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Speaker 4: Conference tournaments going on.
Speaker 5: The Big twelve tournament by U and Houston will be
Speaker 5: tipping off now with the winner playing the winner of
Speaker 5: the Arizona game later.
Speaker 2: What do you think on that one, Houston. I'm a
Speaker 2: big fan of Houston. Yeah, and by is one of
Speaker 2: the hottest teams in the country.
Speaker 4: They were the other night.
Speaker 2: But Houston plays up. You better be you better have
Speaker 2: your Cohn is ready to pay over under on that game. Uh,
Speaker 2: just a guess, and I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Wait, what's the over?
Speaker 6: Under a half? You're taking the over to the under?
Speaker 6: I would take you sixty sixty.
Speaker 5: I'll take the under, which is crazy because b why
Speaker 5: you alone at ninety six against Yeah, but.
Speaker 4: That's but they play that way exactly. Houston. You gotta
Speaker 4: but you to scores points.
Speaker 6: You know, I took an under on Houston a couple
Speaker 6: of weeks ago, and then then I saw it and
Speaker 6: I'm like, why did I do that? They score seventy
Speaker 6: five points. I don't remember who it was, but it
Speaker 6: was like it was stupid. I think it'd be the under.
Speaker 6: He's going to score. What's the spread?
Speaker 5: It was the Houston game. Yeah, Houston minus six and
Speaker 5: a half. Oh, that's a big team. That's a big spread.
Speaker 2: If I would to do it, I would go give
Speaker 2: the points, which would be very tough to do, and
Speaker 2: the under.
Speaker 4: I love houst. Houston's, to me is just a fantastic team.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they'll win it because they don't
Speaker 2: they don't know how to score, but they do score.
Speaker 4: That's just it.
Speaker 6: They They're not a team that stays in the sixties. No,
Speaker 6: it's a reputation that this team because they're so tough.
Speaker 6: But I looked at you know, I again I took
Speaker 6: an I took an over under, and I took an
Speaker 6: under at like.
Speaker 4: A one Oh. I don't remember who it was, but.
Speaker 6: It was like a one thirty eight or one thirty nine.
Speaker 6: I said, oh, under, they're gonna beat somebody you know,
Speaker 6: sixty eight to you know, sixty eight to fifty five,
Speaker 6: and then went way over in Houston because Houston went
Speaker 6: off and scored eighty points.
Speaker 2: Well, if they scored, they can have the chest to
Speaker 2: win the title, but I'm not sure they will.
Speaker 5: The ACC tournament's semifinals, Louisville will play Clemson and North
Speaker 5: Carolina will play Duke Cooper. Flag will not play after
Speaker 5: injuring his ankle yesterday versus Georgia Tech.
Speaker 4: I think there's no reason for them to play.
Speaker 6: No, right, just you know, if you don't win your
Speaker 6: conference tournament, because what you're still a number one seed,
Speaker 6: just you know, and then and the committee will take
Speaker 6: that into okill ye, they do, and they'll make them
Speaker 6: the number one seed in the tournament.
Speaker 2: If you remember, Arizona in two thousand was the number
Speaker 2: one seed overall. And guess who was out Lauren Woods. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because he had played enough games without him right to
Speaker 2: show that he was.
Speaker 4: Then they lose to Wisconsin.
Speaker 5: The SEC tournament, Auburn and Tennessee advanced to the semifinals today.
Speaker 5: Missouri versus Florida and Alabama versus Kentucky will face off
Speaker 5: later today. Those right there as a final four, right, yeah.
Speaker 6: Well Albert had a little bit of a tough time
Speaker 6: for a while there was with all miss today I
Speaker 6: saw that.
Speaker 2: Those are some great Hey. The final four of this
Speaker 2: Big twelve tournament is the heck of a tournament.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I mean there's a lot of people think
Speaker 6: that by You can make a run.
Speaker 4: They have, they have. I mean, wow, I think the
Speaker 4: end today, but.
Speaker 6: Well but they again, it's a really good team. You know,
Speaker 6: you could see everybody to say, you could see by
Speaker 6: U and Houston in.
Speaker 4: The final four just right to get hot. Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: The Big Ten Tournament, Michigan State in Wisconsin advance to
Speaker 5: the semifinals today. Maryland is currently winning against Illinois, and
Speaker 5: Michigan will play Purdue later today.
Speaker 4: Are you Peter brading this? Yeah? Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: The Big Ten just kind of like who what you know,
Speaker 2: Michigan State, maybe Maryland, I wri Maryland, now.
Speaker 4: Who else? Illinois is still there?
Speaker 5: Illinois.
Speaker 4: It's just like okay whatever, you know, there's no one team.
Speaker 4: I feel like. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then in the Big East Tournament, Marquette and Saint
Speaker 5: John's are currently playing in Yukon and Korean will play
Speaker 5: later today.
Speaker 4: In the semifinals. Four more good teams. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Again, what I like about this in terms of Arizona
Speaker 6: is that, remember you just felt nobody was paying a
Speaker 6: pension to the Paccuff Tournament ever. Yeah, right, And they're
Speaker 6: in the middle of everything, right, They're they're on they're
Speaker 6: on highlights there. You know, they played Kansas last night.
Speaker 6: It was a big game, you know, for the networks
Speaker 6: and and and the fans and and that. You know,
Speaker 6: there's all this attention that you know, to the tournament
Speaker 6: that they're in, Whereas the Pactuff Tournament was an afterthought
Speaker 6: regardless of how good the teams were, right because Oregon
Speaker 6: got A, got to a final four, and you know
Speaker 6: all those you know, but U C. L A was
Speaker 6: good a number of times, but you always thought the
Speaker 6: Pac twelve tournament was an after that.
Speaker 2: I'll give you this.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: So we're in the West, pretty much give me the
Speaker 2: teams in the West. Do you pay attention to the
Speaker 2: Mountain West?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Because I pay attention to San Diego State. But that's that.
Speaker 4: But that's what that's right. Okay. Mexico is pretty good.
Speaker 7: Really.
Speaker 4: I watched Gonzaga Saint Mary's the other night.
Speaker 2: And that the first time. Yeah, those those are three
Speaker 2: teams right there in New Mexico, those two. Who else
Speaker 2: is out there isn't right there isn't so because you're
Speaker 2: you're focused somewhere else.
Speaker 6: Run Yeah, and and you know, I mean look look
Speaker 6: look at the look at the eight teams that wound
Speaker 6: up in the Big Ten, in the Big twelve.
Speaker 4: You know Oregon, Yeah, decent in basketball, but you know
Speaker 4: they may did it.
Speaker 2: You know when when the they're gonna be they're gonna
Speaker 2: be the same type of seed as theirs.
Speaker 8: All.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know Washington's not any good. No, well
Speaker 4: has that been good at anything?
Speaker 6: You know, usc they got in a fight with security government,
Speaker 6: you know, UCLA, you know, I mean, you know then
Speaker 6: you look at you look at you know, Utah, Colorado
Speaker 6: and and Asu. You know in the Big twelve they
Speaker 6: didn't do anything. They were the you know, the bottom
Speaker 6: of the barrel in basketball. So it's really you know,
Speaker 6: Arizona is the only of the eight that went to
Speaker 6: a new league, at least as it relates to basketball,
Speaker 6: is the only one who's really you can say, done
Speaker 6: much of anything.
Speaker 4: It's interesting.
Speaker 6: So there aren't any teams, you know, that's the not
Speaker 6: right that those teams weren't the quality of some of
Speaker 6: these other teams that now you see Arizona they really
Speaker 6: are good.
Speaker 4: They really were good, you know, and they're and they're
Speaker 4: doing it in the Big Twelve as well.
Speaker 5: Iowa has dismissed long time head coach fran McCaffrey after
Speaker 5: fifteen seasons.
Speaker 2: Could there have been Jay? Could there have been a
Speaker 2: more bland coach in the history of the last fifteen years?
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, he's kind of like the coast.
Speaker 6: When they said that he had been there for fifteen years,
Speaker 6: I'm like, I never would have known.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he won two hundred, almost three hundred games.
Speaker 6: You could have asked me, who's the coach at Iowa
Speaker 6: and I always said George Raveling, you.
Speaker 2: Know, doctor doctor.
Speaker 4: What's his name, Tom Tom Datos. Yeah, you know he's
Speaker 4: last year.
Speaker 2: Remember he got into it with some people and he
Speaker 2: was like just really strange, strange confrontation with with some
Speaker 2: people at the tournament. But yeah, just kind of like nondescript,
Speaker 2: kind of just there.
Speaker 4: Good luck with that. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Former Rams receiver Cooper Cup has agreed on a three year,
Speaker 5: forty five million dollar contract with the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a big deal, man. They've got they've got
Speaker 6: some guys. Yeah, yeah, they got some guys. They let
Speaker 6: Tino Smith go. You know, there were some people who
Speaker 6: were saying they might go get Russell Wilson back and
Speaker 6: that didn't happen.
Speaker 4: And Donald, you know Sam Donald, you know, he had
Speaker 4: a good year last year.
Speaker 6: But they're you know, the Vikings think JJ McCarthy's their guy,
Speaker 6: and so yeah, you know, watch out first.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they're in a tough league, right, uh,
Speaker 4: you know with the with the with the Rams and
Speaker 4: the and the cards.
Speaker 6: Well the Cardinals. I saw the Cardinals went and got
Speaker 6: cha Kobe Brissette today. Okay, that's right up there. That'll
Speaker 6: help them. Yeah, a couple of days old.
Speaker 5: But golfer Tiger Woods ruptured his achilles and underwent surgery
Speaker 5: on Tuesdays.
Speaker 4: Is he having too much trouble on that uh fake
Speaker 4: golf one. I don't know.
Speaker 9: He.
Speaker 6: I think he was just playing and then all of
Speaker 6: a sudden he took a swing and it just popped
Speaker 6: on him.
Speaker 4: You know that's how achilles go. Welcome to the getting
Speaker 4: old then.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so well his body that one of the results
Speaker 6: of this is there's just been a lot of discussion. Okay,
Speaker 6: that's it. You know, his body is just done. You know,
Speaker 6: it's if it's not his back or his whatever, now
Speaker 6: it's his a killing I mean his you know, he
Speaker 6: he he he used up his body, you know to
Speaker 6: do what he did, which is okay, but he's probably
Speaker 6: gotta you know. I mean he's about to turn fifty,
Speaker 6: so he could technically go on the on the Champions Tour.
Speaker 2: Would he would would would Tiger Woods Champions I think
Speaker 2: so if he's capable, Yeah, because what are you gonna
Speaker 2: do to compete? What's gonna compete? And he's imagine how
Speaker 2: dominate he's gonna be?
Speaker 4: Are we just we just can't play?
Speaker 2: We saw him, I just saw him a color guard.
Speaker 2: He can play with these guys, so nothing. I can't
Speaker 2: go to save my life. But you know what I'm saying, Yeah,
Speaker 2: when you're fifty and these guys are fifty six and six,
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, and he's Tiger Woods. Who's who's not
Speaker 2: gonna go see him playing? Well?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he could if he wanted to, you know,
Speaker 6: go make the money, keep the notoriety, keep his name
Speaker 6: out there.
Speaker 4: Compete. Sure he could.
Speaker 6: The question is was is his body going to allow
Speaker 6: him to because you know that if he decides to compete,
Speaker 6: he's not gonna do it half assed. He's gonna he's
Speaker 6: gonna put everything he's got into it. He's gonna try
Speaker 6: and be as good as he can possibly be, which
Speaker 6: means you know, he's gonna tax his body some more.
Speaker 6: And is he going to be able to do that?
Speaker 6: And if he does, what does he play five? Six tournaments? Maybe,
Speaker 6: but more than he's played in the you know, on
Speaker 6: the PGA Tour of the last few years.
Speaker 4: That's all I got. Okay, what time is it?
Speaker 6: Staying on golf Jay Justin Thomas tied the course record
Speaker 6: at the Tour Championship?
Speaker 9: Was it?
Speaker 4: Which is that?
Speaker 6: That the TPC course in in Florida? She shot a
Speaker 6: sixty two today. I would I would shoot sixty two
Speaker 6: on the front nine there from the white Ts. But
Speaker 6: uh uh, you know, golf's underway man. Yeah, the Masters
Speaker 6: comes up right the week after I did not I
Speaker 6: could have gone, but it was it was gold for
Speaker 6: Sunday was perfect. Sunday was perfect.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was out there Sunday for till about two o'clock.
Speaker 2: Very nice, great setup, look great on TV. I got
Speaker 2: homewats the rest of it. Yeah, it looked fantastic. Did
Speaker 2: you walk around the course though not as much? Yeah,
Speaker 2: not as much because it's a it's a tough wat,
Speaker 2: it's a very tough walk.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, well, everybody, I've never walked it because I
Speaker 6: won't walk it. You know, I've you know, I've written,
Speaker 6: you know, I've played the course, you know obviously a
Speaker 6: number of times, and I go, I could never walk
Speaker 6: this course, you know.
Speaker 4: And and then when they said they were going to
Speaker 4: play it, Time'm like, okay, how's that going to work? Well,
Speaker 4: they have carts, but.
Speaker 6: I guess they have carts on some of that where
Speaker 6: there's long, long gaps between the greens and the tea
Speaker 6: box and they were shuttling players.
Speaker 4: No, it's a great day, nice day, cold Friday, halfway
Speaker 4: decent Saturday. Them how many? How many more years do
Speaker 4: they have on their contract? Three more?
Speaker 2: Three more? Had rumors about side other course coming on,
Speaker 2: but it didn't seem like that. There's only a few
Speaker 2: that you could do that.
Speaker 6: I mean, I remember when when star Pass opened, right
Speaker 6: and they moved the tournament from Randolph to star pass
Speaker 6: and I went, you know, they they allowed the media
Speaker 6: to go play it, you know, when it opened, and
Speaker 6: I went and played it, and I thought the same
Speaker 6: thing with start passes, said, how are golfers going to walk,
Speaker 6: you know, from from hold to hole on this golf course?
Speaker 6: Those things are tough, you know, all those all those
Speaker 6: desert courses that started coming in with star passing, all
Speaker 6: the other ones after that, that's a tough go. You know,
Speaker 6: gas on National is you know perfect. It's just not
Speaker 6: long enough anymore, right, you know for these guys. We'll
Speaker 6: see how long it was a nice day, good weekend. Yeah, okay, Henry,
Speaker 6: you're done right, Okay?
Speaker 4: Anything else? Just think it's safe and clean, please.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I haven't wished anybody bad things today. It's only twelve o'clock,
Speaker 4: but I say I go home a lot. Watch the
Speaker 4: Arizona game.
Speaker 5: Here, first TV time out. Houston's up nine nothing so
Speaker 5: nine nothing.
Speaker 4: Wow, I'm taking Houston. I'm taking Houston. Houston is a
Speaker 4: fun team to watch, and they play it just in
Speaker 4: a brutal they're just mean. Yeah, they are mean. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and you've gotta be tough. This is a This is
Speaker 4: not a game for.
Speaker 5: I remember the Arizona game. I think Arizona one up
Speaker 5: seven with like eight minutes ago, and people were celebrating.
Speaker 2: I was like, they got you right, what they wanted
Speaker 2: you right, and then they went and then Arizona couldn't score.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, shut it down so good. And I like him.
Speaker 4: I had him last year and then she'd got hurt.
Speaker 6: But you know what, I just watching b YU the
Speaker 6: last coupleaks, I thought, who's going to stop those guys?
Speaker 4: Sorry, Houston, it looks like Houston.
Speaker 2: Houston think Texas Tech could to Texas Tech is on
Speaker 2: another one of just a slight.
Speaker 4: Below Houston, and they're playing so well too, right, Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: Is top and is fantastic, So we'll see if anybody
Speaker 2: has someone to stop him. But you know, Henry's played well,
Speaker 2: Uh let me ask you, let me ask you this. Well, okay,
Speaker 2: I'll ask you, even though I don't there was don't
Speaker 2: have momentum.
Speaker 4: And not so much.
Speaker 6: They won a game, right, but they but they they
Speaker 6: lost a couple right there at the end, So no,
Speaker 6: I think they feel better about themselves last night class night, right,
Speaker 6: they say, okay, we won that. I don't disagree that
Speaker 6: was a hard and that was a hard game to win.
Speaker 6: Don't disagree with that, right, So I think they probably
Speaker 6: feel better about themselves. Do they feel like they've got
Speaker 6: a lot of momentum?
Speaker 4: I don't know. It takes more than one game to
Speaker 4: have momentary Here's what you got, A call no good?
Speaker 2: So they one last night for the reasons I said
Speaker 2: they lost Saturday, so they wouldn't last night. But I
Speaker 2: think they, knowing what I know about the team in
Speaker 2: the program, they have a sense of relief. They probably
Speaker 2: should think there's a lot of relief. I know I
Speaker 2: had a sense of relief. So so now they're a
Speaker 2: four seed, realistically, I think, yeah, likely, Okay, so what's
Speaker 2: good enough?
Speaker 4: That's exactly good enough?
Speaker 2: What else are they gonna be a three?
Speaker 4: You want the tournament? You can be a three, okay,
Speaker 4: but that's not that Indeed, that's tough. That's a tough class.
Speaker 2: Right, So they get to be a four, not that
Speaker 2: they're not gonna play hard, but you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: there's a there's a sense of we're here, we're gonna
Speaker 2: be okay, we're four seed.
Speaker 4: Send us to wherever you need to almost reset.
Speaker 10: Right, right?
Speaker 6: You know there's it maybe be you know, I think
Speaker 6: more than anything, it's just the pride in winning this thing.
Speaker 4: You know, it's the first time. It's the first time
Speaker 4: in this tournament.
Speaker 6: They want to I think, you know, I want to
Speaker 6: let people you know, I know we've been in the
Speaker 6: PAC twelve, but we're still a pretty damn good program.
Speaker 4: We're a blue blood.
Speaker 2: Well they got a blue blood. Someone texted me yesterday.
Speaker 2: Someone texted yesterday David Kelly bless his heart. So the
Speaker 2: game tonight with two blue bloods as he left the
Speaker 2: show with Kansas and Arizona. So so, Dave just said
Speaker 2: they're blue blood is he doesn't know what he's talking about.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, son of a gun. I was
Speaker 2: going to say something we talked about momentum blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: It'll come to me. It'll come to me. But I
Speaker 4: feel like.
Speaker 6: Momentum wise, no, no, I wouldn't say, you know, momentum
Speaker 6: that you feel I can carry him through this game.
Speaker 6: I just think they you know, as you said, the relief,
Speaker 6: they feel better about themselves.
Speaker 4: They want a game.
Speaker 6: You got to go and they beat Kansas, and so
Speaker 6: I think, yeah, I think I feel good about themselves.
Speaker 2: Okay, we got to go and talk to our guide
Speaker 2: from Texas Tech on the other side.
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Speaker 2: fourteen to two FIFU three Houston right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's just see you guys called that a good time.
Speaker 2: So how is tonight's game? What do you We're gonna
Speaker 2: have you preview? What's going on over here?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 16: Uh?
Speaker 2: Did you come here for the last game? Uh?
Speaker 3: For the Arizona game in Tucson, though I did not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to me, it was the best game that I
Speaker 2: saw in person. Arizona had to match Texas texts physical
Speaker 2: physical news and they did. What a great game. I'm
Speaker 2: hoping to see the same type of game tonight.
Speaker 3: What do you think, Well, it's gonna be kind of
Speaker 3: interesting because I'm putting the odds of chance, like know
Speaker 3: him playing at like maybe five percent. I don't think
Speaker 3: he's gonna go. H They haven't said anything there, They
Speaker 3: won't say anything until tip off. But he sat out
Speaker 3: the second half last night. He's de hold a bunch
Speaker 3: of different injuries right now, but this they're calling an
Speaker 3: upper body stream and there's really nothing on the line
Speaker 3: for him.
Speaker 6: In this one.
Speaker 3: You want obviously, you want to win. You want to
Speaker 3: keep going in this and try to get a big
Speaker 3: twelve tournament title, but you just can't risk it this
Speaker 3: close to the tournament. So I'd be surprised if he goes.
Speaker 3: And if he doesn't go, that's gonna shift a lot
Speaker 3: of what Tech can do. Uh. Just in general the matchup,
Speaker 3: they have to go much bigger, I guess Arizona than
Speaker 3: they did against Baylor. So you're gonna see more Federico
Speaker 3: Federico along with at top and to try to match
Speaker 3: up with Arizona's size, and when you do that, it
Speaker 3: kind of takes away a little bit of tech strength,
Speaker 3: which is their perimeter game, getting four shooters out there
Speaker 3: with one big. If Arizona goes to the double big look,
Speaker 3: which they've kind of been known to do, or just
Speaker 3: kind of let them run out there, that that's that's
Speaker 3: kind of a it's a tough matchup for Tech in
Speaker 3: that regard.
Speaker 6: Well, what what's been the key to them this? You know,
Speaker 6: late in the season, because they've been really really good. Uh,
Speaker 6: what if they had going and and again, you know,
Speaker 6: talking about the injury, how much does that change what.
Speaker 4: What they have been doing?
Speaker 3: Well, chance that you missed a couple of games. He
Speaker 3: missed the winn against West Virginia and the lost agains Houston.
Speaker 3: Him and darry And both missed the last akins Houston,
Speaker 3: and that was still an eight polaying game. And I
Speaker 3: think what they've kind of shown throughout this it's dealt
Speaker 3: with a bunch of little Nixon bruises and smaller injuries
Speaker 3: that aren't devastating, but they hurt you at the time.
Speaker 3: Is that their eight guy rotation is pretty good, but
Speaker 3: when you can have all eight guys, it's exceptional.
Speaker 4: It's just trying to.
Speaker 3: Get all eight guys healthy at the same time, which
Speaker 3: at this point of the year you can't really do.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're four months in the season.
Speaker 4: You're just hoping.
Speaker 3: Everybody's at the top of their game. But the one
Speaker 3: guy that is absolutely at the top of this game
Speaker 3: is jat Topping because he's the one where he was
Speaker 3: the one not healthy for the first throughout all of
Speaker 3: December and the first couple of weeks of January. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you guys remember this, but that first
Speaker 3: matchup against Arizona, he was just coming off of an
Speaker 3: illness where he lost like ten pounds in a matter
Speaker 3: of days, and he was as skinny as he'd been
Speaker 3: since I think he even got to college and just weak,
Speaker 3: but still had a great game for him. And then
Speaker 3: the return trip, I do I agree. I think that
Speaker 3: was probably I think that was the one game I
Speaker 3: could probably say he just got beat I mean, they
Speaker 3: had most of the losses. You can kind of look
Speaker 3: at one thing and it was only just beat them,
Speaker 3: but a lot of it was, you know, there's always
Speaker 3: playing at home. They shot much much better from the field,
Speaker 3: still didn't hit a lot of threes, but when you
Speaker 3: have that crowd energy. It helped you a lot. Obviously
Speaker 3: Tech knows that, so it would be interesting to see
Speaker 3: how it kind of works out in a neutral setting places.
Speaker 2: So did they exceed expectations maybe by you and others,
Speaker 2: because this team is a fantastic team.
Speaker 3: From the outside. Absolutely for me, no I wrote in October,
Speaker 3: even when the preseason pool came out, I think this
Speaker 3: team could have could win the conference. I think this
Speaker 3: team could go to the Sweet sixteen. Now I think
Speaker 3: you could probably elevate that a little bit too, Allee
Speaker 3: a potential Final four. A lot that comes down to health,
Speaker 3: which right now is kind of questionable. But I saw
Speaker 3: the makeup of this team from the jump like this,
Speaker 3: this is a pretty good team. And the thing I
Speaker 3: keep trying to tell people is with Grant, with Tech
Speaker 3: having success in Graham mccasms two years as head coach,
Speaker 3: everybody keeps saying, well, he's won everywhere, and the one
Speaker 3: thing you is dangerous for a coach like that is
Speaker 3: that if he can win anywhere, watch out when he
Speaker 3: gets honest to God talent like he does right now.
Speaker 3: He's just making the most of it.
Speaker 6: We're talking to Nathan Guys from the Lovebo Avalanche journal, Nathan,
Speaker 6: is there a coach, another coach in the Big twelve
Speaker 6: that he is similar to? You know, whether it's Tommy Lloyd,
Speaker 6: whether it's Calvin Samson or one of the other coaches.
Speaker 2: To answer your question, just from my end, Iowa State
Speaker 2: guy TJ. Whatever's name is.
Speaker 3: Osselberger. See what's funny is I kind of know Olberger
Speaker 3: a little bit. He was He came to South Dakota
Speaker 3: State right as I was leaving, so I got to
Speaker 3: interview him while he was getting his first thing, this
Speaker 3: first head coaching job. I don't think that's I don't
Speaker 3: know if that's a I'm not gonna say it. Well,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't go there. I would think scatchery is the
Speaker 3: obvious one. He came on. They have a lot, they
Speaker 3: have a lot of the kind of the same mannerism.
Speaker 3: But I think he's a little bit more, a little
Speaker 3: bit more wound up during games, not to a bad extent,
Speaker 3: but just he can kind of see's like he know
Speaker 3: a lot RIGHTO. He doesn't relaxed or unclenched until after
Speaker 3: the game is over.
Speaker 4: Like he's got that we're going.
Speaker 3: Until the final buzzers over sort of thing.
Speaker 7: He's the guy, I.
Speaker 3: Would probably say, but he's obviously tweaked what Drew does
Speaker 3: and made it his own.
Speaker 2: How did how did Texas Tech get a topping from
Speaker 2: New Mexico? How much money does he make?
Speaker 3: I can tell you what I heard, but I don't
Speaker 3: know that would be a good thing. But No, A
Speaker 3: lot of it was he had his high school coach
Speaker 3: at Say Family Academy. He's been He's known Grant for
Speaker 3: a while and the team GM Kellen Buffington. He's known
Speaker 3: that the Dallas basketball scene for a while and that
Speaker 3: was one of the reasons why they brought him here
Speaker 3: to be the gem of the team. So it was
Speaker 3: both connections, and I think a lot of it was
Speaker 3: he's close to home. His mom can come watch him
Speaker 3: whenever she wants to. Uh, he's got that grounded. And
Speaker 3: his uh his best friend from high school, Jess Henderson,
Speaker 3: is a walkout on the team, so that that's another
Speaker 3: thing that just kind of helps with that. There were
Speaker 3: a lot of things in play there, but from talking
Speaker 3: to the people around him, a lot of it was
Speaker 3: they saw what Grant was able to do his first
Speaker 3: year and then looked at it and said, oh, well,
Speaker 3: there's something brewing here. We we kind of want to
Speaker 3: be part of that. We see what is kind of going.
Speaker 4: Is it a lot?
Speaker 3: That's the I mean, it's a lot. Everybody's taken a
Speaker 3: lot compared to what.
Speaker 4: I make makes a lot.
Speaker 3: And a certain point right, a certain point of number
Speaker 3: the number right exactly.
Speaker 4: So let me ask you. You know that we've been
Speaker 4: through the first you know, regular.
Speaker 6: Season in the Big Twelve almost you know, we're almost
Speaker 6: in the late stages of the tournament.
Speaker 4: The four teams that came into the league.
Speaker 6: And I was talking earlier that you know, really of
Speaker 6: the four that came in, Arizona is the only one
Speaker 6: that you know, asserted itself a little bit. But is
Speaker 6: there a sense of change in the league or do
Speaker 6: you think these these four teams have just kind of
Speaker 6: been absorbed in the league?
Speaker 4: Is still what it always was?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 6: Is there is there a different sense of the league
Speaker 6: now with sixteen teams and you know, you got BYU
Speaker 6: and Houston who just joined the league and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: How different is it from what it was?
Speaker 3: I think it's very different. But I think kind of
Speaker 3: to you the point, Arizona is the only one that
Speaker 3: really shits in that mold right now because Arizona State
Speaker 3: and Colorado they're going through their struggles. Utah uh, I
Speaker 3: mean they're looking for a new coach and or they
Speaker 3: have their new coach, I guess, but they're going through
Speaker 3: a change. And of the other four that came in
Speaker 3: the year before, Houston was kind of the only one.
Speaker 3: So I guess of of the eight, only two of
Speaker 3: them are really kind of factoring it. Actually sorry, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: well probably the cougar nation out there, but three the
Speaker 3: eight are the only ones kind of factoring into this
Speaker 3: right now, where everybody else is kind of stickering out.
Speaker 3: But there is a change in the Big twelve. And
Speaker 3: I think you just have to look at what Cantus
Speaker 3: has been in the last couple of years, like they're
Speaker 3: I mean, you want to talk about nil. They're sharing
Speaker 3: it out the money left and right, and it's just
Speaker 3: not working. I don't know that something build selves has
Speaker 3: cut out for in that kind of regime, and not
Speaker 3: every coach is. But he's change to the cop okay
Speaker 3: sorry legally, uh uh, but there's a change the conference.
Speaker 3: I think it's just more focus on those three new
Speaker 3: of the eighth and the other ones are trying to
Speaker 3: find their place in the league. It's gonna take a
Speaker 3: little while.
Speaker 2: Well to that point, the fourteen teams left now Houston
Speaker 2: by U, Arizona, and Texas Texas obviously, but three of
Speaker 2: those are two year sex new, UYU is very new,
Speaker 2: Arizona's new, and three of them are still left.
Speaker 6: Right right, Yeah, they're gonna say this, what the first
Speaker 6: time in however many years that it's not one of
Speaker 6: the old Big eight teams that's gonna win. That's gonna
Speaker 6: win this tournament. It's been a while where Texas Tech fits.
Speaker 6: And let's talk about, you know, across the board, right
Speaker 6: football wise, you know, basketball wise and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: With this expansion of the league. What is Texas Text
Speaker 6: place in the in the league as as a program,
Speaker 6: as an overall program.
Speaker 3: Well, they're trying to be number one. I think there
Speaker 3: was that that study that came out in December that
Speaker 3: takes the highest valued athletic program in the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: And don't know what their formula is for that, but
Speaker 3: they're definitely trying to be that program through and through.
Speaker 3: I mean, you saw what the football team went out
Speaker 3: and Dad when this last Hurrah, nil just loaded up
Speaker 3: and I think Joey's I haven't paid too much attention
Speaker 3: while I've been up here, but I think Joey's making
Speaker 3: the podcast round saying you know, this is the year
Speaker 3: we're going all in and we're gonna get this done
Speaker 3: or why you know this is kind of I don't
Speaker 3: want to say the be all end all, but they're
Speaker 3: kind of pushing positioning themselves for it. I don't think
Speaker 3: basketball programs in that spot because they're already successful like this, they're,
Speaker 3: like you guys said, they're kind of overachiating what people
Speaker 3: expecting them to be anyway, so they're in a pretty
Speaker 3: good spot. It's the other one, the baseball team that's
Speaker 3: got awful right now. The softball teams doing their thing.
Speaker 3: They you know what they're picturing that key is making
Speaker 3: it exactly. So if you want to know what the
Speaker 3: money's coming from tech, you can kind of look there
Speaker 3: and based on that. But yeah, they're trying to be
Speaker 3: that program. I think it's obviously there for the taking
Speaker 3: when you don't have everybody just looking, oh it's Texas
Speaker 3: and Oklahoma. Even if they're not as good as they were,
Speaker 3: people like to claim they were on the field of
Speaker 3: play all the time, they still were the brand, and
Speaker 3: now they're looking for a brand, right and I think
Speaker 3: Texas Texas trying to take that spot.
Speaker 4: So you've covered the team for how long now, I've
Speaker 4: been around.
Speaker 3: I've been around for about five years, my second year
Speaker 3: on the beat now.
Speaker 2: Okay, So, and they continue to do well, obviously, and
Speaker 2: very likely the coach is going to be named if
Speaker 2: he's not already named for their schools. What do you
Speaker 2: think the chances of Texas Tech holding onto him because
Speaker 2: he's obviously very good.
Speaker 3: Well, there are already people that were trying to throw
Speaker 3: his name into the Indiana job. I don't foresee that.
Speaker 3: I don't see him ever leaving the state of Texas.
Speaker 3: He's a Texas guy through and through, grew up here,
Speaker 3: played here, made his family here. Uh. I do think
Speaker 3: text in a pretty good spot with him. They just
Speaker 3: signed him to a new extension with the pay raise.
Speaker 3: I think his buyout as of eight of this coming
Speaker 3: April first, would be about eight million, So it's not terrible,
Speaker 3: but it's still a good chunk of change for a
Speaker 3: basketball coach, especially when teams are trying to load up
Speaker 3: for their revenue sharing models right now. I don't think
Speaker 3: they're two words, and I think the only one that
Speaker 3: would be kind of a concern is this scatcherw ever
Speaker 3: did leave Baylor, and then you could potentially have another
Speaker 3: Crisp Beard going to Texas situation on your hands.
Speaker 4: But I think the.
Speaker 3: Vitriol would be a lot less with Grant because he
Speaker 3: just doesn't bring that kind of out of people Chrisp
Speaker 3: Beard did. I don't think they're too concerned. And I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: they've had in this success where they can kind of say,
Speaker 3: you know what, we're going to keep this guy's honestly
Speaker 3: possibly ten Did you cover Beard?
Speaker 4: Probably not.
Speaker 3: I did a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's fantastic coach, but he's got that Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was, uh, either loved him or he hated him.
Speaker 3: You loved him because of what he did, or he
Speaker 3: hated him because of this kind of how he handled himself.
Speaker 3: And and he's, uh, he's an interesting name to bring
Speaker 3: around anybody. There's a there's a story one way or
Speaker 3: the other. He can't deny what he did for the
Speaker 3: basketball program. Obviously they're they're in this position because of
Speaker 3: what he was able to do, but how they how
Speaker 3: everything ended there, but a lot of sour grapes involved there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, sounds like a guy named Jake Fisher. Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you man, thanks you wait wait wait what do
Speaker 2: you think tonight?
Speaker 4: You're right, you're right there, man. How's the atmosphere been? Okay?
Speaker 6: The thing that came up and we'll Steve, we'll talk
Speaker 6: about today, is that with Kansas and Iowa State losing,
Speaker 6: that a lot of the fans just left.
Speaker 4: Is it is the atmosphere still look like it's pretty good.
Speaker 3: I haven't been out too into the arena during this
Speaker 3: Houston bla a game, but during the other game has
Speaker 3: been pretty well attended, except the afternoon session yesterday. But
Speaker 3: I don't think you're getting a lot of people that
Speaker 3: want to see Houston play Colorado, right, But it does
Speaker 3: staying for him that I was saying Kansas aren't involved,
Speaker 3: But that just means if that keeps happening, the other
Speaker 3: team fans are gonna have to come up here more
Speaker 3: before you go.
Speaker 2: There, Nathan, if this was in Vegas, it would be packed.
Speaker 2: Say just say, so, what do you got today?
Speaker 4: Who do you think tonight?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 4: How's it?
Speaker 3: How?
Speaker 4: How is this game get to play out? Do you think.
Speaker 3: I think it's so this is just a silly cance
Speaker 3: my ability to don't play. I think it's going to
Speaker 3: be tight throughout the first let's say, thirty minutes, and
Speaker 3: then Arizona's probably just going to be able to kind
Speaker 3: of wear them down because then by that point Tech's
Speaker 3: only going to have seven bodies. I foresee, uh a
Speaker 3: walk MB start trying to get Topping into fil trouble
Speaker 3: because he's had pretty good games against him right in
Speaker 3: the year. So if you can get him in the
Speaker 3: foul trouble, that changes the dynamic.
Speaker 4: Keep it more interesting.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 6: Well that kind of tilts me a little differently now,
Speaker 6: I know, I don't I'm on DraftKings already and I'm
Speaker 6: just kidding.
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 2: Fun, have fun.
Speaker 4: I thanks, thanks, I take care. Yeah, that's interesting. That's interesting.
Speaker 6: With the injury, Well, I forgot about the injury and
Speaker 6: I was listening to their game uh on uh you
Speaker 6: know on the radio light. Yes, I was in the
Speaker 6: car and I just I put it on and their
Speaker 6: their announcers were, you know, we're talking about that because
Speaker 6: they you know, during that game, they you know, there
Speaker 6: was this injury and I don't remember the guy's name,
Speaker 6: but the key player and they said he was out
Speaker 6: for the game. And then then they had another guy
Speaker 6: who hadn't played much and stuff, and they show they won.
Speaker 6: But you know it was a struggle. You can tell
Speaker 6: it was a struggle without this guy. So we'll see,
Speaker 6: we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 6: Okay, so we got we got a Texas Tech angle
Speaker 6: on the on the whole thing. What do you think
Speaker 6: about the injury? No, about the game, just the game
Speaker 6: in general.
Speaker 4: I mean, I still think I hope that gets see
Speaker 4: the same game we saw last time there was.
Speaker 2: It was physically like, holy crap. I'm surprised that Arizona's
Speaker 2: matching them physically right, which is great to see because
Speaker 2: you saw that Arizona had it in them.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Have we seen them be physical and tough enough times
Speaker 6: to say they're a tough physical team when they want to?
Speaker 4: Yes? Wow, but that's the point. Okay, Yes, every game
Speaker 4: are they no?
Speaker 2: No, be what?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Not at all?
Speaker 2: Who they lose to? No, not at all, because they
Speaker 2: play they do when they want to. But I've seen
Speaker 2: that before. You don't Arizona. You tell Arizona you don't
Speaker 2: have a chance to give you the chance. You tell them,
Speaker 2: who are playing the tame Manhatta state man, we don't
Speaker 2: want to show up.
Speaker 4: Okay. But over the last.
Speaker 6: Let's say ten to fifteen games, ten games, okay, would
Speaker 6: you say they've been they've been a tough, gritty team
Speaker 6: and all ten of those games. No, no, no, half
Speaker 6: baby half half? Yeah, asue a issue here was not?
Speaker 4: Okay, So that's right.
Speaker 2: Issue up there may have been because they had to be,
Speaker 2: you know, given the circumstances. But I don't see the
Speaker 2: schedule in front of me. But but no, ten of years,
Speaker 2: no for half? Maybe I mean they went to Taylor
Speaker 2: and we're damn good against Baylor. Okay, that's one. Houston
Speaker 2: they were, they were Texas Tech, they were b yu.
Speaker 2: Were they physical they didn't need to be? Didn't and
Speaker 2: they got beat but they didn't need to be. They
Speaker 2: should have been because that's.
Speaker 18: How they were.
Speaker 4: Maybe they wouldn't game. That's how they beat it exactly.
Speaker 6: Yes, we're watching Houston do exactly that to be why
Speaker 6: right now they're pushing them around.
Speaker 2: That's what it takes to be be physical. So that's three.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the schedule is. You have the schedule.
Speaker 6: Who else at the end towards the end of the year.
Speaker 6: I think they I think Colorado was in there.
Speaker 4: Well, Kansas, Kansas up there? They did there? They did not.
Speaker 4: Now wait now, were they were they tough and just
Speaker 4: got beat? Or were they not tough? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know tough, you know, physical, I don't I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know about the toughness. Give me the rest
Speaker 2: of the schedule. Baylor to beat Baylor, I would say
Speaker 2: they did then I wish state.
Speaker 4: But they gotta be Yeah, they gotta beat handled it.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, no, never mind, because I'm thinking about the
Speaker 4: one here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's gonna be handled You think of this, Where
Speaker 6: does this team? Where is this team if Caleb Love
Speaker 6: doesn't make that half court shot?
Speaker 4: Good question, you know, good question.
Speaker 6: Right, I mean think about think about the vibe and
Speaker 6: the momentum they got that off of that that win.
Speaker 6: If that doesn't happen, they lose that game, everything's different.
Speaker 4: I think they're Kansas, you know. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Six maybe Hey, let me ask you a question to
Speaker 2: get off the board here, I see you once a week, right,
Speaker 2: So what about the idea situation?
Speaker 6: Oh well, uh you see you saw the Yeah yeah
Speaker 6: yeah yeah. If she, if she takes a job like that,
Speaker 6: I'm not surprised, you know. In the end, you know,
Speaker 6: Ada wants to coach at a place that's got resources
Speaker 6: where she can think she can win a national championship.
Speaker 6: And you can probably win a national championship in pretty
Speaker 6: much any sport in the SEC.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, did you read the story? I guess Kim
Speaker 2: Dars did the story locally here. Okay, so there was
Speaker 2: a thing and I said this story of the day
Speaker 2: before there was something that the DIA had mentioned or
Speaker 2: that she wrote. She says, I want to go somewhere
Speaker 2: or be somewhere where I'm appreciated.
Speaker 6: Oh what a big baby. There are seven thousand plus
Speaker 6: fans that go to her game. But you know what
Speaker 6: you're talking about, talking.
Speaker 4: That love the hell out of her.
Speaker 6: She's talking about nobody's giving me enough money or appreciation
Speaker 6: in the house, right in house, right right. Look, you
Speaker 6: know we we've been around her enough. Maybe I don't
Speaker 6: know if you've been around her enough. I know I've
Speaker 6: been around her stuff to know. She's a tough person
Speaker 6: to to be around.
Speaker 4: She's hard.
Speaker 6: I mean, she's gonna make make sure who she is right.
Speaker 6: She's driven, she's demanding. She expects the people around her
Speaker 6: to be as committed as she is. That's why a
Speaker 6: lot of players have not stuck around. We know that
Speaker 6: that they leave because I'm.
Speaker 2: Disagree with you when I have a chance, But I'm
Speaker 2: not disagreeing with you.
Speaker 4: Know that that that they they go because they're not
Speaker 4: up to her standard standards.
Speaker 18: Right.
Speaker 6: You know, they leave, either they're suggested to leave or
Speaker 6: they say I can't. I can't deal with her standards to.
Speaker 2: Her detriment because look at all the great players right
Speaker 2: left and made other teams right good.
Speaker 6: So I could see where she feels like, if other
Speaker 6: people aren't as committed as me, then I'm not appreciated.
Speaker 6: And I in the end, Steven, with all due respect
Speaker 6: to harv megdalo Is on her show, it's women's basketball
Speaker 6: and tuicson Arizona, okay, and and and it's just not
Speaker 6: it's it's gonna always be in the shadow of everything else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but let me tell you something. Yes,
Speaker 2: but it's it's elevated itself to unbelievable. She's bride sheet
Speaker 2: and she's the master, and he did it. She's the
Speaker 2: Can it continue? I think, so they can win whoever's coaching.
Speaker 2: This is a little soap opera.
Speaker 3: Right it is.
Speaker 6: She look, she raised an expectation here, so she's kind
Speaker 6: of you know, the problem is because of her own success,
Speaker 6: she's raised an expectation and then since the final four season,
Speaker 6: has not been able to meet that expectation. So I
Speaker 6: can see where she thinks she's not appreciated. But I
Speaker 6: really wish she would step back and take a look
Speaker 6: at it. You know, look around the arena at the
Speaker 6: games where there's still seven thousand people coming to those games,
Speaker 6: and they steve they weren't that good this year.
Speaker 4: And I don't think it's talking about the fans.
Speaker 2: Look, last year we had her on the show, right,
Speaker 2: and last year about this time, and she was talking
Speaker 2: about nil and making one hundred and fifty whatever it was,
Speaker 2: making one hundred and fifty to compete and we're looking
Speaker 2: at each other. Man, she's telling us the truth and
Speaker 2: it's very enlightening, right, and then the nil stuff and
Speaker 2: all that. Then the two hundred thousand, what are the
Speaker 2: money that's going to be not equal?
Speaker 4: Right, They're going to get a small percentage. So so
Speaker 4: we get that, we get that.
Speaker 2: I just think that she doesn't think she's appreciated the
Speaker 2: college calling called me from inside the building.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Not the fans. The fans
Speaker 4: adore the hell. But it's other.
Speaker 6: Quests again, and it's probably just from a the standpoint of,
Speaker 6: you know, how hard it might be to work with
Speaker 6: her because Oka, because of her her high standards, right,
Speaker 6: her high standards and her demanding ways that have made
Speaker 6: her a success, right and and and I could see that,
Speaker 6: And look, I don't I don't know anymore that everybody knows.
Speaker 6: My son works in the antheletic department. He doesn't work
Speaker 6: with her anymore. He doesn't tell me things you know
Speaker 6: about about her anymore. No, but you're saying, but I
Speaker 6: think the reputation that we the things that we do
Speaker 6: hear from others, you know in the department that we
Speaker 6: talked to, including members of the media who cover her,
Speaker 6: is that she's driven.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And and if you're not going to drive in the
Speaker 6: same direction she's going to drive, she's really got no
Speaker 6: use for you. And so you can see where she
Speaker 6: might feel like, yeah, you know, maybe my time, my
Speaker 6: courses run here, and I'm gonna go to a place
Speaker 6: where somebody's got the same.
Speaker 4: Approach that I do and no harm, no foul.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know what if she goes to the
Speaker 6: SEC and she gets a million and a half dollars
Speaker 6: a year contract and there's all this, there's nil money
Speaker 6: to go around, and she can you know, she can
Speaker 6: operate at a level that she feels like she wants
Speaker 6: to operate.
Speaker 4: So what that she went to the UVA. She came
Speaker 4: here and did a great thing.
Speaker 2: She said, the place she's like the Nathan was talking
Speaker 2: about their coach and and jed doing what he did here.
Speaker 6: Second, Larry Smith went to USC People were pissed and
Speaker 6: hurt and and and stuff.
Speaker 4: But who the hell wouldn't have taken that job if
Speaker 4: it was put out there.
Speaker 7: In front such same thing for yeah, for a DA
Speaker 7: two she makes a ton of money. They can't afford that.
Speaker 7: They can't They're not not for women's basketball unfortunately. And
Speaker 7: that's another issue, you know, you know again and getting
Speaker 7: back to what we're going to talk about it. You know,
Speaker 7: at the festival books on on on on Sunday, and
Speaker 7: Howard Megdal addressed that in his book, this chasm he
Speaker 7: called it between.
Speaker 4: You know, men's sports and women's sports.
Speaker 6: You know, this book was focused on the University on Minnesota,
Speaker 6: right and the University of Minnesota, and it would point
Speaker 6: out how the women's program was one of the top
Speaker 6: programs in the country year and year out, all right,
Speaker 6: final fours, all that kind of stuff, and the men's
Speaker 6: program was just kind of a middle of the road
Speaker 6: Big ten program. Yes, they got to a Final four
Speaker 6: in ninety seven, the year Arizona went.
Speaker 4: And then the member of the coach it was, it
Speaker 4: was the American Cleim Haskins.
Speaker 6: You know, got caught doing some stuff right, Yet you know,
Speaker 6: a middle of the road kind of coach was making
Speaker 6: millions more or several hundred thousand dollars more, you know,
Speaker 6: than the women's basketball. The women's basketball coach is making
Speaker 6: one hundred fifty thousan dollars a year. So just to
Speaker 6: talk about the chasm everywhere between men's and women's sports,
Speaker 6: and it's there whether you whether you agree with it
Speaker 6: or not, where you like it or not, that's the
Speaker 6: reality of it. And it seems like Ada thinks that
Speaker 6: women's basketball needs to be.
Speaker 4: Pushed up here a little bit more.
Speaker 6: In the end, women's basketball is women's basketball. It's great
Speaker 6: that they get seven thousand, you know, fans a game
Speaker 6: and all this, you know, attention and what she did
Speaker 6: and getting to the final four. But you know, if
Speaker 6: it were to go back to be a program and
Speaker 6: they got two thousand fans a game, I just don't
Speaker 6: think this community would be up in arms about it.
Speaker 6: And I do think, I do think though that what
Speaker 6: she's done if she leaves, is that this fan base
Speaker 6: will embrace a new coach because they've void having this
Speaker 6: pro sure.
Speaker 2: And they've enjoyed winning. I think if they find the
Speaker 2: coach that makes them win. She's still here, we can't
Speaker 2: say because she's not. We'll see what happens. I think
Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks we'll find out. I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, Kaylin Lowe, Right, she's doing just fine. They're
Speaker 2: still filling up Hill and Brand. You know, you know what,
Speaker 2: the program is good. They're winning.
Speaker 4: Winning solves a lot of pas, right, keep winning.
Speaker 6: But she had she had a couple of struggles there,
Speaker 6: a couple of yeah, no, no, we didn't go to
Speaker 6: the tournament that one year. But yeah, they were still
Speaker 6: filling up the dang the dang stadium and they still are.
Speaker 4: How do we look?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to like, Okay, what do you think.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that injury. I'll say, Texas sec.
Speaker 4: I think Arizona wins. Now, Okay, cool, but that's me. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you take the advice of everybody, but but I'm glad
Speaker 4: with that. I'm good with that. Henry, thanks a bunch
Speaker 4: yep