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Speaker 1: watched Yukon three times in the regular season. I said,
Speaker 1: They're not only the best team I've saw in college basketball,
Speaker 1: they are easily the best team I saw in college basketball. Listen,
Speaker 1: there's just not many teams in the last twenty years
Speaker 1: that look like this. In the last twenty five years,
Speaker 1: Yukon has won six titles. They are now inevitable. The
Speaker 1: last team in college basketball that I remember feeling this
Speaker 1: way about, and I think Yukon is better than this team.
Speaker 1: Was that what twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen Villanova team where
Speaker 1: you had Jalen Brunson, Eric Pascal, Mikhale Bridges. I don't
Speaker 1: think they had this team's size or this team's depth,
Speaker 1: but you had Jay Wright, three NBA players. They were
Speaker 1: really really good, and it was Villanova. So like Yukon,
Speaker 1: they're tough, East Coast physical. I like the refs letting
Speaker 1: them play. I mean, the first thing that jumped out
Speaker 1: to me in this game, and Jay Wright, who's an
Speaker 1: excellent broadcaster, pointed it out, is that with Klingen, they
Speaker 1: weren't double teaming Zach Eaty, so Zach Edy was making
Speaker 1: tough shots, but they weren't allowing. And this is good
Speaker 1: coaching by Dan Hurley. They just didn't give Purdue any
Speaker 1: three point looks, so their guards weren't doing anything, so
Speaker 1: it was a mismatch. Early Yukon's guards were getting theirs
Speaker 1: lots of open looks. In fact, the only thing Yukon
Speaker 1: did not do well tonight was hit its open threes,
Speaker 1: they were okay, they hit some, not all of them.
Speaker 1: Other than that, Yukon does not lose when they lead
Speaker 1: it half. It was thirty six thirty and they were
Speaker 1: forty seven to zero. And like the Golden State Warriors,
Speaker 1: well coached teams come out in that first five or
Speaker 1: six minutes of the second half and you can tell
Speaker 1: they've made changes, alterations, and Yukon came out and I
Speaker 1: felt at halftime, I thought Purdue's gonna go on one
Speaker 1: of these eight to zho ten ozer runs, which is
Speaker 1: virtually impossible against Yukon because they're so good defensively A
Speaker 1: and B. They get so many second chance offensive rebound
Speaker 1: points even when they miss shots, and they get good looks.
Speaker 1: Yukon does not get bad looks their ball screening, their movement.
Speaker 1: They come down and get great looks almost every time
Speaker 1: down the floor, and if they miss, they get second
Speaker 1: chance opportunities. So it's hard to go in a run
Speaker 1: with Yukon, and that's what Yukon does. Yukon's defense makes
Speaker 1: your even makes tough. Zach Edie made a lot of
Speaker 1: shots in the first half, but if you go back
Speaker 1: and look at the last four or five minutes of
Speaker 1: the first half, Zach Edie looked a little gassed. He
Speaker 1: looked tired. He was having to work for his shots,
Speaker 1: and they weren't double teaming. But they're so physical. And
Speaker 1: I said this on FS one today, I said, Zach
Speaker 1: Edie's the big, but Clinging's a seven footer and everywhere
Speaker 1: else on the floor, Yukon has a size advantage. So
Speaker 1: it just kind of felt inevitable. And Yukon games all
Speaker 1: look the same. It's like they're a heavyweight fighter. First
Speaker 1: couple of rounds, they feel you out. But I think
Speaker 1: over time it's really difficult to match their size, their
Speaker 1: depth and their physicality. And Dan Hurley has said it,
Speaker 1: they just wear your ass out. Yukon just wears you out.
Speaker 1: And at one point their guards had a twenty nine
Speaker 1: to twelve advantage, So you know, I think what you're
Speaker 1: looking at is the best college basketball program men's are
Speaker 1: women's right now in the last twenty five years. For
Speaker 1: a while it was Yukon women now at South Carolina women,
Speaker 1: But for the last twenty five years, at least in
Speaker 1: the men's game, Yukon has pulled away from Michigan State Kansas,
Speaker 1: Duke Carolina Villanova, and I don't see him slowing down
Speaker 1: with Hurley. He's got another ten years minimum to coach.
Speaker 1: I think it's funny. He's intense, but unlike a John
Speaker 1: Calipari and I'll get to that in about five minutes.
Speaker 1: He's got some self awareness. He's got a sense of humor.
Speaker 1: You know, he can be a salesman. I'm sure on
Speaker 1: the recruiting trail, but they just coach. Yukon's really well coached.
Speaker 1: I really feel they remind me of of Villanova with
Speaker 1: Jay Wright. The difference is I think Yukon recruits at
Speaker 1: a higher level. Jay Wright made a living out of
Speaker 1: three star guys playing and developing into NBA players. You know,
Speaker 1: Yukon'll go out and get four and five star guys.
Speaker 1: What you're looking They didn't. I didn't think Yukon shot
Speaker 1: the ball particularly well. They missed a lot of open threes.
Speaker 1: But there's I mean everything about Yukon. They're coaching their size,
Speaker 1: their movement, their tenacity, their offensive rebounding Situationally. The other
Speaker 1: thing is, and I always feel about this about teams.
Speaker 1: The great teams like make it look pretty effortless Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan made it look like he's six ' six. It's
Speaker 1: not the biggest guy on the floor, the best pier shooter.
Speaker 1: Why does he get always get great looks? Yukon gets
Speaker 1: really good looks. Their guards, highly experienced, beat you off
Speaker 1: the dribble, break you down. Then they have like math
Speaker 1: advantages going to the basket. They can lob to biggs
Speaker 1: to finish, they go to the corner. They just come
Speaker 1: down in three out of four times they get great looks,
Speaker 1: and again when they miss, they get second chance opportunities.
Speaker 1: There's just nothing else out like it. And the other
Speaker 1: thing is is that the culture. When when Dan Hurley
Speaker 1: was on my show, it was a couple of mondays ago,
Speaker 1: he said something was really point. He said, Yukon attracts
Speaker 1: serious people and that was the New England Patriots dynasty.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the cold weather. You know, I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is in the Northeast, but not a lot
Speaker 1: of bs like Yukon stores Connecticut. You're going there for basketball,
Speaker 1: You're going there to be coached. You know, a lot
Speaker 1: of these programs out there, you know, like Kentucky basketball
Speaker 1: was a lot of sizzle and not a lot of
Speaker 1: steak under Calipari. You know what I mean. It was
Speaker 1: a lot of look at what our guys make in
Speaker 1: the NBA and look at the recruiting. But in the end,
Speaker 1: it was it was just accumulating rankings. It wasn't about
Speaker 1: building great teams the last five or six years. Yukon
Speaker 1: is the opposite of Kentucky. It's not about the coach
Speaker 1: and the suits and the salary, and it's self awareness.
Speaker 1: It's building teams. It's tenacity, it's accountability. I just I
Speaker 1: like everything about Yukon basketball. It's old school and you
Speaker 1: don't have a ton of size in college basketball. So
Speaker 1: Zach Ede is a handful.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know.
Speaker 1: The NBA, everybody's everybody's big. Lucas six seven, guards are
Speaker 1: big or thick, you know threes, Lebron six eight and
Speaker 1: a half, he's a three. Everybody's got size, and you
Speaker 1: don't in college basketball. So Zach Edy just ran through
Speaker 1: this tournament and Purdue's excellent. I think you ran into
Speaker 1: a buzzsaw. It was funny. I a lot of people
Speaker 1: like Purdue in the points tonight, and I thought about
Speaker 1: it with my guys at the volume and DraftKings. I
Speaker 1: thought about it for about an hour this morning. I
Speaker 1: was going back and forth and I'm like, what am
Speaker 1: I doing here? What's going to happen, is zakied He's
Speaker 1: gonna get his twenty something points, But in the end,
Speaker 1: you're going to get so many offensive rebounds from Yukon,
Speaker 1: They're going to control the glass outside of edy. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you really think about this game, Purdue did what
Speaker 1: they wanted to do. They got both of Yukon's bigs
Speaker 1: in a foul trouble, and Yukon couldn't hit open threes.
Speaker 1: I mean, it kind of went their way, and they
Speaker 1: still like they were absolutely outclassed. After Newton hit that
Speaker 1: three at the start of the second half and it
Speaker 1: was thirty nine thirty, I just didn't feel at that
Speaker 1: point it was over. They weren't getting Purdue wasn't getting
Speaker 1: enough good open looks on threes. You can tell this
Speaker 1: in sporting events. It doesn't matter what sport it is,
Speaker 1: but you notice a lot in football where team's getting
Speaker 1: first downs, albeit barely. They're just getting over the chain,
Speaker 1: they're barely moving the sticks. They're having to work for
Speaker 1: every first down, and over the course of time, you
Speaker 1: got to get some easy stuff. Yukon gets good looks,
Speaker 1: a lot of open looks, and they didn't hit all
Speaker 1: of them, and they still won. Going away, way to
Speaker 1: go Yukon. You know, I've said this before, there's so
Speaker 1: much movement in college basketball between the portal and transferring
Speaker 1: and guys leaving early for leagues. I really like what
Speaker 1: Yukon stands for. It's you know, I was there for
Speaker 1: ten to eleven years, went to games. Everybody I knew
Speaker 1: was a Yukon fan. My daughter had a coach when
Speaker 1: she was playing basketball for a few years, and even
Speaker 1: the way they coached, you know, my daughter's like, you know,
Speaker 1: the sixth grade basketball, seventh grade basketball, even the way
Speaker 1: that team coached, hard practices, all out effort physicality. I
Speaker 1: used to love going to my daughter's practices because just
Speaker 1: how hard they practice and how precise and detailed they were,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's an accountability. They're principled, and I like,
Speaker 1: in a world of transferring and getting mine, Yukon stands
Speaker 1: for all this stuff that I think is really important.
Speaker 1: There's a value set of standards for Hurly, his dad,
Speaker 1: his brother and him just an incredibly to me, an
Speaker 1: incredibly likable program. They play hard, they play clean, and
Speaker 1: I give the officials. I'm going to give them some
Speaker 1: a tip of the cap. We see this a lot
Speaker 1: in championship games or championship fights. Officials back off and
Speaker 1: let you play. That game was really really physical in
Speaker 1: the first half, and the referees let him play. Now, eventually,
Speaker 1: Edi creates so much contact. You know, he gets a
Speaker 1: friendly whistle from time to time, but he creates so
Speaker 1: much contact that they're inevitably invariably their fouls. And you know,
Speaker 1: Yukon's bigs got into foul trouble, but it could have been.
Speaker 1: They could have been in foul trouble much sooner. But
Speaker 1: the refs let them play. You know, let the bigs play,
Speaker 1: let them battle on the glass. Effort wins, depth, winds,
Speaker 1: length wins, and that's where Yukon's at. I also want
Speaker 1: to congratulations to the Huskies and Purdue. Good to see
Speaker 1: a Big ten team. I think it's going to get
Speaker 1: a monster number even though it wasn't a close game.
Speaker 1: You know, the Northeast is watching. I hate that it's
Speaker 1: a nine to twenty Eastern tip off for college sports,
Speaker 1: especially you know, for years and years, Monday Night football
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Speaker 1: lived out East, one of the things I pined for
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Speaker 1: Let's shift gears. John Calipari has bailed on Kentucky and
Speaker 1: he is taking the job at Arkansas. I want to
Speaker 1: concentrate on who Kentucky should hire. I would call two coaches,
Speaker 1: Jay Wright and he won't take it. Billy Donovan, Billy Donovan,
Speaker 1: other Chicago Bulls. I don't think he'll take it. Although
Speaker 1: I think Billy Donovan is a good recruiter. He's a
Speaker 1: sensational in game coach, much better than Calipari. Every college
Speaker 1: coach needs some sort of salesmanship in Donovan, you know,
Speaker 1: good looking, confident guy has it. But I mean what
Speaker 1: he's coaching the Chicago Bulls and they got a couple
Speaker 1: of first round picks. I think this year it's not
Speaker 1: a very deep draft. Some good international players at the top,
Speaker 1: that's about it. But he makes six to six and
Speaker 1: a half million in the NBA. I would take that
Speaker 1: over eight to eight and a half million over college basketball.
Speaker 1: Better travel, better hotels, better players, better coaching, more big
Speaker 1: league stuff. It's nothing against the SEC, but I don't
Speaker 1: want to be hanging out in Starksville. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be hanging out in Auburn. If I can hang
Speaker 1: out you know, New York, Boston, bigger cities live in Chicago.
Speaker 1: To me, it's a better life, it's better coaching. I
Speaker 1: don't have to deal with Dean's the NCAA school presidents,
Speaker 1: the ad Klingy needy boosters, nil transfer portal. I don't
Speaker 1: think college basketball. I think you can do it right
Speaker 1: or better, but I don't think it's as much fun.
Speaker 1: That's why Jay Wright's got ten years left and went
Speaker 1: to television. Jay Wright to me, he'll be good at
Speaker 1: anything he does because of his commitment and his attention
Speaker 1: to detail. But Jay Wright would probably rather be coaching
Speaker 1: in college. But I don't think it's designed for quality
Speaker 1: of life in the NBA. Is you can have a
Speaker 1: life coaching in the NBA, and Chicago is not in
Speaker 1: the near future going to be a title threat. They've
Speaker 1: got a bunch of guys, good guys, not great guys.
Speaker 1: But I would hire Billy Donovan in a second, and
Speaker 1: I think he would win more than Calipari would. But
Speaker 1: I just don't think it's as good a job. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know that it sounds out of touch with college sports,
Speaker 1: but you ask people that have coached in the NBA,
Speaker 1: You ask people that have coached in college. You know,
Speaker 1: in college it's a coach's sports, so you have a
Speaker 1: lot of power, but you got to deal with a
Speaker 1: lot of nonsense stuff you didn't have to deal with
Speaker 1: even five years ago. NBA it's about basketball. I mean,
Speaker 1: most NBA coaches I know have a good relationship with
Speaker 1: a front office. Sometimes you get a zany owner. Most
Speaker 1: of the time you don't. You know, it's not like
Speaker 1: the NFL that's so high profile that owners. You know,
Speaker 1: all your friends love the NFL. Sometimes NFL owners, you know,
Speaker 1: they want to impose their power on a franchise. There's
Speaker 1: occasionally a bad NBA owner. But you know, the general managers,
Speaker 1: the executives in the league I talked to, they have space,
Speaker 1: they have some control. They don't feel they have a
Speaker 1: helicopter parent over them. And I think Billy Donovan in
Speaker 1: Chicago is respected, is liked, he's a great coach. I
Speaker 1: could never figure this out years ago when I would
Speaker 1: hear and I would hear sort of random stuff about
Speaker 1: Billy Donovan and OKC because he couldn't make you know,
Speaker 1: KD and Westbrook and Harden. Well we now know Harden's
Speaker 1: a flake. Westbrook is talented, but never could really shoot
Speaker 1: like you'd like a guard to shoot. Sometimes tough to
Speaker 1: play with. And Katie's a different cat. So you know,
Speaker 1: it was for years and years, we'll wear all the championships. Well,
Speaker 1: now you look ten years later and it's like, that's
Speaker 1: why it didn't get championships. You had Lebron and the
Speaker 1: heat Many dynasty, you have the Warriors dynasty. That's why
Speaker 1: I didn't win championships. So Klipari, I think he a
Speaker 1: little bit of a victim of his early success. But
Speaker 1: he makes the mistake that a lot of people do,
Speaker 1: and that is he is not able to shift to
Speaker 1: a second gear. You're not gonna win championships. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna beat Purdue. You're not gonna beat Yukon when you've
Speaker 1: got a bunch of freshmen. He's not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I mean Yukon's guards. How many games do those guys
Speaker 1: have combined? Mick cronin, UCLA basketball coach on my show today,
Speaker 1: I forget the number. It was insane. It's like the
Speaker 1: two guards between the two of them had you know,
Speaker 1: three hundred games or something like that of experience. You're
Speaker 1: not beating that with a bunch of freshmen. So Yukon
Speaker 1: does it right. I think other programs do it right.
Speaker 1: Carolina's got older teams and I think they do a
Speaker 1: good job. You know, at Carolina realizing you can get
Speaker 1: the occasional four and five star guy, but Villanova Carolina.
Speaker 1: If you really want to win at this level, the
Speaker 1: sport has changed. One and done had its moment. It's
Speaker 1: over defense used to run the NFL. It's over all right,
Speaker 1: instant reaction. Yukon rolls six titles and twenty five years,
Speaker 1: they have officially pulled away from even the top programs
Speaker 1: in men's college basketball. The volume. Thanks so much for listening.
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