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Speaker 1: If you had a repeat champion on your bracket, earser
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Speaker 1: earon loser. We had our first number one seed d decommissioned, excommunicated,
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Speaker 1: ever you want to say it from the tournament, and
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Speaker 1: it was the nine seed versus the one seed. And
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Speaker 1: Alvaro fulgaris fooling the Gators, says the Iowa Hawk. Alvarro
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Speaker 1: fulgaris nailing a wide open three point shot with less
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Speaker 1: than five second. You see, This's that's how I shoot
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Speaker 1: the ball, moneyball, mallord. And he knocked that thing down
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Speaker 1: and number nine Iowa, here come the Hawkeyes. The Iowa
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Speaker 1: Hawkeys have eliminated the reigning national champions, The Florida Gators
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Speaker 1: are out the top seed in the Gators go home
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Speaker 1: by one point loss. And so there you go, the
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Speaker 1: Iowa Hawkeys with some guy named Ben. We need more
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Speaker 1: people named Ben in sports. Ben McCollum the head coach.
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Speaker 1: They reached the sweet sixteen for the first time since
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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. In Florida. They do the walk of shame
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Speaker 1: as they do not even make it to the second
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Speaker 1: weekend of the NCAA tournament as they are out. That
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Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Better story is in
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Speaker 1: the losing locker room. We had all chalking mcchawk last year.
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Speaker 1: We will not have the same level of chalk this
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Speaker 1: year in the final four when we get to that
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Speaker 1: particular point. But the question, you have a team like
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Speaker 1: Florida loaded, stacked, a couple of NBA players in there,
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Speaker 1: all of that, and so the question who gets the blame?
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Speaker 1: Who gets the blame for Todd Golden's Florida Gators being
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Speaker 1: the first top seed knocked out of the twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: six edition of March Madness. So my thoughts on this,
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Speaker 1: I've got Rodo Ruter, Juice Cleanse and Bond Villain and
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Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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Speaker 1: are going to make some Fetichini. Alfredo is what we're
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Speaker 1: going to make. So my first thought on this is
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Speaker 1: you played the blame game. And I love playing the
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Speaker 1: blame game. Man, is that just perfect for what we
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Speaker 1: do here? To play the blame game? It's so good.
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Speaker 1: And this game I was watching, I happen to you.
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Speaker 1: Saw the little score bug thing at the top and
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Speaker 1: it said, well this game is the game I was
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Speaker 1: watching was not closed, so I said, I'll flip over
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Speaker 1: there and I turned it on. I was watching the game,
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Speaker 1: doing my thing there. And as far as the blame,
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Speaker 1: there's no need to tiptoe. If you look at the mirror,
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Speaker 1: it's the man in the mirror, and that would be
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Speaker 1: Todd Golden, the coach of the Florida Gators. Here, this
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Speaker 1: is not a well coached team down the stretch. Now,
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Speaker 1: they didn't execute the players. Ultimately, the ones on the court.
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Speaker 1: The coach, though, did not either get them ready or
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Speaker 1: allowed them to not be prepared. As the top seed,
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Speaker 1: they're playing pretty much a home game. I know it's
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Speaker 1: one hundred miles plus or one hundred and thirty miles
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Speaker 1: from Gainesville to Tampa. I get that, but you're playing
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Speaker 1: a number nine seed, and if I'm not mistaken, the
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Speaker 1: Iowahaw guys are a middle of the road big ten team?
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Speaker 1: Am I correct on that? Is that a correct analysis
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Speaker 1: that Iowa is a middle There you are. And oh,
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Speaker 1: by the way, Florida, if you're into the gambling market,
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Speaker 1: which we kind of are into that, the Florida Gators
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Speaker 1: were a ten and a half point favorite, so they
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Speaker 1: were double digit favor they didn't not only not cover
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Speaker 1: the spread, they lost the game outright. They gagged, sucked
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Speaker 1: at a time you cannot suck. And it was a
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Speaker 1: lot of coaching malpractice the way this game ended here.
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Speaker 1: And it wasn't bad luck, it was just it was
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Speaker 1: a hot mess for the Gators in this one, and
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Speaker 1: they climbed out of it. I think they were down
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Speaker 1: by I think it was like ten or twelve or
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Speaker 1: something like that, and they took the lead late in
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Speaker 1: the game. So the Gators had the lead over the
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Speaker 1: Hotkeyes late in the game, and they they turned into
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Speaker 1: a It's like a hurricane prep kit, you know, you
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Speaker 1: buy those kits and they have everything you need for
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Speaker 1: the hurricane, except they didn't have the batteries. Well, what
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Speaker 1: good is that you need the batteries? Why it didn't
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Speaker 1: have any batteries. Why didn't they have batteries. Well, that's
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Speaker 1: somebody didn't plan, right, I'm to blame the coach. They
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Speaker 1: didn't have the batteries and so all that stuff that
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Speaker 1: needed batteries they didn't have any, and they needed it
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Speaker 1: in crunch time. And yeah, that didn't happen. That did
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Speaker 1: not happen. There, bad late game execution, bad coaching, failing
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Speaker 1: to force Iowa to beat them one on one. They
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Speaker 1: played the zone half court defense and they did not
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Speaker 1: clamp down on Iowa and it was wide open. Now
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Speaker 1: you still got to make it. The kid made it
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Speaker 1: for Iowa could shot by him. I'll voral fool Garrison
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Speaker 1: another transfer. He's not been a long time. I think
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Speaker 1: he played somewhere else last year. I forget where. Some
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Speaker 1: smaller school got got a check and came and and
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Speaker 1: then that was that. So it was it was just
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Speaker 1: bad all the way around. The defense at the end
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Speaker 1: was not good. And then that last shot, Oh my
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Speaker 1: holy Canoley, that was that. So Florida four and a
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Speaker 1: half seconds. They went to the review to figure out
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Speaker 1: how much time said four and a half seconds, all right,
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Speaker 1: So Florida had plenty of time to come down and
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Speaker 1: get a decent shot, and they could be the hero,
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Speaker 1: they could be the stars of the show and all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. And so the defense was a mistake. And
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Speaker 1: here's the pressure, right, and the old line. Pressure can
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Speaker 1: either burst a pipe or pressure can make a beautiful diamond.
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Speaker 1: With the Florida Gators in this particular game, they needed
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Speaker 1: to call Roto Router, that's the name. Because pipes burst
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Speaker 1: and there was water everywhere. There was no excuses. They
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Speaker 1: did not even get a shot. They did not. It's
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Speaker 1: like going to cheesecake factory and ordering a meal and
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Speaker 1: just sniffing it. You couldn't even get a shot. What
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Speaker 1: is that? You got to at least get a shot up,
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Speaker 1: at least have a chance. It just they dribbled the
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Speaker 1: ball and turned it over. I don't even know count
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Speaker 1: it as a turnover and it goes the way of
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Speaker 1: the Iowah Hawkeyes there, so they get to win. Now,
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Speaker 1: Todd Golden's Gators again, they were just incompetent at the end.
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Speaker 1: This shouldn't have been in that situation anyway, but they were.
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Speaker 1: And most of these games in the tournament are unless
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Speaker 1: you're really terrible, are close or Kentucky, who's got blown
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Speaker 1: out in their game. Meanwhile, how about the Jayhawks buzzer beater? Here,
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Speaker 1: the top player for the Kansas Jayhawks decided he didn't
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Speaker 1: want to plenty defense. He was protecting himself for the
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Speaker 1: NBA lottery. Why would he go out there and try
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Speaker 1: to stop someone? Please? So anyway, Bill Self, that could
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Speaker 1: be it? That's all she wrote for Bill Self? Or
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Speaker 1: is it? Bill Self? The Kansas longtime Kansas coach says
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Speaker 1: he has not decided whether or not he will continue
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Speaker 1: as the coach in Lawrence, Kansas. Or if it's it,
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Speaker 1: that's all the season ending St. John's winning on their
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Speaker 1: own buzzer beating layup. Dylan Darling, Now that's a good name,
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Speaker 1: that's a solid name. Dylan Darling with the layup thanks
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Speaker 1: to the olay defense by the Kansas Jayhawks, their top
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Speaker 1: player who will be drafted by Utah Sacramento the Wizard,
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Speaker 1: some god awful NBA franchise, and that'll be that. So
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Speaker 1: Darling had the layup. Rick Pattino moves on to the
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Speaker 1: next round. And as for the topic at hand, I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about Bill Selfier and his commentary. The sixty three
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Speaker 1: year old Bill Self, who won two national championships and
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Speaker 1: has built a consistently good team with the Jayhawks, although
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Speaker 1: this was obviously not one of the greats. They lose
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Speaker 1: on the buzzer beater there. Late, he's also had a
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Speaker 1: lot of minor health stuff, some of it has turned
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Speaker 1: into major health stuff. Bill self the last couple of
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Speaker 1: years just from AFAR, and he's missed several games with
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Speaker 1: medical issues and other health concerns. And so he's sixty three.
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Speaker 1: He say, well, he can coach several more years. You
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Speaker 1: don't have to step away at sixty three. But he's
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Speaker 1: the difference is he's had some issue. So the question
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Speaker 1: Kansas coach Bill Self says, he has not decided. He's
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Speaker 1: an undecided voter, undecided voter whether or not he will
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Speaker 1: continue his Hall of Fame coaching career. What is your
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Speaker 1: read on this one? What does your read on this one?
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Speaker 1: So on this one, we all know what this is.
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Speaker 1: We are aware of what this is. Even in the
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Speaker 1: back of the room off to the to the far side,
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Speaker 1: I think we know what this is here. So this
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Speaker 1: is a very long goodbye. I like the Irish goodbye.
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Speaker 1: It just just feels like a long goodbye without actually
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Speaker 1: saying goodbye. He didn't say bye bye. He didn't say
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Speaker 1: that Bill self. Bill Self is saying, I haven't decided,
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Speaker 1: I'm undecided. That is coach speak. I use the mallar
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Speaker 1: Rosetta stone. It is coach speak for I've already packed
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Speaker 1: the suitcase. I just haven't called the uber to come
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Speaker 1: pick me up and take me where I need to go.
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Speaker 1: It's a soft launch towards leaving Kansas and doing television
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Speaker 1: or just retiring. And it's like when you when you
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Speaker 1: say it's one of these things that like when you say, hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about doing that juice cleanse. Okay, sure you've
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Speaker 1: already bought the blender and you bought a bunch of fruit.
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Speaker 1: You're you're already down that road. You're gonna do the
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Speaker 1: juice cleans. And so Bill self he's at that point
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Speaker 1: where he was like, I'm thinking about it because you
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Speaker 1: if you're gonna stay, you don't even pretend like you're
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Speaker 1: not gonna stay, because that'll be used against you. That'll
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Speaker 1: be weaponized in the NIL game course. Now it's all
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Speaker 1: about how much money these guys get in NIL, but
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Speaker 1: it would be used against you. Well, you can't go
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Speaker 1: play for kids, it's Bill Self's gonna he's gonna step
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Speaker 1: away and retire. But he didn't say that. Well, he
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Speaker 1: kind of hinted at it. So he's had hard issues.
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Speaker 1: He had a I think it was a couple of
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Speaker 1: years ago. He had some some stints put in that
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that's good.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Uh. And there you go, and just the NIL. So
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Speaker 1: all these old guard coaches having to deal with the
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Speaker 1: NIL world. It's it's kind of like when the automobile
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Speaker 1: came along and you're like, I want my horse and buggy.
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Speaker 1: I like my horse and buggy. We know we got
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Speaker 1: these cars. Well, no the car. I don't like the car.
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Speaker 1: I like my I like my horse and buggy. Uh.
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Speaker 1: That kind of thing. So, and the NIL is so ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: It's out, I'm all four players getting some money. This
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Speaker 1: is what they've done here is oh my god. The
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Speaker 1: NIL thing, it's cryptocurrency run by teenagers. Is essentially what's
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Speaker 1: going on here in college basketball. And it's not what
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Speaker 1: Bill Self had done all these years to build up
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Speaker 1: the legend of Bill Self. It's an open air flea market.
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Speaker 1: Every six months, you're like, all right, I'm a free agent.
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Speaker 1: And he's made so much money, a crazy f you money,
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Speaker 1: Bill self. I tried to look it up exactly, and
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Speaker 1: I think I'm close. He's not eating Ramen noodles with
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Speaker 1: Marcel and Brooklyn, He's not. He's got oligart cash, eighty
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Speaker 1: million plus in career earnings just at Kansas, just to Kansas.
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Speaker 1: So you think he wants to continue this. He's got
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Speaker 1: some health issues there. The every six months you got
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Speaker 1: to re recruit your roster and say no, no, we
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Speaker 1: love you, we love you. And so I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's indecision at all, based on reading between the words
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Speaker 1: of Bill self and between what he had to say
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. It's just the sport that he mastered,
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Speaker 1: that he was a maestro at, is no longer the
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Speaker 1: sport that it is. It's not like I'm I'm pretty
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Speaker 1: sure that most of these successful programs, if not one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent, were cutting envelopes with cash to the top players.
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Speaker 1: Now everyone's getting paid them, so good time to exit now. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: the big picture, So one of the other storylines over
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Speaker 1: the weekend, I was paying attention, you know, a couple
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Speaker 1: of days away from the watch, I was doing the
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Speaker 1: podcast the fifth Hour podcast, which is available, by the way.
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Speaker 1: And so a number of people were freaking out because
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Speaker 1: of the lack of wins between seeds ten and sixteen
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Speaker 1: in the men's basketball tournament. In fact, in the first round.
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Speaker 1: I know, we're into the sweet sixteen now, but in
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Speaker 1: the first round of games Thursday and Friday, there were
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Speaker 1: three teams out of three of the twenty eight possible games,
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Speaker 1: three of them ended with the team that was the
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Speaker 1: lower seed advancing right. Three first round wins out of
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Speaker 1: twenty games, that's not great. The average loss margin was
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Speaker 1: thirteen points per game for the higher seed meeting like
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Speaker 1: the ten through sixteen seed. Okay, fine, Now, historically, let's
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Speaker 1: go back on the hot top time machine nineteen eighty five.
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Speaker 1: He had Ronald Reagan hanging out there all the way
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Speaker 1: to twenty twenty. And in that period of time, it's
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Speaker 1: a long time. So a couple of generations, seeds average
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Speaker 1: the average seed roughly six to eight first round victories annually.
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Speaker 1: So three now, so that's that's less than half of
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Speaker 1: the eight, and it's half of the six. And the
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Speaker 1: margin of defeat was six to seven points. Now it's
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Speaker 1: thirteen points. And so people freaking out, So the question
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Speaker 1: is it true, Is it true that Nil really did
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Speaker 1: kill Cinderella in March Madness? So I give this side
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Speaker 1: eye and here's let me tell you why I give
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Speaker 1: this side. Every March we do this same dance last year.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, all the number one seat. It's so bad,
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Speaker 1: a freaking out right. We gather around the campfire and
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Speaker 1: we roast marshmallows and we complain. I miss Sundarrella. I
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Speaker 1: want to have the big ups. Everyone is blaming Nil
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Speaker 1: like it's the Bond villain stroking a cat. You know
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Speaker 1: it says okay, I would say you're not. And I
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Speaker 1: don't love Nil the way it's it's played out. I'd
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Speaker 1: like again, I think the player should get paid and
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Speaker 1: they have to pay taxes like the rest of us,
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Speaker 1: but in unless than in Mississippi because there's nothing else
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Speaker 1: going on. And so that's it. But the issue here
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Speaker 1: with the Nil stuff, I only use so much mad
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Speaker 1: at Nil. The illusion is gone. I a lot of
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Speaker 1: people love the illusion. That bull crap about student athlete.
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Speaker 1: My dad long gone now, But my dad went to
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Speaker 1: school at UCLA and he went to school lu al
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Speaker 1: Cinder was playing for the u C le Bruins. My
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Speaker 1: dad never saw him in class, even though he had
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Speaker 1: a class with Luel Cinder, because he never showed up
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Speaker 1: the class. Why would you? And so. But it's always
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Speaker 1: kind of been like that. But you like the marketing campaign,
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Speaker 1: student athlete, you were into it, you really enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: That illusion has gone now it's no longer the perception
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Speaker 1: of the small school, which is like the neighborhood bake
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Speaker 1: sale or the lemonade stand. And then on the other
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Speaker 1: side you've got this conglomerate, this Wall Street group. Now
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Speaker 1: it's more like Nasdaq versus the New York Stock Exchange.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty much the same. There's just a few minor
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Speaker 1: differences and that's it. And the amount of money is
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Speaker 1: un real. How much money it has been paid here
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Speaker 1: the endorsement deals. It is estimated that players, you know
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Speaker 1: how much they got paid in college basketball. As you
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Speaker 1: want to take a guest, you got to get a
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Speaker 1: number in your head. The just college basketball nil has
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Speaker 1: paid endorsement deals totally nine hundred and thirty two million
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Speaker 1: in checks the players and all that in twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: twenty six. Yeah, and everyone's out everyone's outage because this
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Speaker 1: whole Disney movie thing has been replaced by a spreadsheet.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, this is not right now, if my math
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Speaker 1: is correct, I looked at my bracket. I think we
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Speaker 1: have one double digit seed, the Texas Longhorns, the number
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Speaker 1: eleven seed into the sweet sixteen. I believe that's it.
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Speaker 1: And they're not even like. You think of a number eleven.
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Speaker 1: You think of some directional school somewhere right. You know,
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Speaker 1: you don't think of Texas in Austin. I know it's
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Speaker 1: not a basketball school, but you don't think of the
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Speaker 1: Longhorns of Texas as a Cinderella type team. And the
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Speaker 1: slipper doesn't fit. If the slipper doesn't flit doesn't fit.
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Speaker 1: You must have quit. So anyway, my theory is that
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Speaker 1: upsets are supposed to be rare. They are going to
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Speaker 1: be more rare for the foresee future. But that's not
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Speaker 1: a bad thing, right If everyone is Cinderella and you
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Speaker 1: had all these upsets, it actually hurts the product because
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Speaker 1: less people watch when their brackets destroyed. Now, it should
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Speaker 1: be easier. Just pick all chalk and you'll do pretty good.
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Speaker 1: You're not gonna do that bad. If you just take
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Speaker 1: all chalk and you have a couple. You need a
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Speaker 1: couple of glass slipper of moments, just kind of scratch
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Speaker 1: that itch, a couple of moments to scratch that itch
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Speaker 1: and kind of wet the appetite. And not a gaggle
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Speaker 1: of them. Not a gaggle of them, And that's fine.
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Speaker 1: Could there have been more? Sure, there could have been more.
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Speaker 1: We're okay.
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Speaker 1: so it's money, money, money, the money Hawks, the money Hawks.
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Speaker 1: The flag is up and the flag is a green flag. Money, money, money,
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Speaker 1: all about that money. So our lead this hour from Seattle,
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Speaker 1: where the Seahawks have opened up the oil reserve and
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Speaker 1: decided to give out the riches of Solomon. Team is
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Speaker 1: for sale right now. Some rich tech personal buy it
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Speaker 1: or a hedge fund person. Those are the only people
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Speaker 1: that buy teams these days. So somebody very wealthy, more
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Speaker 1: wealthy than you and I, is gonna buy the team
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Speaker 1: and they will inherit a massive contract given out. As
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Speaker 1: we learned that Jackson Smith in Jigma, the reigning NFL
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Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Year, has agreed to a contract.
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Speaker 1: He'll get four years, same money you're making, four years,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty eight point six million million. I'll
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Speaker 1: just take the point six I'd be happy. One hundred
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Speaker 1: and sixty eight point six million the contract extension, which
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Speaker 1: we are told, yes, indeed, will make him the highest
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Speaker 1: paid wide receiver in the history of the NFL. Holy
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Speaker 1: Willie Flipper Anderson Batman. Yes money, jeez great, Well, when
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Speaker 1: you deal with inflation, it's the same money as like
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Speaker 1: John Taylor was making as the number two receiver for
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Speaker 1: the Niners back in the late eighties. In the early nineties. Right, No,
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Speaker 1: it's not okay. So he will get if assuming he
19:35
Speaker 1: plays out the contract. We're told he'll get an average
19:37
Speaker 1: forty two million Jackson Smith and Jagba forty two million,
19:42
Speaker 1: and that includes over one hundred and twenty million. Garrongteed
19:47
Speaker 1: Garonteed and both those setting records. I know we're very
19:52
Speaker 1: happy about that. So pour one out for Jackson Smith
19:55
Speaker 1: and Jigba as he gets paid. That is a good
19:58
Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss us. Reading some of
20:01
Speaker 1: the instant reaction from the media elites that cover the NFL,
20:06
Speaker 1: they seem to be in agreement that this is a
20:09
Speaker 1: major win for the Seattle football team. So let us
20:12
Speaker 1: discuss the question the Seahawks extension of Jackson Smith and
20:16
Speaker 1: Jigba is being universally praised and celebrated. Way to go,
20:23
Speaker 1: what's your take? So I've got glow sticks, avocados, and
20:27
Speaker 1: the Gap band, and we will combine all of these
20:31
Speaker 1: things together and we will play on the jungle gym.
20:35
Speaker 1: Is what we're going to do. So hey, let's begin
20:38
Speaker 1: with this. Jackson Smith and Jigba obviously got a ton
20:41
Speaker 1: of money. Good for him, great mitzvah, right, and that
20:43
Speaker 1: pigskin pundits are clapping like trained seals at seahawk World,
20:49
Speaker 1: not SeaWorld. Seahawk World is what they're doing here. Now
20:52
Speaker 1: my view is more measured, as you know, I am
20:54
Speaker 1: the voice of reason in the overnight, not part of
20:56
Speaker 1: the mainstream media establishment. That's six am to six pm.
21:00
Speaker 1: We're on overnight, So we are not part of the
21:03
Speaker 1: mainstream media elites, those guys that live in big mansions
21:07
Speaker 1: and get all kinds of bling bling. No, no, we're
21:10
Speaker 1: not that. So this is an extension. He had a
21:12
Speaker 1: sixty nine million dollars signing bonus. That's a lottery that's
21:17
Speaker 1: bigger than most of the lotteries today, sixty nine million.
21:21
Speaker 1: And he got that as a reaction to what is
21:24
Speaker 1: a pure dopamine hit, an injection in fact, not just
21:29
Speaker 1: an injection of dopamine straight into the jugular of the
21:33
Speaker 1: front office. And JSN has gotten the benefit of being
21:40
Speaker 1: obviously he was a central figure. And what they did
21:42
Speaker 1: with the seahush got some help from the referees against
21:44
Speaker 1: the rams. We all know that. That's certainly he should
21:46
Speaker 1: thank the referee. They should get checks as well, Jackson
21:49
Speaker 1: Smith and Jig, but should give them checks for helping
21:51
Speaker 1: them out there, the Seahawks. Otherwise they would not have
21:53
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. But Monster mashing in twenty twenty five.
21:58
Speaker 1: No debate, no if sam or buts about it. He
22:00
Speaker 1: was great last year. However, it's one truly elite season.
22:06
Speaker 1: What is the gold The golden rule was always and
22:08
Speaker 1: I know it's no longer the golden rule. You're just
22:10
Speaker 1: doing an old guy radio dude, But the rule had
22:13
Speaker 1: always been you got to do it twice to prove
22:15
Speaker 1: that that year was not a fluke. And that went
22:19
Speaker 1: out the win and we see stiff quarterback Kyler Murray sucked.
22:23
Speaker 1: Everyone knew it. The Cardinals paid him. They gave him
22:25
Speaker 1: the big contract in Houston right now, they're dealing with
22:29
Speaker 1: that CJ. Stroud blows. They gave him, you know, they
22:32
Speaker 1: gave him a contract, and they're gonna give him another big,
22:35
Speaker 1: massive contract. So he's gonna get paid a ton of
22:38
Speaker 1: money and he's not that good, and and they'll do
22:41
Speaker 1: it because they have to do it, and that's what
22:43
Speaker 1: you do and all that stuff. But in this case,
22:45
Speaker 1: at least he was great for one year, dominant season.
22:49
Speaker 1: The main reason, the theory I have the main reason
22:52
Speaker 1: that Jackson Smith and jig But got this contract is
22:57
Speaker 1: simply because of the gloss. When I say the glow sticks,
23:02
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the afterglow of the Super Bowl. You're
23:07
Speaker 1: around that Lombardi trophy. You get in that same room.
23:11
Speaker 1: It's like fentanyl. Yeah, you get a contact high. Don't
23:15
Speaker 1: touch it. You get that contact high. Mentioned the dopamine,
23:19
Speaker 1: You get that dopamine going. And so Seattle is paying
23:23
Speaker 1: a premium as a thank you note. Amazing and it
23:28
Speaker 1: was a great memory. It was wonderful, and it's written
23:32
Speaker 1: in gold ink. And now you got to keep doing
23:35
Speaker 1: it all right now, page two. So the theme of
23:38
Speaker 1: the hour here as we continue to march and matriculate
23:41
Speaker 1: down the audio clock here. So the question now is
23:46
Speaker 1: how could this Jackson Smith and JIGBA massive record breaking
23:50
Speaker 1: wide receiver contract backfire for the six Now, it would
23:54
Speaker 1: be really sad if this would have backfired. I mean
23:57
Speaker 1: really depressing if this turns out to be a bad contract,
24:00
Speaker 1: even though everyone's celebrating it. And one thing I've learned
24:04
Speaker 1: over the years is when everyone's in agreement on something,
24:07
Speaker 1: run the other way. When everyone thinks something's going to happen,
24:11
Speaker 1: go the other direction because nobody knows anything. It's the
24:14
Speaker 1: chaos theory of the world. Everyone's just making stuff up
24:17
Speaker 1: thinking they know. They don't know. So it certainly looks
24:21
Speaker 1: fine because the salary cap goes up every year. You're like,
24:25
Speaker 1: I'm the money. Stuff doesn't really doesn't really do much
24:28
Speaker 1: for me. But if as long as he continues to
24:31
Speaker 1: be a human cheat code, you're like, okay, that's fine. However,
24:34
Speaker 1: in the multiverse, there is a dimension where Smith and
24:38
Speaker 1: Jigba is just really good and not that really good
24:42
Speaker 1: is bad. No one would say really good is bad.
24:44
Speaker 1: Really good is really good, so you go, okay, However,
24:49
Speaker 1: is really good a forty million, forty two million dollar
24:53
Speaker 1: neighborhood for a wide receiver or did Seattle just buy
24:57
Speaker 1: beachfront property? And the the reality is they are sitting
25:01
Speaker 1: in Nebraska? Is that the reality on that? And so
25:05
Speaker 1: this always becomes press your luck. These contracts are press
25:08
Speaker 1: your luck, big money, big money, big money, No emmy,
25:11
Speaker 1: no emmy, stop like that. That's how it comes. Now.
25:15
Speaker 1: The smart money says that a monster career year for
25:19
Speaker 1: Smith and Jigba will lead to what we call a
25:22
Speaker 1: regression to the mean that he's not that good, and
25:26
Speaker 1: he's going to fall back a little bit, and extreme
25:29
Speaker 1: outcomes are followed by more moderate ones. We all know that.
25:33
Speaker 1: And he is young and all, he was all excited
25:36
Speaker 1: about that, twenty four years old. That's oh, he's so young.
25:39
Speaker 1: Youth is lovely, it's so adorable. The youth, Oh my god. However,
25:43
Speaker 1: I have learned that not everyone continues. You just assume
25:47
Speaker 1: because someone's young and have success, they're going to continue
25:49
Speaker 1: to have success. We all know the person that peaked
25:51
Speaker 1: in high school, right, the star of the high school
25:53
Speaker 1: football team that never did anything, of the hottest girl
25:56
Speaker 1: in school who just became a loser. We all know
25:58
Speaker 1: that person, right, live that life. We've seen that. So
26:02
Speaker 1: that happens in sports too. And it's no different than
26:05
Speaker 1: a new car. You go down and the new car
26:09
Speaker 1: is great, it's wonderful. You go down a Car Max
26:11
Speaker 1: or whatever dealership, you get a car, and right until
26:14
Speaker 1: you drive that car off the lot, it's great, and
26:18
Speaker 1: then the value drops down, down, down, down down. How
26:22
Speaker 1: low can you go faster than a defensive coordinator having
26:26
Speaker 1: a meltdown, having a lack of patience because their defense
26:30
Speaker 1: sucks and all that. But generally speaking, receivers. If you
26:34
Speaker 1: look at the up and down of the wide receiver position,
26:39
Speaker 1: it's like an avocado. Now I'm not a big avocado guy.
26:42
Speaker 1: The avocado, though, can be absolutely perfect. You take it
26:47
Speaker 1: from the story, you put in your little plastic bag
26:50
Speaker 1: and you take that home and it's perfect, and then
26:53
Speaker 1: like you don't even pay attention to it, and then
26:55
Speaker 1: a minute later it's this brown mush and it's just disgusting.
26:59
Speaker 1: And so that does happen a bit at JSN has
27:03
Speaker 1: a bigger bullseye the Seahawks as a team winning the
27:07
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, but it's about the size of that bullseye
27:09
Speaker 1: of Mount Rainier for Jackson, Smith and Jig. But every
27:13
Speaker 1: defensive back will from here to Miami. We'll be like, okay,
27:18
Speaker 1: so now we can circle the name and our name
27:22
Speaker 1: will be uplifted. It's like a launching pad. If we
27:26
Speaker 1: shut down this guy because he got the cartoon contracts,
27:30
Speaker 1: so we're good on that. And if production does dip
27:32
Speaker 1: even a little bit, then this Smith and Jigbud deal
27:37
Speaker 1: turns into moldy bread, not slice bread, moldy bread. And
27:44
Speaker 1: based on the twenty twenty five production, if you look
27:49
Speaker 1: at that, just based on that year, if he had
27:50
Speaker 1: the same exact year, which will be an amazing year.
27:53
Speaker 1: No one has back to back career years, it doesn't happen.
27:57
Speaker 1: If he does, Jackson do that, then he would be
27:59
Speaker 1: getting three hundred and fifty three thousand dollars per catch.
28:04
Speaker 1: He would be getting four point two million dollars per
28:06
Speaker 1: touchdown based on some back of the Napkin Malor math.
28:10
Speaker 1: So it seems like that's pretty good at that price.
28:13
Speaker 1: You would think that each reception would come with a
28:16
Speaker 1: complimentary like valet parking. You get free Valet parking, you
28:21
Speaker 1: get a dessert cart with really nice designer cupcakes and
28:26
Speaker 1: those thick cookies, the white chocolate macadamia nut cookies that
28:30
Speaker 1: are so good. Yeah, you get all that. Now, last
28:33
Speaker 1: we'd here, so flipping the page. Flipping the page. Now
28:37
Speaker 1: as we continue hearing the Ben Malor show. So now
28:39
Speaker 1: that Seattle forked over the cash and they made it rain.
28:44
Speaker 1: In fact, it's unfortunate because I'm told that Nostradinas and
28:47
Speaker 1: Jay J. N Renton, they actually Seattle they needed some money,
28:51
Speaker 1: so they took some cash from those guys to pay
28:54
Speaker 1: Smith and Jig. But it's unfortunate unless they didn't, so
28:57
Speaker 1: Seattle forked over all this money. The question here is
29:00
Speaker 1: what are the trickle down economics? Shout out Ronald Reagan,
29:04
Speaker 1: what are the trickle down economics of this? Jackson Smith
29:08
Speaker 1: and Jigba contract with Seattle around the NFL. So it
29:13
Speaker 1: is reverberating, reverberating around the NFL. The rest of the NFL,
29:17
Speaker 1: cranking up the Gap band. That's old. That's an old band,
29:23
Speaker 1: the gap band right on the boom box. They got
29:25
Speaker 1: that going. That's old. Also, you dropped a bomb on me.
29:30
Speaker 1: That's the song you dropped a bomb on me. The
29:32
Speaker 1: Seahawks trickled down economics. Bomb come boom, come boom, just
29:37
Speaker 1: like that on the rest of the NFL. So if
29:40
Speaker 1: you check the consumer price index, the Seahawks have just
29:44
Speaker 1: raised the price of groceries around the NFL, just like that. Now,
29:50
Speaker 1: former President Joe Biden would say, it's the putin price
29:53
Speaker 1: hike on wide receivers. That's it. The JSN deal is
29:58
Speaker 1: pure so recap inflation, but it trickles down. I'm a
30:03
Speaker 1: salary cap truther, so I don't really care about that.
30:05
Speaker 1: But it trickles down, it inflates everything suddenly. The the
30:09
Speaker 1: issues here. I mean, I was getting text from from
30:12
Speaker 1: friends of mine that are around this world and they're like, well,
30:15
Speaker 1: you know, Jamar Chase is gonna be like, wait a minute. Uh,
30:18
Speaker 1: you know I'm better than Smith and Jigba. I should
30:21
Speaker 1: be getting this money and my contract. I'm now number two,
30:25
Speaker 1: but I'm a bargain. And every other wide receiver from
30:29
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson to CD Lamb, all these guys would be like, hey,
30:32
Speaker 1: let's try to renegotiate, gets some more money. Who says no?
30:36
Speaker 1: And the one that's really smiling, Pooka Nakoua, who's measurably better.
30:41
Speaker 1: He'd much rather have Pooka Nakoua than Jackson, Smith and
30:44
Speaker 1: Jigba on your team. Please not even close. And and
30:48
Speaker 1: he's got Pooka Nakoupa's got a cheshire Cat smile on
30:52
Speaker 1: his on his face from ear to ear because he's
30:55
Speaker 1: sitting in the pole position and he's like, hey, I
30:59
Speaker 1: got next, I'm in put me in, coach, I'm ready
31:02
Speaker 1: to play. The wide receiver market is on fire, absolute fire,
31:09
Speaker 1: and it does prove the cap is crap. And I
31:13
Speaker 1: get nasty emails every once in a while some guys
31:15
Speaker 1: who don't have the balls to call. I get it.
31:17
Speaker 1: You're afraid I understand, so you send me long manifesto emails.
31:21
Speaker 1: Do I read the whole email? Hell no, I maybe
31:23
Speaker 1: read the first couple of sentences. That's it, and I
31:25
Speaker 1: get bored. But you're yell. I know what the tone is.
31:28
Speaker 1: You know you're not a math gut and you know
31:30
Speaker 1: you want to shuttle Bark College and you don't know.
31:32
Speaker 1: Aboudy shut up. I know it's bogus. The salarycap is bogus.
31:38
Speaker 1: It just fools dumb people. That's it. That's all. And
31:42
Speaker 1: this is more evidence of that. The rich get richer good,
31:46
Speaker 1: the mid tier guys get squeezed bad. The owners are
31:49
Speaker 1: still gonna cry poverty. It's a great excuse. I can't
31:52
Speaker 1: afford to sign that player. It's the salarycap. Yet other
31:55
Speaker 1: teams just cook the books and move numbers around, sign
31:57
Speaker 1: whoever they want, and then every once in a while
32:00
Speaker 1: you have to take it in the shorts, and then
32:02
Speaker 1: that's it.
32:02
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malor
32:04
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now
32:10
Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of Money. Hello, do you have what it
32:14
Speaker 2: takes to get to the top. Probably not.
32:18
Speaker 1: All right, let's do this here. Welcome into our contestants
32:20
Speaker 1: for Mallard's amount of money. We have Uncle Mo from Jersey. Hello,
32:25
Speaker 1: Uncle Mo. Good morning, Ben. I hope we do a
32:27
Speaker 1: little better than last week's defensive struggle, Ben. If I
32:30
Speaker 1: have one second?
32:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, you don't have one second?
32:33
Speaker 1: Yea? Oh?
32:34
Speaker 3: Sorry, okay, sorry one all right?
32:36
Speaker 1: Who you're gonna partner up with me? Yeah, I'm gonna
32:40
Speaker 1: part up with you? All right, very good? Hold on
32:42
Speaker 1: a second, and we have Richie in Minnesota. Hello, Richie,
32:47
Speaker 1: I'm going man, going on. Man, you're driving around, You're
32:50
Speaker 1: gonna be able to focus on the game. Yeah, sure,
32:53
Speaker 1: dropping my fork with here, moth going down? Okay, Uncle moll,
32:57
Speaker 1: you're going down. Richie in Minnesota's going to beat you. Moo.
33:00
Speaker 1: Categories here quickly plays. All right.
33:02
Speaker 5: This is the Alison Hannigan addition. She turns fifty two
33:05
Speaker 5: years old today. Categories are American Pie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
33:09
Speaker 5: How I Met Your Mother?
33:10
Speaker 3: And American Reunion? Uncle, Which category would you like?
33:14
Speaker 1: How I Met your Mother?
33:15
Speaker 3: All right? And Ritchie, how about you?
33:18
Speaker 1: American Pie? All right? All right, but forty five seconds
33:22
Speaker 1: on the clock. You picked how I met your mother
33:24
Speaker 1: and mo. These athletes have a lot of baby mamas,
33:28
Speaker 1: a lot of baby mamas. Are you ready? Yeah, all right, boxer,
33:37
Speaker 1: this thing is butterfly, be the whole thing, your greatest boxer. Yes,
33:44
Speaker 1: don't answer. Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver, as you might
33:47
Speaker 1: have mentioned his name already. Yes, a star with the
33:53
Speaker 1: Toronto with the Montreal expos His son played for the Angels. Yes,
33:58
Speaker 1: the rain Man for the super song, power forward for
34:01
Speaker 1: the son. No, power forward was team with defensive back
34:06
Speaker 1: you have played with the Jets. Couldn't name all his
34:08
Speaker 1: kids famously, Yes, running back for the Buffalo Bills. Uh,
34:13
Speaker 1: played with the Titans as well. Known for a bunch
34:16
Speaker 1: of kids. Really two thousands Houston, All right, that Travis Henry,
34:24
Speaker 1: Travis Henry.
34:24
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Richie, you know, all right, okay.
34:28
Speaker 3: Richie, we have a little kids, Richie, we have American pie.
34:32
Speaker 1: Uh.
34:32
Speaker 5: These athletes were in high school band that one time
34:36
Speaker 5: in band camp. Are you ready, Richie?
34:38
Speaker 1: Yeah?
34:39
Speaker 5: All right, forty five seconds of the clock. Let's begin.
34:41
Speaker 5: This guy was a famous in Toronto. He was a
34:44
Speaker 5: big time dunker.
34:48
Speaker 3: Yes.
34:49
Speaker 5: Uh, this guy's running back. His nickname was Sweetness. I
34:55
Speaker 5: don't know, okay.
34:57
Speaker 1: Uh.
34:57
Speaker 5: This guy's brother is Travis. He was a enter for
35:00
Speaker 5: the Eagles.
35:03
Speaker 1: Trav Travis Kelsey.
35:06
Speaker 3: No his brother, Oh all right, Hall of Fame wide
35:13
Speaker 3: receiver spent most of his career with the Raiders.
35:17
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown.
35:19
Speaker 3: That's not his first name.
35:22
Speaker 1: All right.
35:23
Speaker 3: This guy is the current kicker for the Chiefs.
35:26
Speaker 1: All right, I think you got it, Tim Brown, You're
35:30
Speaker 1: right in the game.
35:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's Tim Brown. Walter Payton is Sweetness Jason Kelse.
35:36
Speaker 5: All right, Richie, do you want Buffy the Vampire Slayer
35:40
Speaker 5: or American.
35:40
Speaker 1: Reunion to the Vampire?
35:44
Speaker 5: All right, these retired athletes look like they have barely
35:46
Speaker 5: aged forty five seconds of the clock.
35:48
Speaker 3: Let's begin.
35:49
Speaker 5: The best running back of all time on the Lions.
35:55
Speaker 3: Yes uh.
35:56
Speaker 5: This guy was a slugger for the Yankees and the Mariners.
36:00
Speaker 5: He did steroids. He was also on the Rangers. He
36:08
Speaker 5: dated j Lo.
36:09
Speaker 1: He dated j Lo Odrio.
36:13
Speaker 3: Yes, this guy was on the Pacers. He's a broadcaster now.
36:16
Speaker 3: He did the choking sign.
36:21
Speaker 1: Regie Miller. Yes uh.
36:22
Speaker 5: This guy was a wide receiver on the forty nine
36:24
Speaker 5: Ers and then later the Cowboys. He cried, He's like,
36:27
Speaker 5: that's my quarterback. Uh he stood, he stood on the star. Okay,
36:33
Speaker 5: this guy's the best.
36:34
Speaker 1: All right, all right, you didn't get bankrupt. We don't
36:39
Speaker 1: need the full amount of time. We're gonna run up
36:40
Speaker 1: the score. What do you say? Here we go ready?
36:42
Speaker 4: Uh?
36:42
Speaker 1: These athletes all went back to their original team from Akron, Ohio.
36:47
Speaker 1: He's on the Lakers right now, James. Yes, the answer
36:50
Speaker 1: for the Sixers. Yes, Uh, straight cash homie. Minnesota Vikings
36:55
Speaker 1: wide receiver Randy Moore, Yes, big ticket played with the
36:59
Speaker 1: Minnesota tim was once Kevin Gardner. Yes, a picture for
37:02
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. Not not Greg Matic, John Smolt, Tom Glovin,
37:06
Speaker 1: there you go, all right, glab and Uh running back
37:09
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins in the nineteen sixties, hosting an outdoor show. Uh,
37:14
Speaker 1: we're doa. We won, We won. That was Larry Zonka.
37:17
Speaker 1: We won Oncle Mo