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Dan talks about the Lakers’ recent struggles with LeBron James returning after missing seven games. And Rams WR Puka Nacua says he wants to retire early.

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for the final hours, Seaton. You want to clean up
what we had in the first two hours of the program.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yet we're putting up two new ones for the third
hour retiring at thirty sounds awesome or not for me?

Speaker 5 (00:49):
All right?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Russell going to put up there.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
The Titan should draft a quarterback or trade down that pick.
And for the first hour, well the first two hours
we had up there where if you lived in Arkansas,
would you rather a title in basketball or a national title?

Speaker 3 (01:06):
It should say?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Now, how this started was accidental. I'm looking at the
matchups in the Sweet sixteen, the point spreads, and all
of a sudden, I started going down the list and saying,
is that a football school or basketball? Like Arkansas is
a basketball school, wanting to be a football school, And
as Tom is Michigan State said, most schools want to

(01:28):
be a football school because that's where your money is,
that's where your revenue is. Like BYU, BYU is a
football school, Alabama a football school. Florida I would say
a football school. Maryland maybe not either, Arizona. I'd say
it is a basketball school. Duke basketball school, Arkansas basketball school,

(01:51):
Texas Tech football school, Old Miss football, Michigan State basketball,
Kentucky basketball, Tennessee football, Michigan football, Auburn. They want to
be football, but they're successful in basketball. Purdue basketball, Houston basketball.

Speaker 6 (02:14):
Yeah, pull BYU temporarily feels like a basketball school. Didn't
they get the number one high school recruit. Yeah, that
kind of forces your hand towards basketball school.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, but you're only getting for one year. Yes, that's
the problem. Hey, we got the number one recruit. Great,
you get to enjoy him for one year. And Tom
Izzo brought up that he does go after the guys
that would be considered one and done. Jason Richardson's son
is going to be one and done just like his
dad at Michigan State. But you know, you start to

(02:44):
think about nil, you start to think about how that
affects your team. And I know that we keep talking
and focusing on the players, so all the players, they're
jumping around. The players didn't say let's have the transfer
portal during March Madness.

Speaker 7 (03:00):
You know.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Dick Vitao tweeted this out yesterday. Dickiev said, isn't it
absurd that the transfer portal opens during the heart of
March Madness. Okay, Dick should be calling out who are
the grownups who agreed to this? The kids didn't, the
grownups did. Dicky b goes, there's so much instability in

(03:22):
college basketball, yet the upper echelon from administrators are talking
about messing with one golden event March madness, talking about expanding,
and he says pathetic. Yes, so call out these people
who are they, But don't blame the kids, because look,
this is business, and yes, is it uncomfortable for everybody? Yes,

(03:46):
You've got kids who are going to be playing these
games coming up this next week that are going to
transfer to another school. You're going to have this until
they find a way to allow everybody to navigate in
a timeframe that is conducive to what their needs are.
That's a coach. I mean, nobody has a problem with

(04:08):
a coach leaving right now. No one is going to
have a problem with a coach trying to poach players.
Your team's out of the tournament.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
You're going to be proaching players who are in the tournament.
It's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
It does happen, it has happened, will continue to happen.
But yes, it's going on. But let's not confuse with
what Will Wade did at McNee State. So his team
is playing in the tournament, he's talking about leaving to
go to NC State. Sean Miller going to Texas a
couple of days after his team was eliminated. I mean,

(04:38):
this happens, This happens right now. This is when schools
make changes. You bring in a coach after your season
is over. Players are going to look at it same way.
And until somebody gets a good handle on this. And
I've not heard anything yet. I mean they're trying to
figure out the name, image and likeness and what you

(04:58):
can and cannot make. What can the school pay you?
And now they can pay you coming in as a freshman.
Where's And they were doing this before I know that,
but now they're like, no, you can actually be everything's
above board.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Now you can.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
You can give the enticement of what you're going to
pay somebody before they get there, because there is no
big time recruit who's going to say, all right, I'm
trying to choose between Florida and Kentucky. I'll just hope
that you guys take care of me when I get there.

(05:35):
You're want that you want this map down? When do
I get paid? Do I get a sign And now
I'm going to tell you that. Talk to a source
yesterday said, okay, you cannot mention the names. I said,
no names. You you ask for a signing bonus. You
want to know when you get paid and can you

(05:58):
have a say in who you recruit? Now this is
a package deal, right like this is there's a player
that this is happening right now coming out of high school.
And so I mean, you're asking for these things. And
you know, Tom Izzer was talking about this with Michigan State.
He's like, hey, you know it's about money. They all

(06:21):
know that it's there. They want theirs. And then now
you'll get players who will hold your current team hostage
because if you don't match what I'm going to get
if I go to this school, then I'm going so
imagine that. But it's business. This is coaches do this.

(06:44):
Les Miles did this at LSU. It felt like on
a yearly basis, Hey, you know who's interested in me?
Oh god, lest don't tell me. Arkansas? Yeah, Arkansas, and
then all right, we'll give you a raise. So this
is what's happening. Does it take away from March madness
a little bit if you allow it to. But this

(07:06):
is next time next year. At this time, you're gonna
be saying, oh god, that guy played for that school.
Oh he transferred to Yes, that's happening now, and we'll
continue to happen. But we get up in arms with
the players, like how dare you do this to our game?
No one says anything about the coaches who do the
same thing. And the coaches have been doing this. They

(07:28):
didn't have to sit out a year. Remember that we're
going to discourage you. We're gonna make you sit out
a year. And players did coaches. Don't imagine if you
said that to Will wait at mcnee's state. Hey, you
can leave, but you got.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
To sit out of here. Eh.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Okay, what's he gonna do? I think I'll stay right
here till the end of my contract, yes, Paul.

Speaker 6 (07:52):
Going back to the portal opening in the middle of
the NCAA tournament last year, it was worse. In twenty
twenty four. The college basketball transfer portal opened on March eighteenth.
This year, they pushed it back a week. Last year,
the portal window was forty five days. They've tightened it
to thirty days. So it's going in the correct direction.
Still not perfect, Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 7 (08:12):
All right.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
We started the show, we talked about the injury to
Juju Watkins. It's been confirmed she will have ACL surgery
and this is a long process that will affect next
season for her, and it's a big blow for the
sport because she is one of those you know, you
have an athlete, you have somebody really good, but they

(08:33):
cross over into becoming more than that. It becomes more
of basketball, but social media and you know her by
her name, her first name, Juju, And you know you
got Hannah Hidalgo at Notre Dame. You got Page Beckers
at you cunning LSU has a couple of players. South
Carolina has a great team bets at UCLA. I mean,

(08:56):
you have some players there, but this was there was
so much more menim and you built this upon the
interest in Kitlyn Clark last year and there was a
clean handoff from Caitlin Clark to Juju. And now blows
out her knee and is going to be gone for
a while and it's probably you know, I would say

(09:17):
eight months, eight months to be fair, but it's the
doubt when you come back from this. And as I've
said many times about my knee surgeries, when I first
came back from my first one, you were afraid to
do anything, like you didn't want to jump. You watch
you know, you did lateral movement left and right because

(09:38):
you're like, oh my god. You know, medicine has come
a long long way. I mean I had my first
surgery probably at twenty four, and just had a knee
replacement a couple of years ago. But taking care of
it the right way and making sure she rehabs and
keep her out as long as possible until she is

(10:00):
mentally as tough as what you know, physically, her knee
is going to have to endure. But yeah, very disappointing
because I was looking forward to that Yukon USC matchup again.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
All Right, see, so we have a poll question for
the final hour of the program. Yeah, we got several
of them.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Okay, all right, Okay, get a couple of phone calls
in here.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yes, we're getting a lot of people on Twitter asking
about their college and where they stand. I'll just throw
one out there, Okay, University of Missouri journalism, which is
a compliment.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
I would say there they become a football ish program.

Speaker 6 (10:41):
They've had a few good years.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, I think that. Uh who is it Eli Eli drinkwater?
Yeah yeah, I think he's done a pretty good job there.

Speaker 6 (10:51):
But in the eighties and nineties very basketball ish.

Speaker 7 (10:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, I go back to Steve Stepanovitch at Missouri. John
Sunvold think.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Was the point guard on that team. All Right, you
got another school that people would like our opinion.

Speaker 6 (11:05):
On Stamford if you had to take away academics.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Oh, okay, their volleyball school, swimming school, swimming school.

Speaker 6 (11:16):
How about this, they're an Olympics factory.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, I could I could see that that.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
May surpass their basketball or football acumen.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Well their football program that pick up a white courtesy
phone in a while, like what happened basketball is m Well,
they were known for women's basketball more than men's basketball.
Had somebody say well what about Oklahoma and I thought, well,

(11:46):
wait a minute, Oklahoma is a football school. And then
some people are saying, well what about the women's softball?
I go, okay, yeah, all right. I don't know if
that would go over well with the alumni, like hey, Oklahoma,
well we're great at softball and you do dominate, but

(12:06):
you guys want to be a football program, and you are.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
You are a football program. Yes, Marvin, it.

Speaker 8 (12:13):
Kind of hurt when Lincoln Riley and Caleb Williams both left.
Yeah yeah, that's supposed to be the school that you
go to, not leave.

Speaker 9 (12:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Zach in Knoxville, Hi, Zach, what's on your mind today? Oh?

Speaker 10 (12:26):
Hey DP, thanks for taking my call. I know I
just called into a national radio program, but if you
could respect my privacy, I would appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Thank you, Tiger.

Speaker 11 (12:37):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 10 (12:38):
Based off your parameters of what you're talking about with
schools being known for something, I think nationally it's what
have you done lately, but in the city, it's what
the historical context of it is. Because Tennessee will beat
Akron and UT martin their first two football games, and
then everybody's here saying it feels like ninety eight. But

(13:01):
if you think about it, Rick Barnes, what he's done
over the last eight or ten years is kind to
turn them into a basketball school.

Speaker 9 (13:09):
And then you got to.

Speaker 10 (13:10):
Think about what Pat did. Pat Summit did here, and
they're kind of a women's basketball that's the most prolific.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Program though they used to be.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, but Zach, let me ask you the following Tennessee
can win the SEC football championship or Tennessee can win
the national title in basketball.

Speaker 10 (13:32):
Well, I'm not a Tennessee fan, and that's why I
love being here.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Heckling then, but I think they.

Speaker 10 (13:36):
Would take I think they would take the SEC championship.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
Where did you go to school?

Speaker 10 (13:44):
I went to Pellisippi State. I'm a community college along,
but I'm from Connecticut actually, so I'm a Yukon.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
I'm a Yukon.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Okay, if Yukon could win, No, you're not gonna never mind.
I was going to say, if Yukon won their conference
championship in football, or that the men's team or women's
team won a national title.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
I know where you'd go, yes, Paul, I.

Speaker 6 (14:09):
Just looked up Pelissippi State Panthers and I don't know
much about their background, but they have football and baseball
and basketball.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Pelissippi, Pelisippi State Panthers.

Speaker 6 (14:18):
It's a small school in uh Knoxville, Tennessee, Okay Community.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
College Emmitt in Connecticut. Hi, Ammitt, what's on your mind?

Speaker 7 (14:27):
Hey? Dan?

Speaker 12 (14:28):
Hey, I am at six to two and a scale
two hundred to two thirty depending on the week.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Wow.

Speaker 12 (14:38):
I think these schools all want to be what they're not,
obviously being in the basketball capital of the world and
a huge Dan Hurley fan. Now after Calhoun, they keep
trying to make us a football school and we are
everything but a football school.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, I mean Jim Mora I had some a little
bit of success there, would you say, Marvin football wise?

Speaker 8 (15:05):
Yes, but kind trying to be a football school is
what ruined Yukon basketball for a few years.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
It ruined the Big East, that's correct. They all wanted
to have football programs.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
I'm like, you just ruined the best basketball conference in history.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Harvey in Florida High. Harvey.

Speaker 7 (15:23):
Hey, Hey Dan, first time caller, longtime watcher, UH five seven.
I'm eighty years old. Okay, I'm a walking, talking way
back machine, and I can tell you to start with

(15:45):
about University of Kentucky when they are aspired to be
both a football and basketball.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Powerhouse with Bear Bryant.

Speaker 7 (15:54):
Late forties and early fifties, Hey, among other things. I'm
also I also have a linked to Paul's si U Carbondale. Anyway,
I just I just got a lot of whole man
things going for me. Okay. Eightolph RUPs teams in the

(16:15):
late forties and early fifties were I mean they were,
they were top drawer basketball. Of course, I even had
pat Riley connection, a fellow that I played uh driveway

(16:35):
basketball with was the manager of the team the UK
when one of the managers when Pat pat Riley played. So,
I mean, I can I can answer your question if
you've got anything about Bear Bryant.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Oh yeah, I know I just mentioned Bear Bryant. But
I'm I'm up against a commercial break here, Harvey. But
you can always call in you want to call in
and correct me. Yeah, Having eight off Rup and Bear
Bryant at Kentucky with you RUPs, runts and Bear went
from there to what Texas A and M and then

(17:16):
he went to Alabama after that. Yeah, so Harvey's eighty
years of age, He's got a lot of information. I
think pat Riley jumps center when Kentucky played Texas El
Paso or yeah, Texas Western in the National title game.
I think pat Riley and that that wasn't a very
tall Kentucky team. But I think Ryles was the he

(17:40):
jumped center that day when they lost to Texas Western.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
All right, let me take a break now.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
I'm trying to show off for Harvey to let him
know that I know what he knows. Getting old has
some benefits. Sorry, we'll take a break. We're back after this.

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Speaker 2 (19:03):
For the second time in two games, the Lakers, playing
with Lebron and Luca, lost, so following a seven game
absence by Lebron, they've lost their last two. They got
roughed up by Orlando last night, so the victory snapped
a six game losing streak at home for the Magic
and you start to look at the Lakers. You lose

(19:26):
that game, you're in a fourth place tie in the
West with Memphis and a half game behind the third
place Nuggets. The Nuggets have been playing without Joker for
a while, but Lebron came back and he had twenty
four eight and six. Luca had like twenty four to
seven and seven. But now we're starting to get to
that interesting time where you know, you start to look

(19:48):
at where you're going to be seated, and who you're
going to be playing with and against, and you know
what the second round matchup could be, home court advantage,
all of these things. Yeah, it feels like that, and
I don't know, you know, jokers situation, but missing five
games at this time of the year doesn't seem like

(20:09):
they're too concerned with where they're going to be in
the play they'll be in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
You just want to be in the top four. You
want to have home court advantage there, Yeah, Pauling.

Speaker 6 (20:17):
Look at the West. The eighth seed right now is
Minnesota with forty one wins. The two seed is Houston
with forty six wins. Just five games up and down.
It's going to vary over the next few weeks.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, yeah, just back and forth. I was watching Boston
with Jason Tatum had a big night, but then he
had an ankle injury in that win against the Sacramento Kings.
You know, you have to give somebody a landing spot.
And you know, they thank God that they police this
because you would have guys who would do this. And

(20:51):
I remember in high school they would get underneath you.
They'd put your their foot underneath you, so when you
go up to take a shot, you would see them
invade your space. So if you came down, you were
going to land on their foot and you were going
to roll your ankle. And that I mean, they were
good at outlawing that, making sure that you are if

(21:13):
you go up you can come back down. But yet
Tatum rolling his ankle, and but the Celtics did get
the win, all right. You know, it's quiet week for
the NFL, and sometimes that's when things get done. I
know there was a lot of attention with Aaron Rodgers
last week. Six hours in Pittsburgh. I don't know what
you do in six hours in Pittsburgh unless you know

(21:36):
you take a physical you watch, you know, some videos
of the steel Curtain and you go to a Pirates
game or something, but they're not even there. They're in
spring training. But six hours, okay, did he get everything
answered that he needed to get answered? Did the Steelers
get everything answered that they needed to And you know,

(21:58):
he might not sign with anybody until after the draft,
which I go, no, it can't go on that long.
If I'm Pittsburgh and I said this before you're Pittsburgh,
I don't lower yourself. And you're probably gonna draft a
quarterback if that quarterback is there, if Jackson Dart is there,

(22:21):
I think you're going to draft a quarterback. But Aaron Rodgers, Okay,
you wait, Minnesota doesn't feel like that's happening. I guess
the Giants can still happen. Whatever the Giants are doing.
Do they take Shador Sanders? You got Jamis Winston? What
if you don't? What if Cleveland takes shud or you know.
So there's all kinds of scenarios here, but it's quiet,

(22:46):
and it feels like that's when something gets done. Russell Wilson,
he's still he's waiting. What's he going to do? I mean,
the Giants have Jamis, they don't Russ. But if you
don't get shod or Sanders, do you want Jameis Winston
as your starting quarterback? Or Tommy Salami what's his name?

(23:10):
Tommy de Vito still there? Yeah, yeah, So there's there's
things going on. I just don't know if we're going
to have any movement anytime soon. But when it's quiet,
that's usually when somebody's going to make a decision. The
Puka Nakuas story. Now he's on a podcast and he's
a wonderful player. He's turning twenty four, and he waited

(23:33):
went into great detail of how long he's going to
play in the NFL.

Speaker 14 (23:37):
I want to retire at the age of thirty. I'm
twenty three right now. I'm going into year three. I
think of Aaron Dnald, like man like to go out.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
At the top.

Speaker 14 (23:44):
I think it would be super cool, but they'll also
be like yo, like I want to. I want to
have a big family, just like I want. I want
to have at least the starting five. I'm like, I
can't have a big familus I need five boys. I
need five boys for sure, that's cool, but also be
like man, I want to be able to be a
part of their lives and like, like be as active
as I can with them. So I'm like, I don't
want to be the injuries are something that you can't

(24:04):
control part of the games. Like I'm man like, you
never know. Hopefully like the rest of the Camara go healthy.
But I'm like, man, you have soular surgery, you have
knee surgery, you have ankle owner and be like yo, like,
by the time my kids could be eighteen, I'm like,
I could be very walking if I like, if you
play the game and like you sustain all the injuries,
I want to retire early.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Okay, it sounds good in theory that you're going to
play six more years, and that may feel like an eternity,
like six more years because he's turning twenty four, you
get that big contract, You're not you know now the
rams if you're going to negotiate with him, you know
that he says he's only going to play always thirty,

(24:41):
and what kind of contract are you giving him? Do
you have a contract that leads up to when he
turns thirty, just to say all right, here's your contract.
But it's almost like he's negotiating against himself. You know.
If I'm the Rams, I'm like, uh, wait a minute,
you're twenty nine. You want a three year deal. Didn't
you say you were retiring at thirty. Yeah, that was

(25:03):
a long time ago, when I was twenty three. Yeah, Paul, Yeah, Dan,
you're right.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
The math doesn't add up for Puka to get that
big contract based off what he's at now. He got
the fifth round contract for four years. He'll be twenty
seven in year one of his big deal. He only
makes nine hundred and fifteen thousand a year. He makes
a million next year, a million one in twenty twenty six.
So if he got one of those four year whatever deals,

(25:28):
it would start at age twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Would you rather have Puka Nakua or Bronck Perdy?

Speaker 6 (25:34):
That old fatafic? But you're right though, he's negotiating against
himself with that hard window.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah yeah, all right. We'll get to more phone calls here.
We got caught up in uh, what is your school?
What's the identity of your school? And it started with
Arkansas and people have asked, what about my alma Monter Dayton.
We Dayton's of basketball school always has been, always will be.
But they've had John Gruden who graduated from there, and

(26:02):
Chuck Noell graduated from there. But it's a they've had success.
Division three national champs. I think they beat Ithaca seventy
three to nothing. No national title game, but yeah, it's
a basketball school definitely. Here's here's something for you, you know,
when you want to talk about the transfer portal and

(26:22):
the impact it's had on the NCAA tournament. Twenty nineteen,
the percentage of points from transfers in the tournament sixteen percent,
went up to twenty eight percent, went up to thirty
four percent, went up to forty four percent, went up
to forty eight percent. This year, the percentage of points
from transfers in the tournament fifty two point seven percent.

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your mind today?

Speaker 16 (27:09):
You know?

Speaker 11 (27:10):
Five ten? I think, thank you. I think the biggest
example playing out in this difference between you know, identifying
your schools is at Penn State. I'm told they've won
twelve to the last fifteen national titles in wrestling, which
includes three different times four peaks in a row, which

(27:32):
is just you know, that's that's better than UCLA.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
It's around back in the day.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Right, Yeah, But how many schools have a wrestling program.
Everybody has a basketball program, So we let's not compare
it with UCLA. We're talking about a national reputation. I
always known for their wrestling as well. I mean Oklahoma
State for their wrestling, Penn State for their wrestling. But
they're all football schools. They want to be football schools.

(27:57):
Penn State is a football school. RJ in Iowa, Hi RJ.

Speaker 16 (28:05):
Hey guys six three, two thirty five. Dad played for
the legendary coach Lucetta at HF PAULI.

Speaker 17 (28:16):
I think you might appreciate that.

Speaker 7 (28:18):
Sure.

Speaker 16 (28:19):
The question I had for Dan was this transfer portal.
In football, we hear about how they can't they can't
start the transfer portal until the the semester's over. And
now we're in basketball season and you're telling me that
we can't start the we have to do it like
before the semester's over. I don't really understand the logic

(28:40):
between those two.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
And I mean, I'm still trying to figure this out
of the timing of all of this, and maybe you
know it's unavoidable because of the semesters that you're on
and being able to transfer to a school and start
the school, but it's just it's a bad look when
you have the bowl season and transfer portal season and

(29:01):
now you have March Madness than you have transfer portal
Rob in Indiana High Rob.

Speaker 17 (29:09):
Hey, dan Ay a really long time. First time with
your conversation about various colleges and what they're known for.
How about strolling Wisconsin in there girls and boys hockey, basketball, football,
what's your opinion?

Speaker 3 (29:28):
Well, I would say football.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
They've been really good in basketball, but I would say
Wisconsin's a football school now, I mean we're throwing in
other things women's you know, hockey. That's great for you
if you go to Wisconsin or you live in Madison.
I'm talking about nationally. When people say Wisconsin, what do
you think of sports wise? And I think you think
of football. It doesn't mean that, Hey, what about our

(29:55):
baseball team? Or I get that. I'm talking about the
What's the first thing that comes to mind when I
say UCLA, it's basketball, USC it's football, like that's you know,
there's certain Maryland.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
I don't have an opinion.

Speaker 8 (30:09):
Yes, Martmon, Yeah, Wisconsin is in a really good spot
because one and you know, one season they can be
playing for the Big Ten championship in football and then
in March they'll be playing in the Final four. So
they're in that really good spot of either one of
those programs can make a deep run.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, not winning a national title, but still being competitive.
They're in the picture in those sports. Luke and Ohio, Hi, Luke,
what do you have for me?

Speaker 7 (30:34):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (30:35):
Dam hey, Luke. I was just wondering. I know it's
probably getting repetitive, but you see Bearcats. I know they
won some titles back in the early sixties, they went
to the playoffs when I was going there in twenty
twenty one. Would you consider them a football or basketball school?

Speaker 2 (30:53):
I would consider them football now. You know, they were
very successful back in the sixties. I mean they had
other pockets where they were very good in basketball. But
I mean they've been in the playoffs. I think Cincinnati
probably views itself as in Cincinnati's a college town too.

(31:13):
They love their basketball. There was Xavier in Cincinnati. But
I would say, you see is probably a football program.

Speaker 8 (31:20):
Yes, Marv, I'm gonna have a Paul Patts moment. I'm
going with basketball because the uniforms are just phenomenal. Okaypacial
uniforms in college.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Basketball, Cincinnati has the best uniforms.

Speaker 8 (31:30):
Maybe I'm going with the Kenyan Martin Steve Logan Cincinnati
ra or late nineties, early two thousands, they had the
Jordan brand, the perfect color, perfect color scheme, black, red
and white, perfection.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
I did not think I was getting that today. That
was not on my bingo card.

Speaker 6 (31:46):
Yes, Paul, if we're going to discuss the best uniforms
in college basketball, you may have to remove North Carolina
from the conversation. I'm not even a fan of them,
especial because they're a football schools basketball uniforms.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
If Bill Belichick gets gets into the national title in
missus Belichick.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Yeah, I don't know if she'll be missus Do you
think she's gonna be Missus Belichick at at some point?

Speaker 6 (32:12):
He yes, Oh yeah, I'll take that.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Okay, who gets married first, Travis Kelcey or Bill Belichick
at all?

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Topic? Got it's good, she rev. Let me take a break.
Let's ponder that question.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
I don't want you to just react off the top
of you know, off the cuff here, something like that.
All right, we'll take a break. Last call for phone calls,
What we learn, What's in store tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (32:41):
After this, be sure to catch the live edition of
The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six
am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAP.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Last call for phone calls? What we learn? What's in
store tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (32:56):
And people got fired up on that topic of what
is your school? What's it known for? I loved it
Rick and Syracuse? What is Syracuse? What is Syracuse? When
you think of Rick, I'll ask you Syracuse is a
football school or a basketball school?

Speaker 5 (33:17):
I want to say basketball.

Speaker 17 (33:19):
Craig Fork went to my high school, but I don't know that.

Speaker 18 (33:24):
Or is it a lacross school.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
I would say it's a sports media school. I mean,
in my world, you think of Syracuse. I mean you
think of full Sale University, but you also think of
Syracuse and Missouri and Northwestern Arizona State. Uh Frank frankin Connecticut,
Hi Frank, what's on your mind today?

Speaker 17 (33:45):
Hey?

Speaker 7 (33:45):
Dan?

Speaker 18 (33:46):
Shout out to my neighbors Paulie and Marvin.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
Okay, I just want to.

Speaker 18 (33:53):
Say you're missing Saint John's. Saint John's is known as
a basketball school, but we forget that it produced a
great golfer, got a great golf team, Keegan Bradley. Yeah,
major winner and now are Ryder Cup captain.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah, but let's be fair, Frank, Saint John's a basketball school.
They don't have football, they have basketball, they do have
a good golf program.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
I don't think that's what people think of.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
If all of the Danis didn't as you brought up
Keegan Bradley, they didn't even realize Keigan Bradley went to
Saint John's, Bob and Montana Hi, Bob, Oh, hey, DP.

Speaker 9 (34:39):
Everybody obviously knows that Montana is a football school, despite
their men's basketball team last week playing a great first
half against Wisconsin. But the real reason I'm calling is
I'm curious. Is today a world record day for the
DP show itself to the most number of callers? In
which case of b I keep stats on this. Today

(35:00):
couldn't be like your very own stat of the day
for the most callers in history.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
All right, Well, thank you, Bob. It could be.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
I didn't think of it, but yeah, could be all right,
so who is engaged first, Travis Kelcey or Bill Belichick? Todd,
I'll start with you.

Speaker 19 (35:16):
I'm gonna say Travis Kelcey, Setan, Travis Kelty, Marv Travis Kelcey,
Paul Belichick.

Speaker 6 (35:24):
He's all in.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Feels like there would be more pressure from her with
Belichick than Taylor Swift with Travis Kelcey, because that might
be you know, it'll be a Sunday and she'll say, Hey,
I got an idea.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Why don't we go engagement ring shopping? Sure? Sure, that
sounds great, gues Ton. I guess not publicly.

Speaker 19 (35:51):
Is her family ever weighed in on this. Belichick's girlfriend's
family on what they think of this whole thing and
if you want to have children and how.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Does that all work.

Speaker 6 (35:59):
There's a lot of little side topics, you know.

Speaker 19 (36:01):
It's just we're other than like she needs to be
c seed on all his email. That's one thing, but
there's a lot of stuff there.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Yeah, well, why don't you do some research before you?

Speaker 18 (36:10):
Gy know?

Speaker 19 (36:10):
Oh, I love my twenty something year old marrying a
seventy something You're old. Perfect, It's exactly how I envisioned it.

Speaker 6 (36:17):
So bizarre.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Good for him though, thank you time.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Would you if you're single and you're seventy years old
and all of a sudden, a twenty four year twenty
four year old comes up to you on a plane
and says, hey, can I sit here?

Speaker 3 (36:31):
Hey? Would you like to go out to dinner? And
you're gonna say, what, what time? Where were we? Exactly? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Yeah, you can't make fun of it if if you
were presented with the same scenario, or someone.

Speaker 19 (36:43):
With a daughter on the other end, I would have
a I don't care how fa famous he is and
richie is. That's just I would not want that for
my daughter, for sure.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
No, But for you, Yes, for me, I'm like, let's go, let's.

Speaker 6 (36:54):
Go around the world in my boat.

Speaker 11 (36:55):
Let's go.

Speaker 5 (36:56):
What's going now?

Speaker 3 (36:57):
So Bellichick asked your daughter out, then you're to say
no to that?

Speaker 9 (37:02):
I would.

Speaker 19 (37:02):
I would be very uncomfortable with my daughter.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
She's a little bit younger than Bill Belichick's girlfriend.

Speaker 19 (37:09):
She's she's not gonna be twenty in a few weeks. Yeah, okay,
but it's still in the ballpark of very odd and
uncomfortable on the female parents side.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Yes, Paul.

Speaker 6 (37:17):
Once I saw the Belichick girlfriend beach photos, nothing can
surprise me with this relationship. Yeah nothing, Yeah, yeah, you
sent those to me and I thought you'd been duped.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
Paulie goes, that's not real. Yes, I go no, it's real.
It's real.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
And and there's video of it where he's on the
he's on his back on the beach and holding her
up with his legs and she's I can fly, and
I go wow.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Yes, paul I.

Speaker 6 (37:46):
Can almost understand him approving the act of them at
a private beach or their backyard, but allowing someone to
film it is next.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Level and then letting it go viral.

Speaker 6 (37:56):
Right wagging the dog.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Yeah, man, that dude din't get married. I don't think
so either. Well, no, he was married for like thirty years.
He ain't get married. Okay, Pie of the Face.

Speaker 6 (38:08):
I guess the room. Yeah, before we're done.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Wait, so you think in the next three years Belichick
gets engaged?

Speaker 11 (38:14):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Does anybody want to take so Seaton? You want to
take Paulie up on that?

Speaker 7 (38:18):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (38:19):
All right, Pie of the Face, Marvin, I will too,
all right, Todd, he's got so many rings. Why does
he need another word? He's got plenty of rings on.
I love this.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
There's a very unusual confidence coming from Paul about this
that he's just like, oh yeah, guys, trust me, this
is this is happening.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
I know about these things. Guys, trust me, this is happening. Okay,
I you.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Know what, We're gonna clip that off and then we'll
bring that back in two and a half years.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
Oh yeah, trust me.

Speaker 6 (38:44):
It may already be engaged.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Well we know, okay, maybe that's what Paul is Wow,
all right, maybe some inside information I know a geriatric
love details this is this is yeah Auto in Atlanta, hiatto,
what's on your mind?

Speaker 17 (39:03):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (39:04):
Guys, just wanted to chime in real quick about what
your school was known for.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Georgia Tech.

Speaker 17 (39:10):
Is it football, men's basketball, or baseball?

Speaker 2 (39:16):
You're known for engineering? You got great great football uniforms. Great,
I'm gonna say football. Yeah yeah, yeah, PAULI.

Speaker 6 (39:34):
But that window of coolness with their basketball team in
the early nineties was awesome. Yeah, he's a weapon three.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
But I'm not letting other schools live off of that.
So it's right right now. What do you think Georgia
Tech is? I would say a football school.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
How about this Dane sports history Paul.

Speaker 6 (39:51):
Wayne Gretzky became the first player in NHL history to
score two hundred points in a single season. That was
eighty two.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
He was twenty over rated.

Speaker 6 (40:01):
Oh it's some bad news. Nineteen ninety seven, the Hartford
Whalers announced they would move from Connecticut Carolina Hurricanes dam.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
And immediately won the Stanley Cup. If I'm not.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Mistaken, still one of those moments that I don't know
if I would take it back. But I was at
the Jim Valvano celebrity golf event in Carrie, North Carolina
and talking to Sean Burke and I don't know who
the other guy was, Kevin Deneen or somebody, and I'm

(40:36):
I'm just saying, how their owner terrible, what he did
to Hartford, bab you know, just going on and on
and on about this missed. You know, he led to Hartford,
the guy standing right next to us, and you could
see that both of the hockey players were like motioning
over with their eyes, and I'm like, man, they got
weird tics going on, like what's going on with that?

(40:59):
And I I and then I and he they said, oh,
this is our owner.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
What was his name?

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Last name carab began with a K, but they he
introduced himself and I said, you know, I don't take
anything back, but it was like coke cock, no, no, karb,
carab something.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
I just wanted to call.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
Him that bad word and act like I wasn't.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
It was a coke cock. What is it, Todd.

Speaker 19 (41:27):
I'm just I'm just listening that you.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
Were googling it, that you were googling it had what
we learned, ready, that's what we learned. What we learned.
What we learned is I can't remember the Peter Carmanos.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
There you go, car Peter, get it. Peter, have a
great day, everybody. Talk to you tomorrow.
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