March 25, 2025 • 40 mins
Are we talking about the wrong coach for COY in college basketball? USC announces JuJu Watkins is OUT for the remainder of the game. Jason explains why he already misses Danny Hurley. And Tiger Woods the new U.S. Director of Fitness?
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a big story out of the men's tournament coming up
in a couple of minutes, but just a quick update.
We're still waiting to get some sort of diagnosis on
Juju Watkins. Look, the best player in college basketball, goes
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down in a heap in the first half of USC's
game against Mississippi State. USC is leading the game right now,
forty three to twenty four. But on a fast break,
couple of defenders on either side of her. Juju Watkins
goes in. As she's approaching the basket, she just plants
on her right leg and her right knee bends very
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unnaturally to the left. She goes down in a heap,
an incredible amount of pain. She is carried off the floor.
We are waiting for an update. Here's what it sounded
like when it happened a little while ago.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Great defense from the Trojans, and Watkins goes down hard
and she's grabbing her right knee quickly, grimacing in pain.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
ESPN on the call. You can and again you can
hear the sound. Everybody in the in the arena just
go down and hush because they knew something and bad happened.
And you know we said a few minutes ago, Mike,
you know, you watch the replay of this, and it's
the replay from behind where you can see her right legs.
She goes down to plant and it just bends into
to the left and it you're looking at the defenders
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and yeah, the defenders kind of close on her a
little bit, but this was I just planted and and
my and the leg just went to the left. The
part of this that that that I see is that
I'm looking. I'm not a doctor. I'm just going by
what I see here. But the the trauma seemed like
it was it was maybe the top part of the knee,
like not not below like not where you normally see
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all the knee goes to the side and it's it's
something from the knee down. This seemed like there could
have been some quarter trump like above the knee, like
cause that you see that's where her leg just just
kind of just kind of moves to the to the left.
It's not where hey, the knee moves and the rest
of the leg kind of you know, goes down towards
her and she falls right. It's like it's like the
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knee just kind of moves that way. So I wonder
where that trauma is to that part of the leg,
But it looked like it could even be at the
knee or above the knee when I saw it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, it's pretty gruesome for that behind shot again, you know,
watching it live action as we were, you know, it's
trying to split the defender, trying to you know, get
yourself to stop, and a little bit of contact with
the inside defender. You got a defender on either side
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as she's coming down on a break and the leg
buckles and just completely unnatural thing. That the most concerning,
right obviously the video of what the leg does. But
then there's not even a cursory attempt as they get
to her to see the old hey, can you put
any pressure on it? There was no even thought for
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a second of all, right, let's get you standing up
and see if you have any kind of that ability.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
To at least put cursory pressure on it.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
They immediately just lifted her up and carried her off
in one fell swoop. But to you at your point, yeah,
it's trying to determine exactly where the trauma is. I
would say, just just above the knee, right, whatever that
juncture is. I haven't taken physiology in a while, so
I could probably get my daughter on the line and
(04:22):
she'd be a better internet doctor.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
The knee bones connected to your oh.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Okay, wow, come on, shin bone, and the shin bones
connected to the ankle button. But there's a lot of
other stuff tendons and that the song conveniently leaves out.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
But you know the thing is, look not doctors obviously here.
But we've been you know, hosting these shows seeing injuries
like this for a long time.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Were playing basketball before, So there is that.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Certainly, if if the injury was to the top part
of her knee and leg, it certainly would explain that
the yelling. It certainly would explain the screaming that she
had on the floor, right that kind of because you know,
a torn acl sometimes sometimes it gets you and sometimes
you don't feel it. You try to walk it off.
Sometimes you're in pain, but sometimes it's, oh man, what
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a man. But she never stopped. She never stopped the anguish,
she never stopped being in pain. It was really it
was tough to watch it, and it's tough to talk about,
but it is a big story and everybody's got fingers crossed,
and we got all good thoughts out there for her.
Hope hopefully it can be hyper extension and hey, a
couple of weeks and she dodges an injury and she's
(05:31):
back for the Final four or something like that. But
I mean, really, I'm just, you know, kind of just
we're just hoping for good news at this point, Yeah,
hoping for some kind of news.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Seeing the outpouring of love across the women's basketball world,
from collegiate players and w NBA figures obviously, figures from
all over sports, and just a heart wrenching kind of moment,
right that expectation of, all right, here, here's a big
run for Juju Watkins in this squad. You know, the
(06:02):
inevitable showdown with Yukon and what Gino Arima's got going
and going on through these final couple of weeks that
you know, the women's side storylines as you get deeper
into it, once you get past, for lack of a
better term, the prelim games, because as much you know,
hand ringing as there was on the men's side of hey,
(06:23):
Cinderella hasn't shown up on the women's side, you felt
bad for some of the teams that were being bludgeoned
right in those first round games. So it's like, all right,
now we're getting down to brass tacks and we're gonna
see the second round and it's an ISO on a
Monday night, and we get this injury with one of
the biggest, brightest stars we've got going right. Plenty of
articles chronicling the success, the nil deals, the big opportunities
(06:49):
and obviously looking towards the next level as the WNBA
looks to continue its growth, monetization, et cetera. That Juju
Watkins a big part of one of the faith is
going forward. And now we sit and wait for a
medical report and an update that gives us some sort
of clarity off of what was and excruciating, excruciating to watch,
(07:12):
and certainly she showed it in her face and the
scream I mean silent in the rest of the rest
of the arena. There's no doubt that people in the
three hundred levels hurt her. That's how much pain she
was in exit.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
How about a Fresco exit swollen dome? Jason Smith Mike
Harmon live from the ti Raq dot Com studios.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Again, we'll love more on this.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
The game has just hit halftime and as soon as
we get an update, either from endgame or after, I'm
sure Lindsay Gottlieb will talk about this USC's head coach
following the game. Meanwhile, speaking of coaches, all right, now
we talked about this last hour.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Saint John's is on my never again. Let's never going
to pick them do anything again because they let me
down so badly. However, maybe we were talking about the
wrong guy being the coach of the Year in college
basketball because Rick Patino had gotten all the run this year.
Look what he did with the Saint John's program was imments.
Uh as bad as losing to Arkansas was in the
game of the tournament so far. I mean, clearly, there's
(08:09):
no game that's had a bigger impact on the tournament
that we're talking about more than Saint John's in Arkansas,
it looked like it was a final four game, was
played like a final four game. It was officiated like
the referees thought they were in the final four. You
will know my name because I'm gonna call everything.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But Patino did a great job this year, right. Saint
John's was terrible. They figured out the nil. They have
a couple of big rich donors. Hey we got some money, Rick,
We're getting you back there. Great year for Rick Patino.
But just for a second, because so much of the
attention has been on Saint John's losing, because they are
the two seeds, the biggest seed to lose in the
tournament so far, all thanks to you. I know, I
should have just stayed away from him. They would have
(08:45):
beat Arkansas by twenty I know, I know I picked
Saint John's to win it all. No, no, no, no, they
were screwed the second you picked up Sorry, Rick, Jason
Smith picked you to win the championship.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Oh that was screwed. Now I'm not coming back. You
didn't wear the suit, damn fault. Yeah, white suit. Maybe.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Look, there's whole area a thing that the guy from
McNee state that everybody jumped on board his bandwagon.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
There's something about superstition.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
There's something in these sports about being who you are
and carrying that when you get the outpouring of love
like Patino did and White Suit Day. Conveniently, as there's
all sorts of Godfather marathons running around on televisions, that
you don't bring that out for a matchup against coach
cal who you've had a very difficult past with in
(09:29):
your head to head matchups, that you don't try to
bring that extra juice that's on you and it's on
you Smith.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
But okay not.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I mean so to get away from Rick Patino here,
understand something that for a guy who had saw the
shine come off in the last few years, because Kentucky
hadn't really gone far in the tournament, the succeed and
pro seed John Calipari for a long time. We have
this guy's the best coach in college basketball. But then
sort of Kentucky kind of fell off the map a
little bit. Now they're back on because they're at the
(09:58):
sweet sixteen. Congratulations Mark Pope. But Cali Perry, people forget
a year ago at this time when he bolted for Arkansas,
which was whoa really yes, bolting for Arkansas. He had
no players, right members very famous at I think he
had one player. He had one player at Arkansas, one player,
(10:19):
which pisses me off because I look at Syracuse, who's
been building for like four or five years, can't get
rid of the back. In the NCAA tournament, Cali Perry
had no players or one guy. Sure, I think he
had one player who was saying one guy. Remember the
big interview when he had after what what do you do? Well,
we don't don't have anybody. I don't have any players.
What can I say? Didn't have anybody and built a
team started off zero to five, right, and you know
(10:40):
that you've heard that all weekend long. Started out on
five no players. When he staw he went to Arkansas,
didn't have anybody he was gonna have to bring back
Todd Day and Lee Mayberry and Corlis Williamson if they
were going to try to get Arkansas guys back there
that were really good.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Once upon a time we got a Todd Day rep
n like that, the may Day backcourt. Oh man, I
love that may Dallard who would shoot the ball from
the logo like twenty years before that was a cool
thing to do.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
A thing.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Sure h forty minutes a hell knowing well that Arkansas
team of the nineties were fun man, but he had
no players and in one year not only built a
team to get back into the tournament. But here they
are in the sweet sixteen and they've authored the biggest,
most high profile ups to the tournament so far. Are
we we're talking about the wrong guy for Coach of
the Year at this but we might be. We might
(11:25):
be talking about there. It might wind up being John
Caliperi going, hey, I never Wedny Man, I'm back, guys,
I'm back.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
No.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I think for Calipari, a lot of it becomes And
I talked about this a little bit with with Dan
Byer on the show I did yesterday. Is you know,
all of a sudden, these guys are cool again, right.
We like Rick Patino, we like Cali Peri. They went
away for a little while. And for Cali Perry, how
much Grevin am I gonna give him for something he
was doing for twenty years when it wasn't allowed.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Like all he did was build and buy a team.
He was doing that.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Nobody celebrated the contracts of former players more than the
one and Done architect himself. So yeah, all credit. You
went and found the best team you could cobble together.
But again, you'd been doing that on the one and done.
You just needed a new venue by which to do it.
Maybe the Kentucky people were tired of giving you money
towards teams that didn't compete the same way that they
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should have in theory.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
In March.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Now you go to Arkansas and you got this big run.
Coach Patino still has a lot of questions to answer
for those final five minutes of how they played, not
just that R. J. Lewis was sitting on the bench,
but also just offensively bound the ball inside Nash you'd
another jump shot. But yeah, coach call, he gets his
love and everything old is new again and it's warm
(12:45):
and fuzzy because hey, you haven't done this since twenty nineteen.
Good for you, right, first first Sweet sixteen since twenty nineteen,
So maybe it's just a I remember that guy. Because
we're holding onto the vestiges of college basketball passed, because
we've got a couple of grizzled old veteran coaches still
getting after it. Because nobody knows who the hell the
players are on the team. Because I looked at a
(13:07):
stack of trading cards last night of a college basketball product.
Half the guys aren't on the team that they're pictured
with from a year ago, and they're still playing in college.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Like, yeah, that guy's not on that team. He's over there.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
He's so trying to even play that game with the scorecard.
It's like, good luck. At least with the college coaches,
we know who they are, and Cala Perry gets the win.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
No players.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Like his introductory press conference, he said, I met with
the team. There's no team.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
That's what he said.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I met with a team. There's no team, no scholarship players.
A year ago at this time nobody didn't have anybody.
You'd have a team that was just him in a room, going, okay,
let's go get some players sweet sixteen, But think about.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
How great that is though, to be able to start
from scratch. You don't have to fix anybody's problems that's
been in the building.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
They're not beholden to the coaching staff before them.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Because that's one of the big things that I'm always
curious when a new coach comes in, how quickly if
you do have a veteran laden squad and a bunch
of holdovers, how much should they embrace the new tactics
that you want to teach?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Right?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
You see it at every level, right, think about your
daughter's softball and soccer, my daughter in soccer. Like, new
coaches and new ideas aren't always welcome, and that goes
all the way up the ladder, particularly when you have
potential to move like you do in today's collegiate game
more so than ever, Like for John Calipara, they just
had to be the greatest thing ever. It was like
bringing in all those freshmen again. But now it's like, hey,
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you want to come here, not only to get a paycheck.
You're buying into what I'm selling. It's brilliant, it's it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
He didn't have a team, and I look and I
go boy, and I look and I go for different teams,
like whether it's Syracuse anybody else going We've been rebuilding,
trying to get bringing the top guys for four or
five years. Can't get back to the tournament. No I
had no guys. No I'm in the tournament.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
No, you need to fire them all, fire them all
and start from scratch. Decide who that one glue guy
code one glue guy in the build.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
He may be coach of the decade for pulling this off.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I mean really, if he wins it all and he
wears that suit code he had on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I don't think he's got to do more than anymore. Heck,
got to the Sweet sixteen, I had no players. Be
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Speaker 1 (17:00):
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Speaker 3 (17:05):
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Speaker 1 (17:07):
No, once your on I never again, lest you will
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Speaker 1 (18:00):
Now before we get to Danny Hurley. The update the
official update we have on Juju Watkins, USC superstar, likely
the number one pick in the WNBA draft best player
in college basketball. You've seen her play all season long.
Electrifying player went down in a heap with what looked
to be an extremely serious knee injury in the first
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half of number one seed USC's game against Mississippi State.
They've not been in trouble in this game. USC is
still up by twenty in the second half, but Watkins
goes down driving down court on a fast break and
her right knee plants and the knee just goes completely
to one side. It could be an injury very high
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up on her knee or the upper part of her leg.
She went down screaming, was taken off the floor immediately.
There was no standing up trying to get her to
put weight on her foot. She was carried off the floor.
We are waiting for an update and I'm sure we'll
talk to Lindsay Gottlieb following the game. There's still ways
to go. The game is still in the middle of
the third quarter, but the official update from USC Juju
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Watkins with a leg injury. She will not return of
the game tonight. There will be more updates as the
night goes on. So she's being evaluated right now by
Keck Medicine. So that's where we're at right now. Juju
Watkins being evaluated by Kech Medicine, and there will be
an update on her following the game tonight. We will
wait and see and all, you know, prayers up in
(19:24):
all our best thoughts out there that Juju Watkins is okay.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Yeah, I mean, you talk about a woman who's she's
taken a beating this year, for sure. We've watched plenty
of her games, marveled at some of her performances along
the way in this one, great expectations that you're going
to get a deep run from usc and you still
very well might.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Right.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
One of the things we talked about in the tournament
was the depth at the top, right, not of the
field overall, but those first four to six teams all
vying for best number one. I can't believe we were
the fourth number one and so but Juju Watkins being
one of those players to watch and to get celebrated
and obviously, you know, anticipating a huge run as we
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get towards the next w NBA season.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
She gets cut off in her lane.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
The more you watch it, right, you have the two
defenders to where you get a bit of contact to
where she extends her off arm like hey, get off me,
and that's when the leg buckles. So like a lot
of just debate of you know, that contact and how
much that throws off her gait to then create undoe pressure.
Like so now it's all the armchair doctors flying in.
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But as of now, we have no official work.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
That's why when I saw the play happen, and you
can watch and go, okay, there's nothing dirty done. There's
no I'm sticking my foot in the way for you
to come down on it. You know, the defenders are
trying to get in and get the ball, and it's
it's almost like Juju Watkins. Sometimes I'm just gonna if.
I'm going if if. And you see this with with
players in the NFL, where they think they're running away
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from somebody and I'm just gonna try to out and
they know that they don't know that I can outrun you,
and so instead of cutting back and into the end zone,
I'm just going to try to outrun you. And the
defender catches up to them and tackles them at the
twenty instead of, hey, I cut back, I can get
into the ten and maybe into the end zone. It
looked like she was continuing to try to outrun them
and get ahead of them for a layup, and it
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got to the point where she realized, Okay, I'm not
going to and I'm a little off balance and I
need to make that step to slow down and get
myself under control. And that was the step where her
knee wound up going the other way. You know that,
you know, they got in her way a little bit
of her length, but she still was able to put
her foot out straight.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
And and it just you know where it was.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So whatever she was trying to do there to slow down,
I would think at some point looking at this, I mean,
I don't I don't know. I'm just going by what
I saw, but I go, wow, at some point you
maybe she realized, Okay, I'm not going to dribble by
everybody and I'm not going to get in the clear
for a lamp, so I need to make that cut
more towards the basket to try to draw contact or
a foul. And when she tried to do it, maybe
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it was a little too late. I mean, I'm just
kind of spitballing here a little bit because until we
hear from her and hear what she was trying to
do on the play, But clearly I'm dribbling. I'm going
as fast as I can. Everybody's going as fast as
they can, and when you try to stop on a dime,
that's when that's when things happen. And that's kind of
what she tried to do.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yeah, now we're watching, I mean, the emotion that the
USC squad is playing with every possession is like it's
the final shot, and hugs and cheering and backing each
other up, and you know you're you're watching just the
coming together with their star out. Pretty impressive run because
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you know, we saw how silent the crowd got in
the moment. But you know, give gott Leave her credit
she got she got them to refocus for the second
half to go out and finish the job.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, because because you don't know how you're going to react,
and when you see something like that and here goes
your best player and everything you're thinking of, all our
hopes and dreams are winning the tournament while with her
and we may have just seen her play her last
minute with USC. What can we do here? And they've
gone out and they've played terrific. I mean there was
no letdown. There's not even a point where Mississippi State
got close telling you, hey, they won on a run.
(23:12):
It was still it was it was thirteen to two
at this point, then it was like twenty one to four,
and then it was like twenty seven to eight. I mean,
this has been a they've been holding onto this blowout
for a long time. Again, still ways to go, but
it's not like they've been threatened in this game.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Kiki erie Offen is just dominating on the interior, and
you know she's ready to throw bows with whomever steps
in her way.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
In a little bit, I would say the energy high
for USC right now.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Again, more on this story as it develops, but you know,
we talked about Cali Parry a few minutes ago, and
maybe he's the coach of them. Maybe he's coach of
the decade for a year ago now, having no players,
zero players, zero scholarship players. When he took over at
Arkansas and they're in the sweet sixteen and they beat
Saint Johns.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
He's gonna teach you how to run a startup coach
of the day.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
He should he should, he should be how you start? Hey,
how do you start? With no employees? And in a
year we're gonna wind up winning. It's like a movie montage,
Like all of a sudden, Jimmy Chipwood comes back and
there's a movie, there's a montage and suddenly, oh the
Hickory's in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Oh they're great.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
All of a sudden, they couldn't buy a win. They
couldn't buy a win. And Olie is making free throws,
you know, granny style to win games. And I am
all of a sudden just a movie montage. But Danny
Hurley's out. Yeah, And we watched Ukon lose a great game.
Uh nearly had enough to pull it off against Florida yesterday,
And you saw everything with Danny Hurley in a nutshell.
The video that got out of him walking off the
(24:34):
floor in the tunnel as Baylor is going on the
floor to play the next game. You see Danny Hurley say,
I hope they don't blank you like they blanked us. Baylor,
good luck, Baylor. I hope they don't blank you like
they blanked us, talking about the officials.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And then we had him after Okay, here's Danny Hurley.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Salty Danny Hurley, this is out my first loss in
two and a half NCAA tournaments.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Salty Danny Hurley.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
But then we get this part of Hurley talk about
the emotion of seeing some of those guys on the
floor with him, some of his players like Alex Caravan
for the last time.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
You know, I was in a coach That's why I
was on the hot seat going into twenty three. You
got to ask Dave Bennett. But until these men, you know,
until Alex carab be put on the uniform. The players
(25:25):
change your life when you have such special people.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
So you got both ends of the salty Danny Hurley.
Then you got the emotion. You got this And I
didn't know how I'd feel about him until he was out,
and I thought, oh, man, when Yukon goes out, it's
going to be a breath of fresh air and people
are going to exhale because they're sick of his act.
They're sick of his I'm the greatest coach. I'm always
yelling and the optics are bad with Danny Hurley because
(25:50):
clearly the camera always finds him when he's yelling, which
is most of the time. But here's where isaag when
you think I'm gonna zeg, I already miss him because
and I thought about this like going, man, I really
you know, watching the game yestually and seeing them was like, Okay,
he's out, and I'm like, I already missed Danny Hurley.
Why college basketball isn't like it used to be where
(26:13):
you had the rock star coaches or all coaches who
were heroes that you watch for a long time, whether
it was Mike Krzyzewski or Roy Williams or Tom Izzo
until a few years ago, Jim Beheim like all these
guys that would come and go far in the tournament,
and these guys are the rock stars, right, and you
talked about them and it was it was look at
(26:34):
what they've been able to do, how many games were
able to win, their level of excellence. Now me might
not have been a fan of their team, but you
understood these guys were great at what they did, what
they said, always cut through, and these were rock star heroes.
Those guys are all gone now and college basketball isn't
made up of rock star heroes coaches where is the
most high profile guys are all anti heroes. They're all
(26:57):
guys that they're great coaches. But John great coach, but
Rick Patino great coach. But I mean you say Danny Hurley,
great coach. But always find a way either in their
past with what's gone on at different stops they have had,
or what they're like when they're on camera. College basketball,
(27:17):
that's what they have now, is they have the anti
hero coaches, the polarizing ones, and they're the ones that
make the sport great to follow because you're either rooting
for them, you're not rooting for them. But it's always
less interesting when they're gone, right, like the Yankees. You
may hate the Yankees, even imp by Yankees have a
lot of fans, but they got a lot of people
that hate them. But it doesn't matter. When the playoffs
(27:37):
are going on, it's more fun to have the Yankees
in it. These coaches took up these really are the
three most high profile guys in college basketball are Hurley
and Patino in Cali Perry, and they're all polarized and
all have reasons. You can love them as coaches, all
have reasons you can't stand them as coaches, and so
when one of them goes, it's like, oh, there's a
big hole to be filled here, and now we lost two.
We lost Hurley and Patino. But you know, so now
(28:00):
it's all real. Well, Calipari's got a lot on his shoulders,
but especially Hurley because winning the national title last two years,
building this dynasty that he's had at Yukon and almost
pulling off a win where clearly he didn't have the
team to do it, and he almost did. I can
even forgive him the well, you know, when he was
making NBA threes. That's what it takes to knock out
a team like ours like, oh dude, come on, and
you didn't have a great team this year. But again
(28:22):
I realize I kind of missed that kind of swagger
and cockiness and arrogance that pisses me off too, because
it makes the game more fun.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
The tournament's worse off.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Today than it was yesterday or over the weekend because
we lost two of those two of those coaches that
make it more fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
So, while there was never any scandal going back to
coach k the way you would finger wag and get
all you know, high and mighty and sanctimonious, Yeah, he
was on my down list.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, to the expend to the extent of, hey, look
at Cali Perry's programs, what happened when he left everywhere?
But Tino's had problems that he brought on himself for
a long time. Absolutely, and certainly there's finger wagging.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
In there's hey, the NCAA's coming to town.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
No, no, But with the NCD Albila coming to town,
it was why did they pick those guys? What did
you guys do to draw their higher what everybody else
is skating by? That's always the question I have whenever
you're the team you're the coach that gets caught with
your hand in the cookie jar. What did you do
to piss off the investigators that you're getting nailed when
(29:23):
other people aren't, right, go back to the football side
of things with Reggie Bush. Was it just because there's
an extra common a couple more zeros on the price
of the house or what because they certainly paid a
heavier price than many others that got in trouble during
those years. But for herly he hasn't hit his Walter White. Hey,
let's embrace the anti hero phase. For Patino and Califari,
(29:45):
it's like all the stuff they were doing is now legal.
It's all figure out where the money flows. So it's hey,
now we're just picking up like we were talking about
with our Caliperry discussion before, right, building a team from
scratch is what he'd been doing for years. He had
twenty years of a head start over anybody else. So
he and Patino are at the you know now that
(30:06):
they're elder statesman in the game, along with Izzo, who
his latest claim to fame was, you know, arguing when
they were playing Iowa. If they're gonna ouse Fran be
careful what you wish for they don't spend any money
like and he started doing his finger wagging things, so
you know, I just don't like that. Don't don't preach
at me. But for Caliperi and for Patino, it's the
(30:27):
warm and fuzzy of Oh, remember when they were the renegades.
Now everything has come back to them, so let's celebrate
their final runs. For Danny Hurley, I think people are
just now really realizing who the guy is, even though
he's been.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
On the radar for a lot of years.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
And I don't think he's hit the I like that
guy yet. I'll miss him because he gave us great
storylines and whatever else, but I don't think he's in
the warm, fuzzy Walter White, Hey, let's root for him
even though he's the bad guy phase of his world.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swollen down The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmen Live from the ti iraq
dot Com Studios. We're waiting for a replay right now
on Jason Tatum because we talked about Juju Watkins going down.
Jason Tatum taking a jumper against Sacramento. He comes down awkward.
It looks like it looks like Sabonis land. He came
(31:17):
down on Sabonis's foot in the landing area. Tatum is
down grabbing his left ankle for a while. He was
helped off the floor. He is sitting on the bench
right now being looked at Mike. These injuries have to stop.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Yeah, but that was a half ass close out by something.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah but yeah, and it looked like this. This is
a big thing now, you see the last few years
has been hey, you need to give the player a
landing spot, which you can't have. Stuff like this happened.
Bruce Bowen made a career of sticking his foot and
where people have come back. So it looked like Sabonis
kind of does that and kind of lands. I'm stopping
so when you land, you land awkwardly again. Waiting for
more replays on this, but Tatum being looked at on
(31:54):
the bench right now. For more on this story and
the rest of what's trending in the wide world of sports,
special delivery Steve Saga's got it for us.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Let's beat and they have.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
Ruled it a flagrant one on Dementus Sabonis, who just
returned tonight for the Kings after a sprained ankle, himself
missing the last three games.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Boston has won five in a row.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
They are leading at Sacramento seventy eight sixty eight late
third quarter. Jason Tatum already with twenty four points, seven rebounds,
eight assists, and Jalen Brown is back from a bruce
knee tonight for Boston nine points for him. The other
late game is third quarter at Phoenix Suns leading seventy
five seventy two. On Milwaukee Kevin Durant twenty six points.
(32:33):
Durant named player of the Week in the West the
East Winter Chicago's Kobe White, who tonight had thirty seven
points in the Pulse victory at Denver one twenty nine,
one nineteen. And for the Nuggets, Nikola Jokic, with the
bad ankle, was out again for a fifth straight game.
DeAndre Jordan had seventeen rebounds in this loss. The team
has said Joki should return during this homestand wins for
(32:55):
Toronto and New Orleans. Dallas got Anthony Davis back twelve
points win at Brooklyn. Indiana won its fifth strade beating Minnesota.
Anthony Edwards did play with a thumb injury for the Timberwolves,
but from three point range. He was won for eleven
and Orlando defeated the Lakers one eighteen, one oh six
despite thirty two points from Luka Doncich. Texas has a
(33:16):
new basketball coach at Sean Miller from Xavier. The men's
Sweet sixteen starts Thursday night. And then there's the injury
at USC tonight, Juju Watkins was carried off the court
with a right knee injury, hurt on a fast break.
USC led fifty to twenty seven at the half. The
lead right now is sixty six thirty seven over Mississippi State,
(33:37):
and his sc has been shooting close to sixty percent
from the floor, Mississippi State under thirty percent shooting. Juju
Watkins apparently taken to the hospital. Now, keep in mind
just a few weeks ago when Kyrie Irving got injured
in his NBA game for Dallas. The initial report he's
out for the remainder of tonight with a spraying knee,
and it turned out to be torn ACL and he's
(33:57):
out for the season. The initial u C statement Watkins
is being re evaluated. She's out for the night. They
don't even mention her name.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O Jason Smith Mike
Harmon live from the Tirac dot Com studios. Okay, we'll
have more on Juju Watkins as we hear. It looks
like Jason Tatum's going.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
To be able to go back on the floor.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
So crisis averted right now for Tatum. Good news for him.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I would say my bingo card I never would have
had in a million years the story we're going to
talk about next, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Speaker 1 (34:46):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. Of all the stories that I thought we'd
wind up talking about at some point over the course
of our lives, here, I didn't think Tiger Woods dating
Vanessa Trump was gonna make it, But here we are.
Secret Tiger Woods putting out the picture on social media
(35:08):
earlier today that he's dating Don Donald Trump Junior's ex wife. Yeah,
and asked for privacy at this time. Okay, now here's
the thing I get. I get why I got Oh
what's he doing privacy? But he plays on social media.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
He's done this before, like he's you know, gone Facebook
official with with Lindsey Vaughan, putting pictures out there. Now
another picture, where's because he's just trying to beat the paparazzi.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
You bring your personal photographer with you when you go
from there.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
He also doesn't want the paparazzi to stalk them because
now that he gets out, like in the last few
days that he and Vanessa were dating, suddenly it's oh,
let's get a picture of them and all, so let's
put a picture out there.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Let's put a picture for forty years. Yeah, but at.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
This point, are you still stalking as much? He's not
playing as much as matter.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
But now that you hear oh Tiger's dating Vanessa, Oh
wait a minute, then suddenly the paparazzis going to head
to wherever for Tiger Woods is.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
But this is, you know, the whole which is a
sad reality. Well, I mean it's a sad.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Tiger's a celebrity. Now he's not.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
He's not a golfer anymore. He's a celebrity. And you
hit a level of just being famous because of who
you are, which is what everybody. People want to be
fan they want to be celebrities. They they don't want
to I don't want to be fat to do so
I could just be a celebt because of who I am.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Well, it's the Brad Paisley song. Someday I'm gonna be famous.
But do I have talent? Well no, But this whole.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Like like when I see him putting pictures of online
of Hey, here we are in these posed photos like
it's it's a family photo day.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I look at it and I go, what are you? What
are you doing? What do you what are you doing?
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Having late or you flipped to fifty whatever you're more?
Speaker 3 (36:49):
I know, I don't get, like.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
What this is something that's high school ish, right, It's
like if you want, hey, yes, we're here's a picture
of us. Here's a candid of us from somewhere out
at dinner.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
We're dating.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
But this whole, Hey, here we are standing under the
tree and there holding hands, and we're in outfits that
kind of match a little bit. Hey, we're having a
big photo shoot to tell everybody that we're dating.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Like it's so high school.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Man.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
The bigger question is how do we get a Q
and A to ask him if he's been fully apprised
of her dating history.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yeah, she's had it.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
This is legit and not just hey, this is Wikipedia
together by a bunch of anonymous trolls in their basements.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Like if this is all legit, like this is one
hell of a life lived.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
I mean really, I go back and I look at it,
and I go, you need the pictures. You need the pictures.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
But is this you're just meeting your part of the
way or are you truly invested in the picture side.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Let's go Facebook a fit like people want to go, now, oh,
we're dating, Like I'm changing my status on my Facebook
page too, in relationship?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Oh we're Facebook official?
Speaker 5 (37:51):
How do you do that? On Instagram?
Speaker 3 (37:52):
There's uh, you do what Tiger did? Get a nice picture?
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Because I mean, look, you're not on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Mary Mack, You're on Instagram. Is there a button you
can do that? Is there a button you didn't say like, hey,
we're in a relationship now on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
No it's not like Facebook. Okay, it's not right because
I'm not I'm not on the Gram as much.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
But like I said, no, you just saw launch somebody
or hard launch somebody.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Okay, okay, because today it was a hard launch, right, Yeah,
he hard launched, hard launch, yeah hard like got it?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Look at that got it? We got it's a hard lunch.
He hard launched, un hard hard launch, hard launch, yeah,
hard out of their relationship. It was a hard lunch,
hard launch.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Only you can do that. Yeah. I'm a little disappointed
with the pictures though, why they.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Were professionally that's a winning friends.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Though they don't look like they're dating tires.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
But that's the other part, right, It like looks like
there are a couple just out out.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
Of discoursion my friend from church.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
That's like a four out of ten hard lunch.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Ready again, So it's so it's a it's a hard lunch,
is what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
This below mid? Okay, it's a below mid hard lunch,
got it.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
There's times I say hard lunch lunch.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Well, one lunch is never really hard. I ate it
every day. There's times when I think, honestly, there's times
when I think I think I know more about relationships
than than ninety five percent of the population, or I
know the least about relationships than ninety five percent of
the population.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
I would say probably the latter as you've been in
one for a coup years.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
That's successful, right, that's success, been one for almost thirty years.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
But that means you don't have a range of experience
because the other girls never took your taps.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yeah, because, but my rage of experiences is.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
Hot Pop never gave you any of the phone like
the phone messages.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I'm Mike Rzewsky. I've been at Duke from my whole career.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Right, it's not I'm not Calipari bouncing back and forth
to Peene seventeen.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
But if anything changes, you're gonna quit, if you're gonna
go down that.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
I want to think I know more.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
I think I know more.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I'll have more on this story, and I have another
update on Juju Watkins coming up. Jason Smith and Mike
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the way tire behind should be. Well, we'll get to
a big story out of the men's tournament coming up
in a couple of minutes, but just a quick update.
We're still waiting to get some sort of diagnosis on
Juju Watkins. Look, the best player in college basketball, goes
(01:04):
down in a heap in the first half of USC's
game against Mississippi State. USC is leading the game right now,
forty three to twenty four. But on a fast break,
couple of defenders on either side of her. Juju Watkins
goes in. As she's approaching the basket, she just plants
on her right leg and her right knee bends very
(01:25):
unnaturally to the left. She goes down in a heap,
an incredible amount of pain. She is carried off the floor.
We are waiting for an update. Here's what it sounded
like when it happened a little while ago.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Great defense from the Trojans, and Watkins goes down hard
and she's grabbing her right knee quickly, grimacing in pain.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
ESPN on the call. You can and again you can
hear the sound. Everybody in the in the arena just
go down and hush because they knew something and bad happened.
And you know we said a few minutes ago, Mike,
you know, you watch the replay of this, and it's
the replay from behind where you can see her right legs.
She goes down to plant and it just bends into
to the left and it you're looking at the defenders
(02:14):
and yeah, the defenders kind of close on her a
little bit, but this was I just planted and and
my and the leg just went to the left. The
part of this that that that I see is that
I'm looking. I'm not a doctor. I'm just going by
what I see here. But the the trauma seemed like
it was it was maybe the top part of the knee,
like not not below like not where you normally see
(02:35):
all the knee goes to the side and it's it's
something from the knee down. This seemed like there could
have been some quarter trump like above the knee, like
cause that you see that's where her leg just just
kind of just kind of moves to the to the left.
It's not where hey, the knee moves and the rest
of the leg kind of you know, goes down towards
her and she falls right. It's like it's like the
(02:57):
knee just kind of moves that way. So I wonder
where that trauma is to that part of the leg,
But it looked like it could even be at the
knee or above the knee when I saw it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, it's pretty gruesome for that behind shot again, you know,
watching it live action as we were, you know, it's
trying to split the defender, trying to you know, get
yourself to stop, and a little bit of contact with
the inside defender. You got a defender on either side
(03:27):
as she's coming down on a break and the leg
buckles and just completely unnatural thing. That the most concerning,
right obviously the video of what the leg does. But
then there's not even a cursory attempt as they get
to her to see the old hey, can you put
any pressure on it? There was no even thought for
(03:51):
a second of all, right, let's get you standing up
and see if you have any kind of that ability.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
To at least put cursory pressure on it.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
They immediately just lifted her up and carried her off
in one fell swoop. But to you at your point, yeah,
it's trying to determine exactly where the trauma is. I
would say, just just above the knee, right, whatever that
juncture is. I haven't taken physiology in a while, so
I could probably get my daughter on the line and
(04:22):
she'd be a better internet doctor.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
The knee bones connected to your oh.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Okay, wow, come on, shin bone, and the shin bones
connected to the ankle button. But there's a lot of
other stuff tendons and that the song conveniently leaves out.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
But you know the thing is, look not doctors obviously here.
But we've been you know, hosting these shows seeing injuries
like this for a long time.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Were playing basketball before, So there is that.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Certainly, if if the injury was to the top part
of her knee and leg, it certainly would explain that
the yelling. It certainly would explain the screaming that she
had on the floor, right that kind of because you know,
a torn acl sometimes sometimes it gets you and sometimes
you don't feel it. You try to walk it off.
Sometimes you're in pain, but sometimes it's, oh man, what
(05:10):
a man. But she never stopped. She never stopped the anguish,
she never stopped being in pain. It was really it
was tough to watch it, and it's tough to talk about,
but it is a big story and everybody's got fingers crossed,
and we got all good thoughts out there for her.
Hope hopefully it can be hyper extension and hey, a
couple of weeks and she dodges an injury and she's
(05:31):
back for the Final four or something like that. But
I mean, really, I'm just, you know, kind of just
we're just hoping for good news at this point, Yeah,
hoping for some kind of news.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Seeing the outpouring of love across the women's basketball world,
from collegiate players and w NBA figures obviously, figures from
all over sports, and just a heart wrenching kind of moment,
right that expectation of, all right, here, here's a big
run for Juju Watkins in this squad. You know, the
(06:02):
inevitable showdown with Yukon and what Gino Arima's got going
and going on through these final couple of weeks that
you know, the women's side storylines as you get deeper
into it, once you get past, for lack of a
better term, the prelim games, because as much you know,
hand ringing as there was on the men's side of hey,
(06:23):
Cinderella hasn't shown up on the women's side, you felt
bad for some of the teams that were being bludgeoned
right in those first round games. So it's like, all right,
now we're getting down to brass tacks and we're gonna
see the second round and it's an ISO on a
Monday night, and we get this injury with one of
the biggest, brightest stars we've got going right. Plenty of
articles chronicling the success, the nil deals, the big opportunities
(06:49):
and obviously looking towards the next level as the WNBA
looks to continue its growth, monetization, et cetera. That Juju
Watkins a big part of one of the faith is
going forward. And now we sit and wait for a
medical report and an update that gives us some sort
of clarity off of what was and excruciating, excruciating to watch,
(07:12):
and certainly she showed it in her face and the
scream I mean silent in the rest of the rest
of the arena. There's no doubt that people in the
three hundred levels hurt her. That's how much pain she
was in exit.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
How about a Fresco exit swollen dome? Jason Smith Mike
Harmon live from the ti Raq dot Com studios.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Again, we'll love more on this.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
The game has just hit halftime and as soon as
we get an update, either from endgame or after, I'm
sure Lindsay Gottlieb will talk about this USC's head coach
following the game. Meanwhile, speaking of coaches, all right, now
we talked about this last hour.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Saint John's is on my never again. Let's never going
to pick them do anything again because they let me
down so badly. However, maybe we were talking about the
wrong guy being the coach of the Year in college
basketball because Rick Patino had gotten all the run this year.
Look what he did with the Saint John's program was imments.
Uh as bad as losing to Arkansas was in the
game of the tournament so far. I mean, clearly, there's
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no game that's had a bigger impact on the tournament
that we're talking about more than Saint John's in Arkansas,
it looked like it was a final four game, was
played like a final four game. It was officiated like
the referees thought they were in the final four. You
will know my name because I'm gonna call everything.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But Patino did a great job this year, right. Saint
John's was terrible. They figured out the nil. They have
a couple of big rich donors. Hey we got some money, Rick,
We're getting you back there. Great year for Rick Patino.
But just for a second, because so much of the
attention has been on Saint John's losing, because they are
the two seeds, the biggest seed to lose in the
tournament so far, all thanks to you. I know, I
should have just stayed away from him. They would have
(08:45):
beat Arkansas by twenty I know, I know I picked
Saint John's to win it all. No, no, no, no, they
were screwed the second you picked up Sorry, Rick, Jason
Smith picked you to win the championship.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Oh that was screwed. Now I'm not coming back. You
didn't wear the suit, damn fault. Yeah, white suit. Maybe.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Look, there's whole area a thing that the guy from
McNee state that everybody jumped on board his bandwagon.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
There's something about superstition.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
There's something in these sports about being who you are
and carrying that when you get the outpouring of love
like Patino did and White Suit Day. Conveniently, as there's
all sorts of Godfather marathons running around on televisions, that
you don't bring that out for a matchup against coach
cal who you've had a very difficult past with in
(09:29):
your head to head matchups, that you don't try to
bring that extra juice that's on you and it's on
you Smith.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
But okay not.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I mean so to get away from Rick Patino here,
understand something that for a guy who had saw the
shine come off in the last few years, because Kentucky
hadn't really gone far in the tournament, the succeed and
pro seed John Calipari for a long time. We have
this guy's the best coach in college basketball. But then
sort of Kentucky kind of fell off the map a
little bit. Now they're back on because they're at the
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sweet sixteen. Congratulations Mark Pope. But Cali Perry, people forget
a year ago at this time when he bolted for Arkansas,
which was whoa really yes, bolting for Arkansas. He had
no players, right members very famous at I think he
had one player. He had one player at Arkansas, one player,
(10:19):
which pisses me off because I look at Syracuse, who's
been building for like four or five years, can't get
rid of the back. In the NCAA tournament, Cali Perry
had no players or one guy. Sure, I think he
had one player who was saying one guy. Remember the
big interview when he had after what what do you do? Well,
we don't don't have anybody. I don't have any players.
What can I say? Didn't have anybody and built a
team started off zero to five, right, and you know
(10:40):
that you've heard that all weekend long. Started out on
five no players. When he staw he went to Arkansas,
didn't have anybody he was gonna have to bring back
Todd Day and Lee Mayberry and Corlis Williamson if they
were going to try to get Arkansas guys back there
that were really good.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Once upon a time we got a Todd Day rep
n like that, the may Day backcourt. Oh man, I
love that may Dallard who would shoot the ball from
the logo like twenty years before that was a cool
thing to do.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
A thing.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Sure h forty minutes a hell knowing well that Arkansas
team of the nineties were fun man, but he had
no players and in one year not only built a
team to get back into the tournament. But here they
are in the sweet sixteen and they've authored the biggest,
most high profile ups to the tournament so far. Are
we we're talking about the wrong guy for Coach of
the Year at this but we might be. We might
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be talking about there. It might wind up being John
Caliperi going, hey, I never Wedny Man, I'm back, guys,
I'm back.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
No.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I think for Calipari, a lot of it becomes And
I talked about this a little bit with with Dan
Byer on the show I did yesterday. Is you know,
all of a sudden, these guys are cool again, right.
We like Rick Patino, we like Cali Peri. They went
away for a little while. And for Cali Perry, how
much Grevin am I gonna give him for something he
was doing for twenty years when it wasn't allowed.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Like all he did was build and buy a team.
He was doing that.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Nobody celebrated the contracts of former players more than the
one and Done architect himself. So yeah, all credit. You
went and found the best team you could cobble together.
But again, you'd been doing that on the one and done.
You just needed a new venue by which to do it.
Maybe the Kentucky people were tired of giving you money
towards teams that didn't compete the same way that they
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should have in theory.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
In March.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Now you go to Arkansas and you got this big run.
Coach Patino still has a lot of questions to answer
for those final five minutes of how they played, not
just that R. J. Lewis was sitting on the bench,
but also just offensively bound the ball inside Nash you'd
another jump shot. But yeah, coach call, he gets his
love and everything old is new again and it's warm
(12:45):
and fuzzy because hey, you haven't done this since twenty nineteen.
Good for you, right, first first Sweet sixteen since twenty nineteen,
So maybe it's just a I remember that guy. Because
we're holding onto the vestiges of college basketball passed, because
we've got a couple of grizzled old veteran coaches still
getting after it. Because nobody knows who the hell the
players are on the team. Because I looked at a
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stack of trading cards last night of a college basketball product.
Half the guys aren't on the team that they're pictured
with from a year ago, and they're still playing in college.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Like, yeah, that guy's not on that team. He's over there.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
He's so trying to even play that game with the scorecard.
It's like, good luck. At least with the college coaches,
we know who they are, and Cala Perry gets the win.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
No players.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Like his introductory press conference, he said, I met with
the team. There's no team.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
That's what he said.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I met with a team. There's no team, no scholarship players.
A year ago at this time nobody didn't have anybody.
You'd have a team that was just him in a room, going, okay,
let's go get some players sweet sixteen, But think about.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
How great that is though, to be able to start
from scratch. You don't have to fix anybody's problems that's
been in the building.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
They're not beholden to the coaching staff before them.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Because that's one of the big things that I'm always
curious when a new coach comes in, how quickly if
you do have a veteran laden squad and a bunch
of holdovers, how much should they embrace the new tactics
that you want to teach?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Right?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
You see it at every level, right, think about your
daughter's softball and soccer, my daughter in soccer. Like, new
coaches and new ideas aren't always welcome, and that goes
all the way up the ladder, particularly when you have
potential to move like you do in today's collegiate game
more so than ever, Like for John Calipara, they just
had to be the greatest thing ever. It was like
bringing in all those freshmen again. But now it's like, hey,
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you want to come here, not only to get a paycheck.
You're buying into what I'm selling. It's brilliant, it's it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
He didn't have a team, and I look and I
go boy, and I look and I go for different teams,
like whether it's Syracuse anybody else going We've been rebuilding,
trying to get bringing the top guys for four or
five years. Can't get back to the tournament. No I
had no guys. No I'm in the tournament.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
No, you need to fire them all, fire them all
and start from scratch. Decide who that one glue guy
code one glue guy in the build.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
He may be coach of the decade for pulling this off.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I mean really, if he wins it all and he
wears that suit code he had on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I don't think he's got to do more than anymore. Heck,
got to the Sweet sixteen, I had no players. Be
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Speaker 1 (17:00):
I'm at the bottom, uh because I picked Saint John's
because I'm stupid, which I'm never doing again.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Of course, you will no no.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
No, once your on I never again, lest you will
no no, you will be bad. You don't get off
my never again once you don't get back. That's why
it's never.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Again, dude. The Jets are on it every year. I
don't put the Jets of my never I've never done
that every year. No no, no, no no. The Jets
are on my never gonna win list.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
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Speaker 4 (17:32):
I started to figure it out. Man, twenty five hundred bucks.
You can build one hell of a chicken coop. I've
been telling you one of my one of my dreams. Sure, okay,
parcel of land okay and raised chickens.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
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Speaker 1 (17:44):
Uh my thinking, is there any chicken possibilities? And True
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Speaker 5 (17:52):
Like where's a little Jerry Seinfeld ring? I don't know
he's eighth, but but but really picking up steam.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Now before we get to Danny Hurley. The update the
official update we have on Juju Watkins, USC superstar, likely
the number one pick in the WNBA draft best player
in college basketball. You've seen her play all season long.
Electrifying player went down in a heap with what looked
to be an extremely serious knee injury in the first
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half of number one seed USC's game against Mississippi State.
They've not been in trouble in this game. USC is
still up by twenty in the second half, but Watkins
goes down driving down court on a fast break and
her right knee plants and the knee just goes completely
to one side. It could be an injury very high
(18:41):
up on her knee or the upper part of her leg.
She went down screaming, was taken off the floor immediately.
There was no standing up trying to get her to
put weight on her foot. She was carried off the floor.
We are waiting for an update and I'm sure we'll
talk to Lindsay Gottlieb following the game. There's still ways
to go. The game is still in the middle of
the third quarter, but the official update from USC Juju
(19:04):
Watkins with a leg injury. She will not return of
the game tonight. There will be more updates as the
night goes on. So she's being evaluated right now by
Keck Medicine. So that's where we're at right now. Juju
Watkins being evaluated by Kech Medicine, and there will be
an update on her following the game tonight. We will
wait and see and all, you know, prayers up in
(19:24):
all our best thoughts out there that Juju Watkins is okay.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Yeah, I mean, you talk about a woman who's she's
taken a beating this year, for sure. We've watched plenty
of her games, marveled at some of her performances along
the way in this one, great expectations that you're going
to get a deep run from usc and you still
very well might.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Right.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
One of the things we talked about in the tournament
was the depth at the top, right, not of the
field overall, but those first four to six teams all
vying for best number one. I can't believe we were
the fourth number one and so but Juju Watkins being
one of those players to watch and to get celebrated
and obviously, you know, anticipating a huge run as we
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get towards the next w NBA season.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
She gets cut off in her lane.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
The more you watch it, right, you have the two
defenders to where you get a bit of contact to
where she extends her off arm like hey, get off me,
and that's when the leg buckles. So like a lot
of just debate of you know, that contact and how
much that throws off her gait to then create undoe pressure.
Like so now it's all the armchair doctors flying in.
(20:33):
But as of now, we have no official work.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
That's why when I saw the play happen, and you
can watch and go, okay, there's nothing dirty done. There's
no I'm sticking my foot in the way for you
to come down on it. You know, the defenders are
trying to get in and get the ball, and it's
it's almost like Juju Watkins. Sometimes I'm just gonna if.
I'm going if if. And you see this with with
players in the NFL, where they think they're running away
(20:57):
from somebody and I'm just gonna try to out and
they know that they don't know that I can outrun you,
and so instead of cutting back and into the end zone,
I'm just going to try to outrun you. And the
defender catches up to them and tackles them at the
twenty instead of, hey, I cut back, I can get
into the ten and maybe into the end zone. It
looked like she was continuing to try to outrun them
and get ahead of them for a layup, and it
(21:19):
got to the point where she realized, Okay, I'm not
going to and I'm a little off balance and I
need to make that step to slow down and get
myself under control. And that was the step where her
knee wound up going the other way. You know that,
you know, they got in her way a little bit
of her length, but she still was able to put
her foot out straight.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
And and it just you know where it was.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So whatever she was trying to do there to slow down,
I would think at some point looking at this, I mean,
I don't I don't know. I'm just going by what
I saw, but I go, wow, at some point you
maybe she realized, Okay, I'm not going to dribble by
everybody and I'm not going to get in the clear
for a lamp, so I need to make that cut
more towards the basket to try to draw contact or
a foul. And when she tried to do it, maybe
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it was a little too late. I mean, I'm just
kind of spitballing here a little bit because until we
hear from her and hear what she was trying to
do on the play, But clearly I'm dribbling. I'm going
as fast as I can. Everybody's going as fast as
they can, and when you try to stop on a dime,
that's when that's when things happen. And that's kind of
what she tried to do.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yeah, now we're watching, I mean, the emotion that the
USC squad is playing with every possession is like it's
the final shot, and hugs and cheering and backing each
other up, and you know you're you're watching just the
coming together with their star out. Pretty impressive run because
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you know, we saw how silent the crowd got in
the moment. But you know, give gott Leave her credit
she got she got them to refocus for the second
half to go out and finish the job.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, because because you don't know how you're going to react,
and when you see something like that and here goes
your best player and everything you're thinking of, all our
hopes and dreams are winning the tournament while with her
and we may have just seen her play her last
minute with USC. What can we do here? And they've
gone out and they've played terrific. I mean there was
no letdown. There's not even a point where Mississippi State
got close telling you, hey, they won on a run.
(23:12):
It was still it was it was thirteen to two
at this point, then it was like twenty one to four,
and then it was like twenty seven to eight. I mean,
this has been a they've been holding onto this blowout
for a long time. Again, still ways to go, but
it's not like they've been threatened in this game.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Kiki erie Offen is just dominating on the interior, and
you know she's ready to throw bows with whomever steps
in her way.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
In a little bit, I would say the energy high
for USC right now.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Again, more on this story as it develops, but you know,
we talked about Cali Parry a few minutes ago, and
maybe he's the coach of them. Maybe he's coach of
the decade for a year ago now, having no players,
zero players, zero scholarship players. When he took over at
Arkansas and they're in the sweet sixteen and they beat
Saint Johns.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
He's gonna teach you how to run a startup coach
of the day.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
He should he should, he should be how you start? Hey,
how do you start? With no employees? And in a
year we're gonna wind up winning. It's like a movie montage,
Like all of a sudden, Jimmy Chipwood comes back and
there's a movie, there's a montage and suddenly, oh the
Hickory's in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Oh they're great.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
All of a sudden, they couldn't buy a win. They
couldn't buy a win. And Olie is making free throws,
you know, granny style to win games. And I am
all of a sudden just a movie montage. But Danny
Hurley's out. Yeah, And we watched Ukon lose a great game.
Uh nearly had enough to pull it off against Florida yesterday,
And you saw everything with Danny Hurley in a nutshell.
The video that got out of him walking off the
(24:34):
floor in the tunnel as Baylor is going on the
floor to play the next game. You see Danny Hurley say,
I hope they don't blank you like they blanked us. Baylor,
good luck, Baylor. I hope they don't blank you like
they blanked us, talking about the officials.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And then we had him after Okay, here's Danny Hurley.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Salty Danny Hurley, this is out my first loss in
two and a half NCAA tournaments.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Salty Danny Hurley.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
But then we get this part of Hurley talk about
the emotion of seeing some of those guys on the
floor with him, some of his players like Alex Caravan
for the last time.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
You know, I was in a coach That's why I
was on the hot seat going into twenty three. You
got to ask Dave Bennett. But until these men, you know,
until Alex carab be put on the uniform. The players
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change your life when you have such special people.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
So you got both ends of the salty Danny Hurley.
Then you got the emotion. You got this And I
didn't know how I'd feel about him until he was out,
and I thought, oh, man, when Yukon goes out, it's
going to be a breath of fresh air and people
are going to exhale because they're sick of his act.
They're sick of his I'm the greatest coach. I'm always
yelling and the optics are bad with Danny Hurley because
(25:50):
clearly the camera always finds him when he's yelling, which
is most of the time. But here's where isaag when
you think I'm gonna zeg, I already miss him because
and I thought about this like going, man, I really
you know, watching the game yestually and seeing them was like, Okay,
he's out, and I'm like, I already missed Danny Hurley.
Why college basketball isn't like it used to be where
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you had the rock star coaches or all coaches who
were heroes that you watch for a long time, whether
it was Mike Krzyzewski or Roy Williams or Tom Izzo
until a few years ago, Jim Beheim like all these
guys that would come and go far in the tournament,
and these guys are the rock stars, right, and you
talked about them and it was it was look at
(26:34):
what they've been able to do, how many games were
able to win, their level of excellence. Now me might
not have been a fan of their team, but you
understood these guys were great at what they did, what
they said, always cut through, and these were rock star heroes.
Those guys are all gone now and college basketball isn't
made up of rock star heroes coaches where is the
most high profile guys are all anti heroes. They're all
(26:57):
guys that they're great coaches. But John great coach, but
Rick Patino great coach. But I mean you say Danny Hurley,
great coach. But always find a way either in their
past with what's gone on at different stops they have had,
or what they're like when they're on camera. College basketball,
(27:17):
that's what they have now, is they have the anti
hero coaches, the polarizing ones, and they're the ones that
make the sport great to follow because you're either rooting
for them, you're not rooting for them. But it's always
less interesting when they're gone, right, like the Yankees. You
may hate the Yankees, even imp by Yankees have a
lot of fans, but they got a lot of people
that hate them. But it doesn't matter. When the playoffs
(27:37):
are going on, it's more fun to have the Yankees
in it. These coaches took up these really are the
three most high profile guys in college basketball are Hurley
and Patino in Cali Perry, and they're all polarized and
all have reasons. You can love them as coaches, all
have reasons you can't stand them as coaches, and so
when one of them goes, it's like, oh, there's a
big hole to be filled here, and now we lost two.
We lost Hurley and Patino. But you know, so now
(28:00):
it's all real. Well, Calipari's got a lot on his shoulders,
but especially Hurley because winning the national title last two years,
building this dynasty that he's had at Yukon and almost
pulling off a win where clearly he didn't have the
team to do it, and he almost did. I can
even forgive him the well, you know, when he was
making NBA threes. That's what it takes to knock out
a team like ours like, oh dude, come on, and
you didn't have a great team this year. But again
(28:22):
I realize I kind of missed that kind of swagger
and cockiness and arrogance that pisses me off too, because
it makes the game more fun.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
The tournament's worse off.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Today than it was yesterday or over the weekend because
we lost two of those two of those coaches that
make it more fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
So, while there was never any scandal going back to
coach k the way you would finger wag and get
all you know, high and mighty and sanctimonious, Yeah, he
was on my down list.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, to the expend to the extent of, hey, look
at Cali Perry's programs, what happened when he left everywhere?
But Tino's had problems that he brought on himself for
a long time. Absolutely, and certainly there's finger wagging.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
In there's hey, the NCAA's coming to town.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
No, no, But with the NCD Albila coming to town,
it was why did they pick those guys? What did
you guys do to draw their higher what everybody else
is skating by? That's always the question I have whenever
you're the team you're the coach that gets caught with
your hand in the cookie jar. What did you do
to piss off the investigators that you're getting nailed when
(29:23):
other people aren't, right, go back to the football side
of things with Reggie Bush. Was it just because there's
an extra common a couple more zeros on the price
of the house or what because they certainly paid a
heavier price than many others that got in trouble during
those years. But for herly he hasn't hit his Walter White. Hey,
let's embrace the anti hero phase. For Patino and Califari,
(29:45):
it's like all the stuff they were doing is now legal.
It's all figure out where the money flows. So it's hey,
now we're just picking up like we were talking about
with our Caliperry discussion before, right, building a team from
scratch is what he'd been doing for years. He had
twenty years of a head start over anybody else. So
he and Patino are at the you know now that
(30:06):
they're elder statesman in the game, along with Izzo, who
his latest claim to fame was, you know, arguing when
they were playing Iowa. If they're gonna ouse Fran be
careful what you wish for they don't spend any money
like and he started doing his finger wagging things, so
you know, I just don't like that. Don't don't preach
at me. But for Caliperi and for Patino, it's the
(30:27):
warm and fuzzy of Oh, remember when they were the renegades.
Now everything has come back to them, so let's celebrate
their final runs. For Danny Hurley, I think people are
just now really realizing who the guy is, even though
he's been.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
On the radar for a lot of years.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
And I don't think he's hit the I like that
guy yet. I'll miss him because he gave us great
storylines and whatever else, but I don't think he's in
the warm, fuzzy Walter White, Hey, let's root for him
even though he's the bad guy phase of his world.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swollen down The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmen Live from the ti iraq
dot Com Studios. We're waiting for a replay right now
on Jason Tatum because we talked about Juju Watkins going down.
Jason Tatum taking a jumper against Sacramento. He comes down awkward.
It looks like it looks like Sabonis land. He came
(31:17):
down on Sabonis's foot in the landing area. Tatum is
down grabbing his left ankle for a while. He was
helped off the floor. He is sitting on the bench
right now being looked at Mike. These injuries have to stop.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Yeah, but that was a half ass close out by something.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah but yeah, and it looked like this. This is
a big thing now, you see the last few years
has been hey, you need to give the player a
landing spot, which you can't have. Stuff like this happened.
Bruce Bowen made a career of sticking his foot and
where people have come back. So it looked like Sabonis
kind of does that and kind of lands. I'm stopping
so when you land, you land awkwardly again. Waiting for
more replays on this, but Tatum being looked at on
(31:54):
the bench right now. For more on this story and
the rest of what's trending in the wide world of sports,
special delivery Steve Saga's got it for us.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Let's beat and they have.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
Ruled it a flagrant one on Dementus Sabonis, who just
returned tonight for the Kings after a sprained ankle, himself
missing the last three games.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Boston has won five in a row.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
They are leading at Sacramento seventy eight sixty eight late
third quarter. Jason Tatum already with twenty four points, seven rebounds,
eight assists, and Jalen Brown is back from a bruce
knee tonight for Boston nine points for him. The other
late game is third quarter at Phoenix Suns leading seventy
five seventy two. On Milwaukee Kevin Durant twenty six points.
(32:33):
Durant named player of the Week in the West the
East Winter Chicago's Kobe White, who tonight had thirty seven
points in the Pulse victory at Denver one twenty nine,
one nineteen. And for the Nuggets, Nikola Jokic, with the
bad ankle, was out again for a fifth straight game.
DeAndre Jordan had seventeen rebounds in this loss. The team
has said Joki should return during this homestand wins for
(32:55):
Toronto and New Orleans. Dallas got Anthony Davis back twelve
points win at Brooklyn. Indiana won its fifth strade beating Minnesota.
Anthony Edwards did play with a thumb injury for the Timberwolves,
but from three point range. He was won for eleven
and Orlando defeated the Lakers one eighteen, one oh six
despite thirty two points from Luka Doncich. Texas has a
(33:16):
new basketball coach at Sean Miller from Xavier. The men's
Sweet sixteen starts Thursday night. And then there's the injury
at USC tonight, Juju Watkins was carried off the court
with a right knee injury, hurt on a fast break.
USC led fifty to twenty seven at the half. The
lead right now is sixty six thirty seven over Mississippi State,
(33:37):
and his sc has been shooting close to sixty percent
from the floor, Mississippi State under thirty percent shooting. Juju
Watkins apparently taken to the hospital. Now, keep in mind
just a few weeks ago when Kyrie Irving got injured
in his NBA game for Dallas. The initial report he's
out for the remainder of tonight with a spraying knee,
and it turned out to be torn ACL and he's
(33:57):
out for the season. The initial u C statement Watkins
is being re evaluated. She's out for the night. They
don't even mention her name.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O Jason Smith Mike
Harmon live from the Tirac dot Com studios. Okay, we'll
have more on Juju Watkins as we hear. It looks
like Jason Tatum's going.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
To be able to go back on the floor.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
So crisis averted right now for Tatum. Good news for him.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I would say my bingo card I never would have
had in a million years the story we're going to
talk about next, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
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Speaker 2 (34:37):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (34:46):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. Of all the stories that I thought we'd
wind up talking about at some point over the course
of our lives, here, I didn't think Tiger Woods dating
Vanessa Trump was gonna make it, But here we are.
Secret Tiger Woods putting out the picture on social media
(35:08):
earlier today that he's dating Don Donald Trump Junior's ex wife. Yeah,
and asked for privacy at this time. Okay, now here's
the thing I get. I get why I got Oh
what's he doing privacy? But he plays on social media.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
He's done this before, like he's you know, gone Facebook
official with with Lindsey Vaughan, putting pictures out there. Now
another picture, where's because he's just trying to beat the paparazzi.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
You bring your personal photographer with you when you go
from there.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
He also doesn't want the paparazzi to stalk them because
now that he gets out, like in the last few
days that he and Vanessa were dating, suddenly it's oh,
let's get a picture of them and all, so let's
put a picture out there.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Let's put a picture for forty years. Yeah, but at.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
This point, are you still stalking as much? He's not
playing as much as matter.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
But now that you hear oh Tiger's dating Vanessa, Oh
wait a minute, then suddenly the paparazzis going to head
to wherever for Tiger Woods is.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
But this is, you know, the whole which is a
sad reality. Well, I mean it's a sad.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Tiger's a celebrity. Now he's not.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
He's not a golfer anymore. He's a celebrity. And you
hit a level of just being famous because of who
you are, which is what everybody. People want to be
fan they want to be celebrities. They they don't want
to I don't want to be fat to do so
I could just be a celebt because of who I am.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Well, it's the Brad Paisley song. Someday I'm gonna be famous.
But do I have talent? Well no, But this whole.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Like like when I see him putting pictures of online
of Hey, here we are in these posed photos like
it's it's a family photo day.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I look at it and I go, what are you? What
are you doing? What do you what are you doing?
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Having late or you flipped to fifty whatever you're more?
Speaker 3 (36:49):
I know, I don't get, like.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
What this is something that's high school ish, right, It's
like if you want, hey, yes, we're here's a picture
of us. Here's a candid of us from somewhere out
at dinner.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
We're dating.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
But this whole, Hey, here we are standing under the
tree and there holding hands, and we're in outfits that
kind of match a little bit. Hey, we're having a
big photo shoot to tell everybody that we're dating.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Like it's so high school.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Man.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
The bigger question is how do we get a Q
and A to ask him if he's been fully apprised
of her dating history.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yeah, she's had it.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
This is legit and not just hey, this is Wikipedia
together by a bunch of anonymous trolls in their basements.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Like if this is all legit, like this is one
hell of a life lived.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
I mean really, I go back and I look at it,
and I go, you need the pictures. You need the pictures.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
But is this you're just meeting your part of the
way or are you truly invested in the picture side.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Let's go Facebook a fit like people want to go, now, oh,
we're dating, Like I'm changing my status on my Facebook
page too, in relationship?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Oh we're Facebook official?
Speaker 5 (37:51):
How do you do that? On Instagram?
Speaker 3 (37:52):
There's uh, you do what Tiger did? Get a nice picture?
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Because I mean, look, you're not on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Mary Mack, You're on Instagram. Is there a button you
can do that? Is there a button you didn't say like, hey,
we're in a relationship now on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
No it's not like Facebook. Okay, it's not right because
I'm not I'm not on the Gram as much.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
But like I said, no, you just saw launch somebody
or hard launch somebody.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Okay, okay, because today it was a hard launch, right, Yeah,
he hard launched, hard launch, yeah hard like got it?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Look at that got it? We got it's a hard lunch.
He hard launched, un hard hard launch, hard launch, yeah,
hard out of their relationship. It was a hard lunch,
hard launch.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Only you can do that. Yeah. I'm a little disappointed
with the pictures though, why they.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Were professionally that's a winning friends.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Though they don't look like they're dating tires.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
But that's the other part, right, It like looks like
there are a couple just out out.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
Of discoursion my friend from church.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
That's like a four out of ten hard lunch.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Ready again, So it's so it's a it's a hard lunch,
is what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
This below mid? Okay, it's a below mid hard lunch,
got it.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
There's times I say hard lunch lunch.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Well, one lunch is never really hard. I ate it
every day. There's times when I think, honestly, there's times
when I think I think I know more about relationships
than than ninety five percent of the population, or I
know the least about relationships than ninety five percent of
the population.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
I would say probably the latter as you've been in
one for a coup years.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
That's successful, right, that's success, been one for almost thirty years.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
But that means you don't have a range of experience
because the other girls never took your taps.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yeah, because, but my rage of experiences is.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
Hot Pop never gave you any of the phone like
the phone messages.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I'm Mike Rzewsky. I've been at Duke from my whole career.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Right, it's not I'm not Calipari bouncing back and forth
to Peene seventeen.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
But if anything changes, you're gonna quit, if you're gonna
go down that.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
I want to think I know more.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
I think I know more.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I'll have more on this story, and I have another
update on Juju Watkins coming up. Jason Smith and Mike
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