April 7, 2026 • 41 mins
Michigan Wolverines Head Men’s Basketball Coach Dusty May joins the show after winning the National Championship last night. And longtime Danette Seton O’Connor makes an announcement about his future with the radio program.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio Hour two.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
On this Tuesday, Dan and the Dan Hutch Dan Patrick Show,
we'll talk to the head coach of the freshly minted
national champion Michigan Wolverines. In a moment here we'll talk
to Jalen Rose, former fab fiver, he was at the game.
And Reggie Miller will join us as well. Your phone
calls always welcome, EH seven to seven to three DP
show operator Tyler's sitting by. We'll have a new poll question, Seaton,
(00:28):
would you clean up the first hour of the program.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, this one's actually a little awkward to read right now,
but that's okay. This one's from Todd Fritz, by the way,
sitting to my right, putting together a starting five of
all transfers. Is smart or dumb? I think that was
answered last night because let's see sixty six percent of
the audience say that it's very smart, obviously evidenced my lesson.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Okay, do I have to start the interview with Dusty
May apologizing for Todd.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yes, Paul, it can't be dumb.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
He just won the time.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It's this proof of concept right there, that's how you
do it. Todd had a problem with this this morning.
I go, it's recruiting, whether you're recruiting somebody who's twenty
two or somebody eighteen, And.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
We're convenely leaving out that at the top says these
are polls that.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Might not quite work.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Was the headline of those peoples?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well to bring in Dusty May, the Michigan head basketball coach.
Good morning coach. Congratulations and I apologize for Fritzi saying that,
you know, bringing in all these transfers is dumb. We're
proud of what you did. Congratulations, no worries, Dan, thank
you for having me on.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
How much sleep are we working with?
Speaker 7 (01:37):
About an hour?
Speaker 8 (01:38):
And I think I closed by about five minutes a
little bit ago in between interviews.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
What kind of party did we have last night?
Speaker 9 (01:45):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (01:45):
We as soon as we got back to the hotel,
and our staff kind of has a semi tradition where
if we have any big moments, we walk back from
the arena to the hotel and that's just kind of
our rap.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
Pack entourage moment.
Speaker 8 (01:59):
And we came into the hotel what we thought was
a small get together with several hundred people, and it
felt a little bit like prom where you're taking pictures
and shaking hands and whatnot.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
But it was great just to see everyone under one roof.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Has it hit you yet?
Speaker 7 (02:17):
No, not at all. I'm not sure that it will.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, I'm guessing yeah, I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Like, there's no more games, so it is it just
going to hit you out of nowhere and you go,
I'm a national champion.
Speaker 8 (02:33):
Well, Dan, I think once we have our roster put
together for next year, I've been on calls and the
zooms already this morning. The transfer transfer portal opened to
get at twelve oh one last night, and we have
some holes in our roster that we must fill and
so credit our staff. They hold me accountable and they've
(02:54):
had some stuff set up this morning.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
So we've been hitting the ground running.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Were you working the transfer portal after winning the championship
when you guys are celebrating, We.
Speaker 8 (03:04):
Actually contemplating doing a zoom at twelve oh one, knowing
how much media we were going to have and how
many hours that would take. I think it was about
two o'clock and I said, are we still doing a zoom?
And the staff said no, that that ship passed and
we just waited till this morning.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Take me into halftime, got a small lead, But what
is your message to your team?
Speaker 8 (03:29):
Our message was that things weren't going great. We weren't
making shots, Yaxel was frustrated with his play, and we
were at four points against a team that is conditioned
to win, as any team that we faced in the
last couple of years, and so we were optimistic that
if we found a little bit of offensive rhythm, then
we could find a way to at least tie or
(03:51):
lose by no less than three the second twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And I brought this up a couple of times yesterday
that unless you've shot in a big arena, the depth perception,
it's really hard to get acclimated to that. And this
was one of the worst shooting percentages for a national
title game we've had in a long, long time. How
much of a role do you think it played that
you're playing in you know these cavernous stadiums.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Now, Well, we shut the heck out of it on Saturday,
so we felt good about preparation.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
I think it had more.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
To do with with with Yukon's defense, the physicality game,
and just two determined basketball teams that were fighting tooth
and Nail just trying to figure out a way to win,
and they did a great job of controlling the tempo
of the game, of forcing us to.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Play at their pace, and they had us in a
rock fight.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Any added, I don't know what the word would be
that you did it in Indianapolis after, you know, being
in Indiana under Bob Knight.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
It's actually probably a little bit more distracting because we're
trying to accommodate a lot more people because of proximity.
But just I've said repeally, it's just a full circle moment.
As a young kid, my mom would bring me up
to these clinics at the Final four of the Yes Clinics,
and these basketball clinics where the college coaches back then
were actually working stations and teaching us how to shoot
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and and dribble the ball when we're in elementary school.
Things have changed a lot in that regard. And then
also in two thousand, a group of US managers came
up here because we could we could commute, and just
we were trying to network and meet any coach, to
make any connection that we could to find a way
(05:37):
to gain a spot in college basketball, and literally any
spot volunteer gas that those are the jobs we were
looking for.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
He's a Dusty may Michigan had basketball coach. But you survived,
Bob Knight and thrive. But you survived. But give me
your your Bob Knight. We I mean, I had my
moments with him good and I've been yelled at before
by him, but I'm sure you have as well. So
(06:06):
your favorite Bob Knight's story as a student manager as what.
Speaker 8 (06:12):
There are some, probably my favorite one now I can
tell this because Coach has passed got rest of soul.
Our job was so menial that his wife, Karen wanted
to have more grass in their backyard at their house
in Ellisville, and Coach Knight refused to.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Cut down any trees.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
And so Coach was on a fishing trip or recruiting trip,
I can't remember now, and we got a call from
Karen that a couple of us were subpoened out to
the house and we had no idea what for. And
I don't know why. The story just told to me.
I've never told it before. And we go out to
the house and she had had several trees removed all
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the way down to the to the stump or to
the ground, and we had to figure out a way
to get the sawdust and any any residue from those
trees out of the yard before Coach I came home.
So we literally had rakes and we were picking up
sawdust with our bare hands, so I wouldn't notice, hopefully
wouldn't notice that any of his trees have been removed
while I was on a on a hunting trip.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Jay Billis was on last hour and he said to
ask you about the different drinks and food that Coach
Night like, like doctor pepper lemonade.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
No doctor pepper and chocolate milk.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
This is no coach I was.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Ahead of his time and and many regards with analytics,
with teaching pedagogy. But this was chack Cola before chock
cola Yahoo. Uh it had the soda taste with with
a chocolate milk flavor, and uh it was It was
a genius.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Take me back to last year when you're trying to
put this team together and you're trying to do it
with players all over the country. So give me, give
me the recipe for that philosophy of what you were doing.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Well, we take the job of mission and the first
day I arrive on campus. There's maybe six, six or
seven guys in the locker room, and almost the entire
team had already entered the transfer portal, just because of
the timing of these moves, And my first call was
to coach Howard to find out who he felt like
was worth investing in as we tried to build our
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program and continue the legacy of the past teams.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
But you don't say good personally, Dusty, that you go
in and you realize most of the team is in
the transfer portal.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
No, not at all, not at all. I wanted to
get to know those guys. I wanted them to get
to know me. And even the players that we identify
our guys that we would love to keep, we tell them,
don't make any rash decisions. Just give us some time
and let's get on the court together. Let's spend some time.
Let's go have lunch. And because these college years are
(08:51):
I mean a lots has been said about the portal
and all this other stuff.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
That eighteen to twenty three, eighteen to.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
Twenty two are such informative year for any of this
that have changed as much as I did at that stage,
and so we just want to make sure it's the
right fit at the right stage of their careers and
their development, and so we never take it personal. And
so we decided to try to keep several of them,
and finances we didn't have hardly any money. Finances wouldn't
(09:20):
allow us to keep very many. And then luckily Vlad
Golden chose to join us from FAU and shortly thereafter
we got Danny Woolf because of his family connections to
Michigan and his desire to play at the highest level
in preparation for the NBA coming from Yale. So we
had a couple foundational pieces, a couple of returners from
the previous Michigan group that had institutional knowledge, and from
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there we were able to build out and really set
an identity and culture.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
In year one.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Is Michigan a football school or basketball school?
Speaker 7 (09:52):
It's an everything school.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
But I wish you're saying that the football is incredibly
important at Michigan. There's one hundred and ten thousand and
people that gather on our campus every single Saturday to
watch high level football to celebrate everything that comes with
the University of Michigan.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
And and we've.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Piggybacked on that our our our first game at Michigan,
there's probably thirty five hundred people, and I can't remember
the last played in front of a crowd that wasn't
a sellout and they didn't bring great energy. So people
love the university. They obviously appreciate a certain style of
play as far as tenacity and and and teamwork and
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and so we're proud to be in a place where
where they celebrate all sports.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
What's the sweatshirt? What's the logo in your sweatshirt?
Speaker 7 (10:39):
It's the throwback Wolverine.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Oh okay, yeah, it's the old school. Uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Did you get advice from the Fab five? Did they
want to help you with coaching the Actually.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
They've been they've been very very helpful, and I've I've
told them and I've told the media that other than
Michael Jordan in my life time, they've changed the culture
of our sport for the better more than any other team,
group or individual. And it's it's it's a it's a
point of pride for us to represent those guys. I
was actually on a show with them the other day
(11:13):
and they put me on the spot and they asked
me which Fab five was my favorite, and I and
being an Indiana guy that always loved the Pacers.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
I had to go with Jalen.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, he'll be joining us next hour.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
That's great. He's a lot for Detroit. He's very uh
he's very respected in our area.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Uh, you know, sacrifice.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You know the voice, it looks like it's gone for
a little while, so hopefully you get some time. Rika,
you sound a little like Tom Izzo. That's a seasoned voice.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
Yeah that he he's set that he set the standard
for all of us young coaches as far as poor
and uh pouring into the to our guys and our
sport and uh yeah it's uh, my voice doesn't carry
well normally and especially after a game like last night.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Congrats Dusty, it's a great story and good luck.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Thank you, Dan. I appreciate have you on.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That's Dusty May twenty years to become an overnight sensation.
This happens a lot. I mean, you start to look
like Kurt Signetting had been a great coach. Nobody Knewing
goes to Indiana in his sixties, goes from James Madison.
Dusty goes from Florida Atlantic. Dan Hurley goes from Rhode
Island to Connecticut. Ben McCollum drake to Iowa. By the way,
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North Carolina came in from what I'm told, last minute
to gauge the interest of Ben McCollum leading Iowa leaving
Iowa to go to North Carolina, and he said, no,
I'm staying here. And Jay Billis is right. You know
you can't tamper with a player. Why are we allowed
to tamper with a coach? That's what happened. All of
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these guys got jobs. There's nobody who's going I'm unemployed.
We can talk to you. They all got tam tampered with.
Now they can say, well, I didn't talk to anybody.
My representative did. Yeah, I know, we know, hy proxy,
you were tampered with because I'm guessing your representative then
probably said something to you, Hey, are you interested in
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the North Carolina job?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (13:17):
So here's an easy fix this proposed rule. For players,
possibly your first transfer is on the house. Your second
transfer you sit out a season. Make it the same simultaneously.
For coaches, your first leave by choice is on the house.
Your second lead by choice you have.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
To wait a year.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah, Will Wade, Yeah, well, with the player, I do
think you should sign a contract.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I think.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
They do sign contracts, but they're a series of one
year contracts.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
But when you transfer, yeah, that's where the team that
takes you should give some money back to the school
you're leaving, because this will help the mid majors, because
a mid major is going to lose the player who
becomes a little bigger, more talented and ready to go
to the next level. Help out the mid major if
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you're going to take them, Because I view mid majors
now as junior colleges basketball wise, that you're there for
two years, maybe somebody notices you. If not, you stay
there for three or four years, you get an education
and you move on with life. But if you move up,
move on, then why not replenish the mid majors and
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give them something for losing you? Just a thought, Just
a thought, all right? Reggie and Jalen Rose. In the
final hour of the program, Dusty had that, you know,
championship voice, Tom Izzo and Doc Rivers they got that
the rest of their lives.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
I mean that, I mean Doc Rivers sounds like this,
They've got to give me four quarters. I told these guys,
they got to give me four quarters.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
We're not going to get back at this day.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Really good doc going into the Hall of Fame. Yeah,
I saw it going into the Basketball Hall of Fame, Yeah,
Marv A.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Mar Stottamayer also, yeah, I thought he was a Hall
of very good guy.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Candice Parker going into Hall of Fame, yeh, yeah, no
problem with that. Yeah, I was surprised with Mary Stodemar.
He's like, okay, good player at times, great player. Yeah
see yeah, it's gonna say he had.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
A moment where he was a great player, a truly
great player, just just his knees, right.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
He had that micro fracture.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, but yeah, he had a moment there though, where
he was the future.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And that affected my career too, because I had the
micro fracture surgery of what could have been a Mary Patrick.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Here I'm having micro fracture surgery and I'm not a
you know, an athlete, but I was trying to just
be able to have a healthy knee. When they say,
you know what, you got a diseased knee. When I
was like fourteen, they go, it's a disease knee and
they go, what does that mean? They said, it looks
like a dog is chewed on it. He said, I'm
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going to guess that's not very good. And then that's
when the marine said, hey, do you think you can
make it without getting surgery? Sure, I don't need surgery
some silly knee. He goes, yeah, we'll get you a
knee brace. I said, all right, And then I think
I waited ten years before I had my first surgery.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Made up for it since then?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yeah, but then, yeah, it's true. There were many more
following that.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And I'm wondering if I'd gotten knee surgery when I
was fourteen, would that have kept me away from all
the other surgeries and now replacement?
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Me?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yes, Ton, And.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Look at you've limped all the way to the Broadcasting
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 10 (16:37):
So it all works out well for you.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
No, good, thank you, ton, h good job getting Dusty
May there?
Speaker 9 (16:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
No, I'm just doing my job, dude.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
That's what I'm supposed to say. That is true.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
That is true.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
That's a good get.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
How about we take a break here, get to a
new poll question here. I had to start out with
an apology to Dusty May because you basically said what
he did was lane getting.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
A whole questions that don't quite work dot.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Then don't give him the seat and mission accomplished. Todd
whole questions that don't quite work.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
That was embarrassing me in particular.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Show changing announcement coming up in a half hour, Show changing,
and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna let you guess
that show a game. No, but it's coming up, show changing,
big announcement, great announcement. All right, let me take a
break here, phone calls a new poll question.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
All of that coming up after this.
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Michael Malone is taking over at North Carolina, and there
were a lot of there were a lot of names
involved in this, and he was sort of a wild
card according to my source back on March twenty fifth,
and I kept thinking Michael Malone for North Carolina going
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to college after being in the NBA as a head
coach an assistant coach, felt like, you know, he was
an analyst waiting to get hired again. And then my
source said, hey, I like this one, and he goes,
I don't know if it will happen, and it almost
felt like they couldn't get anybody else. And then Michael
Malone says, I'll take the job, but he is definitely
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going to tap into his connections with Nicola Jokic's agent,
and they're going to be bringing some players over to
North Carolina, all right. And you know a lot of
times when you see a coach, you don't know where
they've been. And if you look at Dusty May and
all the places that he's been to, I mean that
that's what's amazing that you see when somebody gets to
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the end, you go, oh wow, good for him, and
then you start to look at where he's been student manager.
I mean, just run down the places that he's been
to and imagine uprooting your life and you there's nothing
guaranteed when you know you're just starting out, you're an
assistant coach, You're doing whatever it takes. He's going from
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Bloomington to Indiana with these basketball clinics basically saying, hey,
you need you know, a you know, student manager, maybe
an assistant manager, anything, can I get a part of
your team? And then once you get into the inner
workings and you know, to almost like that feeding system
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of this guy goes to here, that guy goes to here.
So when somebody gets replaced, the number of players and
number of coaches that get affected are really amazing. Because
if you take a job, somebody takes your job. Somebody
takes your job, somebody takes your job. It just keeps
going on and on and on and on.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
But here he is. He ends up at Michigan.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
But what he did at Florida Atlantic, and Jay Billis
brought this up first hour, I forgot all about it.
They go to the Final four. That's when you leave
Florida Atlantic for a big job. He decides to stay
one more year with his players at Florida Atlantic. They
all stay and they don't disperse, and now you know
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he ends up taking the Michigan job. By the way,
Transfer Portal opening for business last night at the well
twelve oh one and last, I was told eleven hundred
men's basketball players will be in the portal. Now, not
everybody's going, because you kind of want to see, Hey
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can I go? Where can I go? How do I
improve myself? You just don't want to be left out,
you know, because there that's the story that people don't
tell those that go into portal, and then they don't
end up landing, and then they're kind of stuck in
no man's land. But the happy Transfer Portal day, Adam
in Illinois, Hi, Adam, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9 (21:36):
Well? Hey, the first time long time Stan six four
not accusing the DP show of being Michigan haters, I'm not,
but this is too kind of all the Michigan haters
out there. You know, over the last five years, starting
with you know, the Stallions, not necessarily great things, but
a call or a while ago said that there really
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hasn't been a eight college basketball team, But what about
Michigan this year? These guys blew everybody out of the water,
lost to Duke in kind of a meaningless game in
DC thrown together? Am I wrong that Michigan should get
a little bit more credit over the last five years.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Over the last five years, yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
I mean it's starting with twenty let's let's go twenty four.
Even before that, there were some good there were some
really good football teams, and always were always there in hockey.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Yeah, I know, but this is about basketball last night.
Speaker 9 (22:37):
Well, but I mean I kind of think this is
one of those historical teams.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Well, I think statistically, yes, I mentioned that they blow
everybody out, they're scoring at least they scored the second
most points in tournament history.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I mentioned that.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I have no problem with how he built his roster,
none whatsoever. So I don't know why you're feeling insecure
that the media is hating on Michigan. I mean, we
saw greatness, they played great they won the title. Now,
I don't know if history is going to look back
the way they did UNLV or Duke or UCLA and
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some of these other schools. Probably not for this team.
I don't think you have any stars on the team.
I think the star was probably that coach and how
he put all this together. These weren't great players, but
they became a great team.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yes, there could be a.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Point though to what the college just said. It does
kind of feel like if this was a John Calipari
Kentucky team right from the beginning of the season, we
could be like, this might be one of the greatest
teams of all time. I know that's definitely apples and oranges,
I get it. But Michigan sort of slowly got their
way into a certain amount of coverage and being recognized.
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But it was even just two weeks ago that we
were like, man, this Michigan team deserves a lot of
credit for the turnaround under Dusty May. You know, it
wasn't really a storyline all season.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
But nobody surprised or should be surprised Michigan won the
national title. From the start of the season, Michigan was
considered one of the two or three best teams in
the country. Not even like that wasn't a doubt. Michigan
proved to be a great team start to finish. You
gotta have star power, you got to have a big
time coach. That's how we remember you, like it or not,
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That's how you get remembered. Oh that's the team that had.
Can anybody name any of the players on Texas Western?
Texas Western the first all black starting five national champion.
Can you name anybody?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Can't?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You might be able to remember the coach, Don Haskins,
but this this is one of the landmark games in
sports history. And they beat an all white Kentucky two.
But we don't remember the names having those names, whether
it's Leuel Sindor or Bill Walton or Christian Leyton or
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that goes a long way right or wrong. More people
remember the Fab Five. They didn't win a title, but
they were famous. So it's not meant to be a
knock on Michigan. They were a great team and they
did it in a unique way. And I applaud Dusty
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May for how we did it. It's not easy to
do that. It's not like he's taking marquee player like
these are great players. I mean, I got somebody from
University of Alabama, Birmingham, a backup center at UCLA, Like
I'm piecing it all together.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
And I thought that that's tough to make it work.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
But you did have players who had at least had
sample size there.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
History might remember Michigan if one of those guys becomes
an NBA star, almost like in the Vain Carmelo Anthony
was super famous in college, but the lore becomes bigger
because he became a great NBA player. Also, so I
think once you have a guy that does something at
the next level, yukon the back to back national titles,
the general public can't name anybody off of those teams. Yeah,
(26:26):
because they weren't stars, and it wasn't nobody became an
NBA star.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
You become great because it's attached to being popular. You know,
we remember you. There are a lot of times when
you go, oh, you know who was on that team?
If you won a national championship and we go who
was on that team, then you can be a great team.
You're just not famous. And there's a big difference in that.
(26:53):
But Michigan winning they were no doubt about it, best
team in America. Seven game series. They're gonna beat anybody
a one game, They'll beat any I mean, it didn't matter.
They were a great team. And if you look at
the production they had and they beat Connecticut at Connecticut's game,
that that's truly a great team. We can beat you
(27:15):
if we get to eighty. We can beat you if
we stay in the sixties.
Speaker 10 (27:18):
Yeah, pulling and a lot of people tuned in last night,
casual sports fans and learned their names last night of
that Michigan team. No offense, but just like they got there.
You mentioned most outstanding player over the past ten years.
Just a few names, Joe Barry the second for North Carolina,
Dante DiVincenzo hit a good career, Kyle Guy of Virginia,
Jared Butler of Baylor, Snogo of Yukon, Tristan Newton of Yukon.
(27:44):
Not household names, remember Ryan Archidiacino of Villanova. They don't
go on to superstar careers and it kind of waters
down that team. Doesn't mean they weren't great, just they
don't carry over in pop culture.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, like Chris Jenkins, h's the shot to win a
national title. Villanova great program. Yes, morph you.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Took the words out of my mouth speaking of Villanova.
I think that team gets more recognition because of what
Jalen Brunston ended up doing in the NBA, because they
say who's on that team. Jalen Brunston was their guy,
won that national championship team. So I think that helps
going forward in history.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah, but if you feel slighted, but it's not with
this show, or you shouldn't with this show.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
But I don't think we.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Need to bring in Michigan hockey. You know, I'm gonna
I'm gonna mention football and basketball and I'm gonna hit
him over the head with Michigan hockey. That'll get him
last five years. I'm like, wait a minute, we're just
talking about last night.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Aren't we pretty good across country to Yeah, they're usually
a good baseball baseball school.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Football had a little you know down years, well left.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
It to basketball and didn't say the last five years.
Then you had a good point. Yeah, I'm okay with that. Yeah,
Paul I aspire.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
To be offended when he wins a title. That's like
my goal. I want to be we didn't get enough
credit as we won, it'd be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yeah, like you only got there because of a bad
call by the rest, doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Sign me up.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Oh, but we get so territorial. We want our dude justice.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
So you want you want people to go Okay, you're
great even though you don't care about those people after
a win. You don't care about their opinions. Your opinions
don't matter. Well wait a minute, what's your opinion?
Speaker 8 (29:32):
Man?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
You guys are great? Well, thank you, Yes, Pauline.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
I want to be at a parade cheering my team scrolling.
Why are they talking about the cowboys and not my team?
Speaker 4 (29:39):
That's my goal? Yeah, ESPNS song about Lebron we won
last night, Come on, be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Uh, it's like one of those things where you uh,
I mean, we're probably getting it today, but like, is
anybody where the Michigan won last night? Why are we
talking about Connecticut? It's like.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
You get all upset.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Why are we talking about the losers and not my team?
Speaker 9 (30:04):
We won?
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Yes, Marvin, No, they just gave me a headache because
that definitely happens all the time. But talk about the
team at one like we are.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
It's okay. It's okay.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
Team.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
You're used to being on the other side of that
where you're complaining about no one talking about Yukon winning
because no.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
One's talking about this, so we'll just raise another banner
stores we don't get our respect. No, we're talking about
Tristan Newton. I was like that's all right. I don't
care about your respect, It's all right. I care about
winning the title. No, we's talked about Jordan. I want
a parade, like, let's just put up another banner in stores. Yes, Yes,
Marvin's in a better mood after a loss. Yeah than
(30:47):
some of the Michigan fans.
Speaker 10 (30:48):
In't all serious though. When you look at Marvin when
he came in today, he's probably thinking himself, we got
Danny Hurley and that will make us a contender every year.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Although I did look at a mock draft last night
and it had Braylan Mullins deep in the first round,
and I wonder, I think they had him thirtieth thirty
what Seaton?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah, he might have second rounded himself last night.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I just wondered about that. If I'm a first rounder,
then I'm coming out. But this was like at the
very end of the first round.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
See, he drains a couple of those shots. He's he's
staying firmly in that ten to twenty five range. You know,
he knocks down a couple of big shots last night,
and that is very different.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
Yeah, Paul, Yeah, but the thunder have like seven first
round draft picks. They'll throw on it, Braylan Mullins and
have him come off the bench.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
Aline.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah, I don't know, but that surprised me that he
was like thirtieth in a mock draft. Mr.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Man, you just don't want to be sitting there at
the end of the first round crossing your fingers. After
you left school early, you could have gone back to Yukon.
If he's a lottery pick or even a top twenty pick,
be my guest, but it's not setting Stone thirtieth in
a mob draft.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Yeah, yeah, See.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
He had some moments last night though, even though it
wasn't his best game, Brayln Mullins, but he had some
moments though where he's like, you know what, the kid's
not scared. The shot didn't fall or whatever. But man,
he'll go to the hoop. We'll go back outside. Whatever,
he's not scared.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
All right, We'll take a break. More phone calls coming up.
Busy final hour. Reggie Miller wants to take a victory
lamp with the women's team at UCLA is Alma Mater
and Jalen Rose bab Fiver coming up in about five minutes.
Big announcement, a really big announcement that affects the show
and very very proud of it. I think it's something
(32:40):
really important for the show. We'll tell you about that
when we return.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
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Speaker 2 (32:57):
By the way, we've talked about Michigan Illinois basketball as well,
and if it weren't for a recent NCUBA rule change,
you wouldn't be getting these players with professional experience from
Europe coming over to the United States. Before twenty twenty three,
players who played professionally overseas weren't eligible to play in
(33:19):
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of who and what is an amateur in light of
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Speaker 8 (34:03):
Seton.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
O'Connor has a stat of the day for us. It's
been a minute since I did one of the nights.
I'm a little nervous. I gotta admit I'm a little
nervous about hitting the post here.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
You used to do stat of the day. I did
that did that was your signature. You did stat of
the day.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
It was it was and it got so successful it
was moved on to other better hands.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Everybody. Everybody wanted a piece as status acts. Okay, which
music do you want for your stat.
Speaker 9 (34:28):
Of the day.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
For me, there's always only been one stat of the day.
That's the jou justice out of the day. Okay, here
we go.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
The of the time.
Speaker 11 (34:41):
The time six thousand, seven hundred and sixty six, Dan,
that is the number of days that will have passed
between the first day we did the show in the
Attic October seventh, two thousand and seven and this Friday,
April tenth, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
That also happens to be my last day on this
radio show. Okay, I think I hit the post there. Yeah, yeah, yes,
you did. Okay, that's all I really care about.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Now, explain here that Friday is your last day on
the show.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Correct, And it's a good thing. It's a great thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
It doesn't mean that I'm leaving the Dan Patrick Show entirely.
It means I'm not doing the radio show anymore. And
so I'm gonna leave the radio show to focus on
sort of a different side of the business that I'm
hoping to grow and build out a little more. And
so I've kind of been thinking of it as I'm
not walking out the door. I'm sort of building a
(35:47):
new room on this house. Okay, that makes sense. Okay,
we're looking at digital content, right right, right, Yeah, So
I'm gonna sort of grow out sort of more experiential things,
maybe hit more events, going to you know, say, college
football tailgates or other events that maybe because of the
radio show, we haven't really had the ability to do
(36:09):
because you're sort of anchored or tethered to the radio
show every day. We got to be back in Milford
by Monday. We got to do that's all. We can't
do that because of the radio show. Well, I'm going
to start to focus on those opportunities that maybe we're
missing a little more and hopefully adding to sort of
our social presence and the TV show and a little
more focus on that side of things.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
And when Seaton started talking to me about digital content,
and I didn't understand it, but he said, hey, you know,
we got to capitalize it on this, and then he
kept bringing up more and more and more, and I said, well,
then why don't you do it? Because he likes building things,
And I thought, Okay, this can be what you want
(36:50):
to do for the next two years with a show
and then after that, and I knew it could be
good at it. I just didn't want to lose him
without really realizing what I'm gaining from him. And it
wasn't fair to me to go, I'm going to keep
him here, you know, for the betterment of the show,
but I wanted for the betterment of himself, the business,
(37:14):
his family. A lot of different things factored into this.
But he saw things that I didn't see and he said,
let's try this, and so that led us to this,
and I'm excited about it because he's excited about it. Yeah,
I'm super pumped about it. It's not a decision either
that I make lightly.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Yeah, I've been on the radio since two thousand, you know,
so the last twenty four of the last twenty seven
years I've been on the radio. This has been my
whole career. It's been my whole like adult life. So
it's not a decision that I make lightly. But there's
a couple of reasons. A few things there, Dan, Like
you just said about sort of looking to the future
and where I think I fit best. I'm sort of
(37:55):
moving towards that. And you know the other thing too,
is that you know, my son is sixteen, and you
know life is taking him in incredible places. He's he's
in a remarkable young man, and I want to be
there for all of them, all of the things that
he's about to experience in life. And you're giving me
the opportunity and the freedom to be there for those things,
(38:17):
which ultimately, I think when we look back at the
few of us that left ESPN to go start this
thing together, you know that was kind of the point,
was to have more freedom and the ability to be
around our family more and that's something I've been blessed
to be around my family a ton, But the next
part of his life is I think it gould be
(38:38):
pretty special, and being able to be there for that
is truly a blessing. So thank you very much for
not only believing in me, but also giving me the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
To do that. Okay, last day's on Friday, though, Yeah, yeah,
last day's Friday. Okay, all right, I'll wait to cry
and till Friday.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Yeah, heah. But you know, it's like mcleven.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
When McLevin left, he did what was best for his family,
and when we started this, these guys helped me do
what was best for me and my family. I got
to go home because I was missing out on all
of these things with four young kids. And that's why
when McLevin said to me he had two daughters and
you know, he was commuting two hours each way, and
(39:26):
I just said, you know, if you got another chance
to do something, do it.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
And same thing with Setan. You don't want to miss
these things.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
And all of a sudden, you go, damn it, because
it's easy to be selfish, and with what he is
taking on, it's a lot on your plate. You know,
I'm asking a lot. I want you to be great,
but I know you're asking yourself to be or expecting
to be great. But it helps the business as well.
And Seton will be at places like the Draft, it
(39:54):
might be in Tahoe, he'll be at the super Bowl.
So he's always going to be around with us and
occasionally being on the air. Dylan's gonna sit in his
chair for the time being, so you know, it's ever evolving.
It's like Marvin got an opportunity. Seatan's get an opportunity,
(40:14):
Dylan's gonna get an opportunity. Mario's directing. You know, he
used to answer phone calls. You know, that's the beauty
of this place. There is a chance for you to
do some different things, and we're very proud. It's still
a little warm from a seat in the butt, but
that's right.
Speaker 10 (40:31):
First of all, congratulates the Seaton. That's awesome, especially with
what your son is doing. Are we supposed to do
our commentary because I got a lot on Seatan today
or wait for Friday or some hybrid.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
How about Friday? Okay, unless it comes up in conversation.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
I got a couple.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
But you know, there's stuff on his desk that people
already asking about. There's there's soccer scarves. I mean there's.
It won't take long before people will be hovering. Yes, Marvin,
I'm already on the list. Okay, big final Hour Reggie
Miller and Jalen Rose. Hope you'll stay with it as well.
We're back after this
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio Hour two.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
On this Tuesday, Dan and the Dan Hutch Dan Patrick Show,
we'll talk to the head coach of the freshly minted
national champion Michigan Wolverines. In a moment here we'll talk
to Jalen Rose, former fab fiver, he was at the game.
And Reggie Miller will join us as well. Your phone
calls always welcome, EH seven to seven to three DP
show operator Tyler's sitting by. We'll have a new poll question, Seaton,
(00:28):
would you clean up the first hour of the program.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, this one's actually a little awkward to read right now,
but that's okay. This one's from Todd Fritz, by the way,
sitting to my right, putting together a starting five of
all transfers. Is smart or dumb? I think that was
answered last night because let's see sixty six percent of
the audience say that it's very smart, obviously evidenced my lesson.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Okay, do I have to start the interview with Dusty
May apologizing for Todd.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yes, Paul, it can't be dumb.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
He just won the time.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It's this proof of concept right there, that's how you
do it. Todd had a problem with this this morning.
I go, it's recruiting, whether you're recruiting somebody who's twenty
two or somebody eighteen, And.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
We're convenely leaving out that at the top says these
are polls that.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Might not quite work.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Was the headline of those peoples?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well to bring in Dusty May, the Michigan head basketball coach.
Good morning coach. Congratulations and I apologize for Fritzi saying that,
you know, bringing in all these transfers is dumb. We're
proud of what you did. Congratulations, no worries, Dan, thank
you for having me on.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
How much sleep are we working with?
Speaker 7 (01:37):
About an hour?
Speaker 8 (01:38):
And I think I closed by about five minutes a
little bit ago in between interviews.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
What kind of party did we have last night?
Speaker 9 (01:45):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (01:45):
We as soon as we got back to the hotel,
and our staff kind of has a semi tradition where
if we have any big moments, we walk back from
the arena to the hotel and that's just kind of
our rap.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
Pack entourage moment.
Speaker 8 (01:59):
And we came into the hotel what we thought was
a small get together with several hundred people, and it
felt a little bit like prom where you're taking pictures
and shaking hands and whatnot.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
But it was great just to see everyone under one roof.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Has it hit you yet?
Speaker 7 (02:17):
No, not at all. I'm not sure that it will.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, I'm guessing yeah, I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Like, there's no more games, so it is it just
going to hit you out of nowhere and you go,
I'm a national champion.
Speaker 8 (02:33):
Well, Dan, I think once we have our roster put
together for next year, I've been on calls and the
zooms already this morning. The transfer transfer portal opened to
get at twelve oh one last night, and we have
some holes in our roster that we must fill and
so credit our staff. They hold me accountable and they've
(02:54):
had some stuff set up this morning.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
So we've been hitting the ground running.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Were you working the transfer portal after winning the championship
when you guys are celebrating, We.
Speaker 8 (03:04):
Actually contemplating doing a zoom at twelve oh one, knowing
how much media we were going to have and how
many hours that would take. I think it was about
two o'clock and I said, are we still doing a zoom?
And the staff said no, that that ship passed and
we just waited till this morning.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Take me into halftime, got a small lead, But what
is your message to your team?
Speaker 8 (03:29):
Our message was that things weren't going great. We weren't
making shots, Yaxel was frustrated with his play, and we
were at four points against a team that is conditioned
to win, as any team that we faced in the
last couple of years, and so we were optimistic that
if we found a little bit of offensive rhythm, then
we could find a way to at least tie or
(03:51):
lose by no less than three the second twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And I brought this up a couple of times yesterday
that unless you've shot in a big arena, the depth perception,
it's really hard to get acclimated to that. And this
was one of the worst shooting percentages for a national
title game we've had in a long, long time. How
much of a role do you think it played that
you're playing in you know these cavernous stadiums.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Now, Well, we shut the heck out of it on Saturday,
so we felt good about preparation.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
I think it had more.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
To do with with with Yukon's defense, the physicality game,
and just two determined basketball teams that were fighting tooth
and Nail just trying to figure out a way to win,
and they did a great job of controlling the tempo
of the game, of forcing us to.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Play at their pace, and they had us in a
rock fight.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Any added, I don't know what the word would be
that you did it in Indianapolis after, you know, being
in Indiana under Bob Knight.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
It's actually probably a little bit more distracting because we're
trying to accommodate a lot more people because of proximity.
But just I've said repeally, it's just a full circle moment.
As a young kid, my mom would bring me up
to these clinics at the Final four of the Yes Clinics,
and these basketball clinics where the college coaches back then
were actually working stations and teaching us how to shoot
(05:17):
and and dribble the ball when we're in elementary school.
Things have changed a lot in that regard. And then
also in two thousand, a group of US managers came
up here because we could we could commute, and just
we were trying to network and meet any coach, to
make any connection that we could to find a way
(05:37):
to gain a spot in college basketball, and literally any
spot volunteer gas that those are the jobs we were
looking for.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
He's a Dusty may Michigan had basketball coach. But you survived,
Bob Knight and thrive. But you survived. But give me
your your Bob Knight. We I mean, I had my
moments with him good and I've been yelled at before
by him, but I'm sure you have as well. So
(06:06):
your favorite Bob Knight's story as a student manager as what.
Speaker 8 (06:12):
There are some, probably my favorite one now I can
tell this because Coach has passed got rest of soul.
Our job was so menial that his wife, Karen wanted
to have more grass in their backyard at their house
in Ellisville, and Coach Knight refused to.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Cut down any trees.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
And so Coach was on a fishing trip or recruiting trip,
I can't remember now, and we got a call from
Karen that a couple of us were subpoened out to
the house and we had no idea what for. And
I don't know why. The story just told to me.
I've never told it before. And we go out to
the house and she had had several trees removed all
(06:50):
the way down to the to the stump or to
the ground, and we had to figure out a way
to get the sawdust and any any residue from those
trees out of the yard before Coach I came home.
So we literally had rakes and we were picking up
sawdust with our bare hands, so I wouldn't notice, hopefully
wouldn't notice that any of his trees have been removed
while I was on a on a hunting trip.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Jay Billis was on last hour and he said to
ask you about the different drinks and food that Coach
Night like, like doctor pepper lemonade.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
No doctor pepper and chocolate milk.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
This is no coach I was.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Ahead of his time and and many regards with analytics,
with teaching pedagogy. But this was chack Cola before chock
cola Yahoo. Uh it had the soda taste with with
a chocolate milk flavor, and uh it was It was
a genius.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Take me back to last year when you're trying to
put this team together and you're trying to do it
with players all over the country. So give me, give
me the recipe for that philosophy of what you were doing.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Well, we take the job of mission and the first
day I arrive on campus. There's maybe six, six or
seven guys in the locker room, and almost the entire
team had already entered the transfer portal, just because of
the timing of these moves, And my first call was
to coach Howard to find out who he felt like
was worth investing in as we tried to build our
(08:20):
program and continue the legacy of the past teams.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
But you don't say good personally, Dusty, that you go
in and you realize most of the team is in
the transfer portal.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
No, not at all, not at all. I wanted to
get to know those guys. I wanted them to get
to know me. And even the players that we identify
our guys that we would love to keep, we tell them,
don't make any rash decisions. Just give us some time
and let's get on the court together. Let's spend some time.
Let's go have lunch. And because these college years are
(08:51):
I mean a lots has been said about the portal
and all this other stuff.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
That eighteen to twenty three, eighteen to.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
Twenty two are such informative year for any of this
that have changed as much as I did at that stage,
and so we just want to make sure it's the
right fit at the right stage of their careers and
their development, and so we never take it personal. And
so we decided to try to keep several of them,
and finances we didn't have hardly any money. Finances wouldn't
(09:20):
allow us to keep very many. And then luckily Vlad
Golden chose to join us from FAU and shortly thereafter
we got Danny Woolf because of his family connections to
Michigan and his desire to play at the highest level
in preparation for the NBA coming from Yale. So we
had a couple foundational pieces, a couple of returners from
the previous Michigan group that had institutional knowledge, and from
(09:43):
there we were able to build out and really set
an identity and culture.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
In year one.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Is Michigan a football school or basketball school?
Speaker 7 (09:52):
It's an everything school.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
But I wish you're saying that the football is incredibly
important at Michigan. There's one hundred and ten thousand and
people that gather on our campus every single Saturday to
watch high level football to celebrate everything that comes with
the University of Michigan.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
And and we've.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Piggybacked on that our our our first game at Michigan,
there's probably thirty five hundred people, and I can't remember
the last played in front of a crowd that wasn't
a sellout and they didn't bring great energy. So people
love the university. They obviously appreciate a certain style of
play as far as tenacity and and and teamwork and
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and so we're proud to be in a place where
where they celebrate all sports.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
What's the sweatshirt? What's the logo in your sweatshirt?
Speaker 7 (10:39):
It's the throwback Wolverine.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Oh okay, yeah, it's the old school. Uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Did you get advice from the Fab five? Did they
want to help you with coaching the Actually.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
They've been they've been very very helpful, and I've I've
told them and I've told the media that other than
Michael Jordan in my life time, they've changed the culture
of our sport for the better more than any other team,
group or individual. And it's it's it's a it's a
point of pride for us to represent those guys. I
was actually on a show with them the other day
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and they put me on the spot and they asked
me which Fab five was my favorite, and I and
being an Indiana guy that always loved the Pacers.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
I had to go with Jalen.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, he'll be joining us next hour.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
That's great. He's a lot for Detroit. He's very uh
he's very respected in our area.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Uh, you know, sacrifice.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You know the voice, it looks like it's gone for
a little while, so hopefully you get some time. Rika,
you sound a little like Tom Izzo. That's a seasoned voice.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
Yeah that he he's set that he set the standard
for all of us young coaches as far as poor
and uh pouring into the to our guys and our
sport and uh yeah it's uh, my voice doesn't carry
well normally and especially after a game like last night.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Congrats Dusty, it's a great story and good luck.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Thank you, Dan. I appreciate have you on.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That's Dusty May twenty years to become an overnight sensation.
This happens a lot. I mean, you start to look
like Kurt Signetting had been a great coach. Nobody Knewing
goes to Indiana in his sixties, goes from James Madison.
Dusty goes from Florida Atlantic. Dan Hurley goes from Rhode
Island to Connecticut. Ben McCollum drake to Iowa. By the way,
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North Carolina came in from what I'm told, last minute
to gauge the interest of Ben McCollum leading Iowa leaving
Iowa to go to North Carolina, and he said, no,
I'm staying here. And Jay Billis is right. You know
you can't tamper with a player. Why are we allowed
to tamper with a coach? That's what happened. All of
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these guys got jobs. There's nobody who's going I'm unemployed.
We can talk to you. They all got tam tampered with.
Now they can say, well, I didn't talk to anybody.
My representative did. Yeah, I know, we know, hy proxy,
you were tampered with because I'm guessing your representative then
probably said something to you, Hey, are you interested in
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the North Carolina job?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (13:17):
So here's an easy fix this proposed rule. For players,
possibly your first transfer is on the house. Your second
transfer you sit out a season. Make it the same simultaneously.
For coaches, your first leave by choice is on the house.
Your second lead by choice you have.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
To wait a year.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah, Will Wade, Yeah, well, with the player, I do
think you should sign a contract.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I think.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
They do sign contracts, but they're a series of one
year contracts.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
But when you transfer, yeah, that's where the team that
takes you should give some money back to the school
you're leaving, because this will help the mid majors, because
a mid major is going to lose the player who
becomes a little bigger, more talented and ready to go
to the next level. Help out the mid major if
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you're going to take them, Because I view mid majors
now as junior colleges basketball wise, that you're there for
two years, maybe somebody notices you. If not, you stay
there for three or four years, you get an education
and you move on with life. But if you move up,
move on, then why not replenish the mid majors and
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give them something for losing you? Just a thought, Just
a thought, all right? Reggie and Jalen Rose. In the
final hour of the program, Dusty had that, you know,
championship voice, Tom Izzo and Doc Rivers they got that
the rest of their lives.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
I mean that, I mean Doc Rivers sounds like this,
They've got to give me four quarters. I told these guys,
they got to give me four quarters.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
We're not going to get back at this day.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Really good doc going into the Hall of Fame. Yeah,
I saw it going into the Basketball Hall of Fame, Yeah,
Marv A.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Mar Stottamayer also, yeah, I thought he was a Hall
of very good guy.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Candice Parker going into Hall of Fame, yeh, yeah, no
problem with that. Yeah, I was surprised with Mary Stodemar.
He's like, okay, good player at times, great player. Yeah
see yeah, it's gonna say he had.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
A moment where he was a great player, a truly
great player, just just his knees, right.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
He had that micro fracture.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, but yeah, he had a moment there though, where
he was the future.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And that affected my career too, because I had the
micro fracture surgery of what could have been a Mary Patrick.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Here I'm having micro fracture surgery and I'm not a
you know, an athlete, but I was trying to just
be able to have a healthy knee. When they say,
you know what, you got a diseased knee. When I
was like fourteen, they go, it's a disease knee and
they go, what does that mean? They said, it looks
like a dog is chewed on it. He said, I'm
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going to guess that's not very good. And then that's
when the marine said, hey, do you think you can
make it without getting surgery? Sure, I don't need surgery
some silly knee. He goes, yeah, we'll get you a
knee brace. I said, all right, And then I think
I waited ten years before I had my first surgery.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Made up for it since then?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yeah, but then, yeah, it's true. There were many more
following that.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And I'm wondering if I'd gotten knee surgery when I
was fourteen, would that have kept me away from all
the other surgeries and now replacement?
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Me?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yes, Ton, And.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Look at you've limped all the way to the Broadcasting
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 10 (16:37):
So it all works out well for you.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
No, good, thank you, ton, h good job getting Dusty
May there?
Speaker 9 (16:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
No, I'm just doing my job, dude.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
That's what I'm supposed to say. That is true.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
That is true.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
That's a good get.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
How about we take a break here, get to a
new poll question here. I had to start out with
an apology to Dusty May because you basically said what
he did was lane getting.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
A whole questions that don't quite work dot.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Then don't give him the seat and mission accomplished. Todd
whole questions that don't quite work.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
That was embarrassing me in particular.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Show changing announcement coming up in a half hour, Show changing,
and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna let you guess
that show a game. No, but it's coming up, show changing,
big announcement, great announcement. All right, let me take a
break here, phone calls a new poll question.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
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Michael Malone is taking over at North Carolina, and there
were a lot of there were a lot of names
involved in this, and he was sort of a wild
card according to my source back on March twenty fifth,
and I kept thinking Michael Malone for North Carolina going
(18:38):
to college after being in the NBA as a head
coach an assistant coach, felt like, you know, he was
an analyst waiting to get hired again. And then my
source said, hey, I like this one, and he goes,
I don't know if it will happen, and it almost
felt like they couldn't get anybody else. And then Michael
Malone says, I'll take the job, but he is definitely
(19:03):
going to tap into his connections with Nicola Jokic's agent,
and they're going to be bringing some players over to
North Carolina, all right. And you know a lot of
times when you see a coach, you don't know where
they've been. And if you look at Dusty May and
all the places that he's been to, I mean that
that's what's amazing that you see when somebody gets to
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the end, you go, oh wow, good for him, and
then you start to look at where he's been student manager.
I mean, just run down the places that he's been
to and imagine uprooting your life and you there's nothing
guaranteed when you know you're just starting out, you're an
assistant coach, You're doing whatever it takes. He's going from
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Bloomington to Indiana with these basketball clinics basically saying, hey,
you need you know, a you know, student manager, maybe
an assistant manager, anything, can I get a part of
your team? And then once you get into the inner
workings and you know, to almost like that feeding system
(20:08):
of this guy goes to here, that guy goes to here.
So when somebody gets replaced, the number of players and
number of coaches that get affected are really amazing. Because
if you take a job, somebody takes your job. Somebody
takes your job, somebody takes your job. It just keeps
going on and on and on and on.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
But here he is. He ends up at Michigan.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
But what he did at Florida Atlantic, and Jay Billis
brought this up first hour, I forgot all about it.
They go to the Final four. That's when you leave
Florida Atlantic for a big job. He decides to stay
one more year with his players at Florida Atlantic. They
all stay and they don't disperse, and now you know
(20:52):
he ends up taking the Michigan job. By the way,
Transfer Portal opening for business last night at the well
twelve oh one and last, I was told eleven hundred
men's basketball players will be in the portal. Now, not
everybody's going, because you kind of want to see, Hey
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can I go? Where can I go? How do I
improve myself? You just don't want to be left out,
you know, because there that's the story that people don't
tell those that go into portal, and then they don't
end up landing, and then they're kind of stuck in
no man's land. But the happy Transfer Portal day, Adam
in Illinois, Hi, Adam, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9 (21:36):
Well? Hey, the first time long time Stan six four
not accusing the DP show of being Michigan haters, I'm not,
but this is too kind of all the Michigan haters
out there. You know, over the last five years, starting
with you know, the Stallions, not necessarily great things, but
a call or a while ago said that there really
(21:59):
hasn't been a eight college basketball team, But what about
Michigan this year? These guys blew everybody out of the water,
lost to Duke in kind of a meaningless game in
DC thrown together? Am I wrong that Michigan should get
a little bit more credit over the last five years.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Over the last five years, yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
I mean it's starting with twenty let's let's go twenty four.
Even before that, there were some good there were some
really good football teams, and always were always there in hockey.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Yeah, I know, but this is about basketball last night.
Speaker 9 (22:37):
Well, but I mean I kind of think this is
one of those historical teams.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Well, I think statistically, yes, I mentioned that they blow
everybody out, they're scoring at least they scored the second
most points in tournament history.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I mentioned that.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I have no problem with how he built his roster,
none whatsoever. So I don't know why you're feeling insecure
that the media is hating on Michigan. I mean, we
saw greatness, they played great they won the title. Now,
I don't know if history is going to look back
the way they did UNLV or Duke or UCLA and
(23:17):
some of these other schools. Probably not for this team.
I don't think you have any stars on the team.
I think the star was probably that coach and how
he put all this together. These weren't great players, but
they became a great team.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yes, there could be a.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Point though to what the college just said. It does
kind of feel like if this was a John Calipari
Kentucky team right from the beginning of the season, we
could be like, this might be one of the greatest
teams of all time. I know that's definitely apples and oranges,
I get it. But Michigan sort of slowly got their
way into a certain amount of coverage and being recognized.
(23:59):
But it was even just two weeks ago that we
were like, man, this Michigan team deserves a lot of
credit for the turnaround under Dusty May. You know, it
wasn't really a storyline all season.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
But nobody surprised or should be surprised Michigan won the
national title. From the start of the season, Michigan was
considered one of the two or three best teams in
the country. Not even like that wasn't a doubt. Michigan
proved to be a great team start to finish. You
gotta have star power, you got to have a big
time coach. That's how we remember you, like it or not,
(24:31):
That's how you get remembered. Oh that's the team that had.
Can anybody name any of the players on Texas Western?
Texas Western the first all black starting five national champion.
Can you name anybody?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Can't?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You might be able to remember the coach, Don Haskins,
but this this is one of the landmark games in
sports history. And they beat an all white Kentucky two.
But we don't remember the names having those names, whether
it's Leuel Sindor or Bill Walton or Christian Leyton or
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that goes a long way right or wrong. More people
remember the Fab Five. They didn't win a title, but
they were famous. So it's not meant to be a
knock on Michigan. They were a great team and they
did it in a unique way. And I applaud Dusty
(25:37):
May for how we did it. It's not easy to
do that. It's not like he's taking marquee player like
these are great players. I mean, I got somebody from
University of Alabama, Birmingham, a backup center at UCLA, Like
I'm piecing it all together.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
And I thought that that's tough to make it work.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
But you did have players who had at least had
sample size there.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
History might remember Michigan if one of those guys becomes
an NBA star, almost like in the Vain Carmelo Anthony
was super famous in college, but the lore becomes bigger
because he became a great NBA player. Also, so I
think once you have a guy that does something at
the next level, yukon the back to back national titles,
the general public can't name anybody off of those teams. Yeah,
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because they weren't stars, and it wasn't nobody became an
NBA star.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
You become great because it's attached to being popular. You know,
we remember you. There are a lot of times when
you go, oh, you know who was on that team?
If you won a national championship and we go who
was on that team, then you can be a great team.
You're just not famous. And there's a big difference in that.
(26:53):
But Michigan winning they were no doubt about it, best
team in America. Seven game series. They're gonna beat anybody
a one game, They'll beat any I mean, it didn't matter.
They were a great team. And if you look at
the production they had and they beat Connecticut at Connecticut's game,
that that's truly a great team. We can beat you
(27:15):
if we get to eighty. We can beat you if
we stay in the sixties.
Speaker 10 (27:18):
Yeah, pulling and a lot of people tuned in last night,
casual sports fans and learned their names last night of
that Michigan team. No offense, but just like they got there.
You mentioned most outstanding player over the past ten years.
Just a few names, Joe Barry the second for North Carolina,
Dante DiVincenzo hit a good career, Kyle Guy of Virginia,
Jared Butler of Baylor, Snogo of Yukon, Tristan Newton of Yukon.
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Not household names, remember Ryan Archidiacino of Villanova. They don't
go on to superstar careers and it kind of waters
down that team. Doesn't mean they weren't great, just they
don't carry over in pop culture.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, like Chris Jenkins, h's the shot to win a
national title. Villanova great program. Yes, morph you.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Took the words out of my mouth speaking of Villanova.
I think that team gets more recognition because of what
Jalen Brunston ended up doing in the NBA, because they
say who's on that team. Jalen Brunston was their guy,
won that national championship team. So I think that helps
going forward in history.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah, but if you feel slighted, but it's not with
this show, or you shouldn't with this show.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
But I don't think we.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Need to bring in Michigan hockey. You know, I'm gonna
I'm gonna mention football and basketball and I'm gonna hit
him over the head with Michigan hockey. That'll get him
last five years. I'm like, wait a minute, we're just
talking about last night.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Aren't we pretty good across country to Yeah, they're usually
a good baseball baseball school.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Football had a little you know down years, well left.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
It to basketball and didn't say the last five years.
Then you had a good point. Yeah, I'm okay with that. Yeah,
Paul I aspire.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
To be offended when he wins a title. That's like
my goal. I want to be we didn't get enough
credit as we won, it'd be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yeah, like you only got there because of a bad
call by the rest, doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Sign me up.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Oh, but we get so territorial. We want our dude justice.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
So you want you want people to go Okay, you're
great even though you don't care about those people after
a win. You don't care about their opinions. Your opinions
don't matter. Well wait a minute, what's your opinion?
Speaker 8 (29:32):
Man?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
You guys are great? Well, thank you, Yes, Pauline.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
I want to be at a parade cheering my team scrolling.
Why are they talking about the cowboys and not my team?
Speaker 4 (29:39):
That's my goal? Yeah, ESPNS song about Lebron we won
last night, Come on, be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Uh, it's like one of those things where you uh,
I mean, we're probably getting it today, but like, is
anybody where the Michigan won last night? Why are we
talking about Connecticut? It's like.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
You get all upset.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Why are we talking about the losers and not my team?
Speaker 9 (30:04):
We won?
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Yes, Marvin, No, they just gave me a headache because
that definitely happens all the time. But talk about the
team at one like we are.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
It's okay. It's okay.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
Team.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
You're used to being on the other side of that
where you're complaining about no one talking about Yukon winning
because no.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
One's talking about this, so we'll just raise another banner
stores we don't get our respect. No, we're talking about
Tristan Newton. I was like that's all right. I don't
care about your respect, It's all right. I care about
winning the title. No, we's talked about Jordan. I want
a parade, like, let's just put up another banner in stores. Yes, Yes,
Marvin's in a better mood after a loss. Yeah than
(30:47):
some of the Michigan fans.
Speaker 10 (30:48):
In't all serious though. When you look at Marvin when
he came in today, he's probably thinking himself, we got
Danny Hurley and that will make us a contender every year.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Although I did look at a mock draft last night
and it had Braylan Mullins deep in the first round,
and I wonder, I think they had him thirtieth thirty
what Seaton?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah, he might have second rounded himself last night.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I just wondered about that. If I'm a first rounder,
then I'm coming out. But this was like at the
very end of the first round.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
See, he drains a couple of those shots. He's he's
staying firmly in that ten to twenty five range. You know,
he knocks down a couple of big shots last night,
and that is very different.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
Yeah, Paul, Yeah, but the thunder have like seven first
round draft picks. They'll throw on it, Braylan Mullins and
have him come off the bench.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
Aline.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah, I don't know, but that surprised me that he
was like thirtieth in a mock draft. Mr.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Man, you just don't want to be sitting there at
the end of the first round crossing your fingers. After
you left school early, you could have gone back to Yukon.
If he's a lottery pick or even a top twenty pick,
be my guest, but it's not setting Stone thirtieth in
a mob draft.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Yeah, yeah, See.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
He had some moments last night though, even though it
wasn't his best game, Brayln Mullins, but he had some
moments though where he's like, you know what, the kid's
not scared. The shot didn't fall or whatever. But man,
he'll go to the hoop. We'll go back outside. Whatever,
he's not scared.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
All right, We'll take a break. More phone calls coming up.
Busy final hour. Reggie Miller wants to take a victory
lamp with the women's team at UCLA is Alma Mater
and Jalen Rose bab Fiver coming up in about five minutes.
Big announcement, a really big announcement that affects the show
and very very proud of it. I think it's something
(32:40):
really important for the show. We'll tell you about that
when we return.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
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Speaker 2 (32:57):
By the way, we've talked about Michigan Illinois basketball as well,
and if it weren't for a recent NCUBA rule change,
you wouldn't be getting these players with professional experience from
Europe coming over to the United States. Before twenty twenty three,
players who played professionally overseas weren't eligible to play in
(33:19):
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of who and what is an amateur in light of
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over here and play college basketball and have been professionals
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Speaker 8 (34:03):
Seton.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
O'Connor has a stat of the day for us. It's
been a minute since I did one of the nights.
I'm a little nervous. I gotta admit I'm a little
nervous about hitting the post here.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
You used to do stat of the day. I did
that did that was your signature. You did stat of
the day.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
It was it was and it got so successful it
was moved on to other better hands.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Everybody. Everybody wanted a piece as status acts. Okay, which
music do you want for your stat.
Speaker 9 (34:28):
Of the day.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
For me, there's always only been one stat of the day.
That's the jou justice out of the day. Okay, here
we go.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
The of the time.
Speaker 11 (34:41):
The time six thousand, seven hundred and sixty six, Dan,
that is the number of days that will have passed
between the first day we did the show in the
Attic October seventh, two thousand and seven and this Friday,
April tenth, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
That also happens to be my last day on this
radio show. Okay, I think I hit the post there. Yeah, yeah, yes,
you did. Okay, that's all I really care about.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Now, explain here that Friday is your last day on
the show.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Correct, And it's a good thing. It's a great thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
It doesn't mean that I'm leaving the Dan Patrick Show entirely.
It means I'm not doing the radio show anymore. And
so I'm gonna leave the radio show to focus on
sort of a different side of the business that I'm
hoping to grow and build out a little more. And
so I've kind of been thinking of it as I'm
not walking out the door. I'm sort of building a
(35:47):
new room on this house. Okay, that makes sense. Okay,
we're looking at digital content, right right, right, Yeah, So
I'm gonna sort of grow out sort of more experiential things,
maybe hit more events, going to you know, say, college
football tailgates or other events that maybe because of the
radio show, we haven't really had the ability to do
(36:09):
because you're sort of anchored or tethered to the radio
show every day. We got to be back in Milford
by Monday. We got to do that's all. We can't
do that because of the radio show. Well, I'm going
to start to focus on those opportunities that maybe we're
missing a little more and hopefully adding to sort of
our social presence and the TV show and a little
more focus on that side of things.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
And when Seaton started talking to me about digital content,
and I didn't understand it, but he said, hey, you know,
we got to capitalize it on this, and then he
kept bringing up more and more and more, and I said, well,
then why don't you do it? Because he likes building things,
And I thought, Okay, this can be what you want
(36:50):
to do for the next two years with a show
and then after that, and I knew it could be
good at it. I just didn't want to lose him
without really realizing what I'm gaining from him. And it
wasn't fair to me to go, I'm going to keep
him here, you know, for the betterment of the show,
but I wanted for the betterment of himself, the business,
(37:14):
his family. A lot of different things factored into this.
But he saw things that I didn't see and he said,
let's try this, and so that led us to this,
and I'm excited about it because he's excited about it. Yeah,
I'm super pumped about it. It's not a decision either
that I make lightly.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Yeah, I've been on the radio since two thousand, you know,
so the last twenty four of the last twenty seven
years I've been on the radio. This has been my
whole career. It's been my whole like adult life. So
it's not a decision that I make lightly. But there's
a couple of reasons. A few things there, Dan, Like
you just said about sort of looking to the future
and where I think I fit best. I'm sort of
(37:55):
moving towards that. And you know the other thing too,
is that you know, my son is sixteen, and you
know life is taking him in incredible places. He's he's
in a remarkable young man, and I want to be
there for all of them, all of the things that
he's about to experience in life. And you're giving me
the opportunity and the freedom to be there for those things,
(38:17):
which ultimately, I think when we look back at the
few of us that left ESPN to go start this
thing together, you know that was kind of the point,
was to have more freedom and the ability to be
around our family more and that's something I've been blessed
to be around my family a ton, But the next
part of his life is I think it gould be
(38:38):
pretty special, and being able to be there for that
is truly a blessing. So thank you very much for
not only believing in me, but also giving me the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
To do that. Okay, last day's on Friday, though, Yeah, yeah,
last day's Friday. Okay, all right, I'll wait to cry
and till Friday.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Yeah, heah. But you know, it's like mcleven.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
When McLevin left, he did what was best for his family,
and when we started this, these guys helped me do
what was best for me and my family. I got
to go home because I was missing out on all
of these things with four young kids. And that's why
when McLevin said to me he had two daughters and
you know, he was commuting two hours each way, and
(39:26):
I just said, you know, if you got another chance
to do something, do it.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
And same thing with Setan. You don't want to miss
these things.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
And all of a sudden, you go, damn it, because
it's easy to be selfish, and with what he is
taking on, it's a lot on your plate. You know,
I'm asking a lot. I want you to be great,
but I know you're asking yourself to be or expecting
to be great. But it helps the business as well.
And Seton will be at places like the Draft, it
(39:54):
might be in Tahoe, he'll be at the super Bowl.
So he's always going to be around with us and
occasionally being on the air. Dylan's gonna sit in his
chair for the time being, so you know, it's ever evolving.
It's like Marvin got an opportunity. Seatan's get an opportunity,
(40:14):
Dylan's gonna get an opportunity. Mario's directing. You know, he
used to answer phone calls. You know, that's the beauty
of this place. There is a chance for you to
do some different things, and we're very proud. It's still
a little warm from a seat in the butt, but
that's right.
Speaker 10 (40:31):
First of all, congratulates the Seaton. That's awesome, especially with
what your son is doing. Are we supposed to do
our commentary because I got a lot on Seatan today
or wait for Friday or some hybrid.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
How about Friday? Okay, unless it comes up in conversation.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
I got a couple.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
But you know, there's stuff on his desk that people
already asking about. There's there's soccer scarves. I mean there's.
It won't take long before people will be hovering. Yes, Marvin,
I'm already on the list. Okay, big final Hour Reggie
Miller and Jalen Rose. Hope you'll stay with it as well.
We're back after this
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Todd "Fritzy" Fritz
Dan Patrick
Patrick "Seton" O'Connor
Paul Pabst
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