1
00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:05,200
Speaker 1: ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati's sports stations.

2
00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:09,760
Speaker 2: All Right six Sacrifive, ESPN fifteen thirty. Alma Eggers, thank

3
00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,720
Speaker 2: you for listening. Hoping your week is off to a

4
00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:17,200
Speaker 2: great start. You've hand on an awesome Monday. According to

5
00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:18,640
Speaker 2: a number of.

6
00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,240
Speaker 1: Media outlets, you see.

7
00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:27,720
Speaker 2: As a new men's basketball head coach, Jared Calhoun maybe

8
00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,120
Speaker 2: the least secretive coaching search of all time. Chad Brendle's

9
00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:34,600
Speaker 2: gonna join us coming up in just about fifteen minutes

10
00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,559
Speaker 2: Bearcat journal dot com to talk about this Jared Calhoun,

11
00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,680
Speaker 2: if you watched his team's play on Friday and again

12
00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,239
Speaker 2: last night, and last night they were outmanned by an

13
00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:50,080
Speaker 2: Arizona team that has an argument for best in the country,

14
00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,880
Speaker 2: certainly has a chance to win the national title. If

15
00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:55,960
Speaker 2: you were looking for a team, though, that ran good

16
00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,720
Speaker 2: stuff and wanted to use that as a reflection of

17
00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,240
Speaker 2: the head coach, I think you liked what you saw

18
00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:06,000
Speaker 2: when you watched Jared Calhoun's team's play on Friday and

19
00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,760
Speaker 2: last night. More on that with Chad coming up in

20
00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,360
Speaker 2: just a bit. Look, man, this is obviously not guaranteed

21
00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:17,080
Speaker 2: to work, but but say what you want about John Cunningham,

22
00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:21,880
Speaker 2: and he has his critics, and they've been well well

23
00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,200
Speaker 2: stocked with ammunition to use against him.

24
00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:26,400
Speaker 1: But it did feel like there was a plan here.

25
00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,640
Speaker 2: The plan got executed and there was no wrench that

26
00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,440
Speaker 2: got thrown in. This did not feel like a matter

27
00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,160
Speaker 2: of fire the coach and then go what now. It

28
00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,240
Speaker 2: felt like, you know, it's said all the time that

29
00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,760
Speaker 2: a good athletic director always has the name of his

30
00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,920
Speaker 2: next head coach in the signature sports at a school

31
00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,880
Speaker 2: in his back pocket. This felt like he had Jared

32
00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,600
Speaker 2: Calhoun's name in his back pocket. So we'll see how

33
00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,360
Speaker 2: it works. Chad's gonna join us. Coming up in just

34
00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:58,200
Speaker 2: about fifteen minutes. I cannot help but ask a question

35
00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,840
Speaker 2: about Joe Burrow. I will coming up in just about

36
00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:07,840
Speaker 2: twenty five minutes. The Reds spring training portion of spring

37
00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,560
Speaker 2: training is over. They do have a couple of exhibition

38
00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,680
Speaker 2: games in Milwaukee, the first of which is tonight with

39
00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:20,240
Speaker 2: Brady's singer pitching. And you know these two games, I'd

40
00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,680
Speaker 2: be willing to bet they play a game tomorrow. That

41
00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,440
Speaker 2: game may take an hour and forty five minutes to play.

42
00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:32,639
Speaker 2: Last game of the exhibition season and off day on Wednesday,

43
00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:36,360
Speaker 2: the opener on Thursday. Everybody just wants to get home.

44
00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:40,720
Speaker 2: Everybody just wants the season to begin. These games tonight

45
00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,720
Speaker 2: and tomorrow, my guess is, don't take very long to play.

46
00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:50,200
Speaker 2: Hopefully there's no bad injury news. And like the biggest

47
00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:53,040
Speaker 2: story of spring training was Hunter Green's injury. It's a

48
00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,440
Speaker 2: staff ace. He's the guy who I think would be

49
00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,240
Speaker 2: pitching on Thursday if he was healthy. He's the guy

50
00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,160
Speaker 2: who pitched Game one of the playoffs last year. When

51
00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,200
Speaker 2: he's healthy, there aren't that many pitchers better than him.

52
00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,440
Speaker 2: That was the biggest story of the spring. But I

53
00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:09,760
Speaker 2: think that the second biggest story of the spring is

54
00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,920
Speaker 2: the fact that among the position players it felt like

55
00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,520
Speaker 2: some really good things did happen. It felt like there

56
00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,760
Speaker 2: was no real major injury issue. It felt like the

57
00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,400
Speaker 2: good news was in abundance. It felt like every time

58
00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,560
Speaker 2: you talked about a guy's performance during the Cactus League,

59
00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,280
Speaker 2: you were talking about a player like Matt McClain or

60
00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:34,280
Speaker 2: Sal Stewart. You were talking about a guy like Nathaniel

61
00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:38,600
Speaker 2: Lowe who's made the team, and understandably so, even Noelve Marte.

62
00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,560
Speaker 2: In the second half of the spring, it felt like

63
00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,600
Speaker 2: the light bulb came on. There are legitimate reasons to

64
00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,720
Speaker 2: be a little skeptical about outfield defense when you've got

65
00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,240
Speaker 2: a guy playing right field who doesn't have a lot

66
00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,480
Speaker 2: of experience there. But I think if you're using the

67
00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,520
Speaker 2: Cactus League as a guide and it's a guy that

68
00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:02,400
Speaker 2: you should you shouldn't use exclusively. You shouldn't use previous

69
00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,720
Speaker 2: performance in regular season games, like you just take everything

70
00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,280
Speaker 2: in the spring with a grain of salts. But if

71
00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:14,240
Speaker 2: we're using the Cactus League as a guide to suggest

72
00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,479
Speaker 2: some things that could happen once the real games actually begin,

73
00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,520
Speaker 2: I think we like what that guide reveals, Like there

74
00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:25,800
Speaker 2: were some good things that happen, and I think you

75
00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:28,839
Speaker 2: have a team if you just look at how the

76
00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,760
Speaker 2: roster ended up being constructed. One of their bigger acquisitions

77
00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,240
Speaker 2: did not even make the team. Reese Hines did not

78
00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:43,919
Speaker 2: even make the team. Now, I don't think anybody was

79
00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,520
Speaker 2: expecting rees Hines to make the team and have an

80
00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,480
Speaker 2: all Star caliber, you know season, And I don't think

81
00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,400
Speaker 2: anybody was expecting JJ Bleday to show up in Cincinnati

82
00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,400
Speaker 2: and help transform the Reds offense. But those are guys

83
00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:03,760
Speaker 2: JJ Bleday, an established big leaguer, had an OPS this

84
00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:09,640
Speaker 2: spring of ten forty seven. Ten forty seven, didn't make

85
00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:15,960
Speaker 2: the team. Reese Hines had a spring OPS of fourteen fourteen,

86
00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:21,760
Speaker 2: didn't make the team. Reese Hines batted for to ten.

87
00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:28,880
Speaker 2: JJ Blede batted three seventeen. Neither dude made the team. Now,

88
00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,480
Speaker 2: the explanation from Terry Francona is one that I think

89
00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,960
Speaker 2: makes sense. Hey, we want these guys to play, we

90
00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:37,720
Speaker 2: want them to play every day, we want them getting

91
00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,039
Speaker 2: regular at bats. Nathaniel Lowe is a guy who's going

92
00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,919
Speaker 2: to come off the bench. He's a bench player. But

93
00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,120
Speaker 2: like Nathaniel lo when he got signed, I think a

94
00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,120
Speaker 2: lot of us looked at him as insurance against Sal Stewart,

95
00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:54,080
Speaker 2: not necessarily working out or you know, just a guy

96
00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,000
Speaker 2: who's gonna have maybe a little bit of an uphill

97
00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,559
Speaker 2: battle to make the team. And he made the team

98
00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,400
Speaker 2: and made the team amid some horrible circumstances. Is where

99
00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,760
Speaker 2: his mom unfortunately passed away during spring training. He stayed

100
00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,640
Speaker 2: with the Reds, hit an emotional home run on the

101
00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,839
Speaker 2: day that his dad showed up to spring training camp.

102
00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,480
Speaker 2: But like some good stuff happened during the spring where

103
00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,120
Speaker 2: it legitimately does feel like the Reds had good competition.

104
00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:21,320
Speaker 2: Legitimately does feel like the Reds are gonna go north

105
00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,240
Speaker 2: with some guys who made strong cases to be on

106
00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:29,279
Speaker 2: the club, Guys who, as the season unfolds, look like

107
00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,400
Speaker 2: they could come up from Louisville and help like Ree,

108
00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:38,600
Speaker 2: signs like JJ Bleda. Now, again, there are reasons why

109
00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,960
Speaker 2: those guys didn't make the big league club, lack of

110
00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:47,600
Speaker 2: extensive big league track record, relatively low ceilings relative to

111
00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,480
Speaker 2: other guys on other teams who played the same position.

112
00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,840
Speaker 2: But still, it does feel like the Red's deepest team

113
00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:55,720
Speaker 2: they've had in a while.

114
00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:55,960
Speaker 3: Now.

115
00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,039
Speaker 2: That might not be a very high bar to clear,

116
00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:03,760
Speaker 2: but have been seasons recent vintage where you looked at

117
00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:06,400
Speaker 2: the bottom end of the roster, or you looked at

118
00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,520
Speaker 2: some of the guys who made the club out of

119
00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:12,320
Speaker 2: spring training and you're like, well it they had to

120
00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,440
Speaker 2: fill out the roster with twenty six guys, and so

121
00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,760
Speaker 2: here we are. This does feel different, and it feels

122
00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,360
Speaker 2: like they have a team that, if you use spring

123
00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:25,920
Speaker 2: training as a guide, offensively should be better. They should

124
00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,640
Speaker 2: get more production from the two hole. They have a

125
00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,200
Speaker 2: guy in Sal Stewart who did everything you ever could

126
00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:35,240
Speaker 2: have asked of him and ops above one thousand, Like,

127
00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,280
Speaker 2: if you look at the raw numbers, hell, Will Benson

128
00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,720
Speaker 2: had a huge spring, Matt McClain was otherworldly this spring.

129
00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,640
Speaker 2: Nobody is saying any of these guys is gonna have

130
00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,640
Speaker 2: a good season. You gotta do, you know, the right

131
00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,440
Speaker 2: thing and put these numbers in the proper context. But

132
00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,920
Speaker 2: if you went into mid February hoping that some things

133
00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,840
Speaker 2: would play out during the Cactus League and during spring training,

134
00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:00,720
Speaker 2: that felt like, felt like strong indicators or at least

135
00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,920
Speaker 2: individual seasons that could be better in twenty twenty six,

136
00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,320
Speaker 2: or collectively a team that offensively could be better in

137
00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:11,320
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. I think you saw those things. I

138
00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:14,880
Speaker 2: do feel like as much as you might feel slightly

139
00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,920
Speaker 2: more optimistic about the Reds offensively based on spring training,

140
00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:22,360
Speaker 2: and again that's just based on spring training. From a

141
00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:26,560
Speaker 2: pitching perspective, maybe you feel a little bit worse because

142
00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,880
Speaker 2: I do A Hunter Green's not healthy. B Nick Lodolo

143
00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:34,280
Speaker 2: continues to deal with blisters. See Andrew Abbott pitched unevenly

144
00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,120
Speaker 2: in the aftermath of a season where he was awesome

145
00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:41,200
Speaker 2: in the first half, pedestrian in the second half. They're

146
00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,680
Speaker 2: still very short on experience in the back end of

147
00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:47,040
Speaker 2: that rotation. By the way, Caleb Ferguson, while it might

148
00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,520
Speaker 2: be a very short term thing, it's an oblique Oblique

149
00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,920
Speaker 2: injuries seem weird. Caleb Ferguson is one of the reasons

150
00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,560
Speaker 2: why a lot of us felt better about the overall

151
00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:00,440
Speaker 2: composition of the bullpen when spring training started. I think

152
00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:04,120
Speaker 2: relative to how we felt six seven weeks ago, there's

153
00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,360
Speaker 2: reason to feel a little bit better about this team offensively,

154
00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,600
Speaker 2: and also reasons to feel maybe not quite as bullish

155
00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:13,720
Speaker 2: as we did.

156
00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:15,280
Speaker 1: About the Red starting pitching.

157
00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:19,200
Speaker 2: We'll see quarter after five ESPN fifteen thirty five point

158
00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,000
Speaker 2: three seven four nine, fifteen thirty if we have time,

159
00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:24,360
Speaker 2: and we do have to spend some time on Joe

160
00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,000
Speaker 2: Burrow playing gimmicky flag football. But first, UC has a

161
00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,440
Speaker 2: new basketball coach, Chad Brendle joins us to talk about him.

162
00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:39,120
Speaker 4: Next Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.

163
00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,080
Speaker 1: Traffic from the UC Health Traffic Center.

164
00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:47,160
Speaker 5: The UC Health Women's Sports Medicine Program provides specialized care

165
00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:50,480
Speaker 5: for female athletes at all levels. Schedule an appointment online

166
00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:55,280
Speaker 5: at ucehealth dot com. Northbound seventy one after Smith Edwards

167
00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,000
Speaker 5: there's an accident. It's off onto the right shoulder. Emergency

168
00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,040
Speaker 5: crews on the seat of Another crash east Grandon Road.

169
00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,560
Speaker 5: It's at State Route forty eight on Edwards Road. Another

170
00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:09,880
Speaker 5: accident at Edmondson Road, and Snyder an accident at Socialville

171
00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,679
Speaker 5: Foster Road. I'm at e Zelik with traffic.

172
00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:19,040
Speaker 2: The singer Jared Calhoun, to the surprise of pretty much nobody,

173
00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,480
Speaker 2: is going to be a UC's next head coach after

174
00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:26,920
Speaker 2: two seasons at Utah State. Full coverage of the coaching

175
00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,760
Speaker 2: search that never really felt like a search, and Jared

176
00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:34,320
Speaker 2: Calhoun being hired at U. See by UC at bearcatjournal

177
00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,160
Speaker 2: dot com, which is the domain of our friend Chad Brendel.

178
00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:39,600
Speaker 1: Chad, what do we like most about Jared Calhoun?

179
00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:44,680
Speaker 3: Well, if you've been a UC fan over the past

180
00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:49,360
Speaker 3: for roughly forty years, you love that he runs really,

181
00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:55,520
Speaker 3: really good offense. We've been, you know, the UC fan

182
00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:57,679
Speaker 3: base has been waiting for that for a long time,

183
00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:00,880
Speaker 3: so that kind of jumps out a number one. But

184
00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,559
Speaker 3: if you watched the two games that the Utah State

185
00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:10,400
Speaker 3: played in the tournament, they're physical, they're aggressive, they had

186
00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:15,080
Speaker 3: no backdown in them whatsoever. Felt like every time in

187
00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:20,440
Speaker 3: either of those two games between Villanova and Arizona, like

188
00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,480
Speaker 3: they got punched in the mouth and could have folded,

189
00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,840
Speaker 3: and they fought back and fought back aggressively, and it

190
00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,960
Speaker 3: was no accident that they were able to get back

191
00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,320
Speaker 3: in the game and pull away from Villanova. And then

192
00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,640
Speaker 3: you know, Arizona felt like through three or four knockout

193
00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:42,920
Speaker 3: punches and Utah State was up by the standing eight

194
00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,120
Speaker 3: count and you look in the final four minutes at

195
00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,160
Speaker 3: a four point game, it's kind of like, wow, like

196
00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,080
Speaker 3: this is I don't know if you could have scripted

197
00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:55,840
Speaker 3: it any better if you were John Cunningham, like assuming

198
00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:59,560
Speaker 3: at this point he got hired today. This has been

199
00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:03,120
Speaker 3: in the for a while now, Like if you're John Cunningham,

200
00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:07,120
Speaker 3: you're probably just sitting there like like mister Burns on

201
00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:09,280
Speaker 3: The Simpsons, given the accident.

202
00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:10,360
Speaker 1: Yeah.

203
00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,199
Speaker 2: I went into both those games, specifically on Friday and

204
00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,360
Speaker 2: to a degree last night, thinking like, all right, this

205
00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,640
Speaker 2: is going to be the guy. I think I'm okay

206
00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:21,320
Speaker 2: with this. Don't give me any reason to think that

207
00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,160
Speaker 2: you shouldn't be the guy. And instead I walked away

208
00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,040
Speaker 2: from Friday thinking that's a really well coached team, and

209
00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,360
Speaker 2: I had the same takeaway last night. It was thirty

210
00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,960
Speaker 2: three to nineteen, and I said, I said to my wife, like,

211
00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:33,800
Speaker 2: I want to see if this team bounces back.

212
00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:35,240
Speaker 1: I want to see if this team responds. I want

213
00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:35,720
Speaker 1: to see if this.

214
00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,000
Speaker 2: Team has a CounterPunch to what Arizona has just done.

215
00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:42,160
Speaker 2: And You're right, four minutes to go, they had a shot.

216
00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:46,920
Speaker 2: Like I walked away excited about the Jared Calhoun era

217
00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:48,520
Speaker 2: at the University of Cincinnati.

218
00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's got a connection to the school.

219
00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,880
Speaker 3: He's got a connection to Bob Huggins. I know just

220
00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,040
Speaker 3: from conversations around the sport. I know Mike Crona and

221
00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:04,560
Speaker 3: is very pond of Jared Calhoun. So there's a lot

222
00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:09,000
Speaker 3: of synergy there that, for whatever reason, people in the

223
00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,880
Speaker 3: fan base kind of demand. But it exists. This time,

224
00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:15,640
Speaker 3: it's not fake and it looks like the guy can

225
00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:20,559
Speaker 3: really really coach. And you know, in the league, we

226
00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,079
Speaker 3: I've been thinking about this a lot over the past

227
00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:27,760
Speaker 3: thirty six hours or so. There is precedent in this

228
00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:33,280
Speaker 3: league for young, high quality coach comes in and is

229
00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:38,880
Speaker 3: able to compete at the top of the conference. Tj Osselberger,

230
00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:43,440
Speaker 3: Graham mccastlein both of those guys have come in now.

231
00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,319
Speaker 3: McCaslin now has a lot of resources at his disposal,

232
00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,200
Speaker 3: but that wasn't the case when he got the job,

233
00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,360
Speaker 3: and there's been a lot of reports that Iowa State

234
00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:57,240
Speaker 3: is not operating with the type of funding that DYU

235
00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:01,720
Speaker 3: and Kansas are. Those were really good coaches that knew

236
00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:05,760
Speaker 3: who they were, built their rockster and instantly were able

237
00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,199
Speaker 3: to come in and work their way towards the upper

238
00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,079
Speaker 3: part of the league. So it can be done. That

239
00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:13,640
Speaker 3: is a good sign for Jared Callahun.

240
00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:18,680
Speaker 2: You mentioned the connections to UC's basketball history to people

241
00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:21,440
Speaker 2: who are at least emotionally invested in the program.

242
00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:23,280
Speaker 1: How much do those connections matter?

243
00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:31,200
Speaker 3: Ultimately, what matters is canny coach or not. But in

244
00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,920
Speaker 3: today's day and age, when there's a lot of sales involved,

245
00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:39,560
Speaker 3: when there's a lot of getting people behind you, getting

246
00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:43,360
Speaker 3: a belief around town, in a town that there's a

247
00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:47,360
Speaker 3: lot of competition for the sports dollar, I think it helps.

248
00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:52,200
Speaker 3: It certainly gets you in some doors that maybe have

249
00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:58,280
Speaker 3: been closed for a decade or two. It ties things

250
00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,960
Speaker 3: together because he he's going to be able to talk

251
00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:03,480
Speaker 3: to these people about when he was here that two

252
00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,240
Speaker 3: thousand and three twenty fourteen, when he was a student assistant, Like,

253
00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:11,640
Speaker 3: there's just going to be some connectivity things in a

254
00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:16,440
Speaker 3: very provincial city that can't hurt if he's got those

255
00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:17,600
Speaker 3: ties already in place.

256
00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,160
Speaker 1: Was anybody else even remotely considered.

257
00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,800
Speaker 3: Maybe? All I know is we I did not have

258
00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,760
Speaker 3: a SAT. I had hundreds of conversations over the past

259
00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:34,040
Speaker 3: ten days. I did not talk to one person from

260
00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:40,920
Speaker 3: National Championship head coach to like low level staffer that

261
00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,760
Speaker 3: said anything other than, oh, that's yeah, Derrick Calhoun's going

262
00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:47,600
Speaker 3: to get that job. So I'm sure John Cunningham did

263
00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,800
Speaker 3: his due diligence and you know, reached out to some

264
00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:55,000
Speaker 3: agents and maybe even talked to some people. But all

265
00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:58,720
Speaker 3: indications from the jump, it was the most boring coaching search,

266
00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:00,840
Speaker 3: and I've done a lot of them, the most boring

267
00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,160
Speaker 3: coaching search I've ever been a part of. I was

268
00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,040
Speaker 3: even like joking around with people, like can you make

269
00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,520
Speaker 3: something up? So I got a little something I get

270
00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,920
Speaker 3: run with here, Like usually I get to like version

271
00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,720
Speaker 3: five of the hot board. We got to version one

272
00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:21,160
Speaker 3: point one. Well, because there just was nothing new to

273
00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,200
Speaker 3: say that wasn't well. I talked to four more people

274
00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,120
Speaker 3: today and they all said Jared Calhoun talked to twelve

275
00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:31,480
Speaker 3: people this evening. They all said, Jared Calhoun like it

276
00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:35,280
Speaker 3: was the worst kept secret in college basketball. If anybody

277
00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:36,320
Speaker 3: thought it was a secret.

278
00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,200
Speaker 2: Is is there a sense that he may bring some

279
00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:41,480
Speaker 2: players from Utah State with him? And do we want

280
00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:43,960
Speaker 2: him to bring players from Utah State with them?

281
00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a couple of people I've talked to familiar

282
00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:52,080
Speaker 3: with the situations that they expect some names to follow them.

283
00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,840
Speaker 3: How many I don't have a great feo yet. Ella mean,

284
00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,600
Speaker 3: the six nine forward I think would be maybe number

285
00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,160
Speaker 3: one to have an eye on. He did have a

286
00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:07,000
Speaker 3: couple freshmen that red shirted for Development'd be interesting to

287
00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,960
Speaker 3: see if he thought any of those guys progressed to

288
00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:13,040
Speaker 3: a Big twelve level. Here's the other thing that I

289
00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:17,640
Speaker 3: think is really important about this me. He got as

290
00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:19,880
Speaker 3: good of a first hand look at what the Big

291
00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:22,880
Speaker 3: twelve is about last night as you can possibly get.

292
00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:27,680
Speaker 3: So he's got that judge of do I think these

293
00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:31,439
Speaker 3: guys can do that every night? And if he does,

294
00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:33,280
Speaker 3: you know, there's a couple of guys I think he

295
00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,240
Speaker 3: could bring with him, and a couple guys already. I

296
00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,119
Speaker 3: think that from what I've seen over the past six

297
00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,200
Speaker 3: weeks or so, I think could be good. I don't

298
00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:45,960
Speaker 3: think anybody's potentially like a star right out of the gate,

299
00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,720
Speaker 3: but certainly guys that can one help you win games

300
00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:53,040
Speaker 3: in the Big twelve and two help establish the culture

301
00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:57,240
Speaker 3: and the system and make the transition a little bit easier.

302
00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,520
Speaker 2: I guess we would have to get a sense of

303
00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,080
Speaker 2: how many of these guys Jared Calhoun would want add Cincinnati.

304
00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:05,840
Speaker 2: But is there a belief that of the players who

305
00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:09,840
Speaker 2: can come back that there's open mindedness about remaining Bearcats

306
00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:11,520
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six, twenty seven.

307
00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:15,480
Speaker 3: Not really, I mean, I just don't see it. Maybe

308
00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:21,920
Speaker 3: that's just me and my outlook on how this business

309
00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:26,760
Speaker 3: works now. But coaching change, I expect complete foster turnover.

310
00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:31,439
Speaker 3: I just you know, the players not it didn't get

311
00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:33,400
Speaker 3: recruited by the new guy. Now, there is a little

312
00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,320
Speaker 3: bit of a window. You've got until April seventh before

313
00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:39,920
Speaker 3: the portal opened, so he will have some time if

314
00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,960
Speaker 3: they want to work on that. But just from looking

315
00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,920
Speaker 3: at it, I would think the players are going to

316
00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,399
Speaker 3: want a fresh start, the coach is gonna want a

317
00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,080
Speaker 3: fresh start. And now it's easier than ever to go

318
00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,800
Speaker 3: get new players like you had to keep guys before

319
00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:02,160
Speaker 3: because you didn't have the portal buffet to go, you know, Browse.

320
00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:05,720
Speaker 3: Now you can go build a roster pretty quick, especially

321
00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:11,640
Speaker 3: if you've got the financial support to do so. One

322
00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,679
Speaker 3: maybe two guys come back. But I just, you know,

323
00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,520
Speaker 3: unless things change between now and you know, a week

324
00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:20,760
Speaker 3: or two from now, I just I have a hard

325
00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,399
Speaker 3: time seeing much of this roster. If any of this

326
00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:25,680
Speaker 3: roster returning.

327
00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,479
Speaker 2: Awesome, as always, appreciate you doing a short notice. I'm

328
00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:31,160
Speaker 2: sure we'll chat soon, all right.

329
00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:31,400
Speaker 3: Thanks.

330
00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,560
Speaker 2: So that's our guy, Chad Brendel, Bearcat Journal dot com.

331
00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:39,000
Speaker 2: Jared Calhoun, we'll be named the next men's basketball head

332
00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:43,480
Speaker 2: coach at the University of Cincinnati. Get complete coverage at

333
00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:47,560
Speaker 2: Bearcatjournal dot com. Sports headlines and a simple question. We'll

334
00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:49,840
Speaker 2: try to work in a phone call five one, three, seven,

335
00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:53,639
Speaker 2: four nine fifteen thirty as well. I cannot help but

336
00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,840
Speaker 2: ask a question that I'm I'm sure, I'm sure if

337
00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,920
Speaker 2: you're being really honest, you're asking as well about Joe Burrow.

338
00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:00,640
Speaker 1: We'll do that.

339
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:07,760
Speaker 4: Next Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.

340
00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,639
Speaker 1: Traffic from the UC Health Traffic Center.

341
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,720
Speaker 5: The UC Health Women's Sports Medicine Program provides specialized care

342
00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:19,080
Speaker 5: for female athletes at all levels. Schedule and appointment online

343
00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,160
Speaker 5: at ucehealth dot com. Northbound seventy one, an accident has

344
00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,560
Speaker 5: been cleared out after Smith edwards. That's still got a

345
00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,960
Speaker 5: minute or two worth of delays back from Dana northbound

346
00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:34,080
Speaker 5: seventy five traffic Stomp and go between Mitchell and Ronaldraaken Highway.

347
00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:37,280
Speaker 5: That's a thirty minute delay. And an accident on Ridge

348
00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,720
Speaker 5: Road at Idson Avenue. I'm at ezelic with traffic.

349
00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:45,080
Speaker 1: This report is sponsing thirty sports headline.

350
00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:49,680
Speaker 2: Oh oh, no, oh, Taren, you did not do this,

351
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,240
Speaker 2: You did not do this. I'm gonna pull back the

352
00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,320
Speaker 2: curtain now. If you've listened to this show for any

353
00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,240
Speaker 2: amount of time, you know there's a specific rule. I

354
00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,480
Speaker 2: don't care about the music that's played, but you can't

355
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,719
Speaker 2: play Pitbull and you can't play Will Smith after nineteen

356
00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:10,439
Speaker 2: ninety one, and Tarren knows this. This has been beaten

357
00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,320
Speaker 2: into his brain over the last seven and a half years.

358
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:15,879
Speaker 2: But today we have a young woman from the University

359
00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,399
Speaker 2: of Cincinnati who is interested in broadcasting, and so she

360
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,919
Speaker 2: has asked to shadow the show, and she is running

361
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 2: the last hour of the show and Tarren Jess set

362
00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:28,560
Speaker 2: her up and I'm sure told her to play that

363
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,440
Speaker 2: song which means our new friend Coco from uce As Band.

364
00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,880
Speaker 1: Sorry, No, I was showing her what not to do. Well,

365
00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,000
Speaker 1: you succeeded. Good job.

366
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,600
Speaker 2: Sports headlines are a service of Kelsey Chevrolet, home of

367
00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,960
Speaker 2: lifetime powertrain protection and a guaranteed credit approval from their

368
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,160
Speaker 2: family to yours for life Kelsey chev dot com.

369
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:49,240
Speaker 1: You just heard you at Brendel.

370
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,239
Speaker 2: Jared Calhoun is going to be hired by UC to

371
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,760
Speaker 2: be the next men's basketball head coach. Wes Miller gets

372
00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,760
Speaker 2: the coaching job at Charlotte. Good luck to him. I'm

373
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,160
Speaker 2: rooting for Wes Miller, not as much as I'm rooting

374
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,480
Speaker 2: for Jared Calhoun, but I'm rooting for Wes Miller. I

375
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 2: rooted for Mark Pope yesterday because I thought there was

376
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 2: great value on the Wildcats and it's fun when Kentucky

377
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,280
Speaker 2: plays deep into the tournament.

378
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:12,879
Speaker 1: They didn't.

379
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,159
Speaker 2: They got smoked by Iowa State after a good start.

380
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:20,119
Speaker 2: Mark Pope showed tonight at six on ESPN fifteen thirty

381
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,920
Speaker 2: Reds and Brewers played tonight in Milwaukee. It's a game

382
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,639
Speaker 2: that doesn't count. Brady Singer pitches for Cincinnati, and the

383
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,440
Speaker 2: UC baseball team ranked twenty fifth in this week's Baseball

384
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,960
Speaker 2: America Poll. The Bearcats are nineteen and seven. Pole questions

385
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:37,879
Speaker 2: on Twitter come your way thanks to United Heartland Insurance.

386
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 2: Find out what the folks that United Heartland Insurance can

387
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,400
Speaker 2: do for you when it comes to what you're paying

388
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,560
Speaker 2: for insurance. Go to uchins dot com. One first pole

389
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:52,399
Speaker 2: question you see is hiring Jared Calhoun Free choices. A.

390
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 2: The Bearcats are back. B the Bearcats might be back.

391
00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 2: We'll see see keep dreaming, mo vote now. The other

392
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:07,880
Speaker 2: pole question is about Joe Burrow playing gimmicky flag football?

393
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 2: Are you cool with it? Sixty percent of you say no.

394
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,479
Speaker 2: I will admit to you that I did not watch

395
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 2: live at least a second of the Fanatics Flag Football

396
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 2: Classic in Los Angeles. Couple of general rules. A. If

397
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 2: Fanatics is involved, I don't care. Look, man, I just

398
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 2: want Fanatics to make stuff. That if if it's an

399
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 2: Excel and you order an Excel it actually fits like

400
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 2: an XL perfect that before you can move on to

401
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 2: flag football. B. When I hear that Logan Paul is involved.

402
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 2: I'm good. Also, it would have involved watching Joe Burrow

403
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,719
Speaker 2: do something that would have compelled me to hold my breath.

404
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pull out my old man hat. I don't

405
00:23:59,000 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 2: mean to do it.

406
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,200
Speaker 1: I never. I'm the guy who loves bat flips.

407
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 2: I'm the guy who wants all the players in college

408
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 2: sports to get paid. I'm as progressive when it comes

409
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 2: to a lot of these issues as you'll meet anybody,

410
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,160
Speaker 2: but Joe. Come on, man, the Cincinnati Bengals are paying

411
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 2: you fifty five million dollars annually to play real football.

412
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 2: When it comes to flag football, could we not? I know,

413
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 2: old man yelling at clouds, he was just having fun.

414
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 1: It was Tom Brady. It's flag football, Joe. Could we not?

415
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 2: I mean, let me get this straight. I know the

416
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,719
Speaker 2: Bengals are helpless when it comes to things like this.

417
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 2: If they weren't, Joe wouldn't have played. But here you

418
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 2: have a quarterback who is always hurt through no real

419
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 2: faults of his own, but he's always hurt. He once

420
00:24:55,600 --> 00:25:00,040
Speaker 2: suffered a calf injury by simply jogging during a a

421
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 2: basic training camp drill, and we're cool with him doing

422
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 2: something like this. I know it's flag football. Look, man,

423
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 2: I'm in the minority when it comes to this. I'll

424
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,679
Speaker 2: apply the same rule when it comes to fanatics flag

425
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 2: football with Logan. Is it Logan Paul or Jake Paul.

426
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:22,159
Speaker 2: General rule. If I read about your event and Logan

427
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 2: Paul or Jake Paul or both Pauls are involved, I'm

428
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 2: good hard pass. But it's the same general rule with Joe.

429
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 2: How much upside is there? It's why I don't want

430
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 2: him playing in the preseason. It's why he shouldn't play

431
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 2: in regular season games that don't count. But at least there, Well,

432
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 2: he's playing games for the Bengals and they are paying

433
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,160
Speaker 2: him to play in those games, and so on some level, yeah,

434
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 2: there's maybe a little bit of an obligation for him

435
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 2: to be on the field. And yes, in the preseason

436
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 2: there's perhaps some benefit to him taking a hit and

437
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 2: throwing the guys that I'll be throwing too in regular

438
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 2: season football games. When it comes to flag football and

439
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 2: Logan and Jake Paul, whatever Paul brothers were out there,

440
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 2: it could have been Chris Paul.

441
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: I don't care. Joe, what's the upside?

442
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 2: And he got through it okay, moving forward when it

443
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 2: comes to flag football, when it comes to the Olympics,

444
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 2: could we not? I get it, man, Every athlete wants

445
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 2: to represent his or her country. Doing it in the

446
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 2: Olympics in twenty twenty eight, where I guess there's gonna

447
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 2: be flag football sounds neat.

448
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: Buddy.

449
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:41,120
Speaker 2: You are the meal ticket for an NFL franchise. It

450
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:45,160
Speaker 2: falls apart when you're hurt. And I say when, because

451
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 2: you're always hurt?

452
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 3: Could we not?

453
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: Could we let let Joe Flacco play, Let Jake.

454
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 2: Browning play, let Josh Johnson play He could add that

455
00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 2: to his list of teams that he's played for. Curmudgeon

456
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 2: when it comes to stuff like this, except when the

457
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 2: franchisees meal ticket is unnecessarily putting himself at risk of anything.

458
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 2: Come on, Moe, it's March. Yes, it's March. Let's have

459
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 2: him doing things in March, April, May, and June that

460
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 2: involve absolutely no risk. Joe, go to the met go

461
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 2: play Blackjack, attend UFC fights, date who you want to date.

462
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 2: When Joe Burrow's on TMZ, I do not care. Could

463
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 2: not care about his dating life, could not care about

464
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 2: his life away from the field until he is putting

465
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 2: himself at risk of torpedoing and NFL season before it

466
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 2: actually starts. By the way, a lot of people who

467
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 2: play with Joe Burrow, a lot of people who coach

468
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:50,120
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow.

469
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: Have a lot riding on this coming season. I get it.

470
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 2: I know the feedback I'm gonna get. Look you're hearing

471
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 2: from the guy who finds the fun and enjoy everything,

472
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 2: not so much watching my team's franchise quarterback do something

473
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 2: that nobody's gonna remember that has no real upside to

474
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 2: it and carries with it only risk. You're being paid

475
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 2: fifty five million dollars to play for the Cincinnati Bengals.

476
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 2: That's a heavy enough investment that I think you have

477
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 2: a little bit of an obligation to go. You know

478
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 2: what is it worth it? Yeah, it's cool to hang

479
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 2: out with Tom Brady. Yeah, it's cool to hang out

480
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 2: with I don't even know if it was Logan Paul

481
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 2: or Jake Paul. That doesn't sound cool at all. Yeah,

482
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 2: it's neat to be in bed with the fanatics. Guy,

483
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 2: dude who can't print right sized NFL and NBA apparel?

484
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 2: How about we not with the flag football?

485
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: Joe?

486
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 2: Thank you there are fifty five million annual reasons why

487
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 2: you should say no. The hopes and dreams of an

488
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 2: entire NFL franchise rest on your body.

489
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: Why are we.

490
00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 2: Doing anything that could remotely jeopardize it? Pass on the

491
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 2: flag football, whether it's for the fanatics, guy with logan Paul,

492
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 2: or yes, even for the United States of America. Twelve

493
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 2: away from six o'clock, Tarran and Coco, how are we

494
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 2: on time?

495
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: Mike?

496
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 2: Go ahead, You're on ESPN fifteen thirty. Good afternoon, Mike.

497
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 2: Sorry about your Florida Gators.

498
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, stuff happens. Hey, Coco. One thing is really

499
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 6: true about where you're at right now is you're being

500
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 6: led by two pre professionals and two gentlemen. So Counseilwaukee stories.

501
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 2: Well, I would say that one of those things is

502
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 2: true with Tarran, a true gentleman and a true professional.

503
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 2: With me, carnival barking clown, you.

504
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 6: Said it, I didn't, Hey Mo, Mo, hit the people.

505
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 6: I gotta get a couple of college things, basketball things

506
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 6: in here, but hit the people with It's that time.

507
00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 6: It's the home dog strategy. It's solid way to make money.

508
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 6: You won't get rich, but you will get a decent

509
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 6: return on your investment? Am I correct?

510
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 2: Moeger on by request, Mike, I got an email about

511
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 2: this while I was out on Thursday on tomorrow's show.

512
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 2: I am gonna do the Home Dog Strategy primer because

513
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 2: I had a listener email me on Thursday asking if

514
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 2: I would do this, and I wrote them back and

515
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 2: I said, five thirty five on Tuesday of next week.

516
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 6: Awesome, Well, thank you very well. I just like to

517
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 6: share it because it's a winner. You know, it's yeah,

518
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 6: you want to share it with people. Damn straight, my boy,

519
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 6: Santiago Spinal, he's sitting three eighty nine, three eighty nine

520
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,719
Speaker 6: and four thirty two, six thirty nine, one point one

521
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 6: two nine plugging percent, three home runs, thirteen RBIs are

522
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 6: not an error? Nice trade? Uh Red's way to go?

523
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 2: Uh Marty a minute, you're gonna you're gonna criticize the

524
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 2: Reds for not bringing back Santiago Espinal.

525
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 6: No, I'm just glad the Dodger's got him.

526
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: It was nice. Is Santiago Espinal going to be the key?

527
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 2: Like as all we got Freddy Freeman and Mookie Bets

528
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 2: and show hey o Tony, But the real key was

529
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 2: getting Santiago Espinal.

530
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 6: No, they wanted to get one more backup infield because

531
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 6: Tommy Edmonds has heard all the project. Okay, so that's why. Hey,

532
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 6: you know what I was thinking last night? I heard

533
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 6: her replayed on the radio yesterday. The greatest basketball clip

534
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 6: I've ever heard is Marty Brennan and calling that Christian

535
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 6: lighton a seventeen foot turnaround jumper.

536
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: Yes to advance.

537
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 6: People don't realize Marty Brennan was with the Virginia Squires.

538
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 6: A great basketball announcement.

539
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 2: When I was a kid, Marty brennanman did UK games

540
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 2: on television like I used to. I used to work

541
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 2: for a guy named Darryl Parks who once said to me,

542
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 2: you know what, Marty Brennan is the greatest baseball broadcaster

543
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 2: of all time. You know the thing, though, is baseball

544
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 2: is his second greatest sport. And so Marty did Virginia

545
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 2: Squire's game, He did some North Carolina games, he did

546
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 2: Kentucky games, and for years for CBS and Westwood One,

547
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 2: he would do the Final four and like a regional

548
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 2: semifinal in final with Bill Raftery and did this like

549
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 2: into the early to mid two thousands, and you are

550
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 2: absolutely right.

551
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 3: Now.

552
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 2: I'll never say that that's his greatest call, because there

553
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 2: are so many with the Reds, but his call of

554
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 2: that moment was, as you might expect, absolutely awesome.

555
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: Mike, I get a run, man, Have a great night.

556
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 6: Gotcha, Thank you?

557
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: All right.

558
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 2: Anything you may have missed or want to hear again,

559
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 2: go find on the iHeartRadio app. We'll put Chad Rundle

560
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 2: up there. We'll put Jeff Carr up there, We'll put

561
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 2: this entire show up there. We're done. Thanks to Tarren

562
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 2: Bland and our new friend Coco Charlton from uc for

563
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 2: producing the Mark Pope Radio Show. Is next couple of

564
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 2: quick notes. We're at the Marline Laggerhouse Wednesday for our

565
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 2: annual opening Day eve party and broadcasting from Smoke Jo

566
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 2: on Thursday afternoon. Have a great night. We'll talk to

567
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 2: you tomorrow at three zero five. This is ESPN fifteen thirty,

568
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 2: Cincinnati Sports Station.

569
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 4: Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty Traffic from.

570
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 5: The UC Health Traffic Center. The UC Health Women's Sports

571
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:33,479
Speaker 5: Medicine Program provides specialized care for female athletes at all levels.

572
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 5: Schedule an appointment online at UCHealth dot com. Northbound seventy

573
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 5: five at Ronald Reagan Highway. That disabled vehicle has now

574
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 5: been moved off our way from the roadway onto the

575
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 5: right shoulder right after that off ramp to Ronald Reagan Highway.

576
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 5: Still about a fifteen minute delay back from Mitchell northbound,

577
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 5: seventy one to three minute delay from the Norwood lateral

578
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 5: to Stewart. I'm at Ezelek with traffic