Mike Golic Jr
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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The grocery store is right. Listen, I have a fridge with 10 yogurt packets in it right now for that same reason. They get you on this stuff.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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The thing that Powerade still has at its disposal, and the only one that's really coming for the crown on this is body armor, is especially if you're going on a long drive, very pissable bottle. Like some of these other ones here, not as pissable of a top of the bottle here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Body armor right now, number one in the pee power rankings of bottles that you can pee in after you've used them on a long road trip.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I feel like if you put a wide mouth on a beverage that is sold at a gas station, you kind of know what you're doing. Everyone knows. Got it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You don't want to worry about the splatter of the spray anywhere while you're doing this at 55 miles an hour, which is definitely safe. All that good stuff.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I still can't believe this is real. I saw the official graphic from North Carolina, but plucking Bill Belichick off the Pat McAfee show, Michael Lombardi, who's done stuff at DraftKings and the GM Shuffle and at V-Sync going to be his GM. It feels surreal in a way, and I'm still trying to figure out Stugatz. what the motivation is for Bill Belichick behind this.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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In an offseason where we thought he'd take another stab at some of these NFL jobs, where we thought the Don Shula record was the sole thing preoccupying him, I know Seth Wickersham's got a piece out and it kind of says, hey, that's something, but it's not the only thing, and maybe he felt slighted by the process, but that's the one thing I can't figure out is, is Bill Belichick doing this with eyes and going back to the NFL eventually, or is he just going to kick up
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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his feet and try something completely new at this point in his career and see how it fits.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I guess it could be, especially with the Steve Belichick stuff baked into that, where whether or not you believe the coach in waiting rumors, as it seems like he's going to go there and be the defensive coordinator. And I mean, listen, five years and $50 million is nothing to shake a stick at. Now Bill Belichick's got more money than God, so I don't think that's really... a motivator and all this.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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But the other part of this, too, is just these guys are sickos. Like, you guys know this. We've all been around and worked with guys that take the year off coaching and come do this. Not all of them are Nick Saban where, hey, you do it after you totally exhausted your competitive desires in a field that you've dominated here. Bill Belichick got fired. How much of this is...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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That could certainly be a part of all this. And I do think what you mentioned there, the level of control he can have in college where, you know, we said before this ever really became real, dad and I were talking about it in the show and we'd made the obvious points.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Now it feels like where it's, Hey, the college level has certainly changed structurally, but it's still a place where even with the GMs that are coming into college football and full scouting departments, the head coach in this sport has always wielded a level of power where
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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very similar to what bill enjoyed at the nfl level that's atypical for that level of football and it certainly doesn't seem like anyone's going to ever give him that much control over an nfl organization again right so you're right if he could go down here ask for that and then some and they eventually gave it to him and you still have this desire to maybe coach and stick it to everybody to say all right you don't want me up there that's fine i'll take north carolina this place that
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And so many people have been talking about it as a dormant power at a basketball school that's got the geographic location working for it, the young alumni base, the resources and stuff, and say, I'll take this place and I'll do with it what no one's been able to do in the 21st century with that school, despite everyone else. I wouldn't rule that out for a guy that competitive.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I do feel the age in that thing because my initial gut reaction was no, we probably haven't because this still seems like a guy that that record does mean enough to get talked about the way it does and only being 14 shy of tying 15 shy of beating. But you're right. I mean, he's walking into college football already is the oldest coach there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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was in the NFL, all of his peers have been forced out or retired. Nick Saban, Pete Carroll, Mack Brown at North Carolina. And so, yeah, I just don't see how if he really is here legitimately and not just going to dine and dash after one year, which if he's got the tie in with his son, I don't know how that would work. All these different things that maybe say he'd be here for at least a few years.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Then, yeah, I do think it's increasingly hard to imagine an NFL team hiring Bill Belichick in his mid 70s to come there and try and lead your franchise.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I'm sure he could get it figured out just fine.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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That's the funniest part about this, though, is because the attention economy is loving this right now, everyone's going to be like, oh, this is like Dion in Colorado. No, it is not. It is certainly a spectacle in the same way, but you're not going to get Bill Belichick hosting his own talk show on Tuesdays and inside the North Carolina Tar Heels looking the way they had on Amazon Prime.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And just in general, Deion is a showman by nature. That is who he is at his core. Bill Belichick, I mean... Maybe we get the version of Bill that lets his hair down now. He's got the young girlfriend. He's away from the NFL and all these parts tied to his legacy. So maybe he does just relax a little bit.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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But more than likely, he's going to be the same guy he's always been, which is not going to grab people by the horns the same way Dion did or piss people off, quite frankly, as much as Dion did on the front end of his time there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I did wonder, twofold to Billy's point, how much Bill's son and his experience, because Bill was up at Washington a bunch. He was around there. They talked about it. Jed Fish, I think, has Belichick ties somewhere in his past, the head coach now at Washington. But then also what Nick Saban's told him, like Bill and Nick worked together.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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They obviously have kind of been in lockstep their whole careers. And Nick Saban left for all the reasons that we're curious why Bill Belichick would go to college for.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah, I would agree in general. And I think your point, the relative standard of this, because that's the thing I've talked about with like Kenny Dillingham and Dan Lanning and a bunch of these young coaches who got their first head coaching jobs during all this change. Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame, they don't know a world as head coaches anymore.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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without the current things that they're balancing in this job as the standard. If you are Nick Saban and the rest of these coaches that have been around for decades in the sport and have watched it more from this thing you knew how to do very well to something that feels totally foreign, yeah, I could understand that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And so Bill coming in without any priors and a skill set that is closer is a reason I thought, hey, this is less far-fetched than it originally looked on the surface.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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That is the one part that worries me, not not being able to control him because, you know, you you ceded control to Bill Belichick for all the things that we mentioned. But it's the fact that like in the NFL, when you look at teams that are bad for a long time and do they have their house in order organizationally? We're watching that play out for the Bears in real time right now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And when you hear about the supposed rift or like infighting or however you want to label it between Bubba Cunningham, the athletic director at North Carolina and their board of trustees. not being on the same page on how they wanted to handle the dismount of Mack Brown and not being on the same page for who they were going after for this next candidate.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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That's what worries me in this day and age where you've got so many cooks in the kitchen between the board of trustees and the athletic director and the collectives all trying to go and govern these things that if you have fracture and dissent among there, I think those are the programs that are going to struggle the most in a world now that requires more organization and unity on that level than ever before.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Like Florida State? Yeah. Yeah. Well, and that one, like this, this all makes me wonder like, all right, now if Bill Belichick is looking at college, cause remember we went through all this last summer when Jeff Halfley and a couple of those guys left for NFL jobs and people were like, Oh man,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Look, you're driving out these great leaders from the college game by giving players rights and money, and it's so scary, and we're going to lose all these great men. And now Bill Belichick's going the opposite direction. It does make me wonder, like, hey, for Ohio State and all the conversation they've had there about Ryan Day, Mike Vrabel is pie in the sky for them.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Like, you talk to Ohio State fans, and they want Mike Vrabel bad around there if it's going to be somebody. And you do wonder now if a guy might look at it and say, all right, This is a little more accessible to me coming from the NFL than it's ever been because of these changes in the sport. I don't know. Vrabel's still younger.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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He's probably going to have plenty of suitors, so I don't know if this would apply to him the same way, but your alma mater can do strange things to you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It's better than I got him, which was nothing. So you guys did me a favor in this. Thank you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Sorry, I forgot how I forgot if my dad was 62 or 63 this morning when we were doing the show at the beginning. And so I just laid it out so he would say it. And then I would remember it on the back end. So happy 62nd birthday, dad.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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No. So here's the thing with me and my dad and gift giving and the way my family's operated in general is we don't like being bound by, oh, it's birthday gift time or, oh, it's Christmas gift time. Like, again, we're fortunate. We've got plenty of stuff, so we don't need anything.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It's more if I see something that I know my dad's going to want, I'll get it for him no matter what time of year it is. And like, I have something I'm going to get my dad because he's easy to shop for. Because to your guy's point, my dad will never go buy something himself. My dad is wearing clothes that either me and my brother or my mom have gotten him almost 24 hours a day.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Because my dad, he'll never ask for anything, Stu Gotts. But what he'll do, like if he saw this jacket and he liked it, he would never say, oh, I like this jacket. He would walk up, he'd take his two fingers, and he'd pinch a little bit of the fabric, and he'd go... Oh, this is nice.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And then he'd walk away without saying anything else and just expect it to show up eventually on his doorstep at some point. So I've got a couple of clothing items that because I know I have liked them and I know he would do that and have that reaction. If you saw them, I'm going to get him eventually. They're just out of stock right now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yes. Yeah, my brother and his wife, Jenny, had their second child, their daughter, Jordan, to join Jackson. A lot of J names in that family going to be a real confusing time around the house when it's time to yell at people. But yes, Billy, he definitely my brother. Shout out to him for continuing to run interference on my life. I don't get questions about getting married anymore.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I don't get questions about kids anymore because my brother and sister just keep having them. And my parents are so preoccupied.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Oh, Billy, no. It's so much worse than that. I'll never forget this moment. This is probably a couple years ago now. My brother already had his son. My sister might have been pregnant at that point, so maybe this was only a year or two ago. And I was sitting around talking with my mom at one point, and she used to give me grief about the kid stuff in the normal, playful way that parents do.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And then at one point, my mom, I made some joke about it, and she goes... And it was like this far away look in her eyes where she's like, me and your father really just want you to find someone. And it was so like, oh, they just want you to have company. So you're not lonely in a way that was like, oh, God. All right. I might actually need to do this so they don't feel like they failed.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Well, the jokes assume that eventually it's going to happen and it's going to be okay so we can joke. That was like, oh, they're really considering the possibility that I might just wind up alone.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah, I wrote one part of a book. God bless Stanzik and the work that he did putting all this together, and everyone else who helped piece this together. So this is my only Billie holiday decoration here. I've got a couple of tchotchkes I bought at Target.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I have on my front door, so into my apartment, and this was true in my house in Connecticut, I have one door in my house where I have a plush Santa face that that hangs off the door handle, but I keep that up year-round. I never take it down. Why? Because he's always watching. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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He knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake. Santa's always watching. I have the small Christmas tree from the Charlie Brown Christmas special in physical form up year-round, and then a normal-sized tree with a couple of wreaths.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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The small one. So it's, it's about yay high. And it's the, you know, it's the Charlie Brown one, the one before they decorate it and up there where it's real thin and sparse. So you can't always tell it's Christmasy, but it is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You mean to tell me, Billy, that if you were a young lady and you come back and we've just had a great date and maybe we're sitting on the couch watching TV and all of a sudden things start to escalate and there's a little bit of kissing, that if you looked over and all of a sudden locked eyes with a plush Santa Claus on the door handle, that wouldn't do it for you?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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There's also an elf riding a pug underneath the small Christmas tree there as like a lawn ornament that I just put inside.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So I think inflatables are great for other people will never be my thing, like never has been my thing, never will be. But I appreciate a good inflatable, especially when it because, you know, the cookie cutter ones, you get some people that will just do like the reindeer or Santa's sleigh or something like that. But when people go above and beyond or have a lot of them, I do appreciate that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Stugatz, would you be a real tree guy if you were in the game?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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What about you guys? Are you guys real tree or fake tree people?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So you get you get to clean up the pine needles.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Billy, thank you so much for illuminating what I've assumed for years because I'm the biggest mark known to mankind. The gas stations, when you go inside and you go over to the drink section and it's Powerade and it says, oh, you can get these two for six bucks or whatever. I never know and checked what they were before that. I have no idea if I'm getting a deal. I just see the little sign.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I'm like, well, now I have to buy two Powerades for this road trip. I'm just being economical and I have no idea if I'm saving money.