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Perfect day to have him on. He came straight from the Rick Pitino press conference. He also has a lot of thoughts about Ed Cooley the rest of the tournament. Great time with him and we have our old friend Damon John in studio.

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We're going to talk World Baseball Classic, we got hot seat, cool throne, and then we have guys on chicks to finish off the show.

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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Wednesday, March 22nd, and the St. Louis Cardinals have lost America. Okay, go on, yeah, yeah.

I mean, Paul Goldschmidt just hitting the hitting into a double play when we had a little rally going. I mean, we lost, we lost USA, lost to Japan. For all the the the baseball crazies who have been yelling at everyone online. We watched the entire game, we taped after the game.

I enjoyed the game, it was incredible. Our hero, our collective hero who's been on all of our teams. Kyle Schwarber is the absolute man that was like, because we all have known from watching Kyle Schwarber play baseball when he's locked in. And he hit like four home runs in one at bat, it just one of them had to eventually go fair.

And but we ended Shohei Otani striking out. Mike Trout, The game ends. Was it strikeout? Yeah, it was strikeout, strikeout.

And it was, I felt really the big loser of tonight was the was the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Because, wow, that lasted bat. John Smoltz said it best, I think there were two strikes and John Smoltz goes. And these two guys right now, two of the best baseball players to ever play the sport, it was awesome.

It was a great game, though I I I loved watching it. We always said we've been consistent on the show. We weren't going to care about the World Baseball Classic until the United States started winning. And then we're going to become fair weather fans.

And it turns out it was an electric atmosphere and you're right about that. Schwarber at bat Everybody, everyone in the stadium knew that Schwarber was about to hit a home run because he hit. Probably, uh, I'd say like three quarters of a mile worth of home runs during that at bat. And then one just happened to go fair and shout out to the guy in the outfield that almost killed himself trying to catch that ball and fell over the railing. Like, yeah, that was.

At that moment, I just thought, like, if you could build the entire team out of Schwarber, I think we would win this.

He's the absolute best. He just pissed on the baseball like it was. Exit velocity of 120. That's my own stack cast sitting on my couch.

Um, yeah, it was. It was a fun game, I enjoyed it, I watched the entire game, Smoltz was. I think it's just maybe it's a little early for him because he also had a moment that he had to correct himself. Where he's like, this guy, you Darvish is going to be a star in this league and then he, like, corrected himself.

He's like, Well, he's already been really, really good, he's been around for a while.

Just kind of like in a fog, wasn't really feeling the atmosphere. Schwarber hit a ball, probably, I don't know, 450 or 450 feet, uh, to the right of the foul pole. And then Smoltz was just like, And here's the payoff pitch. Like, didn't even talk about it, it was. It was honestly bizarre.

Listen to Smoltz talk about it. But it was an awesome game. Uh, good tournament. Shout out to baseball.

And and I'm I was kind of joking, but I mean, the heart of our lineup went one for seven. Not great, right? I mean, if we're, if we're doing the blame, what are you gonna say? Hank? I keep finish, I have some more blame.

Well, if we're, if we're doing a blame, I think I'd start with those guys. Get some hits and some big moments. And maybe this game, maybe we can be sitting here bragging about, uh, the U S being the best in baseball. I also. The other note was, well, to that point, big cat. There was three Philadelphia Phillies on the team. So well, that was my other point. So yeah, it was, it was. I think it absolutely counts as another Max second place because the two runs are scored by Phillies.

Uh, the Phillies tried their hardest. They were treating it like the World Series, and just like Philadelphia does all the time, we came up second place, right? Yeah, I mean, at least we didn't get no hit this time.

So that's kind of nice, uh? Former national Trey Turner used to be good until Philly corrupted him.

Max Thoughts Second place. Tell us you tell us how to deal with this, cause you know so well, this is bullshit. I've, I've all my entire mentions right now are just that I'm a jinx once again.

And that my guys are the only ones who fucking showed up. And now it's now. It's Philly's fault again. Even though they were the best players on the team, they were, they were close, they tried their hardest, they came up just short.

All they were doing was hitting bombs. We're doing they when they were playing for Team USA. But yeah, no, in terms of like we said, PFT alluded to it. We were going to pay attention if the U S got far in the tournament. And also as soon as March madness wasn't on. Um, I, I had my first brush with baseball. Twitter, I think they're just they're on high alert.

This entire tournament, it's been a great. It has been a great tournament. I watched the entire game tonight, I've seen clips from other games. I thought it was very fun.

I'm not a a World Baseball Classic hater, but if you tell me, would you rather watch World Baseball Classic or March Madness? and say March Madness? A hundred times out of a hundred times, that's okay. Everyone can like what they like. But, uh, it was funny, cause I had I did tweet like, there's no like, robot Baseball Classic is stupid anyway. Essentially because we lost. If we had won, I would have been like, this is the greatest victory ever.

And, uh, I had, like, a little touch of the baseball. Twitter people who have been on high alert for the last week and a half defending the game, stand down, people stand back and stand down, I don't.

I thought it was a fun tournament. I'm down for the more world baseball classic. It was. It seemed like a really good time. Just maybe don't schedule it during March madness and I'd watch every game.

I think that that baseball has become the new hockey in terms of their fan base. Being like, please like my sport and being on high alert. And in case anybody out there seems to be like, quasi disrespectful or at least ambivalent towards their sport. So hockey, hockey fans have actually been pretty chill on that recently. There's not a lot of the please like my sports stuff going on. But man, the world, it's not even like these people don't even care that much during Major League baseball season.

It was just it was just during the World Baseball Classic that everybody was like, you need to respect this tournament. And yeah, they're, guess what, I'm telling you right now, don't get mad at me, you're right.

The tournament kicked ass. it was an awesome tournament. But still, but still, chill out. just please chill out. Baseball season hasn't even started yet. Relax.

So someone told me that this was more electric.

The last 10 world series, I'm going to disagree with that, I really liked the 2016 World series. Yeah, personally.

I love the 2019 world series, like there was some pretty good moments, the 2018 World series. Yeah, Max, did you like the 2020 World series?

Fuck off, fuck off, set you up for that. But yeah, the um, I here's, here's a, here's an idea. Throw this out there.

Why don't they play 140 games Major League baseball season and then we can have a World Baseball classic every year. And you can expand the tournament. I'd be down for that, that would be cool, I would be so down. You want to expand the tournament right now.

We've, yeah, right now, half the teams are filled with, like American players from Double A baseball. Oh yeah, we sent mechanics for pictures.

So let's just say there's an asterix next to Japan's win. But, uh, I, I'm saying, expand the tournament. Like, if you had told me this was a three game series or a five game series, I'd be like, I'm in No, I disagree.

I love, I love the one game format for a championship game you would watch tomorrow night. Come on, it's so much better this way, though.

Both teams empty the tank show. Hey, coming in to pitch the ninth inning, you would watch tomorrow night. It would be fun if it was a five game series. Baseball is meant to be played, and so now you're turning into one of those baseball people.

That's like, top being a hater on baseball. No, I'm asking for more. I know I love this format, the format's awesome.

You don't get anywhere else. I'm not a baseball either way, uh?

Everyone can can chill out, you're coming at the wrong podcast. Cause we, we actually made the conscious decision. We recorded the rest of the show, uh, around noon today, and we were sitting in the studio and we're like, should we wait till after the game?

And we're like, you know what? We respect the World Baseball Classic so much, we respect Team USA so much. Yeah, we're going to wait till after the game.

We're going to record like this is an N.B.A. playoff game, or, you know, a Sunday night football game. That's how much we respect world baseball, we respect it so much. I didn't even tweet about World War Two during the game, yeah.

So you, yeah, so you wanted to empty the clip? There were a lot of nuclear bomb jokes being thrown around. I'm not really, I'm not really prepared to, okay.

Yeah, right, right for the people listening. He just busted out of school and he told us before I got them all written here.

I'm not prepared for for doing these. But, uh, the U s need to play small ball, going base to base, or, as we called it in the 1940s, island hopping. Hey you guys, if we wanted to shock Japan, we should have started do little nice. One thing I was really afraid of was Japanese sacrifice flies. Okay, I liked that one.

That one's a winner so far. Boy boys, the Japanese really have great vibes in the dugout, all the fellows are cheering, even for Japan. That's a lot of raw men. Oh, okay.

One of my favorite behind the scenes guys must've been there, cause I heard one of the vendors yelling Yoza. Nice. American pitching wasn't great. The U S didn't have the flamethrowers this time.

Where was Aaron Judge? where was Garrett Cole? where was Rizzo? We need more guys who worked on a Manhattan project. Ah, and in the JAp. And in the end, the Japanese fishermen dealt a crushing blow, yet again in an area where the dolphins like to play.

And now back to Fat Man and Little Boy, a.k.a. Part of my take nice, good job. Those are all off the top of my head. So that's what we call improv ladies and gentlemen.

Damn.

Yes, and um, all right, anything else from World Baseball Classic? I don't. Yeah, go ahead.

Jake Jake's going to be like, this is the most romantic game I've ever watched a baseball in my life. No, I. It was obviously in my home town. And I had multiple people either send pictures or texts saying that. The part of my cheesesteak line was very long but very worth it. It was in the concourse at the World Baseball Classic, which I also got. I've been getting a shitload of what Whatsapp, Uh, oh, Marlon's text messages from Marlon's man.

Yeah, but I haven't updated my WhatsApp because I haven't been on a bachelor party in a really long time. That's pretty much the only time you update your WhatsApp, he said. Have show this to Dan. And it was just a video of world baseball classic.

Oh, okay, can can you? Can you play it?

Oh, that was awesome, that was, that was the world baseball classic. Hold on, I've I've just updated my WhatsApp.

Um, he sent me a lot of texts to him.

69. Getting thrown out of the World Baseball Classic 69 jersey, that was it. I want to know how Marlon's man decides which app to use to message on any given occasion. Because I'll I'll get a DM on Twitter, I'll get a DM on Instagram, he's all over the place.

He texted me saying, Check the video I just sent you and it was a video on WhatsApp, that's weird, sorry.

I don't know.

Moving different, like a spy, like, go to the park and look under the bench. You'll find a video of a guy in a 69 jersey getting kicked out. Is, yeah, and uh oh. Wisconsin in the final four. That also happened tonight.

And I t the most important tournament out there. I this. Tonight was a big night for me of watching two sports games where I was like, emotionally not going to be vulnerable. And then by the end, I was a little bit pissed about one and obviously happy. To Badgers one where I'm like, don't do this to yourself, these games don't matter. And then and then when, like Mike Trout struck out, I was like, Fuck man, I really wanted to rally.

So I'm going to stick up for our guy Jake here because he's been getting a lot of shit for having a just a disaster of a bracket. Just an absolute cluster, not one region, correct? Well, he was almost close, and what region was that?

Jake The region where there were no upsets. Yeah, but I'm gonna stand up for Jake because he has been getting a lot of shit. He has almost a perfect nit bracket, so he's very proud of the badgers.

Yeah, I'm in first place in Nit Celebrity region and fourth place overall out of 819 people. And you have the badgers winning at all, Badgers being Jelly Walker and UAB in the championship, and I could pick. If UAB beats Vandy. Tomorrow, I'll have three or four of the final four in the Nit.

Whoa, All right, so we maybe just need to start just forget the real tournament. Let's just talk nit. Hey, you're on the same train this year.

Yeah, do you think? do you think? uh, like, show.

Balls. I think like after a week or so, like, there's gotta be some sort of even in general, like before, no, like, even. I'm saying, like, going into the game, like, do you think they're boys? or do you think they're just like, I think they're boys? It would be hard to not be boys with the only other good player on your shitty team, yeah.

Yeah, you're like suffering together through all this, and you like, he's the only person in the world that could possibly understand what you're going through. Because he's like the second best baseball player. And so you guys at least have a shared experience. I was going to say, I feel like Shohei Otani is like, 10 times funnier than trout.

Like, he probably has so much more personality than trout, so I think Shohei might try to bust trout's balls. And trout just sits there and it's like, can't wait for the eagle season. Yeah, honestly, that's just all going through his head, honestly.

Good for good for Japan, cause I feel like they would have taken it a lot harder if they had lost than the U S did. Yeah, and it was the most watched baseball game of all time. Is that right?

Jake?

Obviously it takes some time to get the numbers all right. Well, let us know, because I want to know if that was, uh, four hours well spent or not. I need to know that. That will determine whether or not it was a good game is how high the ratings were. But yeah, World Baseball classic, two thumbs up. Maybe play it in the middle of the summer or something, maybe make it longer, I don't know, but I liked it.

What is it again? Four years, four years, probably, yeah, so maybe every two years. That would actually get me a little more juiced up because I feel like I forget about it.

They should do this for hockey. Yeah, how sick would that be? Hockey would be awesome. Why doesn't baseball have a big presence in the summer Olympics?

Well, they do play in the Olympics well, cause it's in the summer. Yeah, yeah, I guess that's baseball season.

Yeah, it's true, but in the NHL, they pause, they don't anymore. Oh, okay.

They stopped doing that, they stopped, uh, sending our pros, which sucks. I don't know why. Yeah, I agree with you, Jake.

The Olympics should have, yeah, make the world good. Yeah. Instead of giving, they gave him gold medals at the end, didn't they? They probably had some sort of award.

Yeah, yeah, I think they got, I think they had medals. Yeah, okay.

Um, should we kick it to ourselves? Back in studio for the rest of the show? Johnny Fanta and Damon John. Awesome, awesome interviews and, uh, a lot of other stuff.

Hot seat, cool throne as well.

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Uh, my hot seat is Scotty Pippin Jr. Hmm. oh uh. Lakers, he's on the Lakers. I'm not sure if he's on the team or if he's on the G League team.

Uh, but his mom, Larsa Pippin Larsa Pippin, formerly married to Scotty Pippin. Uh, came out with a clip that is going super viral, saying she had sex three times a day for 24 years straight. That's a lot of fucking. But if you're on a professional basketball team, locker room talk like, that's just that. That can't be fun in the locker room. To have your teammates knowing that information and probably talk. And also, MJ's son dates her. Yeah, that is tough. Also, if you're a professional athlete and you're having sex three or four times a day, that's that's a lot of sex to be having.

That's going to affect your stamina, isn't it? Wait, it's not tough for MJ's son. Why is it tough for MJ's son? Oh, to hear about Larsa Pippin fucking three times a day and knowing that you would now four times a night and then three times a night, yeah.

You got, there's a difference between three times a day and four times a night. Well, we're we, we are sex positive. You can't celebrate, uh, we'll chamberlain and not also celebrate Larsa Pippin for so good for her. Yeah, good.

You got Billy, Billy, you got, you got something, something. Just no good for her. I, I'm, I'm pro. Like, it sounds awesome. I'm saying, if you're the son like, you don't want that to be public, yeah.

It's tough for your mom to be like, I fuck all the time, Yeah, what are you going to? And for M.J. Jr, it's like, Fuck. I thought two times a night was great.

Depending on the definition of sex in her context, Scottie may have been only having sex once a night. That's a good point, I think. That's what is she saying? Is she saying that she came four times a night?

I think that Scottie does have good dick game confirmed. When does? When does Donna having sex? When does having sex occur? When do you count it as one time? Yeah, I count it personally as every stroke.

So yeah, I count it as every time I jerk off, yeah, so I have sex. usually when I have sex, I have sex at least five times during one sex kissing, yeah.

Kissing is sex. I thought that for a long time, really, so when 19, 20, pretty much yeah.

That's how people got pregnant. Yeah, I mean, probably, yeah. I was like 13, maybe 14 health classes ago. I also once smoked weed adjacent to Larsa Pippen.

That was cool and a Super Bowl in L.A. She and Antonio Brown showed up, and Antonio Brown was like, we want to smoke weed at this restaurant. And the waiter was like, Well, everyone's got to be cool with it, and we're like, Yeah, we're cool with it, if you just give us some. And he has a blunt roller with him at all times, which is a fucking awesome move.

The woman was like, Yeah, I'm Antonio Brown's blunt roller. You guys want one? I was like, Yes. Do you think Scotty Pippen could have been having sex? Do you think he'd be better at basketball if he was having less sex?

Or do you think he was so good at basketball, cause he was having all that? Well? He did have back problems, right? That's true, yeah.

Blew out his own back. Yeah, it happens. yeah, it does happen. Uh, okay.

Good hot seat. Uh, I thought your hot seat was going to be Max. Well, uh. Breakers no longer moves. Celtics do control their own destiny, yeah.

Celtics or Sixers no longer control their own destiny. It wasn't, it wasn't, it's the right. It wasn't that big a deal, I wasn't worried about it. Playoff.

Harden showed up early. What happened, uh? The Bulls beat the Sixers on Monday night in one of the worst games I've ever watched. It was, I think they scored like 115 points in two overtimes, which is hard to do in today's NFL N.BA. It feels like everyone scores a million points.

Uh, yeah, Harden didn't have a good game. Um, oh, really bad. yeah, really, really.

And beat felled out. And spoiler alert Sixers are not great when MB doesn't play. Yeah, I think I don't think he played like 45 minutes.

Yeah, well, he played well in those 45 minutes. So does that game against the Celtics become a must win? Yeah, well, dance. Play the Bulls again on Wednesday.

Yeah, no, but the game is. Is the Celtics one that determines who controls their own desk? Well, no, the Sixers don't no longer control their own destiny. No, what if they beat the Celtics, though.

I think that's a bad no tiebreaker. Yeah, do you understand how the loss column works? I apparently not. Yeah, clearly.

Um, and then my cool throne is 19 year olds.

Okay, the number one, the number one, uh, tennis player in the world right now is 19. Oh, who is it? Carlos Alcaraz? Oh, yeah.

That guy known as Alcatraz on the show we call him, yeah, we talked about that guy like, once a year, yeah.

Djokovic will probably whoop that ass, but is he next up? He's, he's now. Yeah, Rafa, Rafa, I think, is out of the top 10. For the first time in, like, a billion years. They did the, uh, this is how long Rafa has been.

Oh, this is how long Rafa has been in the top 10.

And they showed like the video game when he first got in the top 10 and then today's video game. Yeah, I love it.

I don't have tennis video game. No, I guess they do. Yeah, well, he was Mario in the first one and he became Luigi in the second. We tennis is the best video game of all time.

There's Mario, tennis is a good one. No like, but like, oh yeah, with real people, there's WTA.

Yeah, 22 K 23. Yeah, bro. They have good arcade versions, too. I'd like Dave Musters.

Yep, what's what's better than playing tennis? playing video game, we tennis, we tennis electric. It was fun. Yeah, yeah.

We tennis was fun. Yeah, yeah, uh, I have another one, but I think someone else is going to use it. No, go ahead.

Go ahead, Slam ball, it's back, it's back officially.

We did it, we brought back to us, credit to us. So there are they going to do a draft?

Where are they getting their players? Probably Earth? Yeah, no, but like now, Europeans would suck at slam ball. Are you? are you? do you want to play?

I don't, I think we can get you a tryout. we can definitely get you a tryout. I feel like they're going to get like basketball players who played college basketball. No cause. Remember, we talked to the guy and he said that the best slam ball players are like defensive backs.

Oh yeah, true. So Billy, you would actually be outstanding at being the guy that's getting dunked on. I would be a good, good day. Well, no, they said defensive backs, not special teams.

That's true, No, but Billy, I can just see the clips right now, it's a guy that's built like D.K. Metcalf, Yeah.

Just jamming on your face and you falling down. I would watch that. Oh yeah, I'd do it, you think that would be awesome. Talks are currently underway for distribution.

Just saying they're looking for a broadcast? Yeah, just saying, Okay, be fun.

Okay, Hank, can you get that done? See sweet Hank? We can definitely get Billy to try it, I think we've got to see the product.

Okay, all right. okay, well, Billy's seen the product, though the product exists.

If Billy's in the project, you know how much it will suck. I also think, you know, who knows? But they might be like, you know, the slap League, where it's like, maybe too, too violent. And after the first broadcast, like, we can't do this. Billy, I want to see you on a slam ball court.

Very badly. I've always wanted to do it. Yeah, watching on cartoon network growing up was awesome. I had a trampoline basketball set up in my backyard.

That's why I never went pro. Respectfully, Billy was kind of boring. I spent too much time grinding on the tramp. How many injuries?

Honestly, none, and I got, I got launched. We had people get double bounced out of the trampoline. Cause I, I feel like I feel like any, any parent who buys a trampoline. They're just buying a broken leg for someone.

Yeah, there was definitely fights. I got in like a fist fight, with one of my best friends jumping on the tramp like, I still laugh. I can see that rage we got, we got heated and then we'd like it, you know, you know, when you get to that, I'm just like, Oh, we're really fighting.

We were on a trampoline, like jumping. No, did you guys not have like fake cage fights? I had to use my house in the in the trampoline with the nets, I didn't go to the trampolines that had nets on them. No, because, like we, we just pretend it was like a UFC ring.

Yeah, I knew kids who did, who did that. We had like a fight. Club. Made videos on Google, Videos, it was like before YouTube, it was like only on Google. I wasn't in it, but I dude, we had a whole like Lee.

Yeah, and there was like, a broadcast, and can we get our hands on that? Uh, yeah, I can hit him, I can hit him.

Yeah, I feel like if parents get a trampoline, they do it just to be like. This will definitely get the kids outside of the house for a little bit. Yeah, just go, and this will keep them in the backyard.

Keep them injured. The double bounce I'm so scared of a double bounce. You guys ever played? Break the egg? When you had to, like, curl up into a little ball, and then people had to like popcorn. Slaying you so hard that you broke, yeah.

We call it popcorn because you had to pop. Yeah, I vividly remember getting double bounce, like double bounce of the trampoline and just landing on the ground and just getting up. Yeah, we haven't into this league because one of the investors is Blake Griffin.

Oh, okay, okay, yeah. Is Blake going to be in slam ball? I don't know.

Can you still dunk? No, probably not. He can. Okay, you have to your hot seat.

Cool throne Uh, my hot seat is Nate Oates. Yeah, Nate Oates, Alabama's coach, because Nick Saban has just suspended freshmen defensive.

He got arrested last week drug and weapon charges in Florida. And Nick Saban said Everybody's got an opportunity to make choices and decisions. There's no such thing as the wrong place at the wrong time. Seemed like a direct shot at Nate Oates. Uh, using wrong place, wrong time. Excuse for Brandon Miller. Um, so yeah. Embrace debate.

Is there such a thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Airplane crash. Yes, that feels like not your fault, yes.

Uh, McDonald's drive-thru at 10 31 in the morning, right after they stopped. That might be your fault, yeah, but it's the wrong place, wrong time, yeah.

That's true. Yeah, uh, the archduke Franz Ferdinand making a left turn in 1914. Wrong place, wrong time, wrong time. Who's to say, Uh, JFK the top down that day? yeah.

Apparently it was coincidental that he said that, oh no, it was very cool, cool, cadental. uh, it was very cadental of him on coincidental because there, I mean, let's be honest, Nick Saban.

I don't think he's like, furious at Nate Oates, but any microscope on Alabama Sports and the Police Department and bad publicity, definitely. He gets caught in the in the uh fray here, so he's sending a message that he runs his program. I run my program, I'm the king. Well, now we need to ask, is Nick Saban in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Being at Alabama, when Nate Oates says that Brandon Miller is in the wrong place at the wrong time, I'd say, man, wrong place, wrong time. Ception on this one big time. But yeah, it does feel. I don't think that Saban was, uh, I don't think it was a coincidence. I think Saban knows exactly what he's saying at all times.

He doesn't seem like a coincidental type of guy. No, everything is planned out, it's a process, yeah, part of the process.

Also hot seat Steph Curry Because, uh, Corey kispert post All-star break post part of My take appearance is now averaging 11.

6 points per game and shooting 56.

4 from the field, Wow, pretty good and 45 from three points. Hell yeah.

After we told him, shoot more, just shoot the ball more, shoot more. Uh, my cool throne is hospitality. I don't know how we didn't talk about this a couple of weeks ago when the news came out. But we should cover it because we are perverts, we're dimple heads. And Scotty Scheffler released his master's menu for the Champion's dinner, so Scotty Scheffler's Master's Champion's dinner, uh, appetizers of cheeseburger sliders served Scotty style.

He didn't elaborate. I mean, he licks all on what Scotty style, he just licked all of them, uh, firecracker shrimp, delicious tortilla soup, yes.

Texas ribeye steak or black and red fish, and then, for dinner, the warm chocolate chip skillet cookie. So basically awesome. Scotty Scheffler has got to have ice cream, but there's ice cream, there's ice cream.

No one serves the chocolate chip skillet cookie without ice cream. There's a scoop of vanilla on there, that's Allah mode, but he that was in terms of Master's menus, that was top notch.

He basically took a Ruby Tuesdays and then moved it to Augusta. Yeah, love it, which great job. And I've never been more convinced that a man has grown up around lots and lots of strip malls.

Then after watching this menu, this is this is suburb city.

I feel this year it seems like all the Master's dinner is going to be crazy. There's going to be well. There was a fake Master's dinner that was going around that was like, uh, any live tour like dinners at at the eighth hole, at like nine o'clock, being ha ha, they got them.

They got them all outside, that's funny, but yeah, oh, on the green, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, like, is Phil going? Yeah, Phil's going to be there, yeah.

Uh, it will be interesting. Yeah, Patrick Reed, yeah, some of the ninth green at nine thing.

Yeah, happy Gilmore. Yeah, yeah, no, it was, yeah.

It was a fake menu going around. Yeah, it was pretty funny. Also, Max got caught with a fake quote. Oh yeah.

Bill Simmons I said that, he was like, he was saying, obviously Bill Simmons would say that. And then it was the most fake thing of all time. Yeah, and and I know it's fake, because Simmons then quote treated the fake quote being like, I never said that.

Like, remember when Scott van Pelt got caught by the onion? Yeah, he was like, I never said that. It's like, Well, yeah, you look at the account, it's MBA central, ah, instead of central.

You know, what one gets me all the time is the PGA Tour. Yes, you are, yeah, or Lacquer got caught.

That was, that was the that was the one that Charlie Woods, they said Charlie Woods was going to be featured on next year's Drive to Survive. Yes, and the one that got hit with the Speeds ball. And he said he asked for for 25 tickets to the Masters. It's actually not us getting caught.

It's people tagging us because I always get tagged in those and then my instant reaction is to retweet it. And now I've started to slowly be like, all right, look at it for a second. No, that's what I'm saying. Like, the PGA Tour one.

Yeah, that's when I get tagged, I look at, I get excited, right? And then I'm like, Well, fuck this.

They actually should have Tiger on the F1 drive to survive, that'd be cool. Just load them up, yeah, with SUV.

Give them yeah, no, no, no, rear mirror, go off window. yeah, hey, yeah.

Just have, just have Elan chasing him with the golf club, he'll win every race faster than anyone. Uh, yeah, but Max, Yeah, sometimes you get caught, uh.

No tap. No, that I'm not apologizing for getting got Max isn't a no tap guy. Yeah, no, I respect that.

Max is a double down and triple down. Yeah, listen, I, I've, I've long said that if you are a creature of the internet. If you do a job like ours, if you're not getting God at least a few times a year, then you're not. You're not, you're not doing your job.

You're it was a oh yeah, you're trying to explain, Just say you got caught? No, I got got, but I'm happy that I got got. But think about this because that was a bad true for me, yeah.

It's not true, but it's just a quote that hasn't happened yet, right? Someone does sound like something that the Sixers would do, I bet you. Someone in the Sixers locker room has said. I can't wait to play the Celtics and lose.

I have said the first part of what you just said. Also, I do want to mention, uh, the Bulls finally beat Joe on beat. That was pretty crazy. I was watching the Bulls telecast, but it was quite a stat when it was like, Bulls now. Lifetime 12 and one, or the Sixer 12 and one against the Bulls when Embiid plays tough, very tough.

Do you guys think that in that, in that vaunted matchup against the Celtics for, uh, for home court advantage? If you guys, when do you think they'll drop? Confetti? Oh, the cannons will go, I'm done, I'm done hearing about confetti.

Your court is awesome, by the way. Yeah, sick court, sick court, yeah.

Very sick. Yeah, uh, okay. uh, my hot seat. Don't you want confetti?

I feel like that's the goal for every team. Is, yeah, you should be at a game where you guys drop the confetti. Uh, I would like to win the game where you dropped. Yeah, that's, that's the that's the biggest issue, yeah.

Or you could just do it when you go to overtime. Yeah, the that's another thing that could happen. Yeah, um, all right.

My hot seat is, uh, I mentioned him on Monday because he's become like the the N.B.A. is most hated player. But Dylan Brooks had, uh, he got. He got denied a jersey swap with Kyrie Irving, which is very funny. After the game on Monday night. He took his jersey off, went up to Kyrie, and Kyrie was just like, No, I'm not like, I understand that from Kyrie's point of view. Yeah, like, you have to, you have to save those jerseys for people that need. It also isn't like, if you are, if you're Dylan Brooks and you get Kyrie's jersey. Isn't that like Tom Segura owning, like Hitler's, uh, teacup? That might that might age poorly?

It might be, but if I'm Kyrie, like, why is Dylan Brooks asking me to swap jerseys? Yeah, well, he's, listen, Dylan Brooks, he got it. I think it's 18 technical of the season.

Yeah, he's, uh, he's become the new bad boy. Yeah, I, I. I just think that you have to have more awareness of Dylan, but you have to know that you're Dylan Brooks. And Kyrie was like, Yeah, I've already like.

My mind was already on the next game process. Kyrie probably doesn't want to get fined. Yeah, um, and then, but it's just a bad look to be like, can you jersey swap and not and be denied? You have to know that you are like you already have a shirt off.

Yeah, Kyrie already had his shirt off, but I think he either was holding it or give it. Gave it to his own teammate, like his staff. And then Dylan Brooks took his off and went up to Kyrie, and Kyrie was like, Nah, yeah, that's a tough look.

You got to know that it's going to happen, you have to arrange that. And then my cool throne is Roger Goodell, who is, uh, finalizing an extension, Good, so that's Roger.

Good for Roger Goodell, he actually for everything that he has hated for, and he's hated for a lot. In terms of his actual job requirements, he does an incredible job. Yeah, it's like he was designed in a lab just to just absorb blows, it's absorbed blows. And make a shitload of money for the NFL.

And he's done both like basically the best you could possibly do. He squeezed. Every time there's any controversy, you know, whether it be on the field, off the field. He just gets all the shit and the owners get to just keep making money. Yeah, he exists to take shots, not only from the media and from the public, but also he has to. Just like, answer Jerry Jones's phone calls, get yelled at for a while and then pretend those calls never happened. It is funny when he gets that extension and everyone gets upset and it's like, No, you don't understand his job requirements.

He actually is awesome. Could you imagine if the if the N.FL had a commissioner like the N.BA does with Silver? Someone who's always like tinkering, best buddy, yeah, trying to be best friends, trying to like, read the NFL Reddit page. And then implement rule changes. No, Roger Goodell is very good at existing and being an asshole that everybody hates.

And he's compensated handsomely. Yeah, the point of Roger Goodell's entire existence is that everyone hates him, not the owner. Yep, and he does it well.

Uh, Billy, Uh, my hot seat is us. There's a new deadly fungus spreading apparently. Well, that you, yes, you feels like you're the most susceptible to this fungus. Is that what you have right now? I don't know.

Your face looks great by the way. Thank you. Yeah, it's been a long road. Once I get out of it, I'll do a face reveal of the original picture.

Yeah, it's just it's not funny to me right now, once I'm able to laugh at it. Are you currently out of the woods? No.

Today's the first day I didn't take a Prednisone, so, uh, see how it goes, okay. Billy came in the in the studio earlier today was like, I'm almost off steroids, and I thought that I did not interpret it as Billy taking like medicine.

I just thought that Billy was talking about steroids. Yeah, but uh, everyone's just replaying the first scene of the last of U.S. series and with the with the headline. So, but slowly, you say. Also hot seat jets. Why the hell haven't? Hasn't it, like, happened?

Wasn't Aaron Rogers been signed yet? Yeah, so yeah, and then cool throne hustle GPt. Uh, apparently it can tell you how to turn a hundred dollars into a million dollars, if you ask it.

Huh, did you ask it? Chat? GPT? Yeah, apparently it's like, take TCU plus four and a half.

Exactly What did they say? Actually? I'm gonna start getting gambling advice from. Yeah, well, you already broke Vegas. Yeah, I know.

Are you, are you just going to say, like, you know how to make a million dollars than not share? I'm just going to be like, Hey, how do I choose the best March Madness picks? and then what do I do to win? No, no, no. But you just said a second ago that it will teach you how to turn a hundred dollars into a million dollars.

Yeah, can care to share? Well, you gotta ask chat gpt. Yeah, it's a play.

This, I think Billy's got side deals going, I don't get a side deal. Why aren't you telling me how to make a million dollars? Well, he hasn't gotten it yet, I haven't gotten it yet.

I didn't pay for it, he needs, like he probably needs, you gotta pay for it. Billy needs like a hundred people here to sign up, and then he needs a hundred to get them to. A hundred people sign up and then they're going to get Billy the million dollars. It also would be funny if chat GBT like you sign up for a hundred bucks and it's at you, ask him how to make a hundred to a million.

And the answer is, just don't sign up for random things online and invest your money instead. True, yeah, and Tonsil dude just keeps getting paid for him. Good for Laramie.

Yeah, he is, he's, he's the coolest guy ever to smoke out of a gas mask without an agent. Yeah, so it's like, Does Lamar actually have a problem? hmm.

It's a good question. I think Lamar's gonna, I think it's going to go, I think Lamar. We're not going to get anything until after the draft, and he's going to just keep going, Lamar's also. Isn't he doing an interview with himself? Oh, really, I saw that the other day.

Yeah, Lamar is going to do well. Then he should just say it's an interview with his agent. Yeah, that would be interesting, he asked.

Agent Lamar questions. Yeah, yeah, but it does feel like it's going to wait. We're going to wait to the draft, then whoever misses out on a quarterback in the draft. We'll then be like, Okay, now we'll sign this offer sheet because also then you get to use your draft pick this year.

Yeah, so I think that when he first became a free agent, it was the teams that would have been in contact with him would be the teams wanted him. And now it's going to be teams that don't have another option, right, right?

Uh, Jake, Uh, my hot seat is Cinderella fairly. DICKINSON Yeah, their coach has gone gone in a week. A week ago we saw him in the first four and now he's gone, he's not gone, he's off to Iona.

Yeah, yeah, he's, he's there, but yeah, it does kind of suck whenever that. Yeah, it happened last year with Sheen Holloway, yeah, but good for him.

Good for him, yes, and I'm sure we'll talk about.

My Cool Thrones Kevin Harlan CBS dropped a viral video of his game winning call. Perfect, Perfect. Yeah. And do you see he went over to his, uh, partners?

He's like, Layout lay his arm out. Yeah, so flawless. What game was it for? Virginia Furman? Okay.

Good job Kevin Harlan. I mean, he was holding one of the best in the game. Yeah, he was literally holding them back.

He's like, you need to do that to me and Dave more often I will, well, during the big moments. Yeah, that's all that matters.

Right, yeah, uh, but yeah, Kevin Harlan is, he is, he's, he's getting into, like, I mean, he's almost goat status. Like every game that you hear him call, it feels like a big game, he's got the big game voice.

So, uh, yeah, I knew you'd love that. How many times you watch it? I mean, there's, I think like 4 million views on Twitter, I'm like 3.5 of them, okay?

Nice, nice, um, all right. Let's get to John Fanta, Johnny Fanta in studio, and then we have David John also in studio. Great two interviews for everyone.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. It's the first time on this show, but we've known him for a while. He is electric, he is college basketball.

It is the one and only Johnny Fanta John Fanta. you can find him on Twitter, John Underscore Fanta. He covers college basketball.

Guru, We have some people in this room. We're very excited that you're here. Max is a Villanova guy, he loves Johnny.

Fanta loves Johnny Fanta, Big Johnny Fanta guy. Are we the only ones that call you Johnny Fanta? You know, my grandma did okay, My grandma was Joni, and she would call me Johnny.

She was Joni Fanta. Yes, wow, don't Joni Coughlin, okay?

I was just, sounds like that's a person I want to tune in for. Yeah, sounds like that, yeah.

It sounds like you're a character from what was the singer from the Godfather? Was that Johnny? What was? oh, I forget that guy's name? I know Johnny Ola, but the the singer from Godfather one? That's what I always think of.

Either way, you were electric and we couldn't have had you come in on a better day. You were coming straight from Rick Patino's press conference. New basketball head, basketball coach at St. John's. Uh, first of all, I guess how quickly did this get done?

Because it felt like right after Rick walked off the off the court, I own a Yukon. He was texting Johnny Fanta like, Hey, tweet it out, it's done, tell us how it all went down. Well, it's, there's no doubting that that st.

John's primary target was Rick Patino. How could it not be? At this point? You've been in the darkness.

Think about their coaching wave. Steve Lavin, who is a friend, did a great job with Fox on TV, now he's at San Diego. It just didn't work out on the sidelines. Then you go to from Laugh to Chris Mullen, which should have been the prodigal son. That didn't work.

Didn't we know how the prodigal son thing works in college? It doesn't happen, it didn't happen here. So then they go to Mike Anderson.

And as much as he had never had a losing season, he also had never really had the.

So at this point, you need a winner, you need to win at all costs. You, you are stuck in the basement of the Big East or close to it anyways. You're almost like, in between, when you're going up the basement steps and you get to, like, that halfway mark, yeah.

That's where St. John's has kind of been. It's like, when are you going to come into the kitchen for dinner? Well, guess what, Rick Patino is coming to the kitchen, yeah.

They're in the kitchen and they're careful. He's going to get Sean a call. I mean, you started, you started right off the bat. The first thing you said when you sat down was we went to. The Italian is now regretting coming in this studio.

The first thing you said was we went to an Italian restaurant right afterwards, so you had you got me all wound up over here. Johnny, he's hot, Oh man, here's the thing.

They targeted Rick Patino and Father Shanley at at St. John's. Here's where we get into the Big East, the priesthood, yes, you know, the Catholic religious. This conference was built on meatballs.

Prayer and hoops Yeah, oh, I like meatballs, prayer. That's a great. that's a great. I would. Also, I would just add superstar coaches to it. Big name has always had the best coaches in basketball.

Yeah, big name coaches, big brand coaches, Rick Patino being one of them, you know, he was at Providence with Billy, the kid, Donovan in the Eighties and all that. So the the whole premise of this goes back to, like, you need to find a winner. They father.

Brian Shanley is the president at St. John's. Shanley hired Ed Cooley to Providence, but at that time he was thinking about hiring Rick Patino to Providence, right?

So Shanley has always had Patino on his mind, Patino being a Providence guy, so, ironically enough, the waves change. Shanley ended up having his term as president of Providence end. In 2020. He takes the St. John's President job.

So he inherits Mike Anderson, but Shanley built Providence College, he helped build it with Cooley, the facilities, the brand recognition. So now at St. John's, he's like, I'm tired of losing, so where am I going to go?

He had a phone call with Billy Donovan, Billy Donovan told Shanley, and Shanley said this at the press conference. Father, you've got to hire Rick Patino if you really want to turn St. John's around, yes.

And that's what happened. So so how is he going to solve the big problem that St. John's has, which is recruiting kids to come play in New York City? So I've never really understood why that's an issue. It seems to me like, or it used to seem to me like it would be a big attraction for people to want to play. Uh, not only in the Big East, but in New York.

But then you start to think about it being a college kid in New York, maybe not as nice as going to another school. You're getting more nil money, your money goes a little bit further. It's an expensive place to go to college, it is an expensive place to go to college.

So how do you solve that? how do you solve? How do you get kids to want to come play in New York City? By showing them that you will win no matter what, and Rick Patino will win, yeah.

And by showing them that you can get them everywhere, that that they want to go, because you've done it with everybody and it's not just messaging. Madison Square Garden Well, you played there four times this past year. Like, let's face it.

It's not like it was your second home, right? So now that's going to change. MSG will be hosting more St. John's games. Is that you thinking it or no, that's happening?

Oh, okay, I like that. St. John's is going to call the garden it's second home.

Again, Madison Square Garden will be a sea of red in January or February, when teams are coming in, no longer will be a villanova.

Home game in New York, Yukon fans will fill it up, but you're going to see a real battle now inside the Mecca. Patino is he has gotten the commitments from the leadership at St. John's that previous coaches could not get. Why?

Because Rick Patino, as much as he's a great basketball coach, he is a deal maker. Yeah, so okay, I, I'm fired up right now for St. John's.

Uh, what do you think? Realistic goals here are like, what? Rick Patino? Check them off. When does he have to be back in the tournament? is it next year? does he? Is he going to make this a winner right now?

Yes, yes, I think, and we can revisit this. A year from now. I think they will have found a way to make the NCAA tournament look at the bubble.

Like, let's be honest, here did. Did you watch the Arizona State Nevada game? You know what I mean? If that's your last four in, I'm betting on that guy in a Big East program. Where in the transfer portal? If Kansas State or in Missouri could do what they just did this year, why can't Rick Patino do it at St.

John's in the Big East now. It's going to be tough because you know, you got to go through. Like Marquette's going to bring everybody back. So they're going to be like a top five preseason team. I think people will be surprised to see that, but that's going to be the case, yup.

Yukon's really good, Creighton doesn't slow down. Um, Sean Miller, Sean Miller's got Xavier cooking now, but I still I. I really think it's an expectation that you could see St. John's ranked next season, and you could, and I think they will make the NCAA tournament, I really believe that.

It's like what Dion said at Colorado Rick Patino's He's bringing the luggage with him. Yeah, Gucci, right, he's. is he bringing it? Do you think anybody on Iona is going to play for St?

John's.

Maybe, yeah, I mean, it's certainly possible, it's entirely. Every coach seems to bring people with them. I don't know anything for a fact, but I'd be surprised if he didn't attempt to. This move was about, Okay, I'm making the tournament at Iona, but I'm in a one bid league.

Wait, you're giving me a chance to be in like, a six or seven bid league. I'm making the tournament in that because I, because he believes he's the best coach in the league, which, look, I, I'm going to bet on him over anybody else. And he knows that because of the nature of the portal, whether he brings kids from Iona with him or not, he can go get a power conference cast off. Who needs a second chance and who wants to be coached by a Hall of Famer? And he could make that kid a star.

All right, so another question, Uh, is this forever home? is this? Rick Pitino is here for the next five to 10 years, however long he wants to coach. He's not young.

Uh, or is this Rick Pitino St. John's go to the term in a couple of years? Ooh, a big time school now asks if that big time school is asking, I guess my question, that big time school is okay, you're big time.

Why are you now relying on a 75 year old for, like, three years? Right to me, this is the last stop, this is the forever home, this is the forever home.

Even Iona was not right. No, no, it was clear Iona was not. Uh, now there's a tough one. Let's say Rick Pitino stays at St.

John's for eight years, yeah, final four.

Yeah, oh, I like it, Johnny. Basketball is a better sport when Rick Pitino was at the top tier, I just think the climate of the sport. The ability to turn over your roster quickly. When you have someone who's always going to have his team ready, they play harder than everybody.

Yeah, like they play, the fact that they were up on Yukon at the half and on Thursday, did you hear him at halftime? He's like, I'm so proud of my team. Yeah, in other words, he's like, we should not be winning this game.

Yeah, and we are now at St. John's. If you're saying, if you're telling me, I get a hall of. Who has not lost his fastball, nope.

He is just re, he is readapted and reinvented, and just he's like a fine wine. And if it's a New York City, if you're telling me, I get him for eight years in New York City. Playing home games at Madison Square Garden in this Big East, yeah, why the hell not?

Yeah, Rip Pitino in the final four will happen at some point again before he calls it quits. Wow, love it. Now. What about the other, uh, the other side of the game in the Big East?

You're going to Georgetown tomorrow, right? Yeah? Ed Cooley I think it's a home run higher, I think that Georgetown, they're sleeping giant.

They need a guy that that has demonstrated that he can do it before. Like, I thought John Thompson, the third, was a great coach. Sometimes when you get the same guy in the same place for a while, the message starts to fall on deaf ears. You get these interpersonal relationships that get in the way of on the court.

Patrick Ewing was a it was a big swing, it took a swing, it was a swing and a miss. But Ed Cooley, he's a proven guy. I feel like Georgetown could also be in that final four discussion in the next six years, too.

I think that that's why a Cooley is the coach at Georgetown. I mean, at the end of the day, everybody's reading Twitter and people are making their theories. And all that we love, we, you know, everybody loves all that. It's noise, it's buzz.

It's, it's chatter. Ed Cooley is the coach at Georgetown University because he believes that Georgetown resurrecting the program, bringing the brand back to the top of college basketball.

Winning Nil resources the priority of Hoops there and the donors in the district area. And if he can get them to a final four. He goes beyond the King of Providence he turns into, even though he's a villain in Providence right now, and probably will be for quite some time. He goes into a national legacy if he can get Georgetown to a final four, as this matters, too. As a guy who idolized John Freaking Thompson, who's a legend.

Ed Cooley, being a Black coach has been an activist in that space, and he that matters to him. Because if you're the coach at Georgetown, it goes beyond basketball, guys, it does. It's a bigger, bigger than basketball type of job, yeah.

So, and $5 million a year and a nice paycheck? Yeah, let's just at least say that part. Because he did get more money, he did get more money.

Now Providence offered a comparable thing, it was less. Well, I is comparable, $500,000 less. I don't know, I'd say it's comfortable. 4.5 to stay at home.

And he's, he's a Providence guy, right? Yeah, so wouldn't you argue that, like at that point when Providence Providence owed him over 30 million? Okay, so at what point do you say with 500 K? Like, Yeah, I guess, I guess. It's probably more the nil and the, you put it when we were walking down the hallway, perfectly.

It's if Georgetown has their best possible season and Providence has their best possible season, which team is probably going further, it's Georgetown and which team is getting noticed more nationally? Yeah, and I hate.

Um, they're the best, they're the best, they're the best. I never have to pay for a meal on Federal Hill. I hope that that still stands.

I don't know, you don't know. Well, I heard that you were the one who got Ed Cooley to Georgetown. No, oh, I heard you wield and dealed it.

Are you telling me that I have to go to Chicago to cover the Paul game at a free meal? Yeah, oh yeah, you come when we move our office, you're, you're always welcome.

You went to All State Arena one time. Yeah, oh yeah, that that was not nice, that was not nice.

All state arena where where DePaul used to play, and also the Sky champions, not champions. A couple of years ago, it was next to a target. Uh, the wind trust is really nice. Depaul now needs a coach too.

Tony Stubblefield I know, but they, they like. It feels like like PFT said. You now have big time names in the Big East when it comes to all these coaches. Uh, maybe Jay right, Jay right goes to DePaul.

I miss Jay, right? I also here's what. Wait, how how much is it? Is that going to be the new thing? Oh, is that going to be your petino settled in.

Is that your new video? Sometimes you have to, Yeah, yeah, Jay, right?

Jay writes Every it's going to be your new guy, he's got to be the new guy. Well, here's, here's a question. Providence What I really want?

I want a brother at Providence, I want a hurley, or I want a Miller. Yes, Archie Miller's already in Rhode Island. Let's have let's have brother fights in the Big East.

Brother, I mean, we're, we're basically there. Bobby Hurley in the Big East would be a dream, because at Providence, at Providence, let's face it, Providence Yukon fans, they despise each other, yeah.

Despise. So if you got brothers going at it and you've got Bob Senior in the middle, being like mother nature and heat miser, cold miser. Yes, I mean, listen, I'll settle for Archie. If you tell me I can't get Bobby, I'll settle for Archie. Miller time.

I mean, I like Archie. It was a tough first year at Uri. It was weird one, all right. So, uh, one last question about the Georgetown job.

You, you are an insider, you know, every name that gets talked about was Jay Williams ever considered?

He was, I mean, he said that he would take the job. No, he was because he said. I believe the exact tweet was since so many people are asking, I'll address it here, get up more like, get down.

So he wasn't.

Look, I love Jay. Well, I mean, I don't know him at all. He'll probably look at this and think, What does this guy think? I mean, who? you know, who's this? Drew Carey? I don't give a Jay.

Well, Jay. Well, no hard feelings. Jay. No, no hard feelings. You were never going to be the coach at Georgetown. Let's just call a spade, a spade. What was that tweet?

I don't know, I think he, just. I think he saw the potential of a job opening. And he thinks that it's like it's good for his name, for his buzz, to be linked to jobs. Or maybe he got hacked again, remember, hacked when you reported that that, uh, it was a he made. A doka is going to be the first African-American coach of the Boston Celtics. And then everybody was like, Hey, there's stock, Rivers just won a championship there.

And he was like, I've been hacked. I'm trying to find out who the hacker was, so maybe he got hacked again. Yeah, that's crazy.

Yeah, so who else was being considered for Georgetown if not Jay? Well, I mean, I, I don't. I mean, Micah Shrewsbury at Penn State is being considered by everybody. Yeah, although Penn State put out the report last week to John Rothstein that they're backing up the truck.

Why not to you? Well, Happy Valley, Okay, all right, let's get some of those scoops to sense a little animosity.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, Jr is a friend. Okay, Jr is a friend.

I would share any meals. Yeah, we love John. Yeah, let's get some scoops out of Happy Valley for Johnny Phantom.

We'd have to do some scooping. Don't they have good ice cream over there? Yeah, they do. They claim that they're going to back up the the truck for him.

And at the end of the day, like, if you're Penn State, I know that basketball is not first, but do you really want to get in? Like, do you really want to lose your coach to somebody that's not? No? They're in a weird position where Penn State is like, um, they're a big enough state school that's not good enough at basketball.

So they are kind of a stepping stone job, but as far as university pride, you don't want to ever think that anything at Penn State is a stepping stone. Shrewsbury and James Franklin get together for lunch. I'm being like, Where are we going? Want to go to USC together?

I don't think so, I think, I think, I think Shrewsbury probably wins like six games in a row. And then, uh, then Franklin will be like, Hey, congrats to the basketball team, you guys are doing good. I'll do a little video, then go back to his office.

Yeah, don't you love the um, the coaches of other sports this time of year when they're at these games? Yeah, like, Michigan State is, oh, she's got a whole, uh, you know, a whole entourage of people, of people behind him. And I'm curious, here's my question to you guys on this show. By the way, Cooley was the top target for Georgetown.

They got the top target. Yeah, makes sense. It seems like both St. John's and and Georgetown got their top guy.

Yes, speaking of other sports, though, do you guys believe Nick Saban?

Ends up in Houston if Alabama reaches the final four. I don't know, not after the comment of the There is no wrong place, wrong time, that was a message.

He was sending a message to Nate Oates I believe that I agree with you. Yeah, that wholeheartedly.

I mean, it just, it wouldn't like. It was very clear what he was saying, because and when we were talking about it on the show. Like that. When Nate Oates has that happened with with Alabama Basketball program, it looks bad for all of Alabama sports. That's absolutely the truth. No, he doesn't, he's not. Nick Saban is only ever. Nick Saban is never going to look bad in Nick Saban's mind and in the minds of everyone in Tuscaloosa.

Nick Saban Except when he was on the TV desk during the playoff and somebody was talking about and he got, he got kind of fizzed off of that. But Nick Saban's anything that jeopardizes that is going to have Nick Saban through the roof. Yes, and that did, that did. It's a bad look for Alabama.

We all know that. A great message, too, which was by saying wrong place, wrong time, and then having everybody react to it. And then being like, I didn't mean anything by saying wrong place, wrong time. Now Nate Oates is like, Oh shit, is Nick Saban living in my head? Rent free? And I'm just imagining this entire thing?

That's Nick Saban, with the ultimate mental power play on him. In other words, right place, right time for Nick. Yes, yes, yes, um, all right. So you're going to Las Vegas?

Yes, tell me that UConn can get to the final four because I have a future on them. What do you, what do you think in this? We'll go through each region, but what are you thinking in this region, which is UConn versus Arkansas and then UCLA versus Gonzaga? In the lower part? I think you could be jumping for joy on Saturday night.

You're due, I am due, you're due, I'm very much due, and I've been following you.

I'm very much due. I think that you're in a position here. I think this has a chance to be your best second weekend of the tournament. Ooh, okay, your performance metrics are on the rise.

There's something to be said here and you haven't peaked. No, I have not. I've yet to peak, I've yet to peak. Is Uconn going to be my peak?

I think they can be, yeah, and and frankly, they're getting Alabama, they're getting Arkansas, so Connecticut gets a draw. What if I had told you, Iona and St?

Mary's Yeah, where do I sign? Yeah, okay, and oh, I'll knock out Kansas for you, yeah.

Now Arkansas, don't get me wrong, very talented. They're a top 20 metrics team, so they're not your typical eight seat, they're far from an eight seat.

Yeah, and Muss is we love Muss. He is a hell of a coach, love him. I'm wondering if Dan Hurley will take his shirt off if he wins this game.

Counter shirting Yep, but I I. Here's why I love Uconn. Adama Sunogo is playing as well as any big man in America right now. 52 points and 21 rebounds combined in the two NCAA tournament wins.

Jordan Hawkins, in five minutes of the St. Mary's game, hit four threes. Yeah, he's the he unlocks them, he unlocks them when he's hitting threes, and they're getting tempo.

Good night, cause you have to call timeout to stop it. It's like an avalanche effect, yeah, and then you pour in the Joey Calcaterra, Alex Caravan, the freshmen.

Last year, Connecticut's biggest problem was the ball would just stick, they didn't have perimeter shooting. Dan Hurley was like, You know what, I've got these bigs, I've got Sunogo.

I know Klingon's coming in, I've got Andre Jackson to do all the little things. I need some shooting, I need shot makers, yeah.

Like, Gruppettino just got done saying at his press conference, he goes at the end of the day. Right now in college basketball, I've got to find shot makers. And UConn has one in Hawkins and everybody seems to benefit when he unlocks something from three. Everybody else plays with confidence, so that's why UConn can do it. They've got to generate good tempo against Arkansas.

Don't get stuck in the half court. But defensively, if they can contain Devo Davis and keep Ricky Council from having those spurts, Arkansas is a big spurts team. Yep, you have to avoid that patented eight 10 Oh run where Moss is just going crazy and they're clicking on all cylinders.

That's going to be a phenomenal matchup in Vegas to kick off, it's going to be great. Because I also think UConn, uh, and and like I said, I love Moss, so it's like, it's one of those things. I have a future on UConn.

If Arkansas ends up going to the final four, I'll be very happy for him, but I do think Arkansas. Their strength is they want to go to the rim constantly and Uconn can actually defend that, they can defend that.

Uconn is going to try to shrink the floor and say, we dare you to shoot the three. Now. Does Arkansas have guys that can hit it? Yeah, of course they do, of course they do.

They've got men, yeah, like even their freshmen classes beyond their years, so those are pros. So it's going to be interesting. Because, to your point, Connecticut's the team that previously wasn't able to beat teams in. In a game. On the perimeter, that gets decided on the perimeter.

But Hawkins is playing like a top 20 pick in the N.B.A. draft right now. Yeah, so if Tristan Newton plays well for UConn and they can negate what Davis and Council do, look, I love Arkansas, I really do.

And you just said it. If they made the final four, their fan base in Houston would be something to behold. Yeah, but Uconn, as a storyline, is very buzzworthy, but the play on the court speaking for itself. Right now, they have it going and that's why I give them the edge over Arkansas because of their ability to protect the rim.

And because Sanogo can say the front court is mine, yeah, I like it. I'm pumped up, I'm ready for this game.

And then the bottom of that, though, Gonzaga and UCLA, those two teams are very, very good Gonzaga. I don't understand. Like it feels like people aren't talking about it enough, but they are. When they get humming they, you can't really stop them. No, you can't.

You cannot stop Drew Timmy. And when he gets help from a Robin, typically, it's who I think is the key to this game. Because of Jaime. Hawk is on the other side. But Gonzaga just showed it against TCU. When they get going with their tempo, when they're stringing baskets together, they are a dangerous, dangerous team. But how about the fact that we get Gonzaga and UCLA 17 years to the day of Oh, what a game. Oh what a game UCLA?

When the Bruins came back from 11 down.

Yeah.

Bingo. And now Morrison will be doing radio for Gonzaga. He's a friend of ours, he's the best, he's great.

He is, he's, he's awesome. I'm curious to how many times does the TV camera take him on Thursday night? I mean, he's over under three and a half. I'll hammer the Oprah.

Yeah over. definitely. yeah, yeah over.

Cause they'll come back, they'll do a story like on his mom. They'll do like three shots in the second half, probably, especially if it's a close game rematch with the buzzer Beater two years ago.

Yeah, and the buzzer beater two years ago. So these two teams have a lot of history. High intensity game guys, I love UCLA, I love them.

Even with the injuries, even with the injuries, Jaime Jaquez is the biggest winner in college basketball. He's a winner in every sense of that word. Tiger Campbell initiates. He stirs the drink for them. I love the way that they are playing.

I'm going with the Bruins because they're defensively, I think they're in line. Even without Clark. And to me, as good as Gonzaga is, I don't trust their backcourt and I do trust Tiger Campbell. Ooh, all right.

So you want to, you want to kick it to, uh, to the other games. We've got Michigan State, Kansas State. I love Noel mostly because he's short and because he's he's just electric. I guess. Passing is driving, yeah.

He's the guy that serves the drink on. Yes, he does, uh, and so going up against Izzo, Izzo. We talked on on Monday's show about just how dangerous Michigan State always is, especially when they're, you know, not the highest seed. So I'm excited for this game, but I feel like nothing's getting in the way of Tom Izzo right now. Noel is going to try, but I still love Michigan State in this one.

I really badly want to go with the kids from Harlem, Mr. New York City, Mr. New York City, because I thought Kentucky played well enough. Like, if you were Cow on Sunday, you had to be really pissed off to the point of man. I really did design a game plan that could have been fit to win.

Yeah, I thought, I mean, Kentucky was up by four inside four minutes to go. I thought they were going to win. Yeah, Noel just took the game from them.

He said I am not leaving here without a doubt and I love the way that they're playing. But I cannot bet against a man who last two times. He's been in the second weekend, he's made the final four. WHO in 28 years at the helm, he's made the second week in the NCAA tournament 15 times. So he's bad and over 50 on on making it to the sweet 16..

I cannot bet against the man who's got Tyson Walker, who's got Aha Hogard, who's got Jade and Joey Hauser. Is the brady manic of this NCAA tournament. Oh, should have gone to Wisconsin, should have transferred Wisconsin.

He should have I. I DM'd him when he was, when. When the Hauser brothers were leaving Marquette, they didn't answer. It's bullshit. Are you still waiting? I'm still waiting, maybe maybe he's every year left.

I don't think so he might go over to your everyone at Drew Timmy has a year left. If I mean, it hit me a couple of weeks ago when I was as doing Big East Awards. And Jack Nungy of Xavier is really good player except Scholar Athlete of the year and he could walk up to the podium.

He goes, I really want to thank my wife. Yeah, yeah, this is the world that we're living in. Sports, yes.

Joey Hauser should not have another year of eligibility. Do you think what if he answers you after and he's like, Okay, I'll think about it after? He declares six year at Wisconsin? Joey Hauser. So with Izzo, I feel like great Michigan State, by the way, I feel like great coaches are always. If you're running up against a team with the hottest in America, if that's your best player and you, your offense runs to that one person. I'll take a great coach figuring out a way to hold that guy or to contain that one player, you're right.

Because he did it with Tyler Kolick. Tyler Kolick was on a roll for Marquette. Two early fouls and then seven points in that game, Tyler Kolick scoring seven points being held a single digits. I mean, Izzo said, I'm going to take Marquette's best player, I'm going to take the Big East Player of the year, Big East Tournament most outstanding player.

I'm going to take him away. And it works perfectly and I think because of that scheme, it can work with Noel. But not only that, just Michigan State is getting front court play that's suffices, as opposed to what they were getting earlier this year. Maddie Soko has been better, um, Cooper has given them some solid contributions.

So for Michigan State, they've come into form. It took them some time, but they're a team, they're a team with, uh, you know, quite the season arc. I mean, let's face it, they, they went through injuries.

Malik Hall is now back. You know you, you go through a an on-campus tragedy like they had their plan for. That is Tom Izzo. Tom Izzo is Michigan State University. He is like, if I said, you know, the Bonetti first person you think of, honestly, I don't think I'd pick anybody over Izzo. And that's one of the few times where the basketball coach, even in 2023, comes ahead of everybody else.

Yeah, no, it's true. We're having a debate of whether or not Michigan State is a blue blood, and I think you've solidified it. I think that I don't think that they're blue blood, I think that Tom Izzo is a blue blood.

I like that, cut him and he bleeds blue. Yeah, he wouldn't like that, no.

Cut him and bleeds green. Joey Hauser does have another year. No, he doesn't. Yes, he does. I just looked it up.

This is an article from March 8th, 2023.

So two weeks ago, it says MSU for Joey Hauser says Unlikely he'll return for another season. That's not a no, he said. He said to Michigan State, Wisconsin Joey Hauser, Yeah.

On his potential for another year, says never say never, but basically says This is the last year in college. I love it, I love that we get like this because part of what college. Part of what people have complained about college basketball is that guys don't stay long, or they transfer like God, having guys stay for five, six years. I kind of like it.

So are you publicly inviting him to make a decision on your air? Yes, he can come on the show and declare for the Badgers. One last year, one last ride, unfinished business. Joey Hauser But not if he decides not to. Yeah, and he's not welcome on the air.

Yes, I also don't know like some of these guys like Drew Timmy, Drew Timmy does technically have another year. Why wouldn't Drew Timmy just go to, like, Arizona or a UNC somewhere? I know that recruiting and like log jams and all that. But how fun would that be to be a guy who owned a small program? And then gets to go to a big blue Blood? And then maybe finally get to a final four?

Yeah, I'm with you. I drew Timmy to me. Seems like a guy that 17 years from now, if he was playing in a college basketball game, I'd be like, Yeah, that's fine, yeah.

The guy he's been in college basketball so long, he's sworn twice on the air in the NCAA tournament. Yeah, yeah, the guy's been around for, yeah, I love him for the game.

I love him for Gonzaga, he's kept, he keeps them elevated. But you're right, like, what if you wonder if the thought ever crosses his mind? Hey, I'm going to go to UCLA, or hey, I'm going to go to an Arizona and I'm going to win the national championship there. And I'll go down a hero there.

Right now, this is almost like NBA debate now, like, where, where's? What does the title mean? If you ever won the title at Gonzaga, it would be like the Calves in 2016. It's worth more than one, that's true.

More than one. Oh, yeah, I forgot you're a LeBron fan, Cleveland Sports fan.

CLEVELAND Cleveland Sports No longer LeBron No, he's a laker. Okay, all right.

Good, good answer, good answer. We don't. I don't follow, like I don't follow players.

Yeah, good answer. Johnny Fitz, Did you like our interview with Kevin Stefanski? Great stuff.

Yeah, he's a good guy, he's going to get it going in Cleveland. yeah, he's going to run the damn ball.

If he runs the ball, it is the Browns. Well, no, I think Kevin Stefanski is a great coach, but there are some teams, my own team, the Bears, are the same way. Like you could have, you could have the best coach in the world, the organization still can fuck up.

Pass completed for 13 yards for a Pittsburgh Steelers.

Brown's number one? Yeah. Cleveland Football Town, Heart and Soul, Hard Land of America, 6 a.m. Muni Lot Beers, Fun pancake sausage. It's Cleveland Browns football.

Yeah, I like Browns football, Browns baseball's actually second, okay?

Okay, I need a Guardian, sorry. Have a very fun team fun.

Yeah, love Jose Ramirez and Terry Francona. Please just stay healthy Tito. You have a job forever. And then Cavaliers.

I mean, I love all three teams, like, like your, your children, I really do, but but the football comes first in Cleveland, yeah.

Facts are facts. Back to the tournament. Is it Alabama's tournament to lose at this point? Cause it feels like.

They should be in the final four, they're the most talented team, they've been the most talented team all season. What trips them up besides the Rico Bosco Mush? Cause that could happen.

So on their side of the bracket, and I mean on the total side, right between the south and the east. There's nobody there that I think can pull it off, really, there's nobody there.

The interesting team I would say this weekend for them is if they were to draw.

Creighton in the Elite Eight just because Creighton was a pre-season top 10 team. But guys they played like it last weekend, they didn't. They beat Baylor by nine. It was never in question. I was surprised. We've just become accustomed to seeing Scott, Drew and the Bears kind of make some things happen.

They got beat Ryan Nembhard at 30.

They wore the wrong uniforms, I think they did. they should have worn the highlighters, they should have worn the Grand Canyon uniforms.

Oh, yeah, that was a great story, wasn't it? Yes, you want to share the story, yeah.

We probably have some insight. I don't have. No, I think you have more. Okay, you're on the tournament coverage.

Like, you're doing a great job. Grand Canyon Pete Dillon's still alive, right? Yeah, yes.

Okay, good, but yeah, they they forgot their uniforms, right? they forgot their uniforms. they. well, they the uniforms were not for. I don't know if they were forgotten as much as they were. There was an error in transporting them.

So there's an error in transporting them. How does that happen? All the band, all the instruments for the Pep band got delivered, but the fricking uniforms didn't get delivered. Yeah, what?

How does that happen? So, as a result, Grand Canyon is screwed, but Bryce Drew's the coach at Grand Canyon. So he says to his brother Scott, I don't know what to do. You know, are we just going to wear like some random?

Brotherly love. He helped out Grand Canyon with some Baylor uniforms. Wow, maybe those were the good uniforms that would've got them, that dub, damn.

That's tough. Maybe once Grand Canyon wore them, oh oh, they caught, they put the stink on them. Oh no, that was what it was.

That's absolutely what it was. The bears went to the Grand Canyon, they got full blown Grand Canyon, yeah.

Yeah, shit, they contracted it big time, that's tough. What about? What about Tennessee?

Our theory on this show is that Rick Barnes is actually in the best position he's ever been to advance to this tournament. Further than he's ever gone. Because there are no expectations on him. Yes, no one thinks that Tennessee is going to be a threat because of the injuries, but now that he doesn't have the pressure of. Oh, because if Rick Barnes loses on Thursday night, the storyline is not going to be Rick Barnes still can't get it done. The tournament, no, it's going to be a well, yeah, it was a banged up team.

They were a flawed team right now. So is this actually where Rick Barnes finally gets to a final four?

Yeah, oh yeah, Johnny Vance is bringing the team, you know who we have futures on on this show? Johnny, Yeah.

You're patronizing us. So, yeah, no, he's got UCLA, UConn and Tennessee all getting to the final four, which is not possible. It's not possible. I appreciate it.

That's not possible, and purdue, that's not possible. I've got, I've got UCLA.

Ah, screw it. I've got UConn making the final four, I've got Connecticut making the final four, Tennessee, you know. I really look at the way that they're playing and everybody's like, Well, they're ugly, yeah.

But in the tournament, that allows you to win, oftentimes. So, it's Virginia's scheme, and sometimes it backfires. But when it can click, it can work. And right now?

Is on a mission. Santiago Vescovi. Sometimes when you have two great players like Vescovi and Ziegler are really good, and I'd rather have them than not. It's sad that Ziegler's gone, but, like Vescovi now is like, I know I have to do this for my team.

So I'm going to just deliver. And I felt that against Duke next to the FDU win over Purdue, that was the result. I've been most surprised by the tournament, really.

Because Duke had won 10 in a row. You know, they were hot, but I got bad vibes the moment that we heard Mark Mitchell's not playing today. Like two minutes before tip off, they found out. I'm like, Oh, like, this is interesting here. When you have a lineup change so late, Duke never clicked in that game.

They never, and Tennessee makes you uncomfortable. Tennessee should be Florida, Atlantic. Let's call a spade, a spade. They should beat FaU. I like the story that Dusty Mays put up.

Great name, by the way. It's just it's going to end. I think Tennessee wins, I hope that I'm wrong and that the owls hoot on, but I like Tennessee hoot on.

Yeah, hoot on. But what I like about Dusty Mays, what he did after they won? He said. Like, we're going to have to study some rugby if we want to be able to beat Tennessee. Just putting it out there, letting the powers that be know. Like, hey, you have to call this game a little bit differently than you called the game against Duke. Because they're going to come out, they're going to be thrown elbows. You know, Phil Jackson used to do that a lot.

He used to make the storyline about, like him, talking to the refs before a big series or big game. Do you think that Tennessee is going?

In this game than they were against Duke. It depends on the crew, I mean, it really is crew to crew. every officiating crew is different, yeah.

Yes, the answer, I mean, does FAu have staying power? Though? Maybe they do by being just a random school. I think they got bad vibes, actually.

They had great vibes until that last second. Miss Dunk, Yeah.

That's a karma play, put that mark that down, that's PFT's karma play of the NCAA tournament. That's going to come back to haunt them. Not the fact that Tennessee is a superior team, with superior players and better scoring and better defense.

It's the fact that he bricked that last second dunk that's going to bite him in the ass. Are you also suggesting that, had Coach K been at the game last weekend, that the officiating would have changed? He was there, he was in the building, somewhere lurking.

I think that Coach K, he was like staying up in the rafters, you know, he was, I think after that, brick dunk coach K wishes to God. He had been there just so he could go down onto the court and say, Hey, you're too good a player to be pulling a stunt like that at the end. Oh, I think that was a different game, but yeah, it doesn't matter. Go into Tennessee's locker room and coach them up.

Be like, Listen, guys, I don't like how you played today. He would have done that. Never coach another man's team, unless you're coach K. He can coach anyone's team.

That's what he thinks. You think he'll coach again? No, but I would love to see him back out there because he's a nemesis that I'd love to have NBA.

John, do you have sources? He's not, he's not coaching. Again. You asked that question. That sounds like a question we would ask.

You're stupid as shit and you're smart, so why would Johnny ask that question? It's not happening. I hope he coaches a grandchildren's game, yes, so I can beat him on that.

That would be great, I would root so hard against him in that game. Well, how about that? The current St. John's athletic director, Mike Craig?

Showed up to a game at the garden a couple of times in the regular season. So does Coach K show up for a Rick Pitino game at the Garden? I would love that, maybe he takes a half or something, okay?

All right, and then in the Midwest region, which we have to talk about because they're really good teams. Houston Samson said it himself. He's like, a lot of times we just play like shit, they're hard to watch, but man do they just beat the hell out of teams.

Like what they did to Auburn in the second half, that might've been the most impressive performance in the first round or first two rounds. Because they just killed them, they took them to the woodshed. And they have a setup where they can ride somebody offensively in a half, like they did against Auburn, where it's not just Sasser as good as he is, it could be a Juwan Roberts, it could be Tremont Mark.

They've just got dudes and Sasser being good, huge, huge, because if he's not good to go, then there's real, real concern. I give him a lot of credit when he said he was 100 for the game. I've got to be honest with you, I didn't believe a word of that.

And I expected him to struggle because you got a groin injury, there's been no sign that you're okay. And he played through that and they played through that. Their defense is relentless, it's absolutely relentless. But Hot Take Miami can beat them.

And I'm going to be the one guy that picks Miami to win because Miami is a bad matchup for Houston.

They're a bad matchup for Houston. Nigel Pack. Isaiah Wong can line it up in a second. They are both players who have spurtability to a T. I'm talking, you know, in their first tournament game against Drake.

It's Wong who comes, actually. It was Pack who came up big in their second tournament game against Indiana. It's Wong who comes up big with the 20 plus point performance to beat Houston. You've got to make perimeter shots, you've got to manage possessions. Jordan Miller is Mr.

Steady for the Hurricanes. Northcat, Omir on the glass, an elite rebounder, elite rebounder, just sets the tone of physicality for them. So when you have a great backcourt, not a good backcourt, Miami's got a great backcourt when you have a rebounder in Omir, when you have a coach in Jim Laranega who knows how to scheme and who's kind of taken on this role of a friendly grandpa. To a point that his kids, I think, play well for him because his whole demeanor is kind of settled, like Jim Laranega could say, I'm retiring right now.

I'm going to go play golf for the rest of my life and it'd be fine. He doesn't have anything left to prove. He's done it, he did it at George Mason, he's doing it at Miami.

They've got the right vibe to beat Houston and I am going to go out on a limb and pick them. I don't trust Houston's offense.

And there's a reason why. Auburn was up by 10 at the half. I don't even think that Auburn team was that great. To be candidly honest with you, so when they were up by 10 at the half. On Houston, I'm sitting there saying, Man, Houston really does have some issues right now, like NKU was giving Houston some issues in the first round. I'm going out on a limb.

Miami makes back-to-back Elite Eights. And if you're a Houston fan, you're out there saying, Thank you, Johnny Fanta, because there will be a graphic that comes up that shows everybody picking Houston. Make sure.

John Fanta's pick on there. Add it in in your brain. Somebody did pick University of Miami. Thank you, Johnny. Now you know that Dana Holgersen will be at that final four.

If they make it there, we got to go to his house. Oh yeah, for sure, I totally forgot about that. Hank will stay over for six days.

Holgersen's a great guy, he's the best great dude. Wait, so is Miami in the final four? So right now, John Fanta's picks, he's got Alabama in the final four.

He's got Tennessee in the final four. Yeah, I'm going out on a limb. Yeah, you got Yukon in the final four. Who's your fourth Final four team?

Rodney Terry in Texas Okay, I like that pick. Yeah, and that goes back to right now. Dylan Desue is playing as well as anybody.

I mean, in two tournament games, he's had 45 points and 20 rebounds. He's on another level right now. They have an all-time starting five team. Name Guy Serge Ibarri Rice Love Serge Ibarri Rice.

I mean, the best name who comes in off the bench, yeah, but you need one of those guys on your team to make a magical run in the final four. One name that everyone's like, Whoa, Serge Ibarri Rice, that's his name.

Okay, cool, yeah. And I just think, guys, that this team, this group of players, when the crispier stuff goes down, they had the personnel to get through that.

80 of any other team would have withered or maybe made the tournament and then a first round bow out. This group has a dude in Marcus Carr who came to Texas for this chapter. This is why he transferred. They've got Timmy Allen, who I think is a guy who leads and a guy who steps up for them in different ways.

Christian Bishop gives them a different look when he comes into the game. Another transfer came from Creighton. a lot of people scrutinized him for going from Creighton to Texas. That's worked out. So I just like their makeup.

And Tyrese Hunter, Tyrese Hunter went from Iowa State to Texas. For this moment. For this moment with the Longhorns, they've got a group of by doing the portal as much as Beard did. I think a lot of these kids have a common ground and they're playing hard for their guy in Rodney, Terry, who, by the way, should be the head coach for Texas.

Texas needs to stop thinking about what they're going to do, looking at what.

Confidence factor right now. Texas basketball, you ever want to win a national championship. Do you want to win one? I'd argue your chances are as good right now as they ever would be with Rodney Terry. What happens if Chris del Conti, the Texas ad says right now, puts out a statement or a tweet today or tomorrow morning and says, You know what?

I've heard all the chatter. Rodney Terry's my head coach. If you're a Longhorns player, wouldn't you want to then just run through a?

Counterpoint John Calipari No, no to Big Cat's point, though, in your line of thinking, I think John's right. I wouldn't hire him if I was Texas.

Logically, you are correct, sir. I agree with 100 of what you're saying. But the reality at the University of Texas is it's not always the athletic director that's making that call. I know it's the boosters that have their names on buildings and names on stadiums that are making that call. But what has Cal done in the last four years to make the donor that excited?

No, not a lot. I don't think they know Baldo, he's a splashy name, right? And so if you're a big money Texas booster, you see Cal, you're like, Oh, I recognize that guy's name.

I want him look, would I love it? Yeah, yeah, it's great for college basketball.

If we see some massive seismic move of John Calipari going from Kentucky to Texas, I would love it. I think it'd be buzzworthy. I mean, I wouldn't love it for Rodney Terry, I think he deserves it.

But you know what in this business you think you could be handed something that's not how it goes. Cal at Kentucky has run its course, it's run its course.

I think for both sides, it might be best for their best versions of themselves going forward to not be together. What about Calipari? Leaves goes to Texas, Jay Wright to Kentucky. Well, that's going to be the theory. Every time and Max is shaking his head, he's not happy about that.

You're not happy about that. He wants Jay Wright back now, he wants him back, Jay's not going anywhere.

Jay Wright Think about Jay Wright's life right now. He retired, so well, you could retire, retired from coaching.

Yeah, we know how retirement works around here, I mean, you could say, you're retiring, and then, yeah, so Jay Wright.

Right now, here's Jay Wright's life Jay Wright gets to go to the city of his choice for CBS Sports. He's typically going with Bill Raftery, and if he's not going with Bill Raftery, he's going with, you know, a big time play-by-play announcer.

There are many, you know, whether it's Ian Eagle, whether it's Spiro Ditas, I could go down the line. Andrew Catiline And he basically is going into a town. He gets to sit with the coaches and chat it up. He can go to dinner and if he's with Raft, they can shut down the bar.

And when I say, shut down. Raft, Bill Raftery turns 80 in August, an ode to Bill Raftery for having the energy that he possesses every single day. In college basketball, the guy is still calling a million games a minute, he knows his stuff, his lines are good.

It's not stale, it's not, and Jay Wright gets to live that life. He ain't gone, he retired from the sidelines for this lifestyle.

Yeah, but the counterpoint again, any of these guys who have had that type of success at that level, they miss it a little. The winning games, winning games matters more than anything. You don't. There's no winner or loser when you're sitting on the on the desk. That's why I think a year from now, you got me thinking with Kentucky and stuff.

I think, I think, I think a year from now you'll see Chris Mack get back into college basketball coaching. He's been kind of quiet since since the Louisville chapter ended. By the way, I do think Ronnie Terry should be the coach of Texas. I just like to play the game of John Calipari, going anywhere I do, too.