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cast this Friday edition. This is a great roster. I'm
excited for this week. First and foremost, let's welcome in
the guy who gets stressful, reliable. You can always count
on him. Did Jackson smith the Jigbook? Because uh, I
think I know who his super Bowl picky is. Because
Jackson spent the jiggo one offensive Fridy here, it's shut
a great book up he finished third. I'm still upset
about it. Let's welcome in Brett always bringing the him
be hammer times I'll be doing. I discovered the sporting
that ACL will recovery.
Speaker 2: It's a bit fustrated by the oh but because in
case you missed it, Queen America herself mister strolling it
on her practice runs right now, going down the hill
at like eighty miles an hour after tearing for.
Speaker 3: A c L A couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I felt so incredible. I welcome in the sporting some
editing I had, kid you not, I had TM USA
first team, Canada curlinging on yep, I watched our women's
hockey team.
Speaker 4: I can't remember who it was, but it was five
to one. So who their name is, whatever their name is,
it doesn't matter. And then right before I left here
to come do the show, I'm trying to remember what
we were watching. Oh yeah, watching Big Air and stowboarding.
So we have opening ceremony tonight. It's a great day
to be an American. I'll tell you this. There's a
lot of sports. There's a lot of sports I don't
give two rats about. Oh however, curling, you throw the
USA logo on that the United States of America.
Speaker 1: I don't care what we're playing.
Speaker 4: I don't care for watching paint dry faster you slow,
you throw on the American flag logo. I'm here shout
out to the Winter Olympics.
Speaker 1: We're going. We're going all golds.
Speaker 4: We're not we don't need silvers or bronzes, so like,
we're not even worried that part of the medal count
Team USA all the way, Baby oos up.
Speaker 1: We don't need silver. Shout out Bridgerton. If you watch
Bridgerton on Netflix, you know what I'm talking about. With silver,
you'll understand the storyline. If not, go watch it and
you'll know what I'm talking about. Let's also walk theme in.
Uh here he's he's joined our team officially. I can
announce that will announced rolls later. We got Caleb Lions
with this as well. How we doing today? Brother? Get
that mic switching? Yeah there we got yeah, that one
falls sometimes that one sometimes falls as what got him
as as well? And then of course always got to
do it. We got our running back, our uh shooter
Arc Kingston Fleming. Well maybe they shouldn't say Kingston Fleming.
Uh bo. You might need a kingks and flim. They
need somebody, you know, right now on the defensive side
of the ball, a p Andrew Peterson, a petty behind
the glass.
Speaker 5: How we doing today, brother, Ron, I'm doing great. I
do not think I can honestly be compared to Kingston Fleming.
When I played basketball, I was a triple double threat.
And by that I mean I was good for two
points to assist to rebounds doubles.
Speaker 1: That is a triple and two turnover all those digits,
but it is I'm just getting added to turn off
with to be funny, two technical fouls.
Speaker 5: I absolutely went after everybody everybody.
Speaker 3: I did everything I could.
Speaker 5: I had two goals as a trash talker, One be
funny and two getting random people's heads.
Speaker 1: Oh goodness, well, don't be uh. Don't be a Draymond
Green where you're always blaming everything on everybody else and
then uh using probably the wrong narratives to probably fix
your thing. And don't be a Jeremy Fears junior. You
got these antics going on on the court man shot
at the tom Izzo. I'm saying that he was gonna
bench him for that. I appreciated coaches when players out
of pocket like that.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I'll just say that if you could get technicols
for what you post on Twitter, I think I would
lead the esp and the fan team you would.
Speaker 1: Lead and nobody's debating you on that percent you would.
Speaker 3: That's a metal I wear proudly.
Speaker 1: Gosh, I try, I try. Well, We're gonna say, Brent,
when I mentioned Jeremy Fears, Oh, I do wonder you know,
because like.
Speaker 4: People are are are are creatures of habit, right, Like
you do something is probably like if you and are
having a conversation and you curse or whatever, it's probably
not the first time in your life you've ever cursed,
you know.
Speaker 1: So people are creatures of habit.
Speaker 4: So my thing with Tom is, I'm like, dude, first
of all, there's compilations of him doing it all season.
You're just mad that he finally got caught doing it.
Everybody's seeing it, and also you tell me he does it.
He's not a little chirpy. He's not the guy who's
giving a little bit extra practice. I just wonder if
there's some part of Jeremiah fears. He's like, hold on,
you're throwing me under the bus, saying you're gonna bench me.
But you've known I've been doing this all season and
you didn't have a problem with it until we got
called out. I just wonder if there's a little bit
of Jeremiah fears, Jeremy fear saying, uh, you were cool
with this, and now you're throwing me under.
Speaker 1: The bus, And you might be right. He's not the
Maishrzyzewski who's benching Grayson Allen in the beginning doing it
right away. Look, look, Caleb rode his eyes. Grayson was
like crazy with it, Bro, he just didn't care. He'd
be on the ground and just straight kick a dude
he never tried to which again look, look, look again,
this is gonna come off the wrong way. Oh goodness, Grayce,
I don't know if it's kicking people please, Oh man,
that's just that. Yeah. The point I bring up, we've
got him this diet tried to start off. Is what
I'm saying. Is this gonna sound bad? Although although I
don't you know, condone the behavior just kicking at least
you just you're not gonna hide who you are. At
least you are. But this is crazy. Like Jeremy fears jor.
I hope he gets some mentor that directs them, even
if it is time on now having to hold him accountable.
You can't swing your foot up underneath someone's area, bro,
like you're tripping. Bro. That has to stop. Because look,
I'm gonna say this, and I've told you guys this
multiple times, you know, and Caleb, this might be the
first time you're hearing it. Apeace hurt a Broder. Keep
your hands and feet to yourself. That's what my mama
taught me. But if you happen to put your hands
and feet on me, first, I will put mine back
on you. Second. I just think that I think that's
how you should rock. Don't do it. If you don't
want somebody touch you, don't touch them. And look, basketball
is pick the sport you That's why fouls are called.
But don't do the extra stuff. That's my tidbit for
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a great one. We're gonna try to get into a
quote from I believe it's the field of sixty eight. Uh,
you know, regarding BYU and Houston about wait a second,
b YU not a good basketball team right now, but wait,
they can beat Houston. I don't know what to believe.
It's gonna be a tough game. Tomorrow. We're gonna break
the game down for you, AP and myself will have
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has it today. He's gonna put that out there on crete.
Benjamin at three h five gonna get into the Aaron
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Oh always forget to mention Sni Puel was also promoted
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first trip to Provo. He's a beat rider for the
Houston Chronicle. How can BYU defeat this Houston basketball team?
Houston's been down sometimes ten to twelve. They've had slow starts,
not as slow as Byu, but can by you get him?
This is a team that can beat you and only
score sixty to sixty five points. It's crazy to think
that BYU's pushing close to in the ninety. I promise
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be happy to come back on Monday and apologize to
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BYU Basketball. Every game is a must win, right n
a must win. They have to do it. They have
to win this game. If they don't win this game,
it is going to be bad, bad bad. In the
words of a couple of rappers that I listened to,
it is already bad, bad, bad, but it's really gonna
be bad, bad, bad. We're gonna tune in actually to
a little SoundBite. It's about six and a half minutes,
not too bad. The Field of sixty eight after dark
address some things why this is a must win. You
have Jeff Goodman on API just linked it under nitty
gritty so you can just click that link. Let's go
ahead and let's listen to this sound from the field
of sixty eight regarding the YU Houston game of wats
I must win.
Speaker 7: The nightcap on Saturday, number eight, Houston is heading to
the Marriott Center heading two probo to take on the
BYU team that, goodman, you are calling fraudulent. This team
has lost three in a row for their last five
and as you so eloquently put it, every single time
that we talk about it, who are their good wins? Villanova, Wisconsin, Miami, Clemson. Yeah, yeah,
you're not wrong. This is the game where BYU and
aj De Bonsa and Richie Saunders in this group gets right.
They've lost. Of the games that they've lost, three of
them have been on the road, and the one home
game was by three points to Arizona in their own building.
Can Houston go into the Marriott Center and get this win?
Speaker 8: As one Douglas Scott Leeb used to always say when
when I asked him, can they Can they go in
and win?
Speaker 1: Can they?
Speaker 8: Yes? Will they?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 8: I think again, Houston. To me, it's going to be
a close game, and I just I don't trust BYU
to win these close games against good teams, you know,
really good teams, not good teams. They can beat really
good teams. They've shown they can't beat and they've lost,
like you said, four their last.
Speaker 1: Five I gain.
Speaker 8: No shame Texas Tech in Lubbock. No shame Arizona, they're
undefeated even at home. No shame at Kansas again, no
shame they Oklahoma State one. Yeah, they keep digging themselves
a big hole though, like every game now, Rob, it's
like you look up in the first half and they're
down double digits and they got to come back from that,
and they spend energy and the biggest thing, the biggest
worried for me would be YU is their defense, Like
they can't guard anybody right now and Rob right when
he came over from Baylor, all right, like I don't
know how good can he be. He wasn't very good
defensively at Baylor. Smaller guard like that you can take
advantage of. Aj is super talented, but again, like most
freshmen right off ball, it's not great defensively. The Biggs
haven't rebounded really well lately, like they need to, like
Caita needs to be a monster on the glass, and
especially against Houston, Rob, if they don't rebound, they will
get run out of their own gym by Houston and
they're Biggs.
Speaker 7: Well, look, the biggest thing to me is you have
to start well, like you can't keep digging yourselves these
twenty two point holes and expecting to find a way
to be able to come back and win them, especially
when you're not guarding right. You can't dig a twenty
point hole and hope that you can score fifty five
points and have to find a way to be able
to come back and win a game. I think Kingston
Flemings gets going in this one. Just feels like the
kind of matchup where he can really cause some problems.
You know, dealing with Rob Wright is not the easiest
thing in the world guarding him, but I think Kings
and Flumbings gets it going. The other part of it
is that a lot of what BYU wants to do
is play a little quicker right their top fifty in pace,
and the thing that Houston can do better than just
about anyone is really slow things down and take you
out of what you want to be able to run
because of their ability to I mean they trap every
ball screen, they trap every post touch. The key to
being able to beat Houston is you have to have
big ball handlers that are able to see over those
double teams and find guys on the weak side of
the floor. And I think what allowed Texas Tech to
be able to get their win against Houston was guys
like JT. Toppin and Lewan Watts when they would back
you down to the post. Both of them are capable
of throwing the ball out of those double teams and
seeing guys on the weak side of the floor. And
the text at Tech and and those shooters knocked down
those shots. I don't know if b YU has those bodies.
I don't know if they have the ability to keep
Houston off the glass. And I don't know if they
have the ability to stop to stop Kingston Flemings. So
the one thing I think Houston this year is the
best at winning the turnover battle in college basketball. Their
top five in offensive and defensive turnover rate.
Speaker 1: So give me the Kougs. Man.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's hard to go against Houston. It's just hard.
Speaker 7: Again, got to be specific when you say the Koog's
in this matchup, I guess because they're both they're both Cougars.
Speaker 8: But what I said on the road and uh in provo, Yeah,
you can't just say give me the Kougs. I mean,
then you're gonna be right no matter what, or wrong,
no matter what. Good point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the Kugs are winning this there's no doubt the
Cougars are going to win this game.
Speaker 8: Good job, good job. But AJ was great in the
last game, which was obviously good to see in terms
of an efficiency standpoint. Now, I think the biggest thing though,
is if I'm Kevin Young, all I'm talking about is
not turning over and rebound rebound, rebound, rebound, rebound, rebound, rebound.
If you can win the battle and the glass against
Houston and not turning over, you probably win this game
at the Merrit Center. And then Okay, you feel better.
We got our one statement win, and it doesn't kind
of hang over you because you got a couple more
opportunities here. You go to Tucson, go to McHale on
February eighteenth, that's a big one. Then you come back,
you get Iowa stayed at home in the twenty first,
so that you know that four day stretch is huge,
and then you end the season at home March seventh
with Texas Tech. So you still got three more big
time statement opportunities after this. But again, this is one
you get at home front of your crowd. It could
kind of be a game changer in terms of putting
you back in the equation where people are talking about you.
Is a legitimate I don't know if national title team,
but it's certainly a Final four team.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I agree, all right, I'm rolling with Houston.
You got you got Houston winning two. I do ad
the Krugs as well. I never never feels good to
be on the same page with you, but there you
have it.
Speaker 1: A lot of good stuff to take over and a
lot of stuff I disagree with, uh to break down
some things by you can get it. Can can rock
with them on the ground. Glass Brett, you were looking
at the numbers between. I'm gonna let you give those
to the people before I get my comment. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, in terms of offensive and defensive rebounds, b YU
and the Big Twelve is top five in both. They're
fifth in team offensive rebounds. They are third in team
defensive rebounds, which I think is like a bigger number.
Like connotatively, when you just like try to get a
sense of like how are they rebounding wise, it doesn't
feel that good, but the numbers, see you that it
is that good. Now here's a little bit of the issue.
The number one team offensive rebounding in the Big twelve. Now,
defensively rebounding the ball, they're fifteenth. My guess is though,
like they're just you're not getting that many shots up,
so they may not have a lot of opportunities to
rebound the ball because you're not shooting that much.
Speaker 1: And they're giving themselves more opportunities on their their offensive exactly,
So you have to rebound the basketball. That's why every
possession of this game will be so key. But you
heard it from Jeff Goodman CAPACTA. Now I will agree
with you with Jeff onness. They don't I think, have
the bodies for guys to go into post. In Texas
Tech Topham was able to do that. Wats was able
to do that when they played. Kaipa has that ability
to but he hasn't really done it that much. He's
been struggling a little bit this season. He's been sick,
he's been banged up. Fus could do it, Fos could
pass out of those things a lot. So you're gonna
have to take care of the ball, and they do.
They trap every ball string. Look I'm gonna give you something.
Last year and I don't know if people saw this.
I don't know if you remember this, and maybe you
will have remembered it. Brett, do you remember last year,
Malik will Wilson. Do you remember when the ball was
going out of bounds and bro hawks it down, runs,
catches the ball, throws it back and falls four rows over.
He falls almost over friend for Sella, everybody the broadcast
stand he falls into the stands over. That's what That's
what this team does. This team gets after it. They
go after every possession. They're gonna be diving on the floor,
They're gonna be stopping. This game is gonna come down
to do you have heart?
Speaker 9: B Yu.
Speaker 1: Now the Cougars will win. Someone will win per them, right,
The Cougars are gonna win this game. Just which one?
The Houston Cougars are the baby Cougar you know, the Bobcats.
You know, sometimes people hate to say the baby Cougars
are the big Cougars. Look, at the end of the day,
I think in the terms of when he's saying fraudulent,
he's talking about Bau being a Final fourteen because and
for the record, I thought this team was Anna leading.
I said, elite competing for a final four. It's so
difficult to get to a final four, it is, and
whill you play and how things go. That's why I
said Elite eight. But that's what he means about Fraust went.
So if you want to say yeah, because that's what
a lot of people thought, John Rosstein, Ye, yeah, fraudulent
team in that regard, Yes, right now as a whole team. No,
they're not, because it's still the top four seed. I
never thought this team was a final four team. I
did think they were probably closer to Elite eight. I
thought it was only eight team. I won't lie. They
are worse than I expected. They're not an e Lait
eight team. And this team barely might be a switch
sixteen last time.
Speaker 4: I do want to push back a little bit because
on this specific point, we keep saying, oh, well, they
don't have Nate Pickens.
Speaker 1: How much of Nate Pickens did we really see? Didn't
see any.
Speaker 4: So it's not as though like they had Nate Pickens,
they were great without him, or they were great with
him and then they lost him, So that that's kind
of a net zero to me, Like you didn't lose him,
so so I don't I don't think we should keep saying, oh, well,
he lost Nate Pickens. It sucks not to have him. However,
you had no point in the season did you really
have Nate Pickens. Which you had was Dawson Baker, and
that sucks. However, yeah, you had Dawson Baker in the
Yukon game. And correct me if I'm wrong, but that
game ended pretty similarly to the Houston game, and pretty
similar or not sorry time not to Houston, to the
Arizona game, and similar to the Texas Tech game, and
similar to the Kansas game where played really well in
the second half, but it wasn't good enough for you
to finish the game when it came down the line.
And I don't know if that's like a plus or
a minus to be like, hey, even without Dawson Baker,
you're still doing. Like against Yukon, you were close and
you lost that game. Without Dawson Baker, you're still close
losing big time games. The question that came to my mind,
and they talked about this a little bit, Jeff Goodman,
I think is more on my side than you are.
If Bayu beat Houston, Row and I'm aware that that's
a big if. But if they beat Houston in tomorrow,
does that make up for the three game losing streak.
Speaker 1: No, because and let me let me just let me
just tell you why.
Speaker 4: Because we're operating under the assumption right now that by
you can't win the big game.
Speaker 1: But also we are operating no to day. Yes, but
also Yukon was a was not an away game.
Speaker 4: It was a neutral side game, but it was about
an hour away from from Yukon, So an away game
and a half a neutral game and a half.
Speaker 1: Call it what you will.
Speaker 4: Texas Tech on the road, Kansas on the road, Arizona, Yes,
was at home, but Arizona is twenty two and oh
and they're not losing to anybody.
Speaker 1: If they beat Houston tomorrow.
Speaker 4: What that tells me is, Okay, you're still not able
to beat the big teams consistently, but you're not that
far off.
Speaker 1: I think tomorrow we find out what the margin looks like.
Speaker 4: How far away is BYU from beating the top teams
in the Big twelve. Now, if they get just the
life sucked out of them tomorrow, then I I think
the answer is that margin's pretty big.
Speaker 1: That gap is pretty wide.
Speaker 4: However, if they win that game tomorrow, and I don't
care about how many points it is, I don't care
if it's free throws to beat in by one. If
they win that game tomorrow, that tells me kay, the
margin is close. And the reason these games were closest
because BYU is very similar in terms of talent and ability.
But those games are on the road, a couple things
go their way and.
Speaker 1: BYU ends up losing the game.
Speaker 4: It's not as much as some people saying, yeah, well,
the reason they're scoring. They're making these things close is
because other teams are letting off the gas at home.
Speaker 6: What is it?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but tomorrow we're gonna find out.
Speaker 4: And to be honest with you, Ron, tomorrow, if Houston
loses to BYU, I forget about.
Speaker 1: The three game losing streak. I gotta be honest with
you now.
Speaker 4: You still gotta go attend to business the rest of
the schedule, but I'm willing to forgive your sins the
last three games if it beat Houston tomorrow, especially because
Houston has been your final boss ever since you entered
this conference.
Speaker 1: Haven't beat Texas tack since he narity You haven't beat Houston.
Those are the teams that you have not beaten since
you've been in Look, the reason why I'm not being
that way and being harsh is because and the reason
I'm gonna be so harsh, excuse me, we thought that
this team would have at least two wins. Can you
lose to Yukon. I'm totally okay with that. That happens
like early in the season. But do we not expect
for them to get Texas Tech? Do we not expect
for them to get Kansas?
Speaker 4: I thought Texas Tech was gonna be a win, you
see what I mean. So, like you're talking, I got Kansas,
So there you go. I'm okay if you lose to
no more team in the country. So no more team
in the country has been both steaming everybody. It's gonna
be the Arizona Invitational if they keep this up. That's
what it's gonna be. Not my words Charles Barkley quoting,
but seriously, that's what it's gonna be. And that's why
I'm the harsh on it. I'll give a damnage you
beat a number eight team tomorrow.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, that's no no, no, no,
see know, because if they drop Baylor, we're in the
same position that we were last time. No, not going
for that, they I will. I will cut back when
you beat because you need to make up for Oklahoma State.
You need to be Colorado next week Baylor, and if
you get Houston, I think we can move forward.
Speaker 4: So you're telling me if they beat Houston, omarrow like
that doesn't really do anything for you.
Speaker 1: No, because you lost Oklahoma State. You can't crazy that
you you can't lose to Oklahoma State.
Speaker 3: I agree with you.
Speaker 1: But if you beat Houston, that's a big deal. Doesn't
move them in the seating? Will it move their seating?
Joe Lenardi says it will And I don't. I don't
and that down okay, But what do they have to do.
Speaker 4: The rest of the Lunardi says, If BYU beats let
me pull up the quote. Joe Lunardi says, b where
you can rectify it's loss at Oklahoma State and move
back up in the bracket with a win.
Speaker 1: Against you, And if they lose against Baylor, they'll move
back down. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So that's okay, But if they beat Houston, then that
tells me that we're back on tracket.
Speaker 1: We could beat Baylor.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to jump in here if BYU is
able to beat Houston, and I'm confident they win at
least three in a row, because then you've got Baylor
on the road.
Speaker 1: And call and that's Look, you can't you can't be
mad at the brother for waiting. They pushed me off
to a position.
Speaker 4: But the problem is you're saying, even if they beat Houston,
you still don't think that's a big deal because I
need to see more. I need to see consistently. I agree,
I need to see three beat Houston. That tells me
you can give me consistency.
Speaker 1: But man, I need you to show me consistently. Look,
it's like someone that breaks the rules and they did
something once, like, oh man, you did it right, full
on time. Oh man, you're own time. I'm not just
gonna automatically believe you've always had the ability to do it,
but you finally show me. I need you to show
me the consistency more and a conference play and on
the road. They have not done it on the road yet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But to me, the difference between beating Oklahoma State
and beating Houston is like beating Oklahombas State is showing
up at work on time. Beating Houston is bringing in
a semi big client if you're a salesman.
Speaker 1: But see, then I'm I'm more nervous because like, so
you couldn't beat Oklahoma State, but she could beat Houston.
And again, that game is at home, like you're supposed
to win that game, Like, just like minus Arizona, you're
supposed to win the games at home. Well, let's talk
about Arizona.
Speaker 4: Though.
Speaker 9: What would have happened if we beat Arizona, yeah, lose
to Oklahoma State, Like what what would the conversation be, right,
because Arizona was one that we came back, had a
chance at the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say I would have say, you can't
lose that game. You beat the numb more team in
the country, even though it was at home. Yeah.
Speaker 9: But but I think I mean not not to take
any not to say, hey, let's let's get a participation
in trophy for how we played against Arizona. But again,
I think it's more of the first half woes, the
losses that we had against Oklahoma State. I think it's
more about beating yourself than it is letting another.
Speaker 1: Oh, it just beats itself, absolutely beats.
Speaker 9: Itself consistently, not beat ourselves down the road, then yeah,
I would feel great. And beating Houston, I think is
the first step to not beating yourself and getting back
on track to playing b U Kevin Young branded basketball.
Speaker 1: And I'm just that's why I'm just not gonna jump
out of them. It's gonna be a big deal because
and I'm just like, that's a good win, that's you're
obviously your best win of the season, like like your
your first good win of the season. But it doesn't
matter because it's like, Okay, if you beat them and
then you lose to Baylor on the road, who's at
the bottom of the conference as well, we're gonna be
here on next Wednesday, and I'm gonna be like, okay,
so now what.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but there's a big confidence boost that's different between
beating Houston and beating Baylor.
Speaker 1: It is you're not wrong.
Speaker 4: So all I'm saying is, if you beat Houston tomorrow,
a top ten team at your crib, not only does
that like give you validation of like, okay, we are
capable of beating good teams, but it also gives you
the validation of Okay, we may be back on track.
Speaker 1: And I think both of those things are really important.
And again, to me, if you beat Houston.
Speaker 4: Look, if they beat Houston, then they lose to Baylor,
there's a whole separate set of bad conversations that we
gotta have. If you beat Houston, that then gives me
the confidence so you can be Baylor. But however, if
you lose to Houston and then you lose to Baylor,
like that's not even as deep to me.
Speaker 1: Like, I think the margin is way bigger if.
Speaker 4: You beat Houston, because that tells me, Okay, we are
capable of beating the top teams.
Speaker 1: We just hadn't done it yet.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think all of those things true. I just I
just want to see a consistency because I think we're thinking, well,
you beat the top eight team, you should and then
you just be Bail.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not assuming any more wins with this team until
they show me. And that's why I'm doing and what
I felt confident even before they had the wins. So
and that's the crazy part of it. Maybe that was
being too over confident, but you felt that way with
the talent because you never seen a roster this talent,
but because of lack of depth, because they shoot themselves
in the foot, because they get off the slow starts.
They're gonna have to win tomorrow and then go on
and then they go on the road against bail and
I'm like, Yeah, this team's gonna get Colorado and this
team's gonna get Io was.
Speaker 4: Dude, here's the thing. You cannot lose to Colorado. First
of all, because it's Colorado but retiring.
Speaker 1: But you can't. Oklahoma State and Colorado are like in
the same thing. But but does what I'm saying. Do
you see why? This is why I'm so cestimius and
go out on the court because I don't know if
he has the eligibility left. He he might have to
dress up, man, and you do what he did, you
might You cannot lose that game. You cannot lose. Look,
I'm with you can't lose on Valentine's Day with the
lovely low. But I hope you guys, that's why I'm
so like pessimisticket like, that's why because every time is
like they're gonna turn around. They have to prove to
me and show me that they have consistency. I believe
and have faith that they do, but I need you
to show me and look, you very well come lose
this game tomorrow. Like and I'm not picking him to win.
I'm not, you know, but they can defile logs and
they can prove everybody wrong. But it's very difficult and
it look it's their best one of the season if
they get it done. I just am a little hesitant
because I've seen everything shape its face. And look, if
they go on a three game winning streak and we're
here next you know, next Friday, before the game will
two and we know that they'll be Colorado, I'm gonna
be upset with this thing. But like y'all waited this
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those I'm getting. It's not just Bred and Caleb. I'm
getting text message from people. Yes, I someone texts me Ronnie,
it seems like you've lost a little faith I have.
I mean I think I have lost just a little
bit of faith. I don't even think it's a faith
thing though to me. I mean, that's what the fans
say there. I know, but I don't. I don't like
if I do agree with them. I'm glad that they
agree with me.
Speaker 4: I feel like you, like, I don't know the fact
that you're saying it's not a big deal if they
beat Houston.
Speaker 1: It's crazy because I'm not trying to get too high
on win. That's why. Because if they go in and lose,
the Baylor beat Houston, since you've been in the conference,
I know it's a big deal because of the moment.
I'm not denying that. I'm looking at a bigger picture
as a whole, and and I think that's fair. But
I think both things can be. What I'm saying, and
I never told you guys were wrong. I'm just saying
as a whole. I can't jump there just yet because
to me, beating Kelvin Sampson is like it is it
is in the season. But if you don't end up
going to the college football playoffs and still pretty.
Speaker 3: Good though, if I can just butt in here.
Speaker 1: Turn yourself up a little bit a weekend, just just
give you my.
Speaker 3: Little two cents here.
Speaker 5: I think where Ron's point has validity is we need
to understand that there's a real problem with BAU basketball, right.
I agree we need to address that, and I think
that's what Ron's point does. However, I think that beating
Houston puts a lot of a lot of worries to bed,
to be honest, because you finally get the big win,
and and.
Speaker 4: That is is I don't want to say my complete argument,
but that's why it's a big deal. And on top
of the fact, like you've been trying to catch that
big fish since you've got in this conference, you've been
wanting to beat Houston. And frankly true, if you beat Houston,
that shows that you can compete with just about anybody.
So that's why AP I agree with you like to
if they beat Houston, that does not mean that the
season is fixed and that everything is glorious and everything's good.
But on its own, it's a great win. It's probably
your best win since being in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 1: I would argue, like that's who else. I mean, we
every year.
Speaker 4: You've been in the Big Twelve. At this point, Houston
was number one. Now this year, Arizona is number one,
but Houston is definitely number two. And Houston may beat
Arizona later on in the season, which honestly I bet
that they will, because again, I grew up a lot
of seasons as a Georgia fan, thinking Georgia.
Speaker 1: Was being Houston's better than beating Kansas at Kansas in
the fog yall shot. Uh No, but that's different because
you just say the best win in the Big twelve
since they got there. That's why I pushed back on that.
Speaker 5: I think the win that would be comparable to beating
Houston would be the Iowa State last year.
Speaker 1: Oh see, that's one out here in Good Point. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but i just was not a good team win.
B Why you beat them? I agree in.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty three, but he's talking about cin CenTra in
the Big twelve.
Speaker 5: I this is the first year that Kansas has been
what Kansas is supposed to be.
Speaker 1: That I agree with. Kansas was still good that first
year that we beat him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And the reason that one was a big deal
is because like you didn't have an aj Debonsa and.
Speaker 1: You didn't have twenty twenty three, that's yegor it was
your first year in the Big twelve. Two that's I'm
Santa fe to have an NBA draft, And that's that's
why I'm saying that one. With the roster construction, Mark
Pope going in there they were down at halftime. Dala
Hall had the best game of his career, I think
in the Big teven fouled out. Yeah, like that, that's
Jackson Robinson came alive in the second half, you know,
struggled in the first. So that that's actually good. That's
a good poll today. We should put that out there. Uh,
if B why you were to beat Houston? You know, actually,
let's turn it to our question today. If B why
you were to beat Houston, is that their best win
as a basketball programs is entering a Big twelve. This
feels like we're jinxing the game tomorrow. Do not want
to do that? Then if you feel like I don't
want to Okay, we're counting eggs. Okay, Okay, okay, let's
know it. Oh gosh, okay, I mean in AP's defense,
like we're already not picking you. Are you to win tomorrow?
Well we already get hurt it anyway. You can't hurt
it anymore. Like, yeah, if if they were to be
what would that be if they were to do it right,
would that be the best win? Because you got that Kansas,
and we have to list them out right. Kansas in
twenty twenty three at the Fog because the Kansas team
last year. Don't say that d.
Speaker 4: YU blowing out, blowing out Bill's okay, Okay, I guess
historically it's bad. It's not in the contention of like
best wins in the Big twelve, but it's a pretty
good one.
Speaker 1: It's it's top five because anyone who.
Speaker 4: Watched that game has that shot of Bill's self, hands
behind his head, feet kicked out.
Speaker 1: That is ingrained in my brain like it's you said
the game was over. It's very We need to get
one on one with Bill self so he can tell
us about that, because I really want to hear his thoughts.
Maybe when he's retired. But here we go, so Houston,
if they were to do it at that to the list,
Kansas twenty twenty three at the Fog blowout win, one
of the Kansas's worst loss in program history, twenty twenty
obviously twenty twenty five, I said twenty twenty three, I
meant to say twenty twenty four of my apologies, uh
and then Iowa State twenty twenty five last year at
Iowa State at Arizona twenty twenty five, like those are
your best like and look if they beat Houston, It's
gonna be their best one in the season, no doubt.
But if they go down to the McHale Center and
they beat Arizona, his discussion Z Yeah, discuss that.
Speaker 5: If that happened, we have to start calling the McHale
Center the mary It South because that.
Speaker 1: Okay, here he goes again. He's back. That's three three
last year. Yeah, that is three straight.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 1: But we thought they were gonna get three state to
Kansas and what happen.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna bet that it happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough. And like I said, Arizona Invitational. Look,
I mean I I still I'm gonna I'm gonna say
if they beat Houston, is not U tomorrow if they
were to do that, they were to do I don't
think so. I think AP brings up a good point.
Iowa states on that the double ot win, right, and
you were blowing him out. We thought that game with
the mcnanny bought the dub Iowa state in the Hilton.
This don't happen. What Like, I'm looking on that and
they took like fifty five years off my life, just kidding.
I did lose some hair in that game. I think
I pulled some hair out, pulled some of my locks
out of my head, and then the Arizona game was fantastic.
I mean, what mag was phenomenal. Canton catches when he
was on the team was bawling, hitting threes in the corner.
So it's a tough one. So what's ba's a big
win so far? I think it's that I'm gonna have
to say it's that Iowa State one. I think that
doublet win to do that. And you know why it
wasn't that because they played him a couple of weeks
later on a neutral and they beat him again. Yes,
I get it, a certain player didn't play. I know
that didn't happen, but I still think in the process,
Curtis Jones looked like he was about the white BYU.
I couldn't that guy couldn't miss franfurd Scheller literally, I
quote you not you bet okay, you better you got
a problem. You better stop him, you better step up,
you better do something about it. That's his four three.
I love frand he's a great color color analyst. He
does he does great for ESPN. But you thought the
game was you like, all right, ber is about to
get trample by Iowa State because you saw he was
he was cooking. He the what he did to k Paketa, goodness,
gracious man. And look this why I loved basketball. He
had hit two and I said, all right, and they
were in transition. Found him in the right spot the
third one. You tell me that the quality of that
shot probably is what thirty percent chance to take it.
And he dribbles, dribbles highlight because he made him, you know,
lit little stubby toe steps back shoots the three. I said,
what was that? And then he comes down and hits
another and I said, yeah, they got a problem. And
then what they're do in the second half Trey and
Trey told me this in the locker room. I was
just when I was with Byu working for the Daily Universe.
He said, man, you again at the table. I bet,
I bet b Yu wishes they had a guy on
the team right now that the other team said you again.
Right now they're being like, oh yeah, you guys again.
So look, all jokes aside, all tongue and cheek. The game,
the win against Houston tomorrow off at were to happen
is their best win of the season, no doubt, and
it is a turning point, and it can be, and
I really believe it can't. They have to go do it.
I just want to see consistency from it, and I
want to see them be able to put it together
because I think people look at Baylor's recor and and says, oh,
they're a bad basketball team. Scotdrow is still a good coach.
Scott got a national championship. I think. So there's some
saying so like the Big Twelve is still a tough conference.
Speaker 9: I want to advocate here, how would we feel if
BYU did okay? Now, you can say this is very hypothetical,
So if you don't like hypotheticals, I apologize for what
I'm about to say.
Speaker 1: No hypotheticals.
Speaker 9: If BYU beat Arizona in that game and then dropped
that game to Oklahoma State, would that have supposed to
have been a turning point for bou season beating Arizona,
but then you get blown out by Kansas and lose
to Oklahoma State. I mean, if that shot goes in,
we basically win that. Now is it a mental difference
on the way we approach the game? Way we beat
number one Arizona, We're not gonna lose that game to
Oklahoma State, right? Or is that supposed to have been
a turning point moment that we were four seconds and
a block lay up away from like will be Arizona
supposed to if you or you beats Houston, do we
have the ability to turn that into a turning point
or are we gonna then drop a game like Ron
You've been talking about not being super competent against Baylor.
Speaker 1: But if you beat the number one team and then
you lose to Kansas, people like okay, but like you
bring up Oklahoma State, Yeah, because that is supposed to
be the turner point you beat Arizona.
Speaker 4: Right, would be would we still say the sky is
falling knowing that we would beat Arizona?
Speaker 1: You would say the sky is falling after they lose
to Houston. That's what you would say, because you would say,
really yes, you would say you beat the number one
team in the country. You have to win. How come
you can beat Arizona but not Houston. I don't know
if I track that lot, I think no, because like
you'd have dropped three, you'd lost to two top twenty five,
two top fifteen opponents. You're this is and this is
assuming we beat Arizona. Yes, just assuming you beat Arizona.
So think about it, you beat Arizona, that you would
have lost, you lose to Kansas on the road the
way you did, you'd have lost Oklahoma State the way
you did, and he would have lose to Houston. And
let's assume it's the way that they've lost before. I
think you're just flipping a win. Yeah, my logic is
the same. It's just the timing of it. Yeah, I
think it could be.
Speaker 9: What I'm kind of trying to get at here is
I don't know if this BAU basketball team is going
to be affected.
Speaker 1: I know we were talking about Jinxus earlier, right.
Speaker 9: I don't know if this Boau basketball team can be
affected by Jinx's for bad or for good. I don't
know if it's gonna be a point in this season
where we say, hey, that was the turning point. I
think we're kind of like walking through like wet sand
right now, like trying to get in and out of
this like lurchy, muddy point of the season that we're at.
And I don't know if there's gonna be a point
where we jump out of that and rinse off our
feet and now we're walking on the dirt trail again.
I don't know if there is a turning point in this.
I think more internally finding our identity and playing true
to self. I hope that there can be a switch
that is a kind of turning point, But the way
I'm viewing the rest of the season isn't necessarily there
are a ton I mean, obviously there are games that
should be must wins. By nature of the game and
the game that we are favorite to win, we should
pull out the win. But I don't know if there's
gonna be something that's gonna turn it on or off.
I think it's more of a moment of figuring out
who we are and playing true to who we are.
Like our identity has been up and down throughout this
whole season. We saw the secondent talking about up and down, right,
I don't know if there's gonna just to sum it up,
I don't know if there's gonna be a moment this
season where we flip on a switch and everything changes.
I think there are little tweaks here and there that
we have to make, we have to be more consistent on.
So if BO you can find more consistency, I think
that's what we need, rather than more of like a
proverbial light switch that's gonna flip on for bou look.
Speaker 1: Not in one and they said they would go nine
and one in the last games, or excuse me, could
be a you go nine to one in the last
ten games. Camp Palm had a favorite eight out of
the last ten, right said you got to go JTC.
You got a nine to one. That was JT that
said that, Thank you for correcting me. Kim Palm has
them six and four. I will say it's the first
thing to get that consistency. Or as Kevin Young will say,
let's let's go back to the days of old stack wins,
stack days. The first day that you need to stack
is tomorrow, and that's probably your biggest day to stack.
Ause Kevin Young would say, is today in front of you.
To me, that's your biggest stack day until you play
number one Arizona on a Wednesday. Yeah.
Speaker 9: I think that's the biggest thing for the rest of
the season is absolutely of wins, not necessarily opponent like
we can dissect the opponent, how we play against the absolutely,
but I think the volume of wins is I mean,
obviously the most important thing right, Like I saw somewhere
today talking about be or you could be in the
two seed conversation again. If we win those nine go
nine to one the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, Kim Palm laughed. And they are
a two seed if they go nine. Yeah, that happens,
he said, because the momentum that you would take.
Speaker 4: Would be you would have best would Arizona, you would
be to Iowa State, like you'd beat Texas Tech.
Speaker 1: Like it's like, okay, you got four ranked wins in there,
and and look, I'll let you guys determine. But is
tomorrow the maker breakpoints for this season? Because it kind
of feel you don't think so. I think the fans
and that I agree with. I think most fans are
like basically already know fans. I think we're broken.
Speaker 4: Wednesday, I was watching and so that's why I'm like,
I don't feel like that's fair because like tomorrow, like, dude,
you're playing Houston. Now, if you're in the game, I
don't know. If you lose the Houston event you lose
to Baylor, then.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Yeah, it might be broken at that point.
Ap your thoughts. I know you wanted to get in.
Speaker 5: I was just gonna say, I think Baylor's the mak
or break. I think people if you lose to Baylor
on the road, especially after all the offseason drama with Baylor.
Speaker 1: Then you're that's a rob you're gonna get saying.
Speaker 5: Then then you're gonna have people show up with energy
for Jimmer ferdet on Saturday. But other than that, the
Marriott Centers environment will die down signific Hey.
Speaker 1: The good news is if that happens, you may actually
be able to get a ticket to that game. That's
why I got everybody, respect anybody who wants to go
to the timmer Man.
Speaker 4: I hope they lose to Houston and Baylor because then
I'll be able to afford a ticket to watch Jimmers Jersey.
Speaker 1: Oh this is so funny. Man, Man, he's for the record,
I don't want that to happen, because I know you don't.
That's all right. I'm already good.
Speaker 3: I took my four year old to watch this play
Holy Cross, so.
Speaker 1: I can't get go. Hey, look, Houston favorite in this
game one and a half where we're all not picking
one and a half, pick him game man, this year,
this would be the game for Look, and look, we're
gonna hear from Joseph Duartem, we're gonna hear from Jimmy Branham.
But Houston's not the way they were offensively last year.
They're not. That's true. Like Kingston Fleming is who they
were lying on a freshman, and that's okay because he's great. Right,
he's gonna be a top fifteen pick. I think now
the matchup I'm gonna be watching is him and Rob Wright.
Rob Wright, And we heard it from Jeff Goodden in
the in the first segment, right, he be getting cooked.
He do because of the side defensively, but he also
puts pressure on you offensively. Both of those things can
be true. That's basketball. But in the same breath, if
Kingson's you're forcing Kingson to take tough shots, and they're
not gonna be faced by anybody forcing to take tough shots.
Who's let me ask you this, who's forcing Kingston funding
to take tough shots? Probably Richie Sonders is the only one,
all right, because Canar's gonna get himself in foul trouble?
Speaker 3: Sorry, how about Boom?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be the first and off the bench
to Canar gets in foul trouble or they gonna try
to bring a Lexi cults in the space to floor
name can guard two through five? I don't know if
he could guard one. Yeah, Kinks is a different beast.
Bro Kings is a different beast. I sit here and
I nod my head because I love Boop, I love
I love Hiding, But Kingston is a different beast.
Speaker 3: But I love the way Boop's been playing lately.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 5: I think honestly that he should start over Canard right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's that's your take. So that's your take.
So I had asked that we'll get in this. I
haven't asked Ap his thoughts, and I haven't asked you
this either. Caleb, uh, you said Boom, why Boop over Kanard?
Because Brett and I both to say, okay, Dominique, we
had said that, so we are all in the green,
had dokay? Ap? He give me why you think Kadim
should start with Canard and whitch the starting lineup?
Speaker 5: Well, first off, I understand that fans want to see Dominique,
and I remember a week or two ago we talked
about this. Well, Kevin Young put him in the game
and Dominique did not do well. He didn't play well.
Bait like he he didn't play well. Kadeem has been
playing well lately. Like he people his knock his offensive games.
Speaker 1: First off, he doesn't shoot the ball much, but he does.
Speaker 3: Two games he's hit a three and a timely he
hit a three in a timely situation.
Speaker 5: He's starting to look like Stuart looked at the beginning
of last year when he started. I'm just gonna say
when when Kevin Young started playing Tray Stewart, He's he
did exactly what he deems doing. He took one shot
a game, hit a three, gained a few minutes, and
then he started to play it.
Speaker 1: You know what, That's a good comparison. Didn't even think
about that.
Speaker 5: Trey was give you like five to seven a game,
and he would hit like one three and that's all
he would do offensively. In the season that he started
getting eight points nine points.
Speaker 1: The Tray Stewart had might have to change what I
feel about things after I've been enlightened today. That's a
good take.
Speaker 9: So if we're saying that two things here, the bou
struggles with depth, but then we're also talking about putting
one of the people that is part of the struggling
depth problems to starting lineup? Yeah, are we saying that
our depth issue is a minutes issue for these people
that are on the bench.
Speaker 3: Is it a rotational issue?
Speaker 9: Like, again, I trust Kevin Young, I trust his rotations,
kind of change his game by game the way that
he approaches things. I don't know if on a team
where you're really struggling to get any production out of
three of your five starts, not even really your five starters,
but outside of three of your five starters, is the
solution to grab one of the people that's not producing
and to put him in a starting lineup? Because I
think about past bou basketball teams where you could have
talked about a situational change where you change the starting lineup.
These people were already producing off of the bench. Does
taking somebody that's not producing off of the bench and
put them in the starting lineup then make them produce?
Speaker 5: Well, that's my point is I think that Hadeem is
developing into being able to produce. The last two games
he's I think he's played well and I think he's
starting to develop. I do think that there's a rotational
issue with this team, and I think that's what it
was last year too, because if you look at it
last year, they they didn't necessarily take somebody out and
insert someone.
Speaker 3: They just switched up the minutes.
Speaker 5: And I understand Kennon Catchings did get his mitch significantly restricted,
but if I remember correctly, that happened well before Byu.
Speaker 3: Went on a run.
Speaker 5: It was just they switched up the minutes and the
time when the minutes happened. I think Canar Davis could
still turn out to be a good, solid player for Byu.
I just think that the timing of when he's on
the floor and the lineup season are not conducive to
his game.
Speaker 1: It's true, speaking of games, speaking of time, and speaking
of all of that, a little soundby was pegged at
me by ap By Brett, the Big TOF commissioner. He's
gonna make an announcement Tuesday regarding the enhancement to the
Big TOF tournament. Let's hear from Commissioner your mark in
regards to what he had to say on that we.
Speaker 10: Are going to be making some major announcements soon on
some big time enhancements, which listen, I'm a first mover
and our conference is a first mover. That's how we
position ourselves, and we're going to be doing some things
that have never been done in the collegiate space.
Speaker 1: And I think the first announcement is going to be
next Tuesday, so be on the lookout for that.
Speaker 10: And then we're going to integrate some big time musical talent,
which is also going to be great.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 10: From day one, it's all been about how do we
continue to celebritize our tournament, how do we make it
destinational for fans, how do we give student athletes just
the best type of experience possible? And I thought we
did it well last year, but we're gonna keep building
on it and this year is going to be incredible,
and again the fans are going to be in store
for some amazing moments. There's a lot of things I
can't discuss tonight, but over the course of the next
couple it is, but over the course of the next
couple of weeks, we'll start dripping it out there and
it's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 1: Look, brett Or Mark, he's a winner, he wants to win,
and I love that he brought us up. Starting next Tuesday,
big announcement, what could those big announcement be bigger than Nellie,
bigger than Skidding? But I know I think jelly Roll,
I mean you said musical talent. I feel like, doesn't
post Malone just feel like a post Malone feels like
a Big twelve vibe postl mors like it's gonna one
of the country. Morgan out of like the He's an sec.
My question is Morganwall like out of like the pop
culture doghouse. I don't know. I made some mistakes. I
just don't know if the Big twelve is like, oh yeah,
And I genuinely don't know.
Speaker 3: I think he's done.
Speaker 1: I've forgiven him. I just want everybody. I want everybody
know I forgive it more.
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna say this, success gets if you're If
you're successful, you can be forgetting of everything.
Speaker 3: And I think that Morgan Wall has been very successful lately.
Speaker 1: I agree. Can I tell you this though, this is
what I think.
Speaker 11: One of the announcements is Big twelve Basketball, Football, all
the championships, media days, all going to Vegas, all going
to Vegas.
Speaker 1: Fans get their Yeah, I guess so I feel like
that's the worst that would like like the basketball tournament
that would make Kansas so mad. That's her. That's why
I don't think it's happening. I think it's happening. How
they got the tournament contract up through twenty thirty one,
like for the Doctor Pepper like that's why. And Media
Days is already going back next year to that. I mean,
I'm sid light that. I know that they've already said
our emails, right, That's why I'm surprised. I don't think
that would happen, that would be it just as much
as I wanted to.
Speaker 4: Just seems like the like big lights, flashy, sexy move yes,
and I think because I like, really, what else could
we be doing? That he's saying is bigger than what
he's already done. He said he wants bigger musical guests. Okay,
so your musical guests have been I think Shack dj't
one time, you had Nelson and you had John Party,
So who else is gonna be?
Speaker 1: Like, well, you also have to award these people. I
know people wall And it's and and and not because
I'm not good to a batt about disagreement. It's not
even necessarily about you bring up Morgan Wallace success. Can
you pay Morgan Wallace.
Speaker 3: I got it. I just had an epiphany.
Speaker 4: Guys, I don't think you can pay more, all the money,
for all these fines, for the the Mormon chance.
Speaker 1: She's making money, you say, Morgan, can't you pay Morgan?
Speaker 5: It's gonna be Ella Langley. I think it's Ella Langley
her song. She's from Texas. Can we pull up this
big twelve vi.
Speaker 1: Who? Today is a very bad day? I I you
don't know who Ella Langley is. You'll know very soon.
I don't. I don't know who Ella Langley is.
Speaker 5: She's probably the most popular country song in the last
few months.
Speaker 9: Look up choosing Texas and then talk to us some
Monday about why you listen to it fifty times?
Speaker 1: Oh, I think she's that she's the girl. I've seen
her in an American Express commercial. I think that's about
all I know.
Speaker 3: El she's very much a big twelve vibe.
Speaker 1: She's a big twelve op. But that's what I'm saying
the country like I hear the thing of Morgan. I
thought to thinking about it. Can you afford him? Doesn't
she hate Texas?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 7: It's not?
Speaker 1: Yeah? But at the same time, and it has nothing
to do with the confidence. Remember We're going back to
the Star next year for Big Twelve media days.
Speaker 9: You know what the Big twelve really just needs to
announce is that they're gonna come up with a better
court this year because I thought the WCC.
Speaker 1: That's what Okay, time I actually, I'm gonna give you.
I did not like the w CC courts.
Speaker 9: Okay, no, have aball team playing on them before the
tournament to see what it looks like on TV. Because
the concept was cool, I did not love the way
it looks.
Speaker 1: As a man that was there in person. See, I'm
talking about the way we watched and I know you
guys watched over with TV. And that's the sucky part
because at the person when I was, wow, this is
fantastic thought it was a great idea. Yes when I was.
But here's the thing, It's like, so who's the lot.
We're going back a year ago, so who where's the lie?
We love our court. Our students designed it. Yeah again,
our student athletes loved it. They were the ones that
like that that that's what he said. But also the
student athletes.
Speaker 4: The student athletes didn't watch everyone else play on it
on TV because they're the arena playing in the game.
Speaker 1: They'd have to watch it on the TV where I
felt like status. They're not looking at the floor like
general conference.
Speaker 9: They're not allowed to wear certain ties because they mess
with the camera.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what the Big twelve needs. Very sure,
you bring up a point a lot of people might
know that you're actually not allowed to. Yeah, it's crazy.
You cannot wear certain time. We need to go to break.
We've gone to too long, guys. But that's your bad
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