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Speaker 2: on Tuesday night. All righty, A lot of things to
Speaker 2: talk about with the tournament. I don't know if too
Speaker 2: many people or alumni are upset if their school didn't
Speaker 2: make it. Now you could say Oklahoma or Auburn, Stanford, like,
Speaker 2: you start to look at some of these schools and
Speaker 2: you say, well are we going to get in? If
Speaker 2: we get in, where are we going to be? Saint
Speaker 2: John's a five seed, And in fact, Rick Bettino said, yeah,
Speaker 2: it kind of figured. You know, we did beat Connecticut,
Speaker 2: we blew out Connecticut, but we had these other losses.
Speaker 2: Here's something that you're might not be aware of. These
Speaker 2: are the Power four teams that didn't make a bowl game.
Speaker 2: They're men's or women's basketball teams did not make the
Speaker 2: NCAA tournament. There's one, two, three, four or five. There's
Speaker 2: six schools you didn't make a bowl game, which is
Speaker 2: really hard to do. Your football team didn't make a
Speaker 2: bowl game, and your men's and women's basketball teams didn't
Speaker 2: make the tournament. Auburn, Boston College, Florida State, Mississippi State, Rutgers,
Speaker 2: and Stanford. So you're going zero for three your football team,
Speaker 2: your men's and women's basketball teams. You didn't play in
Speaker 2: a bowl game and didn't make the tournament. And I
Speaker 2: guess I was a little surprised with Stanford because they're
Speaker 2: the only team with twenty or more wins overall and
Speaker 2: five or more wins against Quad one opponents. But Stanford
Speaker 2: did not make the tournament. A lot of talk about
Speaker 2: Miami of Ohio and they're going to have a home game.
Speaker 2: It's going to be in Dayton, the play in game,
Speaker 2: and we'll talk to Bruce Pearl. I don't know where
Speaker 2: he is now with Miami Ohio if he's all in
Speaker 2: on them. They did make the tournament, and his school, Auburn,
Speaker 2: his last school where his son took over for him.
Speaker 2: Auburn did not make it, but they were like seventeen
Speaker 2: and sixteen, and I know, tough schedule, but I don't
Speaker 2: think too many people are going they should have been
Speaker 2: making the tournament there, but we'll talk to Bruce and
Speaker 2: Auburn does not make the tournament. The current longest active
Speaker 2: streaks playing in the NCAA Tournament, I mean, Michigan State
Speaker 2: has been there twenty eight consecutive years, Gonzaga twenty seven,
Speaker 2: and then it dips down to Purdue at eleven, Houston,
Speaker 2: Tennessee eight, Kansas at seven. All right, see what's poll
Speaker 2: question for the first hour of the program.
Speaker 3: Well, should we start with Bruce Pearl? Oh, that's a
Speaker 3: hot topic, Okay, Bruce Pearl is more upset about dot.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's upset about Miami, Ohio. I think
Speaker 2: he's upset that Auburn didn't get in and coached by
Speaker 2: his son.
Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah, I'm wondering if he's more upset that Auburn
Speaker 3: didn't get in or his son didn't get in.
Speaker 2: Oh I would say that his son didn't get in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't think so, right, Yeah, yeah, Now I don't.
Speaker 2: I think he's still paid by Auburn. I think he's
Speaker 2: on their payroll. I saw a story. I don't know
Speaker 2: if CBS like how often should you say that or
Speaker 2: should they have said that? Leading up to the tournament
Speaker 2: just because whatever he is saying. Now, Jay Billis is
Speaker 2: going to join us. And I know everybody says that
Speaker 2: he is pro Duke. He went to Duke. He probably
Speaker 2: tries his best to be objective. Bruce Pearl's not being objective.
Speaker 2: Bruce is basically saying, Hey, I coached at Auburn, my
Speaker 2: son coaches at Auburn. We play in the SEC, and
Speaker 2: if Miami Ohio played in the SEC, they wouldn't have,
Speaker 2: you know, seventeen wins like Auburn. And okay, it's a
Speaker 2: fair point, but they don't play in the SEC. Not
Speaker 2: everybody can play in the SEC. And I can't use
Speaker 2: that as you know, hey you didn't play in the SEC.
Speaker 2: Now if you want to do that for football, we
Speaker 2: can do it. Although has the SEC become a basketball conference.
Speaker 4: On a Monday?
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know I had somebody with
Speaker 2: the NC DOUBLEA bringing that up, kind of having fun
Speaker 2: with it, and I go, maybe maybe Yeaeston, I think.
Speaker 3: Everybody has a bias when they're up there. You know,
Speaker 3: everybody is a little steered towards their alma mater, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, is Jay wright On still on Villanova's payroll?
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he is.
Speaker 3: He's not up there advocating for Villanova every day, and
Speaker 3: he's not up there saying like, ah, my son needs
Speaker 3: to be in this tournament. He's not doing any of that,
Speaker 3: but he's still getting paid by Villanova.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: So if we're going to be upset about people having
Speaker 3: a bias, then nobody's going to be allowed to be
Speaker 3: up there. Really, but just tell me that you're you're
Speaker 3: being paid by the school. If you're being paid by Auburn,
Speaker 3: then I think just let us know I got it.
Speaker 2: I think you got to have full transparency with something
Speaker 2: like that. I mean, Jay Billis doesn't hide that he
Speaker 2: went to Duke and I know there. You know, there
Speaker 2: are other broadcasters. Jim Jackson doesn't hide that he went
Speaker 2: to Ohio State. But I mean, it's difficult to do.
Speaker 2: I did this a long long time ago. But I
Speaker 2: did this because I have to have neutrality here. I
Speaker 2: have to be unbiased or the best that I can
Speaker 2: possibly be. Therefore, I'm not rooting for the Cincinnati Reds
Speaker 2: or Cincinnati Bengals. I'm rooting for the best story. But
Speaker 2: it's different. You know, Bruce Pearl's not rooting for the
Speaker 2: best stories rooting for his son and Auburn. I'm just
Speaker 2: rooting for Hey, if Miami Ohio gets in and actually
Speaker 2: wins a game, or Auburn had got in and played
Speaker 2: Miami Ohio, which would have been wonderful. Yeah, Paulie, So.
Speaker 5: Bruce Pearl criticized Miami Ohio last year last week while
Speaker 5: they were still undefeated, and they got a lot of headlines. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but Miami of Ohio's loss in the first run of
Speaker 5: the conference almost bore out what he said.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how good Miami Ohio is, but
Speaker 2: they're undefeated. Should they play a better non conference? Well,
Speaker 2: I don't know how many schools wanted to play them.
Speaker 2: Or it's a home and home and you know that's
Speaker 2: tricky there. But you know, you're playing thirty one games.
Speaker 2: You got to have a couple of quad one games
Speaker 2: there or win a couple of those games. By the way,
Speaker 2: does everybody know what quad one means? In quad two
Speaker 2: and quad three and quado because this is the week
Speaker 2: that you act like you know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Filling out your brackets here, Yes, Paulie.
Speaker 5: Okay, Quadrant one, as the old school people call it,
Speaker 5: quad one is the highest quality of wins and losses
Speaker 5: used by the selection committee to evaluate tournament resumes based
Speaker 5: on net rankings. Another thing we know little about net ranking.
Speaker 2: So Saint John's gets a five seed after winning the
Speaker 2: Big East over Yukon. Saint John's is fifteenth in the
Speaker 2: net rankings and just won the Big East regular season
Speaker 2: and tournament title, and they've won their last six The
Speaker 2: part the last part there. I always think that your
Speaker 2: seeding is based on what you've done in the last month,
Speaker 2: and if I and if I incorporate that, I'm surprised
Speaker 2: Saint John's ended up with a five seed because you
Speaker 2: end up winning the regular season and the postseason in
Speaker 2: the Big East and you've won six in a row.
Speaker 2: Here is Saint John's head coach Rick Patino, Well, I
Speaker 2: thought we'd.
Speaker 4: Be a fifth seed.
Speaker 6: A couple of guys in my set thought it was
Speaker 6: possible to be a four seed. But they don't take
Speaker 6: into account how you're playing at the end of the year.
Speaker 6: Days like a ten years ago, it counted the last
Speaker 6: ten games of the season is what they really looked at.
Speaker 6: They don't do that anymore. It's all metrics from the
Speaker 6: first game to the last game. The last game doesn't
Speaker 6: mean any more than the first first game you play
Speaker 6: in because the Big East was really weak from a
Speaker 6: net standpoint, Like we lost to Providence, who I think
Speaker 6: is a damn good basketball team. They were a Quad
Speaker 6: three loss for us, So we got to get the
Speaker 6: Big East stronger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to know what you've done in the
Speaker 2: last month of the season. If we want you playing
Speaker 2: your best at the best time of the year, the
Speaker 2: most important time of the year, it should be based
Speaker 2: or at least leaning in favor of what you do
Speaker 2: in the last five weeks of the season. And Saint
Speaker 2: John's beating Connecticut the way they did, I thought that
Speaker 2: they'd be a little bit higher. The other seed, Vandy,
Speaker 2: is a five seed. They have beaten three Quad one
Speaker 2: teams in the past week, Tennessee twice, and then blew
Speaker 2: out number one Florida and they end up with a
Speaker 2: five seed. I was surprised at that as well. But
Speaker 2: for the most part, you know, you're just kind of
Speaker 2: surveying the landscape heres. I always look for who is
Speaker 2: playing close to home. That's what I want to know.
Speaker 2: Gonzaga is going to be in Portland for the first
Speaker 2: two games, you know, just that helps. I go back
Speaker 2: to when Syracuse was playing in Albany, back when they
Speaker 2: you know, had Carmelo and they won the national title.
Speaker 2: Like those kind of things, you know, those are sneaky
Speaker 2: where you go, wait a minute, here at old home
Speaker 2: court advantage. Kind of yes, Marvin.
Speaker 7: The worst thing ever. If I was Michigan State or
Speaker 7: Iowa stay in twenty fourteen, I would have been on fire.
Speaker 7: Yukon was the seventh seed in the East Region. The
Speaker 7: East Regional finals were at the Garden. So wait, it's
Speaker 7: just a Metro North train ride from Connecticut to New
Speaker 7: York and where the seven seed. I would have been furious.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll get phone calls coming up best and
Speaker 2: worst to the weekend. Once you saw that you liked,
Speaker 2: you didn't like any other poll questions. We that's pretty pacific.
Speaker 2: The Bruce Pearl pull question, it really works an hour one.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you that this one's maybe a little more
Speaker 3: has a little more, some more legs. No major snubs
Speaker 3: in the NCAA Tournament this year is a good thing
Speaker 3: or bad thing.
Speaker 2: I would say a bad thing because I kind of
Speaker 2: like when somebody's complaining a little bit. Although it's hard
Speaker 2: to complain when they're sixty eight teams, but you kind
Speaker 2: of like somebody who you know got jobbed a little.
Speaker 2: I mean, Stanford got jobbed in my opinion, if I'm
Speaker 2: looking at resumes here and I was, you know, somebody
Speaker 2: who used to work on the committee said, if you
Speaker 2: can do a blind taste test, like that's the true
Speaker 2: example of that team should be in and that team
Speaker 2: should not. Instead we attach the head coach of the
Speaker 2: school itself, the history of that basketball program. And sometimes
Speaker 2: it's not fair to those schools who don't get in.
Speaker 2: But when you get to sixty eight, it's kind of
Speaker 2: hard to complain. But I do like somebody who you
Speaker 2: want to say, hey, pipe down over there, like Bruce
Speaker 2: Pearl and Auburn, pipe down over there, Bruce yes Ton.
Speaker 8: I was just checking the University of Missouri, which is
Speaker 8: in Columbia that's not too far from Saint Louis. They
Speaker 8: get to play Saint Louis, which is kind of weak
Speaker 8: against Miami.
Speaker 2: Florida plays in Tampa. Missouri will play Friday in Saint Louis,
Speaker 2: and uh, that feels like a little bit of an advantage,
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 3: Saint Louis actually has like an incredible draw for local fans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have.
Speaker 3: Like uh like Iowa State, Purdue, Uh, Missouri, I forget
Speaker 3: who else. There's a couple of teams there where it's like, dang,
Speaker 3: like this is gonna be awesome. That's going to be
Speaker 3: all of these places. They all travel really well and
Speaker 3: they don't have to travel all that far. Uh Kentucky
Speaker 3: I think is in that region.
Speaker 2: Entucky's in there. Yeah, speaking of Kentucky, John Caliperi, Rick
Speaker 2: Patino obviously at different schools, but watching Arkansas with Calo
Speaker 2: Perry and that's a fun team. That's one of those
Speaker 2: where you kind of keep watching and then you realize
Speaker 2: they're a really good team and they might have the
Speaker 2: second best player in this tournament. Marvin your thoughts.
Speaker 7: There's Acums one of those guys where it's like I
Speaker 7: wish I would have watched them all season long because
Speaker 7: now I'm looking at him like, man, maybe I should
Speaker 7: have paid attention to Arkansas basketball because he wasn't he
Speaker 7: was a five star recruit now, but he wasn't Cambuser
Speaker 7: or Debanza from BYU. But cal part said he's the
Speaker 7: best point guard he's ever coached. I was like, dang,
Speaker 7: you had Derrick Rose.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 7: I said, So that's saying a lot for this kid.
Speaker 2: And it was a kind of a slow burn because
Speaker 2: we were focusing on some of these other freshmen and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, he's one of those guys where
Speaker 2: you're watching a game to watch somebody else play and
Speaker 2: then you go, oh my god, like this kid, he
Speaker 2: is great.
Speaker 5: Yes, I know there's a lot of great freshmen, but
Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of fifth year seniors on
Speaker 5: Saint John's. Those guys look like grown men. It's an
Speaker 5: all beard team.
Speaker 2: There are certain teams where you go how old are you?
Speaker 2: And it's really commonplace. I mean Purdue, how long have
Speaker 2: they been there? Just feels like, you know, you're in
Speaker 2: your seventh year. Grown men out there. But yeah, watching
Speaker 2: some of these teams when they come out on the
Speaker 2: floor and I go, you know, and then they'll say,
Speaker 2: you know, Jimmy Lipper started here, and then he transferred here,
Speaker 2: and then he spent a year here and then this,
Speaker 2: so he's got four schools in the last four years.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to Billis about this. Also nil with basketball
Speaker 2: as opposed to football, NIL and football gave us Indiana football.
Speaker 2: Can we get some big surprise in college basketball anymore?
Speaker 2: There's only a certain amount of money that they're spending,
Speaker 2: might be ten to fifteen million dollars, where football they're
Speaker 2: spending forty million dollars, if not more. But trying to
Speaker 2: get that feel good story or that story that you
Speaker 2: didn't expect. We get that in the beginning of the tournament,
Speaker 2: but it feels like it's going to be the usual suspects.
Speaker 2: You got. Let me see, I'm trying to think you
Speaker 2: got Michigan, you got Duke. Trying to get my odds here.
Speaker 2: I thought I had it here somewhere. I need a
Speaker 2: secretary here to help me. Oh here there, yeah there,
Speaker 2: I got them right here. They are there. So Duke, Michigan, Arizona, Florida, Houston,
Speaker 2: Iowa State, Illinois, Yukon. So aside from Iowa State and Illinois,
Speaker 2: these are pretty much the blue bloods. Illinois has been
Speaker 2: a good story and Iowa State all season long, and
Speaker 2: Yukon in there. But the best odds to win Duke
Speaker 2: plus three hundred, followed by Michigan. Then my Arizona Wildcats, Florida,
Speaker 2: the defending national champs, then it goes to Houston, Iowa, State, Illinois,
Speaker 2: and Connecticut. We'll get to your phone calls coming up
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Speaker 2: we always do every Monday, best and Worst of the weekend.
Speaker 2: He's Bruce Pearl, Turner and CBS Sports college basketball analysts,
Speaker 2: three time National Coach of the Year. And in case
Speaker 2: you didn't know, former Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl, what's
Speaker 2: bothering you today? Coach?
Speaker 4: No, life's good, Dan's great to see you.
Speaker 10: My heartbreaks or my son, but you know what, you
Speaker 10: got a chance to win your way in or lose
Speaker 10: your way out, and Auburn probably was just one more
Speaker 10: win away from dancing.
Speaker 2: How would you rate your week or the last ten
Speaker 2: days or two weeks, let's say, as an analyst.
Speaker 4: That's a great question.
Speaker 10: Did I was a basketball coach head coach for thirty
Speaker 10: years and been in basketball for forty eight years, and
Speaker 10: so this analyst thing and being in the media's brand new.
Speaker 10: So I am a rookie at that, even though I'm
Speaker 10: sixty six years old now. And sometimes you don't know
Speaker 10: how you're doing. I mean, when I used to play,
Speaker 10: or I used to coach, there was a scoreboard. I
Speaker 10: get off and I'm like, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 10: know how I did. I imagine some people think I'm entertaining.
Speaker 10: I would imagine something of people think I'm an idiot.
Speaker 10: But you never know whether you're winning and losing.
Speaker 2: But does somebody tell you, I mean, you got headlines.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you feel like that's part of
Speaker 2: your job.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think it's part of my job.
Speaker 10: I think my job is to tell you what I
Speaker 10: think based on my years of experience, and I've never,
Speaker 10: as you know, Dad, I've never been politically correct, so
Speaker 10: I really don't worry about that stuff. And what I
Speaker 10: did learn, though, is sometimes when you do you give
Speaker 10: your opinion about something you know, you can be it
Speaker 10: can be taken out of context, or you can be
Speaker 10: taking a task. And I really don't mind either one
Speaker 10: of them.
Speaker 4: Right now, I'm the ugly stepmother.
Speaker 10: Because I asked the question, are we looking for the
Speaker 10: thirty seven best teams or the thirty seven most deserving teams?
Speaker 10: When it came to a large and so that because
Speaker 10: we became enemy number one again.
Speaker 2: Okay, how much of the story of Miami Ohio help
Speaker 2: them get into the tournament.
Speaker 10: I'd say about ninety five percent. And that's time. There
Speaker 10: is a human element that exists in that room, and
Speaker 10: it should exist. You don't just go by the metrics.
Speaker 10: You just don't come by the numbers of math. You
Speaker 10: gotta have a little bit of a field. And so
Speaker 10: as said, I said this from the very beginning, I
Speaker 10: would put them in the field. I would put them
Speaker 10: in the field. If you want to tell me, do
Speaker 10: they qualify based on these metrics? The answer is absolutely not.
Speaker 10: And it's interesting Dan. Last night I asked the when
Speaker 10: I was on CBS, I asked Chairman Gill, I said, okay,
Speaker 10: last two in first to out, what were the metric
Speaker 10: except you know it was sort of the defining factor
Speaker 10: for you. You know that that's a fair question, right, yeah,
Speaker 10: And he said, he said, quality wins. Quality wins was
Speaker 10: he said, I said, And I did not follow up
Speaker 10: out of respects. And you know, these are things we
Speaker 10: can talk about the next day. Mayama, Ohio doesn't have.
Speaker 4: A quality win.
Speaker 10: Oklahoma and Auburn, who are the last teams left out,
Speaker 10: have a half a dozen quality wins each and so
Speaker 10: it's I think it's sort of just added to the
Speaker 10: drama a little bit. But look, I'm happy they're in.
Speaker 10: They deserve to be in the field. It's what the Cinderellas.
Speaker 4: Are all about.
Speaker 10: And so I think we need a sort of adjust
Speaker 10: the metrics so we get more of these mid major
Speaker 10: teams in a tournament.
Speaker 4: But the way it's set up right now, you've got
Speaker 4: to make an exception.
Speaker 2: I thought Stanford had a better argument than Oklahoma and
Speaker 2: Auburn coach tell me why, well would they have five
Speaker 2: quad one victories? They had twenty plus wins. I mean,
Speaker 2: just start there and feel like a pretty good resume.
Speaker 10: I agree, No, it was a good resime and one
Speaker 10: of these I've said all along, and I don't think
Speaker 10: anybody got screwed here.
Speaker 4: Nobody got screwed. I don't think it was anybody. Oh
Speaker 4: my god, how.
Speaker 10: Did this team get in or not get in? You
Speaker 10: can make an argument Stanford, you can make an argument.
Speaker 4: For They said to me, if VCU didn't win.
Speaker 10: Their tournament, they were going to be out, and I
Speaker 10: would have made an argument for VCU. The argument for
Speaker 10: Auburn was they played seventeen quad one games seventeen. I
Speaker 10: don't know how played one quad two. I mean, it's
Speaker 10: very difficult when you talk about apples and oranges. Auburn
Speaker 10: beat Saint John's, who was the biggest champion. They beat
Speaker 10: Florida at Florida it was the SEC regular season champion.
Speaker 10: They beat Arkansas by twenty who was the SEC tournament champion.
Speaker 10: So when it came to quality wins, I thought that
Speaker 10: that was something that could have pushed them over the top.
Speaker 10: They have the number four straight the schedule. I'm not
Speaker 10: sure where Stanford's was, And a lot of that has
Speaker 10: to do with intense.
Speaker 2: Can you look at Auburn objectively.
Speaker 4: Yes, one hundred percent.
Speaker 10: Can Like, I think it's okay that Auburn and Oklahoma,
Speaker 10: for example, aren't the field.
Speaker 4: I think it's okay they should.
Speaker 10: Have won one more game, and so there's nobody complaining
Speaker 10: about it. But I pride myself on telling you what
Speaker 10: I really think. Was I rooting for my son? Of
Speaker 10: course I was rooting for my son. People say, well,
Speaker 10: you got your son the job. No, I didn't get
Speaker 10: my son the job. My son played for me. My
Speaker 10: son was an assistant for me for eleven years. He's
Speaker 10: the associated coach, he was the defensive coordinator.
Speaker 4: Did I help him? Absolutely? I did? As a dad,
Speaker 4: of course I did.
Speaker 2: But you look at are you paid by Auburn?
Speaker 10: You know what, I'm in an ambassador's position. And not
Speaker 10: many Jewish guys who walk away from thirty million dollars,
Speaker 10: but this one did. And you know who does that.
Speaker 10: My wife was like, honey, why couldn't you just stink
Speaker 10: for a couple of years, let him fire you and
Speaker 10: pay you ten million dollar was to do what you're
Speaker 10: doing now?
Speaker 4: But no, you go ahead and quit. Leave all that
Speaker 4: on the table.
Speaker 10: Yeah no, Dan, I I objectivity for me not an issue.
Speaker 2: Okay, But I don't know if you have to disclose
Speaker 2: that that, Hey, I'm still paid as an ambassador for Auburn.
Speaker 2: If it felt like you were kind of dinging Miami,
Speaker 2: Ohio because Auburn was going to be on the bubble.
Speaker 2: So that's the appearance, okay, that's that's how a lot
Speaker 2: of people look. So the appearance of that the optics
Speaker 2: didn't look good.
Speaker 10: Well, that's that's fair, and it certainly as a former
Speaker 10: Auburn basketball cook, what former coach or former athlete.
Speaker 4: Charles Barkley roots for Auburn. He does. But Charles Barkley's
Speaker 4: always going to keep it real and and.
Speaker 2: But he was paid at Auburn, not after Auburn.
Speaker 4: That's enough.
Speaker 11: Hey, hey, listen, what if if I wasn't able to
Speaker 11: be objective, I wouldn't continue to be an Aubered It's
Speaker 11: it's sort of a uh, it's sort of.
Speaker 4: The best of both worlds.
Speaker 10: I would give that up in a heartbeat if it
Speaker 10: if optics became such an issue that I couldn't be
Speaker 10: an analyst. You know, Jay Wright works worked at Villanova
Speaker 10: for all those years, he still worked there and nobody
Speaker 10: questioned whether not Jay Wright would have been objective?
Speaker 2: Are you retired as a coach?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I am.
Speaker 10: I thought about coming. I thought about it. I got
Speaker 10: a few phone calls even this year. But then I
Speaker 10: head Cooks for thirty years and it was enough. We
Speaker 10: had a great run. And I do want to do
Speaker 10: some other things, as you know.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm a.
Speaker 10: Huge advocate for for this country. I want to coach America.
Speaker 10: I'm a being a Jewish American. I work really hard
Speaker 10: to bring Jews and Christians and Muslims together. Abraham is
Speaker 10: a father of all nations. As a coach, I loved
Speaker 10: it bring people together. Religion divides us and separates us.
Speaker 10: And of course I love my country and I also
Speaker 10: live my ancestral home on Israel. So those are the
Speaker 10: areas that I'm working in right now. And I think
Speaker 10: that in many ways I had the success I had
Speaker 10: in to give me this platform I am. I want
Speaker 10: Jewish Americans to be this country's greatest patriots because this
Speaker 10: country saved us from the Holocaust and gave us this opportunity,
Speaker 10: and we hopefully make the most of it.
Speaker 4: That comes with a responsibility.
Speaker 2: Talking to Bruce Pearl, CBS Sports college basketball analyst, former
Speaker 2: Auburn head coach, best pro prospect in the tournament is
Speaker 2: who aj Debantsta.
Speaker 10: I think both on and off the court, Dan, if
Speaker 10: you're going to invest in somebody that is going to
Speaker 10: be your number one pick and you want to build
Speaker 10: your franchise around that, I think the stuff both on
Speaker 10: and off the court, work ethic. Although this year is
Speaker 10: a great draft, it'll be the best freshman in the
Speaker 10: history of the NBA Draft. This year it is it
Speaker 10: is talented top, it's very very deep. I don't think
Speaker 10: you can go wrong. I love uh Uh. I love
Speaker 10: several other players in there. I love Boozer.
Speaker 4: Uh. Peterson is an incredible talent. Caleb Wilson is amazing.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: The point guards a cure, Yeah.
Speaker 10: A cuff is Uh is a great, great story, Kingston Fleming.
Speaker 4: It is absolutely, absolutely loaded. And that's why all these.
Speaker 10: NBA teams are tanking because they want to they want
Speaker 10: to improve their position in the draft.
Speaker 2: When you see Patino still doing it, what do you think?
Speaker 4: Amazing? Amazing?
Speaker 2: How does he have the energy though, Bruce, it feels
Speaker 2: like that's what leaves you first.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, everybody ages differently. I
Speaker 10: think it's I think my guess is it's it's it's
Speaker 10: just it's it's his. His family and basketball are his
Speaker 10: two major passionate interests.
Speaker 4: A little bit of horse racing. Dan, he was the
Speaker 4: best I ever went up against. He he knew what.
Speaker 10: I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it.
Speaker 10: He knew how to take it away. He's not getting older,
Speaker 10: He's getting better. Tom Izzo is the same way. I mean,
Speaker 10: Tom Isou is getting better. If it's it's hard to
Speaker 10: believe he has got uh, he has got good teams
Speaker 10: that he makes.
Speaker 4: He makes in the great teams.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and so uh I got Patino and Saint John's
Speaker 10: making a little bit of run this year. In my bracket,
Speaker 10: I think there. I think, uh Zubi edge of four
Speaker 10: is terrific. They guard really really well and and and
Speaker 10: they're starting to shoot the basketball better.
Speaker 2: How many teams can win it?
Speaker 10: I think, uh, there's certainly everybody that's on the one
Speaker 10: line can win it. I think Saint John's as a five.
Speaker 10: How to Saint John's. How are they a five? I
Speaker 10: mean that's just like they're a three seed in my house.
Speaker 10: How can you come be a two and Saint John's
Speaker 10: be a five? I know it's the body to work,
Speaker 10: and Saint John's wasn't playing great early in the season.
Speaker 4: I'd say there's seven or eight teams I think that
Speaker 4: will win it. I think it's gonna be a lot
Speaker 4: of chalk.
Speaker 2: Well. You know, and we talk to different people about
Speaker 2: this that it used to be the last ten games
Speaker 2: of your schedule meant the most going into the tournament,
Speaker 2: and I don't think that's the case now. They look
Speaker 2: at your body of work. I don't care what you
Speaker 2: did in October or November. I care what you're doing
Speaker 2: now and Saint John's. You win the regular season, you
Speaker 2: win the Biggiaest Tournament, you won what's six in a row,
Speaker 2: you blow out Yukon. I got a factor that in.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Dan, let me give you one something to think about.
Speaker 10: I agree how you're playing lately is more important. But
Speaker 10: the schedule because people are more interested in late February
Speaker 10: and early March. You notice how the best teams play
Speaker 10: against the best teams like crazy.
Speaker 4: That's because there.
Speaker 10: Are more eyeballs on college basketball after college football are over.
Speaker 10: So the last ten I don't think is a great
Speaker 10: metrics just because of the toughness of the schedule for
Speaker 10: the best teams. I mean, if you're on you know,
Speaker 10: so that would be just an issue. That's that's why
Speaker 10: I would not lean in that direction.
Speaker 2: Good to talk to you, keep stirring up.
Speaker 4: Appreciate you, brother, Thank you always.
Speaker 2: That's Bruce Pearl, former Coach of the Year and now
Speaker 2: working for CBS and Turner. If you're waiting for him
Speaker 2: to apologize and ain't athlete, just letting you know it's
Speaker 2: not happening, all right, Best and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 2: Buddha leads this off. Buddha in San Francisco.
Speaker 12: What up, DP, Happy Monday boys, Let's go fritzy Dan.
Speaker 12: What a great week in the sports I mean college
Speaker 12: hues peekin, Bruce Pearl crying about his son, WBC Baseball
Speaker 12: step calling himself out and his brother is the Rehab
Speaker 12: Brothers hilarious.
Speaker 13: Man be'st of the weekend, DP. It was amazing to
Speaker 13: watch the players Championship at the TPC Sawgrass Venue.
Speaker 4: I mean it was It was riveting.
Speaker 13: I mean, the little big overt meldown was like watching
Speaker 13: a mere mortal at the local Muni and Cameron Young
Speaker 13: hanging in there and just hyping the longest drive of
Speaker 13: the tournament on hole eighteen.
Speaker 12: Under pressure was just sick.
Speaker 4: Props to him.
Speaker 13: He seems like a good ass dude and besterered in.
Speaker 13: I'm keeping a positive team USA and the WBC.
Speaker 12: Last night was super fun.
Speaker 13: I mean, these games are filled with passion, talent, competitive
Speaker 13: matchups and have been a joy to watch and watching
Speaker 13: Will Smith frame that like that last pace last night
Speaker 13: at the end of the game, I definitely chandered my
Speaker 13: inner like Jim Baeham, I was like.
Speaker 2: Man, thank you Buddha, Uh, that was a bad call.
Speaker 2: That was a bad call, and for some reason we
Speaker 2: all thought that maybe they were using the automated balls
Speaker 2: and strikes. Paulie said he was watching the game tap
Speaker 2: in his head like, hey, you got to review that,
Speaker 2: and then realize they're not reviewing that. Yeah, paul I
Speaker 2: just assumed.
Speaker 5: It was in the biggest tournament in the world. I
Speaker 5: was pausing my celebration, like, well, there's got to be replay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the DR wishes there would have been a replay.
Speaker 2: Here is the last strike, the last call.
Speaker 1: Two to one, US Rondriguez dancing at third, the three
Speaker 1: to two again.
Speaker 2: Right play the US it dams.
Speaker 1: Is Perdomo can't believe that the pitch was below the zone.
Speaker 1: But the US has defeated the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 2: They win tonight two to one, and they are having
Speaker 2: the finals.
Speaker 4: To take on the winner of Italy.
Speaker 2: And Venezuela tomorrow night. Okay, still a bad call, and
Speaker 2: certainly in that moment, although you know, once we do
Speaker 2: the automated balls and strikes, could you imagine that's the
Speaker 2: World Series. Let's say it's Game seven, bottom of the
Speaker 2: ninth and you got the tying run at third and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you strike out, but then you
Speaker 2: go wait, wait, wait wait, and you tap your helmet
Speaker 2: and then they have to review it. It might take
Speaker 2: away a little bit of the drama of that. You know,
Speaker 2: last strike, you're running on the field, you're celebrating. It's
Speaker 2: like no, no, no, wait wait wait, hold on, I thought
Speaker 2: you know, Japan losing was a big surprise. That was
Speaker 2: a big surprise. And Italy is not going away. Played well,
Speaker 2: they beat Puerto Rico. There were some tears in the
Speaker 2: back Mary the eyes and ears and the tears of
Speaker 2: the Dan Patrick show. Yes, yeah he is Mopi Dick.
Speaker 2: He was all weepy. Yeah. And then Anthony Anthony is
Speaker 2: back there with Mario Is. You know he's Italian. So
Speaker 2: those two are having a hard time sitting next to
Speaker 2: each other today. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Pauli the Japan manager, he resigned after the loss.
Speaker 2: O man called it the career. Was he forced to resign?
Speaker 2: Appears that he chose to resign. Air quotes All right,
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Speaker 2: pay for what you need. I didn't watch the Academy Awards.
Speaker 2: I was watching a lot of the college basketball selection
Speaker 2: shows and the analysis that follows after it, and then
Speaker 2: I realized that the show was on, and they usually
Speaker 2: hand out like a best supporting right away, usually early,
Speaker 2: and then they make you late, wait till late to
Speaker 2: get the Best Picture, Best Actor, And I did mention
Speaker 2: this last week. I didn't know if there was going
Speaker 2: to be sort of a Timothy Chalomet fatigue going on,
Speaker 2: but held it. Michael Jordan, Michael B. Jordan ends up winning.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's surprised there. I thought he was
Speaker 2: wonderful in that role.
Speaker 3: Yes, not only did Timothy Shalla may not win, but
Speaker 3: I think Marty Supreme went over eight. I don't think
Speaker 3: they They were nominated in a lot of categories and
Speaker 3: didn't win any of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Paul Thomas Anderson finally TA Yeah, Pta.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I actually met him when I was doing QB Halloween
Speaker 2: with Sandler and uh because Maya Rudolph was in the movie,
Speaker 2: and he was there on set. And my son was like,
Speaker 2: you know, when he found out that Pta is there
Speaker 2: on set, He's like, Dad, could you get a picture
Speaker 2: with PGA? I said, Pta, because Paul Thomas Anderson. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: easy Scorsese, big deal. Yeah. So I got a picture
Speaker 2: and send it to my son. He goes, how was he?
Speaker 4: How was he?
Speaker 2: I go, ah, he was okay. I don't know if
Speaker 2: he knew who I was, but I got a picture
Speaker 2: with PTA and then he ended up getting his Academy Award. Yes,
Speaker 2: Paul is the name.
Speaker 5: Michael Jordan the most successful name on earth, the basketball
Speaker 5: player considered probably the best of all time worldwide. Now
Speaker 5: Michael B. Jordan, which he was saddled with that name early,
Speaker 5: is now best actor and cruising in his career.
Speaker 2: Kimbll, was he named after Michael Jordan? I know his
Speaker 2: dad is Michael A. Jordan, right, which I find it awesome,
Speaker 2: So he's not the second. So if Michael Michael B. Jordan,
Speaker 2: does he have Michael C. Jordan? If he has a son,
Speaker 2: I'm guessing Michael A. Michael B. Michael C. Academy Award.
Speaker 2: Good for him. Sinners was nominated for sixteen Awards. I
Speaker 2: think I think it won four. Maybe, but yes, yes, Tom.
Speaker 8: Everything I'm reading would suggest he was not named after
Speaker 8: the basketball player.
Speaker 4: It's what you said.
Speaker 8: Michael A. Jordan then became Michael B.
Speaker 4: Jordan.
Speaker 2: Okay, his dad was before Michael Jordan. I'm guessing, so
Speaker 2: maybe he's Michael A. Jordan. Did he add the A
Speaker 2: because of Michael Jordan? Checking Yeah, I don't know, but yeah,
Speaker 2: Sewan Penn. I thought when I saw the movie, I
Speaker 2: said right away, it wasn't even over, and I said
Speaker 2: to my wife, I said, he's gonna win the Academy Award.
Speaker 2: How do you know that? I said, he just is
Speaker 2: and he wins. Is that his third Academy Award?
Speaker 4: Yes, that's what I see.
Speaker 8: Sean Penn, that's his third.
Speaker 2: So that puts him up with Nicholson, Tom Hanks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Sean Penn has two Best Actors Mystic River and
Speaker 5: Milk and one Best Supporting for Last Night One Battle
Speaker 5: after another?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, how much pressure if you're Michael B. Jordan
Speaker 3: after coming after Michael A. Jordan to name your child
Speaker 3: Michael C.
Speaker 2: Jordan, Yeah, I think I say it's signify done. I
Speaker 2: mean you have to, yeah, Michael C. Yeah, I hope, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I hope, so if you could. Okay, Harrison Ford Tom
Speaker 2: Cruise neither's won an Academy Award. I think Cruise was nominated.
Speaker 2: Was he nominated for Born on the fourth of July? Okay?
Speaker 2: Was he a Best Supporting Actor? I thought he got
Speaker 2: nominated for one other award.
Speaker 3: Tom Cruise has an Honorary Academy.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, that ain't it. No, Sorry, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: not taking an honorary sports Emmy. Yes, Todd to your
Speaker 2: factor in.
Speaker 8: Foro whose career would you want that he supposedly brought
Speaker 8: back movies and saved the industry after COVID.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm I'm the only one who said that. I
Speaker 2: think feel that way. Yeah, okay, But you can be
Speaker 2: Harrison Ford or you could be Tom Cruise.
Speaker 8: I think I'm gonna go Harrison Ford, especially because of
Speaker 8: Star Wars being such a huge deal. I know, the Mission.
Speaker 2: Impossible is in Indiana Jones. Yeah, that's attractive.
Speaker 3: That's he's He's in the two of the three biggest
Speaker 3: or two of the biggest trilogies of all time.
Speaker 2: Who are you gonna be seating Harrison Ford to Tom Cruise.
Speaker 3: I feel like there's a lot that comes with being
Speaker 3: Tom Cruise that I'm not really interested in.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm happy to be really good.
Speaker 3: At what I do and then be randomly anonymous, and
Speaker 3: then you know, people like the big hubbub is like
Speaker 3: he's got an earring? How old is he to wear
Speaker 3: an earring? I would rather deal with that kind of
Speaker 3: heat than you know, Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2: But just just the film ography not anything else. Just
Speaker 2: the films that you've been in, not the money that
Speaker 2: you've made, just the films you've been in.
Speaker 7: Marvin Harrison Ford is in The Fugitive Some taking Harrison Ford.
Speaker 2: Okay, Todd The Raiders.
Speaker 8: Are the Lost Arc movies. I just I think it's
Speaker 8: definitely Harrison Ford.
Speaker 2: And it feels like both play themselves in all of
Speaker 2: their movies, right, I mean Harrison Ford, it didn't feel
Speaker 2: like he ventured too far from being Harrison Ford. Tom
Speaker 2: at least had you know, Tropic Thunder where he was
Speaker 2: great in that movie. Yeh see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he had to put on like a big
Speaker 3: fat suit to do that. That doesn't really count. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but for him, that's his DeNiro moment. He was very
Speaker 3: good in it. He was He was really a lot
Speaker 3: of fun. I think that a lot of the like
Speaker 3: air quote great actors that we have now kind of
Speaker 3: all play themselves. Like, does George Clooney ever really that different?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Not really.
Speaker 3: I mean even Denzel. I love Denzel, He's never really
Speaker 3: that different. He's either the good guy Denzel or the
Speaker 3: bad guy Denzel. But it's basically still Denzel. I mean
Speaker 3: all of the actors now, but of a certain age.
Speaker 3: Maybe are all kind of that scene DeNiro Pacino, They're
Speaker 3: always them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Paul Harrison Ford had Witness. Blade Runner is a classic
Speaker 5: back in the day. Yeah, and he's more variety for
Speaker 5: Harrison Ford.
Speaker 2: I think Witness is a great movie. He was great.
Speaker 2: John book Man.
Speaker 3: I thought about that bathroom scene every time I ever
Speaker 3: went into a public bathroom, I was always like, are
Speaker 3: their teeth in there?
Speaker 2: Patriot Games for Harrison Fuck, I was in that. I
Speaker 2: went to that bathroom when I got into the Philadelphia
Speaker 2: train station, just to go in there. Yeah. And the
Speaker 2: silo scene with Danny Glover. That silo scene is crazy.
Speaker 2: That's a crazy movie. No, I know, Killed by Grain
Speaker 2: not common. Kelly McGillis was in there. She was great. Oh,
Speaker 2: very amis shot. J Billis. Make that segue, J billis,
Speaker 2: He'll join us coming up from I think the Nashville Airport.
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