January 22, 2025 • 26 mins
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain chat with Petros Papadakis about the Los Angeles fires, Mick Cronin, Pete Carroll, and Kirk Herbstreit’s emotions, then the guys discuss the Huskies basketball loss last night and the state of the program.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Nakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Now with Petros Peers Dave's Softy Muller.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Alrighty, boys and girls, here we go the moment at
least maybe a couple of you, one of you hopefully
has been waiting for every Wednesday four o'clock. We get
the absolute unbelievable honor of talking to maybe the finest
Greek American of all time and certainly the finest Greek
American broadcaster. What half of the legendary Petros and Money
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(00:58):
of the Year, the husband of the then my good
friend Petros Papadoucus, courtesy.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
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Speaker 4 (01:30):
How much activity is uh, Sweet James getting with all
the fires down there in the Palisades?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Is he? Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, I would say, And there's a fire right now
in castaak Oh Jesus, really he's not a good fire,
is it? Kates? Oh Man? I mean, is it a
bad fire? We don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Is there such a thing as a good fire?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, I mean there's fires that they're right on top
of that they can put the plane, uh, you know,
the helicopter and the super Scooper and all that.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
And then there's ones that get out of control because
the wind or because of political ineptitude, which happened the
other day, and so half the city burned down, one
of the most costly fires in the history of mankind.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now it feels like this has been a topic now
for like three weeks already. Yeah, yeah, I won't stop either.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's like because there's a lot of Santa Ana winds
and you have people committing arson too. Like there was
a hobo up in the Griffith Park area. Oh that
lit that thing up the other day. Now they jumped
on it quick and then they scooped them up and
arrested him. But they closed Griffith Park because of these
high winds and because of arsonists. But they closed it.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
It's huge.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
How many hobos do you think we're in there when
it closed. It's not closing the target when there's a
bunch of shoppers.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Not hobo's as transient person.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I know, But I choose to use it loosely, right,
I get it, Like there's like a we had this
the other day on the show. There is a there's
an annual like hobo Fest or like a hobo meet
up a fair. Hobos are people. Hobos work, right, Hobos
are just work working travelers, Okay, right, I mean the
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proper definition is a working traveler like a hobo. Now
vagrant is a traveler that's not working. And then a
bum doesn't travel or work. They just sit there. Oh god,
I mean, I'm serious, But but I choose to use
hobo in the in the global sense, kind of the
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way the TCU horn frogs, that's not a horn frog.
It's a horned lizard. Horn frogs live in South America.
Horn lizards Texas. That's not a horn frog. But you
call themselves that because you know it's like an old
Texas thing.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So what would you call Mick cronin. Then please tell
me you're kidding me.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
It's with this whiny Wait are they on your air?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Are they on your air?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I will not have you attack mc kronin. Cronin is
the BFF. He is a very close friend.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Of the show. No he's not.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I helped get mc cronin hired. Why I pushed for
him when no one was saying his name. I said,
he's this guy in Cincinnati. He's angry as hell.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
He is angry. We've seen the Eiffel Tower. We've seen
the Statue of Liberty twice, the Eiffel Tower, We've seen
the taj Mahal.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
He's right. Every think mc cronin says is right.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Comes across as a whitey bitch.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And you know, no he does not, Yes he does no,
but you know this does happen, uh every if you
know him and you see, it's like he's a wild
man if you watch him coach, you know, I mean
he goes wild and he's always been that. Oh and
he's always had success. And the one thing that I
think is interesting that I've talked to you off the
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air with a few basketball types, is every single person
that goes to play for Mick knows what he's like
and how he's going to do it, and they embrace that,
and they go through that. And every year around this time,
if they lose a couple of games, he completely melts down.
He calls the players you know, uh now he's just today.
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Yesterday they beat Wisconsin, number eighteen in the country, and
he was like, hey, they're all getting paid. I mean,
you know, he's a true realist in many ways. What
says what a lot of us are thinking.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
What's he like off the air because he doesn't comes
across as an angry, little short guy, to be.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Honest with you, No, he's off easy.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
He's one of my favorite people in the history of
coaching geez college sports that I've been.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Well, he's making us all look bad man by whining
and complaining about oh the travel they come to LA
and they don't even need to switch out Downsand well,
it's true, it's not like going to iowas well, but
you wanted this. Just suck it up. Buttercup, get used
to it. Find a way.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
He didn't want it. I mean he was on a
golf course and somebody told him midway through the round
that they were joining the Big Ten. I mean, you see, La,
you watched the basketball pretty closely, and you Washington this year.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, they're not good.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Uh you see, is probably best suited for the Big
Ten than anybody else on the West Coast. They're a
tough team. But hey, West Coast to East coast travelers
is different. It's hard, and nobody knew what it was
going to be like until they put it into practice.
And yeah, he makes a topic of it if somebody
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else about it, but I will not disparage mc cronin.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Jeez, you kidding me? Please tell me, Hey, did you
see the latest on your buddy? See what he does
to Josh Lewin? What does he do to Josh?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Well, Josh Lewin is the play by play guy and
they also does football too, by the way, Yeah, another short.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Guy, but Josh Lewin, you know, and Tracy Murray, the
old bruin Great. They interview Mick after the games on
the court, and God help them if he's in a bat.
I mean, he just not tracy, you know. But he abuses.
Josh just abuse to where I know Josh Lewin is
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not worried about calling that game. He's an excellent place
by play guy. He's worried about the Arria who.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
He's worried about getting his ass kicked by Nick.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Oh you got a TV buddy, you watch basketball first game?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Well you got it.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
You got an angry little Irish guy named Mix coming
after you.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
He's little, not really that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
What is he?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Five to four five three. It's a circus freak, is
what he is.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And you know it. He's taller than you think. He's
a whitey little circus freak just looks short because in
the basketball people they are so tall.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Uh. Did you hear the latest on Pete Carroll?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
By the way, it was just a flash of hormonal
upsurge or something.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Tim Softy coming back. He can't stop me, brother, seventy
seven years old.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Nobody's a stuffy Tim.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Tim Cow better than ever. Hey, Tim cowa comy.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You know that name?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
By the way, yeah, sure, bay Area.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Bay Area legend uh says the Niners and Pete Carroll
have reportedly discussed bringing him in as their defensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Hey, we're gonna quidinate two. Hey alright, do you buy that?
By the way, No, yeah, I don't either. Why would
Pete Carroll want to be a defensive coordinator? Why would
Bill Belichick want to coach in North Carolina?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
He's got a hot girlfriend that you know, wants to
get the money.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
She wants, wants the money once at the money.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I mean, he's got plenty of money.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
He wants more money.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
All right. I don't know, man, I don't look, I
can't tell you. I know that Pete has.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
People do weird things for money. Man, ask that OnlyFans gal.
That was with like twelve hundred people in an hour.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Pete Carroll, I don't know if that was for money.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You don't think it was for money? What do you
think it was for pleasure?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I don't think. I think there had to be some
other motivations.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Set the goodness record.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah. Look, Pete Carroll, as we all know, is desert
ass thirsty. He has a thirst that will not be
quenched because he wants to be celebrated it as the
greatest coach ever. And he made that terrible call, and
Russell Wilson threw that terrible pick.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Oh God, and here we go? What there we go?
Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Finish? Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Finish thought?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Don't you think that Pete wants to get that taste
out of his mouth and lead someone else to a
Super Bowl like the Raiders or something?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I mean he wants it. He is thirsty, he wants it,
and only a very few billionaires in the world that
own NFL football teams could quench that third. And I
don't know if it will be quenched. I don't know.
I mean, I know he was fired by Seattle, even
though you guys trying to act like you were kicking
him upstairs. Does he still have an office I don't
think he's still have an office over there. It was
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like dust collecting on the shelves.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I don't think he's been here since he was let go.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I'm so pumped. If you're so pumped, why are you crying?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
He wasn't crying.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, this was c press conference. He was like that
TikTok Chicken's doing the dance, but crying. Come on, you're
not going to coach the diner. Tawakami's just thirsty because
he doesn't have the raiders to harass anymore up there.
Oh god, it's not gonna I don't know if maybe'll
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maybe Tom Brady'll hire him.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I don't know. Speaking of crying, did you happen to
see your buddy Herb Street.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
On Monday night? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Oh god, you know what these guys have gone through.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And then that goes back to what McK cronin say,
aren't these guys getting paid now? I mean the same
thing about I know, Dan Wolkin is a complete just
toolbox the writer. Yeah, but he does have a point,
like if the Notre Dame locker rooms all emotional because
they lost and there's weeping and moaning and gnashing of teeth,
I mean, we all understand that, but we also understand
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the fact that you guys are all getting paid and
having to talk to the media after a win and
after a loss is part of the job, and everybody
here is getting paid, you know, so you know, it
kind of changes my perspective in that regard. But with Herbstreet,
look and I look, I don't know what's going on
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in his life. I'm sure he's got some family issues,
and you know, we all deal with life and life's
expectations and having a family and stuff. If you do
have trouble at home and there are issues that where
you have to bring your dog to work, maybe you
don't need to call seven games a week. Yeah, you know,
I mean, that's that would be my first thought. But
then again, you know, I'm not the voice of the
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sport or the face of the sport. And why why
is Herbstreet the face of the sport? I'll tell you why.
He's a good looking guy. He was excited and exuberant
about the product and the information. He had a great
attitude while delivering it, and everybody liked him. You know.
That's why he has been so great all these years.
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But that's not really what we're doing now. You know,
in the game, he's showing more bias than ever because
of the parent company and what they what they want,
and maybe they're pushing him that way. Maybe he just
feels like that's what he should be doing. He's getting
in huge weird fights with fan bases like he's Stephen A.
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Smith or one of these weird talking heads that that
fuel off of that like, that's not fuel for an analyst.
You don't want to alienate, you know, gigantic fan bases.
You want people to be objective about your broadcasting, which
is subjective, you know, if some people's favorites or some
people's nae crass exactly, you know. I mean so, I mean,
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what he's become is different than what got him where
he is, right, I mean, I would say that. I
guess you could say the same about Howard Stern and
people like that. But he's he's up on the top
of the mountain now and now he just seems like
he takes everything really personally, and he doesn't handle criticism well,
and he attacks other universities and fan bases because that's
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seems like he's sort of doing the bidding of the
parent company. Now. I don't know what Ohio State went
through that that's not public.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I think he's talking about the lost of Michigan, the
criticism of Ryan Day.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Welcome by you. You want to get a million dollars
in play football. You want to be paid twelve million
dollars a year to coach football. You want to play
in a fish bowl. Everybody knows what it is. It's
like signing with mc cronin. Everybody knows what it is.
And then in the middle of it, Oh, this is hard.
I can't believe what we're going through. Like, okay, what
did you go through? You went through your schedule, you know,
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that's that's what everybody goes. Everybody just goes through the schedule.
Oh you know, no, I'm knocked in it. You know
it's it's and if anybody.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Should be crying, it should be me. For God's sakes. Well,
and that's we went six and seven.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
We played in the National Championship game last year.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
The hell, Herbie, try me a river.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
If you look if you uh, if you're so emotional
about somebody's victory that you are in tears when the uh,
when the game's over on TV.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I cried when they beat Texas.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, okay, that's fine. You're a freaking Washington fan. You
were calling the game on national TV. If you're moved
to tears by somebody's victory, you shouldn't have been doing that.
And I'm not even that way. I'm not that guy.
I call s c U C l A all the
time and all that. You hear all that stuff over
the years, but that that was. That was pretty shameful.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Oh what was the last time you got you you
cried like publicly.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
All the time? Really yeah, yesterday on the way home
over one that's not public. I was listening to a
song by Sister Nancy, a great Jamaican uh DJ. I'm
talking about like in public, like on the air. People
could see through the windows of my car crying.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
It's real the lyrics.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, well, you know you're your people don't know that
about you, that you're an emotional you know, you're kind
of you know, for me, it's soft hearted guy for
Meal and Herb Street. Dick for me, Oh yeah, dick
for MEA when Trent Green got hurt.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
When anybody did anything, somebody fart next to him in
a urinal least, start crying, very very very sensitive, A
great U c l A coach. Just we love everything
about him.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Oh God, well they're coming up here this weekend, you see, La,
So we'll see.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
We'll have fun with Mick Cronan. He's not as short
as you think. He just looks that one.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
He looks very short and he comes across of.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Mick Cronan sound bites. You know you're not the only
one we got plenty of but I.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Literally just pulled those off his press conference from yesterday.
So we have we have sound bites pulled off a
press If you've got more, you can share him with us.
Something else.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
We've seen the Statue of Liberty twice. He should just
make that a bit every press conference. You know, we
saw the pyramids today.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Matt, would you play? Would you be so kindest to
play a couple of the Mick Cronin sound bites.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
And give me your best ones?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Come on, how do you know that? How do you
know that? I don't really have a lot to say.
I'm sorry, good losers, talk about we were winning at halftime.
You were at our press.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Conference whenever it was yesterday. If you listen to me
while I was on Petros and Money show him town.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, every time we play, you see, I say the
same thing. That's why you like him, because he says
nice things about you.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Shut up and seriously, now now that truth comes up,
like you warn't up Romar's ass.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Hey, welcome to college basketball. Buddy Romar is a great dude, man,
Yes he is.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
He's a great man.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Great.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
You know he had to evacuate twice his house down
there I did not know that he lives down there.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
He's still at Peppernhine.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
He's no, he's coaching. He's an assistant coach at Loyola.
Oh did you know that?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
No, the marshlands for somebody in sports. You shared on note?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You know that? All right?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
All right, we gotta go.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
All right, Well, I have a great day, Softie, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Hey, you as well.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
We'll talking a week, buddy. Thanks Matt. That's not bad
tim the hell.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It's Matt, Matt Smith.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Oh, Matt, Matt's there, walked in mad all right, you
tell Matt, I said.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Along, good by.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I'm a fist pump for old Maddie. All right, man,
we gotta go. Petros Papadakis with us. We're gonna break.
Kevin Harlan's coming up at five. He's doing Lakers Boston
tomorrow and then Chiefs Bills for radio Sunday. We'll get
with him on ninety three three kJ RFM at five o'clock.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Now back to Sunday and Dick on your home for
the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl fifty nine. Sports Radio
ninety three point three kJ R FL touchdown.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
All right, we're back on a Wednesday, afternoon right here
on ninety three three kJ R FM, Kevin Harlan gonna
join us, by the way at the top of the hour.
He's got Lakers Boston for t NT tomorrow night, and
then he's got shockingly Kansas City and Buffalo at Airhead
Stadium on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Gets to stay home and.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Wear his own PJS, I have his own binkie, sleep
in his own bed, he eat his own breakfast, and
then go across the street and call the game for
radio on Sunday up. Both games on Sunday will be
at the Emerald Queen as well, starting at noon for both.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Conference title games.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
They're giving away two undred and fifty dollars a quarter,
by the way, for both games. That's two thousand bucks
going out the door on Conference Championship Sunday at the
Emerald Queen Casino in the showroom. I will see you there.
Husky Basketball. So not the most superstitious person in the world,
but last night I'm sitting in bed and I'm watching
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Landman on my iPad, and I decided to take a
bit of a break to check the Husky basketball score,
and I saw where they were actually winning at one
point in time, against the.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Radio Dooks, winning for a vast majority of the game.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I told myself, you know what, I'm not gonna watch
they're winning without me.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I'm going to take one for the team.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
And I checked the scorer when the game was over
and saw they got beat when it was all said
and done. But you remember we talked about this run
from hell that Washington had starting with Maryland back on
January the second, where U dub has I believe it's
now seven consecutive games against top thirty five net teams
in the country. Well, they're one and five so far
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in that span, and they've lost five games in a row. Defensively,
they've allowed eighty one points or more in four of
the last five games. And they just have no stars
on this team whatsoever. And you look at the recruiting
class next year looks incredible. Right on paper, it looks amazing,
But they're seventeenth in scoring in the Big Ten, their
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last and field goal percentage, they're fourteenth from downtown their
last and assists, and they have a in the Ken
Palm Offensive Efficiency ratings. They're one hundred and thirty ninth
in college basketball right now. So is this a coaching problem,
or is this a talent problem?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
I have not felt better about the Washington basketball team
in five years.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Wow, it's last in the big time.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Have not felt better about the Washington basketball team in
five years because I got angry for five years in
a row Washing basketball team. I don't get angry anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Well, that implies that you actually were watching them for
five points. Yeah I was. I didn't watch.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
I didn't watch as much as I watched this year
because when I watched, when I watched this year, I
don't watch for wins and losses. I watch for what
this coach is doing with the talent he has acquired
last second, by the way, that he had to acquire
after getting hired. And he is making the most of
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the talent that he is being that he has gotten,
and that talent is going to change next year. Let
me ask you this Jackson Quad, two quad, three quad
four games. Huskies have played ten of them in those
three quads. What's the record in those ten games quad,
two quad, three quad four put together? I guess a
game over five hundred.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Eight and two eight and two.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
So they when they play teams, when they play teams
that aren't great, right, they win they win with lesser
talent against teams that probably have better talent than teams
against Quad one they've had. They're one and seven against
Quad one teams and five in a row. I mean,
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they just get beat down every single night by Quad
one teams.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
And another thing is they played a lot of road games,
five on the road as well. But you know what,
Northwestern's oh and five.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
I was zero and four Maryland, who, by the way,
is twenty four a net.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
They're zero and four on the road. It is tough
to win on the road in Big Ten.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Well, look and I and I appreciate the positivity, and
I appreciate the fact that we're willing to give Sprinkle
a little time to hit the ground running and kind
of figure this thing out and get his own guys
in there. But I think if you were to have
told me and you and I, we can't have it
both ways, because you and I did have a conversation
over the offseason, and I remember when Willner took the
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opposite approach. We both thought they'd be better. We both
thought there's a chance they might be a tournament team
this yes, yes, And they're in last place in the
Big Ten in an eighteen team division. So this year
has not gone the way I think any of us
thought it would go great.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Osibor.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
You and I were at the game against Perdue last
week and Jackson, I'm telling you, Dick and I are
sitting like five rows off the court and they call
a timeout with like this, like five minutes into the game,
and he goes to the bench and he's exhausted. He
can't even stand up with his team. No, he's the
only guy sitting.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
On the rest of the team is standing on the
floor of Sprinkle.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
It was Sprinkle joined you guys from the arena. What
was that was that last last week?
Speaker 6 (22:40):
I mean he talked to me the reasoning he gives
about while he was injured and you come back from.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Bad and like, okay, well I'm sure, but like it's January.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
He was sick, he had a problem. But we're watching
this game and what did you see that? Like he's
the only guy that sat down and he had to
be consulted by a trainer, right, I mean, are you okay?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Whatever?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
He gets up, but he's he's resting his hand on
a on a guy's shoulder, and good for him. He
sucked it up and had a good game box score wise,
and he had twenty again last night. But he hasn't
turned out to be I think what we thought he
was gonna be. Uh, maybe there was too much expectation
on Zoom and year number one.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
They have no shooters on that team whatsoever. There's no
scores at all. Your second best player scoring wise is
Tyler Harris.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, I mean it's got a change, but that was right,
and the fact that I was the movie play.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Sorry, every other every other team just and in Oregon
did it last night with Supreme Cook, which is a
fabulous name.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
We got great, they got supreme, that's right, that's right here,
and I'm changed.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
My name is fantastic and great, you got great and
Bridenbach having to play post defense and that's not either
one of their fortes. And they're going up night after
night after night against these six to ten guys with muscle.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
What's the Pac twelve never had? Right?
Speaker 6 (23:58):
The Pac twelve had six ten guys that wide like
one hundred and eighty pounds. That's who the Pack ten
that Pack twelve had. The Big ten has got six
ten guys that weigh two forty five.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Would you believe it. If I told you where do
you think they are net ranking right now? Any idea?
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Well, they're better than a hundred, you'd had a reason
to look. But where do you think they are?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Eighty five? The ninety third?
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Okay, they were actually sixty ninth last year at Yes,
they ended the year sixty ninth, and I'm kind of
thinking ninety third is not horrible. They could be a
lot worse than that, but they were. They were better
a year ago when this season came. So what I
told dick Off the year and I'll just say this
on the air. They need to show me something when
the year comes to an end, when this run from
hell is over, and it might end Friday because U
(24:43):
Seela's coming to town. Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern whatever. You got
eleven games left, you know, go eight and three in
your final eleven games with a little bit of an
upset against Wisconsin, Oregon whatever. Remember the two thousand and
three Oregon State game when Nate Robinson had that dunk, Yeah,
and a place went banana and he hung on the rim.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
He said, look, this is different.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Now.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Was it Oregon State or Oregon? By the way, I
thought it was Oregon State Oregon State.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I believe that Nate had the dark and that kind
of started everything when they were rowing five. So can
they finish strong and get a win over a good
Wisconsin team, knockoff Oregon at heck Ed bringing an awesome class,
and then get people fired up because they need to
get some kind of a spark here.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Dack.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
If they can go on the type of run that
would get a lot of that would get the general
population fired up. I do think that hardcore Husky basketball
fans are already optimistic like I am, and I think
by the end of the year those two those people,
which is a small percentage of us, could be really
fired up.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
But it's gonna take.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
It's gonna take wins next year in the non conference
before the Pac twelves or the Big Ten season starts
to get people legitimate fired up. It's gonna take top
twenty five wins. It's gonna take big time teams coming
in here to heck Ed and watching the Huskies knock
them up.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
And maybe they're one.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Year away, maybe they're more than a one year away,
but they're gonna take steps.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
But I do think.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
I mean, you look at the home schedule the rest
of the way other than UCLA, I mean.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Which still is a winnable game at home.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
But there's nobody in the Big ten that The thing
with the Big ten is there's nobody in the Big
ten that I think is a national championship contender. There's
no great, great team in the Big ten, but there's
like eight or nine that are all gonna be within
like three seeds to eight seeds. So it's just you
just never get a night off.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
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Yeah, I would say, And there's a fire right now
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Is there such a thing as a good fire?
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Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now it feels like this has been a topic now
for like three weeks already. Yeah, yeah, I won't stop either.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's like because there's a lot of Santa Ana winds
and you have people committing arson too. Like there was
a hobo up in the Griffith Park area. Oh that
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on it quick and then they scooped them up and
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high winds and because of arsonists. But they closed it.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
It's huge.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
How many hobos do you think we're in there when
it closed. It's not closing the target when there's a
bunch of shoppers.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Not hobo's as transient person.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I know, But I choose to use it loosely, right,
I get it, Like there's like a we had this
the other day on the show. There is a there's
an annual like hobo Fest or like a hobo meet
up a fair. Hobos are people. Hobos work, right, Hobos
are just work working travelers, Okay, right, I mean the
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proper definition is a working traveler like a hobo. Now
vagrant is a traveler that's not working. And then a
bum doesn't travel or work. They just sit there. Oh god,
I mean, I'm serious, But but I choose to use
hobo in the in the global sense, kind of the
(03:25):
way the TCU horn frogs, that's not a horn frog.
It's a horned lizard. Horn frogs live in South America.
Horn lizards Texas. That's not a horn frog. But you
call themselves that because you know it's like an old
Texas thing.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So what would you call Mick cronin. Then please tell
me you're kidding me.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
It's with this whiny Wait are they on your air?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Are they on your air?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I will not have you attack mc kronin. Cronin is
the BFF. He is a very close friend.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Of the show. No he's not.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I helped get mc cronin hired. Why I pushed for
him when no one was saying his name. I said,
he's this guy in Cincinnati. He's angry as hell.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
He is angry. We've seen the Eiffel Tower. We've seen
the Statue of Liberty twice, the Eiffel Tower, We've seen
the taj Mahal.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
He's right. Every think mc cronin says is right.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Comes across as a whitey bitch.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And you know, no he does not, Yes he does no,
but you know this does happen, uh every if you
know him and you see, it's like he's a wild
man if you watch him coach, you know, I mean
he goes wild and he's always been that. Oh and
he's always had success. And the one thing that I
think is interesting that I've talked to you off the
(04:44):
air with a few basketball types, is every single person
that goes to play for Mick knows what he's like
and how he's going to do it, and they embrace that,
and they go through that. And every year around this time,
if they lose a couple of games, he completely melts down.
He calls the players you know, uh now he's just today.
(05:04):
Yesterday they beat Wisconsin, number eighteen in the country, and
he was like, hey, they're all getting paid. I mean,
you know, he's a true realist in many ways. What
says what a lot of us are thinking.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
What's he like off the air because he doesn't comes
across as an angry, little short guy, to be.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Honest with you, No, he's off easy.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
He's one of my favorite people in the history of
coaching geez college sports that I've been.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Well, he's making us all look bad man by whining
and complaining about oh the travel they come to LA
and they don't even need to switch out Downsand well,
it's true, it's not like going to iowas well, but
you wanted this. Just suck it up. Buttercup, get used
to it. Find a way.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
He didn't want it. I mean he was on a
golf course and somebody told him midway through the round
that they were joining the Big Ten. I mean, you see, La,
you watched the basketball pretty closely, and you Washington this year.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, they're not good.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Uh you see, is probably best suited for the Big
Ten than anybody else on the West Coast. They're a
tough team. But hey, West Coast to East coast travelers
is different. It's hard, and nobody knew what it was
going to be like until they put it into practice.
And yeah, he makes a topic of it if somebody
(06:20):
else about it, but I will not disparage mc cronin.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Jeez, you kidding me? Please tell me, Hey, did you
see the latest on your buddy? See what he does
to Josh Lewin? What does he do to Josh?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Well, Josh Lewin is the play by play guy and
they also does football too, by the way, Yeah, another short.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Guy, but Josh Lewin, you know, and Tracy Murray, the
old bruin Great. They interview Mick after the games on
the court, and God help them if he's in a bat.
I mean, he just not tracy, you know. But he abuses.
Josh just abuse to where I know Josh Lewin is
(06:57):
not worried about calling that game. He's an excellent place
by play guy. He's worried about the Arria who.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
He's worried about getting his ass kicked by Nick.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Oh you got a TV buddy, you watch basketball first game?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Well you got it.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
You got an angry little Irish guy named Mix coming
after you.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
He's little, not really that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
What is he?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Five to four five three. It's a circus freak, is
what he is.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And you know it. He's taller than you think. He's
a whitey little circus freak just looks short because in
the basketball people they are so tall.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Uh. Did you hear the latest on Pete Carroll?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
By the way, it was just a flash of hormonal
upsurge or something.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Tim Softy coming back. He can't stop me, brother, seventy
seven years old.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Nobody's a stuffy Tim.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Tim Cow better than ever. Hey, Tim cowa comy.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You know that name?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
By the way, yeah, sure, bay Area.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Bay Area legend uh says the Niners and Pete Carroll
have reportedly discussed bringing him in as their defensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Hey, we're gonna quidinate two. Hey alright, do you buy that?
By the way, No, yeah, I don't either. Why would
Pete Carroll want to be a defensive coordinator? Why would
Bill Belichick want to coach in North Carolina?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
He's got a hot girlfriend that you know, wants to
get the money.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
She wants, wants the money once at the money.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I mean, he's got plenty of money.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
He wants more money.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
All right. I don't know, man, I don't look, I
can't tell you. I know that Pete has.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
People do weird things for money. Man, ask that OnlyFans gal.
That was with like twelve hundred people in an hour.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Pete Carroll, I don't know if that was for money.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You don't think it was for money? What do you
think it was for pleasure?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I don't think. I think there had to be some
other motivations.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Set the goodness record.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah. Look, Pete Carroll, as we all know, is desert
ass thirsty. He has a thirst that will not be
quenched because he wants to be celebrated it as the
greatest coach ever. And he made that terrible call, and
Russell Wilson threw that terrible pick.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Oh God, and here we go? What there we go?
Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Finish? Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Finish thought?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Don't you think that Pete wants to get that taste
out of his mouth and lead someone else to a
Super Bowl like the Raiders or something?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I mean he wants it. He is thirsty, he wants it,
and only a very few billionaires in the world that
own NFL football teams could quench that third. And I
don't know if it will be quenched. I don't know.
I mean, I know he was fired by Seattle, even
though you guys trying to act like you were kicking
him upstairs. Does he still have an office I don't
think he's still have an office over there. It was
(09:40):
like dust collecting on the shelves.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I don't think he's been here since he was let go.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I'm so pumped. If you're so pumped, why are you crying?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
He wasn't crying.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, this was c press conference. He was like that
TikTok Chicken's doing the dance, but crying. Come on, you're
not going to coach the diner. Tawakami's just thirsty because
he doesn't have the raiders to harass anymore up there.
Oh god, it's not gonna I don't know if maybe'll
(10:12):
maybe Tom Brady'll hire him.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I don't know. Speaking of crying, did you happen to
see your buddy Herb Street.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
On Monday night? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Oh god, you know what these guys have gone through.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And then that goes back to what McK cronin say,
aren't these guys getting paid now? I mean the same
thing about I know, Dan Wolkin is a complete just
toolbox the writer. Yeah, but he does have a point,
like if the Notre Dame locker rooms all emotional because
they lost and there's weeping and moaning and gnashing of teeth,
I mean, we all understand that, but we also understand
(10:49):
the fact that you guys are all getting paid and
having to talk to the media after a win and
after a loss is part of the job, and everybody
here is getting paid, you know, so you know, it
kind of changes my perspective in that regard. But with Herbstreet,
look and I look, I don't know what's going on
(11:10):
in his life. I'm sure he's got some family issues,
and you know, we all deal with life and life's
expectations and having a family and stuff. If you do
have trouble at home and there are issues that where
you have to bring your dog to work, maybe you
don't need to call seven games a week. Yeah, you know,
I mean, that's that would be my first thought. But
then again, you know, I'm not the voice of the
(11:32):
sport or the face of the sport. And why why
is Herbstreet the face of the sport? I'll tell you why.
He's a good looking guy. He was excited and exuberant
about the product and the information. He had a great
attitude while delivering it, and everybody liked him. You know.
That's why he has been so great all these years.
(11:55):
But that's not really what we're doing now. You know,
in the game, he's showing more bias than ever because
of the parent company and what they what they want,
and maybe they're pushing him that way. Maybe he just
feels like that's what he should be doing. He's getting
in huge weird fights with fan bases like he's Stephen A.
(12:18):
Smith or one of these weird talking heads that that
fuel off of that like, that's not fuel for an analyst.
You don't want to alienate, you know, gigantic fan bases.
You want people to be objective about your broadcasting, which
is subjective, you know, if some people's favorites or some
people's nae crass exactly, you know. I mean so, I mean,
(12:43):
what he's become is different than what got him where
he is, right, I mean, I would say that. I
guess you could say the same about Howard Stern and
people like that. But he's he's up on the top
of the mountain now and now he just seems like
he takes everything really personally, and he doesn't handle criticism well,
and he attacks other universities and fan bases because that's
(13:08):
seems like he's sort of doing the bidding of the
parent company. Now. I don't know what Ohio State went
through that that's not public.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I think he's talking about the lost of Michigan, the
criticism of Ryan Day.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Welcome by you. You want to get a million dollars
in play football. You want to be paid twelve million
dollars a year to coach football. You want to play
in a fish bowl. Everybody knows what it is. It's
like signing with mc cronin. Everybody knows what it is.
And then in the middle of it, Oh, this is hard.
I can't believe what we're going through. Like, okay, what
did you go through? You went through your schedule, you know,
(13:44):
that's that's what everybody goes. Everybody just goes through the schedule.
Oh you know, no, I'm knocked in it. You know
it's it's and if anybody.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Should be crying, it should be me. For God's sakes. Well,
and that's we went six and seven.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
We played in the National Championship game last year.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
The hell, Herbie, try me a river.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
If you look if you uh, if you're so emotional
about somebody's victory that you are in tears when the uh,
when the game's over on TV.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I cried when they beat Texas.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, okay, that's fine. You're a freaking Washington fan. You
were calling the game on national TV. If you're moved
to tears by somebody's victory, you shouldn't have been doing that.
And I'm not even that way. I'm not that guy.
I call s c U C l A all the
time and all that. You hear all that stuff over
the years, but that that was. That was pretty shameful.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Oh what was the last time you got you you
cried like publicly.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
All the time? Really yeah, yesterday on the way home
over one that's not public. I was listening to a
song by Sister Nancy, a great Jamaican uh DJ. I'm
talking about like in public, like on the air. People
could see through the windows of my car crying.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
It's real the lyrics.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, well, you know you're your people don't know that
about you, that you're an emotional you know, you're kind
of you know, for me, it's soft hearted guy for
Meal and Herb Street. Dick for me, Oh yeah, dick
for MEA when Trent Green got hurt.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
When anybody did anything, somebody fart next to him in
a urinal least, start crying, very very very sensitive, A
great U c l A coach. Just we love everything
about him.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Oh God, well they're coming up here this weekend, you see, La,
So we'll see.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
We'll have fun with Mick Cronan. He's not as short
as you think. He just looks that one.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
He looks very short and he comes across of.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Mick Cronan sound bites. You know you're not the only
one we got plenty of but I.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Literally just pulled those off his press conference from yesterday.
So we have we have sound bites pulled off a
press If you've got more, you can share him with us.
Something else.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
We've seen the Statue of Liberty twice. He should just
make that a bit every press conference. You know, we
saw the pyramids today.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Matt, would you play? Would you be so kindest to
play a couple of the Mick Cronin sound bites.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
And give me your best ones?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Come on, how do you know that? How do you
know that? I don't really have a lot to say.
I'm sorry, good losers, talk about we were winning at halftime.
You were at our press.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Conference whenever it was yesterday. If you listen to me
while I was on Petros and Money show him town.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, every time we play, you see, I say the
same thing. That's why you like him, because he says
nice things about you.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Shut up and seriously, now now that truth comes up,
like you warn't up Romar's ass.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Hey, welcome to college basketball. Buddy Romar is a great dude, man,
Yes he is.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
He's a great man.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Great.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
You know he had to evacuate twice his house down
there I did not know that he lives down there.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
He's still at Peppernhine.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
He's no, he's coaching. He's an assistant coach at Loyola.
Oh did you know that?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
No, the marshlands for somebody in sports. You shared on note?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You know that? All right?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
All right, we gotta go.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
All right, Well, I have a great day, Softie, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Hey, you as well.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
We'll talking a week, buddy. Thanks Matt. That's not bad
tim the hell.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It's Matt, Matt Smith.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Oh, Matt, Matt's there, walked in mad all right, you
tell Matt, I said.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Along, good by.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I'm a fist pump for old Maddie. All right, man,
we gotta go. Petros Papadakis with us. We're gonna break.
Kevin Harlan's coming up at five. He's doing Lakers Boston
tomorrow and then Chiefs Bills for radio Sunday. We'll get
with him on ninety three three kJ RFM at five o'clock.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Now back to Sunday and Dick on your home for
the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl fifty nine. Sports Radio
ninety three point three kJ R FL touchdown.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
All right, we're back on a Wednesday, afternoon right here
on ninety three three kJ R FM, Kevin Harlan gonna
join us, by the way at the top of the hour.
He's got Lakers Boston for t NT tomorrow night, and
then he's got shockingly Kansas City and Buffalo at Airhead
Stadium on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Gets to stay home and.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Wear his own PJS, I have his own binkie, sleep
in his own bed, he eat his own breakfast, and
then go across the street and call the game for
radio on Sunday up. Both games on Sunday will be
at the Emerald Queen as well, starting at noon for both.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Conference title games.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
They're giving away two undred and fifty dollars a quarter,
by the way, for both games. That's two thousand bucks
going out the door on Conference Championship Sunday at the
Emerald Queen Casino in the showroom. I will see you there.
Husky Basketball. So not the most superstitious person in the world,
but last night I'm sitting in bed and I'm watching
(18:35):
Landman on my iPad, and I decided to take a
bit of a break to check the Husky basketball score,
and I saw where they were actually winning at one
point in time, against the.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Radio Dooks, winning for a vast majority of the game.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I told myself, you know what, I'm not gonna watch
they're winning without me.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I'm going to take one for the team.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
And I checked the scorer when the game was over
and saw they got beat when it was all said
and done. But you remember we talked about this run
from hell that Washington had starting with Maryland back on
January the second, where U dub has I believe it's
now seven consecutive games against top thirty five net teams
in the country. Well, they're one and five so far
(19:15):
in that span, and they've lost five games in a row. Defensively,
they've allowed eighty one points or more in four of
the last five games. And they just have no stars
on this team whatsoever. And you look at the recruiting
class next year looks incredible. Right on paper, it looks amazing,
But they're seventeenth in scoring in the Big Ten, their
(19:36):
last and field goal percentage, they're fourteenth from downtown their
last and assists, and they have a in the Ken
Palm Offensive Efficiency ratings. They're one hundred and thirty ninth
in college basketball right now. So is this a coaching problem,
or is this a talent problem?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
I have not felt better about the Washington basketball team
in five years.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Wow, it's last in the big time.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Have not felt better about the Washington basketball team in
five years because I got angry for five years in
a row Washing basketball team. I don't get angry anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Well, that implies that you actually were watching them for
five points. Yeah I was. I didn't watch.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
I didn't watch as much as I watched this year
because when I watched, when I watched this year, I
don't watch for wins and losses. I watch for what
this coach is doing with the talent he has acquired
last second, by the way, that he had to acquire
after getting hired. And he is making the most of
(20:34):
the talent that he is being that he has gotten,
and that talent is going to change next year. Let
me ask you this Jackson Quad, two quad, three quad
four games. Huskies have played ten of them in those
three quads. What's the record in those ten games quad,
two quad, three quad four put together? I guess a
game over five hundred.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Eight and two eight and two.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
So they when they play teams, when they play teams
that aren't great, right, they win they win with lesser
talent against teams that probably have better talent than teams
against Quad one they've had. They're one and seven against
Quad one teams and five in a row. I mean,
(21:18):
they just get beat down every single night by Quad
one teams.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
And another thing is they played a lot of road games,
five on the road as well. But you know what,
Northwestern's oh and five.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
I was zero and four Maryland, who, by the way,
is twenty four a net.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
They're zero and four on the road. It is tough
to win on the road in Big Ten.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Well, look and I and I appreciate the positivity, and
I appreciate the fact that we're willing to give Sprinkle
a little time to hit the ground running and kind
of figure this thing out and get his own guys
in there. But I think if you were to have
told me and you and I, we can't have it
both ways, because you and I did have a conversation
over the offseason, and I remember when Willner took the
(21:58):
opposite approach. We both thought they'd be better. We both
thought there's a chance they might be a tournament team
this yes, yes, And they're in last place in the
Big Ten in an eighteen team division. So this year
has not gone the way I think any of us
thought it would go great.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Osibor.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
You and I were at the game against Perdue last
week and Jackson, I'm telling you, Dick and I are
sitting like five rows off the court and they call
a timeout with like this, like five minutes into the game,
and he goes to the bench and he's exhausted. He
can't even stand up with his team. No, he's the
only guy sitting.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
On the rest of the team is standing on the
floor of Sprinkle.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
It was Sprinkle joined you guys from the arena. What
was that was that last last week?
Speaker 6 (22:40):
I mean he talked to me the reasoning he gives
about while he was injured and you come back from.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Bad and like, okay, well I'm sure, but like it's January.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
He was sick, he had a problem. But we're watching
this game and what did you see that? Like he's
the only guy that sat down and he had to
be consulted by a trainer, right, I mean, are you okay?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Whatever?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
He gets up, but he's he's resting his hand on
a on a guy's shoulder, and good for him. He
sucked it up and had a good game box score wise,
and he had twenty again last night. But he hasn't
turned out to be I think what we thought he
was gonna be. Uh, maybe there was too much expectation
on Zoom and year number one.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
They have no shooters on that team whatsoever. There's no
scores at all. Your second best player scoring wise is
Tyler Harris.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, I mean it's got a change, but that was right,
and the fact that I was the movie play.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Sorry, every other every other team just and in Oregon
did it last night with Supreme Cook, which is a
fabulous name.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
We got great, they got supreme, that's right, that's right here,
and I'm changed.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
My name is fantastic and great, you got great and
Bridenbach having to play post defense and that's not either
one of their fortes. And they're going up night after
night after night against these six to ten guys with muscle.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
What's the Pac twelve never had? Right?
Speaker 6 (23:58):
The Pac twelve had six ten guys that wide like
one hundred and eighty pounds. That's who the Pack ten
that Pack twelve had. The Big ten has got six
ten guys that weigh two forty five.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Would you believe it. If I told you where do
you think they are net ranking right now? Any idea?
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Well, they're better than a hundred, you'd had a reason
to look. But where do you think they are?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Eighty five? The ninety third?
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Okay, they were actually sixty ninth last year at Yes,
they ended the year sixty ninth, and I'm kind of
thinking ninety third is not horrible. They could be a
lot worse than that, but they were. They were better
a year ago when this season came. So what I
told dick Off the year and I'll just say this
on the air. They need to show me something when
the year comes to an end, when this run from
hell is over, and it might end Friday because U
(24:43):
Seela's coming to town. Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern whatever. You got
eleven games left, you know, go eight and three in
your final eleven games with a little bit of an
upset against Wisconsin, Oregon whatever. Remember the two thousand and
three Oregon State game when Nate Robinson had that dunk, Yeah,
and a place went banana and he hung on the rim.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
He said, look, this is different.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Now.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Was it Oregon State or Oregon? By the way, I
thought it was Oregon State Oregon State.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I believe that Nate had the dark and that kind
of started everything when they were rowing five. So can
they finish strong and get a win over a good
Wisconsin team, knockoff Oregon at heck Ed bringing an awesome class,
and then get people fired up because they need to
get some kind of a spark here.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Dack.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
If they can go on the type of run that
would get a lot of that would get the general
population fired up. I do think that hardcore Husky basketball
fans are already optimistic like I am, and I think
by the end of the year those two those people,
which is a small percentage of us, could be really
fired up.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
But it's gonna take.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
It's gonna take wins next year in the non conference
before the Pac twelves or the Big Ten season starts
to get people legitimate fired up. It's gonna take top
twenty five wins. It's gonna take big time teams coming
in here to heck Ed and watching the Huskies knock
them up.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
And maybe they're one.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Year away, maybe they're more than a one year away,
but they're gonna take steps.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
But I do think.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
I mean, you look at the home schedule the rest
of the way other than UCLA, I mean.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Which still is a winnable game at home.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
But there's nobody in the Big ten that The thing
with the Big ten is there's nobody in the Big
ten that I think is a national championship contender. There's
no great, great team in the Big ten, but there's
like eight or nine that are all gonna be within
like three seeds to eight seeds. So it's just you
just never get a night off.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
We gotta break
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