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We have to start in March madness and begin with the three teams still alive in the big 12 conference.
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Hey, Drake, did you say March madness or March madness?
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I don't even know what that is, man.
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Oklahoma State does do the wrestling.
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Pretty impressive wrestling.
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I'll give it to you, Cody.
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But we also have Parker Ian's worth to his universities doing a little bit more on the national scale right now.
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Given their basketball teams, great success.
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And one mountain near Paul, fashionably late.
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That's how we like it around here.
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Parker, you are once again in the sweet 16.
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You didn't make a shot this round.
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But Houston is once again in the sweet 16.
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And I think all three of these big.
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I had all three of them in the my final four before the tournament.
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And if I could be so crass.
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Yes, we got teams lose for sure.
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But the three teams that actually could have won the national championship are all three still alive.
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And they're the only three teams in the big 12 that actually could have won the national championship.
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Given the injury issues of some other contenders.
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So I think we're okay.
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And it's interesting.
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I remember it was really early on in basketball season.
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We're comparing conferences and level and I kind of went back.
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I love level, but it was like top heavy versus depth.
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And I was like, you know, at that point, I thought the big 12 had four or five teams that could win the whole thing.
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And now it's proving out to be the three teams that were healthy out of that group.
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And I would say it's actually not healthy.
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And they're still they're still doing it, which probably pointed out, right.
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They're they're still playing in the second weekend.
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It I think it speaks to a different kind of dominant when you have the top end of the sport.
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And I also, you know, when everyone's healthy, but they went further down than that.
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But say good showing for the big 12.
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You get rid of those two schools and a couple of care about basketball and all of a sudden you're the best conference in the league.
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And it's just it's a whole different sport.
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Look, life is good except for the women.
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They just lost to Kentucky.
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Women, except for the women.
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I didn't know where we're going.
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Didn't know where we're going.
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There's always next year if they said.
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Spring practice just started back up for West Virginia football.
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So obviously we can't we don't have any basketball going on.
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This is let's do a good question that I can give the masses.
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Because most of you are out of the tournament.
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My bailer bears, my alma mater.
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Oh, they're in the crown.
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The cowgirls play UCLA.
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The one girls that you see as a giant.
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I want to say is the crowns of a thing.
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I thought they had a crowns of thing.
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I was invited this year.
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I mean, wrestling is over so yeah, I'll hit some basketball up.
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Yeah, I watched every game.
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Oh, that is that away Paul that Vandy game.
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I know it's not big 12.
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West Virginia could have had Bart Bianton because they wanted him.
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and it's proven what made him good at James Madison.
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And what's making him good now, Vandy.
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And that's not an easy job to win at.
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Neither is James Madison basketball specifically.
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So, you know, would have been nice to see
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what he could do in the big 12,
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but now he's going to be moving on
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to somewhere bigger and better.
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Former Bob Duncan's disciple,
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Calhoun got the Cincinnati job.
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That's another, that's another big one.
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Jared Calhoun is going to be a problem
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Hey, speaking of the big 12,
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how many of us had three big 12 teams in the final four?
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Other ideas as well.
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I think we all hoped it would happen at two.
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No, Ellen, we don't do brackets.
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You just loaded 16, man.
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This thing is loaded.
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It doesn't matter what side you look at for either teams.
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They're all tough games.
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I mean, every single one of them.
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I mean, it's a nice way.
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Even Texas, you know, like they look
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That's like the greatest big man
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I ever watched by college basketball, all of a sudden,
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just not good at all.
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He was against BYU and then again, against Gonzaga.
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Yeah, but, you know, look, they are coached by Sean Miller,
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so that's automatically like 10 points,
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10 down the ranking, down whatever it is.
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As an ASU fan, I think I'm allowed to say that.
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Formerly used to include Trumon Market,
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Texas won all those games too.
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The weaver kid, man,
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his hairline has not gotten any better.
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He's been in college for six years.
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You know, we don't have scary kids.
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I don't think we have a product,
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but we should probably use a product placement
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for someone to help him with that.
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That would be a great spot.
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Someone should get in.
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Yeah, we're really good in I.L.
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But he's, it's like when I take too much Benadrill.
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I see the weaver kid from Texas in my dreams.
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I'm like a dapper Dan man here, you know.
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Dapper Dan man, a brother or a Thal reference,
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Yeah, that's pretty good.
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Life soundtrack at the Grand Ole Opry.
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A couple of weeks ago, Met Tim Blake Nelson.
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So Houston obviously has made an exemplary statement
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in the tournament thus far.
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Do you think of the three teams in the Big 12?
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Just Houston have the best shot to get there and get it done?
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Probably still Arizona to me, but Parker would go.
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I was a Houston's playing at Toyota's
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Interest that helps some.
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That's a fine, that's going to be a fine of some sort.
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Now, so I, Jamie, they were throwing Jamie Dixon and jail
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Houston's got a good shot.
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I think they also, Iowa beating Florida
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looks really easy on paper all of a sudden,
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but Iowa's a pretty tough matchup.
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Tired Iowa playing basketball.
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And they got one of the bet in my opinion,
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one of the most underrated players in all college basketball
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Well, they're coaching the last long at Iowa.
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Oh, he think McCullough is going to be on up.
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He could probably win at Iowa for a while.
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They liked their basketball.
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They put money in that program.
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Well, he's also from Iowa, too.
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That's a big reason why he went there.
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That's one of the reasons why they chose him.
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You know, I'm OK, Peyton Clark.
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Nobody cares to calm down.
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I'm OK now with the fact that he won four natties before he came to Iowa.
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There's something about the, yeah, D2, right?
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Northwest Missouri State.
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I don't really mind.
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A lot of people are complaining.
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There aren't that many Cinderella's this year.
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Let's get your guys' thoughts on the lack of Cinderella's.
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You get them trying to stay there.
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Here's the reason I don't mind the fact they're not a lot of Cinderella's.
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This is a season where Houston or Arizona had lost to St. Louis or St. Mary's or lost to Cleveland state.
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Yeah, we love that.
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It's so fun and then Cleveland state loses down the line of the sweet 16 by 29 points.
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And you know, surely there will be teams that lose by 29 points.
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But I just don't mind the fact we have some of the best players in college basketball
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giving us eight games.
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Paul, you mentioned it.
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That all have star power that all have like intrigue of the best players in the sport.
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The level of basketball that we get is not.
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And I don't want to die.
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I love us and I do love Cinderella's.
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I'm just not that mad that we get elite basketball.
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I'm not complaining that we get elite basketball because a lot of time Cinderella is as good
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as they are predicated on three pointers.
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They make a lot of threes.
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They get hot in the tournament.
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And that's what carries them through or sometimes they dunk the ball.
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This year, the best 16 teams, I think, or some of the best 16 are a lot.
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I've got a hotter take on the big picture things, but I will say I appreciate that when none
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of us are calling Texas as Cinderella, that really hurt me over the weekend is like they
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have for our reason Lamborghini's outside as the part of the NIL package.
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Like they don't get to just because they actually suck for most of the year does not mean
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they get to suddenly be a Cinderella because they decide to play basketball in March.
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Like that doesn't seem right.
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I don't necessarily think you can consider a 5C per se a Cinderella, but for me guys,
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I will obviously should be part of this conversation, but I love that the red storm are not only
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relative again, but how about the old ball coach making another run at a nanny?
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I know he's been there a few seasons now and he's kind of got St. John's kind of back
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But I think it's pretty cool that they're able to kind of shake things up.
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You mentioned the star power.
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It's nice to see a coach have this capability at multitude of schools.
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Reminds me a lot of like a nitty-sutton.
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Maybe that's why I think that beaten coaches and coaches and suits had like a winning record
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by four or five games over the weekend.
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I love that though.
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Does Calipari's checkered jacket?
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Does that count as a suit?
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I don't know how fish they're going to play as a versus suit versus, but I just saw
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Do you think he'll wear, because they played last year, do you think Calipari will wear
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the dinner table, tablecloth, the Italian restaurant tablecloth again?
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He strategically wore that suit coat last year.
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Shout out Rick Patino.
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I just looked it up.
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Like Rick Patino incidents is all I searched and oh, 1974 linked to NCAA violations at
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I don't even know how to do that.
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He's been doing this for a long time.
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2009, Patino was embroiled in a case where a woman, Karen Cipher, attempted to blackmail
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him after in a fair.
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She was later convicted of extortion while Patino admitted to the affair and provided
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money for an abortion.
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I just keep getting job.
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Like I have what's crazy about coach that happened at the winds like yeah, Louisville didn't
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It happened in Oh nine that he did that he was like, yeah, I had an affair and I paid
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Louisville was like, well, he's wins games.
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2015 scandal emerged that Louisville staff members provided prostitutes and strippers
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to recruits and players.
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Shout out to the team reading the way NCAA investigations, Patino failed to oversee his staff
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resulting in a five game suspension and the stripping of a championship.
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He only got suspended five games for buying the kids prostitutes.
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They're like, I don't know, man.
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And finally, uh, the 2017 Adidas bribery scandal where he bribed a recruit with $100,000,
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which is actually funny to look back on.
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My friend Josh Brooks and we were in the old rehab together, used to say one, one of
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my favorite lines ever, his name out there is only one thing better than prosties and that's
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When these prosties, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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The only thing better, huh?
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Actually, I have a video recorded on my phone where he called me, unfortunately, he relapsed
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and he was, he called me to, yeah, he called me to just prosties, fill up and go.
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Well, that is a wonderful transition.
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I did have a take on this Cinderella thing.
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I think unless it's a freshman, it's probably done because truthfully, the way basketball
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works now is there's some freshman that's a stud at Chattanooga State.
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They're not at Chattanooga State the next year anymore.
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Like, that thing has gone by, like, I don't think that there ever will be a non power
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force in the world, like, of substance, like high point had a $4.2 million in I L base.
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I thought it was 1.5.
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I saw a 4.2 in their stadium looks like a pass, but that's, that can't be on flutter
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Well, the camera flutter, right, was a Kentucky Wildcat at a high school, right?
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Like a six star at high school is so good.
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So I say that to say that, like, I kind of feel like the reality is the Cinderella being
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Iowa or Texas, a powerful conference scene that didn't succeed during the season, but
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it only turns it on in March is like actually the more the way this is in Georgia from a
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few years ago where they were under 500 and won the SEC.
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It's, I mean, it's one thing to complain about.
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Oh, there's no Cinderella's, you know, I miss my butlers or whatever.
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It's nothing to say, look, NIL, the way it works right now is not great.
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And it's sucking the fun out of many sports and it's sucking Cinderella's away.
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Like, we're not having Cinderella stories anymore.
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It's hard for anyone that doesn't have crazy NIL budget to go compete in any money
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If the NCAA wants to suck the fun out of me, um, they have to pay for it.
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Carry on, Drake, carry on lost these frosty, given the, given the, given the, the NCAA's
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rules that make the transfer portal terrible and the NIL, everything's just sad.
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And now the player assigned to your contracts, Hello, Brendan Sorsby and don't have to
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adhere to their two year contracts.
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Doesn't matter anymore.
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Drake, I tell you what I don't like if the NCAA investigates for prosties and great.
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If you got accused for whatever, they meant Paul.
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Frosties and frosties.
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It would somehow come back on a cool estate.
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You would get punished for the rest of the big 12s doings coming up new hires across the
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big 12 conference Cincinnati and Arizona State.
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Are they good enough for they too old locked on big 12 squad?
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All right, big 12 squad fill a yet a new head coach in temporary Arizona state is going
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to win for a couple of years and then watch their coach retire.
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What what's the vibe around the program with this higher?
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Well, I've learned that Arizona State basketball is a retirement home.
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People doing Arizona.
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That's a people do there.
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You know, it works out for us because honestly, Randy Bennett is a home run higher for ASU,
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which was like number 50 in basketball expenditure.
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There's the the program cost, not necessarily in I own money, like number 50 in basketball
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expenditure this year to get a guy that as experienced and as it's quality as their
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any minute is is a home run higher.
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My worry is that he's like 64.
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He said he does not want to coach into his seventies.
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He's going down here because his parents are getting older and they live in the valley.
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And my worry here is like, we're going to get him for five years that we're going to
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be in this spot again in five years.
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And if we don't manage this really, really intelligently, we're going to be coming up.
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We're going to get into brand new stadium that's happening in like 2029.
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We're not going to have someone to fill the slot and it's just going to be really awkward.
20:53
So what I mean, if in those five years, he goes to four NCAA tournaments and the elite
20:57
day twice, I think that's worth it.
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I think anybody would give everyone to do that, everyone always do coach, coach and
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That's what I'm open for.
21:07
I'm working for Utah.
21:09
It worked really well for Utah.
21:11
So I guess my thing with that feel is that it feels like to me, Bennett had also kind
21:19
of hit a stealing at St. Mary's with Gonzaga leaving that conference and the world.
21:25
He already isn't making sweet sixteenth ever.
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I did one 10 years ago.
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Well, I mean, he's been there 20, he's been at St. Mary's 25 years and kind of, he, he,
21:33
he hit whatever ceiling they could hit in modern college basketball, right?
21:36
And he's going to say that I think it's like, hey, it might be five or six years, but
21:40
here's one last run and make it something cool, you know, and like, what other place
21:43
to do it besides the big 12, frankly, yeah, but he's, there's also a piece of this of,
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you know, you went from St. Mary's playing Portland on Tuesday and then Washington State
21:54
this year on Friday, right?
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Because they did their little, what are something like that to now having Arizona, followed
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by Houston on the road, back at home to play Houston again.
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Now you have to go play at BYU and then you're going on the road to play Iowa, do you
22:10
Well, if I go and getting chewed up and spit out, there are four or five games stretches
22:14
in this conference that are built to make you die.
22:17
And here's the thing, right?
22:18
So Bobby Hurley's teams, they would look awful sometimes.
22:23
Their entire ethos is we're going to let the shooter shoot.
22:26
We're going to hit these threes and sometimes we're shooting 20% from me on the arc and it's
22:30
or like 10% from beyond the arc and we're just not hitting shots and awful, but we would
22:35
also go and knock off the Kansas of the world, the Texas Tex of the world because sometimes
22:40
their shooters get hot and something happens.
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We're not going to, like, we're going to have a much higher standard of quality out of
22:48
I think it's fair to say that Bennett is going to have the standard of quality.
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Very defensive team.
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And we're not going to have, we're not going to have the high highs, but we're not going
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to have the low lows.
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His name is, my concern would be there doesn't seem to be a rich history right now of the
23:03
older generation of coaches, kind of figuring things out in this new generation of NIL in
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the portal for the most part.
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Obviously, you know, Rick up there at St. John's is a little little different because
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the near age of college basketball, he's already been really, really good at it back when
23:19
it was backdoor money.
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He might be a little bit of an exception, but I think that you're, I don't know, your
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old school traditional coaches that have foundations set on, you know, high moral ground and things
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I just don't know that it works a whole lot anymore.
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And that would be my only concern for y'all is your inner rebuild mode and the old heads
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don't seem to be having the greatest grasp on this crazy NIL portal generation because
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it's hard for them to get people to buy in to the university and stuff anymore.
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Here's the one thing that makes Bennett actually really good in that arena, not that he's
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this crazy NIL guy, but we don't have a lot of NIL money right now.
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If we hired another guy, Derek Glasser, apparently hard was going to go double R and I L fund,
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because they played together.
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Yeah, it's like it.
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That would have been such an awful head coach, but anyway, Bennett has got six four stars
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in his entire history.
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He's got one five star.
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He is very good at making it work with these analytics guys, these guys coming in from Australia
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Making it work on lower NIL budgets, making it work based on people like from alternate
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recruiting pathways.
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So I'm like, I'm not the most worried that he's not bringing in five stars.
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I mean, look, ASU had the number six recruiting class in the country last year.
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Look at how that did us, you know, he is worried there.
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He's one of less talent or like lower talent, certainly than like the teens even in the
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And he got like the Delavatova kid from Australia, right?
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The Delavatova kid.
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As if he hasn't played an entire NBA career.
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Well, it was a kid when he went to the sweet 16 with them in 20.
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Oh, oh, good old Matthew.
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He's all have to hyped up on coffee, whatever, remember that?
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No, the trick to me too is that there's a weird guy.
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He's not hopped up on Mountain Dew.
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No, but both speaking of that, do you know what I'm upset?
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I want to door dash came or Walmart came right in the middle of our show, of course.
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You know, no free pub.
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You don't even meant don't need to drop that name, no free pub.
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And they brought, they brought zero sure.
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What are they thinking here?
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I'm pretty upset about that.
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No, I was going to, my joke was going to be a comment on it.
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And then it's going to flash off that we were poor.
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But that's our only joke.
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I ruined your joke.
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No, I want to throw.
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I actually think that this wasn't the best hire of the cycle of the big 12.
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I think there was a subtle, you could hire last week.
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The case stayed higher.
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Who's got to be the best hire for me?
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I only think Calhouna.
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Let's debate here because we've got a guy.
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It's Cincinnati now.
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So I guess Calhouna public this week, but didn't Calhoun get like secretly backdoored,
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like backdoored, secretly like behind closed doors last week before the season ended at Utah
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And that was kind of the story.
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It was like he was coaching, knowing he was leaving or something that, nobody heard
26:29
There was controversy that he was already a foot out the door, which, because they like
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turned down like interviews other people and he turned down other interviews and stuff
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And Cincinnati from Hogan stays right or whatever, like this is this is his thing.
26:43
I think that's home run.
26:46
That's a great hire.
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You talk about the age.
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He's worked his way up and like he weirdly seems like he fits.
26:54
Like since now he's not going to have a bunch of the five star guys, they're going to
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You know, like he, like he's going to be all right.
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I think that's going to be a really good.
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I think that's like a scare.
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And like, I mean, I mentioned my old age is called Matthew Delvedova, a kid.
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I think of Cincinnati as being a good basketball program, like back in the day, right?
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It's a good basketball program.
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Back when the Big East was the king of hoops.
27:16
They were right there in the thick of all of it.
27:17
You have for the move, for a move like this for me for Cincinnati, you've got to commit
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to basketball and just give football a chance to reboot.
27:27
And some schools I do.
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I don't think since in a big 12 in this area of basketball school, yeah, I don't see
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them really if, if like Baylor and Cincinnati sell out for basketball and have 19 million
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dollar NIL budgets with great head coaches, now we're now you're cooking.
27:41
Just kind of put that money to basketball and forget about football for a little bit.
27:45
You since an adi just had its best roster of the last probably since they had Dana and
27:49
they won seven and five, seven and six.
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Yeah, not being able to hold on the sores, but he definitely does not send the greatest
27:58
No, I mean, them being able to compete in football is going to be brutally tough.
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Those, okay, so we know that football's ceiling is maybe seven or eight wins.
28:06
Let's just go win a national championship in basketball.
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I just, it doesn't kind of feel like that football still the front porch and they're in
28:16
They're in the big 12 because of their Desmond Ritter success with with Luke fickle.
28:21
Like without those successful football seasons, they're not in this conference.
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I don't think they can abandon it.
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Love Scott Frost, Rich Rod and fickle all in the big 12, that's going to be great.
28:34
Back with the old school.
28:35
It's going to be great.
28:37
Tom Herman comes back to Houston.
28:40
So, but in basketball's conference, you've got, I was saying I'm going to say Kelvin, but
28:44
you've got, it'll selfless one titles unless he retires next few days, which I guess
28:47
by the time it's air, he might have who knows.
28:49
Scott drew a Baylor's one title for whatever you think about him now.
28:52
He didn't win a title there.
28:54
You got McCast on that tech is really, really good.
28:57
You got out the burger.
29:00
You got Tommy Lloyd, he needs to be clear of the list.
29:04
Jamie Dixon, I think there's a lot with a little, I thought talking to a lot of the
29:09
I'm not as high on Kevin Young as other people are, but some people want a system.
29:12
But yeah, I mean, he's probably obviously still has a lot to prove.
29:17
It depends on the guy level, yeah, Jamie Dixon is an incredible college basketball coach
29:21
and does a ton with very little TCU, doesn't really bind a basketball.
29:25
Kevin Young does enough with a lot, you know, like he's there for NBA development.
29:31
Like to me, NBA development coaches don't usually win national championships, college basketball
29:35
coaches, like a patino who try, you know, dabbled for a second.
29:39
I was like, oh, no, I'm a college guy.
29:41
I think those are the guys who are who you want to help with your program, I'll
29:45
I like Cody's guy, Lutz, he's new still, but I like him a lot.
29:51
I think we just made three good hires, even if Phil's guy is not going to be here for
29:55
This it's a little bit rough, I'm just doing recruiting right now, too.
29:58
Yeah, we yeah, we talked about the Westring is making way.
30:01
I still want to see how to do it this level, but he's done it at previous levels, right?
30:04
Like you, you tall and call a lot of exists.
30:08
Yeah, you know, everyone needs a good punching bag.
30:10
Yeah, the score right there.
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It's getting crazy.
30:14
Well, how long is Jensen going to get the Utah?
30:16
I guess the Utah gig is going to, and he's only been there a year, but I mean, he's only been
30:20
I'm sorry, Phil's, but anybody willing to take that K-State job?
30:23
I would be, I would be wary.
30:27
And I, if you say anything, anything negative about your university or your
30:33
players, you might be fired.
30:35
Why would you take that job?
30:36
It's a great point.
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All right, well, that's time.
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I mean, I have dessert on the table, as we speak.
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And you probably do.
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Frosty's or is it Mountain Dew Zero?
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We dropped a lot of brands this episode for not Walmart.
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I'm not very cognizant of that.
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No, they need, just don't give it away for free.
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Now we're not giving it away for free.
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