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on the Ball, Breaking news on Fox

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Sports fourteen to fifty. All right, so the first order of business that

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I saw is that Washington fired head
coach for basketball Mike Hopkins. They told

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him he won't be back for next
year, but he can finish the rest

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of the season. How difficult is
it to be a lame duck coach when

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you have really you're you're there,
but you're not there. And then he

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pulls off last night's game, right, I know that's it. Hey,

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nice win against Washing Steak. Guess
why you're fired. I hope they didn't

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like tell him, like in the
locker room after the game that they at

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least enjoy the win overnight. And
then hey, mikeel we need to see

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you at breakfast today. Yeah,
here's the plank. But you know he's

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gonna get paid with three point one
part of that knife in your back.

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Well that but that was the last
year of his contract, is what it

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is. So they're just paying paying
his contract out. So so all the

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speculation has already be done. Kyle
Smith at Washington State UH Jason schre tweeted

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that Lorenzo Romar is available go back. Yeah he could be a good assistant

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coach somewhere some there or me even
but yeah. So yeah, so Washington

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is gonna have a new, uh, a new basketball coach next year,

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and he ain't gonna be Tommy Lloyd
point something. Some baseball news, the

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Los Angeles Dodgers just announced Smookie Bets
will be the permanent shortstop. Wow,

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the rich got Richard. Well,
he's been He came up as a second

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basement and then he's been playing a
lot of outfield. He's a great outfielder.

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Yeah, and then they they brought
him into they brought him back to

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the infield because they felt he was
you know, no, they went from

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second base to the outfit because they
thought he was, you know, diving

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for balls and hurting himself. I
guess he's gonna be shortstop. They had

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Miguel Rojas last year. It was
a rookie just at the plate, just

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wasn't getting it done. So now
you get, you know, a great

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hitting shortstop and uh and they off
guy. Yeah yeah, you'll fill some

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fill some holes out in the outfield
with some of the guys that they've signed.

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So next Tiger Woods will not He
announced he will not play in the

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Players Championship. Yeah, well he
had that. He got in that tournament

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that the Genesis and ended up bailing
out because he was sick. I don't

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know if he's got Physically he's uh, he's in good shape, but he

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just he's just not And I guess
he never said he was gonna play,

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but now he's he didn't. The
deadline for for entering the tournament passed and

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he was not on the list.
He hasn't played in that tournament since twenty

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nineteen as well. So yeah,
forty eight years old. That so big

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news. Missouri governor rejects to comment
on Andy Reid's son regarding the case.

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Yeah, Dan wetzel Man, he
ripped, He ripped the governor of Missouri

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and the easy Target general. Easy
target for obviously a big deal. Yeah,

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yeah, he said, you know, and then and then say you

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know where they said, well,
most o the people convicted of the same

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thing have served about that much time. And they said that, but didn't

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offer any proof of that, just
basically saying, you're Andy Reid's kid,

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and you're a coach with the Kansas
City Chiefs, you get special privileges.

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Even if it's true. It doesn't
look good, it looks bad, looks

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terrible. So what did he say? What did what's say? Just just

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that this is you know, again, for anybody who thinks that that you

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know, the justice system is equal
for everybody, it's it's well, we

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already knew that. But there's another
another very high profile example that it is.

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As it said, what he's gonna
do is he gonna go back to

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coach. He was a coach for
his dad, right, Yeah, he

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was well, and that was that
was the other thing that the me his

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coaching experience was as a grad assistant
in college and then he gets a full

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time assistant coaching job in the NFL. Yeah, he said basically said that.

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The way Dan Wetsill put it was
he he got to cutting the cutting

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line in the NFL. He got
to cut and line out of prison.

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Yeah, I mean just just to
give some context, he served sixteen months

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of a three year sentence after pleading
guilty to felony driving while intoxicated, resulting

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in serious physical injuries driving eighty four
miles per hour in a sixty five zone.

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He had two part cars near a
Arrowhead stadium. Six people were injured,

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and including a five year old girl, Ariel Young, who suffered traumatic

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brain injury right and was in a
coma for eleven days. Look, I've

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told my kids and anybody who listens
to me, or life is not fair.

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It's it's just not fair. It's
not well, it's more fair for

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some than for well, it's it's
more advantageous, vantagious. Yeah, sure,

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exactly that. And that's the outrage
over this is that you know,

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would your kid have gotten that break? No? You know, would Adam

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have gotten that break? No?
Would I? No? Absolutely not?

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Yeah, all right. Next in
college basketball news, Temple is to reviewing

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reports of unusual wagering activity on the
game versus U A B. It's been

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flagged by gambling watchdog company US Integrity
for unusual betting activity. Did you see

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how it was spread? It was
a three three? It it was like

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two and a half points. I
think moved to a Temple by two and

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a half, and then it moved
too point favorite Florida Atlantic by eight,

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and then then they won by like
thirty or twenty five. Florida Atlantic A

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f A U A B there all
the time, U A B one,

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Yeah, U A B one by
a bunch. And I guess a previous

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game that Temple was initially favored in
they got blown up like that as well,

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and they're kind of looking at that
one as well. This isn't the

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first time that's happened. But you
know, it goes to that argument that

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people saying, oh you you you
make ambly legal. This is going to

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happen all the time. Look,
folks, this has been happening. Yeah.

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By making it legal, it's exposed. It's out there, you find

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out about it. And that's what's
happened here that you know that these watchdog

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companies that the conference is higher figure
this stuff out. If this is the

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same company that flagged that Alabama baseball
game, remember that. Yeah, and

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that got the Alabama coach fired because
he was sending text messages to his guy

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who was betting in Cincinnati. You
know, my pitcher's not pitching go put

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a bunch of money on. Something
happened that I got to just recently.

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I can't remember, saw in the
news the guy that was gambling in Cincinnati.

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I'm not sure what happened, but
it was a big scandal. Yeah.

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Next up, Arizona's going to have
its pro day on March fourteenth.

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They have fifteen guys listen to participate, as opposed to six players a year

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ago. A couple of those players
are projected NFL picks, Jordan Oregon and

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Jacob Cowing. Yep, Jaydeen de
Laura is going to be at that at

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that pro day, so you know, we all saw that he it didn't

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work out for him to go to
another school, so he declared for the

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NFL draft. Yeah, Tanner McLaughlin's
going to be in there, Michael Wiley's

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going to be in there. Those
are the guy well, I know Delrd's

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gonna get drafted. With Cowing,
Morgan, Wiley, and McLoughlin, we're

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all at the NFL combine likely to
get drafted at some point. Then there's

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a bunch of other guys. DJ
Williams is the running back from who came

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here from North Carolina and a few
other guys, So fifteen guys in the

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Pro Day that'll be uh, been
pretty cool, good for them. And

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then in the NBA, Trey Young
would like to He's open to facing Kaitlin

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Clark in a three point contest.
So inspired by Steph Curry and Sabrina Iyanescu,

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he wants to partake in something like
that as well. That'd be fun,

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sure, or they should do a
good for them, yeah right yeah,

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or you know, pair him up
as a team, right right.

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Did you see the one thing that
they wanted, you know, the fourth

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thing the pros Golf they had for
remember covid Uh it was Tom Brady,

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Yeah, Tom Barkley. So I
saw one yesterday that would be interesting.

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I don't know if I watch it, but I guess I'm good Tiger and

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his son and uh uh John Daily, John Daley and his son. His

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son's good player. That's the match
that they want to see. I think

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that'd be a cool match because there
need no pressure on Tiger, right and

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everybody kind of wants to see his
son. How much do you think they'll

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drink? Drink? And I don't
know how much did they make? I

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don't know. That would be fun. That would be a cool cool because

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the kids might carry the mats.
Charlie Woods. I mean he's fifteen,

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right, and he like he's fifteen
or sixteen. Yeah, he's young.

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Yeah, I mean you know you
put a kid on the kid that age

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on a stage like that would be
crazy. Right. Well, didn't you

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played least two weeks ago? Yeah, you tried to in a qualified eighty

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six or so. I didn't didn't
play very well. I could have been

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dream of eighty six. I could
have read him that day if I got

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to play the way I played,
meaning that if I'm on my way to

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a twelve, I'm taking an eight
at the most. Good luck with that.

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Okay? Cool? Is that was
that? It? Yeah? That

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was didn't you have you up some
dates? Think, uh, you have

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softball and you have golf. Yeah, okay, softball is uh they're going

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to extra innings. They were down, they were down to nothing in the

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bottom or in the top of the
seventh. Carl Scooping came in with the

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bases loaded and two outs, knocked
knocked a single to score to score two.

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So they they just got the Oregon
State out in the bottom of the

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seventh. So we are going to
the top of the eighth in uh in

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Corvallis with Arizona and Oregon State tide
to two, okay, and then golf.

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Oh yeah, the Cold Guard Classic
is going on. For those of

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you who aren't out there, we
were, but uh, the leader as

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of now is uh Stuart Sink He's
he's at minus nine through sixteen holes.

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One of the past champions, Miguel
on Hell he Menash He's through fourteen holes

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and he's minus eight, so he's
right up there. kJ Choi is in

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the running. If you're looking for
for some names, uh, there's some

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other guys. Uh, let's see. Well, Cameron Beckman is in third

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place. He's at minus seven,
so he's two strokes back. But you've

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got Jeff Sluman in there, Billy
Andre Ratief Goosen is uh is a five

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strokes out, defending champion David thoms
is Uh is a minus four, so

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he's five strokes back, and the
host pro Jerry Kelly is minus four.

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All those guys we are minus four
are tied for fifth, So there you

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go. Ernie L's out there minus
three steep strict or minus minus three.

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So there's some names out there.
If you want to you want to go

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check him out? Two more days
of the tournament out there is supposed to

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be much nicer the next couple of
days. And it's not too bad.

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It's nice, It's it's okay.
But of course I'm inside, so I

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can say that with the jacket,
with the jacket exactly. So yeah,

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So that's that's going on out there
at the cold Okay, anything else going

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on? Steph Curry entered his ankle
last night. Yeah, they say the

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MRI I was was clear, so
he's uh so, they're not sure how

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long. He's not expected to miss
that much. It says there's optimism his

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absence will not be lengthy. So
so there's that. Also, Russell Wilson

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had an exploratory meeting with the Giants, and Pittsburgh also has renewed interest in

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Russell Wilson. They're making fun of
the fact that he was flying commercial because

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there's he was taking pictures of people
at the Newark Airport and then he was

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he was on a private plane or
anything like that, so that was kind

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of funny. And Lebron is going
to be out for a couple of days.

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Peterson SI he's going to be at
the game to Mars. Expect to

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be at the and Lebron. He's
hurt his ankle and he's tweaking his ankles.

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He'll be out for a game or
two for they play the bucks.

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They'll play the bucks here. I
guess tonight A toorrow, tonight, Yeah,

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tonight, okay, all right,
anything else? I think that's it.

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Huh, there's a big UFC game
fight tomorrow. I can't I don't

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remember the principles, but there's that's
going on tomorrow, and I think that's

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who we have. We have Jake. Let's go. Let's why, We'll

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just go. I know we're way
ahead of it, but we are.

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Fine. Let's do. Let's do. Let's go. All right, let's

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take our break right now, we're
gonna come back. We'll have Jake Fisher.

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him know we're coming in early with

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Hey, welcome back to ying the

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ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve. He's Jay. Now

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on the phone. We have our
guy, Jake Fisher, former Juve football

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player. Jake. What's going on? Nothing much? Happy Friday, guys,

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Happy Friday. Good to be with
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about chemistry, team chemistry and how
it it affects teams. I'm sure you've

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been on a team or two.
You've been on a number of team since

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you were a kid where the guy
could be unbelievably talented and you say we

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need him and then figure out he's
a pain in the neck and he says,

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now we don't need him. Yeah, exactly. And this year we

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literally have had none of that.
I'm really thankful that, you know,

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a couple of these seniors that came
and they know that this is their last

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year, so they had to kind
of fit into the mold. They knew

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that we had, you know,
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that uh, you know, we
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other thing is those two freshmen that
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coming off the bench, along with
Jade and Bradley, those guys all

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fit perfectly into the system. They're
all buying into their role. They're not

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trying to step on people's toes.
They're basically letting the seniors kind of lead

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us to where we need to go. And I mean that's incredible because you

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know, for the next couple of
years when these guys have to step into

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those roles, they're going to be
perfectly you know, content with it.

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They know they went through it,
and they're going to be able to teach

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the young guys coming up how to
do the same. You know. Steve

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and I we were talking about the
fact that probably one of the biggest differences

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between this team, this team this
year and last last year's team. Last

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the team was really talented, right
A Zulus was a really good player,

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had a bunch of really good guys. But the bench, these three guys

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that are coming off the bench and
the way they're contributing, you know,

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because we should just sometimes close our
eyes when guys came off the bench last

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year. That's a huge difference for
this team. Well yeah, and to

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be honest with you, like if
we all take a look back and we

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just watched some of the games last
year and we saw that mid season low

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if you remember before the tournament,
I'm like, we can literally lose to

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anybody, and we can beat anybody, and it's very inconsistent just because you

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only had really six guys with a
seventh guy that showed up every three or

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four games. This team's got six
guys that show up every game, and

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then another guy that plays relentless defense. And you know, if he scores

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a point like great, and then
Moe Crevis if he can spell you know,

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big O like he did last night
for twenty minutes and play decent defense

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against the den bona. I mean, that's just a bonus in itself.

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So you got five guys that are
averaging double figures. You've got three or

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four guys that can just you know, get up in me on defense.

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You have two major seven foot plus
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the defense, and you have guys
you know, on the perimeter that can

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switch everything. It just makes everything
so much easier. You know. He

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allows guys to get into passing lin
get out, get some easy breaks,

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and I mean hell, Like I
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besides maybe you know Houston, I
think has a couple of guys that are

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injured. Give you con I don't
see another team as talented with more of

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an upside. Maybe you know Tennessee, but we're up there in that upper

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echelon. It's pretty nice. Yeah, you talked about you talking about last

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year about the teams could if they
played well, they can win it all.

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Or this year, if they don't
play well, they can lose it

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all. Was it last year?
This year? You're talking about last year

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year this year? Just because you
have the seniors and you have guys that

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can get buckets in tournament time.
I think, like the floor is a

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sweet sixteen. Last year the floor
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So you don't think that this year, No, I don't. Honestly,

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Guys, like the main difference is
you have so many guys that have

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been there before. Do you really
think of Caleb Love, a key Shaw

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Johnson, or even you know,
a senior Pella who now I haven't seen

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go to the basket as much as
he has the last few week, A

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senior big O. Guys that can
actually shoot. The guys coming off the

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bench, that they can go ahead
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That's not gonna happen this year.
Last year, who's going and getting you

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their own bucket? Besides you know, besides big Z. But then again,

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come tournament time, he disappears.
Nobody wanted to shoot the ball last

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year when things got tight. This
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have no problem with it, so
you're not going to get ran over by

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it, you know, a lesser
team. The floor is the Sweet sixteen?

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That or yeah, the floor is
the Sweet sixteen. Jake, Steve

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and I had a debate about this, and I don't remember if we asked

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you about it or not, but
if we did, refresh our memories having

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two guys make Caleb Love and Keisha
Johnson who have been to the final flour,

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I mean saw the road firsthand.
How much does that add to the

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locker room or does it not?
Guys just go well, I want to

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get the final four anyway, So
whatever you say doesn't make me change my

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approach or make me think any differently. How much does that matter, do

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you think? I mean, it
matters entirely. I mean, why do

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you think we brought these two guys
in? You know, like last year

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it was a major disappointment two years
ago, even though you know it was

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Tommy Lloyd's first time here or first
year here. We got to the sweet

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sixteen, but we had a roster
that should have got at least to the

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Elite eight in my opinion. So
this year it's hey, listen, we've

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got everybody coming back with the uh, you know, with the exception of

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the big you know, big Z
down Low. We're going to bring guys

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in that have been there and those
guys that have been inserted into the starting

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lineup. You've got the guard everyone
wanted to get rid of, Kirk Cries

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before. You still Pelley, you
still have Big O. And then you

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bring in a guy like Jayden Bradley, who you know, I mean half

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the year last year he was the
starting point guard for probably the most talented

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team in the country. I mean, you bring these guys in for a

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reason. So, these guys have
been here, Jamee's been around a very

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talented team, and then you bring
in a couple of freshmen that are willing

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to, you know, kind of
buying their role. But bringing in these

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guys that have been to the Final
four, that have been to the national

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championship game, this is their last
chance. So how hard do you think

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they're going to play to get back
there? And it's only going to make

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everybody else play hard? So what
what can they so is it mainly how

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they play? Or what is there
something they can say, you know,

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in a huddle, in a locker
room or whatever. Are you right with

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that experience? And Jake, remember
you're on the team or you're on the

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team, you know what you know, and you're and you're a good player.

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How much are they going to influence
you? Jake? You got to

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play better because we've been there,
you haven't. Well, if I was

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a guy like a Pella or you
know, an Umar, you know,

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I look at them and say,
they've been there, I haven't, Like,

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what the hell do I have to
do? You know, now that

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we're on the back half of the
season, you see how hard Key SHOT's

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playing. I mean, key shot, got what eleven twelve words last night

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against probably the most athletic big men
in the country. And I mean it's

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one of those things to where he's
doing exactly what he needs to do at

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the right time of the year.
He's switching off and guarding point guards and

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shooting guards. I mean, he's
he's you know, you could plug him

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in at the five and he has
you know, you have Caleb Love yesterday

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who got off to a slow start, but I mean they were doing everything

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that they could in their power not
to score. And he's dropping dimes and

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making good passes and you know,
swinging the ball when he needs to,

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and then when he needs to,
you know, take a shot. He'll

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take a shot. But you get
in one of those situations where you need

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a bucket, you know he's gonna
get it for you. I mean that

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guy can literally take ten shots miss
him and I'd still be comfortable getting them

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the ball at the end of the
game. So these guys have been there

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before. These guys are the ones
that basically are going to say, follow

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me, I've been there, and
there you go. I trust him.

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They've been there. I haven't see
I told you no Jake. I don't

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always believe what Jake says, and
I'm not sure I believe him. Now.

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Well you should see because Jake,
you already know what it takes to

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get there. My point is,
what I'm saying is maybe you don't no

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what do you mean? Maybe you
don't know what it takes to get there.

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These guys can tell pos possibly or
give you more information, but I've

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seen teams I'll give you, and
this is a bad example because it's been

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a thousand years ago, nineteen eighty
seven. They were all there, they

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were all there all back then.
You all you what to do, and

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guess what they didn't do it.
But it's not I never said it's a

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guarantee. So yeah, you said, guys, it's not. It's not

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a perfect science. Well, I'm
saying I have two people that have been

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in the National Championship Game and I
haven't. I'm gonna go ahead and think

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we're going to get there. I'm
gonna go ahead and mimic what they do,

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and I'm going to feel comfortable following
them and to help, you know,

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helping them to get back there.
Dude, that's all it is.

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I mean, you literally can have
a one seed lose to a sixteen seed.

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We've seen that happen two times in
the last five here. That's how

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crazy the tournament is. What I'm
saying is, you have senior leadership,

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you have two guys that have been
there. I am more than confident that

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they can get me there again.
I like your thesis. I like your

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theory. I don't don't agree with
it, but I'm fine with it.

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I like it, Jake. I'm
with you, and I like it too,

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but but I understand you. And
you and you meet Jake were one

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and Jake, remember that the Jay's
rarely right. So I had Washington State

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last night, Jake. If I
knew something weird was going to happen yesterday,

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so I didn't even think about doing
a parlay. And that's one of

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the reasons. Very smart. The
end of the year, something weird is

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gonna happen. Very smart. So
what do you think They got one tomorrow,

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and they got three possibly in the
Pac twelve, and then they got

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00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:26.160
six possibly in the tournament. They
got to roll nine ten games. They

407
00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:30.599
don't have to. They don't have
to, but it would look good if

408
00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:34.160
they did. They they're capable,
well, they're capable. I don't think

409
00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:37.759
in a perfect world, obviously they're
capable of reeling off all those wins in

410
00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:41.359
a row. But you know,
tomorrow, I think, you know,

411
00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:42.759
they got the monkey off their back. I think they're going to play a

412
00:26:42.759 --> 00:26:45.279
little bit more free. You know, it's not like we have to win

413
00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:48.720
this game in order to lock up
the one seed or the regular season tournament

414
00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:52.880
or the regular season championship. I
don't know if USC is fighting for seeding

415
00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:56.920
or what that all looks like.
So they may come out just you know,

416
00:26:56.039 --> 00:27:00.160
trying to you know, prove a
point or basically saying, hey,

417
00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:02.880
we have one last chance to take
down and you know, a good Arizona

418
00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:06.839
team this year. I know I
have a feeling Arizona is gonna it's gonna

419
00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:10.640
be a closer game against that.
See that it wasn't against UCLA. I

420
00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:12.960
think UCLA's basically given up on the
season. Yeah, you know, after

421
00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:15.200
that first ten minutes, you can
tell they were kind of like, yeah,

422
00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:18.000
we're not gonna beat this team.
And then USC they have to their

423
00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.799
two best players or two of their
best players back to play against us,

424
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and so I think they're gonna have
you know, they're gonna want to go

425
00:27:25.160 --> 00:27:29.279
out and prove it when it comes
to the tournament again. I think that

426
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we're gonna win the tournament championship.
I think Tommy's gonna go perfect three for

427
00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:36.240
three and then after that it's just
hey, guys, you know want and

428
00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:37.839
done. Let's get ready to go. Yeah, So let me ask you

429
00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:42.480
a funny question or a weird question. Croton has been kind of up and

430
00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:47.720
down. He's thrown his players under
the bus a time or two, maybe

431
00:27:47.759 --> 00:27:49.319
the last two to three months,
and then he said, you know,

432
00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:52.960
it's all on me, and then
last night he did it again. Kind

433
00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:56.000
of if you're a player for a
guy like that, how difficult is to

434
00:27:56.079 --> 00:28:00.400
play and not give up? And
say, how would you if you think

435
00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:03.359
nothing of us? I'm just gonna, you know, play what I can

436
00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.640
in hell with you. Yeah,
it takes a very particular type of player

437
00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.640
to play for a man like that. What I love And someone pointed this

438
00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:12.920
out to me, and then I
went ahead and tweeted about it. This

439
00:28:14.119 --> 00:28:18.960
is the first year that Tommy and
Cronin have both had their own teams.

440
00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:22.559
Look how crappy Ucla is and look
how good Arizona is. So all the

441
00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:26.480
UCLA folks that are saying that you
know, so and so's a better coach.

442
00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:30.559
I would have loved to walk into
a team that had Tiger Campbell,

443
00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:33.119
Jim Hawk as you know, you're
able to get Johnny Joosang or however the

444
00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:36.480
hell you say his name back,
you have a dem bona. I mean

445
00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:41.200
the two five star kids that he's
recruited, that Peyton Watson kid who hardly

446
00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:44.640
played and then became a first round
draft pick. And then that point guard

447
00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:47.400
that they had last year that came
on strong late and didn't want to come

448
00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:49.200
back and play with Mit Cronin.
I mean, just imagine that, like

449
00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:52.640
you, basically you're a five star, you go there to sit on the

450
00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:55.079
bench for most of the year and
you can still become a first round draft

451
00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:57.279
pick. I mean, it just
shows you that there's a track like that

452
00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:00.319
people do not want to be there. When it comes to Tommy system,

453
00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:03.519
obviously you got a bunch of guys
that are coming in, they're going to

454
00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:06.079
play. He never gives up on
you. He does not, you know,

455
00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:10.039
trash you in the media. He
you know, he'll tell you how

456
00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:11.839
he feels, but he's not going
to you know, brate you in front

457
00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:15.680
of people, and then eventually,
you know, if you could play,

458
00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:17.759
you could play. If not,
you're not going to play. But you

459
00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:19.119
know he's not going to drag you
for the damn mud and the media.

460
00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:22.519
No, you're You're absolutely right.
And again, I mean he had there

461
00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:26.839
was no reason for him to say
even mentioned the den Bone the last night.

462
00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:30.640
They all played like crap, and
yet he singled him out and said

463
00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:33.319
well, and then he tried to
say, well, you know, it's

464
00:29:33.799 --> 00:29:36.680
it's hard to put that kind of
pressure on him, but it's true.

465
00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:38.799
And I'm like, why why do
you even say that? Just I don't

466
00:29:38.839 --> 00:29:44.119
know, Well, it's one of
those things where you know, a den

467
00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:48.119
bona one of the more talented athletic
freaks in the country, but I mean

468
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:51.920
he's going to get somebody hurt,
and the fact that he doesn't know how

469
00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:52.799
to pull the reins back on this
guy and say, hey, listen,

470
00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.640
you could play hard. But I
mean there were two or three times where

471
00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:00.440
you know, he'd run across the
lane and drill Mo creviously in the back,

472
00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:03.799
knock him on his face. They
wouldn't get a cloud call. There

473
00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:07.079
was a time where he dated Big
O into you know, trying to back

474
00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:08.640
him down and he just he grabs
his jersey, pulls him down, gets

475
00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:12.079
up smiling. It's like this,
listen, I love the fact that he

476
00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:15.599
plays his ass off. There's a
difference between playing hard and playing reckless.

477
00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:18.599
There's a huge difference. And he
was playing reckless last time. I'm glad

478
00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:22.000
I even tweeted. I'm like,
I'm surprised nobody swung on him yet,

479
00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:26.720
Like that's how bad. Like he
was pissing me off and I'm not even

480
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:30.240
playing well, I just did,
And I'm glad you're five hundred miles away

481
00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:37.440
from me. I mean, it's
gracious, Okay, what else is going

482
00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:40.160
on? So okay, let me
ask you this then? You know,

483
00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:42.519
with what they had, you know, football, you were excited, you

484
00:30:42.559 --> 00:30:45.880
know, ten wins, it was
a great football season, had a blast.

485
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:51.200
More excited about what's going on basketball
wise, or you know, is

486
00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:53.240
it is football? Just okay,
that's past and I'm just thinking about basketball.

487
00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:59.599
Hey, listen, basketball season.
I'm excited about basketball normally, and

488
00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:03.960
during football season, I'm excited about
basketball. That The cool thing is the

489
00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:07.240
fact that we have a good team. We have a lot of guys coming

490
00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:11.599
back. I have you know,
full faith in the staff, and we

491
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:14.720
got a lot of excitement coming on, you know, coming up spring.

492
00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:18.440
This is the first time during basketball
in a long while that I'm excited to

493
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:21.200
see the football team. So that's
just you know, a shout out to

494
00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:22.880
all the guys that decided to come
back even after the coach has left.

495
00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:26.640
Happy for him, and I'm hoping
that we have a really good season coming

496
00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:32.200
up. Have you had any contact
or you know, seen anything of you

497
00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:36.599
know, on a on a football
zoom or thread or anything of Brent Brennan

498
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:41.119
your impressions of him that you've gotten
so far. Yeah, I got on

499
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:42.720
a zoom. I didn't talk or
do anything. I just wanted to kind

500
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:45.599
of listen in because you know,
a lot of the older guys and a

501
00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:51.440
lot of the older you know alumni
that know him, you know, they're

502
00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:53.119
the ones that kind of took over
the meeting. And I mean he just

503
00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:56.920
seems like a down to earth guy, you know, almost like almost like

504
00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.880
a little bit you know, Jeff
Fish was very calculated. Brenna just seems

505
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:04.359
like, you know, hey,
whatever comes comes, I'm just going to

506
00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:06.960
coach these guys up, and you
know, let him go out and ball

507
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.480
out. Where you know, Jed
was more of a car salesman type guy.

508
00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:13.759
You know, everything was so calculated
with what he said. Brennan is

509
00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:15.680
just kind of a you know,
go easy. You know, hey,

510
00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:19.559
I'm just gonna I'm just here to
coach football type guy. So you know

511
00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:22.359
it's gonna be different. Obviously,
I can't wait to see what the schemes

512
00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:24.559
are and everything like that. He
didn't really dive into it, but you

513
00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:28.319
know, we're going to know if
he's a good coach. Sing is how

514
00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:30.279
these guys, you know, seeing
how these guys basically react and how they

515
00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:34.839
come out and play for him.
And that's what I'm excited about, given

516
00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:37.799
how you described Jed just now car
salesman and kind of you know, said

517
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:43.319
what he says. Did at any
point while he was your coach at you

518
00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:45.359
Vey, did it give you pause
or you know you kind of said,

519
00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:51.480
hmm, these things just don't feel
right. No, I mean because you

520
00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:55.079
have I mean guys like he's a
good coach, right, good recruiter,

521
00:32:57.079 --> 00:32:59.880
all this other stuff. Nobody likes. How he left. Everyone knew he

522
00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:01.599
was going to probably lead next year, Like that was kind of what everyone's

523
00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:06.720
holing on to. When it comes
down to it, he had a good

524
00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:09.920
year. I hope Brennan has a
good year. I did not think twice

525
00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:14.440
like when I heard how you know, calculated he was or how he spoke.

526
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:16.640
It's the fact that he had been
at like twelve places in the last

527
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:21.400
fifteen years. That's what I was
like, Ah, this guy's probably gonna

528
00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:25.319
use this as a stepping stone if
he has success. And you're right,

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a call right away that oh callack, we missed you. We just missed

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you. Yeah, we're coming out
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up the call. The call back
finally watching you. Are you sure that

598
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he didn't? Is anybody there?
Okay? All right, Just you just

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try to again, keep punching it
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Just call back. Yeah, give
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to take hear your take on whatever
you got. Yeah, okay, you

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know what on Monday, I just
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us when on Monday we talk about
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twelve all time moments that we've experienced, or that we in basketball, whatever,

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football, do some homework. Let's
come back with the list homework.

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I never mind, do some homework, Steve, Come on, you haven't

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done you haven't done homework in thirty
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Hi, you're on the AAR and
on the ball. Hey, guys,

609
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:07.039
what's up this Vic Vic? What's
up? Hey? I just want to

610
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:12.480
call and tell you Steve Ja went
back to his participation trophy days. Yeah,

611
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.519
he said one in eighteen team is
the best kind of team to coach.

612
00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:22.440
I didn't say that, like you
can go to dairy Queen day of

613
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:24.800
the week. You ain't having fun
on a one and eighteen. You are

614
00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:30.400
completely out of context there. I
said, that's what you said. No,

615
00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:32.880
I said back, No, I
said, you can have a one

616
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:37.320
in one in eighteen team, and
if they're fun to coach, they're fun

617
00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:39.320
to coach. I'm not saying it's
better to have a one in eighteen team,

618
00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:43.519
you know. I mean, you
coach, you want to win championships.

619
00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:46.239
I just said you can have a
one in eighteen team and it can

620
00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:50.199
still be fun if the guys are
a bunch of good guys. Thanks for

621
00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:52.280
keeping me ever, I had j
J. I never had fun on a

622
00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:59.239
one in eighteen team. Nobody you
can ask anybody under the sun. Nobody's

623
00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:01.119
ever had fun on one in eighteen
team. Well, we weren't actually one

624
00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:05.559
in eighteen, but yes we had. We had. We want enough games

625
00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:07.519
to have fun, let me put
it that way. But I want to

626
00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:10.440
play on your team because I know
you guys go to dairy Queen. You

627
00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:15.880
know VI, I'm not talking to
you the rest of the day, but

628
00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:20.119
he'll see you a dairy queen.
No, you know what, if we

629
00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:23.239
go to dairy Queen, you're buying
for yourself. All the kids wanted to

630
00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:29.320
play on Jay because they lost,
you know what, and I'm not taking

631
00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:31.880
kids to dairy Queen. It's expensive
to go to dairy Queen. The fifteen

632
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:35.239
set, ice cream cone is gone. You know where he's taking you,

633
00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:39.440
Vic to the some point pregame party
where he has cornel burritos. Exactly.

634
00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:45.880
They as long as somebody as somebody
else's tailgate though, exactly exactly. All

635
00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:50.039
right, guys, all right,
well okay, let's see what happens tomorrow.

636
00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:53.800
Good hey, Vic, you follow
the women's team. Your impressions with

637
00:40:53.880 --> 00:40:59.320
what Ad has done, because we've
we've talked off the off the I I

638
00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:04.599
actually he was kind of not a
fan at in the beginning, but I

639
00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:08.639
turned into a huge fan. I
ever missed a game a huge fan.

640
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:15.000
They played hard, and that's I
guess I'm contradicting myself, but that uh,

641
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:21.159
those losses, I went home feeling
great. Yeah, speaking of participation

642
00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:24.440
trophies, yeah, exactly exactly.
But but you know what, that team

643
00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:28.960
was so fun to watch, and
those seven girls did play their hearts out.

644
00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:32.960
She did a fantastic job. You
know. I see if I told

645
00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:37.840
you this about even the men's team, they're missing one shooter. One shooter

646
00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:43.119
do loosened it up inside and they
if they had Connor back on this team,

647
00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:47.079
they would have won two or three
of those games. Yeah, yeah,

648
00:41:47.480 --> 00:41:51.599
who can shoot? Yeah right,
Yes, they just needed that one,

649
00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:54.480
and they really don't have None of
the girls are just one of those

650
00:41:54.760 --> 00:41:59.480
top shooter type of They had to
have some scorers like you know, like

651
00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:04.079
Jada uh and play in them,
but they don't have a shooter playo.

652
00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:08.079
Even her. She's not that drop
dead killer, you know, outside shot

653
00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:13.679
correct. Okay, see you what
dairy queen. But I'm lactose and teller.

654
00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:22.840
Okay, see you guys, take
care any more with you you're reviewing

655
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:28.880
the tape. I'm pretty sure I
didn't say exactly what Vic said. I

656
00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:32.320
said, so there's something that just
came over another team with a gambling situation.

657
00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:37.239
Loyal of Maryland. They're looking at
him too. All right, let's

658
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:38.960
take this call. Hi, you're
on the air and I on the ball.

659
00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:43.519
They had that first one. It
was a butt call. I was

660
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:47.360
getting ready to call. Okay,
all right, what's up Howard? Anyway,

661
00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:51.480
I was a fan of a deal
when she was doing all the thing,

662
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:57.199
doing championships and getting there. That
was quite a coaching job. But

663
00:42:57.719 --> 00:43:00.920
she self inflicted her own self this
year. And I think the first caller

664
00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:08.440
in the first first hour said that
I don't remember already, but well he

665
00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:13.159
did, Yeah, he did.
He said that she you know, you

666
00:43:13.239 --> 00:43:15.320
know, like you guys were even
saying, and maybe hits the program she

667
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:19.599
was running right here. Oh yeah, yea, yeah. Well I won't

668
00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:22.599
say he sent this to me,
but uh, he's a he's a frequent

669
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:27.360
listener and in factor, he's a
he's a guy who who comes on the

670
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:30.440
show every now and again. He
talked about Ada. I think realizes that

671
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:35.639
you can't go after certain players.
And uh, I can't find to hear

672
00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:37.239
this. Uh I think I did. You know she made a mistake by

673
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:42.159
loading up her rosher with full of
fifteen scholarship players who were touted after the

674
00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:45.639
Wildcats made the championship. Bark Luke
did a great job of mixing talent with

675
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:49.159
role players who improved their career and
went on, you know, to other

676
00:43:49.239 --> 00:43:52.679
things. She needs to do that. I think she realizes that yeah,

677
00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:57.760
right, yeah, make the peace
players right. She has said that she's

678
00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:01.280
got you just don't go after five
McDonald's. All Americans get some get some

679
00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:07.519
players are gonna come in and do
certain Yeah, and they you of a

680
00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:13.440
yesterday remember was the easy game against
USC. It'll be a lot harder.

681
00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:15.079
Yeah, I think so too.
I think so too. You know,

682
00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:17.199
months ago I would have said they
would the loss that you show a game,

683
00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:21.840
but no, I agree with you. But they're playing well though even

684
00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:24.519
I'm thinking, yeah, okay,
they're doing really well. They're gonna but

685
00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:29.039
it's gonna be good. There was
a Goodtuona game, just like with my

686
00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:32.360
sons. That's gonna be nationally televised
against the Celtics, and you know,

687
00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:37.280
the Celtics will be favored, but
if it's by more than four or five,

688
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:40.239
I'd be jumping on the sun.
Where's the game? Oh, it's

689
00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:44.840
in Phoenix. And then they're gonna
go on the road in about three or

690
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:49.360
four days to Boston. But Booker
will be ready, so they're gonna crush

691
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:54.440
him on the road too. Okay, thanks for not being biased. Well,

692
00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:58.960
the Booker will be back. Remember
they just beat the Nuggets, and

693
00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:02.159
the Nuggets beat ball, so I
mean at home. Okay, thanks,

694
00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:06.400
all right, Thanks, we'll see
guys have a good weekend. To thank

695
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:09.159
you. All right. I found
I found the Loyal Maryland thing. It

696
00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:12.960
was it looks like it's a player
who was gambling. Okay that that,

697
00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:16.039
Uh, there was a statement issue
by Loyal Athletics basically, I won't read

698
00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:21.920
it. Basically said that the US
Integrity, the company that we've talked about,

699
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:24.559
that that finds these things, so
analyze, analyze the contest, and

700
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:29.280
no anomalies were discovered. They're just
saying that a player got caught gambling.

701
00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:32.079
It's been reported, he's removed from
the program. It was. It was

702
00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:37.079
a self report and no further action
being taken. The coach just got let

703
00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:39.599
go to Yeah that probably you know
who's the A D. You know who

704
00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:45.039
the S I D there is?
Right? Oh? All Ryan, all

705
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:47.440
right? Another thing that just came
across Evan Mayakawa. Do you see this,

706
00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:52.840
he says, confer he puts up
that Jayden Bradley is the most valuable

707
00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:57.239
sixth man in the country, and
he says by fault. Yeah, well

708
00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:01.440
we talked about that three weeks about
another thing in the top ten is also

709
00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:04.920
kJ Lewis. Yeah, so you're
talking about it. I mean, that's

710
00:46:04.920 --> 00:46:09.400
a formidable bench. Just have when
you know you got guys on the bench

711
00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:13.519
that if one of your guys is
having a bad game, you can throw

712
00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:15.079
him in there. Right. It's
a lot of the like in nineteen ninety

713
00:46:15.079 --> 00:46:21.159
seven year, right, you had
Mike Bibby and Miles Jason Terry, Michael

714
00:46:21.199 --> 00:46:23.119
Dickerson there as well. Uh,
this funny thing about it, I can't

715
00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:27.159
remember who did. Don't think it
was Goodman. It might have been Rostin

716
00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:29.920
or one of those national guys that
said, and this is the world we

717
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:37.000
live in. Okay, you have
Caleb and and and who's the sidekick these

718
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:40.840
two guys. You have two guys
coming in if they decide to return.

719
00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:45.199
It was the if they decided to
return thing ten years ago. You're thinking

720
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:49.360
they're coming back for another year right
now? You wonder are they gonna stay?

721
00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:52.199
Yeah? Yeah, I mean kJ
Lewis is already showing up in maccacraft

722
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:54.519
for next year. Yeah. You
know. No. I love the way

723
00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:59.599
he plays, and you talked about
his physique. He's aggressive, he's fancying

724
00:46:59.679 --> 00:47:02.559
the back. Yeah. Here's an
interesting piece of this thing. So this

725
00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:07.280
rating that that Mike Awa gives them
in each spot in the rankings, it's

726
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:12.519
a it's a it's a point two
difference usually right from you know, the

727
00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:16.559
second the guy number two is Richie
Sanders from BYU is rating six point four

728
00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:20.400
nine. Whatever that means. Then
the next guy six point two to one,

729
00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:22.440
the next guy six point oh two. But it goes from six point

730
00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:27.840
four to nine for Richie Saunders is
seven point sixty six for Jayden Bradley,

731
00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:31.280
meaning he's far and above the best
six man. Ye according to this h

732
00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:37.119
this system that Evan Mike Colla has. Interesting, Yeah, but that's they

733
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:39.760
just didn't have that last year.
No, no, of course not well.

734
00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:43.400
I mean when they needed somebody like
that to come off the bench against

735
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:45.840
Princeton, they didn't have it.
No, well, they had a guy,

736
00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:50.840
but he didn't do it. Jaden
Nudge and Coylin Boswell, Yeah,

737
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:53.039
because Kerr was the one that was
kind of in there and he wouldn't put

738
00:47:53.119 --> 00:47:58.400
him in there, right, So
unless you're Colin was fantastic. Yeah yeah,

739
00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:04.280
so very interesting stuff and uh,
it's stacking up steep again. You

740
00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:07.440
just don't know because you're Arizona fan. You think something bad can happen.

741
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:12.159
But they're they're they're they're stacked up
to make you're a singing right now.

742
00:48:12.679 --> 00:48:15.440
So when you got here in August
or whatever, h don't you think the

743
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:21.320
season has gone by like your senior
year is almost done very fast? Like

744
00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:25.400
now we were just talking about Duke
Wins. We were talking about the day,

745
00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:29.719
right and now we're at the end
of the last month or three weeks

746
00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:31.599
of the season. Yep, goes
why fast. I don't think he gets

747
00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:36.519
older. It gets faster when you
get older. And that's sad because you

748
00:48:36.599 --> 00:48:42.480
know, because we're that end of
the tunnel is not that far the hill,

749
00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:45.960
the hill that we've climbed is the
way down exactly. We're almost to

750
00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:47.920
the top of the hill. And
that's that's tough to think about it.

751
00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:52.599
It's gone very fast, very fast. So they've already put up the the

752
00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:58.880
twenty twenty four Conference champion thing up
on the wall inside McHale, put up

753
00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:02.079
at the top of the list the
champion championship years. They've also So you

754
00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:06.639
watched the go Ahead you want to? I was just saying, you kind

755
00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:07.960
of looks like they're hitting their stride
right now. This is the time you

756
00:49:08.039 --> 00:49:10.480
want to, you know, go
right in the conference, at tourney and

757
00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:14.360
right into march Man. Don't say
it, don't say it, don't say

758
00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:19.280
anyth about momento. I like that
one, okay, I like that one

759
00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:21.679
because you can always not hit your
stride at some point, you know,

760
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:27.280
did you see you watched did you
see Desiree on the state She's gonna love

761
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:30.440
so she loves social media. Yes, man, she was doing it right

762
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:34.880
there on the on the sideline and
she was inside the picture of them with

763
00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:38.119
the banner. Yeah, it's a
new age we live in. We meet

764
00:49:38.159 --> 00:49:42.039
with her Monday. I think that
what I think it is. I think

765
00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:45.039
we r s v P for that
you did for Monday. We haven't checked

766
00:49:45.079 --> 00:49:49.039
the time. They need to check
the time, man, let me know.

767
00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:52.039
Okay, So we got to see
that for that and have her on

768
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:55.239
at some point. Ye Stewart's sink
in the clubhouse at nine under at the

769
00:49:55.559 --> 00:50:00.239
at the Colt Guard Classics. So
he's early starts sinking. My favorite guys.

770
00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:04.880
Here's why we went at when they
at the match play up and up

771
00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:08.519
at dub Mountain. My my my
wife and my daughter who was like eight.

772
00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:14.320
She for some reason she went with
us and I think both my daughters

773
00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:16.360
were with us and we were just
sitting on the grass at the eighteenth hole.

774
00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:21.559
He finished his round and then just
walking off the thing off the green,

775
00:50:21.639 --> 00:50:23.199
he signed the ball, the golf
ball, just tossed it to my

776
00:50:23.320 --> 00:50:27.280
daughter. She still has it.
She probably has. It's probably been there

777
00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:30.519
for quite a while, but you
know, no, just he just signed

778
00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:31.880
it and tossed it to it.
That was cool. So he'll be always

779
00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:35.679
to be one of my favorites because
of that. It's all it takes,

780
00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:38.519
right, that's all it takes.
Any guys like that to have done stuff

781
00:50:38.559 --> 00:50:44.840
like that. Autografts you've gotten or
T shirt or nothing like. Nobody's that

782
00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:52.360
kind of me. But maybe the
facial hair could be. Sorry I had

783
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:54.599
to say that because I can't do
I can't do that. I get you.

784
00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:59.199
Yeah, but no, not really, not really. But you know,

785
00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:02.320
there's but do you have we haven't
We haven't quiz you on this favorite

786
00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:06.960
athletes Guys that you you're a big
fan of and you have a jersey of

787
00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:08.679
or anything like that. I was
a big Kobe guy. Yeah, I

788
00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:14.239
was a really big Kobe guy.
Been living in l ah sure all you

789
00:51:14.280 --> 00:51:16.360
guys know they were Kobe Kobe people. Yeah, yeah, he was.

790
00:51:16.519 --> 00:51:21.679
He was an icon there. So
not really, I don't really go on

791
00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:25.639
the jersey route. Maybe when I
was younger, yeah, Kobe and Lebron

792
00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:32.280
and all that, but nothing lately
baseball football, anybody, Wait, were

793
00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:36.119
you an NFL fan. I was, Yeah, I was a Bear fans.

794
00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:39.079
Oh that's what you mentioned. When
Jake Color first got traded to Chicago.

795
00:51:39.360 --> 00:51:45.559
Jake Color, you were all all
Jake Color he was Yeah, he

796
00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:49.760
was respectable for us, but yeah, you know, not as good as

797
00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:55.000
what we thought. So all right, not really any baseball Maybe Cubs Derek

798
00:51:55.119 --> 00:52:00.639
Lee good first baseman. Remember when
the White sucks Arnon Beckham when he was

799
00:52:01.039 --> 00:52:04.880
he was supposed to be a budding
star. Yeah, then fizzled out.

800
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:07.920
Yeah, so that was that.
All right? Really, what can we

801
00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:10.480
do to make you a Dodger fan? Nothing? I go to the games.

802
00:52:10.559 --> 00:52:13.599
Yeah, but they're not like a
huge fan though, right, or

803
00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:15.599
are you you know they? I
mean if you're in for some of you

804
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:19.840
win for the Cubs. Yeah,
and the clubs played the Dodgers. Yeah,

805
00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:21.599
you're ruin for the Cubs. Yeah. Okay, well that's all we

806
00:52:21.679 --> 00:52:24.519
need to know. You're not really
a Dodger fan. That's fine, that's

807
00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:28.280
problem with it. Okay, all
right, we'll have fun this year.

808
00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:30.559
Yeah, no, I'll be.
They gotta win, they have to win,

809
00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:34.639
so yeah, we'll see all right, Okay, sounds good. I

810
00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:39.960
slipped through that conversation I'm okay with
it. Hope you carry on with that

811
00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:43.440
conversations because you get to the end
of the show. All right, hey

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man, we're just about done.
Air's on a baseball place tonight. There

813
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they've got usc you know softball.
They lost. They did the bases loaded,

814
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one out, a swinging bunt,
a little dribbler up the line in

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the winning run. They lost three
to two. What's the record, they

816
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were seventeen and five, but I
think that was their first conference games.

817
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They own one in the league.
Okay, hey, good show today,

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Thanks a lot of fun, Thanks
Jake Fisher, and thanks to Brian Peterson.

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We'll uh, we'll talk again.
And we got one more, one

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more show before we head out for
the Pact Off tournament. So we're off

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Tuesday through Friday next week. We
can't do our show from Vegas. We're

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disappointed by that, but we will
be here on Monday and do as much

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as we can to preview packed Off
tournaments. So be sure to come back

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on Monday. Okay, you then
have a great weekend.