Hour 1 - Upsets Everywhere!!!

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss the crazy amount of upset specials within the first few days of March Madness!

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live drop Friday, anything, well anything festive Saint Patrick's Day
on a Friday. So odds are there's some asseless chaps

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out there. Well, no, we bleep that out, Frostburg. I
don't think you can say that. I did we have
to dump that? I don't know. You can say that
we dumped it. That escalated quickly. Yeah, boy right, that's
like being the prew boiler Maker's locker room. Right. See,
this is this is what happens on Live Drop Friday.
People just get really excited really quick, and something like
that happens. That's what. But I get it, I get it.

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The Lakers are back. I understand. I understand everybody's excited.
Are they really back? Uh no, I'll just find out
a little later, right, I'm just yeah, we really you
got to ask the question. Oh I'm just saying that.
So Frostburg make sure he gets the drops right. We
don't have to dump our producer again. Wait, yeah, yeah,

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I don't think so. No. St Patrick's Day. Oh, there's
different rules on Saint Patrick's Day. Oh, it's like dispensation.
If you're Catholic. Normally you have to give up. You know,
you don't eat meat on a Friday in Lent, which
is why they the filet o fish. But because in
Saint Patrick's Day they gave dispensation, so you can go
eat your corn, beef and cabbage. Maybe I was talking
about Irish meatballs Okay, sure, I don't know that that's

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a thing, but that's good. Well, they make they make
meatballs in Ireland. Come on, everybody makes balls, you know
they do. Come on if there's really yeah, yeah, I know.
Lots about you kidding. I had I had meatballs yesterday
as a matter of course you did, Yeah, of course
I did. Was it part of a sandwich? No, no,
it was. It was actually appetizers, a meatball appetizer with Regott.
The cheese on it all was so good, it was

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so exciting. Oh my god, one of the most polarizing
of cheeses. Yeah it is. Regott is a very polarizing cheese.
But if you put it in the right things, it's fantastic.
Trust me on it, trust me, trust me, trust me.
But yeah, today it's Happy Saint Patrick's Day. It is
a crazy ass dayla. It's my my wife's anniversary. So
it's very strange that our anniversaries on saw can I

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sing it like it's um um um the flint chunks?
Oh happy? I'm not a Purdue fan, is uh no? Well, well,
Pam is a big ten fan, but she is not
unhappy with what happened to Purdue. Just a few moments ago, Hey,
we had two fifteen upsets. We got three fourteen upsets.

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One of the odds. We're gonna see a one sixteen
upset again. We just saw one four years ago. Maryland
Bollimore County. Their Twitter account has been lonely and deactivated
since they pulled the big upset over Virginia. We're not
going to see a one sixteen update, are we. Well,
then this happened. Tom Moore over shoots. Everyone scooped up
by Roberts and I don't do it. The Knights have

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slain the Dragon for the second time hit n SAA
tournament history. Sixteen has beaten No. One and the ft
Knights are that si Steen knocking off number one in
the East. Purdue sixty three took fifty eight. Kevin Coolier

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West would one on the call, and I throw a
flag on Alex Teischert who on Live Drop Friday decided
to try to start with the butt fumble, but then
remembered I can't do that. It's Live Drop Friday. And
then you played the highlight at that is a lot
of maturity out of you. I'm digging that to growing
him growing. I like that growing pains every day, be

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a better, better man ed t J. Show me that
smile again with the growing pains. Wow. I would say
the best meme that came out of this game was
this is the best day for a Dickinson since he
fought for the cowbell. Oh, it's a great day. And TJ.

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This game fairly ridiculous from Purduce perspective. TJ, Hey, guys,
and produce locker room. Instead of the sign at the
top of the that says believe, I think it just
says Brooks was here. They did have a giant whiteboard
that had a giant, I don't know, fist and forearms
shaped hole in its TJ. Dickinson took Purdue to the

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iron Maiden this afternoon in the NCAA tournament, TJ. Iron
Maid and all night long on a Friday, And forget
the Irish and TJ. Clearly Purdue hiring the wrong painter
to make their house look the best. TJ okay, nicely,
don remember they were once number one in the land.

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Get interviewed and you brought it up, and then they
lost their next game. This is what I think of
when I think of Purdue louse. And we'll get to
the big nuts and bolts of this game in a second,
because this was this showed you something that might wind
up being the next big thing all across college basketball.
But we interviewed Matt Painter last year, right, not this season,

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but last season, And we interviewed him the week Purdue
was going to ascend to number one. Yeah, and he was.
He was a great guest and we had fun with
him and he said, oh yeah, you know. I said, hey,
you have this big speaking engagement coming up, like in
the middle of the tournament, are you going to postpone that?
And he was a great guest. Right, We're going to
get to number one. It was all exciting for Purdue.
Purdue gets to number one. What's happened since then? They

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lost their next game to fall out of the number
one ranking. They lost to a fifteen seed in the
tournament last year, and now they lost to a sixteen
seed this year the tournament to Fairley Dickinson. So I
feel like everything was great. Everything was great for Matt Painter.
Then we interviewed him, and things have gone downhill ever since.
Like you go, you can you can trace it back

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to that day for Matt Painter. He was fun, It
was on with us. It was great with number one
and then look what happened. I feel like we're responsible.
Was it? Mike Woodson, We had talked to you the
week before and they screwed. Oh yeah yeah, and so
that's when you reference with Painter at the interview. Yeah, yeah, hey,
we we talked. Yeah, I remember bringing up him. Yeah,

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you know, we talked to Mike Woodson and Indian edited
and when he goes, ah, what did he said, like,
I'll take my chances or I feel good about and
look what happened. So I feel awful sins either. No,
now they all hate you. Mike Woodson liked the Knick
snarkiness we brought up. Are you sure coach there? Oh? Yeah,
he was great. Remember we took no remember we talked
about with with the Knickson He said, yeah, I talked
to Mellow the other night. Yeah, Mellow's great. The Knicks.

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Yeah no, no, he was great, but now you know
he lost and now the same thing going on with Purdue.
They just it. Really, I feel I feel like the
headline should be fairly Dickinson slash Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon Eliminate Purdue In one sixteen shocker that should
be the headline. You want to get your opponent, your

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rival in your conference to lose their next game. Come
in and pretend and get the number of the coach
and have us call them call the bone. Hey, good
to have you on, coach. We just doomed you. Wait,
what show am I on? No, I'm not on that show.
Put me on? Oh no, no, no, no, like you

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really got me now? Oh no no, David Lee Robins
going no, no, on that show that just kills people's careers.
Uh uh. You know what was fun about watching this game,
and it was you see the two different styles that
are on display. And here's you know, Purdue's Biggs they have,
you know, Big Ten All All Big Ten Player of

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the Year. And here's Fairley Dickinson, whose roster averages six ones.
Like watching five hamburglers out on the floor against against Purdue,
but watching their small ball, how relentless they were. They
swarmed the paint. They were able to get in the
paint to score because they were so small and so fast.
You know, yes, you see this style a lot in

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college basketball, but you don't really see it to the
extent of this, I mean Fairly Dickinson didn't even win
their conference tournament. I mean, they didn't win their conference tournament,
and they are in here and it's and they and
they pull this upset. You see this style, and it's
one of those eye opening Hey, if we go really,
really small, we can just cause all kinds of problems
for teams with talented biggs, because the NSA Tournament is

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about guard play after all. You know, even though even
though you're watching biggs have big games, you can still
wind up winning. And this wasn't like we need a
last gas three to you know, from half court to witness.
This was we're holding on to win at the end
of the game. And for Fairley Dickinson to do this,
you know, you put all those those you know, they
play a three guard offense most of the game, and

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they were able to get to the rack and cause
havoc in the paint. Even though they didn't shoot particularly well.
They stopped Purdue from shooting well in the paint. When
you think they have all these advantages. This is a
real This is just a shocker to show you. Yeah,
when you come in with a certain style, it can work.
And as much as you've seen teams use it, now, hey,
you know we play small ball. Now it's like, hey,

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we can really recruit small ball even more than we
thought and play it even more like this because look
what we just did. Do it to a number one seed. Yeah,
you look at Zach Dy had his way except quick
hands in the paint. We'll get to that in a second.
But your average height on the roster is six one,
So ponder that for a moment. Six one average height.

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And the old adage of speed kills really comes into
play because you saw swarming into the lane, cutting off
passing lane's quick hands with d And then you have
to decide how much you call the slap foule versus
all right agitated gnatli product that eventually gets the ball
jarred loose, which happened to Eady a few times. They

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caused sixteen turnovers on the night. That's the huge number here,
fifteen points off turnovers. And also still even with the
decided size advantage, still had twenty four points in the paint,
so they still attacked. They still were aggressive and pushed
the pace, and then it was can you hold down

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down the stretch? And Purdue ever got a chance to
extend right and play bullyball up by three four basket
and never got into that territory. So a good job
from the New Jersey School because you got to have
the private New Jersey school. You got to give all
of the background because people are going where it's fairly Dickinson.

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And so there's your joys check after financial A the
cost of attendance about twelve thousand dollars guys, so you
got that going for you as well. But yeah, this
is one of those if you're in a place where
recruiting might be an issue, go find go find your
athletes and just work to speed. Because they didn't shoot

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particularly well. There was a lot of things that didn't
quite you know, pop off the stat page, much like
the upsets yesterday. Right, we went through some of the
shooting percentages and some of those things and not exactly
esthetically pleasing, but it doesn't matter as long as when
the horn sounds you can cash in on your prediction
of two nights ago. As the coach of Fairley Dickens

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and did saying, you know, the more I watched these guys,
the more I think we can beat Perdie. It's one
of the great videos ever. It's like, yeah, whoa all right,
then yeah, they're they're they're gonna make a movie out
of this. Fairly Dickinson, what is well Lasso is gonna end,
so you gotta have something? Tell it's true? Oh Man,

(12:22):
twitter it out about a frescup. Mike gets swollen dot
on The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike
Harmon live from the tire rack dot Com Studios. Fairly Dickinson,
another sixteen one upset? Hey Jason? Next, Yeah, what do
you got for you for your teas ahead? How far
did you have them going in your tournament Purdue? I

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think I had them going to like the elite eight.
I didn't have my five. They weren't in my final four,
so I'm okay. Now I'm feeling like I'm back in it. Hey,
I lost Arizona, who was in my championship game, but
everybody else lost Perdue. I didn't have them going all
the way, So I feel like I'm back in it now,
Like the doors opened for me, the doors feeling open.
What ye broke Jason's bracken or Diaz leg Oh wow, Frostburg,

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it's broke. It's broke, it's broken. It's broke, it's broke,
you know, Yeah, Live Drop Friday. I forgot it. Yeah, No,
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with my best friend Mike Harmon. Uh. Coming up next,
we're gonna get into a a a very deep and
needful conversation about big upsets in the NCAA tournament something

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that It's a conversation that needs to be had and
it's gonna make you think differently when you see fifteen
too even sixteen one upsets. Keep it right here, that's next,
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thing we found out Perdues whiteboard did not survive the
upset to FAIRLEYE. Dickinson. It looks like like John Wick

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came and blew a hole through the through the white
board after their loss to Fairley Dickinson. Are we sure
wasn't the mascot's hammer. Oh man. Well, here's the thing though,
two Big ten teams we had destruction of property, at
least tom Izzo's. After it was done becomes a piece
of cool memorabilia that helped spark them to a win.
This one goes to the Factory of sadness. Man, I'll

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tell you this was. This was. This was a shocking
moment with Fairley Dickinson knocking off per Due. We had
a sixteen beat a one. And we just saw it
five years ago when Maryland Baltimore County beat Virginia and
the UMBA. We had the UMBC Twitter guy on right,
it was in charge of Twitter at County was so

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excited to come on the air and talking about it.
It was fantastic. But I want to ask, let's have
a serious conversation here about the the upset Payter's getting
fired sixty Oh boy outside. I feel bad for Matt Payn.
I mean, come on, man, He's lost in the tournament
now to a fourteen and fifteen in the sixteen seeds.
So why do you feel bad? A is well, he

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is it like coverall bingo. No, he can't. And he's
got the hard ones out of the way. It's like
hitting a triple on your first bat, the hard one way.
Nowt to job. We gotta lose to a two, you
gotta lose to a three, you gotta lose to a four.
This is gonna work out three years in a row. No,
but I feel for I mean, come on, man, the guy.
I mean fourteen fifteen sixteen, mean, come on, that's ridiculous.

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That's called not doing your job. No, I mean these
are games. I don't care if you got mismatches and
weirdness that goes on, and somehow you gotta find a
way to let me finish. I feel bad because you
guys want a job. Except that, I feel bad because
he was on the show last year, and you know,
anybody that comes on the show, I feel very proprietary towards.

(16:49):
So the fact that he that he lost, I kind
of feel bad for the guy because maybe you know,
things have gone downhill for him after he came on
the show with us. We kind of talked about it. Yeah,
I mean they ascended to number one. He interview with us,
they lost the next game, they lost to Rutgers the
next game, and now they lost. We should stop having people.
Well don't you really think any any college basketball coaches
are gonna come on? To be fair, we don't really

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go outside of the families often, not even Bayheim's gonna
come on and he's retired. No, he won't come on
with us. But well, yeah, I attacked him pretty good.
I mean I'm probably trying to get one of his
lackeys to get me fires. Yeah. Yeah, Well if you
worked for the same company that he worked for, he
can maybe do it, but you don't, so so you're

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kind of like, oh, man, Coach Bayheim called me, my man.
But let me I'll tell you your God doesn't like you,
but let me. Let's have it. Let's have a different
kind of conversation about their second because moments like this
in the tournament, it's what everybody lives for, right. We
see the big upsets, you know, a two beat of
fifteen like we had yesterday with Princeton pulling the upset
over Arizona, and now today Purdue goes down to Fairleigh

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Dickinson a sixteen one upset. These are always going to
be in double moments because this is what the NSA
Tournament's about, right, This is this is what it is.
But was I really shocked? Was I really is shocked
as I used to be when big upsets happen. No,
because we've seen them now and I don't know that

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that you can even say upsets or what they used
to be in the NCAA tournament, right, I'm not not
saying there they're bad. I'm just saying the reaction when
you heard a sixteen b to one? Would you would
if you would have heard that, you know, five ten
years it was wow, are you kidding? What happened? But
this time the reaction I mean, and again maybe it's
just me, but I got a feeling the reactions more

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of wow, another sixteen b to one? Okay, you know
it's it's it's We've seen so many upsets and now
it's because it's really hard to draw the line because
now when you get a six to eleven, is that
really an upset? Is a five to twelve? Really? We
see five twelve upsets all the time. We see five
twelve games where it's a two point spread, So it's
almost like the only upsets you really see here one, two, threes,

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and four. Once you get outside of that, well it's
big upset. No. Six eleven's on a big upset. That's
kind of teams that are very, very close to each other.
So in fact, the last couple of years, more elevens
have won games than sixes in the last five years,
so I kind of feel like the upset, the the
the the shock factor of it has really worn off
to I don't know, that we're ever really going to

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feel that way like we used to watching this like
oh my god, I'm biting my nail so much. It's
an unbelievable And look at the shock waves that this
is reverberating through college basketball, like Arizona lost yesterday and
we've moved on, right, We're onto the next thing, and
we're onto here's here's an upset loss by Purdue, and
then tomorrow we'll be onto the next thing. The lasting factor,

(19:41):
the the resonance of upsets in the NCAA Tournament isn't
nearly what it used to be. And I think you're
going to see the reaction to this is is exactly
like I said five years ago was wow, oh my god.
And this year it's oh, another one, another one got
got okay, And that's a big thing. That's a big way,
a big evolution of the NCAA tournament. Yeah, money line
I think was twenty one to one, Yeah, plus twenty

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one hundred on this one. And I know the spread
it was twenty three and a half for this game. Uh,
your five twelve seed. I remember doing this bracket breakdown
because I used to do it for dot com back
in the day. And the proliferation and going through the
different matchups and what your history had been. And you

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look at five twelves right now, the twelves have a
They went about a third of the games, a little
more than a third of those contests, so not out
out of the ordinary. These are still momentarily shocking. And
for Purdue, since we now go through painters pedigree in
the history of the program, that now it becomes all right,

(20:49):
this is a systemic issue. Great regular season change of style,
change of you know, the one time one punch that
you gotta take as opposed to grind out a full
campaign of not necessarily like minded building within a conference,
but familiarity. And here you've got a smaller squad, speedy

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squad that even though your seven four guy went nuts,
you couldn't hit a shot and you never were able
to sink into a zone or anything to force the
issue and force Fairley Dickinson to make shot, as we said,
twenty four points in the paint. And so we see
this each each year, and part of it maybe the
disbursement of talent, whether you blame nil like the older

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coaches have as they've gone out the door and wind
about it, or the one in duns and trying to
recalibrate and reset your team's year after year, the transfer portal,
all these different rules and permutations to the equation as
opposed to all right, we're now going after it with
a senior leaden team. You start pointing to, all right,

(21:55):
we got two guards that have been in the program
for at least two years, and all of those things
that we used to do with the checkboxes, they're not
necessarily there anymore. And we've talked about at the lamentation
for you and I, Jason, and kind of an acknowledgement
of how long we've been in the game and well
in the game of life by all these coaches now

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walking away, all those familiar faces, the ambassadors of the game,
the stalwarts, the mainstays, the guys that each and every
year it's like, all right, where are they in the tournament? Oh,
they didn't make it. What happened? Well, now it's all right.
They retired or got fired or forced out or whatever
happened to Beheim or you know, when we looked at

(22:35):
right walking away Sevsky older but then walks away, Duke's
still rolling along and now in their bracket They've got
a really big chance and opportunity here. But the seamless
transition there versus so many others that have been tossed
into chaos. It's just the sport itself is fundamentally changed
so much. And really we're at a point in our lives.

(22:57):
I think many of us that nothing prizes us on
or off the court anymore. Yeah, I mean, the numbers
are always going to be there. Here's here's a game
where so and so is favored by twenty points, and
here's what the money line is on it. That's always
going to happen. There's always going to get that. But
the the overall, the landing, How are these How are
these games? How do these upsets land? We just don't

(23:20):
feel that way anymore. We're still excited. It's it's an
exciting moment and it's an exciting thing to watch and
watch it unfold. But whereas how many and I asked
you hear this way, how many of these upset moments
from the past five years do you think we're gonna
see in the next fifteen twenty years on TV? Every
time you see a big march madness, here's a big

(23:42):
upset shot. How many can you remember hardly any right?
Do you remember the big Ali Ferrochmanesh upsets? You remember
twice Drew? Right, you remember all the big ones when
it was still a shocking thing, and so all of
those NCAA tournament which are now like twenty twenty five
years old, Like you know, you want to see Scott Drew.
Scott Drew is eighty seven years old. Now, I mean

(24:03):
a guy could barely wander. But you see all these
big famous upsets. Yeah, these are all burned in your brain,
Tate George and that happened in the nineteen eighties, you know,
I mean you see so many of these things, Um,
James Forrest beating USC and Harold Minor, all these famous
shots that we've seen that we're used to getting. And
now it's it's well, how many of the last well

(24:24):
there was the you're gonna remember that three from that
we got from from We remember these shots. I don't
know that we are because we're so used to them now,
and there's so many of them that it's really hard
to to to quantify just what an upset is in
the turn anymore. So now if you're saying an upset
is only one two three, four, Yeah, Okay, and then

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we're still seeing a lot of those, right, every year
were still it's not like one, two, three fours are
making it all the way through and the other the
other upsets. I mean, you're still seeing every year twos
and threes and four and now a one, twos and
threes and fours getting knocked out fairly regularly on their
way to the Elite eight. You know what, you start
getting knocked out? Yeah, I was gonna say. I think

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that's the other part is we've kind of shifted, and
it's something we've seen the lamentation of guys like Damian
Lillard and others talking about ring culture, championship culture, etc.
That we push aside a lot of this stuff in
the moment it's like oh wow, and we talk about it.
It gets the twenty four hour news cycle and we

(25:26):
go on because does it materially affect who someone else
still wins the tournament? Right? Another one seed, another two
seed is still playing in the final, or maybe multiple Right,
usually teams fourth seeded fourth or better. And then you
got usually constitute three of the four slots, and then

(25:47):
maybe you got a team that's a little bit of
an outlier or maybe one that's taken a truly the
classic term Cinderella run. But I think part of it
is we we only pay attention to who wins except
in your individual conferences because of the expectation and the
scoreboard watching that happens there, which is why, as the

(26:07):
resident Big ten apologist of the network, I'll have to
wear produced loss. Thanks Matt Painter. Well you know now
that's not on you. No, no, that's not on you. Man.
You had nothing to do with that. Yeah, well I
would have matched up size wise with these guys a
little bit. You're gonna be wearing a Northwestern's loss tomorrow.
It's okay, Mike, Yeah, you know, do we have to
do this again? You don't have to wear this about

(26:29):
schools and all that other fun stuff. You know, we
want you to do it after tomorrow, after you play
UCLA tomorrow, we won't have to do it then. So
let's do we could do it now. All I could
say is I really lamented. I actually said this to
Madeline today. Normally, like if Syracuse would have beaten someone yesterday,
we would have done two and a half hours of
the four on it. I got all of about three minutes. Well,

(26:49):
that's on you. No, well, I mean I tried to
do better and do it better service to the to
the nation, and really I should have made it about me.
And so I regret that because in my life I
go for the past instead of trying to play hero ball.
And I did it yesterday. And you know when I
regretted it, go cast. Yeah, no, it's okay because you
know what, because you'll never have that opportunity again, because

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it's it's never gonna be knocking on your door again.
That's why it's gonna be. It's probably right, never gonna happen,
never gonna happen. You know what, when everybody's saying, you know,
looking for a better man right here, this guy I
served America great. Well, there's also the fact that Syracuse
and Jim Beyheim are a little bit bigger story nationally
than Northwestern. Not really who's still playing tomorrow? Yeah no, no,

(27:34):
that's true. No, hey, no, they won yesterday. That's great.
But Uhheim, But even historically, I mean there's a lot
of early exits that you trump and even or wasted
Thursday nights, even historically. Oh so you want to really
lose this argument by going back to an NCAA championship
in five final fours. And I don't know how many
Big East time. No, no, no, no. But in the
ten years we've been on the air together, not a

(27:56):
lot of those PAL two final fours. And the ten
years have been on the air to gather the PAL
two final fours. Yeah, I mean tight years of wasting
time two final four. Oh, now you're just moving the
goal posts. I'm just gonna move the goalposts on this.
I'm gonna move the goalposts. I'm moving the goal posts.
I'm out. And here I was gonna get Julia Louise
Dryfuss on the show, and a lot and a lot
of jets talk for notice. I mean, here I go.

(28:17):
I was gonna get Julia Louise Dreyfuss on. But now, no,
now for you. Now, you weren't going to tell him
not to come on. No, she was coming on. Now
she's not. No, that's done, she's done. I had David
Swimmer ready to come on too. Now he's not coming
on either. I don't claim him. No, it doesn't matter,
doesn't I I had people, I had people, I had people.
Ravel was going to come on. Sure, I was gonna

(28:37):
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We will have more NCAA tournament coming up in a
few minutes, but a big NFL story today as the
Dallas Cowboys have made a decision at quarterback. Cooper Rush

(29:21):
is returning. Cooper DJ it is once again rush hour
for the Cowboys here and already I saw today the
Dak is unnoticed crowd and Dak's gonna lose his job.
And if Dak sucks again, it's gonna be Cooper Rush
it out of And I'm like, oh my god, people
are just insane. Okay, Cooper rush Is this move is rale.

(29:46):
Tell you all about this move and then what to
really be concerned about. This is a face value move.
This is not we're sending a message to Dak Prescott.
This is not we have a guy in case you suck. No, No,
this was Hey, we got lucky because we found a
quarterback that fits with what we do, fits with our
offensive philosophy. We were able to win games. He didn't

(30:07):
set the world on fire, but he didn't make mistakes.
He got the ball down the field enough and we
won and we bridge the time that Dak Prescott was out.
That's all this is. That's all this is. Wee we
are fortunate. Now the Cowboys are very lucky. They one
of the best one two quarterback rooms in all of
the league because you have a you have a pretty
good starter, overrated, but he's still pretty good, and then

(30:28):
you have a guy under that's a good back and
we asked to come in and play that. This is
a face value move. Now the big thing, and this
is where we get into Dak being replaced. It's see,
if the Cowboys take a quarterback in the first three
rounds of the draft, that's going to be the moment
where you know, now Dak Prescott's on notice because something,

(30:50):
I tell you, something happened with how the team viewed
Dak Prescott his standing in the organization after the forty
nine ers game. It was like a switch flip, just
like what's her name in the natural when she looked
from the whammer to Roy Hobbs. Okay, I was gonna
go get you. Now I'm gonna go get this guy.
Something just flipped. And you have seen a different approach

(31:11):
and an attitude toward Dak Prescott since that happened, since
those turnovers against the forty nine ers day draft a
guy in the first three rounds. This is all right, Dak.
This is you being unnoticed because we made it work
with you a bunch of years ago, being a being
a lower round draft choice at quarterback. And here's a
guy we liked the week ago. Get first three rounds

(31:32):
at quarterback. That's what to look for for Dak. Yeah.
I mean the Cooper rush deal is go see if
you can find another deal. Guess what not a huge
market for Cooper Rush. Hey, come on back, two years,
five million dollars plus a one point two five signing monus.
I think that's actually included within so the but withincentives

(31:52):
he can get to six million, that's nothing. That's a pittance.
So when you already have your pot committed to Dak
and this is where it gets interest. Right, he's got
a potential out after this upcoming season. And for this
year the dead cap was eighty nine million. Next year
still sixty one. But the potential when you look at

(32:12):
his contract overall, maybe it's something that's that's tradeable, movable, etc.
But yeah, that time of him being the unquestioned future
of the franchise that's gone. And last year roster had
some issues. We talked about the departure of Zeke Elliott
and the overreliance on him because of the bloated contract,

(32:34):
and I used that specifically still you know, ripped comparison
to every man like me. But when we look at
the roster, right, they were they had limited depth and
quality depth at wide receiver. It was a big deal
that Noah Brown got released the other day and let go,
and it's like, whoa Noah Brown. He was one of

(32:55):
their top proceivers. Like that's the point. They didn't really
have Guys Gallop coming back off injury. He didn't work
And now they're in the market for Odell or whoever
else shows up. So you put the talent around and
he's a year removed from the injury. This is the
put up or shut up year for him, particularly as
you chase Philly Twitter at how About a Fresca? Mike
gets swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best

(33:17):
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