Transcript of Hour 2: Amin's Taylor Hicks Story (feat. Shohei Petrovic)

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This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stugats podcast. In the time of N-I-L, we the money to obtain her a game, so we're now quick as a bunny with a team that Dan called the best in 20 years.

With one loss, they all feed on Mike Ryan's tears.

But screw the haters, Mike will still make the playoffs.

You know what I'm saying? So long as someone loses in cops, up their lead in the ACC because, oh, shit, we no longer control our destiny. And Mike Ryan saying, I'm insane to complain. We got Bane, Mario still building and I don't know the game. Hey, man, don't believe everything's on the QB. He can throw four and blame the guys on his team.

And it is fine, Mario, once again, got to a fourth quarter and blew another chance to win. So... So what What we've lost to Louisville. I'm a loser, baby. Nothing new for Miami.

So what we've lost to Louisville.

I'm a loser, baby.

Nothing new for Miami.

I don't think that there are some college football stories that we're going to have time for today. I don't think we're going to get to Clemson losing to SMU. I don't think we're going to get to Brian Kelly and LSU. I do think we're going to get to Florida and Florida State. But before we go any further, you, Greg Cody, realize how close you are to having to walk Seattle, correct?

I know in jest, I made that bet. We did find a Seattle, and I believe Illinois, right, Jeremy? A little town? Yeah, it was a village. Also, I just want to make clear that song is by Beck, Loser by Beck. So it was layered. Wait, but it's very layered.

Isn't the quarterback for Miami named Beck?

Yeah, you get it.

It's a very layered song about how they're losers in Miami.

So you could walk to Seattle, Illinois, hypothetically.

Can I get the sound here as Jeremy tries to torment us and I insist on bullying Can I get the sound of him reacting to Jane Levy calling him a boy toy?

The pitch clock. Jane, thank you so much for taking the time to join me today. For you, boy toy, anything. She makes me giggle. I love her. I'm not ashamed of that at all.

You laugh like an anime character. You laugh like the Pillsbury Doughboy.

I love her leaning into the boy toy thing.

We will get to a means weekend observations in a second, but I do believe that I have subject matter in front of me that is the only other connection point that we would have that I say rivals '90s baseball on something that everyone around here wants to talk about whenever it is present, and it is simply the old-fashioned heist. When there is a heist, everyone has the language of heist, and they know that they want to talk. I don't know about whether it's pierce Brosnan, Thomas Crown affair, I don't know if it's The Italian Job. Whatever dumbass movie we enjoy around here, because it's a heist movie, it's happened at the Louver. The Louver, I don't know the items that have been stolen. Mike has told me that there is a quick cliff version of the story that we have via audio here that will get everyone caught up very quickly.

A group of well-trained and really organized thief broke into the Louver Museum in Paris, and in a matter of minutes, successfully made off with priceless jewels, at least one that once belonged to Napoleon's wife. This is not a new Ocean's Eleven movie. This actually happened yesterday. And what is even crazier, it was in broad daylight, and the museum was open with tourists and security and people in it. The jewel thief, dressed as construction workers, used an aerial lift to get up to a window, and then they had portable saws to cut through the glass of both the window and then the case where the jewels were on display. They made off with their haul on, are you ready for this? Scooters. It's so very French. Now, it would seem in their hast, they may have dropped one item, a crown, believed to belong to Napoleon's wife, Emperor Eugenie, which was discovered damaged outside of the gallery. That lady gives off AI. Why do daylight robberies always happen in broad daylight? Why isn't it ever just daylight? What's broad about it? It's daylight.

That's your takeaway from that story?

Also, hey, Louver, how about a little security? Is anybody guarding the jewels? What's going on here? It's got to be an inside job. Somebody who's worked at the Louv was in on this. Time to throw away your journalistic credibility and get reckless. I know what makes sense and what doesn't. Here is something we like to call reckless speculation.

You're good.

Inside job.

Inside job. I hate to correct the eminently credible New York Post. It's actually Napoleon III's wife, not the original Napoleon.

A royal crown was stolen and just left in the alley?

The crown jewels were stolen. The The Crown was left behind.

But the crown was just left behind. So this is an old-fashioned heist in, as they said, broad daylight, not just daylight. Are there any other details that we need here?

She said priceless there. That seems pretty worthless. It's true. The Crown? There's no price on it?

Well, they're going to be hard to resell, I would imagine, right? There's only one of its kind. I don't know how you spawn this stuff. I don't know how it sells on the open market. Not going to surprise you. I'm not an international thief. Hold on. You don't know?

How many movies have you watched, Dan Leventhal? It's a fence. You go to a fence. Why is he called a fence? I don't know, but they call him Fencer's. And he goes, and the first thing he does is he pulls out the little moniker thing, and he looks at it, and then he lowballs the shit out of the heister's. And the heister's like, Come on, Claude. You told us you would pay us big for this. Yeah, but the heat is too hot right now. You got to sit lay low for a while. And then Claude comes back with an offer that's good enough because they need enough money to get to Mexico. Once they get to Mexico, no extradition.

Claude's no dummy.

Ocean 11, Ocean 12, these are the most famous versions of these movies that we love, but this is in real life. This is a heist. It sounds less romantic than you would think if it's in broad daylight with saws.

Yeah, and plus the three thief supposedly were wearing ski masks.

How did they- That's not true. They were dressed as construction workers.

I know, but they had ski masks on, which is all the weirder.

There's video everywhere is the problem. Everywhere. It's going to be hard. I don't know. You can't get away with something like this, right?

We'll see. No, they won't get away with it. We'll see.

Do we have any suspects who were in the area at the time that we can shorten the list to?

This is not possible to pull off in the modern age. The heist might be, but you will be caught and you will not be able to sell them.

Right. How many hundreds of video cameras are there in the Louver? I mean, you don't get away with this. They will be caught, especially because it was an inside job. So one of them is connected with the Louver, so they will be caught.

We're speaking with an expertise I don't believe you or I have. In a matter of hours?

In a matter of hours. No, in Greg's defense, it really doesn't make any sense to have this happen without an inside job because it's never happened before. Why would they be able to do this now? It makes no sense unless there was someone who was in the area that hadn't been there before. Thank you, Billy.

Guys, these heist teams, you guys are still focused on who actually grabbed the jewels and ran. You got to remember, there's other elements. There's guys on the look out. There's guys who are acting like they're tourists, going around, taking pictures with their wife. Down the hall, literally, where is it? Literally down the hall, The Mona Lisa. So a lot of people, that's the most popular thing there. So you got a bunch of people taking pictures by the Mona Lisa. Like, Hey, I'm on vacation here. Where are you from? I'm from Florida. I'm an American. And then you do that. Like, Oops, I spilled my latte. Every Everyone pays attention. That's when the construction workers come out, grab this up, get back out. Now, you know what they do? Unzip, take it off, put on like, sunglasses, maybe a camera, and now we're on scooters, and now we look like tourists. Come on.

It's pretty good the way that you've got the heist handled. We've also established before today's show that any one of us, if we were wearing a vest of some sort and had a ladder under our arm, we would be able to get access to just about anything we wanted to.

This is the greatest proof of our theory ever. Four guys, at least, maybe more, could be also women. Don't want to discriminate here because women can be Jules Hyde, too. If you saw Oceans 8, was that the one where it was all women crew?

Or as Dan calls it, Ocean 8.

It's one word, Ocean 8. It's a verb.

So you do this, you get the stuff, and then you get out of here. They proved it. Our theory is correct. We should start going to games now like this. Super Bowl? Here we come.

Are you guys in agreement that Greg and I, who are not professionals, are armed with any information whatsoever other than watching and listening to movies of this kind? When we say with confidence, these people will be found shortly, and these are not things you can sell, as if he and I are running an international black market circles, you guys agree with us or disagree on that? There's no way you can just steal a crown jewel and then it's not retrievable, right? I know the screen painting in Norway was stolen one time, but the most famous of the heists that was international emotional in nature that secured the greatest thing that has never been restored, what is represented by the greatest of the heists?

I would say Denver winning that game Sunday over the Giants.

You know what? Well done. That's pretty good right there.

I'm here for you, usually.

But late. Dan, the best heist ever you've never heard of.

Of the most valuable thing ever stolen?

Never heard of it. Because oftentimes, if you watch National Treasure, you put a perfectly great replica in its place. You don't even know it's stolen.

I'm seeing in 2016, $70 million worth of Bitcoin was stolen.

Yeah, not really what we're talking about. Boring, not exactly something you make out a documentary or a movie out of this great heist of just... I had to click on my computer and stole a bunch of currency that was electronic.

The Mona Lisa was stolen 100 years ago.

Zaz went and saw the Mona Lisa here recently and called her overrated and small, I believe.

How recent?

How recent was it? Zaz, weren't you just over there? I was there a few days ago. You were at the Louver a few days. It was what? Four days ago? Five days ago?

I was there a few days ago. Interesting. Mona Lisa, very small.

He was unimpressed. He went after her on Zazlo Show 2. 0. If you did not hear it, he went after the Mona Lisa. If you are someone who does not like Europe, thinks things in Europe are overrated, Zazlo speaks your language in the totally xenophobic Zazlo Show 2. 0.

You can't spell xenophob without Zas.

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Let's go ahead and do Amine's weekend observations. I almost slept there. Yeah, that's fine. I'll wait for it.

I'll give you another one. The Pink Panther Diamond. That was a big one, and they were eating the Hempelgeels.

Not a real diamond. I love an off mic, Oh, Shit.

It is time for him to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my voice.

I mean. Weekend Observations is presented by Miller Light. Dan, we questioned if the end was nigh. We saw the riding on the wall. We read the tea leaves. We did our own research. But last night, against a Falcon's team that was riding high off a Wind versus Buffalo, he put up two hundo yards in rushing and receiving, and two TDs. Just like that. Make no mistake, Christian McAfree is back.

That's nuts, isn't it?

Cmc.

It's just crazy. He's just like seven functioning bones.

I can't bring myself to trust anyone named McCorkel.

Put it on the poll at Lebitard Show. Can you bring yourself to trust anyone named McCorkel?

Even though they blew a 19. 4 quarter lead, I'm happy the Giants finally got their QB. We'll be putting a fucking dort in the league's neck for the next decade. Yes. Yes.

He finally got that.

Poor Wro. Tua Tunga-Vailoa, 12 of 23 for 100 yards. Three INTs, sacked twice, and benched by Mike McDaniel in a whipping at the hands of the hapless Cleveland Browns. Greg, stay strong. I feel a second half push coming. Diamond hands. After the game, Tua spoke to the media, and he said, I'm definitely not happy about my play this year. I feel like I'll have French toast with a side of aluminum roofing. Unlet it, please. Ladies and gentlemen, Kaiser Wilhelm and the Beach Boys. He has CTE, Dan. Not the fun kind, but I try to make it fun. Mike McDaniel. Address the media about the benching of Tua with all the confidence of Chris Rock, requesting lingual contact with his testicles. You guys remember that bit? Excuse me, I may. Excuse me, I may. Could you please... Good God, I haven't seen anyone stutter that much since Ben Stiller started as Tug Speedman, starting as Simple Jack.

Couldn't be made today.

Ruben Reuben Studdard. I'm sorry. Yeah. 2004.

That's my humor.

Reuben Studdard was this guy from American Idol.

I remember. You think I don't remember.

Shout out to Taylor Hicks, man. That dude is cool. That dude is cool. Let me tell you something about… Okay, I'm stopping Weekend Observations for a second to tell you my Taylor Hicks story. I'm in Vegas. I'm at the club at Caesars with one of my buddy's assistant coach. His buddy works as a manager at this super extreme nightclub, takes us to a cabana which oversees the whole dance floor. We go there. The cabana to our left is Carmelo Anthony, and I want to say Chris Paul and some other NBA guys. We're like, whatever. The cabana to our right is Taylor Hicks, and he's singing word for word. I don't know that, Phil. To Waka-flaka, Oh, Let's Do It. I was mind blown. My buddy was like, You know what? Anyone else in the world would be like, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul. We're like, The guy from American Idol looks like Mark Cuban.

When he He's saying leave on. It changed me.

Oh, my God. All right, back to Weekend Observations. 14 carries, 120 yards, and a one TD. If a running back put up those numbers, what would we say, Zaz? Pretty good. Yeah, pretty good. All right? If a QB put up those numbers, we'd say he's Haynes King. Best running quarterback in the nation. Let's go, Jackets. We crack the top 10.

You grounded Duke to dust in the fourth quarter with your offense.

With his legs. This guy's amazing. I can't believe the nation isn't enthralled by Haynes King.

They're late arriving to one of the fringe schools, but the fact that he's winning games, that guy should be in the Heisman conversation. I'm not kidding. Yeah, of course.

He can take Beck's They almost lost Wake Forest.

They probably should have.

Yeah, but you know why they didn't? Haynes King. There you go. You know what he has? Moxy. And? Guts. Balls is the word we're looking for.

But also, Wake Forest went for two and shouldn't have and could have won the game while Haynes King was on the sideline.

How many yards per carry you think he averages? Carrie Underwood.

There you go.

Thank you. I've been all around this country. Something I can confirm is uniquely Miami. Cvs y más. What's the más? Is it I'm serious. Dan, you say, Oh, this is uniquely Miami. We're like, Dan, this happens everywhere. I swear to God, not in LA, not in Arizona, not anywhere with a strong Spanish population. Have I ever seen CVS y Yes.

I more. That means you can get a Santeria ritual in the back if you want. Can you?

Because it looks like the same as a regular CVS to me. I walked around, I was like, This is just CVS.

They just played my now there.

It's a playlist. That's right.

It's the What's the difference, honestly.

B. John Robinson, Kujukasumo wrestler in a phone booth. See, a phone booth, Jeremy, was this thing back in the day in the 20 CV. When you make a call, you didn't have cell phones. You have to use landline, so you put a coin in. What's a landline? Well, okay, so it's like a phone that has a wire attached to the wall.

But then you can't take it anywhere.

No, it stays put.

Yeah.

All right.

It needs the music.

Superman also, you said.

Okay. No, I like it when the music-Take his costume off.

It's a misnomer that Superman would change into a costume. His costume is actually Clark Kent. See, the real Superman is Superman. It's Kal-El.

Kal-el where? To the person on my flight who refused to switch seats with someone because you don't like the number 5. Get out of here. You miserable thing. Get out of here. I swear to God. Gets ass. Hey, me and my boyfriend are over here. Can we switch? They're in row three, he's in row 5. The lady was like, I don't like the Oh, come on. That was her whole thing. I gave away her gender. Shit. Joe Mizzula made his coaching set play versus Celtics Media. They won 57 to 4 and made a big deal about it across all Celtics official social media accounts, as if that proved some point. Maybe if you didn't measure yourself against washed-up former D3 athletes like Jay King, you wouldn't blow multiple 20-point leads in the playoffs. Oh, no. Nbc running promos from Michael Jordan segments called Insights to Excellence. Goose bumps. Is he going to be on tomorrow? He's going to be, right? He's going to be on on opening night. Special segment, him and Mike Toriko, Insights to Excellence. Okay. Come on. Tell me you won't tune into that, Dan. Yeah.

There you go. Michael Jordan, Sparks.

There are 83 players on opening day NBA rosters who were born after LeBron made his NBA debut. That's depressing. Fifa cracking down on ticket scalping by forcing resale of tickets to their own ticket site, then charging 15% commission to the seller and 15% commission to the buyer. That's not just a heady play. It's a bicycle kick from outside the box in extra time of a World Cup final game with a get-in price of $15,000. It's crazy. Prior to this World Cup, Dan, you could only resell for face value. You couldn't price couch. Fifa said, We're going to get rid of all these scalpers. You only do it on our marketplace. By the way, no limits to what you can resell for. Why? Because they're getting 15% on both sides. Ouch. Unbelievable. I'm debuting a mini segment called Miss Connections.

It's almost like FIFA might be corrupt.

Oh, my God. Pablo Tori finds out. Debuting a new mini segment called Miss Connections. You were the cute blonde at the supermarket mopping on aisle 5. I was the guy who dropped a family-sized jar of kosher dills. Are brands paying more nowadays or are celebrities more desperate? Why are Zoe Saldana and Jeff Bridges doing commercials for cell phone service? They're really pisses me off. The guys from Scrubs, okay, you guys were famous once upon a time. Now you don't have a lot going on. You can do these ads. Fine. That's normal. That's what we've always grown up with in terms of commercials. Now we're getting Hollywood A-listers doing regular or ads?

You're right about this. I don't believe enough people are talking about this. There are all sorts of movie stars who used to be movie stars who are cashing out in a way that is beneath them.

They're still a movie star. If they used to be, I'd be fine. But you're still a movie star. Bradley Cooper doing Uber Eats commercials?

I'm saying back when we had movie stars as a traditional construct is what I meant. Now they are commercial pitchmen for whatever.

It's like whenever I see them doing paid for reads on podcasts and stuff like, You're too rich for this. You're too fit. That's for us. The D-Listers. Jesus, leave some scrums. Crumbs. Miller light. M Night Shyamalan, Nicholas Sparks are collabbing on a project. And now I'm wondering if AI-created scripts in movies are such a bad idea. Did you know that early on, M Night was supposed to do the film adaptation to the notebook? This is a true story. Get the hell out of here. I heard it on NPR. Said he was one of the early...

That feels like a weird happen to know. I heard it on NPR. You just hit that as the verifier. I heard it on NPR. This is a fact.

It was not for me. They interviewed them, and he said, Actually, I got to work with Nicolas early on because I was supposed to do the film adaptation to the notebook. And then the studio went in a different direction. My question is, what do you think the twist would have been had he gotten his way? Ryan Gossling goes to World War II to fight alongside the Nazis. Yeah. Can't wait for American sports 25 years from now. When there's a shit ton of athletes across all races and ethnicities named Shohe. Top five Shohes in sports 25 years from now. Oh, wow. Okay. Olai. Shohe Petrovich, MLS striker. Except he'll say it's Petrovic. Dumb ass. Olai. Shohe Fontaine Jeffries, starting point guard in the WNBA. Number 5. Shohe Lafleur, NHL goalie. Number Number 4, Shohe Valenzuela. Golden Gloves Shortstop in the MLB. Number 3, Shohe Friedmann. Mlb pitcher, struck out 12. Number 2, Shohe Abdul Rahman. Mma fighter. And the number 1, Shohe in American sports, 25 years from now. Shohe Shyamalan Jenkins. Wide receiver for the Chiefs.

That's a good name.

Shohe the Money.

No, thanks. There was a heist at the Louver this weekend. That's the museum Zaz went to to go see the Mona Lisa. It took four minutes and happened during business hours. I know what you're thinking. How could that happen? Who was guarding the Louver? Turns out it was Rudy Gobert. But the heister just ran high pick and roll the whole time, Greg.

Top five things of Louver heist was almost faster Almost faster than.

O-l-i. Me at any blackjack table ever. It doesn't matter how much money, doesn't matter what the minimum bet is. Within three and a half minutes, I'm done. I'm spent.

Always? You're just bad?

I'm horrible blackjack. Number 5. Minutes per game, Bronnie will average this season. Just a hair under four minutes. Number 4. Me on prom night. Just a couple of hairs under four minutes. Number 3. Me at Ninja Warrior. Number 2, me at Ninja Warrior the second time. The number 1 thing that the Louver heist was almost faster than, the Canes reign at number 2. Home game. Unranked opponent. Four INTs. Mike, what the hell happened, man? Speaking of hell, Art Bryles. Those are the weekend observations.

Thank you, Amine. Amine will be at the watch party with us in Kendall. Greg Cody is not yet confirmed, but I urge you to make plans to be with us that night. It's going to be a good deal of fun. Don Lebatard. Quiet man. Yes.

I'm a married man. I don't cheat on my wife despite that gratuitous line back in my day. That you wrote. Stugats. I wish you were here, my wife. I really miss her. No, I don't. That's the thing about being married. You're not allowed to say, I don't miss my wife. I've been gone two days. I haven't been gone long enough to miss my wife. I'm sorry. I call her, I'm on the phone with her for 30 seconds. What am I? Hello. All right. All right. We'll see you. All right. And then I'm going to see her in two days. How's jumping Charlie? Good. This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugats.

The college football stories of the weekend more, I'm going to say, regionally, even though Billy Napier being fired after a win is usual, but they look so impressive against Mississippi State, and the money has gotten so high. You're talking about $2 million of private equity in the Big Ten, and the SEC is the most competitive. This is how it's going to be now. You can lose your job after a win. You could lose your job if simply Florida whiffs the smell of, no, we're better than Mississippi State, and we've got to prove it in a way that makes us something that feels more like it belongs with Oklahoma and with Texas. And again, at the top of the standing somehow, Alabama gets a pick six, a 99-yard pick six, and Alabama somehow lost to FSU. Somebody explain to me how FSU goes from swomping Alabama, winning by two touch downs, to going to Stanford and losing when Stanford is as bad as there was in division one. Somebody explain it to me, please. I don't get it.

The SEC is not that good.

You don't think Alabama is that good?

Alabama looks like a different team, but we're also taking the results. But they got their asses handed to them by FSU. You can say they were underprepared, but we just forget about all of that. It's a terrible loss. But this is the SEC branding. You have a team like Tennessee whose best win is against Mississippi State, ranked ahead of teams like Louisville and USF.

Good loss is better than good wins, Mike.

That wasn't even a good loss, Alabama. They got their ass saying to do them.

It's the team and the brand name.

What's funny about what they're saying, Zaz, is what just happened to Billy Napier at Florida is basically this. It's condensed, but it's basically this. Everyone in the SEC is competing for the big dollars. And if you do have a bit of a coaching in, and I allege, you, too, can be Vanderbilt or Missouri or one of these schools that's now competing at the top of the SEC when those were never allowed to compete it. Never mind the top of the SEC, they've always been the dormant. So when Florida is merely a little bit better at home than Mississippi State and loses to South Florida and Vanderbilt, Missouri matter now, they can win any weekend against Alabama. Everything at the top end of the SEC is they're all throwing money at it because it's never been easier to get to the top of the sport. If you have $20 million, if you have $20 million that people have an expendable income, you could be Vanderbilt or Missouri or Texas Tech or one of these other schools buying your way right to the top of the game. Florida is behind now because Florida had the Head Start. Florida has the tradition, has the history, has the expectation of excellence, but now they're officially behind.

Billy Napier, you're out on your ass because that's not good enough. We did better with Dan Mullen. That wasn't good enough because Florida's standard is not where Vanderbilt and Missouri's is.

Well, they gave Billy Napier three and a half years, and his combined record is 22 and 23. You don't do mediocrity if you're the Florida Gators. The buyout doesn't matter anymore. It doesn't matter how high it is. Front Office Sports reported today that the nine firing so far in the top level, the buyouts have totaled $116 million already this season.

Oh, but it's mattering in Tallahassee. The buyout is absolutely mattering in Tallahassee. You can't go, Greg. You cannot go from the weirdness of we were atop the sport 13: 01, a quarterback away, our quarterback gets injured. The next season, we're 2: 10. Then we're good enough to beat Alabama, but then we go to not just Stanford, Pittsburgh. Fsu is weird. Fsu, whether the SEC is what Mike says it is or not, you win at home against Alabama by two touch downs, you're going to get everyone's attention.

I don't have a good way of explaining what's going on with because I understand they didn't play anyone great those next couple of weeks after Alabama. But that FSU team, it looked like they were back.

It looked like, I don't know, the team two years ago that went undefeated, but they looked like a legitimate team. Then this weekend, you lose the way that you did out there.

I don't understand. Jeremy, please get for me the game logs on Stanford this year because I don't think it was late at night.

Miami is favored by 30 points against Stanford.

What happened late in that game, FSU, it was a late game, okay? And all of a sudden, you have no offense that FSU can get against Stanford. But when I give you the game logs on Stanford, that program is in disarray. But Andrew luck, the GM, asked someone for 50 million and got it.

Beautiful job by me.

Asked someone for 50 million as a donor to Stanford, and that gets you in the game now. Do you realize the market inefficiency that someone that Andrew Luck just exploited? Wait a minute. I can get in that game for $50 million if I know the right person? I can actually run an athletic program that competes. What he inherited post-David Shaw is how bad a team is this?

This team this season is three and four. They lost at Hawaii by three. They lost at BIO 27 to three. They went at home against Boston College by 10 points. They lost at Virginia by 28, 48 to 20. They beat San Jose State by a point at home and had just come off getting crushed by SMU 34 to 10 before beating Florida State. How does that make you lose to that? How do they do that? Welcome to the Gus Malzhan experience.

Mike Norvill last won an ACC game when he was 42. He's 44 now. Oh, my God. This is after they said the ACC wasn't good enough for them and demanded a new revenue share structure because they were the class of the conference, and then they haven't beaten anyone in the conference since.

What is his buyout again? I'm sorry, Norvill, because this is the game that we're playing now in the state Florida. It's a business game. Do you have $20 million to get into the game? Do you have the money to buy James Franklin's $50 million? You understand that this is welcoming all the local car dealers to help us fund our program so that we can have a $50 million. Look, the Ohio State roster, it was viewed as all sorts of expensive. $21 million in sports isn't that expensive. They could sell that with some well-placed concessions and merch. The sport is a giant thing, and the amount of dollars that we're talking about that buys out James Franklin now, 50 million is not that much.

Mike Norvall would be owed about $55 million. Gus Malzhan, the offensive coordinator, would get another 3. 6. Tony White, the defensive coordinator, 2. 6.

Yeah, I've seen pretty high estimates for what that buyout would take for the entire staff. And boosters have to pay for these buyouts, even in today's NIL age. So they have to pay for NIL and the buyouts. And FSU does not have the same base that Florida has, nor do they have the SEC money.

An idea for a movie, Boosters Millions.

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