April 5, 2024 • 41 mins
Dan gets the straight scoop from Draft Kings about a hypothetical betting line on the UConn Huskies vs. the worst team in the NBA, the Detroit Pistons. And he talks to Michigan State Men’s Basketball HC, Tom Izzo who agrees that there’s no chance a college team could beat any NBA squad.
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has three of the final four. He has NC State, Connecticut,
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and Purdue, with Purdue beating Connecticut for the national championship.
I'm looking at the latest betting lines this According to DraftKings,
Yukon is still the big favor to win it all,
followed by Perdue, and then NC State and Alabama are
a distant third. The points spreads NC State getting nine
against Purdue, Alabama getting eleven and a half against Connecticut.
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We'll have a play of the day, poll, question, stat
of the day, all of that forthcoming. I think it
was last week that Mike Greenberg on The Mothership talked
about how good Yukon is and that Yukon could make
the playoffs in the NBA, and he later backtracked after
he realized that it was a silly comment and said
he was just joking. So I wasn't joking when I
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reached out to DraftKings and I said, Hey, let's come
up with a betting line this Connecticut team versus the
Detroit Pistons. I'm gonna let you guys decide what you
think that point spread would be. So DraftKings decided they
would come up with a point spread for me if
the Yukon men's team played the Detroit Pistons. Now we
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didn't factor in where they would be playing. If it's
at you know, Connecticut, if the Pistons are going to
be playing at home, let's say a neutral site. Pistons
are the worst team. Marvin, I'm going to start with you.
The points spread that Connecticut and Detroit would be. How
many points do you think the Yukon Huskies would be getting?
Fifteen and a half, fifty and a half, all right,
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Paulie fourteen and a half, fourteen and a half, Seaton O'Connor,
this is.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Twenty one and a half, all.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Right, Todd, seventeen and a half. According to Draft Kings,
the Pistons would be listed as a forty five point
TAF for forty five, just forty five, forty five. That's
why it's silly when we do this and we have
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Tom izzoh Michigan State head coach coming up. I want
to ask him, what's the last team that you think
could actually compete against an NBA team? And I don't
know how long ago do you go back and say
that team was good enough, had enough talent that they
could play against the worst team of the NBA. Because
the Pistons aren't very good or the Spurs aren't very
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Imagine if the Spurs as bad as they are, played
against the Connecticut men's team. Okay, we get caught up
in this, and I know maybe Greenee's just trying for
a hot take there, because you know, you get intoxicated
being on those shows that you got to have a
hot take. I truly believe that Greenee meant it and
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then realized that, oh it does sound silly, but that's DraftKings,
and all they're trying to do is have a betting.
They're not invested emotionally into this. They're just saying if
these two teams met, that the Pistons would give forty
five points to Connecticut. They're being objective, But I wonder,
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is there a team Can you think of a team
that was talented enough where you'd go, all right, that
might be a little more interesting here. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
On the football side, I think of the one Miami Hurricanes. Yes,
they had tons of NFL talent field, tons of NFL
talent as backups.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yes, that's as talented as we've probably seen in recent memory.
But basketball wise, is there a team a school that
you think could compete stay in the game against the
worst basketball team Todd.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Kareem Walton, any of the UCLA years. One of those teams,
I could, well, they weren't together like whatever.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
The best you see LA team under John Wooden would.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Be I think only because of Kareem and how great
he was. But I mean he had Lucius Allen who
played in the NBA. He had Mike Warren who was
a really good shooting guard as well. I mean, it
wasn't It wasn't a great team. They just had Kareem,
and you know that could be the difference just about
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any night out. Even with Walton. Walton had some NBA players,
you know, Dave Myers was a really good player, Larry
Farmer was a really good but they weren't great players.
So I guess I would say UCLA you could factor
that them in.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yes, Marvin, I'm just going off of NBA talent. This
team didn't even go to the final four. The DeMarcus Cousins,
John wall Kentucky team where Eric Bledsoe and Patrick Patterson.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, okay, but once again, you're that's a young team too.
But then the Pistons are young as well. The Pistons
are probably the same age as you know that Kentucky team.
What about the National Championship Kentucky team with Anthony Davis?
Would they I'm trying to think who else was on
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that roster when they won the title? Do you remember
Marv who else ad had?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Michael Kidd, Gilchris Okay, I'll give you a bloop on
that one.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
Harrison Twins.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Maybe they didn't make it the NBA.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I don't know, they were good players, but once again,
the guys who were in the NBA are really good.
They may not be you know, team might not be good,
but you are playing against the best players in the world.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yes, that's why these these discussions are so stupid. They're fun,
but they're so stupid because you're you're taking a college
team and playing against a team where literally every single
player is good enough to play in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, because they're in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Because they're in the NBA, they're good enough to play
in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah. Well, the audience can help out with this. But
I'm curious if Mike even Georgetown with Patrick Ewing, I
don't know if they were a great team. I mean,
Freddie Brown, Michael Graham, you know, wouldn't sleep Floyd was there,
but trying to figure out you know, I would say
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the Houston team that had a chem Elijaan and Clyde Drexler,
that was really good, but they didn't even win the
national championship. So I thought it was funny. Well, I
thought it was interesting to find out exactly what Vegas
would think of this. And then DraftKings said and I go, wait,
I think you put down forty five point spread and
they said yes, yes, and I go, oh, okay, yeah, Paulie,
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I'll throw.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Out the eighty two North Carolina team with James Worthy,
Sam Perkins, and Michael Jordan. Perkins and Worthy were upperclassmen. Jordan,
I know he was young, but that's one that popped
my head from a talent standpoint. Okay, and maybe the
UNLV team with Larry Johnson, Stacy Jaun Anderson High greg
Anthy that for one night that team could swarm people.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Okay, how about this LSU nineteen eighty nine, Mack Mood,
abdul Rauve, Shaq and Stanley Roberts. Okay, like you got
my attention there because Mock Mood averaged I think twenty
eight a game. But you know, Shaq wasn't Shack. He
was a freshman. He averaged fourteen points. Stanley Roberts average
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fourteen points. But I think it would be fun to
try to come up with a team if I said,
Duke with grand Hill, Christian Latner, Bobby Hurley. Who else?
They have Thomas Hill in there? Brian Davis? Was he
in there as well? Is that sound right? I'll say
about Eric Meek in the post, Eric Meeks in the post, Yes,
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anybody else you throw in there, Marv.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
It's hard because there's always only like three NBA players, Yes,
and then you need them to play against five NBA players.
That's always the issue.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
That's true. But you got coach k Know coaching you here. Yes, Paul,
you saw.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
This team, the seventy six Indiana team, Ken Benson, Tom Abernethy,
Scott May, Quinn Buckner. Those those guys weren't Hall of.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Famers, Bobby Wilkerson. That's a lot of talent though. That
was that was a great team, great team, and they stayed.
They were juniors and seniors I think for the most
part with Bob Knight, and they went undefeated. Yeah, so
Scott May didn't really have a great NBA career. Kent
Benson played for a little while, Quinn Buckner played for
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a while. Bobby Wilkerson he got drafted I think maybe
by Cleveland. He was a good player. Abernathy was the
sixth man. I think he was drafted by Golden State,
maybe in the second round. But yeah, I think it's
it's interesting to think about that. But then when you
factor in reality, which is what DraftKings is doing, all
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they want to do is get it right. They don't
care who's winning by how much. From the standpoint, well,
they're going to get blown out, they're going to get embarrassed. Oh,
they're going to be more competitive. They're just setting a
betting line there, and it's Yukon getting forty five, Yes, Martin.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Can you imagine how angry the Pistons would be coming out, Like, wait,
you guys think they could be on the floor with
us and Kata Cunningham would go for sixty and thirty.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, I don't know about that.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I'm sorry, forty and twenty five Okay.
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he can remember a team that was talented enough to
be able to stay with the worst team in the NBA.
All right, poll question, Seaton, what are you thinking about today?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Well, do you want to dive right into our sandwich
finale or do you want to get into like a
poll question, pull quest.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Let's get into a poll question, poll question. Then we'll
get into the final fok with the sandwich situation, the
final four sandwiches that are left standing here.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Okay, Well, we've got a suggestion from Paul. We've got
a bunch from Friday. Fritzy is on fire today.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
All right, let me go, let me let me see
where Friday Fritzie by the way, later on this morning,
One dining moment. Fritzi will sing the one dining moment
and that'll be in a couple hours from now. We're
still putting it together. We have a montage. It's a video.
It's just like what CBS is going to roll out,
you know, after the national title game, the one shining moment,
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it's one dining moment that'll be coming up a little
bit later on. All right, so what do you have there? Yeah, Todd, all.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Right, Is Danny Hurley secretly nervous that a seven hour
flight to lay Arizona is a bad omen your choices?
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Without a doubt. He's very superstitious. Nah, he won't give
it a second thought.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, he's very superstitious. Here is coach Hurley on the
travel issues that Yukon had.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
You know, it's like, I think, what goes to your
mind once you're done, you know, kind of complaining and
cursing and muttering and trying to you know, you just
start saying yourself, you know, like you don't really deserve
to show entitlement such an honor to get a chance
to and once in a lifetime experience to go play
in the final four. Coaching the final four. You know,
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once kind of that edge wore off, you start lucky
to be here. We're lucky to get an opportunity to
come play in the final four. And then who doesn't
deal with problems with the airlines? I mean, people deal
with it during the holidays, and it's just it's something
that you, you know, just got to get through, but
it sucked.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I don't know if Nate Oates, the Alabama head coach,
has any sympathy. He spoke about Yukon's plane problems.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Not quite sure what happened with the plane. I it
wasn't me. I didn't say anybody over there to mess
with the mechanics. I'm sure he's conjured, dead up in
his head already. But I did get a good night's
sleep last night, so it's nice. But I'm sure he'll
be fired up and ready to go Saturday. It'll be
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fun and then we'll we'll touch base after the game.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, in C State is getting nine against Purdue and
Alabama getting eleven and a half against Connecticut. Women's final
four tonight in C State, South Carolina, Connecticut against Iowa.
So the men's final four will be on Saturday. Let's see,
we'll get phone calls coming up. How about this one?
This was suggested the nineteen eighty seven Arizona Wildcats. They
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had Kenny Lofton who went on to play baseball. Tom
Tolbert played in the NBA. Steve Kerr played in the NBA.
Sean Elliott, is he in the Hall of Fame? Certainly
Hall of Fame worthy. Judd Bushler played for the Chicago
Bulls for a while. Sean Rooks also played in the NBA.
That's pretty good team. Pretty good team. I can't think
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of anybody else. There might be somebody really obvious that
we're not thinking about Arizona when they won the National Championship.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Bibbie and Miles Simon.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, Mark.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
The ninety seven Mavericks would have had a field day.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You think so. Jim Jackson, Oh yeah, yeah. Were they
the worst team? Though?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
In my head they were really but I'll look.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
But didn't they have Jim Jackson, Jamal Mashburn and Jason Kiddy.
They had talent. I don't remember them being the worst
team in the NBA. All right, let's see anything else
that we need to make. Oh, Seaton, we got to
mention the final fourk It's Championship Week and the four
sandwiches that people will be voting on are going to be.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Well, there were four winners from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
It's Nashville Hot Chicken, French Dip, grilled cheese, chicken palm.
Now we also have the n I T which might
actually beat this, which would be the Reuben Cubano po Boy,
that right there is just murderers row.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Now that's the National Indigestion turn right correct, right right.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
The n T.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
It might be stronger than the winning sandwiches. And then
a fish sandwich is thrown in there too, which bland
and name high in value. Okay, yeah, so we're gonna
actually throw both of those up there.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Okay, what's the what's the main poll question? We're gonna
go with Tyler? You had some more?
Speaker 6 (15:36):
I had at three or four more, depend how much time?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, fire away, and then we'll take a break and
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Speaker 3 (15:42):
Goes, yeah, I got three or four more, depending on
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Front It wasn't the front row as me go.
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No, absolutely not under no circumstances, and never are your
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Speaker 2 (16:04):
But you have to you have to put it in
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Tod's team you up to give the story? Well I
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Speaker 6 (16:17):
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Yeah, why don't we just go to break Yeah? How
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Speaker 4 (16:20):
We could do that.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
We have Tom Izzo coming up.
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still looking for any team in college basketball history who
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would have a chance against the worst team in the NBA.
And the reason why I brought this up is after
hearing Mike Greenberg on ESPN say that the Connecticut team,
the Yukon men's team could make the playoffs in the NBA,
and I went, oh, that's not good. That's not going
to age. Well. I reached out to DraftKings and I said,
all right, what would the betting line be Connecticut's men's
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team against the worst NBA team? And they came back
and said the Pistons would be favored by forty five
over the Yukon team.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Yes, Paul, I got three or four emails. This is
again before my time, but you would know this team
and coaches A would the seventy four UCLA team that
you mentioned, Bill Walton, Keith Wilkes, Marcus Johnson, Dave Meyers,
Richard Washington. I think there were all first round draft picks,
and Greg Lee was a good guard on it.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
They did not in seventy four win the title. Seventy
four they lost NC State in the seventy final.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Talent wise, what do you think of that team?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Seventy five had Richard Washington and Marcus Johnson. Bill Walton
wasn't on that team. But that's a lot of talent,
a lot of talent there. Did you have another one
that's it? Okay? Springing Tom is a Hall of Famer
twenty nine years at Michigan State. He's seen it all.
All right, coach, give me a team in basketball history
that you think would be talented enough to compete with
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the worst team in the NBA.
Speaker 11 (18:49):
Well, I'm listening to you, Dan, and I thought that
Walton team, But you were right in seventy four they didn't.
I was just in high school then, so I'm, you know,
not like you. I didn't remember those things as well.
Speaker 12 (19:05):
But I don't know.
Speaker 11 (19:06):
You know, we played in North Carolina team in five
that was yeah, our own nine.
Speaker 12 (19:12):
That was really good.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
They had all those guys that came back. I thought
that they ran through the league. But NBA teams are
still better. I think I don't think any college team
could beat an NBA.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Team We'll go back to when Michael Jordan was there
with Worthy and Perkins.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
That's those are all good players, and Michael Jordan was
a great player.
Speaker 11 (19:32):
Worthy and Perkins were great, but they were still young then,
you know, although the NBA was older back then. Now
the NBA is young too. So you bring up a
good point. And some of these teams you're talking about,
I've heard some teams in college basketball now, especially with
this this COVID transfer portal, you know, where guys are
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twenty four or five years old, older than some NBA teams.
The NBA is playing eighty two games a year. I
just don't think there's any that I know of that
could beat an NBA team.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Help me understand the transfer portal and why was it
active during the tournament?
Speaker 11 (20:13):
Yeah, that you know, Like I'm on a lot of committees,
and you know, I hate to say this, but I
will since I'm controversial like you. I think that was
one of the craziest moves. You know, we don't get
that any days in the sun anymore, you know, with
college football now coming into the middle of January, pro
football going into February. The NCAA Tournament is college basketball's
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day in the sun and we collute it with the
transfer portal. You know, a lot of people make decisions
without really talking to the people that are in the basement.
Speaker 12 (20:48):
And I think that's what's happened in a lot of
things with the NC.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It came out who can fix this coach?
Speaker 12 (20:55):
Well, Chirs l.
Speaker 11 (20:56):
Ain't the coaches, we don't have a lot of say,
maybe the players. They seem to be the only ones
with power anymore, so maybe the players can fix it.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, but I'm trying to understand this now. Maybe you're
going to pull back the curtain for the audience here,
But during the tournament, are you thinking about or hearing
from other players who might want to transfer to Michigan
State or are you concerned that some of your own
players might be thinking about being in the transfer portal?
Speaker 11 (21:24):
Well, I think that's a very good question, and I
think that goes on from about January on. I think
there's a lot of places where assistant coaches are recruiting
kids off of people's campuses. I think, you know, I
talked to Nick Saband. There's coaches in football. I think
I think that's one of the problems right now because
of these rules everybody's half in, half.
Speaker 12 (21:45):
Out, and it is a problem.
Speaker 11 (21:47):
The one thing I had heard some people talking about
was playing in deep into the NCAA tournament and still
been in the transfer portal staff meetings. I'd get cold
dan Hell before it happened here. You know, I think
you got to take care of the players you got.
And yeah, I know you got to recruit, recruit, recruit.
It's a twenty four to seven job now. But if
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I'm playing it, we get to a Sweet sixteen Elite
eight Final four.
Speaker 12 (22:13):
I'm not worried about the transfer portal.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Okay, back to Connecticut. If you were going to attack them,
give me what would be your philosophy strategy to try
to beat this Connecticut team.
Speaker 11 (22:25):
Well, after watching our own Big ten team, Illinois go
at the big fellow, and I recruited him a little
bit out of high school, I wouldn't attack him.
Speaker 13 (22:34):
You know.
Speaker 11 (22:34):
I try to drive and kick out and get some shots.
You got to make shots against them. Because he has
become so much better this year than he was last year.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
It's amazing.
Speaker 11 (22:46):
I think he's become better within the year and he's
just more aggressive.
Speaker 12 (22:52):
He's got size, he's got those long arms.
Speaker 11 (22:55):
And I don't think you know, I think you got
to hope to turn him over some he's that you
got to hope to make shots.
Speaker 12 (23:02):
And it'll be interesting since Purdue is in it and
they have a big.
Speaker 11 (23:06):
Guy of their own, if that ends up the finals,
which I'm not saying this year it will because so
many strange things have happened. But if it's Connecticut Purdue
in the finals, it could be a real interesting game
with those two gigs.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Okay, but you don't attack the big man and try
to get him in foul trouble.
Speaker 12 (23:23):
You better have a hell of a center to do that.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
You know, you better have a guy that's not only
big enough, strong enough, good enough, can score it well enough.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
We can do that.
Speaker 12 (23:34):
Again, he can.
Speaker 11 (23:37):
What he doesn't do sometimes is you know, not as
mobile as some although he's more mobile than you think.
So you know, if you just played big now, he
still might score his points. And that's what happened to
us against tam He scored his points. You got to
maybe contain those other guys you pick and choose your poison.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Is it tough to watch the Final four?
Speaker 12 (24:00):
Really tough.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
That's why I'm here talking to you doing it, but yeah,
you know, I mean I've had the privilege of going
eight times, and let me tell you that is a trivilege.
Speaker 12 (24:11):
And I just talked to Gene Katie yesterday.
Speaker 11 (24:14):
I called him to congratulate him on Matt Paynter and
you know the Katie heathcoat painter is o thing is
you know, it's all been part of the tree and
Jane was so excited. I always say, boy, I'm the
luckiest guy in the world because I think he was
one of the great coaches in America. Never even touched
the final four. I think he went to one Elite
eight and he's one of the best. So it's hard
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to watch, but I'm privileged that I got the planet.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
We're talking to Tom Izzo, the head coach at Michigan State.
How hard is it to continue to do this when
you look at all these coaches that decide, I don't
want to put up with transfer portal in Nil I
mean Saban, you know, Jay Wright, I mean, go down
the list, Beheim. They're like, I don't want to deal
with the anymore.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie to you. It is hard,
you know, Nick, Saban and I are good friends.
Speaker 11 (25:06):
Next started here as an assistant, so did I started
here at the head coach, same time I talked to
Nick Jay Wright, good friend, Roy Williams, you know, Jim Beheim.
I mean, sometimes age gets you, but sometimes it's the situation.
And anybody that tells you that this has not been
maybe the most taxing, incredible, confusing state of college sports,
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they're lying to you it is, But I'm not sure
I want to give into that either. So right now,
I keep on trucking. But it has, Dan, it's been,
It's been different. You know, the Dayton grad you are.
I know that Dayton had a good run this year.
Who knows who's going to be coming back, who's leaving?
(25:51):
I don't think any coach knows that about any player,
and that's kind of sad.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
How let's say you're recruiting me, how long into the
conversation you're not going that low? Damn you're right, you're right,
But let's say it just for keepsake. Okay, Okay, let's
say you're recruiting you know, a McDonald's all American kid.
How deep into the conversation before? How much money can
I make? Coach? Does it happen?
Speaker 11 (26:18):
What we found out is you know, even from last
year to the this year, it's tripled. But if you're
talking in the transfer portal, I mean some of those
coaches you mentioned, that was some of the things that
happened the minute they said hello, I'm tom Izzo.
Speaker 12 (26:34):
It's what's my package? You know? I think that is
a more.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
More in the transfer portal than with kids coming out
of high school.
Speaker 11 (26:42):
It seems that way because I think what happens in
the transfer portal is kids know that a coach wants you,
maybe kaud he's trying to save his job, and maybe
the money will go up and all that kind of stuff.
Whereas freshmen, although we argue on our board that it's
going to hurt freshman, you know, there's not as much
freshman being recruited, not many freshmen playing, and I think
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that's one of the unintended consequences to this.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
What do you think about expanding the tournament.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
I have mixed feelings on it.
Speaker 11 (27:12):
I can't say I'm crazy about it, and in one
part because it's so exciting the way it is, and
I can't say that there aren't some teams. You know,
we played Indiana State this year and they're really good.
And they almost beat Seaton Hall last night, and that
nit I think, here's North Carolina State. If the most
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unbelievable set of events don't happen. At the end of
the Virginia game, they're sitting home and you're talking to
Keats instead of me. So there are teams that deserve
to get in. And I got enough problems dealing with
the transfer portal of the NLI and my own players.
I'll leave that stuff to the committees because coaches don't
have a lot of say in any of these things.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
What do you make of the growth of the women's game.
Speaker 11 (27:59):
I think it's impressive, you know. I mean I watched
the other night. You know, not just because she's in Iowa,
Big ten girl, but I've watched the women's basketball. I'm
a big geno Ori. I'm a fan. I've watched him
for years. But the explosion of it has been incredible
(28:19):
and deserving, and it is exciting now. I get a
little confused when they bring up ticket prices for the
women's games. I mean they're played in an arena of
seventy eight or seventeen thousand, where ours are sixty seventy thousand.
But I do think I'm a big fan of women's basketball.
I've been fan of the women coaches here, but this
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has been an exciting few years, and a lot of
it because of Caitlin, but a lot of it because
what South Carolina has done with Gino's done.
Speaker 12 (28:50):
He gets taken for granted.
Speaker 11 (28:51):
He might be one of the best all time coaches
in any sport, including this year Dan when he had
all those injuries.
Speaker 12 (28:58):
And he's still in the final four.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, you know this is the best your voice is sounded.
But you probably hate that your voice sounds this good
because that means you're not coaching in the tournament.
Speaker 12 (29:09):
You know, I say this a lot to you, but
my voice is never bad because of the coaching.
Speaker 11 (29:14):
It's always bad because the lack of sleep, and during
the tournament you don't get any sleep. And when you
don't sleep, not that I sleep a lot now, but no,
I don't sleep because of all those other reasons you
just talked about before it was my team. But either way,
who the hell needs a voice?
Speaker 12 (29:30):
You know?
Speaker 14 (29:30):
You do?
Speaker 12 (29:31):
I do?
Speaker 8 (29:32):
I do?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
How do you think my voice would go over if
I'm in the huddle and I don't have to yell,
I just say guys, this is what we're going to do.
Speaker 12 (29:43):
I know what Grandma would say to you. He'd probably
says something different to you.
Speaker 11 (29:46):
But you know, you got a good voice, man, You
got a good voice, and I think it would transfer
well over to the coaching professional. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
My voice is sort of Steph Curry's jumper.
Speaker 12 (30:00):
Well, I's not that good, but it's good. I like it.
I've enjudged yet.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Enjoy the off season, if there is such a thing
as the off season. Thank you, coach.
Speaker 12 (30:10):
Thanks to hav that.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
That's Tom Izzo. Hall of Famer, twenty nine years at
Michigan State. Always good to talk to. By the way,
Shawn Elliott is a Hall of Famer. Fritzi did some
research there and said that Sean is a Hall of Famer.
Phone calls coming up, Andrew and Washington leads us off
on this meet Friday.
Speaker 13 (30:28):
Good morning, Andrew, Good morning, Dan Dennett. I hope you
have a great meet Friday and an excellent spring break
coming up. I was, you know, going into the Final
four weekend and a lot of talk about DJ Burns Junior.
But when I hear about that and all week long
all to talk about him, all I can think about
is Kenneth Laston junior, you know, the Louisiana Tech player.
(30:51):
He's listed at six six, two seventy five. He's been
on three NBA teams. He went undrafted, but although he
scored forty two points in an NBA game, it just
didn't you know, he just doesn't transfer to the next level.
He's a great D League player. But that's the comparison
that I kind of saw with DJ Burns junior. So
I wanted to get your thoughts on that. And I
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do have a Victor wendn Yama stat of the day.
So he is the only player in NBA history, not
just rookies, but NBA history, to ever have two hundred blocks,
seventy five steals, and one hundred three pointers made in
the season.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
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Speaker 2 (32:17):
Okay.
Speaker 14 (32:18):
But most importantly, I was trying to call to get
some advice on a potential trip to Dublin. My girlfriend's
getting a little impatient with me on making a choice.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Okay, that's it. My advice would be go.
Speaker 16 (32:35):
There.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
There's no downside to it. People are wonderful and there's
so many different things to see in Dublin. You're always
going to have fun.
Speaker 14 (32:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Food's a lot better than you think, and of course
you uh have some libations there that can entertain you
as well. But yeah, people go there to have a
good time, and we we've had I've been there quite
a few times. But yeah, I uh big fan of Dublin.
Can't go wrong. All right, let me come back. Uh
we got to play of the Day coming up. More
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Oh my god.
Speaker 12 (33:22):
Of the day.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
This is the play of the day.
Speaker 12 (33:29):
Check this out three and two.
Speaker 16 (33:30):
Here's the payoff pitch breaking ball line towards third, over
the glove of the third basement. The kent straight down
the left field line around third digits for the play
is baby, he will score without a throw.
Speaker 11 (33:41):
Put it in the books.
Speaker 16 (33:42):
The Mets scots twice here at the bottom of the
night for their first win of the year after going
oh and five at the start.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yay Mets Radio Network. The Mets were held to Hitler's
for the first six innings of their first game loss
to the Tigers, and then didn't get a hit until
the eighth inning of the nightcap, eleven innings without a hit.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
You guys are joking, right.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Good.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
A random bloop single for the Mets in April is
the play of the day.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I didn't pick it out. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Maybe only the most historic college basketball championship in the
country was finished last night.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Oh that's right, Seaton Hall beat Indiana song. Oh my god,
but wait a minute. The Mets had a bloop single
to win a random game in April. Yeah, my god,
Oh my god, my bad, my bad.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
I saw this one coming that's this is. This is
nothing more than Yukon by wow, it's out there. The
Yukon doesn't look at the little guys and what they're doing.
We have a bigger we have a bigger tournament that
we're focused on right now. So it's really just Yukon
and everybody else.
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Speaker 4 (35:11):
Has nothing to do with Seton Hall in the fact
that they were.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Only that was seventy seven to seventy and they went
on a nine ozer run to win the NO.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I guess yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
I don't hold it against Seaton Hall that they're one
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Speaker 4 (35:42):
It was the Mets first win of the season.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Oh so, oh you're right, Sorry, you're right. That is
more important. What are the other pole options that we
have today? Todd? Did you have sis Marvin such a hater?
Speaker 11 (35:53):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Because he's Marvin? Why are you such a hater?
Speaker 4 (35:58):
I don't know if I was a hater. I was
just looking for I mean, you should be better than that.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
We're trying to spend all week talking about how can
you Kons not recognize as a dynasty?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
What about you?
Speaker 12 (36:05):
Conn? That is true?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
You have to do something this petty.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Really, I'm really I didn't kind of okay, I didn't
mean it. I did mean it. I'm still mad about
that seat. HOWK Klingon was hurt?
Speaker 16 (36:17):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Cod The Stefan Digs.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
Houston Texans Texas Texans relationship is more likely to be
mutually beneficial and utter disaster.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
Diggs and the Houston Texans.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I'm going to think positive here. You know, they kind
of redid his deal. Now looks like it's just a
one year deal. So they want to make sure they're
going to get the best out of Stephan Diggs. So
he's playing for another contract. Yeah, I don't know if
he's a number one wide receiver though anymore. That's what
I'd be curious about. And if he's not a number
(36:50):
one wide receiver, you're going to go to these younger
receivers that you have and you're tight end and you're
running back. You know how many catches?
Speaker 12 (37:00):
You know?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Am I going to be targeted? And that's what these
guys care about. I'd like to say they care about winning.
They care about getting their touches. Yes, Paul.
Speaker 7 (37:09):
With Stefan Diggs the Houston Texans, they altered his contract
a little bit overnight. They wiped out the final three
years on his contract. He now has ability to become
a free agent after this season. They also bumped up
his pay this year from eighteen million to twenty two
and a half million in guaranteed money.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Learn well, I said yesterday that there's no way he's
going to go to Houston without somebody doing something to
freshen up his contract. And we saw this. I didn't
know if it was going to be a contract extension,
but he was. I guess underpaid when you look at
more quee wide receivers, but incentivize it, man make sure
(37:46):
that he's all in. What else? Ton Who do you
want to best?
Speaker 5 (37:50):
To the NCAA title game tonight? And cut down the
nets on Sunday. This may be obvious, but not necessarily.
Caitlin Clark and Iowa, Paige Becker's and Yukon is one
so overly publicized lately that some would turn on Caitlin
and want to see page win.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Wait are you turning on not? But I could see
others saying, you know what it sounded like that, I
are you tired of Caitlyn Clark? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 12 (38:12):
Not tired?
Speaker 5 (38:13):
But she does get a lot of attention, and Paige
maybe deserves a little more than she gets. I know
she had the injury and was out for who. I
am going to pull for Caitlin to finish on a
potter of the note and win the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
But I do want true that I have nothing against
either one of them.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
I think it would be great for her to wrap
things up on cutting the nets down on Monday and
when excited, but I'm curious to see what people think
if it's going to be a slam dunk that it's
Caitlin Clark, that you'd want to win over.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
I think she would cut down the net on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
Sunday and I played tonight and then Sunday would be
the title game.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Yeah, you had cut down the nets on Monday.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Monday would be the man thank you to any.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Other Is WrestleMania scripted? Of course it is maybe a
few moments here and there.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
No, it's real to me, damn it.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
WrestleMania forty coming up this weekend Saturday in so Day
on Peacock.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Yes, it feels particularly cruel to not want Caitlin Clark
to win a championship, Like it feels like, well, yeah,
she's accomplished all this, but I don't want her to
get that one last thing. It feels like of like
almost like a unless you're a fan of one of
the other teams, it almost feels like a negative character trait.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Well, Paige Becker's been through a lot, she has and
there's no wrong answer there of who you want to advance,
and she is coming back. You know, she'd be a
top five draft pick this year in the WNBA. But
I thought she had interesting comments because she talked about
coming back and she's going to be the focal point.
Speaker 17 (39:45):
I think it's more important for the game to share
the spotlight, to grow the game and show all the
stars of college basketball and not just focus on one
particular player. It's not my job, but the media can
do a better job of just making sure everybody gets love.
But he gets not equal amount of attention, but try
to spread it out more. So, I honestly hope next
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year I'm not the vocal point and the only person
that gets attention, and I hope as media, as players,
we can spread the level a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
It's not going to happen. I mean, it sounds like
a great idea, altruistic and you could tell that she
means that. But depending on what happens here tonight and
or Sunday, there's going to be a whole lot of
attention on her. Again, her and Juju Watkins just going
to be a lot of attention. Yes, well, yeah, you
(40:38):
kind of hope that there are other people that you
need a rivalry. You can't if you can just have
one star. But what you really need is too that
then the media sort of pits against each other. Whether
they like each other or not, it doesn't matter. There's
going to be which one is better, Which one is
the star blah blah blah, that kind of thing. Yeah,
because Caitlin Clark against LSU, you had a rivalry there,
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not as much with South Carolina, but they may face
South Carolina. South Carolina trying to go undefeated. A lot
of great storylines tonight. What happened with the Shoheo Tani
home run ball, the fan who got it, fan who
said she was pressured into giving the ball back but
not getting much in return. Have that for you coming up?
(41:22):
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and Purdue, with Purdue beating Connecticut for the national championship.
I'm looking at the latest betting lines this According to DraftKings,
Yukon is still the big favor to win it all,
followed by Perdue, and then NC State and Alabama are
a distant third. The points spreads NC State getting nine
against Purdue, Alabama getting eleven and a half against Connecticut.
(01:36):
We'll have a play of the day, poll, question, stat
of the day, all of that forthcoming. I think it
was last week that Mike Greenberg on The Mothership talked
about how good Yukon is and that Yukon could make
the playoffs in the NBA, and he later backtracked after
he realized that it was a silly comment and said
he was just joking. So I wasn't joking when I
(01:59):
reached out to DraftKings and I said, Hey, let's come
up with a betting line this Connecticut team versus the
Detroit Pistons. I'm gonna let you guys decide what you
think that point spread would be. So DraftKings decided they
would come up with a point spread for me if
the Yukon men's team played the Detroit Pistons. Now we
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didn't factor in where they would be playing. If it's
at you know, Connecticut, if the Pistons are going to
be playing at home, let's say a neutral site. Pistons
are the worst team. Marvin, I'm going to start with you.
The points spread that Connecticut and Detroit would be. How
many points do you think the Yukon Huskies would be getting?
Fifteen and a half, fifty and a half, all right,
(02:44):
Paulie fourteen and a half, fourteen and a half, Seaton O'Connor,
this is.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Twenty one and a half, all.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Right, Todd, seventeen and a half. According to Draft Kings,
the Pistons would be listed as a forty five point
TAF for forty five, just forty five, forty five. That's
why it's silly when we do this and we have
(03:18):
Tom izzoh Michigan State head coach coming up. I want
to ask him, what's the last team that you think
could actually compete against an NBA team? And I don't
know how long ago do you go back and say
that team was good enough, had enough talent that they
could play against the worst team of the NBA. Because
the Pistons aren't very good or the Spurs aren't very
(03:41):
Imagine if the Spurs as bad as they are, played
against the Connecticut men's team. Okay, we get caught up
in this, and I know maybe Greenee's just trying for
a hot take there, because you know, you get intoxicated
being on those shows that you got to have a
hot take. I truly believe that Greenee meant it and
(04:01):
then realized that, oh it does sound silly, but that's DraftKings,
and all they're trying to do is have a betting.
They're not invested emotionally into this. They're just saying if
these two teams met, that the Pistons would give forty
five points to Connecticut. They're being objective, But I wonder,
(04:21):
is there a team Can you think of a team
that was talented enough where you'd go, all right, that
might be a little more interesting here. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
On the football side, I think of the one Miami Hurricanes. Yes,
they had tons of NFL talent field, tons of NFL
talent as backups.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yes, that's as talented as we've probably seen in recent memory.
But basketball wise, is there a team a school that
you think could compete stay in the game against the
worst basketball team Todd.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Kareem Walton, any of the UCLA years. One of those teams,
I could, well, they weren't together like whatever.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
The best you see LA team under John Wooden would.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Be I think only because of Kareem and how great
he was. But I mean he had Lucius Allen who
played in the NBA. He had Mike Warren who was
a really good shooting guard as well. I mean, it
wasn't It wasn't a great team. They just had Kareem,
and you know that could be the difference just about
(05:24):
any night out. Even with Walton. Walton had some NBA players,
you know, Dave Myers was a really good player, Larry
Farmer was a really good but they weren't great players.
So I guess I would say UCLA you could factor
that them in.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yes, Marvin, I'm just going off of NBA talent. This
team didn't even go to the final four. The DeMarcus Cousins,
John wall Kentucky team where Eric Bledsoe and Patrick Patterson.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, okay, but once again, you're that's a young team too.
But then the Pistons are young as well. The Pistons
are probably the same age as you know that Kentucky team.
What about the National Championship Kentucky team with Anthony Davis?
Would they I'm trying to think who else was on
(06:11):
that roster when they won the title? Do you remember
Marv who else ad had?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Michael Kidd, Gilchris Okay, I'll give you a bloop on
that one.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
Harrison Twins.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Maybe they didn't make it the NBA.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I don't know, they were good players, but once again,
the guys who were in the NBA are really good.
They may not be you know, team might not be good,
but you are playing against the best players in the world.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yes, that's why these these discussions are so stupid. They're fun,
but they're so stupid because you're you're taking a college
team and playing against a team where literally every single
player is good enough to play in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, because they're in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Because they're in the NBA, they're good enough to play
in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah. Well, the audience can help out with this. But
I'm curious if Mike even Georgetown with Patrick Ewing, I
don't know if they were a great team. I mean,
Freddie Brown, Michael Graham, you know, wouldn't sleep Floyd was there,
but trying to figure out you know, I would say
(07:16):
the Houston team that had a chem Elijaan and Clyde Drexler,
that was really good, but they didn't even win the
national championship. So I thought it was funny. Well, I
thought it was interesting to find out exactly what Vegas
would think of this. And then DraftKings said and I go, wait,
I think you put down forty five point spread and
they said yes, yes, and I go, oh, okay, yeah, Paulie,
(07:40):
I'll throw.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Out the eighty two North Carolina team with James Worthy,
Sam Perkins, and Michael Jordan. Perkins and Worthy were upperclassmen. Jordan,
I know he was young, but that's one that popped
my head from a talent standpoint. Okay, and maybe the
UNLV team with Larry Johnson, Stacy Jaun Anderson High greg
Anthy that for one night that team could swarm people.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Okay, how about this LSU nineteen eighty nine, Mack Mood,
abdul Rauve, Shaq and Stanley Roberts. Okay, like you got
my attention there because Mock Mood averaged I think twenty
eight a game. But you know, Shaq wasn't Shack. He
was a freshman. He averaged fourteen points. Stanley Roberts average
(08:25):
fourteen points. But I think it would be fun to
try to come up with a team if I said,
Duke with grand Hill, Christian Latner, Bobby Hurley. Who else?
They have Thomas Hill in there? Brian Davis? Was he
in there as well? Is that sound right? I'll say
about Eric Meek in the post, Eric Meeks in the post, Yes,
(08:45):
anybody else you throw in there, Marv.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
It's hard because there's always only like three NBA players, Yes,
and then you need them to play against five NBA players.
That's always the issue.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
That's true. But you got coach k Know coaching you here. Yes, Paul,
you saw.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
This team, the seventy six Indiana team, Ken Benson, Tom Abernethy,
Scott May, Quinn Buckner. Those those guys weren't Hall of.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Famers, Bobby Wilkerson. That's a lot of talent though. That
was that was a great team, great team, and they stayed.
They were juniors and seniors I think for the most
part with Bob Knight, and they went undefeated. Yeah, so
Scott May didn't really have a great NBA career. Kent
Benson played for a little while, Quinn Buckner played for
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a while. Bobby Wilkerson he got drafted I think maybe
by Cleveland. He was a good player. Abernathy was the
sixth man. I think he was drafted by Golden State,
maybe in the second round. But yeah, I think it's
it's interesting to think about that. But then when you
factor in reality, which is what DraftKings is doing, all
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they want to do is get it right. They don't
care who's winning by how much. From the standpoint, well,
they're going to get blown out, they're going to get embarrassed. Oh,
they're going to be more competitive. They're just setting a
betting line there, and it's Yukon getting forty five, Yes, Martin.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Can you imagine how angry the Pistons would be coming out, Like, wait,
you guys think they could be on the floor with
us and Kata Cunningham would go for sixty and thirty.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, I don't know about that.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I'm sorry, forty and twenty five Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
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he can remember a team that was talented enough to
be able to stay with the worst team in the NBA.
All right, poll question, Seaton, what are you thinking about today?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Well, do you want to dive right into our sandwich
finale or do you want to get into like a
poll question, pull quest.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Let's get into a poll question, poll question. Then we'll
get into the final fok with the sandwich situation, the
final four sandwiches that are left standing here.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Okay, Well, we've got a suggestion from Paul. We've got
a bunch from Friday. Fritzy is on fire today.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
All right, let me go, let me let me see
where Friday Fritzie by the way, later on this morning,
One dining moment. Fritzi will sing the one dining moment
and that'll be in a couple hours from now. We're
still putting it together. We have a montage. It's a video.
It's just like what CBS is going to roll out,
you know, after the national title game, the one shining moment,
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it's one dining moment that'll be coming up a little
bit later on. All right, so what do you have there? Yeah, Todd, all.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Right, Is Danny Hurley secretly nervous that a seven hour
flight to lay Arizona is a bad omen your choices?
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Without a doubt. He's very superstitious. Nah, he won't give
it a second thought.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, he's very superstitious. Here is coach Hurley on the
travel issues that Yukon had.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
You know, it's like, I think, what goes to your
mind once you're done, you know, kind of complaining and
cursing and muttering and trying to you know, you just
start saying yourself, you know, like you don't really deserve
to show entitlement such an honor to get a chance
to and once in a lifetime experience to go play
in the final four. Coaching the final four. You know,
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once kind of that edge wore off, you start lucky
to be here. We're lucky to get an opportunity to
come play in the final four. And then who doesn't
deal with problems with the airlines? I mean, people deal
with it during the holidays, and it's just it's something
that you, you know, just got to get through, but
it sucked.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I don't know if Nate Oates, the Alabama head coach,
has any sympathy. He spoke about Yukon's plane problems.
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Not quite sure what happened with the plane. I it
wasn't me. I didn't say anybody over there to mess
with the mechanics. I'm sure he's conjured, dead up in
his head already. But I did get a good night's
sleep last night, so it's nice. But I'm sure he'll
be fired up and ready to go Saturday. It'll be
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fun and then we'll we'll touch base after the game.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, in C State is getting nine against Purdue and
Alabama getting eleven and a half against Connecticut. Women's final
four tonight in C State, South Carolina, Connecticut against Iowa.
So the men's final four will be on Saturday. Let's see,
we'll get phone calls coming up. How about this one?
This was suggested the nineteen eighty seven Arizona Wildcats. They
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had Kenny Lofton who went on to play baseball. Tom
Tolbert played in the NBA. Steve Kerr played in the NBA.
Sean Elliott, is he in the Hall of Fame? Certainly
Hall of Fame worthy. Judd Bushler played for the Chicago
Bulls for a while. Sean Rooks also played in the NBA.
That's pretty good team. Pretty good team. I can't think
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of anybody else. There might be somebody really obvious that
we're not thinking about Arizona when they won the National Championship.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Bibbie and Miles Simon.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, Mark.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
The ninety seven Mavericks would have had a field day.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You think so. Jim Jackson, Oh yeah, yeah. Were they
the worst team? Though?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
In my head they were really but I'll look.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
But didn't they have Jim Jackson, Jamal Mashburn and Jason Kiddy.
They had talent. I don't remember them being the worst
team in the NBA. All right, let's see anything else
that we need to make. Oh, Seaton, we got to
mention the final fourk It's Championship Week and the four
sandwiches that people will be voting on are going to be.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Well, there were four winners from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
It's Nashville Hot Chicken, French Dip, grilled cheese, chicken palm.
Now we also have the n I T which might
actually beat this, which would be the Reuben Cubano po Boy,
that right there is just murderers row.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Now that's the National Indigestion turn right correct, right right.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
The n T.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
It might be stronger than the winning sandwiches. And then
a fish sandwich is thrown in there too, which bland
and name high in value. Okay, yeah, so we're gonna
actually throw both of those up there.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Okay, what's the what's the main poll question? We're gonna
go with Tyler? You had some more?
Speaker 6 (15:36):
I had at three or four more, depend how much time?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, fire away, and then we'll take a break and
then talk to tomill he.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Goes, yeah, I got three or four more, depending on
how mu time we haven't you just hear from the.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Front It wasn't the front row as me go.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Ahead.
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Speaker 6 (15:58):
For a milestone soup in yir No?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
No, absolutely not under no circumstances, and never are your
choices over that last night.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
But you have to you have to put it in
perspective in context, like if you just ask that, then
is that after the breakdown? Yeah, I think I think
Tod's team you up to give the story? Well I
don't have time. Yeah, yeah, so we.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Move on to the other poles.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, why don't we just go to break Yeah? How
about that?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
We could do that.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
We have Tom Izzo coming up.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Thank you, Tom, take a break, just getting started. Operator
Tyler's standing by to take your phone calls. We're back
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still looking for any team in college basketball history who
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would have a chance against the worst team in the NBA.
And the reason why I brought this up is after
hearing Mike Greenberg on ESPN say that the Connecticut team,
the Yukon men's team could make the playoffs in the NBA,
and I went, oh, that's not good. That's not going
to age. Well. I reached out to DraftKings and I said,
all right, what would the betting line be Connecticut's men's
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team against the worst NBA team? And they came back
and said the Pistons would be favored by forty five
over the Yukon team.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Yes, Paul, I got three or four emails. This is
again before my time, but you would know this team
and coaches A would the seventy four UCLA team that
you mentioned, Bill Walton, Keith Wilkes, Marcus Johnson, Dave Meyers,
Richard Washington. I think there were all first round draft picks,
and Greg Lee was a good guard on it.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
They did not in seventy four win the title. Seventy
four they lost NC State in the seventy final.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Talent wise, what do you think of that team?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Seventy five had Richard Washington and Marcus Johnson. Bill Walton
wasn't on that team. But that's a lot of talent,
a lot of talent there. Did you have another one
that's it? Okay? Springing Tom is a Hall of Famer
twenty nine years at Michigan State. He's seen it all.
All right, coach, give me a team in basketball history
that you think would be talented enough to compete with
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the worst team in the NBA.
Speaker 11 (18:49):
Well, I'm listening to you, Dan, and I thought that
Walton team, But you were right in seventy four they didn't.
I was just in high school then, so I'm, you know,
not like you. I didn't remember those things as well.
Speaker 12 (19:05):
But I don't know.
Speaker 11 (19:06):
You know, we played in North Carolina team in five
that was yeah, our own nine.
Speaker 12 (19:12):
That was really good.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
They had all those guys that came back. I thought
that they ran through the league. But NBA teams are
still better. I think I don't think any college team
could beat an NBA.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Team We'll go back to when Michael Jordan was there
with Worthy and Perkins.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
That's those are all good players, and Michael Jordan was
a great player.
Speaker 11 (19:32):
Worthy and Perkins were great, but they were still young then,
you know, although the NBA was older back then. Now
the NBA is young too. So you bring up a
good point. And some of these teams you're talking about,
I've heard some teams in college basketball now, especially with
this this COVID transfer portal, you know, where guys are
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twenty four or five years old, older than some NBA teams.
The NBA is playing eighty two games a year. I
just don't think there's any that I know of that
could beat an NBA team.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Help me understand the transfer portal and why was it
active during the tournament?
Speaker 11 (20:13):
Yeah, that you know, Like I'm on a lot of committees,
and you know, I hate to say this, but I
will since I'm controversial like you. I think that was
one of the craziest moves. You know, we don't get
that any days in the sun anymore, you know, with
college football now coming into the middle of January, pro
football going into February. The NCAA Tournament is college basketball's
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day in the sun and we collute it with the
transfer portal. You know, a lot of people make decisions
without really talking to the people that are in the basement.
Speaker 12 (20:48):
And I think that's what's happened in a lot of
things with the NC.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It came out who can fix this coach?
Speaker 12 (20:55):
Well, Chirs l.
Speaker 11 (20:56):
Ain't the coaches, we don't have a lot of say,
maybe the players. They seem to be the only ones
with power anymore, so maybe the players can fix it.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, but I'm trying to understand this now. Maybe you're
going to pull back the curtain for the audience here,
But during the tournament, are you thinking about or hearing
from other players who might want to transfer to Michigan
State or are you concerned that some of your own
players might be thinking about being in the transfer portal?
Speaker 11 (21:24):
Well, I think that's a very good question, and I
think that goes on from about January on. I think
there's a lot of places where assistant coaches are recruiting
kids off of people's campuses. I think, you know, I
talked to Nick Saband. There's coaches in football. I think
I think that's one of the problems right now because
of these rules everybody's half in, half.
Speaker 12 (21:45):
Out, and it is a problem.
Speaker 11 (21:47):
The one thing I had heard some people talking about
was playing in deep into the NCAA tournament and still
been in the transfer portal staff meetings. I'd get cold
dan Hell before it happened here. You know, I think
you got to take care of the players you got.
And yeah, I know you got to recruit, recruit, recruit.
It's a twenty four to seven job now. But if
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I'm playing it, we get to a Sweet sixteen Elite
eight Final four.
Speaker 12 (22:13):
I'm not worried about the transfer portal.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Okay, back to Connecticut. If you were going to attack them,
give me what would be your philosophy strategy to try
to beat this Connecticut team.
Speaker 11 (22:25):
Well, after watching our own Big ten team, Illinois go
at the big fellow, and I recruited him a little
bit out of high school, I wouldn't attack him.
Speaker 13 (22:34):
You know.
Speaker 11 (22:34):
I try to drive and kick out and get some shots.
You got to make shots against them. Because he has
become so much better this year than he was last year.
Speaker 12 (22:45):
It's amazing.
Speaker 11 (22:46):
I think he's become better within the year and he's
just more aggressive.
Speaker 12 (22:52):
He's got size, he's got those long arms.
Speaker 11 (22:55):
And I don't think you know, I think you got
to hope to turn him over some he's that you
got to hope to make shots.
Speaker 12 (23:02):
And it'll be interesting since Purdue is in it and
they have a big.
Speaker 11 (23:06):
Guy of their own, if that ends up the finals,
which I'm not saying this year it will because so
many strange things have happened. But if it's Connecticut Purdue
in the finals, it could be a real interesting game
with those two gigs.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Okay, but you don't attack the big man and try
to get him in foul trouble.
Speaker 12 (23:23):
You better have a hell of a center to do that.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
You know, you better have a guy that's not only
big enough, strong enough, good enough, can score it well enough.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
We can do that.
Speaker 12 (23:34):
Again, he can.
Speaker 11 (23:37):
What he doesn't do sometimes is you know, not as
mobile as some although he's more mobile than you think.
So you know, if you just played big now, he
still might score his points. And that's what happened to
us against tam He scored his points. You got to
maybe contain those other guys you pick and choose your poison.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Is it tough to watch the Final four?
Speaker 12 (24:00):
Really tough.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
That's why I'm here talking to you doing it, but yeah,
you know, I mean I've had the privilege of going
eight times, and let me tell you that is a trivilege.
Speaker 12 (24:11):
And I just talked to Gene Katie yesterday.
Speaker 11 (24:14):
I called him to congratulate him on Matt Paynter and
you know the Katie heathcoat painter is o thing is
you know, it's all been part of the tree and
Jane was so excited. I always say, boy, I'm the
luckiest guy in the world because I think he was
one of the great coaches in America. Never even touched
the final four. I think he went to one Elite
eight and he's one of the best. So it's hard
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to watch, but I'm privileged that I got the planet.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
We're talking to Tom Izzo, the head coach at Michigan State.
How hard is it to continue to do this when
you look at all these coaches that decide, I don't
want to put up with transfer portal in Nil I
mean Saban, you know, Jay Wright, I mean, go down
the list, Beheim. They're like, I don't want to deal
with the anymore.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie to you. It is hard,
you know, Nick, Saban and I are good friends.
Speaker 11 (25:06):
Next started here as an assistant, so did I started
here at the head coach, same time I talked to
Nick Jay Wright, good friend, Roy Williams, you know, Jim Beheim.
I mean, sometimes age gets you, but sometimes it's the situation.
And anybody that tells you that this has not been
maybe the most taxing, incredible, confusing state of college sports,
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they're lying to you it is, But I'm not sure
I want to give into that either. So right now,
I keep on trucking. But it has, Dan, it's been,
It's been different. You know, the Dayton grad you are.
I know that Dayton had a good run this year.
Who knows who's going to be coming back, who's leaving?
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I don't think any coach knows that about any player,
and that's kind of sad.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
How let's say you're recruiting me, how long into the
conversation you're not going that low? Damn you're right, you're right,
But let's say it just for keepsake. Okay, Okay, let's
say you're recruiting you know, a McDonald's all American kid.
How deep into the conversation before? How much money can
I make? Coach? Does it happen?
Speaker 11 (26:18):
What we found out is you know, even from last
year to the this year, it's tripled. But if you're
talking in the transfer portal, I mean some of those
coaches you mentioned, that was some of the things that
happened the minute they said hello, I'm tom Izzo.
Speaker 12 (26:34):
It's what's my package? You know? I think that is
a more.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
More in the transfer portal than with kids coming out
of high school.
Speaker 11 (26:42):
It seems that way because I think what happens in
the transfer portal is kids know that a coach wants you,
maybe kaud he's trying to save his job, and maybe
the money will go up and all that kind of stuff.
Whereas freshmen, although we argue on our board that it's
going to hurt freshman, you know, there's not as much
freshman being recruited, not many freshmen playing, and I think
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that's one of the unintended consequences to this.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
What do you think about expanding the tournament.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
I have mixed feelings on it.
Speaker 11 (27:12):
I can't say I'm crazy about it, and in one
part because it's so exciting the way it is, and
I can't say that there aren't some teams. You know,
we played Indiana State this year and they're really good.
And they almost beat Seaton Hall last night, and that
nit I think, here's North Carolina State. If the most
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unbelievable set of events don't happen. At the end of
the Virginia game, they're sitting home and you're talking to
Keats instead of me. So there are teams that deserve
to get in. And I got enough problems dealing with
the transfer portal of the NLI and my own players.
I'll leave that stuff to the committees because coaches don't
have a lot of say in any of these things.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
What do you make of the growth of the women's game.
Speaker 11 (27:59):
I think it's impressive, you know. I mean I watched
the other night. You know, not just because she's in Iowa,
Big ten girl, but I've watched the women's basketball. I'm
a big geno Ori. I'm a fan. I've watched him
for years. But the explosion of it has been incredible
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and deserving, and it is exciting now. I get a
little confused when they bring up ticket prices for the
women's games. I mean they're played in an arena of
seventy eight or seventeen thousand, where ours are sixty seventy thousand.
But I do think I'm a big fan of women's basketball.
I've been fan of the women coaches here, but this
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has been an exciting few years, and a lot of
it because of Caitlin, but a lot of it because
what South Carolina has done with Gino's done.
Speaker 12 (28:50):
He gets taken for granted.
Speaker 11 (28:51):
He might be one of the best all time coaches
in any sport, including this year Dan when he had
all those injuries.
Speaker 12 (28:58):
And he's still in the final four.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, you know this is the best your voice is sounded.
But you probably hate that your voice sounds this good
because that means you're not coaching in the tournament.
Speaker 12 (29:09):
You know, I say this a lot to you, but
my voice is never bad because of the coaching.
Speaker 11 (29:14):
It's always bad because the lack of sleep, and during
the tournament you don't get any sleep. And when you
don't sleep, not that I sleep a lot now, but no,
I don't sleep because of all those other reasons you
just talked about before it was my team. But either way,
who the hell needs a voice?
Speaker 12 (29:30):
You know?
Speaker 14 (29:30):
You do?
Speaker 12 (29:31):
I do?
Speaker 8 (29:32):
I do?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
How do you think my voice would go over if
I'm in the huddle and I don't have to yell,
I just say guys, this is what we're going to do.
Speaker 12 (29:43):
I know what Grandma would say to you. He'd probably
says something different to you.
Speaker 11 (29:46):
But you know, you got a good voice, man, You
got a good voice, and I think it would transfer
well over to the coaching professional. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
My voice is sort of Steph Curry's jumper.
Speaker 12 (30:00):
Well, I's not that good, but it's good. I like it.
I've enjudged yet.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Enjoy the off season, if there is such a thing
as the off season. Thank you, coach.
Speaker 12 (30:10):
Thanks to hav that.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
That's Tom Izzo. Hall of Famer, twenty nine years at
Michigan State. Always good to talk to. By the way,
Shawn Elliott is a Hall of Famer. Fritzi did some
research there and said that Sean is a Hall of Famer.
Phone calls coming up, Andrew and Washington leads us off
on this meet Friday.
Speaker 13 (30:28):
Good morning, Andrew, Good morning, Dan Dennett. I hope you
have a great meet Friday and an excellent spring break
coming up. I was, you know, going into the Final
four weekend and a lot of talk about DJ Burns Junior.
But when I hear about that and all week long
all to talk about him, all I can think about
is Kenneth Laston junior, you know, the Louisiana Tech player.
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He's listed at six six, two seventy five. He's been
on three NBA teams. He went undrafted, but although he
scored forty two points in an NBA game, it just
didn't you know, he just doesn't transfer to the next level.
He's a great D League player. But that's the comparison
that I kind of saw with DJ Burns junior. So
I wanted to get your thoughts on that. And I
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do have a Victor wendn Yama stat of the day.
So he is the only player in NBA history, not
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seventy five steals, and one hundred three pointers made in
the season.
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Speaker 2 (32:28):
Okay, that's it. My advice would be go.
Speaker 16 (32:35):
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There's no downside to it. People are wonderful and there's
so many different things to see in Dublin. You're always
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Speaker 14 (32:43):
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Food's a lot better than you think, and of course
you uh have some libations there that can entertain you
as well. But yeah, people go there to have a
good time, and we we've had I've been there quite
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Can't go wrong. All right, let me come back. Uh
we got to play of the Day coming up. More
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phone calls as well. Back after this.
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Of the day.
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This is the play of the day.
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Check this out three and two.
Speaker 16 (33:30):
Here's the payoff pitch breaking ball line towards third, over
the glove of the third basement. The kent straight down
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is baby, he will score without a throw.
Speaker 11 (33:41):
Put it in the books.
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The Mets scots twice here at the bottom of the
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Speaker 3 (34:08):
A random bloop single for the Mets in April is
the play of the day.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I didn't pick it out. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Maybe only the most historic college basketball championship in the
country was finished last night.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Oh that's right, Seaton Hall beat Indiana song. Oh my god,
but wait a minute. The Mets had a bloop single
to win a random game in April. Yeah, my god,
Oh my god, my bad, my bad.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
I saw this one coming that's this is. This is
nothing more than Yukon by wow, it's out there. The
Yukon doesn't look at the little guys and what they're doing.
We have a bigger we have a bigger tournament that
we're focused on right now. So it's really just Yukon
and everybody else.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
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Speaker 4 (35:11):
Has nothing to do with Seton Hall in the fact
that they were.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Only that was seventy seven to seventy and they went
on a nine ozer run to win the NO.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I guess yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
I don't hold it against Seaton Hall that they're one
of the three teams that beat us this season. It's
not about that, not, not not at all us. That's right.
I pay tuition, so it's.
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That's the Expresspros dot com Man. I didn't factor that in.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
It was the Mets first win of the season.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Oh so, oh you're right, Sorry, you're right. That is
more important. What are the other pole options that we
have today? Todd? Did you have sis Marvin such a hater?
Speaker 11 (35:53):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Because he's Marvin? Why are you such a hater?
Speaker 4 (35:58):
I don't know if I was a hater. I was
just looking for I mean, you should be better than that.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
We're trying to spend all week talking about how can
you Kons not recognize as a dynasty?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
What about you?
Speaker 12 (36:05):
Conn? That is true?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
You have to do something this petty.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Really, I'm really I didn't kind of okay, I didn't
mean it. I did mean it. I'm still mad about
that seat. HOWK Klingon was hurt?
Speaker 16 (36:17):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Cod The Stefan Digs.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
Houston Texans Texas Texans relationship is more likely to be
mutually beneficial and utter disaster.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
Diggs and the Houston Texans.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I'm going to think positive here. You know, they kind
of redid his deal. Now looks like it's just a
one year deal. So they want to make sure they're
going to get the best out of Stephan Diggs. So
he's playing for another contract. Yeah, I don't know if
he's a number one wide receiver though anymore. That's what
I'd be curious about. And if he's not a number
(36:50):
one wide receiver, you're going to go to these younger
receivers that you have and you're tight end and you're
running back. You know how many catches?
Speaker 12 (37:00):
You know?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Am I going to be targeted? And that's what these
guys care about. I'd like to say they care about winning.
They care about getting their touches. Yes, Paul.
Speaker 7 (37:09):
With Stefan Diggs the Houston Texans, they altered his contract
a little bit overnight. They wiped out the final three
years on his contract. He now has ability to become
a free agent after this season. They also bumped up
his pay this year from eighteen million to twenty two
and a half million in guaranteed money.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Learn well, I said yesterday that there's no way he's
going to go to Houston without somebody doing something to
freshen up his contract. And we saw this. I didn't
know if it was going to be a contract extension,
but he was. I guess underpaid when you look at
more quee wide receivers, but incentivize it, man make sure
(37:46):
that he's all in. What else? Ton Who do you
want to best?
Speaker 5 (37:50):
To the NCAA title game tonight? And cut down the
nets on Sunday. This may be obvious, but not necessarily.
Caitlin Clark and Iowa, Paige Becker's and Yukon is one
so overly publicized lately that some would turn on Caitlin
and want to see page win.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Wait are you turning on not? But I could see
others saying, you know what it sounded like that, I
are you tired of Caitlyn Clark? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 12 (38:12):
Not tired?
Speaker 5 (38:13):
But she does get a lot of attention, and Paige
maybe deserves a little more than she gets. I know
she had the injury and was out for who. I
am going to pull for Caitlin to finish on a
potter of the note and win the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
But I do want true that I have nothing against
either one of them.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
I think it would be great for her to wrap
things up on cutting the nets down on Monday and
when excited, but I'm curious to see what people think
if it's going to be a slam dunk that it's
Caitlin Clark, that you'd want to win over.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
I think she would cut down the net on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
Sunday and I played tonight and then Sunday would be
the title game.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Yeah, you had cut down the nets on Monday.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Monday would be the man thank you to any.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Other Is WrestleMania scripted? Of course it is maybe a
few moments here and there.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
No, it's real to me, damn it.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
WrestleMania forty coming up this weekend Saturday in so Day
on Peacock.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Yes, it feels particularly cruel to not want Caitlin Clark
to win a championship, Like it feels like, well, yeah,
she's accomplished all this, but I don't want her to
get that one last thing. It feels like of like
almost like a unless you're a fan of one of
the other teams, it almost feels like a negative character trait.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Well, Paige Becker's been through a lot, she has and
there's no wrong answer there of who you want to advance,
and she is coming back. You know, she'd be a
top five draft pick this year in the WNBA. But
I thought she had interesting comments because she talked about
coming back and she's going to be the focal point.
Speaker 17 (39:45):
I think it's more important for the game to share
the spotlight, to grow the game and show all the
stars of college basketball and not just focus on one
particular player. It's not my job, but the media can
do a better job of just making sure everybody gets love.
But he gets not equal amount of attention, but try
to spread it out more. So, I honestly hope next
(40:07):
year I'm not the vocal point and the only person
that gets attention, and I hope as media, as players,
we can spread the level a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
It's not going to happen. I mean, it sounds like
a great idea, altruistic and you could tell that she
means that. But depending on what happens here tonight and
or Sunday, there's going to be a whole lot of
attention on her. Again, her and Juju Watkins just going
to be a lot of attention. Yes, well, yeah, you
(40:38):
kind of hope that there are other people that you
need a rivalry. You can't if you can just have
one star. But what you really need is too that
then the media sort of pits against each other. Whether
they like each other or not, it doesn't matter. There's
going to be which one is better, Which one is
the star blah blah blah, that kind of thing. Yeah,
because Caitlin Clark against LSU, you had a rivalry there,
(41:00):
not as much with South Carolina, but they may face
South Carolina. South Carolina trying to go undefeated. A lot
of great storylines tonight. What happened with the Shoheo Tani
home run ball, the fan who got it, fan who
said she was pressured into giving the ball back but
not getting much in return. Have that for you coming up?
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