Pat Forde
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Thank you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Yeah. Hey, happy to be with you. And yeah, this is an interesting one that could get significantly more interesting. I agree. Why aren't people paying as much attention? Well, for one thing, you know, John T. Porter, first of all, is a bit player in the NBA who's been banned. So he's past tense.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Terry Rozier has kept playing to the surprise of some, but there's an investigation underway there into one game in particular when he was at Charlotte. The college stuff is generally speaking with lower level
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
schools that are under investigation and I think it's easy for people to tune out what may be happening at Eastern Michigan or North Carolina A&T or Mississippi Valley State or even Temple and some others so you know I think it's one of those we're gonna the more this kind of succeeds upon itself and and builds upon itself the more people are going to be forced to pay attention
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
We're coming up to March, Dan, when people really start to lock in on college basketball. And I think there's going to be reason to worry and wonder how many schools have gambling problems.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Yeah, not exactly choir boys involved in this as you would not be surprised to find out. The two characters that we honed in on the story, one is named Shane Hennon, a gambler who was arrested at the Las Vegas airport last month as he was attempting to go to Colombia on a one-way ticket. He has been linked to the Porter gambling ring.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
And then another guy named Marvis Fairley from Mississippi, his name has not come out publicly, but he has been described by Shane Hennin himself as my partner. And both these guys have gambling tout services. They also have lengthy criminal records. Shane Hennin has described been involved with cocaine trafficking, an assault, violations of parole, and then again was just arrested last month.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Marvis Fairley was up on a murder rap, which he ended up did not get convicted or due time for, but has had several brushes with the law himself. And as you alluded to, the schools that we're talking about here, first of all, Yeah, there's not a lot of players that are flush with NIL money. There's not a lot of guys that have NBA futures that they need to protect.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
So could they be more vulnerable to being compromised? Yes, they could. The other thing, these are largely bad teams at lower levels. The University of New Orleans came out today from Jeff Goodman that Four of their top five scorers have not played since January during a gambling investigation.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Does anybody notice if New Orleans has a gambling problem, if their players are sitting out, if Eastern Michigan does, if Mississippi Valley does? These are the worst programs, generally speaking, in Division I, and there's just not a lot of attention being paid to what's happening there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Yeah, it's a good question, Jessica. And really, it comes back to the gambling watchdogs that we have in place now to monitor legal wagering are much more attuned to who's doing the betting, where and how. And so this goes back, you know, the Porter stuff, that was discovered in and of itself.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
But the Temple thing in particular, there was a game March 7th last year against UAB where the first half line shot
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
out of the stratosphere and so all of a sudden it's like what's going on there and people notice and they may be able to track who is betting and where and i think some of this stuff originates with offshore wagering and offshore books that are kind of saying wait a minute something's not right here and they will alert integrity monitors and then those people will start watching and when you had the the temple uab game last year all of a sudden
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
they're putting out an alert nationwide to regulators saying, take the game off of your books. And so then you start there and it's just kind of peeling back layers of an onion. One thing leads to another, needs to another.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Well, I would say the most unusual, not bets that have actually been tied to game fixing, but Shane Hennon bet a first half line on a Big South Conference quarterfinal between Longwood and Campbell. Why would you do that unless you thought you had a pretty good amount of insight on that? He bet $300,000 on an ACC tournament game. That's a lot of money. Now, it's a high-profile game, but $300,000?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
I talked to some bookmakers who said we wouldn't even take a bet that big.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Yeah, it starts with greed or recklessness or whatever. I mean, we are dealing with, and I've talked to people when we were going through the reporting of this, it's like, what kind of people are doing this? So like gambling addicts, adrenaline addicts, people who can't keep quiet, people who can't get a big score and then keep it to themselves, they got to brag about it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
And so that just breeds a recklessness that I think maybe got emboldened. And especially if you were having success doing this offshore, And maybe your conduit offshore was cut off and you had to then go to North American bookmakers. Well, there's a little more regulation there, a little more oversight. You may just overstep your bounds.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
So we're not talking about people who are necessarily the most disciplined bookmakers.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Good question there. You know, that's been alleged by people in the poker world that Shane Hennon was a card cheat. He and some of the other guys, actually, who have been arrested in the Porter gambling ring. You know, I did have somebody say to me that Shane Hennon's fairly fortunate to kind of still be in one piece if what has been alleged about him is true.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
If you've been a cocaine dealer and you've been a card cheat and you may be trying to work the margins on... Game fixing. You're gambling or you're dabbling in a lot of risky behaviors, I guess you would say. But the poker world, which there is a poker world, I'm not familiar with it, but there is a poker world out there and they're all like, oh, yeah, that guy. I'm not surprised he's involved.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Same with this guy, Bruce Pham, who was in the the John T. Porter case.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
You keep asking and you'll get to a good one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
That is an excellent question. Oh, come on, Pat. Just give it out.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
I think that there potentially is more at the NBA level. I think that's being looked at. I am sure there is more at the college level that's being looked at. How big does this get? I can't tell you. Are we going to have 50 schools under investigation? Probably not. One thing that's interesting here, I mean, I've heard names of a half dozen other schools, most of them on the lower levels.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
There's a lot of eligibility cases where if it's just players who are gambling, The NCAA doesn't even release eligibility rulings. So there might have been guys that sat out six games, 12 games, a whole season that nobody knows why for sure. So it's kind of going to be hard, I think, to quantify this. But I also talked with a gambling expert just before the show here who said,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
It's inevitable that this gets to the Kansas-Kentucky stage. Now, I'm not saying specifically Kansas, Kentucky, but the big-name programs could eventually get exposed for having gambling issues.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
I don't know. I'm not sure what the retroactive situation could be, but I think the NBA, has gotten a little bit of a black eye over this between Porter and at least the Rozier investigation, even if that has not yet yielded anything, that I think they'd be pretty hypersensitive to having players that in any way fixed a game or threw their own personal props or anything like that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
It's not the kind of thing you want to have associated with your league, that's for sure.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Well, I mean, you know, that is probably fair, and that's probably been the decision they've reached of just that, you know, unless we have something tangible to go on, we're not going to sit him down. I guess the one thing I would like to hear from him and or his attorney is, hell no, I didn't do it. I really haven't heard that from them.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
They are, absolutely. And so the original report, this was a game in March 23rd, 2023, and the NBA says it looked into it and found no wrongdoing. Now, that clearly was not good enough for the feds, Eastern District of New York.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
is investigating uh and has told the nba that so you know is there something there that the nba was able to in good conscience say no we don't think so and then the heat and terry rosier and everybody else involved could say look we've got a good explanation for this i need to keep be able to keep playing uh but clearly that needs to be explained to the federal investigators as well
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Yeah. No, look, I mean, I can't tell you that this is going to be Watergate. And I think your skepticism of both the NCAA and the feds when it comes to college basketball is well warranted because it became an absolute farce. The, uh, the investigation back in 2017, 18, whatever it was, you know, is this going to yield a lot? I don't know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
There's been some speculation and I can't tell you whether it's completely accurate or not, but that If the Feds have a choice of expending their efforts on NBA players or a guy at North Carolina A&T, they're not going to care that much about the college end of this. And maybe this fizzles out. But I do know the NCAA is certainly actively looking into things. And again...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
We're seeing players in a lot of different places who are suddenly not playing. Fresno State just benched two guys over the weekend and had a third who hadn't played since January. Again, the New Orleans thing I mentioned. North Carolina A&T's had two players that have stopped playing. So it's affecting a lot of places right now. Is it going to lead to a mushroom cloud, as you said? I don't know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Maybe at least just a good smoke cloud.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
I would go with ruby.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
My shirt kind of almost matches. No, it does not.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
Did you do that on purpose?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Chris Cote's Michael Jackson Leg Kick (feat. Pat Forde)
I wake up every day planning how I'm going to look on the Dan Levitard show. There it is. Red wine. Cabernet. Cabernet is good. Burgundy. Burgundy, right? Clearly not burgundy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
You would want to have him yesterday. You've come around on Josh Allen. I do want to talk about this Rams game because Mike Ryan loves those half points and Mike Ryan couldn't shut up yesterday about how much he loved the Rams in that game because I think we can all agree on this. Football is wacky enough, college or pros, but the Rams, they can beat anybody.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Wenn sie gesund sind... Sie haben es gerade gemacht.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
dass Puka Nakua, wir werden seinen Körper verwenden, um zu sehen, ob wir den ganzen Körper auf diesen Körper spenden können, um ihm alle Cooper-Nummern zu geben, als wir beide, oder alle von uns, das Team gesehen haben und uns gefragt haben, wie sind diese Receivers, die diese Art von Nummern verwenden, die uns Puka mit seinem Song serenaden, weil er gestern exzeptional war.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
None of you would be surprised if the Lions or Eagles lost to the Rams.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
The Chiefs don't need a loss. The Chiefs don't need a loss. Just the Lions. They can't go in as a one-loss team, is what you guys are arguing. They cannot go in on a winning streak that makes the expectations that they've won 16 straight or whatever it is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
What do you mean you said this on God Bless Football? You're giving us a recycled take here? It needs to be said. It was said over there. It doesn't need to be said over here if you already said it over there. Well, I said it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Du wirst sagen, dass es auf McDermott geht, aber das ist das, was ich dir fragen würde. Wie viele Trainer in der Liga haben die Fähigkeit, die Aufmerksamkeit und die Job-Sicherheit, zu tun, was es ist, was McVay gemacht hat, wenn er 38, 35 ist und es ist Viertel und Drei und er sagt, ich kicke nicht einen Field Goal hier und dann verliere den Josh Allen, der direkt auf dem Feld läuft.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Sorry. Es ist okay, aber du bist hier. Es ist okay. Das ist okay. Wir müssen ihm Hilfe geben. Ich denke, wir müssen ihm eine Tapestry hinterlassen. Wir müssen ihm ein bisschen Metal-Arc-Beckung geben, um ihm ein bisschen... Sports Illustrated hat schwierige Zeiten, Stugatz. Pat Forty ist hier, mit der Journalismus-Flagge, sehr stark. Sie haben keine extra Beckung.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Ich gehe dafür, dass es Viertel und Vier ist, weil ich meinen Quarterback vertraue. Ich will nicht, dass ich sechs bin. Ich gehe dafür. Sag mir alle Trainer in der Liga, weil ich nicht viele habe. Für all this fourth down math that we're now doing, there are only a few, four or five, the Harbaugh and Campbell, guys who I actually trust with.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
No, I'm going to do this because I trust my offense and I trust my guys every time. And I'm not doing field goal football anymore.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Billy, Sanders missed an extra point, but Sanders, who you hate, and I now associate anytime he misses, I just look for wherever you are in the world.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
I was just going to say, Sanders has the longest active streak in the league of made field goals. You've got the most consistent kicker in the entire league.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Wenn ich Comedy vor der Saison schreiben würde, würde ich sagen, du wirst niemals glauben, was ich hier tun werde. Ich bezahle einem Broadcaster 375 Millionen Dollar und er hat keine Erfahrung als Broadcaster. Ich werde ihn auf das größte Spiel setzen. Denn er ist ein Gewinner und er ist ein Gewinner und jeder will ein Gewinner sein.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Aber ich werde ihm so viel Kraft geben, dass er einen Teil der Raiders kaufen wird. Und dadurch wird er nicht in den Produktionen sein, wo er so vorbereitet sein kann, wie alle anderen Anwesenden, die das professionell machen. Und als zusätzliches Bonus, auf einem wirklich wichtigen Spiel, das sehr viel Spaß macht, spät in der Saison, weißt du, was passieren wird?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Er wird seine Stimme sehr früh in der Broadcast verlieren. Würde ich Comedy schreiben? Würde ich schreiben, wie es ist, dass Dinge für Tom Brady falsch gehen könnten? Wie viele andere Anwesende hast du gesehen, die versucht haben, ihren Weg durch ein Spiel zu schlagen, mit einer Stimme, die sie verloren haben? Weil Tom Bradys Stimme gestern nicht korrekt funktioniert hat.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Er hat das ganze Spiel gewonnen, aber es war ein total distrautierendes Spiel, das sonst wirklich wert war zu sehen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
One of the last remaining good soldiers out there. And he's watched a lot of college football. And so I'd like to get his historic perspective here on whether these changes are good for anybody other than made for television wonder and extravaganza. That these 12 games are just making football bigger and bigger and bigger because we must.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Nein, Sean. Sean. Das gleiche. Ja. Also, was hat er gesagt? Was fragst du ihn?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Don't be with Samson. Samson wants to talk Soto. Go listen to whatever it is. I don't want to talk to him. I'm going to tune in. You know what I'd like to do right now? I'd like you to sit in the penalty box with David Samson and I'd like him to give you all of his Soto information that he didn't get to give us earlier in the show. I mean, I don't need you back now. You can just go.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Okay, it's supposed to be a punishment.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
No, I want to hear, I want to listen in on what it is that Samson has to say to Amin while they sit in the penalty box together. But do you guys not find it funny that Brady lost his voice and fought through the game? And we can talk about all the details in that game. To me, the takeaway as the Bills lose is...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
In the era of Lamar Jackson wins all the MVPs, man, how is it that this guy gets to romp through secondaries looking like more of an athlete than everyone he's playing against? When I know the kind of athlete that Boses are and Watts are and Miles Garrett is and the people who are chasing him and Max Crosby.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
How is it possible that this guy just gallops through secondaries, he's going to throw for touchdowns, he's going to run for touchdowns and it's going to hurt to tackle him. Nobody's going to want to tackle him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Yeah, I don't really want more information about money. Well, this is the thing. Help me out here with the tensions around this show and every time David Sampson appears for a week. This is the tension I have and it really is philosophical. I'm telling you that what he does with John Skipper and what he does daily on sports business is fascinating.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
But I keep getting told at every turn that while we talk about money all the time, In Sports. And so it will come and change everything about how we talk about it. That people don't want to talk about stadium deals and collective bargaining agreements.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
That when we actually get into the weeds of what the business of this is, people don't actually want to know what it means that the Dodgers are deferring a billion dollars. Ein Billion Dollar!
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
It's Boris. I drove with him and Coca, his producer, and they were asking me, what is the easiest day for you? And I'm like, Monday. It's a light lift. We don't have to do anything. And they're like, oh, we don't talk about football at all. Football barely makes our show on Monday. And I'm like, you're doing it all wrong. Everything you're doing is wrong. He's like, but we're doing business.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Business. We're talking business. And Soto, the Soto deal broke. And I'm like, you gotta talk football. There's one key ingredient in this space. One. Just talk football. Und er will über die Soto-Business sprechen. Und er ist mehr qualifiziert, darüber zu sprechen, als jeder in der Business, der ein Mikrofon hat.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
So Carolyn Davidson sold the Nike Swoosh for $35 to Phil Knight. And what I'm asking you is, how does she feel about that now? Is it a black mirror episode of how you haunt?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Ein Künstler oder ein Grafikdesigner, du verkaufst ihr Werk für 35 Dollar oder du kaufst es für 35 Dollar, du machst es ubiquitös, aber wo auch immer du gehst, wirst du von der schrecklichen Geschäftsentscheidung, die du gemacht hast, erinnert.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Es ist ein Episode, ich würde gerne, wenn sie noch mit uns ist, ich würde gerne mit ihr sprechen, wie es ist, dass sie die Nike-Swoosh für 35 Dollar verkauft. Sie hat einen schönen Traumapump von ihr. Sicko. Or just fine with it, because the artist can say you can't put a price on being a ubiquitous symbol that you created.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
And Phil Knight was ahead of everybody on Mike Ryan gets to buy his quarterback in NIL. Like Phil Knight was getting college football cheap 15 years ago when he was making the play calls from the skybox.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
I'd like to speak to her. What do you think, Mike Ryan, of Lane Kiffin tweeting, God, if this wasn't look at me, Louis. He was congratulating Georgia on winning the conference, and he's like, 57-4 since 2020. Only four losses, that's amazing. Three to Alabama. One to Ole Miss. Ole Lane Kiffin out there reminding you that in the last four years it's only Alabama and him that have beaten Georgia.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
But if not for one of those bad officiating calls in an eight overtime game, we might all be saying that Georgia Tech is just as good as Georgia.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Let's check in with Lucy Rodin. She was off-roading at the Big Ten Championship. What did that look and sound like?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
That's true. It wasn't. 45-37. I need 17-7. Goal line. Third and two all game. Come on, everybody. Block better than them. What's going on with all these neon colors running up and down the field the way Oregon's been playing football out west? What comes this way? We're all about the snow. You can't come in here this time of year and just gallop all over the field. Who are these fans?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
We're supposed to know. You're supposed to be an expert. What do you mean? We played a bunch of games. What do you mean? Maybe good, maybe good, maybe good, or maybe at the end. I got it all wrong about the SEC. Georgia's not actually any better than Georgia Tech.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
So then could I not extrapolate that the top of the ACC might in some ways be as good as the top of the SEC because we've been overstating how good the top of the SEC is?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Erklär mir, was hier am Ende mit SMU passiert ist, Pat. Denn was Clemson gemacht hat, war, dass es alle Partys auf ESPN und den SCC verabschiedet hat. Ein 3-Loss-Alabama-Team wird einsteigen. Es hat alle verabschiedet, wenn sie Clemson und SMU beide einsteigen mussten. Sonst würden sie...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
You are saying the fix was in. You're right there. Say the fix was in. You're right. Just say it. These are trying times for Sports Illustrated and the American media. Just say it. You can't be out here with nuanced takes, Pat. Ja, sie können. Nobody wants to see SMU play.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Everybody wants to believe that what they thought about SMU before the season is what they believe now, which is that SMU is not good enough. I don't understand why we bother playing the games.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Warte mal, was hast du da gemacht, Pat? Ich wusste, dass SMU besser war, aber ich wusste nicht, dass sie so gut waren. Und dann waren sie weniger gut, als ich dachte, dass sie es werden. Und ich habe es falsch gemacht.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
That's how you do it. No, but that's total bulls**t from Pat Forty. He got it wrong and he's claiming he got it right when he got it wrong.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Yes. I got it almost right. That's close enough in today's journalism age. That makes you a truth seeker to get it almost right. What about Nick Saban saying no coach should have any complaints about his circumstances being in or out of the playoffs?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
I'm sorry, I don't feel sorry for you. Are you sorry or not? I'm sorry, but I don't feel sorry for you. Classic SMU-Szenario. Which is it, Forty, which is it?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Why is he apologizing for being sorry if he's not sorry? This liar comes close to being almost right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Das kann nicht sein, das kann nicht sein. Das kann nicht sein, das ist nicht Bubba Cunningham. Das kann nicht sein, das ist nicht Bubba Cunningham. Das, was du da sagst, ist nicht wahr. Das ist nicht ein echter Name, du hast das gemacht.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Pat, thank you for being on with us. We appreciate the time. You can listen to his podcast, College Football Inquirer, with Dan Wetzel and Ross Dellinger. He really is keeping up the good fight on behalf of journalism.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
We're going to get you better at this, Pat. Pat, if you do this, I will promise you our listeners will go and download everything you're doing. You have to promise them, though, that you're going to claim publicly. You're going to put down your journalism credentials and you're just going to claim the fix is in.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Excellent work. We will have you back on to celebrate your victory.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
I am delighted, Stugatz, to bring on an old-fashioned journalist all over the American media. They keep slicing these guys down, but not Pat Forty. Nobody's taking him down. Senior writer for Sports Illustrated out here, still doing the good work with Wetzel. Another one of these guys still waving the journalism flag, but I gotta help him. Pat, your backdrop. We can see part of your house.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
This is the Dan Levitard Show with the Stugatz. I believe we have talked enough college football. Samson's still furious with us. He's prowling like a very small Shih Tzu around the offices. Can we go to him? Because this is the big story of the day, Stugatz. We have not gotten to football. My God, how fun was it to watch Josh Allen and the Rams?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
We haven't gotten to yesterday. The Giants had an interception. Ich sage dir nur das, weil es schon 11 Spiele gab, seit sie ein Interzept hatten. Ich sage dir nur das, weil es noch nie in der Geschichte des Sportes passiert ist, wo eine Defense 11 Spiele lang weggegangen ist, ohne ein Interzept, wenn die Leute ein Fußball über den Platz werfen. Sie waren doof.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
Is this just you trying to segue into your listener league because you're dying to talk fantasy?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
We can see... We can see behind the Sports Illustrated thing. We can see that there's a painting back there. We need to crop that. We need to get somebody to help you so that that looks like it's a tighter... I can see part of the picture.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Fix Is In (feat. Pat Forde)
I did play. How'd you do? I don't know how I did. You don't know how you did? No, I didn't check the results. You still got your phone over there right now. I picked the team. I hit Kyler Murray. That didn't go well. I had the Eagles defense. You didn't do well. I don't know where I finished.