March 18, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason explains why he’s fine with the NCAA field of 68 because he knows the committee is always going to suck. The 1-seeds in the Women's Tournament are mad over who should be the "Highest' of the 1 seeds'’. And why the Atlanta Falcons are the biggest losers in NFL free agency!
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
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Speaker 1 (00:35):
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NCA Tournament coming up in a minute. But also this
is this is the pre like like when the Super
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Bowl pre show starts really early, like the Puppy Bowl
leading into the Super Bowl. Like we have real live
Major League Baseball Opening Day coming up in six hours.
Dodgers and Cubs from Japan Yamamoto and and Imanaga and
uh we tick off yeah six.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Hours, seven hours and Wednesday morning, Tuesday morning, Fox TV
Wednesday FS one and the games count.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, I mean this is I mean, we did it
last year. I like to think the Dodgers saying, okay,
as long as we don't have the uh, the opening
weekend we had last year, because this was when we
found out about Epe betting all kinds of money. Like
remember the video we saw in the dugout, like right
before the game was epay and and and and and
and broke. They were all like like Epe and Otani,
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you're laughing and okay, and then like right after, oh hey,
uh hey, big scandal here. Epe apparently has been taking
money from Otani and uh and gambling. Wait a minute,
wait a minute, like this was the back to this
was it was a year ago, this exact series where
this happened.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
That was actually gonna be some thought the story for
the first three months of the season, and then Otani
turned out to be so good baseball was the story
for the season.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I can't man the Dutch that really, And I don't
know if it's because it broke when when the teams
were were in Japan and there was a bit of
it association or South Korea, sorry South Korea, but like
there was, but it was such a it was such
a way where this happened, and right away you saw
reports that Otani had no idea what was happening. This
was money cot and now whether that was hey, we
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got to make sure people know Otani's got nothing to
do with this. But that sort of tamped it down
and something that could have been a wildfire type story
that just like instead turns into a Yeah after a
couple of weeks, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
That story's over and we're onto the season.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
We're moving on, even when there was an actual court
date for the guy much later, Yeah, it really didn't
move the needle.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Like we got to the playoffs and it was, oh, yeah,
that seemed like it was like five years ago, like
that happened. It was we thought it was gonna just
take off, the story was going to be everywhere. Instead
it was Yeah, it was a story for a few
days and then we revisited it and then it was
kind of it's kind of over all.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Right, So did you see any of the exhibitions Cubs
or Dodgers over the weekend, they played two each against
Japanese clubs. I know MLB Network was showing some of them.
Shoheo Tani, in his very first game back at the
Tokyo Dome, homered. The Dodgers hit three homers in that
third inning. That was their only scoring inning of the
whole game. They won five to one, and then they
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didn't score in any of the innings in the second
exhibition against the han Hin Tigers.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Maybe the Tigers are the best team in the n
I agree, because the night before in the same place
against the Cubs, the han Shin Tigers not only had.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
A perfect game going against the Cubs through five innings,
they wound up with a three hitter in that one.
So back to back shutouts against the two visiting Major
league teams for them. Very impressive, Wasn't that?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Wasn't that Cecil Fielders team when he was out before
he came back and started hitting, you know, fifty home
runs a year. Wasn't the Tigers team? I think so,
as opposed to Detroit Tigers. Yes, exactly, Well, yeah, anything
named Tigers.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
He was there.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
By the way, we can update the NBA overtime game
winner from Obie Topping and the Indiana Pacers win at Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Everything's coming up next tonight, right Topping with the game winner?
What Grimes had another? How many?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
What do you have?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
What do you have?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Another? Forty? Yeah, Philadelphia loss, Everything's coming up next.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
That other guy named Topping in college basketball?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Does that count?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Sure? Sure?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yes, yeah, it's a transit of anybody who's shaking hands
with the Topping families.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
What about Bernie Topping?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Oh wow, you know he's a but maybe he's he's
more of a candle in the wind than I think
Obie Topping. Now, look, there's been a lot of complaining
over the course of the last twenty four hours after
the NCAA selectricity came out and the field of sixty
four sixty.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Eight was announced.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And you know the thing is, I've never been a
field of ninety six. Guy, change the tournament here, But
this is what's going on in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I can't even I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Even get myself to be that upset about it because
I have just conditioned myself to knowing that the committee
is gonna suck. Every year, the committee is gonna suck,
and this goes, this goes beyond. Hey, when you're arguing
whether you're the sixty fourth, you know because you're not
the sixty fourth best team. You're talking about being the
top thirty because all the automatic bids that go to
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conferences that clearly many of them don't belong in the tournament.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Right, So not say, oh, it's sixty four.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
No, it's different than we're talking about college football, where oh,
top four, top five.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It's a sixty eight twelve ten field. So let's say
minus twenty.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So yeah, top.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Forty or fifty realistically, And I get.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That you were talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Okay, this is where you're at, and you can't complain
in theory that's true, except again my first point, the
committee sucks and they've always sucked.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
And here's why it's different from from everything else.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Here.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You want to compare to what we saw in college
football this last year, what was it? Oh, Miami doesn't
make it? Well, okay, you could easily say when you're
talking about being the twelfth best team in the country,
win more games, don't lose the Syracuse the last week
of the season. A little bit different.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Lose that right, Florida stay with the injury of the
year before only a four team player.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You're talking the difference between four and five is a
hell of a lot closer than the difference between you
twelve and thirteen. Like, okay, now you're talking about which
of these two or three loss teams do week let in?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So they said that North Carolina was the last team in. Yeah,
that's a playing game against San Diego State. They're each
eleven seeds on that line.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
But here's why the committee sucks, right, And this is
why it is because every year they put forth whatever
agenda they want, whatever they want to do. That year,
they find a way to make the argument work for
these teams. This year, clearly, what did they want to do.
They wanted to put basically everybody from the SEC, and
which is ridiculous. You can't go six and twelve in
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conference and go to the nca TO. I'm sorry, I
don't care how good your conference is. You can't go
six and twelve and get to the tournament. You get
two teams. It's kind of in that, right.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
The North Carolina argument, that's coming, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So, and they wanted North Carolina in and they wanted
Texas in. Right, why do I compare these teams?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I understand the NCAA tournament's a television show. The SEC
is a very popular conference. North Carolina is very popular
on television. Texas very popular. I understand that. But like
they wanted, every year, the committee decides, this is the
narrative we want we put in, the teams we want
to put in. How do I know this because every
year it changes what the committee says they value for
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a team. Two new metrics this year, I'm going to
I'm going to change because for a long time it
was about, oh, you have to have the net ranking right.
But then some teams don't have great net rankings, but
doesn't matter. They find a way to get in. Right,
the net ranking is a big deal. Quad one wins,
which is where I'm coming to. Quad one wins are
a big deal, big deal, big deal. Texas is in
with fifteen losses. With fifteen losses, Texas in why because
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of the quad one schedule.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Either way that ties for the most losses by a
large team.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I mean, you can't lose fifteen games and get into
the end. I'm sorry, you can't lose it. But all
the big wins Texas had. Meanwhile, North Carolina gets in,
and what's their record in Quad one wins one and twelve.
So how do you say, yes, North Carolina deserves again.
Do you feel bad because oh, if they didn't have
the lane violation, maybe they would have beaten Duke on frial.
All that's so sad. I mean, the NCA selection committee,
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they simply find the argument that works for them and
they say it right. It's like they're like politicians that say, hey,
whatever I said I was going to do, we're not
going to do whatever I say. I'm gonna put a
spin on these numbers. Well, you know, to get it
so I look good as as a result. Meanwhile, I
don't look good, but I'm gonna spin it that way.
This is what the committee does. They decide to take
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whatever criteria matters to them in that moment to make
it work for the teams they want to put in.
And that's why it's a load of crap. And I'm
and I've kind of gotten to the acceptance point where
I just know the com he's going to do this, right,
I just know they're going to do this, and eventually
changes are going to come because teams are going to
get upset. It's not going to happen now but changes
are going to come eventually because you realize that that
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that this is just it's it's a lawless enterprise, right.
College sports are lawless, top to bottom. College college basketball lawless.
The the committees or the conferences can make whatever rules
they want to, they can go on.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
It's leaderless.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, and it's simply going to happen. That will continue
happen that way until someone says, hey, we've had enough
and we're going.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
To change things. It's like away, it's leaderless everybody. It's
there's all this it's essential. It's this WBC is equal
to this content, the w b A, it's equal to
that conference. There are all these governing bodies and there's
not a solid hole from the top down what you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
If it's just like in boxing, there's all the different levels.
We have the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
We have the A t we have CHAS and w
b A, the WBC, Yeah, we have the w N
E W. I'm sure there's going to be a very
nice trophy for the college basketball crown at the end
of the month in Vegas. But as far as Texas
basketball this season, it used to be one of the
next metrics used by the committee was how did the
team play in the final weeks of the season. Are
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they a hot team going into March Madness?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And clearly that doesn't matter because lost three out of
four and had all seed. Whatever they want to do,
whatever narrative they want to push.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
This is what the committee was with Texas.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
They had started three four in concert and that conference
they went three and eight the rest of the time
in conference, so they get the value of just belonging
to the SEC. But they didn't actually blow you away
in the SEC. And in fact, I repeat, they lost
most of their games for the last month and a
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half of the season.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And nevertheless, and the optic also doesn't work that Hey,
the chairman of the committee, North Carolina's ad Bubba cunning Ham,
who was on the committee, and North Carolina gets in
and he says, oh no, I wasn't in.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
The room when they made the decision.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
First of all, I love it. I love the fact
the guy's name is Bubba and he's an eighty. That's
great's running a committee. Do you like shrimp, hey, Bubba? Yeah,
Fried shrimp, shrimp, kebabs, shrimp in a basket, jumbo shrimp, shrimp,
uh and that's.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
About all there is.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I think he likes golf. I like, sure, I'm sure
he does. Sure, Bubba Watson. Yeah, my dad's favorite golfer,
Bubba Watson. Oh, my dad loves Bubba Watson, loves him,
loves him, loves him.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
That's odd.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
But like this, this story is ridiculous because you can
sit here and say, all right, yeah, he was out
of the room, but he's working with these with everybody
else on the committee, you really think they're not gonna
do him as solid and put his team in when
he leaves the room for fifteen minutes. Hey, Bubba, this
has been awesome. You bought pizza for us every night
for the last month and a half. And we know
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you get a bonus if the team goes to the
NCAA tournament, because what he's gonna make, like sixty five
grand or seventy five grand, is a bonus because North
Carolina makes into the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, yeah, Bubba, thanks everything you've done. Man.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Hey, yeah, but you lead the room for fifteen minutes,
and we're going to make sure that that, Hey, no
one's going to get any favoritism. I mean, come on,
of course there's going to be favoritism the guys working
with the committee. Every day, fifth I go to the
bathroom for fifteen I come back. Hey, guess what I mean.
We're in the tournament. Okay, that's great, bad optics again.
It's lawless when people who are who are from schools
are making decisions on this. That's what I mean. There's
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no independence. I've punted. I've hit the acceptance level of
you know, this is just how the Committee's going to
do it until somebody gets sick enough and foster change,
until they piss off the wrong team or the wrong
group of teams, and then we get real change. Now,
it's not going to be West Virginia, as mad as
they are, this is not gonna be the team that
does it. It's gonna have to be when blue bloods
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get left out of a tournet for whatever reason, and
that's going to foster change, because that's what South Alabama
not getting in the NI tay South?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Come on, how do you know what South hawlibut im in?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
But like, that's because that's what happens in sports. When
something happens to the Yankees or the Dodgers. Rule changes
are made, right when something happens to the Rays. There's
no rule change made when something happens to the Patriots
or the Chief so that yeah, rule changes are made,
but it's not when something happens to the Bills and
Josh Allen. You don't get a first down the the
MVP of the NFL. Oh, we have a big change,
but it only happens when it happens to big teams,
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and you need heritage teams or teams that are pissed
off enough to stir up a hornet says and say, Okay,
this has to be different. Whether it's gonna be expanding
the tournament to go to ninety six teams, but we
haven't hit that point yet, but eventually we will. And
I just you look, maybe that's me, and I feel
bad that I'm like, oh, I'm accepting what's going on. Yeah,
because I know I have no control, and I know
the committee's gonna do this every single year. They're just
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gonna put out whatever agenda they want, and they're gonna
put those teams in the tournament every single year, and
it's gonna be inconsistent from year to year. And now
from team to team, what we like, we like Quad
one wins. Oh wait, we don't mind about quad one
wins if you don't, Okay, that's great. Oh we got
to Oh no, no, we don't mind about that. Yeah Texas,
we like them Northcut. You know what, let's just start
field questions about those two teams at the same time,
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and that really hurts our argument right here.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
They just need people who aren't current athletic department members
to be on the committee, as they have knife some
guys into through the door for the football committee. So
we need Woes and Dodd and see if condo Lisa
Rice is free, and maybe Barry Alvarez.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Oh sure, yeah, get a different basketball Salvarez like basketball,
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rip the knob off. So if you thought the controversy
over the field of sixty eight is a big deal
in the men's tournament, well let's take you to the
women's tournament. What we've seen over the course of the last
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twenty four hours. Now, last hour, we talked about Saint
John's and I said, hey, you know, maybe a little
bit of a inspiration you need here. Saint John's not
a number one seed, which is kind of shocking, and okay,
you know sometimes if you think you can be a
one seed or you should be a one seed and
you're not, hey.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
That helps you a little bit, especially shocking to people
from New York.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
By the way, h yes, yes, yes, well, I mean
look honestly, because there's really there's been two stories in
college basketball all season, Cooper Flag and Saint John's and
Rick Patino, like that's everywhere you look.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
That's been the story right.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Every Monday, and Syracuse sat, dude, no, come on, dude,
we're rivering was kind of a stone. We're in sports
stonehenge right now? Man, where do we People don't understand
Syracuse used to be good at basketball. Yeah, we're a
football school now. But don't you know we're gonna go, uh,
we're gonna go play Colorado in the spring. You see
that story today, you know Deon Sanders said, oh, Deon.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Sanders, right, other teams he wants.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Instead of a spring game, he wants a spring game
against another team, right, and which which, Hey, if you
can do that, it's it simply makes sense, right because
you can play a game and play a game against
somebody else. I kind of like that. And uh, Fran
Brown already got one on social media and said, Syracuse
will come for three days to play that game, So all.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Right, we could have Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
There might be a point spread on that game, Steve,
we could have a point spread in a college football
game in April.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I thought the whole point of spring football, you know,
going receding from the enthusiasm of spring football, was that
you'd be showing your cards, right, and now we're actually
getting a matchup against somebody else. Maybe, yeah, that's the opposite. No,
So people could be transferring right after the game.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
They could transfer during the game. They come out of
the game, Sorry you transferred. I mean, look, I think
that's really overrated, Like, oh, you know, other schools can
get a look at your player and they can leave
in the port Like, if you're in the middle of
spring practice, you're not going anywhere. You had your time
to hit the portal, right, you were gonna go after
the scene. You had your time to go. Like, I
think that's a stupid argument. Again, the lawlessness of college
football in college basket, it's kind of.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
An old argument because it really was. Hey, we were
on the Big Ten network with our spring games, so
everybody saw us as if if they really wanted to
see you, there's no other way, Like they couldn't buy
a ticket to see your spring game non televised.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, and you're not. You're gonna run your app to
the plays, You're gonna run with the players you're gonna
the same.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
It's stupid.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I mean, yeah, it's great, Okay, yeah, you get all.
We don't want to put that on tape. What don't
you want to put on tape? You're playing? It doesn't
make any sense, but that's.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
What Syracuse basketball was thinking this year. By the way, Yes, yeah, yeah,
put too much on tape.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
But I gotta be honest, that is that is something
that I don't think we're too far away from I
don't think we are far away from that being something
regular in college football where teams play spring game against
somebody else. But it's not gonna be where Syracuse is.
I mean Syracuse obviously, if they do this this first game,
it's it's a huge attention. And look, fran Brown was
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the best recruiter in college football for a couple of
years running. He shows up first year at Syracuse. They're
ten and three. Kyle McCord's going to be the next
great quarterback in the NFL. But it doesn't matter. I
don't schower after wins, either show after win. But this
would be a very high profile game right for Syracuse
to play Colorado. Here's the first time. You don't say something,
but are we really that far away from college games
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being where, hey, Colorado will play Colorado State, or Colorado
will play New Mexico in a game where you don't
have to travel very far.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
You can still play.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Syracuse would play Rutgers in a game for their spring game,
so it's not a big travel. Hey, it's easy to
go up for the day or go kind of like
night before.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Why the Cowboys for decades have played the California NFL
teams because they train out here. Yeah, you're playing the neighbors.
Exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
On the college Yeah, like like Washington could play Eastern Washington, Like,
it doesn't matter. You can have these and I think
it only makes sense for that to happen so much
so not only do I think you'll see it in
the in April, but I'll tell you this, how far
away are we from preseason college football games from getting
like a ten days before the season starts. Michigan will
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play Central Michigan in a game. Ohio State will play
University of Ohio, or you'll get Penn s Penn State
playing you know, Temple, you know something like that where
the smaller school will go play an exhibition game or
a preseason game or a spring game at the bigger
school stadium. They'll get a paycheck and Jeeves will get
(21:54):
to play. Right, two teams will get games, and you
know it's a preseason game, so it's not like your
were about the results. You're gonna play a lot of people.
You get to see what your ones look like against
other teams ones for a while. I don't think we're
that far away from it, really. I mean, if if
Colorado and Syracuse or whoever else pulls it off this year,
if they pull this off, other teams are gonna do it.
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Alabama's gonna play a game against somebody. They're gonna play
Valdosta State or something like that. Georgia will play. You'll
see a few games of that next year, and then
it's gonna be Hey, we're gonna schedule late and a
game two weeks before the beginning of the regular season,
and we're gonna play in the middle of August, and
that's gonna happen ten days out. We're gonna get games
like that that We are no more than three years
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away from that being part of the schedule.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
What you've mentioned is seemingly every other non conference game
for Ohio State in September. Anyway, although I am happy
they are supposed to finally play Ohio you, I've always thought,
as far as scheduling regular season, for all the complaints
that happen, especially about the September matchups, which are made
years in advance, of course, that everybody should get one
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mulligan by playing a local team. So if Alabama's playing
South Alabama or whomever around them, fine, you get one
of those. Or Stanford against San Jose State, Ohio you
against Ohio State, great? Do that. Aside from that, you
shouldn't be playing Middle Tennessee State A and M every
November and that type of thing.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
And I would never open in a big game. It's
not worth it. I would never open a big game.
Which Ohio State signed up for?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Texas Yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Sirih like Syracuse this year we play open up against Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Why are we playing Tennessee? Come on? Why are we doing?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's a lot of orange, by the way, but why
are we playing That's not going to help us?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
It's in Charlotte's.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, it's such a risk because in the end, you
want to make the playoff, you can only lose a
couple of games.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
So that's margin for airic.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
It really doesn't help you to play and win these games,
does Does.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
This bring us back to what you were talking about
about the committee and basketball and what they're looking at
is you think that your team has a small margin
for air, so just pile up w's. There is no
such thing as quad one wins in college football. No
go ahead and schedule whomever. Is what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I mean, they pay a lot of attention to top
twenty five, like when they're looking at the end of
the season, right when they were looking at Miami at
the end of the year, going okay, look at Miami schedule. Boy,
the loss of Syracuse was tough. You look at the
other but it's very easy. Okay, here the top twenty
five games. So the resumes in college.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Football, this is who this is who SMU played or.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
The more games you see in college basketball, the tougher
it gets because you're talking about thirty some odd games
and we lost this game in November, but now we're
a different team here. But you can't tell me that
game doesn't count as much as the other game.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Which brings us to.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
What you previewed is women's basketball is so good at
regular season scheduling of tough opponents. Don't you have to
win those games?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah, Look, and that gets us to the Scott Sales.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I see he did their Steve, this is not your
first day here, you are correct, Jason Smith Steve to
Sager for Mike Harmon tonight. So while that was going
on in college football, get ready for preseason games the
next couple of years. If you thought it was controversial
with the teams that are allowed into the NCAA tournament
on the men's side, what's going on on the women's
side the last twenty four hours. I want to step
in and go, you guys just all need to be quiet.
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I get where, Hey, we're higher than a five seed,
we're higher than a four seed.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
You know, we're a two seed. We should be a
one seed.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
But when you have three of the top five teams
overall arguing about the ranking of the one seeds, like,
what are you really doing? Right, here's Lindsay Gottlieb, right,
we got shave we seed we got Lindsay Gottlieb, USC
head coach very upset that USC's one seed is lower
than UCLA. Ucla was the number one overall seed in
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the women's tournament. They lost two games, but both to USC.
Here's Lindsay Gottlieb upset about the fact that USC's number
one seed isn't a higher rated one seed.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I never thought i'd be a one seed and feel disrespected,
but I thought the committee, I thought there would be
very little chance we would be the number four overall
number one. And so you know, we've got a big
game here on Saturday against UNCG and we'll handle it accordingly.
But you tell me if you think that bracket that
we got should have been the one that it was.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I can't speak for the players.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
I think they're excited to play, but this was not
a my bingo card to be a little bit, you know,
frustrated after being a one seed. And it's not, you know,
an arrogance of any kind. I think there's a lot
of really good teams and you got to play the
first game in front of you and earn your way
from there, and that's what we'll do. But sometimes I
don't understand people who make decisions in women's basketball and
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why they do what they do, and certainly with this committee,
I would love to.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Ask a question.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Wow, so Basically, she wants to buy into the final four.
Why are we in this bracket? Why are we in
this bread? We have we have difficult teams to play
in this bread.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
And if you've watched a lot of postseason women's basketball,
the top three seeds essentially all make it.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
They all made.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Although the way they configured things for her USC program,
which is, let's say it again out loud, a one seed. Yeah,
the NCAA tournament that starts this week, the.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Arguing they're not as high a one seed.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
And as La I'll emphasize that the women's teams, unlike
the men's you're playing at home in the first round
and at home in the second round, So she is
gonna have to play her old school cal in the
second round. The way things are going fine USC sensational.
What she's really complaining about is there are five good,
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really good teams in women's basketball, Yukon being the fifth,
the non one seed. We already won at Yukon early
in the season before Christmas. Why would we have to
play them again in a regional can't we just get
a bye there?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
And Gina doesn't want that game either. Gino Riema said, boy,
you really hope you wouldn't have to see USC in
your bracket, but okay, we gotta say so.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Gino's not happy with his seed. Also not happy. Down
Staley King Champs South Carolina. She said she thought her
team should be the number one overall seed.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
UCLA is instant.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
We want to play it. You know, obviously it's disappointing,
it really is. I'd like to give some feedback on
how they came to that conclusion, because we put together,
we manufactured a schedule that, if done right, it should
produce overall number one seed. But I will say this,
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We're going to make adjustments to our schedule in the future.
If you know, this is if the standard is the standard.
If that's the standard, then we can play any schedule
and give a get a number one seed.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Quick suggestion, don't go down thirty to Yukon and don't
go down thirty to UCLA.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, those are two games that you really got beaten by,
two of the seeds that are just as good as
You're absolutely beaten up. I mean, I mean, I feel
like Lindsay Gottlieb and Dawn Staley and they all said, Okay,
what do you want, Well, we want to diagram out
what we want our schedule to be. Here's the teams
we want to play in the first few rounds. We
don't want anybody really good until the final four. We're okay,
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obviously we're gonna have to play a good team in
the final four. Like, go what even in the men's
turn the amount of grousing that happens over that we've
been used to over the past few years with all
we're this team, we're this seed. They don't get to
this point where we're arguing over the level of the
one seed. We should be the number one overall one seed,
not the number three overall one.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Like what do we arguing about? Go win the games.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
You gotta beat good teams.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
You're gonna have to play maybe Maryland and Duke to
get to the final four because you got slaughtered at
UCLA early season when you were number one.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
These are arguments that you use with your team, and
they should never see the light of day because all
it does it's embarrassing. It just embarrasses you. We don't
have the easy schedule that we should have. I don't
know why we don't have that easy schedule. Does it
make sense? What it makes sense. This is how it goes.
You gotta beat everybody.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Don't go back where and start scheduling nobody. That's not
good for the sport.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I'm sorry you played those teams and got boat raced,
but you did.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I don't know what you want.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Oh, we want we should be able to wipe the
bad losses off and not have to worry about that.
I mean, this is just stupid.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
This.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I mean I get that there's certain teams, hey with
our road here, and but this is just stupid. I mean, really,
you want me to really feel bad for you that,
hey we're a one seed board not as high as
the other one seed. Oh okay, uh okay, what are
we really doing here? What are we really doing here?
Just go play games? This stuff? Keep this with your team,
hey they hey, hey, this is where Lindsay Gottlive's got
to say. You know what, they disrespected us. Will you
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play UCLA? You find that you motivate your team that way.
But to throw this out there and say I want
to talk to the committee, I mean, if I'm on
the committee, I go there are one seed, they're upset
there one seat. Wait, don't say these are these are
one nothing had there was no, you didn't. You didn't
mistakenly make them a ten seed, right, and they're still
at you to put a zero night.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Oh no, they're one seed. They're upset about being one seeds.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Huh okay, I guess I guess you just want bye
next day, bye bye bye, bye bye. By this this
is just stupid.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
As opposed to those regular season games we mentioned against you,
GUNN and UCLA where it was bye bye.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports, especially delivery step the finger is everything,
including the biggest story of the night, and that was
the Knicks pulling away and running away from the heat
for a big win tonight at MSG.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Causing a man to vomit. Yeah, hopefully we gotta get
up down Tracy Morgan. Hopefully he's okay.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
He was wheeled off out of his first row seat
at Madison Square Garden. We'll get to NBA, and we
got a lot of games still going in the NBA
right now. But programming note, the Major League Baseball season
starts in a few hours. The first two games in Tokyo,
Dodgers versus Cubs, first game on Fox TV, six am
Eastern Time, then the next day on FS one six
am Eastern Time. Again Tuesday and Wednesday morning, the MLB
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season starts with those two games that count and then
the team teams. He will fly back to the and
finished spring Trader Twins. Third baseman Royce Lewis will miss
opening day with a strained hamstring. Braves pitcher Spencer Streider
dominated in his spring debut two and two thirds perfect inning,
six strakeouts. He had Tommy John surgery a year ago. Boston,
for what it's worth, won the exhibition two to one.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Now to the NBA.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
In the late games, we've got the Suns way ahead
late third quarter at home against Toronto seventy seven to
fifty four, the Nuggets without Nikola Jokic out with an
elbow injury, still leading at Golden State sixty six fifty
four early third quarter. Lakers have a halftime lead at
home against the Spurs sixty five to fifty one, and
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two other games going Sacramento in the third leads the
Grizzlies eighty eight seventy eight despite thirty two points from
Desmond Vane, and late third at Portland Blazers ahead of
the Wizards eighty one sixty four. If Washington loses, it'll
have a record of fifteen and fifty two. New Orleans
is eighteen and fifty one after losing badly at home
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to Detroit twenty seven to eighty one. Chicago sent Utah
to a tenth straight loss. One eleven ninety seven was
the final. New York was down twelve nothing early, but
Cruiz Pass Miami won sixteen to ninety five. The Heap
had lost eight in a row. Overtime wins for Houston
and Indiana. The Houston Rockets had won seven straight. They
were down to Philadelphia by twenty five just after.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Halftime, but beat him in OT one.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Forty four to one thirty seven, despite Phillys Quinton Grime
scoring forty six points. Tyrese Maxi was out again, Paul
George is going to be out for the year, and
an overtime win for Indiana at Minnesota one thirty two
to one thirty that ends the Timberwolves eight game winning streak.
Anthony Edwards, the West player of the week, did have
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thirty eight points in the loss. Jalen Brown of the
Celtics is out Tuesday with backspasms. NHL Tampa Bay shut
out Philadelphia too nothing. Rory McElroy won the players in
a playoff, easily beating j J Spawn. Play was suspended
by darkness on Sunday before were the three whole playoff.
There was a four hour weather delay in the final
round and then McElroy blew a three shot lead and
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had to come back.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Today, it's no problem.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
First prize four point five million dollars back to you.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Thank you, Steve, Jason Smith, Steve de segre In for
Harmon tonight here on Fox Sports Radio. Coming on, we'll
have more NCAA hoops on the way. But straight ahead,
we had some big winners this weekend an NFL free agency.
Who is the biggest loser? We'll find out next right here,
this is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Oh, let's go, Steve.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
We are six hours and thirteen minutes away the beginning
of the Major League Baseball season. Dodgers Cubs. Well, the
met season's already over.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
I'll see you in the NLCS and we'll have Soto.
You're gonna watch last year's superintendants. This year is how
are you getting there? Good luck?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Well, so I'll see you just like it was last year,
and that suck and we'll have sodo.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Good luck, enjoy your soda. Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith,
Steve de Sager. Yeah, just over six hours until the
Dodgers and Cubs get it going.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Fox TV.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yeah, it's a six am East Coast start. You're watching
real lot. Wake up in the morning, going to work
and watch baseball. I think Frostburt's gonna pull it all
nighter and just stay up all the way, right.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
I wonder if the radio announcers hard.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Uh so, two nights in a row, we got the
game at we get six in the morning tonight or tomorrow,
and six in the morning the next night.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah, the second game's FS one, but coming up in
a few hours Fox TV.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
And then we come back and we have two and
a half more weeks of spring training.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
That's right, We're still gonna have the Freeway Series exhibitions
with the Dodgers and Angels and Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Although I think if the Dodgers, you know, the Dodgers
are big business from Ajor League Baseball, if they win
both games, I think I read Rob Manford gives them
a spot in the playoffs. So if the Dodgers win
both of these games, they're in.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
But he doesn't want to give them a hunk of metal.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
No, no, no, no, we didn't want to give that
to an owner.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
But by the way, did you notice that the Cubs
are listed as the home team for both games. They
didn't take a single home game away from Dodger Stadium. Yeah,
I know, these two games.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Here's the here's the thing, you guys, listen. You know
how the Jaguars are kind of like the home team
on the right. Yeah, it's the opposite for you. You're
gonna be the away team. Yeah, so you get he
had seventy nine games. You're gonna look forward to playing
in front of everybody at Wrigley And then the Dodgers
are at Wrigglely in April, and that's it. Actually, the
Dodgers still the home team in that game too, So
it's gonna watch. They're gonna play it at night, and
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there's great.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
But if you didn't hear, Mookie Betts missed the two
exhibitions due to illness over the weekend, and he's gonna
miss these next two games.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
If you watch the next place Steve. We got to
get update on Tracy Morgan. Hopefully he is all right.
He's lost fifteen pounds in the last couple of days.
He's actually a drumming media guys, who is Mookie bets
Tracy Morgan? Oh no, no for us? Okay, okay. So yeah,
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this weekend saw the last of the big hurrah for
NFL free agency until we get to the final destinations
for quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson. We saw a
couple of big moves. Cooper Cup goes to the Seahawks, right,
that was a big move. The Bengals decide we're gonna
pay all kinds of money to two wide receivers, and
the Falcons say, yeah, we're gonna keep Kirk Cousins on
(37:29):
the team. We're gonna give him the money he was
due and for next year he's coming in as our
backup quarterback. There is no doubt the Falcons are the
biggest losers of free agency so far, because this it's
not like we didn't see this coming. We told you
last year. Hey, Cousins is your guy? You're going in
(37:50):
for Michael Pennock student, what are you doing? What are
you doing? You know, you're just gonna have to make
a move here, and all the other pundits and experts
who after the draft pick of Michael Pennick Junior was made,
said well, it doesn't matter. You're ridiculous if you think
Pendick's gonna be the quarterback this year. Is not his
cousin's job. Later, the minute they the minute they drafted
Michael Pennick Junior, Kirk Cousins became a bridge quarterback because
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you knew he was gonna play, highly paid a lot
of money, but still a bridge quarterback. And you knew
Penix was gonna play. And because Cousins stunk, he wound
up playing. So now this is the absolute mess that
the Falcons have found themselves in. We can't trade Kirk
Cousins because well, the money hit to us and the
dead cap is gonna suck. Nobody wants the contract that
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we signed Kirk Cousins for because you know, not only
did he just not finish the season, he was benched
for us. Now there's stories about whether or not he
was hurt, and he was trying to save his pride
and save his value around the league, and it is
just an absolute mess.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
There is no doubt they are.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
The biggest loser of free agency because now they are
stuck with a guy they don't want near the team.
You can't have you can't say we're comfortable having the
guy in the team.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
You can't have the guy who was a number one
quarterback on a roster where the new number one quarterback
is trying to assert himself. It doesn't work in any way.
But the Falcons aside, oh no, because we screwed up,
We're gonna pretend that doesn't exist. We're gonna pretend that
we're fine with this. No, they're the This is when
I think, Steve, really people go to business school and
they make money, they make great decisions. But there's times
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when I go, you know, I could run an NFL
team better than how some people can run it. I
can easily say, hey, if we draft a quarterback here,
you know you're in trouble with Kirk Cousins. I'm not
saying don't draft a quarterback, but you know what you're
gonna get into. So you want to be able to
figure out your way out of it. Because the minute
you say Michael Pennix Junior's name, the clock is ticking
on Kirk Cousins, and it's gonna be messy until it happens.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
So you're saying that people who become absolutely super rich
in business may not actually be good at hiring and
firing and running something else.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
That's exactly what I'm huh, that's exactly what I got that.
I mean, I honestly, Hey, you have the business part
of it, and you can figure out, Hey, I learned this,
I learned this model.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Ye know, Judge, it's the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
But I'm gonna tell you, the minute you take that quarterback,
you just ruined the guy that you said, oh, you're
our future because you gave him four years and forty
million dollars a year. All of a sudden, that's out
the window now and you're stuck with a lot of
that money the minute you say Michael Pennix Junior's name.
That's what happens.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
Now. What the news was this past week with Kirk
Cousins is they guaranteed the ten million dollar bonus for
next year. So people immediately say, well, they're kind of
stuck with him now, except there is offset language in
it where if somebody else picks him up next year,
they may be responsible for some of that, so it's
not like a salary that they would be on the
hook for the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
It's also but he's got a no trade too, so
you got to be able to send him somewhere he
wants to go play me. They decided we're gonna make
this an absolute mess, and now they're gonna they're gonna
live with this forever long.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
They have to have you not learned from the Phoenix
Suns no trade in a cap league.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Man Jason Smith Falcons GM. Jason Smith decided, ye see
that that sound good? Falcons Gmjason Smith decided, we're going
to go in a different direction. Boy, I like that guy.
He really knows what he's doing. The business stuff he
has to leave to other people that are really good
at math. He's not good at math, but he admits that,
so it's okay. But I like Falcons GM Jason Smith.
That works one gift to describe you as the Falcons
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GM go ahead, twenty eight to three, Exit out Vada Fresca.
Jason Smith Steve Dasager in for Mike Harmon. We got
more football on the way coming up next. We got
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Dodgers and Cubs from Japan Yamamoto and and Imanaga and
uh we tick off yeah six.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Hours, seven hours and Wednesday morning, Tuesday morning, Fox TV
Wednesday FS one and the games count.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, I mean this is I mean, we did it
last year. I like to think the Dodgers saying, okay,
as long as we don't have the uh, the opening
weekend we had last year, because this was when we
found out about Epe betting all kinds of money. Like
remember the video we saw in the dugout, like right
before the game was epay and and and and and
and broke. They were all like like Epe and Otani,
(01:47):
you're laughing and okay, and then like right after, oh hey,
uh hey, big scandal here. Epe apparently has been taking
money from Otani and uh and gambling. Wait a minute,
wait a minute, like this was the back to this
was it was a year ago, this exact series where
this happened.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
That was actually gonna be some thought the story for
the first three months of the season, and then Otani
turned out to be so good baseball was the story
for the season.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I can't man the Dutch that really, And I don't
know if it's because it broke when when the teams
were were in Japan and there was a bit of
it association or South Korea, sorry South Korea, but like
there was, but it was such a it was such
a way where this happened, and right away you saw
reports that Otani had no idea what was happening. This
was money cot and now whether that was hey, we
(02:33):
got to make sure people know Otani's got nothing to
do with this. But that sort of tamped it down
and something that could have been a wildfire type story
that just like instead turns into a Yeah after a
couple of weeks, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
That story's over and we're onto the season.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
We're moving on, even when there was an actual court
date for the guy much later, Yeah, it really didn't
move the needle.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Like we got to the playoffs and it was, oh, yeah,
that seemed like it was like five years ago, like
that happened. It was we thought it was gonna just
take off, the story was going to be everywhere. Instead
it was Yeah, it was a story for a few
days and then we revisited it and then it was
kind of it's kind of over all.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Right, So did you see any of the exhibitions Cubs
or Dodgers over the weekend, they played two each against
Japanese clubs. I know MLB Network was showing some of them.
Shoheo Tani, in his very first game back at the
Tokyo Dome, homered. The Dodgers hit three homers in that
third inning. That was their only scoring inning of the
whole game. They won five to one, and then they
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didn't score in any of the innings in the second
exhibition against the han Hin Tigers.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Maybe the Tigers are the best team in the n
I agree, because the night before in the same place
against the Cubs, the han Shin Tigers not only had.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
A perfect game going against the Cubs through five innings,
they wound up with a three hitter in that one.
So back to back shutouts against the two visiting Major
league teams for them. Very impressive, Wasn't that?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Wasn't that Cecil Fielders team when he was out before
he came back and started hitting, you know, fifty home
runs a year. Wasn't the Tigers team? I think so,
as opposed to Detroit Tigers. Yes, exactly, Well, yeah, anything
named Tigers.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
He was there.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
By the way, we can update the NBA overtime game
winner from Obie Topping and the Indiana Pacers win at Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Everything's coming up next tonight, right Topping with the game winner?
What Grimes had another? How many?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
What do you have?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
What do you have?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Another? Forty? Yeah, Philadelphia loss, Everything's coming up next.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
That other guy named Topping in college basketball?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Does that count?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Sure? Sure?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yes, yeah, it's a transit of anybody who's shaking hands
with the Topping families.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
What about Bernie Topping?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Oh wow, you know he's a but maybe he's he's
more of a candle in the wind than I think
Obie Topping. Now, look, there's been a lot of complaining
over the course of the last twenty four hours after
the NCAA selectricity came out and the field of sixty
four sixty.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Eight was announced.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And you know the thing is, I've never been a
field of ninety six. Guy, change the tournament here, But
this is what's going on in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I can't even I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Even get myself to be that upset about it because
I have just conditioned myself to knowing that the committee
is gonna suck. Every year, the committee is gonna suck,
and this goes, this goes beyond. Hey, when you're arguing
whether you're the sixty fourth, you know because you're not
the sixty fourth best team. You're talking about being the
top thirty because all the automatic bids that go to
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conferences that clearly many of them don't belong in the tournament.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Right, So not say, oh, it's sixty four.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
No, it's different than we're talking about college football, where oh,
top four, top five.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It's a sixty eight twelve ten field. So let's say
minus twenty.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So yeah, top.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Forty or fifty realistically, And I get.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That you were talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Okay, this is where you're at, and you can't complain
in theory that's true, except again my first point, the
committee sucks and they've always sucked.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
And here's why it's different from from everything else.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Here.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You want to compare to what we saw in college
football this last year, what was it? Oh, Miami doesn't
make it? Well, okay, you could easily say when you're
talking about being the twelfth best team in the country,
win more games, don't lose the Syracuse the last week
of the season. A little bit different.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Lose that right, Florida stay with the injury of the
year before only a four team player.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You're talking the difference between four and five is a
hell of a lot closer than the difference between you
twelve and thirteen. Like, okay, now you're talking about which
of these two or three loss teams do week let in?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So they said that North Carolina was the last team in. Yeah,
that's a playing game against San Diego State. They're each
eleven seeds on that line.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
But here's why the committee sucks, right, And this is
why it is because every year they put forth whatever
agenda they want, whatever they want to do. That year,
they find a way to make the argument work for
these teams. This year, clearly, what did they want to do.
They wanted to put basically everybody from the SEC, and
which is ridiculous. You can't go six and twelve in
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conference and go to the nca TO. I'm sorry, I
don't care how good your conference is. You can't go
six and twelve and get to the tournament. You get
two teams. It's kind of in that, right.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
The North Carolina argument, that's coming, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So, and they wanted North Carolina in and they wanted
Texas in. Right, why do I compare these teams?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I understand the NCAA tournament's a television show. The SEC
is a very popular conference. North Carolina is very popular
on television. Texas very popular. I understand that. But like
they wanted, every year, the committee decides, this is the
narrative we want we put in, the teams we want
to put in. How do I know this because every
year it changes what the committee says they value for
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a team. Two new metrics this year, I'm going to
I'm going to change because for a long time it
was about, oh, you have to have the net ranking right.
But then some teams don't have great net rankings, but
doesn't matter. They find a way to get in. Right,
the net ranking is a big deal. Quad one wins,
which is where I'm coming to. Quad one wins are
a big deal, big deal, big deal. Texas is in
with fifteen losses. With fifteen losses, Texas in why because
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of the quad one schedule.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Either way that ties for the most losses by a
large team.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I mean, you can't lose fifteen games and get into
the end. I'm sorry, you can't lose it. But all
the big wins Texas had. Meanwhile, North Carolina gets in,
and what's their record in Quad one wins one and twelve.
So how do you say, yes, North Carolina deserves again.
Do you feel bad because oh, if they didn't have
the lane violation, maybe they would have beaten Duke on frial.
All that's so sad. I mean, the NCA selection committee,
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they simply find the argument that works for them and
they say it right. It's like they're like politicians that say, hey,
whatever I said I was going to do, we're not
going to do whatever I say. I'm gonna put a
spin on these numbers. Well, you know, to get it
so I look good as as a result. Meanwhile, I
don't look good, but I'm gonna spin it that way.
This is what the committee does. They decide to take
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whatever criteria matters to them in that moment to make
it work for the teams they want to put in.
And that's why it's a load of crap. And I'm
and I've kind of gotten to the acceptance point where
I just know the com he's going to do this, right,
I just know they're going to do this, and eventually
changes are going to come because teams are going to
get upset. It's not going to happen now but changes
are going to come eventually because you realize that that
(09:11):
that this is just it's it's a lawless enterprise, right.
College sports are lawless, top to bottom. College college basketball lawless.
The the committees or the conferences can make whatever rules
they want to, they can go on.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
It's leaderless.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, and it's simply going to happen. That will continue
happen that way until someone says, hey, we've had enough
and we're going.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
To change things. It's like away, it's leaderless everybody. It's
there's all this it's essential. It's this WBC is equal
to this content, the w b A, it's equal to
that conference. There are all these governing bodies and there's
not a solid hole from the top down what you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
If it's just like in boxing, there's all the different levels.
We have the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
We have the A t we have CHAS and w
b A, the WBC, Yeah, we have the w N
E W. I'm sure there's going to be a very
nice trophy for the college basketball crown at the end
of the month in Vegas. But as far as Texas
basketball this season, it used to be one of the
next metrics used by the committee was how did the
team play in the final weeks of the season. Are
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they a hot team going into March Madness?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And clearly that doesn't matter because lost three out of
four and had all seed. Whatever they want to do,
whatever narrative they want to push.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
This is what the committee was with Texas.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
They had started three four in concert and that conference
they went three and eight the rest of the time
in conference, so they get the value of just belonging
to the SEC. But they didn't actually blow you away
in the SEC. And in fact, I repeat, they lost
most of their games for the last month and a
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half of the season.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And nevertheless, and the optic also doesn't work that Hey,
the chairman of the committee, North Carolina's ad Bubba cunning Ham,
who was on the committee, and North Carolina gets in
and he says, oh no, I wasn't in.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
The room when they made the decision.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
First of all, I love it. I love the fact
the guy's name is Bubba and he's an eighty. That's
great's running a committee. Do you like shrimp, hey, Bubba? Yeah,
Fried shrimp, shrimp, kebabs, shrimp in a basket, jumbo shrimp, shrimp,
uh and that's.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
About all there is.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I think he likes golf. I like, sure, I'm sure
he does. Sure, Bubba Watson. Yeah, my dad's favorite golfer,
Bubba Watson. Oh, my dad loves Bubba Watson, loves him,
loves him, loves him.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
That's odd.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
But like this, this story is ridiculous because you can
sit here and say, all right, yeah, he was out
of the room, but he's working with these with everybody
else on the committee, you really think they're not gonna
do him as solid and put his team in when
he leaves the room for fifteen minutes. Hey, Bubba, this
has been awesome. You bought pizza for us every night
for the last month and a half. And we know
(11:48):
you get a bonus if the team goes to the
NCAA tournament, because what he's gonna make, like sixty five
grand or seventy five grand, is a bonus because North
Carolina makes into the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, yeah, Bubba, thanks everything you've done. Man.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Hey, yeah, but you lead the room for fifteen minutes,
and we're going to make sure that that, Hey, no
one's going to get any favoritism. I mean, come on,
of course there's going to be favoritism the guys working
with the committee. Every day, fifth I go to the
bathroom for fifteen I come back. Hey, guess what I mean.
We're in the tournament. Okay, that's great, bad optics again.
It's lawless when people who are who are from schools
are making decisions on this. That's what I mean. There's
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no independence. I've punted. I've hit the acceptance level of
you know, this is just how the Committee's going to
do it until somebody gets sick enough and foster change,
until they piss off the wrong team or the wrong
group of teams, and then we get real change. Now,
it's not going to be West Virginia, as mad as
they are, this is not gonna be the team that
does it. It's gonna have to be when blue bloods
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get left out of a tournet for whatever reason, and
that's going to foster change, because that's what South Alabama
not getting in the NI tay South?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Come on, how do you know what South hawlibut im in?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
But like, that's because that's what happens in sports. When
something happens to the Yankees or the Dodgers. Rule changes
are made, right when something happens to the Rays. There's
no rule change made when something happens to the Patriots
or the Chief so that yeah, rule changes are made,
but it's not when something happens to the Bills and
Josh Allen. You don't get a first down the the
MVP of the NFL. Oh, we have a big change,
but it only happens when it happens to big teams,
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and you need heritage teams or teams that are pissed
off enough to stir up a hornet says and say, Okay,
this has to be different. Whether it's gonna be expanding
the tournament to go to ninety six teams, but we
haven't hit that point yet, but eventually we will. And
I just you look, maybe that's me, and I feel
bad that I'm like, oh, I'm accepting what's going on. Yeah,
because I know I have no control, and I know
the committee's gonna do this every single year. They're just
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gonna put out whatever agenda they want, and they're gonna
put those teams in the tournament every single year, and
it's gonna be inconsistent from year to year. And now
from team to team, what we like, we like Quad
one wins. Oh wait, we don't mind about quad one
wins if you don't, Okay, that's great. Oh we got
to Oh no, no, we don't mind about that. Yeah Texas,
we like them Northcut. You know what, let's just start
field questions about those two teams at the same time,
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and that really hurts our argument right here.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
They just need people who aren't current athletic department members
to be on the committee, as they have knife some
guys into through the door for the football committee. So
we need Woes and Dodd and see if condo Lisa
Rice is free, and maybe Barry Alvarez.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Oh sure, yeah, get a different basketball Salvarez like basketball,
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Speaker 1 (16:51):
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rip the knob off. So if you thought the controversy
over the field of sixty eight is a big deal
in the men's tournament, well let's take you to the
women's tournament. What we've seen over the course of the last
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twenty four hours. Now, last hour, we talked about Saint
John's and I said, hey, you know, maybe a little
bit of a inspiration you need here. Saint John's not
a number one seed, which is kind of shocking, and okay,
you know sometimes if you think you can be a
one seed or you should be a one seed and
you're not, hey.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
That helps you a little bit, especially shocking to people
from New York.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
By the way, h yes, yes, yes, well, I mean
look honestly, because there's really there's been two stories in
college basketball all season, Cooper Flag and Saint John's and
Rick Patino, like that's everywhere you look.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
That's been the story right.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Every Monday, and Syracuse sat, dude, no, come on, dude,
we're rivering was kind of a stone. We're in sports
stonehenge right now? Man, where do we People don't understand
Syracuse used to be good at basketball. Yeah, we're a
football school now. But don't you know we're gonna go, uh,
we're gonna go play Colorado in the spring. You see
that story today, you know Deon Sanders said, oh, Deon.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Sanders, right, other teams he wants.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Instead of a spring game, he wants a spring game
against another team, right, and which which, Hey, if you
can do that, it's it simply makes sense, right because
you can play a game and play a game against
somebody else. I kind of like that. And uh, Fran
Brown already got one on social media and said, Syracuse
will come for three days to play that game, So all.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Right, we could have Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
There might be a point spread on that game, Steve,
we could have a point spread in a college football
game in April.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I thought the whole point of spring football, you know,
going receding from the enthusiasm of spring football, was that
you'd be showing your cards, right, and now we're actually
getting a matchup against somebody else. Maybe, yeah, that's the opposite. No,
So people could be transferring right after the game.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
They could transfer during the game. They come out of
the game, Sorry you transferred. I mean, look, I think
that's really overrated, Like, oh, you know, other schools can
get a look at your player and they can leave
in the port Like, if you're in the middle of
spring practice, you're not going anywhere. You had your time
to hit the portal, right, you were gonna go after
the scene. You had your time to go. Like, I
think that's a stupid argument. Again, the lawlessness of college
football in college basket, it's kind of.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
An old argument because it really was. Hey, we were
on the Big Ten network with our spring games, so
everybody saw us as if if they really wanted to
see you, there's no other way, Like they couldn't buy
a ticket to see your spring game non televised.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, and you're not. You're gonna run your app to
the plays, You're gonna run with the players you're gonna
the same.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
It's stupid.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I mean, yeah, it's great, Okay, yeah, you get all.
We don't want to put that on tape. What don't
you want to put on tape? You're playing? It doesn't
make any sense, but that's.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
What Syracuse basketball was thinking this year. By the way, Yes, yeah, yeah,
put too much on tape.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
But I gotta be honest, that is that is something
that I don't think we're too far away from I
don't think we are far away from that being something
regular in college football where teams play spring game against
somebody else. But it's not gonna be where Syracuse is.
I mean Syracuse obviously, if they do this this first game,
it's it's a huge attention. And look, fran Brown was
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the best recruiter in college football for a couple of
years running. He shows up first year at Syracuse. They're
ten and three. Kyle McCord's going to be the next
great quarterback in the NFL. But it doesn't matter. I
don't schower after wins, either show after win. But this
would be a very high profile game right for Syracuse
to play Colorado. Here's the first time. You don't say something,
but are we really that far away from college games
(20:45):
being where, hey, Colorado will play Colorado State, or Colorado
will play New Mexico in a game where you don't
have to travel very far.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
You can still play.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Syracuse would play Rutgers in a game for their spring game,
so it's not a big travel. Hey, it's easy to
go up for the day or go kind of like
night before.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Why the Cowboys for decades have played the California NFL
teams because they train out here. Yeah, you're playing the neighbors.
Exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
On the college Yeah, like like Washington could play Eastern Washington, Like,
it doesn't matter. You can have these and I think
it only makes sense for that to happen so much
so not only do I think you'll see it in
the in April, but I'll tell you this, how far
away are we from preseason college football games from getting
like a ten days before the season starts. Michigan will
(21:32):
play Central Michigan in a game. Ohio State will play
University of Ohio, or you'll get Penn s Penn State
playing you know, Temple, you know something like that where
the smaller school will go play an exhibition game or
a preseason game or a spring game at the bigger
school stadium. They'll get a paycheck and Jeeves will get
(21:54):
to play. Right, two teams will get games, and you
know it's a preseason game, so it's not like your
were about the results. You're gonna play a lot of people.
You get to see what your ones look like against
other teams ones for a while. I don't think we're
that far away from it, really. I mean, if if
Colorado and Syracuse or whoever else pulls it off this year,
if they pull this off, other teams are gonna do it.
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Alabama's gonna play a game against somebody. They're gonna play
Valdosta State or something like that. Georgia will play. You'll
see a few games of that next year, and then
it's gonna be Hey, we're gonna schedule late and a
game two weeks before the beginning of the regular season,
and we're gonna play in the middle of August, and
that's gonna happen ten days out. We're gonna get games
like that that We are no more than three years
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away from that being part of the schedule.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
What you've mentioned is seemingly every other non conference game
for Ohio State in September. Anyway, although I am happy
they are supposed to finally play Ohio you, I've always thought,
as far as scheduling regular season, for all the complaints
that happen, especially about the September matchups, which are made
years in advance, of course, that everybody should get one
(23:02):
mulligan by playing a local team. So if Alabama's playing
South Alabama or whomever around them, fine, you get one
of those. Or Stanford against San Jose State, Ohio you
against Ohio State, great? Do that. Aside from that, you
shouldn't be playing Middle Tennessee State A and M every
November and that type of thing.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
And I would never open in a big game. It's
not worth it. I would never open a big game.
Which Ohio State signed up for?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Texas Yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Sirih like Syracuse this year we play open up against Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Why are we playing Tennessee? Come on? Why are we doing?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's a lot of orange, by the way, but why
are we playing That's not going to help us?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
It's in Charlotte's.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, it's such a risk because in the end, you
want to make the playoff, you can only lose a
couple of games.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
So that's margin for airic.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
It really doesn't help you to play and win these games,
does Does.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
This bring us back to what you were talking about
about the committee and basketball and what they're looking at
is you think that your team has a small margin
for air, so just pile up w's. There is no
such thing as quad one wins in college football. No
go ahead and schedule whomever. Is what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I mean, they pay a lot of attention to top
twenty five, like when they're looking at the end of
the season, right when they were looking at Miami at
the end of the year, going okay, look at Miami schedule. Boy,
the loss of Syracuse was tough. You look at the
other but it's very easy. Okay, here the top twenty
five games. So the resumes in college.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Football, this is who this is who SMU played or.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
The more games you see in college basketball, the tougher
it gets because you're talking about thirty some odd games
and we lost this game in November, but now we're
a different team here. But you can't tell me that
game doesn't count as much as the other game.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Which brings us to.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
What you previewed is women's basketball is so good at
regular season scheduling of tough opponents. Don't you have to
win those games?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah, Look, and that gets us to the Scott Sales.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I see he did their Steve, this is not your
first day here, you are correct, Jason Smith Steve to
Sager for Mike Harmon tonight. So while that was going
on in college football, get ready for preseason games the
next couple of years. If you thought it was controversial
with the teams that are allowed into the NCAA tournament
on the men's side, what's going on on the women's
side the last twenty four hours. I want to step
in and go, you guys just all need to be quiet.
(25:17):
I get where, Hey, we're higher than a five seed,
we're higher than a four seed.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
You know, we're a two seed. We should be a
one seed.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
But when you have three of the top five teams
overall arguing about the ranking of the one seeds, like,
what are you really doing? Right, here's Lindsay Gottlieb, right,
we got shave we seed we got Lindsay Gottlieb, USC
head coach very upset that USC's one seed is lower
than UCLA. Ucla was the number one overall seed in
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the women's tournament. They lost two games, but both to USC.
Here's Lindsay Gottlieb upset about the fact that USC's number
one seed isn't a higher rated one seed.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I never thought i'd be a one seed and feel disrespected,
but I thought the committee, I thought there would be
very little chance we would be the number four overall
number one. And so you know, we've got a big
game here on Saturday against UNCG and we'll handle it accordingly.
But you tell me if you think that bracket that
we got should have been the one that it was.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I can't speak for the players.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
I think they're excited to play, but this was not
a my bingo card to be a little bit, you know,
frustrated after being a one seed. And it's not, you know,
an arrogance of any kind. I think there's a lot
of really good teams and you got to play the
first game in front of you and earn your way
from there, and that's what we'll do. But sometimes I
don't understand people who make decisions in women's basketball and
(26:38):
why they do what they do, and certainly with this committee,
I would love to.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Ask a question.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Wow, so Basically, she wants to buy into the final four.
Why are we in this bracket? Why are we in
this bread? We have we have difficult teams to play
in this bread.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
And if you've watched a lot of postseason women's basketball,
the top three seeds essentially all make it.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
They all made.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Although the way they configured things for her USC program,
which is, let's say it again out loud, a one seed. Yeah,
the NCAA tournament that starts this week, the.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Arguing they're not as high a one seed.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
And as La I'll emphasize that the women's teams, unlike
the men's you're playing at home in the first round
and at home in the second round, So she is
gonna have to play her old school cal in the
second round. The way things are going fine USC sensational.
What she's really complaining about is there are five good,
(27:33):
really good teams in women's basketball, Yukon being the fifth,
the non one seed. We already won at Yukon early
in the season before Christmas. Why would we have to
play them again in a regional can't we just get
a bye there?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
And Gina doesn't want that game either. Gino Riema said, boy,
you really hope you wouldn't have to see USC in
your bracket, but okay, we gotta say so.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Gino's not happy with his seed. Also not happy. Down
Staley King Champs South Carolina. She said she thought her
team should be the number one overall seed.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
UCLA is instant.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
We want to play it. You know, obviously it's disappointing,
it really is. I'd like to give some feedback on
how they came to that conclusion, because we put together,
we manufactured a schedule that, if done right, it should
produce overall number one seed. But I will say this,
(28:29):
We're going to make adjustments to our schedule in the future.
If you know, this is if the standard is the standard.
If that's the standard, then we can play any schedule
and give a get a number one seed.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Quick suggestion, don't go down thirty to Yukon and don't
go down thirty to UCLA.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, those are two games that you really got beaten by,
two of the seeds that are just as good as
You're absolutely beaten up. I mean, I mean, I feel
like Lindsay Gottlieb and Dawn Staley and they all said, Okay,
what do you want, Well, we want to diagram out
what we want our schedule to be. Here's the teams
we want to play in the first few rounds. We
don't want anybody really good until the final four. We're okay,
(29:08):
obviously we're gonna have to play a good team in
the final four. Like, go what even in the men's
turn the amount of grousing that happens over that we've
been used to over the past few years with all
we're this team, we're this seed. They don't get to
this point where we're arguing over the level of the
one seed. We should be the number one overall one seed,
not the number three overall one.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Like what do we arguing about? Go win the games.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
You gotta beat good teams.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
You're gonna have to play maybe Maryland and Duke to
get to the final four because you got slaughtered at
UCLA early season when you were number one.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
These are arguments that you use with your team, and
they should never see the light of day because all
it does it's embarrassing. It just embarrasses you. We don't
have the easy schedule that we should have. I don't
know why we don't have that easy schedule. Does it
make sense? What it makes sense. This is how it goes.
You gotta beat everybody.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Don't go back where and start scheduling nobody. That's not
good for the sport.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I'm sorry you played those teams and got boat raced,
but you did.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I don't know what you want.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Oh, we want we should be able to wipe the
bad losses off and not have to worry about that.
I mean, this is just stupid.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
This.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I mean I get that there's certain teams, hey with
our road here, and but this is just stupid. I mean, really,
you want me to really feel bad for you that,
hey we're a one seed board not as high as
the other one seed. Oh okay, uh okay, what are
we really doing here? What are we really doing here?
Just go play games? This stuff? Keep this with your team,
hey they hey, hey, this is where Lindsay Gottlive's got
to say. You know what, they disrespected us. Will you
(30:38):
play UCLA? You find that you motivate your team that way.
But to throw this out there and say I want
to talk to the committee, I mean, if I'm on
the committee, I go there are one seed, they're upset
there one seat. Wait, don't say these are these are
one nothing had there was no, you didn't. You didn't
mistakenly make them a ten seed, right, and they're still
at you to put a zero night.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Oh no, they're one seed. They're upset about being one seeds.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Huh okay, I guess I guess you just want bye
next day, bye bye bye, bye bye. By this this
is just stupid.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
As opposed to those regular season games we mentioned against you,
GUNN and UCLA where it was bye bye.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports, especially delivery step the finger is everything,
including the biggest story of the night, and that was
the Knicks pulling away and running away from the heat
for a big win tonight at MSG.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Causing a man to vomit. Yeah, hopefully we gotta get
up down Tracy Morgan. Hopefully he's okay.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
He was wheeled off out of his first row seat
at Madison Square Garden. We'll get to NBA, and we
got a lot of games still going in the NBA
right now. But programming note, the Major League Baseball season
starts in a few hours. The first two games in Tokyo,
Dodgers versus Cubs, first game on Fox TV, six am
Eastern Time, then the next day on FS one six
am Eastern Time. Again Tuesday and Wednesday morning, the MLB
(31:53):
season starts with those two games that count and then
the team teams. He will fly back to the and
finished spring Trader Twins. Third baseman Royce Lewis will miss
opening day with a strained hamstring. Braves pitcher Spencer Streider
dominated in his spring debut two and two thirds perfect inning,
six strakeouts. He had Tommy John surgery a year ago. Boston,
for what it's worth, won the exhibition two to one.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Now to the NBA.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
In the late games, we've got the Suns way ahead
late third quarter at home against Toronto seventy seven to
fifty four, the Nuggets without Nikola Jokic out with an
elbow injury, still leading at Golden State sixty six fifty
four early third quarter. Lakers have a halftime lead at
home against the Spurs sixty five to fifty one, and
(32:38):
two other games going Sacramento in the third leads the
Grizzlies eighty eight seventy eight despite thirty two points from
Desmond Vane, and late third at Portland Blazers ahead of
the Wizards eighty one sixty four. If Washington loses, it'll
have a record of fifteen and fifty two. New Orleans
is eighteen and fifty one after losing badly at home
(32:59):
to Detroit twenty seven to eighty one. Chicago sent Utah
to a tenth straight loss. One eleven ninety seven was
the final. New York was down twelve nothing early, but
Cruiz Pass Miami won sixteen to ninety five. The Heap
had lost eight in a row. Overtime wins for Houston
and Indiana. The Houston Rockets had won seven straight. They
were down to Philadelphia by twenty five just after.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Halftime, but beat him in OT one.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Forty four to one thirty seven, despite Phillys Quinton Grime
scoring forty six points. Tyrese Maxi was out again, Paul
George is going to be out for the year, and
an overtime win for Indiana at Minnesota one thirty two
to one thirty that ends the Timberwolves eight game winning streak.
Anthony Edwards, the West player of the week, did have
(33:44):
thirty eight points in the loss. Jalen Brown of the
Celtics is out Tuesday with backspasms. NHL Tampa Bay shut
out Philadelphia too nothing. Rory McElroy won the players in
a playoff, easily beating j J Spawn. Play was suspended
by darkness on Sunday before were the three whole playoff.
There was a four hour weather delay in the final
round and then McElroy blew a three shot lead and
(34:05):
had to come back.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Today, it's no problem.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
First prize four point five million dollars back to you.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Thank you, Steve, Jason Smith, Steve de segre In for
Harmon tonight here on Fox Sports Radio. Coming on, we'll
have more NCAA hoops on the way. But straight ahead,
we had some big winners this weekend an NFL free agency.
Who is the biggest loser? We'll find out next right here,
this is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Oh, let's go, Steve.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
We are six hours and thirteen minutes away the beginning
of the Major League Baseball season. Dodgers Cubs. Well, the
met season's already over.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
I'll see you in the NLCS and we'll have Soto.
You're gonna watch last year's superintendants. This year is how
are you getting there? Good luck?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Well, so I'll see you just like it was last year,
and that suck and we'll have sodo.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Good luck, enjoy your soda. Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith,
Steve de Sager. Yeah, just over six hours until the
Dodgers and Cubs get it going.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Fox TV.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yeah, it's a six am East Coast start. You're watching
real lot. Wake up in the morning, going to work
and watch baseball. I think Frostburt's gonna pull it all
nighter and just stay up all the way, right.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
I wonder if the radio announcers hard.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Uh so, two nights in a row, we got the
game at we get six in the morning tonight or tomorrow,
and six in the morning the next night.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah, the second game's FS one, but coming up in
a few hours Fox TV.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
And then we come back and we have two and
a half more weeks of spring training.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
That's right, We're still gonna have the Freeway Series exhibitions
with the Dodgers and Angels and Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Although I think if the Dodgers, you know, the Dodgers
are big business from Ajor League Baseball, if they win
both games, I think I read Rob Manford gives them
a spot in the playoffs. So if the Dodgers win
both of these games, they're in.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
But he doesn't want to give them a hunk of metal.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
No, no, no, no, we didn't want to give that
to an owner.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
But by the way, did you notice that the Cubs
are listed as the home team for both games. They
didn't take a single home game away from Dodger Stadium. Yeah,
I know, these two games.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Here's the here's the thing, you guys, listen. You know
how the Jaguars are kind of like the home team
on the right. Yeah, it's the opposite for you. You're
gonna be the away team. Yeah, so you get he
had seventy nine games. You're gonna look forward to playing
in front of everybody at Wrigley And then the Dodgers
are at Wrigglely in April, and that's it. Actually, the
Dodgers still the home team in that game too, So
it's gonna watch. They're gonna play it at night, and
(36:36):
there's great.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
But if you didn't hear, Mookie Betts missed the two
exhibitions due to illness over the weekend, and he's gonna
miss these next two games.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
If you watch the next place Steve. We got to
get update on Tracy Morgan. Hopefully he is all right.
He's lost fifteen pounds in the last couple of days.
He's actually a drumming media guys, who is Mookie bets
Tracy Morgan? Oh no, no for us? Okay, okay. So yeah,
(37:05):
this weekend saw the last of the big hurrah for
NFL free agency until we get to the final destinations
for quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson. We saw a
couple of big moves. Cooper Cup goes to the Seahawks, right,
that was a big move. The Bengals decide we're gonna
pay all kinds of money to two wide receivers, and
the Falcons say, yeah, we're gonna keep Kirk Cousins on
(37:29):
the team. We're gonna give him the money he was
due and for next year he's coming in as our
backup quarterback. There is no doubt the Falcons are the
biggest losers of free agency so far, because this it's
not like we didn't see this coming. We told you
last year. Hey, Cousins is your guy? You're going in
(37:50):
for Michael Pennock student, what are you doing? What are
you doing? You know, you're just gonna have to make
a move here, and all the other pundits and experts
who after the draft pick of Michael Pennick Junior was made,
said well, it doesn't matter. You're ridiculous if you think
Pendick's gonna be the quarterback this year. Is not his
cousin's job. Later, the minute they the minute they drafted
Michael Pennick Junior, Kirk Cousins became a bridge quarterback because
(38:12):
you knew he was gonna play, highly paid a lot
of money, but still a bridge quarterback. And you knew
Penix was gonna play. And because Cousins stunk, he wound
up playing. So now this is the absolute mess that
the Falcons have found themselves in. We can't trade Kirk
Cousins because well, the money hit to us and the
dead cap is gonna suck. Nobody wants the contract that
(38:33):
we signed Kirk Cousins for because you know, not only
did he just not finish the season, he was benched
for us. Now there's stories about whether or not he
was hurt, and he was trying to save his pride
and save his value around the league, and it is
just an absolute mess.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
There is no doubt they are.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
The biggest loser of free agency because now they are
stuck with a guy they don't want near the team.
You can't have you can't say we're comfortable having the
guy in the team.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
You can't have the guy who was a number one
quarterback on a roster where the new number one quarterback
is trying to assert himself. It doesn't work in any way.
But the Falcons aside, oh no, because we screwed up,
We're gonna pretend that doesn't exist. We're gonna pretend that
we're fine with this. No, they're the This is when
I think, Steve, really people go to business school and
they make money, they make great decisions. But there's times
(39:21):
when I go, you know, I could run an NFL
team better than how some people can run it. I
can easily say, hey, if we draft a quarterback here,
you know you're in trouble with Kirk Cousins. I'm not
saying don't draft a quarterback, but you know what you're
gonna get into. So you want to be able to
figure out your way out of it. Because the minute
you say Michael Pennix Junior's name, the clock is ticking
on Kirk Cousins, and it's gonna be messy until it happens.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
So you're saying that people who become absolutely super rich
in business may not actually be good at hiring and
firing and running something else.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
That's exactly what I'm huh, that's exactly what I got that.
I mean, I honestly, Hey, you have the business part
of it, and you can figure out, Hey, I learned this,
I learned this model.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Ye know, Judge, it's the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
But I'm gonna tell you, the minute you take that quarterback,
you just ruined the guy that you said, oh, you're
our future because you gave him four years and forty
million dollars a year. All of a sudden, that's out
the window now and you're stuck with a lot of
that money the minute you say Michael Pennix Junior's name.
That's what happens.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
Now. What the news was this past week with Kirk
Cousins is they guaranteed the ten million dollar bonus for
next year. So people immediately say, well, they're kind of
stuck with him now, except there is offset language in
it where if somebody else picks him up next year,
they may be responsible for some of that, so it's
not like a salary that they would be on the
hook for the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
It's also but he's got a no trade too, so
you got to be able to send him somewhere he
wants to go play me. They decided we're gonna make
this an absolute mess, and now they're gonna they're gonna
live with this forever long.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
They have to have you not learned from the Phoenix
Suns no trade in a cap league.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Man Jason Smith Falcons GM. Jason Smith decided, ye see
that that sound good? Falcons Gmjason Smith decided, we're going
to go in a different direction. Boy, I like that guy.
He really knows what he's doing. The business stuff he
has to leave to other people that are really good
at math. He's not good at math, but he admits that,
so it's okay. But I like Falcons GM Jason Smith.
That works one gift to describe you as the Falcons
(41:15):
GM go ahead, twenty eight to three, Exit out Vada Fresca.
Jason Smith Steve Dasager in for Mike Harmon. We got
more football on the way coming up next. We got
a big story out of college basketball. Keep it right here.
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