March 13, 2020 • 31 mins
Doug discusses the fallout from all sports being put on hold due to the corona virus, while also acknowledging some of the good that has come from it as well. He also talks to his brother and Oregon State assistant coach about the NCAA Tournament getting canceled. Plus, San Diego State head coach Brian Dutcher joins the show to tell Doug what it was like to be the 6th ranked team in the country and have their title hopes ended.
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All right, kind of sad. We got a lot to
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get to on The Doug Gotlip Show on Fox Sports Radio. Um,
but let's kind of set the table as to where
we all are. I'll never forget my first year in college.
I've played a notre aime, played for the late John McCloud.
He passed away about a year ago. And uh, we're
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watching film one day and a teammate of mine who's
an assistant at Siena, uh Antony wish watching tape and
he says, uh, this is when he had a like
a yard stick, so he would sit in front of
the room, and we had, like when I was pulled down,
projector screens and then the coaches were in the back
and they would have these laser pointers, and in pointing
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out mistakes on a film, he just kind of tapped.
He would tap the overhead projector. Antony wish, what are
you doing right here? And Tom was in the back
probably have a sleep early morning film session. Where am
I at coach? Turn on the lights? Where you are?
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His basketball practice? Where you need to go? His English class.
Never end a sentence with the preposition lights and back off.
He went back talking anyway, So not where I'm where
we're at, where we are currently is in this kind
of state of waiting and state of disappointment. The n
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c A yesterday announced that there will be not only
no n c A Tournament, no n I T, no
cb I, no c I T, no more basketball, but
that there will be no spring sports from this point forward,
which is a stunner. Stunner. Now, earlier today they announced
that spring athletes will have their year of eligibility restored.
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So there's gonna be a bit of a log jam.
Guys that you know we're gonna graduate, or ladies that
are gonna graduate college or play college baseball. That's college softball,
track and field, and these equestrian golf and these spring
second semester sports you get an extra year because your
season was either shortened or just a lot eliminated. We'll
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still waiting. See there is a new push from a
lot of and I was I'd like to credit myself
one of the first, if not the first, to tweet
out like, hey, is anybody really bothered if these guys
get an extra year eligibility? I actually I don't necessarily
think the all the all the seniors should get an
extra year eligibility. It doesn't bother me um like the
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the old Doover thing. But I think it's going to
happen because once you open Pandora's box and you say,
the spring guys, why can't Because the n c A Tournament,
having played in it three times, it's a really special event.
It's it's the culmination of all your hard work, and
you can't say, oh, hey, only kids that were going
to play the n c A Tournament get that extra year.
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The problem with the n c A is they, you know,
among other things, really very little backbone and because they
just they've taken such a beating in the media and
social media. I don't think through any fault of their own.
They're just, you know, trying to take the rules that
the schools put in and apply them and whatever. It's
a hard balance now people have a really struggle to
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understand what a nonprofit is. Anyway, I just think they're
gonna take such a beating over they get eligibility, but
our athletes don't. My guess would be that seniors will
get in a year, get a year back, get a
year back, and and you know they really most many
of them didn't. Half of them lost one game, you know,
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maybe at most two games, and you're talking a very
small number lost three or more games. You know they're there.
Some didn't get a chance to playing their conference tournament,
their n c A tournament. That's could could be between
three four games, depending on the tournament, and then the
n c A tournament could be up to six, although
you're talking a very small number. So that's where we are.
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Here's what I want to do, right. I want to
take some calls throughout the show because I do think
that with all transformative events and rules, there can even
even the terrible stories of our past. Some really some
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good things can come out of it you and and
maybe this is I am silver lining guy. That's who
I am. I'm silver lining guy. Silver lining guy can
find the silver lining in any story. And I'm telling
you there is going to be good coming from this.
Maybe it's the n c A relenting and giving guys
a fifth year of eligibility, which, by the way, Bob
Knight has pushed for for a long time, which is
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why are we chasing guys out of college? Give him
a give him a fifth year, give us a six year.
We don't care. We want guys that want to be
If you're in college, you can play college basketball. That
should be the way it is. Your doctor, a student
doesn't matter. You're in college. You can represent the university.
So the good can be athletes getting a year back.
And it kind of bolstering college basketball, which has really
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really been lessened by so much exodus to professional basketball,
whether they made the NBA or not. It's a lot
like in life. I think people are gonna find, man,
why did I go in the office so much? I
can work from home. I got high people have fiber
at their house. In terms of the high speed Internet, Like,
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did you did you really need? I think all you
do is spend money. You stop, you get coffee and
get a donut. All that time that's spent on your car.
You know, all you do is create more traffic. Plus,
you know, as much as you don't want to be,
you're on the phone, when you're in your car, you
get there. Now, you gotta park, you walk upstairs, you
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gotta get in your office. You gotta get things settled.
And then if you have a cubicle, you don't like
that there's all these people around you in your cubicle,
And if you have your office, you close your office door.
What's the difference in that and being at home? Just
the twenty minutes it took from to get you from
home to you know. The good thing is we may
start to see like, hey, we didn't need an office.
The bad thing is we are starting to really limit
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the amount of human interaction. Like I hear this social
distancing stuff and it makes sense. Guess what, you can't
get sick from other people if you're not around other people.
H h h ha. But this is like mobile ordering its
Starbucks Starbuck. The idea of Starbucks was to be your
third place, home office, third place, Starbucks, Hey Jim, it's
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kind of like in Cheers norm but now you mobile order,
and you know, some places they still know your name.
Someplaces you go in, you get your ball cap on,
you put your hoodie on over your ball cap, you
got sunglasses or glasses. You walk in, you're not shaving,
you haven't brushed your teeth. Your breath is like a
hot dragon. And you go grab your cup and you
sneak off in your car, and you don't say a
word to anybody. There can be good and there can
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be bad from all of these things. You know this weekend,
what are you gonna do this weekend? Spend time with
your family. That sounds amazing until you start to go, man,
I'm really spending too much time with my family. One,
you want, if you have kids, you want them to
grow and have some boundaries between you and them. And secondly,
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maybe most importantly, you know, you gotta have time away
from each other to appreciate each other. There's always being around,
there's nothing to do, and no ball game to play,
and all right, let's go play catch. All played catch,
Let's go shoot who shot hoops? Let's go play ping
pong play ping pong. Now what I don't know. There's
there's gonna be. There's good and there's bad. And in
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this time where there's mostly good that comes from the
n c A Tournament, not just end of games celebrations,
teams advancing miracle finishes, Cinderella stories, getting no players, you
wouldn't previously know that there there's bad of it, right,
there's the letdown of losing. You know, for every hero,
there's a goat. For every guy that makes a shot,
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there's a guy that committed the foul. For every winning coach,
there's a losing coach. For every upset, there's a team
that quote unquote choked Virginia two years ago, Right, Freddy,
every very yen, there's a yang. But there is good
that comes from this stuff, And I wonder what good
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comes from it? Do we appreciate the n c A
Tournament more? Do we appreciate college athletics more? Do we
realize the massive promotional tour that that college basketball is
for these players over these next three weeks, which now
we won't have it. Be sure to catch the live
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Easter noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
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Heart Radio a app The Masters, which had never come
off that second weekend in April in the last twenty
five years. Like that's their weekend. It's the biggest thing
in sports. It's the biggest golf tournament on Earth. Today
announced obviously because of the coronavirus. Start good of the
guy who one of the guys who covers it works
for the Golf Channel, A longtime friend of mine, huge
basketball fan, used to cover college basketball when we work
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together at ESPN. Ryan Bird joins us on Fox Sports Radio.
Um more surprising to you that the tournament was canceled
or that the Masters was moved. I would I would
put that at neither. And I'll start with Augustin National. Uh.
They just never get it wrong, and they waited, took
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all the information and and what I think everyone should
have done or at least put it out there. Like
here's the funny thing. If you use the word postponed,
it buys you all the time in the world to
watch the situation. Gives you time to make judgment, Like
everyone was rushing to judgment in basketball because the other
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conferences were and it was just one Domino and you
look bad if you didn't make it a go. And
I think that ultimately happened to the p G Tour,
where social pressure just became too great where they had
to cancel the tournament. But the Masters, like you would expect,
steps forward and says we're taking in all the information
and we're going to postpone the Masters, which means we're
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going to take in all the information and if the
things worked themselves out like we all hope, then we'll
be able to pick a date likely after the week
after the Ryder Cup in October, when Augusta, nashvill is
actually open. That's when they reopened. People probably don't know that,
but they closed for the summer because of the heat,
and they reopened in October. Uh, and you play the
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Masters in October, And it's another example of them getting
it right and so many. I'm not saying anyone's choice
to cancel was wrong. In fact, it's just the wording,
in my opinion, was wrong. Everybody, in my opinion, should
have used the word postponed. And when they had more
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information on the virus, they had more information on arenas,
they had more information on golf courses could come out
and say, we tried to do everything we can. At
this point, we are going to cancel. When you cancel first,
you then can't go back and postpone. And in my mind,
that's that's the mistake made, just the choice of words. Well, look,
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I understand it's we're comparing too very very rember our
guests in the Doug Galic show from the Golf Channel
Augusta National is postponing the Masters. I would say this like, look,
I understand the n c A many of their stances
are hard to defend. Sixty eight teams plus you have
the women's n c A tournament. Can't do for the moment,
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don't do for the women. Right, so now we're talking
about a hundred and uh thirty two teams. I think
the women are still at sixty four right talking about
a hundred teams plus the n I t it's just
a logistical nightmare. And as much as they try, huh,
why is it? Why couldn't If you're going to play
without fans and they didn't want to play without fans,
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they don't because they don't want to. Obviously, they don't
want to play without fans. That's that's the big thing.
If that's your stance that I'm fine with that. If
if you're willing to play without fans, then a high
school is dealing with the fight. Yeah. But okay, so
this this is this what what I think you fear
doing is cheapening the event, right, because then yes, like,
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why wouldn't you just say, hey, like listen, Augusta you,
why can't you play that fans Augusta Nation. There's literally
no reason you can't play the golf tournament without fans
Augusta National. Zero And I think that interaction with the
fans anyway, right, there's no reason you can't. I mean,
you're the only reason you're moving the tournament is because
of public pressure. That's it. There's zero of the reason.
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You don't have to come in contact outside of the
end of end of round handshake. There does not have
to be any physical interaction between anyone other than you
and your caddy. Correct, completely incorrect. That just couldn't be
more incorrect a golf The reason the pH the players
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was canceled had nothing to do. In my opinion, players
would have been completely safe. If you're Rory McElroy, you
from the time you left your hotel to the time
you got back to your hotel, could have made sure
that you came in no contact with anyone, right, That
was my point. Keep playing okay, because I just left
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the TV compound to go home, and there were hundreds
of hundreds of people in the TV compound, that we're
all eating in the same room, that we're all in trailers.
And the reality is, if we're doing this for, are
we doing it to sit for the safety of the
players or the safety of the country. In my opinion,
this has all been done for the safety of the
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safety of the country was equally as important as the
safety of the players. I cannot if Augusta National goes on,
they're not willing to not put it on television. And
as soon as you bring TV into play, you're bringing
more than two hundred and fifty people in a social
environment and an arm's length away. If I'm in the
TV compound, Rory, Rory's safe. Rory is a safe I'm not.
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I'm not safe in the TV compound. You're not safe
in the radio compound. There's too many people there. So
I think it's it's if we're protecting the players, playing
with no fans probably would have the fight that they
would have been completely protected from contracting the virus. It's
everybody else. Well, here's here's where all here's here's where
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I'll disagree with you. It's again, if you want to
get down to it, it's not about the game being played,
it's about flying there, the hotel and all this other stuff.
I'm just telling you, Like, it's it's obviously logistical nightmare. Right,
they want to do a sixteen team thing. That all right,
good luck calling all those other schools that qualified for
the n C a term and telling them, hey, this
year you can't get in um and and if you
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don't play the games for two weeks, then do you
have practices? Do you have lead up games? Do you
finish the conference tournaments? How do you decide who gets in?
Like again, logistically, the Masters is easy to move. Just
move the date. That's not that hard. It's like a concert,
just postponent. You can do it again for a hundred
and thirty two teams. And you have all of these
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You have all these sites, you have all of your sponsors.
You also have television. Right, you have the exact same
problem with television. It's a little bit harder than just like, hey,
you should just postponent. You can't get you don't get
a true champion. Some of these college campuses aren't even
gonna be open for the next two weeks, but maybe
two month. Like there, there are there are more things
than just there are more similarities, and then it's far
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more difficult. I would disagree with you in terms of
I'm with you. I I thought about postpone it to May,
but then you start to realize the reality of it,
and it just becomes an increasingly difficult all right, last
thing has got to help Tiger, right, doesn't it? Like
I'm not, I mean, for people who don't, I haven't
been paying attention Tigers on the shelf because his back hurts.
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Augusta was very much in doubt he was gonna play
anything before Augusta. Now this gives him new life for
the for for this this golf season, new life that
uh I mean. I don't think Tiger was wishing this
would happen by any means, but um it certainly it
certainly benefits him because it would every report we've gotten
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would It seems unlikely that he would have been ramped
up to winning form by the time April rolled around,
So uh, certainly, uh with the Ryder Cup in October?
Should the masters the move to October? I said today
on social that that you know, we all need something
to look forward to, especially in these times. And you know,
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I don't think it's insensitive to say I look forward
to something. This could be the greatest fall in the
history of golf. Now you know they are going to go.
Everything's gonna have to go against the NFL, which won't
be great, but it's certainly better than nothing. So for
the glue out there, um, and for Tiger enthusiasts out there,
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it could only benefit him for sure. I mean, I
think depending on who you listen to, this is the
tip of the iceberg that things aren't going to be
great a couple of weeks from now, and then more
things will be canceled. So you know, if the fall
is kind of when we can all get back to normalcy,
then let's hope we see Tiger in august in the fall, right, Yeah,
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I can't wait. Instead of a Zilias, it'll be the Mums, right,
the famed Mums of Augusta National. They've got a way
of growing, they have the really ecosystem there. I wouldn't
be surprised that these values were in Bloom in October.
Are you tell you're a family? Hello? Obviously not not
a year in which your cues are going to play
in the tournament. So you're not missing You're not missing much.
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Thanks so much for joining us. Alright, man, safety Man.
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
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the Fox Say? This is Dan Patrick and Tom Current
talking about Tom Brady and potential free agency landing spots.
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I think that this was intimate interest on the parts
of five or six teams, which would be Chargers, definitely Bucks,
definitely Raiders, perhaps to a degree, although I was told
that Cruden is not going to intensely pursue Brady, but
if he calls, he'll listen. Um Titans, of course, and
then I think the Colts are a team that people
have dismissed out really but if they're gonna be kicking
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the tires on Philip Rivos and they're not gonna look
at Brady. What what what are we talking about? Oh? I agree,
I I said, I don't know why the Colts aren't
in on Brady, because you've got a great offensive line,
you've got a great coach, great GM. You're playing off
your games. Indoors to me that if I'm Brady, that
would be the place that I would I would want
to play for that team. Maybe I don't want to
play in Indianapolis, but I think that's a nice little
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soft landing spot. I concur and I think a lot
of gms and team personnel are lying right now because
they do have the answers in house. And there's two
things there. If they don't get Brady, then they don't
want to piss off the guy who was there. And
if they don't get Brady, they get the safe face,
you know, in terms of you know this is this
isn't what we were going to try and do. Anyway. Yeah,
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I don't. I understand that you can't call on a
guy because it looks bad with the quarterback that you have, right,
you just can't. But this idea that he would play
in Indie like the Indianapolis culture synonymous with Peyton Manning
as their quarterback you're not going there. And I understand
that Peyton Manning went to Denver that was synonymous with
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John Elway as quarterback and even played for John Elway.
But we're talking about lay was literally the one who
recruited Payton Payton and recruiting Brady Like, this's not happening,
and you take a completely different system, a completely different style.
Don't see it happening. Fox Sports Radio has the best
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A longtime friend and a guy who I've really enjoyed
watching his his team grow. This year. They were there
last undefeated team in college basketball. They won the Mountain
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West Conference regular season championship. They lost on a buzzer
shot to Utah State in the Mountain West Conference Tournament championship.
He's the head coach of Sandy State. He's Brian Dutcher,
thirty and two Dutch. How would you, uh, how would
you characterize this season? I'd say a pretty good success
dog and thanks for having me. Um. Okay, Now couple
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it with how it ended. It wasn't It's not just
that it ended with no n C A tournament end
where you guys lose to Utah State, who you guys
have beaten twice. You're losing the last second shot, and
then oh yeah, by the way, the tournament had been
moved up like a week earlier. So I mean part
of it at least you got to play the tournament,
but then you you don't get a chance to bounce
back from it, and you had that all that time off.
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What what has this last week been like? It's been
hard dug in the fact where you know, as coaches,
we always have another opportunity to go to the dance,
and so I've been a number of times. I was
blessed to work with Steve Fisher all those years we
went at Michigan, the years we went here at San
Diego State. But when you get guys like kJ Fagan
and Yanni Wetzel and Malachi Flynn that are wonderful players
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that sacrifice part of their games to come here with
the intent of winning, and then to win at the
level they did and not be able to go to
the tournament for the first time in their careers was
kind of hard to swallow. Okay, So how did you
did they already know? Like? Did you know? And then
you told him because you and I were texting right
before it was announced about hey, like you know, because
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there's a lot of these coaches that want let's just
postpone it. Let's figure out a way to get a
postpone not canceled, Like did you so? I? It's it felt.
It felt to me like you got no advanced warning
that it was gonna be canceled. No, I I told him.
I called him before the announcement. I called him in
the morning, and what's the NBA canceled and everyone started canceling.
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I called him individual on the phone and I said,
I'd be shocked if it doesn't get canceled. I feel
awful if it does. But I think that's the direction
it's trending, and we'll probably all learn together. I won't
have advanced notice. So if you see something on the TV,
know that it's something I think is going to happen.
I feel awful for it, but it's the world we're
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living in right now. Um, what's the there's a new
push to have some of these seniors get an extra year.
Likelihood that happens, you know, I think the devil's in
the details, Doug. I think it's a great, uh sentimental
option right now. But what about the teams like our
conference and the conference tournaments that were finished, whose seasons
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were actually over. Are you gonna let all those kids
who finished their seasons come back for another year, another
senior year even though the seasons had ended. Uh what
what teams are not going to go to the dance?
We didn't do a bracket. Is it only the six
eight teams going to the dance? Are we letting them
all come back seniors? Or we're letting all the teams
from the SEC, Big Ten, all the other leagues that
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didn't get their conference tournament come back. And so I
think in theory it's good, but uh, what if I
have two seniors that don't want to come back, and
now I gotta play everybody else in the conference who
seniors did come back? What's the competitive disadvantage? So in
in in theory it sounds good. In reality, it's gonna
be interesting. Yeah, I think it will be interesting. Why
do you think they couldn't postpone at the head to cancel.
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I think as much as the n C Double A
is March madness. They represent all sports, and so to
say we're gonna postpone or suspend the tournament and look
at it later, and then at the same time say
we're canceling off spring sports. At some levels, don't the
spring sports saying wait a minute, you're thinking you still
might play the tournament? Is there a chance we could
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play again? So I think because they represent everybody, I
think that the only way they could go if they
were going to cancel spring they couldn't sit there and say,
in good conscience, we're just gonna suspend the tournament and
see if we can play it. Brian Dutcher, head coach
of Santego State, joining us here on the Doug Otlip Show,
Fox Sports Radio, Sitney State last, and a few of
team in college basketball thirty and two on the season.
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Of course, they, like everybody else, won't get a chance
to play uh in in the n c A tournament.
Do you want to see a bracket revealed on Sunday? Uh?
At first I thought it'd be a good thing, but
I don't know, Doug. It's such a great moment. It's
one of the best moments besides running out for that
first game, is to sit there with your team team
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and see your name come up on that board, your
reaction and who you're playing, where you're playing. It's such
a great moment and I don't know if it would
be kind of a fake thing now if it would,
you know, could we even get a group that large
together in one space without violating some coronavirus rule? So yeah,
I think it would be a I'm torn dug on
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it really, to be honest with you. Yeah, And then
you know, like it looked like you guys were gonna
be a two scene that have a chance to play
Gonzaga in Los Angeles. I almost feel like that's extras
sault to the wound. Well maybe we'll call mark you
and see if we can play a neutral game at
the Staples next year and play it anyway. Yeah, personnel
be slightly different, slightly different, slightly slightly different for uh,
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for for for both teams. How do how do kids
take it? I think I have a mature adult team,
and I think they knew the reality of it. You know,
were they disappointed, yes, But I think when the NBA
canceled and then the NHL and Major League Baseball, I
don't think they sat there and go, well, why aren't
we playing when they saw basically the sporting world shut down.
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I think they knew that they had no chance of playing,
and they just had accepted for what it was. I
also thinking, you tell me if I'm wrong. Brian Dutcher,
head coach Sanior State. You've been around kids a long time.
They do feel like they're more I I know that
the our country feels less resilient, like more sensitive, but
I feel basketball players specifically are a little bit more resilient,
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right they they're used to a tournament might or might
not go off without a without a hitch in Vegas
over the weekend, right, Like this is part of the
au mentality. Isn't a terrible thing because they've lost in
tournaments before, They've had tournaments canceled before, they switched teams before,
they've had coaches changed before, like all the stuff, So
they don't there's not the freak out factor that there
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are for I would say what I call civilians, non
basketball players. Yeah, my two seniors I met with everybody
individually today, and my two seniors couldn't have been any better.
A Fagan was. It couldn't have been any better for me, coach.
I came to San Diego State, the media embraced me,
Aztec Nation embraced me, the city embraced me. I went
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thirty and two. I love my teammates. Uh. It was
everything I hoped it would be. And Yanni was the
same way. Coach. I made the right decision. What a
great team, what a great people to be around for
this year, and and it was more embracing the good
of what had happened instead of dwelling on the fact
we couldn't play. There's been an injustice done. We we
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kind of embraced the good. And that's what mature kids do. Okay,
So embracing the good. What is the good thing that
you're going to take away for this weekend? There's no hoops.
Your team is not gonna be playing next weekend in
the n c atorm. What are you gonna do? I'm
gonna recruit on the phone. Hey, that's what the phone's for.
I mean, you know is down as I am. We're
(28:53):
not playing. I gotta get ready for next year. So
I'm I'm watching the web portal, I'm calling kids, and
I'm trying to uh build next year's Aztec team is
disappointed I am for this year's I have an obligation
to build next year's team and has started today. What
does it do for Malachi Aki, who kid who had
a great season, right the conference player of the Year.
(29:16):
He's going to be an All American and yet he
didn't get a chance to be on that bigger stage
of the n c A Tournament. What do you think
it does to his his his draft draft probability. You
know a lot of the lot of these draft statuses
are based on what you do in the n c
Double A Tournament, so we won't get that opportunity. But
I think the body of work he put in this
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year has him in the conversation. So you know, I've
encouraged him and he told me today, I haven't thought
a thing about it. Coach. I said, well, I think
you've got to go through the process. Uh, get out there,
see where you stand. But that's changing, Doug. What if
the NBA season goes until July. Are they going to
have a combine? Are they gonna fly kids in for
individual workouts while the viruses is still preva went, you know,
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in groups of two or three guys to a city.
You know, so that process is going to change. So
we're we're we're an uncharted territory, even as far as
preparation for the draft and finding out where your stock
actually lies. Brian Dutcher, head coach of Standing the State,
joining us on the Doug Gottlie Show on Fox Sports Radio. Um,
you did lose on a last second shot, right, Like,
(30:23):
how how easy is that to uh to click and
delete from the memory bank. It was last year's conference
m v P Sam Merrill and this year's conference m
VP Malachai Flynn battling Malachi missed a three step in
three that I want him to take. Sam Merrill hit
a step back three on our best defender, and that's basketball.
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It was. It was the n C Double A Tournament
before the n C Double A Tournament. Sam Merrill made
an NBA three to win his team of game, and
it had that kind of feel. And then would that
even being said, Malachi had a half court shot that
rung in and out of the rim, and so it
was like the n C the A Tournament in the
conference final in the Mountain West, Well, thirty and two
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is nothing to excuse the expression sneeze at incredible year.
Congratulations on your season and thanks so much for joining US.
I appreciate that dog. Thank you so much. Hyes, Brian
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All right, kind of sad. We got a lot to
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get to on The Doug Gotlip Show on Fox Sports Radio. Um,
but let's kind of set the table as to where
we all are. I'll never forget my first year in college.
I've played a notre aime, played for the late John McCloud.
He passed away about a year ago. And uh, we're
(01:06):
watching film one day and a teammate of mine who's
an assistant at Siena, uh Antony wish watching tape and
he says, uh, this is when he had a like
a yard stick, so he would sit in front of
the room, and we had, like when I was pulled down,
projector screens and then the coaches were in the back
and they would have these laser pointers, and in pointing
(01:30):
out mistakes on a film, he just kind of tapped.
He would tap the overhead projector. Antony wish, what are
you doing right here? And Tom was in the back
probably have a sleep early morning film session. Where am
I at coach? Turn on the lights? Where you are?
(01:52):
His basketball practice? Where you need to go? His English class.
Never end a sentence with the preposition lights and back off.
He went back talking anyway, So not where I'm where
we're at, where we are currently is in this kind
of state of waiting and state of disappointment. The n
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c A yesterday announced that there will be not only
no n c A Tournament, no n I T, no
cb I, no c I T, no more basketball, but
that there will be no spring sports from this point forward,
which is a stunner. Stunner. Now, earlier today they announced
that spring athletes will have their year of eligibility restored.
(02:38):
So there's gonna be a bit of a log jam.
Guys that you know we're gonna graduate, or ladies that
are gonna graduate college or play college baseball. That's college softball,
track and field, and these equestrian golf and these spring
second semester sports you get an extra year because your
season was either shortened or just a lot eliminated. We'll
(02:59):
still waiting. See there is a new push from a
lot of and I was I'd like to credit myself
one of the first, if not the first, to tweet
out like, hey, is anybody really bothered if these guys
get an extra year eligibility? I actually I don't necessarily
think the all the all the seniors should get an
extra year eligibility. It doesn't bother me um like the
(03:24):
the old Doover thing. But I think it's going to
happen because once you open Pandora's box and you say,
the spring guys, why can't Because the n c A Tournament,
having played in it three times, it's a really special event.
It's it's the culmination of all your hard work, and
you can't say, oh, hey, only kids that were going
to play the n c A Tournament get that extra year.
(03:45):
The problem with the n c A is they, you know,
among other things, really very little backbone and because they
just they've taken such a beating in the media and
social media. I don't think through any fault of their own.
They're just, you know, trying to take the rules that
the schools put in and apply them and whatever. It's
a hard balance now people have a really struggle to
(04:06):
understand what a nonprofit is. Anyway, I just think they're
gonna take such a beating over they get eligibility, but
our athletes don't. My guess would be that seniors will
get in a year, get a year back, get a
year back, and and you know they really most many
of them didn't. Half of them lost one game, you know,
(04:31):
maybe at most two games, and you're talking a very
small number lost three or more games. You know they're there.
Some didn't get a chance to playing their conference tournament,
their n c A tournament. That's could could be between
three four games, depending on the tournament, and then the
n c A tournament could be up to six, although
you're talking a very small number. So that's where we are.
(04:54):
Here's what I want to do, right. I want to
take some calls throughout the show because I do think
that with all transformative events and rules, there can even
even the terrible stories of our past. Some really some
(05:16):
good things can come out of it you and and
maybe this is I am silver lining guy. That's who
I am. I'm silver lining guy. Silver lining guy can
find the silver lining in any story. And I'm telling
you there is going to be good coming from this.
Maybe it's the n c A relenting and giving guys
a fifth year of eligibility, which, by the way, Bob
Knight has pushed for for a long time, which is
(05:38):
why are we chasing guys out of college? Give him
a give him a fifth year, give us a six year.
We don't care. We want guys that want to be
If you're in college, you can play college basketball. That
should be the way it is. Your doctor, a student
doesn't matter. You're in college. You can represent the university.
So the good can be athletes getting a year back.
And it kind of bolstering college basketball, which has really
(06:00):
really been lessened by so much exodus to professional basketball,
whether they made the NBA or not. It's a lot
like in life. I think people are gonna find, man,
why did I go in the office so much? I
can work from home. I got high people have fiber
at their house. In terms of the high speed Internet, Like,
(06:22):
did you did you really need? I think all you
do is spend money. You stop, you get coffee and
get a donut. All that time that's spent on your car.
You know, all you do is create more traffic. Plus,
you know, as much as you don't want to be,
you're on the phone, when you're in your car, you
get there. Now, you gotta park, you walk upstairs, you
(06:47):
gotta get in your office. You gotta get things settled.
And then if you have a cubicle, you don't like
that there's all these people around you in your cubicle,
And if you have your office, you close your office door.
What's the difference in that and being at home? Just
the twenty minutes it took from to get you from
home to you know. The good thing is we may
start to see like, hey, we didn't need an office.
The bad thing is we are starting to really limit
(07:09):
the amount of human interaction. Like I hear this social
distancing stuff and it makes sense. Guess what, you can't
get sick from other people if you're not around other people.
H h h ha. But this is like mobile ordering its
Starbucks Starbuck. The idea of Starbucks was to be your
third place, home office, third place, Starbucks, Hey Jim, it's
(07:34):
kind of like in Cheers norm but now you mobile order,
and you know, some places they still know your name.
Someplaces you go in, you get your ball cap on,
you put your hoodie on over your ball cap, you
got sunglasses or glasses. You walk in, you're not shaving,
you haven't brushed your teeth. Your breath is like a
hot dragon. And you go grab your cup and you
sneak off in your car, and you don't say a
word to anybody. There can be good and there can
(07:57):
be bad from all of these things. You know this weekend,
what are you gonna do this weekend? Spend time with
your family. That sounds amazing until you start to go, man,
I'm really spending too much time with my family. One,
you want, if you have kids, you want them to
grow and have some boundaries between you and them. And secondly,
(08:17):
maybe most importantly, you know, you gotta have time away
from each other to appreciate each other. There's always being around,
there's nothing to do, and no ball game to play,
and all right, let's go play catch. All played catch,
Let's go shoot who shot hoops? Let's go play ping
pong play ping pong. Now what I don't know. There's
there's gonna be. There's good and there's bad. And in
(08:41):
this time where there's mostly good that comes from the
n c A Tournament, not just end of games celebrations,
teams advancing miracle finishes, Cinderella stories, getting no players, you
wouldn't previously know that there there's bad of it, right,
there's the letdown of losing. You know, for every hero,
there's a goat. For every guy that makes a shot,
(09:03):
there's a guy that committed the foul. For every winning coach,
there's a losing coach. For every upset, there's a team
that quote unquote choked Virginia two years ago, Right, Freddy,
every very yen, there's a yang. But there is good
that comes from this stuff, And I wonder what good
(09:24):
comes from it? Do we appreciate the n c A
Tournament more? Do we appreciate college athletics more? Do we
realize the massive promotional tour that that college basketball is
for these players over these next three weeks, which now
we won't have it. Be sure to catch the live
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(09:46):
Heart Radio a app The Masters, which had never come
off that second weekend in April in the last twenty
five years. Like that's their weekend. It's the biggest thing
in sports. It's the biggest golf tournament on Earth. Today
announced obviously because of the coronavirus. Start good of the
guy who one of the guys who covers it works
for the Golf Channel, A longtime friend of mine, huge
basketball fan, used to cover college basketball when we work
(10:07):
together at ESPN. Ryan Bird joins us on Fox Sports Radio.
Um more surprising to you that the tournament was canceled
or that the Masters was moved. I would I would
put that at neither. And I'll start with Augustin National. Uh.
They just never get it wrong, and they waited, took
(10:29):
all the information and and what I think everyone should
have done or at least put it out there. Like
here's the funny thing. If you use the word postponed,
it buys you all the time in the world to
watch the situation. Gives you time to make judgment, Like
everyone was rushing to judgment in basketball because the other
(10:52):
conferences were and it was just one Domino and you
look bad if you didn't make it a go. And
I think that ultimately happened to the p G Tour,
where social pressure just became too great where they had
to cancel the tournament. But the Masters, like you would expect,
steps forward and says we're taking in all the information
and we're going to postpone the Masters, which means we're
(11:17):
going to take in all the information and if the
things worked themselves out like we all hope, then we'll
be able to pick a date likely after the week
after the Ryder Cup in October, when Augusta, nashvill is
actually open. That's when they reopened. People probably don't know that,
but they closed for the summer because of the heat,
and they reopened in October. Uh, and you play the
(11:41):
Masters in October, And it's another example of them getting
it right and so many. I'm not saying anyone's choice
to cancel was wrong. In fact, it's just the wording,
in my opinion, was wrong. Everybody, in my opinion, should
have used the word postponed. And when they had more
(12:02):
information on the virus, they had more information on arenas,
they had more information on golf courses could come out
and say, we tried to do everything we can. At
this point, we are going to cancel. When you cancel first,
you then can't go back and postpone. And in my mind,
that's that's the mistake made, just the choice of words. Well, look,
(12:26):
I understand it's we're comparing too very very rember our
guests in the Doug Galic show from the Golf Channel
Augusta National is postponing the Masters. I would say this like, look,
I understand the n c A many of their stances
are hard to defend. Sixty eight teams plus you have
the women's n c A tournament. Can't do for the moment,
(12:47):
don't do for the women. Right, so now we're talking
about a hundred and uh thirty two teams. I think
the women are still at sixty four right talking about
a hundred teams plus the n I t it's just
a logistical nightmare. And as much as they try, huh,
why is it? Why couldn't If you're going to play
without fans and they didn't want to play without fans,
(13:08):
they don't because they don't want to. Obviously, they don't
want to play without fans. That's that's the big thing.
If that's your stance that I'm fine with that. If
if you're willing to play without fans, then a high
school is dealing with the fight. Yeah. But okay, so
this this is this what what I think you fear
doing is cheapening the event, right, because then yes, like,
(13:31):
why wouldn't you just say, hey, like listen, Augusta you,
why can't you play that fans Augusta Nation. There's literally
no reason you can't play the golf tournament without fans
Augusta National. Zero And I think that interaction with the
fans anyway, right, there's no reason you can't. I mean,
you're the only reason you're moving the tournament is because
of public pressure. That's it. There's zero of the reason.
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You don't have to come in contact outside of the
end of end of round handshake. There does not have
to be any physical interaction between anyone other than you
and your caddy. Correct, completely incorrect. That just couldn't be
more incorrect a golf The reason the pH the players
(14:15):
was canceled had nothing to do. In my opinion, players
would have been completely safe. If you're Rory McElroy, you
from the time you left your hotel to the time
you got back to your hotel, could have made sure
that you came in no contact with anyone, right, That
was my point. Keep playing okay, because I just left
(14:39):
the TV compound to go home, and there were hundreds
of hundreds of people in the TV compound, that we're
all eating in the same room, that we're all in trailers.
And the reality is, if we're doing this for, are
we doing it to sit for the safety of the
players or the safety of the country. In my opinion,
this has all been done for the safety of the
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safety of the country was equally as important as the
safety of the players. I cannot if Augusta National goes on,
they're not willing to not put it on television. And
as soon as you bring TV into play, you're bringing
more than two hundred and fifty people in a social
environment and an arm's length away. If I'm in the
TV compound, Rory, Rory's safe. Rory is a safe I'm not.
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I'm not safe in the TV compound. You're not safe
in the radio compound. There's too many people there. So
I think it's it's if we're protecting the players, playing
with no fans probably would have the fight that they
would have been completely protected from contracting the virus. It's
everybody else. Well, here's here's where all here's here's where
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I'll disagree with you. It's again, if you want to
get down to it, it's not about the game being played,
it's about flying there, the hotel and all this other stuff.
I'm just telling you, Like, it's it's obviously logistical nightmare. Right,
they want to do a sixteen team thing. That all right,
good luck calling all those other schools that qualified for
the n C a term and telling them, hey, this
year you can't get in um and and if you
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don't play the games for two weeks, then do you
have practices? Do you have lead up games? Do you
finish the conference tournaments? How do you decide who gets in?
Like again, logistically, the Masters is easy to move. Just
move the date. That's not that hard. It's like a concert,
just postponent. You can do it again for a hundred
and thirty two teams. And you have all of these
(16:33):
You have all these sites, you have all of your sponsors.
You also have television. Right, you have the exact same
problem with television. It's a little bit harder than just like, hey,
you should just postponent. You can't get you don't get
a true champion. Some of these college campuses aren't even
gonna be open for the next two weeks, but maybe
two month. Like there, there are there are more things
than just there are more similarities, and then it's far
(16:55):
more difficult. I would disagree with you in terms of
I'm with you. I I thought about postpone it to May,
but then you start to realize the reality of it,
and it just becomes an increasingly difficult all right, last
thing has got to help Tiger, right, doesn't it? Like
I'm not, I mean, for people who don't, I haven't
been paying attention Tigers on the shelf because his back hurts.
(17:16):
Augusta was very much in doubt he was gonna play
anything before Augusta. Now this gives him new life for
the for for this this golf season, new life that
uh I mean. I don't think Tiger was wishing this
would happen by any means, but um it certainly it
certainly benefits him because it would every report we've gotten
(17:37):
would It seems unlikely that he would have been ramped
up to winning form by the time April rolled around,
So uh, certainly, uh with the Ryder Cup in October?
Should the masters the move to October? I said today
on social that that you know, we all need something
to look forward to, especially in these times. And you know,
(18:00):
I don't think it's insensitive to say I look forward
to something. This could be the greatest fall in the
history of golf. Now you know they are going to go.
Everything's gonna have to go against the NFL, which won't
be great, but it's certainly better than nothing. So for
the glue out there, um, and for Tiger enthusiasts out there,
(18:22):
it could only benefit him for sure. I mean, I
think depending on who you listen to, this is the
tip of the iceberg that things aren't going to be
great a couple of weeks from now, and then more
things will be canceled. So you know, if the fall
is kind of when we can all get back to normalcy,
then let's hope we see Tiger in august in the fall, right, Yeah,
(18:44):
I can't wait. Instead of a Zilias, it'll be the Mums, right,
the famed Mums of Augusta National. They've got a way
of growing, they have the really ecosystem there. I wouldn't
be surprised that these values were in Bloom in October.
Are you tell you're a family? Hello? Obviously not not
a year in which your cues are going to play
in the tournament. So you're not missing You're not missing much.
(19:06):
Thanks so much for joining us. Alright, man, safety Man.
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the Fox Say? This is Dan Patrick and Tom Current
talking about Tom Brady and potential free agency landing spots.
(19:29):
I think that this was intimate interest on the parts
of five or six teams, which would be Chargers, definitely Bucks,
definitely Raiders, perhaps to a degree, although I was told
that Cruden is not going to intensely pursue Brady, but
if he calls, he'll listen. Um Titans, of course, and
then I think the Colts are a team that people
have dismissed out really but if they're gonna be kicking
(19:49):
the tires on Philip Rivos and they're not gonna look
at Brady. What what what are we talking about? Oh? I agree,
I I said, I don't know why the Colts aren't
in on Brady, because you've got a great offensive line,
you've got a great coach, great GM. You're playing off
your games. Indoors to me that if I'm Brady, that
would be the place that I would I would want
to play for that team. Maybe I don't want to
play in Indianapolis, but I think that's a nice little
(20:11):
soft landing spot. I concur and I think a lot
of gms and team personnel are lying right now because
they do have the answers in house. And there's two
things there. If they don't get Brady, then they don't
want to piss off the guy who was there. And
if they don't get Brady, they get the safe face,
you know, in terms of you know this is this
isn't what we were going to try and do. Anyway. Yeah,
(20:34):
I don't. I understand that you can't call on a
guy because it looks bad with the quarterback that you have, right,
you just can't. But this idea that he would play
in Indie like the Indianapolis culture synonymous with Peyton Manning
as their quarterback you're not going there. And I understand
that Peyton Manning went to Denver that was synonymous with
(20:57):
John Elway as quarterback and even played for John Elway.
But we're talking about lay was literally the one who
recruited Payton Payton and recruiting Brady Like, this's not happening,
and you take a completely different system, a completely different style.
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A longtime friend and a guy who I've really enjoyed
watching his his team grow. This year. They were there
last undefeated team in college basketball. They won the Mountain
(21:41):
West Conference regular season championship. They lost on a buzzer
shot to Utah State in the Mountain West Conference Tournament championship.
He's the head coach of Sandy State. He's Brian Dutcher,
thirty and two Dutch. How would you, uh, how would
you characterize this season? I'd say a pretty good success
dog and thanks for having me. Um. Okay, Now couple
(22:03):
it with how it ended. It wasn't It's not just
that it ended with no n C A tournament end
where you guys lose to Utah State, who you guys
have beaten twice. You're losing the last second shot, and
then oh yeah, by the way, the tournament had been
moved up like a week earlier. So I mean part
of it at least you got to play the tournament,
but then you you don't get a chance to bounce
back from it, and you had that all that time off.
(22:23):
What what has this last week been like? It's been
hard dug in the fact where you know, as coaches,
we always have another opportunity to go to the dance,
and so I've been a number of times. I was
blessed to work with Steve Fisher all those years we
went at Michigan, the years we went here at San
Diego State. But when you get guys like kJ Fagan
and Yanni Wetzel and Malachi Flynn that are wonderful players
(22:48):
that sacrifice part of their games to come here with
the intent of winning, and then to win at the
level they did and not be able to go to
the tournament for the first time in their careers was
kind of hard to swallow. Okay, So how did you
did they already know? Like? Did you know? And then
you told him because you and I were texting right
before it was announced about hey, like you know, because
(23:09):
there's a lot of these coaches that want let's just
postpone it. Let's figure out a way to get a
postpone not canceled, Like did you so? I? It's it felt.
It felt to me like you got no advanced warning
that it was gonna be canceled. No, I I told him.
I called him before the announcement. I called him in
the morning, and what's the NBA canceled and everyone started canceling.
(23:30):
I called him individual on the phone and I said,
I'd be shocked if it doesn't get canceled. I feel
awful if it does. But I think that's the direction
it's trending, and we'll probably all learn together. I won't
have advanced notice. So if you see something on the TV,
know that it's something I think is going to happen.
I feel awful for it, but it's the world we're
(23:50):
living in right now. Um, what's the there's a new
push to have some of these seniors get an extra year.
Likelihood that happens, you know, I think the devil's in
the details, Doug. I think it's a great, uh sentimental
option right now. But what about the teams like our
conference and the conference tournaments that were finished, whose seasons
(24:11):
were actually over. Are you gonna let all those kids
who finished their seasons come back for another year, another
senior year even though the seasons had ended. Uh what
what teams are not going to go to the dance?
We didn't do a bracket. Is it only the six
eight teams going to the dance? Are we letting them
all come back seniors? Or we're letting all the teams
from the SEC, Big Ten, all the other leagues that
(24:33):
didn't get their conference tournament come back. And so I
think in theory it's good, but uh, what if I
have two seniors that don't want to come back, and
now I gotta play everybody else in the conference who
seniors did come back? What's the competitive disadvantage? So in
in in theory it sounds good. In reality, it's gonna
be interesting. Yeah, I think it will be interesting. Why
do you think they couldn't postpone at the head to cancel.
(24:56):
I think as much as the n C Double A
is March madness. They represent all sports, and so to
say we're gonna postpone or suspend the tournament and look
at it later, and then at the same time say
we're canceling off spring sports. At some levels, don't the
spring sports saying wait a minute, you're thinking you still
might play the tournament? Is there a chance we could
(25:18):
play again? So I think because they represent everybody, I
think that the only way they could go if they
were going to cancel spring they couldn't sit there and say,
in good conscience, we're just gonna suspend the tournament and
see if we can play it. Brian Dutcher, head coach
of Santego State, joining us here on the Doug Otlip Show,
Fox Sports Radio, Sitney State last, and a few of
team in college basketball thirty and two on the season.
(25:38):
Of course, they, like everybody else, won't get a chance
to play uh in in the n c A tournament.
Do you want to see a bracket revealed on Sunday? Uh?
At first I thought it'd be a good thing, but
I don't know, Doug. It's such a great moment. It's
one of the best moments besides running out for that
first game, is to sit there with your team team
(26:00):
and see your name come up on that board, your
reaction and who you're playing, where you're playing. It's such
a great moment and I don't know if it would
be kind of a fake thing now if it would,
you know, could we even get a group that large
together in one space without violating some coronavirus rule? So yeah,
I think it would be a I'm torn dug on
(26:21):
it really, to be honest with you. Yeah, And then
you know, like it looked like you guys were gonna
be a two scene that have a chance to play
Gonzaga in Los Angeles. I almost feel like that's extras
sault to the wound. Well maybe we'll call mark you
and see if we can play a neutral game at
the Staples next year and play it anyway. Yeah, personnel
be slightly different, slightly different, slightly slightly different for uh,
(26:42):
for for for both teams. How do how do kids
take it? I think I have a mature adult team,
and I think they knew the reality of it. You know,
were they disappointed, yes, But I think when the NBA
canceled and then the NHL and Major League Baseball, I
don't think they sat there and go, well, why aren't
we playing when they saw basically the sporting world shut down.
(27:06):
I think they knew that they had no chance of playing,
and they just had accepted for what it was. I
also thinking, you tell me if I'm wrong. Brian Dutcher,
head coach Sanior State. You've been around kids a long time.
They do feel like they're more I I know that
the our country feels less resilient, like more sensitive, but
I feel basketball players specifically are a little bit more resilient,
(27:27):
right they they're used to a tournament might or might
not go off without a without a hitch in Vegas
over the weekend, right, Like this is part of the
au mentality. Isn't a terrible thing because they've lost in
tournaments before, They've had tournaments canceled before, they switched teams before,
they've had coaches changed before, like all the stuff, So
they don't there's not the freak out factor that there
(27:49):
are for I would say what I call civilians, non
basketball players. Yeah, my two seniors I met with everybody
individually today, and my two seniors couldn't have been any better.
A Fagan was. It couldn't have been any better for me, coach.
I came to San Diego State, the media embraced me,
Aztec Nation embraced me, the city embraced me. I went
(28:10):
thirty and two. I love my teammates. Uh. It was
everything I hoped it would be. And Yanni was the
same way. Coach. I made the right decision. What a
great team, what a great people to be around for
this year, and and it was more embracing the good
of what had happened instead of dwelling on the fact
we couldn't play. There's been an injustice done. We we
(28:32):
kind of embraced the good. And that's what mature kids do. Okay,
So embracing the good. What is the good thing that
you're going to take away for this weekend? There's no hoops.
Your team is not gonna be playing next weekend in
the n c atorm. What are you gonna do? I'm
gonna recruit on the phone. Hey, that's what the phone's for.
I mean, you know is down as I am. We're
(28:53):
not playing. I gotta get ready for next year. So
I'm I'm watching the web portal, I'm calling kids, and
I'm trying to uh build next year's Aztec team is
disappointed I am for this year's I have an obligation
to build next year's team and has started today. What
does it do for Malachi Aki, who kid who had
a great season, right the conference player of the Year.
(29:16):
He's going to be an All American and yet he
didn't get a chance to be on that bigger stage
of the n c A Tournament. What do you think
it does to his his his draft draft probability. You
know a lot of the lot of these draft statuses
are based on what you do in the n c
Double A Tournament, so we won't get that opportunity. But
I think the body of work he put in this
(29:37):
year has him in the conversation. So you know, I've
encouraged him and he told me today, I haven't thought
a thing about it. Coach. I said, well, I think
you've got to go through the process. Uh, get out there,
see where you stand. But that's changing, Doug. What if
the NBA season goes until July. Are they going to
have a combine? Are they gonna fly kids in for
individual workouts while the viruses is still preva went, you know,
(30:01):
in groups of two or three guys to a city.
You know, so that process is going to change. So
we're we're we're an uncharted territory, even as far as
preparation for the draft and finding out where your stock
actually lies. Brian Dutcher, head coach of Standing the State,
joining us on the Doug Gottlie Show on Fox Sports Radio. Um,
you did lose on a last second shot, right, Like,
(30:23):
how how easy is that to uh to click and
delete from the memory bank. It was last year's conference
m v P Sam Merrill and this year's conference m
VP Malachai Flynn battling Malachi missed a three step in
three that I want him to take. Sam Merrill hit
a step back three on our best defender, and that's basketball.
(30:45):
It was. It was the n C Double A Tournament
before the n C Double A Tournament. Sam Merrill made
an NBA three to win his team of game, and
it had that kind of feel. And then would that
even being said, Malachi had a half court shot that
rung in and out of the rim, and so it
was like the n C the A Tournament in the
conference final in the Mountain West, Well, thirty and two
(31:06):
is nothing to excuse the expression sneeze at incredible year.
Congratulations on your season and thanks so much for joining US.
I appreciate that dog. Thank you so much. Hyes, Brian
Dutcher
Host
Doug Gottlieb
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