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Speaker 1: Six seven hundred WLW Harnell Carrier Sports doc presented by

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Speaker 1: Kelsey Chevrolet. I'm Lanston Allister. According to CBS Sports and

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Speaker 1: confirmed by Bearcat Journal, you see has landed its next

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Speaker 1: basketball coach, Utah State coach Jared Calhoun. For more on

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Speaker 1: that that, Let's go straight to the man who I

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Speaker 1: was texting in the middle of his live YouTube show.

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Speaker 1: I joined the chat for him and said, hey, check

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Speaker 1: your phone. He did. It was a request by me

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Speaker 1: to join for him to join me at this time,

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Speaker 1: so clearly he is a multitasker. We welcome in from

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Speaker 1: Bearcat Journal Chad Brundle. How are you.

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Speaker 2: Ah good?

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Speaker 3: This was.

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Speaker 2: Maybe the I don't want to say strangest, because I've

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Speaker 2: been through certainly some very strange coaching, sir is.

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Speaker 3: But in the silence and like confidence of it all,

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Speaker 3: it was it was definitely a one of one in

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Speaker 3: the way that these things normally go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, is this I mean, is this as simple as

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Speaker 1: both sides knowing who and what they wanted in the

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Speaker 1: in the marriage was easy to get to the altar.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think kind of the tale time for me Lance,

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Speaker 2: the thing that like, Okay, this might be different was

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Speaker 2: Kansas State because like the Kansas State folks and and

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of those folks and they're they're connected.

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Speaker 2: They were all convinced Jared Calhoun was was going to

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Speaker 2: be their next coach, and then he wasn't, and it

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Speaker 2: was like, hmm, I wonder what exactly is going on there?

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Speaker 2: And then from there, once the job opened, I talked

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Speaker 2: to one hundred and fifty different people around college basketball

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Speaker 2: and every role you can pretty much think of, and

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Speaker 2: every one of them said, oh, yeah, that's Jared Calhoun's

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Speaker 2: like that just makes the most sense. He's the guy,

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Speaker 2: like this is what it's going to be. I didn't

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Speaker 2: have one person like fight back against any of those thoughts.

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Speaker 2: So it was like, well, I guess we're gonna late

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Speaker 2: and find out, and maybe one you know, we'll hear

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Speaker 2: that he said no or something. But all indications from

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Speaker 2: minute one, day one or that Cincinnati had their eyes

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Speaker 2: on Calhoun, he was interested in return, and that this

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Speaker 2: thing was eventually going to lead to a marriage.

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Speaker 1: So Chad, for those who haven't read or heard the bio,

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Speaker 1: give the quick connection or trace the connection back to

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Speaker 1: UC through Huggins to this point. For Jared Calhoun.

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Speaker 2: So he started as a student assistant in the two

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Speaker 2: thousand and three two thousand and four season here with Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: Eventually ended up at West Virginia with Huggins was his

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Speaker 2: director of operations video coordinator, and then worked his way

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Speaker 2: up to his final year there he was a bench assistant.

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Speaker 2: So six years with Huggins between Cincinnati and West Virginia

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Speaker 2: very close ties. I mean, if we're being honest, it

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Speaker 2: probably cost him the West Virginia job last year just

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Speaker 2: because they were looking to go away from the Bob

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Speaker 2: Huggins tree and worked out great for Cincinnati, no.

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Speaker 1: Doubt, No doubt. Chad Brendel Bearcat Journal check it in

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Speaker 1: his offense just in the limited time I've watched. That's

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Speaker 1: a fun offense to watch.

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Speaker 2: It's what you want a modern offense to look like.

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Speaker 2: It relies on being able to shoot the three pointer,

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Speaker 2: but it's not dependent on only the three pointer. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they did not shoot it well against Arizona and still

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Speaker 2: found themselves in a position against what I think is

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Speaker 2: the best team in the country, down four with three

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Speaker 2: minutes left in the game, and they did it. Wasn't

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Speaker 2: a mid major you know, where they shoot lights out

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Speaker 2: from three and all of a sudden they're in position. No,

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Speaker 2: they were grinding out a close game with just a

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Speaker 2: dominant Arizona team, a lot of movement, a lot of

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Speaker 2: pressure on the rim. The thing I loved in that

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Speaker 2: Villanova game, a thirty plus free throws like that is

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Speaker 2: just something. It was a focus for Hugs. It was

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Speaker 2: a focus for Mick for whatever reason. It just was

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Speaker 2: never a focus for Wes Miller. Getting to the free

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Speaker 2: throw line. If you're going to score efficiently in college

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Speaker 2: basketball today, you gotta be better at getting to the

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Speaker 2: free throw line than Cincinnati was. And they had two

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Speaker 2: league guards that reached one free throw attempt a game. Essentially,

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Speaker 2: you're never gonna be an effective offense if that's the case.

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Speaker 2: And so you get movement, you get cutting, you get

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Speaker 2: you know, the ability to win even if you're not

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Speaker 2: shooting it well. If you are shooting it well, you're

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Speaker 2: gonna look outstanding. And if you watched them, that's played

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Speaker 1: Jerck Calhoun lost his top assistant to head coaching job.

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Speaker 1: I think it's Turtleton State used to be. It was

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Speaker 1: an assistant at NKU for a number of times, and

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Speaker 1: it's my understanding was a defensive guy for Calhoun. What

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Speaker 1: do you make of Calhoun's approach defensively and can it

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Speaker 1: be can it be good enough to go with what

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Speaker 1: we've said in glowing terms about the offense.

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Speaker 2: I think from what I've seen him, I was worried

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Speaker 2: December January kind of when we started looking at like,

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Speaker 2: if this job's really going to open, who would it be.

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Speaker 2: There were some things about Calhoun's defense that I was

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Speaker 2: stressed about a little bit of it. His man the

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Speaker 2: man defense, which they played more man this year, and

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Speaker 2: we're pretty effective at it. They relied a lot on

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Speaker 2: the matchup zone that Mick Cronin ran that you know

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Speaker 2: was still being run at Northern by Darren Horn. That's

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Speaker 2: where the defensive coordinator installed the zone when he got

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Speaker 2: to Utah State, and it was very good. I don't

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Speaker 2: think that's something you can use as a primary defense

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Speaker 2: in the Big twelve. So, you know, I think it

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Speaker 2: will be important to go find somebody identify what type

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Speaker 2: of defense, what type of man defense, what type of

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Speaker 2: philosophies you think will work in the Big twelve, and

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Speaker 2: then go find somebody to implement that. But The thing

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Speaker 2: I liked was his man. The man defenses weren't very

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Speaker 2: good at Youngstown State, and there was clearly some self reflection,

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Speaker 2: some looking in the mirror and going, Okay, it didn't

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Speaker 2: really work. What do I need to do to get

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Speaker 2: my defense to the level that matches my offense? And

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Speaker 2: he went out and found somebody that he thought could

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Speaker 2: do that. That gives me a lot of hope defensively

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Speaker 2: that he understands, find somebody that does the things that

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Speaker 2: I want to do, will implement those things, knows how

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Speaker 2: to teach them, and you know, hopefully you find somebody

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Speaker 2: that can get you, because I think we've seen enough

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Speaker 2: from him already. He's how exciting is this lands for

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Speaker 2: a Cincinnati fan. He should be able to produce top twenty,

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Speaker 2: top thirty type offenses with regularity here. If he can

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Speaker 2: get a top fifty, top forty defense to go with that,

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Speaker 2: then you're cooking with gas a little bit hopefully.

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Speaker 1: Oh you've got the hair standing up on my arms

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Speaker 1: as you say that right now? Are You've been all

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Speaker 1: over this? So you were live earlier? I was bugging

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Speaker 2: obviously the podcast network. Tonight will be live at eight o'clock,

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Speaker 2: going back live at eight o'clock. We'll be joined at

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Speaker 2: nine to thirty lance by somebody that was on that

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Speaker 2: two thousand and three Cincinnati team and has maintained a

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Speaker 2: relationship with Jared Calhoun over the past twenty plus years.

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Speaker 2: A fan favorite, Lenny Stokes will be joining us at

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Speaker 2: nine thirty.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a big fan of Leonard Stokes. Absolutely, all right,

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Speaker 1: thank you.

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Speaker 2: I did want to add that. I want to add this.

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Speaker 2: Can I get like thirty seconds? Sure it can be

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Speaker 2: done in this league. I know people look at this

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Speaker 2: league and say, you know, Bill Self and Calvin SAMs

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Speaker 2: and whatever, tj Oselberger and Grant McCaslin, young coaches that

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Speaker 2: came into this league. And were able to win pretty quickly.

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Speaker 2: It can be done in this league if you find

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Speaker 2: the right guy. The hope is that Cincinnati found the

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Speaker 2: right guy.

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Speaker 1: Well said, I appreciate you keeping track of what was

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Speaker 1: going on in your live chat and seeing my name

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Speaker 1: pop up and responding to my request. That was clutch.

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Speaker 1: You are, in fact a multitasker.

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Speaker 2: I do what I can lance That chat moves fast,

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Speaker 2: it does.

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Speaker 1: It was like a slide. She just kind of spinning. Yes,

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Speaker 1: all right, thank you sir, thanks her.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it all right.

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Speaker 1: He is Chad Brendel, Bearcat Journal dot Com. Come down

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