Hour 1 – Geno Auriemma Lost His Cool, Ian Eagle

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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio. I hope you had a great weekend. Everybody's here, Minister of Humor, Fritzie, don't call him Shorty, Seatance here, Marv Paulie, yours truly, and.

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Speaker 2: The back room guys as well. National Title game coming up tonight. Iron Eagle will be on the call. He'll be on the show coming up in twenty minutes from now. Michigan is favored by six and a half. Last week I gave you the hypothetical lines depending on the matchup. This is before the Final Four, and Michigan was going to be favored by five and a half over Yukon. Now it's up to six and a half. I think in some places went up to seven and a half. Keep this in mind. Yukon has now covered seventeen of its last eighteen tournament games, and no one's giving Yukon much of a chance as a six and a half point underdog. But this is a team. They lost to Arizona by four to start the year, and they didn't have two of their best players, Terris Reed Junior and Brayln Mullins. But they've sort of defied the odds and that's the great part of this time of the year. More on that coming up in a moment. We'll have a play of the Day poll question. Stat of the Day is always brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. Thank you for checking out the Rectech grills. We have just made meat Friday a whole lot better. Upgrade your grill with Rectech, more heat, more consistent temperature control. They're built like a tank. Learn more at R E c t EQ rectech dot com. Nothing compares to cooking on a Rectech. Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, thank you for downloading the app, and we say good morning to our radio affiliates iHeartRadio, Fox Sports Radio as well. Being a number two seed in the tournament usually means you're going to get respect, but that's not the case going into tonight's national title game because Yukon is a clear underdog. Michigan looked dominating and Yukon has had to grind out everything so far in the tournament. But the stage is different tonight because you have to give you Yukon a chance. It's not the NBA No. Seven Game series. It's forty minutes. That's it. And you do have Dan Hurley on your side, and that is an advantage. I don't think that this is a great Yukon team, even a very good team, but I think it is a Now I'm talking about the individuals, the sum of the parts. That's what makes Yukon great. They just seem to know what to do, when to do it, and they rely on a variety of people in doing them. So the odds are certainly in Michigan's favor. But all it takes is one night, one moment, and one decision and maybe Connecticut or maybe one shining moment. Yes, exactly what type of moment are you talking about? A shining moment or a dining moment? Marvin is flying the Colors with his Yukon Huskies. How nervous are you? Marvin? You know what?

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Speaker 3: After watching the second game, I was like, Wow, this is about to be real tough matchup. But I believe in my boys though. I mean, look, it's January February, Yukon April.

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Speaker 2: We're here. Okay, Ray Allen former Yukon Husky will come on now, come on, all Ray, come on, Ali, right, shoot some jumpers.

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Speaker 3: This is almost like if Walter Payton was on the show.

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Speaker 2: All right, eight seven, seven to three, DP show operator Tyler sitting by. He'll take your phone calls and uh, once again play the day poll question satur the day Dpatdanpatrick dot Com Twitter handled a DP show so got out all the requirements here ready to set sales. So I and Eagle will be on the call coming up here in a little bit. But uh, Michigan rolling over Arizona. Everybody wanted that to be the national title game. Oh this is this is now going into that game. These were two of the highest ranked teams in NCAA history. Boy didn't look that way. This is one of those if they played games, Michigan probably winning four or five the way they looked. And I mean they're just an older team, but they're dominating now. There are things to keep an eye on tonight. And when you look at and these this is minutia here, but it fascinates me. Michigan is zeroing to this season with sixty three possessions or less. They want to play up tempo. They want to get the game into the upper seventies, into the eighties. But keep this in mind, and this is what u Come's method to the madness of pulling off a surprise is they want this game in the sixties. They want to slow this game down the best they can. Perdue got Michigan that was a sixty three possession game. Duke beat Michigan sixty two possession game and they won that one. If you're gonna beat Michigan, slow it down and make sure every possession matters. And this is what happens against a great offense. You want to make sure that when they get the ball, they feel like they have to score. If it's running up and down, you don't have that pressure on each possession. But this is what Connecticut is going to try to do. They're going to try to make you slow it down the best they can. Dusty May did a great thing. And if you've ever shot in a big super doome, big arena where there's seventy thousand there, depth perception is real. Having done it once before and I'm like whoa. And it took a little while before you're like trying because the seats are way behind the basket, and all of a sudden you're shooting. And when you shoot, you're always looking for something. And sometimes it feels like the basket's an illusion. It's either closer or further away because of the background. Well, Dusty May took his team to the football field so they could shoot hoops, so they could shoot threes, so you would have a cavernous background here. It's just a little thing.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how much it mattered. Michigan shot forty four percent from three point range, Arizona shot thirty five percent, Illinois shot twenty three percent, Yukon shot thirty six percent. So these are real numbers. I don't know if his team shooting in the big house helped them, but it didn't hurt them. But you see that video where they're out there shooting hoops. You know there's a gold post there and there's a basketball hoop. But if you if you've shot in something that has that background, that gives you a little bit of an illusion. It takes you a little bit of while, a little bit of time to get used to that background. But it's the small things here. And Dusty May has done a wonderful job, and he'll go toe to toe with Dan Hurley, but it's fun to see those little things. And for as much as I thought Arizona was my pick because I thought start to finish they were the best team I saw. But I thought Michigan was the second best team I saw. Uh boy, it didn't look like that over the weekend. All right, setan what's the poll question? Today? Phone calls always welcome, best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked you didn't like? Well, Dan, we got to get America on record. Who are you rooting for tonight, Connecticut or Michigan rooting for? Yes, rooting? Who do you want to win tonight? Todd start with you.

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Speaker 5: I want Michigan to win, and I think they will win. No offense to Marvin Prince.

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Speaker 2: I'll just mix it up a little bit of a different winner. Seems like you were hesitant in giving me a year.

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Speaker 5: I was heard because I don't want to hurt Marvin's feelings. But they've they've had a lot of winning Yukon. I'm a little upset with you, kond and some of the behavior of the men's and the coaches of the men's and women's team. So Stan Wolfverines get it.

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Speaker 2: Who were you rooting for Connecticut?

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Speaker 6: I don't root for Michigan ever, not for anything, right, Marvin, especially not in this tournament, not in this game.

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Speaker 2: Hell no, okay, Marvin, that's a tough one. But okay, all right, Paul, Yeah, Connecticut, Connecticut's the better story. Oh you guys think Michigan winning is a better story. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Dusty May is saucy new on the scene, raising up their program after a couple down.

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Speaker 2: Years, and of them but Danny Hurley as must see TV.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I just say, I guess the news story not the better story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Yukon is more of a story than if Michigan's favored by six and a half.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a huge turnaround though for Michigan. That yes, that should be more of a story.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, when you look at where they were with Juwan how I mean, look at Michigan here recently, certainly what happened with the football program, but with the basketball program with Juwan Howard and Dusty May quietly comes in there and it's all of a sudden, you go, they're good team and he's done a great job. But it'll be fun, you know, coaches going toe to toe, maybe like the women's tournament with Gino Oriema Don Staley. That was wild, you know, I'm watching the game, and I found myself rooting for South Carolina because of the way they played. They were playing great, they were playing hard. But if Yukon won and continued to win, you know, and then matched up with UCLA, I would have been fine with that. But once again, I'm rooting for the story. And I thought Don Staley's team put on a defensive clinic. This is where you have a team that is not in tight games the entire year. They're probably not roughed up the entire year. They're not pushed up. Nobody ripped anybody's jersey. That was Sarah Strong or did that to herself. But Gino, when he did that interview with Holly Row, I go, oh, he knows he's in trouble. And I thought South Carolina's going to win this game. In fact, Pauli goes, I got Connecticut winning by three. I think I go pie to the face and Pauli goes, well, I don't feel that competent, no, And I go, you know, South Carolina was the better team that night. Now if they play seven games, Ucun's a better team. Yukon got surprised, and I think Gino knew Gino's mad because he lost, but he's I think really mad because he lost to Don Staley. And Don Staley is not afraid Gino greatest women's coach of all time. Don Staley doesn't take a backseat to anybody in her style. The players, they played hard. That was a team effort, and they were beating Connecticut to spaces on the floor. They were being physical, and that's one of those where you roll the dice where you go, will they will they let us play? Or are they going to call this? Because if they call it tiki tak, that game would be different. They allowed South Carolina to play the way South Carolina wanted to play. It's almost like the Legion of Boom with the Seattle Seahawks. If you let Richard Sherman Earl Thomas play this way, they will play this way and they'll beat you. But if you call it now, all of a sudden, it's different. But here is Gino Orima talking about why he was upset with Don Staley.

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Speaker 4: For forty one years, I've been coaching, and I've been I don't know thirty twenty five final fours, and the protocol is before the game, you meet at half court. Anybody ever seen that before two coaches meet at half court at j cans correct the said dan ansaid on the on the last Weekerd and I waited there for like three minutes.

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Speaker 2: So it is what it is, all right? Here is Don Staley post game with the interaction with Gino Orima. Hold on, you can ask Gino the question.

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Speaker 8: You know, he's the one that is initiated them. I don't want you know what happened there to damping what we were able to accomplish today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't quite sure what was going on what was said, But then in his interview with Holly Rowe, he was talking about the language Don Staley was using towards the official. Somebody ripped Sarah Strong's jersey talking about the fouls. It was a double standard. So there was a lot going on in that moment, and I thought, man, he is losing composure here, and you could tell that because I think he was. I don't know why he would say this to Holly Rowe in the moment. She can't do anything, she can't change anything. That's where you got to talk to the officials to try to get them to understand what's going on. But Hey, Gino should be criticized. I always say, these head coaches always are preaching composure. They want their players to be cool under fire. Hey, don't let the pressure get to you. The coaches, they're the ones you got to watch out for. They don't do well under pressure. And that happened to Gino. He melted down right there in front of us greatest coach women's basketball history, Don Staley. That's who she is. She not afraid of anybody. But I think South Carolina played their national title game against Connecticut and then all of a sudden, UCLA said, oh, by the way, you got to play us for the national title, and they demolished him. I mean give credit Ucla. Hey, the Big Ten wins another national championship. They long standing UCLA bruins of the Big Ten. It was like when I saw all the Big Ten with the national title, I go, who oh, that's right, UCLA, long standing member of the Big Ten.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Paul, it felt on Sunday like UCLA had seven players on the court. It was just a swarm the whole game, you know, fun game. It was never a game. And that was a disappointing part.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because you want that national title game like tonight. I think this tournament has been great. I think there have been great moments here. Now we haven't had Cinderella. They're talking about expanding to seventy six teams next year, maybe as early as next year, and I get that, and I want to talk to Ian Eagle about this because nil has worked, hasn't it. I know we don't like guys transferring, and you know, the transfer portal on all of that, But it feels like college football gave us Indiana this year. College basketball is going to give us a great championship game coming up tonight. We've had great stories here and I'm curious. Are college athletics in that bad condition that the President of the United States is issuing in executive order to help clean this up. I would probably be on the side of college athletics. See, you have had a pretty good year. We'll take a break, we'll come up with a poll question. We'll get to phone calls. Coming up eight, seven to seven to three DP show Iron Eagle calling the National Title game. He'll join us next year Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2: I've tried to keep you informed through my college basketball source, and he's been giving me information whether Tommy Lloyd chances that he could go, decided to stay at Arizona. They're going to make him a top five paid coach. Also, he wanted total autonomy. I told you that there was maybe a disconnect in the administration. Well, Arizona fixed that that he doesn't have to report to the athletic director, so he's going to stay at Arizona. I was told all along that Dusty May is not going anywhere. Michigan's athletic director is not going to let him go anywhere. So you might have Scott Drew's name coming up. You also have Billy Donovan's name, and my source said, hey, here's something to keep an eye on. The Chicago Bulls travel to DC and they're there through Thursday. North Carolina has Billy Donovan there for four days in one location. Bill Belichick also reported, well, I'm reported as involved. He's tight with Donovan, so he's going to be there for four days. They want to see if they can get a deal with Billy Donovan by tomorrow. Yes, Paul, does.

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Speaker 7: This North Carolina basketball coaching situation feel a little bit like Penn State five months?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? That's great call. Great call. Also, some people want to know why I didn't bring up the Chain Smokers in the first segment. I want to stay in my lane on the chain Smokers. No, I think they were mocking that the Chain Smokers were performing, and I kept thinking when I'm watching, I'm like, who asked for this? Correct? Like, what happened here was chain Smokers? Were they scheduled for the building and then they had a basketball game that and so we just combined both of them.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Paul, to be clear, you could not be anti Chain Smoker and just anti having a concert. They're a fine band. I'm sure they do good work and a nice people. It's just a placement of any band at that junction.

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Speaker 2: Stay in your lane, Paul with the Chain Smokers. Yes, I an Eagle or Ian Eigel. He is the play by play voice for the Nation Little Title game, and he joins us, Now, what did you think of the Chain Smokers?

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Speaker 9: What an opening question? Do I stay in my lane or do I just give you my genuine thoughts? The shocker for me in all of it. Bill Raftery was in the mosh pit. Couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 2: But where's Bill? I didn't see this team, Dan, But you knew the Chain Smokers were going to be performing. You had to be ready for that moment. Correct the crazy part.

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Speaker 9: This is not shocking considering just the timing of everything. We have a green room in between games. So I go to the green room. You know, you freshen up, you grab a slider. It's it's a little bit of food, have a bite.

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Speaker 2: Move on.

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Speaker 9: I now walk out of the green room and the area in which to get back to our seats is roped off, and I know I have to get back there because we have to do our stuff immediately after the chain smokers. So I get around the roped off area and I start walking and someone is freaking out running towards me, and I look up and the chain smokers are standing there with a camera facing them. I was this close to being the third chain smoker walking out onto the floor. I was so discombobulated and disoriented and man, that that would have been a career highlight.

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Speaker 2: Uh, well, you already had it. You had the call in the Yukon game, like, have you had anything that compared to that moment? Yeah, that was wild.

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Speaker 9: I think the fact that it was such a frenzy makes it different than you know, a normal buzzer beater or last second clutch shot, because when they're triggering the inbound you just assume foul game. It's going to be two or three more possessions. And for it to turn as quickly as it did, and for Mullins for it to end up in his hands, to get it done, to advance to Indianapolis and his hometown, to come back from nineteen down, to do it against Duke, to have Raf and Grant in a state of shock next to me. I know that that seemed to get a lot of attention the next day, and that's cool that you get this behind the scenes look. Grant said it might be the first time in his life that he's a meme, and Raff said, what's a meme?

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Speaker 2: He had no, but are you watching the monitor or the game in a moment like that.

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Speaker 9: I was watching the game, and then what I tend to do is the second the play ends, I go to the monitor to try to match whatever pictures are being shown. So that's just muscle memory. And I was lifted out of my chair when the ball went in Grant. If you look very closely, because the way the camera was set up, a ball hit the camera late in the second half and shifted it over, so it made it a two shot, which is normally a three shot with all three of us in there. So I was right on the periphery. As the steel takes place, Grant digs his arm into my rib cage, and I think unknowingly lifted me a bit. And as it all developed, I went up and made the call and then sat back down. And it really is one of those slow motion type of situations where you're processing in real time that this is going to go down as an all timer. But here's the crazy thing we were talking about this Dan, there have been buzzer beaters and incredible ones prior to the championship round. I think they're only really remembered, truly remembered in history and to live on forever if you win the title. Their highlights and their moments, and he'll always be remembered in stores, remembered in his home state. But to resonate and get to that other level, I think you got to win it and then that thing just lives on in perpetuity.

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Speaker 2: I an Eagle will be on the call with Grant Hill, Bill Raftury, Tracy Wolfson and tip off his eight p fifty Eastern. Yeah, when did it change from nine to twenty to eight fifty?

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Speaker 9: This is this is a college basketball history that I can't answer. I'd like to phone a friend. When did it change? Day needs to know? Okay, yeah, get on it a few years ago.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you great research staff there that you have. Oh, just have them calling a game in a dome or in a arena or at a school university.

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Speaker 9: Biggest difference, huge, huge site lines, completely different you're not at your normal level of watching the game, so the action is actually above you, and certain things that you just know based on where your eyes go from doing game after game after game. You've got to retrain your brain. In the first five minutes. Site lines in the corners, I can tell you, and it'll probably happen again. Anything in the far corners, I can't tell if it's a three pointer or not. I have to wait, I have to pause. I have to be patient and not commit normally, you know right away. So that it's a little disconcerting because it's the biggest game of the year and you can't go through the normal mode of your brain. And then everything is far away. The fans are far away. You can't see the fans' faces normally, and college basketball set up they're really close. Regular NBA arenas they're close enough. So everything's just a little bit detached, and it feels like it's on a bit of a one second delay. I can't hear the crowd burst through like I would in an intimate setting. You know, there were seventy thousand plus people there, and it's cavernous, and I do think it's real. I know, we say it every year. I do think they have a problem the players do in the first few minutes of getting adjusted, making shots, feeling comfortable, getting acclimated. But it's the same for both teams, and it's part of the deal. It's the biggest stage possible in college basketball, and it's obviously wor.

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Speaker 2: How much will you hear Danny Hurley tonight zero zero?

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Speaker 9: We are so far away it is impossible to hear what's happening on the other side of the court. So interesting NBA local broadcast, you are normally Normally they've changed this a bit, but in the good old days you were courtside, on the benches side National you were on the other side, which was an adjustment for me that first couple of years of doing it, because there were things you would pick up, small little nuances, facial expressions, body language between coach player between coach official that you just don't see on the other side, and now, obviously with this broadcast setup, you are on the other side. There's also a roving camera that looks like one of those robots that would deliver your food for door dash, which I don't know if you've had that yet. I had a game in Dallas this year, and I ended up ordering out and then they inform you that the robot is coming to deliver your food. So I go downstairs to meet the robot and I see it from two blocks away, and now I'm concerned for the robot because I don't know how he's going to negotiate the sidewalk, and I think, now should I should I go meet him?

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Speaker 2: Do I wait?

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Speaker 9: Do I do? I stop and get there a little earlier and knock on the door. I don't know what to do. So finally it comes up and two people that just happened to be walking by as I'm now perfumfering with my phone, They're like, what's.

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Speaker 2: Going on here?

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Speaker 9: It's a delivery robot And I hit the button on my phone and it opens the hatch and it was as if I was walking on the moon. They were astounded at what took place, and not my chicken sandwich like rises up, so that that's also happening. It's it's going back and forth in front of me during game acts and you could hear like shush, sh shush sh that I hear.

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Speaker 2: I won't hear Dan Hurley, Uh, the Michigan story. What Dusty May has done and this run like they're blowing people out. People were, you know, ranting and raving that Arizona Michigan should be for the national title. Yes, well heard that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Dusty mayl get the credit. He probably deserves the turnaround at Michigan. Now what they've done in the tournament and blowing people out, and of course you got to win this. But how do you encapsulate what he's done at Michigan.

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Speaker 9: Well, I think his ability to build the program so quickly, to identify talent, to figure out which pieces would work together. Look, there's a financial aspect of this, you can't ignore it. It's there, but they've done it correctly. They've really had an architect in Dusty May that knew what to do and how to do it quickly. And that is one thing now in the way the college basketball is set up for these major programs because of the money. If you evaluate talent well, identify it, and then develop it in one season, you can be right here playing for a championship. There are other teams that have the same money, if not more money, and they identified the wrong talent, or they didn't evaluate correctly, or they didn't develop correctly and they're not here. So credit has to be given to Dusty Mate basically now as a head coach. In my mind, in college basketball, you are a GM, you are a scout, you are a coach, You are a dad, you are a teacher, you are a mentor. All of those things rolled into one, and when ads are looking for someone to be the face of their program, they have to take that into account. You have to check a lot of boxes. But what he's done here is really incredible. And you're right they want eight games. Two seasons ago they wont eight games, and now they're they're playing for a chip.

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Speaker 2: College athletics. If we look at nil transfer portal, I think this has been a great year for college athletics. I agree, maybe that's not a popular opinion, but you know, you have Indiana winning the football championship, you get transfers. Now, I would like for them to sign contracts, you know, have it a little more uniform a little more uniformity here. But you know, the nil transfer portal, the you know, the president with an executive order kind of wants to limit this stuff. But I think if you sign a contract you want to transfer, why can't there be a buyout to that make it transactional? Everything's above board.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it is transactional right now. It does feel that way. I do agree that it's been a banner year. You're getting highly competitive games, You're getting a deeper pool of talent because players are staying longer based on the fact that they can make money and they don't just take their chances to go to the NBA and start the clock. That's a term I heard quite a bit for a number of years for players that were certainly going to be NBA stars. If you're Cooper Flag, yes you're going to the pros, you're starting the clock for your next contract. It makes perfect sense from a financial standpoint, But for someone that was a borderline first round pick or a second round pick, I don't know if the logic was there for that same approach. Now, you stay, you develop your skills, you maybe have a shining moment or two in your college career, you get paid for it, and maybe, just maybe you come out on the other side a better player. Yaxel Wendeborg is a more complete player now than he would have been a year ago if he came out of UAB Right to the NBA and instead he gets this incredible experience and maybe he caps it off with a championship. Look, it's not perfect. I recognize that. I think a lot of us though, jumped the gun and thought, man, this is.

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Speaker 2: Going to be rough.

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Speaker 9: This is going to be a really chaotic time in college athletics. It's worked out from a competitive point of view. And yes, I'm saying this. I recognize that the mid major is still left out a bit, but the reality was the mid majors were outliers in this to begin with. Now, at the very least, you hope that you're getting a higher quality of play when you get to the biggest stages of the season.

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Speaker 2: Well, I look at Braylan Mullins and he's going to be, you know, projected to be a first round draft pick. Yep. Now he's not ready, but teams are going to say, hey, we'll take him and let him develop for two years. Yep. And like read Shepherd with Houston, Yes, took him high, and then we're like, all right, we'll bring him along. Now all of a sudden, you see, you know, read with some highlights there, and that might be the case for Braylan mullins that do I do I stay and make a little bit of money, or do I go and get started on that first contract in the NBA. And it feels like that you're either ready to go you jump in, or maybe you're not even ready to go, but you go because you're going to be a long time NBA player, or you stay because you might not be that long term player.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, there was a stretch of time Dan obviously working both in college troops in NBA, I was privy to a lot of conversations and got to ask questions to people that do this for a living, that evaluate talent and make these decisions that teams have to live by. When you use a first round big those are serious pieces of valuable merchandise because you're trying to change the whole culture of your team. There were players that I look back on and it's just how it is. They stayed in college because they thought they were doing the right thing. They may have been a first round draft pick after their freshman or sophomore year, it was not a guarantee. And because they stayed their junior and senior year before they were getting paid, their flaws came out and they dropped in the draft because it actually gave scouts more time to see some of the faults that they had. So there's no right answer here. I've never ever said emphatically to any kid that has to make a decision to come out and be available for the draft.

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Speaker 2: Hey, that's a bad call on your part.

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Speaker 9: I don't know their financial situation. I don't know their family situation. I just have never been in that corner that it does occur, where people have very strong opinions about it. You got to do what's best for you. I just think now there are at least some options for kids out there to make a more prudent decision.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I'm going to give you credit if you're watching on Peacock or NBC Sports Network, you did give almost a presidential backdrop. I mean great lighting here.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Dan, I didn't want to tell you, but I am in a vestibule of a Vegas hotel. I flew there last night to do the interview and then I boord in fifteen minutes, so you know, every would be fine. But I just wanted to make sure the backdrop look good. I'm a big Earth Tones guy.

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Speaker 2: I like it, yeah, very much. Very very earthy. Yes you are. Yeah, thanks, all right, We're counting on you tonight.

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Speaker 9: Thanks.

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Speaker 5: Thanks.

00:35:08
Speaker 9: I'm gonna go through my normal routine game day and have some Nutter butters and watch some Moripovich.

00:35:19
Speaker 2: You are the father.

00:35:23
Speaker 9: You are not the fun.

00:35:26
Speaker 3: Every time it gets me.

00:35:27
Speaker 9: Every time. The intrigue. It's like March madness. It's so unpredictable.

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Speaker 2: Save your voice, Save your voice. Okay, thank you, Ian see it. That's Iron Eagle. They started eight fifty tonight. He doesn't know why or when they started it. I thought it used to be nine to twenty for a while. But Tracy Wolfson, Bill Raftory and Grant Hill, all right, take a break. Play the day next.

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00:36:02
Speaker 10: Oh my god, the day, Caley.

00:36:09
Speaker 2: This is the play of the day.

00:36:12
Speaker 6: Check this out.

00:36:13
Speaker 10: You are telling you all the timeouts. Rubinson five seconds goes to us left for the win. Tell you it's masterpiece.

00:36:32
Speaker 2: Heard see of ESPN plus. That's the Division three national title game the University of Mary Washington. Uh Emery knocked out Mary Washington last year in the tournament, but this was payback time. You don't want to mess with Mary Washington, not on a national stage. That is your play of the day. Play of the Day brought to you by on Tire Ratcock cot Cock. They've been helping you find the right tires for how and what and where you drive, ship fast and free, backed by free road hazard protection, convenient installation options like mobile tire installation Tirac dot com the way tire buying should be. I always like when there's a coaching vacancy and it's a big one and your coach gets mentioned, and then all of a sudden they go to their athletic director they say, well, now we're going to take care of you at Arizona. We'll take care of you at Alabama, maybe take care of you at Illinois. So this is where you got coaching. We'll take care of you at Baylor. But from what I'm told, North Carolina had a bag waiting for Tommy Floyd. Lloyd, they had a bag waiting for him, and he got what he wanted and decided to stay at Arizona. And look, I'd never think that I would say Arizona was on par with North Carolina, but it is. I mean, I don't know what I'm getting at North Carolina. I'm always going to be compared to Duke Arizona. If you're compared to Arizona State, you'll take that. Arizona's always good. And you know, he spent all that time at Gonzaga, got the head coaching job. He's done a great job and he got paid. But I don't know what's going to happen, you know, with some of these other coaches. If Billy Donovan is going to take it, it feels like he's not going to be coaching the Bulls next year. I don't know what that means. But if I'm North Carolina, you've been handing out bags like it's trigger treat and nobody has taken it. Maybe Billy Donovan is your guy. Alrighty, I did watch a little bit of the Well. I don't watch a lot of the Lakers and the MAVs. I watched a lot of Cooper Flag last night. Dude, you're dropping bars right now, handed out bags like his trigger treat. Okay, Eminem write that for you, Big Eddy Kane.

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Speaker 6: Snoop put that together for yourself to hand it out bags like his trigger treat.

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Speaker 2: I don't maybe somebody picks that up, you know, hand that you know, I'll co drop him. Bars coach Son on.

00:39:08
Speaker 10: You know me?

00:39:09
Speaker 2: You know me? You know me? I'm sorry, do you know me? I'm odp. Don't step to me here. I just crush a lot. Cooper Flag played really well last night, so watching Lebron, I wanted to see Lebron on Cooper Flag and vice versa. They got switched on each other a couple of times. But Cooper Flag, he uh, that's his team. He does whatever he wants. In nineteen. He won't be twenty till next December. Oh boy. And here's another thing that'll come up. And I'm not a voter anymore with the NBA Awards. Actually, I'm not sure why I'm not. Well, that's for another day. I should ask next time the commissioner's on, like what But what did I do? I lose my NBA scholarship here. And I did vote when Grant Hill and Jason Kidd tied for Rookie of the Year, and I actually changed my vote that morning. I was at NBA Entertainment and I probably brought about a tie for the Rookie of the Year. But Conkinipple's been great and his team has been really good. Cooper Flagg's numbers are incredible. You normally don't base the Rookie of the Year off of what your team did. I don't think history has proven that Cooper Flagg is the rookie of the year in my opinion, He's doing some incredible things. Con car Nipple has surprised us, therefore people are going wow. Whereas Cooper Flag, I'm not surprised anymore. Con Canipple has had an unbelievable year and they have been a competitive team this year. Dallas is not, but I would say Cooper Flag. Oh. By the way, I didn't even talk about Joker or Wemby. Oh, I didn't know who I was rooting for. Yes, Morbon.

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Speaker 3: Why was that game on a Saturday afternoon?

00:41:11
Speaker 2: No, it snuck up on me. I'm like, whoa, And it was great TV Ray Allen's going to join us and your phone calls on this Monday, best and worst of the weekend