Hour 1 - How Sweet

Ben Maller talks about Texas Tech defeating John Calipari's Arkansas in OT and if Texas Tech asserted their will or if Arkansas gave it away, Cooper Flagg's play for Duke, Coach Nate Oats Alabama squad hitting a record number of 3-pointers, and more!

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He we go. Welcome. It's our number one hour, number
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And so that's the fifth Hour podcast. But here an
hour number one. It's all about the Sweet sixteen. Did
Texas Tech assert their will in their overtime win or
did John Caliparis Arkansas squad lose it blowing a sixteen
point lead. Also, how would you describe Cooper Flag's play
for Duke as they're into the Elite eight and coach

(01:09):
Nate Oltz Bama squad knock down twenty five triples that
breaks a record held by Bo Kimball and Loyla Marimunt
of thirty five year old record your thoughts on the
three point shooting of the Crimson Tide. We'll get to
that and much more right now. It's all part of
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the number ten thousand and Oh what a night it was.
Oh what a great day it was, from when I

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woke up until just a few minutes ago. If you
like sporty, if you're a fan of sporty, which I
think you might be, you are plausibly listening consuming overnight
sports content in the audio form, which is also available
now on YouTube, these Mallard monologues. But our lead this

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hour is from the Sweetness. Now, if you're old, you
hear the word sweetness, you think, wow, that's Walter Payton,
not Walter Payton. But we're talking about the Sweet sixteen.
Of course is we had not one, not two, not three?
How about four games on a Thursday night to kick
off the card, and it'll be four more games on Friday,
and then we'll whittle it down a seat in the

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Elite eight for those that were victorious in the games
that were played on Thursday. So I don't even saw
any of this. Maybe you were watching the baseball or
possibly you're like I was too busy, I had to
stare at a wall. Well, there wasn't a whole lot
of drama o rama, which seemingly that's what you want.
You want those game changing moments where the game's close

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and somebody has to step up and make a play. Well,
we didn't get much of that until the final act
of the night in San Francisco the late television window
as Darien Williams hit the tie breaking basket with seven
point three seconds on the jumbo tron in over time

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after tying the game with a three pointer at the
end of regulation. He plays for Texas Tech. If you
don't know who Darien Williams is, so he ends up
hitting the three pointer late in regulation to tie it,
then hits the tie breaking basket in the final seconds
of overtime, and Texas Tech thanks to a clankety clank
by Arkansas at the buzzer and the Red Raiders have

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advanced to the Elite eight. The first overtime game of
March Madness, and it came after Texas Tech was down
by sixteen points midway through the second half. Now, normally
in the college game, if you're up by sixteen points,
you are going to punch your ticket and advance. But

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coach John Calipari's Razorbacks, who were technically the tense seed,
although many did not perceive them as the tense seed
because of all the nil payments and just the aura
of John Calipari. But Texas Tech has advanced. They will
play the number one seed Florida in the West Regional

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final that'll take place on Saturday. The better story, now
you know where the better story is. That's right, The
better story is in the losing locker room. And man,
did that thing come apart. So let's ask the question,
did Texas Tech assert their will when they fell behind

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by sixteen points or did John Calipari and his Arkansas
squad lose it? All right, So my thoughts on this.
I've got the trojan staples and locomotive and we'll run
through all of these things, all of them, and we
are going to make a nice vacation to Bahamas because

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John Calipari cannot go to the Bahamas. So a to
answer the question, did Texas Tech assert their will or
did John Calipari and Arkansas lose it? Well, the arrow
is pointing at Coach cal who was at the controls
in the cockpit on Yep, you're right. The vomit comment,
Oh my god, Arkansas was looking so good. I was like,

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oh it's good. Cal Par is fun to talk about
on the radio. He says, stupid things he dresses. He's
got this debonair look to him and all that. But
man alive. Arkansas goes up by sixteen, and the big
fundamental Arkansas gets this massive advantage relatively speaking massive, and
then they grab the sleeping bag and the only question

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is did John Calipari read them some bedtime lullabies as
they took a nap? And holy Kenobi here the hard
drive got a trojan, a trojan horse virus and malfunctioned
as Texas Tech was liberated and advanced to the second round.

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But the things that stood out, and this is often
the case, it's not like this is just an Arkansas problem.
We're not exactly talking chess here. It's more checkers, the
little attention to detail, and I didn't think it was
gonna cost Arkansas, but they had some sloppy offensive possessions.
When they went up by sixteen, They're like, yeh, let's
get some more stats going here. We'll take some circus shots.

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And then they also decided they had a big enough lead.
I guess they didn't really need to lock in on defense.
They were undisciplined on defense, and you put those things
together and all of a sudden, you got a swan
dive And how unprecedented is the swan dive by Arkansas?
The mother of all stats, the mother of all stats.

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It's not Boom goes to the dynamite, but it's pretty much
Boom goes to dynamite. Entering this game, John Calipari had
played thirty his teams had played thirty five games in
the NCAA Tournament in his coaching career, going back to
his days at UMass where they led by six or
more points at halftime. And John Calipari had been thirty
five and oh his teams when leading by six or more.

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That was the stat prior to the game, and that
tells you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
As a result, Texas Tech gets her done. They get
her done, and they advanced. Now elsewhere, we had the
Dukies Cooper Flag and the number one seed Duke continue

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monster mashing in the NCAA Tournament with a little controversy
but one hundred and ninety three win as they went
turbotastic early in the second half of this game over
Arizona in the Sweet sixteen. And now the Blue Devils
will match up with the number two seed Alabama. So

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the bracket has held. The bracket has held. One of
those teams is going to the Final four, but that'll
be the Elite eight matchup. You've got a basketball school,
Duke versus a football school Alabama. But don't bury the lead,
my man. All right, We're not going to bury the lead.
So the lead here is the performance of the flag.

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The flag is up, So how would you describe for
those that did not see it, Cooper Flags play for
Duke in this game. So having Cooper Flag on your roster,
if you don't know this already, you should know this already.
It's like that old marketing campaign from Staples back in
the day. It's the Staples easy button when you have
Cooper Flag on your roster. He had thirty points, seven assists,

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six rebounds, and we are told a partridge in a
pear tree. He had all that, had all that, and
it would appear based on his body of work here,
which is limited because he's only been at Duke one year.
Cheat code allowing the Blue Devils to level up. And
this is why you've got multiple suck bag NBA franchises

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that are trying to trust the process and trying to
get in on that top pick in the draft, because
Cooper Flag will be the top pick and he's from Maine,
so they can't really rig it. So he plays for
the team from Maine. I don't lest I checked. They
don't have an NBA team and the Celtics are not
going to be in the draft lottery, so that's off

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the table. So who knows where Cooper Flag is going
to end up. But he will be the prize, the
next big thing in the NBA. But he's still got
some work to do in the college game and he's
got to earn those nil checks he's getting for the dookies,
all right, now, be the last word here. So on
a rather overcast I will use the word overcast a

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day in the tournament. Go to Newark, New Jersey. They
know a thing about overcast. Thing or two about overcasting Newark,
New Jersey. So mentioned Alabama and the number two seed
they advanced. They did it with a little rasthma task.
So the number two seed Alabama set an NC doublea
tournament record for three point shots made? How many you

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think they made? Did you see this game? Yeah? You know,
well somebody else didn't see it. So I'm going to
tell them twenty five to three pointers, twenty five against
the Tater Top kids from BYU. Yet that's a lot
twenty five, so a record setting, and some say for

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Alabama because that's a football school, although not much anymore
because Nick Saban ain't walking through that door unless he's
there to collect a check and cheer for them on television.
But Alabama twenty five three program defining win one thirteen
to eighty eight. That's an NBA score. That's like a
matchup between the Celtics and the Wizards. And that was

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the final on their East Regional semi finals. So coach
Natoates and the Bama squad knocking twenty five triples into
the net and they break the record which was twenty
one held by Bo Kimball and Loyola Maramont thirty five
years ago. Wow, where has the time gone? So if

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you're old enough to remember that that amazing magic carpet
ride with Bo Kimball and before that his buddy who
passed away, Hank Gathers. But your thoughts, what are your
thoughts on Alabama setting a new standard for most three
balls knocked down? So obviously it's a historical night. And
my thought on this, if you were to convey what

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Alabama did now, the defense was obviously lacking for perimeter defense.
You don't need to be an insider in the NBA
to know this was not going well for the BYU
Cougars defensively. But this Christina Tides team, even if you
leave guys open and a lot in college, they'll miss.
I don't know if you've noticed that. There's a theme
in this tournament, in every tournament, but the Crimson tie

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were an unstoppable locomotive. True. Yeah, of moneyballs, you get
a moneyball, you get a moneyball, you get a moneyball,
you get a moneyball. And to put into context the
historical nature of this, I may or may not remember
loyal A Maramont hitting all those three point shots back
in the day. And while in modern basketball it's poper shot.

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You're expected to just shoot three point baskets. That's it.
That's today's NBA, that's most of college basketball. If you
go back a generation and a half to the Loyala
Marimont team, which is a small school, Yeah, we're going
to the hot, tough time machine here. If you go
back then that is a team that look like they

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were playing at a different level, like they were playing
a different sport. They changed the game. This little school
near La which was nothing athletically and since then has
been nothing athletically, and they played at a high school gym.
And in those days, the three point shot was considered

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a masculine It was he had one guy on the
team that would be a three point specialist, and the
top players. It was unbecoming to shoot a lot of
three point shots. Can you imagine that? Yeah, now, if
you don't shoot three point shots, it's the other way.
But the three point shot in those years, it was
like a side table. It wasn't the sofa, it wasn't

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the television. It was a side table. And that's what
it was. And so it's obviously we've done a one
to eighty since then and gone the complete opposite direction.
And so Alabama has the records. It's a safe bet
that that record will not last another thirty five years,
that that record will be broken within the next five years,

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and probably take the under. Take the under on that.
But how zany was Bama shooting the basketball? I'm glad
you asked. So here's how zany it is? And I
believe this stat is accurate. Let's say Alabama had not
made one two point basket. They missed all of their
two point shots, so they were over from the floor

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two point field goals against BYU. The Crimson Tide made
enough three point shots where they still would have won
the game. They still would have won the game even
if they had not hit a single two point shot.
I methinks that's pretty good. Methinks that's pretty good. And yeah,

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you do the math math on that, and the and
the math works. The math absolutely works, all right. Is
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a boat parade right there in Chicago. Beautiful the water

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they turn green every year. So yeah, very exciting. All right,
Now back to the talk fiesta. Well, that's right, that's right, Bill,
and it is I Ben. As we are rolling our
way through the overnight. Coming up later this hour a
pretty amusing story. How many bags? How many fast food

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bags does it take to get one hundred million dollars?
We will attempt to answer that also later this hour,
the Great Fat Hope. You heard me right, the Great
Fat Hope. And this is my new favorite story, my
new favorite story. I will share that with you. No

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one else has this, nobody else knows my favorite story.
But you're gonna know my favorite story. Isn't that special. Yeah,
that's very exciting. But we have the reaction of the people,
by the people, and for the people who comment in
on all of this. Fer Dog writes in from that

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winter wonderland of Fullerton. He says, Arkansas gagd all right,
but nearly as bad as not nearly as bad as
the choke James Fakers did the Lakers have first round
exit written all over them? And also I think we
should give the great John Tortorella a moment of silence
rest in peace. Well, we'll get to that. It's all

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on my agenda. It is Stuck in Sacramento, writes, and
he says a solid se I only got a seat.
We'll see us get degrees. Stuck in Sacramento, says on
the Mallard monologue, no mention on the hour number one
Stick of the World Series champion Dawyers up with that,

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says listening to seventy six year old Charlie Steiner was interesting,
and it was actually, he says, not quite as bad
or maybe worse than the Sacramento A's there you go,
all right, calm down. Stuck in Sacramento, please, how dare you?
Who else do we have an interesting photo that you

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found there? Though a very interesting photo? Who else do
we have let's see page down? Can't read that, Gunner says,
you're wrong, ben of the malor math there, he says,
let's see here, thirteen lost would have lost by thirteen.
He says, twenty five free pointers equals seventy five points

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BYU had eighty eight points. Well, Gunner, I know you're
not that bright, my man, and make sure those tomato
cann soups are on the right shelf. I didn't say
that we would take away the foul shots, pal, smart guy.
I said we'd take away the field goals. So yes,
if you include the three point shots made by Alabama

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and the foul shots, Gunner, because I never said Gunner
to take the foul shots away, dumb, dumb. I said
you'd take away the field goals. And if you include
the foul shots and the three point shots, they win
the game. Do you understand? I know, I know it's hard.
Maybe maybe way up there, way past the luth you
might not understand what I'm talking about. My god. Shaneon

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de Moines writes and he says, I don't care if
the Giants in or the Browns are keeping an eye
on cam Ward. These teams will be drafting in the
in the top five, in the top ten for years
to come. Well, no, yet, normally the same teams are
there all the time. I mean that's just that's the
way it is. Every once in a while they'll actually

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draft someone who knows what they're doing, and they'll escape,
like the Cincinnati Bungals who kept drafting high, high and
they got they got a wide receiver and then they
got the quarter back. And now they still miss the playoffs,
but they're they're a little bit better. The Nature Boy,
answering the Call to the Wild, says that Lakers loss
was so delicious that I had to watch it again.

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Now full disclosure, I was not watched. This is one
of the worst losses you could possibly have. I would
fire JJ Reddick if I owned the Lakers, I would
fire the podcaster. JJ Reddick has an inexcusable loss. That's
bad coaching by JJ Reddick to allow that to happen,
To not get into those players. But I didn't see
it live. Fortunately, the great thing about this show is

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if I miss anything, you let me know. You let
me know it's oh, it's a good story. So I
had a bunch of people, most of them Bulls fans
and Laker his you know, people that are real, real
NBA fans, they don't like the Lakers, who were sending
me the clip and I had to watch it again.
I thought it might have been doctor. It was such incompetence.

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It was like the Washington Generals when I watched it,
like the Chicago Bulls have swept the season series from Lakers,
And what the f happened to the Bulls? By the way,
weren't they tanking and they weren't trying to win? And
now all of a sudden, the Bulls, it's the you know,
the running of the Bulls from Pamplona. The Bulls are

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like on a burner now and they're they're looking like
they're gonna get into at least the play in and
who knows. The Eastern Conference is such a hot mess.
They're messing up the bio arrhythms of the NBA. But
I had g managed a bunch of you other guys
who were sending me the clip, and I do recommend it.
Even the blind listeners will enjoy looking at it. It
is just bananas. You're up five points with twelve seconds left,

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you don't play any defense, you turn the ball over,
then you hit a shot to take the lead again
with three seconds left, and still lose the game. I mean,
my god, that was artistic. They should send that video
to the LOUVER, is what they should do. They should
send that video clip to the lou It was that good.

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All right, let's go to the calls. It is a
call in show and the natives would like to speak,
so we'll go to the phones. Let's say hello to
any meenie miney mo. Let's say hello to Brandon, who's
in the Valley of the Sun. Hello, Brandon, Welcome. How
we doing Brandon? If I was any better, I would

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be a Tater tot. But not the kid who's got
you know, on BYU whose grandfather invented the table Todd
is BYU lost? But what's on your mind?

Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah? So with Alabama, we knew going into this game
that there was pretty much zero defense playing being played
by either side, and BYU didn't play that bad of
a game. It's just that they came against Bama that
was gonna hit twenty five three pointers. My point with

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Alabama though, when they come against Duke in the next round,
who actually plays great defense, and even with their bench
players coming off, they're still six five or taller. They're
not hitting twenty five threes, and they're not gonna be
able to win a game based on the fact that

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they're only shooting three pointers. They don't get to the racks,
they don't get in the paint, and really they really
don't get to the free throw line that much.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
All right, So maybe based on that analysis, Brandon, they
shouldn't show up. They should just pack it in and
go home right now. They got no chance. It's over.
Stick a fork in them. They're done. Just ok. See,
that's why they play the game, Brandon, because it's possible
that Duke goes out there and they're puking all over
the court, right they can't hit a shot, they have

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an off game, and then all of a sudden, Alabama
wins the game. So we'll see how it plays out.
And remember, stats tell you what has happened, not what's
going to happen. So you can look at all the
numbers and if you just base on you know, like
your analysis, and I get what you're saying. But if
you base that analysis going into every game, you never
see upsets. And there's upsets all the time. There's teams
that aren't supposed to win that win, but I wouldn't

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say it would be dramatic a shocking win if Alabama
were to win the end. They were the number two
seed for a reason. I thank you. There's a lot
a lot of ambia noise. I'm gonna let you go.
Not that I don't enjoy ambient noise. And you're driving,
so what are you gonna do cruising round? So thank you.

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So this is a wild story from college football, and
it's one of the more amusing stories over the years.
You remember this guy named Jeremy Pruitt. Remember that name.
You're at college football, hardo, you know who I'm talking about.
He coached at Tennessee. Well, he was the Tennessee volunteers
coach a few years back. And it's been a minute,

(28:12):
it's been a minute now. That guy Danny in Nashville
who's now in Miami. He met some girl. He moved
to Miami to chase after her. But he's his heart's
in Nashville. And this guy loves Tennessee football and was
singing the praises Jeremy Pruitt, this guy's gonna be great
and all that. Well, he wasn't. Obviously. He was at
Tennessee for three seasons. He had a sixteen and nineteen

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record in Knoxville, and he was paid around I think
the number that I saw was like four million dollars
per year. So that's if you do the math on that.
I know Gunner's gonna correct me because he thinks he's
better at math than me, and he's not. But for
three years and four million dollars a year, that works
out to about twelve million. And then he was fired

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in the middle of the pandemic in January of twenty
twenty one. They said there was some recruiting violations, and
it wasn't just your normal recruiting violations. It was not.
This is one of the great scandals, which I don't
know is even illegal now. But Pruitt and the Tennessee

(29:19):
coaching staff were paying players, oh my god, like they're
doing right now and iled deals. But they were doing
it under the table, and if you remember the story,
they were handing out bags of cash in fast food.
I think it was McDonald's bags little baggies filled with
cash to players to come to Tennessee. And then there

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was a long investigation and he was fired. They claimed
those that investigated there were two hundred infractions that were discovered.
I think they stopped counting it after two hundred. They
just said, we're tired. That's a lot. You're good. And
so this guy, Jeremy It had been given a big penalty,

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a six year show cause penalty, which means turn out
the lass. The party is over. He has been ostracized
from college football. And learned the other day that the
former Tennessee coach and former Alabama assistant is currently working
as a pe teacher at a high school in Alabama. Yeah,

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from Tennessee volunteer football coach, making four million dollars a
year to pe teacher, which is it's a nice job
if you're a pe teacher, but if you're an essentially
a semi pro coach at Tennessee and then you're a
pe teacher, like, WHOA, what is going on? What has happened?
And that happened. So we fast forward now and the

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rest of the story. So we are now told that
former Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruett has filed a lawsuit against
the NCAA in Decabre County, Alabama, claiming that the NCAA
conspired with Tennessee, with Tennessee to make him a sacrificial lamb,

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a sacrificial lamb, giving him that penalty, the six year
show cause penalty. And so he says, I want to
get paid. I want to get my lost wages back.
And this guy, Jeremy Prue, you talk about the definition
of hutzbut the guy had a losing record at Tennessee.

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He is suing for one hundred million dollars that he says,
that's what he would have earned in wages, one hundred
Who exactly would have paid him one hundred million dollars?
Can I have a list? I'd like to work for
those people? One hundred million dollars? My fat I said, well, hey,

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I know from talking to lawyers. Every time I bring
something up like this and I start screaming and barking
into the microphones. One hundred million dollars, there's outrageous. Some
loyal will send me an email from very professional account
with their name in it. You know, some ambulance chasing
lawyer who's a fan of the show, and they'll be like, well,
the reason Ben that you sue for one hundred million
is because you're not planning on the lawsuit going all

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the way through the court system. You're assuming that there
will be some kind of financial settlement. So if you
really want to get thirty million dollars, let's say you
sue for one hundred million and then you say, I'll
take a settlement for fifty and then they counter and say, well,
we'll give you thirty. You take the thirty, and you
you're happy as can be. Yeah, that's the ticket. That

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is the ticket. It always works out that way. So
in the suit, Jeremy Pruk claims that Tennessee was illegally
paying players before he arrived. So he's essentially the way
I read it is he's implying that, hey, this is
just what he did in Knoxville, right, That's just what
we did. And he claims that Philip Fulmer, the athletic director,

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told him that he would handle it, that he would
just if anything happened, he would take care of it.
And he also is playing the victim card. Jeremy Pruett,
the former Tennessee coach, saying that he may be the
last coach in America to be punished for player benefits

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being paying players, and which he that is not wrong.
I don't know that you can argue with that, because
now there's one of the two thousand players in college
basketball in the transfer portal. I believe that's right, man, unreal. Anyway,
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who am I Game? And we'll give you that right now.
Here's the who am I? Game? And again this is
where I pretend to be somebody else unless we call
it the who am I Game? We'll go back to

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college basketball. The theme of the hour, the duke Phenom
Cooper Flag is the first player to go thirty points, five,
five or more rebounds, five or more assists in a
second weekend NCED double a tournament victory. Since me again,
Duke Star Cooper Flag the first player to go thirty

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or more points, five or more rebounds, five or more
assists in a second weekend ncublea victory. Since me? Who
am I? That is the question? If you know the answer,
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now back to Benny, Who am I? Well, no, it's
just it's that Bill. It's just Benny. It's not Benny.
Who am I? That's not my last name. But we
are playing the who am I? Game? And here it is.
Duke's Cooper Flag became the first player to go thirty

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or more points, five or more rebounds, five or more
assists in a second weekend NCUBLEA tournament victory. Since me,
who am I? Who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer? Yeah? What is the answer? And

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Tractor Supply for life out here. Let's see, does anyone
know the answer? Again? Duke's Cooper Flag the first player
to go thirty or more points, five or more rebounds,
five or more assists in a second weekend NCAA tournament victory.
Since me, who am I? That? The question, what's the answer?

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Scrooge in the Bay Area going with the Great Hero
from Angels in the Outfield. George Knox is his answer.
Terry in England says is it a sad pe t shirt?
Is that the answer? Miguel on Fire says Lakers legend.
Luke Walton is the answer. Andy in Line, Old Lakes,

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Minnesota says old Yeller. That's either my answer or I'm
just checking in. Well, thank you. Who else do we have?
Page down? Courtesy Flusher says Skippitty is the answer. Angel
Reese from King Rory alf the Alien O Piner is
going with Fred Jones from Scooby Doobie Doo. Yeah, well,

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I don't remember Scooby Doo like that. Alf I would
have watched it a lot more if it had looked
like that. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota going with Zach Edy.
He's just just built different. Ryan Klescoe, that's a good
name from mister nice guy Padre Legend Ryan Klesco. Who else?
Page down? Milkman Mike and Colorado says you are the

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future of the NBA and usc alum Bronnie James that
that is the answer. Swen Nader, San Diego Clipper legend,
swen Nator from I forty ian. Who else do we have?
Page Now Ricky is checking in as well. He's president
and accounted for and he hopes everyone listening is doing well. Well,

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thank you, Ricky. We can now go on with the
show because Ricky, who's a music, button pusher and beer tester,
has checked it, so now we can go on with you.
Tacoma Drew says, the voice of the Cubs, the great
Harry Carey forever, the voice of the cub I have
a wonderful Harry Carrey story. I don't have time to

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tell it now, but if you'd like me to tell
it some other time, send me send me a message,
but not right now. A Donkey Sausage says, the missing
link is the answer. Shane in the Moine says digital
space Monkey is the way to go. Fami, the number
one Uber eats driver in the Twin Cities says it's
Anthony Edwards. Who else do we have? Big Lou He's

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on number two, and he says half court specialist, half
court shot Specialist, Bill Cartwright is the answer. Rob in
Minnesota says, Squeaky Floyd, not sleepy Squeaky Floyd Robbie the
long suffering, long suffering Atlanta Falcon fan and occasional Mariner
fans as Brandon Roy Arnie Spaniard guessed by Matthew Trajan

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Langdon from Paulie d who else a mad Vlad Putin
against Brittany Griner and the other prisoners. That's from Richie
Delo brown I guess by Slimpton. The correct answer That
would be Wayne Simeon of Kansas back in twenty oh four.
Wayne Simeon is the answer,