June 10, 2025 • 51 mins
In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain chat with Jon Wilner about the new NIL rules, then listen and react to Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald before talking to Sounders FC coach Brian Schmetzer and Huskies’ basketball coach Danny Sprinkle.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Jose Mercury News, Pope of the Pack, the Big ten baron,
our buddy, Johnny Wilner. John, how are you, man.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Thanks, Hey, you guys, there's a lot to talk about, man,
A lot going on so much. Yeah, well, let's start
at the top. Since we spoke last week, we have
this house settlement. Schools can now move ahead and pay
players directly upwards of twenty point five million dollars per
university per year. Explain to everybody what happened and why
(01:22):
the signal is a new dawn, a new day for
college athletics.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I know it's tough for fans to get to it
and you know, engaged in the legal aspects of college sports,
but this is a huge deal.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
This is right up there with.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
The implementation of Title nine and the Supreme Court giving
the conferences their media you know, the right to their
media deals as one of the most significant changes in
the history college sports.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
It happened at six fifteen Pacific.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
On Friday when the judge issued a seventy six page opinion,
you know, the ultimate a news stump, right, and the
big things. The biggest thing is this is gonna set
the competitive playing field for football and men's basketball for
years to come. It favors the SEC and Big Ten
because they've got more money, but it doesn't necessarily favor
(02:16):
every school in each conference. It's going to depend on
how the money's allocated, and it's gonna depend also on
NIL because.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
The schools can share revenue with the players.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
But they're still ANIL and they're trying to clean up
NIL and make all of the deals legitimate.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
But the amount of business opportunities that players have in.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Their communities is going to be a huge piece of
putting your roster together and winning.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
So, John, you think that cheating is potentially back on
the table now that we've do I do to talk
about what that looks like and is it cheating to
the level we had ten years ago or is it
much less than that?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
It might be less only because the donors are not
gonna have as much money because they're gonna be helping
with the other aspects. You right, I mean all this
does is put put the burden on fans. Ultimately, what
I think is gonna happen is, Look, they're taking NIL
in house the Washington let's just use the Huskies. They
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are creating this in house an IL company called Dogs Unleashed.
So all the deals, like Deman Williams signs a deal
with Toyota of Montlake and that has to be approved
by a clearing house. If it's approved, great if it's
not approved, they've got to try to reset it. But
that doesn't stop they're trying to stop the donors from
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giving the players money for doing nothing, pay for play,
but nobody, how are they gonna It's gonna be hard
for them to corral that. You know, who's gonna tell
some donor in in Knoxville or Athens or Columbus, or
where at Tallahassee, wherever Austin.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You're not.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You know what you can't.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
You can't give your player a bag of cash under
the table.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That's what we're gonna.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Get back to, because the more legitimate the NIL has
to be, the more people are gonna be motivated to
help their schools out by going under the table.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well here's here's my question. So I saw what there
was this new commission that was formed the other day
with this former baseball executive I guess his name is
Brian Seeley, who's gonna run this thing and make sure
the rules are being enforced. And you just got done
saying that, you know, you want to make sure that
players are not being paid to do nothing, that there's
a standard that needs to be set if you're gonna
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get money from a donor. To endorse a product, you
have to actually work for it and offer a service
in exchange for the cash. Well, what's the definition of
working for it? Who sets that sting? Well, because John,
I'll be honest with you. In this business, for example,
Dick and I, we do endorsements. Some clients want more,
some clients want less. One guy may come to me
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and say, hey, give me a fifteen second commercial a
month that we'll call it good. Others might want to
live spot every single radio show. So what's the standard
and who gets to the side what's good enough?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
That is a great question, and there's a lot of
people asking the same thing. So Deman Williams signs a deal,
he then has to assuming it's six hundred dollars or more,
he then.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Has to report.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
He has to report that to a clearing house that
has been named nil go. Essentially, nil go is a
technology platform that has been developed by Deloitte, and it
is and I don't know how they came up with
the algorithms, but it is supposed to make an assessment
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of a reasonable range of compensation for the services. So
you plug in the service, and you plug in the amount,
and then it takes into account where you're located, because
obviously it's you know, Seattle cost of living is higher
than it is in Pullman. It takes into account cost
of living, market, the job, the pay, and it's supposed
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to determine is it reasonable or not and if it's
not reasonable, it rejects the deal.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
The Power Conferences basically came up with this and told Deloitte,
here's what we want, and Deloitte created this algorithm. It's
gonna get there's gonna be a lawsuit faster than you can.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Say, Deloitte, Really, I mean say, no question.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Who's to say what the fair market value is?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
The market it right.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Right, John?
Speaker 6 (06:48):
The twenty point five million dollars that now the schools can.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Choose to participate to give their players.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Won't all Power for schools max that allowed investment? Or
is is it really a good brag when Washington comes
out and says, hey, we're gonna max this out at
twenty point five Are they literally one of the few that.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Are gonna do it?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Or is everybody gonna do it in the Power for.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I would assume everybody's gonna do it, or be so
close that you know, the difference is negligible, right, They
certainly have you have to say you're gonna do it,
because otherwise you're gonna get killed in recruiting for the
Big ten. They are leaving it at the discretion of
the schools to determine how to allocate that twenty point five.
My guess is most will put football at seventy five
(07:35):
to eighty percent, So we're talking fifteen to sixteen million.
Men's basketball is three million, and then the Olympic sports are,
you know, two million or so. Now Indiana, for instance,
maybe they lean a little bit more into UCLA. Maybe
the men's basketball has a little higher percentage, Ohio State, Michigan,
maybe football has a higher percentage.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
But basically, it's.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Gonna be fifteen million for football, three million for men's
basketball out of the twenty point five.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Everybody's going to be at twenty point five.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
And it's going to be a matter of, all, right,
what else can you get? How much more of the
real nil can Washington round up for its roster in
order to compete with Ohio State? Because you know how
State's going to go fifteen million for football and then
another ten for the nil. And same with Michigan. So
how much can Washington go over that cap with NIL?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, so they'll need Dogs on Leash to find them sponsorships,
to find them endorsements. As part of their employment contract
with the university, we're gonna supplement that with some endorsement dollars.
And that's where Dogs Unleashed. And a guy named Joe Knight,
by the way, who is the new director of Dogs Unleased.
He will join us on Thursday's radio show, by the way,
John at three twenty eight Montlay Futures is basically going away, right,
(08:51):
I mean, all these third party collectives are done and everything.
These these universities are basically going to have sales teams
on campus working for the schools that find commercial endorsements
for players.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yes. Yes.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
And the reason they've got to pull everything in house
is because there are such strict rules about reporting the
NIL deals athletes have. I think it is five days
to report a deal.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
To that clearing house.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
NIL go from the time they sign, and so the
schools don't want to take any chances with you know,
the booster, the collectives or the agents. Schools want to
have total control. So that's why they're bringing everything in house.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
John, let me ask you a question. The you've mentioned
nil go with Deloitte a couple times. Will those numbers
that the algorithm spits out will they be made public eventually?
Like can can somebody go online and say, hey, if
de Mont Williams is doing fifteen Instagram posts per month
living in Seattle, Washington, here's what Deloitte thinks he should
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be compensated. Will those numbers be made public?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I don't know that they're going to be made public
with an official front facing.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Database, but I believe that they.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I believe that they are going to get public public
records requests agents.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I think that we're going to have a pretty good
sense pretty quickly what the you know, what the going
rate is for a quarterback like Williams in a place
like Seattle, and how does that compare to USC's quarterback?
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I mean, the schools that are in Washington's got a
huge innate advantage here if it can execute. Because between
Microsoft and Amazon and Boeing, you know at Starbucks, I
mean all of those huge companies, that is a lot
of potential business opportunities in a place like Seattle. You know,
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a lot of schools are not going to have that
kind of you know, business community strength behind them.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Right right now, it seems like an advantage for you, dubs.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Certainly, you wrote an article a couple of days ago
surrounding this that I know Softie will be very interested
in any I'm surprised he hasn't asked you yet.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
You wrote an article saying Gonzaga is well set up
for the new post settlement world.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Why is that?
Speaker 9 (11:11):
I can't believe it took us ten minutes to get
to this one.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
So I do think.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I do think that in some ways, the basketball schools
are gonna have an advantage. Right, Gonzaga does not have
to pay a football program, so they're not gonna have
as much money obviously as the Huskies, right because they
don't have a TV deal like the Big Ten. They
don't have the football revenue coming in. But if Gonzaga can,
if Washington's paying their basketball roster three three and a
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half million because most has to go to football, well, Gonzaga,
if they can muster six or seven million in revenue sharing,
almost all of that can.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Go to their basketball roster.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
So I think Gonzaga, I think the Big East schools.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Are gonna have an advantage if you don't have to
feed the football beast, almost everything you can come up
with can go to basketball.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
What about a team like Duke, who's clearly number one
is basketball, but they're still in the Power for Football conference, right.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Well, that's a they're in a tough spot.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
You know, I would expect that Kentucky, Duke, Carolina, Kansas, Arizona.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
You know, those schools are going to be a little
bit leaning into foot.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Basketball higher than average compared to the schools and their conferences. Right,
So Florida State's going to be going fifteen million on football,
Duke may just go thirteen or twelve, right, Yeah, But
then you also have the ability to supplement with that
nil piece, so there's a way to kind of balance
(12:39):
it out. But the basketball schools, no question, are going
to be leaning into that those rosters more than the
football schools.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Well, I think I think your point is well taken
about the potential for you, dub I do wonder if
to where with all those there I've been.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Looking back, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well, I've been looking for this text message I got
from somebody last year. I'm not going to tell you
who was from but somebody very close to fundraising over
at U DUB said this to me, and this was
on what was the date on this bad boy Goley?
Where was this? This was January of twenty twenty four,
so well over a year ago, right, guys, says from
the thirty thousand foot view, this town has a lot
(13:18):
of money, meaning Seattle, but much of it is held
by tech entrepreneurs who did not go to UDUB or
don't give a crap about sports. U DUB Upper Campus
raises more money than nearly every public school in the country,
but the money is not coming from sports fans. So
that's the question. The potential is absolutely there, But do
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we here in Seattle. Do places like Palau Alto, California,
for example, or Berkeley, California, do they have the passion
among the sports fan community to be that fired up
for Stanford football or cow basketball or U DUB football
to take some of that billions of dollars in cash
they have and direct it towards sports as opposed to
(14:02):
the science department or current cancer.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yes, I mean that is a big, big piece of it.
And the other thing is, I mean, I'm with you
one hundred percent. That is the big question.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
And the other piece is in Seattle, those dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
There's competition for those dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Seahawks, right, I mean Mariners, they are also going after
corporate dollars. And so in that sense, the you know,
the major schools in major metropolitan areas have a competition
that a school like you know, Oregon's not gonna have
quite as much of that, even though the Blazers exist.
(14:39):
You know, Oregon's gonna get a higher percentage of the
business money in Portland than then I would think Washington.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Will in Seattle. So we'll see how it balances out.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
But we do have such a huge market.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
A lot of times it's just volume, right, I mean,
we have so many people that are here.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
Is opposed to the SEC schools.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Where I think it'll help them most, John is where
you have a combination of money and a national program
like Michigan, Notre Dame, truly national programs, those probably will
be helped the most. I think Washington will probably be
next on that list, followed by the people in the SEC.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Alabama.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Yeah, they got a huge following, but they don't A
don't have a ton of money, and B don't have
a ton of people following the team compared to some
of these cities that have three five million people.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
That absolutely absolutely, and you know, if you're Washington, I
mean they obviously their alumni association knows exactly where the
alums are, right, I mean, how many alum Washington alums
live in the Bay Area and have time, you know,
tech money. But they're passionate, more passionate about the Huskies
than say some of the people who have tech money
and are living in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Right, no question. Well, I'll tell you this that a
ton of the money for the basketball team, if not
almost all of it's coming from Los Angeles right now.
It's not coming from up here in the Pacific North,
and it's coming from one guy. So look, and that's fine.
Whatever gets the job done gets the job done. But
the possibility is there, no question about it. Just wonder
if the wherewithal is there? And you know, Danny Sprinkle
(16:11):
John's gonna join us at six pm to night. He
just got Desmond Claude the transfer from USC to commit
to youw Washington now has the number thirteen transfer class
in the country, thirtieth and recruiting overall, they got twelve
new guys. I mean what should the expectations be for
Husky basketball and year two of the Big Ten? With
this roster they put together.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
They're climbing by the week, it seems. I Mean Claude
was a huge get, partly just because of the position.
Right it's the most important position. And the guy can play.
I mean he he had thirty in the against Rutgers
in the Big Ten tournament. I want to say, I
know he hit, you know, scored twenty multiple times against
the Huskies.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
So look, they've got a roster.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
If I'm looking at the Big Ten right now, I
you know, Purdue, Illinois.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Probably UCLA, Michigan top.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Tier, probably the Spartans too just because it Izzoh, but
Washington is right in there in that next group. And
if you're in that five to eight range in the
Big Ten, you're in you're probably getting a tournament bid.
They got what they got eight or nine this past season.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
So if the Huskies can do.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
The thing is they've got to get the pieces.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
The key for Sprinkle is going to be getting them
cohesive early because those November and December non conference games
kind of set your net ranking. So if he can
get them starting fast despite all the new pieces.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
They have got a great chance to make the tournament.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Well, you did your post draft, post portal top twenty
five hoops pul but that was before Desmond Claude, and
I know Roth Steins got the Huskies at thirty now
in his I mean, is this a potential where you
could have a preseason top twenty five for these guys?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I you know, I thought about putting them in there
even before Claude. I would My guess would be they're
gonna be in the others receiving votes. So you know
that's like twenty six to thirty five, thirty five.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
That's fair because they haven't done anything yet.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
So you lay together see them first when they went Washington,
you guys in the first game of the year, you'll
put them in your top twenty five. John, Yeah, what
do you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Guys know what their non conference schedules like?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah, it's not very good. There's not much on it,
to be honest with you. Yeah, they haven't done that.
You know, we can ask Dany Sprinkle by the way,
when he comes out of the air with us, what
their what their possibilities are. They got UC Davis, they
got Nevada. That's not bad. That's from last year. Never mind,
that's last year's schedule. I'm sorry I have I know
they're not.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
You've got to set your schedule.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
You got to set your schedule before you know you're
sorry to interrupt, set your schedule a lot of.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Times before you know your roster. It's it's very hard.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I'd be curious to hear what Sprinkle Loss says about
how much harder the non conference scheduling has become.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Well, I think the Gonzaga thing, the bailout of Gonzaga
happened before the roster was set last year. I think
they built out of that pretty early. So we'll ask
him when he comes on at six. All right, John,
great stuff, and we're talking a week buddy, appreciate U.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
All right, John Wilner with us on the radio show.
We're gonna break Danny Sprinkle again and the join is
coming up at six pm tonight right here on ninety
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Speaker 9 (19:47):
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I'm gonna hit the actual letter F on this keyboard.
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The Club World Cup should be popular too, and instead
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is not reality whatsoever?
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Speaker 3 (20:17):
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Speaker 11 (20:20):
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on a keyboard?
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(20:45):
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I sent a little Scooby snack out on social media
last hour, did you right?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:02):
I just my my favorite fifty to one or belong.
I love long shots.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yes, give me one.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Well, there was just a list of there.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
It was a screenshot of a list of like guys
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in that list.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
So can you tell me who they are? You'll have
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call the world's the Biggest tease by the way.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Alright at fifty to one, Lowry and Straka gotcha at
fifty five to one, Connors and Hattan at eighty to one,
Keegan at.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
One hundred to one.
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I might put might put a few bucks on each
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if one of them hits, I won't be here on Monday.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Mike McDonald, Seahawk head coach, after day one of Seahawk
Made camp, talking this afternoon, here's the coach of the.
Speaker 12 (23:00):
Great to be back, great practice. Guys are on it.
Just the spirit of practice is right where we needed
at this time of year.
Speaker 13 (23:06):
So I get another great opportunity tomorrow to stack another
one and then off we go. But let's make sure
we're taking advantage of the time we've been given now
and the guys are doing that. So just really pleased
with effort, attitude, intent, spirit. A lot of stuff to
work on. You know, we've got a long journey ahead
of us, but for right now, I'm just really excited
(23:27):
about you know, the effort, enthusiasm with the team, and
and it's a fun group to work with.
Speaker 12 (23:33):
So what have you learn so far about the Union
offics and the coaches and how they try to coach
the field.
Speaker 13 (23:38):
Yeah, look, they're we're they're doing a great job. I
think you know, how we want to operate as a
team is you know, be demanding, but let the guys go,
you know, let it rip and practice the right way.
And we got a lot of offense in which is awesome.
You know, they've been exposed to a lot over the
course of the spring, but the standards are high. There's clarity,
a lot of great coaching going on, a lot of
great teaching, a lot of great enthusiasm. It's unique to
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them and their personalities, which is which is what you want,
you know, that's why we hire them, is the is
the people and the men that they are. So a
lot of positive things right now and the guys know what,
you know, what's expected, which is great. So they can
go back and we'll go watch the tape and get
better and go fix it tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
With that.
Speaker 14 (24:18):
How are you seeing Sam?
Speaker 12 (24:21):
Yeah, Sam, Sam's doing a great job like that.
Speaker 13 (24:24):
Sam is a great feel for the offense right now
in terms of like growing every day. So you can
feel the growth, you can feel, uh, the improvement, the
confidence that that we're doing on that side of the
ball and that we're growing and uh, and it's exciting
to work with. He's he's he's a heck of a
competitor and uh, you know, this time of the year,
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it's hard to with all the competition periods you're trying
to create. You know, a bunch of situations where there's
technically a winner or a loser, but you're really trying
to just get great situational work where you're making great
decisions and we're doing that on both sides. But uh,
those are fun periods that you know when you feel
is his competititiveness and uh, really all three quarterbacks, you know,
you feel their competitives, competitiveness and just the sense of
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improvement every day.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Is like a fiery guy who's like a yeller.
Speaker 12 (25:09):
He has got some stuff too.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah, did that surprise you.
Speaker 12 (25:13):
No, we went against him. We felt it.
Speaker 14 (25:15):
But have you m and worry looks like you're moving
him around? Fight it or use it in a different
spots where do you kind of like that out of
him and what you've seen.
Speaker 13 (25:21):
At him, Well, the first thing that pops is like
the vets in the room are really leading him and
they're doing a great job of setting the expectation bring
him on along. You know, he's understanding he's a rookie,
but hey, man, like let's let's go. You know, you're
with us, but there's there's a certain standard that you're
gonna have to buy by and uh, Nick has the
humility to uh to do that and to operate that way.
Speaker 12 (25:42):
So but to his credit, he's we're giving him a lot.
Speaker 13 (25:46):
You know, the bullets aren't live yet, so you know
that's the next step for him to show he can
handle it in those types of situations.
Speaker 12 (25:51):
But he's gonna be able to do that. I mean,
he's he's really poised.
Speaker 13 (25:55):
Uh, he's got a great He's got a great He
just understands ball and he loved I think again, he
really likes the process of doing football all the time
and uh, Jeff doing a great job with him coaching
him up all the time. So really pleased with with
with Nick.
Speaker 14 (26:09):
Seeing him come off the edge as a blitzer and
is there a potential for that is a rookie.
Speaker 13 (26:14):
Yeah, yeah, he's uh that shows up on college tape.
Speaker 12 (26:17):
There's blitz ability.
Speaker 13 (26:18):
Uh, there's some things that we're working with him, you know,
technically speaking, but you don't want to you want to
teach past rush and how to win on edges and
things like that. But there's also a playmaking ability, you know,
playmaking aspect.
Speaker 12 (26:29):
To it as well that you don't want to take
away from him. So we need to balance that out.
But yeah, hopefully he's blitzing a lot.
Speaker 14 (26:35):
We've seen christ has play center a little bit. Yeah,
I guess what's the thought or the thought behind that.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
You kind of wouldn't see that.
Speaker 13 (26:41):
Well, I think it goes up, you know, the interior
part of our line. We're mixing and matching right now.
It's a lot of great competition and Christian shown the
ability to snap, so we've give him some opportunities to
do so.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Ken Water dealing with something.
Speaker 12 (26:54):
Yeah, he's working through an ankle, but he should be fine.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
The voice of Mike McDonald.
Speaker 10 (27:00):
Testing live from the R and R Foundation specialist broad
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Speaker 2 (27:15):
Alrighty, boys and girls, we're back here on a Tuesday
night at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. Danny Sprinkle, good
week for him, head coach of the Husky basketball team,
will join us coming up at six pm tonight, but
joining us right now on the radio show. This is
proof positive that this guy will be here, win, lose
or draw. Tough questions, happy environment, difficult environments. If there's
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ever a day, ever a week where I would if
I'm Brian Schmetzer and telling guys like you and I
to take a hike and say, you know what, let's
skip it. I'll talk to you next week, it'd be
this one. But no, he's a man of his word
and he's with us right now on the radio show.
Brian Schmeetzer, coach, how are you good?
Speaker 8 (27:52):
But remember you threatened me last time, so I had
to be on the show.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yes, and I'll threaten you again. If you ever skip
the show, I'll kick your ass right I'm telling you
right now.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
No, I'll never walk away from hard questions from Dave
Softy Maler.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I love it. Well, let's just start with the obvious then, right,
obviously not what we were hoping for, not what we
thought we would see in a three nothing lost to
Vancouver last weekend. And you face this question, I think,
Brian in the postgame press conference, and I think it's
a fair one to ask. And if you agree, please
tell us do you think your players, for lack of
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a better question, were fully focused on Sunday given everything
going up going on with the Club World Cup pay situation.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
Well, the wheels fell off the bus. I mean you
could maybe say that Minnesota blip on the you know,
bump in the road, whatever, this the wheels completely fell
off the bus. And I believe that, yes, the players
were distracted. They said, you know before the game. I
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mean we messaged it all week starting you know, the
first day we came back from Minnesota. We said, hey,
you know, let's try and write the ship. But you know,
I think they're human and it affected them. And you know,
to get two red cards, silly red cards, to not
generate enough offense, something was off. So you know, they've
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opened themselves up to that question.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
So if they were affected in an MLS game based
upon this player pay situation in the Club World Cup,
how worried. Are you that in the Club World Cup
game they're going to be affected by this?
Speaker 9 (29:40):
Well, we're hoping.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
We're hoping, Dick and I haven't gotten an update today.
We're hoping that there's actual resolution in the pay situation.
Speaker 10 (29:51):
Now.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
Resolution could mean that the players got what they wanted
or something close to it, or it could be that
they didn't get what they were asking for or something
close to it. But at least there's resolution and then
they can start to focus. So that's my hope that
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something does get done, and you can bet your bottom
dollar that tomorrow that's you know, I'm gonna ask them
the same hard questions.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, well, let me ask you this, Brian, because I
think we asked you a week ago, and again, Brian
Schmetzer is with us on the radio show. I think
we asked you last week. Are you concerned about players
just simply skipping out and not showing up for these matches?
And you said no, you know, once the competitive fires
get starting to get a little juice, they'll be there
and they'll be fine. As we sit here a week later,
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do you still believe that or is there any part
of you that is now even remotely concerned that they
won't want to take part in this thing.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Well, I think there, I still stick with what I
said softy. So if you look at the Vancouver games
as an example, you know, so we give up a
soft goal, we're just not playing good defense. We give
up a soft goal to go one nothing down right
before halftime, fortieth minute, we talk about some things. We
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talk in parentheses about a few things at halftime, and
they come out fired up, ready to go. And I
thought the first five minutes were good until Knew who
loses his concentration, pulls a guy down.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Red card.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
It was a red card, but I thought they responded
in those first five minutes. I thought I could see
a difference coming out of halftime. I think I still
believe that we've got an experienced group of players, and
Steph Fry the captain, and Christian and Albert and you know,
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guys that have been around this club a long time.
We set the buy pretty bar pretty high, so I'm
expecting them to come out and play with intensity and
smarts and do a better job.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
A part of a coach's job is to motivate and
get their team mentally ready. But it's not all your
responsibility to motivate and get your team ready. How about
the captains? I mean, what type of responsibility do the
leaders of your team have to help you out in
that sense and get your team ready to play?
Speaker 8 (32:18):
Dick. That is such a good question because you know
I brought it up after the game, you know, a
little bit more direct than during the week, you know,
because during the week it was we or you know,
you guys got to stick together, you know, kind of
stuff like that. But you know, I challenged some guys
after the game and said, you know what, you guys
have to start with yourselves. It's your standard. What standard
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do you want to play to? And Steph Frye has
been the best goalkeeper in this league for many years.
I've said it all the time, and he's got to
raise his level on He's got to hold his teammates accountable.
Same thing with Christian, same thing with Albert. All those
guys have to get themselves right first, but then you know,
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make sure they hold their teammates to the same standard.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah. Well, Brian Schmetz is with us on the radio show,
and you mentioned that you kind of called them out
a little bit. I know what I would say if
I were the head coach and I'm not in charge,
it never will be. But I wouldn't say you guys
embarrassed yourselves on Sunday night, And I would wonder and
actually hope, Brian, that what happens Sunday night in Vancouver
will actually, in a backwards kind of way, help you
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this Sunday against Botafogo. Do you buy that that this
will be a motivated, humiliated, embarrassed group of professionals that
will come out on Sunday now and maybe in a
weird kind of way give you an even better effort
than they would have.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
I tend to agree with you, Softie, in some backwards way,
it might motivate them, But to DIT's point and to
everybody else watching or listening or whatever, it shouldn't come
to that. I mean, these guys are pros, they get paid,
they need to get the job done.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
Let's talk about Bodofolgo real quick.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
I mean, what type of team are they compared to
an MLS team? And who worries you on their side?
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Well? They are.
Speaker 8 (34:10):
They are the South American champions. They have a tremendous
talent pool and they are you know, they're they're they're
in a league ahead of us. You know, I can't.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
I can't sugarcoat it.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
Any other way. But again, what I expect is for
us to come out and be competitive. They've got a
bunch of good players, Dick. They've got players top to bottom,
up and down the roster. They got young guys, they
got some old guys that have some experience. But I
don't care. I mean, I just need my guys to
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show up and play as well as they can, because
I know they can play good soccer. I know they're competitive,
and then we'll try and make a game out of it.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Rian, we're kind of running out of time. I was
going to ask you a question about, you know, the
enthusiast for the tournament and all that, but that doesn't
really seem to be your problem. And it's not your
job to sell this thing. It's your job just to
go out and play your ass off starting on Sunday.
So if you disagree, feel free to jump in. If not,
we can move on. But the most important stuff the
injury updates. Jordan Morris, is he going to be available
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at all this weekend or in this tournament whatsoever?
Speaker 8 (35:20):
Not this weekend? Maybe the last game but softy, look,
this is I'll jump in in the last in your
last comment real quickly. It's PSG, It's Athletico Madrid and Bodafogo.
Our Seattle fans are probably never going to see our team,
the Sounders play in a legit tournament against some of
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these opponents, the other guy, the other teams that are
playing in Seattle, some good teams as well. For true
soccer fans, I think they should come out.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, love it all right, man, Hey, go have fun
this weekend. Kick their ass. Put Sunday night behind you,
and we're talking a week all right.
Speaker 8 (35:55):
Niks coach, all right, take care guys, see it all right.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Man, Brian Schmetzer with us on the Raid Show. How
about that admitting you thought the team was distracted on
not Sunday against against Vancouver. We're gonna break Danny Sprinkle
is not distracted. He's laser focused, baby, the head coach
of the Dogs, getting another big fish over the weekend.
He'll join us next on ninety three three KJRFM. On
ninety three three KJRFM. All right, joining us right now
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on the radio show. I'm trying to figure out what's
hotter the weather outside or Danny Sprinkle on the recruiting road.
It has been good, sizzling baby white frigging hat and
he joins us right now on the radio program from
Parts Unknown, the head coach of the Dogs. Coach, how
are you? What's going on?
Speaker 15 (36:38):
I'm doing great, man, always great to get back on
the show. And uh, you have just landing down here
in Charlotte to go recruiting, uh to the top one
hundred camp. But uh no, super excited about the class
that's coming in and and uh and our staff did
a tremendous job recruiting and and uh and really upgrading
the talent and athletics.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Well I can hear your voice. You sound like a
happy so be right now, my friend.
Speaker 9 (37:01):
I mean yeah, oh yeah, yeah, No, it was it
was a hard first year to get through and and
uh now we just gotta we got to keep progressing,
you know, we got to get better in all areas. Uh.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
But I'm really.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
Excited with the competitiveness and uh and like I said,
just the just the overall talent of this group, you know,
and it's gonna make guys compete, uh to get minutes
on the floor. And and that's when you you know,
that's when you start, you know, improving as a program.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Well we'll get to Desmond Claude in just a second,
the transfer from us C via Xavier. But look, I
don't know how much of this you want to share,
how much of you don't want to share. There's a
lot of rumors going around message boards stuff. Can you
just kind of for what you feel comfortable with? How
is all this happening? I mean, you're getting a lot
of guys, you got twelve new players, you got the
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thirteenth best transfer class in the country, and I all
seems to be popping right now. How is all this happening?
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Danny?
Speaker 9 (37:59):
Yeah, you know, I think of it was. You know,
like I said, the work that my staff put in.
You know, they did a tremendous job, you know, evaluating.
You know, you have to win the transferport.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
You have to.
Speaker 9 (38:08):
I mean you're watching film and evaluating. I mean thirty
to forty kids a day, you know, I mean other
than kids, Like I mean, you obviously know Desmond Claude
really good, you know, like a lot of the guys
we got, but there's still like you have to make
sure they're a fit for what we're looking for and
trying to piece them all together, you know, but we
knew it was a staff like we had to we
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had to really upgrade our our talent level after going
through the Big Ten and you see the depth and
just the size and the athleticism and winning on the
road like you got to have you got to have
some real dudes and and so that's kind of where
we we started, and we just kind of pieced it
together one by one, and you know, we didn't we
didn't care necessarily what position. We just said, hey, we
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got to continue to get the best player available on
the board and then just let guys compete and then
get after it.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
Well, if I was a USC fan, Danny Sprinkle will
be public enemy number one. I mean it was first
Wesley Yates and now it's uh, and now it's Claude,
So uh.
Speaker 6 (39:08):
Talk about what what Claude's gonna bring you and then
also just talk about how he plays together with Wesleys.
Speaker 9 (39:16):
Yeah, you know, I mean there, I mean that was
obviously huge in getting Claude was was Wesley and uh,
you know, I mean I could be just as mad
that us. He stole them from us first, so well
we got him back. But it's uh, you know that
really helped his comfort level with with Wesley UH and
obviously Quincy UH Pondexher. It was it was huge in
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the recruiting process because you know, to be honest, there
was some there was some periods where we didn't even
talk or hear from Desmond or his family for like
two three weeks at a time during the recruiting process.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (39:50):
And and literally they called us uh that night after
the after the settlement, and uh, so I think, you know,
obviously they were they were obviously in everybody was in
a panic, and so uh, you know, that's kind of
how that went down. But it was a huge just
his talent that he's He's been a tremendous player in
the Big East and the Big Ten. Uh. He's got
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great size, he's a he's an elite, get it elitic
getting to the paint and creating and finishing, and so
you know, obviously you saw the two games that we
played against him last year, like he just completely dominated
the game. He literally down there and in Seattle he
dominated and controlled the entire game. And so like you know,
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when you look at it, I mean, he was easily
one of the you know two to three best guards
we played against all last year.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, forty five against you guys in those
two in those two games combined.
Speaker 9 (40:44):
But yeah, and I don't even know how many assists
he had, Like literally he dominated, He just literally controlled
every aspect of both of those games.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Well, I know the answer, by the way, Danny, just
see you know it was it was fifteen totals those games.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
But you know, I was thinking when when you see so,
what's that?
Speaker 9 (41:03):
Sorry, No, that's right.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
I was just when he signed, I was thinking, is
there any tie in between losing Nico? Maybe you know,
you got more resources now because you don't have Nico.
Is there any tie in at all about getting clawed
after losing Nico?
Speaker 9 (41:18):
No, none at all. Yep, none at all. Yeah, And
and really, like I said, I can't really comment on him,
but yeah, that was just a yeah, a mutual parting ways.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Gotcha. Well, Danny, you mentioned it that there's going to
be a lot of competition for playing time, right, I
mean these guys that you're bringing in, you're bringing in
Conference players of the year right to this roster. You're
bringing in guys that were number one options on other
teams last time I checked, there's only five guys allowed
in the court in one basketball So how do you
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figure this out? And does it does the next four
months maybe kind of feel even more important than the
last four months of the offseason when you were at
Utah staid or any other job.
Speaker 9 (42:09):
Yes, it does, it does because there's a you know,
and that's one thing in the recruiting process that I
wanted to make sure was are you about winning? Yeah,
because if you're not about winning, don't come here. Because
I said this, We're not.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
We're not.
Speaker 9 (42:21):
We're not losing like that again and h And like
I said, me and my staff, we've never been more
motivated to coach a team and work with the team.
But the guys that we have, like like they're just
they're all gym rats, you know, which you have to
have in order to win, Like it's important to them.
And yeah, there's gonna be some hurt feelings because I said,
you can't play fourteen guys, you know, And so you
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know that's where it's you got to go compete, You
got to bring it every day. And I think the
level of competition at every spot is going to make
every player better. They're going to know, they can't take
a day off, they can't have a bad possession or
miss a rebound you know during a game, or we'll
have somebody else that can just come in for them
and be just as productive or better. And so, you know,
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like I said, you know, in order for us to
take that next step as a program, we had to
we had to really improve our depth and especially our
offensive ability, you know. I mean, we'll be able to
play a lot faster this year. I really like all
of our guards, you know, even our freshman you know, guards,
I think have really a chance to really really be good.
And so it I mean, it's gonna be fun. Like
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I said, I can't I can't wait for practice just
to get after it.
Speaker 6 (43:30):
Well, you have to simplify anything on your offense, not
to make it too intricate because you got so many
new guys coming in, or or do you feel like
you've got enough time that you can implement anything you
want to implement and these guys can bring it all
together to win the requisite amount of the big ten
games to make the tournament.
Speaker 9 (43:50):
Yeah, no, you know, I think I don't think we
have to simplify anything, you know, I think we have
to cut, you know, with the with the talent that
we have and guys that can really score to basketball.
You know, hopefully it'll remind me of some of the
you know, the last couple of teams I had at
Montana State and Utah State, where we can just play,
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you know, like we'll be taking quicker shots, we'll be
able to play faster, we'll be able to play freer,
and I'll be able to let guys be creative, where
last year we didn't have that luxury. Like we had
to slow the game down. We had to limit possessions
or we'd have just been blown out, you know, to
be honest, and so like we had to control that.
And I don't like playing like that, and none of
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my teams had really played like that before, but we
had to just to give ourselves a chance. Yeah, we're
this year, I think with guys like like oh, you
got Zoom, you got Wesley yh you got Kamara, you
got Desmond clab Bryce and Tucker, Like I mean JJ Maniquett,
you know, like who's you know with Team USA, you
know this weekend. You know, like we have so many
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guys that can really make plays, and now it's our
job to get those guys making place for each other, Like, yeah,
we need everybody to be great offense. Anybody else and
needs you to. When you get two on the basketball,
you got to pass the ball to the guy who's opened,
you know, because we will have talent to share to basketball.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Well, Danny sprinkles with us. You love basketball, head coach
coming off the signing and the paperworkers officially in Desmond
Claude transfer from usc is officially now a member of
the Husky basketball team. That became official like an hour
and a half ago. Desmond, I think heard that you
were going to come on the radio show and wanted
to get that done so we could talk about it exactly.
Speaker 9 (45:32):
He's like, I get I gotta get this done for
these guys.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Thanks thanks to him for doing that. But Danny, the
last time we saw you in person was before the
Purdue game, and we visited for a few minutes on
the concourse. And look, there was some obvious visible frustration
with the Frank Kepnong situation, right, and and look you
told us on the air that he's wanted he's got
to want to get back out there right and play.
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Where is he now with his health and maybe more importantly,
where is he at with his his motivation and his
desire to be on the basketball court.
Speaker 9 (46:08):
I think I think Frank's in the best mental space
and physical space that he's been in since he got
to the University of Washington. I think, you know, just
being able to play the last you know whatever fifteen
games of the year and just really regained kind of
confidence in his knee. You know, it was more of
a mental block, and now he's over that. I mean,
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he's in hot yoga. He's actually lost about fifteen pounds,
you know, and just really working on his flexibility and
injury prevention. And you know, I talked with him the
other day in my office, and like just his he's
always in a great mood. He's just he's such an
unbelievable kid. But the way he was speaking about how
his body felt and how he just felt moving on
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the court, like he's like, coach, I feel as healthy
as I've ever been. And so, you know, for him
to say things like that, that means he's in a
great mental place and now he's got to now he's
got to go get it, you know, like he's towards
the end of his career, and you know like he Now,
I mean, we got four other guys he's gonna be
competing with too, you know, for minutes, and so there
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there isn't time to sit on the side and do that.
Now it's it's go time. And so I'm really excited
for Frank and I think he's gonna have a I
think he's gonna have his best year ever in college.
Speaker 6 (47:22):
Love it well, coach a similar question about Zoom because obviously,
you know Zoom decides to come back, you know, you
think that you're gonna, you know, try to build the
team around him and some others. But now you've got
so many other guys competing with him. How's his mental
space and his his readiness to to really gonna have
to compete hard for minutes where you know, a couple
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three months ago it didn't look like you had had
to compete that hard for minutes.
Speaker 9 (47:47):
Well, yeah, you know. The one thing that I love
about Zoom is is how important you know, like he
always says how important Washington basketball is to him and
winning and in order to win, you have to you
have to get great players. You have to play with
great players.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
You know.
Speaker 9 (48:03):
It's it's one thing to you know, to have a
great year, but we finished dead last in the Big Ten.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
Yep.
Speaker 9 (48:11):
Like that's that's not acceptable, you know, And so we
have to get better at every single spot. Zoom needs
to continue to get better, Frank, all the newcomers and
even the guys that are coming in, they need to
be better than they were last year at whatever school
they were at. And that's just that's just competitive basketball
at the at the Big Ten, the highest level. And
so you know, I know Zoom like he's he's in
(48:33):
the gym all the time, he's working his butt off. Uh,
and I'm really expecting him to have a great year.
Uh and to really you know, make that freshman a
sophomore year jump.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Yep. Yeah, Well, Danny sprinkles with us and Danny. The
weird thing about the way college basketball schedules work. I'm
sitting here and I can tell you who the Husky
football team is playing in their non conference schedule in
six years from now, But I can't see who you
guys are playing in four months in your non conference schedule, right.
I Mean, we know we know the Big Ten schedules
(49:05):
already out, but the way basketball schedules work, it's kind
of backwards compared to football. Can you give us any Nuggets,
any any idea of what your non conference schedule is
going to look like?
Speaker 9 (49:16):
Yeah, I think we have and and don't quote me
on this because I've been I've been just recruiting with
these guys, but I know I can't remember who we
open up with. It might be Arkansas Pine Bluff, and
then we go to Washington State. You know, we're at
Washington State, Impulman. I believe we have University of San
Diego coming here. We play in a tournament down in
(49:44):
Palm Springs again and they haven't decided on on what
pod we're in there, but there's there's some really good
teams there, you know, some Colorado, some some some big
twelve schools ACC schools down there, and we'll end up
playing them. I believe Utah is coming here to Seattle.
Speaker 8 (50:07):
UH.
Speaker 9 (50:07):
And then we're trying to we're trying to get a
a top fifteen, top twenty UH Power four game right
now that we're working on that, hopefully we get in
the next day or two.
Speaker 6 (50:20):
There's one of those teams about three hundred miles east.
Speaker 8 (50:23):
UH.
Speaker 6 (50:25):
He called Gonzaga to come over because you were going
to play him last year and that didn't happen.
Speaker 9 (50:30):
Yeah, you know, uh, you know we actually you know.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
Contacted them.
Speaker 9 (50:36):
I cantmember when it was, but it was it was late,
like it wasn't like they were you know, their their
schedule was already full by then at that time. And
so you know, that's just kind of a year to
year deal because it is hard because you know, obviously
with their league play too, and you know they're playing
in all the big tournaments also, so like their their
their schedule fills up quick and and uh and hopefully
(50:57):
we can hopefully we can get our schedule filling up
quick like that. Uh, you know here in the future
too with some of those you know, the the Maui Invitational,
some of those big tournaments.
Speaker 7 (51:10):
Don't tease this on that one, Dan, you know what
it will be if you go to that one.
Speaker 6 (51:14):
That is.
Speaker 2 (51:19):
Yeah, that is uh, that thing is special in behind it.
If you can get back there, I guarantee that you
can pay for the airfare and we'll be there.
Speaker 9 (51:31):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
Great stuff. Congratulations so far, but uh, we haven't done
anything yet, right, got to put the pieces together and
start kicking ass. When you guys hit the court in
late October November, so go get him and we'll talk
down the road. I appreciate it, Pal.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
You got it.
Speaker 9 (51:47):
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Speaker 3 (00:58):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Thanks, Hey, you guys, there's a lot to talk about, man,
A lot going on so much. Yeah, well, let's start
at the top. Since we spoke last week, we have
this house settlement. Schools can now move ahead and pay
players directly upwards of twenty point five million dollars per
university per year. Explain to everybody what happened and why
(01:22):
the signal is a new dawn, a new day for
college athletics.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I know it's tough for fans to get to it
and you know, engaged in the legal aspects of college sports,
but this is a huge deal.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
This is right up there with.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
The implementation of Title nine and the Supreme Court giving
the conferences their media you know, the right to their
media deals as one of the most significant changes in
the history college sports.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
It happened at six fifteen Pacific.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
On Friday when the judge issued a seventy six page opinion,
you know, the ultimate a news stump, right, and the
big things. The biggest thing is this is gonna set
the competitive playing field for football and men's basketball for
years to come. It favors the SEC and Big Ten
because they've got more money, but it doesn't necessarily favor
(02:16):
every school in each conference. It's going to depend on
how the money's allocated, and it's gonna depend also on
NIL because.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
The schools can share revenue with the players.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
But they're still ANIL and they're trying to clean up
NIL and make all of the deals legitimate.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
But the amount of business opportunities that players have in.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Their communities is going to be a huge piece of
putting your roster together and winning.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
So, John, you think that cheating is potentially back on
the table now that we've do I do to talk
about what that looks like and is it cheating to
the level we had ten years ago or is it
much less than that?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
It might be less only because the donors are not
gonna have as much money because they're gonna be helping
with the other aspects. You right, I mean all this
does is put put the burden on fans. Ultimately, what
I think is gonna happen is, Look, they're taking NIL
in house the Washington let's just use the Huskies. They
(03:25):
are creating this in house an IL company called Dogs Unleashed.
So all the deals, like Deman Williams signs a deal
with Toyota of Montlake and that has to be approved
by a clearing house. If it's approved, great if it's
not approved, they've got to try to reset it. But
that doesn't stop they're trying to stop the donors from
(03:50):
giving the players money for doing nothing, pay for play,
but nobody, how are they gonna It's gonna be hard
for them to corral that. You know, who's gonna tell
some donor in in Knoxville or Athens or Columbus, or
where at Tallahassee, wherever Austin.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You're not.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You know what you can't.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
You can't give your player a bag of cash under
the table.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That's what we're gonna.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Get back to, because the more legitimate the NIL has
to be, the more people are gonna be motivated to
help their schools out by going under the table.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well here's here's my question. So I saw what there
was this new commission that was formed the other day
with this former baseball executive I guess his name is
Brian Seeley, who's gonna run this thing and make sure
the rules are being enforced. And you just got done
saying that, you know, you want to make sure that
players are not being paid to do nothing, that there's
a standard that needs to be set if you're gonna
(04:50):
get money from a donor. To endorse a product, you
have to actually work for it and offer a service
in exchange for the cash. Well, what's the definition of
working for it? Who sets that sting? Well, because John,
I'll be honest with you. In this business, for example,
Dick and I, we do endorsements. Some clients want more,
some clients want less. One guy may come to me
(05:12):
and say, hey, give me a fifteen second commercial a
month that we'll call it good. Others might want to
live spot every single radio show. So what's the standard
and who gets to the side what's good enough?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
That is a great question, and there's a lot of
people asking the same thing. So Deman Williams signs a deal,
he then has to assuming it's six hundred dollars or more,
he then.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Has to report.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
He has to report that to a clearing house that
has been named nil go. Essentially, nil go is a
technology platform that has been developed by Deloitte, and it
is and I don't know how they came up with
the algorithms, but it is supposed to make an assessment
(05:57):
of a reasonable range of compensation for the services. So
you plug in the service, and you plug in the amount,
and then it takes into account where you're located, because
obviously it's you know, Seattle cost of living is higher
than it is in Pullman. It takes into account cost
of living, market, the job, the pay, and it's supposed
(06:20):
to determine is it reasonable or not and if it's
not reasonable, it rejects the deal.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
The Power Conferences basically came up with this and told Deloitte,
here's what we want, and Deloitte created this algorithm. It's
gonna get there's gonna be a lawsuit faster than you can.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Say, Deloitte, Really, I mean say, no question.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Who's to say what the fair market value is?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
The market it right.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Right, John?
Speaker 6 (06:48):
The twenty point five million dollars that now the schools can.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Choose to participate to give their players.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Won't all Power for schools max that allowed investment? Or
is is it really a good brag when Washington comes
out and says, hey, we're gonna max this out at
twenty point five Are they literally one of the few that.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Are gonna do it?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Or is everybody gonna do it in the Power for.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I would assume everybody's gonna do it, or be so
close that you know, the difference is negligible, right, They
certainly have you have to say you're gonna do it,
because otherwise you're gonna get killed in recruiting for the
Big ten. They are leaving it at the discretion of
the schools to determine how to allocate that twenty point five.
My guess is most will put football at seventy five
(07:35):
to eighty percent, So we're talking fifteen to sixteen million.
Men's basketball is three million, and then the Olympic sports are,
you know, two million or so. Now Indiana, for instance,
maybe they lean a little bit more into UCLA. Maybe
the men's basketball has a little higher percentage, Ohio State, Michigan,
maybe football has a higher percentage.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
But basically, it's.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Gonna be fifteen million for football, three million for men's
basketball out of the twenty point five.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Everybody's going to be at twenty point five.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
And it's going to be a matter of, all, right,
what else can you get? How much more of the
real nil can Washington round up for its roster in
order to compete with Ohio State? Because you know how
State's going to go fifteen million for football and then
another ten for the nil. And same with Michigan. So
how much can Washington go over that cap with NIL?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah, so they'll need Dogs on Leash to find them sponsorships,
to find them endorsements. As part of their employment contract
with the university, we're gonna supplement that with some endorsement dollars.
And that's where Dogs Unleashed. And a guy named Joe Knight,
by the way, who is the new director of Dogs Unleased.
He will join us on Thursday's radio show, by the way,
John at three twenty eight Montlay Futures is basically going away, right,
(08:51):
I mean, all these third party collectives are done and everything.
These these universities are basically going to have sales teams
on campus working for the schools that find commercial endorsements
for players.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yes. Yes.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
And the reason they've got to pull everything in house
is because there are such strict rules about reporting the
NIL deals athletes have. I think it is five days
to report a deal.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
To that clearing house.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
NIL go from the time they sign, and so the
schools don't want to take any chances with you know,
the booster, the collectives or the agents. Schools want to
have total control. So that's why they're bringing everything in house.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
John, let me ask you a question. The you've mentioned
nil go with Deloitte a couple times. Will those numbers
that the algorithm spits out will they be made public eventually?
Like can can somebody go online and say, hey, if
de Mont Williams is doing fifteen Instagram posts per month
living in Seattle, Washington, here's what Deloitte thinks he should
(09:57):
be compensated. Will those numbers be made public?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I don't know that they're going to be made public
with an official front facing.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Database, but I believe that they.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I believe that they are going to get public public
records requests agents.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I think that we're going to have a pretty good
sense pretty quickly what the you know, what the going
rate is for a quarterback like Williams in a place
like Seattle, and how does that compare to USC's quarterback?
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I mean, the schools that are in Washington's got a
huge innate advantage here if it can execute. Because between
Microsoft and Amazon and Boeing, you know at Starbucks, I
mean all of those huge companies, that is a lot
of potential business opportunities in a place like Seattle. You know,
(10:48):
a lot of schools are not going to have that
kind of you know, business community strength behind them.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Right right now, it seems like an advantage for you, dubs.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Certainly, you wrote an article a couple of days ago
surrounding this that I know Softie will be very interested
in any I'm surprised he hasn't asked you yet.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
You wrote an article saying Gonzaga is well set up
for the new post settlement world.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Why is that?
Speaker 9 (11:11):
I can't believe it took us ten minutes to get
to this one.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
So I do think.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I do think that in some ways, the basketball schools
are gonna have an advantage. Right, Gonzaga does not have
to pay a football program, so they're not gonna have
as much money obviously as the Huskies, right because they
don't have a TV deal like the Big Ten. They
don't have the football revenue coming in. But if Gonzaga can,
if Washington's paying their basketball roster three three and a
(11:38):
half million because most has to go to football, well, Gonzaga,
if they can muster six or seven million in revenue sharing,
almost all of that can.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Go to their basketball roster.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
So I think Gonzaga, I think the Big East schools.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Are gonna have an advantage if you don't have to
feed the football beast, almost everything you can come up
with can go to basketball.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
What about a team like Duke, who's clearly number one
is basketball, but they're still in the Power for Football conference, right.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Well, that's a they're in a tough spot.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
You know, I would expect that Kentucky, Duke, Carolina, Kansas, Arizona.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
You know, those schools are going to be a little
bit leaning into foot.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Basketball higher than average compared to the schools and their conferences. Right,
So Florida State's going to be going fifteen million on football,
Duke may just go thirteen or twelve, right, Yeah, But
then you also have the ability to supplement with that
nil piece, so there's a way to kind of balance
(12:39):
it out. But the basketball schools, no question, are going
to be leaning into that those rosters more than the
football schools.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Well, I think I think your point is well taken
about the potential for you, dub I do wonder if
to where with all those there I've been.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Looking back, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well, I've been looking for this text message I got
from somebody last year. I'm not going to tell you
who was from but somebody very close to fundraising over
at U DUB said this to me, and this was
on what was the date on this bad boy Goley?
Where was this? This was January of twenty twenty four,
so well over a year ago, right, guys, says from
the thirty thousand foot view, this town has a lot
(13:18):
of money, meaning Seattle, but much of it is held
by tech entrepreneurs who did not go to UDUB or
don't give a crap about sports. U DUB Upper Campus
raises more money than nearly every public school in the country,
but the money is not coming from sports fans. So
that's the question. The potential is absolutely there, But do
(13:39):
we here in Seattle. Do places like Palau Alto, California,
for example, or Berkeley, California, do they have the passion
among the sports fan community to be that fired up
for Stanford football or cow basketball or U DUB football
to take some of that billions of dollars in cash
they have and direct it towards sports as opposed to
(14:02):
the science department or current cancer.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yes, I mean that is a big, big piece of it.
And the other thing is, I mean, I'm with you
one hundred percent. That is the big question.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
And the other piece is in Seattle, those dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
There's competition for those dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Seahawks, right, I mean Mariners, they are also going after
corporate dollars. And so in that sense, the you know,
the major schools in major metropolitan areas have a competition
that a school like you know, Oregon's not gonna have
quite as much of that, even though the Blazers exist.
(14:39):
You know, Oregon's gonna get a higher percentage of the
business money in Portland than then I would think Washington.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Will in Seattle. So we'll see how it balances out.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
But we do have such a huge market.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
A lot of times it's just volume, right, I mean,
we have so many people that are here.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
Is opposed to the SEC schools.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Where I think it'll help them most, John is where
you have a combination of money and a national program
like Michigan, Notre Dame, truly national programs, those probably will
be helped the most. I think Washington will probably be
next on that list, followed by the people in the SEC.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Alabama.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Yeah, they got a huge following, but they don't A
don't have a ton of money, and B don't have
a ton of people following the team compared to some
of these cities that have three five million people.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
That absolutely absolutely, and you know, if you're Washington, I
mean they obviously their alumni association knows exactly where the
alums are, right, I mean, how many alum Washington alums
live in the Bay Area and have time, you know,
tech money. But they're passionate, more passionate about the Huskies
than say some of the people who have tech money
and are living in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Right, no question. Well, I'll tell you this that a
ton of the money for the basketball team, if not
almost all of it's coming from Los Angeles right now.
It's not coming from up here in the Pacific North,
and it's coming from one guy. So look, and that's fine.
Whatever gets the job done gets the job done. But
the possibility is there, no question about it. Just wonder
if the wherewithal is there? And you know, Danny Sprinkle
(16:11):
John's gonna join us at six pm to night. He
just got Desmond Claude the transfer from USC to commit
to youw Washington now has the number thirteen transfer class
in the country, thirtieth and recruiting overall, they got twelve
new guys. I mean what should the expectations be for
Husky basketball and year two of the Big Ten? With
this roster they put together.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
They're climbing by the week, it seems. I Mean Claude
was a huge get, partly just because of the position.
Right it's the most important position. And the guy can play.
I mean he he had thirty in the against Rutgers
in the Big Ten tournament. I want to say, I
know he hit, you know, scored twenty multiple times against
the Huskies.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
So look, they've got a roster.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
If I'm looking at the Big Ten right now, I
you know, Purdue, Illinois.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Probably UCLA, Michigan top.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Tier, probably the Spartans too just because it Izzoh, but
Washington is right in there in that next group. And
if you're in that five to eight range in the
Big Ten, you're in you're probably getting a tournament bid.
They got what they got eight or nine this past season.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
So if the Huskies can do.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
The thing is they've got to get the pieces.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
The key for Sprinkle is going to be getting them
cohesive early because those November and December non conference games
kind of set your net ranking. So if he can
get them starting fast despite all the new pieces.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
They have got a great chance to make the tournament.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Well, you did your post draft, post portal top twenty
five hoops pul but that was before Desmond Claude, and
I know Roth Steins got the Huskies at thirty now
in his I mean, is this a potential where you
could have a preseason top twenty five for these guys?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I you know, I thought about putting them in there
even before Claude. I would My guess would be they're
gonna be in the others receiving votes. So you know
that's like twenty six to thirty five, thirty five.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
That's fair because they haven't done anything yet.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
So you lay together see them first when they went Washington,
you guys in the first game of the year, you'll
put them in your top twenty five. John, Yeah, what
do you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Guys know what their non conference schedules like?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah, it's not very good. There's not much on it,
to be honest with you. Yeah, they haven't done that.
You know, we can ask Dany Sprinkle by the way,
when he comes out of the air with us, what
their what their possibilities are. They got UC Davis, they
got Nevada. That's not bad. That's from last year. Never mind,
that's last year's schedule. I'm sorry I have I know
they're not.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
You've got to set your schedule.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
You got to set your schedule before you know you're
sorry to interrupt, set your schedule a lot of.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Times before you know your roster. It's it's very hard.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I'd be curious to hear what Sprinkle Loss says about
how much harder the non conference scheduling has become.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Well, I think the Gonzaga thing, the bailout of Gonzaga
happened before the roster was set last year. I think
they built out of that pretty early. So we'll ask
him when he comes on at six. All right, John,
great stuff, and we're talking a week buddy, appreciate U.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
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I sent a little Scooby snack out on social media
last hour, did you right?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:02):
I just my my favorite fifty to one or belong.
I love long shots.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yes, give me one.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Well, there was just a list of there.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
It was a screenshot of a list of like guys
from fifty to one to two hundred to one, and
I just marked I just you know, put a little
put a little notch by the guys that I liked
in that list.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
So can you tell me who they are? You'll have
to wait till tomorrow. I'll wait tomorrow. Right now, we
call the world's the Biggest tease by the way.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Alright at fifty to one, Lowry and Straka gotcha at
fifty five to one, Connors and Hattan at eighty to one,
Keegan at.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
One hundred to one.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
I like that Sea Wu and Harris English and one
hundred and ten to one Jackson Feltz's doppel Gamer.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
You go, Patrick Greed. I love it all right. Well,
I might put might put a few bucks on each
of those guys and see what happens. Why not, and
if one of them hits, I won't be here on Monday.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Mike McDonald, Seahawk head coach, after day one of Seahawk
Made camp, talking this afternoon, here's the coach of the.
Speaker 12 (23:00):
Great to be back, great practice. Guys are on it.
Just the spirit of practice is right where we needed
at this time of year.
Speaker 13 (23:06):
So I get another great opportunity tomorrow to stack another
one and then off we go. But let's make sure
we're taking advantage of the time we've been given now
and the guys are doing that. So just really pleased
with effort, attitude, intent, spirit. A lot of stuff to
work on. You know, we've got a long journey ahead
of us, but for right now, I'm just really excited
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about you know, the effort, enthusiasm with the team, and
and it's a fun group to work with.
Speaker 12 (23:33):
So what have you learn so far about the Union
offics and the coaches and how they try to coach
the field.
Speaker 13 (23:38):
Yeah, look, they're we're they're doing a great job. I
think you know, how we want to operate as a
team is you know, be demanding, but let the guys go,
you know, let it rip and practice the right way.
And we got a lot of offense in which is awesome.
You know, they've been exposed to a lot over the
course of the spring, but the standards are high. There's clarity,
a lot of great coaching going on, a lot of
great teaching, a lot of great enthusiasm. It's unique to
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them and their personalities, which is which is what you want,
you know, that's why we hire them, is the is
the people and the men that they are. So a
lot of positive things right now and the guys know what,
you know, what's expected, which is great. So they can
go back and we'll go watch the tape and get
better and go fix it tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
With that.
Speaker 14 (24:18):
How are you seeing Sam?
Speaker 12 (24:21):
Yeah, Sam, Sam's doing a great job like that.
Speaker 13 (24:24):
Sam is a great feel for the offense right now
in terms of like growing every day. So you can
feel the growth, you can feel, uh, the improvement, the
confidence that that we're doing on that side of the
ball and that we're growing and uh, and it's exciting
to work with. He's he's he's a heck of a
competitor and uh, you know, this time of the year,
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it's hard to with all the competition periods you're trying
to create. You know, a bunch of situations where there's
technically a winner or a loser, but you're really trying
to just get great situational work where you're making great
decisions and we're doing that on both sides. But uh,
those are fun periods that you know when you feel
is his competititiveness and uh, really all three quarterbacks, you know,
you feel their competitives, competitiveness and just the sense of
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improvement every day.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Is like a fiery guy who's like a yeller.
Speaker 12 (25:09):
He has got some stuff too.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah, did that surprise you.
Speaker 12 (25:13):
No, we went against him. We felt it.
Speaker 14 (25:15):
But have you m and worry looks like you're moving
him around? Fight it or use it in a different
spots where do you kind of like that out of
him and what you've seen.
Speaker 13 (25:21):
At him, Well, the first thing that pops is like
the vets in the room are really leading him and
they're doing a great job of setting the expectation bring
him on along. You know, he's understanding he's a rookie,
but hey, man, like let's let's go. You know, you're
with us, but there's there's a certain standard that you're
gonna have to buy by and uh, Nick has the
humility to uh to do that and to operate that way.
Speaker 12 (25:42):
So but to his credit, he's we're giving him a lot.
Speaker 13 (25:46):
You know, the bullets aren't live yet, so you know
that's the next step for him to show he can
handle it in those types of situations.
Speaker 12 (25:51):
But he's gonna be able to do that. I mean,
he's he's really poised.
Speaker 13 (25:55):
Uh, he's got a great He's got a great He
just understands ball and he loved I think again, he
really likes the process of doing football all the time
and uh, Jeff doing a great job with him coaching
him up all the time. So really pleased with with
with Nick.
Speaker 14 (26:09):
Seeing him come off the edge as a blitzer and
is there a potential for that is a rookie.
Speaker 13 (26:14):
Yeah, yeah, he's uh that shows up on college tape.
Speaker 12 (26:17):
There's blitz ability.
Speaker 13 (26:18):
Uh, there's some things that we're working with him, you know,
technically speaking, but you don't want to you want to
teach past rush and how to win on edges and
things like that. But there's also a playmaking ability, you know,
playmaking aspect.
Speaker 12 (26:29):
To it as well that you don't want to take
away from him. So we need to balance that out.
But yeah, hopefully he's blitzing a lot.
Speaker 14 (26:35):
We've seen christ has play center a little bit. Yeah,
I guess what's the thought or the thought behind that.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
You kind of wouldn't see that.
Speaker 13 (26:41):
Well, I think it goes up, you know, the interior
part of our line. We're mixing and matching right now.
It's a lot of great competition and Christian shown the
ability to snap, so we've give him some opportunities to
do so.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Ken Water dealing with something.
Speaker 12 (26:54):
Yeah, he's working through an ankle, but he should be fine.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
The voice of Mike McDonald.
Speaker 10 (27:00):
Testing live from the R and R Foundation specialist broad
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Speaker 2 (27:15):
Alrighty, boys and girls, we're back here on a Tuesday
night at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. Danny Sprinkle, good
week for him, head coach of the Husky basketball team,
will join us coming up at six pm tonight, but
joining us right now on the radio show. This is
proof positive that this guy will be here, win, lose
or draw. Tough questions, happy environment, difficult environments. If there's
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ever a day, ever a week where I would if
I'm Brian Schmetzer and telling guys like you and I
to take a hike and say, you know what, let's
skip it. I'll talk to you next week, it'd be
this one. But no, he's a man of his word
and he's with us right now on the radio show.
Brian Schmeetzer, coach, how are you good?
Speaker 8 (27:52):
But remember you threatened me last time, so I had
to be on the show.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yes, and I'll threaten you again. If you ever skip
the show, I'll kick your ass right I'm telling you
right now.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
No, I'll never walk away from hard questions from Dave
Softy Maler.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I love it. Well, let's just start with the obvious then, right,
obviously not what we were hoping for, not what we
thought we would see in a three nothing lost to
Vancouver last weekend. And you face this question, I think,
Brian in the postgame press conference, and I think it's
a fair one to ask. And if you agree, please
tell us do you think your players, for lack of
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a better question, were fully focused on Sunday given everything
going up going on with the Club World Cup pay situation.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
Well, the wheels fell off the bus. I mean you
could maybe say that Minnesota blip on the you know,
bump in the road, whatever, this the wheels completely fell
off the bus. And I believe that, yes, the players
were distracted. They said, you know before the game. I
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mean we messaged it all week starting you know, the
first day we came back from Minnesota. We said, hey,
you know, let's try and write the ship. But you know,
I think they're human and it affected them. And you know,
to get two red cards, silly red cards, to not
generate enough offense, something was off. So you know, they've
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opened themselves up to that question.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
So if they were affected in an MLS game based
upon this player pay situation in the Club World Cup,
how worried. Are you that in the Club World Cup
game they're going to be affected by this?
Speaker 9 (29:40):
Well, we're hoping.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
We're hoping, Dick and I haven't gotten an update today.
We're hoping that there's actual resolution in the pay situation.
Speaker 10 (29:51):
Now.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
Resolution could mean that the players got what they wanted
or something close to it, or it could be that
they didn't get what they were asking for or something
close to it. But at least there's resolution and then
they can start to focus. So that's my hope that
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something does get done, and you can bet your bottom
dollar that tomorrow that's you know, I'm gonna ask them
the same hard questions.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, well, let me ask you this, Brian, because I
think we asked you a week ago, and again, Brian
Schmetzer is with us on the radio show. I think
we asked you last week. Are you concerned about players
just simply skipping out and not showing up for these matches?
And you said no, you know, once the competitive fires
get starting to get a little juice, they'll be there
and they'll be fine. As we sit here a week later,
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do you still believe that or is there any part
of you that is now even remotely concerned that they
won't want to take part in this thing.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Well, I think there, I still stick with what I
said softy. So if you look at the Vancouver games
as an example, you know, so we give up a
soft goal, we're just not playing good defense. We give
up a soft goal to go one nothing down right
before halftime, fortieth minute, we talk about some things. We
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talk in parentheses about a few things at halftime, and
they come out fired up, ready to go. And I
thought the first five minutes were good until Knew who
loses his concentration, pulls a guy down.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Red card.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
It was a red card, but I thought they responded
in those first five minutes. I thought I could see
a difference coming out of halftime. I think I still
believe that we've got an experienced group of players, and
Steph Fry the captain, and Christian and Albert and you know,
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guys that have been around this club a long time.
We set the buy pretty bar pretty high, so I'm
expecting them to come out and play with intensity and
smarts and do a better job.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
A part of a coach's job is to motivate and
get their team mentally ready. But it's not all your
responsibility to motivate and get your team ready. How about
the captains? I mean, what type of responsibility do the
leaders of your team have to help you out in
that sense and get your team ready to play?
Speaker 8 (32:18):
Dick. That is such a good question because you know
I brought it up after the game, you know, a
little bit more direct than during the week, you know,
because during the week it was we or you know,
you guys got to stick together, you know, kind of
stuff like that. But you know, I challenged some guys
after the game and said, you know what, you guys
have to start with yourselves. It's your standard. What standard
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do you want to play to? And Steph Frye has
been the best goalkeeper in this league for many years.
I've said it all the time, and he's got to
raise his level on He's got to hold his teammates accountable.
Same thing with Christian, same thing with Albert. All those
guys have to get themselves right first, but then you know,
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make sure they hold their teammates to the same standard.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah. Well, Brian Schmetz is with us on the radio show,
and you mentioned that you kind of called them out
a little bit. I know what I would say if
I were the head coach and I'm not in charge,
it never will be. But I wouldn't say you guys
embarrassed yourselves on Sunday night, And I would wonder and
actually hope, Brian, that what happens Sunday night in Vancouver
will actually, in a backwards kind of way, help you
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this Sunday against Botafogo. Do you buy that that this
will be a motivated, humiliated, embarrassed group of professionals that
will come out on Sunday now and maybe in a
weird kind of way give you an even better effort
than they would have.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
I tend to agree with you, Softie, in some backwards way,
it might motivate them, But to DIT's point and to
everybody else watching or listening or whatever, it shouldn't come
to that. I mean, these guys are pros, they get paid,
they need to get the job done.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
Let's talk about Bodofolgo real quick.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
I mean, what type of team are they compared to
an MLS team? And who worries you on their side?
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Well? They are.
Speaker 8 (34:10):
They are the South American champions. They have a tremendous
talent pool and they are you know, they're they're they're
in a league ahead of us. You know, I can't.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
I can't sugarcoat it.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
Any other way. But again, what I expect is for
us to come out and be competitive. They've got a
bunch of good players, Dick. They've got players top to bottom,
up and down the roster. They got young guys, they
got some old guys that have some experience. But I
don't care. I mean, I just need my guys to
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show up and play as well as they can, because
I know they can play good soccer. I know they're competitive,
and then we'll try and make a game out of it.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Rian, we're kind of running out of time. I was
going to ask you a question about, you know, the
enthusiast for the tournament and all that, but that doesn't
really seem to be your problem. And it's not your
job to sell this thing. It's your job just to
go out and play your ass off starting on Sunday.
So if you disagree, feel free to jump in. If not,
we can move on. But the most important stuff the
injury updates. Jordan Morris, is he going to be available
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at all this weekend or in this tournament whatsoever?
Speaker 8 (35:20):
Not this weekend? Maybe the last game but softy, look,
this is I'll jump in in the last in your
last comment real quickly. It's PSG, It's Athletico Madrid and Bodafogo.
Our Seattle fans are probably never going to see our team,
the Sounders play in a legit tournament against some of
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these opponents, the other guy, the other teams that are
playing in Seattle, some good teams as well. For true
soccer fans, I think they should come out.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, love it all right, man, Hey, go have fun
this weekend. Kick their ass. Put Sunday night behind you,
and we're talking a week all right.
Speaker 8 (35:55):
Niks coach, all right, take care guys, see it all right.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Man, Brian Schmetzer with us on the Raid Show. How
about that admitting you thought the team was distracted on
not Sunday against against Vancouver. We're gonna break Danny Sprinkle
is not distracted. He's laser focused, baby, the head coach
of the Dogs, getting another big fish over the weekend.
He'll join us next on ninety three three KJRFM. On
ninety three three KJRFM. All right, joining us right now
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on the radio show. I'm trying to figure out what's
hotter the weather outside or Danny Sprinkle on the recruiting road.
It has been good, sizzling baby white frigging hat and
he joins us right now on the radio program from
Parts Unknown, the head coach of the Dogs. Coach, how
are you? What's going on?
Speaker 15 (36:38):
I'm doing great, man, always great to get back on
the show. And uh, you have just landing down here
in Charlotte to go recruiting, uh to the top one
hundred camp. But uh no, super excited about the class
that's coming in and and uh and our staff did
a tremendous job recruiting and and uh and really upgrading
the talent and athletics.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Well I can hear your voice. You sound like a
happy so be right now, my friend.
Speaker 9 (37:01):
I mean yeah, oh yeah, yeah, No, it was it
was a hard first year to get through and and
uh now we just gotta we got to keep progressing,
you know, we got to get better in all areas. Uh.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
But I'm really.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
Excited with the competitiveness and uh and like I said,
just the just the overall talent of this group, you know,
and it's gonna make guys compete, uh to get minutes
on the floor. And and that's when you you know,
that's when you start, you know, improving as a program.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Well we'll get to Desmond Claude in just a second,
the transfer from us C via Xavier. But look, I
don't know how much of this you want to share,
how much of you don't want to share. There's a
lot of rumors going around message boards stuff. Can you
just kind of for what you feel comfortable with? How
is all this happening? I mean, you're getting a lot
of guys, you got twelve new players, you got the
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thirteenth best transfer class in the country, and I all
seems to be popping right now. How is all this happening?
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Danny?
Speaker 9 (37:59):
Yeah, you know, I think of it was. You know,
like I said, the work that my staff put in.
You know, they did a tremendous job, you know, evaluating.
You know, you have to win the transferport.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
You have to.
Speaker 9 (38:08):
I mean you're watching film and evaluating. I mean thirty
to forty kids a day, you know, I mean other
than kids, Like I mean, you obviously know Desmond Claude
really good, you know, like a lot of the guys
we got, but there's still like you have to make
sure they're a fit for what we're looking for and
trying to piece them all together, you know, but we
knew it was a staff like we had to we
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had to really upgrade our our talent level after going
through the Big Ten and you see the depth and
just the size and the athleticism and winning on the
road like you got to have you got to have
some real dudes and and so that's kind of where
we we started, and we just kind of pieced it
together one by one, and you know, we didn't we
didn't care necessarily what position. We just said, hey, we
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got to continue to get the best player available on
the board and then just let guys compete and then
get after it.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
Well, if I was a USC fan, Danny Sprinkle will
be public enemy number one. I mean it was first
Wesley Yates and now it's uh, and now it's Claude,
So uh.
Speaker 6 (39:08):
Talk about what what Claude's gonna bring you and then
also just talk about how he plays together with Wesleys.
Speaker 9 (39:16):
Yeah, you know, I mean there, I mean that was
obviously huge in getting Claude was was Wesley and uh,
you know, I mean I could be just as mad
that us. He stole them from us first, so well
we got him back. But it's uh, you know that
really helped his comfort level with with Wesley UH and
obviously Quincy UH Pondexher. It was it was huge in
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the recruiting process because you know, to be honest, there
was some there was some periods where we didn't even
talk or hear from Desmond or his family for like
two three weeks at a time during the recruiting process.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (39:50):
And and literally they called us uh that night after
the after the settlement, and uh, so I think, you know,
obviously they were they were obviously in everybody was in
a panic, and so uh, you know, that's kind of
how that went down. But it was a huge just
his talent that he's He's been a tremendous player in
the Big East and the Big Ten. Uh. He's got
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great size, he's a he's an elite, get it elitic
getting to the paint and creating and finishing, and so
you know, obviously you saw the two games that we
played against him last year, like he just completely dominated
the game. He literally down there and in Seattle he
dominated and controlled the entire game. And so like you know,
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when you look at it, I mean, he was easily
one of the you know two to three best guards
we played against all last year.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, forty five against you guys in those
two in those two games combined.
Speaker 9 (40:44):
But yeah, and I don't even know how many assists
he had, Like literally he dominated, He just literally controlled
every aspect of both of those games.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Well, I know the answer, by the way, Danny, just
see you know it was it was fifteen totals those games.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
But you know, I was thinking when when you see so,
what's that?
Speaker 9 (41:03):
Sorry, No, that's right.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
I was just when he signed, I was thinking, is
there any tie in between losing Nico? Maybe you know,
you got more resources now because you don't have Nico.
Is there any tie in at all about getting clawed
after losing Nico?
Speaker 9 (41:18):
No, none at all. Yep, none at all. Yeah, And
and really, like I said, I can't really comment on him,
but yeah, that was just a yeah, a mutual parting ways.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Gotcha. Well, Danny, you mentioned it that there's going to
be a lot of competition for playing time, right, I
mean these guys that you're bringing in, you're bringing in
Conference players of the year right to this roster. You're
bringing in guys that were number one options on other
teams last time I checked, there's only five guys allowed
in the court in one basketball So how do you
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figure this out? And does it does the next four
months maybe kind of feel even more important than the
last four months of the offseason when you were at
Utah staid or any other job.
Speaker 9 (42:09):
Yes, it does, it does because there's a you know,
and that's one thing in the recruiting process that I
wanted to make sure was are you about winning? Yeah,
because if you're not about winning, don't come here. Because
I said this, We're not.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
We're not.
Speaker 9 (42:21):
We're not losing like that again and h And like
I said, me and my staff, we've never been more
motivated to coach a team and work with the team.
But the guys that we have, like like they're just
they're all gym rats, you know, which you have to
have in order to win, Like it's important to them.
And yeah, there's gonna be some hurt feelings because I said,
you can't play fourteen guys, you know, And so you
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know that's where it's you got to go compete, You
got to bring it every day. And I think the
level of competition at every spot is going to make
every player better. They're going to know, they can't take
a day off, they can't have a bad possession or
miss a rebound you know during a game, or we'll
have somebody else that can just come in for them
and be just as productive or better. And so, you know,
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like I said, you know, in order for us to
take that next step as a program, we had to
we had to really improve our depth and especially our
offensive ability, you know. I mean, we'll be able to
play a lot faster this year. I really like all
of our guards, you know, even our freshman you know, guards,
I think have really a chance to really really be good.
And so it I mean, it's gonna be fun. Like
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I said, I can't I can't wait for practice just
to get after it.
Speaker 6 (43:30):
Well, you have to simplify anything on your offense, not
to make it too intricate because you got so many
new guys coming in, or or do you feel like
you've got enough time that you can implement anything you
want to implement and these guys can bring it all
together to win the requisite amount of the big ten
games to make the tournament.
Speaker 9 (43:50):
Yeah, no, you know, I think I don't think we
have to simplify anything, you know, I think we have
to cut, you know, with the with the talent that
we have and guys that can really score to basketball.
You know, hopefully it'll remind me of some of the
you know, the last couple of teams I had at
Montana State and Utah State, where we can just play,
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you know, like we'll be taking quicker shots, we'll be
able to play faster, we'll be able to play freer,
and I'll be able to let guys be creative, where
last year we didn't have that luxury. Like we had
to slow the game down. We had to limit possessions
or we'd have just been blown out, you know, to
be honest, and so like we had to control that.
And I don't like playing like that, and none of
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my teams had really played like that before, but we
had to just to give ourselves a chance. Yeah, we're
this year, I think with guys like like oh, you
got Zoom, you got Wesley yh you got Kamara, you
got Desmond clab Bryce and Tucker, Like I mean JJ Maniquett,
you know, like who's you know with Team USA, you
know this weekend. You know, like we have so many
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guys that can really make plays, and now it's our
job to get those guys making place for each other, Like, yeah,
we need everybody to be great offense. Anybody else and
needs you to. When you get two on the basketball,
you got to pass the ball to the guy who's opened,
you know, because we will have talent to share to basketball.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Well, Danny sprinkles with us. You love basketball, head coach
coming off the signing and the paperworkers officially in Desmond
Claude transfer from usc is officially now a member of
the Husky basketball team. That became official like an hour
and a half ago. Desmond, I think heard that you
were going to come on the radio show and wanted
to get that done so we could talk about it exactly.
Speaker 9 (45:32):
He's like, I get I gotta get this done for
these guys.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Thanks thanks to him for doing that. But Danny, the
last time we saw you in person was before the
Purdue game, and we visited for a few minutes on
the concourse. And look, there was some obvious visible frustration
with the Frank Kepnong situation, right, and and look you
told us on the air that he's wanted he's got
to want to get back out there right and play.
(45:57):
Where is he now with his health and maybe more importantly,
where is he at with his his motivation and his
desire to be on the basketball court.
Speaker 9 (46:08):
I think I think Frank's in the best mental space
and physical space that he's been in since he got
to the University of Washington. I think, you know, just
being able to play the last you know whatever fifteen
games of the year and just really regained kind of
confidence in his knee. You know, it was more of
a mental block, and now he's over that. I mean,
(46:31):
he's in hot yoga. He's actually lost about fifteen pounds,
you know, and just really working on his flexibility and
injury prevention. And you know, I talked with him the
other day in my office, and like just his he's
always in a great mood. He's just he's such an
unbelievable kid. But the way he was speaking about how
his body felt and how he just felt moving on
(46:52):
the court, like he's like, coach, I feel as healthy
as I've ever been. And so, you know, for him
to say things like that, that means he's in a
great mental place and now he's got to now he's
got to go get it, you know, like he's towards
the end of his career, and you know like he Now,
I mean, we got four other guys he's gonna be
competing with too, you know, for minutes, and so there
(47:12):
there isn't time to sit on the side and do that.
Now it's it's go time. And so I'm really excited
for Frank and I think he's gonna have a I
think he's gonna have his best year ever in college.
Speaker 6 (47:22):
Love it well, coach a similar question about Zoom because obviously,
you know Zoom decides to come back, you know, you
think that you're gonna, you know, try to build the
team around him and some others. But now you've got
so many other guys competing with him. How's his mental
space and his his readiness to to really gonna have
to compete hard for minutes where you know, a couple
(47:43):
three months ago it didn't look like you had had
to compete that hard for minutes.
Speaker 9 (47:47):
Well, yeah, you know. The one thing that I love
about Zoom is is how important you know, like he
always says how important Washington basketball is to him and
winning and in order to win, you have to you
have to get great players. You have to play with
great players.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
You know.
Speaker 9 (48:03):
It's it's one thing to you know, to have a
great year, but we finished dead last in the Big Ten.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
Yep.
Speaker 9 (48:11):
Like that's that's not acceptable, you know, And so we
have to get better at every single spot. Zoom needs
to continue to get better, Frank, all the newcomers and
even the guys that are coming in, they need to
be better than they were last year at whatever school
they were at. And that's just that's just competitive basketball
at the at the Big Ten, the highest level. And
so you know, I know Zoom like he's he's in
(48:33):
the gym all the time, he's working his butt off. Uh,
and I'm really expecting him to have a great year.
Uh and to really you know, make that freshman a
sophomore year jump.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Yep. Yeah, Well, Danny sprinkles with us and Danny. The
weird thing about the way college basketball schedules work. I'm
sitting here and I can tell you who the Husky
football team is playing in their non conference schedule in
six years from now, But I can't see who you
guys are playing in four months in your non conference schedule, right.
I Mean, we know we know the Big Ten schedules
(49:05):
already out, but the way basketball schedules work, it's kind
of backwards compared to football. Can you give us any Nuggets,
any any idea of what your non conference schedule is
going to look like?
Speaker 9 (49:16):
Yeah, I think we have and and don't quote me
on this because I've been I've been just recruiting with
these guys, but I know I can't remember who we
open up with. It might be Arkansas Pine Bluff, and
then we go to Washington State. You know, we're at
Washington State, Impulman. I believe we have University of San
Diego coming here. We play in a tournament down in
(49:44):
Palm Springs again and they haven't decided on on what
pod we're in there, but there's there's some really good
teams there, you know, some Colorado, some some some big
twelve schools ACC schools down there, and we'll end up
playing them. I believe Utah is coming here to Seattle.
Speaker 8 (50:07):
UH.
Speaker 9 (50:07):
And then we're trying to we're trying to get a
a top fifteen, top twenty UH Power four game right
now that we're working on that, hopefully we get in
the next day or two.
Speaker 6 (50:20):
There's one of those teams about three hundred miles east.
Speaker 8 (50:23):
UH.
Speaker 6 (50:25):
He called Gonzaga to come over because you were going
to play him last year and that didn't happen.
Speaker 9 (50:30):
Yeah, you know, uh, you know we actually you know.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
Contacted them.
Speaker 9 (50:36):
I cantmember when it was, but it was it was late,
like it wasn't like they were you know, their their
schedule was already full by then at that time. And
so you know, that's just kind of a year to
year deal because it is hard because you know, obviously
with their league play too, and you know they're playing
in all the big tournaments also, so like their their
their schedule fills up quick and and uh and hopefully
(50:57):
we can hopefully we can get our schedule filling up
quick like that. Uh, you know here in the future
too with some of those you know, the the Maui Invitational,
some of those big tournaments.
Speaker 7 (51:10):
Don't tease this on that one, Dan, you know what
it will be if you go to that one.
Speaker 6 (51:14):
That is.
Speaker 2 (51:19):
Yeah, that is uh, that thing is special in behind it.
If you can get back there, I guarantee that you
can pay for the airfare and we'll be there.
Speaker 9 (51:31):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
Great stuff. Congratulations so far, but uh, we haven't done
anything yet, right, got to put the pieces together and
start kicking ass. When you guys hit the court in
late October November, so go get him and we'll talk
down the road. I appreciate it, Pal.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
You got it.
Speaker 9 (51:47):
Thanks guys,
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