April 6, 2026 • 43 mins
Play-by-play voice for tonight’s National Championship Game, Ian Eagle breaks down being on the call for Braylon Mullins' shot against Duke and credits Dusty May for quickly turning Michigan into a contender. Basketball Hall of Famer Ray Allen reminisces on playing at UConn under Jim Calhoun and praises Dan Hurley's tough style. Celebrity chef Guy Fieri previews tonight's National Championship as he faces off against legendary Danette Marvin Prince for bragging rights in the Celebrity Bracket Challenge.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Iron Eagle or Ian Eigel. He is the play by
play voice for the National Title game, and he joins us, now,
what did you think of the Chain Smokers?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
What an opening question?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Do I stay in my lane or do I just
give you my genuine thoughts? The shocker for me in
all of it, Bill Raftery was in the mosh pit.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I couldn't believe that. But where's Bill?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I didn't see that, Dan, But you knew the Chain
Smokers were going to be performing. You had to be
ready for that moment.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Correct the crazy part, This is not shocking considering just
the timing of everything. We have a green room in
between games. So I go to the green room.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You know, you.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Freshen up, you grab a slider. It's it's a little
bit of food, have a bite.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Move on.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I now walk out of the green room and the
area in which to get back to our seats is
roped off, and I know I have to get back
there because we have to do our stuff immediately after
the Chain Smokers. So I get around the roped off
area and I start walking and someone is freaking out,
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running towards me and I look up and the chain
smokers are standing there with a camera facing them. I
was this close to being the third chain smoker walking
out onto the floor. I was so discombobulated and disoriented
and man, that that would have been.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
A career highlight. Uh, well, you already had it. You
had the call in the Yukon game, like, have you
had anything that compared to that moment?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, that was wild.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I think the fact that it was such a frenzy
makes it different than you know, a normal buzzer beater
or last second clutch shot, because when they're triggering the
inbound you just assume foul game. It's going to be
two or three more possessions. And for it to turn
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as quickly as it did, and for Mullins, for it
to end up in his hands, to get it done,
to advance to Indianapolis and his hometown, to come back
from nineteen down, to do it against Duke, to have
Raf and Grant in a state of shock next to me.
(02:31):
I know that seemed to get a lot of attention
the next day, and that's cool that you get this
behind the scenes look. Grant said it might be the
first time in his life that he's a meme, and
Raff said, what's a meme?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
He had no, but are you watching the monitor or
the game in a moment like that.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I was watching the game, and then what I tend
to do is the second play ends, I go to
the monitor to try to match whatever pictures are being shown.
So that's just muscle memory. And I was lifted out
of my chair when the ball went in Grant if
you look very closely, because the way the camera was
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set up, a ball hit the camera late in the
second half and shifted it over, so it made it
a two shot, which is normally a three shot with
all three of us in there. So I was right
on the periphery. As the steel takes place, Grant digs
his arm into my rib cage and I think unknowingly
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lifted me a bit. And as it all developed, I
went up and made the call and then sat back down.
And it really is one of those slow motion type
of situations where you're processing in real time that this
is going to go down as an all timer. But
(03:59):
here's the crazy thing we talking about this, Dan. There
have been buzzer beaters and incredible ones prior to the
Championship round I think they're only really remembered, truly remembered
in history and to live on forever if you win
(04:19):
the title, their highlights and their moments, and he'll always
be remembered in stores, remembered in his home state. But
to resonate and get to that other level, I think
you got to win it, and then that thing just
lives on in perpetuity.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
An Eagle will be on the call with grand Hill,
Bill Raftery, Tracy Wolfson and tip off his eight p
fifty Eastern yeap. When did it change from nine to
twenty to eight fifty?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
This is a college basketball history that I can't answer.
I'd like to phone a friend. When did it change? Okay,
it needs to know, Okay, yeah, get on it a
few years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Okay, thank you, great research staff there that you have.
Oh good, Just have them calling a game in a
dome or in a arena or at a school university.
Biggest difference, huge, huge, uh.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Sight lines completely different. You're not at your normal level
of watching the game, so the action is actually above
you and certain things that you just know based on
where your eyes go from doing game after game after game.
You've got to retrain your brain in the first five minutes.
(05:44):
Site lines in the corners, I can tell you, and
it'll probably happen again. Anything in the far corners, I
can't tell if it's a three pointer or not. I
have to wait, I have to pause. I have to
be patient and not commit normally, you know right away,
so that it's a little disconcerting because it's the biggest
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game of the year and you can't go through the
normal mode of your brain. And then everything is far away.
The fans are far away. You can't see the fans' faces.
Normally in college basketball setup, they're really close. Regular NBA arenas,
they're close enough. So everything's just a little bit detached,
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and it feels like it's on a bit of a
one second delay. I can't hear the crowd burst through
like I would in an intimate setting. You know, there
were seventy thousand plus people there, and it's cavernous, and
I do think it's real. I know we say it
every year. I do think they have a problem. The
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players do in the first few minutes of getting adjusted,
making shots, feeling comfortable, getting acclimated. But it's the same
for both teams, and it's part of the deal. It's
the biggest stage possible in college basketball, and it's obviously working.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
How much will you hear Danny Hurley tonight zero zero?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
We are so far away it is impossible to hear
what's happening on the other side of the court. So interesting,
NBA local broadcast, you are normally Normally they've changed this
a bit, but in the good old days, you were courtside,
on the benches side National you were on the other side,
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which was an adjustment for me that first couple of
years of doing it, because there were things you would
pick up, small little nuances, facial expressions, body language between
coach player between coach official that you just don't see
on the other side, and now, obviously with this broadcast setup,
you are on the other side. There's also a roving
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camera that looks like one of those robots that would
deliver your food for door Dash, which I don't know
if you've had that yet. I had a game in
Dallas this year and I ended up ordering out, and
then they inform you that the robot is coming to
deliver your food. So I go downstairs to meet the
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robot and I see it from two blocks away, and
now I'm concerned for the robot because I don't know
how he's going to negotiate the sidewalk, and I think,
now should I should I go meet him?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Do I? Wait? Do I do?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I stop and get there a little earlier and knock
on the door. I don't know what to do. So
finally it comes up and two people that just happened
to be walking by as I'm now perfumfering with my phone,
They're like, what's.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Going on here?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
It's it's a delivery robot and I hit the button
on my phone and opens the hatch. Yeah, And it
was as if I was walking on the moon. They
were astounded at what took place, and not my chicken
sandwich like rises up so that that's also happening. It's
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it's going back and forth in front of me during
game actions and you could hear like shush sh sh
shush sh.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
That I hear.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I won't hear Dan Hurley, Uh, the Michigan story, what
Dusty May has done and this run like they're blowing
people out. People were, you know, ranting and raving that Arizona,
Michigan should be for the national title. Yes, well heard that.
I don't know if Dusty Mayo get the credit. He
(09:45):
probably deserves the turnaround at Michigan. Now what they've done
in the tournament and blowing people out, and of course
you got to win this. But how do you encapsulate
what he's done at Michigan.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Well, I think his a bill to build the program
so quickly, to identify talent, to figure out which pieces
would work together. Look, there's a financial aspect of this,
you can't ignore it. It's there.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
But they've done it correctly.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
They've really had an architect in Dusty may that knew
what to do and how to do it quickly. And
that is one thing now in the way the college
basketball is set up for these major programs because of
the money. If you evaluate talent well, identify it, and
then develop it in one season, you can be right
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here playing for a championship. There are other teams that
have the same money, if not more money, and they
identified the wrong talent, or they didn't evaluate correctly, or
they didn't develop correctly, and they're not here. So credit
has to be given to Dusty may basically now as
a head coach. In my mind, in college basketball, you
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are a GM, you are a scout, You are a coach,
you are a dad, you are a teacher, you are
a mentor. You're all of those things rolled into one.
And when ads are looking for someone to be the
face of their program, they have to take that into account.
You have to check a lot of boxes. But what
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he's done here is really incredible. And you're right. They
want eight games. Two seasons ago they want eight games,
and now they're they're playing for a.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Chip college athletics. If we look at nil transfer portal,
I think this has been a great year for college athletics.
I agree, maybe that's not a popular opinion, but you know,
you have Indiana winning the football championship, you get transfers. Now,
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I would like for them to sign contracts, you know,
have it a little more uniform a little more uniformity here.
But the nil transfer portal, the you know, the president
with an executive order kind of wants to limit this stuff.
But I think if you sign a contract you want
to transfer, why can't there be a buyout to that,
(12:14):
you know, make it transactional. Everything's above board.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, it is transactional right now. It does feel that way.
I do agree that it's been a banner year. You're
getting highly competitive games. You're getting a deeper pool of
talent because players are staying longer based on the fact
that they can make money and they don't just take
their chances to go to the NBA and start the clock.
(12:38):
That's a term I heard quite a bit for a
number of years for players that were certainly going to
be NBA stars. If you're Cooper Flag, yes you're going
to the pros, you're starting the clock for your next contract.
It makes perfect sense from a financial standpoint, But for
someone that was a borderline first round pick or a
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second round pick, I don't know if the logic was
there for that same approach. Now, you stay, you develop
your skills, you maybe have a shining moment or two
in your college career, you get paid for it, and maybe,
just maybe you come out on the other side a
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better player. Yakxel Lendeborg is a more complete player now
than he would have been a year ago if he
came out of UAV right to the NBA and instead
he gets this incredible experience and maybe he caps it
off with a championship. Look, it's not perfect. I recognize that.
I think a lot of us, though jumped the gun
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and thought, man, this is going to be rough. This
is going to be a really chaotic time in college athletics.
It's worked out from a competitive point of view, and yes,
I'm saying this, I recognize that the mid major is
still left out a bit, but the reality was the
mid majors were outliers in this to begin with. Now,
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at the very least, you hope that you're getting a
higher quality of play when you get to the biggest
stages of the season.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Well, I look at Braylan Mullins and he's going to be,
you know, projected to be a first round draft pick.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Now he's not ready, but teams are going to say, hey,
we'll take him and let him develop for two years.
And like read Shepherd with Houston, Yes, took him high,
and then we're like, all right, we'll bring him along. Now,
all of a sudden, you see you know, read with
some highlights there, and that might be the case for
Braylan Mullins. That do I stay and make a little
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bit of money or do I go and get started
on that first contract in the NBA. And it feels
like that you're either ready to go, you jump in
or maybe you're not even ready to go, but you
go because you're going to be a long time NBA player,
or you stay because you might not be that long
term player.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, there was a stretch of time Dan obviously, working
both in college hoops and NBA, I was privy to
a lot of conversations and got to ask questions to
people that do this for a living, that evaluate talent
and make these decisions that teams have to live by.
When you use a first round big those are serious
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pieces of valuable merchandise because you're trying to change the
whole culture of your team. There were players that I
look back on and it's just how it is. They
stayed in college because they thought they were doing the
right thing. They may have been a first round draft
pick after their freshman or sophomore year, it was not
a guarantee. And because they stayed their junior and senior
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year before they were getting paid, their flaws came out
and they dropped in the draft because it actually gave
scouts more time to see some of the faults that
they had. So there's no right answer here. I've never
ever said emphatically to any kid that has to make
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a decision to come out and be available for the draft. Hey,
that's a bad call on your part. I don't know
their financial situation. I don't know their family situation. I
just have never been in that corner that it does occur,
where people have very strong opinions about it. You got
to do what's best for you. I just think now
(16:31):
there are at least some options for kids out there
to make a more prudent decision.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
By the way, I'm going to give you credit if
you're watching on Peacock or NBC Sports Network, you did
give almost a presidential backdrop. I mean great lighting here.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Yeah, Dan, I didn't want to tell you, but I
am in a vestibule of a Vegas hotel. I flew
there last night to do the interview and then I
bored in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
So you know, every this would be.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Fine, but I just want I'm going to make sure
the the backdrop look good. I'm a big earth Tones guy.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, very very much, very very very earthy. Yes you are. Yeah. Thanks,
all right, We're counting on you tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Thanks. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I'm gonna go through my normal routine game day and
have some Nutter butters and watch some Maripovich.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
You are the father.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Uh you are not the fun Every time it gets me.
Every time, the intrigue.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
It's like March madness.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
It's so unpredictable.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Save your voice, Save your voice. Okay, thank you, Ian,
See you Dad. That's Iron Eagle.
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Speaker 2 (18:26):
Former Yukon Great Hall of Famer Ray Allen joining us
from Indianapolis. How nervous are you?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
My nervousness existed when we played in Michigan State. Because
you're playing an Izzo squad that always come prepared. So
back then I was nervous, I guess because Duke was
not the best team in the country. I started that
game thinking, you know, we play our best and we
have a chance. And so I wasn't nervous then. And
(18:58):
it's those those games that get through slip through the cracks,
like we lost to Creighton and Marquette during the year
and I was like, okay, we we dropped the bomb
there in those two games. So it's really always been
about how Yukon plays for me, and if they come
playing in full cylinder, it's hard for anybody to beat them.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
But also I mentioned Michigan wants this game in the eighties.
Connecticut probably needs this game to be in the sixties.
How does Connecticut do that?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Well, it's interesting because there's a there's a if you
watch Michigan, they get the ball out of net and
they run. That has typically been historically how Yukon has
always played. We've been up tempo, fastbreak type of team.
If you watch the game against Illinois, whenever we have
those scoring droughts, the three balls not falling, and say
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Terrace Reid hasn't really scorn but What you also notice
is when we do get stopped, because defensively we've been solid.
We never pushed the ball up the floor. We're playing
against the five man set defense every single time, and
it makes it more difficult, especially when at this time
of the year in the tournament, when you got really
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good defensive teams. They're gonna take what Terris Reed is
doing away from us. They're gonna trail caravan and make
sure they get a hand in his face. So we
in a sense, we have to be able to kind
of engage in that fast, break up tempo game with
Michigan in the same token, beat them at their own game.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Wow, Because I remember Indiana did that against UNLV when
Steve Alford was playing, and everybody said, oh, Indiana can't
run with UNLV, but Indiana ran with UNLV ended up
winning the title. Does yukond of have the talent to
run this and play a game in the eighties go
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toe to toe that way with Michigan.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Yeah, And remember we don't have to be a better
team to Michigan. We just have to be better than
them tonight. So it's really about kind of meeting them
toe for to So when they get the ball in
it and they run. Don't then slow the game down
and then come up and set up a set because
I do think we have such an interesting offensive movement
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where the ball is you figure the way it's transferring
from one side to the next side to the next side, and
you know, you can make the case that you know
so much movement that you know you're how many guys
can shoot in that quick of motion from three point
line and be so consistent so to be able to
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get that scoring opportunity and transition off a rebound, that's
some of the best times to get three pointers, you know,
on transition where somebody drives it to the hole and
then kicks it out to a standstill shooter.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
If I said there was an alumni game prior to
the national title.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
I know where this is going.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
So I got Michigan versus Yukon all the alumn who
are at the game tonight. So I got fab five's there?
Who wins an alumni game?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Are we talking about just the guys that are somewhat
in intendans? Are we talking about historical so the best
we produced?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Just those who are there?
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Oh, now we're talking about East player in their prime?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
No, No, right now, oh, right now, right now, we'll
get them because uh well, I mean you have to say,
you know, all the five five.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Are older than me, so so now I would I
would be a sacrificial lamb because you know, we'll negate
ourselves because we're older, we're in our fifties. But then
you you got a Mecca Oka four there, you got
Shabbaz Nap you're there. You got Rope Ryan Boat right there,
you got uh Kimba Walker there. So you're talking about
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guys that could still play potentially really in the NBA
right now?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Okay, all right, uh what do you see? Now? Let
me take you back to you stayed three years at Connecticut.
Yeah okay, but given today's NBA, you probably would leave
after a year. Like Braylen Mullins to me, I don't
know if he stays because he'll be projected to be
a first round pick in today's NBA. You know, you
(23:12):
got these guys who want to get into that second
contract and like you know, Reed Shepherd with Houston, he
wasn't ready, but then they give you a couple of
years to develop. So do you see that kind of
as the scenario with Mullins that you're one and done,
even though you may not be ready for the NBA.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Yeah, because college, there's so much instability on that team
the next year. That's why when the Caravan came back,
I was excited for him. And you know, one would say,
I don't know where his draft stock is, but the
fact that he's playing in another national championship, you know,
good on him and congratulations because he's one of now
the winningest players all time in college. I don't know
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where he ranks, but he's up there with some of
the best. So it's hard to make that discernment from
who was actually going to be on your team next
year because the transport portal opens up I think tomorrow,
So what's going to be available, Who's going to leave teams?
And so now Brayland has to make that decision based
on what his squad may look like next year. And
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obviously we always say now with these head coaches, you
got to recruit your own team back, you know, figure
out what you're going to be building for next year.
So Bragland definitely has to take that into consideration. I do, personally,
I think that you know, after my sophomore year was
you know, I'd scored thirty six in the turn against
UCLA the eventual national championship in ninety six or ninety five,
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and everybody there with Blurbs and me be leaving, and
it was a different time then, and I was like, no,
I need to come back to really kind of poke
my chest out a little bit and kind of prove that,
you know, I wanted the better, if not the best
player in college, which I was able to do so
after my junior year. Is no way I was making
it to my senior year. So I think Braylan depending
on the circle that's around him and and his ability
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to kind of think through this process and bet on himself.
It does depend on that tremendously. It does depend on
the family life. It depends on his relationship with with
coach Hurley, how strong that is, and you know his
ability to come back and say, hey, I think I
could be even better player and get drafted top five
if not number one next year.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Talking to Ray Owen, Hall of Famer, you Conna Lum
played three seasons for the Huskies. How would you have
done with Danny Hurley's style of coaching?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
I love his style of coaching. He's similar to Calhoun.
You know, he he rides hard for his players. He
stays on him, He coaches you hard. We're in a
We're in an era of basketball that I've seen, you know,
I coached in high school. If you say anything negative
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to the players, and the kids assume that you don't
like them, and then the parents are sending you emails
and they're having conversations with the athletic director and trying
to find a way to you know, put their thumb
on you. And you know, with with with Hurley, coaches
come to him and the parents say, and I heard
this with Braylan's dad. I needed somebody to coach Braylan
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hard because he's going to get the best out of him.
And guys that want that they come to Yukon. I
wanted it, you know Calhoun. I saw Calhoun the first
couple of practices and his coaching staff, and I saw
how hard he went and how ferocious he was as
a coach of practice, and I said, remind me not
to do that thing that that player did, you know.
And it's it's very easy to pay attention. If you
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hold yourself accountable and you just work as hard you
can't you have nothing to worry about.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Help me understand the T shirt that you got roughed
up on social media for.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
The T shirt?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Yeah what t shirt?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
They said that you were wearing a tight T shirt.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Me.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Yeah, Oh, that's just my muscles, my muscles, you know,
you know, I'm I'm putting on packing on the muscles
I've been lifting. So if somebody has im gonna say
about my T shirt, they were.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Just oh wow, okay, yeah, yeah, I mean, what are
you fifty?
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I'm fifty. Yeah, I'm fifty, and uh.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I think it's time to get rid of the tight
T shirts. I mean, I'm just.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
I don't wear tight T shirts. I just wear shirts
that I know that I like feeling comfortable in. So
if somebody else deems them tight, that's those people's securities.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Oh okay, that's my insecurity then.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
See, because you're right now, that hoodie you got on
looks like it's a double to a triple lection large.
We can get you in something little smaller.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Are you wearing that Yukon sweatshirt tonight?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Not this?
Speaker 5 (27:34):
When I have something else something tight. See, when you
come to the Final four, here's the thing about Final four.
You needed a hoodie that says gdp on it the
great damn passay. But when you come to the Final four,
first of all, a week before nobody knows who's going
to be here, you know, it just kind of happens.
So you pack, you know, with the optimism of I'm
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going to be here for four days, and they get
you in hotels because you have to get a hotel
for four they you can't just buy it from one
or two. So I either if we lose on Saturday,
I overpacked, and then being here still today you had
to figure out, Okay, did I pack enough? So you
kind of have to kind of run it back a
little bit here and there.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
What was tough for facing Iverson in college or in
the NBA.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Both, You know, there wasn't really a difference. And John Thompson,
you know, let Iverson go. He let him play his game.
And you know all those guys, you know, Bubakar, al Othella,
the different supporting cast he had going to the Sixers
(28:42):
with Aaron McKee and Eric Snow Like, all those guys
knew who Alan Iverson was and they catered their offense
to him. So it was hard on both levels to
stop him because he knew exactly who he was, and
he played his game similar at both levels, and obviously
when he got to the NBA, you know, they built
(29:03):
teams around him again and we were trying to figure out.
I think I got really adept at understanding who he was,
you know, his moves, because I played a lot against
him in playout Basket Bustle. Statistically, I knew where scoring
zones were, you know, the moves he wanted to make.
But it's still was hard to stay in front of
him because he was so small that he get in
gaps and you know, he moved up and down the
(29:24):
floor and there wasn't a shot that he didn't like
an or for that matter, that he couldn't.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Make it that, or that he couldn't take. You're right, Yeah,
I keep seeing these stories now about how dirty John
Stockton was. Like guys are reminiscing about facing Stockton and
whether it's Gary Payton or Baron Davis, and was Stockton
dirty to you?
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Well, he Stockton was. Is always my example to the
young people when I say, if you look at John Stockton,
you asked what physical attributes did he possess that you
would look at and say this guy is a beast.
The thing that I learned from Stockton is he did
the simple thing over and over again. Out of ten passes,
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one might be behind the back pass. He set the
hardest screens, and I think to what people would be
alluding to with him is he would when he set
the cross screen on for Carl Malone and that he
would pass the ball and he cut across the lane.
He set the screen, and he did two things really well.
One obviously he set the screen really well, but occasionally
(30:33):
he would grab your jersey then hold you, or if
you try to run him over, then he'd fall and
then you would get the foul. So he was really
a depth at playing the game. And because he was small,
nobody expected him or thought that he could overpower you
or athletically beat you. But he played the game smartly.
(30:55):
And so he's a great example of a lesson for
young people that you don't have to have this highly
skilled physical ability to be an all star, be one
of the all time greats, and he's certainly example of that.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
How does it play out tonight, Ray, Well.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
I mean there's a couple of different scenarios for you
kind of think that we have to make sure that
we have a good start, and we can't have those
little scoring droughts throughout the game because Michigan is not
going to give us any reprieve. So if you see
Caravan score early, get to the free throw line, get
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to the whole same thing with solo ball, then it's
going to be a close game and it's gonna be
a tough night for Michigan. But if we start early
and it's like a seven zero nine zero game where
we're not scoring their attacking, then we're gonna be on
our heels all night, which we still are capable of
staying with the game, as we've seen against.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Do Will you run out on the floor a few
kind wins?
Speaker 5 (31:53):
I walk. I think in those moments I tried my
best stay out of the way because this is obviously
is not about me, but in those times when history
tells the story, to be able to say that I
was there, to other players that passed played at Yukon,
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at won championships, to be on that floor, it speaks
to the legacy of the program, and so from that aspect,
it's important for me to be out there just to
show the future generation kids that come to Yukon like
this is a brotherhood that you want to be a
part of. So if you work hard, this is the
place that you want to be.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Have fun tonight. Thanks for joining us, Will GDP. Yeah, GDP,
the Great Dan Patry, Thank you very Ray all right,
thank you Ray Allen.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
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Speaker 2 (32:49):
Live is Guy Fieri with us, Tom Diners, Drive Engine
Dives Mister Michigan Wolverine, Guy Fieri joining us on the program.
How did you come about picking Michigan there, Guy?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Well, not only am I you know, great cook and
a curator of fantastic tequila, but uh, I really have
a fantastic profile and awareness of everything that goes on
in the NCAA men's basketball. That's not true. Actually I
have a ringer. I have my son writer. Actually I've
got I've got writer that I just woke up and shit,
(33:26):
get up early. But writer, Writer goes to San Diego
State and works for San Diego State basketball and heart
broke in that they didn't make the tournament, but uh,
you know an amazing team. So I went to Rider.
I gotta be honest with you and writer, that's my
favorite thing about watching basketball is watching it with him
because he can break it all down for me. As
soon as he told me that, you know, he wasn't
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doing good and something with school, I'm like, look at
it like you look at basketball, and you're going to
do great.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
So he helped me.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
With my bracket. But uh, after that Yukon game, after
that Duke Yukon game, I'm like, wow, this is getting
out of control. And then that Michigan stopping that happened
with az I turned. I mean, I'll always watch games
all the way through because you never know. But yeah,
that's all right, buddy. I'd love to take.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
The credit for this. Okay. Marvin, who's one of the
dan Ets, went to Connecticut. If Connecticut wins, he wins
the Celebrity Bracket Challenge. If Michigan wins, you win. Now,
I don't know if there's anything we can really give you,
but we can ask for something if Connecticut wins. If
you're in the area, the Tri State area, Marvin could
(34:35):
be in an episode where he's seated at a table
where you go, oh, Marvin from the dan Patrick show.
So what do you think about that? And then if
there's something that we could give to you if Michigan wins.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Oh, I think that this has to happen. Regardless, we
will make this come to a reality. Okay, Where and
when we do this, I'm not sure, but there will
have to be a a passing of the gauntlet of
who wins and and who has to pay the price.
I mean, I'm not getting into that crazy uh. You
know that that fantasy football stuff where someone's got to
(35:10):
dress up and go to the mall. I'm not quite
ready for that, but I am ready for if I
which I don't believe that I'm going to get knocked out.
I believe that Michigan, after what we've seen Michigan do
uh this season and especially through this tournament. I'm saying
the right things, right, writer, right, all right? So if
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this goes the way that uh I have read the stars,
I will be prepared to deliver a beautiful signed bottle
of Santo tequila UH and present it to him and
and take my beating. If he loses. I don't know, Dan,
you tell me what he gets? What does he get
to pluck off of his desk? That he has to
(35:54):
give me.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I will have your son on the show as a guest.
How about that.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
There you go, Rider, if we win, if your pick wins,
you go on the show. That sounds good. All right,
that's it. I think that's a fair trade. Yeah, we're
all fired up for this, right and I and Rider one, Hunters,
Laurie and I went to the finals down in uh
where we go, Arizona. That was the coolest. I mean,
(36:23):
I've been to a ton of sporting events, but to
see them take a stadium and then fill in that
whole stadium with all those floor seats and then put
that basketball court in the center of it, and to
watch the game. I'm so bummed that we're not there
to go see it, but it is. It was one
of the best sporting events I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
But you went to UNLV when the running Rebels were
at UNLV, correct, that was another That.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Was another level. You get to take little UNLV in
nineteen ninety is actually the year I graduated, and you know,
we got great tickets. That was you know, there was
this team that was just coming out of nowhere. I
mean not really, I mean Tarcanian had been building it,
but We used to get awesome seats, like, you know,
sitting right on the floor, just spending what the lottery
was of what's your fraternity or you know how you
picked it. But then all of a sudden, here we
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are ranked number one. I remember that morning of going
and seeing the gigantic number one that they built in
the you know, in the front driveway of the school.
And yeah, it was for a little school like UNLV
at that time to be going as big it was.
It was an amazing time. And I remember when we won,
it was chaos. So it's it's something I appreciate. I
(37:29):
didn't appreciate the next year, but I appreciate it so
and I wouldn't say that I'm you know, Duke losing.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
You know, okay, you didn't mind that.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Rider used to terrorize me when when he was a
kid and told me all through his elementary school and
because you've been a basketball fan forever, played great competitive
basketball through high school in that but he always used
to tell me that he wanted to go to do Hunter.
I went to UNLV, my oldest son, Hunter went to UNLV,
and Riders now taunting me with he's going to go
to Duke. So San Diego State was a happy medium.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
How are you feeling like a million bucks?
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I'm up and rolling. Oh from my from my leg injury. Yeah,
oh yeah, that was a that was not good. I
had this crazy explosion of my quad muscle in the
center of my leg, right in the center, not down
at the knee, not up to hit, but right the
center exploded. And they came and sewed it back together.
And you know, me, being sequestered to a wheelchair and
(38:30):
crutches for in a cast for eight weeks was horrible.
But I survived it and I'm back. But what doing
an injury?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
What did your quad look like? Food wise?
Speaker 3 (38:44):
As the as the surgeon said, Guy, I haven't seen
this in twenty years, and I'm going to be trying
to sew together ground beef and ground beef. He said,
you have blown this muscle up in the center of
your leg. He says, So we're going to put this
back together. He goes, you really have to stay off.
I mean, he put the fear in me. He goes,
unless you want to be back here going through this again,
(39:06):
don't move that muscle. And I'm like, oh so really?
And I had I was filming a show in the
middle of this, and if I didn't finish the show,
all my crew was going to go away with no
Christmas money. And so we figured out a way to
put me in the wheelchair. And then when it was
time for my scene this new show that we're doing
called Flavortown Food Fight, and so I would get out
of the wheelchair, stand there next to a park bench
(39:29):
or something, or hold a street sign and try to bump. Well,
we made it crew, and after I got down with
the shoot, and that was two weeks of that, and
I was fresh out of surgery, only two days out
of surgery, and the doctor was just pissed.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
He's like, I do.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
All this work and you're gonna go back to what's
got to do? You know that play hurt?
Speaker 2 (39:47):
But were you skiing?
Speaker 3 (39:49):
No, I was listen. I was fighting DP, I was
fighting ninjas. I tried to make up like really good
stories about what happened. Now, now I was walking out
of my tree going to the set o.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
My god, it just started to rain.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
At brand new lu CAZy boots on that I hadn't
scuffed up. The bottom hit that first step. One leg
went all the way down the stairs. The other leg
got caught behind me on the threshold and it popped.
I mean, I've broken a lot of things and had injuries,
but this went off like a gun and I was shot.
And the nurse came over. The EMT came over and
(40:28):
looked at my leg and she goes, I got I'm fine,
I'm fine. Just you know, I'm fine. I just pulled
my muscle. She goes, No, you have a huge divot
in your leg where your muscle used to be, because
you need to go to the hospital. I went to
the hospital and the doctors like, yeah, we have to
do surgery now. He said, like, now, can I go
back to work?
Speaker 5 (40:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
So yeah, it was. It was interesting. So I have
tons of appreciation and understanding for all these athletes to
go through these horrific injuries and then they have a
timeline to get themselves back. PT is no fun. Pet's
worse than the injury.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
All right, big night tonight. So any parting words for
Marvin and as U Kona Huskies.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Marvin, I think that you have watched every game, probably
more diligently than I have. I mean, and I don't
know that you get writers, crib notes, writers always delivering.
Did you see the game last night and then he
gives me that rundown of what happened. I got to say,
after that Arizona game and we saw it, we saw it,
take it away from and you look at how they
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crushed Tennessee. You look at just how I mean they
had these gigantic sixteen point leads throughout the tournament. There's
just so many things that are showing this. And I
don't know what the Vegas line is right now. I
should as a Vegas guy, but I'm going to look
forward to writer being a guest on to Dan Patrick.
So this could be fantastic And I'll send DP when
(41:48):
I win. I'll send you the bottle of.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Tequila Repisoto if you can, without question.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
Matt, maybe I'll just send the whole portfolio. That'd be
nice to the Jaho. You know. Yeah, we'll make sure
because I just need a spot on the desk somewhere,
but just for Writer's day. But now it's gonna be
hopefully it's going to be a great I want to
see a great game. I think everybody does. But now
and I'm glad that is there gonna be a wall
of fame anything that when the celebrity listed because I
(42:15):
filled that out my hand. By the way, do you
see that?
Speaker 2 (42:17):
No, I got it, I got it, I got you.
I got it here and you're asking for an awful lot.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
This is a big win at the Fietti House.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
What I don't know has a what Marvin, but dp
I'm taking a bottle of tequila and I'm bringing it
to the show wherever he's at. Oh, I'm crashing it.
Oh my, yukon't get on and all that Diners Driving
and Domination for Ukon. Whoa, whoa. He just renamed my
shows Diners, Driving and Domination.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
All right, Well we're on, all right. Uh, we'll talk
to you soon. Good guys, Thank you, Guy Fieri. Diner's
driving some dimes.
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Iron Eagle or Ian Eigel. He is the play by
play voice for the National Title game, and he joins us, now,
what did you think of the Chain Smokers?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
What an opening question?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Do I stay in my lane or do I just
give you my genuine thoughts? The shocker for me in
all of it, Bill Raftery was in the mosh pit.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I couldn't believe that. But where's Bill?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I didn't see that, Dan, But you knew the Chain
Smokers were going to be performing. You had to be
ready for that moment.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Correct the crazy part, This is not shocking considering just
the timing of everything. We have a green room in
between games. So I go to the green room.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You know, you.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Freshen up, you grab a slider. It's it's a little
bit of food, have a bite.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Move on.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I now walk out of the green room and the
area in which to get back to our seats is
roped off, and I know I have to get back
there because we have to do our stuff immediately after
the Chain Smokers. So I get around the roped off
area and I start walking and someone is freaking out,
(01:21):
running towards me and I look up and the chain
smokers are standing there with a camera facing them. I
was this close to being the third chain smoker walking
out onto the floor. I was so discombobulated and disoriented
and man, that that would have been.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
A career highlight. Uh, well, you already had it. You
had the call in the Yukon game, like, have you
had anything that compared to that moment?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, that was wild.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I think the fact that it was such a frenzy
makes it different than you know, a normal buzzer beater
or last second clutch shot, because when they're triggering the
inbound you just assume foul game. It's going to be
two or three more possessions. And for it to turn
(02:11):
as quickly as it did, and for Mullins, for it
to end up in his hands, to get it done,
to advance to Indianapolis and his hometown, to come back
from nineteen down, to do it against Duke, to have
Raf and Grant in a state of shock next to me.
(02:31):
I know that seemed to get a lot of attention
the next day, and that's cool that you get this
behind the scenes look. Grant said it might be the
first time in his life that he's a meme, and
Raff said, what's a meme?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
He had no, but are you watching the monitor or
the game in a moment like that.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I was watching the game, and then what I tend
to do is the second play ends, I go to
the monitor to try to match whatever pictures are being shown.
So that's just muscle memory. And I was lifted out
of my chair when the ball went in Grant if
you look very closely, because the way the camera was
(03:17):
set up, a ball hit the camera late in the
second half and shifted it over, so it made it
a two shot, which is normally a three shot with
all three of us in there. So I was right
on the periphery. As the steel takes place, Grant digs
his arm into my rib cage and I think unknowingly
(03:38):
lifted me a bit. And as it all developed, I
went up and made the call and then sat back down.
And it really is one of those slow motion type
of situations where you're processing in real time that this
is going to go down as an all timer. But
(03:59):
here's the crazy thing we talking about this, Dan. There
have been buzzer beaters and incredible ones prior to the
Championship round I think they're only really remembered, truly remembered
in history and to live on forever if you win
(04:19):
the title, their highlights and their moments, and he'll always
be remembered in stores, remembered in his home state. But
to resonate and get to that other level, I think
you got to win it, and then that thing just
lives on in perpetuity.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
An Eagle will be on the call with grand Hill,
Bill Raftery, Tracy Wolfson and tip off his eight p
fifty Eastern yeap. When did it change from nine to
twenty to eight fifty?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
This is a college basketball history that I can't answer.
I'd like to phone a friend. When did it change? Okay,
it needs to know, Okay, yeah, get on it a
few years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Okay, thank you, great research staff there that you have.
Oh good, Just have them calling a game in a
dome or in a arena or at a school university.
Biggest difference, huge, huge, uh.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Sight lines completely different. You're not at your normal level
of watching the game, so the action is actually above
you and certain things that you just know based on
where your eyes go from doing game after game after game.
You've got to retrain your brain in the first five minutes.
(05:44):
Site lines in the corners, I can tell you, and
it'll probably happen again. Anything in the far corners, I
can't tell if it's a three pointer or not. I
have to wait, I have to pause. I have to
be patient and not commit normally, you know right away,
so that it's a little disconcerting because it's the biggest
(06:05):
game of the year and you can't go through the
normal mode of your brain. And then everything is far away.
The fans are far away. You can't see the fans' faces.
Normally in college basketball setup, they're really close. Regular NBA arenas,
they're close enough. So everything's just a little bit detached,
(06:29):
and it feels like it's on a bit of a
one second delay. I can't hear the crowd burst through
like I would in an intimate setting. You know, there
were seventy thousand plus people there, and it's cavernous, and
I do think it's real. I know we say it
every year. I do think they have a problem. The
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players do in the first few minutes of getting adjusted,
making shots, feeling comfortable, getting acclimated. But it's the same
for both teams, and it's part of the deal. It's
the biggest stage possible in college basketball, and it's obviously working.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
How much will you hear Danny Hurley tonight zero zero?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
We are so far away it is impossible to hear
what's happening on the other side of the court. So interesting,
NBA local broadcast, you are normally Normally they've changed this
a bit, but in the good old days, you were courtside,
on the benches side National you were on the other side,
(07:38):
which was an adjustment for me that first couple of
years of doing it, because there were things you would
pick up, small little nuances, facial expressions, body language between
coach player between coach official that you just don't see
on the other side, and now, obviously with this broadcast setup,
you are on the other side. There's also a roving
(08:02):
camera that looks like one of those robots that would
deliver your food for door Dash, which I don't know
if you've had that yet. I had a game in
Dallas this year and I ended up ordering out, and
then they inform you that the robot is coming to
deliver your food. So I go downstairs to meet the
(08:22):
robot and I see it from two blocks away, and
now I'm concerned for the robot because I don't know
how he's going to negotiate the sidewalk, and I think,
now should I should I go meet him?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Do I? Wait? Do I do?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I stop and get there a little earlier and knock
on the door. I don't know what to do. So
finally it comes up and two people that just happened
to be walking by as I'm now perfumfering with my phone,
They're like, what's.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Going on here?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
It's it's a delivery robot and I hit the button
on my phone and opens the hatch. Yeah, And it
was as if I was walking on the moon. They
were astounded at what took place, and not my chicken
sandwich like rises up so that that's also happening. It's
(09:16):
it's going back and forth in front of me during
game actions and you could hear like shush sh sh
shush sh.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
That I hear.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I won't hear Dan Hurley, Uh, the Michigan story, what
Dusty May has done and this run like they're blowing
people out. People were, you know, ranting and raving that Arizona,
Michigan should be for the national title. Yes, well heard that.
I don't know if Dusty Mayo get the credit. He
(09:45):
probably deserves the turnaround at Michigan. Now what they've done
in the tournament and blowing people out, and of course
you got to win this. But how do you encapsulate
what he's done at Michigan.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Well, I think his a bill to build the program
so quickly, to identify talent, to figure out which pieces
would work together. Look, there's a financial aspect of this,
you can't ignore it. It's there.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
But they've done it correctly.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
They've really had an architect in Dusty may that knew
what to do and how to do it quickly. And
that is one thing now in the way the college
basketball is set up for these major programs because of
the money. If you evaluate talent well, identify it, and
then develop it in one season, you can be right
(10:36):
here playing for a championship. There are other teams that
have the same money, if not more money, and they
identified the wrong talent, or they didn't evaluate correctly, or
they didn't develop correctly, and they're not here. So credit
has to be given to Dusty may basically now as
a head coach. In my mind, in college basketball, you
(10:57):
are a GM, you are a scout, You are a coach,
you are a dad, you are a teacher, you are
a mentor. You're all of those things rolled into one.
And when ads are looking for someone to be the
face of their program, they have to take that into account.
You have to check a lot of boxes. But what
(11:19):
he's done here is really incredible. And you're right. They
want eight games. Two seasons ago they want eight games,
and now they're they're playing for a.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Chip college athletics. If we look at nil transfer portal,
I think this has been a great year for college athletics.
I agree, maybe that's not a popular opinion, but you know,
you have Indiana winning the football championship, you get transfers. Now,
(11:52):
I would like for them to sign contracts, you know,
have it a little more uniform a little more uniformity here.
But the nil transfer portal, the you know, the president
with an executive order kind of wants to limit this stuff.
But I think if you sign a contract you want
to transfer, why can't there be a buyout to that,
(12:14):
you know, make it transactional. Everything's above board.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, it is transactional right now. It does feel that way.
I do agree that it's been a banner year. You're
getting highly competitive games. You're getting a deeper pool of
talent because players are staying longer based on the fact
that they can make money and they don't just take
their chances to go to the NBA and start the clock.
(12:38):
That's a term I heard quite a bit for a
number of years for players that were certainly going to
be NBA stars. If you're Cooper Flag, yes you're going
to the pros, you're starting the clock for your next contract.
It makes perfect sense from a financial standpoint, But for
someone that was a borderline first round pick or a
(12:59):
second round pick, I don't know if the logic was
there for that same approach. Now, you stay, you develop
your skills, you maybe have a shining moment or two
in your college career, you get paid for it, and maybe,
just maybe you come out on the other side a
(13:21):
better player. Yakxel Lendeborg is a more complete player now
than he would have been a year ago if he
came out of UAV right to the NBA and instead
he gets this incredible experience and maybe he caps it
off with a championship. Look, it's not perfect. I recognize that.
I think a lot of us, though jumped the gun
(13:41):
and thought, man, this is going to be rough. This
is going to be a really chaotic time in college athletics.
It's worked out from a competitive point of view, and yes,
I'm saying this, I recognize that the mid major is
still left out a bit, but the reality was the
mid majors were outliers in this to begin with. Now,
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at the very least, you hope that you're getting a
higher quality of play when you get to the biggest
stages of the season.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Well, I look at Braylan Mullins and he's going to be,
you know, projected to be a first round draft pick.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Now he's not ready, but teams are going to say, hey,
we'll take him and let him develop for two years.
And like read Shepherd with Houston, Yes, took him high,
and then we're like, all right, we'll bring him along. Now,
all of a sudden, you see you know, read with
some highlights there, and that might be the case for
Braylan Mullins. That do I stay and make a little
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bit of money or do I go and get started
on that first contract in the NBA. And it feels
like that you're either ready to go, you jump in
or maybe you're not even ready to go, but you
go because you're going to be a long time NBA player,
or you stay because you might not be that long
term player.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, there was a stretch of time Dan obviously, working
both in college hoops and NBA, I was privy to
a lot of conversations and got to ask questions to
people that do this for a living, that evaluate talent
and make these decisions that teams have to live by.
When you use a first round big those are serious
(15:24):
pieces of valuable merchandise because you're trying to change the
whole culture of your team. There were players that I
look back on and it's just how it is. They
stayed in college because they thought they were doing the
right thing. They may have been a first round draft
pick after their freshman or sophomore year, it was not
a guarantee. And because they stayed their junior and senior
(15:46):
year before they were getting paid, their flaws came out
and they dropped in the draft because it actually gave
scouts more time to see some of the faults that
they had. So there's no right answer here. I've never
ever said emphatically to any kid that has to make
(16:09):
a decision to come out and be available for the draft. Hey,
that's a bad call on your part. I don't know
their financial situation. I don't know their family situation. I
just have never been in that corner that it does occur,
where people have very strong opinions about it. You got
to do what's best for you. I just think now
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there are at least some options for kids out there
to make a more prudent decision.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
By the way, I'm going to give you credit if
you're watching on Peacock or NBC Sports Network, you did
give almost a presidential backdrop. I mean great lighting here.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Yeah, Dan, I didn't want to tell you, but I
am in a vestibule of a Vegas hotel. I flew
there last night to do the interview and then I
bored in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
So you know, every this would be.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Fine, but I just want I'm going to make sure
the the backdrop look good. I'm a big earth Tones guy.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, very very much, very very very earthy. Yes you are. Yeah. Thanks,
all right, We're counting on you tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Thanks. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I'm gonna go through my normal routine game day and
have some Nutter butters and watch some Maripovich.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
You are the father.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Uh you are not the fun Every time it gets me.
Every time, the intrigue.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
It's like March madness.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
It's so unpredictable.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Save your voice, Save your voice. Okay, thank you, Ian,
See you Dad. That's Iron Eagle.
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Speaker 2 (18:26):
Former Yukon Great Hall of Famer Ray Allen joining us
from Indianapolis. How nervous are you?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
My nervousness existed when we played in Michigan State. Because
you're playing an Izzo squad that always come prepared. So
back then I was nervous, I guess because Duke was
not the best team in the country. I started that
game thinking, you know, we play our best and we
have a chance. And so I wasn't nervous then. And
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it's those those games that get through slip through the cracks,
like we lost to Creighton and Marquette during the year
and I was like, okay, we we dropped the bomb
there in those two games. So it's really always been
about how Yukon plays for me, and if they come
playing in full cylinder, it's hard for anybody to beat them.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
But also I mentioned Michigan wants this game in the eighties.
Connecticut probably needs this game to be in the sixties.
How does Connecticut do that?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Well, it's interesting because there's a there's a if you
watch Michigan, they get the ball out of net and
they run. That has typically been historically how Yukon has
always played. We've been up tempo, fastbreak type of team.
If you watch the game against Illinois, whenever we have
those scoring droughts, the three balls not falling, and say
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Terrace Reid hasn't really scorn but What you also notice
is when we do get stopped, because defensively we've been solid.
We never pushed the ball up the floor. We're playing
against the five man set defense every single time, and
it makes it more difficult, especially when at this time
of the year in the tournament, when you got really
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good defensive teams. They're gonna take what Terris Reed is
doing away from us. They're gonna trail caravan and make
sure they get a hand in his face. So we
in a sense, we have to be able to kind
of engage in that fast, break up tempo game with
Michigan in the same token, beat them at their own game.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Wow, Because I remember Indiana did that against UNLV when
Steve Alford was playing, and everybody said, oh, Indiana can't
run with UNLV, but Indiana ran with UNLV ended up
winning the title. Does yukond of have the talent to
run this and play a game in the eighties go
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toe to toe that way with Michigan.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Yeah, And remember we don't have to be a better
team to Michigan. We just have to be better than
them tonight. So it's really about kind of meeting them
toe for to So when they get the ball in
it and they run. Don't then slow the game down
and then come up and set up a set because
I do think we have such an interesting offensive movement
(21:12):
where the ball is you figure the way it's transferring
from one side to the next side to the next side, and
you know, you can make the case that you know
so much movement that you know you're how many guys
can shoot in that quick of motion from three point
line and be so consistent so to be able to
(21:33):
get that scoring opportunity and transition off a rebound, that's
some of the best times to get three pointers, you know,
on transition where somebody drives it to the hole and
then kicks it out to a standstill shooter.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
If I said there was an alumni game prior to
the national title.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
I know where this is going.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
So I got Michigan versus Yukon all the alumn who
are at the game tonight. So I got fab five's there?
Who wins an alumni game?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Are we talking about just the guys that are somewhat
in intendans? Are we talking about historical so the best
we produced?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Just those who are there?
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Oh, now we're talking about East player in their prime?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
No, No, right now, oh, right now, right now, we'll
get them because uh well, I mean you have to say,
you know, all the five five.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Are older than me, so so now I would I
would be a sacrificial lamb because you know, we'll negate
ourselves because we're older, we're in our fifties. But then
you you got a Mecca Oka four there, you got
Shabbaz Nap you're there. You got Rope Ryan Boat right there,
you got uh Kimba Walker there. So you're talking about
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guys that could still play potentially really in the NBA
right now?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Okay, all right, uh what do you see? Now? Let
me take you back to you stayed three years at Connecticut.
Yeah okay, but given today's NBA, you probably would leave
after a year. Like Braylen Mullins to me, I don't
know if he stays because he'll be projected to be
a first round pick in today's NBA. You know, you
(23:12):
got these guys who want to get into that second
contract and like you know, Reed Shepherd with Houston, he
wasn't ready, but then they give you a couple of
years to develop. So do you see that kind of
as the scenario with Mullins that you're one and done,
even though you may not be ready for the NBA.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Yeah, because college, there's so much instability on that team
the next year. That's why when the Caravan came back,
I was excited for him. And you know, one would say,
I don't know where his draft stock is, but the
fact that he's playing in another national championship, you know,
good on him and congratulations because he's one of now
the winningest players all time in college. I don't know
(23:52):
where he ranks, but he's up there with some of
the best. So it's hard to make that discernment from
who was actually going to be on your team next
year because the transport portal opens up I think tomorrow,
So what's going to be available, Who's going to leave teams?
And so now Brayland has to make that decision based
on what his squad may look like next year. And
(24:14):
obviously we always say now with these head coaches, you
got to recruit your own team back, you know, figure
out what you're going to be building for next year.
So Bragland definitely has to take that into consideration. I do, personally,
I think that you know, after my sophomore year was
you know, I'd scored thirty six in the turn against
UCLA the eventual national championship in ninety six or ninety five,
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and everybody there with Blurbs and me be leaving, and
it was a different time then, and I was like, no,
I need to come back to really kind of poke
my chest out a little bit and kind of prove that,
you know, I wanted the better, if not the best
player in college, which I was able to do so
after my junior year. Is no way I was making
it to my senior year. So I think Braylan depending
on the circle that's around him and and his ability
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to kind of think through this process and bet on himself.
It does depend on that tremendously. It does depend on
the family life. It depends on his relationship with with
coach Hurley, how strong that is, and you know his
ability to come back and say, hey, I think I
could be even better player and get drafted top five
if not number one next year.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Talking to Ray Owen, Hall of Famer, you Conna Lum
played three seasons for the Huskies. How would you have
done with Danny Hurley's style of coaching?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
I love his style of coaching. He's similar to Calhoun.
You know, he he rides hard for his players. He
stays on him, He coaches you hard. We're in a
We're in an era of basketball that I've seen, you know,
I coached in high school. If you say anything negative
(25:50):
to the players, and the kids assume that you don't
like them, and then the parents are sending you emails
and they're having conversations with the athletic director and trying
to find a way to you know, put their thumb
on you. And you know, with with with Hurley, coaches
come to him and the parents say, and I heard
this with Braylan's dad. I needed somebody to coach Braylan
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hard because he's going to get the best out of him.
And guys that want that they come to Yukon. I
wanted it, you know Calhoun. I saw Calhoun the first
couple of practices and his coaching staff, and I saw
how hard he went and how ferocious he was as
a coach of practice, and I said, remind me not
to do that thing that that player did, you know.
And it's it's very easy to pay attention. If you
(26:32):
hold yourself accountable and you just work as hard you
can't you have nothing to worry about.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Help me understand the T shirt that you got roughed
up on social media for.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
The T shirt?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Yeah what t shirt?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
They said that you were wearing a tight T shirt.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Me.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Yeah, Oh, that's just my muscles, my muscles, you know,
you know, I'm I'm putting on packing on the muscles
I've been lifting. So if somebody has im gonna say
about my T shirt, they were.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Just oh wow, okay, yeah, yeah, I mean, what are
you fifty?
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I'm fifty. Yeah, I'm fifty, and uh.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I think it's time to get rid of the tight
T shirts. I mean, I'm just.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
I don't wear tight T shirts. I just wear shirts
that I know that I like feeling comfortable in. So
if somebody else deems them tight, that's those people's securities.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Oh okay, that's my insecurity then.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
See, because you're right now, that hoodie you got on
looks like it's a double to a triple lection large.
We can get you in something little smaller.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Are you wearing that Yukon sweatshirt tonight?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Not this?
Speaker 5 (27:34):
When I have something else something tight. See, when you
come to the Final four, here's the thing about Final four.
You needed a hoodie that says gdp on it the
great damn passay. But when you come to the Final four,
first of all, a week before nobody knows who's going
to be here, you know, it just kind of happens.
So you pack, you know, with the optimism of I'm
(27:55):
going to be here for four days, and they get
you in hotels because you have to get a hotel
for four they you can't just buy it from one
or two. So I either if we lose on Saturday,
I overpacked, and then being here still today you had
to figure out, Okay, did I pack enough? So you
kind of have to kind of run it back a
little bit here and there.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
What was tough for facing Iverson in college or in
the NBA.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Both, You know, there wasn't really a difference. And John Thompson,
you know, let Iverson go. He let him play his game.
And you know all those guys, you know, Bubakar, al Othella,
the different supporting cast he had going to the Sixers
(28:42):
with Aaron McKee and Eric Snow Like, all those guys
knew who Alan Iverson was and they catered their offense
to him. So it was hard on both levels to
stop him because he knew exactly who he was, and
he played his game similar at both levels, and obviously
when he got to the NBA, you know, they built
(29:03):
teams around him again and we were trying to figure out.
I think I got really adept at understanding who he was,
you know, his moves, because I played a lot against
him in playout Basket Bustle. Statistically, I knew where scoring
zones were, you know, the moves he wanted to make.
But it's still was hard to stay in front of
him because he was so small that he get in
gaps and you know, he moved up and down the
(29:24):
floor and there wasn't a shot that he didn't like
an or for that matter, that he couldn't.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Make it that, or that he couldn't take. You're right, Yeah,
I keep seeing these stories now about how dirty John
Stockton was. Like guys are reminiscing about facing Stockton and
whether it's Gary Payton or Baron Davis, and was Stockton
dirty to you?
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Well, he Stockton was. Is always my example to the
young people when I say, if you look at John Stockton,
you asked what physical attributes did he possess that you
would look at and say this guy is a beast.
The thing that I learned from Stockton is he did
the simple thing over and over again. Out of ten passes,
(30:10):
one might be behind the back pass. He set the
hardest screens, and I think to what people would be
alluding to with him is he would when he set
the cross screen on for Carl Malone and that he
would pass the ball and he cut across the lane.
He set the screen, and he did two things really well.
One obviously he set the screen really well, but occasionally
(30:33):
he would grab your jersey then hold you, or if
you try to run him over, then he'd fall and
then you would get the foul. So he was really
a depth at playing the game. And because he was small,
nobody expected him or thought that he could overpower you
or athletically beat you. But he played the game smartly.
(30:55):
And so he's a great example of a lesson for
young people that you don't have to have this highly
skilled physical ability to be an all star, be one
of the all time greats, and he's certainly example of that.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
How does it play out tonight, Ray, Well.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
I mean there's a couple of different scenarios for you
kind of think that we have to make sure that
we have a good start, and we can't have those
little scoring droughts throughout the game because Michigan is not
going to give us any reprieve. So if you see
Caravan score early, get to the free throw line, get
(31:33):
to the whole same thing with solo ball, then it's
going to be a close game and it's gonna be
a tough night for Michigan. But if we start early
and it's like a seven zero nine zero game where
we're not scoring their attacking, then we're gonna be on
our heels all night, which we still are capable of
staying with the game, as we've seen against.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Do Will you run out on the floor a few
kind wins?
Speaker 5 (31:53):
I walk. I think in those moments I tried my
best stay out of the way because this is obviously
is not about me, but in those times when history
tells the story, to be able to say that I
was there, to other players that passed played at Yukon,
(32:14):
at won championships, to be on that floor, it speaks
to the legacy of the program, and so from that aspect,
it's important for me to be out there just to
show the future generation kids that come to Yukon like
this is a brotherhood that you want to be a
part of. So if you work hard, this is the
place that you want to be.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Have fun tonight. Thanks for joining us, Will GDP. Yeah, GDP,
the Great Dan Patry, Thank you very Ray all right,
thank you Ray Allen.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
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Speaker 2 (32:49):
Live is Guy Fieri with us, Tom Diners, Drive Engine
Dives Mister Michigan Wolverine, Guy Fieri joining us on the program.
How did you come about picking Michigan there, Guy?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Well, not only am I you know, great cook and
a curator of fantastic tequila, but uh, I really have
a fantastic profile and awareness of everything that goes on
in the NCAA men's basketball. That's not true. Actually I
have a ringer. I have my son writer. Actually I've
got I've got writer that I just woke up and shit,
(33:26):
get up early. But writer, Writer goes to San Diego
State and works for San Diego State basketball and heart
broke in that they didn't make the tournament, but uh,
you know an amazing team. So I went to Rider.
I gotta be honest with you and writer, that's my
favorite thing about watching basketball is watching it with him
because he can break it all down for me. As
soon as he told me that, you know, he wasn't
(33:47):
doing good and something with school, I'm like, look at
it like you look at basketball, and you're going to
do great.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
So he helped me.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
With my bracket. But uh, after that Yukon game, after
that Duke Yukon game, I'm like, wow, this is getting
out of control. And then that Michigan stopping that happened
with az I turned. I mean, I'll always watch games
all the way through because you never know. But yeah,
that's all right, buddy. I'd love to take.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
The credit for this. Okay. Marvin, who's one of the
dan Ets, went to Connecticut. If Connecticut wins, he wins
the Celebrity Bracket Challenge. If Michigan wins, you win. Now,
I don't know if there's anything we can really give you,
but we can ask for something if Connecticut wins. If
you're in the area, the Tri State area, Marvin could
(34:35):
be in an episode where he's seated at a table
where you go, oh, Marvin from the dan Patrick show.
So what do you think about that? And then if
there's something that we could give to you if Michigan wins.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Oh, I think that this has to happen. Regardless, we
will make this come to a reality. Okay, Where and
when we do this, I'm not sure, but there will
have to be a a passing of the gauntlet of
who wins and and who has to pay the price.
I mean, I'm not getting into that crazy uh. You
know that that fantasy football stuff where someone's got to
(35:10):
dress up and go to the mall. I'm not quite
ready for that, but I am ready for if I
which I don't believe that I'm going to get knocked out.
I believe that Michigan, after what we've seen Michigan do
uh this season and especially through this tournament. I'm saying
the right things, right, writer, right, all right? So if
(35:33):
this goes the way that uh I have read the stars,
I will be prepared to deliver a beautiful signed bottle
of Santo tequila UH and present it to him and
and take my beating. If he loses. I don't know, Dan,
you tell me what he gets? What does he get
to pluck off of his desk? That he has to
(35:54):
give me.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I will have your son on the show as a guest.
How about that.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
There you go, Rider, if we win, if your pick wins,
you go on the show. That sounds good. All right,
that's it. I think that's a fair trade. Yeah, we're
all fired up for this, right and I and Rider one, Hunters,
Laurie and I went to the finals down in uh
where we go, Arizona. That was the coolest. I mean,
(36:23):
I've been to a ton of sporting events, but to
see them take a stadium and then fill in that
whole stadium with all those floor seats and then put
that basketball court in the center of it, and to
watch the game. I'm so bummed that we're not there
to go see it, but it is. It was one
of the best sporting events I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
But you went to UNLV when the running Rebels were
at UNLV, correct, that was another That.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Was another level. You get to take little UNLV in
nineteen ninety is actually the year I graduated, and you know,
we got great tickets. That was you know, there was
this team that was just coming out of nowhere. I
mean not really, I mean Tarcanian had been building it,
but We used to get awesome seats, like, you know,
sitting right on the floor, just spending what the lottery
was of what's your fraternity or you know how you
picked it. But then all of a sudden, here we
(37:08):
are ranked number one. I remember that morning of going
and seeing the gigantic number one that they built in
the you know, in the front driveway of the school.
And yeah, it was for a little school like UNLV
at that time to be going as big it was.
It was an amazing time. And I remember when we won,
it was chaos. So it's it's something I appreciate. I
(37:29):
didn't appreciate the next year, but I appreciate it so
and I wouldn't say that I'm you know, Duke losing.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
You know, okay, you didn't mind that.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Rider used to terrorize me when when he was a
kid and told me all through his elementary school and
because you've been a basketball fan forever, played great competitive
basketball through high school in that but he always used
to tell me that he wanted to go to do Hunter.
I went to UNLV, my oldest son, Hunter went to UNLV,
and Riders now taunting me with he's going to go
to Duke. So San Diego State was a happy medium.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
How are you feeling like a million bucks?
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I'm up and rolling. Oh from my from my leg injury. Yeah,
oh yeah, that was a that was not good. I
had this crazy explosion of my quad muscle in the
center of my leg, right in the center, not down
at the knee, not up to hit, but right the
center exploded. And they came and sewed it back together.
And you know, me, being sequestered to a wheelchair and
(38:30):
crutches for in a cast for eight weeks was horrible.
But I survived it and I'm back. But what doing
an injury?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
What did your quad look like? Food wise?
Speaker 3 (38:44):
As the as the surgeon said, Guy, I haven't seen
this in twenty years, and I'm going to be trying
to sew together ground beef and ground beef. He said,
you have blown this muscle up in the center of
your leg. He says, So we're going to put this
back together. He goes, you really have to stay off.
I mean, he put the fear in me. He goes,
unless you want to be back here going through this again,
(39:06):
don't move that muscle. And I'm like, oh so really?
And I had I was filming a show in the
middle of this, and if I didn't finish the show,
all my crew was going to go away with no
Christmas money. And so we figured out a way to
put me in the wheelchair. And then when it was
time for my scene this new show that we're doing
called Flavortown Food Fight, and so I would get out
of the wheelchair, stand there next to a park bench
(39:29):
or something, or hold a street sign and try to bump. Well,
we made it crew, and after I got down with
the shoot, and that was two weeks of that, and
I was fresh out of surgery, only two days out
of surgery, and the doctor was just pissed.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
He's like, I do.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
All this work and you're gonna go back to what's
got to do? You know that play hurt?
Speaker 2 (39:47):
But were you skiing?
Speaker 3 (39:49):
No, I was listen. I was fighting DP, I was
fighting ninjas. I tried to make up like really good
stories about what happened. Now, now I was walking out
of my tree going to the set o.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
My god, it just started to rain.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
At brand new lu CAZy boots on that I hadn't
scuffed up. The bottom hit that first step. One leg
went all the way down the stairs. The other leg
got caught behind me on the threshold and it popped.
I mean, I've broken a lot of things and had injuries,
but this went off like a gun and I was shot.
And the nurse came over. The EMT came over and
(40:28):
looked at my leg and she goes, I got I'm fine,
I'm fine. Just you know, I'm fine. I just pulled
my muscle. She goes, No, you have a huge divot
in your leg where your muscle used to be, because
you need to go to the hospital. I went to
the hospital and the doctors like, yeah, we have to
do surgery now. He said, like, now, can I go
back to work?
Speaker 5 (40:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
So yeah, it was. It was interesting. So I have
tons of appreciation and understanding for all these athletes to
go through these horrific injuries and then they have a
timeline to get themselves back. PT is no fun. Pet's
worse than the injury.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
All right, big night tonight. So any parting words for
Marvin and as U Kona Huskies.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Marvin, I think that you have watched every game, probably
more diligently than I have. I mean, and I don't
know that you get writers, crib notes, writers always delivering.
Did you see the game last night and then he
gives me that rundown of what happened. I got to say,
after that Arizona game and we saw it, we saw it,
take it away from and you look at how they
(41:27):
crushed Tennessee. You look at just how I mean they
had these gigantic sixteen point leads throughout the tournament. There's
just so many things that are showing this. And I
don't know what the Vegas line is right now. I
should as a Vegas guy, but I'm going to look
forward to writer being a guest on to Dan Patrick.
So this could be fantastic And I'll send DP when
(41:48):
I win. I'll send you the bottle of.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Tequila Repisoto if you can, without question.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
Matt, maybe I'll just send the whole portfolio. That'd be
nice to the Jaho. You know. Yeah, we'll make sure
because I just need a spot on the desk somewhere,
but just for Writer's day. But now it's gonna be
hopefully it's going to be a great I want to
see a great game. I think everybody does. But now
and I'm glad that is there gonna be a wall
of fame anything that when the celebrity listed because I
(42:15):
filled that out my hand. By the way, do you
see that?
Speaker 2 (42:17):
No, I got it, I got it, I got you.
I got it here and you're asking for an awful lot.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
This is a big win at the Fietti House.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
What I don't know has a what Marvin, but dp
I'm taking a bottle of tequila and I'm bringing it
to the show wherever he's at. Oh, I'm crashing it.
Oh my, yukon't get on and all that Diners Driving
and Domination for Ukon. Whoa, whoa. He just renamed my
shows Diners, Driving and Domination.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
All right, Well we're on, all right. Uh, we'll talk
to you soon. Good guys, Thank you, Guy Fieri. Diner's
driving some dimes.
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Todd "Fritzy" Fritz
Dan Patrick
Patrick "Seton" O'Connor
Paul Pabst
Marvin Prince
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