Transcript

03/16/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 2: I'm all for someone huddling if you have something to.
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Speaker 3: Say, right into stays.
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Speaker 1: Time to wake up and talk about the teams you love.
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Speaker 1: Nobody know with the guys you love.
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Speaker 3: It's just about getting the group together.
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Speaker 4: I need you, you need me today.
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Speaker 3: Let's keep touching each other.
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Speaker 5: Let's make sure we feel each other.
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Speaker 3: Let's make sure we smell each other for.
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Speaker 1: A watch us on YouTube, Facebook and act.
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Speaker 2: You need fifteen or twenty huddles to core away with
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Speaker 2: a number of cameras.
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Speaker 3: Take the cameras off the field in the open.
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Speaker 1: Now gather around, because it's time to huddle up. West
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Speaker 2: You'll look at this play.
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Speaker 1: What we're trying to get is a seal here and
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Speaker 1: a seal here. And to try to run this play in.
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Speaker 5: The hour's an.
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Speaker 3: What you don't.
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Speaker 6: And they can play be right all the way outside
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Speaker 6: is right long enough for you.
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Speaker 2: I want you to be party of professional. It's a
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Speaker 2: great profession. Go out there and playing this ball game
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Speaker 2: like I know you can play it.
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Speaker 1: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 5: Oh my god, this man's been out all night.
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Speaker 1: Armand Sorry, Sun says ready. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is
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Speaker 1: on the air.
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Speaker 7: That's right, ready to dominate on a blizzardy Monday in
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Speaker 7: the good Land.
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Speaker 3: It's the huddle.
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Speaker 7: for you early risers and insomniacs, YouTube, Facebook, and ex
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Speaker 7: Drew Wilson, Bill Schmid, armand Sorry and I Drew.
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Speaker 3: I am at the home office today.
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Speaker 7: I whipped out, brought the broadcast equipment home and I
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Speaker 7: just wanted to stay up late and watch baseball.
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Speaker 3: And I know what the roads are doing out there.
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Speaker 7: It is a little bit bit's a little bit dicey
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Speaker 7: throughout the area. And I gotta say, boys, it looks
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Speaker 7: like the blizzard might be good for our business. Much
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Speaker 7: like the weather people on TV. Our streaming numbers are
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Speaker 7: higher than they usually are there. You go, everybody's home, right,
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Speaker 7: I know, Noboddy's locked in, and you know you knew
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Speaker 7: going in. It used to be you had to wake
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Speaker 7: up and watch TV or you know, listen to the
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Speaker 7: listening to WTMJ. For the school closing.
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Speaker 4: Came in Grafting, Greendale, Come on, green Field open, come on,
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Speaker 4: come kidding me.
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Speaker 5: My mom was so excited.
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Speaker 4: You know, yes, you're going to gived today.
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Speaker 5: Well maybe one more time.
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Speaker 6: Maybe we just wait like ten more minutes. They might
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Speaker 6: change it, they might change it, they might put it in,
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Speaker 6: and they just it.
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Speaker 8: Schools closed across the area throughout the state.
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Speaker 7: Here in the southeastern part of the of the state,
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Speaker 7: we got it way way easier than our friends in
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Speaker 7: the Fox Valley in the middle of the state and
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Speaker 7: Mike and Merrill that Wassa area got pounded starting on Yeah,
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Speaker 7: they got run, they got roffed, they got roughed. Friday
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Speaker 7: it started and and uh the girls tournament went off
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Speaker 7: apparently without a hitch, but it you know, that was
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Speaker 7: kind of dodging the blizzard there.
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Speaker 6: I think they were probably just inside of getting the
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Speaker 6: announcements drew like like you had started saying last week
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Speaker 6: that they had probably just got Craig Council's celebration on
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Speaker 6: a sweet video of count celebrating the game winner for
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Speaker 6: for Whitefish bay Uh. I think they got all of
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Speaker 6: those games in just in the nick of time before
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Speaker 6: it started rolling through. But yeah, like our friend Dobbler
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Speaker 6: was saying, I told you guys, who wasn't gonna be
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Speaker 6: that bad. It was not as bad for us, but
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Speaker 6: it's been. It's brutal for some and we appreciate everybody
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Speaker 6: enjoying now. We also appreciate our friend Dobbler down in Georgia.
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Speaker 6: Yea talking trash because let us but I also let it,
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Speaker 6: letting us know what he's got. He's got tornado watch
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Speaker 6: coming up on top of a severe thunderstorm warning rolling through.
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Speaker 6: So hey man, weather is everybody's favorite weather and brackets
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Speaker 6: this week will be everyone's favorite topic.
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Speaker 5: Dajure.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is we hope Winter's last gas. We've
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Speaker 3: talked about it this time of year.
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Speaker 7: It just seems like you get this last dumping and
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Speaker 7: then it's it doesn't last very long because it'll be
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Speaker 7: forty five by the middle of the week, hopefully right
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Speaker 7: around tournament time. And oh baby, tournament time is upon us.
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Speaker 7: We've got the World Baseball Classic's been a nice little
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Speaker 7: time filler, and watching these games played at high level.
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Speaker 7: Baseball at a high level remains really good and it's
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Speaker 7: fun to watch these games. It'll be fun to watch
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Speaker 7: the next two tonight. You got Italy and Venezuela, and
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Speaker 7: then the winner of that game plays the US on
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Speaker 7: Tuesday in the finale, and then we're on to opening day.
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Speaker 7: But the tournament is upon us. Badgers are a five seed,
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Speaker 7: they're head of the Portland playing that brunch ball game.
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Speaker 3: How do we feel about that?
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Speaker 7: They have what a twelve fifty start right before one
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Speaker 7: o'clock in Portland against High Point.
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Speaker 5: Can I be honest with you, nothing better? Nothing better?
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Speaker 7: I was gonna say, no, I in team media starts
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Speaker 7: with me for guys who are done at eight am.
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Speaker 2: Dude, got plenty of time to preciate game.
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Speaker 6: And last night I just kind of like threw it
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Speaker 6: out there right when you know people know more than you.
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Speaker 6: I just like the loft, the idea out there, like
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Speaker 6: our friend game, just throwing it out there, just see
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Speaker 6: what happens. But Butcher gave a grin when he said, yeah,
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Speaker 6: I think they might be the late game, and I
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Speaker 6: almost my pants.
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Speaker 5: You've got to be kidding me, really can we?
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Speaker 6: And they start us up with the first game early slate,
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Speaker 6: And again there's certain teams that would be uh with
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Speaker 6: less mental fortitude and intestinal toughness. I'd be a little
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Speaker 6: bit more concerned about starting in that quiet different gym.
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Speaker 6: But drew these boys anytime, any place, anywhere with that backcourt.
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Speaker 6: I'm excited to see this game right away.
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Speaker 3: I am as well.
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Speaker 7: And for people who think they got hosed or they
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Speaker 7: shouldn't have gotten sent to Portland, get over yourselves.
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Speaker 3: I don't think that's a big deal.
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Speaker 2: That's insuring a five seed.
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Speaker 8: I think is actually pretty appropriate given the way they rank.
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Speaker 5: And very appropriate they belong there.
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Speaker 4: Maybe a six, but you you know that five or
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Speaker 4: six was appropriate at the risk of not being a homer.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I couldn't believe when some people were saying that.
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Speaker 4: I think that's just a default. That's that's my point.
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Speaker 4: So I guess there's no risk you being over But
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Speaker 4: I mean, I think that's just some people's default response.
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Speaker 4: We got screwed again. Really, how can you tell me
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Speaker 4: why you got screwed, how you got screwed and how
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Speaker 4: you've been getting screwed all the years, all the years
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Speaker 4: you played Milwaukee, Like, come on, I couldn't believe that.
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry I had to say. And I could not
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Speaker 5: believe when I saw.
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Speaker 3: That, because are they mad that Illinois is a three?
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Speaker 4: Illinois should be up there? It should be a three?
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Speaker 4: I mean I know, so it's like, you know, beat
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Speaker 4: him twice.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, your profile is what it is, though it's the
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Speaker 5: body of work, so it totally is.
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Speaker 3: And I thought that was appropriate. I don't think they
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Speaker 3: got screwed by being set to Portland.
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Speaker 7: And maybe people are mad that, you know, people with
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Speaker 7: real jobs unlike us, who are going to be free
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Speaker 7: to watch that game on Thursday and all the games
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Speaker 7: on Thursday, Like you know, come on, if you're a
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Speaker 7: true fan, you take Thursday off, right, That's yeah.
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Speaker 6: And I had to question my buddy Tyler, who who
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Speaker 6: got his last week? He went in on last Thursday,
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Speaker 6: and I was like, brother, did you just miss read
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Speaker 6: the calendar?
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Speaker 3: Totally?
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Speaker 5: What a what a bad what a bad job to.
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Speaker 6: Swinging a miss swall swallow for the entire week and
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Speaker 6: not even on the right time.
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Speaker 7: I mean, he's his his frozen piece will be back
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Speaker 7: in the freezer by the time of the tip.
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Speaker 3: Maybe he's maybe they're.
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Speaker 6: Gonna cook him by the time that fires up, right,
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Speaker 6: I mean that's gonna end up in a bowl of
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Speaker 6: chili before that.
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Speaker 4: Whatever the doctors that used to do, like the two
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Speaker 4: day special, it was like visseecting me and the free
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Speaker 4: pizza or something for like a special for then whatever.
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Speaker 3: That the thing. It definitely is a thing, all right.
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Speaker 7: So eight seven seven seven nine, it's game balls and
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Speaker 7: kicks of the balls Monday. We do this as a
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Speaker 7: ritual and it should be very fertile territory today for
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Speaker 7: game balls and kicks to the balls.
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Speaker 3: You know the drill.
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Speaker 7: You're standing in the locker room and it is a
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Speaker 7: victorious scene surrounded by folks in sports underwear towels of
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Speaker 7: your choice, of your fantasies, and you get to award a.
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Speaker 3: Game ball for a job well done today on the huddle.
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Speaker 3: This is a game ball.
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Speaker 5: That was Billy mentioned him before.
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Speaker 1: That was TJ.
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Speaker 4: Power, the new Hero of penn And when the Quakers
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Speaker 4: dreams were realized when they had an absolutely incredibly improbable
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Speaker 4: comeback against Yale in the last ten seconds of the
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Speaker 4: IVY League Final.
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Speaker 5: If you haven't seen it, go back and watch it.
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Speaker 5: TJ Power hit the two.
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Speaker 4: Big threes and the game tying one that was the
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Speaker 4: one that sent it to overtime where they eventually won.
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Speaker 4: Uh to crush the dreams of the Ale Bulldogs who
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Speaker 4: really should have won that well.
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Speaker 6: And they almost got crushed themselves because my man almost
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Speaker 6: hit a seventy foot time expired that off the back iron.
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Speaker 5: That was a great way to start. Let me tell
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Speaker 5: you something.
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Speaker 4: I know a lot of people probably didn't watch it,
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Speaker 4: but especially if you maybe if you had a little
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Speaker 4: investment on it, what a great way to start the
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Speaker 4: day at eleven am to figure out if you did
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Speaker 4: have the ESPN log in and all those things correct.
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Speaker 5: That was a really great game to start.
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Speaker 4: The day yesterday, so win the deuce, but if you
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Speaker 4: have the so if you have plus only, you don't
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Speaker 4: get that game.
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Speaker 5: It's kind of a weird deal, but yes, awesome, awesome,
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Speaker 5: Yes side the.
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Speaker 7: Flip side of a game ball today it would be
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Speaker 7: a kick to the Huevos to someone who needs to
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Speaker 7: improve their performance.
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Speaker 8: They need to step up their game, they need to
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Speaker 8: do better. Here's a kick to the balls today on.
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Speaker 2: I'll send you a tax bat.
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Speaker 5: All right, So there's a longer version of that.
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Speaker 4: If you watched the selection show, CBS was supposed to
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Speaker 4: give Iowa I think it was Iowa State a visual
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Speaker 4: of them getting selected so they could cheer, but they
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Speaker 4: were getting a delayed feet I guess so because of that,
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Speaker 4: they were not seeing themselves on the screen and it
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Speaker 4: didn't work out well, So that was a failing.
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Speaker 5: Here's the longer version. Here comes that's all right, the
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Speaker 5: guys give him the news, We'll move on.
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Speaker 3: I'll send you a tax bath.
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Speaker 5: Very a little superry awkward situation.
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Speaker 7: Is that was interesting and I love that you did that, Armin,
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Speaker 7: because as I was watching that unfold, I was I
9:42
Speaker 7: actually thought about drafting our pal Andrew Ludwig Uh.
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Speaker 8: To appear on today's show. But I don't think he's.
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Speaker 3: He probably just got home, I say, yeah, he just
9:51
Speaker 3: got home from this single guy, Brady Street.
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Speaker 7: Yeah he's you know, he was at the Bucks game yesterday,
9:57
Speaker 7: so he's probably out with his friends after that. But
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Speaker 7: Bludy worked in in operations for Northern Arizona University in
10:03
Speaker 7: basketball operations, and he's been you know, he worked in
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Speaker 7: a football, so he's steeped in college sports, and I
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Speaker 7: was wondering, First of all, we all watched the Selection
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Speaker 7: Sunday show, and I should give a game ball to
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Speaker 7: CBS because it was less shlocky and way.
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Speaker 3: Down than previous versions.
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Speaker 7: It was streamlined, they had the little panel discussion to start,
10:20
Speaker 7: and then they just got to the picks, right. I
10:22
Speaker 7: think they that's the way it should be. Maybe somebody
10:25
Speaker 7: channeled their inner Greg Gumbel and the show itself was
10:28
Speaker 7: to me palatable.
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Speaker 3: So game ball to.
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Speaker 7: CBS for the because how can you screw up a
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Speaker 7: show that everybody wants to watch, But they've done it
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Speaker 7: in the past where they've made it like a pain
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Speaker 7: in the.
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Speaker 8: Ass to slog through and get get to the picks, right, show.
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Speaker 5: Us to brackets, right.
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Speaker 6: They tried taking the two two hours or whatever was Yeah,
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Speaker 6: that was the That was horrible.
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Speaker 3: So they streamlined it and it was a little better.
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Speaker 7: But watching those cutaways, right, and they didn't show Wisconsin
10:56
Speaker 7: at all, right, because the Badgers knew they were in
10:58
Speaker 7: or whatever. But watching the team the cutaways, Uh, that
11:02
Speaker 7: that instance, with the delay and the latency and stuff,
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Speaker 7: I figured that would always happen so if they had
11:07
Speaker 7: to tap, dance and talk and then show the team reacting.
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Speaker 7: But then I'm thinking to myself, wait a minute, do
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Speaker 7: I really think that everybody finds out about the brackets
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Speaker 7: when they're announced? Don't they ops people who have to
11:20
Speaker 7: book hotels and buses and all that stuff, don't they get.
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Speaker 3: A little heads up? I was there at email. I
11:27
Speaker 3: always thought so too.
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Speaker 7: And then it's like, so then in those moments and
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Speaker 7: in these cutaways, because you had that team that was
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Speaker 7: sitting there watching and it was like they didn't react
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Speaker 7: and didn't react, and then they cut to a team
11:40
Speaker 7: and as soon as their name flashed up and was mentioned,
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Speaker 7: the team was going nuts. So I'm like, oh, they
11:45
Speaker 7: cue them, or they tell them, or there's some kind
11:47
Speaker 7: of dummy signal or something that they're watching where they're
11:50
Speaker 7: told who they're gonna play, right, and those things could
11:54
Speaker 7: be pre taped or whatever. So they're they're jock, they're
11:57
Speaker 7: messing with us, right. That presentation is not as what
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Speaker 7: it seems well.
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Speaker 6: And I mean, listen, as somebody that loves the NFL draft, me,
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Speaker 6: criticizing a show that's just reading names is kind of hard.
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Speaker 6: But I just like I'll get the PDF bracket. I
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Speaker 6: feel a lot better about it. The interesting part for
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Speaker 6: the celebration, Drew, I always thought it was just like
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Speaker 6: the one camera man who when he's flashing it on
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Speaker 6: the twelve year old kids as they're trying to get
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Speaker 6: themselves on the JumboTron, just starts throwing the hand up
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Speaker 6: in the air. Come on, come on, come on, come on,
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Speaker 6: we need to get that guy with a little bit
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Speaker 6: quicker director. I imagine the ops people had a heads
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Speaker 6: up in the past, but I actually don't know if
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Speaker 6: you could now right like I think with the ever
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Speaker 6: changing society that we have and the instant gratification we want, man,
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Speaker 6: some intern in the ops department is putting that out,
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Speaker 6: Like I think if you're trying to get up on
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Speaker 6: the graphics department and the Twitter sphere is way too
12:54
Speaker 6: early in the basketball department, somebody is slipping it up.
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Speaker 6: So I think now they might actually go to reading
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Speaker 6: it live. Whereas you know in yesteryear, where it was
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Speaker 6: a lot tougher and slower to get information out, they
13:08
Speaker 6: definitely were getting a little bit of a heads up
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Speaker 6: and now are too goods.
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Speaker 8: Even if it's even if it's like a minute or
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Speaker 8: two minutes or something. But it seems like it's cooked
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Speaker 8: in a in some ways to meet.
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Speaker 7: Well, you might be right, because there were times when
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Speaker 7: I covered games years ago, and I don't know if
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Speaker 7: they still do this.
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Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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Speaker 7: But it used to be like, let's say you're at
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Speaker 7: an ale playoff game or something I'm watching. I'd be watching, say,
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Speaker 7: you know, Cleveland's playing Boston and we're at Jacob's Field,
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Speaker 7: Progressive Field, and the place is going nuts and stuff,
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Speaker 7: and then you're settling in and it's getting before the
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Speaker 7: first pitch, and they would come on the PA and say, hey,
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Speaker 7: we're about to be joined, but they were prompting the
13:44
Speaker 7: people to go nuts for the live shot. Yeah on Fox,
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Speaker 7: like we're about to be joined on the national television,
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Speaker 7: say hello to the national television audience, and with live
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Speaker 7: from Cleveland, and they would prompt people to go nuts,
13:54
Speaker 7: so that when they hit the air, people were going crazy,
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Speaker 7: waving in their towels around and going insane.
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Speaker 3: So it was a little bit cooked for TV.
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, we we gotta get we gotta get Armin
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Speaker 6: on the mic, and like you had an Admirals game
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Speaker 6: saying all right, fellas we go live for fifteen seconds.
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Speaker 6: All right, we need your best fifteen seconds. Come on
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Speaker 6: you coaching in there.
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Speaker 3: From what I read, that happen.
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Speaker 4: From what I was reading that that the way they've
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Speaker 4: set this up usually is for the teams to get
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Speaker 4: a close circuit feed from CBS, so they get the
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Speaker 4: live reaction, live announcement.
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Speaker 5: I now, remember we're only.
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Speaker 4: Talking about a few teams here, because except for the
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Speaker 4: few Bubble teams, everybody else knows they're in, so they're
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Speaker 4: not They're gonna announced at some point. It's the excitement
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Speaker 4: for the teams that get the automatic bid to see
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Speaker 4: their name in the lights.
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Speaker 5: I think it's just too genuine of a reaction for them.
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Speaker 5: I don't believe that they don't.
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Speaker 8: I know they they don't know it, but I'm saying
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Speaker 8: that's not necessarily But I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: What I'm saying is it's not necessarily live.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 7: So for instance, let's to do that if they're reacting
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Speaker 7: in real time and they know that they're on, or
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Speaker 7: they're getting a feed that shows them there.
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Speaker 5: You're supposed to get a close circuit feed.
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Speaker 3: And I was because you've seen it.
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Speaker 7: If you talk to a buddy, and you're watching your
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Speaker 7: TV and you you have a YouTube TV and someone
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Speaker 7: else has cable. It's like, wow, man, you're ten fifteen
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Speaker 7: seconds ahead right right, So that latency exists and to
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Speaker 7: get the instant reaction. And I'm not saying it's not
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Speaker 7: a real reaction. They're reacting in real time, but it's
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Speaker 7: flashing up on their screen before it's broadcast nationally, is
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Speaker 7: what I'm saying.
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Speaker 6: Now. That would be smart that way, Yeah, yep, and
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Speaker 6: that with Drew, that would be smart. So what I'm
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Speaker 6: what I'm hearing is Iowa State, get off YouTube TV?
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Speaker 2: What we what were we doing?
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Speaker 5: Watching it on the app? Twenty five second delay?
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Speaker 4: It's definitely definitely some ops kid that you're right or
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Speaker 4: intoor manager in over here he would you guys just
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Speaker 4: shut the heck up about it. I'm sorry, that's not
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Speaker 4: the live that's not the right one. That's not the
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Speaker 4: live one. Yea, you're just watching TV now. So that's
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Speaker 4: how that went down. But it was kind of funny
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Speaker 4: in the moment when it was like all waiting for
15:53
Speaker 4: the reaction and then it just makes it look like
15:56
Speaker 4: they're totally unimpressed about what's going totally it makes.
15:59
Speaker 8: It make the little Yeah, they were just sitting there
16:01
Speaker 8: watching the.
16:01
Speaker 5: Ship and that's happened before, and it is kind of funny.
16:04
Speaker 7: Now, arm and somebody's gonna come out of some of
16:06
Speaker 7: your MU brothers because they've had those parties, those watch
16:08
Speaker 7: parties at the what's it?
16:10
Speaker 3: Then?
16:11
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, where they were gather Then they went.
16:14
Speaker 4: To the All I think eventually, but the Mecca too,
16:18
Speaker 4: they were having because it was a better visual. Like
16:21
Speaker 4: the ANX was an underused thing that a lot of
16:24
Speaker 4: kids don't go to, but it is there.
16:26
Speaker 5: So and then that was like the official campus place.
16:28
Speaker 3: So here I am being a show.
16:29
Speaker 7: I'm going to keep with the theme. Game Balls and
16:31
Speaker 7: Kicks of the Battle. Gave a game ball to CBS
16:33
Speaker 7: for the show. Game ball to the selection committee, because
16:36
Speaker 7: I mean, it's an impossible job, right, and let's give
16:39
Speaker 7: them one.
16:40
Speaker 2: How about that.
16:43
Speaker 3: Now, it's a bunch of.
16:44
Speaker 7: Guys in the room and they figured it out and
16:46
Speaker 7: they come up with the result. And if you're on
16:48
Speaker 7: the bubble, it sucks, you know. I will We'll get
16:53
Speaker 7: into the Auburn thing on a little bit.
16:55
Speaker 3: But Miami Ohio gets in.
16:56
Speaker 7: They're playing in Dayton Perfect that's how it should be
16:59
Speaker 7: showed to me. That's Dayton was invented, like to put
17:01
Speaker 7: teams like them in. And there are a couple of
17:03
Speaker 7: teams that didn't get in that have a legit claim, right,
17:07
Speaker 7: but the selection committee.
17:08
Speaker 3: Does a pretty good job.
17:09
Speaker 7: Which does the better job the NCAA Basketball Tournament selection
17:12
Speaker 7: committee or the college football Playoff selection committee and which
17:16
Speaker 7: is more transparent and open about their process?
17:19
Speaker 6: Well, so the second part would be the college football one,
17:22
Speaker 6: because they talk about it every week, now Drew, some
17:26
Speaker 6: of us that love college football are saying, how about
17:28
Speaker 6: we don't do that, Maybe we don't have Buddy put
17:31
Speaker 6: his foot in his mouth every single week and then
17:34
Speaker 6: give teams that don't get put in ammunition to bitch
17:38
Speaker 6: and moan, like Notre Dame this year against Miami, where
17:41
Speaker 6: they were ahead of them the entire year and then
17:42
Speaker 6: all of a sudden, right at the end, they get
17:44
Speaker 6: flip flopped in. The college basketball committee has such a
17:49
Speaker 6: more difficult task because they think so many of these
17:51
Speaker 6: teams are so similar, right, Like, I mean, it is
17:54
Speaker 6: Oklahoma much different than SMU. I don't really think so,
17:58
Speaker 6: probably not right, they're one or two ticks different. Indiana
18:03
Speaker 6: or Miami of Ohio. It will happen, but the transparency
18:07
Speaker 6: definitely football. The accuracy I'd like to say football, but
18:12
Speaker 6: I mean, listen, when we have two different group of
18:14
Speaker 6: five teams in I can't give you that leg up
18:16
Speaker 6: this year. So kudos to college basketball. They enjoyed putting
18:20
Speaker 6: in the Cinderella, but if they wouldn't have put in
18:22
Speaker 6: the additional Twu Lane and James Madison, people would have
18:25
Speaker 6: been upset.
18:26
Speaker 4: I agree, and I think the thing is they've been
18:28
Speaker 4: doing it longer, so the process has been more refined
18:30
Speaker 4: over the years. It's still kind of a brave new
18:32
Speaker 4: world for college football in terms of the playoffs, and
18:34
Speaker 4: you know, the expansion and how they select teams. So
18:37
Speaker 4: you're right, Billy, College basketball's job is a little tougher
18:40
Speaker 4: just because there are so many teams that are in
18:42
Speaker 4: the same grouping yet have different resumes, So you're splitting
18:45
Speaker 4: hairs between their resumes based on so many different things,
18:49
Speaker 4: and therefore there's never any utopian, easy right answer. We
18:52
Speaker 4: try and create these metrics like net ranking or you know,
18:55
Speaker 4: can Pom team right. We try and create these things
18:57
Speaker 4: to try and rank them as accurately as possible. Knowing
19:00
Speaker 4: everything is you know, unequal, but it's really hard to
19:03
Speaker 4: do that, so they did a pretty good job. It
19:05
Speaker 4: was also a little easier for college bastballs here because
19:07
Speaker 4: it was an incredibly soft bubble.
19:09
Speaker 5: I don't think anyone had a.
19:10
Speaker 4: Problem with Auburn, you know, not making it and Miami
19:13
Speaker 4: making the Dayton Rush.
19:14
Speaker 3: Okay, so certainly dude.
19:16
Speaker 4: Bruce Pearl because as we know, he's on the payroll.
19:18
Speaker 4: That's what Doug who cares about that is.
19:21
Speaker 3: He got his son, you know, he got his son
19:24
Speaker 3: the job.
19:24
Speaker 7: And now they did beat some good teams, but they
19:27
Speaker 7: were what seventeen and sixteen, and they faltered down the stretch.
19:30
Speaker 5: Total.
19:31
Speaker 3: That's an easy omission to me.
19:32
Speaker 5: No one feels bad for them, nobody, No one.
19:35
Speaker 7: Outside of Auburn, right yeah, outside of their fan base,
19:38
Speaker 7: no one feels bad. It's not an atrocity that they're
19:40
Speaker 7: not in given their record and the way they finished
19:42
Speaker 7: the season and what they lose to Mississippi at home
19:45
Speaker 7: at the in the end of the season, which was
19:47
Speaker 7: like a death blow. That game ended up being a
19:49
Speaker 7: swing game, and it's always you can always point to
19:51
Speaker 7: one game, but you had to have my I think
19:53
Speaker 7: you had to have Miami of Ohio in I thought,
19:56
Speaker 7: I'm with you that that league gets to this year,
19:58
Speaker 7: and that's what the to me, that's what the play
20:00
Speaker 7: in game gives you, is that you know that flexibility
20:04
Speaker 7: to get teams like that, and so kudos to them,
20:06
Speaker 7: they did a pretty good job.
20:08
Speaker 3: Now Badger's playing high Point.
20:09
Speaker 7: Kick to the balls to people who are bitching about that,
20:11
Speaker 7: I mean, I'll sane a tax back.
20:14
Speaker 3: I don't think the Badger's got hosed. I don't think
20:16
Speaker 3: it's bad.
20:17
Speaker 7: And anybody who's afraid of high Point if you can't
20:19
Speaker 7: beat freaking high Point, I'm sorry. Like the Badgers are
20:22
Speaker 7: in the season, like, yes, I think it's legit for
20:26
Speaker 7: the Badgers to say it's second weekend or bust, isn't it.
20:28
Speaker 5: I mean they need to be playing against Arizona in
20:30
Speaker 5: the second weekend. I'm with you on that one. It's
20:32
Speaker 5: been too long for them. I think they're good enough
20:34
Speaker 5: to do it.
20:36
Speaker 4: Like Arkansas won't be easy, no doubt high Point one
20:39
Speaker 4: thirty games is year, but you're right they should beat them.
20:41
Speaker 3: Hih Point didn't pay anybody above Quad two.
20:43
Speaker 5: I'm with you, it's the Miami, it's the whole Miami situation.
20:45
Speaker 7: Yeah, if they didn't play anybody, and it's like you
20:47
Speaker 7: should be now high point I talked about earlier.
20:51
Speaker 8: They're like the planned community of universities because.
20:54
Speaker 7: They've been around for a while, but it was about
20:56
Speaker 7: fifteen twenty years ago somebody who went there decided to
21:00
Speaker 7: start spending some money and they said, we're going to
21:02
Speaker 7: go after you know. Then when they moved to Division
21:04
Speaker 7: one like they and they put in like state of
21:07
Speaker 7: the art facilities. They still don't have football because they
21:09
Speaker 7: don't have one hundred million lying around right now to
21:11
Speaker 7: build a stadium. Crazy on that, but they're looking into it. Yeah,
21:14
Speaker 7: and they'll have one. And drew as they walked, so
21:19
Speaker 7: GC you can run?
21:20
Speaker 2: Is that fair?
21:21
Speaker 6: Like Grand Canyon Universe has looked at the model and
21:23
Speaker 6: they're like, hey, we like that. We want to be
21:25
Speaker 6: the sports small school that everybody goes to. And they're
21:28
Speaker 6: doing it out West and it's gonna be a lot
21:30
Speaker 6: of fun to be able to witness. I'm just excited
21:33
Speaker 6: for for everybody's upset bracket, for everybody's chalk bracket. I'm
21:39
Speaker 6: kick to the balls for people that do eighty four
21:41
Speaker 6: different brackets. Well, this is this is today where you
21:45
Speaker 6: start seeing everybody ripped through forty eight different versions. My
21:49
Speaker 6: wife one of those people. She said, could you print
21:51
Speaker 6: me off some brackets because I want to do like
21:53
Speaker 6: eight or eight or ten. Why so then you can
21:56
Speaker 6: at the end of the day say, well, I had
21:57
Speaker 6: that one right up, on that one right too. I'm
21:59
Speaker 6: six you're sixteen across my twelve brackets here today.
22:03
Speaker 7: When we come back, our buddy Scott Dolphin's going to
22:05
Speaker 7: join the party. It's our halftime report shows flying by
22:08
Speaker 7: on a blizzardy Monday in the good Land. We're glad
22:11
Speaker 7: that you're hanging out in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
22:15
Speaker 7: Of the huddle, continues Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, Drew, Billy
22:18
Speaker 7: and Arman bring it to you.
22:19
Speaker 3: I'm Drew.
22:19
Speaker 7: I'm from the home office. The boys are at work today.
22:22
Speaker 7: Not so much that I was afraid of the snow.
22:23
Speaker 8: As I wanted to stay up late and watch the
22:26
Speaker 8: World Baseball Classic.
22:27
Speaker 3: Mission accomplished.
22:29
Speaker 7: I'm with you guys in spirit, and Scott Dolphin, our
22:32
Speaker 7: halftime correspondent, has joined us from the country station down
22:34
Speaker 7: the hall.
22:35
Speaker 8: Now, Dolph, I have to ask, because you and your
22:37
Speaker 8: buddies go out.
22:37
Speaker 3: And do things.
22:38
Speaker 7: You're an active group of pals. You're the koozy gang
22:41
Speaker 7: at Shank Hall. What's the NCAA tournament tradition for you
22:47
Speaker 7: and your band of merry men?
22:48
Speaker 2: The first two days we always get together.
22:51
Speaker 9: You know, there's actually a group I want to say,
22:53
Speaker 9: it's probably pushing thirty people now that gets together and
22:57
Speaker 9: we kind of take over a bar and we hang
23:00
Speaker 9: out and you know, a lot of food, a couple
23:02
Speaker 9: of beers. I usually go home after the first session
23:05
Speaker 9: on Thursday because I was working on Friday, but then
23:07
Speaker 9: I'll stay later on Friday night, and then some of
23:09
Speaker 9: the guys still get together on Saturday Sunday.
23:11
Speaker 2: I can't do.
23:12
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, Saturday and Sunday a little harder,
23:14
Speaker 6: harder core. And also the game times are bad on Sunday,
23:17
Speaker 6: Saturday and Sunday. They need to have more games during
23:19
Speaker 6: the day to allow for the darty, because that's why
23:22
Speaker 6: we're all here for the NCAA tournament.
23:24
Speaker 4: They used to, I feel like, and it's just totally
23:26
Speaker 4: changed now with the way they want to put him
23:27
Speaker 4: in the game for TV and stretch out the calendar
23:29
Speaker 4: and stretch it everything out.
23:30
Speaker 9: And you have those West coast markets. You know, you
23:32
Speaker 9: got Badgers are in Portland and then you got San Diego.
23:35
Speaker 9: So what Badger's tippet is it? Ten fifty on Thursday morning? Yes,
23:41
Speaker 9: out the breakfast ball. Yeah, breakfast Ball out out in
23:44
Speaker 9: the Pacific Northwest, So that probably has something to do
23:46
Speaker 9: with it. But uh yeah, Thursday and Friday is enough
23:49
Speaker 9: for me. I get my fill of food drinking.
23:51
Speaker 6: So same bar that we've been taking over for a
23:53
Speaker 6: while or pretty much, Okay, I didn't know if you
23:55
Speaker 6: guys just like decided, hey, we're gonna take this spot
23:58
Speaker 6: over this year, and sorry, every we're clearing this one out.
24:01
Speaker 5: You name, you're done so much.
24:02
Speaker 4: Your names are on there already reserved for Scott Dolphin. No, no, no,
24:06
Speaker 4: my name doesn't come up, to be honest with you,
24:08
Speaker 4: that already. No, we just kind of it's just a
24:10
Speaker 4: group effort and one guy usually gets the bunch of
24:13
Speaker 4: tables reserved and we show up.
24:15
Speaker 2: There's a lot of wings and fish fries on Friday,
24:17
Speaker 2: and you're doing life right, man.
24:18
Speaker 4: Like, I don't want to make this sign a calling
24:20
Speaker 4: you old, but I hope, I hope my connections stay
24:22
Speaker 4: as strong through the years as your I mean, that's
24:25
Speaker 4: what it's about, being together in person, connecting with each other.
24:28
Speaker 4: So I hope in my yesterday well that's the wrong
24:31
Speaker 4: way to say it, but because you're not an old guy,
24:34
Speaker 4: but you don't have to get my point. It has
24:37
Speaker 4: been a long time, yeah, right, Billy, and hopefully through
24:40
Speaker 4: the years and whatever.
24:42
Speaker 5: I trying to pay.
24:45
Speaker 6: Trying to make a point that it's pretty good Scott
24:47
Speaker 6: Dolphin Memorial Thursday.
24:49
Speaker 4: I know we don't have this anymore. It's dwindling more
24:53
Speaker 4: and more society. It feels like Morz's in code. It's
24:56
Speaker 4: hard to get together, you guys making a point you're
24:58
Speaker 4: together in person. It's a connect for life, man.
25:00
Speaker 9: Tu man, you know, especially for a long time, you know,
25:04
Speaker 9: ever since you know, a lot of us had kids,
25:05
Speaker 9: and kids got older and the kids left it.
25:08
Speaker 2: Yes, and now we got plenty of We've got plenty
25:10
Speaker 2: of pre time, free time on us. Yeah. What is
25:12
Speaker 2: it like in Landslide? Children get older and I'm getting
25:14
Speaker 2: older too, wrong, I want to do.
25:20
Speaker 5: How do I play that? Now?
25:20
Speaker 2: I gonna do that?
25:21
Speaker 7: The Badger's and high point that game twelve fifty tip
25:24
Speaker 7: our time ten fifty in Portland Airs on TBS, and
25:27
Speaker 7: you've got Brad Nesler, Wally Zerbiak, and Jared Greenberg on
25:30
Speaker 7: the call.
25:31
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I already saw it was that Clark Kellogg
25:33
Speaker 9: is calling high Points going to win this one. I
25:36
Speaker 9: haven't seen one minute of high point basketball, but they
25:38
Speaker 9: have thirty wins and fourteen wins in a row.
25:40
Speaker 2: So I guess you can't take a life.
25:42
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was a game last year they lost by
25:44
Speaker 8: to Purdue in the first round by like eight.
25:46
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, they are close one.
25:47
Speaker 6: Listen, this is not I appreciate the folks that will
25:50
Speaker 6: dive deep into the ball swing movement that high point
25:54
Speaker 6: delivers and their offensive sets that they're gonna rip through.
25:57
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna go as point blank and omous as possible.
26:00
Speaker 6: Wisconsin losing this game. Like when you start looking at
26:03
Speaker 6: a backcourt that is as ferocious right now as Boyd
26:06
Speaker 6: and Blackwell, I'll take them against just about anybody, and
26:10
Speaker 6: it doesn't matter who they're gonna line up again and
26:12
Speaker 6: Nolan Winter.
26:13
Speaker 3: Now here's the thing though, with the Badgers. We've said
26:16
Speaker 3: this all year.
26:16
Speaker 7: If they're not hitting the threes, it can get ugly
26:19
Speaker 7: quick and they can lose to anybody. If they shoot
26:22
Speaker 7: fifteen percent from three, it could be ugly. But I
26:25
Speaker 7: think in the in the grand scheme, if they play
26:28
Speaker 7: this game one hundred times, Wisconsin wins, what ninety five I.
26:31
Speaker 5: Would say around that margin.
26:33
Speaker 9: So you guys don't look at the infamous twelve to
26:35
Speaker 9: five matchup and shutter not anymore.
26:38
Speaker 8: No, it used to be, and it's it's it's more
26:41
Speaker 8: of a isn't it more of a legend now than nothing?
26:43
Speaker 3: I mean, the five usually wins.
26:45
Speaker 4: Usually the five's always won, but it was the most
26:48
Speaker 4: likely upset I think is the way people looked at
26:50
Speaker 4: and there were years where it really held strong. Percentage wise,
26:52
Speaker 4: it's there. I just don't know if in recent history
26:54
Speaker 4: when the new Portal era kills are going to hold.
26:56
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, when you don't have Freak, when you
26:58
Speaker 6: don't have top two pick playing at that twelve seed, right,
27:02
Speaker 6: like when you don't have job more racers running through, when.
27:05
Speaker 5: You don't draw John Morn yeah.
27:07
Speaker 6: But about or James Madison right and then and they
27:10
Speaker 6: blitzed the Badgers a couple of years ago, so it
27:12
Speaker 6: absolutely can happen, But it does feel like, uh, the
27:16
Speaker 6: the transfer portal, let's be honest, it's the payment, right,
27:18
Speaker 6: and the John Gallipari is talking about it with Porter
27:21
Speaker 6: Moser yesterday. He's like, uh, you know, coaches can win games,
27:24
Speaker 6: universities and administrations win championships. And I think you're seeing
27:28
Speaker 6: a lot of administrations say we ain't losing to a
27:30
Speaker 6: big South team, so let's figure out how much cash
27:32
Speaker 6: we need to throw.
27:33
Speaker 9: And I think those schools are in trouble in the
27:34
Speaker 9: long term, not right away. You're still gonna see a
27:36
Speaker 9: lot of upsets this year in the tournament. But you're right,
27:39
Speaker 9: I mean, those those schools can't compete when it comes
27:41
Speaker 9: to nil with the power comp you.
27:43
Speaker 4: Did ask, uh, how many times it went out of
27:45
Speaker 4: one hundred. The ESPN matchup predictor has Wisconsin seventy six percent,
27:50
Speaker 4: So they think High Point would win more times than
27:52
Speaker 4: that out of one hundred.
27:54
Speaker 5: Who knows what that means and who knows how accurate
27:56
Speaker 5: that is?
27:56
Speaker 8: Yeah, neutral floor tournament jitters, you know, it's kind.
27:59
Speaker 5: Of well in three point variants.
28:01
Speaker 6: I mean we're we're an hour and thirty four minutes
28:04
Speaker 6: into the day after the brackets were released, and I'm
28:07
Speaker 6: the first one to say three point variants when Arman's
28:11
Speaker 6: been waiting to talk about it all year. Like, so one,
28:14
Speaker 6: I'm kind of surprised that you play I don't like
28:17
Speaker 6: you to play the hits. Yeah, but there there's a
28:19
Speaker 6: spot where you mentioned Winter Drew, like the only basketball
28:22
Speaker 6: The thing that I know about how high Point is
28:25
Speaker 6: what their their best scorer is. The tallest score is
28:28
Speaker 6: about six seven six six eight. Like, so they're a
28:31
Speaker 6: little bit smaller of a team and to be able
28:33
Speaker 6: to get your bigs rolling. Seeing Aussie shoots weight and Saturday,
28:38
Speaker 6: I don't know that you didn't think that Rap's gonna
28:40
Speaker 6: have another one like that.
28:41
Speaker 9: Yeah, but your size should be uh should be overpowering.
28:44
Speaker 9: I would think so in this one. I mean then
28:46
Speaker 9: things get more difficult in the next round. But yeah,
28:49
Speaker 9: like Drew said, I mean they they'll go as far
28:51
Speaker 9: as they're three point shooting. I know that the dynamic
28:54
Speaker 9: guard duo is awesome, but they got to shoot the
28:57
Speaker 9: threes to be able to go deeper.
28:59
Speaker 5: That's what they do.
29:00
Speaker 9: We saw it against a really good team in Michigan.
29:02
Speaker 9: They shot the lights out and it's still just wasn't
29:04
Speaker 9: quite enough against the top seed.
29:06
Speaker 5: But yeah, you shoot threes.
29:08
Speaker 2: I can see them going to the sweet sixteen minimum.
29:10
Speaker 4: This is not the Badgers. This is not your dad's
29:13
Speaker 4: Badgers for sure. I mean they like to get up
29:15
Speaker 4: and down. We have known this for a couple of
29:16
Speaker 4: years now. Shooting threes and making a high amount is
29:19
Speaker 4: what they do.
29:19
Speaker 5: Well. High Point?
29:21
Speaker 4: Does that you mentioned the ninety nine number ninety nine
29:25
Speaker 4: and everyone's saying this is gonna be this year's Jack
29:27
Speaker 4: Gelki or whatever it is.
29:28
Speaker 6: The thing is he doesn't have the blocky head like
29:31
Speaker 6: Golkie had, which I thought was maybe part of the legend.
29:34
Speaker 5: Yeah, but like it looks like heads.
29:37
Speaker 6: Yes, he looked like a video game character out there playing.
29:40
Speaker 6: It looked like nine eight shot from any.
29:45
Speaker 5: I will say this he does. This is number ninety nine.
29:48
Speaker 3: High Point.
29:48
Speaker 5: He does have the perfect name.
29:50
Speaker 4: When you think of you know, when you think of
29:52
Speaker 4: a private Liberal arts North Carolina school, Chase Johnston is
29:55
Speaker 4: the guy. He's going right john Ston and he's going
29:59
Speaker 4: right to that you know, uh quarter zip or vest
30:02
Speaker 4: at the financial services almost he's there, you go, you
30:07
Speaker 4: can make that joke. There you guys going right to
30:08
Speaker 4: thrive in financial or one of these great places. Is
30:11
Speaker 4: gonna have a great career in finance or something like that.
30:14
Speaker 9: Justin I also noticed they're just high Point now. Weren't
30:16
Speaker 9: they forever unc high Point?
30:18
Speaker 3: Are they?
30:19
Speaker 5: I don't.
30:20
Speaker 7: I don't think so high Point University when they started
30:22
Speaker 7: to upgrade their athletics like fifteen years ago, they put
30:25
Speaker 7: a lot of money in to become this destination sports
30:28
Speaker 7: magnet school. And it's like they don't have football but
30:31
Speaker 7: the softball and they have like state of the art
30:34
Speaker 7: kind of facilities, like even though they're kind of smaller,
30:37
Speaker 7: like they're on campus arenas, like forty five hundred seats.
30:40
Speaker 2: I think that's enough.
30:41
Speaker 8: But yeah, it's like they put in the cash. They
30:44
Speaker 8: they they wanted to be known for sports.
30:46
Speaker 2: I would love to see that for UWM, you know.
30:49
Speaker 9: I mean Clockee Center is great, but maybe upgraded enough
30:51
Speaker 9: to make it a destination for students to show up
30:55
Speaker 9: regularly instead of having to go downtown arena and been
30:58
Speaker 9: nice that they arena. You know, it would it would
31:02
Speaker 9: make such a big difference when it comes to home court.
31:03
Speaker 4: I think when they had their run twenty years ago,
31:05
Speaker 4: when Bruce was here and they've been the run, that
31:07
Speaker 4: would have been the time to start shaking the money trees.
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Speaker 2: Down, But yeah, I guess so.
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Speaker 7: By the way, speaking of Bruce Pearl, what are our
31:13
Speaker 7: thoughts there? We're predisposed to like him. A lot of
31:15
Speaker 7: the country doesn't like him.
31:18
Speaker 8: He obviously he was stumping for his son, and he stepped.
31:21
Speaker 3: In it with the Miami of Ohio thing.
31:23
Speaker 7: Then he had to backtrack, and then he was happy
31:24
Speaker 7: Miami made it, but his son got left out, and
31:26
Speaker 7: he was mad about Auburn not making it.
31:28
Speaker 2: And then he sm you shouldn't have been in right.
31:31
Speaker 7: Yeah, So where are we because I would have probably
31:33
Speaker 7: given him a kick to the huevos on this game
31:35
Speaker 7: balls and kicks to the balls Monday.
31:36
Speaker 8: But it's hard to kick a guy in the balls
31:38
Speaker 8: for wanting, you know, his son to succeed.
31:40
Speaker 3: And I'll send you a tax battle his former school
31:44
Speaker 3: to move on. So where are you guys with him?
31:46
Speaker 2: No, I'm with you.
31:48
Speaker 9: I would have given him a kick to the balls too. Yeah,
31:50
Speaker 9: come on, Bruce. Everybody knows why you're campaigning, you know,
31:54
Speaker 9: And I get it. And Auburn had what they had
31:57
Speaker 9: three or four big time, a.
31:58
Speaker 6: Lot of games that they could have won, right like,
32:00
Speaker 6: they had a lot of games as well in that sec.
32:03
Speaker 9: I getting they beat Florida, they beat Purdue, I think,
32:06
Speaker 9: so they beat some really good teams.
32:08
Speaker 3: They beat like four teams that are pretty pretty good.
32:10
Speaker 2: But you also had what fifteen or sixteen losses?
32:13
Speaker 3: Yes, they were seventeen and sixteen, I think. Yeah.
32:15
Speaker 9: So no, no, they don't. They don't belong in. And
32:19
Speaker 9: I said Friday, I didn't think Miami belonged in. God
32:21
Speaker 9: bless him.
32:22
Speaker 2: They got in. Were they the second last team to get.
32:24
Speaker 5: In something like that?
32:25
Speaker 6: Yeah, And frankly, I would have I give Bruce the
32:28
Speaker 6: kick to the Wavos more for being wishy washy with
32:33
Speaker 6: it right like a week and a half ago, he
32:35
Speaker 6: started backtracking it. No, that's when you double down that
32:39
Speaker 6: right number. You started losing and now you get in
32:42
Speaker 6: eight three. No, I gotta double this all right?
32:45
Speaker 1: Yeah?
32:45
Speaker 6: Sure, my boys just lost to I don't know Mississippi.
32:49
Speaker 6: Now listen AJ store and all this. He took themselves
32:52
Speaker 6: run and trying to make I thought they were gonna
32:55
Speaker 6: beat He was unstoppable in that game. It was just
32:57
Speaker 6: give the ball to AJ and get the hell out
32:59
Speaker 6: of the way. It was awesome. So I like other
33:01
Speaker 6: teams also dropped that game. But more than anything, just
33:04
Speaker 6: double down on it, don't backtrack. Yeah, I want my
33:07
Speaker 6: kid in the tournament. Yeah, I still get two hundred
33:09
Speaker 6: thousand for if they make the NCAA tournament.
33:11
Speaker 5: Yeah, they should be in. Don't be wishy. Was totally agree,
33:14
Speaker 5: Totally agree.
33:15
Speaker 4: That's the biggest is you say with your chest and
33:16
Speaker 4: don't back down. And Bruce Pol's always said what people
33:19
Speaker 4: wanted to hear. He's a good coach, but let's be honest,
33:22
Speaker 4: he's been He's been a snake oil self marketer for
33:24
Speaker 4: all these twenty years. And now we know who the
33:26
Speaker 4: real vill was twenty years ago in Milwaukee. Now we
33:29
Speaker 4: know everyone wanted to say it was the guy across
33:31
Speaker 4: the street. Now we know what was going on.
33:32
Speaker 6: I mean, college basketball coaches are always right. So has
33:37
Speaker 6: no clothes, The emperor has no clothes. He he's had
33:41
Speaker 6: that career.
33:42
Speaker 9: If you ever see the point shaving thirty for thirty
33:44
Speaker 9: on Boston Calls, absolutely he was the BC Eagle for
33:48
Speaker 9: that time and they're they're they're interview.
33:50
Speaker 5: When he was at Iowa, he was recording, he had
33:52
Speaker 5: the show cause almost Illois again.
33:54
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah yeah, so I mean, yeah, Bruce has had
33:58
Speaker 9: a checker pass. But boy can coach.
34:00
Speaker 5: So wait, are we saying that Bruce Pearl a little?
34:04
Speaker 4: Uh?
34:05
Speaker 6: What am I missing the guy from Michigan, the the
34:08
Speaker 6: the young man that was filming and going and selling
34:10
Speaker 6: Connor Stallion.
34:11
Speaker 5: He's a Connor Stallions in basketball here.
34:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's a good point.
34:15
Speaker 9: Yeah, he wasn't dressing incognito, but he was getting people
34:19
Speaker 9: I think it was it was a Thomas.
34:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were getting offered money by cars.
34:28
Speaker 2: Okay, right?
34:30
Speaker 3: Is that my too early?
34:31
Speaker 2: And doctor Tom Davis was it?
34:33
Speaker 7: That's right because Bruce was at Iowa then and then
34:35
Speaker 7: he ended up at Southern Indiana and then u w
34:38
Speaker 7: A Milwaukee and the Tennessee and like the rest is.
34:40
Speaker 2: History, and that makes sense. I remember when he was
34:42
Speaker 2: Bill this happened.
34:43
Speaker 9: The U i C coach refused to shake his hands
34:46
Speaker 9: because that guy was the top assistant.
34:49
Speaker 3: Hated each other during the time.
34:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, give me.
34:53
Speaker 5: It wasn't a John Cheney situation, Collins.
34:55
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, give me cos I think.
34:56
Speaker 3: Yeah. So the Turnament committee did it right.
34:59
Speaker 7: The this wasn't a crowded bubble this year, so there
35:02
Speaker 7: weren't that many tough diaries on that front.
35:04
Speaker 8: But the tough thing I think is balancing out the regions.
35:06
Speaker 7: And I think they did that as well too, because
35:08
Speaker 7: you look people that, well, look at what Duke's gonna
35:10
Speaker 7: have to do.
35:11
Speaker 3: Well, Duke is Duke. They're a number one seed, I mean.
35:13
Speaker 2: More than leave it to Beaver exactly.
35:15
Speaker 3: So where where's the indignity there?
35:18
Speaker 4: Right?
35:18
Speaker 7: I think they did a pretty good job this year
35:20
Speaker 7: balancing out the brackets and the regions.
35:23
Speaker 9: Yeah, I guess, you know, listening to all the talking
35:25
Speaker 9: as last night, I guess if you had to pick
35:27
Speaker 9: one that's soft quote end quote, would be South, the South,
35:30
Speaker 9: maybe as Florida's your number one seed.
35:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, used and stuff, Billy. You know, Kelvin knows his
35:34
Speaker 4: way around the tournament. In one of those years, he's
35:36
Speaker 4: gonna break through. He needs to one of these years
35:38
Speaker 4: he needs to. Guys, I do already have my first
35:40
Speaker 4: pick dialed in. I will be taking the ten seeded
35:43
Speaker 4: UCF Golden Knights against the UCLA Bruins because that game
35:47
Speaker 4: is in the Eastern time zone.
35:48
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, NT Cronin is gonna be pitching and moaning
35:50
Speaker 5: all week live. There's no way they're winning that game.
35:53
Speaker 9: You see, F is that the team with the two
35:54
Speaker 9: or is it USF that has the two kids from
35:56
Speaker 9: UWM really good players too that were at UWM last
36:00
Speaker 9: year that play for one of those directional Florida school.
36:02
Speaker 6: I'm being completely honest, off I have no clue. However,
36:05
Speaker 6: I do know the USF coach.
36:07
Speaker 4: Uh.
36:07
Speaker 6: They're gonna play in Buffalo, New York. His dad's got dementia,
36:10
Speaker 6: is gonna be able to watch him be a head
36:12
Speaker 6: coach for the first time in college sports?
36:14
Speaker 3: Is the goods right? That's a story, that's a good story.
36:17
Speaker 1: Yeah.
36:18
Speaker 7: If if u c l A wins, they're gonna end
36:21
Speaker 7: up facing Yukon and that'll be a pretty good game
36:22
Speaker 7: with But uh, Billy, I got a text immediately from
36:26
Speaker 7: my boy, Johnny Vegas, big UCLA fan.
36:28
Speaker 3: He's like, they never win east of Denver, so they
36:31
Speaker 3: just go. He thinks they're gonna lose. So he's on
36:33
Speaker 3: your team.
36:34
Speaker 2: Load up against the Bruins.
36:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel a lot better with Johnny's on my side.
36:38
Speaker 5: I know you Ruins better than anybody.
36:40
Speaker 4: On that one.
36:41
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's better betting against his team either than
36:44
Speaker 6: Johnny Vegas. That's true that that dude wins every single
36:47
Speaker 6: time he fades the definitive ruins.
36:49
Speaker 5: Also, SMU, that's a that's a nice easy first pick
36:52
Speaker 5: right there. So if anybody wants one eight hundred favorite,
36:57
Speaker 5: I love that one. They're getting the by week they'
37:00
Speaker 5: getting Miami.
37:01
Speaker 3: So yes, yes, fantastic. Hey Dolph, thanks for popping in.
37:04
Speaker 3: You're a gamer.
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Speaker 8: You're in the studio here, I am working from home, all.
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Speaker 9: Right, Drew, We'll see you tomorrow. Hey, I'm not here tomorrow.
37:11
Speaker 9: We're doing Saint Patrick's Day. Our show is at Kelly's
37:13
Speaker 9: Bleachers at Bull Lake.
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Speaker 2: So I'm jealous.
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Speaker 6: So when does do we take a car bomb right
37:19
Speaker 6: away when you start? Or how does the how do
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Speaker 6: the green Beers go down?
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow?
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Speaker 9: We ease in with maybe a Guinness, you know, Okay,
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Speaker 9: split the g right away, you know, and then maybe
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Speaker 9: car bomb towards the end of the show.
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Speaker 3: Fantastic, Jealous, you got it? All right, We'll be thinking
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Speaker 3: of the Dolph, thanks for popping in. Appreciate it.
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Speaker 7: Of the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin Drew, Billy and
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Speaker 6: Once the power gets back on, they can help you.
38:46
Speaker 6: But uh, tough one here, big hero. Was welcome though,
38:50
Speaker 6: to the plow drivers throughout the state of Wisconsin here today,
38:54
Speaker 6: I mean, they are doing a tremendous, tremendous job clearing
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Speaker 6: their roads up here and allowing.
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Speaker 5: Us to move around.
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Speaker 3: They're getting hell from uh.
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Speaker 7: I know that in my neighborhood, trash pickup is suspended
39:04
Speaker 7: today because they're all helping.
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Speaker 3: All hands on deck with the blizzard.
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Speaker 6: Smart well and also too. I've always wondered, and I
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Speaker 6: didn't realize that it was against the law when I
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Speaker 6: was young.
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Speaker 2: I was like, I didn't know that.
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Speaker 6: I thought they were just visual anties, the guys that
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Speaker 6: were driving around in their f two fifty with the
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Speaker 6: plow on the front of the up.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I thought they were just going out here and just
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Speaker 6: clearing space just because they wanted to. I didn't realize
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Speaker 6: that you were going to get a ticket if you
39:26
Speaker 6: did it on an actual street. But that was one
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Speaker 6: of those moments I'm like, this guy is about the cause.
39:31
Speaker 6: We're getting everybody out here to help us out. But
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Speaker 6: plow drivers, great work here today and hopefully we're at
39:36
Speaker 6: least not brain rotting you while you're driving around here
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Speaker 4: And I'll be honest, like being out there with those
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Speaker 4: guys in the morning, you know, driving on the streets
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Speaker 4: early with just us and the plow drivers, it makes
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Speaker 4: me feel real blue collar just like them.
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Speaker 5: And I really appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: Ding.
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Speaker 5: It's like I look at those guys, I'm like, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Just guys, we're gonna make it about yourself.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you better believe it. So No, those guys are
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Speaker 4: what is probably but I won't. But you were on
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40:06
Speaker 4: we went all the way west man. That was that
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Speaker 4: made it the ride pretty easy for me. I'll be
40:11
Speaker 4: honest with you, because I was behind a plug guy.
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Speaker 5: But did you stay the two hundred and fifty feet
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Speaker 5: behind you?
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Speaker 2: Bet?
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Speaker 5: It says you know I'm not breaking that rule? Come
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Speaker 5: on now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Plus, that salt is spinning out of there.
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Speaker 2: You know you can't have that on the camp.
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Speaker 6: Then the aforementioned Auburn University they put out a uh,
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40:49
Speaker 6: got their NIT bid with the caption ready to keep competing.
40:53
Speaker 6: So they're not backing out. They're not Notre Dame in
40:55
Speaker 6: this thing where they just said, you know what, we're
40:57
Speaker 6: gonna take our ball. We're gonna go home because we're
40:59
Speaker 6: not gonna play in a bowl game. We're not playing
41:02
Speaker 6: in this nit We're Notre Dame. We got standards. I'm
41:05
Speaker 6: glad that everybody is still still throwing the ball up
41:08
Speaker 6: in the air, and you know they'll play their version
41:10
Speaker 6: of one shining moment if they reach out. Where does
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Speaker 6: the n T play now? Is it still at the
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Speaker 6: Is it still in Vegas for the championship?
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Speaker 3: I think it's Vegas.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was MSc for a while. The nine movie.
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Speaker 6: They throw that ball up in the in the Orleans Arena.
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Speaker 3: Got himself a double double animal style.
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Speaker 7: I'm sure, but uh yeah, I got took his oscar
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