Jim Rome on his Quinnen Williams interview - Aug 23, 2024

we're talking to Quinn Williams Quinn what about Aon Rogers I want to bring him up because you know Aon Ain speaks his mind he's not for everybody but I had iano Conor on the show this week Ian wrote a book about Aaron Ian said that literally every teammate that he's ever spoken to former or current loves the guy just absolutely loves the guy I'm curious what's Aaron like as a teammate and what do you make of him as a dude and a teammate oh he's an amazing person man but I'm just here to speak on College colors day so all right my man so why don't you go ahead and do that talk to me about College colors day go ahead Q College colors day what is that all about oh College color day is about getting ready to wear your gear for college and just um cheering on your team and different things like that my team is Alabama man so uh roll tied all the way my guys up got a new coach and um gonna rock out so all right so if they want more information on that is there a website or where would they go to get that uh you can go to college colors day.com I believe so um to get different things like that and just um Google it or look it up I believe so okay well that's the way to do it you're proud of your college I'm proud of my college I went to UC Santa Barbara I'm going to cut you loose k i get it it's a busy busy day quinnon Williams joining us on the program courtesy of college color day and that's where you go to get that information College colors day.com thank you thank you very much my guy have a great day thank you well that did not go as plann did it man Jet's gonna jet my man I I see I don't want to fight with a good guy like that so I'm not going to and I'm not going to say something when he's not here that I wouldn't say to his face and I'm not going to make a big deal out of that but memo to everybody who's got a pitch you got to play some ball you got to play some ball you cannot come on to pitch something and then when I ask you something about your team in a short segment by the way that you're late for you're 46 minutes late you come on if I ask you about your teammate you can't shake me off and say yeah but I'm not here to talk about that I'm here to talk about this I know very well what you're here to talk about and I always get to it I've done this 30 years nobody is better at that than me I will always get to your pitch always which is why I'm getting sick of pitches because things like that happen but if you're not going to talk about anything but the pitch which is already a bad bad play and bad form when I get to the pitch you should at least be ready to talk about the pitch Jet's going to Jet you know just I man I hate that that's such a a bad experience because I had such a good experience with him the last time I spoke with him and I know that's a good dude that's a great player and a good dude who just had a really bad appearance in the jungle remember to every athlete in the history of the world I understand that you have products if I say that you can come on and talk about the product I will ask you about the product product if you play a little ball you might even get two questions about the product I'm really good like that but you can't come on and say I'm not here to talk about any of that and let me ask you this big dog do you really think that I would bring you on this show only to talk about your product do you think I care that much about that product or even at all do you really think that was our agreement come on and just get a bunch of free advertising that other people pay for my guy that that's not how that's done so again I just without totally losing it and going off I want to reiterate great player really good dude very poor execution that that's a bad performance that's a bad showing that's poor form somebody's got to coach that guy up somebody's got to coach everybody up that are pitching things that's just that it's it's understood it's kind of Unwritten you come on I introduce you and hopefully this the greatest part of all I knew that when he wasn't ready at its time it would come late in a segment where we'd have not enough time to talk about football but you're still kind of obligated because I'm a good guy and I make good on my word to hit the pitch but and that would have happened we were already stuck in a bad spot but it didn't matter because he didn't want to talk about any of the other stuff and not in a bad guy kind of way you know back in the day like Alonzo Morning came on and and made it really damn clear I'm not talking about any of that stuff Rome and was not a good guy about it this dude's a good guy and a good kid but I mean come on anyway I wish that had not happened but it did so we roll on Jet's going to Jet man Jets going to jet