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And Then There Were Four · Sports Exchange

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  Happy Wednesday night. This is Scott morganoth and welcome to another edition of the
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  Sports Exchange. Yes, indeed, on the MotorCity Madmouth they had a good
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  MotorCity mad Mouth show, as Adam Lichtenstein, who covers the Miami Hurricanes,
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  had an opportunity to join me. With that said, we have a basketball
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  edition here on the Sports Exchange. I want to welcome Candy Everily. Welcome
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  Candy. Thanks Scott, thanks for having me. Let's talk some March madness.
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  Yeah, we're gonna be doing that, all right. Jbls, what's
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  going on? How are we doing tonight? We're doing all right. You
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  know, I'm playing baseball. I've had a lot of interesting curveballs, and
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  you know what, somehow somewhere we're gonna hit it out of the park tonight
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  and laugh and not leave. George Icorn blows out twenty two Late Show tonight.
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  Yeah things happened, Johnny, Johnny Carson didn't make it here, joshuas
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  or late start this evening, whiles be it not do it? It doesn't.
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  It wasn't due to weather by any means. All right, good night,
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  everybody, Good night plays those things are hanging in there. With us.
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  We appreciate it, all right, give you a It's all basketball night.
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  That's all you need to know. Folks, stay with us and we'll
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  get to the different layers that we have of that. First of all,
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  we're gonna start out in Wisconsin. Okay. NBA coaching changes in season.
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  The Milwaukee Bucks made one, firing Adriene Griffin, who was thirty and thirteen,
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  replacing with Doc Rigors Doc Rivers fifteen and fourteen. All Right, Kendy,
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  we gotta start with you on this one. You like to move.
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  You know, It's hard to say because did we give Griffin a shot long
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  enough? You know, Doc Rivers, everybody keeps saying he's not a playoff
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  contender coach. That may be true in today's day and age, though,
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  I think these NBA players, I don't know how much you can really coach
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  them. Anyways. I think some of these top players have their own mindset,
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  and so I'm not so sure. Was it a good move. A
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  lot of people think no. Some people would say yes, he has proven
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  that he has, you know, coached to the playoffs and gotten teams to
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  the playoffs. Now, the Bucks shouldn't have had any trouble getting to the
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  playoffs no matter who's coaching them, with the amount of salary that they have
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  and the success that they've had, and adding Damian Lidlar this year, I
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  don't think either. I think either coach coaching them would have taken them to
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  the playoffs. Now, obviously they're not there yet, they're not first in
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  the conference, so it'll be interesting to see. I think the jury is
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  still out, and I think it depends on how far they they go in
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  the playoffs, because remember last year they were the first. They were the
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  first ones out. So I think the jury's still out if they can get
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  past the first round or so. But let's I'm going to have a wait
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  and see, wait and see. And we're talking NBA right now. We're
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  not talking march Man, It's just yet. Yeah. And Rebecca, look
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  at Rebecca Scott with all the baseball puns. You know, Rebecca, you
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  know me a while. That's why I wear baseball hats. I don't wear
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  any other thing. But Rebecca, glad you have you on the broadcast tonight.
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  Really is keep them, keep those thinking going. We want to make
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  sure all of our people are dressed throughout their broadcast, all right, So
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  what that said. But from Candy to go to George Iicorn on the Bucks,
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  Well, the Bucks are you know, they're still in the number two
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  seed right now. I'm they're going to end up either the second or third
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  seed. Probably Cleveland is snipping at their heels there. They're only a game
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  and a half behind the box and the standings. I agree with Candy,
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  I think, you know, we've got to wait and see how the postseason,
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  you know, turns out before agreeing with that Doc Rivers is a better
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  coach. I'm concerned about if I were Milwaukee right now, I am concerned
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  about the fact that they're obviously not going to be the number one seed.
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  The Celtics are going to get that in the East. But also there's about
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  seven teams that have better away records right now than Milwaukee. They've got to
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  improve on that eighteen and twenty road record right now. The Bucks have a
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  lot of teams in the East, have you know, you know, the
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  nineteen twenty or above as far as road victories go this year, And it's
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  important. Why do I say that, It's important because you know, the
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  home court advantage can be very misleading in the playoffs. As we know,
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  the away teams very often win, whether it's a short series or a long
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  series, So you have to be on your heels and you got to win.
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  You've got to win some games on the road more likely than not.
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  Every single series, very rarely do we see a sweep, or rarely do
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  we see a sweep at what I mean on one home court. So the
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  Bucks, Yeah, they're still up there as far as being a contender,
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  and I'm not going to discount them at all. I've always liked Doc Rivers
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  as a man, as a basketball man and as a coach, and I
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  know he doesn't have the most successful record in his career history, but I
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  think I think he'll do well leading the Buck Scott, Candy and JB into
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  the playoffs. Candy Rebecca has a question, where can I get a MotorCity
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  Man mouth hat. We're working on those to be we'll let you know on
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  a later date, although we're really doing the South Florida Tribune, but we'll
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  figure out how to do a MotorCity Men month too. So yeah, I'm
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  working on a deal right now with a potential person, so we'll release that,
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  hope as soon as we get it. We have a call that we
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  have to make on Friday night. So Rebecca hanging there, keep communicating with
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  me. If you want a MotorCity man had, I'll be more than happy
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  to let you go ahead where that hat if you want to. You know,
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  hey, Detroit can use all the respect they can gain. So MotorCity
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  was Rebecca, no problem? All right, We'll leave it to jb Ellis.
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  Some thoughts about the Bucks. We're talking about the Yucks. Yeah,
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  Milwaukee yucks. I mean they got Doc Rivers, so they're not gonna win
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  a championship till they got to do. Coach. The guy is not a
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  good coach in the playoffs, right, They probably have the best player in
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  the NBA with Giannis, they got the one of the most exciting point guards
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  with Lillard, but or when it comes down to it, they hired a
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  guy who can't win to the playoffs. He helped ruin Ben simmons career,
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  not that it was much of a career beforehand, but he did awful with
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  the pr on that and that all comes back down to the head coach and
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  how they speak to the media. He consistently cracks of the playoffs. You
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  know, I would feel comfortable if I was a Bucks fan. Having him
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  as a as the head coach. I'd rather, you know, wait for
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  next year, maybe something get somebody different after they collapse in the playoffs.
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  All right, can't he put the Rebecca comment up? I like this one.
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  Hell yeh, Scott, we will have a cool hatting hands at the
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  Black Rock soon, you know what, Rebecca commit Remember these this acronym GMTA
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  great minds think alike. Okay, Rebecca, no problem looking forward to that
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  day when it does. So. The only thing I'll say about it is
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  this the modern day NBA player. To me, I can't stomach them.
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  Okay, they get more coaches fired for whatever reason because they can't play with
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  them. They're pampered and all that, you know what. To me,
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  you know, got to have a veteran guy, Okay, gotta have this
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  and that. Okay, why don't you just play your capabilities? Okay,
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  instead of worry about who's on the bench. Obviously some coaches aren't qualified to
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  go out there and do the job. But let me tell you something,
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  you know, like Joe mentioned, okay that Doc Ricker's, aside from his
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  one championship in Boston, hasn't done anything that he's left there. I remember
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  when when the Pistons played Orlando in Orlando, that the Pistons came back from
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  a three to one deficit to win the series. And Tracy McGrady had that
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  series all but one, so yeah, and only to find out the Pistons
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  came back. So hey, listen, Doc Rivers. Coaching the bus is
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  one thing, okay, but bear in mind. You know he used to
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  play for Marquette, so to some extent he had Milwaukee ties. Does that
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  mean anything or not? I don't even know when he would go that deep
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  into it, But let's just talk it up to the players. They don't
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  know who they want to play for. They just have to play to their
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  capabilities. All right, Well we'll move on here, okay. Joshua Doors
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  is, James Rigby is a Bucks best asset, Candy. Is there any
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  teeth to this? Okay? All right, josh there you go. So
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  there's no teeth to this. All right, let's go to the lady balls.
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  I don't get a chance to talk to him about him, but this
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  week they fired women's basketball coach Kelly harper Is forty six years of age,
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  after five seasons leading the program. Her record at Tennessee was one to weight
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  in fifty two with a six to seventy five mark, and fifty three and
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  twenty four in the SEC sixty eighty eight. But here's the thing about kel
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  Okay, the pressure of will never be an easy situation to do. Of
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  replacing Pat Summit. This is UCLA all over again, as the Bruins went
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  through a lot of coaches to replace John Wooden. All Right, JB listen,
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  I mean, you can't replace the legend. It's not possible. The
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  expectations were too high, you know. Right now, basketball, especially in
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  college, is having renaissance. People are paying attention to it, and you
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  know, unfortunately it's hard to be as good as Pat. Some it wasn't
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  when she was there at the end. You know, she wasn't even the
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  best coach at the time. Geno Riemma was in Yukon, So you know,
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  Tennessee wasn't getting the top tier people. And now there's other coaches and
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  other schools that are doing that, so you know, Tennessee is not getting
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  what it got previously. Unfortunately. I don't think that she's a bad coach.
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  I just think can't replace a legend. It's always the toughest thing to
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  do. She'll get another job, she'll do well, and you know she'll
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  win wherever she goes. But you know, it was a tough spot to
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  take the position and a tough spot to be in. All right, let's
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  go to see he said, all right, he comments on me. All
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  right, look at this guy started late. But lukas sharp as if we're
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  nine am and just had a cup of coffee. Mighty kind of you to
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  say, Diane Mountain does my drink as Joshua and Blake know. But you
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  know it is what it is. I doctor pepper and had that recently too,
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  So it's okay, all right, So that's I have anything with caffeine
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  related into it is all right, Although I have to admit a black rock
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  last week when they didn't have my strawberry margarita frozen, I did not to
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  go to wine. All right. With that said, I won't whine anymore.
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  I'll turn it over to George Korn and I talk about legends replacing legends.
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  Oh my goodness, happens a lot. But let's talk about the Tennessee
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  situation. Well, yeah, I think JB you nailed it. I mean,
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  it is very difficult and it's hard to replace the legend no matter where
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  you're at. We've seen it happen in sports, and especially in basketball as
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  well. But I will tell you this that you know, you got to
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  just go back to what brought you there. You know, solid recruiting,
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  good interviews, you know, going after the best female basketball players in high
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  school and doing all the great things that you need to do as a team,
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  as a coach to try to turn the situation around. And you know,
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  hey, we all know that there's only four people, four people,
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  four teams that are going to be standing when the women's final four. A
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  field is is taken, taking shape and forming itself in Cleveland at that beautiful
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  arena they got down there. But Tennessee is going to be back. I
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  know they're going to be back. It's not that they're going to fall apart
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  or anything like that. At school like that with such a good reputation for
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  women's basketball, it's bomb to come back. But yeah, we've seen it
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  all over in basketball, especially. You know, when guys like Riley and
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  and Jackson and Chuck Day and great coaches like Dad leave, it is a
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  big void. It is tough to fill those shoes. So but I think
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  that, you know, they regroup and go at it again and have a
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  good year next year. They should be okay, all right, back to
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  the chat room real quick, Joshua door, Well George Iicorn. You got
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  a fan here to him? Hey, thank you, Joshua. And of
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  course let's go to a bloat. All right, we'll put that one up.
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  I think it's just you see all right, blows twenty two, Jamie,
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  what are your thoughts on tell Tesla's stock? You know anything about Tesla's
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  All stocks are gambling, you know, most most of the time you make
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  money if you if you listen to the right people. I'm about the right
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  guy for that. Okay, interesting to me either. But all right,
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  let's go to the sea or maybe drink too much costs? What is that?
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  I don't know. I don't know either. You don't have you don't
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  have a bunch of alcoholics on this broadcast. Okay, all right, So
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  who do we got left? Candy? You want to talk about the Tennessee
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  opening, And bear in mind that's a good program all around. With the
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  men's Rick Barnes has done a great job of the men's program. And I
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  had a chance to talk to Rick Barnes when he was at Texas and you
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  know, but Candy, go ahead, So I'm gonna first address thee in
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  the chat, she says, George's camera is blurry or is it just me?
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  Now, there's there's a setting that you can blur your background, so
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  that's what he did. It's like a virtual background. So it's not he's
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  not blurry, but if he's not real focused, if he moves out,
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  then yes it kind of seems blurry. But it's just a virtual background that
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  he has on his with his computer. So going back to Tennessee, let's
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  face it, the number six seed Lady Vols were eliminated by number three North
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  Carolina State in the second round of March Madness. A three time champion with
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  Tennessee as a player, Harp Harper was hired as the team's bench boss back
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  in twenty nineteen. She went one hundred and eight and fifty two with the
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  Lady Bowles, leading the program to four Street NC two A tournaments, including
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  back to back Sweet sixteen verse in twenty two and twenty three. She says
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  it had been an honor to serve at her alma mater and to coach a
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  Lady Bowl program that she loves so dearly. She's grateful for the opportunity.
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  Now, what I thought was kind of interesting is White then came back and
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  said that he is going to seek input from current Tennessee players. Let's face
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  it, the reason why he has to do that these days is nil because
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  if he doesn't, the transfer portal will be so quickly on. Girls will
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  be so quickly on that transfer portal. Because we've seen it in other teams
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  when a coach leaves, some of those players all of a sudden quick leave.
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  So now these athletic directors, when they're thinking about replacing coaches, they're
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  going to start asking for the input of the players, which I find very
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  interesting because, let's face it, years ago, you never ever would have
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  asked the players, who do you want to coach you. You would find
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  the coach that you thought was the best fit for you and your program,
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  and you'd have the players would come play for that coach. Now you've got
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  to recruit your current place and you've got to recruit a coach. So I
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  find that just very interesting that that he is going to seek the input from
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  some of his players. All right, so let's go back to see what's
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  up. We are up there, see all right, and thank you Candy.
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  Candy knows all about the technology. Good work. Let me tell you,
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  Bloso. Without Candy, we'll be trouble, all right. Joshua Door,
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  Well she's a champer. I didn't know her, but she sounds like
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  a great resume. And the last one from Joshua Door. Do you think
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  there is too big of a revolving door with players and coaches moving. I
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  know there is, but that's just the way the times are. Anybody else
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  want to chime in on that. No, I think it's quite obvious.
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  Scott, Yeah, I mean we have a revolving door and one of the
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  old saying about the inmates running the asylum on some of these teams where they
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  had the power to get rid of their coach because he doesn't do that or
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  she doesn't do this or that. All right, Candy, let's take it.
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  After you're done, we'll take a station break. Okay. I was
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  gonna say, I think what has gone by the wayside is the is actually
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  going to the school for the school for the education, because now it's all
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  about playing and who do you want to play for and where do you want
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  to play and what coach and what coach depending on what your future goal is.
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  If you is your future goal to be in the w n b A
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  or is it to be in the NBA, Because if it is, then
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  yes, you're gonna look for the best opportunity that's gonna what program is going
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  to get you there. Whereas I think back when I went to school and
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  went to college, you you thought of the program, yes, but it
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  but it wasn't so much that you would hop skip and jump and transfer and
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  move schools and nearly as much. So, uh yeah, who needs an
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  education anyway? Well, from what I've always been told, the saying is
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  it's not what you know, but who you know? And did you get
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  that degree? Because it really doesn't matter as much anymore what degree you get
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  as long as you get a degree. Joshua Door, you bought your degree,
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  Well, good for you, I guess. But I guess like the
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  rest of us can be proud if we got our degrees, because I do
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  have my degree, and I'm very proud of it that I earned it the
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  Back to you, Scott, all right, well what's up, Jesse
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  Stuber? I knew you'd make it in here. Good stuff, good flow
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  to the show, and we're going to continue on to more ladies basketball.
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  After all, it's definitely one of the hot things going on right now.
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  Caitlin Clark got a revenge versus LSU Monday is number one IOWA top LSU ninety
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  four eighty seven, and a game. Get this, okay, the average
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  twelve point three million viewers. Now I'll take it a step further. Okay,
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  that's more than every woman's college basketball game ever, every esp in college
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  football are college basketball game ever, every MLB game last season, every MLS
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  game last season, every NBA game last season except the last one, and
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  every college football player college football regular season game last season. So I'll tell
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  you one thing. You talk about the drawing power of Caitlin Clark, My
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  goodness, you know that's unbelievable what she's done. Now here's another sidebar to
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  this whole thing with her. Okay, Caitlin Clark wanted to go to Yukon,
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  but geno Oriema never once showed up to Clark's open gyms or even talk
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  to Clark for her family about going to Yukon. Well guess what, Okay,
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  if Synergy plays its way, these two schools are going to meet in
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  the semifinals. All right, Katie, well you start, we started the
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  leftop. Whether you were going to start. Caitlin Clark has is on a
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  mission. She is and she's proven that she's a natural talent and that she's
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  drawing crowds everybody. I mean, let's face it, she's scored a lot,
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  a lot of points. She's playing really good ball. She said that
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  they were just flowing, you know, she said when she went out in
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  warm up and the first three pointers she shot she hit. You kind of
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  know when you're on, you're on, kind of like a pitcher. I
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  would think, you know, if you know, you have your stuff that
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  night she did. Let's face it, last year LSU took them out and
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  they lost to LSU, so this was kind of payback for them. Good
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  to see women's sports getting so much attention, and it was a good game,
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  like it wasn't a one sided twenty point blowout or anything like that.
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  So good for the sport, good for the good for basketball, good for
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  women's sports, good for Iowa all around. Win win win. And both
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  her and Angel have both declared for the draft, so that'll be interesting because
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  that follows the final game. I believe the final game is what Sunday,
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  and then I think Monday is the WNBA Draft. Already so good for them.
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  Yeah, we'll turn over to George. Yeah, this woman is phenomenal
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  and the whole drama of the rematch, and it's just a just a tremendous,
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  tremendous shot in the arm for women's athletics. Like you said, Scott,
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  they've surpassed all these other sports that we have known to watch and love
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  watching them, most of us do. And the ratings have just been off
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  the charts. Here's a young lady that forty one points, forty minutes of
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  action, forty one points, twelve assists. Little percentage could blow her average
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  forty four point eight. But look at these numbers in the in the tournament
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  so far, she's got forty one points, twenty nine points, thirty two
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  points and twenty seven So she's on an upward trajectory. This last game forty
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  one. Who knows, maybe she even hit fifty someday, but I don't
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  know if it'll come this weekend. You know, it's just a great ambassador
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  for the game, a great young lady that's going to obviously have I would
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  think, a great career in the WNBA. Just it's just a great renaissance.
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  Like JB called it, a renaissance of women's athletics is the NCAA Women's
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  basketball right now. So hats off to her to her teammates because she can't
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  do it alone. The Iowa Hawkeyes are going for something that they really have
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  their sights on, and that's the championship. All right, let's go to
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  Rebecca's there's shoulder covers women's sports. You know what, Rebecca, I don't
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  have one on my network. But not What I want to do tonight is
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  I wanted to really test the waters, okay, to see about the level
• 24:04
  of interest in women's sports. And if I feel that we're able to go
• 24:10
  out there and I see some positive results, I'll start mentioning women's topics so
• 24:15
  that I'm able to cover both genders. And but no, that's an excellent
• 24:18
  question, Rebecca. There really is so, and I know that there's an
• 24:22
  Audie Crook reference out here. All I'm going to say about Audie Crook is
• 24:26
  that will be a hot topic talked about on tomorrow's edition of Pundit Funded.
• 24:30
  So if you can hang in there with us tomorrow, we'll talk about Audie
• 24:33
  Crooks. That's a storyline in itself. Let's continue to go ahead through the
• 24:40
  chat room. Okay, I know Rebecca Georgia kind of glory. I thought
• 24:44
  Candy and mentioned it. I think she should. Now Blozo says she should
• 24:48
  play in the NBA with those stats. Okay, Now, well, you
• 24:52
  know what, I've never seen a woman play in the NBA, and I
• 24:55
  know that there are a lot of more games there. I know that the
• 24:57
  pounding would be significant over there. And the only woman that I personally think
• 25:03
  could have played in the NBA might have been Becky Hammond because she's such a
• 25:07
  smart player who could have played the guard position. But again that's just my
• 25:11
  opinion. But you know what, I want to go around a horn with
• 25:15
  this one. First of all, was there anybody that I left out here
• 25:18
  about? So go ahead? So I mean, listen, Caitlyn Clark phenomenal.
• 25:25
  I don't think I always winning the championship. They're gonna play Yukon,
• 25:29
  their season is going to be over. We'll see how her game progresses to
• 25:34
  the WNBA. I don't think she could play in the NBA. I think
• 25:40
  Cheryl Miller would have been the woman that could have played in the NBA.
• 25:44
  She told her brother Reggie basically how to play it. We all know how
• 25:45
  good Reggie Miller was what he played, and Cheryl was way better than he
• 25:49
  was. But that's no disrespect to Katelyn Clark. She's just I don't think
• 25:55
  you know, it's a different game the men's game of the women's game.
• 25:57
  I think the women's game is technically a much more fundamental game. I actually,
• 26:03
  you know, that's how you learn how to play basketball, is you
• 26:06
  know, when you're young and you're learning how to play. That's how the
• 26:08
  women's game stays throughout the courses as it goes. It's a much more enjoyable
• 26:14
  game. But do I think that she would be an NBA player now?
• 26:19
  I don't think that she would translate to it. I don't even know how
• 26:22
  good of a WNBA player she's going to be. That's a big jump.
• 26:26
  There are some great players of the WNBA. She's great right now against college
• 26:30
  players. We see it happen with the NBA all the time, these guys
• 26:33
  that are phenomenal and then they get to the NBA they just fizzle out.
• 26:38
  I hope she does it. I would love to see her play well.
• 26:41
  You know, it'd be a great story, but there's no guarantee on that
• 26:45
  it happens all the time in sports. You dominate one league, you've got
• 26:48
  to move up, and it just doesn't happen. Okay, can anybody answer
• 26:52
  this question from Joshua? Is there fighting in a woman's NHL. I don't
• 26:56
  follow the sport, so I have no idea. I have an answer for
• 27:00
  him, but I don't know either. They played one game in Detroit,
• 27:04
  scott They were at Little Caesars Arena. The Boston team played I believe Quebec
• 27:12
  or Montreal, and they drew a good crowd. Fourteen thousand people came out.
• 27:18
  But unfortunately I didn't see the game, so I can't answer that whether
• 27:21
  they allow fighting. Okay, Joe, I'm going to ask you this question
• 27:25
  for Rebecca because you are around it longer than I am. What's a pundit
• 27:27
  pundit meme? So, pundit's a guy that always has an opinion usually,
• 27:34
  so Jacob is the pundit's pundit. So he's like the number one pundit.
• 27:40
  Right, So you're talking about an individual that significantly opinionated pretty much. Okay,
• 27:48
  that's good enough. Okay, all right, onward we go. We'll
• 27:52
  talk about the women's final four. You talk about a hot ticket. This
• 27:55
  is it on the resale market. They're selling for average of three dollars twice
• 28:00
  as much as the men. All right, JV. Does that surprise you
• 28:04
  No, I think that the women's tournament this year has been more exciting,
• 28:10
  more people have paid attention. I think it's the better tournament, So it
• 28:12
  doesn't surprise me that ticket prices would be up. Okay, all right,
• 28:18
  what about you, George, No, I'm not too surprised, only in
• 28:23
  the fact that of what we just talked about, where you know, the
• 28:26
  women's game has been elevated to a new status and a new enthusiasm by the
• 28:33
  fans, the sports fans across America, and that's women and men. And
• 28:38
  I think it's just been an exciting tournament. I know a lot of games
• 28:41
  are televised. I'm happy to see that. And it goes without saying that
• 28:47
  this is definitely a sport on the rise. So it's gonna be a fun
• 28:51
  time the final four that Cleveland gets a chance to host, So looking forward
• 28:56
  to that this weekend. Candy, I was just trying to look up there
• 29:04
  is fighting in women's hockey, So yes that the answer to that question is
• 29:10
  yes, am I surprised that the ticket prices are as high as they are.
• 29:15
  No, because it's popular right now. It's the thing to do.
• 29:19
  They've been playing really well again. Like LSU's coach Kim Malarkey, whether you
• 29:27
  like her or not, she says, Caitlin Clark is a generational player.
• 29:33
  Who wouldn't want to go out and see a generational player that's hit the most
• 29:37
  threes in women's basketball. She's scored how many points, she's setting records,
• 29:44
  So people want to People these days want to go out and see that.
• 29:48
  They want to pay money to see those things. They want to pay money.
• 29:51
  They want to see the big sporting events. And I'm proud and happy
• 29:55
  to say that the final four for the women's tournament as one of those events.
• 30:02
  I mean, I would say ten years ago nobody would be talking about
• 30:07
  the college the women's final four in college basketball, women's sports has skyrocketed,
• 30:15
  and I'm happy to finally see that. I agree. I mean, let's
• 30:19
  think about a lot of us are talking about it. We all know that
• 30:23
  World Cup Soccer with the women in the United States has done an unbelievable job
• 30:29
  winning that particular title. All the time. The men's will never probably win
• 30:33
  it in my lifetime because to me, they haven't given me any reason to
• 30:37
  think otherwise. And a lot of the foreign teams are better. But the
• 30:41
  women's basketball can only imagine how good they're going to be in the Olympics.
• 30:45
  And that's another thing that Caitlin Clark mentioned as well. Her main objectives right
• 30:51
  now are simply to play in the summer Olympics and the WNBA, so you
• 30:56
  know, and of course, Josh, here you go. In women's golf,
• 31:00
  Kelly Corna had three wins in a row, so I appreciate you giving
• 31:03
  that information as well. So the reality is this, Okay, it starts
• 31:08
  with basketball. The women's World Cup has been great. Now you have hockey
• 31:12
  coming on. I think as time goes on and on, you're gonna find
• 31:18
  that the women's will be a lot more. And yeah, I think the
• 31:21
  women's tournament is a lot better, doesn't I on television also televise some WNBA
• 31:26
  games, Candy, I believe they. Yeah, so they're getting a little
• 31:33
  bit of respect on that level as well, So more power to them.
• 31:36
  They're having a great run, all right, Well, everybody's anxious to go
• 31:38
  ahead, all right. Well, I had a feeling there would be a
• 31:41
  Caitlyn Jenner reference to it, and I don't mind that kind of humor.
• 31:47
  I really don't, because everybody in this panel knows who Caitlyn Jenner is.
• 31:52
  Bruce once upon a time going to return to sports. I would say,
• 31:59
  no, Joe, I have no clue if he does he does, if
• 32:05
  he does it or she whatever Caitlyn likes to be called. Whatever makes Caitlyn
• 32:12
  happy. Jb Ellis says no, no, no opinion on it. Yeah,
• 32:16
  but you know that, Rebecca, I liked that question. I mean
• 32:19
  it does kind of going with the theme of what we're talking about. I'm
• 32:21
  not going to go the other way in terms of the trans word, but
• 32:24
  you know what, that's still pretty good stuff. All right, good job,
• 32:27
  Rebecca. All right, well, but these will be briefer answers before
• 32:31
  you get to prediction. Georgia, do you think about the whatever? Well?
• 32:37
  I do remember Bruce Jenner, and he was definitely a terrific Olympian.
• 32:43
  He did this country proud his gold medal and just it was a fantastic athlete.
• 32:49
  But no, I don't see Caitlyn being able to do that or come
• 32:52
  close to it. Number one is the age the age factor, and number
• 32:58
  two, the issue that the elephant in the room that people don't want to
• 33:02
  talk about, and that's whether they should be allowed on the same playing field.
• 33:07
  So I'm not going to get into that, but I do have great
• 33:09
  memories of Bruce Jenner and winning that gold medal. I believe it was in
• 33:14
  Los Angeles, Yeah, in nineteen eighty four. I was at those games,
• 33:17
  but never saw the track and field competition. Yeah. So all right,
• 33:22
  KNDy, what are your thoughts? Thanks a lot for the Kyowers,
• 33:23
  love the sentence, Thanks for showing the number of Scott. You're very welcome.
• 33:27
  All right, go ahead, Candy, what are your thoughts? So
• 33:30
  Caitlin Jenner was born October twenty eighth, nineteen forty nine, So really,
• 33:36
  do we think that they are going to compete at a level in any sport
• 33:42
  at this point? No, And she has come out to say that she
• 33:46
  doesn't think that transgenders should be allowed to go into the sport and compete against
• 33:54
  the same So I get it, respect respectfully, everybody has a right to
• 34:00
  their own opinion, But do I think that she is going to compete at
• 34:05
  any level? Now? All right? Jaj o'dor's got some we got some
• 34:09
  great comments. Just's put the last four up or five actually up to see
• 34:15
  and then we'll love this segment. Thanks for showing the numbers, Scott,
• 34:17
  You're welcome to GMT for back Gosh. Here a brilliant woman catches on quick.
• 34:23
  All right, keep them rolling. Unfair. I don't know we'll suit
• 34:28
  your next comment. That's fair, unfair, it is what it is,
• 34:30
  all right. Well, now with prediction time. I know a lot of
• 34:32
  people were asking earlier, but we say the predictions are last, and you
• 34:37
  know, we're going to start off with the men's because we're going to leave
• 34:39
  the women for last because they pretty much dominated this whole show, as they
• 34:45
  should because we've had some great storylines with them. All Right, you know
• 34:49
  what, George Reikorn, you're up at the top, and you're going to
• 34:51
  be able to well, Connecticut Alabama who you got well on the to pick
• 35:00
  sentimental choice, and that's Alabama. And I have a couple of my nieces
• 35:06
  that go to that school. And obviously that school has been a great athletic
• 35:10
  institution and uh, you know in football, but basketball not so much obviously.
• 35:19
  So they're kind of like one of these upstarts but that would be an
• 35:22
  upset. But I am going to go with Alabama to beat Yukon, but
• 35:25
  a very close score. I'm going to say something like seventy eight to seventy
• 35:30
  two, Okay, and Purdue against well on paper, Produce should be able
• 35:39
  to walk away with this game. I mean, you know, NC State,
• 35:43
  God love them, They're eleven seed, but Purdue is a number one.
• 35:45
  The fans have been waiting in West Lafayette for god knows how many years.
• 35:51
  I thought back in the nineteen eighties, the last time they won with
• 35:53
  Gene Katie. So I'm really hoping for Purdue victory only because I think they
• 35:59
  have the better team, but they also have something to really prove, you
• 36:04
  know, having been knocked out early early rounds the last several years in the
• 36:07
  NC Double, a Sweet sixteen, well the tournament itself. So I'm gonna
• 36:13
  go with Purdue. I'm gonna go something like about eighty eighty one to seventy.
• 36:20
  So who's our national champion? Well, right, I'm still gonna go
• 36:27
  with Purduo. I'll go with for the national title. Thank you, all
• 36:30
  right, Candy, You're next. Connecticut is too tough, Connecticut. It's
• 36:36
  gonna blow past Alabama. I think Purdue is gonna have a tough time.
• 36:40
  I think against NC State. NC State's the underdog that everybody wants to root
• 36:45
  for, but Purdue is playing awfully tough right now. I think Purdue will
• 36:51
  take that one and then I am a big ten girl, So I would
• 36:54
  love to see Purdue win, but I do am not predicting Purdue to take
• 37:00
  it all. I'm predicting Ukon. They just look way too tough. Well
• 37:04
  a little bit of a sidebar. They're too candyed and your dad go to
• 37:07
  Purdue University. He did, he got his masters. Yeah, So who
• 37:13
  you have winning at all? You can? Okay, all right, Joe.
• 37:17
  I would love to see ed C State win both the Mens of women's
• 37:21
  basketball tournaments because it'd be a great story. It's the first time ever there's
• 37:24
  been two schools in both the Mens of women's basketball tournament in history. Yukon's
• 37:30
  been there twice and won it on both sides before, but this is the
• 37:35
  first time two schools are both final fours. Listen for the men's Final four.
• 37:42
  Alabama's not gonna win, cross them out. Ed C State's a wildcard.
• 37:46
  They have no pressure at this point, but they're not gonna They're not
• 37:51
  gonna win the championship. Purdue was part of the Big Ted fraud program.
• 37:55
  They'll eventually collapse because if they're not Michigan stay eight, they don't really ever
• 38:00
  win a title. So that leaves you con that's the best school in the
• 38:05
  country right now in men's basketball. Well it doesn't hurt. You saw him
• 38:07
  in the Big East Tournament either. Sea Produce a good team, but until
• 38:14
  they till they actually win, they're part of that Big ten fraud program,
• 38:17
  you know when they get a lot of teams in the tournament every year and
• 38:20
  collapse. And you know, for Judia did it last year as a one
• 38:22
  seed losing to a sixteen seed. This year they got all the way to
• 38:25
  the final four. You know, but Zach ed he's a phenomenal player,
• 38:30
  you know, but I just have no faith in them, And I think
• 38:34
  you CON's just better either way if they beat him. Well, remember once
• 38:37
  upon a time Virginia got knocked out being on the sixteen seed, they bounced
• 38:40
  back to win at all. So if history comes into player, you would
• 38:45
  think Produce should play win it all. But I'll tell you what I'm going
• 38:46
  to give you a different perspective that nobody will give you. And I haven't
• 38:50
  written there my reason why I would love to see Alabama win it over Connecticut,
• 38:54
  but my reasons why are a lot different than yours. I've just taken
• 38:59
  out a young student named Kate Aichison who actually is going to be contributing for
• 39:05
  us with the South Florida Tribune and I'll bring it on a show. And
• 39:07
  I told her that if Alabama wins it all, she's going to join us
• 39:12
  here on the Sports Exchange and give us the Alabama version of how things are
• 39:16
  going. Sho'll write stories and contribute from time to time. I'd love to
• 39:20
  see them win it all now do I think the win it all now?
• 39:23
  But you know it's okay to root for a young journalist in the sports media
• 39:29
  to come on your show when she lives in one of the four places.
• 39:31
  So I think Ukond will win it. But I am kind of pulling for
• 39:35
  Alabama now, purdueing NC State, you know what You're right, Joe.
• 39:40
  NC State been a great ride both ways, and this was the first time
• 39:44
  they've been to the Final four since nineteen eighty three when Jim Valbana was there.
• 39:49
  Can you imagine if they are able to pull it off again. I
• 39:52
  don't know, but I'm going to tell you one thing. NC State has
• 39:55
  been a good story all year, and they've beaten a lot the good teams
• 40:00
  all the way to getting into the final four. So I'm gonna go with
• 40:04
  Purdue. I'm gonna go with Connecticut. Anyways, two number ones is where
• 40:08
  it should end up, and we'll see where it goes from there. But
• 40:12
  I guess I'd have to ride the Connecticut train as well. They're playing good
• 40:15
  and they have a chance to do something that no team has done since the
• 40:17
  Nisy of Florida, and that's repeat as national champions. All right, great
• 40:23
  chilternight, great participation in the chat room, and I'm glad to see Rebecca
• 40:28
  here tonight. Joshua Door and of course the Low's all right, the Low's
• 40:32
  have it. Go ahead and scroll up, Candy, so we can now
• 40:36
  tell the people that participated tonight, or do I have to do it either
• 40:38
  one? No, I already did, but you didn't see it when I
• 40:43
  did it, so you were talking, so all right, But anyways,
• 40:49
  there you go, bring them all on there. I love the topics pulling
• 40:52
  Purdue there you go, Joshua Door all right, I love all these comments.
• 40:55
  They come from interesting places of Rebecca. We'll work on app we'll work
• 41:00
  on that hat for a I don't know if Jesse lives in Alabama, although
• 41:07
  Jesse, I will tell you this, Joe, you know I've been telling
• 41:09
  him. You got to get ahold of JB. Ellis. He's in charge
• 41:12
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• 41:15
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• 41:16
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• 41:20
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• 41:22
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• 41:25
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• 41:29
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• 41:30
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• 41:36
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• 41:39
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• 41:43
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  Tom said, Joe, you obviously got to meet Spencer last week,
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  and when we go down to North Carolina in late June and July, you
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  have a chance to meet a lot of quality people. Joe and I'm looking
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  forward to you being there with me as well as our workout. The NFL
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  dress so great show tonight, Yeah, pun, it's funny. It'll be
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  tomorrow, file fly, fire up. We appreciate everybody hanging there. We
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  on a little late start. We had some last minute mississ we had to
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  take care of. But meanwhile on behalf of George Korn, jb Ellis and
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  Candye. I believe my name is Scott Morgan, the Motor City Man.
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  Well, thank you for joining us on this edition of Port changel See you
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  next Wednesday night. Have a great week, enjoy March madness. Yeah,