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03/23/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Greeting salutation smart, good looking, Insomniac's Early Risers. Sports fans
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Speaker 1: and friends of the Huddle, Welcome into the Monday edition
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Speaker 1: from headquarters Rough Wilson, Bill Schmid, armand Sarian. First weekend
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Speaker 1: is in the books, gentlemen, Did it live up to
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Speaker 1: your expectations? The first weekend of the NCAA tournament that
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Speaker 1: we look forward to it all year? Armen's headed to
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Speaker 1: Vegas later this week to be in the belly of
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Speaker 1: the beast. Did it live up to your expectations? It
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Speaker 1: was the couch time, or the time in the bar,
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Speaker 1: or the sports book? Was it fruitful?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 3: And when you talk about Las Vegas, you talk about investing,
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Speaker 3: you talk about the potawatomy sports book. Man, the tournament
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Speaker 3: tale as old as time. It giveth and it taketh away.
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Speaker 3: Right as you start sitting there, man, I got a
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Speaker 3: absolute lock on this thing. This chalk is just unbelievable.
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Speaker 3: These one seats are just rolling everybody.
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Speaker 4: And then late.
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Speaker 3: Into the night on Sunday night, right as you think
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Speaker 3: that you're just having a generational run, why don't we
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Speaker 3: take some shekels right on back that we uh oh,
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Speaker 3: you think that the reigning defending national champs are just
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Speaker 3: gonna roll the newcomer in the big ten. You think
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Speaker 3: Utah State is gonna go quietly into the San Diego night.
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Speaker 3: Some late night nefariousness and some back door covers that
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Speaker 3: were pretty good for the book.
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Speaker 2: I think, oh my, yeah, it was awesome, awesome first weekend.
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Speaker 5: I would say, I mean yet, just the right amount
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Speaker 5: of drama, some buzzer beat, not the upsets, man, but
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Speaker 5: not a lot of upsets, not a lot of huge upsets.
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Speaker 5: You get a couple little ones here and there. I mean, unfortunately,
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Speaker 5: straight year No. Thirteen or fifteen through thirteenth through fifteen,
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Speaker 5: and that's maybe the one thing that's lacking if you're
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Speaker 5: looking for a fantastic tournament is that storyline. But I
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Speaker 5: still think storyline is about Unfortunately the Badgers are a
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Speaker 5: victim of the main.
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Speaker 1: The flip side of not having upsets is you get
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Speaker 1: good second round Matt.
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Speaker 2: That's the thing, right, sh up for a big, big
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Speaker 2: weekend here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Badgers again still trying to sort through their loss
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Speaker 1: to high point, and the Badgers would be u There
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Speaker 1: were nine teams in the tournament. Six of them got
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Speaker 1: through to the sweet sixteen. From the Big Ten.
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Speaker 2: Remarkable run. What do we get?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Badgers in Ohio State were the only
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Speaker 1: ones who took a dip after the first game.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was maybe the toughest part of the weekend
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Speaker 3: was outside of last night in Tampa, Florida. I think
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Speaker 3: you were waiting for somebody else to take the storyline.
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Speaker 3: Felt like maybe Duke was gonna grab that thing within
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Speaker 3: the two hours after close you got high pointed. Instead,
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Speaker 3: you had to wait until the Gators go down to Iowa.
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Speaker 3: But man, they dominate college football and the most unlikely
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Speaker 3: of their team hoists the trophy at the end of
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Speaker 3: it in the team that started the calendar year as
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Speaker 3: the losing his program in all of college football. The
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Speaker 3: Indiana Hoosiers reigned supreme over college football, and now Nebraska
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Speaker 3: and Iowa battling for a trip to go to the
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Speaker 3: Elite Eight. Maybe maybe the Big Ten is just dominating
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Speaker 3: this nil world. Like the SEC was worried they were going, well,
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Speaker 3: it's it's I think it started when they had their
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Speaker 3: big expansion. They have a lot of great teams and
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Speaker 3: and a lot of great talent there, and it sure
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Speaker 3: seems like you know they're gonna they're gonna win a
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Speaker 3: national championship. It sure seems like this might be the
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Speaker 3: year to break that drought. It's been over twenty five years.
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Speaker 5: I don't know if that well, I don't want to
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Speaker 5: say ever, but if they don't want it this year,
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Speaker 5: it sure seems like this is their prime opportunity to
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Speaker 5: finally get it.
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Speaker 3: Not not really getting much help from that, from that, uh,
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Speaker 3: that big expansion. All we got is the griper out there.
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Speaker 3: And well, yeah, that's true, saying I'd really like five
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Speaker 3: more million if you want me to get out of
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Speaker 3: the first weekend.
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Speaker 2: They're the big ten teams though, I mean like pro
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Speaker 2: Sroster construction or the way you're Yeah, I have no
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Speaker 2: right now.
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Speaker 5: I'm worried about tonight, consoling to gosh.
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Speaker 2: We'll stay here in the front row. I'd like about
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Speaker 2: five more million. There's my answer.
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Speaker 3: There you go, Yeah, there, what one last gripe on
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Speaker 3: the way out before you don't hear from me for
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Speaker 3: another three or four months.
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Speaker 1: I want to get back to when you know, guys
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Speaker 1: would get shopping bag, so those brown paper bags full.
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Speaker 2: Of cash trans.
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Speaker 1: Back in the day. Yeah, I go back to the
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Speaker 1: UCLA days, you know.
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Speaker 3: The Nick Nolty Blue Chips, the exactly, or I mean
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Speaker 3: like Jeremy Pruit over at Tennessee when he was giving
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Speaker 3: out ten thousand dollars McDonald's bags, talking about a big.
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Speaker 2: Archburger that they were handing out there in Knoxville. And
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Speaker 2: now Rick.
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Speaker 3: Barnes into the Sweet sixteen for four consecutive years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that's again.
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Speaker 1: That's to me, that's like the Greg guard argument right there.
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Speaker 1: It's like Rick Barnes, he's good, coach, gets us to
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Speaker 1: the Sweet sixteen, it's not enough, can't wait, he can't
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Speaker 1: break through, So they punt him and they bring in
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Speaker 1: the hot guy who was Shaka.
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Speaker 2: Didn't work out.
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Speaker 1: Now they've moved on and they're on the coach after
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Speaker 1: the coach, And meanwhile Rick Barnes is just going to
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Speaker 1: the Sweet sixteen every year, and yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, and on the coach after the coach, after the coach,
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Speaker 3: because one had a stranglehold on the whole situation. Like
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Speaker 3: it's a wild spot there when when you start grasping
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Speaker 3: straws at Texas and then now you swim around and
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Speaker 3: you get a fellon in there.
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Speaker 2: Now you're back into the sweets.
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Speaker 3: But it's crazy how this college coaching circle world works
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Speaker 3: because for a long time, Drew, we've watched that but
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Speaker 3: kind of don't love it, don't love it, but it works.
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Speaker 3: And then you know, Iowa was a tremendous example of
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Speaker 3: when the nil era and the transfer portal works out
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Speaker 3: for everybody because the coach, the transfer portal is always
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Speaker 3: open for coaches. Now, granted that you pay them buy out,
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Speaker 3: you go get their good deal, but when Ben McCollums
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Speaker 3: able to bring a couple of key pieces with them
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Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden they're a legit powerhouse
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Speaker 3: and a legit team. I think you've seen some and
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Speaker 3: Nick Boyd talked about it in his postgame press are after.
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Speaker 3: There are certain times and it feels like college basketball
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Speaker 3: is able to highlight a few more of them, of
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Speaker 3: the positive interactions with the transfer portal and the guys
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Speaker 3: that are able.
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Speaker 2: To flip it around quick.
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Speaker 3: And also, you know, like Signetti did in Indiana, bring
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Speaker 3: a lot of the guys that helped get him the
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Speaker 3: big job, bring him them to the big program and
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Speaker 3: let them go see how they measure up against the best.
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Speaker 3: We've seen a lot of those guys are able to
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Speaker 3: compete it's pretty wild. Hey, guess what we are also.
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Speaker 1: Come on now we're looking at Brewers Baseball tonight in Milwaukee.
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Speaker 2: How about that we're back.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Brewers are broken camp. They're in Milwaukee facing
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Speaker 1: the Reds tonight and tomorrow evening for two bock start. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: two exhibition games at American Fanfield. Great opportunity for people
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Speaker 1: to go pay you know, less lower prices, get in
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Speaker 1: the building, sit where you want. They got to make
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Speaker 1: sure all the toilets flush.
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Speaker 2: And work everything out.
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Speaker 1: It's a good thing to get ready for Thursday, and
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Speaker 1: then we're onto baseball already this week the switch has
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Speaker 1: been flipped.
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Speaker 5: This is always a big, big weekend for the stadium employees.
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Speaker 5: You said it, Drew, you know, the sports service employees,
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Speaker 5: everyone knowing who how many to how many brats to cook?
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Speaker 2: You know, kind of standing over all. Right, yep, that's right.
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Speaker 2: You flip it here.
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Speaker 5: You know, make sure if you're working in the you know,
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Speaker 5: in the team store, that you figure out the computer.
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Speaker 2: All right. He's paying with the credit card, all right,
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Speaker 2: So he slipped this three. It would be a good
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Speaker 2: day to go with the car. It's a coupon.
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Speaker 3: To make sure that everybody's ready to roll. That's riding day. Okay,
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Speaker 3: that's right.
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Speaker 2: It's training.
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Speaker 5: It's training for everybody, you know, and everyone makes sure
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Speaker 5: everything's good. So uh yeah, it's it's an important couple
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Speaker 5: of days. But man, it is hard to believe. We've
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Speaker 5: got baseball already this week, baseball all right.
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Speaker 2: This week right on.
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Speaker 1: Then I got two exhibition games and then meaningful twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six championship.
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Speaker 2: Season starting underway just in time. Goodness?
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And we had the Bucks won a shocking
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Speaker 1: game in Phoenix, like that was what?
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Speaker 2: No wild wild and maybe watch Bucks game of the entire.
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Speaker 1: Everything I own that the Bucks would have gotten drilled
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Speaker 1: in Phoenix, and that Wisconsin of advanced past high point,
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Speaker 1: yes I wouldn't.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah too, it's one of those The hell did
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Speaker 2: the Bucks win that?
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Speaker 3: And that person sitting in a three and a half
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Speaker 3: hour line at the Harry Reid air International Airport in.
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Speaker 5: Las Vegas just hate in his life on the way out?
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Speaker 5: How did that happen?
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Speaker 1: So we had that, and then as Doug mentioned in
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Speaker 1: our Sports Center update, the Badgers women's team, I watched
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Speaker 1: that turn it on just time to watch the pivotal
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Speaker 1: moments there, I saw Ohio State's tie and goal and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, ooh, they're on their heels, not not training great.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I should look away because I just tuned in
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Speaker 1: to tie the game out. Maybe I'm the Jinks, but
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Speaker 1: uh nope, stuck it out. Badgers went another Natty Mark Johnson.
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Speaker 3: Immortal, incredible, And I put it out yesterday, and I
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Speaker 3: know it's not the only one. When are we going
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Speaker 3: to resurrect the statue? Come on, get the statue up there.
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Speaker 3: He's so long, he's becoming and it's it's you know,
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Speaker 3: it's pointing out to me yesterday. I mean, like there's
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Speaker 3: a conversation he's the most influential athletes ever come out
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Speaker 3: of with buw there, Like I mean, and and you
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Speaker 3: could put what he's done after in the coaching world
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Speaker 3: kind of aside in that standpoint, and then all of
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Speaker 3: it to be together and and in the day and
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Speaker 3: age drew and I know there were certain individuals that
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Speaker 3: gonna set up well, maybe maybe we flip it over
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Speaker 3: to the other side of the coin and help about
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Speaker 3: the men's side in a time when women's sports is
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Speaker 3: going through a boom and the amount of Olympians that
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Speaker 3: he's put like. It's perfect time, perfect spot, and also
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Speaker 3: perfect launch point for a female sport that I think
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Speaker 3: a lot of people maybe didn't give enough credence to
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Speaker 3: or thought of in women's hockey, and it's turned into
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Speaker 3: a hyper niche into something that they're known for, and
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Speaker 3: that I think the more and more now we have
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Speaker 3: a professional league that people are watching that is rolling
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Speaker 3: through in the professional women's Hockey League, like he's at
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Speaker 3: the start of kind of a boom and a welcome
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Speaker 3: and an emergence of a sport. It's an incredible, incredible
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Speaker 3: life that he's lived in. Another trophy brought him home.
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Speaker 5: He's the geno of women's hockey. I mean, there's no
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Speaker 5: questions about it. You know, he's the standard bear now
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Speaker 5: that I know Robert and Barbou wanted to send his
9:44
Speaker 5: congrats mourning men.
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Speaker 2: Way to go Wisconsin women's hockey. That's how you do it.
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Speaker 5: When things got tight, they showed who they are made of.
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Speaker 5: Mark Johnson, the team hats out to you all. You
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Speaker 5: did Wisconsin proud on a weekend. I think we needed that,
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Speaker 5: you know, I think we did that for the Wisconsin Badgers.
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Speaker 5: So well done once again and what a stand that
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Speaker 5: he is set now for that program where it's almost
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Speaker 5: become like it's almost he'd makes the extraordinary seem ordinary
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Speaker 5: by just winning national championships every year. Uh so, pretty
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Speaker 5: remarkable stuff. Congrats to him and his old staff and team.
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Speaker 2: Had another job well done.
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Speaker 1: On a game balls and kicks to the balls Monday.
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Speaker 1: We can just go ahead and assume that they're gonna
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Speaker 1: get all kinds of game balls today.
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Speaker 3: A lot of game balls, yes, as the case, maybe
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Speaker 3: games you keep the stack. Yeah, it's got to be
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Speaker 3: a puck, right, and throw that thing in there. There's
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Speaker 3: nothing else that you're celebrate. My daughter still said, it's
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Speaker 3: a ball, you know.
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Speaker 5: She went she thinks it's a ball still, but she
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Speaker 5: still can't form the words yet, So I mean ballpuck,
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Speaker 5: you know, puck.
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Speaker 3: Now, she took in a a little bit of puk
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Speaker 3: on Saturday night, Milwaukee Admirals getting themselves a big win
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Speaker 3: against the Grand Rapids.
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Speaker 2: Griffin. She did, she did.
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Speaker 5: She was there until bad time, just in time for
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Speaker 5: us to see us take the lead.
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Speaker 2: I think then had to go home. But uh, she
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Speaker 2: was loving life.
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Speaker 5: Down there at the arena and enjoying Is there a
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Speaker 5: third Admirals game now and think she's more and more
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Speaker 5: aware of what's going on.
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Speaker 2: Didn't want the headphones, Mom said, I don't head phone.
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Speaker 5: Let me taking all of it. It's not too long.
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Speaker 5: I'm ready to go. I heard cowbells. Because of those
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Speaker 5: cow bells, let's go.
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Speaker 3: And I appreciate the humbleness of our adorable Armenian on
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Speaker 3: the other side, drew because not only did uh did
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Speaker 3: young Lenna get to experience the Admirals take a thrilling
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Speaker 3: three two lead at the moment big win, by the way,
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Speaker 3: also got to witness Pops in a pressure packed situation. Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 3: when all the sudden the lights come on, instantly jump
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Speaker 3: from dad mode, playing just like the little in the
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Speaker 3: and all of a sudden turned the mic on and
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Speaker 3: given away over two thousand dollars in the fifty to
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Speaker 3: fifty raffle. The lights come on, the guy just shows
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Speaker 3: up bright and you could tell that. You could tell
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Speaker 3: she's like, wait a second, what was that that? I
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Speaker 3: don't know what that was that.
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Speaker 5: That was a strange interaction there. Yeah, well that was
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Speaker 5: a funny moment. But hey, you know, we're ready to go,
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Speaker 5: Billy because you guys know in this business. Were always
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Speaker 5: when the curtains up.
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Speaker 1: Were Oh man, the kids get they grow up around it. Yeah, Oh,
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Speaker 1: on you early risers. If they're not opening the y
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Speaker 1: for you, I know, come on, if you're beating on
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Speaker 1: the doors outside, your listening to us in the car
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Speaker 1: waiting for something to open, Well.
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Speaker 2: We're glad you're with us.
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Speaker 1: Give us your thoughts and you can start priming the
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Speaker 1: pump for game balls and kicks.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and enjoy your enjoy your pre workout and maybe
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Speaker 3: take a little deep breath before you get on in
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Speaker 3: there and absolutely wreck on Monday Monday workout. But uh,
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Speaker 3: there there's people Drew that I think are waking up
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Speaker 3: here today with a as you mentioned with Brewers Baseball
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Speaker 3: on the horizon, that there's a zestin in in the air.
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Speaker 3: I mean, like it is an exciting moment now. Granted, sadly,
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Speaker 3: maybe better that we got to put to bed Friday,
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Speaker 3: we got, we got Thursday away.
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Speaker 2: Friday.
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Speaker 3: Was nice to be able to put all of that
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Speaker 3: away now, hope springs eternals. Yeah, it feels like we're
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Speaker 3: just rolling right into the championship season. I think so,
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Speaker 3: as Ken.
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Speaker 1: Sarmerfeld once famously said spring Hope's attorney, there is a
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Speaker 1: there is never let him forget that.
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Speaker 5: There is a sense of that, though. I think like
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Speaker 5: the fact that high Point didn't get the upset and
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Speaker 5: round two a little bit as well, like they're not
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Speaker 5: still playing where they almost were. The body wouldn't have
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Speaker 5: been cold yet, and you can't go to the funeral
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Speaker 5: for them and like at least put the whole thing
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Speaker 5: to bed, because you know, you're kind of reminded of
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Speaker 5: that grief if they're still playing.
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Speaker 2: But since they're not all right, put them away? Would
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Speaker 2: the seas up? What would the tenor be?
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Speaker 1: Had the Badgers beaten high Point and then got smoked
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Speaker 1: by Arkansas, we'd be having the same conversation thing just
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Speaker 1: delayed a little bit, the.
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Speaker 2: Same thing because they won last year.
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Speaker 5: They won last year in the first round, albeit it
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Speaker 5: wasn't pretty, but you know, the loss to b Yu
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Speaker 5: prompted the same questions people wanted to bring up anyway,
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Speaker 5: So you're right, yeah.
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Speaker 1: And then and then there's a point when getting the
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Speaker 1: sweet sixteen isn't enough it's just it's the it's the
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Speaker 1: way it is. It's like it's the potato chip theory
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Speaker 1: of sports. You have one potato chip, you're eating the
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Speaker 1: ninety bag. You want to eat the whole bag? Right,
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Speaker 1: you win one, you went incrementally, then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: it's not enough. We break beard and guys like that guy,
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Speaker 1: how much.
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Speaker 2: Is it not? Like?
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Speaker 1: And again, people, you're settling for mediocrity. Well, if that's mediocrity,
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Speaker 1: what the batteries are putting out there, that's a little
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Speaker 1: above mediocore above mediocre and what looks like it might
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Speaker 1: be the best league in the country based for sure,
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Speaker 1: how many teams are through to the sweet sixteen?
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Speaker 2: And are they as good or better than Iowa? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Are they as lucky? No?
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Speaker 2: No, definitely it's not.
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Speaker 1: As you know, and nebrasktall last night. Nebrasketball is now
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Speaker 1: a thing, right Nebraska. It's like they apparently enjoyed their
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Speaker 1: moments and they're having but you know, again, it's like
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Speaker 1: if that's incompetence because the small sample and then it
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Speaker 1: gets to you get real granular with it. Was again
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Speaker 1: we set up with a lot of the things that
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Speaker 1: happened with the Packers in the back end of their season.
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Speaker 1: Was it all coaching, Romeo Dobbs, dropping, onside kick and
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Speaker 1: correct coaching?
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Speaker 4: All five?
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Speaker 2: We scheme it up to have our best guy that
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Speaker 2: we want in that spot.
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Speaker 1: Did the Batter scheme it up to have Nick Boyd
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Speaker 1: have a couple of you know, the guy they want
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Speaker 1: to have the ball get a couple of shots.
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Speaker 2: Yes they did.
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Speaker 5: Did he get you know, hit the bottom of the
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Speaker 5: backboard and get blocked, Yes he did. That was not
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Speaker 5: a part of the draw up on the white board.
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Speaker 2: Wasn't it. It wasn't what it So, yeah, I get it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, people are mad at me for not being
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Speaker 1: madder about Greg Guard, but I live and breathe and
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Speaker 1: I've been in this a long time, and first of all,
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Speaker 1: I can think of eight million reasons why.
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Speaker 2: Greg Guard is not gonna get fired. It's a big one, yep.
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Speaker 2: Because you'd have to fire.
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Speaker 1: Him, pay him out, buy out the next guy that
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Speaker 1: you're bringing in from his current school, more and more
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Speaker 1: likely than not, and then pay a whole bunch of
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Speaker 1: new players, and give him the requisite cash to spend.
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Speaker 1: So I'm looking at that as like potentially twenty to
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Speaker 1: thirty million dollar expenditure and miniature the transaction too.
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Speaker 2: To fire a.
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Speaker 1: Coach who's actually really good and highly regarded and is
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Speaker 1: it near the top of the league every year and
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Speaker 1: wins a couple of games in the Big Ten tournament
15:49
Speaker 1: just has been snake bit in March mad And then
15:52
Speaker 1: you're also gonna have to pay the players, right like that,
15:54
Speaker 1: that's the other part of this that's that's too difficult
15:57
Speaker 1: for me to get over when you're talking buyout situation.
16:00
Speaker 3: It's one that I mean, like Bubba Cunningham is talking
16:02
Speaker 3: about right now at UNC Hubert Davis in the Final
16:05
Speaker 3: four a couple of years ago, they lose in the
16:07
Speaker 3: first round. Now we can't do this, tolace back to
16:09
Speaker 3: back years, blow nineteen point lead, Gonna have to grease
16:12
Speaker 3: this guy with fifty million dollars on his buyout or
16:14
Speaker 3: whatever it ends up being. And I look at Hoyburg
16:18
Speaker 3: and McCollum at Iowa as two pretty unique comparisons because
16:24
Speaker 3: the other part of it drew like when you talk
16:26
Speaker 3: about and I think Matt Lapay hit it really well
16:29
Speaker 3: with us the other day where he said everybody needs
16:32
Speaker 3: to know the unique challenges that are specific to your location.
16:38
Speaker 3: I struggle to know who else is going to know
16:41
Speaker 3: more of the built in shortcomings that you're gonna have
16:44
Speaker 3: at the University of Wisconsin, the problems that you are
16:47
Speaker 3: going to come that are going to arise. Then a
16:50
Speaker 3: guy that's been there for thirty years and has grown
16:53
Speaker 3: up in the area, like McCallum and Hoiberg that Nebraska
16:57
Speaker 3: and Iowa. We're looking for a great guard.
17:00
Speaker 6: And raised Iowa guy from Iowa City or from Nebraska
17:05
Speaker 6: that's going to be able to grow into the position,
17:07
Speaker 6: learn it and know the hindrances that that place has specifically.
17:11
Speaker 1: Absolutely intellectually, if you're Wisconsin too, how do you fire
17:15
Speaker 1: Greg Gard after keeping Luke Fickle? That's if you're If
17:20
Speaker 1: you're the boss and it's X y Z Corp. And
17:22
Speaker 1: we got this division and this division, how do you
17:25
Speaker 1: how would you process that this guy's not successful enough,
17:28
Speaker 1: this guy's not successful at all yet.
17:30
Speaker 2: But we're gonna stay with him. We're going to stay
17:31
Speaker 2: in the course. But here we're tired of the success.
17:34
Speaker 1: We're tired of the winning, which is the regular season,
17:36
Speaker 1: which people pooh pooh, and I get it, because all
17:39
Speaker 1: that matters is the turn right right, the regular season
17:41
Speaker 1: is a long time, and there's a lot of seats
17:43
Speaker 1: to sell during the regular season, and when you don't win, there's.
17:47
Speaker 2: Going to be a lot more a lot more difficult. Yeah,
17:49
Speaker 2: And the only argument.
17:50
Speaker 5: You'd have, which would be flowed logic in my opinion,
17:53
Speaker 5: is that he's only created a higher level of standard
17:55
Speaker 5: for himself by having the success than Fickle has, Right,
17:58
Speaker 5: So the perspective is different.
18:00
Speaker 1: So I mean, that's actually it's to me. And then
18:03
Speaker 1: it's funny that I hear more Badgers fans saying Greg
18:06
Speaker 1: Guard should be fired than Marquette fans saying Shaker should
18:08
Speaker 1: be fired after're losing twenty games.
18:11
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it depends who you ask him. Sure,
18:13
Speaker 5: but I think there's one year.
18:15
Speaker 1: It's a little bit flipped though, Like it's there's a
18:19
Speaker 1: low minority of Marquette fans that want Shaka out, but
18:22
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, it seems like a majority of bad fans.
18:24
Speaker 2: Are so pissed that they're ready to It's the DNA
18:27
Speaker 2: sports fans.
18:28
Speaker 5: You can only win enough, you can't win too much
18:30
Speaker 5: where you create a higher standard for yourself and then
18:32
Speaker 5: don't win enough, don't win more. That makes sense, Like
18:35
Speaker 5: that that's what it becomes, and that's what it's.
18:37
Speaker 1: Has anybody ever said it's the same tom Izzo, because
18:41
Speaker 1: like the guy hasn't once it's two thousand, he hasn't
18:43
Speaker 1: won the right I go to the final four occasionally,
18:46
Speaker 1: well in there and they make.
18:48
Speaker 2: It to the sweet sixteen, every yerelling at people? When
18:50
Speaker 2: is that not enough?
18:51
Speaker 5: Only when he's yelling at the kids very he's got.
18:55
Speaker 5: But he's got a bunch of he's been final fours.
18:59
Speaker 2: And he's got a bunch of he's got some natties.
19:00
Speaker 2: But and he's been to eight final four.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but you're right, I mean there's always perspective there
19:05
Speaker 5: is that not good enough?
19:07
Speaker 1: Right, It's like, oh, we're sick of just not winning
19:09
Speaker 1: the championship. That's a biding scale. I'm fascinated by the
19:13
Speaker 1: whole conversation. Uh yeah, so Badger's dip women win the
19:17
Speaker 1: hockey title. We got state tournaments and basketball? How about
19:21
Speaker 1: yeah basketball town cook Dukes.
19:24
Speaker 5: Apparently yeah apparently not even Domitican, like that's it used
19:27
Speaker 5: to be them.
19:28
Speaker 1: We will, uh, we'll talk about all of it today.
19:30
Speaker 1: But game balls and kicks, the balls a our main
19:31
Speaker 1: threats get them to us at eight seven seven seven
19:35
Speaker 1: ninety four, often running It's the Huddle.
19:38
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin puddled up on.
19:43
Speaker 1: A Monday and the good Land drew Billy and Armon
19:45
Speaker 1: bringing it to you from headquarters. Get us at eight
19:47
Speaker 1: seven seven seven nine seven three h After a heavy
19:52
Speaker 1: weekend of football, you feel drained. After a heavy weekend
19:55
Speaker 1: of watching hoops, you're a little bit more uplifted.
19:58
Speaker 2: Why is that? I don't know. Why is it more draining?
19:59
Speaker 2: Because football is more physical, so I.
20:01
Speaker 3: Gonna say your body doesn't hurt from like thinking about
20:03
Speaker 3: the impact.
20:04
Speaker 2: I don't know.
20:05
Speaker 1: There's just something psychological about it, like the hoops. Like
20:08
Speaker 1: I watched I dialed into the high school tournament, watched
20:11
Speaker 1: a little girls tournament last year, watched the high school tournament,
20:14
Speaker 1: watch the did I did tune in. I saw maybe
20:17
Speaker 1: four or five possessions of the Bucks game. I'm like,
20:19
Speaker 1: what am I watching this for?
20:20
Speaker 2: Yeah? That that was an early tap. I can't believe
20:23
Speaker 2: you watched no offense.
20:24
Speaker 5: I usually try not to say, I, miss ay, I
20:26
Speaker 5: did not watch the Bucks game. I did not. You
20:29
Speaker 5: had to prove to me they I any video that
20:31
Speaker 5: they won that game. It's one of those things you
20:33
Speaker 5: just can't believe, you know, I.
20:34
Speaker 1: Mentioned even on the sports business front, I always think
20:36
Speaker 1: it's kind of a bummer. Yeah, it's great because you know,
20:41
Speaker 1: I was able to enjoy a little bit of it,
20:42
Speaker 1: and kudos to all of our state champions But it
20:44
Speaker 1: sucks when the boys high school tournament runs concurrently with
20:48
Speaker 1: the first weekend of the.
20:50
Speaker 2: Lost in the Wash. It's hard to follow.
20:52
Speaker 1: But you know, shout out white Fish Bay, Juno, shot
20:55
Speaker 1: out Wisconsin, Lutheran got some some teams from the our
20:58
Speaker 1: area winning gold balls. Like that championship game. Folks in
21:02
Speaker 1: Madison might have been pulling for the other side, but
21:04
Speaker 1: it was a good man, that was a really good tournament.
21:06
Speaker 1: It was well well played, good game.
21:09
Speaker 5: First MPs champions it's four yeah walk as you know
21:12
Speaker 5: in D four and we'll talk about that and all
21:14
Speaker 5: the topics. Absolutely, but that's pretty remarkable that you know
21:19
Speaker 5: that no NPS school had won a state championship and
21:22
Speaker 5: over twenty I guess I didn't realize that it's stunning.
21:24
Speaker 5: Since I kill, I feel like yeah, since King and
21:27
Speaker 5: I feel like I followed along.
21:28
Speaker 2: I can't believe it.
21:29
Speaker 5: When I was in high school, middle school, high school,
21:31
Speaker 5: and coming through nobody was beaten any of those teams.
21:35
Speaker 2: Nobody was beating Vincent. That was what it was. Nobody
21:37
Speaker 2: was beating Vincent.
21:38
Speaker 1: Open enrollment kids are just going to the suburban schools
21:40
Speaker 1: playing with their AAU buddies.
21:42
Speaker 2: So we got super teams like kind of that happen.
21:45
Speaker 5: Better facilities, more support resources. That's just the way it
21:49
Speaker 5: is now. And it starts in sports and you'll get me.
21:52
Speaker 1: School still creating good players in the city, but they're
21:54
Speaker 1: not playing for city schools as much.
21:57
Speaker 2: So yeah, there's a whole thing.
21:58
Speaker 1: We can have McGivern back and talk about that.
22:00
Speaker 2: I can't wait for that.
22:02
Speaker 1: But then there's the whole, uh, the shot clock debate.
22:06
Speaker 1: Now we finally might get a shot clock because the
22:08
Speaker 1: Milwaukee school was sitting on the ball taking the air
22:11
Speaker 1: out of the ball. So now the folks up in
22:12
Speaker 1: Steven's point time for a shot clock. Are kids lost?
22:16
Speaker 4: Man?
22:17
Speaker 3: I got I got so many questions about it, and
22:19
Speaker 3: and frankly, I was happy that I got people to
22:22
Speaker 3: interact and ask me questions.
22:24
Speaker 2: About high school sport. Yes, that's great.
22:26
Speaker 3: There was a part of it where I was excited because,
22:28
Speaker 3: like you said, Drew, I thought some of the wind
22:30
Speaker 3: gets taken out of the state tournament sales when it's
22:32
Speaker 3: going up against the big tournament.
22:34
Speaker 2: Now, maybe the Badger's exitting on Thursday helped out, but that.
22:37
Speaker 3: Is here here and no there, and uh like I
22:39
Speaker 3: had one guy said, I sure, hope you want to talk.
22:41
Speaker 2: You talk about this on your respected radio. So I agree.
22:44
Speaker 2: So let we're talking about it. Let's start. There's good
22:46
Speaker 2: that everyone cares.
22:47
Speaker 3: I cared that much about It was seven and a
22:50
Speaker 3: half minutes to go, seven minutes left and they they
22:53
Speaker 3: wasted like ninety seconds and up to I believe, right, Yeah, okay,
22:57
Speaker 3: so one possession because and Cambridge was sitting back allowing
23:02
Speaker 3: them to just like burn clock.
23:04
Speaker 2: Okay, it wasn't that long. I felt long.
23:07
Speaker 1: It would have been obviously a shot clock, and that
23:10
Speaker 1: fuel the And I think there should be a shot clock,
23:13
Speaker 1: probably in the state because if there's one everywhere else.
23:15
Speaker 1: Let's let's get up keep up with the Joneses. Right, Well,
23:18
Speaker 1: there's a lot of laws that Wisconsin is an island
23:21
Speaker 1: in where all the states around us have changed their policies.
23:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't know the shot clock. Well, I
23:27
Speaker 3: mean you can spell it with THHC. But like you're
23:30
Speaker 3: a hope that, like the financials can work itself out
23:34
Speaker 3: for for a very and I know people will will
23:37
Speaker 3: raise their eyebrows at it certain schools. That's a real deal, right,
23:40
Speaker 3: Like the idea that you can actually get enough people
23:42
Speaker 3: for operations, that's that's part of it. But man, we
23:45
Speaker 3: were talking about it with Mike last week. The talent
23:47
Speaker 3: is so good. The amount of really high end players
23:51
Speaker 3: is higher than it's ever been. Andrew, like you said,
23:53
Speaker 3: you just want to make sure you're giving the athletes
23:57
Speaker 3: and the players the proper opportunity to show what they've done,
24:01
Speaker 3: showcase their talents, and measure up with the rest of
24:03
Speaker 3: the country as well. Like that, to me is the
24:05
Speaker 3: bigger question on the shot clock, not because bardem Me
24:09
Speaker 3: Cambridge doesn't go out and defend to forty five feet
24:12
Speaker 3: like I was. I was really couldn't fathom the full
24:17
Speaker 3: frustration on the video. Maybe it's more my man taunting
24:20
Speaker 3: the booze, which I appreciate a little bit of villainous
24:23
Speaker 3: in the in the role they got away from the ball.
24:26
Speaker 3: But if you want the action to be forced, go
24:28
Speaker 3: force to the action. Now, I didn't see all of
24:30
Speaker 3: the game. I didn't see a decent amount of highlights.
24:32
Speaker 3: Cambridge was cooking them on the back cuts in the
24:35
Speaker 3: offensive side. So you know, you want to take some
24:37
Speaker 3: of the air out of the ball. But I love
24:39
Speaker 3: what the coach said from Juno, He's like, I appreciate it.
24:42
Speaker 2: I understand. I just wanted to win.
24:44
Speaker 5: Man, Like, we don't get mad inyatory Johnson used to
24:47
Speaker 5: play DWM.
24:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't totally get mad at teams in football.
24:51
Speaker 3: That's a strategy when you say, well our starting quarterbacks out,
24:54
Speaker 3: you know what we should do, take the air out
24:56
Speaker 3: of the ball. It's run shorting this game as much
24:59
Speaker 3: as possible. It's a strategic implementation of the rule.
25:03
Speaker 2: This one.
25:03
Speaker 3: I just I guess that's where I come from. I
25:05
Speaker 3: just can't see the anger in it. When both sides
25:07
Speaker 3: need to be complicit. Well, you put your closer in,
25:10
Speaker 3: you gets a bullpen. What are you trying to protect
25:12
Speaker 3: the lead?
25:12
Speaker 2: What are you doing? I mean, I mean, I mean.
25:15
Speaker 5: The most famous high school game in the history of basketball,
25:17
Speaker 5: the nineteen fifty four Indiana State Ballball Championship, of course,
25:22
Speaker 5: versus Milon High in Monsey Central, featured a four minute
25:25
Speaker 5: stall by mylind.
25:26
Speaker 2: That's I mean, this is not a new thing that
25:28
Speaker 2: it was.
25:29
Speaker 1: First That game was at two thirty.
25:34
Speaker 5: I'm not I'm not saying that was a great you know,
25:36
Speaker 5: visual brand, but it doesn't affect the way people feel
25:39
Speaker 5: about that game. The nineteen seventies, Dean Smith made a
25:42
Speaker 5: whole career on the four corners. I mean he tried
25:44
Speaker 5: it against high school team ran the four corners junior year.
25:47
Speaker 5: Because we couldn't beat anybody.
25:48
Speaker 1: It was the only way we had a chance, okay,
25:49
Speaker 1: to slow the game down, hopefully we're tipping it and
25:52
Speaker 1: then play for the last shot.
25:54
Speaker 2: So is that ethical? I saw a lot of this.
25:56
Speaker 2: Is that ethical basketball? I don't know.
25:58
Speaker 5: Everybody, everybody playing with us that you are within the rules,
26:01
Speaker 5: within the rules, there's nothing unethical about it. I was
26:04
Speaker 5: just kind of I was not surprised to see people
26:07
Speaker 5: wanting a shot clock.
26:08
Speaker 2: That has been a shot clock. But I also have
26:11
Speaker 2: no problem with juno, right, that's my point, Like that
26:13
Speaker 2: was a refrain for a long time.
26:15
Speaker 1: Call that smart basketball. They're not guarding you and you're
26:17
Speaker 1: up to let's drain the clock. Yeah, sure, that's time
26:20
Speaker 1: for you to come back.
26:21
Speaker 3: Get over here, Like I think that's the part of
26:23
Speaker 3: it that I don't understand, the waiting to be mad
26:26
Speaker 3: about it instead of going and forcing the action. Like
26:30
Speaker 3: I'm watching the point guard and he's looking back at
26:33
Speaker 3: the coach. It appears in the one video that you
26:35
Speaker 3: can see saying, I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, right,
26:39
Speaker 3: I'm five, I'm five feet away. Should I go and
26:41
Speaker 3: and and press up like you can. You can change
26:44
Speaker 3: the way of play if you want to. And the
26:47
Speaker 3: four corners Again, this is showing my youth. And I
26:52
Speaker 3: always admit this. I don't really remember any era of
26:55
Speaker 3: basketball without a shot clock outside of high school, right, so,
26:58
Speaker 3: like I don't even remembermember the legendary guys that made
27:02
Speaker 3: somewhat of a career. I'm playing that we practiced the
27:05
Speaker 3: four corners when I was in you know, middle school basketball,
27:08
Speaker 3: and I just thought it was drill that coaches did
27:09
Speaker 3: when they hated you, because there was a lot more
27:12
Speaker 3: running that you had to do in the back and
27:13
Speaker 3: forth pay I thought that was it of just going
27:15
Speaker 3: back and forth and running and replacing, and instead it
27:19
Speaker 3: was just, hey, let's just stand over here and wait
27:21
Speaker 3: and drill out some clock and then finish the game
27:23
Speaker 3: off by three.
27:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the clock was implemented arm and remember it
27:25
Speaker 1: was forty five seconds.
27:26
Speaker 5: Well originally it was forty five seconds in college. Yeah,
27:29
Speaker 5: it went to thirty five and then down to thirty.
27:31
Speaker 2: Which I thought was okay, thirty five, but thirty is
27:33
Speaker 2: probably a little bit better.
27:34
Speaker 5: I mean, twenty four is you know. The funny thing
27:37
Speaker 5: is the game's evolved enough at that level where player
27:39
Speaker 5: teams are taking quick shots now anyway, so no one
27:42
Speaker 5: even takes the full thirty five like they used to.
27:44
Speaker 2: Usually it does happen, of.
27:45
Speaker 1: Course, but we have decided to have if you get
27:48
Speaker 1: an offensive rebound, you get a twenty second reset, so yeah.
27:51
Speaker 3: And thirty and twenty on the reset on the offensive
27:53
Speaker 3: regund And what does it go to fifteen in the
27:55
Speaker 3: NBA fifteen or sixteen? I thought it was fourteen in
27:57
Speaker 3: the NBA, so slices that in half. I just can't
28:01
Speaker 3: be that angry about it now. I do appreciate that
28:05
Speaker 3: we're talking about it, and it will lend itself to
28:08
Speaker 3: more of the conversation.
28:09
Speaker 2: But true, I'm with you. Both are very very true.
28:13
Speaker 4: For me.
28:13
Speaker 3: I would have done the exact same thing within the
28:16
Speaker 3: rules as Juno did. I also still think they should
28:19
Speaker 3: put in a shot clock, and maybe it does spark
28:20
Speaker 3: the conversation.
28:21
Speaker 5: I also feel like there's a lot of like, is
28:23
Speaker 5: a madisonary versus school versus a Milwauk area school. There's
28:26
Speaker 5: a lot of little Madison Milwaukee stuff there, which I've
28:28
Speaker 5: always think that the two markets have always been at
28:32
Speaker 5: odds in terms of like sports rivalries a little bit.
28:34
Speaker 2: I think there's a little bit not only sports rivalries,
28:37
Speaker 2: but yeah, yeah.
28:37
Speaker 5: Exactly, I think a lot of I think there's a
28:39
Speaker 5: lot of that cooking up there. Where Milwauk area schools
28:42
Speaker 5: had done well in the state tournament, maybe they want
28:43
Speaker 5: to see a chance. Well, I understand that you want
28:45
Speaker 5: to see your team win, you want to see a
28:47
Speaker 5: champion from you from your group. But hey, the reality
28:50
Speaker 5: is both teams were strategizing, all right. Both teams were
28:53
Speaker 5: They knew if they came up and pressed, they were
28:54
Speaker 5: gonna probably get beat off the dribble.
28:56
Speaker 2: That's the reality of it.
28:57
Speaker 5: They were better in the you know, they were better
28:59
Speaker 5: and sort of have or maybe than you know was
29:01
Speaker 5: in certain situations. Every team mass strengths and weaknesses. They
29:04
Speaker 5: play to theirs. The point is is it great to
29:08
Speaker 5: for the basketball aesthetics? No, But in that moment, Milwaukee
29:12
Speaker 5: Juno's job was not try to save the soul of basketball.
29:16
Speaker 5: Their job was to try and win a state championship.
29:18
Speaker 5: You're in the state finals right there. He's not thinking, Oh,
29:20
Speaker 5: what's the greater good of the game here. I don't
29:22
Speaker 5: think that if you and guess what, you want to
29:25
Speaker 5: blame someone, Blame the WIA if not making this change, right,
29:28
Speaker 5: I mean, isn't it there? That aren't they the ones
29:30
Speaker 5: that have to govern the game, not not individual coaches
29:33
Speaker 5: to sell police it.
29:34
Speaker 2: I don't agree with that.
29:35
Speaker 5: So if you want to blame someone, that's their problem,
29:38
Speaker 5: that's their fault, that's their burden. It's not the burden
29:41
Speaker 5: on the coaches and teams who are their job is
29:43
Speaker 5: tasked to try and win games or and teach the
29:46
Speaker 5: game obviously and do it within the rules and things
29:48
Speaker 5: like that, and teach the game and teach sportsmanship and
29:51
Speaker 5: all that good stuff. So uh, I'm sure we'll have
29:53
Speaker 5: a lot more reaction to it as the date morning
29:55
Speaker 5: goes on, because people checking it out. But I think
29:59
Speaker 5: we were both kind of billion surprised about the reaction
30:01
Speaker 5: when we're sitting together Saturday night looking at it.
30:03
Speaker 3: So I just I appreciated the I appreciated the I
30:06
Speaker 3: just hope you guys we'll talk about this. I love
30:09
Speaker 3: that somebody needs to talk about this. I think people
30:11
Speaker 3: have been talking about it right now. Like the visual
30:14
Speaker 3: again is different. It is a tougher watch than just
30:19
Speaker 3: hearing hey man, we need to have a shot clock
30:21
Speaker 3: because the pace of play is down, and you know,
30:22
Speaker 3: the numbers are a little bit sometimes data doesn't hit
30:26
Speaker 3: the same as they used to say. Seeing his believing
30:29
Speaker 3: now maybe that saw more people were able to see
30:31
Speaker 3: it drew of like we need to make sure that
30:34
Speaker 3: we're able to keep up with the times.
30:35
Speaker 2: And I just think again, it's because the play is
30:37
Speaker 2: so good.
30:38
Speaker 3: I mean, there were some incredibly incredibly talented players in
30:42
Speaker 3: that tournament. Reidsville man, shout out Reidsville. They had a
30:44
Speaker 3: couple of big time games in Division five. Their game
30:47
Speaker 3: against Sheboygan Lutheran. I was dialed in on and I
30:51
Speaker 3: actually was a little bit late getting the youngster to
30:53
Speaker 3: a zoo class because I'm like, hey man, we need
30:55
Speaker 3: to see this last minute thirty seconds, all right, you
30:57
Speaker 3: need to sit back here and see if there's a
30:58
Speaker 3: decker shot coming and instead Reidsville with a three sixty
31:02
Speaker 3: layup to win it in the semi final.
31:03
Speaker 1: It was pretty close, pretty wild, pretty close.
31:05
Speaker 2: Yeah.
31:06
Speaker 1: That what gets me is like, Okay, finally, after twenty years,
31:09
Speaker 1: a city conference team wins a title and it's in
31:12
Speaker 1: Division four.
31:16
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, it's hard to believe, right, Yeah, he
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Speaker 2: congratulate may be there, Yeah yeah, just about. That's pretty
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Speaker 2: impressive out what a union man.
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Speaker 5: Pretty one of the one of the biggest wagons we've
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Speaker 5: had in this state in a long time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's up there with the Vincent people
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Speaker 1: are mentioning Germantown.
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Speaker 2: Germantown's run was legit. Yeah yeah, pretty legit. Yeah, pretty
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Speaker 2: wild all right?
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Speaker 1: Eight seven seven, seven nine four one ninety three game
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Speaker 1: balls kick is going to be robust today.
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Speaker 2: Dolph is going to join us at half time.
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Speaker 1: Plenty of talk about with his Iowa eyes and I
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Speaker 1: gotta get Armin's reaction to the Saint John's walk off yesterday.
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Speaker 5: Old Big East lives Patino League East and Patino you
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Speaker 5: can't kill Patino man, My goodness, you can't cover Thanks
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Speaker 5: a lot talk about all of that forward.
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Speaker 2: All right, we're talking hoops, game game balls and kicks
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Speaker 2: the balls today.
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Speaker 1: If you would like to start sending them, feel free
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Speaker 1: there's no reason to wait. We're ready for you. There's
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Speaker 1: no reason to wait. Game ball to Jason Bennetti. First
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Speaker 1: of all, we got to get the sounders, right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean what are we playing for game balls and
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Speaker 1: kicks today?
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 5: We have a we have a couple of really good
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Speaker 5: ones here, and I also want your guys opinion a
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Speaker 5: little bit for the kick to the ball too. We'll
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Speaker 5: start We'll start with the game balls this weekend.
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Speaker 4: Take me to the balcons.
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Speaker 5: Please, in a world, in a world and in the
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Speaker 5: life of great Bill Raft recalls, this has got to
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Speaker 5: be one of the top ones. Uh.
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Speaker 2: This was during during the Illinois game.
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Speaker 5: And they have a lot of guys from Eastern Europe,
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Speaker 5: a lot of guys a Visavich and all these different bitches.
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Speaker 2: Right, any Armenians. No, I don't have, unfortunately, not I wish.
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Speaker 5: Although you guys playing soccer over there and Army and
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Speaker 5: Blood and some of these guys, well, it's not.
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Speaker 2: Playing as much basketball in Armenia. They do.
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Speaker 5: We have some guys we do play now, but they don't.
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Speaker 5: We don't have any high level guys I guess at
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Speaker 5: that level or none playing for Brett Underwood. This year,
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Speaker 5: Well maybe next year. He has a new team every year.
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Speaker 5: But yeah, this was on the top. Take me to
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Speaker 5: the Balcons past, great game ball and kick to the balls.
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Speaker 2: Here it is his pants down, all right, so you pants.
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Speaker 5: If you're a broadcasting nerd, you know one of your
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Speaker 5: favorite times is spring training, right, because that's when all
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Speaker 5: the weird stuff starts to happen on broadcasts.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 2: And that was from the Twins.
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Speaker 5: Broadcast where they were talking about Byron Buckson's pants level.
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Speaker 5: Apparently now here's a longer version of this. I think
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Speaker 5: here that that that's the that's the response. So I
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Speaker 5: wanted to know from you guys should I use for
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Speaker 5: the kick to the balls?
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Speaker 2: Is this better?
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Speaker 4: You ever seen buck with his pants out?
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Speaker 5: Because I think they're boultremendous or is just this, you know,
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Speaker 5: succinctly better?
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 5: I like the quick hitter, yeah, quick one. I like
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Speaker 5: the yeah that is so good right there, so pretty good.
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Speaker 5: They're both good. In a weekend that was kind of
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Speaker 5: rich and fertile in the audio, these were the two best.
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Speaker 2: I thought, I like them.
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Speaker 5: Game ball to that reaction on that question, because that
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Speaker 5: is one of the that's one of the tougher spots
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Speaker 5: to be putting. Hey, have you ever seen that? You've
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Speaker 5: seen our all star center fielder with his pants.
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Speaker 2: Now, have you ever seen buck with his pants down?
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Speaker 2: It's just so good off. I guess Buckston is wearing
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Speaker 2: them real high. I guess I love that was that
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Speaker 2: was what they were going for.
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Speaker 1: Eight seven, seven seven, nine ninety seven three gets you
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Speaker 1: to our boy Brian Anderson for getting through his broadcast.
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Speaker 4: Day, Take me to the bull kIPS please.
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Speaker 1: And game Ball to Jason Bennetti for sitting in for.
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Speaker 2: Him sliding me to the bull kIPS please.
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Speaker 1: I can't Someday there's gonna be an article like an
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Speaker 1: awful announcing or something about what had to happen for
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Speaker 1: that to go through, Like the bosses had to allow NBC,
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Speaker 1: the DNT, the you know, Westwood One, like there had
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Speaker 1: it was. There was a lot of maneuvering to allow
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Speaker 1: that to happen. And and how many guys Benetti was
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Speaker 1: preparing to do the preparing to do the games, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but he was ready, but man, it was perfect.
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Speaker 3: And the amount of flipping in and out now, I
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Speaker 3: don't know exactly how they had to replace and roll through,
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Speaker 3: Like I believe from what I heard on the Westwood
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Speaker 3: one call yesterday, the guy that went and pitch pinch
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Speaker 3: hit during the Westwood one calls there on the radio.
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Speaker 3: When Benetti went to go take over for the TV side,
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Speaker 3: they like had team broadcasters, so the Kentucky guy filled
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Speaker 3: in for some of the later games, and just like that,
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Speaker 3: there's a great piece mealing together as to how that
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Speaker 3: that transpired. But man, shout out to Benetti for being
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Speaker 3: as quick witted too, and then Brian yesterday for saying, Man,
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Speaker 3: I really appreciate Jason Bennetti and now he definitely upgraded
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Speaker 3: as his partner Jim Jacksonson there, like come on, man's.
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Speaker 4: Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 2: You gotta drop that one on me.
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Speaker 5: B You know what there is, it's no easy task
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Speaker 5: to work with a different analysts, you know, in gaming
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Speaker 5: name of the game. But instantly, like imagine if you
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Speaker 5: got Chris Weber midgame. Now we talk about funny audio
36:52
Speaker 5: all weekend, Chris Weber trying every one Lentery Ken and
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Speaker 5: every now and then one hits every now and then,
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Speaker 5: but it's just a totally different vibe. So the first
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Speaker 5: time I remember this ever happening. I was a very
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Speaker 5: very young boy, and as you know, I didn't have cable. Billy,
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Speaker 5: we talked about this a lot. I didn't have cable, right,
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Speaker 5: So any this was the early nineties, so any game
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Speaker 5: that was on TV network, I would just try and
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Speaker 5: tape everything I could. And one of the first ones
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Speaker 5: I remember seeing was a nineteen ninety two ALCS game
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Speaker 5: between the Blue Jays and the Oakland A's and it
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Speaker 5: was in that game where Dick Stockton's in the playback
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Speaker 5: play and Jim Cott was replaced mid game by Johnny
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Speaker 5: Bench as an analyst.
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Speaker 2: I remember this happening as a kid. I'm like, this
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Speaker 2: is really weird.
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Speaker 5: They're bringing in a new guy to broadcast, and that started,
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Speaker 5: you know, I was eight years old thinking about that
37:38
Speaker 5: was my first experience ever seeing a relief analyst. It
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Speaker 5: was in the game two of the ninety two ALCS
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Speaker 5: and Johnny Bench it was working CBS Radio guys was
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Speaker 5: brought over to the television both the actors of relief
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Speaker 5: Analyst with Dick Stocktons.
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Speaker 2: So I remember that was the one I remember the most.
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Speaker 5: So that was, you know, another one in the long
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Speaker 5: line of this brotherhood of broadcasting.
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Speaker 2: We're all stepping in to help each other out. So
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Speaker 2: Herman's rabbit hole. Yeah, I went right down there, remember that.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Yeah, eight seven seven seven, Nicol lay Lodock.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking text line, game balls and kicks, obviously, just
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Speaker 1: game balls all day. For Badgers women's hockey, Mark Johnson
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Speaker 1: and a fourth line winger scoring in a an immortal goal.
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Speaker 3: And that's incredible. Parts incredible, That's that's the best part.
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Speaker 3: And a man, you knew we were gonna get a lot,
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Speaker 3: Janey said, one of the best parts of the weekend.
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Speaker 3: The women's hockey team brings home the Natty. What a
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Speaker 3: year for some of those players. Some bring home a
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Speaker 3: gold medal from the Olympics, then a national championship. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's gonna be a tough one to beat, right, Like,
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Speaker 3: I mean, good luck to their their future life partners,
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Speaker 3: right like whoever whoever they end up getting married to.
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Speaker 2: Good luck top in that week, that month. Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, come home after a six week run. You better
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Speaker 3: have a hell of a honeymoon if you're gonna be
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Speaker 3: able to best at for the best six weeks of
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Speaker 3: their lives, because that is a.
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Speaker 2: Uh, that's a hell of a victory.
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Speaker 3: Go and win a gold medal and then win a
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Speaker 3: national title, your second one potentially.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's absolutely fantastic, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 2: I have a game ball here, guys.
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Speaker 4: Take me to the bull tips please.
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Speaker 5: It was twenty one years ago today, and I wanted
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Speaker 5: to give a shout out to my man. I think
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Speaker 5: his name is Brian Collins, twenty one years ago today
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Speaker 5: if I could actually find the audio, and now I'm
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Speaker 5: struggling to find it.
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Speaker 2: One of the most famous kind of.
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Speaker 5: Early viral videos of someone that I've always thought got
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Speaker 5: a little bit more heat than he probably deserved because
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Speaker 5: we learned later on speaking of broadcasting, that it was
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Speaker 5: not him, but it was the teleprompter that.
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Speaker 2: Was broken and.
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Speaker 5: He had to wear this for a long long time
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Speaker 5: in terms of you know, viral hits and viral videos.
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Speaker 2: Here, I'm getting closer to finding it here. You see,
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Speaker 2: keep tap dancing, You're doing fine, Thank you very much.
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Speaker 5: I'm getting so close here here it is twenty one
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Speaker 5: years ago today. Later, he gets the rebound, passes it
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Speaker 5: to the man, shoots it and boom goes the dynamite.
39:53
Speaker 5: So boom goes the dynam twenty one year anniversary to
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Speaker 5: young Ball State student who who you know was the
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Speaker 5: first to go viral, was on YouTube, one of the
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Speaker 5: first to go viral, but it wasn't his fault to
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Speaker 5: telepounter broke and he worked many years in broadcasting.
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Speaker 2: That would have had to have been right after a
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Speaker 2: day at the zoo.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, like, that's one of the earliest YouTube
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Speaker 3: videos then to be able to go viral, and a lot.
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Speaker 5: Of times it would go viral quote unquote for back
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Speaker 5: then on on like College Humor or Funnier Die or
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Speaker 5: one of those websites so Tumblr, Yeah, yeah, maybe Tumbler
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Speaker 5: or something like that.
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Speaker 2: If somebody puts it in their blog posts, it spawned
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Speaker 2: many many a year of catchphrasing him.
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Speaker 1: Later he gets the rebound, passes it to the man,
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Speaker 1: shoots it and boom goes to Dynamite.
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Speaker 2: Passes to the man is probably my favorite part of that.
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Speaker 2: That's my favorite.
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Speaker 5: That's my favorite part, the passes it to the man,
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Speaker 5: because we already know that guy put that in his
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Speaker 5: once his Twitter profile was created. Right, I once was
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Speaker 5: the man, but everybody thought he was. And the man
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Speaker 5: that made the boom goes the dynamite really quick. Everyone
40:52
Speaker 5: thought he was like a clown, but really it wasn't
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Speaker 5: his fault. He was learning the telepometer broke. He worked
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Speaker 5: as a TV report for many years. I remember Scott
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Speaker 5: Van Pelt gave him wards of encouragement. He said, this
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Speaker 5: is the worst end happens to you. You're gonna be
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Speaker 5: have a good life. Kind of built him up when
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Speaker 5: everybody's making fun of him at the time, and I
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Speaker 5: thought that was pretty cool.
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Speaker 2: So I remember that. That's all right. I hope he's
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Speaker 2: out there doing well. Someone Let everyone knows one more time.
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Speaker 2: Wasn't his fault arm it was.
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Speaker 1: We are off and running with the Monday edition, the
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