March 24, 2025 • 16 mins
Minnesota Tim discusses the disappointing nature of this year's NCAA March Madness, attributing it to the impact of NIL money and player transfers. He contrasts this with the excitement in NCAA wrestling, particularly highlighting Gable Stevenson. The conversation also touches on the awkwardness of post-game handshakes in lopsided games and concludes with a debate on Adrian Peterson's ranking among NFL running backs, emphasizing the importance of versatility in a running back's skill set.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome into the show today.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Thank you for making this podcast a part of your day.
Hit that subscribe button if you're watching on YouTube or
listening elsewhere, so this podcast shows up in here feed
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
I appreciate that it's.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
March Madness, or in other words, I like to call
it March sadness.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
This year.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Seriously, there have been maybe one or two really good
NCAA March Madness Games. First round is typically upset city,
where you see these miraculous runs from teams that defeat
the Kentucky's or defeat the top ranked teams in the country.
(00:54):
And we saw mcneee beat Clemson, but Clemson was the
slowest white boy team that I've ever seen in the
first round of March Madness history, and mcnees's just out
athletic Clemson. We saw a little bit of March madness
in the second round.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We saw.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Colorado State go down because of a buzzer beater by
Maryland in the final seconds of the game. That's what
a buzzer beater is if you didn't know the definition
of what a buzzer beater was. And Colorado State's coach
is now gonna come over to the University of Minnesota
(01:36):
and try to apply that same spark that he had
at Colorado State at the University of Minnesota. But all
of this discussion really sets up why we haven't seen
much spectacular March Madness play, and I think it's a
(01:59):
large part due to nil money and the amount of
money college athletes can make and the ability to transfer
whenever you want.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Because if you're a.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Player that is on a mid major basketball team and
you want to get recognized after having one good season,
you don't stay at that mid major basketball team anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You move on up, even.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
If it is a Golden Gophers basketball team, as miserable
a team as they are, because if you decide to
play for the Gophers instead of a mid major while
you're playing against Michigan State, you're playing against Indiana, Michigan, Purdue,
and there's a chance that you're gonna get recognized.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Playing against one of those teams if you have a
good game.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So you see these small market collegiate basketball teams and
they're not the same that they used to be because
all of their great players transferred to bigger programs for
more money and to get recognized overseas or by the NBA.
(03:24):
So that's what we're seeing this season in college basketball.
That's why it's been March sadness instead of March madness.
You're just kind of waiting for something to happen and
nothing really is. Although there is one sport where March Madness.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Really did happen.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
And I texted my brother in law and he said
March madness because.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
It really was March madness.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Gabe Stevenson, a Gophers wrestling legend, of course, is the
is in the NCAA Finals again, because the dude's a beast.
He'd take a look at his arms and how can
(04:22):
anybody beat this guy? His career record at the University
of Minnesota, it says here he finished with the season
with an eighteen and one record and ended his college
career at Minnesota with a record of what one hundred
and three wins and only three losses?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So this guy doesn't lose.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And there's about twenty five seconds left, and I'm going
to play for you the video here. In a second,
he's got the lead four two, and somehow this Oklahoma
state wrestler in front of the President of the United States,
which is super cool. I think how many presidents of
(05:10):
the United States go to a collegiate NCAA wrestling match
for the championship. I don't think it's ever been done,
or at least not in the last decade.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Trump's there watching this, and this is.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
The greatest upset in the last century. You just can't
spend the time when you're these.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Left.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
N c a A wrestling took all the magic out
of n c a A basketball this year and had
the upset of the century. And then the Oklahoma State
wrestler goes around and gets congratulated by President Trump. Think
about the amount of fame and and maybe money going forward. Well,
(07:04):
just think about those fifteen minutes. He's got thirty seconds
to go, He's down to no one would blame him
for losing. He's going against Gable Stevenson, who never loses.
He gets at his knees, he gets the three points,
goes up by a one, and holds on for dear
life for the final five to ten seconds and wins
(07:28):
the match and then shakes President Trump's hand.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
It's not March madness, it's March sadness, and it's.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
March mattiness this year in NCAA collegiate sports I saw
this the other day. Sports Center posted a screenshot of
Yukon women's basketball going against Arkansas State, and it's at halftime.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's sixty six to sixteen.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And my first reaction to this, and I posted it
on my ex account against say at Minnesota, tim one is,
what do you say during the postgame handshake? How can
you even dare to say without a smirk?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Good game.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You're down by fifty points at halftime. How can you
say good game and actually mean that good season? I
guess that's probably the way you go, But historically you
go through the handshake line and say.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Good game, good game, good game, good game.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And then you get to the bench players, and then
it's even more awkward because me being a bench player
in high school, what do you say to the other
bench player? Hey, wait to share on your teammates, good job.
I saw you over there, I saw you standing up
when your teammates took a charge.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Phenomenal work.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
But you're up fifty points, You're one of your best
players scores twenty one points in the first half, and
they outscored Arkansas State by themselves by five points. What
do you say during that post game handshake? Can you
(09:31):
really say anything. All right. My final topic that I
want to talk about is Adrian Peterson because someone posted
the other day and has said trure false. This comes
from mL football on x AND's got three hundred and
thirty five thousand followers, your home for everything football Credential Media.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Sure false.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Adrian Peterson is a top five running back in NFL history.
Now you look at the top five runners in NFL history,
this is strictly a running Emmett Smith eighteen thousand yards,
Walter Payton sixteen almost seventeen thousand yards, Frank Gore sixteen
thousand yards exactly, Barry Sanders fifteen thousand yards, Adrian Peterson
(10:16):
almost fifteen one thousand yards. So Adrian Peterson is fifth
on the all time rushing list, And if you ask
him today, he probably still thinks he'll break Emmett Smith's record,
because he still probably thinks that he's in the best
shape of his life, because that's just the type of
(10:38):
belief that Adrian Peterson has.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
He played in the NFL from two thousand and seven to.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Twenty twenty one, and we all know his MVP season
where he almost broke Eric Dickerson's single game, single season
rushing record, but as far as a rusher, Adrian Peterson
top five, But as far as guys that I'm picking
(11:06):
to be my running back, I am going to pick
other guys even outside the top five ahead of Adrian Peterson.
And the reason why is because my ideal running back
can do it all. He can catch, he can block,
(11:30):
and he can hold out on the football. Because you
look at Adrian Peterson's his receiving receptions throughout the years
throughout his career nineteen his rookie year, twenty one is
second year, forty three is thirty or thirty six eighteen
forty twenty nine two in twenty fourteen, thirty three, eleven
(11:54):
two nine twenty seventeen twelve. Adrian Peterson was not known
as a guy that was a very good player catching
the ball out of the backfield, and it was also
not known as a guy that could hang out in
the football because his rookie year he lost at four times,
(12:17):
the second year he lost at nine times, his thirty
year he lost his seven times, and then one one
four five zero seven one three zero three three three
three zero.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
One zero one.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Throughout his entire career, the dude had forty nine fumbles
for a seventeen game average of five fumbles per season.
That's Adrian Peterson's career five fumbles per seventeen game average.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
That's not too good. And I compare that.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
To someone like ly Danian Tomlinson, who is seventh on
the all time rushing list.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
The Danian Thomlinson had thirty one.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Fumbles throws in two career and had a three fumble
average per seventeen games. And then he look at his
receptions fifty nine catches his rookie year, seventy nine catches,
one hundred catches, fifty three, fifty one, fifty six, sixty
fifty two, twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Fifty two, forty two.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
My ideal running back can catch, can block, and can
hold onto the football. Now, as pure rushing attackers go,
Adrian Peterson is a top five rushing running back, but
he's not an all around great running back. Ap could
(13:40):
take anything to the house on any given play. He
was unbelievable at breaking tackles and mowing guys over. But
even in that NFC Championship game, people talk about the officiating,
They talk about Farv's interception. Adrian peterson fumbles don't get
(14:04):
enough criticism because I don't even know how many fumbles
he was actually charged with because of the whole stupid
NFL statistical category thing. A lot of those fumbles were
on Adrian Peterson. Even though people want to be like, oh,
it was far recording to this debts, it was far.
It was on Adrian Peterson. He wouldn't hold.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Onto the ball.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So as talented as Adrian Peterson was, sure put him
in the top five if you want to. That's not
what I'm discussing. I'm discussing and making a point that
if you put them top five, I have no problem
with that, But I would take other running backs outside
(14:49):
the top five if I was hand selecting.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Running backs.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Over Adrian Peterson because of the reasons why I just mentioned.
I like to have an all around guy that can catch,
that can block, and that can run.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
As far as peer runners go, aps like top of the.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
List despite his fumbling kind of issues, but as far
as all around, there's plenty of guys that are better
than him. There's plenty of guys that can be on
the field on third down because they can block for
their quarterback or catch a pass out of the backfield consistently.
So saw that thrown out there. I thought that was
a fun discussion to talk about. But those are the
(15:31):
topics today. Upset of the century, Adrian Peterson. Is he
a top five back, sure, but there's other guys I'm
taking ahead of them. And Ukond of women's basketball. What
do you say in that post game handshake? A good game?
You can kidding me? That's the show today. Thank you
for making this podcast party of your day. Hit that
(15:52):
subscribe button wherever you're watching or listening, and this podcast
is one one hundred percent of the time, and I
hope you felt that today.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Everyone, I'll talk to you tomorrow. Have a good day.
Welcome into the show today.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Thank you for making this podcast a part of your day.
Hit that subscribe button if you're watching on YouTube or
listening elsewhere, so this podcast shows up in here feed
Monday through Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I appreciate that it's.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
March Madness, or in other words, I like to call
it March sadness.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
This year.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Seriously, there have been maybe one or two really good
NCAA March Madness Games. First round is typically upset city,
where you see these miraculous runs from teams that defeat
the Kentucky's or defeat the top ranked teams in the country.
(00:54):
And we saw mcneee beat Clemson, but Clemson was the
slowest white boy team that I've ever seen in the
first round of March Madness history, and mcnees's just out
athletic Clemson. We saw a little bit of March madness
in the second round.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We saw.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Colorado State go down because of a buzzer beater by
Maryland in the final seconds of the game. That's what
a buzzer beater is if you didn't know the definition
of what a buzzer beater was. And Colorado State's coach
is now gonna come over to the University of Minnesota
(01:36):
and try to apply that same spark that he had
at Colorado State at the University of Minnesota. But all
of this discussion really sets up why we haven't seen
much spectacular March Madness play, and I think it's a
(01:59):
large part due to nil money and the amount of
money college athletes can make and the ability to transfer
whenever you want.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Because if you're a.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Player that is on a mid major basketball team and
you want to get recognized after having one good season,
you don't stay at that mid major basketball team anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You move on up, even.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
If it is a Golden Gophers basketball team, as miserable
a team as they are, because if you decide to
play for the Gophers instead of a mid major while
you're playing against Michigan State, you're playing against Indiana, Michigan, Purdue,
and there's a chance that you're gonna get recognized.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Playing against one of those teams if you have a
good game.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So you see these small market collegiate basketball teams and
they're not the same that they used to be because
all of their great players transferred to bigger programs for
more money and to get recognized overseas or by the NBA.
(03:24):
So that's what we're seeing this season in college basketball.
That's why it's been March sadness instead of March madness.
You're just kind of waiting for something to happen and
nothing really is. Although there is one sport where March Madness.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Really did happen.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
And I texted my brother in law and he said
March madness because.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
It really was March madness.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Gabe Stevenson, a Gophers wrestling legend, of course, is the
is in the NCAA Finals again, because the dude's a beast.
He'd take a look at his arms and how can
(04:22):
anybody beat this guy? His career record at the University
of Minnesota, it says here he finished with the season
with an eighteen and one record and ended his college
career at Minnesota with a record of what one hundred
and three wins and only three losses?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So this guy doesn't lose.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And there's about twenty five seconds left, and I'm going
to play for you the video here. In a second,
he's got the lead four two, and somehow this Oklahoma
state wrestler in front of the President of the United States,
which is super cool. I think how many presidents of
(05:10):
the United States go to a collegiate NCAA wrestling match
for the championship. I don't think it's ever been done,
or at least not in the last decade.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Trump's there watching this, and this is.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
The greatest upset in the last century. You just can't
spend the time when you're these.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Left.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
N c a A wrestling took all the magic out
of n c a A basketball this year and had
the upset of the century. And then the Oklahoma State
wrestler goes around and gets congratulated by President Trump. Think
about the amount of fame and and maybe money going forward. Well,
(07:04):
just think about those fifteen minutes. He's got thirty seconds
to go, He's down to no one would blame him
for losing. He's going against Gable Stevenson, who never loses.
He gets at his knees, he gets the three points,
goes up by a one, and holds on for dear
life for the final five to ten seconds and wins
(07:28):
the match and then shakes President Trump's hand.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
It's not March madness, it's March sadness, and it's.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
March mattiness this year in NCAA collegiate sports I saw
this the other day. Sports Center posted a screenshot of
Yukon women's basketball going against Arkansas State, and it's at halftime.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's sixty six to sixteen.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And my first reaction to this, and I posted it
on my ex account against say at Minnesota, tim one is,
what do you say during the postgame handshake? How can
you even dare to say without a smirk?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Good game.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You're down by fifty points at halftime. How can you
say good game and actually mean that good season? I
guess that's probably the way you go, But historically you
go through the handshake line and say.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Good game, good game, good game, good game.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And then you get to the bench players, and then
it's even more awkward because me being a bench player
in high school, what do you say to the other
bench player? Hey, wait to share on your teammates, good job.
I saw you over there, I saw you standing up
when your teammates took a charge.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Phenomenal work.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
But you're up fifty points, You're one of your best
players scores twenty one points in the first half, and
they outscored Arkansas State by themselves by five points. What
do you say during that post game handshake? Can you
(09:31):
really say anything. All right. My final topic that I
want to talk about is Adrian Peterson because someone posted
the other day and has said trure false. This comes
from mL football on x AND's got three hundred and
thirty five thousand followers, your home for everything football Credential Media.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Sure false.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Adrian Peterson is a top five running back in NFL history.
Now you look at the top five runners in NFL history,
this is strictly a running Emmett Smith eighteen thousand yards,
Walter Payton sixteen almost seventeen thousand yards, Frank Gore sixteen
thousand yards exactly, Barry Sanders fifteen thousand yards, Adrian Peterson
(10:16):
almost fifteen one thousand yards. So Adrian Peterson is fifth
on the all time rushing list, And if you ask
him today, he probably still thinks he'll break Emmett Smith's record,
because he still probably thinks that he's in the best
shape of his life, because that's just the type of
(10:38):
belief that Adrian Peterson has.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
He played in the NFL from two thousand and seven to.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Twenty twenty one, and we all know his MVP season
where he almost broke Eric Dickerson's single game, single season
rushing record, but as far as a rusher, Adrian Peterson
top five, But as far as guys that I'm picking
(11:06):
to be my running back, I am going to pick
other guys even outside the top five ahead of Adrian Peterson.
And the reason why is because my ideal running back
can do it all. He can catch, he can block,
(11:30):
and he can hold out on the football. Because you
look at Adrian Peterson's his receiving receptions throughout the years
throughout his career nineteen his rookie year, twenty one is
second year, forty three is thirty or thirty six eighteen
forty twenty nine two in twenty fourteen, thirty three, eleven
(11:54):
two nine twenty seventeen twelve. Adrian Peterson was not known
as a guy that was a very good player catching
the ball out of the backfield, and it was also
not known as a guy that could hang out in
the football because his rookie year he lost at four times,
(12:17):
the second year he lost at nine times, his thirty
year he lost his seven times, and then one one
four five zero seven one three zero three three three
three zero.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
One zero one.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Throughout his entire career, the dude had forty nine fumbles
for a seventeen game average of five fumbles per season.
That's Adrian Peterson's career five fumbles per seventeen game average.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
That's not too good. And I compare that.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
To someone like ly Danian Tomlinson, who is seventh on
the all time rushing list.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
The Danian Thomlinson had thirty one.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Fumbles throws in two career and had a three fumble
average per seventeen games. And then he look at his
receptions fifty nine catches his rookie year, seventy nine catches,
one hundred catches, fifty three, fifty one, fifty six, sixty
fifty two, twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Fifty two, forty two.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
My ideal running back can catch, can block, and can
hold onto the football. Now, as pure rushing attackers go,
Adrian Peterson is a top five rushing running back, but
he's not an all around great running back. Ap could
(13:40):
take anything to the house on any given play. He
was unbelievable at breaking tackles and mowing guys over. But
even in that NFC Championship game, people talk about the officiating,
They talk about Farv's interception. Adrian peterson fumbles don't get
(14:04):
enough criticism because I don't even know how many fumbles
he was actually charged with because of the whole stupid
NFL statistical category thing. A lot of those fumbles were
on Adrian Peterson. Even though people want to be like, oh,
it was far recording to this debts, it was far.
It was on Adrian Peterson. He wouldn't hold.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Onto the ball.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So as talented as Adrian Peterson was, sure put him
in the top five if you want to. That's not
what I'm discussing. I'm discussing and making a point that
if you put them top five, I have no problem
with that, But I would take other running backs outside
(14:49):
the top five if I was hand selecting.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Running backs.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Over Adrian Peterson because of the reasons why I just mentioned.
I like to have an all around guy that can catch,
that can block, and that can run.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
As far as peer runners go, aps like top of the.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
List despite his fumbling kind of issues, but as far
as all around, there's plenty of guys that are better
than him. There's plenty of guys that can be on
the field on third down because they can block for
their quarterback or catch a pass out of the backfield consistently.
So saw that thrown out there. I thought that was
a fun discussion to talk about. But those are the
(15:31):
topics today. Upset of the century, Adrian Peterson. Is he
a top five back, sure, but there's other guys I'm
taking ahead of them. And Ukond of women's basketball. What
do you say in that post game handshake? A good game?
You can kidding me? That's the show today. Thank you
for making this podcast party of your day. Hit that
(15:52):
subscribe button wherever you're watching or listening, and this podcast
is one one hundred percent of the time, and I
hope you felt that today.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Everyone, I'll talk to you tomorrow. Have a good day.
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