1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio, R Radio. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 2: Welcome man, everybody, Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday Er, 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 2: tors Jay Smart. 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We will keep you updated 16 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 2: as it looks like the Alabama Crimson tie just might 17 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 2: be going to their first ever Final four. We will 18 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 2: talk to you once that goes final Jymart, what's going on, 19 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 2: a man? 20 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 3: How you doing doing well? 21 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 4: Doing well? First game? Well, that was a basketball game. 22 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,839 Speaker 4: We'll talk about it. And this one's been pretty fun. 23 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 4: Even though you talked about one miss free throw. How 24 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 4: about the fact that Clemson is fifty percent in this 25 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 4: game from the line they've left. They've left the deficit 26 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,960 Speaker 4: plus three on the board on the free throw line, 27 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 4: and I've seen three or four just in the last 28 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 4: couple of game minutes that could have tightened this thing up. 29 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 4: And they're gonna have nothing to look at but that 30 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 4: on the stat line if they go home that plus 31 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 4: Mark Sears just decided he was gonna hit everything that 32 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 4: moved in the second half. 33 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, incredible game. 34 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 2: Clemson with the ball down seven, Alabama gives up an 35 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 2: uncontested layups. 36 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,400 Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. We'll keep you posting on that. 37 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 2: And as soon as this game goes final thirty point 38 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 2: eight seconds left, Clemson has called the time out down 39 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 2: by five. 40 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 3: We will get you updated on that. But do you 41 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 3: want to go ahead? 42 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 2: Start with the first one where the Yukon Husky's in 43 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 2: the Illinois fighting a lion I. They were sort of 44 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 2: in a game. It was twenty three to twenty three 45 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 2: late in the first half. Yukon opened up a twenty 46 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 2: eight to twenty three halftime lead. Rock fight, not very 47 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 2: entertaining whatever. Then the second half began. Mary Mack, why 48 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 2: don't you let us know what happened? 49 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 5: And hangs out the rim to save himself as he's 50 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 5: fouled by Terren Shaddon. He's got a chance at a 51 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 5: three point play. They could probably start celebrating right now. 52 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 5: Is Illinois gonna score this half? 53 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 4: The other way? 54 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 6: It's played fifty minutes in real time since Illinois has 55 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 6: scored fifteen minutes. 56 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 2: But the second that was the CBS brought or the 57 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 2: TBS broadcast, I should say Stan Van Gundy, Kevin Harlan, 58 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 2: all them, Jason. We didn't get the final tally, but 59 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 2: yukon first half, in the second half goes on a 60 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 2: thirty to nothing run. They end up winning a game 61 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 2: that was tied at twenty three seventy seven point fifty two. 62 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 2: And I'll be honest, it could have been worse. They 63 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 2: actually pulled their starters. This is how bad it got 64 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 2: Elite eight. In the Elite eight, they pulled their starters 65 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 2: before the under four minute timeout in a game that 66 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 2: was a five point game at halftime. A thirty to 67 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 2: nothing run. I believe the status. That's the first time 68 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 2: that's ever happened in NCAA tournament history. Jay mart I 69 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 2: think I know what you're gonna say, but but what'd 70 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 2: you make a game one Yukon advancing to its second 71 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 2: straight Final four. 72 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 4: Well, I'm gonna try to analyze a little bit because 73 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 4: four minutes of the game, I felt like Illinois was 74 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 4: about to get blown out because the shot selection was bad, 75 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 4: they were turning the ball over. Everything was going wrong, 76 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 4: like everything looked like it looked like they were completely outmatched. 77 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 4: And then Yukon went cold, Illinois started to get the 78 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 4: sea legs underneath him a little bit, it tightened up, 79 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 4: and then you had it at twenty three to twenty three. 80 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 4: There were a couple of moments where they had a 81 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 4: chance it will only had a chance to do something else. 82 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 4: They failed, and then Yukon mad and pay on the 83 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 4: other end by hitting a bucket. And you've seen that. 84 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 4: You saw that. You've seen that throughout this tournament in 85 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 4: a myriad of games where momentum has been quelled, or 86 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 4: there's been a four point swing or a five point swing, 87 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 4: or sometimes a six point swing. But in this case, 88 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 4: when it got to twenty eight to twenty three, and 89 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 4: you heard the the halftime interview there on the floor 90 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 4: with I think it was Andy Katz was with Dan 91 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 4: Hurley and Hurley's got a we need to talk more 92 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:48,919 Speaker 4: about Hurley because his arrogance is continuing to show in 93 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 4: this time two weeks ago. Baby, the villain. The villain 94 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 4: thing is. The villain thing is coming. There's no question 95 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 4: about it the way he goes about it. So we'll 96 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 4: talk about it. But when they came back out in 97 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 4: the second and half, I don't I don't know that 98 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 4: I have ever seen such a display of both terrible 99 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 4: basketball on one side and exceptional basketball on the other. 100 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:17,119 Speaker 4: Like Connecticut forced Illinois into looking real bad and taking 101 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 4: desperation shots and all this, but Illinois did their part. 102 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 4: Like it wasn't that they laid down. They just played 103 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 4: futrid basketball at the exact same time that Yukon was 104 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 4: just like all right, we're done here, Like just just dominant, 105 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 4: like domin on the inside. We know what they have 106 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 4: in the backcourt downlow. Klingon just ridiculous what he was doing. 107 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 4: They just whatever they wanted in the second half they 108 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 4: got and Illinois just had no answers, Like it was 109 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 4: hard to watch. It's just are they going to score? 110 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 4: Was not like an exaggeration. It was what twelve minutes 111 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,799 Speaker 4: or so left in the game before they scored again, 112 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 4: and it was just okay, Well, all we're going to 113 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 4: talk about after this game is Yukon's dominance. Question about 114 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,039 Speaker 4: that and one thing that you kept hearing and you 115 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 4: heard this from Stan van Gunni multiple times. I don't 116 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 4: know that you need to say this, even though you're 117 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 4: on this what ten game streak now of just nobody 118 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 4: being close in the final tally in Yukon and the 119 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 4: in an NCAA tournament game like the runs insane. But 120 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 4: Van Gundy kept saying, can anybody even play with Connecticut? 121 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 4: Can anybody keep it close? I'm like, well, they're not undefeated, Stan, like, 122 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 4: they can't like on a given night, yes, somebody can, like, 123 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 4: but at this point they have not. That matchup was 124 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 4: just the second half was baffling to me, Like I 125 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 4: knew Yukon was going to win that I had that 126 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 4: Elite eight matchup in my bracket. That's the first time 127 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 4: I think we've mentioned our brackets, by the way, this 128 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 4: year on the show at all. But I knew Illinois 129 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 4: was was no match for Yukon. I did not think 130 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 4: it was going to be the first thirty point Elite 131 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 4: eight games since what was it Cincinnati in nineteen ninety two. 132 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 4: I think was a stat or something like that. It's 133 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 4: been just stupid since we've seen anything like this happen. 134 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 4: But that Yukon team, if they're gonna play like that, yes, 135 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 4: no one will beat. 136 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 2: Them so much. To peel back there. First of all, 137 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 2: I'll say this is that one. First of all, should 138 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 2: keep you updated. Alabama and Clemson eighty seven seventy nine, 139 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 2: Alabama up eight with eleven seconds to go inbounding the ball. 140 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 2: We'll keep you updated as that one goes final. So 141 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 2: I will say, you know, listen, I think the story 142 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 2: is Yukon. I will say it was one of the 143 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 2: more bizarre game plans that I think I've ever seen, 144 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 2: which you reference there in the answer, Jason, And you know, 145 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 2: I do want to get to Yukon perspective. I don't 146 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 2: want to take away from what they've done. But you know, 147 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 2: and actually stan Van said it during the game, and 148 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 2: I think he was right. As we do just about 149 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 2: have a final. Alabama eighty nine, Clemson eighty two. The 150 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 2: Alabama Crimson Tide are going to their first Final four 151 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 2: in program history. Nato its fifth year, its as the 152 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 2: head coach. They've won two SEC regular season titles, two 153 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 2: SEC tournament titles and now headed to the school's first 154 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 2: Final four. Jason, you know, I want to get back 155 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 2: to the Yukon Illinois game, but we got three hours 156 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 2: for that. I do think we have to react to 157 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 2: in real time to this first ever Final four in 158 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 2: school history for Alabama. You live in SEC Country, Jason, 159 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 2: and you could take this in any direction that you want. 160 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 2: How unlikely, how improbable, how impressive you take the descriptive 161 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 2: word that you want to take in describing Alabama clinching 162 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 2: a trip to the Final Four. 163 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 4: I mean, it's just really impressive. I mean, what Dade 164 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 4: Oates has built there in his five years as head 165 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 4: coach is remarkable. It's not a school known for basketball. 166 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 4: We all know that that doesn't take living inn SEC 167 00:08:55,840 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 4: Country to analyze or break down. But he's built them 168 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 4: into a basketball powerhouse. He's built them into a perennial 169 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 4: not just contender, but real contender year in and year out. 170 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 4: Like they're they're one of the uppercrust programs in college basketball. 171 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 4: This is a team that had a one seed guys 172 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 4: in the past knocked off for a year. 173 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 3: Is that crazy to think about? 174 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's insane that it really is. And they beat Carolina, 175 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 4: and you know, I didn't. I thought Carolina was the 176 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 4: weakest number one, and I think it showed in that game. 177 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 4: But what you one thing you've seen from this team 178 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 4: in particular that I think goes to Natoates and goes 179 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 4: to just the way he's built this program is it's 180 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 4: not always the same guy. It was Nelson in the 181 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 4: Sweet sixteen. Nelson was in foul trouble early. Then you 182 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 4: had Pringle who played extra minutes, who just was great 183 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,319 Speaker 4: in the second half. Seers who did not play well 184 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 4: the other night, played spectacular basketball. Here they had Stevenson 185 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 4: who emerged for them as well in this game, who 186 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 4: really played a key role. They've had guys that have 187 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 4: stepped in and done what is necessary, and they all 188 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 4: just whatever lineup they have on the floor, there's an 189 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 4: identity and a cohesion to what they do. We know 190 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 4: what they can do on the offensive side. They were 191 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,679 Speaker 4: on the high scoring teams during the regular season. That's 192 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 4: why that matchup with Carolina North Carolina was so appetizing 193 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,959 Speaker 4: because both of them we knew they could shoot. Even 194 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 4: though it turned into a little bit more of a 195 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 4: war of attrition maybe than people expected, but this Alabama 196 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 4: program and the way it's built from year to year. 197 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 4: There's no reason to think that this is going to 198 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:40,959 Speaker 4: change because whatever if you want to call it a 199 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 4: fluke at one point, you can anymore. This is just 200 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 4: an excellent, excellent program and a coach that could not 201 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 4: be riding higher as it goes into a Final four 202 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,959 Speaker 4: where his team is playing great basketball and they've got 203 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 4: a leader like Seers who's now on camera talking who 204 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 4: you know, if that guy gets all bets can be off. 205 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 2: Let me say this. You know, I was at the way. 206 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 2: I wasn't able to go a game on Thursday, had 207 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 2: some stuff to do. I was at the West Regional 208 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 2: media availability the other day, and I will say this 209 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 2: about Natoates. What impressed me about him was, as you 210 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 2: just referenced Jason, this was a guy that last year 211 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,079 Speaker 2: had the number one overall seed in the NCAA tournament. 212 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 3: Was led by a guy. 213 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 2: And I know there's been criticism since then, but there's 214 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 2: criticism of certain things that happened while he was on campus. 215 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 2: But by all accounts, Brandon Miller is an emerging NBA star. Okay, 216 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 2: so last year they fit the bill of a lot 217 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 2: of different things. I bring it up because this year 218 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 2: they are not that they lost four I think it 219 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 2: was five of their top six scorers off this last 220 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 2: season's team. And they also on top of that, you 221 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 2: know they you know, they got a bunch of transfers. 222 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 4: Whatever. 223 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 2: This is the point that I'm trying to get to 224 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 2: is that what impressed me about Natoates being at his 225 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 2: media availability is he opened the statement by saying, you know, 226 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 2: this was prior to the Sweet sixteen, so keep that 227 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 2: in mind. But he said, we have been here before, 228 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 2: we appreciate the opportunity, blah blah blah blah blah. But 229 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 2: what but he basically said was what he basically said 230 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 2: was we need to get to a final four. We 231 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 2: need to get to a final four. That is the 232 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 2: next step for this program. And I'll be honest, Jason, 233 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 2: that one took me by surprise because this was a team. 234 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 2: This wasn't one of their better teams. They got blown 235 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 2: out in the SEC tournament. I think they overachieved all 236 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 2: season long. And so I bring it up because for him, 237 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,199 Speaker 2: in what I thought was kind of a rebuilding year, 238 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 2: if you look at his team, you look at the 239 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:50,199 Speaker 2: mock draft boards, they're probably gonna bring back most of 240 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 2: this team. I thought, Okay, sweet sixteen is kind of 241 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 2: a great ceiling, and then you build on that for 242 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 2: next season. I simply bring it up to say, you know, 243 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,959 Speaker 2: that was the most impressive thing to me about being 244 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 2: around him is I don't want to compare him to 245 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 2: the all time greats or anything, but we know those 246 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:13,679 Speaker 2: elite coaches that don't make excuses and every loss is 247 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 2: inexcusable and every you know, like like, I don't even 248 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 2: know if I'm making my point correctly, but I was 249 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 2: just so impressed by that attitude. They obviously take care 250 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 2: take care of Carolina, they take care of Clemson tonight, 251 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 2: and they are going to their first Final four. 252 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, all props to them and congratulations to them, 253 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 4: and they earned it. And you're right this this would 254 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 4: have been the year you would have seen a drop off. 255 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 4: But I just don't think that. I think NATO's is 256 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 4: wired not to believe in drop offs. And I also 257 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 4: think that had they lost, there wouldn't have been any 258 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 4: stuff about, yeah, we lost Brandon Miller and you know, 259 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 4: we've lost all this talent and all this. I don't 260 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 4: I don't know that that's that's the way he rolls. 261 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 4: I don't He strikes me this is gonna be maybe 262 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 4: a weird comparison, but he kind of reminds me of 263 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 4: Mike Tomlin in that way where Tomlin doesn't make excuses either. 264 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 4: Tomin just stands up there and says, yeah, we got 265 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 4: to beat or whatever. There's a there's a quiet confidence 266 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 4: in it, there's a quiet dignity in it. Now Oates 267 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 4: is younger, he's more brash and all that. I'm not 268 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 4: saying from a personality standpoint. I'm saying from as a coach, 269 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 4: how he reacts to situations in the moment when it 270 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 4: comes to wins and losses. I think there's I think 271 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 4: there's a lot to be lauded about NATO's in that respect, 272 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 4: And honestly, without like going too deeply into it, credit 273 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 4: to both these teams, because I mean, Clemson is not 274 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 4: supposed to be here. What a great job by by 275 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 4: Brown now and getting his kids to buy in and 276 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 4: and make it this far. Both these two teams and 277 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 4: both these two schools should be extremely proud of the 278 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 4: effort that that their young men put in, and that 279 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 4: these teams and the hard work and everything else Alabama. 280 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 4: This just felt like it was a matter of when, 281 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 4: Like when was Nato It's going to get there? It 282 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 4: didn't seem like he was gonna be on the outside 283 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 4: looking in forever. And here we go. It's now. We 284 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 4: will find out in a week whether or not the 285 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 4: next step is the final step for them, or if 286 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 4: there's another step that they're gonna take this year. 287 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you what if it is. 288 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 2: If the Final Four is not the last step and 289 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 2: they're playing on Monday, it'll mean they have gone through Yukon. 290 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 2: So yeah, you know that'll be probably the most impressive 291 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 2: notch under Natos's belt yet, and you know we have 292 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 2: plenty of time to talk about that. This is Fox 293 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 2: Sports Radio er Towards Jason martinbroadcasting live from the Tireck 294 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 2: dot Com studios. As mentioned, the second game is final 295 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 2: Alabama eighty nine Clemson eighty two. Alabama, headed to its 296 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 2: first Final four Yukon earlier in the day, takes care 297 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 2: of Illinois seventy seven fifty two. Plenty more on both 298 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 2: games coming up. Half the Final Four is set. This 299 00:15:58,920 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 2: is Fox Sports Are you? 300 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 301 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 6: the nation. 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Today. 327 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 2: Yukon beats Illinois seventy seven fifty two in the opener, 328 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 2: and a game that just went Finalbama takes care of 329 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 2: Clemson eighty nine to eighty two. Jason, we were just 330 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 2: talking a little bit about Alabama, non traditional basketball school, 331 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 2: first final four in school history. You know, I don't 332 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,919 Speaker 2: know if there's a ton to add, but I just 333 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 2: think when Nato It's has done is so impressive. The 334 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:55,199 Speaker 2: other thing, you know, a couple things stand out to 335 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 2: me really quickly, and we could get back to Yukon 336 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 2: is one. What I think this proves like great coaches 337 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 2: come in all shapes and sizes, right is like you know, 338 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 2: you hear about these oh you know Indiana basketball, They'll. 339 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 3: Never be good again in this school, never. 340 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 2: And it's like Natoates was a high school coach fifteen 341 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 2: years ago, comes to college as an assistant just by 342 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:23,360 Speaker 2: a certain Happenstance gets the Buffalo job, instantly wins at Buffalo, 343 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:25,919 Speaker 2: and it's like when Alabama hired him, you know, he 344 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:29,199 Speaker 2: had made NCAA tournaments, whatever, but like, you don't know 345 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,120 Speaker 2: that he's gonna be this guy. And now I think 346 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 2: Alabama has one of the best coaches in college basketball, 347 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 2: and he just signed a massive extension. He's gonna get 348 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 2: paid more money than he could have ever imagined. His 349 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 2: buyout is impossible, so he's not going anywhere. But I 350 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 2: just bring it up to say, like, you know, it's 351 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 2: just Alabama is one of the great. You know, he's 352 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 2: fifty something years old, he's still relatively young, great young coaches, 353 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 2: and I think, you know, I truly believe in my 354 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 2: heart of hearts that this is kind of a bird. 355 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,879 Speaker 2: You know, dynasty is not the right word, but I 356 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 2: do think, like you know, perennial college basketball contender, I 357 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 2: think is kind of being born right in front of 358 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 2: our eyes. 359 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, And I also think that this proves 360 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 4: there's no blueprint for who's going to be a great 361 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 4: coach and who's not great. Call similar to what you're saying, 362 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 4: but even in reverse, like the expectation is probably Oh, 363 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:22,879 Speaker 4: that's an interesting hire. I don't know if he's to 364 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 4: be able to do that to the SEC, but hey, 365 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:27,640 Speaker 4: it's Alabama. They're not really expecting to win championships there anyway. 366 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,959 Speaker 4: Like how many people came from the Belichick tree that 367 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 4: couldn't do squat as head coaches And how many guys 368 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,719 Speaker 4: that even guys that you hadn't heard of necessarily that 369 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,479 Speaker 4: have come in and done far better jobs. There's no 370 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,639 Speaker 4: for sure here. It's like it's like the NFL Draft. 371 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 4: You don't know who the greatest player is going to 372 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 4: be a year in, a year out. You might know 373 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 4: who's going to go number one, but you have no idea. 374 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,679 Speaker 4: That's why there's these redraft articles and things like that 375 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 4: written all the time. Natoes is just proving again that 376 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 4: sometimes you just make the right high and it does 377 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 4: come down to a lot of different factors. And he 378 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:04,919 Speaker 4: was ready for this challenge and he has stepped in 379 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,439 Speaker 4: and done an incredible job. And right at the same 380 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 4: time that maybe Alabama is going to continue to run 381 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 4: into a little bit more futility as it relates to 382 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 4: the football side of things. The basketball side of things 383 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 4: is solidified in a conference that you think about the 384 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 4: schools that should be solid in basketball. Kentucky is very 385 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 4: much not right now, just as one example. But Alabama 386 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,640 Speaker 4: and I think you could even argue Tennessee, who will 387 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 4: play tomorrow right now, feel very solid where they stand 388 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 4: in basketball, and if you ask their people, their football schools. 389 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 4: But all it takes is the right hire to turn 390 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:47,719 Speaker 4: that around. So Alabama found a gym and he's going 391 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 4: to be there for a while, as you mentioned, and again, 392 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,160 Speaker 4: sometimes it just works out. Sometimes you make the right higher. 393 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 4: You didn't know for sure that it was going to 394 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 4: work out to this degree, but it has. ILMA finds 395 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 4: themselves in the final four, matched up against the defending 396 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 4: national champions, who also have a young head coach. That's 397 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:07,360 Speaker 4: pretty good. 398 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 3: I tell you what, Jason, why don't we do something 399 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 3: little bit different. 400 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 2: We'll get to the saga a little bit early here, 401 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 2: so we can come back and kind of have an 402 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 2: extended conversation on Yukon. Thought you made an interesting comment 403 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 2: when we open with Yukon. But of course the Alabama 404 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:24,679 Speaker 2: game goes final, we'll get back to the first Elite 405 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 2: eight game here momentarily. Before we do that, let's toss 406 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,959 Speaker 2: it over the News desk, Dave de Saga, what is trending? 407 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 8: Hello, gentlemen, next Saturday in Phoenix at the Final four. Yeah, 408 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 8: first final four for Alabama, and they'll face defending champion Connecticut, 409 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 8: which is, according to FanDuel apparently an eleven and a 410 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 8: half point favorite already the early line for next weekend. 411 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:44,919 Speaker 2: I don't mean to cut you off already, to Saga, 412 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 2: I have a bad habit of doing this. I was 413 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 2: watching the I was watching Clemson, and I thought to myself, 414 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 2: even if you're not a better what would have to 415 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 2: be the points spread for you to be comfortable betting Clemson, 416 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 2: Like if Yukon was like a seventeen point favorite. Next 417 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 2: week they're not playing Clemson, but you know, because Bama 418 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 2: can hit a million threes with something like that, Yeah, 419 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 2: Bama can hit a million threes. They can make it 420 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 2: weird whatever. Clemson's gonna try to outrock fight Yukon, and 421 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 2: Yucon's got better players at every spot on the floor. 422 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 2: So I will say, I think this is definitely gonna 423 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 2: be the more entertaining matchup. But I was thinking about that, 424 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,200 Speaker 2: and so the fact that Alabama's an eleven and a 425 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,160 Speaker 2: half point favorite after being favored by three or four 426 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,400 Speaker 2: today or Alabama's an eleven and a half point underdog 427 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 2: next week after three to four point favorite today kind 428 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 2: of tells you everything you eat. 429 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 8: I will say kudos to Clemson because they had a 430 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 8: good start to the season, including a win at Alabama, 431 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 8: and they had a good finish to the season. Obviously, 432 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 8: first round they were matched up against New Mexico and 433 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,360 Speaker 8: tons of people were picking the Lobos in that one, 434 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 8: and Clemson was up nineteen first half and won the game. 435 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 8: And then last Sunday the upset of Baylor, and then 436 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 8: the upset of Arizona. It's over tonight in LA West 437 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 8: Region final goes to four seed Alabama beating six seed Clemson. 438 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 8: Alabama had knocked off the top seed in the region, 439 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 8: North Carolina to reach this Elite eight game. You talked 440 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 8: about Mark Sears. His three pointers were one off his 441 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 8: career high twenty three points. He really got it going 442 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 8: in this one. 443 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 2: Been the hot hats three seers. 444 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,440 Speaker 8: A game TBS with the call. Yeah, not a lot 445 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 8: of three point shooting early for Bama. They were down 446 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 8: twenty six to thirteen in the first half. The team 447 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 8: started one of thirteen from long range. Eventually, sears By 448 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 8: himself made seven threes Clemson as a team eight eight 449 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 8: of twenty six for Clemson and the loss. Number one 450 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,439 Speaker 8: ranked Yukon over Illinois to win the East Region Final 451 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 8: in Boston seventy seven to fifty two Connecticut with a 452 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 8: twenty five to nothing run in the first seven minutes 453 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 8: of the second half. Tomorrow, two more regional finals Purdue 454 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 8: Tennessee and then Duke against NC State. That late game 455 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 8: will be at about five pm Eastern time. In women's 456 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 8: basketball Sweet sixteen games all day tonight, Connecticut and usc 457 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 8: were winners. They'll face each other on Monday in regional finals, 458 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,880 Speaker 8: and it'll be Iowa against LSU Monday in a rematch 459 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,159 Speaker 8: of last year's national title game. They each won Sweet 460 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 8: sixteen matchups today Tomorrow in the women's regional finals undefeated 461 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 8: South Carolina against Oregon State and then a one seed 462 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 8: Texas against NC State. There were only three NBA games 463 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 8: victories for the Celtics. Orlando and Milwaukee won the late 464 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,120 Speaker 8: game in Atlanta one twenty two to one thirteen Yannisan 465 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 8: TENECUNMPO thirty six points, sixteen rebounds. A reminder, NASCAR is 466 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 8: on Fox TV tomorrow Easter Sunday, so it'll be a 467 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 8: night race at Richmond seven pm Eastern time. As for 468 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,679 Speaker 8: the late night baseball, there was an actual rain delay 469 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 8: at Dodger Stadium. They've resumed. Dodgers two nothing over the Cardinals, 470 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 8: top of the sixth inning. This was the first rain 471 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 8: delay in nine years in Los Angeles. Rockies are leading 472 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 8: nine to four at Arizona in the bottom of the 473 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 8: eighth inning, bottom of the sixth at Seattle, it is 474 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 8: the Mariners tied one to one with the Boston Red Sox. 475 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,400 Speaker 8: Yankees won on Fox TV and they're three to ozho 476 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 8: a comeback five to three win at Houston. It was, 477 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 8: and in fact for the Yanks, this is three comebacks 478 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 8: for the first three wins in the three games to 479 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 8: open the season. That hadn't happened in twenty five years 480 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 8: in Major League Baseball since the nineteen ninety nine Giants. 481 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 8: Updating Mariners, Red Sox one to one, bottom of the 482 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 8: eighth inning and the Cardinals have just tied it two 483 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 8: too in the seventh against the Dodgers. 484 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 2: Back to you, Thank you very much, Steve de Sager. 485 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday. Soon to 486 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 2: be Sunday on the East Coast, Aaron Towards Jason Martin 487 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 2: broadcasting live from the tyreck dot Com studios. Want to 488 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 2: get back to the first game. So as the saga 489 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 2: just told you, we have two finals. Half of the 490 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 2: final four set, Alabama just took care of Clemson. Eighty 491 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 2: eighty nine to eighty two was the final score there. 492 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 2: Want to go back to the first game, Jayson, because 493 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what you said something very interesting to 494 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 2: me earlier in the show that I want to get 495 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 2: to and it stems from a conversation that we had 496 00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 2: two or three weeks ago. 497 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 3: And I'm sure you remember, but. 498 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 2: I believe it was after Yukon won the Big East 499 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 2: Tournament and they they capped what you know, was an 500 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 2: incredible you know, not regular season because it included the 501 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 2: conference tournament, but they were thirty one and three at 502 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 2: the time, and really Roland and I said to you, 503 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 2: and I said, I don't even know if I believe this, 504 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 2: but I said, you know, like Yukon, we talked about 505 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 2: college basketball losing coach k Roy Williams Jay Wright in 506 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 2: a short period of time. 507 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,919 Speaker 3: Obviously, Cali Perry's on his last legs. 508 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 2: Quite literally probably down to one more year if he 509 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,199 Speaker 2: doesn't figure it out. Tom Izzo is clearly on the 510 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,679 Speaker 2: back end. Jim Beheim just retired. We said, who are 511 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 2: those next coaches? So I bring it up because I 512 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 2: asked you, I said, you know is I said, is 513 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 2: there any way in your opinion that that Dan Hurley 514 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 2: could be, or maybe already is the face of college basketball? 515 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 2: And could he and would he be if Yukon were 516 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,159 Speaker 2: to go back to back? And I bring it up, 517 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:00,679 Speaker 2: and I said this at the time, I'm, as you know, 518 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 2: living in the North. I don't live in the Northeast anymore, 519 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 2: but I know a lot of fans and in that 520 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,479 Speaker 2: area of the country, Dan Hurley has that very uh 521 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 2: you know the thing that all of our great sports 522 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,479 Speaker 2: people do. You either love them or you hate him. 523 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 2: Either love Lebron James or you don't like him. Either 524 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 2: love the New York Yankees or you don't like him. 525 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,360 Speaker 2: Either love Kim Mulky or you don't like or Don Staley, 526 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 2: the same on and on, Caitlin Clark whatever. I bring 527 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,879 Speaker 2: it up because Dan Hurley, are you any closer to 528 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 2: believing that he is potentially on the verge of being 529 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 2: the face of college basketball, especially given the way his 530 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 2: team has dominated this tournament the last two years. They 531 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 2: still have two more to get to back to back. 532 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 2: But do you believe that we're any closer to potentially 533 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 2: that happening? 534 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 4: Yes, I think so. Now, remember what I said when 535 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 4: you asked that question a few weeks ago, I said, 536 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,639 Speaker 4: let's talk if they win again, because if they win again, 537 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 4: the door that was open now you can walk through 538 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 4: it and say, yeah, you're the face of college of basketball. 539 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,880 Speaker 4: You've done this a lot of programs, haven't. I think 540 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 4: we have. Finally. I think we're closer now though, because 541 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 4: I think now a lot of people that watched last 542 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 4: year and have now been watching this tournament, we're like, man, 543 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 4: they're good. I didn't realize they were this good. That's 544 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 4: the difference, Like it's starting to leap off the page, 545 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 4: just how special this team actually is and the run 546 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,160 Speaker 4: that they've gone on in the last couple of years. Now, 547 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 4: the face of college basketball is different than the personality 548 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 4: or the villain of college basketball. And this has nothing 549 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 4: to do with the guys. It doesn't have anything to 550 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 4: do with the players, even though that I mean they 551 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 4: play with the confidence and everything else Hurley and some 552 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 4: of the things that he says and the way in 553 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,239 Speaker 4: which he talks, if you don't like him, you are 554 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,239 Speaker 4: gonna think he is an all time jerk. True. I mean, 555 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 4: it's just what it is. Like I was looking at 556 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 4: the quotes after the game, and so he was asked about, 557 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 4: you know, what happened to Illinois and all that, and 558 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 4: he says, when your defense is elite, which ours is, 559 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 4: and your offense is elite, which ours is, and rebounding 560 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 4: margins show that we're an elite rebounding team, and we 561 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 4: generally play harder than our opponent, We share the ball 562 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,479 Speaker 4: and have depth with different people. Our first team All 563 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 4: American point guard didn't make a field goal today. We 564 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 4: shot three for seventeen from three, and we went on 565 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 4: a thirty to nothing run. Like all of those things 566 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 4: are true. But if you don't like him, you're gonna 567 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 4: hate the way that he says that, And he talked 568 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 4: that way to Andy Katz at the half of the game, 569 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 4: just the way in which he kills about it, and 570 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 4: even this week, and I heard Gottlie mentioned this on 571 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 4: his program a few days ago when Hurley was crying 572 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 4: about them having to play first on Thursday. Like that's 573 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 4: the kind of thing. It's just like, all right, I 574 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,719 Speaker 4: see you, buddy, like I see you, and look, you 575 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 4: can do this. And here's the thing, this is the 576 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 4: overarching point about all this. If indeed he's going to 577 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,719 Speaker 4: step into the role and be this kind of a 578 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 4: polarizing figure, it's great for college basketball. It's phenomenal because 579 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 4: they haven't had this in a while. They've they've had 580 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 4: Cal Perry, but that's a little bit different. This is different, 581 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 4: but they've had like Jay Wright and Jay Wright, and 582 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 4: what Villanova did was tremendous. But Jay Wright was just 583 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 4: eminently likable. It was hard to and he was super 584 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 4: professional and all those kinds of things. Hurley is just 585 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 4: really good, but he also wants you to know he 586 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 4: knows he's really good. He comes across as a little 587 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 4: bit arrogant and he kind of takes backhanded shots and 588 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 4: all this kind of stuff. We haven't had this in 589 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 4: a while. He actually talks like he's a college football 590 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 4: coach and not a college basketball coach in the way 591 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 4: he kind of his moxie and his attitude and it's 592 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 4: great for college basketball only because we haven't had this, 593 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,479 Speaker 4: and it gives you somebody Like I was looking at 594 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 4: some of the comments. I was just like, I looked 595 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 4: at one of the news articles about the win, and 596 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 4: I just wanted to see what the comments section says. 597 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 4: And the comment section is like I hope Purdue or 598 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 4: anybody beats them, And it was all centered around Dan Hurley, 599 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 4: not the team. And that's it, like he has created 600 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 4: in He's created a monster in himself and his team 601 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,479 Speaker 4: keeps backing it up and it's just adding to this 602 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 4: fuel of them being an evil empire. 603 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 3: Well, it's funny. 604 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 2: First of all, the comments about playing first and all 605 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 2: that stuff. 606 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 3: It cracks me up. 607 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 2: It reminded me of remember when remember when Georgia won 608 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 2: the second national title and Kirby Smart to the podium, 609 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 2: He's like nobody believed in us, and it's like, literally, 610 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 2: everyone believed in you. 611 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 3: You were the preseason favorite whatever. 612 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 2: And I think, you know, the great coaches they have 613 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 2: that ability to create you know, chips and whatever, and 614 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 2: you know, the stuff you're talking about is different than that. 615 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,959 Speaker 2: But but it does crack me up because and I 616 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 2: think that is the most impressive thing. I obviously, being 617 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 2: in a lum I watched them a lot pretty much 618 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 2: every game. I think the single most impressive thing about 619 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 2: this year's team specifically, I don't think they have had 620 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 2: a bat like. I don't think they have come out 621 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 2: flat or unready in any game. And so I think 622 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 2: that whatever motivational tactics he's using or working, I think 623 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 2: it's interesting what you said about, you know, how he's 624 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 2: you know, how he's approaching things and all that stuff. 625 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, Jason, why don't we come back 626 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 2: and continue this conversation. I think there's a little bit 627 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 2: more meat on the bone. Dan Hurley a little bit arrogant, 628 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 2: but that's okay. It's good for college hoops or is 629 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 2: it good for college hoops? We'll discuss that next Fox 630 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 2: Sports Radio. 631 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,960 Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. 632 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody, Fox Sports Radio. Eric Towards Jason Martin 633 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 2: broadcasting live from the Tireck dot Com studios. For the break, 634 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 2: we were talking about the first half of the Final 635 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 2: Four being set. Alabama beats Clemson eighty nine eighty two 636 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 2: in the late game. Alabama will now face you Khon, 637 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 2: who beat Illinois seventy seven fifty two in the first 638 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 2: game thanks. 639 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 3: To a thirty to nothing run. 640 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 4: Can I ask you a question? 641 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 3: Please? 642 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 4: Got Brad Underwood? Sure, all right, the coach. I don't annoy. 643 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 3: I don't know that, but I could try. 644 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,959 Speaker 4: No, I just did you see the quote about clinging 645 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 4: before the game? 646 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 3: What did he say? 647 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 4: No? 648 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:24,600 Speaker 3: I don't know that I did. 649 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 4: Basically their strategy was they were going to go at clinging. 650 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 4: They were like, if he could and basically the quote 651 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 4: that I saw, and I saw it during the commercial 652 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 4: breakerse I was hoping maybe you would see it. Maybe not. 653 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 4: He said if he blocks one hundred shots, he block 654 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 4: one hundred shots. Well he didn't block a hundred, but 655 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 4: pretty dark clothes. But every time you went near him, 656 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,120 Speaker 4: it was bad for you. Like that was your strategy 657 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,560 Speaker 4: was to go against that guy, was to challenge him. 658 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,000 Speaker 4: That was a bad game plan, Brad, Like your team 659 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 4: did not look the part, and it did not look 660 00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 4: like you put them in a good spot for success. 661 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 2: So it's funny, I you know, obviously talking to people 662 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,720 Speaker 2: after the game and all that, What I will say 663 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 2: is I didn't hate the game plan for a stretch 664 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,520 Speaker 2: because he picked up cleaning, picked up his first foul 665 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,959 Speaker 2: probably two three minutes into the game. Then he went out, 666 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 2: and that was when Illinois kind of made its first run. 667 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 2: Then he came back in and they were attacking, clearly 668 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:27,280 Speaker 2: trying to get him his second file. But to your point, 669 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,879 Speaker 2: after you drive at him thirty seven times and your 670 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:37,000 Speaker 2: stuff gets gets either swatted or deflected or you can't 671 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 2: even get to the rim, you got to stop and 672 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,759 Speaker 2: try something else. And you know, it's funny because you know, 673 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,080 Speaker 2: very rarely and I know you're you're not really as 674 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,880 Speaker 2: much on social media anymore, Jason, I still am, probably 675 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 2: to my own detriment, But no, I bring it up 676 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:57,000 Speaker 2: because very rarely is there like a universal sentiment on 677 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 2: social media that I generally agree with. Usually when when 678 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,759 Speaker 2: and everyone is saying the same thing, it kind of 679 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 2: makes my roll my eyes. Whatever, I bring it up, 680 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,480 Speaker 2: because that was one was like what was Illinois and 681 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,359 Speaker 2: what was Brad Underwood doing? Now what I will also say, 682 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,360 Speaker 2: and I might have mentioned that he said this earlier, 683 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,520 Speaker 2: but to me, the most interesting quote, and you know, 684 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,719 Speaker 2: we talked about, you know, Dan Hurley maybe having a 685 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,919 Speaker 2: little bit of arrogance, you know, earlier in the show 686 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,239 Speaker 2: or last segment. We're gonna come back and talk about it. 687 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,680 Speaker 2: The one that caught my eye. From Brad Underwood's perspective 688 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 2: was and I'll find the quote because it you know, 689 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,760 Speaker 2: I don't want to misquote him or whatever. So John 690 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:39,680 Speaker 2: Fantu covers a college basketball for Fox Sports. He tweeted 691 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,760 Speaker 2: this out yesterday, so Friday at twelve oh three Pacific, 692 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,360 Speaker 2: three zero three Eastern during media availability, Brad Underwood on 693 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,719 Speaker 2: yukon quote. They are who they are and we are 694 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,480 Speaker 2: who we are. Danny and his staff do an incredible job. Offensively. 695 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,920 Speaker 2: They run a lot of sets, but nothing we haven't 696 00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,240 Speaker 2: seen in Big Ten play. 697 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,879 Speaker 3: So listen, I. 698 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 4: Mean, you can't. 699 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:04,960 Speaker 3: You can't be like, you know, we. 700 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:06,800 Speaker 2: Like to make fun of these coaches and whatever, like 701 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 2: you know, they won the Big Ten of tournament. Anyway, 702 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,880 Speaker 2: go to the Elite eight. He's clearly a good coach. 703 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,400 Speaker 2: But what I will say is, I think from the beginning, 704 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 2: I think he screwed this one up because I just 705 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:24,040 Speaker 2: think you're playing a team that is destroying everybody. And 706 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,440 Speaker 2: I understand the concept that you don't want your players 707 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,960 Speaker 2: to make it seem like you don't believe in them, 708 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:34,439 Speaker 2: but I I don't think saying, oh, what they do, 709 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,920 Speaker 2: We've seen a million times you know, we played Northwestern 710 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:43,320 Speaker 2: in Iowa and UH Minnesota when there's nothing like clearly 711 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,839 Speaker 2: you kind is doing something that literally no one else 712 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,880 Speaker 2: in college basketball is doing. They were thirty one and 713 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 2: three going into the tournament, a million double figure wins whatever, 714 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,239 Speaker 2: they have one loss in twenty twenty four, let's put 715 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:56,600 Speaker 2: it that way. 716 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 4: Okay. 717 00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,960 Speaker 2: So besides the game plan, in addition to that, I 718 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,480 Speaker 2: just think his whole mentality, like like and Jason, we've 719 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 2: heard all these like when when you're not favored, you know, 720 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,000 Speaker 2: you go in and you say all the right things, 721 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,279 Speaker 2: and you don't give them bulletin board material. It's like 722 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,719 Speaker 2: Brett Underwood threw out everything that everybody else does, gave 723 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,239 Speaker 2: him a ton of bulletin board material, went right at 724 00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:19,120 Speaker 2: their best player. When it didn't work, he stayed stubborn. 725 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 2: I just thought it was a disaster from the Illinois 726 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,239 Speaker 2: perspective all game long. 727 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you definitely don't want to give them 728 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 4: bolleted board material. You certainly don't want to. You just 729 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 4: want to show up and play the game like the 730 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,359 Speaker 4: game that I saw them play against Diowa State. I 731 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,000 Speaker 4: you know, I was just like, if they play like that, 732 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,080 Speaker 4: they're gonna lose, and they're gonna lose pretty badly because 733 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 4: there were moments there where a lot of flaws showed 734 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,520 Speaker 4: themselves For Illinois. I just think you kind of want 735 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,160 Speaker 4: to go in with a workman like mentality. Maybe behind 736 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 4: closed doors you can say whatever you want to your 737 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,879 Speaker 4: young men, but don't let Yukon hear that. Just show 738 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,560 Speaker 4: up as a team that no one's gonna take seriously. 739 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,359 Speaker 4: In the game. You know you're gonna have an eight 740 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,960 Speaker 4: and a half point spread going in or whatever it's 741 00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,640 Speaker 4: gonna be, and they just go out and showup and 742 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,760 Speaker 4: play your game, and if you win, then you can talk. 743 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,120 Speaker 4: But talking before the fact, especially with a team that 744 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,960 Speaker 4: I mean, just knowing what little I know about Dan 745 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:12,000 Speaker 4: Hurley and watching how he's operated the last couple of years, 746 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,760 Speaker 4: I bet he took that and ran with it behind 747 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,640 Speaker 4: closed doors, and they wanted to go out there and 748 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,439 Speaker 4: embarrass Illinois as a result of that. That's the last 749 00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,360 Speaker 4: thing you should have done against the team that was 750 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:27,200 Speaker 4: one more talented to a higher seed and three the favorite. 751 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,799 Speaker 2: A thousand percent. And it's one thing, you know, I 752 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 2: saw some of their players like, you know, all the pressure. 753 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,120 Speaker 2: These are the Illinois players, all the pressures off us. 754 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,680 Speaker 2: You know, they're the they're the favorable. But that's okay, 755 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,839 Speaker 2: But say for the coach and and you know, all 756 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:41,920 Speaker 2: this stuff is paraphrased. I don't know what the you 757 00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,160 Speaker 2: know that it was a direct quote on Twitter. I 758 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:45,719 Speaker 2: don't know if it was the exact quote, but it's 759 00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,520 Speaker 2: like I just you know, and like you said, especially 760 00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,759 Speaker 2: with Dan Hurley, because you know he's going to see it. 761 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,120 Speaker 2: You know he's going to use it. You know he's 762 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,520 Speaker 2: going to use it to motivate, to motivate his team. 763 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:59,000 Speaker 2: I just thought the whole operation was such a weird approach. 764 00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:04,080 Speaker 2: And so you know, Yukon dominates, Yukon wins really quickly. 765 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,279 Speaker 2: We got two more hours to break this down. Do 766 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,160 Speaker 2: you have any early quick thoughts on on Bama Yukon. 767 00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:12,239 Speaker 2: It looks like DraftKings has has Disager just told us 768 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,399 Speaker 2: Yukon is an eleven and a half point favorite next 769 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,240 Speaker 2: week in Phoenix against the Crimson Tide. 770 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 4: I'd like to see if they keep it underneath eleven 771 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:20,759 Speaker 4: and a half. I mean, I picked Yukon to win 772 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,359 Speaker 4: the whole thing before started. I don't think there's any 773 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,120 Speaker 4: reason to change that my final was not gonna happen 774 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:30,560 Speaker 4: because Houston lost. I didn't expect Jamal shed to go out. 775 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,120 Speaker 4: So of course that's just part of it. That's that's 776 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,319 Speaker 4: what happens in these tournaments and in these games, and 777 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,600 Speaker 4: that changed everything. But I do think that, look, Alabama 778 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,520 Speaker 4: is a team that, because of what they can do 779 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:45,600 Speaker 4: from three, that could get interesting. I just I don't 780 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:49,480 Speaker 4: think they've got the fire power to stick with them 781 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:53,560 Speaker 4: for forty minutes, especially if they're having to deal with 782 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,839 Speaker 4: anything inside the paint. I just think I do think 783 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,080 Speaker 4: it's gonna be a really really fun game. 784 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,520 Speaker 2: Though, I have no doubt, and I will say Alabama 785 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,040 Speaker 2: because the way they shoot the basketball in theory, I 786 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,120 Speaker 2: could see the scenario where they keep things close. 787 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,640 Speaker 3: Then again, I said the same thing about Illinois. 788 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,880 Speaker 2: Tonight, Fox Sports Radio er tords Jas Martin broadcasting live 789 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:15,319 Speaker 2: from the tyreck dot Com studios. More college hoops coming up, 790 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:19,360 Speaker 2: plus an interesting NFL story that, oh, by the way, Jymartin, 791 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,920 Speaker 2: I told you was coming. Fox Sports Radio Welcome in Everybody, 792 00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:27,200 Speaker 2: Hour two. Fox Sports Radio, Eric tors Jsmart We are 793 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:31,919 Speaker 2: broadcasting live from the tyreck dot Com studios. Tyreck dot 794 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,800 Speaker 2: Com we'll help you get there and unmatched selection, fast 795 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:39,319 Speaker 2: free shipping, free roadh hazard protection, and over ten thousand 796 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:44,560 Speaker 2: recommended installers tyreck dot com the way tire buying should be. 797 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,000 Speaker 2: As the saga just told you, half of the final 798 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,480 Speaker 2: four is set. Yukon a dominant seventy seven to fifty 799 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:58,520 Speaker 2: two victory over Illinois, Alabama eighty nine eighty two over Clemson. 800 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:02,520 Speaker 2: Yukon and Alabama will meet next Saturday in Phoenix for 801 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,640 Speaker 2: the Final Four. Obviously, the two games tomorrow, Purdue Tennessee 802 00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,359 Speaker 2: is the early one and then the late one. 803 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,160 Speaker 3: Little Tobacco Road. Jason Martin, We'll have to talk about 804 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:15,080 Speaker 3: that one later. I mean, you talk about you know, Torre's. 805 00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:18,000 Speaker 2: This childhood coming to life with Yukon, Jay March's childhood 806 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,680 Speaker 2: Tobacco Road. To go to the final four, it's like, 807 00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:24,160 Speaker 2: oh my goodness, gracious. Hence State and Duke will be 808 00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,200 Speaker 2: the late one tomorrow. Jason, want to switch gears. You know, listen, 809 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:31,720 Speaker 2: it's a pretty quiet time in the NFL and endlessen 810 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,239 Speaker 2: you know we could. We're gonna have plenty of time 811 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,520 Speaker 2: to dive into the NFL Draft, which obviously is coming 812 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,359 Speaker 2: up here in a few weeks, But there was one 813 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,720 Speaker 2: NFL story that caught my attention this week, caught our attention. 814 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,000 Speaker 2: And I'll say this is that you know, in our business, 815 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,120 Speaker 2: like everybody likes to claim, oh I was that was 816 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,279 Speaker 2: the first one to say that, or you know, I 817 00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,440 Speaker 2: was thinking that and nobody else was seeing it when 818 00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,920 Speaker 2: I saw it, and oh, that person stole my take 819 00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,640 Speaker 2: because I said that years ago. I bring it up 820 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,640 Speaker 2: because I feel fairly confide in that we had a 821 00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:07,839 Speaker 2: take three Christmases ago that nobody else had that ended 822 00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:13,520 Speaker 2: up being one thousand percent accurate. So Christmas of what 823 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:17,600 Speaker 2: was it, twenty twenty one, I believe we were on 824 00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:21,400 Speaker 2: air It's our normal Saturday, and the Green Bay Packers 825 00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,759 Speaker 2: played the Cleveland Browns. If you remember, this was the 826 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,360 Speaker 2: second year the NFL was playing on Christmas Day. The 827 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:31,200 Speaker 2: year before in twenty In Christmas of twenty twenty, they 828 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:35,560 Speaker 2: put a singular NFL game on Christmas Day because it 829 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,080 Speaker 2: was during the time where the NBA was coming out 830 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:39,840 Speaker 2: of the bubble. They didn't know if they were going 831 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:44,600 Speaker 2: to start their season by Christmas Day, so the NFL 832 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,919 Speaker 2: puts Viking Saints on Christmas Day. Then the next year 833 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,680 Speaker 2: we got a doubleheader on a Saturday, which is kind 834 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,440 Speaker 2: of normal for that time of year. NFL plays a 835 00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,360 Speaker 2: lot of games on Saturday. But there was a Browns 836 00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,920 Speaker 2: Packers game. It was when Baker was with the Browns. 837 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,240 Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers was in the of a Super Bowl season, 838 00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,440 Speaker 2: and you and I came on and we must have 839 00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:09,399 Speaker 2: talked Browns Packers for obvious reasons, probably the entire show. 840 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:14,000 Speaker 2: And I remember us talking at that time saying, I 841 00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:18,800 Speaker 2: don't ever remember an NBA Christmas slate feeling less important. 842 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,320 Speaker 2: It felt like everybody in America was watching that Browns 843 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,840 Speaker 2: Packers game. Bring it up because they played again in 844 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:28,080 Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, and then this past year it was 845 00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:34,360 Speaker 2: a bonanza, a tripleheader open with Raiders winning in Kansas City, 846 00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,680 Speaker 2: and I think the total number was like thirty plus 847 00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:40,440 Speaker 2: million watched that game. Got a second game, which was 848 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:44,319 Speaker 2: I believe Eagles Giants, and then the late game was 849 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,480 Speaker 2: it was forty nine Ers Ravens, which was obviously, at 850 00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,920 Speaker 2: that moment in time, an incredible game because both were 851 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,320 Speaker 2: trending towards the number one seeds in their respective conferences. 852 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,040 Speaker 2: Bring it up because we said on that day, we said, okay, 853 00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:00,319 Speaker 2: next year, Christmas falls on a on a windy day. 854 00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:03,759 Speaker 2: If the NFL decides to put Christmas Day games on 855 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,520 Speaker 2: a Wednesday, it is them officially planting their flag that 856 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,919 Speaker 2: they have taken over Christmas from the NBA and there 857 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,200 Speaker 2: is nothing the NBA can do about it. The NBA 858 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:16,400 Speaker 2: got shoved into a locker and there ain't nothing they 859 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,839 Speaker 2: could do. Will we find out this week there will 860 00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:22,560 Speaker 2: in fact be two Christmas Day games this coming year 861 00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:27,520 Speaker 2: on a Wednesday. Obviously that would be December twenty fourth, 862 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,920 Speaker 2: twenty twenty four falls twenty fifth, excuse me, falls on 863 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,800 Speaker 2: a Wednesday. Two NFL games. I'm here to say, Jason, 864 00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,319 Speaker 2: we talked about this two three years ago. It has 865 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:39,120 Speaker 2: come to fruition. 866 00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:45,359 Speaker 4: Look, if you are not football, your success or your 867 00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:49,600 Speaker 4: ownership of a certain part of the calendar is contingent 868 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,160 Speaker 4: upon whether or not the NFL decides it wants it 869 00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:56,520 Speaker 4: or not. That's where we find ourselves. That's how big 870 00:44:56,680 --> 00:45:00,360 Speaker 4: the National Football League is. Christmas was synonymous with the 871 00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:04,200 Speaker 4: NBA forever, and all it's taken is a couple of 872 00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,000 Speaker 4: years of a few games, and it has receded into 873 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,400 Speaker 4: the rear view. It doesn't mean that it's meaningless, but 874 00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,799 Speaker 4: it does mean that it doesn't mean anywhere near as 875 00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,800 Speaker 4: much as it once did. Anytime that the NFL wants 876 00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,840 Speaker 4: to make a headline, anytime that they want to dwarf 877 00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:22,239 Speaker 4: what else is happening, they can generally do it. They 878 00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,440 Speaker 4: don't even have to play. They can actually just make 879 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,680 Speaker 4: news doing other things, and they can end up knocking 880 00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:32,359 Speaker 4: you down the headline chart real fast. The NBA kind 881 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,400 Speaker 4: of left the door open a little bit, but in 882 00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,480 Speaker 4: general that really quick. Yeah, go ahead. 883 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:41,400 Speaker 2: So I tweeted last year and again, why you're not 884 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:42,040 Speaker 2: on social media? 885 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:43,440 Speaker 3: You're a smart man, and I'm an idiot. 886 00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:48,560 Speaker 2: But I tweeted during that Raiders forty Raiders Chiefs game, 887 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:56,400 Speaker 2: I said, another another failure by the NBA, letting the 888 00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,680 Speaker 2: NFL take over Christmas Day. And I had a bunch 889 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,080 Speaker 2: of people say, oh, if the NBA NFL wants to play, 890 00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,680 Speaker 2: there's nothing the NBA can do. This goes back to 891 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:07,520 Speaker 2: twenty twenty. The NBA came out of the COVID bubble. 892 00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,359 Speaker 2: Now credit Adam Silver for getting that bubble figuring out 893 00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,279 Speaker 2: a way to finish their season, but they came out 894 00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,319 Speaker 2: of the bubble, and if you remember the season ended 895 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,360 Speaker 2: in like late September, early October, something like somewhere between 896 00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:23,120 Speaker 2: mid September to mid October, and it was Lebron James 897 00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:27,000 Speaker 2: amongst others that just said, we don't want to start 898 00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:30,719 Speaker 2: on Christmas Day. It's too soon, it's not enough recovery time. 899 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,360 Speaker 2: Keep in mind they had four months off before the 900 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,359 Speaker 2: playoffs started, but that's neither here nor there. And that 901 00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:37,640 Speaker 2: was what opened the door for the NFL to say, well, 902 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:39,560 Speaker 2: wait a second, if these guys aren't playing, we've just 903 00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,120 Speaker 2: kind of given this day to them for years unless 904 00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:43,759 Speaker 2: it falls on a Sunday or maybe a. 905 00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,879 Speaker 3: Monday, and that so people say, well, it's not nothing. 906 00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,080 Speaker 2: The NBA could have done well Again if Adam Silver 907 00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,080 Speaker 2: had a little bit more of a backbone, he said, 908 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,080 Speaker 2: guys were starting Christmas Day, whether you want to or not. 909 00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:59,400 Speaker 2: Five games. Get ready, buckle up, get excited. This probably 910 00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:00,879 Speaker 2: would have never happened the way that it did. 911 00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:03,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, if you really want to own Christmas, 912 00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,080 Speaker 4: then start your season in Christmas. Every year. We talked 913 00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:10,080 Speaker 4: about this many times prior to Christmas. Nobody's really paying 914 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:12,759 Speaker 4: that close of attention anyway. All due respect to your 915 00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:16,920 Speaker 4: in season tournament and your different color floors and all this, 916 00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,560 Speaker 4: but football is happening at that point in time. We're 917 00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:22,080 Speaker 4: not ready yet. We're not Baseball's coming to an end, 918 00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:25,160 Speaker 4: so we're watching the end of that and it's bleeding 919 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:26,799 Speaker 4: into football. And that's about all the time that we 920 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,280 Speaker 4: have at that point. And you starting your season towards 921 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:34,080 Speaker 4: the end of October doesn't enhance things. Christmas to be 922 00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,719 Speaker 4: a natural fit because it was your day. It was 923 00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:38,960 Speaker 4: a day where we would open gifts and then we 924 00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,240 Speaker 4: would hit around a lot of times there'd be food 925 00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,560 Speaker 4: and family, but there'd be basketball on. There'd be a 926 00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,480 Speaker 4: Knicks game on at noon, seemingly every year when I 927 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,080 Speaker 4: was growing up, so they had it. It was theirs. 928 00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,680 Speaker 4: But when you start your season earlier than that, and then, 929 00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,799 Speaker 4: as you mentioned the players, and I mean, how many 930 00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:59,480 Speaker 4: times have we done some version of this exact same 931 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:06,239 Speaker 4: take where the players are so lacking in awareness of 932 00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:10,800 Speaker 4: their own responsibility for their sport. M Like, they're aware 933 00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:14,200 Speaker 4: of what they want, they're aware of taking care of 934 00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:17,759 Speaker 4: their own family, but in terms of and great that 935 00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:21,480 Speaker 4: should be top priority. But there's a responsibility to the 936 00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:25,200 Speaker 4: sport that has made them who they are. The sport that, 937 00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:29,239 Speaker 4: you know, without a league to play in. I don't 938 00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:32,040 Speaker 4: know what you know. I don't know how lucrative they 939 00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,719 Speaker 4: could have been, but they left the door open, like 940 00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:39,600 Speaker 4: you said, by kind of being wishy washy on the 941 00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:44,919 Speaker 4: idea of owning that day. And again, I think there's 942 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,719 Speaker 4: just so many indicators where it does feel like these 943 00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:53,120 Speaker 4: NBA players don't ever see a larger picture past themselves 944 00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:57,680 Speaker 4: and that has been a massive detriment. And that's where 945 00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:02,480 Speaker 4: a leader like Adam Silver to talk to them as 946 00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:06,120 Speaker 4: adults and just say, hey, guys, this is where we are, 947 00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:07,799 Speaker 4: and this is what we are as a business, and 948 00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,719 Speaker 4: this is what we need from you guys. So we're 949 00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,200 Speaker 4: asking this of you. And I just I don't think 950 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,239 Speaker 4: that I think they like Adam Silver. I don't think 951 00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:17,640 Speaker 4: they respect Adam Silver because they know that they can 952 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:19,680 Speaker 4: get away with whatever they want. They know that they 953 00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:23,000 Speaker 4: can be, you know, whatever version of an NBA player 954 00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:27,359 Speaker 4: they want to be, they can do it. And he's 955 00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,360 Speaker 4: just he's proven over and over again. You mentioned not 956 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:34,120 Speaker 4: having a backbone, he's just he's feckless. He comes across 957 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:37,200 Speaker 4: as weak. I just don't think David Stern, for example, 958 00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,880 Speaker 4: this would have gone down the same way if it 959 00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,600 Speaker 4: had been him in charge making the decision when Lebron 960 00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,399 Speaker 4: and those guys said, oh, no, we need more time 961 00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,280 Speaker 4: than this. We don't want to start on Christmas Day. 962 00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,400 Speaker 2: One hundred percent. And you know, and I think obviously 963 00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:53,760 Speaker 2: it goes out saying this this. Obviously, if you're playing 964 00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:56,239 Speaker 2: on Wednesday, there's no reason to think that it's going 965 00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,920 Speaker 2: to stop when he gets back to Thursday, Friday, Saturday, whatever. 966 00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:00,000 Speaker 4: Yeah. 967 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:01,719 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I don't know that there's a ton 968 00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:02,800 Speaker 3: more meat on this bone. 969 00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:07,040 Speaker 2: But but I will say, is I do give credit 970 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,480 Speaker 2: to the NFL. Like, like you know, I always say, 971 00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,880 Speaker 2: like I like to follow the business of things that 972 00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:14,879 Speaker 2: I'm far from a business expert, but the way they 973 00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:19,759 Speaker 2: continue to find ways to get the product to more 974 00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:23,400 Speaker 2: people on more days, more whatever, I just think it's incredible. 975 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,000 Speaker 2: I mean, they had their first Black Friday game this year, 976 00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,040 Speaker 2: and you know, you could say, oh, is it too much? 977 00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:28,279 Speaker 1: Is it? 978 00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:28,400 Speaker 6: This? 979 00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:28,920 Speaker 3: Is that? 980 00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,560 Speaker 2: But I don't know, man, I just I continue to 981 00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:36,080 Speaker 2: just be so impressed by them. They've taken over Christmas Day, 982 00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:41,640 Speaker 2: They've taken over Thursdays. You know, the playoffs have expanded 983 00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,840 Speaker 2: and I'll say this too, is like you know, you 984 00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:45,760 Speaker 2: and I have talked about a lot with college football, 985 00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,760 Speaker 2: the idea that that there is a saturation point where 986 00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:54,600 Speaker 2: there's where you can give us too much, where it's 987 00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,360 Speaker 2: actually at a detriment to the sport. And what I 988 00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,720 Speaker 2: mean by that for people that aren't following college football 989 00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:02,799 Speaker 2: is great, but you let too many teams in that 990 00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:05,960 Speaker 2: postseason all of a sudden, that regular season can't inherently 991 00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,839 Speaker 2: mean as much. I could be wrong. I don't think 992 00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,480 Speaker 2: we've gotten to that point. In the NFL. We've added 993 00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,480 Speaker 2: a seventeenth game, you know, all the experts say we'll 994 00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:16,120 Speaker 2: eventually get. 995 00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:17,360 Speaker 3: To an eighteen game schedule. 996 00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,760 Speaker 2: We've added another team to the playoffs in each each 997 00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:25,640 Speaker 2: each conference. We've added a Black Friday game. We're now 998 00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:29,400 Speaker 2: playing on Christmas regularly. Obviously, every Thursday is spoken for. 999 00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,440 Speaker 2: We have a Monday night playoff game. I don't know, Jason, 1000 00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:34,560 Speaker 2: I mean, listen, am I gonna sit here and lie 1001 00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:36,960 Speaker 2: that you know I was in front of the TV 1002 00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:39,600 Speaker 2: for all three hours on Black Friday with a pen 1003 00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:43,160 Speaker 2: and paper, taking furious notes. No, sure, but I don't 1004 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,600 Speaker 2: think it has yet been at the detriment of the product. 1005 00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:48,400 Speaker 2: And I think you look at all these other sports, 1006 00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,200 Speaker 2: you know we're talking about, do we need one hundred 1007 00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:52,439 Speaker 2: and sixty two regular season baseball games? We need eighty 1008 00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:56,160 Speaker 2: two NBA regular season games? College football is expanding the 1009 00:51:56,160 --> 00:52:00,279 Speaker 2: playoff too much. In the NFL, I don't feel like 1010 00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,719 Speaker 2: we were anywhere close to that point where it's like 1011 00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:06,800 Speaker 2: they're giving us too much. It's the product itself is 1012 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:07,800 Speaker 2: starting to be devalued. 1013 00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:09,879 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's all right. I mean I think 1014 00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:15,240 Speaker 4: that I think that the NFL and baseball both are 1015 00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:17,880 Speaker 4: in a spot where it still feels very difficult to 1016 00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,480 Speaker 4: make their postseason, and that matters, and that makes the 1017 00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:25,520 Speaker 4: regular season inherently more important to watch. College football has 1018 00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:28,720 Speaker 4: been a unique situation, and we're going to see it shift, 1019 00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,080 Speaker 4: especially if it goes to you know, if it continues 1020 00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:35,439 Speaker 4: to expand. But the regular season was, in its own way, 1021 00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:40,200 Speaker 4: a knockout round over and over again. So you know, 1022 00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:42,719 Speaker 4: you look at the NBA, half the leagues in the playoffs. 1023 00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,720 Speaker 4: Same thing's true in the NHL. But the NHL playoffs 1024 00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:49,120 Speaker 4: are fantastic and past just the and look, the NBA 1025 00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:53,080 Speaker 4: playoffs are too. But I think that baseball and the 1026 00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:55,759 Speaker 4: NFL both. I used to argue, and I think I 1027 00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,200 Speaker 4: said this a couple of weeks ago. I used to argue, 1028 00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:58,799 Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty two games, how can you make 1029 00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:00,680 Speaker 4: me care for one? And you get to the end 1030 00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:02,400 Speaker 4: of the season and there's some kind of a play 1031 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:04,520 Speaker 4: in just to get in. But it's not like to 1032 00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:08,000 Speaker 4: get the fifteen seed or something like that. Like it's 1033 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:11,040 Speaker 4: still it required a heck of a season to even 1034 00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:13,839 Speaker 4: be in a spot to do that. And it's been 1035 00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:16,680 Speaker 4: attrition for five months and a story, and you know, 1036 00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,960 Speaker 4: there's just a difference to it. An eighteen game schedule 1037 00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:23,080 Speaker 4: for the NFL doesn't change anything. We would change everything 1038 00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:25,600 Speaker 4: for the NFL. The worst mistake that they could possibly 1039 00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:29,440 Speaker 4: make is to expand further than this, because I like 1040 00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,600 Speaker 4: what they have right now. I think you get I 1041 00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:33,879 Speaker 4: think you get a whale of a wildcard round. Now, 1042 00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:35,640 Speaker 4: you get a lot of football to watch, you get 1043 00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:39,560 Speaker 4: multiple games. It just feels like an event, it feels special. 1044 00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,279 Speaker 4: You keep adding it dilutes that. So I think that 1045 00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:45,680 Speaker 4: they're in a perfect spot right now where every game 1046 00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:49,640 Speaker 4: during the regular season matters. You have a commissioner who's 1047 00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,840 Speaker 4: basically like, look, I'll find you if you're not trying 1048 00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,960 Speaker 4: in the final week of the season, like he steps 1049 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:56,480 Speaker 4: out and he's like, no, we have a product, and 1050 00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,400 Speaker 4: we're going to make sure that people that buy tickets 1051 00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:00,319 Speaker 4: at the very least they're going to get some thing 1052 00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:02,680 Speaker 4: out of their money. And then you get to a 1053 00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:05,800 Speaker 4: playoffs and it still feels exclusive and it still feels special. 1054 00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,400 Speaker 4: And I think that that right there gives them an 1055 00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:11,920 Speaker 4: advantage and they have milked it and used it for 1056 00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:12,560 Speaker 4: all it's worth. 1057 00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:18,280 Speaker 2: Interesting stuff. The NFL will have two Christmas Day games 1058 00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:22,440 Speaker 2: on a Wednesday next year. NFL Express ain't slowing down 1059 00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:25,759 Speaker 2: anytime soon. 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Well, come back, boy, ol boy. 1066 00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:49,279 Speaker 2: We got a very interesting story out of the women's game, 1067 00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,840 Speaker 2: and no, it's got nothing to do with Caitlin Clark, 1068 00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:54,600 Speaker 2: although we'll probably talk about her a little bit by 1069 00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:57,080 Speaker 2: the end. Of the show as well. 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Half of the men's final four is set 1094 00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:14,800 Speaker 2: Yukon beating Illinois seventy seven fifty two, Alabama beating Clemson 1095 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:16,520 Speaker 2: eighty nine eighty two to Saga. 1096 00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,080 Speaker 3: We'll have you details on that in just a moment. 1097 00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:23,320 Speaker 4: How's your bracket, by the way, erin Well, I had this. 1098 00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:25,840 Speaker 4: We haven't got any updates. We usually get updates from 1099 00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:27,799 Speaker 4: you know, from the bosses because we're doing the whole 1100 00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:30,280 Speaker 4: thing with the listeners. Sure, I don't know where I stand. 1101 00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,200 Speaker 4: I know half my final four were still intact, so 1102 00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:36,640 Speaker 4: half of my final four is still intact as well. 1103 00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:40,840 Speaker 2: So I had two Elite eight games perfect, which probably 1104 00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:46,759 Speaker 2: not surprising were Yukon Illinois and then to Tennessee and 1105 00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:51,439 Speaker 2: Purdue exactly. And so I had, you know, the one 1106 00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:56,480 Speaker 2: screw up I made, and you know, I blame myself, 1107 00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:59,080 Speaker 2: but I don't blame myself. I did have Kentucky in 1108 00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:03,359 Speaker 2: the final four, yeah, and you know, but listen, I'm 1109 00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:05,600 Speaker 2: not trying to make this about my bracket. But like 1110 00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:08,399 Speaker 2: I think it's easy to crush count all that. I mean, 1111 00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:10,960 Speaker 2: they won at Tennessee on the final game of the 1112 00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:15,000 Speaker 2: regular season. And my logic was pretty simple, is that 1113 00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,600 Speaker 2: Houston was banged up coming into the tournament. Forget what 1114 00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:25,000 Speaker 2: happened with Jamal shed last night. Marquette was banged up 1115 00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:28,520 Speaker 2: coming into the tournament as well. Remember, Tyler Kohlik was 1116 00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,560 Speaker 2: an All American last season, missed the final two weeks 1117 00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:33,600 Speaker 2: of the season because of an oblique injury. They said 1118 00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:36,240 Speaker 2: he'd be healthy, but if you read up on oblique injuries, 1119 00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,040 Speaker 2: those are the type of things that never really go 1120 00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:41,360 Speaker 2: away and very easily can come back. So it was 1121 00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:44,640 Speaker 2: kind of by default, and I just I obviously didn't 1122 00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:47,080 Speaker 2: see NC State coming and I did not believe in Duke, 1123 00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:49,840 Speaker 2: So that was the one that really screwed me. In 1124 00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:53,480 Speaker 2: the other bracket, I had North Carolina, and again that 1125 00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,040 Speaker 2: was more of a byproduct of I said all year 1126 00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:57,200 Speaker 2: and I still believe. 1127 00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:58,040 Speaker 3: I mean, we'll never know. 1128 00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:01,120 Speaker 2: I said, I think Arizona is as talented as any 1129 00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:01,960 Speaker 2: team in the country. 1130 00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:03,600 Speaker 3: But they had a lot of peaks and valleys. 1131 00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:05,600 Speaker 2: I mean, they lost to Oregon State this year, they 1132 00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:08,240 Speaker 2: lost to Stanford this year, they got swept by Washington State, 1133 00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:10,200 Speaker 2: which was a tournament team. But I don't know that 1134 00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:12,600 Speaker 2: that's a team that should be sweeping Arizona. So I 1135 00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,960 Speaker 2: didn't believe in Arizona. So I took Carolina and I 1136 00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,080 Speaker 2: think even Bama. Like it's easy to sit here now 1137 00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:20,400 Speaker 2: and say this, that and the other thing. I mean, 1138 00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:24,200 Speaker 2: they got destroyed. Yeah, they really struggled down the stretch, 1139 00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:27,400 Speaker 2: got destroyed in the SEC tournament, lost their final couple 1140 00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:30,520 Speaker 2: regular season games, lost that Tennessee lost to Florida late 1141 00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:31,040 Speaker 2: in the season. 1142 00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:32,600 Speaker 3: So anyway that I. 1143 00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:34,240 Speaker 4: Just wanted to I just want to see how you're doing. 1144 00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:36,320 Speaker 4: It seems like you're probably you're pretty close to where 1145 00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:36,600 Speaker 4: I am. 1146 00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:37,400 Speaker 3: How are you? 1147 00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:39,200 Speaker 4: How is your bracket? I should ask, it's pretty good. 1148 00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:41,280 Speaker 4: I mean, we'll see what happens to Purdue in Tennessee. 1149 00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:42,320 Speaker 4: But I had that matchup. 1150 00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:43,480 Speaker 3: Who do you have to borrow? 1151 00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:49,080 Speaker 4: I got Tennessee. Okay, I just how about this, Either 1152 00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:51,360 Speaker 4: Rick Barnes or Matt Pain or won is going to 1153 00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:52,000 Speaker 4: the Final four. 1154 00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:53,960 Speaker 2: And I think, you know, we're gonna save some of 1155 00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:55,760 Speaker 2: the previous stuff for hour three. But I will say 1156 00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:57,720 Speaker 2: really quick. It's like, by the way, everyone thinks I 1157 00:58:57,760 --> 00:58:59,840 Speaker 2: hate Perdue, like I don't hate Perdue. 1158 00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:01,040 Speaker 3: Frankly don't really hate. 1159 00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:04,040 Speaker 2: I don't like life's too short to hate sports teams 1160 00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:08,720 Speaker 2: like I hate dictators. I hate people that use animals. 1161 00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:11,920 Speaker 4: That's a short list, but yeah, dictator. Dictator's a good 1162 00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:12,640 Speaker 4: place to start. 1163 00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:15,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, I you know you abuse puppies. I got a 1164 00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:16,000 Speaker 3: problem with you. 1165 00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,960 Speaker 2: I don't hate any basketball team, but anyway that is 1166 00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,920 Speaker 2: to wear visors. Yeah, yeah, I mean there's things in 1167 00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:25,680 Speaker 2: life to hate, you know whatever. But the point I'm 1168 00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:28,840 Speaker 2: trying to make is, you know, Purdue clearly has a 1169 00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:31,480 Speaker 2: very big, passionate fan base that has not been to 1170 00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:33,880 Speaker 2: a final four essentially in the modern era. They made 1171 00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:36,480 Speaker 2: one in nineteen eighty, but the final four was not 1172 00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,760 Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty what it is now. The tournament expanded 1173 00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:41,960 Speaker 2: to sixty four and eighty five, So that shows you. 1174 00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:45,520 Speaker 2: And obviously, like Tennessee, I'll say this about Rick Barnes 1175 00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:46,840 Speaker 2: really quick, and I know this is kind of a 1176 00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:48,720 Speaker 2: nerdy thing, but I don't know if you ever got 1177 00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:50,720 Speaker 2: to spend time around and when you were doing radio 1178 00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:55,960 Speaker 2: in Tennessee, Jason. I know what the reputation is, and 1179 00:59:56,040 --> 01:00:00,400 Speaker 2: I know that some of the tournament results really like 1180 01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:02,959 Speaker 2: speak for themselves. But I will also say is couple 1181 01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:07,200 Speaker 2: things is one genuinely good human being. 1182 01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,520 Speaker 3: And I know people say, oh yeah, whatever, like grow. 1183 01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:14,160 Speaker 2: Everyone who's ever spent a second round him swears by him. 1184 01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:17,200 Speaker 2: And the thing too is like it was almost like 1185 01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:19,560 Speaker 2: a little bit like nat Oates kind of, but to 1186 01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:22,480 Speaker 2: obviously more of an extreme is when you really break 1187 01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:26,840 Speaker 2: down what he's done at Tennessee. Two SEC regular season titles, 1188 01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:32,000 Speaker 2: an SEC tournament title, you know, a ton of prosy. 1189 01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:34,800 Speaker 2: They really up until this year and and really, I 1190 01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:36,800 Speaker 2: mean they split with Kentucky, but he's he's kind of 1191 01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:37,800 Speaker 2: owned Caliperi. 1192 01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:39,280 Speaker 3: That was a rival that was like. 1193 01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:43,360 Speaker 2: He's done everything, but anytime you would say something nice 1194 01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:45,760 Speaker 2: about him, it became, oh, I mean, let's wait till 1195 01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:47,120 Speaker 2: we see what he does in March, and. 1196 01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,360 Speaker 4: It's like, look, I've been the leader of that chorus 1197 01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,680 Speaker 4: and everything you just said one hundred percent true. And 1198 01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:56,320 Speaker 4: I would love to see him get there because everybody 1199 01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:58,280 Speaker 4: that I know that's dealt with him, I think I've 1200 01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:03,120 Speaker 4: had very limited interaction with him, by yes, super genuine guy, 1201 01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:05,560 Speaker 4: and everyone says nice stuff. That story that came out 1202 01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:07,800 Speaker 4: in The Athletic, written by my friend Joe Rex wrote 1203 01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:13,160 Speaker 4: about TJ. Ford wanting to come be around He says, 1204 01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:16,280 Speaker 4: sometimes he just wants to come be around Rick even now, 1205 01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:18,480 Speaker 4: and so he'll leave Houston, He'll go spend a couple 1206 01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:21,040 Speaker 4: days with Rick and his family because of how important 1207 01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:24,200 Speaker 4: Rick is in his life. And basically when he came 1208 01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:26,000 Speaker 4: and saw Rick in December, Rick was like, there's a 1209 01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:29,040 Speaker 4: guy I really wants you to go spend some time with. 1210 01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:32,520 Speaker 4: And TJ's like, I want to see ze Kay Ziggler, 1211 01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:36,200 Speaker 4: and Barnes is like, that's the one. And because he 1212 01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:39,479 Speaker 4: has the highest regard for TJ. Ford, and TJ. Ford 1213 01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:43,000 Speaker 4: has the highest regard for Rick Barnes, And you know, 1214 01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:44,800 Speaker 4: you think about Ford. Ford's the guy that got to 1215 01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:48,800 Speaker 4: the final four with Rick Barnes, and you look at 1216 01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:53,640 Speaker 4: everything that they have done, it's I would like to 1217 01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:55,680 Speaker 4: see him get there. They're gonna have to play better 1218 01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:58,000 Speaker 4: than they've played in any game in this tournament to 1219 01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:03,160 Speaker 4: beat Purdue. They barely won that game on Friday night. 1220 01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:07,520 Speaker 4: But I think that this is one where if they 1221 01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:09,720 Speaker 4: could just shake off a little of the bad shooting, 1222 01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:11,680 Speaker 4: a little bit of that rust, and try to stay 1223 01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:14,000 Speaker 4: out of foul trouble, they I think they match up 1224 01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:17,440 Speaker 4: very well with Purdue. I'm looking very forward seeing that game. 1225 01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:20,240 Speaker 2: Really quickly. You mentioned TJ. Ford, and I know that's 1226 01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:23,640 Speaker 2: kind of random. He left Texas to go to the 1227 01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:28,520 Speaker 2: NBA in two thousand and two, came back to Texas, 1228 01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:33,200 Speaker 2: graduated from Texas in twenty seventeen. Rick Barnes flew to 1229 01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:36,520 Speaker 2: Austin to the place that fired him to be a TJ. 1230 01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:37,440 Speaker 3: Fords graduation. 1231 01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:39,440 Speaker 4: That's insane, Yes. 1232 01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:41,480 Speaker 3: And so whatever. 1233 01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:44,640 Speaker 2: If, by the way, if you're a Tennessee fan and 1234 01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:46,640 Speaker 2: you're just mad because your team has gotten there, okay, 1235 01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:48,920 Speaker 2: I get it. If you're a Kentucky fan that likes 1236 01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:51,480 Speaker 2: to poke, or an Alabama fan or a Memphis fan 1237 01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:53,960 Speaker 2: or whoever that likes to poke, that's what fans do. 1238 01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:55,959 Speaker 3: I get it. But he's a good guy. 1239 01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:57,280 Speaker 4: I'll say this. 1240 01:02:57,480 --> 01:02:59,640 Speaker 2: Anyone who spent real time around Matt Pater says he's 1241 01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:02,960 Speaker 2: a good guy. I poke it him a lot. But 1242 01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:04,760 Speaker 2: he's clearly a good coach. I mean, he's been on 1243 01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:06,640 Speaker 2: the doorstep. And again we'll. 1244 01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:08,200 Speaker 4: He's just wrong about the foul discrepancy. 1245 01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:10,960 Speaker 2: Oh okay, Well we'll talk about. 1246 01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:12,080 Speaker 3: What you know we speaking of coaches. 1247 01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:13,520 Speaker 4: I know we were going to talk about one in 1248 01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:15,600 Speaker 4: the in the women's game, and never got there. But 1249 01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:17,680 Speaker 4: maybe we can't. After disager, I'll tell you what. 1250 01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:20,000 Speaker 3: Let's toss it over the news desk. 1251 01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:21,960 Speaker 2: Let's get to Steve Desagar and then we will get 1252 01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:24,280 Speaker 2: to a very interesting story from the women's game. 1253 01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:26,520 Speaker 3: To Sagar, what's going on, my man? 1254 01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:28,720 Speaker 8: Well, we got a lot of college hoops to discuss. 1255 01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,520 Speaker 8: But first the two late games in Major League Baseball. 1256 01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:34,040 Speaker 8: As the Dodgers scored two runs bottom of the ninth 1257 01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:36,920 Speaker 8: to tie Saint Louis five to five. Cardinals have just 1258 01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,840 Speaker 8: gone back in front top of the tenth, six five, 1259 01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:40,960 Speaker 8: and it's over. 1260 01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:41,760 Speaker 3: In Seattle. 1261 01:03:41,920 --> 01:03:44,280 Speaker 8: The Mariners get three runs in the bottom of the 1262 01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:48,080 Speaker 8: tenth to edge Boston four to three. We had Washington 1263 01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:50,920 Speaker 8: with three in the ninth, winning seven to sixth at Cincinnati, 1264 01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:52,720 Speaker 8: and the Twins with four in the top of the 1265 01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:55,760 Speaker 8: ninth one at Kansas City five to one. Now to 1266 01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:59,040 Speaker 8: college hoops. You know, guys, we've had these last sixteen 1267 01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:03,680 Speaker 8: seasons of tournaments Yukon, either women's or men's has been 1268 01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:07,800 Speaker 8: in the final four every year. In fact, it could 1269 01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:11,320 Speaker 8: be both this year. Going to the final four, we'll 1270 01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:14,840 Speaker 8: find out Connecticut and usc women each one today. They'll 1271 01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:18,280 Speaker 8: face each other in a regional final on Monday, and 1272 01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:22,439 Speaker 8: Iowan LSU each won six Sweet sixteen games today and 1273 01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:25,400 Speaker 8: yes in a women's regional final Monday, we'll have a 1274 01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:28,959 Speaker 8: rematch of last year's national title game. Number one ranked 1275 01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:32,840 Speaker 8: Yukon men won the East Region in Boston today, dominating 1276 01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:35,680 Speaker 8: the second half against Illinois seventy seven to fifty two 1277 01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:38,400 Speaker 8: to the final that included a twenty five nothing run 1278 01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:41,160 Speaker 8: out of halftime. So next Saturday, at the Final four 1279 01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:45,120 Speaker 8: in Phoenix, it's defending champ Yukon against Alabama in its 1280 01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:48,160 Speaker 8: first ever Final four. BAMA was down thirteen in the 1281 01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:50,960 Speaker 8: first half in Los Angeles, but won the West Region 1282 01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:55,400 Speaker 8: final anyway eighty nine eighty two against Clemson. Bama a 1283 01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:58,800 Speaker 8: four seed against Clemson, a sixth seed. There are two 1284 01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:02,120 Speaker 8: more regional finals ti tomorrow, only three NBA games. Tonight, 1285 01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:04,440 Speaker 8: Boston got a one oh four to ninety two victory 1286 01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:06,720 Speaker 8: at New Orleans back in the win column after the 1287 01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:09,400 Speaker 8: Celtics lost two straight this week, both to the Hawks. 1288 01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:13,800 Speaker 8: Boston's record fifty eight and sixteen. Orlando beat Memphis one 1289 01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:17,479 Speaker 8: eighteen eighty eight. The magic mid third quarter Tonight led 1290 01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:20,920 Speaker 8: eighty two to thirty nine. Memphis with a record of 1291 01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:24,920 Speaker 8: twenty four and fifty. Milwaukee with win number forty seven 1292 01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:27,320 Speaker 8: of the season. Forty seven and twenty seven the record 1293 01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:30,200 Speaker 8: after a victory at Atlanta one twenty two to one thirteen. 1294 01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:35,400 Speaker 8: Janis ANTENNACUNMPO thirty six points, sixteen rebounds. Scottie Scheffler is 1295 01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:37,160 Speaker 8: in a five way tie for the lead at the 1296 01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:40,760 Speaker 8: Houston Open. They're up by one stroke over three other golfers. 1297 01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:43,480 Speaker 8: The Texas Open is next week. The next live golf 1298 01:05:43,520 --> 01:05:47,360 Speaker 8: event is next weekend in Miami. The Masters starts April eleventh. 1299 01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:51,080 Speaker 8: NASCAR's on Fox TV again tomorrow Easter Sunday, so it'll 1300 01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:53,760 Speaker 8: be a night race at Richmond seven pm Eastern time. 1301 01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:58,440 Speaker 8: Today's Infinity Race went to Chandler Smith. Eric Almerola finished 1302 01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:01,800 Speaker 8: in second. And a couple about college baseball. There is 1303 01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:05,840 Speaker 8: an MLB prospect, easily a top ten prospect. People in 1304 01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:09,040 Speaker 8: the no say at the Georgia Bulldogs. He had two 1305 01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:12,040 Speaker 8: more homers. Tonight against top ten Tennessee he had a 1306 01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:16,560 Speaker 8: five hit night. The man's name is Charlie Condon and 1307 01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:20,040 Speaker 8: at age twenty, he's played in twenty seven games this 1308 01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:24,000 Speaker 8: season and has nineteen home runs already to lead the nation. 1309 01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:28,600 Speaker 8: He's batting five twenty five, this after he was the 1310 01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:32,200 Speaker 8: SEC Freshman of the Year last year and led Georgia 1311 01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:36,160 Speaker 8: in homer's RBIs and batting average. He hit three eighty 1312 01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:40,080 Speaker 8: six as a freshman. Way to go, Charlie Condon. Can't 1313 01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:43,080 Speaker 8: wait see you play. And meanwhile, the PAC twelve network 1314 01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:46,640 Speaker 8: is still carrying games. The school year continues. The La 1315 01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:50,360 Speaker 8: Times late this afternoon tweeted out hey on the PAC 1316 01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:53,480 Speaker 8: twelve network the uclairs on a baseball game. The announcers 1317 01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:55,360 Speaker 8: have either left the booth for a hot dog in 1318 01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:58,280 Speaker 8: the tenth inning or their microphones don't work. It's a mystery. 1319 01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:01,960 Speaker 8: There's only crowd noise. There were announcers in the ninth 1320 01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:06,200 Speaker 8: no announcers for the telecast and the tenth inning Brockmeyer, 1321 01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:09,720 Speaker 8: or the eleventh inning or the twelfth inning when the 1322 01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:12,800 Speaker 8: game winning homer happened, and all you could hear was 1323 01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:16,800 Speaker 8: crowd noise, no actual call of the play, and. 1324 01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:19,919 Speaker 4: No actually letting the moment breathe. 1325 01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:23,560 Speaker 8: You got too much three inningsworth, Or maybe no one 1326 01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:25,680 Speaker 8: put a quarter in the microphone meter or of the booth. 1327 01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:29,200 Speaker 8: But either way, the PAC twelve network is going out 1328 01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:29,760 Speaker 8: with a bag. 1329 01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:30,800 Speaker 4: People back to you. 1330 01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:35,080 Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Steve di Seger. That's embarrassing, man. 1331 01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:37,680 Speaker 2: You know, you know if you finished the job. Pack 1332 01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:41,280 Speaker 2: twelve finished the job. Fox Sports Radio era towards Jason Martin. 1333 01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:43,160 Speaker 2: All Right, j mart you teased it and I want 1334 01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:44,240 Speaker 2: to get to it, by the way, to say, you'll 1335 01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:45,960 Speaker 2: be back in just a few minutes with his extended 1336 01:07:46,040 --> 01:07:48,960 Speaker 2: update plenty more on the day that you missed. Uh, 1337 01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:54,960 Speaker 2: today was the day a bombshell of a story sort 1338 01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:57,720 Speaker 2: of sot met me. I'll just I won't, I won't 1339 01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,200 Speaker 2: dance around it. So a week ago we saw a 1340 01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:02,440 Speaker 2: Kim Moulkey press conference. Kim Molkey's the head coach at 1341 01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:06,480 Speaker 2: LSU ls use the right national champion, and she basically 1342 01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:09,920 Speaker 2: I'll paraphrase, but she said, the Washington Post has been 1343 01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:11,640 Speaker 2: working on a hit piece for me for two years. 1344 01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:12,720 Speaker 3: I refuse to answer. 1345 01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:15,520 Speaker 2: Questions, blah blah blah, and let me just tell you, 1346 01:08:16,080 --> 01:08:18,200 Speaker 2: if this story comes out and there is one piece 1347 01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:21,559 Speaker 2: of news that is not accurate, I plan on suing 1348 01:08:22,040 --> 01:08:25,960 Speaker 2: for defamation. Well, the article came out today, Jason, and 1349 01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:27,559 Speaker 2: it was behind a paywall, so a lot of people 1350 01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:33,839 Speaker 2: haven't seen it. But essentially the story was not really 1351 01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:36,840 Speaker 2: all that damning it. You know, talked about kind of 1352 01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:40,200 Speaker 2: a unique background, a troubled background. She she's a strange 1353 01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:43,240 Speaker 2: for most of her family. And you know there there 1354 01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:47,439 Speaker 2: are some accusations by the Washington Post of potentially some 1355 01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:53,120 Speaker 2: unfavorable treatment to to to her uh to her players 1356 01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:56,799 Speaker 2: that are out of the closet, you know, homosexual basketball players. 1357 01:08:57,560 --> 01:09:00,880 Speaker 2: She obviously denies that or or she is publicly denied it. 1358 01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:04,080 Speaker 2: She did not speak to Washington Post for the interview. Obviously, 1359 01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:06,200 Speaker 2: the most notable one would be Britney Griner. The one 1360 01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:08,640 Speaker 2: thing about Britney Griner that was obvious was that she 1361 01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:12,000 Speaker 2: refused to publicly comment on Britney Griner when she was 1362 01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:16,479 Speaker 2: arrested in Russia. I have a couple thoughts just on 1363 01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:19,360 Speaker 2: the whole time frame of everything, Jason, But what is 1364 01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:22,960 Speaker 2: your reaction to this whole situation surrounding Kim Moulky. 1365 01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:25,760 Speaker 4: I think it's a bigger deal because Molchie talked about it. 1366 01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:30,360 Speaker 4: I don't know how miss the Washington Posts. With all 1367 01:09:30,439 --> 01:09:32,160 Speaker 4: due respect, not a whole lot of people are reading 1368 01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:34,400 Speaker 4: the Washington Post in twenty twenty four. They're just not 1369 01:09:34,560 --> 01:09:36,000 Speaker 4: like the story would have gotten out, but would have 1370 01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:39,120 Speaker 4: been that big a deal. I feel like when she 1371 01:09:39,200 --> 01:09:41,479 Speaker 4: found out about it, or when she was asked about 1372 01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:45,560 Speaker 4: it and responded, I think that's when, oh, well, we 1373 01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:48,800 Speaker 4: got to see what this is because it came across 1374 01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:54,519 Speaker 4: the way she reacted to It came across as what 1375 01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:55,559 Speaker 4: are you trying to hide? 1376 01:09:56,760 --> 01:09:56,840 Speaker 6: Like? 1377 01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:59,240 Speaker 4: What are you afraid is going to come out in this? 1378 01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:01,519 Speaker 4: Why are you talking about your lawyers are going to 1379 01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:04,879 Speaker 4: read this? You haven't read it? All that kind of stuff. 1380 01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:08,920 Speaker 4: Like she came out so aggressively against it. It was like, methinks, 1381 01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:11,800 Speaker 4: now doth protests too much, Like let's wait until it 1382 01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:14,280 Speaker 4: comes out and if then you can dispute it. Disputing 1383 01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:17,600 Speaker 4: it in advance just made more people read it that 1384 01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:21,960 Speaker 4: probably otherwise would not have. Maybe that's too simplistic for me, 1385 01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:25,240 Speaker 4: but that's just how I took it, Like I just 1386 01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:27,760 Speaker 4: feel like there's larger fish to fry. There's larger things 1387 01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:31,400 Speaker 4: that are going on. I don't know that an attempted 1388 01:10:31,479 --> 01:10:34,800 Speaker 4: hit piece in the Washington Post about Kim Mulki would 1389 01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:37,960 Speaker 4: have had that many legs. I really don't. And I 1390 01:10:37,960 --> 01:10:41,080 Speaker 4: think that had she not really talked about it, and 1391 01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:43,519 Speaker 4: it was kind of a weird week in anyway for 1392 01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:45,960 Speaker 4: Kim Mulki, because she had a couple of different things. 1393 01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:49,240 Speaker 4: She's now come out against the La Times as well 1394 01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:51,880 Speaker 4: for how they've talked about her players and things like that. 1395 01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:55,439 Speaker 4: So she's been out front this week, no question about it. 1396 01:10:55,479 --> 01:10:57,519 Speaker 4: I just I just felt like when I saw this, 1397 01:10:57,640 --> 01:10:59,720 Speaker 4: I was like, man, what is in this story? And 1398 01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:02,080 Speaker 4: then of course you already alluded to some of the 1399 01:11:02,120 --> 01:11:05,840 Speaker 4: things that were going to be alleged or we're going 1400 01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:08,200 Speaker 4: to be mentioned or whatever, And it seemed like as 1401 01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:10,920 Speaker 4: the piece came out, it was softer than expected. But 1402 01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:13,080 Speaker 4: that's because the way Molkie talked about it made it 1403 01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:15,360 Speaker 4: seem like it was going to be like a bomb dropping, 1404 01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:19,000 Speaker 4: and it didn't really end up being that. So I 1405 01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:21,559 Speaker 4: think it became a bigger story because of the way 1406 01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:22,599 Speaker 4: she reacted to it. 1407 01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:24,600 Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question, and you know, you 1408 01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:25,920 Speaker 2: only have a few minutes here because we had to 1409 01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:29,919 Speaker 2: get back to Sager. But do you think that because 1410 01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:34,040 Speaker 2: she came out and because she threatened a lawsuit that 1411 01:11:34,320 --> 01:11:38,000 Speaker 2: the story that was going to be published, like cause 1412 01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:40,439 Speaker 2: that was my thing by the way, you met interesting? Yes, 1413 01:11:40,720 --> 01:11:46,400 Speaker 2: And I again social media could be Yeah, I tweeted 1414 01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:50,280 Speaker 2: out that I believe that her speaking out probably led to, 1415 01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:53,439 Speaker 2: if not a I think at the very least, a 1416 01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:56,680 Speaker 2: watered down version of the story because I think if 1417 01:11:56,680 --> 01:11:59,240 Speaker 2: the Washington Post doesn't know if she they don't think 1418 01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:00,360 Speaker 2: that she knows it's coming. 1419 01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:02,839 Speaker 3: I don't want to say they take more liberties. 1420 01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:05,479 Speaker 2: I'm not accusing them of lying, but you know, you 1421 01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:07,719 Speaker 2: get one person on the record and they say something, 1422 01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:09,760 Speaker 2: and you know, maybe you run with it where she 1423 01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:10,879 Speaker 2: threatens to sue. 1424 01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:12,360 Speaker 3: Now all of a sudden, that. 1425 01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:15,120 Speaker 2: Juicy quote that was so good, but you can't really 1426 01:12:15,200 --> 01:12:15,840 Speaker 2: confirm it. 1427 01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:18,479 Speaker 4: Yeah, the sourcing is a little bit wonky, so we 1428 01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:19,479 Speaker 4: better pull that one. 1429 01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:23,960 Speaker 2: Yes, and that that's a really good but I hadn't 1430 01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:24,679 Speaker 2: thought about that. 1431 01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:26,519 Speaker 4: That's a really good point. If you get in front 1432 01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:28,599 Speaker 4: of it like that and you're like, yeah, you better 1433 01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:31,760 Speaker 4: have all your ducks in a row. And if that 1434 01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:35,320 Speaker 4: eliminates something in advance that then you would have had 1435 01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:37,759 Speaker 4: to deny after the fact, even if it was proven. 1436 01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:40,639 Speaker 4: So if it's put out there, you can only take 1437 01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:45,920 Speaker 4: it back in so many respects. That's a that's that's 1438 01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:48,599 Speaker 4: I had not thought about that. That. That is a 1439 01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:52,280 Speaker 4: very very plausible reason why you would come out so 1440 01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:55,200 Speaker 4: strongly in advance of it to stop some of the 1441 01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:57,240 Speaker 4: potential things from coming out at all. 1442 01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:00,360 Speaker 2: That was my thought, and that's why I thought it 1443 01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:03,160 Speaker 2: was interesting enough to at least discuss, you know, because 1444 01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:04,760 Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of people, and I think most 1445 01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:06,960 Speaker 2: people have the same perspective you do, is that if 1446 01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:09,559 Speaker 2: that was the big bombshell, she freaked out over nothing. 1447 01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:11,720 Speaker 2: I just think and you know, I could tell you 1448 01:13:11,760 --> 01:13:13,680 Speaker 2: I I you know, listen, I can't speak for the 1449 01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:14,320 Speaker 2: Washington Post. 1450 01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:18,240 Speaker 3: Whatever I know of there was there was. 1451 01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:20,360 Speaker 2: A another piece that was supposed to come out about 1452 01:13:20,360 --> 01:13:24,240 Speaker 2: a prominent person I'll just say in college athletics. 1453 01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:26,400 Speaker 3: And it was you know, it was a male guy. 1454 01:13:26,439 --> 01:13:29,920 Speaker 2: And the guy basically threatened the company of if there 1455 01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:32,920 Speaker 2: is one word that is not one hundred percent accurate 1456 01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:35,800 Speaker 2: in this story, my lawyers are ready to go. Maybe 1457 01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:37,759 Speaker 2: he didn't say it, maybe the lawyers reached out ahead 1458 01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:39,800 Speaker 2: of time, but he knew the story was coming, and 1459 01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:45,840 Speaker 2: he very explicitly let those lawyers know even or you know, 1460 01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:49,800 Speaker 2: the publication though, like you mess up one little tiny thing, 1461 01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:51,640 Speaker 2: you're gonna have. 1462 01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:53,920 Speaker 3: A lawsuit on your desk, you know, come the next 1463 01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:54,320 Speaker 3: day and. 1464 01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:58,519 Speaker 2: So that is what I believe that probably there was 1465 01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:01,479 Speaker 2: some stuff that that it's probably a watered down version 1466 01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:05,479 Speaker 2: of what they wanted to publish. I do believe it 1467 01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:07,439 Speaker 2: because and I'll say this, and there's no way to 1468 01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:10,120 Speaker 2: prove this, but kim Olki has been very outspoken about 1469 01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:12,200 Speaker 2: a lot of things that a lot of media are 1470 01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:15,920 Speaker 2: not comfortable with, most notably COVID. She famously ripped off 1471 01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:19,840 Speaker 2: her mask at her introductory press conference, and I think 1472 01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:21,400 Speaker 2: that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. And 1473 01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:24,160 Speaker 2: all I'll say lastly, because we got to get back 1474 01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:28,639 Speaker 2: to Seger, I do think that unfortunately now in the media, 1475 01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:33,720 Speaker 2: there's very few objective pieces, am I saying that right? 1476 01:14:33,760 --> 01:14:36,680 Speaker 2: Objective pieces where you look at both sides. And I 1477 01:14:36,720 --> 01:14:39,519 Speaker 2: do think there's a lot of I don't like this 1478 01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:42,320 Speaker 2: person because of something he or she said or did, 1479 01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:46,719 Speaker 2: and because of it, you know, I'm gonna I'm the. 1480 01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:48,760 Speaker 4: Stuff that was and the stuff well, by the way, 1481 01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:50,760 Speaker 4: and the stuff that was alleged or the stuff that 1482 01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:53,680 Speaker 4: had been kind of put out there is exactly the 1483 01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:55,880 Speaker 4: kind of stuff that Washington Posts would love to try 1484 01:14:55,920 --> 01:14:59,400 Speaker 4: and throw out. We know where their political leanings are. Yeah, 1485 01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:01,639 Speaker 4: we don't even have to name it. We know exactly 1486 01:15:01,640 --> 01:15:03,920 Speaker 4: where they are. Kim Molkey is on the opposite side 1487 01:15:03,960 --> 01:15:06,200 Speaker 4: of all of them, so if they could bring her 1488 01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:09,240 Speaker 4: down a couple of notches, it's not a conspiracy theory. 1489 01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:11,679 Speaker 4: You think that the Washington Post might not have had 1490 01:15:11,760 --> 01:15:13,840 Speaker 4: Kim Moulk's best in mind. 1491 01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:17,800 Speaker 2: Don't disagree. And I do think the story underwhelmed. I'd 1492 01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:19,960 Speaker 2: be fascinated to know if anything hit the cutting room 1493 01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:23,639 Speaker 2: floor after last week. Fox Sports Radio ertors Jason Martin. 1494 01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:25,960 Speaker 2: When we come back, we will bring back to Sager, 1495 01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:28,639 Speaker 2: and he's got all sorts of good stuff from throughout 1496 01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:31,160 Speaker 2: the day that you may have missed to Sager's next. 1497 01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:31,880 Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio. 1498 01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:35,080 Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 1499 01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:38,479 Speaker 6: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio 1500 01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:42,720 Speaker 6: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to 1501 01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:43,519 Speaker 6: listen live. 1502 01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:45,240 Speaker 4: Welcome back, everybody. 1503 01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:49,519 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio er Torris Jason Martin, broadcasting live from 1504 01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:52,040 Speaker 2: the Tireck dot Com studios, as we do every week, 1505 01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:56,439 Speaker 2: twelve forty five Eastern Time. Toss it over the news 1506 01:15:56,439 --> 01:15:59,560 Speaker 2: desk to Sager. The floor is yours. Let us know 1507 01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:00,879 Speaker 2: what we miss everything today. 1508 01:16:00,680 --> 01:16:03,479 Speaker 8: We got hoops and pig skin to discuss. I will 1509 01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:06,639 Speaker 8: mention that, my goodness, this late game at Dodger Stadium 1510 01:16:06,680 --> 01:16:09,360 Speaker 8: is still going. Mookie Bets homered in the ninth as 1511 01:16:09,400 --> 01:16:11,320 Speaker 8: part of the two and the ninth to keep this going. 1512 01:16:11,400 --> 01:16:13,920 Speaker 8: Right now, they're down two outs bottom of the tenth 1513 01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:16,760 Speaker 8: six ' five against the Cardinals, but the Dodgers have 1514 01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:19,360 Speaker 8: picked up first and third with two outs, and who's 1515 01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:21,640 Speaker 8: up but Mooky Bets, a guy who is homered in 1516 01:16:21,760 --> 01:16:26,400 Speaker 8: four straight games, has ten RBIs already this season. He 1517 01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:30,080 Speaker 8: has reached base in seventeen of his twenty four plate 1518 01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:33,400 Speaker 8: appearances to begin this season. And I mentioned earlier in 1519 01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:35,760 Speaker 8: the show tonight how notable it was that there was 1520 01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:38,800 Speaker 8: an actual rain delay at Dodger Stadium tonight, first rain 1521 01:16:38,920 --> 01:16:42,360 Speaker 8: delay in LA in nine years. There have been very 1522 01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:46,040 Speaker 8: few rainouts in the sixty plus year history of Dodger Stadium, 1523 01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:48,679 Speaker 8: less than twenty of them, about half of those occurred 1524 01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:51,479 Speaker 8: in April, and rain is the forecast for not only 1525 01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:55,080 Speaker 8: today but tomorrow as well at Dodger Stadium. They might 1526 01:16:55,120 --> 01:16:58,479 Speaker 8: be getting this game in. But the Dodgers did go 1527 01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:02,720 Speaker 8: eighteen years recently without a single rain out from two 1528 01:17:02,800 --> 01:17:06,640 Speaker 8: thousand to twenty eighteen. Bookie Bets has just walked, So 1529 01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:08,479 Speaker 8: guess who's coming up with basses loaded. 1530 01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:11,240 Speaker 2: Fun fact, by the way, to Sager, my mom and 1531 01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:16,080 Speaker 2: stepdad were out visiting me for a weekend, decided they 1532 01:17:16,120 --> 01:17:18,280 Speaker 2: wanted to go to an Angels game. It was the 1533 01:17:18,280 --> 01:17:21,320 Speaker 2: first Angels rain out in like twenty five years, so 1534 01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:23,360 Speaker 2: that was about. 1535 01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:23,880 Speaker 3: Two three years ago. 1536 01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:26,160 Speaker 2: So wow, doesn't happen very often out here, That's the 1537 01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:26,679 Speaker 2: point I'm trying. 1538 01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:29,559 Speaker 4: Also, fun fact, the Braves has scored twenty one runs 1539 01:17:29,600 --> 01:17:30,200 Speaker 4: in two games. 1540 01:17:30,200 --> 01:17:33,200 Speaker 8: Oh, it's just my goodness. It won a lineup still, 1541 01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:36,000 Speaker 8: it's it's amazing. By the way, it's shohe O Tani 1542 01:17:36,080 --> 01:17:38,519 Speaker 8: up with bases loaded, two out, spottom of the tenth. 1543 01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:41,439 Speaker 8: The Braves hit four homers today. They won twelve four 1544 01:17:41,479 --> 01:17:44,559 Speaker 8: at Philadelphia and beat Aaron Nola, to say the least, 1545 01:17:44,600 --> 01:17:47,280 Speaker 8: not a bad pitcher in the National League against the Braves. 1546 01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:50,200 Speaker 8: He gave up seven runs twelve hits in four and 1547 01:17:50,240 --> 01:17:52,960 Speaker 8: a third innings, three more hits for Ronald Dukunya, Ozzy 1548 01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:56,559 Speaker 8: Albi's three hits, three RBIs, and even though starter Max 1549 01:17:56,600 --> 01:17:59,360 Speaker 8: Freed of Atlanta was out in the first inning, three 1550 01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:03,320 Speaker 8: runs Alow and three walks. Atlanta wins twelve to four. 1551 01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:04,200 Speaker 4: So there you go. 1552 01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:08,719 Speaker 8: We mentioned college baseball the incredible note from the Georgia Star. Recently, 1553 01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:11,200 Speaker 8: I got to mention one other name. Paul Skans, who 1554 01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:14,000 Speaker 8: pitched at LSU, was drafted number one overall by the 1555 01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,840 Speaker 8: Pirates last summer. He had also pitched at air Force. 1556 01:18:17,200 --> 01:18:20,960 Speaker 8: He pitched at Triple A for Indianapolis today, three perfect innings, 1557 01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:25,360 Speaker 8: five strikeouts. He threw twenty one fastballs and averaged one 1558 01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:30,040 Speaker 8: hundred miles an hour. His slowest fastball today was ninety 1559 01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:34,280 Speaker 8: nine miles an hour. Paul Skiings, Pirates, Triple A. Okay, 1560 01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:37,799 Speaker 8: we've got Yukon and Alabama in the final four college 1561 01:18:37,800 --> 01:18:41,720 Speaker 8: hoops on the men's side next Saturday in Phoenix. Interesting 1562 01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:45,439 Speaker 8: note from AP that there was actually one other team 1563 01:18:45,479 --> 01:18:48,920 Speaker 8: to make a college football playoff and a basketball Final 1564 01:18:48,960 --> 01:18:52,760 Speaker 8: four in the same academic year, and it was Oklahoma 1565 01:18:52,800 --> 01:18:56,360 Speaker 8: almost a decade ago. They lost in the semifinal round 1566 01:18:56,439 --> 01:18:59,880 Speaker 8: in each sport. Bama, of course, lost its football semifinal 1567 01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:01,840 Speaker 8: at the Rose Bowl, and they have to play number 1568 01:19:01,840 --> 01:19:05,280 Speaker 8: one Yukon coming up next weekend, so we will see. 1569 01:19:05,680 --> 01:19:09,320 Speaker 8: As for Connecticut. My goodness, they're good. First defending champ 1570 01:19:09,360 --> 01:19:11,400 Speaker 8: to make it back to a Final four since the 1571 01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:14,120 Speaker 8: Florida Gators won back to back titles in two thousand 1572 01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:17,320 Speaker 8: and six and seven. These Huskies now have a tournament 1573 01:19:17,439 --> 01:19:21,679 Speaker 8: record tenth straight double digit victory going back to last year, 1574 01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:23,759 Speaker 8: and in the four games so far in this tournament, 1575 01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:28,160 Speaker 8: Connecticut has trailed for twenty eight seconds. The run they 1576 01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:31,040 Speaker 8: had coming out of halftime today and they beat Illinois 1577 01:19:31,080 --> 01:19:34,320 Speaker 8: seventy seven to fifty two was amazing. It was a 1578 01:19:34,360 --> 01:19:37,160 Speaker 8: twenty five zero run in the first seven minutes of 1579 01:19:37,200 --> 01:19:39,920 Speaker 8: the second half wound up being a thirty to zhering 1580 01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:42,639 Speaker 8: run total going back to late first half, and during 1581 01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:46,040 Speaker 8: that stretch Illinois shot oh of seventeen from the floor. 1582 01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:49,719 Speaker 8: Illinois is a team for the game twenty five percent shooting, 1583 01:19:49,800 --> 01:19:52,519 Speaker 8: and here Terrence Shannon had had one great scoring game 1584 01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:55,160 Speaker 8: after another. He was averaging twenty four points a game, 1585 01:19:55,560 --> 01:19:57,439 Speaker 8: two of twelve shooting from the floor. 1586 01:19:57,439 --> 01:19:57,960 Speaker 4: In the loss. 1587 01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:01,400 Speaker 8: He had double digit scoring in forty one straight games 1588 01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:04,559 Speaker 8: until facing Yukon. I had mentioned on the Sunday Night 1589 01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:07,240 Speaker 8: Show before the tournament, you just need to take a 1590 01:20:07,280 --> 01:20:10,240 Speaker 8: look at the stat field goal percentage defense for the 1591 01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:13,120 Speaker 8: regular season, and some of those teams around the top 1592 01:20:13,160 --> 01:20:15,920 Speaker 8: ten in that stat category wind up going deep in 1593 01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:18,759 Speaker 8: the tournament. You mentioned Houston had an injury and lost. 1594 01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:22,000 Speaker 8: Houston was number one, allowing just thirty eight percent shooting 1595 01:20:22,080 --> 01:20:25,559 Speaker 8: from the floor for opponents. Tennessee about thirty nine percent 1596 01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:29,880 Speaker 8: shooting by opponents, Yukon thirty nine point eight percent by 1597 01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:30,840 Speaker 8: opponents this year. 1598 01:20:31,400 --> 01:20:33,760 Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Steve de sag. Sager will be 1599 01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:36,560 Speaker 2: with us for one final hour. This is Tours and 1600 01:20:36,640 --> 01:20:39,160 Speaker 2: Martin Fox Sports Radio. We are taking up till two 1601 01:20:39,280 --> 01:20:42,840 Speaker 2: a m. Eastern time. Tell you what, Jason, why don't 1602 01:20:42,880 --> 01:20:45,439 Speaker 2: we come back talk a little bit more college hoops. 1603 01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:48,280 Speaker 2: Two spots in the Final four are set, two to 1604 01:20:48,320 --> 01:20:52,040 Speaker 2: be decided tomorrow. That's next Fox Sports Radio. Welcome in everybody, 1605 01:20:52,360 --> 01:20:56,360 Speaker 2: Hour two Fox Sports Radio, Eric tors Jsmart. We are 1606 01:20:56,439 --> 01:21:01,040 Speaker 2: broadcasting live from the tyreck dot Com studios. Tyreck dot 1607 01:21:01,080 --> 01:21:03,920 Speaker 2: com will help you get there and unmatched election, fast 1608 01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:08,440 Speaker 2: free shipping, free road hazard protection and over ten thousand 1609 01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:13,680 Speaker 2: recommended installers. Tyreck dot Com the way tire buying should be. 1610 01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:17,120 Speaker 2: As the Saga just told you, half of the Final 1611 01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:21,599 Speaker 2: four is set Yukon a dominant seventy seven to fifty 1612 01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:27,639 Speaker 2: two victory over Illinois, Alabama eighty nine eighty two over Clemson. 1613 01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:31,640 Speaker 2: Yukon and Alabama will meet next Saturday in Phoenix for 1614 01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:34,759 Speaker 2: the Final four. Obviously, the two games tomorrow, Purdue Tennessee 1615 01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:38,360 Speaker 2: is the early one and then the late one, little. 1616 01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:40,360 Speaker 3: Tobacco Road Jason Martin, We'll have to talk about that 1617 01:21:40,400 --> 01:21:44,200 Speaker 3: one later. I mean, you talk about you know, Torres. 1618 01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:47,120 Speaker 2: This childhood coming to life with Yukon, j March's childhood 1619 01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:49,800 Speaker 2: Tobacco Road to go to the final four, It's like, 1620 01:21:49,880 --> 01:21:51,320 Speaker 2: oh my goodness, gracious. 1621 01:21:51,840 --> 01:21:54,800 Speaker 3: Hence State and Duke will be the late one tomorrow. Jason, 1622 01:21:54,840 --> 01:21:57,520 Speaker 3: want to switch gears. You know, listen, it's a pretty. 1623 01:21:57,280 --> 01:22:01,400 Speaker 2: Quiet time in the NFL and endlessen you know, we could. 1624 01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:03,040 Speaker 2: We're gonna have plenty of time to dive into the 1625 01:22:03,120 --> 01:22:05,120 Speaker 2: NFL Draft, which obviously is coming up here in a 1626 01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:09,240 Speaker 2: few weeks. But there was one NFL story that caught 1627 01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:12,880 Speaker 2: my attention this week, caught our attention, and uh, I'll 1628 01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:15,280 Speaker 2: say this is that you know, in our business, like 1629 01:22:15,400 --> 01:22:17,360 Speaker 2: everybody likes to claim, oh I was that was the 1630 01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:19,559 Speaker 2: first one to say that or you know, I was 1631 01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:21,680 Speaker 2: thinking that and nobody else was seeing it when I 1632 01:22:21,760 --> 01:22:24,320 Speaker 2: saw it, and oh, that person stole my take because 1633 01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:27,679 Speaker 2: I said that years ago. I bring it up because 1634 01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:32,360 Speaker 2: I feel fairly confident that we had to take three 1635 01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:37,360 Speaker 2: Christmases ago that nobody else had that ended up being 1636 01:22:37,479 --> 01:22:42,960 Speaker 2: one thousand percent accurate. So Christmas of what was it 1637 01:22:43,160 --> 01:22:47,160 Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, I believe we were on air. Its 1638 01:22:47,200 --> 01:22:51,680 Speaker 2: our normal Saturday, and the Green Bay Packers played the 1639 01:22:51,960 --> 01:22:54,599 Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns. If you remember, this was the second year 1640 01:22:54,680 --> 01:22:57,160 Speaker 2: the NFL was playing on Christmas Day, the year before 1641 01:22:57,720 --> 01:23:00,880 Speaker 2: in twenty In Christmas of twenty twenty, they put a 1642 01:23:00,920 --> 01:23:05,240 Speaker 2: singular NFL game on Christmas Day because it was during 1643 01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:06,560 Speaker 2: the time where the NBA. 1644 01:23:06,479 --> 01:23:07,880 Speaker 3: Was coming out of the bubble. 1645 01:23:07,920 --> 01:23:09,519 Speaker 2: They didn't know if they were going to start their 1646 01:23:09,520 --> 01:23:15,120 Speaker 2: season by Christmas Day, so the NFL puts Viking Saints 1647 01:23:15,160 --> 01:23:18,760 Speaker 2: on Christmas Day. Then in the next year we got 1648 01:23:18,760 --> 01:23:21,280 Speaker 2: a doubleheader on a Saturday, which is kind of normal 1649 01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:22,800 Speaker 2: for that time of year. NFL plays a lot of 1650 01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:26,360 Speaker 2: games on Saturday. But there was a Browns Packers game. 1651 01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:28,839 Speaker 2: It was when Baker was with the Browns. Aaron Rodgers 1652 01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:31,040 Speaker 2: was in the midst of a Super Bowl season, and 1653 01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:34,000 Speaker 2: you and I came on and we must have talked 1654 01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:38,640 Speaker 2: Browns Packers for obvious reasons, probably the entire show. And 1655 01:23:38,680 --> 01:23:43,439 Speaker 2: I remember us talking at that time saying, I don't 1656 01:23:43,479 --> 01:23:48,000 Speaker 2: ever remember an NBA Christmas slate feeling less important. It 1657 01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:51,080 Speaker 2: felt like everybody in America was watching that Browns Packers game. 1658 01:23:51,400 --> 01:23:54,160 Speaker 2: Bring it up because they played again in twenty twenty two, 1659 01:23:54,920 --> 01:23:58,439 Speaker 2: and then this past year it was a bonanza, a 1660 01:23:58,479 --> 01:24:03,760 Speaker 2: tripleheader open with Raiders winning in Kansas City, and I 1661 01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:06,479 Speaker 2: think the total number was like thirty plus million watched 1662 01:24:06,520 --> 01:24:10,120 Speaker 2: that game, got a second game, which was I believe 1663 01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:14,519 Speaker 2: Eagles Giants, and then the late game was it was 1664 01:24:14,600 --> 01:24:17,080 Speaker 2: forty nine Ers Ravens, which was obviously at that moment 1665 01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:19,559 Speaker 2: in time, an incredible game because both were trending towards 1666 01:24:19,560 --> 01:24:22,280 Speaker 2: the number one seeds in their respective conferences. Bring it 1667 01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:25,160 Speaker 2: up because we said on that day, we said, okay, 1668 01:24:25,720 --> 01:24:28,240 Speaker 2: next year, Christmas falls on a. 1669 01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:29,440 Speaker 3: On a Wednesday. 1670 01:24:30,080 --> 01:24:32,880 Speaker 2: If the NFL decides to put Christmas Day games on 1671 01:24:32,920 --> 01:24:36,720 Speaker 2: a Wednesday, it is them officially planting their flag that 1672 01:24:36,920 --> 01:24:40,040 Speaker 2: they have taken over Christmas from the NBA. And there 1673 01:24:40,120 --> 01:24:42,320 Speaker 2: is nothing the NBA can do about it. The NBA 1674 01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:45,519 Speaker 2: got shoved into a locker and there ain't nothing they 1675 01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:47,960 Speaker 2: could do. Well, we find out this week there will 1676 01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:51,679 Speaker 2: in fact be two Christmas Day games this coming year 1677 01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:56,639 Speaker 2: on a Wednesday. Obviously that would be December twenty fourth. 1678 01:24:57,120 --> 01:25:01,120 Speaker 2: Twenty twenty four falls a twenty fifth excuse falls on 1679 01:25:01,160 --> 01:25:04,880 Speaker 2: a Wednesday. Two NFL games. I'm here to say, Jason, 1680 01:25:05,080 --> 01:25:07,439 Speaker 2: we talked about this two three years ago. It has 1681 01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:08,160 Speaker 2: come to fruition. 1682 01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:14,479 Speaker 4: Look, if you are not football, your success or your 1683 01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:18,760 Speaker 4: ownership of a certain part of the calendar is contingent 1684 01:25:18,920 --> 01:25:21,280 Speaker 4: upon whether or not the NFL decides it wants it 1685 01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:25,639 Speaker 4: or not. That's where we find ourselves. That's how big 1686 01:25:25,800 --> 01:25:29,479 Speaker 4: the National Football League is. Christmas was synonymous with the 1687 01:25:29,560 --> 01:25:33,360 Speaker 4: NBA forever, and all it's taken is a couple of 1688 01:25:33,439 --> 01:25:36,120 Speaker 4: years of a few games, and it has receded into 1689 01:25:36,120 --> 01:25:38,519 Speaker 4: the rear view. It doesn't mean that it's meaningless, but 1690 01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:40,960 Speaker 4: it does mean that it doesn't mean anywhere near as 1691 01:25:41,040 --> 01:25:44,880 Speaker 4: much as it once did. Anytime that the NFL wants 1692 01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:48,000 Speaker 4: to make a headline, anytime that they want to dwarf 1693 01:25:48,040 --> 01:25:51,360 Speaker 4: what else is happening, they can generally do it. They 1694 01:25:51,360 --> 01:25:53,559 Speaker 4: don't even have to play. They can actually just make 1695 01:25:53,640 --> 01:25:56,799 Speaker 4: news doing other things, and they can end up knocking 1696 01:25:56,880 --> 01:26:01,479 Speaker 4: you down the headline chart real fast. The NBA kind 1697 01:26:01,479 --> 01:26:05,080 Speaker 4: of left the door open a little bit, but on 1698 01:26:05,120 --> 01:26:06,680 Speaker 4: that really quick Yeah, go ahead. 1699 01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:10,519 Speaker 2: So I tweeted last year and again, why you're not 1700 01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:11,200 Speaker 2: on social media. 1701 01:26:11,240 --> 01:26:12,800 Speaker 3: You're a smart man and I'm an idiot. 1702 01:26:12,640 --> 01:26:17,679 Speaker 2: But I tweeted during that Raiders forty Raiders Chiefs game, 1703 01:26:18,240 --> 01:26:25,519 Speaker 2: I said, another another failure by the NBA, letting the 1704 01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:27,800 Speaker 2: NFL take over Christmas Day. And I had a bunch 1705 01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:30,200 Speaker 2: of people say, oh, if the NBA NFL wants to play, 1706 01:26:30,200 --> 01:26:32,840 Speaker 2: there's nothing the NBA can do. This goes back to 1707 01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:36,679 Speaker 2: twenty twenty. The NBA came out of the COVID bubble. 1708 01:26:36,720 --> 01:26:39,479 Speaker 2: Now credit Adam Silver for getting that bubble figuring out 1709 01:26:39,479 --> 01:26:42,439 Speaker 2: a way to finish their season, but they came out 1710 01:26:42,479 --> 01:26:45,439 Speaker 2: of the bubble. And if you remember, the season ended 1711 01:26:45,479 --> 01:26:48,479 Speaker 2: in like late September, early October, something like somewhere between 1712 01:26:48,520 --> 01:26:52,240 Speaker 2: mid September to mid October, and it was Lebron James 1713 01:26:52,640 --> 01:26:56,120 Speaker 2: amongst others that just said we don't want to start 1714 01:26:56,160 --> 01:27:00,360 Speaker 2: on Christmas Day, it's too soon. It's not enough recovery time. Mind, 1715 01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:02,280 Speaker 2: they had four months off before the playoffs started, but 1716 01:27:02,320 --> 01:27:03,320 Speaker 2: that's neither here nor there. 1717 01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:06,639 Speaker 3: And that was what opened the door for the NFL to. 1718 01:27:06,560 --> 01:27:08,200 Speaker 2: Say, well, wait a second, if these guys aren't playing, 1719 01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:10,519 Speaker 2: we've just kind of given this day to them for 1720 01:27:10,680 --> 01:27:13,280 Speaker 2: years unless it falls on a Sunday or maybe a Monday, 1721 01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:16,040 Speaker 2: and that so people say, well, it's not nothing. The 1722 01:27:16,160 --> 01:27:19,400 Speaker 2: NBA could have done well. Again if Adam Silver had 1723 01:27:19,439 --> 01:27:21,439 Speaker 2: a little bit more of a backbone, he said, guys 1724 01:27:21,439 --> 01:27:23,200 Speaker 2: were starting Christmas Day, whether you want to or not. 1725 01:27:23,520 --> 01:27:28,559 Speaker 2: Five games. Get ready, buckle up, get excited. This probably 1726 01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:30,000 Speaker 2: would have never happened the way that it did. 1727 01:27:30,479 --> 01:27:32,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, if you really want to own Christmas, 1728 01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:35,200 Speaker 4: then start your season on Christmas. Every year. We talked 1729 01:27:35,240 --> 01:27:39,240 Speaker 4: about this many times prior to Christmas. Nobody's really paying 1730 01:27:39,240 --> 01:27:41,880 Speaker 4: that close of attention anyway. All due respect to your 1731 01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:46,040 Speaker 4: in season tournament and your different color floors and all this, 1732 01:27:46,200 --> 01:27:48,719 Speaker 4: but football is happening at that point in time. We're 1733 01:27:48,720 --> 01:27:51,200 Speaker 4: not ready yet. We're not. Baseball's coming to an end, 1734 01:27:51,240 --> 01:27:54,320 Speaker 4: so we're watching the end of that and it's bleeding 1735 01:27:54,320 --> 01:27:55,960 Speaker 4: into football. And that's about all the time that we 1736 01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:59,360 Speaker 4: have at that point, and you starting your season towards 1737 01:27:59,400 --> 01:28:03,040 Speaker 4: the end of oux t over doesn't enhance things. Christmas 1738 01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:05,599 Speaker 4: to be a natural fit because it was your day. 1739 01:28:05,680 --> 01:28:07,800 Speaker 4: It was a day where we would open gifts and 1740 01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:09,880 Speaker 4: then we would hit around. A lot of times there'd 1741 01:28:09,880 --> 01:28:12,559 Speaker 4: be food and family, but there'd be basketball on. There'd 1742 01:28:12,600 --> 01:28:15,280 Speaker 4: be a Knicks game on at noon, seemingly every year 1743 01:28:15,320 --> 01:28:17,680 Speaker 4: when I was growing up, so they had it. It 1744 01:28:17,720 --> 01:28:20,880 Speaker 4: was theirs. But when you start your season earlier than that, 1745 01:28:21,439 --> 01:28:24,559 Speaker 4: and then, as you mentioned the players, and I mean, 1746 01:28:24,560 --> 01:28:27,200 Speaker 4: how many times have we done some version of this 1747 01:28:27,680 --> 01:28:34,160 Speaker 4: exact same take where the players are so lacking in 1748 01:28:34,280 --> 01:28:39,439 Speaker 4: awareness of their own responsibility for their sport. Like they're 1749 01:28:39,479 --> 01:28:43,200 Speaker 4: aware of what they want, they're aware of taking care 1750 01:28:43,240 --> 01:28:46,679 Speaker 4: of their own family, but in terms of and great 1751 01:28:46,760 --> 01:28:50,479 Speaker 4: that should be top priority. But there's a responsibility to 1752 01:28:50,560 --> 01:28:53,800 Speaker 4: the sport that has made them who they are, the 1753 01:28:53,840 --> 01:28:57,160 Speaker 4: sport that you know, without a league to play in. 1754 01:28:58,040 --> 01:29:00,400 Speaker 4: I don't know what you know. I don't know how 1755 01:29:00,479 --> 01:29:04,639 Speaker 4: lucrative they could have been. But they left the door open, 1756 01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:08,479 Speaker 4: like you said, by kind of being wishy washy on 1757 01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:13,800 Speaker 4: the idea of owning that day and again, I think 1758 01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:17,160 Speaker 4: there's just so many indicators where it does feel like 1759 01:29:17,640 --> 01:29:22,240 Speaker 4: these NBA players don't ever see a larger picture past themselves, 1760 01:29:22,840 --> 01:29:26,839 Speaker 4: and that has been a massive detriment. And that's where 1761 01:29:26,880 --> 01:29:30,960 Speaker 4: a leader like Adam Silver has to talk to them 1762 01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:34,920 Speaker 4: as adults and just say, hey, guys, this is where 1763 01:29:34,960 --> 01:29:36,799 Speaker 4: we are, and this is what we are as a business, 1764 01:29:36,840 --> 01:29:39,599 Speaker 4: and this is what we need from you guys. So 1765 01:29:39,640 --> 01:29:42,160 Speaker 4: we're asking this of you. And I just I don't 1766 01:29:42,160 --> 01:29:44,240 Speaker 4: think that I think they like Adam Silver. I don't 1767 01:29:44,240 --> 01:29:46,600 Speaker 4: think they respect Adam Silver because they know that they 1768 01:29:46,640 --> 01:29:48,600 Speaker 4: can get away with whatever they want. They know that 1769 01:29:48,680 --> 01:29:51,880 Speaker 4: they can be, you know, whatever version of an NBA 1770 01:29:51,880 --> 01:29:56,240 Speaker 4: player they want to be, they can do it. And 1771 01:29:56,280 --> 01:29:59,360 Speaker 4: he's just he's proven over and over again. You mentioned 1772 01:29:59,360 --> 01:30:02,800 Speaker 4: not having a back, He's just he's feckless. He comes 1773 01:30:02,840 --> 01:30:06,320 Speaker 4: across as weak. I just don't think David Stern, for example, 1774 01:30:06,600 --> 01:30:09,040 Speaker 4: this would have gone down the same way if it 1775 01:30:09,040 --> 01:30:11,719 Speaker 4: had been him in charge making the decision when Lebron 1776 01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:13,519 Speaker 4: and those guys said, oh no, we need more time 1777 01:30:13,560 --> 01:30:15,400 Speaker 4: than this. We don't want to start on Christmas Day. 1778 01:30:15,720 --> 01:30:18,559 Speaker 2: One hundred percent, And you know, and I think obviously 1779 01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:22,559 Speaker 2: it goes without saying this, uh this obviously, if you're 1780 01:30:22,600 --> 01:30:25,240 Speaker 2: playing on Wednesday, there's no reason to think that it's 1781 01:30:25,280 --> 01:30:29,200 Speaker 2: going to stop when it gets back to Thursday, Friday, Saturday, whatever. Yeah, 1782 01:30:29,479 --> 01:30:31,040 Speaker 2: you know, I don't know that there's a ton more 1783 01:30:31,080 --> 01:30:34,200 Speaker 2: meat on this bone. But but I will say is 1784 01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:37,880 Speaker 2: I do give credit to the NFL. Like, like you know, 1785 01:30:37,880 --> 01:30:40,559 Speaker 2: I always say like I like to follow the business 1786 01:30:40,560 --> 01:30:42,800 Speaker 2: of things, and I'm far from a business expert, but 1787 01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:47,640 Speaker 2: the way they continue to find ways to get the 1788 01:30:47,760 --> 01:30:51,640 Speaker 2: product to more people on more days, more whatever, I 1789 01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:53,519 Speaker 2: just think it's incredible. I mean, they had their first 1790 01:30:53,600 --> 01:30:56,479 Speaker 2: Black Friday game this year, and you know you could say, oh, 1791 01:30:56,560 --> 01:30:57,160 Speaker 2: is it too much? 1792 01:30:57,240 --> 01:30:57,400 Speaker 4: Is it? 1793 01:30:57,439 --> 01:30:57,519 Speaker 6: This? 1794 01:30:57,720 --> 01:30:58,000 Speaker 3: Is that? 1795 01:30:58,520 --> 01:31:01,680 Speaker 2: But I don't know, man, I just I continue to 1796 01:31:01,760 --> 01:31:05,200 Speaker 2: just be so impressed by them. They've taken over Christmas Day, 1797 01:31:05,240 --> 01:31:10,760 Speaker 2: They've taken over Thursdays, you know, the playoffs have expanded. 1798 01:31:10,800 --> 01:31:12,960 Speaker 2: And I'll say this too is like you know, you 1799 01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:14,919 Speaker 2: and I have talked about a lot with college football, 1800 01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:19,599 Speaker 2: the idea that there is a saturation point where there's 1801 01:31:20,320 --> 01:31:24,160 Speaker 2: where you can give us too much, where it's actually 1802 01:31:24,200 --> 01:31:26,680 Speaker 2: at a detriment to the sport. And what I mean 1803 01:31:26,680 --> 01:31:30,320 Speaker 2: by that for people that aren't following college football is great, 1804 01:31:30,600 --> 01:31:32,720 Speaker 2: but you let too many teams in that postseason all 1805 01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:35,800 Speaker 2: of a sudden, that regular season can't inherently mean as much. 1806 01:31:36,680 --> 01:31:39,559 Speaker 2: I could be wrong. I don't think we've gotten to 1807 01:31:39,560 --> 01:31:42,599 Speaker 2: that point in the NFL. We've added a seventeenth game, 1808 01:31:43,160 --> 01:31:45,240 Speaker 2: you know, all the experts say we'll eventually get to 1809 01:31:45,240 --> 01:31:49,479 Speaker 2: an eighteen game schedule. We've added another team to the 1810 01:31:49,479 --> 01:31:53,760 Speaker 2: playoffs in each each each conference. We've added a Black 1811 01:31:53,800 --> 01:31:57,360 Speaker 2: Friday game. We're now playing on Christmas regularly. Obviously, every 1812 01:31:57,439 --> 01:32:00,360 Speaker 2: Thursday is spoken for. We have a Monday night playoff game. 1813 01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:02,880 Speaker 2: I don't know, Jason, I mean, listen, Am I going 1814 01:32:02,920 --> 01:32:03,879 Speaker 2: to sit here and lie. 1815 01:32:03,760 --> 01:32:04,240 Speaker 4: That you know? 1816 01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:07,240 Speaker 2: I was in front of the TV for all three 1817 01:32:07,240 --> 01:32:09,519 Speaker 2: hours on Black Friday with a pen and paper, taking 1818 01:32:09,520 --> 01:32:10,160 Speaker 2: furious notes. 1819 01:32:10,200 --> 01:32:10,360 Speaker 4: No? 1820 01:32:10,479 --> 01:32:14,120 Speaker 2: Sure, but I don't think it has yet been at 1821 01:32:14,160 --> 01:32:16,519 Speaker 2: the detriment of the product. And I think you look 1822 01:32:16,560 --> 01:32:18,479 Speaker 2: at all these other sports you know we're talking about. 1823 01:32:18,600 --> 01:32:20,320 Speaker 2: Do we need one hundred and sixty two regular season 1824 01:32:20,400 --> 01:32:23,240 Speaker 2: baseball games? We need eighty two NBA regular season games? 1825 01:32:23,720 --> 01:32:28,000 Speaker 2: College football is expanding the playoff too much in the NFL. 1826 01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:30,960 Speaker 2: I don't feel like we were anywhere close to that 1827 01:32:31,040 --> 01:32:34,559 Speaker 2: point where it's like they're giving us too much. It's 1828 01:32:34,880 --> 01:32:37,120 Speaker 2: the product itself is starting to be devalue. 1829 01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:39,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's right. I mean I think that 1830 01:32:39,200 --> 01:32:44,439 Speaker 4: I think that the NFL and baseball both are in 1831 01:32:44,479 --> 01:32:47,240 Speaker 4: a spot where it still feels very difficult to make 1832 01:32:47,280 --> 01:32:51,040 Speaker 4: their postseason, and that matters, and that makes the regular 1833 01:32:51,120 --> 01:32:54,800 Speaker 4: season inherently more important to watch. College football has been 1834 01:32:54,840 --> 01:32:57,839 Speaker 4: a unique situation, and we're going to see it shift, 1835 01:32:58,000 --> 01:32:59,800 Speaker 4: especially if it goes to you know, if it can 1836 01:33:00,160 --> 01:33:04,080 Speaker 4: used to expand. But the regular season was, in its 1837 01:33:04,120 --> 01:33:08,720 Speaker 4: own way, a knockout round over and over again. So 1838 01:33:09,120 --> 01:33:11,120 Speaker 4: you know, you look at the NBA, half the leagues 1839 01:33:11,160 --> 01:33:14,040 Speaker 4: in the playoffs. Same thing's true in the NHL. But 1840 01:33:14,080 --> 01:33:17,840 Speaker 4: the NHL playoffs are fantastic and past just the and look, 1841 01:33:17,880 --> 01:33:22,080 Speaker 4: the NBA playoffs are too. But I think that baseball 1842 01:33:22,080 --> 01:33:24,560 Speaker 4: in the NFL both I used to argue, and I 1843 01:33:24,640 --> 01:33:25,880 Speaker 4: think I said this a couple of weeks ago. I 1844 01:33:25,920 --> 01:33:27,519 Speaker 4: used to argue, one hundred and sixty two games, how 1845 01:33:27,520 --> 01:33:29,280 Speaker 4: can you make me care for one? But then you 1846 01:33:29,320 --> 01:33:30,840 Speaker 4: get to the end of the season and there's some 1847 01:33:30,920 --> 01:33:32,760 Speaker 4: kind of a play in just to get in. But 1848 01:33:32,840 --> 01:33:35,960 Speaker 4: it's not like to get the fifteen seed or something 1849 01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:39,160 Speaker 4: like that. Like it's still it required a heck of 1850 01:33:39,200 --> 01:33:42,439 Speaker 4: a season to even be in a spot to do that, 1851 01:33:42,520 --> 01:33:45,240 Speaker 4: and it's been attrition for five months and a story 1852 01:33:45,320 --> 01:33:47,800 Speaker 4: and you know, there's there's just a difference to it. 1853 01:33:47,840 --> 01:33:50,719 Speaker 4: An eighteen game schedule for the NFL doesn't change anything. 1854 01:33:51,160 --> 01:33:53,719 Speaker 4: We would change everything for the NFL. The worst mistake 1855 01:33:53,760 --> 01:33:56,639 Speaker 4: that they could possibly make is to expand further than this, 1856 01:33:57,200 --> 01:33:59,920 Speaker 4: because I like what they have right now. I think 1857 01:34:00,120 --> 01:34:01,960 Speaker 4: you get I think you get a whale of a 1858 01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:04,479 Speaker 4: wildcard round. Now, you get a lot of football to watch, 1859 01:34:04,520 --> 01:34:07,559 Speaker 4: you get multiple games. It just feels like an event. 1860 01:34:07,680 --> 01:34:12,040 Speaker 4: It feels special. You keep adding it dilutes that. So 1861 01:34:12,080 --> 01:34:14,000 Speaker 4: I think that they're in a perfect spot right now 1862 01:34:14,080 --> 01:34:17,439 Speaker 4: where every game during the regular season matters. You have 1863 01:34:17,520 --> 01:34:20,320 Speaker 4: a commissioner who's basically like, look, i'll find you if 1864 01:34:20,360 --> 01:34:22,160 Speaker 4: you're not trying in the final week of the season. 1865 01:34:23,280 --> 01:34:25,000 Speaker 4: Like he steps out and he's like, no, we have 1866 01:34:25,040 --> 01:34:26,760 Speaker 4: a product and we're going to make sure that people 1867 01:34:26,760 --> 01:34:28,720 Speaker 4: that buy tickets, at the very least, they're going to 1868 01:34:28,800 --> 01:34:31,639 Speaker 4: get something out of their money. And then you get 1869 01:34:31,640 --> 01:34:33,920 Speaker 4: to a playoffs and it still feels exclusive, and it 1870 01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:36,559 Speaker 4: still feels special. And I think that that right there 1871 01:34:36,720 --> 01:34:40,479 Speaker 4: gives them an advantage and they have milked it and 1872 01:34:40,560 --> 01:34:41,719 Speaker 4: used it for all it's worth. 1873 01:34:42,640 --> 01:34:43,719 Speaker 3: Interesting stuff. 1874 01:34:43,880 --> 01:34:47,720 Speaker 2: The NFL will have two Christmas Day games on a 1875 01:34:47,800 --> 01:34:52,200 Speaker 2: Wednesday next year. 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If you missed any of today's show, 1908 01:36:21,560 --> 01:36:23,479 Speaker 2: be sure to check out the podcast. Just search Fox 1909 01:36:23,520 --> 01:36:26,479 Speaker 2: Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts, and be sure 1910 01:36:26,479 --> 01:36:29,519 Speaker 2: to also follow, rate and review the podcast. Again, just 1911 01:36:29,520 --> 01:36:32,080 Speaker 2: search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts, and 1912 01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:35,360 Speaker 2: you'll see this show posted right after we get off air. 1913 01:36:36,479 --> 01:36:40,080 Speaker 2: Half of the men's Final four is set Yukon beating 1914 01:36:40,120 --> 01:36:44,880 Speaker 2: Illinois seventy seven fifty two, Alabama beating Clemson eighty nine 1915 01:36:44,960 --> 01:36:45,799 Speaker 2: eighty two to saga. 1916 01:36:45,840 --> 01:36:48,360 Speaker 3: We'll have you details on that in just a moment. 1917 01:36:48,479 --> 01:36:52,600 Speaker 4: How's your bracket? By the way, erin Well I had this. 1918 01:36:52,840 --> 01:36:55,120 Speaker 4: We haven't got any updates. We usually get updates from 1919 01:36:55,400 --> 01:36:57,080 Speaker 4: you know, from the bosses because we're doing the whole 1920 01:36:57,080 --> 01:36:59,559 Speaker 4: thing with the listeners. Sure, I don't know where I stand. 1921 01:36:59,560 --> 01:37:01,519 Speaker 4: I know how my final four were still intact. 1922 01:37:02,360 --> 01:37:05,920 Speaker 3: So half of my final four is still intact as well. 1923 01:37:05,960 --> 01:37:10,120 Speaker 2: So I had two Elite eight games perfect, which probably 1924 01:37:10,160 --> 01:37:15,960 Speaker 2: not surprising were Yukon Illinois yea, and then to Tennessee 1925 01:37:16,000 --> 01:37:20,439 Speaker 2: and Purdue exactly. And so I had, you know, the 1926 01:37:20,479 --> 01:37:25,759 Speaker 2: one screw up I made, and you know, I blame myself, 1927 01:37:25,760 --> 01:37:28,360 Speaker 2: but I don't blame myself. I did have Kentucky in 1928 01:37:28,400 --> 01:37:32,360 Speaker 2: the final four, yeah, and you know, but but listen, 1929 01:37:32,439 --> 01:37:34,120 Speaker 2: I'm not trying to make this about my bracket. But 1930 01:37:34,720 --> 01:37:37,360 Speaker 2: like I think, it's easy to crush count all that. 1931 01:37:37,400 --> 01:37:40,040 Speaker 2: I mean, they won at Tennessee on the final game 1932 01:37:40,080 --> 01:37:43,719 Speaker 2: of the regular season. And my logic was was pretty simple, 1933 01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:47,479 Speaker 2: is that Houston was banged up coming into the tournament. 1934 01:37:47,520 --> 01:37:53,720 Speaker 2: Forget what happened with Jamal shed last night. Marquette was 1935 01:37:53,800 --> 01:37:56,280 Speaker 2: banged up coming into the tournament as well. Remember, Tyler 1936 01:37:56,360 --> 01:38:00,639 Speaker 2: Kohlik was an All American last season. The final two 1937 01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:02,680 Speaker 2: weeks of the season because of an oblique injury. They 1938 01:38:02,720 --> 01:38:04,760 Speaker 2: said he'd be healthy, but if you read up on 1939 01:38:04,840 --> 01:38:06,920 Speaker 2: oblique injuries, those are the type of things that never 1940 01:38:06,960 --> 01:38:09,800 Speaker 2: really go away and very easily can come back. So 1941 01:38:10,320 --> 01:38:12,960 Speaker 2: it was kind of by default, and I just I 1942 01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:15,439 Speaker 2: obviously didn't see NC State coming and I did not 1943 01:38:15,560 --> 01:38:16,360 Speaker 2: believe in Duke. 1944 01:38:17,320 --> 01:38:18,960 Speaker 3: So that was the one that really screwed me. 1945 01:38:19,040 --> 01:38:22,599 Speaker 2: In the other bracket, I had North Carolina, and again 1946 01:38:22,680 --> 01:38:25,040 Speaker 2: that was more of a byproduct of I said all 1947 01:38:25,120 --> 01:38:26,479 Speaker 2: year and I still believe. 1948 01:38:26,520 --> 01:38:27,320 Speaker 3: I mean, we'll never know. 1949 01:38:27,800 --> 01:38:30,439 Speaker 2: I said, I think Arizona is as talented as any 1950 01:38:30,439 --> 01:38:32,120 Speaker 2: team in the country, but they had a lot of 1951 01:38:32,160 --> 01:38:34,479 Speaker 2: peaks and valleys. I mean, they lost to Oregon State 1952 01:38:34,520 --> 01:38:36,400 Speaker 2: this year, they lost to Stanford this year. They got 1953 01:38:36,439 --> 01:38:38,680 Speaker 2: swept by Washington State, which was a tournament team. But 1954 01:38:38,960 --> 01:38:41,200 Speaker 2: I don't know that that's a team that should be sweeping Arizona. 1955 01:38:41,320 --> 01:38:44,440 Speaker 2: So I didn't believe in Arizona. So I took Carolina, 1956 01:38:45,040 --> 01:38:48,000 Speaker 2: and I think even Bama, like it's easy to sit 1957 01:38:48,040 --> 01:38:49,519 Speaker 2: here now and say this, that and the other thing. 1958 01:38:49,520 --> 01:38:53,479 Speaker 2: I mean, they got destroyed. They really struggled down the stretch, 1959 01:38:53,560 --> 01:38:56,719 Speaker 2: got destroyed in the SEC tournament, lost their final couple 1960 01:38:56,760 --> 01:38:59,760 Speaker 2: regular season games lost that Tennessee lost to Florida late 1961 01:38:59,760 --> 01:39:00,280 Speaker 2: in this season. 1962 01:39:00,400 --> 01:39:02,880 Speaker 4: So anyway that I just want to I just want 1963 01:39:02,920 --> 01:39:04,559 Speaker 4: to see how you're doing. It seems like you're probably 1964 01:39:04,640 --> 01:39:06,680 Speaker 4: you're pretty close to where I am. How are you? 1965 01:39:06,720 --> 01:39:07,920 Speaker 3: How is your bracket? I should ask? 1966 01:39:07,920 --> 01:39:09,800 Speaker 4: It's pretty good. I mean, we'll see what happens to 1967 01:39:09,800 --> 01:39:12,080 Speaker 4: Purdue in Tennessee. But I had that matchup. Who do 1968 01:39:12,080 --> 01:39:17,559 Speaker 4: you have to I got Tennessee. Okay, I just how 1969 01:39:17,560 --> 01:39:19,880 Speaker 4: about this. Either Rick Barnes or Matt Painter or one 1970 01:39:20,240 --> 01:39:22,280 Speaker 4: is going to the Final four, and I think. 1971 01:39:22,160 --> 01:39:23,920 Speaker 3: You know, we're gonna save some of the previous stuff 1972 01:39:23,920 --> 01:39:24,400 Speaker 3: for our three. 1973 01:39:24,439 --> 01:39:26,360 Speaker 2: But I will say really quick, it's like, by the way, 1974 01:39:26,360 --> 01:39:29,120 Speaker 2: everyone thinks I hate Perdue, Like I don't hate Perdue. 1975 01:39:29,160 --> 01:39:30,360 Speaker 3: I frankly don't really hate. 1976 01:39:30,400 --> 01:39:33,360 Speaker 2: I don't like life's too short to hate sports teams 1977 01:39:33,400 --> 01:39:35,240 Speaker 2: like I hate dictators. 1978 01:39:35,439 --> 01:39:38,439 Speaker 4: I hate people that use animals. That's a that's a 1979 01:39:38,479 --> 01:39:41,439 Speaker 4: short list. But yeah, dictator, Dictator is a good place 1980 01:39:41,479 --> 01:39:44,280 Speaker 4: to start. Yeah, I you know you abuse puppies. I 1981 01:39:44,360 --> 01:39:47,920 Speaker 4: got a problem with you. I don't hate any basketball team, 1982 01:39:47,920 --> 01:39:49,640 Speaker 4: but anyway that is to. 1983 01:39:49,680 --> 01:39:52,479 Speaker 2: Wear visors, Yeah, yeah, I mean, there's things in life 1984 01:39:52,479 --> 01:39:55,200 Speaker 2: to hate, you know whatever. But the point I'm trying 1985 01:39:55,200 --> 01:39:58,800 Speaker 2: to make is, you know, Purdue clearly has a very big, 1986 01:39:58,880 --> 01:40:01,280 Speaker 2: passionate fan base that has not been to a final 1987 01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:03,400 Speaker 2: four essentially in the modern era. They made one in 1988 01:40:03,479 --> 01:40:06,400 Speaker 2: nineteen eighty, but the final four was not in nineteen 1989 01:40:06,439 --> 01:40:09,519 Speaker 2: eighty what it is now The tournament expanded to sixty 1990 01:40:09,560 --> 01:40:12,519 Speaker 2: four and eighty five, so that shows you, uh, And obviously, 1991 01:40:12,760 --> 01:40:15,240 Speaker 2: like Tennessee, I'll say this about Rick Barnes really quick, 1992 01:40:15,280 --> 01:40:16,760 Speaker 2: and I know this is kind of a nerdy thing, 1993 01:40:16,800 --> 01:40:18,400 Speaker 2: but I don't know if you ever got to spend 1994 01:40:18,400 --> 01:40:20,799 Speaker 2: time around him when you were doing radio in Tennessee. 1995 01:40:20,920 --> 01:40:21,280 Speaker 4: Jason. 1996 01:40:23,080 --> 01:40:26,000 Speaker 2: I know what the reputation is, and I know that 1997 01:40:26,040 --> 01:40:30,919 Speaker 2: some of the tournament results really like speak for themselves, 1998 01:40:31,000 --> 01:40:33,400 Speaker 2: but I will also say is Gouble Things is one 1999 01:40:34,200 --> 01:40:38,719 Speaker 2: genuinely good human being. And I know people say, oh yeah, whatever, 2000 01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:42,240 Speaker 2: like grow everyone who's ever spent a second round him 2001 01:40:42,520 --> 01:40:45,840 Speaker 2: swears by him. And the thing too is like it 2002 01:40:45,920 --> 01:40:48,400 Speaker 2: was almost like a little bit like nat Oates kind of, 2003 01:40:48,400 --> 01:40:51,040 Speaker 2: but to obviously more of an extreme is when you 2004 01:40:51,120 --> 01:40:54,880 Speaker 2: really break down what he's done at Tennessee. Two SEC 2005 01:40:55,000 --> 01:40:59,680 Speaker 2: regular season titles, an SEC tournament title, you know, a 2006 01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:03,960 Speaker 2: ton of prosy. They really up until this year, and really, 2007 01:41:04,040 --> 01:41:06,000 Speaker 2: I mean they split with Kentucky. But he's he's kind 2008 01:41:06,040 --> 01:41:08,519 Speaker 2: of owned Caliperri. That was a rival that was like, 2009 01:41:08,560 --> 01:41:12,639 Speaker 2: he's done everything, but anytime you would say something nice 2010 01:41:12,680 --> 01:41:15,080 Speaker 2: about him, it became, oh, I mean, let's wait till 2011 01:41:15,080 --> 01:41:16,760 Speaker 2: we see what he does in March, and it's like. 2012 01:41:16,880 --> 01:41:19,400 Speaker 4: Look, I've been the leader of that chorus and everything 2013 01:41:19,400 --> 01:41:22,320 Speaker 4: you just said one hundred percent true. And I would 2014 01:41:22,320 --> 01:41:25,880 Speaker 4: love to see him get there because everybody that I 2015 01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:28,000 Speaker 4: know that's dealt with him, I think I've had very 2016 01:41:28,040 --> 01:41:32,679 Speaker 4: limited interaction with him, but yes, super genuine guy, and 2017 01:41:32,800 --> 01:41:34,920 Speaker 4: everyone says nice stuff. That story that came out in 2018 01:41:34,920 --> 01:41:38,880 Speaker 4: The Athletic, written by my friend Joe Rex, wrote about TJ. 2019 01:41:39,080 --> 01:41:42,920 Speaker 4: Ford wanting to come be around He says, sometimes he 2020 01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:45,960 Speaker 4: just wants to come be around Rick, even now, and 2021 01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:48,040 Speaker 4: so he'll leave Houston. He'll go spend a couple days 2022 01:41:48,040 --> 01:41:50,559 Speaker 4: with Rick and his family because of how important Rick 2023 01:41:50,720 --> 01:41:53,600 Speaker 4: is in his life. And basically when he came and 2024 01:41:53,600 --> 01:41:55,439 Speaker 4: saw Rick in December, Rick was like, there's a guy 2025 01:41:55,479 --> 01:41:58,160 Speaker 4: I really wants you to to go spend some time 2026 01:41:58,200 --> 01:42:01,799 Speaker 4: with and TJ's like, I want to see Zekayi Ziggler, 2027 01:42:02,400 --> 01:42:05,479 Speaker 4: and Barnes is like, that's the one. And because he 2028 01:42:05,560 --> 01:42:08,760 Speaker 4: has the highest regard for TJ. Ford and TJ Ford 2029 01:42:08,760 --> 01:42:12,280 Speaker 4: as the highest regard for Rick Barnes. And you know, 2030 01:42:12,320 --> 01:42:14,080 Speaker 4: you think about Ford. Ford's the guy that got to 2031 01:42:14,120 --> 01:42:18,080 Speaker 4: the final four with Rick Barnes, and you look at 2032 01:42:18,120 --> 01:42:22,920 Speaker 4: everything that they have done, it's I would like to 2033 01:42:22,960 --> 01:42:24,960 Speaker 4: see him get there. They're gonna have to play better 2034 01:42:25,000 --> 01:42:27,280 Speaker 4: than they've played in any game in this tournament to 2035 01:42:27,360 --> 01:42:32,439 Speaker 4: beat Purdue. They barely won that game on Friday night, 2036 01:42:32,800 --> 01:42:36,240 Speaker 4: but I think that this is this is one where 2037 01:42:36,560 --> 01:42:38,240 Speaker 4: if they could just shake off a little of the 2038 01:42:38,280 --> 01:42:40,680 Speaker 4: bad shooting, a little bit of that rust and try 2039 01:42:40,720 --> 01:42:42,439 Speaker 4: to stay out of foul trouble, I think they I 2040 01:42:42,439 --> 01:42:44,639 Speaker 4: think they match up very well with Purdue. I'm looking 2041 01:42:45,160 --> 01:42:47,719 Speaker 4: very forward seeing that game really quickly. 2042 01:42:47,760 --> 01:42:50,160 Speaker 3: You mentioned TJ. Ford, and I know that's kind of random. 2043 01:42:50,800 --> 01:42:54,080 Speaker 2: He left Texas to go to the NBA in two 2044 01:42:54,120 --> 01:42:59,439 Speaker 2: thousand and two, came back to Texas, graduated from Texas 2045 01:42:59,479 --> 01:43:03,240 Speaker 2: in twenty he's seventeen. Rick Barnes flew to Austin to 2046 01:43:03,360 --> 01:43:06,719 Speaker 2: the place that fired him to be a TJ. Fords graduation. 2047 01:43:07,200 --> 01:43:07,960 Speaker 4: That's insane. 2048 01:43:08,160 --> 01:43:10,839 Speaker 3: Yes, and so whatever. 2049 01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:13,920 Speaker 2: If, by the way, if you're a Tennessee fan and 2050 01:43:13,960 --> 01:43:15,920 Speaker 2: you're just mad because your team has gone there, okay, 2051 01:43:15,960 --> 01:43:18,160 Speaker 2: I get it. Uh, if you're a Kentucky fan likes 2052 01:43:18,240 --> 01:43:20,760 Speaker 2: to poke, or an Alabama fan or a Memphis fan 2053 01:43:20,840 --> 01:43:23,160 Speaker 2: or whoever that likes to poke, that's what fans do. 2054 01:43:23,320 --> 01:43:25,240 Speaker 3: I get it. But he's a good guy. 2055 01:43:26,080 --> 01:43:26,559 Speaker 4: I'll say this. 2056 01:43:26,760 --> 01:43:29,000 Speaker 2: Anyone who's spent real time around Matt Pater says he's 2057 01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:29,519 Speaker 2: a good guy too. 2058 01:43:29,560 --> 01:43:33,160 Speaker 3: I poke it him a lot, but he's clearly. 2059 01:43:32,840 --> 01:43:34,720 Speaker 2: A good coach. I mean, he's been on the doorstep. 2060 01:43:35,120 --> 01:43:37,480 Speaker 4: And again we'll he's just wrong about the foul discrepancy. 2061 01:43:37,600 --> 01:43:40,080 Speaker 3: Oh okay, well we'll talk about what. 2062 01:43:40,280 --> 01:43:41,840 Speaker 4: You know, we're speaking of coaches. I know we were 2063 01:43:41,840 --> 01:43:44,000 Speaker 4: gonna talk about one in the in the women's game 2064 01:43:44,000 --> 01:43:46,720 Speaker 4: and never got there. But maybe we can't after Disager. 2065 01:43:46,400 --> 01:43:46,960 Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. 2066 01:43:47,320 --> 01:43:49,840 Speaker 2: Let's let's toss it over the news desk. Let's get 2067 01:43:49,840 --> 01:43:51,479 Speaker 2: to Steve Disager, and then we will get to a 2068 01:43:51,680 --> 01:43:54,960 Speaker 2: very interesting story from the women's game to saga, what's 2069 01:43:55,000 --> 01:43:55,439 Speaker 2: going on? 2070 01:43:55,479 --> 01:43:55,800 Speaker 8: My man? 2071 01:43:55,960 --> 01:43:56,559 Speaker 4: Well, we got a. 2072 01:43:56,560 --> 01:43:58,880 Speaker 8: Lot of college hoops to discuss. But first, the two 2073 01:43:58,920 --> 01:44:01,920 Speaker 8: late games in Major League Baseball, as the Dodgers scored 2074 01:44:01,960 --> 01:44:04,559 Speaker 8: two runs bottom of the ninth to tie Saint Louis 2075 01:44:04,640 --> 01:44:07,400 Speaker 8: five to five. Cardinals have just gone back in front 2076 01:44:07,439 --> 01:44:11,040 Speaker 8: top of the tenth, six five, and it's over in Seattle. 2077 01:44:11,200 --> 01:44:13,559 Speaker 8: The Mariners get three runs in the bottom of the 2078 01:44:13,640 --> 01:44:17,360 Speaker 8: tenth to edge Boston four to three. We had Washington 2079 01:44:17,439 --> 01:44:20,200 Speaker 8: with three in the ninth, winning seven to six at Cincinnati, 2080 01:44:20,240 --> 01:44:22,040 Speaker 8: and the Twins with four in the top of the 2081 01:44:22,120 --> 01:44:25,080 Speaker 8: ninth one at Kansas City five to one. Now to 2082 01:44:25,160 --> 01:44:28,320 Speaker 8: college hoops. You know, guys, we've had these last sixteen 2083 01:44:28,439 --> 01:44:32,720 Speaker 8: seasons of NCAA tournaments, Yukon, either women's or men's has 2084 01:44:32,760 --> 01:44:36,640 Speaker 8: been in the final four every year. In fact, it 2085 01:44:36,800 --> 01:44:40,320 Speaker 8: could be both this year. Going to the final four, 2086 01:44:40,400 --> 01:44:43,839 Speaker 8: we'll find out Connecticut and usc women each one today. 2087 01:44:43,880 --> 01:44:47,000 Speaker 8: They'll face each other in a regional final on Monday, 2088 01:44:47,479 --> 01:44:51,120 Speaker 8: and Iowan LSU each won six Sweet sixteen games today 2089 01:44:51,520 --> 01:44:54,559 Speaker 8: and yes, in a women's regional final Monday, we'll have 2090 01:44:54,600 --> 01:44:57,920 Speaker 8: a rematch of last year's national title game. Number one 2091 01:44:58,000 --> 01:45:01,439 Speaker 8: ranked Yukon men won the East Region in Boston tonight, 2092 01:45:01,520 --> 01:45:04,759 Speaker 8: dominating the second half against Illinois seventy seven to fifty 2093 01:45:04,840 --> 01:45:07,360 Speaker 8: two to the final that included a twenty five nothing 2094 01:45:07,479 --> 01:45:10,200 Speaker 8: run out of halftime. So next Saturday, at the Final 2095 01:45:10,200 --> 01:45:14,160 Speaker 8: four in Phoenix, it's defending champion Gun against Alabama in 2096 01:45:14,240 --> 01:45:17,320 Speaker 8: its first ever Final four. BAMA was down thirteen in 2097 01:45:17,360 --> 01:45:19,839 Speaker 8: the first half in Los Angeles, but won the West 2098 01:45:19,880 --> 01:45:24,519 Speaker 8: Region final anyway eighty nine eighty two against Clemson. Bama 2099 01:45:24,600 --> 01:45:27,840 Speaker 8: a four seed against Clemson a sixth seed. There are 2100 01:45:27,920 --> 01:45:31,400 Speaker 8: two more regional finals tomorrow, only three NBA games. Tonight, 2101 01:45:31,439 --> 01:45:33,719 Speaker 8: Boston got a one oh four to ninety two victory 2102 01:45:33,720 --> 01:45:36,000 Speaker 8: at New Orleans back in the win column after the 2103 01:45:36,040 --> 01:45:38,719 Speaker 8: Celtics lost two straight this week, both to the logs. 2104 01:45:38,960 --> 01:45:43,120 Speaker 8: Boston's record fifty eight and sixteen. Orlando beat Memphis one 2105 01:45:43,200 --> 01:45:46,760 Speaker 8: eighteen eighty eight the magic mid third quarter Tonight led 2106 01:45:46,840 --> 01:45:50,200 Speaker 8: eighty two to thirty nine Memphis with a record of 2107 01:45:50,240 --> 01:45:54,200 Speaker 8: twenty four and fifty. Milwaukee with win number forty seven 2108 01:45:54,240 --> 01:45:56,639 Speaker 8: of the season forty seven and twenty seven the record 2109 01:45:56,680 --> 01:45:59,000 Speaker 8: after a victory at Atlanta won twenty two to one 2110 01:45:59,080 --> 01:46:04,599 Speaker 8: thirteen Yannis Antennacumpo thirty six points sixteen rebounds. Scottie Scheffler 2111 01:46:04,640 --> 01:46:06,400 Speaker 8: is in a five way tie for the lead at 2112 01:46:06,400 --> 01:46:10,000 Speaker 8: the Houston Open. There up by one strokeover three other golfers. 2113 01:46:10,280 --> 01:46:12,759 Speaker 8: The Texas Open is next week. The next live golf 2114 01:46:12,800 --> 01:46:16,640 Speaker 8: event is next weekend in Miami. The Masters starts April eleventh. 2115 01:46:16,960 --> 01:46:20,360 Speaker 8: NASCAR's on Fox TV again tomorrow Easter Sunday, so it'll 2116 01:46:20,360 --> 01:46:23,080 Speaker 8: be a night race at Richmond seven pm Eastern time. 2117 01:46:23,120 --> 01:46:27,719 Speaker 8: Today's Infinity Race went to Chandler Smith. Eric Almerola finished 2118 01:46:27,760 --> 01:46:31,000 Speaker 8: in second. And a couple items about college baseball. There 2119 01:46:31,040 --> 01:46:35,040 Speaker 8: is an MLB prospect, easily a top ten prospect. People 2120 01:46:35,040 --> 01:46:38,160 Speaker 8: in the no say at the Georgia Bulldogs. He had 2121 01:46:38,200 --> 01:46:41,200 Speaker 8: two more homers tonight against top ten Tennessee he had 2122 01:46:41,200 --> 01:46:45,200 Speaker 8: a five hit night. The man's name is Charlie Condon 2123 01:46:45,760 --> 01:46:49,200 Speaker 8: and at age twenty, he's played in twenty seven games 2124 01:46:49,240 --> 01:46:52,880 Speaker 8: this season and has nineteen home runs already to lead 2125 01:46:52,920 --> 01:46:57,439 Speaker 8: the nation. He's batting five twenty five this after he 2126 01:46:57,560 --> 01:47:00,720 Speaker 8: was the SEC Freshman of the Year last year and 2127 01:47:00,840 --> 01:47:04,800 Speaker 8: led Georgia in homer's, RBIs and batting average. He hit 2128 01:47:04,880 --> 01:47:08,519 Speaker 8: three eighty six as a freshman. Way to go, Charlie 2129 01:47:08,640 --> 01:47:11,599 Speaker 8: Condon can't wait see you play. And meanwhile, the PAC 2130 01:47:11,640 --> 01:47:14,880 Speaker 8: twelve network is still carrying games. The school year continues. 2131 01:47:15,479 --> 01:47:19,360 Speaker 8: The La Times late this afternoon tweeted out hey on 2132 01:47:19,400 --> 01:47:22,120 Speaker 8: the PAC twelve network, the UCLA is on a baseball game. 2133 01:47:22,160 --> 01:47:24,280 Speaker 8: The announcers have either left the booth for a hot 2134 01:47:24,320 --> 01:47:26,800 Speaker 8: dog in the tenth inning or their microphones don't work. 2135 01:47:26,840 --> 01:47:30,640 Speaker 8: It's a mystery. There's only crowd noise. There were announcers 2136 01:47:30,640 --> 01:47:33,880 Speaker 8: in the ninth No announcers for the telecast in the 2137 01:47:33,920 --> 01:47:38,320 Speaker 8: tenth inning, Brockmeier, or the eleventh inning or the twelfth 2138 01:47:38,400 --> 01:47:41,240 Speaker 8: inning when the game winning homer happened, and all you 2139 01:47:41,280 --> 01:47:44,799 Speaker 8: could hear was crowd noise, no actual call of the play, 2140 01:47:45,680 --> 01:47:47,680 Speaker 8: and no actually letting. 2141 01:47:47,439 --> 01:47:50,360 Speaker 4: The moment breathe too much. 2142 01:47:51,040 --> 01:47:53,559 Speaker 8: Three inningsworth or maybe no one put a quarter in 2143 01:47:53,600 --> 01:47:56,840 Speaker 8: the microphone or the booth, But either way, the PAC 2144 01:47:56,920 --> 01:47:59,040 Speaker 8: twelve network is going out with a bang. 2145 01:47:59,160 --> 01:48:02,639 Speaker 2: People back to thank you very much, Steve di Seger. 2146 01:48:03,400 --> 01:48:06,240 Speaker 2: That's embarrassing, man. You know, you know if you finished 2147 01:48:06,240 --> 01:48:09,479 Speaker 2: the job. PAC twelve finished the job. Fox Sports radio 2148 01:48:09,560 --> 01:48:12,080 Speaker 2: er towards Jason Martin, all right, j mart you teased it, 2149 01:48:12,120 --> 01:48:13,120 Speaker 2: and I want to get to it by the way, 2150 01:48:13,120 --> 01:48:14,559 Speaker 2: to say you'll be back in just a few minutes 2151 01:48:14,560 --> 01:48:16,880 Speaker 2: with his extended update plenty more on the day that 2152 01:48:16,920 --> 01:48:22,439 Speaker 2: you missed. Uh, today was the day a bombshell of 2153 01:48:22,520 --> 01:48:26,439 Speaker 2: a story sort of so met me. I'll just I won't. 2154 01:48:26,680 --> 01:48:29,040 Speaker 2: I won't dance around it. So a week ago we 2155 01:48:29,080 --> 01:48:31,439 Speaker 2: saw a Kim Moulkey press conference. Kim Molkey's the head 2156 01:48:31,479 --> 01:48:35,040 Speaker 2: coach at LSU ls USE, the rating national champion, and 2157 01:48:35,120 --> 01:48:38,960 Speaker 2: she basically, I'll paraphrase, but she said, the Washington Post 2158 01:48:38,960 --> 01:48:40,439 Speaker 2: has been working on a hit piece for me for 2159 01:48:40,479 --> 01:48:40,920 Speaker 2: two years. 2160 01:48:40,960 --> 01:48:43,240 Speaker 3: I refuse to answer questions, blah blah blah. 2161 01:48:43,280 --> 01:48:46,360 Speaker 2: And let me just tell you, if this story comes 2162 01:48:46,360 --> 01:48:48,519 Speaker 2: out and there is one piece of news that is 2163 01:48:48,600 --> 01:48:53,200 Speaker 2: not accurate, I plan on suing for defamation. Well, the 2164 01:48:53,280 --> 01:48:56,280 Speaker 2: article came out today, Jason, and it was behind a paywall, 2165 01:48:56,320 --> 01:48:58,600 Speaker 2: so a lot of people haven't seen it. But essentially 2166 01:48:59,439 --> 01:49:05,080 Speaker 2: the story was not really all that damning it. You know, 2167 01:49:05,240 --> 01:49:08,520 Speaker 2: talked about kind of a unique background, a troubled background. 2168 01:49:08,560 --> 01:49:10,240 Speaker 3: She she's a strange for most of her. 2169 01:49:10,120 --> 01:49:13,680 Speaker 2: Family, and you know, there there are some accusations by 2170 01:49:13,680 --> 01:49:19,840 Speaker 2: the Washington Post of potentially some unfavorable treatment to to 2171 01:49:20,120 --> 01:49:23,280 Speaker 2: to her uh, to her players that are out of 2172 01:49:23,320 --> 01:49:28,040 Speaker 2: the closet, you know, homosexual basketball players. She obviously denies 2173 01:49:28,160 --> 01:49:30,479 Speaker 2: that or or she has publicly denied it. She did 2174 01:49:30,479 --> 01:49:32,360 Speaker 2: not speak to Washington Post for the interview. 2175 01:49:32,760 --> 01:49:32,880 Speaker 6: UH. 2176 01:49:33,040 --> 01:49:35,320 Speaker 2: Obviously the most notable one would be Britney Griner. The 2177 01:49:35,320 --> 01:49:37,800 Speaker 2: one thing about Britney Griner that was obvious was that 2178 01:49:37,840 --> 01:49:41,080 Speaker 2: she refused to publicly comment on Brittany Griner when she 2179 01:49:41,200 --> 01:49:45,160 Speaker 2: was arrested in Russia. I have a couple of thoughts 2180 01:49:45,280 --> 01:49:47,960 Speaker 2: just just on the whole time frame of everything, Jason, 2181 01:49:48,000 --> 01:49:51,120 Speaker 2: But but what is your reaction to this whole situation 2182 01:49:51,240 --> 01:49:52,240 Speaker 2: surrounding Kim Moulky. 2183 01:49:52,760 --> 01:49:55,040 Speaker 4: I think it's a bigger deal because Molkie talked about it. 2184 01:49:56,560 --> 01:50:00,080 Speaker 4: I don't know how miss the Washington Post would all doers. 2185 01:50:00,320 --> 01:50:01,920 Speaker 4: Not a whole lot of people are reading the Washington 2186 01:50:01,960 --> 01:50:04,240 Speaker 4: Post in twenty twenty four. They's not like the story 2187 01:50:04,280 --> 01:50:05,720 Speaker 4: would have gotten out. But would it have been that 2188 01:50:05,760 --> 01:50:08,960 Speaker 4: big a deal. I feel like when she found out 2189 01:50:09,000 --> 01:50:12,760 Speaker 4: about it, or when she was asked about it and responded, 2190 01:50:13,680 --> 01:50:15,360 Speaker 4: I think that's when, oh, well we got to see 2191 01:50:15,360 --> 01:50:18,760 Speaker 4: what this is because it came across the way she 2192 01:50:18,840 --> 01:50:24,360 Speaker 4: reacted to It came across as what are you trying 2193 01:50:24,400 --> 01:50:27,720 Speaker 4: to hide? Like, what are you afraid is going to 2194 01:50:27,760 --> 01:50:30,000 Speaker 4: come out in this? Why are you talking about your 2195 01:50:30,080 --> 01:50:32,519 Speaker 4: lawyers are going to read this? You haven't read it? 2196 01:50:33,040 --> 01:50:35,600 Speaker 4: All that kind of stuff. Like she came out so 2197 01:50:35,760 --> 01:50:39,320 Speaker 4: aggressively against it. It was like, methinks, now doth protests 2198 01:50:39,360 --> 01:50:41,720 Speaker 4: too much, Like let's wait until it comes out and 2199 01:50:41,760 --> 01:50:44,280 Speaker 4: if then you can dispute it. Disputing it in advance 2200 01:50:44,400 --> 01:50:48,240 Speaker 4: just made more people read it that probably otherwise would 2201 01:50:48,240 --> 01:50:52,360 Speaker 4: not have. Maybe that's too simplistic for me, but that's 2202 01:50:52,400 --> 01:50:54,880 Speaker 4: just how I took it, Like I just feel like 2203 01:50:54,880 --> 01:50:57,320 Speaker 4: there's larger fish to fry, There's larger things that are 2204 01:50:57,360 --> 01:51:01,280 Speaker 4: going on. I don't know that an attempted hit piece 2205 01:51:01,320 --> 01:51:04,360 Speaker 4: in the Washington Post about Kim Mulki would have had 2206 01:51:04,400 --> 01:51:07,680 Speaker 4: that many legs. I really don't, And I think that 2207 01:51:08,320 --> 01:51:10,519 Speaker 4: had she not really talked about it. And it was 2208 01:51:10,600 --> 01:51:13,360 Speaker 4: kind of a weird week in anyway for Kim mulk 2209 01:51:13,520 --> 01:51:15,880 Speaker 4: because she had a couple of different things. She's now 2210 01:51:15,880 --> 01:51:18,880 Speaker 4: come out against the La Times as well for how 2211 01:51:18,880 --> 01:51:21,479 Speaker 4: they've talked about her players and things like that. So 2212 01:51:22,040 --> 01:51:24,720 Speaker 4: she's been out front this week, no question about it. 2213 01:51:24,760 --> 01:51:26,800 Speaker 4: I just I just felt like when I saw this, 2214 01:51:26,920 --> 01:51:29,080 Speaker 4: I was like, man, what is in this story? And 2215 01:51:29,120 --> 01:51:31,360 Speaker 4: then of course you already alluded to some of the 2216 01:51:31,400 --> 01:51:35,120 Speaker 4: things that were going to be alleged or we're going 2217 01:51:35,200 --> 01:51:37,479 Speaker 4: to be mentioned or whatever, And it seemed like as 2218 01:51:37,520 --> 01:51:40,200 Speaker 4: the piece came out, it was softer than expected. But 2219 01:51:40,200 --> 01:51:42,400 Speaker 4: that's because the way Molky talked about it made it 2220 01:51:42,400 --> 01:51:44,639 Speaker 4: seem like it was going to be like a bomb dropping, 2221 01:51:45,040 --> 01:51:48,320 Speaker 4: and it didn't really end up being that. So I 2222 01:51:48,320 --> 01:51:50,800 Speaker 4: think it became a bigger story because of the way 2223 01:51:50,920 --> 01:51:51,920 Speaker 4: she reacted to it. 2224 01:51:52,080 --> 01:51:53,880 Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question, and you know, you 2225 01:51:53,920 --> 01:51:55,200 Speaker 2: only have a few minutes here because we had to 2226 01:51:55,200 --> 01:51:59,200 Speaker 2: get back to Sager. But do you think that because 2227 01:51:59,280 --> 01:52:03,320 Speaker 2: she came out and because she threatened a lawsuit, that 2228 01:52:03,600 --> 01:52:07,200 Speaker 2: the story that was going to be published, like because 2229 01:52:07,439 --> 01:52:09,719 Speaker 2: that was my thing by the way you mettion it interesting? Yes, 2230 01:52:10,000 --> 01:52:15,679 Speaker 2: And I again, social media could be Yeah. I tweeted 2231 01:52:15,680 --> 01:52:19,559 Speaker 2: out that I believe that her speaking out probably led to, 2232 01:52:20,320 --> 01:52:22,720 Speaker 2: if not a I think at the very least a 2233 01:52:22,920 --> 01:52:25,960 Speaker 2: watered down version of the story, because I think if 2234 01:52:25,960 --> 01:52:28,519 Speaker 2: the Washington Post doesn't know if she they don't think 2235 01:52:28,560 --> 01:52:31,240 Speaker 2: that she knows it's coming. I don't want to say 2236 01:52:31,240 --> 01:52:33,839 Speaker 2: they take more liberties. I'm not accusing them of lying. 2237 01:52:34,280 --> 01:52:36,120 Speaker 2: But you know, you get one person on the record 2238 01:52:36,120 --> 01:52:38,000 Speaker 2: and they say something, and you know, maybe you run 2239 01:52:38,040 --> 01:52:40,960 Speaker 2: with it where she threatens to sue. Now all of 2240 01:52:41,000 --> 01:52:43,360 Speaker 2: a sudden, that juicy quote. That was so good, but 2241 01:52:43,400 --> 01:52:45,120 Speaker 2: you can't really confirm it. 2242 01:52:45,439 --> 01:52:47,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, the sourcing is a little bit wonky, so we 2243 01:52:47,880 --> 01:52:48,760 Speaker 4: better pull that one. 2244 01:52:49,160 --> 01:52:53,240 Speaker 2: Yes, and that that's a really good but I hadn't 2245 01:52:53,240 --> 01:52:54,000 Speaker 2: thought about that. 2246 01:52:54,000 --> 01:52:55,800 Speaker 4: That's a really good point. If you get in front 2247 01:52:55,800 --> 01:52:57,880 Speaker 4: of it like that and you're like, yeah, you better 2248 01:52:57,920 --> 01:53:01,040 Speaker 4: have all your ducks in a row, and of that 2249 01:53:01,320 --> 01:53:04,639 Speaker 4: eliminates something in advance that then you would have had 2250 01:53:04,640 --> 01:53:07,040 Speaker 4: to deny after the fact, even if it was proven. 2251 01:53:07,120 --> 01:53:09,920 Speaker 4: So if it's put out there, you can only take 2252 01:53:09,960 --> 01:53:15,200 Speaker 4: it back in so many respects. That's a that's that's 2253 01:53:15,560 --> 01:53:17,880 Speaker 4: I had not thought about that. That That is a 2254 01:53:18,040 --> 01:53:21,559 Speaker 4: very very plausible reason why you would come out so 2255 01:53:21,600 --> 01:53:24,519 Speaker 4: strongly in advance of it, to stop some of the 2256 01:53:24,560 --> 01:53:26,519 Speaker 4: potential things from coming out at all. 2257 01:53:27,439 --> 01:53:29,640 Speaker 2: That was my thought, and that's why I thought it 2258 01:53:29,680 --> 01:53:32,439 Speaker 2: was interesting enough to at least discuss, you know, because 2259 01:53:32,520 --> 01:53:34,040 Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of people, and I think most 2260 01:53:34,040 --> 01:53:36,240 Speaker 2: people have the same perspective you do, is that if 2261 01:53:36,240 --> 01:53:38,840 Speaker 2: that was the big bombshell, she freaked out over nothing. 2262 01:53:39,040 --> 01:53:41,000 Speaker 2: I just think and you know, I could tell you 2263 01:53:41,040 --> 01:53:42,960 Speaker 2: I I you know, listen, I can't speak for the 2264 01:53:43,040 --> 01:53:47,439 Speaker 2: Washington Post. Whatever I know of there was there was 2265 01:53:47,520 --> 01:53:49,639 Speaker 2: a another piece that was supposed to come out about 2266 01:53:49,640 --> 01:53:53,760 Speaker 2: a prominent person I'll just say in college athletics, and 2267 01:53:54,080 --> 01:53:55,960 Speaker 2: it was you know, it was a male guy. And 2268 01:53:56,000 --> 01:53:59,400 Speaker 2: the guy basically threatened the company of if there is 2269 01:53:59,479 --> 01:54:02,280 Speaker 2: one word that is not one hundred percent accurate in 2270 01:54:02,360 --> 01:54:05,080 Speaker 2: this story, my lawyers are ready to go. And maybe 2271 01:54:05,080 --> 01:54:07,040 Speaker 2: he didn't say it, maybe the lawyers reached out ahead 2272 01:54:07,040 --> 01:54:09,080 Speaker 2: of time, but he knew the story was coming, and 2273 01:54:09,240 --> 01:54:15,280 Speaker 2: he very explicitly let those lawyers know, you know, the 2274 01:54:15,320 --> 01:54:19,080 Speaker 2: publication though, like you mess up one little tiny thing, 2275 01:54:20,400 --> 01:54:22,559 Speaker 2: you're gonna have a lawsuit on your desk, you know, 2276 01:54:22,640 --> 01:54:25,479 Speaker 2: come the next day. And so that is what I 2277 01:54:26,320 --> 01:54:29,240 Speaker 2: believe that probably there was some stuff that that it's 2278 01:54:29,280 --> 01:54:33,640 Speaker 2: probably a watered down version of what they wanted to publish. 2279 01:54:33,720 --> 01:54:36,120 Speaker 2: I do believe it because and I'll say this, and 2280 01:54:36,160 --> 01:54:38,280 Speaker 2: there's no way to prove this, But kim Olki has 2281 01:54:38,280 --> 01:54:40,680 Speaker 2: been very outspoken about a lot of things that a 2282 01:54:40,720 --> 01:54:43,480 Speaker 2: lot of media are not comfortable with, most notably COVID. 2283 01:54:43,840 --> 01:54:47,760 Speaker 2: She famously ripped off her mask at her introductory press conference, 2284 01:54:48,760 --> 01:54:50,120 Speaker 2: and I think that rubbed a lot of people the 2285 01:54:50,160 --> 01:54:53,120 Speaker 2: wrong way. And all I'll say lastly, because we got 2286 01:54:53,120 --> 01:54:56,840 Speaker 2: to get back to Seger, I do think that unfortunately 2287 01:54:56,960 --> 01:55:02,360 Speaker 2: now in the media, there's very few objective pieces, Am 2288 01:55:02,400 --> 01:55:04,640 Speaker 2: I saying that right? Objective pieces where you look at 2289 01:55:04,680 --> 01:55:07,400 Speaker 2: both sides. And I do think there's a lot of 2290 01:55:08,040 --> 01:55:10,440 Speaker 2: I don't like this person because of something he or 2291 01:55:10,480 --> 01:55:14,720 Speaker 2: she said or did, and because of it, you know, 2292 01:55:14,800 --> 01:55:15,680 Speaker 2: I'm gonna. 2293 01:55:15,600 --> 01:55:17,800 Speaker 4: I'm the stuff that was alleged and the stuff, by 2294 01:55:17,800 --> 01:55:19,560 Speaker 4: the way, and the stuff that was alleged or the 2295 01:55:19,600 --> 01:55:22,520 Speaker 4: stuff that had been kind of put out there is 2296 01:55:22,560 --> 01:55:24,760 Speaker 4: exactly the kind of stuff the Washington Posts would love 2297 01:55:24,800 --> 01:55:27,720 Speaker 4: to try and throw out. We know where their political 2298 01:55:27,800 --> 01:55:30,240 Speaker 4: leanings are. Yeah, we don't even have to name it. 2299 01:55:30,280 --> 01:55:32,240 Speaker 4: We know exactly where they are. Kim Molkey is on 2300 01:55:32,280 --> 01:55:34,840 Speaker 4: the opposite side of all of them. So if they 2301 01:55:34,840 --> 01:55:37,240 Speaker 4: could bring her down a couple of notches, it's not 2302 01:55:37,360 --> 01:55:40,320 Speaker 4: a conspiracy theory. You think that the Washington Post might 2303 01:55:40,400 --> 01:55:42,800 Speaker 4: not have had Kim Moulkey's best in mind. 2304 01:55:43,440 --> 01:55:47,200 Speaker 2: Don't disagree, and I do think the story Underwhelmed'd be 2305 01:55:47,280 --> 01:55:49,600 Speaker 2: fascinated to know if anything hit the cutting room floor 2306 01:55:49,680 --> 01:55:52,920 Speaker 2: after last week. Fox Sports Radio er towards Jason Martin. 2307 01:55:52,960 --> 01:55:55,240 Speaker 2: When we come back, we will bring back to Sager, 2308 01:55:55,520 --> 01:55:57,920 Speaker 2: and he's got all sorts of good stuff from throughout 2309 01:55:57,920 --> 01:56:00,200 Speaker 2: the day that you may have missed to Sager's next. 2310 01:56:00,320 --> 01:56:01,160 Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio. 2311 01:56:01,480 --> 01:56:04,360 Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 2312 01:56:04,400 --> 01:56:07,760 Speaker 6: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio 2313 01:56:07,920 --> 01:56:12,000 Speaker 6: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to 2314 01:56:12,120 --> 01:56:12,800 Speaker 6: listen live. 2315 01:56:13,120 --> 01:56:17,880 Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody, Fox Sports Radio, Aer Torris Jason Martin 2316 01:56:17,880 --> 01:56:20,520 Speaker 2: broadcasting live from the Tyreck dot Com studios as we 2317 01:56:20,600 --> 01:56:25,200 Speaker 2: do every week, twelve forty five Eastern Time. Toss it 2318 01:56:25,240 --> 01:56:28,560 Speaker 2: over the news desk to Sager. The floor's yours. Let 2319 01:56:28,680 --> 01:56:30,040 Speaker 2: us know what we missed everything today we. 2320 01:56:30,080 --> 01:56:33,320 Speaker 8: Got hoops and big skin to discuss. I will mention that, 2321 01:56:33,840 --> 01:56:36,680 Speaker 8: my goodness, this late game at Dodgers Stadium is still going. 2322 01:56:36,880 --> 01:56:39,040 Speaker 8: Mookie Bets homered in the ninth as part of the 2323 01:56:39,080 --> 01:56:41,040 Speaker 8: two and the ninth to keep this going right now, 2324 01:56:41,040 --> 01:56:43,520 Speaker 8: they're down two outs bottom of the tenth six ' 2325 01:56:43,600 --> 01:56:46,560 Speaker 8: five against the Cardinals, but the Dodgers have picked up 2326 01:56:46,600 --> 01:56:48,920 Speaker 8: first and third with two outs, And who's up but 2327 01:56:49,080 --> 01:56:52,200 Speaker 8: Mooky Betts, a guy who is homered in four straight games, 2328 01:56:52,640 --> 01:56:56,720 Speaker 8: has ten RBIs already this season. He has reached base 2329 01:56:57,000 --> 01:57:00,560 Speaker 8: in seventeen of his twenty four plate appearances to begin 2330 01:57:00,720 --> 01:57:03,360 Speaker 8: this season. And I mentioned earlier in the show tonight 2331 01:57:03,400 --> 01:57:05,840 Speaker 8: how notable it was that there was an actual rain 2332 01:57:05,880 --> 01:57:09,320 Speaker 8: delay at Dodger Stadium tonight, first rain delay in LA 2333 01:57:09,560 --> 01:57:10,680 Speaker 8: in nine years. 2334 01:57:11,000 --> 01:57:11,840 Speaker 3: There have been very. 2335 01:57:11,680 --> 01:57:15,320 Speaker 8: Few rainouts in the sixty plus year history of Dodger Stadium, 2336 01:57:15,400 --> 01:57:18,000 Speaker 8: less than twenty of them, about half of those occurred 2337 01:57:18,080 --> 01:57:20,800 Speaker 8: in April. And rain is the forecast for not only 2338 01:57:20,840 --> 01:57:24,360 Speaker 8: today but tomorrow as well at Dodger Stadium. They might 2339 01:57:24,400 --> 01:57:27,760 Speaker 8: be getting this game in. But the Dodgers did go 2340 01:57:28,240 --> 01:57:32,560 Speaker 8: eighteen years recently without a single rainout from two thousand 2341 01:57:32,880 --> 01:57:36,200 Speaker 8: to twenty eighteen. Bookie Bets has just walked, So guess 2342 01:57:36,240 --> 01:57:37,760 Speaker 8: who's coming up with bases loaded. 2343 01:57:37,920 --> 01:57:40,520 Speaker 2: Fun fact, by the way, to Sager, my mom and 2344 01:57:40,600 --> 01:57:45,360 Speaker 2: stepdad were out visiting me for a weekend, decided they 2345 01:57:45,400 --> 01:57:47,560 Speaker 2: wanted to go to an Angels game. It was the 2346 01:57:47,560 --> 01:57:51,920 Speaker 2: first Angels rainout in like twenty five years, so that 2347 01:57:52,040 --> 01:57:54,400 Speaker 2: was about two three years ago. So woww doesn't happen 2348 01:57:54,480 --> 01:57:55,960 Speaker 2: very often out here, that's the point, I'm sure. 2349 01:57:56,000 --> 01:57:58,960 Speaker 4: Also fun fact the Brazer scored twenty one runs in 2350 01:57:59,000 --> 01:57:59,480 Speaker 4: two games. 2351 01:57:59,480 --> 01:58:01,000 Speaker 8: Oh, it's just my goodness. 2352 01:58:01,120 --> 01:58:03,879 Speaker 2: It won a lineup. Still, it's it's amazing. 2353 01:58:03,920 --> 01:58:06,320 Speaker 8: By the way, it's Shoheo Tani up with bases loaded, 2354 01:58:06,320 --> 01:58:08,880 Speaker 8: two outs, bottom of the tenth. The Braves hit four 2355 01:58:08,920 --> 01:58:12,080 Speaker 8: homers today. They won twelve four at Philadelphia and beat 2356 01:58:12,120 --> 01:58:14,640 Speaker 8: Aaron Nola, to say the least, not a bad pitcher 2357 01:58:14,640 --> 01:58:17,080 Speaker 8: in the National League against the Braves. He gave up 2358 01:58:17,200 --> 01:58:20,240 Speaker 8: seven runs twelve hits in four and a third innings, 2359 01:58:20,240 --> 01:58:23,240 Speaker 8: three more hits for Ronald Dukunya, Ozzy Albi's three hits, 2360 01:58:23,240 --> 01:58:26,680 Speaker 8: three RBIs, and even though starter Max Freed of Atlanta 2361 01:58:27,200 --> 01:58:29,720 Speaker 8: was out in the first inning, three runs allowed and 2362 01:58:29,800 --> 01:58:32,600 Speaker 8: three walks, Atlanta wins twelve to four. 2363 01:58:32,760 --> 01:58:33,480 Speaker 4: So there you go. 2364 01:58:33,800 --> 01:58:38,000 Speaker 8: We mentioned college baseball. The incredible note from the Georgia Star. Recently, 2365 01:58:38,160 --> 01:58:40,440 Speaker 8: I got to mention one other name, Paul Skeins, who 2366 01:58:40,480 --> 01:58:43,280 Speaker 8: pitched at LSU, was drafted number one overall by the 2367 01:58:43,280 --> 01:58:46,120 Speaker 8: Pirates last summer. He had also pitched at Air Force. 2368 01:58:46,480 --> 01:58:50,240 Speaker 8: He pitched at TRIPAA for Indianapolis today, three perfect innings, 2369 01:58:50,400 --> 01:58:54,640 Speaker 8: five strikeouts. He threw twenty one fastballs and averaged one 2370 01:58:54,720 --> 01:58:59,320 Speaker 8: hundred miles an hour. His slowest fastball today was ninety 2371 01:58:59,400 --> 01:59:03,840 Speaker 8: nine files an hour. Paul Skiings Pirates TRIPLEA. Okay, we've 2372 01:59:03,840 --> 01:59:07,440 Speaker 8: got Yukon and Alabama in the final four. College hoops 2373 01:59:07,480 --> 01:59:11,320 Speaker 8: on the men's side next Saturday in Phoenix. Interesting note 2374 01:59:11,320 --> 01:59:14,840 Speaker 8: from AP that there was actually one other team to 2375 01:59:14,920 --> 01:59:18,480 Speaker 8: make a college football playoff and a basketball Final four 2376 01:59:18,600 --> 01:59:22,520 Speaker 8: in the same academic year, and it was Oklahoma, almost 2377 01:59:22,560 --> 01:59:25,840 Speaker 8: a decade ago. They lost in the semifinal round in 2378 01:59:25,880 --> 01:59:29,480 Speaker 8: each sport. Bama, of course, lost its football semifinal at 2379 01:59:29,480 --> 01:59:31,320 Speaker 8: the Rose Bowl, and they have to play number one 2380 01:59:31,400 --> 01:59:35,160 Speaker 8: Yukon coming up next weekend, so we will see. As 2381 01:59:35,200 --> 01:59:38,720 Speaker 8: for Connecticut, my goodness, they're good. First defending champ to 2382 01:59:38,760 --> 01:59:41,040 Speaker 8: make it back to a Final four since the Florida 2383 01:59:41,080 --> 01:59:43,480 Speaker 8: Gators won back to back titles in two thousand and 2384 01:59:43,560 --> 01:59:47,120 Speaker 8: six and seven. These Huskies now have a tournament record 2385 01:59:47,560 --> 01:59:50,960 Speaker 8: tenth straight double digit victory going back to last year, 2386 01:59:51,000 --> 01:59:53,080 Speaker 8: and in the four games so far in this tournament, 2387 01:59:53,080 --> 01:59:57,480 Speaker 8: Connecticut has trailed for twenty eight seconds. The run they 2388 01:59:57,480 --> 02:00:00,000 Speaker 8: had coming out of halftime today and they beat ill 2389 02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:03,160 Speaker 8: ILLINOI seventy seven to fifty two, was amazing. 2390 02:00:03,240 --> 02:00:03,680 Speaker 3: It was a. 2391 02:00:03,640 --> 02:00:06,440 Speaker 8: Twenty five zero run in the first seven minutes of 2392 02:00:06,480 --> 02:00:09,160 Speaker 8: the second half wound up being a thirty to zhering 2393 02:00:09,280 --> 02:00:11,960 Speaker 8: run total going back to late first half, and during 2394 02:00:11,960 --> 02:00:15,320 Speaker 8: that stretch Illinois shot oh of seventeen from the floor. 2395 02:00:15,880 --> 02:00:19,000 Speaker 8: Illinois is a team for the game twenty five percent shooting, 2396 02:00:19,080 --> 02:00:21,800 Speaker 8: and here Terrence Shannon had had one great scoring game 2397 02:00:21,840 --> 02:00:24,440 Speaker 8: after another. He was averaging twenty four points a game, 2398 02:00:24,840 --> 02:00:27,240 Speaker 8: two of twelve shooting from the floor. In the loss, 2399 02:00:27,240 --> 02:00:30,680 Speaker 8: He'd had double digit scoring in forty one straight games 2400 02:00:31,280 --> 02:00:33,840 Speaker 8: until facing Yukon. I had mentioned on the Sunday Night 2401 02:00:33,880 --> 02:00:36,520 Speaker 8: Show before the tournament, you just need to take a 2402 02:00:36,560 --> 02:00:39,560 Speaker 8: look at the stat field goal percentage defense for the 2403 02:00:39,600 --> 02:00:42,400 Speaker 8: regular season, and some of those teams around the top 2404 02:00:42,440 --> 02:00:45,200 Speaker 8: ten in that stack category wind up going deep in 2405 02:00:45,240 --> 02:00:48,040 Speaker 8: the tournament. You mentioned Houston had an injury and lost. 2406 02:00:48,080 --> 02:00:51,320 Speaker 8: Houston was number one allowing just thirty eight percent shooting 2407 02:00:51,360 --> 02:00:54,840 Speaker 8: from the floor for opponents Tennessee about thirty nine percent 2408 02:00:54,880 --> 02:00:59,160 Speaker 8: shooting by opponents, Yukon thirty nine point eight percent by 2409 02:00:59,200 --> 02:01:00,000 Speaker 8: opponents this year. 2410 02:01:00,680 --> 02:01:03,080 Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Steve de Seger. Seger will be 2411 02:01:03,120 --> 02:01:06,240 Speaker 2: with us for one final hour. This is Tours and Martin, 2412 02:01:06,320 --> 02:01:08,520 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. We are taking you up till two 2413 02:01:08,560 --> 02:01:11,920 Speaker 2: a m. Eastern time. I tell you what, Jason, why 2414 02:01:11,960 --> 02:01:14,640 Speaker 2: don't we come back talk a little bit more college hoops. 2415 02:01:14,840 --> 02:01:17,560 Speaker 2: Two spots in the final four are set, two to 2416 02:01:17,600 --> 02:01:18,680 Speaker 2: be decided tomorrow. 2417 02:01:18,760 --> 02:01:20,240 Speaker 3: That's next. Fox Sports Radio.