Warriors Should Be Worried

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You're listening to Fox Sports Boom, What Up America, Doug
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Nirvana College Basketball on during the day. If you haven't

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heard the name Colin Sexton before today, you will when
you get home tonight or on this radio show. He
is putting on a shoe or the big shoe in St. Louis.
Is the crimson tide all over the Auburn Tigers keeping
an eye on a couple of other attorneys that are
taking place. We got Duke Carolina tonight, U c l A,
Arizona tonight. San Diego State, Nevada tonight. Diddy freaking up.

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If your team's not playing right now, they are not
helping their cause. And there are a lot of things
going going on in college hoop that are interesting. Man.
We got a lot to get to. We got some
football talk. What you're hearing about Richard Sherman is not accurate,
a trade made which only shows the brilliance of Howie
roseman Um. We get some college who talked to get to.

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I got a fascinating conversation in the third hour of
the show with Mark view, head, coach of the Zags
of Gonzaga. It's the Bulldogs. Actually, I'm just full disclosure.
We recorded it. I think it was twenty nine minutes.
We're gonna play all of it. It was really really
good and completely interesting, honest perspective. Evan Daniels is gonna

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join us. Will ask him about coaching gigs that are
open and what this year with this postseason is gonna
look like. And Laval Jordan's yet another Butler head coach.
Whoever coaches at Butler seems to find a way to
beat Villanova. They'll get Villanova tonight at the Garden. So
Laval Jordan played at Butler, coach and R B line
at Michigan, coached for a year at u W Milwaukee,

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and now the head coach at Butler is gonna join
us fifteen minutes away. Man, we got a lot to
get to. So last night in the NBA and this
is one of those times, which are they still playing
NBA games? Yes they are. They didn't taken any time off.
A matter of fact, Lebron is coming to l A
on Sunday. It's gonna be another recruiting weekend for the

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Lakers and for all the city of Los Angeles. But
Kevin Durant scores thirty seven, the Warriors win. But there's
so much more to it than that, because Steph Curry
is not going to go to Portland for their next
road game because he sprained his ankle yet again. And

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I understand how some people would like to troll me
right that I didn't. I didn't see it. I did
not think he would be a superstar. I know that.
Even Sports Center, where I used to work and break
down draft picks, they trolled me going back a couple
of years ago with a with a quote of of
something that I said, which was a little disas genuine

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because though there's a comma, people don't understand the comma.
The point is that I thought Steph Curry, I thought
he had a chat. I think I had him rated
as a top fifteen pick. I thought within the right situation,
he could be a good combo guard. I just didn't
think you can guard well enough. I didn't know if
he could his body would hold up. I just wasn't

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I just didn't see the upside of a couple of
other players. I thought Ricky Rubio, I thought Johnny Flynn
had the chance to be the next Kevin Johnson, I
really do, and so I missed and some people you
can't talk about Steph Curry. Okay, So if I'm only
allowed to talk about the guys I hit on, well
then there's a bunch of others I have. But I'll

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be honest, I'm mis evaluated, uh the upside and put
and potential of when Stephen Curry. But Steph actually one
has been really good to me about it, and two
he's been really realistic about where he is. A matter
of fact, my last I had a TV shows called Leadoff.

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The opening night of Leadoff, you know whom our guest
was Steph Curry. It was from his hotel room the
night before he end up inking a new contract, a
four year, forty four million dollar deal that even by
his own estimation at the time, was more on faith
then on reality. That's because Steph had suffered so many

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ankle injuries and there was the thought that, boy, they're
really fun to watch, but they can't take the next
step because one he'd on guard and two he can't
stay healthy enough to guard. Steph obviously has exceeded anybody's rightful,
reasonable expectations. Right I'm still looking for the guy who
trolls me about my thoughts on Steph Curry, who had

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him as a two time m v P, the first
ever unanimous m v P in the history of the NBA.
He does that human being actually exists because they do congratulations.
No one else saw coming. But what's what's fascinating to me.
Fascinating to me is how we forget so often. What

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really brings down dynasties in the NBA. What built this dynasty,
What gave them the ability to go out and get
Kevin Durant, But even before that, to go out and
get am I think of the thing of their bench,
bench players, right to go out and load up their bench.
Was the fact that Steph Curry was a superstar, but

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he was being paid at a rate commensurate with a
bench player. Andrea Goodala could not have come to the
Warriors if not for the fact that Steph Curry wasn't
making huge money. He was the Russell Wilson of the NBA,
a guy who was was underpaid, not because in his case,
because where he was drafted, because the injuries he suffered

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and the constant stress put on those ankles early in
his NBA career. So now staff is paid at rate
commensurate with what he's been able to produce. He is
as good a shooter as we've seen in the NBA,
and he's the perfect fit to play off of Kevin Durant,
off of Clay Thompson. And he continues at times when

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Kevin Durant doesn't play, to show he still has the
star ability to carry his team along with Clay Thompson.
But he sprained his ankle last night yet again. And
the things that can be the thing that will befell
the Golden State Warriors, that can ultimately bring them down
is just such an injury at the at an inopportune time.

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I will to my grave tell you I think the
Clippers could have won the whole thing. I don't have
any proof of it. I don't and you can sit
there and go, dude, they couldn't get out of the
second round. But I could point to the fact that
they were never healthy. Either Blake Griffin was hurt or
Chris Paul was hurt every year, and you can say,
what does that matter? And I would tell you everything.
This is not the NFL where you have fifty three guys,

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where you have twenty two players, where you can lose
a Rob Gronkowski, as the Patriots did last year and
still win a Super Bowl. That's not how this league
is constructed. It really comes down to my best five
against your best five, and if you take one guy out,
especially an important guy. Cleveland Cavaliers three years ago, Lebron

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James play great, Kyrie got hurt. Kevin Love was already hurt.
What brings down dynasty's injuries. That's what happened to Larry
Bird and the Boston Celtics. Bird's back wouldn't hold up.
That's what happened to the Lakers when they had won
back to back titles. Byron Scott got hurt, pulled a hamstring.
Kareem abdul Jabar got old. But what happens when you

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get old is you start to get hurt. So I
look at it, I'm this is these are the type
and this is not one of those injuries that a
c l Achilles tending back hip career enders, but the
type of chronic ankle problems he has had and has

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this season. They got everybody on Hiler because I think
Kevin Durant is actually the best player in the NBA
now that he's block four shots last night. Playing at
both ends, he's virtually an unstoppable shooter because he's so
skilled out in the court, and even when it's a
guy his size, his his release is so that you

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can't stop it. Even with Kevin Durant playing at Pete
Kevin Durant in his prime at twenty nine, thirty years old,
Even with Clay Thompson and with Draymond Green the perfect
fit and look Andrea Goddal and Sean Livingston. Though they've
been up and down this year, they still have enough
in the tank and haven't been injured so that you

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still believe in the postseason they're the best team. You
take Steph Curry on that lineup for a game for
two games, and suddenly now Houston who people want to
talk about. Nobody like, I'm I'm sorry, I just can't
buy in until I see it in the postseason. But
the same thing that befell the Clippers time and again,
the same thing honestly hurt the Rockets the last time

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they took on the Warriors. In the plays, remember that
they didn't have Patrick Beverley. Same thing that happened to
the Cleveland Cavaliers. We didn't have Kyrie and didn't have
Kevin Love. Hell, the same thing happened last year with
Chicago Bulls. Bulls are up two games and none on
the Boston Celtics, Rondo gets hurt and they fall apart.
One piece is that important, especially in basketball, And if

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you look historically, what brings down dynasty's more so than
contract demands and and arrogant. People always say that's the
disease of me some of that, But if it's age,
it's a because age leads to injury. It's more than
anything more. I mean, even when the Lakers Shack and Kobe,
Remember Shack and Kobe, and they played against the Detroit

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Pistons in their last series, everyone wants to point to
the fact that they didn't get along. They didn't, but
they also lost Karl Malone to injury. I believe it
lost Rick Fox's injury as well. You lose two of
your top six, you lose a Hall of Famer, the
second all the time lane scorer in the history of
the NBA. Regardless of how bad a fit those guys
were for the triangle for it's going to make you

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less of a team and more likely to lose. And
they lost in five games. If you know anything about
the history of the NBA, injuries more than anything determined championships.
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yet another great young head coach. It's just like they
just keep digging up, like Chris Holtman and and I
mean that model was a great coach there. It's it's

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really remarkable. How whoever they tapped to be the guy
seems like the perfect fit to be the guy. Lavell
Jordan knows that he played there, he coaches there. They
got another shot at Villanova. They are the Nova Killers.
What's the secret sauce in how Butler, no matter who
the coaches, seems to be able to take down the
best team in the Big East. Well, last of all,
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I want an honest answer. This on at answer this
Ryan music. Before today? Had you ever heard of Callin Sexton? Yeah?
I mean I had heard of him? Okay, Um, John
Rominson you heard Have you heard the name Callin Sexton?
That would be a no. Doug dan Buyer, had you Dan?
Dan's Dan's a little busy right now. So, um, my

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point is this about college basketball and we'll get into
this discussion with Mark Few upcoming. This is the way
it works. Colin Section was viewed as a likely first
round draft pick to start this season. He the kid
he's playing against at Auburn. They were actually high school teammates.
Harper was a year older than he was. He actually

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backed him up and played in the same backcourt with
and then one state championship as when he was a junior.
But Colin Sexton was a McDonald's All American and so
his play today probably elevates him slightly or may elevate
him slightly in in draft bloggers minds. I think most
NBA scouts already knew he was likely, by my estimation,

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the first guard off the board ahead of Trey Young
because he's so good at both ends. And what happens
is is fans we only evaluate one end, and we
want Trey Young so badly to be Steph Curry even
though he's somewhere in between Steph Curry and Jimmer for
debt that we're we we don't even look at the
other end of the four NBA scouts do so, by

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my estimation, the idea that that the idea they callin
Sexton's a first round draft pick. It's not because of today,
but if he's if his team makes the n c
A Tournament and he's able to lead them on a run,
this kind of helps build his brand. It all works
together so that guys like John Ramos, you're like, oh,
Colin Sexton, I know who that guy is. How do

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you know who he was? Because I saw him in
the SEC term in the n c A term like,
it all kind of works together, and I just I
think people underestimate the value of the promotion that's received
based upon your success at this point in the year
and in the n c A tournament. Guys build their
entire livelihood based upon what they do in the n

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c A tournament. I know I did. Anyway, I'm fascinated
by tonight because you've got great games at the Garden
Providence taken on Xavier and Nova taking on their nemesis Butler.
I don't want to say arrival because they're more nemesis.
Like every year it's like Butler's beating Nova and it
doesn't seem to matter who the coaches. So maybe Chris

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Holtman left secret plans. Maybe that's what it is. Laal
Jordan's the head coach of the Butler Bulldogs in his
first year. He joins us on the Doug Gotlip Show
here on Fox Sports Radio. Did did Chris Holtman? Is
there some secret code to beating Nova that the Butler coach,
all the Butler coaches have and that you guys share
with one another? Uh No, No, I wouldn't say that.

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I wish there was. I think our players have a
little bit of the game plan because they've done it before,
so they know some some of the formula. What was
the did you guys discuss at all before last night?
Any of the pressure in that some people that you
have you all over the map in terms of whether
or not you would get in the tournament? Do you

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discuss that with your guys at all? Now you know
what Doug, we didn't he it was more about you know,
seeing all that beating us last two times, and we
didn't play our best against him this last time. In particular.
You know, at home, I thought we had it, we
were up eleven, played pretty well, but at their place, yeah,
we just we just didn't execute well. And so as

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much as anything, it was about that. And then our
seniors were, um, you know that they wanted and they
were committed to getting a blame in the Big East tournament.
They hadn't done that in their careers, and so that
was more more of their conversation with each other. Ours
was just, hey, let's let's get seeing all our best
shot and hopefully that's enough to get him at least
one time. This year, Laval Jordan joining us in the

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Doug Gotlip Show played at Butler. I don't know how
much people remember before Butler was kind of this household name.
He was part of that Butler team that won its
first NTA Tournament game in like thirty nine years before
they redid Hankle, before they made two final fours, like
five six coaches ago. That was Leval Jordan's. So I
asked you this because I don't I'm guessing you've had

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this moment. But I wonder walking out in the court
of Madison Square Garden, like, look, Butler has been the
n c A tournament. You've been there as an assistant
coach when you guys nearly won national championship at at
Michigan UM and obviously as a player. But seeing where
the program is now, not just the new Hinkle, but
to be on the floor in the Big East at
Madison Square Garden, has it hit you the the evolution

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that's taken place in this program from when you played
there too. Now yeah, no question, no no question. I think, Um,
just walking out in our first exhibition game, now there's
you know, seven hundred people, uh in Hinkle Field House
for an exhibition game. It was not like that when
I was a player here and and looking up at
the band at the Big East banner. Uh, you know

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every night Georgetown's coming in St. John's coming in Villanova's,
you know Xavier. Um. You know that's just a it's
a different deal, different stage to be on, and obviously
we're very proud to be a part of it. And
then it culminates here right at Madison Square guards just
the stage for March, but you know, the best event

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before the n c double a tournament at the Big
East Tournament in Madison Square, and there's so much history.
Uh so yeah, you walk out and you know those
different moments you said, man, this is the Butler is
still butler, but this is a different Butler than when
I was here. Would you learn most from your experience
in Milwaukee? That's a great question, I think, Um, you know,

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just just actually being in the seat and having to
do the things that in terms of head coach responsibilities,
you know, I hadn't obviously everybody you have a plan
and you have things that you've taken notes or ask
questions from your mentors. Not that great ones, you know,
with that Motta, John Beelon and Toddler Glider, um, you know,
and and Brad Stevens just just great friends and mentors

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and so but there's nothing like actually getting the chance
to do it, to just build it, build it your way. Um,
you know, have those moments with your team, um, build
your culture and and get a team to buy in
and and doing that, um, you know, it was was priceless.
I think that is various helped me so much and
prepared me to be ready to come back here. Laval

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Jordan joining US head coach Butler Bulldogs joining US Tug
Gotlip show Fox Sports Radio. You mentioned those names, whether
it's Todd lick Glider, who of course went on to Iowa,
or Thad who I think everybody thinks will get another job,
or or Brad Stevens or John b Line. I watched,
but I watched b Line win the Big Ten Tournament
last week. And help me with this. I'm told from

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many people in my position, in the media and from
fans that there's a systemic problem that everybody cheating in
college basketball. And yet I would be stunned if John
b Line, one of your mentors, would do anything outside
of the rules, right, Like, that's just not how that's
And I've and I've been around Butler to know, like
it's just kind of not how Butler rolls. Look, you've

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been a part of as a player, even a part
of his assistant coach. How how how deep seated are
the issues? I asked that in that how many of
the how many of this stuff? How much of this
stuff do you have to deal with? Zero? You know,
I think, um, like you said, have been a part
of Butler for my entire playing career and started my
you know, coaching career and then being with uh, you know,

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coach b Lion who's he's the number one compliance officer
in the country and so, um, you know, so there's
nothing you know, it's it's uh there, there's none of that.
Uh you know, obviously in any profession, I think people
find ways to scate the rules. Right. I don't care
what what what you're doing. But I just I've been

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fortunately been blessed it where I've been. You know, I
can take a lot of pride in saying that none
of that s other existed. Yeah, you want to do it,
you want nobody wants to be called the cheater. You
want to do it the right way. Is it possible?
I mean, I guess they're making a case. Mean, Virginia
is making the case it's possible to win the right way,
aren't they. Yeah, you know, obviously, and there's plenty. I

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don't think the programs that are doing it that way. Obviously,
when when someone gets in trouble and it's highlighted, um,
you know, takes away from so many programs, so many
coaches that are out there doing it the right way.
You know, one bad apple can spoil a bunch right,
and so um, you know, it's refreshing to know obviously
I was on staff of Michigan and we made it

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to a National Championship game final four. Butler doing it
back to back and you know, obviously I know personally
you know how they're doing it, and so that's that's
always refreshing. By the way, you know that game never existed,
you know, the clean block by Trey Young, that block
never happened. None of that game ever happened. Yeah, you
could say that. Yeah, it still hurts about Jordan joining

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us from Butler. Okay, so let's get down to brass
tacks with Nova. They present a lot of problems. The
number one problem is their point guard and he's really
good and Jalen Brunson it's kind of like his dad,
where he never seems to be sped up, but he
still finds a way to get by you. How do
you how do you manage um, arguably the best player

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in the country, a guy who's played and won a
National champ chip as a freshman. How do you how
do you guard him? How do you stop Jalen Brunson? Yeah,
I don't know if you do. You know, it's he's
average twenty nine and two games against US, So I
don't know if I'm the right guy to ask about
him him and personally I think they Yeah, it's so
skilled at every position. They got, you know, thirty three

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point shooters all over the court. Uh. And then and
then they post up at every position, and Jalen is
probably their best post player, which makes him a real
challenge because if he's not making threes, you can just
go down there and post up your guards and so um,
you know, we're trying to limit the three point line
as best as you can and make them shoot tough too,

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and obviously that's easier said than done. You have, You've
got a couple of veterans that are pretty awesome Tyler Widman,
l Kelan Martin. Um, how have they? What are they
like in these games which they're can be the last
they put on a Butler uniform? Is there any moments
to which they're kind of smelling the roses or is
it more there they're focused, not wanting this to be

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their last Big East Tournament game. Yeah, I think the ladder.
You know, those guys have been great, um all years,
just just in terms of providing a steady presence of
calming presence. And we've been in some some tough ones
and some tight ones, and we've come back in and
a few of them and lost a few of them.
All the way back to the Ohio State game, we're
out in Portland's p K eighty and uh, Tyler and

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Kielan were in the huddles and we're down fifteen with
you know, three minutes ago um and they're staying, you know,
just next possession. Everybody just move on when the next one.
And that's been their attitude, and I think our team
is is taking that on. And so you know, you
go all the way fast forward, all the way to
last night, and it's back and forth and we take
the lead, they take the lead, and it's just a

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poise about us and and poetic justice was you know,
Tyler White and I've Seenior tips at them for the win,
and so they don't want to be done yet I
know they're not satisfied. Well, I mean, this is gonna
be a pier six brawl and two the most physical
teams in the country, and somehow Novan ever gets called
for a foul and yet there's physical as anybody. I'll
enjoy watching you and your consternation on the sidelines at

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nine o'clock Eastern six specific as you're trying to figure
out what they just fouled us, and they didn't call it,
not like Butler's soft as well. I know the laugh
in your voices. You agree, best of luck tonight, will
catch up sooner, right, Hey, thanks thanks for having me.
All right, Slaval Jordan's good dude, great opportunity, and it's
one of those things like he was one year at
W Milwaukee. They lost twenty four games last year, and

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so I think to anybody outside of Butler's programs, like, way,
why are you hiring hiring Laval? But of all did
a great job in the trey Burks of the world.
You know, a kid from Ohio UM being recruited to
go to Michigan. Lav got got got his fingerprints on
that program, and you you give him the assets that
were left to him by Chris Holtman, and you see

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what the results are. But that was a big win
for them last night. They lost five out the last
seven games, and I think last night cemented them as
danc a tournament team put him at ten and nine
in the big Big East. You can't of count the conference. Gernaman,
you go back and look like again beating Ova, beat Utah,
beat Ohio State. That's the team that's going to the the tournament.

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Did you you know who you know who Colin Sexton
was before today? Right? Yes, but I didn't. I can't
say that I watched a lot of Alabama basketball. That
that's kind of more my point. My point is like

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you use this to build your brand, whether for the
NBA or for your m b A, either one. And
this sure helps. And the rebound's gonna be claimed by
Ingram and now days On is gonna push it ahead
for Obama and he'll leave it for the trailer. Sexton
nailed it bottom. Colin Sexton knocks at home in Alabama
leads by fifteen. Chris Stewart Lirifield Sports on the Call

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is Alabama cruises in the SEC quarterfinals, knocking off top
seed at Auburn eight one to sixty three, just three
of Colin Sexton's thirty one points today, also had seven
rebounds in the win. Now the Crimson tied to wait
the winner of Georgia and Kentucky about to tip it
off in another quarterfinal in St. Louis. Earlier today in
the American Conference quarterfinals, Cincinnati dropped s m U s

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ten quarters Rhode Island a winner against bc U seventy
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to be playing late on Saturday on the PGA Tour
does How great is that? Right? How how incredible is that? Um?
That's that's really remarkable stuff. I'm so fired out. I
told you I I thought he was gonna I thought
he was gonna win and win big. Um, I just did.
I thought he's and I thought he's I think, I mean,

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I thought he's gonna win the Masters. I have several
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(28:10):
of Augusta just doesn't. He could play that thing blindfolded.
I'm convinced you you with me on that? Are you
with una buyer? His odds changed twice I think in
the REALND this morning, and at one point moved up
to being the third favorite at Augusta, Dustin Johnson, Jordan's speech,
Rory and Justin Thomas now according to Bavada, ahead of him.

(28:32):
But yes, I mean Augusta is of course that you
have to know, and that's why you have repeat winners.
And listen, he hit I think he was eight of
thirteen for Fairways today and a week ago or a
couple of weeks ago he had robbery hit two. So
if he's keeping it in the short stuff and making
some of the putts, yeah, yeah, you're right, No, he's

(28:53):
he is going to be the draw. And I'm also
curious just to see on how at Augusta if his
name is on the leader boarder again, on how this
would affect the rest of the field. Question sounds very cliche,
but for for the true true new new wave of
I mean, Jordan's speed hadn't won a major when Tiger

(29:13):
was doing well, took him to do so. So that
kind of crew has not seen what tigers and that's
what that would be another story. That's the point every
everyone always says like, Ah, you know, we're not scared
of Tiger anymore, not scared of Tiger anymore, not scared
of him. You're not the same golfer. And you know
what you're right, let me know how you feel when
when Tiger Woods is ti and off on Sunday at

(29:38):
the Masters with a lead, right, what's he lost? One time?
And then I mean the Y Yang two thousand nine
PG Championship was the one that when you talk about
everything that's happened with Tiger, there are some in the
world of golf that feel that maybe that was as
much of what could have taken Tiger down, because no
one had come from behind to beat him in a

(29:59):
major until that point at Hazel teen. And it was
also then later on that fall everything went um in
complete disarray for Tiger. But after even after the knee
injury that he had in two thousand and eight Doug
he was in contention in two thousand nine. He had
the fifty four whole lead at that PGA Championship. It
was just beaten by y E Yang. And then it
was that next fall where everything well I went up

(30:21):
in the air. No, I mean I look and then
even after everything went up the air, I think he
finished fourth the next year five times on tour. So
but but my point is more everyone says, you know,
add the lustrous gone not scared of Tiger. Okay, yeah,
that's cool. Let me know if you still feel that way,
especially when you grew up watching a guy. Every one

(30:42):
of us has had that moment in the media, like
you've had that moment. I know, Buyer, I've had this
as well, to where you're like, ah, I've interviewed everybody,
they're all the same, and then somebody has sports Royalty
walks in and you it's my perfect example is John Stockton,
like I idolized John Stockton as a kid, still do
or Bobby Hurley Bobby earlier I idolized, and like I've talked,

(31:04):
I've had. I did a show I'm gonna say was
the twenty fifth anniversary of ESPN. I don't know how
many years old anniversary and we did a show. Remember
he said the ESPN zones used to be one in
New York City. And we started the show as me
and Chuck Wilson do a show called Game Night. And
we did a start of the show and I had
the King, Richard Petty and the Wizard Ozzie Smith both

(31:25):
on with us. I was like, many, you don't get
you don't get any bigger than that, right, So those
guys like I'm I look, I've talked to those guys,
commissioners at the NBA, the NFL, anybody. I'll be admit this.
I did. I do the in induction ceremony for the
College Basketball Hall of Fame every year. John Stockton got
in this year, like I'm legitimate, And I talked to Johnson.

(31:46):
I called his son's games like he's a dad of five,
like he should be a normal guy. And he is
as normal human being as you'll ever find. And I'm
just I'm bumbling over words and the high now put
that out in the golf course and your Jordan Speed,
your ruary you're and like you've played golf with Tiger,
you know they've they've all played round all of them,

(32:09):
and they all grew up idolizing him, like yeah, he's
just a guy, He's just a guy. But then all
of a sudden, you look and you're at Augusta and
your partner with the guy, and it's whole one and
you're looking up at the leaderboard and you're like, holy hell,
well this is different. It's another and and not only that, Doug,
I think that the people around Tiger, and I'm talking

(32:30):
about the galleries, it'll be a different gallery than anybody
has seen a Tiger before, because, as crazy as it sounds,
I think that there is almost a sympathetic figure like
the guy that you want to root for. You either
you loved or hated Tiger, but you watched him for
his greatness. Now it brings in a whole other aspect
of cheering for Tiger, and I think it could be

(32:51):
even crazier than any of the other times when he
won the fourteen Majors and he was on top of
his game. I think that whole aspect is there's a
certain well, look, fans have changed. Fans have changed. They
have that where there's a certain certain boldness to fans
that did not exist twenty years ago. Twenty five years ago.
I mean, I think honestly it started with message boards

(33:14):
and sports radio, the ability to be face nameless, faceless
and call in and rip into somebody, and then continues
on obviously with social media and Twitter, etcetera, etcetera. But
um so, I think fans have changed and the Tiger story,
like this is a bigger than golf story now. The
one thing is that Augusta. It's not the US Open anytime.

(33:37):
Dick and Harry can't can't get into Augusta and just
you're the man, right like they can't just yell this
is not the Ryder Cup. Um. But I do think
there is a there's a looky loo factor with Tiger
that will exist, especially if he gets close on a
Sunday that we have never seen before and we've seen
the huge throngs of fans watching Tiger. I also think

(33:58):
that a lot of fans who have hold and he
grudges against him for the affairs and in the sex scandal.
I think some and I'm not saying all, but I
think some have moved on from that. I was at
the Masters when he was in contention, and that was
his first tournament since everything went down. There were people
who would stand up because he's a former Master's champion
when he would walk up the fairway, and there's others

(34:19):
who wouldn't stand or clap at all. And I think
that ten years later, eight years later or whatever it's been,
that you would see more people most standing and clapping
when Tigers walking down the fairway, and if he's in contention,
it maybe even more than that. Yeah, I it's fun.
I'm like, look, Alex Rodriguez is like a year removed
from being ushered out of a Yankees clubhouse. They wanted

(34:42):
to get rid of him. Remember, like he was announced
on Thursday, Saturday would be his last game. I don't
know if you guys remember this. It was like in August,
They're like, oh, hey, by the way, Alex Rodriguez retiring
on Saturday. Wait what I mean? That's how much they
wanted to get rid of and the team one because
Gary Sanchez hit like a million home runs in a
short period time and the team got better the second
he walked out the door. No one wanted Alex Rodriguez

(35:05):
around the Yankees clubhouse, didn't want around baseball. He had
the longest performance enhancing drug suspension in the history of
the sport, and now he's calling Sunday Baseball for ESPN,
working on the studio crew for Fox in the World Series.
He's a rod Ink doing interviews with coach k and
he's got He's part of network TV shows as well.
Like we, our memory is mainstream fans way shorter than

(35:29):
sports fans. And Tiger never cheated. Alex Rodriguez cheated the game.
Tiger's cheating on his wife and fascinating. Fascinating, uh man,

(35:49):
So yeah, I agree with you. I think people have
forgotten about Tiger Woods, or at least they don't allow
it to pervade their ability to cheer for him. The
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We have psychic all right. Should be an interesting weekend,
to say the least. Let's see if the psychic can

(37:14):
give us a heads up about what's about to happen. Psychic.
Who will the four number one seeds be when the
Brackett is revealed on Sunday? I believe Virginia will be
a one seed. Believe villan Nova will be a one seed.
Um and then you know, kind of interesting. I think

(37:35):
everyone assumes it's gonna be Xavier, not convinced it's gonna
be Xavior. I think if Duke wins out beats North
Carolina and beats Virginia. I think Duke will get a
one seed, It really do. And then it comes down
to whether it's Michigan State, UM or Perdue or Xavier.
Xavier I think could be the fourth one seed, but

(37:57):
again they would be wise to not lose tonight. And
I even think you lose three times of Illanova. That
doesn't sit well when you sit there and look like, wait,
how do I reward them? As such? What about Kansas
and he shot? I they got a shot, but I
don't think so because they lost that last regular season
games so badly to Oklahoma State. I think that hurts them. Um. Yeah,

(38:19):
and and look they too both both they and Xavier
lost to UH to Arizona State in the nonconference differences.
They lost to Washington as well in the nonconference, so
I'd say probably not. I think Duke is the Duke
in Michigan State of the two outliers that could get
a one seed. Duke, especially because they're still playing a
chance of quality wins from one under the bracket to
the other. Psychic do you see Alabama making the n

(38:41):
c Double A tournament following their win over Auburn today?
I do. I think the bubble has burst for for
a team like maybe in Oklahoma State, who's RBI numbers
are bad, and I we'll get into the r PI
and people misunderstanding exactly what's going on there. Um. But yeah,
I think Alabama has played its way in with their
last two wins. But there's a chance that they win

(39:03):
the SEC Tournament, so it doesn't even matter. This from
the NFL Psychic Well, Richard Sherman actually returned to the
Seahawks on a cheaper contract, something that he said could
be an option under the Seahawks wanted to keep in
touch when free agency begins. Yeah, I don't see that happening.
Don't see I don't see that happening. It just call us,
let us know what your value is. This is Look,

(39:26):
there's a lot of teams, a lot of cap space,
and this is a bad free agent class. Somebody will
ever spend on Richard Sherman. It's what you say when
you have no intention of ever seeing the person again. Hey,
we're over, but maybe we'll get lunch sometimes we'll let's
let's let's be friends. Yeah, let's see that. Just letter
a word. By the way, Psychic will a push from
David Johnson on Twitter. Help convince Kirk Cousins to sign

(39:48):
with the Arizona Cardinals, is the running back tweeted, Come
on at kirk Cousins eight stop messing with everyone and
tell them you're coming to the desert. Will that help?
It wouldn't hurt. But I don't think he's coming to
the desk. It It would be a dynamic like, yeah,
Leary Fitzgerald, you have David Johnson, um, But I don't.
I don't see it. I think they're rebuilding. I think
they know it. It's the weekend of Lebron in l A.

(40:11):
So let's wrap up with this psychic Will we find
out that Lebron James is lying to us when he
says he hasn't thought of free agency this summer because
he has too much work to do. Because that's what
he told ESPN yesterday when asking about his plans for
the summer of eighteen. Oh yeah, he's lying to us now.
It doesn't mean he's decided what he's doing, but he

(40:33):
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(40:56):
Where the Hooters Wings? That's exactly what I said. Come on, Doug,
I'm I'm sending a text right now, where are the
Where are the Hooters Wings? I don't even know who
I text by that. I think I know Scott Shapiro,
whom going where are my Hooters links? Um? The Richard
Sherman thing is fascinating. Uh so oftentimes we think it's

(41:18):
just about the name. There's so much more to it.
Why Richard Sherman's value isn't what you think it is.
Next in the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio,
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bum bum bum bum bum bum. You know Mike Evans

(41:41):
just signed that huge deal with Tampa Buccaneers. You may
have heard it from Dan Fire does an outstanding job
for us, five years, eighty two million dollar extension. It's
fascinating to me because, uh, Johnny Manzel's favorite target was
Mike Evans in college. Right, He'd throw it up and
Mike Evans would make a We had Devin Funchius on

(42:02):
remember when um was the Michigan quarterback. He went by
shoelaces right, Uh, Denard Robinson Right, people freaked out about
Denard Robinson because the throws he made like no, or
maybe Devin Funches made him look good. Right, Hey, Johnny
Manzel was awesome, or maybe Mike Evans made him look good?

(42:25):
Is it I've said this? You go back when Kurt
Warner had his great year and a half two years
with the Arizona Cardinals. Amazing, But it also coincided with
the fact that Larry Fitzerald was the best wide receiver
in the league. Just made play, just thrown up to him.
Just go make plays. It doesn't diminish the quarterback, but
no one's ever done it without somebody going up and
making a play for him. Uh. So the Richard Richard

(42:49):
Sherman been released by the Seattle Seahawks, And we started
talking about this when it happened, and when the Rams
went up there and just smack the hell out of
the Seattle Seahawk. Remember that, and I think we look
at Richard Sherman and we think, I've seen you watch
on social media. Will he'd fit here, and he'd fit here,

(43:10):
and he'd fit here. And I think somebody will overpaid
to get Richard Sherman because there's a curiosity. You know,
thirty years old, he's available in the market. Could have
won two Super Bowls with him at a time he
was viewed as the best shutdown corner in the league
long arms. He's super confident to point of almost being arrogant.

(43:33):
And while his skills have to have diminished at least
slightly coming off the Chilles Tenant surgery, still Richard Sherman
isn't he But he's not. It's not just that it's
a young man's game. He's coming off of injury and
won't be healthy until August ish. So you're gonna take
him kind of sight unseen. I mean, all kid, you're

(43:56):
gonna take him having no real knowledge of exactly what
he is or who he is. Now. Richard Sherman could
sit out and wait it happened and worked for um
uh Kansas City like Drrell Revas. Right, Darrell Rivas sat

(44:18):
waited I think sixty games to go Kancy. Chiefs needed
a guy. He signed on. Now I think he got
released as well, did he He signed on a two
year deal, but was really to finish up the season.
The point is that there is there is something too
waiting being fully healthy and waiting for somebody who legitimately

(44:39):
needs you, as does somebody who kind of wants you
and wants to take a look. Because you have no
idea what Richard Sherman is gonna look like on a
football field in September and October. No one does. Richard
Sherman doesn't, and you know his agent doesn't, his physical
trainer doesn't, his doctor doesn't, and the GM in the league,
sure his heck doesn't. You might have a sense, but

(45:00):
as we've told you before, there is There's never been
on record a botched surgery reported as a botched surgery.
After the surgery in the history of the Nation Football League,
not once, not once, did the doctor come out and said,
I have no idea how he'll rehab. He I'm just
a guy was on a bender last night. I didn't

(45:22):
feel good about the surgery. It might have gone well,
it might have gone poorly. I got nothing for you, guys,
Nothing on the other hand, maybe it did go really well.
Maybe he will bounce back. We have seen um D'Angelo
Hall was in this week over on Fox Sports One.

(45:43):
Wasn't he and D'Angelo Hall? He came back from a
torn a killies tenant. It's pretty good. Wasn't the same?
It was still pretty good. But I think that Richard
Sherman thing is one of those name deals to where
you're you're assuming Richard Sherman is the Richard Sherman of

(46:05):
the past, and they also think okay, among among the
other things. It's the same as Colin Kaepernick, Michael Bennett,
same thing. Look Richard Sherman and a bit of a penis.
He calls out his coaching staff on their play call selection,
He calls out his quarterback and essentially says, uh, he's

(46:28):
a phony. And by the way, it doesn't help you
when you say you want to go to a contender
right when you're leaving and you're leaving a a team
that thinks there perennial contender. I know you feel jilted
because you've just been released, but when he when he
lets out there, I want to go to a contender
that can lead some to the assumption wasn't Seattle contender.

(46:52):
And I'm sure the Richard Sherman in his mind believes, Hey,
without Richard Sherman, without Jimmy Graham, without Michael Bennett, we're
not a contender. But with the Seahawks. That figured out
is the thing that the Patriots figured out a long
time ago, which is there are irreplaceable players, and there
are replaceable players. And you're replaceable when you make a

(47:16):
little bit too much money, when you get hurt, when
you get to be thirty, when you get a little
bit over the hill compared to where you've been the past,
and it's hard for you to get along with key
members of our team, in our front office and our
coaching staff. You know what, it's not that you can't
play in this Lady, which you can't play for us.

(47:37):
There's a lot of similar that the Michael Bennett situation.
Look when if Michael Bennett was as it was, was
as dynamic as he was in his prime, you could
overlook some of the stuff that he's done. You could
overlook the Vegas thing, which appears to be a boy
crying wolf. You can overlook that. On the other hand,

(48:01):
and this is really important on the other hand, when
you make a little bit too much money, you come
into a team that's not your own, you shake things up.
You want to be really, really socially active if your
performance isn't at peak level. We just can't overlook those
little things. We cannot. There's a balancing act between how

(48:24):
much you're allowed to say and do when you're a
superstar and how much you're allowed to say and do
when you're a little bit overpaid. You're a little bit
over the hill and the team is trying to get
their financial books in order. By the way they made
it official, this was Seattle. It's not you, it's us, right,

(48:45):
Thank you for helping when championships shape our culture and
define success in Seattle. We love you and your unwavering competitiveness, confidence,
and fierce passion for football and life. For that, you
will always be a Hawk. Oh so you want me back? No,
no, no no, we don't want you back. We just you'll
always be a Hawk in theory, just not in practice. Right,

(49:07):
That Seattle doing the it's not you, it's me. Somewhere
George Constanzas, I invented me. It's not you, it's me.
That's the Seattle's doing you know it's not you, it's me, Yes,
Ryan Music. How do you think? Um? You know, it's
interesting with the Seahawks. They never totally bottomed out, but

(49:32):
it also seems like they underachieved at the same time,
like that sort of window. And is it because they
almost had two Super Bowls? Or is it because they
never really made another serious run at a Super Bowl.
It's like a it's really they never made a super
serious run of Super I mean they are they are
the beneficiary of uh yeah. Remember they're the beneficiary of

(49:58):
two incredibly botched shore winds. Remember the Minnesota Vikings had
them beat on their home field Teddy Bridgewaters last last
game that he started as a members of Minnesota Vikings.
Remember that, I mean a makeable twenty something yard field
goal that was blown. Blair Walsh chokes the field goal

(50:19):
and the Vikings lose. And then remember the Green Bay
Packers had the lead even with Aaron Rodgers injured. Packers
dominated the game. They recovered on side kick, you know,
he had the two point conversion. They just throws up
in the lollypops up in the air, like all these
things that went happened to night. The truth this Seattle
was incredible. As unfortunate as that interception, or unlucky as

(50:40):
the Malcolm Butler interception might have been, they were super
fortunate to just be there to begin with. Um, I
think it proves the point of how great the Patriots are.
I think it shows how really, really, really hard, really
hard it is to win big in the league. Right
the fact that they had a a generationally great defense,

(51:06):
they struggled to manage the egos, and by managing egos,
they struggled to manage the contracts. The offensive line was
not good enough because of those because they spent money elsewhere.
And yeah, I don't know if they under achieved. They
got the two Super Bowls, one one could have won
a second one. They had some things go for them,

(51:26):
had some things go against them. Will it be remembered
as the dynasty? No, you gotta win to to be
a dynasty, really gotta win back to back, or you
gotta you gotta win to to be a dynasty, don't you.
I mean that's the thing with the San Antonio Spurs.
They've never won two in a row, but because they've
been consistently competitive for nearly twenty years. Um, so I

(51:57):
don't know if they under achieved. I just I guess
we forget where Seattle had been and how hard it
is to be successful, how dominant they were. Remember at
the time in which they were dominant. So too with
San Francisco, that went from the worst division in football
to arguably the best division in football. And now all

(52:19):
of a sudden you have the Rams who had been
taking a beating for years. They look like they're rebuilt.
San Francisco looks like they're closer in the process of rebuilding,
whereas Seattle feels like they're remodeling more than rebuilding. And
I think Arizona is kind of in that that dark
area of are we going forward? We're not going forward

(52:40):
there on. Here's the football analogy. They're under like forty
three yard line, right, it's fourth and two, fourth and three.
Like we could punt, We've punt, a good chance of
a touchback. It becomes like a twenty three yard punt.
We kick a field goal, but that's a long field goal.

(53:00):
We could go for it, but if we don't get it,
And all of a sudden, they got a really good
feel position. That's where Arizona is. You got Lara for Scherlle.
You got David Johnson. Johnson has been hurt the past
few years, but it's his risk last year, so his
legs should be fresh. You got some really good piece,
probably gonna part with Tyron Tyron Matthew got some good Pete.
Patrick Peterson's a good pieces on defense. A defensive guy
comes over from the Carolina Panthers. Like they're just kind

(53:22):
of in that. What's our plan? I don't know. We'd
like to get Kirk Cousins. What if you don't get him?
No idea. They're on like arizonas on like the forty
three yard fourth and three. Do you go for it? Yeah? Yeah.

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We were told there's these systemic problems in college basketball.
Yet some of these elite coaches that come on, they're like,
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(54:28):
be for these coaches, for these programs, and and maybe
more importantly and more interesting in this very very short
term um, this seems to be a very moving bubble where,
unlike years in the past, teams are actually winning games.
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(56:17):
in the Doug Gotlip Show weird last week and the
week before uh and then of the weekend before all,
anybody was talking about with Sean Miller, and now Shan
Miller's coaching Arizona and everybody's back playing for Arizona. Like,
what what happened? Truth? Didn't have happened? Quick? Yeah, it's
like Sean Miller was guilty, convicted, gonna be fired. Uh,

(56:40):
their season was over and now it's not what happened. Well,
I mean, I think what happened was obviously that story
came out, and I feel like there was a lot
of rush to judgment. But I also get it because
Mark slay was a really good reporter. Yeah, you know
he's he's a good reporter. He's a well known reporter.
Um It. The more I dug on that deal, the

(57:04):
more it just didn't add up. And and I'm referring
to the timeline of the events, I'm referring to the
really the thing that took out to me the most,
Doug when when that story came out, was why the
heck would Sean Miller be paying Christian Dawkins for DeAndre Ayton.
Christian Dawkins never had any involvement with DeAndre at DeAndre

(57:24):
Eaton had a couple of mentors in l a uh too,
to be particular, and then he moved to Arizona and
they really hadn't been heard of again, and San Dawkins
was never involved. And then I don't the timeline didn't
make sense or add up, even in the slightest um.
And I think once, you know, I think people saw

(57:45):
our story, and then Sports Illustrated did something and um
and then obviously Sean stepped to the mic and and
defended himself. And uh, then he gets Alonzo Trier back
a couple of hours later, and then you're looking at Arizona,
who's got Dean coach back, DeAndre Atan inside, and Alonzo
Truer back on the court, and you're thinking, hey, this
is a team with enough talent to make a run

(58:06):
to the Final four. Quite a turn around, And then
you factor in something that Sean Miller said. I think
it was really this week or at the end of
last weekend, after the last game at home, which he said, hey,
everybody's everybody's going pro. So he lost his recruiting class,
you know, three guys recruiting class because of the accusations,
and then he summarily announced everybody's going pro. Pittsburgh just

(58:30):
became open. He played at Pittsburgh like I don't know,
is is it too too easy to think he just
says deuces after they lose their last game and gets
out of town. I don't think anybody would say it's
not a possibility. You know, the ties to Pittsburgh are obvious.
She was a star point guard there, played there, grew

(58:51):
up there. Um has a lot of ties to that area.
That said, like, I don't think he's leaving Arizona. You know,
obviously his recruiting class torn apart and they're gonna have
to put that back together. But the guys going pro part,
that's I know it's news, but it's also not because
we all knew DeAndre was going prosn me the number

(59:12):
one pick, so why wouldn't you go pro? Alonzo Triers
wanted to go pro every year. I don't see him
coming back. And say with Roley Hawkins for that matter, Um,
would they both be served better for another year of college?
Raley especially, Yes, Um, But that's not surprising news to me. Um.
The hardest thing is is is he how can he

(59:35):
build a team for next year and how is he
going to go about doing it? But somebody made a
fair point to me the other day and we were
talking about exactly what you just brought up. Pittsburgh in Arizona,
which school and and basically after the season, Sean's gonna
have to rebuild Arizona. Which school is? Can you quickly
rebuild Arizona or Pittsburgh? The answer is clear. There's obviously

(59:57):
there's some there's a little baggage there, but it's Arizona.
So you know they're gonna have a down year. But
I think you can recruit players and get Arizona up
and rolling quicker at Arizona than you can't at Pittsburgh. Alright,
so Pittsburgh pays Kevin Stalin's reported nine point five million
dollars to walk. Uh, do they have the money to
go after a big name coach? That's a great question.

(01:00:20):
That is a lot a lot of money, And the
truth is it's it was. It was a bad decision
from the beginning. Um, but uh, I mean no, you
do they have enough money to go after a guy
like that's gonna cost them to get a guy like
Sean Miller. I can't imagine they do. Tom Crean, Tom Crean,

(01:00:43):
that Mata like those guys. You know, there's gonna be
other job and there's Louisville's open, well, mrs open. There's
going to be other big openings. Teams with with with
deep enough pockets to go after a big name. You know,
it's just it's competitive landscape. I just wonder, you know,
could they hire them? Yeah? But can you high right, guy?
It's three or four million dollars? Yeah, I mean, you
know what. The name that I like for this job,

(01:01:04):
at least right now is Dan Hurley. Um. He's done
a tremendous job at Rhode Island. I guess we see
what happens if Connecticut opens up or doesn't open up.
But I would imagine Dan Hurley is a pretty hot
name for Pittsburgh and and if um, if Yukon opens up, Yukon. Um.
But I think you're right. You know, you've got a

(01:01:25):
boy a call in the fat moto. I don't think
he would take Pittsburgh, um, Sam with Tom Crean um.
But I'm curious to see the route and direction that
they go. I mean, there's some there's some other names.
There's a bunch of uh younger assistant guys. And my
Earl Grant's a hot name at at College of Charleston.
I'm curious at Brandon Knight. Um, I'm sure he gets

(01:01:46):
a phone call. Assistant at Rutgers that was a star
player at at at Pittsburgh and it's pretty beloved by
most at that university. Does John Becker get a call
or Jeff Capel? Um, I'll be serious to see what
direction they decided to go? What about you con a
couple of years ago, they want a national championship, they
had found their next great guy former player there, and

(01:02:08):
then all of a sudden, I mean it has completely
fallen to hell in the handbasket. Uh, they were blown
out yesterday. What's the likelihood that the change is made there?
I think, Um, I think most expected to happen. Um.
You know, look, it's it's one. It's It's been a
hard deal to figure out, honestly, because Kevin is a

(01:02:31):
very well liked guy. He's a always been a really
good recruiter, um, and obviously won that national championship there,
and I think last year the injuries just destroyed them
and they haven't really ever been able to fully recover.
And I think that last season has impacted their recruiting
some and they haven't recruited the same clip that they

(01:02:52):
were And you know, Look, Jalen Adams coming out of
high school was a really highly ranked kid and he's
put up points, but um, maybe to the detriments of
the rest of his team. Fascinating. Yeah, I mean, like,
I mean, I think it's happening that The problem with
firing uh, problem with firing him is that you run

(01:03:13):
the risk of losing all of those former players, right. Like,
the great thing about hiring a lumb is it makes
everybody feel good. You win a national championship, and then
when things go bad if you fire him. They have
over the last twenty five years, they have four championships.
They have as good a history as anybody in the sport.
Calhoun's starting a program at a former all girls school

(01:03:34):
of Saint Joe's and West Hartford. Right now, you cut
out his former assistant, a former point guard. You're not
gonna hire any other Calhoun guy. Like, You're gonna have
to go at it in a league that they don't
really want to be in, you know, with with issues financially,
because they're so all in in football, and you're gonna
lose all of those alums who normally would come back
and support the program. Yeah, that's a great point. And

(01:03:55):
that's and it goes back to like, Kevin is very
very well liked. And keep in mind the two thousand
and fifteen, two thousand and sixteen season, they were eleven.
You know, the year before that they won twenty games.
Um no, I mean I think you con I mean
the year before that was when they won the national championship.
So like, it's it's pretty crazy how quickly that thing spiral.

(01:04:18):
And it's also, Doug, I think it's supporting to note
that it's it's. Um, it's amazing how quickly things can
go down the hill off a couple of bad decisions,
whether that be a recruiting bad decision or a couple
of injuries, and it can just go completely opposite direction. Yeah,
Evan Daniel Jonas on the Doug Gottlieb Show. Um, I've

(01:04:40):
been trying to inform people on the greatness of Colin Sexton.
He's been playing unbelievably well. You mentioned that you believe
Atan's going number one. I still think Badley's going number one,
but I I reserved the right to be wrong. Am
I crazy to think that Colin Sexton could sneak into
that top five? And here's why it's a guard league, right, Like,

(01:05:00):
these guys are big, they're amazing, it's a guard league.
How high could you see Colin Sexton going? He is
the best available point guard prospects? And you know, I
know that even I did a big board a couple
of weeks ago and I had Trede Young higher. But
I was wrong. Colin Sexton. Anybody watched him today saw
him put on an absolute show. I think he's eighty

(01:05:21):
one points in the last three games. He's tough, he's physical,
he's athletic. His shot has really improved. He's honestly one
of the most competitive kids I've ever covered in high school.
Dug maybe second to Josh Jackson, but I mean, this
dude lives to talk trash and he's so physical. Um.
Can he get in the top three? Possibly? And here's why.

(01:05:45):
All the guys that I think are the best prospects
in that this group outside of Sexton, our bigs. You've
got DeAndre at and you've got Marvin Bagley, you got
more Bomba, you got Jaren Jackson. Obviously there's Luca don Chets,
who's more of a wing um. But the first point
guard taking I think it's going to be calm Sex.
You know, it's interesting that Ben Simmons didn't make the tournament.

(01:06:06):
We've seen Stephen his last year didn't make the terment.
We've seen other um. I mean, like, look what happened
last year, Washington didn't make the tournament, and you know
they have the number one they have the number one
overall pick in Mark l Folds. But but I think
what's happened to Oklahoma might actually be worse. And and
and here's why, Like he was so good so early,
and there was such hype that we paid it. We

(01:06:29):
we paid attention to all of the flaws of all
of those teams and players that make de tournaments. But
I think many of them were results of him not
lifting up his team and not being able to carry them.
And what was the causation of it? Am I crazy
to think that while it didn't hurt Simmons, it didn't
hurt Faults. I think it'll hurt Trey Young and his
viability and where he's drafted, that his team is seemingly collapsed.

(01:06:54):
It could certainly. I think that's a fair point here.
And the thing about Trey is is is Trey showed
improvement in a couple of areas, especially at the beginning
of the season. And I don't know what his shooting
percentage from three is off the top of my head now,
But in high school, in his final year of the
E y b L, he was shot right around thirty
from three, and one of the biggest knocks was he

(01:07:16):
had a tendency to be a volume e guy. Now,
I still think he has that tendency now, and I
think after a ridiculously hot starting and I must note
it was absurd by the way, so he's kind of
come back down to that percentage area that he was
in high school. Now. Obviously, I think Trey Young is

(01:07:37):
a ridiculous worker. I think he has a great work ethic.
I think he's going to continue to improve in that department.
He's gonna also have to continue to improve his his
shot selection. But I think the biggest concern from an
NBA standpoint is going to be on the defensive end.
Who who does he guard? Can he handle the physical play? Um. Now,
all that said, I have to give the dude credit. Man.
I mean, he's better than I thought he would be.

(01:07:59):
He's far out performed my expectations. He's quicker than I
thought he was. The way he can handle the ball.
And I think maybe the thing that surprised me the
most is his assist numbers because he he can he
really see the four Now he has a tendency at
times to be a last resort passer. Um. But I
think the point I know I went way off topic
from the point you were making, But UM, I think

(01:08:19):
I think what you're saying is correct. And I'd be
curious to see if, um, they get in the tournament,
don't get in the tournament, but you keep a guy
like Trade Young out of the tournament. Um. But it's
certainly you know they needed him at his best for
them to win, and down the stretch it just didn't happen.
All right. Last thing, four best teams, forget about the
number one seeds. Who are the four best teams in
your mind? I like Villanova, Healthy, Villanova, Duke. I think

(01:08:45):
they have by far the most talent, Um Virginia, and
I really like Xavier. Okay, Well, might see Nova Xavier
at the garden and UH two people in New York
and you have some Bleaker Street pizza and go. Evan
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incredible job. Plus he has a really good podcast. Evan,

(01:09:07):
thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for having me.
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(01:09:27):
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(01:09:50):
did it in they just get it to Tulsa Onlearfield Sports. Yes,
Kareem Bruton Jr. With the game winning three at the buzzer.
Memphis moves on with this sixty seven sixty four victory
over Tulsa. Earlier in the day, Cincinnati dropped s m
U sixty one to fifty one. Colin Sexton at the
buzzer beater yesterday for Alabama didn't need it today instead,

(01:10:11):
at thirty one points as the tide dropped Auburn one
to sixty three just under way of the second half,
Kentucky has a ten point edge on Georgia thirty three
twenty three seconds gone by there. The winner of that
game will face Alabama tomorrow. VAL's Park Championship second round
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(01:10:32):
held by Corey Connors, who's at seven under part. Doesn't
look doesn't look like Jordan Speed and Rory McElroy will
make the cut. And a busy day in the NFL.
The Seahawks have officially released cornerback Richard Sherman, the NFL
Network reporting the Buccaneers and wide receiver Mike Evans agreed
on a five year extension with eighty two and a
half million dollars, making Evans the second highest paid receiver

(01:10:52):
in the NFL over fifty million dollars guaranteed. And this
just in Cleveland. Browns have reportedly agreed on a trade
to acquire Dolphins wide receiver Jarvis Landry. Of course, Landry
signed his franchise tag, allowing the Dolphins to shop him.
It's believed that the Bronze will be giving up two
draft picks Doug four Landry services a pick in eighteen
and a pick in twenty nineteen. Don't know what numbers are,

(01:11:15):
what rounds those picks are, but Jarvis Landry reportedly on
his way to becoming a member of the Cleveland Brown. Okay,
so this actually plays into that that Adam Schefter tweet,
we can bring down the music? Do you do you
have bring up that Adam Schefter tweet? If you would,
Dan real quick, because I thought I thought we were
having a great discussion about this affair. Doug Gotland show
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What was that? What was that tweet? After Mike Evans
agreed to his extension five years eighty two and a
half a million dollars, Adam Schefter tweeted out, wonder what
Odell Beckham Jr. Jarvis Landry, Sammy Watkins, Allen Robinson and

(01:11:57):
other elite wide receivers are now thinking, m Well, the
problem is that Sammy Watkins, as you pointed out to me,
Sammy Watkins not in that class and he's had all
kinds of injuries struggled this year, did get together a
little bit late. But but but the point is valid
on this point, like that's the Mike Evans deal sets
the market, right, So if it if it sets the

(01:12:19):
market of what fifty million guaranteed, that's what's now being
reported fifty to fifty five. I've seen a couple of
different numbers on that, but it's sixteen and a half
a million dollars annually, which is just below what Antonio
Brown makes a seventeen million per year, and and Antonio
Brown is the best, So I have no you have
no problem with that. So Jarvis Landry, the question is
the Browns. You take on a guy like that, that

(01:12:41):
means you you're going to negotiate a new deal, and
you have to know like this is the market, this
is what you're walking into. And they do have a
massive amount of cap space so that the senses they're
probably going to that's the next deal that's gonna And
then the question becomes, what are the Giants do with
Odebeckham Jr. Who did miss most of last season with injury.
So the lack of productivity, but you could make I

(01:13:03):
think you can make an easy argument that he's the
best of all all of them, Yes, of those that
are available. And he wants what the twenty million dollar number? Yeah,
I mean what do you give him? Sixteen point eight? Doug?
You know, put him right below Antonio Brown but above
Mike Evans. I just I don't know. It seems like
a lot of money for a wide receiver. Yeah, yeah,

(01:13:23):
and especially with Gosh and the Buccaneers and Browns aren't
good and they're paying whatever Jarvis Landry is going to get,
He's gonna get a decent amount. I like Mike Evans
as a wide receiver. But yeah, that's a lot to
put at that position. Well, that's why some teams are bad, right,
Bad teams spend the We got all his cash base,
we got his money, let's let's spend it. And and

(01:13:44):
that's no different than most of America. You know, you
get your we talked, you get your tax refund, you
spend it, you put it away? What do you do
buy it? He's spend Think it's a mix, you know,
maybe you try to try to get a little something
that you didn't have before, but then try to have
that security board. Like what you're supposed to do is
pay off your credit card debt. Right, We're supposed to
just pay down debts. It must people like, oh, free money. Actually,

(01:14:08):
actually you didn't. Actually like the whole idea of attacks.
You find like, man, I look at all this money
I get, Like, actually, that was money you paid. You're
just getting some of it back, Like no, no, no, No No,
that's money I just made, Like no, that's money you've
already paid. Yes. So with Kirk Cousins, a lot of
people have been saying his contract could be one of
those things where it's quote unquote fully guaranteed because they're

(01:14:28):
just gonna give a lot of that money over a
short period of time. Do you think that's maybe what
they're gonna do with Jarvis Landry because he was already
going to maybe be franchised, which means he gets that
fourteen million or whatever it is for one year while
the Browns still have all of this cap space. Do
you think they're going to try and just give him
a frontloaded deal so that that way they may give
him a lot of money, but it's why they have

(01:14:50):
the cap space. They won't commit to him long term.
Of course, well you do commit you it's a it's
a one. It becomes we're gonna give you. And this
is this is the problem with those deals. What happened
Drel Rivers with the Jets, right, you give him a
long term deal, you get most of the money up front,
and then late in the contract, later in the contract,
when you know they're not making much per year, the
players like, hey, look at this average salary. I'm barely

(01:15:10):
making anything here, when the team is like wait, saying
we paid you all that money up front. That's the
big flaw on these front load of deals is you know,
you get three years into it and the player starts
to go, hey, I'm not making what said wide receiver
is making. Who just signed a new deal. You gotta
give me a new deal where I'm sitting out when
the teams said, they're going like, wait, we overpaid you

(01:15:31):
if we frontloaded it. So it is if they do
become their player friendly at the start team friendly at
the back end. Team friendly at the back end usually
means that the player lives up to what he holds out.
Can I say one thing about this? Of course the Browns.
I know Josh Gordon's a question mark, but Josh Gordon
and Jarvis Landry don't do the same things as wide receivers.
The last thing I think that they needed when you

(01:15:51):
talk about bad teams being bad is adding a wide receiver.
That that's that's in my mind, that's one of the
last things that you use. The first are if Joan
stinks yeah right, he was hurt early on in his career.
I mean, I just I don't think that you're sitting
there where where can we get a possession receiver? Plus

(01:16:12):
you use the first drop pick last year on David
and Joku is a project tight end. I I'm just
not a big fan of giving up a lot of
paying on This is why this is why they're the Browns.
Different management, same problem. That's why you hashtag that's why
you're the Browns. Like man kid with they his money,
they got these draft picks, They're gonna rebuild it the

(01:16:32):
right way. Like now, I mean, look, they actually have
as you put out they actually have some talent on offense.
Their running backs aren't bad either, and they've of course
been talking about maybe we'll take a running back first.
Like you're running. There's nothing wrong with your running backs.
But it's a snapshot of America. You get money back
in your tax refund and you're just how fast can
I spend it? Instead of how smartly we can spend it.

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(01:17:38):
Show out of New York City. Jim Jackson, of course,
played for twelve different teams in the NBA. Compete against
m Jay, compete against Kobe, said this about the two
versus Lebron James. From a player that played against Kobe
and Michael Jordan, we view things totally different because Michael
Jordan and Kobe Bryant not gonna let you off the hook.
Forget the numbers. I'm talking about great competitive Ronnie Lotton.

(01:17:59):
You know when he came to hear you, it was
a different story than a wait, said Dion Sanders. As
a player that played against played against Michael, and played
against Kobe, Lebron is gonna let you off the hook.
Lebron is gonna do some things as a player. Forget
about the numbers. Forget about the numbers. Oh wait, forget
about the numbers, because Lebron is gonna go down and

(01:18:19):
break all the numbers. And he may be the best player.
But from a player's perspective, when you play against the
Michael Jordan's, when you play against the Kobe Bryant, it's
a whole different level competition that obviously is more. Hey,
Nick Wright looks at his numbers and says this, this
and this and this like, Look, you can't compare the numbers.

(01:18:40):
You can't as much as you want to. You want
to make it like baseball, and I want to make
it like baseball, where all the numbers are and there's
all these analytics. That doesn't work that way. More possessions now,
more dominance of one guy, more three pointers take in,
which makes you average more points. Look, if you go
strictly by the numbers, you would think that Lebron James

(01:19:02):
is a better three point shooter than Chris Mullen. Made
more of him, taking a ton more of him. But
if you ask Chris Mullin is one of the great
shooters historically in the eighties and nineties, he would tell
you like we were just if one then we couldn't
make him. We were told it wasn't a good shot. Well,
you absolutely make him. Larry Bird, same same three point line.

(01:19:22):
Larry Bird watching the dunk contest and said, who's who's playing?
For a second, labor didn't take a ton because that's
not how basketball was played then, I mean, not the
dunk cont Did I say dunk contest? Sorry, Larry Ry
Birds going in there talking about the dunk car. I'm
apologize that's actually a little buddy of mine, an old

(01:19:43):
producer of mine argument when he said to it was
in the dunk contest, I got in my head. My
point is, what what Jim is saying is that as
good as Lebron is, and I do think that he's
gotten more of the competitive gene in the last couple
of years. Um that that Lebron's default is the stats,

(01:20:07):
whereas it was never really about the stats for those
other guys. It was about not just winning, competing against
the other guy. What were my stats versus his stats
when we compete against one another. Um, I just it's
really hard to to compare stats down in the NBA
when the officiating is so different. And like, look, here's
another thing that was told to me by an NBA

(01:20:28):
Hall of Famer. Lebron's great, but he's built like a
power forward, and there aren't other guys on the floor
built like him. They just aren't. Go look at NBA
teams either they play small ball and the guy who's
built like him is playing center, or teams play what
would be called big with a stretch for and when
you take there's no Karmelane Antonio was Antonio? Um uh

(01:20:55):
a smith. Remember from from the Indiana Pacers, think back
to all the power forwards in the nineties. Lebron's built
like them, only he has the skills of a point forward.
The rules are such to which you can play downhill,
be the aggressor, and teams have to back off. So

(01:21:17):
everything kind of skews in his direction. And he's great
and he's dominant. But please don't fall back on the stats,
because the stats will be misleading because the stats are
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everything last year this year and all the n c
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(01:23:09):
I don't I don't know. Mark Fue will join us
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of college basketball games Cornucopia, Plethora, morgas Borg of matchups,
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Will react to them. Check me out on Twitter, Facebook,
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(01:23:57):
you might say, dude, you covered college last fifteen years,
I trust you. Give me some picks, make me some
money great, or you might say, tell me about the
Seahawks as they continue to shed extra pounds. Richard Sherman gone,
Michael Bennett gone, Jimmy Graham's gone as well. They're all gone, gone,
gone gone. But last night in the NBA, if you

(01:24:20):
just go box score hunt and you're like, huh, Kevin
Durant scares thy seven seventeen rebounds, four blocks, four assists,
they beat the Spurs. That's not bad, right, And then
you start to scroll down, you're like, wait, Steph currently
played two minutes. That's because step Curry sprained his ankle.
He will not make the trip to Portland. Golden State

(01:24:41):
Warriors are fifty one and fourteen and uh. For steps part,
after struggling early in the season, last ten games, he
really kind of figured it out in terms of his
scoring average right now. Technically he's only average in twent
sixty game now because he had two last night, He's
only played two minutes, but in games and four thirty

(01:25:07):
four shooting from three during this month started to get
it going and as they started to get healthy, but
he sprained his ankle. And it's not the first time
that he sprained his ankle. Happened two minutes into the game.
Steph Curry goes up for a layup, comes down and
kind of rolls, twists and is obviously upset. I mean,

(01:25:32):
the game was three nothing and he just tweaked his
ankle and he didn't even step on anybody. He simply
rolled it. Remember, he's had a surgical repaired ankle. He's
had ankle injuries. That's one of the reasons that his
second contract in the NBA was only and I know
it's only four years, forty four million dollars. But when
we start to look back historically at what has brought

(01:25:55):
down some of the best dynasties in the sport, and
this were the basketball specifically, it's been injuries above all else.
That's what it is, injuries, and you gotta if you're
not concerned, I will tell you this Golden State Warriors
are because now we're starting to get to that point

(01:26:17):
in the season to which I don't think it really
matters if they have home court advantage. I'm sure matters somewhat.
I mean they're going for it, but it does matter
if you have a healthy Steph Curry. They're the Warnings
seven row. And by the way, if you want to
know the difference between the good teams and the bad
teams and the teams that are taking teams are going
for it. Like I think the Rockets are good, but

(01:26:39):
seventeen a rowa Warriors seven a row, till Blazers eight
in a row, Damion Liller has been incredible, Pelicans ten
a row. Meanwhile the Grizzlies have lost fifteen in a row.
You mean to tell me that the Grizzlies didn't get
the memo. They got the memo take the l Sons
have lost four in a row. And I think the

(01:27:00):
only reason the Sons haven't lost more in rows because
they played one of the other tanking teams during that stretch.
But you might not be concerned. You might be able
to brush it off and tell yourself, hey, it's just
an ankle. He didn't come down to anybody's foot. He
simply rolled it. He'll be fine, and hopefully and probably
he will be. But while we're all writing in pencil

(01:27:24):
that the Warriors and the Calves will meet up in
the finals. We have to remember that one the Calves
are actually closer to the eight seed than they are
the one seed. And two it all hinges on the
very tender ankles of Steph Curry, Right. I mean, look,
I get that the Warriors. I mean that the Warriors

(01:27:47):
came from three one down to beat the Oklama City Thunder.
But a big reason that the Thunder didn't have more
opportunities that the Warriors was Kevin Durant was hurt the
year before, miss fifty one games. Injuries more than anything,
and dynasties injuries, and the one injury that could be
chronic and could be as kind of insignificant in the

(01:28:11):
grand scheme of things as anything is Steph Curry repeatedly
turning and spraying that ankle a two time m v P.
If he's not on the floor, you know, if he
can't move, he's ginger on that ankle. Go back a
couple of years ago when they won seventy three games. Remember,
remember they were worn down at the end of that
Warrior series. Remember that without the Cavalier series. Why are

(01:28:33):
they worn down? Steph wasn't right. That's because Steph was
coming off of a sprained ankle. In the NBA, it's
not always about it who's better. Sometimes it's about who's healthier.
Don't believe me. Look at the NBA Finals when the
Warriors lost, that's when Andrew Boga got hurt. They didn't

(01:28:53):
have Draymond for a game because of suspension. When the
Calves lost, remember they had injuries, no Kyrie, no Kevin Love.
When the Lakers lost to the Pistons, it was Byron
Scott got hurt. When the Pistons lost, it was Isaiah
Thomas roled his ankle when the Lakers lost to the Pistons,
with uh with Karl Malone and what Rick Fox got hurt?

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(01:31:33):
It feels like groundhog dead, doesn't it? All? Right? No?
I not just Gonzaga. When the A C C, when
the C A C w CC Tournament for the seventeen
time overall. A matter of fact, you guys know when
they played the championship game, it was that shoot Tuesday night.
That was their twenty one straight appearance in the conference
championship game. It's the vision one record. They're gonna advance

(01:31:57):
the twentieth straight n c A tournament. When the selection
show comes down and announces where they play this upcoming Sunday,
This of course, coming up their first ever Final Four appearance,
and the man with the highest winning percentage currently in
college basketball joins this mark few head coach of the Zags. Uh. Boy,
it's really astonishing, just astonishing, Um Mark. If I were

(01:32:18):
to say, hey, Gonzago won the WCC won the w
CC tournament, everyone can say what's new. But considering Mark,
considering the volume of talented players you lost, losing your
first one and done in Zach Collins last year, what's
your kind of reaction to how this regular season and
w CC tournament ended. Well, I mean, I think I'm

(01:32:40):
m I'm with you in a lot of ways on
that take. It was we incurts some significant losses. And
it's not just I mean Zack obviously, but I mean
it's the first time we've got to early entry guys.
And Nigel william was goss who was a huge part

(01:33:03):
of our last year's success in that incredible season we had, UH,
But then we also lost you know, two fifth year
seniors in Simi Karnowski and Jordan Matthews, who were you know,
those were really really, really substantial UH losses to our program,

(01:33:24):
and so there was a lot to overcome with just
not only skill set losses. You look at the entity
that chim Incarnowski was. I mean literally we had something
that nobody else in college basketball had. You know, Jordan
was just a stone cold killer from you know, as
far as hitting buckets and hitting big shots. And so

(01:33:46):
there was a lot, especially Manu factor in Nigel's leadership
and in ability and just the winner that he was.
And so these guys, I mean it came a long ways,
were a lot different team than we learned November. Yeah,
and the other other part. And I think you feel this,
and I would guess your team definitely feels this, and
I think Zag fans understand it. I'm not sure nationally

(01:34:07):
people kind of get it. It's different to carry the badge,
not just to being Gonzaga being a big time but
being a final four team. Right, so when when when
you played Ohio State who ended up being really good,
you demolished them, or Florida or Texas or Creighton, and
of course the lost a nova. Like you're coming walking
on the floor. You You've always been everyone's biggest game

(01:34:28):
in the w c C, but now you're everyone's biggest
game in the nonconference. Whereas in the past it was
still something, but it's different coming off of Final four
and you're coming off of four final four without most
of the guys who contributed to that final four. Yeah, yeah,
I agree. It was interesting to get the take of
the you know, whether it's a Florida staff or Villanova

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or or Ohio State for that matter. Uh and man, man,
what a job Christian at Ohio State. Um. Um, you
know they were, they were very good early. They didn't
know where they were going to go back at the
p K eighty in November almost was a big ten
as a big time so they deserve a lot of credit.

(01:35:11):
But yeah, it was you know, but kind of the
flip side of that is, you know, those experiences are
you know, kind of imprinted now on your d n A.
And and you do have Josh Perkins who logged a
lot of minutes and it was a big part of
you know, the run. You do have Jonathan Williams who

(01:35:31):
was a huge part of last year's team, and Silas
Nelson was a nice uh you know guy coming off
the bench last year and so uh and and Kelly
and Tilly. So those experiences of playing all the way
you know to the first week in April are kind
of imprinted on into their d n A and now

(01:35:54):
they've kind of, you know, helped take the next step.
You never quite sure as a coach if some of
your guys you were kind of role players a year before,
can step up and be the guys. But uh, you
know this, these guys have done a really nice job
with that. What changed with this team when you guys
lost at home to St. Mary's, you know, uh, a

(01:36:18):
little bit of it was just kind of like a
bad five minutes. We were in control of that game
for long uh stretches, and then we just kind of
loft the way a little bit, uh as far as
a couple of empty possessions, and I think we it
really gave us kind of a almost like a rallying

(01:36:38):
point and a purpose and a reason. So like, okay, hey,
now now we've got to flip this thing and we
we really got to be the Hunters, and we were
just on pretty much a mission from that day going
forward to you know, to take care of business so
we could get back to play in St. Mary's down
at their place, and then just kind of to continue

(01:37:00):
on that mission to you know, we had to go
into b y U I know you you spent some
time there. You know, it was a nineteen thousand people
there in the last regular season game of the year,
and into going there and get it done. And then
we played great in the conference tournament. I mean, our
guys were fantastic on the defensive end, and we were
moving the ball and making shots on the offensive end.

(01:37:21):
And it was it was just that stretch we had
against b. Y U is one of the better stretches
we've probably had up here in my tenure as far
as uh, you know, twenty minutes of basketball. Yeah, twenty
two run was pretty spected. It was just like a
downship like and and we saw was there any level
in all honesty of disappointment because you wanted St. Mary's

(01:37:41):
one more time to make sure everyone knew whose conference
it was? Uh no, I mean a little, I mean
a little bit, uh just a little just they had
to be maybe not you, but the guys like, man,
we want Saint Mary's one more time than B y
U beach like, ah, we want to St. Mary's. You know,

(01:38:03):
I think we've had such a spirited riot. To be
honest with you, I think you know, B y U,
who's the one that's beat us three times up here
in the kennel. It's kind of un and we've you know,
we have a tremendous respect, you know, we're just how
they operate and the level they run their program out
and I think, uh, I think the guys knew what

(01:38:26):
we were in for with them. I mean they have
three really legitimate high level players and Ows and Bryant
and Uhyoly Child and so we kind of knew what
we're up against there and and uh, but no, I
didn't sinse that really at all. I felt bad for St. Mary's,

(01:38:46):
you know, uh, they had a you know, an outstanding year,
and I didn't kind of felt bad full on the way,
kind of all the way. But mark you joining us
on the Doug Ot Live Show Fox Sports Radio. So
many years in the past, we've had the same interview
at the aim time, and we've talked about what it
would be different, you know, how you know, can you
finally break through and get to the final four. Now

(01:39:07):
you've done that and you guys are a play here
away there from being defending national champions. But how how
different does it feel preparing for the tournament where there
isn't any monkey off your there isn't any monkey on
your back to get to the final four. Yeah, it
would be good to not have to talk about the
the uh you know, magical monkey or the make believe

(01:39:31):
monkey or whatever. So that'll be that'll be a nice
respite from that. I just ask you about it anyway.
But I think it takes the mystery and out of it.
You know, this little we've kind of lifted back the
curtain from the Wizard of Oz and so we know,
I mean, we legitimately know we can draw upon some

(01:39:53):
some real experiences last year what we had to do
and how deep we had to dig. And also you
know that we did it and it's been done, and
we know the path now we I mean, we understand
the path that that it takes to get to San Antonio.
And and we're not just talking about it like everybody,
you know, like a bunch of teams weren't like we
were last year. Right now, I mean, we legitimately know

(01:40:16):
the path and have experienced it. So I think that's
gonna be a real positive for us moving forward. Whether
or not it effects outcomes any games or or journey
or notis but it's nice to for our staff to
understand it. It's nice for a handful of players to
understand it. Mark Few joining us on the Doug Gotlips Show.

(01:40:38):
There has been discussion about the possibility of the Zags
leaving the wcc H what what would be it would
be your sense of where those discussions are. I would
say they are. And I don't know how this particular uh,
you know, episode or whatever you wanna call it, h leak,

(01:41:00):
but it seems like that seems to be how theys
work to stay in the age we've looked at. Yeah,
we're always We've looked at many opportunities and will continue
to look at opportunities because it's it's about you know,
what's what what is best for Gonzaga, Gonzaga's brand and
Gonzaga's program and the school moving forward, and so h

(01:41:23):
you know, this isn't the first situation we've looked at,
you know, quite frankly, and so the uh, we're gonna
do what's best for us. We think we've been fair
and more than equitable partners in the situation we're still in,
and we stand we we very much value the you know,
how good the West Coast Conference has been to us.

(01:41:45):
I mean we've you know, through it all, we've earned
I think at least two number one seeds, maybe three,
and and uh, you know, a couple of number two
seeds and some fours and suchs. So it's certainly been
a good partner ship for us along those lines too.
So we just got a kind of we got a
kind of way out. You know, they're good with the

(01:42:06):
bad and see what's best moving forward. You know, as
you know, in an ever changing landscape at College of House.
But it's just not the same as it was when
I got into this profession. It's it's it's you know,
because of teams like Gonzaga, because you know, there's been
power shifts all across at it. You know, some of
those powers that I grew up with just aren't powers anymore.

(01:42:27):
And it's it's a different landscape. No, Like listen, when
you first got this thing going, Pepperdine was kind of
the Pepperdine was. And then there was one year when
chief rival right, and then in San Diego had that
one year with with Jason keep where they made the
tournament and you know St. Mary's when Randy first got Yeah,
Santa Clair was very drum and they actually used to

(01:42:49):
get to host the tournament, right, I mean Santa There
Now now it's always in Vegas. I guess the part
that's it's interesting to me is I understand the size
of the school is different, and so the budgets of
those schools in the Mountain West is different. But they're
in many of the same cities. Right, there's a Northern
California one, there's a there's actually nothing in southern California's

(01:43:11):
San Diego. But so you'd lose being in l A
or at least how the conference is currently constructed. Uh,
you would you would add Vegas, which you which you
don't have, and of course you guys spend plenty of
time in Vegas, either recruiting preseason tournaments or or in
the in the postseason. You'd add New Mexico like it
just I think it strikes people as weird when it's

(01:43:34):
a lot. It's it's not like you're going into new markets,
like if you're the big East thing. Uh So, what
would the logic behind it be? Uh? I think the
logic would be, you know, maybe uh a bigger platform

(01:43:55):
when with the addition of U League wise, you know,
does it does it allow uh for us more wiggle
room on you know, the one on the one or
two years where you know you don't take care of business.
You know, Um, but that by the way that it
almost never happens, right, I just I understand, but like

(01:44:18):
I know, but now, now you are not Joe fan.
You are very well educated, crafty, uh participant in college basketball.
And now I've been around the analysis of college basketball,
so you know, you don't just wiggle your nose and
it magically happens. So, I mean, you know me and

(01:44:39):
you understand that. So you do have to prepare for
that day. So you're saying, eventually, if we have a
bad year, you're in a multi bid league. It well,
not a bad year. I'm saying, if you have an
above average year, listen in Spokeane. In Spokeane, you lose
like more than five games, You've had a bad year.
Don't go to the market, don't go down to the
piggy Wiggley. You're gonna let you know, yeah, probably I

(01:45:04):
would think so, so uh uh yeah. So I mean
there's that, there's that, you know, there's the financial considerations
that you know, my letting my a D deal with
and and you're right, you're you're you're nailing it. I mean,
I do think and I think I've heard you in
the past. Um, there's gonna be another major move I

(01:45:25):
think with all of us high level Division one schools,
and whether that goes to you know, sixty four of
us doing something like doing something here and then getting
together at the end for you know, this magical ns
A tournament that we can still keep alive, or you know,
whether there's eighty of us moving forward or whatever, because

(01:45:48):
you know, you do have to legislate these things differently,
and we're gonna go through this as we kind of
venture down the road with some of these changes that
I think are coming in, whether it's you know, having
your guys be able to sign with agents, whether it's
having them you know, maybe be able to take loans out,
whether it's enhancing the scholarship money beyond the cost of

(01:46:11):
attendance and all that. Beau Za is going to do,
whatever Duke's gonna do, whatever Kentucky is gonna do, whatever
uh North Carolina is going to do. I mean, that's
the commitment we have here. And I think you know,
we're going to be looking for like situations that that
that that that makes that move easier, if that makes sense.

(01:46:34):
How many times have you been asked about being taken
care of financially from some of your recruiting, you know, uh,
as far as them asking hey, what can you do
or whatever? You know, what's awesome about this job? As
I think there's a general assumption or understanding that we

(01:46:57):
don't go down that road and oh, we almost get
to avoid that whole thing entirely, and so they don't
even and I'm not gonna say it hasn't happened, and
you know, we just say, look, we don't do that here.
We don't have to do it. It doesn't it's just
not what we do. But it reminds me of being

(01:47:17):
kind of a p K a preacher's kid growing up.
There were certain uh opportunities that were never presented to
me because I was the local pastor's kid and I
was I was blessed to not have those opportunities presented
to me when I was younger. I don't know how
I would have handled it. So, uh, it's a little
bit like that. I think that you know, we people

(01:47:41):
always say that you know, I no, no, no, you know,
you guys don't need to get followed this kid, he's
he's one of these guys, and so it's nice to
I tell you, that's what makes this job so awesome
is we can win a national championship, as we've shown
last year, and we know we've never really had to, uh,
you know, challenge our values or be tempted to go

(01:48:05):
down that road, which I think is is really cool. Okay,
but I like this is this is the struggle that
I have is I'm told from fans and from people
in my own industry, this is a systemic problem. We
got all these issues with college basketball, and I'm not
denying that there are issues. We had Tony Bennett on
last week and he was like, I've never been asked.
I think it's because everybody knows we don't do that.

(01:48:27):
I watched John Beilin when the Big Ten Tournament championship.
I think everybody believes John Bilin is beyond reproach. Um.
I even think you could make I don't know for
a fact, but I think one of the things that's
changed with Jay Wright is when he talks about I
won't recruit Villanova kind of guys. It's the kind of
guys that they're They're just avoiding some of some of
those sorts of distractions. I mean, you look at the

(01:48:48):
programs nationally that are not only doing it the right
way but succeeding. So how how, how how much of
a problem is it really that we need to discuss
changing I would tell all those people, it's not systemic,
and you just you just explain why it's not systemic
that some of the most successful national programs aren't aren't

(01:49:12):
even remotely involved with any of that stuff. So, uh,
it isn't systemic. It it affects a certain population of
players coming out that choose that, and it it affects
a certain you know, I would say, small percentage of

(01:49:32):
schools that have decided that that's what they've needed to
do to to remain competitive and are really really highly competitive, uh,
the world of college basketball. But it's not systemic. It
doesn't require us to blow up the whole system. It's just,

(01:49:53):
you know, we're going to have to be diligent to
protect uh, you know, the great sport that is college basketball.
And and but we also have to be flexible enough
to make some changes and not be bullheaded and think
that everything's perfect right now. Um. But and and there's
blame to be shared on both sides. And and I
also don't think this is entirely up to the n

(01:50:16):
c A A. I mean, it's more about coaches stepping
up and and and doing the right things, and and
individual schools stepping up and taking ownership for what's going
on and and and not everybody just pitting it on
the n c A. I don't think that's there at all,
a right. So, so here's here's my assessment of what

(01:50:37):
it's like to be a Zag and why I think
the system does in fact work. And I understand there's
some tweaks, but there's this assumption that players don't get anything. Right,
you give a scholarship, they don't get anything. My, my, my, my,
here's how right there. Just to give you a little
bit of where I'm at. I got a high school senior.

(01:51:00):
So we're looking at the financials on and it's like,
I mean, it's a significant investment in this, but but
let me let me for your for your players, okay,
And and when any time you're you go to Spokane,
you know all the former Zags live around there, have
a life around there, and many of if they even
if they go play professionally overseas. That's kind of where

(01:51:22):
they come back to you, and there's a there's a
tangible value to saying, hey, I'm a Zag. I was
a part of something that that And the perfect example
for me is like, there's plenty of people in this
profession that didn't get the opportunities that I have received,
But it's because I played and was able to create
a name for myself, much like so many Zags you
have who been able like Dan dick Cal who was

(01:51:43):
a National Player of the Year playing in the NBA,
but now many of his business interests as well as
covering college basketball are in Spokane. Why because he's Dan
Dick I who play Gonzaga. And I think that so
often times, in addition to the financial and simply getting
into school is hard enough, people dismiss the post career
benefits of the name, image and likeness you've created playing

(01:52:05):
with the team. Who's got the name in the front
of the uniform. That's that's fair, isn't it. Oh, it's
it's extremely fair, and and it it it's a huge,
you know benefit if you do play high level college basketball.
Matt Santangelo runs hoop Fest here. You know, which is
not just the largest three on three tournament in the world,

(01:52:25):
but it's branched out into other cities and and uh,
there's no question. I heard one coach, I think it
was David Shaw, say, hey, you know, while you're in college,
you're training to be a professional, and you're preparing yourself
with your mind as well as your body and skill
set and all that. So uh again, yeah, I think

(01:52:50):
you built your brand uh in college, and then we're
able to take advantage of that through a lot of
hard work and some good breaks and all that to
be where you are now. But I don't know if
it would have happened if you wouldn't have played college
basketball at oak State. You know, maybe it would have.
I don't know, but uh yeah, I think that's why

(01:53:10):
we don't need to blow the whole thing up just
because you know, people don't think they're being properly compensated.
The other misnomer about this is this is kind of
it's a net zero enterprise. This this at this idea
that the n c A storing all this money and

(01:53:31):
some big giant ben and uh, you know, if if
we really want to talk about this, we have to
have mature conversations about non revenue sports and all the
championships that are running and and and Title nine and
all these things. Those things aren't just magically you know,
financially right, yeah, I mean they would not happen if

(01:53:52):
it wasn't for high level uh college basketball and obviously
college football, they would not There would be no probably
travel and and championships and things like that. So I
think everybody they're they're just a lot of people are
just jumping on the emotional part of this and taking
the low lying fruit off the bottom of the tree.

(01:54:14):
And it's a it's a you know, I mean, all
this money that's supposedly generated goes to support all the
sports of them which are non revenue generating. The actually
they're actually they actually lose money, right, like the big
big thing. Actually, not only they not generate revenue, they
actually lose money. And oh but no, yeah, they lose

(01:54:37):
hundreds of thousands of dollars. Last thing, let's bring it
back to this team. I think last year, every but
the last couple of years, everybody knew you had something special,
and you had some opportunities and you got really really close.
Is there any thought that let's say you got to
another final four. This would actually be more rewarding because, like,
if you can do this on a year in which

(01:54:59):
you lose is all of the veterans that you lost
last year, If you can do something like it really
does mean that your program can sustain almost anything. I mean,
it would would this be more rewarding in any way
to get back or to get even back close? I mean,
I don't know if it would be more rewarding because
I'm just telling you, Doug, last year, that entire run

(01:55:21):
was I want to I mean a special time in
my careers as I've ever ever had, ever experienced it.
For just a variety of reasons, we'd have to do
like an two hour show, but it would certainly, you know,
the craving to have that feeling again is is beyond strong.

(01:55:44):
So you want to experience it again. It would be uh,
very very special to do it with you know, this
particular group that that that that didn't have the expectations
in the burden of expectations that uh last year's team
had as far as building with the undefeated season and

(01:56:05):
all that. Uh, but yet these guys have just kind
of plugged along and plugged along. We've Actually, I mean
I have certainly enjoyed just kind of laying down outside
of the you know, the all the all the attention
that's out there. We've kind of been kind of down
in the weeds a little bit, not a whole lot
of focus on it, and it's been very enjoyable from

(01:56:28):
from that aspect. So I think we would It would
just be awesome, especially to see like a Jonathan Williams
Silas and their senior year to be able to, you know,
step up and put their kind of stamp on their
senior year. Didn't you make something you did? Make me
think of one more if you could do one thing
different last year that would help you win, That would

(01:56:48):
have helped you win the next keep Zack Collins in
the game. It's a little bit out of my control,
but I think that would have solved a lot of problems. Yeah.
My my brother is big on why not six fouls?
And I was like, well, it kind of changes all
of things. He's like, yeah, But like, isn't the whole
idea to see the best kids on the floor. Like

(01:57:09):
you remember back when Ohio State played Georgetown the Final four, right,
and you had Hibbert and Odin and they're both in
foul table. Like that's not kind of not the idea
of it. Like I get that the officials are trying
to do their job, but I don't know if there's
a way to it. Kind of fully changes the sport though,
if you add another foul he even just a tournament,
I would just say, let's quit calling ridiculous offensive fouls.

(01:57:32):
But that's a whole other subject. Uh No, you know
what I don't have. We don't have one regret. We
do not have one regret on how we prepared, on
how we handled the experience, on how we had fun
while we were there. My team played really really good,
So we're not looking back on well, if we would
have did this or that. Yeah, I mean we wish

(01:57:54):
we could have got a stop of a minute ago,
and we wish we could have converted uh at the
their end and and we would have been fine. So
uh no, not not no regrets or anything. So well, listen,
I wish you the best of luck uh Sunday and
then of course into next week, look forward to catch
NBTel Marcy and all of that, all the kids and

(01:58:16):
the few clan look forward to seeing you guys at
least at the final four. In the meantime, thanks so
much for being our guests. Yeah, you creative pleasures are
as conditions on the field change, so can your insurance.
He needs talk with the Farmers eight today so you
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agent Farmers dot com? A farmer can't you got? We'll
get to the busy day in other sports in the press,

(01:58:39):
but we're gonna focus on college basketball because of your
conversation with Mark Few. Kentucky ends up winning their SEC
quarterfinal game against Georgia sixty two to forty nine. So
the Wildcats will get Alabama in tomorrow's one of the
semifinals tomorrow and say those after the Crimson Tide dropped
Auburn eighty one to sixty three. Colin Sexton thirty one
points in that win. America can Conference quarterfinals. Cincinnati a

(01:59:02):
winner earlier today. They get Memphis next because of this
go to brute off the left side, across the timeline,
Bruton at the buzzer. Here's the shot Tigers the second
game winner of the year. They did it in Temple.
They just get it to sixty seven sixty four. Dave

(01:59:24):
Wallace Shin from the Learfield Sports on the call A
ten quarterfinals Rhode Island at St. Joe's pick up victories
Marshall one. In Conference USA, Doug a ten point victory
against Southern miss while Western Kentucky is up on Old
Dominion two six minutes left in the other Conference USA semifinals,
West Kentucky super super counted team. What are the Browns doing?

(01:59:45):
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(02:00:13):
You gotta get to Hooters and try the new smoke wings,
the whole new way to crave wings with all the
taste and half the calories. You can eat twice as
many Hooters the press. Damn by the way, he got
finding out a little bit more about that trade that
will officially go down on Wednesday. But Jarvis Landry being

(02:00:35):
dealt by the Dolphins to the Cleveland Browns. Cleveland is
going to get or send it to draft picks to
Miami in exchange for the wide receiver. There are reports
Doug that one of the picks another and nineteen neither
of those picks are occurring in the first two rounds.
Makes it a little better, at least in my thought
process on it. I didn't like it at first. That

(02:00:56):
eases it a little bit. But I don't even It's
not even necessarily about the picks. It's about the money
that they're gonna have to spend, right, and and they
have a ton of money, but I just don't know
if this is money really well spent. You know what
jervis lant. The good thing about him playing the process.
You know what he is. You know he can play
very good possession wide receivers, not quite Odell Beckham's Jr.
But he can catch a hundred balls. But you also

(02:01:18):
know he wants to be paid like a superstar wide receiver.
And I don't know if he is. The Dolphins surely
didn't think he was worth that that amount of money.
One guy who will sorry, okay, we'll try to entertain
one guy who is going to be paid like a
superstar receiver. Mike Evans five year extension with the Buccaneers
worth a report at eighty two and a half a
million dollars Doug. I've seen a lot of numbers on

(02:01:41):
ESPN s is it's fifty five million guaranteed, MMQB saying
it's thirty eight million guaranteed. We know this. Sixteen and
a half million dollars annually puts him second behind Antonio Brown. Um,
it's a lot of money. I'm not a huge Mike
Evans guy, because you go back two years ago, had
a ton of drops. But again the devil you know
versus de W don't how much you costs. I would

(02:02:03):
guess it's on the lower end in terms of guarantee. Um.
The initial report felt like an agent report, whereas now
the lower end report felt like a team report. Hold Hold, Hold.
The final number is gonna be important because that's gonna
set the market. Agreed for lack of a better word,
is good. Not only is it the end of the
Richard Sherman era in Seattle, officially released by the Seahawks today,

(02:02:25):
but also the end of the Adam Pacman Jones era
in Cincinnati Bengals not picking up the option. I don't
think he thinks it's cool. He will be a free agent. Yeah, Look,
he had the off the field thing. Going back to
last year. I think this is more of an age thing.
Pacman Jones had a ton of longevity in this league,
but that defense and some of their pieces aged Pacman Jones. Uh,
this is the salary cap casualty, but also an age casualty.

(02:02:49):
Tory Smith could say about the Philadelphia The Eagles traded
him to Carolina today for cornerback Darryl Worley. Eagles continue
to wheel and deal from Tory Smith was out a
lot of money. That's the one that he was gonna
be a cap casualty. So I don't really understand why
you're taking on all of that contract. But uh, good
for Howie Roseman be able to get a player back
for a player he didn't want in a contract he

(02:03:10):
didn't want. Tiger Woods at four under par after two
rounds of Player of the Valvespar Championship, tied for second,
two shots behind the leader. Corey Connors, Rory mclroy and
Jordan's Speeth can watch Target this weekend. They're not likely
to make the cut. Tiger is playing every week and
seems to be getting better. I think these are all
good things, not just for Tiger Woods. Bag it out
there and pressed. That was the press. But for us,

(02:03:33):
the sports fans, thanks thanks all right. We had some
New York pizza. We sank whom Bay. We're enjoying the hoop,
We're enjoying the golf. I hope you're enjoying a great spring.
Hope it's spring where you are from the Northeast. I
guess you can just buckle down and enjoy the snow.
A lot of it melted off. In the meantime, Monday
will be back. I'll break down the brackets for you

(02:03:53):
to try and pick you some winners. I'm not gonna
scream online about teams that get in and don't get in,
but I'll make a ruckus. That's what I do. This
is the Doug Gotlip Show, Fox Sports Radio.

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