WEBVTT 1 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:44.359 Well, hello, good eating everybody. It's Tuesday, March twenty six, 2 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:50.320 twenty twenty four. Welcome to the only show about Spartan Dogs hosted by Spartan 3 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:55.000 Dogs. This is Spartan MSU and I'm the host, Jason Strayhorn, along 4 00:00:55.039 --> 00:01:04.079 with my co hosts Cedric Swervings. If this is your first time, we 5 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:07.879 want to welcome you to the show. We're gonna be in for a little 6 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:10.280 treat today. If this is not your first time, thank you for your 7 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:14.760 loyalty. We really appreciate you all more than you know. And please don't 8 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.200 forget to click that life and Subscribe button. It helps us a whole lot. 9 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:21.079 We just need that and don't forget. You know, hey, look 10 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:26.400 head over to this is parta dot com for any of your year. Yes, 11 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:29.680 sir, you know, so you'd be like swerve about he got something 12 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:33.959 coming. You can be close to me. It can't beat me. You 13 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:38.560 can be hey scrabb watching that intro, Man, I love the intro, 14 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:42.560 but you know what, Yeah about that turf we had to play on? 15 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.680 Man, that was nasty, wasn't that? Yeah? I did look at 16 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:52.519 the night turf grands they got. Now then I can't wait till we have 17 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:53.959 plas to go on because I want to ask them, how did you run 18 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:57.519 rats in them big ass rebox shoes we had to play in? Man, 19 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:02.239 God, this is what I'm saying. We set the foundation for this new 20 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:07.199 generation. Hold on, you heard that, foundation for the new generation. 21 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:13.039 Bars? You've got bars, straight bars. And then we got to call 22 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.960 up Diddy. Maybe not maybe you call him. This is too soon. 23 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:23.240 I don't know what's going on with that as of right now, because but 24 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:27.439 look, hey man, yeah, that that that is something I do get 25 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:30.360 a little jealous of. I think when I see that turf that they have 26 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:36.319 now versus what we that's ship man. I mean, did your joints used 27 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:39.360 to hurt? Didn't you? Afterwards? After we played a practice on that? 28 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:42.919 You know that The worst part though, when you got when you got 29 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:46.879 skinned up, oh man, and that that that red colored beater, Oh 30 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:51.439 that was. Now. These guys they got a little sleeve they put on 31 00:02:51.479 --> 00:03:00.479 the protected we are that. Hey, you knew about them little skid skinning 32 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:06.840 things on you when you would get in the shower hollering won't not just that 33 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:10.639 though, straight Because people don't understand the locker room. Remember our locker it 34 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:15.360 was like high school lockers. Yeah. Now they got the chair that go 35 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:19.400 back and they put their head up. They got to that. You can 36 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:23.039 put your hammer in, somebody can warm your helmet, your shoulder pass. 37 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:30.319 Come on, man, they living. Man. I don't like it. 38 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:35.560 I ain't happy for him. You don't like the fac they do like that. 39 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:42.400 It's too needy and they still want this and complaining about that. Now, 40 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:45.719 that is a big problem. You can't have no entitlement, you know 41 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:47.919 when they get it like they got it, man, because they we had 42 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:51.840 and I mean towards the end, they ended up getting the new locker. 43 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:55.240 I mean, but but does the generation before us feel like that about us? 44 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:03.159 That's the thing straight we had to take. They had me down in 45 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:09.719 the stadium. This generation. Yeah, our generation is still bumping gun with 46 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:15.280 the old the generation before us. Yeah, but this new generation everything is 47 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:18.360 handed to him. Ah, give it to them. No, we had 48 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:24.839 to grind. Yeah, oh yeah, well everybody got a choice to grind, 49 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.759 you know. I mean from parental standpoint, I want to know if 50 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:31.920 the new coach is gonna walk from Kellogg's or they gonna get to push scooters. 51 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:40.680 Yeah, but I need to talk to code y'all listen where y'all gonna 52 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:45.480 walk? Or are y'all too cute to walk? Push scooters? The ones 53 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:50.360 that's all over campus happening? Why not straight? They got everything else? 54 00:04:51.759 --> 00:05:00.720 Right, that's a deal they get, they got everything else. I gotta 55 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:03.800 walk to the Stadiumine, I would transfer, you're gonna do what? What? 56 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:10.399 Yeah? I can't heart kids saying that. Oh you know what. 57 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:12.480 I don't want to walk to this. I want to be like Clemson, 58 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:15.519 get off the bus and and just go right there. Then we took pride 59 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:21.079 in that walk. Yeah we did, Yes, I remember we used to 60 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:26.079 walk. It's always this lady man. She always made the chocolate chip cookie. 61 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:30.000 Yeah, she would be righted there giving him chocolate chip cookie. I 62 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:34.959 missed that lady. She was so nice. She was nice. I remember 63 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:39.040 that my man that used to rub the ball had the ball out there the 64 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:42.120 whole night, right. Yeah. I still see him from time to time 65 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:45.399 in the parking lot. Yeah, he out there. But you know what 66 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:49.319 I thought, You know, I thought that was Now. I ain't gonna 67 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:55.759 say clever, but remember is Michigan week, right, and how people used 68 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:59.680 to sleep out there by the the spartan. I couldn't believe that, man, 69 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:02.839 Why I just couldn't. You know what I'm saying. I mean that 70 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:10.120 take a whole lot of pride within your school and and love within your school 71 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:15.839 to sleep outside the statue and knowing that it's rivalry week, that somebody will 72 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:17.360 do, you know what I mean, Just like down in Alabama when dude 73 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:21.240 took the tree from Marben but the tree down, dude went to jail, 74 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:27.240 you know what I'm saying. So they killed a year old tree something like 75 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:30.199 that. Yeah, I saw that as a freshman man and people out there, 76 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:34.879 I was I was amazed. Man. That makes you feel a sense 77 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:39.439 of pride, you know, coming from Miami, Florida, is that is 78 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:42.560 that that was something that was foreign to you. Right to see somebody that 79 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:46.560 had that kind of pride, right, and it changed my mindset because at 80 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:47.319 the time, you know, I'm a freshman. I don't really know. 81 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:50.560 Now I'm just really just doing me. But to see that, I saw 82 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:55.439 that, like you know what, that's pride in your school. Yeah, 83 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:58.399 you know what I'm saying. Some but just a fan, just a regular 84 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:01.399 students getting together and the spartan the mask here. I mean, he led 85 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:03.720 the way, but to see those people out there doing that. Man, 86 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:08.199 I just thought that was that was amazing. I mean, and then I 87 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:11.439 know, you know because you obviously talked to my team a lot, and 88 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:14.560 you know this just from being around the program. I mean, they stand 89 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:19.480 outside and they camp outside for Spartan basketball tickets. Rather the students do. 90 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:26.319 The ninety four goes out there and sleeps with them every year easily. I 91 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:30.199 mean, I can see is doing that. Man's down the coach. Man, 92 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:32.480 Yeah, is that something you would do? Man? Would you sleep 93 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:48.120 outside with the with the fans? Hm? Did you get stuck? Uh? 94 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:56.040 You was gonna have to breathe? I guess not. That's a note. 95 00:07:56.839 --> 00:07:59.839 I can't do it. I can't do it now. I'm not no 96 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:05.519 woods outside type of person. Put me in the house. I see the 97 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.240 thing. When y'all come inside, I ain't doing this. I'm doing this. 98 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:13.319 Come on inside with me. I'll be here wait, you know you 99 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:16.639 man, Hey, man, look, we got to get into it because 100 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:22.040 it happened over the weekends where you both Mischigan State men's and women's drank number 101 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:26.959 nine went into a battle against North Carolina. You know, the men in 102 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.560 the second round, the girls and the women in the first and the men 103 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:35.159 lose a tough one man eighty five to sixty nine. And the women they 104 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:39.000 dropped their game. It was a close one there because they came back within 105 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:41.039 I think it was two points at the end of the game, but lose 106 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:48.960 to North Carolina fifty nine to fifty six. Swear, what do you think 107 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:50.759 about? You know, the men's game. First of all, Like when 108 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:54.840 you look back at that game, I know everybody was on text, message 109 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:58.279 groups, chats, all kinds of stuff during that game, if not literally 110 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:01.600 in person on some stuff. But you know, how did you watch the 111 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:05.320 game? First of all? And then you know, how'd you feel the 112 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:09.200 win? So when I watched my basketball game straight and especially inzo time, 113 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:13.360 I'm by myself, right, and I'm gonna tell you this. We went 114 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:16.600 four minutes and thirty four minutes and thirty something second without get in a basket 115 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:22.799 in the first half. Yeah, we was up right, So four minutes 116 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:26.399 without get in the basket, right, And then also just watching the game, 117 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:31.759 North Carolina got some easy layers back door, right, and then in 118 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.600 the second half, the big the bigs out HUSSI bigs, Yeah, you 119 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:39.399 know what I mean. And then they made the shots. They they got 120 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:41.840 hot from three point in the second half and they got they kept when they 121 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:46.440 got the momentum. It was over when they came back. But you know, 122 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:52.159 twenty five big Duke pad the big first half. The guard was hort 123 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:56.679 at the beginning. You know, we just we just can't sustained and finished. 124 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:00.879 I know, you look, you look at the Spartans, you know, 125 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:03.600 and they're they're total. When you look at the box, when Tyson 126 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:07.279 Walker had twenty four, as he normally does in Elite, seemed like he 127 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:09.879 bought. I mean he had, he had seventeen points and nine boards. 128 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:13.399 It's just that, you know, there was some things now aj holguard, 129 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:18.679 point guard that you count on. It's just tough for the senior in that 130 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:20.080 moment. I mean, he comes away with three points and three boards on 131 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:24.639 the day on the evening, and it's just you know, not to single 132 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:28.799 anybody out, but it just seemed like this team, you know, had 133 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:31.919 a lot of obviously top five ranked team in the preseason, but kind of 134 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:37.399 underperformed, you know, during the season because of like you just described, 135 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:41.200 not hitting shots and then you know, defensive breakdowns at times. But when 136 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:46.000 you look at the future and guys players like Xavier Booker. I mean, 137 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:50.360 what do you think about Michigan State as they kind of regroup from this and 138 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:54.240 try to get back to where they typically go to go deeper into next year's 139 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:58.679 tournament run, you know, even at basketball as a whole, like right 140 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.000 now, like if you watched the draft this year, I don't see a 141 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:07.000 big name that had a big college season this year for me to say, 142 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:11.519 Okay, he came from powerhouse school, or I can't name five or ten 143 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:16.960 like for show lottery picks. So what I'm saying is I think basketball as 144 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.840 you see like Kentucky getting knocked out, I just think it as a whole, 145 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.679 is even you know what I mean, it's really no you know, 146 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:31.480 even though Duke may have the most five stars them in Kentucky, but those 147 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:35.639 guys not proven yet. So the answer your question is, I'm hoping that 148 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:37.639 the young guys that we got, you know, because there's three ways you 149 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:41.240 learn in life, watching, listening, and doing. If those guys sat 150 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:45.320 back on that bench of the lack of playing time that they have, did 151 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:50.519 they did they did they really learn something to come out and perform and take 152 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:52.919 them from a you know, just not a thirty two to a sixteen or 153 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:56.480 to a finite or whatever it may be. That's gonna be the key, 154 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:01.519 right, you know what I mean? Did a young guys learn for anything 155 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:07.759 from this past season where we can stay in the top five or stay in 156 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:11.759 the top ten, battle into big ten comforts and then get ready for the 157 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:16.559 tournament and fight. Yeah, we do we have that superstar player. I 158 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:20.480 don't think we have it, you know, so as a group, we 159 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:24.360 gotta find a way to get it done collectively. And why do you think 160 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:28.679 that is you have a program in Mischigan State, especially with a Hall of 161 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:31.679 Fame coach like Tom Izzo, you would think that Misigan State can get any 162 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:35.840 player they want. Like It's just you know, there's been a lot of 163 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:39.799 talk about Izo and his reluctions getting to the portal to find pieces, you 164 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:45.080 know, since he did that with both Joey Hawser and Tyson Walker. But 165 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:48.960 now, you know, do you think that he says, all right, 166 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:52.639 look, you know it's time for me to go portal hopping or shopping or 167 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:56.039 is it something that you know, maybe he needs to change the style of 168 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:58.919 player that he's looking for. I mean, you know, you have fear 169 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.080 that's coming back next year after the injury to shoot being shot. But you 170 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:07.440 know there's there's some pieces there, but you know, you're always looking for 171 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:09.039 that one thing, and everybody wants to know about the big man s. 172 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:16.600 You gotta go into portal, yeah, because it's just like I saw a 173 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.639 sports analysts say the other day, these freshmen's not getting it done. They're 174 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:24.240 not they're not they're not ready to compete in basketball with these guys that's juniors 175 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:28.799 and seniors, even red shirt and juniors and seniors, you know what I 176 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:31.840 mean, guys that been there. So you're not getting the elite guys. 177 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:35.720 So if I'm not getting the elite guy, that freshman that's ready to come 178 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:37.440 in and do it, now, I gotta go in the port and hope 179 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:41.080 I can get a guy that because if you're in the portal, you get 180 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:43.519 a chance. Now. You got to be hungry. That's how coach is 181 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:48.159 thinking. You know the reason why you're in the portal, you know what 182 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:50.559 I mean. So if I get you out that portal, you know you 183 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:54.320 gotta be hungry. Yeah, you got to play with some kind of desire 184 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:58.840 and determination. That's different because it's a reason why you was there. You 185 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:01.519 know what I mean, All of it ain't money. Some people just busted 186 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:05.399 out because you're either not playing or you weren't good enough or whatever it may 187 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:07.840 be. You know what I mean. Everything ain't in the portal, not 188 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:13.200 by money. You know I'm saying being in the portal, I'm gonna give 189 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:16.360 it a shot. Oh they ain't played me or I ain't get the opportunity 190 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.480 is a reason even when we go if if coach go into portal, we 191 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:26.519 gotta find the right guy out of the port Yeah, good point, good 192 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:31.679 point. Yeah you need to find So yeah, it's a Goales portal shopping 193 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:35.320 this year to try to get to where he was this year. You know, 194 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:37.320 I think that you know, when you look at the overall body of 195 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:41.000 work, you know, the consistency out of time and so it's just something 196 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:46.399 that's amazing. You know, twenty six years in a row, even in 197 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:50.200 a down yere like this, it's still not what I mean. This ain't 198 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:54.480 bad, you know what I mean. Twenty wins and some great acquired one 199 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:56.879 victories along in the year. But you know, obviously I always want more. 200 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:01.200 But what do you say about time and his ability to adapt and state 201 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:07.519 consistent through over a quarter century. That's the key word, mister consistency, 202 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:11.559 you know what I mean. He find a way, you know, he 203 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:16.919 gets those guys that play the type of ball that he wants to be played, 204 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:20.200 you know, and and it just so happened. You gotta think, 205 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:22.399 you know, but you also got to have the Jimmy and the Joels. 206 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:24.960 Now, you gotta have them. You know. I can come in, 207 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:28.399 I can I can preach discipline, I can preach toughness, I can show 208 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.120 you the excess and O. But if you ain't got it in your heart 209 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:33.919 to go out there and compete, hey, well it's gonna be alone. 210 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.759 It's gonna be a long season. And that's why we had the ups and 211 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:41.639 down because we really have that that dog, that dog that you can just 212 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:46.159 count on and either lift some people up, make that big play, or 213 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:50.159 just be that player that you go to. You know. That's why you 214 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:56.279 gotta do it by committee. And we got to find those pieces. Yeah, 215 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:00.639 like the championship team, I mean you were there two thousand, you 216 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:06.039 knew the players very well, and you talk about it a lot. What 217 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:10.320 you talk about there's no star players there. I mean, there was a 218 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:12.039 lot of stars on that team. You know it was Yeah, he had 219 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:15.360 some great players who played a long time in the NBA. But but you 220 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:18.879 know, it seemed like the whole team had its own little, you know, 221 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:23.039 piece of stardom if you would, especially like the first six players. 222 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:26.279 But you got to think with that team, you had a leader within my 223 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:30.879 team Cleves. Yeah, like a born leader who played with passion, you 224 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:34.120 know, who pull that guy inside and get in his face, you know 225 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:37.320 what I mean. And at the end of the day, they respected him, 226 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:40.759 and he did. He earned it respect. He played with his heart, 227 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:42.799 He played hurt, you know what I mean. He talked trash, 228 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:47.799 he practiced hard. So if you got a guy like that and he's speaking 229 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:51.080 the right stuff and he's showing you too shit, I'm gonna follow that. 230 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:55.480 And everything just came into place. And they had the right pieces, you 231 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:57.120 know what I mean. You had a Peterson in in Nicole. You had 232 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:00.919 to down the guys the threes in the for and then you had the general 233 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:06.160 get in there and also hit his shot too, and then to play some 234 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:08.559 defense. But then if you did play defensive, you got somebody to get 235 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:12.160 in your face. I don't see that. I don't see that when we 236 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:15.519 call a time out, that guy that's getting the team together, and I 237 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:19.039 don't see it. So if you ain't got no leader, you got a 238 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:23.799 bunch of followers following each other, you're gonna be out like we was out. 239 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:30.920 Yeah, hey, that's great points where you know, Hey, listen, 240 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:33.359 that was a great team a moment in time. You talk. Everybody 241 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:37.240 talks about the flint stones and everything, but it was different. You know. 242 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:40.640 I didn't realize like how long it was going to be until you saw 243 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:45.400 a team like that. You know, I didn't realize how rare that collective 244 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:48.480 group of guys really really was. And I'm glad to have been able to 245 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:55.799 witness that, but also happy to know those guys, you know, swerve, 246 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:57.599 I'm gonna tell you that's the key there. Brother, I'm telling you, 247 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:00.680 I look back at it. Man, you look at a guy like 248 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.359 you know, I'm always saying, Mateen Klee because he was the general. 249 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:07.440 You know, he was the guy that put put the people in the right 250 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:08.839 place, and he got the ball to the people in the right places, 251 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:12.319 and they followed him. Yeah, I mean, but he was the guy 252 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:15.599 to be followed because, like I said, he played with heart you know, 253 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:18.960 he talked his talk and he backed it up and he did it. 254 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:23.319 He was consistent with it. So you had a general on the floor that 255 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:27.000 was leading away. And then we had the pieces in places. You know 256 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:30.359 what I'm saying them guys, just oh, if you didn't, if you 257 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:33.240 didn't, if you didn't beat them at the beginning, by twenty, just 258 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:36.119 take the game away. You was in trouble. Yeah, he was gonna 259 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:38.799 find a way to win. And then you gotta think since then we haven't 260 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:42.279 won. We knocked on the door Final four here, you know, lead 261 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:47.519 aid this nibboom boom. But while we never got over the hump since mateen 262 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:53.119 Cleeve's we find cle But we had a three, we had a full, 263 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:59.640 we had the Valentine's, we had where but we never found us another mateen 264 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:03.640 clee mm hm. Think about it. Those are hard to find, you 265 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:07.000 know what I'm saying. Think about We done had some big we had Draymond 266 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:11.440 Greens of the world, you know, but we haven't had that with tem 267 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:14.839 Cleeve. That that to get a job done. And I ain't being biased 268 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:18.880 because you know, but that's how I look at it. Yeah, I 269 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:22.400 would have liked to see the team that got locked out because of COVID make 270 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:26.119 it into the playoffs. They're playing pretty good at that time, but we 271 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:29.799 won't ever know that. But what we do know is that we had a 272 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:33.880 special time in East Lansing over the weekend. I mean, have hosted two 273 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:40.240 Big ten championships and man came away with two victories. We're gonna talk about 274 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:45.640 that was Spartan's Illustrated its own David Harns, after these messages from my friends 275 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:52.480 over at ie Hop. I hoop has tons of omors, so you can 276 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:56.079 have omits for breakfast, brunch, brinner, or even a brittle of the 277 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:00.279 night snack. Try the new meaty, cheesy and crispy Mega and had cinnamon 278 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:08.759 dippers for a dollar only an ihld. Well, without further ado, we 279 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:12.759 gotta have a guy over here who knows all and man had one hell of 280 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:18.480 a weekend. We got to talk about what Spartan's Illustrated's own David Harns did 281 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:23.720 this weekend while hanging out in these lands on a great beautiful weekend for Michigan 282 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:40.400 State Athletics. David, welcome to the show. Hey David, he's muted. 283 00:20:45.240 --> 00:21:10.720 H Yeah, ain't nothing but a little technical Hm hmmm, uh says 284 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:22.200 that. I guess Mike isn't connected. Meanwhile, we got said got to 285 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:32.640 get the people what they want. You won't. Let's see anyway, by 286 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:41.839 the way, commercial got me going right walking through it. Talk to us 287 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:48.400 working on some technical difficulties. Like talk to us about you know, what's 288 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:52.160 going on today with the seven or seven tournament. Everybody's been talking about, 289 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:56.960 like, you know a little bit about that. You see Cam Newton involved 290 00:21:56.960 --> 00:22:00.279 in. You know, people seeing Cam Newton out there, but there's a 291 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:04.079 lot of former NFL players coaching teams with seven on seven. Talk a little 292 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:08.039 bit about that and how that's helping players in high school at the high school 293 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:12.200 level. First of all, I'm fifty to fifty with seven on seven and 294 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:17.200 I say fifty to fifty because you know, it's really just for quarterbacks, 295 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:22.079 receivers and dbs. You know a lot of guys use DB's for linebackers and 296 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:26.680 you know, offense, they don't really use the true running back. But 297 00:22:26.759 --> 00:22:33.160 it's a good thing for competition. And when you talk about the NFL guys, 298 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:37.200 a lot of NFL guys that sponsored teams, but you got a Cam 299 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:41.000 newtonho actually coach his team and I have a team right now that we just 300 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:48.400 wanted the championship in Battle Atlanta last week. I took it. Oh raw 301 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:52.240 yeah raw r a w you can look us up on Instagram. We wanted 302 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:56.039 the hottest teams out right now, you know we matter of fact, it's 303 00:22:56.039 --> 00:23:03.400 so big strayed that April fifth, it's gonna be on the NFL network Man 304 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:07.000 seven. And one thing I can say about the seven on seven it produced 305 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:11.839 a lot of kids to get off of with these guys recording with the highlights 306 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:15.640 and things like that, the catchers and and in the sense it get like 307 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:18.799 say, our team is just not a Miami team, you know, like 308 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:22.440 our quarterback is from Texas. He's committed to TCU, you know what I 309 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:27.240 mean. So we get guys from all over bringing them together for the tournament. 310 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:30.519 And what it does is you got these guys that got seven on sevent 311 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:37.519 teams that reach out to different recruiting collegists to let them know by certain kids. 312 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:41.079 So it do help your recruiting as well. That's great. I think 313 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:44.880 we do have David Hern's back. Are you are you up? David? 314 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:49.160 I am? Can you hear me? Yeah? There you go hold on, 315 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:51.920 hold on, dag, hold on, give me a second. You 316 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:56.400 mean to tell me we got somebody from Sports Illustrated on the show Spartan Spartan, 317 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:07.680 Yeah, Illustrated Sports Spartans ad. Everybody call you Dave. You know, 318 00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:10.839 I call you d I got to get my grade all the way. 319 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:14.480 I got a little dog, but you've got it all the way. It 320 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:17.480 was little sis brother, and I can say that still standing strong, you 321 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:26.400 know what I mean? Like clause Man, it works. I can't grow 322 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:30.920 it. You know, I'm a little anybody, it ain't I know any 323 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:33.119 for everybody, David, talk about your weekend. I mean, you were 324 00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:38.000 in east Land scene for a couple of Big ten championships and uh, you 325 00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:41.559 know, I saw a lot of it was documented on your Twitter and obviously 326 00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:45.839 it's Spartans Illustrated uh dot com. But you know, we'll talk about what 327 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:52.880 it was first to see the gymnastics program pull off another Big ten championship, 328 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:56.319 this time in the tournament. Yeah, and just to back up even a 329 00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:59.000 little bit more, you know, we kind of had to make a choice 330 00:24:59.160 --> 00:25:00.839 as to what this and was going to look like, you know, for 331 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:06.359 for Spartans Illustrated, because the men have obviously, uh, you know, 332 00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:10.160 we knew this was going to be opening weekend and that the men were going 333 00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:11.960 to be somewhere else around you know, they're could be local to play, 334 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:15.839 and so, you know, was I going to go down there or were 335 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:18.279 we going to stick around for you know, we knew the women gymnastics team 336 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:22.319 was going to be playing for a championship, there was a chance that the 337 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:25.480 men hockey team might be as well. And so when it came down to 338 00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:29.440 it, Kyle and Sydney from our team as well as Greg went down to 339 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:33.559 uh, North Carolina, and then myself and a couple others stuck around here, 340 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.759 and so I was able to go to both of those events on Saturday 341 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:41.960 night, one right after the other. Is kind of surreal actually, to 342 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:48.039 you know, be requesting credentials for two championship events on the same night in 343 00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:51.519 the same city, separated you know, by you know a fifth of a 344 00:25:51.559 --> 00:25:52.680 mile, if you will, like a thousand feet or something. And so, 345 00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:59.480 you know, obviously, the the day started with the gymnastics. They 346 00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:02.160 had two sessions over there. They had the early session, which was the 347 00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:06.640 bottom six teams in the Big ten, and then the evening session was the 348 00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:08.680 top four teams, and so the bottom six they kind of did their thing 349 00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:14.200 and they weren't expected to challenge for the championship, and none of them really 350 00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:17.680 did. But then it came time for the evening session and it was they 351 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:23.799 introduced all the gymnasts to a raucus Jennison crowd. It was packed. I 352 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:27.480 mean, the whole place was full, and there was fans from all of 353 00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:32.799 the other ten universe or nine other universities that have gymnastics programs in the Big 354 00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:37.480 Ten, but it was really full of Michigan State fans. And about thirty 355 00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:44.119 minutes before the match, the meet, i should say started, I took 356 00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:47.759 my camera and I walked around Jennison and the line was all the way down 357 00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:52.079 to the baseball stadium and that was, you know, still thirty minutes before 358 00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:56.920 the meat started. And so it was a hot ticket. You know, 359 00:26:56.119 --> 00:27:00.160 the regionals, they are the Big Tens. They rotate around to the different 360 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.160 schools, and it just so happened that this was the year that Michigan State 361 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:07.720 got the host and Alan Haller and his team, you know, they really 362 00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:11.319 knocked it out of the park. They had that jennisip Field House was looking 363 00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:15.319 great, kind of like when I remember it as a kid watching basketball there. 364 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.240 I was like eight years old and remembering, you know, watching the 365 00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:22.279 games there and it was kind of brought back a little bit of nostalgia there, 366 00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:26.240 but it was filled with you know, lady gymnasts who were who were 367 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:32.160 doing their thing, and you know, it started out where the you know, 368 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:34.960 each of the each of the teams start on a different apparatus, right, 369 00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:37.720 You've got the beam, and you've got the floor exercise, and you've 370 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:41.960 got the bars, and you've got the vault, and so Michigan State started 371 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:45.920 out on the floor. And if you're not familiar with gymnastics, you kind 372 00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:49.839 of have to realize that each team kind of is better at certain events or 373 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:53.559 they get higher scores at certain events. So you can't really just keep track 374 00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:56.279 of the score. Right. It's not like basketball, where like, hey, 375 00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:59.920 you've got ten points, the other team has eight points, you're winning 376 00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:04.759 too. Where in gymnastics, not only are they counting in decimal points, 377 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:10.319 but they're all doing different events at the same time. So you're comparing this 378 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:14.680 team's floor to that team's vault, to this team's beam to that team's bars, 379 00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:18.160 and so it's a very complicated sport for those who aren't very familiar with 380 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:22.880 it. I've been covering them for about three years now, and so I've 381 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:26.599 kind of created my own little cheat sheet going in as to what I expect 382 00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:30.039 the score to be after the first rotation, that whole type of thing, 383 00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:33.039 what it should be after the second, and so then I can kind of 384 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:37.759 look and see, oh MSU's overperforming a little bit or underperforming. And so 385 00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:41.920 you know, if all of the teams did all of their average scores, 386 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:45.079 then Michigan State was going to win. And that never happens, right, 387 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:51.720 Some people overperform, some underperform. Michigan was supposed to be the team that 388 00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:56.480 was challenging MSU for the championship. They've won the last few. They've always 389 00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:04.519 had a pretty decent gymnastics program. But you know Minnesota, right, Minnesota 390 00:29:04.519 --> 00:29:07.839 is the one that ended up challenging. I mean yeah, And as I 391 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:10.920 was watching it, Michigan was kind of, yeah, they were doing about 392 00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:12.799 their what they were supposed to do a little bit below average, but Minnesota 393 00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:17.599 was really doing well, and so you know, Michigan State was kind of 394 00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:21.119 keeping on pace with what it needed in order to win. But then it 395 00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:25.440 got to the last rotation, and it was you know, Minnesota was there 396 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:30.000 for you know, coming for the win. Michigan they are best at the 397 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:33.839 floor exercise and they were the number four in the country at floor exercise, 398 00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:37.240 so you knew that they were going to create you know, they were going 399 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:38.839 to make up some ground on that last one because Michigan State was going to 400 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:42.359 be on beam. Michigan was going to be on floor exercise. So the 401 00:29:42.440 --> 00:29:45.799 idea was, Michigan State had to build up a big enough lead in the 402 00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:48.400 other three events that they could withstand that last one. And so that's what 403 00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:53.440 I was watching for. And so you know, when you get for those 404 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:59.720 who aren't aware gymnasts gymnastics, you put six players up and then you keep 405 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:03.079 the time five scores. So the idea is, you know, if you 406 00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:06.119 can get nine point nine for all of them, and then you get like 407 00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:11.440 a nine point ninety five and that one knocks down a little lower, you 408 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:12.920 know, one of the lower scores or what have you. But what you 409 00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:19.920 don't want is what happened to the Spartans their first beam when the meat was 410 00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:23.319 on the line, right and they needed a really good score on beam to 411 00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:29.480 win it, and their first athlete got a very bad score, a nine 412 00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:33.000 point two five. If that score was going to stand, then Michigan State 413 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:37.119 there's no way they can make up that gap. So what that meant was 414 00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:42.039 that there was five gymnasts left to do the beam, and all five of 415 00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:45.440 them had to knock it out of the park nail their score. There was 416 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:48.680 no room for air for them, and so while Michigan was finishing up on 417 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.920 the floor exercise because there was a little bit of a delay, Michigan State 418 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:57.079 was one by one knocking down those those those performances. And that beam is 419 00:30:57.119 --> 00:31:02.400 like the width of my phone. It's like this wide, and they're doing 420 00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:04.559 all that fancy stuff on there. I don't know enough, go ahead better 421 00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:08.279 A person like me with fat feet, I can't. I couldn't do it 422 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:11.960 right. I'd like to see you up there. I'd like to see you 423 00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:15.519 up there on the beam. In fact, that would make I'd meet you 424 00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:19.880 anywhere. You want to videotape that you let me know. Wide and fat 425 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:26.240 man like Flintstone brother, I can't like. I like to see Jason do 426 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:30.200 the vault too. So while we're at it. When I was a kid 427 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:34.920 about twelve, yeah, yeah, no, we didn't ran up to it 428 00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:41.319 and stop. So so back back to the beam though, and uh, 429 00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:45.839 you know, Skyla Shechlte gets up there, she does her thing. Uh 430 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:48.160 you know, a couple others do their thing. But then it comes down 431 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.960 to the last performance of the night and all eyes are on the beam because 432 00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:56.480 all the other events had already finished, right, so the packed house is 433 00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:01.599 looking to see will Michigan State get a nine point eight or so and that 434 00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:05.720 will win, or if they get below a nine point eight on this then 435 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:09.799 they will not win, and Minnesota will. And so Gabby Steven gets up 436 00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:14.480 there, and what people didn't know at the time was that she had cut 437 00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:19.440 her foot before the event, before the night started, like a freak accident, 438 00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:22.680 and so she had like a cut on her toe. And I'm gonna 439 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:24.880 be writing about this on Spartans Illustrated coming up here in the next couple days. 440 00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:29.519 But she had a cut on her toe and she performed the whole night. 441 00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:34.559 She did all four events with a cut bloody toe that they kept fixing 442 00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:39.240 between events. And so you know, she was the one standing for MSU 443 00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:43.640 for victory there at the end. And so when she did her last pass 444 00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:45.640 on the beam, as I think is what they call it. The crowd 445 00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:49.640 erupted and all she had to do was nail the dismount, and Michigan State 446 00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:52.680 was going to win. And of course she nailed the dismount and everybody was 447 00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:55.319 happy and celebrating, and then you just kind of watch the huddle, right 448 00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:59.680 and they're just waiting for that score to flash up on the on the board. 449 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:01.400 And as soon as that score flashed up there, they knew that they 450 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:05.640 had enough to win. And the place just erupted and there was just you 451 00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:08.519 know, confetti flying and everyone jumping around, and it was pretty epic. 452 00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:14.920 Yeah, that's what's up. That's a that's a that's when you get you 453 00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:17.359 get the pull, you just get Oh, it's going through my body right 454 00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:23.400 now. They had a grit like she had finish and he was talking like, 455 00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:32.240 you know how the movie waiting there? You might have a video, 456 00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:36.880 Oh okay. Earlier in the evening, there was quite a crowd across the 457 00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:40.599 three at Jennison Field House as Michigan State hosted the Big Ten Gymnastics Championships. 458 00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:44.759 The Spartans won the Big Ten regular season title, but I never won the 459 00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:47.160 Big Ten championship meet they hold the number. They held the number one seed 460 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:52.039 and Michigan, seeking its twenty eighth Big Ten title, was the two seed. 461 00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:55.000 The Spartan's out on floor and did what they do best. Nicki Smith 462 00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:59.440 was just about as close to perfect as one could get. She collects a 463 00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:02.319 team high nine point nine to two five to put the Spartans in front. 464 00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:07.159 Early on bar, Skyla Schulty with a beauty of a routine and she sticks 465 00:34:07.199 --> 00:34:10.360 the landing. She was here all around winner today, the first Spartan to 466 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:15.119 win the all around at the conference championships. Minnesota made things very interesting, 467 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:19.719 pulling within point five headed into the final rotation. It would all come down 468 00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:23.280 to the final beam routine, where Gabby Stephen has nerves of steel coming in 469 00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:28.559 clutch despite slicing her toe open before the meet. She collects a nine point 470 00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:32.159 eight seven five and helps MSU make history once more. They win with a 471 00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:38.559 score of one ninety seven point six to zero zero. Yeah, hey for 472 00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:44.679 that, that was awesome. Yeah, yeah, it was, it was. 473 00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:46.679 It was. It's really it's just really impressive what they can do. 474 00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:52.239 And Michigan State's gymnastics program has really arrived as well. You know, Monday, 475 00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:57.320 they gathered in uh in the at Genesip Field House to watch the NCAA 476 00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:00.800 Selection show, and they knew they were gonna in the field. You know, 477 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:04.679 their expectations are no longer, Hey, we got to make the NCAA 478 00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:07.000 tournament. We know we need to be one of the top sixteen seeds, 479 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:10.840 and they were. They were announced as the twelve seed, which is actually 480 00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:15.960 a little bit lower than what they should have been. But different the way 481 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:19.239 they do it in the in gymnastics, like Michigan is hosting a regional, 482 00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:22.599 Florida was hosting a regional, and so those teams need to go into their 483 00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:27.280 I think Arkansas as well. Those teams need to go into their pool, 484 00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.719 into their little pods, and so they get the seeding gets a little messed 485 00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.440 up for that. But the gymnastics team is a top ten team. So 486 00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:37.679 they'll play April fifth and April seventh down in Gainesville, Florida. April fifth, 487 00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:42.920 they've got there's four teams that go in the top two advance to move 488 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:45.199 on to Sunday. And then on Sunday there's there's gonna be four teams and 489 00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:50.480 theoretically it'll be the four and the five and the twelve and the thirteen seeds 490 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:53.079 and two of those will move on to Nationals, which is down in Texas 491 00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:58.199 the following weekends. So Michigan State hasn't made it to Nationals but only one 492 00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:01.239 time in the program's history. That would be that would be their goal this 493 00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:06.360 year. If they can do that, that would be amazing. Anything at 494 00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:08.159 Nationals would be gravy. I think it would. You know, obviously everybody 495 00:36:08.199 --> 00:36:13.719 wants to win the national championship, but there's some pretty impressive gymnastics teams out 496 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:15.440 there that they'd have to beat in Texas. So if they can make it 497 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:20.559 to Nationals, they will have had a very successful season. So hey, 498 00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:29.000 just tell Gabby mess up the other toe too. It might be a good 499 00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:34.119 luck charm. Yeah. Hey, where's the championship, the national Championship tex 500 00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:43.639 I think it's in Fort Worth. Yeah, And so they're going to Gainesville, 501 00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:47.360 Florida. Yep, Florida. Yeah, So they'll play there. They'll 502 00:36:47.360 --> 00:36:52.039 play there on Friday Sunday. And if they advance out of that out of 503 00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:54.960 the regionals, you know, only two teams advance per regional and they make 504 00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:58.960 it to the Nationals and then they do the same thing there. They have 505 00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:01.719 two pods of four and then the top two from each pot advance to the 506 00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:07.760 to the championship on on on that the second day, you know that they 507 00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:10.760 take a break and then they play again. So yeah, I mean, 508 00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:16.800 Mike uh, their coaches is pretty excited. Mike Row. Yeah, he's 509 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:22.679 uh, he's a uh, he's a good interview and you know he he's 510 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:27.320 always uh, you know, talking and singing his girls praises there and he's 511 00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:30.400 really built a championship culture. And the nice thing is for them, they've 512 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:34.760 got good recruits coming in next year as well, So this this isn't just 513 00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:36.800 a flash in the pan. You know, they've made the n C doua 514 00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:40.079 as three years in a row, they won the Big Ten regular season two 515 00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:43.840 years in a row. They won the tournament this year for the first time 516 00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:49.440 ever. So they're on a roll. They got some rollings. I mean, 517 00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:52.079 they might have the nil collective must be the one. I want to 518 00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:57.239 ask you the question because I never see being in being in Florida, I've 519 00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:00.880 never seen like, we never had gymnastics team. So where do they do 520 00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:04.679 to recruit from? Is it a travel team? I don't know many high 521 00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:08.639 schools that have Jim Nasty as a sport. Yeah, I got to admit, 522 00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:12.639 you know, I've I've started covering gymnastics in the last three years. 523 00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:16.320 I've yet to get digging into the recruiting. You know, obviously Rivals doesn't 524 00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:21.559 have a big recruiting you know, database for gymnasts yet, but but that 525 00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:24.599 information is out there. I know that Mike is you know, he looks 526 00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:29.159 everywhere and now it's not he's not having to sell his program anymore. He's 527 00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:31.440 able to kind of pick and choose the athletes that he wants to come here 528 00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:36.880 because we you know, Michigan State has been able to establish themselves as a 529 00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:38.880 place where you know, I think they've I mean, you can't. It's 530 00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:43.239 only been a couple of years, but they've They've beat Michigan three times this 531 00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:46.440 year. Uh you know that in Michigan had a national championship program a few 532 00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:51.559 years back, and so you know, they've Michigan State's really taken a hold 533 00:38:51.599 --> 00:38:54.199 here in the Big Ten and making themselves a place where recruits are going to 534 00:38:54.239 --> 00:38:59.320 want to go play. I mean, it's incredible. To your point, 535 00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:02.199 you asked leusd Swerve about like where do they do it? It's a lot 536 00:39:02.199 --> 00:39:07.280 of club gymnastics, I know in the Midwest area where I was born and 537 00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:09.480 raised. Well, yeah, lived so many years in Michigan. It's it's 538 00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:14.840 huge, man. It's just not as publicized as like, you know, 539 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:19.440 the main sports, the revenue sports, so to speak. But my goodness, 540 00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:22.119 I mean from the Olympic training you know. I mean they have the 541 00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:24.039 little tumblers all the way up to the Olympic training. Man, it is. 542 00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:30.159 It's a big time industry. That's a good idea, David. You 543 00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:34.599 talked about rankings. Maybe they should. There's got to be a ranking system 544 00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:37.320 or something out there. Wow, there is, Yeah, there is. 545 00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:42.480 Another website has has kind of filled in that gap, and I'm just not 546 00:39:42.519 --> 00:39:45.320 familiar enough with it. I do know that they have two good recruits coming 547 00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:46.920 in, and those recruits have been in the stands, you know, this 548 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:51.440 year as well. I think they were at the Big Five Meet a little 549 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:53.320 bit ago, and maybe some of them came to the Big Ten Championships as 550 00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:55.960 well. But you know, it's it's just like any other program. You 551 00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:00.639 need the you need the athletes to, you know, to perform, and 552 00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:04.800 then you also need to coach them up. And Mike's staff does a great 553 00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:07.239 job, you know, and if you ever go to a gymnastics meet, 554 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:12.039 watch the assistant coaches and what they're doing and all they're kind of you know, 555 00:40:12.199 --> 00:40:15.400 doing their thing, and it's just an impressive all around, you know, 556 00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:20.079 performance from all aspects of the team. Mike's talked about how he's got 557 00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:23.159 an abundance of athletes this year and he can only choose six per event, 558 00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:25.719 and so, you know, it's a tough choice, and a lot of 559 00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:29.559 the girls are like, you know, hey, we understand you've got tough, 560 00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:31.239 tough choices, but you know, make them, do them, do 561 00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:34.599 what you got to do. You know, we're here to support the team. 562 00:40:34.840 --> 00:40:37.519 And so it's been a good it's been a good program, you know, 563 00:40:37.559 --> 00:40:39.159 and it's been a great year for him. But that was just the 564 00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:44.159 beginning of Saturday night. Yeah, yeah, how did the rest of the 565 00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:47.320 night go for you? Right? So, you know, the gymnastics meet 566 00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:51.239 went down to the very final second, right, and then we hung around, 567 00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:53.119 we did some interviews, We got you know, coach Row and we 568 00:40:53.199 --> 00:40:57.880 got you know, Gabby, and we talked to Skyla and and then they 569 00:40:57.880 --> 00:41:00.239 did the metal presentation and all that stuff, and then it was time to 570 00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:05.559 walk across the street, across Kalamazoo Street there and I actually did this little 571 00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:09.159 time lapse video and I put it up on Twitter. Me walking out the 572 00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:13.199 Jennison doors, across the parking lot, across the street and into the Mount 573 00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:17.400 ice Aerena doors and you know it's just a few minute walks. What's that? 574 00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:22.320 Do we have that video? I'm not sure I do remember that video. 575 00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:27.920 Back here in East Lansing, the fan bases have been going crazy in 576 00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:32.760 anticipation of last night's Big ten Tournament hockey championship game between Michigan and Michigan State. 577 00:41:34.039 --> 00:41:36.760 The storylines are straight out of a movie. Wolverines are the two time 578 00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:40.440 defending tournament champions. The Spartans are the program that's made a remarkable turnaround and 579 00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:45.000 now looks to wrestle the title away from the old Guard, their arch rival. 580 00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:47.519 The Spartans went three to one against the Wolverines in the regular season, 581 00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:52.199 and of course won the regular season conference championship, But Michigan wasted no time 582 00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:57.840 setting the tone last night. Frank Nazar flutters won past Trey Augustine on the 583 00:41:57.880 --> 00:42:01.840 Wolverines first shot attempt at the game. Michigan up one zero in the opening 584 00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:07.079 minute, MSU answers back. Later in the period, the puck squirts out 585 00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:09.360 in front. Tanner Kelly is right on the doorstep to jam at home and 586 00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:13.639 tie the game. Then in the second period, the Wolverines turn it over 587 00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:16.039 in their own zone and a blast from the point leads to a rebound opportunity. 588 00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:20.400 Daniel Russell puts it home to give the Spartans the lead back. We 589 00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:22.920 jumped at the third period, MSU clinging to a four to three lead, 590 00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:28.119 Dylan Duke's shot from the point somehow finds its way in to tie the game. 591 00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:30.360 They'd credit the goal to Nasar on a tip in. We had to 592 00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:36.519 overtime in about fourteen minutes in Patrick gary snipe spun from the blue line and 593 00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:39.760 the celebration is on. For the first time ever, the Spartans are Big 594 00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:45.400 Ten Tournament champs in a wild game that lived up to every bit of the 595 00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:50.880 anticipation. Okay, that was the whole game right there. We talked about 596 00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:53.440 your Twitter video before, so I didn't you know followed death from that happening, 597 00:42:53.480 --> 00:42:57.400 because that was a great time laps kind of video. Yeah, yeah, 598 00:42:57.480 --> 00:43:02.159 no, no problem, no problem. Everybody can go to Spartans illustrated 599 00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:07.679 and we've got that on the on the web page. There you can take 600 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:09.360 a look at all of the videos and pictures that we took that night, 601 00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:13.920 and it's all in one article. But when we walked into or when I 602 00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:16.519 walked into manaics aerena, you know, I saw the scoreboard, Michigan was 603 00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:19.599 already up one zero, and I was like, go oh man, that's 604 00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:22.760 that's that's a rough start. But finally got settled in, got to my 605 00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:25.920 media spot, which was overflow because they had so many people there. You 606 00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:30.039 know, we're usually able to get a couple, you know, reporters in, 607 00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:34.280 but this time we were limited to one reporter one photographer because the place 608 00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:37.119 was packed. As soon as I sat down on my seat, Michigan State 609 00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:38.679 scored the equalizer, So I said, hey, you know, I'm the 610 00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:42.960 good luck teram my guess, but you know, you think it when it's 611 00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:45.119 one to one, you know, they go ahead and they get their their 612 00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:49.239 second goal puts Michigan State in the lead, and I'm thinking, okay, 613 00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:52.639 can they hold on here. Needless to say, there was a lot more 614 00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:55.559 goals to be scored, and the end of the second period was pretty intense. 615 00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:00.400 Michigan State was up two to one, and Michigan scored two goals within 616 00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:02.960 like a minute or a minute and a half, and so they took like 617 00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:07.079 a three to two lead, and so everyone was kind of, you know, 618 00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:09.679 the air was let out of the building. But then with like less 619 00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:13.960 than I think just a minute seven or a minute fifteen or something like that 620 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.719 to go, Michigan State scored to equal you know, to get the tie 621 00:44:16.760 --> 00:44:21.920 there, and then with point seven seconds left in the second period, they 622 00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:24.679 fired run home. The crowd was not even done cheering for the tight the 623 00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:29.239 game, the goal that tied you know it at three. When Michigan State 624 00:44:29.320 --> 00:44:31.639 scored and made it four to three going at the end of the second period, 625 00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:35.920 they had to review that one to make sure it got in with you 626 00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:38.199 know, less than a second to go, which was pretty crazy. So 627 00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:42.639 my ice arena was going was going nuts, you know. And then then 628 00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:45.920 Michigan quickly got an equalizer in the fourth or in the third period to tie 629 00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:49.400 it up at four, and then they played the rest of the game out 630 00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:52.199 no goals, and so everybody kind of looked at each other they knew what 631 00:44:52.239 --> 00:44:55.480 was coming, which was you know, sudden depth overtime, and if you've 632 00:44:55.519 --> 00:45:01.199 never been in a hockey arena for sudden depth overtime, that's something else. 633 00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:07.239 Uh, you know, it was electric. It was every every shot was 634 00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:13.159 oh, you know, like everybody was just moving, and it was the 635 00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:15.119 game could end to any second, any shot, any you know, thing 636 00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:17.920 in front of the net, and so, you know, the crowd was 637 00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:22.320 pretty you know, pretty excited, pretty hype. And then of course, 638 00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:25.000 the the final shot came, you know, right inside the blue line, 639 00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:29.559 right in front of the Spartans bench. We learned after the fact that the 640 00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:31.880 third string goalie you know, shouted out, you know, to to the 641 00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:35.239 guy who scored it, you know, shoot it, and he he did. 642 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.639 He ripped it from far away and in it went, and the crowd 643 00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:42.039 just erupted just you could just see it just from that end, just running 644 00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:45.199 and then it just you know, cascaded all the way across over to the 645 00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:49.079 student section into the band area where where I was sitting there to to kind 646 00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.039 of take it in. And the celebration was just raucous. And I got 647 00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:54.480 a little bit of video on that on our on our website as well, 648 00:45:54.519 --> 00:45:58.599 you can see some of the celebration there. You know, it was it 649 00:45:58.639 --> 00:46:00.840 was a pretty intense night all around. If if you take a look at 650 00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:07.559 the fact that both matches, you know, the hockey game and the gymnastics 651 00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:12.639 meet ended basically with the last performance of the night. You know, for 652 00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:16.480 the gymnasts, it was that dismount from Gabby steven for you know, from 653 00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:20.840 Michigan State Hockey. They needed that goal in overtime, and then the matches, 654 00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:22.440 you know, they were over and it was in an instant and it 655 00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:27.000 was drama as much as it could be. And to have that happen on 656 00:46:27.079 --> 00:46:30.360 campus, you know, two hours apart from each other, maybe three hours 657 00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:32.760 apart from each other, and both teams to take home, you know, 658 00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:37.800 their first ever postseason championship in the Big Ten on the same night. It 659 00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:42.559 was. It was a storybook, you know. And you know Alan Haller 660 00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:45.280 he and his team put together that day. They knew that they had to 661 00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:51.360 host it. They brought in extra people to you know, extra comms folks, 662 00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:53.639 extra facility teams, you know, team members, they were they were 663 00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:57.079 there in the morning, they stayed all the way till midnight. You know, 664 00:46:57.159 --> 00:46:59.760 all of the people who were doing you know, just the behind the 665 00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:02.800 scene work and everything to make that day happen for both of those teams and 666 00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:07.280 tell you you can't get to you can't get more different sports, disparate sports 667 00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:12.159 than gymnastics in hockey, right, you've got the grace and the elegance, 668 00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:15.280 you know, and then you've got the rough and tumble hockey. But they 669 00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:17.840 both won, you know, their their championship on the same night, and 670 00:47:17.880 --> 00:47:21.679 they both had put in so much work over the last you know year, 671 00:47:21.800 --> 00:47:23.800 several years to get to this point. And they both have a coach who's 672 00:47:23.800 --> 00:47:28.480 turned around the program. You know, Adam Nightingale has really you know, 673 00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:32.320 he's such a calm and cool, collected guy, and he's got that program 674 00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:35.960 going in the right direction. And if you you know, sign up for 675 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:38.639 Spartans Illustrated you can follow along. You know, we've got Jeremy Duirre as 676 00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:44.800 our hockey insider. He's always updating on the recruiting. Michigan State's hockey recruiting 677 00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:47.599 is doing doing great. They're going to have a you know, this again 678 00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:50.960 is not a flash in the pan. They're going to have a solid roster 679 00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:53.920 for years here. And so you know, Nightingale just got rewarded with another 680 00:47:53.960 --> 00:47:59.920 contract extension and so things are looking up. You know, it's a it's 681 00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:02.519 not just football and basketball in Michigan State anymore. You've got championships being one 682 00:48:02.559 --> 00:48:06.400 all over the place. And that's not to even talk about the tennis team. 683 00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:07.880 I mean, the men's tennis team won two matches over the weekend as 684 00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:10.920 well, Friday and Sunday, so they started off big ten play two and 685 00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:15.920 oh so yeah, I mean, spartans illustrated. Come on over. We 686 00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:17.440 try to cover, you know, as many of the sports as we can. 687 00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:22.079 We can't do it all, but we sure try. O. Man, 688 00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:27.840 you do a phenomenal job. A great hey man. And obviously your 689 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:31.360 ability to get from place to place in a short period of time that was 690 00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:34.960 great. Thank you for being in shape so that you can make it from 691 00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:37.679 getting us in over the mind as fast as you did. Man, it's 692 00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:40.559 funny. As as funny as there were there were a lot of fans who 693 00:48:40.599 --> 00:48:45.360 did the same thing. Uh you know, you know fans who had hockey 694 00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:47.639 tickets who started off at the gymnastics me and it worked out perfectly because they 695 00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:51.480 had a half an hour to make that switch over. There were some there 696 00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:54.039 were some parents, I know, the Webster family had a gymnast on the 697 00:48:54.079 --> 00:48:58.719 gymnast team, and then I think it was their their nephews on the hockey 698 00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:01.559 team. Uh relativet somehow anyway, so they you know, you get to 699 00:49:01.559 --> 00:49:06.000 see them at both of both venues, and and the fact that both teams 700 00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:08.639 won. You know, I I don't think he could write it any better, 701 00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:13.119 No, not at all. I wanted to how to add the party 702 00:49:13.320 --> 00:49:16.960 was I was too tired. I had to get home and I had to 703 00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:20.119 write it all up, and then I just crashed. I didn't get to 704 00:49:20.119 --> 00:49:25.519 sleep until three am that morning. I was on the team, I know, 705 00:49:25.719 --> 00:49:29.840 I know, I'm sure they were. They were definitely excited though. 706 00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:32.159 And what's fun is there was a there were football players at the gymnastics meet. 707 00:49:32.280 --> 00:49:36.000 You know, they were uh you know, they all support each other 708 00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:39.159 and it's fun to watch that too. Yeah, nothing better than that. 709 00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:44.000 You said it, And hats off to Alan Hower and his staff of putting 710 00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:45.920 that on because I mean, you know, Michigan State was on display this 711 00:49:46.039 --> 00:49:50.360 weekend. It sounds like from all the looks and all the reports that I 712 00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:53.920 got back there, it was a phenomenal weekend and maybe they can make a 713 00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:57.880 plaque about this. It is a Hallmark type of movie. It's Disney, 714 00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:00.840 more Disney than Hallmark. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was a 715 00:50:01.280 --> 00:50:05.360 night, Dave. You got to put me in the movie day all right? 716 00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:09.679 In the Yeah Ballerinas No, no, I'm sorry, beam guy, 717 00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:19.880 beam a beam gymnast. That's who you're gonna be. Well, thank you 718 00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:22.599 for coming on the show Man and giving us that update, David. As 719 00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:24.679 always, you know, people what just where where can they find you against 720 00:50:24.679 --> 00:50:29.559 Spartans Illustrated. Yep, Spartans Illustrated dot com if you also just search Spartans 721 00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:32.719 Illustrated and Rivals. You know we're we're the Rivals affiliate here in town. 722 00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:36.760 You know, we we do cover football, We cover basketball, We cover 723 00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:39.440 all the recruiting. Got a great staff who does all of that. You 724 00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:44.119 know we've got You've got Carter Elliott and David Klein and Sam Tyler on the 725 00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:47.800 basketball side. We've got lots of football minds as well, including uh, 726 00:50:47.840 --> 00:50:51.079 you know some of the some of the names you'll see, you know, 727 00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:53.320 Matt she hands on the team and some other folks too. So come on 728 00:50:53.360 --> 00:50:59.519 over Spartans Illustrated. Sign up ten bucks a month if you need a discount 729 00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:01.880 code to get started. Just shoot me a note Spartan's Illustrated at gmail dot 730 00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:05.519 com and I'll get you a I'll get your discount code to get going. 731 00:51:05.679 --> 00:51:08.760 But we'd love to have you over there. It is gotta have it, 732 00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:14.440 yeah, man, thank you so much again for joining the show. Hey, 733 00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:17.000 then we'll see you see you again really soon, David, I want 734 00:51:17.039 --> 00:51:20.800 to talk about here in the near future. Sounds good, Thanks, Jason, 735 00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:27.480 see you around, Dave. All right, David Harn Spartan's Illustrated Swerve. 736 00:51:27.559 --> 00:51:30.079 Man, that was a great weekend. I mean, you know, 737 00:51:30.119 --> 00:51:34.639 obviously, you know, the basketball teams didn't perform to the level that we 738 00:51:34.679 --> 00:51:37.599 would have hoped. You know. You know we talked about the women losing 739 00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:39.760 too as long as as well as the men. But we did have two 740 00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:46.000 bright spots with gymnastics and hockey winning on campus big ten titles. Man, 741 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:52.360 what an epic night on Saturday and winning at the end too, Yeah, 742 00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:55.519 both of them. Blood the way, how Gaddy did the flip it? 743 00:51:55.599 --> 00:52:01.519 She just stick you like you were stuck. You want to be stuck again. 744 00:52:02.440 --> 00:52:06.000 You got us, cetera. You've been getting us all day to day. 745 00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:07.880 Man, But no, I appreciate you, brother, getting on here 746 00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:13.679 and making this happen. Look David harn special thanks to him as far as 747 00:52:13.719 --> 00:52:19.079 illustrated, always bringing us in depth coverage of what's going on in the marketplace. 748 00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:22.920 When it comes to sparking, sports Man said, any final thoughts before 749 00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:27.760 we get out of here. Hey, when we come back on Thursday, 750 00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:35.760 we gotta have the updates with spring football. Okay, come back. We 751 00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:38.199 gotta come in with y'all. Let them know what's going on. We got 752 00:52:38.199 --> 00:52:40.760 we got to we got to make some calls. We gotta get it. 753 00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:45.519 We gotta get to school. We gotta get the fans what they want because 754 00:52:45.159 --> 00:52:50.400 everybody's everybody's like this, everybody just you know what I'm saying. We want 755 00:52:50.440 --> 00:52:52.199 to know how the spring is going, what we're looking like, what we're 756 00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:59.119 looking for, you know who's doing what. Okay, so we'll we get 757 00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:01.920 into the football. We'll get into the football on Thursday. Let's do that. 758 00:53:02.039 --> 00:53:06.679 It's time. There's been time, right, you know. We also 759 00:53:06.719 --> 00:53:08.079 have you know we're gonna cover we gotta we gotta talk a little bit about 760 00:53:08.159 --> 00:53:13.559 baseball too, so special guests coming on as well as recruiting. You know, 761 00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:15.400 we're gonna have somebody on the talk football, not recruiting, but football, 762 00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:20.119 spring football, and also baseball, you know, because we gotta give 763 00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:22.920 gotta give everybody a little love swerve, you know what I mean. And 764 00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:25.519 when they're doing good, you come right to our desk. The people from 765 00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:29.559 up God says, hey, we got to talk about it. Sweat Jason, 766 00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:31.679 straight swerve, you gotta talk about these people. They telling us they 767 00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:37.159 got we gotta talk about baseball next week on Thursday. Not next week, 768 00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:39.320 just in a couple of days. So we'll see you in sweer. Hey 769 00:53:39.400 --> 00:53:42.599 man, I appreciate that that was a good point. We're gonna bring that 770 00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:45.559 to them. So for Cedric Irving, I'm Jason Straehorn. This is part 771 00:53:45.599 --> 00:54:14.400 of ms U. Everybody, have a good night, God bless and go Grint.