Uconn Head Coach Dan Hurley, Final Four Is Set, Who's Back Of The Week And More

Hey, Pardon My Take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime. members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music on today's Pardon My Take. The final four is set and we have UConn head coach Dan Hurley on the pod. Great interview, he's the absolute best.

Yes, we do.

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They're looking like NCAA $228 on April 1st.

We should actually do. Maybe we go to the game and we buy two tickets the last row and two tickets the front row, and then we do a little drawing for it.

To see who gets to sit where, that would be fun. You know what? I'm going to buy two tickets for a youngster? Oh nice.

How about that? Let's bring back, grow the game.

For the first session, it's $126, second session $86.

Same ticket?

You just sit there, you chill.

Yeah, same ticket. that's okay. GameTime has it. Gametime has the tickets, go check them out.

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Oh, we're gonna run down to Electric Avenue and then we'll take it higher.

If you just tell me those four cities are playing in any sort of athletic event besides probably surfing, I would say, yeah. It's gonna be Connecticut. It's gonna be the tough team from a cold weather city that's gonna do this one.

The Big East. It's crazy March, madness, crazy tournament. I was joking before, but all season long, all the talk was there's no really great team, there's a ton of parity, there's not this one team. Maybe you could say Alabama, which we'll get to that has risen above everyone else. And then we get to the tournament and everyone's like, Can you believe this? Yeah, I can, it's crazy.

A lot of people out there really believed in Purdue, so let's not act like they weren't a great team going into the tournament. It is the first time in N.C.A.A tournament history without a 1 2 or a 3 seed, though. So even for a wild year, this is the wilderest year of all time.

We didn't have a 1 seed in the Elite 8 because Alabama and Houston both eliminated on Friday night. We also have 3 teams that are going to their first final 4 and then going up against the team. That will further cement themselves as the best team in the last 25 years. So, in terms of multiple winners in the last 25 years, UConn has 4, Duke and UNC both have 3 apiece. This would be UConn's 5th if they could finish the deal. And then you have FAU, San Diego State and Miami in their first ever Final 4..

It is justice for the Mountain West because we took a big steaming shit on them at the start of the tournament.

Which was totally realistic. People were like, you shit on them, you guys got eliminated in 10 hours last year.

And we pumped up the Big East, we pumped up the Big 12. And now it turns out that the Mountain West has more teams in the Final 4 than the Big 12 does, and they have the exact same amount as the Big East.

Yes, the Mountain West definitely gets the laugh. And also the big one is the first ever triple crown, I believe, is Conference USA. That's what they're attempting. So Charlotte won the CBI.

Of course.

North Texas and UAB are still alive in the Nit and FaU in the real tournament. So you have a chance for all for Conference USA to sweep the board.

Yeah, Fau, shout out to Fau. They're a fun team. Every game that they play in, it's like who was the team in the N.B.A. playoffs, the T-Wolves last year, the Timberwolves.

Yeah, they won the championship.

Yeah, that was incredible, but it's like there's something about FAU. They kind of make every game fun, it doesn't matter who they're playing against.

They are also the perfect embodiment of how insane this tournament is. Because in the first game against Memphis, they should have lost. They were down with 7 seconds left. They got a very favorable jump ball call. It's a sliding doors moment.

Does this count as another title for Bobby Knight? because I think Bobby Knight was the head coach of that team he was. And I wonder what tips he picked up from them. Yes.

We will ask him that. So let's talk about the Games because we should start on Friday with Houston. The team that a lot of people thought had the best chance being eliminated by Miami, got absolutely trucked by them. I felt like that was one of those games where we were watching it. And we're like, Oh, maybe Houston will pull what they did against Auburn and just suffocate them in the second half. Never happened.

It was bad. Brandon Miller had a statistically improbable tournament. I think he had the worst shooting performance of anybody that has ever played in the NCAA tournament.

And he was injured, so we should say that he did have a groin injury. But Nate Oates, I don't know. It's like, pick your poison fouling down two with 47 seconds left when you're one of the best defensive teams in the country.

The fouling was really bad, really bad. I think most people, even basketball, well, I know, ball. But some people out there watching on TV were like, you know, I don't really understand this game. But even I, as a dumbass, understand that you don't foul in that situation, you shouldn't foul in that situation.

And also San Diego State, watching San Diego State play. They play incredible defense, they're all over the boards. They are, though, one of those teams that any time they go down, like six or seven in a game, you're like, it's over. They can't. How are they going to find these points to come back? And they've been doing it.

They're strong.

They haven't been rattled and it's been like every single game. They've found themselves in spots like, we've got to find offense and they did it.

Do you remember? I think it was like 2013 2014? San Diego State was a part of the Big East. For like, a week. They were going to be during realignment. Yeah, during football, I think.

Yeah, I don't think it was official, but it was like, one of those, this is the proposed. Yeah, yeah, and it made no sense.

No geographical sense.

It would be like putting UCLA and USC in the big ten, that would be dumb.

Really dumb, stupid as shit.

Very, very dumb, but yeah, San Diego State incredible on Friday night against Alabama. Nate Oates has never been to. he beat Arizona with Buffalo in his first season in the tournament. And he's never beaten a team as a lower seed since, or, sorry, he's never been. He's never beaten a team. A higher seed. And he also, I think it's he's never beaten higher than an eight seed since as well.

I think we have to ask the question Is Nate Oates on the hot seat right now?

I mean, listen, talk about guys choking. Poor Rick Barnes gets it all the time. Yep, if you're a seven-and-a-half-point favorite, if you're the team that everyone is looking at. They had a dream setup in their bracket when everyone went down and they couldn't get to the elite eight.

I'm officially putting Nate Oates on my hot seat. I agree he's got to go at least one year without a murder to get off this hot seat.

And let's be honest, let's just have an honest conversation with Alabama fans real quick. It's still football, you still have football.

Same thing with Texas, except without all the recent success in football, right? But you're still a football school, right? exactly.

But that's the thing if you're an Alabama fan. That game sucked. Nate Oates did a terrible job coaching down the stretch, but you have Nick Saban.

Yeah, you don't want to listen. This is time for Alabama fans to be scouring the message boards, doing the flight trackers, figuring out who you're recruiting. It's like Saban doesn't want to have to worry about. Saban probably wouldn't have gone to Houston for the final four, right? He's too busy recruiting. Yeah, he's out there, on the path right now.

Yes, but yeah. So Friday night was the stunning No one seeds in the Elite Eight. We found that out Friday night. We go to Saturday FAU versus Kansas State at the Garden Marquise.

Pass, yep.

I was like, That was it, that was it. And credit to Dusty May and Fau. Because I think every single game they've been down, like late in the fourth and they finish games so strong and that's what they did on Saturday.

And he didn't take that bargain on the very last play of the game. I know I wish he had taken that last shot, I know that was his moment.

Let's give him a shot, though.

We'll give you a shot, but just so, you know, Marquise, New Zealand's a beautiful country. We'll take you if you don't get an offer in the N.BA, yeah. And he's going to have a great career, no matter what ends up happening.

And I had a when we both had that thought and I treated it. I had a mini win moment where someone was like, you mean the pass, that he threw it to the guy who wasn't ready for it. And I went to reply to him being like, Hey, if you're playing with Marquise Noel, you have to always be ready for a pass. That's how good of a point guard he is. And the guy had deleted his tweet before I could reply.

And I was like, Yes, there we go.

You don't know, ball, I was going to just dunk on you.

I deceptively knew that he was wrong.

But it was clear, like Dussie May, I know that he, I think he. He went, uh. He went seven for 18 against Michigan State, so he had 20 points, 19 assists. He went eight for 21 against FAU.

That was tough, he wanted to stay in the game and when he was playing defense. I've never seen a guy do this. Just put both hands behind his back and just move around. He's like, I'm not going to get called for reaching.

You look like a blocker in like coed flag football.

Yeah, or, like one of those, one of those, uh, tackling dummies, that's the robot that just moves around. No arms whatsoever, true?

Timmy did that to start the game on Saturday night, cause he was like, foul troubles. The only thing that could be really problem for us, even though it ended up everything was a problem for them. But he was basically playing with four fouls right from the whistle. The other part of this game and Fau is is a really, really good team. I think it's weird because, uh, they won their we've talked about this.

I thought it was really nice because sometimes after a game, a coach like that will stew in their own locker room. Yeah, and to see a coach do that. Where he didn't even know the cameras were around, right, he went in there.

I'll say it right now, uh, you know, if my kids are ever, uh, good enough to play Division One basketball, they're not going to be, uh, I. I would say I want them to play for a guy like Jerome Tang, that's a guy.

Well, not just as player development, but to mold your son into a young man. Or actually.

Let me say this, I just want them to have a chance to play against Jerome Tang at some point. Because you know that the coach, coach Jay, will someday come in and and coach the other locker. And, uh, it's just that's what March is. Those type of moments where you see a coach being like, you know what, it's bigger than sports.

It's for the kids. Hank, did you see that?

Yeah, I thought it was a little self-centered, that's weird, just really selfish.

Why he was congratulating them on winning.

He literally was being like, Great job, guys, I'm so proud of what you did. I just think he was making a lot of moves, trying to trying to make it all about himself, bringing in random people to pump the team up.

You're so cynical, Hank, this is why you don't know ball, because it's it's. It's different. At the college level where you're trying to. These are amateurs, you're helping young men.

It should be about the other team, not about you. No, well, he did make it about the other team, he said. I want to go congratulate.

By him walking into that locker room, he put the spotlight. Because he knew that, you know, people are going to talk about whatever coach Jay, whatever coach Jay does. At the time, he knew that the spotlight was going to go off him and onto the kids that deserve it.

You should have more coaches like this. Disagree? Okay, all right. Well, yeah, again, you nailed it.

Shout out Fau, though, Fau. I love the owls, they're fun to watch, it's also fun to be able to love their big man.

Tweet the Lane Kiffin picture.

Oh, I was going to say, excited. They're doing it for, they're doing it for Uncle Junior. He doesn't go down there enough, you know, down to Boca.

That's a fact.

But yeah, they're a fun team to watch, though, the the I think they're doing it for. Uh, for Flacco, the Central Park owl, I think that maybe there was some owl magic going on there. I'll give, I'll give Flacco a pizza party of dead rats, yes.

They're fun to watch, cause they all can shoot. And, uh, yeah, I like, this is not a fluke. I know that we want to do the Cinderella thing, I don't. I don't feel the same way about FaU as I did.

Going back up against Yukon, yeah.

That he took George Mason to the final four, he got Miami to the final four.

Yeah, there are the George Mason Center, I always forget his name, he had the biggest ass in America, yeah.

Maybe.

Maybe not this guy that also.

That game, the George Mason Yukon game, and we can say this now because Yukon's back in the final four. That was the epitome of like, you can tell, the inner competitor of guys. Cause Rudy Gay was like he was built in a basketball factory of like, this is what you want in a college basketball player. And that team had no soul, they had no soul.

We should at least say that he said, that he wasn't going to come back.

He said that to Gonzaga, Yeah.

No, he's, he said, that he's done everything he needs to accomplish. He was there for four years, so he's out after the season, but he did not close the door on transferring.

Yeah, and it also was such a crazy game because a buddy, my tech mind, texted me during the game. He was like, if you had told me like, 10 years ago. Gonzaga will be playing Yukon and I, I'd be rooting for Yukon as like the team that hasn't been there in a while and being sick of Gonzaga shit.

He says he said after the game he calls him the gas station because he can fill it up. Yeah, which is a great spins. yeah, it was a great spark.

I don't think people complain about Charles Barkley during March madness, but if they do, I want you to go get hit by a bus. Because I want one guy who's sitting on the panel who not only hasn't watched college basketball, but also doesn't really care to, like, educate himself. Just firing off takes, it's fun.

Yeah.

You have Jay right there to tell you about the game and like to teach you what's going on. Charles Barkley's there to say Sunoco for a guy who's like one of the best players in the country.

Yeah, I want, I want Charles Barkley there, just to have him making fun of Kenny Smith. Yeah, exactly, it works. It's like, Okay, don't mess with.

And his suit is ridiculous. His suit is, uh, there was a side angle picture of his suit like fully flapped out. He's just wearing a parachute. Yeah, it's, it's got so much fabric.

Oh, I think all the kids out there need to go home. And they need to watch old YouTube footage of Charles Barkley playing in the N.B.A. And just be shocked at how athletic he was. Yeah, just look at it right now, he looks like a bowl of melted oatmeal.

The short shorts at Auburn.

Him and Thunder Dan Marley together. Yeah, yeah.

They were, I don't think we talk about Kevin Johnson anymore.

No, no.

He was been, he's been erased from.

I think Kevin Johnson, uh, one of the. He was one of the one of the mayors of Sacramento.

That's one of those ones where it's like, Ah, something happened, but I didn't read about it. I think something.

I think it was a lot of some things that happened with Kevin Johnson, okay?

Uh, so, yeah, Yukon back in in the final four. I'm expecting Husky Nation to be in droves in Houston because it is a team that has a storied past. But had a a dip where they haven't been able to be there because there was a while there. I mean, like I said, nine, 99, uh, to today, they have four titles, no one else has four. There was a while there where it was like, every year you knew Yukon would be in the mix.

Yeah, I mean.

All Yukon.

But you could think about, like, the people in Boca, are they going to make the trip? because no, you're not going to leave Boca to go to Houston, Texas, right? Even though it's the first time, probably the only time you'll ever be in a final four, yep.

Miami fans probably going to stay there and just get angry about Mario Cristobal and whatever he they think he's done wrong. Yeah, in the off season, yeah.

It's all Yukon, that's a. There are a lot of teams where they plan these trips. Just to get out of their small college town, right? And to be able to go somewhere where you don't have to put on a big like, the, uh, the puffer jacket, yeah.

Yes, yes, um, so see a Gonzaga still fall short Final four, they'll never get there.

It's tough.

It does feel like I'm sure they have some awesome recruits coming in. But Drew Timmy, Uh, I wasn't a personal fan. But you can't knock the guy for being, uh, an all time college basketball player. Like. I think he went to the Sweet 16 every single year, uh, at least, and he was just always there.

Yeah, that's it. And then he goes back to the game against Baylor, where he did the mustache celebration. How many were the down? down? 15.?

That was.

That was bad. The crying Sorority girl dancing.

And and yeah, he's a great college basketball, I don't know where, he'll probably play overseas somewhere. You saw it last night when they just didn't even have him on Sonogo from the start. Cause they're like, this is not going to work.

We know, we know that that's not going to be a matchup.

But I will miss him cause he college basketball as you get longer, you know, with the transfer portal and everything. Not to be an old man yelling at clouds, but like, you don't have those same heels or villains on each program. So he's kind of a throwback, where it's like, every March, you remember Drew Timmy, and it's fun to have those guys around, Oh.

Speaking of players that your dad's will love, not just Drew Timmy, but Golden on FaU, Oh yeah, his all time dad loved Vladislav Golden. He's the big fundamental.

He also is a great big man. Because there'll be like one or two times a game where he'll get caught in a pick and roll and his feet just won't work. And it's, but he's still like, he's, he's, he's not.

He's athletic, yeah.

He's athletic, but it's you still need to have that happen every now and then. Just be like, Okay, he can't just totally dominate every single part.

It's actually it's shocking watching Golden Play. Comparing him to Zach, Obviously Zach, 80, is like a much bigger human being. But watching them run is they couldn't be more, uh, dissimilar as athlete.

It's those extra four inches, dude.

Golden when he runs, he looks like an athlete running. when Zach, 80, runs, it looks like his feet weigh 70 pounds. Yeah.

It's the extra four inches, seven, seven feet to seven four, significant.

I've always been in the mindset that tall players are actually at a disadvantage against a normal size player like myself. Because it does take longer for their brain signal to go from their brain to their extremities than it would for me. And my body's just built way more efficiently.

I just, I'll also assume any tall, super tall N.BA player just hates playing basketball. Yeah, cause they're like, you play basketball, you're seven feet and everything has this like running, practicing, living, being alive. It all has to kind of suck.

I think most players over seven feet play basketball because the alternative is you walk around and everybody that you talk to asks you, Do you play basketball? where'd you play ball? Yeah, there was a. There was an article, I think, in the New York Times last week that was saying, Stop asking tall people if they played basketball. I just want to say I will never stop asking tall people if they play basketball.

If you're if you're over seven feet and you're also very athletic looking, it's not did you play basketball? it's where'd you play ball? And that's even worse. I would have the assumption that you played somewhere.

I would have a business card if I was seven feet tall. That just said I didn't play basketball, I just handed it to people.

Stop asking.

Yeah.

I was actually, I was actually really sick at soccer when I was 12.

Hakeem Olajuwon Yeah, he was a goalie.

Yes, yes, um, and Sonogo, we. We talked to Danny Hurley about this as well. Uh, doing all this while fasting all day, so he's been incredible.

No, I just love the Big East. Okay, this, this is a final four.

Now I understand why you hate this guy.

No, UConn is taking it for the Big East and Conference as a whole. You're such a bad actor, Max, yeah.

You hate them, what do you mean? Well, I love the Big East.

That's why people, that's why people love Max is because when you see his freak outs, they're a million percent genuine. Max just lives in that rage. So people can smell you being a phony a mile away. No, this is, this is.

Okay, um, all right. And then Sunday we had San Diego State. Creighton, Uh, the game with a foul with a second left that everyone got very upset about. Uh, and I understand why they're upset, because that's what sports are. Uh, it was the one, the one thing it did suck.

I think it's a foul, but yeah, but it's a foul that happens all the time and it's not called. So regardless of when it happens in a game, I'd say that that foul is probably not called. 50 of the time it's like give or take, and then at the end, since it's just like a small push on the hip. I would be pissed off if I was Creighton. But on the other hand, you know, you just have to kind of live with the fact that it was. It's not like he didn't touch him, yeah.

And I, that was my take right away. It was just like shitty ending, but it was a foul. And I felt like you ever seen that meme where someone's like, Uh, I like, I love waffles? And then the first reply is like, why would you shit on pancakes like this?

Yeah.

That's what I felt like, being like, how could you? how could you ever say that? That, like, they should never have called that? You're fucking, you're, you're lying. Right now, it's like, I, I admitted it was. I do not want to see a game ended on the free throw line that sucks.

Oh yeah.

It's just like the you just you have to, you have to go make both.

If it's a tie game.

Yeah, you have to go make both to count. yeah, otherwise it doesn't count.

I don't hate that now. That has nothing to do with the fact that he missed the first one and then made this.

Yeah, no, no.

Helpful because it does give Creighton some much needed copium. They get to cope on that being like, you can't call that foul right there. And they get to point at that and be like we would have made the final four. Refs fucked us over it. It sucks for Creighton.

Fans, right? But at least you went away. Like, if you lose as a fan, you at least want to take something with you that you can hold onto, like if you're a Gonzaga fan. I actually did see a couple of people doing like game change when Timmy got his fourth foul.

You didn't lose to San Diego State in the Aztecs, you lost the refs, right, exactly. It's hard to beat a team and the refs in the same. It's a great, it's a great consolation.

Prize to lose and have some someone very obvious that you can play. It's like the Eagles.

They didn't lose the Superbowl. The guy that put the grass down correct cost the Eagles.

Superbowl What'd you think watching that game? Max? Good question, What the Creighton?

Game Yeah, I was just rooting for the Big East, right? So so I mean, I was upset.

Know, it's as as someone who's had those calls called against him, do you think you?

Can call that, um, yeah, you know, it's a foul, so in the end of the game, sometimes you just need to call fouls. Well, you were also rooting for San Diego State, based on 2013, when they were in the Big East for a week. Yeah, correct.

To carry those with you forever. Yeah, and you get to say, I still think about that team. Yeah, Juster Swinslow was out of bounds.

At least one thing to be angry about forever. This is more loser talk from us. But I, I would absolutely love it if the Commanders lost the Super Bowl, based on a completely blown fuck. I would. I would love if the Commanders got called for a pass. Interference against the Rams, like the Saints did, and had the refs take away an opportunity to go, yeah.

I would count that as going to a Super Bowl. You get to just complain about it for the rest of your life, and that is in some ways better than a win. That's kind of our lives, yeah.

Come out of the game, except for two on Friday. And a car was obviously not himself. When he got back in, that probably played an impact because he was hot. He was, he was, he was very good. Cunningham was a Cunningham. We missed a couple open threes in the second half.

Also has a couple of great names, with Isaiah Wong and then Wuga Poplar. Like they got some good names. They have a little bit of. You need those things like the old coach storylines never been there. They get, they have, I'm not gonna say their team of destiny, but they.

Got some shit, got some shit going, they got some shit to him. And they're a good team, very good team, Team of Destiny rankings.

Know Indiana Sweater standing behind Bob Knight? Yukon is just going to win, Yukon is going to win, Yukon is going to win. Oh, you're going to get it on this, too.

What we need, we need somebody. I don't want Yukon to win, I'm going to be honest, but I think they're going to somebody out there convince us Yukon.

The way they've been playing, they've been absolutely dominating. Besides a Rick Pitino Ziona in the first half, making every shot, Yukon has been laying waste of teams. I think they've won by double digits every game.

Boca would do. If FAU won. It would just be like the mobility scooters parade of old people just driving around, honking their horns like real high pitched electronic beeps. We do have a history with FAU, we do. That's the site of the original Ponzi Scheme awareness Bowl, the The Wet The Beak Ponzi Scheme Awareness Bowl.

Yeah, he is until he got to the Yankees. True, that's true. They ruined him.

A losing effort against Pat Bev off the bench. He came off the bench. Was that the first time in his career he's come off? No, there was one other time they said I would like to just implement a rule.

Were saying it was not nice at Pat Bev to do the too small to a bench player, cause that is what's bench on bench. Yeah, that's true, but it was awesome. He was doing this, he was holding his nose on the way out to, Yeah.

A too small off, a a fadeaway. Yeah. So he did like a spin, broke him down, and then before the ball even went in, he did the You're too small, you're too small, LeBron.

Guys talk, I mean, Ron's runs on the act with you big cap. Did you talk about how viral the the jersey swap with Pat Bev's mom was? That? And also it went nuclear. Ron went to the Bulls Uh, Sixers game and he tried to do a jersey shop with Pat Bev, but they lost.

Instead, and the internet went nuts. A lot of people were looking at Pat Bev's mom on that one on the quote tweets, making all sorts of comments about about her figure. Yeah, I want to say for the record, I didn't. I didn't even notice that she had a dump that wouldn't quit, I didn't.

Full figured lady. Yeah, no, they've been going viral. They went viral too for Pat Bev, saying he, he, uh, keeps his legs fresh, doesn't have sex on game days.

Also, who's back to the LeBron James lying? So that's back big time because WOJ put out a report last Thursday. I think saying that LeBron is is targeting, coming back for the final week of the season. Might get a few games in a few of the most important games of his career. And then LeBron replied to it and said, Uh, there wasn't an evaluation today.

He also thought he could come back and just beat the balls. Bulls have been there, they're on fire since. Pepper ready to go, Uh, looking at that ninth seat, huge, huge.

Important games of his life. Yeah, listen, LeBron James, the play the plan game is better.

When LeBron James is in it, yeah, yeah, it would be great. Uh, I'm sure one of you guys has this as your. But it'd be great if it was a Mavs Lakers playing game.

Outside of the playoffs yet twice. Did you see? Also earlier today, Kyrie got a fan kicked out of the game. Oh, he pointed him out to the to the refs, walked the refs over from across the court to the guy, pointed at him, said, Get this guy out of here.

He does a great job of just making everyone hate him. It would be funny if Kyrie kicked.

Him out of the game because he was wearing a Redskins hat and that was offensive to Kyrie.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I wouldn't put it past him. No, I mean he. I think his mom was native.

American Yeah, so yeah, that's why he does the sage ritual, yeah.

Luca I'm not having any fun, I mean, Luca could also try not complaining about every.

Call ever. You know what? I would love if Luca pulled a James Harden and if he just got fat. Because, like he, he does fluctuate from time to time, he has the frame for it. If he I think that you give me a month with Luca training with him, I could get him up to 300 pounds.

Easy, easy, easy, and he would look hilarious. My other, who's back, is also NBA. Ben Simmons is out for the rest of the year. Oh, okay.

Team I would, I would hate him. Yeah, I would absolutely despise, but at some point, you.

Got to be like, you got $203 million for being. He was very good for a while, you know, I think he was first team all NBA one year, uh, but since then he just hasn't worked.

Has anybody made more money than Ben Simmons for not working? I don't know, nobody wants.

To work anymore, that's the problem with that is, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta stop having NBA games played over Zoom. Yeah, this is back to the office.

Joe Biden I blame him for the mentality. Guy takes a max. Do you still hate Ben Simmons or do you like that? He's doing this to a different team? Uh, I don't give a fuck.

Uh, cause you were the. The reason why he has $203 million was the extension that he signed.

For, uh, five years, 177 million. I hate Ben Simmons with all, with every being in my body, and I hope that all bad things happen to him. Nice, but in a way, it's good that he's not playing now, right?

I, I was, there was a moment there where I was kind of mad. Just from a basketball standpoint, like this guy is so talented, if he could just practice shooting basketballs, which shouldn't be hard. You're you're using the wrong hand. yeah, using the wrong hand.

Than shooting. I would love it if the Lakers signed him. Yeah, I know that big time asset.

Uh, Billy, you're who's back? Kanye West? Oh, he's back, you guys here, yeah.

Just said, He's Jonah Hill, right? Yeah, he's back. Apparently Jonah Hill made him not antisemitic anymore. Oh, congrats.

All right, yeah, that's pretty funny, very weird. He watched it.

Of curb. Yeah, yeah, this. I like this show and then my other who's back is tampering.

What happened with the airport? Um, okay, well, tell us the lie of what happened, okay?

Get into the airport and I got stopped, uh, cause I was on no fly list, that's what happened. Oh, that's the lie. Okay, you should have been wearing your combat fatigue.

That sucks. I was a terrorist. Yeah, you went to pick someone up at eight, 30 and then never came back. Because there's like, Oh, you should have just told him. Uber exists, that's the one thing.

I'm a promise to pick someone up at the airport guy. And then when it comes to happening like, can't get out of it, I was just, Yeah, don't do that, people like.

To pick someone up from an airport, it's any big city, though, it's L.A. Chicago, Miami, Houston, like all these big cities. Just get in an Uber and people try to flip it and say, Oh, you're a bad friend, cause you don't pick people up from the airport.

The thought wouldn't cross my mind. But on the other hand, if somebody's asking you like, Hey, can you pick fit? Basically they're saying, instead of me paying an Uber fare, can you pay double an Uber fare? To have somebody else drive you to pick me up, I will pay for someone else's.

Uber Oh, easy, yes, but. But picking someone up from the airport and being like, let me just burn two hours of my day on fire, that's a psychotic move.

Don't understand that it sounds like, but it sounds like, hey, you know, it'd be faster if.

You just got an Uber, yeah, and and guess what, if you do that? I'll go to the. You know, I'll go to the liquor store and get us a bunch of beer, or I'll make dinner, or we'll be ready to go. When you show up, that's the way to do it.

It just kept on getting delayed by 30 minutes. It was like 30 more minutes, 30 more minutes, 30 more minutes. And you're just there waiting, like, Well, I can't really leave now.

They're getting delayed in the air.

It was it was at the time when they got up, we didn't hear from them cause they were in the air. And then by tracking, you realize that the plane was circling. Got it? Yeah, they're trying to.

Burn off some fuel, but could have easily just taken an Uber. I'm mad for you. Yes, yeah, Billy, we're not mad at you.

Getting fucked over. There's nothing you want to do more than work that night. Yeah, exactly.

Well, you know, I'm going to say, on behalf of Billy Football, no one ever asked him to pick him up from the airport. Again, he's. The answer is no, and if someone does ask, you feel free to tag me in.

But yeah, Lamar has, he's got a fake agent that's reaching out and contacting people. My question is, is Lamar Jackson a certified agent with the NFL PA for himself? How do you have to go through that process? Apparently it only takes a couple of days. I think if we could test baby.

We also have a bill. You're going to give us your recap of the tournament before the lottery ball? So we'll do that, cause maybe Jake will hop in and be able to do it.

Night I woke up in the middle of the night, I needed a snack, I didn't want to have anything carb heavy.

You get gains in your sleep. Hell yeah, so feed your wild side with Jack Links. Billy, your March madness recap Have you? have you stayed hot? Are you still breaking Vegas?

I Vegas one, Oh, no, Vegas one. But here's some important things to keep in mind about the tournament. Okay?

There's a couple more. Oh, sorry, I didn't want, I wanted to applaud if that was the end.

But it's not the end. Musk kept his shirt on. Because no one cares about your physique. If the guy that beats you is husky, Oh, that's good, okay?

Good, you forgot one easy one. Um, it was a layup. Yeah, it was. it was a layup, uh. Reports out of Tuscaloosa. NATO suspended Brandon Miller for the rest of the year.

Uh, they're actually playing right now against LSU on the women's side. What about them? Well, they're the most, uh, they had the most following out of any. You Miami basketball player got it?

Mulkey rocks, so looking like Ric Flair, Uh, the other night, she dresses like a drag queen, yeah.

It's awesome, but she's toned down tonight. If I were a waiter and Kim Mulkey walked into my restaurant, she would get the best service I've ever given anybody in my life. Because I know that she's, she's the type of person that would have like $20 and ones out on the table. And each time I was like 10 seconds late coming to her, she'd take another one off and put it in her.

Pocket. So this is going to be y'all's tip. Yes, the uh, I also, I think Brian Kelly's officially, uh, no longer like a Northerner Notre Dame guy. Because he was at the game sweet 16. And he was wearing, uh, just an LSU uh pullover, uh with cut short sleeves, which was just a terrible look. But I was just thinking about it.

That wrote an article, I think it was in the New York Times last week. Yes, that was basically saying name, image and likeness is ruining college sports. King, state kings.

Probably $5 million a year, if not more. Yes, I also. It was one of those things, too, where he wrote it. He got dunked on and it was unfortunate because there were a couple points that were not terrible. Like he, he was, he was basically making the point that what does it serve? A kid? If they're just transferring to a new school every year, they do five years at all different schools like that, probably, that kid probably isn't being best served going forward.

Points, I looked up. He makes $3 million a year, uh, plus other university compensation, yeah, so he's the highest paid athletic director in the entire country.

Received No. I listened to him, um, on, uh, Dan Wetzel and Pat Forties podcast is a great podcast. But he, he said something about, uh, like, Notre Dame, staying independent, and he's like, Yeah, we're never like we. All we need is money and to be on national television and guess what, we're going to keep doing that.

He was just flexing on. Everyone's like, not going to happen. Yeah, he makes a valid point when he says that, uh, a degree from Notre Dame is worth a million dollars. Over the course of that student's entire, you know, post-athletic career, yeah.

That shit all the time. Yes, yes. Also, Ross Dellinger's on that podcast. I don't want to forget him.

Mr. Women has been ice cold. Dr. Women Dr. Women has been reported to the board for numerous allegations of fraudulence. But it's okay.

Uh, system went bankrupt, uh, Pft is women's system went bankrupt. And I was too much of a coward to do the system that I was going to do, cause I'm a fucking scaredy cat, my system's.

We're doing well, we're doing well, it's not bankrupt. We just need to reevaluate some things, and so we'll be, we'll get back in the lab and figure things out.

So PFT and I will co-own a team. The seam had express. Yeah, the seam had express, Um, so, yeah, we, we want it.

Of the best fantasy baseball governors in the world. If you just take out the postseason, yeah.

So let's do it so any awl who has an extra spot in their league that's drafting the next few days. Email Uh, Jake? Yeah, email Jake, What's? what's Jake's email?

Since screenshot over of, you know, past years, yeah, and if you want to do, uh.

We also would be totally fine if you want to vote one of the current members out and give us.

That spot, yeah, definitely. Maybe the guy that lost last year. That would make it a really fucked up and awesome for us. And we'll have some sort of prize for the winner.

Yeah, or the guy that won, or the guy that won, you guys can decide who's out if someone wants to vote out. Uh, I want a league that's been going on for a very long time, has some history, has some friendship.

Between eight and 9 p...m. Okay, I'm going to get, I'm going to get quirky to help us out with this.

Draft too pretty tight windows, but I'm sure someone can get it done. Uh, all right, let's get to our interview with Danny Hurley. It's brought to you by our friends at Just for Men One Day. Beard and Brow Color is the first temporary brush in washout color from Just for Men, the Beard Color experts.

Yeah, I mean, you know, standard is the standard. Uh, we're going to play every possession like it's the last possession, right? All the all the great, all the great cliches, uh, all rolled out into one.

One where I referenced that the clown, Yes, yes, yeah, yeah.

I know, uh, like earlier, earlier in my career. They actually tell you, like the morning of who the referees are, you know, you find out pretty early in the morning, if you want to. And when I used to, when I used to check to see who was on the game. Like, if I didn't like them, or if I had a bad personal history with them, that would set me off like hours before. And then the rage would build and the fire would burn. And so then I. What I've started doing recently is I just, uh, I wait until I get out there.

I read that you do a aromatherapy and you, you're a very chill like, almost zen guy. When you get into the office, do you think maybe you're too zen? So you're bottling everything up? And that way, you step onto the court and it just explodes.

Yeah, volcanic. Uh, yeah, that's true. I mean that that, yeah, we only have a certain amount of willpower, right?

Yeah, I also read that you're a cold shower guy. Is that true?

Yeah, I'd like to go, uh, you know, I like to go cold, I like to go hot, hot, cold, hot, and then maybe even go back cold again, you know? So I'll go sauna 20 minutes, you know, a 10 minute ice cold shower and then and then. Maybe if I still feel like I need to, you know, I'll maybe even go back in and repeat. Because I think I, it's. It's critical that, um, uh, I'm at my best, right?

Actually, I like it, I like it so, so big picture. Um, I mean, obviously everyone knows your dad, knows your brother.

It's hard for, I think, it's just it's hard, um, you know, for for me and my brother in particular, but it just even in our family. You know, my dad, uh, you know, the patriarch of this basketball thing. Um, you know, he just. He was never satisfied, he was never really happy with. Um, you know how we were playing, or or how we were doing at school, or or, you know what we were doing, you know, on the street, or just how we were carrying ourselves. So, like, just always had this voice in our heads that, uh, you know, like that, there's more to achieve. Uh, you know, obviously, you know, like the goalposts are always, are always moving for most people that strive for success.

You know, the national Championship, yeah, yeah, a few weeks ago, or maybe it was a month that you when you guys played Villanova and you gave the famous press conference afterwards. Get your wins in against us now, you better beat us now.

You know, it was the beginning of year two. Um, you know, we had gotten our ass kicked by Villanova at the garden right before Christmas. In year one. Um, you know, and year one started off pretty good, you know, we beat Syracuse at the garden. I had the chest bump thing with my player.

Be a successful coach, yeah. And and speaking of that, like, your season has been interesting. Because you guys were red hot to start, you kind of peaked a little bit. Early January, hit a little bit of a bump, and then, you know, obviously the March is when you want to be hot again.

Listen, I any coach that tells you, Yeah, I, I know how to get my team peaking at the absolute right time. Um, you know, I think they're, you know, they're, they're, they're lying, you know, I think. For me, it was more about, uh, you know, the Big East ish, you know, the Big East is a brutal league. Um, you know when? When the schedule sets up and you end up like at Xavier at Providence, Creighton at home at Marquette. You know, you could find yourself, uh, you know, in a death spiral.

And I know you don't care about this. But there was a little bit of my mush at play. Because I bet you guys to win the national title, I think you lost like four out of the next five, so I apologize for that. Um, is that a future? Yeah, it was a future.

It wasn't coincidental. It also might've been, you know, me, at war with the reps, too. For, you know, probably a three to five game stretch, which probably didn't help matters. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, as you get ready to go down to Houston, how many? Cause you were running some some incredible plays in the last couple of rounds of the tournament. How many new plays, brand new, brand spanking new plays are you going to install in practice this week?

Uh, pft. I think what you try to do is, um, you know, you, you, you try to keep, uh, like the you try to have a bunch of new wrinkles, obviously added. Like, the same type of formation, right? So stuff that we've been running where we've tried to get, you know, Jordan Hawkins, or, or caravan, Caravan Joey, California, trying to get these guys a three, you know, at that same formation. Maybe the wrinkle will be to get, you know, clinging, you know, the seven foot to, you know, uh, you know, stud like a, uh, a lob dunk or or or duck in. So we'll, we'll try to like, add some wrinkles and different things, uh, to kind of the formations. So that, um, you know you, you obviously, uh, have a chance to really confuse the dude that's got the scout.

Yes, what about for yourself? Cause I saw there was, uh, after uh, one of the games they had a couple of weeks ago. Uh. Bill Murray was telling you to take your shirt off after the game in the crowd, and you shook them off. It was very rude. You shook Bill Murray off.

Yeah, I just I hadn't done, uh, you know, I'm obviously bald and, uh, I've got like red dots on my head, but then I'm also I've got back hair. And I've done no manscaping at all. You know, cause we're still, you know, Jersey Shore is still, you know, months away, right? So there's no right. So, yeah, I was just known for this position to pull a must it also I got a lot of respect from us. I wasn't, I couldn't, you know, to troll him like that, uh, in that moment, I think.