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Speaker 2: All right, here we go.

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Speaker 3: We're starting a minute late. That is not my faults.

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Speaker 3: What's up, muleg or, ESPN fifteen thirty. Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 3: Thanks to Chad Brendel for filling in. Yesterday. I was

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Speaker 3: Work sort of all over the place. Today, we're going

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Speaker 3: to talk with one of the Apple TV MLS analysts.

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Speaker 3: Vincent de Tusche is going to join us FC. Cincinnati

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Speaker 3: is a train wreck right now, losing the last game

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Speaker 3: to New England sixty to one. We'll spend some time

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Speaker 3: on that. Coming up in about fifteen minutes. The Bengals

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Speaker 3: free agency approach continues to be confounding, and the Reds

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Speaker 3: are going to use six guys for five spots. Also

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Speaker 3: later on this hour, college basketball fans have spoken, and

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Speaker 3: what they're telling you is the opposite of everything you

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Speaker 3: hear every time you turn on your TV. That coming

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Speaker 3: up in just about forty minutes, show preview is available

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Speaker 3: right now on Twitter at Moeger thanks to share Facts

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Speaker 3: credit Union, become a member at sharefacx dot org. There's

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Speaker 3: a lot of ground to cover when it comes to

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Speaker 3: a lot of different things. We'll start with the team

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Speaker 3: to take center stage tonight. Miami in the second game

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Speaker 3: and Date in this evening will play SMU in the

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Speaker 3: first four. By the way, radio coverage of that game

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Speaker 3: is on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. And this game is

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Speaker 3: interesting for a few different reasons, you know. On one hand,

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Speaker 3: unfortunately for the RedHawks because they lost to UMass six

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Speaker 3: days ago, that's basically forced them to play in Dayton tonight.

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Speaker 3: On the other hand, they get to play in dateon

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Speaker 3: with Travis Steele on the show on Monday, and he

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Speaker 3: On one hand, Miami did lose its most recent game,

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Speaker 3: their fatal flaw all season long bubbled to the surface.

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Speaker 3: They're not a great defensive team. They can score. They

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Speaker 3: At the same time defensively, Travis Deeel's talked about this

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Speaker 3: on one hand, they lost their most recent game. On the other,

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Speaker 3: maybe emotionally, maybe mentally, they go in with a little

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Speaker 3: they won the MAC Tournament. They're not playing in Dayton,

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Speaker 3: but all right, they're playing close to home, and I

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Speaker 3: wonder how unburdened they may be tonight. I don't know

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Speaker 3: a loss. They've got to slow down an SMU team

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Speaker 3: that is twenty six in the country in offensive efficiency,

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Speaker 3: on one hand, SMU tough challenge, especially for a Miami

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Speaker 3: Because you have two teams that can score, which team

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Speaker 3: And then what's the fallout from this game? If they win,

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Speaker 3: that said, you and I both know if Miami loses

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Speaker 3: the takes are gonna be from every corner. They're gonna

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Speaker 3: service of Long Neck's Sports grill a lot on that

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Speaker 3: Duke Tobin's the one who told us in February that

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Speaker 3: But first, FC Cincinnati has hit a low point and

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Speaker 6: Exactly like I said, maybe it's a good rebound game.

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Speaker 3: Two teams desperate for points. On Sunday, it's going to

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Speaker 3: takeover TV broadcast and confusion over where you're going to

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Speaker 3: find the games. It does feel like locally teams are

435
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Speaker 3: doing really well when it comes to engaging fans, and

436
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Speaker 3: it's a shame because all of this is likely to

437
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Speaker 3: get undone, at least to a degree, and maybe just temporarily,

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Speaker 3: but still undone when we have a lockout next winter.

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Speaker 2: And it's such a.

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Speaker 3: Weird dynamic where everybody who cares about the sport will

441
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Speaker 3: talk about how awesome an event like the World Baseball

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Speaker 3: Classic is, how it showcases so many great players, how

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Speaker 3: it gets people engaged in a sport before the regular

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Speaker 3: season even begins, how it feels like a six months

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Speaker 3: later extension of the postseason, how it's reflective of an

446
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Speaker 3: era where there are so many good, fun to watch,

447
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Speaker 3: likable in some cases relatable young players. And the way

448
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Speaker 3: the World Baseball Classic game's unfold isn't app to apples

449
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Speaker 3: compared to Major League Baseball regular season games, if evidenced

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Speaker 3: by the fact that we don't have the abs challenge

451
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Speaker 3: system in the World Baseball Classic. But against that backdrop,

452
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Speaker 3: you have large numbers of fans who feel like their

453
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Speaker 3: team has no chance. The resentment that's being aimed at

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Speaker 3: the LA Dodgers, which I think is largely misplaced because

455
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Speaker 3: they're operating by the rules, And I think the sense

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Speaker 3: of despair that a lot of fans have when they

457
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Speaker 3: look at how some teams spend versus how some teams don't,

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Speaker 3: and in some cases what they don't spend is more

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Speaker 3: of a refusal to spend. Then it's an example or

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Speaker 3: an indictment against you know, their own finances. It just

461
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Speaker 3: it's such a shame because I think about where we're

462
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Speaker 3: likely to be in a year, possibly no spring training,

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Speaker 3: maybe Opening Day being pushedback months weeks, maybe not even

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Speaker 3: happening at all, Like it feels like unfortunately, all possibilities

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Speaker 3: are on the table for twenty twenty seven, and I

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Speaker 3: know with day next week, this is a road that

467
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Speaker 3: a lot of people right now don't want to go down,

468
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Speaker 3: and it feels far off, but it's not, and it's

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Speaker 3: just I genuinely do worry. And I know this is

470
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Speaker 3: not the first time we've talked about this on this show,

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Speaker 3: I genuinely do worry and wonder about whether or not

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Speaker 3: people after the lockout, however long it takes if games

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Speaker 3: are missed, are really going to come back. And I

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Speaker 3: really do wonder for all the positive on field momentum

475
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Speaker 3: that's been building for as good of a job as baseball,

476
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Speaker 3: and I say this as a frequent critic of the

477
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Speaker 3: current commissioner, for as good of a job as baseball

478
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Speaker 3: is done at just making the game better, at being better,

479
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Speaker 3: not great, but better at promoting young stars. I just

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Speaker 3: I wonder how much of that is going to be

481
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Speaker 3: undone by what's ahead with the workstoppage. And I think

482
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Speaker 3: the really frustrating thing is the work stoppage feels not

483
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Speaker 3: only inevitable, but it feels like everybody in the sport

484
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Speaker 3: feel like it has to happen in order for there

485
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Speaker 3: to be any real change in the game. And I,

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Speaker 3: maybe I just speak for myself, I can't help but wonder, like,

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Speaker 3: between now and the expiration of the CBA on December

488
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Speaker 3: the first, isn't there a way to in a very

489
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Speaker 3: urgent manner have negotiations and have discussions aimed at a

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Speaker 3: achieving a new CBA. But also avoiding a lockout and

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Speaker 3: avoiding undoing all the good momentum that baseball is built

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Speaker 3: that was evidenced by last night. I don't know what

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Speaker 3: the TV rating for the World Baseball Classic was last night.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that.

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Speaker 3: It's come out, but I feel like every sports fan

496
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Speaker 3: I know or engage with paid at least some attention

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Speaker 3: to that event. It helps that it's occurring against a

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Speaker 3: non football backdrop. Baseball in October has the issue of,

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Speaker 3: you know, occurring simultaneously with football, and not just professional football,

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Speaker 3: to college football as well. It just it's got to

501
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Speaker 3: be so frustrating inside the sport, and I think it's

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Speaker 3: frustrating as a fan that you have all this good

503
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Speaker 3: stuff happening on the field over here.

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Speaker 2: You had a must.

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Speaker 3: Watch game last night, a great game that was decided

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Speaker 3: in the ninth inning, a game that had people talking

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Speaker 3: about baseball in the middle of March, and in eight

508
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Speaker 3: months much of it could be undone because the lockout

509
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Speaker 3: is inevitable, and there seems to be a real belief

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Speaker 3: that the lockout is going to go for a very very,

511
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Speaker 3: very very long time. Fourteen away from four o'clock. One

512
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Speaker 3: other guest our legal analyst on we'll talk about Wes

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Speaker 3: Miller not from a coaching perspective, but there are reportedly

514
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Speaker 3: ongoing discussions about the separation agreement between the two. What

515
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Speaker 3: does separation agreements look like? Stuart W. Penrose from the

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Speaker 3: Manila Law Group is going to join us at four

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Speaker 3: thirty five the Bengals offseason. Remember what Duke Tobin had

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Speaker 3: to say back in February, Well, if you're like I am,

519
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Speaker 3: you're like Marvin Lewis, you see better than you hear.

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Speaker 3: You heard Duke Tobin, what are you seeing that coming

521
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Speaker 3: up at four oh five? But first, contrary to what

522
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Speaker 3: you might hear, college basketball is not broken. That's not

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Speaker 3: me saying it, it's you saying it.

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Speaker 8: Next Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic from.

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Speaker 2: This report is teen thirty.

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Speaker 3: We have folks waiting and waiting patiently and we'll get

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Speaker 3: to you coming up after the top of the hour.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to squeeze anybody. We do want to

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Speaker 3: see you tomorrow morning at the Holy Grail for the

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Speaker 3: cors Light Turny tip off. By the way, it makes

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Speaker 3: me happy to see that for the first time in

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Speaker 3: the years, it's not being called the corps Light Turney kickoff.

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Speaker 3: It's not basketball. I mean it's not football. It is basketball,

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Speaker 3: so it should be a tip off anyway. We go

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Speaker 3: on the air ten am tomorrow all the way till noon,

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Speaker 3: and then we post up and watch games all day.

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Speaker 3: And we've done this now for we've done this since

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Speaker 3: the Grail opened fifteen years ago. So because it's their

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Speaker 3: fifteenth anniversary tomorrow, we'll have rollback beer pricing five for

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Speaker 3: fifteen bucks. You can't beat that. Also, the doors are

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Speaker 3: going to open about nine to forty five. We go

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Speaker 3: on the air at ten. You want to be one

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Speaker 3: of the first sixty four people in the door, and

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Speaker 3: if you are, we'll give you a team and If

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Speaker 3: Doors open at nine to forty five. We go on

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Speaker 3: the air from ten till noon. The games tip off

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Speaker 3: a little bit after twelve o'clock, and then we post

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Speaker 3: up and watch games all day. We've got guests, we've

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Speaker 3: got prizes, we've got cold course lights. So we'll hope

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Speaker 3: to see you there tomorrow morning, starting at show starts

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Speaker 3: at ten o'clock. And again, you gotta be one of

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Speaker 3: the first sixty four people that don't. Don't be one

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Speaker 3: of those folks that you come in and you get

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Speaker 3: a team and then you leave. We've seen people do that.

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Speaker 3: They're called Reds employees. I've seen Cincinnati Reds employees try

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Speaker 3: to do this. Ah, go get my team. Are you

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Speaker 3: gonna come out and hang out? No, I gotta go

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Speaker 3: to win for Field Cassolini, No, nuh huh. Come in,

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Speaker 3: Get something to drink, something to eat, hang out, don't

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Speaker 3: do that. We'll see you tomorrow morning. Show goes from

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Speaker 3: ten till noon, which means I ain't gonna be here tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: That'll be Chad Brendle. I'm not doing two shows on

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Speaker 3: the first day of the tournament, so see tomorrow morning

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Speaker 3: at the Holy Grail. Should be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: Duke Tobin weeks ago said I've never not been all in.

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Speaker 3: I think he lied. More on that coming up and

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Speaker 3: your phone calls on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 5: ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati's sports station.

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Speaker 3: Hi, bye bye, after four, This is ESPN fifteen thirty

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Speaker 3: Moegor thanks for listening. If you watched the college basketball

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Speaker 3: game last night NC stayed in Texas, you heard another

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Speaker 3: set of commentators talk about how broken the sport is.

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Speaker 3: But they got a very good reminder during the broadcast.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what it is in just a few

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Speaker 3: minutes plus. Duke Tobin says one thing the Bengals do

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Speaker 3: another that as well. Five thirty. We have folks who

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Speaker 3: have been waiting patiently. Let's take their phone call.

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Speaker 9: Nick.

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Speaker 3: You're on ESPN fifteen thirty. Nick, Good afternoon. How are

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Speaker 3: you good.

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Speaker 10: Afternoon, mo, I'm good.

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Speaker 9: Hey.

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Speaker 10: First of all, can we get some guests the Foot

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Speaker 10: in honor of opening day next week?

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Speaker 2: You know what? We can?

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Speaker 3: We we are, yes we can, and because we actually

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Speaker 3: have we have concert tickets to give away and I'm

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Speaker 3: not going to be on the rest of the week

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Speaker 3: in the afternoon, so early next week we will have

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Speaker 3: to kick off the baseball season. We will have some

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Speaker 3: guests the Foot awesome.

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Speaker 10: My buddies and I love us, and guests the.

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Speaker 9: Foot so fantastic.

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Speaker 2: You're you're the ones.

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Speaker 10: Hey, Listen, you had a caller on Monday that commented

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Speaker 10: on uh kind of the the staleness uh in the

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Speaker 10: West Miller era and kind of some similarities that related

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Speaker 10: to Anthony Grant from one flyer from one flyer and

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Speaker 10: I'm alum to another and you made a perfect point

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Speaker 10: on this day. He Anthony Grant does mean a lot

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Speaker 10: to us up here in Dayton, and you know, as

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Speaker 10: he's he's you can't get classier than Anthony Grant. As

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Speaker 10: far as I'm concerned, I do agree. There's been a

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Speaker 10: lot of as we've seen with with Wes Miller too,

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Speaker 10: there's been a lot of some sameness and staleness. He

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Speaker 10: likes to develop the player, and in this era of

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Speaker 10: the transfer portal, you know, what are your thoughts on

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Speaker 10: if he sticks around another year? Would would we do

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Speaker 10: you think we'd see a very similar type of roster

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Speaker 10: or would there be some branching out knowing that this

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Speaker 10: might be one of his final years as the as

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Speaker 10: the head coach.

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Speaker 3: I think the easy answer is I would expect more

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Speaker 3: of the same because it's felt like they've had a

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Speaker 3: similar team from one year to the next for a

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Speaker 3: while now, you know, ever since the obi Obi's last year,

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Speaker 3: it's felt like and that's there's some good to that.

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Speaker 3: You know, year in and year out, they win twenty

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Speaker 3: games year in and year out. You feel like they've

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Speaker 3: got a shot against most teams they play in the

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Speaker 3: A ten year in and year out. There for the

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Speaker 3: most part competitive when they play high majors, But it

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Speaker 3: feels like every team is the same. It feels like

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Speaker 3: every team has a very similar feel to it. I

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Speaker 3: don't know how that changes if everything structurally remains the same. Now,

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Speaker 3: maybe there's going to be this large infusion of cash

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Speaker 3: and they go and get a guy that they haven't

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Speaker 3: the type of player that they haven't had yet, and

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Speaker 3: a guy who might be an a ten player the

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Speaker 3: year type guy. But like ever since twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 3: like the last four Dayton teams have looked and felt

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Speaker 3: very similar, and so because of that long established pattern

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Speaker 3: of similarity, I kind of would expect next season to

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Speaker 3: kind of look the same, would you, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 9: Do think there's some truth to that.

651
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 10: I'm wondering if you know, let's just say, and hopefully

652
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 10: this isn't the case, but they lay an egg tonight

653
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 10: against Bradley and the powers that be decide that Anthony

654
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,240
Speaker 10: and Grant is no longer fit to be the head coach.

655
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 10: In your estimation, who or what type of guy do

656
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,320
Speaker 10: you think they would go after to replace him?

657
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 3: You know, That's that's a good question, because I'm less

658
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 3: interested sometimes in types and more interested in, you know what,

659
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 3: what the specifics of the head coach, you know, like

660
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 3: I think sometimes we do that in the NFL. It's well,

661
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 3: they need a young, offensive minded guy. Okay, Well, then

662
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 3: if you're looking for a type, then you're eliminating possibly

663
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 3: all sorts of other possibilities. So I'm less interested in

664
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 3: types and more interested in the specifics of how are

665
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 3: you going to do things different and better as the

666
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 3: guy that you're replacing, and I don't. I don't know

667
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 3: if that's about roster construction, putting together better rosters, and

668
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 3: if you're going to go down that road, then you

669
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 3: have to talk about the resources available.

670
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:46,879
Speaker 2: I am.

671
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 3: I'm not an expert on anything, but I'm not an

672
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 3: expert on what resources Dayton has at their disposal to

673
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 3: build rosters. But there there does feel like a staleness

674
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 3: to it. I know a lot of folks look at

675
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 3: the success that Travis Steel has had, and I like

676
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,280
Speaker 3: a lot, But I mean, when Travis got hired at Miami,

677
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 3: it wasn't like, holy crap, they hired this like dynamic personality.

678
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 2: It was all right.

679
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 3: They got a guy who historically has been good at

680
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 3: getting dudes. It didn't work out at Xavier, Let's see

681
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 3: if it works out at Miami. I don't know that

682
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 3: I'm interested necessarily in a type of coach. I just

683
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 3: I want somebody who the games they're supposed to win

684
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 3: in the A ten, which for years, frankly, going back

685
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 3: to when I was in school at UD it feels like,

686
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 3: with the exception of twenty twenty, they're always good for

687
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 3: that puzzling loss or two in the Atlantic ten. I

688
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 3: want the coach who's going to avoid which like in

689
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 3: that league you have to. It reminds me a little

690
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 3: bit of UC in the American Athletic Conference, where there

691
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 3: were a handful of losses that if you suffered and

692
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 3: it killed you from a metrics perspective, Dayton's got that

693
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 3: issue in the A ten. But they're probably not moving

694
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 3: anytime soon, and so I need a coach who's better

695
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 3: at stepping into the stepping in better at not stepping

696
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 3: into those land mines than Anthony Grant has been.

697
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 10: Yeah, I would agree. I mean, it's unfortunate that regardless

698
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 10: of who the coach is better, in the last couple

699
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,919
Speaker 10: of decades, there's always one stinker in the Atlantic town

700
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 10: that they seem to come across each season. So yeah, well,

701
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 10: hey Mo, thanks for taking my call. And yeah, we'll

702
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 10: look forward to Guess the foot next week.

703
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 3: Just the foot will happen. I promised Aaron get working

704
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 3: on Guess the foot right now. We'll see, We'll see

705
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 3: Dayton does play in Peoria tonight against Bradley and the nit.

706
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,919
Speaker 3: It also was talking about this with Tony Pike offf

707
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 3: air today, we were having a conversation about the the

708
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 3: UC coaching search, which doesn't feel like so much of

709
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 3: a search as much as it feels like just Jared

710
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 3: Calhoun's season is still ongoing and Cincinnati has not formally

711
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:43,240
Speaker 3: publicly fired or moved on from West Miller. The cycle

712
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 3: is weird because I don't know how good of a

713
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 3: job Syracuse is right now. I don't know how many

714
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 3: jobs are better than Cincinnati. I don't know how, if

715
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 3: it came open, how many jobs are legitimately better than

716
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 3: Dayton now. There are probably still some gigs that haven't

717
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 3: opened up based on what happens in the NCAA tournament

718
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 3: in it or with a surprising retirement, something like that.

719
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 3: But it also feels like I think the name Luke

720
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 3: Murray is interesting. Luke Murray obviously assistant under Dan Hurley

721
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,800
Speaker 3: at Yukon, was here working for Chris mac at Xavier

722
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 3: has been an assistant, went to Chris with Chris to Louisville,

723
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 3: and it feels like at some point he's going to

724
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 3: be given an opportunity. I'm sure there have been offers

725
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 3: or interviews that have come his way, but he hasn't

726
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 3: become a head coach. Yet, like I'm I'm sort of

727
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 3: curious when it's going to be his turn. And I

728
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 3: wonder if, in this cycle, with there just not being

729
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 3: a lot of names that are being bandied about right now,

730
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 3: when he's going to get his chance, and if maybe

731
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 3: somebody like that would make sense for the Dayton Flyers.

732
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 3: It's it's a weird cycle, like I said this last week,

733
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 3: and I get accused of being a homer by some

734
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 3: I think right now Cincinnati has the best job available.

735
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 3: That could change in the coming days, but I feel

736
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 3: like Cincinnati has the best job available, and I think

737
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 3: the Dayton job is a good job. You're gonna get

738
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 3: instant fan support, good facilities. I'm not an expert on

739
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,720
Speaker 3: the financial resources available, but it's it's got basketball history,

740
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 3: it's you know, it is the Atlantic ten, but it's

741
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:21,879
Speaker 3: it's a school that should be winning on a more

742
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 3: consistent basis in the A ten than they actually do.

743
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 2: But it's a good gig.

744
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:29,720
Speaker 3: We'll see if it comes open twelve minutes after four o'clock,

745
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 3: and we'll also see what happens with Travis Steel and

746
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,400
Speaker 3: Butler because there's obviously a lot of chatter that he

747
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 3: could be coaching his alma mater, taking over four fad mata. Mike,

748
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 3: go ahead, you're on ESPN fifteen thirty. Good afternoon, Mike,

749
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 3: Thank you, moll.

750
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 9: How you doing.

751
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 2: I'm well, man, what's up?

752
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 9: Cool? Opening day? Now, I'll get to March Vanders opening day.

753
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 9: We have Garrett Crochet, the American League leader in strikeouts

754
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 9: last year, facing a Hani or Suarez and I. Honestly enough,

755
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:08,399
Speaker 9: they've never faced each other.

756
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 3: Uh, that's not all that surprising, I guess factual, Yeah.

757
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 9: Never faced it. I thought maybe in a few years

758
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 9: he was with Seattle or whatever he was, that he

759
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 9: would have faced him. But he didn't. So we'll see

760
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,320
Speaker 9: exact what can throw it hard?

761
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:28,240
Speaker 3: Mo Oh, dude, Garret Crochet is Garret Crochet is awesome, awesome.

762
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:32,399
Speaker 9: Yeah, I sure wish we had a I sure wish

763
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 9: we had a Hunter going against him, don't you.

764
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 10: Well?

765
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 2: I wish Hunter was healthy.

766
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 3: I do think it's fair to be a little bit

767
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 3: concerned about how Andrew Abbott has pitched during spring training. Now,

768
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 3: you know, nobody would begrudge his opportunity to to be

769
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 3: the opening day starter. I think, based on the season

770
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 3: that he had last year. He deserves it, but you

771
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 3: would like as we take good and bad spring training

772
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 3: results with grains of salt, will take good results like

773
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 3: Matt McLean's with a grain of salt, will take bad

774
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 3: results like Andrew Abbotts with a grain of salt. But

775
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 3: his performances in the Cactus League have been, to put

776
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 3: it gently, they've been uneven. And I wish that wasn't

777
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 3: so much the case.

778
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 9: I do too, and I don't. I just warned over

779
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 9: all these years that you can't put Jack in spring

780
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 9: training for whatever reason, to explore, you know, chiffers exploring

781
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 9: pitches whatever. Who They're still out of shape a little bit.

782
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 9: And mister Rabbits got that little beer belly going.

783
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 2: So do I? So do I?

784
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 9: Yeah, they picture put a rig. I got mixed. I

785
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 9: got Mick going. I got Mick going to the UH

786
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 9: to the Elite eight.

787
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 3: Mike, you and I are on the exact same page.

788
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 2: I have U C.

789
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 3: L A losing the duke in the Elite eight. I now,

790
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 3: if MIKEL. Brown, if I knew he was going to

791
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 3: be healthy, I was gonna have Louisville going to the

792
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,760
Speaker 3: Elite eight. He's not gonna play against USF. I don't

793
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 3: know if he's going to be available for round two.

794
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 3: I don't know if he is available, how healthy is

795
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 3: going to be. Louisville was seven and six without him.

796
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 3: They're a completely different team. Uh So, I think UCLA

797
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 3: is going to beat UCF, a team that I do

798
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 3: not like at all.

799
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 2: And I think they're gonna beat Yukon.

800
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 3: Connecticut down the stretch, lost four out of eleven by

801
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 3: the way, worst team in the field against the spread.

802
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 3: Donovan Dent is playing great right now, and I think

803
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 3: they can beat Michigan State.

804
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 2: We're on the same page.

805
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 3: Ucla is the lowest seed I have getting to the

806
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 3: Elite eight, but I've gotten there eventually playing Duke.

807
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 9: I think cal Baptist is gonna knock Kansas off. Peterson

808
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 9: just comes in with that half baked effort that he

809
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 9: does sometimes. Yeah, I like I like calbatt That's one

810
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 9: of my upset gems. You like mcnease, No, McNee no.

811
00:43:58,280 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 9: I like Vanderbilt reasons.

812
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 3: Reason love how Vanderbilt played in the SEC Tournament. They

813
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 3: came within an eyelash of winning it. Better on the interior,

814
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 3: deeper uh and better on the defensive end.

815
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 9: And I just I just hate. I just hate seeing

816
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 9: Florida have to play Houston down there in the Well Regional.

817
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 9: Is that the South Regional Florida and in Houston are

818
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,959
Speaker 9: probably going to have to play but game.

819
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 2: But do you know, Mike, you know, you know how

820
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 2: much I like Houston, right.

821
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 9: Absolutely, I do.

822
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 3: I have I have Illinois beating him.

823
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 9: Well, you know what, that's an interesting point because Illinois

824
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 9: is a sleeper because they've been up and down a

825
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 9: little bit, haven't they lit they But but when they're good,

826
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 9: they're pretty damn good.

827
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 3: Yeah. I love Brad Stevens and look, man, I I badly.

828
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 3: I have a preseason bet for Houston to win it all,

829
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 3: which I would I would love to cash. But I

830
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 3: think Illinois on the offensive. On the offensive end, they

831
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,720
Speaker 3: can space, they could play on the perimeter. Their ball movement,

832
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 3: I think when Illinois's offense is humming, is the most

833
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 3: fun to watch in the entire sport. Now, defensively, they

834
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 3: have been a punching bag. But I don't know that

835
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 3: I would trust Houston to the degree that I would

836
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 3: like to be able to exploit their defensive weaknesses. I

837
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 3: think Illinois. I got Illinois beating Mike Kug's and your Gators.

838
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:35,280
Speaker 9: Wow. Okay, okay, I ain't gonna change it, but okay,

839
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 9: I like this Hawaii team. I like them to knock

840
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 9: off Arkansas. They can rebound the basketball now. Hawaii is

841
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 9: a very good rebounding team. And I like them knocking

842
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,439
Speaker 9: off Arkansas, I really do.

843
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:54,439
Speaker 3: And I love Arkansas, Yeah, I don't because Arkansas takes

844
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 3: great care of the ball. They're awesome in transition. I

845
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 3: think they're going to be able to run against them,

846
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 3: and they have. They have right now. The guy that

847
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 3: I think should be the number one overall pick in

848
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker 3: Darius Acuff.

849
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 2: I'm taking. I'm taking. I'm taking Arkansas.

850
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 9: You like Saint Louis beating Georgia, I do.

851
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 3: Uh No, I have Georgia winning that game. I'd liked

852
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 3: nothing about how Saint Louis played down the stretch, and

853
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,760
Speaker 3: look they raced off to a twenty four and one start.

854
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 3: I liked nothing about how they played down the stretch.

855
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 3: Georgia at the end of the season number two in

856
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 3: the country an adjusted offensive deficiency over the final three weeks,

857
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 3: are shooting forty seven percent from three over the last

858
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 3: three weeks. Uh Cincinnati, Cincinnati played them back in December,

859
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 3: and that was a frustrating loss because the bear Heads

860
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 3: had an early lead. I think the Bulldogs that day

861
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 3: showed potential. Now Georgia is not great on the defensive end,

862
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,760
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna be able to outscore Saint Louis,

863
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 3: and I think them against Michigan and I have the

864
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 3: Wolverines winning the whole thing. I think Georgia Michigan could

865
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 3: be sneaky fun. You like Akron, I don't, although I

866
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 3: am rooting for him because I like John Gross. You

867
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 3: talk about like a sneaky great season. Akron loses one

868
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Speaker 3: game in the regular season in the MAC and then

869
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Speaker 3: they win the MAC Tournament, and in another year they're

870
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Speaker 3: the talk of the MAC and instead a little bit

871
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Speaker 3: of an afterthought.

872
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Speaker 2: But no, I don't have them winning Round one.

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Speaker 9: They can't beat Texas Tech. You don't think.

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Speaker 10: No.

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Speaker 3: Texas Tech with al Toppins a different story. But Christian

876
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 3: Anderson's another one of my favorite players. I think he

877
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Speaker 3: can control a game against a team like Akron.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, he's special. Thanks for all the time you've given me,

879
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Speaker 9: though I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Mike enjoyed the tournament. Thanks so much. Twenty minutes after

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Speaker 3: four o'clock. Speaking of college basketball, a lot of people

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Speaker 3: say one thing and do another. College basketball commentators say

883
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Speaker 3: one thing, fans do something entirely different.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that next on ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 3: This report a sponsor retirement. DUI Can I just send

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Speaker 3: you to his Instagram? Do I have to read the

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Speaker 3: whole post? He says this at the end who Day

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Speaker 3: forever fifty five out Logan Wilson. Logan Wilson had a

898
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Speaker 3: nice career. I hate this for him. I hate this

899
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Speaker 3: for us. When I think of Logan Wilson and I

900
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 3: would imagine you are the same way. I will think

901
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 3: of the penalty called on him in the Super Bowl.

902
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 3: That was a bad call first and foremost, and that

903
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 3: is not fair. It was just such a significant play

904
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Speaker 3: in that game. He was in the middle of it.

905
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Speaker 3: But it feels like Jesse. I remember we had Logan

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Speaker 3: Wilson on the show like a week after he was

907
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 3: drafted out of Wyoming, and I just remember thinking like,

908
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:14,399
Speaker 3: this dude seems like he gets it and a part

909
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 3: of some very good teams and a big part of

910
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 3: some very good teams. And congratulations to Logan Wilson on

911
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 3: his retirement. It got weird at the end, which it

912
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 3: usually does. I'm gonna be willing to bet that between Burrow,

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00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 3: Chase and Higgins with one of those dudes at some point,

914
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:34,839
Speaker 3: it's gonna get weird at the end. Forget about the ending.

915
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:36,919
Speaker 3: Look at the body of work. Logan Wilson had a

916
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Speaker 3: very good body of work as a Cincinnati Bengal. Announcing

917
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Speaker 3: his retirement, Logan Wilson LB. You could read his entire

918
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 3: post good stuff on college hoops. We have more folks

919
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,399
Speaker 3: waiting on hold that we'll get to in just a bit.

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00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 3: I'm watching the the first four game last night between

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Speaker 3: Texas and NC State, won by Sean Miller's team with

922
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Speaker 3: I respect this. A lot of Xavier fans made the

923
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Speaker 3: trip to hate watch Sean Miller and Heckelum. Now I

924
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Speaker 3: respect it as long as you're not going and like

925
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Speaker 3: ruining other people's time, like if our friend Hunter Sansom

926
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Speaker 3: tweeted out a photo of like a guy who I

927
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 3: guess was just riding Sean Miller and everybody around him

928
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 3: looked exhausted by him. Like, I'm for the heckling as

929
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Speaker 3: long as you're not ruining anybody else's good time. But

930
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Speaker 3: I respect the hate watch. But anyway, watching the game

931
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Speaker 3: on TV last night, Charles Barkley and Dick vi Tal

932
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Speaker 3: did color alongside Brian Anderson. I thought the funniest part

933
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Speaker 3: of the broadcast, and I don't think Dick was being facetious.

934
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Speaker 3: He asked Charles Barkley if he was a top one

935
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Speaker 3: hundred all time NBA player. And the frustrating thing is

936
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Speaker 3: when I put that on social media, there were legitimately

937
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Speaker 3: people who are like probably not top one hundreds, like, okay,

938
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Speaker 3: do you know how good Charles Barkley was, So there

939
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 3: was that They also got into a discussion about how

940
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 3: you know nil's got to be rained in and I'm

941
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 3: all for guardrails. We have no rules in this sport.

942
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,720
Speaker 3: But I always push back against the notion that college

943
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 3: basketball is broken.

944
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Speaker 2: I hear this all the time.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Dave O'Brien, I guess Texan, he's in

946
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Speaker 3: the ESPN broadcast with texted Dick to say, like, hey,

947
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Speaker 3: by the way, our ratings are great. So Sunday's NCAA

948
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:27,359
Speaker 3: Tournament selection show, highest rating in twelve years. Big Ten

949
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 3: Tournament Final up four percent from last year. Largest audience

950
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 3: in the history of that event. Most watched conference title

951
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 3: game in any conference in thirty years since Kentucky and

952
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 3: Mississippi State in nineteen ninety six. ACC Tournament Final up

953
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 3: a third from last year. Big twelve Tournament Final up

954
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 3: thirty nine percent from last year. Biggie's Tournament Final up

955
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:58,240
Speaker 3: five percent from last year. Regular season CBS ten percent

956
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 3: increase from last year. Fox College Basketball up thirty eight

957
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:06,800
Speaker 3: percent from last year. ESPN and FS one regular season

958
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 3: viewership up twenty five percent from last year. Stop telling

959
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 3: me the sport is broken. A sport is broken when

960
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:22,280
Speaker 3: people no longer consume it. Media observers. God knows coaches

961
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Speaker 3: will spend all the time they have made available to

962
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 3: them publicly to tell the rest of us the sport

963
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 3: is broken. It needs fixing. Fans seem to like it

964
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Speaker 3: the way it is. It ain't broken if people continue

965
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 3: to consume it. Arenas are full. On a micro level,

966
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 3: are their issues with fans who don't quite feel the

967
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 3: connection to the players at the schools that play for

968
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:49,280
Speaker 3: the schools they love. Sure, viewership is through the roof.

969
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 3: We have the most watched Final four last year in forever,

970
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:57,879
Speaker 3: in decades, best NCAA tournament ratings in forever last year.

971
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 3: Does this mean the sport is perfect? Of course not.

972
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 3: Do we need guardrails and actual rules? Sure, if the

973
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 3: sport is broken, the ratings wouldn't be awesome. The ratings

974
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 3: are awesome. So are Stewart W. Penrose. He joins us.

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Speaker 1: Next Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: Because I don't want to make our guy way to

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Speaker 2: the attorney. Stewart W.

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Speaker 3: Penrose from the Manila Law Group is are sports legal

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Speaker 3: expert and normally we talk on Tuesdays, but it was

989
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Speaker 3: school play day in my house, so I was off yesterday,

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00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 3: so we bumped Stort back to this afternoon and he's

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Speaker 3: with us.

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Speaker 2: Now, how you doing, sir, I'm good.

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Speaker 9: How about you?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing well.

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00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 3: I want your legal opinion, your legal expertise when we

996
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 3: talk about what's happening between Wes Miller and the University

997
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 3: of Cincinnati. So Wes is not going to be the

998
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 3: men's basketball head coach next season. The school has not

999
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 3: officially announced his departure because we're hearing that the lawyers

1000
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 3: are lawyering. So, as a lawyer who has done some lawyering,

1001
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 3: take me through what you expect the negotiations, how you

1002
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 3: expect them to play out when it comes to the

1003
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 3: separation agreement between the school and the coach.

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00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 11: Sure, well, Mo, we know that his buyout goes down

1005
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,840
Speaker 11: on April first, so it's being reported everywhere and you know,

1006
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:51,520
Speaker 11: not announced by UC yet is that he's going to

1007
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 11: be gone on April first. So technically he's still an

1008
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 11: employee right now. But as his bio goes down to

1009
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 11: I believe four point nine million, at the point they'll

1010
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 11: negotiate what what statement is put out there? Use the

1011
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:11,879
Speaker 11: school resources between now and then, small things like that,

1012
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 11: but you know, essentially he's just waiting till April first,

1013
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:18,239
Speaker 11: and we'll get a buy out, whether that's paid up front,

1014
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 11: whether there's an offset if he gets a new job,

1015
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Speaker 11: or whether it's paid and installments will be uh, you know,

1016
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Speaker 11: subject to to what's in his contract.

1017
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:28,479
Speaker 9: But that's what's happening with Wes right now.

1018
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:31,920
Speaker 2: What things besides money could they be discussing.

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00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 11: He's got a great leg to stand on as far

1020
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Speaker 11: as money. He's not being fired, you know four clause,

1021
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 11: so they he has no reason to say to say

1022
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 11: yes to any reduction to his buyout, so he should

1023
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 11: be safe there. But you know what public statement is

1024
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:51,800
Speaker 11: going to be put out none disparagement, you know, between

1025
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Speaker 11: the two parties. You're not saying anything negative about Wes

1026
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 11: or him saying anything negative about you.

1027
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 9: See, very unlikely.

1028
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 11: He has any sort of non compete clause in There

1029
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 11: should be a moot point for UC. Anyway they want

1030
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 11: to wash their hands at the West Miller era and

1031
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:09,280
Speaker 11: this in a classy way and move on. So small

1032
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 11: matters are what are going to be negotiated. This would

1033
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 11: let this would already be announced if it's buy out,

1034
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,240
Speaker 11: weren't going to be going down on April first.

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Speaker 3: If a coach hasn't legally been let go, can a

1036
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 3: school legally do a coaching surge for his replacement?

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Speaker 11: Yes, certainly they can. It's it's a it's a regular

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Speaker 11: part of an administrative duty for any athletic director and

1039
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Speaker 11: program to do that. Absolutely, they can handle things from

1040
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 11: an administrative role, and you know, contact candidates, conduct interviews,

1041
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 11: negotiate for a new head coach. They absolutely can do

1042
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:43,800
Speaker 11: that very well within their rights.

1043
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 3: Attorney Stewart W. Penrose from the Manila Law Group is

1044
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Speaker 3: with us. I know you're all excited for March Madness VCU.

1045
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 3: Your alma mater is going to play North Carolina. Yes,

1046
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 3: you got to be excited. My flyers couldn't make a

1047
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 3: free throw against him. So I'll be rooting for the

1048
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Speaker 3: Rams against against u NC. But there is a legal

1049
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Speaker 3: issue your support, Yay, We'll give it to you. My

1050
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 3: bear Cats aren't in it, My flyers aren't in it,

1051
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,720
Speaker 3: So I'm all about the Rams. There is a legal

1052
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 3: issue hovering over one of the teams, Alabama, so Aiden Holloway,

1053
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 3: one of their star players, arrested on a felony drug

1054
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Speaker 3: possession on Monday morning. He has been suspended. I guess

1055
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:25,479
Speaker 3: he was discovered with an amount of marijuana over two

1056
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Speaker 3: point two pounds, So this makes it, I guess, a felony.

1057
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Speaker 3: He's not going to play at least at the outset

1058
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Speaker 3: for Alabama in the NCAA Tournament. Is it just the

1059
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 3: amount of pot that he had? What makes pot possession

1060
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 3: rise to the level of a felony offense?

1061
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 9: Sure?

1062
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 11: The amount of it?

1063
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 9: Certainly.

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Speaker 11: Alabama also does not have recreational marijuana. They have a

1065
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:53,680
Speaker 11: very small medical marijuana program, that is it. And two

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Speaker 11: pounds is a lot of weights though, I mean someone

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Speaker 11: will said there are great Saint Patrick stay there certainly,

1068
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Speaker 11: so yes, I mean the amount of it. Uh, the

1069
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Speaker 11: prosecutors are claiming that it's a mount that's that has

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Speaker 11: been intend to distribute.

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Speaker 9: His lawyers disputing that.

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Speaker 6: There's also an.

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Speaker 11: Issue of not having a special tax stamp to it

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Speaker 11: to essentially show that, uh you know, that had that

1075
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Speaker 11: he that he paid the state of Alabama taxes on it. Uh.

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Speaker 11: Like I said, Alabama only has a small medical marijuana program.

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Speaker 11: The only way you're gonna have a tax stamp is

1078
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Speaker 11: if you legally bought medical marijuana through the state of Alabama,

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Speaker 11: So that certainly doesn't apply here. It will be interesting

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Speaker 11: to see how it plays out, not just for not

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Speaker 11: just for the kid, but for Alabama as well. Uh,

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Speaker 11: let's be honest, this is not the first uh you know,

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00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 11: the first issue of controversy or basketball program has undergone

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Speaker 11: in the last couple of years. By far, I mean

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Speaker 11: as far as as far as the as far as

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Speaker 11: the young man here. You know, let's be honest here. Yes,

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Speaker 11: you know, it makes sexy headlines to say, you know,

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Speaker 11: he's face in prison time, and technically he is, but

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Speaker 11: you know, we're talking about a college student in marijuana here.

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Speaker 11: At the end of the day, you I understand that

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Speaker 11: it's of a high amount you know, you're likely looking at,

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Speaker 11: you know, probably some form of probation or maybe you

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00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 11: can get a diversion program. You know, certainly the courts

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Speaker 11: are going to be more lenient with a college kid

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Speaker 11: that has apparently apparently no criminal record that we know

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Speaker 11: of this far.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this.

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Speaker 3: So he's been suspended by Alabama, So for him, it's

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00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 3: kind of a moot point. But in a situation like this,

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00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 3: if you're a college athlete and you bail yourself out

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00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 3: of jail, or you get bailed out of jail, if

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Speaker 3: the school will let you play, can you travel to

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00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 3: play in competition or are there is there usually, especially

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Speaker 3: for a possible felony offense, here, are there restrictions about where.

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Speaker 2: Somebody like this could go.

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Speaker 11: It depends on what restrictions the court puts on you,

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Speaker 11: unless there's a restriction that says you can't leave the state. Yeah,

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00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 11: certainly he'd be free to go and travel.

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Speaker 2: With the team go round.

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Speaker 11: I see that he got a low bond in the situation,

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Speaker 11: and certainly he'd be able to travel and play if

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Speaker 11: Alabama lets them.

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00:59:57,480 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, well right now, they're not going to. But as

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00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:02,280
Speaker 3: you referenced, BEFO for It is Alabama, so you never know.

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Speaker 2: Go Rams. I'm rooting for you and we'll talk next week.

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Speaker 11: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: you approve of the red six man five man rotation?

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Speaker 3: before the top of the hour thanks to those who

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Speaker 3: have waited patiently. David on the West side of Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: You're on ESPN fifteen thirty David, Good afternoon.

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Speaker 2: How are you good?

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Speaker 9: Afternoon? Mo How are you today?

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Speaker 12: Sir?

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Speaker 2: Wonderful? What's going on?

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Speaker 12: I try to call a little bit more so you

1167
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 12: can see me as a regular I hope you kind

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Speaker 12: of remember me.

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Speaker 9: I'm the guy that keeps saying.

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Speaker 12: That this pick by Mitch John Cunningham is going to

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Speaker 12: be by Willie his brother.

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Speaker 2: If you remember me now I do, so.

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Speaker 12: I gotta ask you, yeah, do you think? And this

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01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 12: is what irritates me? I think once again, you see

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Speaker 12: is just not gonna turn over any rocks to make

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Speaker 12: this decision on hear me out real quick. The obvious

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Speaker 12: one when when they needed that when they hired Mick.

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Speaker 12: Mick took five years or was it four years to

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Speaker 12: rebuild the program. That was an easy pick because everybody

1180
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 12: knew who Mick was and Mick wanted.

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Speaker 9: The job, so that was easy.

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Speaker 12: And then John Brannon that was easy. And then quite frankly, Wes,

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Speaker 12: you know, we thought I was like trying to make

1184
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Speaker 12: it like be a sexy pick, but it just wasn't.

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Speaker 12: Are they and like you said to this, you nailed it,

1186
01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 12: and I always love your takes. Are we just doing

1187
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Speaker 12: the simple thing again?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, But because I feel like I feel

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Speaker 3: like Jared Calhoun, who's the clear front runner to be

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Speaker 3: the guy I do, I feel like Jared Calhoun would

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Speaker 3: be given other opportunities. You know, he's reportedly turned down

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Speaker 3: Kansas to eight. There were rumors that perhaps Pittsburgh would

1193
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 3: be interested if they didn't jump back into the Jeff caplepool,

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Speaker 3: I think for a ninth year. So he strikes me

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Speaker 3: as the kind of guy that would be given an

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Speaker 3: opportunity and other opportunities at comparable schools to U see,

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Speaker 3: I think it's completely fair to wonder if he did

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Speaker 3: not have direct uc ties, how much would the interest

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Speaker 3: level be the same versus what it is now, you know,

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01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:29,320
Speaker 3: meaning like, is it hey, Jared Calhoun is a great

1201
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:31,880
Speaker 3: candidate because of the success that he's had at Fairmont State,

1202
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 3: Youngstown State, and in two years at Utah State. Oh,

1203
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Speaker 3: it's also really cool that he's a Cincinnati guy or

1204
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:41,120
Speaker 3: at least has UC ties or is it hey, we

1205
01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 3: need somebody who has UC ties first, Oh, and then

1206
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:46,479
Speaker 3: we'll fill in the gaps with his experience. I'm less

1207
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:49,360
Speaker 3: interested in the UC ties part as I am. Is

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Speaker 3: he a qualified coach who can win, can win in

1209
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Speaker 3: this era, can make the leap from the league that

1210
01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:57,400
Speaker 3: he's in now to the Big twelve. Is it cool

1211
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Speaker 3: that he has relationships with former players and time to

1212
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Speaker 3: Bob Huggins in the school itself, That's fine, But I'm

1213
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Speaker 3: more interested in just fit in terms of his ability

1214
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 3: to get the most out of the players. He'll have it,

1215
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 3: you see, instantly, because I think there's gonna be a

1216
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:16,440
Speaker 3: degree of pressure on him to deliver almost instant results.

1217
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Speaker 12: Agreed, and that kind of juste you just nailed it.

1218
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Speaker 12: Then I just don't want to go into purgatory. And

1219
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:26,040
Speaker 12: I just got a feeling because run the Big twelve now,

1220
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 12: and Wes wasn't doing horrible. He was definitely wasn't making it.

1221
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Speaker 12: But I just feel like, if we don't do this

1222
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 12: one whatever, all right. My second one, and I'll let

1223
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Speaker 12: you go, is my I love all your takes, and

1224
01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:40,560
Speaker 12: my sons call me the Mohomer. I always agree with you,

1225
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 12: Oh no, oh no, But here's the one. I agree

1226
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:50,040
Speaker 12: with you that Kelvin Samson plays just like Hugs, So

1227
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Speaker 12: I can't deny that, and I've always said that, but

1228
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Speaker 12: I just don't like Kelvin.

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Speaker 9: He He's different than Bob. He just is not a

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Speaker 9: nice guy.

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Speaker 12: They foul on every single play. They can't blow the

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Speaker 12: whistle that many times. And he's just not a happy man.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if if we were to not if we

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01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 3: were to root against head coaches in college basketball because

1235
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Speaker 3: they weren't happy people, we wouldn't root for any of them.

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Speaker 3: Are you familiar with the work of Mick Cronin. Do

1237
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:18,680
Speaker 3: you know who Dan Hurley is? Have you watched Tom

1238
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:20,000
Speaker 3: Muzzo on a sideline?

1239
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Speaker 2: I mean, if it's.

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Speaker 3: If we're only going to root for the guys who

1241
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Speaker 3: are happy, I mean, I'm looking at my bracket now,

1242
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to find John Schier does seem to be

1243
01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:32,200
Speaker 3: pretty happy. Jake Diebler seems like a fun dude. I'm

1244
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Speaker 3: trying Tommy Lloyd seems like he's often happy.

1245
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Speaker 2: The rest of.

1246
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Speaker 3: These dudes, uh, I'm trying to find Matt Painter is

1247
01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 3: always angry. Uh Mark Mark Mark Hughes pretty pretty. Brad

1248
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Speaker 3: Stevens is always pissed off.

1249
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Speaker 12: So if you and I just I guess I can

1250
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 12: get down. I hate Houston.

1251
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Speaker 3: I appreciate the phone call, Thanks, thanks so much. I

1252
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 3: what I what I like about Houston, and I've I've

1253
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Speaker 3: said this often. I think it's a little bit of

1254
01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:02,880
Speaker 3: a simplification to say, well, they are what the Bearcats

1255
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:06,160
Speaker 3: used to be, although like that's an observation many of

1256
01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:11,720
Speaker 3: us have made the UC teams that I revere to

1257
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 3: this day. When I've watched Houston in recent years, they

1258
01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:20,920
Speaker 3: have reminded me of them. And I also feel like

1259
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Speaker 3: the success that Houston had toward the end of their

1260
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Speaker 3: run in the AAC, there was a little bit more

1261
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Speaker 3: to the idea that they foul on every play, and

1262
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 3: there was a little bit more to the idea then

1263
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:32,880
Speaker 3: that well they just throw it up against the glass

1264
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 3: like that's not so much the case.

1265
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Speaker 2: I think neither are so much the case right now.

1266
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:39,919
Speaker 3: But what I appreciate about them, and there are other

1267
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:42,440
Speaker 3: programs you could say this about, but what I appreciate

1268
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:44,840
Speaker 3: about them is I think it has never been more

1269
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 3: difficult for a college basketball program to have an identity

1270
01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:54,919
Speaker 3: because of the player at turnover. Houston has one. They're

1271
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Speaker 3: not the only one. Michigan State's had one for thirty years.

1272
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Speaker 3: I think, for the most part, Rick Patino teams have

1273
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:05,280
Speaker 3: an identity, but I think it's it's never been more

1274
01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:10,760
Speaker 3: difficult for a program to have an identity. I admire

1275
01:08:10,840 --> 01:08:14,840
Speaker 3: the programs that do. Houston carry that identity forth from

1276
01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:18,120
Speaker 3: the AAC to the Big Twelve, Like it feels like

1277
01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:21,519
Speaker 3: Houston's been a Big twelve program for decades. They've been

1278
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:23,599
Speaker 3: in the league for as many years as UC has.

1279
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:30,360
Speaker 3: I is Kelvin Samson grumpier than he needs to be? Yeah, Okay,

1280
01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:32,559
Speaker 3: there's a long list of college coaches you could say

1281
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:35,720
Speaker 3: that about the fact that they have that is to

1282
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:37,240
Speaker 3: me admirable.

1283
01:08:37,400 --> 01:08:38,479
Speaker 2: I like how they play.

1284
01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:43,320
Speaker 3: I just I'm an admirer of that program, and so

1285
01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 3: I it would be I'm not a Houston fan per

1286
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:50,200
Speaker 3: se but in an event like this, if my teams

1287
01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 3: aren't in it, sure I want them to win. I

1288
01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:56,959
Speaker 3: don't think they will. I think Houston's gonna lose to Illinois.

1289
01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:00,360
Speaker 3: But I think it's never been more difficul I think

1290
01:09:00,360 --> 01:09:02,840
Speaker 3: it's the toughest thing to do. Like Wes Miller, over

1291
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:07,480
Speaker 3: five years, I think it was the most common criticism.

1292
01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:12,080
Speaker 3: They never had a real program identity. I don't think

1293
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Speaker 3: Sean Miller had that in his run at Xavier two

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Speaker 3: point zero. Richard Patino's got to figure out how to

1295
01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 3: do that. I think it's never been more difficult for

1296
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:23,559
Speaker 3: a program in college basketball, year in and year out.

1297
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:26,920
Speaker 3: Like I know, I've said this before, I could close

1298
01:09:26,960 --> 01:09:31,240
Speaker 3: my eyes and envision what a Houston basketball player looks like.

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Speaker 3: I know how they play. I just I could picture it.

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Speaker 3: How many programs right now could you say that about

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01:09:39,200 --> 01:09:41,320
Speaker 3: There weren't millions of them. You could say that about

1302
01:09:41,360 --> 01:09:45,240
Speaker 3: ten years ago. There's fewer now. So yeah, I admired.

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Speaker 3: I admire how Houston runs its program. A couple of

1304
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Speaker 3: the way from five o'clock. By the way, speaking of

1305
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:54,719
Speaker 3: the tournament tomorrow, we're going to be at the Holy Grail.

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Speaker 3: It's the Corps light Turney, tip off. This is going

1307
01:09:57,439 --> 01:09:59,320
Speaker 3: to be a blast. We go on the air at

1308
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:01,920
Speaker 3: ten o'clock in the mo and then hang out watch

1309
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 3: games all day, and the door's open at nine to

1310
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Speaker 3: forty five. We've got prizes from Sports Investments and Riverbend

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Speaker 3: Music Center. And if you're one of the first sixty

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Speaker 3: four people through the door, and again I cannot emphasize

1313
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Speaker 3: this enough. If you're an employee of the Cincinnati Reds

1314
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Speaker 3: and you're just gonna come over and get your team,

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Speaker 3: then bring Opening day tickets with you. We've had to

1316
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 3: do this before. I'm on the air and I look

1317
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 3: over and I'm like, hey, that person works for the Reds.

1318
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Speaker 3: They're not sticking around, They're just getting their team. You're

1319
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:32,800
Speaker 3: allowed to do that if you bring me either gear

1320
01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:37,720
Speaker 3: or Opening day tickets. In the absence of that show up,

1321
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:39,679
Speaker 3: hang out. If you're one of the first sixty four,

1322
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Speaker 3: get your team, and if your team wins the national title,

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Speaker 3: you win a Tennessee Golf getaway thanks to Bertram Golf.

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Speaker 3: Learn more at Bertram goolfpackages dot com. We will see

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Speaker 3: you tomorrow morning at the Grail, a couple away from

1326
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Speaker 3: five o'clock we haven't even touched on the Bengals in

1327
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:58,280
Speaker 3: free agency yet, which kind of be honest with you,

1328
01:10:58,360 --> 01:10:59,800
Speaker 3: it doesn't break my heart, but we will in the

1329
01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:02,880
Speaker 3: next hour on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati.

1330
01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 2: Sports Station fifteen thirty Cincinnati's sports station.

1331
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:09,599
Speaker 3: It's about to joke about this on Twitter, and I

1332
01:11:09,680 --> 01:11:12,559
Speaker 3: haven't yet. Maybe by the time I do, everybody will

1333
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,639
Speaker 3: roll the rise. Maybe somebody else has already made this joke.

1334
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:20,559
Speaker 3: Cross Logan Wilson off the list of linebackers the Bengals

1335
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 3: could go get. He announces his retirement after a good

1336
01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:30,880
Speaker 3: NFL career seven or six seasons and was a part

1337
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:33,040
Speaker 3: of the twenty twenty one Super Bowl team and the

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01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two AFC Championship Game team. It is.

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Speaker 2: It's remarkable.

1340
01:11:40,800 --> 01:11:44,160
Speaker 3: Duke Tobin said when he had his big Megapress conference

1341
01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 3: that he's never not been all in.

1342
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Speaker 2: Does it feel like Duke.

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01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:50,800
Speaker 3: Tobin has been all in this offseason? There's what he

1344
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:53,040
Speaker 3: has said, and there's what he has done. And we

1345
01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:57,519
Speaker 3: always quote Marvin Lewis right, I see better than I hear.

1346
01:11:57,640 --> 01:12:00,280
Speaker 3: What I see has not been in significant, And what

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01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:02,479
Speaker 3: we have seen are three players who feel like they

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01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 3: will be able to help. Plus making the layup and

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01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:09,240
Speaker 3: bringing back Dalton Reisner. They haven't added another player in

1350
01:12:09,360 --> 01:12:13,880
Speaker 3: nearly a week. There's obviously still time, and maybe the

1351
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:17,920
Speaker 3: foundation for this offseason has always been the draft, but

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01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:22,840
Speaker 3: it doesn't feel all in. Frankly, it feels like this

1353
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:26,240
Speaker 3: offseason has been more about proving that they're not cheap.

1354
01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:31,160
Speaker 3: It can be perilous if you have my job to

1355
01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:37,479
Speaker 3: really dive into the weeds of contract structures and the

1356
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 3: salary cap. But the Bengals, the three guys they've signed

1357
01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:48,760
Speaker 3: Jonathan Allen, Brian Cook and Boye Maffey good signings, signings

1358
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:54,479
Speaker 3: that from a football perspective, each makes sense. Joe Goodberry,

1359
01:12:54,479 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 3: who's been on the show a bunch of times, put

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01:12:56,960 --> 01:12:59,800
Speaker 3: on social media that the three guys the Bengals have

1361
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:03,840
Speaker 3: to free agent contracts this offseason have taken the three

1362
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:06,080
Speaker 3: highest spots league wide when it comes to.

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Speaker 12: A p y.

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Speaker 3: Which is which is remarkable, which is which is just remarkable.

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01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:25,719
Speaker 3: It's it's it's the antithesis of of what you expect

1366
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:34,760
Speaker 3: from the Bengals, And you know, maybe maybe maybe that's good.

1367
01:13:35,479 --> 01:13:38,559
Speaker 3: Maybe that's good, Maybe maybe that's good because it's an

1368
01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:41,600
Speaker 3: apy by the way, is average per year. Maybe frontloading

1369
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Speaker 3: those contracts when they're not going to do guarantees past

1370
01:13:44,200 --> 01:13:46,040
Speaker 3: year one is what was needed to do to get

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Speaker 3: those players to come to Cincinnati. That's plausible, but it

1372
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:53,960
Speaker 3: certainly feels like structuring the deals the way they did

1373
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:59,760
Speaker 3: was unnecessary and was maybe done with the intention of proving, hey,

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01:13:59,800 --> 01:14:02,960
Speaker 3: we're they're not cheap. Look at what we're giving these

1375
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Speaker 3: guys this season. Look at what the apy is going

1376
01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:08,400
Speaker 3: to be be is going to be based on what

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Speaker 3: those players will earn this season. That on top of

1378
01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:16,560
Speaker 3: the Joe Burrow restructure. And I'm the last one to

1379
01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:19,480
Speaker 3: say that a player should restructure his contract. A contracts

1380
01:14:19,479 --> 01:14:22,719
Speaker 3: a contracts, so like it shouldn't be on Joe Burrow

1381
01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:26,600
Speaker 3: to give Mike Brown alone. But if the quarterback is

1382
01:14:26,600 --> 01:14:29,800
Speaker 3: saying publicly like hey, I'm all for it, and you've

1383
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:32,720
Speaker 3: decided to structure these other contracts in a way that

1384
01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:34,760
Speaker 3: maybe makes it more difficult to make the rest of

1385
01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 3: the team better, how do you not go to your

1386
01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:39,160
Speaker 3: quarterback and say, cool, let's do it. You said you'll

1387
01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:43,720
Speaker 3: do it, let's do it. Let's do a restructure. More

1388
01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:51,960
Speaker 3: than anything, it's just it's it's confounding. Nine days ago,

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01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:55,240
Speaker 3: the Bengals signed two players, and again like they're better

1390
01:14:55,560 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 3: most of us believe because of the acquisition of those

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01:14:58,280 --> 01:15:00,599
Speaker 3: two players. And by the way, I mentioned three free agents.

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Speaker 3: That's not to ignore Josh Johnson. He's not I don't

1393
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:05,840
Speaker 3: think anybody would consider him to be a big free

1394
01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 3: agent acquisition. Nine days ago, they get those two guys,

1395
01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:16,320
Speaker 3: and I don't know one Bengals fan who didn't instantly say, okay, cool,

1396
01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:20,599
Speaker 3: what now at linebacker? With each passing minute, it feels

1397
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:24,559
Speaker 3: like what now at linebacker involves running the same two

1398
01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:27,920
Speaker 3: dudes out there who were complicit in your defense not

1399
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Speaker 3: being good this past season.

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Speaker 9: Huh.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't feel like all in. It feels like a

1402
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:43,360
Speaker 3: strategy of hope. It feels like a strategy that evokes

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01:15:43,400 --> 01:15:48,479
Speaker 3: memories of the strategy that we saw last offseason. Like

1404
01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 3: it's not apples to apples, but you'll hear it with

1405
01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:54,400
Speaker 3: Carter and Knight. And I cannot emphasize this enough. Nobody

1406
01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:57,559
Speaker 3: is saying cut those players. Nobody is saying, don't give

1407
01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:00,960
Speaker 3: those guys chances to be impact members of the team

1408
01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:04,720
Speaker 3: this coming season. I think everybody is saying, like, give

1409
01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:07,320
Speaker 3: them a veteran player to learn from, give them another

1410
01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 3: guy that could help them, give them somebody else who

1411
01:16:10,080 --> 01:16:13,719
Speaker 3: could play the position, give them some competition, put another

1412
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:17,599
Speaker 3: guy in the defense that you could rely on at

1413
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:20,120
Speaker 3: that position. They haven't done any of that. That is

1414
01:16:20,240 --> 01:16:24,759
Speaker 3: not all in. It ain't And it feels a lot

1415
01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:27,160
Speaker 3: like what they did with the whole defense a year ago.

1416
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:29,920
Speaker 3: With the whole defense a year ago, it was, well,

1417
01:16:29,960 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 3: you know, we did some good things toward the end

1418
01:16:32,280 --> 01:16:35,559
Speaker 3: of the season, and how many of us were like, no, man,

1419
01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 3: you can't do that. You gotta go get some help.

1420
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 3: And they didn't get helping. What happened the defense was

1421
01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:43,000
Speaker 3: atrocious this past season. It feels like that's going to

1422
01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:45,559
Speaker 3: be a similar message with linebacker. Well, you know, toward

1423
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:47,439
Speaker 3: the end of the year, Carter and Knight were better,

1424
01:16:47,479 --> 01:16:49,120
Speaker 3: and they were like toward the end of the season,

1425
01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:53,519
Speaker 3: those two guys stopped making the mistakes we saw them

1426
01:16:53,520 --> 01:16:57,000
Speaker 3: make in October and November. But did they play well

1427
01:16:57,120 --> 01:17:01,320
Speaker 3: enough to make you feel like they could essentially ignore

1428
01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:05,920
Speaker 3: the position and free agency so far they have and

1429
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:09,080
Speaker 3: it doesn't make sense. But as long as you're ignoring

1430
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:12,360
Speaker 3: a position that was a problem, the previous year, then

1431
01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:16,759
Speaker 3: you cannot say you're all in the next year. Yet

1432
01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:20,120
Speaker 3: a few weeks ago, a month or so ago, Duke

1433
01:17:20,160 --> 01:17:21,960
Speaker 3: Tobin was telling everybody, hell, we're all in.

1434
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:22,559
Speaker 4: We're all in.

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01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:25,640
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay.

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Speaker 3: Okay, thirteen after five o'clock, by request. We do this

1437
01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:34,840
Speaker 3: every year, the bracket reveal, which I kind of already

1438
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:38,080
Speaker 3: talked about. Some picks coming up in just about twenty minutes,

1439
01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:42,120
Speaker 3: not that I expect anybody to be sitting on the

1440
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:44,160
Speaker 3: end of their seat waiting for them.

1441
01:17:44,600 --> 01:17:45,719
Speaker 2: The RedHawks play tonight.

1442
01:17:45,840 --> 01:17:48,160
Speaker 3: I don't know if there have been this many eyes

1443
01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:51,759
Speaker 3: on a Miami men's basketball game since the Sweet sixteen

1444
01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:54,240
Speaker 3: lost to Kentucky in nineteen ninety nine. And I say

1445
01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:56,760
Speaker 3: that understanding that a lot of people were paying very

1446
01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:59,960
Speaker 3: close attention to Miami toward the end of the regular season.

1447
01:18:01,160 --> 01:18:06,120
Speaker 3: Tonight's weird, man, because on one hand, you hate that

1448
01:18:06,160 --> 01:18:08,240
Speaker 3: you have to play in this game. The idea a

1449
01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:11,320
Speaker 3: week ago was to avoid the play in, and I

1450
01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 3: know it's officially not the play in, but to avoid

1451
01:18:14,040 --> 01:18:19,840
Speaker 3: the first four, avoid dayton Unfortunately, they weren't able to.

1452
01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:24,040
Speaker 3: The good news is you get to play pretty damn

1453
01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:27,519
Speaker 3: close to a home game, you get to play in

1454
01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:31,160
Speaker 3: front of a lot of Miami fans, pretty partial crowd,

1455
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 3: you get to play in Dayton. On one hand, the

1456
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:38,719
Speaker 3: RedHawks did lose their most recent game, and in that game,

1457
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:43,400
Speaker 3: their fatal flaw caught up to them. This is something

1458
01:18:43,439 --> 01:18:47,720
Speaker 3: we talk about across a lot of different sports. What

1459
01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:50,840
Speaker 3: are each team's fatal flaws and what are the likelihood

1460
01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:52,960
Speaker 3: that those fatal flaws are going to catch up to them.

1461
01:18:53,360 --> 01:18:55,880
Speaker 3: I think when you're handicapping a playoff field or a

1462
01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:59,679
Speaker 3: tournament field like this, that's an important lens through which

1463
01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:02,639
Speaker 3: to look at some of these things. Their fatal flaw

1464
01:19:02,960 --> 01:19:06,519
Speaker 3: has been defense all season. Travis Steele, in the two

1465
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:09,000
Speaker 3: times he was on this show during the regular season,

1466
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:11,840
Speaker 3: without any prompting, mentioned we got to be better on

1467
01:19:11,880 --> 01:19:14,360
Speaker 3: the defensive end. This was a team that toward the

1468
01:19:14,439 --> 01:19:17,840
Speaker 3: end of the season struggled to get stops to the

1469
01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 3: extent that you would like to see, had to win

1470
01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:24,439
Speaker 3: some shootouts, didn't get stops against ou god knows, didn't

1471
01:19:24,439 --> 01:19:29,599
Speaker 3: get him against UMass. But they lost their most recent game.

1472
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Speaker 3: I do wonder if if losing that game lessens the

1473
01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:41,760
Speaker 3: burden Tonight, I Tony asked me on since he three

1474
01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:45,160
Speaker 3: to sixty. How much pressure does Miami have on it

1475
01:19:45,240 --> 01:19:48,559
Speaker 3: to win this evening? And I think there's some. I

1476
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:51,479
Speaker 3: think it's probably amplified if they have zero losses. Now,

1477
01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:53,920
Speaker 3: if they have zero losses, they're not playing tonight, because

1478
01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:55,840
Speaker 3: my guess is if they win the MAC Tournament, they're

1479
01:19:55,960 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 3: not even close to playing in Dayton. But I'm interested

1480
01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 3: in how they respond. I'm interested in what they have

1481
01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:07,000
Speaker 3: in store for an SMU team that is really good offensively,

1482
01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:12,120
Speaker 3: and here from a fatal flaw perspective is where you

1483
01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:16,080
Speaker 3: talk about the matchup. Because SMU is twenty six in

1484
01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:20,360
Speaker 3: the country in offensive efficiency, second in the ACC. In scoring,

1485
01:20:20,400 --> 01:20:22,599
Speaker 3: this team averages more than eighty four points a game.

1486
01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:26,879
Speaker 3: They shoot close to fifty percent second in the ACC,

1487
01:20:27,000 --> 01:20:30,560
Speaker 3: and overall field goal percentage second and three point percentage,

1488
01:20:30,600 --> 01:20:34,679
Speaker 3: so good from behind the arc twenty first in college

1489
01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:39,240
Speaker 3: basketball and offensive adjusted efficiency twenty seventh in effective field

1490
01:20:39,280 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 3: goal percentage. So it's a tough challenge, especially considering the

1491
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:49,200
Speaker 3: strength of Miami's team is not defense. At the same time,

1492
01:20:49,360 --> 01:20:53,120
Speaker 3: SMU comes into tonight having lost five at a six. Defensively,

1493
01:20:54,120 --> 01:20:57,760
Speaker 3: they're the opposite of what they've been offensively, they kind

1494
01:20:57,760 --> 01:21:00,400
Speaker 3: of mirror Miami. The strength of Miami's team team is

1495
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:02,800
Speaker 3: they can spread the floor. They can score in a

1496
01:21:02,840 --> 01:21:05,360
Speaker 3: lot of different ways. Peter Souter is a very good player,

1497
01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:08,719
Speaker 3: I think a top fifty player in the NCAA tournament.

1498
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:15,920
Speaker 3: Can Miami expose SMU's defensive weaknesses. They are outside the

1499
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:18,960
Speaker 3: top one hundred and in some cases outside the top

1500
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:23,519
Speaker 3: two hundred in every advanced defensive metric. They were dead

1501
01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:30,000
Speaker 3: last in the acc and scoring defense. So it's an

1502
01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:33,040
Speaker 3: interesting game. It's an interesting matchup. And you and I

1503
01:21:33,120 --> 01:21:36,360
Speaker 3: both know this, Given the fact that there was not

1504
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:38,719
Speaker 3: a team in college basketball that was talked about more

1505
01:21:39,160 --> 01:21:43,360
Speaker 3: leading up to Selection Sunday than Miami, you and I

1506
01:21:43,400 --> 01:21:44,840
Speaker 3: both know there are folks.

1507
01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:45,599
Speaker 2: Waiting in the wings now.

1508
01:21:45,640 --> 01:21:48,479
Speaker 3: The consensus was that Miami deserved to be in the tournament,

1509
01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:52,639
Speaker 3: which I agree with. The consensus was Miami was going

1510
01:21:52,680 --> 01:21:54,800
Speaker 3: to be in the tournament even if they lost in

1511
01:21:54,840 --> 01:21:56,679
Speaker 3: the MAC Tournament, which ended up being the case.

1512
01:21:57,840 --> 01:22:00,880
Speaker 2: But you and I both know and how this works.

1513
01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:02,320
Speaker 2: They lay an egg tonight.

1514
01:22:02,439 --> 01:22:04,280
Speaker 3: Going to be a whole lot of folks who say

1515
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:08,559
Speaker 3: tournament team couldn't even get out of Dayton couldn't even

1516
01:22:08,560 --> 01:22:12,960
Speaker 3: beat ANKSMU team. The loss tonight will validate the opinion

1517
01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:16,240
Speaker 3: for many that they didn't deserve to be in I

1518
01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:19,360
Speaker 3: don't think if they win tonight and lose to Tennessee

1519
01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 3: then anybody will say that. But it's a standalone game,

1520
01:22:23,400 --> 01:22:28,000
Speaker 3: no other games happening, large spotlight. They're obviously not favored

1521
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:30,000
Speaker 3: six and a half point dogs.

1522
01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 2: By the way.

1523
01:22:30,600 --> 01:22:33,920
Speaker 3: I love the over in this game, but how they

1524
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:37,920
Speaker 3: handle it tonight, how they shore up some things defensively,

1525
01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:41,600
Speaker 3: and what they can do against an SMU defense that

1526
01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:46,000
Speaker 3: statistically is not even closed to being good. It's a

1527
01:22:46,040 --> 01:22:48,640
Speaker 3: pretty fascinating game tonight at ud Arena. Add to it

1528
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:51,559
Speaker 3: the crowd. It should be a great sporting event tonight,

1529
01:22:51,960 --> 01:22:54,759
Speaker 3: second game of the first four. By the way, radio

1530
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:57,280
Speaker 3: coverage is on Fox Sports thirteen to sixty. They'll carry

1531
01:22:57,320 --> 01:22:59,920
Speaker 3: the first game the Prairie View A and m Lee

1532
01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:02,920
Speaker 3: High Tilt, and then Miami and SMU are set a

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01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:06,880
Speaker 3: tip off right around nine fifteen or nine twenty eighteen

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Speaker 3: minutes after five o'clock five one three seven four nine

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Speaker 3: fifteen thirty is our phone number eight sixty six seven

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Speaker 3: oh two three seven seven six. Regie doing something that

1537
01:23:15,760 --> 01:23:18,719
Speaker 3: I think is pretty smart. We'll get to that next

1538
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Speaker 3: on ESPN fifteen.

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1549
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Speaker 8: radio station.

1550
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Speaker 5: Some of it here in Teman ESPN fifteen thirty.

1551
01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:10,719
Speaker 3: I HARDRADI Sal Stewart Homard his third of the spring.

1552
01:24:10,760 --> 01:24:14,040
Speaker 3: He's batting three forty three in the Cactus League two

1553
01:24:14,040 --> 01:24:16,679
Speaker 3: to one Angels in one of two games, the Reds

1554
01:24:16,680 --> 01:24:19,760
Speaker 3: are playing pottom of the fourth inning, Cincinnati the road team,

1555
01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:23,160
Speaker 3: and that one Chase Burns two innings gave up two

1556
01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:26,120
Speaker 3: runs on three hits. UH In the other game, the

1557
01:24:26,360 --> 01:24:28,360
Speaker 3: Reds lead the Rockies by a score of four to one.

1558
01:24:28,400 --> 01:24:33,200
Speaker 3: Brady Singers started in that ball game and uh three

1559
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:36,320
Speaker 3: and two third scoreless innings, striking out three, giving up

1560
01:24:36,320 --> 01:24:39,639
Speaker 3: a couple of hits. Matt McClain three more hits. Matt

1561
01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:46,400
Speaker 3: McClain is batting five to forty five this spring. Nobody

1562
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:48,160
Speaker 3: is saying that he's going to bat five. If he

1563
01:24:48,240 --> 01:24:52,040
Speaker 3: hits five forty five in the regular season, that would

1564
01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:55,960
Speaker 3: be some sort of record team nationally again major league record.

1565
01:24:57,760 --> 01:25:00,840
Speaker 3: But you're just looking for signs, man. All signs are

1566
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:03,800
Speaker 3: pointing to him having a good year. I feel like

1567
01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:07,519
Speaker 3: Elie Dela Cruz has had a quiet spring. He's playing

1568
01:25:07,520 --> 01:25:10,400
Speaker 3: in that game today, he is driven in a run,

1569
01:25:10,520 --> 01:25:14,720
Speaker 3: he has a hit, and slugging six fifty so far

1570
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:17,960
Speaker 3: this spring. I feel like offensively, if you go up

1571
01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:20,960
Speaker 3: there are exceptions, I guess, but for the most part,

1572
01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:23,880
Speaker 3: you just look at the raw numbers and again do

1573
01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:26,960
Speaker 3: what you want with them. But there have been some

1574
01:25:27,080 --> 01:25:30,960
Speaker 3: really encouraging things from an offensive perspective with this club.

1575
01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:34,640
Speaker 3: I think there's every reason to be on board with

1576
01:25:34,720 --> 01:25:36,839
Speaker 3: what the Reds are doing at the outset of the season.

1577
01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:41,559
Speaker 3: With the starting pitching situation. Burns Louder and Williamson each

1578
01:25:41,600 --> 01:25:45,000
Speaker 3: have upside, each have drawbacks. The primary drawback is lack

1579
01:25:45,040 --> 01:25:47,600
Speaker 3: of experience. Neither guy is going to throw in one

1580
01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:52,920
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty innings. If I could elongate their usefulness

1581
01:25:54,160 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 3: late in the season by shortening how much they're going

1582
01:25:57,840 --> 01:26:02,040
Speaker 3: to work early in the season. And I'm overly simplifying

1583
01:26:02,080 --> 01:26:06,040
Speaker 3: this using three guys for two spots, it's pretty good

1584
01:26:06,080 --> 01:26:09,000
Speaker 3: and by the way, it keeps the competition going as well.

1585
01:26:09,200 --> 01:26:12,479
Speaker 3: Sign me up for it opening day in eight days.

1586
01:26:12,479 --> 01:26:15,639
Speaker 3: Don't forget. We will be broadcasting from Smoke Justice, Tony

1587
01:26:15,720 --> 01:26:19,080
Speaker 3: Austin and myself noon to three a week from tomorrow.

1588
01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:24,360
Speaker 3: John and Finley, Ohio, You're on ESPN fifteen thirty John,

1589
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 3: Good afternoon.

1590
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:27,599
Speaker 2: How are you good?

1591
01:26:27,760 --> 01:26:27,840
Speaker 6: Mo?

1592
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:28,719
Speaker 9: How are you today?

1593
01:26:28,880 --> 01:26:30,000
Speaker 2: Wonderful? What's going on?

1594
01:26:31,080 --> 01:26:31,280
Speaker 12: Hey?

1595
01:26:31,439 --> 01:26:34,320
Speaker 13: What one quick question? I was listening to the commercials

1596
01:26:34,479 --> 01:26:36,560
Speaker 13: and you know there was something that you did a

1597
01:26:36,760 --> 01:26:39,960
Speaker 13: spot for the Cincinnati Slingers. Yes, I didn't catch the

1598
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:42,280
Speaker 13: whole commercial. What sport is that?

1599
01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:45,799
Speaker 3: That is Arena League football coming to the Arena downtown.

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01:26:46,040 --> 01:26:50,640
Speaker 13: Yes, okay, and they're playing international.

1601
01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:54,400
Speaker 3: The International Arena League. Guess so games overseas?

1602
01:26:56,439 --> 01:26:56,759
Speaker 6: Wow?

1603
01:26:57,000 --> 01:26:57,360
Speaker 9: Okay?

1604
01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:01,720
Speaker 13: I wonder what kind of travel budget. That amazes me.

1605
01:27:02,040 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1606
01:27:02,360 --> 01:27:06,080
Speaker 3: No, they they've got they've got teams, Uh, five European teams.

1607
01:27:06,320 --> 01:27:09,280
Speaker 3: It's gonna be unbelievable. Maybe we'll see you downtown for

1608
01:27:09,360 --> 01:27:10,479
Speaker 3: one of the games this year.

1609
01:27:11,479 --> 01:27:13,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe they've got they've got a team.

1610
01:27:13,560 --> 01:27:15,400
Speaker 3: They've got a team in England, they've got a team

1611
01:27:15,400 --> 01:27:18,160
Speaker 3: in Glasgow, they've got a team in Dusseldorf, they have

1612
01:27:18,200 --> 01:27:21,960
Speaker 3: one in Zurich, and they've got one in Stuttgart. Stute Gart.

1613
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:23,960
Speaker 3: Now throw out the throw out the records. When that

1614
01:27:24,040 --> 01:27:27,600
Speaker 3: heated rivalry between Cincinnati and Stutegart unfolds, you have no

1615
01:27:27,720 --> 01:27:28,759
Speaker 3: idea what's gonna happen.

1616
01:27:30,280 --> 01:27:34,360
Speaker 13: Do you have any insight into the how those leagues

1617
01:27:34,400 --> 01:27:37,000
Speaker 13: are funded or I mean is the NFL kicking in

1618
01:27:37,080 --> 01:27:37,800
Speaker 13: money for league?

1619
01:27:37,800 --> 01:27:38,080
Speaker 3: For that?

1620
01:27:38,360 --> 01:27:40,840
Speaker 13: Or how do they how do they support themselves?

1621
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:41,160
Speaker 7: Uh?

1622
01:27:41,720 --> 01:27:45,360
Speaker 3: This is private investors. The NFL has nothing to do

1623
01:27:45,439 --> 01:27:48,479
Speaker 3: with the I A L. Although I would imagine that

1624
01:27:48,520 --> 01:27:51,120
Speaker 3: the league proves to be a success, maybe that will change.

1625
01:27:51,120 --> 01:27:54,479
Speaker 3: But uh, this is is basically a league formed by

1626
01:27:54,479 --> 01:27:56,600
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of private investors.

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01:27:57,120 --> 01:28:00,559
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, all right, we'll go on onto thes and

1628
01:28:00,600 --> 01:28:04,640
Speaker 13: the last time. I'm I'm I'm generally a pretty optimistic

1629
01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:06,920
Speaker 13: person when it comes to the Reds, And it was

1630
01:28:06,960 --> 01:28:09,000
Speaker 13: a few weeks ago the last time we talked, and

1631
01:28:09,080 --> 01:28:13,240
Speaker 13: course that was before Hunter the Hunter Green story, and

1632
01:28:13,280 --> 01:28:19,000
Speaker 13: then Andrew Rabbit's been struggling, and it's you just talked

1633
01:28:19,160 --> 01:28:22,400
Speaker 13: leading into this about how the offense seems to be

1634
01:28:22,479 --> 01:28:26,000
Speaker 13: looking pretty good, which it has, and I'm really hopeful

1635
01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:29,879
Speaker 13: of that. But if we if we take spring trading

1636
01:28:29,960 --> 01:28:33,680
Speaker 13: numbers and and look at them very hard, we can

1637
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:36,160
Speaker 13: also say that the pitching has not been very good

1638
01:28:37,040 --> 01:28:38,240
Speaker 13: for the most part.

1639
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:44,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think let's let's make Hunter Green

1640
01:28:44,080 --> 01:28:46,479
Speaker 3: a part of the conversation here for a second, even

1641
01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:51,120
Speaker 3: if you acknowledge that the ceiling is pretty high, it

1642
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:55,120
Speaker 3: still feels like there's a reasonably low floor because of

1643
01:28:55,120 --> 01:28:57,720
Speaker 3: the lack of experience and because of an injury to

1644
01:28:57,760 --> 01:29:01,920
Speaker 3: the staff ace. And I think Andrew Abbott is interesting,

1645
01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:05,080
Speaker 3: not so much just because he has struggled this spring,

1646
01:29:05,840 --> 01:29:08,480
Speaker 3: but because there was, and maybe it was to be expected,

1647
01:29:08,479 --> 01:29:11,040
Speaker 3: there was regression in the second half of the season,

1648
01:29:11,840 --> 01:29:14,600
Speaker 3: and if that continues, then you are looking at a

1649
01:29:14,640 --> 01:29:16,760
Speaker 3: guy who is not a not a front of the

1650
01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:20,000
Speaker 3: rotation guy and maybe not a big league rotation guy.

1651
01:29:20,040 --> 01:29:24,439
Speaker 3: There's still I think a large variance between the two

1652
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:28,840
Speaker 3: extreme possibilities that may unfold with this starting staff, and

1653
01:29:29,200 --> 01:29:32,559
Speaker 3: I think this spring training has only confirmed that.

1654
01:29:34,200 --> 01:29:36,000
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think and a guy with a guy like

1655
01:29:36,080 --> 01:29:38,680
Speaker 13: Andrew Abbott. Of course he reminds us a lot of

1656
01:29:38,760 --> 01:29:42,519
Speaker 13: Tom Browning, but I think a guy like Abbott he

1657
01:29:42,760 --> 01:29:46,840
Speaker 13: has to be he has to be very sharp. It

1658
01:29:46,920 --> 01:29:50,240
Speaker 13: just because he doesn't have the overhowering fastball and the

1659
01:29:50,400 --> 01:29:54,759
Speaker 13: electric stuff. He has to be pretty sharp. And honestly,

1660
01:29:54,920 --> 01:29:58,719
Speaker 13: maybe it's just he's working on the spring and he's

1661
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:02,120
Speaker 13: just trying to work some things. Maybe it's just one

1662
01:30:02,160 --> 01:30:04,880
Speaker 13: of those things that once he gets in real game

1663
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:07,760
Speaker 13: situations and the lights come on right, that he'll be

1664
01:30:07,840 --> 01:30:11,639
Speaker 13: perfectly fine. I certainly hope so. But the two guys

1665
01:30:11,680 --> 01:30:13,760
Speaker 13: I think were kind of hanging our hat on for

1666
01:30:13,840 --> 01:30:18,519
Speaker 13: sure is Abbott and Brady Singer, because they were probably

1667
01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:22,000
Speaker 13: our two, our two most consistent guys last year. I mean,

1668
01:30:22,080 --> 01:30:25,840
Speaker 13: Lodolo can be really good at times, but it's like

1669
01:30:26,400 --> 01:30:31,879
Speaker 13: we haven't necessarily been able to rely on him definitely

1670
01:30:31,920 --> 01:30:35,640
Speaker 13: for a full season, if not even big chunks of seasons.

1671
01:30:36,280 --> 01:30:40,439
Speaker 3: I think people forget in August, specifically how good Brady

1672
01:30:40,479 --> 01:30:44,639
Speaker 3: Singer was, because I think they won all but one

1673
01:30:44,640 --> 01:30:47,519
Speaker 3: of his starts in August. The team was really floundering

1674
01:30:47,640 --> 01:30:52,040
Speaker 3: offensively at that point. It felt like every game, you know,

1675
01:30:52,400 --> 01:30:55,320
Speaker 3: if it went sideways, then their playoff hopes were going

1676
01:30:55,400 --> 01:30:56,600
Speaker 3: to be all but extinguished.

1677
01:30:56,640 --> 01:30:57,559
Speaker 9: And he was.

1678
01:30:57,720 --> 01:30:58,599
Speaker 2: He was terrific.

1679
01:30:58,920 --> 01:31:01,040
Speaker 3: Nick Lodolo's like a lot of these guys, you just

1680
01:31:01,160 --> 01:31:04,000
Speaker 3: you wonder about whether it's blisters or other issues.

1681
01:31:04,760 --> 01:31:06,200
Speaker 2: Is he going to get through a full season?

1682
01:31:08,040 --> 01:31:09,880
Speaker 3: You know, when when he was at his best, and

1683
01:31:10,160 --> 01:31:12,400
Speaker 3: you know, post All Star Break last year when he

1684
01:31:12,439 --> 01:31:17,120
Speaker 3: actually pitched, Nicolodolo was terrific. But you're always maybe not

1685
01:31:17,240 --> 01:31:19,000
Speaker 3: to the degree you are with Hunter Green, but you're

1686
01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:21,240
Speaker 3: doing the same thing. When's the injury going to occur?

1687
01:31:21,320 --> 01:31:23,960
Speaker 3: When it does occur, you know how many starts is

1688
01:31:23,960 --> 01:31:25,920
Speaker 3: he going to miss? And like Andrew Abbott in his

1689
01:31:26,040 --> 01:31:29,679
Speaker 3: last ten starts last year, had an ERA of four

1690
01:31:29,720 --> 01:31:31,880
Speaker 3: point two one. I know there are many metrics you

1691
01:31:31,880 --> 01:31:34,840
Speaker 3: could use to to gauge a pitcher's effectiveness, but just

1692
01:31:34,960 --> 01:31:38,000
Speaker 3: using that baseline number, it was night and day compared

1693
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:39,719
Speaker 3: to what he was in the first half of the season.

1694
01:31:40,520 --> 01:31:44,080
Speaker 3: So like right now, this staff is built on Andrew

1695
01:31:44,080 --> 01:31:46,479
Speaker 3: Abbott being a stud. He was a stud in the

1696
01:31:46,479 --> 01:31:48,479
Speaker 3: first half of the season last year, and the absence

1697
01:31:48,520 --> 01:31:51,120
Speaker 3: of that, without Hunter Green on top of it in

1698
01:31:51,160 --> 01:31:53,559
Speaker 3: the first half of the season, you know, suddenly your

1699
01:31:53,600 --> 01:31:56,840
Speaker 3: starting staff isn't necessarily as strong. And I think those

1700
01:31:56,840 --> 01:31:59,760
Speaker 3: things are worth paying attention to and talking about as

1701
01:31:59,840 --> 01:32:04,120
Speaker 3: the the season gets underway a week from tomorrow on.

1702
01:32:04,120 --> 01:32:06,920
Speaker 13: One thing that was talked about early in the offseason

1703
01:32:07,120 --> 01:32:10,920
Speaker 13: was possibly moving Brady Singer for that covivid bat that

1704
01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:14,439
Speaker 13: we needed, and I guess in retrospect, thank goodness, we.

1705
01:32:14,400 --> 01:32:15,000
Speaker 10: Didn't do that.

1706
01:32:15,960 --> 01:32:17,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, that never made a lot of sense

1707
01:32:17,880 --> 01:32:21,519
Speaker 3: to me, because to me, you know, your starting staff

1708
01:32:21,560 --> 01:32:25,080
Speaker 3: top to bottom is really defined. Its quality is defined

1709
01:32:25,120 --> 01:32:27,200
Speaker 3: by how you good are in the back end. If

1710
01:32:27,240 --> 01:32:30,200
Speaker 3: he's a for starter, that's really damn good. He's a

1711
01:32:30,240 --> 01:32:31,840
Speaker 3: guy that every night you feel like is going to

1712
01:32:31,880 --> 01:32:34,080
Speaker 3: give you a chance to win. There's great value in that.

1713
01:32:34,600 --> 01:32:36,439
Speaker 3: Oh and by the way, the bats they could get,

1714
01:32:36,479 --> 01:32:38,439
Speaker 3: you didn't need to trade guys to go get, which

1715
01:32:38,479 --> 01:32:40,400
Speaker 3: ultimately proved to be the case.

1716
01:32:41,760 --> 01:32:44,360
Speaker 13: Yeah, when you put our staff last year on a

1717
01:32:45,080 --> 01:32:48,720
Speaker 13: pedestal as far as top to bottom, yeah, Singer was

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01:32:48,840 --> 01:32:52,800
Speaker 13: down number three or four or whatever. But in all

1719
01:32:52,880 --> 01:32:56,000
Speaker 13: honesty from if you had to give to a starting

1720
01:32:56,200 --> 01:33:02,720
Speaker 13: pitcher MVP last year, about have to give serious consideration

1721
01:33:02,800 --> 01:33:06,240
Speaker 13: a Singer because number one, he pitched the entire season

1722
01:33:06,600 --> 01:33:08,639
Speaker 13: and there were stretches where he pitched really well.

1723
01:33:09,280 --> 01:33:11,439
Speaker 2: Made all thirty two of his starts last year.

1724
01:33:11,760 --> 01:33:14,760
Speaker 3: Second consecutive year, you know, obviously going back to his

1725
01:33:14,800 --> 01:33:17,879
Speaker 3: final season with Kansas City, where he made thirty two starts,

1726
01:33:18,439 --> 01:33:21,280
Speaker 3: and if you look at his performances from the end

1727
01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:24,360
Speaker 3: of July, on his last twelve starts, he had an ERA.

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01:33:24,200 --> 01:33:25,439
Speaker 2: Of two point eight one.

1729
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:29,160
Speaker 3: And in the month of August that I'm looking at

1730
01:33:29,160 --> 01:33:31,040
Speaker 3: it right now, in the month of August, he made

1731
01:33:31,400 --> 01:33:34,679
Speaker 3: six starts. The Reds won five of those games, and again,

1732
01:33:34,800 --> 01:33:38,480
Speaker 3: like in the month of August last year, offensively they

1733
01:33:38,560 --> 01:33:41,640
Speaker 3: were not great, and we were so frustrated over the

1734
01:33:41,640 --> 01:33:43,920
Speaker 3: fact that they really didn't, you know, add to their

1735
01:33:43,920 --> 01:33:47,080
Speaker 3: team offensively because the big acquisition was key Brian Hayes.

1736
01:33:47,400 --> 01:33:50,120
Speaker 3: They were dealing with injuries in the starting staff. In

1737
01:33:50,160 --> 01:33:52,880
Speaker 3: the month of August last season, I am pulling this up.

1738
01:33:53,280 --> 01:33:56,479
Speaker 3: In the month of August last year, Brady Singer had

1739
01:33:56,479 --> 01:33:57,679
Speaker 3: an ERA of two.

1740
01:33:57,560 --> 01:34:00,200
Speaker 2: Point four to one.

1741
01:34:00,600 --> 01:34:02,519
Speaker 3: He gets lost in the shuffle because of all the

1742
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:07,160
Speaker 3: high end arms Hunter Nicolodolo, all those guys, Brady Singer

1743
01:34:07,160 --> 01:34:09,639
Speaker 3: in the month of August might have saved this team season.

1744
01:34:10,120 --> 01:34:13,320
Speaker 3: And so that on top of just the durability, that's

1745
01:34:13,320 --> 01:34:15,160
Speaker 3: a guy you keep on your team.

1746
01:34:15,640 --> 01:34:18,599
Speaker 13: Yeah, he's a slow and steady guy that's generally going

1747
01:34:18,640 --> 01:34:20,680
Speaker 13: to keep you in the race. So thanks Moe. We

1748
01:34:20,720 --> 01:34:22,400
Speaker 13: got a week and we'll tear it up and see

1749
01:34:22,439 --> 01:34:22,960
Speaker 13: what happens.

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01:34:23,080 --> 01:34:26,320
Speaker 3: I can't wait. Thanks so much. Twenty five from six o'clock,

1751
01:34:26,400 --> 01:34:29,400
Speaker 3: I tweeted out my bracket. I was asked to do

1752
01:34:29,479 --> 01:34:33,599
Speaker 3: this by two folks on social media, so I did it.

1753
01:34:33,760 --> 01:34:35,639
Speaker 3: We'll explain it after sports headlines.

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Speaker 9: Next.

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Speaker 3: kelseyshef dot Com. Former Bengals linebacker Logan Wilson announces his

1769
01:35:31,680 --> 01:35:36,320
Speaker 3: retirement on Instagram. Adam Scheffer reports former Bengals quarterback Andy

1770
01:35:36,400 --> 01:35:40,080
Speaker 3: Dalton being traded by the Panthers to the Philadelphia Eagles.

1771
01:35:40,240 --> 01:35:44,040
Speaker 3: He will back up Jalen Hurts. College hoops tonight Udy

1772
01:35:44,120 --> 01:35:47,519
Speaker 3: Arena the first four Miami takes on SMU. That game

1773
01:35:47,640 --> 01:35:50,200
Speaker 3: is scheduled to tip off at nine fifteen. We'll see

1774
01:35:50,200 --> 01:35:53,840
Speaker 3: about when it begins. Prairie View A and m and

1775
01:35:53,960 --> 01:35:56,519
Speaker 3: Lehigh play in the first game tonight. Both can be

1776
01:35:56,560 --> 01:36:00,000
Speaker 3: heard on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. Dayton takes on Bradley

1777
01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:04,080
Speaker 3: in Peoria in the nit you see played at Bradley

1778
01:36:04,800 --> 01:36:09,439
Speaker 3: in March of two thousand and eight. In the inaugural CBI.

1779
01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:14,880
Speaker 3: That was Mick Cronin's second season. You see, lost that

1780
01:36:14,920 --> 01:36:17,439
Speaker 3: game to Bradley. Mick Cronin did not want to coach

1781
01:36:17,479 --> 01:36:19,519
Speaker 3: in that game. They had to go get players off

1782
01:36:19,520 --> 01:36:21,840
Speaker 3: of spring break who had been told the season's over.

1783
01:36:23,160 --> 01:36:25,519
Speaker 3: If I ever jot down a list of the worst

1784
01:36:25,560 --> 01:36:28,760
Speaker 3: sporting events I have ever attended, that game will be

1785
01:36:28,920 --> 01:36:32,320
Speaker 3: very close to the top of the list. Hopefully a

1786
01:36:32,360 --> 01:36:35,479
Speaker 3: better game tonight in Peoria as the Braves take on

1787
01:36:35,520 --> 01:36:40,360
Speaker 3: the Flyers. Mikel Brown will miss u Ofl's game against

1788
01:36:40,439 --> 01:36:44,160
Speaker 3: USF tomorrow and the NCAA tournament with what, unfortunately for him,

1789
01:36:44,160 --> 01:36:46,880
Speaker 3: has just been a chronic back issue. Hopefully he's able

1790
01:36:46,880 --> 01:36:49,200
Speaker 3: to go later in the tournament if the Cardinals advanced,

1791
01:36:49,240 --> 01:36:52,960
Speaker 3: because he is a joy to watch baseball. Today, the

1792
01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:57,200
Speaker 3: Reds are playing two games simultaneously. No, they haven't been cloned.

1793
01:36:57,240 --> 01:37:01,120
Speaker 3: They have enough players for split squad action winning both games.

1794
01:37:01,439 --> 01:37:04,479
Speaker 3: Bottom five Reds with the road team against the Angels

1795
01:37:04,479 --> 01:37:07,519
Speaker 3: trail that ballgame two to one. Tj Antone is currently

1796
01:37:07,520 --> 01:37:11,439
Speaker 3: pitching for Cincinnati. In that game, Chase Burns started pitch

1797
01:37:11,520 --> 01:37:15,519
Speaker 3: two winnings, gave up two runs. Sal Stewart his third

1798
01:37:15,520 --> 01:37:18,519
Speaker 3: home Run of the Spring. Reds are also beating the

1799
01:37:18,520 --> 01:37:20,960
Speaker 3: Colorado Rockies by a score of four to one. Brady

1800
01:37:21,000 --> 01:37:25,719
Speaker 3: Singer three and two thirds innings of scoreless ball. Jeff

1801
01:37:25,720 --> 01:37:27,920
Speaker 3: Brantley's going to be the Grand Marshall for this year's

1802
01:37:27,960 --> 01:37:31,559
Speaker 3: Finley Market Opening Day parade. Davy Concepsi on the Reds

1803
01:37:31,640 --> 01:37:36,040
Speaker 3: honorary captain. Chad Dodson a year ago, who has a

1804
01:37:36,040 --> 01:37:40,000
Speaker 3: great newsletter and writes Red's columns for Cincinnati Magazine dot

1805
01:37:40,040 --> 01:37:44,599
Speaker 3: Com wrote a definitive piece about a year ago as

1806
01:37:44,640 --> 01:37:48,360
Speaker 3: to why Davy Kncepsione should be in Cooperstown. And for

1807
01:37:48,560 --> 01:37:52,760
Speaker 3: years I certainly wanted, you know, him to eventually get

1808
01:37:52,760 --> 01:37:54,960
Speaker 3: the call in whatever way, shape or form that would

1809
01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:58,960
Speaker 3: have to happen, but I didn't feel strongly about his candidacy.

1810
01:37:59,120 --> 01:38:01,840
Speaker 3: Chad change my mind. Davy should be in the hall.

1811
01:38:02,479 --> 01:38:05,160
Speaker 3: Bronson Arroyo is gonna throw out the first pitch. Cyclones

1812
01:38:05,200 --> 01:38:08,720
Speaker 3: play tonight against Bloomington two dollars beer night at the

1813
01:38:08,720 --> 01:38:15,880
Speaker 3: Hockey Arena Downtown. I'm leaving here to go check out

1814
01:38:15,920 --> 01:38:19,480
Speaker 3: the for the first time ever the new Lrosa Taphouse

1815
01:38:19,720 --> 01:38:23,280
Speaker 3: on Beachmont on the east side of Cincinnati and I

1816
01:38:23,320 --> 01:38:26,680
Speaker 3: love the folks at l Ross and the Taphouse Skyview

1817
01:38:26,680 --> 01:38:29,760
Speaker 3: pavilion looks awesome. They are having if you're looking for

1818
01:38:29,800 --> 01:38:32,120
Speaker 3: a place to post up this weekend to watch hoops.

1819
01:38:33,720 --> 01:38:36,120
Speaker 3: Starting at eleven o'clock on Saturday, they're having a college

1820
01:38:36,160 --> 01:38:40,640
Speaker 3: basketball watch party and they'll have contests and giveaways and

1821
01:38:40,720 --> 01:38:43,559
Speaker 3: goodie bags for the first one hundred and fifty people,

1822
01:38:43,720 --> 01:38:47,560
Speaker 3: tons of TVs, outdoor beer garden. It's not going to

1823
01:38:47,600 --> 01:38:52,439
Speaker 3: be cold forever, dog friendly patio and really really cool spot,

1824
01:38:52,439 --> 01:38:54,720
Speaker 3: at least it looks like it. I'm going tonight, I'll

1825
01:38:54,800 --> 01:38:57,120
Speaker 3: let you know. But if you're looking for a post

1826
01:38:57,200 --> 01:38:59,640
Speaker 3: a place to post up this weekend on Saturday, the

1827
01:38:59,680 --> 01:39:02,080
Speaker 3: watch with all sorts of cool stuff happening starting at

1828
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:04,280
Speaker 3: eleven am, especially if you're on the east side of

1829
01:39:04,280 --> 01:39:06,479
Speaker 3: the East side of town. Get a cold one, get

1830
01:39:06,479 --> 01:39:09,960
Speaker 3: a pizza, and you are set.

1831
01:39:11,040 --> 01:39:15,599
Speaker 2: There you go. I had something else, but I lost it.

1832
01:39:15,960 --> 01:39:20,800
Speaker 3: Speaking of college troops, I entered Tony and Austin's Tony

1833
01:39:20,800 --> 01:39:23,839
Speaker 3: Pike since e three to sixty Bracket Challenge, which correct

1834
01:39:23,840 --> 01:39:26,040
Speaker 3: me if I'm wrong. There's no prize for the winner,

1835
01:39:28,200 --> 01:39:29,760
Speaker 3: or if there is a prize for the winner maybe

1836
01:39:29,800 --> 01:39:30,759
Speaker 3: I'm just not eligible.

1837
01:39:30,800 --> 01:39:32,880
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you get a free talkback or something. I

1838
01:39:32,880 --> 01:39:33,240
Speaker 2: don't know.

1839
01:39:36,360 --> 01:39:39,040
Speaker 3: I was asked a couple of years ago to post

1840
01:39:39,160 --> 01:39:42,559
Speaker 3: my bracket on Twitter. I don't know why. I was

1841
01:39:42,600 --> 01:39:45,519
Speaker 3: asked today by multiple people, will you be posting the bracket?

1842
01:39:45,640 --> 01:39:50,080
Speaker 3: Who you picking? Who you got? Because I believe in transparency,

1843
01:39:50,200 --> 01:39:52,000
Speaker 3: I posted the bracket on social media.

1844
01:39:55,400 --> 01:39:59,120
Speaker 2: So it's up. Now I'm to still your pigs. Well,

1845
01:39:59,160 --> 01:39:59,760
Speaker 2: you can do that.

1846
01:40:00,760 --> 01:40:05,400
Speaker 3: So I posted a bracket, and I posted it reflective

1847
01:40:05,840 --> 01:40:09,679
Speaker 3: of the bracket that I'm entering in various pools.

1848
01:40:11,240 --> 01:40:13,920
Speaker 2: Now, the way I enter.

1849
01:40:13,760 --> 01:40:16,800
Speaker 3: A bracket is I don't do two, but I do

1850
01:40:16,840 --> 01:40:19,640
Speaker 3: a bracket mainly based on who I think is going

1851
01:40:19,720 --> 01:40:23,880
Speaker 3: to win each game, but also looking for places where

1852
01:40:23,880 --> 01:40:27,160
Speaker 3: I could fade the rest of the field where maybe

1853
01:40:27,200 --> 01:40:30,920
Speaker 3: there's a strong likelihood that the majority of the people

1854
01:40:30,960 --> 01:40:34,400
Speaker 3: in the pool pick this team, but this team that's

1855
01:40:34,439 --> 01:40:37,759
Speaker 3: playing that team has a good enough chance of winning

1856
01:40:38,280 --> 01:40:42,160
Speaker 3: that it's worth picking them. And maybe a scenario where

1857
01:40:42,200 --> 01:40:45,000
Speaker 3: if I pick against this team, no one's going to

1858
01:40:45,040 --> 01:40:47,040
Speaker 3: pick them to go that deep, and so I'm not

1859
01:40:47,080 --> 01:40:48,800
Speaker 3: going to be hurt that much if they win, If

1860
01:40:48,840 --> 01:40:53,760
Speaker 3: that makes sense. So I do this, and this strategy

1861
01:40:54,080 --> 01:41:00,320
Speaker 3: leads to extreme outcomes because you either win or you

1862
01:41:00,439 --> 01:41:04,519
Speaker 3: finished close to last place. And as the three time

1863
01:41:05,000 --> 01:41:08,840
Speaker 3: iHeartMedia Office Pool champion, who also has a second and

1864
01:41:08,920 --> 01:41:12,479
Speaker 3: third place finish on my office pool resume, I will

1865
01:41:12,479 --> 01:41:14,640
Speaker 3: also tell you there have been years where I have

1866
01:41:14,720 --> 01:41:21,400
Speaker 3: done terribly because of this strategy. This is a wide variance.

1867
01:41:21,439 --> 01:41:23,840
Speaker 3: We use that term before talking about the Reds pitching staff.

1868
01:41:23,840 --> 01:41:26,599
Speaker 3: That's what this is. I'm not going to go through

1869
01:41:26,640 --> 01:41:29,120
Speaker 3: every pick. I will tell you I have. I have

1870
01:41:29,240 --> 01:41:32,559
Speaker 3: Duke coming out of the East. I have not picked

1871
01:41:32,600 --> 01:41:36,439
Speaker 3: in this tournament a ton of upsets. Now, if mckel

1872
01:41:36,560 --> 01:41:39,519
Speaker 3: brown was healthy, I would have Louisville going to the

1873
01:41:39,560 --> 01:41:42,599
Speaker 3: Elite eight. I don't like anything about how Yukon has

1874
01:41:42,640 --> 01:41:44,720
Speaker 3: played toward the end of the season. Blown out by

1875
01:41:44,760 --> 01:41:47,240
Speaker 3: Saint John's the other night, by the way, worst team

1876
01:41:47,360 --> 01:41:50,120
Speaker 3: in the field against the spread, went seven and four

1877
01:41:50,200 --> 01:41:53,080
Speaker 3: down the stretch, lost on the road to a wretched

1878
01:41:53,160 --> 01:41:56,960
Speaker 3: Marquette team. Got dominated in that game. But I can't

1879
01:41:56,960 --> 01:41:59,160
Speaker 3: do it because mckel brown. There's a stark difference in

1880
01:41:59,200 --> 01:42:01,439
Speaker 3: Louisville between one he's healthy and when he's not. I

1881
01:42:01,439 --> 01:42:03,960
Speaker 3: do have Ucla getting to the Elite eight. I think

1882
01:42:04,000 --> 01:42:06,920
Speaker 3: that's an area where you could fager pool and do

1883
01:42:07,080 --> 01:42:09,920
Speaker 3: pretty well. Plus, I still feel like most are gonna

1884
01:42:09,960 --> 01:42:12,040
Speaker 3: pick Duke to get to the Final four, which is

1885
01:42:12,240 --> 01:42:15,880
Speaker 3: exactly what I did. In the South, I picked Illinois.

1886
01:42:18,280 --> 01:42:21,439
Speaker 3: Florida is not a great free throw shooting team. They're

1887
01:42:21,479 --> 01:42:24,000
Speaker 3: not great from three. Now with the ALIGNI you worry

1888
01:42:24,000 --> 01:42:26,559
Speaker 3: about their defense because Brad Underwood's team could be an

1889
01:42:26,600 --> 01:42:30,519
Speaker 3: absolute sieve on that end of the floor. But number

1890
01:42:30,520 --> 01:42:35,760
Speaker 3: two in overall offensive efficiency and third in offensive rebounding percentage,

1891
01:42:36,479 --> 01:42:39,760
Speaker 3: so they run very good stuff. They can beat you

1892
01:42:39,840 --> 01:42:42,080
Speaker 3: offensively in a lot of different ways, and they get

1893
01:42:42,080 --> 01:42:45,479
Speaker 3: a high percentage of their own misses. I have Illinois

1894
01:42:45,520 --> 01:42:48,920
Speaker 3: getting to the Final four. Yes, beating Houston, Yes, beating Florida.

1895
01:42:48,960 --> 01:42:54,200
Speaker 3: My one upset in that bracket is VCU. North Carolina

1896
01:42:54,640 --> 01:42:57,679
Speaker 3: is outside the top three hundred in free throw shooting,

1897
01:42:58,000 --> 01:43:03,840
Speaker 3: unreliable from three, and the rank who really should have

1898
01:43:03,880 --> 01:43:06,120
Speaker 3: put Dayton away earlier than they did in the A

1899
01:43:06,240 --> 01:43:08,720
Speaker 3: ten title game, are really good at getting to the

1900
01:43:08,720 --> 01:43:12,280
Speaker 3: free throw line. I think they expose UNC get to

1901
01:43:12,320 --> 01:43:15,360
Speaker 3: the free throw line a bunch. That's one of the

1902
01:43:15,400 --> 01:43:19,200
Speaker 3: few early round up sets. I've picked VCU beating North Carolina,

1903
01:43:19,280 --> 01:43:23,160
Speaker 3: Illinois winning that region. I have Purdue beating Arizona. This

1904
01:43:23,200 --> 01:43:26,800
Speaker 3: is where I'm trying to fade people. I love experience

1905
01:43:26,880 --> 01:43:30,519
Speaker 3: in the tournament. Purdue has four seniors, three of whom

1906
01:43:30,520 --> 01:43:34,639
Speaker 3: have played their entire career in West Lafayette. Arizona's fatal

1907
01:43:34,680 --> 01:43:37,360
Speaker 3: flaw isn't a huge fatal flaw because they are awesome.

1908
01:43:37,800 --> 01:43:40,920
Speaker 3: They are awesome, nobody would be surprised if they win

1909
01:43:40,960 --> 01:43:44,160
Speaker 3: the whole thing. But the lack of percentage of points

1910
01:43:44,160 --> 01:43:46,880
Speaker 3: from three does concern me a little. And again, I'm

1911
01:43:46,920 --> 01:43:49,240
Speaker 3: trying to fade people here. I don't think a ton

1912
01:43:49,240 --> 01:43:50,960
Speaker 3: of people in your pool are going to take Purdue.

1913
01:43:51,320 --> 01:43:55,679
Speaker 3: Brayden Smith is a great player. I got Purdue. I've

1914
01:43:55,720 --> 01:43:59,479
Speaker 3: got Michigan over Iowa State. I have Kentucky losing to

1915
01:43:59,479 --> 01:44:02,439
Speaker 3: Santa Clair. I've been waiting all year long for Kentucky

1916
01:44:02,520 --> 01:44:04,839
Speaker 3: to give me a reason why I should trust him.

1917
01:44:05,200 --> 01:44:08,280
Speaker 3: They haven't done it. Santa Clara has three players who

1918
01:44:08,360 --> 01:44:12,120
Speaker 3: are shooting over forty percent from three. They're big, and

1919
01:44:12,160 --> 01:44:14,680
Speaker 3: by the way, they force turnovers on twenty and a

1920
01:44:14,720 --> 01:44:19,000
Speaker 3: half percent of opposing team's possessions. I have Santa Clara

1921
01:44:19,040 --> 01:44:23,080
Speaker 3: playing Iowa State. I've got Michigan beating Duke. Arizona was

1922
01:44:23,120 --> 01:44:25,439
Speaker 3: the best team I watched in college basketball this season,

1923
01:44:25,840 --> 01:44:28,639
Speaker 3: But the one that I think is scariest is Michigan. Yes,

1924
01:44:28,720 --> 01:44:32,320
Speaker 3: they did just lose to Purdue. I love Yaxl Landenborg.

1925
01:44:32,840 --> 01:44:35,679
Speaker 3: I think they're an absolute wagon. We get a rematch

1926
01:44:35,680 --> 01:44:38,680
Speaker 3: of nineteen ninety two, except this time Michigan's appearance in

1927
01:44:38,680 --> 01:44:40,240
Speaker 3: the Final four will not be vacated.

1928
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Speaker 2: I've got them beating Duke. There you go, There you go.

1929
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow with the Holy Grail will see you. Doors open

1930
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Speaker 3: at nine forty five, shows on at ten o'clock. It's

1931
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Speaker 3: going to be a blast. First sixty four in the door.

1932
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Speaker 3: Get a team. If you're a team wins a national title,

1933
01:44:53,600 --> 01:44:56,080
Speaker 3: you win a Tennessee Golf get away. Thanks to Bertram Golf.

1934
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Speaker 3: Chad Brendle is on in my place in the afternoon.

1935
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Speaker 3: I am off the rest of the week. Back at

1936
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Speaker 3: it here on Monday. Thanks to Terran for producing, Thanks

1937
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Speaker 3: to you for listening. Have a great night. This is

1938
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Speaker 3: ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

1939
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Speaker 8: Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic from.

1940
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Speaker 7: The UC Health Traffic Center. The University of Cincinnati Cancer

1941
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Speaker 7: Center has the region's only young onset corectal cancer program

1942
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Speaker 7: designed to keep your life moving forward.

1943
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Speaker 4: Call five one three five eighty five.

1944
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Speaker 7: UCCC eastbound Norwood Lateral is closed off due to an

1945
01:45:38,360 --> 01:45:41,880
Speaker 7: accident between seventy five and Paddock Road. The north and

1946
01:45:42,000 --> 01:45:45,640
Speaker 7: south seventy five off ramps to Norwood Lateral also closed,

1947
01:45:45,880 --> 01:45:49,519
Speaker 7: and southbound seventy five after Cooper Avenue accident blocking the

1948
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Speaker 7: left lane. I met Ezelic with traffic. This report is

1949
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