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01/30/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Got your silf.
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Speaker 2: It's seven am.
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Speaker 1: Welcome into the huddle.
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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, Drew Billy and Arman bringing it
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Speaker 3: to you. Reach us on the Nicolay lot. I'm talking
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Speaker 3: text myne eighty.
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Speaker 2: Seven seven seven nine seven three.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to the breaking news Slash Tennis desk and
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Speaker 3: ask Armen sorry, and who's winning in the Australian Open semit?
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Speaker 4: Wow?
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Speaker 1: This is the man. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: Sablanca already played. Wait, okay, the men are playing. You know,
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Speaker 1: if you grunted, you would have been better. I think
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Speaker 1: that was definitely the problem. Actually, I know it was
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Speaker 1: that Billy after Chili night what you'd call a hard
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Speaker 1: hitter or a powerful player or a good player. But
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Speaker 1: one time, all right, in my in my heyday, all right,
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Speaker 1: I was a young eighteen year old lad in the
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Speaker 1: Armenian Youth Federation Olympics and I had the run of
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Speaker 1: my life. And I was playeen year olds allowed to
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Speaker 1: be in the youth tournament. Yeah you can be yes, yeah,
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Speaker 1: actually he's seventeen. You start at seventeen, you become a
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Speaker 1: senior in the AYF. Well this is a long story,
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Speaker 1: but I had like the run of my life, and
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Speaker 1: I was playing well. The only time, the one and
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Speaker 1: only time in my life, I broke strings as well
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Speaker 1: in a racket, and I felt like I was somebody man.
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Speaker 1: I threw that thing aside. I got to get a
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Speaker 1: new racket. I broke the strings, like that's how hard
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Speaker 1: I was hitting, and I found myself grunting involuntarily. I said, Wow,
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Speaker 1: this is what it's like when the real ones actually
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Speaker 1: play and play well, and play powerfully and hard. They
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Speaker 1: actually grunt naturally.
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Speaker 5: Hold on, hold on, I just need a little bit more.
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Speaker 5: Then you'll get the update. But this is more important.
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Speaker 5: You just make sure here's so. So you did so
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Speaker 5: eighteen years old and the youth Federation, were you playing
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Speaker 5: younger getting older kids?
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Speaker 1: No, the twenty six or twenty eight, depending on the
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Speaker 1: year it was.
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Speaker 5: But yeah, so the youth was was a question for me.
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Speaker 5: I was I was messed up on that. I hear eighteen,
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Speaker 5: and I'm like, oh, Arman is now showing off, grunting,
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Speaker 5: hitting the ball harder because he's playing fourteen and fifteen
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Speaker 5: year olds.
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Speaker 1: She's like, welcome to the men's league.
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Speaker 5: Boys, you can read this is how you're doing to
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Speaker 5: turn eighteen once you can start smoking cigarettes.
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Speaker 1: You can read about it in the Army and Weekly,
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Speaker 1: September two thousand and one, dish third edition. Not that
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Speaker 1: I memorize it or having on the wall, not that
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Speaker 1: I saved it or anything like that. You can read
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Speaker 1: it in the paper on the Armenian Weekly. Yeah, the
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Speaker 1: youngster shocked the defending champion. That's about me.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, I did Man that he was man. He's like,
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Speaker 1: who is this kid from Wisconsin? Historian?
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Speaker 2: And he comes in and just make doubles sets them.
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Speaker 1: I mixed him up too. He'd beat me in the
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Speaker 1: first set. He was just dominating me and grounds, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to the net. I'm a doubles player by nature,
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Speaker 1: all right, I'm going to the net. And I ate
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Speaker 1: him alive on that when he was so frustrated. My
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Speaker 1: man was starting to smoke his sick. In the third set,
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Speaker 1: He's like, this thing's over. But we're getting a great
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Speaker 1: match right here with Jocob. Back to the news, back
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Speaker 1: to the sports. Djokovic and Center in the third set. Now,
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Speaker 1: so this has been a great match back and forth.
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Speaker 1: I think Center is gonna pull it off here. But Djokovic,
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Speaker 1: that old wily veteran. He's bringing out all the stops here,
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Speaker 1: so we might have another five setter here, guys in
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Speaker 1: the Australian Open Men's on my final as Sinner has
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Speaker 1: taken the third set now and Novak Djokovic is trying
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Speaker 1: to force a fourth. But it looks like it's gonna
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Speaker 1: eventually be Centner and Carlos Alcarez in the final again,
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Speaker 1: unless we see a big comeback by the great Novak
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Speaker 1: Djokovic here.
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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks for the update.
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Speaker 1: It's three to two in the fourth set. Djokovic has
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Speaker 1: a lead, so he could he could still force a
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Speaker 1: fifth here, so come on. It's great to have live
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Speaker 1: sports on during our show.
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Speaker 2: We don't always get that's true. The Olympics will be
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Speaker 2: live tern that.
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Speaker 1: Will be and I'll be giving you all the downhill slalom.
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Speaker 2: And the big story in the Olympics is Lindsay Vaughn
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Speaker 2: got hurt today.
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Speaker 1: Brutal news.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's been airlifted off the mountain.
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Speaker 1: Apparently, whoa.
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Speaker 3: She might have to visit our friends at Arthropedic Associates
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Speaker 3: of Wisconsin. There is a difference best in the industry.
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Speaker 3: Come on now, but that's a horrifying thing that You're right,
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Speaker 3: she's it's a week before she's getting ready to fire
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Speaker 3: up for real, Like Super Bowl Sunday was gonna be
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Speaker 3: your first race.
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Speaker 5: Was going to be your first race. And again, forty
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Speaker 5: one years old, she was on the broadcast last Winter
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Speaker 5: Olympics next to Mike Tarrico. He's calling the Super Bowl
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Speaker 5: his first first one, right, I think al called the
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Speaker 5: last one NBC first one, I believe. And he's like,
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Speaker 5: I don't care if she was way too awesome, way
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Speaker 5: too good of a person. And I'm also doing the
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Speaker 5: Olympics coverage on the field at the Super Bowl after
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna wake up in the middle of the night
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Speaker 5: to watch, and now you don't know that she's gonna
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Speaker 5: be able to participate. This is the most I'll be
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Speaker 5: into the Olympics, Drew potentially in my entire life, because
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Speaker 5: it'll be on while we're in here. And I've never
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Speaker 5: been around somebody that loves the Olympics more than Arman. Sorry,
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Speaker 5: that's true, because a lot of them. Maybe it is
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Speaker 5: I shouldn't say, maybe it is a personal fault of me.
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Speaker 5: I don't I have not enjoyed the Olympics enough because
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Speaker 5: I don't know enough about closing the one eye, pinning
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Speaker 5: yourself back and shooting a bow and arrow after like
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Speaker 5: you know, cross country skiing. But I respect the absolute
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Speaker 5: out of it and the respect that I'm gonna gain
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Speaker 5: even more while I'm bleary eyed waking up and doing
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Speaker 5: the show to start, and these guys are well into
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Speaker 5: their days out in Milan, it's gonna be an exciting run.
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Speaker 2: And Arman is into both gymnastics and figure skating.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And the Summer Olympics in the Winter Olympics
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Speaker 1: are different because obviously Summer Olympics is like three or
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Speaker 1: four times of sports, but the Winter Olympics is fun too,
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Speaker 1: mostly because he gave us some of our great local
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Speaker 1: moments ever in terms of being a wisconsinight. Obviously we
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Speaker 1: talked about Bonnie and Dan Jansen and all the great
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Speaker 1: sweet scares that trained out in West Dallas at the Pennant.
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Speaker 1: But you know, they're both a lot of fun and
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Speaker 1: it should be an electric, electric time.
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Speaker 3: Well, the Winter Olympics makes me think of like we've
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Speaker 3: been talking today, because again the Dan Schaeffer post about
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Speaker 3: the Jannis being the most beloved athletic Wisconsry sports history
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Speaker 3: created a lot of churn yesterday and people waging in
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Speaker 3: and we've been talking about that today. But I think
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Speaker 3: I can make it. I can make a case that
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Speaker 3: the most perhaps underrated, underappreciated Wisconsin sports figure is going
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Speaker 3: to be featured in a documentary that's coming out again
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Speaker 3: about the nineteen eighty US Olympic hockey team Mark Johnson. Oh,
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Speaker 3: very well, Druzioni and Jim Craig get all the flowers,
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Speaker 3: but Mark Johnson was the MVP of that team in
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Speaker 3: my humble estimation. Yeah, and then what he has done
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Speaker 3: after one of the best American sports moments of all time,
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Speaker 3: if not the most.
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Speaker 2: And you know, he was a key figure in that game,
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Speaker 2: and like he was the rock on that team.
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Speaker 3: He was the absolute stud And you know, again it's
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Speaker 3: not that he's forgotten, but kind of like people do,
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Speaker 3: kind of overlook.
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Speaker 1: The overlook is the right way of putting it. Now.
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Speaker 5: Last year we got a little loud and continued it
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Speaker 5: that like, if there's gonna build, if they're gonna do
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Speaker 5: anything like monuments or statues or name anything after anybody
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Speaker 5: at the University of Wisconsin after this and obviously certain
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Speaker 5: dollars and cents quickly, signs become put up of different
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Speaker 5: names and things like that. If somebody, if we do
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Speaker 5: not put up a damn statue outside of either Levon
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Speaker 5: Arena or somewhere on the in the athletic area in
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Speaker 5: the athletic complex of Mark Johnson at the University of Wisconsin,
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Speaker 5: you're missing out on a possibility to celebrate not only
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Speaker 5: American hero, but one of the best Badgers of all time.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely true. I mean, his levels of greatness in his
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Speaker 1: life have been incredible.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 1: It's it's one thing to be part of one of
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Speaker 1: the greatest and most celebrated teams in American sports history,
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Speaker 1: but to be the guy that everyone looked to to
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Speaker 1: be the star to score when they needed a goal.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's why they called it magic. I mean
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Speaker 1: when they needed a goal, Mark got it. And you
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Speaker 1: you actually look back at some of the games and
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Speaker 1: how good he was and how many times he was
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Speaker 1: actually the offense for that for that Unit's it's it's
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Speaker 1: a pretty amazing thing that he's his career was what
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Speaker 1: it was, and he's ours, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: And it's even just his omni ice thing is the
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Speaker 2: one part.
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Speaker 5: But damn like the the moment that he has with
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Speaker 5: the bench this past year trying to win the national title.
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Speaker 5: I was like, right, who wants what a legendary moment
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Speaker 5: for a coach, empowering players of all right, I'm looking
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Speaker 5: at every one of you. I want to know who
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Speaker 5: actually wants the game winning shot? Who wants the penalty shot?
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Speaker 5: Try to send us ot and uh listen. I think
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Speaker 5: you only understand when you can make those calls, Drew,
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Speaker 5: when you've looked into the eye and kind of you've
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Speaker 5: been the person that wanted that shot. You see it
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Speaker 5: in the look, the real look in somebody's eye when
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Speaker 5: they're ready for that moment.
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Speaker 2: Amazing moment, no question about it.
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Speaker 3: Eight seven seven seven nine four one N seven to
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Speaker 3: and we'll be next week will be shifting because it's
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Speaker 3: Super Bowl week. We'll wonder to know it's Drake May's injury,
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Speaker 3: A concern is you know what what's going on? We'll
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Speaker 3: be looking, we'll be sifting through that looking forward to
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Speaker 3: you know, the Super Bowl snack foods and all that
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Speaker 3: stuff that comes with Super Bowl Week props. But the
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Speaker 3: honest thing is gonna hang over this. It'll be it'll be,
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Speaker 3: We'll be We'll be wondering like, will there be resolution?
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Speaker 3: Will there be smoke from the chimney out of Pfizer Forum?
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Speaker 3: Will we get a decision? Will they honest be traded?
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Speaker 3: Has he played his last game as a Buck?
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Speaker 5: That I just I don't think so, because I still
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Speaker 5: I think the the show is still pretty uniform on
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Speaker 5: that it happens in the off season. But the closer
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Speaker 5: we get, you know, we always say deadline spur action.
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Speaker 5: The deadline of Steph Curry being thirty eight years old
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Speaker 5: and Jimmy Butler now being out for the entire year, like,
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Speaker 5: I still don't know what Golden State can give you.
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Speaker 5: That's somewhat appen tizing. But the February fifth deadline, and
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Speaker 5: they have.
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Speaker 2: Picks, don't they have some picks?
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Speaker 1: They only have a couple because they traded a decent amount.
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Speaker 5: I think for Butler, they're like, we can open up
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Speaker 5: all these levees of picks, and you don't think of
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Speaker 5: the twenty twenty eight to thirty pick as valuable, but
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Speaker 5: Steph will be out of the league by then. Giannis
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Speaker 5: could be on his third team by then, and maybe
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Speaker 5: that's one of the thirty Warriors pick is very valuable.
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Speaker 3: Butler's contract, Kuminga and picks and Brandon Pajemski.
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Speaker 1: But you gotta get a Wisconsin kid.
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Speaker 3: You gotta get everybody, says Pajemski or Hero or Jalen Johnson,
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Speaker 3: like somebody's got to come back on Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: But I can hear people saying right now, and I
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Speaker 1: get it. It's like that's it. That's all we're gonna
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Speaker 1: get for Gianni's when when Bridges got five picks and
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Speaker 1: Bain gets four, Look, but we're just not going to
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Speaker 1: get those type But I don't know if we'll get that.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think we'll get those type of deals anymore.
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Speaker 1: I think that's just the reality of Yeah, those are gone.
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Speaker 1: I think. I hope I'm wrong. I mean, if you
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Speaker 1: if you just use those as straight market comp, we
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Speaker 1: should probably get ten or fifteen first for we're not
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Speaker 1: going to get that.
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Speaker 5: But the market comp's not the same because those guys
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Speaker 5: have four years of guaranteed money on their contract.
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Speaker 1: So how much for the contract, would he sign a
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Speaker 1: contract and all that. Here's the thing.
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Speaker 3: If you are tired, if you have Gianni's trade talk fatigue,
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Speaker 3: and he's not dealt on Thursday, by Thursday, by the deadline,
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Speaker 3: We're going to relive this in the summer, and then
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Speaker 3: if he starts the season with the Bucks, we're gonna
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Speaker 3: relive this a year from now at the deadline, and
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Speaker 3: it's it's not gonna go away if he stays no.
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Speaker 5: And that's where I think I've now become more excited
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Speaker 5: about the possibilities going forward, Like Eron and Caroline is
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Speaker 5: excited here on the talking texting, and he's been beating
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Speaker 5: the drum for a while, like the best place and
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Speaker 5: the only way for them to go forward is by
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Speaker 5: trading him.
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Speaker 1: I think I've now seen.
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Speaker 5: Too much evidence, Drew that they can't do anything even
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Speaker 5: if he is at their best. If you get the
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Speaker 5: best level of Gianna's play coming out here after his
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Speaker 5: second shutdown of a calf injury for a season, what's
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Speaker 5: the best they do? They win the first playing game, Yeah,
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Speaker 5: like they win the nine to ten play in game, maybe,
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Speaker 5: but like they're a they're a five game gentleman sweep
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Speaker 5: at best. It looks like they're in any playoff series
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Speaker 5: ten games under five hundred.
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Speaker 3: They're abysmal without you, honest, because they've constructed the team
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Speaker 3: where without him their abysmal.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's.
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Speaker 3: As as you look at it now, if he's not traded,
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Speaker 3: my idea of the gap year, just go to Greece,
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Speaker 3: get healthy. We don't need you this year is like
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Speaker 3: that becomes He didn't want to do that, but maybe
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Speaker 3: if he's not traded, like, what's the point of coming back.
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Speaker 2: We suck and we're not gonna go anywhere, Like.
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Speaker 5: Just just take the take some time off, take some
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Speaker 5: time off, and he'll get ready and it would probably
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Speaker 5: be a get ready for a for a new team deal.
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Speaker 2: Was that the Peter Fagan event yesterday?
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Speaker 3: Smiling and and enjoying his time with the guy because
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Speaker 3: you know they they're there are paths, you know, they're
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Speaker 3: their stories intersect. Oh yeah, absolutely, it's it's a fascinating deal.
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Speaker 3: It's a it's a pivot point for the franchise. And
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Speaker 3: you're right arm and it's like the return coming back
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Speaker 3: will be scrutinized forever. You can't get value, you can't
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Speaker 3: win a trade for you Honestly, even if you trade
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Speaker 3: him away and he goes to his next team and
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Speaker 3: has a blows out his a cl or something or like,
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Speaker 3: you still don't win the trade.
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Speaker 1: Because you're losing.
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Speaker 2: You're losing something elementals, natural resource.
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Speaker 1: Again, you're losing like the rain. But that's the reality
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Speaker 1: is it will end sometimes. So that that's why I
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Speaker 1: think there are some like me that are drawn to
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Speaker 1: the instinct to hang on to it as long as
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Speaker 1: you possibly can.
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Speaker 2: Well, and that would pourt in then ye, that's trying
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Speaker 2: to And then again like.
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Speaker 1: What I'm not saying that's best for the future. No,
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Speaker 1: sometimes you make decisions for yourself that aren't good for
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Speaker 1: the future. When when but I think you can say
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Speaker 1: now that it's not even good for the present.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 5: But here's the thing, because their team is not good
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Speaker 5: at all well right now playing but even with them
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Speaker 5: they were they were at best five hundred hundred with
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Speaker 5: him with him, they played five hundred without him. I
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Speaker 5: think they're three and fourteen, three and thirteen or something.
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Speaker 5: And they've lost to the Wizards three times in a season,
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Speaker 5: and they've lost six of their last seven after winning
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Speaker 5: three or four and getting all the wind in your
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Speaker 5: sales there with the amic report leaving Los Angeles with
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Speaker 5: a win, where Gana shuts down Lebron twice in the
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Speaker 5: final sequence big stuff in a poke away Drew to
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Speaker 5: be able to feel the victory in Los Angeles. That
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Speaker 5: was the high point. That was our twenty one to
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Speaker 5: three lead here for the twenty five to twenty six bucks, I.
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Speaker 1: Thought that might be a moment they turned it around.
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Speaker 1: I'm always hoping and optimistic about it. It clearly wasn't
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Speaker 1: or even the start. You know, the start of this
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Speaker 1: year was really encouraging. You know, they won some games,
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Speaker 1: but then you know, Torrian gets hurt and things like
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Speaker 1: just bad things started happening. Obviously then Yannas so, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're right, that was probably the peak, Billy, and it's
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Speaker 1: been downhill since.
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Speaker 5: It is difficult when trying to compare the package that
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Speaker 5: you'll receive apples to apples with like Desmond Baine, we
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Speaker 5: keep bringing up bridges with the picks like yeah, yeh, Drew,
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Speaker 5: do you think it's almost like the the Wilson Rogers
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Speaker 5: deal because immediately after Aaron stays in twenty two, people
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Speaker 5: look at well, Denver give up three first round picks
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Speaker 5: for Russell Wilson. So what would we have gotten for
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Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers if that was the trade? Now coincidentally's Seattle's
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Speaker 5: in the Super Bowl already.
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Speaker 1: Like that, they have been able to.
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Speaker 5: Rebuild with a lot of high picks, a lot of
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Speaker 5: really really good young players. You like Devin Witherspoon making
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Speaker 5: that final breakup in the end zone. He was a
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Speaker 5: top pick that they got in one of those first rounds.
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Speaker 5: Like they rebuilt their team very quickly. I still don't
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Speaker 5: Rogers so far and away a better player than Russell Wilson,
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Speaker 5: that's not even debatable, But the point in their careers,
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Speaker 5: the timing, Yeah, even Rogers was better than Russell Wilson
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Speaker 5: at the moment, but one was thirty three, you still
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Speaker 5: thought had like seven to ten years of really really
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Speaker 5: good football in him, and the other was going to
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Speaker 5: be forty and might have just played his last playoff
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Speaker 5: game where they don't they score one touchdown And the
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Speaker 5: times in their careers, the age, the contracts, that all
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Speaker 5: adds in.
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Speaker 1: Where's you.
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Speaker 5: I don't know that you can easily say, well, that
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Speaker 5: was the package he got. We gotta get that times
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Speaker 5: two or times three?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, is uh?
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Speaker 3: If the Seahawks win and right the wrong from you know,
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Speaker 3: the Malcolm Butler game. If they win, does Russell Wilson
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Speaker 3: get a ring because.
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Speaker 1: He brought the picks?
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Speaker 5: Then you know he's gonna he's gonna take some seconds,
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Speaker 5: a fifth and a couple of players and a couple
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Speaker 5: of players. He's gonna be he's gonna be trying to
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Speaker 5: take some credit for that.
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Speaker 2: Bad boy.
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Speaker 1: That's what happened.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, like, couldn't have done it without
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Speaker 2: your Rusks.
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Speaker 5: Couldn't have done it without the trade, couldn't have done
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Speaker 5: it without the trade.
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Speaker 1: And it uh, it is.
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Speaker 5: It is a moment where you think, wow, I guess
15:37
Speaker 5: it worked. It definitely worked. Now it also worked because
15:40
Speaker 5: they got Sam Darnold after he wins fourteen games.
15:42
Speaker 2: With the Vikings and the Vikings has had to punt
15:44
Speaker 2: on him.
15:45
Speaker 1: But yeah, you gotta be reason. Yeah, you know though
15:47
Speaker 1: Donald is like all of Russell's thing is the reason
15:50
Speaker 1: you have to make moves that work, and the Donald
15:52
Speaker 1: thing obviously did. But the moves you make subsequently with
15:56
Speaker 1: all the assets from the Russell Wilson trade is why
15:58
Speaker 1: that gets brought up. Yeah, I get it.
16:01
Speaker 5: I mean I got six starters from the tripe. Yeah,
16:03
Speaker 5: so like that would be that would be the part
16:04
Speaker 5: that's the core, that's a core of the team.
16:06
Speaker 1: That there.
16:07
Speaker 3: Someone sent us, being a donold. Someone sent us and
16:09
Speaker 3: it'll come up more next week. But someone sent us
16:12
Speaker 3: the YouTube the wrap up of his grandfather and the lineage.
16:16
Speaker 3: His grandfather played college basketball at USC like in the fifties,
16:20
Speaker 3: and then shifted gears and became an Olympic volleyball player. Nice,
16:26
Speaker 3: that's an interesting shn became like a firefighter and was
16:30
Speaker 3: on like played himself on the show Emergency, which is
16:33
Speaker 3: a big show, oh y seventies about the you know,
16:36
Speaker 3: the ems and the empts and the hospital people in California.
16:41
Speaker 2: And then he became one of the original Marlborough Men.
16:44
Speaker 3: She's like, oh, this guy's grandfather was one of the Like,
16:47
Speaker 3: he's like ten of the most interesting people century.
16:50
Speaker 1: Is he the do SIS guy? Those guys all the
16:52
Speaker 1: more interesting labs than we did in those eras. They
16:55
Speaker 1: did more at younger ages than we did. If you
16:57
Speaker 1: start looking up wikipedias through historical figures just in general.
17:01
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously he's what Marv Levy's a great exact
17:03
Speaker 1: look up what markin Levy's life was like, it was
17:05
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. All these people did more things than we did.
17:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know sam Donold's grandfather. You know, I
17:12
Speaker 2: didn't even know the story until we got this YouTube.
17:14
Speaker 2: But he didn't have to spend five hours a day
17:16
Speaker 2: doom scrolling.
17:17
Speaker 1: No, yeah, I didn't deal with that.
17:19
Speaker 2: A lot more time to do stuff and be productive.
17:20
Speaker 1: They were busy actually doing things.
17:22
Speaker 5: It was a lot easier to be productive when you
17:24
Speaker 5: weren't sitting there watching Get Ready with Me videos on TikTok.
17:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, ordering door dash and stuff like that.
17:30
Speaker 5: And we were diving through Frank Kurt Signetti's lifeline yesterday
17:34
Speaker 5: and his Wikipedia page. We're talking about some interesting folks
17:37
Speaker 5: that he backed up, Oliver Locke, Oliver Lucke who ended
17:41
Speaker 5: up being the commissioner of the UFL for a long time. Wow.
17:45
Speaker 5: There was also a Hall of Fame quarterback that was
17:47
Speaker 5: in there that that he backed up. His brother, by
17:50
Speaker 5: the way, was the quarterback the last quarterback coach Aaron
17:53
Speaker 5: Rodgers ever had in Green Bay when Frank Signetti Junior
17:58
Speaker 5: was brought in by Mike McCarthy Hilaire. When you can
18:00
Speaker 5: intertwine all those different parts of the webazing. Hey, Statman,
18:03
Speaker 5: Steve's got one for us.
18:05
Speaker 3: Last time the Bucks were five hundred was November twentieth,
18:07
Speaker 3: when they were eight and eight. They've gone ten to
18:10
Speaker 3: twenty since. Oh ouch.
18:15
Speaker 5: And the thing is, the crazy thing is it actually
18:18
Speaker 5: feels like they've played worse than that.
18:21
Speaker 1: Like, collectively, I think it feels like.
18:22
Speaker 5: They've almost played worse than that for some of the
18:25
Speaker 5: games that they've caught els In completely wiped off.
18:28
Speaker 1: That Lakers win that I all.
18:29
Speaker 2: Was so so excited about, exactly.
18:32
Speaker 3: I was excited about the Badgers persevering against Minnesota.
18:36
Speaker 2: Big game coming up tomorrow in the Ohio state. That's
18:38
Speaker 2: Brook Brighton's Buckeyes.
18:40
Speaker 3: Our buddy, Matt Lapey, the voice of the Badgers, is
18:42
Speaker 3: going to join us next and then after that, we
18:44
Speaker 3: got tickets for Luke Bryant September twenty.
18:45
Speaker 2: Six, our last pair to see the show at Alpine Val.
18:49
Speaker 3: Give you someone to look forward to at the end
18:50
Speaker 3: of summer, your last chance to win with us. Stay tuned,
18:54
Speaker 3: it's the Huddle on Fox Sports years Matt Lapey, Matt,
18:57
Speaker 3: thank you for joining us. We've been dying to talk
18:59
Speaker 3: to you ever since that second half comeback. That fifty
19:02
Speaker 3: burger that the Badgers put up against Minnesota very remarkable.
19:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, much better than the seventeen point first half that
19:10
Speaker 4: they poured on the go first this this team, guys
19:14
Speaker 4: had probably said this more than once. Greg Guard has
19:17
Speaker 4: said it more than once. Their best is really good,
19:20
Speaker 4: their worst is really bad. And you got to see
19:22
Speaker 4: all of that in two hours on Wednesday night. I mean,
19:25
Speaker 4: Minnesota just too. It's credit, it's shorthanded, including not having
19:29
Speaker 4: its leading score twenty points per game were unavailable with
19:33
Speaker 4: Kate Tyson being out, and they took it too. Was
19:36
Speaker 4: content in the first half. But fortunately for the Badgers,
19:39
Speaker 4: they whatever Greg Guard said, or maybe they just talked
19:43
Speaker 4: to themselves and said, we got to be a little
19:45
Speaker 4: better than this, and it turned into turned into quite again.
19:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, those halftime adjustmentshre worked.
19:52
Speaker 6: Yeah exactly.
19:53
Speaker 1: I thought how things can change, not only from game
19:56
Speaker 1: to game or half to half now, so there you go,
19:58
Speaker 1: or even from media timeout to media time out. Hey,
20:01
Speaker 1: progress isn't linear, so just hang on. Things will change.
20:04
Speaker 2: What was the flight like from Madison to Minneapolis for Nico?
20:08
Speaker 1: Like, what what was the I mean we should have
20:12
Speaker 1: been him at our place.
20:12
Speaker 2: We just lost this game. You got to be kidding.
20:15
Speaker 4: Huh. Well, if I'm him, I'm saving that name card
20:17
Speaker 4: where they misspelled his name. It's in Iko, not in Ico,
20:21
Speaker 4: and that's what got him a little uh joking but
20:24
Speaker 4: not really joking. So I probably I'd hang on to
20:27
Speaker 4: that for motivational purpose purposes. They've had a lot of
20:30
Speaker 4: gut punch losses, obviously two of them two Wisconsin they
20:34
Speaker 4: lost by a point to USC.
20:37
Speaker 6: You know, they've had a couple other games that they
20:39
Speaker 6: were right there.
20:39
Speaker 4: But it's just one of those years where they've had
20:42
Speaker 4: a lot of injuries. They lost two guys for the
20:44
Speaker 4: year earlier in the season, and then you know they've
20:48
Speaker 4: had they had nine available players on Wednesday night seven
20:53
Speaker 4: seven were on scholarship. So I do know it's a
20:55
Speaker 4: different world now. They're probably an'll get a little something
20:57
Speaker 4: for the effort with within I L and all that stuff.
20:59
Speaker 4: But it's just one of those tough seasons for them,
21:04
Speaker 4: I think though. But the way they've played with the
21:07
Speaker 4: lack of available bodies, I mean, this guy's good. He's
21:10
Speaker 4: carved a pretty good niche for himself, had a good
21:13
Speaker 4: run a Colorado State. He's a University of Minnesota graduate.
21:17
Speaker 4: When he gets something that resembles a full deck, I
21:20
Speaker 4: think they're.
21:21
Speaker 6: Going to be a problem.
21:22
Speaker 4: I do. I mean, you never know year to year.
21:24
Speaker 4: Now it's it's like it's like the NBA or the NFL.
21:27
Speaker 4: It's not game, it's a year to year deal, not
21:30
Speaker 4: knowing what your roster is going.
21:32
Speaker 6: To look like.
21:33
Speaker 4: But I think they've got the right guy out there.
21:35
Speaker 4: So if you're a Badger fan, enjoy the win. But
21:38
Speaker 4: i'd go easy on the Church. It's going to be
21:41
Speaker 4: interesting rivalry.
21:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, Now, he and Dusty May are the guys
21:45
Speaker 2: that kind of look like they have it figured out.
21:47
Speaker 5: They're they're figuring it out. And you could see Nego
21:49
Speaker 5: in the handshake line, Greg was it ready to give.
21:51
Speaker 2: Him a man those He's like, Greg, I appreciate it.
21:56
Speaker 6: I don't want to hear it.
21:56
Speaker 1: Now, right, I'm good. I'm good. I appreciate it.
21:59
Speaker 5: Thank you very There are hard fought battles, but that
22:01
Speaker 5: is tough, right, Like I think that's a tough place
22:03
Speaker 5: to win football or basketball.
22:06
Speaker 1: There's so much going on. It's a huge city.
22:08
Speaker 5: It's an awesome campus, great school, but like that's got
22:10
Speaker 5: to be a difficult place to be able to win
22:12
Speaker 5: unless you have institutional knowledge of it. And I think
22:16
Speaker 5: Matt again, maybe it's one time it works out, so
22:19
Speaker 5: everybody's going to go over on to the other side
22:21
Speaker 5: of we got to grab somebody that was a graduate
22:23
Speaker 5: that has a vested interest in the university. But for
22:26
Speaker 5: a school that kind of feels like you need to
22:29
Speaker 5: build something up, it does appear, and I always feel
22:31
Speaker 5: like it helps to have somebody that has real institutional
22:34
Speaker 5: knowledge of not only the good things about the school,
22:37
Speaker 5: but maybe the drawbacks and the things that you're going
22:39
Speaker 5: to have to really work around to be successful.
22:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Minnesota, I think Wisconsin to an extent,
22:46
Speaker 4: is one of those. You've got Greg Guard, you got
22:48
Speaker 4: Mark Johnson.
22:49
Speaker 6: You don't always have that. I mean Kelly Sheffield, the
22:51
Speaker 6: volleyball coach, Kate was somewhere else.
22:53
Speaker 1: You know.
22:53
Speaker 4: The football staff obviously has very limited Wisconsin background. Casey
22:59
Speaker 4: Robock assistant offensive line coach, and the great John Richter,
23:03
Speaker 4: the director of operations.
23:05
Speaker 1: Who's all juice team.
23:06
Speaker 4: He's the smartest guy, and he's smartest guy in the stadium.
23:09
Speaker 4: He's all of like twenty five, twenty six years old.
23:11
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think for a place like Minnesota, it
23:15
Speaker 4: does make sense. And the Billy you bring up an
23:16
Speaker 4: interesting point because I was talking about this earlier in
23:18
Speaker 4: the week with a couple of people. It is I mean,
23:21
Speaker 4: you know, Minnesota is a pretty good sized city. I mean,
23:24
Speaker 4: your team can be playing and you could have a
23:26
Speaker 4: wild you know, playing that same night over at Saint Paul.
23:28
Speaker 4: You could have the Woles playing, you know, just down
23:31
Speaker 4: the road. So it's more of a pro town. But
23:35
Speaker 4: I do think I've seen it. It's been a while,
23:38
Speaker 4: but I've seen it when when Gophers basketball is rolling
23:41
Speaker 4: and really have to go back to Clem Haskins, that
23:43
Speaker 4: place could be deafening. I mean, your ears are ringing
23:47
Speaker 4: leaving leaving Williams Arena. And you know when football, when PJ.
23:51
Speaker 4: Fleck has had some of his better teams and having
23:53
Speaker 4: more of their showcase games, they'll get into it. But
23:57
Speaker 4: I think you have to do the winning first, because
24:00
Speaker 4: you do have a lot of options in the Twin Cities.
24:02
Speaker 3: What was the conversation like at halftime between you and
24:05
Speaker 3: Butche and lev when you saw a seventeen point eight
24:09
Speaker 3: eighteen percent shooting performance, like, oh god, gallows humor.
24:14
Speaker 4: With him lev Les working with Sean Morris, who's one
24:17
Speaker 4: of the funniest dudes. You know, he's been on BTM forever.
24:20
Speaker 4: It was really good player at Northwestern, you know, back
24:22
Speaker 4: I guess in the eighties. But yeah, it was a
24:24
Speaker 4: lot of gallows humor. It was like, you know, he missed,
24:26
Speaker 4: he missed, he missed, he fell down.
24:29
Speaker 6: It's half time. They have seventeen boys, one of those
24:33
Speaker 6: and it's like it's one. We have these conversations a lot,
24:37
Speaker 6: but I've had.
24:37
Speaker 4: Them with coaches like don't you wish you could just
24:39
Speaker 4: say what you really wanted to say? So, yeah, we
24:41
Speaker 4: know it's our last one, just go ahead, and yeah.
24:45
Speaker 6: Weird.
24:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, the weird part is I've seen movies pretty similar
24:48
Speaker 4: to this with with Wisconsin basketball, were the first half
24:51
Speaker 4: they just stink it up and then they I've seen
24:54
Speaker 4: him with bo I've seen it with Bennett's teams and
24:57
Speaker 4: now and then with Greg Guard. So you know, was
24:59
Speaker 4: I shocked that they came back to win it. I
25:01
Speaker 4: can't say that I was, but it was a little
25:04
Speaker 4: eye popping. We were all reminded that is the largest
25:07
Speaker 4: comeback in the second half. That's a program history.
25:10
Speaker 1: That surprised me.
25:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, eighteen points, but I guess it's just proved positive
25:17
Speaker 4: that hardly any lead is safe or hardly any deficit
25:20
Speaker 4: as hopeless.
25:20
Speaker 6: So they did prove that well true.
25:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's instructive of a couple of things.
25:26
Speaker 1: A the kind of you know, schizophrenic nature of this
25:29
Speaker 1: team specifically, but also basketball and college basketball now is
25:33
Speaker 1: so much predicated on three point variants right where it
25:35
Speaker 1: can go extreme one way and extreme the other way
25:37
Speaker 1: if you're hitting or not hitting. And I think fans
25:41
Speaker 1: will underestimate how crucial will comeback. This was if we
25:44
Speaker 1: come selection Sunday time find the Badger somewhat near the bubble,
25:49
Speaker 1: because that would have been a kind of a painful
25:51
Speaker 1: loss in terms of the metrics. And I know I
25:53
Speaker 1: can already feel Billy roll in his eyes about selection
25:55
Speaker 1: Sunday talk in January. But if you look at the braggetology,
25:59
Speaker 1: I don't in the ten or nine scene right now
26:02
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it. You know that was not a
26:04
Speaker 1: loss you wanted to sustain. So coming back and avoiding
26:07
Speaker 1: that rake might turn out to be very crucial in
26:10
Speaker 1: six weeks.
26:11
Speaker 6: You are exactly right, Harman. You don't want.
26:14
Speaker 4: You don't want a loss like that, especially at home.
26:16
Speaker 4: And as Billy knows, tomorrow is a quad two opportunity.
26:19
Speaker 1: Yes he's writing stuff down.
26:21
Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, there will.
26:23
Speaker 4: Be some quad ones coming up with Indiana and Illinois
26:27
Speaker 4: and those those are the kind of games that you
26:30
Speaker 4: really want to get tomorrow as well. The Ohio State's
26:32
Speaker 4: in a similar situation. They're a notch behind wiscontent in
26:36
Speaker 4: the Big ten standings, but they're in that kind of
26:39
Speaker 4: second tier right now. I think Wisconsin is at the
26:42
Speaker 4: top of tier two. You obviously have Michigan Michigan States,
26:45
Speaker 4: and Nebraska and Illinois I know produced scuffling, but I'd
26:50
Speaker 4: still have them in that top move. And then Wisconsin
26:53
Speaker 4: is next in line with U C. L A and
26:56
Speaker 4: Ohio State pro Iowa. So this is a really big
27:00
Speaker 4: for Ohio State. It's a quad one chance, Billy, as
27:03
Speaker 4: you know, for the Buckeyes. So just based on how
27:06
Speaker 4: they figure out that stuff. I have to look at
27:08
Speaker 4: my little cheat sheet all the time.
27:10
Speaker 6: Is this a quad one, a quad two, it's.
27:12
Speaker 5: A really black jack book whatever whatever the dealer's facing up.
27:16
Speaker 5: All right, sweet, now it's a two for one, all right? Now,
27:18
Speaker 5: we gotta go to one opportunity here. I just look
27:21
Speaker 5: at the I look at the number, and again batting
27:24
Speaker 5: average guy. Maybe it is in baseball, but I look
27:26
Speaker 5: at the number in front of the name, and you
27:28
Speaker 5: mentioned the important ones coming up of Illinois, Michigan State.
27:32
Speaker 5: But that trip to Indiana, and I don't know if
27:34
Speaker 5: they can just bring out signetti every single time and
27:37
Speaker 5: ignite that place differently.
27:39
Speaker 1: But that's always been a.
27:40
Speaker 5: Tough place to play, So it does feel like a
27:42
Speaker 5: tough win to get week off and then a really
27:46
Speaker 5: difficult portion of the schedule fires up.
27:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tomorrow is huge, and I think it's really huge
27:51
Speaker 4: for these guys to get away for a couple of
27:53
Speaker 4: days too, because the push begins.
27:55
Speaker 6: When it starts up again, it's going to take him
27:57
Speaker 6: to the end of the season, whatever that is.
27:59
Speaker 4: They only have two home games in February, that is notable,
28:02
Speaker 4: but they only have three home games left period after tomorrow,
28:06
Speaker 4: So tomorrow starts the second half of the big ten
28:09
Speaker 4: portion of the schedule. But yeah, they've got a lot
28:12
Speaker 4: of you could say opportunities, you know, really big opportunities
28:15
Speaker 4: to improve the resume. As we sit right now, it's
28:19
Speaker 4: kind of like power rankings. When you have like bracketology
28:22
Speaker 4: sort of it is like right now there there, you
28:26
Speaker 4: would think that they're safely in or relatively safely in,
28:30
Speaker 4: but they know they have a lot of work to
28:32
Speaker 4: do to remove the words safely and just get themselves in,
28:35
Speaker 4: and they just want to play better and at a
28:37
Speaker 4: consistent level. They've won six out of seven that cannot
28:40
Speaker 4: be ignored. Here for the most part, they're playing at
28:44
Speaker 4: six seven.
28:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did, Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
28:47
Speaker 5: Man, even hanging out with Butch, you way too often
28:50
Speaker 5: he's hitting at six all the diamonds, us.
28:55
Speaker 6: I didn't even mean to do that. That's just the
28:57
Speaker 6: world we're in. So what a doubt blame.
28:58
Speaker 1: But avoiding ad losses is as important as getting big
29:02
Speaker 1: ones sometimes when you're building a tournament profile.
29:04
Speaker 3: So yeah, but Armin, your logic has not flowed on
29:06
Speaker 3: the Minnesota game, but it was compounded because of the
29:08
Speaker 3: flat the one blemish in this recent run.
29:11
Speaker 2: The USC game absolutely sound.
29:13
Speaker 1: They had to kind of repair that. So yeah, that
29:15
Speaker 1: was the thing.
29:16
Speaker 3: That's the one that got away now, and it would
29:18
Speaker 3: have been catastrophic to lose against Minnesota after that, because
29:21
Speaker 3: then you're digging out of a hole going into a
29:23
Speaker 3: tough stretch of schedule.
29:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, and USC had had one that it could have
29:27
Speaker 4: should have and didn't, lost by one the Iowa on
29:30
Speaker 4: Wednesday night. So they're I mean, they're just good enough,
29:32
Speaker 4: as was first hand. I mean, they've got twenty six
29:36
Speaker 4: year old Chad Baker Mazara. When he goes off, which
29:38
Speaker 4: he did and he's done a few times, including against Wisconsin.
29:42
Speaker 4: I mean, they're they're they're a talented team. I don't
29:45
Speaker 4: know being around him all season long that that might
29:48
Speaker 4: be interesting, but there there are.
29:50
Speaker 6: They are a talented group.
29:51
Speaker 4: And that's even without Gilbert Renez's son, who really hasn't
29:55
Speaker 4: played enough to to have a chance to live up
29:58
Speaker 4: to all the hype because he is very, very gifted player.
30:01
Speaker 5: All right, Matt, you're ready to take a real, real
30:03
Speaker 5: quick stroll with me into September. As we gallivance up
30:08
Speaker 5: to the press box the seventh floor at lambeau Field
30:11
Speaker 5: on a Sunday of Labor Day weekend, when CJ. Carr
30:14
Speaker 5: on the other side, I don't know, maybe throws two
30:15
Speaker 5: three picks, Colton Joseph throws two touchdowns, runs for two
30:19
Speaker 5: and all of a sudden with this Badger schedule. We
30:22
Speaker 5: had hot take hump down Wednesday. Now I did cushion
30:25
Speaker 5: it with the fact of could I see four and
30:28
Speaker 5: eight again? Sadly you can't, not right like you can
30:31
Speaker 5: always see bad stuff. But Matt, I really struggle to
30:34
Speaker 5: look at this schedule and I see eight or nine
30:36
Speaker 5: wins like it is, It is difficult for me to
30:39
Speaker 5: look at this schedule and not see a lot of
30:40
Speaker 5: opportunities for Badger football, especially especially you take advantage of
30:45
Speaker 5: Marcus Freeman with all this NFL conversation, How on earth
30:48
Speaker 5: can he be focused in nine months on this game
30:51
Speaker 5: at lambeau Field. You get that one, you beat up
30:54
Speaker 5: on the Mac teams, and then you spoil Matt Campbell's
30:57
Speaker 5: first game in the Big Ten. There's some Big Ten
31:00
Speaker 5: points in this football schedule, and the first two Big
31:02
Speaker 5: Ten games are so exciting to watch because you got
31:05
Speaker 5: first time head coaches in the Big Ten and their
31:07
Speaker 5: first three Big Ten games with Penn State, well, Michigan
31:10
Speaker 5: State obviously Fitzgerald's been in the Big Ten, but new
31:13
Speaker 5: coach at a new school and then the new coach
31:15
Speaker 5: at UCLA very interesting run for Wisconsin football.
31:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would think really important for this program to
31:22
Speaker 4: get off to a good start. You know, I'd love
31:24
Speaker 4: to say, Billy, that the schedule opens up for them.
31:27
Speaker 4: And when you don't play Michigan, Ohio, State, Indiana, Oregon,
31:30
Speaker 4: you think that's the case. But let's look at the
31:33
Speaker 4: flip side. Those opponents are saying, oh, we got wis
31:36
Speaker 4: concent on the schedule.
31:37
Speaker 1: Oh very much, so very much sleeping, sleeping.
31:42
Speaker 4: So and not knowing what the rosters are really going
31:46
Speaker 4: to look like. You know, we know that we ever
31:49
Speaker 4: getting familiar with the names. I'd be lineup, said, I
31:51
Speaker 4: knew all the names of the newcomers for for Wisconsin,
31:55
Speaker 4: and you know you're going to see the you know,
31:57
Speaker 4: the weightlifting videos on social media, which like whatever I think.
32:03
Speaker 6: More in January February asked all that that's that's great.
32:08
Speaker 4: I don't care. And in springball, you're going to take
32:13
Speaker 4: a look at some guys go okay, I see what
32:15
Speaker 4: they're talking about. We're not going to know until September.
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Speaker 4: It seems as though. And when you you hear lut
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Speaker 4: Fickle talk and different media uh interviews, they look like
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Speaker 4: they got their A list guys. You know the people
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Speaker 4: who they had most targeted because they have more resources with.
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Speaker 6: Which to do it. So that's good.
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Speaker 4: So we'll find out together about their you know, how
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Speaker 4: effective they are, and evaluating and then coaching when they
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Speaker 4: get here, because it's it is a lot of new faces,
32:45
Speaker 4: and you know, part of it is great to play
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Speaker 4: Notre Dame right away, and part of it is like,
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Speaker 4: would you rather have a by game first? But it does,
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Speaker 4: I would think for from an off season perspective. I've
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Speaker 4: heard this before through the years, when they occasionally they
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Speaker 4: have a big game to start the year, it helps.
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Speaker 4: It helps you, you know, those days where you don't
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Speaker 4: really feel like getting up at six in the morning
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Speaker 4: to hit the weight room. Oh you're playing Notre Dame. Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 4: we'll be there. So I'm kind of I'm pumping the
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Speaker 4: brakes on the hype train with these guys. I'm am
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Speaker 4: intrigued with Colton Joseph like any other Badgery fan probably
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Speaker 4: would be. But the offensive line is going to look
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Speaker 4: a lot different. I think they're running backs. There's some
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Speaker 4: intrigued there time, but I'm just like, Okay, let's see
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Speaker 4: these guys running around little bit in the spring and
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Speaker 4: then most importantly in the Fall.
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Speaker 6: So sorry, man, I mean I think, yeah, sorry.
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Speaker 1: Tough thing.
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Speaker 5: Tough thing is once we get into Fall, Matt, that
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Speaker 5: nine or eight to nine wins very quickly becomes ten.
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Speaker 5: But very very quickly, once you start seeing these pads clash,
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Speaker 5: very quickly becomes ten games.
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Speaker 6: We'll playoff. Talk in the conversation.
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Speaker 1: Listen, I don't know, I don't know.
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Speaker 5: If Joel Klatt gets his we're gonna get six teams
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Speaker 5: in the big ten battle it out, So you might
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Speaker 5: be at one.
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Speaker 1: Of those might playing games. Just might happen.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it was fun when they played at
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Speaker 2: LSU early.
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Speaker 1: That was a good time.
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Speaker 2: It was a good time in lambeau Field's Let's.
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Speaker 1: Run it back.
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Speaker 2: Let's run it back, man, have a great weekend, have
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Speaker 2: a great call with but you tomorrow.
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Speaker 6: All right, sounds good, guys, have a good one, right.
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Speaker 2: Badgers and buck guys tomorrow one o'clock.
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Speaker 6: Tip.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna be a tough sell.
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Speaker 5: I know that the eight to nine wins is gonna
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Speaker 5: be a tough sell. We gotta see some proof in
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Speaker 5: the pudding.
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Speaker 2: We'll take it.
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Speaker 3: But it'll be fun, all right, Luke Bryant tickets, We've
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Speaker 3: got our last pair to give away. That's coming up
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Speaker 3: next if you want to see him Alpine Valley. It's
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Speaker 3: the Word on the Street Tour September twenty sixth. Our
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Speaker 3: last pair of tickets giveaway is next. It's the Huddle
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Speaker 3: on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: Shy again