June 10, 2025 • 15 mins
Washington Huskies basketball Head Coach Danny Sprinkle joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to talk about his work in recruiting for the team this offseason, the new players including Desmond Claude, the new way they can play, and returning players.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ninety three three kJ R F M all right, joining
us right now 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 good, sizzling, baby white
frigging hot and it joins us right now on the
radio program from Parts unknown, the head coach of the Dogs, Coach,
(00:20):
how are you? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
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 athleticism.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, I could hear your voice. You sound like a
happy s ob.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Right now, my friend.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, yeah, yep, No, it was. It was a hard
first year to get through and and uh now we
just gotta we got to keep progressing.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
You know, we got to get better in all areas. Uh,
but I'm really excited with the competitiveness and and like
I said, just the just the overall talent of this group,
you know, and it's gonna make guys compete to get
minutes on the floor and that's when you you know,
that's when you start, you know, improving as a program.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, we'll get to Desmond Claude in just a second,
the transfer from USC 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 thirteenth best
(01:35):
transfer class in the country, and it all seems to
be popping right now. How is all this happening? Danny?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yeah, you know, I think a lot 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 you have to win the transfer port. You
have to. I mean you're watching film and evaluating I
mean thirty to forty kids a day, you know, I
mean other thing kids like I mean, you obviously know
Desmond Claud's really good, you know, like a lot of
(02:05):
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 as a staff, like we had to
we 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 uh. And so that's kind
(02:26):
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 got to continue to get the best player available
on the board and then just let guys compete and
uh and then get after it.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Well, if I was a USC fan, Danny Sprinkle would
be public enemy number one. I mean, it was first
Wesley Yates and now it's uh, and now it's Claude.
So uh, talk about what what Claude's going to bring
you and then also just talk about how he plays
together with Wesleys.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
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 we
uh we got him back. But it's uh, you know
that really helped his comfort level with with Wesley. Uh
and obviously Quincy uh pondexherre. It was it was huge
(03:22):
in the recruiting process because you know, to be honest,
there was some there were some periods where we didn't
even talker hear from Desmond or his family for like
two three weeks at a time during the recruiting process,
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 a pan. Everybody
(03:45):
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 great size.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
He's uh, he's an elite get it at leitic 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.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Dominated the game. He literally down there and in Seattle
he dominated and controlled the entire game, and so like
you know, 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 5 (04:24):
Oh yeah, you had forty five against you guys in
those two in those two games combined.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
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 1 (04:35):
Well, I know the answer, by the way, Danny, just
see you know it was it was fifteen totals.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, you know, I was thinking, so, yeah, what's that? Sorry,
that's right.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
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 Claude
after losing Nico?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
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 1 (05:19):
Gotcha. Well, Danny, you mentioned it that there's gonna 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 figure
(05:40):
this out? And does 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 State
or any other job.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
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? Because
if you're not about winning, don't come here? Because I
said this pro we're not. We're not. We're not losing
like that again. And 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
(06:15):
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 going to
be some hurt feelings because I said, you can't play
fourteen guys, you know, And so you 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.
(06:38):
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, 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.
(06:59):
I mean, we'll be able to 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 I said, I can't I
can't wait for practice just to get after it.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Well, you have to simplify anything on your offense, not
to make it too intricate because you've 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 4 (07:34):
Yeah, No, you know, I think I don't think we
have to simplify anything. You know, I think we have
to 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, you know,
(07:55):
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 my teams
(08:17):
had really played like that before, but we had to
just to give ourselves a chance. You know, we're this year.
I think were guys like like, oh, you got Zoom,
you got Wesley yh you got Kamari, you got Desmond
clab Bryce and Tucker, Like I mean JJ Manniquett, you know,
like who's you know with team USA, you know this weekend.
You know, like, we have so many guys that can
(08:37):
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 offensively, but it also needs
you to when you get two on the basketball, you
got to pass the ball to the guy who's open,
you know, because we will have talent to share the basketball.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Well, Danny sprinkles with us, you'd got basketball head coach
coming off the signing and the paper work is officially
in Desmond Claude transferred from usc IS officially now a
member of the Husky basketball team. That became official like
an hour and a half ago. I, 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 4 (09:16):
He's like, I get I gotta get this done for
these guys.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
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.
(09:42):
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 4 (09:53):
I think I think Frank's in the best mental space
and physical space that he's been in since he got
to University of Washington. I think, you know, just being
able to play the last you know whatever fifteen games
of the year and 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,
(10:15):
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 had 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
(10:36):
moving on 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 it.
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 going to be competing with too, you know, for minutes,
and so there isn't time to sit on the side
(10:58):
and do that. Now it's go times. 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. Love it well.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
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 three months
ago it didn't look like you had had to compete
(11:29):
that hard for minutes.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
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. You know. It's it's one thing to you know,
to have a great year. But we finished dead last
(11:54):
in the Big Ten. Yeah, 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.
Rank 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
that's just competitive basketball at the Big Ten, the highest level.
(12:14):
And so you know, I know Zoom, like he's in
the gym all the time. He's working his butt off,
and I'm really expecting him to have a great year
and to really you know, make that freshman a sophomore
year jump yep.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
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
(12:50):
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.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
To look like? 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, impullman. I believe we have University
(13:20):
of San Diego coming here. We play in a tournament
down in Palm Springs again and they haven't decided on
what pod we're in there. But there's there's some really
good teams there, you know, some Colorado, some some Big
twelve schools, a SEC schools down there, and we'll end
(13:42):
up playing them. I believe Utah is coming here to Seattle,
and then we're trying to we're trying to get a
top fifteen, top twenty power for game right now that
we're working on that. Hopefully we get in the next
(14:03):
day or two.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
There's one of those teams about three hundred miles east.
Uh call, he called Gonzaga to come over because you
were going to play him last year and that didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah, you know, uh, you know we actually you know
contacted them I Camember 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
(14:36):
playing in all the big tournaments also, so like their
their their schedule fills up quick and and uh and
hopefully 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 and some of those big tournaments.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Oh, don't tease us on that one, Dan, You know
what it will be if you go to that one.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
That is.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
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. There
you go, there you go, great stuff. Congratulations so far,
but we haven't done anything yet, right, got to put
the pieces together and start kicking ass when you guys
(15:25):
hit the court in late October November. So go get
him and we'll talk down the roads. Appreciate it, Pal,
You got it.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Thanks guys,
Ninety three three kJ R F M all right, joining
us right now 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 good, sizzling, baby white
frigging hot and it joins us right now on the
radio program from Parts unknown, the head coach of the Dogs, Coach,
(00:20):
how are you? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
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 athleticism.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, I could hear your voice. You sound like a
happy s ob.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Right now, my friend.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, yeah, yep, No, it was. It was a hard
first year to get through and and uh now we
just gotta we got to keep progressing.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
You know, we got to get better in all areas. Uh,
but I'm really excited with the competitiveness and and like
I said, just the just the overall talent of this group,
you know, and it's gonna make guys compete to get
minutes on the floor and that's when you you know,
that's when you start, you know, improving as a program.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, we'll get to Desmond Claude in just a second,
the transfer from USC 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 thirteenth best
(01:35):
transfer class in the country, and it all seems to
be popping right now. How is all this happening? Danny?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yeah, you know, I think a lot 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 you have to win the transfer port. You
have to. I mean you're watching film and evaluating I
mean thirty to forty kids a day, you know, I
mean other thing kids like I mean, you obviously know
Desmond Claud's really good, you know, like a lot of
(02:05):
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 as a staff, like we had to
we 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 uh. And so that's kind
(02:26):
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 got to continue to get the best player available
on the board and then just let guys compete and
uh and then get after it.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Well, if I was a USC fan, Danny Sprinkle would
be public enemy number one. I mean, it was first
Wesley Yates and now it's uh, and now it's Claude.
So uh, talk about what what Claude's going to bring
you and then also just talk about how he plays
together with Wesleys.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
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 we
uh we got him back. But it's uh, you know
that really helped his comfort level with with Wesley. Uh
and obviously Quincy uh pondexherre. It was it was huge
(03:22):
in the recruiting process because you know, to be honest,
there was some there were some periods where we didn't
even talker hear from Desmond or his family for like
two three weeks at a time during the recruiting process,
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 a pan. Everybody
(03:45):
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 great size.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
He's uh, he's an elite get it at leitic 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.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Dominated the game. He literally down there and in Seattle
he dominated and controlled the entire game, and so like
you know, 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 5 (04:24):
Oh yeah, you had forty five against you guys in
those two in those two games combined.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
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 1 (04:35):
Well, I know the answer, by the way, Danny, just
see you know it was it was fifteen totals.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, you know, I was thinking, so, yeah, what's that? Sorry,
that's right.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
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 Claude
after losing Nico?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
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 1 (05:19):
Gotcha. Well, Danny, you mentioned it that there's gonna 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 figure
(05:40):
this out? And does 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 State
or any other job.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
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? Because
if you're not about winning, don't come here? Because I
said this pro we're not. We're not. We're not losing
like that again. And 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
(06:15):
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 going to
be some hurt feelings because I said, you can't play
fourteen guys, you know, And so you 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.
(06:38):
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, 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.
(06:59):
I mean, we'll be able to 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 I said, I can't I
can't wait for practice just to get after it.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Well, you have to simplify anything on your offense, not
to make it too intricate because you've 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 4 (07:34):
Yeah, No, you know, I think I don't think we
have to simplify anything. You know, I think we have
to 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, you know,
(07:55):
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 my teams
(08:17):
had really played like that before, but we had to
just to give ourselves a chance. You know, we're this year.
I think were guys like like, oh, you got Zoom,
you got Wesley yh you got Kamari, you got Desmond
clab Bryce and Tucker, Like I mean JJ Manniquett, you know,
like who's you know with team USA, you know this weekend.
You know, like, we have so many guys that can
(08:37):
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 offensively, but it also needs
you to when you get two on the basketball, you
got to pass the ball to the guy who's open,
you know, because we will have talent to share the basketball.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Well, Danny sprinkles with us, you'd got basketball head coach
coming off the signing and the paper work is officially
in Desmond Claude transferred from usc IS officially now a
member of the Husky basketball team. That became official like
an hour and a half ago. I, 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 4 (09:16):
He's like, I get I gotta get this done for
these guys.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
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.
(09:42):
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 4 (09:53):
I think I think Frank's in the best mental space
and physical space that he's been in since he got
to University of Washington. I think, you know, just being
able to play the last you know whatever fifteen games
of the year and 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,
(10:15):
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 had 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
(10:36):
moving on 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 it.
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 going to be competing with too, you know, for minutes,
and so there isn't time to sit on the side
(10:58):
and do that. Now it's go times. 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. Love it well.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
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 three months
ago it didn't look like you had had to compete
(11:29):
that hard for minutes.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
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. You know. It's it's one thing to you know,
to have a great year. But we finished dead last
(11:54):
in the Big Ten. Yeah, 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.
Rank 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
that's just competitive basketball at the Big Ten, the highest level.
(12:14):
And so you know, I know Zoom, like he's in
the gym all the time. He's working his butt off,
and I'm really expecting him to have a great year
and to really you know, make that freshman a sophomore
year jump yep.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
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
(12:50):
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.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
To look like? 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, impullman. I believe we have University
(13:20):
of San Diego coming here. We play in a tournament
down in Palm Springs again and they haven't decided on
what pod we're in there. But there's there's some really
good teams there, you know, some Colorado, some some Big
twelve schools, a SEC schools down there, and we'll end
(13:42):
up playing them. I believe Utah is coming here to Seattle,
and then we're trying to we're trying to get a
top fifteen, top twenty power for game right now that
we're working on that. Hopefully we get in the next
(14:03):
day or two.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
There's one of those teams about three hundred miles east.
Uh call, he called Gonzaga to come over because you
were going to play him last year and that didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah, you know, uh, you know we actually you know
contacted them I Camember 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
(14:36):
playing in all the big tournaments also, so like their
their their schedule fills up quick and and uh and
hopefully 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 and some of those big tournaments.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Oh, don't tease us on that one, Dan, You know
what it will be if you go to that one.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
That is.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
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. There
you go, there you go, great stuff. Congratulations so far,
but we haven't done anything yet, right, got to put
the pieces together and start kicking ass when you guys
(15:25):
hit the court in late October November. So go get
him and we'll talk down the roads. Appreciate it, Pal,
You got it.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Thanks guys,
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