Latest / The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast / College Basketball and Twitter Beef with Stuckey and Joffe
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- 0:08Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Action Network.
- 0:14Speaker 1: I I'm Chad Mellman. It's Tuesday morning. Matt Ford is
- 0:19Speaker 1: the producer of this podcast along with Matt have you
- 0:21Speaker 1: from Kidden's thirteen. During the intro, Matt Ford was air
- 0:27Speaker 1: drumming the music does set you up, it makes you
- 0:32Speaker 1: feel good. Huge show today because, uh, two of my
- 0:37Speaker 1: Action Network favorites, Lauren Joffe at the spin Zone, Stucky
- 0:42Speaker 1: at Stucky Too. They're both incendiary on Twitter um and
- 0:48Speaker 1: beloved by people at the Action Network. Oh to all
- 0:53Speaker 1: of your favorite not not not the two favorites. Well, uh, listen,
- 0:59Speaker 1: I of all my people equally fair enough? Really, Now,
- 1:05Speaker 1: who you do real favorites are? But do you know
- 1:07Speaker 1: who I'm who I'm not loving equally right now? In
- 1:10Speaker 1: my family is I just got some texts from my
- 1:13Speaker 1: wife and uh, I've did. I've decided it's the Year
- 1:16Speaker 1: of kindness in my family. I think I've talked about
- 1:18Speaker 1: this in the podcast before because I feel and by
- 1:21Speaker 1: the way, Joffey, I think you can probably appreciate this
- 1:25Speaker 1: given some of your hot Twitter takes and just so
- 1:28Speaker 1: you know, on the show, we're gonna talk a lot
- 1:29Speaker 1: about college basketball, but I got a couple of things
- 1:31Speaker 1: I get I want to get out of the way,
- 1:33Speaker 1: and related to college basketball, related to the Year of Kindness.
- 1:37Speaker 1: Related to Joffey on Twitter is her her her feud
- 1:42Speaker 1: with Dan Dockets who was a college basketball you know mainstay. Um.
- 1:49Speaker 1: I have decided the Year of Kindness, and I am
- 1:52Speaker 1: making Monday the Day of Kindness in my family every week.
- 1:56Speaker 1: So every week I will decide, Okay, today it is
- 1:58Speaker 1: SO and So's Day of Kindness. I will tweet, I'll tweet,
- 2:02Speaker 1: I will text the whole family and be like, Okay,
- 2:04Speaker 1: today we are saying something really nice about today. Yesterday
- 2:08Speaker 1: was Owen. I texted Owen, Stacy and Zach. The only
- 2:13Speaker 1: person I texted something that I love about Owen, who's twelve,
- 2:16Speaker 1: the only person who responded. By the way I texted it,
- 2:19Speaker 1: no response from anybody. So then I text back hello,
- 2:23Speaker 1: and you know who responds Owen. Owen says, Owen is
- 2:29Speaker 1: a good person. That was it. Owen is the only
- 2:34Speaker 1: person who responded to the Day of Kindness about himself.
- 2:39Speaker 1: What happened the other six days of the week. Though
- 2:42Speaker 1: everyone gets ripped, we we act like we normally do
- 2:44Speaker 1: where nobody is nice to each other. We say the
- 2:48Speaker 1: meanest things possible. Uh, And at the end of the day,
- 2:52Speaker 1: either one of my kids will look at me and say,
- 2:55Speaker 1: you are a child. That's generally how it goes. At
- 3:02Speaker 1: least you get one day, though. Uh did anyone else
- 3:05Speaker 1: get totally totally played by Kansas State against Kansas last night? Nope?
- 3:14Speaker 1: I did not know. I mean it was I think
- 3:17Speaker 1: Kansastate is the best team in the Big Twelve, and
- 3:22Speaker 1: I've been saying that for a while now. Kansas, if
- 3:24Speaker 1: they were fully healthy, it would be a different story.
- 3:26Speaker 1: But after a lost Kansas at home in that building,
- 3:29Speaker 1: which just is probably the hardest place to play out
- 3:34Speaker 1: in college basketball. Um, and it's a place Kansas State
- 3:37Speaker 1: hasn't won since two thousand and six. They've been dealing
- 3:39Speaker 1: with some nagging injuries, so it's like a quick turnaround.
- 3:42Speaker 1: So I just can't stay completely away. I thought there
- 3:44Speaker 1: was value in a line with Kansas State, but the situation,
- 3:47Speaker 1: some of the injury concerns I had, and I just
- 3:50Speaker 1: hate fading Kansas at home after a loss. I took.
- 3:54Speaker 1: I took Kansas. I figured it was going to be
- 3:56Speaker 1: a blow out. Why did you think it was going
- 3:58Speaker 1: to be a blowout? I don't know, Number one like
- 4:01Speaker 1: Suky Studs, I mean, you know, playing at home. Um,
- 4:07Speaker 1: I don't know. I just I had a feeling not
- 4:10Speaker 1: to mention. I mean, you know, my quote unquote numbers
- 4:13Speaker 1: that I run. Um, we are a professional gambling media network.
- 4:23Speaker 1: You can't put quotes around the numbers that you run.
- 4:27Speaker 1: You are you can't quote the numbers. You're a representative. Well,
- 4:35Speaker 1: I mean it's not really, it's not like it's not
- 4:38Speaker 1: like some super serious whatever. It's like my basic looking
- 4:43Speaker 1: at the two teams and kind of chussing out what
- 4:47Speaker 1: I think is important to the two teams playing. And
- 4:52Speaker 1: you know, I just not I don't know. I just thought,
- 4:56Speaker 1: I don't know, I thought it was gonna go out.
- 4:59Speaker 1: That's well, guess who didn't think it was going to
- 5:01Speaker 1: be a blowout. I'm gonna go with you, Chad Mellman
- 5:04Speaker 1: didn't think it was going to be a blowout. Because
- 5:06Speaker 1: Chad Melman has spent so much time listening to the
- 5:09Speaker 1: Action Network Colleges podcast with Stucky and Colin. When he
- 5:13Speaker 1: Colin Wilson, he's not when he's not skiing and uh,
- 5:17Speaker 1: Eli Herskovic and Mike Randall, or as the callers left
- 5:20Speaker 1: to call him, uh Eli Randall, and Um, I have
- 5:25Speaker 1: so bought in on Kansas State, on Washington, on Marquette,
- 5:32Speaker 1: on Houston that I just figure, like I see Kansas
- 5:35Speaker 1: State at plus four and a half against Kansas, and
- 5:38Speaker 1: that's going to be the right side because they're defensive stalwarts,
- 5:41Speaker 1: because Wade is playing, and because this is the game
- 5:45Speaker 1: that like they get to prove that they are coming
- 5:48Speaker 1: up strong and they are making a stand and they
- 5:50Speaker 1: are winning that Big twelve. I wish I had been
- 5:54Speaker 1: you know, I gotta tell you. I know you guys
- 5:56Speaker 1: talked about on the on the college's podcast Stucky, but
- 6:00Speaker 1: I thought it was a really long podcast and that
- 6:02Speaker 1: was way way at the end, and I was sort
- 6:03Speaker 1: of losing focus. So I can't remember if you guys
- 6:06Speaker 1: were on Kansas or Kansas State when you got to
- 6:08Speaker 1: the Big twelve matchup of the day yesterday, one of
- 6:12Speaker 1: one of us was the other two passed um and
- 6:16Speaker 1: including myself, and it just always tread lightly fading Kansas
- 6:21Speaker 1: at home, no matter how bad they look, I mean,
- 6:23Speaker 1: especially when they lose. They were down by I think
- 6:25Speaker 1: forty at one point the Texas Tech. It was one
- 6:27Speaker 1: of the most embarrassing ASTs itself has ever had. And
- 6:30Speaker 1: Wages wasn't right last night, and he's I mean, he
- 6:33Speaker 1: hasn't been practicing because of a foot injury. So you know,
- 6:37Speaker 1: when they go from a Monday to a Saturday and
- 6:40Speaker 1: he has four days off, I think it's okay. But
- 6:42Speaker 1: just with one day off in between games that they're
- 6:44Speaker 1: playing on Saturday, you could tell that he was a
- 6:46Speaker 1: little hobbled and just not right. I think I'll be
- 6:49Speaker 1: fine for the tournament. And Kansas State it's just the
- 6:51Speaker 1: team you don't want to face in the Tornent because
- 6:54Speaker 1: of that defense, their experienced and a guy like Wade
- 6:57Speaker 1: as an X factor. But last night was just, uh,
- 7:00Speaker 1: they were walking into a buzz all. So if I
- 7:03Speaker 1: have Kansas State, I think it like one one or
- 7:07Speaker 1: something like that. I should still feel pretty good about that. Absolutely. Yeah.
- 7:12Speaker 1: I mean the two things that I've been the two
- 7:15Speaker 1: you mentioned Marquette and I've been screaming. You mentioned the podcast.
- 7:19Speaker 1: I've been saying it on the podcast for the last
- 7:21Speaker 1: few episodes, and I put out my futures article about
- 7:25Speaker 1: a month ago, and I've been screaming that Kansas State
- 7:28Speaker 1: should not be significant, they should not have significantly higher
- 7:32Speaker 1: odds than the rest of the Big twelve. And they
- 7:34Speaker 1: were at one. Well now you can pretty much find
- 7:39Speaker 1: them forty one, which is where right around where Kansas is.
- 7:43Speaker 1: And I think that's you know, fair odds of where
- 7:47Speaker 1: they should be and represents I think they're fair shot.
- 7:51Speaker 1: And I say the same thing from Marquette. I mean
- 7:54Speaker 1: Marquette even as last week you could find them eighty
- 7:57Speaker 1: to one and Villanova was thirty two one forty one,
- 8:00Speaker 1: and I think Marquette's a better team. Um, and now
- 8:03Speaker 1: you're you're gonna find Marquette probably around forty. If you
- 8:06Speaker 1: have those teams that eighty one are better, I think
- 8:09Speaker 1: that both of them have a shot to make a
- 8:11Speaker 1: deep run. Who do you have right now? Who are
- 8:13Speaker 1: your future teams right now? Well? Funny you should ask,
- 8:17Speaker 1: because I was looking at at an account and I
- 8:19Speaker 1: and I saw that I've had this Arizona future, and
- 8:22Speaker 1: I was like, why is the is the and the
- 8:27Speaker 1: college football things still they're like just graded as it
- 8:30Speaker 1: didn't you know it was, didn't win and get on
- 8:32Speaker 1: with it. I completely forgot. I even took the them
- 8:36Speaker 1: in to win a basketball tournament because that's how much
- 8:40Speaker 1: I've given up on on my team. So it's been
- 8:44Speaker 1: it's been kind of hard for me, um to really
- 8:48Speaker 1: get into it. That being said, um And I would
- 8:54Speaker 1: lean for this way. I don't hate Watford. I know
- 8:57Speaker 1: that's crazy, but I don't hate them, especially not there tough. Well, listen,
- 9:03Speaker 1: I don't think you're wrong. I mean it's Look, it's
- 9:06Speaker 1: a little bit crazy because like, there's no way Watford
- 9:08Speaker 1: is winning the tournament, but they're ranked for the first
- 9:11Speaker 1: time since I don't know when. Um, And, like, I
- 9:15Speaker 1: think there's a lot of sentiment that like Wofford. I
- 9:18Speaker 1: can't even believe I'm saying this. I've never said the
- 9:20Speaker 1: sentence in my life. There's sentiment that there's value on Wafford.
- 9:26Speaker 1: That's I mean, that's sort of what I see. I
- 9:28Speaker 1: don't They're not gonna win, but it can make a
- 9:31Speaker 1: run if if you want to put a few bucks
- 9:33Speaker 1: on it, though, like why not, right, it could pay off?
- 9:36Speaker 1: They couldn't. Maybe they could be Like I don't know,
- 9:39Speaker 1: is Watford a Catholic school like Loyola? Do they have
- 9:41Speaker 1: a sister Jean or whoever? The funk that is I
- 9:45Speaker 1: don't know, Stuck, what do you know about Watford? You
- 9:48Speaker 1: must know everything about Watford? Yeah, I mean I know
- 9:51Speaker 1: a lot about Offord. But if it's a private school,
- 9:55Speaker 1: it's a liberal arts school down in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
- 9:58Speaker 1: And the Terriers and they have uh a kid Fletcher McGee,
- 10:03Speaker 1: who get just one of the best shooters in the country.
- 10:05Speaker 1: I mean, as a team, they shoot three. They have
- 10:09Speaker 1: a number of guys who are just unbelievable from behind
- 10:12Speaker 1: the ark, and that's going to be I mean, they
- 10:15Speaker 1: can shoot their way to the Elite eight. And you said,
- 10:19Speaker 1: I don't know when the last time we ranked. This
- 10:20Speaker 1: is the first time in school history that they're ranked UM.
- 10:23Speaker 1: And if you look at their schedule, they didn't get
- 10:25Speaker 1: a huge nonconference win, but they played a number of
- 10:30Speaker 1: teams really tight, like North Carolina type, Mississippi State tight, Kansas.
- 10:36Speaker 1: They played a lot of teams early in the season
- 10:38Speaker 1: where the margin was always about ten but it was,
- 10:41Speaker 1: you know, a one or two point game with eight
- 10:43Speaker 1: to go, and every one of those games. So they're
- 10:46Speaker 1: a legit throughout. They're a legit top twenty five team
- 10:50Speaker 1: UM in the nation, not just for the rankings, but
- 10:53Speaker 1: as far as actual talent and potential, and I want
- 10:57Speaker 1: to do a little game here for a sec. Go ahead, Joy,
- 10:59Speaker 1: you you say what you're gonna say. I don't know.
- 11:01Speaker 1: I was just gonna throw away that. I also kind
- 11:02Speaker 1: of like I have State in Michigan and Marquette. Those
- 11:05Speaker 1: are those are if I had to pick my teams, um,
- 11:09Speaker 1: that I think have a good chance making a legitimate run,
- 11:13Speaker 1: I'm gonna go there, Michigan more so for that's going
- 11:17Speaker 1: to be rooting for type. I don't actually think that
- 11:20Speaker 1: they are. I don't know. I don't it's Michigan, I don't.
- 11:26Speaker 1: I don't want to doubt them, but I don't know
- 11:28Speaker 1: that they're necessarily gonna win. I'm with you on Marquette. Um,
- 11:37Speaker 1: I'm a little worried about Michigan's shooting woes that were
- 11:40Speaker 1: evident against Michigan State. Um. Yes, stucky, yep. I'm want
- 11:45Speaker 1: to play a little game right now. Tell me everything
- 11:50Speaker 1: you know about Jacksonville State. Jacksonville State was a team
- 11:56Speaker 1: that I was going to mention as a potential sleeper. No, yes, no,
- 12:02Speaker 1: no joke. They what's a I like them to there? There?
- 12:09Speaker 1: I'm not even joking when I say that, I absolutely
- 12:12Speaker 1: I like them too. I've been on them and I
- 12:14Speaker 1: liked them. They're one of the most experienced teams in
- 12:17Speaker 1: the entire country, if not the most um and they're
- 12:21Speaker 1: just they're gonna they can play, and they've played all
- 12:24Speaker 1: the top teams in Ohao Valley close all year long. Uh.
- 12:28Speaker 1: You know, you're obviously going to have your favorites in
- 12:30Speaker 1: that conference with morant A very State, but I think
- 12:34Speaker 1: Jacksonville State is a sleeper. And one of the one
- 12:37Speaker 1: of the fun facts that I like to throw out
- 12:39Speaker 1: with Jacksonville State is their name is Jacksonville State, but
- 12:43Speaker 1: they're not in Florida. They're actually in Alabama, which is
- 12:46Speaker 1: where that school is. But I do think that they
- 12:48Speaker 1: have some potential to potentially sneak up and win the
- 12:52Speaker 1: Ohio Valley I swear to God, I swear to God
- 12:56Speaker 1: to play this game. I went to ken Palm dot
- 12:59Speaker 1: com and I scrolled down to like what I thought
- 13:02Speaker 1: was the most random part of the rankings and found
- 13:05Speaker 1: a team in the most random conference. I chose Jacksonville
- 13:09Speaker 1: State at a hundred and nineteen in the Ohio Valley Conference.
- 13:14Speaker 1: And you had a serious take on them. That's pretty impressive.
- 13:19Speaker 1: That is really really good. All right, let me do
- 13:21Speaker 1: an the game Cocks there in h They're one of
- 13:24Speaker 1: my favorite schools. To some people where that at because
- 13:27Speaker 1: most people assume it's in Jacksonville, Florida, But it's in Jacksonvill, Alabama,
- 13:31Speaker 1: which I have to admit I have no idea where
- 13:34Speaker 1: that is, um, but I do know that it is in
- 13:37Speaker 1: in Alabama. The very experienced team. All right, for both
- 13:42Speaker 1: of you, what is the most rando team you guys
- 13:48Speaker 1: have made a bet on this year? God, I would
- 13:55Speaker 1: say one that I'm not too proud of. Well, I
- 13:58Speaker 1: was proud of it once, not proud of the other.
- 14:01Speaker 1: But Stetson. So I bet on steps and twice this year, um,
- 14:07Speaker 1: out of the Atlantic Sun the Hatters, and uh, I
- 14:11Speaker 1: am one and one betting Stetson. And then I actually
- 14:14Speaker 1: at The real answer though, is and I want to
- 14:16Speaker 1: know betting this team, want to know lifetime beending on
- 14:19Speaker 1: North Alabama from the same conference as their first year
- 14:24Speaker 1: in college basketball in D one, So I have to
- 14:27Speaker 1: say that because they only have one bet on them.
- 14:29Speaker 1: Ever in college basketball, I think I've bet on pretty
- 14:31Speaker 1: much every other team but North Alabama and Stetson. I've
- 14:37Speaker 1: literally bet on I mean last night, I bet on
- 14:45Speaker 1: Alabama and M Alabama. You bet on Alabama A and M? Seriously,
- 14:53Speaker 1: yeah night, what what are you? What were you doing
- 14:58Speaker 1: last month? What were you doing last night? This is
- 15:01Speaker 1: Tuesday morning. Last night was Monday? What were you doing
- 15:04Speaker 1: last night? And we've talked about this. You live at home? Yes? Currently,
- 15:10Speaker 1: you live with your parents currently. Currently. We had the
- 15:15Speaker 1: same conversation a year ago. I know we do because
- 15:19Speaker 1: I know I know currently currently we know what there's
- 15:24Speaker 1: there's three reasons. There's I'm leaving, I'm I'm moving, you're
- 15:28Speaker 1: moving up? Yeah, I mean I used to the record,
- 15:32Speaker 1: I did live by myself for many many years, came back,
- 15:37Speaker 1: I came back here. Seriously, all my stuff film storage.
- 15:41Speaker 1: I'm not even lying seriously. So when you bet Alabama
- 15:46Speaker 1: A and M last night, doesn't No, all my stuff
- 15:52Speaker 1: is still in l A. Interesting all right? Go ahead?
- 15:56Speaker 1: ALBMAM which lost by the hook I'm the leave right?
- 15:59Speaker 1: Um uh well I got them at plus five and
- 16:02Speaker 1: they lost by six, So yeah, I know that was
- 16:07Speaker 1: the only one I lost though, So um okay with that,
- 16:10Speaker 1: give give me the setting. Tell me what happened. Where
- 16:14Speaker 1: were you what compelled you to bet on Alabama? Alabama
- 16:18Speaker 1: A and M? Did your mom or your dad know
- 16:21Speaker 1: you were betting on Alabama A and M? Were you
- 16:24Speaker 1: watching the game with them? Like, just set the whole
- 16:26Speaker 1: scene for me. I mean, I wish I could say
- 16:31Speaker 1: it was it was more exciting than it really was.
- 16:34Speaker 1: But like I said, I just look at all the games.
- 16:37Speaker 1: I sort of look at at you know why. You know,
- 16:42Speaker 1: I want to say the numbers, but um, quote unquote yeah,
- 16:47Speaker 1: quote unquote, um, And I just it was one of
- 16:52Speaker 1: those things that I knew it. No, Alcorn was definitely
- 16:55Speaker 1: gonna be gonna win. Um, but I didn't think that
- 16:59Speaker 1: they were gonna they were to cover. There wasn't any
- 17:01Speaker 1: there weren't any injuries. I mean that's kind of what
- 17:03Speaker 1: I do is I kind of look and I and
- 17:06Speaker 1: I see you know which teams look. I mean, I
- 17:09Speaker 1: don't really know how to describe it. Just it's more
- 17:11Speaker 1: or less that I just go around this list and
- 17:14Speaker 1: look at all the games. Like I mean, I took
- 17:16Speaker 1: you know, NJ I T last night. Um, but what
- 17:20Speaker 1: do you know about n I T. It's in New Jersey.
- 17:24Speaker 1: I've been to a game at NJ I T. Have
- 17:27Speaker 1: you I have I don't even know where in New Jersey,
- 17:29Speaker 1: but I know it's in New Jersey because you know,
- 17:31Speaker 1: I feel like it might be in Jersey City. And
- 17:33Speaker 1: once upon a time, J I T may have been
- 17:37Speaker 1: the worst team in like the history of college basketball.
- 17:40Speaker 1: Ye is that right? Stuck? Yeah? And then then they
- 17:44Speaker 1: they've been on on the color. I mean they've done
- 17:46Speaker 1: a lot for that program, but it has in Jersey City,
- 17:48Speaker 1: the Highlanders. They almost beating Michigan, um, I believe two
- 17:52Speaker 1: years ago or so. But yeah, they were the worst.
- 17:54Speaker 1: They were the worst team by far when they came
- 17:56Speaker 1: into D one. Well, it's one of those teams. I'm like, wait,
- 17:59Speaker 1: there is the one. I mean, that's one of those
- 18:02Speaker 1: those teams. I sort of look at and say that,
- 18:04Speaker 1: I mean there are now that I look at it,
- 18:06Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of teams. I look in and
- 18:08Speaker 1: I say that. But I'm curious why you were out
- 18:10Speaker 1: of n I game, Chad. I mean, that's gonna be
- 18:12Speaker 1: really small. I think it's a really small gym too.
- 18:14Speaker 1: It's a tiny gym. A good friend of mine who
- 18:18Speaker 1: I used to go to overnight camp with, um his
- 18:21Speaker 1: name is Ryan Marks, and he's been a college basketball
- 18:24Speaker 1: code for years and he was once the college basketball
- 18:27Speaker 1: coach at UM. Was it ut Pan American? Oh, yeah,
- 18:34Speaker 1: that's Santa that's UM now Santa or Day whatever, Right,
- 18:39Speaker 1: that's Rio Grand Valley. Yeah, so I think that's where
- 18:44Speaker 1: he was. And so they were playing NJ I T
- 18:46Speaker 1: and so it's when I was living in the city
- 18:48Speaker 1: and maybe I was living in Jersey, and so I
- 18:50Speaker 1: went to UH. I went to an n I n
- 18:52Speaker 1: J I T U T P a game UM. And
- 18:56Speaker 1: that's why I went interesting. Yes, random almost, It's almost
- 19:03Speaker 1: as random as betting on and j I T when
- 19:07Speaker 1: I've run my quote unquote numbers. It's all about It's
- 19:13Speaker 1: all about value, Stucky. How do we inspire JOFFI h
- 19:18Speaker 1: to take this brilliant idea and then write about it.
- 19:23Speaker 1: I'll do it. I mean, that's that's one of my plan.
- 19:25Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't want to do about the obvious schools.
- 19:27Speaker 1: I mean I figured I would, I would do. It's
- 19:29Speaker 1: not about the you know, the Michigan's and the Kentucky
- 19:32Speaker 1: con You know, no one, no one is doesn't know
- 19:35Speaker 1: who that is. But I don't want to you know,
- 19:37Speaker 1: so when you're not when you're watching it or not
- 19:39Speaker 1: at the tournament, but you're watching it, and you can say, yeah,
- 19:42Speaker 1: you know, uh, you know the water you know whatever
- 19:47Speaker 1: from South Carolina. Um, you know, maybe the name is
- 19:51Speaker 1: a famous person who went there. I don't know, something
- 19:53Speaker 1: like that, just so you can pretend at least like
- 19:55Speaker 1: you know what you're talking about. It's like, yeah, that's
- 19:57Speaker 1: that's the key right there. So it's it's I mean,
- 20:00Speaker 1: you could do a bigger piece, but I mean that's
- 20:03Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of schools be where you
- 20:04Speaker 1: could focus it on the tournament field and you can
- 20:08Speaker 1: take all of the random schools that won the smaller conferences, um,
- 20:14Speaker 1: that got into the tournament, and you can say, you
- 20:16Speaker 1: know what you need to know about these schools. And
- 20:19Speaker 1: it's not only like hey, here's their best player, so
- 20:22Speaker 1: you can say watch out for this guy, UM and
- 20:26Speaker 1: I can help you with that. But it's also like
- 20:28Speaker 1: a random fact about the town. So it's like sat
- 20:30Speaker 1: Jacksonville State wins, you'd be like, did you know that's
- 20:33Speaker 1: in Alabama? And did you know this fact about that?
- 20:37Speaker 1: And you do that for all the random teams in
- 20:39Speaker 1: the field. UM, I think I've got the list I'm looking.
- 20:43Speaker 1: I mean, I've made a list, and I you know,
- 20:46Speaker 1: the possibilities of which teams are gonna go, like, let's
- 20:49Speaker 1: co liberty like liberty. Liberty is another one. I kind
- 20:53Speaker 1: of like liberty um to make if they make it
- 20:57Speaker 1: in a little bit of a run can brilliant concept this, Joffey,
- 21:00Speaker 1: We're giving you an assignment right now. It's time to
- 21:02Speaker 1: get back on the horse. Time to get back on
- 21:04Speaker 1: the horse. Joffey. Here's your assignment. You're ready for the
- 21:08Speaker 1: instable A tournament. Uh. Your assignment is going to be
- 21:13Speaker 1: Joffey's cheats cheat sheet to impress your friends during the
- 21:19Speaker 1: n C Double A Tournament. And you're gonna take You're
- 21:22Speaker 1: going to take random facts and come up with fun
- 21:26Speaker 1: things to say or mean things to say, uh in
- 21:30Speaker 1: your voice, about every random team that makes the tournament.
- 21:33Speaker 1: And then you're going to tell people if they should
- 21:35Speaker 1: bet on them or not based on what you know.
- 21:38Speaker 1: I I love it, Um, you know that was that
- 21:44Speaker 1: was sort of in my my brain to do that.
- 21:46Speaker 1: So I'm thrilled to do it. Yeah. I would say
- 21:50Speaker 1: it's probably every non you know, non major conference team.
- 21:55Speaker 1: So you're probably gonna have. Like, I think it's about twenty,
- 22:00Speaker 1: which is I think is a good number. Yeah, I
- 22:02Speaker 1: mean I've literally I've got on this on this spreadsheet,
- 22:05Speaker 1: on such a hand of spreadsheets on the spreadsheet, I've
- 22:08Speaker 1: got like kind of the most likely of those teams
- 22:13Speaker 1: to make it in. Um. You know, obviously I just
- 22:16Speaker 1: keep you know, look at Lamarty and his bracketology and
- 22:20Speaker 1: kind of see who's doing what. Um. But and just
- 22:24Speaker 1: just can I just say how how much I hate
- 22:26Speaker 1: the pack goal? But anyway, that's It's. Yeah, there's a
- 22:32Speaker 1: lot of things you hate though, Like here's what I
- 22:34Speaker 1: love to do. This is another fun game that I
- 22:36Speaker 1: like to play. I like to go to your Twitter
- 22:39Speaker 1: feed and I like to see who Joffe is angry
- 22:43Speaker 1: at today and yesterday and most days Dan Docke makes
- 22:51Speaker 1: the list. I try to forget about him. Then someone
- 22:55Speaker 1: bringing me in. There's people that know how much I
- 22:58Speaker 1: don't like him, so they'll at me whenever something happens.
- 23:01Speaker 1: Does he bring you up on his radio show? Yeah
- 23:04Speaker 1: he's twice. Now what what is going on there? I
- 23:08Speaker 1: don't know? Like and neither like both times, like I
- 23:12Speaker 1: didn't even really it wasn't even me who who Like
- 23:15Speaker 1: he has assigned it to me, Like I wasn't even
- 23:18Speaker 1: me that said anything. The latest time was it was
- 23:21Speaker 1: when the whole thing was going on with Ohio State
- 23:23Speaker 1: and I and he was going to have someone on
- 23:25Speaker 1: his show that the what's his name? Um? The assistant
- 23:29Speaker 1: what some guy? And I was just I happened to
- 23:32Speaker 1: be in the threat in this Twitter thing and mind
- 23:36Speaker 1: and he decided to take my name and he imitated me.
- 23:38Speaker 1: I mean he was just he was mean. What was
- 23:40Speaker 1: going on? What happened with Ohio State? Remind people? I
- 23:43Speaker 1: don't know, um when when um the whole thing with
- 23:47Speaker 1: the assistant Coke or Zach what's his name? Um? Oh?
- 23:52Speaker 1: The guy who was from football the football team who
- 23:57Speaker 1: got fired for beating up his wife? Right that guy? Um?
- 24:02Speaker 1: I mean I think I even got into it with
- 24:04Speaker 1: with that guy's cousin, I mean, or brother. I don't
- 24:07Speaker 1: I don't even know, um, but yeah, docts was he
- 24:10Speaker 1: somehow you got into it because you are against domestic violence.
- 24:17Speaker 1: I am very much against domestic violence. I just want
- 24:21Speaker 1: to make clear. I just want to be clear about
- 24:23Speaker 1: the lines that we're talking about here. You got into
- 24:25Speaker 1: it because you got you were like probably going after
- 24:28Speaker 1: some guy who was accused of something horrible, and you
- 24:33Speaker 1: wait in on that particular conversation and then I think
- 24:36Speaker 1: it was it was actually that Duck was going to
- 24:38Speaker 1: have him on his show and then he can and
- 24:41Speaker 1: then he canceled. Um, I don't even I honestly don't
- 24:44Speaker 1: even remember the argument. But yes, it was something or
- 24:46Speaker 1: another having to do with that. But it was such
- 24:49Speaker 1: an in fact, whatever I said, it was like such
- 24:52Speaker 1: a tame, not even a confrontational. I mean, it was
- 24:57Speaker 1: just very whatever. But he too somehow, you know, I'm
- 25:01Speaker 1: in a thread that got very heated. And my name
- 25:04Speaker 1: he brings up my name, I mean by by name,
- 25:07Speaker 1: like he didn't say some girl. He said my name. Well,
- 25:12Speaker 1: I'm spiedly you're here. What if it's actually someone that
- 25:16Speaker 1: works for a show that it really doesn't like you,
- 25:19Speaker 1: that is feeding him these quotes and saying it's Lauren
- 25:22Speaker 1: Joffey and here's her Twitter name and she's the one
- 25:25Speaker 1: who said it, and it's deeper than the dog. I
- 25:29Speaker 1: would say that that sounds that. I mean, listen, I
- 25:32Speaker 1: found that special. I mean, I really don't think I am,
- 25:35Speaker 1: but he I mean, he he searches his own name,
- 25:39Speaker 1: like he's the one looking at it, you know, for sure,
- 25:43Speaker 1: he's definitely looking at Twitter and all. Yeah. But here's
- 25:46Speaker 1: the thing, here's what's interesting to me about you specifically. Um,
- 25:51Speaker 1: I feel like people get angrier at you on Twitter.
- 25:55Speaker 1: Then I see them get it other people who have
- 25:57Speaker 1: a lot more followers. Like It's so I will have
- 26:01Speaker 1: people come to me all the time like boy that Joffy,
- 26:05Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and they don't even know you.
- 26:09Speaker 1: It's very I don't even I don't. I don't even
- 26:12Speaker 1: know how. I don't know if it's just because I'm
- 26:15Speaker 1: just so super smart and intelligent witty. I mean, I know,
- 26:19Speaker 1: I really don't. I don't know. Like you respond sometimes,
- 26:25Speaker 1: like I think people are prouder trying to prod to
- 26:28Speaker 1: to get the response and to get the classic you know,
- 26:34Speaker 1: I do because and I've I've learned, I mean, I've
- 26:37Speaker 1: learned this this year has made good use of the
- 26:39Speaker 1: mute button, which is maybe one of the hardest things
- 26:42Speaker 1: I've had to do. Um, you know, And then but
- 26:45Speaker 1: then you know, unfortunately, people will like send me a
- 26:48Speaker 1: screen cap of something someone said, and now I'm like, well,
- 26:52Speaker 1: I gotta go respond. Um, you know inside of you
- 26:56Speaker 1: you have to. I have to. I can't. I can't,
- 27:00Speaker 1: not like I can't. I mean, it's it's a problem
- 27:03Speaker 1: and I and I realized that. But and I know
- 27:05Speaker 1: that they know it, which is why they do it.
- 27:08Speaker 1: Um Like, I think I'm one of the few people
- 27:10Speaker 1: that allows like it's still talks has back and forth
- 27:14Speaker 1: with with some of the less I don't know savory
- 27:18Speaker 1: of people on gambling Twitter because they know that I'll
- 27:22Speaker 1: respond to them. Um. I've been doing that a lot
- 27:25Speaker 1: less and give myself props for that. Um. I just
- 27:28Speaker 1: wish people would not tell me when people say something,
- 27:31Speaker 1: because then I can't ignore it. So I know it's
- 27:36Speaker 1: a problem. I'm sorry, it's funny. I try not to. Yeah, well,
- 27:42Speaker 1: you know, every day I wake up and I'm like,
- 27:44Speaker 1: you know, today I'm not going to be an ass
- 27:47Speaker 1: on Twitter. I'm not gonna be mean, and then it happens.
- 27:51Speaker 1: I feel like I need you to take that creative
- 27:55Speaker 1: energy and put it into the stuff you create for us.
- 28:01Speaker 1: I know, have a kind it sounds like also yeah, no,
- 28:06Speaker 1: I don't want to have a day of kindness. I
- 28:08Speaker 1: need Joffee like full on you know, steak knife sharp
- 28:15Speaker 1: at her wittiest, you know, sharpest form. Well, I don't know.
- 28:21Speaker 1: I'd say take a kind day online and then take
- 28:24Speaker 1: the whatever stewing inside of her and put that down
- 28:28Speaker 1: into a piece. I've tried kind day online. I really
- 28:33Speaker 1: have you tweet nice things? Sometimes sometimes you tweet like
- 28:38Speaker 1: you know, even this week you treated about dogs, about
- 28:41Speaker 1: a d H d um and then I have very
- 28:46Speaker 1: very dogs things. I mean, listen, if someone gets if
- 28:50Speaker 1: someone does me to a dog, then my response that
- 28:53Speaker 1: they need to get the death penalty. So I mean
- 28:56Speaker 1: you consider that mean, but I mean or like or
- 29:00Speaker 1: if there's anything we have learned is that Rick Pettino
- 29:02Speaker 1: and Bob Kraft could never be involved in a threesome together.
- 29:06Speaker 1: Well you know, I'm I'm just looking at the time,
- 29:10Speaker 1: you know, I'm just I mean, that was where that
- 29:16Speaker 1: came from, Like fifteen seconds versus fifteen minutes. Oh my
- 29:24Speaker 1: was that? Oh I thought that was worth That is good? Yeah,
- 29:31Speaker 1: I mean the things I didn't want to know about
- 29:32Speaker 1: either of those guys, but now that I do, I
- 29:34Speaker 1: just feel like, I mean, that's where my brain want.
- 29:36Speaker 1: I mean, sorry, listen, I'm all for it. Okay, good.
- 29:42Speaker 1: I'm totally all for it. Okay good, um good, because
- 29:48Speaker 1: I mean if you weren't, I'd be in trouble. Yeah, exactly. Well,
- 29:53Speaker 1: I think that's actually why we hired you. Um, hey, stuck,
- 29:58Speaker 1: Let's transition to one more thing before we get out
- 30:00Speaker 1: of here today, because I feel like we've made some progress.
- 30:03Speaker 1: I feel like we've come up with a really good
- 30:04Speaker 1: column for Joffe, which might have been the only point
- 30:07Speaker 1: of the three of us getting together in the podcast.
- 30:10Speaker 1: We proved that, Um, your knowledge of college basketball was
- 30:14Speaker 1: so deep I could throw a dart against the map
- 30:17Speaker 1: of the universe and you would still come up with
- 30:20Speaker 1: something to say about a college basketball team. And uh,
- 30:23Speaker 1: and you have a column up today on Action Network
- 30:26Speaker 1: or download the app. It's free Action Network app. Uh,
- 30:29Speaker 1: your favorite situations for today. It's Tuesday. But I feel
- 30:32Speaker 1: like these are applicable to any time during you know,
- 30:34Speaker 1: the remaining sort of ten to twelve days of the
- 30:38Speaker 1: season before we get into conference tournaments, which really start
- 30:41Speaker 1: next week on March five. So, um, tell me about
- 30:44Speaker 1: your situationals right right now and today. Yeah. I can't
- 30:47Speaker 1: wait for conference tournaments. By the way. Uh. Yeah, I
- 30:50Speaker 1: mentioned Jackson, State, Western Kentucky, Illinois State, Fresno. Stay there
- 30:54Speaker 1: a couple of teams I just had circle just uh,
- 30:56Speaker 1: we're gonna have touns of content around them, but they're there.
- 30:59Speaker 1: You know. I look for either experienced teams or you know,
- 31:02Speaker 1: really young teams that do something really well. But it's
- 31:05Speaker 1: really a fresh start to the season, so we have
- 31:07Speaker 1: a ton of data from the regular scene. So I
- 31:09Speaker 1: love conference formaents. But for tonight, you know, it's what
- 31:12Speaker 1: I do is on every Sunday night, I'll look at
- 31:15Speaker 1: the weekend results, and I'll look at the next weekend's games,
- 31:18Speaker 1: and then I'll go through the entire week and then
- 31:20Speaker 1: circle all the potential you know, situational spots, if the
- 31:24Speaker 1: team might have a letdown, if there's a look ahead,
- 31:27Speaker 1: if there's any revenge from earlier in the season, and
- 31:30Speaker 1: then I circle all those spots. I kind of capped
- 31:33Speaker 1: the games and look at my quote unquote numbers, uh,
- 31:37Speaker 1: and then I look at the matchups and then once
- 31:39Speaker 1: the lines come and then I basically have a range
- 31:41Speaker 1: of Okay, here's where I'll play those games. And you know,
- 31:44Speaker 1: yesterday the spot was Kansas. I like the spot, but
- 31:47Speaker 1: I didn't like the line, so I didn't play it.
- 31:49Speaker 1: You know, you could also say Kentucky fading Kentucky tonight
- 31:52Speaker 1: they beat Auburn. They have Tennessee on Saturday playing a
- 31:55Speaker 1: lifeless Arkansas team tonight. But you know, the line is
- 31:59Speaker 1: about sixteen and a half ish, it's right around where
- 32:01Speaker 1: I make it, and I mean Kentucky, it might just
- 32:04Speaker 1: be a layof drill. With their offensive rebounding, Arkansas cannot
- 32:08Speaker 1: get any defensive rebound so I'm worried there. So the
- 32:11Speaker 1: three that actually made the final cut or West Virginia,
- 32:15Speaker 1: and I mean, this is a great spot to fade TCU,
- 32:18Speaker 1: who beat Iowa State over the weekend and that's a
- 32:21Speaker 1: huge win for them, potentially clinched the tournament bid. On
- 32:24Speaker 1: deck they have Texas Tech and then Kansas State, and in
- 32:28Speaker 1: in the middle they go to West Virginia, who over
- 32:30Speaker 1: the weekend and actually over the last two games they've
- 32:33Speaker 1: showed me a lot. They've fought against Baylor, they're in
- 32:36Speaker 1: that game, leading it for most of the game, and
- 32:39Speaker 1: they do the same thing against Kansas State at home
- 32:41Speaker 1: the game before when they lead for you know, they
- 32:43Speaker 1: were right around they were either leading, tied or down
- 32:46Speaker 1: by one or two is a really tight game for
- 32:48Speaker 1: the first thirty thirty five minutes before a late run
- 32:50Speaker 1: by Kansas State. So Huggins still has them fighting. It's
- 32:53Speaker 1: a team that fast four starters and went through just
- 32:56Speaker 1: an enormous law as a result. And one of one
- 32:59Speaker 1: of the games in that law was at TCU and
- 33:01Speaker 1: they lost by thirty six. It was even uglier than that,
- 33:06Speaker 1: and that dropped them the oh and five in the
- 33:08Speaker 1: Big Twelve first time in over twenty years, their own
- 33:11Speaker 1: five in conference. So I think they're gonna be motivate tonight.
- 33:14Speaker 1: And you don't get a focused effort from TCU because
- 33:18Speaker 1: of the classic sandwich spot. Uh and West Virginia is
- 33:21Speaker 1: clearly still fighting. Their younger players are getting a lot
- 33:23Speaker 1: of confidence. And then the other two that I looked
- 33:25Speaker 1: at were Ohio State. I think this is the right
- 33:29Speaker 1: time to play Ohio State. They do have a revenge
- 33:32Speaker 1: from an earlier season matchup. But listen, Iowa could be
- 33:36Speaker 1: Ohio State right now on the bubble if Iowa has
- 33:39Speaker 1: won count with games at the buzzer against really bad teams.
- 33:43Speaker 1: They beat Rutgers at the buzzer off a shot off
- 33:45Speaker 1: the top of the backboard. UH. They beat Northwestern at
- 33:49Speaker 1: the buzzer. They you know, came back and beat Indiana
- 33:51Speaker 1: and overtime, so it's been a really fortunate team. I
- 33:54Speaker 1: think Ohio State can take a lot from that win.
- 33:57Speaker 1: That loss over the weekend at Maryland, they were playing
- 33:59Speaker 1: with otherly and score C. J. Jackson, and there's a
- 34:02Speaker 1: lot of the role players, you know, got some confidence
- 34:04Speaker 1: in that game. Jackson will be back tonight, so I
- 34:08Speaker 1: think that they get this win. This is desperation time
- 34:10Speaker 1: for a house state. A lot of times that can
- 34:12Speaker 1: work against the team, but I think there's a lot
- 34:14Speaker 1: of value in the two two and a half, which
- 34:16Speaker 1: you'll find out there. And then the other one is
- 34:18Speaker 1: Texas A and M plus eleven plus twelve. I love
- 34:22Speaker 1: fading L s U in these spots because they're so young.
- 34:24Speaker 1: They're one of the fifteen youngest teams in the country
- 34:27Speaker 1: in regards to experience. Faded them against Florida UH in
- 34:32Speaker 1: a classic situational spot. Same thing here after that huge win,
- 34:35Speaker 1: huge emotional win over Tennessee, I think they have a
- 34:39Speaker 1: let down here, come out a little flat and MS
- 34:42Speaker 1: surprisingly quietly one four or five. Getting a little more confidence,
- 34:45Speaker 1: they have some lengths. I think they hang around here
- 34:48Speaker 1: in l s U pulls away late. Jeff, are you
- 34:51Speaker 1: gonna make any of these place? Go ahead? Oh? I
- 34:54Speaker 1: was just gonna say this fun factor. You sucky. Do
- 34:56Speaker 1: you know who West Virginia beat by two points? Kansas
- 35:01Speaker 1: Jacksonville State? What's that? Oh? Jackonville Stay? Yeah Jackonville State
- 35:05Speaker 1: should have won that game too, and that was when
- 35:06Speaker 1: West Virginia was healthy. But yeah, West Virginia also to
- 35:10Speaker 1: be Kans at home, um, and that was just a
- 35:14Speaker 1: huge letdown spot for Kansas. But yeah, I think I
- 35:16Speaker 1: think you get you get an effort, and I think
- 35:19Speaker 1: it's a great what Haggans is doing with this roster,
- 35:21Speaker 1: which we lost four starters in the middle of the
- 35:24Speaker 1: year UM to either injury or suspension. And the fact
- 35:28Speaker 1: that they're still fighting and they fought on the road
- 35:30Speaker 1: at Baylor. I mean that that tells me a lot
- 35:33Speaker 1: that they're going to fight until the end here. And
- 35:35Speaker 1: they have Gordon and McCabe younger, younger guys who look
- 35:38Speaker 1: like they're gaining some confidences secondary scores. But yeah, jack
- 35:41Speaker 1: Ville State actually should have beat West Virginia. That was
- 35:43Speaker 1: a really good game. So shout out to Jackson Obama. Listen, Jothy,
- 35:48Speaker 1: you know what you did there. You showed you showed
- 35:51Speaker 1: a beautiful sense of narrative for bringing the podcast full circle.
- 35:55Speaker 1: Thank you, and then stuck you geeked out on you
- 35:58Speaker 1: and ruined the whole moment. It was a nice call back.
- 36:03Speaker 1: I'll give you that, thank you, thank you. I'm trying, no, no,
- 36:07Speaker 1: I just I'm looking on the thing now and I
- 36:10Speaker 1: just saw that. I thought, well, that's kind of funny,
- 36:14Speaker 1: as I don't know, as are the both of you. Uh, listen,
- 36:19Speaker 1: I feel like we've done all we can do because
- 36:21Speaker 1: we got some college basketball, geeked him in. We we
- 36:26Speaker 1: got to the bottom of your feud with Dan Dockets,
- 36:31Speaker 1: we got that is Joffey, We got Joffee in assignment. Um,
- 36:35Speaker 1: we came up with a couple of drinking games. I
- 36:37Speaker 1: feel like this has been a full podcaster. Yes. And
- 36:40Speaker 1: by the way, just so I can say, because I
- 36:42Speaker 1: clearly will not be dnning my Arizona gear when I'm
- 36:47Speaker 1: in Vegas, uh I can, I can? I can wear
- 36:50Speaker 1: some action gear. I've decided. Oh that's fantastic, isn't it? Though?
- 36:54Speaker 1: I thought so so I thought you'd like that I
- 36:56Speaker 1: love that, and I'm also looking forward to your diaries
- 36:58Speaker 1: from Vegas. Well, yes, and I and I mean I hopefully.
- 37:03Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna be you know, there's any sort
- 37:06Speaker 1: of um action thing there, I'll maybe you know, show
- 37:12Speaker 1: up and hopefully no stories will be from then. We're
- 37:14Speaker 1: working on it. We are working on it. Lauren Joffe
- 37:18Speaker 1: at the Spin Zone, Stucky at Stucky Too. Thank you
- 37:22Speaker 1: both for coming on the Favorites podcast. This has been
- 37:26Speaker 1: the Favorites podcast from the Action Network, downloaded, Apple Podcasts,
- 37:30Speaker 1: Radio dot Com, Slash, the Action Network, or anywhere else
- 37:36Speaker 1: you listen to podcast. I am Chad Milman. Join us
- 37:38Speaker 1: again later this week when black Jack, Fletcher and I
- 37:42Speaker 1: go into the weekend. Until next time, Thank you very much.