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Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 2: I'm great today.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 2: You know we've been doing this a long long time
Speaker 2: and I've never seen you hit yourself in the face
Speaker 2: with your microphone.
Speaker 1: That's good, it just happened, Okay, So I'm just going
Speaker 1: to hold it until we get to break it, all right. So, yes,
Speaker 1: but you've been with us for many, many years for
Speaker 1: this day. We did the mob So we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to fit in all of our stupidity in just one hour.
Speaker 2: We can do it.
Speaker 1: We can do it. Kinder Caskins, speaking of stupidity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: Yes better looking in person than he is on TV,
Speaker 2: by god, Folks.
Speaker 1: Listen, I watched Wave three. This happens all the time
Speaker 1: when I'm watching and I text you all.
Speaker 3: It happens the consummate professional, Tony Vannetti.
Speaker 1: He breaks his microphone right the top of the show.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, So Kendrick, where were you this weekend? And
Speaker 1: then are you going to travel with any of the teams?
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4: Yes, as we could check you.
Speaker 3: I was down in Nashville until they lost it, and
Speaker 3: then I came home and I will go with them
Speaker 3: to the walk.
Speaker 1: When they were walking out of that game, I bet
Speaker 1: that no one was expecting that just blowout.
Speaker 3: Yeah they were not that bad, but to them for
Speaker 3: them to lose without Butler against that team, yeah, wasn't
Speaker 3: that way for surprise, But the way they just felled
Speaker 3: apart in the second half was.
Speaker 1: Of course a former Afternueon Underdog with me, Dave Jennings,
Speaker 1: how are you doing?
Speaker 2: Awesome?
Speaker 5: Brother?
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into this. My three top lines.
Speaker 1: Storylines the obvious. The optics are awful. I thought CBS
Speaker 1: did a terrible job handling it completely. North Carolina gets
Speaker 1: in the the the the athletic director, which by the way,
Speaker 1: does not look like a Bubba that I grew up.
Speaker 1: That's not bubba. He is the affactory for North Carolina
Speaker 1: as the head of this committee. That is a awful look.
Speaker 1: And that they got in I'll start to my left.
Speaker 1: Kendrick Kaskin's North Carolina in. How is that possible? And
Speaker 1: how bad does it look?
Speaker 3: It's a very bad look when you have the athletic
Speaker 3: director that's the chairman of the board, and then they
Speaker 3: they're wont it.
Speaker 4: Well, they won to twelve and quad one quad one games.
Speaker 3: They played a lot of people, but they've beaten nobody.
Speaker 4: It doesn't make any sense for them to get in.
Speaker 3: So I know a lot of people around here arguing
Speaker 3: about Indiana should have gotten in over them. The team
Speaker 3: that should be the most irritated is Boise State. Oh
Speaker 3: look at their record. They're like twenty four and ten
Speaker 3: or something like that, and they didn't make it in.
Speaker 3: But North Carolina gets in in the playing game. And
Speaker 3: I was watching Seth Greenberg this morning.
Speaker 4: I agree with him.
Speaker 3: They don't deserve to be it, but they can get it,
Speaker 3: and they can win a couple of these game games.
Speaker 3: They can win that playing game, and they can win
Speaker 3: their first round game. So uh uh, North Carolina they
Speaker 3: play let me see, I'm glancing at the glancing at.
Speaker 4: My bracket real quick. They are see they play.
Speaker 3: San Diego State first, and then there will be the
Speaker 3: eleventh seed, and so they would get Old Miss Ole.
Speaker 4: Miss, and they could beat Old Miss.
Speaker 3: I don't think they will, but I mean because Ole
Speaker 3: Miss is like so hit or miss this season kind
Speaker 3: of like Tony's microphone right now.
Speaker 2: I don't know how I can tell you. Guys have
Speaker 2: been around each other a lot. He is so O
Speaker 2: c D. This is killing him right now. I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean he is. Did you get it? Man? He's
Speaker 2: Everybody say a prayer for Tony right now, because.
Speaker 1: All right, So I'm gonna go Dave next, because I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna have some emotional issues with this.
Speaker 5: So apparently there's a new metric.
Speaker 6: Called the WAB WAB Wins above Bubble, which is supposed
Speaker 6: to quantify how many more or less wins a team
Speaker 6: against its schedule versus what a bubble.
Speaker 5: Team would expect to have against the same schedule. Whatever
Speaker 5: the hell that means.
Speaker 6: At UNC, UNC is number one in the WAB who
Speaker 6: should be ticked as West Virginia. West Virginia has six
Speaker 6: quad one wins. They said all your star players hurt.
Speaker 6: Four of those quad one wins came when he was out.
Speaker 6: North Carolina has one quad one win. West Virginia has six,
Speaker 6: and they sit while Carolina dances.
Speaker 1: Dave also has I remember when North Carolina got off
Speaker 1: the hook for all of that cheating twenty years of
Speaker 1: academic twenty years of academic fraud that happened to include
Speaker 1: two basketball national championships, and weren't touched. And of course
Speaker 1: Dave Jennings and his Florida State seminals were smacked so
Speaker 1: many times for much lesser, much lesser stupid issues. So
Speaker 1: everyone has a beef with North Carolina. And now we'll
Speaker 1: get to Marty book from Earl Books, Carriage Force A
Speaker 1: slight IU fan, Uh take it from the top.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you guys, for one thing, the optics
Speaker 2: thing is one hundred percent home run. You can't look
Speaker 2: any dumber than the NCAA DOUBLEA looked yesterday. You cannot
Speaker 2: show your butt as much as NCAA did yesterday. Okay,
Speaker 2: this crap about him stepping out of the room, I
Speaker 2: consider us friends. Okay, if I've stepped out of the
Speaker 2: room and there was a vote on whether I could
Speaker 2: come back, you guys would probably vote me in, right,
Speaker 2: I would think, Yeah, Okay, just because he's stepping out
Speaker 2: the damn room, that don't mean nothing. That means nothing.
Speaker 2: He's the chairman of the thing, right, you know, so
Speaker 2: just that's hogwashed. So it's just it's crazy to listen to.
Speaker 2: It's crazy for them to try to sell it. Nobody's
Speaker 2: gonna buy. Absolutely not. Now. Secondly to your wanting about
Speaker 2: West Virginia Boise State, I agree, Indiana deserves to be
Speaker 2: in this tournament. I think it was seven quad seven seven, Yeah,
Speaker 2: seven quad one wins. North Carolina's one in twelve and
Speaker 2: quad one wins. I don't know what the hell of
Speaker 2: wabble is or what that's that's a new one on
Speaker 2: me or whatever. You got to produced a four seed.
Speaker 2: I was at that game. Indiana kicked their butt. You
Speaker 2: got Maryland as a force seed that was at that game.
Speaker 2: Indiana counter but it's Michigan State. Now, you explain, explain
Speaker 2: this to me. If North Carolina belongs to the tournament,
Speaker 2: U of L should be no higher than a four seed.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, those two don't measure up. Okay, one of
Speaker 2: them is just made up. And what is made up
Speaker 2: is Carolina an excuse and the wabble or whatever. But
Speaker 2: this is absolutely boils down to is the ad for
Speaker 2: North Carolina. That's it. Don't try to sell it. Any
Speaker 2: other way, because that's what it is.
Speaker 3: And you know, you kind of saw it coming about
Speaker 3: a month ago when North Carolina was projected in the
Speaker 3: tournament ahead of u of L, like all through the
Speaker 3: month of February, so we should have seen it coming.
Speaker 3: But it's still when once it gets there in the
Speaker 3: reality hits you in the face.
Speaker 1: It's just like, Wow, here's the thing. If you are
Speaker 1: if you choose to say yes, I will be head
Speaker 1: of this committee, then I think you should be able
Speaker 1: that you should know that at that point, if your
Speaker 1: team is on the bubble, your team doesn't get in,
Speaker 1: your team better play. If you're going to be the
Speaker 1: president that year, your team better play lights out because
Speaker 1: if it is on the bubble, then you're gone.
Speaker 2: You have to be out.
Speaker 1: You have to say I'm sorry, my team's not getting
Speaker 1: in because I'm the president. That's the risk you take
Speaker 1: if you're going to play president that year. Am I am?
Speaker 1: I off base there?
Speaker 3: That's a total conflict of interesting absolutely every.
Speaker 4: Form of fact.
Speaker 3: No aad should be the chairman of the board for
Speaker 3: the NCAA Tournament Committee, none of them. That should be
Speaker 3: an outsourced job, be a job of somebody who is
Speaker 3: involved in the In the game itself.
Speaker 2: I've always sad, you know, with the way the football
Speaker 2: did it. I kind of had issues, you know, was
Speaker 2: Conna Lisa Rice deciding who the four people is?
Speaker 1: That was one of the dumbest things. Okay, that committee,
Speaker 1: the committee committee, right.
Speaker 2: So so do you get But does it need to
Speaker 2: be there should not be anybody with any affiliation to
Speaker 2: any college that's on that board, right, none?
Speaker 4: Conda Lisa Rice makes more assise than he does. She does,
Speaker 4: she does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's one smart woman. I mean so, but
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, is that you can't You just can't
Speaker 2: do this, man. I mean, it's this here, this is
Speaker 2: a state. I've been pissed off the NCAA before. This
Speaker 2: one's really got me.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that we were and we're going to
Speaker 1: get to Louisville. But the next one we'll do this.
Speaker 1: We'll go around the horn here. We'll start with Dave Jennings.
Speaker 1: Fourteen teams from the SEC uh many. You know, they
Speaker 1: are the best league in the country. There's no question
Speaker 1: about that. They are top to bottom. Talent, awesome talent,
Speaker 1: best coaching, got it. A lot of articles written today
Speaker 1: going I love the SEC, but no team should ever
Speaker 1: be fourteen? Is there? Are there?
Speaker 5: Are there?
Speaker 2: Other?
Speaker 1: Are there? Other things in play? Why they got so
Speaker 1: many and solidified like Olburn number one overall seed, dropping
Speaker 1: three of the last four Dave.
Speaker 6: They're just the darlings, they said, Okay, they're so much
Speaker 6: better than every other conference. They just beat up on
Speaker 6: each other. That's why Kentucky can lose eleven games and
Speaker 6: still be a three seed. Kentucky's net ranking is fourteen.
Speaker 6: Louisvill's net ranking is twenty four, which puts them on
Speaker 6: the sixth line, and they.
Speaker 5: Get an eight seed.
Speaker 6: And Villanova, based on the way they played down the
Speaker 6: stretch used to be like last ten games. That kind
Speaker 6: of thing changes every year. Villanova shouldn't be in there.
Speaker 6: I'm not sorry Villanova. Vanderbilt, No, yeah, and they don't
Speaker 6: care anyway.
Speaker 3: Right, but they got that win against Tennessee, that win
Speaker 3: against Kentucky at home, and I mean, I know we're
Speaker 3: talking about Louis a little bit later, but that's what
Speaker 3: happened with Clemson.
Speaker 4: They beat Kentucky and they beat Duke.
Speaker 3: At home, and that faulted them ahead of it.
Speaker 1: I think that when you start to go down that
Speaker 1: path and they're in the room and they're like, guys,
Speaker 1: we have fourteen SEC teams like we we've got it.
Speaker 1: We've got to rethink this.
Speaker 3: Especially when Texas gets in at nineteen and fifteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to rethink this thing.
Speaker 2: Texas does not blow whatsoever. I mean, that's that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And by the way, it's a lot of times when
Speaker 1: that happens. It happened in twenty eleven, the ACC got
Speaker 1: or twelve in Yeah, dude, what's happening here?
Speaker 6: Also lost is SEC teams are getting more credit for
Speaker 6: losing to each other. Yes, and Louisville got for winning
Speaker 6: ACC games.
Speaker 3: It's the same in football. It's football all over again. Yeah,
Speaker 3: same thing with football with.
Speaker 1: The sc Okay so SEC it's done. Now they're going
Speaker 1: to eliminate themselves because they've got to play in the
Speaker 1: second round. Now for a lot of these times, if
Speaker 1: they make it out. If they make it out, but
Speaker 1: be wary. The ACC most pulver twenty eleven. Everybody lost,
Speaker 1: but Yukon UKHN won the whole thing. But so be
Speaker 1: careful what you wish for there that that's going to
Speaker 1: be a problem. University of Louisville fighting Cardinals again.
Speaker 6: NET twenty four should be a sixth seed by that right,
Speaker 6: are an eight, but they're close to home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so let's get into it. Last night, I
Speaker 1: haven't watched this selection shown quite some time. Obviously, I'm
Speaker 1: a I'm a Louisville fan. Everybody knows that. I think
Speaker 1: we were all shocked. Like Jackie and I, we had
Speaker 1: our laptops up, we were ready to rock, and we
Speaker 1: were not. It was the third name, right, It was
Speaker 1: like did he? And they? I was like, was that Lowell?
Speaker 1: And then we said eight seed? And then you saw
Speaker 1: the coach, Pat's reaction. He stood right up and looked
Speaker 1: right in the back of the room like what is
Speaker 1: that read first initial reaction and then your thoughts Marty book.
Speaker 2: First initial reaction, I thought it was unbelievable. Now you're right,
Speaker 2: it's so early. And I didn't have, obviously any knowledge
Speaker 2: of anything else that was going to go on. So
Speaker 2: I was like, you know what you know on your
Speaker 2: seat belt because right now that this is going to
Speaker 2: get interesting if Louisville's an eight, because there's just no
Speaker 2: way six it would be minimum for me.
Speaker 6: Dave, I think and Clemsons of five and Louisville beat
Speaker 6: him twice, right and finished ahead of them in the
Speaker 6: conference exactly.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's just no rhyme. There's a few misjustices
Speaker 2: in this thing. But the season that Louisville had.
Speaker 1: It's the most egregious, is it not for the whole tournament?
Speaker 4: I think so outside of Carolina being right.
Speaker 2: That in Carolina is the two things. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: you can't put them together. That's that was my first
Speaker 2: thing I told my wife as soon as it was
Speaker 2: old with I said, how does Carolina get in and
Speaker 2: you make a Louisville and eight? You know, if you're
Speaker 2: gonna let them in, they're at least a six Kendrick
Speaker 2: Haskins are.
Speaker 1: They're not still? Are these is the instantly be still
Speaker 1: holding on to the sins of the father?
Speaker 3: I don't know, because at the same time, while yeah,
Speaker 3: they didn't get hold with that ac they.
Speaker 4: Are playing in Lexingon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's true.
Speaker 3: So there is that part of it, and so and
Speaker 3: and Marty Susan I saw the little guy an a C.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, Indiana's out as soon as I
Speaker 4: saw it, right.
Speaker 3: And it can and you know grow growing up here Washington,
Speaker 3: uf L is always the last bracket.
Speaker 4: This reviewed That's what I guess.
Speaker 1: Happy with the women, except for yeah, two thousand and
Speaker 1: nine when they were the nomber one overall seat they
Speaker 1: were first.
Speaker 3: Right, but they all seem like they're always So when
Speaker 3: they came up first, I was like wow, that was
Speaker 3: the first thing I thought.
Speaker 4: I was like, wow, they came up eight.
Speaker 3: So and then they get a Creton team, who mean,
Speaker 3: who gave Saint John's all they wanted every time they
Speaker 3: played this year they swept you. I think they I
Speaker 3: know they beat you. I think they beat you kon twice.
Speaker 3: And then when they beat them in the big Big
Speaker 3: East term because they got to revenge on them, and
Speaker 3: so they're not a slouch. No, So that's a tough
Speaker 3: team to a veteran team. They've got their guard. His
Speaker 3: name escapes me. He seems like he's been at Creighton forever.
Speaker 3: He shoots all the threes. Yeah, and he's very rain Smith,
Speaker 3: Like we need rain Smith back.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: Uh, Creighton is not going to be an easy out,
Speaker 3: even if it is in Lexington.
Speaker 1: Obviously, at first I just went, oh, well they I
Speaker 1: literally was just kind of blew it off and said, well,
Speaker 1: they thought we were seven and they dropped us the
Speaker 1: line because they're keeping us home. I said, that makes sense,
Speaker 1: that's right. When it popped in my head. And then
Speaker 1: all the stats folks you know from Nick Coffee, and
Speaker 1: everybody starts pushing out, oh no, no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: this is one of the most egregious ever, not like
Speaker 1: that this year, but ever. And then I started to
Speaker 1: look and to take the So they're like, well, do
Speaker 1: numbers and sid but the eye test, yes, Louisville lost
Speaker 1: two games in the last three months, right, and they
Speaker 1: just weren't winning games. They were winning games by fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty points. It wasn't like they were buzzer beating
Speaker 1: these terrible ACC teams. They were beating them. And then
Speaker 1: a lot of time the game was over, you know,
Speaker 1: early in the game, so they you know, Lorelmos cruising.
Speaker 1: So it was just like it's the eye test showed
Speaker 1: you they were beating them by ten, fifteen, and twenty points.
Speaker 1: It wasn't buzzer beaters. And then you had that unbelievable
Speaker 1: run through the ACC tournament with the last second shot
Speaker 1: in Stafford's game, he was crazy, and then beating Clemson
Speaker 1: in that football game on a basketball court, and then
Speaker 1: five scholarships players healthy, that's played three days in a row.
Speaker 1: And this little dude with this glasses that you could
Speaker 1: fit on the overnight stand, he's got him up five
Speaker 1: against Duke and half at a Duke home game. Yes,
Speaker 1: and you wereward that with an eight seed. They shame
Speaker 1: on you, because you know they all watched. Every person
Speaker 1: in that committee room watched that game. A bunch of
Speaker 1: scratch be dudes that met last summer that were down
Speaker 1: to five players exhausted. You could tell the lone players
Speaker 1: exhausted up five against the Dukes. And by the way,
Speaker 1: Dicky V, just.
Speaker 6: Know if the A c C is so terrible, why
Speaker 6: is Duke the overall two, why is Clemson of five?
Speaker 5: And why is North Carolina in.
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 1: Yes we are thank you, Dwight. Leave it right there, please.
Speaker 7: You and I hate more than anything about this damn tournament.
Speaker 7: But those North Carolina optics and Marty.
Speaker 2: You and I hate also stupid quads, the quads, the
Speaker 2: STUDI how what number is a quad?
Speaker 7: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: We may never know, right, we may we may never know,
Speaker 4: because all right.
Speaker 1: This is the first perfect time to take a break.
Speaker 7: Yes, anybody got questions for me about.
Speaker 4: You know, just look at the light, start left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get with it. We'll keep with you. We'll
Speaker 1: be with you in the break. Thanks Buddy, Chuck Creak,
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Speaker 1: of the hour, hanging out with us. We'll have more
Speaker 1: talk again. We're not done with the storylines. There are
Speaker 1: plenty of them. It is a soap opera for this
Speaker 1: bracket this year, and I'm super excited. Uh.
Speaker 7: Coming up at the bottom of the hour after news
Speaker 7: what we think about the quads and the optic.
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Speaker 1: course we're with Marty Book from Earl Books, Carriage Ford,
Speaker 1: Kendrick Haskins from Wave three, Dave Jennings and myself, Tony
Speaker 1: Venetti former Afternoon Underdog. Guys, we don't dive into a
Speaker 1: lot of the numbers here because I think that's when
Speaker 1: shows just get off the rails and no one's listening.
Speaker 1: At that point. We're going to talk about the storylines
Speaker 1: that everyone else is going to be talking about, which
Speaker 1: you'll include. What is Kentucky fan saw their bracket came
Speaker 1: out and and all of us, I think, said, oh
Speaker 1: that's that looks good for Kentucky to me in sweet
Speaker 1: sixteen and they got Tennessee.
Speaker 5: So that's one of their beatable sec two.
Speaker 1: And I texted you and I said, dude, you're my
Speaker 1: You're my big ten guy. What is tell me about
Speaker 1: Illinois that Kentucky don't know? There you go with.
Speaker 2: What they don't know for sure is they're Illinois is
Speaker 2: going to beat them, all right. They got size, they
Speaker 2: got depth, they got senior leadership, they got to transfer
Speaker 2: from the u of L's Kenrick was just talking about,
Speaker 2: you know, there's there's a few different things Illinois Illinois
Speaker 2: game transfers, meaning whatever type that you have, they can
Speaker 2: match it. They can match they can match your size,
Speaker 2: they can match your speed, they can do all those things.
Speaker 2: And I don't Kentucky three seed, congratulations, you didn't get
Speaker 2: a good spot there.
Speaker 1: Why is Illinois in that spot?
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know what house Maryland and Ford
Speaker 2: in Illinois six I don't know, So.
Speaker 1: What what was Illinois seasons. From what I heard, you
Speaker 1: had said last night that they had some injuries and
Speaker 1: then now they're all one hundred. Correct.
Speaker 2: I forgot to mention that, yes, they had I'm sorry
Speaker 2: for you, I know, I know, man, You're like, you're
Speaker 2: like I m at my mother's bosom. Whenever I'm around you,
Speaker 2: I am Marty books Mom's. You just make everything a
Speaker 2: lot of things they have been. They have been hurt
Speaker 2: all season, all season, and they just now got the
Speaker 2: full strength. And that's the most important part. They just
Speaker 2: now got the full strength. And I'm telling you, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm Kentucky whatever. I'm not here to be a hater
Speaker 2: or anything like that. That's a tough spot for them.
Speaker 2: That's going to be a very tough spot for them.
Speaker 2: Do we know?
Speaker 3: Any always gets in. But that's a low key home
Speaker 3: game for Illinois. Illinois not that far from Milwaukee, right, David,
Speaker 3: You lived.
Speaker 1: In Milwaukee, Yeah? I did, Walkinshaw Actually, yeah, so how
Speaker 1: far away? It's not far.
Speaker 5: I guess it's probably a six hour drive from here, right,
Speaker 5: six and a half.
Speaker 1: But no, no, no, I'm talking about Illinois Illinois home game.
Speaker 2: If they can well from from Chicago to Wisconsin's like
Speaker 2: two ours, right, Yeah, it's all.
Speaker 5: Right, not even so serious? Is it going to be
Speaker 5: Katwalkie then? Is that what we're calling this?
Speaker 1: Oh god, how much Kendrick? Do you think they're still?
Speaker 1: I mean they've gone back. Kentucky fans gone back and
Speaker 1: forth from crying with passion of love to eh, it's
Speaker 1: just not our year. We just had some breaks. Where
Speaker 1: are they now? The SEC tournament was great and then
Speaker 1: it was this blowout. The look on Pope's face as
Speaker 1: he was walking off the court set it all. The
Speaker 1: demeanor in the press and the postgame was set at all.
Speaker 1: Where's the fan base now? I mean they're obviously crazy.
Speaker 1: It's a cult. God love you, I love all you all,
Speaker 1: but it is what where are they at now? You
Speaker 1: think because you were with them?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they that Kentucky might be the most confusing team
Speaker 3: in the tournament because they are literally the team that
Speaker 3: could beat anybody because they have I think that's the take,
Speaker 3: and they can lose to anybody, right, And you just
Speaker 3: don't know who's gonna show up from game to game,
Speaker 3: like literally, because you don't know who's gonna be hurt
Speaker 3: or not, and everything hinges on Butler if he's gonna play,
Speaker 3: And like when he first got hurt the other night,
Speaker 3: they made it sound like this kid was gone for
Speaker 3: the season now, butracuously he's going to be back for
Speaker 3: the first game of the tournament. So I'm sure he's
Speaker 3: gonna be. He's good enough to play, But how sustainable
Speaker 3: is he? How close is he one hundred percent?
Speaker 4: He can't be.
Speaker 3: He's probably around seventy five eighty percent, I would think
Speaker 3: it best. And even when he's been back, since he
Speaker 3: came back the last time, he still wasn't himself a
Speaker 3: lot of mislayups because he can't lift his arm all
Speaker 3: the way up. He said, his arm feels fine, but
Speaker 3: but you got that big voltron shoulder bracet as you
Speaker 3: can't lift your arm all the way up. So I
Speaker 3: don't know how close to one hundred percent he's gonna be.
Speaker 3: So who's going to show up for them? Especially the
Speaker 3: big men are inconsistent. Between a Marii Williamson and Barry
Speaker 3: and Brandon Garrison, you just don't know what you're gonna
Speaker 3: get from game to game.
Speaker 1: Dave Jennings, I think any other year we do the
Speaker 1: Monday Marathon, right, wouldn't we be with Kentucky go a
Speaker 1: three seed, like we're not even We're so focused on
Speaker 1: Louisville getting screwed that, Dave, are we like we're missing
Speaker 1: I think that because they did have a tough season,
Speaker 1: so we're to give him a slide. But in normal seasons, Dave,
Speaker 1: I think we'd be going a three seed.
Speaker 5: I thought no way.
Speaker 6: I thought they were slipping toward a five, to be
Speaker 6: honest with you, the way that season ended. But they
Speaker 6: do have eleven Quad one wins. They're eleven and ten
Speaker 6: twenty one games against Quad one with eleven of those wins,
Speaker 6: I think the three is a little bit high. What
Speaker 6: do we know about Troy. Troy's coming in on a
Speaker 6: six game winning streak. They finished second in the Sun Belt.
Speaker 6: Any danger there?
Speaker 1: I know that I drive past it when driving to
Speaker 1: the beach.
Speaker 5: That big wooden horse there.
Speaker 1: If you go to the Panhandle to the right, if
Speaker 1: you go to the Panhandle, what is that road where
Speaker 1: you're through Montgomery where it looks like Dixie.
Speaker 5: Highway and you have to call the boiled Peanuts stands.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just you go and there's you go, Oh,
Speaker 1: there's Troy. I do it every time going, there's Troy, yes, tournament.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to ask you about him, because that's
Speaker 1: you don't cover out any of those teams.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: And it's hard to do that.
Speaker 1: So let's get to let's look down to the left
Speaker 1: at the bottom.
Speaker 6: Oh, we were wondering, is little Ricky going to be
Speaker 6: lined up with Louisville his former employer, Kentucky his former employer.
Speaker 5: Neither one of those Little Ricky and Cal and.
Speaker 1: Kansas is there, which is crazy. All right, right, Kendrick,
Speaker 1: my friend, let's go wait a minute, Marty, All right, buddy,
Speaker 1: as a Louisville fan, I know better than anyone else
Speaker 1: rick is is in the discussion to greatest basketball coach
Speaker 1: of all time in the college ranks. But Hal has
Speaker 1: his number, bur Well.
Speaker 2: And and here's the thing, And I remember this with
Speaker 2: Kentucky especially, uh. And you helped me with the Louisville years.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not sure about I do remember this
Speaker 2: with Kentucky. And he might have been sure since then.
Speaker 2: One of his biggest problems was game coaching, was actual
Speaker 2: game coaching, making adjustments, game coaching, you know, whenever, especially
Speaker 2: at Kentucky, had that problem because he had a dominating team,
Speaker 2: dominating players, and he really didn't have to do that much.
Speaker 2: It's it's like the same thing. Yeah, okay, that's why
Speaker 2: I was asking, great, That's what I was gonna get to. Now,
Speaker 2: the thing that's going to help him out is the guy.
Speaker 2: If he does play Cal Cal Perry, he can't game
Speaker 2: coach at all.
Speaker 1: Right, So.
Speaker 2: That is going to be the battle of the battle
Speaker 2: of I don't know what the hell is adjustment. Who's
Speaker 2: got the best assistance between the two that's just gonna
Speaker 2: win the game?
Speaker 5: That's Cal Obviously, has Kenny Payne.
Speaker 1: Kenny won those games?
Speaker 4: No, No, I agree.
Speaker 1: Rick is the best. He prepares a basketball team better
Speaker 1: than anybody in the in the in the history of
Speaker 1: the game. There's no question about that. The second that
Speaker 1: the three teams or whatever team's popped up for him,
Speaker 1: he had. You know, he's got every forty games film
Speaker 1: and they started. I guarantee you I think he's gotten
Speaker 1: better at the x's and o's. He I think he
Speaker 1: is a better bench coach. I used to say that
Speaker 1: Denny was always the best forty minute bench coach and
Speaker 1: Rick was a better preparer. But I'm sure I think
Speaker 1: Rick's gotten better at that, and let's Kendrick the rebirth.
Speaker 1: I watched the pregame for the for the Big East
Speaker 1: Championship game, not an empty seat in Madison Square gardens,
Speaker 1: the lights, the smoke, the music, the stars. There were
Speaker 1: movie stars and celebrities and billionaires everywhere. And I said,
Speaker 1: Rick knows how to not just build a roster, he
Speaker 1: knows how to do that.
Speaker 4: Yes he can market. I mean he was on Late
Speaker 4: Night there on NBC, Yes he was, and they was
Speaker 4: just seeing Rick in a skit. It was hilarious. But
Speaker 4: the way Rick is like become everyone's uncle, it's amazing.
Speaker 3: The transformation to complete one eighty from his where his
Speaker 3: reputation was when he left here to where it is now.
Speaker 4: It's insane. It's fun to watch.
Speaker 3: It's funny to see him like this, lighter Rick Betino,
Speaker 3: because like some of these Prescotts.
Speaker 4: I'm like, who is that?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 6: I think for as gaudy as Rick's record is overall,
Speaker 6: he's about five hundred when it comes to like one
Speaker 6: or two possession games, I believe that.
Speaker 1: I but in the he does things. And I told
Speaker 1: this story the other day when I talked to Flage
Speaker 1: the alumni group I told the Wichita story. Whether they're
Speaker 1: down twelve, and Rick looks at the bench and gets
Speaker 1: the five to eleven white guy from north Oldham that
Speaker 1: had no offers and hadn't been in games, and he
Speaker 1: calls him into the final four in front of seventy
Speaker 1: thousand people in the final four, down twelve, and puts
Speaker 1: him in the game. And Lachlan and I were watching
Speaker 1: the game together at his house and we're we were like,
Speaker 1: Rick has lost his mind. The three possessions and three
Speaker 1: three pointers. The wichitaal was born and Rick Patino, that
Speaker 1: was Rick Patino, Like that was Rick Patino.
Speaker 2: Uh So we can tell you, especially about that game, Tony,
Speaker 2: something that really special. I watched it at the Knights
Speaker 2: of Columbus and know oh manby uh I bet on
Speaker 2: which tall state to win the national championship before the
Speaker 2: turn before the season started, Right, Okay, I'm.
Speaker 1: Right there, and Tim Henderson. You are not buying Tim
Speaker 1: Henderson a beer? Is that what you're sold?
Speaker 2: No? I remember everything about that game. I went over
Speaker 2: and got on the little kneeler in front of Mary. No,
Speaker 2: and come on.
Speaker 1: To come on, there's a point here to bring No,
Speaker 1: But I will say this when he put him in
Speaker 1: and he popped open. Rick thought, he's gonna be open, right,
Speaker 1: because they're gonna be I'm not guarding that guy. And
Speaker 1: he tim Henderson. So he pops in front of Rick
Speaker 1: and you see Rick lean in. If you watch the video,
Speaker 1: he lends in and you see him. He goes shoot
Speaker 1: it Son and he goes through there, doesn't touch the net.
Speaker 1: And then he came back and pops the same spot
Speaker 1: and you saw him. Rick says to him, shoot it again.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the Rick. That's Rick Patino that
Speaker 1: everybody loves. But the building of the crazy that that
Speaker 1: at Madison Square Gardens. It's not just the building of
Speaker 1: a roster. He builds the program at some point at
Speaker 1: the young center of the crazy. Money the money, the money,
Speaker 1: the money.
Speaker 4: Yes, and he spike game.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Rick is great for pulling somebody off the bench that
Speaker 3: you're not expecting. Parent Johnson tells the best story.
Speaker 4: Oh, they are.
Speaker 3: Playing up at Yukon and Parent comes down and hits
Speaker 3: a three, and then he comes down and hits another three.
Speaker 3: And Calhoun steps up and this, who the f is
Speaker 3: this guy.
Speaker 1: That was rich? You never knew he was always looking
Speaker 1: for the matchup and the next piece on the on
Speaker 1: the on the plain chess. But the thing with Rick
Speaker 1: is he tries to set up the perfect game and
Speaker 1: when it doesn't, it falls all together, all apart. But
Speaker 1: if it does set up, you can't touch them boys.
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming in today, Kendrick Haskins from Wave three.
Speaker 1: Where You're gonna have it. You'll be around town tonight.
Speaker 4: I'll be around town tonight. Then I'll head up to
Speaker 4: Milwaukee tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: And if you see Dave Jennings out there, you'll buy
Speaker 1: him a green beer. Yeah all right?
Speaker 5: And of course Rory McElroy won his playoff today. It
Speaker 5: is Saint Patrick's day.
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Speaker 1: our March Mayhem. Later this afternoon, Terry Miners and Nick
Speaker 1: Coffee will get together and do what we just did.
Speaker 1: Not as good, but do what we just didn't. Talk
Speaker 1: about the brackets and what's going on. It's exciting. Louisville
Speaker 1: first day Thursday at noon, the first games of the
Speaker 1: NCAA tournament has Louisville and Craighton and I can't wait
Speaker 1: for Thursday. Dave Jennings you tomorrow, Buddy Maniana