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Speaker 1: I heard Rady twenty two after five ESPN fifteen thirty

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Speaker 1: mo Agger Jared Calhoun to the surprise of pretty much nobody,

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Speaker 1: is going to be a UC's next head coach after

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Speaker 1: two seasons at Utah State. Full coverage of the coaching

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Speaker 1: search that never really felt like a search, and Jared

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Speaker 1: Calhoun being hired at U See by UC at bearcatjournal

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Speaker 1: dot com, which is the domain of our friend Ched

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Speaker 1: Brendel Chad. What do we like most about Jared Calhoun.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you've been a UC fan over the past

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Speaker 2: for roughly forty years, you love that he runs really,

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Speaker 2: really good offense. We've been, you know, the UC fan

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Speaker 2: So that kind of jumps out as number one. But

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Speaker 2: if you watched the two games that the Utah State

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Speaker 2: played in the tournament, they're physical, they're aggressive, they had

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Speaker 2: no back down in them whatsoever. Felt like every time

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Speaker 2: in either of those two games between Villanova and Arizona,

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Speaker 2: like they got punched in the mouth and could have folded,

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Speaker 2: and they fought back and fought back aggressively, and it

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Speaker 2: was no accident that they were able to get back

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Speaker 2: in the game and pull away from Villanova. And then

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Speaker 2: you know, Arizona felt like through three or four knockout

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Speaker 2: punches and Utah State was up by the standing eight count,

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Speaker 2: and you look in the final four minutes at a

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Speaker 2: four point game, it's kind of like, wow, like this

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Speaker 2: is I don't know if you could have scripted it

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Speaker 2: any better if you were John Cunningham, like assuming at

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Speaker 2: this point he got hired today. This has been in

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Speaker 2: the world for a while now, Like, if you're John Cunningham,

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Speaker 2: you're probably just sitting there like like mister Burns on

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Speaker 2: The Simpsons, given the accident. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I went into both those games, specifically on Friday and

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Speaker 1: to a degree last night, thinking like, all right, this

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Speaker 1: is going to be the guy. I think I'm okay

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Speaker 1: with this. Don't give me any reason to think that

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Speaker 1: from Friday thinking that's a really well coached team. And

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Speaker 1: I had the same takeaway last night. It was thirty

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Speaker 1: three to nineteen, and I said, I said to my wife,

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Speaker 1: like I want to see if this team bounces back.

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Speaker 1: I want to see if this team responds. I want

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Speaker 1: to see if this team has a CounterPunch to what

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Speaker 1: Arizona has just done. And you're right, four minutes to go,

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Speaker 1: they had a shot. Like I walked away excited about

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Speaker 1: the Jared Calhoun era at the University of Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he's got a connection to the school.

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Speaker 2: He's got a connection to Bob Huggins. I know just

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Speaker 2: from conversations around the sport. I know Mick Cronin and

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Speaker 2: is very fond of Jared Calhoun. So there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of synergy there that, for whatever reason, people in the

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Speaker 2: fan base kind of demand, but it exists. This time,

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Speaker 2: it's not fake, and it looks like the guy can

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Speaker 2: really really coach. And you know, in the league me,

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Speaker 2: I've been thinking about this a lot over the past

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Speaker 2: thirty six hours or so. There is precedent in this

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Speaker 2: league for young, high quality coach comes in and is

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Speaker 2: able to compete at the top of the conference. Tj Osselberger,

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Speaker 2: Graham mccastlein, both of those guys have come in. Now.

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Speaker 2: McCaslin now has a lot of resources at his disposal,

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Speaker 2: but that wasn't the case when he got the job,

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Speaker 2: and there's been a lot of reports that Iowa State

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Speaker 2: is not operating with the type of funding that DYU

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Speaker 2: and Kansas are. Those were really good coaches that knew

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Speaker 2: part of the league. So it can be done. That

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Speaker 2: is a good sign for Jared Calhoun.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the connections to UC's basketball history to people

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Speaker 1: much do those connections matter?

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Speaker 2: Ultimately, what matters is Candy coach or not. But in

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Speaker 2: today's day and age, when there's a lot of sales involved,

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Speaker 2: when there's a lot of getting people behind you, getting

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Speaker 2: a belief around town, in a town that there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of competition for the sports dollar, I think it helps.

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Speaker 2: It certainly gets you in some doors that maybe have

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Speaker 2: thousand and three, twenty fourteen, when he was a student assistant. Like,

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Speaker 2: there's just gonna be some connectivity things in a very

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Speaker 2: already in.

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Speaker 1: Place, was anybody else even remotely considered.

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Speaker 2: Maybe. All I know is we I did not have

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Speaker 2: a saint. I had hundreds of conversations over the past

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Speaker 2: ten days. I did not talk to one person from

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Speaker 2: National Championship head coach to like low level staffer that

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Speaker 2: said anything other than, oh, that's yeah, Derick Calhoun's going

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Speaker 2: to get that job. So I'm sure John Cunningham did

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Speaker 2: his due diligence and you know, reached out to some

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Speaker 2: agents and maybe even talked to some people. But all

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Speaker 2: indications from the jump, it was the most boring coaching search,

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Speaker 2: and I've done a lot of them, the most boring

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Speaker 2: even like joking around with people, like can you make

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Speaker 2: get run with here, Like usually I get to like

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Speaker 2: version five of the hot board. We got to version

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Speaker 2: one point one. Well, because there just was nothing new

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Speaker 2: to say that wasn't well. I talked to four more

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Speaker 2: people today and they all said Jared Calhoun. Talked to

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Speaker 2: twelve people this evening. They all said Jared Calhoun, like

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Speaker 2: it was the worst kept secret in college basketball if

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Speaker 2: anybody thought it was a secret.

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Speaker 1: Is Is there a sense that he may bring some

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Speaker 1: players from Utah State with him? And do we want

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Speaker 1: him to bring players from Utah State with them?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a couple of people I've talked to familiar

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Speaker 2: with the situations that they expect some names to follow him.

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Speaker 2: How many I don't have a great feel yet. Ella mean,

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Speaker 2: the six nine forward I think would be number one

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Speaker 2: freshmen that red shirted for development. It'd be interesting to

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Speaker 2: see if he thought any of those guys progressed to

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Speaker 2: a Big twelve level. Here's the other thing that I

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Speaker 2: good of a first hand look at what the Big

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Speaker 2: twelve is about last night as you can possibly get.

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Speaker 2: So he's got that judge of do I think these

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Speaker 2: guys can do that every night? And if he does,

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Speaker 2: you know, there's a couple of guys I think he

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Speaker 2: But certainly guys that can one help you win games

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Speaker 1: I guess we would have to get a sense of

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Speaker 1: how many of these guys Jared Calhoun would want add Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: But is there a belief that of the players who

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: Not really. I mean, I just don't see it. Maybe

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Speaker 2: that's just me and my outlook on how this business

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Speaker 2: works now. But coaching change, I expect complete foster turnover.

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Speaker 2: I just you know, the players, not it didn't get

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Speaker 2: recruited by the new guy. Now there is a little

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Speaker 2: bit of a window. You've got until April seventh before

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Speaker 2: the portal opened, so he will have some time if

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Speaker 2: they want to work on that. But just from looking

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Speaker 2: at it, I would think the players are going to

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Speaker 2: want a fresh start, the coach is gonna want a

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Speaker 2: fresh start, And now it's easier than ever to go

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Speaker 2: get new players like you had to keep guys before

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Speaker 2: because you didn't have the portal buffet to go you know, browse. Now,

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Speaker 2: you can go build a roster pretty quick, especially if

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Speaker 2: you've got the financial support to do so. One maybe

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Speaker 2: two guys come back. But I just you know, unless

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Speaker 2: things change between now and you know, a week or

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Speaker 2: two from now, I just I have a hard time

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Speaker 2: seeing much of this roster. If any of this roster returning.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, as always appreciate you doing on a short notice.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll chat soon, all right.

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Speaker 2: Thanks.

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Speaker 1: So that's our guy, Chad Brendel, Bearcat Journal dot com.

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