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Latest Bracketological Prognostications and Rodney Terry's thoughts on closing stretch · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: But we're glad to be with you here on a
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon. Yeah, good afternoon. Welcome to the program here
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  Speaker 1: on thirteen under the Zone. My name is Craig Wait.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks very much for joining us. We of course includes
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  Speaker 1: the producer of the program.
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  Speaker 2: Cameron D. Parker.
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  Speaker 1: The D and the birth certificate stands for Dallas, as in,
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  Speaker 1: it's really cold in Dallas right now, really cold in Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: My brother lives in Fort Worth and it was like
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  Speaker 1: down to eleven degrees and.
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  Speaker 2: Minus two chill factor and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's not exactly you know, swim meet weather conditions.
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  Speaker 2: Here in the Greater Austin there is thirty one.
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  Speaker 1: Degrees right now, and the high is supposed to come
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  Speaker 1: a little later this afternoon, all the way up to
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  Speaker 1: a ball me thirty two, right at the freezing mark,
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  Speaker 1: and then it's going to get cold again. So where
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  Speaker 1: do you stand with really cold weather?
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  Speaker 3: It's a good question, Greg, you know, growing up at
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  Speaker 3: North Carolina, like you know, we would have thirty degree
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  Speaker 3: yeah days like this before. But I've been here for
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  Speaker 3: eight years now, so my body has acclimated to the
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  Speaker 3: warm Texas winters. But it's like, you know, I tell myself. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: in one week, it'll be seventy degrees eighty degrees, so
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  Speaker 3: you can muster two or three days of thirty three weather.
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  Speaker 2: You know, come on, it didn't do it now.
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  Speaker 1: It's when it gets down into the teens and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, it starts to get really uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I let my my.
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  Speaker 1: Dog out, and Linda let the dog out this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and she's turning around and looking at Linda like, you
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  Speaker 1: really expect me to go out here over where you
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  Speaker 1: point to in the area and go do number two
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  Speaker 1: in this in this weather, that's what you're wanting.
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  Speaker 2: But she did.
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  Speaker 1: She's a good dog and she she complied. But it's
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  Speaker 1: it's uh, it's yeah, it's pretty chilly. To give us
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  Speaker 1: warmer thoughts, and I look ahead to uh of things
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  Speaker 1: of warmer weather.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I have for you the updated Here's where major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball teams are coming out of the off season. Where
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  Speaker 1: they are now that all spring training camps are open.
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  Speaker 1: The ranking of where they are some of them may
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  Speaker 1: surprise you, including you Texas Rangers fans, Cameron. So I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you that that'll be coming up a next segment.
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  Speaker 1: College basketball, there was a more interesting action last night.
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  Speaker 1: What in the world is happening to the Kansas Jayhawks
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  Speaker 1: that tied for the worst loss in the Bill self Era.
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  Speaker 1: What they lose about thirty four to BYU like ninety
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  Speaker 1: one to fifty seven, and then we're ranked twenty third
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  Speaker 1: going into it. They've kind of been in a free fall.
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  Speaker 1: Kansas this year is an example. I know people point
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  Speaker 1: to programs. They even pointed to Texas when the long
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  Speaker 1: runs were struggling and said, well, the portal things didn't work,
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  Speaker 1: The portal things didn't work. Well. The portal things are
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  Speaker 1: an incomplete grade right now for Texas because the guys
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  Speaker 1: have been injured. And if you want to say, well
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  Speaker 1: that that means that it didn't work, then if the
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  Speaker 1: guys have been injured, I don't I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: you can equate that with the injury. But fortunately one
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  Speaker 1: of the portal guys, Tromon Mark, is back healthy UH
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  Speaker 1: and UH, and then Jason Kent came back after his
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  Speaker 1: wrist injury early, so that's helping UH clearly.
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  Speaker 2: And UH.
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  Speaker 1: They're getting better and they're getting healthier, and they may
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  Speaker 1: they may have an opportunity to get Kenda Weaver back
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  Speaker 1: if not by this weekend, maybe next week sometime, there's
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  Speaker 1: the hope to have him back as well.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, that part is healthy.
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  Speaker 1: But like for Kansas with the portal signings have brought in,
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  Speaker 1: it's not it hasn't been working out. And I thought
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  Speaker 1: Seth Greenberg of ESPN had a really good take on it.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you know, in today's age and time with
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  Speaker 1: college basketball and and portal activity, it's almost like NBA
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  Speaker 1: free agency in that you sign someone and there's of
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  Speaker 1: course in the NBA there's millions committed in this case,
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  Speaker 1: but you sign someone in the hopes that they'll contribute
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  Speaker 1: in all this, but you really don't know because it's
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  Speaker 1: in a compressed amount of time, and it's even more
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  Speaker 1: of a compressed amount of time with regard to the
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  Speaker 1: portal and college basketball. You've got to move quicker, and
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  Speaker 1: you've got to make a call.
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  Speaker 2: On whether that guy's going to help you.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise you may lose out on that specific player, but
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  Speaker 1: you may also jump the gun and get somebody thinking
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  Speaker 1: we got to have that guy, and it might not
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  Speaker 1: have been the guy that could best help your program.
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  Speaker 3: And that's kind of what Kansas is going through right now.
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  Speaker 1: So there's that and some of the veterans, including kJ Adams,
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  Speaker 1: they're not playing their best right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's the margin of error for for missing
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  Speaker 3: guys in the portal. It's huge, Craig. I mean, we
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  Speaker 3: talked about it. We know about this, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: NCAA tournament when we're in Charlotte. You know, guys are
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  Speaker 3: already going on visits during the first second round the tournament.
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  Speaker 3: The schools you may have you know, missed a tournament,
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  Speaker 3: right so there's an advantage there. And of course it's
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  Speaker 3: all about the NIL budget, and some schools have higher budgets.
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  Speaker 3: Kansas has a pretty high NIL budget. But when you
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  Speaker 3: bring in you know, four or five six new guys
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  Speaker 3: to a roster, you cannot anticipate how they are going
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  Speaker 3: to gael. You do not know how the chemistry are
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  Speaker 3: gonna work out. You know, you can have an idea, well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if we play this guy with this guy
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  Speaker 3: to do this, this and this, but you don't really
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  Speaker 3: know until they're on the court and we're seeing it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, not work in favor for Kansas, for Texas. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they you know, they brought seven new guys to the roster.
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  Speaker 3: They hadn't been healthy. That's the portal in freshman. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and freshman and of course the freshmen have played a
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  Speaker 3: huge part of this team. Tray Johnson, obviously, you don't
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  Speaker 3: know how they're gonna mash pand you don't know, you
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  Speaker 3: do not know when they don't play together, and that's
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  Speaker 3: been the case for Texas. You know, it's been one
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  Speaker 3: step four, two steps back, you know, you know, Kenna
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  Speaker 3: Weaver gets injured, Kluma gets injured, Prior gets injured, you
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  Speaker 3: get Prior back, you're still without Weaver. Tramond's missed some time.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Trey's missed some time. Jason Kent I missed
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  Speaker 3: a lot of time with that wrist injury. So if
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  Speaker 3: Texas can, you know, kind of get those guys together
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  Speaker 3: and healthy and finish this closing stretch, I want to
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  Speaker 3: see how they look down these last five games, because
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  Speaker 3: if they can finally get healthy, get Prior, Kaluma and
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  Speaker 3: we were all back on the floor together, this could
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  Speaker 3: be possibly a pretty dangerous team by we don't know,
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  Speaker 3: because they've not been able to stay healthy. And for Kansas,
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  Speaker 3: I think they've been pretty healthy. I know Adams has
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  Speaker 3: missed some time, and I think Dickinson has been a
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  Speaker 3: big part of the team but just has not shelled.
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  Speaker 1: Has not worked out yep, And that's why the open
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  Speaker 1: date in the middle of this week helps. Now, having
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  Speaker 1: said that, when the Long Wrorns go to Columbia, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to play a South Carolina team, the only team
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  Speaker 1: in the SEC without a conference win. They're really getting
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  Speaker 1: desperate straits right now. I think they're owing eleven in
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  Speaker 1: conference play something like that, got beat by LSU, and
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  Speaker 1: look at LSU all of a sudden perking up winning
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  Speaker 1: in Norman and then going back home and beating South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: But it'll be kind of a desperate team, and the
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  Speaker 1: Longhorns know they really need a win. Just as a
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  Speaker 1: good win like Kentucky beating Kentucky last Saturday, a bad
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  Speaker 1: loss can damage it. And that would be a bad
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  Speaker 1: loss if they were to lose, wouldn't be crippling or
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  Speaker 1: eliminating or anything like that. But it doesn't help, that's
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  Speaker 1: for sure. You know Joe Lenardi who was working file
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  Speaker 1: obviously on ESPN, they're resident bracketologists. The guy who kind
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  Speaker 1: of invented it had told I guess it was Carl
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  Speaker 1: Raviitch and Jimmy dikes that an Oklahoma loss at Florida
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't necessarily hurt the Sooners, but they got blown out
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  Speaker 1: of the building.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly didn't help, and Oklahoma was running out.
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  Speaker 1: They're three and eleven now in the SEC, so they're
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  Speaker 1: kind of running out of time.
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  Speaker 2: Toda.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, they conclude the regular season here in Austin
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  Speaker 1: and that could be a key game for Texas just
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  Speaker 1: but they all are really for the long Corns. Cam
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  Speaker 1: mentioned Trey Johnson want a job. He's done freshman fabulous,
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  Speaker 1: current SEC Freshman of the Week four time this season.
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  Speaker 1: He's won the honor. It's almost a given for sure
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to wind up being a freshman All American.
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  Speaker 1: He's also going to be our guest tomorrow night. Nice
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  Speaker 1: long worn weekly out of Pluckers. So if you want
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  Speaker 1: to come on out for the show tomorrow night, it
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  Speaker 1: really would be a good time because they're not coming
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  Speaker 1: off and win.
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  Speaker 3: They're a little more arrested.
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  Speaker 1: They've been able to get some work in and of
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  Speaker 1: course and Rodney's voice might be actually even better too.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty good. It wasn't bad for a post
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  Speaker 1: game on Saturday night, and his zoom yesterday, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a few comments left from that zoom that I purposely
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  Speaker 1: say for today, especially with regards to Kevin Durant. So
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna hear that coming up. But anyway, Trey Johnson's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be with us tomorrow night at Pluckers. So when
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  Speaker 1: we bring in Longhorn Weekly with Rodney Terry at six
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  Speaker 1: o'clock the West Campus location twenty two to twenty two
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  Speaker 1: Rio Grand, we suggested to get out there early, get
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  Speaker 1: self a table and some great basketball conversation with the
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  Speaker 1: long Run's outstanding freshman Trey Johnson. That'll be tomorrow night
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  Speaker 1: at plucker So we have all that to look forward to. Also,
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  Speaker 1: we have inconceivable this hour coming up, and we've got
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  Speaker 1: some other thing too in addition to because we live
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  Speaker 1: in a world of rankings and numbers, numbers and rankings,
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  Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff. I have an older brother.
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  Speaker 1: I have three brothers, one younger, two older. Two of
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  Speaker 1: the brothers, the oldest one and the younger one, both
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  Speaker 1: live in North Carolina. Well, the oldest one lives in
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina, just across the state line. He lives in
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  Speaker 1: lives near newburn Out.
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  Speaker 2: In eastern North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: The second oldest brother is in Fort Worth, and he
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  Speaker 1: is the resident college and pro basketball, especially college basketball,
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  Speaker 1: honk that and NASCAR. He he's just he's just to
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  Speaker 1: eat up with it, you know. So he's all into them.
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  Speaker 3: Was he blowing your phone up on the five hundred?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, they do that all the time.
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  Speaker 1: He's in the drag racing to the NHR stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm either, but I'm included on the group text. He
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  Speaker 1: and my younger brother who's into it. My younger brother,
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  Speaker 1: the retired military he and is, why go to drag
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  Speaker 1: drag races? So they go and they see some of
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  Speaker 1: those some of the NHR nationals and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: So so yeah, I get lumped in on the group
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  Speaker 1: text on that. So anyway, he was, he was all inside,
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  Speaker 1: but he says, he says I was as a kid because.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't diagnose these things in your kid.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, I had to have been adhd pieces because
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  Speaker 1: I make lists all the time. He ranks his his
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  Speaker 1: favorite uniforms, his favorite teams, his least favorite teams, and
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  Speaker 1: in virtually all sports and so with him and mind
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  Speaker 1: I have a couple of ranking lists. One was the
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  Speaker 1: Baseball one to mention. The other is the Billis Index,
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  Speaker 1: which has come out now. That's different from bracketology. It's
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  Speaker 1: different from you know, uh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh. He did it last year.
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  Speaker 1: I think last year was his first time where he
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  Speaker 1: does this in the updates that as we get close
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  Speaker 1: to tournament.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, he ranks not all of the.
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  Speaker 1: Teams in college basketball, but he does rank sixty eight.
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  Speaker 2: That's the magic number.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll tell you where the Long Worn's following that
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  Speaker 1: because they do follow in that ranking order on that.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get to all of that. As always, we
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  Speaker 1: some other topics we'll get to as well as we
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  Speaker 1: continue here on a chilly Wednesday afternoon, I'm thirteen under
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  Speaker 1: the zone. Major League baseball teams are in spring training now,
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  Speaker 1: and we're not that far away. In fact, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's March twenty second is when the Cubs and Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: open in Japan. I think is the regular season openers.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday I had the story. I had the story yesterday
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  Speaker 1: cam that Joe Buck he's going to call a game
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  Speaker 1: on opening day Major League Baseball for ESPN. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: work Yankees Brewers in New York. And he was very
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  Speaker 1: very quick to say it's one off. It's one off. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they asked me to help. I said, absolutely, glad to
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  Speaker 1: do it, but it's a one off. He said, he's
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  Speaker 1: not getting back into the rotation to doing baseball.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to try and get him to do more
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  Speaker 3: games and next sure they know he's going to be
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  Speaker 3: hosting Get Up with Mike Greenberg.
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  Speaker 2: That it'll eventually get to that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean painting him a lot of money eighteen million
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  Speaker 1: a year to do Monday Night football. So anyway, somebody
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  Speaker 1: on the text line yesterday said, well, he's got to
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  Speaker 1: find another way to make some more millions.
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  Speaker 2: I guess so.
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  Speaker 3: I think he asked for an extra mill to do
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  Speaker 3: that game.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe nineteen I'll do it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So we're just around the corner from the start
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  Speaker 1: of the baseball season, and ESPN's staff have the projections
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  Speaker 1: and rankings of all thirty major league teams coming out
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  Speaker 1: of free agency, and now that they're all in.
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  Speaker 2: Spring training where they ranked him.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to go from the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: top and just tell you a line or two about
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  Speaker 1: each number. Thirty is still our fringing Watson's team that
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  Speaker 1: he just arrived on the scene last year. Try to
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  Speaker 1: rebuild a Chicago White Sox. You know, last year they
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  Speaker 1: set a record for losses. Their reality is that their
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  Speaker 1: expectation is fewer losses, and the reality is the.
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  Speaker 2: White Sox will lose fewer games.
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  Speaker 1: So by that low bar, the season is sure to
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  Speaker 1: be a success. They're nowhere near turning this thing back
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction. But they got him at thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty nine Colorado Rockies expectation and another lovely summer in
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  Speaker 1: Lodo with plenty of runs on the.
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  Speaker 3: Scoreboard, wins not so much. So there's that all right.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty eight Miami, twenty seven Washington the expectation. Noticeable improvement
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  Speaker 1: for a team that, when you think about it, has
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  Speaker 1: now been rebuilding for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Number twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: The Pirates expectation, great pitching, lackluster hitting, massive fan fresh.
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  Speaker 2: So the reality, they say, why Pirates?
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  Speaker 1: Why Paul freaking scheme centers his first full MLB season
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  Speaker 1: with new pitches and the same old stuff heading up
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  Speaker 1: a rotation that a year from now might be.
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  Speaker 2: The best in the game.
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  Speaker 1: But such windows when opened by a sudden outburst of
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  Speaker 1: pitching or fleeting with this staff in this National League
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  Speaker 1: Central and a throwback payroll outlook, this was the time
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  Speaker 1: to spend spen spent, but the Pirates didn't, didn't didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Instead they traded for Spencer Horowitz, who's already hurt. So
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  Speaker 1: it goes number twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: I love this.
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  Speaker 1: The Athletics and what they call them are the taff
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  Speaker 1: capo Athletics taf kap ko, the tafft capo Athletics. You
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  Speaker 1: know how they call them the teff here taff Cappo
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  Speaker 1: stands for the artist formerly known as Philadelphia, Kansas City
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  Speaker 1: and open expectation. Everyone will refer to them as sack Town,
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  Speaker 1: whether they want it or not. That's what happens to
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  Speaker 1: team in Sacramento.
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  Speaker 2: Just go with it.
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  Speaker 1: The team should be too. That's the expectation, the reality.
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  Speaker 1: It's never ideal when the big league team lands in
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  Speaker 1: a minor league park. In this season, We've got two
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  Speaker 1: of them because remember the race. You're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: play in the Yankees minor league park after the hurricane ripped
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  Speaker 1: up Tropic Canna Field, says. Yet there is something intriguing
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  Speaker 1: about it, a possible call back to simpler days of yours,
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  Speaker 1: something along those lines.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Number twenty four of the Angels expectation, everyone good will
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  Speaker 1: get hurt. Hey, optimism is fertilizer for the weeds of disappointment.
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  Speaker 1: You set your sights low, and everything else feels like
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  Speaker 1: good news. Number twenty three the Reds expectation for better
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  Speaker 1: or worse. There's a little reason to expect anything but
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  Speaker 1: the same old, same old for the Reds. But that's expectation,
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  Speaker 1: and with some of the game's most exciting young players,
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  Speaker 1: the Reds can at least pair that expectation with a
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  Speaker 1: good dose of hope. Number twenty two the Guardians. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's quite a drop off given what they did. Expectation
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  Speaker 1: a division title repeat and more, and why not despite
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  Speaker 1: having one of the game's youngest rosters Cleveland one night
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  Speaker 1: games and came within three wins of a World Series birth.
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  Speaker 1: Who cares what the projections say, Well, the reality is
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  Speaker 1: he says that every years we pieced together win projections
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  Speaker 1: with the ever evolving team forecast model, there's at least
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  Speaker 1: one product of the work that leaves you field with
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  Speaker 1: an existential doubt. This year's winner is this one. Number
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: twenty one is the Giants expectation. A lovely view of
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: the Bay beyond the right field fence of Oracle Park.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: As for baseball, another summer in the middle, looking longingly
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: at the Dodgers padres and diamondback seems about right. Number
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: twenty the Brewers, and again this is another team that
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: won a division. Said, at least from the outside, it
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: seems as if a step back is the expectation. The
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Brewers over under eighty two and a half wins reflects
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: that sense perfectly. At the same time, if you think
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: a forecast is destiny for this organization, you haven't been
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: paying attention to the past nine years of National League Baseball.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Number nineteen Tampa Bay expectation and it's interesting summer in
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the so in rain. What that translates to and the
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: competitive landscape remains to be seen because of the summer.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: It says, the reality is the never ending Ray's Stadium
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: saga had a few twists and turns over the off season.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: After years of this, we still don't know where this
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: meandering path is headed, but we do know that during
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: the summer twenty five it will pause in Tampa's Steinbrenner Field.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Number eighteen The Cardinals expectation. Have you heard? The Cardinals
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: planned to trade Nolan Aeronado, who's ongoing president Saint Louis
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: seems to loom high above the arts like a great
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: shadow since John Moseley Act won't stop talking about the
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: need to deal them. So we can suppose the Cardinals
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: with trade Aeronata and lead into a kind blue lead rebuild.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Number seventeen Toronto, Number sixteen Detroit says the tide will
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: keep rising, even if it hasn't come in yet. Sure,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: the Tigers went on this during late season run and
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: found themselves in the alds after this, batching with the
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Astros in a wild card series. That unexpected run was
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: a glimpse of where this group might be headed, but
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: it wasn't necessarily a reflection of where it is right now.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Number fifteen the Red Sox expectation return of October baseball
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: finway after three seasons of treading water, so they're projecting
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: a win average of eighty four. Fourteen San Diego expectation.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Anything could happen. We hate to be so imprecise, but
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: after an offseason in which most of the focus in
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: San Diego was on changing ownership, it's still not clear
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: just where this is all headed.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: For the Padres.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Number thirteen The Royals expectation take the next step this year.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Last year, at the same time, the next step would
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: have been defined as losing fewer than one hundred games.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: After stunning breakout twenty twenty four of the bar has
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: been sent much higher. Kansas City Number twelve. Seattle expectation
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: that the Mariners will pitch their wan in contention, but
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: in the end it won't lead to much. It never does.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Number eleven. Have you know saying go to the Rangershow yeah,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I know, I'm kind of yeah. Number eleven the Twins.
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  Speaker 1: Number ten, Now we're into the top ten. The Cubs
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: expectation win the division without committing long term payroll.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: They said that last part feels just about right.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Number nine Diamondbacks expectation beat the Dodgers.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: It says, Okay, we're just channeling what we know.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Hardcore Arizona fans are thinking, realistically, that can't be the expectation.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: But Arizona is better than it was last year, and
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: better than it was in twenty twenty three when it
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: won the nationally pennant. Number eight Baltimore young stars lead
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the way as the expectation the kind of number seven
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: A number seven ranking expectation, big bounce back reality After
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: winning it all on twenty twenty three, The Rangers entered
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: last season with a Hall of Fame injured list, at
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: least on the pitching side, and the health outlook never
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: really got better. The lineup progressed in the wrong way,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: and the result was a season that began with a
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: ring ceremony and with a sub five hundred and third
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: place fin With Texas just behind Houston and this pecking
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: order a rounding error from division favorite status, things are
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: looking up. The Rangers need Jacob de grind to hold up,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Kumar Rocker and Jack light Up Lighter to develop, and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: more than anything, to figure out a bullpen mix. With
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of possibilities and few clear cut roles. You
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: agree with below that I do.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: There's no way they can be as injured as they
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: were last season. It's just physically impossible that everyone gets
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: injured so they can stay healthy. Greg, I think they're
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: a playoff team.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: The win projection for them is that eighty seven point
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: seven wins and a sixty four percentage chance to make
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the postseason. Number six the Astros expectations stay in the mix.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Astros have been a yearly contended for a decade, and
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the numbers add up to another run at the American
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: League flag, though Houston will have plenty of company in
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: that chase. Reality, the Astros over under at ESPN BET
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: is at eighty six point five, so you could argue
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: that this projection has been optimistic. They're win average projected
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: as eighty eight. Even so, Houston's baseline entering a season
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: hasn't been this low in ten years. You lose Alex Bregman,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker, and Justin Verlander from the roster, and the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: forecasting machinery isn't.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Going to like it.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: They also have the lowest ranked farm system in all
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: of baseball. They said that isn't going to help Number
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: five Phillies expectation win now, win big. This wasn't an
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: aggressive winner for the Phillies, but this remains a top
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: heavy star Laydon roster that's just starting to look at
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: long on the two. Number four the Mets when average
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: ninety one. Of course it said usher in a new
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: golden age with Soto is the face of it. When
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: you sign a guy who is seven hundred and sixty
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: five million dollar contract, that has to be the plan,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: especially when you're coming off an LCS appearance for the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: foreseeable future, it's World Series or bust for the Mets.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Number three is the Yankees ninety one point two average.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: It said to be better than last year. That's their expectation. Look,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: sometimes the answers to these questions are about the teams themselves,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: and so they talk about their deals. Number two Atlanta
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Braves says after relatively quiet off season, the Braves are
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: a mild favorite the National Leagueese. But the purchase and
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: secure on papers it was a year ago at this time.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Back then, the hottest debate in baseball whether it's going
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: to be the Braves or Dodgers that emerges the new
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: super team.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: So then Atlanta slipped in the.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Second place and number one, Yes, you know it's the
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: defending world champions. If the Dodgers projected for a win
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: average one on one point seven expectation. Whether you gamble
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: on sports or not, the betting lines are a good
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: summation of expectations. The Dodgers current over under from wins
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: at ESPN bet tells it all one oh four point five.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: They said, I have no idea if that's a record,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: But what I can say is that I have a
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: file of preseves and over under figures to go back
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to seven, and it's the highest figure during that period.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: It's not hard to understand why after winning the title
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: last fall and dominating the winner so thoroughly that it
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: add people wringing their hands about the state of the game.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: There's only one expectation in Chevizvarine win it all again.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: That's the expectation. The reality is the nature of the
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: game is such an even a team with a thundering
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: outlook like LA is an underdog.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: To the field.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I totally agree with that, at least when you talk
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: about winning the World Series. But if you have to
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: pick the team most likely to pile on the mound
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of the end of the Fall Classic. Why would you
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: possibly choose anyone other than the Dodgers at Bradford. Dudelittle's
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: right on the MLB stock watch there, But I think
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: he's right. It's the field, you know, if you take
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers of the field, as good as LA is
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: on that, I would still pick the field because the
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: odds are against it.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: They just are.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: It has been we haven't had a repeat winner since
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: what Yankees? Yeah, since two thousand, two thousand and one, No,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: ninety nine and two thousand. I'm in backs one in one.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: We haven't had We haven't had a repeat winner since
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the Yankees. There, I think ninety nine in two thousand,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I think was the last time then we had a
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: repeat winner.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Am I wrong about that?
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Let me double check. Only I can think of because
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: the Red Sox all when there's on opposite.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they want to know four, they want to know seven.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: They won in thirteen, they won in eighteen. Yeah, I don't.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I don't think we've had to repeat World Series champion
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: since ninety nine two thousand, correct.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how hard it is. It's been over twenty years.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: It's been twenty five years, twenty five years since we've
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: had a repeat World Series champion. That's why, even as
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: a hardcore Dodger fan as I am, if I was
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: back in the corner, said you had to pick the
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Dodgers in the field, I would take the field only
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: because of the way baseball works.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: It finds a way.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: No matter what you want to say about payroll and
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: all this other stuff, Baseball finds a way to make
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: it work. And I think it's the postseason has a
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: lot to do with it, the wildcard system and the
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: way it's set.
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  Speaker 2: Up all right.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Up next inconceivable Here on a Wednesday afternoon on a
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  Speaker 1: thirteen under the Zone, second hour of the program here
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• 24:56
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• 25:00
  Speaker 1: we're with you all the way up until five o'clock
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon again tomorrow, regular programming schedule coming your way
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow and then after that Longhorn Weekly with Rodney Terry
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  Speaker 1: out at Pluckers the West Campus location here in Austin.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: We have a special guest tomorrow night, Trey Johnson. Yeah,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: long Horns outstanding freshman. We'll be with us tomorrow night
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the program, so we'll look forward to bringing.
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  Speaker 4: Back to you.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I come on out and listen to Trey and of
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: course coach Terry talk about the upcoming game in South
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Carolina and the long worn second half surge to try
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: to get into the NCAA tournament. We're more than happy
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to have you out there. Hope you'll can show up
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: out there as well. I mentioned this briefly in passing
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: yesterday that Joe Lenardi had in his bracketological prognostication and
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: move text us up a little bit.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: He had him as the last of the four last
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: four buys.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Meaning those are the teams that don't have to go
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: to Dayton and play in the NCAA Tournament. And why
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I refer to him and also to Jerry Palm's work
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: as well, is because those guys are usually in the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: upper ninety percentile of their projections when the actual field
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: comes out.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: So it's a pretty good measuring stake, it really is.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Lenardi is pretty regularly measured at between ninety six percent
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: and ninety eight percent correct when the bracket actually comes out,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: and he also hits a very large number of the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: actual regionals that the teams are placed in, which is
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: not an easy thing to do because the committee tries
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: to balance out the brackets. For example, just to let
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: you know what he has in his last four byes,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: he has Texas is the number one team on his
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: last four bys top line, meaning that they would still
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: be in the sixty four team field once the four
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: playing games playing in other words, not having to play
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: in Dayton. The other three teams are West Virginia, BYU,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: and Vanderbilt. West Virginia has a huge game this week.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: They play Houston on Saturday. B YU got a big
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: boosting win, albeit over a fall in Kansas, but they
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: just they absolutely body slammed the Jayhawks last night.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: They won a bout thirty four. And Vanderbilt, we know.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: They've beaten Texas, they beaten Kentucky, they've beaten Tennessee, so
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: they're still hanging out. They're in the they're on the
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: bottom rung of the last four byes. The last four
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: in meaning you would be playing in Dayton. San Diego
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: was State Oklahoma. This was before the Sooners got whacked
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: by Florida last night. Arkansas, who has a big game.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: They play Auburn tonight. So that's that's big and wake Forest. Yeah,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: first four out VCU Georgia who the long runs still
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: have to play SMU and North Carolina and the next
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: four Indiana, Xavier, k State and uc R RNE. And
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: that was before k State I think, or maybe it
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: was after they lost at Utah. Kansas State had had
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: a couple of really good wins and they went out
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: to the.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Bee Hive State and got stung.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: By them by Utah had had a tough time and
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: by b Yu as well.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Funny enough, I think Kansas was trolling them on social
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: media and they ended up.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Last night good.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Both of the Sunflower State teams, Kansas and Kansas State
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: went out and played both of the Beehive State teams
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and went oh and two. Both of them did. Over
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the weekend for the my son was asking me, he goes,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: did they always go with two with two matchups of
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: eleven seeds in addition to the two matchups of sixteen
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: seeds or they do do twelves? I said, it depends.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: It just depends on how they're trying to balance the bracket.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: For example, Lenardi has an eleven seed matchup and a
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: twelve seed matchup in Dayton. The eleven seed matchup is
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the San Diego State and Oklahoma. The twelve seed matchup
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: is Arkansas and Wake Forest. What I can tell you
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: this what is developing as a really big game next
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Wednesday in Fayetteville will be Arkansas Texas huge. That's going
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: to be big for both schools. In his bracket, his
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: four number one seeds. Again, this was yesterday morning when
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: it was released, so it's even before stuff that went
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: last night. But yesterday morning he had his his four
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: number one seeds Auburn, Alabama, Florida and Duke three sec
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: one AC Seed and Auburn in the the South region,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: which ultimately brackets into Atlanta. He's got Alabama as the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: number one in the Midwest, starting in Lexington, ultimately feeding
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: in the Indianapolis. Auburn also would be in in Lexington,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: and then he's got Florida's number one seat in the West,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: opening in San Francisco and actually opening in Raleigh and
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: ultimately feeding the San Francisco and Duke. The number one
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: in the East would ultimately into Newark starting in Raleigh
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: as well. Texas he has placed in the South, which
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: would feed into Atlanta's the number ten seed and would
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: play Saint Mary's with the winner to face the Winter
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: VI was State and Bryant I was State one last night,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: so they're still on the rise. Houston is the number
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: two along with Iris. Stated he had Texas A and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Amazon too, but they got thumbed pretty hard last night
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: by Mississippi State and Starkville ended their five game winning
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Streek and he has Tennessee's the other number two.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Half.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was, so there's still things to be decided
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the rest of the way. The four number threes was
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Some which beat Purdue. Good win for the Badgers last night. Kentucky.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: They're becoming a sneaky, really good team. Yep, agreed. Purdue
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: is a three that may slide after that loss in
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Arizona's a three which got the win in Waco on
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Monday night over Baylor. And the four number fours would
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: be Saint John's Michigan Texas Tech, which lost to TCU
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: last Nay.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: What a weird game that was. Yeah, in Michigan State.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: They lost by I guess they lost by No, they
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: lost by three because here's what happened. Tech had Tech
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: trailed for a lot of the game, and the Red
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Raiders came back, jumped in front, and I think scored
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: all of two points.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: In the final five minutes of the basketball game.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: TSU came back, hit some shots, but missed a bunch
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: of free throws that kept Tech hanging around, and ultimately
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: TCU missed or rebounded. They missed from Texas. Tech got
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: fouled with like four second it's left. They went to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the free throw line, made the made one out of
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: tude to go up three, made the second one. Tech inbounds.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: They get the ball to Toppin who puts one up
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: straight away about twenty five feet. I'd say it looked
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: like right on, except the shot was blocked. Tech coaches
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: went crazy. They thought it was a foul, but when
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: you saw the replay, it probably wasn't gonna be called.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: And uh and so that was it. So TCU. Our
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: friend Louyl Galindo was doing the telecast last night. He's
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: working with Tom Creane, and he said, they've caught the
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: attention to the Ncaaight, yeah, but they're three and eight
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: in Quad one games and they're sixteen and eleven now,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: so I mean they're gonna need they're gonna need more
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: of those, and I think they still have to play
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Houston again, so they're gonna need more of those to
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: really get on the front. Like you know, they're not
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: even in Lenard's next four right out right now, so
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: it would have to take something like that even to
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: just to kind of get them on the radar.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: They're gonna have to have some more wins like that.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: But there's but there's movement within all of that, even
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: within the top teams in the Power five conferences, and
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: and and we could say Power five. Now we remember
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: we got kind of hung up between this Power five
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: and Power six because you wanted to include the Big
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: East as a power conference. Well, now that there's no
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: more Pac twelve, it's very simple to say Power five again.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: So it's ACCI, it's it's SEC, it's Big twelve, it's
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Big East, and it's Big Ten, so it's Power fives
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: off of that, Looking looking at texas remaining schedule five games, Craig, Yeah,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: one ranked team currently that's at Mississippi State.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: But three of those five games Texas should be favored
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: in two were at home. So if Taxes can go
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: three and two at least the next five games, I
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: think they'll be all right, Craig, But it's also a
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: stretch where I think Artie wants to see this team
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: get healthy in jail. He talked about it yesterday and
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: his media availability the word flow a flow state. I
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: don't think I've ever heard the word flow state or
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: even the phrase flow state be repeated as much as
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: it was yesterday in that media availability. But you know, Texas,
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: I guess, was in a flow state when they closed
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: out the win over Kentucky. Just trying to get healthy.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: But you know, you want to see some some more
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: signs of positivity down the stretch, and if Texas can
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: close out these last five games, and it starts on
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Saturday against Columbia against South Carolina, team that you know,
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: you always worry about these quote unquote trap games, a
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: team that is below you in the rankings, that probably
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: doesn't have anything to play for.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: You know, always got to be aware of teams like that.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because a loss to a team like that can
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: be every bit is damaging as a win over a
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Kentucky can be helpful. So and they're all well aware
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: of that. What'd you say flow stage? Well?
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: I think are you say flow state? Flows? Is it
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: flow state? I think it is. I'm gonna have to
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: ask him about that. Yeah, not like flow from progressive
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: commercial flow as on like you're flowing, the team is flowing.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Or flows sports that does the college baseball. Yeah yeah,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: all right. Up next, we're going to hear from Long
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Orange for Jason Kent, who has really started to help
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: the team down the stretch of the season.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: So we'll do that. I will get to your questions.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: We've got some other things to get to as well
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: as we continue here on thirteen under his own bringing
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: us back with Kenny Loggins last hour, said Kenny Logins
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: sang the Forefather song to one Shining Moment from Mars Badness. Yeah,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: it was this is It? NBC used this is It
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: in It's NCAA Tournament opens. I want to say seventy nine,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: eighty and eighty one. I think those three years those
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: were the eighty one was last year that that NBC
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: at the NCAA Tournament, and I think it was seventy nine,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: eight and eighty one.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: It's covered in the yacht Rock documentary.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah it was. It's in that documentary. It certainly is
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Uh. And then I resident Guardians fan saying, you know,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: my guardians are always undervalued and underappreciated. Most resourceful front
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: office in baseball always finds a way second. Most wins
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: in the American League since twenty thirteen. All of that
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: is completely true, my friend, as well as the reality
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: they've not won a World Series since nineteen forty eight,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: when they beat the Boston Braves, five years before they
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: became the Milwaukee Braves, and then twelve years thirteen years
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: before they became the Atlanta Braves.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: It's been a long time.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Do you think they are the modern day version of
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: what Billy Bean was doing in the early two thousands
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: with considering their payroll and being in a smaller market,
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: what they've been able to accomplish without the they've had success,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: but not obviously the ultimates.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the over the top success.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, they went to the World Series in ninety seven,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: and I thought they were going to get that blust
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the Cubs, right three.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's right.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: They were there in twenty sixteen and ninety seven they
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: lost in Game seven to the Marlins, and then and
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: then and then in twenty sixteen, Yeah, the three to
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: one lead of the Cubs and it didn't, it didn't.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: It ended up not happening.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: They had because the Cavs came back to beat the
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Warriors three to one. They sacrifice the Indians at the time,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: that was the whole that was blood, you know, Lebron
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: that deal. So Lebron got his ring, but he had
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: to sacrifice the Indians winning the World Series.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: And and the Browns of course had won an NFL
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: title since pre Super Bowler at Itteen sixty four, so
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: last time the Browns won a title as well. Not
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: trying to cause any pain, I'm just just saying, I know,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: I understand.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: How that is. Uh.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Back to college basketball and uh, Jason Kent has been
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: a guy who's been a factor for.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Them of late. Uh.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: And it was a it was a different world for
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: him because he was a starter and a key contributing
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: to Indiana States team and all the way to the
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: n i T Championship game before they fell in the
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: n IT five know last year. So it's been more
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: of a role situation, especially since he had the early
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: season risk injury in miss time, so it's been kind
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: of a role thing. Now. He did start against Kentucky
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: with Arthur Klem out of the lineup and has contributed
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: the last couple of ball games, and he was asked,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: how difficult is it to not play as many minutes
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: as he did when he was playing for Indiana State.
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: Uh, It's it's super difficult. You know.
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: I want to be out there with my brothers, you know,
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: competing at a high level, you know, be there on
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: the court, playing with them. But it's hard when you
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: can't practice with them, when you can't live with them,
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: you know.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: So it was definitely definitely difficult.
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: But knowing that they have my back end cheering me
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: on and you know, encouraging me was was good. Was
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: good for me to feel like I was still part
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: of that even though I wasn't on the court with him.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Jason was asked about his relationship with his sister Janey,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: who played the game.
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: It's it's all love between us two. You know, I'm
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: literally her biggest fan. You know, I cheer her on
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: no matter. I would die for that ground Carol, what
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: team she's on. But at the end of the day,
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: you know, she's she tells me she watches every game
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: and to watch every game of hers. But you know
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: she always comes to me for you know, basketball by
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: she always asked me what can I do better?
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: What do you see?
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: You know, I'm like her, I'm like a little coach,
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: you know, without being her coach. So we work out together,
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: you know, we joke around, but it's a it's a
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: it's a really tight bond that I have with my
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: sister where if I really need.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: To talk to somebody, I can always count on my
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: sister for sure.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Which and that brings us to the transfer portal about
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: talking to her and talking to Julian Larry, his fellow
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: teammate at Indiana State and who leaned on who during
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: the whole transfer process.
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: You know, she was definitely leaning on me a little
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: bit because you know, she wanted to pick a spot
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: to where what benefit her. You know, ended up we
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: both in Texas. But at the end of the day,
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: I told her, you got to go where you want
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: to be happy, where you want to be successful. And
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: I'm always here to watch watch film on the team,
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: give you my input, and we can always sit down
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: and break it down together.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Then you know, here we are headed to the stretch
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: drive of the season longer too, five games remaining, and
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: and Jason Camples asked what the team needs to figure
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: out down the stretch of this season.
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: I would say, just just playing the whole forty minutes,
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: competing at a high level. You know, we are very
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: competitive team, We are a hungry team, and we just
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: want to win at the end of the day. So
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: just maintaining that focus, that concentration, those those little details
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: we need to get over the hump, because we're right there.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: It's just those little details to get over the hump
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: that we would need.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he sounds like a coach because Ronnie talks about
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the details. It it's all the way back to when
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Barnes's coach and you talk about the details, the devil
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: in the details and the importance of the details. This
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: is an open date week, as we mentioned, so there
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: was no game last night, there's no game tonight, so
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: they've been able to get some rest, recoup, as Riding
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: likes to say, let your bodies recover, and then get
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: back on the practice floor before headed to South Carolina
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: on Friday for the game on Saturday night. So Jason
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: can ask how big is this week for the guys
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: to be able to rest.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Up and heal up.
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: It's me you know, guys gets to recover their bodies physically, mentally,
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: you know, hit the reset button from the games so
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: we can give it all we got in this last stretch.
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: So this is this week is important.
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: We also get a chance to work on things we
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: need to get better on and figure out what little
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: details we can fix now practice so that when it's
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: in the game is fixed, we're ready to go to
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: finish out this season.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: So there it is some thoughts and some comments from
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Jason Camp and they're gonna they're gonna need him. And
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: the the intriguing thing about this is that they have
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: a chance, because there are five games left, they do
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: have a chance to enhance they're NCAA tournament profile again
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: by virtually any measure in any UH racketology examination that
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: you go through right now, any of them, they all
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: have taxes in the field. It just depends on which
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: one you follow is to see exactly where they are.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: For example, Jerry Palm has Texas in the field, but
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Jerry has had Texas lower in his mind than say,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: you know, Joe Lonardi or Andy Katz or a couple
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: of the other guys, and so he has Texas still
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: in the first four he's got him as an eleven seed.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Now again going back to what I'd mentioned earlier.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: That my son had asked me, does the NCAA always
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: put two eleven seeded matchups to go with the two
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: sixteen seeds or is it too twelve seated matchups? And
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: I said it just depends on the year. Like the
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: year that I did the first four in Dayton for
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Westwood One. What was that twenty sixteen when I did that?
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: It was two eleven seeded matchups? It was I think
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I did Wichitas State against California, and I did Michigan.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: I forgot who I did on that.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: I remember that one of the sixteen matchups it was
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: holy Cross and Southern great matchup in that twenty sixteen,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen pull that up. Tell you what were the
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: what were the first four matchups? Uh there in Dayton.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I'm certain twenty sixteen was the year I did.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: It was Florida Gulf Coast and Farley Dickinson Yep, yep,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: that was a good one.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Michigan and Tulsa Whols was the one I was trying.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: That was an eleven seat?
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: Was that the Florida Gulf Coast year that Dunk City
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: was that?
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: No year after fifteen was the year that they that
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: they went to the sweet sixteen because the fifteen seed, right, yep, yep,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: and got to the sweet sixteen and then and then
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: what was the other eleven seed matchup?
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Was it witch daw State and cal Vanderbilt?
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I knew there was Golden Halt, which and what was
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: the other holy Cross in Southern year?
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: That's it, That's the one.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: I said, holy Cross in Southern So I remember, did
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: any of those come down to like a one point
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: two point game?
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Michigan won by five, holy Cross won by four, the
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: either two or blowouts?
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think holy Cross hit a three late and
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: then and then Southern Misster shot and then the holy
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Cross got fouled, and it was it was a good.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: Baylines last year? Or was he already in Cleveland by then?
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: And I think I think beyond he would have been
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: that still would have been Lebron James, So he must
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: have still been there.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: He was he was because I remember sitting down and
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: visiting with him. It was very good, yes, very nice. Yeah, yes,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: but that was a fun event. And and yeah there's that,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: you know, there's there's always going to be a stigma
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: to a play in there just is because you weren't
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: good enough to get into the full field of sixty
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: four on your own, so now you got to play
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: your way in. But the play in has been really cool,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: just like who was it that said this the other day,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Hendrick Perkins? And I don't agree with Kendrick Perkins on much.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, he though liked the All Star format, of course,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: because he said, and you tell me if this is wrong.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: I didn't watch the All Star stuff, but but the
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: stuff that I know I was watching the Saturday Night
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Live fiftieth over it was that she was incredible.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: But he said, I think he made a good point
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: on this, and I've seen others make the same point
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: that it was more competitive than all Star games had
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: been in many many years because that the rising stars,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: like you said, you knew they were going to play hard,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: and so some of the veterans played hard as a
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: result of that. So you got much more of competitive
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: nature of.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: The games as a result of that. I would disagree.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: I did not watch the whole weekend, to be honest
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: with you. I watched the because it was like eleven
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: pm at night and going to bed and say, oh,
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: the All Star Game is finally starting o'clock. What's going
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: on here? It's just like the last couple of years, Craig.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: It's guys taking wide open threes and if anyone could
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: have gotten a dunk they wanted to. Competition's not there.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: But I don't really know what the fix is because
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: you know, if you go to the MLB format what
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: it used to be anyways, where you know the winner
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: would get home court. And in the World Series, do
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: you have guys who are playing in the game who
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: have no chance of making the NBA Finals. You're relying
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: on Trey Young who's just taking half court shots from three.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: So I don't know how that format would solve anything.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: And also, someone made a good point on Twitter yesterday
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: it was like, it's not so much a game, it's
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: you know, you have corporate events, you have you know,
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: these guys got to go go do speeches, they do
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: stuff for sponsorships like Super Bowl week. It's a corporate thing,
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: and then there's a basketball game, right. I think it
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: was Steph Curry said, take away all that and let
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: the guys actually focus on the game, and you know,
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: maybe it'll be a competitive game. But I don't think
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: Adam silver or the NBA really cares that much because
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: there's so much money coming in from like sponsors stuff. Sure,
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: but I did not the whole watch. I did not
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: watch the whole weekend. I heard there's a lot of
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: Kevin Hart, So like Kevin Hart.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: You don't like Kevin Well.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: The other what Kendrick Perkins was saying was he liked
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: the format because he said, it just needs time for
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: people to get used to. He said they were saying
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: the same thing about the play in tournament in the NBA.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Nobody liked it. Nobody thought it was a good idea.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: He goes, look what it's done for the game now,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: But I don't know.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: So like, okay, if the Rising Star team makes the
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: finals and like, no offense to these guys, but if
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: it's Stefan Castle and amntops and yea, like the casual
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: fan doesn't really care, Like why people like you watched
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: the All Star Game, Like in the seventies and eighties
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: one time that you could see Larry Bird play with
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: guys like George Gervin, because you would you would never
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: see George Gervin on national television. And even if you
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: even you probably wouldn't see Larry Bird that much because
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: of how TV rights work. So there was kind of
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: what an allure to All Star weekend because you're gonna
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: see all the top players on the court together at
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: the same time. You would never see that Now with
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: Twitter and social media, you know, you can watch any
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: player you want, So there's not the same allure to
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: see them in an All Star Game because like, yeah, okay,
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: cool Giannis is playing with Trey Young and Wemby. Okay,
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: I can just go on YouTube and watch one highlights
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: right now. So I think also some of that takes
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: away from the All Star Game, and that's why I
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: don't think it will ever be as popular as it
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: once was.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Well as it bring this back around, he talked about
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: the playing tournament. What I was saying about the play
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: in the first four as they call it in the
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: NC tournament, everybody's ultimately gotten used to it and adopted.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: I don't mind it. Ye, it expend the tournament.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, if they go to ninety six teams, what
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: they would do is give you know, one seed a
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: buy right, they would give they would give what was
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: it the four No, let's see, you would go to
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: and they would give the top eight seeds at first round,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: by is the way that that would work. So just
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: like with the SEC tournament, we know that if you
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: finish in the top eight, you get a single buy,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: if you finish in the top four you get a
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: double buy. And if you finish below eight, you're playing
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and you got to win five games to
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: win the thing. So but I think it's a good
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: thing with the NCAA tournament. It's a little bit different
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: with the women's tournament because of home courts and where
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: they have to play those but played in Dayton, where
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: that city wraps its arms around that event, much like
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Omaha does for the College World Series. That's their event,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: and it's big, and those games are all sellid. It
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: wouldn't matter if it was four sixteen seed matchups, and
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: it used to be that initially sold out, didn't matter.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: All thirteen five hundred seats there and the Dayton Arenas
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: sold out. It's a lot of fun. All right, We've
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: got some other things to get too. We'll continue here
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: on AM thirteen under the Zone. I was mentioning college basketball,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: and whereas I said, Jerry Palm did not have Texas
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: as highly considered as say a couple of the other
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: racketologists did. And historically Jerry has always kind of had
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Texas a little bit lower than some of the others.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: We've had him on the show before. In fact, I'll
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: get him back on. He's he's very entertaining to talk to.
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: He just.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: Doesn't feel like they're into the field.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: He's got them right at the top of those who
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: are playing in the first four. He hasn't playing against
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: b Yu. I would say this, b Yu's probably played
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: its way into the field for sure by now.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: Their scary team. They got some good fresh air.
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we saw how good they were last year
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: when they were a veteran team.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: And he has Arkansas and West Virginia in a matchup
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: of eleven seeds.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: That would that would be pretty interesting.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: The four number one ones he has the same as
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: as Lenardi has. He's got Auburn in the south, Alabama
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: in the midwest, Florida in the west, and Duke in
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: the east.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: That's pretty much.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Been Uh, that's kind of a uniform look at it
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: right now from from most of the bracketologists. Then another
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: one that I usually follow is Andy Katz. Remember Andy
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Katz from ESPN and and doing all I think Andy
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Andy is the Action Network now Action Network and does
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of things for the NCAA. That's right, and
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: so his NCAA dot com. He came back, you know,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: after the Top sixteen reveal and then and then followed
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: that up his his latest projections came out on Monday,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: and those have Texas in the field. He's got thirteen
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: teams from the SEC in the field of sixty eight
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: uh and he currently has out of the sixty eight
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: teams he has, Texas is the fortieth team in the
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: field of sixty eight. He's got him as a ten
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: seed where they would play Louisville in the first round
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: in the East. And Leonardi had Texas in a ten
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: to seven matchup with Louisville a couple of weeks ago
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: before the three game losing streak, and now that they
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: climb back into ten, he's got them in the ten
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: out West or in the South, rather playing against Saint Mary's.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: And I don't know that that might not be a
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: tougher matchup playing Saint Mary's than Louisville. If you see
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Saint Mary's play this year, seen them beat Gonzaga, they
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: look they look really good, so I would say, you know,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: it's it'd be difficult to do it, okays.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: As a point, as I said at the.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Top of the program, when considering teams where they are,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: the work they have to do to try to get
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: into the field of sixty eight, there is this index
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: called the Billis Index. Is Jay Billison does it. This
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: is his second volume. He updates it his top sixty
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: eight teams in men's college basketball, so he ranks them.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: So if you're wondering who he has number one, I
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: think he can prob a guess Talvern.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: He has duped to Houston.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Three, Florida four, Alabama five, Tennessee six. Now he had
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech seven. But again, this was before the Red
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Raiders lost last night in Fort Worth, Iowa State eight,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Texas A and M nine again, before the Aggies lost
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: last night Purdue ten.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: Again, before the Boilermakers lost last night.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin who beat Perdue at number eleven, Arizona at twelve.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: This was before their win in Waco, Michigan thirteen, the
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Missouri fourteen, Kansas at fifteen, even though they're twenty third
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: to Poe and then just got absolutely just you know,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: beat all up by BYU last night. He said the
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: preseason number one team is mired in a win one
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: lose one funk right now and inconsistent offense.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: That's what everybody saying about the Jayhawks.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: Plus inconsistent production from key complimentary players is the reason,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: he said. Hunter Dickinson, kJ Adams, Dwan Harris, and Zeke
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Mayo have been good but have not had consistent help.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: If and when aj Store and Ryland Griffin provide that
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: consistent production, Kansas can be a tough out, but this
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Kansas team is not looking like a Final four threat
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: right now. In fact, Seth Greenberg was asked about him
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: on Sports Center this morning. He said, they're out first weekend.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: He thinks they're going to be out first weekend. Marquette sixteen,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: Kentucky's seventeen, Michigan State eighteen, Yukon nineteen. They had to
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: come from behind to beat Bill and Love last night,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: and Maryland completes the top twenty Texas you ask, he
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: has Texas at number thirty four, right behind Oklahoma and
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah Yeah and Oklahom at thirty three. Says Oklahoma was
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: toward the bottom of a stacked SEC but went thirteen
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: in O to open the season with the mid December
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: Winever Michigan that has aged well, proving it can hang
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: with teams in March still as soon as they're steering
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: down the true gauntlet, a final regular season stretch starting
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: a Tuesday's game that Florida's he was before that game,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: followed by four more ranked matchups until finally catching a
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: break against Texas in the finale.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Can I offer a buttle? Sure, they've lost six to seven? Now, okay,
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: you could say, yeah, well, you know, five of those
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: loss have been against top twenty five teams. Okay, lost
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: LSU at home, like three points. That's a bad, bad,
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: ugly loss. And then you also began conference play, oh
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: to four. So what is Oklahoma's best conference win home
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: against twenty fourth Vanderbilt. Outside of that, Craig, their wins
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: are South Carolina, who has not won a game yet
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: in conference play at Arkansas, which, okay, I'll give you that,
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: but it was you know, beginning the conference play for
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: an Arkansas on the road as three point all right,
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: so that's good. And then they beat Vanderbilt. Yeah so well.
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: And also their next four games, Craig against top twenty
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: five teams and the end the season at Tech.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: That's what I started to say, that's gonna this is
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: gonna solve itself with Oklahoma, their destinies in their control.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: But who are those next teams that they're playing.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: Mississippi State at home? Yeah, home for Kentucky, Yeah, at Ole,
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: miss yeh home for Missouri, and at Texas. So three
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: of four at home and then three or five at home.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: But they haven't exactly proved to be world beaters at home.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: They lost to Texas home, they lost the LSU at home. Yeah,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: I don't think they have that much of a home
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: court environment. Greg And with regard to Texas, he said,
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: Trey Johnson has lived up to the hype as one
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: of the best freshmen in the country. He's a dynamics
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: scorerho can make plays from anywhere on the court, leading
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: the SEC with the nineteen point eight points per game average.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: He's a main driver of Texas top thirty status and
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Ken Palms adjusted offensive efficiency ratings. The Longhorns hope for
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: an at large bid remain within reach with the worst
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: of their schedule behind them. A March fourth trip to
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Mississippi State is their toughest remaining test.
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: True.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Even if that one is a loss, even at the
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: game at Arkansas loss. That they win the other three games,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: they're sitting to nineteen going into Nashville for the time,
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: I think they're in if they win four of the five,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: which would probably mean winning in Fayetteville. If they did that,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: I think they're a lock in. At that point. They're
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: at twenty wins going in with a net ranking that
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: would be in the twenties if that were to happen.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: So that's the other thing you'd pay too, by the way,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: they pay attention to. By the way, the NCAA does
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: not use kim Pom anymore. They use net rankings, but
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: they don't. But what he is talking about is ken
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Palm's adjusted offensive efficiency, those kind of metrics like Pro
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Football Focus, those kind of metrics, not in terms of
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: the rankings. The net rankings is a tool for the NCAA.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: We'll be back to wrap up our number two thirteen
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: under the zone. Craig Way with you and Hemeron Parker
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: as well, and I'm glad to have you.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: Along on this chili.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: It's not chili, it's cold. It's just out now cold outside.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: It is thirty three degrees. We've reached the high, and
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: so this is the warmest it will be today the
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: rest of the day and the next hour will drop
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: one degree. In the next two hours will drop two degrees.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Eventually it will fall to nineteen degrees tomorrow morning, nineteen degrees,
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: so that again nineteen nineteen by tomorrow morning. It'll be
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: nineteen at sunrise seven o six am tomorrow, and then
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: it will gradually warm up to thirty eight degrees by
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: tomorrow afternoon, and it'll be slightly cooler on Friday morning,
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: cloud moving in, and then it'd be like thirty six
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: for a high.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: Friday.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Saturday, there's a chance of some rain, but the high
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: will be in the forties. And then Sunday there's another
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: chance of rain, but the high could be around sixty degrees.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: And then next week it'll be pushing eighty. It'll be
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: in the mid up or soon.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: My wife yesterday Kenny and Barton springs next week, Linda said,
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: can we just have something in the middle. So no,
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: we're in Texas. Grew up in this state.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: You want to know what it's like. She grew up
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: in Dallas. She knows what the you know.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: What the extremes are like in this state about wait,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes and all that other kind of stuff. Because
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: it does, it does happen. Okay, this is not gonna
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: shock anybody at all. But if you follow college football
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: and you followed the college Playoff, and the number one
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: reaction that came out of the College football Playoff was
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: that the seatings were not correct. That they should not
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: have given a number four seeding to Arizona State, they
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: should not have given the seeding that they've given to
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: other teams that were about what Boise as a number
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: three seed. They should not have given Boise State a
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: number three seed. And you look at it. Ultimately, the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: number eight seed won the national championship beating the number
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: what was it six seed? I believe Notre Dame was,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: so you know, or was it seven? Seven seed because
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: they beat Georgia the two seed first. Yeah, eight beat
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: seven to win the national championship because nine was Tennessee.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: Nine was Tennessee, and eleven was SMU which played the
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: sixth seed Penn State. Off of that, so you figured
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: that there's going to be conversations with those who are
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: making the rules on this thing and making the policy
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: for college football. There's a joint meeting in New Orleans
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: between athletic directors representing their respective conferences this morning in
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: New Orleans. The guys who are speaking for these athletic
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: directors are Greg sanking the commission of the SEC, Tony Pettiti,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: the commissioner of the Big Ten, the two big power brokers, right,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: And they both said that there would seem to be
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: universal agreement that the way the teams are seated in
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: the twelve team College Football Playoff should change this fall,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: So they would have to be unanimously agreed upon by
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: the ten FBFS commissioners, and Notre Dame athletic director Pete
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Bavakwa got to keep him involved.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame that as long as they.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: Qualified, Sankie said, quote, I'm prepared to vote for seeding change,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: but it has to be unanimous. Uh So, of course, again,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: this is how it went. The four highest ranked conference
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: champions are in the top four seeds in a first
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: round by It was one of the most controversial facets
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: of the format because it allowed for ninth rank Boise State,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: which won the Mountain West Conference, to earn the number
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: three seed, and for twelfth ranked Arizona State to.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: Earn the number four seed.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: We just pointed that out Texas ranked third Penn State
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: ranked fourth were runners up in the respective conferences, but
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: they couldn't be seated higher than numbers five and six
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: because the top four seeds were reserved for conference champions.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: A popular suggestion to change the seeding for this fall,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: which Petiti, the commissioner of the Big Ten, said he favored,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: has been to use the Select Action Committees ranking for
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: the seeding, while still making room for the five est
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: five highest rank conference champions. In that model, the committee's
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: top four teams would earn the top four seeds and
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: first round bys, regardless of whether they were conference champions,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: which Texas would have earned the first round by had
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: that happened.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: Not having the first round by did not ultimately hurt Texas,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: even though they had to go double over time to
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: beat Arizona State, but they did after they had beaten
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: Clemson at home, so they won two games to get
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: to the final four. But anyway, in that model, the
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Committee's top four teams would earn the top four seeds
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: and they would earn the first round bys, regardless of
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: whether there were conference champions that would also open the door.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: Ah, you know who?
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: That opens the door for Notre Dame because they can't
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: win a conference title as an independent. It to earn
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: a first round by as a four seed. So I
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: think it's probably a safe.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: Bet that.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Pete Bavaqua, the athletic director for Notre Dame, would vote
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: for this because we give his team a chance to
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: earn a first round by if that, if that.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: Were to happen.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: You know, Pete Leavaqua sounds like one of Kramer's friends
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: from seinfilm.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: He does.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: You know, there was a major League for many years.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: Kurt Bavaqua, he played for the Royals, he played for
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: the Padres name. Yeah, is that like Polish? I think
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: it's like Hispanic, but I can't remember for sure. Really,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know about that. Well, Kurkpavak
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: was born in Florida, so okay, yeah, he had a
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: long major league career. And I can tell you, Cameron,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: we could never play this on the air, but I
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: have a I have a it was burned to a
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: CD for me.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: There was back in the.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: Eighties Italian French origin. Okay, that makes sense, Yeah, that's
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: exactly what. That makes sense. That sounds that sounds either
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: Italian or French. And also the name translates to literally
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: watch er drinker. Interesting, yeah, the Vaqua okah, yeah, okay,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: all right, yeah nice.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: So some poor dude was named the Vaqua because he
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: was probably drinking waters. Yeah, some fountain. Some dude was thirsty,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: you know, you know, you know, we laugh. But people
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: used to get names based on certain things.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: Like there's the old joke about Native Americans and two
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: dogs bublic, you know that that kind of thing. There's that,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: you know, talking stick casino and things like that with
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: Native Americans. But it was like that in the old
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: countries as well. My family genealogy way dates back. We
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: have a direct line descendancy. I've been able to see
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: it with my own eyes, traced all the way back
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: to Devonshire, England in sixteen ninety seven, when a gentleman
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: by the name of John Way had enrolled in the
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: tax rolls there in Devonshire, England. His family, sometime between
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: sixteen ninety seven and seventeen fifteen moved came across the
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: ocean to what was in the colonies, the British Colonies,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: and settled in I believe it was Franklin County, Pennsylvania,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: and there were two brothers. One went out West Indiana,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: the other one ultimate or sons of the John Way
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: who came over, went down to Alamance County, North Carolina,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: and that's where it started from there. Well, anyway, the
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: name way, and in those days it was spelled w
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: e y and then was I guess anglicized over time.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: But in those days the name Way descended from the
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: note that that was the family that lived out by
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: the road, out by the way, the bye way, that
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: the name Way was labeled by that family that lived
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: out by the road. A literal translation, that's what it was,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: the family that lived out by the road. The family
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: would by the way. That's the Way family because they
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: live out by the road, which in my case makes
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: perfect sense. As much traveling as I do anyway, and
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: I am a man of the road. I drive on
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: my vacations and things of that nature. So that's where
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: that came from. But Bavaqua, as I started to tell you,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: this would never make airplay here, there was a CD.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: I have a copy of his burned to a CD
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: for me, But it came from a cassette tape back
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: in the eighties to early nineties. Brad Sham gave it
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: to me, but the audio had been passed along to him,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: and it is a collection and an assortment of various
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: locker room interviews and out takes and things of that nature.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: You can probably guess the type of language that is
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: involved in the thing. One of those, by the way,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: is Chicago Cubs manager Jim Fry, who I think it
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: was an eighty two eighty three I had to ask.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: Keith Morland gets on this incredible rant which included the
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: words eighty five percent of the world is working and
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: the rest of these blankety blanks come out here to
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: boo us, you know, Wrigley Field. The reason why that
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: all came about was that was the day that a
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: Cubs fan poured a twenty four ounce Heylman's old style
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: beer onto the head of none other than Keith Morland.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: And Keith Morland went into the stands and he got
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: his he got his money's worth.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: He went in and pounded that guy.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: And so Jim Fry deflected all the stuff away from
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: Keith by going on this incredibly famous rant about Cubs
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: fans and how negative and how often they were. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of baseball involved there that Dallas Greenley's manager
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: of the Phillies, and there's but perhaps one of the
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: most famous is Tommy Lasorda when he's managing the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: There's one where he's talking about Dave Kingman hit three
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: home runs against him and drove in eight runs, and
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: you hear a reporter say, what was your opinion of
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: Kingman's performance? What was my opinion game? What the bleep
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: do you think of it? And he just goes on
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: this incredible rant. But then there's another one where he
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: was accused of having his pitcher throw at Kurt Bavakua,
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  Speaker 1: and you hear him say, I think that's very bad
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  Speaker 1: for somebody to say that. I would never I have
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  Speaker 1: never and would never ask one of my pitchers to
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  Speaker 1: throw at somebody. And if I did, it certainly wouldn't
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: be for a bleeping one thirty hitter like Kurt Bavaqua,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: who I would send a limo to make sure his
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: bleak bleep was in the lineup, because I would own
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: that bleak bleep all day. And it's hilarious, and he's
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: talking about Kurt Blevoca. He was batting one thirty at
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: the time they hit him with a pitch, So it
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: was subject one of those locker room language things there
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  Speaker 1: as a.
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  Speaker 2: Result of that.
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  Speaker 1: So back to what I was saying about the college
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  Speaker 1: football deal, since we got sidetracked with Ptelevakua when that happened.
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  Speaker 2: So for almost a year.
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  Speaker 1: Oh by the way, you know, Sankie was asked what
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  Speaker 1: the respected conferences would like the playoff to look like
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six and beyond sinking smart men would
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  Speaker 1: not get into the specifics.
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  Speaker 2: Quote, that's something.
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  Speaker 1: We owe our colleagues first talks about the other commissioners.
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  Speaker 1: I think I've been consistent in that observation. So for
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  Speaker 1: almost a year, multiple sources in both leagues have indicated
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  Speaker 1: a strong preference for expanding to fourteen teams beginning in
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Sources in the SEC and Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: have also favored a certain number of automatic bids for
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  Speaker 1: each league, but even within each league, the remain varying
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  Speaker 1: opinions on that. Sources in the Big Ten seen more
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  Speaker 1: line than their desire for automatic qualifiers. A popular model
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  Speaker 1: would include four guaranteed spots each from the Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: in the SEC, two teams from the Big Twelve, and
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  Speaker 1: ACC one spot for the highest G five champion and
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  Speaker 1: one at large, which could go to Notre day Am
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  Speaker 1: if the IVERSH were ranked high enough for inclusion.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Sanke declined to speak directly about automatic qualifiers, but he
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  Speaker 1: did say the leagues have talked about everything regarding format and.
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  Speaker 2: They'll continue to do that. Quote. This is not a
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  Speaker 2: new issue, he said.
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  Speaker 1: Petiti, the Big TIM commissioners, said that because of the
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  Speaker 1: way the power is divided, eventually both leagues need to
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  Speaker 1: come to a consensus on what they want it to
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  Speaker 1: look like moving forward. But there's no restrictions on where
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  Speaker 1: the ideas can come from moving forward. So in other words,
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  Speaker 1: everything's on the table right now to discuss it. But
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: here's the thing they're talking. They're talking about all this
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  Speaker 1: right now. I think we're going to see changes, and
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  Speaker 1: I think the change is specifically the number one change
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking for and expecting to see with the college
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: football playoff this fall will be the seeding. It will change,
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  Speaker 1: and I think they are going to award the top
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  Speaker 1: four seeds to the top four highest ranked teams, regardless
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: of what conference A get in. I mean, if there's
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: four SEC teams, they get the top four seeds. If
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: there were four Big Ten teams, they get the top
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  Speaker 1: four seats, the four highest ranked teams, and then they
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  Speaker 1: would go from that on down to twelve and then
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  Speaker 1: probably I think there's a good chance we're looking at
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  Speaker 1: it going to fourteen teams in twenty twenty six. All right,
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  Speaker 1: coming up, we're gonna hear from Rodney Terry, Long Warn
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  Speaker 1: men's basketball coach when we continue here on thirteen under
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  Speaker 1: the zone. Let's hear from Long WARN's head coach Rodney Terry.
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  Speaker 1: This from his media availability yesterday, as the team navigates
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: its open date on the schedule, the bye week during
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: that and then getting ready for the trip to South Carolina.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: I'll leave on Friday, and then after that, of course,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: play on Saturday. So uh uh, picking up where we
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: h left off yesterday. Uh, Rodney was asked about that
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  Speaker 1: some of the stuff that we talk about, you know, bracketology,
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  Speaker 1: And every time I asked Rodney about it, uh, he
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  Speaker 1: acknowledges that it's out there.
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  Speaker 3: He acknowledges that there, that he's aware of it.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: And if someone throws something in front him and take it,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: he might take a glance, but he's not really as
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: dialed into it, but he was asked if anyone on
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: the staff if that's one of the things that they
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: do is to monitor tournament projections.
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  Speaker 4: Now you know what I'm thinking. It's a it's a
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  Speaker 4: fun time.
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  Speaker 7: For for you guys, media and and others that that
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 7: pay attention to that for us, I mean, always tell
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  Speaker 7: our guys and what we do on a regular basis
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  Speaker 7: to live where your feet are and control what you
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 7: can control. You know, we can't control what's put up
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 7: on the projection and this and that. We can't control
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 7: what we do every day as a team. And then
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 7: practice to try to get better, uh, and you ready
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 7: for situations and games and prepare ourselves to try to
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 7: play at a level that we want to try to
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  Speaker 7: play night in and night out.
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  Speaker 4: But we control we can control.
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  Speaker 7: And that's that's being prepared for the next big challenge
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 7: in front of us. And that's a team in South
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  Speaker 7: Carolina that's well coach, they played everybody really close, with
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 7: a lot of great opportunities to have won a lot
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 7: of big ball games. And they've got really good personnel.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 7: I mean, they've got a couple of kids that won
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 7: in particular that's projected first round pick. So you know,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 7: there's talent up and down everybody's ross and rosters in
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 7: this league. And every night we respect our opponent. And
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 7: one thing we can't control. We can control our attitudes
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 7: and our preparation every night. We can't control all the
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 7: other good stuff that goes along with with this time
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 7: of year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there was good stuff with the win over Kentucky,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: and so our team was asked, what does that win
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: of Kentucky last Saturday bring to the team and it's
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: ongoing preparation down the stretch.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think you know, anytime you you win in
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 7: this league, you have it for one night.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 4: You're losing this league, you have it for one night.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 7: But if you're you're able to work the game for
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 7: forty minutes and and be the team that's coming off
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 7: a good win, you know, against the quality team in Tennessee,
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  Speaker 7: you know.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 4: You're you got to feel great about that.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 7: But again, you only have it for one night. It
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 7: is on to the next challenge for us. You know,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 7: we had a week when we got a chance to
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 7: continue to mend our bodies, try to reset button with
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 7: our with our mental and and uh and physical fatigue.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 7: This time of year, I think that, uh, trying to
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 7: get all our guys back, man, I think, uh, you know,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 7: anytime you go into a game and going to practice
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 7: you have all your guys.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 4: You got to be excited about.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 7: That because you know, we've got quality, depth, We've got
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 7: guys that again, you know, that start games for us
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 7: if we feel can get off the great stars for us.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 7: We're also guys that we feel like when we're healthy
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 7: and we have all our guys can also you know,
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  Speaker 7: keep that same level of play or even take it
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 7: to another level when they come into games. We just
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 7: need to have those bodies, you know. And we really
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 7: only had one game this year where we've had our
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 7: top ten guys available for that particular game. So I'll
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 7: be excited, I know our team, you know, and our
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 7: staff will be excited to have everybody, you know, when
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 7: that opportunity presents itself.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, think about that, And I mentioned it more than once,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: but it bears repeating. They've had one game one where
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: they had the entire roster available to them. That's it one,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: and they may still not have the entire roster available
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: on Saturday in Columbia depending on the state of Kenda Weaver.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: But at least the other guys are mending and getting healthier,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: and that's a good thing. Trey Johnson is largely been healthy.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: He was held out of three games in December around Christmas,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: but that was mainly precautionary. A little bit sore, but
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: mainly just tell that precautionaty And so now he's playing
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: really well. He's leading the conference in conference games, scoring
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: at twenty points per game, and he really is playing
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: with a heavy duty sense of urgency. And Rodney terror
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: has asked if tray sense of urgency has really spiked
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: up down this home stretch and what did he make
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: of his performance against Kentucky.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 7: Tray's been one of those guys just that's gotten better
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 7: throughout the course of the season, not just from a
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 7: basketball standpoint, but just from a mature standpoint of being
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 7: in college. You know, what he does off campus, I
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 7: think really helps you what he does on campus.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 4: You know, being a guy that you know has to
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 4: do well from.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 7: An academic standpoint, he carries over to the floor. Likewise,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 7: I think he's continued to mature and being a great teammate.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 7: You know, he's been a great teammate off the court,
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 7: but being a great teammate on the court and trusting
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 7: his teammates on the court has been something that I've definitely.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 4: Seen a growth to curve in him. He's one of
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 4: those guys as.
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  Speaker 7: Well that I think over the course of the season
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 7: has shown people that he's more than just a score.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 7: He's a guy that can also make of the guys
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 7: around him better sharing the basketball, you know, he can.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 7: You know, he's one of those guys that's gotten better
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 7: with reading pick and roll, playing in two man games,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 7: whether it be a step up, whether it be an
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 7: actual peak and roll situation, he's making those reads and
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 7: showing guys that he's more than a guy that just
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 7: kids scored the basketball. I thought he played as hard
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 7: as game the other night defensively, where he tried as
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 7: hard as he could defensively, you know, and he's learning
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 7: to be able.
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  Speaker 4: To play through fatigue and still be able to score
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  Speaker 4: the ball.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 7: Leading games he's exhausted, you know, energy on the defensive.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 4: Side of the ball as well.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 7: So I think, again, just just growing as a young player, he's, uh,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 7: he's shown a lot. You know, I was talking with
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 7: Kevin about him yesterday. Uh, you know, Kevin watches our games,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 7: and he's very aware of Trey and has a great
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 7: relationship with him, and just talking about the maturity piece
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 7: from the start of the season as a freshman, and
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 7: as you goes you go, you get to the point
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 7: of where we are now, to where he's played significant minutes,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 7: he's been in big situations, to where you know, he's
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 7: really in his sophomore season right now as a player,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 7: and he's only getting better as it goes.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 4: Trey has a.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 7: Good basketball IQ and I think he'll continue to get
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 7: better as we close out this season.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: Uh, you heard him make reference to Kevin. He's talking
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: about Kevin Durant. Now coming up, we'll take a break.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll hear Rodney Terry's thoughts on
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant's return to Austin with the sun Spurs game
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night at Moody Center. We'll get to that next
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: here on thirteen under the Zone. Let's hear from Rodney.
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  Speaker 1: Try There's one other thing I wanted to play from Rodney,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: and it's about the local hero coming back, Kevin Durant.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: We'll be here tomorrow night when Texas, when Texas players
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: are in attendance. I'm sure we'll be watching the Phoenix
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: Suns play the Spurs and Kad had a media availability
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: today and we're gonna hear comments from Kevin tomorrow. But
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: this is from Rodney Terry who's asked how cool it
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: is and connected he still is with Kevin.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: With Kevin Durant coming back to the Austin area.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 7: I think it's an ultimate opportunity for himself and for
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 7: the city of Austin, you know, to come out of support.
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  Speaker 4: One of our.
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  Speaker 7: Great players that are still in the prime of his
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 7: career right now. You know, it's scoring over thirty thousand
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 7: points and one of the all time you know, scores
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 7: at the next level, one of all time scores at
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 7: the collegiate level. But to have an opportunity to come
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 7: back where you played collegiately and play a professional game
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 7: against one of the best organizations in all the professional sports,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 7: in the Spurs, you can't ask for a better scenario,
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 7: you know. So hopefully, you know, you know, we have
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 7: a sellout for that ball game and people get a
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 7: chance to come back and show their appreciation for along
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  Speaker 7: run great.
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  Speaker 4: That's getting a chance to play in our building.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 7: He came into practice today and watched our guys practice.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 7: All of our guys are former players, not just Kdie.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 7: They're all best in what we're doing as a program.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 7: You know, whether they got a chance to play for
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 7: myself or anyone on our staff or not on our staff,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 7: they're always a part of what we're doing.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 4: But to have him come back here and be here.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 7: This week and be around our guys and see our guys,
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 7: I mean, if you can't ask.
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  Speaker 4: Me anything better than that.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 7: A lot of our guys favorite players Kevin Durrant, you know,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 7: and why they chose to come to Texas was Kevin Durrant,
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 7: you know. So he's had an incredible impact not only
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 7: on our basketball program, but also on our athletic program
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 7: as a whole. He's an incredible ambassador for Texas Athletics.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: Great great said and apparently Kevin said in the media
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: vay but we'll hear it tomorrow, but apparently one of
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: the quotes was this city is primed for basketball, but
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: especially women's basketball at the highest level. This is quite
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: a compliment from Kevin about the second rang Longhorns. And
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: in case you didn't know, that's why Madison Booker Rose
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: thirty five because of KD and I know it was
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: a goal of Jeremy Rosenthal, the media relations content for Texas,
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: to try to get a photo op with the two
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: of them while Kevin was in Tewn. Hopefully get that time. Yeah,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: I think he probably will. All Right, We'll be back
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: to wrap up today's edition. The program here on thirteen
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: under the Zone.