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Speaker 1: Good morning, talking to college basketball today at ninety three

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Speaker 1: five and when I was seven five the Fan, Kevin Bowen,

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Speaker 1: James Boyd, I'm jeff Rickord, Mark Dyton on the Ones

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Speaker 1: and Tuesday Morning. Quick on that buzzer though, man, I've

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Speaker 1: always quick on the buzzer. Hey, Kevin's made a couple

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Speaker 1: of airs today about the same player, like eight times.

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Speaker 2: I'm c J.

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Speaker 3: Stroud in Foxborough.

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Speaker 2: C J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud or Josh Allen.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I guess you go either.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you who's not been fundling the ball lately.

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Speaker 1: The Butler Bulldogs. They won a couple of games in

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Speaker 1: a row. Now they go back home tomorrow night. And

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Speaker 1: here to tell us a little bit more about how

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Speaker 1: things are going is the head coach, the Bulldog's Dad Motta,

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Speaker 1: who joins us every Thursday morning here on the Fan

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Speaker 1: Morning Show. Coach, Good to talk to you after a

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Speaker 1: couple of straight wins. You've got to be in a

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Speaker 1: pretty good mood this week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, things are good. We, like you said,

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Speaker 2: we've had a couple of wins. But you guys, ought

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Speaker 2: is in the Big Eastudent college basketball, any league. I

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Speaker 2: don't care what division you're in. I mean, anytime you

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Speaker 2: get wins, it's huge for you. And I thought the

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Speaker 2: Steaton Hall game Saturday was was a big win for us,

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Speaker 2: just in terms of, uh, you know, being able to

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Speaker 2: uh sustain the lead. You know, set Hall have been

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Speaker 2: a team that is showing to make these unbelievable comebacks

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Speaker 2: all season long, and we held them off. And then

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Speaker 2: the Paul game, uh Tuesday night, you know, kind of

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Speaker 2: the same thing. We're down at halftime by a couple

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Speaker 2: of points and come out and go on a heck

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Speaker 2: And and you know, like I said, I keep telling

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Speaker 2: our team, I don't think we've played our best basketball yet.

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Speaker 2: We've got to, you know, keep building a lot of

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Speaker 2: that's just on us of having our minds right to

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Speaker 2: play her collectively the best that we can coach.

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Speaker 3: Came out to practice I think in October, and I

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Speaker 3: remember walking out a Hinkle that afternoon and thinking of myself, Wow,

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Speaker 3: Michael Jay is a grown man, and that dude might

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Speaker 3: be all Biggie's first team. I'm not gonna lie. He

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Speaker 3: maybe has been better than I even thought he would be.

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Speaker 3: I know, you said the other night sick as a dog,

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Speaker 3: weren't sure if he was going to play in the game.

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Speaker 3: How would you kind of assess what you thought you

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Speaker 3: were getting in him out of the transfer portal and

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Speaker 3: then what he's provided you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I tell you what, what a tremendous time. I think.

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Speaker 2: I think he's one of the best all around college

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Speaker 2: players in the country. I really do what he does

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Speaker 2: for us offensively, what he does for us defensively, it

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Speaker 2: is amazing. And you know, he's one of those guys

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Speaker 2: that and I've always liked to coach. He every guys

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Speaker 2: that have a motor. His motor never stops. You know,

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Speaker 2: Day Tuesday, find out he's sick, and I didn't know

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Speaker 2: enough he did. And you know, it's funny because I

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Speaker 2: don't think to the common eye, they could see I

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Speaker 2: knew he wasn't all the way there, but you can

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Speaker 2: never tell it by watching him. I mean, just the

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Speaker 2: we're lucky to have my I thought it was gonna

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Speaker 2: be a really good player for us when we got

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Speaker 2: him in the portal, I you know, he's he's exceeded

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Speaker 2: my expectations. And uh, and the good thing about him

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Speaker 2: wanted to work on his game, and he just he

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Speaker 4: I know, when you talk about your program, defense is

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Speaker 4: always one of the pillars, as is most coaches in

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Speaker 4: the country. But when you look at that DePaul performance,

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Speaker 4: I'm sure there's some things you want to clean up.

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Speaker 4: When you have three first half shot clock violations that

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Speaker 4: you forced, what do you think that says about the

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Speaker 2: I thought we were good defentually. I didn't know until

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Speaker 2: I went back and watched the game. You know, we

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Speaker 2: forced them to make some really tough shots, especially in

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Speaker 2: the first half, and then they were to their credit,

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Speaker 2: they were they were going in. But uh, you know, defense,

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Speaker 2: as you said, that is something you want to always

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Speaker 2: for us at times throughout the season this year, giving

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Speaker 2: We've slowed down a little bit now and I think

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Speaker 2: getting back in our defense set is going to be

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Speaker 3: And that's a voice of fad Manito in a row

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Speaker 3: for the Bulldogs, as he said, Marquette coming up the

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Speaker 3: checkered out inside a Hinkle, a little racing theme inside

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Speaker 3: Right now, the talk of college basketball seems to be

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Speaker 3: having eligibility. Part of me is like, boy, could you

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you can truly call it college

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Speaker 2: honest with you, And I don't know where they draw

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Speaker 2: you know, I just I'm I'm as old school as

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Speaker 2: early and now why not do it? And I know

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Speaker 2: this is coaches. I mean, I don't fold the coaches.

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Speaker 2: You know, we got to stay on our toes and

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Speaker 2: be creative of you know, how we can get players nowadays.

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Speaker 2: And it's not like it used to be. I think

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Speaker 3: If there was one guard rail you could establish portal

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Speaker 3: nil eligibility anything. If there's one guardrail you could establish

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Speaker 3: tomorrow in college basketball, what would that be?

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I don't know. I just, uh, I don't

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Speaker 2: But like I said, I think those days are gone

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Speaker 2: of questions about retirement, and I told said, look, you

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Speaker 2: won one of the last national championships when it was pure,

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Speaker 2: when it was you know, the right way before all

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Speaker 2: I think the the older ones are probably a little

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to that Mada head basketball coach at Butler University,

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Speaker 1: brought to you every week by Thompson Furniture and Matrison

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Speaker 1: Columbus in business since the year before Ninko field House

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Speaker 1: opened in nineteen twenty seven. I'll tell you more about

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Speaker 1: that in a second. Coach, we know you love football,

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Speaker 1: We know you pay attention to what's going on. What

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Speaker 1: were you thinking Monday night as a coach of college sports?

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Speaker 1: What are you thinking when the gun goes off and

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Speaker 1: Indiana is celebrating Monday Night?

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Speaker 2: Honestly, I could not be happier, because you know, I

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Speaker 2: grew up as a kid in Indiana fan and obviously

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Speaker 2: Bob Knight and all that stuff, and just seeing all

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Speaker 2: the trials and tribulations a football program been gone through.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know how you guys felt, but that

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Speaker 2: at the end of the season, and you know, and

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Speaker 2: that's how it was for Indiana, and you know, really

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Speaker 2: the last two years, if you think about it, they

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Speaker 2: win the close games. I don't know, it just it

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Speaker 2: like I said, for Indiana and Scott Dolson to win

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Speaker 2: the national championship is so exciting.

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Speaker 1: So every wanted to asked this for a while, and

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Speaker 1: not just to you specifically, but to coaches in general.

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Speaker 1: You do the work, the preparation, you got the game plan,

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Speaker 1: you go through the plays. The players know the plays.

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Speaker 1: You know, they know the plays. That call is on

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Speaker 1: for fourth and five at the twelve the other night.

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Speaker 1: But as a coach, when a player takes that play

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Speaker 1: elevates it and does something special. What's that do for

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think that's the gratifying thing and coaching.

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Speaker 2: And you see guys make plays and you see the

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Speaker 2: and this they had all the faith in him. And

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Speaker 2: I've called plays for guys for game winners that I trusted.

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Speaker 2: I saw him practice. I've seen it, you know, in

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Speaker 2: mast Sylvester was one for five for three and I

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Speaker 2: called the game winner for him, uh to win it

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Speaker 2: just because I knew he'd hit big shots before he

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Speaker 2: have a little more insight to to what we're doing there.

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Speaker 2: But no, that was fourth and five. It was an

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Speaker 2: amazing call.

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Speaker 1: But it's just an amazing run. And again the player

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Speaker 1: to elevate that the way that he executed that are

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Speaker 1: you do you become for a second like the rest

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Speaker 1: of us, like, oh.

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Speaker 2: My gosh, absolutely yeah, I was. I was is jumping

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Speaker 2: That's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Well, coach, thanks as always for joining us and spend

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Speaker 1: a few minutes with us each week.

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Speaker 2: We really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: We look forward to see and your play tomorrow night

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Speaker 1: at home. It'll be a lot of.

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