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Bill Bender comments on the College Basketball Landscape · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  All right, John Caliperry with one of the funnier I thought, I don't
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  know if you meant it to be press press conference lines last night said,
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  hey, I met with a team, there is no team. How quickly
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  can he get Arkansas turned around? And do you expect him to make a
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  massive impact in Faandeville? I think a fresh started makes it really interesting.
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  I mean, I got back from the women's final fourths and then I told
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  the story that he went Darkansas. I had to rub my eyes make sure
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  I wasn't like hallucinating from the long drive. But it was very wild story.
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  I think it's great for college basketball in terms of it gives us a
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  really good storyline to fall ups. It's going to be really interesting to see
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  who Kentucky hires back. But I got to I can't lie, Like when
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  I saw him in that red quarters up, I didn't know what to think
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  that it still looks weird? It does? It does look weird, all
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  right? So it looks like Hurley is not gonna entertain Kentucky others or not.
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  As which direction do they eventually go? You three Andrew would have been
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  the right fit. It's not too much, not too little, so I
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  don't really have a feel for where they go from here. I mean,
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  I suppose to go down the Alma Mater list and you go after somebody like
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  a Mark Pope or you know, somebody in that vein. But yeah,
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  I thought Nat Oates would have been an interesting candidate. He for all,
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  he's the ups and downs of the last two years at Alabama, from the
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  mess with Brandon Miller to the or the Final four run this year. I
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  mean, he he's kind of been able to weather that, right, So
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  I don't know if he could handle coaching in a place like Kentucky. That's
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  just it. You got to find the right guy that can handle Kentucky,
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  the players and Kentucky everything else. What do you make of Dan Hurley back
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  to back championships now at Yukon. The guy's got swagger, he's got the
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  look. He's very animated. He looks like he knows how to navigate in
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  this name, image and likeness are in basketball, which you can make a
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  you know, an argument. I think that it's even more dificult in football,
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  and in the fact that you know they'll be maybe one of the favorites
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  next year. Yeah, I mean East Coast guy and doing the things that
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  he's doing that they just so impressive. The way that they their game play
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  against Purdue was smart. They led Zachi Eady do what he did and you
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  know, Purdue, he made one three pointer. I thought Purdue had to
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  make at least ten three pointers to win that game. Uh. East Coast
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  guys so like a Midwestern are like me. Obviously, he grubbed some of
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  my friends the wrong way, but I don't think he cares to go for
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  the game. There's no debate right now that he's the best coach active coach
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  in the game when you consider that the only other coach with multiple natties at
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  his school is Bill self, and the other only coach with multiple natties in
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  the sport right now is Patino, which, by the way, what are
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  the chances he would go to Kentucky. It would be amazing if he did.
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  I don't think it's going to happen, but that's the class that Hurley's
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  in right now.