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Hoops Struggles, Bowl Season Blues & CFP Semifinal Locks (S4//E42) · Cocaine Willie

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  Buyer, buyer, Koozies Wildcat Country, let's ride all right,
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  boys, men's hoops, men's hoops. It's it's something we can we
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  can call it that. It's something starting off O
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  and one in Big 12 play 9 and six overall.
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  They are currently ranked 72nd in Ken Palm and 65th in the net
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  rankings, which would have them right on the bubble, very
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  solidly on the bubble. But I think we're we're missing
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  a couple marquee wins is what I would say.
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  You got an opportunity for that though.
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  Tomorrow. Yesterday, rather.
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  We're recording this on Tuesday, but this episode's going to drop
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  on Thursday, so the game already happened.
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  Maybe we should just drop the hoops pod first, I don't know.
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  Swap them together. We'll drop them together.
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  We're. Going to I I honestly feel like
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  how we how we think the Arizona game is going to occur, like how
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  we actually think the game will is going to be exactly how it
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  occurs on Thursday when people are listening to this.
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  So OK. How do you think it's going?
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  To go did. We cover the 21.
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  No, I think Arizona is going to win the national championship.
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  I think this is the national championship team.
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  I think Arizona is that good and we are not.
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  So I think we're going to lose by like 30.
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  I just Arizona, yeah, Arizona is really good.
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  Like the the talent on that team just works.
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  And I was a big fan of their point guard Bradley last year.
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  He's gotten better. They have a freshman Co Opete
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  who's a top three freshman in the country.
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  I mean, it's we're gonna get out rebounded.
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  We're gonna get out rebounded. By a lot.
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  By a lot like we were in BYU, I and I, they just can't put the
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  ball in the basket right now. Can.
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  They, I think what's going to happen is I think we're going to
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  get a favorable whistle in Tucson.
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  I think PJ had. In what world?
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  On what planet? I'm just letting you know I've
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  had premonitions before and I had one.
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  I think we're going to get a favorable whistle in Tucson.
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  I think this is going to be a 5 to 6 point game at halftime.
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  I think Abby Bashir is going to find the three-point bucket.
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  I pretty hot start. I think we keep it within 5 to
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  6. I think we probably end up
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  losing by 12, but I think there's going to be a favorable
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  whistle that will keep us in the game for a lot longer than we
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  think. PJ Haggerty The you know, the
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  issue with PJ is, I mean, he scores the bucket fine.
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  The problem is he gets to the free throw line.
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  He just doesn't make free throws, which is really weird.
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  I don't know if it's the yips or whatever, but he he's not the
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  best three free throw shooter, which is really strange.
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  But I think for this game particular, rebounding is going
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  to be the main issue. I think defensively they're so
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  big that it can cause some spacing when we go small.
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  It could be a problem for them on the defensive end for them,
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  but I think PJ Haggerty getting to the basket is going to get
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  some foul calls and and keep it close.
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  I think he's going to keep it close.
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  I think 20 1/2 is way too big of a number.
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  It could be a boom or bust, but I think the whistle is going to
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  keep us in the game. I think 20 is a very appropriate
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  number. I don't know if you've looked at
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  the scouting report on Arizona this year, but they're first in
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  the nation in the AP poll. They are second in Ken Palm in
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  the NET rankings currently. They have wins against #4U at
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  the time, UConn by 4. They beat number.
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  Let's see, Auburn was unranked I think at the time, but they beat
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  Auburn by 30. Basically.
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  They beat Alabama by 21 and they beat, let's see, they beat UCLA
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  by 4. So they've they've got a damn
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  good resume coming into this game.
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  They are 14 and O1 and O in Big 12 play.
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  And they also beat the defending champion Florida Gators to open
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  the season this year. So yeah.
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  They were. Going to win a good team, but
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  they're beating, they're beating good teams in the top 15 by 20
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  and 30 points. I mean, they've had their
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  nights, they've had their nights.
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  I think K State can have a night too.
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  I'm not going to say that we're going to win.
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  I think we're going to keep it close and I think a lot has to
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  do with the referees. We've seen this game from last
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  season, obviously a totally different team, but the
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  physicality when we did beat them in Manhattan was at a
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  different level. It was just the physicality was
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  there and the whistles became a problem and and college
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  basketball is like that if especially for that BYU game,
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  the difference was we didn't take advantage of when Debonce
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  was on the bench. But this game, I think if we get
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  some of their bigs in foul trouble early, it makes it more
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  of an even game where we're not getting out rebounded by 25
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  because I knew there's a possibility we can get out
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  rebounded by 20. There is a chance, especially if
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  they're not shooting it great, their offensive glass could go
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  crazy. But if we're getting their bigs
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  in foul trouble, we've got to get PJ to the basket.
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  We've got to make sure that the fouls are going our direction.
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  I think it can happen. I think it can happen.
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  We're streaky, 3 point shooting team.
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  Abdi Bashir, you drained 3 threes in a row.
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  We're in this game. Streaky's a word for it,
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  certainly, Matt. Your thoughts on the matchup
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  against Arizona? We're screwed now.
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  I I the BYU game, I actually thought we were going to win
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  that game before and yet again, I watched that game and you live
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  and die on the offensive side by making threes and this team
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  can't rebound and struggles on the defensive end.
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  Arizona is my not miles better than BYU, but Arizona I think is
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  the best team in the country. We are on the road.
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  I, I just have zero confidence in this team.
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  I really do, you know, we're what, 716 games in?
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  And I mean, this team is poorly constructed and I just don't
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  think they're coached well enough on the defensive side,
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  you know, to to keep them in games against good teams,
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  especially on the road. So I just do do not think this
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  is a game that K State is going to keep close.
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  They'll struggle shooting, they'll lose on offensive
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  rebounds and it's just a bad matchup for us.
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  So not covering 21 points. Looking back on the BYU matchup,
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  because we haven't really chatted about that one, K State
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  ended up dropping to 9 and six with that.
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  With that loss to BYU at home, they did keep it close.
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  I feel like for a majority of the game, K State was within
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  striking distance for a good chunk of it.
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  I didn't get to watch it but was trying to follow along as as
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  closely as as I could. End up losing by 1083 to 73.
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  K State shot 42% from the field, but we're pretty horrible from
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  beyond the arc. 3 for 21, which is just streaky is a word for
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  it. I don't know if that's the word
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  I would use for it. I would say that was an anemic
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  effort against BYU. They were out rebounded also by
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  12 by BYU 47 to 35 on the on the glass.
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  It came both on the offensive and the defensive glass.
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  They were out rebounded on in both phases and they just didn't
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  have as many second chance points as BYU in the match up.
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  I guess Silver Linings from from the game against BYU would be
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  they only turned it over 12 times, which anytime a Tang team
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  turns it over 12 or fewer times is, is a good thing generally.
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  B, they turned BYO over 19 times on case they had 17 points off
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  turnovers, which I, I feel like that combination would would
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  normally indicate, hey, K state has a chance to win this game
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  And, and they, they realistically they had BYU at
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  arm's length at the under 2, keeping it, you know, under 10
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  at that point. K State also dominated points in
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  the paint, 48 to 32 points in the paint, which you're getting
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  out rebounded, but you're dominating points in the paint.
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  So that I guess that indicates PJ was was getting getting in
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  the lane driving to the basket. Castillo was getting in the lane
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  driving to the basket as well because I don't think it was
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  Buca putting up those points. And then the last thing I'll say
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  is you were 74% from the stripe, but you only had 19 free throw
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  opportunities to BYU's 27. So it's kind of a mixed bag when
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  you look at the stats and look at how the game played out.
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  But what what do you think about the effort against BYU in that
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  first Big 12 game? Go ahead, Matt, go ahead.
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  Go ahead, Matt. OK, I'll go.
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  I thought it was obviously they have they have NBA talent on
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  that BYU roster and it it showed at the very beginning.
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  AJ Debonza is a difference maker.
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  But I like I said, foul trouble is the is the great equalizer
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  when you have a talent discrepancy.
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  The issue was we made a game plan to try to make it AJ show
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  to make it that he has to beat us.
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  Everybody else is going to do their own thing.
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  Once he left, it was kind of like the game plan fell apart.
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  Like, man, we don't have the one guy that we're supposed to guard
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  and like make sure that our position, our defensive position
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  is focused on him and all this stuff or focus on everybody else
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  and let AJ do his thing. Once he got out, corner 3
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  started falling. The transition for them was
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  actually really, really quick. They had a lot more ball
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  handlers than I. I thought, you know, I didn't
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  watch a lot of BYU basketball, but the little bit that I did,
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  it was mostly AJ was kind of doing all the ball handling.
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  So once he left the game, I thought that was our perfect
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  opportunity to either take the lead or keep it within arm's
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  length. But they kind of separated more.
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  They did most of their separating when AJ was off on
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  the bench and not on the floor. So it it was really concerning
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  that our game plan fell apart. Not shooting the ball, great
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  points in the paint. I think that is the key to most
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  of our victories because like I, I think we're a streaky team.
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  Maybe that just means we're not a very good 3 point shooting
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  team. But if if we're getting points
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  in the paint, that gives us a better opportunity for a guy
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  like Abdi Bashir to get more open threes instead of the more
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  contested threes that he's been in the circus shots that he's
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  been kind of making. And we're just not very deep
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  either. Like, I mean, we were, we were
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  down some players, you know, I'm not going to pronounce his name.
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  Right, we were out. Elias was out in this game.
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  Elias was out for this game, so that does not help, especially
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  the front court, like it's it's we're just so thin.
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  We're not very big. It's it's a multitude of factor.
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  Like Matt said, we're the team is not constructed great.
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  And I don't know if Tang will ever construct a great team.
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  I don't know, but it's not going the way that we planned and when
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  the whistles aren't going P JS way, the team is not great and I
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  think in some games we are going to get that whistle and we're
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  going to look a lot better so. I actually thought in this game
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  he he got more whistles, he got more more calls in this game
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  than previous ones. I made a comment about that, but
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  the the fact of the matter is like this is a team that needs
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  to be making outside shots of sticking games.
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  And if you're 3 for 21, you aren't winning a lot of games.
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  I like, and it's not just BYU. You're you're not going to win a
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  lot of games in Big 12 play if you shoot that poorly from
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  behind the arc. And that is one of your like big
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  things with this team is the outside shooting.
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  So the thing with the BYU game, I mean, you had opportunities
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  with AJ on the bench with in foul trouble and you can't cover
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  Richie Saunders or Kiba Kita gets a key offensive rebound
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  and, you know, either passes it out to Robert Wright or, you
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  know, Boscovich, the guy off the bench, he made a few threes.
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  And you know, like the the defense was just so poor against
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  BYU and but that's been something that we've seen this
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  year. And again, now you're playing
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  really good teams in Big 12 play the gauntlet doesn't necessarily
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  stop. And that's why I, you know, an
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  Arizona game. Like I'd be writing off the
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  Arizona game, you know, at the beginning of the year, because I
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  thought Arizona was going to be really good.
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  And they've shown through the season that they've been really
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  good. But Arizona State, like Arizona
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  State is not necessarily a great team, but man, like I just, it's
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  just hard for me watching this K state team and thinking that
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  they're, they're good. Like I, I just I I, I, I mean,
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  it's really stinks to say because I think PJ is a talented
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  player. He's obviously a great scorer.
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  He does for the most part, I think things really well.
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  That's just the supporting cast is not necessarily at a game to
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  game basis meeting what I think the expectations are for PJ to
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  try and lead this team to wins and that's just with how this
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  team is constructed. So we'll see tomorrow night.
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  Yeah. And, and I do think with PJ and
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  a lot of these guys on this roster, there is more of a give
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  a shit factor that we didn't see necessarily with guys like
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  Coleman Hawkins last year. So I, I or Doug, I mean, Doug
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  was kind of just an ass. But yeah, I, I, I feel like this
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  team, at least from a chemistry and personality standpoint, is
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  certainly more of what Tang and the staff wanted.
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  But it's, I mean, the roster construction itself, it's been a
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  problem since year 2 with Tang when when you lose your best
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  player, it's like, dude, there's there's no next man up.
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  So yeah, I'm, I'm very much still out.
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  I I guess looking ahead to the Arizona State game, they have
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  the same record as K State right now, nine and five overall, I
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  guess nine and six overall. I don't know.
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  It's they're, they basically they, they got the same record
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  as K State. Owen won a Big 12 play, 85th in
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  Ken Palm, 85th in the net. They do have some interesting
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  wins. They've beaten Oklahoma, Texas
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  and Washington State, but they've got losses to Gonzaga,
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  USCUCLA, Oregon State and they open up Big 12 play with a loss
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  to Colorado, which is not exactly the most shining loss to
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  have on one's resume as it stands today.
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  They're they're also playing BYU Wednesday night, January 7th.
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  So as as we're recording this Tuesday night.
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  So they're going to have the same test that we just had.
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  It's going to be interesting to see how they fare against the
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  Cougars of Brigham Young. But yeah, I'm not super
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  optimistic about this road trip in general.
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  K State has not played great on the road under Coach Tang.
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  Across the board there are a couple of examples of having
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  played well, like the game in Omaha a couple of weeks ago, but
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  outside of that there aren't a ton of examples of of Tang
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  getting good Rd. Wins.
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  Stuck with this. Yes, we are stuck.
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  We are. We are.
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  Just get excited. Get excited for 20262027.
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  We're going to do the same thing.
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  Man, it's just there's no, we've had this conversation so many
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  times, like what is the identity?
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  What is it? I thought Driscoll could come in
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  here and maybe change some things up.
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  You know, he get, he changes his staff around a little bit, but
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  it's just the same shit. It's it's tough, man.
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  It is very, very tough to watch it and college basketball is not
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  that difficult. It's not that difficult.
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  Well, in terms of like getting the most out of your players,
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  like even the lower, like most college basketball players, if
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  you're inspiring them, they play harder, they play better.
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  And we have enough talent on the roster to do some things.
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  We're just, it's not constructed in the right way.
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  We're not big, we're small. We don't shoot it particularly
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  well. And I don't, I don't, I don't
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  know. It's just, it's just so weird.
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  The Tyreke Smith debacle is a massive error.
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  The staff didn't. I mean, you could you, you could
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  this team be better with Tyreke Smith?
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  I think they would rebound better.
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  You would have like you would basically be giving him the
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  minutes that book is getting. Oh God, you.
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  Know be even here? Who knows, But no, probably not,
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  right? What?
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  No, we, we signed him. We signed him after Tyreke
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  Smith's waiver. No, no, no.
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  Yeah, Yeah. Well.
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  That's I'm agreeing with you, Matt.
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  I am 100% agreeing. With you.
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  Like this team would rebound better, they'd have a a bigger
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  guy like in the paint a. Guy that can catch the ball to.
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  Finish. Yeah, it's like when we.
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  Played it's. Increased so astronomically
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  better, but we we squandered a guy that everybody and their mom
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  knew the writing on the wall. He was not going to be eligible.
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  It was a brave. Error.
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  A brave error for for this staff and trying to put the Tyreek
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  Smith situation in our favor and it really cost this team.
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  So I I mean the the the roster construction without a big
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  another big guy really makes this this team look like yeah
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  you know you have to score 90 points a game to win and you get
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  into Big 12 play not happening for a good portion of the games.
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  I I just, I don't know, I. Yeah.
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  I mean, let's get into that. I mean, obviously the Tyreke
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  Smith debacle, you go with the European guys and you, you, you
• 23:15
  basically paint it as if those are going to be guys that are
• 23:20
  going to be pivotal in winning games and neither one of them
• 23:24
  play. I mean kostich, like Kostich is
• 23:29
  an anomaly to me. Like I have no idea how we.
• 23:33
  Didn't have a player dismissed before the new year began, so
• 23:36
  that's that's fantastic. I I but like kostich I I mean
• 23:41
  the people are talking about this kid like outside of K state
• 23:47
  like it was on. NBA draft boards second rounder.
• 23:50
  Like if you know if his bat, if his thing that he's really
• 23:54
  struggling with his defense, well, everyone else is too.
• 23:58
  Like he's so bad, everybody is struggling on it.
• 24:00
  CJ Jones is getting minutes and trust me, I'm one of the biggest
• 24:04
  CJ Jones truthers. I love CJ Jones sometimes, but
• 24:08
  it's got to be the only one. Yeah, it's, it's got to be in
• 24:12
  the the smallest increments possible and we're just running
• 24:16
  this guy out there and he can't shoot.
• 24:19
  He has terrible, he's got terrible handle.
• 24:21
  He has no decision making and he's a point guard.
• 24:25
  Like, I mean, it's just, it's just bad.
• 24:28
  I mean, the bigs we're having McGriff, who is a stretch four
• 24:34
  and we've got him running 5 and it's just, it's just bad.
• 24:38
  It's just bad. Bad.
• 24:41
  Yeah, so and I have no, I, I told Bob at the beginning of the
• 24:45
  season I will hold off opinions and, you know, expectations
• 24:50
  until the time comes and the time has come.
• 24:52
  I have no expectations. This team is bad.
• 24:55
  It is just a bad team. And I, and I, and you heard from
• 24:59
  my take previous to what I'm saying now about this Arizona
• 25:03
  game. I am basically imploring that
• 25:07
  the referees do some scandalous shit to even keep us in a game.
• 25:12
  That's that's where I'm at. I'm having them have to
• 25:15
  basically get blown up. Who's the coach for Arizona?
• 25:19
  That the Yeah. I'm begging them that they're
• 25:25
  going to have to tee Tommy Lloyd up from how the foul discrepancy
• 25:28
  is going to be in Arizona. That's basically what I'm having
• 25:32
  to implore the referees to do to keep us just in a game.
• 25:37
  It's it's where have we gone? Where where have we gone?
• 25:42
  I'm done with the team basically.
• 25:44
  And I'm going to enjoy watching in versus Arizona.
• 25:46
  Maybe if, if it's your outcome, I won't.
• 25:49
  But I mean, my outcome, which I think was going to happen, I'll
• 25:52
  enjoy it. But outside of that, it's we're
• 25:55
  not. I don't plan on any wins.
• 25:57
  That's the problem. I'm not planning on any wins.
• 26:00
  We lost the Bowling Green. I do love, I love how the
• 26:05
  coaching staff kind of wish casted that Tyreke Smith would
• 26:08
  get a waiver approved and it didn't happen and they didn't.
• 26:12
  Their adjustment on the fly was Doreen Bucca who plays great
• 26:16
  against G5G6 opponents. He's.
• 26:20
  Got a four inch Manger who slaps the ball out of the air.
• 26:23
  That's all he's. That's all he's good for.
• 26:27
  Hey, I'm a Buca believer as long as we're playing a low major
• 26:30
  program. I'm a Doreen denier if we're Oh
• 26:33
  my. God, he's going to.
• 26:34
  He's going to have a double, double against KU.
• 26:36
  Some stupid crap. KU, who is currently only up
• 26:41
  five against TCU when I looked. So that's that's great for them.
• 26:45
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  beef for your money, bowl season standings and overall lock
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  standing. So this is the last thing we're
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  going to get to today. So coming into bowl season, Matt
• 28:51
  had a pretty commanding lead going into going into the bowl
• 28:55
  season with locks. He was leading 44 to 3044 and 30
• 29:00
  overall. I was in second place, 37 and 30
• 29:04
  overall and Chef was in last with 30 and a 44 record overall
• 29:10
  after the Bulls jobs tied with Matt, currently the top the
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  leaderboard. I'm 61 and 52 and one overall.
• 29:19
  Matt is 6152 and one overall as well with a bowl record of 17
• 29:24
  and 22 and 1. And I have a bowl record of 2415
• 29:29
  and one. Matt, what do you have to say
• 29:30
  about your fall from grace? Fall from grace.
• 29:38
  You know, sometimes you got to let the poor kids win and I let
• 29:42
  Bob No, I'm kidding. But seriously, you know, I just
• 29:48
  felt bad for you because you're doing so poorly and Chef wasn't
• 29:54
  going to participate, so I just. So for those for those who don't
• 30:03
  know. For those who don't know, we
• 30:04
  went through our bold pick em exercises here.
• 30:07
  Chef decided to pick one bowl game and none, none of the rest.
• 30:11
  So there's a bunch of red on a spreadsheet that has our bold
• 30:15
  pick em on. Christmas season kicked my ass,
• 30:18
  what did you do? Chef Chef is currently Owen.
• 30:21
  4040 so she went from 30. I just knew.
• 30:26
  Overall to 30 and 84. I just knew that with Chef
• 30:30
  losing every game, I just had to let poor old Bob Trolls be catch
• 30:35
  up to me to make it to this point where it's.
• 30:40
  For all the marbles. This is for.
• 30:42
  All the marbles, so we've got three games left to pick.
• 30:46
  We're going to pick two of them tonight and then we'll pick the
• 30:48
  last one next week. The first matchup we've got
• 30:53
  Indiana -3 1/2 in their matchup against Oregon.
• 30:58
  Then we got Ole Miss plus 3 1/2 in their match up against Miami.
• 31:04
  I'm taking Ole Miss plus 3. Miami's favored by 3 1/2.
• 31:09
  They can Ole Miss and I'm taking Indiana.
• 31:11
  Man, should I just pick the same thing and guarantee a tie?
• 31:15
  No, I'm not. I'm picking Indiana.
• 31:19
  I'm picking Miami. OK, I'm really 3 1/2.
• 31:23
  I'm following Matt. I'm following Matt as well.
• 31:26
  Fudge, I'm screwed. I'm picking Oregon and I'm
• 31:31
  picking No, I'm picking Indiana. I'm picking Miami.
• 31:36
  What a national championship game that would be.
• 31:41
  Michael Irvin. Michael Irvin, doubly coked out,
• 31:47
  and Kurt Signetti, who has no, like, just feelings at all.
• 31:56
  Google me baby, Google me. Google me.
• 32:01
  Yeah, so. What have your what have your
• 32:03
  thoughts been on the CFP so far this year?
• 32:08
  I think it's very that's the stat that, you know, the home
• 32:11
  teams with the BI. I mean the the teams with the BI
• 32:15
  just losing outside of Indiana and they throttled with an
• 32:20
  Alabama team that just couldn't run the ball, which is which is
• 32:23
  really funny. I mean, Alabama just lost all
• 32:25
  their physicality. But those teams that have the
• 32:29
  buy for the past two seasons just don't win.
• 32:32
  And it's very I I don't understand where what it is.
• 32:36
  Is it not being off for basically a month?
• 32:39
  I don't, I don't know. I feel like it is because, I
• 32:43
  mean, I, I, I think when they move this to 16, the thing that
• 32:47
  I'm most excited about is the top 8 seeds being able to get
• 32:51
  one last game at home. I, you know, the Bulls, I think
• 32:59
  about like the Orange Bowl, great example.
• 33:01
  Like it just seems like these games kind of the life is sucked
• 33:06
  out of the Bulls now. And you know, you're not
• 33:10
  rewarding these teams in the top four with the opportunity to be
• 33:16
  able to play in front of your home fans.
• 33:19
  I'm not now like if Tech plays Oregon at home, you know, are
• 33:24
  they more competitive? Probably, I don't know.
• 33:28
  But I mean, it just really goes to show that the playoff there,
• 33:36
  there are flaws with the playoff the past two seasons.
• 33:40
  I think the biggest one is the fact that your team like the top
• 33:45
  4 is off of routine. I mean, I just think that these
• 33:49
  teams are coming in with a week of they played a game the week
• 33:54
  before, they were prepping for a game the week before.
• 33:57
  Their mental focus was on a game the week before.
• 33:59
  And you can continue that. And I think that just goes to
• 34:04
  show how good Indiana is. I mean, I, I just think Indiana
• 34:09
  is, is, is a really, really good team.
• 34:12
  And out of the four teams, you know, I don't know if there's an
• 34:15
  Ole Miss or Miami situation that would that would stop what I
• 34:20
  think Indiana's been doing. But, you know, Texas Tech
• 34:24
  obviously was a huge disappointment.
• 34:26
  You know, the backlash about Texas Tech's performance is
• 34:30
  really kind of skewing, I think, the media and saying the Big 12
• 34:33
  is a shitty conference without necessarily looking at the other
• 34:37
  factor, You know, the other teams in the Big 12 and how the
• 34:40
  bowl season went for the Big 12, I mean, was pretty, pretty good.
• 34:44
  It's because Barry Morton sucks. He had three giveaways and that
• 34:48
  that was the difference in the game.
• 34:50
  Like they put a. $40 million roster, around a crappy
• 34:54
  quarterback and a lot of. People could have saw this
• 34:56
  coming for sure, but you know, it's the two games I think will
• 35:02
  be exciting. I think it'll be good to see
• 35:04
  what Dan Lanning puts together against Indiana in round two of
• 35:08
  that match up. And for, you know, Ole Miss I
• 35:12
  against Georgia, they just that was a really, really good game.
• 35:15
  And I think it showed how good of a quarterback Trinidad
• 35:19
  Chambliss is and getting his team into the end zone, doing
• 35:24
  the things, you know, that he needed to do as a guy who at the
• 35:27
  beginning of the year was definitely not going to be the
• 35:29
  starter for that team. So yeah, it's been entertaining
• 35:35
  from a playoff perspective, but I I want this to go to 16 and I
• 35:39
  want to see some more games at the top eight.
• 35:43
  I think it'd it'd be way more fun.
• 35:46
  I'm tired. Of the playoffs, to be honest
• 35:47
  with you, I wish it was back to the old way.
• 35:49
  I would bring back the BCS for all I care.
• 35:52
  You know, I think a lot of these teams don't deserve title
• 35:56
  opportunity. I think Ole Miss is one of
• 35:57
  those. I mean, it for me, OK, I tried
• 36:01
  to like write off the excuse for why Ohio State lost, OK, their
• 36:06
  offensive coordinator is, you know, taking a job.
• 36:10
  Same thing with what Texas A&M had to.
• 36:12
  But then you see a team like Ole Miss, who I mean, obviously it's
• 36:15
  his team now and he's the head coach and and we don't have to
• 36:19
  worry about that, but they've still got coordinators on that
• 36:21
  team that are going to other places that are just biting
• 36:25
  their time. So it's I, I want to write off
• 36:28
  that like you've got to have cohesion similar to what Indiana
• 36:34
  is going through, where Indiana doesn't have a lot of coaching
• 36:38
  turnover and they're the more team oriented kind of team and
• 36:42
  they're, they're seeing success for that reason.
• 36:44
  But I just don't, I just don't know what to put my finger on
• 36:48
  because I could have swore Ohio State was the most talented
• 36:51
  team, the most dynamic team, the better defense and all that
• 36:55
  stuff, but they just get throttled.
• 36:57
  And it's, I don't know, man. I it's something with the buys.
• 37:02
  But like Matt says, if you get these teams where they're
• 37:06
  getting more home games, they expand the field.
• 37:09
  Maybe it makes it more balanced and you see the better teams
• 37:12
  actually win instead of I don't know what we're getting anymore.
• 37:15
  We'll, we'll see. But I'm, I'm not a playoff guy
• 37:19
  anymore. I, I don't, I don't want to talk
• 37:21
  about it. I hate the playoff until K
• 37:24
  State's involved. I don't I don't like any of
• 37:27
  them. Fair enough, fair enough.
• 37:31
  Just any other thoughts? Any other thoughts before we get
• 37:34
  out of here? Man, I don't know.
• 37:41
  I'm, I'm kind of sad now. Sad.
• 37:46
  Basketball. Stinks.
• 37:48
  Sad boy, sad boy. Man, I, I, I thought Matt was a
• 37:52
  fool for thinking like he was all in favor of like case like
• 37:56
  college basketball is his jam, but like, not watching any
• 38:00
  college basketball because K State basketball stinks is
• 38:03
  really bad. Like I, it's doing a disservice
• 38:06
  to my fandom that I don't get to enjoy college basketball because
• 38:12
  my team stinks so bad. And I want, I want things to
• 38:16
  change. I want to care about college
• 38:18
  basketball, boy. We just have to be good at
• 38:23
  sports. You know, it's just a been a,
• 38:26
  it's been very poor season for us in a lot of sports.
• 38:31
  So maybe someday it'll get better.
• 38:34
  Maybe, maybe, maybe not. I don't, I don't know, I don't
• 38:40
  know. Hey, roster construction on the
• 38:42
  men's football, on the, on the men's football team, on the
• 38:45
  football team. The football team is looking
• 38:48
  like it's going pretty well so far.
• 38:49
  So knock on wood. Hopefully that'll keep us, keep
• 38:52
  us happy and keep us alive. But that's going to do it for us
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