7-29-24 McElroy & Cubelic in the Morning Hour 1: Best ACC coaches; Paul Finebaum talks SEC & BigTen; what SHOULD be at the Olympics
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McElroy and Kubelik in the morning starts now. All right, welcome in. McElroy and Kubelik in the morning, 7 a.m. Glad to be with you. It is Monday, July 29th right here on JOX 94.5. Lots to get to today. Hope you had a great weekend. Getting back into rhythm, back into a groove. Paul Feinbaum, 715 every Monday. Thanks to our friends at Crane Works.

Andy Staples, 820. Talk potential NCAA settlement. Justin Hokanson, 930 on Auburn recruiting, which was pretty remarkable over the weekend. Big Cat weekend down in Auburn. They had a couple commitments rolling in, so it was good for Hugh Freeze and the guys down there. We'll talk about that. Some other SEC schools around recruiting. It is game week, by the way. Already? Already?

Voice of God just said like 20-something days. No, it's live tackle football this week. Oh, the Hall of Fame game? It's Thursday night. Oh, yeah. It's always a good watch. Well, it's live tackle football. Slightly worse than the XFL. Come on. Yeah. Not UFL. Not USFL. When the leagues came together, it became much better. But in the previous generation, it's slightly worse than that. This is your USFL tryout. This is...

You didn't just say that. Huh? That's what it is. We have live tackle football Thursday night. Joe Flacco, I remember the Ravens were playing in the Hall of Fame game. I think he played two snaps. Ran out, took a snap, hand off, stood back, threw a smoke screen, won out.

You want to talk about low, low, low on the roster. We see that happen a lot, though. I've always wondered why even the one or two plays. Just because, I mean, I don't know.

How many cobwebs are you really knocking off there? Get his feet wet. Got the shoulders. Oh, man. Man, I was tight before those two. Now we're ready. Now I can, now, you know what? Week one preseason, we're in good shape. Party at game speed. Here we go. It really used to be, they used to be a little better. Now, I mean, I feel like the last couple years on the Hall of Fame game, not that I'm not going to have it on in the background. There's no denying that. Depending on what's on the Olympics, I might not. But I think that will be, what, 3 a.m.?

Paris time. So probably not going to be super into it. But either way, I actually am probably looking forward to it a little bit. These are guys whose lives depend on it. I would have been a guy that played in that game had we ever gotten the chance. I would have loved it to have gotten the extra reps. I had to play a lot in week one and week four. But, yeah, I mean, it's now really adjusted because you don't have as many preseason games. So I don't know, man. You going to be watching it? I'll have it on. Probably won't be dialed in late in the fourth.

You're going to bet on it? I'm not. I'm not planning on it. No. But, hey, maybe you'll come up with something that sounds intriguing. I said it's not planning on it. We'll get a wager going. I don't know. That's got to be the most ignorant thing that you can do is bet on preseason football. I have buddies that do it, but man alive. I'm sure some people have information. Some people have a good feel. A good feel for what it's going to look like for certain teams.

Whoever had the best undrafted free agent class, you're just going to go with that group. You brought up the Olympics. I was told on this show that opening ceremonies were must-see TV. By? Everyone. No. All of you. That's not entirely accurate. Boy, was that wrong. It's not entirely accurate. There were some folks excited for it. There were people excited for it, but must-see TV?

I was told it was the best part of the Olympics on this show. You need to talk to new people. I was about to say, unless David Heckner told you that, I don't know who said that.

It was – I don't even want to waste time on that part. Do you have anything to say about it? Because I don't. I didn't watch it, so I can't tell you. You were – I was at a gathering, not a – So was I. Magic of the Gathering. What do we used to call that? Magic Dog Gathering. Magic – Not one of those. And it was on, and yeah, there were a couple things where all the kids were there, friends, kids, everybody else's kids. It's like, meh.

I don't need that. We're going to move on. Now, for me personally, that doesn't affect. I'm not going to be mad at the young lady from France throwing the javelin because of that. I don't think it's her fault. Like, I'm still going to try to watch Suni Lee and LeBron and Steph. And I'm going to cheer on the Americans and Katie Ledecky. Like, it's I mean, I don't think that the pentathlon is from Germany. It's their fault. Pentathletes are going to watch some of it.

But, yeah, that part was just completely unnecessary. I don't feel like there's really a need to go into it. John, your thoughts on it? Craig didn't see it. I saw one part of it, and they were, like, at Versailles or some type of castle. Okay. And it was, like, a heavy metal rock band, and they were, like, cutting people's heads off. So, all right, I'm good. They were playing Les Mis, and it was awesome. That was actually kind of a cool part. No. Terrible.

I didn't listen to the music. A lot of people understood what that part was. I didn't know what that was. I turned it on literally right in the middle. I see this guy just headbanging, playing his drums, hanging out of a castle window. I'm like, all right. You're out on headbanging? I just don't know what's going on here. I must have come in at the wrong time. I needed a little bit of... Did you just drop Matt Pinhead? I did. I literally was like, I'm out. I was disappointed, though. Not that I'm the biggest Celine Dion fan, but I would have liked to have seen

her for her first time playing in four years you had to stick through it uh yeah i wasn't gonna do that okay um but big for you damien absolutely i did watch uh i did watch the highlights on the celine young thing i didn't know that she had like stiff person syndrome like that's like serious yeah she's been out for four years i didn't know that i thought she had a residency in vegas i didn't know these things get with the times

I don't keep up with stuff like that. Did we – because I turned it off, just being perfectly honest. Did we ever find out who the masked parkourist was that was apparently on top of buildings during different weather situations on the same evening? At the event I was at, we didn't find out. I was over at Lakeshore, and actually – It was Snoop Dogg.

That would have been cool, but it feels mean for France. I mean, we should have saved that for us in four years. My guess was Mbappe, but I have no idea. I figured it was Salim. And I guess they're saving that for closing ceremonies, which I'm not. Wasn't he wearing like a fencing mask? Yeah. Similar. Trying to hide himself. Yeah, I wasn't sure what was going on there. I didn't really see that part. I just saw, like I said, the head banging.

And a lady floating by singing opera on a boat right in front of it. And that was pretty much it. But I did see pictures of that guy online. I was curious what it was. That was all you saw online? Yeah, that was pretty much it. Oh, no, I saw a picture of a big blue guy.

He was big. Yeah, he was, yeah. But I didn't put together – I didn't put together – I didn't put two and two together because all I saw was a close-up of him. And I didn't really put two and two together until after the fact. I understand the outrage, but I did not really – Well, that wasn't it. There was maybe part of it. The guy to his – well, behind him to the left was one part. He offered a little too much. Yeah, I mean – Didn't need to see that. No. No.

There are multiple parts of it that we didn't need to see. I didn't see it. I should have watched it, though, just considering how much conversation it generated over the weekend. It's a trench, man. They're open. They do weird things. If weird, yeah, they did. There's no reason to even talk about it. It was that dumb. Did you watch Rugby 7s? I watched a little bit of it, yeah. I found out that France has the best player in the world. They have a coach on the field. Better than Mahomes?

That's what they said. I can't remember his name, but he scored a touchdown. I mean, I was wondering if the other team, who I can't recall who it was, if they were mad they ran the score up late because he punched one in. It was like 21-7. He punched one in at the end with like 14 seconds left. He was there, Darren Sproles. He was like 4'5". How sick is rugby sevens? The lady for the United States rugby team who's just Derek Henry-ing everybody. She looked like... Yeah, she looked like...

Ronda Rousey on about two cycles of steroids. She was big. You know the one I'm talking about? She looked like a linebacker. There was only one women's rugby highlight. I was watching the actual game. There was one that was an absolute enforcer. She must have made every tackle in the entire... This lady was running the ball. This lady was playing. She was a tackler. She might have been running it too. I don't know. I wasn't paying that close attention. She had to have made every tackle.

She was unbelievable and had like perfect form tackling. I have not seen tackling that good in 17 years. How about Fiji catching their first loss ever? Yeah. Well, I was I mean, they lost to France, right? Yes. Yeah. So like I'm not really ever going to root for the French, but as the opening ceremony is not sure how you could.

I was rooting for the French girl that won the mountain biking yesterday. Have you ever watched mountain biking? Haven't seen the tape. Dude, that was pretty sick. My Instagram does float highlights of people crashing into trees every now and then, which is entertaining. I caught a little of that on Saturday. Like eight people fell during the cycling thing or whatever. Some of those people go down hard. Yeah. It's scary. All right. So you watch mountain biking and rugby sevens. Yes.

I got some swimming in. Okay. Got some gymnastics in. I didn't get any swimming in. Simone Biles, Suni Lee. I had to record that for my daughter. Watched most of the game. Even though Suni Lee bashed Auburn? Well, if you see all these highlights now that they're showing on NBC, like glowing –

recommendations, discussions of how awesome it was. I've seen like three different clips. I read the article. Of her talking about how great. I read the article too. Man. But I didn't realize she had the kidney health thing when she gained 45 pounds in like two weeks. Did a good job keeping that quiet down there. I didn't think anybody even knew about that. I knew there was a health something. But no, she's talking about how awesome it was. Pictures of her going to games. She did Cis Boom Bah. Well, it's recruiting season now. Maybe that's why Big Cat Weekend was so good because Suni's pumping them back up.

But that was fun. She was great. Simone Biles, amazing. There's another LSU girl that's doing gymnastics for somebody. I can't remember the name of the country. She was there. Not Olivia Dunn. There are others on their team. So he said, and I quote, I enjoyed watching the other girl that did gymnastics for another team. I don't know what team, but she did gymnastics.

That was the sentence I just heard. Who is on the LSU gymnastics team. Don't know her name. Can't remember her name. Ah. But I just know it was on television. It was an Alabama lady for another country. She did gymnastics? Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, she didn't. I mean, these things, I don't pay that close attention. They're on in the background. I'll watch a routine or two. Simone Biles is going. I used to check that out. That's about it, though. Simone Biles, by the way, with a broken leg. I mean, like.

She has wrapped up ankles, and she is, like, flipping three stories. Like, how do you even do that? How is that possible? How hurt is that ankle? That's what I need to know. I want my ankle to be hurt. I want my ankle to be hurt like that. If I can jump that high on a hurt ankle, that's pretty insane. I caught that kayaking thing where you got to go through the two little poles. I find that one interesting.

Oh, like the Whitewater Raffin? Whatever that is, yeah. Yeah, it's hardcore. Watched a little sailing yesterday. You can have that. You don't want to talk about boring. Oh, my gosh. It looks like they're on a paper airplane. They're sailing on a paper airplane is what it looks like. I mean, it's ridiculous. Couchsurfing.

Huh? I caught surfing. I did watch a little surfing. I'll tell you, that's a far more boring watch. It is, but that water in Tahiti, it's... Oh, it's beautiful. It's pristine. The backdrop, when they look back towards the actual island itself and the mountains, I mean, it looks like a scene out of Moana. When they get the overhead shot and you see the clear water and then the coral below it, it's insane. It's beautiful. I'm definitely going to Tahiti at some point in my life. I don't know when. I don't plan on surfing, but I do plan on checking it out. That was pretty sweet.

You brought up something interesting, too, the overhead shots. Why they don't give us that in swimming more often, I don't understand. I know the underwater thing is cool and all, but you never get a true feel for how fast they are going. When they hit that overhead shot, the direct overhead, you're like, holy mother, they are moving.

I know they're going fast, but that really depicts just how fast they're going. That was one thing that I noticed. The other thing is – and obviously Rowdy Gaines is awesome. And Phelps was great. Yes. The one kid from – I think he was from France because when he did the breaststroke, they were all saying his name every time he came on. Yeah, Leon. That was awesome. But like Phelps talking about how much longer he was underwater than all the other swimmers in the race and like what difference that makes and –

and how that level of difficulty – like Phelps was great. He did a really good job. But then on the gymnastics calls, there were multiple crews. And so we just kind of let it run at one point, and some of the men's gymnastics came on, which, by the way, you can say what you want about it. Put the rings on and just watch that. It's good. So I just feel like my shoulder is going to come out of the socket just by watching it. This one cat did like three in a row muscle-ups to handstands on the rings. Wow.

And I just like, I don't even, I mean, yes, he probably weighs 111 pounds, but I mean, still, I just don't understand. 110 of that's in his biceps. And then he goes like straight to iron cross for like a 10 count. And he's not even grimacing. His face is making movements. So his routine is probably two and a half minutes and he's halfway into it. And the analyst says, oh, wonderful. That's it. And then we go another minute and then that's it.

And so then they're going to the bars or whatever it is, and he goes like a minute and a half, two minutes, and the guy says, just outstanding. And then he finishes his routine, and I'm like, by God, that's the analysis I've been looking for. I think I could call men's gymnastics. If all you've got to do is throw in that it's wonderful or outstanding or impeccable, like once a routine. Look at that. I'm in. The level of difficulty. You can throw that in, too. What a routine. Yeah. Impressive. A slight slip on the landing. I think I could call it men's gymnastics.

You're the next new? I was saying, I could be the analyst for that. It probably wasn't the worst analyst work I've heard the weekend. That would reside on the shoulders of Dwayne Wade, who's calling the basketball. I have never heard a more self-serving broadcast the whole time. I was like, good God. They were like, literally in the audience, they're like, there's a Dwayne Wade jersey. See, I told them. They were talking about Anthony Edwards and Marquette, and he was talking about how he beat Mark Few, and he was at Marquette. I was like, dude, nobody cares. Nobody cares.

I mean, he made references to his own career more than talking about the actual team itself. They were looking for Dwyane Wade jerseys in the stands. He talked about his third game at college. If I'm not mistaken, didn't he admit that he was underappreciated as an NBA player? Oh, yeah. He did. Oh, during the broadcast. Yeah. Yeah. He did. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. During the broadcast, that was said. He talked about Anthony Edwards and how Anthony Edwards looked up to him. Yeah.

And the reason why he went to Georgia is so that he could play for Tom Crean, who coached him at Marquette. He talked about how Mark Few, who I didn't even know he was an assistant coach, could care less if he was or not. Assistant coach, he talked about how he beat him in his third-different college game and reminded him of that before the game. I mean, I'm telling you, it was unbelievable.

Like, dude, nobody cares. Seriously, nobody cares. So future Team USA games will be on mute for you? Oh, my gosh. Well, if he's calling the game, it's like maybe he got them all out in the first game. Like, that's fine. Like, if you want to have a celebration of me as a broadcaster, your goal is to tell the stories of the people that are on the court, not make it about you. I don't know. That's his chance to shine. I mean, goodness gracious. Next thing you know, he'll be eating footlong corn dogs from the state fair.

I mean, he can do that like Jordan can. Team USA Basketball did get a win against Serbia, 110-84. That'll be one of their better tests in this Olympic Games. Durant and LeBron were both perfect from the floor in the first half. Durant had 23, 8 of 9 from the field.

Greg mentioned Simone Biles. Team USA, they qualify for the team final in women's gymnastics. So I'm confused what that was yesterday. I didn't catch the beginning of it. But they had also said that, I forget the blonde girl's name, she's like the defending floor champion.

or whatever, and she fell down. The team you say, Jade? Jade. Yeah, Jade something. She's an Oregon State gymnast. Yeah, whatever she went to school or whatnot. But she fell down, and she will not be able to compete in the floor portion of the individual medals. I don't know.

That was a qualifier not just for team but for individuals too? Correct, right. Yeah. Gotcha. But if you want to – I believe I understand this correctly. If you want to qualify for the individual, you have to do multiple runs. You have to do more than once, yes. And then you can just kind of bow out, but you can still help your team. It's kind of a lot. And my wife was trying to explain it to me. I don't get it all. Yeah, all right. And I didn't hear a lot of the – I'm glad you don't understand it because I was so confused last night. I'm just making sure. I didn't hear a ton of the Dwayne Wade stuff. I was watching that game with my 7-year-old, and he was talking the entire game. So –

So you got the same thing. Dwayne was? Why is Steph Curry wearing number four? How many guys switch their numbers when they come to the Olympics? Why is the ball different colors? What rules are different? I mean, just literally nonstop. It was great. It was fun. It was hilarious. But I didn't hear a ton of Dwayne Wade because he was –

And then, of course, he had commentary. Oh, Steph Curry! I was like, keep calling him. Dude, go for it. It's awesome. I mean, I love that he enjoyed it. Also going to get Nadal and Djokovic in men's tennis today, which is pretty cool. Yeah, that's intense. At the Olympics. At Roland Garros. Yep. Which I think we know who has the advantage there.

If he's healthy. All right, so a lot more to get to today. Paul Feinbaum going to be with us on the other side. We'll do that next right here on McElroy and Kubelik in the morning. Catch up with all things McElroy and Kubelik in the morning by subscribing to the podcast. Mythically, he's grown. He's almost like a little bit bigger than a player, right? Like the myth of Bo Jackson. Like, rate, and download the show from the Jock Tap or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, welcome back in. McElroy and Kubelik in the morning, 723 a.m.

Monday, July 29th, jocks, 94, five, listen online, jocks, fm.com. Paul Feinbaum joins us each and every Monday. Thanks to our friends at crane works. Lifted, loaded, braided, grinded, rigged, dig it. Crane works. Yeah. The big dogs got it. Paul Feinbaum on back in cube in the morning is brought to you by crane works. Lifted, buy it, rented. The big dogs got it. No. Paul Feinbaum. Paul, always good to have you on. Uh,

We're going to talk a little bit about Missouri across the course of the show today and then potentially making the playoff, why they can or cannot make the college football playoff. They start practice today. But Greg brought up a really nice point at SEC Media Days about their schedule. And while we talk about Ole Miss and Missouri, that sort of runway that they have to get off to a pretty good start,

We also just qualify all these teams and say, man, they go 10-2 from the SEC. They're in. Have you looked at Missouri and Ole Miss and thought about 10-2 might actually not get them in because of their schedules?

Yeah, I think it depends on how they're matched up. And I think you're right. We're recreating new narratives, Cole, because of the circumstances. So it's the automatic 10-2, and then you offer, well, maybe 9-3. Yeah, but you're right. It really helps if you're playing someone at a league, and it also helps if you're playing someone within the league. And Missouri, we know the game in Alabama, but beyond that, you

They got dealt an incredible hand. I think we'll be told this once we get to the point of the season where the talking heads, and I'm looking at you, Greg, will be sitting up there on Tuesday night going through the whole routine. But they may not have a lot to show, especially this is another determinant. Assuming their toughest games actually turn out to be high-quality teams.

How would you kind of assess a conference championship runner-up with a couple losses, say from the Big 12, to a Missouri team that didn't play in their conference championship, lost a couple games, but is coming from the SEC? How do you think they'll be evaluated?

Well, I mean, I try to look at it as, you know, who have you played, not what league you're in. And I know that may sound crazy because I think there's this narrative that those of us who are from the SEC just automatically give SEC teams an extra game or an extra win. That's not true. But I think it would be very difficult for someone who didn't win the Big 12 to ultimately match up because I think even if you have a –

less than spectacular schedule, you're probably playing better competition. I think probably. But if you look at Missouri's toughest games, and let's say Alabama does the unthinkable and loses a couple of games, then those games are the same for other schools on the schedule. Those schools suddenly become devalued. I'll never forget, what was it, Greg, 16, when we made such a big deal about

Alabama and Florida State playing in a one versus three game. And then everybody wanted to use that game against Alabama at the end of the season because they didn't have any big wins when they had beaten the number three team in the country on the opening weekend. It just depends on how you want to view it.

Paul Feinbaum, he joins us each and every Monday. Thanks to our friends at Crane Works. You can see him on the SEC Network and hear him right here 2 to 6 p.m. weekdays. I haven't gotten your thoughts coming off of Big Ten media days, which were last week, and a couple of different coaches making some noise. It feels like Oregon has a lot of momentum coming out of Big Ten media days, maybe Nebraska a little bit. What were your takeaways just observing Big Ten media days from a distance? Well, I think from a distance, I mean, I look at that league and really am impressed.

It is a great league. Depending on how you do certain schools, it's on the same level as the SEC. I just marvel at the addition

of Oregon and Washington. And when it happened, I thought maybe they're just trying to stuff a couple of schools from a wayward conference into an already crowded field. But by far, those are far more impressive than UCLA and USC, not necessarily from a long-term standpoint, but from a this-year standpoint and right now. And I think they've got a fantastic league. I think Ohio State clearly is

It should be the favorite, but Oregon isn't more than a hair or two behind them. I mean, let's be honest. There were far more storylines at Big Ten media days than there were SEC media days. I mean, I found plenty to talk about with at least four or five of the different schools. When you think about kind of the Big Ten and the SEC teams,

I guess you would say horse race. I don't necessarily think that anyone's going to look at the Big Ten and say, oh, yeah, for sure they have better players, they have better teams, what have you. I think it's a different product. I'm not sure that they're really that comparable. But it seems to think that there is this Big Ten superiority that you could almost hear in the analysis. I'm listening to SiriusXM and their live coverage from Big Ten media. It's like the level of superiority for some of their analysts. Like, goodness gracious, alive. Like,

Why is it with the addition of Oregon, a middling UCLA, a middling USC, and in Washington that is coming off a national championship performance, but their first relevant year in quite a while, where is this superiority coming from?

Well, Greg, I'm, I mean, if you weren't such a veteran, I would advise you not to listen to some of these people, but I know that you can figure that out on your own. But, you know, I think what it is, uh, cover the big 10 and have a superiority complex. Um,

at least a legitimate one, I should say. I get Ohio State people. They're a different breed. Michigan people did the unthinkable last year, but it is not a better league. I'm impressed with the league, the fact that they have two new schools that really do matter. That was part of what my point was about.

a minute ago. But I think it's just, it's biased. And that's easy for me to say. If you look around and see what people say about my comments, that's fine. I'm used to it. When you come up with an original SEC bias line on any of us, I will be impressed. But I think they're just so sick of the SEC dominance

So sick of the loud megaphone that people in the SEC have. So what are they crowing about? They have a national championship. It was at the expense of an SEC team in Alabama in the semifinals, which is fine. When Alabama beat Ohio State a couple years ago by 28 points, nobody really looked at that as anything other than an expected result.

Paul, I wanted to give NCAA a couple of things that look like they might be problematic down the road. Booster is going to be prohibited from entering into NIL deals with athletes. Also saw the word clearinghouse for NIL deals is what I thought was really interesting, as in like clearinghouse was a good thing before. Kept a lot of guys from being able to compete a lot of different times academically. Is this going to be okay? Is it going to work with how we see some of the details trickling out of what this settlement could look like?

Remember, a lot of these details had to be included to get this thing across the goal line. My ultimate question, though, Cole, is regardless of what is in there,

who is going to be around to enforce any of it. And I realize this is a court settlement, so maybe we're thinking, well, the jurisdiction level goes beyond the NCAA, but I sincerely doubt it will. I just think it's a bunch of lawyers putting a bunch of things in an agreement so they can end this case. And I guess maybe I shouldn't have been surprised because plaintiff attorneys have a specific purpose, but the idea that...

What was the final number? I mean, they were going to walk away with a couple of billion dollars in this deal. I mean, it was just astonishing, and it reminded me what the genesis of all this was when it started. I don't think it was to help athletes in the future. I think it was to line the pockets of lawyers, which is usually the case in lawsuits. Paul, always great. Appreciate the time. Look forward to catching up with you again next week.

A pleasure. Thank you. Yes, sir. Paul Feinbaum joins us each and every week. Thanks to our friends at Crane Works. You can hear him right here on WJOX, 2 to 6 p.m. weekdays. Some interesting thoughts there on that house settlement. We'll talk to Andy Staples about it at 8.20 this morning. A couple other things that we wanted to discuss.

One, on the Olympics. We'll get to that in just a moment. First, your HVAC system, one of your largest investments this time of year, it's constantly being pushed to the extreme. You can trust a train home comfort system to give you reliability and peace of mind day in, day out for years to come. Visit train.com to find a comfort specialist near you. Remember, it's hard to stop a train. Greg McElroy has a question about the Olympics for you next, right here on JOX 94.5.

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Michael Roy has a question about the Olympics. What would you do? First, I'll tell you, at your CBD store. You need better night's sleep. You need help with arthritis or anxiety. You or your pet, they can help you with that. What about weight loss? The Trim by SunMed is in stock on the shelves now at your CBD store. First company to have USDA certified organic oil supplements. They've got the stamp seal on the products. That's why they're the largest brick and mortar CBD retailer on planet Earth.

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Man, we have a lot of really random sports in the Olympics, right? A bunch of events that I've never heard of. For instance, I've never watched mountain biking. I don't think a lot of people are super familiar with rugby sevens. I don't think a lot of people are watching water polo or beach volleyball. And what constitutes an Olympic sport? I mean, you have handball that was going on the other day that is actually a quite interesting sport to watch. I don't know a whole lot about it, but I find it somewhat compelling.

Flag football is getting out of the Olympics here very soon. So my question to the listening audience, you can respond on our social media at Mac and Cube. You can also respond to both Cole and myself, Cole Cubic, Greg McElroy, whatever. I probably won't see it. I'd recommend responding to Cole. But what I would say, and the question that I have for everybody is, what sports, it doesn't have to be a sport necessarily, what events do

Would you add to the Olympics if you could add whatever you wanted? For me, it would be baseball back again. I can remember when baseball was a part of the Olympic Games. And I think it can still be great if you just leave it to amateurs if you wanted to, because obviously it's going to disrupt the Major League Baseball season. Even if you just said high school kids, I don't care. College kids can go out there and play. If they worry about their draft status or minor league status, that's fine. If they don't want to do it, put it in for those.

That's the first one that I think of just because we've seen it there before and I would want to see it again. You mentioned 2028 Olympics, GMAC, where flag football is going to be added. Are cricket also going to be added? Yeah. You feeling good about that one? Yeah, I guess. I mean, who did we beat the other day in cricket? Who did we beat? Someone really good.

It's like a huge upset. We've been like Pakistan or something like that. And it was like one of the biggest upsets ever. So lacrosse squash also going to be added. Fine with both. Don't know if they'd be on the top of my list as far as excited to see, but they will be added. How long until pickleball is added? It's coming. I say 2032. Probably 30. We can have ping pong. We can have. Yeah. It's a lock.

Forgive me. Table tennis. All right. Well, you guys are going down like real sports rabbit holes. I was going a little bit different direction. You're going X games. Like double dutch. Double dare. Tug of war? What are we talking? It would be good, actually. Tug of war would be pretty sweet. I could definitely do that. Here's some of the tops on my list. Dodgeball. I think dodgeball. If you look at handball, it's basically dodgeball, except you're trying to throw it in a net.

We have every sport where we're trying to throw balls into things. Why don't we just throw balls at things? New Ukrainian, yeah. So I feel like dodgeball. Let's go get our best pitchers in the MLB, and we're going to play dodgeball. Okay. And we're going to throw a 102, and it'll be just an absolute slugfest. Hopefully they won't get Kawhi'd and pulled back because of, oh, we just signed you to that contract, Otani. Can't have you out here representing Japan. Maybe so. That is true. Maybe so.

I think dodgeball would be an appropriate position. Anyone else on board for dodgeball? I would love to see it. You'd be entertaining. Yeah. Okay, another one. I would like to know, like, what type of ball would you use? Would you use, like, the red? P.E. ball? Yeah, bouncy balls. A.D.A.A. approved balls. I would like to see something a little more firm. Oh, the American Dodgeball Association of America Balls.

Okay. I would like to see more of like a soccer ball firmness dodgeball. Okay. I can get on board with that. That would hurt. That's what I want. Oh, okay. You want the violence. Yes. All right. I got another one for you. Okay. O-line, D-line, one-on-one. With or without pads?

Where you have to be the O-lineman and the D-lineman. No pads. You block yourself? No. Hey, you're going against a guy. It's like I'm watching judo yesterday. I'm like, this is O-line, D-line 101. Like, why can't you? Hey, I'm facing the Netherlands today. I'm going to be the D-lineman. Then I got to. So you're saying you have to play offense and defense. Yeah, and you just get awarded points. Like, you won that round. There's one point for defense.

Kublik. I would love that. That, to me, would be a great event. Okay. Actually, I think that would be fun. It's a little bit like American Gladiators where you have to stick the ball in the hole or whatever and get around the gladiators. I also thought maybe Oklahoma Drill would be kind of cool. It would be fun. Oklahoma Drill, no pads. None. No pads, so there won't be targeting. They call it sumo wrestling.

Put two sumo guys out there. I don't care. It doesn't matter. It's all a strategy. Fully clothed sumo wrestling. Fully clothed sumo wrestling. Perfectly fine with that. Yes, I do think proper attire would be nice and appropriate. Not like the fake spandex that the men's gymnastics wear. Are they wearing guardian caps? No. Oh, okay. How did we lose sumo, by the way? I don't know. I don't think it's ours to begin with. I got another one. I got another one. Frisbee golf.

Never played it. I know a lot of people are really into it. If golf's in the Olympics, why isn't Frisbee golf in the Olympics? How about another one? I see where you're at. How about another one? Putt-putt. I'd be down. How about we have, I mean, holy moly, capture the audience's attention forever. Did it. Why don't we, yeah. You still thinking about it? I mean, Tess talks about it. Okay. Oh, yeah, he did it. That's one. Steph Curry produced it. But I would like to see some of the best players in the world playing putt-putt.

I'd like to see Scottie Scheffler playing putt-putt. I don't think he would. Yeah, I don't think he would. Yeah. It's all about the banks. Yeah. I'm fine with that. He doesn't have that advantage. He's not best by a mile. How about this one? Okay. Mullet tossing. Okay. It feels geographically locked to one area and venue. They don't throw fish in Seattle? You don't think they throw fish in other cultures? I don't know if they threw mullet into the market there, but maybe they do.

It doesn't have to be a mullet. Fish toss. I don't care. You pick the fish. How about gator wrestling? I'm probably not going to do that. We've got a couple coming in here. B Thompson tweets in demolition derby. I'll be down. Cars have to be built in your country. Who wins? I don't know. I've seen some of these things coming in from Europe now. Those things look pretty hardcore. Probably Japan. Lance Pennington goes jousting.

Jousting would be fire. Legit. I could get on board with jousting. I think it's illegal in 200 countries, but I'm down. I've got padding. Here's the other one that I really think this one should be included. Ultimate Frisbee.

Ultimate Frisbee is a sick game. I don't care. If you have parkour in the Olympics, you should have Ultimate Frisbee. I had no idea you were such a Frisbee fan. I'm not. I'm just thinking. I just went down all the... I was in the car for 90 minutes yesterday by myself, just thinking of different things that should be in the Olympics. And I feel like I've come up with a pretty adequate list. There's probably about 12 others that I've forgotten since the drive. I would have written them down had I not been driving.

We are getting a tweet in by Willie for skateboarding, which is actually in the Olympics. It's there. If I'm not mistaken, the United States got a gold medal in that. I think World Strongman. Who won? Was it a girl? A 14-year-old, I think. A pro girl? I think so, yeah. Gold and silver, I believe. We should dominate skateboarding, for real. A World Strongman competition, to me, should be an Olympic sport.

These guys are carrying boulders. These guys are lifting trucks. To me, that should be an Olympic sport. Throwing kegs over hurdles. Throwing kegs over 15-foot hurdles. The beef toss or whatever the linemen do in Iowa. Oh, man, we'd slaughter that. Skydiving should be a... How do you do that? Is that like a time thing? No, you've got to target. Like the kayak, but in air. Okay, I can see that 100%. How do you keep the stuff in the air, though?

Who cares? That's a good list by you. I'll take all those over breakdancing. So I'm saying, like, the stuff that gets in the Olympics now, to me, it's like, these are not athletic endeavors. Breakdancing? No, I'm not going to say you don't need to be an athlete. I mean, it's purely artistry. It should be in the artistic Olympics. Well, some are much more skill-based, like archery. I don't know if athleticism has a ton of that. I watched archery yesterday. The South Koreans almost lost. It's hard.

But they didn't. It was really intense. But they didn't. They didn't. In overtime. They've yet to lose. In overtime, they go 9-10-10 against Mexico. Ted Lasso did. Yeah. I mean, you went with some random sports yesterday that you were watching. Dude, I just had that. Why do you think it led to this revelation that there's a lot of sports that are being underserved by the IOC? The International Olympic Committee needs to acknowledge greatness. Is kickball an Olympic sport? Should be. Another great one.

Kickball, that was on my list yesterday. And Cole was talking about how they can do curveballs and stuff with the ball. It's crazy. You can snake it, man. It's different. It's not just like the little roller right up there that you think it is. Gaga ball has gotten big, too. I've never played it. Gaga ball is big. Kids love that thing. Trust me. That would be a good Olympic sport. Gaga ball? Yeah. Yep. Look it up. What about Gaelic football? I don't know what that is. How about wiffle ball? That would be... Wiffle ball is the sickest sport ever.

A friend of mine did send me a picture of the Wolf of All Championship game in the little stadium that they have somewhere. I don't even know where it was. It was pretty sweet. I thought it was somebody's backyard for a minute, but apparently it was me. Backyard Avengers should probably do it for you. All right, your current medal count in the Olympics, United States leading the way 12 total, France with eight, Japan seven, Australia and South Korea tied with six.

So there you go. China leading the way as far as gold medals currently with five. No, for now. For now.

We'll keep you updated. We'll do an Olympic segment every day. Today's was which sports should be added to the Olympics. We will have that music in your medal count every day on the show. All right, when we come back, top three next on Mac and Cube in the morning. Catch up with all things McElroy and Kubrick in the morning by subscribing to the podcast. Mythically, he's grown. He's almost like a little bit bigger than...

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And just how these, I guess you say these coaches have changed over the years. But who would be your top three head coaches in the ACC heading into 2024? Top three coaches in the ACC. Do I need to, on these on career achievement? Open for your interpretation, I believe. It is.

Just heading into 2024, who do you think are the top three head coaches? However I interpret it, if I want to go get a beer with these three guys, it's easy. Sure. Absolutely. Perfect. Freddie Kitchens, not a head coach, doesn't matter. Number one pick. Okay. Top three coaches. I'm not going creature amount. I'm saying if I had to pick right now to hire somebody. Boom. That's what I'm looking for. To coach my make-believe school. In the ACC, yes. Mac U. Mac U.

Yeah. All right. Number one, Mike Norvell. Okay. All right. Number two, I'm going Mario Cristobal, even though people think I'm crazy for that. I think Mario's got it figured out for this current climate. Number three, you'd have to go Davo Sweeney. You guys still got national championships, and you have to. I don't care what anybody says. Even though I do think this modern era, he's not as comfortable. I thought you were going to go Jeff Brown.

I would go Dave Dorn, Mike Norvell, Jeff Brom for the same reasons that McElroy said. If I'm hiring a coach today, those are the three that I'm going to hire. So not a Lifetime Achievement Award. Right. Not Greatest Career. If I'm hiring today, those are the three guys I'm going with. John Saber? I'd go Dabo, Mike Norvell, and Brent Key are the ones I'm hiring to start my squad because I think Brent Key can make something out of nothing, any kind of has.

That is true. You also need to account, like, this could change drastically this year. Right. There's a lot of coaches that are upside. Like, Brent Prye gets up there and has a great year. Like, a lot of people are, I mean, a lot of people like Fran Brown at Syracuse. I mean. Yes. So there's a lot of upside, I think, in the ACC amongst the coaches. I got you. Dave Doran. He's up there. I go Jeff Rom three. I go to Mike Norvell number two.

Number one, I still got to go Dabo Sweeney. As cringy as he is, like you said, he's got national titles and he can find a way to get it done. He's about that life. Got to go on Dabo at number one. All right, so that's our top three for today. Bring it to you each and every day. It's Monday, July 29th. If you missed Paul Feinbaum, podcast is up. JocksFM.com, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get yours. Still coming up on the show, Andy Staples, 820, House Settlement. We'll talk some Missouri with Andy Staples.

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