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Hour 1 - How Sweet · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: hour number one. It's all about the Sweet sixteen. Did
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Speaker 1: Texas Tech assert their will in their overtime win or
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Speaker 1: did John Caliparis Arkansas squad lose it blowing a sixteen
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Speaker 1: point lead. Also, how would you describe Cooper Flag's play
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Speaker 1: for Duke as they're into the Elite eight and coach
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Speaker 1: Nate Oltz Bama squad knock down twenty five triples that
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Speaker 1: breaks a record held by Bo Kimball and Loyla Marimunt
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Speaker 1: of thirty five year old record your thoughts on the
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Speaker 1: hour is from the Sweetness. Now, if you're old, you
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Speaker 1: hear the word sweetness, you think, wow, that's Walter Payton,
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Speaker 1: not Walter Payton. But we're talking about the Sweet sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Of course is we had not one, not two, not three?
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Speaker 1: How about four games on a Thursday night to kick
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Speaker 1: off the card, and it'll be four more games on Friday,
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Speaker 1: and then we'll whittle it down a seat in the
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Speaker 1: Elite eight for those that were victorious in the games
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Speaker 1: that were played on Thursday. So I don't even saw
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Speaker 1: any of this. Maybe you were watching the baseball or
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Speaker 1: possibly you're like I was too busy, I had to
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Speaker 1: stare at a wall. Well, there wasn't a whole lot
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Speaker 1: of drama o rama, which seemingly that's what you want.
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Speaker 1: You want those game changing moments where the game's close
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Speaker 1: and somebody has to step up and make a play. Well,
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Speaker 1: we didn't get much of that until the final act
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Speaker 1: of the night in San Francisco the late television window
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Speaker 1: as Darien Williams hit the tie breaking basket with seven
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Speaker 1: point three seconds on the jumbo tron in over time
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Speaker 1: after tying the game with a three pointer at the
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Speaker 1: end of regulation. He plays for Texas Tech. If you
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Speaker 1: don't know who Darien Williams is, so he ends up
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Speaker 1: hitting the three pointer late in regulation to tie it,
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Speaker 1: then hits the tie breaking basket in the final seconds
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Speaker 1: of overtime, and Texas Tech thanks to a clankety clank
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Speaker 1: by Arkansas at the buzzer and the Red Raiders have
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Speaker 1: advanced to the Elite eight. The first overtime game of
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Speaker 1: March Madness, and it came after Texas Tech was down
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Speaker 1: by sixteen points midway through the second half. Now, normally
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Speaker 1: in the college game, if you're up by sixteen points,
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Speaker 1: you are going to punch your ticket and advance. But
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Speaker 1: coach John Calipari's Razorbacks, who were technically the tense seed,
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Speaker 1: although many did not perceive them as the tense seed
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Speaker 1: because of all the nil payments and just the aura
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Speaker 1: of John Calipari. But Texas Tech has advanced. They will
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Speaker 1: play the number one seed Florida in the West Regional
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Speaker 1: final that'll take place on Saturday. The better story, now
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Speaker 1: you know where the better story is. That's right, The
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Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room. And man,
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Speaker 1: did that thing come apart. So let's ask the question,
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Speaker 1: did Texas Tech assert their will when they fell behind
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Speaker 1: by sixteen points or did John Calipari and his Arkansas
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Speaker 1: squad lose it? All right, So my thoughts on this.
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Speaker 1: I've got the trojan staples and locomotive and we'll run
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Speaker 1: through all of these things, all of them, and we
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Speaker 1: are going to make a nice vacation to Bahamas because
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Speaker 1: John Calipari cannot go to the Bahamas. So a to
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Speaker 1: answer the question, did Texas Tech assert their will or
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Speaker 1: did John Calipari and Arkansas lose it? Well, the arrow
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Speaker 1: is pointing at Coach cal who was at the controls
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Speaker 1: in the cockpit on Yep, you're right. The vomit comment,
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Arkansas was looking so good. I was like,
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Speaker 1: oh it's good. Cal Par is fun to talk about
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Speaker 1: on the radio. He says, stupid things he dresses. He's
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Speaker 1: got this debonair look to him and all that. But
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Speaker 1: man alive. Arkansas goes up by sixteen, and the big
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Speaker 1: fundamental Arkansas gets this massive advantage relatively speaking massive, and
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Speaker 1: then they grab the sleeping bag and the only question
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Speaker 1: is did John Calipari read them some bedtime lullabies as
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Speaker 1: they took a nap? And holy Kenobi here the hard
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Speaker 1: drive got a trojan, a trojan horse virus and malfunctioned
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Speaker 1: as Texas Tech was liberated and advanced to the second round.
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Speaker 1: But the things that stood out, and this is often
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Speaker 1: the case, it's not like this is just an Arkansas problem.
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Speaker 1: We're not exactly talking chess here. It's more checkers, the
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Speaker 1: little attention to detail, and I didn't think it was
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Speaker 1: gonna cost Arkansas, but they had some sloppy offensive possessions.
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Speaker 1: When they went up by sixteen, They're like, yeh, let's
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Speaker 1: get some more stats going here. We'll take some circus shots.
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Speaker 1: And then they also decided they had a big enough lead.
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Speaker 1: I guess they didn't really need to lock in on defense.
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Speaker 1: They were undisciplined on defense, and you put those things
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Speaker 1: together and all of a sudden, you got a swan
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Speaker 1: dive And how unprecedented is the swan dive by Arkansas?
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Speaker 1: The mother of all stats, the mother of all stats.
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Speaker 1: It's not Boom goes to the dynamite, but it's pretty much
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Speaker 1: Boom goes to dynamite. Entering this game, John Calipari had
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Speaker 1: played thirty his teams had played thirty five games in
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Speaker 1: the NCAA Tournament in his coaching career, going back to
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Speaker 1: his days at UMass where they led by six or
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Speaker 1: more points at halftime. And John Calipari had been thirty
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Speaker 1: five and oh his teams when leading by six or more.
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Speaker 1: That was the stat prior to the game, and that
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Speaker 1: tells you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: As a result, Texas Tech gets her done. They get
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Speaker 1: her done, and they advanced. Now elsewhere, we had the
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Speaker 1: Dukies Cooper Flag and the number one seed Duke continue
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Speaker 1: monster mashing in the NCAA Tournament with a little controversy
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Speaker 1: but one hundred and ninety three win as they went
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Speaker 1: turbotastic early in the second half of this game over
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Speaker 1: Arizona in the Sweet sixteen. And now the Blue Devils
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Speaker 1: will match up with the number two seed Alabama. So
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Speaker 1: the bracket has held. The bracket has held. One of
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Speaker 1: those teams is going to the Final four, but that'll
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Speaker 1: be the Elite eight matchup. You've got a basketball school,
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Speaker 1: Duke versus a football school Alabama. But don't bury the lead,
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Speaker 1: my man. All right, We're not going to bury the lead.
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Speaker 1: So the lead here is the performance of the flag.
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Speaker 1: The flag is up, So how would you describe for
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Speaker 1: those that did not see it, Cooper Flags play for
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Speaker 1: Duke in this game. So having Cooper Flag on your roster,
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Speaker 1: if you don't know this already, you should know this already.
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Speaker 1: It's like that old marketing campaign from Staples back in
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Speaker 1: the day. It's the Staples easy button when you have
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Speaker 1: Cooper Flag on your roster. He had thirty points, seven assists,
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Speaker 1: six rebounds, and we are told a partridge in a
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Speaker 1: pear tree. He had all that, had all that, and
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Speaker 1: it would appear based on his body of work here,
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Speaker 1: which is limited because he's only been at Duke one year.
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Speaker 1: Cheat code allowing the Blue Devils to level up. And
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Speaker 1: this is why you've got multiple suck bag NBA franchises
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Speaker 1: that are trying to trust the process and trying to
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Speaker 1: get in on that top pick in the draft, because
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Speaker 1: Cooper Flag will be the top pick and he's from Maine,
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Speaker 1: so they can't really rig it. So he plays for
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Speaker 1: the team from Maine. I don't lest I checked. They
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Speaker 1: don't have an NBA team and the Celtics are not
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Speaker 1: going to be in the draft lottery, so that's off
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Speaker 1: the table. So who knows where Cooper Flag is going
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Speaker 1: to end up. But he will be the prize, the
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Speaker 1: next big thing in the NBA. But he's still got
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Speaker 1: some work to do in the college game and he's
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Speaker 1: got to earn those nil checks he's getting for the dookies,
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Speaker 1: all right, now, be the last word here. So on
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Speaker 1: a rather overcast I will use the word overcast a
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Speaker 1: day in the tournament. Go to Newark, New Jersey. They
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Speaker 1: know a thing about overcast. Thing or two about overcasting Newark,
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Speaker 1: New Jersey. So mentioned Alabama and the number two seed
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Speaker 1: they advanced. They did it with a little rasthma task.
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Speaker 1: So the number two seed Alabama set an NC doublea
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Speaker 1: tournament record for three point shots made? How many you
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Speaker 1: think they made? Did you see this game? Yeah? You know,
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Speaker 1: well somebody else didn't see it. So I'm going to
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Speaker 1: tell them twenty five to three pointers, twenty five against
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Speaker 1: the Tater Top kids from BYU. Yet that's a lot
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Speaker 1: twenty five, so a record setting, and some say for
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Speaker 1: Alabama because that's a football school, although not much anymore
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Speaker 1: because Nick Saban ain't walking through that door unless he's
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Speaker 1: there to collect a check and cheer for them on television.
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Speaker 1: But Alabama twenty five three program defining win one thirteen
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Speaker 1: to eighty eight. That's an NBA score. That's like a
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Speaker 1: matchup between the Celtics and the Wizards. And that was
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Speaker 1: the final on their East Regional semi finals. So coach
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Speaker 1: Natoates and the Bama squad knocking twenty five triples into
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Speaker 1: the net and they break the record which was twenty
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Speaker 1: one held by Bo Kimball and Loyola Maramont thirty five
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Speaker 1: years ago. Wow, where has the time gone? So if
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Speaker 1: you're old enough to remember that that amazing magic carpet
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Speaker 1: ride with Bo Kimball and before that his buddy who
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Speaker 1: passed away, Hank Gathers. But your thoughts, what are your
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Speaker 1: thoughts on Alabama setting a new standard for most three
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Speaker 1: balls knocked down? So obviously it's a historical night. And
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Speaker 1: my thought on this, if you were to convey what
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Speaker 1: Alabama did now, the defense was obviously lacking for perimeter defense.
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Speaker 1: You don't need to be an insider in the NBA
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Speaker 1: to know this was not going well for the BYU
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Speaker 1: Cougars defensively. But this Christina Tides team, even if you
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Speaker 1: leave guys open and a lot in college, they'll miss.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've noticed that. There's a theme
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Speaker 1: in this tournament, in every tournament, but the Crimson tie
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Speaker 1: were an unstoppable locomotive. True. Yeah, of moneyballs, you get
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Speaker 1: a moneyball, you get a moneyball, you get a moneyball,
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Speaker 1: you get a moneyball. And to put into context the
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Speaker 1: historical nature of this, I may or may not remember
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Speaker 1: loyal A Maramont hitting all those three point shots back
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Speaker 1: in the day. And while in modern basketball it's poper shot.
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Speaker 1: You're expected to just shoot three point baskets. That's it.
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Speaker 1: That's today's NBA, that's most of college basketball. If you
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Speaker 1: go back a generation and a half to the Loyala
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Speaker 1: Marimont team, which is a small school, Yeah, we're going
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Speaker 1: to the hot, tough time machine here. If you go
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Speaker 1: back then that is a team that look like they
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Speaker 1: were playing at a different level, like they were playing
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Speaker 1: a different sport. They changed the game. This little school
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Speaker 1: near La which was nothing athletically and since then has
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Speaker 1: been nothing athletically, and they played at a high school gym.
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Speaker 1: And in those days, the three point shot was considered
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Speaker 1: a masculine It was he had one guy on the
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Speaker 1: team that would be a three point specialist, and the
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Speaker 1: top players. It was unbecoming to shoot a lot of
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Speaker 1: three point shots. Can you imagine that? Yeah, now, if
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Speaker 1: you don't shoot three point shots, it's the other way.
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Speaker 1: But the three point shot in those years, it was
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Speaker 1: like a side table. It wasn't the sofa, it wasn't
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Speaker 1: the television. It was a side table. And that's what
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Speaker 1: it was. And so it's obviously we've done a one
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Speaker 1: to eighty since then and gone the complete opposite direction.
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Speaker 1: And so Alabama has the records. It's a safe bet
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Speaker 1: that that record will not last another thirty five years,
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Speaker 1: that that record will be broken within the next five years,
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Speaker 1: and probably take the under. Take the under on that.
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Speaker 1: But how zany was Bama shooting the basketball? I'm glad
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Speaker 1: you asked. So here's how zany it is? And I
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Speaker 1: believe this stat is accurate. Let's say Alabama had not
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Speaker 1: made one two point basket. They missed all of their
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Speaker 1: two point shots, so they were over from the floor
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Speaker 1: two point field goals against BYU. The Crimson Tide made
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Speaker 1: enough three point shots where they still would have won
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Speaker 1: the game. They still would have won the game even
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Speaker 1: if they had not hit a single two point shot.
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Speaker 1: I methinks that's pretty good. Methinks that's pretty good. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: you do the math math on that, and the and
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Speaker 1: But you're gonna know my favorite story. Isn't that special. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's very exciting. But we have the reaction of the people,
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Speaker 1: by the people, and for the people who comment in
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Speaker 1: winter wonderland of Fullerton. He says, Arkansas gagd all right,
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Speaker 1: but nearly as bad as not nearly as bad as
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have an interesting photo that you
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Speaker 1: we have let's see page down? Can't read that, Gunner says,
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Speaker 1: you're wrong, ben of the malor math there, he says,
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Speaker 1: let's see here, thirteen lost would have lost by thirteen.
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Speaker 1: He says, twenty five free pointers equals seventy five points
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Speaker 1: BYU had eighty eight points. Well, Gunner, I know you're
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Speaker 1: not that bright, my man, and make sure those tomato
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Speaker 1: cann soups are on the right shelf. I didn't say
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Speaker 1: that we would take away the foul shots, pal, smart guy.
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Speaker 1: I said we'd take away the field goals. So yes,
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Speaker 1: if you include the three point shots made by Alabama
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Speaker 1: and the foul shots, Gunner, because I never said Gunner
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Speaker 1: to take the foul shots away, dumb, dumb. I said
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Speaker 1: you'd take away the field goals. And if you include
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Speaker 1: the foul shots and the three point shots, they win
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Speaker 1: the game. Do you understand? I know, I know it's hard.
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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe way up there, way past the luth you
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Speaker 1: might not understand what I'm talking about. My god. Shaneon
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Speaker 1: de Moines writes and he says, I don't care if
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Speaker 1: the Giants in or the Browns are keeping an eye
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Speaker 1: on cam Ward. These teams will be drafting in the
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Speaker 1: in the top five, in the top ten for years
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Speaker 1: to come. Well, no, yet, normally the same teams are
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Speaker 1: there all the time. I mean that's just that's the
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Speaker 1: way it is. Every once in a while they'll actually
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Speaker 1: draft someone who knows what they're doing, and they'll escape,
22:52
Speaker 1: like the Cincinnati Bungals who kept drafting high, high and
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Speaker 1: they got they got a wide receiver and then they
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Speaker 1: got the quarter back. And now they still miss the playoffs,
23:02
Speaker 1: but they're they're a little bit better. The Nature Boy,
23:05
Speaker 1: answering the Call to the Wild, says that Lakers loss
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Speaker 1: was so delicious that I had to watch it again.
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Speaker 1: Now full disclosure, I was not watched. This is one
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Speaker 1: of the worst losses you could possibly have. I would
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Speaker 1: fire JJ Reddick if I owned the Lakers, I would
23:19
Speaker 1: fire the podcaster. JJ Reddick has an inexcusable loss. That's
23:23
Speaker 1: bad coaching by JJ Reddick to allow that to happen,
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Speaker 1: To not get into those players. But I didn't see
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Speaker 1: it live. Fortunately, the great thing about this show is
23:32
Speaker 1: if I miss anything, you let me know. You let
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Speaker 1: me know it's oh, it's a good story. So I
23:37
Speaker 1: had a bunch of people, most of them Bulls fans
23:41
Speaker 1: and Laker his you know, people that are real, real
23:44
Speaker 1: NBA fans, they don't like the Lakers, who were sending
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Speaker 1: me the clip and I had to watch it again.
23:49
Speaker 1: I thought it might have been doctor. It was such incompetence.
23:53
Speaker 1: It was like the Washington Generals when I watched it,
23:57
Speaker 1: like the Chicago Bulls have swept the season series from Lakers,
24:02
Speaker 1: And what the f happened to the Bulls? By the way,
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Speaker 1: weren't they tanking and they weren't trying to win? And
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Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, the Bulls, it's the you know,
24:11
Speaker 1: the running of the Bulls from Pamplona. The Bulls are
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Speaker 1: like on a burner now and they're they're looking like
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Speaker 1: they're gonna get into at least the play in and
24:19
Speaker 1: who knows. The Eastern Conference is such a hot mess.
24:23
Speaker 1: They're messing up the bio arrhythms of the NBA. But
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Speaker 1: I had g managed a bunch of you other guys
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Speaker 1: who were sending me the clip, and I do recommend it.
24:30
Speaker 1: Even the blind listeners will enjoy looking at it. It
24:33
Speaker 1: is just bananas. You're up five points with twelve seconds left,
24:41
Speaker 1: you don't play any defense, you turn the ball over,
24:43
Speaker 1: then you hit a shot to take the lead again
24:46
Speaker 1: with three seconds left, and still lose the game. I mean,
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Speaker 1: my god, that was artistic. They should send that video
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Speaker 1: to the LOUVER, is what they should do. They should
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Speaker 1: send that video clip to the lou It was that good.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the calls. It is a
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Speaker 1: call in show and the natives would like to speak,
25:30
Speaker 1: so we'll go to the phones. Let's say hello to
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Speaker 1: any meenie miney mo. Let's say hello to Brandon, who's
25:37
Speaker 1: in the Valley of the Sun. Hello, Brandon, Welcome. How
25:41
Speaker 1: we doing Brandon? If I was any better, I would
25:46
Speaker 1: be a Tater tot. But not the kid who's got
25:50
Speaker 1: you know, on BYU whose grandfather invented the table Todd
25:53
Speaker 1: is BYU lost? But what's on your mind?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? So with Alabama, we knew going into this game
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Speaker 3: that there was pretty much zero defense playing being played
26:05
Speaker 3: by either side, and BYU didn't play that bad of
26:09
Speaker 3: a game. It's just that they came against Bama that
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Speaker 3: was gonna hit twenty five three pointers. My point with
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Speaker 3: Alabama though, when they come against Duke in the next round,
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Speaker 3: who actually plays great defense, and even with their bench
26:26
Speaker 3: players coming off, they're still six five or taller. They're
26:31
Speaker 3: not hitting twenty five threes, and they're not gonna be
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Speaker 3: able to win a game based on the fact that
26:37
Speaker 3: they're only shooting three pointers. They don't get to the racks,
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Speaker 3: they don't get in the paint, and really they really
26:43
Speaker 3: don't get to the free throw line that much.
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Speaker 1: All right, So maybe based on that analysis, Brandon, they
26:50
Speaker 1: shouldn't show up. They should just pack it in and
26:53
Speaker 1: go home right now. They got no chance. It's over.
26:57
Speaker 1: Stick a fork in them. They're done. Just ok. See,
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Speaker 1: that's why they play the game, Brandon, because it's possible
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Speaker 1: that Duke goes out there and they're puking all over
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Speaker 1: the court, right they can't hit a shot, they have
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Speaker 1: an off game, and then all of a sudden, Alabama
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Speaker 1: wins the game. So we'll see how it plays out.
27:14
Speaker 1: And remember, stats tell you what has happened, not what's
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Speaker 1: going to happen. So you can look at all the
27:18
Speaker 1: numbers and if you just base on you know, like
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Speaker 1: your analysis, and I get what you're saying. But if
27:23
Speaker 1: you base that analysis going into every game, you never
27:26
Speaker 1: see upsets. And there's upsets all the time. There's teams
27:28
Speaker 1: that aren't supposed to win that win, but I wouldn't
27:30
Speaker 1: say it would be dramatic a shocking win if Alabama
27:35
Speaker 1: were to win the end. They were the number two
27:36
Speaker 1: seed for a reason. I thank you. There's a lot
27:39
Speaker 1: a lot of ambia noise. I'm gonna let you go.
27:41
Speaker 1: Not that I don't enjoy ambient noise. And you're driving,
27:45
Speaker 1: so what are you gonna do cruising round? So thank you.
27:51
Speaker 1: So this is a wild story from college football, and
27:55
Speaker 1: it's one of the more amusing stories over the years.
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Speaker 1: You remember this guy named Jeremy Pruitt. Remember that name.
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Speaker 1: You're at college football, hardo, you know who I'm talking about.
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Speaker 1: He coached at Tennessee. Well, he was the Tennessee volunteers
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Speaker 1: coach a few years back. And it's been a minute,
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Speaker 1: it's been a minute now. That guy Danny in Nashville
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Speaker 1: who's now in Miami. He met some girl. He moved
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Speaker 1: to Miami to chase after her. But he's his heart's
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Speaker 1: in Nashville. And this guy loves Tennessee football and was
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Speaker 1: singing the praises Jeremy Pruitt, this guy's gonna be great
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Speaker 1: and all that. Well, he wasn't. Obviously. He was at
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Speaker 1: Tennessee for three seasons. He had a sixteen and nineteen
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Speaker 1: record in Knoxville, and he was paid around I think
28:38
Speaker 1: the number that I saw was like four million dollars
28:41
Speaker 1: per year. So that's if you do the math on that.
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Speaker 1: I know Gunner's gonna correct me because he thinks he's
28:46
Speaker 1: better at math than me, and he's not. But for
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Speaker 1: three years and four million dollars a year, that works
28:52
Speaker 1: out to about twelve million. And then he was fired
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the pandemic in January of twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one. They said there was some recruiting violations, and
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Speaker 1: it wasn't just your normal recruiting violations. It was not.
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Speaker 1: This is one of the great scandals, which I don't
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Speaker 1: know is even illegal now. But Pruitt and the Tennessee
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Speaker 1: coaching staff were paying players, oh my god, like they're
29:23
Speaker 1: doing right now and iled deals. But they were doing
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Speaker 1: it under the table, and if you remember the story,
29:29
Speaker 1: they were handing out bags of cash in fast food.
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Speaker 1: I think it was McDonald's bags little baggies filled with
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Speaker 1: cash to players to come to Tennessee. And then there
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Speaker 1: was a long investigation and he was fired. They claimed
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Speaker 1: those that investigated there were two hundred infractions that were discovered.
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Speaker 1: I think they stopped counting it after two hundred. They
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Speaker 1: just said, we're tired. That's a lot. You're good. And
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Speaker 1: so this guy, Jeremy It had been given a big penalty,
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Speaker 1: a six year show cause penalty, which means turn out
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Speaker 1: the lass. The party is over. He has been ostracized
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Speaker 1: from college football. And learned the other day that the
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Speaker 1: former Tennessee coach and former Alabama assistant is currently working
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Speaker 1: as a pe teacher at a high school in Alabama. Yeah,
30:27
Speaker 1: from Tennessee volunteer football coach, making four million dollars a
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Speaker 1: year to pe teacher, which is it's a nice job
30:34
Speaker 1: if you're a pe teacher, but if you're an essentially
30:37
Speaker 1: a semi pro coach at Tennessee and then you're a
30:40
Speaker 1: pe teacher, like, WHOA, what is going on? What has happened?
30:44
Speaker 1: And that happened. So we fast forward now and the
30:48
Speaker 1: rest of the story. So we are now told that
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Speaker 1: former Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruett has filed a lawsuit against
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Speaker 1: the NCAA in Decabre County, Alabama, claiming that the NCAA
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Speaker 1: conspired with Tennessee, with Tennessee to make him a sacrificial lamb,
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Speaker 1: a sacrificial lamb, giving him that penalty, the six year
31:20
Speaker 1: show cause penalty. And so he says, I want to
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Speaker 1: get paid. I want to get my lost wages back.
31:30
Speaker 1: And this guy, Jeremy Prue, you talk about the definition
31:33
Speaker 1: of hutzbut the guy had a losing record at Tennessee.
31:38
Speaker 1: He is suing for one hundred million dollars that he says,
31:45
Speaker 1: that's what he would have earned in wages, one hundred
31:49
Speaker 1: Who exactly would have paid him one hundred million dollars?
31:53
Speaker 1: Can I have a list? I'd like to work for
31:55
Speaker 1: those people? One hundred million dollars? My fat I said, well, hey,
32:01
Speaker 1: I know from talking to lawyers. Every time I bring
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Speaker 1: something up like this and I start screaming and barking
32:06
Speaker 1: into the microphones. One hundred million dollars, there's outrageous. Some
32:09
Speaker 1: loyal will send me an email from very professional account
32:12
Speaker 1: with their name in it. You know, some ambulance chasing
32:15
Speaker 1: lawyer who's a fan of the show, and they'll be like, well,
32:17
Speaker 1: the reason Ben that you sue for one hundred million
32:21
Speaker 1: is because you're not planning on the lawsuit going all
32:23
Speaker 1: the way through the court system. You're assuming that there
32:26
Speaker 1: will be some kind of financial settlement. So if you
32:29
Speaker 1: really want to get thirty million dollars, let's say you
32:32
Speaker 1: sue for one hundred million and then you say, I'll
32:34
Speaker 1: take a settlement for fifty and then they counter and say, well,
32:38
Speaker 1: we'll give you thirty. You take the thirty, and you
32:40
Speaker 1: you're happy as can be. Yeah, that's the ticket. That
32:45
Speaker 1: is the ticket. It always works out that way. So
32:48
Speaker 1: in the suit, Jeremy Pruk claims that Tennessee was illegally
32:51
Speaker 1: paying players before he arrived. So he's essentially the way
32:56
Speaker 1: I read it is he's implying that, hey, this is
32:59
Speaker 1: just what he did in Knoxville, right, That's just what
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Speaker 1: we did. And he claims that Philip Fulmer, the athletic director,
33:09
Speaker 1: told him that he would handle it, that he would
33:14
Speaker 1: just if anything happened, he would take care of it.
33:17
Speaker 1: And he also is playing the victim card. Jeremy Pruett,
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Speaker 1: the former Tennessee coach, saying that he may be the
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Speaker 1: last coach in America to be punished for player benefits
33:31
Speaker 1: being paying players, and which he that is not wrong.
33:35
Speaker 1: I don't know that you can argue with that, because
33:38
Speaker 1: now there's one of the two thousand players in college
33:42
Speaker 1: basketball in the transfer portal. I believe that's right, man, unreal. Anyway,
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