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Speaker 3: One of the highlights of last season for the Reds

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Speaker 3: the This is why the Reds have one of the

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Speaker 3: thanks to Chad Brendel for pinch hitting late last week.

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Speaker 3: the new head coach of the Cincinnati Slingers. Red's spring

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Speaker 3: I think it's interesting JJ Bleday didn't make the team. Now,

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Speaker 3: This is ESPN fifteen thirty moegg Or opening day three

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Speaker 3: our guy Jeff Carr locked on Reds podcast. Uh kind

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Speaker 3: Well, we know you're going to stop by the banks.

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Speaker 3: What was your biggest takeaway from what they did with

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Speaker 7: I keep telling folks like Santiago Esmanal got three hundred

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Speaker 7: Oh there's too many. But those three hundred twenty eight,

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Speaker 3: I think most of us going into spring training thought

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Speaker 7: It's still the outfield for me. I don't know that

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Speaker 3: Cincinnati is still without a coach, but Jared Calhoun's tenure

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Speaker 3: All signs pointing to Cincinnati hiring him. The Mark Pope

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Speaker 3: I had a bad feeling about that game when it

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Speaker 3: this happens often in basketball where a team has a lead,

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Speaker 2: It's just not enough.

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Speaker 3: Iowa States outside shooting woes from game one in the

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Speaker 3: Kentucky was in control of the game for what felt

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Speaker 3: like the first I don't know, thirteen fourteen to fifteen minutes,

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Speaker 3: but way way too many turnovers easy for me to say,

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Speaker 3: and I think as the game went on, Iowa States

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Speaker 3: I thought early in the game Kentucky was too fast

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Speaker 3: And usually when that's the case against a really good team,

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Speaker 3: it comes back to bite you. It did for Mark

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Speaker 3: Pope's team last night. A very odd season, a season

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Speaker 3: where they had games that they were getting drubbed in

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Speaker 3: felt like a couple of times, in spite of all

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Speaker 3: the injuries, like they were really on the verge of

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Speaker 3: really gonna have to scratch and clause just to make

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Speaker 3: the NCAA Tournament and NCAA Tournament's Day, that they were

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Speaker 3: the otega Oway miracle shot to end regulation on Friday,

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Speaker 3: and then a sort of nondescript, forgettable bow out of

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Speaker 3: the tournament, the most lopsided March Madness loss for Kentucky

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Speaker 3: since nineteen seventy two. I'm not sure sure that anything

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Speaker 3: that happened from a positive perspective over the last month

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Speaker 3: or so has made anybody who cares about Kentucky basketball

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Speaker 3: feel that much better about Mark Pope going into a

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Speaker 3: year number three. I talked about this for a few

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Speaker 3: minutes a little while ago. The tournament never fails to deliver.

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Speaker 3: And you know, some years there are more close games

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Speaker 3: this event. But it's still an event that every single

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Speaker 3: year continues to deliver. This year was no exception, you know,

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Speaker 3: for all of and I talk about TV ratings, and

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Speaker 3: I did a segment on this last Wednesday before I

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Speaker 3: took off on Thursday or Fry. College basketball ratings by

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Speaker 3: and large this year have been much much, much much

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Speaker 3: higher than not only last year, but at any point

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Speaker 3: over the last decade or so. This sport, from an

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Speaker 3: The first weekend of the tournament had the highest ratings

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Speaker 3: in fifteen years. By the way, in much of the country,

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Speaker 3: like bad weather was keeping his housed in whether this

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Speaker 3: country was really really nice. So college basketball has all

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Speaker 3: sorts of different issues, and I'll be the first to

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Speaker 3: there's legitimate, you know, legitimate discussions to be had then,

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Speaker 3: I mean like legitimate, not what was done at the

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Speaker 3: White House a couple of weeks ago, Like legitimate discussions

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Speaker 3: to be had about NIL and athlete compensation and the portal.

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Speaker 3: Like I'm here for all of those things. But at

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Speaker 3: the end of the day, you know what, most of

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Speaker 3: us just want to do. Most of us just want

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Speaker 3: to watch high end basketball. This weekend I watched high

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Speaker 3: end basketball. Tip to finish Nebraska Vanderbilt is one of

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Speaker 3: the very best college basketball games you will ever watch.

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Speaker 3: The finish of UK Santa Clara, the high end of

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Speaker 3: Iowa Florida, the finish of Saint John's Kansas, watching Illinois,

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Speaker 3: watching Houston, watching Michigan, watching great teams thump at times

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Speaker 3: equal but still outmanned opponents. By the way, the Sweet

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Speaker 3: Sixteen sets up as excellent, like for all of the

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Speaker 3: different issues that people who really cover college basketball dive

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Speaker 3: into and need to dive into, what most people just

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Speaker 3: want to watch, which is a very fun, entertaining on

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Speaker 3: court product. With the way college basketball is set up now,

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Speaker 3: been in quite a while. Great players are playing with

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Speaker 3: other great players. We're getting elite talent at the college level.

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Speaker 3: We're getting them to stay in college even longer. We're

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Speaker 3: getting teams that are fun to watch, games that on

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Speaker 3: the back end of the tournament, where viewership has historically suffered,

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Speaker 3: our absolutely must watch. I'm never going to be one

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Speaker 3: of those, and there are many who will who will

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Speaker 3: ignore some of the issues that college sports as a

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Speaker 3: things are dwelled upon so much that we lose sight

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Speaker 3: to watch great teams playing great games. I want to

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Speaker 3: watch high end stuff. I get that when I watch

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Speaker 3: college hoops. Most who watch would agree. If they didn't,

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Speaker 3: Teaen minutes after four o'clock. More on the Reds coming

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Speaker 3: up in the four o'clock hour. It is remarkable where

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Speaker 3: Is ESP fifteen thirty Ongar by the Way Opening day.

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Speaker 3: I mentioned this earlier with Jeff Carr. We will be

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Speaker 3: broadcasting from Smoke Justice in Comington noon to three Tony

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Speaker 3: Austin and me. I guess that's technically Tony Pike, Sincy

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Speaker 3: three to sixty, which is fine.

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Speaker 3: time and we hope to see you there. Join us

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Speaker 3: Thursday noon to three at Smoke Justice before the Reds

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Speaker 3: take on the Boston Red Sox. You can get to

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Speaker 3: More on baseball coming up after the top of the hour.

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Speaker 3: Reds play a couple of weird exhibition games tonight and

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Speaker 3: tomorrow against the Milwaukee Brewers. We'll try to squeeze in

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Speaker 3: a phone call or to next hour. Plus Sean King,

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Speaker 3: Slingers of the International Arena League. They begin play here

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Speaker 3: baseball Try to Believe. Two weeks ago today we found

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Speaker 3: Good signings, quality signings, signings.

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Speaker 2: That give you reason for optimism.

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Speaker 3: Dan Horde and I talked about Brian Cook specifically on

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Speaker 3: Things that has happened in Cincinnati sports in quite a while.

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Speaker 3: Two weeks ago, we were asking what are they gonna

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Speaker 2: Nobody.

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Speaker 3: Two weeks later, it is remark well. It's one of

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Speaker 3: in Cincinnati sports. Two weeks later, after everybody was asking

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Speaker 3: a linebacker and free agency, because okay, maybe they were.

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Speaker 2: Gonna draft one.

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Speaker 3: It is remarkable, man, And I don't do this too

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Speaker 3: gratuitously beat up on the Bengals, because we could talk

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Speaker 3: Isn't it remarkable that they still haven't gotten one?

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Speaker 2: Indeed, it is.

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Speaker 3: It's coming up on four o'clock on ESPN fifteen thirty

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Speaker 2: Mougger here, stop letting hype.

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Speaker 4: Thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: After for ESPN fifteen.

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Speaker 7: Thirty, you get a free minute here?

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Speaker 3: How about that also later on this hour the return

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Speaker 3: of Brenneman and Jones, probably on baseball. We'll see it

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Speaker 3: comes your way at four fifty, a staple of our show.

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Speaker 2: And we are excited for that.

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Speaker 3: I know a lot of folks in inside college basketball

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Speaker 3: gets so mad when you talk about how good the

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Speaker 3: TV ratings are.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: I just when I'm watching hoops this weekend, and God knows,

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Speaker 3: I wish one of the teams I root for would

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Speaker 3: have been playing in it.

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Speaker 2: But I wasn't thinking of all.

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Speaker 3: The different issues that you know I hear and read

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Speaker 3: on a daily basis, are just going to ruin the sport.

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Speaker 3: I just I watched forty eight basketball games, many of

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Speaker 3: which were terrific, and you know, we get some newness

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Speaker 3: and you could still have, you know, high ratings and

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Speaker 3: a fun tournament without some blue bloods. I know Kentucky

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Speaker 3: fans don't want to hear that. I just so many

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Speaker 3: of us just want to watch great basketball. And this

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Speaker 3: weekend I think a lot of us did. I think

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Speaker 3: a lot of us did. Your phone calls are coming up.

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Speaker 3: I touched on this with Jeff Carr last hour. You know,

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Speaker 3: you don't do anything that you shouldn't do with spring

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Speaker 3: training results, you look for reasons for encouragement or reasons

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Speaker 3: for discouragement, and you have among us people who are

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Speaker 3: just naturally inclined to look at everything through rose colored glasses.

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Speaker 3: So they'll look at the spring that Matt McClain had

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Speaker 3: and they'll claim that it sets mad up for like

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Speaker 3: an MVP caliber season. But then they will ignore results

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Speaker 3: like what we saw from Andrew Abbott this spring. And

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Speaker 3: you will find people who are inclined to look at

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Speaker 3: everything through a very negative lens, and they'll dwell on,

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Speaker 3: you know, less than great performances during the spring, but

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Speaker 3: ignore some good stuff that guys did. I think the

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Speaker 3: fair way to do it is to draw no conclusion

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Speaker 3: based on what's happened during the spring, but to at

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Speaker 3: least consider that some seeds for what we do see

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Speaker 3: when the games actually count are being planted during the

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Speaker 3: Cactus League. For instance, Andrew Abbott was terrific in the

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Speaker 3: second in the first half of the season last year,

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Speaker 3: and the second half of the season he was okay.

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Speaker 3: The spring he was only okay. That would suggest that

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Speaker 3: there's maybe a slightly higher possibility that Andrew Abbott in

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Speaker 3: the first half of last year isn't gonna be replicated

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Speaker 3: this season. We'll see with Matt McClain. You may be

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Speaker 3: skeptical that what we have seen from him during these

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Speaker 3: games that don't count would suggest that he has totally

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Speaker 3: moved on from the disaster that was last season. But

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Speaker 3: you're seeing a different approach at the plate. You're not

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Speaker 3: seeing him swing at pitches that aren't strikes. You are

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Speaker 3: seeing numbers that are a sharp departure for from what

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Speaker 3: we saw last year. You are looking for things that

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Speaker 3: would make you believe that there's a greater likelihood of

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Speaker 3: Matt McLain having a turnaround season in twenty twenty six

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Speaker 3: from what we saw last year.

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Speaker 2: We will see.

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Speaker 3: One thing, though, that I thought was encouraging, is Tito

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Speaker 3: liked what he saw from South Stewart so much that

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Speaker 3: he's leaning into the idea of hitting him forth. There's

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Speaker 3: a lot of managers, and Jeff Carr said this about

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Speaker 3: forty five minutes ago. The most amount of at bats

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Speaker 3: that Tito has given a rookie in the fourth spot

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Speaker 3: in his managerial career came his first season as big

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Speaker 3: league manager nineteen ninety seven with the Phillies when Scott

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Speaker 3: Roland batted Forth, Scott Rowland was not even on the Phillies'

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Speaker 3: opening day roster that year.

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Speaker 2: So you know, in his.

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Speaker 3: Managerial career, his Hall of Fame managerial career, he's just

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Speaker 3: not hit a rookie in the four spot all that often,

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Speaker 3: which for the most part, you shouldn't. I think the

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Speaker 3: idea of hitting salth Stewart fourth is actually pretty awesome.

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Speaker 3: Shows a degree of confidence in him that I think

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Speaker 3: to a degree he has earned through the way he

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Speaker 3: hit late last season, through the way he has hit

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Speaker 3: at every level that he has been at, the way

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Speaker 3: he hit here during the last few weeks.

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Speaker 2: He's such an important guy on this team.

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Speaker 3: Like we all love Gino, we all love Euhaneo Suarez,

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Speaker 3: glad that he's here. Might have been rooting for the

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Speaker 3: United States as many of us were, but you were

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Speaker 3: happy that he had his big moment with the go

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Speaker 3: ahead hit of the ninth ending of the championship game

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Speaker 3: of the World Baseball Classic. But euhaneos Warez is a

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Speaker 3: one dimensional hitter, and there's a decent enough chance that

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Speaker 3: his best seasons have already happened with Salth Stewart. You

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Speaker 3: get a higher ceiling. You get somebody who looks like,

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Speaker 3: if he is at his best, is going to be

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Speaker 3: a more multi dimensional offensive player. He plays a position

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Speaker 3: there's a lot more upside. He's also a who has

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Speaker 3: done nothing but hit. Love the idea of breaking up

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Speaker 3: the two high strikeout guys. Ellie Delacruz strikes out a lot,

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Speaker 3: and that's a fact. A Eugenio Suarez strikes out a lot.

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Speaker 3: That's a fact. Break up those two high strikeout guys

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Speaker 3: with somebody who might be a little bit more inclined

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Speaker 3: to make contact. That's Sal.

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Speaker 2: Stewart.

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Speaker 3: Put a guy in the four spot who's got perhaps

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Speaker 3: a more well rounded offensive game if he's at his best,

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Speaker 3: then a Uhenio Suarez does give the rookie. He gives

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Speaker 3: Sal the opportunity to bat with, assuming he's healthy, one

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Speaker 3: of the fastest players in the sport on the bass

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Speaker 3: pass hitting in front of a guy that you don't

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Speaker 3: want a lot of guys on base four because Gino

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Speaker 3: is a power threat, Like I dive into lineup construction

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Speaker 3: less than others. Maybe that's a flaw of mine. I

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Speaker 3: don't know, but the idea of batting Sal's Stuart fourth

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Speaker 3: shows a level of confidence and a forward thinking by

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Speaker 3: the manager and the people that he is making decisions

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Speaker 3: in concert with that I think you might see with

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Speaker 3: other teams. I also think it makes a whole lot

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Speaker 3: of sense. We'll see if Sal can live up to it.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot to put on a young guy, and

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Speaker 3: I'm sure they'll make adjustments if Sal isn't up to

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Speaker 3: the challenge, or maybe Gino performs better than even the

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Speaker 3: Reds are expecting. But just imagine what this offense could

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Speaker 3: look like if this works. If Sal Stewart ends up

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Speaker 3: having this sort of offensive season that many believe he can,

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Speaker 3: and Gino hits the number of home runs that many

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Speaker 3: of us believe he can. Oh and by the way,

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Speaker 3: and you get a healthy Eli de la Cruz where

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Speaker 3: the manager actually occasionally gives him a day off so

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Speaker 3: you avoid having what happened last year with Elie de

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Speaker 3: la Cruz. I think this could be I think this

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Speaker 3: could be awesome. I think this could be a lot

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Speaker 3: of fun. But I love the idea of using some

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Speaker 3: forward thinking with Sal Stewart, of rewarding him for the

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Speaker 3: spring that he has had, of kind of changing the

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Speaker 3: plan on the fly a little bit because I think

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Speaker 3: what most of us expected, and this is how things

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Speaker 3: played out early in the Cactus League. Most of us

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Speaker 3: expected Gino to bat fourth, Sal Stewart to be hitting fifth.

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Speaker 3: They have changed things. That's not a bad thing. Twelve

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Speaker 3: minutes after four o'clock five point three seven, four nine,

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Speaker 3: fifteen thirty is our phone number. We do have Joe

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Speaker 3: Burrow and flag football to talk about a little bit

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Speaker 3: later on pseudo by request, I will admit that I

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Speaker 3: didn't really watch any of Joe Burrow playing flag football

795
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Speaker 3: because as much as I love actual football, flag football,

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Speaker 3: even involving Joe, even involving Tom Brady, doesn't do a

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Speaker 3: lot for me. But we do have to spend some

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Speaker 3: time on it because I think something important did happen

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Speaker 3: that coming up in the five o'clock hour plus. Sean King,

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Speaker 3: the head coach of the brand new Cincinnati Slingers of

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Speaker 3: the International Arena League, I want you to in a

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Speaker 3: few minutes, I want you to put yourself in the

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Speaker 3: shoes of a Bengals coach when it comes to something

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Speaker 3: that we talked about last hour. They haven't signed a linebacker,

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Speaker 3: and like, let's be honest, that's the story of.

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Speaker 2: The offseason to this point.

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Speaker 3: No knock on Brian Cook, no knock on Boye Mafe,

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Speaker 3: no knock on Jonathan Allen, no knock on Josh Johnson,

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Speaker 3: no knock on anybody. They may go get what they

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Speaker 3: have done so far, and this could change. I guess

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Speaker 3: there are some linebackers who are still out there. It

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Speaker 3: doesn't really feel like the Bengals are interested in any

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Speaker 3: of them. But the headline to the offseason right now

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Speaker 3: is the complete and total either unwillingness or incapability to

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Speaker 3: add somebody to Barrett Carter and Demetrius Knight. And it

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Speaker 3: feels like with each passing day there's more of a

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Speaker 3: more of a premium on the Bengals finding a linebacker

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Speaker 3: in the draft, and an even larger premium on those

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Speaker 3: two players, Carter and Knight being significantly better than they

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Speaker 3: were this past season. You're asking a lot. You are

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 3: The center of CBS. Confirm by our guide Chad Brendel

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Speaker 3: Bearcat Journal dot com. Cincinnati has hired Jared Calhoun as

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Speaker 3: the next men's basketball head coach at the University of Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: I don't know anybody who cares about UC basketball who

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Speaker 3: is going to be remotely surprised by this.

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Speaker 2: This felt like a coaching search in name only.

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Speaker 3: Has spent the last two seasons at Utah State, where

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Speaker 3: his teams went fifty four and fourteen combined. Prior to that,

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Speaker 3: seven years at Youngstown State, his Penguins teams finished with

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Speaker 3: above five hundred records over each of his last five years. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: this weekend, Calhoun picked up his first ever NCAA Tournament

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Speaker 3: victory as he helped the Aggies beat Villanova on Friday night,

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Speaker 3: and then pretty game performance last night against top seeded Arizona.

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Speaker 3: Jared Calhoun is set to become, to the surprise of

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Speaker 3: absolutely nobody, the next head coach at the University of Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: I don't know to whatever degree you want to give

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Speaker 3: John Cunningham credit for this, but I think you have

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Speaker 3: to acknowledge that, at least with this, he seemed to

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Speaker 3: have a plan. And I've I've talked with people who

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Speaker 3: have intimated that Jared Calhoun had made it known for

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Speaker 3: a while that if there is a vacancy at you see,

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Speaker 3: I'd be interested. Now what would his interest level have

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Speaker 3: been in UC had other jobs been open? Man, I

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Speaker 3: don't know, but it kind of felt like when we

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Speaker 3: if it didn't feel like an inevitability in late January

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Speaker 3: and early February, it's certainly felt like a strong possibility.

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Speaker 3: When the conversation instantly pivoted to who's next, Jared Calhoun's

871
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 3: name came up. Almost instantly. Many pointed out the name

872
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 3: Josh Shurtz, and understandably so the coach at Saint Louis,

873
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 3: who is apparently going to stay put after his team

874
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 3: won a game and then got bounced by Michigan on Saturday.

875
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 3: But Jared Calhoun's name has been one of those that

876
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 3: has been talked about for a while obvious Cincinnati ties.

877
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 3: I mentioned this to Dan hord On on Thursday he

878
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 3: joined our show from the Holy Grail. I've talked with

879
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 3: three former players, each of whom knows Jared Calhoun, I

880
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 3: guess pretty well, and all three have given this their

881
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 3: stamp of approval. I'm not sure how much that should

882
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:25,879
Speaker 3: matter necessarily, but it certainly doesn't hurt. Certainly doesn't hurt

883
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 3: that there's a clear tie to the university. Certainly doesn't

884
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 3: hurt that there's a clear tie to the you know,

885
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 3: one of the two or three biggest names in the

886
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 3: history of men's basketball at you see, and that's obviously

887
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 3: Bob Huggins, and so we'll see. But it felt like

888
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 3: this was the culmination of something that felt inevitable from

889
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 3: almost the moment that wes Miller got let go. And

890
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 3: it does feel to a degree like the successful execution

891
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:57,720
Speaker 3: of a plan by John Cunningham, where it's I'm letting

892
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 3: the coach go and then you know, Grant wes Miller

893
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 3: got let go a week ago Friday, so that's that's

894
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 3: ten days from when Wescott let go. But it felt

895
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 3: like the plan, frankly all along was we're gonna hire

896
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 3: Jared Calhoun. And I don't know what plan B would

897
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 3: have been had that fallen through, But if that was

898
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,800
Speaker 3: the plan, the plan got executed. How much credit you

899
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 3: want to give John Cunningham for that, that's up to you.

900
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 3: I feel like it goes without saying that for the

901
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 3: director of athletics at the University of Cincinnati, this better work.

902
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 3: And I know there's a football component to this conversation,

903
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 3: given the fact that John Cunningham also hired Scott Sadderfield,

904
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 3: but he also hired Wes Miller, and you know, the

905
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 3: Wes Miller thing didn't work out to the extent that

906
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 3: anyone when any one of us would have liked. And

907
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 3: if you haven't heard today, Wes Miller has been hired

908
00:49:56,040 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 3: to be the head coach at Charlotte. It seems unlikely

909
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 3: that the ad who hired the first head coach who

910
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 3: got bounced before he made the tournament is going to

911
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,479
Speaker 3: get a chance to hire a third head coach if

912
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Speaker 3: this head coach reaches the level of unpopularity that Wes

913
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:22,280
Speaker 3: Miller did. Now, Jared Calhoun may show up and stay

914
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:23,879
Speaker 3: for a year or two and then bounce. Who knows

915
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,760
Speaker 3: it's college basketball coaching. None of us have any idea.

916
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 3: And then you kind of look at it a little

917
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 3: bit differently, But it's you only get a chance to

918
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 3: hire and fire so many coaches. You only get a

919
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 3: chance to hire and fire so many coaches if there

920
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 3: isn't a ton of winning done in between the hiring

921
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 3: and the firing. So we will see. I do know

922
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 3: this that just texting with people on Friday and again

923
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 3: last night, there were a lot of folks who watched

924
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,399
Speaker 3: Jared Calhoun's team at Utah State play for the first

925
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Speaker 3: time this weekend on Saturday night against Villanova in a

926
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Speaker 3: game that the Aggies won, and last night in the

927
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:03,720
Speaker 3: game against Arizona, where the Aggie simply would not go away.

928
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 3: And I don't know anybody who watched those two games

929
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 3: who didn't walk away from it going You know what,

930
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 3: those teams look pretty well coached, looks like they run

931
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 3: really good stuff. By the way, his teams have finished

932
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 3: in the top fifty and adjusted offensive efficiency three times

933
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 3: in his career, Utah State the last couple of years

934
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 3: has been a top thirty offensive team twenty six this

935
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 3: season according to Ken Palm. It has been pointed out

936
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Speaker 3: and our friend Keegan Nickoson at Bearcat Journal dot com

937
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 3: does this and has been pointed out that defensively his

938
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 3: teams haven't been great, but they were better this year

939
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 3: forty fourth best after a lot of years of finishing

940
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 3: sub one fifty. So we will see. Obviously, the next

941
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 3: question becomes about roster construction, the questions about which players

942
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 3: Jared Calhoun may bring with him from Utah State obviously

943
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:04,359
Speaker 3: significant questions about which players from this past season will

944
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:06,399
Speaker 3: choose to stay at U see. I think the one

945
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,280
Speaker 3: good thing that has happened in relation to the transfer

946
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 3: portal is we have moved the window back where it

947
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 3: opens up. I think it's April to seventh. It's shortly

948
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 3: after the National Championship game. It's not opening during the

949
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 3: NCAA tournament, which it has in recent years. And so

950
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,399
Speaker 3: if you assume that Jared Calhoun is going to show

951
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 3: up on UC's campus here in pretty short order, he'll

952
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 3: at least have an opportunity to recruit or re recruit

953
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 3: some of the guys who played at U SEE and

954
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:39,279
Speaker 3: not necessarily have to play catch up. And I do

955
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 3: believe that while I don't think anybody's going to make

956
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 3: excuses for whatever failures the previous two head coaches had,

957
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,359
Speaker 3: I think it is worth mentioning that for year one

958
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 3: of both John Brannon and Wes Miller, there was catch

959
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:58,320
Speaker 3: up being played. Both men were hired late in the cycle.

960
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 3: Both men were hired in April. Both men were hired

961
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 3: weeks after the season had come to an end. Both

962
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 3: men had been hired, you know, after the transfer portal

963
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 3: had I don't want to say dry it up, but

964
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:12,359
Speaker 3: a lot of players that you would have liked had

965
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:15,359
Speaker 3: ultimately chosen to play at other schools this year. There's

966
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 3: not a lot of ketchup. The Sweet sixteen's not even

967
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 3: here yet, you see, has its coach. The portal opens

968
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 3: up two weeks from now. There's time. There's enough time,

969
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:27,959
Speaker 3: I believe, to be able to put together the kind

970
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:31,320
Speaker 3: of roster that gives you a chance to get to

971
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament next year. Whether or not he does that,

972
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,919
Speaker 3: whether or not he's capable of doing that, obviously, time

973
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 3: will tell. But I think the timing of this was

974
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 3: always so important. Relative to West year one, relative to

975
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:49,280
Speaker 3: John Brandon year one, there's not as much ketchup being played,

976
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 3: and so if the idea is to end the drought

977
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:53,839
Speaker 3: and get to the tournament for the first time since

978
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen, the first thing that had to happen was

979
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 3: you had to act quickly. You see, relatively speaking, King

980
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 3: has acted pretty quickly. And this does feel like the

981
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 3: successful execution of a plan that might have been put

982
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,920
Speaker 3: into place a long time ago, but certainly felt like

983
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:13,320
Speaker 3: it was put into place at least ten days ago.

984
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:17,760
Speaker 3: Jared Calhoun named head coach at the University of Cincinnati.

985
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,880
Speaker 3: When I say named head coach, this is being reported.

986
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 3: There has been no official announcement from UC. We'll see

987
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 3: if that comes between now and six o'clock tonight. Twenty

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991
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Speaker 3: by CBS Sports Matt Norlander, You see is hiring Jared Calhoun,

1009
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:50,800
Speaker 3: formerly of Utah State, to be the next men's basketball

1010
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:54,240
Speaker 3: head coach at the University of Cincinnati. Chad Brendel joins

1011
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 3: us to talk about this coming up at five twenty.

1012
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:01,280
Speaker 3: Calhoun spent the last two seasons with Una State, where

1013
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:05,399
Speaker 3: he went to combined fifty four and fourteen. Won an

1014
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 3: NCAA tournament game on Friday over Villanova before bowing out

1015
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 3: to Arizona last night. Meanwhile, Reds and Brewers play an

1016
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 3: exhibition game tonight in Milwaukee. First pitched seven to forty

1017
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 3: seven hundred WLW. A couple of other college basketball news notes,

1018
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 3: Wes Miller is going to be the new head coach

1019
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,759
Speaker 3: at Charlotte. The Mark Pope Radio Show is tonight at

1020
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:30,319
Speaker 3: six on ESPN fifteen thirty, and the UC baseball team

1021
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 3: is now ranked twenty fifth in the Baseball America Pole.

1022
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 3: The Bearcats are nineteen and seven when four and one

1023
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 3: last week, won a big twelve series this weekend over Utah.

1024
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 3: They have sophomore Quinton Coates, who leads the country in

1025
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 3: home runs with eighteen five home runs away already from

1026
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,399
Speaker 3: Tyme the UC single season record of twenty three set

1027
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 3: by Mike Spina in two thousand and nine. The Bearcats

1028
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 3: rake they have two hundred and eighty three hits, which

1029
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:03,279
Speaker 3: ran fifth nationally. Fifty three home runs, top twenty in

1030
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:07,279
Speaker 3: the country. In runs scored in stolen bases twenty fifth

1031
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:11,799
Speaker 3: in the country, according to Baseball America. Brendanmana Jones on

1032
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 3: Baseball Later on this hour, Chad Brandle next hour on

1033
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 3: UC hiring Jared Calhoun. The Cincinnati Slingers are set to

1034
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 3: begin play in the International Arena League, with the first

1035
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 3: home game happening at the Heritage Bank Center Saturday, April

1036
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 3: the twenty fifth, when the Slingers take on Arizona. The

1037
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 3: head coach of the Cincinnati Slingers is a Sean King.

1038
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 3: It's awesome to have.

1039
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 2: You, coach.

1040
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 3: What about this opportunity to join this franchise was appealing

1041
00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 3: to you?

1042
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 8: Well, I mean just a stability that when Tom presented

1043
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 8: it to me, just the stability of the league, and

1044
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 8: then just an opportunity to get back to giving back

1045
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 8: to this game that has done so much for me,

1046
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 8: and so when this opportunity arose, I took the time

1047
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 8: to do my research and check things out. And then

1048
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 8: once you know, once we examined all that, it just

1049
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 8: felt like it felt like the right situation for me.

1050
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 3: So the first question that everybody has is when a

1051
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 3: when a team announces its formation, is all right, where

1052
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 3: are you going to get players from? So describe for

1053
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 3: me what the the player acquisition process has been like.

1054
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, you know, I've been around the game

1055
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,440
Speaker 8: for a while, so I had some resources out there

1056
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 8: with that kind of stuff. But you know, when we

1057
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:30,240
Speaker 8: started looking for guys and when we first got to

1058
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 8: find it, and you know, you're looking for a quarterback,

1059
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:34,480
Speaker 8: somebody who can lead and has had some success and

1060
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 8: understands the game. And that was the first thing I did.

1061
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 8: And you know, I had Charles McCullum the day I signed.

1062
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 8: He was already ready to go. So I feel like

1063
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 8: having him as our you know, our key centerpiece is

1064
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 8: huge for us just in how we wanted to build

1065
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 8: and and and gave us you know, a good starting

1066
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 8: to point to then just build around that and then

1067
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:58,240
Speaker 8: from there, you know, we we wanted to build from

1068
00:58:58,240 --> 00:58:59,959
Speaker 8: the inside out, and I wanted to get in line

1069
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 8: and make sure I got the right linemen offensively and defensively,

1070
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 8: and you know, without without protecting ours and getting back

1071
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 8: to theirs. The game of football is, you know, it

1072
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 8: can be hard on you. So if we can do

1073
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 8: those things, if we can protect it and get out to theirs,

1074
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 8: then we're doing, you know, doing a good job. And

1075
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 8: then then I went after you know, our skill guys

1076
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:24,240
Speaker 8: and started to grab some some guys that had played

1077
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,600
Speaker 8: for me, and guys who had had some some success

1078
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 8: in the uh indoor or arena game, some vets, and

1079
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 8: then mixed that with a couple of you know, rookies

1080
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 8: here and there, and then that's you know, that's what

1081
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:35,600
Speaker 8: you're building there. So you want, you know, you you

1082
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 8: obviously want some some uh you know, starters and stars

1083
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 8: who've been in the game and things like that, but

1084
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,240
Speaker 8: you also need some rookies, uh to to you know,

1085
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 8: they're they're young, they're they're fresh meat, and they can

1086
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 8: get out there and get after it.

1087
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 3: How many of your players will play both sides of

1088
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 3: the ball, uh.

1089
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Speaker 8: To be honest with you, not many. We have a

1090
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:58,880
Speaker 8: lineman that well, well, let's let's put it this way.

1091
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 8: There's multiple Well, there's a lot of guys that can

1092
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 8: that can play both, but we're only we're only asking

1093
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:07,040
Speaker 8: guys to play one side of the ball. So if

1094
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 8: they can give us the best that they can on

1095
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 8: that side of the ball, then that will be great.

1096
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Speaker 8: But we do have a couple of special guys that

1097
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 8: can get after it on both sides of the ball,

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Speaker 8: and you'll see that too, So there'll be a handful

1099
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Speaker 8: of guys that can do that. You know, in arena football,

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01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 8: the more versatile you are, the better off your situation is.

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01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:26,840
Speaker 8: So you know, you're only suiting up twenty guys to

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01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 8: go to a game anyway. And so if you got

1103
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 8: guys that can you know, can rush the faster or

1104
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 8: play a little linebacker and mix up little things here

1105
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 8: and there, then that that does well. And then also

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Speaker 8: on the other side, if you have a receiver who

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Speaker 8: can play a little DBS, that helps you with a

1108
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 8: swing guy that way as well. So, like I said,

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Speaker 8: the more guys that you had that can play both

1110
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Speaker 8: ways or do multiple things, the better you are. But

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01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:53,479
Speaker 8: you're not you know, hopefully you got enough talent where

1112
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 8: you're only asking one guy to have to do one thing,

1113
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 8: but you do come into you know, football is a

1114
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 8: special game. You do come into is where one guy

1115
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 8: is that special and he can do things that can

1116
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Speaker 8: help on both sides of the ball. And we will do.

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Speaker 2: That in your career.

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Speaker 3: And you go back years in the arena game, how

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Speaker 3: often have you had to teach a guy a position

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Speaker 3: that he's never played before just so he can play

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Speaker 3: two ways?

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Speaker 8: Well, I mean that's when I I mean, I use myself.

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Speaker 8: For example, I came into the arena game as an

1124
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 8: offensive specialist. I was just a receiver, kick returner guy.

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Speaker 7: And then.

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Speaker 8: Later in my career, as I found out the niches

1127
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 8: of this game, you know, to stick around, and most

1128
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 8: coaches wanted to, you know, have extra offensive guys around,

1129
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 8: I had to go play two way. So when I

1130
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 8: signed with New York, I signed as an offensive, a

1131
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 8: two way guy. So I played offense and I played

1132
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:51,760
Speaker 8: defensive back, which I hadn't played defense since Pop Warner,

1133
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying. So then and then from

1134
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 8: there I played another year and won a championship playing

1135
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 8: receiver linebacker. And you know, I mean I'm not the

1136
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 8: linebacker size or that I hadn't played, like I said,

1137
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 8: defense in Pop Warner. But I was one of those

1138
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 8: guys that had to be taught, you know. Once I

1139
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 8: started to understand the game a little bit more, I

1140
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 8: had to be taught how to play linebacker. Uh And

1141
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:17,480
Speaker 8: once I was able to do that, you know, and

1142
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:20,800
Speaker 8: it's this game doesn't change. I was. Once I was

1143
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:22,840
Speaker 8: able to do that and learn that, I'm able to

1144
01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 8: now teach that to guys and help them just with

1145
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 8: the little nuances because this is a little bit different

1146
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 8: there than the NFL. Obviously. I mean, yes, football, but

1147
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:35,640
Speaker 8: there's some there's some little specialties that you need to

1148
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 8: acquire when playing arena football, and if you don't understand

1149
01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 8: those things, then it's going to make it harder for you.

1150
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 3: So so so take me, Sean king is with us,

1151
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 3: the head coach of the brand new Cincinnati Slingers. Give

1152
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 3: me some of the nuances that for for somebody who's

1153
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 3: who's never watched the indoor game before. I was going

1154
01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 3: to go to a Slingers game for the first time

1155
01:02:56,440 --> 01:03:00,280
Speaker 3: and they compare it to quote traditional eleven on eleven football.

1156
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 3: Give me some of the nuances that make your game different.

1157
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 8: Okay, So well, let's start with the guy in high motion,

1158
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 8: all right. So at the snap of the ball, you

1159
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:12,439
Speaker 8: could have one of your receivers running towards the line

1160
01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 8: of scrimmage, and so the object is, yes, to get

1161
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:17,720
Speaker 8: up on their defensive backs toes and beat your guy.

1162
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:19,880
Speaker 8: When we have what we call either an option route

1163
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 8: poco route, where you get up on a guy's toes

1164
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 8: and you have the option to go post or corner

1165
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:27,880
Speaker 8: on him. And so that's that's that's arena football at

1166
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:29,880
Speaker 8: a nutshell because if a team is playing man a

1167
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 8: man and your best guy is beating their best guy

1168
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 8: in this man the man situation, then you're doing okay,

1169
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 8: you know. So that's one of the nuances on offense.

1170
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:42,720
Speaker 8: So you'll have a guy in high motion things are

1171
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 8: happening a lot quicker, which is kind of what translated

1172
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:49,360
Speaker 8: into Kurt Warner's game back in those days. That's a quarterback.

1173
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:52,320
Speaker 8: That's what helped him go on to be successful with

1174
01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 8: the Rams because he had learned at first when he

1175
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:57,840
Speaker 8: first got to arena football wasn't slowing down. The game

1176
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:00,400
Speaker 8: goes fast, it happens fast. You got to slow the

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01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:02,400
Speaker 8: game down. And then once it slowed down for Kurt.

1178
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:06,040
Speaker 8: It helped him then to lead the Iva Barnstormers to

1179
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 8: a championship or get there. And then and then he

1180
01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:12,200
Speaker 8: got that opportunity with the Rams, and then the game

1181
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 8: slowed down and now you're on a bigger field. So

1182
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 8: it made it like you know, he had great pieces

1183
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:19,240
Speaker 8: around it, so it made his job a little easier.

1184
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:21,520
Speaker 8: So on the offensive side, he does that for you.

1185
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:23,360
Speaker 8: It quickens up to everything, and then you have a

1186
01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 8: guy in high motion. And then on the defensive side,

1187
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 8: like if you're watching the linebackers, you'll see two linebackers

1188
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:32,280
Speaker 8: out there. Well, they both can't just do what traditional

1189
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 8: linebackers do. They both can't just run in and blitz

1190
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 8: and attack the quarterback. You're Mac. You have two linebackers

1191
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 8: and one is a MAC linebacker, which is like a

1192
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:44,240
Speaker 8: traditional six three two hundred and fifty pound guy. And

1193
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:47,120
Speaker 8: then you have your Jack linebacker and he can range

1194
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:50,560
Speaker 8: from being a defensive back to a receiver or another linebacker.

1195
01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:53,560
Speaker 8: He's just another body depending on your personnel and who

1196
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 8: you're playing that week. He's the other body that you

1197
01:04:55,880 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 8: want out there and to offend the offense. If the

1198
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:04,640
Speaker 8: team has a running quarterback or they like to run

1199
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 8: the ball a lot. You're not gonna want a receiver

1200
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:10,720
Speaker 8: at jack linebacker. You're gonna want to put another defensive guy,

1201
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:13,680
Speaker 8: you know, whether it be a bigger DV or a linebacker.

1202
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:15,880
Speaker 8: Put one of those guys out there, and now they

1203
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 8: can help stop the run. But on the flip side,

1204
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:22,360
Speaker 8: a couple of the rules for those linebackers. The MAC

1205
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 8: linebacker can blitz forward through the A gap either a

1206
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:29,560
Speaker 8: gap on either side of the nose guard, so he

1207
01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:32,000
Speaker 8: can only go up the A gaps. He cannot rush

1208
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:35,040
Speaker 8: outside the ends. There's only three linemen out there, so

1209
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:37,800
Speaker 8: there's a nose and two ends. He cannot go outside

1210
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:40,280
Speaker 8: the end. Once he goes outside the ends, it's considered

1211
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 8: an illegal rush. All right, So that's your MAC linebacker.

1212
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 8: He can go up either a gap. He's either going

1213
01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 8: straight across, he's going straight ahead, or he's gonna loop

1214
01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:52,640
Speaker 8: around around the noseguard into the other A gap and

1215
01:05:52,680 --> 01:05:55,960
Speaker 8: then on the uh for your jack linebacker. Again, like

1216
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 8: I said, his rules are a little bit different. So

1217
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:00,960
Speaker 8: as you're if you're at a game watching, he'll be like, well,

1218
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:02,880
Speaker 8: why can't that guy he should just run over there,

1219
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:06,000
Speaker 8: or he can he's restricted to it all right, Yeah, yeah,

1220
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:08,439
Speaker 8: because you know you're just thinking you're outside playing stam

1221
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:13,160
Speaker 8: loot football. But there's rules and regulations to the situation. So, uh.

1222
01:06:13,240 --> 01:06:16,360
Speaker 8: The linebacker who can go kind of freelance a little

1223
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:19,280
Speaker 8: bit is a jack linebacker, and in our league he

1224
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:22,960
Speaker 8: can be he can go no deeper than five yards

1225
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 8: to the line of the ball, off the line of scrimmage,

1226
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 8: so he can go than five yards, but he can

1227
01:06:27,320 --> 01:06:29,640
Speaker 8: go sideline to sideline.

1228
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 7: To snap to the ball.

1229
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Speaker 8: So when they say, you know, when the team we're

1230
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:35,440
Speaker 8: gonna snap the ball, he can depending on what your

1231
01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:38,880
Speaker 8: defensive call is, he can fly to the sideline, to

1232
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:41,200
Speaker 8: the right or to the left, but he can't go deep.

1233
01:06:41,280 --> 01:06:43,040
Speaker 8: He can't drop back into coverage.

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Speaker 3: That's the most nuanced answer I've ever heard from a

1235
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 3: football coach about anything that was that was awesome. Sean

1236
01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:53,280
Speaker 3: King is with his head coach of the Cincinnati Slingers,

1237
01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 3: what will it be like in a league that has

1238
01:06:55,760 --> 01:07:00,640
Speaker 3: tell me, if I'm wrong, five teams from overseas, well, it'll.

1239
01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:02,320
Speaker 8: Be I mean, it'll be solid. I mean, we got

1240
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 8: I'm speaking for our teams over here in the United States.

1241
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 8: We have guys who have lots of experience of coaching

1242
01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 8: over here and playing, and then you know, we we

1243
01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:14,920
Speaker 8: expect some of that to translate because we have some

1244
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 8: some of our coaches going over there as well. So I,

1245
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 8: you know, I expect it to be a high quality

1246
01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:23,120
Speaker 8: brand of football. By the time we get to the playoffs.

1247
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:25,640
Speaker 8: You know, obviously the cream will have risen to the top.

1248
01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 8: So at that point we'll see who has whose season

1249
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 8: has come into fruition and whose season has not been

1250
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:35,640
Speaker 8: what they wanted to be. But I expect it to be,

1251
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:38,520
Speaker 8: you know, a high quality brand of football. We've we've

1252
01:07:38,560 --> 01:07:41,720
Speaker 8: all done, you know, our due diligence of going out

1253
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 8: and finding the best players that we can do, that

1254
01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 8: we can bring in to help make this league successful.

1255
01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 3: It's it's gonna be fun, always interesting to talk with

1256
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:55,200
Speaker 3: a coach who's helping assemble a new roster gets underway.

1257
01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:58,200
Speaker 3: First home game on April to twenty fifth against Arizona

1258
01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:00,920
Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Slingers, playing at the Heritage Bank Center.

1259
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 2: Coach, can't thank you enough for the time.

1260
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:04,920
Speaker 3: Welcome to Cincinnati and we'll chat against to you man,

1261
01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 3: Thanks so.

1262
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:07,920
Speaker 8: Much, all right, thank you, thank you for having me on.

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01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 3: Shaun King the head coach of the newly formed Cincinnati

1264
01:08:11,040 --> 01:08:14,040
Speaker 3: Slingers of the International Arena League. You can learn more

1265
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 3: about their team and their upcoming schedule at Cincinnatislingers dot com.

1266
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Speaker 3: Coming up in about thirty minutes, Chad Brendel Bearcat Journal

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Speaker 3: dot com, and the breaking news Jared Calhoun being hired

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Speaker 3: by the University of Cincinnati to replace Wes Miller to

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Speaker 3: the surprise of absolutely no one, and also Joe Burrow

1270
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1271
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Speaker 3: outlook on the Red season. But first, the season debut

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Speaker 3: Jared Calhoun, if you watched his team's play on Friday

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Speaker 3: and again last night, and last night they were out

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Speaker 3: manned by an Arizona team that has an argument for

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Speaker 3: best in the country, certainly has a chance to win

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Speaker 3: the national title. If you were looking for a team, though,

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01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,639
Speaker 3: that ran good stuff and wanted to use that as

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Speaker 3: a reflection of the head coach, I think you liked

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Speaker 3: what you saw when you watched Jared Calhoun's team's play

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Speaker 3: on Friday and last night. More on that with Chad

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Speaker 3: coming up in just a bit. Look, man, this is

1303
01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:35,680
Speaker 3: obviously not guaranteed to work, but but say what you

1304
01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:39,840
Speaker 3: want about John Cunningham, and he has his critics, and

1305
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:43,960
Speaker 3: they've been well well stocked with ammunition to use against him.

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Speaker 3: But it did feel like there was a plan here.

1307
01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:49,400
Speaker 3: The plan got executed and there was no wrench that

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01:10:49,439 --> 01:10:52,200
Speaker 3: got thrown in. This did not feel like a matter

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Speaker 3: of fire the coach and then go what now. It

1310
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 3: felt like, you know, it's said all the time that

1311
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Speaker 3: a good athletic director always has the name of his

1312
01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:04,639
Speaker 3: next head coach in the signature sports at a school

1313
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:07,639
Speaker 3: in his back pocket. This felt like he had Jared

1314
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Speaker 3: Calhoun's name in his back pocket. So we'll see how

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Speaker 3: it works. Chad's gonna join us. Coming up in just

1316
01:11:13,160 --> 01:11:17,920
Speaker 3: about fifteen minutes. I cannot help but ask a question

1317
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 3: about Joe Burrow and I will coming up in just

1318
01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:27,240
Speaker 3: about twenty five minutes. The Reds spring training portion of

1319
01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 3: spring training is over. They do have a couple of

1320
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Speaker 3: exhibition games in Milwaukee, the first of which is tonight

1321
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Speaker 3: with Brady Singer pitching. And you know, these two games,

1322
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:41,839
Speaker 3: I'd be willing to bet they play a game tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: That game may take an hour and forty five minutes

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Speaker 3: to play. Last game of the exhibition season and off

1325
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Speaker 3: day on Wednesday, the opener on Thursday. Everybody just wants

1326
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:58,880
Speaker 3: to get home. Everybody just wants the season to begin.

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Speaker 3: These games tonight and tomorrow, my guess is don't take

1328
01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:06,479
Speaker 3: very long to play. Hopefully there's no bad injury news.

1329
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Speaker 3: And like the biggest story of spring training was Hunter

1330
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 3: Green's injury. It's a staff ace. He's the guy who

1331
01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:16,960
Speaker 3: I think would be pitching on Thursday if he was healthy.

1332
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Speaker 3: He's the guy who pitched Game one of the playoffs

1333
01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:23,280
Speaker 3: last year. When he's healthy, there aren't that many pitchers

1334
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Speaker 3: better than him. That was the biggest story of the spring.

1335
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:29,000
Speaker 3: But I think that the second biggest story of the

1336
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Speaker 3: spring is the fact that among the position players it

1337
01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:36,920
Speaker 3: felt like some really good things did happen. It felt

1338
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Speaker 3: like there was no real major injury issue. It felt

1339
01:12:40,280 --> 01:12:43,320
Speaker 3: like the good news was in abundance. It felt like

1340
01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:46,400
Speaker 3: every time you talked about a guy's performance during the

1341
01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:49,360
Speaker 3: Cactus League, you were talking about a player like Matt

1342
01:12:49,439 --> 01:12:52,400
Speaker 3: McClain or Sal Stewart. You were talking about a guy

1343
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:56,439
Speaker 3: like Nathaniel Lowe who's made the team. And understandably so,

1344
01:12:57,080 --> 01:12:59,719
Speaker 3: even Noelve Marte in the second half of the spring,

1345
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:04,240
Speaker 3: like the light Bulb came on. There are legitimate reasons

1346
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:08,320
Speaker 3: to be a little skeptical about outfield defense when you've

1347
01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:10,800
Speaker 3: got a guy playing right field who doesn't have a

1348
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 3: lot of experience there. But I think if you're using

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Speaker 3: the Cactus League as a guide, and it's a guide

1350
01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:21,439
Speaker 3: that you should you shouldn't use exclusively. You shouldn't use

1351
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:26,479
Speaker 3: previous performance in regular season games. You just take everything

1352
01:13:26,479 --> 01:13:29,040
Speaker 3: in the spring with a grain of salt. But if

1353
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:34,000
Speaker 3: we're using the Cactus League as a guide to suggest

1354
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Speaker 3: some things that could happen once the real games actually begin,

1355
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Speaker 3: I think we like what that guide reveals, Like there

1356
01:13:43,280 --> 01:13:45,559
Speaker 3: were some good things that happen, and I think you

1357
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:48,600
Speaker 3: have a team if you just look at how the

1358
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:53,520
Speaker 3: roster ended up being constructed. One of their bigger acquisitions

1359
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:57,960
Speaker 3: did not even make the team. Rhese Hines did not

1360
01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:03,680
Speaker 3: even make the team. Now, I don't think anybody was

1361
01:14:03,720 --> 01:14:06,200
Speaker 3: expecting rees Hines to make the team and have an

1362
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Speaker 3: all Star caliber, you know season, And I don't think

1363
01:14:10,240 --> 01:14:14,160
Speaker 3: anybody was expecting JJ Bleday to show up in Cincinnati

1364
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Speaker 3: and help transform the Reds offense.

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Speaker 2: But those are guys.

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Speaker 3: JJ Bleday, an established big leaguer, had an OPS this

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01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 3: spring of ten forty seven. Ten forty seven didn't make

1368
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:35,720
Speaker 3: the team. Reese Hines had a spring OPS of fourteen fourteen,

1369
01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:41,479
Speaker 3: didn't make the team. Reese Hines batted for to ten.

1370
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Speaker 3: JJ Bleday batted three seventeen. Neither dude made the team. Now,

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Speaker 3: the explanation from Terry Francona is one that I think

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01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:55,599
Speaker 3: makes sense. Hey, we want we want these guys to play.

1373
01:14:55,600 --> 01:14:57,200
Speaker 3: We want them to play every day, we want them

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01:14:57,240 --> 01:15:00,760
Speaker 3: getting regular at bats. Nathaniel Lowe is guy who's going

1375
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:03,680
Speaker 3: to come off the bench. He's a bench player. But

1376
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:06,880
Speaker 3: like Nathaniel lo when he got signed, I think a

1377
01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:09,839
Speaker 3: lot of us looked at him as insurance against Sal Stewart,

1378
01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:13,800
Speaker 3: not necessarily working out or you know, just a guy

1379
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Speaker 3: who's gonna have maybe a little bit of an uphill

1380
01:15:15,760 --> 01:15:17,280
Speaker 3: battle to make the team. And he made the team

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Speaker 3: and made the team amid some horrible circumstances where his

1382
01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:24,600
Speaker 3: mom unfortunately passed away during spring training. He stayed with

1383
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:27,639
Speaker 3: the Reds, hit an emotional home run on the day

1384
01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:29,960
Speaker 3: that his dad showed up to spring training camp. But

1385
01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:33,400
Speaker 3: like some good stuff happened during the spring where it

1386
01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:38,080
Speaker 3: legitimately does feel like the Reds had good competition. Legitimately

1387
01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:41,280
Speaker 3: does feel like the Reds are gonna go north with

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01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:45,479
Speaker 3: some guys who made strong cases to be on the club,

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Speaker 3: Guys who, as the season unfolds, look like they could

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Speaker 3: come up from Louisville and help like Ree, signs like

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01:15:53,280 --> 01:15:59,080
Speaker 3: JJ Blede. Now, again, there are reasons why those guys

1392
01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:03,599
Speaker 3: didn't make the league club lack of extensive big league

1393
01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:08,120
Speaker 3: track record, relatively low ceilings relative to other guys on

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01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:11,960
Speaker 3: other teams who played the same position. But still, it

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01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:15,120
Speaker 3: does feel like the Red's deepest team they've had in

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01:16:15,160 --> 01:16:15,479
Speaker 3: a while.

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Speaker 10: Now.

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Speaker 3: That might not be a very high bar to clear,

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Speaker 3: but there have been seasons recent vintage where you looked

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Speaker 3: at the bottom end of the roster, or you looked

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01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:28,160
Speaker 3: at some of the guys who made the club out

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01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:31,960
Speaker 3: of spring training and you're like, well it they had

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01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:34,040
Speaker 3: to fill out the roster with twenty six guys, and

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01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:38,120
Speaker 3: so here we are. This does feel different, and it

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01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:40,760
Speaker 3: feels like they have a team that, if you use

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01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:45,360
Speaker 3: spring training as a guide, offensively should be better. They

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01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:48,280
Speaker 3: should get more production from the two hole. They have

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01:16:48,320 --> 01:16:51,720
Speaker 3: a guy in Sal Stewart who did everything you ever

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01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:54,960
Speaker 3: could have asked of him and ops above one thousand, Like,

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01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:58,040
Speaker 3: if you look at the raw numbers, hell, Will Benson

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01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:02,439
Speaker 3: had a huge spring, Matt McClain otherworldly this spring. Nobody

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Speaker 3: is saying any of these guys is gonna have a

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Speaker 3: good season. You gotta do, you know, the right thing

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01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:10,400
Speaker 3: and put these numbers in the proper context. But if

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01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:12,920
Speaker 3: you went into mid February hoping that some things would

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01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:15,599
Speaker 3: play out during the Cactus League and during spring training,

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01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:20,400
Speaker 3: that felt like, felt like strong indicators for at least

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Speaker 3: individual seasons that could be better in twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 3: or collectively a team that offensively could be better in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty six. I think you saw those things. I

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01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:34,639
Speaker 3: do feel like as much as you might feel slightly

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Speaker 3: more optimistic about the Reds offensively based on spring training,

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Speaker 3: and again that's just based on spring training. From a

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01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:46,320
Speaker 3: pitching perspective, maybe you feel a little bit worse because

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01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:49,599
Speaker 3: I do A Hunter Green's not healthy. B Nick Lodolo

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01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:54,040
Speaker 3: continues to deal with blisters. See Andrew Abbott pitched unevenly

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01:17:55,120 --> 01:17:57,880
Speaker 3: in the aftermath of a season where he was awesome

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01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:00,479
Speaker 3: in the first half, pedestrian in the second and a half.

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01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:03,280
Speaker 3: They're still very short on experience in the back end

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01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 3: of that rotation, and by the way, Caleb Ferguson, while

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01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:09,040
Speaker 3: it might be a very short term thing, it's an

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01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:13,280
Speaker 3: oblique Oblique injuries seem weird. Caleb Ferguson is one of

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01:18:13,280 --> 01:18:15,719
Speaker 3: the reasons why a lot of us felt better about

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01:18:15,720 --> 01:18:19,360
Speaker 3: the overall composition of the bullpen when spring training started.

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Speaker 3: I think relative to how we felt six seven weeks ago,

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Speaker 3: there's reason to feel a little bit better about this

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01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:31,719
Speaker 3: team offensively, and also reasons to feel maybe not quite

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01:18:31,760 --> 01:18:34,200
Speaker 3: as bullish as we did about.

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Speaker 2: The Red starting pitching.

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Speaker 3: We'll see quarter after five ESPN fifteen thirty five point

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Speaker 3: three seven four nine, fifteen thirty if we have time,

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Speaker 3: and we do have to spend some time on Joe

1443
01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:47,720
Speaker 3: Burrow playing gimmicky flag football. But first, UC has a

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01:18:47,760 --> 01:18:51,240
Speaker 3: new basketball coach, Chad Brendle joins us to talk about him.

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Speaker 9: Next Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty from.

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Speaker 6: there's an accident. It's off onto the right shoulder. Emergency

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Speaker 6: crews on the seat of another crash East Grandon Road.

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Speaker 6: It's at State Route forty eight on Edwards Road, another

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Speaker 6: accident at Edmondson Road, and Snyder an accident at Socialville

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Speaker 6: Foster Road. I'm at Ezelk with traffic.

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Speaker 3: This singer Jared Calhoun, to the surprise of pretty much nobody,

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Speaker 3: is going to be a UC's next head coach after

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Speaker 3: two seasons at Utah State. Full coverage of the coaching

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Speaker 3: search that never really felt like a search, and Jared

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Speaker 3: Calhoun being hired at UC by u s at bearcatjournal

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Speaker 3: dot com, which is the domain of our friend Ched

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Speaker 3: Brendel Chad.

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Speaker 2: What do we like most about Jared Calhoun.

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Speaker 10: Well, if you've been a UC fan over the past

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01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:09,120
Speaker 10: for roughly forty years, you love that he runs really,

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01:20:09,840 --> 01:20:15,280
Speaker 10: really good offense. We've been, you know, the UC fan

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01:20:15,320 --> 01:20:17,439
Speaker 10: base has been waiting for that for a long time,

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Speaker 10: so that kind of jumps out as number one. But

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Speaker 10: if you watched the two games that the Utah State

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Speaker 10: played in the tournament, they're physical, they're aggressive, they had

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Speaker 10: no back down in them whatsoever. Felt like every time

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Speaker 10: in either of those two games between Villanova and Arizona,

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Speaker 10: like they got punched in the mouth and could have folded,

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01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:47,600
Speaker 10: and they fought back and fought back aggressively, and it

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Speaker 10: was no accident that they were able to get back

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Speaker 10: in the game and pull away from Villanova. And then

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Speaker 10: you know, Arizona felt like through three or four knockout

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Speaker 10: punches and Utah State was up by the standing eight

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01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:04,840
Speaker 10: count and you look in the final four minutes at

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Speaker 10: a four point game, it's kind of like, wow, like

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Speaker 10: this is I don't know if you could have scripted

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01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:15,559
Speaker 10: it any better if you were John Cunningham, like assuming

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01:21:15,600 --> 01:21:19,320
Speaker 10: at this point he got hired today, this has been

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01:21:19,400 --> 01:21:22,040
Speaker 10: in the works for a while now, Like if you're

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Speaker 10: John Cunningham, you're probably just sitting there like like mister

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Speaker 10: Burns on The Simpsons, given the accident.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I went into both those games, specifically on Friday and

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01:21:33,240 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 3: to a degree last night, thinking like, all right, this

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Speaker 3: is going to be the guy. I think I'm okay

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Speaker 3: with this. Don't give me any reason to think that

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01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:43,960
Speaker 3: you shouldn't be the guy. And instead I walked away

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01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:46,800
Speaker 3: from Friday thinking that's a really well coached team and

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Speaker 3: I had the same takeaway last night. It was thirty

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Speaker 3: three to nineteen, and I said, I said to my wife, like,

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Speaker 3: I want to see if this team bounces back.

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Speaker 2: I want to see if this team responds.

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Speaker 3: I want to see if this team has a CounterPunch

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Speaker 3: to what Arizona has just done. And You're right, four

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Speaker 3: minutes to go, they had a shot. Like I walked

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Speaker 3: away excited about the Jared Calhoun era at the University

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01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:08,280
Speaker 3: of Cincinnati.

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Speaker 10: Yeah. I mean, he's got a connection to the school.

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Speaker 10: He's got a connection to Bob Huggins. I know just

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Speaker 10: from conversations around the sport. I know Mick Cronin is

1505
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:24,479
Speaker 10: very fond of Jared Calhoun. So there's a lot of

1506
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:29,000
Speaker 10: synergy there that, for whatever reason, people in the fan

1507
01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:31,880
Speaker 10: base kind of demand, but it exists. This time, it's

1508
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:35,880
Speaker 10: not fake, and it looks like the guy can really

1509
01:22:36,439 --> 01:22:41,000
Speaker 10: really coach. And you know, in the league, Mo, I've

1510
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 10: been thinking about this a lot over the past thirty

1511
01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:48,120
Speaker 10: six hours or so, there is precedent in this league

1512
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:53,400
Speaker 10: for young, high quality coach comes in and is able

1513
01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:58,680
Speaker 10: to compete at the top of the conference. Tj Ozilberger,

1514
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:03,200
Speaker 10: Graham mccair, both of those guys have come in now.

1515
01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:08,080
Speaker 10: McCaslin now has a lot of resources at his disposal,

1516
01:23:08,120 --> 01:23:09,960
Speaker 10: but that wasn't the case when he got the job,

1517
01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:13,120
Speaker 10: and there's been a lot of reports that Iowa State

1518
01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:16,920
Speaker 10: is not operating with the type of funding that DYU

1519
01:23:17,040 --> 01:23:21,479
Speaker 10: and Kansas are. Those were really good coaches that knew

1520
01:23:21,479 --> 01:23:25,519
Speaker 10: who they were, built their roster and instantly were able

1521
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:27,920
Speaker 10: to come in and work their way towards the upper

1522
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:30,840
Speaker 10: part of the league. So it can be done. That

1523
01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:33,400
Speaker 10: is a good sign for Jared Calhoun.

1524
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:38,439
Speaker 3: You mentioned the connections to UC's basketball history to people

1525
01:23:38,439 --> 01:23:41,559
Speaker 3: who are at least emotionally invested in the program. How

1526
01:23:41,640 --> 01:23:43,040
Speaker 3: much do those connections matter?

1527
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:50,960
Speaker 10: Ultimately what matters is Kenny coach or not. But in

1528
01:23:51,040 --> 01:23:54,679
Speaker 10: today's day and age, when there's a lot of sales involved,

1529
01:23:55,160 --> 01:23:59,320
Speaker 10: when there's a lot of getting people behind you, getting

1530
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:03,080
Speaker 10: a belief around town, in a town that there's a

1531
01:24:03,120 --> 01:24:07,120
Speaker 10: lot of competition for the sports dollar, I think it helps.

1532
01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:11,920
Speaker 10: It certainly gets you in some doors that maybe have

1533
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:18,080
Speaker 10: been closed for a decade or two. It ties things

1534
01:24:18,120 --> 01:24:20,800
Speaker 10: together because he's going to be able to talk to

1535
01:24:20,840 --> 01:24:23,639
Speaker 10: these people about when he was here that two thousand

1536
01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:27,000
Speaker 10: and three, twenty fourteen when he was a student assistant, Like,

1537
01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:31,760
Speaker 10: there's just gonna be some connectivity things in a very

1538
01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:36,519
Speaker 10: provincial city that can't hurt if he's got those ties

1539
01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:37,360
Speaker 10: already in place.

1540
01:24:38,479 --> 01:24:41,920
Speaker 2: Was anybody else even remotely considered.

1541
01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:44,560
Speaker 11: Maybe?

1542
01:24:44,720 --> 01:24:46,960
Speaker 10: All I know is we I did not have a SAT.

1543
01:24:47,040 --> 01:24:50,440
Speaker 10: I had hundreds of conversations over the past ten days.

1544
01:24:50,960 --> 01:24:55,800
Speaker 10: I did not talk to one person from National Championship

1545
01:24:55,840 --> 01:25:01,479
Speaker 10: head coach to like low level staffer that said anything

1546
01:25:01,520 --> 01:25:04,160
Speaker 10: other than, oh, that's yeah, Jared Calhoun's gonna get that job.

1547
01:25:05,040 --> 01:25:08,599
Speaker 10: So I'm sure John Cunningham did his due diligence and

1548
01:25:08,880 --> 01:25:11,760
Speaker 10: you know, reached out to some agents and maybe even

1549
01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:16,759
Speaker 10: talked to some people. But all indications from the jump,

1550
01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:18,920
Speaker 10: it was the most boring coaching search. And I've done

1551
01:25:18,920 --> 01:25:21,439
Speaker 10: a lot of them, the most boring coaching search I've

1552
01:25:21,479 --> 01:25:23,719
Speaker 10: ever been a part of. I was even like joking

1553
01:25:23,760 --> 01:25:27,040
Speaker 10: around with people like can you make something up? So

1554
01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:29,280
Speaker 10: I can so I got a little something I get

1555
01:25:29,400 --> 01:25:32,679
Speaker 10: run with here, Like usually I get to like version

1556
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:36,479
Speaker 10: five of the hot board. We got to version one

1557
01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:41,240
Speaker 10: point one because there just was nothing new to say

1558
01:25:41,280 --> 01:25:44,280
Speaker 10: that wasn't well. I talked to four more people today

1559
01:25:44,320 --> 01:25:47,200
Speaker 10: and they all said, Jared Calhoun talked to twelve people

1560
01:25:47,240 --> 01:25:51,400
Speaker 10: this evening. They all said, Jared Calhoun like it was

1561
01:25:51,439 --> 01:25:55,280
Speaker 10: the worst kept secret in college basketball. If anybody thought

1562
01:25:55,280 --> 01:25:56,040
Speaker 10: it was a secret.

1563
01:25:56,400 --> 01:25:58,960
Speaker 3: Is Is there a sense that he may bring some

1564
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:01,240
Speaker 3: players from Utah stay with him? And do we want

1565
01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:03,120
Speaker 3: him to bring players from Utah stay with him?

1566
01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:07,639
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's a couple of people I've talked to familiar

1567
01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:11,840
Speaker 10: with the situations that they expect some names to follow him.

1568
01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:15,599
Speaker 10: How many I don't have a great feel yet. Ella mean,

1569
01:26:16,479 --> 01:26:20,320
Speaker 10: the six nine forward I think would be maybe number

1570
01:26:20,360 --> 01:26:22,920
Speaker 10: one to have an eye on. He did have a

1571
01:26:22,920 --> 01:26:26,639
Speaker 10: couple freshmen that red shirted for development. It'd be interesting

1572
01:26:26,680 --> 01:26:29,600
Speaker 10: to see if he thought any of those guys progressed

1573
01:26:29,640 --> 01:26:32,680
Speaker 10: to a Big twelve level. Here's the other thing that

1574
01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:36,760
Speaker 10: I think is really important about this me. He got

1575
01:26:37,160 --> 01:26:39,360
Speaker 10: as good of a first hand look at what the

1576
01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:42,639
Speaker 10: Big twelve is about last night as you can possibly get.

1577
01:26:44,680 --> 01:26:47,439
Speaker 10: So he's got that judge of do I think these

1578
01:26:47,479 --> 01:26:51,160
Speaker 10: guys can do that every night? And if he does,

1579
01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:53,040
Speaker 10: you know, there's a couple of guys I think he

1580
01:26:53,080 --> 01:26:55,960
Speaker 10: could bring with him, and a couple guys already I

1581
01:26:56,000 --> 01:26:58,840
Speaker 10: think that from what I've seen over the past six

1582
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:01,720
Speaker 10: weeks or so, I think could could be good. I

1583
01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:05,320
Speaker 10: don't think anybody's potentially like a star right out of

1584
01:27:05,320 --> 01:27:08,880
Speaker 10: the gate, but certainly guys that can one help you

1585
01:27:08,960 --> 01:27:12,120
Speaker 10: win games in the Big twelve and two, help establish

1586
01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:16,200
Speaker 10: the culture and the system and make the transition a

1587
01:27:16,200 --> 01:27:17,000
Speaker 10: little bit easier.

1588
01:27:17,360 --> 01:27:19,280
Speaker 3: I guess we would have to get a sense of

1589
01:27:19,320 --> 01:27:22,840
Speaker 3: how many of these guys Jared Calhoun would want add Cincinnati.

1590
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:25,599
Speaker 3: But is there a belief that of the players who

1591
01:27:25,640 --> 01:27:29,600
Speaker 3: can come back that there's open mindedness about remaining Bearcats

1592
01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:31,240
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven.

1593
01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:35,240
Speaker 10: Not really, I mean, I just don't see it. Maybe

1594
01:27:35,240 --> 01:27:41,639
Speaker 10: that's just me and my outlook on how this business

1595
01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:46,439
Speaker 10: works now. But coaching change, I expect complete foster turnover.

1596
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:47,760
Speaker 8: I just.

1597
01:27:49,360 --> 01:27:51,840
Speaker 10: You know, the players not it didn't get recruited by

1598
01:27:51,880 --> 01:27:53,360
Speaker 10: the new guy. Now, there is a little bit of

1599
01:27:53,360 --> 01:27:58,040
Speaker 10: a window. You've got until April seventh before the portal opens,

1600
01:27:58,080 --> 01:27:59,920
Speaker 10: so he will have some time if they want to

1601
01:28:00,600 --> 01:28:04,720
Speaker 10: work on that. But just from looking at it, I

1602
01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:07,639
Speaker 10: would think the players are gonna want a fresh start,

1603
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:11,280
Speaker 10: the coach is gonna want a fresh start, and Now

1604
01:28:11,320 --> 01:28:13,840
Speaker 10: it's easier than ever to go get new players like

1605
01:28:13,880 --> 01:28:17,040
Speaker 10: you had to keep guys before because you didn't have

1606
01:28:17,479 --> 01:28:23,000
Speaker 10: the portal buffet to go, you know, Browse. Now you

1607
01:28:23,040 --> 01:28:25,840
Speaker 10: can go build a roster pretty quick, especially if you've

1608
01:28:25,880 --> 01:28:32,120
Speaker 10: got the financial support to do so. One maybe two

1609
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:35,160
Speaker 10: guys come back. But I just you know, unless things

1610
01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:38,679
Speaker 10: change between now and you know, a week or two

1611
01:28:38,680 --> 01:28:41,400
Speaker 10: from now, I just I have a hard time seeing

1612
01:28:42,520 --> 01:28:45,520
Speaker 10: much of this roster if any of this roster returning.

1613
01:28:45,800 --> 01:28:48,040
Speaker 3: Awesome, as always appreciate you doing on a short notice.

1614
01:28:48,080 --> 01:28:49,160
Speaker 3: I'm sure we'll chat soon.

1615
01:28:50,520 --> 01:28:51,120
Speaker 10: All right. Thanks.

1616
01:28:51,160 --> 01:28:54,320
Speaker 3: So that's our guy, Chad Brendel, Bearcat Journal dot com.

1617
01:28:54,400 --> 01:28:58,760
Speaker 3: Jared Calhoun, we'll be named the next men's basketball head

1618
01:28:58,800 --> 01:29:02,560
Speaker 3: coach at the Universe City of Cincinnati. Get complete coverage

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Speaker 3: at Bearcatjournal dot com. Sports headlines and a simple question.

1620
01:29:07,120 --> 01:29:09,559
Speaker 3: We'll try to work in a phone call five one, three, seven,

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Speaker 3: four nine, fifteen thirty as well, I cannot help but

1622
01:29:13,479 --> 01:29:16,599
Speaker 3: ask a question that I'm I'm sure, I'm sure if

1623
01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:19,759
Speaker 3: you're being really honest, you're asking as well about Joe Burrow.

1624
01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:20,360
Speaker 2: We'll do that.

1625
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Speaker 3: You did not do this. I'm gonna pull back the

1638
01:30:13,040 --> 01:30:15,080
Speaker 3: curtain now. If you've listened to this show for any

1639
01:30:15,120 --> 01:30:17,960
Speaker 3: amount of time, you know there's a specific rule. I

1640
01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:21,240
Speaker 3: don't care about the music that's played, but you can't

1641
01:30:21,240 --> 01:30:25,479
Speaker 3: play Pitbull and you can't play Will Smith after nineteen

1642
01:30:25,560 --> 01:30:30,160
Speaker 3: ninety one, and Tarran knows this. This has been beaten

1643
01:30:30,200 --> 01:30:33,080
Speaker 3: into his brain over the last seven and a half years.

1644
01:30:33,560 --> 01:30:35,599
Speaker 3: But today we have a young woman from the University

1645
01:30:35,640 --> 01:30:40,160
Speaker 3: of Cincinnati who is interested in broadcasting, and so she

1646
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Speaker 3: has asked to shadow the show, and she is running

1647
01:30:43,720 --> 01:30:46,080
Speaker 3: the last hour of the show and Tarren Jess set

1648
01:30:46,120 --> 01:30:48,320
Speaker 3: her up and I'm sure told her to play that

1649
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1650
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1651
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Speaker 2: Sorry, No, I was showing her what not to do. Well,

1652
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Speaker 2: you succeeded. Good job.

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1656
01:31:07,960 --> 01:31:08,960
Speaker 2: You just heard you at Brendel.

1657
01:31:09,040 --> 01:31:11,960
Speaker 3: Jared Calhoun is going to be hired by UC to

1658
01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:15,559
Speaker 3: be the next men's basketball head coach. Wes Miller gets

1659
01:31:15,600 --> 01:31:18,519
Speaker 3: the coaching job at Charlotte. Good luck to him. I'm

1660
01:31:18,560 --> 01:31:20,880
Speaker 3: rooting for Wes Miller, not as much as I'm rooting

1661
01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:24,240
Speaker 3: for Jared Calhoun, but I'm rooting for Wes Miller. I

1662
01:31:24,320 --> 01:31:27,439
Speaker 3: rooted for Mark Pope yesterday because I thought there was

1663
01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:30,759
Speaker 3: great value on the Wildcats and it's fun when Kentucky

1664
01:31:30,800 --> 01:31:32,040
Speaker 3: plays deep into the tournament.

1665
01:31:32,080 --> 01:31:32,639
Speaker 2: They didn't.

1666
01:31:33,080 --> 01:31:35,920
Speaker 3: They got smoked by Iowa State after a good start.

1667
01:31:36,320 --> 01:31:39,840
Speaker 3: Mark Pope showed tonight at six on ESPN fifteen thirty

1668
01:31:40,120 --> 01:31:42,679
Speaker 3: Reds and Brewers played tonight in Milwaukee. It's a game

1669
01:31:42,720 --> 01:31:46,400
Speaker 3: that doesn't count. Brady Singer pitches for Cincinnati and the

1670
01:31:46,479 --> 01:31:50,160
Speaker 3: UC baseball team ranked twenty fifth in this week's Baseball

1671
01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:53,720
Speaker 3: America Pole. The Bearcats are nineteen and seven. Pole questions

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Speaker 3: you're paying for insurance. Go to uchins dot com. One

1676
01:32:06,760 --> 01:32:10,960
Speaker 3: first pole question you see is hiring Jared Calhoun Free

1677
01:32:11,080 --> 01:32:16,160
Speaker 3: choices A. The Bearcats are back. B the Bearcats might

1678
01:32:16,200 --> 01:32:21,360
Speaker 3: be back. We'll see see keep dreaming, mo vote now.

1679
01:32:23,439 --> 01:32:26,680
Speaker 3: The other pole question is about Joe Burrow playing gimmicky

1680
01:32:26,720 --> 01:32:31,760
Speaker 3: flag football. Are you cool with it? Sixty percent of

1681
01:32:31,800 --> 01:32:35,280
Speaker 3: you say no. I will admit to you that I

1682
01:32:35,320 --> 01:32:40,600
Speaker 3: did not watch live at least a second of the

1683
01:32:40,640 --> 01:32:48,000
Speaker 3: Fanatics Flag Football Classic in Los Angeles. Couple of general rules. A.

1684
01:32:48,240 --> 01:32:52,680
Speaker 3: If Fanatics is involved, I don't care. Look, man, I

1685
01:32:52,800 --> 01:32:56,559
Speaker 3: just want Fanatics to make stuff that if if it's

1686
01:32:56,600 --> 01:32:59,439
Speaker 3: an Excel and you order an Excel it actually fits

1687
01:32:59,479 --> 01:33:02,240
Speaker 3: like an accent, perfect that before you can move on

1688
01:33:02,240 --> 01:33:05,639
Speaker 3: to flag football, be When I hear that Logan Paul

1689
01:33:05,760 --> 01:33:10,599
Speaker 3: is involved, I'm good. Also, it would have involved watching

1690
01:33:10,720 --> 01:33:13,600
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow do something that would have compelled me to

1691
01:33:13,640 --> 01:33:18,080
Speaker 3: hold my breath. I'm gonna pull out my old man hat.

1692
01:33:18,320 --> 01:33:20,479
Speaker 3: I don't mean to do it. I never do. I'm

1693
01:33:20,479 --> 01:33:23,000
Speaker 3: the guy who loves bat flips. I'm the guy who

1694
01:33:23,080 --> 01:33:25,519
Speaker 3: wants all the players in college sports to get paid.

1695
01:33:26,080 --> 01:33:28,040
Speaker 3: I'm as progressive when it comes to a lot of

1696
01:33:28,040 --> 01:33:33,840
Speaker 3: these issues as you'll meet anybody, but Joe. Come on, man,

1697
01:33:34,400 --> 01:33:38,000
Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Bengals are paying you fifty five million dollars

1698
01:33:38,080 --> 01:33:43,360
Speaker 3: annually to play real football. When it comes to flag football,

1699
01:33:44,160 --> 01:33:49,480
Speaker 3: could we not? I know, old man yelling at clouds.

1700
01:33:50,160 --> 01:33:53,840
Speaker 3: He was just having fun. It was Tom Brady. It's

1701
01:33:53,880 --> 01:33:55,400
Speaker 3: flag football, Joe.

1702
01:33:55,760 --> 01:33:56,280
Speaker 2: Could we not?

1703
01:33:58,320 --> 01:34:00,760
Speaker 3: I mean, let me get this straight. The Bengals are

1704
01:34:00,800 --> 01:34:03,960
Speaker 3: helpless when it comes to things like this. If they weren't,

1705
01:34:04,280 --> 01:34:07,840
Speaker 3: Joe wouldn't have played. But here you have a quarterback

1706
01:34:07,880 --> 01:34:11,840
Speaker 3: who is always hurt through no real faults of his own,

1707
01:34:12,280 --> 01:34:16,639
Speaker 3: but he's always hurt. He once suffered a calf injury

1708
01:34:17,600 --> 01:34:22,360
Speaker 3: by simply jogging during a basic training camp drill, and

1709
01:34:22,479 --> 01:34:24,800
Speaker 3: we're cool with him. Doing something like this. I know

1710
01:34:24,880 --> 01:34:28,960
Speaker 3: it's flag football. Look man, I'm in the minority when

1711
01:34:28,960 --> 01:34:31,479
Speaker 3: it comes to this. I'll apply the same rule when

1712
01:34:31,479 --> 01:34:35,320
Speaker 3: it comes to fanatics. Flag football with Logan is a

1713
01:34:35,479 --> 01:34:39,840
Speaker 3: Logan Paul or Jake Paul general rule. If I read

1714
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:43,600
Speaker 3: about your event and Logan Paul or Jake Paul or

1715
01:34:43,720 --> 01:34:48,960
Speaker 3: both Pauls are involved, I'm good hard pass. But it's

1716
01:34:49,000 --> 01:34:52,840
Speaker 3: the same general rule with Joe. How much upside is there?

1717
01:34:53,360 --> 01:34:56,120
Speaker 3: It's why I don't want him playing in the preseason.

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01:34:56,680 --> 01:34:59,320
Speaker 3: It's why he shouldn't play in regular season games that

1719
01:34:59,400 --> 01:35:03,240
Speaker 3: don't count. But at least there, Well, he's playing games

1720
01:35:03,320 --> 01:35:05,840
Speaker 3: for the Bengals and they are paying him to play

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01:35:05,840 --> 01:35:09,200
Speaker 3: in those games, and so on some level, yeah, there's

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01:35:09,280 --> 01:35:11,439
Speaker 3: maybe a little bit of an obligation for him to

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01:35:11,439 --> 01:35:14,679
Speaker 3: be on the field, and yes, in the preseason there's

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01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:18,599
Speaker 3: perhaps some benefit to him taking a hit and throwing

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01:35:18,640 --> 01:35:21,880
Speaker 3: the guys that he'll be throwing to in regular season

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01:35:21,920 --> 01:35:25,799
Speaker 3: football games. When it comes to flag football and Logan

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01:35:25,880 --> 01:35:29,200
Speaker 3: and Jake Paul, whatever Paul brothers were out there, it

1728
01:35:29,240 --> 01:35:32,639
Speaker 3: could have been Chris Paul. I don't care, Joe, what's

1729
01:35:32,680 --> 01:35:38,160
Speaker 3: the upside? And he got through it okay, moving forward

1730
01:35:38,200 --> 01:35:40,720
Speaker 3: when it comes to flag football, when it comes to

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01:35:40,760 --> 01:35:46,360
Speaker 3: the Olympics, could we not? I get it, man, Every

1732
01:35:46,400 --> 01:35:49,200
Speaker 3: athlete wants to represent his or her country. Doing it

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01:35:49,240 --> 01:35:51,960
Speaker 3: in the Olympics in twenty twenty eight, where I guess

1734
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:54,439
Speaker 3: there's gonna be flag football sounds neat.

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01:35:56,000 --> 01:35:56,960
Speaker 2: Buddy.

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01:35:57,120 --> 01:36:00,840
Speaker 3: You are the meal ticket for an NFL franchise. It

1737
01:36:00,960 --> 01:36:04,919
Speaker 3: falls apart when you're hurt. And I say when, because

1738
01:36:04,960 --> 01:36:06,120
Speaker 3: you're always hurt?

1739
01:36:06,600 --> 01:36:07,080
Speaker 2: Could we not?

1740
01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:14,360
Speaker 3: Could we let Joe Flacco play, Let Jake Browning play,

1741
01:36:14,600 --> 01:36:16,559
Speaker 3: let Josh Johnson play He could add that to his

1742
01:36:16,640 --> 01:36:19,760
Speaker 3: list of teams that he's played for. I'm not a

1743
01:36:19,800 --> 01:36:23,920
Speaker 3: curmudgeon when it comes to stuff like this, except when

1744
01:36:24,360 --> 01:36:29,200
Speaker 3: the franchisees meal ticket is unnecessarily putting himself at risk

1745
01:36:29,360 --> 01:36:30,360
Speaker 3: of anything.

1746
01:36:31,120 --> 01:36:34,080
Speaker 2: Come on, Moe, it's March. Yes, it's March.

1747
01:36:35,200 --> 01:36:38,720
Speaker 3: Let's have him doing things in March, April, May, and

1748
01:36:38,840 --> 01:36:43,439
Speaker 3: June that involve absolutely no risk. Joe, go to the

1749
01:36:43,520 --> 01:36:48,360
Speaker 3: met go play Blackjack, attend UFC fights, date who you

1750
01:36:48,400 --> 01:36:51,920
Speaker 3: want to date? When Joe burrows on TMZ, I do

1751
01:36:52,000 --> 01:36:55,040
Speaker 3: not care, could not care about his dating life, could

1752
01:36:55,160 --> 01:36:57,879
Speaker 3: not care about his life away from the field until

1753
01:36:58,439 --> 01:37:02,160
Speaker 3: he is putting himself at risk of torpedoing and NFL

1754
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:05,880
Speaker 3: season before it actually starts. By the way, a lot

1755
01:37:05,880 --> 01:37:08,160
Speaker 3: of people who play with Joe Burrow, a lot of

1756
01:37:08,160 --> 01:37:10,840
Speaker 3: people who coach Joe Burrow, have a lot riding on

1757
01:37:10,880 --> 01:37:11,719
Speaker 3: this coming season.

1758
01:37:12,960 --> 01:37:13,519
Speaker 2: I get it.

1759
01:37:13,640 --> 01:37:17,439
Speaker 3: I know the feedback I'm gonna get. Look, you're hearing

1760
01:37:17,479 --> 01:37:20,480
Speaker 3: from the guy who finds the fun and enjoy in everything,

1761
01:37:21,400 --> 01:37:25,400
Speaker 3: not so much watching my team's franchise quarterback do something

1762
01:37:25,439 --> 01:37:28,960
Speaker 3: that nobody's gonna remember that has no real upside to

1763
01:37:29,000 --> 01:37:32,679
Speaker 3: it and carries with it only risk. You're being paid

1764
01:37:33,200 --> 01:37:37,799
Speaker 3: fifty five million dollars to play for the Cincinnati Bengals.

1765
01:37:39,479 --> 01:37:42,160
Speaker 3: That's a heavy enough investment that I think you have

1766
01:37:42,200 --> 01:37:43,960
Speaker 3: a little bit of an obligation to go. You know,

1767
01:37:44,040 --> 01:37:46,680
Speaker 3: what is it worth it? Yeah, it's cool to hang

1768
01:37:46,720 --> 01:37:49,120
Speaker 3: out with Tom Brady. Yeah, it's cool to hang out

1769
01:37:49,160 --> 01:37:51,240
Speaker 3: with I don't even know if it was Logan Paul

1770
01:37:51,360 --> 01:37:54,120
Speaker 3: or Jake Paul. That doesn't sound cool at all. Yeah,

1771
01:37:54,120 --> 01:37:56,120
Speaker 3: it's neat to be in bed with the fanatics. Guy,

1772
01:37:56,920 --> 01:38:01,200
Speaker 3: dude who can't print right sized NFL an NBA apparel?

1773
01:38:02,240 --> 01:38:05,120
Speaker 3: How about we not with the flag football Joe, Thank you.

1774
01:38:05,560 --> 01:38:08,719
Speaker 3: There are fifty five million annual reasons why you should

1775
01:38:08,760 --> 01:38:12,679
Speaker 3: say no. The hopes and dreams of an entire NFL

1776
01:38:12,760 --> 01:38:16,799
Speaker 3: franchise rest on your body. Why are we doing anything

1777
01:38:16,880 --> 01:38:21,080
Speaker 3: that could remotely jeopardize it? Hard pass on the flag football,

1778
01:38:21,560 --> 01:38:25,320
Speaker 3: whether it's for the fanatics, guy with logan, Paul, or yes,

1779
01:38:25,439 --> 01:38:30,439
Speaker 3: even for the United States of America. Twelve away from

1780
01:38:30,479 --> 01:38:33,360
Speaker 3: six o'clock, Tarrann and Coco, how are we on time?

1781
01:38:35,439 --> 01:38:35,799
Speaker 11: Minutes?

1782
01:38:36,920 --> 01:38:39,880
Speaker 3: Mike co ahead, you're on ESPN fifteen thirty. Good afternoon, Mike.

1783
01:38:39,960 --> 01:38:42,360
Speaker 3: Sorry about your Florida Gators.

1784
01:38:43,080 --> 01:38:46,920
Speaker 11: Yeah, well, stuff happens. Hey, Coco. One thing is really

1785
01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:49,720
Speaker 11: true about where you're at right now is you're being

1786
01:38:49,800 --> 01:38:53,799
Speaker 11: led by two pro professionals and two gentlemen. So counsel

1787
01:38:53,880 --> 01:38:54,960
Speaker 11: what he started.

1788
01:38:54,960 --> 01:38:57,120
Speaker 3: Well, I would say that one of those things is

1789
01:38:57,120 --> 01:38:59,960
Speaker 3: true with Tarran, a true gentleman and a true profession

1790
01:39:00,400 --> 01:39:04,840
Speaker 3: With me, carnival barking clown, you said it.

1791
01:39:04,920 --> 01:39:09,240
Speaker 11: I didn't, Hey, Mo, Mo hit the people. I got

1792
01:39:09,240 --> 01:39:12,680
Speaker 11: to get a couple of college things, basketball consinder, but

1793
01:39:13,520 --> 01:39:17,080
Speaker 11: hit the people with It's that time. It's the home

1794
01:39:17,160 --> 01:39:20,920
Speaker 11: dog strategy. It's solid way to make money. You won't

1795
01:39:20,960 --> 01:39:23,800
Speaker 11: get rich, but you will get a decent return on

1796
01:39:23,840 --> 01:39:26,040
Speaker 11: your investment. Am I correct mager.

1797
01:39:25,800 --> 01:39:28,800
Speaker 3: On by request, Mike, I got an email about this

1798
01:39:28,840 --> 01:39:32,880
Speaker 3: while I was out on Thursday. On tomorrow's show, I

1799
01:39:32,920 --> 01:39:36,719
Speaker 3: am going to do the home Dog Strategy primer because

1800
01:39:36,760 --> 01:39:39,479
Speaker 3: I had a listener email me on Thursday asking if

1801
01:39:39,520 --> 01:39:41,800
Speaker 3: I would do this, and I wrote them back and

1802
01:39:41,840 --> 01:39:44,599
Speaker 3: I said, five thirty five on Tuesday of next week.

1803
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:48,120
Speaker 11: Awesome, We thank you very well. I just like to

1804
01:39:48,160 --> 01:39:50,080
Speaker 11: share it because it's a winner, you know, it's just

1805
01:39:51,120 --> 01:39:54,360
Speaker 11: got to share it with people. Damn straight, my boy,

1806
01:39:54,439 --> 01:39:59,040
Speaker 11: Santiago Espinal, she's sitting three eighty nine, three eighty nine,

1807
01:39:59,360 --> 01:40:02,479
Speaker 11: and we're thirty two six thirty nine, one point one

1808
01:40:02,600 --> 01:40:06,680
Speaker 11: two nine plugging percent, three home runs thirteen RDIs are

1809
01:40:06,680 --> 01:40:10,040
Speaker 11: not an error? Nice trade? Uh Red's way to go?

1810
01:40:10,560 --> 01:40:15,040
Speaker 3: Uh Marty, you're gonna you're gonna criticize the Reds for

1811
01:40:15,080 --> 01:40:16,879
Speaker 3: not bringing back Santiago Espinal.

1812
01:40:17,760 --> 01:40:19,720
Speaker 11: No, I'm just glad the Dodger's got him.

1813
01:40:20,080 --> 01:40:20,439
Speaker 2: Is nice?

1814
01:40:21,200 --> 01:40:23,800
Speaker 3: Is Santiago Espinal gonna be the key like as all

1815
01:40:23,920 --> 01:40:26,200
Speaker 3: we got Freddy Freeman and Mookie Bets and show Hey

1816
01:40:26,200 --> 01:40:29,160
Speaker 3: o Tony. But the real Key was getting Santiago Espinal.

1817
01:40:30,080 --> 01:40:33,760
Speaker 11: No, they wanted to get one more backup infield because Tommy.

1818
01:40:33,479 --> 01:40:35,000
Speaker 8: Edmonds has hurt all the project.

1819
01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:38,240
Speaker 11: Okay, so that's why. Hey, you know what I was

1820
01:40:38,240 --> 01:40:41,479
Speaker 11: thinking last night? I heard it replayed on the radio yesterday.

1821
01:40:41,840 --> 01:40:47,719
Speaker 11: The greatest basketball clip I've ever heard is Marty Brennan

1822
01:40:47,760 --> 01:40:51,360
Speaker 11: and calling that Christian lighton are seventeen foot turnaround jumper?

1823
01:40:51,560 --> 01:40:52,519
Speaker 7: Yes to advance.

1824
01:40:53,120 --> 01:40:57,160
Speaker 11: The people don't realize Marty Brennan was with the Virginia Schoires.

1825
01:40:57,240 --> 01:40:59,000
Speaker 11: A great basketball announcement.

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01:40:59,000 --> 01:41:01,439
Speaker 3: When I was a kid, Marty Brennaman did UK games

1827
01:41:01,439 --> 01:41:05,160
Speaker 3: on television like I used to. I used to work

1828
01:41:05,200 --> 01:41:07,439
Speaker 3: for a guy named Darryl Parks who once said to me,

1829
01:41:07,760 --> 01:41:10,440
Speaker 3: you know what, Marty Brenneman is the greatest baseball broadcaster

1830
01:41:10,600 --> 01:41:14,240
Speaker 3: of all time. You know the thing, though, is baseball's

1831
01:41:14,240 --> 01:41:19,000
Speaker 3: his second greatest sport. And uh so, Marty did Virginia

1832
01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:22,160
Speaker 3: Squire's games, He did some North Carolina games, he did

1833
01:41:22,240 --> 01:41:26,479
Speaker 3: Kentucky games, and for years for CBS and Westwood One

1834
01:41:26,560 --> 01:41:29,799
Speaker 3: he would do the Final four and like a regional

1835
01:41:29,880 --> 01:41:33,880
Speaker 3: semi final in final with Bill Raftery and you know

1836
01:41:34,360 --> 01:41:37,120
Speaker 3: this did this like into the early to mid two thousands,

1837
01:41:37,800 --> 01:41:40,599
Speaker 3: and you are absolutely right. Now, I'll never say that

1838
01:41:40,600 --> 01:41:43,080
Speaker 3: that's his greatest call, because there are so many with

1839
01:41:43,160 --> 01:41:46,519
Speaker 3: the Reds, but his call of that moment was, as

1840
01:41:46,560 --> 01:41:49,000
Speaker 3: you might expect, absolutely awesome.

1841
01:41:49,000 --> 01:41:50,599
Speaker 2: Mike, I got a run, man, have a great night.

1842
01:41:51,520 --> 01:41:51,920
Speaker 11: Gotcha.

1843
01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:52,360
Speaker 1: Thank you?

1844
01:41:52,600 --> 01:41:53,000
Speaker 2: All right.

1845
01:41:53,040 --> 01:41:55,000
Speaker 3: Anything you may have missed or want to hear again,

1846
01:41:55,040 --> 01:41:57,599
Speaker 3: go find on the iHeartRadio app. We'll put Chad Rundle

1847
01:41:57,680 --> 01:42:00,400
Speaker 3: up there, We'll put Jeff Carr up there, put this

1848
01:42:00,560 --> 01:42:01,599
Speaker 3: entire show up there.

1849
01:42:02,080 --> 01:42:02,639
Speaker 2: We're done.

1850
01:42:02,680 --> 01:42:06,839
Speaker 3: Thanks to Tarren Bland and our new friend Coco Charlton

1851
01:42:06,960 --> 01:42:10,760
Speaker 3: from UC for producing the Mark Pope Radio Show. Is

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01:42:10,800 --> 01:42:14,120
Speaker 3: next couple of quick notes. We're at the Marline Laggerhouse

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01:42:14,640 --> 01:42:19,120
Speaker 3: Wednesday for our annual opening Day eve party and broadcasting

1854
01:42:19,160 --> 01:42:21,679
Speaker 3: from Smoke Justice on Thursday afternoon. Have a great night.

1855
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