WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.319 --> 00:00:08.039 Streaming live on the iHeartRadio WAPP. This is I on the Ball with Steve 2 00:00:08.119 --> 00:00:26.120 Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to 3 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:28.320 AY in the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's 4 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:31.879 Jay. Now we have Kevin with breaking new lots of This is I on 5 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:37.000 the Ball breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right, so let's 6 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:39.600 go ahead and start with the biggest news of the day in the sports world. 7 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:43.640 La Dodger stars Shoho Tani has spoken to the media for the first time 8 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:48.640 through his new interpreter, one that is not allegedly stealing millions of dollars right, 9 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:52.479 and he said he has he had no knowledge of the situation going on, 10 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:55.679 he has never gambled on baseball or any other sport, and that he's 11 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:59.880 pretty much clearly devastated by the news that his former translator and what we thought 12 00:00:59.960 --> 00:01:06.120 was his best friend is now accused of stealing millions of dollars gambling and losing 13 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:10.359 it between illegal bookie in California. So ask the Dodger how he feels about 14 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:15.680 this story. I percent believe show Hey Otani that he had nothing to do 15 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.920 with any of this, that he was a victim of the whole thing, 16 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:26.840 and that he he he had a trusted uh companion who led him astray and 17 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:33.079 took his money, and that show hey, should one hundred percent be absolved 18 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:37.519 of any involvement in anything and allowed to hit this year for the Dodgers. 19 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.120 Yes, that's what and he was, that's the important In fact, I 20 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.799 just came up. There's a there's a bit he's throwing for the first time 21 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:49.640 today, So good on, show hey big, get rid of this distraction 22 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:56.280 and let the season commence. Had this story broken June of two thousand and 23 00:01:56.319 --> 00:02:00.200 three, that's the no. Well, if Sho Hay was Yankee Pinstrick, 24 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:06.400 I would ban him from baseball a block, set him up over there next 25 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:09.159 to Pete Rose, and don't ever let him enter a Major League baseball park 26 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:14.599 again. That was my point. Let's move on. Yeah, definitely more 27 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:19.199 to that one. But there's there's nothing left. It's it's over some gambling 28 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:23.319 stuff. Also in the NBA today getting uh just dropping, just dropped twenty 29 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:27.639 minutes ago from Windhorse and Wojnowski. Uh. The NBA is investigating the Raptors 30 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:31.599 John Tay Porter, brother of Michael Porter Junior for betting issues involving two instances, 31 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:36.840 one on January twenty sixth and one on March thirtieth. Pretty much he 32 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:42.599 left games with with questionable or mysterious injuries. One was a reaggravated eye injury 33 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.520 and one was an illness. Both of those games, he went under on 34 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:51.400 all of his props, and all of his props were also the highest earning 35 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:54.800 props for DraftKings users on each of those nights. So so not only did 36 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:58.719 he do that, word got around obviously to some people, and he has 37 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:02.000 missed Saturday's game for personal reasons and tonight's game for personal reasons, as well 38 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:08.919 as the investigations going on. See he's guilty. There's just so much, 39 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:14.479 so much stuff with this, with this, well, well here's what it 40 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.280 is, Steve, though. So much of this it's because it's out in 41 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:21.599 the open now, right. A lot of this stuff has been going on 42 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:25.560 and people haven't been detecting it, right and now because there's so many, 43 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:30.719 so many people watching, and you've got all these you know, uh, 44 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:36.719 agencies that are hired by teams to keep an eye on gambling on those teams, 45 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:40.360 the stuff's more out in the open. Uh, And so I think 46 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:45.360 that's why we're hearing more about it. I don't think it's happening any more 47 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:49.759 than it was happening before. I just think that because we're hearing about it, 48 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:51.800 because things, stuff is getting out in the open. You know, 49 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:55.599 maybe some player, some obscure player maybe gets involved in a gambling thing the 50 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:00.759 NBA, they just, you know, the team just lets him. He's 51 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:03.840 gone and it's kind of forgotten, you know, I kind of swept under 52 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.759 the rug type of stuff, where now you can't sweep the stuff under the 53 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:11.960 rug because you have so many people who know about what's going on and it's 54 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:15.039 everywhere now. I don't know if you saw what the NBA league pass for 55 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.920 next year, as being proposed, is going to have lines live on the 56 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:20.560 side of the stream so you can watch the game and look at the lines 57 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:26.199 a lot. I believe. Closer to home, I believe the the Indoor 58 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:30.800 Football League is going to have that this year. Wow. Last I heard 59 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:34.720 they were setting up something like that where you can be able to make live 60 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:39.959 bets on the next play and stuff like that. They're trying to do that'lievable 61 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:42.480 and they wonder why they have problems. Yeah, because in the last three 62 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:46.000 weeks we had Temple and the UAB college basketball game flight for unusual betting, 63 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:48.199 the Rudy Gobert thing where he made the money, the money Man's el sign, 64 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:50.319 and the referees I'm playing, Hey, I think you have money on 65 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:54.879 this game. Well that was a fraudulent claim, but the claim was still 66 00:04:54.920 --> 00:05:00.560 made. It's just it's just way more visible than it's been more some coaching 67 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:04.240 stuff in the n C Double A Utah States Danny Sprinkle has accepted the Washington 68 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:10.199 hoops job, a six year deal. According to ESPN. Yeah, we 69 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:13.720 live at a time where if you're the hot dude or hot dude, you 70 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:15.759 better jump on it. Go well, yeah, and the next one you're 71 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:19.600 gonna do. Kwonzo Martin as nearing a deal to return to the state of 72 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:24.160 Missouri, but this time at Missouri State University or he was before, right, 73 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.839 Yes, he was at Missouri Zoo. Yeah, no, but I 74 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:31.040 think he was at Missouri State too. Well maybe not, but he most 75 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:35.360 recently was at Kyle Smith. That's where you had success originally. Yes, 76 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:40.319 yeah, Kyle Smith is leaving Washington State for the Stanford basketball which you know 77 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:44.120 when when that rumor or when that word was getting around that that he that 78 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:47.839 he was their target. I thought Stanford's not a better job. But then 79 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:51.240 it's like, well, he doesn't have a conference in at Washington State, 80 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:55.120 so maybe it is. Well he's got he's going to the a c C. 81 00:05:55.360 --> 00:06:00.360 But and he's got some history with he coach Columbia to success, right, 82 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:05.199 so you know, plus say, you know, Paolo alto Pullman, 83 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:11.519 where you where you want to live, you could buy a big, big, 84 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:14.199 big house. Yeah. In fact, if you well, if you've 85 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:16.160 got the money to be able to live in a place like Paulo Alta to 86 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:20.040 the Bay area, then then go there for sure. So that's cool. 87 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:24.079 I would live. I would live further south towards San Jose. That's kind 88 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:28.079 of a cool area over there, like Santa Clara of those places. Little 89 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:30.920 more low key. Yeah, just a little more lokey now as you're not 90 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.439 piled on top of each other the way they are in San Francisco. So 91 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:38.160 yeah, what's good move for him? Good move for him. West Virginia 92 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:44.040 named Darien d riz as their new basketball coach. He had he had Arise 93 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:46.600 had just led Drake to the tournament in three of the last few Drake. 94 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:49.759 Yeah, and he has won at least twenty five games in each of the 95 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.639 past four seasons, with a record of one hundred and fifty and fifty five 96 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:57.680 over six seasons at Duke or sorry Drake, you know you again, Steve 97 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:01.120 as you said, you know you're you're you're coaching a place like Drake or 98 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:05.120 you know, Utah State or whatever, and the big job comes along at 99 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:09.360 a major conference you have to take. You got to go to you're gonna 100 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.560 be making sure, you know, at a place like you know, Stanford, 101 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:15.839 you're gonna make three million dollars a year, four million dollars a year, 102 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:19.920 those kinds of things. You know, West Virginia is similar. You 103 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:23.560 got it. You gotta jump on those and you know, set your family 104 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:26.240 up for Yeah. The funny thing about it, you could be a hot 105 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:29.560 coach one year and decide to stay. Well, look at the guy from 106 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:32.360 FAU who was very hot last year, waited a year with a good team 107 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:35.600 and they got ousted. Now it's at Michigan five years. I didn't even 108 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:38.800 know what his contracts for five years, and I don't know how much talking 109 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:42.040 about Dusty May, Yeah, it's a five year contract and let me find 110 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:44.920 that number for you. But yeah, I mean, you know, he's 111 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:47.519 the head coach of Michigan now and at a place that's going to be bringing 112 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:50.800 in a whole ton of money, just under four million dollars a year. 113 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:55.480 Yeah, you know, No, I mean you have to take those opportunities 114 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:58.279 when they're there, and you know, hey, and shoot your shot, 115 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:01.000 right, I mean, is he good enough to be the Michigan coach? 116 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:03.920 We don't know to find out, but you'll find out. But you know, 117 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:07.399 shoot your shot. I think it's a it's a it's a thing you 118 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:09.879 have to do. And if you can make here, can make a program 119 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:13.480 like FA you seems as stable in his top level as he has. There 120 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.519 is promise that I mean, again not to beat the dead horse, but 121 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:20.720 I never I never blamed Jed Fish for taking the money to go to Washington, 122 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:26.000 right, the seven and a half million dollars. Uh, it's just 123 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:31.000 the other things that kind of made that distasteful. Yeah. Well then and 124 00:08:31.039 --> 00:08:33.879 then he got well we talked about this then he kind of was this happened 125 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:39.799 last week with the ad movie. So so after five after five months months, 126 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:41.639 you know, you get a challenge, you get. You get a 127 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:48.200 traveler with another traveler through traveling. What the travelers do travel travel going all 128 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:52.120 over the place. Speaking of speaking of maybe going all over the place. 129 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:56.799 LSU has had quite the week between the tournament results and also their head coach, 130 00:08:56.879 --> 00:09:01.799 Kim Mulky her comments recently about a Washington Post piece that has yet to 131 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:05.399 be dropped about her. She said she has come out and hired the best 132 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:09.720 defamation lawyers in the nation to I can't wait for the story there. We 133 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:11.679 don't even know what she's I can't wait for the story to come out because 134 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:16.919 you know what, if this was Joe Blow's basement website that was about to 135 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.320 come out with a hit piece, I'd say, all right, probably a 136 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:24.600 little shady. This is the Washington Post, Okay, it's it's taking the 137 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:28.519 guy two years. Yeah, two years. They do the work. Whatever 138 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:33.879 they're coming out with. Whoever called she called it a hit piece. You 139 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:37.799 know, the word got out that that there's this, that there's this investigative 140 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:41.840 piece coming out on her. I guarantee you they did the work. I'm 141 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:48.840 gonna believe every word of it because those guys don't mess around, you know, 142 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:50.759 They're not, like I said, They're not the guy in the basement, 143 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:54.480 you know, on his mom's website, on his mom's Wi Fi, 144 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:58.240 trying to get clicks. And it's a two year, two year deal. 145 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.279 Right. They've done, they been, you know, they it's checked, 146 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:05.000 everything's checked over and over and over again. That's how the Washington Post, 147 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:09.840 the New York Times they do those things. They're not the National Inquirer, 148 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:15.320 who are just kind of guessing and hoping they got it right. And she 149 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:18.200 knows that, and that's why she she's you know, she's uh, she's 150 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:22.679 you know, laying the gauntlet, but she's gonna look bad. Yeah, 151 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:24.080 And I was. I was also wondering what her strategy was. I would 152 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:28.039 like to know her thoughts on, like the strategy of drawing more attention to 153 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:30.679 the piece that has to even drop, right, because she doesn't even know 154 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:33.639 how many people are going to see it, but now everyone's gonna right to 155 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:35.799 see it personally. Before I didn't even know what was happening. I didn't 156 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:39.159 even if it came out, I might have skimmed it, you know, 157 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.720 if it was it was really salacious, I would have. Yeah, now 158 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:43.320 you have to read it now. If she dropped her coffee I want to 159 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:48.600 know, you know, I don't know, but yeah, I can't wait. 160 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:50.159 Plus I'm just I'm just gonna say it, Okay. I dealt with 161 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:54.879 her. She came, she was here for first and second round that Arizona 162 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:58.679 hosted, and she was the meanest person in the planet that week. She 163 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:05.320 was just she was just mean to everybody and just for no reason whatsoever. 164 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:09.559 And and so if they if they told me that she set a player on 165 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:13.159 fire, I would believe it. Well, at the end of the day, 166 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:18.399 mean people are people, mean people, traveling people, and right, 167 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.320 and and and if you're a mean person and you're gonna get called on it 168 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:26.039 a lot of times, and I'm I'm you know, I for one, 169 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:31.120 if they tell I mean, if they tell me she you know whatever, 170 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:35.200 I'm gonna get a stop stuff. But I'm gonna, you know, I'm 171 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:37.840 gonna believe she did. It's the old Dennis Green thing of they are who 172 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:39.879 we thought they are. Yes, So in the end, you think sometimes 173 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:43.519 generally is what it is. Yeah, And and again han't had that personal 174 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:48.480 experience with her, I have no doubt that that there's a lot of stuff 175 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:50.399 in there about just her being a bad person. I would have no doubts 176 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:54.799 about it. One more thing from the SEC Georgia running back brother of Travis 177 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:58.080 E. T N, Trevor E. T N was arrested on a on 178 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.559 a on a d U I. The charges are reckless driving, fixing materials 179 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:07.159 that reduce visibility, uh, failure to maintain lane, and improper driving on 180 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:09.960 the road. Do you y fitting right into the as we said, fitting 181 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:15.399 right into the Georgia culture over there of just those people, those guys in 182 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:22.360 their their cars. Yeah, I love it. The top sixteen. So 183 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:24.320 next Steve emailed me this list. Jay, We're gonna run it by you 184 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:28.960 real quick. The top sixteen coaches left in the n C Double eight Tournament. 185 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:31.559 Where do you think, Tommy LEI bet they have time? Like four? 186 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:39.720 Who the head? Who's the head? Uh? Dan Hurley? Uh? 187 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:48.960 Calvin Sampson Okay, I think? Oh? And Mark Few? You 188 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:52.879 have the top three there? Mark Few is at number one, Danny Hurley's 189 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:58.960 number two, Calvin Samson number three, Number four Matt Painter. I wouldn't. 190 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:01.519 I wouldn't put Matt painteryd so go ahead, well. Number five, 191 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:07.120 I would put him ahead of Tommy Lloyd either. And number six is shock 192 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:11.600 and smart, definitely ahead of Tommy Lloyd either Tommy light hasn't he hasn't earned 193 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:15.320 his chops. He's a third year coach, and so he's number seven. 194 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:18.600 He's not seven, but fair, go ahead and do the rest of them 195 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:22.840 because it's right. Yeah, he's three years fair. I'm an Arizona fan. 196 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:31.399 That's why I think he's been so. Number eight is gonna be Rick 197 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:35.279 Barnes of Tennessee, who could be ahead of Tommy Lloyd in fairness, he's 198 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:39.600 been in a long time, Okay, Okay. Greg McDermott of Creighton a 199 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:43.919 number another guy who's done really well. Rounding out the top ten, you 200 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.879 can bunch all those guys together, okay, okay, and then you kind 201 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:48.759 of those two guys are had kind of yea. Rounding out of the top 202 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:52.000 ten is gonna be Hubert Davis. Right. I don't think he's below him. 203 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:56.559 I think he's way back. Brian Dutcher at number eleven. San Diego 204 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:01.759 State's coach, Brad Underwood of Illinois coming in number two. Okay, Number 205 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.679 thirteen, we're gonna get t j Otsolberger from Iowa State, Right, he's 206 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:09.960 gonna be a good one. John Shire fourteen Duke Kevin keats n C state 207 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:15.360 number fifteen and rounding out the entire list is Brown or Brad brownel of Clesing. 208 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:16.879 Yeah, yeah, I think you can put Tommy in the you know, 209 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:20.720 in a in a in a pack right there in the middle, in 210 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.919 the eight nine ten range with those guys that are there. Yeah, that's 211 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:30.919 probably fair. I'm going there's a breaking news. Okay, perfect buzz right 212 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:33.360 at the buzzer. All right, let's get a hold Chuck. Coming up 213 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:37.039 with Chuck Culpepper from the Washington Post. Not talking about the Washington Post article 214 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:41.960 on Kimmulki. He was in Salt Lake City covering, uh, covering the 215 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:45.200 sub regional there. And he'll is he going to l A? You know, 216 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:46.960 I don't think so. He's in LA but I'm not sure if he 217 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:50.639 will. We'll ask, all right, we'll see, all right, stick 218 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:54.399 around for Chuck Culpepper with the Washington Post. The Windows Depot is more than 219 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:58.159 a windows store. The Windows Depot is a one stuff warehouse with everything you 220 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.000 need for your complete Homer model shop. 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You have Chuck Colepepper from the Washington Post college 288 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:51.799 basketball guy. How are you? Chuck? All right, Stephen, Jay, 289 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:53.079 how you doing. We're doing fine. Good to hear from you. 290 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:56.839 I saw you over the weekend. Obviously. Chuck and I go back a 291 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:02.599 long time. He covered Kentucky as a beat guy many many years ago. 292 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:07.480 Right, I was a calumnist. But that's like being a beat guy there, 293 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:11.799 except our beat guy was extraordinary, so I don't want to it was 294 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:15.720 a calmnist. Jerry Tiptons. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a 295 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:18.400 well known guy. Jerry tipp He is a legend, Yes he is. 296 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:22.720 Okay, what what impressed you the most about the West or where we were 297 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:27.759 at, uh this weekend? The Zags. I mean, the Zags were 298 00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:33.720 just so beautiful that you know, you have that bias of what you're seeing 299 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:37.200 right in front of you and you think it's the greatest thing ever and even 300 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:41.079 well, that's often very irrational. I hope I never lose like that that 301 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:45.799 capacity to because I've already liked into them into the title, you know, 302 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:49.200 and they've got a really tough game up ahead here. But they were so 303 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:53.960 beautiful against Kansas, and you know, the Jayhawks were tired, there's no 304 00:20:55.039 --> 00:20:59.240 question, but it was just beautiful basketball from Gonzaga sixty point three percent. 305 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:03.519 How you know, how is that with the teams, the great teams that 306 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:06.880 he's had, I mean, what what is it about them that that sticks 307 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:11.279 out this time? This time around? So I think what happened is they 308 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:15.720 had the two key transfers in in the mix, and then they this is 309 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:19.200 what I was listening to them say in the locker room. They've learned each 310 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:23.279 other, learned to read each other. And the way that happens, and 311 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:29.480 uh, you know, the big man Graham k he said, he said 312 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:34.119 it it becomes like a flow, like water flowing, like a stream going 313 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:37.720 by that you can't stop. I was like, okay, I'll keep listening 314 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:41.480 to you as long as you like. You know, people, but people 315 00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:44.839 just can't say that because we don't have streams and flowing and all that stuff. 316 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:48.279 Oh, I see those streams are no. I'm just kidding that. 317 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:52.599 Uh. And then Anton Watson was saying, it's become very effortless. So 318 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:56.880 they got a really hard game against Purdue, of course, which also looked 319 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:02.960 fantastic Sunday, but oh, both of them were great. Well, Purdue 320 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:07.519 certainly looks different because you know, they've clearly added some pieces that they didn't 321 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:11.759 have before. They just look they look I don't know. I mean, 322 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:17.680 I I don't see how anybody beats him, even Yukon with you know, 323 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:22.960 Zachi, he's just a beast and he's it's it's different from what we've seen. 324 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:25.400 I don't know what. I can't pinpoint it, but that's what I 325 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:30.880 saw. Yeah, and that glowing stat twenty nine assists that came out of 326 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:34.720 their box. And Utah State's a good team, was a good team. 327 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:41.319 So you know, I agree, and so I have to remove Gonzaga from 328 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:48.240 the place I put it in the champions seat on Saturday and wonder because you 329 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:51.160 know, there's this other thing about Purdue, which was I was there last 330 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:56.759 year in Columbus when they lost to Fairleigh Dickinson in the sixteen to one game, 331 00:22:56.519 --> 00:23:03.640 and that turned this sixteen one game on Friday into a nervous occasion. 332 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:07.359 I think, just like Virginia in twenty nineteen had the same thing and they 333 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:12.480 fell fourteen points behind Gardner Webb before winning the national title. So I think 334 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:15.880 once they got through that, I think they are really scary. Yeah, 335 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:19.440 well see, let's go there with Arizona. I'm not sure you could feel 336 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:23.000 the same thing with Arizona, but I could. Who covered the team where 337 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:26.279 there was a sense of relief in the first round and in the second round. 338 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:30.880 Oh that's right. Yeah, Because you know, I was looking at 339 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:34.960 this, I was noticing that the only double digit seed left is NC State, 340 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:38.359 and I thought, well, last year's tournament was wild. There must 341 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:41.640 have been a lot of them left, but there was only one and left 342 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:48.880 in the sweet sixteen last year, and I think Arizona fans could gloomly guess 343 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:52.079 what it was, but it was Princeton. But yeah, to get past. 344 00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:59.160 I sensed a lot of joy after Arizona got through that second round game. 345 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:02.880 It was clear that there was kind of a relief built in that you 346 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:07.200 could feel. What did What do you see when you see Arizona? You 347 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:10.279 know, we again, we see him every day, so I think we'll 348 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:12.920 have our impressions. But somebody who maybe didn't watch them a lot over the 349 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:15.839 course of the season, what what did you see on Saturday? On Saturday? 350 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:22.319 Yeah, that's the first thing I think about that really strikes me, 351 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:27.279 is like, I wish that in life I was as bold as Caleb love 352 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:33.319 is. I could have really benefited from that during life. And I was 353 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:37.160 thinking about that. I was at the Final four in twenty two in New 354 00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:41.880 Orleans, and we all know how he you know, he loves to shoot, 355 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:48.200 but I had forgotten just how much he loved to shoot. So he 356 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:52.559 didn't have a great percentage in the two games, as you know, but 357 00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:56.799 there's something about him that I'd still I think one on my team, and 358 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:59.640 if he gets hot, then they're gonna they're gonna win. The whole thing. 359 00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:03.200 I keep I'll be at all sixteen teams, but they're certainly capable and 360 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:15.359 Umar Balow. I just am intrigued with and I'm I'm floored that these guys. 361 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:18.440 You know, I was reading his bio and he was over as a 362 00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:23.359 teenager and Mauritius in some tournament and get double double as a teenager, you 363 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:26.839 know. And I was for his national team, Molly, and I was 364 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:33.200 thinking, the journey these guys make is often underestimated, I think as very 365 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:37.640 young men. So with him, yeah, you just might think with him, 366 00:25:38.759 --> 00:25:42.759 who knows, you know, there's there's just scenes. I guess you've 367 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:49.599 seen it close, but there's just growth in leaps. So you're funny because 368 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:56.680 in describing Caleb Love, you sell like Lester Holt to me, he comes 369 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:02.720 with some passion, turns the corner right, he has the gun in his 370 00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:07.680 hand. He loves to shoot. I thought Johnson was terrific on Saturday too. 371 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:14.359 I loved his energy. Yeah, you did, hasensity for scoring. 372 00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:17.519 All he knows how to do, all he wants to do. That was 373 00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:22.839 your description, which is accurate. We'll see what happens. What else we're 374 00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:27.599 going to go to a conversation we had Chuck and I talking about our discussion 375 00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:30.880 about the blue Bloods. We'll do that better Okay, Well, here here's 376 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:33.920 the thing, and you know, you look, you look at the bracket 377 00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:37.920 you just mentioned a second though, there's only one double digit seed in the 378 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:42.000 sweet sixteen, and everybody else is a six seed or higher. There's not 379 00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:45.559 I think we all went into this tournament thinking there were a million teams that 380 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:49.200 were you know, there'll just gonna be total chaos. I don't. I 381 00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:53.559 don't feel like there's been chaos in this tournament this year, and in fact, 382 00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:57.759 a lot less chaos than since I can really remember. You know, 383 00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:02.680 you look west, there's a you know, a one two, four and 384 00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:06.559 six. You look at the at the East and there's a one two, 385 00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:08.880 three and a five. Uh, you got the eleven in the in the 386 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:11.759 South, but with a with a one two and a four, and then 387 00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:17.480 a one two, three and a five in the Midwest. Not the kid. 388 00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:19.240 That's not chaotic in terms of a bracket. You know, I'm a 389 00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:22.599 I'm a chalk guy. So I'm doing okay in a bunch of my pulls 390 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:26.240 because I take chok and chalk is more or less there except for North Carolina 391 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:30.200 State, which I took because I was impressed by what they did last year. 392 00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:33.759 Do you do you, I mean, do you have that sense that 393 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:37.000 it's not as wild as we maybe expected it to be. Yeah, And 394 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:41.279 I've I've had the thought today and I'm not the first person who thought it, 395 00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:45.319 because I saw other people think it out loud, but that maybe it's 396 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:49.240 perfect in that way because it had just these little bubbles of chaos through the 397 00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:56.440 first weekend, and now it's got some pretty stunning matchups and possibilities left up 398 00:27:56.440 --> 00:28:02.839 ahead with all the one feats right for left, all the ones in the 399 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:04.519 yeah, and the twos. I mean, and you look at that. 400 00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:07.440 I think last year's final four was nine, four, five and five. 401 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:14.039 I think I can try to remember. And you know two years ago you 402 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:18.160 had I looked this up. You had four double digit seeds in the sweet 403 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:22.279 sixteen, counting Saint Peter's at fifteen. So, yeah, this is less 404 00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:27.279 chaotic. But you know what, this kind of embodies what I think I've 405 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:32.319 come to think the fans want, which is a lot of we we love 406 00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:34.480 our upsets, but not too many of them. Right, as long as 407 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:37.519 they're not you're you know, you're not involved in them, They're okay, 408 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:42.119 Well that's true. Yeah, So you had it to Detroit what's the storyline 409 00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:47.000 now or did you write your Gonzaga piece already? Well, I did one 410 00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:52.279 from Saturday, but it's that Purdue Gonzaga match on Friday night. Is is 411 00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:56.400 just that's gonna be fun. Whatever you think something's going to beautiful. Often 412 00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:02.440 one side just brounces the other. But the other game Creighton and Tennessee is 413 00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:10.079 really interesting from Tennessee's uh never having gotten to the final four in Creighton almost 414 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:15.920 within an inch getting there last year. So some people I know have Creighton 415 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:19.759 as their sort of, you know, winking rye pick to win the whole 416 00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:23.000 things. So I don't think they are because obviously, as I've stated, 417 00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:27.519 four different teams are going to win the whole thing. But I think that's 418 00:29:27.559 --> 00:29:32.799 a really good game too. A two three, okay, and uh, 419 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:37.079 overall everyone's receding the tournament, right, everybody's have their their thoughts. Where 420 00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:44.440 does Arizona lie in this receding? And you're receding, okay, so I 421 00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:48.839 put them below Gonzaga at this point. You know, so you did one? 422 00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:52.680 Did you do one? No? I didn't. I didn't do one. 423 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:56.160 I'm just kind of looking at I keep yellow legal pad brackets. So 424 00:29:56.160 --> 00:30:00.440 I'm looking at one right now. I guess they're around the middle six or 425 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:07.079 seven. They must not have impressed you on Saturday, because if you're the 426 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:10.359 first time watcher or second time watcher, it's hard to see that they're that 427 00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:17.119 good. But they're that good with not putting that on the resume. I 428 00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:21.880 think the PAC twelve game against Oregon. I was at that tournament too. 429 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:26.400 I saw you there too, and I think that maybe swayed me more than 430 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:30.240 it should have, because if you look at who they're playing, Clemson, 431 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:34.519 which was just wretched in the ACC tournament, lost by twenty one to Boston 432 00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:38.799 College, which then lost to Virginia. So and they're playing really well and 433 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:42.839 they beat a really good team yesterday. So but I think I did let 434 00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:45.839 that influence me a lot. That makes total sense, makes total sense. 435 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:51.759 Well, looking at the DraftKings as Arizona as the fourth favorite. They've got 436 00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:57.440 the Yukon, Yukon, Houston, Purdue, Arizona. So I would put 437 00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:04.359 Yukon and Purdue be Gonzaga now and kill. But yeah, I would put 438 00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:07.440 May the Arizona ahead of Houston. I'd put Iowa stayed up there too. 439 00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:11.720 Boy, that's a thing has looked great. Yeah, I guess Houston swayed 440 00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:15.559 you yesterday. Then yeah, trade me the other way a little bit. 441 00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:21.480 I was. I thought it was incredibly impressive though, to win that game 442 00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:26.559 after suffering that shock at the regulation horn, you know, right right, 443 00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:30.480 Welcome to March. That's just how it is. So we cornered each other 444 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:33.079 Friday. I think it was talking about you know, we do the show. 445 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:37.119 We talked about it and this blue blood blah blah blah that you and 446 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:40.319 I get to. And here's a neutral guy, he's very sensible, right, 447 00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:42.400 So what did you think when I was telling you about Tucson and their 448 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:49.279 fans about thinking the rublet. I thought about it all through the weekend because 449 00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:56.240 I thought about other places that have that kind of feeling. And the first 450 00:31:56.279 --> 00:32:00.880 place that struck me was when I saw Texas A and M and I saw 451 00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:05.000 their yell leaders and all those great traditions they have there and that sort of 452 00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:10.000 self image they have there. And I thought around football mostly, but there's 453 00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:15.559 not the record to match the way they they think of it. And then 454 00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:19.240 I and that brought me but right back to our conversation, and then I 455 00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:25.039 started thinking about all the places where that's true. You know, Texas itself 456 00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:30.319 has won I think it's three football national titles, but you would think it's 457 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:37.240 twelve by the way they carry themselves, you know. And so yeah, 458 00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:40.279 it really got me thinking about how that how that might be Like an important 459 00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:46.160 component of fandom to people, is that pride and that ability to kind of 460 00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:51.519 look at the beause you want to don't want to say fans are looking at 461 00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:53.519 the bright side, but I think they do sometimes. So yeah, so 462 00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:58.119 that is that your nice way of saying that you don't think Arizona's a blue 463 00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:05.119 blood, I would say, just in that realm just below the blue blood 464 00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:08.559 bloods. But that that about no. Final four since O one is a 465 00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:13.240 jarring one. I was, I was. I hadn't given that thought before, 466 00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:16.079 so I was kind of like, whoa, you know, I would 467 00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:20.279 not have expected that. Yeah, No, and that's the that's one of 468 00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:23.359 the criterion have won one title, ninety seven one Final four two thousand and 469 00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:27.640 one, very good program. There's no undenying that or no denying that. 470 00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:31.440 But but blue blood's a certain special word. Okay, do they fall into 471 00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:38.000 a blue blood category if they win this national championship? Yes, I think 472 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:45.279 they they they enter into the zone of the blue Bloods by winning this national 473 00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:47.799 title, I do you know. And it's much like Connecticut has, of 474 00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:53.759 course that four national titles. You're five, right, ninety ninety nine four? 475 00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:58.839 Yeah, fact, so much like they did in the late nineties. 476 00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:04.559 But I think if you had two and then you had even the elite eates 477 00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:08.719 that came up, shy are important. I think there's enough there that, 478 00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:14.639 yeah, you would say not. We always talk about what Kentucky, Kansas, 479 00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:19.400 the Tobacco Road, the two schools that hate each other. There we 480 00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:23.159 talk about I guess U c l A. But they might be a case 481 00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:28.760 of where you can fall out of it sometimes like blue Blood and Meritis down 482 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:35.480 well, Chuck, I appreciate your time. Good seeing you. It's the 483 00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:38.679 great seeing you too in Phoenix when you come to Phoenix. Yes, I'll 484 00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:42.800 be there in Phoenix. Okay, so we'll all be there. I'll introduce 485 00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:45.679 you to Jay all right, okay, okay, beautiful. Appreciate it, 486 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:50.559 Chuck, thank you, thank you, thank you. He sounded like les 487 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:58.559 to hold you had that pretty funny? Did he turned the corner got not 488 00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:01.719 knowing what he'd come against. You're funny. I love that. I love 489 00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:05.320 that. All right, let's take our break, our last break. We'll 490 00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:07.519 be back a little bit and we'll take your calls. Five two zero, 491 00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:10.440 four, one, six, seventy four forty Does Arizona become a blue blood 492 00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:14.079 if they win the national championship? Would love to hear your thoughts on that. 493 00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:15.880 That interesting? That interesting? You know, maybe all right, we'll 494 00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:19.519 be right back. 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The A 536 00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:22.079 Team apply online today at a Team security dot net. Steve Rivera and Jacin 537 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:28.480 Saliz they have their Eye on the Ball on Tucson Sports Station CHET Fox Sports 538 00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:31.119 fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to Eye on the Ball, you know, 539 00:38:31.159 --> 00:38:34.400 Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve. He's Jay. We got a 540 00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:37.519 call, all right, tack this call. Hi. You're on the air 541 00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:40.360 and I on the ball. Yeah, Hi, this is Jill. Had 542 00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:44.079 a question. I've been one to ask you guys for quite some time, 543 00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:49.159 actually since after the Super Bowl. We guys talked a lot about all the 544 00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:52.760 different types of bets that were put on the games. This is just about 545 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:58.199 this is about sports in general. Number one, does this change your approach 546 00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:01.840 or how you view or the enjoyment of watching the game when you have money 547 00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:07.440 on it. That's a good question. I don't do it as much as 548 00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:12.960 Jay does daily or whatever. I you know, well, here for me, 549 00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:16.599 it makes it makes a game more interesting to me, right, a 550 00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:22.119 game that I might not care about. Now NCAA tournament, I love watching 551 00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:23.920 the turn you know, I've watched as much of the tournament now as I 552 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:29.760 watched before. But you know, if I've got five bucks on a game, 553 00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:31.360 it's like, you know, I get tense at the end of the 554 00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:35.119 game if it's you know, if it's depending on what's gonna happen. So 555 00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:39.559 it for certain things. I mean, like I might watch a college football 556 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:44.800 game that I might not otherwise watch because I put ten bucks on it. 557 00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:50.599 But I've you know, but I'm a I think I'm a sports fan that 558 00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:52.400 likes to watch anything, you know, more or less that's for me, 559 00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:57.079 not so much. Let me give you though, example of what happened Thursday 560 00:39:57.159 --> 00:39:59.960 night was the Sanford Kansas game. I don't know if you guys watched it, 561 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:02.239 but it was a fantastic game, and I'm thinking, hey, you 562 00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:05.639 know what, In fact, I've covered a few of these games. There 563 00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:07.960 was only losing in the last second like that, and I'm thinking it totally 564 00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:12.239 feels totally different as an observer than a guy that you got to write about 565 00:40:12.239 --> 00:40:15.239 it, right, because I'm not involved in terms of allowing to how to 566 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:17.320 think about writing it. But I was enjoying it because it was such a 567 00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:21.880 great game and Sanford had a chance to beat him. Yeah. So now 568 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:24.480 ye to your point about the Super Bowl. I had almost stopped watching the 569 00:40:24.519 --> 00:40:30.719 Super Bowl until we started gambling on it, because yeah, I mean seriously, 570 00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:36.320 you know, I've told the story where that Super Bowl where Scott Norwood 571 00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:39.960 missed the miss the field goal for Buffalo. We were actually having a Super 572 00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:44.639 Bowl party, but we were playing poker during the game. We stopped watching 573 00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:45.800 the game and then all of a sudden, I looked at the team and 574 00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:47.519 I said, wait a minute, they're about to take a field goal to 575 00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:51.599 win the game. And we started and we watched that he missed the field 576 00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:53.199 goal. We went back to our poker game. So, you know, 577 00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:59.559 it just depends. It just depends. Like I said, I'll watch n 578 00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:01.440 Cuba tournament start to finish every day, and that's you know, that's why 579 00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:04.880 I did over the weekend. I'm kind of spent from that. So it 580 00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:07.480 just depends on what it is. I got it. Yeah, that makes 581 00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:12.280 sense, all right, Thanks for thanks that question. I appreciate the call, 582 00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:15.199 Thanks for listening. Appreciate it. No, he makes a good point. 583 00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:19.239 I mean, like I had something on Houston last night and they were 584 00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:22.079 well you said minus eight and a half. Oh yeah, and they were 585 00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:24.280 covering. They were up thirteen, you know, kind of get up a 586 00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:28.559 minutees like, with just about three or four minutes left up by thirteen, 587 00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:30.920 I'm like, all right, I got this. And then all of a 588 00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:32.480 sudden, here comes here comes Texas saying, am, Well, the funny 589 00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:36.400 thing about it is I was watching it. Now there this fantastic game, 590 00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:40.360 miracle happens, and uh there was thirteen you said thirteen they were up to 591 00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:44.119 Yeah, with probably much more like four minutes. Okay, So then I'm 592 00:41:44.119 --> 00:41:46.559 thinking, well, this was happening. If this is a lot like Arizona 593 00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:50.880 Illinois, Yeah, they had a huge lead. It was comfortable, and 594 00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:52.320 you're thinking, okay, they got this, make the phote calls were moving 595 00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:55.639 on, and then you don't right, and then you're not gonna hear the 596 00:41:55.679 --> 00:42:00.440 same kind of narrative with Houston when you know they wanted the game, but 597 00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:04.800 had it happened, who knows? Because Arizona had the Illinois game locked. 598 00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:07.039 Yeah locked, but you know, even but two but I don't even have 599 00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:09.159 to have something on you. If I know a line, all right, 600 00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:14.039 and I'm watching a game and I know what a line is, I'm just 601 00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:16.360 I'm interested to see what's gonna happen. And I can guarantee you Jay, 602 00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:21.320 and you're not gonna be tell me I'm wrong. When they made the when 603 00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:24.280 they started covering with three points and with miniature thinking, I hope you guys 604 00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:28.440 lose. You're that three you're saying, yeah, oh yeah, well yeah. 605 00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:30.320 Once they knew they weren't going to cover, I was rooting. I 606 00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:32.960 was rooting for Texas, A huge Texas A and M fan last night once 607 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:36.559 I realized they weren't going to cover, because one, get them out of 608 00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:37.679 get them the hell out of the tournament too. If you can't, if 609 00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:40.599 you can't cover that, get the hell out, hit the road, get 610 00:42:40.639 --> 00:42:45.199 the road. But you know, and but and I love to see funny 611 00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:46.559 things that will happen like one of them that that happened to me, and 612 00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:52.639 it hit me the other night I had I had an under Saint Peter's. 613 00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:57.199 I can't remember who they were playing, all right, I have to know 614 00:42:57.280 --> 00:42:59.360 you can't remember that. I can't. I can't remember who they were playing. 615 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:02.000 But I had Saint Peter. I had the under and it was I 616 00:43:02.039 --> 00:43:07.559 don't even remember what the number was. And it's close, it's coming up 617 00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:09.159 right on it. I mean, I need, I need this game to 618 00:43:09.320 --> 00:43:14.920 end right now. And at Saint the game's over. Basically, Saint Peter's 619 00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:19.880 getting killed. They substitute Saint Peter substitutes their starters, all right, gets 620 00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:22.800 it, gets the guys out of the game. One of their starters, 621 00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:27.639 as he's walking off the court miles off to one of the players on the 622 00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:31.239 other team. They tee him up and the two free throws put it over. 623 00:43:32.519 --> 00:43:37.440 Yes, No, was that a bad beat? Yeah? Whatever. 624 00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:40.400 I think the number was like one thirty and a half or whatever, and 625 00:43:40.400 --> 00:43:45.079 it ended at one thirty one or one third without those free throws. The 626 00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:52.440 undercovers was game No, it was Saint Peter's and somebody No. No in 627 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:57.440 the tournament No, this was this was NCAA tournament Saint Peter's played. Uh 628 00:43:58.719 --> 00:44:01.000 yeah, no is gonna comes up and give like Saint Peter's basketball as the 629 00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:06.280 women's team. So the schedule where they see Tennessee, it was it was 630 00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:08.400 it was Tennessee. Why would he pop off? He's getting his butt kicked. 631 00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:12.840 That's what I'm saying. Just get off the court. And then I'm 632 00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:15.800 yelling at the ref too, like why why was it? Why was it 633 00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:21.199 necessary to call that technical foul right there? Could he possibly just say it 634 00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:23.880 was just completely unnecessary. I have to buy a new TV. No, 635 00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:27.719 no, I don't throw things. I'm just like, I kind of have 636 00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:30.440 to do it quietly, because you know, if you don't want my wife 637 00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:31.679 to know that I've got money on that game. You just listened to the 638 00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:35.159 show. Maybe yeah, So okay, I'm looking at the score. The 639 00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:38.719 score ended up at at one thirty two, and I think it was one 640 00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:44.119 thirty and a half, and so the two free throws, you know, 641 00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:47.239 put it? Oh yeah, they let's go back to let's go back to 642 00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:53.639 uh Chuck's observation, one win one title moves him into the because now you 643 00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:59.920 got two championships. Yeah yeah, but twenty some years yeah, twenty seven, 644 00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:01.880 gives a crap? How long ago it was, Deve. People don't 645 00:45:01.880 --> 00:45:05.800 care how long ago it was. GUCLA one one. You had a hard 646 00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:10.960 time putting Yukon in there with five because yukon' because Yukon hadn't Yukon hadn't been 647 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:15.760 doing it for as long. That's what I've been doing. I know they're 648 00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:21.000 blue they're blue blood. Yeah, they're in. They're in Okay Because to 649 00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:24.599 me, Yukon came along in the nineties, okay, and Arizona came in 650 00:45:24.599 --> 00:45:29.800 in the eighties. There's a different there's a line right there. At nineteen 651 00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:36.480 ninety, Taani is not in trouble. But but Yukon has had some bad 652 00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:39.280 years in there too. Arizona hasn't had really bad years. They were they 653 00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:47.519 were propriation, they were Stop, you're just making crap up. They're not, 654 00:45:47.880 --> 00:45:52.559 I know, but you're reaching for reasons. They're legit reasons. You're 655 00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:58.400 Look, but I don't know. I mean how many you know, No, 656 00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:01.400 I don't know. We'll see. Look, Yukon's you know, you 657 00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:05.000 can't argue about you cannot not being a blue blood. They are. They 658 00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:09.360 absolutly. They won so many championships one for sure. I think, I 659 00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:15.360 don't know, it's close. I mean maybe if they win two in the 660 00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:21.559 next five years, Now Arizona's a blue blood something like that, because then 661 00:46:21.559 --> 00:46:24.199 they would have three. Let's say, when Tommy wins a couple in the 662 00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:29.280 next five years. Yeah, if he does that, it's fantastic. Yeah, 663 00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:34.400 he'll become the new mayor of Hotel. Yeah, party already could be 664 00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:39.880 who do certainly close, Maybe he should be, who knows, but he 665 00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:44.639 was. He was good. I love how he answers the questions on the 666 00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:47.800 podium because he's just did you read my story on him? Just a simple 667 00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:52.159 dude, but a simple smart dude, like calculating. Well, he knows, 668 00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:59.119 he knows what he wants to say, and it's there's but he still 669 00:46:59.159 --> 00:47:01.400 answers the questions. Not Sean. He's not shut. Sean says. If 670 00:47:01.400 --> 00:47:05.960 Sean says that, there's no purpose for him saying if you ask Sean, 671 00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:08.000 if you ask Sean, Sean is the sky blue? He would talk about 672 00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:10.159 the grass. You talk about the grass, and then he basually say, 673 00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:14.079 yeah, maybe blue, but that you know at the end. But Tommy 674 00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:15.599 kind of says, well, we know you have an agenda, then you're 675 00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:19.960 gonna have something to write about. And then he answers the question he answered, 676 00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:22.400 which is fantastic because he knows exactly where you're going. He doesn't want 677 00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:25.000 to go there, but you'll go there anyway because you're asking the question. 678 00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:30.559 I like him, and I've liked him from the start, but you know, 679 00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:34.119 I see him in those you know, and the and in these press 680 00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:37.480 conferences. He's he's dealing with national media as opposed to when we see him 681 00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:42.800 and it's just us. Yeah, right, he seems he's just he just 682 00:47:42.840 --> 00:47:46.760 comes across as incredibly likable. Yeah, so incredibly likable that you say, 683 00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:51.039 I really, you know, if you're an immediate person, doesn't really know 684 00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:52.119 me to go, I like this guy. Yeah, yeah, And that's 685 00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:54.239 kind of the gist of my story, or at least I tried to make 686 00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:58.639 it. His parents were great in terms of the stories they told me, 687 00:47:59.440 --> 00:48:04.400 but just a normal dude who kind of just loves to play watch coach basketball. 688 00:48:04.440 --> 00:48:06.960 Yeah, yeah, you know, And I mean the whole story he 689 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:09.079 told about him and Dan Monson, you know how he you know, he 690 00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:13.320 gave him his chance, but then he never even coached with Monson, you 691 00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:15.400 know. And then they went out to dinner and Monster told me he was 692 00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:20.559 putting in the Princeton offense. He said, he said something like, well, 693 00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:23.079 I'm glad you're putting in some offense, you know. Stuff. It 694 00:48:23.119 --> 00:48:29.320 tells me that he's he's kind of a guy who's just uh as low key, 695 00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:32.400 not as low key, but as unstressful as you can be in a 696 00:48:32.480 --> 00:48:36.320 very stressful job. Yeah, well, at least that's how it appears in 697 00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:38.639 public. Uh. He might have a different thing behind the scenes, but 698 00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:42.719 very much so, very just a normal dude. Yeah. You know, 699 00:48:43.119 --> 00:48:45.760 well you said to me, he's They say he's an incredible competitor. Yeah, 700 00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:49.360 and I could see, you know, but to be in this profession, 701 00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:51.880 you have to be an incredible competitor, to be at this level. 702 00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:55.119 Yeah, because if you're not, then you're you're you know, you can't 703 00:48:55.320 --> 00:48:59.840 you can't survive this. So even if and you have to have a certain 704 00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:02.280 there's a point of being a good guy and being a jerk, right, 705 00:49:02.280 --> 00:49:05.480 you have to find that fine line. Yeah, because you're a good guy. 706 00:49:05.519 --> 00:49:07.079 You don't win games. Guys don't play hard for you because I don't 707 00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:08.960 think they have to. And we know those guys. Yeah, you and 708 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:13.440 I know those guys, and you can't be such a such a jerk where 709 00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:15.800 you think, God, would you want to play for him? Yeah, 710 00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:17.039 So there's a fine line in there. And we know those guys too, 711 00:49:17.159 --> 00:49:22.360 exactly, we do, We absolutely do. So, all right, we 712 00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:23.719 got about four minutes, Steven, I want to bring this up. Okay, 713 00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:30.119 I'm tired for first place in our bracket pool the world, everybody, 714 00:49:30.199 --> 00:49:34.880 I'm sorry to tell you the world is ending soon. If you have your 715 00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:37.880 mens to make, make them today, tell the people you got them. 716 00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:43.599 Well, if this guy's not falling. We had twenty eight entries, but 717 00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:46.760 really only twenty four because there were four entries where the bracket entry did not 718 00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:52.760 get finished, so there were the completed entries. There's there's twenty four. 719 00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:59.559 Who do you have winning it? I have to look at it because I've 720 00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:04.480 done some no wonder I have, Oh I have I have Yukon and Purdue 721 00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:07.960 in the final with Yukon winning it. I have. I have Arizona in 722 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:14.239 the final four. I don't know why it's got Arizona marked off as having 723 00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:19.079 lost because they haven't lost. This is really stupid. We're not gonna use 724 00:50:19.199 --> 00:50:22.800 these guys next year. It's got Arizona crossed off as having lost. But 725 00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:25.039 anyways, I've got Arizona in the final four, which so the credibility of 726 00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:29.440 this. We got to check the leaderboard, you know what. We may 727 00:50:29.480 --> 00:50:34.199 have to do these standings manually. And I've got Duke and Purdue on the 728 00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:36.960 other side, and then I got Purdue and Yukon in the final. It's 729 00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:42.360 a it's a name tournament now it's well, yeah, well look at it, 730 00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:44.239 you know again. You know we were talking to Chuck. I was 731 00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:47.599 looking at the bracket itself. You got Yukon Ia State. Iowa State's really 732 00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:51.519 good. Yukon needs to watch out. They are They are better than people 733 00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:55.960 know. Illinois, North Carolina, Alabama, and Arizona in the west along 734 00:50:57.000 --> 00:50:59.960 with Clemson. You've got San Diego State in the East, and you've got 735 00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:01.199 you know, A one, A one, two, and a four in 736 00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:06.480 the in the south where you got Houston, Marquette and Duke, right, 737 00:51:06.679 --> 00:51:08.039 Houston Duke. That's gonna be I think that's gonna be really good game. 738 00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:14.760 I think Marquette might get Duke. Well first, Duke's uh, Duke Houston 739 00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:17.920 gotta play each other. Who's he Houston plays Duke. Marquete's got North Carolina 740 00:51:17.960 --> 00:51:22.519 State? Oh okay, yes, the duke in Houston play first. Yes, 741 00:51:22.639 --> 00:51:27.639 Oh, Houston's gonna kill I don't agree he's gonna kill I I you 742 00:51:27.679 --> 00:51:30.960 know, I don't agree. They won't be physical, they won't be they're 743 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:34.920 gonna get man handled. Where's this? When's this Thursday or Friday? Uh? 744 00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:37.840 I hope it's not Thursday. It's Friday. Good because I can watch 745 00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:40.519 Friday and then and then on the other side, you've got a one, 746 00:51:40.559 --> 00:51:45.440 two and a three Purdue Tennessee and in Creighton and the you have Gonzaga in 747 00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:51.280 there. So it's I I if you're if you're somebody who just likes to 748 00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:54.840 see a tournament where everybody's got a shot, this is a great Sweet sixteen 749 00:51:54.960 --> 00:52:00.639 because there's no Saint Peter's, there's no Princeton, and there's no you know, 750 00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:05.280 Fairleigh Dickens. I mean, all these teams are legit teams. And 751 00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:07.559 I know people love the upsets and stuff like that. But as everybody says, 752 00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:10.480 the upsets are great until you get to the Sweet sixteen. You got 753 00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:15.199 a crappy matchup. You know. You know, somebody somebody brought up the 754 00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:21.760 fact had had what what game was it? Had Oakland? Had Oakland Beaten? 755 00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:27.960 Uh? Who did Oakland play? Yeah? Yesterday they lost, you 756 00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:30.679 know, after upset and it was a good game. Yeah, but you 757 00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:31.920 know, had Oakland won that game, now you got Oakland in the Sweet 758 00:52:31.960 --> 00:52:36.639 sixteen. They don't, they don't, they don't belong there. Yeah, 759 00:52:36.760 --> 00:52:38.239 it was fun. Last year was fun. Yeah, because you don't believe 760 00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:43.400 that's happening, and it's happening. Oh, it was Oakland against Oakland. 761 00:52:43.719 --> 00:52:45.920 Oakland lost to North Carolina State. I'd rather have North Carolina State in there. 762 00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:49.800 North Carolina State and you don't know much about North Carolina except for that 763 00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:52.239 big guy, the big and the run that they made. I do wish 764 00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:55.760 Indiana State would have made it because you would have been able to see the 765 00:52:55.760 --> 00:53:07.159 goggles. Yeah. Yeah, just Kareem abdul Jabbarareem kareamream Cream Cream Dream Abdul 766 00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:15.000 Jabbarabbar. Yes, yes, nickname. He didn't give himself the nickame. 767 00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:17.519 All right, So Steve is going to be gone the rest of the week. 768 00:53:19.360 --> 00:53:21.760 Week, well, but you're gonna be on the phone with us, 769 00:53:21.800 --> 00:53:24.039 so we're gonna talk to you. You can't you can run, but you 770 00:53:24.119 --> 00:53:30.519 can't hide. Haven't figured out if we're bringing in some some uh guest hosts. 771 00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:32.840 We've got some good stuff coming up over the next couple of days, 772 00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:36.480 so be sure to follow us. And we're not going to do a show 773 00:53:36.559 --> 00:53:38.280 on Thursday, so you don't have to, you know, listen to us 774 00:53:38.320 --> 00:53:40.559 while the game is on. So all right, we'll see you all tomorrow.