WEBVTT - Slam Dunk Coaches 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:05.560 Welcome to the solid verbal ll that for me. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:07.880 I'm a man, I'm for. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:10.119 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:12.080 be happy. You want to be happy for a day? 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:14.720 Edo Steak is that woo woom? 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.800 And then and Tye. 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.279 Welcome back to the salid Verbo boys and girls. My 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:23.959 name is ty Hildebrand. That fine gentleman over there is 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.880 always back in his humble abode in the heart of 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.159 the Midwest, Chicago, Illinois. Dan Rubert Steed, Sir, how are you. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:33.200 I'm good. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.920 I just took a shower, as did you, And I 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.720 think we do our best shows when we are refreshed 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.120 and clean. And the shower is also a really good 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.960 place to brainstorm and to think on things. And so 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:50.360 I'm always so glad to get to California and record 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.360 and do all sorts of fun things in cal I'm not, 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:53.000 actually I'm not. 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:53.400 That's a lie. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:55.120 I'm not happy to record in California. It's a mess 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:56.640 in there. I do it on a card table. But 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.760 I'm always happy to get there to do California things. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.040 But I'm always happy to return because I have my 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:05.920 home setup and I truly feel like myself not in Illinois. 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.840 But in this specific room, with this specific equipment, with 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.080 all of my dongles, with all of my adapters, with 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:16.320 my computer, and everything's set up just so so this 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.840 If it's not a good show, it's purely intellectual because 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.440 I'm dumb and not creative. If it is a good show, 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:23.679 that's a large reason why. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.120 Well, look, you told me what the concept for this 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.000 show is going to be. Mm hmmm. We're returning to 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.480 our roots in a sense because we came up with 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.000 the concept about five minutes before we hit the record button. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.360 We've done this pretty much throughout the entire run here 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.080 of the solid verbal. It's kind of come up with 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.400 things on the fly. Yeah, this was your creation. Yeah, 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:46.600 we're talking about dunks today. We are, which is a 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.440 great word. It's a great word to say, yunk. It 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.480 has a lot of different meanings, a lot of different uses. 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.720 Obviously the basketball dunking, the dunk tank. You can dunk 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.960 somebody in a pool like manually, you can dunk food 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.440 like dunk fries into some or you can dunk oreos, 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:06.600 or obviously you can dunk in football. You can dink 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.280 and dunk. Right, that's a strategy that you could employ. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:13.160 But this sort of the timing of the show coincides 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.640 with the NBA Dunk Contest, which I watched zero seconds 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.399 up say and heard it was a disaster. Same Nonetheless, 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.079 I'm still a dunking enthusiast. I am still somebody who 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:29.120 lowered the rim on my driveway basket growing up to 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.480 like you know, it depended when I was super young, 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.440 six feet seven feet, eight feet whatever and did like 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.000 my d brown cover my eyes. You know, I would 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.200 try to replicate all of those things. And I had 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.200 little brothers and I would just dunk on them all 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.480 day long. I'm not I don't love dunking on Twitter. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.800 I think that idea is kind of pass and stupid. 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:50.920 But nonetheless, once again, I love a good dunk. I 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:55.480 love a good dunk, and I want to evaluate the 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.680 jobs and potential of twenty twenty one first year head 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:07.280 co Your Shane Bemers, your Andy Avili your is that 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.079 plural for Andy Alos? 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.720 I believe that's his preference, that's his family's preference. And 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:17.000 across the across the country, Blake Anderson, guys that had 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:21.760 a year one situation Bert Beelima and not just figure 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.320 out how they did and what they did, and where 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.760 they progressed their program and where perhaps they took a 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.560 step back based on what the previous guy did, but 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:34.400 also just how high they can fly and just what 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.440 they would do, like Michael Scott. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.400 You have no idea how high I can fly? 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:38.880 Right? 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.040 What they would do in the open court with the ball, 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:46.160 not necessarily dunking, but if they're going for a fundamentally 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.440 sound layup, is that they're ceiling in terms of how 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.640 high they can fly tomahawk jam thinking they can dunk 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.760 but breaking it terribly and spraining an ankle. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:56.960 What what is the the. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:01.000 Literal and figurative height that we believe these coaches can 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:06.160 fly if everything adds up the way that they're intending. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.680 Oh yeah, I like this. I like this a lot. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.840 I'm already looking at the list of first year coaches 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.560 trying to figure out what Lance Ipold's doing. If he's 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.320 just got open floor in front of him, Sure, what 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:21.680 is Lance Liepold, Kansas doing? Open floor, all gas, no breaks? 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:23.320 What's he doing? 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.120 Did you go to basketball camp? By the way, No, 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.280 was that ever a thing you did. You never went 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.280 to basketball. You never even tried to get better at 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:31.719 basketball any on any level. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:36.400 No, I you know what I was When I played 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.679 youth basketball. I was the guy who went and stood 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.240 in the corner and said pass me the ball, and 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.320 every now and again i'd hit a shines. My career 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:50.479 best for points and organized basketball was eight. I had 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.280 one eight point game. Oh that was the best I 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.320 ever did. I wasn't a rebounder. I wasn't a dribbler. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.559 I was a good glue guy like I got along 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.680 with everybody on the team. I like to play defense. 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:05.279 I often went for the steal, but rarely got And 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.080 I just was not a scorer. I was more of 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.760 a more of just kind of like there to build 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:10.400 tea morale. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:11.560 I was not good at basketball. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.479 You sound more like glue means you're doing the little 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.359 things and making effort. If you're standing in the corner 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.200 not scoring, I'm not sure what you're holding around. I'd 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.279 run around, but my shot of choice was from the corner. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.000 What I did in the open floor, and Mama h 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.479 will attest to this open floor. Nobody in front of me. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:30.760 Went up there, bricked it on. 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:31.479 The first try. 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.200 This is not a dunk, this is a layup. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.520 Got the rebound, put it in on the second attempt, 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:38.520 only to find out that the reason the floor was 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:40.760 open is because it was my own basket. I did 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.160 that off the. 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.080 Tip, off my own goal and own basket. 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:44.360 Yeah. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.080 No, The reason I asked about basketball camp is I'm 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.800 gonna set the standard here. The standard here is obviously 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.839 Nick Saban in the open floor doing whatever he wants, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.000 like the greatest, don you know, doctor j Michael Jordan whatever. 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.760 I just remember in basketball camp, we would watch videos 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.839 while eating pizza and taters. That was the chosen food midday, 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:04.039 playing sports all to. 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:04.960 The two food groups. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.840 Sure shout out Jack Hayley, rest in peace and his 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.000 camp at seasun cal State Northridge. But we'd watch these 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.520 VHS tapes of Michael Jordan in slow motion. They licensed music, 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.600 and it would just be Michael Jordan in slow motion, 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.880 dunking onlike zil' I was gonna sae asil junis Olgasciz, 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.560 I'm screwing up my my generations, but dunking on like 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:28.120 Kevin Willis with Berlin playing in the background. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.080 So like the das, were they trying to show you 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.320 how to do the dunks? Or was it just kind 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.400 of like no motivation as you were eating your junk food. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.800 Just buying time, just buying time to get these kids 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:43.400 out of the camp whatever. So that's so, that's the 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:47.679 the absolute apex is the Berlin take my breath Away, 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.760 Michael Jordan, visual and everything else. I don't know what 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.360 the bottom the baseline is like Philip Seymour Hoffman, and 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:58.480 along came Polly where he's just sweating and bricking and 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:03.080 yelling and confident with no reason Kobe. So that's I 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.240 don't know somewhere. Those are your bookends of this game. 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.159 So we're taking you have a list of first year coaches. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.880 I looked into the analytics of where these teams improved 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.679 and fell off in terms of points for driving, offense 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.240 and defense. I also looked at how these teams finished 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.280 their regular season. Right, A lot of how we can 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.600 judge first year head coaches, which isn't entirely fair, can 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.960 be looked at in terms of how a team finished, 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.400 you know, how the motivation kept up. I know we 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.560 have housekeeping to go to, but those are the things 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:33.720 we're going to look at, and then we're going to 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.200 discuss their open floor ceiling. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.160 Well, I am excited for this show. I'm glad we 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.200 have this concept. I'm glad you have the Steve Carell 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:40.800 bit as well. 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:41.480 That's always fine. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:42.160 Can you play that again? 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:42.560 I enjoy that. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.040 Yeh, of course you have no idea how high I 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:45.480 can fly? 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:49.360 How high can first year coaches fly? 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Indeed, let's get into our game, all right, 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:50.160 So once again we are looking at I guess freshman coaches, right, 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:55.120 and the job that they did when they were merely freshmen. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.360 Compromise, Sorry, that's my that's my singing. 0:09:59.400 --> 0:09:59.720 Okay. 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:03.240 So so there isn't a standard rubric ahead of where 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.280 we are going with the visual of them, what they're 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.559 doing in the open floor, attempting to dunk or finish emphatically. 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.440 But you have a list, We can have whatever you want. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:14.240 I have a list. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.800 This is my disclaimer. It's an especially or was an 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.640 especially difficult time to be a first year head coach, 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.200 and I think it will be for the time being 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.199 because of the timing of early signing day, because of 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:31.000 the number of transfers now because of eligibility coming off 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.839 of COVID. With the added eligibility, so there's all sorts 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:37.440 of different roster wrinkles that didn't really exist about five 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:38.000 years ago. 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.200 Roster wrinkles is going to be the name of our 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.520 emo band. Yeah, thank you. Oh I like that. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:47.199 So with that caveat, with that disclaimer, obviously there's always 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.920 a reason, generally not a good one, why a new 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.320 coach is hired. Sometimes the previous guy did so well 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.160 at a place set up for success that they had 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.120 to hire a new guy. Not the case all the time. 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.960 So we are going to look out a number of 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.120 these guys replaced fired coaches, and there's a reason. So 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.360 you can't fully judge anybody on year one and sometimes 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.400 even year two. By year three you generally can. We've 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.000 already done a year two show. So now here is 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:18.440 our freshman evaluation for some reason, with how they would 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.839 do in the open floor dunking the ball. Where should 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:21.400 we start typing? 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.480 I want to start with Tennessee. I want to start 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.960 with Josh Hipel. Yes, Josh Hipel came in. He replaced 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:34.280 Jeremy Prewitt fairly late in the cycle. You'll recall the 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:39.000 prue and stuff exploded. Tennessee had gone three and seven 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.520 in twenty twenty, just wasn't a good campaign. Danny White 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.240 came up to Tennessee. He hired his guy in Josh 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:51.960 Hipel away from UCF. Tennessee went seven and six last season, 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.559 lost the Bowl game seven to five. Regular season second 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.080 order wins, which is a statistic that I like to 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.920 look at just to I don't know get Bill C's 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.160 take on things. Second order wins had Tennessee as an 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:10.120 eight win team, Okay, Josh Hypel. Tennessee is a really interesting, 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.920 I guess, starter case for us here because that is 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.840 a situation that I was not all that excited about. 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.280 I didn't really know what to make of that hire 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.880 to begin with. Maybe it's because I didn't know enough 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.080 about Josh Hypel. I don't know, but I think year 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.720 one was very promising. As I look at the SP 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:32.320 plus final standings from Bill c He's got Tennessee as 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.880 a top ten team. So I think of the way 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.160 that our thinking has evolved on Tennessee throughout the course 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.880 of the last year, and for me, I've come a 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:46.600 long ways, a long ways towards accepting this program as 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.240 maybe one that is now on the straight and narrow 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:55.200 about to pop in twenty twenty two. And definitely, definitely, 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.760 definitely I think beyond a shadow of a doubt better 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.400 now than it was when he got there. Oh yeah, 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.200 oh absolutely. And it wasn't. 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:06.560 When you look at what Tennessee was able to do 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.079 this past year, it was not a luck thing. They 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.520 started off a little bit shaky, but it wasn't a 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:15.080 crazy turnover margin year. It wasn't constantly playing teams with 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:16.240 beat up quarterbacks or. 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:16.880 Something like that. 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.600 I think it was solid progress And when you look 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.800 at what Tennessee was able to do as it relates 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.240 to the twenty twenty year, which again grain of salt, 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.640 they had the number three most improved defense in the 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:31.760 country or excuse me, number three most improved offense when 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.040 it comes to points per drive, which is not surprising 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:35.480 when you look at some of the fireworks that the 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:39.920 balls were able to generate. The defense was slightly worse 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.600 and with how they finished winning three or five competitive 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.760 for a stretch against Alabama, but ultimately the tide runaway, 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:51.280 not competitive against Georgia, but certainly the Kentucky win upon 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:55.280 further reflection, you know, certainly impressive. So I don't know 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.520 how you come away anything but encouraged. And now look 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.840 it's Hendon Hooker and he was kind of a pre formed, 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.760 successful quarterback coming in to Tennessee, and the portal didn't 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.000 wasn't considered to be started. I think Joe Milton won 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:12.080 Milton initially Joe Milton. Yeah, so things sort of course corrected. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.240 In Knoxville, they have what I think was a top 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.160 twenty class, you know, in the first full Josh Hypel 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.800 class eighth in the SEC. They do have, or at 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.480 least in this class, a quarterback of the future. I 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:26.720 believe his name is Tavian Jackson from Indiana. So I 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.280 think there is if I'm going to look at this 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:34.560 in the dunk context, dunk context that Josh Hypel is 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.960 going to confidently. 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.040 With, especially how you look at how he throws the. 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.800 Ball downfield, confidently go up for and succeed in dunking. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.080 It's not going to be the prettiest and most emphatic, 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.840 but I think he can clear rim. Absolutely can clear 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.160 rim and not make a fool of himself with all 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:52.720 eyes on him like you did. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.800 Are you able to get rim? Were you ever able 0:14:55.880 --> 0:15:02.440 to get rim when you jumped? I think like grazing rim. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:04.840 Nothing that I would could ever do that would be 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.600 impressive to people, like because I'm taller than you too. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.320 So I was probably about six feet in high school. 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.880 But with the ball in my hands, I was not 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:20.440 soaring over people. It was like running super hard, unencumbered, 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.760 holding nothing. I could maybe graze rim or at least 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:28.200 the bars supporting the rim coming down I could get 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.680 That was about my limit. I could get net. Look 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.240 at you, I could get net and that was exciting. Yeah, 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:39.440 of course, Josh Hipel, I think can aspire to greater heights. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.800 There's a little bit of flash there, a little bit 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.240 of flash there in the way he conducts his offense. 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.440 I think we're going to see more of it in 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.000 twenty twenty two. I'm excited about that. Yeah, I'm excited 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:55.280 about that. The interesting thing will be in this marketplace, 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:00.120 in this world, in a world if Tennessee is a 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:04.640 destination job for Josh Hipel in a world in which 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:09.479 destination jobs don't exist, and that can be a difficult 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.680 place to navigate that if he gets an offer at 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.680 a bigger place or a comparable place because he doesn't 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.200 have Tennessee roots obviously going back to his time at 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.240 Oklahoma that didn't work out, it will be interesting to 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.880 see if he carries them to an SEC East Division 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.280 winning place, if he's long for Knoxville. But that's a 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.120 terrific problem to have. Oh, if you're a Boll fan, 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:35.560 I see this situation as an aliop. And I'm not 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:39.040 talking about a dunk contest grade alioop where there's a 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:44.040 windmill or a behind the back or any kind of antics. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:49.960 I'm talking game used alioop makes a break down the 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.600 baseline point guard throws it up, catches it mid flight 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:58.160 two handed dunk, so more of a specialized dunker, more 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.160 of a specialized dunker, but there when he needs to 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.679 be able to throw it down if he has to. Okay, 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.840 not necessarily with the glitz and glamour that you'd expect 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.119 of a dunk contest, or even in the open floor 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.000 right right where you can do whatever you want. But 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.400 I just I see it as an efficient dunk here 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.520 a rim roller. Yeah maybe because and I didn't think 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:20.960 this up because I just heard about the game. But 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.240 efficiency really was the name of the game for this 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:24.160 Tennessee offense. 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:25.320 They're very efficient. 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.240 So I see him as an efficient two handed dunker, 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.240 somebody who could definitely get to those heights. The question is, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.119 is a two handed dunk standard two handed dunk in 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.120 the open floor as an ALI loop? Is that enough 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.359 to get you over the hump of the Georgia Bulldogs 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.600 like you're not winning any dunk contests against. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:49.160 I think it is. It is my opinion that Tennessee, 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.520 to whatever extent, even having been blown out by the Dogs, 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:58.800 have slightly or respectably closed the gap. It's still pretty wide. 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.080 It's still pretty wide. But what the SEC East has 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:06.000 needed with Florida's inconsistencies with South Carolina falling off the map, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.280 with Kentucky looking good but kind of having a ceiling 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:11.680 because of some poor offenses before last season, and Eliam 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:17.160 Cohen's gone the East and the top of the East 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.240 not necessarily winning the East, but that top group in 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:23.240 the East has definitely kept a place warm for Tennessee. Yeah, 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:27.760 because nobody is necessarily claiming it right now alongside the 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:32.440 dogs with now Florida starting over, let's go over to Auburn. 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.679 Yeah, what worries me a little bit about Auburn in 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:42.040 light of recent circumstances. You've seen the clip where they 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:45.800 take sort of a normal peon somebody who can't jump 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:50.199 like me frankly can't actually dunk. But they give them 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.000 a trampoline and they tell them run and jump on 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.640 the trampoline and that's going to give you the clearness 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.720 to get up to be above the rim Steve Carell style. 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:00.239 How high can you lie? 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:00.480 Dan? 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:03.200 And that's going to allow. 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:03.560 Them to dunk. 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.719 But we've all seen the clips where they put somebody 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.440 in that circumstance and they just short it goes wrong. Yeah, 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.880 they short it either they go a little bit long 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.760 and they maybe rack their head on the backboard, or 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:20.359 perhaps they just come up embarrassingly short. Right. Frankly, I 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.920 don't know where we're at with Brian Harrison. I had 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.440 a lot of optimism for the start of the Brian 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:30.080 Harrison regime because bo Nix was playing better. We saw 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.560 what Auburn did on the road against Penn State. Granted, 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:35.800 Penn State maybe didn't end up being a world beater, 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.840 but that was still an awesome moment. Very early on 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:43.639 in the season, Auburn finished six and seven. Their second 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.760 order wins was six point seven, so they were pretty 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:50.880 much right where Bill c thought they should be. This 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.320 is on the heels of a six and five campaign 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.480 that got Gus Malson fired. Now, Gus Melson was on 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.159 the hot seat, not on the hot seat for a 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.240 good five years at Auburn. Right, six and five was 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:04.520 really just the culmination of a bunch of years where 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.119 he was sort of on a warm seat. But Brian 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.560 Harson to come in to start strong in the way 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:13.000 that they did, and then for it to sort of 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.320 peter out. And now all of this goofiness with respect 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:21.640 to the internal investigation nineteen guys transferring out, go back 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:24.119 and listen to the interview we did with Justin Ferguson 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.600 of Auburnobserver dot com and you can get more details 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.240