March 17, 2025 • 41 mins
Dan can’t bring himself to shed any tears over teams that were left out of the 68-team NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. And he talks to Madness guru Seth Greenberg who provides a comprehensive break down of the bracket, who got snubbed and who could make a deep run.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
We did it. We survived the weekend. Ready to go.
Happy Dan Patrick's Day to everybody here. We'll dive into
the brackets. We got some football news for you as well.
Phone calls always welcome. Best and worst of the weekend.
What you saw that you liked you didn't like. We
have bagpipes coming in a little bit later on. Pauli
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Good morning if you're watching on Peacock Down, thank you
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our radio affiliates across the country. Todd is out for
the next couple of days. Dylan from the graphics department
is in in Fritzie's chair, looking good wearing the green
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seatin is here. Marv pauliears truly, and of course the
backroom guys play the day, poll question, stat of the Day,
all of that forthcoming. I guess there's one big outcry,
one controversy. North Carolina got in West Virginia did not. Okay,
As I've said many times, it's a TV show. You
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want to get the right teams big names in there.
Did West Virginia get snubbed? Perhaps? Should North Carolina been
in there? Probably not. I think the comeback and the
near victory against Duke is the reason why they're in.
Is that enough to put him in? Not in my opinion,
But I haven't been following it every single day, every
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single night, every single week. I'm just going by what
the analysts are saying. Now, we'll dive into it this week.
We'll have people on seth Greenberg, former coach, works for
the Mothership. He'll explain why North Carolina got in. But
when you get to sixty eight teams, I just don't
have any sympathy. It's really hard to go, man, did
they get robbed? If you're on the bubble, you put
(03:02):
yourself in the position to have a guy named Bubba
decide if you're going to get in the tournament. By
the way, Bubba is a North Carolina guy, but he heads
up the NCAA selection committee. I don't think there's a
conflict of interest, is there. I think when they talk
about his school, he asked to leave the room. Though
I don't think he can argue the case for at
(03:24):
least that's what I was told I'm going to have
to ask Seth Greenberg, But Bubba Cunningham NCUBA Selection committee
talked about the teams that were snubbed, the last.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Four teams that were out for you know, it was
a tough call. The next team out was West Virginia
and they had now standing year and unfortunately know if
Tucker Dereeze was hurt and player of billability is something
that we talked about quite a bit. And then it
just you know, Indiana was close, Ohio State was close,
Boise was close, and we had a lot of conversations
about those teams as well. But as I said at
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the onset here is that's the hardest part of being
on the committee is having to draw that line. But
with only one real upset this year, who were an
awful lot of teams on the bubble that got in
and last year, as you guys all know that we
had five and so we couldn't go very deep into
to that pool.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Gohels And I know he did not say that that
was in the clip? Was it? That was that was
in the clip? We must have edited out before right
at the very end. Look, I know it's really important
to certain cities, towns, coaches players when you don't make
the tournament. I can sit here and go, come on,
we have sixty eight teams. It's important to West Virginia.
(04:34):
It'd be important Indiana, Mike Woodson, Ohio State, Boise State.
I understand that. But when you get to that point
where we're taking sixty eight, they're going to expand to
seventy six maybe next year after that. I mean, really,
do we have to shed any tears here? Should North
(04:55):
Carolina been in? I didn't think so, but I don't
know West Virginia his resume and how that stacks up
where you go, Oh, it's so egregious here.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yes, s West Virginia had plenty of chances down the
stretch here to do something notable. Beat Colorado the very least,
beat Colorado in your last game. Yeah, and they went
six and nine in the second half of the season.
They didn't beat anybody of any real value. No NCAAA
caliber tournament teams did they beat. I mean, just win
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one of those, win one of those games against the
decent teams, beat Houston or somebody, and then you're in.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Yes, I disagree a little bit because once the games
are over on Sunday, we go to the resumes, the
room goes to the resumes, and Uncar's resume was drastically
worse than West Virginia. So if you're West Virginia, you
know we got screwed by the UNC legacy, the brand
of UNC.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
How about a chance to get our legacy and get
in the tournament?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yes? How can we start a legacy when you continue
to honor the other legacies. But if that's the case,
Indiana would have gotten in because Indiana, Mike Woodson's losing
his job and they had a late run here. I mean,
this is all about SEC. SEC is now a basketball conference,
the Big Ten in the SEC. The SEC had fourteen teams.
(06:12):
That's most in tournament history. The previous record you have
to go back almost fifteen years. Big East had eleven
fourteen teams.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Ow to sixteen. That's almost every every team.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
How is that possible? Well, Texas and Oklahoma they had
six and twelve records in conference play. Texas nineteen and fifteen.
That's tied for the most losses by an at large
team in NCAA tournament history. Stat of the day, stat
of the day, Boss, stead of the day, stat of
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and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked,
you didn't like. Check in with the Minnesota Vikings, We'll
check in with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and we'll check in
with Seth Greenberg. He'll help you fill out your brackets. Also,
(07:08):
some other news, some football news. The Bengals locked up
Jamar Chase and T Higgins. Offense wasn't the problem last
year for the Bengals. Defense was. Joe Burrow put up
MVP like numbers, and I know the salary caps going up,
but you're signing up two wide receivers. And this felt like, Hey, Joe,
(07:33):
we want to make you happy, keep you happy. We're
going to bring back your wide receivers. I like T Higgins.
I don't want to sign him up to a long
term deal when I know I need help elsewhere. Jamar Chase,
could you have signed him maybe a couple of weeks ago.
Could you have saved some money? Probably?
Speaker 7 (07:50):
So.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
If you say we're going to make you the highest
non paid quarterback in the game, well then you got
to keep an eye on the rest of the league
and all the other players who were getting money and
Miles Garrett's contract. So now you got to pay more
than Miles Garrett. Had you locked him up earlier, you
probably are saving yourself quite a bit of money there.
But the Bengals lock him up Jamar Chase and t Higgins.
(08:13):
That was last night. The Falcons are going to keep
Kirk Cousins. They gave him ten million dollars yesterday. I
don't know how your Sunday was, but he earned ten
million dollars. He probably went to bed, bath and beyond,
had the kids in the mini van, you know, Patagonia,
maybe get some clothes, probably got something to eat, went
(08:33):
to McDonald's and picked up ten million dollars to be
on the roster. Cooper Cup is going back home. He
went to eastern Washington. It is from Yakima. I believe
going to the Seattle Seahawks. I certainly understand that the
number one seeds the women ucla USC, South Carolina and Texas.
The men's number one seeds Auburn, Florida, Duke and Houston.
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All Right, Seaton poll questions start out first hour is
going to be what well.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I think for the first hour, we'll put up a
couple who would you rather see in the tournament? West Virginia, Indiana,
Boise State, you see Irvin, Ohio State or North Carolina. Okay,
those are your options. We have another one here who
had the best weekend. We like to start out with that.
Your options there. Rick Patino is having a hell of
(09:25):
a time.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
A couple of years ago, he's coaching in Greece after
the Louisville situation, and then you come back and then
it's Iona and then all of a sudden, Saint John's.
He's one of the greatest coaches ever. I mean, you
can put him on the Mount Rushmore of college basketball coaches.
(09:49):
I mean, he's got nine lives. Everywhere he goes, he wins,
he does. He will be a big, big, big topic.
And you can't tell me that the committee doesn't have
a sense of humor of what about this matchup in
round two? Saint John's wouldn't they wouldn't they play Arkansas
(10:09):
in round two? Now, that's right, Arkansas has to be
Kansas and John Caliperry's team hasn't played great, but you
would have Cali Perry against Rick Patino. No love loss
there with the former Kentucky coaches and Rick of course
coaching at Louisville. But every year it feels like, you know,
(10:30):
remember when Bob Knight at Texas Tech, if they won
Indiana one, they were going to meet in the second round.
And then I'm always told this as somebody who's on
the committee, and no, we don't factor that in. I go,
why don't you? I get I'm surprised that you don't
do it, Like, I'm not going to criticize you. If
you do, it's entertainment. It'd be a fun matchup. I'm
(10:52):
fine with that. So that's the pole question to start out.
Is there another one that you're considering here in the
first hour?
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Seat?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Yeah, the best weekend we had Rick Patino, North Carolina Basketball. Obviously,
Jamar Chase and t Higgins had a great weekend. Other
neither neither.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Et ceteratc etc. Indeed, indeed, Uh, Dylan has green on today.
I've got green on today. Marvin has green on today.
Paul and Seaton do not have green on today.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Huh, I have green on a chair.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Nobody can see your chair.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Yeah, I have green.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You're you're not a Greener.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Yeah, no, you know what, Honestly, I got up. I
was so busy this morning. I completely forgot it was
Saint Patrick's Day. And I got to work and I
was just like, I'm Marvin. I was like, oh, man, Marvin,
I love that hoodie. Still didn't put it together. You
were wearing that jumper, Still didn't put it together. You
know what it was that tipped me off the today
with Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
When the bagpipes came in.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Uh no, No, slightly before that, when I saw Dylan,
Oh yeah, I was like, oh that's oh, that's why
they're all wearing that. That's right, Dang, I should have
worn something.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You're looking good, Dylan Man. Yeah, how long did it
take you to plan that outfield? This one actually was
already ready to go. I like that you wore yesterday,
I mean yeah, the day before.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Actually, Seatan's got to be the only person whose last
name is O'Connor in the country that's not wearing green today.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I'd guess I don't know how we find that out,
but I'm going to take your wire. Yeah, thank you.
I mean there's a few of us, but Paul Green.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Yeah, there's one of those things during the weekend. I
kind of thought it was Saint Patrick's Day weekend, Yeah,
and I forgot that it trickled over to a Monday.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, like the actual day, the actual day. Yeah, Parade
Day was just the other day. So yeah, there were
people celebrating yesterday a little bit. But I don't I know, hey,
green beer and no I'm not interested. I give your
Irish We don't need a day. We have three hundred
and sixty five. I mean, it's nice to share it
(12:54):
with America the world, although.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I didn't really feel the pressure to wear green today.
It's like, yeah, no, my name is Patrick O'Connor. As
Irish as I can possibly look at my face, you
know what I.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Mean, what's your face?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Say?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's fairly Irish. It's fairly Irish, so's mine. Yeah, yes,
usually it's our heads are noggins, a freckles, that whole thing.
The Irish are famous for their big noggins, yes.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
For not having red hair. A Seaton is very Irish
looking like he went to Notre Dame. And you would
get that drum, major role for the marching band. It
would be automatic.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Okay, would you be the Leprechaun? Would you be the
mascot at Notre Dame.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
It's a great honor to be that mascot. Hell yeah, Okay,
I got to figure out my push up game a
little bit, but yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, I'm not sure what mascot that you go. I'd
like to be that mascot. Is there one that comes
to mind? Where you go? You know, I could keep
my dignity being that mascot.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, you're saying it like it's a negative being a mascot.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Well, I think I just there are certain mascots that
I don't know if I want to be, although it
is great to be in disguise. You can get away
with a lot of stuff, you know, right right, Yes.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
I'm looking at some of them, like Brutus the Buckeye.
Everyone knows him for the Ohio State University. But that
head is huge, that must be top heavy. Yeah yes, yes,
uh Dylan.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So Actually, Rocky the Mountain Lion the Nuggets mascot isn't
bad and reportedly earned six hundred and twenty five thousand
dollars annually, So.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
Sign me up for this.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Okay, all right, I sit corrected. You know, Marvin, would
you like to be the Husky for six.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
And twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Absolutely, you're not getting paid that kind of money. Oh,
just free room and board money. You might like an
nil you might get some money then io. Absolutely, okay,
you'd be the Husky. Jonathan Husky, of course you his
name's Jonathan. It is what is it in the Husky
real creative. One of the founders of Yukon. His name
was Jonathan. It was his last name, Husky.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
I need to stop making fun of my school rate there.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It's hey, what what's your seed in the tournament? We're
the eighth sted eight seed. We played Oklahoma. You're out West,
but it's.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Our Okay, we've we've won national championships in the West before.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Oh, I don't know. You didn't sound that confident when
you were talking about your You're Jonathan Huskies.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
It's January, February, Yukon. April it's our month.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But the championship is crowned in April. There, Johnny Husky.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
Great, so you're saying, but it's March madness. It's not
called April madness.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
But they crowned the champion in April.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
Okay, we went there too. Okay by double figures, by
the way. Oh, not even close games. Not even close games.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I hope Yukon and Saint John's meet out. Well that'd
be a lot of fun.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Oh, that'd be amazing. Yeah, but Spike leeod be there.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, it's Spike Lee's all of a sudden a Saint
John's fan. He's got the whole gear. It's like, come on, Spike,
how about you make a movie.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
It looks like a lot of Saint John's people just
came out of the woodword, I know, for the first
time since two thousand.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, Walter Berry, there, the truth is there. I'm like, damn,
Jason Williams, the other Jason Williams. Yeah, he was their
court side, Like where where have all these? Who is
who is the other one? Yes?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I think just so we're tracking the story properly. I
think they're up to the fifteenth Jonathan the Yukon Husky. Oh,
just like Uga, you know whatever, this is the fifteenth Jonathan,
you go fast, Jonathan the Husky.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, but Uga dies. I don't Jonathan doesn't die. I mean,
it's just a person in the in the uniform, isn't
it in the costume?
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Well, there's actual husky too. A mascot.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Okay, almost like I'll go so like Jonathan is like
a real dog.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Okay, yeah, I haven't been. I haven't followed it the Husky.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
I guess we gotta go to store soon.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, oh yeah, maybe we go watch our girls play
in Cuba. Turn you wanna go on Saturday? Where are
they playing in stores?
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
A couple of well they know they're gonna sell out.
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Happy Saint Patrick's day, Seth.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
I'm not approperly addressed. I apologize.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's okay. Oh pah, yeah, pah. All right, let's get
the big controversy out of the way. North Carolina made it,
West Virginia didn't, Indiana didn't, Ohio State. BOBIZI, how big
of a deal is this in your opinion?
Speaker 7 (19:51):
I think it's a big deal. I mean, you know,
you are your body of work, your resume is your resume,
and you know, North Carolina do you get credit for
playing good teams? Do you get credit for beating good teams?
They're one and twelve against pod one. That's a fact.
They played a very difficult non conference schedule. That's a fact.
They also lost to pitt and way Forest, then Clemson
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and Louisville. All right, those were opportunities. Not saying those
teams aren't good, but those are opportunities that they didn't embrace.
They played Michigan State in Hawaii. That was an opportunity
before Michigan State became the juggernaut that they were Now
look playing Auburn and Alabama and Florida, you know, those
are the best of the best. But I do think
that if you look at their resume, their body of work,
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their resume says they're not an NC tournament team. Having
said that, that now that they're in the tournament, they
can beat San Diego State. Now that they're in the tournament,
they can give Ole Miss a game. But you know what,
you don't get a free pest to get in the tournament.
You earn your way into the tournament. And everyone should
be evaluating across the same set of criteria. And that's
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probably the thing that kind of bothers me to an extent.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
How did it happen?
Speaker 7 (21:00):
And then how did it happen? Look, Bubba kind of
him is a good man. I have a lot of
respect for him. He's the head of the committee and
they say, well, yo, he accuses himself from the room
when they're talking about North Carolina. That's great breakfast, lunch
and dinner conversations. Committee members that he's chairing, who also
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know they're in that situation. I thought they put Zavier
in as well. And I think they put Zader in
and as kind of another one of those teams that
didn't have a ton of quad one wins. But that
was a good way to justify I put in North
Carolina and because the resumes were similar. But look, I'm
not pointing a finger at Bubba without a doubt, I'm
not doing that. But the system is flawed in this way. Dan,
(21:41):
We've got to have a better set criteria. So people
everyone's got their own prison of what they're looking at,
how they're looking at these resumes. Right, we've got to
say this is the most important, this is the second
most important, this is the third most important. Instead of
having everyone say, well, you know the prism I looked
at this through like the whole idea that they said, well,
West Virginia, you know, de Breeze wasn't there at the
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end of the season. He wasn't there at the beginning
of the season. They still won games. I mean he
missed twenty four games or so, so you know, just
the excuse after the bracket came out was a little
bit weak. Oh, it is what it is. It's over
with now we're gonna have a great NCAA tournament. But
as a guy that sat on the outside looking in
(22:23):
for forty eight straight bunfs, dan uh not that not
that it still bothers me. All uh. You know, I
feel for those guys because you know, the tournament is
a reward for your season. I feel for the seniors
on those teams. I feel for the coaches. The season starts,
you know, in the summer, it goes. It's a long,
grinded out season. And I thought some of those other
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teams deserved the opportunity had in North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
What's the biggest storyline going into the tournament in your opinion?
Speaker 7 (22:54):
The dominance of Florida. I think Florida can have a
U contact run through the tournament. I think they're that good.
I think I called Noah's ark. They got to everything,
the pace of course, the freedom that they play with,
their bigs run the floor and are skilled. Walter Clayton
to me, is a lottery pick at the guard position.
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They go ten deep. I think far it is dominance
in the SEC tournament. How they won is one of
the key storylines. And then Cooper Flagg, you know, I
mean we got to talk about Cooper Flagg, right, you
understand that, right?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yes, he availability, though seems like he's getting the green
light to go.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
I think what they're gonna do is I think he's
going to get the green light to go. I think,
you know, in just listening to John, who's done just
an incredible job. But listening to John, I think what
they're going to try to do is he's going to
do some individual workout stuff today, back in practice of
skill work, probably no contact. Probably Tuesday or Wednesday, he'll
do some live stuff and then the yew it reacts.
(23:54):
But they need him to win the national championship. Ideally,
they'd like to get him some minutes in opening around
game to get his feet wet, experience what the tournament's about,
because each game you win, there's a greater pressure. Really
impressed with how Duke played in the a SEC tournament.
A lot of guys stepped up. But I expect him
to play. But there's a lot of people. This is
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the thing that people don't understand. It's obviously Cooper, the
medical staff, John Shire, his parents, and you know, the
last group that's going to be involved in this decision
probably his agent. I mean, because that's the world we
live in now, where all these players have agents and
you know he's a valuable commodity. They just want to
make sure that he's going to be healthy. It's just
(24:36):
an ancle spring, but you don't want something to be
something that's going to be a lingering ankle spape, right,
and that could impact, you know, a big picture him
working out for NBA teams and things of that nature.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Seth Greenberg, ESPN College basketball analyst, the most vulnerable number
one seed is.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
You know, that's an interest. I'm going to say the
most vulnerable buy the bracket they're in, and I would
say that's going to be Houston. As hard as Uston plays,
as well as they rebound the ball. But if you
look at the bracket, first of all, Tennessee is kind
of like Houston one point oh, I mean Tennessee. Rick
barneseems played so hard, physical, Mayshak and Zikais Egler are elite,
elite defenders. But the rest of that bracket, if you
(25:15):
look at teams that can you know, be a problem,
whether it's if Kentucky gets healthy, Lamont Butler plays, it's
three point shooting, which is you know which is which
is an issue. I mean, there's no doubt about it.
Clemson an experienced backward Illinois finally healthy, uh, and then Tennessee.
So I would think Houston has the toughest rule. Some
people say Auburn because of Michigan with those two seven
(25:37):
footers in Michigan state on the bottom of the draw.
But my gut feeling is I have this feeling about
Tennessee and just their connectivity, their toughness and uh, they're due,
They're due.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Explained Rick Patino as a former coach, and what he does,
no matter where he goes, he wins. How does how
does this happen?
Speaker 7 (26:03):
How does it happen? He's a savant. He takes his
team and beat you, and he takes your team and
beat you. I mean he's a savant. He is unrelenting
in terms of the standard that he sets. He gets
total buy in from his guys. He gets winning players
and tough guys. But in the end, the guy has
a gift, even despite the white suit, he has a gift.
(26:27):
I mean what he does, whether it's a Boston University
at Providence with the Knicks, live Louisville with Kentucky, now
with Saint John's. He basically gets guys to play in
a manner where they all buy into being winning players.
They all buy into one thing, the good in the group.
What he's done with Kadarie Richmond getting him to play
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every play a sixty six point guard which makes them
really hard to play against. Or r J. Lewis, who
started at U Mass who's a shot maker and a
sco and making him and getting him to buy him
what to be successful like, he gets those guys to
buy in to the greater good. He gets those guys
to buy in to competing at a level they didn't think.
Now this time he's doing it with big six six guards.
(27:11):
You know. He also did it with Russ Smith, Peyton Siva.
He also did it with Billy Donovan. He also did
it with Mashburns. So he's just got a gift and
he's in the perfect place because New York guy in
New York selling out Madison Square guard and happened to
Runny had the year that coach Carterseca passes. Understanding the
history and the tradition of Saint John's embracing all that, Uh,
(27:35):
this was a long time coming because I personally the
last time the job opened up, I probably would have said,
you know, he's had some issues. But Rick Patino is
New York Basketball.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
What happened to Yukon this year?
Speaker 7 (27:50):
They're not as good. I mean, like the level was
so high and the bar was so high. I mean,
you know, you lose Klingon, you lose Snogo the year
before you lose you know, you have two of everything
in the post. You lose Stephencastle and elite defender. You know,
before you lost Andre Jackson the elite defender, they swung
himss a little bit in the portal. I mean, that's
just the fact their inability to defend the ball at
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the point of attack. Offensively, it's still beautiful, watch their
ball movement to people movement. They don't have a shot
creator offensively, which is a problem. They get everything out
of their offense Stephan Castle, who just get down the lane.
Jordan Hawkins could come off a screen, bang a jumper
or shot fake and get in the lane. They don't
have that. And then defensively they're just they don't have
(28:31):
a lockdown defender. So like even in this first game,
Jeremiah Fears, Jeremiah Fears has a little Kyrie irving in
his game, like defending him in the Three Guards of Oklahoma,
that's going to be a little bit of an issue.
And then offensively, you get to a short clock situation,
and then you watch so much basketball, you're you know
so much about it in our historian. You get to
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the end of a shot clock, who do you give
the ball to? You give to Leeve McNeely as a
freshman who's like a six to six guy. It's developing
into it. Give to hassand the IRA because he really
can't score it, but he can get maybe in the lane.
You know, they had pros they were giving the ball
to at the end of the shop. Lock having said that,
the dude is a savant, the dude is amazing. You know,
(29:12):
you can like him dislike him. He's great for college basketball.
I go over there all the time to watch him practice.
He's a master teacher, but it's model behavior. He acts
and coaches no differently than his dad did when he
was winning state championship after state championship and becoming a
Hall of Fame coach. The guy is a tremendous coach
and his players love him as hard as he is
on him, and he can be hard on him. His
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guys respond to him, He connects with him at a
different level because he cares so much.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
The NBA has surrendered to the three. College basketball hasn't.
But I don't know if you know, I'll ask your
opinion while I give mine, which isn't great interviewing. But
it almost feels like the coaches are in a little
more control in college ounsketball of the style hole that
you can play as opposed to the NBA, where the
(30:05):
stars are bigger than their coaches.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Yeah, we've turned into a European game, the college game.
A lot of coaches are running a lot of five
out they're running up not as much just pure ball screen.
It's more balling people movement, you know, like everyone. My
thing about the NBA is that players take bad shots
and make them. College players take good shots of missing,
so like the coach has to have more of a
little bit more control. You know, who you get shot from,
(30:30):
where you get shot from, when you get the shot from.
That's why I like Auburn, even though they're struggling now.
Bruce pel does a great job of getting his guys
where they want their shots to get come from, which
is important. So yeah, A lot of people disagree with me.
I don't think we should go to twenty four second clock.
I do think we can advance the mull at the
end of games. I think that would be good because
we'd have more exciting finishes. I think we should go
(30:51):
to quarters, that's fine. I don't think we should move
the three point lineback. Our game is different. Our game
is different, you know what, and we try to be
the NBA. We're not going to be the NBA. You know.
The chance to get the upset in the NCAA tournament
is because of our rules. We would have never when
I was Virginia Tech Beaten Duke in North Carolina, when
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we beat Kansas when we were at Long Beach State,
we would have never had those wins if there was
a twenty first second clock, if the rule, if the
rules were the way it is now. The one thing
I am worried about the NCUBLE Tournament, especially for the SEC,
is the SEC fourteen teams in the tournament. I think
they can get three in the final four potentially, which
is the first time since the Big East did it.
(31:32):
But it's been such a physical league. I do worry
the first two rounds when they call it a little
tighter and this league is so physical and handsy. If
that's going to impact outcomes of games, because they're going
to get a bunch of teams in foul trouble.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Best college basketball team of your lifetime was who for me?
Speaker 7 (31:51):
At my lifetime, I played against them and the unility
team of Jerry Darkadia. They came at you at warp speed.
They are absolutely relentless. And I'm talking about teams I
coached against. Yeah, they played at one, one three a me,
but then they played man and man and they came
at you in like at warp speed. Larry Johnson was
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running right to the front of the rim. Good luck
you playing a side of me. Catchers can play behind him,
backs you down, Anderson hunts knocking down threes. How hard
they played. See, that's the one thing about Jerry Tarcaanie.
He was a great coach. He wasn't a good coach.
He acquired talent. We know that he had great players,
But how hard they played, how they defended, how simple
(32:33):
they were offensively, but how well they executed. They were
so hard to play against because of the force they
played with, their selfishness, they played with and they never
took a playoff. I mean, they just came at yet,
at Yet, and at Yet, and it was just it
was a brutal forty minutes.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
And Bob Lee and I when we did Sports Center,
we argued about how great this team, one of the
great teams of all time, and we kept coming back
to their blowing people out. If they get into a
tight game, I want to see how they do. They
got into a tight game in that, you know, second
year when they faced Duke and they had a hard
time getting a shot off. Your pick for the tournament
(33:14):
is Fara. Okay, we'll talk to you. We'll talk to
you during the tournament. Thank you again.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
For much respect.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
One of the great irishmen of all time. Seth Greenberg,
ESPN College Basketball Analyst, work on that wardrobe. Probably a
little later on, we'll take a break. Play of the
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Speaker 7 (33:54):
Check this out down by one two minutes to play
for a Big Ten Tournament title.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Donaldson Center Circle around the screen, shoots a right wing three.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Est gets first play to the hum fifty three to
fifty one, forty seven left.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Damn, I jumped. That's gour to see a Learfield Sports
Michigan has won eleven of its last twelve games decided
by six points or last. I watched a lot of
this game. It was good, good back and forth. I
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What do you have for us?
Speaker 7 (35:13):
What up?
Speaker 8 (35:13):
DP?
Speaker 7 (35:14):
Happy?
Speaker 10 (35:14):
Dan Patrick's day seton the way you're situated. You have
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Speaker 2 (35:26):
Paul And.
Speaker 10 (35:30):
But Dan, I know Joe Burrow was a campaigning and voiced,
you know, his opinion for the resigning of his two boys,
the star receivers, and I mean he really challenged the
franchise to step up. But also t Higgins hiring the
same agent as Jamar Chase d And that's really a
sneaky good detail on this, this whole, this whole story
of that. I'm signing together for good for them. Best
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of the weekend, Dan, Bengals DP for finally signing both
their two star receivers. Worst of the weekend Bengals VP
for waiting to sign their two star receivers. I just
don't get why these teams wait so long. You're only
delaying the inevitable, which costs them two big bags.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Matt Good, Yeah, I can have a tiree kill, you know,
a wide receiver tight end situation like you had with
Kansas City Chiefs. But I look at the Bengals and
they're kind of like the Dolphins that you have a
quarterback making a lot of money and you have your
(36:31):
wide receivers. I just don't think it's a blueprint for success.
You might make the playoffs, but you are you resigning
your best defensive player, Trey Hendrickson. He's thirty years of age,
but he led the NFL in sacks. Defense was the problem,
But I mean, can you outscore people maybe during the
(36:56):
regular season. I just don't think you can have that
that blueprint and win. I think the Bengals are very
similar to the Dolphins, and we've seen what's happened with
the Dolphins. I do think this is we're going to
play Kate Joe Burrow. We don't want to have another
Carson Palmer situation. We will get him his weapons. I
just want to see, now, what are you going to
do to do with that defense? That's really going to
(37:20):
be the true test of Hey, we're scoring. I mean,
they'll be exciting. I just don't know if they're going
to be formidable. Uh. Daniel in Saint Paul, Hey, Dan,
what's on your mind today.
Speaker 11 (37:33):
How do you guys happen? Happy Saint Patrick's Day? Happy
Dan Patrick stated, everyone out there, I'm Irish Catholic on
my mom's side, my extended family. We marched in the
parade every year. Thanks for coming out last year, guys,
We're missing you this year. Shout out to everyone of
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nors of the weekend. I love March Madnis. It's the
best time of the year. I love that as getting started.
(37:55):
Double best Michigan wolver Reing's pulling out that way yesterday
I was day side closes, no showing.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Up for that.
Speaker 11 (38:00):
It's kind of brutal, and I was wondering how you
guys feel about this. I think Thursday and Friday should
be a sports religious holiday. If you love sports, it's
a mandatory must watch. What do you guys think about that?
Ye isn't that?
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (38:13):
I'm fine with that. You know, I've been pushing for
push the super Bowl back so you get President's Day off.
We're gonna treat the super Bowl as the biggest event
of the year and let us recover the day after.
Sound like Daniel has already been in his cups from
the weekend there in Saint Paul. By the way, we
had a wonderful time. People in Saint Paul were wonderful,
(38:33):
had a great time there as I was one of
the Grand marshals last year turzou in des Moines or
Des Monet, Iowa.
Speaker 11 (38:43):
I'dy Saint Patrick stayed.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
Dan Hey, big fan of the Drake Bulldogs.
Speaker 10 (38:49):
Yeah, I was a little disappointed whenever they got an
eleven seed.
Speaker 11 (38:53):
They have been a really solid team all year long.
Speaker 7 (38:57):
I think they kind of.
Speaker 11 (38:57):
Got the short end of the stick.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
Watch out for him though in the tourney and seeing
we better be pulling for those Bulldogs if they make
this Sweet sixteen, I'll take a part of the face.
Speaker 8 (39:08):
All right.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, Drake's a good team. Drake's one of those teams
where you're going to see them play and you're gonna
go wow. You know, they got some guys from Division
two and it's a really good roster, I think that,
and you got guys who I think they have a
lot of upper classmen there, and that's what I look
for too, very underrated when you look at a roster
(39:30):
and you go, all right, how many juniors and seniors
are there. That means they're they're good. They weren't good
enough to leave after their freshman or sophomore year, but
they're still good enough to play, you know, Division one
college basketball. You make your free throws, you know, do
you have good shooters? A couple of three point shooters.
(39:50):
It feels like the formula has changed a little bit.
But we talk about guard play.
Speaker 6 (39:56):
Are you saying we joke to win a senior guard.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
I think it could be guard play and making free throws.
You know, having a guy you can go to when
you need a bucket. That's also important as well. Yes, Pauline, I.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
Love senior guard playing when you don't know who's on
a roster.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Yes, we practiced. You know when we listen to the
analyst and they'll just you know, if I say Tennessee, well,
you know what, you gotta love their guard play and
they're big, they can get down the floor, and they're tough.
You know, Rick Barnes, They're always gonna be tough. They're
gonna play tough at SEC basketball. I don't know Tennessee,
(40:34):
but I can make it sound like I know Tennessee, Yes, paul, Yeah,
but if the Valves.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Can control the turnover margin, They're really gonna have a
chance to win this.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Yeah, you can't. You just can't turn the bowl over.
The number of analysts that we're gonna hear over the
next three weeks say these same things over and over.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
Yes, Marv and whoever has a big game, it's never
gonna be my name.
Speaker 7 (40:56):
Man.
Speaker 8 (40:57):
Hey, you know the guard from Drake and he's been
on fire.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Good.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Well, you have to say the guard play. You know,
Drake's guard play is really good. You don't ask the
follow up question, well, who are they now that guard play?
You know they're bigs. You know, you got to respect
their bigs.
Speaker 5 (41:14):
Yes, other cliches are good, like if Michigan State's in it,
you don't know their backcourt. You know, I just trusted
tom as a team this time year. That's a Golden Wide.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
You know Tom ISO's going to have his team ready
to play. Don't as opposed to the other coaches won't
have their players ready to play. You know, I really
like Maryland, Actually I do. I really like Maryland, but
I like their guard play. Of course, senior guard play.
I don't know if they have senior guard they might
have seen your guards are on the bench. They improve
the GPA. All right, talk a little football. Are the
(41:46):
Vikings actually interested in Aaron Rodgers. We'll have that for
you coming up.
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seatin is here. Marv pauliears truly, and of course the
backroom guys play the day, poll question, stat of the Day,
all of that forthcoming. I guess there's one big outcry,
one controversy. North Carolina got in West Virginia did not. Okay,
As I've said many times, it's a TV show. You
(02:17):
want to get the right teams big names in there.
Did West Virginia get snubbed? Perhaps? Should North Carolina been
in there? Probably not. I think the comeback and the
near victory against Duke is the reason why they're in.
Is that enough to put him in? Not in my opinion,
But I haven't been following it every single day, every
(02:38):
single night, every single week. I'm just going by what
the analysts are saying. Now, we'll dive into it this week.
We'll have people on seth Greenberg, former coach, works for
the Mothership. He'll explain why North Carolina got in. But
when you get to sixty eight teams, I just don't
have any sympathy. It's really hard to go, man, did
they get robbed? If you're on the bubble, you put
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yourself in the position to have a guy named Bubba
decide if you're going to get in the tournament. By
the way, Bubba is a North Carolina guy, but he heads
up the NCAA selection committee. I don't think there's a
conflict of interest, is there. I think when they talk
about his school, he asked to leave the room. Though
I don't think he can argue the case for at
(03:24):
least that's what I was told I'm going to have
to ask Seth Greenberg, But Bubba Cunningham NCUBA Selection committee
talked about the teams that were snubbed, the last.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Four teams that were out for you know, it was
a tough call. The next team out was West Virginia
and they had now standing year and unfortunately know if
Tucker Dereeze was hurt and player of billability is something
that we talked about quite a bit. And then it
just you know, Indiana was close, Ohio State was close,
Boise was close, and we had a lot of conversations
about those teams as well. But as I said at
(03:57):
the onset here is that's the hardest part of being
on the committee is having to draw that line. But
with only one real upset this year, who were an
awful lot of teams on the bubble that got in
and last year, as you guys all know that we
had five and so we couldn't go very deep into
to that pool.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Gohels And I know he did not say that that
was in the clip? Was it? That was that was
in the clip? We must have edited out before right
at the very end. Look, I know it's really important
to certain cities, towns, coaches players when you don't make
the tournament. I can sit here and go, come on,
we have sixty eight teams. It's important to West Virginia.
(04:34):
It'd be important Indiana, Mike Woodson, Ohio State, Boise State.
I understand that. But when you get to that point
where we're taking sixty eight, they're going to expand to
seventy six maybe next year after that. I mean, really,
do we have to shed any tears here? Should North
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Carolina been in? I didn't think so, but I don't
know West Virginia his resume and how that stacks up
where you go, Oh, it's so egregious here.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yes, s West Virginia had plenty of chances down the
stretch here to do something notable. Beat Colorado the very least,
beat Colorado in your last game. Yeah, and they went
six and nine in the second half of the season.
They didn't beat anybody of any real value. No NCAAA
caliber tournament teams did they beat. I mean, just win
(05:26):
one of those, win one of those games against the
decent teams, beat Houston or somebody, and then you're in.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Yes, I disagree a little bit because once the games
are over on Sunday, we go to the resumes, the
room goes to the resumes, and Uncar's resume was drastically
worse than West Virginia. So if you're West Virginia, you
know we got screwed by the UNC legacy, the brand
of UNC.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
How about a chance to get our legacy and get
in the tournament?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yes? How can we start a legacy when you continue
to honor the other legacies. But if that's the case,
Indiana would have gotten in because Indiana, Mike Woodson's losing
his job and they had a late run here. I mean,
this is all about SEC. SEC is now a basketball conference,
the Big Ten in the SEC. The SEC had fourteen teams.
(06:12):
That's most in tournament history. The previous record you have
to go back almost fifteen years. Big East had eleven
fourteen teams.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Ow to sixteen. That's almost every every team.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
How is that possible? Well, Texas and Oklahoma they had
six and twelve records in conference play. Texas nineteen and fifteen.
That's tied for the most losses by an at large
team in NCAA tournament history. Stat of the day, stat
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and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked,
you didn't like. Check in with the Minnesota Vikings, We'll
check in with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and we'll check in
with Seth Greenberg. He'll help you fill out your brackets. Also,
(07:08):
some other news, some football news. The Bengals locked up
Jamar Chase and T Higgins. Offense wasn't the problem last
year for the Bengals. Defense was. Joe Burrow put up
MVP like numbers, and I know the salary caps going up,
but you're signing up two wide receivers. And this felt like, Hey, Joe,
(07:33):
we want to make you happy, keep you happy. We're
going to bring back your wide receivers. I like T Higgins.
I don't want to sign him up to a long
term deal when I know I need help elsewhere. Jamar Chase,
could you have signed him maybe a couple of weeks ago.
Could you have saved some money? Probably?
Speaker 7 (07:50):
So.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
If you say we're going to make you the highest
non paid quarterback in the game, well then you got
to keep an eye on the rest of the league
and all the other players who were getting money and
Miles Garrett's contract. So now you got to pay more
than Miles Garrett. Had you locked him up earlier, you
probably are saving yourself quite a bit of money there.
But the Bengals lock him up Jamar Chase and t Higgins.
(08:13):
That was last night. The Falcons are going to keep
Kirk Cousins. They gave him ten million dollars yesterday. I
don't know how your Sunday was, but he earned ten
million dollars. He probably went to bed, bath and beyond,
had the kids in the mini van, you know, Patagonia,
maybe get some clothes, probably got something to eat, went
(08:33):
to McDonald's and picked up ten million dollars to be
on the roster. Cooper Cup is going back home. He
went to eastern Washington. It is from Yakima. I believe
going to the Seattle Seahawks. I certainly understand that the
number one seeds the women ucla USC, South Carolina and Texas.
The men's number one seeds Auburn, Florida, Duke and Houston.
(08:56):
All Right, Seaton poll questions start out first hour is
going to be what well.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I think for the first hour, we'll put up a
couple who would you rather see in the tournament? West Virginia, Indiana,
Boise State, you see Irvin, Ohio State or North Carolina. Okay,
those are your options. We have another one here who
had the best weekend. We like to start out with that.
Your options there. Rick Patino is having a hell of
(09:25):
a time.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
A couple of years ago, he's coaching in Greece after
the Louisville situation, and then you come back and then
it's Iona and then all of a sudden, Saint John's.
He's one of the greatest coaches ever. I mean, you
can put him on the Mount Rushmore of college basketball coaches.
(09:49):
I mean, he's got nine lives. Everywhere he goes, he wins,
he does. He will be a big, big, big topic.
And you can't tell me that the committee doesn't have
a sense of humor of what about this matchup in
round two? Saint John's wouldn't they wouldn't they play Arkansas
(10:09):
in round two? Now, that's right, Arkansas has to be
Kansas and John Caliperry's team hasn't played great, but you
would have Cali Perry against Rick Patino. No love loss
there with the former Kentucky coaches and Rick of course
coaching at Louisville. But every year it feels like, you know,
(10:30):
remember when Bob Knight at Texas Tech, if they won
Indiana one, they were going to meet in the second round.
And then I'm always told this as somebody who's on
the committee, and no, we don't factor that in. I go,
why don't you? I get I'm surprised that you don't
do it, Like, I'm not going to criticize you. If
you do, it's entertainment. It'd be a fun matchup. I'm
(10:52):
fine with that. So that's the pole question to start out.
Is there another one that you're considering here in the
first hour?
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Seat?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Yeah, the best weekend we had Rick Patino, North Carolina Basketball. Obviously,
Jamar Chase and t Higgins had a great weekend. Other
neither neither.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Et ceteratc etc. Indeed, indeed, Uh, Dylan has green on today.
I've got green on today. Marvin has green on today.
Paul and Seaton do not have green on today.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Huh, I have green on a chair.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Nobody can see your chair.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Yeah, I have green.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You're you're not a Greener.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Yeah, no, you know what, Honestly, I got up. I
was so busy this morning. I completely forgot it was
Saint Patrick's Day. And I got to work and I
was just like, I'm Marvin. I was like, oh, man, Marvin,
I love that hoodie. Still didn't put it together. You
were wearing that jumper, Still didn't put it together. You
know what it was that tipped me off the today
with Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
When the bagpipes came in.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Uh no, No, slightly before that, when I saw Dylan,
Oh yeah, I was like, oh that's oh, that's why
they're all wearing that. That's right, Dang, I should have
worn something.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You're looking good, Dylan Man. Yeah, how long did it
take you to plan that outfield? This one actually was
already ready to go. I like that you wore yesterday,
I mean yeah, the day before.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Actually, Seatan's got to be the only person whose last
name is O'Connor in the country that's not wearing green today.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I'd guess I don't know how we find that out,
but I'm going to take your wire. Yeah, thank you.
I mean there's a few of us, but Paul Green.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Yeah, there's one of those things during the weekend. I
kind of thought it was Saint Patrick's Day weekend, Yeah,
and I forgot that it trickled over to a Monday.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, like the actual day, the actual day. Yeah, Parade
Day was just the other day. So yeah, there were
people celebrating yesterday a little bit. But I don't I know, hey,
green beer and no I'm not interested. I give your
Irish We don't need a day. We have three hundred
and sixty five. I mean, it's nice to share it
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with America the world, although.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I didn't really feel the pressure to wear green today.
It's like, yeah, no, my name is Patrick O'Connor. As
Irish as I can possibly look at my face, you
know what I.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Mean, what's your face?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Say?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's fairly Irish. It's fairly Irish, so's mine. Yeah, yes,
usually it's our heads are noggins, a freckles, that whole thing.
The Irish are famous for their big noggins, yes.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
For not having red hair. A Seaton is very Irish
looking like he went to Notre Dame. And you would
get that drum, major role for the marching band. It
would be automatic.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Okay, would you be the Leprechaun? Would you be the
mascot at Notre Dame.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
It's a great honor to be that mascot. Hell yeah, Okay,
I got to figure out my push up game a
little bit, but yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, I'm not sure what mascot that you go. I'd
like to be that mascot. Is there one that comes
to mind? Where you go? You know, I could keep
my dignity being that mascot.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, you're saying it like it's a negative being a mascot.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Well, I think I just there are certain mascots that
I don't know if I want to be, although it
is great to be in disguise. You can get away
with a lot of stuff, you know, right right, Yes.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
I'm looking at some of them, like Brutus the Buckeye.
Everyone knows him for the Ohio State University. But that
head is huge, that must be top heavy. Yeah yes, yes,
uh Dylan.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So Actually, Rocky the Mountain Lion the Nuggets mascot isn't
bad and reportedly earned six hundred and twenty five thousand
dollars annually, So.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
Sign me up for this.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Okay, all right, I sit corrected. You know, Marvin, would
you like to be the Husky for six.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
And twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Absolutely, you're not getting paid that kind of money. Oh,
just free room and board money. You might like an
nil you might get some money then io. Absolutely, okay,
you'd be the Husky. Jonathan Husky, of course you his
name's Jonathan. It is what is it in the Husky
real creative. One of the founders of Yukon. His name
was Jonathan. It was his last name, Husky.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
I need to stop making fun of my school rate there.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It's hey, what what's your seed in the tournament? We're
the eighth sted eight seed. We played Oklahoma. You're out West,
but it's.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Our Okay, we've we've won national championships in the West before.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Oh, I don't know. You didn't sound that confident when
you were talking about your You're Jonathan Huskies.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
It's January, February, Yukon. April it's our month.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But the championship is crowned in April. There, Johnny Husky.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
Great, so you're saying, but it's March madness. It's not
called April madness.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
But they crowned the champion in April.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
Okay, we went there too. Okay by double figures, by
the way. Oh, not even close games. Not even close games.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I hope Yukon and Saint John's meet out. Well that'd
be a lot of fun.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Oh, that'd be amazing. Yeah, but Spike leeod be there.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, it's Spike Lee's all of a sudden a Saint
John's fan. He's got the whole gear. It's like, come on, Spike,
how about you make a movie.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
It looks like a lot of Saint John's people just
came out of the woodword, I know, for the first
time since two thousand.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, Walter Berry, there, the truth is there. I'm like, damn,
Jason Williams, the other Jason Williams. Yeah, he was their
court side, Like where where have all these? Who is
who is the other one? Yes?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I think just so we're tracking the story properly. I
think they're up to the fifteenth Jonathan the Yukon Husky. Oh,
just like Uga, you know whatever, this is the fifteenth Jonathan,
you go fast, Jonathan the Husky.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, but Uga dies. I don't Jonathan doesn't die. I mean,
it's just a person in the in the uniform, isn't
it in the costume?
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Well, there's actual husky too. A mascot.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Okay, almost like I'll go so like Jonathan is like
a real dog.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Okay, yeah, I haven't been. I haven't followed it the Husky.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
I guess we gotta go to store soon.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, oh yeah, maybe we go watch our girls play
in Cuba. Turn you wanna go on Saturday? Where are
they playing in stores?
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
A couple of well they know they're gonna sell out.
All right, let me take a break. Uh, Seth Greenberg
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Speaker 7 (19:33):
I'm not approperly addressed. I apologize.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's okay. Oh pah, yeah, pah. All right, let's get
the big controversy out of the way. North Carolina made it,
West Virginia didn't, Indiana didn't, Ohio State. BOBIZI, how big
of a deal is this in your opinion?
Speaker 7 (19:51):
I think it's a big deal. I mean, you know,
you are your body of work, your resume is your resume,
and you know, North Carolina do you get credit for
playing good teams? Do you get credit for beating good teams?
They're one and twelve against pod one. That's a fact.
They played a very difficult non conference schedule. That's a fact.
They also lost to pitt and way Forest, then Clemson
(20:13):
and Louisville. All right, those were opportunities. Not saying those
teams aren't good, but those are opportunities that they didn't embrace.
They played Michigan State in Hawaii. That was an opportunity
before Michigan State became the juggernaut that they were Now
look playing Auburn and Alabama and Florida, you know, those
are the best of the best. But I do think
that if you look at their resume, their body of work,
(20:35):
their resume says they're not an NC tournament team. Having
said that, that now that they're in the tournament, they
can beat San Diego State. Now that they're in the tournament,
they can give Ole Miss a game. But you know what,
you don't get a free pest to get in the tournament.
You earn your way into the tournament. And everyone should
be evaluating across the same set of criteria. And that's
(20:55):
probably the thing that kind of bothers me to an extent.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
How did it happen?
Speaker 7 (21:00):
And then how did it happen? Look, Bubba kind of
him is a good man. I have a lot of
respect for him. He's the head of the committee and
they say, well, yo, he accuses himself from the room
when they're talking about North Carolina. That's great breakfast, lunch
and dinner conversations. Committee members that he's chairing, who also
(21:20):
know they're in that situation. I thought they put Zavier
in as well. And I think they put Zader in
and as kind of another one of those teams that
didn't have a ton of quad one wins. But that
was a good way to justify I put in North
Carolina and because the resumes were similar. But look, I'm
not pointing a finger at Bubba without a doubt, I'm
not doing that. But the system is flawed in this way. Dan,
(21:41):
We've got to have a better set criteria. So people
everyone's got their own prison of what they're looking at,
how they're looking at these resumes. Right, we've got to
say this is the most important, this is the second
most important, this is the third most important. Instead of
having everyone say, well, you know the prism I looked
at this through like the whole idea that they said, well,
West Virginia, you know, de Breeze wasn't there at the
(22:01):
end of the season. He wasn't there at the beginning
of the season. They still won games. I mean he
missed twenty four games or so, so you know, just
the excuse after the bracket came out was a little
bit weak. Oh, it is what it is. It's over
with now we're gonna have a great NCAA tournament. But
as a guy that sat on the outside looking in
(22:23):
for forty eight straight bunfs, dan uh not that not
that it still bothers me. All uh. You know, I
feel for those guys because you know, the tournament is
a reward for your season. I feel for the seniors
on those teams. I feel for the coaches. The season starts,
you know, in the summer, it goes. It's a long,
grinded out season. And I thought some of those other
(22:45):
teams deserved the opportunity had in North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
What's the biggest storyline going into the tournament in your opinion?
Speaker 7 (22:54):
The dominance of Florida. I think Florida can have a
U contact run through the tournament. I think they're that good.
I think I called Noah's ark. They got to everything,
the pace of course, the freedom that they play with,
their bigs run the floor and are skilled. Walter Clayton
to me, is a lottery pick at the guard position.
(23:14):
They go ten deep. I think far it is dominance
in the SEC tournament. How they won is one of
the key storylines. And then Cooper Flagg, you know, I
mean we got to talk about Cooper Flagg, right, you
understand that, right?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yes, he availability, though seems like he's getting the green
light to go.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
I think what they're gonna do is I think he's
going to get the green light to go. I think,
you know, in just listening to John, who's done just
an incredible job. But listening to John, I think what
they're going to try to do is he's going to
do some individual workout stuff today, back in practice of
skill work, probably no contact. Probably Tuesday or Wednesday, he'll
do some live stuff and then the yew it reacts.
(23:54):
But they need him to win the national championship. Ideally,
they'd like to get him some minutes in opening around
game to get his feet wet, experience what the tournament's about,
because each game you win, there's a greater pressure. Really
impressed with how Duke played in the a SEC tournament.
A lot of guys stepped up. But I expect him
to play. But there's a lot of people. This is
(24:15):
the thing that people don't understand. It's obviously Cooper, the
medical staff, John Shire, his parents, and you know, the
last group that's going to be involved in this decision
probably his agent. I mean, because that's the world we
live in now, where all these players have agents and
you know he's a valuable commodity. They just want to
make sure that he's going to be healthy. It's just
(24:36):
an ancle spring, but you don't want something to be
something that's going to be a lingering ankle spape, right,
and that could impact, you know, a big picture him
working out for NBA teams and things of that nature.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Seth Greenberg, ESPN College basketball analyst, the most vulnerable number
one seed is.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
You know, that's an interest. I'm going to say the
most vulnerable buy the bracket they're in, and I would
say that's going to be Houston. As hard as Uston plays,
as well as they rebound the ball. But if you
look at the bracket, first of all, Tennessee is kind
of like Houston one point oh, I mean Tennessee. Rick
barneseems played so hard, physical, Mayshak and Zikais Egler are elite,
elite defenders. But the rest of that bracket, if you
(25:15):
look at teams that can you know, be a problem,
whether it's if Kentucky gets healthy, Lamont Butler plays, it's
three point shooting, which is you know which is which
is an issue. I mean, there's no doubt about it.
Clemson an experienced backward Illinois finally healthy, uh, and then Tennessee.
So I would think Houston has the toughest rule. Some
people say Auburn because of Michigan with those two seven
(25:37):
footers in Michigan state on the bottom of the draw.
But my gut feeling is I have this feeling about
Tennessee and just their connectivity, their toughness and uh, they're due,
They're due.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Explained Rick Patino as a former coach, and what he does,
no matter where he goes, he wins. How does how
does this happen?
Speaker 7 (26:03):
How does it happen? He's a savant. He takes his
team and beat you, and he takes your team and
beat you. I mean he's a savant. He is unrelenting
in terms of the standard that he sets. He gets
total buy in from his guys. He gets winning players
and tough guys. But in the end, the guy has
a gift, even despite the white suit, he has a gift.
(26:27):
I mean what he does, whether it's a Boston University
at Providence with the Knicks, live Louisville with Kentucky, now
with Saint John's. He basically gets guys to play in
a manner where they all buy into being winning players.
They all buy into one thing, the good in the group.
What he's done with Kadarie Richmond getting him to play
(26:49):
every play a sixty six point guard which makes them
really hard to play against. Or r J. Lewis, who
started at U Mass who's a shot maker and a
sco and making him and getting him to buy him
what to be successful like, he gets those guys to
buy in to the greater good. He gets those guys
to buy in to competing at a level they didn't think.
Now this time he's doing it with big six six guards.
(27:11):
You know. He also did it with Russ Smith, Peyton Siva.
He also did it with Billy Donovan. He also did
it with Mashburns. So he's just got a gift and
he's in the perfect place because New York guy in
New York selling out Madison Square guard and happened to
Runny had the year that coach Carterseca passes. Understanding the
history and the tradition of Saint John's embracing all that, Uh,
(27:35):
this was a long time coming because I personally the
last time the job opened up, I probably would have said,
you know, he's had some issues. But Rick Patino is
New York Basketball.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
What happened to Yukon this year?
Speaker 7 (27:50):
They're not as good. I mean, like the level was
so high and the bar was so high. I mean,
you know, you lose Klingon, you lose Snogo the year
before you lose you know, you have two of everything
in the post. You lose Stephencastle and elite defender. You know,
before you lost Andre Jackson the elite defender, they swung
himss a little bit in the portal. I mean, that's
just the fact their inability to defend the ball at
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the point of attack. Offensively, it's still beautiful, watch their
ball movement to people movement. They don't have a shot
creator offensively, which is a problem. They get everything out
of their offense Stephan Castle, who just get down the lane.
Jordan Hawkins could come off a screen, bang a jumper
or shot fake and get in the lane. They don't
have that. And then defensively they're just they don't have
(28:31):
a lockdown defender. So like even in this first game,
Jeremiah Fears, Jeremiah Fears has a little Kyrie irving in
his game, like defending him in the Three Guards of Oklahoma,
that's going to be a little bit of an issue.
And then offensively, you get to a short clock situation,
and then you watch so much basketball, you're you know
so much about it in our historian. You get to
(28:52):
the end of a shot clock, who do you give
the ball to? You give to Leeve McNeely as a
freshman who's like a six to six guy. It's developing
into it. Give to hassand the IRA because he really
can't score it, but he can get maybe in the lane.
You know, they had pros they were giving the ball
to at the end of the shop. Lock having said that,
the dude is a savant, the dude is amazing. You know,
(29:12):
you can like him dislike him. He's great for college basketball.
I go over there all the time to watch him practice.
He's a master teacher, but it's model behavior. He acts
and coaches no differently than his dad did when he
was winning state championship after state championship and becoming a
Hall of Fame coach. The guy is a tremendous coach
and his players love him as hard as he is
on him, and he can be hard on him. His
(29:37):
guys respond to him, He connects with him at a
different level because he cares so much.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
The NBA has surrendered to the three. College basketball hasn't.
But I don't know if you know, I'll ask your
opinion while I give mine, which isn't great interviewing. But
it almost feels like the coaches are in a little
more control in college ounsketball of the style hole that
you can play as opposed to the NBA, where the
(30:05):
stars are bigger than their coaches.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Yeah, we've turned into a European game, the college game.
A lot of coaches are running a lot of five
out they're running up not as much just pure ball screen.
It's more balling people movement, you know, like everyone. My
thing about the NBA is that players take bad shots
and make them. College players take good shots of missing,
so like the coach has to have more of a
little bit more control. You know, who you get shot from,
(30:30):
where you get shot from, when you get the shot from.
That's why I like Auburn, even though they're struggling now.
Bruce pel does a great job of getting his guys
where they want their shots to get come from, which
is important. So yeah, A lot of people disagree with me.
I don't think we should go to twenty four second clock.
I do think we can advance the mull at the
end of games. I think that would be good because
we'd have more exciting finishes. I think we should go
(30:51):
to quarters, that's fine. I don't think we should move
the three point lineback. Our game is different. Our game
is different, you know what, and we try to be
the NBA. We're not going to be the NBA. You know.
The chance to get the upset in the NCAA tournament
is because of our rules. We would have never when
I was Virginia Tech Beaten Duke in North Carolina, when
(31:12):
we beat Kansas when we were at Long Beach State,
we would have never had those wins if there was
a twenty first second clock, if the rule, if the
rules were the way it is now. The one thing
I am worried about the NCUBLE Tournament, especially for the SEC,
is the SEC fourteen teams in the tournament. I think
they can get three in the final four potentially, which
is the first time since the Big East did it.
(31:32):
But it's been such a physical league. I do worry
the first two rounds when they call it a little
tighter and this league is so physical and handsy. If
that's going to impact outcomes of games, because they're going
to get a bunch of teams in foul trouble.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Best college basketball team of your lifetime was who for me?
Speaker 7 (31:51):
At my lifetime, I played against them and the unility
team of Jerry Darkadia. They came at you at warp speed.
They are absolutely relentless. And I'm talking about teams I
coached against. Yeah, they played at one, one three a me,
but then they played man and man and they came
at you in like at warp speed. Larry Johnson was
(32:12):
running right to the front of the rim. Good luck
you playing a side of me. Catchers can play behind him,
backs you down, Anderson hunts knocking down threes. How hard
they played. See, that's the one thing about Jerry Tarcaanie.
He was a great coach. He wasn't a good coach.
He acquired talent. We know that he had great players,
But how hard they played, how they defended, how simple
(32:33):
they were offensively, but how well they executed. They were
so hard to play against because of the force they
played with, their selfishness, they played with and they never
took a playoff. I mean, they just came at yet,
at Yet, and at Yet, and it was just it
was a brutal forty minutes.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
And Bob Lee and I when we did Sports Center,
we argued about how great this team, one of the
great teams of all time, and we kept coming back
to their blowing people out. If they get into a
tight game, I want to see how they do. They
got into a tight game in that, you know, second
year when they faced Duke and they had a hard
time getting a shot off. Your pick for the tournament
(33:14):
is Fara. Okay, we'll talk to you. We'll talk to
you during the tournament. Thank you again.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
For much respect.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
One of the great irishmen of all time. Seth Greenberg,
ESPN College Basketball Analyst, work on that wardrobe. Probably a
little later on, we'll take a break. Play of the
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Of the day. This is the play of the day.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Check this out down by one two minutes to play
for a Big Ten Tournament title.
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Michigan has won eleven of its last twelve games decided
by six points or last. I watched a lot of
this game. It was good, good back and forth. I
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(34:55):
leads by three. Both players are on the eighteenth, but
Rory is probablybably fifteen feet away and could probably three
putt and ended up end up winning the Players Championship.
In playoff. Buddha California joining us. Hi Budda, welcome back.
What do you have for us?
Speaker 7 (35:13):
What up?
Speaker 8 (35:13):
DP?
Speaker 7 (35:14):
Happy?
Speaker 10 (35:14):
Dan Patrick's day seton the way you're situated. You have
a lot of green around you, and your chair has
green on it too, So you're good, brother, So you
get up from your seat.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Paul And.
Speaker 10 (35:30):
But Dan, I know Joe Burrow was a campaigning and voiced,
you know, his opinion for the resigning of his two boys,
the star receivers, and I mean he really challenged the
franchise to step up. But also t Higgins hiring the
same agent as Jamar Chase d And that's really a
sneaky good detail on this, this whole, this whole story
of that. I'm signing together for good for them. Best
(35:52):
of the weekend, Dan, Bengals DP for finally signing both
their two star receivers. Worst of the weekend Bengals VP
for waiting to sign their two star receivers. I just
don't get why these teams wait so long. You're only
delaying the inevitable, which costs them two big bags.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Matt Good, Yeah, I can have a tiree kill, you know,
a wide receiver tight end situation like you had with
Kansas City Chiefs. But I look at the Bengals and
they're kind of like the Dolphins that you have a
quarterback making a lot of money and you have your
(36:31):
wide receivers. I just don't think it's a blueprint for success.
You might make the playoffs, but you are you resigning
your best defensive player, Trey Hendrickson. He's thirty years of age,
but he led the NFL in sacks. Defense was the problem,
But I mean, can you outscore people maybe during the
(36:56):
regular season. I just don't think you can have that
that blueprint and win. I think the Bengals are very
similar to the Dolphins, and we've seen what's happened with
the Dolphins. I do think this is we're going to
play Kate Joe Burrow. We don't want to have another
Carson Palmer situation. We will get him his weapons. I
just want to see, now, what are you going to
do to do with that defense? That's really going to
(37:20):
be the true test of Hey, we're scoring. I mean,
they'll be exciting. I just don't know if they're going
to be formidable. Uh. Daniel in Saint Paul, Hey, Dan,
what's on your mind today.
Speaker 11 (37:33):
How do you guys happen? Happy Saint Patrick's Day? Happy
Dan Patrick stated, everyone out there, I'm Irish Catholic on
my mom's side, my extended family. We marched in the
parade every year. Thanks for coming out last year, guys,
We're missing you this year. Shout out to everyone of
j O, Kaidan Klan and Christine and Jacksonville. Oh, best
nors of the weekend. I love March Madnis. It's the
best time of the year. I love that as getting started.
(37:55):
Double best Michigan wolver Reing's pulling out that way yesterday
I was day side closes, no showing.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Up for that.
Speaker 11 (38:00):
It's kind of brutal, and I was wondering how you
guys feel about this. I think Thursday and Friday should
be a sports religious holiday. If you love sports, it's
a mandatory must watch. What do you guys think about that?
Ye isn't that?
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (38:13):
I'm fine with that. You know, I've been pushing for
push the super Bowl back so you get President's Day off.
We're gonna treat the super Bowl as the biggest event
of the year and let us recover the day after.
Sound like Daniel has already been in his cups from
the weekend there in Saint Paul. By the way, we
had a wonderful time. People in Saint Paul were wonderful,
(38:33):
had a great time there as I was one of
the Grand marshals last year turzou in des Moines or
Des Monet, Iowa.
Speaker 11 (38:43):
I'dy Saint Patrick stayed.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
Dan Hey, big fan of the Drake Bulldogs.
Speaker 10 (38:49):
Yeah, I was a little disappointed whenever they got an
eleven seed.
Speaker 11 (38:53):
They have been a really solid team all year long.
Speaker 7 (38:57):
I think they kind of.
Speaker 11 (38:57):
Got the short end of the stick.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
Watch out for him though in the tourney and seeing
we better be pulling for those Bulldogs if they make
this Sweet sixteen, I'll take a part of the face.
Speaker 8 (39:08):
All right.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, Drake's a good team. Drake's one of those teams
where you're going to see them play and you're gonna
go wow. You know, they got some guys from Division
two and it's a really good roster, I think that,
and you got guys who I think they have a
lot of upper classmen there, and that's what I look
for too, very underrated when you look at a roster
(39:30):
and you go, all right, how many juniors and seniors
are there. That means they're they're good. They weren't good
enough to leave after their freshman or sophomore year, but
they're still good enough to play, you know, Division one
college basketball. You make your free throws, you know, do
you have good shooters? A couple of three point shooters.
(39:50):
It feels like the formula has changed a little bit.
But we talk about guard play.
Speaker 6 (39:56):
Are you saying we joke to win a senior guard.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
I think it could be guard play and making free throws.
You know, having a guy you can go to when
you need a bucket. That's also important as well. Yes, Pauline, I.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
Love senior guard playing when you don't know who's on
a roster.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Yes, we practiced. You know when we listen to the
analyst and they'll just you know, if I say Tennessee, well,
you know what, you gotta love their guard play and
they're big, they can get down the floor, and they're tough.
You know, Rick Barnes, They're always gonna be tough. They're
gonna play tough at SEC basketball. I don't know Tennessee,
(40:34):
but I can make it sound like I know Tennessee, Yes, paul, Yeah,
but if the Valves.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Can control the turnover margin, They're really gonna have a
chance to win this.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Yeah, you can't. You just can't turn the bowl over.
The number of analysts that we're gonna hear over the
next three weeks say these same things over and over.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
Yes, Marv and whoever has a big game, it's never
gonna be my name.
Speaker 7 (40:56):
Man.
Speaker 8 (40:57):
Hey, you know the guard from Drake and he's been
on fire.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Good.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Well, you have to say the guard play. You know,
Drake's guard play is really good. You don't ask the
follow up question, well, who are they now that guard play?
You know they're bigs. You know, you got to respect
their bigs.
Speaker 5 (41:14):
Yes, other cliches are good, like if Michigan State's in it,
you don't know their backcourt. You know, I just trusted
tom as a team this time year. That's a Golden Wide.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
You know Tom ISO's going to have his team ready
to play. Don't as opposed to the other coaches won't
have their players ready to play. You know, I really
like Maryland, Actually I do. I really like Maryland, but
I like their guard play. Of course, senior guard play.
I don't know if they have senior guard they might
have seen your guards are on the bench. They improve
the GPA. All right, talk a little football. Are the
(41:46):
Vikings actually interested in Aaron Rodgers. We'll have that for
you coming up.
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