The Drive with Josh Graham - ACC Basketball Picks

I have come here to talk sports is man that is most man you would like to know what you got. This is the drive Josh Graham this is God basketball country panther starting to open up I've got my ACC basketball predictions right here you can keep me accountable for when March comes around, they start and they end up with the Louisville Cardinals all in on Chris Mack in the cards to win this upcoming season.

Regardless of if Jordan Mora and Stephen Enoch decided to return to school in May.

They were both right on the borderline, and in the day of the deadline. The decided to return the Louisville. I thought this team is going to be competitive going to be a contender in the ACC but right now with those two in the fold. I think Louisville is the deepest team. I think of the most experienced team and whenever I'm forecasting a season. I tend to favor known quantities more than the lesser known variables.

No matter how highly touted those lesser-known variables to be. That's why I like Louisville over North Carolina and do North Carolina has: Anthony who might be more talented than any player in the Atlantic Coast conference this year. Duke brings in the second rank recruiting class in the country with Vern and Carrie and Matthew heard and when Delmore and many other friends Trey Jones returning first returning point guard at Duke since Quinn Cook the year they won the national title in 2015 Alex O'Connell back Jack White back Gavin to Laurier back.

It's strange to see Duke with more returning talent the North Carolina hat not to say what you want to be an experienced Gillingham impairs the grad transfers coming in from lesser levels. They are older players, but North Carolina is good to be replacing. For starters, I don't know what it's gonna look like and do because it won a regular-season ACC title since 2010 when they started pursuing the one and done as heavily as Coach K has pursued it since Tyree Irving really that 2010 2011 season so I like Louisville to win the league. I think there are only four contenders to win the league this year. It is North Carolina. Louisville Duke and I still say Virginia it's the most fascinating story in the conference this year.

Can Virginia continue to be competitive and be a contender in this conference the best conference in college basketball.

After losing Ty Jerome Kyle guy DeAndre Hunter and another starter injects all like Duke and North Carolina losing. For starters, can you replace them when you're not recruiting the same way you want to and Duke are recruiting into a system bringing in some good players this year. It's bound to happen when you win a national title and you go 33 and three and a two year stretch in conference play.

I'm not counting up Virginia because in this system, Tony Bennett always seems to find a way to re-create this DeAndre Hunter like player with solid with Justin Anderson.

Once upon a time Joe Harris playing a very similar role result with Malcolm Brogdon. He developed these guys were these highly recruited players and turns them into all ACC town.

The big question with Virginia basketball sinners on the comedy deity did he play a lesser role in scoring because he was unable to score or because he wasn't asked to score this only so many shots, especially in Virginia's often when you have Diane you have Jerome and you have DeAndre Hunter how many shots are out there for commodity do you keep with the biggest shot of the year to advance Virginia to the final four and they ultimately want to court. How many shots are available. You have him back. He had Clark who assisted on that shot back, Braxton key the leading rebounder back you have J half what they could do a nice job replacing Jack so they help I think is the only player last year dumped on Zion Williams. I don't know that for sure but I think statistically the only player that dumped on Zion was J half and Zion got them back a little bit later on in the game without right-handed flush when everyone said he can't drive right and you prove that wrong to got J outback is that yeah I distinctly remember Zion dunking on J Holly I'm trying to remember J half dunking on Zion earlier in the game. Don't go look it up.

You can find the dunk J half posterior eyes Zion Williamson I expect Jordan Mora from Louisville to win the league all in on the Cardinals I think is the best player is the second highest score among returning players in the league behind Markley's read whose back for Clemson funds and entities that I think you're gonna have good years in both to make the tournament. Markel Johnson back that's that's big for Kevin Keats Notre Dame to be improved.

I think they'll make the NCAA tournament. Syracuse will be okay, but only four contenders to win the league Louisville I think will win it north. You want to do. Can Virginia the other contenders as well just so your Chris Mack Louisville picked is actually a really interesting one, because in the space of the past decade, the 2010 211 season three ACC had coaches that have actually won the ACC regular season Wednesday 120 bit the other, you know, the third it had to be. It's a great trivia question because one year, both in the ACC tournament enter the ACC Jim Lehrer negative, Miami one and was light and it was Durand that was a fun team that they had thousand million. I gambled that was about 25 drawing remedies. One of the most fun people to our member we were doing a radio show and Julian Gamble was listening. It's a hey can I come in, what you doing in North Carolina sure Julian Gamble just pops in and come on the radio with I love that Miami team of years ago. What happened to those guys I think Larkin still in the markets.

The claimant and BA. Yeah, you're right. And it was a bunch of men I think respect breakthrough last year, we saw that with a team. No one expected to do much of anything. He went to Chapel Hill and beat North Carolina, 21, 22 point I think they learned a lot. By the way things ended last year and they just have this good combination of youth and experience, I brought up Enoch and I brought up Laura. They have this great frontcourt but if sharpshooters in the backcourt. They have a top 25 group and Samuelson or Williamson excuse me Samuel Williamson abuse was Zion is a top 25. Recruit I love what Louisville is doing. I also love these Wake Forest uniform. They put this up today looking clean. There's these old throwbacks that they're wearing. It says deacons across the front door, back to the Tim Duncan so clean only thing they need to do now is bring back the deacon had put it in the middle of the floor, but the uniforms they are clean and I'm excited that were talking about college basketball.

Finally, it's also one hit wondered which had us thinking why is, who decides what day it is one hit wonder date. Why can't we pick a day and if we were going to pick a certain day and leave that charge the same way were leading a Jamie Newman Heisman camping charge. What we make that day but give me an idea for what you have here for what day we might nominate here our program national beer day, but I think there's art there is a beer that has to really think we celebrated together on her before. Yes, I'll celebrate national beer day whatever data every day national beer day is Tuesday, April 7, while thousand one, also national hip-hop day but again it feels like there's so many of them that everything I thought of us and I think the party done this so would you go to find the national beer day. Just type that I just search national beer down on the Google Google apps for the tribe.

What kind of day. Can we start here national ugly day out, but the ugly people.

How do we what you have allowed a person ugly ugly person that would be a charitable thing to do but look suffered with it would be a great thing to do would be a great Samaritans do that.

I don't know if you be the Philadelphia Eagles fan. I don't know if you believe that levels great if you didn't see it earlier in the week.

There is the sky was interviewed by a TV affiliate who saved to kids at least two from a building catching them and taking them away from a fiery building.

He did a TV interview. It was right after his beloved Philadelphia Eagles lost in. He made it known that he still wasn't happy about it in a TV interview.

Again, this is right after he saved a couple of lies like is unlike Agyeman and his mishaps, you know, I just want to put that out there that God be for the Panthers. Randall fell maybe Ted didn't Junior that you got a lot of slack like unlike to begin his mishap became after the Super Bowl performance. That's not fair, but is true but he's back in the headlines. This Philadelphia got this sound comes to you courtesy of NBC 10 in Philadelphia that one of the follow-up on this guy because he went viral and he's still not happy about his Eagle.

He says he caught a baby and an adult woman in the air about Robert Quevedo bowl. My first thought as in the right way will you know from Buffalo to talk to Miranda for test after rescuing people from a burning building. How was the Eagles loss still on his mind in that moment earlier the same day every 12 hours. What are the what's the best part about clip him saying him catching a football in the clip and saying catching human life and air vents. They run them in for a touchdown or that with the fire happening. The Eagles loss is still very much on his mind because his teams wanting to Quevedo bowl right oh Eagles fan but you guys are the greatest LER call to what's the most impressive thing Kyle Allen accomplished on Sunday. Voice of the Carolina Panthers Dick Mixon without next on the drive Quevedo bowl, so I try my the heart of the Mars Hill. Josh grabbed sports hub try when you think about one hit wonder.

I think the aha does come to mind and I'm seeing on social media. It is one hit wonder a lot of people are bringing up aha this being take on me. Mixon I don't know you ever performed this one hit the aha put out there were once a drummer I don't know the last time you pick up the drumsticks and got after it with one of your bands you been in. But when you think of one hit wonders what's the first thing that comes to your mind low grade where my Rosemary goes Edison lighthouse lead singer named Tony Burroughs who was really just sort of a mercenary playing with some other groups as well.

He is the other. They were actually almost another one� Hey hey kiss him goodbye with the they were almost never even a band. I made a video That got together and later track down capture the magic and and got into music history. Were you ever close to creating you have written several songs that on Sunday May may role with our God. I wrote a song called the like long years ago when I was became so just so physically angry by the idiotic and repetitive lately reliance on the word by the younger generation, so I may put the like going out there someday and then two years ago I wrote a song called I want to date a hairdresser I was driving to a speaking engagement in Albemarle and I plan out that hair salon called the Copia and I thought of the run down the road. Not too happy with all the highfalutin women that are called to them about the money that is trying to date and I can imagine. I imagine him looking toward the hair Topia thinking if I couldn't day. I guarantee you in there somewhere, couldn't hear is somebody who's down there. It would be for me. I imagine moved the football in the second Carolina Panthers play-by-play man Mick Mixon with the cereal and sports of dryad, but the like.

Song has me thinking there are things you see with the younger generation that bother you quite a bit is that the only one. Or is there anything else. Oh God, no, don't get me started that they have no idea what the word literally means I may need no head and we got home around here they come of our interns that I mean it was like literally like writing like A dog that drive me not they they a lot of them don't take the stairs.

They think it's somehow their birthright to take the elevator even though there's people in hospital bed laid up right now who would give anything to move.

If only they could go in my judgment, to have the gift of mobility, but not use it is an insult to those people who would give anything to be active if only they could so you're somebody you spent a lot of time in airports. I'm sure you always take the stairs versus taking the escalator while I tried to dock you know you're going to get me in trouble far from here, the world been around just the way you wanted. Normally, I could go on. One reason that I cannot be allowed to have twitter or Instagram or anything else where I can have an immediate form to get my views out into the world rather believe that scarcity breeds momentum when people hear my voice even though you get me into trouble sometimes with your question. I'd rather just have them think out of the panther got one of the best books I've ever read Rory Vaden's take the stairs in the concept is pretty simple. The successful people in life.

The ones that decide to take the stairs even if the escalator is available to them somebody who filed found a different team that found it difficult way to get when number one's the Carolina Panthers.

I don't think Ron Rivera drew it up at the start of the year.

Cam Newton going down and you having to go on the road and when with Kyle Allen to get when number one but after looking at what Carolina did in person and then reflecting on it the last few days. What's the most impressive thing you think I allowing did a quick comment about him. He he performed so well in this crucible of pressure being that he is from Scottsdale. He had friends and family there. He had the weight of an entire region on his shoulders.

He and he was up to it. He and he to have an early hick up with the fact that we had every reason to get in the fetal position and real in and just try to throw the ball sideways and complete the path of the crowd not to lose the game but instead he healed general be augmented at snap. It had rhythm.

It it had completed passes. It had Kyle Allen going off script sometimes. Yet, in perfect pitch and and and it's something you can get behind. Now he pulled the starter rope on panther nation Josh Lincoln.

This book what do we have. Could this be someone who can can function. Could this be the next Jake alone. Could this be an answer to the QB question. Moving forward, and it I feel sometimes like I'm in the middle of a season or not. The middle of it at the beginning of the season that someday could be an ESPN 3430. Are we end up Harvard business school practicum on our leadership and dynamics and how do we handle cam Newton when and if he comes back to me is just fascinating dynamic around Amy Trask was writing for the athletic earlier today about the idea of disclosing injuries.

What that really earns a team and how much work sees how much of a disadvantage disclosing information really is and I mean you've covered Carolina Tar Heels for a very long time in the panther since 2005, so I'm sure you've dealt with so many coaches and before that high school sports and I always found that the coaches that gave the most. They were always the coaches that had the most success Coach K opens up his locker room to every body because you know he has nothing to hide, nothing that you're going to find in there that he deems to be scary. If it is made public by the media in some senses do you think the disadvantage in sports that comes along with disclosing injuries is overblown. Considering how good these teams are at scouting opposition and identifying where weaknesses maybe you would know more about the me young man being that you are closer to her millennial brain again asked her agenda dear whatever whatever it is. My opinion is from from looking down on the social media landscape from the upper deck here in my my little senior citizen almost station in life is that there's no such thing as being coy with enter information now you can try but one players have their own news, disseminating websites when they're tweeting and putting out their own barn feet bottoms from the hyperbaric chamber that their own acupuncture from going to see Dr. mean you our whatever the heck it is, then what good do an NFL team to play loosen and close to the vest with with the injury report on this. Not sure if it's just interesting to me where coaches protect this information like it's the nuclear codes to talk about cam Newton okay cannot publicly incite yet disguise is banged up his foot. It's it's not 100% right now from the New England game and whatnot but it was clear Tampa Bay Solon take a were were not really work were to see if you can attest the flip because he didn't against the LA Rams, and I'm not to say it's a disservice to camp to go out there publicly and not tell people what's going on with the injury disclose it. I do find it interesting were still in this place.

Maybe it's following the cues of successful coaches like Bill Belichick and Nick say the more they don't give anybody anything but I just don't know what advantage it. I don't either.

I may not mean a lot to your you know about my wife got him donated 5 feet of hell that I'm married to. You know, if you look at the world really don't care about ball or window lot want to know who's honest and who the good person. Social pointer finger in my face and time that they lied like he lied to the medium heat for the were going to go week to week, but then the guy then but he knew this and I say babe, just relax and calm down, routinely done. It's not a moral capital event you try not to give away your you will be playing with in next week's game. Sometimes the coaches don't have all the information so I don't know the great topic. I'm just thinking cam Newton case.

I think you'd be doing at this you could with this is on the table you could possibly be doing a disservice to the proud athlete like cam Newton. If you don't really know the least acknowledge that yeah I heard you got a foot injury to quiet down. Those people that might think just because of what he looked like he was wearing the press counter. They think somehow he's not interested in football anymore is not true at all. It avoids the new cycle that we seen after the Rams game and they came this work were evaluating cam unfairly by saying that this guy's 100%. When we know we see from the patriots game and what cam is saying to himself that he is not out of the woods and he somebody that there was a ways to go in it, and time will tell when he's able to return picnics and voice of the Carolina Panthers with the last time you joined his neck. You're telling a story about Mack Brown said he got dog just by him. After saying something you probably shut it on the air made a joke that was funny at the time enacted find it very funny teach you a lesson when you're at North Carolina is not the worst you've ever been dog cussed out by a coach probably will let me think every the one I got. What good were 49 so I love I love I love talking about.

I love finding out the players and I think part of our job right. As part of our job to find out it's not enough to just know that this guy were number three and he quickly forward from vertebrate Louisiana or whatever you gotta privately learn some interesting things out in the pre-way yonder pre-Internet smart phone day the Tar Heels go to Virginia to play Terry Holland Virginia Cavalier Terry Holland has a forward name or big gardening. Bryant remember Brian and I knew I knew his son to Brandon plating, so I had seen in the media guide the note that Bryant middle name was LaMonica. So we have Bryant LaMonica plagued me know. I'm just my curiosity it either can't wait to talk to Brian and find out how he got the middle name of LaMonica so the Cavaliers were warming up the Tar Heels are warming up. We have a interview playing on the Tar Heels or snow or pregame show.

I got a minute so I grab my trusty reporter notepad and go under the basket where Virginia layup line and I wait until Brian and writer sales almost right over my head and leave the ball in and then he the land and eat right in front of me enough that Bryant LaMonica anything. Like I had catered. He said how do you know my middle name I rented in the media. God, how did you get your middle name and he said it, you will not believe it is the most amazing thing of all. My dad was a huge Oakland Raiders fan and he had $2000 bet on the rater that the chief on the day that I was born there.

LaMonica the quarterback for the rater three touchdown passes in the fourth quarter, the Raiders one my dad one money he was so happy middle name to me. LaMonica in that apparel. While this is happening. I'm aware that there's some someone running at me at top speed, and I look over to my right and it Terry Holland, the head coach of the Virginia Cavalier running from the bed all the way down to get in my faith and he was waving his arms.

He says what he what you doing talking about.

Players don't talk top players.

I think that heavy.

I will okay but have you. Do you know how he got his middle name of LaMonica is the most amazing story of all.

Here let me share with okay so that will very Holland and Matt Brower probably did. It was a matter that me Terry Holland ever seen Terry Holland bad before he was East Carolina's director of athletics for a handful years got to know Terry quite a bit and Brandon Seth played at Old Dominion while his dad was. I think Brian was helping out on staff there so how about that good good connective tissue. We have all across this region with college basketball and in your case the NFL Mick always appreciate the stories the thought and the time I'm sure I'll see you sometime soon. Have a good call this weekend. Call me if you got it. That's picnics voice of the Carolina Panthers have a month.

I might as well at the end of an interview he makes things so easy for me as a radio host. I mean I might as well just admit can you just tell me a story like it could just be as simple as that. But then this the storytelling of Terry Holland being Madden. The middle name of Bryant Stith be in LaMonica don't say you didn't learn anything today riots.

This middle name is LaMonica and he got it because his dad want to bet involving the Raiders and Darrell LaMonica. Excellent yes or no. People are clearly title to the elevators Sunday thing take the stairs. I do it every time. Take the stairs are better for her personally, but I will take an elevator if this like an absurd amount of floors. PV is if you get on the elevator I'm going like floor 51 get on the elevator and you hear for number two damage where one flight of stairs that errors from people like the luxury takes time being down for doing that every day if we could. The thing that grinds mixed picnics and skiers and just a story in the interview, why do we even get to the Panthers crap. Why I get we have to because we have people's exports talk around sports got Mick telling stories about their LaMonica rights to naming rights to naming him after Darrell LaMonica that grinding on millennial's think about right. Both criticizing the highlight of the interview, not the cow I would stop. He works with others negative about their life.

I guess he could be smart boards to many force you to a building you like.

I'm taking the stairs from stair Walker how many floors it really elevator three floors more than three floors for me.

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I'm just melting away clothes along and got her drunk driving with Josh Graham yesterday examining the number of our leading practically every category I thought I might as well start the grass Heisman campaign for one not believing that he's actually going to win, but I believe this season for Wake Forest is less about trying to win the college football playoff trophy game rightfully earned respect regionally and nationally and even individually with Jamie Newman so I'm happy to leave that chore on top of that we are talking with me at times of ESPN when she joined us and she said that she has no problem begin the national face of the John Woolford Wolfpack and pushing that this got the former Deke is somebody who can make it as an NFL pastor. One day she liked what she saw from him and the Rams preseason David Hale covers the ESI covers the ACC about as closely as anybody dies at ESPN and he's been putting out these numbers with Jamie Newman and we been talking to you dated for a while now about Wake Forest and wondering why people are given this team enough credit. Are you going to help us lead on a national scale. This grassroots Jamie Newman Heisman campaign you know them better for him to greatness on them that I feel like a bunny but I will go pick up that mantle. Yes, as long as I possibly can.

If it goes to Morgan critical picnics is funny. Wake Forest and started pouring no two of the last three previous years and none of those years turned out to be ultimately special seasons for Wake Forest but this week it always seems like Boston College is a massive game for Wake Forest this game to be on the road in Chestnut Hill, the road team has wrought 15 times in a row in this series but just looking largely at the ACC viewed to be the second best team in the league right now Wake Forest or Virginia.

I probably lean toward. I would love you but Wake Forest often have I think a team that could fairly be Clemson 10 times that it can challenge them to think vastly improved from where one time a year ago but it is still a work in progress there still lack of depth there. Virginia, on the other hand I think it often still figuring out its identity beyond the fact that got a very good quarterback right will learn a lot more about them this weekend game, but the defense I think they can certainly go toe to toe with almost anybody in the ACC. Their linebackers are good because there really good choice on the backend really like to know. I think it goes to show you to go to bronco Mendenhall and Dave Clawson who are I don't think they're very similar to each other but are definitely similar in that they are not similar to anybody else. There unique grant of coaching their own unique way of building a football program under both having success that it places that we are not known for success of a football field or at least not recently. So I think the two answers I believe Virginia for the moment, but I like deserve the right to change my mind as early as five seconds it's ESPN Stephen Hale with this on sports and try one of the best Twitter handles. You'll find out there. David Hale, joint on Twitter. He had a story today ESPN.com inside Clemson switch from Kelly Bryant the Trevor Lawrence one year later, in addition to that last week you had a really neat story on Dabo Sweeney and how other coaches even though they haven't coached under him had been influenced by Dabo and what you described to be the Dabo way in related news, Dabo Sweeney will be a guest on this show at this time tomorrow.

What's the biggest misconception that looking at your story today that people have about what happened with Clemson and Kelly Bryant one year ago a lot. I think it lined up and there which is reasonable that what work you are a Clinton who angry that he left a reasonable take, you probably were full on team Dabo ever again Kelly and all that you were somebody Kelly Bryant Fanon and appreciative of the fact that he had one last year to make something of himself in college football to hopefully play the next level and is only path to do that then you are on team Kelly I don't think that there was really keen though I knew the truth of the matter is Kelly made a decision that was best for him. Dabo great it was best for the team. Neither of them are close to apologize for it. I don't think you feel bad about it is certainly not the way I think you have the script at the end of Kelly Bryant career Clemson for certifying that in the phantom world everybody sort of picked sides and I don't get the sense that there is a huge amount of animosity between the two side internally and then again, I think Kelly commented immediately afterwards and get a fair shake on things I would get are not ideal. Dabo, I think, is not real you.

Last, the nature of the beast goes individual versus team dynamic but I think in the long Kelly Bryant is still very tight with a lot of guys on the Clemson team is a Clinton that are still Dabo got the like. Kelly Bryant still thinks very highly of the person is still rooting for Kelly Bryant long-term. So I think one big take away. We all probably made a bigger deal out of it, then the guys on the inside really good in terms of how they felt about each other, shock, and the media never happened. Kelly Bryant no, he was the first major player to capitalize on the new rule from last year. The redshirt rule that would allow you to get to maintain your eligibility if you don't play in any more than four games now are seeing that this week with the Eric King led the AAC, the American in touchdowns last year with 50 under Dana Fulkerson now in his first year.

These essentially looking at this year and saying I were one and three. I'd rather play next season and hopefully will be more competitive in your two under Dana holder said are you bothered by the way, the redshirt rule was being exercised by upperclassmen. It will clearly I am bothered by it because it's problematic. But I also think that the rule in general had 100 positive impact. You know you can probably go down the line players to benefit some degree from it and the offset is the cost of a couple guys really through two years work talking about less than 10 guys who have utilized the rule in this way, one way or another that to compare the year came Kelly Bryant situation is a little problematic.

What Kelly did was make a decision in which he really didn't have a lot of alternatives not the case. The devil offered to let him stay with not like him. I also realistically look at it would cover Lawrence got hurt in week five. You really going to guideline and not play.

I find that hard to believe. So the realistic outcome. The didn't have a lot of alternative that's like comparing them to jail.

In her last year, is not entirely fair because Jaelyn still have the opportunity to move on and play one more year with Kelly without so that's one thing that you look at the deer kink situation and end. I preface this by saying I think there's more going on here were being told about comments from Derek's father. I've had conversations with Dana. Holder said in and did not come away thinking like that he's super stoked on PRK doing negative, but the guy who have to year the deer Last year I did not come away thinking boy really got a quarterback is excited about the whole idea well started off bad luck left with packet in Hank for next season. That's a huge problem not your decision. Certainly if the coaching staff save the rest of your guys what they guys are still lining up going out there playing and you're simply telling them we've all put on the season.

That to me is a bigger issue that will utilize thing that happened more that I do have a problem with because it's not so much about what the guys are doing. You can make the case that all right will is doing a thing that will benefit in long-term program long-term or tiered thing think guys are going out there long enough, every week and putting your bodies a long time to try and win football games. I think this is a terrible message if that's the case it's ESPN's David Allen Twitter out to David Hill join read the story inside Clemson switching Kelly Bryant Lawrence one year later Clemson getting sent for North Carolina this weekend will be at that game Saturday at 334 let's go. It is one hit wonder day. Do you have a favorite one hit wonder did that I have so many I could pretty much just make like a bona fide playlist nothing.one hit wonder and be filled, you know, I think my default answer would be. Come on Eileen by Decker's midnight runners nice exceptional one Bismarck he's just a friend would kind of come up with like my 90s favorite that we have a little bittersweet company beforehand. Here and leads to what I think is the most fascinating of 90s coincidental trivia and that at the same time there was a band called and a band called the verve pipe. They were not the same band out one hit wonder effectively the same time, you'll tell your children years now. They will believe the freshman we forget that. David, thanks for being with us will talk soon.

David joint to sit around all day talk sports. Yes we feel great about Josh Graham Sandler might be in line to get his first trailer yesterday on plaintiff's dramatic role jewelry dealer trying to pay off and has his merchandise taken from him now is a lot of others that he has to try and do to obtain to make up his debt pay his debt and also obtain his merchandise.

You look at this trailer Kevin Garnet is the playing a serious role to while also playing himself in the movie Mike France SIs dropping an F bomb in the trailer. So what else could you ask for celebrity cameos and a serious role for Sandler, it is time for Adam Sandler to get an Oscar's nomination Oscar worthy performances in the past. No I'm not talking about the comedies that is done in the awful Netflix movies that he's done in the last decade or so, but the Academy has largely overlooked. I think the Oscar worthy dramatic performances because of the other less lower row type of movies will say that Sandler has selected the last 2 1/2 decades or so. I'm thinking about the mire with stories which I thought was very good.

Netflix either. Last year the year before that punchdrunk love the Paul Thomas Anderson movie from 1213 years ago. I thought he should of been nominated for an Oscar. It wasn't a big Oscar's year and he was tremendous in that movie.

If you think Adam Sandler to take on a serious dramatic role. You watch punchdrunk love excellent movie, but this perception is a strong one around Sam. They do this guy is a clown and it's a strong perception. I believe the Academy has for him because of Billy Madison and happy Gilmore and water boy and grown-ups in the awful Netflix movie is movie called the cobbler out there. Stay far away from the cobbler welcome. But there are other directors and actors that have overcome some of these perceptions and done great critical work, critically acclaimed work actually one Oscar Who is putting out the big short and vice the last five or six years for a long stretch. He was just known as the guy who did stepbrothers and did comedies. We've seen people take this route before it looks like this joker movie is going to be critically acclaimed when walking Phoenix.

Todd Phillips was known before as the guy who did the hangover movies so was going from that to directing, walking Phoenix doing so in such a way that you're getting critical attention. Matthew McConaughey he was pigeonholed for about a decade as just be in the heart. The guy was and how to lose a Guy in 10 days. Ghost of girlfriends past the list of movies that he's been in failure to launch McConnaughhay. He was seen as the ROM calm guy until he wasn't Dallas buyers club. He broke through their and has done great dramatic performance work Sandler. This could be the movie for him and what a scene that would be if Sandler is giving an Oscar's speech if he's even married nominated. It's just gonna look strange to see Sandler in that place because we've never associated that guy in the work he dies without Academy just never done that yet. Give it a shot. I'm extremely skeptical that he can pull off a drama scene punchdrunk love have nothing punchdrunk.

My gosh Paul Thomas Anderson. It's a tremendous movie was awesome, and he's done this a few times the mire with stories. I believe Sandler could do it will more basin on the fact that out of the 20+ comedies that is going over the past two decades he literally playing Adam Sandler acting as Adam Sandler and Adam Sandler movie.

Literally the characters never changes. Just as outfits do.

But he that and so maybe you can. It is a confounding thing in the 2000 Adam Sandler is somehow the attractive guy to all these beautiful women. I didn't think that was very believable and 51st dates all the just repairing the beginning of the movie.

There's a sequence of all these women are just falling in love with Adam Sandler coming times as he had Jennifer Aniston's love interest in a movie. I mean giving her very more. No, I mean Jennifer Aniston coming times. He had Jennifer Anthony's had her several times line the Brooklyn Decker movie. There was the movie on Netflix that just came murder Esther yeah not worth your time yes to Pat and we thought all the pretty prepunched it was more Drew Barrymore was Aniston yeah that's what you do if you're more, it's the wedding singer. It's blended most recently it's 51st dates and there's one on forgetting. I mean if your source of your sorrows, your own studio.

Josh and you can make your own movies that's kind of the way to go right to get the starlets out there that you have a crush on the starlet.

I have a crush on right now when there is a question what is the answer to that question was with the actress I think is what what is the starlet going for a while. But that would be the way to get to know her and you know having a role with Mary OTR back to the answer the question always had a thing for Mary what she and she was in the dark night.

First one is an inception okay but I don't think she would qualify as being a starlet by any means. Now I don't think things that seems like it's the right answer, but maybe worth having the wrong discussion here were spending a lot of time on Sandler, Kevin Garnet is playing a role in this. Let's think about a world not work. Adam Sandler is giving an Oscar's speech but no as a supporting cast member Kevin Garnet is winning our Oscars would get on stage and he would yell all floor years ago. Why Garnet actually met anything that's not that the Celtics won the title creating really does big three template that preceded Lebron and bosh and Wade joining together know what he actually was talking about and thinking about on that floor is 11 years from now, I'm being a movie with all would be funnier if you think is possible or if he just came to my room, said I told you don't find me the Kevin Garnet sound is talking about going to war and talking about. He took the analogy a little too far. That is worth finding. Maybe even the Craig Sager interview where he told in the strip but naked can't keep anything Barnett burn all of it. There a lot of Kevin Garnet lines with people if have to and I think for nostalgia's sake, I'd be game for that but as Desmond Johnson tries to find that remember the feel-good story we brought to you last week regarding the Iowa State student who pulled up the beer sign hey I need my dear replenished college game day.

We thought that was a very cool thing and they raised about $50,000. He did on his bimbo page. Use it for beer. He didn't use it for his school instead he went to the rival school Iowa and gave it to the Children's Hospital. They had the cool tradition at the end of the first quarter with a wave at the Children's Hospital with one of the coolest things you could do and it's a great thing that this Kit Carson king 24 years old. Going back to his school thought the Moy register found two racist tweets that he sent out eight years ago as a 16-year-old. And now he has to send out the statement that I have no recollection of it and rereading it today. Years later I see it was an attempt at humor was offensive and hurtful.

I am embarrassed and stunned to reflect on what I thought was funny when I was 16 years old.

I want to sincerely apologize." How awful is this person king should have to apologize here is 16 years old when he said the tweets out cancel culture has gotten has gone way too far. Who's the person I want to know who it is that thanks okay this guys doing something great. Something awesome for children.

They raised $1 million I mentioned the 50 grand that they raised well, it's been matched by other corporations and now it's gotten close to $1 million for the Children's Hospital. There is somebody who decides to look at the coursing to get see what is tweeting out as a teenager and not even just a teenager. Somebody who isn't a legal adult. At that point we don't criminalize people the same way until they're 18 years old. We should be forcing guys to apologize. Eight years after the fact what they said that when they were 16. It's the same way I feel about all the Kevin Hart garbage is the same way I feel about a lot of things were holding our sensibilities today in 2019 were holding people in the past. In our past comments to this standard and that's dangerous what you're talking about the lady that sing the national anthem at the wood up your flyers games for many years, who had a statue that is no longer allowed to stand because of what she did in 1931, which at the time was just a satire song that was written by an African-American man but today is seen as to offensive were just looking at his present well that's something I want to fly today.

We did that to superstars in Hollywood in the 60s and 70s look the comment that they had back then that public but no one had an issue with that.

Then we look at all cancel this person can't can't have that anymore and were doing this to someone who's just fundamentally trying to do good. Maybe just applaud the fact this guy raised $1 million for children in a hospital in Iowa bait maybe don't dive into his throat tweets eight years ago when he 16 and for some to apologize. Just applaud the good thing versus try to dive through and find something bad.

Do you have the Kevin Garnet South on mom's house alone. 16 sounds on this loan may miss launch a missile will hear that the war man I'm a soldier get ready for a game but I feel like he took it a step to four. Funny enough, that's actually how when people ask how you get ready for the radio show.

This is how I answer the question right here.

Someone said they came up to me hey Josh what are you doing to get ready for the shop on mom's house alone, and 16 sounds as the miss launch missiles will the Dixie classic fair by the way, is coming up at the Winston-Salem Salem Fairgrounds October 4 to the 13th.

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Nightly will not make it into the KG acceptance speech you think no engaging, anything is possible. So that's exactly right. Anything is possible, including Adam Sandler nomination for an Oscar's I'm excited about this movie uncut Jim you are listening to W STS Winston-Salem WC LG Greensboro WPC in Burlington W MFR Highpoint does signal together make up sports on triad you can try getting your sports music talk somewhere else. My life sucks already.

Thank you silly later, right here drive with Josh Graham records and Ron Rivera deserved the game on Sunday, believing in, but he is also responsible for the multi-day smearing new cycle that we see the last two days as well. Panthers really let cam down over the last they made us think that he was okay when he wasn't against the Rams and against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers so when were evaluating how camps performing were doing so inaccurately and unfairly because were not privy to all the information that's hanging him out to dry and that's unfair for him. Any Trask was writing for the athletic former Oklahoma or Oakland Raiders. Excuse me executive, and she said is much that this advantage that coaches think they're getting by keeping information close to the vest, not disclosing injuries. It's overblown. I don't believe disclosing injuries to be a big disadvantage. 14 sketchy people in my view are also weaker people look at some of the other perceived public disadvantages that have been peddled by coaches in college football, basketball and other sports years and years and years and years and will be the case for decades on it. The next few years. Locker room access without the been told in the media becomes the college sport. Don't were not allowed in the locker room. It's too invasive. Nothing good will come of this type of access can't let the media and what will they possibly learn what were they possibly write about talk about on the radio and on television.

So instead was gonna pull the players bring them out to a room and everybody will get the same stuff that one time control the information a little bit more.

You know doesn't do that okay and do anybody to question the success of the all-time winningest coach in college basketball thoughts that keep me worried about this more than anybody else. If you're that successful. If you have those type of interest surrounding your program of Zion bleeping Williamson in your locker room and RJ Barrett and people from here to Timbuktu want to cover the team and they let people in, and give the access I asked Coach K's handler John Jackson about this and one of the head.

Communication people active. Why is this something that you do. Nobody else in the league doesn't is as long as coach K spirits could happen because he views this is making these guys better pairing them for the MBA but some say all can't let him in the locker room. This is a disadvantage for our guys in football, making the coordinators available publicly.

Having them talk about what's happening the week coming up background. I don't know if he did this in Texas but he's doing it now with the long going J Bateman. They speak to the media right after Matt Brown does on Monday. It is a whole thing because background is nobody's doing battle sweetie makes Brent Venables and Jeff Scott available for comment.

Each week, and it usually is an hour in our and 1/2 same Clemson's not getting a great advantage using Clemson's working at a dissident I don't think so. When I was covering high school sports.

I just remember there were so many coaches it was often the coaches of the worst teams who protected information like it's the nuclear codes. I remember I was on the air.

West Durham one time and was set. Yeah I hated doing high school games or high school games with the toughest prepare for because coaches don't give you anything as it is the voice of the Atlanta Falcons of former voice of the Georgia Tech yellow jackets I care what happening with East Forsyth to give that information to somebody else, particularly visiting coat. No, I was told long, long ago, and this is from Lincoln, Riley was the office according to release Carolyn. He told me a long time ago. Josh football is not about tricking people. It's not about deceiving them. The people on the other side. They are smart these coaches they know what they're doing.

They make a ton for the most times it's about being true to yourself, recognizing what you do and executing that better than they do their people think football is about trying to trick people. It isn't what you think your tricking with these injury reports after telling people cam is right when he's not Buccaneers.

They saw that almost all that he didn't run against the Los Angeles Rams.

What really did Carolina get there I'd say it was minimal. I'd say the advantage you get from that is far less then what you get. On the other and how much it cost.

Cam Newton publicly if the pampers were honest from the jump and addressed it sooner.

Cam is leading today's national news cycle people are talking about Sports Illustrated to ESPN all over the place cam that was done. What's the future for the Carolina Panthers that is happening today. If you're honest from the jump, and you put out the proper information rather than trying to trick the Rams Buccaneers by being coy with the injury report.

I'll say it again sketchy people or weaker people. They closet three consecutive winning seasons. He's had it wake.

He's the only coach I know that opens up preseason camp to the media allows us to see whatever is what is behind nothing is a winning program. He's willing to show what he's doing. He doesn't mind and I respect people like that who art getting bogged down with the nonsense thinking that just because Bill Bella checked out here not saying anything to the media. That's the way you go about winning.

As if that is connected to the success New England's hat who it's been a rough day when it comes to some of the overreactions the care nationally. People tend to miss the details versus local reporters local radio shows, who covered the team day-to-day. There are a ton of people in the national media big-name who are tying cam Newton's foot injury to the shoulder that he sustained a shoulder concern. He's had in 2017. In 2008 there tying these two together, even though cam Newton has never really hurt his foot and maybe have one other time in his career, but nobody is concerned about cam Newton's foot going into the he's third. He's not 37-year-old big Ben Roethlisberger his foot can recover he can still run pretty darn well for the next handful of years. I'm not concerned about that and were seeing a lot of people lump these things together as if the related cam shoulder hands foot when the truth of the matter is they are not related at all between the show exports of dryad 33671 601 and on today show John to the producer of this program what you got on cam's foot. Actually he he has heard his foot before he had came into the league with an injured ankle. He heard in Auburn is Lester there yet surgery on it and left ankle, so it's not even the same injury, but he has had injury to wrinkles out of Florida right to his lower extremities had certain injury and how it's the lower body injury lower by thinking of a injury reports hockey if you get hit in the face with the pot and it cuts your that is the same as if you hurt your shoulder it will be listed as upper body injury that you haven't hockey it's just garbage. I don't think it does.

Teams that much of the service being coy about the injury itself is a slap in the face of those preparing the Bill O'Brien and the Texans if campus plans. We can't see the tape from Tampa and Arizona, or city, Tampa and LA to see that cam Newton is limping around in that maybe cam is hundred percent with the foot because of the way he was walking off against the patriots. What service does that come Brady is been on the patriots injury report for like eight years and counting mistaken. They throw mother every week, almost like a mocking shot at the NFL for having them do this in the first place. So is attached to the careful Sunday 1230 we cares about the interim report, even if they were being truthful what you say were in a world where everybody's being truthful is telling the honest truth about cam's foot Sean McVeigh he's going to think I want to stop because he actually is going to run cam is telling us that is what's injured and that is to be limited as it is is run telling us the truth is easy to try to just the other way is no way anyone does pay that much attention to this interim report only exist for lossmaking family reason to tear will never admit that that's the injury report teams on the injury report players that want the injury report. Reason is because how much money is generated when it comes to gambling based on these reports a lot of people to do but stop it but I want to tear things up around here in a good way to tear things up is this could work any day. If you're having a tough day and you need something to put a smile on your face. A good way to do that surefire is just go to Mike Leach's Twitter. We've heard from Coach Leach many different times what was the most recent example we heard from Coach Leach. He was comparing mascots in the pack 12 calling Harry Potter fans Harry Potter activists.

They need to figure out what kind of powers the Sun Devil has that's enjoyable him talking about marriage and preparing for a wedding him talking about cargo shorts. Many Mike Leach sounds that you can pull something such as this person walks with mystical powers the sun will consider that I may say the Wildcats.

The Trojan is does he have or surgery on foot. Does he have a bone marrow or just to sort the brewing definitely formidable than the other pair up there Now. The tray I mentioned that trees can get chopped down sinless for you to go with the burden somebody might compactor something I don't know if it's excellent analysis try to figure out what the best mascot is in the pack 12. Who would win that battle right now and it's a good 20 brings up the sun that we don't know what powers they possess. We need to find is Harry Potter activists to figure that out Mike Leach. The point I wanted to make on twitter.

He's an excellent follow-up and it will put a smile on your face every day. If you just go and see what he has to say. He tweeted an image. It was a meme that says watches the Food Network one time and then quote I made a purebred not spread with great relish reduction paired with a pro se bun."

And it's a photo of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. That's the type of content you can find from the Washington state notes. In addition to that he's posting pictures from like a mountain. There's this community center in Indian Hills that says when you're down by the sea and annealed bites your knee that's Amore Mike Leach's Twitter account is reposting this daily express story where Antarctica scientists apparently found bizarre creatures. 3500 miles underneath ice then it's nothing like the scene before Mike Leach jumped to the conclusion San.

What a week. Both UFOs and unknown deep-sea creatures. I wonder what else is up and down there, that's a dream just like tomorrow at 330 Deborah Sweeney's good to be on the show but that comes to be expected with us being in ACC country data is getting set to face north Carolina this weekend on Dreamcast to have on the show. People asked that we would like to have on presidents which you like to have Tom Brady Hall of Famer's Michael Jordan. Would you like to have him no Mike Leach is number one on the list among people.

I would love to have on this radio show so it's an open invitation to get Mike Leach on the show you're listening to W STS with Dale and WC are triggering spread of APC in Burlington WMF or Highpoint. The signals making up sports pub triad