went into the decision making on how
they approached dot Campbell. I can tell you, as someone that's been here since nineteen eighty seven and most of you know that have been in the stadium, the underside of that stadium was needing some attention. The concessionaire is needing some attention. They're just they're just things. And as he said, there is no good time. There's just there just isn't Because of this the magnitude of the project,
you're gonna disrupt some things. And so they're they're gonna make it as as as comfortable as possible with an eye towards twenty twenty five, and so yeah, you just rock on. But how about that lacrosse, women's lacrosse coming to FSU as a new sport, and so we'll certainly be following that and see what happens, and you know, maybe we'll get some coaches on the program this year. They're busy, you know, we're so often just sort of
dealing with the news cycle of the day. But I've always viewed the visits with the coaches as a very pleasant distraction. Most not all, most of you are FSU fans. I know that we have listeners in all parts of the country, and I know that we have a lot of Florida Gator fans and Miami fans, and Georgia Bulldog and Alabama Crimson Tide. I know, I got you. But this is FSU territory, and we are the flagship for FSU.
So I would love to have as much contact with FSU athletics as we can within the normal flow of the types of things that we talk about on the program. So really appreciate Michael joining us. Tomorrow, Jerome Hudson will join us. He's the author of the Fifty Things books. Former intern On the Morning Show with Preston Scott, now the entertainment editor at Breitbart Dot, we'll have a manly minute, plus a little more on Kamala's.
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