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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Scott Van Pelt busy Man SportsCenter anchor. Listen to a lot of the par three yesterday with Scotty. I've known you a long time. You were giddy with the par three yesterday. That's that's one of those They don't have to pay you to do that one.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna let them though, just to get up. I'm gonna let them.

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Speaker 4: But you're right.

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Speaker 5: It's look, it's a feeling and there's a balance and that you just don't want to get two over the top, right. I mean, I always feel like a spoonful of sugar is sweet and if you put to you know, not a sprinkle rather than spoonfuls. And the feeling of family and seeing guys, especially guys that like Justin Thomas and speak, guys that I knew when they were younger and didn't have kids, and they all spoke to it. It's a different lens now with kids, and so I don't know, it's a blast. Wednesday feels different. And then it's go time today and it's a very different feeling.

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Speaker 2: To be live coverage first and second rounds of the Masters this afternoon three Eastern on the Mothership. Also four days of live featured group coverage as well, all on the ESPN app. If I said you could have Scheffler versus the Field or Oklahoma City versus the Field.

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Speaker 3: I think, Wow, that's a great, great question.

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Speaker 2: I want.

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Speaker 5: I guess I take Oklahoma City because I think that the list of people that can win this week is more broad. Scotty now Sunday, when his name's up there and he's too clear of everybody and we're just to go see the chairman and Jim, I'd feel like a bozo because he's got that capability here for sure. But I just have a sneaking suspicion this week that the field and the lens is broader than we've had in years past.

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Speaker 2: Here where are you right now? For those watching on Peacock or NBC Sports.

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Speaker 3: Network, I was trying to find a suitable backdrop.

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Speaker 5: I'm in this beautiful facility that Augusta National built that's sort of a a it's ESPN sort of production site, if you will, and it's this It was one of those things like everything here that didn't exist, and then we showed up one year and here's this perfect building. At the laws of manicured It's preposterous.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: I wish more than it, More than anything, I just wish I could.

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Speaker 5: Find the lawn and whatever folks that they've gotten involved, and I'd pay them handsomely because everything is just right, as is our space. But I'm adjacent to the grounds. I'll be heading up to do live for the Masters in just a bit.

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Speaker 2: I took a divot home with me in a tupperware container when I played there. Did you plan it? Yes? I did. It didn't work, but I brought it back and my wife goes, what's in the tupperware? I said, oh, that's turf from Augusta, And she goes, do they know you took it? I go, no, a little.

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Speaker 4: Late for them.

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Speaker 5: The statute, the limitations have run out. It's sacred ground, right, I mean, it's you have to give it a shot. It would have been awesome if you had, like this one stretch of grass in your yard that was better than all the rest.

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Speaker 3: And you say that's from Augusta, No big deal.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you cover golf, but then there's golf terminology in Augusta that you got to do a refresher so you know, like what happens if you say, boy, what a gallery?

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Speaker 5: I don't mean, I don't think anything bad would happen, but I'm not going to find out otherwise. I mean, it's it's become second nature. There are patrons, there's the Second Nine, there's the Second Cut. But honestly, like when I would go to do the Open Championship, Dan, I call it the Open Championship, not the British Open, because that's what they call it. And I would call it the last Game off because they don't call them groups there, they call them games. I don't find it to be a chore to use the lingo that that is sort of it becomes second nature, I think, much like Second Nine and Second Cut.

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Speaker 2: Did you think in your lifetime that we would be asking that question of Scheffler versus the field like we did with Tiger?

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Speaker 4: No oh?

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Speaker 5: And and that's that's that's an amazing credit to Scotty.

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Speaker 3: What's fast about.

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Speaker 5: Him, though, Dan, is that he's just having us appetite to win. I find that really endearing and it's it's it's just it's wild to me. You know, his faith, his family, that's that's his real his real driving force. Business of his life. And it's not that he's indifferent to wanting to be great. He really wants to be but he does it in a way that isn't as h doesn't feel as dominating as Tiger. And yet when you look at some of the numbers, you're like they're there, they can be comparable. So no, I didn't I think we'd find a guy, and when he announced him, I didn't think he would be at be the personality traits of Scotty.

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Speaker 2: I know that you got to go, you got to take schedule, but you wanted to say something about Seaton two Seaton before you go.

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Speaker 5: I do well to Seating into you and to your whole crew. You know, I do a show where I sit out there by myself. No show is the one man show. And your show's great because of you. But your show is great because of your folks and the loyalty of your folks. Seating being you know, chief among them is admirable to me. You've set and you're awesome whatever you do. I know you said you're not leaving the house. You're just going to build a new wing, so the wing will be great, and I just want to wish you and all all of your crew the very best. But I just I admire the loyalty and the love that's been part of the Dan Patrick Show forever and see when you're a huge part of it. If my WiFi sucks, I'm sorry. I hope you can hear this, but salute to you, my man.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Scotty. We'll be We'll be watching today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, brother.

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Speaker 2: That's Scott van Pelt.

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Speaker 2: We got a chance to talk to Dave Roberts. The Dodgers had a day game yesterday in Toronto, and so we got a chance to talk to him before the game, and I started off by asking him what he does on a day off.

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Speaker 6: I'm actually going to play contractor tomorrow in Cardiff. We're doing a whole like landscape outdoor situation. I just want to kind of see what's going on. But usually I play golf. That's what I'll typically do, all right.

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Speaker 2: For the Masters, have you played againsta I cannot.

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Speaker 6: I've played there twice and it's it's the experience is unlike any other. So yeah, I've been very, very fortunate, and I cannot wait for this week.

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Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Well, how did you play it against it? Do you want to give me your spy?

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Speaker 4: I shot eighty nine and eighty six. Okay, so respectable.

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Speaker 2: Did you play from the member tips at all? Like on eighteen?

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Speaker 4: No, I played for the No, I played for the.

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Speaker 2: Member team member teas. Okay, Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 4: That's right. I yeah, I did. That's it. That's it. That's my admission. But I feel that's all right.

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Speaker 2: I went all the way back on eighteen and it's you and it feels like those trees are growing as when you're on the tee like they get tighter and tighter. But we went all the way back. There's a couple of them. You can play all the way back, but eighteen and I said, let's do it. Let's let's see. But it's it's a lot hillier than what you think.

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Speaker 6: So did you, uh did you get into the fairway off eighteen from the tips?

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Speaker 2: I did off to the left, but well short of the bunker on the left and ended up boguing, you know, But but you know, I we had fun.

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Speaker 6: That's a good bogey from the tips. From from that, that's a good bogey.

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Speaker 2: What do you think of ABS so far?

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Speaker 4: I like it. I think it's good. You know.

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Speaker 6: It might be a little bit too perfect in the sense of, you know, a centimeter change as a call, but I do think that it makes the umpires. The umpiring for me is getting better. And I think that that's whether they agree with that or not, because they don't want to. No one wants to be embarrassed, and so they bear down more. And I think that's better for the game.

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Speaker 2: How do you develop a strategy for appealing or is there strategy.

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Speaker 6: You know what, we've done a good job of like just talking about it. We've you know, we get our front office, we get our hitting guys, our veteran guys, our hitting cup guys, players just talking about leverage. And I think the thing is is that it's just trying to figure out what is leverage, when to use it. And I think that for the run prevention side, we give it to the catcher and Will's been great. Will Smith has been great. And then I think it's just it's also helped our hitters kind of really understanding the hitting zone, the strike zone. They're more in tune with it.

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Speaker 2: Now, how did we get to this point where umpires were given their own strike zone?

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Speaker 4: Dave?

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Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I don't want to throw anybody under the bus, but Levon Hernandez greg behind the plate.

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Speaker 4: History might have been changed. You know.

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Speaker 6: I think that the way the game used to be where it was like, you know, you're Maddox or Glavin and whoever. You know, any great pitcher right that has command, you're getting three four or five inches off the plate and as a run young rookie, they're like, hey man, he's going to get that pitch.

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Speaker 4: You better swing the back and so.

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Speaker 6: I think I think that with social media, you know, with everything with analytics, like everything is more precise, and I think that's good. You know, you don't want to lose a human element with the umpires, which I think they get defensive of which I get, but I think at the end of the end of the day, people want to get the calls right and that's what the integrity of the game should be.

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Speaker 2: Talking to Dave Roberts, Dodger manager, how important is this cy Young to show Hey, Otani.

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Speaker 6: Extremely you know, and I and I would you know, love to know. I mean, I think that with show, hey, he's done everything you know on the field, he's married not single handedly, but almost single handedly, you know, the game of baseball as far as domestic, you know, international, be in the face of the game. That's something he hasn't done. And also Yamamoto, his his teammate and countrymen. You know, that's something that one of those guys. I'm sure both those guys want to be the first Japanese born player, you know, to win.

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Speaker 4: To say Young.

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Speaker 2: The coach manager, there are coaches who say, hey, I don't treat everybody the same, or managers I don't treat everybody the same. What do you do you subscribe to They're all individuals. I treat them as individuals or you know, it's a team.

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Speaker 6: I guess the easiest way to put it is you definitely treat them as individuals.

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Speaker 4: You don't treat them the same, but you treat them fairly.

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Speaker 6: And that's and what that And obviously you know Dan, what that means is when you're Freddie Freeman, you get treated differently than Alex Freeland. And when you're Clayton Kershaw, you get treated differently than Emmachian.

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Speaker 4: And that's the way it should be. Those things are earned.

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Speaker 2: The sound off of sho Heyo Tani's bat, like, there's certain sounds in baseball. Can you think of another player when you were Gel cabre it just sounded different.

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Speaker 6: It sounded different, Miguel Cabrera, that's that's the guy for me that when that dude hit a baseball, it was a different sound. But yes, when Shoey hits a baseball, it's a different sound.

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Speaker 2: I thought Jack Peterson had that sound too, Like it was like, wow, I know.

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Speaker 4: It's coming off his bat too.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely explain the Yamamoto, you know, pitching deep into games now, the rare occurrence playoffs last year, like that's an anomaly. We don't see that anymore.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think we're starting to get back to that now, which is a good thing. I think in baseball, you know, you know, the last couple of years, last year in particular, I think that you know, I think organizations wide, industry wide starting to you know, again value length of a starting pitcher and you know, understanding the value that it attacks of pulling guys shorter, not letting them go longer, trying to protect the starter and say bullets, but has a cost with relievers, you know, and and not having your best picture essentially out on the mound taking down more outs. I think Yamamoto's first year, he was cutting his teeth in the States, I I kind of played him short because I wanted him to end with success and you know, get confidence and push him a little bit more in the postseason. And then last year, if you look at his usage, I pushed him a little bit more, extend him in the postseason. And yeah, and I think that's that's I think you're you're seeing that more, I think across baseball as well, not just.

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Speaker 2: You know with our guys, you are you defying analytics?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, are you doing that hitting lot? Is it still a all or nothing at the plate analytics?

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Speaker 4: No, it's not.

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Speaker 6: And I think that the team that we're playing right now is a good case study. And you know, slugging when you're trying to slug, checking down and hitting what you strikes hidden too. The opposite field, the Blue Jays, And I've always valued batting average. Freddie Freeman is, you know, probably my favorite player I've ever coached with everything in total of what he does, and he values batting average, and you know, the biggest moments in a postseason game, you want hits and be able to drive in a run. But in our game the so that's valued most in the postseason, but it's somehow been devalued in the season, the batting average that runs batted in. So I've always been an advocate of that, and I don't like the three what is it probable outcomes or things like that that kind of I've never been a fan of that type of hitter.

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Speaker 2: When's the last time you lost, when's the last time you watched Game seven of the World Series? You know, just.

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Speaker 6: Recently I did a podcast with Passing with John Schneider, but that was kind of snippets.

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Speaker 4: But I haven't DP.

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Speaker 6: I haven't watched Game seven in its entirety ever, and I just really don't have any interest. I mean, it was a great game, great series, very fortunate. But maybe I guess for fear that the result might.

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Speaker 2: Think how of the Blue Jays treated you.

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Speaker 4: Great?

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Speaker 6: You know, I guess when you're booed, that's a good thing. But I love Canadian people. I just the Canadians are very good people. I think that the World Series the Blue Jays have been great for the country of Canada. I love coming north of the border, and I love Toronto. It's freezing here, but fortunately we have at Rogers Center, we have a dome.

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Speaker 4: But I love Canada.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you came out and they started applauding you, that probably would have meant, hey, thank you for giving us the worlds. We got the World Series.

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Speaker 1: So the.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you're right, Yeah you want to get booth you're right, DP. Yeah you're doing something right. Uh, save travels as always, Thanks for spending some.

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Speaker 4: Time, all right, DP, take care, We'll talk soon.

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Speaker 2: Dodger manager Dave Roberts speaking to him yesterday.

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Speaker 2: He is Dan Hurley, Connecticut basketball coach and joining us on the program. How's morale today? Bill?

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Speaker 4: Pretty good?

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Speaker 7: Uh, you recover, start to recover a little bit more physically emotionally. Uh with with every day that that passes, you know, you get a little more strength back. You know, you start to forget that the life starts getting back in your body.

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Speaker 4: It's a long season.

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Speaker 7: And then when you play, uh, when you when you know, when you're on those last buses on Monday night, Uh, you know you're you're playing a long season. I mean, you know, like you're you're there are a lot of colleges seasons are over. When we were playing the Big East Tournament, you know, so that was it feels like a year ago.

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Speaker 2: The high high of winning and the low low of losing. Can you compare those two?

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Speaker 4: Uh, yeah, you know, I don't. Maybe I didn't feel it.

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Speaker 7: Uh, the low low of losing, I think I've Yeah, sometimes like being proud of of the group and how hard they fought to give you the maximum with the group.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes that that that.

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Speaker 7: Has kind of been a little bit of an override on the disappointment of missing out on the confetti, the trophy being the champions.

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Speaker 4: You know, So like.

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Speaker 7: Proud is kind of overriding disappointment and sad maybe, and maybe that's because we have a couple chips, but you know, proud more than sad.

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Speaker 2: When did you realize you were in trouble?

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Speaker 4: What what different things I did during the year or in the game.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, You're always in trouble. I'm talking about when I.

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Speaker 7: Was eight years old, When I was eight years old at olm Our Lady of Mercy, when sister Sister Mary.

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Speaker 2: Caught me, Uh now wait what did she catch you doing?

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Speaker 4: Probably?

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Speaker 7: Uh, you know, copying homework five minutes before class.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's not that bad.

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Speaker 4: Not bad. Not that I would say.

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Speaker 7: In that game though, when you when the game first starts and you see, you know, literally the massive challenge in terms of their size and athleticism and physicality, you know, and I think we start the game nine nine four down and you're like, whoa, it's going to be really hard to score.

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Speaker 4: And we better be ready to fight.

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Speaker 2: But you got twenty two offensive rebounds, which which is kind of crazy. If I would have said that before the game, you're gonna get twenty two offensive rebounds, you'd probably lean towards we're winning this game.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I would say a lot of the numbers, the you know, the rebounding. Obviously, we've been a great defensive team the entire year, especially guarding the three point line. If you would have said to me, twenty two offensive rebounds, obviously, the you know, the defensive effort keeping them to what we we held and an excellent team. And then when you look at probably the shots that we started to get, you know, as they started to get fatigued in the second half, you know, we had a lot of opportunities. Obviously, make a lot of the you know, the fast break basket to cut it, to cut it to four with two minutes to go, would have obviously put enormous game pressure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought that that was probably the key to the game. And then after the game you said just nice things verbal bouquets about the referees.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, listen, when you get you know, when you get to that that you get to answer a tournament you know, you get the officials you get you get the best of the best, and you know, the officials that you get as the tournament goes on or the best officials keep advancing. You know, you go back and watch the film and you know, there's obviously things that I got wrong as a coach, the shots that the players missed, and then you know, you see plays that went on during the game that you know that that the officials missed. It's not it's not a perfect, you know situation. Obviously, the you know, the hook and hold on caravan was was was a big play. And then obviously that you know, they missed a couple of uh, you know, they probably missed a couple two of of you know of calls.

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Speaker 4: Shoves in the back or what have you.

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Speaker 7: But you know, Michigan was the best team in the country, uh, you know, the whole year and uh and they deserve that. Dusty did an awesome job there and all time. Uh, one of the best teams in recent memory.

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Speaker 2: For me, when do you find out if Mullins is coming back?

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean the line is starting to form. It's the it's the supermarket, it's the deli section.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what number. Yeah, okay, yeah, it's.

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Speaker 7: Such a you know, for I think for for teams like us and the teams that played in the final four National championship game, it's like it hits you like an avalanche because we literally your season really just ended, you know, just like literally two days ago, and now you've got to make all these decisions. You've got to help your players make monumental decisions. I would just say what now in college would I would say that unless it absolutely makes total sense for you to go in the draft, you know, unless you know you're going to be a lottery pick or guaranteed to.

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Speaker 4: Go top fifteen, top eighteen, the.

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Speaker 7: Biggest mistake that you can make right now as a college basketball player is going to the draft too early and not staying long enough in college because of the obviously the money situation.

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Speaker 2: What's your advice going to be or has has it already been for Mullens to stay or go?

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Speaker 7: I think with what I'll what I'll tell Braylan and I'll tell his family is number one, do you do you like college?

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Speaker 4: You know, do you do do you like college? I mean, some.

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Speaker 7: Players are in are in a rush to get to the NBA because they don't like being a college student. They don't like being in a college program. So I think that's like the because college programs are run way differently than than NBA teams in terms of how we practice and uh, you know just and how kind of rigorous uh study hall and going to class and then you know, the coach being in charge of the whole operation. So yeah, I mean it's it's you know, do you like college? And I think that that the world has changed. There's not this you know, this this pressure to go to the NBA now because of the because of the money situation. He you know, players like Braylan are probably he probably make more money at Yukon next year than he would if he was the fifteenth pick. So uh, you know, those are the things that you have to weigh. How badly do I want to get out of college and get to the NBA.

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Speaker 2: Are you scheduled to face Luke Murray and BC next year?

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Speaker 4: No, I'm going to put the family. He's like a brother to me, Luke.

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Speaker 7: I mean, and I couldn't imagine Bill Murray not wearing my team's hat or rooting against me now, So he's like a brother so I'll never schedule Luke.

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Speaker 2: The transfer portal and recruiting out of high school, Like, I don't know if you've ever had a top ten recruiting year, maybe you had eleventh as your best, but it kind of feels like you have a formula of what you're trying to do. Maybe you take a big swing and you get Raylan Mullins, but then you're also going to be filling in the pieces here. We saw that with Illinois, we saw that with Michigan. Is this the future of college basketball?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Dan, I think we're at a crossroads, you know. I think we've got to decide, you know what is know, who do we want to be? You know, do we want to try to hold the line and uh just go retention high school recruiting and maybe you know, cherry pick a need in the portal, you know?

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Speaker 4: Or is this now?

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Speaker 7: Are we at a point where it's like wipe the board every year and try to put together the most talented team that you can. I mean, we have our first national champion that was comprised of all portals or all transfers in Michigan. Obviously a stud in McKinney off the bench as a high school recruit. But right now we're we're we're we're processing the best, you know, the best way for us to move forward because you've got players on your team that are obviously right now weighing, you know, what they want to do. But also from a from a program standpoint, you also have all these players that have entered the portal, you know, who are also reaching out for Yukon that would like to potentially play here too. So you know, our players have decisions to make about what they want to do in the future. But you know, we also as a staff have got to decide quickly.

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Speaker 2: Is coaching the least stressful part of this job?

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Speaker 4: Now? Yeah? I mean this is terrible right now? What's going on?

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Speaker 7: I mean we I think we all have to get to a point and it's not It's not terrible, you know, in a sense of nil. I think the nil for the players is awesome. Our players made a lot of money this year and their commitment level was to the max, so the money didn't make them lazy or hard to coach. They were awesome the whole year. But just you know, like I think, as as college programs, right now, you literally have to have a front office that takes over at this point of the year, you know, like to take a coaching staff that now did the six month season and now you've got to flip and now run recruiting visits, put the roster together, talk to the agent. I mean, it's it's it's it's a lot. I think colle programs or they got we got to start run being run like an NBA organization or a pro sports organization.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a player who has a nicer car than you?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I that was I think I think it was early this year. I started to see the Tesla's and the BMW's and I'm a Ford guy. You know, I'm a Ford guy. I got my Forward Raptor truck, so I'm built tough.

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Speaker 2: Of course you are. But it used to be in the old days players would have BMW's in nice cars. It just was not above board.

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Speaker 4: They pay cash. Now it's leases.

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Speaker 7: Now they're getting Now they're getting leases with UH with which is you know, it's hey, listen, it's great the type of guys that we get at Yukon again, it's like for me, it's the transfer rule. If my son's as as college or high school kids said to me, Hey, Dad, I want to transfer after my freshman year of college.

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Speaker 4: You know, I would say, tell.

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Speaker 7: Me why, and I want to hear your reasons, and then I'll support you if the reasons make sense. But then at the end of their sophomore year, if they said I want to transfer again, and then I want to transfer again, at some point I would.

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Speaker 4: As a parent, I would be concerned.

00:28:26
Speaker 2: All right, well you got time off now, don't.

00:28:29
Speaker 7: You No that line it's even gotten bigger since I looked last.

00:28:35
Speaker 2: Do you know how many players right now you'll have on your team next year?

00:28:43
Speaker 4: No, I don't I know.

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Speaker 7: I maybe five, four or five out of fifteen maybe, you know, with between turning pro you know, players you know, having the role they want here. You know, should I test the draft process? Yeah, obviously this tampering that's been going on, I mean it's tampering that goes on.

00:29:07
Speaker 4: The entire the entire year.

00:29:11
Speaker 7: So you know, now even players that aren't in the portal, I mean everyone's I mean everyone's in the portal.

00:29:17
Speaker 2: But but Danny, why do we allow schools to tamper with coaches?

00:29:24
Speaker 4: Why did we what? What's that?

00:29:25
Speaker 2: Why do we allow a school you know North Carolina if they're interested in Ben Golden or they're interested in you know, Tommy Lawt like, why are they allowed to do that? They're under contract?

00:29:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they you shouldn't you know, you should?

00:29:43
Speaker 2: North Carolina didn't reach out to you, did they?

00:29:45
Speaker 4: No?

00:29:46
Speaker 2: Okay no?

00:29:47
Speaker 7: And when I was coaching at Rhode Island, it was really important for me that, uh and I knew my last year that there was going to be interest from Pittsburgh and Yukon and you you obviously you have the agents that are you know, because these schools they want to know, like, they want to know, they want to know what your interest level is while you're in that other job. They don't want to wait till your season's over. But I think what was unique for me when I was coaching Rhode Island was, you know, I refuse to talk to any of those schools or to even have the intermediary you know, conversations until until Duke beat my butt at the end of my last game after we beat Oklahoma in the tournament at Rody So yeah, I mean, I don't know how you can do that as a coach and then come in and look at your team and then be upset with the players, And yeah, I mean I think that as as adults and as coaches, you got to have you have to have some honor with the way that you move and the decisions that you make with your career.

00:30:53
Speaker 2: Hopefully enjoy the off season. Thanks for joining us, thanks for sharing. As always, always a pleasure to thank you, Dan Hurley,