WEBVTT - Best of JMV 8/7/26 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.760 And where are we going here? Anything you have a 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:19.880 chance against ours? Mister cowboy? Hey mother, what do you 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:21.919 like to do? Oh? I don't know. 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.640 Play chess? School Seller's play chess? 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.000 They give off that Jonathan Taylor chuck cutting its way 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:32.720 walking the goal line. He's in there, put down andde 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.720 why Jonathan Taylor Reler finds lawn. 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.320 Here's halliburn into the front court, mishandled it mcgainst any 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.920 shots it? 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:45.600 John. 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.000 I have never been bedroom to be on the air 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.959 with you here in Indianapolis, a place where so many 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.760 of my dreams have come true. The ride with JM 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.440 V on ninety three five and one oh seven five 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.560 the fan, Hey, welcome into the show. Cayler's over there, 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.680 I'm John right here. That's one hell of a day 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.400 we had yesterday, wasn't it. That is the springboard we 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:10.560 need to have a fantastic weekend. We've got jack assery 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:15.200 all around. It started with the inbound new boy, the 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:19.800 maker ad who's presence? Yes, or I should say today 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:25.320 on Query and Company clarified things. You know, you guys 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:30.559 thought about this had you been in a similar spotlight. 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.640 We all think we have the answers. I know I 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.280 act like I have the answers. In fact, there's nobody 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:41.640 out there that has less answers about anything than me. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.960 I tell you, the one truth thing that I know 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:54.280 and I feel comfortable in. This is all really the 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:55.680 massive amount of things. 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:56.040 I don't know. 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.400 So I think that's how I'm able to walk around 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.640 upright and not constantly run into stuff. 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:09.640 Now, otherwise it would be it'd be difficult. It would 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.320 But how would you guys have handled that? 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:18.079 If you are Tommy McClellan, would you have just said, hey, 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.600 you know, it looked like it was scripted and we're 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.880 gonna go by his word. He appeared with Jake a 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.600 little bit earlier today on Query and Company to clear 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.280 the air and said, you know what, it was just 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.040 me trying to be funny, and if you gather a 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.440 dude like that, probably rarely, if ever, has been funny. 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.600 Let's face it, guys, guys like that. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:44.160 He's an incredibly intelligent human being, but making people laugh 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.200 is probably not at the top of his This is 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.560 what I've done list, nor will it be. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.880 You know what I mean, Hey, this will be funny 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:56.200 when I knock him dead. 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:57.120 So I. 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.880 I kind of wondered about is any boiler Maker fans 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.720 that are left out there that are not on the 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:11.200 side of man, I wish this crap cloud would just 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.679 go away, and you're thankful for the weekend because you know, 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.519 we all have short attention span, so we're gonna forget about. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:17.880 It by Monday. 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.880 But do you wish if you're not hoping that it 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.120 just simply goes away, how about just flexing on it 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.600 and going, Hey, well, this is what we expect. We're Purdue, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.960 this is what we strive for. This is a new world, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:36.160 a new era, new landscape. You could have mixed in. Well, 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:41.240 you know, our competitors to the south, they got a 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.160 little bit of something right now. Now it's up to 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.960 us to go at it too. That's why I'm here. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.720 I'm here to raise some funds. I'm here to obtain 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:54.560 some cash and spread it around and bring high level 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.560 winning to this football program. I'm here to back up 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:03.840 Barry Odemar football coach. Would you have doubled down on 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.800 that at all? Or that have just made it worse? 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:09.800 But flexing on that a little bit? Hey, you know 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.560 what I said? What I said, that's what I mean, 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:17.920 by God? Or do you just say man, I really 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.440 jecked this thing up, and I was trying to be 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.560 funny and I'm not, which again, you can look at it, 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.600 and that's a guy that probably rarely has ever been 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.720 funny about anything. That was probably the funniest he's ever 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:34.120 been and it was by accident. So I can't imagine. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.480 I can't imagine that that was a comfortable situation for him. 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.880 But I will say this, I will give I'll give 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.000 him credit for coming on. This is what he had 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.520 with Jake a little bit earlier. This is new on 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:52.880 the Inbound ad Tommy McClellan up Purdue talking about that 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:57.400 statement that he made that everybody has been talking about 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:58.679 for the past twenty four hours. 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:02.760 The last several days has just been an incredible opportunity 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.160 for me and my family. As we've arrived here in 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.600 the Greater Lafayette community, we've had an incredible worm welcome, 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:14.240 and yesterday was another banner day of that, being able 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.520 to share the vision and the hope and the optimism 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.320 and the where are we going the trajectory of Purdue 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.760 Athletics and what can be And in the midst of 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:25.159 that great day made an off the script, off the script, 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.880 off the cuff remark about an instate rival as a 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.919 joke that didn't land well, And I knew it immediately 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.320 as it came out of my mouth. And you know, listen, 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.960 sometimes it's like taking the ball in the first tee 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:39.080 and putting it in the lake. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:39.880 You got to tee it up. 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.280 The good news, Jake, is that we've got eighteen more holes. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:43.200 We've got to keep going. 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.080 The thing that bothered me, probably more than anything, is 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.520 it becomes a distraction to what the focus is. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:51.000 Right. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.280 I want to get the attention on where are we 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.080 trying to go? How are we going to get there? 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:01.240 We've got six hundred thousand living alums, fifty five plus 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:05.800 thousand students, an incredible state, We've got an incredible opportunity 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.200 ahead of us, and the last thing I want is 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.000 an off the comfort mark to be a distraction to 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:12.240 what the real goal is here. 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.520 Yeah, I will say this, I don't think it was 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.720 a distraction to what the real goal is. It was 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.720 a need of the nuts to the fan base, That's 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.520 what it was. It was an embarrassing need of the nuts. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:27.599 It was like something from where the home videos, remember 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:32.239 the Yeah that show? Right, what's the Golden Yeah, funniest 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.360 home video and you know, all the funniest moments is 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.919 when accidentally some guy got hit in the nuts every 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.640 single time. That's really the only thing that was redeemable 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:42.760 about that show is you're going to get like fifteen 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.400 different nutshots and we're all going to laugh. That's what 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.640 the boy, the maker fan base felt like yesterday. So 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:49.680 there was not a distraction. There's not going to be 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:54.240 a distraction. This will loom above his head until they 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.160 prove otherwise. And when you win, a lot of this 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.960 stuff goes away. When you win, everybody is quiet. When 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.200 you win, you no longer are a part of the 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.600 butt of jokes. I think what's more distracting on what 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.760 has been more distracting for the fan base and for 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.560 what Purdue is trying to do is what the football 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.160 team has looked like and some of the decision making 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:19.680 with the football program, and you know, moving forward now 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.520 and hopefully you get that right with Barry Odom who 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.840 to me seems like he says and does all the 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:30.840 right things. And even though you're the boss, and then 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:35.000 you all know that Matt Painter always does and says 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.560 the right things. So luckily for you, even though you 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:41.480 are the boss, you can kind of look around the 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.600 room a little bit and people can help you out. 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.800 But I don't think that that was distracting. But I 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.080 will give the tip of the cap for him going 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.440 on Jake's show and saying what he said. 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.040 You have to to own it. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.520 But it was not a distraction. It was simply put 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:02.680 embarrassing as hell. That's exactly what you don't want. Distraction. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.720 Like I said, the distraction hopefully will go away quickly. 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.800 But that was embarrassing to a lot of folks. And 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.360 the moral of the story is, if your forte is 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.880 not being funny, then probably don't try it in your 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.800 introductory press conference after you at ben tabbed as the 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.240 next athletic director at Purdue. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:34.400 That's it. Know what you don't know? 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.800 I'm telling you that's how I walk around because I 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.199 am as dumb as this table top, and I realize it. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:43.320 I'm not trying to fool anybody. 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.200 You guys ever notice on this show, Hey, it doesn't 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.359 sound like Jamb's trying to fool anybody with this dialogue 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.640 and his ut words usage. Why because I know about 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.880 five is why I can't fool anybody I'm not smart 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:58.120 enough to fool anybody. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:01.679 You got to know what you don't know. 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.839 There's where you can't officially embark on what is the 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:12.719 true battle right there? And yesterday unfortunately the new l 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:19.080 LETI director there did not know what he didn't know. Yeah, 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:25.120 trying to be funny, the old zinger, the old zinger. 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.000 What was that dude's name that went on Letterman the 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.000 time and thought he was being funny and it just 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:32.200 turned out to be a disaster. 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:36.160 Was his name? Crispin Glover? Is that who that is? 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:40.000 Or is that somebody different? Here's the guy that did 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.880 the karate kick and it whizz right by Letterman's face. 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.120 That who I'm thinking of, Crispin Glover. See, he thought 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.120 he may have been high on drugs at that moment, 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.760 which is completely different. But he thought at that time 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.480 that he was trying to be funny and it wasn't funny. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:00.360 Uh. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.920 You can got to know what you don't know. 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:10.640 So hopefully now for Tommy McClellan, their vision of what 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:15.559 they believe he can bring to that athletic program and 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:21.560 institution can become a reality and knuckleheads like me can 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:27.160 stop making fun of it. You got to know what 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:31.400 you don't know, man, especially, I don't know how many people, Hey, Caleb, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:32.959 how many people out there you think are as dumb 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.160 as me? Give me a great example. It just happened 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.559 literally fifteen minutes ago, did it not? Caleb says, Hey, 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:40.640 did you send me that thing for email? 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.120 Said? Yeah, I said it to you. Where is it? 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:43.839 You didn't find it? You don't see what's going on? 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.400 Oh I didn't send it. It's in there all the desktop. 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.960 And Eddie Garrison said, it's probably still in your desktop. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.079 See he knows he guy is the guy. He's not 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.040 very bright right here. It's probably still in there on 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.040 his desktop. He may have just forgotten to do it 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:03.360 all together. But no fault of yours. I get reminded 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.400 of that on not a weekly, not a daily, but 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.079 an hourly basis, And that's okay. 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:12.640 I have learned to live with it. 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.319 If you want to hear the entire conversation, Jake was 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.880 out at the State Fair the opening day of the 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.800 State Fair going on. It looks like started out with rain. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.240 It looks like it's hot and humid and sunny right now. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:30.800 So let's go to it. And certainly you can listen 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.559 to that conversation with Tommy McClelland and Jake on a 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:37.800 podcast at one oh seven five fan dot com. I'm 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.880 gonna get to the Fever in just a second, because 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.800 if you thought that that was going to be all 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.760 she wrote in the terms of embarrassing situations on a Thursday, 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:52.800 you had yet watched the Fever play against the Vegas Aces, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:57.000 because that was some embarrassing stuff too, all the way around, 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:03.480 All the way around. Tricia Thompson, ESPN bot of the Hour, 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.040 how many thirty for thirties has she been involved with? 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.720 I know that she's involved with the show aotani thing, 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:12.280 but how many do you know at all? 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.120 Not thirty for thirty specifically, but she's done broke a 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.880 lot of stories, even about you know, Daniel Snyder's ownership 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:21.479 with the Washington Commanders. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.640 She's very, very plugged in. 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.600 And if you've seen anything about the show, heyo Tani, Yeah, 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.439 thirty for thirty. I think it's a real interesting conversation 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.240 conversation just about gambling and that whole story because it 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:38.160 is it is a never ending rabbit hole, that whole thing. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.480 So excited rabbit hole reference right there. That's the first 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.400 time the rabbit hole reference has ever been used on 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.320 this show. Yeah, happy to use I and I apologize. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.400 I'm not suggesting you are, but I normally associate terms 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:52.320 like that with nerds. 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:56.360 File that under with green dot. 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:03.200 Yeah, the green dot, rabbit holes. Mount Rushmore's of using narrative. 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:08.080 Those are the top I got onetionality, optionality, another one 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:09.480 top five nerdery. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.040 That's how you tell me automatical And I'm. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.360 Not suggesting you are, but maybe you're showing signs of 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:20.719 nerdery when you go in those categories. It's Caleb over there, 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.800 up John and bottom of the ole. Tricia Thompson is 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:25.560 going to join us. I will tell you this. Don 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.360 Fisher just got back with me. Don says he can join. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.199 We'll see if we can go at five thirty with 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:30.839 Don today. 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:31.480 That works. 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.560 Don Fisher, Voice of the Hoosiers. We're bringing Bob Lovell 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.559 back once again. Four year number one, thoy thirty two. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.000 Bob lovel is going to join us today at four thirty. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.640 He starts once again after a summer long vacation hiatus. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.840 He is back with Indiana Sports Talk. That, my friends, 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:53.079 is what you call an institution. Did you see the 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.360 meeting of the minds out here. A little bit earlier 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.480 this week, we had Bob Lovell here and we had 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:04.240 Ray from Telemundo. There are two of the most interesting 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.520 men in the world right there. He is, like, I 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.240 can't believe what's going on here. I felt compelled just 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.439 to say, can somebody snap a photograph of all of 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:18.360 us together right here? The most interesting dudes in the world. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:20.960 Bob's going to join us today at four thirty. Pat 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.760 Sullivan Sullivan Hardware and Garden hashtag asked, Pat, get those 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.680 questions in. Somebody's gonna win some stuff. I know that 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.720 it's the Ride with JMV Yetties. You guys dig on 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:36.000 free and I know that to be true because I've 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.440 had a lot of Howard Jones winners. Chime in, go hey, 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:40.840 where are my tickets? I won these tickets. I don't 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:44.480 have them yet, So I've been helping you make sure 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.840 that you have those tickets for later on tonight, because 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:48.400 you guys are all going to buy me beers for 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:56.160 my effort. But Pat Sullivan with free stuff, the Ride 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:02.600 with JMV Free Yetties on the person that Caleb selects 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.040 that we either talk to you on the phone that 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.080 has a question hashtag Guss Pat, or we read your question. 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.840 Maybe it's via three one, seven, two, nine, ten seventy 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:16.000 on text line, or maybe it's at jamb ten seventy 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:21.800 on X. Maybe it's an email. Whatever, somebody's gonna win it. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:23.800 Plus he always brings some cool stuff in here, which 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:25.800 is nice. Pat Sullivan top of the four o'clock how 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.920 I mentioned Bob Lovell four thirty. 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.160 I felt the need for all of us, and hopefully 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:33.880 you understand this. I felt the need. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.640 I was compelled to lead us all down the path 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:40.640 of knowledge of education for the twenty twenty six college 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.520 football season. Does it feel like it's time? 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:46.040 You know this to be true? 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:50.440 The gateway to every college football season always starts on 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:55.520 this show. It always starts with the Almanac, the college 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.640 football Preview. And you can get that via hard copy. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.520 You can go to Books a Million, you can go 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.240 to Barnes and Noble. Get that bad boy rot off 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:09.640 the magazine rack. Put that right next to the toilet. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:13.000 Nobody has ever been educated more as a member of 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:17.240 Generation X than toilet readings. It is a beautiful thing. 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.840 You're going to be like Desmond Howard will have nothing on. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.640 You think Kirk Herbstreet knows something, You're gonna know more 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:27.320 because that college football preview is right next to your crapper. 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.840 Phil's going to join us, so we're all going to 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.600 be educated on the college football season. Coming up at 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.320 the five o'clock hour mark of this show. Phil Steele, 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.280 as usual his annual destination is on this show at 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.040 five o'clock, and it looks like as long as he 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:44.960 can do it. At five thirty today, the voice of 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.680 the Hoosiers, Don Fischer, will join us for the first time. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.520 So cannot wait for that, all right. I hate to 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:58.200 do it because we're feeling so good even after that loss. 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:02.000 Going back to Sunday, we were feeling good, feeling about 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:03.280 what do I say? 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.439 And I may have to put this up on the. 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.440 Dorkery Mount Rushmore of this is how I know you're 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:14.480 a nerd terms, but we thought that this team had 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:15.280 turned the corner. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.600 And you lose in Minnesota on Sunday. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.440 It was game three of after the All Star Break, 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.200 a three game road trip and the Link's best team 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:27.560 right now, the WNBA. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:28.439 So you give them that. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.240 And then you go home and they get off to 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.600 what a twenty two point advantage early on. And I 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.159 don't know if I've ever seen a team lose a 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.000 twenty two point lead as quickly as the Fever did 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:42.960 in the first half of that game last night. That 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:48.160 was amazing. Anybody ever seen a lead? Seriously, I don't 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.200 know if you do. You think if you would have 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:56.080 just pulled the all five players off the floor and 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.000 Vegas could have just gone by virtue of not getting 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.040 the inback, you know, I don't know if you would 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:02.920 lose the lead as quickly as they did. 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:03.800 It was incredible. 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:04.440 It really was. 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.800 Everything was going wrong and so many of the issues 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:10.600 that this team has had this season. 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.680 The only thing about it was the biggest issue during 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.320 that moment was the lack of offense. They went forever 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.760 in a day without scoring. That has never been an issue. 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:26.560 That was a serious issue last night. And these are 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.560 some things this late in the season where you go, 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:34.560 all right, so have we been fooled about where this 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:38.600 team has been as we get to this portion of 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:43.280 the season. There is zero way if you're the team 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:48.359 that's rotten, full of expectations and things to live up to, 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:53.080 and as talented across the board as this team is 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.919 at home, You're going to turn this thing over twenty 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:01.760 one times and don't give me that vegas pressure defense 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:09.840 both sides. It was awful offense and at best it 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:13.800 was half assed defense. You turned the ball over twenty 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:15.720 one times in IHLA, I think the Aces turned it 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:19.320 over sixteen, and there was very little defense being played. 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:23.520 The ball was just going absolutely everywhere. It's like, hey, 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.119 we got these ten people out here and this is 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:28.360 the first time they've ever seen this round thing. 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:30.520 It was awful. 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.360 There was a moment where you thought, I gotta turn 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.879 this off. It is awful basketball. It was awful basketball. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:43.120 But under those circumstances, if you're the fever at home, 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:48.000 you just want to survive it. And they were in 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:54.600 position to survive it, and then unfortunately for their star 0:19:55.400 --> 0:20:03.000 and their team, it unreveled in Tommy McClellan embarrassing fashion. 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:09.080 That's exactly what that was. An embarrassment last night. You 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.960 cannot have that happen if it is a team that 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:16.119 is going all out and they're tough and they're just 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:19.119 coming down hard on you, and you've got, for example, 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.840 Olivia Miles of the Lynx is out there just taking 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.920 you off the dribble and scoring it will That was 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:26.280 both sides. 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:27.119 Of it was crapwater. 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:32.199 It was there was no need for what you had 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:37.000 to witness last night inside of Gambridge field House and 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:41.320 Caitlin Clark, unfortunately, in the closing moments of that game, 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.959 the superstar of the team and of the league, certainly 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:49.720 the profile of the league. You have to close that 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:56.040 you missed two free throws. Kelsey Mitchell misses a free throw. 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:02.240 You had that up one incredibly awful position and know 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:07.640 that was not a foul on Asia Wilson. Oh man, 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:11.040 she got fouled. She Here's what happened. Caitlin Clark goes 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.560 up to pass the ball deflected. Both had the opportunity 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:17.200 to go up and get it. Wilson went up to 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:22.440 get it. She is the bigger player, and in the 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:28.200 process of getting the ball discarded Caitlin Clark whom turned 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:28.840 the ball over. 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:30.720 That's that. 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:33.479 So don't give me that she was foul. You wouldn't 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:37.840 foul on the play. The defensive play was made and 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:40.520 there was just some discombobulation And I think it all 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:43.159 comes down to the discombobulation of the offensive night that 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:46.080 Kaitlin Clark was having which would also stand the reason 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.159 why you saw her at the free throw line with 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:49.919 a chance to put the game away by hitting one 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:53.639 free throw up three. One free throw does it for you, 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:57.360 and you missed two with a little over seven seconds remaining. 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:02.080 Cannot happen. We would say that about anybody on that. 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:04.600 We would say that about Tyrese Haliburton. In a minute, 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:14.159 it cannot happen. Zero of two cannot happen. And Caitlin 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:19.480 Clarke herself talked about this after the game, described her play, 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:25.040 especially during late game circumstances into regulation and into overtime, 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:26.440 as follow. 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:29.600 Obviously just can't happen. And those are free throws I 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:34.960 usually make and certainly frustrating, you know. Obviously one of 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:38.639 them gives us a two possession lead and kind of 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:39.760 cost my name there for sure. 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:40.560 So that's on me. 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:45.440 Yeah, And she knows better than anybody else, and she 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.920 should know better than anybody else. Hey, it's tough to 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:51.520 deal with and it stinks to deal with, but that 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:57.200 that can't happen. As she said, that cannot happen. You 0:22:57.280 --> 0:22:59.280 don't just give that away. They just gave that away 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:07.000 last night. But that was some excruciatingly awful basketball really 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:10.399 on both sides. I mean, Chelsea Gray knocked down a 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:14.040 couple of threes, and hey, it's not lost on me. 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:18.440 With Stephanie White, I didn't think they had enough time 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:23.400 to foul when they were up three. However, I don't 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:25.200