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Mark Vital Arrested, K-State MBB blows 18-pt lead @ TCU, Football adds lucrative staffers (S4//E46) · Cocaine Willie

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  What's up everybody? You're listening to a very sick
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  representative of the College Huddle.
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  I'm your commissioner Bob Trollsby, and as always I'm
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  joined by my Co host the good Chef Andre Napier and Fireball
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  Matt Marcini. We are very sick today. 2/3 of
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  There's a lot of there's shit going around.
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  Things are bad. Mark Vital got arrested.
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  But yeah, shout out to to Charlie.
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  All right guys, Mark Vital, GA for the K State Fence basketball
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  team was arrested in Manhattan, KS for domestic battery.
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  Vital and a woman were arrested at 12 O 4:00 AM yesterday
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  Monday, February 9th for domestic battery and knowing
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  rude physical contact with a family member or dating
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  relationship. The team refused to comment for
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  a number of hours yesterday. Then they finally released a
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  statement early in or well late in the afternoon saying we are
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  aware of Mark Vitals arrest on Sunday night.
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  I guess it was Monday morning technically, but they said
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  Sunday night. Tang said in a statement he has
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  been removed team responsibilities until the
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  judicial process runs its course.
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  The hits keep coming boys. Not only is the team awful this
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  year, not only did they blow an 18 point lead against TCU on on
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  Saturday, but now we've got staff molars getting arrested
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  for domestic abuse. What's next?
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  I mean. Who's who's hitting some elderly
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  woman in the high V parking lot with their car?
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  Gambling. We haven't crossed a gambling
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  scandal off the off the bingo card.
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  That's true. We've got a player, Chris.
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  Bier did less, let's be honest. Oh.
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  He's back so. Yeah.
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  Maybe he may be vital, you know, eventually redeems himself and,
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  you know, all the facts come out.
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  You know, maybe we should get before we hit these airwaves,
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  maybe we should get all the facts because I have fallen prey
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  to the same thing I have fallen prey.
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  Have you? Yes, I have.
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  Let's let's unpack that a little bit.
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  What's on your mind? What's on your mind?
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  Do you like to tell the people what you fell prey to?
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  I mean, I was, you know, some would say I was tricked, I was
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  led astray by information on the Internet, which you can't
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  believe everything on the Internet.
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  So that is I fell for that. That was the first rule and I
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  fell for that. So I have to own up to Moby Ek
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  Guruka. I owe you apology, brother.
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  You hopefully you're not listening to this podcast
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  because your mental health is definitely going to take a hit
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  having to listen to this. So I mean, I apologize, brother.
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  I apologize because I I painted you in an I'll light and that's
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  not right. I'm rhyming right now.
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  I was thinking of something that can rhyme with rhyme, but here
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  we are. That's my apology.
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  That is my that is my official stance.
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  I do apologize to Moby Ek Guruka.
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  Interesting chef. Another take that's incorrect.
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  That's what you got from. That that's that is one other
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  thing that I got from that. OK, OK.
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  That's fair. For every Yeah, you shouldn't
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  listen to everything on the Internet, Chef.
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  Yeah, it's tough, but what Can you believe?
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  If you can't believe a random egg account on Twitter, what Can
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  you believe? I mean, you can't even follow
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  meme accounts without it turning into office office crush Kaylee
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  anymore. Code according to Coach Tang.
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  And and Scott Scott Wildcat can't get his mail sent out in
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  less than 60 days. I'll tell you what I think Grove
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  City's falling prey to that too. Man, it is getting bad news up
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  here. The post offices in shambles.
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  Not City 5, by the way, not City 5, not the docs myself.
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  But you know. We have so many viewers in Ohio.
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  Not to talk to myself, but you know I am getting that mail out
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  there officially. No problem all.
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  Right, right. Let's let's.
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  This basketball team, this basketball team is just a.
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  Back on the rails. This basketball team is just
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  something else. I mean, the hits keep coming.
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  And I mean, you could paint it and, you know, you could get all
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  the journalists you want to paint it into the light of, you
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  know, that they're going through a flu bug, that they've got
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  personal things going on. That's why the the success is
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  not the way it is. But I mean, the, the success is
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  not there in the basketball program.
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  It though is the way it is. But we saw a microcosm of what
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  this team is on their game versus TCU.
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  And that, that is just, it's kind of unexplained.
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  It's a new level of I don't even know what the word is.
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  I mean, it's just, it's just bad.
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  What's What's another synonym for bad?
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  Horrible, abysmal, or. It's just it's just another it's
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  just another level an 18 point lead blown.
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  I mean, it, it evaporated in the first half, but then you've got
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  you're up 10 with two minutes, 3 minutes left.
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  And then all everybody's true color show Tang, the lack of,
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  you know, preparedness on the offensive end, the carelessness
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  of the ball with the carelessness with the ball.
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  Nate Johnson just fumbling the ball.
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  You have the best production you're going to get from your
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  9th, 10th man off the bench and you can't, you know, you can't
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  seal the deal. PJ Haggerty is looking for foul.
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  I mean, that is the 4th or 5th time that we've had a game
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  decided by PJ Haggerty putting that the game in the the
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  referee's hands. It it's just it's, it can't be
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  explained away and there's nothing that can explain this
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  away. I mean, it is very, it's kind of
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  funny, right? Like because we had an 18 point
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  lead in the game, but everybody was like, oh, we're going to
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  lose. And then we did lose obviously,
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  but it was yet another game of like the just end of game
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  coaching and player decisions. Just I mean, what the stat, what
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  we had a 5 point lead with a minute and 20 seconds to go and
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  we didn't take a shot up the rest of the game.
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  Like egregious. That's really bad.
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  It's really, really bad. Yeah.
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  You know, we're 2 1/2 point underdog tomorrow night against
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  old Jizzle James in Cincinnati. Your your your boy at
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  Cincinnati, Chef I. Mean and Wes Miller is fight
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  he's still the coach right of Cincinnati.
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  I mean, he's still fighting for, he's fighting for his job.
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  And he's like on the total, the total opposite spectrum of where
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  Jerome Tang is. Jerome Tang's like deflecting,
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  doing all this stuff. Wes Miller saying, hey, it's on
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  me. I'm I'm I'm the problem, all
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  this stuff. And they're going to come in,
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  they're going to come into Bramlage and they're they're
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  going to lay the smack down. I can just feel it in my bones.
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  It's yeah. But they'll never beat the
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  accusations of just bad coaching.
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  I mean, it's just it's rampant. It is literally rampant.
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  I mean, the the we've went over this in prior episodes, the
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  building of this team. They are a jump shooting team
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  that with no physical capability inside.
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  And that's why I'm people are, you know, bashing the referee
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  saying, oh, the foul discrepancy and all this stuff.
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  We don't play that style of ball at all.
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  We don't live in that. We don't live that life at all.
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  There's nothing physical about this team and it's it's showing.
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  I mean, yeah, you could build an 18 point lead everybody if
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  you're hot from three. That is not that's not out of
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  the realm of possibility versus any team really.
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  But can you sustain it? And the answer is if you don't
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  have physicality, if you don't have the interior positions to
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  stop just rebounds, I mean offensive rebounds is I would
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  love to see what the the most the discrepancy between any team
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  in Kansas State history being out rebounded.
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  Have we out rebounded anybody this season?
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  I mean maybe 3 or. Four times, maybe 3 or 4.
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  Times like I mean, not the not the games where we're winning
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  100 and 100 and nothing basically versus the worst of
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  the worst basketball teams in the country, but versus a team
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  with a pulse. Have we out rebounded any of
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  them? I can't believe that we have a.
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  Team with a pulse, I want to say we out rebounded West Virginia
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  and we did. West Virginia, Which game was
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  that? We got there, rebounded West
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  Virginia and the loss. We lost.
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  That's all you really need to know.
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  It's, it's, it's inexplicable. And the way that that game
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  played out, I mean, you were up 18 points in the first half,
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  Obviously that that dwindled down to what, like 5 halftime
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  for halftime and you just get outplayed for majority of the of
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  the game at the end. It's just like, how do you even
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  build that kind of lead and just let it completely dwindle?
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  And we all thought it was going to happen.
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  We're all sitting there like, all right, here we go.
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  Then the league gets down to like 13 and 11:00 and 9:00 and
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  7:00 and 5:00 and it's just OK, here we go.
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  And to the point like, yes, people can talk about the
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  officiating, but good teams overcome bad officiating.
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  I will die on that hill. There are exceptions where in
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  the past there's certain scenarios where there have been
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  calls that have indicated or dictated the outcome of the
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  game. But nine times out of 10, good
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  teams are going to overcome bad officiating.
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  This is not a good team. This is not a team that can
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  overcome bad officiating. They don't have the coaching,
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  they don't have the guts, they don't have any of it.
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  They don't have the basketball IQ.
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  The the inbounds plays to to Nate and to PJ and PJ try to
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  draw a foul at the end of the game.
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  Just it's the same thing over and over and over again.
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  We're just seeing the same thing.
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  We've seen play out multiple other losses.
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  It had shades of the Cal game from earlier this season when
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  they blew that huge lead. It's just it's just, I mean, it
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  is funny, Matt, you bring up the that it's, there's humor to it.
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  I mean, I'm just sitting there laughing the whole time.
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  It's if you're not hammering the money line when K State gets up
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  that big, then you're you're making a mistake.
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  We're we're going to beat Cincinnati tomorrow.
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  Wrong. But I mean, Bob, you've got a
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  point. I mean, good teams do find a way
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  and good teams, they see the flow of the game.
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  We had a referee, I don't remember what the referee's name
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  is. I don't sure.
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  I'm sure he didn't put his name out there.
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  But the we had a referee on the podcast and he's explaining how
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  psychologically referees are going to call these games if
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  they're calling it and the team, the other team that's getting
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  slighted, maybe start playing similar style basketball to what
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  the what the referees are calling.
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  Like you shooting jump shots and fade away jumpers.
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  You're not going to get a call for that.
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  There's zero chance you're not going to get a call 3/4 down the
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  court on a pull through. That's not happening in college
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  basketball. There's zero percent chance
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  that's going to happen. It's, it's laughable that
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  there's no reins on this team on how they play, how they function
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  on the court. It is, it is funny.
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  It is very funny, man. It's you just you got to laugh
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  sometimes, right? It's fun to laugh when you have
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  nothing to play for. House money, whatever.
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  They're going to win tomorrow. I think they're going to win
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  tomorrow and that's that. But you know what's think of the
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  positives? PJ Haggerty, He was He's on the
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  late season Wooden Award. Wooden list.
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  John Wooden. Wooden Award Wooden.
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  I don't know, Tomato. Tomato.
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  Wooden, wooden. Wooden.
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  The top 20 player in the country, which meaningly like
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  statistically it makes sense and that's a lot of it's
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  statistically not about your basketball like you, but do.
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  They have do they have a collegiate like basketball
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  efficiency numbers? Plus minus.
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  They've got like plus minus. No, I mean like like effective
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  field goal percentage and all that stuff.
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  Like you know what the like the? I'm sure, I'm sure on chem pond
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  they do, but I'm too poor for that.
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  Yeah, or Evan Evan Miyakawa or. I would love to know what like
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  what Haggerty's like efficiency numbers are, Cuz I mean, it's,
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  it's just, he just can't be that efficient.
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  He turns the ball over so much. It seems like he turned the ball
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  over so much. Maybe I'm, maybe I'm just, maybe
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  I'm just trying to find somebody to stick it to.
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  Yes, 43.5 S 4 turnovers a game. OK, there's no way he's
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  averaging over 4 assists a game. He's averaging 4.2 assists per
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  game. So he's a one and one player.
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  I think the thing with it, here's the thing with it, I
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  think his turnovers are more pronounced because of the timing
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  that they. Occur Yeah, yeah, I get yeah, I
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  know exactly what you're saying. Like it's like he doesn't the
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  first few moments of that game, like he doesn't touch the ball,
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  like he's he's not even like involved.
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  And then for some reason, like we just clamor around him and
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  it's just the total opposite of why we had a 10 point lead, why
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  we had an 18 point lead, why we had any kind of lead in that
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  game throughout the game. And we just totally flip it and
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  say, you know what? I sew every play and that shit
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  does not work. And and like some of the shots
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  that he does attempt are shots, but they could might as well be
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  turnovers with some of the shots that he takes from a decision
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  making perspective. But I mean, I it's unfortunate
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  because I would love to have him paired with like.
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  An actual point guard. Yeah, or or.
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  Thing about it is he's so he's so dribble heavy.
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  I guess it it doesn't matter. I mean, he's literally he he
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  doesn't shoot. I mean, he shot the ball all
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  right versus TCU, he made a couple good splash threes, but
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  normally it's he's very good at off the ball screens, getting to
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  the lane and making a center make a decision.
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  We don't have a center that I mean McGriff finishes very, very
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  well, but he is not an above the rim player.
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  I mean, I mean, Bashir would be nice to have with him.
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  I like when Bashir was out there because he is a, you know, a
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  shooter shooter and if he could get the ball out to Bashir, it
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  was normally going in and that helps a lot.
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  It's just bad. I mean, when you got Taj Manning
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  rolling on your screens, it's not great.
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  I've I've got to give some credit to the KSO guys.
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  They were saying Drew Galloway and KSU fan and Mason both they
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  were saying on the post game, something along the lines of PJ
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  Haggerty. When they do that switch up,
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  when they say like, hey, PJ, you're you're playing point
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  guard like in the final four minutes of the game.
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  When did when did things collapse for K State was in the
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  final four-game. And and it's almost it.
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  It's not. I'm not going to compare it to
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  Tyler Perry necessarily, but Tyler Perry was a guy who was
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  kind of forced to play out of position.
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  When you force PJ to play out of position like things just don't
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  work on the team. The way that it does during
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  other portions of the game, which again, that comes back to
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  coaching and and game planning. And it doesn't see it's happened
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  in multiple games. That happened in the KU game
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  too. Like it's not the first time
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  that it's happened. And again, it's just this
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  definition of insanity of like repeating the same thing over
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  and over again and expecting a different result.
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  And it's just PJ is a walking bucket a lot of the time.
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  But at the same time, if he's playing out of position, things
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  are dysfunctional in other areas of the court offensively, it
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  just doesn't doesn't compute. And I would like to hear you
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  guys opinion on this too, because maybe in my head I'm I'm
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  looking at it the wrong way. But obviously in the last four
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  minutes, that's kind of like where the coach is trusting the
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  players on the court to make the right decisions.
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  And you PJ has the right intentions, but he's not going
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  to get those calls. One, he's not going to, he's
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  looking to score the ball and he's not facilitating when
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  people are obviously keen in on him.
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  And you would hope that you would get somebody like a David
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  Castillo to do that and take some relief off the PJ and maybe
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  ball movement into PJ doing some of that stuff.
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  But you can't trust David Castillo either.
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  He is. He has multiple occasions where
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  he just shoots the ball so fast and moments where we're needing
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  to drain the clock and he can't. David Castillo can't play
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  defense, unfortunately without fouling.
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  So he can't be in charge of the point guard position in these
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  clutch position in these crunch time moments.
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  So it has to fall to PJ because you can't give it to CJ.
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  Nate, I like Nate, but he's not a point guard at all.
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  And he probably, I don't know, I think Nate needs the ball more
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  in these late game situations. But I I don't know what the
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  answer is because we tried to give Nate the ball and he
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  dribbled it off his leg. There is no answer the the the
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  season's over. Oh, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, for
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  sure. But I mean, I, I mean, I'm just
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  trying to see if there was a remedy at all and I I don't see
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  it. I guess you.
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  Don't see it? You don't see it no, I I
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  actually thought the offense flowed better with nada point
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  guard in that game. I I and you know, but it's just
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  when you get towards the end, it's a struggle.
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  Let's let's give it up for Marcus Johnson, though.
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  Let's give him some props. Let's give him some props.
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  He had to play a lot of minutes. He had to play a lot of minutes
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  in this game and he took some shots in this game that you are
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  just like what in the world? And I mean, I I I was I was very
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  impressed with his performance because he he is for his body.
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  It's it's just like AI don't know the position.
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  The position of his game just doesn't work right.
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  Like if he, I mean, he's I if, if he was somebody who let's
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  say, let's say it was £200, he he's a guy you bring off the
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  bench to make threes. Like he's a a shooter, but out
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  there he's an absolute defensive like problem.
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  And but in this game for what you know, with the sickness
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  that's going around all this and that I really was very impressed
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  with like his effort, not just on the offensive side and, you
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  know, with however many games to go, what, seven games to go,
• 24:19
  eight games to go. Not not that I'm asking to see
• 24:23
  like Marcus Johnson play 20 minutes a game, but I liked his
• 24:27
  effort when he was out there and it was something that this team
• 24:32
  really needed. So I have to give him like we
• 24:35
  got to give him some props, right?
• 24:37
  Yeah, my, my thinking watching his game, because, I mean, this
• 24:41
  is really kind of the first. He's been getting extended
• 24:44
  minutes, but this is kind of the first time that he's like, I
• 24:48
  feel like he was more comfortable in the game.
• 24:50
  And it wasn't like he wasn't there just to mess up.
• 24:52
  He's like, I'm just going to take the shot and his shot
• 24:56
  looked comfortable. What I I thought when watching
• 25:00
  his game is that he is the bizarro Anthony Davis.
• 25:07
  Mind you, Anthony Davis before he grew to 7 foot tall was like
• 25:11
  a point guard, like like A2 guard that was.
• 25:13
  And then he tried to learn. He tried to learn his body.
• 25:17
  I had AI have a theory that Marcus Johnson was probably this
• 25:20
  size for a long stretch of his life.
• 25:23
  And then he learned how to like play point guard after and like
• 25:28
  play get the skill positions after.
• 25:30
  So he's like, I, I don't know how to do anything outside of
• 25:35
  the, the dribbling. Like he's not strong, he's just
• 25:39
  big and he, but he can, he can do everything, but he's just
• 25:44
  not, doesn't have a position. He doesn't have a position.
• 25:48
  He doesn't. He does not have a position that
• 25:51
  you're absolutely right about that.
• 25:53
  Yeah, because he's he's Yeah, he's just not.
• 25:58
  That's why I said he's bizarre. Anthony Davis.
• 26:00
  Anthony Davis can kind of like do a lot of stuff.
• 26:03
  Obviously he's not playing point guard, but he's like he can
• 26:06
  guard every position. He's probably one of the better
• 26:07
  defenders of all time and he has an incredible skill.
• 26:12
  He could shoot it, block, rebound, all that stuff.
• 26:16
  Marcus Johnson can't do any of that except for score of the
• 26:20
  basketball. I, you know, I will say this,
• 26:25
  I'm going to say this. You put him in the list of 30
• 26:29
  players we went through last week and I think A1 on one
• 26:32
  situation with Marcus Johnson. If you give him the like, if he
• 26:37
  only has to score the one basket, he doesn't have to get
• 26:40
  his top. He's.
• 26:43
  He's frying a lot of people. He might be like Farley
• 26:47
  Dickinson in that bracket. He's he beats Michael.
• 26:51
  Beasley that's another. That's another one.
• 26:53
  That's another David Castillo example.
• 26:57
  Marcus Johnson has hasn't missed the I don't think he's missed a
• 27:01
  three yet in this game at the at that point, David Castillo
• 27:05
  dribbles into the lane. Marcus Johnson's at the top of
• 27:07
  the key, just wide open. He doesn't pass the ball and he
• 27:11
  turns the ball over. It's it's little.
• 27:13
  Stuff like that. No.
• 27:15
  Basketball IQ? No looking out for your
• 27:18
  teammates. It's just frustrating.
• 27:21
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  Speaking of beef, K State beef, K State football has added some
• 29:25
  new staffers. The headliner here, couple of
• 29:28
  headliners, really. Tim De Reuter, former head coach
• 29:31
  at Fresno State, former defensive coordinator at Texas
• 29:34
  Tech Granted, I think I looked up, he had like 124th or
• 29:38
  something best defense in the country when he was at Texas
• 29:40
  Tech a couple of years ago, from 2022 to 2024.
• 29:45
  But I'm going to, I'm going to bury that for now.
• 29:48
  I just want to add some context. But he has been the defensive
• 29:52
  coordinator at Texas Tech, Oregon, Cal Air Force, Nevada,
• 29:58
  Ohio Navy, Ohio. I already said Ohio, 2 cents in
• 30:02
  Ohio. He's been in a lot of places.
• 30:04
  He's seen how the game has evolved over the last 40 years.
• 30:08
  It looks like he's been a coach for.
• 30:11
  So he's an experienced guy. He's a former head coach, he's
• 30:13
  an experienced defensive coordinator.
• 30:15
  Despite the success, or lack thereof, that he had it at his
• 30:19
  previous destinations, you're still giving a guy like Jordan
• 30:23
  Peterson, who's new to being a defensive coordinator at the
• 30:27
  Power 4 level. You're giving him another voice
• 30:30
  in the room. You're giving him another guy to
• 30:32
  bounce ideas off of, to run schemes by.
• 30:35
  A guy who's familiar with the lay of the land in the Big 12
• 30:38
  from his time at Texas Tech, and a guy who's been at high level
• 30:42
  programs like Texas A&M and and Oregon who's seen how things are
• 30:45
  run at that level as well. So I was pretty excited to see
• 30:50
  his name when I saw the tweet originally.
• 30:53
  I'm like, who's this old fart? And I didn't realize his
• 30:56
  history, his track record. I started looking through it and
• 30:59
  it's like, oh, OK, this seems like a good guy to have in the
• 31:02
  locker room. Seems like a good guy to have in
• 31:04
  the veneer complex to help out the staff of relatively younger
• 31:09
  guys who are newer in their careers in large part.
• 31:12
  Thoughts on the De Reuter edition specifically?
• 31:15
  And then we can talk about some of the other guys.
• 31:20
  Yeah. I mean, ultimately I think a guy
• 31:22
  who has a lot of experience like that is very important,
• 31:26
  especially with the new coaching staff.
• 31:28
  I think ultimately to be able to pick up somebody like him, kind
• 31:32
  of when you think about it late in the way you would consider
• 31:36
  the carousel process to help build your staff.
• 31:39
  I think it's a, a big win and you have a guy who just has
• 31:45
  years and years and years of experience.
• 31:48
  And I, I think especially with how Jordan Peterson is kind of
• 31:54
  building his defense and finding the right guys for that, having
• 31:58
  a set of eyes who has been in many different roles, you know,
• 32:03
  obviously a head coach, other, you know, defensive coordinator
• 32:06
  in the past, I think it's going to be a huge benefit.
• 32:10
  So I think Tim De Reuter is a a really good hire and and a good
• 32:16
  staff member to bring on to this group, especially just building
• 32:20
  this program. Bodies, bodies, bodies, yeah.
• 32:24
  I mean, the more bodies that you're bringing in there more
• 32:28
  minds, more like minds, you know, guys that have experience
• 32:33
  that can go into these meetings, that can go in mind you, you
• 32:37
  have 105 man roster that they're all needing a certain amount of
• 32:43
  attention, all need a certain amount of coaching because
• 32:46
  there's not really those guys that you're kind of just leaving
• 32:49
  alone and they're not, they're not the top of the depth chart.
• 32:52
  Everybody's kind of getting a little bit of love.
• 32:55
  If you've got a deep staff that could give every single player
• 32:59
  on the the field and you know, on the team attention and, and
• 33:04
  in meetings and in and just organization as a whole, the
• 33:09
  more minds that you have in there that can share insight
• 33:13
  onto like, like you were saying, Bob with scheme and and just
• 33:18
  practice habits at that. That is those are valuable
• 33:22
  things. I mean, just the amount the
• 33:24
  volume of staff is I I think it's jarring the amount of like
• 33:30
  full time staffers that we have on here already.
• 33:33
  Mind you, the quality it it's not going down either.
• 33:37
  These are not spring chickens. These are these are guys that
• 33:40
  are valuable that are that have experience.
• 33:43
  So I'm really in favor of this. You know, the titles.
• 33:49
  I don't know particularly what it means to be the assistant
• 33:53
  head coach of the defense. I don't know what that means,
• 33:57
  but I'm assuming with that title that he'll be helping out all
• 34:02
  that that amount of staff. And you could tell by when how
• 34:04
  they hired the guys that are like, you know, the main 10 or
• 34:08
  main 12 or however they're doing it.
• 34:11
  There are a lot of defensive back coaches.
• 34:14
  I wonder if he'll be even more of an asset to like a Buddy
• 34:18
  Wyatt of what's the I keep getting?
• 34:22
  I got to figure out this linebacker's linebacker coach's
• 34:25
  name. Nick Toe.
• 34:27
  Toe I want to say both. I've got Mason both on the brain
• 34:30
  that was a Mason both, but coach Toth.
• 34:34
  I mean, I think these are these are guys that can benefit from
• 34:38
  having just another voice in there just helping out the
• 34:42
  entire defensive staff. So yeah, I'm all in favor of
• 34:45
  this. I'm I'm glad it's changing to
• 34:48
  this and not so much under the the climbing way of doing it
• 34:51
  where it's kind of just every, I mean, it's just so much weight
• 34:55
  on just individual coaches that handle this entire large team.
• 35:00
  So I'm, I'm all in favor. This is the SEC, the Big Ten
• 35:03
  way. Let's let's evolve.
• 35:05
  Let's evolve. Yeah, and the guys that the the
• 35:10
  additional guys beyond just to Reuter who were added, you've
• 35:13
  got Armani Linton who had experience.
• 35:16
  He was assistant defensive backs and nickelbacks in Arkansas.
• 35:19
  So he's seen, you know, SEC style program.
• 35:23
  He went to Ole Miss. So he played he played at Ole
• 35:26
  Miss. He played in a couple bowl
• 35:28
  games, Sugar Bowl in 2015 with Ole Miss.
• 35:31
  So again, like guys who have seen kind of the big time, so to
• 35:35
  speak, you got South Carolina for Jordan Dove, who's coming in
• 35:39
  as gosh, defensive tackles. He's coming in to to help coach
• 35:43
  defensive tackles. So South Carolina's where where
• 35:46
  he came from as Aga defensive assistant there.
• 35:50
  And then you bring in Dimitri Emanuel, guy from Florida State.
• 35:53
  He was on that team that was snubbed by the CFP committee
• 35:57
  with Jordan Travis and 20, 23 yeah. 2023 I think was yeah,
• 36:03
  yeah, playing a couple bowl games at Florida State because
• 36:07
  of being an offensive analyst and defensive graduate assistant
• 36:10
  in his time at Florida State. So I, I think you know, some of
• 36:14
  these other guys, they're, they're relatively younger guys
• 36:17
  too. In addition to De Reuter being a
• 36:20
  guy, you bring in three younger guys too that, that maybe we'll
• 36:22
  connect a little bit more that with some of the players and
• 36:26
  stuff that that we're bringing into the program, guys that have
• 36:29
  played just recently as two years ago, three years ago now.
• 36:32
  So I'm excited about that. I think they're good additions.
• 36:36
  Couple of the other additions that I want to highlight.
• 36:38
  So we poached KU's director of recruiting for football, which,
• 36:44
  Matt, I'll let you tell the story of how we were tipped off
• 36:47
  about that. Oh.
• 36:49
  God. Well, somebody who is a big
• 36:55
  friend of the pod sent a message that said his father saw Greg,
• 37:03
  Sports cop, if I pronounce that correctly, Schwarzkopf with
• 37:10
  Taylor at kites with a recruit and let us know that we believe
• 37:19
  we took him and it was confirmed because apparently this guy's
• 37:24
  father knows Taylor. So easy peasy.
• 37:28
  You know, we knew this about a month ago before anybody else.
• 37:32
  It was it was about two or three weeks before it was announced
• 37:35
  Which. Was fun.
• 37:36
  We have the time stamps, we have the.
• 37:39
  We have the we have the time stamps.
• 37:41
  We got the scoop, but I love this.
• 37:43
  So I think this says a lot about the type of talent that clients
• 37:47
  able to bring in as a coach and and kind of maybe the cult of
• 37:51
  personality that he has, the type of the type of leader that
• 37:55
  he is and how well respected he is in coaching circles.
• 37:58
  He was effectively the Taylor brat of KU was was my
• 38:02
  understanding. And then we bring him in, Taylor
• 38:04
  Brat kind of gets a promotion in in a way as well.
• 38:08
  And and Greg's going to be reporting to him directly, but
• 38:11
  he was largely responsible for a lot.
• 38:13
  I mean, under Lance Leipold, KU's recruiting has has been
• 38:17
  significantly better than it was in prior years.
• 38:20
  I know it kind of went uphill a little bit with with Les Miles
• 38:23
  is from a recruiting perspective.
• 38:25
  Obviously didn't translate to on the field success.
• 38:27
  But yeah, I'm stoked about this. Like I saw this, it was like,
• 38:33
  wait, we stole their director of recruiting?
• 38:36
  No way. So I I think that says a lot
• 38:39
  about coach Klein says a lot about Taylor Brat too, that how
• 38:42
  well respected those guys are that a guy would leave, you
• 38:47
  know, essentially the same role at KU, leave to go report to
• 38:50
  someone else at K State as as director of recruiting.
• 38:54
  I I think it says a lot about Taylor Brat, Coach Klein, the
• 38:58
  program that we're building here at K State.
• 38:59
  So pretty, pretty stoked about that.
• 39:01
  Any other any other thoughts? Yeah, I think it's, I think it's
• 39:05
  huge. I think this is more, I think
• 39:09
  he's more of the football kind of guy, the football evaluation
• 39:13
  kind of guy, more leaning into what the coaching staff needs.
• 39:17
  And he's that middle man between, you know, Trey Scott
• 39:21
  and the coaching staff. Not that Taylor Bratt wasn't
• 39:24
  that guy, but he was definitely always more of the relationship
• 39:28
  guy in my head. He was always the guy that could
• 39:30
  connect with the players that can that that can bridge the gap
• 39:35
  to getting them from high school into and growing them into
• 39:38
  adults and being on a football team at the Division One or the
• 39:41
  Power 4 level. And this guy coming in, I think
• 39:46
  the camps are going to the camps that we run are going to be more
• 39:50
  professional more. He's going to be evaluating more
• 39:54
  of the talent there and bringing guys to camp that you know,
• 39:59
  might have higher upsides. And I think it's just it's
• 40:02
  overall great because now Taylor on the road more going to high
• 40:07
  schools that he wasn't able to do before.
• 40:10
  What I think because a lot of the staff, I can't remember the
• 40:13
  amount of coaching staff that you can have on the road at one
• 40:17
  time or. During the seat.
• 40:20
  Maybe it's 10 something along those lines.
• 40:22
  But now that he's able to get out on the road more, you're
• 40:25
  seeing him in the the the Twitter photos, the X photos
• 40:30
  where he's he's with the high school students, he's with the
• 40:34
  coaching Staffs in the high school ranks and he's building
• 40:38
  those relationships and and doing what he does being Taylor
• 40:41
  brat. So I think that it's beneficial
• 40:45
  for everybody and I think, you know, when you could steal
• 40:49
  somebody from your rival in state, that is just an added
• 40:52
  bonus. Absolutely.
• 40:56
  Last thing I've got, first commit of the 2027 class has
• 41:00
  come in. He's committed.
• 41:01
  His name is Nazir Pitchford, Pitchford, Pitchford.
• 41:06
  He's a cornerback and I'm just going to say athlete, I guess.
• 41:09
  He plays both sides of the ball. Nazir Nazir Pitchford.
• 41:13
  Yeah, I'm, I'm totally butchering that.
• 41:15
  But quarterback athlete out of Palmetto, FL.
• 41:19
  If you want the full kind of scouting report on him, pop over
• 41:23
  to K State online, pop over to the Boscos boys that dropped
• 41:26
  this week. Scott does a great job breaking
• 41:28
  down what he's all about, but pretty exciting to at least see
• 41:32
  the first commit come in. Always good to see it come from,
• 41:36
  you know, recruiting rich, very fertile soil down there in
• 41:39
  Florida from a recruiting perspective.
• 41:41
  So yeah, a guy that you're competing against, maybe not the
• 41:46
  best offer sheet a couple of other Big 12 teams, but you
• 41:49
  know, the American with USF and stuff.
• 41:51
  But you at UCF was in there. But it's just exciting to see
• 41:56
  you start to see the ball rolling on some of the commits
• 41:58
  for 2027. There's a lot of other guys that
• 42:00
  are out there keeping my eyes on on quarterback, keeping my eyes
• 42:04
  on a certain player that may or may not be related to me out of
• 42:07
  Great Bend, KS, some good, good talent in the 2027 class.
• 42:12
  Last thing, indoor track and field inside ranked first in the
• 42:17
  country, 14th in women's as of the poll today.
• 42:20
  There's a meet coming up this weekend in Fayetteville, AR, the
• 42:23
  Tyson Invitational, which is available on SEC Network Plus,
• 42:28
  which none of us have. I think I have it maybe.
• 42:33
  I don't know. Think ESPN Plus.
• 42:36
  If it's part of ESPN Plus, tune in TuneIn.
• 42:41
  TuneIn not. A big track guy myself.
• 42:43
  Oh shit, really? Yeah, I mean it's.
• 42:46
  Just not even the Olympics. Olympics.
• 42:48
  I'll do the Olympics, but you know, just, you know, like even
• 42:54
  the Olympics, the distance running, not not a fan, not a
• 42:58
  fan. Of that distance, running is
• 42:59
  boring. It's a.
• 43:01
  Little boring. OK, here we go.
• 43:02
  I. Like a good sprinter, I like a
• 43:04
  good high jump. Long jump is fun.
• 43:07
  Are you a Summer or Winter Olympics?
• 43:11
  Summer. I mean, it's not close.
• 43:14
  I love them both. I'm just, I'm a big hockey guy.
• 43:18
  I'm just a huge. I love the Olympic summer.
• 43:21
  Winter put this in, put this into perspective for me.
• 43:24
  Lindsey Vonn going down that hill with a blown ACL.
• 43:29
  Is that impressive or is like, I don't imagine it is, but I mean
• 43:34
  like it's. Impressive that she tried.
• 43:36
  She didn't have a freaking ACL and you're going, she's going 70
• 43:40
  miles an hour down that ski slope.
• 43:42
  Like with, with your imagine doing that with your knees, 70
• 43:46
  miles an hour. Like there's not really anything
• 43:48
  that compares to that feeling. If you've ever skied, you'll
• 43:50
  know If you haven't skied, I don't know what to compare it
• 43:53
  to. I don't know what to compare it
• 43:55
  to. Is it like?
• 43:56
  Roller skating really fast. At 70 miles an.
• 43:59
  Hour. That would be like.
• 44:00
  Speed skating. Speed skating?
• 44:03
  Yeah, never did that either. But no Lindsey Vonn, props to
• 44:07
  her. I, I was worried that it would
• 44:09
  end this way and that she would, you know, have to bow out and
• 44:12
  ends up having to get surgery, surgery and it's.
• 44:16
  Just going out on your shield though, going out on your shield
• 44:19
  is the way to do it. But here's the deal.
• 44:22
  We ended up winning that race anyway.
• 44:23
  We we won that Team USA anyway because Breezy Johnson came in
• 44:27
  first. Yeah, big Olympics guy women's
• 44:30
  hockey today, beat Canada 5. Nothing in a, in a that win.
• 44:34
  So that's Canada has won five of the last 8 Winter Olympics gold
• 44:39
  and they've won silver in two of the last 8 Olympics.
• 44:44
  So that that's a huge win for Team USA men's hockey starts on
• 44:49
  February 12th, so stay tuned for that.
• 44:51
  I'll watch. Very excited, Very excited to.
• 44:53
  See are there, are there NHL guys in this?
• 44:56
  Yes, yes there are. This happens.
• 44:59
  It's 2014. They they went on a break for
• 45:02
  the Olympics. Three-week break.
• 45:04
  Seriously. I didn't know that.
• 45:07
  Yeah. Yeah, you got a lot.
• 45:08
  You got a lot to learn, Chef. Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid,
• 45:12
  Nathan McKinnon all playing on the same team.
• 45:14
  And then on the USA side, you got the Kachuk brothers coming
• 45:17
  back in like 4 nations last year.
• 45:20
  Yeah, it's going to be fine. Jeremy Swayman, of course.
• 45:23
  Jeremy Swayman. Connor Hammelbach.
• 45:25
  Charlie McAvoy, we've. Got honestly. 3 for yes,
• 45:30
  Mcdavid's playing for Team Candle.
• 45:31
  Honestly, three of the best goalies play for Team USA
• 45:34
  Ottinger, Hellebuck and Swayman. Yeah, wow, this has this has
• 45:38
  gone off the rails. I can talk puck all day.
• 45:42
  I I know unfortunately so. If you want more, hey, if you
• 45:48
  want more Olympic commentary, follow me on Twitter.
• 45:52
  That's going to do it for us today.
• 45:53
  Any final thoughts gentlemen, before we get out of here?
• 45:56
  Yeah, one final thought. So yesterday we had the first
• 46:01
  release of old K State Games that I found on a flash drive or
• 46:08
  hard drive from many, many moons ago.
• 46:12
  First release was the 2010 Texas game at home for men's
• 46:16
  basketball. Great, great game.
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  Realized how bad Bobby Knight was as a commentator.
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  Holy crap, he was so bad. Very lucky to have Fran
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  Fruschila. But anyway, we're going to be
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  releasing these. I'm going to have, we're going
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  to put a poll up for the next game, which we'll release here
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  in a couple weeks from now. And then when we get into the
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  summer, we'll have a weekly football game release.
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  Are we going to? Commentate over any of these.
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  Or what we we can some. Retro replays.
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  We could. We could.
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  Do a retro replay on these. Absolutely.
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  I kind of just want to comment on the commercials.
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  Yeah, they do have commercials, but that's the fun of it, you
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  know, seeing like the UPS whiteboard commercial, I forgot
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  that was a thing. But yeah, so we'll be kind of
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  on there. Brett Musburger was also the
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  lead, the lead analyst for that guy doing the doing the call on
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  TV. So that was kind of fun because
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  I'm like, I know this voice, but I did not remember him doing
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  basketball games, but I guess he did.
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  Yeah, with Bobby Knight, but he. Did.
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  All right, so that's going to do it for us today.
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