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Speaker 1: quickly We'll spend a little bit more time on this.

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Speaker 1: Can we quickly play the Mick Cronin audio from last night?

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Speaker 1: So the UCLA basketball trip to Michigan did not go

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Speaker 1: well for the Bruins on Saturday. Despite coming back and

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Speaker 1: making it a two point game at halftime, they got

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Speaker 1: crushed by a terrific Michigan team lost by thirty outscored

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Speaker 1: by twenty eight in the second half. It did not

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Speaker 1: get any better for the UCLA Bruins, who were hammered

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Speaker 1: any slansing by Michigan State eighty two to fifty nine. Now,

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Speaker 1: in that game, Mick Cronin ejected ejected one of his

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Speaker 1: own players, which I don't think I've ever seen. Late

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Speaker 1: in the game, Stephen Jamerson, who used to be a

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Speaker 1: student at Michigan State, was called for a flagrant foul.

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Speaker 1: Took down Carson Cooper of the Spartans behind from behind

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Speaker 1: on a dunk attempt, got whistled for the flagrant, and

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Speaker 1: Mick Cronan literally like a ref threw him to the

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Speaker 1: locker room. And then you know, Mick wears his emotions

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Speaker 1: on his sleeve. If he's not happy, he'll tell you.

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Speaker 1: This has been an interesting season when it comes to

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Speaker 1: Mick cronin postgame press conferences. Here's a part of his

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Speaker 1: postgame media session that has drawn a lot of people's attention.

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Speaker 1: From last night, Porus thought.

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Speaker 8: In the student section, channing Booker's name, I could.

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Speaker 9: Give a rat's ash about the other team student section,

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Speaker 9: I've just met a overall the way, well, I would

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Speaker 9: like to give you a kudos for your worst question

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Speaker 9: I've ever been asked.

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Speaker 1: Did you did you like your should take it?

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Speaker 5: Do you really think I.

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Speaker 9: Care about the other I don't think you care about

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Speaker 9: the other.

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Speaker 10: Y are?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: You are?

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Speaker 1: Come on, dude, yes you were. Everybody's standing here listening

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Speaker 1: to everybody. This is on camera, they can hear you.

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Speaker 1: I answered the question. I could give a rat's ask

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Speaker 1: about the other team student section. I coached UCLA. I

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Speaker 1: don't care about Michigan State students. Who cares? All right,

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Speaker 1: Mick is not having a fun time. And if you've

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Speaker 1: paid attention tonight, like I root for him, I root

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Speaker 1: for Mackey coached here, did a great job, was good

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Speaker 1: to our show. I root for his teams to do well,

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Speaker 1: he has been extra salty this year. He's not having

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Speaker 1: a good season. He's been at odds with his players

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Speaker 1: in terms of their effort. He clearly doesn't like being

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Speaker 1: in the Big ten, all the travel issues. Like it

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Speaker 1: feels like after every UCLA game, including after some that

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Speaker 1: they've won, he's sounded off about something. And if Mick's

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Speaker 1: not happy about something, he has never been shy about

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Speaker 1: telling everyone. But like last night, come on, dude, I mean,

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Speaker 1: first of all, did you raise your voice at me

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Speaker 1: as something I say to my eight year old, not

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Speaker 1: another grown man. Secondly, you know the guy was a

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Speaker 1: little defensive, and understandably so you know he was being

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Speaker 1: told your question is stupid. Mick is coming at him

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Speaker 1: like he didn't start yelling and screaming the reporter. He've

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Speaker 1: got a little defensive and frankly, you can't blame him.

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Speaker 1: I guess there's two things about this one. Mick Cronin's

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Speaker 1: an awesome interview subject. And I know this firsthand because

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Speaker 1: we've been lucky enough to have Mick on the show

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Speaker 1: a billion times. And what makes him an awesome interview

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Speaker 1: subject is he'll give you an honest answer. There's not

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Speaker 1: a lot of coach speak. There are no cliches. He'll

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Speaker 1: give you an honest assessment. He'll tell you how he

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Speaker 1: feels about stuff. When you are in my line of work,

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Speaker 1: that is exactly what you're looking for, exactly what you're

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Speaker 1: looking for. He'll be self effacing, he could be funny,

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Speaker 1: he's unafraid.

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Speaker 2: Like.

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Speaker 1: All of those things are great. All of those things

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Speaker 1: make him unique, all of those things make him worth

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Speaker 1: paying attention to. Last night, he was none of those things.

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Speaker 1: He was a bully. And the person who asked that question,

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Speaker 1: it might have been a dumb question, it might have

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Speaker 1: been a misplaced question. The guy wasn't coming from a

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Speaker 1: nefarious place. The guy wasn't trying to be confrontational. He

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Speaker 1: asked a question that, all right, maybe that's not the

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Speaker 1: time and place for it. It didn't deserve that response.

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Speaker 1: The other part of this is, like Mick is very

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Speaker 1: well compensated, he has a great job. He seems unhappy.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's temporary unhappiness, I don't know, but he seems unhappy.

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Speaker 1: And maybe the current state of college basketball is just

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Speaker 1: not something that he's totally on board with. Fine, uh,

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Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't like being in the Big Ten. Can't

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Speaker 1: blame them for that. It is completely stupid that UCLA's

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Speaker 1: in the Big ten, but that's that's just where things are. Like,

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Speaker 1: if you don't like your job, if you don't like

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Speaker 1: your profession, do what some of these coaches have done

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Speaker 1: and say like this ain't for me. Or if you

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Speaker 1: decide you're gonna suck it up and be cool, then

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Speaker 1: that can include, you know, treating people like you treated

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Speaker 1: that dude last night. It may be a one off,

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Speaker 1: although I've seen Nick pop off at people before. That

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Speaker 1: was that reporter did not deserve that last night. We

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Speaker 1: could elaborate on that a little bit later on Rick

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Speaker 1: Browing Next.

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Speaker 1: This is ESPN fifteen thirty Moager, Thanks for thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening today. By the way, first intermission in the US

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Speaker 1: and Sweden are scoreless. All right, we have Rick Browing

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Speaker 1: with his Musketeer report dot Com color analyst on NKU

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Speaker 1: radio broadcast the Norse taking on Purdue Fort Wayne tonight.

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Speaker 1: We're doing this like a twenty first century broadcasting outlet

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Speaker 1: where he's joining us on stream yard or we're not.

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna do phone calls with Rick anymore? Is

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Speaker 1: that what's happening?

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Speaker 3: Terren?

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Speaker 6: This is a test.

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Speaker 1: This is a test. It's beta. Very good. Do I

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Speaker 1: have to do anything?

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Speaker 6: Cotroller?

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Speaker 1: All right? Well, I be able to see Rick's face

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Speaker 1: when I talk to him? Yes, wow, this is amazing.

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Speaker 1: When I'm ready to bring Rick in so I could

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Speaker 1: see his face. Can the folks on Twitter watch this? Well? Okay,

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Speaker 1: very good. Well let's let's bring in ricky. I see Rick?

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Speaker 1: Can I hear Rick?

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Speaker 6: Should be able to Rick talk?

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Speaker 1: Rick say something? Can Rick hear us? I see Rick?

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Speaker 1: He looks gat you now oh now and see oh

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Speaker 1: but now Rick isn't But the audience can hear me? Correct?

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Speaker 1: Audience can hear you, all right, but Rick can't hear me.

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Speaker 6: Oh wait, well, oh I know what to do.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is fine. This is live. See, this is

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Speaker 1: this is why radio is better than anything else. This

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Speaker 1: is live. We don't get we don't get to Let's

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Speaker 1: let's go back and then and hit record again. Hi, Rick,

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Speaker 1: you hear me?

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Speaker 10: Okay, No, I've done this like a million times on

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Speaker 10: podcasts before, where the audio doesn't work for the first

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Speaker 10: three tries. But in that case you just get to

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Speaker 10: start over. So I've radio.

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Speaker 3: You're right.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's it's thank you for joining the twenty first century.

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Speaker 1: I believe this is only the second interview we've ever

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Speaker 1: done this way, so so thanks very much. Maybe this

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Speaker 1: will be fun.

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Speaker 10: I don't think that's me joining the twenty first century thing.

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Speaker 10: I've been doing this, you guys joining the twenty first century.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for welcoming welcoming us into the twenty first century.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, it's great, glad to be here.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the game last night, if you're

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Speaker 1: Richard Patino, you want Trey Carroll to be involved in

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Speaker 1: the final play, But do you want him bringing the

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Speaker 1: ball up?

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Speaker 10: Well, here's here's the thing about Xavier's end of game situations,

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Speaker 10: they don't have a good option. Like as much as

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Speaker 10: fans are frustrated with Tray Carroll handling the ball in

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Speaker 10: tight spaces and trying to do everything in those spots,

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Speaker 10: and obviously had six turnovers in the game last night,

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Speaker 10: it's not the first time we've seen him get swiped

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Speaker 10: by an extra defender or in last night's case, that

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Speaker 10: last turnover wasn't even a double team situation. He was

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Speaker 10: just dribbling above the court and kind of threw it

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Speaker 10: away as he came into the front court. So yeah,

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Speaker 10: that is obviously not ideal. He probably isn't skilled enough

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Speaker 10: to be asked to handle those situations all the time.

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Speaker 10: But the reality of the situation for Xavier is they

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Speaker 10: don't have good playmakers. They ultimately want the ball in

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Speaker 10: his hands in those situations, so you kind of have

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Speaker 10: to live with them. I was texting a friend last

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Speaker 10: night about the game, and I said, you know, it's

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Speaker 10: one of those situations where you couldn't win with Trey

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Speaker 10: Carroll last night, but you wouldn't have even been close

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Speaker 10: without him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, multiple things can be true, right, They

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Speaker 1: have no chance of winning that game without him yet

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Speaker 1: and I my first thought after the game last night was,

648
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Speaker 1: holy crap, Trey Carroll only had six turnovers because it

649
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Speaker 1: felt like he had ten.

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Speaker 10: Yes, I mean that's the case. It was not just

651
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Speaker 10: the end of game situation, but early in the game too,

652
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Speaker 10: he had issues where it really felt like I think

653
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Speaker 10: there was a post on my message board in the

654
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Speaker 10: first few minutes where it's like, I'm done with Tray

655
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Speaker 10: Carroll being allowed to touch the ball on the offensive end,

656
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Speaker 10: which obviously he ended up leading the team in scoring

657
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Speaker 10: and having a huge night, so it's like there was

658
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Speaker 10: there's a lot of frustration there leading into that end

659
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Speaker 10: of game situation, and yet he's been there, clearly their

660
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Speaker 10: best player, and he clearly is the guy that keeps

661
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Speaker 10: them in most of these games down to the wire.

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Speaker 10: But yeah, he is. He's an ideal go to alpha

663
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Speaker 10: score obviously not and and that's been the case all

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Speaker 10: season for this team. It's one of the reasons they

665
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Speaker 10: have the record that they do.

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Speaker 1: You and I have talked a lot this year about

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Speaker 1: how if you look at the talent, it feels like

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Speaker 1: and I think most Xavier fans would agree. I think

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Speaker 1: Richard Patino has gotten as much out of this collection

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Speaker 1: of players as you could have asked, certainly as you

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Speaker 1: could have asked after we watched him play a handful

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Speaker 1: of games. Yet for the most part, and there have

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Speaker 1: been exceptions, like to Paul here, there have been so

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Speaker 1: many of these games that were there for the taking

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Speaker 1: down the stretch where they just don't make the play.

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Speaker 1: How much is coaching culpable for that?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that's something we do in all sports,

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Speaker 10: you know, Like we talk a lot about it with

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Speaker 10: Zach Taylor. We post his record in one score games

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Speaker 10: or games by it decided by a touchdown or less,

681
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Speaker 10: and it's like, well, I don't know how interesting those

682
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Speaker 10: stats are because the reality situation is that's what good

683
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Speaker 10: teams do, they win close games, and that's what bad

684
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Speaker 10: teams do, they lose close games. And we knew going

685
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Speaker 10: into the year that this Xavior team wasn't very talented.

686
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Speaker 10: That doesn't mean you're going to get blown out every game,

687
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Speaker 10: and obviously they have had a few blowouts, including a

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Speaker 10: couple of the biggest losses in Cintas Center history this year.

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Speaker 10: But ultimately, that's what it means to me when you

690
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Speaker 10: see a bunch of close losses you have a team

691
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Speaker 10: that's not good enough. All of these guys are getting

692
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Speaker 10: paid to play at the Big East level now that

693
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Speaker 10: before that they were all on scholarship, So it's not

694
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Speaker 10: like they can't play basketball at all. They're going to

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Speaker 10: score some points. They're going to be in these games.

696
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Speaker 10: But the difference between a good team and a team

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Speaker 10: that just doesn't have enough is you lose a bunch

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Speaker 10: of close games. And that's the situation Xavier finds itself.

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Speaker 1: What was going through your mind at halftime of the

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Speaker 1: NCAU game against IU Indianapolis.

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Speaker 10: It felt like a carbon copy of the first game

702
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Speaker 10: against them, quite honestly, and k you digs itself a hole.

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Speaker 10: You kind of start to see a little bit of

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Speaker 10: a fight back before the end of the first half,

705
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Speaker 10: but then you kind of don't get all the way there.

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Speaker 10: You screw up the end of the half situation, and

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Speaker 10: you still go down trailing, and you're thinking, well, on

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Speaker 10: one hand, we've already seen them.

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Speaker 5: Do this before.

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Speaker 10: They can come back and they can finish this game

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Speaker 10: off and turn it into a win. On the other hand,

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Speaker 10: it was certainly frustrating to go into the halftime seeing

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Speaker 10: them trail again against a team that has the worst

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Speaker 10: record in the league. But they turned it around in

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Speaker 10: the second half, and defensively, some of the plays they

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Speaker 10: made down the stretch in that game where the things

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Speaker 10: that we've been talking about all year they've lacked. And

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Speaker 10: they didn't just play solid down the stretch. I mean

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Speaker 10: they had multiple emphatic blocks, a steal that led to

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Speaker 10: a transition layup by Donovan o'dey. I mean, the final

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Speaker 10: four or five possessions of regulation, almost all of them

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Speaker 10: featured a big defensive play by Nkau.

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Speaker 1: They played Perdue Fort Wayne's and I'm coming to the game.

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Speaker 1: I'll be at the game to ice. Yeah, well, the

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Speaker 1: records want to know with you in attendance, the Norris

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Speaker 1: have an unblemish record when I show up, they do

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Speaker 1: not have an unblemish record against Perdue Fort Wayne. That

728
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Speaker 1: is a game that they were in control of for

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Speaker 1: the first half and for the early portions of the

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Speaker 1: second half, and then it all sort of fell apart.

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Speaker 1: What went wrong in that game that has to go

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Speaker 1: right tonight.

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Speaker 10: Well, I think the first thing is you've got to

734
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Speaker 10: be able to defend Perdue Fort Wayne without fouling. And

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Speaker 10: it starts with the leading score in the conference, and

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Speaker 10: Corey had not definitely a candidate for Player of the

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Speaker 10: Year in the Horizon League. This year, he's the only

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Speaker 10: player in the conference averaging over twenty points per game.

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Speaker 10: He got hot, and he got to the free throw

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Speaker 10: line a lot in the second half of that first game.

741
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Speaker 10: He finished with twenty five points. And that's what when

742
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Speaker 10: they win, he scores efficiently. He's shooting fifty nine percent

743
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Speaker 10: in the games that they win. He's shooting like forty

744
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Speaker 10: low forty percent in the games that they lose. So

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Speaker 10: you're not going to completely shut him down, but you've

746
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Speaker 10: got to slow him down and make it difficult for

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Speaker 10: him on the offensive end.

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Speaker 1: What is the dumbest question you've ever asked a basketball coach?

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Speaker 1: And when he lasted when he asked it, did you

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Speaker 1: get accused of raising your voice?

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Speaker 10: I did not get accused of raising my voice. Actually,

752
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Speaker 10: Richard Patino handled it very well last night. I asked him,

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Speaker 10: you know, I was interested that he brought up the

754
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Speaker 10: transfer portal during his Coaches show, the last two Coaches Show.

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Speaker 10: He said, like, we're already having transfer portal meetings. It's

756
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Speaker 10: just the reality of how the sport works now. I

757
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Speaker 10: found that to be interesting because a lot of coaches

758
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Speaker 10: lie about that type of thing and say we're only

759
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Speaker 10: focused on our current team, and the fact that his

760
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Speaker 10: team really isn't playing for much of anything meaningful right now.

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Speaker 10: I thought it would be interesting say like, hey, you

762
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Speaker 10: keep having all these close losses that seemed like your

763
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Speaker 10: team's lacking something has has that led to some clarity

764
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Speaker 10: on what you might be looking for in the transfer

765
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Speaker 10: portal And a lot of people felt like that was

766
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Speaker 10: an out of pocket question after a close loss, which

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Speaker 10: I think we're a little bit too soft on coaches

768
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Speaker 10: in these days. I think it's fine to ask them

769
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Speaker 10: questions about their job, whether they won or lost their

770
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Speaker 10: adults and they're getting paid a lot to do it.

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Speaker 10: But he handled it great. He said, you know, I

772
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Speaker 10: respect your question, but that's not it's not on my

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Speaker 10: mind right now. It's not what I'm thinking.

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Speaker 1: About as a coach. Ever accused you of raising your voice?

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Speaker 10: No, but I'm not really raise my voice kind of guy.

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Speaker 10: While we'll talking to coach, and I'm kind of hard

777
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Speaker 10: to rattle in this situation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, By the way, wouldn't it be a bigger story

779
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Speaker 1: if we found out that coaches and their staffs weren't

780
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Speaker 1: starting to prepare for the opening of the transfer portal.

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Speaker 10: Well, that's the thing, right, I mean, like they all

782
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Speaker 10: lie about that and like, no, we're only focused on

783
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Speaker 10: the current game ahead of us. Then you're an idiot,

784
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Speaker 10: because the whole sport relies on the two weeks that

785
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Speaker 10: are about to happen here in a few weeks, and

786
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Speaker 10: if you're not preparing for that, then you're completely behind

787
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Speaker 10: the eight ball because everyone else is talking to agents

788
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Speaker 10: and all types of things. And to be honest with you,

789
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Speaker 10: that's why I like Richard Patino. He's honest about those things,

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Speaker 10: and his coaches show He's like, yeah, yeah, we're talking

791
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Speaker 10: to agents already. I'm sure our guys have agents reaching

792
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Speaker 10: out to other schools trying to figure out what their

793
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Speaker 10: market's going to be. It's just the new reality of

794
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Speaker 10: the sport. But he didn't want to talk about it after.

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Speaker 1: Uh, you know, I could sort of understand it was

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Speaker 1: a tough loss. Well, but perhaps I'll get a chance

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Speaker 1: to say, Hidi tonight, thank you as always, I look

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Speaker 1: forward to it. Thanks Mom, me too. That's Rick Browing.

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Speaker 1: His website is Musketeerreport dot com and you'll hear him

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Speaker 1: tonight NKU Radio. The Nurse taking on Perdue for Wayne

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Speaker 1: pregame at six thirty on ESPN fifteen thirty ten. And

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Speaker 1: I thought that worked well.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, a little hiccup at first movie.

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Speaker 1: That's okay. You know this is the beta version of it, right,

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Speaker 1: this is and again this is live radio. This is why,

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Speaker 1: this is why radio is still the best method of

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Speaker 1: content delivery. Because it's live. You get to hear all

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Speaker 1: the hiccups, you get to hear all the mistakes.

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Speaker 6: How would you ever think about maybe taking like guests,

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Speaker 6: like callers as one stream York?

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Speaker 1: How do we do that? Think about it?

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Speaker 5: All?

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Speaker 1: Right, well maybe we'll do it. Four o'clock, ESPN fifteen

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Speaker 1: Sports Center.

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Speaker 10: I'm Christine Leacy, tim Usa.

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Speaker 1: Back on the ice.

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Speaker 8: In the men's hockey quarterfinals at the Olympics, the United

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Speaker 8: States and Sweden scoreless first intermission. Canada captain Sidney Crosby

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Speaker 8: will undergo an MRI to determine the severity of the

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Speaker 8: lower body injury he suffered, and the four to three

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Speaker 8: OT went over.

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Speaker 10: Check ya, mavericks Gard.

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Speaker 8: Kyrie Irving will miss the rest of this NBA season

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Speaker 8: as he continues to recover from last year's knee surgery.

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Speaker 8: His agent told ESPN the moves all about Kyrie being

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Speaker 8: one thousand percent and giving himself the best chance to

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Speaker 8: chase an NBA championship next season. He should then look

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Speaker 8: to move on from rebuilding Dallas. Says ESPN's Kendrick Perkins.

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Speaker 11: I'm looking at the Minnesota Timberwolves, and I'm looking at

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Speaker 11: the Milwaukee Bucks. And if I'm Kyrie Irving, I rehab,

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Speaker 11: continue to rehab. But I'm watching the remaining of this

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Speaker 11: season and in the postseason, and I'm monitoring and seeing

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Speaker 11: what Minnesota falls if they if they underachieved, and obviously

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Speaker 11: the Milwaukee Bucks.

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Speaker 8: Irving zdE thirty nine million dollars next season. He holds

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Speaker 8: a forty two million dollar player option for the twenty

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Speaker 8: twenty seven twenty twenty eight season.

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Speaker 12: Kay's mischellez Momman and coming up Thursday, we ask a

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Speaker 12: two time super World champion with the Steelers if the

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Speaker 12: criticism Mike Tomlin has gotten from players is fair or foul.

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Speaker 1: It's unsports.

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Speaker 12: From my weekday mornings, we're getting at six am Eastern

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Speaker 12: right here in ESPN Radio, ESPN two and ESPNU.

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Speaker 1: Want to make the most of your tax refund. It's

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Speaker 1: Second period, US and Sweden still scoreless, seventeen thirty four

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Speaker 1: to go before second intermission. FC Cincinnati plays tonight. You'll

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Speaker 1: hear him next tour on Fox Sports thirteen sixty in

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Speaker 1: action against O and MFC of the Dominican Republic in

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Speaker 1: the first leg of the Cockingcab champions Cup Round one.

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Speaker 1: Tom gallettter, the voice of FC Cincinnati, kind enough as

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Speaker 1: always to join us. Good afternoons, sir, How is how

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Speaker 1: is like your two and a half week off season?

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Speaker 13: Well it was nice, you know, I gave my voice

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Speaker 13: a little chance to recover and ready to go for

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Speaker 13: another eleven months and you know, hopefully it's another forty

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Speaker 13: five or more games for f C Cincinnati this season.

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Speaker 13: But excited to get these number eleven going. It's hard

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Speaker 13: to believe it is it is really how would your daughter?

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Speaker 1: She'll be nine in May, al right, so this.

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Speaker 13: Is the team's a little older than her. My younger

863
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 13: son's little older than the club. So yeah, it's crazy,

864
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 13: but that's their life, right, They've grown up with his

865
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 13: team and it's just a regular part of of what

866
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 13: they know. And it's pretty exciting. I'll hope with her

867
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,879
Speaker 13: Saturday will be great and another season for this team

868
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 13: to turn to win some trophies.

869
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,800
Speaker 1: And did you know in my daughter and f C

870
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's history, they have never lost a game that she

871
00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: has been in attendance for.

872
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 5: Oh.

873
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 13: I think he knew that because I think I bought

874
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 13: her season tickets five minutes ago.

875
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: That's right, Yes, yes, yes, She's gonna be in every game.

876
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: She's gonna sit with me in the booth for some

877
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: of those games. That'll be fun.

878
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 5: That's that's fine. If we can keep it rolling, then

879
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 5: nobody will have a problem donating her tickets, I can

880
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:15,439
Speaker 5: tell you that much.

881
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: I feel like a year ago at this time, we

882
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: were we were too busy talking about all the stuff

883
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: swirling around the team than actually how they were going

884
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: to perform, and that vander had just gotten here and

885
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: the Lucho Acosta thing kind of went sideways. This feels,

886
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: by comparison, like a lot more serene, right.

887
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,399
Speaker 5: M Yeah, no, I would agree more.

888
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,360
Speaker 13: I think that's been the biggest storyline of the last

889
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 13: now five or six weeks. They reported, you know, early January,

890
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 13: and spent the good portion of pre season down in

891
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 13: Florida and got down to the Dominican Republic yesterday for

892
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 13: the match tonight.

893
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,879
Speaker 5: And I think that drama free might be the way

894
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:55,399
Speaker 5: to put it.

895
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 13: Last year, you had a couple guys holding out, You

896
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 13: had the whole Lucho Acosta situation and playing itself out.

897
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 13: You kind of felt like a Vander was coming, but

898
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 13: you couldn't move on a Vander because you had to

899
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,839
Speaker 13: get rid of Luto first, So they had to make

900
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 13: the move then use some of that money too and

901
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:12,720
Speaker 13: more to go get a Vander who was an MVP

902
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 13: candidate last season. You know, Luca and Yuyau were late

903
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,359
Speaker 13: coming into camp. There are other guys that were late,

904
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 13: and I think the continuity has been really important and

905
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,240
Speaker 13: something that patent In really enjoyed.

906
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: This year, they're gonna play a lot of games early,

907
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 1: as many as nine in the first five weeks. What

908
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: are you looking forward to finding out here over the

909
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: next month plus.

910
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 13: I think that there's been a lot of talk about

911
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 13: the attack and maybe bringing some new ideas into the

912
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 13: group and Nonon talked about training a little bit differently

913
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,839
Speaker 13: and just looking at the way they attacked a little

914
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 13: bit differently.

915
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 5: I think that's been the disappointing part.

916
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 13: And I think a lot of people feel that Cincinnati

917
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,439
Speaker 13: with a little more attack over the last couple of years,

918
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Speaker 13: probably have a couple more trophies in various competitions if

919
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 13: they've scored few goals here and there and swung some results.

920
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,439
Speaker 13: So I think that everybody will have I Kevin Denka

921
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:08,840
Speaker 13: obviously has a huge spotlight on him. That's what happens

922
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,879
Speaker 13: when there's a sixty million dollar transfer she and you're

923
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 13: one of the highest plaid players on the team.

924
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 5: I think a vender will perform in a big way again.

925
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 13: But by all accounts, as we talked to Pat this week,

926
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 13: he raped about the way that Kevin attacked this preseason

927
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,399
Speaker 13: and that the form that he has been in.

928
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 5: So I look for Kevin to get hot early in

929
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 5: the season.

930
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 13: I looked for the attack to be more consistent and

931
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Speaker 13: maybe not as frustrating at times, and maybe for some

932
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 13: new ideas in the way that if she Sincanty approaches

933
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 13: their matches. I think all the pieces are there that

934
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 13: they're going to be strong defensively again, and we all

935
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 13: know that if they do what they're capable of defensively,

936
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Speaker 13: they're going to be a position to win games. Then

937
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 13: it's the attacking piece has to be there, and I

938
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 13: think that's where a lot of people will focus their

939
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 13: attention tonight, Saturday and over this very busy stretch to

940
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 13: start the season.

941
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: You mentioned Saturday, the first MLS tilt against Atlanta handicapped

942
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: the East for me because last year it was wide open.

943
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 13: Yeah it was, and Miami did what you know, I

944
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 13: think people didn't think they would. Sure, they had a

945
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 13: lot of talent and probably the most talent, and in

946
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 13: the end they were deserved champs of Major League Soccer

947
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,879
Speaker 13: because they stayed healthy and they found their form at

948
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 13: the right time. They played so many games, I think

949
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 13: everybody just kept waiting for that shoot to fall and

950
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 13: for them to fall out a form and they get

951
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,240
Speaker 13: in so they deserved to win them LS Cup last year. Obviously,

952
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 13: they came to TVL Stadium and defeated f Ccincanaty soundly

953
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 13: in that run to winning the championship, and they reloaded,

954
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:36,839
Speaker 13: and I think everyone's chasing Miami to start the scene

955
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 13: them just because they're the defending champs, so they have

956
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 13: the biggest target on their back, and they have some

957
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 13: new guns in there that are gonna help that team.

958
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 13: But don't let me count out Philadelphia. They're very strong

959
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 13: and they're coming off with apporter shield plump. Although I'm

960
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 13: a little interested to see what they're gonna look like

961
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 13: because Wolford Nanci of course left and then got fired

962
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:57,240
Speaker 13: even before training camps started.

963
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:59,839
Speaker 5: Was one of the most bizarre situations I got.

964
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 13: I feel like Columbus was like holding out, holding out

965
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 13: that maybe he would get fired and they could bring

966
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 13: him back before they even opened training camp, and the

967
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 13: timing just didn't work out, if that was even the thought.

968
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 13: But they're gonna look a little different right because they

969
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 13: have a new manager for the first time in years.

970
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 5: But Columbus will be solid.

971
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 13: They have good management up there and very good players,

972
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 13: and he's going to be very good. And I expect

973
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 13: them to be in that top four competing to be

974
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 13: atop the Eastern Conference.

975
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:25,760
Speaker 5: But I expect them to be a couple.

976
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 13: Of teams to make moves in the Eastern Conference that

977
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 13: maybe weren't as strong last year. Maybe a team like

978
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 13: Nashville who has really found the rhythm.

979
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 5: I believe under BJ Callahan to come together.

980
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 13: So I think there's gonna be a couple of teams

981
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 13: that are going to surprise people in the Eastern Conference.

982
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 13: But I think the powerhouses, the Miami, Philly, Cincinnati, Columbus

983
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 13: will still be there. And it made like I thought

984
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 13: the Eastern Conference was really good last year, it might

985
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 13: be even better this year.

986
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: Wow. I don't like that one of the friend Nancy

987
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 1: guy because of how he complained during the Columbus series

988
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: against Cincinnati last year, So the hell with him? There's

989
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 1: my thoughts on Yeah.

990
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 13: I mean, hey, listen, he went to Scotland for a month,

991
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 13: and I don't think any of those guys over there

992
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 13: liked him. But eventually he made a whole lot of

993
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 13: money and the crew made a whole lot of money

994
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 13: and tsering him over there. So so I don't know

995
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 13: where he is right now. He's probably on holiday somewhere.

996
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 13: I would be if I, yes, youse, guys race to

997
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 13: get other jobs. Like, look, I get there a little

998
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:27,440
Speaker 13: waer differently than you and me. But like if somebody

999
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 13: paid me a whole lot of money to.

1000
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 5: Go away, I'm going away.

1001
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have.

1002
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 5: Sun treet on, I won't know where my phone is.

1003
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:34,320
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be on the beach somewhere.

1004
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,800
Speaker 1: So to that end, how and maybe the answer is

1005
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 1: it's not very rare at all. How rare is it

1006
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,800
Speaker 1: to have the continuity with Albright and Noonan that f

1007
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: C Cincinnati is enjoying.

1008
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:46,320
Speaker 5: I mean, I think that it's big.

1009
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 13: I think that I think it is rare in Major

1010
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:51,840
Speaker 13: League Soccer because they have a great situation here and

1011
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 13: people ask, you know, where's Albright? You know, would he leave?

1012
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 13: Or where would Union leave? I don't think there's a

1013
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 13: whole lot of better situations, not domestically for them. And

1014
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 13: you know, we just saw with Wilf Pronounci it's not

1015
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 13: so easy just to jump over to Scotland.

1016
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 3: Now.

1017
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:06,800
Speaker 5: Should he have gotten more time.

1018
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:10,279
Speaker 13: Probably, But that's the reality over there, right that if

1019
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 13: you go there and you don't succeed from the start,

1020
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 13: there's an immense pressure and you might be out of

1021
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 13: a job. We've seen that with some of the guys

1022
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 13: from MLS that have gone to various spots, you know,

1023
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 13: across Europe where fur their tenures haven't lasted very long.

1024
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 13: So I think since he's incredibly blessed to have a

1025
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,800
Speaker 13: general manager and a head coach who are so lined

1026
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 13: and and so good with each other in the way

1027
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 13: that that Albright builds a team and Noonon coaches the

1028
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 13: team and been the four straight playoff appearances and the

1029
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 13: Eastern Conference finals. Sure everybody wants more, and the team

1030
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:42,399
Speaker 13: is going to work for that this year and try

1031
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 13: to win trophies. But they are in a really good

1032
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 13: spot that I think a lot of teams in the

1033
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 13: league would fight for.

1034
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 5: And then let's not forget.

1035
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:52,240
Speaker 13: Then you have an owner who's wanted to spend money

1036
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 13: and help you improve the roster. I mean ownership group

1037
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 13: is unbelievable and giving Chris all the resources to get

1038
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 13: pat the players. So you have to top nos facilities.

1039
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 13: You have money from ownership, You have a great GM

1040
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 13: and a great head coach. So I think this situation

1041
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 13: is pretty dark good in the Queen City.

1042
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,879
Speaker 1: Awesome stuff. Have a great call tonight and all season long,

1043
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: and we'll bother you again soon. Man, thanks so much.

1044
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 5: All right, let's get your daughter out to the stadium.

1045
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 1: We'll get his name, well, most definitely, we'll make that happen.

1046
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: That's our that's our guy. Tom Glader. You'll hear him tonight.

1047
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: Radio coverage on Fox Sports thirteen sixty begins at seven thirty.

1048
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: Game begins at eight pm. And uh. The MLS regular

1049
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 1: season opener for FC Cincinnati will be on Saturday against Atlanta.

1050
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 1: They play. They play more during the day this time

1051
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: of year, which is pretty good. That game is going

1052
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,439
Speaker 1: to start at four forty five. It is a quarter

1053
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:43,840
Speaker 1: after four. All right, we uh, we could take some

1054
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: phone calls five point three seven four nine fifteen thirty

1055
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Speaker 1: and eight sixty six seven oh two three seven seven

1056
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: six Terry, do you have the same person on hold

1057
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: on both lines two and three?

1058
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 6: Yes?

1059
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:55,720
Speaker 1: Well, I seeing that correctly.

1060
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 6: Yes.

1061
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:58,360
Speaker 1: Why does one person have to be on hold on

1062
00:52:58,400 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: two different lines?

1063
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:01,919
Speaker 6: And is out of my control?

1064
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: You answered the phones?

1065
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 3: Right?

1066
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,399
Speaker 6: Well one he was already on there. Then he called

1067
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:07,240
Speaker 6: him another line.

1068
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 1: Right well we we I I don't want to be

1069
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: a jerk, but we let's let's do a like one

1070
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:18,760
Speaker 1: phone line per phone caller policy. That's I think that's

1071
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: I think that's fair and reasonable. Pick a phone line

1072
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,839
Speaker 1: two or three and you can have it. Five point

1073
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 1: three seven four nine fifteen thirty is our phone number?

1074
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 1: Is the Internet? Right about Trey Hendrickson that coming up

1075
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:35,839
Speaker 1: in just a few minutes. USA and Sweden are scoreless

1076
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: eleven thirty five to go in the second period. If

1077
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: the Americans win, the US will take on Slovakia Canada

1078
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 1: with Battle Finland. First things first, Americans have I love

1079
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 1: Olympic Hockey. This is ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports.

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00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 14: Station, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening today. By the way, we had we

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Speaker 1: had folks who called into the show during the break

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Speaker 1: to tell Terran to not let me raise my voice

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Speaker 1: in him because in the last segment, I was how

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Speaker 1: I I was just saying that, like we we shouldn't

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Speaker 1: have one person on hold on on two different lines, Taron,

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Speaker 1: would would you would you say that I raised my

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Speaker 1: voice at you?

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Speaker 6: No, No, not at all. I think in eight years

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Speaker 6: we've been together, I don't think you have to race

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Speaker 6: your vose head.

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Speaker 1: That's right. I don't you know what I'm as even

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Speaker 1: Keela guys on me. Oh, I just I might have

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Speaker 1: emphatically said, like, hey man, you're the guy answers the phone.

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Speaker 1: But that's that's all right, that's that's okay. Wait a minute, Tarran,

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Speaker 1: I think we have I think we have action in Italy.

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Speaker 1: I think get the horn, get it ready. Yes, the

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Speaker 1: United States, it's taking a one nothing lead. I was

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Speaker 1: off the stick of Dylan Larkin. But the Detroit Red

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Speaker 1: Wings won nothing the US eight fifty five to go

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Speaker 1: in the second paryer, I was in eight years. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that I can tell you this. I know

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Speaker 1: Terran has never raised his voice at me, because I've

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Speaker 1: never heard him raise his voice to anybody. So no,

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Speaker 1: just having Arran and I here having fun being now

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Speaker 1: we're people sort of mocking the mc cronin thing was that?

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Speaker 1: Was that in play there?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Maybe do we do we have to do? We have

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Speaker 1: to take the call of the person who's occupying two

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Speaker 1: different lines on hold since we referenced it, do we

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Speaker 1: have to do that now?

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Speaker 6: I mean, lefs know who it is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think everybody is probably already guessed it's Mike. Mike. Go,

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Speaker 1: why are you on hold on two different lines?

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Speaker 6: Go to three?

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Speaker 1: Uh, I gotta go to three. Okay, we'll hang that.

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Speaker 1: We'll hang that one up. Now, we'll go to it.

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Speaker 1: Now we'll go to Mike. Why. Why how you doing

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Speaker 1: Mike's everything? Okay?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I sent you an email. I apologize. We

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Speaker 3: haven't had internet at the at the hospice here for

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Speaker 3: overall month, so the only way I can listen to

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Speaker 3: the show is when I call in and uh. And

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Speaker 3: then I asked Austin if I can talk and then

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Speaker 3: if he'll leave a line open for me so I

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Speaker 3: can listen to the show, and he said, yeah, no problem.

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Speaker 3: So what happened was a couple of times after Tony show,

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Speaker 3: I should have hung up and then just called back.

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Speaker 3: So that's my faults.

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Speaker 1: It's so totally good Mike, you know what, nobody, Nobody

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Speaker 1: goes out of their way a lot. We have a

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Speaker 1: lot of folks who listen and listen loyally, and we

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Speaker 1: appreciate them. But you go out of your way and

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Speaker 1: do whatever is necessary to be able to listen to

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Speaker 1: this amazing sports talk radio station. And uh, I cannot,

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Speaker 1: I cannot emphasize enough how appreciative I am.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Roland. I can't tell you all appreciate

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Speaker 3: it if I am for your patients with my dumb

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Speaker 3: ass half the time. Sorry about that.

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Speaker 1: Works, Sorry, it's fine. What's on your mind today, Mike?

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Speaker 3: I love NIX. I love nixt reaction last night. I

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Speaker 3: just loved it fine, and I'm kind of well, I'm

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Speaker 3: kind of tired. I don't know, maybe go straight. You know,

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Speaker 3: it just seems like it's always the coaches that catch

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Speaker 3: the runt, and it's like, oh, you gotta treat these

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Speaker 3: reporters now, and they gotta you gotta give a respect

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Speaker 3: and they got the right to ask the questions. But

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Speaker 3: sometimes a reporter have to realize they maybe you have

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Speaker 3: to have a little tougher skin themselves and understand that

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Speaker 3: they're asking a question at a very volatile time, and

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Speaker 3: they may get blasted a little bit and too bad

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Speaker 3: because the guy's only human.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what if? What if? What if the reporter talked

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Speaker 1: to Mick the way Mick talked to him with Evan

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Speaker 1: cool I would love that. Would the reporter probably have

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Speaker 1: some professional repercussions he'd have to deal with.

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Speaker 3: Well, but the reporter isn't the guy who just coached

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Speaker 3: and just got his team with.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the reporter had a bad day at home.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's possible. I think there's a little bit.

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Speaker 3: It's a little bit one sided on their on respecting

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Speaker 3: the writer reporters, and I don't disrespect them. I just

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Speaker 3: I think sometimes it gets blown out of proportion a

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Speaker 3: little bit.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure the guy goes home and he's not like

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Speaker 3: pining over now.

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Speaker 1: But I mean I think it was. I think it

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Speaker 1: was an unbecoming look for a coach who is typically very,

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Speaker 1: very cooperative, and I just look, I get he's pissed off. Look,

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Speaker 1: all he had to do was what he did at first,

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Speaker 1: which is he answered the question. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: like I thought the question was kind of kind of

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Speaker 1: not appropriate just given the setting and Mike's original answer Okay,

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Speaker 1: no big deal. And then the press setting was going

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Speaker 1: to continue and somebody else is trying to ask a question.

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Speaker 1: Then Mick comes back to the guy, puts the guy

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Speaker 1: on the defensive when the guy's a little bit defensive.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly Mix accusing him of raising his voice, like buddy,

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Speaker 1: who are you? You're a basketball coach, like relax Pale

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Speaker 1: and the scheme of things, You're a freaking basketball coach.

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Speaker 1: And I like Mick a lot, and I think ordinarily

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Speaker 1: he handles himselves in the he might complain about something,

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Speaker 1: he might express displeasure with something. He's rarely disrespectful, but

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Speaker 1: that's okay. When you're disrespectful, you get called out for it.

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Speaker 1: That's what's happening with me today. And I do think

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Speaker 1: there is a chance, just given the fact that he

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Speaker 1: has taken on a certain demeanor in those press settings

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Speaker 1: this year, that you could conclude that Mick, there are

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Speaker 1: things bothering Mick that I think are worth tapping into. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: when the season ends, we'll see.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do too. I'm hoping maybe he's kind of

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Speaker 3: laying the groundwork to say, you know, I'm going to

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Speaker 3: leave here, But then they got to pay him twenty

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Speaker 3: two million dollars. Yeah, and come back to U. See,

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Speaker 3: I would love him to come back to you.

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Speaker 1: I just I don't. I don't like anybody. I don't

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Speaker 1: like anybody in life. The kind of person I disliked

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Speaker 1: the most is a bully. I thought. Mick Cronin, who

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Speaker 1: I think otherwise is a terrific guy and a great interview.

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Speaker 1: I thought in that instance last night, he was bullying somebody,

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Speaker 1: and Mike, I don't like. I do not like bullies,

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Speaker 1: you said earlier.

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Speaker 3: He's the perfect interview.

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Speaker 1: Yes, he's great. He'll no coach speak, no cliches, He'll

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Speaker 1: answer a question honestly. Like I'm often asked who have

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Speaker 1: you been your favorite people to interview? And one of

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Speaker 1: my answers is always Mick Cronin because you could ask

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Speaker 1: him anything and he will give you a legitimately well

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Speaker 1: thought out answer. You may not agree with it, but

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Speaker 1: he will give you a legitimately well thought out answer.

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Speaker 1: He's not going to speak and coach speak. He's not

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Speaker 1: going to give you cliches. He's not going to give

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Speaker 1: you some just brainless answer, and I think that's what

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Speaker 1: makes him interesting and great. In that instance last night,

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Speaker 1: I thought he bullied somebody, and I don't like bullies.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I've said all these things about Mick,

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Speaker 1: if I don't mention this, then you know Moo's not

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Speaker 1: going to say anything about a guy that he's always

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Speaker 1: got his back. No, Mitck was wrong last night. It's

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Speaker 1: okay to say that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and most everybody I heard on other outlets, you know,

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Speaker 3: early this morning said the same thing you're saying, that

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Speaker 3: he was that one and he's a great coach and

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Speaker 3: a good dude, but he's just great.

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Speaker 1: Yes, one bad moment, one bad moment doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: define who you are, but one bad moment doesn't get

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Speaker 1: ignored because of who you are.

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Speaker 3: Right, good, well put, Well, it's just about you know,

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Speaker 3: you were mentioning earlier about the guy you had on

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Speaker 3: that that confused his his research on the pitching staffs,

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Speaker 3: which kind of made me a laugh. I thought, how

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Speaker 3: did you faux pas?

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Speaker 5: That?

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Speaker 3: That was pretty bad? Fifth bad, worst, the fifth best.

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Speaker 3: But you know, cuttings and slack. He's trying to he

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Speaker 3: makes mistakes the older. But I think the real problem

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Speaker 3: with the line on the reds, which is able to

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Speaker 3: two and a half or whatever it is, is just

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Speaker 3: the uncertainty, just the uncertainty of unproven guys, injury, plone guys,

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Speaker 3: lack of lack of depth possibly, And I think that's

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Speaker 3: kind of what's what's uh uh precipitating these these these projections.

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Speaker 1: The offense has a low ceiling, and I think it

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Speaker 1: has a pretty low floor. You know, Euhanios Lorez is

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Speaker 1: a good addition, and you know you're taken to account

1257
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Speaker 1: the fact that Elie de la Cruz last year was

1258
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Speaker 1: physically compromised. But this team, I think is based on

1259
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Speaker 1: him taking the leap to superstardom. That's a heck of

1260
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Speaker 1: a leap to make. Are we sure he makes it?

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of folks are just sort of

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Speaker 1: blindly assuming Matt McClain is going to be better. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why anybody would assume that. I hope for it.

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Speaker 1: They put a lot on Sal Stewart. There's a reason

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Speaker 1: why we give an award to the best rookie, because

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Speaker 1: being a rookie is really, really hard. It's a lot

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Speaker 1: to put on him to say, well, if he hits

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01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 1: twenty five to thirty home runs, this team's offense is

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Speaker 1: going to be dramatically improved. It's hard to find many

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Speaker 1: areas where the Reds have a position player that you

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Speaker 1: would say is a top five player at his position

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Speaker 1: or is likely to be an All Star. It still

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01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:44,040
Speaker 1: feels like the offense's overall ceiling is pretty low, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's Look, it's why it's hard to project

1275
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Speaker 1: them to win ninety more than ninety games, right, So

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Speaker 1: start there and then you bring the number down a

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Speaker 1: little bit. It's not far fetch to suggest they'll finish

1278
01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 1: somewhere close to under eighty two and a half, which

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Speaker 1: was part of yesterday's guests premise.

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Speaker 3: Well, something's got to give sooner or later, and Ellie's

1281
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Speaker 3: got to bust out. No, I was happy to hear

1282
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Speaker 3: that Ellie put on some weight. That made me happy.

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Speaker 3: From two five to two seventeen, that was probably the

1284
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Speaker 3: biggest news I've heard yet out of spring training.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, No. And looking at looking at some

1286
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 1: of the footage from goodyear, he looks the part right,

1287
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 1: that's that's not something that you know is just being reported.

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01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 1: It's something you could look at him and go, yeah,

1289
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Speaker 1: he's it. Look, he's Last year's team was built around

1290
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Speaker 1: Ellie Dela Cruz being awesome, and he had a stretch

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Speaker 1: late in the first half of the season where he was,

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Speaker 1: but over the course of the entire year he was not.

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Speaker 1: In the absence of Ellie being awesome this year, where

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Speaker 1: is the offensive uptick? How do you go from scoring

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01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 1: the fourteenth most runs per game this season if Ellie

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Speaker 1: Dela Cruz more closely resembles the player we saw last

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Speaker 1: season and not the guy that we hope to see,

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Speaker 1: which is a superstar. Mike, I have to run man.

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Speaker 1: Good to hear from you, as.

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Speaker 3: Always, give me a promo real quick on the home Dog.

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Speaker 3: Hit me with the pom Dog promomo.

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Speaker 1: If a team is at home in game one of

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Speaker 1: a series and they're underdogs, you bet on them. If

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Speaker 1: they win, you don't bet on any games in the

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Speaker 1: rest of the series. If they lose, you double your

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01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:20,000
Speaker 1: wager in game two. If they win that game, If

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01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:22,600
Speaker 1: you win your bet, you don't bet on game three.

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01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 1: If they lose Game two, you bet even more. You

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01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:32,240
Speaker 1: add to it the third game. Because what we're ultimately

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Speaker 1: betting on here is that the series isn't going to

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Speaker 1: be a sweep. Because baseball series outcomes are less frequently

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Speaker 1: sweeps than two out of three or three out of

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Speaker 1: four and the.

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Speaker 3: Most successful betting strategy long term in baseball history. Am

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Speaker 3: I correct?

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Speaker 1: In my life? It is Mike, no question. I gotta

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Speaker 1: run man. Thanks thanks Mo. All right. The internet says

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Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson is the best available free agent. Isn't that

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Speaker 1: the argument for tagging and trading? Tray that Next ESPN fifteen.

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Speaker 1: fielding practice PfP. I think they're practicing base running drills today,

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Speaker 1: rundown drills, backing up bases, sliding, and most importantly practicing

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Speaker 1: giving the first base coach all the crap day where

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Speaker 1: when they're at the plate once they get the first

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Speaker 1: base Reds and Guardians. On Saturday and the Cactus League

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Speaker 1: opener at three ten in Goodyear on Fox Sports thirteen sixty.

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Speaker 1: College basketball Tonight, NKU tries to avenge it's a lost

1341
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Speaker 1: earlier this season to Purdue Fort Wayne. They'll take that

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Speaker 1: team on tonight at seven o'clock. The game is live

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Speaker 1: on ESPN fifteen thirty. That's right, that's right. They're the Mastadons.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Perdue Fort Wayne Mastadons. Also tonight

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Speaker 1: Dayton's at George Mason Soccer Tonight on Fox Sports thirteen sixty.

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Speaker 1: FC Cincinnati is battling O and MFC, which was one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite midnight these boy bands. That game is

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Speaker 1: at eight o'clock tonight in the first leg of the

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01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:08,320
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Conker Calf champions Cup. Pre game at

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Speaker 1: seven thirty on ESPN fifteen thirty. The US leads. Sweden

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01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:17,360
Speaker 1: won nothing second intermission. If the Americans win, they advance

1352
01:08:17,400 --> 01:08:23,000
Speaker 1: to the semi final. Well, they'll take on Slovakia. Hockey

1353
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:28,639
Speaker 1: Tonight Downtown, the Cyclones skate at home against Kellamazoo. This

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01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:31,600
Speaker 1: will be the thirty fourth time this season the Cyclones

1355
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:37,240
Speaker 1: have played Kellamazoo two dollars beers the hockey rink downtown.

1356
01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:40,720
Speaker 1: I have not been to a Cyclones game yet this year.

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01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 1: What do they they have another one of them like weekday,

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Speaker 1: like now ten o'clock in the morning. Games they have

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01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:47,200
Speaker 1: for kids. I'm looking at the schedule. The answer is

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01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:52,160
Speaker 1: now like those like those? Uh we uh. We had

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Speaker 1: Paul Danner Junior on the show yesterday. If you missed

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01:08:54,360 --> 01:08:58,599
Speaker 1: that conversation, it was great because Paul is great and

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01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:01,599
Speaker 1: that hour is awesome and we talked about his mock

1364
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:03,880
Speaker 1: draft and so much more. If you missed it, go

1365
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:06,559
Speaker 1: listen to it on the iHeartRadio app. Podcasts of the

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Speaker 1: show or a service of long Next Sportscrill. They've had

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01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:14,040
Speaker 1: twenty four hours to tag Trey Hendrickson. They haven't done

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01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 1: so yet. They still can have until March fourth, and

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01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:21,639
Speaker 1: the combine is next week, which is going to be interesting.

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01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:23,680
Speaker 1: For a bunch of different reasons, but the combine is

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01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:25,960
Speaker 1: going to give them a chance to gather intel about

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Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson and see if there's going to be a

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01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:32,719
Speaker 1: market form. You can find this on pretty much every

1374
01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:37,799
Speaker 1: website that covers sports free agent rankings Top one hundred,

1375
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:40,919
Speaker 1: Top one hundred and fifty, Top twenty five, Top fifty.

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01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:44,320
Speaker 1: The one that jumped to mine, and only because I

1377
01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:47,439
Speaker 1: read it most recently, was the Ringer dot Com had

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01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:50,360
Speaker 1: their list of free agents Trey Hendrickson number one. Every

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01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 1: single list I've seen listing all the free agents from

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01:09:54,120 --> 01:09:58,360
Speaker 1: best I guess worst has has Trey Hendrickson in the

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01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:01,559
Speaker 1: top two, maybe top three, but up there, and many

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01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:05,559
Speaker 1: will have him as number one. Now, I think we

1383
01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:10,280
Speaker 1: all understand number one. The Bengals have never had plans

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01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:14,439
Speaker 1: for Trey Hendrickson in twenty twenty six. They've never had

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01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:17,080
Speaker 1: plans for Trey Hendrickson being on the team in twenty

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01:10:17,080 --> 01:10:21,040
Speaker 1: twenty six. That's been abundantly clear for now. If there

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01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 1: was one takeaway that all of us can have during

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01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:28,719
Speaker 1: the entire Trey saga, it's for whatever reason, right or wrong,

1389
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:31,920
Speaker 1: they simply don't have him in their plans for twenty

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01:10:31,960 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 1: twenty six. That was the reasonable conclusion that we all

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01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:40,200
Speaker 1: kind of arrived at when it was settled last summer.

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Speaker 1: Trey's gonna come back. He's going to play in twenty

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01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 1: twenty five, and then we'll see what happens. But right now,

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01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:49,320
Speaker 1: the Bengals don't have plans for Tray to be on

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01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:53,920
Speaker 1: the team in twenty twenty six. It feels unlikely that

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01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:58,320
Speaker 1: anything would have changed their mind from last summer to now. Now.

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01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:00,680
Speaker 1: When Trey played last year, he was pretty good. But

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01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 1: if their concern was age and injury, him being a

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01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:06,560
Speaker 1: year older coming off an injury is not going to

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Speaker 1: change their minds. And also, like, while it is fair

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01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 1: to ask, hey, shouldn't they be interested in the best

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01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 1: available free agent, they already have a little bit of

1403
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:22,800
Speaker 1: a top heavy roster and their defense needs to be

1404
01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:28,800
Speaker 1: fixed in multiple areas. And while they do have a

1405
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 1: lot of money to spend, I think you can make

1406
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:34,920
Speaker 1: the argument that throwing a ton of money at a

1407
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 1: soon to be thirty two year old edge guy when

1408
01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:41,280
Speaker 1: you've got all these other areas to address on your

1409
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:47,479
Speaker 1: defense in free agency is not the most prudent decision.

1410
01:11:48,240 --> 01:11:51,400
Speaker 1: So nothing against Trey, like This doesn't have to turn

1411
01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:55,360
Speaker 1: into you know, smearing Trey Hendrickson's character. It's we've had

1412
01:11:55,439 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: fun with this entire word deal because it's been fun

1413
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:03,759
Speaker 1: to talk about. But like, if you got all these areas.

1414
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:07,160
Speaker 1: They need to fix edge, they need to fix free technique.

1415
01:12:07,600 --> 01:12:09,599
Speaker 1: They got to find somebody to play on the inside

1416
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:11,679
Speaker 1: of the defensive line who can get after the quarterback.

1417
01:12:11,720 --> 01:12:14,000
Speaker 1: They've got to address linebacker. They've got to find a

1418
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:17,360
Speaker 1: slock corner. They obviously need somebody who's not genostone to

1419
01:12:17,439 --> 01:12:20,240
Speaker 1: play safety, you know, who knows what they do long

1420
01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 1: term with Dax and with DJ Turner. But there's not

1421
01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:27,200
Speaker 1: an area of the team that you can't address. And

1422
01:12:27,600 --> 01:12:29,760
Speaker 1: you look at that defense. Throwing a whole bunch of

1423
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:31,800
Speaker 1: money at one dude who's going to be thirty two,

1424
01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:35,840
Speaker 1: that'll make a lot of sense. But if he is

1425
01:12:36,040 --> 01:12:40,960
Speaker 1: the best free agent available, and that's a subjective title,

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01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:45,719
Speaker 1: but if he's that good and if he's that valued,

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01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: that there's got to be a market for him. Let

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01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:54,880
Speaker 1: the market come to you. If Trey's desire this entire

1429
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:57,880
Speaker 1: time has been I want a long term deal, no

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01:12:57,920 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 1: matter what, I would be floored then, And I think

1431
01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:07,840
Speaker 1: you would be too if he just signed the franchise

1432
01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:14,120
Speaker 1: offer and said, yep, I'm playing here. You're stuck with me.

1433
01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 1: I'm playing here for a little bit more than thirty

1434
01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:20,000
Speaker 1: million bucks for a year. So tagging and Trading Tray,

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01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:23,759
Speaker 1: there's a very very good substack from Andrea Parada, who's

1436
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:27,679
Speaker 1: smart dude, salary cap expert, who kind of goes into

1437
01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:31,800
Speaker 1: the real nuts and bolts of tagging tray and how

1438
01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:34,200
Speaker 1: it could work and the things that would have to happen.

1439
01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:36,840
Speaker 1: And yeah, man, you need more than anything is you

1440
01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 1: need the cooperation of Trey's agent and the people with

1441
01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:42,760
Speaker 1: the Bengals. You need them to work. As we've talked

1442
01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:46,200
Speaker 1: about a lot here, you need to behave like adults

1443
01:13:46,240 --> 01:13:50,760
Speaker 1: work with each other. I just can be dead wrong

1444
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:54,240
Speaker 1: about this. As strained as the relationship has become, as

1445
01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:57,640
Speaker 1: strained as I think it's as strained as the relationship

1446
01:13:57,680 --> 01:14:00,720
Speaker 1: has become an understandably so, perhaps from the perspective of

1447
01:14:00,760 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 1: both sides. If you're the Bengals, you got to take

1448
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:07,280
Speaker 1: care of yourself first. If there's if he's the best

1449
01:14:07,280 --> 01:14:10,080
Speaker 1: free agent available, then there's gonna be no shortage of

1450
01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:14,360
Speaker 1: teams interested, no shortage of teams interested in him, have

1451
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:23,160
Speaker 1: them come to you, and again it's gonna require some cooperation,

1452
01:14:23,280 --> 01:14:25,320
Speaker 1: and maybe trace people are just gonna say, look, if

1453
01:14:25,320 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 1: you have no intention of keeping him, go ahead, and

1454
01:14:29,960 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 1: you know, drag this out, and at some point you're

1455
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:34,280
Speaker 1: gonna have to rescind the tag and then the dude's

1456
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 1: gonna go be a free agent and you're not gonna

1457
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:38,800
Speaker 1: be able to get anything for the twenty twenty six

1458
01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:43,000
Speaker 1: draft for him. But I just I simply do not

1459
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 1: see the downside. If you believe, as most do, that

1460
01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:47,519
Speaker 1: there is almost no chance he goes ahead and signs

1461
01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:51,559
Speaker 1: the tag offer, how do you not just see what happens?

1462
01:14:51,600 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 1: What could happen if all those teams, instead of coming

1463
01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:57,839
Speaker 1: to the number one rank free agent in this class,

1464
01:14:57,840 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 1: instead come to you about the number one rank free

1465
01:15:00,120 --> 01:15:04,320
Speaker 1: in this class, like it is an asset, and you know, again,

1466
01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:06,360
Speaker 1: like we'll see, I find it hard to believe you

1467
01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:09,479
Speaker 1: couldn't at least get a three for Trey Hendrickson. But

1468
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:12,680
Speaker 1: this is an asset, and we've beaten this to death.

1469
01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:15,200
Speaker 1: We've beaten the whole Trey Hendrickson thing to death. Sure

1470
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:17,679
Speaker 1: you could you could have an issue with the franchise tag,

1471
01:15:18,040 --> 01:15:21,640
Speaker 1: but the franchise tag being applied to Trey Hendrickson, if

1472
01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:26,280
Speaker 1: they apply it to him, gives them an asset like

1473
01:15:26,680 --> 01:15:30,200
Speaker 1: it's it's one of the biggest assets in terms of

1474
01:15:31,080 --> 01:15:34,479
Speaker 1: an off season, in terms of transactions that they've ever had.

1475
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:39,360
Speaker 1: He's the best free agent. Want them gotta come talk

1476
01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:46,280
Speaker 1: to us. I know we make fun of on this

1477
01:15:46,320 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 1: show the treasure trove of topics that Trey Hendrickson has

1478
01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:53,800
Speaker 1: given us, and he has man like, I'm gonna be

1479
01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 1: very honest and open about it. Like Trey Hendrickson has

1480
01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:58,880
Speaker 1: made not that this job is ever hard, has made

1481
01:15:58,880 --> 01:16:02,479
Speaker 1: this job very The Bengals and Trey Hendrickson together have

1482
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 1: made this job very easy. And you know, let's be honest.

1483
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:10,360
Speaker 1: As contract negotiations go. He's an interesting guy because of

1484
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 1: the team that he plays for, all the other money

1485
01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:16,040
Speaker 1: they've spent on other players, kind of his personality, Like

1486
01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of meat on that bone. So

1487
01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:21,360
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to just beat this thing to death.

1488
01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:24,720
Speaker 1: Just to me, It's like, this is an asset. You

1489
01:16:24,840 --> 01:16:30,360
Speaker 1: have take advantage of your assets, something that Bengals often

1490
01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:35,439
Speaker 1: get accused of not doing. You have limited control but

1491
01:16:35,479 --> 01:16:40,519
Speaker 1: it's still control over arguably the best free agent in

1492
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:48,080
Speaker 1: the entire league as long as you tag him. How

1493
01:16:48,080 --> 01:16:51,439
Speaker 1: do you not if you could let go of the

1494
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:55,000
Speaker 1: tag at any point if you acknowledge there is some risk.

1495
01:16:55,120 --> 01:16:58,680
Speaker 1: If you acknowledge, like you know, the Trey Hendrickson may

1496
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:02,000
Speaker 1: just decide where You're not going to negotiate anything with

1497
01:17:02,320 --> 01:17:08,560
Speaker 1: any team that decides to offer the Bengals fair compensation. Okay,

1498
01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:11,200
Speaker 1: but you can tag them. You can see what the

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Speaker 1: market's going to be, you can see which teams are

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Speaker 1: going to be interested. You can still go about your

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Speaker 1: business as it relates to planning for free agency, like

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Speaker 1: in the short term. Think, dude, you have this asset

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Speaker 1: in your hand, use it night away from five o'clock.

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Speaker 1: The NCAA Tournament Selection Committee uses a lot of different metrics.

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Speaker 1: They do not use how a team does against the spread,

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Speaker 1: but I will at five oho five on ESPN fifteen

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Speaker 1: So the NCAA tournament selection committee is going to meet

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Speaker 1: here soon, and the Miami RedHawks could be the team

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01:18:33,800 --> 01:18:37,679
Speaker 1: they agonize over the most. Miami won again last night.

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01:18:37,760 --> 01:18:40,680
Speaker 1: Gutsy performance on the road against a UMass team that

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01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:46,720
Speaker 1: nearly beat him here. That felt like and look, they

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Speaker 1: they've got four more games to go in the regular season.

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Speaker 1: That that felt like a significant hurdle on the road

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Speaker 1: to a MAC regular season title, which should not be undervalued,

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Speaker 1: and a sign magnificant hurdle on the road to an

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Speaker 1: undefeated season, which Miami has a chance. And I said

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Speaker 1: they have four games left. They have five games left.

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01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:10,679
Speaker 1: My mistake, the next one being at home against Bowling

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01:19:10,720 --> 01:19:14,240
Speaker 1: Green on Friday, but on the road against a UMass

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01:19:14,280 --> 01:19:16,759
Speaker 1: team that played them really tough. Here three weeks prior,

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01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:19,640
Speaker 1: a UMass team playing in front of a crowd that

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01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:21,639
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, that game was a big deal.

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01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:24,440
Speaker 1: Last night that felt like more than your garden variety

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Speaker 1: mid to late season MAC game in February, you know,

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01:19:29,520 --> 01:19:33,960
Speaker 1: all the height, Travis Steel on game day, Malette Hall

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01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:38,439
Speaker 1: being a madhouse recently, Wally Zurbiak being in town like

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01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:43,759
Speaker 1: that that felt last night in Massachusetts. Shot over fifty

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01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:46,080
Speaker 1: percent of the game last night. The RedHawks are not

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01:19:46,200 --> 01:19:48,280
Speaker 1: great defensively, and yet every time they had to make

1542
01:19:48,280 --> 01:19:50,160
Speaker 1: a play, every time it felt like they needed a bucket,

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01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,080
Speaker 1: they got one. And that has been something this team

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01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:55,439
Speaker 1: has done all season long. They are now twenty six

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01:19:55,680 --> 01:20:00,800
Speaker 1: and oh now it's worth pointing out that for NCAA

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Speaker 1: tournament consideration purposes, which let's hope and like I hope

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01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:08,720
Speaker 1: they do this big cooles hell to see them go

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01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:13,840
Speaker 1: into the NCAA Tournament undefeated. Let's hope that they go

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Speaker 1: in as an automatic qualifier, regardless of whether or not

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01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:21,240
Speaker 1: they win out in the regular season. But it's a

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01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 1: fair question what's gonna happen if they lose in the

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Speaker 1: MAC tournament. After winning all of their regular season games.

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Speaker 1: I'm on record for what it's worth, which is nothing.

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01:20:30,479 --> 01:20:32,559
Speaker 1: I believe if they finish the regular season with a

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01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:35,519
Speaker 1: zero in the lost column, the committee is going to

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01:20:35,560 --> 01:20:38,280
Speaker 1: put them in. Now, the committee is not going to

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01:20:38,320 --> 01:20:41,519
Speaker 1: put him in with a protected seed. The committee is

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01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:43,720
Speaker 1: not going to put him in with a seed that's

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01:20:43,760 --> 01:20:45,640
Speaker 1: in the single digits. The committee is going to put

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Speaker 1: him in with a low seed, maybe as low as

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Speaker 1: maybe fourteen. That's because of their schedule. But you know,

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Speaker 1: the NCAA Tournament Selection committee uses the net ranking. These

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Speaker 1: ken bark Torrivik, they don't use. The committee doesn't use

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Speaker 1: a team's record against the point spread. Now, maybe individual

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01:21:09,640 --> 01:21:12,400
Speaker 1: committee members take a glance at how teams have done

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Speaker 1: against the point spread, But frankly, I feel like it

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Speaker 1: should be a metric because what a point spread does

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Speaker 1: is it levels the playing field. The purpose of a

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Speaker 1: point spread. If you're looking at one individual game, let's

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01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:33,679
Speaker 1: say it's a high major versus a low major, it's

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Speaker 1: Duke versus let's say Jacksonville State, Well, the point spread

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01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:43,479
Speaker 1: is going to be huge in that game. It's going

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01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:45,439
Speaker 1: to be let's say it's thirty three to thirty four

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01:21:45,479 --> 01:21:47,800
Speaker 1: points thirty four and a half points. That's designed to

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Speaker 1: level the playing field. The opponent is not the team.

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Speaker 1: The opponent is the spread. Miami this season against the spread. Now,

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01:21:55,640 --> 01:21:59,000
Speaker 1: in the three games they've played against non D one opponents,

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01:21:59,320 --> 01:22:01,920
Speaker 1: there's no point spread. For the most part, there's never

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Speaker 1: a point spread for games like that. But in the

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Speaker 1: twenty three games they've played against Division one opponents, Miami

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01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:16,160
Speaker 1: against the spread is seventeen and six. They cover nearly

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01:22:16,320 --> 01:22:21,120
Speaker 1: seventy four percent of the time. In all of Division

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01:22:21,160 --> 01:22:25,639
Speaker 1: one men's basketball this season, only four teams have covered

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01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:29,360
Speaker 1: more frequently. None of them, by the way, are Power

1585
01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:32,200
Speaker 1: five teams. By the way, for what it's worth, Michigan

1586
01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 1: fourteen and twelve against the spread, Duke fourteen and twelve

1587
01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:37,839
Speaker 1: against the spread, Houston fourteen and twelve against the spread,

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Speaker 1: Illinois sixteen and ten against the spread, Arizona fourteen, ten

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01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:45,479
Speaker 1: and one against the spread. Now, most of us would

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01:22:45,520 --> 01:22:49,840
Speaker 1: agree those are great teams. They're not covering with the

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01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:54,799
Speaker 1: regularity that Miami is. Again, the opponent is the spread.

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01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:58,400
Speaker 1: It's not the team you're playing against. Seventeen and six

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01:22:59,479 --> 01:23:02,840
Speaker 1: elite in that regard. So if we have to do

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Speaker 1: this where it's hey, bring up Miami and we've got

1595
01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:08,160
Speaker 1: to talk about the schedule, and you know the schedule,

1596
01:23:08,160 --> 01:23:11,479
Speaker 1: and look the schedule. You can't get around it. It's bad.

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01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:12,920
Speaker 1: It's bad if you look at it. It's bad if

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Speaker 1: you crunch the numbers. Travis Steel himself has acknowledged this,

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01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:19,240
Speaker 1: how do you not Our schedule leaves a lot to

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Speaker 1: be desired. But it's not like they're just eking out wins,

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01:23:24,560 --> 01:23:28,720
Speaker 1: barely beating people on a regular basis. They've had some

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01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 1: close calls the first UMass game, both Buffalo games, especially

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01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:36,559
Speaker 1: the one here where they needed a last second shot

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01:23:36,600 --> 01:23:39,320
Speaker 1: to force OT and then a buzzer beater to win

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01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:45,400
Speaker 1: it in double OT. The Kent State game also in overtime,

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Speaker 1: but with regularity, they're covering against the number more than

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Speaker 1: almost anybody else in the sport. By the way, this season,

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01:23:58,800 --> 01:24:02,000
Speaker 1: the RedHawks have played eight games in which they've been

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Speaker 1: favored by ten points or more, so more than a

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Speaker 1: third of the games they've played where there's been a

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Speaker 1: point spread, they've been favored by ten or more. They're

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Speaker 1: six and two against the spread in those games, so

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Speaker 1: they've won them all, but they've covered at least ten

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Speaker 1: points in six of the eight games. So when they're

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Speaker 1: supposed to win big, they win big. By the way,

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01:24:26,400 --> 01:24:30,960
Speaker 1: in conference play, there is only one team from a

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01:24:31,040 --> 01:24:35,120
Speaker 1: power conference that covers against the number in conference play

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01:24:35,280 --> 01:24:39,599
Speaker 1: at a better clip. It's Washington. Washington covers in Big

1619
01:24:39,640 --> 01:24:42,920
Speaker 1: Ten play seventy three point three percent of the time.

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01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 1: Miami is nine and four against the spread. They cover

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01:24:46,920 --> 01:24:51,280
Speaker 1: at a sixty nine point two percent clip. Elite, elite,

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01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:55,519
Speaker 1: elite against the spread, elite against the spread when they're

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Speaker 1: favored by a lot, and elite against the spread in

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Speaker 1: conference play. And for what it's worth, they have played

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Speaker 1: four games this year where they've been underdogs. They've won

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Speaker 1: them all, obviously, So when they're expected to win big,

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01:25:13,280 --> 01:25:17,280
Speaker 1: they win big. Whether they're expected to win, they win,

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01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:25,120
Speaker 1: and when they're not expected to win, they still win. So,

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01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:28,080
Speaker 1: if we're gonna do this with the schedule, and many will,

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01:25:28,160 --> 01:25:30,040
Speaker 1: and many who will do this with the schedule have

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01:25:30,160 --> 01:25:32,360
Speaker 1: not watched Miami play. If we're gonna do this, like,

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01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:35,280
Speaker 1: let's look at how they're winning. Are they winning games

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01:25:35,280 --> 01:25:38,200
Speaker 1: they're supposed to win big big? The answers are yes.

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01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:42,320
Speaker 1: When they've been expected to lose they've still won obviously, Yes,

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01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 1: how are they against a metric that sort of equalizes

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01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 1: two teams? They're one of the best in the country.

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01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:54,280
Speaker 1: So like, all right, the schedule stinks. And I'll be

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01:25:54,320 --> 01:25:56,400
Speaker 1: the first to admit I'm sure Travis would as well.

1639
01:25:56,439 --> 01:25:58,599
Speaker 1: You wish that those three games that were against non

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01:25:58,680 --> 01:26:02,080
Speaker 1: Division one teams were against Division one teams, like it

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01:26:02,080 --> 01:26:04,960
Speaker 1: would be helpful. And who knows, man, maybe they lose

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01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:07,439
Speaker 1: one of those games, but we can't prove that they

1643
01:26:07,439 --> 01:26:10,280
Speaker 1: would have. All you can do is go by the

1644
01:26:10,320 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 1: games they have played. They're not eking out four point

1645
01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:19,120
Speaker 1: victories against teams that they're favored to beat by twenty

1646
01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:23,600
Speaker 1: They're not barely beating teams that otherwise would have no

1647
01:26:23,760 --> 01:26:27,200
Speaker 1: business being on the floor with them. How much the

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01:26:27,280 --> 01:26:31,160
Speaker 1: tournament committee is going to consider this? Oh no, how

1649
01:26:31,240 --> 01:26:33,280
Speaker 1: much should you? And I consider it when we talk

1650
01:26:33,320 --> 01:26:37,320
Speaker 1: about what they've accomplished this year a lot, And like

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01:26:37,479 --> 01:26:40,519
Speaker 1: the whole thing about the schedule like it gets I

1652
01:26:40,520 --> 01:26:42,320
Speaker 1: think some talk about it. It's like, well, if they

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01:26:42,360 --> 01:26:44,840
Speaker 1: get in, they ignored the schedule. The schedule is going

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01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:48,720
Speaker 1: to be a factor. Mike de COURSI talked about this

1655
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:51,040
Speaker 1: with us last week in two thousand and four, Saint

1656
01:26:51,120 --> 01:26:53,680
Speaker 1: Joe's went twenty seven to zero, and if you're a

1657
01:26:53,760 --> 01:26:56,599
Speaker 1: Xavier fan, you probably remember with fondness during that run

1658
01:26:56,640 --> 01:27:00,519
Speaker 1: where they won the A ten tournament time and made

1659
01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:02,799
Speaker 1: it all the way to the Elite eight they beat

1660
01:27:03,439 --> 01:27:06,240
Speaker 1: the Hawks, Saint Jose still ended up being a one seed.

1661
01:27:06,280 --> 01:27:09,719
Speaker 1: Billy Packer, the late Billy Packer, complained about it on TV.

1662
01:27:10,360 --> 01:27:13,400
Speaker 1: They were still seeded first. The A ten might have

1663
01:27:13,479 --> 01:27:16,160
Speaker 1: been held in higher regard than than the MAC now,

1664
01:27:16,240 --> 01:27:19,040
Speaker 1: but they were seeded first. Miami is gonna be seeded first.

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01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:21,960
Speaker 1: Miami is not gonna be seeded fourth. Miami is not

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01:27:22,040 --> 01:27:25,320
Speaker 1: gonna be seated six. Miami's best case scenario is probably

1667
01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:27,840
Speaker 1: an eight, and that's if they win every game and

1668
01:27:27,920 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 1: win the MAC Tournament. The schedule gives them an extraordinarily

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01:27:32,960 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 1: low seed ceiling. The two teams this century that have

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01:27:37,200 --> 01:27:40,680
Speaker 1: gone into the tournament undefeated, Gonzaga and Kentucky, were not

1671
01:27:40,880 --> 01:27:44,600
Speaker 1: eleven seeds. We're not thirteen seeds. That's probably in the

1672
01:27:44,680 --> 01:27:46,559
Speaker 1: range of what Miami is going to be. The seed

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01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:50,120
Speaker 1: ceiling is low. That is, if they win every game

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01:27:50,400 --> 01:27:53,360
Speaker 1: and win the MAC Tournament, and again we're getting a

1675
01:27:53,360 --> 01:27:56,000
Speaker 1: little ahead of ourselves. They do have five regular season

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01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:59,880
Speaker 1: games to go. If they run the table and the

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01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:02,920
Speaker 1: regular season and stumble in Cleveland and losing the MAC

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01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:06,320
Speaker 1: Tournament and still make it, their seed ceiling will be

1679
01:28:06,479 --> 01:28:12,640
Speaker 1: even lower. So like nobody's ignoring the schedule, nobody's ignoring

1680
01:28:12,720 --> 01:28:16,639
Speaker 1: who they've played. It gets factored in. It gets factored

1681
01:28:16,680 --> 01:28:19,160
Speaker 1: into the conversation. It's why this is a conversation to

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01:28:19,200 --> 01:28:22,839
Speaker 1: begin with. Like, the only reason we're talking about Miami

1683
01:28:23,080 --> 01:28:26,040
Speaker 1: maybe not making the tournament is their schedule, and the

1684
01:28:26,080 --> 01:28:28,599
Speaker 1: main reason why their seed ceiling will not be very

1685
01:28:28,680 --> 01:28:32,960
Speaker 1: high will be their schedule. But to me, all right,

1686
01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:35,200
Speaker 1: the schedule is what it is. Let's do a deep dive.

1687
01:28:35,479 --> 01:28:39,559
Speaker 1: They're beating people by more points than Vegas is saying

1688
01:28:39,560 --> 01:28:46,200
Speaker 1: they're supposed to. Vegas is pretty good, so maybe you disagree.

1689
01:28:46,200 --> 01:28:49,439
Speaker 1: Five point three, seven, four, nine, fifteen thirty to win

1690
01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:56,720
Speaker 1: every game a team is played through February seventeenth and

1691
01:28:57,800 --> 01:29:02,080
Speaker 1: cover against the number more frequently then three hundred and

1692
01:29:02,120 --> 01:29:09,080
Speaker 1: sixty other teams is extraordinarily impressive. I'm putting him in

1693
01:29:09,080 --> 01:29:11,920
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament. They could collapse here and let's say

1694
01:29:11,960 --> 01:29:14,960
Speaker 1: lose four out of five. That sort of thing that'll

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01:29:15,040 --> 01:29:19,479
Speaker 1: change the conversation entirely. But if the topic is and

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01:29:19,600 --> 01:29:21,120
Speaker 1: let's face it, it is it's one of the biggest

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01:29:21,120 --> 01:29:24,240
Speaker 1: topics in this sport right now. Could they somehow run

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01:29:24,280 --> 01:29:26,599
Speaker 1: the table? By the way, for what it's worth, Ken

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01:29:26,640 --> 01:29:29,599
Speaker 1: Palm gives them a seventy eight percent chance of beating

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01:29:29,600 --> 01:29:32,320
Speaker 1: Bowling Green Sorring Tark, Sorry Taron. They're giving them a

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01:29:32,360 --> 01:29:35,160
Speaker 1: seventy five percent chance of beating Eastern Michigan, an eighty

1702
01:29:35,200 --> 01:29:38,280
Speaker 1: four percent chance of beating Western Michigan, an eighty one

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01:29:38,360 --> 01:29:41,040
Speaker 1: percent chance of beating Toledo, and a seventy four percent

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01:29:41,120 --> 01:29:45,080
Speaker 1: chance of beating Ohio in Athens on Friday, March sixth.

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01:29:47,400 --> 01:29:49,000
Speaker 1: They still have some work to do. But if the

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01:29:49,040 --> 01:29:53,439
Speaker 1: topic is g should Miami actually make it if they

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Speaker 1: do run the table and lose in Cleveland? Yes, yes,

1708
01:30:00,040 --> 01:30:04,520
Speaker 1: because while the spread is not really an official NCAA

1709
01:30:04,600 --> 01:30:10,439
Speaker 1: Tournament Committee metric, I'll apply it and for my money, yeah, man,

1710
01:30:12,439 --> 01:30:14,200
Speaker 1: that ways say like, well, who'j you play and who's

1711
01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:17,960
Speaker 1: you beat? All right? Well, w hooja play? Eh? That

1712
01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:21,120
Speaker 1: leaves something to be desired. How much did you beat

1713
01:30:21,120 --> 01:30:25,439
Speaker 1: people by average? Margin of victory close to nineteen points.

1714
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:29,360
Speaker 1: They're crushing people on average, they're winning close games. We

1715
01:30:29,439 --> 01:30:33,519
Speaker 1: all sort of understand that in this sport, you're gonna

1716
01:30:33,520 --> 01:30:35,720
Speaker 1: play close games. You're gonna go on the road in

1717
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:40,120
Speaker 1: the regular season, play in conference, and you know you

1718
01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:42,160
Speaker 1: got to survive the dog days of the season. You

1719
01:30:42,200 --> 01:30:44,120
Speaker 1: have to survive a team that's got a really good

1720
01:30:44,120 --> 01:30:46,360
Speaker 1: home court advantage or a team that's just as really

1721
01:30:46,400 --> 01:30:49,120
Speaker 1: geared up to play you. Like, it's it's hard to do. Man.

1722
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:51,439
Speaker 1: I would talk about this all the time when UC

1723
01:30:51,600 --> 01:30:53,080
Speaker 1: had some of the better teams they had in the

1724
01:30:53,080 --> 01:30:56,160
Speaker 1: American Athletic Conference, even in Conference. USA did this with

1725
01:30:56,280 --> 01:30:58,479
Speaker 1: Dayton in twenty twenty when they ran the table in

1726
01:30:58,520 --> 01:31:01,559
Speaker 1: the Atlantic Ten. Like it's it's hard to do. It's

1727
01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:06,040
Speaker 1: also really hard to cover against the number. A common

1728
01:31:06,080 --> 01:31:09,919
Speaker 1: opponent for Miami and Michigan. A common opponent for Miami

1729
01:31:09,960 --> 01:31:13,240
Speaker 1: in Arizona. A common opponent for Miami and any other

1730
01:31:13,280 --> 01:31:18,400
Speaker 1: bubble team is the spread. That's a common opponent. Miami

1731
01:31:18,520 --> 01:31:21,760
Speaker 1: is better against the spread than anybody else they'll be

1732
01:31:21,800 --> 01:31:28,800
Speaker 1: compared to. That's an NCAA tournament team. Seventeen after five

1733
01:31:29,520 --> 01:31:32,040
Speaker 1: at Moeger on Twitter. We have a poll question. It's

1734
01:31:32,200 --> 01:31:34,680
Speaker 1: about the potential for a lockout. Poll questions on this

1735
01:31:34,800 --> 01:31:40,320
Speaker 1: show our service of a United Heartland Insurance. Would you

1736
01:31:40,439 --> 01:31:43,280
Speaker 1: be willing to not have an MLB season in twenty

1737
01:31:43,320 --> 01:31:45,280
Speaker 1: twenty seven if that's what it took to achieve a

1738
01:31:45,320 --> 01:31:48,720
Speaker 1: salary cap? Eighty four per point three percent of you

1739
01:31:49,240 --> 01:31:53,520
Speaker 1: say yes. We'll get to that next. On ESPN fifteen.

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01:31:53,320 --> 01:31:59,480
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1744
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Speaker 1: This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Moleager, thanks for listening today.

1749
01:32:26,360 --> 01:32:29,960
Speaker 1: Tomorrow on the show, we have Devin Kerr from MLS

1750
01:32:30,120 --> 01:32:35,439
Speaker 1: Apple TV coverage looking ahead to FC Cincinnati's MLS opener

1751
01:32:35,479 --> 01:32:38,760
Speaker 1: against Atlanta. Also talk about tonight's tilt. Chad Brenda on

1752
01:32:38,800 --> 01:32:42,080
Speaker 1: the show too, discussed the Bearcats, you see is getting

1753
01:32:42,160 --> 01:32:45,879
Speaker 1: said to h head to Kansas take on the excuse

1754
01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:50,160
Speaker 1: me Jayhawks on Saturday, and then Texas Tech, who will

1755
01:32:50,160 --> 01:32:53,360
Speaker 1: be without Jacob Toppin for the rest of the season

1756
01:32:53,400 --> 01:32:57,040
Speaker 1: with an ACL injury. That's unfortunate, suffered that in Texas

1757
01:32:57,040 --> 01:33:02,320
Speaker 1: Tech's lost to Arizona State last night. Cincinnati tried to

1758
01:33:02,320 --> 01:33:05,120
Speaker 1: extend its winning streak to four. We are looking forward

1759
01:33:05,160 --> 01:33:08,000
Speaker 1: to that. I'm not a Miami grad, I'm not a

1760
01:33:08,120 --> 01:33:12,519
Speaker 1: Miami fan. I look, let's be honest in this part

1761
01:33:12,560 --> 01:33:14,920
Speaker 1: of the country. And Kentucky's I still believe gonna be

1762
01:33:14,920 --> 01:33:17,760
Speaker 1: an NCAA tournament team, and Indiana's gone on a little

1763
01:33:17,760 --> 01:33:20,160
Speaker 1: bit of a run. And Bruce Thornton and Ohio State

1764
01:33:20,240 --> 01:33:23,519
Speaker 1: had a big, pretty lopsided home victory last night. But

1765
01:33:23,640 --> 01:33:28,240
Speaker 1: like right here, the Dayton Flyers are eh, Xavier's not great,

1766
01:33:28,439 --> 01:33:33,639
Speaker 1: UC's not great, Miami's having a terrific year, and it's

1767
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:36,160
Speaker 1: fun to watch. As I've said often, a long dorm

1768
01:33:36,160 --> 01:33:38,679
Speaker 1: in program kind of carry the flag for men's college

1769
01:33:38,720 --> 01:33:43,080
Speaker 1: basketball in this area. And it's a neat story for

1770
01:33:43,160 --> 01:33:45,320
Speaker 1: a lot of different reasons. It's a neat story because

1771
01:33:45,320 --> 01:33:48,599
Speaker 1: they're undefeated, but also, you know, redemption for Travis Steele,

1772
01:33:49,240 --> 01:33:51,719
Speaker 1: sort of the throwback way that Miami has done things

1773
01:33:51,720 --> 01:33:54,400
Speaker 1: with all the returning players from last year, the fact

1774
01:33:54,439 --> 01:33:56,679
Speaker 1: that Miami hasn't been good in a while. Like, there's

1775
01:33:56,720 --> 01:34:00,800
Speaker 1: lots of good components to the story. The story to

1776
01:34:01,080 --> 01:34:04,240
Speaker 1: end with Miami not playing in the NCAA Tournament, especially

1777
01:34:04,280 --> 01:34:07,960
Speaker 1: if they finish this season undefeated, would be awful And

1778
01:34:08,120 --> 01:34:14,439
Speaker 1: just as as a college basketball fan, Miami getting in

1779
01:34:14,479 --> 01:34:18,160
Speaker 1: would come at the expense of who a team you're

1780
01:34:18,200 --> 01:34:22,240
Speaker 1: dying to watch, A team that really deserves to be in,

1781
01:34:23,439 --> 01:34:27,880
Speaker 1: a team that anybody's excited about watching. They may make

1782
01:34:27,920 --> 01:34:31,040
Speaker 1: the tournament and may get destroyed in the first game

1783
01:34:31,080 --> 01:34:34,479
Speaker 1: they play. That's that's plausible. How that happens with teams

1784
01:34:34,479 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 1: from high majors that are really good. But tell me

1785
01:34:38,520 --> 01:34:43,280
Speaker 1: what's more interesting Miami going in with zero regular season losses,

1786
01:34:43,960 --> 01:34:47,040
Speaker 1: a blemish in the conference tournament, seeing how they do

1787
01:34:47,080 --> 01:34:50,880
Speaker 1: in the NCAA Tournament, or watching the ninth place team

1788
01:34:50,960 --> 01:34:53,759
Speaker 1: from a power league that lost a double digit number

1789
01:34:53,760 --> 01:34:58,479
Speaker 1: of games. Hey, Miami, the story is worth rooting for

1790
01:34:58,560 --> 01:35:03,240
Speaker 1: Miami getting in is worth rooting, But the point spread.

1791
01:35:03,280 --> 01:35:07,040
Speaker 1: Thing is that perspective is not based on well, Moe

1792
01:35:07,200 --> 01:35:09,920
Speaker 1: loves to gamble on sports. I do like to gamble

1793
01:35:09,960 --> 01:35:12,759
Speaker 1: on sports, do like to bet on college basketball games.

1794
01:35:13,560 --> 01:35:17,280
Speaker 1: But I think it's fun to talk about sports through

1795
01:35:17,320 --> 01:35:21,120
Speaker 1: that lens, even if you've never made a wager, because

1796
01:35:21,200 --> 01:35:26,759
Speaker 1: points spreads do level the playing field. So, yeah, Miami

1797
01:35:26,880 --> 01:35:30,120
Speaker 1: is winning every game. Miami has scored more points than

1798
01:35:30,160 --> 01:35:33,960
Speaker 1: the team they're playing every time they've played. Every season

1799
01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:38,320
Speaker 1: should be contextualized in every sport. You can't contextualize Miami

1800
01:35:38,360 --> 01:35:41,639
Speaker 1: season without talking about their schedule. So okay, let's look

1801
01:35:41,680 --> 01:35:46,880
Speaker 1: at how they've navigated the schedule. They're beating the team

1802
01:35:46,880 --> 01:35:51,240
Speaker 1: they're playing and Vegas and doing so at an elite rate.

1803
01:35:51,800 --> 01:35:56,679
Speaker 1: Seventeen and six against the spread is extraordinarily good. Again,

1804
01:35:56,760 --> 01:35:59,599
Speaker 1: as of last night, only four schools in the country

1805
01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:03,679
Speaker 1: were batter when they're supposed to win by a lot

1806
01:36:03,680 --> 01:36:07,040
Speaker 1: of points six and two this season when favored by

1807
01:36:07,040 --> 01:36:12,960
Speaker 1: more than ten. I promise you if there are a

1808
01:36:13,080 --> 01:36:15,639
Speaker 1: list of teams that have been favored by more than

1809
01:36:15,680 --> 01:36:19,639
Speaker 1: ten points in eight or more of their games, they're

1810
01:36:19,680 --> 01:36:22,519
Speaker 1: not that many that are covering seventy five percent of

1811
01:36:22,520 --> 01:36:25,639
Speaker 1: the time or more, and when they've been underdog, they've

1812
01:36:25,680 --> 01:36:29,920
Speaker 1: won outright. Use the point spread as an equalizer. It

1813
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:33,000
Speaker 1: is the common opponent for every team in the sport.

1814
01:36:33,760 --> 01:36:36,600
Speaker 1: It's the common opponent for Miami and Michigan. It's the

1815
01:36:36,640 --> 01:36:41,120
Speaker 1: common opponent for Miami and Illinois. Miami and Duke Miami

1816
01:36:41,200 --> 01:36:46,360
Speaker 1: is better against that opponent than everybody. I think that

1817
01:36:46,360 --> 01:36:50,200
Speaker 1: should matter, might not matter for the committee, But when

1818
01:36:50,200 --> 01:36:53,559
Speaker 1: you and I talk about their schedule and its impact

1819
01:36:53,600 --> 01:36:56,840
Speaker 1: on Miami season, then let's bring in the metric that

1820
01:36:56,920 --> 01:36:59,280
Speaker 1: I think matters the most, the one that levels the

1821
01:36:59,280 --> 01:37:04,719
Speaker 1: playing field, the points bread twenty seven minutes after five o'clock.

1822
01:37:05,120 --> 01:37:11,479
Speaker 1: Paul question is overwhelmingly in favor of a lockout. And

1823
01:37:11,960 --> 01:37:14,320
Speaker 1: I feel like we've talked about a baseball lockout happening

1824
01:37:14,400 --> 01:37:16,720
Speaker 1: for so long that we've just sort of accepted that

1825
01:37:16,880 --> 01:37:19,439
Speaker 1: it's going to happen and that it has to happen.

1826
01:37:20,360 --> 01:37:23,440
Speaker 1: That's where I break away a little bit, like lockouts

1827
01:37:23,479 --> 01:37:27,360
Speaker 1: come with damage. One of the things I will always

1828
01:37:27,400 --> 01:37:29,920
Speaker 1: admire Mike Brown for. Say what you want about how

1829
01:37:29,920 --> 01:37:32,120
Speaker 1: the Bengals are run, Say what you want about Mike Brown.

1830
01:37:32,160 --> 01:37:36,040
Speaker 1: In twenty eleven, the NFL had a lockout. Now, remember

1831
01:37:36,479 --> 01:37:40,439
Speaker 1: no games were missed. Training camp was, I believe, pushed

1832
01:37:40,439 --> 01:37:43,360
Speaker 1: back a few days, but no games were missed. I

1833
01:37:43,400 --> 01:37:48,720
Speaker 1: don't think any preseason games were missed, which means the

1834
01:37:48,840 --> 01:37:51,599
Speaker 1: NFL really wasn't hit that hard in the wallet because

1835
01:37:51,600 --> 01:37:56,719
Speaker 1: of the lockout. What did most nfls of? Oh no, oh, no,

1836
01:37:59,680 --> 01:38:05,400
Speaker 1: oh no. Sweden has found the back of the net

1837
01:38:05,479 --> 01:38:09,400
Speaker 1: with one thirty one to go, and the Swedes have

1838
01:38:09,560 --> 01:38:12,639
Speaker 1: tied the game against the United States quarter final action

1839
01:38:12,920 --> 01:38:15,880
Speaker 1: in the Olympics. It is one to one with one

1840
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:21,240
Speaker 1: thirty one to go, so the game is now tied.

1841
01:38:22,040 --> 01:38:25,880
Speaker 1: The US would play Slovakia in the semifinals if we win.

1842
01:38:26,240 --> 01:38:30,599
Speaker 1: That's right, I said, if we win, I should know this.

1843
01:38:31,320 --> 01:38:35,720
Speaker 1: Do we have we we don't go right to a shootout? Right?

1844
01:38:35,760 --> 01:38:38,479
Speaker 1: We don't. We don't go we have a I think

1845
01:38:38,479 --> 01:38:43,280
Speaker 1: we go three on three, right, yeah, I think we

1846
01:38:43,360 --> 01:38:44,640
Speaker 1: go three on I think we go three on three

1847
01:38:44,680 --> 01:38:47,040
Speaker 1: for ten minutes, then a shootout. I'm almost certain of that.

1848
01:38:48,080 --> 01:38:49,840
Speaker 1: So a three on three hockey, by the way, is

1849
01:38:49,880 --> 01:38:53,000
Speaker 1: cool as hell. It's one one, one, twenty five to go.

1850
01:38:53,040 --> 01:38:56,680
Speaker 1: The Swedes have tied the game in twenty eleven we

1851
01:38:56,680 --> 01:38:58,960
Speaker 1: had a lockout in the NFL. That lockout did not

1852
01:38:59,080 --> 01:39:01,760
Speaker 1: cost most teams much money, but many teams, I think

1853
01:39:01,800 --> 01:39:07,000
Speaker 1: most put the put the impact on the employees. A

1854
01:39:07,000 --> 01:39:10,639
Speaker 1: lot of teams furloughed employees, maybe some laid them off.

1855
01:39:10,760 --> 01:39:14,960
Speaker 1: Mike Brown never furlowed anybody. Again, the lockout didn't extend

1856
01:39:15,040 --> 01:39:20,160
Speaker 1: into the season. Mike Brown didn't furlough anybody. I think

1857
01:39:20,160 --> 01:39:24,360
Speaker 1: that's really cool. We had a baseball lockout that went

1858
01:39:24,439 --> 01:39:28,160
Speaker 1: from I think November of twenty one into February of

1859
01:39:28,160 --> 01:39:32,479
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Again, no games were missed, The money

1860
01:39:32,479 --> 01:39:39,560
Speaker 1: making part of baseball was mostly uninterrupted. Teams laid off employees,

1861
01:39:39,960 --> 01:39:43,639
Speaker 1: Teams furloughed employees. This just a couple of years after COVID,

1862
01:39:43,680 --> 01:39:46,200
Speaker 1: when long stretch of time no baseball. What did teams do?

1863
01:39:46,760 --> 01:39:51,000
Speaker 1: Teams furloughed employees, Teams laid off employees. And so I

1864
01:39:51,040 --> 01:39:53,080
Speaker 1: feel like for a lot of people, there's this, well, yeah,

1865
01:39:53,080 --> 01:39:55,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a lockout, but it's going to be

1866
01:39:55,320 --> 01:39:57,479
Speaker 1: good because we'll come out of it with a salary cap.

1867
01:39:58,120 --> 01:40:00,680
Speaker 1: That's cool. What do you had to the dude who

1868
01:40:00,680 --> 01:40:04,720
Speaker 1: works for a big league club that's not making seven figures. Yeah,

1869
01:40:04,720 --> 01:40:06,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna be out of a job because of it.

1870
01:40:07,240 --> 01:40:10,479
Speaker 1: And you saw this in business operations, in scouting and

1871
01:40:10,600 --> 01:40:16,280
Speaker 1: baseball operations like so, we treat the lockout as an inevitability,

1872
01:40:16,360 --> 01:40:18,639
Speaker 1: but like, I don't think we consider the human cost.

1873
01:40:18,720 --> 01:40:21,200
Speaker 1: And maybe you don't care, but I think a normal

1874
01:40:21,240 --> 01:40:23,519
Speaker 1: person does. Like, there are folks who make their living

1875
01:40:23,520 --> 01:40:27,800
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball who are gonna be hurt financially

1876
01:40:27,880 --> 01:40:31,840
Speaker 1: because of a lockout. So I think we should tread

1877
01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:34,599
Speaker 1: likely when it comes to hoping for a work stoppage,

1878
01:40:34,680 --> 01:40:40,240
Speaker 1: because it's going to change baseball's economics. I do wonder,

1879
01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:43,680
Speaker 1: and I've got the poll question up now, would you

1880
01:40:43,760 --> 01:40:45,880
Speaker 1: be willing to not have an Would you be willing

1881
01:40:45,920 --> 01:40:48,120
Speaker 1: to not have an MLB season in twenty twenty seven

1882
01:40:48,160 --> 01:40:50,400
Speaker 1: if that's what it took to achieve a salary cap.

1883
01:40:50,479 --> 01:40:53,680
Speaker 1: Eighty four point one percent of you say yes, a

1884
01:40:53,880 --> 01:40:56,080
Speaker 1: six point nine percent of you say if it goes away,

1885
01:40:56,160 --> 01:40:58,680
Speaker 1: I go away, and nine percent of you say I

1886
01:40:58,680 --> 01:41:02,559
Speaker 1: don't want a salarycap. So no, I think there are

1887
01:41:02,600 --> 01:41:07,519
Speaker 1: folks within that eighty four percent who are aligning nineteen

1888
01:41:07,600 --> 01:41:10,880
Speaker 1: ninety four strike cost baseball. A lot of fans many

1889
01:41:10,920 --> 01:41:13,719
Speaker 1: did come back. Many came back because of Kyle Ripken

1890
01:41:14,160 --> 01:41:18,280
Speaker 1: breaking lou Gerrick's consecutive game streak. Many came back because

1891
01:41:18,760 --> 01:41:22,400
Speaker 1: of Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa in nineteen ninety eight. Here,

1892
01:41:22,520 --> 01:41:25,040
Speaker 1: Many came back in nineteen ninety nine because the Reds

1893
01:41:25,040 --> 01:41:27,240
Speaker 1: won ninety six games, and or came back because the

1894
01:41:27,240 --> 01:41:29,639
Speaker 1: Reds got Ken. Griffy Junior came back in two thousand

1895
01:41:29,640 --> 01:41:32,880
Speaker 1: and three because the Reds built a new ballpark, but

1896
01:41:33,400 --> 01:41:37,280
Speaker 1: it came at a cost. People's habits in nineteen ninety

1897
01:41:37,280 --> 01:41:40,120
Speaker 1: four were a lot different than they are now. And

1898
01:41:40,200 --> 01:41:42,360
Speaker 1: so all right, yeah, baseball is going to go away,

1899
01:41:42,400 --> 01:41:44,720
Speaker 1: and we're going to get a salary cap. All the

1900
01:41:45,400 --> 01:41:48,559
Speaker 1: on field progress that has been made by rule changes

1901
01:41:48,600 --> 01:41:52,120
Speaker 1: and stuff gets halted. Also, you're going to give people

1902
01:41:52,640 --> 01:41:55,960
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons in a long time to change

1903
01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:59,639
Speaker 1: their habits and start doing something else with their money.

1904
01:42:01,680 --> 01:42:04,280
Speaker 1: One of the reasons why FC Cincinnati here took off

1905
01:42:04,360 --> 01:42:07,599
Speaker 1: in the mid twenty tens was the Reds were terrible.

1906
01:42:08,880 --> 01:42:11,759
Speaker 1: I remember twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen. The Reds were awful.

1907
01:42:12,320 --> 01:42:13,840
Speaker 1: And I can't tell you how many times I heard

1908
01:42:13,880 --> 01:42:16,400
Speaker 1: from someone who said like, you know what, Ordinarily I'd

1909
01:42:16,400 --> 01:42:18,519
Speaker 1: be down at GABP or I'd take my kids to

1910
01:42:18,560 --> 01:42:21,479
Speaker 1: a Reds game, but that team stinks. We're checking out

1911
01:42:21,479 --> 01:42:24,479
Speaker 1: this soccer thing. Oh and by the way, cheaper games

1912
01:42:24,479 --> 01:42:30,519
Speaker 1: are quicker, Like I'm doing this now. I just you know,

1913
01:42:30,640 --> 01:42:33,759
Speaker 1: we talk about a lockout. Is this it has to happen?

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Speaker 1: I'd argue there's a lot of time between now and

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Speaker 1: when the CBA is up. That once MLB the MLBPA

1916
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Speaker 1: figures out who its leader is going to be and

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Speaker 1: hopefully they get somebody who's not tagging his sister in law,

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Speaker 1: that there's a lot of time to negotiate. I just

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Speaker 1: I think it's a very dangerous approach to just, you know,

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Speaker 1: believe we have to have the sport go away for

1921
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Speaker 1: as as long as a year, if not even longer,

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Speaker 1: in order to achieve what we're looking to achieve, because

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Speaker 1: the human toll inside the sport something that not a

1924
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Speaker 1: lot of people think about, I think is going to

1925
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Speaker 1: be pretty pretty dramatic, and you're going to give a

1926
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Speaker 1: lot of people a lot of time to go away.

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Speaker 1: And when people go away, you have to understand that

1928
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Speaker 1: maybe they don't come back. If you give your girlfriend

1929
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Speaker 1: a reason to go look for someone else. You have

1930
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Speaker 1: to be prepared for the possibilities she ain't gonna come back.

1931
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Speaker 1: Is baseball really willing to do that? You have hardcore fans,

1932
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Speaker 1: You have people like me for whom the game is

1933
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Speaker 1: so deeply woven into their lives that we're going to

1934
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Speaker 1: come back no matter what. And I can certainly understand,

1935
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Speaker 1: and I don't entirely disagree with the argument that something

1936
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Speaker 1: has to happen because you have too many fans who

1937
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Speaker 1: feel like their team doesn't have a chance. But if

1938
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Speaker 1: your best case scenario is we get what we're looking

1939
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Speaker 1: for because we go away for as long as maybe

1940
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Speaker 1: a year, oh boy, be prepared for the fallout, prepared

1941
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Speaker 1: for the pushback. Eighty three point eight percent of you

1942
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Speaker 1: right now say yes, I'd be willing to have the

1943
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Speaker 1: sport go away. I'm sure many would come back. Others

1944
01:44:12,120 --> 01:44:16,120
Speaker 1: in that time are going to find other things. Baseball

1945
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Speaker 1: is going to have to deal with that once it

1946
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Speaker 1: comes back. It's twenty six from six o'clock. We'll try

1947
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Speaker 1: to squeeze in a phone call or two on ESPN

1948
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Speaker 1: fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports.

1949
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Speaker 14: Station, Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic.

1950
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Speaker 7: From the UC Health Traffic Center. Around forty percent of

1951
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Speaker 7: cancers are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can make a difference.

1952
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Speaker 7: Call five P one three five eighty five UCCC southbound

1953
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Speaker 7: seventy five near Fort Washington Way. There's an accident that's

1954
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Speaker 7: blocking off the shoulder westbound Ronald Reagan Highway. Another crash

1955
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Speaker 7: that's on the off ramp to Hamilton on Glendale Milford Road.

1956
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Speaker 7: Also an accident between Wist Carver and Road in westbound

1957
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Speaker 7: River Road. Accident at Delvin on that eazelic with traffic.

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Speaker 1: This report is sponsored by all Right. If you're looking

1959
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Speaker 1: for NKU tonight, what do we got?

1960
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Speaker 6: We win?

1961
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Speaker 1: Yes, the United States and overtime They Sweden. They went

1962
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Speaker 1: right to overtime. Two won the final. The United States

1963
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Speaker 1: will play Slovakia in the semifinal. It'll be Canada and

1964
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Speaker 1: Finland in the other. I did not see who scored.

1965
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Speaker 1: I just saw the celebration, so I did not get

1966
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Speaker 1: a chance to see who found the back of the

1967
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Speaker 1: net for the United States. Nonetheless, they advance after giving

1968
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Speaker 1: up the game time goal with one thirty one to go.

1969
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Speaker 1: The United States ends up winning in overtime by a

1970
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Speaker 1: score of two to one. So so there you go.

1971
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Speaker 1: When is the semifinal semifinal game is going to be

1972
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Speaker 1: on Friday yet? Because tomorrow is Tomorrow's the gold for

1973
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Speaker 1: the women's and so the semi final games I believe

1974
01:46:05,800 --> 01:46:08,759
Speaker 1: are on Friday. Bronze medal game would be on Saturday.

1975
01:46:08,800 --> 01:46:11,160
Speaker 1: Gold gold medal games, like the last event of the

1976
01:46:11,200 --> 01:46:13,120
Speaker 1: Winter Olympics, that is going to be on Sunday. So

1977
01:46:13,160 --> 01:46:20,160
Speaker 1: the US will play Slovakia on h on Friday. How cool?

1978
01:46:20,200 --> 01:46:22,880
Speaker 1: Was that cool for us on Friday? We have more

1979
01:46:22,920 --> 01:46:25,320
Speaker 1: horns on Friday? Was that Quinn Hughes. They're all congratulating

1980
01:46:25,400 --> 01:46:28,559
Speaker 1: Quinn Hughes. All right, Quinn Hughes ends the game of

1981
01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:31,759
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Wild, ends the game for the United States

1982
01:46:31,920 --> 01:46:33,920
Speaker 1: and for Sweden. For what it's worth. In the US

1983
01:46:33,960 --> 01:46:37,760
Speaker 1: advances quickly. NKU tonight against Prdue Fort Wayne Radio cover

1984
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Speaker 1: John ESPN fifteen thirty. That's going to be at six thirty.

1985
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Speaker 1: The FC Cincinnati game tonight in the Cocka Cap Champions

1986
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Speaker 1: Cup against q Owen MFC Owen MFC, I said, is

1987
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Speaker 1: going to be on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. We got

1988
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Speaker 1: a few minutes here waiting patiently is John Michael, John Michael,

1989
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Speaker 1: How are you.

1990
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Speaker 5: Hey?

1991
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Speaker 6: Now?

1992
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Speaker 1: How you doing well? What's up? Hey?

1993
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Speaker 3: I was thinking about like the red Hawks.

1994
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Speaker 15: They definitely is gonna get in and everything like that,

1995
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Speaker 15: if they just go undefeated for the whole season.

1996
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Speaker 3: And it reminded me because you said red Hawks.

1997
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Speaker 15: And do you remember when that mascot beat up that

1998
01:47:13,880 --> 01:47:17,000
Speaker 15: other mascot in the A ten Is that like Saint

1999
01:47:17,080 --> 01:47:19,280
Speaker 15: Jose or something beat up the Hour or something.

2000
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Speaker 1: Saint Joe's mascot got into a fight. And what made

2001
01:47:22,479 --> 01:47:25,120
Speaker 1: it significant is if you are the Saint Joe's mascot,

2002
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Speaker 1: you earn a scholarship if you never stopped flapping your

2003
01:47:27,720 --> 01:47:30,559
Speaker 1: wings and the Saint Joe's mascot in the middle of

2004
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Speaker 1: the fight never stopped flapping its wings. I love that guy,

2005
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Speaker 1: and I knew you growed up like you.

2006
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Speaker 15: You spent some growed up time in New York.

2007
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Speaker 1: Man.

2008
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Speaker 15: I really want to say I'm sorry for the passing

2009
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Speaker 15: of mister october Man.

2010
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Speaker 1: Mister Reggie Jackson passed away.

2011
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Speaker 15: That Jackson guy passed away, the guy that was on

2012
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Speaker 15: sire out love.

2013
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Speaker 3: He sounded like it. No, I do not like green

2014
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Speaker 3: Eggs and Ham being my all right, well.

2015
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Speaker 1: I don't know that that is. I don't know that

2016
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Speaker 1: that's Reggie Jackson. But John Michael, thanks, thanks very much.

2017
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Speaker 3: I love you.

2018
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Speaker 1: I love you too, Taran. Is there an argument for

2019
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Speaker 1: not taking as many calls on this show.

2020
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Speaker 6: After that one?

2021
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Speaker 1: Who was that?

2022
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Speaker 2: That?

2023
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Speaker 1: Whose voice was that at the at the beginning of

2024
01:48:21,920 --> 01:48:24,280
Speaker 1: the phone call? Because when I threw it to John Michael,

2025
01:48:24,600 --> 01:48:27,280
Speaker 1: what I heard didn't sound like someone named John Michael.

2026
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Speaker 1: Friday at three ten the goldhorn, you gotta find a

2027
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Speaker 1: Slovakian I don't know Slovakian music to play with their goldhorn,

2028
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Speaker 1: which hopefully we never use. That's cool. I love it hockey, really,

2029
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Speaker 1: I am a and say it all. It's a very

2030
01:48:43,479 --> 01:48:48,080
Speaker 1: very very casual hockey fan. But I like to live

2031
01:48:48,120 --> 01:48:50,160
Speaker 1: the cocky. I like the three on three in the overtime,

2032
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Speaker 1: and what I like most about the overtime is regulation ended.

2033
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Speaker 1: We didn't skate off, didn't bring out the zamboni. We

2034
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Speaker 1: just got back out there and played so good. US

2035
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Speaker 1: wins beats. That's awesome, so is Rick Bring He joins

2036
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Speaker 1: US next.

2037
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Speaker 4: Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.

2038
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Speaker 7: Traffic from the UC Health Traffic Center. Around forty percent

2039
01:49:12,640 --> 01:49:17,080
Speaker 7: of cancers are preventable. Lifestyle changes and screenings can make

2040
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Speaker 7: a difference. Call five one three five eighty five UCCC

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Speaker 7: westbound two seventy five after the double. A highway right

2042
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Speaker 7: lane is blocked from an accident. Looking at a fifteen

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Speaker 7: minute to lay back from four to seventy one northbound

2044
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Speaker 7: seventy one seventy five approaching Donaldson. It's police activity on

2045
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Speaker 7: the right shoulder and westbound River Road accident at Galvin Avenue.

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Speaker 1: I'm at Ezelic with traffic, ESPN fifteen thirty. Rick Browing

2047
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Speaker 1: Xavier Basketball Musketeer Report dot Com, NKU Radio. You'll hear

2048
01:49:53,360 --> 01:49:56,519
Speaker 1: him tonight. Norris taking on Perdue for Wayne at six

2049
01:49:56,680 --> 01:49:59,720
Speaker 1: thirty on ESPN fifteen three. Let's start with last night.

2050
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Speaker 1: If you Richard Patino, you want Trey Carroll to be

2051
01:50:03,200 --> 01:50:06,120
Speaker 1: a part of a game ending possession, but do you

2052
01:50:06,160 --> 01:50:07,320
Speaker 1: want him bringing up the ball.

2053
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Speaker 10: Well, here's the thing about Xavier's end of game situations.

2054
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Speaker 10: They don't have a good option. Like as much as

2055
01:50:15,160 --> 01:50:18,280
Speaker 10: fans are frustrated with Trey Carroll handling the ball in

2056
01:50:18,320 --> 01:50:21,040
Speaker 10: tight spaces and trying to do everything in those spots

2057
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Speaker 10: and obviously had six turnovers in the game last night.

2058
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Speaker 10: It's not the first time we've seen him get swiped

2059
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Speaker 10: by an extra defender or in last night's case, that

2060
01:50:29,120 --> 01:50:32,160
Speaker 10: last turnover wasn't even a double team situation. He was

2061
01:50:32,200 --> 01:50:33,880
Speaker 10: just dribbling above the court and kind of threw it

2062
01:50:33,920 --> 01:50:36,960
Speaker 10: away as he came into the front court. So, yeah,

2063
01:50:37,080 --> 01:50:40,759
Speaker 10: that is obviously not ideal. He probably isn't skilled enough

2064
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Speaker 10: to be asked to handle those situations all the time.

2065
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Speaker 10: But the reality of the situation for Xavier is they

2066
01:50:46,280 --> 01:50:49,800
Speaker 10: don't have good playmakers. They ultimately want the ball in

2067
01:50:49,840 --> 01:50:52,479
Speaker 10: his hands in those situations, so you kind of have

2068
01:50:52,560 --> 01:50:54,439
Speaker 10: to live with them. I was texting a friend last

2069
01:50:54,479 --> 01:50:56,200
Speaker 10: night about the game and I said, you know, it's

2070
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Speaker 10: one of those situations where you couldn't win with Trey

2071
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Speaker 10: Carroll last night, but you wouldn't have even been close

2072
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Speaker 10: without him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, multiple things can be true, right. They

2074
01:51:04,439 --> 01:51:06,639
Speaker 1: have no chance of winning that game without him yet,

2075
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Speaker 1: And I my first thought after the game last night was,

2076
01:51:10,040 --> 01:51:12,880
Speaker 1: holy crap, Trey Carroll only had six turnovers because it

2077
01:51:12,920 --> 01:51:13,679
Speaker 1: felt like he had ten.

2078
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Speaker 10: Yes, I mean that's the case. It was not just

2079
01:51:17,720 --> 01:51:19,720
Speaker 10: the end of game situation. But early in the game too,

2080
01:51:19,760 --> 01:51:22,040
Speaker 10: he had issues where it really felt like I think

2081
01:51:22,040 --> 01:51:23,280
Speaker 10: there was a post on my message board in the

2082
01:51:23,320 --> 01:51:25,479
Speaker 10: first few minutes where it's like, I'm done with Tray

2083
01:51:25,520 --> 01:51:27,720
Speaker 10: Carroll being allowed to touch the ball on the offensive end,

2084
01:51:27,720 --> 01:51:30,040
Speaker 10: which obviously he ended up leading the team in scoring

2085
01:51:30,040 --> 01:51:32,519
Speaker 10: and having a huge night. So it's like there's a

2086
01:51:32,520 --> 01:51:36,120
Speaker 10: lot of frustration there leading into that end of game situation,

2087
01:51:36,600 --> 01:51:39,479
Speaker 10: and yet he's been there, clearly their best player, and

2088
01:51:39,600 --> 01:51:42,439
Speaker 10: he clearly is the guy that keeps them in most

2089
01:51:42,479 --> 01:51:45,680
Speaker 10: of these games down to the wire. But yeah, he is,

2090
01:51:45,680 --> 01:51:50,000
Speaker 10: He's an ideal go to alpha score obviously not and

2091
01:51:50,120 --> 01:51:51,720
Speaker 10: that's been the case all season for this team. It's

2092
01:51:51,760 --> 01:51:53,960
Speaker 10: one of the reasons they have the record that they do.

2093
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Speaker 1: You and I have talked a lot this year about

2094
01:51:56,439 --> 01:51:58,840
Speaker 1: how if you look at the talent, it feels like

2095
01:51:58,920 --> 01:52:01,280
Speaker 1: and I think most Xavior fans would agree. I think

2096
01:52:01,360 --> 01:52:04,040
Speaker 1: Richard Patino has gotten as much out of this collection

2097
01:52:04,120 --> 01:52:06,200
Speaker 1: of players as you could have asked, certainly as you

2098
01:52:06,240 --> 01:52:08,160
Speaker 1: could have asked after we watched him play a handful

2099
01:52:08,160 --> 01:52:11,080
Speaker 1: of games. Yet for the most part, and there have

2100
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Speaker 1: been exceptions, like to Paul here, there have been so

2101
01:52:14,120 --> 01:52:15,880
Speaker 1: many of these games that were there for the taking

2102
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Speaker 1: down the stretch where they just don't make the play.

2103
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Speaker 1: How much is coaching culpable for that?

2104
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that's something we do in all sports,

2105
01:52:24,280 --> 01:52:25,880
Speaker 10: you know, Like we talk a lot about it with

2106
01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:29,280
Speaker 10: Zach Taylor. We post his record in one score games

2107
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Speaker 10: or games by decided by a touchdown or less, and

2108
01:52:32,640 --> 01:52:35,559
Speaker 10: it's like, well, I don't know how interesting those stats

2109
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Speaker 10: are because the reality situation is that's what good teams do,

2110
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Speaker 10: they win close games, and that's what bad teams do,

2111
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Speaker 10: they lose close games. And we knew going into the

2112
01:52:44,120 --> 01:52:47,240
Speaker 10: year that this Zavior team wasn't very talented. That doesn't

2113
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Speaker 10: mean you're going to get blown out every game, and

2114
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Speaker 10: obviously they have had a few blowouts, including a couple

2115
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Speaker 10: of the biggest losses in Cintas Center history this year.

2116
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Speaker 10: But ultimately, that's what it means to me when you

2117
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Speaker 10: see a bunch of close losses, you have a team

2118
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Speaker 10: that's not good at all. Of these guys are getting

2119
01:53:01,760 --> 01:53:04,640
Speaker 10: paid to play at the Big East level. Now before that,

2120
01:53:04,680 --> 01:53:06,680
Speaker 10: they were all on scholarship, so it's not like they

2121
01:53:06,720 --> 01:53:09,160
Speaker 10: can't play basketball at all. They're going to score some

2122
01:53:09,200 --> 01:53:10,960
Speaker 10: points they're going to be in these games. But the

2123
01:53:11,000 --> 01:53:13,160
Speaker 10: difference between a good team and a team that just

2124
01:53:13,200 --> 01:53:16,360
Speaker 10: doesn't have enough is you lose a bunch of close games.

2125
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Speaker 10: And that's the situation Xavier finds itself.

2126
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Speaker 1: What was going through your mind at halftime of the

2127
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Speaker 1: NCAU game against IU Indianapolis.

2128
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Speaker 10: It felt like a carbon copy of the first game

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Speaker 10: against them, quite honestly, and k you digs itself a hole.

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Speaker 10: You kind of start to see a little bit of

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01:53:32,320 --> 01:53:34,559
Speaker 10: a fight back before the end of the first half,

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Speaker 10: but then you kind of don't get all the way there.

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Speaker 10: You screw up the end of the half situation, and

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01:53:38,600 --> 01:53:41,400
Speaker 10: you still go down trailing, and you're thinking, well, on

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01:53:41,479 --> 01:53:43,680
Speaker 10: one hand, we've already seen them do this before. They

2136
01:53:43,680 --> 01:53:45,240
Speaker 10: can come back and they can finish this game off

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01:53:45,240 --> 01:53:47,040
Speaker 10: and turn it into a win. On the other hand,

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Speaker 10: it was certainly frustrating to go into the halftime seeing

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01:53:50,040 --> 01:53:52,360
Speaker 10: them trail again against a team that has the worst

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01:53:52,439 --> 01:53:54,680
Speaker 10: record in the league. But they turn it around in

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Speaker 10: the second half, and defensively, some of the plays they

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01:53:56,800 --> 01:53:59,400
Speaker 10: made down the stretch in that game where the types

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01:53:59,400 --> 01:54:02,080
Speaker 10: of things that you've been talking about all year they've

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01:54:02,200 --> 01:54:04,920
Speaker 10: lacked and they didn't just play solid down the stretch.

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01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:08,400
Speaker 10: I mean they had multiple emphatic blocks, a steal that

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01:54:08,479 --> 01:54:10,840
Speaker 10: led to a transition layup by Donovan O'Day. I mean

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01:54:11,320 --> 01:54:14,760
Speaker 10: the final four or five possessions of regulation, almost all

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01:54:14,800 --> 01:54:17,320
Speaker 10: of them featured a big defensive play by Nkau.

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Speaker 1: They played Perdue Fort Wayne's and I'm coming to the game.

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Speaker 1: I'll be at the game tonight. Yeah, Well, the records

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01:54:22,200 --> 01:54:24,439
Speaker 1: want to oh with you in attendance. The Norris have

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01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:27,479
Speaker 1: an unblemish record when I show up. They do not

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01:54:27,560 --> 01:54:30,040
Speaker 1: have an unblemish record against Perdue Fort Wayne. That is

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01:54:30,040 --> 01:54:32,800
Speaker 1: a game that they were in control of for the

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01:54:32,800 --> 01:54:36,000
Speaker 1: first half and for the early portions of the second half,

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01:54:36,040 --> 01:54:38,680
Speaker 1: and then it all sort of fell apart. What went

2157
01:54:38,760 --> 01:54:40,600
Speaker 1: wrong in that game? That has to go right tonight?

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Speaker 10: Well, I think the first thing is you've got to

2159
01:54:43,240 --> 01:54:46,200
Speaker 10: be able to defend Perdue Fort Wayne without fouling. And

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01:54:46,240 --> 01:54:48,920
Speaker 10: it starts with the leading score in the conference. And

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01:54:48,960 --> 01:54:51,800
Speaker 10: Corey had not definitely a candidate for Player of the

2162
01:54:51,840 --> 01:54:53,600
Speaker 10: Year in the Horizon League this year. He's the only

2163
01:54:53,600 --> 01:54:55,760
Speaker 10: player in the conference averaging over twenty points per game.

2164
01:54:56,040 --> 01:54:57,800
Speaker 10: He got hot, and he got to the free throw

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01:54:57,880 --> 01:54:59,920
Speaker 10: line a lot. In the second half of that first game,

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01:55:00,040 --> 01:55:03,160
Speaker 10: he finished with twenty five points. And that's what when

2167
01:55:03,200 --> 01:55:06,880
Speaker 10: they win, he scores efficiently. He's shooting fifty nine percent

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01:55:07,160 --> 01:55:09,839
Speaker 10: in the games that they win. He's shooting like forty

2169
01:55:10,120 --> 01:55:12,960
Speaker 10: low forty percent in the games that they lose. So

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Speaker 10: you're not going to completely shut him down, but you

2171
01:55:16,120 --> 01:55:18,120
Speaker 10: got to slow him down and make it difficult for

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01:55:18,200 --> 01:55:19,160
Speaker 10: him on the offensive end.

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01:55:19,280 --> 01:55:22,680
Speaker 1: What is the dumbest question you've ever asked a basketball coach?

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Speaker 1: And when he lasted When he asked it, did you

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01:55:25,040 --> 01:55:26,880
Speaker 1: get accused of raising your voice?

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01:55:27,800 --> 01:55:29,800
Speaker 10: I did not get accused of raising my voice. Actually,

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01:55:29,880 --> 01:55:32,720
Speaker 10: Richard Patino handled it very well last night. I asked him,

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01:55:33,080 --> 01:55:35,480
Speaker 10: you know, I was interested that he brought up the

2179
01:55:35,520 --> 01:55:38,560
Speaker 10: transfer portal during his Coaches show the last two Coaches Show.

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01:55:38,560 --> 01:55:40,920
Speaker 10: He said, like, we're already having transfer portal meetings. It's

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01:55:40,960 --> 01:55:43,400
Speaker 10: just the reality of how the sport works now. I

2182
01:55:43,440 --> 01:55:45,280
Speaker 10: found that to be interesting because a lot of coaches

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01:55:45,320 --> 01:55:47,280
Speaker 10: lie about that type of thing and say we're only

2184
01:55:47,280 --> 01:55:49,520
Speaker 10: focused on our current team, and the fact that his

2185
01:55:49,560 --> 01:55:52,400
Speaker 10: team really isn't playing for much of anything meaningful right now.

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01:55:52,440 --> 01:55:54,200
Speaker 10: I thought it would be interesting say like, hey, you

2187
01:55:54,280 --> 01:55:56,920
Speaker 10: keep having all these close losses that seemed like your

2188
01:55:56,960 --> 01:56:00,400
Speaker 10: team's lacking something. Has has that led to some clarity

2189
01:56:00,400 --> 01:56:02,840
Speaker 10: on what you might be looking for in the transfer portal?

2190
01:56:02,880 --> 01:56:04,560
Speaker 10: And a lot of people felt like that was an

2191
01:56:04,600 --> 01:56:07,400
Speaker 10: out of pocket question after a close loss, which I

2192
01:56:07,440 --> 01:56:09,120
Speaker 10: think we're a little bit too soft on coaches in

2193
01:56:09,160 --> 01:56:11,560
Speaker 10: these days. I think it's fine to ask them questions

2194
01:56:11,560 --> 01:56:14,120
Speaker 10: about their job, whether they won or lost their adults

2195
01:56:14,120 --> 01:56:15,840
Speaker 10: and they're getting paid a lot to do it. But

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01:56:15,880 --> 01:56:17,480
Speaker 10: he handled it great. He said, you know, I respect

2197
01:56:17,480 --> 01:56:19,200
Speaker 10: your question, but that's not it's not on my mind

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01:56:19,280 --> 01:56:20,560
Speaker 10: right now. It's not what I'm thinking about.

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Speaker 1: As a coach. Ever accused you of raising your voice?

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01:56:24,120 --> 01:56:26,840
Speaker 10: No, but I'm not really a raise my voice kind

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01:56:26,840 --> 01:56:28,840
Speaker 10: of Well, we're talking to coach, and I'm kind of

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01:56:28,880 --> 01:56:29,960
Speaker 10: hard to rattle in this situation.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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01:56:30,280 --> 01:56:32,200
Speaker 1: By the way, wouldn't it be a bigger story if

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01:56:32,200 --> 01:56:35,600
Speaker 1: we found out that coaches and their staffs weren't starting

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01:56:35,600 --> 01:56:37,400
Speaker 1: to prepare for the opening of the transfer portal?

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01:56:38,040 --> 01:56:39,800
Speaker 10: Well that's the thing, right, I mean, like they all

2208
01:56:39,840 --> 01:56:41,680
Speaker 10: lie about that, and like, no, we're only focused on

2209
01:56:41,680 --> 01:56:43,640
Speaker 10: the current game ahead of us, And you're an idiot,

2210
01:56:43,680 --> 01:56:46,920
Speaker 10: because the whole sport relies on the two weeks that

2211
01:56:46,920 --> 01:56:48,720
Speaker 10: are about to happen here in a few weeks, and

2212
01:56:48,880 --> 01:56:51,680
Speaker 10: if you're not preparing for that, then you're completely behind

2213
01:56:51,680 --> 01:56:53,760
Speaker 10: the eight ball because everyone else is talking to agents

2214
01:56:53,760 --> 01:56:55,760
Speaker 10: and all types of things, and to be honest with you,

2215
01:56:55,840 --> 01:56:58,200
Speaker 10: that's why I like Richard Patino. He's honest about those things,

2216
01:56:58,240 --> 01:57:00,720
Speaker 10: and his coaches show. He's like, yeah, we're talking agents already.

2217
01:57:00,760 --> 01:57:02,560
Speaker 10: I'm sure our guys have agents reaching out to other

2218
01:57:02,600 --> 01:57:04,720
Speaker 10: schools trying to figure out what their market's going to be.

2219
01:57:04,920 --> 01:57:06,880
Speaker 10: It's just the new reality of the sport. But you

2220
01:57:06,920 --> 01:57:08,200
Speaker 10: didn't want to talk about it after.

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01:57:08,160 --> 01:57:09,880
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, I could sort of understand it was

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01:57:09,920 --> 01:57:12,160
Speaker 1: a tough loss. Well, but perhaps I'll get a chance

2223
01:57:12,200 --> 01:57:14,720
Speaker 1: to say, Hidi tonight, thank you as always, I look

2224
01:57:14,760 --> 01:57:15,120
Speaker 1: forward to it.

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01:57:15,120 --> 01:57:15,480
Speaker 5: Thanks mom.

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Speaker 1: All Right, there you go. There's our guy, Rick Boring.

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Speaker 1: You'll hear him in just a few minutes, about thirty

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01:57:20,200 --> 01:57:23,760
Speaker 1: minutes or so with Jim kelch as Nku gets said

2229
01:57:23,760 --> 01:57:27,840
Speaker 1: to take on Purdue Fort Wayne. We've got college hoops, soccer, baseball,

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01:57:27,880 --> 01:57:30,760
Speaker 1: and so much more. Tomorrow we're back at three oh five.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget Tony Pike. Sincy three to sixty is at noon,

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Speaker 1: have a great night. Thanks to Terren Bland for producing,

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Speaker 1: and thanks to you for listening this as ESPN fifteen

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Speaker 1: thirty Cincinnati Sports station