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Speaker 1: Hey, it's stuck got Leeban. Welcome into the All Ball Podcast. Man,

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Speaker 1: do we have very little talk about? Kidding kidding? You

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Speaker 1: got college hoops on? I got mostly college hoops on

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Speaker 1: the docket today. I will only start with this in

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Speaker 1: terms of Lebron James. You're like, wait, it's marsh madness.

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Speaker 1: I want your picks. I want to know who do

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Speaker 1: you like to win it, who should get in the tournament,

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Speaker 1: coaches and who should replace different coaches. I'll get to

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Speaker 1: that in a second. I just want to give you,

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Speaker 1: give you one little tidbit here on this Rick Buker

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Speaker 1: story that Genie Buss at least contemplated it, called in

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Speaker 1: Rich Paul and said, hey, we might if this doesn't

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Speaker 1: we might trade Lebron James. Now, look, it's a it's

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Speaker 1: a veiled threat. Um. It's also it's a flimsy threat.

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Speaker 1: To be honest with you, She's not trading Lebron James.

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Speaker 1: It's really hard to trade a guy who you just

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Speaker 1: moved out to California. Are you train him to the

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Speaker 1: Clippers or the Nicks. That's probably the only two possible destinations.

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Speaker 1: But I guess maybe, just maybe maybe maybe maybe the Celtics.

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Speaker 1: But you know you're talking very very limited, and what

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Speaker 1: do you say to your season ticket holders? What do

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Speaker 1: you say to your TV network? If you part ways

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Speaker 1: with the guy that you sold all your advertisement around,

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Speaker 1: that would be just super uncomfortable. It's only your first year,

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Speaker 1: but it points to this. All of those leak stories.

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Speaker 1: Remember first it was leaked out that Lebron could be

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Speaker 1: playing if you know, despite injury, if it was a

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Speaker 1: playoff run. Then there was the league story from Jackie

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Speaker 1: McMullen that he won a different coach. Then there was

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Speaker 1: all the leagues with the Anthony Davis deal and what

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Speaker 1: I thought it was then, and I believe this proves

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Speaker 1: it was. It was a coup day top. It was

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Speaker 1: Rich Paul and Lebron James trying to own the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: They've always said they want to own an NBA team.

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Speaker 1: That's great, that NBA team is not actually for sale,

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Speaker 1: not even close to being for sale. And that's what

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Speaker 1: Jennie Bust did is she just said, hey, this is

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Speaker 1: we're gonna shoot down this coup. Now the question becomes

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Speaker 1: does she honestly know how to do it right? Does

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Speaker 1: she know how to do it? Because if she trades

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Speaker 1: for she allows them to trade for Anthony Davis and

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Speaker 1: then they hire TYLERU or they hire somebody repped by

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Speaker 1: Rich Paul. What has she done? She's had a threat

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Speaker 1: but hasn't stood by that threat. Instead, they've still kind

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Speaker 1: of taken over her franchise and run it their way.

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Speaker 1: It's a disaster. Lebron is part of the reason, a

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Speaker 1: good parson the reason that it's a disaster, and Jeannie

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Speaker 1: dad's late father's proud franchise. I think ultimately it's a

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Speaker 1: super smart move, but it's only made only made to

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Speaker 1: actually work if they don't trade for Anthony Davis and

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Speaker 1: they don't hire a Rich Paul client or a Lebron

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Speaker 1: James buddy to be the next head coach of the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: or maybe not make a head coaching change at all,

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Speaker 1: but I think there's probably one in the offing. Let's

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Speaker 1: get to college hoops, so Selection Sunday is upon us. Um.

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Speaker 1: I've decided to give you just a couple of stories

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Speaker 1: that I think are pretty awesome. First Selection Sunday, no

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Speaker 1: one ever gets to actually see how it works, and

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Speaker 1: having been on that set for was it four years?

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Speaker 1: I can tell you that's pretty awesome to be the

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Speaker 1: no you nanny nay boo boo, I got something you

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Speaker 1: don't have Like that was pretty incredible, pretty incredible, especially

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Speaker 1: for a guy who grew up watching the brackets be unveiled. Um,

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Speaker 1: I would say that I don't love the way CBS

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Speaker 1: a right where we had a two hour show and

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Speaker 1: we would do the old show and then like a

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Speaker 1: segment with Charles and Kenny and UM and Seth Davis

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Speaker 1: and it was kind of mishmash and there wasn't a

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Speaker 1: lot of hoop being told there, and people wanted their

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Speaker 1: their brackets. Look, this is not hard the four the

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Speaker 1: it so tight. Oh. It's just kind of a classic

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Speaker 1: overreaction to the TV guys like a Richard Ditch. I

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Speaker 1: want the brackets and I want them now. Why so

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Speaker 1: you'll change the channel. No, no, no no, no, we have

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Speaker 1: you as captivated audience. And by the way, we have

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Speaker 1: and that's all they get this year is fifteen seconds

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Speaker 1: so I'll breakdown games. But why why are we doing

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Speaker 1: a show where you only have fifteen seconds to talk

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Speaker 1: about each basketball game? That doesn't make any sense. All

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Speaker 1: players and styles, and who do you think is gonna win?

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Speaker 1: And why it's gonna be up tempo games, the team zone,

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Speaker 1: need to get to know? You don't have any of

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Speaker 1: that when all you have is fifteen seconds. So congratulations,

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Speaker 1: TV guy, You've made it. Kind of lame. So congratulations

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Speaker 1: TV guy, right, like all these idiots on Twitter and

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Speaker 1: even if you had an hour and a half show whatever,

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Speaker 1: there's you just need to carve out time to talk

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Speaker 1: about each game, to talk about each team. Like Clark

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Speaker 1: breaking down each game. And I just always felt like there,

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Speaker 1: and then you give up that opportunity to every other

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Speaker 1: network when you're at CBS, Like, look, hold onto each bracket.

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Speaker 1: It's fine, give it, uh, show a bracket, go through

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Speaker 1: each game, talk about the talk about each game, and

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Speaker 1: then go to the next bracket. But you don't have

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Speaker 1: too type, especially when you can make a lot more

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Speaker 1: money off of if you'r CBS coming out of that

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Speaker 1: big ten championship game. But I don't. I don't work anymore,

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Speaker 1: so they can. They want to do it that way.

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Speaker 1: It's fine that that way still works and people will

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Speaker 1: still um, we'll still watch. I just think it's a

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Speaker 1: informed viewer, and you can also say things that are

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Speaker 1: sometimes more right and sometimes more wrong. Bigger predictions, more

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Speaker 1: players to talk about, more coaches to talk about, more

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Speaker 1: you're CBS. You have the bracket, hold onto it. And

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Speaker 1: and by the way, I would reveal all the other

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Speaker 1: first four, put them absolutely last. Why not? All right,

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Speaker 1: let's get to uh, let's get to selection Sunday. In

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Speaker 1: terms of the teams that are getting in, I do

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Speaker 1: think that Duke has a chance to win the whole thing,

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Speaker 1: especially because they have Zion back. It's top heavy team.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to see a match up with Kentucky and

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Speaker 1: figured themselves out. I put Kentucky and Duke right there

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Speaker 1: to the final four. We're gonna do this next week

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Speaker 1: as well. Thinking about this doing my radio show, which

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Speaker 1: you can catch every day three to sixt Eastern twelve,

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Speaker 1: app or you know, follow me on Twitter, will tweet

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Speaker 1: out where, where and how you can get the radio show.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about my three different n actually four

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Speaker 1: We led in the first half against Syracuse in the

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Speaker 1: Crazy Lazarus sims, Otis Hill, Jeff Chippola and of course

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Speaker 1: games in Denver. The game against Georgia was nutty, but

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Speaker 1: it's it's like three different lives of four different lives,

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Speaker 1: our Notre Dame sweatsun Like, oh, hey, Notre Dame, you're

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Speaker 1: We did have spring break and that spring break coincided

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if he rushed a different fraternity,

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Speaker 1: weird to like say, like you're playing college basketball, you're

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Speaker 1: believe is better than Indiana, right, So well, this is

428
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Speaker 1: It frustrates me that we did this with r p I,

429
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Speaker 1: where we would take little pieces of the r p

430
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Speaker 1: I and say we don't like the overall RPI, but

431
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Speaker 1: we like this number from the r PI, And we're

432
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Speaker 1: kind of doing the same thing with the network, Like, look,

433
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Speaker 1: if we think the net rating actually spits out the

434
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Speaker 1: teams and how they should be ranked, then why are

435
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Speaker 1: we dismissing Furman's forty one? Right? Um, and I would

436
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,520
Speaker 1: say one of the things working against Ferman is the

437
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Speaker 1: Nova team they beat is not the Nova team that's

438
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Speaker 1: winning in the Big East Tournament. Right, It's a little bit.

439
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 1: And the Loyola. Everyone talks about that win at Loyola,

440
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 1: and Loyola was a very average team, right. Um. Okay,

441
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Speaker 1: let's get to the top of the bracket. Give me

442
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Speaker 1: your pool of teams you think and win a national championship. Virginia,

443
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Speaker 1: u n C, Duke as long as Zion is healthy, Gonzaga, Kentucky,

444
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Speaker 1: Texas Tech. That's it. Tennessee can't win it. I don't

445
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Speaker 1: think so. I think they. I think they are very good.

446
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, I'm not. I don't want to not.

447
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:40,919
Speaker 1: I don't want to knock Tennessee too much. I think

448
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:44,399
Speaker 1: their Final four caliber. I think we've seen the peak

449
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,879
Speaker 1: of Tennessee. I think we know who they are, whereas

450
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,360
Speaker 1: the other schools I think have still a little bit

451
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Speaker 1: more of a peak. They have that kind of pop

452
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Speaker 1: end talent that you look for. Gret Williams, Amial school

453
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 1: Field both really really good. But go look, you know,

454
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Speaker 1: you look at national champions you have to have kind

455
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 1: of top end pro talent on the on the roster.

456
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Speaker 1: They're the one school that doesn't really have that you're

457
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Speaker 1: talking about back in first round picks. Um. Yeah, I

458
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Speaker 1: would also say, though, that wasn't that really what Villanova had, Like,

459
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: like the Villanova guys were all overdrafted because of how

460
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Speaker 1: good a team they were, like like the seven of them,

461
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: at least they had seven, then they had four. I

462
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Speaker 1: thought they had Bridges. Bridges was was the top guy.

463
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Speaker 1: DiVincenzo Spellman snuck in. I thought you were talking the

464
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Speaker 1: first year. Yeah, yeah, but even those guys like like yeah,

465
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Speaker 1: even even that team, like like Josh Hart was overdrafted

466
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Speaker 1: because of the culture of the place, Like he's a

467
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Speaker 1: nice player, Like he should have been a second mid

468
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Speaker 1: second round draft pick. And that's that's one of the

469
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Speaker 1: reasons I think Zion Williamson should should and is in

470
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Speaker 1: fact playing. Why all these guys should play, is because

471
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Speaker 1: what we see last and what we see you do

472
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Speaker 1: in the n c A tournament forever shapes who am

473
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Speaker 1: Tory and Green Remember was draft in the NBA. He

474
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Speaker 1: was an NBA player, but he was part of actor

475
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Speaker 1: back national championship teams. So my point is I think

476
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Speaker 1: that they're on their value, whereas I look at at

477
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Speaker 1: Tennessee and I think they're h I agree. My thing

478
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Speaker 1: is more like, look, Rick has not been a good

479
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Speaker 1: tournament coach. Well yeah, which is which is really stunning

480
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Speaker 1: because you have older players and you have Rick Barnes.

481
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Speaker 1: You think they would be rugging in tough defensively and

482
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Speaker 1: they're actually not. Yeah there, And I mean I know

483
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Speaker 1: they looked really good defensively against Kentucky and Mississippi States

484
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Speaker 1: back to back, but the rest of the season says

485
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Speaker 1: that you can go score on them ass you want. Um, okay,

486
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Speaker 1: So give me one outlier that could be a Final

487
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Speaker 1: four team. I have, I have my one. I love

488
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Speaker 1: your Texas Tech pic. By the way, I do, in

489
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Speaker 1: fact believe I'm not sure they're guards are good enough

490
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Speaker 1: to to make plays, but defensively and Couliver and coaching, um,

491
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Speaker 1: I would say yes. So I'm with you. If you're

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Speaker 1: going to have an outlier final four team, who would

493
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Speaker 1: it be? I have like two or three to pick

494
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Speaker 1: from the god yeah, yeah, I'm you know, I think

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Speaker 1: Florida's States of a possibility there. I know they were,

496
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Speaker 1: they were closes last year. They're quietly put together a

497
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Speaker 1: really good season. No, no, no, they're They're one of

498
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Speaker 1: these teams that you watch him walk through the airport

499
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Speaker 1: and go through lab lines, and at times they looked

500
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Speaker 1: part of quite no question. But I think people kind

501
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Speaker 1: of dismissed them when they lost those three games in

502
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Speaker 1: a row because you lose back to back to Pitton

503
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Speaker 1: Boston College and then you know, I mean, let's be

504
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Speaker 1: honest to Florida State. You're not. You're one of the

505
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Speaker 1: least stro home A SEC teams, right, But that defense

506
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Speaker 1: is good enough. The question is can they hit enough shots?

507
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Speaker 1: But I think they are. I think they're one of

508
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Speaker 1: the sixteen best teams in the country. So if we're

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Speaker 1: going to go, you know, kind of somewhere like that,

510
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Speaker 1: they'll take Florida State as myotied. Alright, I got I

511
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,360
Speaker 1: got two for you, and feel free to dismantle them.

512
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Speaker 1: They're more ones a mid major ones kind of yeah,

513
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Speaker 1: both kind of mid majors. I still believe in. I

514
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Speaker 1: still believe in Nevada and Buffalo. Those are the two.

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Speaker 1: Like I completely agreeful. Yeah, Well, like I'm watching Buffalo

516
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Speaker 1: play today against Akron and I've seen Acron a and

517
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 1: uh I called their games in the Cayman So I

518
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: saw him play three times and I was like, they're

519
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Speaker 1: not bad. And now look, look they haven't had a

520
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Speaker 1: great year and they've kind of moved line us, but

521
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: they've got older kids, and Buffalo just kicked the hell

522
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Speaker 1: out of them, and like, dude, like what are we doing?

523
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Speaker 1: Because it was when we do like a Buffalo team

524
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Speaker 1: drops a stinker and you're like, oh, they're not any good. Indiana, Michigan,

525
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: you know, Michigan drops the stinker. You're like, well, Michigan

526
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Speaker 1: had a bad shooting night, like you know, or they're

527
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Speaker 1: big ten team, like you lose the Crumby team. You

528
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Speaker 1: lose to a crumby team. Buffalo is really good, really

529
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Speaker 1: good defensively older mass and Birches stud They've shown the

530
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Speaker 1: abild to win the ns A Tournament. They're not going

531
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Speaker 1: to be scared. I think they'll get a pretty good

532
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Speaker 1: seed in a pretty good draw. And then the other

533
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Speaker 1: ones Nevada, who they have some stinkers as well and

534
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 1: they don't shoot it great. I think they're just bored

535
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Speaker 1: during the regular seas. Correct. I kind of think there's

536
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Speaker 1: a little Golden State Warriors to them. Yeah, well you

537
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Speaker 1: talk about their seven eight guys that are three years old. Yes,

538
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,640
Speaker 1: they know how good they are. Yes, I mean how

539
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Speaker 1: hyped can you get for a game at air Force

540
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Speaker 1: or you know, games like that where we know we're

541
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Speaker 1: the best team in the conference, we know we're one

542
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: of the fifteen best teams in the country. Let's just

543
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: wait to the Mountain West Tournament and then then a tournament.

544
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Speaker 1: You know, just do enough to be comfortable, get the

545
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Speaker 1: top five seat and then go from there. Um, who

546
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Speaker 1: do you think it's u c l A job? I

547
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Speaker 1: have no idea. It's the most I've said it a

548
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: couple of times. It's the most fascinating. It's the most

549
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: fascinating coaching search I can remember. Because you're talking about

550
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: a big time program like u c l A. Every

551
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: other time a big time program has opened up, we

552
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: knew who was going to get hired. Like everybody knew

553
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,360
Speaker 1: Chris Mack was going to Louisville. Everyone assumed like John

554
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: Calipari was linked to Kentucky. It's it's wide open. The

555
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 1: fact that we're going about six months until it's probably

556
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Speaker 1: gonna be a higher or something. I guess four months,

557
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Speaker 1: five months, I don't know, Like is Matt Painter an option,

558
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: because I wouldn't be surprised with that. I just I

559
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: find it would be just weird to bring out another

560
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 1: Midwestern guy and put him in that chair, right, And

561
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: I think paint I think paints great, and I think

562
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 1: he could build the type of culture where they would

563
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Speaker 1: win and win for a long time. Like I don't,

564
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Speaker 1: I'm not dismissing pain And obviously, you know, John Winden

565
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Speaker 1: is a produed former Produe player, form Produe coach, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's I know, he's the exact same, He's

567
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: the exact same. You've got the same. But you had

568
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Speaker 1: Steve Alford, who granted came from New Mexico. But I

569
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Speaker 1: just I don't know if that same thing works again.

570
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Speaker 1: I think it would be a great higher and would

571
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Speaker 1: be interesting, But I don't know if that's what U

572
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Speaker 1: c l a. Is into. Like there's right now they

573
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Speaker 1: because they finally spent some money on football, people are

574
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Speaker 1: convinced they're going to spend money on basketball, which means

575
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Speaker 1: it puts them in the Hey, we'll throw a bunch

576
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Speaker 1: of money and do whatever Tony Bennett wants. But I

577
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Speaker 1: just don't. I don't think Tony Bennett takes it, and

578
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think I think they need

579
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Speaker 1: Bill self. I think that's that's the guy. But I

580
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Speaker 1: don't know if that's an interesting one, that'd be an

581
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: interesting one. UM. I mean if if if we're talking,

582
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Speaker 1: you know, like Vegas favorites, is it is Walton the

583
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Speaker 1: Vegas favorite, or or and Edny or someone like that,

584
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: that well, Earl Wattson gonna be the ties. I don't know.

585
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Speaker 1: Eddy getting passed over to be the interim I thought

586
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: was kind of a dirty deal. I mean, I don't

587
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: understand why you don't give that guy the job. Um.

588
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: But they't even never even talked to him about it. Um.

589
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: Earle is kind of like the recent players, people's champ right.

590
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: They love the guy. I don't. I don't see the

591
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: Walton thing outside of Bill and the old guard, you know,

592
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: wanting that name an attachment, just because I don't think

593
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Speaker 1: he's into college basketball at all. I don't think that's

594
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Speaker 1: his jam. He people forget during the lockout he spent

595
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: time with Memphis. I don't think he loved it, um.

596
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Speaker 1: And I think he really likes the NBA, and I

597
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: think he thinks getting another NBA gig and like guys

598
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: that have legit coached in the NBA and have a

599
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: future in the NBA, they don't dig the college thing.

600
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: They just don't. They don't want to recruit, you know,

601
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: when they're off, they're off, and you know, they just

602
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: want to coach ball. They don't want to do all

603
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: the other stuff. And yeah, by the way, if he's

604
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Speaker 1: gonna take college job, I'm sure you prefer Arizona as

605
00:29:55,680 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: opposed to u c l A, which also might become open. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just I can't remember a job opening like u

607
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Speaker 1: c l A where it's this there's so many different

608
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: names linked to it with no one really having a

609
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: true idea of who's who feels like the real favorite.

610
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Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, it's really big jobs had that it's

611
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Speaker 1: it's a it's a great point you make where I

612
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Speaker 1: live here. Okay, I know people and no one everybody says, well,

613
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Speaker 1: Tony Bennett because that's kind of what's been leaked, and

614
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Speaker 1: what do you think about Woe Joe and all of

615
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: these all of these other guys. Um, alright, a couple

616
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: of things I want to get to and I'll let

617
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: you get back to watching the games. Because I know

618
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: you're spending thirteen hours in the same chair, which is

619
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: which I'm I'm totally jealous of. Give me the big

620
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: name team that will not be in the field of

621
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: sixty eight that people will be surprised by. Um, probably Clemson,

622
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: but I don't know if I would surprise anybody. Um,

623
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Speaker 1: you know, I think I think Oklahoma's fine. I'm trying

624
00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: to think of people that have already walked. I don't

625
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: understand the Oklahoma thing. I mean, I know they'd be Kansas,

626
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: but god, they've been awful. Yeah, I know, I know,

627
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: but again in a second straight year of being bad

628
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: down the stretch, it's weird. It's weird that they can't

629
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: just get over like that February home. Um, I don't know, Like,

630
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's any true surprise makes Florida. Yeah,

631
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: look like before it really hasn't done anything. But I

632
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: know the models kind of like them. Okay, give me

633
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Speaker 1: the player who We're gonna give me the Ali Fruitmanesh

634
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: of the first week, Well, that's a great one. Um.

635
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, like, who's all a little off

636
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 1: the radar? Obviously everyone was him out. I think we're

637
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Speaker 1: gonna take him out, do we? I mean I I look,

638
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Speaker 1: I think you and I do as college basketball guys do.

639
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Speaker 1: But this is what I explained to people. Um, you know, look,

640
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Speaker 1: I worked for ten years at ESPN, and I thought

641
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Speaker 1: everybody knew that I covered college basketball. And then I'd

642
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Speaker 1: work on one Selection Sunday and one n c Aterman Show,

643
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Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, you know, you're pretty good to

644
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Speaker 1: doing games in this basketball thing. You know, like, yeah,

645
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Speaker 1: I've been doing it a while. There's just a complete

646
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Speaker 1: there's a there's a whole population in people that don't

647
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Speaker 1: watch anything until the tournament. I think it's gonna be then.

648
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Speaker 1: It has to be fletching the game. He's the only

649
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Speaker 1: guy that can go get forty in the game, and

650
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Speaker 1: I think it's a real possibility he might, depending with

651
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Speaker 1: their matchup. Is okay? That's that? That's a good one.

652
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Speaker 1: Um is there what happens with will Wade at L

653
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Speaker 1: s U any chance he coaches again there? I'll tell

654
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Speaker 1: you what. It doesn't sound like that with everything that's

655
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Speaker 1: come out today, with the statements from both him and

656
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Speaker 1: you know, the lawyers and everything. He wants to coach,

657
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Speaker 1: But L Shoe seems Joelieva seems very dead set on

658
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Speaker 1: just not letting him until something happens. And right now,

659
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Speaker 1: as of the state, they're on the complete opposite ends

660
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Speaker 1: of the spectrum. So I tend to think that he's

661
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Speaker 1: not gonna end up coaching this year. Um, all right,

662
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: give me um um Zion. Who's your national player of

663
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Speaker 1: the year, Zion Zion's national player there? Even missing that

664
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Speaker 1: many games, I think, I think anything that further strengthened

665
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Speaker 1: this case. What look at what Duke looked like with album?

666
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Speaker 1: What happened to Marquette? I don't know, Um, is their

667
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: defense really as average as we thought it was all

668
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Speaker 1: year or I guess above average because that was a

669
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Speaker 1: question coming into the year. Yeah, I mean we look,

670
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Speaker 1: you have you have three dudes who athletically struggle right

671
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Speaker 1: like the Housers are are have great basketball queues, have

672
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Speaker 1: big bodies, but in terms of the lateral foot movement

673
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Speaker 1: not great. And then Marcus Howard's and not a nondefender

674
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Speaker 1: as well. Um, And they don't have a backup point guard,

675
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: and they don't have a they don't have a backup

676
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Speaker 1: point guard like I've um I have. I have long

677
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Speaker 1: said that you know that if they had the kids

678
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Speaker 1: sitting out, what's his name from Utah State? What's this?

679
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Speaker 1: Gosh golly, um shoot the transfer from Utah State? Who's why?

680
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: Am I Kobe McEwen? Then when they have when when

681
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: if he was eligible this year? Like, that's a team

682
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Speaker 1: that could win the whole thing. I think they're a

683
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Speaker 1: guard short think that, but Howard's little turnover prone and

684
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Speaker 1: he has to be your your lead ball hammer. Yeah,

685
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you can't having one guy. And um,

686
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm with you. But it is funny how

687
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Speaker 1: like they were. They kind of took the Big East

688
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Speaker 1: by storm and then all of a sudden petered out

689
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 1: and everybody's forgotten about them nationally, even US now I'm

690
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 1: not talking about I do think they're a team that

691
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Speaker 1: can make a run in the tournament, just because you

692
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Speaker 1: have three dudes that can absolutely light it up, spread

693
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Speaker 1: you way out. Like you I remember getting ready for

694
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Speaker 1: ends date tournaments and you're watching highlight clips of teams.

695
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Speaker 1: I just I'm thinking of watching highlight clips and you know,

696
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Speaker 1: Marcus Howard, you're watching and studying and then you're watching

697
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Speaker 1: these these two big boys, you know, hit NBA three's

698
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Speaker 1: and hit you know, post up shots and um and

699
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Speaker 1: then they have they never feel out of a game

700
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Speaker 1: just because of how quick they can they can they

701
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Speaker 1: can score yeah yeah, And and look defense, if you

702
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Speaker 1: look at the top defensive teams, they usually survived the

703
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: first game and sometimes the first weekend. But teams that

704
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Speaker 1: make a run to the n s a. Totermain now

705
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Speaker 1: that second weekend. It's ones that can make shots, like

706
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Speaker 1: you gotta have multiple shot makers and they and they

707
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: absolutely that they were very average defensively the Napier year. Yeah,

708
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,720
Speaker 1: and obviously Napier took over, and there's some similarities to Napier.

709
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Speaker 1: To do you think Marcus Howard comes back for a

710
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Speaker 1: senior year. I go back and forth. I don't. I

711
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Speaker 1: think he might because I don't. I don't know where

712
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Speaker 1: he's gonna be graded at this year. And I think

713
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Speaker 1: he can similar to to Shamory Ponds, where it was

714
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Speaker 1: well what can you do to get better? Okay, we

715
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Speaker 1: can be more efficient and Ponds became more efficient this year.

716
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,879
Speaker 1: I think Howard can come back and be you know, hey,

717
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Speaker 1: I can take care of the ball a bit more

718
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Speaker 1: and be a true combo guard at the next level. Um,

719
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: like you said McKellen coming over, you can run more

720
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Speaker 1: sets with him off the ball, with Howard off the ball.

721
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: You know what would that that turnover percentage? You know

722
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Speaker 1: limit A should say limit touches, but limit you know,

723
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Speaker 1: ball handling touches with him is the main ball handler

724
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 1: and show I guess kind of his strength more than

725
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: his weaknesses. Yeah, I guess my thing is And I

726
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 1: think this is what they'll tell him. Look, your second

727
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Speaker 1: round pick. If you come out this year, your second

728
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Speaker 1: round picks come out next year. The only difference is

729
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,320
Speaker 1: you know again and this is if they don't um,

730
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Speaker 1: if they don't make a run. Like, if they make

731
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Speaker 1: a run, I think you go because you're probably a

732
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Speaker 1: first round draft pick. But if you know, make a

733
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Speaker 1: run to the final four. But if you don't, like

734
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Speaker 1: come back and worst case scenario a second round pick.

735
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Speaker 1: And you said every career scoring mark in Marquette history,

736
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 1: and you know, um, you know you left high school

737
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: year early. Why not kind of come out at a

738
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Speaker 1: normal age. He turns twenty after the season. I think

739
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Speaker 1: after the school year as well. I think if they

740
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Speaker 1: lose first week and he's back, if they make second

741
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Speaker 1: week and he's gone. There you go. When's your next

742
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 1: pot dropping? Uh? Right now, it's on the hold. So

743
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: I'm just just writing right now. We're we're doing at

744
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: a little things that a little different over parcels, so

745
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: you can just keep following or keep reading the site

746
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 1: and I'm on there. Awesome. Well, I look forward to

747
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Speaker 1: having you on my radio show as well this upcoming week,

748
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Speaker 1: getting ready for the n c a A tournament. Love

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Speaker 1: your work and uh I love I love the fact

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Speaker 1: that you are not moving. So hopefully you did not

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Speaker 1: move during this interview. Appreciate your time. I did not

752
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Speaker 1: just lay. Where are you watching? Where you watching? Next week?

753
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Speaker 1: I'll be at my house. I love it. I'm in

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Speaker 1: my I'm in my basement with with my my beer

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Speaker 1: fridge and my multiple TVs. There's no reason to move.

756
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Speaker 1: What what beer, whatever, whatever? My friends bring over. That's

757
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Speaker 1: the rule. You guys can all come over here. I

758
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Speaker 1: have everything set up. I'll order the food. You guys

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Speaker 1: just bring the beer so I don't have to leave

760
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Speaker 1: a Thanks so much, dude, all right, have a going.

761
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Speaker 1: My next guest is Brian snow Be. Snow As he's

762
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: known as a recruiting analyst, but also loves the college game.

763
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: I thought you'd love to hear his opinions on all

764
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: things college. Who All right, let's welcome in, my man

765
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: be Snow as he joins us. Of course, he's a

766
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Speaker 1: recruiting analyst for seven Sports. Uh. He lives in India,

767
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 1: which is the heart of all things hoop. Let's start

768
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: with this, Um, does Indiana basketball deserve a spot in

769
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: the field of sixty eight as it stands this moment

770
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 1: in time. I don't think you can say yes, but

771
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: you know it, keep winning, find a way to win,

772
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:03,280
Speaker 1: you know, maybe, but I would say no right now. Uh.

773
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,959
Speaker 1: They played a hard schedule, but the way they played

774
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,919
Speaker 1: down the stretch, it's it's tough to justify it. That said,

775
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: the rule, the golden rule of the nt A Tournament,

776
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Speaker 1: as you have to take teams let me let me

777
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: just ask you this. Okay. So again, at the time

778
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Speaker 1: of this recording, they're losing by thirteen with ninety to

779
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: go in the second half. Okay, So let's assume we'll

780
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Speaker 1: addit that part out. Okay. So let's assume right now

781
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: for the next two minutes that they've lost this game.

782
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: So you lose, you lose the Ohio State in a

783
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: must win game, you lose to Ahouse State, and so

784
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: you end up like, we can point out their wins

785
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: and they're really good wins, but you end up essentially

786
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Speaker 1: eight and thirteen in Big Ten play eight and thirteen

787
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: and um, as much as you could sit there and

788
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Speaker 1: go like, well, they had won four in a row,

789
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,720
Speaker 1: like okay, but they had lost five and row before,

790
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 1: you know, or lost what was it like, eleven out

791
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 1: of twelve before they won four in a row, And

792
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: so then you lose to Ohio State. Um, who's a

793
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: borderline team at best in in their own right. I

794
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: just I struggle with the They had two miraculous wins

795
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 1: at home over Wisconsin and Michigan State late, and the

796
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 1: road win over Michigan State was a big one. Was

797
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 1: a big one. I'm not trying to diminish it. But

798
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: if you look at the whole of their season, who

799
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: they are in the tournament like that doesn't feel like

800
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: a tournament team to me. Yeah, I would say seventeen

801
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: and fifteen isn't good enough to get into the tournament.

802
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: I think you need a little bit more substance than that. Now,

803
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: they probably have the best wins of anybody on the bubble.

804
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: But at some point in time, you've got to be

805
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 1: a little bit more consistent. You can't lose to Northwestern

806
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,800
Speaker 1: so or you lose a couple to a hostage. So

807
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 1: if you were going to take them out, because this

808
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: is the thing, there's sixty eight teams point out, it's

809
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,959
Speaker 1: hard to get up all in and you're gonna put

810
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: one of these non name brand teams in. We're talking UNC,

811
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Speaker 1: Greensboro and Belmont and Firman, and I'm sure I'm missing somebody,

812
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 1: missing somebody right now. Maybe a UC Irvine doesn't win

813
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: the doesn't win the Big West Tournament, I think they

814
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Speaker 1: get in if if they don't, Um, who do you

815
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: put in ahead of Indiana? Of those non named brand

816
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: mid major low major? For me, it might be Greensboro, Uh,

817
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 1: just because all their losses have been good um And

818
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Speaker 1: and I'm someone who tends to value good wins over

819
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Speaker 1: bad losses. So that's why I struggled with that versus

820
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Speaker 1: sake Fermin which did go to Villanova and win, but

821
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Speaker 1: I think Greensboro kind of earned it. I'm not trying

822
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 1: to hear any arguments on Belmont. I'll be completely honest

823
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Speaker 1: with you. I'm just not listening to them. Yea, here's

824
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Speaker 1: here's an issue one on Fermin. Right, so we would

825
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Speaker 1: both agree that when they played Villanova, Villanova was probably

826
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Speaker 1: not as good a team as they are now. Right,

827
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Speaker 1: that is that fair? I mean, um, it could stand

828
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Speaker 1: a reason that Fermin might actually be better as well. Like,

829
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Speaker 1: it's funny we only look at one team and say

830
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Speaker 1: they're the only team that's gotten better, but it also did.

831
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Speaker 1: I'm always fascinated we don't use that same argument for

832
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Speaker 1: Indiana goes and beats Marquette on the road, but I

833
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Speaker 1: don't know if it's on the road they beat Marquette

834
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: really Okay, so it was at home they beat they

835
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 1: beat the hell out of Marquette. But why is it

836
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Speaker 1: that only Furman playing Nova? Only that only that Villanova

837
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: team is better and improved because they lost four guys

838
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Speaker 1: in the NBA draft, But they're the only team that's

839
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Speaker 1: gotten better of all three of those teams. Yeah, that's

840
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: where it gets interesting. And I think you can parse

841
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Speaker 1: any part of a schedule, And that's why I kind

842
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Speaker 1: of want to take the whole in what overall? And

843
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: that's why I pointed Greensbrook, I look at Belmont. They

844
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Speaker 1: lost to Jacksonville State, twife, and why did they lose

845
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Speaker 1: to Jacksonville State Because they couldn't match athleticis? Well, who

846
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Speaker 1: are they can be playing in the n c A

847
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Speaker 1: tournament athletic teams. So I look at that, I say,

848
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 1: it's just a fundamental problem with them. So I'm not

849
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: really trying to hear Belmont. They have nothing to back

850
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: it up. So I would probably lean Greensborough if I

851
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 1: had to take one of those teams who we've kind

852
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: of lumped every body into mid major, I would say

853
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,919
Speaker 1: some of those teams are actually low major. If I'm

854
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: taking one of those lower level teams, I think I'm

855
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,479
Speaker 1: leaving Greensboro. Who gets the u c l A job?

856
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: That's a heck of a question. Okay, let me ask

857
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: you this, maybe maybe this, since nobody seems to know, right,

858
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,240
Speaker 1: I put Brian Snow. You've been doing this a long time.

859
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: You know, everybody's sport, the realities of how much people make.

860
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: Who would actually if you're going to give me your

861
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,439
Speaker 1: wish list of three guys that you think you could

862
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: offer to and would probably take it if you were uh,

863
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: if you were Guerrero, if you were in charge of

864
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: the deal. Who would be the calls? My first call

865
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 1: probably Chris Beard. I know some might look at it

866
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: not a great personality fit in in l A. But

867
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: I think he's good enough and I think he would

868
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 1: let his guys be dudes just enough to keep people happy.

869
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: They'd probably my first call. If I could sign a

870
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 1: way to get Matt Painter, I would. I I don't

871
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 1: think Matt would leave, but if Matt would go, I

872
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:03,280
Speaker 1: like him in that well, then you know, Fred Wiberg

873
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: makes some sense. You know, it's not perfect by any

874
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination. But he would have to get

875
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: the right assistance, that's for sure, because Fred's not a

876
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: big fan of recruiting. But if he could get some assistance,

877
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 1: that will that will do what he does and and

878
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: Fred can. The best thing he does is manage egos,

879
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: and as you know dugout in l A, that can

880
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: be a big thing. Well that's that's I kind of

881
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,760
Speaker 1: like Fred Hoiberg. That's that's the big thing with coaching

882
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,720
Speaker 1: at u C l A is it's not just managing egoes.

883
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: You got to pick the right kids in l A.

884
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: Like it's a it's a different deal. Out here where um,

885
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: you know, I know coaches in the Pac twelve, they're like,

886
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: why that team, why did that team fall apart? Too

887
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: many l A kids, you know, just too many l

888
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 1: You gotta get kids from you know, even if you

889
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: get Inland Empire kids or you get kids from nor Cow,

890
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 1: from Sacramento, from Vegas, Arizona. There's why are different than

891
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,399
Speaker 1: l A kids that you know, everybody's got clothing line

892
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: and Instagram account they got And there's the conflicting alliances

893
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: of the the different AU programs as well. L A

894
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: is a different deal. And I wonder if Fred, who

895
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: kind of always carries himself as above, it would be

896
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: a good fit or it could be a complete disaster

897
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: because he doesn't really engage with the players. I think

898
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: Beard would be great. I just I don't know. I

899
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,839
Speaker 1: would guess that I'm be interested to what Texas does.

900
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: You know he's a Texas alum and I know they're

901
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: in the same league. But there's no way that they

902
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: sit there and go like, hey, we're cool with the

903
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: Texas alum winning winning our league at Texas Tech and

904
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: then going to u C l A. I feel like

905
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: Texas at some point the ego of those donors is like, yeah,

906
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna, we're gonna, We're gonna make him an offer

907
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: and then you know, try and find a soft landing

908
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 1: for Shaka. That that's what's interesting. And you know you're

909
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: gonna have if buzz Ley's Virginia Tech, you know, that's

910
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: that's a natural spot for Shocka to get a soft landing.

911
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: If Wake moves on from Danny Manning, maybe they can

912
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 1: find a soft landing. And I think it probably. I

913
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: don't know that Shocka would be totally against that either,

914
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: we're being totally on it. Yes, So that that's what's

915
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to watch, is how these dominoes go

916
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: down when they start going down. But the other thing

917
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: I would say about the U c. L A job is,

918
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: you know, and I think where Fred might be good

919
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: is so much of it is keeping agents at an

920
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: arm's length, and Fred, with his NBA experience and his

921
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: ties to agents, might be able to do that because

922
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: every agent lives in that area of that lay. It's

923
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: wild to think about, but that that's a big part

924
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: of it as well. Yeah, it could also be interesting

925
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,760
Speaker 1: though he's a washerman guy, and washerman's kind of complete

926
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: control of the thing if he hires the coach and

927
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: he's a washerman client. Um that part, that part is

928
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: super interesting. All right, Who is your who are your

929
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: pool of teams that you can see whin the whole thing? Uh?

930
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: I think you gotta assuming Zion's a healthy human being,

931
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: I think you gotta start with Duke. Um. I'm so

932
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: even though I'm not, I can guarantee you I won't

933
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 1: pick him. Virginia has to be there. Gonzaga definitely, even

934
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: though Josh Perkins brought every fear I have of Josh

935
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: Perkins out against St. Mary's meaning what meaning what for

936
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 1: people who haven't and Josh Berken's play. When it goes bad,

937
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: it goes horribly, horribly bad, and it can do so

938
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: in a hurry, and he can struggle with pressure or

939
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: sometime not like not pressure, like oh my god, this

940
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 1: is a big game, but actual no, no, no pressure. Yes,

941
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: and look and and St. Mary's. I thought I had

942
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: a great game plan. Randy did an amazing job. But

943
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: those aren't elite, crazy level athletes, like he's going to

944
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 1: see it at the top of college basketball, right, like

945
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I just love their front court.

946
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 1: So I'm not going to count them out. I'm not either,

947
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: but it is interesting that they've always had a good

948
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:37,919
Speaker 1: front court, but Gonzaga has made it, made his mark

949
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 1: by one having good athletes in the front court. But

950
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: you know, all their early teams, it was all backcourt dominant,

951
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: you know, back like you know, from Santangelo to Dick

952
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: out to step Um two and Pargo somewhere in there

953
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 1: as well, Rivio and Um you know Pengos as well.

954
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: Although a lot of those guys they were limited athletically,

955
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:03,320
Speaker 1: they were great shooters, big shot makers, and exceptional pastors

956
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: as well and really really tough. Perkins feels like the

957
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: least true point guard worthy of those guys of of

958
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: of the runs. It just it does feel like a

959
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: fundamental flaw. But look, I think Tennessee might have that

960
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,319
Speaker 1: fundamental flaw as well. Okay, so so you put Duke,

961
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 1: you put Gonzaga. Who are the other teams? You know,

962
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: Virginia and the way they played it, even though I

963
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: don't love their talent, North Carolina because of the way

964
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: they're playing and it seems like they can always have

965
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: an answer when when you can score, you have a

966
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: chance to win it. Um and then I would say

967
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 1: Tennessee and Kentucky. I would say, it's going to be

968
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: from that group. I don't I don't necessarily love any team.

969
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 1: Like I don't look at any team and see a

970
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 1: Villanova from last year where I was like, that is

971
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,399
Speaker 1: the best team in the country. Yes, class was very

972
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,399
Speaker 1: it was it was very very easy. Okay. So here,

973
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: so outside of that group, give me a team that

974
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: Brian Snows says, I wouldn't sunt be stunned to see

975
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: them in the final four. Certainly Texas Tech. Uh, you know,

976
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: they've got experience winning in March. Would you have got

977
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 1: and you got a dude in Jerreed Colvern, you've got

978
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: a lottery pick. So I would I would point to

979
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 1: Texas Tech is one of those teams. And then this

980
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,439
Speaker 1: is going to sound insane because they're playing terrible right now.

981
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: But Marquette because a guy who can go for fifty,

982
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 1: and they have two other guys that can rise up

983
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: and shoot. They got a rim protect her there. I've

984
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: I've said, if Code McEwen was eligible, I think they

985
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 1: can win the whole thing. Yeah, So I look at

986
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: Marquette and I say, you know, if they catch fire,

987
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: you know that that's a team that they've kind of

988
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 1: got some of the markers of a team that's that's

989
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 1: gone far in the past. I have I have two

990
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: teams that I'm I'm infatuated with, Nevada and Buffalo. I

991
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: feel like Nevada gets bored. They got twenty three year

992
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: old guys. They got Jordan Caroline, who's an absolute monster.

993
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: They don't shoot it great, um and and we we

994
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: do look at Sweet sixteen last year and assume that

995
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 1: they were great. They had to have two miraculous comebacks

996
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: just to make the Sweet sixteen. But I like Nevada

997
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: and I really like Buffalo, really really really like Buffalo.

998
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:05,320
Speaker 1: Tell me I'm crazy. They're old and talented, old talented,

999
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: and they've got some shotmakers. So yeah, Buffalo, I just

1000
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,280
Speaker 1: I just wonder if if they can if they can

1001
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: stand up physically upfront. But again, old, they got shot makers,

1002
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,800
Speaker 1: and they play hard. And that's the heck of a combination.

1003
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 1: It is not a bad combination, all right. Give me.

1004
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 1: I got a couple of teams that I think we're bound.

1005
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: They just don't seem like they're as good as reputation.

1006
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: I would say Kansas and louisvoor are the two teams.

1007
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 1: Like I Louisville's ranked twenty one, but it's like we're

1008
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 1: kind of not paying. They have one true ball handler

1009
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: and he's really a low mid major. I mean he's um.

1010
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: You know, Christian has been outstanding for them, but he's

1011
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: not a great and like you talk about a guy

1012
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: who's not great under pressure, Look what happened against that

1013
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: Duke Press. Christian Cunningham just kind of wilted. I feel

1014
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:50,240
Speaker 1: like we're I mean, they had their big win against

1015
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 1: they have a couple of big wins, but in totality, Uh,

1016
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: they're a surprising team because Chris mac is an awesome coach.

1017
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,320
Speaker 1: And I think Kansas, Kansas and louisvor teams that wouldn't

1018
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 1: stun me if they lost the first game. The two

1019
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: the two he took one of mine in Kansas because

1020
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: they're they're terrible away from fall right now, like just awful.

1021
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:11,879
Speaker 1: And then Virginia Tech because they're not the same without

1022
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:16,280
Speaker 1: Justin Robinson. And even if Justin Robinson comes back, he's

1023
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 1: not gonna be Justin Robinson. I mean he's been out

1024
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: one a month now. You don't just step in and

1025
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: start playing basketball and be the same guy. So I

1026
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: wonder if Virginia Tech really has it, you know, to

1027
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: make a run. And I also think if Justin does

1028
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: come back, you kind of got the Kyrie Irving thing

1029
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:33,839
Speaker 1: when he came back for Duke, Like these guys are

1030
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: now used to playing without him, and now the guy

1031
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,359
Speaker 1: who's gonna handle the ball all the time is coming

1032
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: into the mix. And you have the hard adjustment and

1033
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: you have the buzz thing, which we all think buzz

1034
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 1: is getting the A and M job, right, Yes, yeah,

1035
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 1: it's like worst kept secret ever. Yeah, it's been a

1036
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: worset cupt secret for like eighteen months. Yeah, yeah, that

1037
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:54,879
Speaker 1: that Billy's not He's not gonna get fired. He's gonna

1038
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: somehow do something else within the university system. Of course,

1039
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: he's been fighting Parkinson's really since he got got the job.

1040
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: And everybody likes b K. But the thing is, the

1041
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,360
Speaker 1: thing is not going right, not going in the right direction.

1042
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 1: And you know, Buzzes always want to get back to Texas,

1043
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: and then they have gobs and gobs of money, and

1044
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: it takes gobs and gobs of money to get him

1045
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 1: out of Virginia Tech, right, Yeah, And I don't see

1046
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: the other thing is I don't see Kelvin Samson leaving

1047
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: for A and M. I don't know if they'd hire him,

1048
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: but I don't think he would go to A and M.

1049
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:24,360
Speaker 1: So who's if Kelvin is not going to be the

1050
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: guy that kind of leaves buzz and every buzz is

1051
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: a very He's a different dude, but he's a very

1052
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: smart dude. One he knows he can wear on people

1053
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: and he doesn't like to stay somewhere too long because

1054
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: of that. And then too, he also knows if you

1055
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: stay somewhere too long, you want to be one step

1056
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Speaker 1: to have a deposity, because once you lose people, you

1057
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: never get them back. And he did it at Marquette,

1058
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: and I could see him wanting to do it at

1059
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech as well. All right, what about Arkansas? Does

1060
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: that come up in you know? I've I've heard yes,

1061
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 1: I've heard no, you put a gun to my head.

1062
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: I would probably guess yes. But you know that that's

1063
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 1: a tough one because there's so much you know Mike

1064
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:04,800
Speaker 1: Anderson such like the Arkansas guy, And while he hasn't

1065
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: had great success, he hasn't had great failures either, So

1066
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: that one's going to be interesting. I tend to agree

1067
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Speaker 1: with your National Player of the years who um. I

1068
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: still lean towards Zion Williamson, but I'm I'm stuck. I

1069
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: I might go Cassius Winston because he's taking a team

1070
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: that honestly is not talented at all without Nick Warden

1071
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: and Josh Langford. And they won the Big Ten. Now

1072
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 1: they shared it, but they still want it. And Cassius

1073
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: Winston has controlled everything on the court for them, and

1074
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: and and then the and then the two and then

1075
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,280
Speaker 1: the two wins, and and even they lost Indian twice.

1076
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Speaker 1: The two wins over Michigan, You're going against arguably the

1077
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 1: best defensive point guard in the country. And so I mean,

1078
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: and look, I know everything does off a ball screen,

1079
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: but it's one thing to to, you know, to win

1080
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,359
Speaker 1: big games in the conference against inferior of competition. You're

1081
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,839
Speaker 1: playing against an absolute dynamic defensive player and he's won

1082
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 1: both those matchups personally and with his team. I don't

1083
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 1: hate that pick. I don't hate that pick at all.

1084
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: Who's the Who's the big name team that will not

1085
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 1: hear their name called on selection Sunday? I think there's

1086
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: a bunch of them. I mean obviously I would I

1087
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: would say Indiana's probe the most obvious answer, and then UH,

1088
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: And I still think MC State. I don't think the

1089
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: win over Clemson is enough, So I think that's another

1090
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 1: one that's not going to hear their name call. I

1091
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 1: tend to agree with you. I don't. I'm I've gone

1092
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Speaker 1: off on this podcast over strength of schedule and why

1093
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 1: that that ranking doesn't make any sense. But I do

1094
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: think when you have the worst non conference strength of schedule,

1095
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: when it's the worst, UH, committee members get locked onto

1096
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,319
Speaker 1: things and they can't get off of them. I think

1097
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: that's one that they get locked onto. All right, we'll

1098
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Speaker 1: let you get back to watching your ball again. Make

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Speaker 1: sure you can follow be Snow for all your recruiting

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Speaker 1: information and hoop commentary. He knows these guys back forth

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Speaker 1: in between. Tell all your friends about him at b

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Speaker 1: Snow two four seven. Brian, thanks so much for join us.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the hoops. Appreciate it dog. All right, hope you

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Speaker 1: enjoyed all ball. My thanks to our guests. Make sure

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