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Speaker 3: get set, I mean today the tournament kind of starts.
Speaker 3: We've got playing games, but two days away from the
Speaker 3: best two days of the year my opinion, and certainly
Speaker 3: yesterday there was a whole lot of bitching, and I
Speaker 3: was I was doing a lot of it, a lot
Speaker 3: of interaction from you guys as well. And look, you
Speaker 3: can call in and bitch if you'd like. I mean,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't. I wouldn't want to make that the entire show,
Speaker 3: but the floor is yours if you guys want to
Speaker 3: be a part of it. However, you know, today we
Speaker 3: can turn the page and start talking a little more
Speaker 3: about this tournament. It's you know, overall, as well as
Speaker 3: Louisville's match up with Creighton. I hate that it's Creighton
Speaker 3: that they've got to play in the first round, a
Speaker 3: team that played in the big Eiaest Championship, a team
Speaker 3: that gives you some could give you some problems in
Speaker 3: areas where you're vulnerable, which will certainly get into that today,
Speaker 3: but you know, there's nothing you can do about it now.
Speaker 2: And maybe it's because Louisville's involved in it.
Speaker 3: But Austin, do you feel like I don't know if
Speaker 3: you've been consuming as much content when it comes to
Speaker 3: the tournament.
Speaker 2: As I had the last couple of days.
Speaker 3: But I feel like the noise about the committee is
Speaker 3: as bad now as it's ever been, mostly I guess
Speaker 3: because of Carolina, But doesn't just seem like there's more
Speaker 3: talk about the committee getting it wrong than there has
Speaker 3: been in a long time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and no, I think you're right. I think even
Speaker 4: though you're especially you, I know you're a college basketball
Speaker 4: nut yourself. So yeah, I mean when we when we
Speaker 4: when the outside noise is kind of really getting that
Speaker 4: and it's just fun because, like you said, Louisville is
Speaker 4: a part of it, and we have someone else there
Speaker 4: to validate it. But you know, now it doesn't seem
Speaker 4: like we're screaming into an echo chamber like that. We're
Speaker 4: not the real crazy ones. Other people are noticing too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3: The committee being led by the chairman that of course
Speaker 3: is also the athletic director of North Carolina, Bubba Cunningham.
Speaker 3: I mean, I thought this was just something people put
Speaker 3: out there on the Internet and waited for enough people
Speaker 3: to run with it to where everybody just assumed it
Speaker 3: was true without looking into it. However, I was listening
Speaker 3: to who was it? Rich Eisen had he had, I believe,
Speaker 3: an interview earlier today. I can't think of who it was.
Speaker 3: One of the coaches that's.
Speaker 2: In the tournament.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a big name, and and you know, he
Speaker 3: referenced the whole Bubba Cunningham getting a getting an actual
Speaker 3: like in incentive if Carolina makes the tournament. I mean,
Speaker 3: that is the objects of that are insane. That the
Speaker 3: guy who is leading the committee and the last team
Speaker 3: that gets in is is the school that he's the
Speaker 3: athletic director for and he is compensated based off them
Speaker 3: making the tournament. I mean, it's one of those things
Speaker 3: you almost feel like you can't make it up. And yes,
Speaker 3: he did leave the room, and I mean I believe
Speaker 3: he did. But one thing that nobody seems to consider.
Speaker 3: I know I talked to it this a little bit yesterday,
Speaker 3: but now that like this is actually you know, this
Speaker 3: is real. This isn't just something people made up. I mean,
Speaker 3: even if you are out of the room, those that
Speaker 3: are there with you on the committee, the guys you're
Speaker 3: rubbing elbows with your peers, the other athletic directors that
Speaker 3: are on this committee, like they're gonna they're probably gonna
Speaker 3: be aware that like that you don't want to inter
Speaker 3: They don't they don't want you to re enter the
Speaker 3: room and them have to tell you, oh, sorry, we
Speaker 3: didn't put your team in. They were the first team out.
Speaker 3: I mean you would think that integrity matters and that
Speaker 3: you know that they would just have to do it
Speaker 3: and deal with it, and they should. But like I
Speaker 3: just think the human element is more of a factor
Speaker 3: and a lot of things in life than people realize.
Speaker 3: So again, there's way more talking about the committee, mostly
Speaker 3: just because of Carolina. But I do feel like, you know,
Speaker 3: the the and it's not just Louisville, but clearly I
Speaker 3: think they are viewed to be one of the mostly
Speaker 3: you know, when it comes to teams that feel like
Speaker 3: they didn't get the seed that most were expecting, Louisville
Speaker 3: is certainly at the top of the list. But Austin
Speaker 3: and I were talking right before the show because obviously
Speaker 3: Dan Patt, I'm Dan Patrick, but Colin Cowhart is on
Speaker 3: before us, which of course Dan Patrick is on prior
Speaker 3: to that, but Colin was talking about I mean, they've
Speaker 3: been talking about the tournament quite a bit the last
Speaker 3: couple of days, and I noticed it yesterday. Austin noticed
Speaker 3: it today that when they talk college basketball, I mean,
Speaker 3: you can we can tell that they really don't follow
Speaker 3: it that closely and they really don't know what they're
Speaker 3: talking about. And I'm used to it by now, like
Speaker 3: it's a known thing that people do this, But.
Speaker 2: I'm just curious.
Speaker 3: I wonder if those who aren't obsessed with college hoops
Speaker 3: like we are when they tune into these live shows
Speaker 3: that are national across the entire country and they're consuming
Speaker 3: the college hoops content, I wonder if they can pick
Speaker 3: up on it, meaning, do they realize that, like some
Speaker 3: of the stuff they're saying is like really generic or
Speaker 3: maybe sometimes not even true, or do they maybe just
Speaker 3: get the sense? Okay, I listen to this guy every
Speaker 3: day and he's not saying this with as much confidence
Speaker 3: as he usually speaks on you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think what are the kids like to say?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: It's just if they know ball or not, and you
Speaker 4: could get down to all morweeds and start and start
Speaker 4: knowing like they're a wins above bubble and like, what's
Speaker 4: the other one that sounds like a screwdriver?
Speaker 2: The Brent bart Torvik? Oh yeah, is that even a person?
Speaker 2: Mark Torvik is a person?
Speaker 4: Okay, So I've heard I've heard that in the last
Speaker 4: couple of days more than I and I've heard you
Speaker 4: talk about it throughout the season. But I mean, especially
Speaker 4: if you're just like a regular listener to those shows
Speaker 4: and you start hearing them talk about it, I think
Speaker 4: if you're not Balloher's like us, and you're you're probably
Speaker 4: walking away man.
Speaker 2: He has very good points.
Speaker 1: Get do gets right number one.
Speaker 2: I do like that. I do like a chalked final four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the So anytime they're talking college basketball,
Speaker 3: I think that's a good thing because I love the sport.
Speaker 2: I wish more people loved it.
Speaker 3: I get so I consume so much college hoops during
Speaker 3: the season that at times I do lose sight of
Speaker 3: the fact that it's kind of a rare thing around here.
Speaker 3: Like normally, when we really get into the NFL and
Speaker 3: we really get into college football, everybody else does too.
Speaker 3: It's it's really popular nationally. College hoops is really not
Speaker 3: at all until you get to this time of the year.
Speaker 3: So it's not something that's new. But I don't know,
Speaker 3: I just I wish it didn't bother me, right, because again,
Speaker 3: if they're talking about the game that I love, and
Speaker 3: I can tune into all these different national shows, national
Speaker 3: podcasts and they are talking college hoops, that's content i'd
Speaker 3: be interested in.
Speaker 2: Because I love college basketball.
Speaker 3: But there's also something that irritates me because I think,
Speaker 3: to myself, come on, why don't you guys do this
Speaker 3: all the time? This is great, Like, don't you realize
Speaker 3: college hoops is such a special, special thing. So yeah,
Speaker 3: yesterday I was listening to to Cowherd and Jay Mac
Speaker 3: Jason McIntyre, the sidekick essentially of Colin Show, and he
Speaker 3: does this from time to time on a lot of
Speaker 3: topics in my opinion.
Speaker 2: But he was talking about in it was Auburn, and.
Speaker 3: You could just tell that he was out there talking
Speaker 3: Auburn and he didn't know anything, which is okay, Like,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, nobody has to be an expert,
Speaker 3: but you know, I think sometimes you get you deep
Speaker 3: down know you don't know a whole lot, so therefore
Speaker 3: when you start talking about it, you're not comfortable.
Speaker 2: And that's what happened. And there's just a national show
Speaker 2: in those guys.
Speaker 3: A lot of times they're giving you strong, hot takes
Speaker 3: that they don't even believe, but they just know that's
Speaker 3: the job, right, shock jock, that kind of stuff, just
Speaker 3: you know, embrace debate. That's that's really what a lot
Speaker 3: of those national shows are. But he was talking about
Speaker 3: one of Auburn's guards and he couldn't think of his name.
Speaker 3: Sweet he just said, you know he's got that he's
Speaker 3: got that great crossover. And I'm like, Wow, like this
Speaker 3: is this is analysis. And I love these guys that
Speaker 3: work for TNT and do inside the NBA. I mean
Speaker 3: they're great, they're entertaining. We don't need that him on
Speaker 3: college basketball coverage. Like Charles Barkley's funny. I think he's
Speaker 3: one of the best characters we've ever had in sports.
Speaker 3: Love Charles Barkley, Love all those guys, Ernie Kenny. I
Speaker 3: mean it's it's awesome, but they don't know or follow
Speaker 3: it at all, and they don't even like try to
Speaker 3: act like they care. Now, Kenny at times has has
Speaker 3: tried to you know, and I believe he probably follows
Speaker 3: it a little bit more closely than others. He's had
Speaker 3: a son that played not that long ago.
Speaker 4: He really liked Russ Smith because you know, they went
Speaker 4: to the same high school.
Speaker 3: Again it's right or not together, but yeah, they went
Speaker 3: for a j same coach. Actually guy coached Russ coach
Speaker 3: him many years before that. So yeah, Like but then
Speaker 3: because maybe they just like to be funny and they
Speaker 3: yuck it up. But like even when Kenny's trying to
Speaker 3: be serious, they just kind of like make a joke
Speaker 3: and it's it's not the worst thing in the world
Speaker 3: because here's what's sad. If they're a part of it,
Speaker 3: there's likely to be more people that are interested in it.
Speaker 3: And that's that's that just speaks to people not really
Speaker 3: caring a whole lot about college hoops like we do. So,
Speaker 3: you know, I the first couple of years it was whatever.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not gonna it's not going to ruin
Speaker 3: anything about my experience of watching the n S Double
Speaker 3: A Tournament. But I just think if you are somebody
Speaker 3: that is over top of the you know, I don't
Speaker 3: and I don't really know who's in charge of college
Speaker 3: basketball to be honest with you, because you know, A
Speaker 3: turnery they're the ones who pay the insane amount of
Speaker 3: money to be able to broadcast the tournament, and they
Speaker 3: make a lot of money based off of, you know,
Speaker 3: selling advertisements. So you know, the NCE Double A. They
Speaker 3: they really are like, look, if you're gonna pay us
Speaker 3: this insanely insane amount of money, you can put whoever
Speaker 3: you want on there.
Speaker 4: And this is going to be there last year right
Speaker 4: on the inside the NBA and I so leaving time.
Speaker 3: So it's it's it's really tricky how it's gonna work.
Speaker 3: So the those guys are staying with Turner, and Turner
Speaker 3: is going to license slash lease those guys to work
Speaker 3: for ESPN, okay, which is really I mean, it's it's
Speaker 3: I'm sure something like that's happened before, but they're gonna
Speaker 3: be part of NBA coverage while still working for Turner. However,
Speaker 3: Turner is going to be charging. You know, these guys
Speaker 3: got fat contracts, and Turner is gonna charge ESPN.
Speaker 2: They're going to tax them, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: So again, the more we talk college the more people
Speaker 3: are talking college basketball and nationally, the better it is.
Speaker 2: But as somebody who you know is.
Speaker 3: So obsessed with the sport, it's such a big part
Speaker 3: of our culture around here, when I hear them kind
Speaker 3: of like, you know, just whatever about it, it almost
Speaker 3: is like they're like they're not making fun of it.
Speaker 2: But I don't know, it's just you wouldn't see that.
Speaker 3: In really any other sport when it gets to the
Speaker 3: biggest event, which of course March Madness is that for
Speaker 3: college basketball, and really there can't be a sport quite
Speaker 3: like college hoops to where it's it's really not even
Speaker 3: close to what you get as far as popularity, viewership
Speaker 3: when it comes to the NFL or college football, we
Speaker 3: know that. But whenever it does get to the NAA tournament,
Speaker 3: I mean there are a ton of people.
Speaker 2: Who watch it.
Speaker 3: I mean, nothing competes with the NFL, course, but like
Speaker 3: it doesn't just go from it doesn't really get paid
Speaker 3: attention to. People are slightly watching. It goes from okay, nationally,
Speaker 3: it's not really a needle mover like you would think.
Speaker 3: But then, man, when you get to the tournament, like
Speaker 3: we're talking, you know, an insane amount more that do
Speaker 3: tune in, which again that's that's the way it's always been.
Speaker 3: But it's here. I mean, we are Today's that the
Speaker 3: playing game and you have it. I mean you, I
Speaker 3: mean I was about to ask a really stupid question.
Speaker 3: I was asking if you're gonna bets and night. Of
Speaker 3: course you're gonna bet tonight, right of.
Speaker 4: Course, Absolutely, there's gonna there's gonna be the DraftKings open.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, what do you I mean this Carolina situation.
Speaker 3: I mean, they they ended up making the tournament, and
Speaker 3: they know that everybody is you know, they know that
Speaker 3: everybody is mad that they're in. They know that they're
Speaker 3: kind of the big joke here. Because you know, they're
Speaker 3: probably I I would assume they'll have more people rooting
Speaker 3: against them tonight than like ever, because they're not usually
Speaker 3: like a villain type school, but they're the public views
Speaker 3: them as a team that doesn't even deserve to be there.
Speaker 3: So a part of me says that that could give
Speaker 3: them some motivation, us against the world, backs against the wall,
Speaker 3: but I don't believe it. You know, they could still
Speaker 3: beat San Diego State, and they probably will to be honestly,
Speaker 3: because I don't think San Diego State's very good and Carolina,
Speaker 3: for what it's worth, has played good basketball. The only
Speaker 3: loss they've had, the only two losses they've had in
Speaker 3: over a month, I think, are to Clemson and to Duke.
Speaker 3: So you know, Carolina's not worthy to be in the tournament,
Speaker 3: I don't think. But they're also not like a terrible team.
Speaker 3: So maybe we'll see, you know, maybe we'll see a
Speaker 3: competitive game. But I think this Carolina team you got RJ.
Speaker 3: Davis has been there forever. You've got I mean Jalen Withers,
Speaker 3: who's like a six year senior, and clearly you know
Speaker 3: he's not feeling great about the way things ended in Charlotte.
Speaker 3: That was just we haven't talked about it on the show,
Speaker 3: but that was that was insane how that played out.
Speaker 3: I mean I felt for him, but I also thought
Speaker 3: to myself, how could you do? Like, how does that happen?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: So I just I think Carolina knows that they probably
Speaker 3: they were not expecting to get in. I don't know
Speaker 3: if they believe they should or shouldn't be. I think
Speaker 3: if you asked, they'd say, yeah, we belong, but like,
Speaker 3: this isn't a chip on the shoulder. I think this
Speaker 3: team's kind of defeated. They know they should have never
Speaker 3: even been on the bubble. They simply should have been
Speaker 3: a lot better than they were this year, right, Like
Speaker 3: they have better players than what they showed. So I
Speaker 3: think they either get by because you know, they are
Speaker 3: better than San Diego State, but I or I could
Speaker 3: see him getting killed too, Like, I mean, you know
Speaker 3: right now they are favored by four.
Speaker 2: And a half. Yeah, that's why I see too. So
Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm gonna do with that one yet.
Speaker 2: I'd probably take them to cover, honestly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's just because more than anything, I just
Speaker 3: I'm not very impressed with San Diego State, and I
Speaker 3: didn't and I didn't really think that San Diego State,
Speaker 3: I mean shows what I know. I didn't even really
Speaker 3: see them as a bubble team that you know, people
Speaker 3: had on the right side of the bubble instead of
Speaker 3: the wrong side of the bubble.
Speaker 2: Where is this game being played? Dayton? They still do
Speaker 2: all those first fours in Dayton. So Dayton, Ohio.
Speaker 4: Tonight we have a Sandy West Coast team traveling to
Speaker 4: play nine o'clock.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and.
Speaker 3: Then Saint Francis, PA taken on Alabama State. The winner
Speaker 3: of that will of course head to Lexington to play
Speaker 3: to play Auburn. I don't know anything about either of
Speaker 3: those teams, but I know I'm going to bet on it.
Speaker 3: I know I'm going to do a little bit of
Speaker 3: looking into them and then I'm gonna make a wager the.
Speaker 4: Red Flash or the Hornets. Yeah, Hornet's buzzing.
Speaker 3: I think so Alabama State is favored about three and
Speaker 3: a half. And I think Alabama State, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: be careful what you wish for, but they would probably
Speaker 3: really love the opportunity to play Auburn given that they're
Speaker 3: in Alabama as well. Yeah, again, be careful what you
Speaker 3: wish for, sir, we shall see. I will say this
Speaker 3: in the last I don't know, since I've been gambling
Speaker 3: on college basketball probably about five years or so now,
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever gotten one right in the
Speaker 3: first four. I mean because I always in oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I always do a two leg parlay with just these
Speaker 3: two games just to kind of, you know, break the ice,
Speaker 3: kind of you know, get things rolling as far as
Speaker 3: postseason wagers. And usually I feel like I've done pretty
Speaker 3: well in the games against like, you know, the elevens,
Speaker 3: like tomorrow they'll be Xavier in Texas tonight you and
Speaker 3: ce San Diego State, as you mentioned, But when it
Speaker 3: comes to the teams that I know nothing about, I mean,
Speaker 3: makes totals. And also I think it's like impossible to
Speaker 3: act really set a line between these two because you really, like,
Speaker 3: you think you know where each conference kind of ranks,
Speaker 3: and I think you do have a much clearer picture
Speaker 3: of where the you know, how conferences stack up with
Speaker 3: each other at the top of college basketball. But I
Speaker 3: think when you're down to the bottom, meaning you know
Speaker 3: this level, I don't even know what conference Saint Francis
Speaker 3: is in or Alabama State. But yeah, I think it's
Speaker 3: impossible to really know. Okay, is this league five spots
Speaker 3: ahead of this one? You just don't know. So again,
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I'm gonna guess more than anything.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take a guest tonight and see if maybe
Speaker 3: my wager pays out.
Speaker 2: What are these other games that's the n starting tonight too, Yes,
Speaker 2: And I like.
Speaker 3: The NRIT man, I mean, we've got we've got some
Speaker 3: pretty good matchups in the n I T and that
Speaker 3: makes me makes me very very excited. And we were
Speaker 3: talking about uh, I mean, I really think Oklahoma State
Speaker 3: and Wichita State, like that's gonna be a good game.
Speaker 3: I really like, honestly Wichita State to cover plus six
Speaker 3: and a half. Oh okay, I also like Saint Louis
Speaker 3: and Arkansas State's playing Saint Louis tonight. I like Arkansas
Speaker 3: State minus five and a half there. And then there
Speaker 3: was one other n I T game that oh yeah,
Speaker 3: Stanford minus six and a half against UC it's.
Speaker 2: Cal north Ridge. Yeah, yeah, Cal State. It's right, Cal
Speaker 2: State Northridge.
Speaker 3: And maybe I'm just maybe I'm just doing that because
Speaker 3: of Stanford giving Louisville all they wanted and nearly beating
Speaker 3: them the last week. But Stanford did actually start playing
Speaker 3: better basketball down the stretch. And you know, I'm not
Speaker 3: going to tell you that they're great, but I think
Speaker 3: like they're They're a team that know that they finished
Speaker 3: with some momentum to end the first season with their
Speaker 3: new head coach. And I feel like they probably aren't
Speaker 3: as bummed about being in the n i T as
Speaker 3: some others. Now again, cal State Northridge clearly is a
Speaker 3: team that is happy to be in the n T
Speaker 3: because any postseason appearance is good for programs like that,
Speaker 3: But they're also not as good as Stanford, Like Stanford
Speaker 3: has raynad when one of the best front court players
Speaker 3: really in the country. Oh yeah, So I'm excited we're
Speaker 3: getting We're getting rolling, baby.
Speaker 4: I'm applauding you because like that's what people tune in for.
Speaker 2: Like that's somebody that knows ball.
Speaker 3: You sure people are tuning in to hear me talk
Speaker 3: cal State north Vidge absolutely, go Jason McIntyre right now,
Speaker 3: does he know anybody on Stanford?
Speaker 2: You know, it's the kind of coverage that I want.
Speaker 3: You know what it is funny because I don't know
Speaker 3: a whole lot. But if there is an area where
Speaker 3: I would have more knowledge, really more useless information, ninety
Speaker 3: nine percent of the time, it would be college hoops,
Speaker 3: just because that's what that's what I'm a nerd for.
Speaker 3: And if there's ever a good time to, you know,
Speaker 3: be the college hoops nerd, I guess, I guess this
Speaker 3: is the good time.
Speaker 4: I can almost guarantee you that cow Herd or j
Speaker 4: Mac do not know who Maximir now is. There's no
Speaker 4: way they might. They might have an idea who Stoyakovic's
Speaker 4: kid is if they were going to sit there and
Speaker 4: act like they knew ball about California, if they were
Speaker 4: talking about it. But and that kind of brings me
Speaker 4: back to that because when I was growing up, I
Speaker 4: always loved the outside validation, like what is a four
Speaker 4: letter net work saying about my school? Because I didn't
Speaker 4: live here. I lived in Arizona. So like when I'm
Speaker 4: trying to preach the choir about how everybody is, I
Speaker 4: always wanted something to show back to them. So when
Speaker 4: I would tune in and just hear them just like
Speaker 4: not talk about like the intricacies that I knew because
Speaker 4: I was on the blogs, I was on all the news.
Speaker 2: Because that's where you had to go because you weren't.
Speaker 2: You weren't.
Speaker 4: I was outside As a kids like to say, you
Speaker 4: don't think that these guys aren't doing it. They're just
Speaker 4: talking about your normal, like everyday kind of stuff. And
Speaker 4: you're you're sitting there excited and you got the coverage around.
Speaker 4: You want to pop on the TV. Let's see what
Speaker 4: I like what this guy has to say. Let's hear
Speaker 4: hear what Mike and Mike in the Morning has to say.
Speaker 4: They're big time, they're on ESPN, and there's no chance
Speaker 4: that they know or care that rain Smith was out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, by the way, that did annoy me that even
Speaker 3: you would you wouldn't even think that the people calling
Speaker 3: the games last week knew that rain Smith was out.
Speaker 2: Like I know, Cooper Flag being at as a way
Speaker 2: bigger deal.
Speaker 3: But Louisville made it to the championship game without their
Speaker 3: third leading scorer, and really they're I mean, he's one
Speaker 3: of the Rain's hard to really it's hard to put
Speaker 3: into words sort of you know, I think we know
Speaker 3: he's a lethal shooter that you just can't leave open
Speaker 3: and teams are going to have to guard you differently
Speaker 3: when he's on the floor. Everybody knows that, but I
Speaker 3: feel like I'm not I feel like even saying that,
Speaker 3: I'm not quite giving rain as full credit as far
Speaker 3: as how valuable he is to this team. And you know,
Speaker 3: to act like you know he was the same impact
Speaker 3: that Cooper flag is, well, no nobody would do that.
Speaker 3: But you also you know, like of a lot of
Speaker 3: the when it comes to Louisville, they've already lost so
Speaker 3: many guys to injury. So the really of the core four,
Speaker 3: and that's Rainsmith, Javon Hadley, Chucky Headburn, Terrence Edwards.
Speaker 2: That's your core four.
Speaker 3: There's none of those four that if you lose them
Speaker 3: you're feeling like, oh, okay, it's gonna be just fine.
Speaker 3: But like rain I think in a way he's up
Speaker 3: there as far as again, they're all really valuable and
Speaker 3: if you lost one of them, it would be it
Speaker 3: would be an issue, and it was an issue. But
Speaker 3: Louisville was able to get by without him last week
Speaker 3: in a couple of games. And he is going to
Speaker 3: play on Thursday, there's no question about that. Now, will
Speaker 3: he be rusty, will he be able to give you
Speaker 3: anything close to way what you got when he was healthy.
Speaker 3: We'll have to we'll have to wait and see. But anyways,
Speaker 3: let's get to our first break. We'll come back on
Speaker 3: the other side. We've got an updated schedule for for tomorrow. Actually,
Speaker 3: Louisville will have Pat Kelsey's press conference at RUP. There'll
Speaker 3: be an open practice for fans if you guys want
Speaker 3: to go to that, and we'll get you all the
Speaker 3: info that you need and continue to get to get set.
Speaker 3: I know, tonight and tomorrow it's really the appetizers. But
Speaker 3: Thursday and Friday, baby, it's gonna be the best two
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Speaker 3: first team out, that is gonna suck. Hang out, don't
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Speaker 3: is it's safe to say when it comes to the
Speaker 3: national folks talking college basketball this time of year, it's
Speaker 3: like you trying to talk Derby. Yes, that's a very
Speaker 3: very very good assessment. I would say it's me talking
Speaker 3: horse racing more than anything, because I can talk Derby,
Speaker 3: meaning like Derby, the event, what comes with it like that,
Speaker 3: that's different. But horse racing is something that I don't
Speaker 3: know anything about, and I don't really care to know
Speaker 3: a whole lot about it, right Like I love everything
Speaker 3: that comes with the Kentucky Derby, But the sport of
Speaker 3: horse racing is not something that I was really exposed
Speaker 3: to a lot growing up, and it's never really hooked me,
Speaker 3: and it's never been something that I'm totally interested in,
Speaker 3: and that has at times made me feel like, man,
Speaker 3: like I got nothing to add, I got nothing to say,
Speaker 3: because you know, you think if there ever was going
Speaker 3: to be a time to talk horse racing would be
Speaker 3: you know, when we host the Kentucky Derby, one of
Speaker 3: the biggest sporting events on the planet every year, but
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, maybe it was longer than that. Actually,
Speaker 3: I just decided, look, I'm not can't I can't force it. Like,
Speaker 3: I'm just going to be pretty transparent here. I mean,
Speaker 3: instead of trying to talk about it and making a
Speaker 3: fool of myself, just let's just not talk about it
Speaker 3: on my end, right, bringing people who maybe could provide
Speaker 3: some knowledge on the sport and the race itself rather
Speaker 3: than you know, the event and everything that comes with it.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe it's just me and my own bubble.
Speaker 3: I don't think horse racing the sport is is a
Speaker 3: real great radio topic in general. I think it's one
Speaker 3: of those things that it's a niche. People who love
Speaker 3: it love it, but it's you know, And maybe maybe
Speaker 3: that's just me saying that because I'm insecure about the
Speaker 3: fact that if I was big, if I was tasked
Speaker 3: to to do some horse racing analysis and to share
Speaker 3: some thoughts, have some opinions on horse racing, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: be able to do it. Like I couldn't tell you anything.
Speaker 3: You could come on here, start talking horse racing and
Speaker 3: makeup things as far as like terminology, and I would
Speaker 3: just assume you're telling the truth because I know nothing,
Speaker 3: so you know, it's probably not something I should admit,
Speaker 3: but I'm I'm just telling you the truth. But when
Speaker 3: it comes to college basketball, you know, not not to
Speaker 3: brag by any means, because I'm sure other people use
Speaker 3: their time a little bit more wisely. But me, I
Speaker 3: watch a lot of college hoops and I love it.
Speaker 2: It's what I am. Probably in fact, there's no probably
Speaker 2: to it outside of.
Speaker 3: You know, my family, my friends, my kids, all that stuff,
Speaker 3: you know, things that you're supposed to just say that
Speaker 3: are more important.
Speaker 2: Outside of all that which is really important.
Speaker 3: College bassketball is next in line, all right. So this
Speaker 3: Creighton team, I will admit I have not watched Creighton
Speaker 3: play a whole lot this year. I mean the Big
Speaker 3: East itself. I mean, and by the way, this is
Speaker 3: something that didn't get Maybe it's just because we you know,
Speaker 3: maybe because we have our games on the on the
Speaker 3: ACC network, which is within ESPN, or maybe it's just
Speaker 3: because you know, out of sight, out of mind. But
Speaker 3: there was a lot of talk this year, understandably so,
Speaker 3: about how the ACC had fallen off, which is true,
Speaker 3: by the way, like it's it wasn't.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a lie.
Speaker 3: It sucks to know that the committee decided to not
Speaker 3: really hold the ACC accountable, only hold Louisll accountable, because
Speaker 3: again Louisville is the only thing that makes no sense
Speaker 3: about how they viewed the ACC. But nonetheless, I told
Speaker 3: myself I was gonna not bitch as much today, so
Speaker 3: I'll move on. But the ACC got four teams in,
Speaker 3: and of course Carolina was the last team in. You know,
Speaker 3: the power conferences are the Big Ten, the SEC, the
Speaker 3: Big East, Big twelve, and the ACC. Well, you know, again,
Speaker 3: there wasn't a whole lot of talk about the Big East.
Speaker 3: But the Big East. I mean, let's look at what
Speaker 3: they got. I mean, you have Saint John's the number
Speaker 3: one team in that league. They won the league. They
Speaker 3: got a two seed, deserve it. But then Creighton, you know,
Speaker 3: they finished second in the league at fifteen and five,
Speaker 3: they're a nine seed. You can they They're an eight
Speaker 3: seed at fourteen and six in the league. Marquette got in,
Speaker 3: there're a seven. Xavier got in. So there's one more
Speaker 3: team in the dance from the Big East than the ACC.
Speaker 3: But yet I feel like if you asked anybody of
Speaker 3: the Power five you know what league is the best,
Speaker 3: what league is the worst? Everybody would say the ACC.
Speaker 3: And I'm not here to defend it and act like
Speaker 3: you know, what's happening isn't reality, because again, the AEC's
Speaker 3: fallen off big time. But you've got you got club.
Speaker 3: I mean, Louisville should be higher than an eight, but
Speaker 3: they are what they are. But if the thing seated correctly,
Speaker 3: I think you could make the case that the committee
Speaker 3: would have you know, well, we'll believe the committee out
Speaker 3: of it. But like Saint John's is the best team
Speaker 3: in that league, Big East, But Duke's better, right, Duke's
Speaker 3: better even without Cooper Flagg in my opinion. Now, Rick
Speaker 3: Patino against that Duke team, I will never doubt Rick.
Speaker 3: Maybe he'd win, wouldn't be a big of a shocker.
Speaker 3: I mean, Saint John's did go thirty and four, eighteen
Speaker 3: and two in their league. So second best team is Creighton.
Speaker 3: I guess Marquette if you go off seed line, are
Speaker 3: they I mean they're not seeded better than Clemson. Again,
Speaker 3: Louisville should be at least I mean, Louisville should be
Speaker 3: a six, like that's you know, five I thought was
Speaker 3: gonna be a little much. Seven I think would have
Speaker 3: been fair. But as soon as I saw Clemson with
Speaker 3: a five, I just thought Louisville should be a six
Speaker 3: based off of Louisville sweeping them. So anyways, these two teams,
Speaker 3: I feel like one of the things that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I haven't heard anybody bring it up.
Speaker 3: Maybe it is being talked about elsewhere, but they're both
Speaker 3: entering the tournament with leagues that you don't really know
Speaker 3: how challenged you were because you didn't do a whole
Speaker 3: lot of the non conference, which is why when you
Speaker 3: got into the league and you beat each other up,
Speaker 3: you really weren't given any benefit of the doubt. I
Speaker 3: mean again, Creighton is twenty four and ten overall. I mean,
Speaker 3: looking at their resume here, they hit a tough skid
Speaker 3: in the beginning of the season. They lost three straight.
Speaker 3: They lost to Nebraska, they lost to San Diego State,
Speaker 3: they lost to Texas A and M. They also lost
Speaker 3: to Alabama. No shame in that their worst loss comes
Speaker 3: against Georgetown, which was one of the worst teams in
Speaker 3: the Big East. Their other losses from then on were
Speaker 3: all quality of losses. They lost to Marquette on the road,
Speaker 3: lost to Yukon, lost to Saint John's, lost to Xavier,
Speaker 3: which that probably helped Xavier become one of these teams
Speaker 3: in the playing game. And then they lost to Saint
Speaker 3: John's in the Biggiest Championship and by the way they
Speaker 3: did it beat Saint John's. Of the four losses Saint
Speaker 3: John's has, one of them came to to Creighton. Now again,
Speaker 3: that happened on December thirty first, So look, when it
Speaker 3: comes to this, this creating team, everybody's talking about Ryan Kockbrenner, cock.
Speaker 2: Brenner, Cockburnner. I just met her. Can I use you?
Speaker 2: Can I take it to dinner?
Speaker 1: First? What Brenner?
Speaker 2: Can you believe it took us two days into the
Speaker 2: week to get that out. I know it.
Speaker 3: I mean we were saying that long before we knew
Speaker 3: we were going to see Cawk Brenner in the dance.
Speaker 4: And of course that's what would end up happening, right now, Yeah,
Speaker 4: of course we would run into a big Cockburnner.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: And he's he's a large American and he's he's certainly
Speaker 3: going to be a real, real, uh issue for Louisville.
Speaker 3: But if I could give you some positivity here, you know,
Speaker 3: he's seven to one, averages nineteen and a half, eight
Speaker 3: and a half boards a game. He's he's a shot
Speaker 3: blocker averaging two point seven. Can impact it, can clearly
Speaker 3: disrupt around the rim. So I would hope that Louisville,
Speaker 3: you know, limits him as best they can. But against
Speaker 3: the big fella from Stanford, how do you say is
Speaker 3: named Raynod? Yes, Maxim, He's somebody that I feel like
Speaker 3: in both games, not really as much in the second game,
Speaker 3: but when he I mean he was productive as far
Speaker 3: as how long he was on the floor. He just
Speaker 3: couldn't get out of foul trouble. I mean he was
Speaker 3: committing I mean he picked up like eight fouls, it
Speaker 3: seemed like in that game. But anyways, you know, he
Speaker 3: was able to really do his thing when Louisville played
Speaker 3: them at the Ump Center on the on Senior Day,
Speaker 3: and and really they kind of made everybody else try
Speaker 3: to try to try to beat him, and and kind
Speaker 3: of I wouldn't say they let him get his but
Speaker 3: that to me, they gave me some I know, Creighton's
Speaker 3: better than than Stanford. I'm just saying that was a
Speaker 3: game where their big fellow was able to really have
Speaker 3: a strong game, and yet it didn't really put them
Speaker 3: in a position to where they could they could take
Speaker 3: advantage of it. So you know, again, i'd say the
Speaker 3: supporting cast for Creighton is better than Renaud's supporting cast
Speaker 3: at Stanford. But Stephen ashworth Is is their point guard.
Speaker 3: He has more total assist on the season than Chucky Hepburn.
Speaker 3: So this guy, he's good player. He's he's a senior,
Speaker 3: he's played a lot of did he start his career
Speaker 3: there and he started at Utah State, So is at
Speaker 3: Utah State for three years.
Speaker 2: He's one of those COVID guys.
Speaker 3: He took advantage of a fifth year and he's averaging
Speaker 3: sixteen points and six point eight assists per game. So
Speaker 3: really good player. And you know, well, I can't I
Speaker 3: can't get it. I can't help. I can't help. But
Speaker 3: I mean, we never should go after personal appearance, you know,
Speaker 3: on on this show, because I wouldn't, first of fall,
Speaker 3: it's not nice to do. Also, I wouldn't want anybody
Speaker 3: coming after my personal appearance because I'm an easy target.
Speaker 3: I'm not a I'm not a great looking guy, so
Speaker 3: but this young man.
Speaker 2: It's very odd to me. His he's got like.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's like somebody took the face of
Speaker 3: a like middle aged businessman and put it on I
Speaker 3: don't know. There's just something, something that stands out Stephen
Speaker 3: Ashworth for creating the little point guard.
Speaker 2: I say little point guard. He's not little.
Speaker 3: He looks little. In fact, they listed him at what
Speaker 3: six 't one? I'm not sure he is six one
Speaker 3: six foot But anyways, there's just I don't know, he
Speaker 3: stands out just it is. It is a different looking
Speaker 3: kind of dude than everybody else. And I'm not saying
Speaker 3: because he's a white guy. Clearly there's a lot of
Speaker 3: white guys that play college basketball. So anyways, it looks
Speaker 3: like Freddy Prince Jim. His appearance is not relevant. I
Speaker 3: just pulled up his pager at ESPN dot com looking
Speaker 3: at his stats and it just reminded me, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: this guy's kind of he's got an interesting look.
Speaker 2: About him, but he's a hell of a player.
Speaker 3: Sixteen points a game, just under seven assists total this
Speaker 3: year he has. Yeah, he looks like a Parks manager.
Speaker 3: He's got two hundred and twenty six assists on the season.
Speaker 3: That's that's a lot. Now, he also turns the ball
Speaker 3: over like crazy, So you know, just some just some
Speaker 3: numbers to throw at you here when it comes to
Speaker 3: this matchup. So Creighton, here's what they don't do. They
Speaker 3: don't foul, and that that worries me because Louisville, you know,
Speaker 3: I feel like when they've been at their and by
Speaker 3: the way, they found ways to win when certain things
Speaker 3: statistically didn't go their way. Right, They've got a blueprint.
Speaker 3: There's things they want to do well, there's things they
Speaker 3: oh they need to do well to beat good teams,
Speaker 3: but they've also at times still been able to overcome
Speaker 3: that here and there. So I don't want act like
Speaker 3: every game they've played well and won they did a
Speaker 3: great job at getting to the line. But we know
Speaker 3: guys like Javon, Chucky and Terrence when they're attacking, they're
Speaker 3: aggressive and they're getting teams in the bonus early. That's
Speaker 3: a good recipe for Louisville. So what you have been
Speaker 3: able to do I think pretty well this year and
Speaker 3: certainly something that I think makes you feel better about
Speaker 3: Louisville's chances of winning is if they're getting to the line,
Speaker 3: the bonus is you're in the bonus early. That's a
Speaker 3: good thing, but it's gonna be hard to do because Creighton, again,
Speaker 3: they don't foul. In fact, they are dead last for
Speaker 3: any team. And then you know, in fact they're not
Speaker 3: just dead last as far as fouls per game when
Speaker 3: it comes to the tournament, but the whole country nobody
Speaker 3: fouls less than Creighton. So keep that in mind. Now, again, Ashworth,
Speaker 3: this guy, he's got a lot of assists, but man,
Speaker 3: he also has a lot of turnovers. I mean he's
Speaker 3: he he leads the leads the country in total turnovers
Speaker 3: as far as you know, like relevant teams, not even
Speaker 3: just tournament teams, but teams you know you've heard of.
Speaker 3: So they you know, they don't they don't foul a
Speaker 3: lot and they give it away. That's a good you know,
Speaker 3: that's a good recipe if you could take advantage of it.
Speaker 3: So trying to force them into turnovers would be would
Speaker 3: be great. And I don't know how to I don't
Speaker 3: know what to make of the I don't know what
Speaker 3: to make of the the foul thing because part of
Speaker 3: me says that that that means you're really good defensively,
Speaker 3: or it could just mean that like you concede a lot, like,
Speaker 3: you know, instead of and by the way, sometimes that's
Speaker 3: not a like sometimes that's that's not a bad idea, right,
Speaker 3: you know, if we're going to just give up a
Speaker 3: bucket and just let somebody get it. But if you
Speaker 3: you know, if you just start fouling, like, that's a
Speaker 3: bad recipe for you more often than not, and it's
Speaker 3: going to help another team settle in and get more comfortable.
Speaker 3: But you know, right now, Ken Palm defensive efficiency for
Speaker 3: this Creighton team, they're sitting at forty second. They're thirty
Speaker 3: fourth off in offense, they are twenty first in defense,
Speaker 3: twenty ninth in offense, and the offensive numbers. Let's be real,
Speaker 3: they took a hit. The Louisville was in that range.
Speaker 3: I think it was you needed to be like a
Speaker 3: top twenty five adjusted offense and adjusted defense, like since
Speaker 3: since I could be wrong, I think maybe there was
Speaker 3: one year where it didn't happen, but nearly every year
Speaker 3: or maybe every year since ken Palm has existed. The
Speaker 3: formula goes back to nineteen ninety seven, the national champion
Speaker 3: and I'm not saying Louis's spurting with a national championship
Speaker 3: by any means, but the teams that have won it,
Speaker 3: in fact, the teams that have gone to a Final
Speaker 3: four have also had this similar profile to where you
Speaker 3: have your top twenty five in both adjusted offense and defense.
Speaker 3: And Louisville, before Rain got hurt, they were top twenty
Speaker 3: five in offense and now they're sitting at twenty nine,
Speaker 3: not far from it. So you know, the numbers tell
Speaker 3: you Louisville should be the favorite here by three, but
Speaker 3: obviously not really knowing what you're gonna get from Rain
Speaker 3: is a real question mark. And again, I just think
Speaker 3: what stood out to me when looking at both teams
Speaker 3: overall the resumes, You know, I think they are kind
Speaker 3: of similar, and I think they ended up on the
Speaker 3: eight nine line because again, they did well for their league,
Speaker 3: but the committee doesn't seem to think that the league
Speaker 3: was really worth much. So, you know, Creighton being the
Speaker 3: second place team in the Big East and they made
Speaker 3: it all the way to the championship game after finishing
Speaker 3: second in the league. You know, that may just mean
Speaker 3: that they're good, but it was a product more so
Speaker 3: of the Big East. Same thing with Louisville. You know,
Speaker 3: is Louisville again, We'll never know. I think Louisville playing
Speaker 3: the way they did against Duke without rain for a
Speaker 3: half and really the whole game that you know, And
Speaker 3: then it sounds like I'm acting like Louisville won the game.
Speaker 2: They didn't.
Speaker 3: But I really thought that was a good sign as
Speaker 3: far as just hey, this team can compete with some
Speaker 3: really really talented groups that you haven't seen, because Duke
Speaker 3: was the most talented team you've seen Duke and Clemson
Speaker 3: for that matter, I'm not really sure about Clemson's overall talent,
Speaker 3: but those two teams are substantially better than anybody that
Speaker 3: you've played since early January. And Louisville again without rain,
Speaker 3: was able to beat cleb and he got a little
Speaker 3: slippery laid obviously, but man, they were just beating the
Speaker 3: hell out of him, like they kind of punked him,
Speaker 3: to be honest with you, So again, that was a
Speaker 3: good sign. You want another random stat about these two teams,
Speaker 3: and this is totally useless information. I do, But if
Speaker 3: there's ever a time for me to share some useless
Speaker 3: information when it comes to college hoops, now's the time.
Speaker 3: How about this Rain Smith is the best free throw
Speaker 3: shooter in the country. He's made ninety four point two
Speaker 3: percent of his free throws forty nine to fifty two
Speaker 3: at the line.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: And how about this big Frank Frank anselom i be.
Speaker 3: He has attempted the fewest free throws of any player
Speaker 3: in the nation that has played in at least twenty games.
Speaker 2: Oh, so there you go, it's gonna help us.
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Speaker 3: today at LNFCU dot com. All right, so I was
Speaker 3: out out and about earlier today my made my stop
Speaker 3: over at the Louisville Men's Clinic.
Speaker 2: Got to see the team.
Speaker 3: Didn't get a chance to chat with doctor Wood today,
Speaker 3: but that wasn't what I was there for. I was
Speaker 3: there to, uh to get an update on my lab
Speaker 3: work that I got done morning Wood. No, no afternoon
Speaker 3: or morning with doctor Wood. He was, uh, yeah, he's
Speaker 3: busy again. I didn't have an appointment. I just needed
Speaker 3: to stop in because I do the testosterone treatment, and
Speaker 3: what they do is after you have gone through it
Speaker 3: for about six every six weeks or so, they'll check
Speaker 3: your lab work. They'll do lab work just to make
Speaker 3: sure that everything is is where it needs to be.
Speaker 3: And since I've been doing the testosterone treatment for over
Speaker 3: a year now, I've never gotten a bad lab report.
Speaker 3: And again now that I'm dealing with the low T
Speaker 3: that I had, I'm I'm in a much better place.
Speaker 3: So it's not just low testostrom where they can help you.
Speaker 3: There's also I mean, there's really endless. I shouldn't say
Speaker 3: endless because you may hold me to that, but I
Speaker 3: mean when it comes to just being a happier and
Speaker 3: healthier man, they've got a lot of ways they can
Speaker 3: help you do exactly that. When it comes to hair restoration,
Speaker 3: weight loss therapy, joint pain, Peroni's disease, low te a,
Speaker 3: rectil is function, and they have a few different options
Speaker 3: when it comes to how how you and how they
Speaker 3: want to treat your rectil dus function. But do you
Speaker 3: have a ninety three percent patient satisfaction rate? So when
Speaker 3: it comes to dealing with something that you probably needed
Speaker 3: to deal with for a while now, understandably so you've
Speaker 3: put it off. And I would probably do the same
Speaker 3: thing if I was in your boat, because I don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure that's not a comfortable thing. But
Speaker 3: you know, if you know, you know, and yeah, it's
Speaker 3: not it's not great, I'm sure, but I'm here to
Speaker 3: tell you that you can do something about it and
Speaker 3: it could change everything, not only for you but also
Speaker 3: for your partner. So it's a little men's clinic check
Speaker 3: them out online Louisville Men's Clinic dot com and you
Speaker 3: can give them a call BABO too. Four four four
Speaker 3: four thousand. All Right, so we've got a lot more
Speaker 3: to get to in these next couple of hours. But
Speaker 3: if you are somebody that enjoys wagering on college basketball,
Speaker 3: which I know a lot, not everybody does, I can't relate.
Speaker 3: But there's a really good breakdown from I believe it
Speaker 3: was bet MGM that one of their writers put together
Speaker 3: a A and I don't know if this is really
Speaker 3: worth I'm usually someone that doesn't put much into trends,
Speaker 3: Like I've never understood why because this has happened eighty
Speaker 3: percent of the time in previous you know, in the
Speaker 3: previous ten matchups between these two teams that you know,
Speaker 3: again not to say that those numbers are useless, but
Speaker 3: like I've always just thought, okay, but that's a different team,
Speaker 3: this is a different season. However, trends become trends long
Speaker 3: enough to where you think, I don't know what is
Speaker 3: causing this thing to continuously play out this way, but
Speaker 3: there's got to be something. So anyways, I think there's
Speaker 3: there's a handful of dogs that are barking when it
Speaker 3: comes to the first round of this tournament. I'm not
Speaker 3: predicting any major upset just yet. In fact, there's not
Speaker 3: really there's a couple that I'll probably end up when
Speaker 3: I fill out my bracket, I'll probably end up going
Speaker 3: with as far as winning. But when I say dogs,
Speaker 3: I just mean when it comes to two point spreads,
Speaker 3: Like I think there's some teams that are big time
Speaker 3: underdogs that will compete and maybe win.
Speaker 2: So we'll get into all that.
Speaker 3: Also, the ACC Network, I don't know if this two
Speaker 3: and a half minute production is something they're working on
Speaker 3: for a longer production, like a like a documentary kind
Speaker 3: of thing, an episode of a documentary series. I have
Speaker 3: no clue, but they put to other some really really
Speaker 3: great behind the scenes footage of this first season of
Speaker 3: Pat Kelcey leading this program, and you hear from Pat Kelsey,
Speaker 3: Terren Edwards, Chucky Hepburn, and they kind of tell you
Speaker 3: from day one how it all kind of came together,
Speaker 3: how this group kind of you know, got it all
Speaker 3: role in as far as just buying in and becoming
Speaker 3: a team that when you watch them, you feel like
Speaker 3: they've played together for a decade, right well, these guys
Speaker 3: just met less than a year ago, which is kind
Speaker 3: of crazy to think about. But when you hear about
Speaker 3: Pat Kelsey's sort of his philosophy, how he does this,
Speaker 3: how he gets his teams together and builds this, I
Speaker 3: mean it makes sense. And again there's like it's about
Speaker 3: two and a half minutes, maybe a little bit. It's
Speaker 3: actually a little bit over two minutes. I want you
Speaker 3: guys to hear it. And I know, playing a video
Speaker 3: on the radio don't make a lot of sense, right,
Speaker 3: but what you hear from coach Kelsey and Chucky and Terrence,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's still I think something you guys will
Speaker 3: be interested to hear if you haven't heard it yet,
Speaker 3: and it'll remind you how much you love this team,
Speaker 3: I think. I mean, not that you need the reminder.
Speaker 3: I think we've all kind of just been blown away
Speaker 3: by how how fun this first season has been with
Speaker 3: Pat Kelsey. It's been it's been awesome. So we'll let
Speaker 3: you guys hear that coming up a little bit later
Speaker 3: on and we'll keep it rolling along. We've got two
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