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Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, happy

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Speaker 2: happy Fox Sports Saturday. This is Project ni L. Manthomy Gargano.

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Speaker 2: He's Daniel de Bernadine. It's, of course the a D

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Speaker 2: from Penn Charter. Every week we do it. It's called

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Speaker 2: Project ni L. It's your intersection with college sports ni L,

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Speaker 2: high school and even we touch on a lot of

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Speaker 2: youth sports too. It's the the pathway to the pros.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, davy d. What's going on? Because how we doing?

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Speaker 3: Brother?

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Speaker 4: My man?

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Speaker 2: I had you doing the links yesterday? My man, we

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Speaker 2: hit the lynks yesterday. How'd you do?

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Speaker 4: I was pleasantly.

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Speaker 3: I played well, not rory, but I played well.

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Speaker 4: I was.

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Speaker 3: I was happy with my performance. It was a it

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Speaker 3: was an outing, so you know, you shoot the best ball.

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Speaker 3: So I was with four guys and we shot eleven

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Speaker 3: unders so as a group, so I was good.

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Speaker 4: I was. I was. I was happy. I man, I

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Speaker 4: played well.

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Speaker 3: I contributed. Maybe you know, I was striking the ball

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Speaker 3: pretty well.

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Speaker 2: That that means you did really well because if you're

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Speaker 2: modest by nature, So that's good. Uh all right, Well,

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Speaker 2: we got plenty to go and get into because Monday

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Speaker 2: night was the National Championship game was uh we saw,

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Speaker 2: you know, Michigan out last Yukon.

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Speaker 4: Yukon would an incredible run through.

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Speaker 2: This tournament, just an amazing run right like crazy, like

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Speaker 2: I think you and I I know I did.

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Speaker 4: I down played them all. It was not as good

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Speaker 4: as the team it was last year.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna go out early, you know, second round, third

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Speaker 2: round maybe, And all they did.

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Speaker 4: Was just keep winning and winning and winning and grinded

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Speaker 2: And and even though were they were over man, they

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Speaker 2: made it a game right up until the point where

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Speaker 2: they get these teams to fold. And they almost got

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Speaker 2: Michigan to fold right after the bank three. It was

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Speaker 2: it was down to four, and then they were precdents

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Speaker 2: and it looked like they were gonna do the same

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Speaker 2: thing they did the game before.

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Speaker 3: Believable. You gotta give them their flowers. And we talked

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Speaker 3: about it all tournament like they obviously didn't have the talent.

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Speaker 3: They didn't have like the guy who can get in

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Speaker 3: is they didn't turn the ball over. They were very

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Speaker 3: well coached. Some of the sets that Dan Hurley or

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Speaker 3: Drew Murray. You know, people say a lot it is

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Speaker 3: Drew Murray, but Dan Hurley and his staff drew up

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Speaker 3: were absolutely unbelievable. I've watched them.

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Speaker 4: I've been geeking.

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Speaker 3: There was like ten or twelve sets that they ran

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Speaker 4: Up with this?

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Speaker 3: But just the motion and the discipline of the players

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Speaker 3: and intention to detail on it. They weren't half you know,

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Speaker 3: the throwback passes, cross court skips, unbelievable. They just jumped

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Speaker 3: it up. I think they went almost two games like

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Speaker 3: They were just you know, disciplined. And credit to the

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Speaker 3: coaching staff. I mean, we have to give them their flowers.

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Speaker 3: They were They made a hell of a run, and

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Speaker 3: they made everyone play their style of basketball, including Michigan,

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Speaker 3: like that was the game they wanted, you know, Yukon.

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Speaker 3: That was the pace, the score you know, in that

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Speaker 3: range in the sixties. Yes, so that credit.

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Speaker 4: That's a Michigan game.

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Speaker 2: Michigan team that buried Arizona, which I still and I

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Speaker 2: was completely wrong.

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Speaker 3: I mean I thought Michigan was good and they so did.

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Speaker 3: I I was so high on Arizona. They embarrassed them.

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Speaker 4: Shocked.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I was what they did to the

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Speaker 2: surprised they won. I just thought it's not I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is gonna be an epicate. I couldn't wait to

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Speaker 3: You gotta give brain, and you gotta give brain a

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Speaker 4: We now did.

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Speaker 3: It was seven and a half, and he was saying

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Speaker 3: and a half. Yes, looking at the national title game.

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right now. But so we close, and

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Speaker 2: it is fascinating. Now we closed basketball this season and

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Speaker 2: the portal opens right now. First of all, at least

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Speaker 2: in basketball, it's done correctly, yes, all right, where the

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Speaker 2: season ends, and then you enter the portal, which is

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Speaker 2: how it should be in football, which it's not. But

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Speaker 2: here you go, right here you go. This is what's crazy.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the influx of kids entering the portal. Percentage

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Speaker 2: of players in the portal scholarship players, this is from

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Speaker 2: Jeff Goodman forty nine percent, half of all college basketball

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Speaker 3: It's crazy.

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Speaker 4: What what what?

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Speaker 2: Eighteen one hundred and fifty players in the portal.

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Speaker 4: I mean I never seen anything like it.

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Speaker 3: And just to give the listeners some you know, data,

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Speaker 3: So the reason why it's close to half is because

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Speaker 3: there's about five thousand scholarship athletes, but then sixteen hundred

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Speaker 3: lose eligibility. The number coming up, you know, So like

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Speaker 3: we're at close to half of the eligible players right

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Speaker 3: think about. And you have a very cool story Like

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Speaker 3: last year and a year and maybe the last two

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Speaker 3: years when this NIOL started really picking up, I had

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Speaker 3: But I explained to him this is the new landscape.

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Speaker 3: I said, look, we talked through it. I said, hey,

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Speaker 3: go to a school that loves you, and if you

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Speaker 3: perform in a year, you know, you can go pick

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Speaker 3: your destination and get to the level you think you

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Speaker 3: belong at. And so the kid, Jordan Ellerby was a

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Speaker 3: student athlete of mine, went down to Florida Golf Coast

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Speaker 3: Now he's a big East player. You just signed with

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Speaker 3: two years ago, like, hey, don't worry about the level

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Speaker 3: a wa Wayne, where you's to play? What'd you say?

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Speaker 4: Is that Wayne Ellerby's son?

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Speaker 3: No, no, no it's not. But great kid. Uh actually

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Speaker 3: But you know, we talked about it. I said, hey,

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Speaker 3: and just this new landscape that we have to navigate,

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Speaker 3: you know. And he said, you know, you're right, Let's

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Speaker 3: he you know, signed with Butler and he you know,

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Speaker 3: Yeah it's a cool story, but it just very indicative

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Speaker 3: the message of these kids are parents out there is like, hey,

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Speaker 3: just it's just how it is. Like we thought he

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Speaker 2: It's crazy, dude, and it's crazy. Think about this for

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Speaker 2: a second. You know, you laid out the pathway, but

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Speaker 2: you you know, there's these huge it's used discussion and

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Speaker 2: it becomes the talk of Congress because you go to

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Speaker 2: Florida Gulf Coute. You said it go to a place

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Speaker 2: I mean listen, great for the kid, it's a great story,

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Speaker 2: and you want to and it's only right to play

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Speaker 2: and he's proven he's at So this is he's not

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Speaker 4: It is just wild.

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Speaker 2: Like would you step back and like how many schools

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Who knows? Like that's the other thing. That's the

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Speaker 3: part that really tears me apart. And it tears me

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Speaker 4: That's why I love all about Pat. Pat's a great coach.

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Speaker 3: Great coach, and they believed in them. They gave him

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Speaker 3: the opportunity. But how are they rewarded?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 3: So like but at the same time, like I don't

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Speaker 3: these are hypothetical numbers, but say he was making you know,

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Speaker 3: Golf Coast. Now he's getting four hundred thousand, Like how

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Speaker 3: Pat and those guys understand it, and they're trying to

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Speaker 3: continue to grow their their pot to help. But like

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Speaker 3: they're a small school, right, obviously they do well in

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Speaker 3: their conference. But they don't have the luxury to spend

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Speaker 3: you know, that type of money on a whole on

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Speaker 3: a player, let alone their roster. Right, So it's very

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Speaker 3: difficult and that's the part that hurts me. But that's

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Speaker 3: why in our solution, they get compensated somehow, right, Like

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Speaker 3: we we we kind of did that soccer model where

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Speaker 4: Yes, no, I mean that's.

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Speaker 2: What it should be, man, that's right, that's exactly what

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Speaker 2: it should be. It should be where that school that

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Speaker 2: believed in the kid, there's some sort of in it

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Speaker 2: reward for them because they developed them. Like there's got

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Speaker 2: to be some sort of developmental like a development fee, right,

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Speaker 2: like you know type of thing that you're paid because agree,

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Speaker 2: you're developing the kid.

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Speaker 4: What's your what's their end game?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, and it's they did development. Man, he

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Speaker 3: grew so much in that year there physically mentally, you know,

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Speaker 3: he had took massive leaps and then you know, now

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Speaker 3: they're back to square one, trying to figure it out,

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Speaker 3: figure it out again, find.

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Speaker 4: That next night.

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Speaker 2: Only my only ping of sadness, right, is that a

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Speaker 2: lot of these kids they're gonna they're never gonna have

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Speaker 2: like building friendships and building a community is not going

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Speaker 2: you know, Sady K goes to three schools. Ah, you know,

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Speaker 2: the you're you're there's no lasting relationships.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's kind of my pitch in high school.

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Speaker 2: You got it, they're more mature in life, which I

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Speaker 2: At sixteen, you're just starting to find out and scratch

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Speaker 3: Know, yeah, for sure, especially if you're if you're if

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Speaker 3: just definitely something you have to consider now in today's world.

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Speaker 3: You know, he shot fifty percent from the field for

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Speaker 3: I mean it's great for him and it. But like

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Speaker 3: That like did really well, more mature, you know, they're older,

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Speaker 2: That's crazy. I mean, it's just kind of it's kind

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Speaker 2: of that whole thing. It's wild. All right, Well, we

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Speaker 2: got to take a deeper look at some of the schools,

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Speaker 2: all right, and we'll go a little bit more detail

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Speaker 2: into kind of what and is there a pathway for

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Speaker 2: a school to keep its players to not lose in

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Speaker 2: Welcome back Project, and I ll Danny d The a

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Speaker 2: d Man and mister Sports that I got a tournament today.

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Speaker 4: Let's go a perfect game tournament today.

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Speaker 3: Let's go, man, that's exciting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, you know what the best is? Like,

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Speaker 2: this is good. So last night, my man, my man

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Speaker 2: got a got a new bat. His back cracked, So

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Speaker 2: you want to getting new.

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Speaker 4: Bat, got a new toy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like he was all fired up, like all week long,

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Speaker 2: like you know, he's all he hits every day and

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Speaker 2: so he the uh last night comes with me and

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Speaker 4: Tournament tomorrow. And I was like, my mad dude, Yes,

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Speaker 4: that's what I want to hear that.

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Speaker 3: Moss He's a little bit more quiet about that.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and he was like I'm pumped out, like he

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Speaker 2: said to me, he said, it was probably like ninth

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Speaker 4: He's like, I want to go to bed.

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Speaker 2: Uh you know, I want to I want to get

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Speaker 2: I go, dude, I'm so proud of you that's exactly

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Speaker 2: what I want you to say.

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Speaker 3: You gotta love him up. That's good. You gotta let

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Speaker 3: him know that. That's you know how important that.

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Speaker 4: Is, right, you know, oh they do. You know you

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Speaker 4: hear me just going my, my, my my, that's what

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Speaker 2: The video game screens are bad, you know, blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: You know, listen, I get you're gonna play video games, right, like,

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Speaker 2: you know, when he's when he regurgitates and says that,

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Speaker 2: like that's like a huge win for a parent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're probably you were probably hyped. You were probably

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Speaker 2: I was fired up, and I was like, all right,

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Speaker 2: and when he's fired, when he's fired up, like you know,

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Speaker 2: So we're thirteen you and you know, you know, it's

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Speaker 2: not saying that to thirteen you kids throwing eighty two

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Speaker 2: about the fastball. I said, It's all about timing your fastball.

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Speaker 2: That's it. The whole game is hit the fastball. You

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Speaker 4: Let's go.

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Speaker 2: You know, like that's like that stuff like you know,

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Speaker 3: But when they see it work, when the light goes off,

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Speaker 2: Let's let's deep look, look a deep dive now, how

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Speaker 4: So I'm looking and this is wild.

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Speaker 2: Seven programs have been untouched by the transfer portal since

436
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 2: it opened three ays ago. Arizona kon, Michigan State, Illinois, Iowa, Perdue, Virginia.

437
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really great. And these are teams that act.

438
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:42,400
Speaker 3: You know, you can see they made a run right,

439
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,879
Speaker 3: Michigan State, there was a stat they're starting lineup, they

440
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,479
Speaker 3: were all there. The previous year they're starting five right.

441
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,160
Speaker 3: Everyone they played against had three four transfers on their

442
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:56,120
Speaker 3: starting five. Michigan State brought back their entire starting five

443
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 3: from last year. Arizona's interesting on this list, they'll be compared,

444
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 3: but also like they probably have half their team going

445
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 3: to the NBA, so that's kind of anomaly. And Michigan's

446
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 3: doing a great job. They signed both their backcourt. Trudeau's

447
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 3: coming back and so's McKinney, so they got their backcourt

448
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:18,880
Speaker 3: coming back. So like the importance of understanding the system

449
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,640
Speaker 3: and the coaching staff and the familiarity with it, it's huge.

450
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 3: I mean, if you look at these teams, and these

451
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 3: teams were all made deep runs. Take Virginia out. They

452
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 3: were all in the mix, and that's saying something. How

453
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 3: you do it. You have to spend early, you have

454
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 3: to invest early, and yeah, you really just got to

455
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 3: continue to build these relationships. But it's super rare to

456
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 3: do this. Obviously there's such a limited amount of teams here.

457
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 3: But again, they're the teams that were successful this year

458
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 3: and I think have been over the course of this

459
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 3: NIL era to continue to be there, and they kind

460
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 3: of had the formula here. Now, not everyone could do this.

461
00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,680
Speaker 3: They don't have the budget, they don't have the program.

462
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,120
Speaker 3: And when you're successful, it's a lot easier to hold

463
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 3: on to these kids, right like, Hey, this is this

464
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 3: is working right, you see it. We're competitive, we're in

465
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 3: the mix. And I wouldn't be shocked if you know,

466
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,239
Speaker 3: six of these teams or five of these teams are

467
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 3: in the Sweet sixteen next year.

468
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 4: Oh you can see it already.

469
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Speaker 3: Uh.

470
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Speaker 2: The fact that you're gonna be that untouched going into it, yeah,

471
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 2: you're you're you're right, you know one of the things

472
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Speaker 2: that really stood out to me. And I don't know

473
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Speaker 2: how this is gonna work with the player movement.

474
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Speaker 4: But at least this season, I thought.

475
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Speaker 2: This was one of the best college basketball seasons in

476
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Speaker 2: a long time. And I and Danny I thought it

477
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 2: was so much better than the NBA.

478
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Speaker 3: Oh I'm in one hundred. It's a way better product

479
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 3: right now. And it was a great year. There was

480
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 3: a ton of parody, like obviously we felt like, you know,

481
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,399
Speaker 3: obviously Michigan and we thought Arizona kind of rose to

482
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 3: the top. Maybe Duke was in the mix there, but

483
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 3: there was so much parody across it. There was so

484
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 3: much movement all season from you know three to twenty five,

485
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 3: the movement and you know, any given night, these guys

486
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 3: could beat each other and going to run. And you

487
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,199
Speaker 3: know we saw, you know, we said the Cinderellas are

488
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 3: kind of dead, but the seven Seeds A seeds are

489
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 3: still There's there's so much parody there that they can

490
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 3: still really make some noise. It was, it was a

491
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 3: great season. I was. I was so happy with it.

492
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Speaker 2: You know, you just saw the level of ball and

493
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,200
Speaker 2: I I again, it's it's just, you know, it makes

494
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 2: sense because you when you're when you're gonna stay in

495
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,639
Speaker 2: school and you got you got kids that are older,

496
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 2: they're just better, they're just you know, when you had

497
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 2: the want to done world you got kids coming out,

498
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,120
Speaker 2: they're just ta bake pies, don't load a game right

499
00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 2: like a tremendous athlete, tremendous upside, all that stuff. But

500
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 2: the development, it doesn't happen in the NBA, like it

501
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 2: doesn't college. Like you don't have Izzo's developing players in

502
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 2: the at the NBA level.

503
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 3: No, for sure, it's just not happening like that.

504
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 2: Like, Wow, for every Cooper Flag, you're better off staying

505
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,360
Speaker 2: in college, get paid until you're twenty one to twenty two.

506
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, and on, you know, on this G league thing,

507
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 3: there's another one. This guy he actually turned down multiple

508
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 3: NBA contracts this year because he kind of figured he

509
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 3: was going to go back to college. So he was

510
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 3: a young freshman a couple of years ago, did three

511
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 3: years in the G League. He's now twenty, going to

512
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 3: be twenty one. Dank Pate, he just signed it with Providence.

513
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 3: But he averaged, you know, eighteen points a game in

514
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 3: the G League. But they said he turned down multiple

515
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 3: contracts this year because he knew he would go back

516
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 3: to college after the season and have a better chance

517
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 3: of making real money. So he's a top thirty recruit

518
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 3: in a twenty twenty three class.

519
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 4: Wow.

520
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he opted to the G League, you know,

521
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 3: ig Night League, so he didn't really you know, play

522
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 3: much in college and then now he's you know, he

523
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 3: dominated this year in the G League, turned down multiple

524
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,199
Speaker 3: NBA two way contracts or ten day contracts so he

525
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 3: could stay eligible. And now he just signed with Providence

526
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 3: over maybe yesterday. So again like that even.

527
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 4: Is now he'll get what how many how many years

528
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 4: does he have two?

529
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 3: He is three years eligibility, he's got three years. He

530
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 3: played one, so he's technically been out of high school

531
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 3: for three years, but he only has he only played

532
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 3: one in college, so he three he's twenty three. No,

533
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 3: he's twenty one, so he'll be twenty one. Ok, he's

534
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 3: on the younger side, but pivoting on that. And we

535
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 3: have NCAA exploring you know, rule change again, which is

536
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 3: something similar to what we were talking about very simil

537
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 3: more to what we were trying to push out a

538
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago when we dove in and created

539
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 3: our own you know, our own rules and governance. So

540
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 3: the ANC double A is looking into changing some of

541
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 3: the rules right for the upcoming season. Yahoo reported it

542
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 3: they're looking into it where basically it's an age based standard.

543
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 3: Athletes have five years of eligibility from their nineteenth birthday

544
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 3: or high school graduation, so you just have five years

545
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 3: of finishers, no waivers, there's no red shirts. You got

546
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 3: five years from nineteen or high school. So again talking

547
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 3: to what you were saying, that reclass year is huge

548
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 3: because now you get you get an extra year of

549
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 3: growth until you get to the college playing field. So

550
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 3: being nineteen is a huge advantage.

551
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, monster, So it is just like what we're saying,

552
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 2: what we came up with, it's just like it did

553
00:29:58,400 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 2: we have.

554
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 4: I think it was me saying six.

555
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 3: Years, right, we said six to play four. They're saying

556
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 3: you can play five, but you only have five years

557
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 3: to play five. They're not limiting you to four years.

558
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,479
Speaker 3: We were saying you have six to play four with

559
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 3: red shirts and injury red shirts. If you're going up,

560
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 3: maybe you sip about they're saying five to play five.

561
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 3: But there's the will get rid of this. If this

562
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 3: goes through, there's no more red shirting. There's no more waivers,

563
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 3: And I think that's smart because the waivers.

564
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 4: Can it be can it be challenged in court? Not offense?

565
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 3: Double A adapts it. I don't think it can.

566
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 2: Because that it's it's the governing body.

567
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 4: Yes, so I mean listen, I like.

568
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 2: It because honestly, you know, let's face it, right, if

569
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 2: you have this five year period, now, the only thing

570
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 2: I will say is if you play Juco shouldn't count.

571
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 3: That's but what I'm saying, they don't talk about that,

572
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 3: and I'm curious to dig in, does Juco or PREP

573
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 3: your account because they're saying post high school graduation or

574
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 3: post nineteen, so you can't be older than twenty four

575
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 3: five from nineteen and it's saying high school. Was it

576
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 3: named high school graduation? So I think it will push

577
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 3: a huge thing on reclassifying because they didn't say anything

578
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 3: about the Prepper or Juco, which looked like it was

579
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 3: going to be a part of this, but now I

580
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 3: don't think it is. I think at your clock starts

581
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 3: when you stop when you finish high school.

582
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that's not fair. Yeah, that's not fair. Like

583
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 2: you got if you do two Juco.

584
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 3: Then you only technically have three years left when you

585
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:41,239
Speaker 3: get through.

586
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 4: Yeah.

587
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 2: And the point is is like with here's the rub,

588
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 2: you got colleges that are going to the portal. So

589
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 2: if colleges are going to the portal, that means high

590
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,959
Speaker 2: school kids are not getting looked at. That means they

591
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 2: got to go somewhere at some point it get into

592
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 2: the system.

593
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I agree.

594
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 2: So you're losing your losing, so JEWCO should not count.

595
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 2: That would be my argument.

596
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 4: Yeah.

597
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 3: What I think it will do though is D three

598
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 3: and D two will get a big boost. And who's

599
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 3: going there be if they take away this juco because

600
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 3: people will be more forced to go to D three

601
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 3: right away or D two right away to get into

602
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 3: the system. I'm opposed to the JUCO or prep year.

603
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 3: So it's interesting. It looks like it's catching steam. It

604
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 3: looks like they're reviewing it. It looks like there's some steam

605
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 3: behind it. But yeah, right now, the current rules says

606
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 3: athletes are granted four playing seasons over five calendar years.

607
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 3: But with this they would regain eligibility throughout the retchirt

608
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 3: or way every year. So technically you can play five years,

609
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 3: which is different. It just starting their clock.

610
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 4: I would just I would just met my only amended.

611
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: I would only amend and say, you know, I'm cool

612
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 2: with the five, but JUKO doesn't count, and you could

613
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 2: be up to twenty five.

614
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, because we were saying six, which would write put

615
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 3: that in and then we would that would kind of

616
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 3: protect the jewcos as well, because if you did two there,

617
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 3: you still have four to go.

618
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think I think it's only fair

619
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Speaker 4: to do that.

620
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 2: All right, we have to a quick to We'll come

621
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Speaker 2: back and go around the Nil world, around the prep world,

622
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 2: the whole thing as we cover it right here Project

623
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Speaker 2: Nil on Fox. Ah, welcome back, Hey, real quick. Very

624
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 2: excited this morning because our producer bri who left Danny

625
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 2: d is back helping out.

626
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Speaker 4: Let's go.

627
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 2: So we love Brianna Bree Bree Hello, oh she stepped

628
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 2: out just as we're giving her the flowers. She stepped out,

629
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Speaker 2: all right, Uh, we love her and we love Muddy Mark,

630
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Speaker 2: who produces week.

631
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Speaker 3: Was a text today from Uddy Mark.

632
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Speaker 4: We get what was the quote?

633
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 2: What did you say, Money Mark? It was the it

634
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 2: was the Luca Brozi one. What did you say?

635
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 4: You gotta go? Why don't you go over there and

636
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 4: check see what figured out?

637
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 2: Yeah?

638
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 3: Just go check to see what they got out of

639
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 3: their fingernails.

640
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 4: Oh wow, Yeah, he was getting not happy, you know.

641
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 3: And you just want to see what's going on. Oh,

642
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,919
Speaker 3: that's a legendary line right there.

643
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 2: It is the don said Luca over there, that Luca

644
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 2: was unhappy. But what happened was Luca got whacked because

645
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 2: of it.

646
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, he sent him over to Barzini or yeah, it

647
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 3: was Barzini and it was uh, what's his name, the Turk?

648
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Turk. They stabbed his hand and took him out. Yes,

649
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 4: and then I said you had the cigarette. He ate

650
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 4: the cigarette, and then.

651
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 5: I told him about him.

652
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,720
Speaker 4: You know. The last thing I remember, we were laughing.

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Speaker 4: That's all I remember. We were laughing. That's Senator Geary.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow, yeah, no, good, Senator Geary. No, it's a

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Speaker 4: tough night, as tough as the girl. That's awful.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, no gun, Senator Gary, you're out. That's my

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Speaker 2: offer for the Uh, here's my all. You can have

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Speaker 2: it now. My offer is nothing.

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Speaker 4: And uh you're gonna I'm so silly. It's just it's

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Speaker 4: just to instigate him, to get him going in the morning.

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Speaker 4: It's great, mar it works. You got me fired up.

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Speaker 2: They you're like automatically turns my brain on at four

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Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning.

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Speaker 4: Here, it's exactly right. It's great.

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Speaker 2: All right, this is a fascinating thing, brother, This is

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Speaker 2: fascinatey uh. According to Jeff Goodman in the field of

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Speaker 2: sixty eight has polled ten plus high major head coaches,

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Speaker 2: assistants and gms for the salaries of the elite portal players.

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Speaker 2: So this is fascinating you as an a d let

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Speaker 2: me know what you think, all right? Letting on them here,

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Speaker 2: big men four to five million, sheeeesh, your point guards

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Speaker 2: three to four million, and you're winning players two and

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Speaker 2: a half to three million.

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Speaker 3: That's wild. So if you get if you get a

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Speaker 3: top big and a top point guard in the portal,

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Speaker 3: you just dropped it eight nine million dollars on two players. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you see how I mean? Look at Michigan, right, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we look at its bigs. It was a big. Bigs matter, man.

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Speaker 3: Big, especially in college basketball. Yeah, the resurgence is there

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Speaker 3: with the zone being able to you know, just have

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Speaker 3: that rent protection has been huge. Michigan's done it. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean these teams front lines are huge. They're growing

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Speaker 3: seven foot six ten seven to two. Like they're putting

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Speaker 3: out two three bigs at once. It's pretty wild. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean that's a ton of money. I mean, I

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Speaker 3: guess that's the that's the formula right now. I mean

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Speaker 3: Michigan is such a good job with it. They would

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Speaker 3: go to double bigs. I mean they played all three

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Speaker 3: guys that they got into Portal to Mara and you

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Speaker 3: know Elaxel and the other guy, Johnson. All three of

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Speaker 3: them were centers on their team the previous year and

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Speaker 3: they brought all three in.

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Speaker 4: I mean, just having that size is was was huge.

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Speaker 4: I mean you saw it, you see you you could

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Speaker 4: see what it does.

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Speaker 3: For sure.

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Speaker 2: But you know, it funny about the game because the

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Speaker 2: game goes in cycles, right like guards, guards, guards, and

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Speaker 2: I still think it's a guards tournament and guards matter,

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Speaker 2: and you're still going to to the threes and you

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Speaker 2: need you death really need like see your or like

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Speaker 2: you know, really good guard play that can handle pressure, right,

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Speaker 2: Like that's it. That's a calm everything down. But you

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Speaker 2: know what it was turning into when when you didn't

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Speaker 2: have uh, when when it was one of Done's it

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Speaker 2: was more of a guard's league.

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Speaker 4: And now big men back in vogue for sure.

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Speaker 3: There's definitely a resurgence there, especially with the versatile bigs.

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Speaker 3: But traditional bigs were in this tournament, right, I mean,

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Speaker 3: Mara is a traditional big. Yeah, dominates the post, but

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Speaker 3: a lot of these teams are building up around size

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Speaker 3: and then you know, trying to get that general. And

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Speaker 3: I saw an interview with Dusty May and he said,

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Speaker 3: like when they got your Dough, it was easy to

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Speaker 3: recruit the big guys once they got that point guard

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Speaker 3: first in the portal last year, I make a show.

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Speaker 3: You made you show this guy, and yeah, they're trying

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Speaker 3: to run it back. They they already signed your Dough,

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Speaker 3: so happy for him, and uh yeah, we'll see. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Michigan's early number one in the country next year already.

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Speaker 3: But I mean crazy amounts of money. So if that's

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Speaker 3: the number, I mean, you got to think these rosters

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Speaker 3: are probably pushing twenty million, Like we saw Kentucky was

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Speaker 3: around twenty last year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think the eighteen I think they were

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Speaker 2: eighteen and the next team was like eight.

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Speaker 3: No, it was like eighteen, then thirteen, like Duke was

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Speaker 3: like eleven or twelve, and there's a couple that were

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Speaker 3: like thirteen. But yeah, I mean, especially with these coaches

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Speaker 3: also in their new contracts, they they're negotiating how much

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Speaker 3: they can spend. Well Erope stayed and.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, to your point this, yeah, I mean you could

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Speaker 2: easily see it go up to twenty.

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Speaker 4: Five easy, right for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's they ain't going down, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: All Right, listen, have a great week, all right. I

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Speaker 2: know you gotta fill the games today, so uh, do

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Speaker 2: your a D work. Everybody, have a great, great day.

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Speaker 2: Fellas are coming up next