Steve Jones Show

SJS Hour 2 - Steve talks about how much $ Ohio State has spent on NIL in portal and in roster retention. Steve also doesn't get Kliff Kingsbury. Indiana radio basketball play-by-play guy Dan Fisher gets fed up with Hoosiers flagrant fouls.

SJS Hour 1  - 01-24-2024 - Steve talks College football expansions. 50% of viewership of college football comes from 18 teams. We talk about the Hall of Fame induction. Steve says "It's about the eye test, not just the numbers." Then we talk Ohio State and NIL $

Neal talks the NFL playoffs with Steve. We talk Chiefs-Bills, Lamar Jackson and the Ravens, development of Brock Purdy. Neal and Steve discuss NFL pundits and their reactions to Purdy as well.

Bob shares his seven-man ballot and the reasons for his vote. We ask why Gary Sheffield isn't in the Hall and will he get in in his 10th year of eligibility? Billy Wagner's chances. Bob says "After Billy, I don't think there is a reliever I will vote for."

SJS Hour 2-01-23-2024 - Steve talks analytics in relation to the Bucs-Lions game, and Tampa Bay going for 2 down 8. Then Neal Coolong talks the NFL playoffs. Neal says, "Lamar (Jackson) can be loose in his throwing mechanics at times, but if this is what we are nit-picking about him, he's one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL."

SJS Hour 1 - 01-23-2024 - Steve talks Caitlin Clark and court storming, Matt Catrillo joins us to talk 70 points by Embiid, and he's still made about the Eagles. Then Bob Nightengale talks about his Hall of Fame ballot, and a preview of Tuesday night's announcement

John Griffin 01-22-2024 - Griffin talks about what Bucknell will learn from Saturday's tough loss to Lafayette in overtime. Griffin said, "We came in Monday morning and used it to teach. It wasn't the buzzer beater, but the things we did with a 14-point lead that cost us later in the game."

SJS Hour 2 - 01-22-2024 - Steve discusses the death of University of Colorado play-by-play guy Larry Zimmer and the 12th anniversary of Joe Paterno's death. Steve also gives some advice to listeners, the he gives to his students. Steve says, "If you take care of the little things, the big things will take care of themselves."

SJS Hour 1 - 01-22-2024 - Steve and Todd breakdown the weekend's NFL playoff action. Steve says, "What's the one thing the Chiefs did on Sunday, that they didn't the rest of the season? Catch the ball," then Bucknell coach John Griffin joins us to discuss the last 10 days of Patriot League play for the Bison.

Co-host of Birds 365 on YouTube Jody Mac joins Steve to talk the Eagles and the end of the season. Some of the reasons why Jody thinks the Eagles struggled over the 1/3 of the season and what offseason could look like in Philadelphia. Jody says, "Every body is looking to point to one reason for the collapse, but it wasn't just one thing. It was 10 or 11 things. Every body has to take some...

Adam Rittenberger 01-19-2024 - ESPN's Adam Rittenberg gives his thoughts on Bill O'Brien joining Ohio State and then a deep dive into the state of college football. Adam and Steve discuss the coach's convention and the ideas from it. Adam says "They had a lot of good ideas, but will the NCAA listen."

SJS Hour 2 - 01-19-2024 - Co-host of Birds 365 on YouTube Jody Mac joins Steve to talk the Eagles, life advice from Hubie Brown's dad and then The King joins the show to pick this weekend's divisional round of the NFL playoffs.

SJS Hour 1 - 01-19-2024 - Steve talks with Adam Rittenberger of ESPN about the state of college football and Bill O'Brien joining Ohio State. Then Steve and Todd talk about Sports Illustrated laying off its staff and about the state of local journalism.

State College.com's Ben Jones joins the show talks about what Penn State spends on intercollegiate athletics, the new coordinators for Penn State football, thoughts on what the Nittany Lions did in the transfer portal and the men's basketball win over Wisconsin on Tuesday night.

SJS Hour 2 - Steve talks about the length of the end of basketball games. Lane Kiffin is on the Alabama campus recruiting players out of the transfer portal and Steve tells a story about Illinois recruiting PSU players after the sanctions. Then NCAA decision making. Steve says "The NCAA has a lack of consistency in their eligibility cases."

SJS Hour 1 - Steve tells us the players left in the NFL playoffs that have Penn State ties and the Sanders brothers missing a Colorado team meeting to walk a Paris runway. State College.com's Ben Jones then talks about what Penn State spends on intercollegiate athletics, "If you want to win on the major college level, it isn't cheap."

SJS Hour 2 - -1-17-2024 - Steve plays some highlights from Penn State's win over Wisconsin and discusses Penn State's athletic budget. Steve says, "If Penn State wrestling can't make a profit by selling out all of its matches, it proves how hard it is to make money in college athletics besides football and men's basketball."

SJS Hour 2 - 01-17-2024 - Steve talks about Penn State's upset of No. 11 Wisconsin. Then Steve spends some time on the Eagles issues after Monday's game. Steve says that "Jalen Hurts has trouble navigating pressure. When did he have to face pressure at Alabama, Oklahoma or last year with the Eagles."

Neal Coolong 01-16-2024 - Neal says that "People think that Mike Tomlin is on the hot seat with the Pittsburgh Steelers, maybe the Pittsburgh Steelers on are on the hot seat with Mike Tomlin."

SJS Hour 2- Neal Coolong discusses the Steelers and what could be an eventful offseason. Then Steve discusses what's going on with former Maryland QB Tagovailoa and resting in the NBA.

SJS Hour 1 01-16-2024 - Steve talks the Eagles playoff loss, then Matt Catrillo gives his thoughts. Then we talk about more about the Eagles, and is it all Sirianni's fault. Steve says that Howie Roseman bares some blame and says that "You always get enamored of talent, but character has to play a part."

SJS 01-15-2024-HR 2 - Steve tells a story about travelling in a blizzard in 2011, and travelling to Iowa on the day of the Iowa caucus eight years ago. Steve also talks about AFCA meeting last week, and how football coaches are at a loss on what the NCAA is doing with NIL and the transfer portal.

SJS Hour 1- 01-15-2024 - Steve discusses this weekend's NFL playoffs and the noise surrounding C.J. Stroud before the 2023 NFL draft. Steve says that "The talk after the scouting combine was test scores, but watch film, watch Stroud play against the 2022 Penn State defense and tell me he can't process against an elite defense." Then Steve talks about Martin Luther King, Jr. and l...

Nate Bauer of On3.com joins the show to discuss Stacey Collins leaving the Penn State coaching staff, the transfer portal players and then they discuss the Penn State men's basketball team.

SJS Show Hour 2-01-12-2024 - Steve discusses collectives and then the statement by the NCAA that Michigan won the National Title 'fair and square'. Steve says that "It was a statement that was tone deaf." Then the King joins the show to discuss the Patriots and the Steve, Todd and the King make their playoff picks for this weekend.