April 8, 2025 • 41 mins
National Champions Thomas Haugh and Alijah Martin joined Jason and Mike moments after Florida's win tonight and there is NO WAY any of these guys are making it to class this week!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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of Florida winning the national title over Houston, at least
for the next few minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Is this where you stomp on the Cougars fans that
are no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
This is where I go, Hey No, This is where
I go like, hey, I talk about being a leader
all the time and trying to influence young men and
women to be the best they can be.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah. Uh, just because we talked.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
To Thomas Hawk and Elijah Martin to Gators stars, they
win the national title because both of.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Them were very okay with not going to class.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
The next couple of days, Thomas Hawk told us that
he's got a BIO two test Wednesday, and I don't
know if I'm going, and I don't have it.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
If you don't if you're not going, you don't have
a test. Oh that's true. Yeah, I don't have a test.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
If I doesn't have it, mister Hawk, Sam missing it,
mister it it's your time, mister hand and my time.
So Thomas Hawker said he's I have a biotest to Wednesday.
I don't know if I'm going. And Elijah Martin who said, yeah,
I don't go to class, but I graduated already. I'm good,
and he said, yes, write a note for us so
we can skip class this week. I do want to
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say I am and and after my admission of going
to less than half of my class at Syracuse, I
do want to say I am very pro college.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I am very pro school college.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Sweat you're staying in school, going to class and making
sure that your parents' money or the nil money that
you're getting does not go to waste and you get
every ounce of that education. I am extremely pro college.
I want to say that despite what we just heard,
I am very pro colle. But it was as the
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guys Justin and Alex making a sound so pretty tonight.
Thanks to the guys in the back for their edits
and everything, and of course Steve Desagre.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
At the news desk. But as we're.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Going and finding more, you know, highlight and recap packages
on our televisions, they passed the invention of lying. The
Ricky Gervais movie, Okay, you might have been doing a
little bit right there.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
There was no sincerity. You got to become a better
actor after all of these years. That was some of
the worst acting you've ever done, and trying to sell
a point.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Education is really important.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I was thinking about a horrible mansion. Why were you
thinking about a horrible mention?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
No, I know, I am very pro education, proson, No
i am. I'm There was no butt here, there was
no there's no me doing this with my hand behind
my basket, my fingers. Yeah, it was a really half
assed attempt at acting. We gotta say we had to
send you to some uh some improv or whatever. I
thought we were doing a good job here. That was
(03:28):
that was nobody bought that. I'm just saying, if you
win the National Championship and you come on the show
with us, we'll write a note for you to miss.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Clout absolutely on Tuesday and Friday. It might help you.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Never know, you might get it because one of your professions.
One of your professions might listen. Oh you listen, you
talk to Jason. I listened to those guys every night.
Oh cool, Yeah, yeah, you can miss hey.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
In fact, don't worry about it, man, Just show up
whatever you want to. It doesn't matter if you're up
late at night. I mean look because right now we're
talking one am East Coast time. Look, if you're up
listening to us late at night, I'll write it note
for you too. Yeah, I have to go to class
tomorrow because you're being educated. Okay, now you're getting in
the ways of the world on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
now you just want I'm not saying it's gonna be
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a have any value. If we just want to excuse
people that are just up late.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Why not? They're learning about the Gato. They Gator fans.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Okay, Hawk and Martin won the national championship tonight. You
don't think that they stay Congratulations on staying up to
the end. I know it's difficult because the game doesn't
start until like ten o'clock at night. So I understand
it's a difficult. You need a nap during the day
to stay up to watch a game.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Of fans.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I mean they they are heavily invested in this as well,
maybe literally invested, and I do it certainly figuratively. Their
heart and soul is here. Okay, but let's spend at
it this way, right, Let's just let's just say the
players say, hey, we had a bit last couple of days,
profess I understand you won the national title. They come in,
their heroes are gonna get a big applause. They want
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to talk about the game. Yeah, yeah, I understand.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
What did you do? I was up late last night?
Why I watched a basketball game? So what? So can
you excuse me from the test on Wednesday in class
this week? Like that doesn't We're in twenty twenty five,
that does.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
They don't even need the note from US anymore doesn't
happen all like, are.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You kidding me?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Half the people in high school here Los Angeles don't
show up on a day to day. Base is going
back to Fran Brown of Syracuse head coach, after Syracuse
won the bowl game and Kyle McCord had another and
another five hundred yard day, and he says, let me
talk about Kyle.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And the first thing he said was he never missed
a class. And I was like, Hey, that's really awesome.
And here we are, Yeah, well, write letters for you guys.
Don't have to go to class. It's all good, don't
worry about it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I just want there to be a case where it's
not hey, we got stuck, you know, traveling back from somewhere,
to where it becomes a all right, it's it's dad's fault, right,
we're late because it's dad fault, right. I mean, how
many times did you have people when you were having
a practice they're late because mom or dad was running late.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It can't help it. Someone else has to drop them off. Right.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
In this case, it's a I want someone to be
able to use me as an excuse, not because they're elite,
not because of something with my work that that forces
the miss no no no. Harmon wrote a excuse as
an attempt to excuse you from a class some yeah
on the radio, and definitely you got to put some
misspellings in there.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I definitely want you can't spell everything. You got to
have a couple of misspells.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I can't use any of my five letter words, like
you gotta listen, you gotta spell gators g A T
E R. S.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Put it like it would be off the Florida Gators
to the national championship. Please excuse him from class?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Oh sorry, spell, I gotta I gotta change.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
It that way. Yeah, exactly, I'm sorry. This doesn't this
doesn't do it. This can't do it, This can't do it. Really,
who's this guy? But every night you can listen to him?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Because here's think about it like this, if I if
I'm if I'm a guy and I just won the
national title, like like the first thing I would think.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Of is what girls do? I like hell again? And
I can say, hey, how about let's get together. Let's
all right?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So I'd have that net still around my neck like
they all did show on the So if I'm show,
if I'm winning the national time, oh yeah. Yeah, and
I'm wearing my jersey and shorts class everything else.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, I'm in my uniform like winning college baseball championship. Look,
he's got his stirrups. Swearing stirs the class.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So I mean I want to show up wearing my
gear and going hey, okay, and I'm I'm cool. Like
I mean, i'd wash it, of course, because it really
you know, yeah, but like I would got to have
that authenticity, Like I would think, like how long is
too long for me to miss class? Where I miss
out on the celebration part of it, because like, okay,
maybe you miss tomorrow, but you want to go. You
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want to go Wednesday because that's maybe when everybody else
going back Thursday. Like are you past it? Like is
it over? Like is Wednesday the big celebration day? Like
do I miss stuff Wednesday? Bring up the list of
party schools? Where's Gainesville? I got a feeling flowed, Well, okay,
you want to the number one party school in the
country voted this year Cal Santa Barbara, which we went
(08:08):
to visit there like a few months ago.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I was like, Okay, not happening.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
They got a big thing this last weekend that was
evidently chaos party colleges. Okay, here we go. Uh U
c l A is at the top. Okay, you c
l A at the top. Temple is the is in
the top. You pay for those parties. First time Temple
isn't the in the top of anything. I mean, first
time Temple's mentioned since what was a movie where the
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kid was going to be the draft pick of Temple
and uh that that Bruce will not not U was
it Unbreakable? Where the whole thing was that the Temple
was a good good football sure, and the kid the
Temple was going to be a top three pick. Well,
it's either that we're talking about, uh, folks trying to
kill each other coaches. Let's see Miami's in the top
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twenty five, Delaware, San Diego State, Michigan State, EXAs, Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Florida is not well, Florida is not in here. Gators
are deep down there. Huh yeah they're not. I mean
maybe maybe it's more of it. I know it was
always Arizona State was always on the metals. Oh yeah, sure,
that was always.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
That was always a big line from thirty Rock when
Alec Ball would say, come on, let me give me
some credit. I didn't go to Arizona State, but uh no, Illinois,
Illinois Champagne Urbana is number Urbana. Yeah, number seven, Yeah, buddy,
top ten, number seven. We're all is that? How is
that a relation to being a football? We are top
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ten and two things party school and lacrosse. Okay, that's
what we got. Uh you tough?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
This year? The football schedule is gonna be.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, you're in Alabama, Howard, Wisconsin, Florida State and to Florida.
Not in the You would think Florida is one of
the top schools. I would think, so I did not
know that. Well, it's going to be tonight. That's they're
going to be singing a lot of Tom Petty songs
and having a grand old time.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Why Tom Petty songs? Gators? He's celebrated the Gators' Okay,
all right, I don't think. I don't think any kid
in which now is gonna celebrate. But come off, I'm
running down Mary Jane.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Come on, let's go one more time.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
To kill the page. I don't think that's it.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, it might get you another drink at the bar.
Isn't one more time? Isn't Pitbull from Gainesville?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Hang on?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Hang on, what does it just sound like or is
it just as goo pitbull from Gainesville?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Oh no, pets for adoption and plenty of pit bulls
available in Gainesville, Florida. Okay now, oh, Pittbull is playing
Gainsville in twenty twenty five. So yeah, Tom Petty and
Maya Rudolph are the two celebrities that come up right away. Really,
so you got a Prince cover band and Tom Petty.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
You rocking through the night. Prince she is, she's, she's
in a band. We're gonna do Computer Blue.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Everybody ready, Everybody ready, don't worry, I forget what the
name of it is.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Everybody ready. H you don't believe me? You think I
believe you? No, I believe you. I'm just saying I know.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
It's like you were lying about the Do you think
anybody at anybody on the Florida camp is playing Tom
Petty and and and partying to it?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
That might be free calling a little bit. I don't
know where's that. Calvin Sampson A Kelvin's free just saying
he got really chesty after beating Duke or they playing
American Girl.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Hey, it's not just gonna be about sounds of lambs
and that girl decides to help a guy move a
couch and get in the back of the car.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
What are you stupid? Don't it's a celebratory song now.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
American American Gators raised on championships.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Dude, Oh, I know that we have to contact that's me.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
But please contact Tom Petty's estate if you're going to
do anything like this ever again. But no again, And
I want to come back to this full circle. I
am very pro attending classes in college for everybody.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I am.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Probably you're spending money for a reason. You're going to
that school for a reason. You don't going to that
school to sit home and play in Sega or Super
Mario Brothers or Blades of Steel or just sleeping late
or staying out late partying and and and not going
to class because it's too early in that class at
two o'clock in the afternoon. You did not do that.
(12:16):
You went to college to go and get educated. Yeah,
now I feel good.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
There you go. I'll close the circle.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Maya Rudolph's Prince coverman, uh huh, Princess, that makes sense,
But I remember I did I did one time come
miss a two o'clock class. And someone asked me once
I remember, I said, why did you come a guy?
I was too early?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
What do you o'clock in the afternoon? I didn't get
in untill five. I wasn't going to class, and too,
I was still sleeping. I get up at twelve thirty,
had to go to lunch with What do you mean
too early? Two pm? Was too early? Wow? I mean
I work on my own clock.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I gotta say. There is no good time for classes
in college. I mean, am I am there?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Like?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
What is the best time? Eight thirty not a good time?
Ten o'clock, little miss is right noon? You're missing lunch
after noon. Okay, you're missing naptime. Here's what college should be.
And I firmly believe what college should be. College should
be one class a day, maybe two, depending if you
want a Friday off eight year plan.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
You no, no, no, you got you're one hundred Dickinson.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You have two classes a day maybe, and you go
to class at two o'clock and four o'clock for fifty
five minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
That should be. That should be everybody's college schedule. Right.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
The morning is for whatever you're doing at the college
right forever you're doing at the college, whatever exturricular stuff
you want to do.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
We're sleeping late, whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
You go to lunch, and then two to two fifty
five and you get an hour to all right, hang out,
then go to your four o'clock class four to four
fifty five. Then you're at dinner, studying the night whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
You're doing. Two classes a day, fifty five minutes. That's
that's it.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I was a morning class guy, lunch, and then off
to my work study job for five hours. See, you
had too much going on, and then back into the
real world there after.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You had too much.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
See where the first three years I had hosting the
morning show from six to ten in the morning, so
I was up at five thirty in the morning, first
three years of my college career. So that's kind of
where I was thinking, Yeah, these classes are real inconvenience.
I can't go to class. I just did a morning show.
I just did a radio show for four hours. I
gotta go to a class at ten thirty. No, come on, man,
do you ever think about resurrected old Jason Mason before
you're done? I want to sleep. I should have got
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I should have got more credit. I mean, really, I'm
hosting a morning show five days a week, four hours
a day. Get class credit, nope, anything else nope? Come on, man,
be serious with that? Makes me think I got because
that's what I wanted to do in cod Like, okay,
I got the experience when I wanted to do these
classes whatever again, two classes a day, two to two
fifty five.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Four to four fifty five.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
See, I went to class, I did all that other stuff,
and I want to be able to pick the people
that did are in my class. Well, there's that too,
that guy he doesn't pay. I'm gonna pick my friends.
I'm gonna pick that girl that I all walking across
campus the other day.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I'm gonna pick that. That's what those are people.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
In my class. Keep it going, want in my class? Yeah,
keep it clear. You're sid Caesar now from Greece. Keep
it clean, keep it clean. You can't be an athlete,
be in an athletic support. But that's the perfect schedule. Yeah,
the morning to do whatever you want after it two
to two fifty five, four to five. And if you
want two classes day Monday through Thursday, no classes on Friday.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
There you go. Well, you're like school on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And that's Jason Smith University for you right there, start
your own media college.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
You gotta go to class, nah, not really were to
take certain classes like science and met No, the only
math you need to know is how to calculate how
many games out of first place somebody is and how
to calculate someone's magic number. That's the only math, and
that takes you all of eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Now I'm talking. I'm educating people Frostburg. My college is
gonna start soon.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
You're gonna need to go to colin if you don't break.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Here coming up neck all right, So I wanted to
make sure I am very pro college.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
You're really trying to sell. The more you sell it,
the more nobody believes it.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Coming up next, the big takeaways from Florida's win over
Houston and oh yeah to the victors go the spoils
of Florida. But yeah, hey, Houston shoes on the other foot, now,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
That's next Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (16:37):
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Speaker 3 (16:43):
Florida Gators are your national champions.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
They beat Houston sixty five sixty three after defensively they
hold Houston to a dropped ball on the final possession
of the game.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I'm gonna let that joke just hang there.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
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he will be because when you make a play like this,
Walter Clayton Junior, you win the national title.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You get to be the Express pros Pro of the Week.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
National championship is in the ballots. Thirteen seconds left, Florida.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Legic by two.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
You said you gotta go USA it give it up,
Crier six seconds, five seconds for sure, he won't.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
He can't touch it. They shifted.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
An eagle on CBS with the call.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
And that's why Walter Clayton junior is your Express pros
Pro the Week. Yes, he's College Pro the Week, I
get it, but nil, we can blur the light. This
is why I'm so happy for him, because this is
a tournament where he became the story of the tournament.
He became the story the best player Danny Hurley, who
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of course wanted to just go on glowing terms about
how his Yukon team got knocked out because apparently Walter
Clayton was the greatest player in the history of the game.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Oh we had a guy to night that just it up.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But as the tournament went on, Clayton and Broom became
the biggest stars outside of Cooper flagh Sure and Duke
and Cooper flag gets knocked out on Saturday and Clayton
is the is the biggest star left. And the first
three quarters of this game for him was miserable. When
you are a team star and you get shut down
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the way Clayton got shut down, that's embarrassing. That's really
really difficult to be able to deal with because he
at one point he went sixteen game minutes in between
taking shots. He was zero for four from the floor
for the first through the first I think overall like
the first thirty.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
One minutes or over twenty nine minutes of the game,
and he had a bad game.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yes, he scored some points late, but he was going
to be the guy that if Florida lost, it's our
best player. Can't play like this and to have to
wear that for a long time is really difficult and
it's a hard thing. It's I went through my entire
career when we when the lights were brightest, I couldn't
find a way around Houston's defense. I couldn't make a shot,
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I couldn't get a shot. Despite that, he's still he
still had seven assays, five rebounds, Still an okay night
number wise, but clearly you needed more on him because
the story of the first two thirds three quarters of
the game was Wow, Walter Clayton has no points but
to make the game winning play because, make no mistake,
him leaping out at Sharp and forcing him to drop
the ball that won the National championship. Now, you could
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talk about Sharp's decision making and where it wasn't that point.
The many things he could have done. He could have
pumped faked. He could have pumped faked and leaped into
Clayton and maybe drew a folly at the free throw
line for three shots, but instead he got so he
was so put off by Clayton leaping as high as
it was in front of him, he dropped the basketball
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and that's how the clock ticked down to zero. Because
he can't pick it up after you jump in the
air and drop the ball. He tried to guard players
away from it. Finally Florida jumped on the basketball and
the clock struck zero. That's a National Championship winning play
that he made. He never touched the basketball, he never
made a play, he never was able to. He never
made contact with anybody in the play. He didn't make
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a shot, he didn't make a pass again, he never
touched the basketball. But he made the game saving and
the game winning play in the National Championship. And that's
something when a player like that can have that ass
of a game because it was terrible and still make
that winning play like that's it. Man like him flying
out of nowhere, that's it.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It made me think back because it's a Syracuse but
it made me think back to when Syracuse won to
three and the biggest play was a Keem Warwick on
the next to last play of the game, Michael Lee
is in the corner for a three and he finds
a way to close and block the shot. Now we
don't know if that three would have went, who knows,
but it could have been a tie game at that point,
and he flies out of nowhere to block the final play.
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We remember Mellow and having one of the great national
title games in college basketball history, and certainly his legacy
is now front stage, now front page, going to the
Hall of Fame and everything else that goes along with Mellow.
But you think about defensive plays like that that don't
get the run. The Keey Morrik gets the run. He
actually blocked it. Clayton never touched the ball, but it
doesn't matter. He won the game with that play, and
(21:41):
that is something to see a player, a leader, a
guy that talented. I know I'm having a bad game,
r J. Lewis, but instead of going in the tank,
I find a way to make a national championship winning play. Yeah,
you look at the situation and it's just interesting. Go
back to Saturday, right as we're getting the Hall of
Fame announcements, here's the celebration of Carmelo Anthony on the
day that Cooper Flagg gets bested by this Houston squad,
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adding to the resume for most of this game holding
down Clayton Junior. Think about how chesty all of these
guys would have been. We took down Flag and Duke
and then followed up by taking down Clayton and holding
him down as they did eleven second half points assists.
You saw Richard with the huge first half he had fourteen,
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finished with a really solid game as well. But to
be able to do it on the defensive end, and
you know, we talked to a couple of guys from
the squad and the defense. You know, you take pride
in that. Todd Golden in a lot of his postgame
comments really going out his way to make sure to
point out as much as hype as Houston's defense got,
and it's something I tried to bring up over the course.
(22:45):
There were no bad defensive squads playing in this Final
four like they were on top of the top of
the charts, right. It wasn't just hey, we're going to
run you out of the game, Jim, which Duke did consistently,
but they were also holding opponents to forty shooting on
the year. And then you come into this with Clayton.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Very easy for a.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Guy to shrink, shrink away and not you know, stay
true to the fundamentals. But here in the biggest moment,
doesn't get a ball on This is where sharp again
questioning the dropping of the ball versus trying to get
contact looking for a pass, whatever that decision would have been.
But man, that would have been a huge resume booster
(23:25):
for all of those guys on the Houston squad. Look
what we did instead in the final moments. It's on
the other end of the court that Clayton makes his
biggest impact. He's most valuable player and all of that,
what mop We haven't we haven't changed the term, and
still you're among them up. But he got it because
of that defensive acumen and challenging on the final play,
(23:47):
you know. And that's that's the other part of this
final play is that defense has kind of been the
hallmark of the last weekend of the NCAA term, Right,
the defense Houston had on Saturday against Duke. The defense
both teams had tonight the final play. Florida wins with
defense and as bad as a play as it was, right,
And I've said it's like the Minecraft, the movie of
(24:09):
last plays because it's so bad, but it's a play
that's so bad that you want to talk about it
and talk about how bad it was and and just
break it down with people because that's minecraft. It was
so bad, but you want to talk about it. So
it's spectacularly bad like this last play was.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
But it won the box office.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah, okay, it made one hundred and fifty five million
dollars this week. I think it's going to make zero
dollars next week. See now I have won to zero
because how bad I mean, they say it's worse than
Freddy Got.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Fingerh it was bad. I'm telling you it was.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
And you know how bad it is in the first
minute and a half and I'm saying, wow, this is
not going to get Okay, this is just what it is.
But this play when when when you think about the ending, yes,
we've never seen something like that. But also part of
it is it's pretty predictable because of how the game went.
(24:58):
Most games, if you have the ball at the end
and you're down a point or two, you want to
be the team on offense with the ball because hey,
we will make a shot. Right the NBA, you want
the ball. Most college games you do. But a game
like this where nobody could make a shot. We're from
Kelvin Sampson, last hour, he said, listen, we couldn't make
anything in the second half. The two point lead by
Florida going to this final possession was just huge because
(25:20):
Houston had no momentum, no nothing. And you saw that
final play where maybe they were trying to run screens
and nobody got opened, but you had four players within
eight feet of the ball and the clock is ticking down.
They didn't go fast, and you had a playout to
Sharp for a three where hey, if nothing works, this
is what we're gonna do. And I don't even get
the shot off when you don't have any confidence because
(25:43):
no one's making shots. Right the NBA, it is a
make or miss league, right, college basketball make or miss,
And generally at the end of a game, yeah, you
got a couple of people, give me the ball, I'm
ready to make a big shot. There was nobody in
this game that was ready to make a big shot.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Even on Florida.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
There was nobody ready to make a big shot. They
just they add the points at the end. So it
was kind of I thought Florida had the advantage because
we're playing defensively. We feel confident defensively what we're gonna do,
more so than if we have to find a way
to get a hoop on offense, because no, I don't
have Let's just give them all to Clayton and see
what he can do. So when you think about that
(26:20):
from Houston and how all right you're trying to execute
a final twenty seconds where we could we could do
nothing for the last fifteen minutes. You see how bad
a play that was drawn up. You saw Kelvin Sampson
really couldn't even talk about it. We have to get
a last two possessions. We didn't get a shot off. Like, mentally,
where were you, guys? Were you mentally enough in the
game did you have confidence you could get a shot off?
(26:41):
You couldn't even find a point you can get to
the free throw line. So as crazy of a last
play as that was, it was also partly really predictable
because of how the game went. Where, yeah, if you
had anybody right, dude, you want to bet that Houston
gets it, makes a bad bucket on here or misses.
People would have said, I'll put all my money on missing,
because that's what I've watched them do over the course
of the last fifteen minutes, well, not getting shots off
(27:01):
time and again right last Fueld goal attempt was at
two twenty nine for the Gators. Last mate came from
the three point shot from Clayton at three point fourteen
left on the clock, assisted by your best friend that
you're writing a note for him to get out of
his test on White. I got two best friends. I
got two best friends, Thomas or Elijah with with Elijah
(27:22):
just says he doesn't go to class at all. That
says he graduated. I'm graduated.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
So yeah, Thomas still has work to don dude, but
he got the assist there. But otherwise offense not the
tail of the tape. And we knew that going in
it was gonna be stingy. We talked about the low
over under that seemed to sink all the way through
as we got through the watching the game unfold, but
down the stretch and certainly that last possession clunky, not
(27:49):
a lot of movement, not a lot of spacing, and
we'd watched the Florida Biggs have their way, so an
impressive finish to the game and again owing to the
just back to the original point of Clayton making making
Hay defensively.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I like that. Everybody.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Then both teammates were immediately like, no, great defender. All
you long, great defender. It's like, no, that's good. But
now nationally it's got. It goes back to not just
the team defense. Guy that we were waiting on. This
huge offensive explosion didn't happen. Still found a way to
rally up. So there's your teachable moment, coach, go do
it yere we go all of that you were trying
to do.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
That's sale job.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And starting your own radio college and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Sure make your impact wherever you can. Exit out bout
of Fresca.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Exit swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon, tell.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
You to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
A guy who skipped a lot of classes in college
except the sports ones.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
It's deasy, say he's got what's trending.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
No, it was good advice. The longer you're in college,
the less you want the eight thirty, ten thirty classes.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I could be.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I was in college for all of eight seconds when
I realized, oh, this thirty stuff was a.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Bad idea, very bad. This is a bad My.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
First semester freshman year, I had five eight thirty classes,
and I think coming out of high school, I'm like, oh,
that'll be great because my classes started at eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
It was an extra half hour. Yet I'm good.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
No, never again. I never took another eight to thirty
class the rest of my life.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
And also the general led stuff tends to be in
the morning anyway, and you'll do her at school. Florida
Gators did win that's a college by the way, sixty
five sixty three over Houston, taking the national title in
college hoops. Gators were down twelve early in the second half.
Houston had the ball for the last nineteen seconds but
failed to get a shot. Of four late turnovers for
the Cougars. Tonight, on three pointers, Florida was six of
(29:39):
twenty four, Houston six of twenty five. Florida only led
the game for about a minute, but they're the champs.
Attendance was sixty six thousand in San Antonio. On free
throws tonight, close game, Florida starters were thirteen of fourteen
Houston nine of fourteen from the stripe. Walter Clayton of
the Gators some late defense. He finished with eleven points
(30:00):
and seven assists. This Florida team opened the tournament up
twenty four to five quickly against Norfolk State, in fact,
led that game fifty one to nineteen at one point
late first half, went on to an easy first round win.
It was a very close second round win against ucon
the defending champ, Walter Clayton came through in the final
minutes and that got him a trip to San Francisco,
(30:22):
where Florida coach Todd Golden played.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
In the Bay Area.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
He's from Saint Mary's. He's former head coach and assistant
in his time at University of San Francisco. And another
close game, and in the West Final, it was another comeback.
They were down ten with five and a half minutes
to go and then Clayton, the All American, made three
three pointers in the next four and a half minutes.
Florida beat Texas Tech in advance the last Saturday nights
(30:46):
at the Final four, Florida a thirteen to three run
to open the second half, take the lead and win
a close one against Auburn and here tonight, down twelve.
As I say early second half, and they wind up
being crowned national champions. A year ago, Florida lost in
the first round. In three years, the men's Final four
is going to be in Las Vegas next year, It's
(31:06):
in Indianapolis in a couple of years in Detroit. In
twenty twenty seven, NBA wins for Sacramento and Miami. That
Sacramento win had forty three points from Zach Lavine and
a victory at Detroit. Miami sent Philadelphia to a twelfth
straight loss. The NBA regular season and Sunday, the Lakers
Lebron James and Luca Doncicic are each questionable for the
Tuesday game at Oklahoma City. LA does play at Dallas
(31:29):
the next night Wednesday. Questionable for Boston on Tuesday at
New York Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Christups Porzingis. The
NBA players of the week are Kawhi Leonard and the
West and Giannis Santenacumpo in the East. Portland gave general
manager Joe Cronin a multi year extension. In late night
NHL play wins for Calgary, Anaheim, and Seattle, which won
(31:49):
two to one at LA. Tampa Bay was a five
to one winner at the Rangers, and for Saint Louis,
a twelve game winning streak ended with a three to
one defeat at Winnipeg. Starts Thursday practice.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Why can't you just say the Jets win? Why can't
Why can't you say the Jets win?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Jets win?
Speaker 6 (32:06):
People won't understand what I'm saying. Surely that sentence does
not get understand the Jets win.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
It does lead to a lot of smoking minds.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Yeah, Master starts Thursday practice suspended by weather.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Today, Mets won, The Mets won again. Mets and the
Jets both win. Mets and the Jets.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Five Jets five wins in a row, two nothing the
final over Miami. Code I Sanga went five scoreless innings
for the victory. The Cubs ended Texas five game winning
streaks seven nothing. Justin Steele the winning pitcher with seven
innings eight strikeouds. Boston's five game winning streak is over.
Toronto won at Boston six to two. Is George Springer
went four for four, including three RBI singles. Pittsburgh and
(32:47):
Kansas City with wins. Detroit beat the Yankees. Washington over
the Dodgers despite a show hey Otani Homer the late
night wins for Baltimore and Seattle. Cincinnati with two runs
in the eighth one too nothing at San Francisco that
ends the Giant seven game winning streak. The winning pitcher
for the Reds, Hunter Green, pitched into the ninth. San
Diego is now nine and two after a win five
(33:07):
to four at the A's. By the way, attendance in
Sacramento was nine thousand and five hundred. Attendance in Pittsburgh
tonight eight thousand and two fifty.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
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the Florida Gators stars not going to class this week
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Speaker 3 (33:27):
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Speaker 1 (33:29):
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Speaker 1 (35:02):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
live from the tire rack dot Com studios. Again, the
big message from this hour of the show, we are
all very pro college, pro adniversity.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Attend your classes. I mean you're wearing a college sweatshirt today.
Ye go to class. Go to class right.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
My kids off visiting one right now, so I mean
it's just go to class. To celebrating champions like Albert
Hubalha Florida winning the national championship tonight. We talked to
two of their stars today, Thomas Hawk and Elijah Martin
following the game, both extremely excited.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Hey Thomas with the assist to get Clayton on.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Thomas told us that he's got Bio two on Wednesday,
and maybe his attendance for Bio two sort of up
in the air at this point. Let's listen to a
little bit of Thomas with us from earlier in the show.
All right, so now how do you guys celebrate tonight?
What's on what's on the docket? What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I don't know, I can say no, We're We're gonna
have fun here and then we're gonna get back to games.
Will sell there with the fans.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Man, I thought you're gonna say, well, I'm gonna study.
I got a big test tomorrow, so yeah, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
We're all I got.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
I got buy the two Wednesday and I'm gonna be
there for that.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Really, you got a test on Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Oh yeah, I do.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Got class.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Don't know if I'm going to that one though.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I think you got an exemption. You want us to
write it out that you took the time out for us,
I'll put it on official letterhead everything.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
We'll write a.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Note for you.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
It's all good. Is it an early class? Is it
like an early class in the morning.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
Oh yeah, it's like like ten o'clock.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Man, I'm not that's way.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Too early, man. I bet hey, listen, here's the thing.
But I learned at college. You do not want to
have anything on the left side of noon. Everything on
the right side of noon.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Oh man, I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
All right, See he like he hat that lab you
know if you know how you know he's a college student.
Yeah early, yeah, ten am too early? As he played
for Florida and then you got it to the other
side of noon ten am. Yeah, too early, too early,
So he's given out life advice though here.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
So we know we went to college because he just
won a national championship.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Well that's true too, Well yeah, I mean yeah, but still,
I mean, you know, I mean he's not you know,
he's he's real in it when he says that ten
am is too early for class because it is a wrong. No,
he's not not, not at all. He has not round
ten o'clock is too early. Yeah, I mean I'll disagree,
but I'm so get shouted down. So we told Thomas
we would write a note for it, right, ye, a
note for you, okay. So then we had Elijah Martin
on you know, second final four for him national champion,
(37:35):
and we talked about you know, we said, hey, Thomas
just said, maybe you're not going.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
To class on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
And then Elijah Martin said, okay, well I'll take that
and I raise you not going to class anymore. Thomas
said he might skip class. I might celebrate by skipping
class on Windy.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
They got they gotta they gotta excuse the guys and
the school gotta understand. Oh yeah, hey, if you need us,
we'll write a note for you, excusing you like it's
in high school or something.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
We'll write a note for you excusing you like it's
high school.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
I said, if you need to, we'll write a note
for you that excuses you, like it's high school. I'm allowed.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
I don't go to class and I got my degree.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
All right, you're a national champion. You know you don't
need to go to class. All right, there we go.
That was him basically telling you he didn't need your blessing. Yeah. No,
well he says, he's done. He says, I you don't
need your nue.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
I did.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I didn't go to I don't go to class, and
I graduate. I think you said, did he say, I'm
not lying or I'm online, like I'm online. Go, I
don't go to class and I graduated.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
I'm good. He's just saying, I'm I'm I'm not lying.
But I'm sure he's online too.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Sure, I'm sure he is. I'm sure he's got a presence. No,
but he said, but he was looking out for everybody else.
Nobody else should go to class. Right, that's the first
thing he said. Nobody go to class. Nobody.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
All you guys all skip the chancellor. These guys are
all off.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Oh good, okay, yeah there, let's see he said, you
see ineligible ineligible, ineligible, ineligible, And you're putting a lot
of stock on academics anymore. Haven't we crossed that chasm?
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Yeah, because you think.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
About all the old school coaches that go and coach
make sure everybody goes to every class. No football or
basketball players skip class. Yeah yeah, okay, Well, I mean
that was the big stat alongside all the wins for
Bob Knight all those years.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Right, I already graduated guys that graduate, Yeah don't. I
don't care. Well, that was Bob Knight. He would be
one of those.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
He would come into the house and put his arm
around the kid and go, you give me your son,
and I'll give you a man. I want him to
go play for you. Then it's like, oh wow, this
next four years is going to be tough. Well, you
learn some important life lessons and now we've gone to Yeah,
I already graduate.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
I don't go to class. I'm good man, I see you.
All right, that's good. No.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Bio two on Wednesday in the and he's a national champion. Yeah,
and let any of the transcript.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Stuff come out in the.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Watch and again, we are very pro college attending classes.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
We are very pro. I did a lot of college.
I actually went back again.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
In certain instances where you win a national championship or
you just don't feel like going, it's okay to skip class,
but you need a really good reason like that. Do
you think it would be an interesting sociological thing for
me to be a talk show host and go back
and try to get my doctorate?
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Yeah, I'd be very difficult for you, I think. Do
you think it'd be fun though? Yeah? Sure? Why not?
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Nice challenge? What's Harmon doing? He's dealing with these kids
in class. I skipped a whole day of class once
because I was playing Sega RBI Sega.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Baseeah, no I have and I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
When you went to the World Series, you couldn't save
the game, so you had to play the entire World Series.
So I'm like, I got to skip because this is
the game.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Great, what am I gonna do?
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I can't stop, I can't hold and and nobody touched
the game. So I said a whole day where I
skipped class so I can play the World Series and
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for the next few minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Is this where you stomp on the Cougars fans that
are no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
This is where I go, Hey No, This is where
I go like, hey, I talk about being a leader
all the time and trying to influence young men and
women to be the best they can be.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah. Uh, just because we talked.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
To Thomas Hawk and Elijah Martin to Gators stars, they
win the national title because both of.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Them were very okay with not going to class.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
The next couple of days, Thomas Hawk told us that
he's got a BIO two test Wednesday, and I don't
know if I'm going, and I don't have it.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
If you don't if you're not going, you don't have
a test. Oh that's true. Yeah, I don't have a test.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
If I doesn't have it, mister Hawk, Sam missing it,
mister it it's your time, mister hand and my time.
So Thomas Hawker said he's I have a biotest to Wednesday.
I don't know if I'm going. And Elijah Martin who said, yeah,
I don't go to class, but I graduated already. I'm good,
and he said, yes, write a note for us so
we can skip class this week. I do want to
(01:56):
say I am and and after my admission of going
to less than half of my class at Syracuse, I
do want to say I am very pro college.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I am very pro school college.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Sweat you're staying in school, going to class and making
sure that your parents' money or the nil money that
you're getting does not go to waste and you get
every ounce of that education. I am extremely pro college.
I want to say that despite what we just heard,
I am very pro colle. But it was as the
(02:27):
guys Justin and Alex making a sound so pretty tonight.
Thanks to the guys in the back for their edits
and everything, and of course Steve Desagre.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
At the news desk. But as we're.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Going and finding more, you know, highlight and recap packages
on our televisions, they passed the invention of lying. The
Ricky Gervais movie, Okay, you might have been doing a
little bit right there.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
There was no sincerity. You got to become a better
actor after all of these years. That was some of
the worst acting you've ever done, and trying to sell
a point.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Education is really important.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I was thinking about a horrible mansion. Why were you
thinking about a horrible mention?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
No, I know, I am very pro education, proson, No
i am. I'm There was no butt here, there was
no there's no me doing this with my hand behind
my basket, my fingers. Yeah, it was a really half
assed attempt at acting. We gotta say we had to
send you to some uh some improv or whatever. I
thought we were doing a good job here. That was
(03:28):
that was nobody bought that. I'm just saying, if you
win the National Championship and you come on the show
with us, we'll write a note for you to miss.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Clout absolutely on Tuesday and Friday. It might help you.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Never know, you might get it because one of your professions.
One of your professions might listen. Oh you listen, you
talk to Jason. I listened to those guys every night.
Oh cool, Yeah, yeah, you can miss hey.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
In fact, don't worry about it, man, Just show up
whatever you want to. It doesn't matter if you're up
late at night. I mean look because right now we're
talking one am East Coast time. Look, if you're up
listening to us late at night, I'll write it note
for you too. Yeah, I have to go to class
tomorrow because you're being educated. Okay, now you're getting in
the ways of the world on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
now you just want I'm not saying it's gonna be
(04:09):
a have any value. If we just want to excuse
people that are just up late.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Why not? They're learning about the Gato. They Gator fans.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Okay, Hawk and Martin won the national championship tonight. You
don't think that they stay Congratulations on staying up to
the end. I know it's difficult because the game doesn't
start until like ten o'clock at night. So I understand
it's a difficult. You need a nap during the day
to stay up to watch a game.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Of fans.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I mean they they are heavily invested in this as well,
maybe literally invested, and I do it certainly figuratively. Their
heart and soul is here. Okay, but let's spend at
it this way, right, Let's just let's just say the
players say, hey, we had a bit last couple of days,
profess I understand you won the national title. They come in,
their heroes are gonna get a big applause. They want
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to talk about the game. Yeah, yeah, I understand.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
What did you do? I was up late last night?
Why I watched a basketball game? So what? So can
you excuse me from the test on Wednesday in class
this week? Like that doesn't We're in twenty twenty five,
that does.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
They don't even need the note from US anymore doesn't
happen all like, are.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You kidding me?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Half the people in high school here Los Angeles don't
show up on a day to day. Base is going
back to Fran Brown of Syracuse head coach, after Syracuse
won the bowl game and Kyle McCord had another and
another five hundred yard day, and he says, let me
talk about Kyle.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And the first thing he said was he never missed
a class. And I was like, Hey, that's really awesome.
And here we are, Yeah, well, write letters for you guys.
Don't have to go to class. It's all good, don't
worry about it.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I just want there to be a case where it's
not hey, we got stuck, you know, traveling back from somewhere,
to where it becomes a all right, it's it's dad's fault, right,
we're late because it's dad fault, right. I mean, how
many times did you have people when you were having
a practice they're late because mom or dad was running late.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It can't help it. Someone else has to drop them off. Right.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
In this case, it's a I want someone to be
able to use me as an excuse, not because they're elite,
not because of something with my work that that forces
the miss no no no. Harmon wrote a excuse as
an attempt to excuse you from a class some yeah
on the radio, and definitely you got to put some
misspellings in there.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I definitely want you can't spell everything. You got to
have a couple of misspells.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I can't use any of my five letter words, like
you gotta listen, you gotta spell gators g A T
E R. S.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Put it like it would be off the Florida Gators
to the national championship. Please excuse him from class?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Oh sorry, spell, I gotta I gotta change.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
It that way. Yeah, exactly, I'm sorry. This doesn't this
doesn't do it. This can't do it, This can't do it. Really,
who's this guy? But every night you can listen to him?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Because here's think about it like this, if I if
I'm if I'm a guy and I just won the
national title, like like the first thing I would think.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Of is what girls do? I like hell again? And
I can say, hey, how about let's get together. Let's
all right?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So I'd have that net still around my neck like
they all did show on the So if I'm show,
if I'm winning the national time, oh yeah. Yeah, and
I'm wearing my jersey and shorts class everything else.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, I'm in my uniform like winning college baseball championship. Look,
he's got his stirrups. Swearing stirs the class.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So I mean I want to show up wearing my
gear and going hey, okay, and I'm I'm cool. Like
I mean, i'd wash it, of course, because it really
you know, yeah, but like I would got to have
that authenticity, Like I would think, like how long is
too long for me to miss class? Where I miss
out on the celebration part of it, because like, okay,
maybe you miss tomorrow, but you want to go. You
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want to go Wednesday because that's maybe when everybody else
going back Thursday. Like are you past it? Like is
it over? Like is Wednesday the big celebration day? Like
do I miss stuff Wednesday? Bring up the list of
party schools? Where's Gainesville? I got a feeling flowed, Well, okay,
you want to the number one party school in the
country voted this year Cal Santa Barbara, which we went
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to visit there like a few months ago.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I was like, Okay, not happening.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
They got a big thing this last weekend that was
evidently chaos party colleges. Okay, here we go. Uh U
c l A is at the top. Okay, you c
l A at the top. Temple is the is in
the top. You pay for those parties. First time Temple
isn't the in the top of anything. I mean, first
time Temple's mentioned since what was a movie where the
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kid was going to be the draft pick of Temple
and uh that that Bruce will not not U was
it Unbreakable? Where the whole thing was that the Temple
was a good good football sure, and the kid the
Temple was going to be a top three pick. Well,
it's either that we're talking about, uh, folks trying to
kill each other coaches. Let's see Miami's in the top
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twenty five, Delaware, San Diego State, Michigan State, EXAs, Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Florida is not well, Florida is not in here. Gators
are deep down there. Huh yeah they're not. I mean
maybe maybe it's more of it. I know it was
always Arizona State was always on the metals. Oh yeah, sure,
that was always.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
That was always a big line from thirty Rock when
Alec Ball would say, come on, let me give me
some credit. I didn't go to Arizona State, but uh no, Illinois,
Illinois Champagne Urbana is number Urbana. Yeah, number seven, Yeah, buddy,
top ten, number seven. We're all is that? How is
that a relation to being a football? We are top
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ten and two things party school and lacrosse. Okay, that's
what we got. Uh you tough?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
This year? The football schedule is gonna be.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, you're in Alabama, Howard, Wisconsin, Florida State and to Florida.
Not in the You would think Florida is one of
the top schools. I would think, so I did not
know that. Well, it's going to be tonight. That's they're
going to be singing a lot of Tom Petty songs
and having a grand old time.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Why Tom Petty songs? Gators? He's celebrated the Gators' Okay,
all right, I don't think. I don't think any kid
in which now is gonna celebrate. But come off, I'm
running down Mary Jane.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Come on, let's go one more time.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
To kill the page. I don't think that's it.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, it might get you another drink at the bar.
Isn't one more time? Isn't Pitbull from Gainesville?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Hang on?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Hang on, what does it just sound like or is
it just as goo pitbull from Gainesville?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Oh no, pets for adoption and plenty of pit bulls
available in Gainesville, Florida. Okay now, oh, Pittbull is playing
Gainsville in twenty twenty five. So yeah, Tom Petty and
Maya Rudolph are the two celebrities that come up right away. Really,
so you got a Prince cover band and Tom Petty.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
You rocking through the night. Prince she is, she's, she's
in a band. We're gonna do Computer Blue.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Everybody ready, Everybody ready, don't worry, I forget what the
name of it is.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Everybody ready. H you don't believe me? You think I
believe you? No, I believe you. I'm just saying I know.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
It's like you were lying about the Do you think
anybody at anybody on the Florida camp is playing Tom
Petty and and and partying to it?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
That might be free calling a little bit. I don't
know where's that. Calvin Sampson A Kelvin's free just saying
he got really chesty after beating Duke or they playing
American Girl.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Hey, it's not just gonna be about sounds of lambs
and that girl decides to help a guy move a
couch and get in the back of the car.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
What are you stupid? Don't it's a celebratory song now.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
American American Gators raised on championships.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Dude, Oh, I know that we have to contact that's me.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
But please contact Tom Petty's estate if you're going to
do anything like this ever again. But no again, And
I want to come back to this full circle. I
am very pro attending classes in college for everybody.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I am.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Probably you're spending money for a reason. You're going to
that school for a reason. You don't going to that
school to sit home and play in Sega or Super
Mario Brothers or Blades of Steel or just sleeping late
or staying out late partying and and and not going
to class because it's too early in that class at
two o'clock in the afternoon. You did not do that.
(12:16):
You went to college to go and get educated. Yeah,
now I feel good.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
There you go. I'll close the circle.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Maya Rudolph's Prince coverman, uh huh, Princess, that makes sense,
But I remember I did I did one time come
miss a two o'clock class. And someone asked me once
I remember, I said, why did you come a guy?
I was too early?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
What do you o'clock in the afternoon? I didn't get
in untill five. I wasn't going to class, and too,
I was still sleeping. I get up at twelve thirty,
had to go to lunch with What do you mean
too early? Two pm? Was too early? Wow? I mean
I work on my own clock.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I gotta say. There is no good time for classes
in college. I mean, am I am there?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Like?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
What is the best time? Eight thirty not a good time?
Ten o'clock, little miss is right noon? You're missing lunch
after noon. Okay, you're missing naptime. Here's what college should be.
And I firmly believe what college should be. College should
be one class a day, maybe two, depending if you
want a Friday off eight year plan.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
You no, no, no, you got you're one hundred Dickinson.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You have two classes a day maybe, and you go
to class at two o'clock and four o'clock for fifty
five minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
That should be. That should be everybody's college schedule. Right.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
The morning is for whatever you're doing at the college
right forever you're doing at the college, whatever exturricular stuff
you want to do.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
We're sleeping late, whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
You go to lunch, and then two to two fifty
five and you get an hour to all right, hang out,
then go to your four o'clock class four to four
fifty five. Then you're at dinner, studying the night whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
You're doing. Two classes a day, fifty five minutes. That's
that's it.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I was a morning class guy, lunch, and then off
to my work study job for five hours. See, you
had too much going on, and then back into the
real world there after.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You had too much.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
See where the first three years I had hosting the
morning show from six to ten in the morning, so
I was up at five thirty in the morning, first
three years of my college career. So that's kind of
where I was thinking, Yeah, these classes are real inconvenience.
I can't go to class. I just did a morning show.
I just did a radio show for four hours. I
gotta go to a class at ten thirty. No, come on, man,
do you ever think about resurrected old Jason Mason before
you're done? I want to sleep. I should have got
(14:26):
I should have got more credit. I mean, really, I'm
hosting a morning show five days a week, four hours
a day. Get class credit, nope, anything else nope? Come on, man,
be serious with that? Makes me think I got because
that's what I wanted to do in cod Like, okay,
I got the experience when I wanted to do these
classes whatever again, two classes a day, two to two
fifty five.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Four to four fifty five.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
See, I went to class, I did all that other stuff,
and I want to be able to pick the people
that did are in my class. Well, there's that too,
that guy he doesn't pay. I'm gonna pick my friends.
I'm gonna pick that girl that I all walking across
campus the other day.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I'm gonna pick that. That's what those are people.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
In my class. Keep it going, want in my class? Yeah,
keep it clear. You're sid Caesar now from Greece. Keep
it clean, keep it clean. You can't be an athlete,
be in an athletic support. But that's the perfect schedule. Yeah,
the morning to do whatever you want after it two
to two fifty five, four to five. And if you
want two classes day Monday through Thursday, no classes on Friday.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
There you go. Well, you're like school on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And that's Jason Smith University for you right there, start
your own media college.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
You gotta go to class, nah, not really were to
take certain classes like science and met No, the only
math you need to know is how to calculate how
many games out of first place somebody is and how
to calculate someone's magic number. That's the only math, and
that takes you all of eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Now I'm talking. I'm educating people Frostburg. My college is
gonna start soon.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
You're gonna need to go to colin if you don't break.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Here coming up neck all right, So I wanted to
make sure I am very pro college.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
You're really trying to sell. The more you sell it,
the more nobody believes it.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Coming up next, the big takeaways from Florida's win over
Houston and oh yeah to the victors go the spoils
of Florida. But yeah, hey, Houston shoes on the other foot, now,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
That's next Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Fox Sports Radio the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Florida Gators are your national champions.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
They beat Houston sixty five sixty three after defensively they
hold Houston to a dropped ball on the final possession
of the game.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I'm gonna let that joke just hang there.
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pros Pro of the Week. And the pro of theek
os is someone new. Well, he's not a pro yet
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he will be because when you make a play like this,
Walter Clayton Junior, you win the national title.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You get to be the Express pros Pro of the Week.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
National championship is in the ballots. Thirteen seconds left, Florida.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Legic by two.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
You said you gotta go USA it give it up,
Crier six seconds, five seconds for sure, he won't.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
He can't touch it. They shifted.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
An eagle on CBS with the call.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
And that's why Walter Clayton junior is your Express pros
Pro the Week. Yes, he's College Pro the Week, I
get it, but nil, we can blur the light. This
is why I'm so happy for him, because this is
a tournament where he became the story of the tournament.
He became the story the best player Danny Hurley, who
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of course wanted to just go on glowing terms about
how his Yukon team got knocked out because apparently Walter
Clayton was the greatest player in the history of the game.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Oh we had a guy to night that just it up.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But as the tournament went on, Clayton and Broom became
the biggest stars outside of Cooper flagh Sure and Duke
and Cooper flag gets knocked out on Saturday and Clayton
is the is the biggest star left. And the first
three quarters of this game for him was miserable. When
you are a team star and you get shut down
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the way Clayton got shut down, that's embarrassing. That's really
really difficult to be able to deal with because he
at one point he went sixteen game minutes in between
taking shots. He was zero for four from the floor
for the first through the first I think overall like
the first thirty.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
One minutes or over twenty nine minutes of the game,
and he had a bad game.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yes, he scored some points late, but he was going
to be the guy that if Florida lost, it's our
best player. Can't play like this and to have to
wear that for a long time is really difficult and
it's a hard thing. It's I went through my entire
career when we when the lights were brightest, I couldn't
find a way around Houston's defense. I couldn't make a shot,
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I couldn't get a shot. Despite that, he's still he
still had seven assays, five rebounds, Still an okay night
number wise, but clearly you needed more on him because
the story of the first two thirds three quarters of
the game was Wow, Walter Clayton has no points but
to make the game winning play because, make no mistake,
him leaping out at Sharp and forcing him to drop
the ball that won the National championship. Now, you could
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talk about Sharp's decision making and where it wasn't that point.
The many things he could have done. He could have
pumped faked. He could have pumped faked and leaped into
Clayton and maybe drew a folly at the free throw
line for three shots, but instead he got so he
was so put off by Clayton leaping as high as
it was in front of him, he dropped the basketball
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and that's how the clock ticked down to zero. Because
he can't pick it up after you jump in the
air and drop the ball. He tried to guard players
away from it. Finally Florida jumped on the basketball and
the clock struck zero. That's a National Championship winning play
that he made. He never touched the basketball, he never
made a play, he never was able to. He never
made contact with anybody in the play. He didn't make
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a shot, he didn't make a pass again, he never
touched the basketball. But he made the game saving and
the game winning play in the National Championship. And that's
something when a player like that can have that ass
of a game because it was terrible and still make
that winning play like that's it. Man like him flying
out of nowhere, that's it.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It made me think back because it's a Syracuse but
it made me think back to when Syracuse won to
three and the biggest play was a Keem Warwick on
the next to last play of the game, Michael Lee
is in the corner for a three and he finds
a way to close and block the shot. Now we
don't know if that three would have went, who knows,
but it could have been a tie game at that point,
and he flies out of nowhere to block the final play.
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We remember Mellow and having one of the great national
title games in college basketball history, and certainly his legacy
is now front stage, now front page, going to the
Hall of Fame and everything else that goes along with Mellow.
But you think about defensive plays like that that don't
get the run. The Keey Morrik gets the run. He
actually blocked it. Clayton never touched the ball, but it
doesn't matter. He won the game with that play, and
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that is something to see a player, a leader, a
guy that talented. I know I'm having a bad game,
r J. Lewis, but instead of going in the tank,
I find a way to make a national championship winning play. Yeah,
you look at the situation and it's just interesting. Go
back to Saturday, right as we're getting the Hall of
Fame announcements, here's the celebration of Carmelo Anthony on the
day that Cooper Flagg gets bested by this Houston squad,
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adding to the resume for most of this game holding
down Clayton Junior. Think about how chesty all of these
guys would have been. We took down Flag and Duke
and then followed up by taking down Clayton and holding
him down as they did eleven second half points assists.
You saw Richard with the huge first half he had fourteen,
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finished with a really solid game as well. But to
be able to do it on the defensive end, and
you know, we talked to a couple of guys from
the squad and the defense. You know, you take pride
in that. Todd Golden in a lot of his postgame
comments really going out his way to make sure to
point out as much as hype as Houston's defense got,
and it's something I tried to bring up over the course.
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There were no bad defensive squads playing in this Final
four like they were on top of the top of
the charts, right. It wasn't just hey, we're going to
run you out of the game, Jim, which Duke did consistently,
but they were also holding opponents to forty shooting on
the year. And then you come into this with Clayton.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Very easy for a.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Guy to shrink, shrink away and not you know, stay
true to the fundamentals. But here in the biggest moment,
doesn't get a ball on This is where sharp again
questioning the dropping of the ball versus trying to get
contact looking for a pass, whatever that decision would have been.
But man, that would have been a huge resume booster
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for all of those guys on the Houston squad. Look
what we did instead in the final moments. It's on
the other end of the court that Clayton makes his
biggest impact. He's most valuable player and all of that,
what mop We haven't we haven't changed the term, and
still you're among them up. But he got it because
of that defensive acumen and challenging on the final play,
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you know. And that's that's the other part of this
final play is that defense has kind of been the
hallmark of the last weekend of the NCAA term, Right,
the defense Houston had on Saturday against Duke. The defense
both teams had tonight the final play. Florida wins with
defense and as bad as a play as it was, right,
And I've said it's like the Minecraft, the movie of
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last plays because it's so bad, but it's a play
that's so bad that you want to talk about it
and talk about how bad it was and and just
break it down with people because that's minecraft. It was
so bad, but you want to talk about it. So
it's spectacularly bad like this last play was.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
But it won the box office.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah, okay, it made one hundred and fifty five million
dollars this week. I think it's going to make zero
dollars next week. See now I have won to zero
because how bad I mean, they say it's worse than
Freddy Got.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Fingerh it was bad. I'm telling you it was.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
And you know how bad it is in the first
minute and a half and I'm saying, wow, this is
not going to get Okay, this is just what it is.
But this play when when when you think about the ending, yes,
we've never seen something like that. But also part of
it is it's pretty predictable because of how the game went.
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Most games, if you have the ball at the end
and you're down a point or two, you want to
be the team on offense with the ball because hey,
we will make a shot. Right the NBA, you want
the ball. Most college games you do. But a game
like this where nobody could make a shot. We're from
Kelvin Sampson, last hour, he said, listen, we couldn't make
anything in the second half. The two point lead by
Florida going to this final possession was just huge because
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Houston had no momentum, no nothing. And you saw that
final play where maybe they were trying to run screens
and nobody got opened, but you had four players within
eight feet of the ball and the clock is ticking down.
They didn't go fast, and you had a playout to
Sharp for a three where hey, if nothing works, this
is what we're gonna do. And I don't even get
the shot off when you don't have any confidence because
(25:43):
no one's making shots. Right the NBA, it is a
make or miss league, right, college basketball make or miss,
And generally at the end of a game, yeah, you
got a couple of people, give me the ball, I'm
ready to make a big shot. There was nobody in
this game that was ready to make a big shot.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Even on Florida.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
There was nobody ready to make a big shot. They
just they add the points at the end. So it
was kind of I thought Florida had the advantage because
we're playing defensively. We feel confident defensively what we're gonna do,
more so than if we have to find a way
to get a hoop on offense, because no, I don't
have Let's just give them all to Clayton and see
what he can do. So when you think about that
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from Houston and how all right you're trying to execute
a final twenty seconds where we could we could do
nothing for the last fifteen minutes. You see how bad
a play that was drawn up. You saw Kelvin Sampson
really couldn't even talk about it. We have to get
a last two possessions. We didn't get a shot off. Like, mentally,
where were you, guys? Were you mentally enough in the
game did you have confidence you could get a shot off?
(26:41):
You couldn't even find a point you can get to
the free throw line. So as crazy of a last
play as that was, it was also partly really predictable
because of how the game went. Where, yeah, if you
had anybody right, dude, you want to bet that Houston
gets it, makes a bad bucket on here or misses.
People would have said, I'll put all my money on missing,
because that's what I've watched them do over the course
of the last fifteen minutes, well, not getting shots off
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time and again right last Fueld goal attempt was at
two twenty nine for the Gators. Last mate came from
the three point shot from Clayton at three point fourteen
left on the clock, assisted by your best friend that
you're writing a note for him to get out of
his test on White. I got two best friends. I
got two best friends, Thomas or Elijah with with Elijah
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just says he doesn't go to class at all. That
says he graduated. I'm graduated.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
So yeah, Thomas still has work to don dude, but
he got the assist there. But otherwise offense not the
tail of the tape. And we knew that going in
it was gonna be stingy. We talked about the low
over under that seemed to sink all the way through
as we got through the watching the game unfold, but
down the stretch and certainly that last possession clunky, not
(27:49):
a lot of movement, not a lot of spacing, and
we'd watched the Florida Biggs have their way, so an
impressive finish to the game and again owing to the
just back to the original point of Clayton making making
Hay defensively.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I like that. Everybody.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Then both teammates were immediately like, no, great defender. All
you long, great defender. It's like, no, that's good. But
now nationally it's got. It goes back to not just
the team defense. Guy that we were waiting on. This
huge offensive explosion didn't happen. Still found a way to
rally up. So there's your teachable moment, coach, go do
it yere we go all of that you were trying
to do.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
That's sale job.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And starting your own radio college and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Sure make your impact wherever you can. Exit out bout
of Fresca.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Exit swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon, tell.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
You to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
A guy who skipped a lot of classes in college
except the sports ones.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
It's deasy, say he's got what's trending.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
No, it was good advice. The longer you're in college,
the less you want the eight thirty, ten thirty classes.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I could be.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I was in college for all of eight seconds when
I realized, oh, this thirty stuff was a.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Bad idea, very bad. This is a bad My.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
First semester freshman year, I had five eight thirty classes,
and I think coming out of high school, I'm like, oh,
that'll be great because my classes started at eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
It was an extra half hour. Yet I'm good.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
No, never again. I never took another eight to thirty
class the rest of my life.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
And also the general led stuff tends to be in
the morning anyway, and you'll do her at school. Florida
Gators did win that's a college by the way, sixty
five sixty three over Houston, taking the national title in
college hoops. Gators were down twelve early in the second half.
Houston had the ball for the last nineteen seconds but
failed to get a shot. Of four late turnovers for
the Cougars. Tonight, on three pointers, Florida was six of
(29:39):
twenty four, Houston six of twenty five. Florida only led
the game for about a minute, but they're the champs.
Attendance was sixty six thousand in San Antonio. On free
throws tonight, close game, Florida starters were thirteen of fourteen
Houston nine of fourteen from the stripe. Walter Clayton of
the Gators some late defense. He finished with eleven points
(30:00):
and seven assists. This Florida team opened the tournament up
twenty four to five quickly against Norfolk State, in fact,
led that game fifty one to nineteen at one point
late first half, went on to an easy first round win.
It was a very close second round win against ucon
the defending champ, Walter Clayton came through in the final
minutes and that got him a trip to San Francisco,
(30:22):
where Florida coach Todd Golden played.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
In the Bay Area.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
He's from Saint Mary's. He's former head coach and assistant
in his time at University of San Francisco. And another
close game, and in the West Final, it was another comeback.
They were down ten with five and a half minutes
to go and then Clayton, the All American, made three
three pointers in the next four and a half minutes.
Florida beat Texas Tech in advance the last Saturday nights
(30:46):
at the Final four, Florida a thirteen to three run
to open the second half, take the lead and win
a close one against Auburn and here tonight, down twelve.
As I say early second half, and they wind up
being crowned national champions. A year ago, Florida lost in
the first round. In three years, the men's Final four
is going to be in Las Vegas next year, It's
(31:06):
in Indianapolis in a couple of years in Detroit. In
twenty twenty seven, NBA wins for Sacramento and Miami. That
Sacramento win had forty three points from Zach Lavine and
a victory at Detroit. Miami sent Philadelphia to a twelfth
straight loss. The NBA regular season and Sunday, the Lakers
Lebron James and Luca Doncicic are each questionable for the
Tuesday game at Oklahoma City. LA does play at Dallas
(31:29):
the next night Wednesday. Questionable for Boston on Tuesday at
New York Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Christups Porzingis. The
NBA players of the week are Kawhi Leonard and the
West and Giannis Santenacumpo in the East. Portland gave general
manager Joe Cronin a multi year extension. In late night
NHL play wins for Calgary, Anaheim, and Seattle, which won
(31:49):
two to one at LA. Tampa Bay was a five
to one winner at the Rangers, and for Saint Louis,
a twelve game winning streak ended with a three to
one defeat at Winnipeg. Starts Thursday practice.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Why can't you just say the Jets win? Why can't
Why can't you say the Jets win?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Jets win?
Speaker 6 (32:06):
People won't understand what I'm saying. Surely that sentence does
not get understand the Jets win.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
It does lead to a lot of smoking minds.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Yeah, Master starts Thursday practice suspended by weather.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Today, Mets won, The Mets won again. Mets and the
Jets both win. Mets and the Jets.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Five Jets five wins in a row, two nothing the
final over Miami. Code I Sanga went five scoreless innings
for the victory. The Cubs ended Texas five game winning
streaks seven nothing. Justin Steele the winning pitcher with seven
innings eight strikeouds. Boston's five game winning streak is over.
Toronto won at Boston six to two. Is George Springer
went four for four, including three RBI singles. Pittsburgh and
(32:47):
Kansas City with wins. Detroit beat the Yankees. Washington over
the Dodgers despite a show hey Otani Homer the late
night wins for Baltimore and Seattle. Cincinnati with two runs
in the eighth one too nothing at San Francisco that
ends the Giant seven game winning streak. The winning pitcher
for the Reds, Hunter Green, pitched into the ninth. San
Diego is now nine and two after a win five
(33:07):
to four at the A's. By the way, attendance in
Sacramento was nine thousand and five hundred. Attendance in Pittsburgh
tonight eight thousand and two fifty.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
tyrack dot Com Studios. So why are we talking about
the Florida Gators stars not going to class this week
after winning the Natty?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
You will hear them? Tell us why?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Coming up next right here, Jason and Mike, It's must listen.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
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Speaker 1 (33:35):
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Be sure to catch live editions of the Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (35:01):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
live from the tire rack dot Com studios. Again, the
big message from this hour of the show, we are
all very pro college, pro adniversity.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Attend your classes. I mean you're wearing a college sweatshirt today.
Ye go to class. Go to class right.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
My kids off visiting one right now, so I mean
it's just go to class. To celebrating champions like Albert
Hubalha Florida winning the national championship tonight. We talked to
two of their stars today, Thomas Hawk and Elijah Martin
following the game, both extremely excited.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Hey Thomas with the assist to get Clayton on.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Thomas told us that he's got Bio two on Wednesday,
and maybe his attendance for Bio two sort of up
in the air at this point. Let's listen to a
little bit of Thomas with us from earlier in the show.
All right, so now how do you guys celebrate tonight?
What's on what's on the docket? What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I don't know, I can say no, We're We're gonna
have fun here and then we're gonna get back to games.
Will sell there with the fans.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Man, I thought you're gonna say, well, I'm gonna study.
I got a big test tomorrow, so yeah, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
We're all I got.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
I got buy the two Wednesday and I'm gonna be
there for that.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Really, you got a test on Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Oh yeah, I do.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Got class.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Don't know if I'm going to that one though.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I think you got an exemption. You want us to
write it out that you took the time out for us,
I'll put it on official letterhead everything.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
We'll write a.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Note for you.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
It's all good. Is it an early class? Is it
like an early class in the morning.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
Oh yeah, it's like like ten o'clock.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Man, I'm not that's way.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Too early, man. I bet hey, listen, here's the thing.
But I learned at college. You do not want to
have anything on the left side of noon. Everything on
the right side of noon.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Oh man, I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
All right, See he like he hat that lab you
know if you know how you know he's a college student.
Yeah early, yeah, ten am too early? As he played
for Florida and then you got it to the other
side of noon ten am. Yeah, too early, too early,
So he's given out life advice though here.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
So we know we went to college because he just
won a national championship.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Well that's true too, Well yeah, I mean yeah, but still,
I mean, you know, I mean he's not you know,
he's he's real in it when he says that ten
am is too early for class because it is a wrong. No,
he's not not, not at all. He has not round
ten o'clock is too early. Yeah, I mean I'll disagree,
but I'm so get shouted down. So we told Thomas
we would write a note for it, right, ye, a
note for you, okay. So then we had Elijah Martin
on you know, second final four for him national champion,
(37:35):
and we talked about you know, we said, hey, Thomas
just said, maybe you're not going.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
To class on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
And then Elijah Martin said, okay, well I'll take that
and I raise you not going to class anymore. Thomas
said he might skip class. I might celebrate by skipping
class on Windy.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
They got they gotta they gotta excuse the guys and
the school gotta understand. Oh yeah, hey, if you need us,
we'll write a note for you, excusing you like it's
in high school or something.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
We'll write a note for you excusing you like it's
high school.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
I said, if you need to, we'll write a note
for you that excuses you, like it's high school. I'm allowed.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
I don't go to class and I got my degree.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
All right, you're a national champion. You know you don't
need to go to class. All right, there we go.
That was him basically telling you he didn't need your blessing. Yeah. No,
well he says, he's done. He says, I you don't
need your nue.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
I did.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I didn't go to I don't go to class, and
I graduate. I think you said, did he say, I'm
not lying or I'm online, like I'm online. Go, I
don't go to class and I graduated.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
I'm good. He's just saying, I'm I'm I'm not lying.
But I'm sure he's online too.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Sure, I'm sure he is. I'm sure he's got a presence. No,
but he said, but he was looking out for everybody else.
Nobody else should go to class. Right, that's the first
thing he said. Nobody go to class. Nobody.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
All you guys all skip the chancellor. These guys are
all off.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Oh good, okay, yeah there, let's see he said, you
see ineligible ineligible, ineligible, ineligible, And you're putting a lot
of stock on academics anymore. Haven't we crossed that chasm?
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Yeah, because you think.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
About all the old school coaches that go and coach
make sure everybody goes to every class. No football or
basketball players skip class. Yeah yeah, okay, Well, I mean
that was the big stat alongside all the wins for
Bob Knight all those years.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Right, I already graduated guys that graduate, Yeah don't. I
don't care. Well, that was Bob Knight. He would be
one of those.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
He would come into the house and put his arm
around the kid and go, you give me your son,
and I'll give you a man. I want him to
go play for you. Then it's like, oh wow, this
next four years is going to be tough. Well, you
learn some important life lessons and now we've gone to Yeah,
I already graduate.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
I don't go to class. I'm good man, I see you.
All right, that's good. No.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Bio two on Wednesday in the and he's a national champion. Yeah,
and let any of the transcript.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Stuff come out in the.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Watch and again, we are very pro college attending classes.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
We are very pro. I did a lot of college.
I actually went back again.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
In certain instances where you win a national championship or
you just don't feel like going, it's okay to skip class,
but you need a really good reason like that. Do
you think it would be an interesting sociological thing for
me to be a talk show host and go back
and try to get my doctorate?
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Yeah, I'd be very difficult for you, I think. Do
you think it'd be fun though? Yeah? Sure? Why not?
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Nice challenge? What's Harmon doing? He's dealing with these kids
in class. I skipped a whole day of class once
because I was playing Sega RBI Sega.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Baseeah, no I have and I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
When you went to the World Series, you couldn't save
the game, so you had to play the entire World Series.
So I'm like, I got to skip because this is
the game.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Great, what am I gonna do?
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I can't stop, I can't hold and and nobody touched
the game. So I said a whole day where I
skipped class so I can play the World Series and
I won in six As long as you want see
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