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Speaker 2: backroom guys as well. Congratulations to the Michigan Wolverines as
Speaker 2: they knock off Connecticut sixty nine sixty three and for
Speaker 2: entertainment purposes, Connecticut covered the six and a half first
Speaker 2: title for Michigan in basketball since nineteen eighty nine. So
Speaker 2: you get the women's champion UCLA, you get the men's
Speaker 2: champion Michigan, and you get Indiana football for the Big Ten,
Speaker 2: taking all three. All right, we'll get the phone calls
Speaker 2: coming up eight, seven to seven three DP show. Got
Speaker 2: a busy show. We'll talk to Jay Billis from the Mothership.
Speaker 2: Coming up. Dusty May, Michigan head coach, will join us
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Speaker 2: There were a lot of things I thought when I'm
Speaker 2: watching the game last night. First and foremost, Michigan looked
Speaker 2: like an NBA team as far as the age of
Speaker 2: those players. And there's a difference in having tall guys
Speaker 2: and big guys, so like a big guy just different,
Speaker 2: looks like a grown man as opposed to somebody who's
Speaker 2: just tall, and Michigan was front and center with that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if the background there, the shooting background
Speaker 2: that I talked about yesterday, if you haven't shot on
Speaker 2: a basket where there is depth perception, you don't know
Speaker 2: what that feeling's like. And even if you do shoot
Speaker 2: on that for a couple of games, couple of practices,
Speaker 2: it's still a little bit jolting there. But there was
Speaker 2: some bad shooting last night, certainly with the Connecticut Huskies.
Speaker 2: You know, relying on their three point shot and it
Speaker 2: wasn't there. It's amazing Connecticut State in that game. But
Speaker 2: I'm going to give credit to offensive rebounding and just
Speaker 2: sort of the grit of Connecticut because I thought Michigan
Speaker 2: was a far better team than Connecticut. But the best
Speaker 2: team doesn't always win. And there were a couple of
Speaker 2: moments where if you make a hoop, now, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, it's down to four, but then they go back,
Speaker 2: and then they make a hoop, now, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: it's a five point turnaround. So Connecticut was in that
Speaker 2: game and they didn't play well at all, but getting
Speaker 2: you know, Michigan dominated in the paint. Three point shooting
Speaker 2: was really bad for Connecticut, and you know it cost
Speaker 2: them in the end. Also, free throw shooting. Michigan went
Speaker 2: to the line and they made those free throws, yes, Pauline.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Michigan weirdly two for fifteen from three thirteen percent,
Speaker 3: but at the free throw line Michigan twenty five eighty
Speaker 3: nine percent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, hitting those free throws. They hit
Speaker 2: a couple of threes when they needed to dominating inside
Speaker 2: block shots altered shots as well, and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: Dan Hurley didn't sound devastated. I think he was really
Speaker 2: proud of what he saw. Because I've said before, much
Speaker 2: to the chagrin or dismay of Connecticut fans, I didn't
Speaker 2: think it was a great team how individual talent wise,
Speaker 2: but the sum of it was a great team. What
Speaker 2: they did, how they did when they did it. And
Speaker 2: here's Dan Hurley after the game.
Speaker 4: You know, it's hard to be upset with your team.
Speaker 4: You know, we lost the game because we missed, we missed,
Speaker 4: we didn't make enough shots.
Speaker 5: But it's hard to be upset with.
Speaker 4: Your team when they get twenty two offensive rebounds first,
Speaker 4: that team, I mean, that's just how hard we just
Speaker 4: played to hold you know, that that team to thirty
Speaker 4: eight percent from the field. But obviously, the you know,
Speaker 4: the guys picking up two fouls in the first half.
Speaker 4: Losing those three guys when we had taught had a
Speaker 4: great chance going to the locker room with the lead,
Speaker 4: you know, really put us in a bad spot. But
Speaker 4: you know, it's hard to be disappointed in your team
Speaker 4: when they fight so hard.
Speaker 2: And Connecticut kept it in a total point total that
Speaker 2: I thought they could win it because I said, if
Speaker 2: it's in the sixties. They can win it. They're not
Speaker 2: going to win it in the eighties. Give credit to Michigan.
Speaker 2: Michigan beat Connecticut at their own game, kept it in
Speaker 2: the sixties and won that game. Michigan and Connecticut combined
Speaker 2: to shoot thirty four percent from the flour. That's the
Speaker 2: second worst field goal percentage in a title game since
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty. The only game that had a lower shooting
Speaker 2: percentage was twenty eleven. Connecticut and Butler combined to shoot
Speaker 2: twenty six percent from the floor, and Connecticut played great
Speaker 2: defense throughout. If you include the title game, Connecticut is
Speaker 2: held tournament opponents below their season average for twenty nine
Speaker 2: consecutive games. That's the second longest streak in NCAA history.
Speaker 1: Stead of a day, stall of a day, start out
Speaker 1: a day.
Speaker 2: Start of a day, this is the start of the day.
Speaker 2: And this is a Michigan team that scored the second
Speaker 2: most points in a tournament run in history. The only
Speaker 2: other team was UNLV that was nineteen ninety. They scored
Speaker 2: five hundred and seventy one points. Michigan scored five forty one.
Speaker 2: But we'll talk to their head coach, Dusty meg He'll
Speaker 2: join us in an hour from now. Marvin, how you
Speaker 2: feeling today?
Speaker 6: You know what tough loss last night. But I couldn't
Speaker 6: have been more proud of those guys. They were playing
Speaker 6: against a team they Michigan was the better team. If
Speaker 6: you kinda had lost to Purdue a couple of years ago,
Speaker 6: I would have been upset because we were better than him.
Speaker 2: But last night, those guys played hard.
Speaker 6: They were within striking distance the entire time, and we
Speaker 6: didn't get embarrassed like Arizona.
Speaker 2: Dude, any tears last night?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Your wife?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, like when you lose to a better team. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my wife goes.
Speaker 6: They have Goate's and muscles, that's their nickname.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got some older guys on that team. Hey,
Speaker 2: but Dusty may did what your He didn't do anything
Speaker 2: that anybody else couldn't have done. He took advantage of it.
Speaker 2: He took advantage of the rules here getting players overseas,
Speaker 2: players that used to not be eligible. But NI always
Speaker 2: made these players eligible that they can have professional experience.
Speaker 2: Illinois did this and by the way, Mike Malone is
Speaker 2: the new head coach at North Carolina. It was surprising.
Speaker 2: I wasn't shocked because I told you on March twenty fifth,
Speaker 2: my college basketball source gave me the usual suspects. You
Speaker 2: know who was going to get this job, Dusty May
Speaker 2: And I said, no, the athletic director is not going
Speaker 2: to let him go. I got that on a you know,
Speaker 2: through a reliable source. Okay, well, Tommy Lloyd. Then from Arizona, Yep,
Speaker 2: I think he's in play. Nat Oates at Alabama, Yes,
Speaker 2: I think he's in play. Bryce Drew, Yes, I think
Speaker 2: he's in play. And then my source, at the very
Speaker 2: end of his text message to me, he goes, here's
Speaker 2: a name for you, and nobody's going to talk about this.
Speaker 2: I think this might work out, and he said Mike Malone.
Speaker 2: So when I said that on the show, I'm going
Speaker 2: I'm going to get crushed in North Carolina if I
Speaker 2: say hey, and keep an eye on Mike Malone, who's
Speaker 2: been an NBA coach. He was a college coach back
Speaker 2: in the nineties, and I'm thinking now he's an analyst
Speaker 2: on the mothership. He was the Nuggets head coach, and
Speaker 2: here we are, Mike Malone, Michael Malone is the North
Speaker 2: Carolina head coach, and this is what's going to happen
Speaker 2: college basketball fans, Michael Malone is going to do what
Speaker 2: Illinois did and some of these other schools are doing.
Speaker 2: He's going over to the Balkans and getting some of
Speaker 2: those big boys. Keep in mind, you know Joker, he
Speaker 2: helped develop Joker and the connections with Jokich's agent to
Speaker 2: the you know, Serbia, to the Balkans. That's what's going
Speaker 2: to happen. They're coming. He's bringing those players over. And
Speaker 2: I'm just curious about now. His intensity survived eighty two games.
Speaker 2: His intensity can survive thirty thirty five games at North Carolina.
Speaker 2: But boy, that was a long haul. And I was
Speaker 2: told Billy Donovan yesterday declined the opportunity. From what I
Speaker 2: was told, Donovan wanted to wait till the end of
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bulls season. The Bulls cleared house yesterday except
Speaker 2: for Billy Donovan. But Michael Malone is North Carolina is
Speaker 2: new head coach, and I don't know if there's a
Speaker 2: proper way to build a contender now, a championship team.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to Jay Billis about that, but it certainly
Speaker 2: feels like, I mean, you know, keep in mind, Michigan
Speaker 2: didn't get these great players. You got this guy from UAB,
Speaker 2: you got this guy's a backup center at UCLA. Like
Speaker 2: they just kind of pieced it together. But this is recruiting.
Speaker 2: It's just different than recruiting in high school. Now you're
Speaker 2: recruiting and you're getting somebody who could be twenty one
Speaker 2: or twenty two years of age. You still got to
Speaker 2: make it all fit together. And this is what Dusty
Speaker 2: May did. Recruiting is no longer in my opinion. Hey,
Speaker 2: John Carrott Town Caliperry's blueprinted Kentucky is let's just get
Speaker 2: all of these great high school players. I want, you know,
Speaker 2: a proof of concept here. I've said this all season long.
Speaker 2: Give me somebody who's done this, not somebody who I
Speaker 2: think can do this. And coaches are now, look look
Speaker 2: at Connecticut Dan Hurley. He might get one McDonald's all American,
Speaker 2: but then he's gonna be piecing it together. He's gonna
Speaker 2: get guys who have played elsewhere. That seems to be
Speaker 2: the blueprint. But we'll talk to Jay Billis about that
Speaker 2: coming up, all right. He see whole question for hour
Speaker 2: one is what well this will make you happy? Didn't?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 9: Todd has a couple of fun options. This is called
Speaker 9: polls that don't quite work. Okay, Okay, so I'm gonna
Speaker 9: do my best to represent these here for Todd Okay,
Speaker 9: did Michigan win it last night?
Speaker 2: Or did Lukan Yukon lose it.
Speaker 3: Lax Sports Classic?
Speaker 2: Michigan won it.
Speaker 9: Michigan won that game for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: He's got another one here that says, how big of
Speaker 9: a hit did Dan Hurley's legacy take by not winning
Speaker 9: three titles in four years? Major hit or a significant hit?
Speaker 2: Zero?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Zero zero? Right, that team was not the second best
Speaker 2: team in the country, But give him credit for what
Speaker 2: he got out of that team.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: I think it adds to his legacy, it doesn't detract.
Speaker 9: We've got here putting together starting five of all transfers.
Speaker 9: Is smart or dumb? Well, I think last night answered
Speaker 9: that question as well, didn't it.
Speaker 2: I don't think it can be dumb. Yeah, point.
Speaker 3: I think what Fritzy is trying to say, based off
Speaker 3: what he's been saying for four days is is it
Speaker 3: off putting to see a team win with a bunch
Speaker 3: of transfer senior type guys.
Speaker 2: Yes, he did bring that up this morning. I go, oh,
Speaker 2: this is however, you win that that's all. It matters, like,
Speaker 2: you don't go boy asthetically, that doesn't look good. We
Speaker 2: got all these guys from all over the country, all
Speaker 2: over the world, as opposed to doing it the right
Speaker 2: way recruiting kids out of high school.
Speaker 10: I will acknowledge that you have to find that talent
Speaker 10: and recruit and all that and then piece it all together.
Speaker 10: These guys don't know each other and put it all
Speaker 10: together and then win a championships. That's impressive. But on
Speaker 10: first glance, when I saw that graphic that all five
Speaker 10: came from all over the place and weren't, you know,
Speaker 10: initially in Michigan for whatever reason, at that moment, I'm like, uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see yeah.
Speaker 9: But if you're a new coach, we've only been there
Speaker 9: for a year or two. Let me is the idea,
Speaker 9: Todd that you're asking for. Let me stick with the
Speaker 9: guys that got the other guy fired, and once they
Speaker 9: cycle out, then I'll bring in my guys.
Speaker 7: That's fair.
Speaker 2: I just I guess you can't do that.
Speaker 10: I think I'm living in the baseball farm system world
Speaker 10: where the teams that win based on bringing up their
Speaker 10: own guys is more special than the evil empires of
Speaker 10: the Yankees and Dodgers and just trying to buy people
Speaker 10: from a different places.
Speaker 2: Well that's how I fee this kind of different than
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. I understand what you're saying. Whatever it takes
Speaker 2: to win. As long as I'm not breaking rules, and
Speaker 2: Michigan wasn't and Illinois wasn't, I'm okay with them. Timing
Speaker 2: is everything. Starbucks knowing that we're probably going to be
Speaker 2: a little sleep deprive perfect time. I said, hey, you
Speaker 2: guys want to try these new energy refreshers available today?
Speaker 2: And I said yes, And so I have my energy
Speaker 2: refresher here and it's designed to uplift you give you
Speaker 2: low power, you know when you have that down moment
Speaker 2: in the afternoon. And I've been a Starbucks fan for
Speaker 2: a long long time. Benji Chai with almond milk, you're
Speaker 2: o G I am. Yeah, they know me when I
Speaker 2: go through the drive through. But if you need that
Speaker 2: little pick me up after work or even after a
Speaker 2: sporting event, because that was a late night. Yes, it
Speaker 2: was eight fifty and it felt a whole lot earlier
Speaker 2: than nine to twenty eastern.
Speaker 3: We're a little sports tired.
Speaker 2: Today, yes, yes, but they have a you know, great
Speaker 2: refreshers with great taste. I got the let's see, I
Speaker 2: got the mango strawberry lemonade energy refresher, so I should
Speaker 2: be good to I already feel alive.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 3: So the danger when you're watching a game late night
Speaker 3: is you I'll just watch the last quarter in bed,
Speaker 3: or the last ten minutes in bed. Then you risk
Speaker 3: falling asleep with four minutes left in the National title game.
Speaker 3: You got to stay upright, You got to stay in
Speaker 3: a couch. Yeah, your kids out there got to learn. So, yes,
Speaker 3: you have to pace yourself.
Speaker 2: You take that afternoon nap and then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden you're ready to go, and then you pay the
Speaker 2: price the next day. So I'm not waiting till this
Speaker 2: afternoon to get my little lift. Here. I've got it
Speaker 2: right here, and you can order at Starbucks today. The
Speaker 2: new energy refreshers delish, as the kids would like to say.
Speaker 10: Yes, Todd, you do start doing that math once it
Speaker 10: gets to a letter. If I fall asleep right now,
Speaker 10: I'll get five hours sleep. If I fall asleep right now,
Speaker 10: I'll still get three and a half hours. And then
Speaker 10: before you know, it's like you took a forty five
Speaker 10: minute nap. Before you're starting to work there.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Jay for joining us. If I didn't watch
Speaker 2: the game, how would you sum up what happened last night?
Speaker 11: It was a defensive battle more than anything, really physical.
Speaker 11: Neither team shot the ball really well. But Michigan, even
Speaker 11: with the Axel Lendeborg compromised with an injury, they were
Speaker 11: just too big and too strong. They dominated the pain.
Speaker 11: I haven't seen this very often, Dan, but in the
Speaker 11: first half, I can't remember the exact number, I think
Speaker 11: they scored thirty three points, and all their points were
Speaker 11: either in the paint or from the free throw line.
Speaker 11: They didn't score a bucket outside the paint till about
Speaker 11: fourteen and a half minutes to go in the game,
Speaker 11: and they just you know, their defense was excellent, their
Speaker 11: rent protection was good, their lane protection. It was a
Speaker 11: really hard fought game. It wasn't the prettiest game I've
Speaker 11: ever seen, and both teams shot the ball much better
Speaker 11: in the semifinals than they did the final. But the
Speaker 11: fact that Yukon could shoot like thirty one percent of
Speaker 11: the game and still and give up as many free
Speaker 11: throws as they did and be in foul trouble and
Speaker 11: still making a two possession game at the end was
Speaker 11: pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was wondering, you know, if you said
Speaker 2: the final score was what it was, I'd say, oh,
Speaker 2: Connecticut might have won. If it was going to be
Speaker 2: in the eighties, then I would say Michigan was going
Speaker 2: to win. Michigan proved that they could play in the eighties,
Speaker 2: play in the sixties and getting the point in the paint,
Speaker 2: but Connecticut was always lingering there. Offensive rebounds kind of
Speaker 2: kept him in it. And I also wondered about this
Speaker 2: after watching what Michigan did, what Illinois did, What is
Speaker 2: the blueprint now moving forward for building a championship caliber team.
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's the same as it's always been.
Speaker 11: You know, you want to get the best players you
Speaker 11: can get, and we see it in different ways. You know,
Speaker 11: when John Calipari was at Kentucky and Duke has been
Speaker 11: doing this, they get great young talent and they certainly
Speaker 11: have brought in and had some older players around, whether
Speaker 11: they're transfers or retention guys. But you know, it kind
Speaker 11: of depends on who you talk to. You know, if
Speaker 11: a team wins with a group that they've had that's
Speaker 11: the blueprint, then a team like Michigan wins when they've
Speaker 11: got five starters that are all transfers, even though to
Speaker 11: Maury Burnett was their last year, Well then that's the way.
Speaker 11: And if you win with one and Dune's, well you
Speaker 11: got to have pros, you know. So it's always shift team.
Speaker 11: And that's one of the odd things about college football
Speaker 11: and college basketball is these narratives that are around the game,
Speaker 11: you know, And the narrative now is it's all transactional.
Speaker 11: As if it wasn't transactional before you have to sign
Speaker 11: a letter of intent, you recruited and brought in and
Speaker 11: there was a set of rules and all that it
Speaker 11: was transactional into you can't have relationships. Well, every team
Speaker 11: that lost in the NCAA term was hugging each other
Speaker 11: and crying in the locker room. So the idea that
Speaker 11: just because they're paid now it's it's, uh, you know,
Speaker 11: it's different, and you know now they don't care as
Speaker 11: much and all that stuff is just nonsense. And you know,
Speaker 11: I mean, I don't want to beat this to death,
Speaker 11: but you know, it kind of made me laugh the
Speaker 11: way we talk about players. And then recently with all
Speaker 11: the coaching movement, you know, nobody says anything to coaches
Speaker 11: about loyalty and commitment. They signed long term contracts and
Speaker 11: they leave skid marks on these schools when they get
Speaker 11: about a better opportunity and one player transfers and all
Speaker 11: of a sudden, it's loyalty or you can't go through
Speaker 11: adversity or all this nonsense. And I don't understand why
Speaker 11: we keep doing that. Maybe it makes us clutch our
Speaker 11: pearls and feel better, but we need to stop doing that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's you know, they've lost control. You
Speaker 2: got you know, they're all control freaks, so they're used
Speaker 2: to controlling their rosters. Now they don't have control. Now
Speaker 2: they're lamenting the you know, we missed the old days. Well,
Speaker 2: the old days that wasn't fair to the player. And
Speaker 2: I'm wondering about what we saw with Illinois. You know,
Speaker 2: Michael Malone going to North Carolina, He's going to tap
Speaker 2: into Nikola Jokich's agent and his pipeline here. So that's
Speaker 2: why I wondered, are we going to see more of
Speaker 2: the overseas players who can be professionals and then come
Speaker 2: over here as well. That's why with Illinois and Michigan,
Speaker 2: how they built their rosters more Illinois. But is would
Speaker 2: that be a safer bet that doing that as opposed
Speaker 2: to trying to recruit somebody out of high school.
Speaker 11: Well, it'll be I mean, it'll be more prevalent. You
Speaker 11: may see it more because you can make money in
Speaker 11: college now. So now international players are going, wait a minute,
Speaker 11: I don't need to stay here and play for less
Speaker 11: money in their home countries or their home regions when
Speaker 11: they can come and go to college and play in
Speaker 11: this system. And so it's an option for them. Not
Speaker 11: every international player is going to flood the system in
Speaker 11: the United States. And we've had international players forever. We've
Speaker 11: got a few more of them now, and Illinois got
Speaker 11: more of them than just about anybody else. But that
Speaker 11: is akin to the one and done, And now that
Speaker 11: we've got the transfer portal, doesn't the one and done
Speaker 11: argument seem kind of quaint? Now nobody's complaining about that.
Speaker 11: We got something new to complain about now. But you know,
Speaker 11: to me, and you mentioned control, and I get it.
Speaker 11: You know, football and basketball coaches are kind of control freaks.
Speaker 11: But you know, they had their way for a long time,
Speaker 11: and the control they had was deemed to be illegal
Speaker 11: by the United States Supreme Court, So they're going to
Speaker 11: have to do it a little bit differently. And really,
Speaker 11: if you don't like transfers, don't take them. And you
Speaker 11: hear now nobody talks about education anymore.
Speaker 5: Not true.
Speaker 11: But if you want to talk about education, talk about
Speaker 11: at your school. You know, if you don't want to
Speaker 11: pay the players, don't pay them at your school and
Speaker 11: see how it works out for you.
Speaker 5: But with the coaches.
Speaker 11: Making eight million, nine million dollars a year, all that stuff,
Speaker 11: it seems kind of ridiculous to moan about.
Speaker 5: You know, somebody said them and I don't know what what.
Speaker 5: I don't know what.
Speaker 11: The roster cost Michigan, and I don't care. Some people
Speaker 11: may and that's fine, but somebody said it cost them
Speaker 11: ten million dollars to put that team on the floor.
Speaker 11: Their coaching staff makes more than that. And does somebody
Speaker 11: want to argue that the that somehow Yaxel Lindeborg is
Speaker 11: not worth as much as their top assistant, I would argue,
Speaker 11: I would I would contest that I don't think that's true.
Speaker 2: The job that Dan Hurley did this season as opposed
Speaker 2: to the other two championship runs.
Speaker 11: You know, you could argue that he did a better
Speaker 11: job because his team wasn't quite as talented and as
Speaker 11: dominant and had a wonderful chance to win a national championship.
Speaker 11: They came within a couple of possessions of it. You know,
Speaker 11: that's one of the things about Coach of the Year awards.
Speaker 11: I never know what they mean. You know, do you
Speaker 11: give Coach of the Year to the guy that has
Speaker 11: the best team? And Dusty May and the Big Ten
Speaker 11: was should he be Big Ten Coach of the Year
Speaker 11: because they ripped through the league and won it? Or
Speaker 11: should the guy win it who had the lowest expectations
Speaker 11: and exceeded those expectations, Even though the expectations are from
Speaker 11: the media and we're not supposed to know what we're
Speaker 11: talking about. I don't know. I don't know who you
Speaker 11: give that to. So those are the I don't know
Speaker 11: whether coaches love those awards or not. But of all
Speaker 11: the awards that we give out, I think Coach of
Speaker 11: the Year is probably the least important.
Speaker 2: And the job that Dusty May did that, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's pretty remarkable turnaround. But you know, Florida Atlantic. You know,
Speaker 2: when he went to the Final four and he waited
Speaker 2: another year, which that's usually when these guys, you know,
Speaker 2: jump off the ship and you know, head to a
Speaker 2: luxury liner here, which was surprising. He was waiting for
Speaker 2: the right jump.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe so.
Speaker 11: But one of the great things about Dusty when he
Speaker 11: was at Florida Atlantic and I heard, I heard you
Speaker 11: promote that he's going to be on later, one of
Speaker 11: the great things was when he decided to stay the
Speaker 11: next year, his whole team stayed with him. So that
Speaker 11: Final four team came back and stayed at Florida Atlantic.
Speaker 11: In an age when people say it's transactional, it's no loyalty.
Speaker 11: They all stayed. They only left when Dusty left, And
Speaker 11: I thought that said a lot about their program and
Speaker 11: the kind of culture that he believes in and he
Speaker 11: fosters and I know you know this, but you know,
Speaker 11: he was a manager for Bob Knight at Indiana. And
Speaker 11: one of the things he and the other managers I
Speaker 11: know a lot of those guys, what they used to do.
Speaker 11: They used to have to go get Knight all the
Speaker 11: quirky things that he liked to eat, like non yeast
Speaker 11: doughnuts and Night used to drink these crazy concoctions and.
Speaker 5: Like doctor pepper and lemonade, and they had to do that.
Speaker 11: One of the things I've never asked Dusty, is all right,
Speaker 11: now that you're a head coach, what do your managers
Speaker 11: have to do for you? So I would love to hear.
Speaker 11: I'm sure it's not as quirky as Night, but that
Speaker 11: would be kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: Did North Carolina basketball have a good day yesterday? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: You know, one of the things that nobody heard when
Speaker 11: everybody was reporting on it was Michael Malone's name. You know,
Speaker 11: everybody was focus the media was focusing on. Okay, they're
Speaker 11: going after you know, Billy Donovan and Tommy Lloyd and
Speaker 11: you know, Dan, what happens in these situations every single time?
Speaker 11: And why the college system is so screwed up because
Speaker 11: this would never happen in the NBA.
Speaker 5: Of the NFL.
Speaker 11: Job's open and coaches are named mentioned contacted, and they
Speaker 11: squeeze more money out of where they are and they
Speaker 11: leverage it as they should because that's just smart business.
Speaker 11: But I can't imagine why the DA doesn't have a
Speaker 11: rule that says there's no tampering with coaches. Like we
Speaker 11: talk about tampering with players who are not under contract
Speaker 11: and have a transfer portal, that's not tampering. There's tampering
Speaker 11: with coaches. These guys are under contract. But everybody accepts
Speaker 11: it because if somebody takes my coach, then I'm going
Speaker 11: to go take somebody else's coach, and I want to
Speaker 11: be able to do that. And the domino effect of
Speaker 11: that affects a lot of people's lives, including a lot
Speaker 11: of players' lives, and we continue to do this. But
Speaker 11: Michael Malone's an outstanding coach. You know, you know, he
Speaker 11: did a he coached in college, He coached for Pete
Speaker 11: Gillen to Providence and coach at Manhattan under Bobby Gonzalez.
Speaker 5: So he's he's been in college before.
Speaker 11: It's been a while, but I think with the current
Speaker 11: state of things, having a pro coach is going to
Speaker 11: be a far easier transition than it might have been,
Speaker 11: you know, ten fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2: Thanks for your contributions this year during the season. We
Speaker 2: appreciated Jay, and thanks for all you do for the game. Dan,
Speaker 2: Are you being serious about that, because it sounds.
Speaker 5: Of course I am.
Speaker 11: You're a national treasure and you know, you know, I
Speaker 11: still have a signed picture that you gave me, and
Speaker 11: gradual rather egotistical gift that you.
Speaker 5: Gave me when we were both at ESPN. But I
Speaker 5: treasure it.
Speaker 2: Wait, that doesn't sound like me that it would be egotistical.
Speaker 2: I was just you seem like you were having a
Speaker 2: bad day and I just wanted to pick up your spirits.
Speaker 2: I gave you, you know, me and Joe Green, you know
Speaker 2: when he gets the Coca cola and he gives the
Speaker 2: jersey to the little boy. That's kind of that's how
Speaker 2: I felt.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but that jersey was worth something. You could have
Speaker 5: taken that on the market. Yeah, that's just that.
Speaker 11: This is just between me and you, But it is
Speaker 11: a treasured memorabilia item that I own.
Speaker 2: It, and be nice if you put it up behind
Speaker 2: you that'd be nice.
Speaker 5: You know what I shouldn't.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do that.
Speaker 5: I'm going to do that. That's a good call. I'm
Speaker 5: going to do that.
Speaker 2: Thank you Jay, all right, brother Jay, billis from the Mothership.
Speaker 2: So Jay was there in Indianapolis last night, got up
Speaker 2: this morning, flew home, and then said that he would
Speaker 2: come on the show. So we appreciate that. A couple
Speaker 2: of phone calls in here Andrew and Washington leads us off.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Andrew, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 8: Good morning Dan Nnet's think. Thank you for taking my call, Marvin.
Speaker 8: Sorry about your Yukon Huskies.
Speaker 12: Dan.
Speaker 8: I see the turning point in the National Championship at
Speaker 8: three eighteen in the first half, when Alex Caravan had
Speaker 8: a foul called on him. It looked like a simple
Speaker 8: on the floor foul. They go to the monitor, they
Speaker 8: call it a hook and hold. They do it a
Speaker 8: flagrant fowl. So it was twenty five twenty three at
Speaker 8: that time. Yukon Michigan makes both free throws this twenty
Speaker 8: five twenty five. They get the ball back. Lindi Borg
Speaker 8: makes a layup. Okay, they're up by two. Okay, Yukon
Speaker 8: doesn't score. They come back. Maris scores. It's a six
Speaker 8: point turnaround. What was the game ended that at six
Speaker 8: point deficit? So I really look at that as the
Speaker 8: turning point in the whole game. After that point, Yukon
Speaker 8: never tied or led the game again. They look discombobulated
Speaker 8: after that, like maybe one of their ways or physicality
Speaker 8: was taken away from him. And I just think that
Speaker 8: was a turning point in the whole game after that
Speaker 8: hook and hold flagrant pow. That was just a bad call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think towards the end of the first half
Speaker 2: was a big turning point for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Paully, Yeah, that play is very weird because now
Speaker 3: with replay, when Caravan does the pin down on the
Speaker 3: guy's arm, they try to avoid that because of shoulder injuries,
Speaker 3: and it was a normal foul call. Well, once you
Speaker 3: go to replay, the refs have to look at it
Speaker 3: and say is he holding his arm down on purpose?
Speaker 3: And it's almost like I have to call it, you know, weirdly.
Speaker 2: Christian Syracuse, Good morning, Chris. What do you have for me?
Speaker 7: Thanks?
Speaker 13: Dan? A couple comments and a possible poll question. Yeah,
Speaker 13: for Connecticut, What a difference between Geno's postgame Morant and
Speaker 13: Dan Hurley last night. And it's kind of bizarre world.
Speaker 13: Who would think the Big Ten has a dominant ear
Speaker 13: in basketball and the Indiana Hoosiers have nothing to do
Speaker 13: with it, And the Big Ten also has a dominant
Speaker 13: ear in football and the Hoosiers have everything to do
Speaker 13: with it. And off of Wemby hurting his ribs last night.
Speaker 13: And the question for you and maybe a possible poll
Speaker 13: question for Dan Nation, which player would you miss seeing
Speaker 13: play the most in the playoffs and which team do
Speaker 13: you think would miss the player in the playoffs the most?
Speaker 13: Wemby with the Spurs or Luca with the Lakers.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say Wemby because I think that team can
Speaker 2: play for a championship. Luca, I mean we've seen that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if the Lakers are formidable even when
Speaker 2: everybody's healthy. I think the Spurs can be formidable. Watched
Speaker 2: a little bit of Joker, another overtime game, put up
Speaker 2: another monster night. You know the MVP odds it's over,
Speaker 2: it's SGA's it's it's not going anyplace else. SGA is
Speaker 2: going to go back to back here with the MVP.
Speaker 2: Hannah in Des Moines or Des Monet.
Speaker 14: Hi, Hannah, Hi, Dan five eight, first time, long time.
Speaker 14: I'm gonna stay at home mom, and I watch your
Speaker 14: show on Peacock every morning. Nineteen year old son actually
Speaker 14: dances to the Dan House team song when.
Speaker 3: It comes on.
Speaker 14: I was just calling to request that Fritzy work on
Speaker 14: a sports center tease for us.
Speaker 2: Thanks Dan, Oh, Hannah requesting a sports center tease?
Speaker 6: Ton, We can do that.
Speaker 2: You can whip that up. It's been a while since
Speaker 2: we've had that.
Speaker 10: It has been a while.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, Hannah, we'll do that for you. We take
Speaker 2: request here. By the way, Marvin lost the Celebrity Bracket
Speaker 2: Challenge because Connecticut lost Guy Fieri, who joined us yesterday
Speaker 2: ended up winning. Guy did reach out to me this
Speaker 2: morning and he said, Hey, I know you're going to
Speaker 2: have my son writer on. He's a big college basketball fan.
Speaker 2: He's a student. I believe it's San Diego State. And
Speaker 2: if Guy had lost, Marvin would have been on Diners,
Speaker 2: Drive ins and Dives. Guy said, you'll still be on Diners,
Speaker 2: Drive ins and dives. Okay, many, Thank you so much. Guy. Yes,
Speaker 2: Jimmy and Michigan, Hey Jimmy, what's on your mind?
Speaker 8: Hey?
Speaker 7: Dad?
Speaker 8: Kind of buckling off. But you just mentioned the batter
Speaker 8: of the poll there.
Speaker 7: Since his son's going to be there, maybe a meet
Speaker 7: Friday with Guy Fiery, how about that?
Speaker 2: Oh, we'd love to have guy come in for meet Friday,
Speaker 2: But that guy is busy. I saw that firsthand in
Speaker 2: New York, and I saw it in Connecticut where I
Speaker 2: was kind of around him for half a day. Who
Speaker 2: he is, He is moving, he is got a lot
Speaker 2: of energy there. Jim in Pennsylvania, Good morning, Jim, what's
Speaker 2: on your mind?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I was in good morning. I was come to see
Speaker 8: what you thought.
Speaker 15: Now are the five best head coaching jobs? And college bustball?
Speaker 15: And what the docchers you use to rank this be
Speaker 15: nil money facilities which don't seem to be as important anymore.
Speaker 8: Prestige?
Speaker 2: Are you talking about the actual old job itself or
Speaker 2: the person in the job the job? Oh, you know,
Speaker 2: that's tough to say, because North Carolina used to be
Speaker 2: one of the coveted places and it didn't turn out
Speaker 2: that way. Now, coaches flirted with that, but I you know,
Speaker 2: they were reaching out thinking, Hey, Dusty may w be interested,
Speaker 2: or Tommy Lloyd's gonna leave Arizona Natoates will leave Alabama like, yeah,
Speaker 2: Billy Donovan's gonna want this job. Then they find out
Speaker 2: that they didn't, and then that's that reality check. Coaching
Speaker 2: Duke is one of the top five, But it'd be
Speaker 2: hard to rank them though, because is Michigan now one
Speaker 2: of the five best coaching situations? It wasn't two years ago.
Speaker 2: But you got to get money. You have to have
Speaker 2: a coach who understands what does it take to win. Now,
Speaker 2: I can recruit. I have the support of the athletic Department,
Speaker 2: the chancellor, the president, the collectives. I got ni L
Speaker 2: I understand the portal. I'm not afraid of going outside
Speaker 2: of the United States. If you get all of that, uh,
Speaker 2: then you've got a great opportunity there. But I as
Speaker 2: far as ranking, like is Kentucky a great job? There's
Speaker 2: a lot of pressure on Mark Pope. There used to
Speaker 2: be like, man, Kentucky U c l A. Is that
Speaker 2: a great job? Indiana used to be a great job,
Speaker 2: Like we have a lot of used to be. We'll
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Speaker 12: Michigan gets it up to Foma Gale and then Read
Speaker 12: bats the ball away and it's a steel Great takes.
Speaker 2: It away, flips it behind.
Speaker 12: This shot won't go under the basket and it would
Speaker 12: not fall for solo ball on a bounce up before
Speaker 12: Johnson on the run bobbles it, gets it back to
Speaker 12: Gayl Gail kicks it out to Mckenni quicks three of
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Speaker 1: He hits old bind. That cut be the play of
Speaker 1: the night for Michigan.
Speaker 11: It was.
Speaker 2: That was a big, big turnaround McKenny one of just
Speaker 2: two three pointers made by Michigan. Michigan scored thirty six
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Speaker 2: buying should be Let's play the Dusty May contract game.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, this is fun. Okay, do I have any
Speaker 2: music for the Dusty May contract game? All right, here
Speaker 2: we go, Dan.
Speaker 3: Okay, I've got the list of the forty highest paid
Speaker 3: college basketball coaches currently. Where does Dusty May fit on
Speaker 3: the list and what does he make approximate?
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna start with Todd.
Speaker 10: He is seventeenth on the list at it makes thirteen
Speaker 10: point six millionaires.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's it. That's a lot, all right, all right, seton.
Speaker 9: Man, that's a hell of a line to start at.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna think I'm gonna say that thirteen point six
Speaker 9: is closer to what he makes in three years.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 9: I think that he's probably somewhere in the thirties on
Speaker 9: the list.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, Marvin.
Speaker 6: I think he's twenty fourth. He makes about four point
Speaker 6: five million dollars a year.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say he makes five point six million this
Speaker 2: past season, which would put him a eleventh on the list.
Speaker 3: Dusty May is the thirty second highest paid coaches in
Speaker 3: college basketball.
Speaker 2: Bloop deceit?
Speaker 3: Yeah, held it, uh, three point six million dollars, So
Speaker 3: Fritzy was only off by ten million.
Speaker 2: Okay, so close. Well, you're doing after taxes. Tome was
Speaker 2: doing four text so that's the difference.
Speaker 3: Now he did get some bonus money for last night, obviously. Okay,
Speaker 3: here's the question. Let's put it this way. Mick Cronin
Speaker 3: makes six point one million at UCLA, a lot of titles.
Speaker 3: Where does Dusty May's eventual rays get him to wants
Speaker 3: the closest to the hole we're playing.
Speaker 2: I would say whatever is ninth on the list.
Speaker 3: Ninth would be Tommy Lloyd that Arizona was last year
Speaker 3: he was making five point two, so five point two
Speaker 3: would be the ninth spot. I'm going six point two even,
Speaker 3: and that'll put him in the top five, and that
Speaker 3: will put him ahead of Mick Cronin fellow Big ten coaches.
Speaker 2: Okay, ish ish, yes, all right, Well that's the Dusty
Speaker 2: May contract. He'll join us at the top of the hour.
Speaker 2: Zach and Knoxville. Hi, Zach, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 7: Kadie B.
Speaker 16: Thanks for taking my call still warning the loss of
Speaker 16: last night, but I think the biggest difference in the
Speaker 16: game was just the defense on the inside. Mara kind
Speaker 16: of made it hard for Terroris Reed to get comfortable.
Speaker 7: And I just want to ask you, Michigan never really
Speaker 7: had that signature moment or any you know, they're good,
Speaker 7: but not great. Who's since two thousand, who's probably like
Speaker 7: the least memorable national champion that we've had. Looking at
Speaker 7: the list, I saw Louisville and Baylor, and I just
Speaker 7: wonder if you had any thoughts on.
Speaker 2: That I haven't thought about that. I'd have to look
Speaker 2: at the list. You know, Baylor is not a typical
Speaker 2: basketball school, maybe a little more football than basketball. You know,
Speaker 2: you didn't have the signature player that usually helps, yes, Marvin, Yeah.
Speaker 6: That Louisville team, they really didn't have anybody that even
Speaker 6: played in the NBA. I think their most outstanding player
Speaker 6: was Louke Hancock.
Speaker 2: Outside shooter. Yes mm hm yeah, like Rust Smith.
Speaker 6: A bunch of good college players, but none of them
Speaker 6: became NBA players.
Speaker 2: You can look at the most outstanding player the last
Speaker 2: fifteen years. There are not a lot of big names
Speaker 2: who have been the most outstanding player, and usually it's
Speaker 2: not the best player on the team who ends up
Speaker 2: being the most outstanding player. That was the case, you
Speaker 2: know last night, with Cadou being the most outstanding player.
Speaker 2: Seem would you update the Pole results? Absolutely?
Speaker 9: I would be happy to. Let's see with got one
Speaker 9: of Todd's up there. Putting together team starting five of
Speaker 9: all transfers is smart or dumb?
Speaker 2: Sixty three percent have that as smart.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 9: I think sometimes you have.
Speaker 2: To do that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, and win a championship. People get fired,
Speaker 9: people get hired, people transfer. You gotta field the team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's no different than trying to bring in five recruits. Now,
Speaker 2: these are recruits in a different way. Noah, any other
Speaker 2: Pole questions. We're only going with one seaton.
Speaker 9: We're going with that one for the first hour. We'll
Speaker 9: have a new one, Okay after the break.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, fair enough. Jalen Rose fab Fiber, he'll
Speaker 2: join us, coming up. Reggie Miller. Reggie texting me late
Speaker 2: last night. Hey, I want to make sure we talk
Speaker 2: about the UCLA women's team. I go. I know you
Speaker 2: went to UCLA and you pick them to win the title.
Speaker 2: That's not a big you know, oh my god moment.
Speaker 2: Come on, but Regill join us in the final. Now
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