Malachi Toney Injury News Shakes Notre Dame-Miami Betting Odds

I had asked Greg, it seems a little suspicious that in a matter of two and a half, three hours yesterday, we heard that Malachi Tony twisted his ankle in practice, but because of the magnitude of the game, had every intention of giving it the old college try, Greg was ready to go. And then two hours later, we found out that, ooh, on second thought. Surgery and hopefully he'll be back by the playoffs, which is the biggest load. I think I just don't like being do not spit my face and tell me it's raining because again, when you're in bed and you're doing business in the sports book markets or prediction markets, that kind of information is key. And the fact that you let us down one path. Switch gears, two hours later, the market obviously was all over the place yesterday. You made a call here, a couple of things. I'm very impressed with how fast you got this answer here. My thought is that they have known this, and this whole thing was a ruse yesterday. So I was partly right, by the way. No, you're right and you're wrong. No, you're right and you're wrong. You're right in the sense that somebody knew that Malachi Tony... Uh, was hurt or not feeling right before that practice. You are correct in that sense. For you to say that Malachi Tony got hurt in practice and now all of a sudden has surgery two hours later, doesn't make sense. Correct. You're correct. That adds up. That checks out. But this is where, this is where I got to say it's, if you want to take it further, that's on you. I'm not going to do that because if the player. Joe, I see this in sports all the time, and I deal with these guys all the time, and I can give you examples of this year with the Marlins, too, of guys that don't say anything. Players don't want to admit that they're hurt. Some guys love telling you that they're hurt, and then they miss five weeks, and they get paid, and they don't care. I mean, this happens all the time. It's a 50-50 shot. This player clearly had an issue of some kind going into this week, coming off last week against North Carolina. I believe, again, from somebody that I trust, and by the way, take everything with a grain of salt because this is the way that life is. The idea potentially is that he, the player, did not disclose any kind of severity as far as being hurt and just went about his business. And then Wednesday's practice yesterday exposed the fact. That he was hurt a lot more serious than what was led on initially, which by the way, credit to the player for wanting to play and wanting to get through it and wanting to go, which is where you heard some of those quotes that you gave. Oh, he's going to go. He's going to try to push through it in the end. Yes, it does appear that Tony was hurt previously. But also, I believe that is a very plausible answer for a player that's just trying to give it everything that he can to go, not really fully disclosing how hurt he is, goes out to practice, can't run, can't walk, oh, falls down, something. All right, we've seen enough of this. Obviously, he's hurt more than what we thought. Let's shut him down. To me, very reasonable in terms of the end. Listen, I agree. If it wasn't a multi-billion dollar industry where millions upon millions of dollars were at stake, and again, these aren't just high school kids where, aw, shucks, he was just, you know, the poor guy who tried to be a trooper. No, you're paying him seven figures is what you're paying him. I can assure you somebody, that's why I don't buy it. Somebody knew what was going on with him the entire time, whether or not the team, the organization, the NIL syndicates, whatever it was, they were all trying to figure it out as to, well, how do we handle this? The idea that they did not know he wasn't going to be available for this Notre Dame, Craig, and this goes back to my point. Millions, there will be no more handle on a game this week than the handle that is going to be at the sports books on Notre Dame and Miami. And yet, you can't sell me on the fact that there were a handful of people who knew exactly what was going on and knew he was never, ever going to be playing against Notre Dame. And they knew it on Monday. They didn't know it yesterday. And that's my problem, Greg, is that A handful of people knew whether he kept it to himself or not. I don't buy it. Absolutely, I do not. I do not. Even, no way. Absolutely not. It's not happening here. But you guys get to make up your own mind. I'm still taking the seven and a half, by the way. It doesn't make a damn bit of difference whether he plays or not.