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Speaker 4: here standing. Hughes bolts for center ice over the offensive

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And the assumption is we're going to be conservative

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Speaker 3: We've said in this town we want a postseason run.

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Speaker 2: So is you phenomenal? As you well know, you're down

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Speaker 7: We don't do it every day. We do it here

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Speaker 7: It's time to go. And then they kept saying, we're

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Speaker 7: And so it wasn't necessarily what we as coaches say,

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Speaker 7: You know what, You're exactly right. We were looked at

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Speaker 7: so they missed it, we attacked it. Riley Gleunn did

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Speaker 8: Maybe at right point in time is that was a huge, huge.

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Speaker 7: Well, I remember those young ladies being all in for

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Speaker 8: To do is make Minnesota not only relevant, but make

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Speaker 7: And that's exactly what they did. You know, and you

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Speaker 7: Every moment matters, all the little details, all the assistants

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Speaker 8: In the future is something that is just you relish moments.

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Speaker 7: Like this because you know that they are helping you

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Speaker 7: got to look at what we didn't do particularly well

441
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Speaker 7: in Old Myths and then figure out how that helps

442
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Speaker 7: us get better for our next opponent, whoever that is,

443
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Speaker 7: or what we did really well and we need to

444
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Speaker 7: carry forward. I thought one of the things we did

445
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Speaker 7: a good job of in the Old Miss game on.

446
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Speaker 8: Offense is we attacked them and we've.

447
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Speaker 7: Got going in transition. And in the fourth quarter we

448
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Speaker 7: Marv Brown got a breakaway layup, Tongo got Tongo got

449
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Speaker 7: an opportunity to score at the rim. We got another

450
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Speaker 7: I think it was Tory McKinney kind of penetrated it.

451
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Speaker 7: They picked up the pressure. They were upsetn with about

452
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Speaker 7: four and a half minutes to go, they pressured off.

453
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Speaker 8: And I told our players today in film.

454
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Speaker 7: We knew that was coming, but usually it comes when

455
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Speaker 7: they're behind.

456
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Speaker 8: This kind of came in their ahead.

457
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Speaker 7: And they were going to try to finish that thing,

458
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Speaker 7: and you know.

459
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Speaker 8: What, you attack the pressure and Tory penetrated.

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Speaker 7: She kick them to I think it was at that

461
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Speaker 7: point in time Bradley Glen and Bradley Glenn got an

462
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Speaker 7: open three in transition and cut that thing right down

463
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Speaker 7: to four points, and that was a huge momentum swing

464
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Speaker 7: for us.

465
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Speaker 8: You know.

466
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Speaker 7: So I think there are things you take and this

467
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Speaker 7: group has done a really good job of that, finding

468
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Speaker 7: something in each game to help us continue to grow

469
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Speaker 7: and get better, because ultimately we're going to have to

470
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Speaker 7: play whoever we play against, we're going to play at

471
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Speaker 7: a really, really high level. The good news is for us,

472
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Speaker 7: we've shown that we can we can do those things

473
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Speaker 7: in different settings.

474
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Speaker 8: On the road at home, you know, now it's.

475
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Speaker 7: A neutral site, and so we've got to find ways

476
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Speaker 7: to continue building and continue growing. And you know, I

477
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Speaker 7: think ultimately, when you get an Anta Tournament for the

478
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Speaker 7: first time with a program or a team and haven't

479
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Speaker 7: been there for a while. Sometimes you get really excited

480
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Speaker 7: to be there and it's really kind of challenging to

481
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Speaker 7: get going right away. We've persevered. In that first game,

482
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Speaker 7: Green Bay played really really well. We played great down

483
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Speaker 7: the stretch. Game two, I thought there are ebbs and flows,

484
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Speaker 7: but we learned a lot. We've had a lot of resilience,

485
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Speaker 7: we had some perseverance again, did those type of things.

486
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Speaker 7: So ultimately now you're going to have to do that again,

487
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Speaker 7: and what you have to do is stayed locked.

488
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Speaker 8: In the last time, you know, we had a.

489
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Speaker 7: Team in the Sweet sixteen, it was so What was

490
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Speaker 7: crazy is what we had was that crowd that we

491
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Speaker 7: had on Friday night and on Saturday we had that

492
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Speaker 7: in which tam when we traveled there at South Dakota

493
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Speaker 7: and it was almost like our kids were It was

494
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Speaker 7: so loud.

495
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Speaker 8: It's so different.

496
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Speaker 2: I think we.

497
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Speaker 7: Faced that on Friday night. We've been through that, so

498
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Speaker 7: we've seen some of those experiences. So hopefully we can

499
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Speaker 7: just keep being who we are, which is a team

500
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Speaker 7: that plays pretty tough but also giggles and laughs right

501
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Speaker 7: in the moment you know, with about two and a

502
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Speaker 7: half minutes ago in the game, it got really loud.

503
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Speaker 7: We scored. I looked at our players as they were

504
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Speaker 7: going back on defense.

505
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Speaker 8: And they were smiling, and I thought.

506
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Speaker 7: This is awesome.

507
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Speaker 8: I don't know what the all coman this game is

508
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Speaker 8: going to be, but this is a moment.

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Speaker 7: I'll never forget.

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Speaker 2: It was awesome last one. I absolutely promise. Do you

511
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Speaker 2: get the McMahon offensive foul call to folew her out

512
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Speaker 2: what in the final four to twenty two of the

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Speaker 2: game if you're on.

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Speaker 7: The road, you know, I don't. I can't say that

515
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Speaker 7: one way or another. I don't know I would say this.

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Speaker 7: The challenging part is I thought.

517
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Speaker 8: She should pick up her third fall in the first

518
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Speaker 8: half because we took a charge on her at that

519
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Speaker 8: point in time and a guy called the block, So

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Speaker 8: you know, give her take at that point in time.

521
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Speaker 7: But the reality is there bang bang calls. It's tough.

522
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Speaker 7: You know, certainly playing at home doesn't doesn't hurt you

523
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Speaker 7: in in ways. I think it's just it advantages you

524
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Speaker 7: because you feel comfortable. When you feel comfortable, I think

525
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Speaker 7: you put your body on the line at a little

526
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Speaker 7: higher level and that's exactly what my bettle did that

527
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Speaker 7: on that possession.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations, safe travels to a Sacramento. Hope we can talk soon.

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Speaker 2: Thanks again.

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Speaker 7: Okay, so good thank you. Yeah, we'll do it again. Sorry,

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Speaker 7: I'm been a rush.

532
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Speaker 8: No problem to actually try to go see our daughter

533
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Speaker 8: play in the Elite eight. So I like that to

534
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Speaker 8: get out there to be mom for.

535
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Speaker 7: A little bit.

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Speaker 2: Good luck there too, Thank you, Thank you. Don plitz White.

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Speaker 2: Is the goal to go for women's basketball? Coach Ouphant

538
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Speaker 2: are the Gophers? They reached the sweet sixteen, will play

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Speaker 2: either U c. L A heavily favored or Oklahoma State

540
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Speaker 2: when we come back. Let's talk to some puck, much

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Speaker 2: to the delight of Kevin Fulness, much to the delight

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Speaker 2: of the substitute producer of the program, Louis Luigi. Isn't that.

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545
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Speaker 2: four six eight six, as we welcome you back to

548
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Speaker 2: I just cut him off my bed. Will you call

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Speaker 2: him back? I hit the wrong button for some reason.

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Speaker 2: The there's a right wing on our button ball all right,

551
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Speaker 2: I should see on our phone console and a left

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Speaker 2: wing and this will shock very few. But the right

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Speaker 2: wing bar Friday wasn't working, so I accidentally put it

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Speaker 2: on the right wing bar. I'm gonna go to the

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Speaker 2: left wing bar, Louie, can you hear it's okay?

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Speaker 9: I can hear.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit. We've had kind of a

558
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Speaker 2: tricky phone system recently. As we welcome you back to

559
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Speaker 2: the program, I want to ask an Estorea his history

560
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Speaker 2: question for you, because I was early talking about my

561
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 2: belief that the well occasionally friendly, sometimes not so friendly

562
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Speaker 2: rivalry in this town between pro hockey fans and pro

563
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Speaker 2: basketball fans, I've always felt is a necessary I get

564
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Speaker 2: people have their favorites, but it's my belief that there's

565
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Speaker 2: a lot of folks who can appreciate either or both,

566
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Speaker 2: even if they have one sport they like better than

567
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Speaker 2: the other. But if you go back many many years

568
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Speaker 2: when you were still running a team, and actually when

569
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Speaker 2: you know, ultimately the north Stars, much to your chagrin,

570
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Speaker 2: left and then there was the missile of Timberwolves coming in,

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Speaker 2: I can recall a lot of conversation questioning whether this

572
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Speaker 2: metropolitan area was big enough to handle on a regular,

573
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Speaker 2: long term basis from an economic standpoint. On the men's side.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about the men's side, the so called four

575
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Speaker 2: big four traditional sports hockey, basketball, baseball, and football, And

576
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Speaker 2: you and I may have even talked about that from

577
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Speaker 2: time to time. But as a guy who was in

578
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Speaker 2: the middle of all of that, and I know did

579
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Speaker 2: his own research on that question about where the customers

580
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Speaker 2: are and is there a room for everybody here, what

581
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Speaker 2: are your thoughts on that, because now we take it

582
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Speaker 2: for granted as no doubt, like a no brainer, but

583
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Speaker 2: as you well know, it wasn't always considered a no

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Speaker 2: brainer given the size of the metro area compared to

585
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Speaker 2: most places that have all four traditional men's sports.

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Speaker 9: Well, you're exactly correct. And one of the reasons why

587
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Speaker 9: we don't have that much of population right in the

588
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Speaker 9: state of Mi Dissordia. What do we have five and

589
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Speaker 9: a half million dollar it's been pretty static. Within a

590
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Speaker 9: couple of.

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Speaker 2: Hours, it's going down thanks to you. Years it's going

592
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Speaker 2: down thanks to you.

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Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, But one of the big things was that

594
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Speaker 9: people really didn't focus on. Look at the college sports

595
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Speaker 9: we have in town good Point and all the college

596
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Speaker 9: the draw spectators. On top of that that we were

597
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Speaker 9: many people didn't talk about, but they take away leisure

598
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Speaker 9: time dollars and look how active the community is in

599
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Speaker 9: things they do of stobobilly, knife fishing, fishing, regular hunting, bowling.

600
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Speaker 9: You know, our community extremely extremely active, and so we

601
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Speaker 9: were concerned about where are we going to get the

602
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Speaker 9: dollars that do we have to win all the time

603
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Speaker 9: basically to get the kind of crowds we want, and

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Speaker 9: that that was one of the big things because at

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Speaker 9: that time, even though now we look back we laugh

606
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Speaker 9: at the ticket prices, but you know, the ticket prices

607
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Speaker 9: are really indication of what the what you're making is

608
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Speaker 9: as wage earners and what the economy is like at

609
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Speaker 9: that time. So whether it was twenty bucks or ten

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Speaker 9: bucks or dollars, yep, just you know, it's just a

611
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Speaker 9: fraction of what you were making. And your wages changed

612
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Speaker 9: that much too, So it was it was a considerable

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Speaker 9: amount of money that we were fighting for and everybody

614
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Speaker 9: know that Timberwolves were concerned. We were concerned. That's why

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Speaker 9: we had a couple of times where we entertained getting

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Speaker 9: together with the tim or else the work out of

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Speaker 9: one arena like the you know, the Nix have done

618
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Speaker 9: for a long time. New Jersey did it for Wality

619
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Speaker 9: Island did a lot of teams. Chicago still does it

620
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Speaker 9: operated at one arena, and uh, the big dollars that

621
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Speaker 9: you get from advertising you were able to to You know, really,

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Speaker 9: I have to say, give yourself a better sales pitch.

623
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Speaker 9: Because of the number of days that you had professional

624
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Speaker 9: sports in that building where they could see your signings,

625
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Speaker 9: et cetera.

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Speaker 2: Why do you think now it almost seems laughable to

627
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Speaker 2: question whether they could all coexist? I think I think

628
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Speaker 2: Denver and Minneapo Saint Paul are the two smallest markets

629
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Speaker 2: from again a population standpoint in this position. And then,

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Speaker 2: as you made a great point too, you add you

631
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Speaker 2: got the state major state university here, University of Minnesota.

632
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Speaker 2: Why did it seem so challenging then and now we

633
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Speaker 2: sort of take it for granted that, yeah, if things

634
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Speaker 2: are done right, there's there's no sign of vulnerability that

635
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Speaker 2: all these teams cannot coexist.

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Speaker 9: I have no statistics to back it up, but I've

637
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Speaker 9: been of the personal opinion that because the way society

638
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Speaker 9: has changed. Back when we're talking about when the Timberwrolls

639
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Speaker 9: first got a year, and we're talking about the late

640
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Speaker 9: eighties and nineties. Essentially, I think if you look at

641
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Speaker 9: the ownership of homes and apartments, it seemed that everybody

642
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Speaker 9: more people strove to get a home when they were younger.

643
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Speaker 9: Now they move with the apartments and they don't have

644
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Speaker 9: the kind of expenses they would have. It seems that

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Speaker 9: I don't know if we call them a gen z

646
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Speaker 9: or whatever, but that part of the population spends more

647
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Speaker 9: money on themselves as far as entertainment goes. They don't

648
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Speaker 9: seem to have the same drive or desire to want

649
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Speaker 9: homes and invest in and maybe larger type items like that.

650
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Speaker 9: The homes are, you know, apartments with that they are

651
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Speaker 9: condominians that they owned the teams. If you look around,

652
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Speaker 9: we got more apartments than we ever had before, no,

653
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Speaker 9: no question. Yeah, young people really do that more. It

654
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Speaker 9: leads the more money to spend on entertainment.

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Speaker 2: That might well be a part of the deal, that's

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Speaker 2: for sure, Luigi, as I said, if you have questions

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Speaker 2: for him, six four six eighty six is the Bradshawn

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Speaker 2: Bryant K fa N text line. Let's talk a little

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Speaker 2: bit about the well, you know, I asked you a

660
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 2: week ago at this time or close to it. You're

661
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 2: on Tuesday last week about the possibility of a change

662
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 2: on the men's hockey side at the University of Minnesota.

663
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 2: I don't think you necessarily expected it. It happens. It's

664
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 2: being described as a sort of a mutual parting of

665
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 2: the ways between the university and Bob Moscow. What as

666
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 2: you look back on it now, I mean, do you

667
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 2: think it was mutual?

668
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 7: What? What?

669
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 9: What?

670
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 2: What do you make of it? Because there's always the question, Louie,

671
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 2: you've been through this when you were in charge of

672
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 2: hiring and firing. It's that cliche about okay, you know

673
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 2: do I You could certainly make the argument Moscow deserved

674
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 2: at least another year, right. You could make the argument

675
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 2: that on the on the women's side, Brad Frost deserved

676
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 2: a little bit of grace. You go back a bit

677
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 2: with this a D and you could say Lindsey Whalen

678
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 2: probably deserved another year. Ben Johnson might have deserved another year,

679
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 2: But he is an ad who when he decides it's time.

680
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 2: He has not been shy about about pulling the trigger.

681
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 2: What what even if, in this case with Moscow it

682
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 2: ends up being more mutual. What do you make of it?

683
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 9: Well? I did. I was surprised, but because we talked

684
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 9: to day before that he was going. I said, no,

685
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 9: you'll come back for a year, right, that he want

686
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 9: to work one more year, And I thought that that

687
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 9: he would get that, because I'm sure that Bob would

688
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 9: have He's got a really he had a real good

689
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 9: recruiting class. He thinks it is coming in. He was

690
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 9: very very high on the recruiting class, and I think

691
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,800
Speaker 9: he expected to get another year to leave in better terms,

692
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 9: and that it didn't happen. One thing, I never questioned

693
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 9: people in the position of authority that they have to

694
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 9: make a decision when they make a change, because I

695
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 9: have to do it a lot of times, and I

696
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 9: understand what goes through their minds. You know, I had

697
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,959
Speaker 9: to hire and fire coaches as well and other people

698
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 9: in the organization, etc. So I don't question them then,

699
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 9: because the one thing that I found out through in

700
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 9: my time in professional sports, it's much easier to find

701
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 9: guys that don't want to make a decision, that it

702
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 9: is people that are willing to take a chance to

703
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 9: make the decision they think is best interest of their organization.

704
00:35:55,239 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 9: So I never questioned that. You know, most people have

705
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 9: a tougher time pulling the trigger. It's not a fun

706
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 9: thing to do. It's not an easy thing to do,

707
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 9: and they have different reasons why they don't do it,

708
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 9: whether it's they don't want to face the pressure or

709
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 9: thinking of making the wrong decision or firing something they

710
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 9: don't want to fire. And I made a decision at

711
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 9: one time that you know, I personally still regret. I

712
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 9: was interviewing Pat Quinn for for a head coach job

713
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 9: with the Minnesota North Starts, and I didn't do it.

714
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 9: One of the reasons why I didn't do it is

715
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 9: because I thought that our friendship, you know, was a solid,

716
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 9: strong thing, and I thought, you know, I'm going to

717
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 9: have to fire this guy one day, and I don't

718
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 9: want to do it. And you know, it was funny

719
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 9: because we were one of the first teams that ever

720
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 9: went through a psychological test, and he thought, he what

721
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 9: I do fail the test? As, no, you didn't very well.

722
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 9: And I didn't hire people just on a flight psychological test.

723
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 9: I wanted. I wanted to know about their personality. I

724
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 9: wanted input it there. I even did it with players

725
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 9: that has since other teams have've done it for a

726
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 9: long time. But but I just wanted any extra information

727
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 9: I could get to make a decision I wanted to

728
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 9: have and and I didn't hire them, and I really

729
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 9: should have hired them. I mean, the guy went on

730
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 9: you know, he had a great coaching career everywhere he went,

731
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 9: and yeah he did. He got fired a few times,

732
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 9: but didn't bother me, just bounced back to when somewhere else.

733
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 9: And that was a mistake I made. And I made

734
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,280
Speaker 9: it because I knew I'd have to pull a trigger

735
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 9: sometime and then went after fire them. And I did

736
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 9: want to do it, and I and that's when I

737
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 9: started realizing, you know, it takes it takes a certain

738
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 9: person and a certain resolve to be able to have

739
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,720
Speaker 9: the conference you have that you're making the right decision

740
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 9: and make the commitment to do it.

741
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 2: Has a question about the men's job, Will you ask

742
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 2: Louis about what's coming next? The Athletic is reporting that

743
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 2: the front runner for the men's job is again the

744
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 2: SCSU coach Brett Larson. Can't we think bigger and outside

745
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 2: the state. That's what ed and Saint Paul asks, well, let.

746
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 9: Me put it this way, and I said in some

747
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 9: of those conversations. So I'm not agreed or disagreeing with

748
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 9: anything he's saying, except I want to tell you this that,

749
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 9: as I was just talking about how to hire and

750
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 9: fire a person, one thing, you should never just put

751
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 9: a label on it. Where's the guy from? You know?

752
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 9: And do we have to have somebody from in state?

753
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 9: Does that make him weaker? Does it make him stronger?

754
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 7: No?

755
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 9: You look at the individual, you don't. You don't look

756
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 9: at where is he, where he's from. You look at

757
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 9: what the individual is capable of doing, what he has

758
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 9: done the past, would you expect from him to do?

759
00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 9: And I don't think that any of the guys that

760
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 9: Mark Coyle and the committee have talked to were not

761
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 9: good enough to hire. I want to tell you that

762
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 9: they were strong. They're strong candidates. He hasn't announced the

763
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 9: decision yet. I'm thinking he's going to probably do it soon.

764
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 9: But because you know, the portal opens up here in

765
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 9: about ten days or so, and I'm sure he wants

766
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 9: to have somebody in place to be able to take

767
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 9: advantage of that. And so I think that's one of

768
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 9: the reason why he's moving quickly. But if you look

769
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 9: at all the guys women that Marc has hired since

770
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 9: he's been here, he doesn't take a long time because

771
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 9: it's not it's not a reaction like, go, I gotta

772
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 9: fire somebody, to say, and hire somebody tomorrow. He prepares

773
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 9: for his decisions. He's got a lot of information on

774
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 9: a lot of guys that if he ever has to

775
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 9: make a move, he's already set in motion in his

776
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 9: own you know, his own committees and his own UH

777
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 9: network that he's got some thoughts of how he wants

778
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 9: the movement, where he wants the movement, and he doesn't

779
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 9: take long to do it. He's not a reactionary guy.

780
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 9: He's a guy that plans before and I don't think

781
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 9: he looks at where the individuals from. He looks at

782
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 9: the capabilities of the individual, what he's looking for in

783
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 9: a coach, and then he just moves in that direction.

784
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 2: This isn't rocket science, Luigi. As you know, if you make,

785
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 2: if you dismiss a coach, and there's part of the

786
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 2: public that perceives that it was an unfair firing or

787
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 2: it came too soon, you know how this goes If

788
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 2: the person you replace that individual with succeeds, that goes

789
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:44,760
Speaker 2: away fast.

790
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 3: Right.

791
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 2: It's as simple as that. Whatever resentment or frustration or

792
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 2: pushback there might have been in the front end, that

793
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 2: goes away. If the one you the next time around,

794
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 2: you make a hire that and people eventually go, well, yeah,

795
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 2: this person's working out. We certainly have seen that in

796
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 2: the case on the women's basketball side already. I think

797
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 2: we're seeing signs of it on men's basketball. They're not

798
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 2: as far along, but I think given the injuries and

799
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 2: all the impediments that Nico face this year, I think

800
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 2: the feeling is, Okay, this guy can coach. He's just

801
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 2: got to make sure he gets enough players to stay here.

802
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 2: So you've been through that, right. If you know, the

803
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 2: heat goes up. If the person you replace the fired

804
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,919
Speaker 2: coach with struggles as well, then that's when the heat

805
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 2: tends to go up.

806
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:36,879
Speaker 9: You're exactly right, and it's what are the results immediately? Well, yeah,

807
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 9: already coming along and you hit the nail on the

808
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 9: hand with those two basketballhires. I got to tell you

809
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 9: they're sensational there. They've really come through and done a

810
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 9: job for him, and he's been able to do that.

811
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 9: I mean, his coaching moves are way better positively than

812
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 9: they are negatively. That he's made sence, he's been here,

813
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 9: and you got to believe. You got to believe it

814
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 9: in his ability to make a decision and be properly

815
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 9: prepared to make that decision. I have to tell you,

816
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 9: I uh hey, I sat and listened and some of

817
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 9: the guys that they've been interviewing, and any one of

818
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 9: them for me was a positive. I felt very very

819
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 9: confident in their ability to come in here and do

820
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 9: the job.

821
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 2: You know it's going to be.

822
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 9: Well. I kind of got an idea.

823
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 2: Okay, we are you gonna tell us? You canna spill it?

824
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 9: No, I don't even tell my wife. It's like Christmas. Yeah,

825
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,439
Speaker 9: I'm surprised fair enough.

826
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 2: I didn't expect I could get it out of yet.

827
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 2: On the women's side, the team promotes Greg May the

828
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 2: associate Brad Frost, associate head coach. Did that surprise you

829
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 2: at all?

830
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 9: That surprised me very much because I haven't been close

831
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 9: to the women's program. I just I'm more of a

832
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 9: fan watching it and I'm really thrilled with it, and

833
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 9: I've been ecstatic ever since it's been here. I was

834
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 9: involved in building with the arena, and I with Chris

835
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 9: Bolls and uh I'm you know, I'm ecstatic about how

836
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 9: many championships they were, not how strong they've been. And

837
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 9: but I wasn't really keeping tracked of any possible coaches,

838
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 9: you know, I didn't. I didn't even know the coach

839
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 9: that he's promoted, you know, was as the coach. So

840
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 9: I was very very surprised about her. But I have

841
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 9: so much confidence in Coil that I just think that

842
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 9: this kid's going to do a good job. I'm happy

843
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 9: about it. I know one thing. The university has a

844
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 9: lot of the good players, and it's tough to beat

845
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:59,280
Speaker 9: Mark Johnson and uh mother in all the contract extension

846
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 9: Ohio State. But I think we'll find a way because

847
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 9: the Gophers are our fun team to watch and they

848
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 9: got a great building. I just love it arena and

849
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 9: the program in the state of Minnesota just continues to

850
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 9: grow by leaps and bounce for women's hockey, and I

851
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 9: just think that we're going to continue to turn out

852
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,439
Speaker 9: terrific athletes and and if he's doing the proper job,

853
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 9: which is making certain that they get to the the

854
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 9: best players first. I think you're gonna have a lot

855
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 9: of success Minnesota Wild.

856
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:36,359
Speaker 2: Let's get a couple items in on the Wild here.

857
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 2: Did you get to see much of the overtime victory

858
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 2: over the Stars.

859
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 9: Oh, I saw the game, the whole game, you think

860
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 9: I was. I was really pleased with the way they're playing.

861
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 8: I I.

862
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 9: Felt that, you know, it's a kind of game we're

863
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 9: going to expect it in the playoffs because they had

864
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 9: two stars missing. We had two stars missing, Plus we

865
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 9: had fleeing over a big part of the team, and

866
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 9: and they had another uh, you know forward that's a

867
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 9: big part of their team. So we each had three

868
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 9: key players out and uh. I was really thrilled that

869
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 9: Gus bounced back and had a tremendous game because he

870
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 9: was really tested. The pedally killing has gotten so much

871
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 9: better lately. They gave up a quick one on the

872
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 9: first party and the next four they killed him and

873
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,479
Speaker 9: and and that's what they're gonna have to do. Plus,

874
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 9: their face off percentage wins was way up over the

875
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 9: last five six seven games they played against Dallas, So

876
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 9: the areas that they had some deficiencies in, they they

877
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 9: really came on strong in those areas, and now it's

878
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 9: going to be it's going to be a battle. But

879
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 9: as I said before, I still think we're gonna We're

880
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 9: gonna beat Dallas.

881
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 2: Is it fair to say now we don't got a

882
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 2: handful of games left that as much as we talk

883
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 2: about you want to finish strong, given the fact they're

884
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 2: kind of locked into their position, isn't it a little

885
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 2: I don't want to say it's exhibition season like because

886
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 2: it's better. It's more important than that, but it really

887
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 2: the rest of the way should be about health and

888
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 2: about figuring out lines and combinations and less about the

889
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 2: individual results game to game.

890
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:20,839
Speaker 9: Funny you said that because one of the things, you know, superstitious.

891
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 9: I get worried. I get this, and you're getting closer

892
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 9: to the end. I'm starting to think, when can we

893
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 9: rest guys and make it certain that we're healthy. I

894
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 9: think that's the most important thing that the wild got

895
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 9: to worry about. Can we one time just go in

896
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 9: the playoffs you're healthy? One time? I just you know,

897
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 9: they haven't had it for a while and I would

898
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 9: like to see it. And so I I'm feeling just

899
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 9: the way you're feeling. Essentially, what I think is six

900
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 9: more points locks them into their position and they're not

901
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 9: going to kids Dallas. I don't believe, because I don't

902
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 9: see Dalla's going, you know, for big fall. And so

903
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 9: when you when you get one, one or two more

904
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 9: wins and I think you got it, I would start

905
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 9: thinking about maybe give somebody a night off. You know,

906
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 9: some of these guys are getting so much ice time,

907
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 9: and not only the ice time. When you get tired,

908
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 9: you get hurt too, and and and that's something that

909
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 9: I'm watching for. I'm going to be doing the game

910
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 9: this weekend in Boston, and uh, you know, I'm I'm

911
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:30,800
Speaker 9: going to talk to someone because they just for my

912
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 9: own benefit, I want to know how they feel. You know,

913
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 9: they've they've gone through a heck of a run and

914
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 9: we've had eight guys who play in the World Championships,

915
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 9: so I mean in the Olympics to go with their

916
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 9: regular season. So I'm going to be interested to hear

917
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 9: what they think about how they feel going into the playoffs.

918
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 9: As far as the condition concerned.

919
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,320
Speaker 2: A text from flim Flam with the new look roster,

920
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,720
Speaker 2: who should we have highest expectations for on the penalty

921
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 2: kill for the while to go on a little playoff run. Besides,

922
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 2: he says goaltending.

923
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 9: When I'm I've been just much more pleased that I

924
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 9: thought I would be with mccarran's play coming in. I

925
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:17,320
Speaker 9: like the fact that he's taken to the team and

926
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 9: then you could see his feelings. I mean, he's become

927
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 9: a factor on the ice, in penalty killing for sure,

928
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 9: and even on the third line. He's he's doing more

929
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 9: right now than I thought he was going to do

930
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,280
Speaker 9: right away, and I think that that helps and Felino

931
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 9: as well. You know, when you got those two other

932
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 9: guys along, it changes, It changes the attitude of the

933
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,919
Speaker 9: team you're playing against because you look what they already had,

934
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 9: you know, and you look at some of the physical

935
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 9: guys he had, like Marcus and Middleton and Magaoshan, and

936
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 9: you start with guys that use their body as it is,

937
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 9: and now you had a couple more guys like that.

938
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:04,399
Speaker 9: They We've talked about this in the playoffs a lot

939
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 9: of times. We say, really the toughest trophy to when

940
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 9: your goal for a long time, the bodies take a beating. Well,

941
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:14,800
Speaker 9: the wild are in a better position to give the

942
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 9: opposition beatings than they've ever been. They've got They're heavy.

943
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 9: They're a heavy team now and you had trending in

944
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 9: there with everything that moves right now, he's leading the

945
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 9: league by a long shot in checks. I think that

946
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 9: the Wild have upgraded in an area not so much

947
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:40,760
Speaker 9: talent wise, but physicality wise, in where they can impose

948
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 9: punishment on the other team to go along with the

949
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 9: other assets. They have.

950
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 2: Last item for you today, and it's a sad story

951
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:53,240
Speaker 2: that I'm certain you are aware of. Regarding Jesse Pierce,

952
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 2: the NHL reporter and really NHL, I'd say just local

953
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 2: presence and the story MO people know by now, as

954
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:04,359
Speaker 2: she and her three children died in a house fire

955
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 2: in their home over the weekend. We still don't have

956
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 2: a lot of details about what took place, what prevented

957
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 2: them from getting out. That story I think is still

958
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 2: those details are still under investigation. But everybody's trying to

959
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:22,800
Speaker 2: process something that's not it's almost impossible to process, Luigi

960
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 2: factoring in age. As I said, children presence just an

961
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 2: absolutely heartbreaking story.

962
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 9: It's awful, it's terrible. I was sick when I heard it.

963
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 9: This is a woman that had an infectious personality. She

964
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:45,919
Speaker 9: just exudes joy when you were around her. She very

965
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 9: very knowledgeable. She loved hockey, she loved her job, she

966
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:55,320
Speaker 9: loved her family. But for something like this to happen,

967
00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 9: I've been trying to process this. I can't you know,

968
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 9: I'm I'm waiting like everybody else. I'm trying to understand

969
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 9: how does something like this happen? And it's just something

970
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 9: that you you could never recover. I feel so sorry

971
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:14,240
Speaker 9: for her husband and and their their family, the remaining

972
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 9: family members. I just don't know. You know, I've had

973
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 9: misfortunate of having to go through losing a child, and

974
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 9: when you lose four in the family, I I just

975
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,279
Speaker 9: don't know how you how you handle that. I just

976
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 9: I just say you got to pray for them and

977
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 9: think of we give them all the support you can,

978
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 9: but you can never replace people like that. And it's

979
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 9: just a tragedy. You wouldn't wish that on anybody. I mean,

980
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 9: there's there's there's no rhyme or reason for something like

981
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 9: that to happen. And I'm just I know how devastated

982
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 9: her made, part of her family has to be and

983
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 9: her friends, and I can understand that you're never going

984
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 9: to recover from it. It's something your life has changed,

985
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 9: has been altered.

986
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 2: There's no finessing it. You're one hundred percent right, And

987
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 2: you know she's a reminder to Louis I think in

988
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 2: a professional sense, leaving aside that the horrific nature of

989
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:22,360
Speaker 2: the tragic personal loss of how the media has changed

990
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 2: a little bit, and in this regard, i'd say in

991
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 2: a positive way that that you know, there was a

992
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 2: time where if you didn't work for the newspaper, right,

993
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,839
Speaker 2: or you didn't work for the dominant radio station, whatever,

994
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 2: it's kind of hard to carve out right a presence.

995
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 2: But she did, you know, she did in very unusual ways,

996
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 2: and a lot of it, as you say, was she

997
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 2: was always there. I mean, she was a round and

998
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 2: that counts for a lot if you're trying to, you know,

999
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 2: establish sort of hockey in this case, hockey reporting credentials.

1000
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 2: You're always there and you're always asking questions. Leaving aside

1001
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 2: her style, which was very infectious, but she carved out

1002
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 2: her own place right doing it the way she did it,

1003
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 2: I think professionally speaking, that's what was so impressive about

1004
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 2: her run.

1005
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 9: Then who does that remind you? It's funny you said

1006
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 9: it that way. But what you just said about her,

1007
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,879
Speaker 9: she was owls there. I was wrong, Sid Hartman. Yeah, yeah,

1008
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 9: you're right the same. You know that. That's the type

1009
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 9: of individual she was. She was always there, she was

1010
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 9: never never finished working. In other words, she's always thinking

1011
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 9: about her job, what she do, what can she come

1012
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 9: up with? She was That's what I said to her.

1013
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 9: I saw her what I was redoing here, you know,

1014
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 9: it just seemed like she was owys there.

1015
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1016
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 9: And you love to see people like that that were

1017
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 9: so in love with what they do and they were

1018
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:52,520
Speaker 9: so committed to getting stories out of the people that

1019
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 9: followed her. It was that to be a joy for her,

1020
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 9: just to get the feedback that she used to get

1021
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:02,280
Speaker 9: about the things that she brought a bug and covered.

1022
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:04,919
Speaker 2: Thank you for the time, great stuff, as always, Louis.

1023
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 2: We appreciate it. We'll talk next week, Youtubey, I'll see

1024
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,319
Speaker 2: you next week. Oh good, even better? Yeah, well yeah,

1025
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 2: now it's now it's almost warm enough, right, who's surprise.

1026
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 9: That long?

1027
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 2: Yeah? I understand. We'll talk soon, see you next week.

1028
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 2: Thanks Luigi, lu Nanny brought you by our good friends

1029
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 2: at Kemp's. We'll come back with we got like maybe

1030
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 2: a potpourri segment yet to come. This partial score just

1031
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 2: in from the women's basketball second round of the regional

1032
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 2: in Fort Worth, Texas. And I'm not making up this

1033
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 2: partial Syracuse twelve Yukon sixty seven.

1034
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 3: You're we're going to score tickets to the biggest games

1035
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:58,960
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1036
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:01,439
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1037
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:03,759
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1038
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:07,200
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1039
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:08,000
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1040
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if some of our listeners understood the

1041
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 2: point I was making with Louis about the hiring and

1042
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:26,839
Speaker 2: firing of coaches, in this case the University of Minnesota.

1043
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,480
Speaker 2: Uh seven sixth three, guy, Actually there's two seven six

1044
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:35,879
Speaker 2: three guys writing. I think different yeah numbers. Asked Louis

1045
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 2: about the job Coyle did hiring Johnson and Whalen. Should

1046
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:44,320
Speaker 2: he discussed he should discuss as he was praising Mark

1047
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 2: seven sixth three. Guy, Let's not go Kaititel just yet.

1048
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 2: He hired all the previous coaches too, with the exception

1049
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 2: of Frost.

1050
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:53,399
Speaker 9: Well.

1051
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 2: I think that was the very point I was making

1052
00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 2: is that if you're in the business long enough, you're

1053
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 2: gonna get more than one bite at the apple in

1054
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 2: terms of hiring, or you fire one that you may

1055
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 2: have already, you know your second chance at hiring. And

1056
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 2: the point remains the same. If you're in it long enough,

1057
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 2: you're going to fire people that you've hired. And it's

1058
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 2: self evident to me that if you go back to

1059
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 2: when Ben Johnson was hired, I didn't like it, and

1060
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 2: it had nothing to do with Ben. It had to

1061
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 2: do with I think putting him in a position in

1062
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 2: which he was likely to fail. I think that hire

1063
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 2: was pressured from above to a certain extent, and it

1064
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 2: was always going to be a long shot in a

1065
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 2: very volatble period in college basketball.

1066
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 7: So I.

1067
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 2: Was not surprised when ultimately he made the decision to

1068
00:56:55,719 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 2: move in another direction. Now, it does take him off

1069
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:06,800
Speaker 2: the hook that he made. You can't forget that he

1070
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 2: made that hire in the first place. But if you're

1071
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:12,640
Speaker 2: honest with yourself, you understand the way the business works,

1072
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 2: and it really is the same at any level, college

1073
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 2: or pro for the people who do the hiring and

1074
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 2: the firing. If you hire a coach and it's a failure,

1075
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 2: and you acknowledge it and move on and you hire again,

1076
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 2: and that coach also struggles. A lot of times. You're

1077
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 2: not going to get a third bite at the apple.

1078
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 2: That's going to be it, and probably it's the way

1079
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 2: it should be. But if the second time around the

1080
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 2: indications are better improvement, then you're often saved. That becomes

1081
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 2: the story. You can't go to the past, you can't

1082
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 2: go back, but you can go forward. And in the

1083
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 2: case of the women's basketball program, I understood the Lindsay

1084
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 2: hire suon why Lindsay took it? How do you say

1085
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 2: no to You're Alma Monter, even if you're not sure,

1086
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:07,919
Speaker 2: the timing is such that you're absolutely one hundred percent ready.

1087
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 2: You got to do it, and if you're if you're

1088
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 2: the ad, it's hard not to do it. Give it

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00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 2: all she has represented didn't work out, So you move

1090
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:22,040
Speaker 2: on and you get a more unexperienced head coach. And

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00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 2: now I'm not saying that she deserves a lifetime contract,

1092
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 2: but conditions have improved. I don't know how you look

1093
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 2: at anything other than she knows how to coach. Now,

1094
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 2: it's the old issue of can you get players and

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00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 2: keep players and they're having. If they lose as expected

1096
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 2: to use CLA, likely in the round of sixteen, it

1097
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 2: will be considered a highly successful season, especially what's coming

1098
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 2: out of so to that extent, that's how if you're

1099
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 2: the ad, you changed the story. If you simply say

1100
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:56,479
Speaker 2: I'm never going to forgive him for that first hire

1101
00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 2: because it was a bad one, regardless of how well

1102
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 2: the second hire does, you're not being realistic about how

1103
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:04,880
Speaker 2: really the business works, or how any of this works.

1104
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 2: Now in the case of Nico, some may say it's

1105
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 2: too early to celebrate completely, and I wouldn't disagree with that.

1106
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 2: I think the early signs are very encouraging because of

1107
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 2: a horrific list of injuries, and basically you're playing six

1108
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 2: guys the whole season, and yet they were most of

1109
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 2: the time, with the exception of a couple games, including

1110
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:33,200
Speaker 2: a late game in Indiana which I didn't like, they

1111
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 2: were very competitive. So the signs are again, you made

1112
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 2: a better decision coach to hiring a guy who's already

1113
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 2: been a head coach, and it doesn't have to learn

1114
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 2: that part on the job, So if you want, you

1115
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 2: can simply make it about the ones that don't work

1116
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:53,560
Speaker 2: I'm saying the true test for most ads is you

1117
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 2: got a second shot at it. You hired the first time,

1118
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 2: it didn't work out. Now you're on the clock and

1119
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,440
Speaker 2: you've got to make it right this time, and largely

1120
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 2: you can end up being an AD for another ten

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01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 2: to fifteen years if the second time around you make

1122
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 2: good enough hires. That's the business. That's sort of how

1123
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 2: the business works. You're gonna make bad hires, you're gonna

1124
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 2: make good hires. The question is the sequencing of it,

1125
01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 2: and I think the signs are positive in both those areas.

1126
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:23,960
Speaker 2: Now will it translate on the hockey side, we don't

1127
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 2: know yet. That's a very fair point, but I think

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01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 2: you're being unrealistic if you don't understand that. That's part

1129
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 2: of the deal. And what a bad hire does is,

1130
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 2: as I said, put you on the clock that, well,

1131
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 2: how many shots are you going to get at this?

1132
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 2: You better make sure you get this one right. And frankly,

1133
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 2: I think that's part of the reason, at least in

1134
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 2: the case of basketball, he went more traditional to the

1135
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 2: extent that he hired in both cases experienced head coaches

1136
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 2: who didn't have to learn on the job. It didn't

1137
01:00:55,040 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 2: guarantee success. But I think at a place like the

1138
01:00:57,560 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 2: University of Minnesota, it's the way you should generally go,

1139
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 2: even though there are examples of assistance being promoted and

1140
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 2: being able capable of handling the job. Let's come back,

1141
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 2: wrap things up, remind you what you missed earlier today

1142
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 2: and what we have coming up on a very busy

1143
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:17,960
Speaker 2: program tomorrow. Steek it's the Bumper to Bumper show rap.

1144
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 2: It's probably by American pressure. All right, busy program today,

1145
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 2: if you missed portions of it, it should be podcastable

1146
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 2: and downloadable later in the evening. Johnny Athletic joined us

1147
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 2: at about three point thirty this afternoon. Guardzi, who's expected

1148
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 2: back on the program in the producer's chair tomorrow, joined

1149
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 2: at four fifteen to review his Golden Gophers late surge

1150
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 2: to knock off Ole Miss and advance to the Sweet sixteen.

1151
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:56,920
Speaker 2: That's it four fifteen. As I mentioned, and in addition

1152
01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:00,080
Speaker 2: to the top five and five, we also had go

1153
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 2: for women's coach basketball coach Don Plitze White between five

1154
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 2: point fifteen and five thirty, and then Luigi a day

1155
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 2: early because he had some scheduling issues tomorrow. So busy

1156
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 2: show and a little bit of everything covered, some basketball

1157
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 2: conversation early, not a lot of a section stuff. Today

1158
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 2: we might delve back into update, kind of freshen things

1159
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 2: up in that regard on a number of fronts and

1160
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 2: find out how many Sharks and Jets we can annoy tomorrow.

1161
01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:32,320
Speaker 2: That's on tomorrow's show. So with Louis out, we're kind

1162
01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 2: of wide open. Maybe we put Seaffert in the mix.

1163
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:40,480
Speaker 2: Football season knows no downtime, but maybe we give him

1164
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 2: this week off. I don't know. I don't think there's

1165
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:47,920
Speaker 2: anything hugely important vikings related since we last spoke, but

1166
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 2: we'll take that under consideration.

1167
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:53,080
Speaker 3: Other ideas we can pass those along as as well.

1168
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:56,080
Speaker 3: It's probably guards he's only day this week, maybe almost.

1169
01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 3: That's a good point. That's a good point.

1170
01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 2: That's not a bad thought, because he'll be heading to

1171
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 2: Sacramento and he'll probably milk it. I mean, the game

1172
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:06,960
Speaker 2: is Friday, so that means he'll probably have to leave

1173
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 2: tomorrow night after the show or Wednesday morning. Yeah, you know,

1174
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 2: something like that. Yeah, funny, it's amazing how that was

1175
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 2: there for enough said though, remarkable how that works out. Yeah,

1176
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's just coincidence. That's how we get paid

1177
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 2: on that show by actually appearing. But that's that's just

1178
01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 2: the way it is. That's the way it goes. Interesting

1179
01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 2: comment about lopsided scores and coaches running up the scores.

1180
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:36,720
Speaker 2: I've learned to change my philosophy on that. Maybe we'll

1181
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:39,000
Speaker 2: get into that tomorrow. Thanks for watching, and thank you

1182
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 2: for listening, and we will talk to you tomorrow.

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Speaker 10: Three