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Speaker 2: all of that forthcoming. I guess there's one big outcry,
Speaker 2: one controversy. North Carolina got in West Virginia did not. Okay,
Speaker 2: As I've said many times, it's a TV show. You
Speaker 2: want to get the right teams big names in there.
Speaker 2: Did West Virginia get snubbed? Perhaps? Should North Carolina been
Speaker 2: in there? Probably not. I think the comeback and the
Speaker 2: near victory against Duke is the reason why they're in.
Speaker 2: Is that enough to put him in? Not in my opinion,
Speaker 2: But I haven't been following it every single day, every
Speaker 2: single night, every single week. I'm just going by what
Speaker 2: the analysts are saying. Now, we'll dive into it this week.
Speaker 2: We'll have people on seth Greenberg, former coach, works for
Speaker 2: the Mothership. He'll explain why North Carolina got in. But
Speaker 2: when you get to sixty eight teams, I just don't
Speaker 2: have any sympathy. It's really hard to go, man, did
Speaker 2: they get robbed? If you're on the bubble, you put
Speaker 2: yourself in the position to have a guy named Bubba
Speaker 2: decide if you're going to get in the tournament. By
Speaker 2: the way, Bubba is a North Carolina guy, but he heads
Speaker 2: up the NCAA selection committee. I don't think there's a
Speaker 2: conflict of interest, is there. I think when they talk
Speaker 2: about his school, he asked to leave the room. Though
Speaker 2: I don't think he can argue the case for at
Speaker 2: least that's what I was told I'm going to have
Speaker 2: to ask Seth Greenberg, But Bubba Cunningham NCUBA Selection committee
Speaker 2: talked about the teams that were snubbed, the last.
Speaker 3: Four teams that were out for you know, it was
Speaker 3: a tough call. The next team out was West Virginia
Speaker 3: and they had now standing year and unfortunately know if
Speaker 3: Tucker Dereeze was hurt and player of billability is something
Speaker 3: that we talked about quite a bit. And then it
Speaker 3: just you know, Indiana was close, Ohio State was close,
Speaker 3: Boise was close, and we had a lot of conversations
Speaker 3: about those teams as well. But as I said at
Speaker 3: the onset here is that's the hardest part of being
Speaker 3: on the committee is having to draw that line. But
Speaker 3: with only one real upset this year, who were an
Speaker 3: awful lot of teams on the bubble that got in
Speaker 3: and last year, as you guys all know that we
Speaker 3: had five and so we couldn't go very deep into
Speaker 3: to that pool.
Speaker 2: Gohels And I know he did not say that that
Speaker 2: was in the clip? Was it? That was that was
Speaker 2: in the clip? We must have edited out before right
Speaker 2: at the very end. Look, I know it's really important
Speaker 2: to certain cities, towns, coaches players when you don't make
Speaker 2: the tournament. I can sit here and go, come on,
Speaker 2: we have sixty eight teams. It's important to West Virginia.
Speaker 2: It'd be important Indiana, Mike Woodson, Ohio State, Boise State.
Speaker 2: I understand that. But when you get to that point
Speaker 2: where we're taking sixty eight, they're going to expand to
Speaker 2: seventy six maybe next year after that. I mean, really,
Speaker 2: do we have to shed any tears here? Should North
Speaker 2: Carolina been in? I didn't think so, but I don't
Speaker 2: know West Virginia his resume and how that stacks up
Speaker 2: where you go, Oh, it's so egregious here.
Speaker 4: Yes, s West Virginia had plenty of chances down the
Speaker 4: stretch here to do something notable. Beat Colorado the very least,
Speaker 4: beat Colorado in your last game. Yeah, and they went
Speaker 4: six and nine in the second half of the season.
Speaker 4: They didn't beat anybody of any real value. No NCAAA
Speaker 4: caliber tournament teams did they beat. I mean, just win
Speaker 4: one of those, win one of those games against the
Speaker 4: decent teams, beat Houston or somebody, and then you're in.
Speaker 5: Yes, I disagree a little bit because once the games
Speaker 5: are over on Sunday, we go to the resumes, the
Speaker 5: room goes to the resumes, and Uncar's resume was drastically
Speaker 5: worse than West Virginia. So if you're West Virginia, you
Speaker 5: know we got screwed by the UNC legacy, the brand
Speaker 5: of UNC.
Speaker 6: How about a chance to get our legacy and get
Speaker 6: in the tournament?
Speaker 2: Yes? How can we start a legacy when you continue
Speaker 2: to honor the other legacies. But if that's the case,
Speaker 2: Indiana would have gotten in because Indiana, Mike Woodson's losing
Speaker 2: his job and they had a late run here. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is all about SEC. SEC is now a basketball conference,
Speaker 2: the Big Ten in the SEC. The SEC had fourteen teams.
Speaker 2: That's most in tournament history. The previous record you have
Speaker 2: to go back almost fifteen years. Big East had eleven
Speaker 2: fourteen teams.
Speaker 4: Ow to sixteen. That's almost every every team.
Speaker 2: How is that possible? Well, Texas and Oklahoma they had
Speaker 2: six and twelve records in conference play. Texas nineteen and fifteen.
Speaker 2: That's tied for the most losses by an at large
Speaker 2: team in NCAA tournament history. Stat of the day, stat
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Speaker 2: and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked,
Speaker 2: you didn't like. Check in with the Minnesota Vikings, We'll
Speaker 2: check in with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and we'll check in
Speaker 2: with Seth Greenberg. He'll help you fill out your brackets. Also,
Speaker 2: some other news, some football news. The Bengals locked up
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase and T Higgins. Offense wasn't the problem last
Speaker 2: year for the Bengals. Defense was. Joe Burrow put up
Speaker 2: MVP like numbers, and I know the salary caps going up,
Speaker 2: but you're signing up two wide receivers. And this felt like, Hey, Joe,
Speaker 2: we want to make you happy, keep you happy. We're
Speaker 2: going to bring back your wide receivers. I like T Higgins.
Speaker 2: I don't want to sign him up to a long
Speaker 2: term deal when I know I need help elsewhere. Jamar Chase,
Speaker 2: could you have signed him maybe a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Could you have saved some money? Probably?
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 2: If you say we're going to make you the highest
Speaker 2: non paid quarterback in the game, well then you got
Speaker 2: to keep an eye on the rest of the league
Speaker 2: and all the other players who were getting money and
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett's contract. So now you got to pay more
Speaker 2: than Miles Garrett. Had you locked him up earlier, you
Speaker 2: probably are saving yourself quite a bit of money there.
Speaker 2: But the Bengals lock him up Jamar Chase and t Higgins.
Speaker 2: That was last night. The Falcons are going to keep
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins. They gave him ten million dollars yesterday. I
Speaker 2: don't know how your Sunday was, but he earned ten
Speaker 2: million dollars. He probably went to bed, bath and beyond,
Speaker 2: had the kids in the mini van, you know, Patagonia,
Speaker 2: maybe get some clothes, probably got something to eat, went
Speaker 2: to McDonald's and picked up ten million dollars to be
Speaker 2: on the roster. Cooper Cup is going back home. He
Speaker 2: went to eastern Washington. It is from Yakima. I believe
Speaker 2: going to the Seattle Seahawks. I certainly understand that the
Speaker 2: number one seeds the women ucla USC, South Carolina and Texas.
Speaker 2: The men's number one seeds Auburn, Florida, Duke and Houston.
Speaker 2: All Right, Seaton poll questions start out first hour is
Speaker 2: going to be what well.
Speaker 4: I think for the first hour, we'll put up a
Speaker 4: couple who would you rather see in the tournament? West Virginia, Indiana,
Speaker 4: Boise State, you see Irvin, Ohio State or North Carolina. Okay,
Speaker 4: those are your options. We have another one here who
Speaker 4: had the best weekend. We like to start out with that.
Speaker 4: Your options there. Rick Patino is having a hell of
Speaker 4: a time.
Speaker 2: A couple of years ago, he's coaching in Greece after
Speaker 2: the Louisville situation, and then you come back and then
Speaker 2: it's Iona and then all of a sudden, Saint John's.
Speaker 2: He's one of the greatest coaches ever. I mean, you
Speaker 2: can put him on the Mount Rushmore of college basketball coaches.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's got nine lives. Everywhere he goes, he wins,
Speaker 2: he does. He will be a big, big, big topic.
Speaker 2: And you can't tell me that the committee doesn't have
Speaker 2: a sense of humor of what about this matchup in
Speaker 2: round two? Saint John's wouldn't they wouldn't they play Arkansas
Speaker 2: in round two? Now, that's right, Arkansas has to be
Speaker 2: Kansas and John Caliperry's team hasn't played great, but you
Speaker 2: would have Cali Perry against Rick Patino. No love loss
Speaker 2: there with the former Kentucky coaches and Rick of course
Speaker 2: coaching at Louisville. But every year it feels like, you know,
Speaker 2: remember when Bob Knight at Texas Tech, if they won
Speaker 2: Indiana one, they were going to meet in the second round.
Speaker 2: And then I'm always told this as somebody who's on
Speaker 2: the committee, and no, we don't factor that in. I go,
Speaker 2: why don't you? I get I'm surprised that you don't
Speaker 2: do it, Like, I'm not going to criticize you. If
Speaker 2: you do, it's entertainment. It'd be a fun matchup. I'm
Speaker 2: fine with that. So that's the pole question to start out.
Speaker 2: Is there another one that you're considering here in the
Speaker 2: first hour?
Speaker 8: Seat?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the best weekend we had Rick Patino, North Carolina Basketball. Obviously,
Speaker 4: Jamar Chase and t Higgins had a great weekend. Other
Speaker 4: neither neither.
Speaker 2: Et ceteratc etc. Indeed, indeed, Uh, Dylan has green on today.
Speaker 2: I've got green on today. Marvin has green on today.
Speaker 2: Paul and Seaton do not have green on today.
Speaker 8: Huh, I have green on a chair.
Speaker 2: Nobody can see your chair.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I have green.
Speaker 2: You're you're not a Greener.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, you know what, Honestly, I got up. I
Speaker 4: was so busy this morning. I completely forgot it was
Speaker 4: Saint Patrick's Day. And I got to work and I
Speaker 4: was just like, I'm Marvin. I was like, oh, man, Marvin,
Speaker 4: I love that hoodie. Still didn't put it together. You
Speaker 4: were wearing that jumper, Still didn't put it together. You
Speaker 4: know what it was that tipped me off the today
Speaker 4: with Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2: When the bagpipes came in.
Speaker 4: Uh no, No, slightly before that, when I saw Dylan,
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I was like, oh that's oh, that's why
Speaker 4: they're all wearing that. That's right, Dang, I should have
Speaker 4: worn something.
Speaker 2: You're looking good, Dylan Man. Yeah, how long did it
Speaker 2: take you to plan that outfield? This one actually was
Speaker 2: already ready to go. I like that you wore yesterday,
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, the day before.
Speaker 4: Actually, Seatan's got to be the only person whose last
Speaker 4: name is O'Connor in the country that's not wearing green today.
Speaker 2: I'd guess I don't know how we find that out,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to take your wire. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: I mean there's a few of us, but Paul Green.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's one of those things during the weekend. I
Speaker 5: kind of thought it was Saint Patrick's Day weekend, Yeah,
Speaker 5: and I forgot that it trickled over to a Monday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the actual day, the actual day. Yeah, Parade
Speaker 2: Day was just the other day. So yeah, there were
Speaker 2: people celebrating yesterday a little bit. But I don't I know, hey,
Speaker 2: green beer and no I'm not interested. I give your
Speaker 2: Irish We don't need a day. We have three hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty five. I mean, it's nice to share it
Speaker 2: with America the world, although.
Speaker 4: I didn't really feel the pressure to wear green today.
Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, no, my name is Patrick O'Connor. As
Speaker 4: Irish as I can possibly look at my face, you
Speaker 4: know what I.
Speaker 2: Mean, what's your face?
Speaker 7: Say?
Speaker 2: It's fairly Irish. It's fairly Irish, so's mine. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 2: usually it's our heads are noggins, a freckles, that whole thing.
Speaker 2: The Irish are famous for their big noggins, yes.
Speaker 5: For not having red hair. A Seaton is very Irish
Speaker 5: looking like he went to Notre Dame. And you would
Speaker 5: get that drum, major role for the marching band. It
Speaker 5: would be automatic.
Speaker 2: Okay, would you be the Leprechaun? Would you be the
Speaker 2: mascot at Notre Dame.
Speaker 4: It's a great honor to be that mascot. Hell yeah, Okay,
Speaker 4: I got to figure out my push up game a
Speaker 4: little bit, but yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure what mascot that you go. I'd
Speaker 2: like to be that mascot. Is there one that comes
Speaker 2: to mind? Where you go? You know, I could keep
Speaker 2: my dignity being that mascot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're saying it like it's a negative being a mascot.
Speaker 2: Well, I think I just there are certain mascots that
Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to be, although it
Speaker 2: is great to be in disguise. You can get away
Speaker 2: with a lot of stuff, you know, right right, Yes.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at some of them, like Brutus the Buckeye.
Speaker 5: Everyone knows him for the Ohio State University. But that
Speaker 5: head is huge, that must be top heavy. Yeah yes, yes,
Speaker 5: uh Dylan.
Speaker 2: So Actually, Rocky the Mountain Lion the Nuggets mascot isn't
Speaker 2: bad and reportedly earned six hundred and twenty five thousand
Speaker 2: dollars annually, So.
Speaker 8: Sign me up for this.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I sit corrected. You know, Marvin, would
Speaker 2: you like to be the Husky for six.
Speaker 8: And twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you're not getting paid that kind of money. Oh,
Speaker 2: just free room and board money. You might like an
Speaker 2: nil you might get some money then io. Absolutely, okay,
Speaker 2: you'd be the Husky. Jonathan Husky, of course you his
Speaker 2: name's Jonathan. It is what is it in the Husky
Speaker 2: real creative. One of the founders of Yukon. His name
Speaker 2: was Jonathan. It was his last name, Husky.
Speaker 8: I need to stop making fun of my school rate there.
Speaker 2: It's hey, what what's your seed in the tournament? We're
Speaker 2: the eighth sted eight seed. We played Oklahoma. You're out West,
Speaker 2: but it's.
Speaker 8: Our Okay, we've we've won national championships in the West before.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know. You didn't sound that confident when
Speaker 2: you were talking about your You're Jonathan Huskies.
Speaker 8: It's January, February, Yukon. April it's our month.
Speaker 2: But the championship is crowned in April. There, Johnny Husky.
Speaker 8: Great, so you're saying, but it's March madness. It's not
Speaker 8: called April madness.
Speaker 2: But they crowned the champion in April.
Speaker 8: Okay, we went there too. Okay by double figures, by
Speaker 8: the way. Oh, not even close games. Not even close games.
Speaker 2: I hope Yukon and Saint John's meet out. Well that'd
Speaker 2: be a lot of fun.
Speaker 8: Oh, that'd be amazing. Yeah, but Spike leeod be there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Spike Lee's all of a sudden a Saint
Speaker 2: John's fan. He's got the whole gear. It's like, come on, Spike,
Speaker 2: how about you make a movie.
Speaker 8: It looks like a lot of Saint John's people just
Speaker 8: came out of the woodword, I know, for the first
Speaker 8: time since two thousand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Walter Berry, there, the truth is there. I'm like, damn,
Speaker 2: Jason Williams, the other Jason Williams. Yeah, he was their
Speaker 2: court side, Like where where have all these? Who is
Speaker 2: who is the other one? Yes?
Speaker 4: I think just so we're tracking the story properly. I
Speaker 4: think they're up to the fifteenth Jonathan the Yukon Husky. Oh,
Speaker 4: just like Uga, you know whatever, this is the fifteenth Jonathan,
Speaker 4: you go fast, Jonathan the Husky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Uga dies. I don't Jonathan doesn't die. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just a person in the in the uniform, isn't
Speaker 2: it in the costume?
Speaker 8: Well, there's actual husky too. A mascot.
Speaker 4: Okay, almost like I'll go so like Jonathan is like
Speaker 4: a real dog.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I haven't been. I haven't followed it the Husky.
Speaker 8: I guess we gotta go to store soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, maybe we go watch our girls play
Speaker 2: in Cuba. Turn you wanna go on Saturday? Where are
Speaker 2: they playing in stores?
Speaker 8: Of course?
Speaker 2: A couple of well they know they're gonna sell out.
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Speaker 7: I'm not approperly addressed. I apologize.
Speaker 2: It's okay. Oh pah, yeah, pah. All right, let's get
Speaker 2: the big controversy out of the way. North Carolina made it,
Speaker 2: West Virginia didn't, Indiana didn't, Ohio State. BOBIZI, how big
Speaker 2: of a deal is this in your opinion?
Speaker 7: I think it's a big deal. I mean, you know,
Speaker 7: you are your body of work, your resume is your resume,
Speaker 7: and you know, North Carolina do you get credit for
Speaker 7: playing good teams? Do you get credit for beating good teams?
Speaker 7: They're one and twelve against pod one. That's a fact.
Speaker 7: They played a very difficult non conference schedule. That's a fact.
Speaker 7: They also lost to pitt and way Forest, then Clemson
Speaker 7: and Louisville. All right, those were opportunities. Not saying those
Speaker 7: teams aren't good, but those are opportunities that they didn't embrace.
Speaker 7: They played Michigan State in Hawaii. That was an opportunity
Speaker 7: before Michigan State became the juggernaut that they were Now
Speaker 7: look playing Auburn and Alabama and Florida, you know, those
Speaker 7: are the best of the best. But I do think
Speaker 7: that if you look at their resume, their body of work,
Speaker 7: their resume says they're not an NC tournament team. Having
Speaker 7: said that, that now that they're in the tournament, they
Speaker 7: can beat San Diego State. Now that they're in the tournament,
Speaker 7: they can give Ole Miss a game. But you know what,
Speaker 7: you don't get a free pest to get in the tournament.
Speaker 7: You earn your way into the tournament. And everyone should
Speaker 7: be evaluating across the same set of criteria. And that's
Speaker 7: probably the thing that kind of bothers me to an extent.
Speaker 2: How did it happen?
Speaker 7: And then how did it happen? Look, Bubba kind of
Speaker 7: him is a good man. I have a lot of
Speaker 7: respect for him. He's the head of the committee and
Speaker 7: they say, well, yo, he accuses himself from the room
Speaker 7: when they're talking about North Carolina. That's great breakfast, lunch
Speaker 7: and dinner conversations. Committee members that he's chairing, who also
Speaker 7: know they're in that situation. I thought they put Zavier
Speaker 7: in as well. And I think they put Zader in
Speaker 7: and as kind of another one of those teams that
Speaker 7: didn't have a ton of quad one wins. But that
Speaker 7: was a good way to justify I put in North
Speaker 7: Carolina and because the resumes were similar. But look, I'm
Speaker 7: not pointing a finger at Bubba without a doubt, I'm
Speaker 7: not doing that. But the system is flawed in this way. Dan,
Speaker 7: We've got to have a better set criteria. So people
Speaker 7: everyone's got their own prison of what they're looking at,
Speaker 7: how they're looking at these resumes. Right, we've got to
Speaker 7: say this is the most important, this is the second
Speaker 7: most important, this is the third most important. Instead of
Speaker 7: having everyone say, well, you know the prism I looked
Speaker 7: at this through like the whole idea that they said, well,
Speaker 7: West Virginia, you know, de Breeze wasn't there at the
Speaker 7: end of the season. He wasn't there at the beginning
Speaker 7: of the season. They still won games. I mean he
Speaker 7: missed twenty four games or so, so you know, just
Speaker 7: the excuse after the bracket came out was a little
Speaker 7: bit weak. Oh, it is what it is. It's over
Speaker 7: with now we're gonna have a great NCAA tournament. But
Speaker 7: as a guy that sat on the outside looking in
Speaker 7: for forty eight straight bunfs, dan uh not that not
Speaker 7: that it still bothers me. All uh. You know, I
Speaker 7: feel for those guys because you know, the tournament is
Speaker 7: a reward for your season. I feel for the seniors
Speaker 7: on those teams. I feel for the coaches. The season starts,
Speaker 7: you know, in the summer, it goes. It's a long,
Speaker 7: grinded out season. And I thought some of those other
Speaker 7: teams deserved the opportunity had in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: What's the biggest storyline going into the tournament in your opinion?
Speaker 7: The dominance of Florida. I think Florida can have a
Speaker 7: U contact run through the tournament. I think they're that good.
Speaker 7: I think I called Noah's ark. They got to everything,
Speaker 7: the pace of course, the freedom that they play with,
Speaker 7: their bigs run the floor and are skilled. Walter Clayton
Speaker 7: to me, is a lottery pick at the guard position.
Speaker 7: They go ten deep. I think far it is dominance
Speaker 7: in the SEC tournament. How they won is one of
Speaker 7: the key storylines. And then Cooper Flagg, you know, I
Speaker 7: mean we got to talk about Cooper Flagg, right, you
Speaker 7: understand that, right?
Speaker 2: Yes, he availability, though seems like he's getting the green
Speaker 2: light to go.
Speaker 7: I think what they're gonna do is I think he's
Speaker 7: going to get the green light to go. I think,
Speaker 7: you know, in just listening to John, who's done just
Speaker 7: an incredible job. But listening to John, I think what
Speaker 7: they're going to try to do is he's going to
Speaker 7: do some individual workout stuff today, back in practice of
Speaker 7: skill work, probably no contact. Probably Tuesday or Wednesday, he'll
Speaker 7: do some live stuff and then the yew it reacts.
Speaker 7: But they need him to win the national championship. Ideally,
Speaker 7: they'd like to get him some minutes in opening around
Speaker 7: game to get his feet wet, experience what the tournament's about,
Speaker 7: because each game you win, there's a greater pressure. Really
Speaker 7: impressed with how Duke played in the a SEC tournament.
Speaker 7: A lot of guys stepped up. But I expect him
Speaker 7: to play. But there's a lot of people. This is
Speaker 7: the thing that people don't understand. It's obviously Cooper, the
Speaker 7: medical staff, John Shire, his parents, and you know, the
Speaker 7: last group that's going to be involved in this decision
Speaker 7: probably his agent. I mean, because that's the world we
Speaker 7: live in now, where all these players have agents and
Speaker 7: you know he's a valuable commodity. They just want to
Speaker 7: make sure that he's going to be healthy. It's just
Speaker 7: an ancle spring, but you don't want something to be
Speaker 7: something that's going to be a lingering ankle spape, right,
Speaker 7: and that could impact, you know, a big picture him
Speaker 7: working out for NBA teams and things of that nature.
Speaker 2: Seth Greenberg, ESPN College basketball analyst, the most vulnerable number
Speaker 2: one seed is.
Speaker 7: You know, that's an interest. I'm going to say the
Speaker 7: most vulnerable buy the bracket they're in, and I would
Speaker 7: say that's going to be Houston. As hard as Uston plays,
Speaker 7: as well as they rebound the ball. But if you
Speaker 7: look at the bracket, first of all, Tennessee is kind
Speaker 7: of like Houston one point oh, I mean Tennessee. Rick
Speaker 7: barneseems played so hard, physical, Mayshak and Zikais Egler are elite,
Speaker 7: elite defenders. But the rest of that bracket, if you
Speaker 7: look at teams that can you know, be a problem,
Speaker 7: whether it's if Kentucky gets healthy, Lamont Butler plays, it's
Speaker 7: three point shooting, which is you know which is which
Speaker 7: is an issue. I mean, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 7: Clemson an experienced backward Illinois finally healthy, uh, and then Tennessee.
Speaker 7: So I would think Houston has the toughest rule. Some
Speaker 7: people say Auburn because of Michigan with those two seven
Speaker 7: footers in Michigan state on the bottom of the draw.
Speaker 7: But my gut feeling is I have this feeling about
Speaker 7: Tennessee and just their connectivity, their toughness and uh, they're due,
Speaker 7: They're due.
Speaker 2: Explained Rick Patino as a former coach, and what he does,
Speaker 2: no matter where he goes, he wins. How does how
Speaker 2: does this happen?
Speaker 7: How does it happen? He's a savant. He takes his
Speaker 7: team and beat you, and he takes your team and
Speaker 7: beat you. I mean he's a savant. He is unrelenting
Speaker 7: in terms of the standard that he sets. He gets
Speaker 7: total buy in from his guys. He gets winning players
Speaker 7: and tough guys. But in the end, the guy has
Speaker 7: a gift, even despite the white suit, he has a gift.
Speaker 7: I mean what he does, whether it's a Boston University
Speaker 7: at Providence with the Knicks, live Louisville with Kentucky, now
Speaker 7: with Saint John's. He basically gets guys to play in
Speaker 7: a manner where they all buy into being winning players.
Speaker 7: They all buy into one thing, the good in the group.
Speaker 7: What he's done with Kadarie Richmond getting him to play
Speaker 7: every play a sixty six point guard which makes them
Speaker 7: really hard to play against. Or r J. Lewis, who
Speaker 7: started at U Mass who's a shot maker and a
Speaker 7: sco and making him and getting him to buy him
Speaker 7: what to be successful like, he gets those guys to
Speaker 7: buy in to the greater good. He gets those guys
Speaker 7: to buy in to competing at a level they didn't think.
Speaker 7: Now this time he's doing it with big six six guards.
Speaker 7: You know. He also did it with Russ Smith, Peyton Siva.
Speaker 7: He also did it with Billy Donovan. He also did
Speaker 7: it with Mashburns. So he's just got a gift and
Speaker 7: he's in the perfect place because New York guy in
Speaker 7: New York selling out Madison Square guard and happened to
Speaker 7: Runny had the year that coach Carterseca passes. Understanding the
Speaker 7: history and the tradition of Saint John's embracing all that, Uh,
Speaker 7: this was a long time coming because I personally the
Speaker 7: last time the job opened up, I probably would have said,
Speaker 7: you know, he's had some issues. But Rick Patino is
Speaker 7: New York Basketball.
Speaker 2: What happened to Yukon this year?
Speaker 7: They're not as good. I mean, like the level was
Speaker 7: so high and the bar was so high. I mean,
Speaker 7: you know, you lose Klingon, you lose Snogo the year
Speaker 7: before you lose you know, you have two of everything
Speaker 7: in the post. You lose Stephencastle and elite defender. You know,
Speaker 7: before you lost Andre Jackson the elite defender, they swung
Speaker 7: himss a little bit in the portal. I mean, that's
Speaker 7: just the fact their inability to defend the ball at
Speaker 7: the point of attack. Offensively, it's still beautiful, watch their
Speaker 7: ball movement to people movement. They don't have a shot
Speaker 7: creator offensively, which is a problem. They get everything out
Speaker 7: of their offense Stephan Castle, who just get down the lane.
Speaker 7: Jordan Hawkins could come off a screen, bang a jumper
Speaker 7: or shot fake and get in the lane. They don't
Speaker 7: have that. And then defensively they're just they don't have
Speaker 7: a lockdown defender. So like even in this first game,
Speaker 7: Jeremiah Fears, Jeremiah Fears has a little Kyrie irving in
Speaker 7: his game, like defending him in the Three Guards of Oklahoma,
Speaker 7: that's going to be a little bit of an issue.
Speaker 7: And then offensively, you get to a short clock situation,
Speaker 7: and then you watch so much basketball, you're you know
Speaker 7: so much about it in our historian. You get to
Speaker 7: the end of a shot clock, who do you give
Speaker 7: the ball to? You give to Leeve McNeely as a
Speaker 7: freshman who's like a six to six guy. It's developing
Speaker 7: into it. Give to hassand the IRA because he really
Speaker 7: can't score it, but he can get maybe in the lane.
Speaker 7: You know, they had pros they were giving the ball
Speaker 7: to at the end of the shop. Lock having said that,
Speaker 7: the dude is a savant, the dude is amazing. You know,
Speaker 7: you can like him dislike him. He's great for college basketball.
Speaker 7: I go over there all the time to watch him practice.
Speaker 7: He's a master teacher, but it's model behavior. He acts
Speaker 7: and coaches no differently than his dad did when he
Speaker 7: was winning state championship after state championship and becoming a
Speaker 7: Hall of Fame coach. The guy is a tremendous coach
Speaker 7: and his players love him as hard as he is
Speaker 7: on him, and he can be hard on him. His
Speaker 7: guys respond to him, He connects with him at a
Speaker 7: different level because he cares so much.
Speaker 2: The NBA has surrendered to the three. College basketball hasn't.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if you know, I'll ask your
Speaker 2: opinion while I give mine, which isn't great interviewing. But
Speaker 2: it almost feels like the coaches are in a little
Speaker 2: more control in college ounsketball of the style hole that
Speaker 2: you can play as opposed to the NBA, where the
Speaker 2: stars are bigger than their coaches.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we've turned into a European game, the college game.
Speaker 7: A lot of coaches are running a lot of five
Speaker 7: out they're running up not as much just pure ball screen.
Speaker 7: It's more balling people movement, you know, like everyone. My
Speaker 7: thing about the NBA is that players take bad shots
Speaker 7: and make them. College players take good shots of missing,
Speaker 7: so like the coach has to have more of a
Speaker 7: little bit more control. You know, who you get shot from,
Speaker 7: where you get shot from, when you get the shot from.
Speaker 7: That's why I like Auburn, even though they're struggling now.
Speaker 7: Bruce pel does a great job of getting his guys
Speaker 7: where they want their shots to get come from, which
Speaker 7: is important. So yeah, A lot of people disagree with me.
Speaker 7: I don't think we should go to twenty four second clock.
Speaker 7: I do think we can advance the mull at the
Speaker 7: end of games. I think that would be good because
Speaker 7: we'd have more exciting finishes. I think we should go
Speaker 7: to quarters, that's fine. I don't think we should move
Speaker 7: the three point lineback. Our game is different. Our game
Speaker 7: is different, you know what, and we try to be
Speaker 7: the NBA. We're not going to be the NBA. You know.
Speaker 7: The chance to get the upset in the NCAA tournament
Speaker 7: is because of our rules. We would have never when
Speaker 7: I was Virginia Tech Beaten Duke in North Carolina, when
Speaker 7: we beat Kansas when we were at Long Beach State,
Speaker 7: we would have never had those wins if there was
Speaker 7: a twenty first second clock, if the rule, if the
Speaker 7: rules were the way it is now. The one thing
Speaker 7: I am worried about the NCUBLE Tournament, especially for the SEC,
Speaker 7: is the SEC fourteen teams in the tournament. I think
Speaker 7: they can get three in the final four potentially, which
Speaker 7: is the first time since the Big East did it.
Speaker 7: But it's been such a physical league. I do worry
Speaker 7: the first two rounds when they call it a little
Speaker 7: tighter and this league is so physical and handsy. If
Speaker 7: that's going to impact outcomes of games, because they're going
Speaker 7: to get a bunch of teams in foul trouble.
Speaker 2: Best college basketball team of your lifetime was who for me?
Speaker 7: At my lifetime, I played against them and the unility
Speaker 7: team of Jerry Darkadia. They came at you at warp speed.
Speaker 7: They are absolutely relentless. And I'm talking about teams I
Speaker 7: coached against. Yeah, they played at one, one three a me,
Speaker 7: but then they played man and man and they came
Speaker 7: at you in like at warp speed. Larry Johnson was
Speaker 7: running right to the front of the rim. Good luck
Speaker 7: you playing a side of me. Catchers can play behind him,
Speaker 7: backs you down, Anderson hunts knocking down threes. How hard
Speaker 7: they played. See, that's the one thing about Jerry Tarcaanie.
Speaker 7: He was a great coach. He wasn't a good coach.
Speaker 7: He acquired talent. We know that he had great players,
Speaker 7: But how hard they played, how they defended, how simple
Speaker 7: they were offensively, but how well they executed. They were
Speaker 7: so hard to play against because of the force they
Speaker 7: played with, their selfishness, they played with and they never
Speaker 7: took a playoff. I mean, they just came at yet,
Speaker 7: at Yet, and at Yet, and it was just it
Speaker 7: was a brutal forty minutes.
Speaker 2: And Bob Lee and I when we did Sports Center,
Speaker 2: we argued about how great this team, one of the
Speaker 2: great teams of all time, and we kept coming back
Speaker 2: to their blowing people out. If they get into a
Speaker 2: tight game, I want to see how they do. They
Speaker 2: got into a tight game in that, you know, second
Speaker 2: year when they faced Duke and they had a hard
Speaker 2: time getting a shot off. Your pick for the tournament
Speaker 2: is Fara. Okay, we'll talk to you. We'll talk to
Speaker 2: you during the tournament. Thank you again.
Speaker 7: For much respect.
Speaker 2: One of the great irishmen of all time. Seth Greenberg,
Speaker 2: ESPN College Basketball Analyst, work on that wardrobe. Probably a
Speaker 2: little later on, we'll take a break. Play of the
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Speaker 7: What up?
Speaker 8: DP?
Speaker 7: Happy?
Speaker 10: Dan Patrick's day seton the way you're situated. You have
Speaker 10: a lot of green around you, and your chair has
Speaker 10: green on it too, So you're good, brother, So you
Speaker 10: get up from your seat.
Speaker 2: Paul And.
Speaker 10: But Dan, I know Joe Burrow was a campaigning and voiced,
Speaker 10: you know, his opinion for the resigning of his two boys,
Speaker 10: the star receivers, and I mean he really challenged the
Speaker 10: franchise to step up. But also t Higgins hiring the
Speaker 10: same agent as Jamar Chase d And that's really a
Speaker 10: sneaky good detail on this, this whole, this whole story
Speaker 10: of that. I'm signing together for good for them. Best
Speaker 10: of the weekend, Dan, Bengals DP for finally signing both
Speaker 10: their two star receivers. Worst of the weekend Bengals VP
Speaker 10: for waiting to sign their two star receivers. I just
Speaker 10: don't get why these teams wait so long. You're only
Speaker 10: delaying the inevitable, which costs them two big bags.
Speaker 2: Matt Good, Yeah, I can have a tiree kill, you know,
Speaker 2: a wide receiver tight end situation like you had with
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs. But I look at the Bengals and
Speaker 2: they're kind of like the Dolphins that you have a
Speaker 2: quarterback making a lot of money and you have your
Speaker 2: wide receivers. I just don't think it's a blueprint for success.
Speaker 2: You might make the playoffs, but you are you resigning
Speaker 2: your best defensive player, Trey Hendrickson. He's thirty years of age,
Speaker 2: but he led the NFL in sacks. Defense was the problem,
Speaker 2: But I mean, can you outscore people maybe during the
Speaker 2: regular season. I just don't think you can have that
Speaker 2: that blueprint and win. I think the Bengals are very
Speaker 2: similar to the Dolphins, and we've seen what's happened with
Speaker 2: the Dolphins. I do think this is we're going to
Speaker 2: play Kate Joe Burrow. We don't want to have another
Speaker 2: Carson Palmer situation. We will get him his weapons. I
Speaker 2: just want to see, now, what are you going to
Speaker 2: do to do with that defense? That's really going to
Speaker 2: be the true test of Hey, we're scoring. I mean,
Speaker 2: they'll be exciting. I just don't know if they're going
Speaker 2: to be formidable. Uh. Daniel in Saint Paul, Hey, Dan,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today.
Speaker 11: How do you guys happen? Happy Saint Patrick's Day? Happy
Speaker 11: Dan Patrick stated, everyone out there, I'm Irish Catholic on
Speaker 11: my mom's side, my extended family. We marched in the
Speaker 11: parade every year. Thanks for coming out last year, guys,
Speaker 11: We're missing you this year. Shout out to everyone of
Speaker 11: j O, Kaidan Klan and Christine and Jacksonville. Oh, best
Speaker 11: nors of the weekend. I love March Madnis. It's the
Speaker 11: best time of the year. I love that as getting started.
Speaker 11: Double best Michigan wolver Reing's pulling out that way yesterday
Speaker 11: I was day side closes, no showing.
Speaker 2: Up for that.
Speaker 11: It's kind of brutal, and I was wondering how you
Speaker 11: guys feel about this. I think Thursday and Friday should
Speaker 11: be a sports religious holiday. If you love sports, it's
Speaker 11: a mandatory must watch. What do you guys think about that?
Speaker 11: Ye isn't that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I'm fine with that. You know, I've been pushing for
Speaker 2: push the super Bowl back so you get President's Day off.
Speaker 2: We're gonna treat the super Bowl as the biggest event
Speaker 2: of the year and let us recover the day after.
Speaker 2: Sound like Daniel has already been in his cups from
Speaker 2: the weekend there in Saint Paul. By the way, we
Speaker 2: had a wonderful time. People in Saint Paul were wonderful,
Speaker 2: had a great time there as I was one of
Speaker 2: the Grand marshals last year turzou in des Moines or
Speaker 2: Des Monet, Iowa.
Speaker 11: I'dy Saint Patrick stayed.
Speaker 7: Dan Hey, big fan of the Drake Bulldogs.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I was a little disappointed whenever they got an
Speaker 10: eleven seed.
Speaker 11: They have been a really solid team all year long.
Speaker 7: I think they kind of.
Speaker 11: Got the short end of the stick.
Speaker 7: Watch out for him though in the tourney and seeing
Speaker 7: we better be pulling for those Bulldogs if they make
Speaker 7: this Sweet sixteen, I'll take a part of the face.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Drake's a good team. Drake's one of those teams
Speaker 2: where you're going to see them play and you're gonna
Speaker 2: go wow. You know, they got some guys from Division
Speaker 2: two and it's a really good roster, I think that,
Speaker 2: and you got guys who I think they have a
Speaker 2: lot of upper classmen there, and that's what I look
Speaker 2: for too, very underrated when you look at a roster
Speaker 2: and you go, all right, how many juniors and seniors
Speaker 2: are there. That means they're they're good. They weren't good
Speaker 2: enough to leave after their freshman or sophomore year, but
Speaker 2: they're still good enough to play, you know, Division one
Speaker 2: college basketball. You make your free throws, you know, do
Speaker 2: you have good shooters? A couple of three point shooters.
Speaker 2: It feels like the formula has changed a little bit.
Speaker 2: But we talk about guard play.
Speaker 6: Are you saying we joke to win a senior guard.
Speaker 2: I think it could be guard play and making free throws.
Speaker 2: You know, having a guy you can go to when
Speaker 2: you need a bucket. That's also important as well. Yes, Pauline, I.
Speaker 6: Love senior guard playing when you don't know who's on
Speaker 6: a roster.
Speaker 2: Yes, we practiced. You know when we listen to the
Speaker 2: analyst and they'll just you know, if I say Tennessee, well,
Speaker 2: you know what, you gotta love their guard play and
Speaker 2: they're big, they can get down the floor, and they're tough.
Speaker 2: You know, Rick Barnes, They're always gonna be tough. They're
Speaker 2: gonna play tough at SEC basketball. I don't know Tennessee,
Speaker 2: but I can make it sound like I know Tennessee, Yes, paul, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but if the Valves.
Speaker 6: Can control the turnover margin, They're really gonna have a
Speaker 6: chance to win this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't. You just can't turn the bowl over.
Speaker 2: The number of analysts that we're gonna hear over the
Speaker 2: next three weeks say these same things over and over.
Speaker 8: Yes, Marv and whoever has a big game, it's never
Speaker 8: gonna be my name.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 8: Hey, you know the guard from Drake and he's been
Speaker 8: on fire.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: Well, you have to say the guard play. You know,
Speaker 2: Drake's guard play is really good. You don't ask the
Speaker 2: follow up question, well, who are they now that guard play?
Speaker 2: You know they're bigs. You know, you got to respect
Speaker 2: their bigs.
Speaker 5: Yes, other cliches are good, like if Michigan State's in it,
Speaker 5: you don't know their backcourt. You know, I just trusted
Speaker 5: tom as a team this time year. That's a Golden Wide.
Speaker 2: You know Tom ISO's going to have his team ready
Speaker 2: to play. Don't as opposed to the other coaches won't
Speaker 2: have their players ready to play. You know, I really
Speaker 2: like Maryland, Actually I do. I really like Maryland, but
Speaker 2: I like their guard play. Of course, senior guard play.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they have senior guard they might
Speaker 2: have seen your guards are on the bench. They improve
Speaker 2: the GPA. All right, talk a little football. Are the
Speaker 2: Vikings actually interested in Aaron Rodgers. We'll have that for
Speaker 2: you coming up.