11/19/25: Mo Egger with Rick Broering, on XU and NKU Basketball

Rick Broering joined us from somewhere in Ohio to talk about Xavier and NKU Basketball. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's pretend that we're going to talk about football with
Rick Brory. This place we have found Rick. Rick is
in routes. He's gonna call the game tomorrow NKU versus
Central Michigan, the alma mater of Dan Marley, the alma
mater of Fox nineteen meteorologist Katherine Bodak.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
That game is tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Rick obviously also the proprietor of Musketeer report dot Com.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Where are you now?

Speaker 3 (00:26):
That's a good question, though, somewhere in the beautiful state
of Ohio.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Really, you haven't even made it to Michigan yet.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
No, we're like an hour outside of that.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Have you been to Mount Pleasant, Michigan before?

Speaker 4 (00:40):
This is the first I hear.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
It's nice.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
I hear it's pleasant.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Let's talk about the game last night. You know, I
went to the game last night. I went saw the
Musketeers beat Old Dominion. I sat behind you at the game.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Are you that a question?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:59):
No, I was.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
I wanted you to acknowledge that I was there, because
you you barely acknowledged me when I was. I wanted
to see if you noticed that I even came to
the game last night. What what?

Speaker 4 (01:12):
What did you want me? To do.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
I'm sorry, I thought you were watching the game. I
didn't want to you want me to turn around, stand
up and stop it for you?

Speaker 1 (01:19):
I was I was hoping for, like, you know, sort
of continuous rolling insight commentary from you that would sort
of make the experience unique. But that's okay. You were very,
very busy. You know, this is the first time I'd
seen the Musketeers in person. I'm not sure what everybody's
so angry about. They looked like the greatest team of
all time.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah about that last night. For last night's performance, I mean,
it was uh. I think a lot of it had
to do with old dominion, the type of team they were,
and the way that matchup set up for Xavior. But
you have to acknowledge that that was a completely different
Xavior offense from what we've been seeing over the first
few games.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
It was. It was definitely a revelation for fans and attendance.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
They will play two games against high major opponents Friday
against Georgia and then either Clemson or West Virginia. What
do you expect to learn about the Musketeers and do
they have a prayer of winning either?

Speaker 4 (02:14):
I don't think their chances are great.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
But pretty much all of the teams that we're talking
about in that grouping are mostly new rosters trying to
figure it out. I don't think any of them are
playing great basketball right now, so I think their games
you'll have a chance in the biggest thing that I'm
interested to find out about this Eager team is, you know,
as good as they looked against Old Dominion, as good

(02:37):
as that smaller starting lineup. Look where they have Yovann
Malichovich at the five. They can space the floor a
little bit more, shoot the three a little bit better
at all the positions. Can they rebound with that group
against high major competition? Can they defend the post with
that group against high major competition? I think that's what
we're about to find out in Charleston.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Why are they so bad offensively near them?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
I think because their big men have not figured it
out at all yet.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
I mean, the guys that.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
They thought were going to be starting the year. Anthony Robinson,
you know, he was playing twenty seven minutes in the
first game, played twenty four the next few games, and
then all of a sudden, he's not playing at all anymore.
He played seven minutes in last night's game, he didn't
check in until they were fourteen minutes left in the
second half. I think that's where a lot of your
problems start, is you just you're getting no production out

(03:29):
of the guys you thought were.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Going to be your most talented big men.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
So now all of a sudden, you're having to kind
of scramble and go to a smaller lineup and really
space the floor and shoot a lot more jump shots.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
And I think we're you know this.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
This Charleston event is going to show us how much
they're going to pay.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
For that against big East like competition.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
You know you mentioned, and Xavier is one of them, right,
coaches trying to figure out what they have on the
fly and in some cases against really good competition. Xavier
had play a game on the road against Iowa. Coaches
have jumped on the bandwagon that we need like four
preseason games. I may have asked you this, and pardon
me if I have. If you were college basketball zar,

(04:11):
what would the preseason look like? And given the fact
that we are in a day and age where so
many teams are trying to figure out what they have
and in many cases brand new rosters entirely.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
And I here's what I want to know.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Can I get access to whatever the coaches meeting was
where they all decided they were going to use that
as the new buzz term every interview. I've heard it
from every coach this year. I think that we need
to have more preseason games. Now, I'm not necessarily against
the idea. I'm just fascinated by how they all had
the exact same talking point going into the season. But yeah,

(04:46):
I love We talked about this when we did the
preview show in Studio MO that I love exhibition season now,
where you know, granted, it'd be better if these games
were regular season games that meant something, but since most
of these teams aren't going to play many of those
types of matchups against each other, I love the idea
of getting these high major meetings like a Kentucky Purdue

(05:08):
game in the preseason as an exhibition.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
So yeah, I say the more the better. With those,
I would take three or four of them.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Can NKU beat Central Michigan.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, I think it's going to be a really good
test for them. You know that all of their results
so far have been kind of OUTWHI A results, except
for maybe the East Tennessee State game. East Tennessee State
was ranked about one hundred and twenty spots higher than
them and ken Pom, so it was a good matchup
on the road. They got off to a terrible start
and they end up losing by double digits. That's what
I think you're trying to avoid. In the Central Michigan game,

(05:41):
it's another team that's ranked ahead of you in ken Pom,
but it's a closer matchup, and you just got to
get off to a better start off the road to
give yourself a chance. The Tennessee game, obviously there were
some limitations in that one physically going to get up
against their big men that were always going to make
that a very difficult matchup. And then the two non
DIVI in one games don't really tell us a lot

(06:02):
other than NK. You can score a lot of points
against lower level competition, So this is going to be
a really good measuring stick for the Norse.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
That'll be an orrow night on ESPN fifteen thirty. You
don't know where in Ohio you are.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
A Bluffton, Arlingtons, next.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Mouth Good and then how far how far into how
long until you get to Mount Pleasant.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
We'll arrive there.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
We're probably more like nine ish.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
After we stop to eat, we're on pace for about
an eight o'clock arrival.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
As it currently stands very good.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
We'll have a good time, be safe, and we'll be
listening tomorrow. Rick, thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Hey Mo, it was a pleasure seeing at the Zaber
game last night.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
It was nice to be seen at the Zavor game.
Only two people asked me what I was doing there,
and you weren't one of them, so that was nice.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
That's not true. I actually questioned whether things were all
right at your house.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
I'm worried about you when I saw you there.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
No's everything's great, though, A fair question pretty much any
day of the year.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Rick, thank you.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Thanks Bo.