SEC No Longer Expected to Discuss Removing LSU from Conference

0:00Early morning on a Manhattan sidewalk, a shooting caught on surveillance video. It was an assassination style killing, and everybody saw it. A new podcast series from ABC Audio in 2020 goes inside this captivating case. I'm ABC News legal analyst Brian Buckmeyer. Listen to burden of proof Luigi Mangione, wherever you get your podcasts. Pardon the interruption, but I'm Mike Wilbony, NFL season starts tonight, Tony. You have football fever. I'm Tony Cornheye, so maybe does it give you skabies on your inner thigh? I don't even want to consider that before I try to concentrate. I give a national TV audience my best. I don't want to even consider that question. Isn't that a great word, skabies? Never heard you know immediately the way it is said. I thought it would be skabies. And when it's a different, can't be a skabies.

1:02Bad. Welcome to PTI Boys and Girls in today's episode, the NFL season kicks off. LSU stands down and the NCAA decides which clock refs should follow. But we begin today with last night's late tennis match, and I do mean late at the US Open. American Ben Shelton had the greatest performance of his life, beating seven-time major champion in the two-seat here Carlos Alcaraz. The match went five sets ending in a tiebreaker that Shelton won 10-7. Wilbony, watch the whole thing. You were raps. Sotic about it and text to me. Shelton called it, quote, epic, and quote, incredible. What would you call it? Tony, I'm going to quote myself to you at about three o'clock in the morning. I'm not going to say it's the single greatest match I've ever seen. But I'm not going to say I've ever seen better. And for me, that history goes back, as you know, because a lot of our history watching tennis, as we were little kids, is the same. It goes back to Ash and Smith, Morgan Mac and a row, Morgan Connors, Lindell and Sanprice and Agassi and Federer and Adal and Joker.

2:05And it goes throughout the last one. That's just the men's side. It goes back 60 years. Tony, and I watched all this stuff. I watched so much of it live on television, like you, you and I watched a lot of it live in person, particularly the US Open Over the Decades. And Tony, I was nuts. I was crazed watching this because you watch it for a while. And you just think, wow, there's some stretches or some moments. And then it's not stretches and moments. It's the whole damn thing. And the power and the precision and the athleticism. I don't know that we've ever seen that from two dudes going at it, like they're going at it. And I was amazed. Yes, I stayed up the whole time. 3.33 AM or something like that. I'm not sure the last text I sent you. Yeah. Tony, look, there's not going to be another match as good as that in this tournament. There's no chance. Okay, so my word is different than yours.

3:05My word is way too late. Okay, I hear it was a great match. I didn't see any of it. It started after 11 o'clock Eastern time. It finished, as you said, at 3.33 Eastern time. You're the only one I know in the East who watched all of it. I'd love to have watched it. I couldn't do it. It was over after midnight, California time. Well, after midnight. And this is a television show. What are the ratings? It's a great match. What are the ratings like at 2 in the morning and 3 in the morning? I mean, to me, I understand it's a hard fix. I think you have to try to do something here. I mean, you can't start matches that late and end them that late. And it's the perfect storm, Mike. Because the Teopomatch goes fivefold. Yeah. And the Pagula match goes threefold. Threefold. And then Shelton and Alcaraz. They go five. Do you use both of them? What do I notes say here? Do you use, and by the way, this is what I'm going to get to.

4:05This is what I'm going to get to. Because they waited over an hour to put Pagula on the court after Teopo was done. Was that reasonable? I get it. People buy. I'm going to go for a while here. People buy specific seats to see specific dinner of the week. Yeah. But can't you have concurrent matches? Can't you put someone on one of the other big stadium courts? Here's what happened, Mike. Here's what happened. The greatest moment that I saw last night was when Teopo beat Mikkelsen. And they come to center court and they hugged. And Teopo literally gives Mikkelsen a shoulder to cry on. That was tremendous. That was unbelievably compassionate. But the greatest match in the tournament, I missed all of it. Greatest match made me here. I missed all of them. Let me ask you a little quick. Teopo and Shelton, I'm not going to ask you to go winner. Who was the crowd going to be behind in that match?

5:07Teopo. Because of these been around the competition. Yeah, well, that's certainly part of it. That was a great and tender moment. That was really, really wonderful. But again, I missed the match. Yes you did. I mean, I mean, I missed a match where a kid beats a great, great, great player and gets him at exactly the right time because he hadn't played since April. Because he missed the French and he missed Wimbledon. The only time he's going to get him and he got him. Was my highlight package pretty good? Did I feel you in person? Yes. Well, for not seeing it. Well, I read it this morning because it was, it was over almost when I was getting up. It's too late, Mike. It's, it's, it's unfair to the sport. You know, it's unfair. I hate to have the players on this. And I know that people wear it as a badge of honor that they were there. But the rest of us though. Oh, the rest of us love it. I love it. Yeah. Let's move to Lane Kiffin caving on adding pros to his roster. The LSU coach filled his final roster spots.

6:09Finally last night with two regular old college football players, which means former NFLers, Dequeon Wright and Xavier and Harris will not play for the Tigers. This came amid threats from the SEC to kick LSU out of the conference. Sure. Tony, does that mean the drama's now over? Okay. The drama is never over if Lane Kiffin is still in the play. I ain't snot. This is what happened. Lane Kiffin did a stare down with the SEC and Lane Kiffin blinked. Okay. You know, I mean, it's okay that that happened. LSU smartly because they heard they could be fine. They could be suspended. They could be kicked out. That's off the table now. Yeah. But it wasn't off the table yesterday in the day before. And LSU smartly said we're getting off this bus right now. Now Mike, you know, I am in favor of these kids playing a fifth year. This year, not next year. Right. I think they got holes.

7:09Reason. I don't think they would have gone to the pros if they had a fifth year. So they're not draft choices. They were going in there as free agents. If they're pros, they're marginal pros. They could make a lot more money in college. People will say that Lane Kiffin lost this. I would say what exactly did he lose? He has coached one game and as he likes to say without the pros, he beat Davos Sweeney 51 to 10 and caused people to wonder if there's a regime change in Clemson. So he didn't lose. That's what he wanted me to lose. This is all about the SEC deciding to force a little bit. They want to talk. They want to talk. That's what Lane Kiffin about the head a few times. They were never going to kick LSU out. And colleges in their conferences to just lie every day when they wake up. They were never kicking out LSU. LSU is what we call a charter member of the South Eastern Conference. 94 years if my math is correct. So they were going anywhere. They did this to say we need some institutions to do this. Some institutional control because you people and your basketball team

8:13which is trying to bring guys back who've been in NBA uniforms or at least pro uniforms. We don't want this. And so we're going to do what we can to create because the NCAA has none either. Some institutional control over you. And it was enough. And it was enough. The new president of the governor just appointed about three months ago. So this is all local politics. They were never doing any questions to LSU. Let me ask you a question. I agree with you. They wouldn't kick them out. But let's say they kicked them out. How long would it take for the big 10 to say, you know what? Now we're in the West and now we're in the East. Let's go south and get them. Let's go south and get them. Because you're a big money maker. They are. Let's move to the NFL which opens tonight with a rematch of last year's Super Bowl teams. New England and Seattle. This one is at Seattle. Seattle won the Super Bowl and see in a clara last February 29 to 30. That game was not close. Seattle was up 19 nothing in the fourth quarter. Will on which team are you more bullish on for this year? The Patriots or the sea hawks? The sea hawks.

9:13I was bullish on the sea hawks last year. And I'm not one of these people. Like apparently half the people on get up and first take who appear. Who say that not only are the Rams going to win. They're going to go undefeated. They're going to win every game by double digits. And they might not be scored upon. Which is just laughable. It doesn't allow for any. We're going to be able to win. And then we're going to be able to score it upon. Which is just laughable. It doesn't allow for any reasonable, you know, reflection of sports to take over. Like over performance and under performance and injuries and lack of motivate. Whatever it is. I'll take Seattle to win the NFC West right now over the Rams. The Rams are in the division. I'm sorry. Seattle's in the division, which is going to prepare it Tony. Because they're going to get the Rams twice. And I don't think the Cardinals are half bad. So they're going to be tested. I don't know about the Patriots. The Patriots have Buffalo. But they also got Miami and the Jets. So usually that means powder puff football. So I'm going to go with Seattle, which returns a lot of people.

10:14Not kind of the Walker, not Kobe Bryant. Who now is of course with my bears and injured. But I'm going to go with Seattle. Yeah, I mean, I'm with you on this. It's interesting to me. Seattle won the Super Bowl last year. And in the last month, the month and a half, the only thing I've heard about the NFL is either that Aaron Donald will make them unbelievably superior and they are a Super Bowl team with the Rams. Or that Dallas has improved its defense so much that they are now a Super Bowl team. I'm not either worried about the Seattle Seahawks. Right. I haven't heard what it is as if that game didn't happen. Or it happened at 333 in the morning with Alkaraz and Shelton. You know, I too am more bullish on Seattle. I think that their quarterback proved everything he had to prove in the playoffs. He threw five touchdown passes. They didn't have any interceptions. I know they lost 10 of Walker, but that is a replaceable position in the last 10 years running back. And I'm not as high on on on New England for a couple of reasons here.

11:14One they have an easy schedule last year was graded out as a third easiest schedule. Red's going to be much harder this year. And two, I think it's fair to wonder if all the off-season stuff with my grade ball will have some sort of effect in the light. It's fair to wonder that. I will say this Mike, they were both 14 and three last year. I don't think either will be 14 and three this year. But I think Seattle will come a little closer. I do. Let's take a break. When we come back, my gnats and Wilbons Cubs both were saves last night. Which is a lot of fun. We came back to STMUSIC Jr. He Abrams, spoke CSs last night. Which was worse, this is easy, kids. The guardians, the Diamond Back were likely to hold on till League's final while carts left. Tony, you've got tolaughs. Why do theigmatist players of the U.S.? All look like they participated in jail break. Why do they have to look like that? You've got to accused them of losing interest. Can you have a collar? It's time for Tossup to men enter.

12:19One man leaves, finishes the show, then immediately starts preparing for tomorrow's one-hour special because this is who he is and he cannot be chilled. What's first? Tossup, worst blown save last night. The nationals or the Cubs? This is so easy. This is the nationals. This is my team, not your team. Last night, the Washington Nationals blew their 38th save of the season. That set a new major league record. They have 15 more games to put that record out of reach. Their bullpen ERA is horrendous. It's 509. It's five. That's just awful. Last night, they're up four to one. Let me get my notes here. They're up four to one going into the bottom of the eighth at San Diego. They put in Jared Simpson, a young man who has pitched a total of four innings this year. What's the one thing Mike, you say to a reliever? Don't walk. Don't walk the first batter. Don't walk the first. Don't walk. That's right. Okay. Simpson faced three batters, walked all three.

13:19That's the end of the evening for Mr. Simpson. They then brought in Eric Tollman who had seen seven innings all year and when he finally got out of the inning, he had given up three hits. So three hits, four runs, that's lose five to four. This is the story of my life the last three months. I'm going to ask you one question. It'll be the story of everybody else's life, not just yours, Ralph Edwards. This is your life. This is tough. Ralph Edwards, whoa. Pretty good. Isn't it pretty good catch? Yes, very good. The nationals are going to make the playoffs this year. They are not. So to hell with the nationals, they're irrelevant. Now, the answer to this toss up question is the Cubs. Because the Cubs are leading, they get two runs. We're going to beat the Miz basically, essentially, for the second time in a week, okay? We go up three, one in the ninth. Carson Kelly comes off the bench to drive in two runs in a one-on-one game. We go to Jacob Webb. Jacob Webb gives up a base hit with two out and then Turyo Home Run, tie game, they win

14:22in the tenth. Look, I don't want to attack Jacob Webb, but here's what he's done. Two run walkoff home run he gave up in the ninth. Two run walkoff the next game in the ninth. Two run game tying home run in the ninth. He's the only Major League Baseball pitcher to allow a game tying or go ahead home run with two out in the ninth in three straight save appearances. Since the save became official in 1969, I had a big afro. You had a red afro. The Cubs are going to blow their season because we have no bullpen. Is your bullpen ERA 5? It doesn't matter what it is. What's next? Your team doesn't matter. What's next? Toss up. What's next? More likely to hold onto their league's final wild card slot. The Guardians or the Diamondbacks? Pay attention, kids, because I'm going to say something on ESPN that people don't like to say or hear. I don't know.

15:22I don't know the answer to this. The Guardians at the moment, Cleveland at the moment is one game up on Toronto and one and a half up on Texas. Cleveland in the last 10 is 6 and 4. Toronto 7 and 3, Texas is 6 and 4. Of the remaining schedule that they have, Cleveland is playing the 22nd strength of schedule. So it's a very easy schedule, but Toronto is playing the 24th. So I would fear Toronto if I was them. In the other league, Arizona is 6 and 4 lately. They are a half game ahead of San Diego. San Diego is 5 and 5 lately. But you know what, Mike? Every time I look at the Padres, I see a pretty good team. I see a team that hits a lot of opponents. I see a team with a really good closer as opposed to Chicago or Washington. And they've got that. And you know where that's going to end? The last three games of the season is Arizona at San Diego. Beef, baby. So I might take a small coin flip hoping it lands on San Diego. Yeah, Tony. I'm pretty much with you on that. His other thing, the Guardians have every chance to win an division.

16:24I am not rooting for this. I'm not one of those cup fans who hates the White Sucks. I don't. I'm going to root for anybody with Chicago on their chest. So I hope the White Sucks can hold off the Guardians and win that division. But two and a half, and it's not a lot. The Guardians have some wiggle room there in both ways to get into playoffs. Tony, if you're the Dodgers, you don't want to see San Diego or Arizona in the playoffs. The Dodgers in the last five years have been eliminated by each of those franchises. That's right. What I think you agree with me here. The Padres don't care about the Dodgers. They want to hear the Dodgers and the lineup that the Padres trot out there every night. Tony, maybe his glass from the save, but I think you agree with me. The lineup is almost equal when the Padres are going and they had that closer. I don't know. I mean, I think Philadelphia and the Dodgers have better lineups. I do, but I think the Padres are good. You saw it, everybody. I won. Let's take one last break still to come. The NCAA issues a new rule about what clock refs should follow.

17:28Please. So fraudulent. Aaron Judges upset after his return to the field. Yeah, I mean, I think he was upset because the manager took him out. Like he didn't play the whole game. I think Judge said he played half the game. He played more than half the game. He had three ABs. I think he played none of the damn games as June. Happy time. People happy 41st birthday, Matthew Slater. Slater was a receiver by trade, but mostly he was a great special teamer for the New England Patriots. The son of Hall of Famer Jackie Slater, Matthew Slater made 10 pro balls on special teams and was first team all pro twice. Slater played on three Super Bowl winners in the New England 2014, 2016 and 2018. Slater was a fifth round draft picked by New England in 2008 out of UCLA. And this is a great stat. Since 2012, Slater played 236 snaps on offense, four on defense, and 3569 snaps on special

18:34teams. Slater is now coaching high school football in Boston. Tony with that heavy concentration on specials, a doubt he can go to the Hall of Famer like his father, who is a truly an all time great. But you know the only father and son forget about owners in the in Canton and the Hall of Famer football, Ed and Steve Sabel. Who earned it? That's it. That's it. They deserve it. Yeah. Happy anniversary Chip Kelly on this day 13 years ago. The former Oregon coach made his NFL debut as Philadelphia Eagles head coach and Philly ran off 53 plays in a first half blitz of Washington, jumping to a 33-7 lead by the third quarter. And holding on to win 33-27. Kelly coached the Eagles, the 49ers, UCLA was offensive coordinator to Ryan Day at Ohio State back in the NFL for 11 games last year as OC to Pete Cowell and Las Vegas. Kelly is now OC at Northwestern. Yes sir. The Real Bons Wildcats put 34 points on 1.008 power South Dakota State in his debut. Next up, posting Colorado September 19th.

19:36Real Bons, right now we up or down on Chip Kelly. Two thumbs up Tony. His offense laid about 500 yards out there on Saturday. We got Deon coming up next. I don't know what's going to happen then, but Chip Kelly is doing what we hoped with that offense. We went out and got it. Happy trails to clock controversy at the end of college football games. The NCAA issued new guidance that the timing device to be followed going forward is the in-stadium scoreboard clock. During Saturday's Western Michigan Michigan game, referees had instead relied on a clock feed embedded into a replay monitor to grant the Wolverines time for a second shot at a Hail Mary that resulted in an improbable win. Under the new guidance, the game would have been over after the Wolverines first failed attempt and Western Michigan would have won. But the NCAA will not change the outcome because it's rules state that once the rep declares the game to be over, that score is final. So nice to the big 10, I want to be transparent now. Hey, we cheated Western Michigan's brains out.

20:39Let's become transparent so you can't get another old mistake like that again. What garbage? Let's go to the big fish. Let's do it. Let's do it. He wasn't happy after being pulled after six innings in his return, your thoughts. His replacement hit a three run homer after he was taken out. I love airing, judge. Two damn bad. Clark's school bull ZRA across seven stars with the Dodges is 295. You like that? It's a very funny, LA. Coco Goss beat Mira Andreva in three sets. You impressed? Yes, because it looked like in the first set, even into the second. She was going out of Coco Goss rolls on. Raise it brave tonight. You intrigued with that? I want to see if Akunya hits a home run and then makes fun of Tampa on the way around like he did the other day with someone who was filling. Yeah. And I'm messing as it sold your field tonight. Exciting? A little bit, because Levin Dowski, they got that matchup, Patoni. I care about what's going on. 90 miles away on I-94.

21:39Cubs, brewers again. Maybe if we get a lead of seven or eight runs, the bullpink can hold it that I wouldn't get on. We're out of time. We'll try to do better the next time, by the way. Happy Belvedin' birthday, Rosanne Sullivan. I'm Mike Wilbond. We are back on ESPN tomorrow at the special time. A five-easter, four-full 60-minute-fluggo-heads, 60-minute-to-PTA. Wilbond. Wilbond. Sources have told me you took a nap last night before the Alcoraz match.