WEBVTT - A Crunchy Groove Thursday (Hour 4) 3/12/26 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:04.360 On air at AM five seventy LA Sports and I'm 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.920 demand on the iHeart Radio wapp. This is the Petros 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:11.200 and Money Show. You are one of the kind hosted 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:15.120 by Petros, Papaday guests left school after sixth grade and 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.439 the voice of the Bolts not Money Smith. The answer 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.680 is money. There is nothing you can do. You know 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:25.639 it's coming. This is the Petros and Money Show. 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.240 On the home of your world champion Los Angeles Dodgers. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.240 Make us your top pre set on the iHeartRadio app 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:47.440 that happen to you. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:58.280 da da da. Welcome back everybody. It's Petros and Money 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:03.560 on I M five seventy LA's You're home of Dodger Baseball. 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:12.280 Just put DJ poly D to shame. I'll take Polyd 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.720 out any day. Tomorrow we got Clippers versus Balls. Jonas 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.600 and I will be on from three to six thirty Saturday, 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.080 Dodger Socks Massa is gonna do Dodger Talk at seven o'clock. 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.840 It'll be during the Dodger Night game. That will be 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.160 going on Dodger Socks or Dodger's Rockies tonight. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:30.680 I got it? 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.080 What do I why do I try? Uh? David Vasse 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.880 will be live tonight doing Dodger Talk while the Dodgers play. 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:42.200 It's the Rockies, right, it's over rock Was I right? No? 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:48.360 Was I wrong? What reds tonight? Whatever? Because if it 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:52.720 was the Rockies, I would have dropped the reel. Ralph 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.960 Lawler the CNR, same thing. Who cares, No, it's it 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.480 matters and I should have got it right. I'm sorry. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.000 All right, anyway, Jonas is here and we're happy to 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.520 be together. We're on all the way until seven and 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:09.200 then David Vassi will take over. But right now, it 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.440 is time brought to you by our friends at the 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:17.520 Masters in Coaching program at Concordia University, IRVINECUI dot edu. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.560 Slash Coaching is where you go to sign up for 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.880 the summer session. It's for in effect, it's yeah, we're three. 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:33.160 Fun fun fact. Undefeated Miami of Ohio lost in the 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.880 MAC Tournament today to U Mass. Who knew you? Mass 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.520 was in the MAC the minute men slipped in there 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:43.000 in the last minute. Now we all hope that Miami 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.280 of Ohio, after their big undefeated regular season, still makes 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:47.919 the tournament. I think we can all agree on that. 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.760 Oh yeah, come on, but did you know, Jonas that 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:58.760 Miami of Ohio in Oxford, Ohio, not Miami, Ohio. Yeah, 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.600 it's actually the Miami Fan Alley named for the people, 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.360 the Miami people, which are a Native American tribe. But 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:11.120 the Miami of Ohio University is known as in the 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:15.320 football world the Cradle of Coaches. Did you know that? 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:20.639 No kidding? Yeah, they have a whole foundation and gigantic 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.959 hall of fame of these guys that have coached there 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.840 that went on to great It's a They have a 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:33.640 creepy sculpture garden group of giant one life size coaches 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.920 from the Cradle of Coaches and you go walk amongst 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:43.080 them like a frozen zombie coach yard. There are ten statues. 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.840 There's a lot more guys in the Cradle of Coaches 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.720 Hall of Fame or whatever than there are statues, but 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:53.080 there are ten statues. And amongst those ten statues are 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.040 Paul Brown, Oh yeah, creator of the West Coast offense, 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:07.200 weeb U bank Era, Parsigen, John Harbaugh, John Harba, Dad Yeah, 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:14.320 bo Chef Beckler, Sean mcvnn Sean mcvabon. They got a 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.120 statue of his little ass, No kidding, Yeah, who doesn't 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.320 have a statue, but is in the Cradle of Coaches. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.839 You guessed it, ron Zuck. Oh, okay, hold on a second. 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:30.840 They're gonna disrespect Illinois Florida great ron Zuck and not include. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.400 Him and all this up against Paul Brown and we 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:36.200 you bank. Yes, I belive this. I didn't look, but 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.280 I don't think there's a Wally Zerbiak statue on the 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:46.039 campus anywhere either. You look, you look like a weird beaver. 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.080 I hope they make the tournament. I hope they didn't. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:52.200 Was it? 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.120 Look I could be totally wrong here, but was John No, 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:56.440 John Gruden was Toledo? 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.719 Right? Was he Toledo? Yeah? If he was in the 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.040 Cradle of Coaches. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.120 Have a statue, yeah, I would assume it would be 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:03.919 John ger. I just wasn't sure what the emails that 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.640 came out. Maybe they were trying to shy away. Maybe 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.680 they tore those down like they did during COVID. No, 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.240 those emails are fine now, Okay, Yeah, I wasn't sure. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:15.200 Everything's okay. It's okay to be racist again. Okay, that's 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.680 a great point. My wife, who knew me in college, 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.440 today was the weirdest thing. She's like wasn't your nickname 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.120 like the N word. I was like, yeah, yes it was. 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:33.880 It's a different time, dear, It's time for quick hits, Toms, 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:41.560 quick hits. I make it quick, y'all. Oh yeah, Dodgers 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.840 home versus the Rats. I knew it the whole time. 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.520 Tonight Tamble Back Ranch, our next Dodger game. I said, 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:52.600 all this, it's on Saturday. Showingo Tani pitch the equivalent 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:57.440 of four innings and a live BP. During today's WBC workout, 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:02.000 he threw fifty nine pitches against eight batters, struck out seven, 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:06.160 broke a couple of bats. He said, everything's going well 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.320 in his pitching prep for the regular season. And he 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.920 settled that that thing in Hawaii quietly, that crooked business 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:15.400 deal he got sued for in Hawaii. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:21.839 What now was that, uh, the real estate endeavor or 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:22.919 something along those lines. 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.279 Yeah, but you know stuff in Hawaii, real estate, stuff 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.000 like that in Hawaii usually goes really well. Yeah, no 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:30.640 problems there. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.560 Yeah, I mean, listen to somebody who was in Maui 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:34.159 last summer. 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:35.880 I can tell you, oh, yeah, for sure, you know 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.520 everything about it. Still got a long ways to go. 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.359 Take you over to dollies. Everything's going great here in 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.720 lower Hono Piolani Highway. In his first public comment since 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.160 the Ravens, can you get a bottle of Malibu? No, 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:52.120 the half bottle the Ravens nixt to trade that would 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:56.840 have sent Max Crosby to Baltimore, he re expressed recommitted 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.599 to the Raiders like a like a recommitments ceremony, that 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.640 people have Everything happens for a reason, Crosby wrote in 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.599 a post on X with the Undertaker, believe it, believe 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.600 nothing you hear, and half of what you see. I'm 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:14.160 a raid run back that ass. Yeah, Crosby. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.680 By the way, we had a great race trade on 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.119 the show. LeVar and I and Brady Quinn to where 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.239 he traded us Miles Garrett and we got we traded 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:26.920 him Max Crosby where I'm. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.160 Not Black, Well, I'm just like what if I was, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.040 I'd have problem with LeVar being my GM. You know, 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.520 I'm just like, you know, like, I don't know if 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:40.760 I need LeVar trading away Miles Garrett. I mean Brady, 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.200 I don't care if he lied about what Rudolph said 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:43.480 to him. 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.280 Brady and I also traded him Babe, Ruth and we 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:47.600 got back Patrick Mahomes. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.120 So I feel like there's a a team even. 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.200 Swap right there. You know, we didn't we didn't go 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.000 back on that trade. Everybody to keep Mahomes. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:59.239 Why not? He's black. The Lakers are forty to twenty five. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.160 They've won three in a row. They not Tiger Woods 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:06.480 is one thing way to go shafter. The Clippers are 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.360 thirty three and thirty two. They're at home versus the 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.400 Bols tomorrow night. They're the first team in NBA history 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.040 to move above five hundred starting the season off fifteen 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.880 games or more under five hundred. Here is their thick 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.600 necked coach, tylou No. 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.760 I appreciate it, but I mean, I'm just proud of 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.120 our whole coaching staff and our players, just not you know, 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:25.520 just me. 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:27.480 I try to set the mood. 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.320 I try to set the environment, you know, to make 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.800 sure everyone's comfortable, everyone's enjoying it. And when you six 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:34.640 and twenty one, it's kind of hard to enjoy. But 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.440 our guys were still in it, you know, Zoo, you 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.720 know James, you know Kawhi went to another level, and 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:42.640 you know we never gave in, you know, and so 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.400 KD DJ getting healthy, JC planned better, you know. So 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.640 it was it was all the guys in the locker room. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.640 And like I said, it wasn't just me, as our 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.120 coaching staff. They've been great, you know, all season long 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:55.680 to hang in, you know, and we're not done yet, 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.760 you know, but we have had had a long climb 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.120 and we still have seventeen games ago. But I'm very 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.240 proud of our group. I'm very you know, proud of 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.880 our coaching staff, very very proud of the front office. 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.000 You know, some of the moves. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:09.960 They made, and you know, people talked about, you know, 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.520 it was you know, kind of crazy, but just you know, 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.160 staying the course. You know, most teams, if gotta started 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.720 six and twenty one, it could have been some instant change, 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:19.840 you know. But the you know, front office, like I said, 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.959 l Frank, Trent Mark, you know, mister Obama just stayed 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.400 the course to have full belief in our staff, and 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.559 you know, we just kept plugging away. And so here 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.280 we are now. You know, we got to continue to 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.680 keep playing well, but we're going in the right direction. 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:38.480 UCLA plas Rutgers in Chicago right now. We're counter programming. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.959 Somebody thought we carried this game third round game tournament. 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.240 If they could beat the Scarlet Knights also known as 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:52.280 the Scarlet Knicks, they will get tom Izo with Michigan 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.800 State tomorrow. Good luck to those Scarlet Nicks and the 0:09:55.840 --> 0:10:01.040 Bruins and the College Basketball Invitational. Jonas, this is your favorite. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.320 Oh, I love it man. Nothing better than a sixteen 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.720 team postseason event for teams missing the NCAAA and NIT 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.880 and announced on Thursday, will skip twenty twenty six. Unfortunately 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.960 due to circumstances beyond the control it faced, thinning participation 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:19.960 from transfer portal chaos, NI changes favoring power leagues, and 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:24.960 a new Las Vegas rival with nil incentives, or it 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:26.040 just kind of sucked. 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:30.000 Maybe maybe there's that that's not as important as you know, 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.160 getting some money out of some TV network to air 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.480 the damn thing. All right, those are your quick kits. 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.640 The one and only Jonas Knock say here what the 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:42.760 most is? Here all the way until seven o'clock and 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:49.880 he will be back tomorrow for more racial draft. Yeah. 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.000 I mean there's certain guys you just can't have. Why not, dude, 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.800 we give a babe, Ruth. It's a fair swap. It's 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.800 too Look, I don't I don't get into this very much. 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.720 But if we're really gonna to discuss it, the black 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.040 quarterback thing is too sensitive of a topic to take 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.440 away mahomes from the Blacks. You can't take my home 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.400 from the blacks. He's a black quarterback and say what, 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.200 here's Doug Williams. He doesn't work. No, no, you wouldn't 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:19.160 go there. Jalen hurts an over glorified running back Russell Wilson. 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.240 You can have them. Actually they gave him back. I 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.920 can't do that. They put him and floated him down 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.560 the Nile like like baby Mosey. What airs they sent 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:36.560 Russell Wilson away. God, we'll be back with more Great 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.960 Sports Dot coming up next to petrosen Mondy with Jonas 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:47.560 Knock Great Sports Talk. Petros Papadakis that money, SMI, this 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.839 is Petro send money on demand cracking. Everybody, welcome back. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.840 It's Petroson money on M five seventy LA Sports. It's 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:56.959 a crunchy groove on Thursday. And who doesn't want to 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:03.480 groove crunchier than us? Nobody but here from Chicago right 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:07.840 now are b FF. The one and only Don McClain 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:12.120 working for the Big Ten Network calling the Big Ten 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.760 Basketball tournament. Here he is the leading scorer in the 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.679 history of the Pac twelve, the best of the best. 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.960 His statues stands strong and beautiful Lemon Park over his 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:31.120 hometown of Seam Valley, California. The next ass he kisses 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:35.280 will be the first yet. He still works for FS one, 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:40.520 the Big Ten Network CIA and right here on seventy 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:47.160 LA Sports. It's one of our few compensated weekly guests. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:51.800 In fact, our only compensated weekly guest. Jonas, Oh, I'm 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.160 sure you're being compensated for being here a guest hosting. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:13:01.439 I'm the five seventy side, like Marilyn Monroe to the 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:05.640 Kennedy Boys, it is Don McClain, Hi, Don, how are 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.360 you too? 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.920 Good? Guys? Just getting ready quick turn around tomorrow again 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.480 and uh yeah, the big boys come in tomorrow, so 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:15.360 getting ready for that. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.959 Are you having fun at the tournament? Is it enjoyable? 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.400 Is it hectic? Are the Big ten guys being cool? 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.720 Are you having fun in Chicago? Or or is it 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.000 a slog? How do you feel doob? 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.360 No? No, it's good and working with Lebyrn's great. I 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:29.959 didn't get a chance to do any games with him 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:31.960 this year in the regular season last year I did. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.760 But we picked up right where we left off, although 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.559 I should have alerted him that I was going to 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.800 make a joke about being the all time leading scorer, 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.640 because he had no idea, so that joke went right 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.120 over his head during the game, but hopefully no one 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:50.120 else caught that. But no, it's good. It's it's it's 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.040 it's fun, and when you get good games, it's really fun. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:54.240 We had two good games today. 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.640 How sad is it for USC? I mean, the way 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.760 they started the year winning the Maui Invitation all that's 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.679 I mean, most of the time you win that, nobody 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.800 usually collapses in the way that us he did, not 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.240 making the tournament? How bad is that for Eric Musselman? 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.480 How concerning for USC basketball, which seems to have some 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.040 momentum as far as signing players, and they have a 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:17.840 good arena and you're there a lot. 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:22.680 Yeah, here's the thing, pee And look, Eric Musselman's track 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.680 record tells you he's a good coach, So it's not 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.680 like he's some new coach trying to figure it out 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.560 and the jury is still out, like he can coach. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:33.160 But I will say, what's starting to crystallize a little 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.120 bit here, at least for me, is that if you're 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.360 going to play the portal game and you're going to 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.880 bring in eight nine new players a year, it's going 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.160 to be tough, and especially when you bring in guys 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:51.080 with some questionable reputations like Baker Mazara, and you know, 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.520 he was a big problem for them, and so they 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.600 let him go right before the end of the regular season. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.800 But this is what happens when you play that game. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.600 It's you don't know because the portal is so fast. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.640 All the coaches will tell you it's like speed dating, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.120 and so you don't really get to know these kids. 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:09.840 You don't bring them on campus, they don't have a 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.160 weekend long visit, and so you're just taking them based 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:14.960 on the fact that they're older and they have good 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.960 numbers in their career, and you figure that's going to 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.640 be enough. And sometimes it is for certain players. But 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:24.320 sometimes when you're bringing in that many, there might be 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.120 a couple that kind of undermine your season. And I 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.240 think if you continue to do that, it's going to 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.840 be a problem at some point. Because se was solidly 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.000 an NCAA tournament team for a long time during the 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.760 season and then they lost eight in a row to 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:40.520 finish the year. 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.680 Don Now that you've been had a chance to do 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.280 Big Ten basketball and be out there at the tournament 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.480 for a couple of years, now, what's been the big 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.360 difference for you and the big separation between that and 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:53.760 all those years with the Pact line. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:59.480 It's just bigger Jonas and you can seal it. It 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.320 just all the teams come in and they have fans. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:03.960 You know, it used to be in the old Pac twelve, 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.040 like Arizona would travel believe it or not, Utah traveled 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.760 pretty well to Vegas for the tournament, but that was 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:14.240 pretty much it UCLA kind of but here. I mean, 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.560 this place is full for every every game with every 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.360 team seemingly even if they're not having a great year. 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.440 But it's just I didn't rich a great question because 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.600 I had the conversation yesterday with somebody at the Big Ten, Like, 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.840 I never really looked at the Pac twelve as anything 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.360 other than a high major, and it was considered by 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:38.440 everyone to be a high major, but it wasn't anywhere 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.720 close to what this is, what the Big Ten is. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.640 It's really not or really was it. I should say, what. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.960 About all those late nights. I spentned Pullman don What 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:52.200 does that mean? Nothing? Yeah, basically is the Big ten 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:53.520 gonna get like ten teams in. 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.760 They're gonna get nine in. Indiana was on the bubble 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.320 coming in and lost to Northwestern last night, so that 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.200 probably knocked them out. But yeah, they're solidly nine in 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.560 right now. I mean that's kind of the consensus. Ohio 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.280 State one today. They were a ten seed coming into today, 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.760 so they kind of solidified it. But they were really 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.400 the only one that was somewhat in question. And since 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.800 they won today, I think you'll you'll easily get nine 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:20.040 teams in on Sunday. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.640 I wanted this is not Big ten, it's Mac related, 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.000 but it's pertinent because for some reason this has turned 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.240 into a storyline to where there's some thought that maybe 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.960 Miami of Ohio shouldn't get into the tournament. 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:33.240 They lost in UMass. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.120 They're now thirty one and one on the season per 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.640 regular season perfect, but they lose in their first game 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.240 with the Mac. Turney, where do you stand on that? 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.440 That just that feels like we're trying to manipulate storylines 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.359 to have something to talk about, and how dare it 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.040 just doesn't it doesn't feel like it's even a realistic 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:51.359 possibility they wouldn't get in. 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.159 Yeah, I was saying, because I thought they were going 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.119 to run the table and be undefeated, that there's no 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.200 way that you can leave an undefeated team out of 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:04.640 the NCAA tournament. And unfortunately they just don't have They 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.000 don't have anything to compare it to because they haven't 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.880 played like a Big ten team, and so everybody wants 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.280 to pile on that they've piled up this record, But 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:18.480 my stance was, I don't care. Does my thought change 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.840 because they lost today, I think a little bit, and 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.200 whether that's fair or not, I think, you know, if 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.320 you haven't played anybody, but you're undefeated, okay, but then 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:31.080 you get tripped up by a UMass team, that kind 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.640 of gives all the naysayers what they needed to keep 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.600 you out. So I don't know what's going to happen Sunday. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.320 I think it's going to be fascinating because as much 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:43.920 as this thing is analytics driven now, the selection Sunday 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.360 and they have all this stuff in front of them, 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:51.639 it's still humans making the selections, and it's subjective, and 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:53.880 so it's going to be interesting to see who falls 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:59.879 on the metrics driven decision or the I don't know 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.080 human sense of whether they should be in or not. 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.240 I would guess that they're going to get in just 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.280 because it's been such a big story. I think that 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.200 will help them get in. But we'll see. 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.040 I mean, come on, U mass has Marcus Cambian. That 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:18.879 Puerto Rican guy Tom McLean is our guest. We're always 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:19.679 happy to have him. 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.800 Wait, he petitioned the court. 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:27.160 Campy's back and Caliperry left Arkansas a coach. Real quick, 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.720 let's talk a little bit about Michigan down before, because 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.320 we all know what Dae Marrow. We know there's so 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.119 many Euros throughout the Big Ten and these guys, but 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.080 not only is Michigan the by far the best in 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.359 the Big Ten, which is a great conference, maybe the best, 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.280 but how much better are they than everybody else in 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.320 college basketball? Is this gonna be one of those weird 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.840 years like Yukon a couple of years back. 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.240 I don't think so, just because they lost to Duke 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:57.879 a couple of weeks ago, and I think you know 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.800 that proved that they can be beat. Obviously, Wisconsin beat 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.359 them earlier in the year on their home floor, but 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.760 I don't think it's going to be that easy. I 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:07.639 still think, and I said it today during one of 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:09.800 my games, that I still think they're the best team 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:11.560 in the country. A lot of people think Duke is 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.800 now just because they beat Michigan, But I think once 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.520 you get into the tournament, the game changes, It slows down, 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.640 matchups become more of a thing, and I just think 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:25.000 when Michigan can go big and play smaller, you can 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:30.160 handle anything that's thrown your way. And I think that'll materialize. 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:34.720 But I don't think what I don't think what you're 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.399 saying is going to happen with like what Yukon did, 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:39.840 just rolled through the whole thing. I do think they 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:41.359 have the best chance to win it all, but I 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:43.320 don't think it's going to be like their steamroll and 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:44.600 everybody on the way to it. 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.520 How do you explain the turnaround with the Clippers transitioning 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:50.720 to the NBA in what whether there were six and 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.120 twenty one to start out the year, they've traded away 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.600 two of their three best players, and then here they 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:57.320 are first time over five hundred. 0:20:57.840 --> 0:20:58.560 What happened. 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:02.679 That's a great question, and it doesn't seem like it 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:05.560 can't be just that Chris Paul got let go from 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:08.640 the team. It can't be. I know it's a coincidence, 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:11.680 but there's no way. So there had to be some 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:15.680 sort of meeting. Come together. Look, guys, we are far 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.399 underachieving here right now and we need to get it together. 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:22.480 And that happens. It's a long season in the NBA 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.439 and you're not playing well. Sometimes you just need like 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:29.440 a player's only meeting or something like that to get 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:32.400 you back going. But it is hard to explain, especially 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:35.640 after they got rid of Harden. But you know, what's 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:38.880 it all worth? I mean, you know, they're clearly once 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:44.359 they got rid of Zoobots and Harden, they're clearly looking 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.520 to the future. So it's great that they're above five hundred. 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:48.840 But what does it really mean. 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:53.520 I don't know, not much. I guess what about the 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:57.679 Lakers playing all great without Lebron? I mean, it seems 0:21:57.720 --> 0:21:59.880 like these guys, I mean, the way the season started. 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:02.200 I'm not trying to hate on Lebron, but the way 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:05.199 the season started with Reeves and Luca running around and 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:07.000 the way they look in the last few games, is 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:08.120 there a correlation there? 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:11.959 Don I don't know I've been watched enough to be honest. 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:15.399 What I do know is similar to my sentiment with 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:19.840 the Clippers is until they get better defensively. Yeah, they're 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:21.879