February 26, 2025 • 10 mins
Rick Broering of Musketeer Report and NKU radio broadcasts joined us to talk about the Muskies and the Norse.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Awesome last night in the fourth quarter. That's what's knowing
the NBA twelve minutes away from four o'clock. This is
ESPN fifteen thirty on Moegger on Wednesdays. We are joined
by Cincinnati's King of Facebook, Rick Boring, who also runs
a website, Musketeer Report dot com. If you're a Xavier
fan and you're not subscribing to musketeer Report dot com,
then let's be honest, you're you're probably not really a
(00:22):
Xavier fan. That in itself is a significant undertaking to
run that website, but then you add to it his
duties as the color analyst on NKU radio broadcast. Rick
Boring will be calling the NKU Purdue Fort Wayne game
tomorrow night in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is also part
of the Skinny Podcast the host of the Darren Horn
(00:43):
radio Show. He also is part of the NKU Coaches Show,
and on every other Thursday, he drives a lift. Rick
Boring is with us. How's it going.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'm doing well? Now are you? I'm doing great?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I understand you're you're waiting your way for Jim Kelch
to pick you up as we speak.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That's right, Well, I pushed it back. I was like, look,
I got to do this interview with mo. I don't
want to be like loading things into the car while
Terren's calling me, says, let's just push it back a
few minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
You know, I appreciate you giving us a priority. Let's
talk about the Musketeers. How much of what they have
done to put themselves in a position to play Creighton
and have this game mean a lot as it relates
to the NCAA tournament. How much of what they have
done as a reflection of Xavier getting better and playing well,
(01:32):
and how much of it is a reflection of playing
bad teams in the Big East.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It's a great question. I thought you were gonna hit
me with the usual is Xavier a good team or
not to start off our interviews, So you mixed it
up on me. I wasn't quite ready for that. But
I think that's the big thing about this Saturday's game though.
That's what it tells us is it's like, okay right now,
by the eye test and by the metrics, it seems
like this team is playing better basketball, as they've finally
(01:58):
put four wins in a row together. But at the
same time, the schedule set up for them to do that.
It was teams that they were favored to win against.
It was games that you felt like they probably should win. Now,
maybe you don't expect them to win all of them,
which they did, but yeah, that's why everyone is pointing
to this game against Creighton because they want to believe
that this team has turned a corner. And it's just
(02:21):
kind of hard to say that when the best win
to point two is probably the win at Providence.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
How do they beat Creyton as go around, Well.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
They've got to find a way to contain Ryan Kulkbrenner,
you would think, I mean, that was really the big
thing in the first matchup against Creyton. You know, they
lost that game by nine, and Ryan Kulkbrenner scored twenty
nine points on twelve seventeen shooting, So he was so efficient.
I mean, I don't know that you really have much
of a chance of beating a team when they're that efficient.
(02:54):
And by the way, they also shot like forty five
percent from three in that game. Two, So Zagers going
to have to come up with some type of defensive
scheme and also hope that Creton just isn't shooting as
well because they're playing on the road and not in
the friendly confines of their gym, which they typically shoot
so well at. So I think that's where it starts.
(03:14):
But that's a lot easier said here when you and
I are talking than it is defending the seven foot one,
two hundred and seventy pound Ryan cult Runner.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I was talking about this as it relates to UC
at the top of the show, because the Bearcats are
playing better, and you know, they have a huge game
that they're not likely to win on Saturday against Houston,
and I have a feeling a lot of us who
love UC basketball when the season is over are going
to be sifting through a whole lot of what ifs
if we are doing something similar with the Musketeers when
(03:41):
Selection Sunday comes and they're maybe just on the outside
looking in, What is the biggest what if?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Mo? There are seasons, nothing but what if? When you
look back at it, I mean, there's so many close calls.
I think the ones that you're going to point to
mostly are the games at TCU, at UC and at Yukon.
All three of them were right in a row there
to start the month of December, and all three of
them were games that they were in position to win
(04:10):
and let slip away on the road. Had they gotten
any of those, you'd probably feel like they're on the
right side of the bubble right now at least, And
if you win a couple of them, then then really
you feel safe. So yeah, I think those are going
to be the ones that they look back to the
most because all three of those games felt like you
had a real chance to win them.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Rick Boring Musketeer Report dot Com will have a Saturday's
game covered Xavier versus Creating at four thirty. Meanwhile, NKU
was on the road final road game of the regular
season for the Norse as they battle Perdue for Wayne
and then Senior Night on Saturday for NK. Will you
get misty eyed on Senior Night because there are a
couple of dudes who are playing their last game who
have been a part of this program for a long time.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, I mean I'm concerned, that's for sure, Like it's
gonna be hard. I don't know. Darren Horton played it
pretty cool last night when I asked them about that
on The Coaches Show, But you know, I'm a little
bit concerned about what do you do when you look
to your bench and you don't see Sam Vincent and
Trey Robinson anymore in the huddle with Yeah, I think
that's going to be a big step for the Norse
to move past those guys. I mean, obviously they lost
(05:13):
Mark west Warwick this past year, the school's all time
leading scorer, but you felt pretty good about the fact
that you still had those two coming back. And now
you're moving on from those And it's not just the
fact that you're moving on from those guys, but Darren
was talking about it during last night's Coaches Show that
those were two of the last typical recruitments he had
where you knew them for multiple years in high school
(05:34):
before they committed. You got to know their families really well.
And I also wonder mo in the in turrent transfer
portal era and anil era of the sport, is it
two of the final four year or in Trey Robinson's case,
five year players that will see in this area or
at NKU. I don't know, so, yeah, it's going to
(05:55):
be stad from that perspective.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, And it's interesting because we had Sean Miller on
the show this week, and typically I would look at
a guy like a Dalen Swain, and I would want
to ask the coach about like, well, you know, God,
with the improvements he has made this year, what do
you think about next season with another off season of development?
And you almost can't ask those questions because the coaches
don't know. I mean he might know specifically with Dalen,
(06:19):
but you almost can't ask those questions because in many respects,
maybe the coach knows the guy is not going to
come back. Maybe the coach has no real idea if
he's going to come back. Maybe the coach doesn't want
the guy to come back. That's just my problem. And
I'm all for player movement and nil and I mean
I like ninety percent of what's happening in this era
(06:40):
of college basketball, but that part of it, and I
think it's worse at a quote lower level, like the
Horizon League kind of sucks. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I mean, here's the problem though, Like, if you're an NKU,
in a lot of ways, you're kind of hoping you're
good enough that your guys are going to move on
and go to the next level and secure the bag,
so to speak, at the high major level. So in
a way, you're kind of shooting for that idea of
being almost a minor leagues for the big time and
and Darren Horns talked about it, like you know, they
(07:10):
they supported Mark was work one hundred percent when he
went to Missouri, and they'll do the same for the
next guy that has that opportunity. And it's it is
kind of unfortunate because, like you said, from a fan
base perspective, you you love to get to know these players,
and you you fight for them for years, you watch
them develop. It stinks to see just as they're they're
putting it all together, to see them move on.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
At at at Xavier on Senior Night, they give the
players swords. NK, you could do something similar, will they?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I think it's always been like a poster or picture
of some sort.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Of sorts cooler the swords of this is the coolest
senior night gift in college basketball.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I will agree with that. The sword is a pretty
nice touch. Maybe maybe the Norse will have to come
up with something of their their own to be like that.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
They've got swords in the logo, like Zafer can get
away with it and it's good. It's a cool gift,
but Norse the swords, they can give him a Viking
hat too. That'd be kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, the Viking hat, the Galla horn, the capes. There
are a lot of things to go with here.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You wrote about I gave you a Facebook assignment. You
wrote about the best uniforms in college basketball. Have you
gotten much pushback? Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Not really pushback. I've gotten some other really good suggestions
that people threw out there, and I couched it with saying, like,
I know, I'm not thinking of all the best uniforms
in college basketball. That's an impossible task. But here's where
the ones that like immediately jumped into my mind when
I thought about it, as soon as people started sending
me some others, like, for instance, the nineties Kentucky uniforms,
(08:42):
the cat scratch or icicle uniforms like Tony delk wore.
I love those. The white version of those I would
have included that probably had I thought of them.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
All Right, two worst ever, same era Kentucky's denim uniforms
and the current Pittsburgh ones when they wear black jerseys
with that big yellow pee on it.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Those are very bad, I would say, right State's current
black jerseys with their old school logo of like the
Raider with the acts and you can't really tell what
it is on the front. That is maybe the worst
jersey in all of sports.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Wow, all right, would you would you ever say that
Wright State had nice uniforms?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, they'd They've had some good ones. That one is
not it? Though.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
What's the assignment for this week? Because I forgot I
gave you two.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Expansion of the NCAA tournal.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Oh yes, hot topic. Everybody's been weighing in on this.
All right, well I'll read it. We'll talk about it
next week. Travel safe to what are you and you
and Jim gonna hit Fort Wayne hard tonight? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Where was Fort Wayne ranked on the most romantic lift?
I can't I can't recall. I think it's maybe ten
in the league. So not a lot of romance going
on here in Fort Wayne.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Don't need romance, but you know, I mean, I'm sure
you guys could find trouble in Fort Wayne. And maybe
you guys will write about that and talk about it
that on the broadcast tomorrow. Regardless, I appreciate the time
as always.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All right, man, hit me up on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I definitely will Rick Brooring, you'll hear him call NKU
versus perdue Fort Wayne tomorrow at seven o'clock, and of
course his website, musketeer report dot com. I hope he
and Jim have a safe drive. I've been to Fort
Wayne once in my life. On my way to Kalamazoo.
Chris Whittingham is going to join us, or at least
he says he will, coming up at four oh five
(10:25):
on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Hey, you run
a business in Cincinnati, but you're maybe kind of unsure
Awesome last night in the fourth quarter. That's what's knowing
the NBA twelve minutes away from four o'clock. This is
ESPN fifteen thirty on Moegger on Wednesdays. We are joined
by Cincinnati's King of Facebook, Rick Boring, who also runs
a website, Musketeer Report dot com. If you're a Xavier
fan and you're not subscribing to musketeer Report dot com,
then let's be honest, you're you're probably not really a
(00:22):
Xavier fan. That in itself is a significant undertaking to
run that website, but then you add to it his
duties as the color analyst on NKU radio broadcast. Rick
Boring will be calling the NKU Purdue Fort Wayne game
tomorrow night in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is also part
of the Skinny Podcast the host of the Darren Horn
(00:43):
radio Show. He also is part of the NKU Coaches Show,
and on every other Thursday, he drives a lift. Rick
Boring is with us. How's it going.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'm doing well? Now are you? I'm doing great?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I understand you're you're waiting your way for Jim Kelch
to pick you up as we speak.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That's right, Well, I pushed it back. I was like, look,
I got to do this interview with mo. I don't
want to be like loading things into the car while
Terren's calling me, says, let's just push it back a
few minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
You know, I appreciate you giving us a priority. Let's
talk about the Musketeers. How much of what they have
done to put themselves in a position to play Creighton
and have this game mean a lot as it relates
to the NCAA tournament. How much of what they have
done as a reflection of Xavier getting better and playing well,
(01:32):
and how much of it is a reflection of playing
bad teams in the Big East.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It's a great question. I thought you were gonna hit
me with the usual is Xavier a good team or
not to start off our interviews, So you mixed it
up on me. I wasn't quite ready for that. But
I think that's the big thing about this Saturday's game though.
That's what it tells us is it's like, okay right now,
by the eye test and by the metrics, it seems
like this team is playing better basketball, as they've finally
(01:58):
put four wins in a row together. But at the
same time, the schedule set up for them to do that.
It was teams that they were favored to win against.
It was games that you felt like they probably should win. Now,
maybe you don't expect them to win all of them,
which they did, but yeah, that's why everyone is pointing
to this game against Creighton because they want to believe
that this team has turned a corner. And it's just
(02:21):
kind of hard to say that when the best win
to point two is probably the win at Providence.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
How do they beat Creyton as go around, Well.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
They've got to find a way to contain Ryan Kulkbrenner,
you would think, I mean, that was really the big
thing in the first matchup against Creyton. You know, they
lost that game by nine, and Ryan Kulkbrenner scored twenty
nine points on twelve seventeen shooting, So he was so efficient.
I mean, I don't know that you really have much
of a chance of beating a team when they're that efficient.
(02:54):
And by the way, they also shot like forty five
percent from three in that game. Two, So Zagers going
to have to come up with some type of defensive
scheme and also hope that Creton just isn't shooting as
well because they're playing on the road and not in
the friendly confines of their gym, which they typically shoot
so well at. So I think that's where it starts.
(03:14):
But that's a lot easier said here when you and
I are talking than it is defending the seven foot one,
two hundred and seventy pound Ryan cult Runner.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I was talking about this as it relates to UC
at the top of the show, because the Bearcats are
playing better, and you know, they have a huge game
that they're not likely to win on Saturday against Houston,
and I have a feeling a lot of us who
love UC basketball when the season is over are going
to be sifting through a whole lot of what ifs
if we are doing something similar with the Musketeers when
(03:41):
Selection Sunday comes and they're maybe just on the outside
looking in, What is the biggest what if?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Mo? There are seasons, nothing but what if? When you
look back at it, I mean, there's so many close calls.
I think the ones that you're going to point to
mostly are the games at TCU, at UC and at Yukon.
All three of them were right in a row there
to start the month of December, and all three of
them were games that they were in position to win
(04:10):
and let slip away on the road. Had they gotten
any of those, you'd probably feel like they're on the
right side of the bubble right now at least, And
if you win a couple of them, then then really
you feel safe. So yeah, I think those are going
to be the ones that they look back to the
most because all three of those games felt like you
had a real chance to win them.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Rick Boring Musketeer Report dot Com will have a Saturday's
game covered Xavier versus Creating at four thirty. Meanwhile, NKU
was on the road final road game of the regular
season for the Norse as they battle Perdue for Wayne
and then Senior Night on Saturday for NK. Will you
get misty eyed on Senior Night because there are a
couple of dudes who are playing their last game who
have been a part of this program for a long time.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, I mean I'm concerned, that's for sure, Like it's
gonna be hard. I don't know. Darren Horton played it
pretty cool last night when I asked them about that
on The Coaches Show, But you know, I'm a little
bit concerned about what do you do when you look
to your bench and you don't see Sam Vincent and
Trey Robinson anymore in the huddle with Yeah, I think
that's going to be a big step for the Norse
to move past those guys. I mean, obviously they lost
(05:13):
Mark west Warwick this past year, the school's all time
leading scorer, but you felt pretty good about the fact
that you still had those two coming back. And now
you're moving on from those And it's not just the
fact that you're moving on from those guys, but Darren
was talking about it during last night's Coaches Show that
those were two of the last typical recruitments he had
where you knew them for multiple years in high school
(05:34):
before they committed. You got to know their families really well.
And I also wonder mo in the in turrent transfer
portal era and anil era of the sport, is it
two of the final four year or in Trey Robinson's case,
five year players that will see in this area or
at NKU. I don't know, so, yeah, it's going to
(05:55):
be stad from that perspective.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well, And it's interesting because we had Sean Miller on
the show this week, and typically I would look at
a guy like a Dalen Swain, and I would want
to ask the coach about like, well, you know, God,
with the improvements he has made this year, what do
you think about next season with another off season of development?
And you almost can't ask those questions because the coaches
don't know. I mean he might know specifically with Dalen,
(06:19):
but you almost can't ask those questions because in many respects,
maybe the coach knows the guy is not going to
come back. Maybe the coach has no real idea if
he's going to come back. Maybe the coach doesn't want
the guy to come back. That's just my problem. And
I'm all for player movement and nil and I mean
I like ninety percent of what's happening in this era
(06:40):
of college basketball, but that part of it, and I
think it's worse at a quote lower level, like the
Horizon League kind of sucks. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I mean, here's the problem though, Like, if you're an NKU,
in a lot of ways, you're kind of hoping you're
good enough that your guys are going to move on
and go to the next level and secure the bag,
so to speak, at the high major level. So in
a way, you're kind of shooting for that idea of
being almost a minor leagues for the big time and
and Darren Horns talked about it, like you know, they
(07:10):
they supported Mark was work one hundred percent when he
went to Missouri, and they'll do the same for the
next guy that has that opportunity. And it's it is
kind of unfortunate because, like you said, from a fan
base perspective, you you love to get to know these players,
and you you fight for them for years, you watch
them develop. It stinks to see just as they're they're
putting it all together, to see them move on.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
At at at Xavier on Senior Night, they give the
players swords. NK, you could do something similar, will they?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I think it's always been like a poster or picture
of some sort.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Of sorts cooler the swords of this is the coolest
senior night gift in college basketball.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I will agree with that. The sword is a pretty
nice touch. Maybe maybe the Norse will have to come
up with something of their their own to be like that.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
They've got swords in the logo, like Zafer can get
away with it and it's good. It's a cool gift,
but Norse the swords, they can give him a Viking
hat too. That'd be kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, the Viking hat, the Galla horn, the capes. There
are a lot of things to go with here.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You wrote about I gave you a Facebook assignment. You
wrote about the best uniforms in college basketball. Have you
gotten much pushback? Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Not really pushback. I've gotten some other really good suggestions
that people threw out there, and I couched it with saying, like,
I know, I'm not thinking of all the best uniforms
in college basketball. That's an impossible task. But here's where
the ones that like immediately jumped into my mind when
I thought about it, as soon as people started sending
me some others, like, for instance, the nineties Kentucky uniforms,
(08:42):
the cat scratch or icicle uniforms like Tony delk wore.
I love those. The white version of those I would
have included that probably had I thought of them.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
All Right, two worst ever, same era Kentucky's denim uniforms
and the current Pittsburgh ones when they wear black jerseys
with that big yellow pee on it.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Those are very bad, I would say, right State's current
black jerseys with their old school logo of like the
Raider with the acts and you can't really tell what
it is on the front. That is maybe the worst
jersey in all of sports.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Wow, all right, would you would you ever say that
Wright State had nice uniforms?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, they'd They've had some good ones. That one is
not it? Though.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
What's the assignment for this week? Because I forgot I
gave you two.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Expansion of the NCAA tournal.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Oh yes, hot topic. Everybody's been weighing in on this.
All right, well I'll read it. We'll talk about it
next week. Travel safe to what are you and you
and Jim gonna hit Fort Wayne hard tonight? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Where was Fort Wayne ranked on the most romantic lift?
I can't I can't recall. I think it's maybe ten
in the league. So not a lot of romance going
on here in Fort Wayne.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Don't need romance, but you know, I mean, I'm sure
you guys could find trouble in Fort Wayne. And maybe
you guys will write about that and talk about it
that on the broadcast tomorrow. Regardless, I appreciate the time
as always.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All right, man, hit me up on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I definitely will Rick Brooring, you'll hear him call NKU
versus perdue Fort Wayne tomorrow at seven o'clock, and of
course his website, musketeer report dot com. I hope he
and Jim have a safe drive. I've been to Fort
Wayne once in my life. On my way to Kalamazoo.
Chris Whittingham is going to join us, or at least
he says he will, coming up at four oh five
(10:25):
on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Hey, you run
a business in Cincinnati, but you're maybe kind of unsure
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