Creighton HC Greg McDermott, CBB With Mark Titus, Everyone Attacking Take Culture And Hank’s 5th Best Patriot

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On today's part of my take, we've got a twofer for the people. We're finishing up our week-long previews. We did NBA Monday, we did NHL Wednesday. Today we have college basketball with Mark Titus and Creighton head coach Greg McDermott, which was a great interview.

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Redick Week He's pissed off the entire world, It's his world, We're just living in it. He pissed off Pat Bev, pissed off Doc Rivers. Yeah.

Because I know ball, humble, Brag, that's what I want now. We like J.J. Redick, he's a friend of ours, he's a friend of the show. Um, but I feel like this is just J.J. Redick doing, uh, his full return to Duke form.

Like him, I think it's it's more of the Duke J.J. Redick in the mindset of, like, I'm. I'm the only one that appreciates. Like, true knowledge. Yeah, you guys don't understand true knowledge. Jay Billis does that from time to time, too.

And it was, it was an interesting U.M. week for him because he basically started the week. He bashed Doc Rivers and said, Uh, you know, he always has an excuse, which I agreed with. Doc Rivers does have a lot of excuses. We played that on Wednesday and then on, I think it was maybe Wednesday or Thursday. He went on first take and was like, Why is everyone care about what I said about my former coach?

Of saying something inflammatory, getting invited back on shows to defend your inflammatory thing, where now he's going back on shows and he's fighting back and he's like, this shouldn't be inflammatory. Yeah, then the discussion becomes like, why aren't we, as a society, smarter about what we choose to watch? And basketball knowledge?

It's funny because in 2024, I would make the argument that fans are more knowledgeable than they've ever been in any part of, like, sports history. Yeah, there is countless things that you can watch if you want to learn more about the game that you love. Like, just it's the internet, there's podcasts, there's clips, there's everything is at your fingertips when it comes to becoming a more knowledgeable fan.

Yeah, also, the people that end up paying JJ salary are mostly the ones that just want to talk about LeBron, the Dallas Cowboys, the Yankees and the Dodgers all the time.

It's it's like one of those things you can't fight it. That's why this show exists. Is we were. We're dumb sports fans that were lucky enough to, like, be sitting in these seats, talking into a microphone. And we also understand that most sports fans want to be entertained and have sports be an escape from every day bullshit.

Because right now we're debating whether or not we want people to be smarter about sports, whether or not they should want to be smarter. And it got to still down to Duke sucks. Yeah, Duke does suck, so that's that's the main takeaway that you can get.

Doing a little bit of a bit. When he goes on first, take, it's the heel in him, he's being the right.

Like, professional wrestler, you guys, you guys don't deserve me on, right? I kind of like that, I like, like.

MJF is one of the most popular wrestlers in the world. He calls his fans poor constantly. Yeah, like, we're, we're all subs, we just want to be dumb.

Bev did I don't have a problem with Pat Bev having Doc Rivers back, because, like, one thing that you know about Pat Bev? If he's in your foxhole, he's in there. Deep, real deep. And so he, he signs with a box and immediately he's like, I'm riding or dying with Doc Rivers. Yeah, that's as simple as it is.

A take first, it's just like, Yeah, that makes sense, Doc made you. I didn't look up any stats behind it, cause then JJ got caught in a uh uh, basically, he got caught in his own trap. Because Pat Bev said something inflammatory and then JJ tried to back it up with stats that it wasn't true and it. I saw the tweet and it was just too many numbers.

Right, yeah, right, right, he put a bunch of stats.

Of the shit, we are dumb, I mean that in like, a loving way. Like, I consider myself not that smartest person when it comes to the sports I watch, but I love watching sports, I love the drama of it.

The beauty of sports. Pat's point was, you blew a three one lead to us, and that's a fact. That's a that's basically checkmate.

Pat Bev wins that round too. Yeah, yeah, so I. At the end of the day, it's like, this debate has happened many, many times over. I think, like 10 years ago, it was, um, uh, more. It had more weight behind it because there weren't as many options for fans to find what they wanted in terms of content.

Else, there's plenty to go around, plenty to go. Uh, we, we should. Actually, we could get this even dumber with our analysis. Is J.J. Reddick overrated as an announcer?

Swear to God like, and I, that might be just me growing up on, you know, the attitude error, where I can just work myself into a shoot constantly. But if you watch it under the the idea that JJ is being like the Duke smart-ass, I know more ball than you, it's great. TV. He should show up.

Next time, wearing an Ascot like real to Ascot fake prescription glasses that he doesn't need.

He should just wait till Stephen, a like, says something stupid and just shove a bunch of.

A hundred dollar bills in his mouth, or he should be like, Stephen A. makes a good point that JJ says, Do you know who my father is? Yeah, that would rock, yeah.

You right now, I, I'm all in for it, it's entertainment, and yeah, I like, I like, I like learning. I actually thought Dan Orlovsky would chimed in, and Dan Orlovsky is a perfect example where Dan Orlovsky. When he started his career. I thought he was a little bit boring because he was trying to teach everything and he started having more fun.

He's great at what he does. It's a little bit weird, but in a good way, weird is good, yeah.

He's showing it like his personality, and he's like, I will stop. When I see a clip of him teaching, you know, a play or something, I'll watch it because I know it's not going to just be droning on like. This is what you should know as a football fan, there's a little personality into.

It, Yeah, you got I. So I like both. I like it when Dan teaches me something and I also like it when Mark Slareth pulls up a clip.

About being a man, we are that kid. Why not both? Yeah, why not both?

Where do you stand on this hank? Are you? uh, are you standing behind your Duke brethren? Are you on Pat Bev the brotherhood? I mean, Pat Bev's my my barstool brother.

Him, Yeah, but I love JJ Redick. Yeah, I don't. I never thought it was like, Uh, like, you got to pick a side.

Next year, uh, the week after the Superbowl, say something really, really inflammatory.

Just absolutely take over the news site. No, no, not the week after the after the.

Superbowl The week after the Superbowl is filled with post Superbowl talk, right so?

This is a perfect week because there was no N.BA games for three days. Yeah, yeah, right, during.

The All-star break. And maybe we can do this during baseball season too, at that, at that midsummer swoon after marsh madness. Yeah, yeah.

Just get people angry, yeah, and then just have. And then we'll come back on the next show and be like, Well, what we said was not exactly what you think and then say something even dumber. And we got them in a trap.

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We have another thing we have to talk about Big Dom, What's going on with Big Dom? you see the report, what report about Big Dom?

In real time, it was happening. It's like, Big Dom, yeah, the whole vibe that he brings.

That game N64 barrel, roll to barrel. do barrel. Uh, Star Fox. Yes, such a good game, yeah.

So John Goodman is the banana boat guy that just shows up to calm Denzel down. He's got a briefcase filled with whatever he needs. I've maybe big. Dom had, like a pocket full of xanax, it was like.

Hey dude, just chill out on the sideline. But, uh, you need, you need another Italian to to calm down the first Italian. Yeah, like, you can't have an Italian alone, just on the sideline, roaming around without an emotional support Italian. Maybe his mother?

Yes, he should've brought his mom down on the side of Sunday gravy. So, uh, big Dom, it would not shock me if he was, uh, if he was a reason for Nick Sirianni flying off the handle. Do you think Big Dom enjoys this type of press conference or press coverage where it's like, Big Dom is the reason for this?

Like, how do you get these guys killed? Uh, so what are your thoughts on these?

On the Big Dom story, I mean, it makes sense. I agree with everything that you said. He, he's a leader in that.

Okay, so the question now, Max is, I think, except I also agree with A.J. Brown.

What did A.J. Brown say? A.J. Brown? So A.J. Brown has a burner, that is his burner, it's like his handle.

With an underscore, Okay, and he said, Wait, A.J. Brown has a burner, so it wasn't A.J. Brown so.

It's a burner, but it's so. People were like, Oh, that's a fake, that's a fake tweet, but then people were like, No, that's his burner. Oh, that's actually a genius idea to do like a fake account of yourself and be like, No, you missed it. That's just a that's an imposter, but it's actually you.

To be Shkreli for podcasters, he's like, if we raise the price of these, of these microphones, no one can podcast. Yeah, that's what it sounds like to me. Yeah, oh, I don't. I don't know if I agree with this Max. We talking to microphones for a living.

About, I don't think he's talking about us. That's great for us because we already have the microphone so we can flip them. What if they break? I've only said positive things about AJ.

BROWN All right, so Max, here's the big dilemma that you have now, though. So Big Dom is the most important person in the Philadelphia Eagles Organization.

We all agree, yeah, yeah, yeah, you need a big dom for big dom.

Happens when Big Dom gets suspended, so next time a Dre Greenlaw situation happens, you need a big.

Dom for Big Dom. That was anti-Italian discrimination from the NFL. So maybe you don't.

Get an Italian to be big Dom's big Dom, so that way that if they go to Italians, you know this guy, he's German, he can walk in and be like, Hey, stop, maybe not, he's not good at deescalating.

He's a Swiss, no, but if you're German, you could keep an Italian in your pocket. True, I think I want like a Greek guy, you want to agree?

You just get like a hoagie that he walks around with. Yeah, but you realize that you need a big Dom protector because he's the most important piece. I'm willing to be the big Dom protector, okay?

Just calm down, just have a nice glass of red, maybe a cigar, get some cigars on the sideline. I don't know. Big Dom is an important piece of this, of this program.

Understand, cause if you, if we had a big dom, we need a big dom for this podcast, we had a big dom.

Most important piece of this, he was holding that whole project together. Yeah, he gets shot the stomach next to the whole esplanade, he said. He's coming on the show.

Show Do you think Big Dom's going to get maybe a little extra, extra sauce, extra gravy, little boxes out of this? He deserves it all, I agree.

Be the worst thing in the world. If if the Eagles and Big Dom moved in other directions from each other just as a commander's fan, that's how much I fear. Big Dom, do you think, big Dom?

If, like, a team wanted to get big Dom, how many draft picks would they have to give up?

Ooh, fifth rounder No. I'd say I'd say six, I would additionally six, swap a seventh. You talk about the Caleb will.

You wouldn't take Caleb Williams for big Dom, nah, on a rookie deal, nah, nah.

You build around Big Dom, we got our our franchise security Guard, build around Big Dom. It's a great t-shirt, it actually is.

The only thing, well, you look it up. The only thing I know about this whole story is people were blaming fanatics. And then Darren Revelle tweeted right away, being like, It's not fanatics fault, which just made me think it was a hundred percent fanatic. Yeah, that was all I got you.

Don't want Darren Revelle defending you? You look guilty as fuck. It's like, if you have a lawyer wearing a cowboy hat, yeah, like, that guy's guilty.

Like Frank Gore, it's that's the on dick circle. Yeah, see, that's a okay, so they got to figure this out, but this is actually a good now. If I'm going full wrestling brain, this was smart by the.

M.L.B. Cause we're talking about it. That's true way to stay relevant, baseball relevant, just.

Make some shitty uniforms that have everyone's balls showing a vocal backs going to look like Chris Christie at the NYPD softball. And that's going to be a problem, that's going to be a big problem. Yeah, but I actually can't, so people are complaining.

Sure, but probably has a really big pole. Oh, he's got it. Yeah, he's got a sack on him, for sure.

Respectfully, I'll do respect. I'd knock it out of the park. Jeff Van Gundy Don't they wear cups?

I would definitely wear a cup Max. No, you don't wear cups. unless you're a catcher. Yeah, you don't wear a cup. I got it.

You play on fields that have a lot of bat hops. And also you, you know, you're just not good enough to stop the ball that's going to hit your balls. Like the, you know, a third baseman is not.

Going to let a ball hit his balls, yeah, but have you guys seen the actual uniforms, like the tops? yeah.

Patch on their arm. And it wasn't embroidered, really. Yeah, it was just like it was, it was.

Ironed on. So it's become such a story now that what's going to happen is people are going to find every single small part that's wrong with the uniform, and it'll become another story. And.

Then it's just going to snowball and snowball, and all we want to do is just fucking see how. Zion Williamson is the primary ball handler, that's it, that's it, and now we're talking about baseball.

I want to know about the spin rate on Mike Clevenger's two. Seamer Oh, that's a, that's a.

Good story, though. We also had a Johnny Manziel with an all time quote Uh, do you guys see this when he, uh, he lost 40 pounds and he lost three months, yeah.

Strict diet of blow dude, what do you want me to say? It's a fact I hope he's not using it anymore because that that is a big problem. If you lose 40 pounds and you're only like 210 pounds to begin.

With it's like when David Bowie had a whole entire year where he was, actually, he had to be fed like a baby. He all he drank was milk and hot peppers and cocaine, yeah.

Got so bored with having sex with women that he started banging men, Hey, listen, sex positive.

Just went through every single hole. We're sex positive. Uh, all right, before we do hank.

Are you ready for your yeah, number five? Wait, can we hold onto that for one second? Cause big guy wanted to bring up? There's two more things. Oh, okay.

He was bored of the bear, like he, he just doesn't want to see bears highlights when he's.

Going on vacation? And he said, Sometimes the girl that you like the most is the one that you're not following. Yeah, is that true? yeah.

Play a little cat and mouse with her. How do you like that? That'll get our attention, maybe.

Maybe it was a ploy to get the bears attention. Cause I bet Sydney Sweeney is going to see this and be like, Wait, why did Big Cat unfollow? Yeah, um, maybe I should reach out to see if.

There's a problem. We also, after everyone freaked out about Justin Fields, uh, unfollowing the Bears, we. Matt Eberfluss debuted a new beard. So got a new coach, he looks totally different, that's good.

I'm so bad. Uh. The other thing was that Charlie Woods, he's trying to qualify for a PGA tournament today. He got. He actually didn't shoot the score, he didn't shoot that bad. We're pro Charlie.

At cheating, Yeah, yeah, no, that that was. Listen, everyone's trying to bash him, no.

He's the next stop. You marked that, you marked that in nine and then you keep it moving, wasn't.

He qualified, he was trying to qualify for a PGA event. Yeah, yeah, the event I'm calling next week.

Should get an exemption? Jake, Can you give him a Jake exemption? Charlie Woods, you are playing.

Next week's event? No, you, you. What you should do is you should just randomly just start calling Charlie Woods highlights without anything on the screen. Here's Charlie Woods. I'll try to work that in, yeah.

I might have a cane sauce problem. I was at raising canes the other day, getting my box combo with extra sauce on the side. Like usual, I have an order when I eat my canes, it goes crinkle. Cut fries, chicken fingers, the Texas toast and finish strong with the slaw.

Okay, Hank, actually, I have one more thing before we do your patriot. I saw a list today that I would like people to take a guess at, which may be an insult list for some of us here. Worst wind percentages in the past 10 years in all four major sports. I don't care.

Chaps always brings out these weird stats about the Jaguars every time they win a game. And it's like, Oh, this is the first time since 1999 that they've won eight games in back-to-back.

Seasons. You're like, what the fuck? Yeah, so it's show me the pirates, uh, pirates are not on there.

Yeah, the Wizards are not on there. We had, we had some good seasons with Paul Pierce and with.

JOHN WALL Yeah. The basketball teams are the Pistons at three, the Magic at six, the Lakers at 13, the Timberwolves at 14, Hornets at 20. That's all the basketball, so you're clear.

Is pretty, pretty bad, uh, and if you, if you zoom out a little bit on the Giants, obviously the two Superbowl is awesome, maybe two of the best Superbowl wins that you can ever have. So you've had some good times in there. But besides those, if the Giants aren't winning the Superbowl, they're.

Not doing shit that year. Yeah, it is funny looking at this and being like, Oh, if you've won a title in the last 20 years, that doesn't mean, you know, like you'd still treat, you'd still take it. Like the royals were 24th, yeah.

Number five Patriot of all time, as reported by First Recap, Number six, Number six. Uh, was defense, defense was championships. He made two crucial plays, uh, against the Seahawks, when it's Seahawks, when he gets the foul.

We already, we already, we already. It's it's Tom Brady, his House, ty law, ty law, all right, hey.

So that's number five, that's number five. You think he's a swaggiest patriot?

It's four going to offense for is going to office. Whoa can't wait for Monday, Devlin.

I was trying to put Kevin Falk on this list with my friends. We're, we're in having any of that. Wait, this is your list. It is no. I'm saying, whoa, whoa, whoa.

But, like, you know, debating for the last day. But if you wanted to put them on, it's your list.

But they they, you know, they show me it. I wish I could put them on this his list.

But we might have to start over. This feels like Hank's friends list, not Hank's, it's my list.

He's an honorable mention, that's we'll we'll do one, we'll do one member. one honorable mention per show Kevin Falk is to honorable mention. What number is he in the honorable mentions?

Two, Okay, so, ahead of the lighthouse.

Cause one was, Who's one? Bethel Johnson? Right? Okay, so Bethel Johnson, number one.

So next, so so, on Monday we're going to get the number four patriot of all time and the number 10.

Honorable mention Yep, it was also just cool when they had a guy named Ty Law and then lawyer.

Also in the same backfield, that's cool. Yeah, very cool, all right.

The rest of the list is, yeah, I thought he, he only. He only played in two Super Bowls, well, he played in three, but one was 97. But he only played in two, he only won two Super Bowls.

Of Jules Yeah, I think so. Oh my God, I can't wait for Monday. I wish someone could knock me over the head right now.

It's going to be either Brewski, uh, Will Fork, or Willie McGinnis at number three. When are we going to start going back to seven through 10, that's when you get to one.

Then you go to 10.

Eight, and then nine, seven. JJ wouldn't understand this level of broadcast.

What a teaser. Who's going to? who's it going to be? Can you tell us? Does it go? Offense, defense, offense, offense?

At starting at one, no, starting at four, starting at four, it goes offense, defense, offense, offense. Yeah, yeah.

I think I'm right on the money with this. No, I think Jules is going to be....

No, it's a defense number three. Yeah, I know I think Jules might be two. No chance, no chance.

But from I don't know, remember when you didn't put Jules on the, uh, Mount rushmore of guests?

Yeah, I do remember that, but in this, if he would be, no matter what, he's on the Mount Rushmore. So what you're doing right now is you're bullying Hank into changing Jules to being the number two. No, Jake has the master list, and this is also well four through one is Mount Rushmore.

True buzz off, but it's still. There's a difference between two and four, big difference, I don't think so.

Four doesn't. Chris Long is not on the list. Honorable mention.

That that like, and he likes Philadelphia more, way more, way more.

Playing into him and Lane Johnson being like, they have no fun over there, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah, he does.

By the way, ranking these one through four, we forgot to mention. I know we said it on Wednesday, the College football playoff. But it's very funny watching Notre Dame fans realize that they're fucked. Yeah, it is, it's great. It's just been a slow. And then some were coming.

After me saying they actually wanted this, why? Guaranteed a home game? Oh, that's a hell of a.

Spin zone That's the 5-12 crazy spin zone. So if they're the number one team in the country, they're going to want to play a first round game. No chance.

They have to now play an extra game, right? If you were asked like, would you rather get an extra home game or be ranked in the top four and get a bye? You would take the bye? But I think a home.

Playoff game is pretty good consolation. Yeah, people have been getting their shots in at Notre Dame. Not relevant, they're saying, sad to see.

Ooh, a week away can't wait. We have to wait an extra day because of the leap year. A motherfucker. But it's the third birthday part of my take.

Oh yeah, good point, that's true. We are three. Uh okay, before we do. GREG MCDERMOTT Uh, Pfte, you had a quick word from one of our sponsors.

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Yeah, what the fuck, we're not 12 years old, we're not 12 years old. I was, like, so confused. For a second, it would be the second.

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Yeah, I think it was important, simply because we've had six shots at the number one team in our history. And we weren't able to get a win. And to do it against a UConn team that was playing so well.

Bad job of asking that question because it made it seem like I was expecting you to be like, No, I've looked back and it was. It's not that important. I'm a big believer as a sports fan, as a diehard sports fan, you have to embrace the the the ride and those big wins. Like, Okay, maybe it doesn't end up in a national Champions this year. Hopefully it does for you. But fan bases have to enjoy those big moments. Cause those are special nights that you can't just brush off and be like, Oh, it was another Tuesday night in February.

Yeah, and it's, I mean, college basketball is hard, and it's, you know, trying to beat a team like Uconn is is very difficult. They're, they're elite in so many different ways, offensively, defensively, on the glass. Obviously. They take on Danny's personality with the way they play and the and the toughness that they play with. So, yeah, you have to play a hell of a game.

Of punched you in the mouth right off the bat. And I feel like most teams kind of crumble because it's Uconn, they get intimidated. But whether it's coach Hurley or or their reputation, what they've done in the past, what they've accomplished. But you guys bounce back after, did you? Can you give yourself some credit for like, Hey, I, that's a pretty good job coaching.

That I did, yeah, I don't know about that. It was a bad job coaching the first four minutes of the game.

Play the rest of the night for UConn. Yeah, one last question about UConn, and this is a Dan Hurley question. We're friends with Dan.

Right, I don't. I've always wondered what was in that? You know, it's a it's a fun game and and you know, we've had some great battles with Uconn. And but at Creighton, you know, our. Our fans don't come to watch the opposing team play, they come to watch us play. And that's, you know, that's different than most places. But you know, Dan Danny does a great job and you know, he's, he's so intense and you know, and I'm friends with Danny too.

Had, yeah, and it like coaches in college basketball, especially because the rosters change year to year. Like, I love guys who stay a while like you, you. You've been at Creighton for a long time. That's what fans start to. Kind of. You know, they take the the teams, take on the image of their coach. And you get, you know, Greg McDermott going against Danny Hurley every year.

It's, it's, it's. It's fun to develop those rivalries. And you know, and you know, we're not, you're not getting anything easy. You know, we're not getting our, you know, our pet plays against Uconn, and you know, they're probably not getting theirs against us. Just because we've coached against each other, we know each other, we know tendencies, and then at the end of the day, it comes down to players and that's really what it's all about.

Rivalry with UConn? Yeah, especially in the Big East. It's always been about having coaches with big personalities. And and the, you know, ongoing rivalries that they have and the battles that they go through with each other. So in terms of the league, the Big East, especially, who is your favorite coach to go up against?

UConn is certainly one team that I really enjoy competing against. Cause you, you know, you find out if you're doing your job well, but there's so many great coaches in this league. You know, you know, Ed Cooley is a great friend of mine. It's that's been well-documented.

Yeah, on that point, I know it's been a while, as I think it was 2013, you guys, you know, joined the Big East. But it's something that is now happening in college sports, basically every year, where teams are going up, teams are going down, there's all this transition.

Going up and down, left and right. Yeah, fortunately for us, Big cat, when, when we made that move, that was Doug senior year, so you know, Grant Gibbs, Doug, Johans Madigan, Ethan Rogge, those guys were seniors.

I was setting you up for that because I knew where you were going. It's a great line I got.

Him because I slept with his mom. It's also I'm going back and looking at it. And there's a rumor out there, maybe you can dispel it, that he got tens of thousands of free meals.

He got a lot of that, and actually his senior year back in the days without any Nil grant. Gibbs got a six year of eligibility and we didn't have a scholarship, so we put Gibbs on scholarship. And Doug became a walk on his senior year, so he actually still owes me for that. I paid his tuition his senior year.

But he still hasn't paid that check. Interesting, So I want to go back to maybe a sore memory from last year. You guys made a little run in the tournament, unfortunately didn't end the way that you wanted against San Diego State, right? And I'm curious, from your perspective, do you go back?

I finally watched the game on the last recruiting trip in July, on the way home, so recruiting was over for the summer. I was going to go play some golf for a few weeks and I'm like, all right, let's exercise this demon and watch that game.

Either. How often do you practice free throws with your team? Because that's a big thing when I'm watching college hoops, you got to make your free throws. I don't know if you saw, but we did a free throw challenge.

You guys, well, hold on. We hit 41 in a row with the Mulligan. What did it take? How many hours?

The dude killed me. That's when you know you've made it, though, when Frank the Tank has shown his ire at you. If you're in sports, it's like, Yeah, I finally got on his radar. But yeah, listen, we 41 free throws in a row.

We do our guys have to make a certain amount of free throws in a row before they leave practice every day. How many? Sometimes it's eight, sometimes it's 12, sometimes it's 14..

So if PFT and I were on your team, we would actually be your best players. Because we'd never leave practice, we'd just always be a practice first in, last out.

How long would it take you guys individually to make 12 in a row?

12 in a row Big cat can get hot. I'm not what you'd call a basketball player, so it would probably if you asked me to make eight in a row. It'd probably take me five, six hours to be able.

To accomplish that. But it could get done. yeah, it could get done. That's a guy that's in the gym.

Though, yeah, it could get done well. One other thing that I've seen you do, coach, and I'm not sure if you can still do it. But I saw a video of you dunking at practice, Can you still dunk?

I haven't tried for my goal was to do it when I was 50.

What about if you win the championship? if you win the Natty, will you try to dunk again to?

Celebrate, I will, I will do that, okay, if we win it.

You can come, we'll host you and we'll have a big, you know, done. Greg McDermott dunk off, Yeah.

All right, so now we might need room for you. We're going to need an elite physical therapist to do some stretching before and after. We can get to, but we can get it there, we can get it.

Yeah, how many times have you had McDonald's with Warren Buffett?

Uh, never, but you, you see, uh, you know, you see Warren in a restaurant in Omaha once in a while. Uh, he was, uh, he doesn't come around to a lot to games, but he was, uh, he was at Doug senior night. He was very upset with the official that called against us again on San Diego State last year. Uh, and he made it, he made it well known, but, uh, obviously he's, uh, he's done a lot for this community, yeah.

Out to eat with them and you picked up the check. That would be such a power move, wouldn't it? Yeah, that'd be a big time power move, yeah.

Yeah.

Team I got to snap out of it. Yeah, you know, there were some things the first year, uh it, that were challenging. I think, more so for Doug than probably for me. Um, he, it was very important to him that he was treated like one of the guys.

Yeah, when he got the nickname Dougie McBuckets, were you like, that's a cool nickname, or were?

You like chill out with the nickname Son? No, that's a pretty good, that's a pretty cool nickname. And, uh, you know. And I get called from high school, more high school coaches, but some college coaches have called me as well. That we're contemplating coaching their kid, and obviously it's different in high school. Cause he, you know, he goes home with you every night and you're at the dinner table every night.

You, um, this kind of goes back to UConn. But when you have a team that can shoot well from the outside, how do you, how do you make them worse at shooting? Cause it seems like it's something very difficult to do that a lot of coaches try to do, um, but very few can accomplish.

You know, we're trying to limit the amount of three point shots teams get. You know, everybody has a defensive philosophy, and you know, Uconn is going to pressure you, they're going to try to force you into turnovers. Um, and obviously it works really well for them. We. We try to send everything to Ryan Kalkbrenner at the rim and try to, you know, make sure their best shooters aren't getting a lot of looks from the three point line. And I think they're, you know, uh, Caravan and Spencer, their two best shooters. The other night only had five three point attempts.

Yeah, I like the word philosophy, too. It's kind of like culture, but every coach has their different philosophy on. You know how to build a team and how to play. What would your philosophy be if you were to distill it down to, like, one thing about basketball?

Well, it's, I mean, offensively, it's freedom. And you know, you know, we're our, you know, we'll, we'll do, we'll. We'll do a lot of different gimmicky stuff. Defensively. How we guard a ball screen, what we're going to do. We'll go over a screen on one guy, under a screen on another. But offensively, our guys have the freedom to play, um, and the freedom to shoot, you know, we. We take some crazy shots from six feet behind the line at times.

Yeah, so speaking of freedom, how many shots in a row does a guy have to make to allow him a really terrible heat check shot?

It depends who it is.

Yeah, that makes sense.

You know, Steven Ashworth had a great start to the game the other night, you know the transfer from Utah State, he's played awesome here the last 10 or 12 games. Um, but I had him do a drill and practice that I talked about in the post game the other night. Uh, that I, that I used to have Doug do where you couldn't. You have to make five in a row or five shots from five spots, um, and if you miss two in a row, you have to go back to the beginning and start again. And he made 33 in a row. And so he said, Oh, what should I do now?

Okay, so counterpoint to that question, if you have a guy that has how many shots in a row, does a guy have to miss? Before? You're like, Hey, you know, there's limits to our freedom here, we need to, we need to reel in some of this freedom. Yeah, yeah.

Old coaching, Uh, saying that the last thing you want to do is tell a bad shooter to shoot, uh, but you know, if, if, if, our guys, if they can shoot it. Um, you know. And a lot of times you have to talk guys off the ledge and remind them that you know. The best shooters in the world, you know, miss over half their shots. Um, you know, my son is one of the top 10 or 15 three point percentage shooter in N.B.A. history, and that's at like 41. So he's missing six out of 10..

Yeah, yeah, how's? What's the fastest you've ever pulled a guy out of a game? Cause I love old school college basketball coaches.

Yeah, there's, it's been, it's been seconds before, really. Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's been a while.

That's what one of my favorite, I'm a badger fan. And Bo Ryan used to do that all the time. Where he would just like, you'd be 20 seconds into a game and someone would get yanked and.

You'd be like, All right, Bo didn't mess around. I knew Bo and I've known each other since his division three days, so, uh, yeah, he, he didn't mess around, yeah.

You tell the guy when he, when he gets pulled, he's a starter and he gets pulled like 10 seconds of the game. You just sit him down and you're like, Hey, we've been over this, you're like.

What are you doing? If that happens? You don't have to say a word. Yeah, message received, Yeah.

It's a tough question to ask, and, uh, I'm I'm curious to know if you're going to actually answer. What is the expectation for you in this post-season this year?

Well, I mean, the first thing is, you gotta get, you gotta get there. And you know, there's teams that are that have high expectations going into season and they don't. It doesn't work out and they don't, they don't make the tournament. So we're always gearing ourselves to play our best at the end of the year, um, and build towards February and March. Um, make sure your your body's healthy, your their mind's in a good spot. Um, you know, and the NCAA tournament is so much about match-ups, um, and it, you know, everybody talks about seeding.

For trouble? So do you guys, uh, pay attention to Ken Palm at all, any guys in your office?

Yeah, you know, my staff's looking at that all the time, and, uh, you know, because it's it, it. It measures a lot of the things that at the end of the day, analytically, we're trying to measure anyway. Uh, you know, how are we performing in in comparison to our to our peers? Um, and you know, there's it. It also gives us some information on, you know, what percentage of our shots are three point shots.

For you, and you can tell the guys, so, uh, I saw this the other day, it's as of Tuesday, uh. According to Ken Palm, the last 20 national champions have all been Top 25 and adjusted efficiency margin Top 37 and adjusted offensive efficiency Top 38 and adjusted Defensive efficiency Top 45. And strength of Schedule rating. This is as of Tuesday. The teams that follow under those categories are Purdue, Arizona, Tennessee, North Carolina, Marquette, Michigan State and Creighton. So you're in there.

Like, if they get any coaching, they're going to be in good shape. Yeah, yeah, now it's up to you, you have to try not to screw it up.

An easy question for you what city would you like to retire in? More? Uh, Omaha or Columbus?

Ohio, what do you think, is a better retirement destination? That is a uh, that's a cagey question. That's your, you know, I've, I've. I live on a golf course here in Omaha, so uh, uh, and I liked the golf course.

That's a good answer, good answer. Uh, I have one last question for you, coach.

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This, but maybe you can explain it. I love college hoops, I actually love. I love the first two days of March madness. But Conference Championship week is my favorite. How much more difficult is Conference Championship Week than the actual tournament? Because it feels like every year?

East Tournament versus March madness? Yeah, I mean, to your point, it's so difficult, because, you know, there there are no secrets, you know, and it's it's it, you know? Hopefully you don't plan that first night. It's three games in three days. Uh, without a, without a chance to breathe in between and and and against teams that really know you. And, uh, in our league, you know, and I. I turn on some of the other conference tournaments. When you're sitting around, like the garden is jammed.

Yeah, we've talked to a couple of Big East coaches about that tournament. And I'm always curious to know, like, do you, do you hold anything back at all? Or is it just like, let's go full send during the tournament? And then we'll regroup and, uh, and figure out what we want to do? For the for the round of 68, No, all you got to do is watch a game.

It's so high level and, uh, everybody's trying to win. I don't think there's anybody holding in anything back. And you know, even Villanova. I think their national Championship teams, I think they won the Big East tournament both of those years. Um, and you know, uh, you kind of got beat, I believe in the semis last year, uh, but it's, uh, you know you, it's. It's hard basketball, but it's. It's also an incredible, incredible experience for the young guys to get an opportunity to play in it, especially in the garden in the Big East Tournament.

Yeah, I love it, I love it. There's no better time than March. Uh, coach, thank you so much.

I think you can dunk, I think you can do it. I've seen you running up and down the sidelines, I think that you've, you've still got some bouts of those legs, yeah.

Chasing a referee Maybe I have a little more adrenaline at that point, but uh, if it, guys.

If we get there, I'll be there, I appreciate it. Okay, we can. We can get a ref for you that you can chase around, we'll get someone in a ref, you know, and just like, yell at you, and then you can, you can chase them and dunk. But, uh, thanks so much, coach.

I appreciate it guys, thank you.

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Okay, it's time for some college basketball talk. We have our colleague, which is not weird to say anymore, but it is probably maybe a little weird for uh, aws. Cause we haven't had you on since. I think, I think it's been a year.

Given his outbursts in the past, all the comments, the comments, the things that we've had to bleep.

Out after the fact, yeah, it's easier to book them now. Uh, could just be like, Hey, you want to come on? and, uh, it's been almost a year.

You're not going to be renewed. Bring it back like Mantis for a day. Yeah, yeah, how are you feeling?

We learned that we don't, we don't actually need you as badly as we thought we have Mantis now.

Yeah, you're welcome, we'll be like that boy straight. Yeah, yeah.

I you've had a lot of welcome to barstools. I I the the first, your first week here was the first week of March madness. And, uh, I remember so vividly walking into you, uh, in your studio in the Old New York office. And you had it looked like you had just come back from Vietnam. You had a million mile stare. And I was just like, You're right dude, and he's like, that was just a lot.

Comfortable? It's not a bad place, right? I love it. Um, I, I, I. I absolutely love it. it's been, it's been awesome.

Because you can get, you can get the AX immediately, right? You're on the radar.

I'm going to be more aware of spreads. Uh, that was something that I. It's already hard enough trying to decide who's going to win these games, but uh, uh, I'm going to be more in tune with that. Um, I. I also learned that, like, nobody actually, Yeah, I don't know it was. It was difficult because nobody gave a fuck about the basketball.

I gotta get into the trenches with the boys, it's like, if you, if you can't beat them, join them. Yeah, you know, so just yeah.

You'll become everything. Yeah, so so, let's talk some college basketball. This has been a very fun season.

I want to kind of say everyone sucks, but that's not a good way to get people into the sport, or?

Not everyone sucks. Yeah, I think everyone sucks on the road, everyone sucks on the road.