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03/06/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 4: hot right now that he's going to cool off with
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Speaker 4: thirty million dollars over three years. Amherst native Tyler Biottish
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Speaker 4: is off the free agent market. He has signed with
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Speaker 4: the Los Angeles Chargers, a big one.
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Speaker 5: The Chargers make a splashes rap sheeting Company report. First,
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Speaker 5: Tyler Biottish three years worth thirty million. He was set
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Speaker 5: to make about eight point three this year, drew by
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Speaker 5: the Washington Commanders. They cut him for cat purposes, so
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Speaker 5: he gets to live in LA and gets a raise.
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Speaker 5: That seems like a pretty sweet deal for the Amherst
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Speaker 5: native and former Badger. Chargers seem to like getting free
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Speaker 5: agent centers.
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Speaker 3: So the end of the team that got uh Linsley, right,
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Speaker 3: I think, yeah, they got so there you go, So
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Speaker 3: Tyler and.
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Speaker 4: Continuing their tradition of not getting Wisconsin guys.
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's true, I guess yeah, and and not
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Speaker 5: being not apparently being interested in the free agent role
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Speaker 5: of the center unless they already have somebody who apparently
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Speaker 5: also grew up a Packers fan in the in the
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Speaker 5: crosshairs in the sites, and that being Tyler Linderbaum or
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Speaker 5: this or this just eliminates the Chargers from the sweepstakes
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Speaker 5: which I thought they might be in.
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Speaker 4: Is Tyler Linderbaum gonna get significantly more than Tyler? Be honest?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think he's gonna He's gonna get
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Speaker 5: top of the market now. I mean some people were
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Speaker 5: saying he's going like twenty five million dollars. No one's
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Speaker 5: paying a center twenty five million dollars. I think Creed
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Speaker 5: Humphrey makes the most.
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Speaker 4: At eighteen, I was gonna say, eighteen to twenty might
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Speaker 4: be in the ballpark.
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Speaker 5: Eighteen to twenty will be in the ballpark, yep. So
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Speaker 5: he'll he'll make significance as yep.
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Speaker 4: Because yeah, if Tyler Bodisch's deal is you know, ten million.
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Speaker 5: I think you're looking at about four at eighty four,
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Speaker 5: at eighty four and seventy five for Tyler Linderbaum.
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Speaker 4: A guy who hikes the ball. My buddy Tom Flair
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Speaker 4: used to call him the hikers. Uh huh. Well, as
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Speaker 4: a long snapper, we have a good hiker. That's what
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Speaker 4: we need, a good hiker.
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Speaker 5: And it's in one of the reasons why when immediately
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Speaker 5: after the Packers signed the Zach Tom contract, all the
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Speaker 5: conversation of him being a Pro Bowl tackle, All Pro
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Speaker 5: guard or a Hall of Fame center, well drew those
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Speaker 5: conversations ended because you can't pay that guy over twenty
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Speaker 5: million bucks, that far and away more than market value.
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Speaker 5: That at some point it's not that you don't love
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Speaker 5: the guy, it's that you're not willing to pay that
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Speaker 5: kind of cash, and I'm just interested why he's not
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Speaker 5: in Baltimore. It seems like he wants to go somewhere else.
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Speaker 5: It seems like he definitely wants to test the market.
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Speaker 5: They didn't put the fifty year option on him, so
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Speaker 5: fascinating to see where he ends up going. But I'm
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Speaker 5: also interested because these are the This is the most
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Speaker 5: moves it feels like we've seen before free agency starts,
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Speaker 5: and I don't know if it's just that there's a
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Speaker 5: ton of teams with more money than they've had to
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Speaker 5: spend in years past, drew because of how much the
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Speaker 5: cap ended up going up, and they're looking at the
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Speaker 5: free agent pool and saying, yeah, we don't necessarily love
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Speaker 5: spending these guys, we don't necessarily love going here.
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Speaker 4: But there's a.
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Speaker 5: Number of trades, significant trades, ones, including first round picks
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Speaker 5: potentially going.
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Speaker 4: It feels like.
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Speaker 5: There's a slight shift in the NFL where they're trying
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Speaker 5: to buy more of the proven commodity on the trade
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Speaker 5: market than hoarding through on draft picks and feeling too
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Speaker 5: cautious and scared to be able to send those off somewhere.
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Speaker 4: So Tyler Battish is hot who's not hot? Well, daily,
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Speaker 4: our daily little who's hot and who's not now rarely
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Speaker 4: see and this is a tough one.
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Speaker 5: I think he's gonna end up being not hot because
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Speaker 5: the report yesterday on Mad Dog Sports Radio was that
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Speaker 5: this man is no longer going to be employed at
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Speaker 5: the end of the year.
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Speaker 4: Steven A.
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Speaker 5: Smith yesterday rather kind of casually responding to a phone
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Speaker 5: caller on his steven A.
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Speaker 4: Smith show That's Hurt on Mad Dog Sports Radio.
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Speaker 5: Responding to John Morant being potentially acquired by the Milwaukee Bucks.
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Speaker 5: Caller said Drew that it would make a lot of sense.
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Speaker 5: He could really be aided by playing for a coach
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Speaker 5: like Doc River and Steve. They said, let me stop
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Speaker 5: you right there, stop you right there. He's not gonna
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Speaker 5: be coached by by Doc Rivers. Doc Rivers are retiring
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Speaker 5: at the end of the year. Wait, oh okay, what what?
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Speaker 5: Oh okay, just dropping that not gonna be not gonna
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Speaker 5: be there. Doc Rivers sixty five years old. He's not
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Speaker 5: gonna be the head coach there. He's gonna retire. He's
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Speaker 5: been coaching for close to twenty five years.
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Speaker 4: This is it for him.
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Speaker 5: He's gonna step away. End quote from Steven A and
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Speaker 5: then this ended the conversation.
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Speaker 4: Is he going to step away or step into the
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Speaker 4: president's role?
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Speaker 5: Oh, Drew, So he might go from not hot to
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Speaker 5: very hot if he gets an advisory position on top
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Speaker 5: of the extra tivillion.
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Speaker 4: Basketball operations while they pay him wow in what room
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Speaker 4: for a new coach?
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Speaker 3: Well, that would be a hell to flip upward for
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Speaker 3: and for the the Bucks fans that are dreaming of
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Speaker 3: him not being around, that would be at the ultimate
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Speaker 3: ultimate level of disappointment. I gotta say, so that he
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Speaker 3: could switch from who's not to who's hot right very
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Speaker 3: very quickly.
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Speaker 4: Get that right away. I was going to say, who's
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Speaker 4: who's not? Is Chinese TYPEI after getting boat raised.
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Speaker 3: Dude, they lost thirteen to nothing. You gotta put you
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Speaker 3: gotta put something up better than that. I mean, you
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Speaker 3: can't be.
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Speaker 4: Scor ten runs in the second inning or something. Grand
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Speaker 4: slam by Otani.
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Speaker 5: Otani had five ribbis and it will triple away from
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Speaker 5: the cycle in the second inning.
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Speaker 4: Now, the way he swings it so easy, he's always hot.
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Speaker 3: One really quick one for Who's not If you want
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Speaker 3: a little MC tournament stuff.
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Speaker 4: You know in.
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Speaker 3: Bloomington, Indiana, you know they they had so much success
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Speaker 3: in football this year, but the sports guds are paying
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Speaker 3: him back.
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Speaker 4: Four losses in a row for the Indiana basketball Hoosiers.
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Speaker 3: They are now out of the field by thirty four
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Speaker 3: of eighty nine bracketologists on my favorite side, the Bracketmatrix
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Speaker 3: a tournament bid by the day here, so they are
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Speaker 3: not hot, and you know they're not happy about that
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Speaker 3: in Bloomington, Indiana when their basketball team once again is underwhelming.
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Speaker 5: So a little who's not for you right there? I got,
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Speaker 5: I got one more submission for the not category, guys.
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Speaker 5: Former buck Malik Beasley, Oh boy. A federal judge in
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Speaker 5: New York issued a one million dollars civil judgment against
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Speaker 5: free agent Malik Beasley on Thursday in a court dispute
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Speaker 5: with his former agency. He was found liable for one
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Speaker 5: million dollars in damages plus interest to be paid to
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Speaker 5: New York based Hazan Sports Management, his former agency. They
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Speaker 5: wrote in the ruling they had no objections, have been filed,
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Speaker 5: no request for an extension for time. If you remember
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Speaker 5: how struggling me Malik Beasley was potentially to make like haircut.
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Speaker 3: Payments to sound right, he had a summary judgment against him.
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Speaker 3: Twenty six gu that's twenty six racks. By by the way,
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Speaker 3: guys to a barber now, I don't know what you
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Speaker 3: pay for a haircut now, I'm sure my guys at
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Speaker 3: Cairo Cuts in Milwaukee.
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Speaker 4: I've never been there. That was the name so this
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Speaker 4: is news.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sure they I'm sure they whip up that
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Speaker 3: fade in a beautiful way. I'm sure they have the
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Speaker 3: great conversation. But my haircuts are twenty two bucks. So
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Speaker 3: I don't know what you're You're buying it at a
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Speaker 3: at a barber for twenty six thousand, but that's how
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Speaker 3: much he owed. So Malik had those type of debts.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if he can whip up a cool
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Speaker 3: mill that easily, Billy, it's.
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Speaker 5: Gonna be tough. And again, I mean, this is a
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Speaker 5: dude that was poised for a three year, reportedly forty
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Speaker 5: two million dollars deal with the Pistons just before his
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Speaker 5: name surfaces in the gambling probe. And now I'm Elik
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Speaker 5: Beasley firmly, firmly in the not category. One drew in
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Speaker 5: the hot category. A former Viking now Texan Daniel Hunter
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Speaker 5: in the conversation of all edge rushers and Max Crosby
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Speaker 5: is the one that everyone's talking about a different standard
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Speaker 5: being set financially by Micah Parsons, and Daniel Hunter said,
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Speaker 5: excuse me, I would like my slice as well. Got
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Speaker 5: himself a one year for forty million dollar contract extension
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Speaker 5: yesterday with the Houston Texans, and I believe it was
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Speaker 5: all a guaranteed. Said, excuse me, I would like to
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Speaker 5: all wrong tea in cash today. That's that's a great
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Speaker 5: move be able to just excuse me. I need We're
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Speaker 5: gonna need to renegotiate that one. We're gonna need to touch
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Speaker 5: that one up. I had another thirteen and a half secks,
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Speaker 5: scariest guy on the field, and with my shirt off,
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Speaker 5: might be the greatest looking human being of all time.
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Speaker 5: My man is shredded beyond belief.
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Speaker 4: He's like.
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Speaker 5: Another ten million. Yeah, even pay for a bar. Please
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Speaker 5: just get out of here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's impressive stuff right there. So man, I wouldn't
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Speaker 3: be bad to hit your bank account. That's a number
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Speaker 3: you see rising.
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Speaker 4: Huh Rams just extended Cam curl bolstering their defensive backfield
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Speaker 4: three years, thirty six million dollars. Man player movement happening
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Speaker 4: here at seven in the morning.
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Speaker 5: I like Cam Curle was expected to be one of
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Speaker 5: the more attractive free agents. If I'm not mistaken, he
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Speaker 5: had him he had to pick in one of the
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Speaker 5: playoff games. I want to say, or or did he
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Speaker 5: have the he had the pass breakup or a pass
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Speaker 5: break up or the tackle near the goal line. Anyway
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Speaker 5: that that RAMS secondary was massive for them to be
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Speaker 5: able to get out of Chicago. They already added McDuffie
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Speaker 5: with that second first round pick in that trade to
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Speaker 5: Kansas City. Rams are going after it, man, they were.
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Speaker 5: They were an eyelash away from the Super Bowl and
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Speaker 5: hosting the entire playoffs. If that two point inversion doesn't
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Speaker 5: get overruled, and they're not resting on anything, NFC's just
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Speaker 5: going to continually get better.
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Speaker 4: Dude, it is out here. Sure looks that way. Eight
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Speaker 4: seven seven seven nine seven three. Get you to the Nicola
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Speaker 4: Law dot Com talk and text line on this Friday,
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Speaker 4: and again we're about fifteen minutes away from catching up
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Speaker 4: with Matt Lapey, Voice of the Badgers. He joined us
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Speaker 4: on Monday, He's gonna join us on Friday. It's a
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Speaker 4: perfect kismet there, book ending the week with the Voice of.
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Speaker 5: The Badgery and beautiful because it's March right now, This
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Speaker 5: this is March. This is when it really starts count.
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Speaker 5: This is when it really becomes crunching time. And the
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Speaker 5: trip to Purdue right and like one of the more
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Speaker 5: generally speaking looked at and uh circled circled games on
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Speaker 5: the calendar. Absolutely, is it still even because Purdue is
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Speaker 5: maybe just a tick down from where they've been over
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Speaker 5: the last four or five years.
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Speaker 3: Well, they've lost a couple recently, but this is still
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Speaker 3: a you know, there's.
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Speaker 4: Still like a top ten, top twelve team.
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Speaker 3: And and the thing is you can get if you
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Speaker 3: get a win against Purdue, you might really you know,
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Speaker 3: bite off another big chunk in terms of the metrics
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Speaker 3: and things like that. They can maybe jump you up
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Speaker 3: a seed line, so you never know. I think it's
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Speaker 3: a it's a great opportunity right now for the Badgers
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Speaker 3: because hey, I.
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Speaker 4: Mean it's almost in a lose situation.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can lose the game, but you're not really
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Speaker 3: gonna lose too much ground if you lose to Purdue,
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Speaker 3: And it's basically a big opportunity to try and make
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Speaker 3: your way into that sick five line almost if you
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Speaker 3: want to, you know, have high hopes to that, and
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Speaker 3: then who knows what could happen to the Big Ten tournament.
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Speaker 3: So a great time to be traveling to mac Arena,
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Speaker 3: in my opinion, with the pressure's kind of off, your
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Speaker 3: team's playing well, and you can try and you know,
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Speaker 3: shock the boiler Makers there.
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Speaker 5: And Braydon Smith has the Scottie Reynolds vibes to me
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Speaker 5: where it feels like he's been for a oh my gosh.
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Speaker 5: And he's setting those assists records and he's he's mixing
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Speaker 5: them up and he's you know, he's got some Steve
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Speaker 5: Nashing him, some Tyler Kohlich in him if you want.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, he's.
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Speaker 3: Had a really good year for the Uh, for the
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Speaker 3: boiler Makers and and you know it's their type of guy,
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Speaker 3: you know what I mean, him and Fletcher and passing
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Speaker 3: the ball right and shooting it right and doing the
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Speaker 3: right things a man of boys.
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Speaker 4: Is it finally the Big Tens year? It's a great question, Billy.
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Speaker 3: Oh. If it is, it's because of Michigan probably in
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Speaker 3: my opinion, they're good enough to win it all and
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Speaker 3: they could do it. So what we're looking at twenty
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Speaker 3: five years, twenty six years one of Michigan's they win
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Speaker 3: it all in two. Yeah, So that's that's a wild number.
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Speaker 3: They have to win it eventually because their conference keeps
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Speaker 3: getting bigger. I mean, at some point in the Big
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Speaker 3: Ten getting so big that everyone's gonna be in the
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Speaker 3: Big Ten, so they're they're gonna they're gonna win a
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Speaker 3: Natty this year, So this might be the year. And
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Speaker 3: if they do, I think it's because of Michigan. Although, yeah,
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Speaker 3: obviously you have Michigan State, Yeah, Purdue, you have all
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Speaker 3: these teams. You know, I'm not really a huge believer
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Speaker 3: in Nebraska, but they're gonna get have a high seat,
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Speaker 3: and obviously are in Wisconsin.
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Speaker 4: Badgers could get hot.
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Speaker 3: So there's enough really good teams in the Big Ten
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Speaker 3: that they could finally get the Monkeys.
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Speaker 4: But you're throwing it at Michigan's field.
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Speaker 3: Michigan's been the best team in the Big Tens, some
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Speaker 3: people think the best in the nation most of this year,
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Speaker 3: and they had the elite ability to take it all
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Speaker 3: the way out. I was asked yesterday Duke Michigan and Arizona,
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Speaker 3: maybe you're talking about to top seeds. Basically, yeah, well
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Speaker 3: it was Duke Michigan, Arizona, and they threw Florida in
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Speaker 3: because they're the random champs.
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Speaker 4: You could have those four of the field, who are
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Speaker 4: you taking?
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Speaker 3: This feels top heavy this year, So I'm taking those
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Speaker 3: four and I usually would I'm usually I'm taking the
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Speaker 3: field variants kind of randomness guy, But this feels like
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Speaker 3: a top heavy year. If you're giving me those four teams,
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Speaker 3: that's not too bad. That's not too bad of a
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Speaker 3: bet to take one of those teams, because you know,
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Speaker 3: Duke's done, Arizona's been really good lately. I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 3: Florida's obviously right there. They might those might be the
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Speaker 3: top the top four one seeds, you know, those might
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Speaker 3: be all be the ones, depending on how the committee
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Speaker 3: views Connecticut.
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Speaker 4: It's been a down here for the games.
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Speaker 5: Sound like a lot of madness, true, that doesn't that
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Speaker 5: sounds that sounds like a whole lot of chalk that
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Speaker 5: I heard is coming on is amazing.
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Speaker 4: Derney, Well see what Matt says.
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Speaker 3: But these are often the years you get that right,
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Speaker 3: the years you think that are chalk, the years you
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Speaker 3: think it's just gonna be Hey, listen, you know it's
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Speaker 3: gonna be the top heavy and bust next thing. You know,
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Speaker 3: we might you know, we might have fourteen you know, upsets,
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Speaker 3: and we have three five seeds in the final four.
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Speaker 3: So you just never know what's gonna happen in this tournament.
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Speaker 3: That's why we love March and March is here, gentlemen, Yes,
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Speaker 3: it is.
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Speaker 5: I gotta start finding I gotta start finding my spots
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Speaker 5: here and picking my spots for teams to make the
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Speaker 5: final four, because I just listed off four teams that
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Speaker 5: are legit minus favorites to make the final four.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: At the Potawatamy Sports Book, Drew, I don't like that.
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Speaker 5: I like more of the uh. I don't know, underdog.
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Speaker 4: It's the big Miami at sixty five to one. That's
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Speaker 4: the ones that I.
16:03
Speaker 5: Was hoping to hear from Rmon. Now seventy five to one.
16:06
Speaker 5: Let's let's frequent in those trafficking.
16:08
Speaker 3: You gotta make sure when you're making these, you know, futures,
16:10
Speaker 3: you're doing Miami, Florida or Miami, Ohio.
16:12
Speaker 4: That's an easy one. That's now.
16:14
Speaker 3: That's the biggest story for some in college basketball continues
16:18
Speaker 3: tonight as Miami of Ohio travels to Ohio you to
16:22
Speaker 3: try and keep their undefeated season alive.
16:24
Speaker 4: It's a story we're following, guys. It's the big debate.
16:26
Speaker 3: What kind of at large would they get one if
16:29
Speaker 3: they you know, pick up a loss here at some point,
16:31
Speaker 3: they are still the only undefeated team in the land,
16:33
Speaker 3: so hey, you never know. Can they keep the dream alive?
16:36
Speaker 3: They've been having some close calls lately. That's one I'll
16:39
Speaker 3: be watching for sure, because this story only gets more
16:41
Speaker 3: and more interesting as we get into the IDEs of
16:45
Speaker 3: March here. So one hundred to one to get Ohio,
16:49
Speaker 3: get Miami of Ohio to make the final four. Cool,
16:52
Speaker 3: that's a cool, nice little donation be making. I don't
16:56
Speaker 3: even know if they'll make the tournament if.
16:57
Speaker 4: They look because you still mentioned them.
17:00
Speaker 5: Guess who is right next to them at one hundred
17:02
Speaker 5: to one. The team that you started the conversation with Indiana,
17:05
Speaker 5: the team that you just said.
17:07
Speaker 3: Is most likely about demand you first listen, they couldn't
17:11
Speaker 3: basically the bubble, so they have to get some wins.
17:14
Speaker 3: Listen that that's the first hurdle to get will they
17:16
Speaker 3: get in the tournament? So the thing about Miami, Ohio
17:19
Speaker 3: is everyone loves an underdog. They love the story, and
17:22
Speaker 3: it's a great story. But it will get more, it
17:26
Speaker 3: will get very interesting. And I don't know how good
17:27
Speaker 3: this team. We just it sounds silly to say about
17:30
Speaker 3: a team that's thirty to zero, but based on our schedule,
17:33
Speaker 3: it's hard to know. A lot about how good they are,
17:35
Speaker 3: and that sounds crazy, but it's true. They have not
17:37
Speaker 3: given themselves any sort of decent competition yet in the
17:42
Speaker 3: in Division one to play. So it's these are little
17:45
Speaker 3: storylines will follow. Lehigh hat a half quarter last night.
17:48
Speaker 3: March madness is here. That was a slow shot.
17:51
Speaker 4: So they're in the semis now in.
17:52
Speaker 3: This in the Patriot League tournament, so all the conference
17:55
Speaker 3: tournaments are starting up here.
17:58
Speaker 5: The zer winlock. Yeah, with that head it was. And
18:02
Speaker 5: the best part is it is Drew. I mean you
18:04
Speaker 5: know this and baller you were when you when you
18:07
Speaker 5: hit that that swish perfectly where it catches the mic
18:11
Speaker 5: so clearly that it's almost louder than the pop in
18:15
Speaker 5: the gym when it goes in.
18:17
Speaker 4: All right, So that brings us, That brings us right
18:19
Speaker 4: to our hero of the day, Colonel Electric. We've got
18:21
Speaker 4: to go with Isaac Gard, don't we, because he had
18:23
Speaker 4: his moment. But we're still riding it right now. Yes,
18:25
Speaker 4: we're about to welcome Matt Leapey on. What a moment
18:28
Speaker 4: that was if cole Center senior night coach's son hitting
18:31
Speaker 4: the three and then, which is something that never happens
18:34
Speaker 4: with a walk on. He gets removed from the game
18:37
Speaker 4: to an ovation. He enters the game to an ovation,
18:39
Speaker 4: hits the three, gets another pop, gets removed from the game,
18:42
Speaker 4: gets another ovation. He has to be our Current Electric
18:44
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18:45
Speaker 5: And the reason why and the other part of it
18:46
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18:49
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18:53
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18:56
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21:20
Speaker 3: They just had a big pickleball yeah, obviously the crazy
21:23
Speaker 3: They just had a big contentious village board meeting in
21:26
Speaker 3: like Whitefish Bay or yeah, the clothing park about how
21:29
Speaker 3: light they can play the hours and then the noise
21:32
Speaker 3: is getting too much for some some residents.
21:35
Speaker 4: They're they're getting noise violations on the pickball corporate people
21:38
Speaker 4: that live that close to pickleball is allowed sport. It
21:41
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21:44
Speaker 3: If maybe you're used to like I don't want to
21:47
Speaker 3: didn't be joke, I don't want to call them that.
21:48
Speaker 4: I get it. You know, you know you weren't used
21:50
Speaker 4: to that type of thing.
21:51
Speaker 3: Maybe, And now it's so popular and everybody's playing.
21:54
Speaker 5: And I remember when I got the noise complaint in
21:57
Speaker 5: the neighborhood for playing basketball before school.
21:59
Speaker 3: At that basketball is really loud, bouncing on the sure
22:02
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Speaker 4: Up, come on, Oh yeah, oh yeah. That was That
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22:11
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22:12
Speaker 4: What's worse of basketball thumping around or the lawnmower firing
22:15
Speaker 4: up a well? That was that was stupid ear plugs ridiculous?
22:20
Speaker 4: Is that kid's having fun at seven.
22:22
Speaker 2: In the morning.
22:22
Speaker 3: That was always the All Star All Star week conversation.
22:26
Speaker 3: The other one was that that like, how early is
22:28
Speaker 3: too early to cut the grass in the summer, or
22:31
Speaker 3: you know the snow blowing thing you kind of have
22:32
Speaker 3: to do twenty four hours sometimes. Uh, but listen, my
22:37
Speaker 3: dad's was like it was late and his neighbor called
22:40
Speaker 3: him this winter when the snowblower was getting going.
22:42
Speaker 4: It was like two in the morning.
22:44
Speaker 3: But uh, well he didn't do that would be service
22:48
Speaker 3: what they hire somebody's you know, a little coming through.
22:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not my fault. So that's the other one.
22:52
Speaker 4: So Hallway, can you play pickle ball?
22:54
Speaker 3: So that those are listen, those debates are going to
22:56
Speaker 3: pop up all the time now as it gets more
22:59
Speaker 3: and more popular and it gets dangerous out there.
23:01
Speaker 4: It courts absolutely joining us now via the miracle of technologies,
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Speaker 4: are palm mattle pay the voice of the Badgers. He
23:09
Speaker 4: is headed for West Lafayette later to call the regular
23:13
Speaker 4: season finale. Matt, I'll welcome to the program.
23:15
Speaker 2: Are we doing boys?
23:17
Speaker 4: We are excellent?
23:18
Speaker 5: Well, we're not as good as you because we don't
23:19
Speaker 5: get to go to West Lafayette. That's a that's the joy.
23:22
Speaker 5: But this is one of the premier destinations to to
23:26
Speaker 5: be able to call a game, isn't it. It still
23:28
Speaker 5: feels like one of the best atmospheres in one that
23:32
Speaker 5: is even growing in the Big Ten with some of
23:35
Speaker 5: the better atmospherres. I know you talked about Nebraska this
23:36
Speaker 5: year as a pop up spot. I was watching the
23:38
Speaker 5: game of Carver Hawkeye last night. That place is live,
23:42
Speaker 5: but hard to be able to match the energy in Macki.
23:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would. I would put Purdue number one right
23:47
Speaker 2: now Macki Arena. That's in that it's their senior day
23:50
Speaker 2: and they got three seniors and they're unusual, and that
23:54
Speaker 2: all three of them have been there from the beginning
23:56
Speaker 2: at Produce, so that makes them a bit of an
23:58
Speaker 2: outlier in today's college college basketball. But yeah, it's it's
24:02
Speaker 2: a great it really is. So that's and actually the
24:05
Speaker 2: hotels are pretty good down there now, a couple of them.
24:09
Speaker 2: So that's how I rate towns.
24:10
Speaker 4: I'm I'm too.
24:11
Speaker 2: Old to be going out bar hopping, so I'd be
24:13
Speaker 2: that guy I made fun of when I was your rage,
24:16
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to avoid being that guy. But yeah, no,
24:19
Speaker 2: I actually like going there because it's it's truly a
24:23
Speaker 2: basketball environment to you know, to share ith there're not good,
24:28
Speaker 2: when's Michigan State's really good? You mentioned Nebraska, Illinois is
24:32
Speaker 2: generally really good, and there are a couple others. But
24:35
Speaker 2: if I'm rating them, I've got Purdue number one.
24:37
Speaker 3: Well not only that, and you know, you talk about
24:39
Speaker 3: the fact that they have guys that have been with
24:41
Speaker 3: the program. It's a very it's an anomaly. There are seniors,
24:44
Speaker 3: they've been all really good and they're all Indiana guys,
24:47
Speaker 3: which Purdue fans love obviously, the hometown guys, just like
24:50
Speaker 3: we love Wisconsin guys here and uh, the Indian Hoosiers
24:54
Speaker 3: have been losing a lot lily, so all things for
24:57
Speaker 3: Purdue fans. And you're right now, it's what I said
25:00
Speaker 3: the Billy Matt and I think it's interesting. I think
25:02
Speaker 3: for Badger fans, this is a great time to play Purdue.
25:05
Speaker 3: You've done a lot of work to solidify a good
25:07
Speaker 3: position in the tournament. You really it's kind of a
25:09
Speaker 3: no lose situation because you're playing a great team on
25:11
Speaker 3: the road. This is basically a big lottery ticket opportunity
25:14
Speaker 3: for the Badgers now on the underseason to get some Yeah,
25:17
Speaker 3: it is.
25:18
Speaker 2: And it's interesting too with Purdue because I think everybody
25:21
Speaker 2: who follows this league and you know, has paid attention
25:24
Speaker 2: to Purdue the last few years. You know, there's a
25:26
Speaker 2: lot of talent there. But they split their last twelve games.
25:30
Speaker 2: You know, they started out seven to zero in the
25:32
Speaker 2: Big Ten there's six and six sins and they had
25:35
Speaker 2: a down to the wire game at Northwestern and they
25:37
Speaker 2: were able to pull it out. But the feeling is
25:40
Speaker 2: they're a lot better than how they performed. So yeah,
25:43
Speaker 2: if you're Wisconsin and you know Nolan Winter is day
25:47
Speaker 2: to day as we all are, right, you know, whether
25:50
Speaker 2: he plays tomorrow, I don't know about that, but I
25:53
Speaker 2: think you just you let it rip and then get
25:56
Speaker 2: yourself ready for the big ten tournaments and more importantly
25:59
Speaker 2: get ready for the for the one that really matters
26:01
Speaker 2: the following week. But I would say this regular season
26:04
Speaker 2: for Wisconsin has has been pretty good. They're like the Brewers.
26:07
Speaker 2: They tennis sur pass expectations, always always project low. I know,
26:12
Speaker 2: I'm sure Brewer fans would get nervous. Otherwise, no Badger
26:16
Speaker 2: fans get nervous when they're projected to you to win
26:19
Speaker 2: or be top two, top three. So it's one of
26:21
Speaker 2: another one of those years where to this point they
26:24
Speaker 2: have out outperformed the analytics going into the season.
26:28
Speaker 4: Matt Lapay joining us okay, so uh. The pomp and
26:31
Speaker 4: circumstance of Senior Day at Macki Arena, can it match
26:35
Speaker 4: the Isaac guard experience? Can it, I mean in terms
26:38
Speaker 4: of drama and then we're bringing a tear to your eye.
26:41
Speaker 4: Come on.
26:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes things work out and it got a little
26:46
Speaker 2: dusty in there for for some people, the allergies were
26:49
Speaker 2: kind of kicking in. When Isaac it is logo three
26:53
Speaker 2: right in front of the old man there, So it
26:55
Speaker 2: was it was cool. I mean, he's he knows his role.
27:00
Speaker 2: He's actually brought a lot of value to to the program,
27:03
Speaker 2: is working the scout team and all that. His jump
27:05
Speaker 2: shot is better, it's much improved. But yeah, that was
27:09
Speaker 2: other than Nolan, you know, getting injured in that game
27:12
Speaker 2: in the second half, the night played out perfectly. Wisconsin
27:16
Speaker 2: one big Isaac gets in there, he hits his big
27:21
Speaker 2: you know, the long three, he gets to exit. You know,
27:24
Speaker 2: they do the one at the time thing and the
27:27
Speaker 2: embrace with with his with his father. That that's uh,
27:30
Speaker 2: it's like it's still college. It's a lot different now.
27:33
Speaker 2: It's you know, it's very professional in a lot of
27:36
Speaker 2: ways now. But those are the moments that remind you
27:38
Speaker 2: saw that last night in Michigan State they had a guy,
27:40
Speaker 2: Jackson Cohler. His great grandfather is one of the remaining
27:44
Speaker 2: survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack. He was at the
27:47
Speaker 2: you know that they saluted him at the game last night.
27:50
Speaker 2: You get those kind of moments of senior night. But man,
27:53
Speaker 2: father a father's some moment like that. That's pretty hard
27:56
Speaker 2: to top.
27:56
Speaker 4: That was pretty cool. And I love Scout team guys
27:58
Speaker 4: of soft Spot for walk and to see them get
28:02
Speaker 4: in the game and then if you can get in
28:03
Speaker 4: the box score like get a shot. I used to
28:05
Speaker 4: hack somebody right away try to get the box to
28:08
Speaker 4: make sure I got a stat in the foul. But
28:10
Speaker 4: to see that, but they never get removed to the game.
28:13
Speaker 4: You enter the game to an ovation. They almost never
28:15
Speaker 4: get removed to an ovation. To me, that was Chef's kiss.
28:18
Speaker 4: They perfectly you know.
28:21
Speaker 2: Yeah it was. And they had actually Jack Robinson, another
28:24
Speaker 2: one of those reserves, got in the game and he
28:26
Speaker 2: had actually on the floor called a play for Isaac
28:28
Speaker 2: and he had missed that jumper and then they come
28:31
Speaker 2: back down and hut, it's pretty close to the spot.
28:35
Speaker 2: Wednesday was a little deeper, but his first three was
28:37
Speaker 2: on that left wing that he hit his first career
28:40
Speaker 2: three last year against Holy Cross. So yeah, I think
28:44
Speaker 2: when you make a shot like that, that's a mic drop. Okay,
28:48
Speaker 2: I'm good, coach, Now take dad, take me out. So
28:52
Speaker 2: it was it was.
28:53
Speaker 5: We'll put on the we'll put on the non buckled
28:56
Speaker 5: sweatpant warm ups.
28:57
Speaker 3: Sound.
28:57
Speaker 4: I think we'll be We'll be good if we don't
28:59
Speaker 4: have to.
29:00
Speaker 3: I think you hold the post to make sure the
29:01
Speaker 3: official photographer gets a great shot of it too, that
29:04
Speaker 3: you can.
29:04
Speaker 4: Blow up down the road. So Matt did the schedule
29:09
Speaker 4: makers for the Big Ten tournament. They must know that
29:12
Speaker 4: Badgers fans like the pregame because you got the late slots.
29:15
Speaker 4: Like you think, they think the last possible slot every
29:18
Speaker 4: day starting on Thursday.
29:20
Speaker 2: They could be if they beat Purdue tomorrow, they would
29:24
Speaker 2: be a five seed and they would play at about
29:27
Speaker 2: one thirty on Thursday afternoon. If Wisconsin wins and Illinois
29:32
Speaker 2: somehow loses to Maryland, then it gets more interesting. Then
29:37
Speaker 2: you could just go party all day all night on Thursdays.
29:40
Speaker 2: There's planets need to line up. But if the Badgers
29:44
Speaker 2: end up where they are right now is a six
29:47
Speaker 2: and if they lose to if they lose to Purdue,
29:50
Speaker 2: then they would play about eight o'clock, eight fifteen whatever
29:55
Speaker 2: on Thursday night and everything would be later. So there's
29:58
Speaker 2: still if Wisconsin w tomorrow. Things are still a little
30:02
Speaker 2: bit unsettled until Sunday in the Illinois games, so it's
30:06
Speaker 2: a series of tie breakers that get involved. But they
30:10
Speaker 2: know they're no worse than a six. They'll play no
30:12
Speaker 2: earlier than Thursday. It's just a matter of what time.
30:15
Speaker 5: Well, and you said it too with the winter injury,
30:18
Speaker 5: it's difficult. They've been there, done that, and ran through
30:21
Speaker 5: a number of games and won a bunch and taken
30:24
Speaker 5: into the championship of the Big Ten tournament. But do
30:26
Speaker 5: you feel a different approach going into this or is
30:30
Speaker 5: it yearly where we're in the tournament, might as well
30:32
Speaker 5: try to win this one, but we are all still
30:35
Speaker 5: focused on that Sunday selection meeting, whether we're in our
30:39
Speaker 5: jerseys after the game or not.
30:41
Speaker 2: Well, I think you want to it's cliche here, Billie,
30:44
Speaker 2: but you want to keep winning because you don't know,
30:46
Speaker 2: like what a loss does to your potential steed line
30:49
Speaker 2: in the NCAA tournament. I mean, there's next week and
30:51
Speaker 2: then there's the one that really matters after that. But
30:55
Speaker 2: at the same time, you know what it was a
30:57
Speaker 2: hold your breath moment with Nolan and bus though Greg
31:01
Speaker 2: suggested it after the game that it may not be
31:04
Speaker 2: as bad as everybody first thought, because you could hear
31:06
Speaker 2: a pin drop in that in that building when when
31:09
Speaker 2: Nolan went down. But you always fear that late season injury.
31:14
Speaker 2: I mean, the guy who sits to my right at
31:16
Speaker 2: these games, and Brian Busch lived that. Every time something
31:19
Speaker 2: like that happens, I cringe for him. So those are
31:23
Speaker 2: the kind of things that you that you worry about.
31:25
Speaker 2: But again, hopefully with Nolan, this isn't serious and he
31:28
Speaker 2: can be back sooner than later. But you still that's
31:32
Speaker 2: the mystery of this stuff. You don't know, like what
31:35
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a quad one game tomorrow, you're on
31:36
Speaker 2: the road, You've got seemingly the deck stacked against you.
31:40
Speaker 2: Let it, let it rip and see what happens. But
31:42
Speaker 2: you you still want to do everything you can to win,
31:44
Speaker 2: not knowing what a loss might do if it knocks
31:47
Speaker 2: you down a seed line or two. But you know,
31:51
Speaker 2: the main thing to me is just play as well
31:53
Speaker 2: as you can and stay as healthy as you possibly can.
31:55
Speaker 5: It shows, but it shows thirty two Budgies in better
31:57
Speaker 5: hands because here, whenever that would happen, some sickos would
32:00
Speaker 5: make him relive it. Man, you're you're a much better person.
32:02
Speaker 5: You have empathy. People would always make him have to
32:06
Speaker 5: relive it.
32:06
Speaker 4: Well, you looking at me. I don't know if somebody
32:08
Speaker 4: was the one playing the highlight. No, I just I'm
32:11
Speaker 4: trying to add you know, audio and color to the event, you.
32:14
Speaker 2: Know, to the So I should I shouldn't have said
32:17
Speaker 2: Nolan Winter, he's down, but tell me about your elbow.
32:19
Speaker 2: What happened in seven there?
32:21
Speaker 3: I saw him talk to He talked to the old
32:23
Speaker 3: coach bow and I saw them talking about the best
32:25
Speaker 3: teams ever. Both said he wanted the fifteen and the
32:28
Speaker 3: seven team to fully healthy, fully prime, play one on
32:31
Speaker 3: one together, or played one on one to play each other. Well,
32:35
Speaker 3: those the two best teams that you've seen too. Matter
32:38
Speaker 3: is There's is a tough question to throw.
32:40
Speaker 2: On here, But yeah, that that was I think that's
32:43
Speaker 2: a pretty I would say probably because that the seven
32:48
Speaker 2: team that's the one of the great one might have
32:50
Speaker 2: been right because they were They were actually ranked number
32:53
Speaker 2: number one for a week, you know, toward there, towards
32:56
Speaker 2: the end of the season, they had lost the game
32:57
Speaker 2: in Michigan State and then the game where but he
32:59
Speaker 2: got hurt. They lost, just an absolute heartbreaker to Ohio State.
33:04
Speaker 2: But that's one of those you would have liked to have,
33:07
Speaker 2: you would have liked to have found out. But I
33:09
Speaker 2: also think sometimes it's the draw. The eight team was
33:12
Speaker 2: really good Big ten regular season, Big Ten Tournament, and
33:15
Speaker 2: then they in the sweet sixteen they ran into this
33:18
Speaker 2: dude named Steph Curry who was becoming the darling of
33:21
Speaker 2: the tournament. I always think that had Davis and Davidson
33:23
Speaker 2: loss and he was Georgetown who lost it then, but
33:27
Speaker 2: you're thinking, oh, you get Davidson, you don't want Georgetown.
33:30
Speaker 2: But in retrospect, had they drawn Georgetown, it might have
33:33
Speaker 2: been a much different, much different special.
33:36
Speaker 5: Still absolute garbage that my man wasn't there to support
33:40
Speaker 5: the guy that he played in the McDonald's All American
33:42
Speaker 5: Game with Ron goes to that game to watch Steph Curry.
33:46
Speaker 5: He should have been there to watch Brian had six
33:48
Speaker 5: points in that game. Absolutely and then the McDonald in the
33:51
Speaker 5: McDonald's game. In the McDonald's game, Yeah, absolute garbage. Can
33:55
Speaker 5: I sneak just like the smallest little football in with
33:57
Speaker 5: with Matt Matt Sure in State hetting the recruits we're
34:02
Speaker 5: getting some commitments.
34:03
Speaker 4: Isaac Miller in state. It feels like this has been
34:06
Speaker 4: a push.
34:07
Speaker 5: Now it's tough, Like high school recruiting has always been very,
34:10
Speaker 5: very difficult when the verbal was in front of it.
34:13
Speaker 5: Now it's even more verbal than anything else in any
34:16
Speaker 5: of these commitments. But it feels like this was a
34:20
Speaker 5: seismic conversation where there had to be more focus on
34:24
Speaker 5: keeping the best players in the state of Wisconsin. And
34:26
Speaker 5: it feels like right now that's been point A in
34:30
Speaker 5: high school recruiting and the badge of football is starting
34:32
Speaker 5: to take shape on it.
34:33
Speaker 2: And it sounds like Billy that just the level of
34:36
Speaker 2: talent is on an upswing. Again in this state, it
34:39
Speaker 2: can be a little cyclical the past year, and this
34:42
Speaker 2: comes from people who really study this. I'm not one
34:46
Speaker 2: of them, but those who really studied This past year
34:49
Speaker 2: maybe wasn't great in terms of the quantity of players
34:54
Speaker 2: in the state, but that does seem to be on
34:57
Speaker 2: an upswing. There seems to be more depth of talent
35:00
Speaker 2: here in the next in the next couple of years
35:02
Speaker 2: with with high school football in Wisconsin. But at the
35:04
Speaker 2: same and at the same time, you know, I'd like
35:07
Speaker 2: to think they're understanding that these players who grow up
35:11
Speaker 2: dreaming about being Badgers, you know, they might be a
35:15
Speaker 2: little bit slower than the other guy. Maybe they don't
35:18
Speaker 2: rep as many on the bench as some guy from
35:21
Speaker 2: other from another part of the country, but they will
35:25
Speaker 2: by the time they get here and work here because
35:28
Speaker 2: it means a lot to them. And you know, there's
35:30
Speaker 2: a business component as well that you know, just being
35:34
Speaker 2: a Badger means so much. There's always going to be
35:36
Speaker 2: a business component, but maybe not quite as harshly transactional
35:40
Speaker 2: as as some other situations might be. So I think
35:44
Speaker 2: a lot of things have gone into it, but I
35:46
Speaker 2: know it's encouraging. I smiled when I saw it yesterday,
35:50
Speaker 2: and I'm sure Badger fans, Badger football fans who have
35:53
Speaker 2: been frustrated at the lack of Wisconsin talent coming here like, hey,
35:58
Speaker 2: here we go. This is what we want to see.
36:00
Speaker 2: So that those guys are off to a really, really
36:03
Speaker 2: good start in that regard.
36:04
Speaker 4: Fantastic.
36:05
Speaker 5: My man cors is a Wildcat third junior and he's
36:08
Speaker 5: already set the rebounds record. Uh, They've got some talent
36:11
Speaker 5: coming in and listen. On top of upsetting Notre Dame
36:14
Speaker 5: at lambeau Field winning ten games this year, it's going
36:17
Speaker 5: to be and it's gonna be absolute Bill.
36:19
Speaker 4: He's already got it booked. Take it to the windows.
36:21
Speaker 2: Should I sat down with with with Luke Pickle yesterday
36:25
Speaker 2: we were just doing some a football TV recording, and
36:28
Speaker 2: I should have He's not a big basketball guy. I
36:30
Speaker 2: should have said, dude, you've you've been at a lot
36:32
Speaker 2: of basketball games here watching watching your guy. And we
36:35
Speaker 2: can't mention his name obviously on a television broadcast like that.
36:38
Speaker 2: But I think old boys been watching a little bit
36:41
Speaker 2: more basketball then. I mean, he's a big wrestling dude.
36:43
Speaker 2: But sometimes you gotta you know, you gotta love another
36:46
Speaker 2: sports sometimes. And I'm thinking that they might be I.
36:48
Speaker 5: Was gonna say, I think I think that they might
36:50
Speaker 5: just be able to wander, oh sweet wrestling rooms right
36:52
Speaker 5: over there, all right?
36:53
Speaker 4: Maybe just like yes, third trip to the concession saying coach,
36:57
Speaker 4: where are you going? Nice? Nice matt enjoy West Lafayette.
37:01
Speaker 4: You and Butcher tear it up, all right, boys, take
37:04
Speaker 4: care and talk to you actually, man, Matt Leapey voice
37:06
Speaker 4: of the Badgers, friend of the huddle. Hey, it's already
37:09
Speaker 4: closing ceremonies. This happened, man, Our week is over sliding
37:12
Speaker 4: down the back of the dinosaur. That happens next the huddle.
37:15
Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Time to shut down the huddle already.
37:25
Speaker 4: Time flies when you're having a good time. This week
37:27
Speaker 4: goes by fast. We're in the microwave portion, baby, I mean,
37:31
Speaker 4: February flew by, cruised. We're first week of March clicked,
37:35
Speaker 4: a couple weeks away from opening day tournament on the horizon.
37:38
Speaker 4: We got some cool stuff happening, and then we'll settle in.
37:41
Speaker 5: Yes and to get free agency rolling all next week
37:46
Speaker 5: during conference basketball tournament time where we'll have games on
37:50
Speaker 5: right after we're off the year and the only spot
37:54
Speaker 5: in the only time of the year in Las Vegas
37:56
Speaker 5: when you can go from watching show Heo Tani play
37:58
Speaker 5: a game at like two or three in the morning,
38:00
Speaker 5: walk right into a WCC West Coast Conference title game
38:05
Speaker 5: or tournament game over at the Orleans Casino. It's a beautiful,
38:08
Speaker 5: beautiful time of year. And Drew, it's right, it really
38:12
Speaker 5: did go quick. I don't know if anybody else felt that.
38:14
Speaker 5: Yesterday we finished the show. I'm like, damn, we only
38:16
Speaker 5: got one more to play, and not only just one
38:19
Speaker 5: more to play for the week, one more in the
38:20
Speaker 5: regular season for college hoops. It does feel like it
38:23
Speaker 5: cruised a little bit quicker than normal.
38:25
Speaker 4: It did. Yeah, I don't know what, right like, I mean,
38:28
Speaker 4: maybe it was just the uh. Maybe because we're having
38:30
Speaker 4: a good time. Come on, that's fair.
38:31
Speaker 5: We had so much going on through through the fall
38:33
Speaker 5: that some consistency in the spring is a nice one. Now, Arman,
38:37
Speaker 5: four straight days in the fifties. Is this considered real spring?
38:39
Speaker 5: Or is this still fake spring?
38:41
Speaker 3: You know what I've been I've been caught many times
38:43
Speaker 3: on this deal. I'm still not right. I'm playing it safe.
38:46
Speaker 3: I'm still not ready to call it real spring. I'm
38:48
Speaker 3: just ready to say that. Then I'm happy that this
38:50
Speaker 3: weather was here. So while we had these nice few days,
38:53
Speaker 3: let's appreciate it. Now this thing rolls all the way
38:55
Speaker 3: through in the May and June. Maybe I'll maybe that's fine,
38:58
Speaker 3: and I'll be wrong with the X. I'm still playing
39:00
Speaker 3: it safe. I don't think this is real spring yet.
39:02
Speaker 3: I'm not putting uh, you're not putting shovel away. I'm
39:06
Speaker 3: not putting the ice craper, not any of that stuff
39:08
Speaker 3: to tempt the weather gods. I'm just gonna enjoy this
39:10
Speaker 3: nice weather and the Atlantic Sun Tournament.
39:14
Speaker 4: Uh, fake spring, but we're springing ahead this week. Uh huh,
39:18
Speaker 4: it's getting close. Oh yeah, that's right, we'll be here.
39:21
Speaker 4: We lose an hour of sleep for us. I saw
39:25
Speaker 4: something online and said, in order to prepare for this,
39:27
Speaker 4: you should go to bed a half hour earlier on
39:29
Speaker 4: Friday and Saturday. It's like, no, I.
39:31
Speaker 3: Should mix and all of you out there that were
39:33
Speaker 3: too lazy to change your clock, like me in your car,
39:36
Speaker 3: this is our.
39:37
Speaker 4: Time where we don't have to change it back. This
39:39
Speaker 4: is our time. This is our moment. We made it all.
39:41
Speaker 4: There's no way you.
39:42
Speaker 3: Went the last six months and today, there's no way
39:45
Speaker 3: you actually did that. I'm fo I hate to say it.
39:48
Speaker 3: I will admit it. I I my clock's been an
39:50
Speaker 3: hour wrong. But now I'm fine. See I'm good to go,
39:53
Speaker 3: So don't worry about it. We're good to go. That's
39:56
Speaker 3: one of my most embarrassing things. I'm gonna ever admitting
39:58
Speaker 3: this radio, but I'm gonna admit it.
39:59
Speaker 4: That's true. Oh my, I'm not I'm not gonna do
40:01
Speaker 4: that anymore.
40:02
Speaker 3: I promise I'll be better about it. It was supposed
40:05
Speaker 3: to automatically update. All right, So what am I supposed
40:08
Speaker 3: to do? I'm I'm it's principal for me. That's like, oh,
40:11
Speaker 3: so hold on, it was it was that was a feature.
40:13
Speaker 3: That's what I thought. No, I probably didn't set it right.
40:16
Speaker 3: I probably didn't do it right. I'll get back into
40:17
Speaker 3: the manual, but I will.
40:19
Speaker 4: I have to call out my own hypocrisy because we
40:21
Speaker 4: always say go to the show and stuff, and I
40:23
Speaker 4: blew off the Smothereens Show, didn't go see a band
40:27
Speaker 4: that I like. But I was like, I gotta sleep, man,
40:31
Speaker 4: because you know, I'm going to try to gotta save myself.
40:33
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, you're saving yourself for Saturday night.
40:35
Speaker 4: You're happy hour today and then Saturday night Admirals dropkick Murphy's.
40:38
Speaker 4: Oh it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be a tough
40:40
Speaker 4: weekend to beat.
40:41
Speaker 5: I mean, like we we talked shamrock shuffle a ton
40:45
Speaker 5: because tomorrow is gonna be a hell of a kickoff
40:47
Speaker 5: the spring. You're gonna have a lot of people thinking
40:49
Speaker 5: it is when you're in just the T shirt over
40:53
Speaker 5: the long sleeve shirt. Right, We're not going full sweatshirt
40:56
Speaker 5: for this one. This is a holy cow. All I need,
41:00
Speaker 5: oh I needed, was an iron jock underneath this sweatshirt.
41:02
Speaker 5: It's amazing. I'm gonna even roll up the sleeves. I'm
41:04
Speaker 5: in short sleeves out here. There's gonna be a lot
41:06
Speaker 5: of people feeling feeling that heat coming up.
41:08
Speaker 3: This weekend, definitely, And we've talked about the Admirals game
41:11
Speaker 3: tomorrow with them drop kick Murphy's obviously, and if you're
41:14
Speaker 3: looking for something to do, the Admirals are home tonight
41:16
Speaker 3: as well, so on tap with the Badger Band.
41:19
Speaker 5: Two home games for the Admirals this weekend. Two home
41:21
Speaker 5: games for the Bucks this weekend, Saturday and Sunday night,
41:24
Speaker 5: as the Badger are in town Marquette on Saturday morning
41:28
Speaker 5: with a feature of young Bets and yeah, with hopefully
41:31
Speaker 5: my ten month old winning the baby race that happens
41:34
Speaker 5: at halftime of the Marquet game.
41:35
Speaker 4: Go get them, Go get them. We need to get one.
41:38
Speaker 5: Win during that game because I don't know that the
41:39
Speaker 5: final score is gonna be in favor.
41:41
Speaker 4: We'll see it five on Monday. It's gonna feel like four.
41:43
Speaker 4: Be ready
41:46
Speaker 3: Went fast, you be seen in bad Ta