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Jerome Tang FIRED For Cause?! Mid-Season Bombshell at K-State (S4//E47) · Cocaine Willie

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What's up everybody? You are listening to yet another
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edition of Cocaine Willy, the official K state representative
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on the college huddle. I'm your commissioner, Bob
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Trollsby, and as always, I'm joined by my Co hosts, the good
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chef Andre Napier and fireball, Matt Marcini.
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And tonight, we are talking. Finally, at long last, Coach
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Tang has been fired for cause by K State.
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Yeah, we'll, we'll get into that.
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All right, Coach Tang. Coach Tang was fired for cause
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on Sunday morning. Coach Tang met on Sunday morning
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with Jean Taylor and university officials to inform him that he
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had been fired for cause, apparently due to the comments
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that he made following the Cincinnati game last week, which
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I think happened the same night we recorded our last pod.
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So we've not covered anything since that Cincinnati game.
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The announcement was made later that afternoon and evening.
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There's rumblings all over KSO go power cattle of the, you
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know, the whole 9 yards about. Something was imminent.
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An announcement was going to be made sooner rather than later
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was what I had heard. And it certainly came sooner.
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I wasn't expecting it to drop on Sunday night.
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I was expecting maybe a day or two after that, maybe later in
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that week. But no, he has coached his last
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game and it came in a relatively better effort against a good
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Houston team, which was surprising.
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But with the the scout coming from coaches Abdi Bashir and
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Nate Johnson prior to the game, who also filled in on the
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pregame radio responsibilities for Coach Tang and the assistant
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assistant coaches. Yeah, Matt Driscoll, he's been
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announced as the interim. He's coaching the game tonight
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against Baylor, against Scott Drew, which is everybody on this
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staff's mentor. Just a very strange situation
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could be happening as we're recording this pod tonight.
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So we'll have our eyes on the game.
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We'll all be watching that. Gene apparently also told the
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Mercury at some point that he had offered for Tang to coach
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out the rest of the season. I don't think you're firing a
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coach for 'cause if you're also off that, that one is the real
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head scratcher for me. And now the national media is
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piling on K State. Apparently.
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Aside from Mike Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser from Pardon the
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Interruption and folks closer to the situation who aren't part of
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the match, national media are. Obviously, we all know what Tang
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has said and some of the antics and the things that have
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happened. Obviously, multiple players
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leaving the team midway through the season.
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It's happened in each of the last three seasons.
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Now, at this point, there's a lot of stuff going on here, but
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you're trying to fire for 'cause you're trying to avoid paying
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the $18.7 million buyout. And we all know that from
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residents. This is probably going to end up
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with K State paying some amount of money between zero and $18.7
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million because Tang is fighting this from a legal perspective.
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So that's the prelude reaction to the news.
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He's gone. He's he's gone, Chef.
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He's gone. He is gone.
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It is a new era, a new dawn of Kansas State basketball.
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It's it is crazy that you know it.
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It came when it did. And with the reasoning that they
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said for their 'cause I guess I, I, I'm honestly shocked that
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they could try to pull cause out of that.
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And it's just, I know the language in his contract is very
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vague and very open-ended. But I mean, that goes both ways
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that like the lawyers for Tang, I mean, if they're worth
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anything, they can lawyer their way out of a, a paper bag.
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They should be able to find a way to Tang's kidding upward of
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more than half of whatever this buyout is, if not the whole
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thing. Yeah, it's it's honestly, I
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mean, we it needed to be done, though, so that like no matter
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what you say, like with the cause or anything, it this
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needed to happen. It was it was becoming too
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regular of a thing for us to be getting smacked around by a Big
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12 team just repeatedly. And to like to you like to your
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point, Bob, you know when Abbi coach Abbi Bashir and coach Nate
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Johnson are formulating the game plan and we are praising that
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they only got beat by what they lose by 1415.
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That's not OK that I know it's Houston, but at home getting
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absolutely dump trucked, it's not good.
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So yeah, it was time for Coach Tang to go.
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Now the pay and all that stuff, it's not coming from my wallet,
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so I don't really care. But you know, it's just it
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needed to happen. It happened.
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Let's move on. Coach Tang does not need to be
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spoken on very much more, really.
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Wow. I, you know, I was kind of
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wondering what your thought was on this whole thing and was not
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expecting that I was going to have the same opinion as you,
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But I, this one is like, it's just very like it's, it's funny.
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It's also not funny because I, I don't know, I'm just, I, I,
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it's, it's incredible that it happened so quickly And I, I do
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find it incredible that K state is going to fire with some type
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of cause. Again, I agree with you that I
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think it's very vague. You know, it's been hard.
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I've been having trouble kind of staying close to the topic on
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message boards because I think it's extremely toxic.
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Like this topic has become very toxic for sides of this fanbase.
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And in the grand scheme of things, you know, three years
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ago or two years ago, whenever you know, this contract was, was
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signed, it's two parties that are putting their name on this
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contract. And the way that I see it from
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my perspective, K State is yes, trying to find a way to not pay
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$18 million. I also believe it's totally OK
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for Jerome Tang to be going for $18,000,000 because if, if we're
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setting a precedent of how coach, you know, if, if there's
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stuff behind the scenes and nobody knows, then this could be
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two days. You know, the conversation we
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could be having right now is going to be in two days known
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void because there's this and that and the other thing that
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happened behind the scenes and and all this.
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The discovery part is kind of like the, the, the ace for all
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of this. Like if, if there's really
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skeletons in the closet on both sides, nobody wants it to go
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there. And it's kind of just like
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you're, you're playing chicken to see who's going to budget
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first. Yeah, but I think it's a tough
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precedent for having your coach say things publicly about your
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team that are negative when in the grand scheme of things.
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I think people like the time frame of when he said it after
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the Cincinnati game. If he said that after the
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Bowling Green game, I feel like it's not going to it's not going
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to get as much Flack as it did last week.
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I really. Believe that what we wanted I I
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was on this podcast saying that exact thing like.
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Yes, like the. The baby in these players is not
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getting to their their attention, but like you said, it
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was 10 games too late brother. I think I said the exact same
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thing as you, Matt. Just now on Twitter.
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I said if if this had come after bowling, I don't think we're
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even having this discussion today.
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No. Why?
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Why is it happening after Cincinnati been happening in the
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game where things very clearly went off the rails for the
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entirety of the rest of the? Season, I mean, I think it's
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yeah, he, yeah, I think it's a little bit of a too little too
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late situation. I'm sure looking back on it,
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maybe, you know, he feel, you know, maybe he wishes he said it
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earlier on in the season instead of a game, you know, at home
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against Cincinnati where you've already lost five or six games
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in a row. And you kind of a week prior
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with the Iowa State postgame press conference, you know,
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you're saying kind of the opposite of what you said
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against, you know, after Cincinnati.
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But I, I think it just sets a tough precedent that, you know,
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coaches, coaches should have high expectations for their
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players, especially players that are now getting paid.
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You know, they're, they're a financial piece of the team that
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you're putting together, like the financial component of the
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team that you're putting together.
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So I, I believe that coaches should have the ability to save
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some of that stuff. And so with K State kind of
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using that as kind of a main piece publicly right now to,
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we're going to fire with 'cause I, I just think, I think it's a
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tough president to, to set not just for K State, but for other
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programs that may look at this as an opportunity for, you know,
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a head coach that they feel the same way about Jerome Tang did
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for K State to, to move in that direction.
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I'm sure there are some schools that are going to be interested
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to see how this all turns out. But I, it's hard because I
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think, I think there's been some toxicity on like both sides of
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this. And we do have to let this play
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out and see, you know, if it gets to a point where there is
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this discovery and there's these things that maybe, you know,
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we're going on behind the scenes that the average person like us,
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you know, isn't going to really know about.
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OK, I got a couple thoughts. I mean there my brains all over
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the place, especially when you guys start, you know, going down
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and letting your thoughts out there.
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One, I'm going to play a little bit of devil's advocate and I
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and make me make this sound as stupid as you possibly can from
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your from your rebuttals. But from my perspective, if I
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was K State with the language that's in that about what
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happened after the Cincinnati press conference, you've got
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players on this team that have come out and you know that
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aren't on the team for mental mental health and all of those
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things. And you say that they're not
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going to be on like publicly, that they're not going to be on
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the team. They're an embarrassment.
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They're saying all this thing that you're damning them in the
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public light. Now, mind you, maybe you can say
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that in a locker room. You could say that.
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But to say that publicly is, you know, maybe that does shatter
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fragile minds of players in said locker room.
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And that could be a breaking of that, that language in that
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contract. I don't know.
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Maybe that is what what they're going on.
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But I'm not a lawyer. None of us are lawyers.
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Not that I can. Tell no, no, none of us are
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lawyers. But the one thing I, I do want
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to say on this is when we, when we talk about the four cause
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piece of this, if this happened after the Cincinnati game, it,
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it, it sounds like it took, we all know that lawyers move
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relatively slow when it comes to any kind of major decision like
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this. It took them three business days
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plus Saturday plus probably parts of Sunday to feel like
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they were in a confident enough place as a as a legal group, as
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it as the lawyers of the university, lawyers of the
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athletic department, whatever. They felt com comfortable and
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confident enough to say, hey, Jean, yeah, we we are
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comfortable with you going forward with this.
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What that says to me is there's either a lot more dirt on Tang.
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They feel like they can settle this in a way where they can
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meet in the middle somewhere and not end up paying more than they
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would with just the buyout itself.
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I, I just, I think they've probably got enough of a case
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here and the language is vague enough within the contract to
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where. And, and again, I, I hope Jean
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just shuts his mouth and doesn't say anything about this.
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I, I don't know that we needed a press conference on Sunday to
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talk about it. I don't think he should be
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getting quotes to the Mercury about it.
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And Gina, as as a former PR major myself, like public
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relations for the ones like, don't you get out ahead of the
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message, but at the same time, like you need to have a
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consistent message. If you're in his message.
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All is inconsistent with what he said in the press conference,
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what was in the statement and what he's now telling the
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Mercury. But so like that all can now be
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used against him by Tang's lawyers and in the legal
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proceedings. So I, I just, I guess my kind of
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rambling here. My first point is I feel like
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they, the lawyers at K State, K State athletics had to have had
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enough confidence in knowing that they had enough of a case
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here to where Jean could move forward with firing for cause in
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this situation based on the terminology in his contract.
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So just everybody should just know that because I know these
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lawyers don't make those decisions lightly.
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I know Jean Taylor isn't making this decision lightly when two
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months ago he's on a Colin Klein's press conference, you
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know, bragging about hiring a first time head coach in Jerome
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Tang bloating about it. So that's that's where I would
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land with this. But again, I think the gear is
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settled. We're going to meet somewhere in
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the middle. I hope for K state's sake it's
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not any more than that 101112 million dollar amount.
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Who knows what the legal fees are going to look like for this.
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Obviously the K state lawyers are more than likely in house.
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You have to pay court fees and and all that other stuff.
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So it's going to be interesting the.
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Other thing is I saw a lot of people back, you know, it's
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been, it's been going on for quite a while saying how ugly
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this contract is. And you know how K State kind of
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got duped and that $18.7 million number is so astronomically
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large and it is large. But at the time that number
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needed to be high to protect like it it works both the buyout
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kind of works both ways. And it needed it needed to be a
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large sum because of where you were projecting Coach Tang to
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bring this program to and the heat that maybe may or may not
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have been from Arkansas, which I think it was very real.
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But you know, at the time, they needed that number to be sky
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high to protect Kansas State's property in Jerome Tang and make
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so that he just can't be poached and that you start over again.
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So I, I can, I get it from Kansas State perspectives.
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And they kind of made their bed and now they have to lay in it.
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I honestly think they should just own up to it and just pay
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it. But that's just me.
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Yeah, Yeah. It's just going to be very
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interesting. I mean, for K State, A, a win is
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going to be anything under $18 million, right.
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So I imagine that no matter what, they've gotten the donor
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base to commit to $18 million. And so now it's the plan to get,
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you know, save as much as you can on that.
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I think as outsiders now it's just waiting to hear more
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information and seeing how this goes, seeing how long this goes.
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I, you know, I won't be done in 48 hours or won't be done in 48
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days. I, I, I just don't know.
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So now we're on to better and brighter things.
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Finding, you know, who's going to be the, the, the next leader
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of this program and hearing, you know, what potential names might
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be interested. So it's going to be pretty
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exciting. Yeah, and we've got head coach,
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interim head coach Matt Driscoll.
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My dad affectionately called him Jerome's little elf.
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Matt Driscoll steps in, is the interim head coach for the
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duration of the season. And he's he's getting his start
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tonight against Baylor, which is tipping off as we speak as we're
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recording this. So again, we're going to keep
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our eyes on that. But looking at the rest of the
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season, you've got, what, 10:00-ish games?
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Less some some, some along those lines.
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Got Baylor, Tech, Colorado, TCU, West Virginia, KU plus and in
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Big 12 tournament 123456788 games remaining for the season
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at at at a minimum. What's your outlook for the rest
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of the season? Matt Driscoll obviously has been
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a head coach. He's never coached at the Power
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4, Power 5 level, granted as a head coach, but you know, he's
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had a good run in in one season in his career as a head coach
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and and I think he won a couple of regular season titles.
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I mean, do does K State win another Big 12 game this season?
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I would lean towards no. OK.
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But do. They have Utah again.
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No. No.
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Do they have? Yeah, Jamie Dixon again.
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And Oklahoma State. No, no those.
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Games. I thought they had a.
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Baylor, I think Baylor's the I think tonight's the best chance,
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but that might not age well. You think tonight's the best
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chance? I mean, the last seven games.
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Last seven games? Oh, they don't.
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Colorado. Well, it's at Colorado.
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It is at Colorado. I don't see them winning on the
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Big 12. Game, I think they'll get one.
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They're going to get one. I'd love to, I mean.
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Who do you play? Who do you play in Kansas City?
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If if the standings finish out the way they are.
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Now it would be like Colorado or yeah, he travelled.
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It would be Colorado or Utah. Well, it's possible you could
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win one game in Kansas City. Who knows if you build.
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On that would be funny. That would.
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Honestly, that would be pretty funny.
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Everybody's hopes get up for for five seconds.
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How? Funny, would you be major just a
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major upset and just win the whole thing?
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That was a deep 3 right there. Nate Johnson, baby.
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All right, we are not doing a watch along right now.
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But pay attention. Matt, do you think they'll win a
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second Big 12 game? I do, I think they will.
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I think they will win a second Big 12 game.
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It could be tonight. I look at the way they played
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against TCU in Fort Worth. They could be, I think they
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could be TCU at home or they could be West Virginia at home.
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You know, those are two games that on the road, they obviously
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fucked themselves over in the last five seconds of those games
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or whatever, but they played them competitively enough that
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makes you think, hey, you know, if they were going to win one
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more game, it would be against one of those two teams.
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So I'm going to say yes. Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm going
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to, I'm going to lean. Yes, I think dead cat balance is
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a real thing. Coaches, they get fired their
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team after after they get fired. There's probably a stat about it
22:58
somewhere, but I know in football it's a real thing.
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But I I, you know, I think this there's an opportunity for for
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them to go out and win this game tonight if they can play a
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functional game of basketball, which they've proven unable to
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do for a majority of the season this year.
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But how much of that was coach? How much of that was inability
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to create a roster that's cohesive, that makes any any
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kind of semblance of sense whatsoever?
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What's what's the, what's, what do you think the aftermath?
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Where does Tang? I guess I don't want to talk
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about Tang, but I mean he is, he is part of the history of Kansas
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State. What does his obviously after
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the settlement and or settlement or, you know, his buyout is
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paid? Where does he go from here?
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And how much of A heat storm is it towards K state?
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Because he seems I don't I don't I mean he seems like the kind of
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guy that would be in very much in the public eye, you know,
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kind of chirping. I would imagine they chirps a
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little bit. Arizona State fans already want
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him to be their head coach. By some act of God.
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I don't know why. Well, how do we know that that
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was not AI? No, that was that was real.
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No, that was the the PHNX, which is like the all city network.
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They cover there's a DNVR here in in Denver that and they, they
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cover all the local teams as if that's if that was a very real
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thing. And I cannot reiterate to you
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how real that was. Yeah, I, I think he's going to
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find, I mean, we saw with Mike Boynton, right?
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He ends up on the program like Michigan.
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I wouldn't be surprised if he goes back to being an assistant
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at Baylor or Texas Tech somewhere within that Scott Drew
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tree of some sort. You know Wichita State could be
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an opportunity, Paul. Miller, I left the Mike Boydon
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potential sleeper head coach. You know, not for me, not for
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me, but I just I I don't see how a program could go out and want
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to hire him at this point unless it's a low major or of what like
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a lower mid major program. I mean, who would want to hire
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him? Get this?
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He's. Getting a job, He's getting a
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job. Sure.
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He'll get a a job. I would be the.
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I would not be mad if he was at K state.
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I would not be mad. You'd not be mad.
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What if he was at K state? I would not be mad, yeah, it
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wouldn't be met on. What planet?
25:35
We're talking about. We're talking about Sting.
25:38
You asked the question, do you want?
25:40
Where do you see Coach Tang going from here?
25:42
Well, I no, you had said Mike Boydon like ended up on the
25:46
bench like Mike Boydon did at Michigan.
25:49
And I said Mike Boydon could be a sneaky head sleeper head coach
25:53
at K State. And then you guys went on this
25:56
whole thing and I didn't catch any of that.
25:58
And I'm saying I would not be mad if Mike Boynton was the
26:01
future head coach of K State. OK, we're we're clear now.
26:05
We're clear now. I don't know.
26:07
About that, but you know, I think Tang obviously does he
26:11
want to stay in coaching? I don't know does he want to run
26:14
orphanages? I don't know it's.
26:17
Well, he did say, he did say he wanted to be a fired head coach
26:20
and he would go around the world creating like orphanages with
26:23
his wife. He's going to be a two year.
26:27
Coach somewhere, he will be an assistant somewhere.
26:31
I don't know if he'll be a head coach at like a low major, but I
26:36
think he he will try and get back into the groove as an
26:40
assistant. And yeah, that's that's what I
26:46
think. I mean, if you're the
26:47
Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils, hiring a guy like Tang
26:52
would be like a home run hit for you, right?
26:54
You would think. Or Tarleton.
26:59
Or I don't know. No, I, I do think he's he's
27:05
going to, I think Scott Drew's going to hire him back or
27:08
McCall. And I mean, I do.
27:13
I think it's going to be funny next year when we play them.
27:17
And maybe Jerome Tang will be $18 million richer.
27:25
What he plays us next year, I don't know.
27:28
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Is it like a steak? Cooked it like a steak.
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I did. I did the milk.
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Like you soak it in milk like paper.
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I did that beforehand. It kind of made it less.
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Less irony. I don't know that it was my
29:25
favorite cut of beef on the planet.
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Would I eat it again? Yeah, If I had another quarter
29:30
or half beef share, I would find something to use it for, but it
29:33
wasn't, it wasn't my favorite, to be honest.
29:35
I just have to clear. I have to clear out the freezer
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so I can now go out and get my Heartland Beef Connection
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quarter share. So Paul, if you're listening to
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this, which you very well could be, I am planning on acting on
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this here within the next month or so.
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Ranking the top three internal organs from a beef.
29:57
From a cow, the top three internal.
30:02
Oh, they could be a cow. It can also be a steer.
30:04
Yes. So a beef a beef a.
30:06
Beef a beef I'm are we talking strictly?
30:10
Where does? Where does Rocky Mountain?
30:12
Internal organs, I mean. Can't be intramuscular.
30:18
I'm not going out here eating tribe.
30:20
OK. And it's not.
30:21
Actually I I have tried that before.
30:24
Yes. I have tried it as well, it's
30:26
just not. It's not really.
30:27
For me, I if I I'll give you guys a little time to think
30:31
about it. I'm gonna go liver.
30:34
OK. I'm gonna go tongue.
30:37
OK, yes, Lingua. And then I mean, it's just so
30:43
it's a toss up. It's a toss up.
30:48
Do you wanna go like like a trite?
30:50
Do you want to go or do you want to go?
30:54
I mean heart is not bad. Never had it.
30:59
I'm going to go that that's. Fine.
31:01
Heart is my little. Heart so well, those those are
31:06
so we can name any any muscle, right?
31:08
Could could any kind of steak fill into this?
31:10
An organ please. Organ please.
31:14
It's not only a. Small play a handful.
31:15
Of words. A tongue.
31:16
A tongue is a muscle for whatever that's.
31:18
Oh, that is. Hard so, as I was.
31:21
Damn. And I've never had liver.
31:24
I guess your skin is considered organs, so I mean you can.
31:29
Chicharrones. OK this.
31:30
Is something off the rails? Let's go.
31:35
All right, So talking about next year, obviously Gene Taylor, we
31:40
could argue whether or not Jean should or should not be the guy
31:43
to make this hire. You know, I, I do tend to like
31:47
Jean Taylor. I think he's made a lot of
31:48
really great hires at K State. Tang really is kind of the
31:53
biggest blemish on his record in my opinion.
31:58
So I'm I'm not going to comment on that.
31:59
I I feel fine with him making this decision.
32:02
I hope he does have some reliance on a search firm.
32:05
You already mentioned he was maybe going to get a search for
32:07
him involved. That might be helpful to kind of
32:09
cut through the noise little bit in a, in what is a very noisy
32:15
coaching search process. One of the names that are being
32:18
floated are are interesting. I'm not going to go through this
32:22
whole list. I think maybe, maybe each of us
32:25
goes through and names are top. What would our top three be?
32:31
Top three I'm going to go, I think #1 for me is Eric Olin.
32:40
OK. I think he's a non.
32:43
OK, So like the criteria that I want to go with is a head
32:49
coaching experience and I think people with turn around, you
32:53
know, head coaching experience. So he's obviously done it.
32:57
He was at what was it San Diego, UC San Diego turned that yeah,
33:01
turned that program around, brought them up a level, which
33:05
is also something I I admire. So he's taking it from 1-1
33:10
talent level, skill level to another.
33:13
And he kept the kept the thing going.
33:15
New Mexico solid program right now.
33:18
So he's number one for me and he's non regional.
33:21
So it's not like I think he's from Alabama or something like
33:25
that. And he spent a lot of time on
33:28
the West Coast. You know, he's not very, you
33:32
know, he's not a guy that's pigeonholed into one area of the
33:36
country. I like that Huss is.
33:44
It could go either way for me. Huss could go either way.
33:47
And then what's the what's the guy from Utah State?
33:52
Jared Calhoun. Calhoun.
33:55
Is he related to Jim Calhoun? No.
33:58
Damn, No. If only.
34:02
Give me Jim. Give me Jim Calhoun.
34:04
Out of retirement. 85 years old right now.
34:06
Five years. Old Jim Calhoun would despise
34:11
the NIL era. Oh.
34:14
My God, yeah. Just get Jim Bayheim.
34:18
Oh geez, yeah, he's got well, but he has a he has a kid in
34:25
college like 4 years ago. So I don't know what he's he's,
34:29
he's viral, viral, viral, viral. Those are my top three.
34:35
Those are my, those are my top three.
34:38
I think it's, I think Eric Owen is my number one by a lot.
34:43
I think he he's distinct from all the other guys that that
34:47
have been, you know, circulated. I think a lot of those guys can
34:51
be interchangeable. One of them in particular, the
34:54
guy from Saint Louis, his price tag is going to be astronomical.
34:59
So that's not going to be fun to have to do that on top of
35:02
probably having to pay tank his full buyout.
35:05
So give me give me Olin. I mean, his buyout probably is
35:08
around like $4 million or something like that.
35:10
So yeah, give me Olin. I think you can turn this baby
35:14
around. Yeah, Kenny, I, I agree with I,
35:20
I like Eric Olin. He would be in my top 3.
35:24
Calhoun would be in my top three.
35:26
He's shown a propensity to win, which is always good.
35:31
I think Shirts would be a really, really, really good
35:35
hire. I also think Shirts could be a
35:39
guy that feels comfortable in Saint Louis this year and can
35:44
get his pick of programs, whether it be this year or he
35:51
stays a year and, you know, waits for for something else.
35:57
But he, I think would be a very intriguing guy, especially as
36:01
someone who I think has a pretty good lineage of being able to
36:04
build programs or showing success in programs.
36:08
Now for me, I, I think it's going to get really interesting
36:12
especially if we do hear of let's say we hear of a
36:15
settlement in the next couple of weeks on a number from a buyout
36:18
perspective. Because K State obviously in the
36:22
past handful of years has shown a propensity that we are going
36:26
to spend money. We have an NIL budget.
36:28
We have the support financially, we have great fan support.
36:34
Could there be coaches in the Power 5 space that are maybe at
36:40
a mid tier school and let's say the SEC, the Big 10, the Big
36:47
East that could go under the radar as a guy that with a
36:56
buyout that is not insane. You go after I I'm I'm just like
37:03
spit. I'm spitballing because I I
37:06
think of there are a couple names in the SCCI think of like
37:10
Mark Byington and Vanderbilt. I think his buyouts like 5
37:14
million million dollars and he's in year 2 at Vanderbilt.
37:18
They went to the NCAA tournament last year, their top 25 team
37:21
this year. I think of Bucky at A and MI
37:24
don't know his buy out but he's showing.
37:29
Like he comes in after replacing Buzz Williams and has got A&M in
37:34
the top half of the SEC this year.
37:36
He had great teams at Sanford. I imagine his buy out is
37:40
probably more than five NIL, but you never know.
37:42
He was hired very late in the process.
37:45
I don't know, you think of the Big 10.
37:49
Fred Hoiberg, obviously, you know, he left the NBA to go to
37:54
Nebraska. I don't know what his buyout is.
37:56
I thought it was maybe like 6 or $7,000,000.
37:58
I think I saw does Fred Hoiberg, does Fred Hoiberg want to get
38:03
into the Big 12? Obviously from a historical
38:06
perspective, you know, he was at Iowa State.
38:09
So I, I do wonder if there are some coaches that will fly under
38:14
the radar that potentially might get a call from Jean Taylor,
38:18
depending on how much the buyouts going to be for Tang,
38:21
because you're not going to be able to go for some of those
38:23
guys if you're got an $18 million buyout.
38:27
But I think from a competitiveness perspective, K
38:29
State has, you know, compared to what some of the schools that
38:32
are probably going to come open in the cycle, they're going to
38:36
be one of the top ones that we, so we think of right now,
38:40
probably Syracuse, like Syracuse is probably the number one
38:44
that's going to be out there. But I, I, I do think Jean is
38:50
going to open up and potentially look at some guys who aren't
38:56
just power 5 coaches that are trying to get out of their job,
38:59
AKA Christians. Because if he does that, I'm
39:03
fine in a new school. Nah, I will, I can't, I do not
39:08
want him. But I, I, I think there is kind
39:13
of a potential grouping of coaches that you may target just
39:17
based off of a buyout that is pretty decent.
39:21
And you know, if you said, OK, donors, I think we have Fred
39:25
Hoiberg. I'm just throwing this out
39:28
there. Obviously I have no information,
39:29
but let's say we're targeting Fred.
39:32
Fred, he, he has shown in his two stops at Iowa State,
39:36
Nebraska that he can build a program which transfers, he's
39:42
done a good job in this NIL environment, especially in the
39:45
Big 10 where you had, it has been very top heavy with
39:49
basketball schools. Nebraska is a top ten team.
39:51
Like that is a very impressive thing to do.
39:54
If you can say to the donors, hey, I think we can get Fred
39:56
Hoiberg to come Manhattan. We're not going to, you know, if
39:59
we don't have to pay an $18 million buyout or something like
40:01
that. I, I think there's potential
40:04
there. So I don't know.
40:06
I, I think we have these manageable a list of these are
40:10
the coaches that are manageable coaches that you can get from a
40:14
mid major or this and that. But I do think that that pool is
40:19
going to spread to try and see if you can coax someone who
40:26
might have a decent situation now, but with a better NIL and
40:31
being in what's perceived to be the best basketball conference
40:34
this year. What's Josh Pastner doing now?
40:39
He's a UNLV. Yeah.
40:42
No, I that's a no, no, no. No a no for the Jerry Curl guy.
40:49
Pastner. He's got like, yeah, he's got
40:51
like a little Jerry curl. Little Jerry.
40:53
Curl Jesus Christ, I I don't know, I mean, I I.
40:59
He's a young guy. Oh yeah, I know.
41:02
He's not a young guy. He's probably in his.
41:06
He's in. His 40s.
41:07
He's 484848. He's 48.
41:11
Yeah, but I, I, I being the first school means you have more
41:19
time. You, you get to put your foot in
41:21
the door earlier than a lot of other places.
41:25
And you, you're putting your foot in the door.
41:28
We're already kind of having an idea as to, Hey, this is what we
41:31
want to do for next year. So that, that is why I, I think
41:35
there's the potential that you hear these coaching, you know,
41:38
we have these hot boards that were, you know, consistently
41:40
looking at and we're not really going to know anything until the
41:44
second week of March. So we have a lot of time.
41:48
But I, I just, I do have to think it's going to kind of open
41:53
up to see like, Hey all. Right.
41:56
I got our guy. I know who we're good.
41:59
OK. David Richmond, North Dakota
42:05
State's basketball head coach. That would be the most Gene
42:11
Taylor I'm. Telling you this is Gene
42:14
Taylor's hire, David. Look him up.
42:18
Look him up. He's got him first in the summit
42:21
right now. Yeah, he does, doesn't he?
42:23
Shoot Jesus Christ. David Richmond, that's my OK
42:27
take. Take whatever Calhoun out.
42:31
No Hus. I don't want Hus in there.
42:33
Give me. Give me our boy.
42:36
Owen Richmond. Yeah, Richmond's second for me.
42:41
Give. Me.
42:42
Yeah. Oh my God.
42:43
OK, my, my, I'll give. I'll give my top three.
42:47
I like Jared Calhoun is pretty quickly become like my number
42:51
one. I think for for the job.
42:53
I like Eric Olin. I feel like it's almost like 1A
42:58
and 1B for those two guys, though.
43:00
I, I, I don't feel like you can go wrong with either of those
43:03
guys. And and this is also if you're
43:04
going the route of up and Comer mid major, blah, blah, blah,
43:08
blah, blah. But I do like I do like that
43:11
both of them are in the Mountain West.
43:12
And I I think very highly of the Mountain West is a basketball
43:15
conference meet San Diego State. We're not too far removed from
43:18
them being in the final four. Did that.
43:21
That's a good basketball conference.
43:22
When you look at the top, I would say the top five to six
43:25
teams every every single year are generally pretty good for
43:29
the Mountain West and and have shown and go pretty deep in the
43:32
NCAA tournament. I think we have more Mountain
43:34
West teams in the 1616 like five years ago than we did with PAC
43:37
12 teams when when that was still around.
43:39
So I like both of those guys. I like the Mountain West
43:43
pedigree for both of those guys. I have to say on Alan Haas, so
43:47
Creighton guy head coach him waiting at Creighton.
43:49
I love what he did at at High Point, but he went to Creighton.
43:53
He's head coach and waiting for coach McDermott.
43:55
And based on the information that I have, this is potentially
44:01
head coaches, head coach Mcdermott's last year at
44:04
Creighton. He could very well be the head
44:07
coach at Creighton when we're talking about when we're talking
44:10
about this two months from now. So I just, I don't see that
44:13
happening. It's going to be really hard for
44:15
us to lure away a guy from his alma mater.
44:19
They've got great fan support. They've got great.
44:21
They've got a lot of the same stuff that K State has in a lot
44:24
of ways. And when you think about some of
44:26
these Big E schools, they can put all of their revenue share
44:30
towards, you know, men's and women's basketball and
44:33
volleyball basically because they're not having to split it
44:35
with football. So they've got a lot of dollars
44:38
that are working at their disposal on this.
44:40
I just don't see that happening. If I had a #3 I'm putting it on
44:44
Hoiberg. I would absolutely murder to
44:48
have Fred Hoiberg wearing purple.
44:52
There's no chance, right? I don't think there's any chance
44:55
I, I, I, I'm, I only threw that out because it's like he, he is
45:00
a guy that if, if I had to look at coaches in the top half of
45:08
their conferences that you look at their buyout numbers.
45:13
I mean, he could easily take a call from K state and double his
45:17
salary at Nebraska, right? Like I, I think, I think there's
45:21
a high potential of that, but I think you make the call like I
45:28
think you make the call on him. You make a call on a few other
45:30
guy like. But if it's God, if it's if it's
45:36
Chris Jans, I will riot. I will.
45:39
I will. I'm with you, Matt.
45:41
What's the beef with Chris Jans? Just because he's like a goober?
45:45
Like he's ugly. Why, Why?
45:47
Why would you go out? Why would you go out and hire a
45:50
guy who lost by 20 earlier this season to Coach Tang?
45:54
He is 12 and 14. Like, why would you go out and
46:00
hire a coach with a losing record this season at the Power?
46:02
Forward, he can get, he can get his teams to the NCAA
46:05
tournament. That's the, that's the whole
46:08
deal, like. If.
46:09
You. If you're hire, if you're firing
46:12
a coach for 'cause now, why would you go after a guy who has
46:15
been fired for cause at a previous job for slapping ass on
46:18
coeds at a bar on video? Like why would you do?
46:24
That why would you party? I cannot stand Chris Jans.
46:29
I cannot stand his fascination with Greg Marshall and the Greg
46:32
Marshall Tree. It's just, it's ridiculous.
46:36
It's ridiculous. We should not be doing this.
46:39
If we go out and get Chris Jans, I will.
46:41
Riot. OK, I'll riot as well.
46:43
I'll riot as well. But I have my list.
46:45
I I think. I mean, we need to start looking
46:48
at Richmond. I'm telling you, with some
46:51
feelers out there, Gene hired him at North Dakota State.
46:55
I mean, he's won the summit three years, three times.
47:00
You know. I'm not sleeping on Richmond.
47:03
I like the first one to say this.
47:06
He could be the feature head coach.
47:08
I I like to think that I'm Nostradamus with this because
47:12
when Frank Martin left, I predicted we were going to hire
47:20
Bruce Weber. Bruce Weber's a dog.
47:24
And so if I'm Nostradamus again, I should probably like pick like
47:32
Dusty May, right? He's coming to Case, then we're
47:38
getting Dan all Danny Hurley. OK.
47:43
So I mean, but like on a serious note, what is retention at K
47:49
State look like? Is there is there retention at
47:53
all for any part of this basketball program?
47:59
I don't know, I doubt it. David Castillo.
48:05
I think you make him a priority. I think there's certain guys you
48:09
make a priority. I think Castillo is definitely
48:12
one. Are you going down the list?
48:14
I I was going, I was going with players with eligibility.
48:17
Obviously you can't bring a guy like CJ back, can't bring a guy
48:21
like Nate back. Haggerty, you can't.
48:26
Castillo you. Haggerty, you can't.
48:29
He's he. Has one year, but he's one year,
48:32
yeah. He could.
48:33
Does he have a year? Left.
48:34
He has a year left. Damn he has a year left.
48:39
McGriff. Does he have time available?
48:43
I Larry McGriff is a senior. Let's look at his stats here,
48:53
123. I don't believe he does.
48:55
He played eighteen games in 2020330134 and 21 so.
49:02
Nate's a senior. I.
49:05
Think Castillo, Andre Kostich. Yeah.
49:13
Is he worth or or retain? I think.
49:17
I think. Does he want to be back in
49:21
America? Does he want to stay in America?
49:23
Let's stay, let's say you say a name and they're like OK, I'd
49:29
like to come back to KS State. Kostich is 1 for me.
49:32
That if we are putting a huge indictment on the coaching staff
49:36
this season for getting players. Malpractice.
49:43
I don't see why you wouldn't bring him back or if I mean the
49:50
way that PJ has played, you know, the next six games will be
49:54
very interesting to see offensively what this team does
49:57
because is it going to be, if it is it the PJ show?
50:01
Well, Nate's cooking right now, but.
50:04
You know, is it the PJ show where late in the second-half
50:09
it's only him touching the ball? Like if you can tell that there
50:13
is a difference offensively in this kind of short number of
50:17
games, PJ could be a guy that I think in the right situation,
50:24
like he has guys around him could be.
50:29
I mean, if you don't have PJ this year, how, how worse would
50:34
this team be? I guess the aggregate, I mean,
50:37
just depends on who, who'd you get because I mean, we it was
50:42
kind of late for PJ. He's kind of late.
50:46
So in assembling the team, there wasn't a lot left out there.
50:50
But yeah, this team could have been really, really bad.
50:53
I mean, he gives you 20 to 25 points a game and.
50:57
But it's not efficient though. So I mean, OK, Elias, repeat.
51:03
He's gone, right? He doesn't have any eligibility.
51:07
I mean, I think he had two years maybe is what they granted him.
51:11
OK, well I mean he hasn't. When was the last time he played
51:15
in a game at this? Point.
51:16
Well, he's been hurt, hasn't he? Yeah, well, he is a junior.
51:19
He has one more year. OK, so I Abdi Bashir.
51:27
I would take Bashir back, but I don't believe he can be a
51:33
starter in the big. 12 I'm with you.
51:36
He needs to be your energy guy. And he's just so poor
51:41
defensively that he cannot be. If he has expectations that he
51:48
wants to be a starter, I do not think you can build a team again
51:52
and have him be the starter. OK, so so right now we've got
51:58
one for people you would like to return.
52:01
I I counted as 3. 4. I would take, I would actually
52:05
take Buka back. That's all I was going to see.
52:08
He was going to be my next player.
52:10
I think he's the last guy that has.
52:14
Maybe Moby has some. I think Taj is a senior.
52:17
He was. He was Tang's first class,
52:20
wouldn't he? Moby is not I I wouldn't.
52:23
Right, Taj has another year. OK, Taj is a serviceable player
52:31
in terms of like what you need him to do.
52:33
He's gotten a lot better this season.
52:35
I. I think he has.
52:36
To He's gotten minutes. He shouldn't be a starter.
52:39
He's started tonight. Well, he's been starting a lot
52:42
of these games 'cause he repeats, it's been hurt.
52:47
I would definitely take Taj back.
52:49
I think he's, I think he's, he's obviously gotten a lot of Flack
52:53
in the past handful of seasons, 'cause he, like, he got a lot of
52:56
praise. And you?
52:58
Know at all this stuff, but if you think about it, I like he is
53:03
one of the hardest players on the court.
53:05
Like he's shown that I think he's a guy that would be very
53:09
helpful as a senior to help kind of start building your new
53:12
culture with. So I do think there's guys on
53:16
this team that you can. I mean, we just said five of the
53:21
13 and we said yes, bring them back and, and OK, so I think
53:26
players are one thing. What about what about coach
53:30
staff? Absolutely none of them.
53:33
Zero. I wouldn't retain a single guy
53:38
that's toxic. I mean with with how toxic this
53:40
has been with. Tang Why would you?
53:42
I wouldn't mind Driscoll. I wouldn't mind Driscoll.
53:46
I don't think he's done anything because it's.
53:53
I don't know. I just think for for basketball,
53:56
it's so different than football. Like basketball, it's a it's a
53:59
smaller staff and you know, a lot of coaches they want to they
54:05
want to keep some type of like symmetry or chemistry from the
54:09
last stop to this one because they've been so successful with
54:12
this group. And then you bring in maybe, you
54:15
know, one or two other guys. But I want to, I want to say
54:19
it's pretty rare that a basketball, like a basketball
54:23
coaching transition involves the new staff keeping even like 1
54:28
coach like the strength and conditioning or something like
54:31
that. You know, I feel like could be
54:33
maybe like an outlier or, you know, some of like the support
54:36
staff that do stick just with their time with the university,
54:40
but I don't see anybody on the staff staying just based off of
54:47
what has happened this year. I think a head coach that comes
54:50
in, they're going to want to. You want a clean house, you want
54:54
to just bring it. You want your people there.
55:01
Yeah. And if if you do end up getting
55:04
a guy like Josh Shirts, who would, as we're talking about
55:08
this, just lost to Rhode Island by 5 points tonight.
55:11
No way so. They got their second loss of
55:14
the season in the Maybe the shine will be wearing off of.
55:17
Shirts is he about to pull in Indiana State again and just,
55:21
you know, have that long run and then seven straight losses?
55:27
Who knows, but when you look at his staff, I, I think I forget
55:31
one of the, one of the people in the KC media, Josh on the 12
55:36
podcast I listened to today about it that mentioned he's got
55:40
guys on his staff who have had opportunities to go to other
55:43
places, but they've stuck around with him because they, they
55:46
believe in him as the leader. You know, Matt's 100% like you
55:49
want to bring in a guy. Who?
55:52
Can bring in some cachet with him and bring in if you're, if
55:55
you're hiring a sitting head coach, if what is working at
55:58
another stop is working, I wouldn't want to mess too much
56:01
with the with the mojo on that. And honestly, when you look back
56:06
at Tang's assembly of his coaching staff, he got a bunch
56:09
of guys from a bunch of different places and had never
56:12
coached together before, with the exception of I think Doreen
56:16
and and Tang and maybe Malagi at some, I don't know.
56:20
But there wasn't a ton of cohesion there.
56:22
There wasn't a ton of overlap. Rodney Perry was kind of this
56:26
throwaway edition because he was in charge of the Link Academy in
56:29
Missouri, which we got 0 recruits from.
56:32
Was. Maybe we would get yeah.
56:34
And who knows? I don't, I don't know, like it.
56:37
I want to have a rock, like not just a roster that's cohesive,
56:40
but I want to have a coaching staff that's cohesive, that
56:42
knows each other well. It's coached it with one another
56:46
at various different stops, or at least for the last year or
56:49
two years. I feel like that goes a long
56:51
way. I say all of this knowing that K
56:54
State football has assembled a bunch of guys from a bunch of
56:58
different places, but there is still some carry over.
57:00
Jordan Peterson. But like Matt said, I mean, it's
57:03
a different kind of. Thing yeah right so yeah it's
57:08
it's different it's much smaller it's much more intimate setting
57:11
intimate environment smaller roster smaller coaching staff so
57:15
yeah I I don't really have anything else any any any final
57:19
thoughts as we close out he gone episode.
57:24
Yeah, he gone. It was it was needed.
57:27
No, I think that is literally my that that is my sentiment.
57:31
No matter how. Oh, you're up.
57:35
No, I'm after you. I got my hand.
57:37
OK, OK, yeah, no matter how you want to like shape the narrative
57:43
about money, financial, all this cause whatever this needed to be
57:50
done, the break needed to happen.
57:53
We we've been saying, oh, that doesn't matter because he's
57:56
going to be back next year because of this that or 1/3 this
58:00
had to happen. And like Matt said multiple
58:03
times throughout the the episode, we're first to the
58:07
market. We're we've got our name out
58:09
there first. Let the let the sweepstakes
58:12
begin. Really that's I'm just, I'm
58:15
excited for this because I think the news leaking out slowly but
58:20
surely with games being played, that is kind of the that is
58:24
ideal. I love it.
58:27
K State baseball 4 now Oh. Yeah, got to talk 757 runs or
58:34
something like. That yeah, K State baseball, the
58:38
teams they played this past season or this past weekend,
58:42
UConn was favorite is favorite to win the Big East in baseball.
58:47
UConn is Yep, it's like UConn. Freighton every year top.
58:51
Yeah, yeah. Penn State won 30 games last
58:54
year. Iowa, I think they won 30 games
58:58
a year last year, too. This weekend, though, big test.
59:02
They play Auburn, Nebraska, Michigan.
59:06
I think actually here in Dallas, this will be a really good kind
59:13
of litmus test for this team. I think can they continue that
59:17
momentum going into this tournament?
59:19
If they can take 2 out of three, I think that would be absolutely
59:23
huge. They take three out of three
59:25
that I think this team is, is kind of a legitimate team that
59:28
could could challenge for the Big 12 even.
59:32
I think two or three would be huge.
59:35
If they don't have a good weekend, then everything will be
59:39
all for not. No, I'm kidding.
59:40
So do I need to Start learning these players names?
59:42
Do I need to learn like anything?
59:44
Do I need to? Do I need to get invested now?
59:47
Hey DD Kennedy, I've been a fan of D Kennedy.
59:50
From the beginning. Since he came over.
59:52
And then Shintoro in a way. In a way.
59:55
Right. Good.
59:56
That was that was pretty good. Fucking good, too.
59:58
Yeah, yeah. Japanese guy.
1:00:00
Yes, he's from Japan. We'll we'll give you a week to
1:00:07
kind of get it together so then we can discuss baseball next
1:00:10
week. And then I'm going to act like
1:00:12
I've been watching these guys the entire time.
1:00:15
Yeah, yeah, we know that's basically how you get through
1:00:18
this basketball thing too, so. As I'm.
1:00:21
Watching basketball right now, we're blowing a, you know, a 13
1:00:24
point lead. Oh, I was like, it's, it's a six
1:00:27
point lead. Was 13 I think.
1:00:31
Let's go. But it's still AI.
1:00:34
Guess I'm way behind because it's a 10 point game for me
1:00:36
right now. They're going on a run, boy.
1:00:39
Sweet Hell, yeah. Love to hear.
1:00:42
Well, that's going to do it for us tonight for Cocaine Willie.
1:00:46
Yeah, yeah. Great, great stuff.
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Really glad Tang is gone. I'm pretty stoked.
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So. BYU game K State BYU 2010 posted
1:02:11
last night. Give it a watch.
1:02:12
It was actually a fun one to rewatch.
1:02:14
I have not watched that game in many, many years.
1:02:18
I haven't watched that game since I was at the game, so I'm
1:02:21
going to be giving that a rewatch on my own.
1:02:24
Can't wait. Jimmer Fredette, Hey, the best
1:02:26
part about that was the UNI game against KU that haven't ranked
1:02:31
that game in the same session and getting the double dip and
1:02:35
everybody in purple for K State and you and I, we're cheering
1:02:38
for each other, which is fun. Yeah, that's going to do it.
1:02:41
That's going to do it. We are all coke and no joke.
1:02:44
Chef chef dot chef. Cocaine's a hell of a drug,
1:02:49
baby. Now we are all coke and no joke
1:02:53
except for Coach Tang. He's a joke.
1:02:57
Let's rap. That was a bar.