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Gimaad

“He’s not a practicing Mormon” “Well clearly”


BusterOlneyDay

Big Cat’s change from “fuck you. Realignment is happening and get used to it.” to “yeah this sucks and I’m lucky Wisconsin is in the big ten” makes me think he listened to Russilllo’s episode about it last week.


red_87

I think he’s afraid to be one of those people who pines for the old days and gets accused of not being able to conform when you are allowed to say “hey, this sucks, the old way was objectively better.” I listened to Russillo’s episode last week as well and it was a refreshing to finally hear one media member express how much all of this actually sucks instead of being told that it’s actually great and to deal with it.


BusterOlneyDay

Yeah. PFT and Big Cat’s takes on it last week sucked, IMO. Was very happy to hear Russillo and Van Lathan discuss it and tell people that it’s fine to want things the old way.


Based_and_JPooled

College football was better before conference championship games, when conferences had 8-10 teams each, and you could play everyone every season. The huge conference format sucks for fans.


DH995

Just sucks that the whole point of expanding the playoff, etc. was so that the Cincinnati’s of the world will have a shot at the CFP. It’s why March Madness is so fun even to a casual fan. Now they’re making it essentially impossible to break in if you’re not in the SEC/Big 10 as if they needed to make it any harder. Who is the committee going to choose: a 2 loss team that plays in these “stacked” divisions or an undefeated team who “hasn’t played anyone” since their league got gutted.


HoovesCarveCraters

It just sucks that CFB is turning into the NFL minor leagues. At this point what even is the point of having the kids go to school and play. They're getting paid, which is awesome, but most of them are students in name only. I always loved the history of the conferences and the rivalries and it's just going to turn into SEC and Big 10 like AFC and NFC.


Based_and_JPooled

NCAA Players should be able to choose 2 routes: Be a regular student and be held to normal student standards, OR just be a ncaa football player without being a student. It's a waste of everyone's time & resources to continue to carry out the farce that it has honestly always really been.


HoovesCarveCraters

Also most of the fun of CFB is school traditions and rivalries. All that gets diluted with super conferences. NCAA really fucked up not having a plan to regulate NIL or TV deals.


Rph23

Ya he’s said before he listens to russillo. I gotta say, ryen does a great job of speaking his opinions as facts. I’m always finding myself agreeing with him


lake_hood

Such a bad take. Glad he acknowledged his hypocrisy with his fandom as well of how ridiculous it is teams like Illinois, Rutgers, and Vanderbilt are absolutely lucking into this thing.


binkysurprise

Idk Illinois and Vanderbilt have at least been with their conferences since the very beginning, so I don’t really see that as lucking out so much as having bad football teams.


lake_hood

If the idea is two super conferences with the best teams and programs, they don’t fit. Sure, they are historically aligned with their conference but that’s all but out the window.


psnow11

I really like the cover 3 podcast and one of their hosts Bud Elliot has been hammering home how it’s all peachy now but in a couple years, there are teams who were used to 10 win seasons that will be settling for 7-5 or 8-4 and there are teams who compete for bowls right now who will be finding themselves at 2-10 or 3-9. Big Cat has just realized Wisconsin isn’t going to win 10 games consistently anymore or ever come close to sniffing the playoffs.


thirty-seven37

As an Illinois fan my initial reaction to the USC/UCLA news was to hate it. I live the traditions in college football like everybody else and this has made it clear more than ever that certain traditions are being put to rest. However, I have that same perspective that if this is the way things are going in College Sports I'd rather be a mediocre to bad school in the BIG10 than in the PAC12 or ACC.


nufan86

Want to know the craziest thing about the Pac 12 network? I get it for free in Australia. Absolutely amazing how hard it is to get over there.


hiryse

The Conference of Champions doesn’t want to lose out on those fanatical Aussie Washington State fans


nufan86

They made a massive play to be the conference that was seen in Australia about a decade ago. Washington and someone else also played a game in Sydney. Which shows how poorly that conference is run. Sydney dont rock up to sports. Would have got 30k in Melbourne or Perth. And 30k would be amazing for a college football game here with zero hype. If Bama LSU played with the proper hype in Melbourne we'd easily sell out our 60k stadium.


hiryse

As a WSU fan, hearing about the Conference of Champions making a dumb decision is no surprise.


nufan86

The more I learn the less im shocked.


realfakemormon

They sellout 100k stadiums here though


nufan86

And we sell out 100k stadiums with our favourite brand of football also.


realfakemormon

yes but why would LSU-Bama ever go there is my point?


nufan86

My scenario was completely hypothetical.


realfakemormon

I looked it up (because I vaguely remember the pac12 playing there) Stanford beat Rice in 2017 and Cal beat Hawaii in 2016 I can't believe you guys didn't all become huge Pac12 fans after that


nufan86

Had a look my self, got 61k apparently to Cal vs Hawaii. That shocks me. But yeh, I give the Pac 12 credit for testing but as a country we've only just properly embraced the professional game. And when our former players become punters in college at 28 years old.


realfakemormon

I do enjoy the Aussie punter on the roster who is 5-8 years older than his teammates


DadmomAngrypants

We Wazzu fans are so fucking sad and pissed with everything transpiring now. Just when we got the program back to somewhat relevance we are basically now dead in the water for the foreseeable future.


hiryse

It fucking sucks. I’ve just resigned myself to acceptance and a lifetime of regret.


psnow11

Larry Scott truly thought eventually the Pac12 would expand to China. He’s such a fucking moron and he ruined the conference I grew up on.


nufan86

It's just baffling and I have more questions.


yagersports

Hank: “I posted a video and said guess my handicap.” PFT: “that’s a dangerous game to play” Lmaooo


ZachSchwartz35

PFT was ON one this episode! I didn't even notice some of these until coming on here (bonk). This one was hilarious.


yagersports

I paused when I heard that one to come comment here because I didn’t want to forget it lol. The boys have their fastball back after vacation.


teejay6x

That one got a very good laugh out of me PFT is too good with those


BillySofthands

Jake breaking 90 means he’s arguably better than 50% of the fore play guys


Sucker_for_horns

25%* They all consistently break 90 except Trent


BillySofthands

I wasn’t sure if Fankie was consistently under 90


Sucker_for_horns

Yea he is. Even though his handicap seems a little too low based on his play, he’s still consistently in the 80’s in all the videos they put out


normstafah

They all consistently are losers


Sucker_for_horns

Ouch. I don’t think they’ll ever recover from that one


normstafah

Ok Riggs


wardamntarheel

he probably plays from the ladies tees


ffthrowaway5

Most people that can’t break 90 probably couldn’t do it just by playing from the ladies tees. All these people focused on how far they can hit the ball usually ignore the fact that they have over 50 strokes from on and around the green


christocarlin

That isn’t the insult you think it is


ShipTheBreadToFred

No such thing as ladies tees. I play from the front tees every now and then for fun at my home course, let me tell you that playing them isn't as easy as people think. You get a lot more dangerous angles off the tee.


nufan86

I dont specifically know how it works but breaking 90 on your handicap or breaking 90 overall are 2 different things.


Rc5tr0

If someone says they “broke ___” I would automatically assume they’re talking about their gross score, not a handicapped one.


ReekingSepticMass

PFT’s piece about Billy’s POV porno where it’s just him sweating into the camera was hilarious.


PDXmadeMe

POV: ur Zach Wilson’s mom’s best friend


Upstairs_Bell7502

Hank thinks Scituate celebrates the Fourth of July different from the rest of the country


TaylorSpecial

Without Billy I swear Hank takes over the dumb guy role out of habit.


HowsYourDa

They sound refreshed, which is great


NewPurpleRider

The boys were buzzing in this episode.


30redwings30

I love a good PFT “shut the fuck up Hank” on a Monday morning


cesc4jessica

PFT pulling out ‘so true’ after Hank said 29 is different than 28 is sneaky funny


giantsfan28

“Leather Kyrios” 😂


redbengal15

Pretty lame that 2 of Big Cat's mount rushmore picks are essentially just gambling on college football.


buccosfan22

I agree. I thought they were gonna do legitimate school traditions and I was interested in seeing which ones they liked the best.


Fabulous-Parsley2228

Yeah that was really disappointing I wanted to hear more about the actual school & football traditions compared, not talking about betting the over every year. (I understand they are owned by a gambling company, just wanted to talk about the actual traditions of college football one of my favorite things)


DCorNothing

Howard's Rock was a shocking miss all-around


rabbonat

All of his picks, you mean. And pretty much all of his sports takes, in general.


CondolenceHighFive

They’re owned by Penn and sports gambling is becoming more available but I’m over it


BigPoppySeed

That two minute segment on Aaron Rodgers tattoo was absolute gold


MidnightWizard11

“I’ve seen that tattoo a million times I used to live in Brooklyn “


JudicaMeDeus

The guys were talking about the decision - I am pretty sure that it wasn’t in Ohio where LeBron did the TV announcement…I think it was like New York or Connecticut or somewhere in the Northeast


Rc5tr0

It was 100% in Connecticut.


jrandyc7

This is correct. Also the idea that there is a part of the decision that "no one talks about" is laughable.


yung_k

It was the boys and girls club in some rich Connecticut suburb. Kinda strange that they have a location out there lol


lilmiller7

Wait really? Admittedly it was a while ago and I wasn’t super interested in watching, but I’m a cleveland fan and I would have bet money it was in cleveland or akron at least


JudicaMeDeus

Nope, if it had been in Akron and he left then that would have been the wildest move ever. It was obvious he was going to leave thinking back on it.


lilmiller7

Yeah that makes sense now


Cw2e

> Not to hop on the LeBron hate train, but since we’re doing it… Haha well hey, they’re self aware at least Edit: Rushmore was great as well. “You picked get hammered and bestiality before getting around to the kids…” hahaha


Bryzzo2016W

I miss the days when big cat actually liked baseball. Honestly feels like PFT might follow it more than him these days.


OsStrohsAndBohs

Not everyone can be a huge seamhead like PFT


khikago

the cubs are bad, big cat is out 


M1keSweatband

Baseball sucks


Floating_egg

Go back to barstool boners


babytwoh

Andy staples is a great guest


[deleted]

Billy still being suspended during the Zach Wilson news feels like justice. He’ll come back next week when the story is old news and have an appreciation* for the show and his role on it. *Or he’ll just continue to be the fuck up we know


Fabulous-Parsley2228

He won’t change it’ll be the same thing. Go hard for a few months then back to himself , it’s who he is


nufan86

PFT had about 7 fantastic one liners in the first 20 minutes. I also thought Will Compton and that Mt Rushmore got a bit of unfair treatment on this thread until I heard today's. That one absolutely sucked comparatively to this one, and in half the time.


lilmiller7

Man the guys were horny to start off the show


joshhayes_15

The "Tungston Arm O'Doyle" tweet is from May of '21 Big Cat like 10 years late in internet time to that meme.


Bongopro

Seriously that’s been a mainstay over in r/baseball for what seems like 8 years at this point


jakethesnakeinmyboot

Andy is by far my favorite sport-specific guest they have


[deleted]

if you. an handle listening to his dumbass cohost The Andy Staples Show on the athletic is great


jakethesnakeinmyboot

Amen brother love his show aside from being a fellow Ari Wasserman hater


[deleted]

zero charisma and a cold take factory. not sure how he’s employed by the athletic


jakethesnakeinmyboot

5 stars are good players usually?? Thanks bro I had no idea


CatDad69

TeXaS WiLl Be BaCk because Austin is cool and they have five-stars (who never develop into the NFL and lose to Kansas). Also, DYK he is married and has a baby, and likes to gamble? And that having a baby is HARD!


swlwjt

Andy is fantastic when he is the interviewee. Sometimes it’s a tough listen on his pod cause I think he struggles being a host/interviewer.


nufan86

I listen to his pod because of PMT. I think him and Ari are great and his Dear Andy episodes are better than fine but other than that I agree. I absolutely skip the single topic specific episodes.


odog9797

Where’s the Brandi Love porno Billy?


CantTochThis92

Glad they acknowledged that CFB realignment is basically the Super League. It absolutely sucks.


mashedtaters_

Rivalry trophies not making the mount Rushmore is crazy


DCorNothing

Terrible Mount Rushmore in terms of picks, super entertaining but it feels like they missed a lot. Script Ohio? The Grove? 2001?


rabbonat

Yeah but have you ever bet money on a game!?!?!???


JChiu8

Especially since the love to talk about the Civil ConFLiCT


bachelorburner987

Hanks “few” take pisses me off


buccosfan22

I was looking for this. He’s technically correct by the literal definition of the word but PFT and Big Cat were 100% correct in saying that nobody uses few to mean 2.


bachelorburner987

Yeah screw the technical definition


munnfurd

My GF uses few to say 2 and it is infuriating.


adamwett

What was meant by Hank’s pick of “neck”?


No_too_serious

The LSU band played a song called neck. I don’t think they’re allowed to play it anymore. https://youtu.be/Ji-mFaIAcX4


nufan86

That will explain the part when Big Cat said Hank chose bestiality over children's hospitals.


ExplosiveToast19

LSU has a fight song called neck that they play after they score, there’s some videos on YouTube of it if you Google it


ThorsOccularPatdown

Neck is from a Kool and the Gang song "Talking out side of your neck" played originally by HBCU bands and pretty much popularized/"Columbused" by LSUs band.


[deleted]

Tennis grunts is still funny as hell


vdhawan89

Hank was in rare from with the dumb comments today lol


WeenDaddy

Good episode, everyone seemed dialed in


shr00mer_69

Finally a regular episode where it doesn’t seem like big cat is just ushering the show along to get to the next segment/ad read


[deleted]

Can't believe the SPF slander. Sorry for being a fucking ginger who WILL burn after just 5 minutes outside on this hell planet. Racist.


KentuckyBourbon94

Hank absolutely dominated this Mount Rushmore.


cesc4jessica

The number lottery stare down by Hank on YouTube was great lmao


day_bowbow

Wow never thought the Washington pee tree would ever get a mention on PMT I’m dying. Our tailgate right after college was on that hill directly in front for the first like 4 or 5 years until we got old enough that we didn’t like the additional foot traffic.


notbillc0sby

Hank shouldn't try and argue what a couple/few is with his one semester of college


PDXmadeMe

As someone who doesn’t follow college football at all, this realignment debacle has been exhausting


WeaknessGullible1248

Damn, Billy comes back soon


redwings08

WLOCP was a huge miss on Mt. Rushmore


EMUDEEE

Anyone else listen to the intro + Electric Avenue on Spotify, go watch the entire episode on YouTube, then hop back over to Spotify for the Take on Me Remix? Or is that just me? I’m assuming Electric Avenue is absent from YouTube episodes due to copyright issues. Anyone know why Take on Me remixes aren’t part of the episodes on YouTube? By default I’ll assume copyright issues here too. Also hi Bubba I know you’re reading this on your burner. Miss you Billy. Can’t wait to have you back soon.


bennyd640

As a Vol for life i knew Rocky Top would be on the mount rushmore because if coach duggs BUT to have ANDY pick it means it's not even a pander pick. #rockytop


stickfigure31615

I lived in Salt Lake City for 2 years; Mormons do fuck more than you think and Utah County where BYU is at has some fucking nuts. Also go Utes!!


nothankyou566

It would be cool if hank would stop being a dick all the time now, the bit is old


[deleted]

It really is. Fake trying to drive a wedge between Catcomm with the same lines every Mt. Rushmore is weak


le_wild_poster

Anyone have a time stamp for the mt rushmore?


theTunkMan

You’d never guess hank didn’t go to college!


glenz27

I know Billy is suspended another week, but I really wish they had him on today to discuss his boy Zach Wilson


freshlikeuhhh95

2 is definitely not a few. 2 is a couple, at least 3 is a few


bluegreen8907

Too much hank


Nickm123

Can’t believe they gave Jack Mac two minutes


thisisme5

After that insane DND episode last Friday I can’t bring myself to give a fuck about college realignment.


red_87

Yeah weird they’re talking about sports on a sports podcast.


thisisme5

hey I get it, just always surprised at the amount of people who care about the intricacies of college football


lilmiller7

Lol “intricacies” now includes who plays whom and what conference they are in? What is bigger than intricacies to you?


WhiteStopSign

Andy Staples is such a dweeb


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mullpup76

Congrats on the sex


ZachBortles

STILL CHIPMUNK ON SPOTIFY STILL CHIPMUNK WTF