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03/13/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 3: a free form show. We're chopping it up, but we
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Speaker 3: did tease a big development Arman Starin's going to solve
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Speaker 3: the problems of the n Assault Double A and the
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Speaker 3: selection committee as it regards to the MAC and Miami
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Speaker 3: of Ohio. What do they call themselves now, Miami University
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Speaker 3: at Oxford, I don't remember, but Miami University, Miami University,
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Speaker 3: not Miami of Ohio, Miami University, Miami University of the
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Speaker 3: University of Miami that resides in Ohio.
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Speaker 5: I got in Coral Gables and this one is in Oxford, Ohio,
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Speaker 5: which is where all the rich, cute girls from Shaker
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Speaker 5: Heights go.
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Speaker 3: Oh is that true? Oh?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Ohio is regarded as like always been like an
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Speaker 5: underrated sleeper party school and a school with very attractive.
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Speaker 3: Co ed really.
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Speaker 6: Oh yes, I don't order that. I don't subscribe to
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Speaker 6: that booklet where.
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Speaker 3: It has always been one of the tops.
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Speaker 5: They don't have that one in international rich girls from
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Speaker 5: like the suburban Cleveland area and stuff.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, First of all, I want to thank
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Speaker 6: everybody as well on the YouTube comments stream on Twitter, Facebook,
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Speaker 6: We've got a lot of them today. I don't know
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Speaker 6: you know, it's great, Frida must be Friday the thirteenth,
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Speaker 6: maybe because we tease Brooke. I'm not really sure everyone's
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Speaker 6: checking in early. That's great, but yeah, we're gonna have
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Speaker 6: brook brighton on in about forty minutes. So yes, indeed,
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Speaker 6: so Miami of Ohio or a Miami University, Miami University.
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Speaker 3: Of Oxford, Ohio. Yeah, the Midwest Athletic Conference. So we
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Speaker 3: have a problem.
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Speaker 6: The committee has a problem that's been brewing for a
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Speaker 6: few weeks and how to deal with this Miami team
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Speaker 6: in terms of at large and not at large bind
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Speaker 6: and what should we do? And everyone's been arguing about
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Speaker 6: it and fighting about it, and it's all been kind
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Speaker 6: of coming to a head here when you get to
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Speaker 6: the MAC tournament. Would they get the automatic qualifier by
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Speaker 6: winning the mac tournament or you know they walked in
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Speaker 6: thirty one and oh to the MAC tournament And everyone's like,
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Speaker 6: all right, well, if they win this tournament, it's not
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Speaker 6: a debate.
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Speaker 3: They're gonna get their bid whatever, no problem.
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Speaker 6: And as I felt like, was gonna happen because that's
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Speaker 6: just the way these things work, that's just the way,
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Speaker 6: you know, it's Murphy's law. It's like, I bet they're
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Speaker 6: gonna go all the way to the tournament and lose
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Speaker 6: in the tournament because they've had plenty of close calls
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Speaker 6: along the way, and that's kind of part of the
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Speaker 6: discussion as we go along here. But lo and behold,
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Speaker 6: they roll up first game of the MAC Tournament, the
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Speaker 6: Mid American Conference, not the mid Athletic Atlantic Athletic.
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Speaker 3: There's two max.
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Speaker 6: They lose to UMass, all right, So we have a
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Speaker 6: problem here, right. On one hand, the question is at
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Speaker 6: large bid. They're thirty one and one, right, so you
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Speaker 6: say to yourself, well, listen, just based on that immutable reality,
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Speaker 6: there's a mutable truths here, they should get a bid. Right,
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Speaker 6: They're thirty one and one in college basketball. Based on
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Speaker 6: what we know and what we've grown up knowing about wins,
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Speaker 6: winning and losing in sports, they should just get an
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Speaker 6: at large bid.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 6: But this has been a problem all year because you
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Speaker 6: know of the metrics, right, They've got also other immutable facts.
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Speaker 6: They've got one of the worst non conference strength of
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Speaker 6: schedule in all of college basketball. The net rating of
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Speaker 6: their strength of schedule is one of the worst in
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Speaker 6: college basketball. So because of that, the you know, the
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Speaker 6: Ken Palm, the BARTRVIC, all the metrics, the quote unquote
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Speaker 6: nerd analytic nerds of the world don't seem to rate
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Speaker 6: the team very high. And the question is, look, this
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Speaker 6: has gotta they've got really low ratings. They really maybe
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Speaker 6: shouldn't get in that large bid, all right, so what
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Speaker 6: are we doing. It's upset people both sides of the aisle,
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Speaker 6: and I think I've come up with a solution to
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Speaker 6: satisfy everybody. It seems like the people that are really
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Speaker 6: upset about them not getting a bid potentially are it's
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Speaker 6: basically because they've won. They were undefeated going in and
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Speaker 6: they only have one loss, and they say, like, just
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Speaker 6: based on that.
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Speaker 3: You should get it. That is why people are upset.
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Speaker 3: So I think I think this would satisfy all people
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Speaker 3: right here. Let's the solution.
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Speaker 6: Status solution is you have that large bids and you
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Speaker 6: have automatic qualifiers already automatic qualifiers. Of course, winners of
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Speaker 6: the conference tournaments correct at large bids are selected by
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Speaker 6: the committee. We make an addendum to the college basketball
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Speaker 6: situation the Committee that we make an addendum that you
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Speaker 6: also give an automatic qualifier to any team that was
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Speaker 6: undefeated until their conference tournament automatic. Right, So let's say
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Speaker 6: you you have one loss, obviously, because you won every
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Speaker 6: other game that includes conference tournament winners. That is an addendum,
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Speaker 6: that is an automatic qualifier. Boom, problem solve for everybody.
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Speaker 3: Hold on, just throw that in there. Make that a
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Speaker 3: new rule.
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Speaker 6: If you went undefeated going into your conference tournament and
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Speaker 6: you have not won a and you didn't win your
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Speaker 6: conference tournament, that's an automatic qualifier. I think that solves
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Speaker 6: the problem for everybody. I think there's enough spots. I
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Speaker 6: think we can do it. I think one extras that.
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Speaker 3: Implied in the past, right, it wouldn't you would. This
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Speaker 3: game has changed. This game is has changed.
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Speaker 5: And you got a team with the three hundred and
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Speaker 5: forty fifth strength of schedule out of three hundred and
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Speaker 5: sixty claiming to be unbeaten in the regular season.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 6: A lot of their a lot of their wins for
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Speaker 6: the other side that were empty winds.
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Speaker 3: They were junk food wins.
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Speaker 6: If I get my child to eat fifteen times, but
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Speaker 6: she only eats candy and ice cream, did she really
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Speaker 6: get nutrition?
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Speaker 3: That's the argument on the other side. Billy, go ahead,
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Speaker 3: you were gonna say something. I thought what I was
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Speaker 3: gonna say, is out of all of this, yes, out
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Speaker 3: of all of this conversation where we explained what at
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Speaker 3: large bids were in conference championship winners, I said.
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Speaker 6: Too long?
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Speaker 3: Is that your whole rule? Your whole idea was create
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Speaker 3: a new rule forty eight hours before selection Sunday. Well,
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Speaker 3: then you're anyone bringing up what just added. You don't
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Speaker 3: just change the rules of two days before the selection.
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Speaker 3: Well not now, you do it in the future. I'm saying,
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Speaker 3: this is a solved this year.
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Speaker 6: Well, this is this is the issue that cropped up
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Speaker 6: this year, But this is a future solution to the
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Speaker 6: problem now, so we won't have this problem anymore.
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Speaker 3: Like he's driving down Mark de Rosa Boulevard. Wait a second,
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Speaker 3: solve it this year time. I have a way of
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Speaker 3: solving the Miami Ohios's the problem now for the future
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Speaker 3: going forward. So what do we do with Miami Ohio
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Speaker 3: this year?
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Speaker 6: Well that's a different issue. What we do is we
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Speaker 6: wait for the committee to decide. Now, I think they're
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Speaker 6: going to Dayton. I think they're going to Dayton. They're
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Speaker 6: going to Dayton.
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Speaker 3: They will be going to David.
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Speaker 6: The conversation, I'm saying, how can we solve this problem, right,
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Speaker 6: Miami is I just solved the problem. College basketball will
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Speaker 6: never have this problem again. Thank you, Armon. They can
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Speaker 6: thank me if they want.
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Speaker 3: I saw my god, Miami going into I don't think
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Speaker 3: is that crazy, Billy? I'm sorry.
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Speaker 6: Oh you thought I was going to give you an
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Speaker 6: issue to solve a problem now to solve No, there's no,
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Speaker 6: there's no way to solve it this year.
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Speaker 3: They either get me. It was up eleven with eight
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Speaker 3: minutes left and ghacked.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, they blew against you, and U mess Frank Martin's
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Speaker 5: their coach from South Carolina, coach, I.
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Speaker 3: Got news for you. They almost blew it like ten
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Speaker 3: times before. Well, yeah, Miami had one.
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Speaker 5: It's it's last three victories were by two points apiece,
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Speaker 5: and they had nine wins in overtime.
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Speaker 3: Or on the game's final possession.
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Speaker 5: Right, Miami of Ohio, Miami University of Oxford, Ohio. Kind
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Speaker 5: of like the twenty twenty five Bears, but you also.
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Speaker 3: Win a lot of games out of their urs. But
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Speaker 3: you do win the games like so games. Right, So
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Speaker 3: all right, I'm just trying to I'm just trying to
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Speaker 3: rap this is likely because what we're trying to figure
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Speaker 3: out is do we put him in? So we do
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Speaker 3: put him in. You put him in the first four games.
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Speaker 5: The last time Miami got in as an at large
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Speaker 5: was ninety nine with the Wally Zerbiaki era. That's right, mister,
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Speaker 5: he's mister panel.
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Speaker 6: Because the lowest Ken Pom team ever to get in
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Speaker 6: just really quick for a reference, was was twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 3: Temple got into ninety five. And when did he start
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Speaker 3: doing this this Ken Pom thing? I think ninety nineteen,
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Speaker 3: ninety nine or two thousand, I believe. So if we're
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Speaker 3: doing a tournament and we're doing an invitational, because this
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Speaker 3: is what it is, invitational, you're inviting teams.
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Speaker 6: Except for the automatic qualifiers, Yes, at large area, which could.
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Speaker 3: You explain the automatic qualifiers one more time? Conference tournament winners. Okay,
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Speaker 3: So that means when you play in the conference, win
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Speaker 3: the conference turnament, right, got it? Okay, Well that's the
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Speaker 3: old regular season conference. Well, if you're putting in a
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Speaker 3: team Drew and you're you're giving an at large bid,
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Speaker 3: and this is a I know people don't like to
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Speaker 3: say this, but it is the fact. This is a
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Speaker 3: television show Tuesday and Wednesday night and Dayton even more
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Speaker 3: so is a television show. Why on earth would you
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Speaker 3: not have the conversation of college basketball in the celebration
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Speaker 3: of all college hoops? Because what I get thrown back
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Speaker 3: at me when I dare say anything bad about not
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Speaker 3: just how amazing the NCAA Tournament is and it's the
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Speaker 3: greatest three weeks in sports and it's the greatest way
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Speaker 3: of solving a championship is you get upsets, You get
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Speaker 3: these upsets well, well, you get upsets well, then then
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Speaker 3: put in a team that has won thirty one times
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Speaker 3: and knows how to win, maybe they pull an upset.
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Speaker 3: Isn't that why we watch? We watch because we want
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Speaker 3: to see the upsets. Like, to me, it feels like
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Speaker 3: out of all the spirit of this tournament that everybody
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Speaker 3: gets so hell bent when anybody says one potential potential
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Speaker 3: pushback on it, put him in and add into the
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Speaker 3: television show, because it wouldn't It wouldn't be the twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty five twenty six college basketball season if you didn't
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Speaker 3: have them included it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think Miami and Auburn in the Dayton Round
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Speaker 6: would be great theater. I think it'd be fantastic theater.
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Speaker 6: I'd love to watch that. Shout out to Stephen forgiving
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Speaker 6: you that idea earlier. A lot of people have thrown
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Speaker 6: it in there, so yes, he wasn't the only first
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Speaker 6: one to have the idea.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I've seen it thousands of times.
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Speaker 6: It would be great theater if you want to know,
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Speaker 6: because Auburn's the quote unquote at large team everyone seems
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Speaker 6: to be arguing about, and it's pearl skin and all
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Speaker 6: these things, and he's talked about it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be great theater.
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Speaker 6: I think in general, you want to still, you know,
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Speaker 6: give the most deserving teams a slot, and that's the challenge.
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Speaker 3: But I have no problem with that. I really don't.
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Speaker 6: I think Miami's a legitimate bubble team, but I don't
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Speaker 6: think that just just on the merits of them getting
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Speaker 6: thirty one wins, they should be in the problem with
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Speaker 6: other sports, I mean, you brought up the Bears. College
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Speaker 6: basketball is different and every other sport because we have
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Speaker 6: three hundred and sixty five D one teams and they
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Speaker 6: can't all play the same teams, they can't all be equal.
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Speaker 6: We know that it's not like MLB or NFL where
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Speaker 6: everybody's kind of in the same league and playing everybody
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Speaker 6: and playing the same amount of games and playing the
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Speaker 6: same quality of teams. Generally, I understand strength of schedules
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Speaker 6: different for everybody.
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Speaker 3: And we know that. I mean, we know that.
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Speaker 6: I mean, listen, there's like thirty teams right now with
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Speaker 6: twenty wins, twenty one wins.
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Speaker 5: You have to different pretty weak bubble. So it's a
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Speaker 5: pretty good year to let Miami slide in.
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Speaker 3: Just put them in, Just put them in.
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Speaker 6: Teams win right, Well, Georgia Southern has twenty one wins,
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Speaker 6: Fairfield has twenty one wins.
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Speaker 3: It's not thirty one. I'm just making a point.
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Speaker 6: I mean, and Seaton all as twenty one wins, All right,
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Speaker 6: Kentucky has twenty one of those teams all the same quality.
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Speaker 3: No, we know that.
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Speaker 6: So once we all admit that to ourselves, then we
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Speaker 6: can try and move on to find a better way
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Speaker 6: to differentiate these teams. The people that have done analytics
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Speaker 6: have tried to do that with their different metrics, with math,
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Speaker 6: They're trying the best way possible to differentiate these.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so you've differentiated with math, how about we differentiated
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Speaker 3: with playing games? And one team has won almost every
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Speaker 3: single game that they play for the.
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Speaker 6: Reason I just stated, because you can't just go by
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Speaker 6: standings in a in a in a system that has
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Speaker 6: three hundred and sixty five teams, there's gonna be a
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Speaker 6: lot of teams that have a lot.
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Speaker 3: My problem is armon when all you're doing is throwing
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Speaker 3: in forty eight different math equations and nobody can fully
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Speaker 3: agree on what equation is. The is a barometer of
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Speaker 3: what is and who is the best team? Then maybe
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Speaker 3: what we throw back on is what the game is,
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Speaker 3: what we watch on the court, what what what maybe
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Speaker 3: you see on the floor and if you're winning some games,
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Speaker 3: all right, So so let's use tests as Miami best.
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Speaker 3: Anyone's I tests just no, I don't watch them. Well,
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Speaker 3: but everyone's so upset about it.
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Speaker 6: They should because because the teams like Miami, that's what
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Speaker 6: beaten three D two teams.
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Speaker 3: Just to say they have.
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Speaker 6: Thirty one wins in Miami twenty eight okay twenty eight, Yeah.
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Speaker 3: If you're Miami, you did try to schedule? No one would.
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Speaker 3: That's in Wisconsin schedule legitimate argument, so ja games.
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Speaker 5: So they played the games that they could get and
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Speaker 5: it's not their fault that you know their their schedule
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Speaker 5: was weak. Now, when the game question is what's the
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Speaker 5: bigger atrocity leaving out a thirty one and one Miami
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Speaker 5: University of Oxford, Ohio team or leaving out the ninth
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Speaker 5: Big Ten.
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Speaker 3: Team or SEC team?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, like you know Ohio State twenty one and eleven,
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Speaker 5: twelve and eight in the league with Ohio State pound
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Speaker 5: their in state rival Miami. Yeah, probably sure, but that's
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Speaker 5: not what I've heard. That's not but that's not what
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Speaker 5: the tournament's about. Isn't the turning about a reward for
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Speaker 5: the regular season and shouldn't they be rewarded? And though
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Speaker 5: the setup is now this is the old uh, it's
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Speaker 5: a spin off of the old overtime in the NFL argument,
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Speaker 5: we'll stop them. You know, you had sixty minutes to
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Speaker 5: win the game, stop them at other time and like
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Speaker 5: I'm like, well, no, it doesn't make sense that only
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Speaker 5: one team gets the ball. And then that was yeah,
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Speaker 5: but stop them, win the game, win your conference tournament,
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Speaker 5: and you're in Well, and that's the thing I mean
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Speaker 5: you prescribe, that's right, mid Majors, is to win your conference.
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Speaker 6: And that's what to your point to the to the wins,
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Speaker 6: and you leave it to so it is a weak bubble,
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Speaker 6: and I don't think that was committee could put them in.
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Speaker 6: You said that it's all about you know, we go
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Speaker 6: what's on the court, we win the games, right, we
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Speaker 6: go with what we see, and you had everyone has
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Speaker 6: their chance to win every d one team can win
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Speaker 6: their way to a national title.
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Speaker 3: Every team.
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Speaker 6: You know, you can win your conference tournament, get your
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Speaker 6: automatic qualifier, and then win the tournament.
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Speaker 3: Well yeah, but but now they didn't. So now that's story.
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Speaker 6: Well but you told me that what matters is what
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Speaker 6: they do on the court, Well they didn't get it
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Speaker 6: done in the court. Well, when it mattered, they did
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Speaker 6: not get it done here, and that's fine.
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Speaker 5: The thing though, to me, it's like the the automatic
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Speaker 5: bid puts you in ink in the bracket, and what
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Speaker 5: Miami is looking for now is that's what Dayton was
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Speaker 5: created for.
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Speaker 3: Why did we need six?
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Speaker 6: That's why I put them in Dayton so they that's
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Speaker 6: the case to me is we have Yeah, you're getting in.
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Speaker 5: You're playing in Dayton to get in so that we
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Speaker 5: can finally put you in an ink on the bracket
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Speaker 5: that we print out instead of like tea. Right, So
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Speaker 5: that's yes to me logically, Dayton was created for stuff
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Speaker 5: like this, not to get into shoehorn in that ninth
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Speaker 5: Big ten or.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't need to see a nineteen win u
16:12
Speaker 3: c l A going playing Dayton. Now great, it's whatever,
16:14
Speaker 3: But again it's a television show. So what do you think?
16:17
Speaker 3: What do you think is going to draw the biggest number?
16:19
Speaker 3: I mean, all due respect market.
16:21
Speaker 5: With UCLA or do I want the Oxford, Ohio market? Yeah,
16:25
Speaker 5: suburban Cleveland.
16:26
Speaker 3: I think that's what's the better chance that you get
16:28
Speaker 3: on talk shows Miami of Ohio is playing. I think
16:32
Speaker 3: that being some random Texas A and m going up
16:36
Speaker 3: against Auburn, that's the big story.
16:37
Speaker 6: I mean, that's that's what people are in Miami will
16:40
Speaker 6: have a lot of them support from people that didn't
16:42
Speaker 6: care about that.
16:42
Speaker 3: I also just this if anybody is now. The part
16:47
Speaker 3: that I really struggle in is I think a lot
16:49
Speaker 3: of the people that are gate keeping the NCAA tournament
16:51
Speaker 3: here and frustrated we can't put these guys in. We
16:53
Speaker 3: can't put these guys in with the same guys Drew
16:55
Speaker 3: that were bitching and moaning when Florida State didn't get
16:58
Speaker 3: in a couple of years ago. But they aren't. They
17:02
Speaker 3: won games. They won their games. They won their games
17:04
Speaker 3: in front of us, all right, so what what what's
17:06
Speaker 3: the differences? James Madison thing right, But they definitely weren't
17:09
Speaker 3: one of the best four teams. That's right, they weren't.
17:10
Speaker 3: But they definitely weren't going to be one of the
17:12
Speaker 3: best four teams after Jordan Travis was hurt. But they
17:14
Speaker 3: were baked. What does it matter? What matter they were?
17:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's it's it's the ongoing challenge we have
17:19
Speaker 6: with college sports in football.
17:21
Speaker 3: Seven three gets you in. I do like six o
17:26
Speaker 3: eight did say, wow, Arman, maybe you should try a
17:29
Speaker 3: career as a politician after that. Phillips, Yeah, he does
17:32
Speaker 3: have politics in his family. I just set it up.
17:35
Speaker 6: I just set it up properly. That that's my only
17:37
Speaker 6: took like five minutes, all right. I just set it
17:38
Speaker 6: up properly. Had to tell us all what you know
17:41
Speaker 6: we had. We just had to get a couple of
17:42
Speaker 6: definitions in there.
17:43
Speaker 3: I'm glad that you separated the different Max school the
17:46
Speaker 3: different MAC conferences. I did think there was a moment
17:49
Speaker 3: where you're going to list every single I didn't do
17:51
Speaker 3: that automatic qualifying conference that was going to be in there.
17:53
Speaker 3: I didn't do that. I didn't do that. The one
17:56
Speaker 3: funny thing about it.
17:57
Speaker 6: And Seth Davis, who's nobody's favorite these days on Twitter,
18:00
Speaker 6: but he did point this out that it's tradition for
18:03
Speaker 6: the conferences to give their automatic qualifier to the conference
18:06
Speaker 6: tournament winner, but they technically aren't required to do that.
18:10
Speaker 6: There's no edict I believe in the NCAA that requires that.
18:13
Speaker 6: So some conference could go rogue and give it to
18:15
Speaker 6: they wouldn't do that, but.
18:16
Speaker 5: Give it to the regular season chance. Why do we
18:19
Speaker 5: have a conference tournament?
18:20
Speaker 3: The IVY League used to do this.
18:21
Speaker 6: They were the last team to create a tournament, and
18:24
Speaker 6: that's because they were they were so upset that they
18:26
Speaker 6: weren't getting the conference tournament TV run, then everybody else
18:30
Speaker 6: was because they gave it to the regular season champs.
18:33
Speaker 3: So who knows, maybe maybe this will Maybe it's a
18:37
Speaker 3: list of atrocities though.
18:39
Speaker 5: If Miami gets left out of the field and can't,
18:42
Speaker 5: First of all, for me, it's like that's what Dayton
18:44
Speaker 5: was created for for exactly this kind of circumstance. They
18:47
Speaker 5: should be one of the extra four playing and Dayton
18:49
Speaker 5: to get it.
18:49
Speaker 3: If they don't get in drum boyc tournament. I'm not
18:51
Speaker 3: launching it right.
18:53
Speaker 5: And then the bigger atrocity to me is like again,
18:55
Speaker 5: we talked about it with the high school tournaments when
18:58
Speaker 5: they went like it used to be divisions like Whitefish
19:01
Speaker 5: Base playing in the girls championship led by Rowan Council,
19:04
Speaker 5: the Caitlin Clark of the North Shore, they're playing today
19:08
Speaker 5: and they're in Division two. Like they have an enrollment
19:11
Speaker 5: just a click under a thousand. I was gonna say
19:13
Speaker 5: just under hind ninety or something of that. So their
19:15
Speaker 5: Division two back in the day, it was all good
19:17
Speaker 5: when they were Division one competing against bigger schools. And
19:21
Speaker 5: when we went to only four teams from Division one
19:24
Speaker 5: make it the state instead of eight, we lost a
19:27
Speaker 5: lot of good teams at the sectional round. And did
19:30
Speaker 5: we need five divisions in state high school basketball to
19:34
Speaker 5: let all these little schools have their moment? Like why
19:37
Speaker 5: couldn't they swing it to get into Division three? Why
19:39
Speaker 5: did we need five? Why did we need to water
19:41
Speaker 5: it down that way and penalize the good teams?
19:45
Speaker 3: And it was a better tournament when we had eight
19:47
Speaker 3: of the bigger schools in well and two you had
19:50
Speaker 3: a better product. Well, and you also still had eight
19:52
Speaker 3: teams from Division three which were going to be battle
19:55
Speaker 3: of rounds for the enrollment of what four or five hundreds?
19:58
Speaker 5: No, it was always eight for for Division one and
20:00
Speaker 5: then four for the other one. Okay, got it, Okay,
20:03
Speaker 5: so it was a little bit more. They weaned it
20:05
Speaker 5: that way, sure, but now we've gone the other way
20:08
Speaker 5: where you know how much what's the difference between enrollment
20:11
Speaker 5: and Division five.
20:12
Speaker 3: And Division four.
20:13
Speaker 5: Well, end with the stark and it's kind of silly,
20:16
Speaker 5: sent into arbitrary, and then how.
20:17
Speaker 3: The competitive balance and a perennial powerhouse with one of
20:23
Speaker 3: the you know, Bill Young and a stream of Division
20:26
Speaker 3: one recruits like like somehow they're Division three, like what
20:29
Speaker 3: are we doing well? And then they count they find ways, so, oh, well,
20:32
Speaker 3: we're gonna change it because if you're all so dominant
20:35
Speaker 3: one spot, we're gonna move you up. Okay, Well, that
20:37
Speaker 3: that doesn't necessarily that's not fair to Rice Lake. Just
20:40
Speaker 3: because they're beating the brakes off everybody doesn't mean they
20:42
Speaker 3: got to go play Schools that have five hundred, six
20:44
Speaker 3: hundred kids more atrocities. Atrocities abound, and they don't necessarily like, yeah,
20:49
Speaker 3: I should, I'll hold off at Stevens Point is just
20:53
Speaker 3: sitting there and just enjoying all of this conversation.
20:55
Speaker 5: I imagine, Yep, exactly, all right. When we come back,
20:58
Speaker 5: Dolf's gonna fire us up for half. We're gonna get
21:00
Speaker 5: our weather report from Brook Brighton of Spectrum News.
21:03
Speaker 3: She's a favorite on the pro she's excited, she's excited.
21:05
Speaker 3: She's a Buckeye too. She just said, can't wait to
21:07
Speaker 3: break it all down. But she was at Camp Randle
21:09
Speaker 3: this week. I love it. She was at Camp Randle
21:11
Speaker 3: this week. Had a little tease of what's going on. Standy,
21:13
Speaker 3: We'll talk to Brook Brighton coming up at six forty.
21:15
Speaker 3: Dolph is up next.
21:15
Speaker 5: It's halftime of the Friday edition of The Huddle on
21:18
Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
21:26
Speaker 3: The Huddle continues from headquarters.
21:28
Speaker 5: Drew Wilson, Billy Schmid, armand sorry, and we welcome our
21:30
Speaker 5: pal Scott Dolphin from the country station on the hall.
21:32
Speaker 5: It's halftime of our show and Dolph, we're having a
21:35
Speaker 5: discussion about Miami University of Oxford, Ohio losing yesterday the
21:40
Speaker 5: perfect season over. Do they belong in the field of
21:43
Speaker 5: sixty eight and you were a humble estimation.
21:46
Speaker 2: I was with the fellas last night on Wing Night
21:48
Speaker 2: at the bar, and we had this discussion, and most
21:51
Speaker 2: of the guys say, yeah, absolutely, they should be in
21:53
Speaker 2: at thirty one and one or whatever they are. I disagree.
21:56
Speaker 2: I watched a couple of their games this year. They
22:00
Speaker 2: eat that good. I saw them struggle with was it
22:03
Speaker 2: Toledo a couple of weeks by teams they won like
22:06
Speaker 2: what eight nine games?
22:07
Speaker 3: The odds on or I think Toledo or Akron. Maybe
22:10
Speaker 3: Akron was the odds on favorite to win that conference tournament. Okay,
22:14
Speaker 3: well I don't know.
22:15
Speaker 2: I mean, you look at Miami's resume, what what jumps
22:18
Speaker 2: out at you that says, yeah, absolutely put him in
22:20
Speaker 2: other than the fact that the record is still wins.
22:23
Speaker 6: But that's what But that must People will say that's
22:25
Speaker 6: some matters in sports, and I get both sides of it,
22:28
Speaker 6: immutable truths on both sides.
22:29
Speaker 3: That was why I spent six minutes, three and.
22:32
Speaker 5: Forty fifth on strength to schedule out of like three
22:34
Speaker 5: hundred and sixty or something.
22:36
Speaker 2: I know this a couple of years ago, or maybe
22:37
Speaker 2: it was last year. Indiana State went thirty one and
22:40
Speaker 2: three and had a much better resume and they didn't
22:42
Speaker 2: get in.
22:42
Speaker 3: So I mean that's when they had kream Abdul Jabbartu. Yeah,
22:47
Speaker 3: he was awesome. I think. So it's awesome.
22:50
Speaker 6: You mean Dan, Well, back then it was there was
22:52
Speaker 6: a difference. Now you have a dairy bird. That's our guy.
22:54
Speaker 5: It's the the James Madison experience in the football side
22:59
Speaker 5: of things.
22:59
Speaker 3: Is that people's opinions of what should happen. Well, no,
23:02
Speaker 3: because I was called everything under the sun that all
23:06
Speaker 3: you just don't care about is everybody else that plays
23:08
Speaker 3: football that they should have a chance. And then it
23:11
Speaker 3: was degrading Drew and I said that we should give
23:14
Speaker 3: a group of five national championship that they could compete
23:17
Speaker 3: for that you could actually win. And now this one
23:20
Speaker 3: is also like the situation if there was a if
23:22
Speaker 3: there was a mid major national championship. Guess what I
23:25
Speaker 3: think a lot of us would watch if there was
23:27
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty teams that are battling through here.
23:29
Speaker 3: But then what I'm told is the greatest way of
23:33
Speaker 3: solving every championship in the NCAA tournament wouldn't be the same. Like,
23:36
Speaker 3: if you want upsets, put them in they got a
23:38
Speaker 3: better chance of giving an upset. I would think, yeah,
23:42
Speaker 3: I PI Florida State. They did be a Trinity Christian
23:44
Speaker 3: and Milligan. Okay, so give them talking about Miami. Yeah,
23:47
Speaker 3: all right, go.
23:48
Speaker 2: You know, in football, obviously apples and oranges, and with
23:52
Speaker 2: those teams, we knew they were run. We knew they
23:54
Speaker 2: were gonna get smoked. When they get a basketball is
23:56
Speaker 2: a completely different animal. And these teams can pull up sets.
23:59
Speaker 2: And if Miami gets in, it wouldn't surprise me to
24:01
Speaker 2: see them. It was beat whatever, what would they be
24:04
Speaker 2: If they get they're gonna be in the play And
24:06
Speaker 2: if they get in, yeah, well.
24:06
Speaker 5: That's that's and to me, it's like that's the answer.
24:09
Speaker 5: It's like, that's why the extra the Dayton was created
24:13
Speaker 5: for teams like this.
24:13
Speaker 3: It is, and teams are out and Sweet sixteen before.
24:17
Speaker 5: And so they should go first to Dayton and that's
24:20
Speaker 5: where the committee should put them. And it's like end
24:21
Speaker 5: of discussion. Then they get their league. So they're gonna
24:24
Speaker 5: slide in two teams this year and then you know,
24:27
Speaker 5: and then the rest for the rest of the time,
24:28
Speaker 5: they'll get one.
24:29
Speaker 2: And then you got Miami, which is probably not too
24:31
Speaker 2: far from Dayton, right, so they probably have a raucous
24:35
Speaker 2: crowds whoever they're playing.
24:38
Speaker 3: Let them go and luckily that we won't have any
24:40
Speaker 3: of these conversations and issues when they go to seventy eight.
24:42
Speaker 5: But I yeah, exactly because eighty and eighty two will complain.
24:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, Bruce Pearl was complaining. Auburn lost yesterday,
24:50
Speaker 2: So that conversation's over.
24:52
Speaker 3: What about the old how about the how about the
24:55
Speaker 3: bigger picture?
24:55
Speaker 5: We get rid of conference tournaments and start the tournament,
24:58
Speaker 5: let everybody in and you're conferen tournament is the beginning
25:01
Speaker 5: of the tournament.
25:02
Speaker 3: You get eliminated, and then you're not in anymore. How
25:04
Speaker 3: many rounds would that be with three hundred pick?
25:06
Speaker 6: See?
25:06
Speaker 3: But I also like these more like I like the
25:08
Speaker 3: conference championship week a lot more than next week. There's
25:11
Speaker 3: so many more games, there's so much more action than
25:14
Speaker 3: just the the twelve or fourteen sixteen games. Certain conferce
25:18
Speaker 3: championships are awesome.
25:19
Speaker 5: I try not to be hypocritical, and I was always
25:21
Speaker 5: kind of anti back in the Boise State days. Yeah,
25:24
Speaker 5: they're cute team, they got the blue field, but they
25:26
Speaker 5: don't belong like in this and they don't belong getting
25:29
Speaker 5: a taking a What would their record be if they
25:31
Speaker 5: were in the Big Ten or the SEC.
25:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, grinding and out every weekday, it wouldn't be you
25:36
Speaker 3: know where they were. And there's your argument, and that's
25:39
Speaker 3: the thing.
25:39
Speaker 5: But with Miami and the basketball tournament, to me, when
25:42
Speaker 5: they went from sixty four to sixty eight, this was
25:44
Speaker 5: why this is they should be one of the teams
25:46
Speaker 5: in Dayton. And that's like, that's what you allow for
25:49
Speaker 5: rather than squeezing in the tenth or eleventh Big Ten team.
25:53
Speaker 2: Have you looked at any of the bracketology with Lonardi
25:56
Speaker 2: and those guys, is it are they in right now
25:58
Speaker 2: or are they out?
25:59
Speaker 3: I try to avoid that. I know yesterday they were
26:03
Speaker 3: ten or eleven. Yeah yeah, yeah, so you know.
26:05
Speaker 2: And those guys are usually pretty accurate with one or
26:08
Speaker 2: two exceptions, so we'll see what happened.
26:10
Speaker 5: I don't think they want the smoke. I think they're
26:12
Speaker 5: gonna let him out. They don't want that's exactly that's
26:14
Speaker 5: what they're trying to avoid the smoke. And again, like
26:17
Speaker 5: we'll take it from some team that's like eighteen and
26:20
Speaker 5: twelve in the in the SEC or Big Ten, you're
26:24
Speaker 5: gonna have to wear it and go to the n
26:26
Speaker 5: and suck it up.
26:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, who was it last night at Florida State?
26:28
Speaker 2: Was you know, almost knocked off Duke last night and
26:30
Speaker 2: went right down to the wire. And they're one of
26:32
Speaker 2: those teams that's whatever well in twelve eighteen, so.
26:34
Speaker 3: For the longest time they're old. Head coach Leonard Hamilton
26:37
Speaker 3: was the one that told Brian Butch, well, you guys
26:40
Speaker 3: just don't understand. You don't get it. You guys don't
26:42
Speaker 3: get it. You media guys don't get it. There's a
26:44
Speaker 3: lot of really good basketball teams out here. There's a
26:46
Speaker 3: lot of teams that deserved me the in tournament golf.
26:48
Speaker 3: His solution was one hundred and twenty eight teams made
26:50
Speaker 3: it so.
26:52
Speaker 2: That would add one more round, or basically just a
26:55
Speaker 2: little more round than twice the amount of teams.
26:57
Speaker 3: They're way too many good teams. That's way too many
26:59
Speaker 3: good games. I almost had to pick Brian Butch up
27:03
Speaker 3: off the floor when Leonard Hamilton gave him that idea.
27:07
Speaker 2: That'd be a tall task, Billy, Wow, if you're picking
27:10
Speaker 2: up off the floor.
27:11
Speaker 3: It would have been tough. It would have been It
27:12
Speaker 3: would have been rough, but I would have had because
27:14
Speaker 3: he was. I also had to be a little bit
27:16
Speaker 3: of a bouncer in between the two folks to be
27:19
Speaker 3: able to hold that back when he gave the you
27:21
Speaker 3: don't know ball deal. But I just if indeed it's if,
27:25
Speaker 3: Indeed it's drama. Indeed it's views and eyeballs and ears
27:29
Speaker 3: throw them in. Yeah, I just I'm also excited to
27:32
Speaker 3: see if they would beat somebody, how mad their alumni
27:36
Speaker 3: base would be right, Like, I just want them to
27:39
Speaker 3: line up against the team that then we could hear
27:41
Speaker 3: their boosters gripe about because they paid somethin.
27:44
Speaker 6: I think you want to play them if you if
27:46
Speaker 6: you're for a couple of reasons, you're gonna get eyeballs
27:48
Speaker 6: on you.
27:48
Speaker 3: And I think it's a it's a much easier matchup
27:51
Speaker 3: thin they're that good.
27:52
Speaker 6: I think they're gonna get beat big. Now, who knows,
27:54
Speaker 6: I could be wrong. In college basketball, it.
27:56
Speaker 2: Is anything had happened, Arman, and so they're gonna get
27:58
Speaker 2: one of those Power five.
28:00
Speaker 3: I have schools.
28:00
Speaker 2: That's you know, down there in ninth or tenth place
28:03
Speaker 2: in one of their conferences, and uh yeah, yeah, they're
28:06
Speaker 2: probably gonna get beat.
28:07
Speaker 3: But I guess that's why you play the game.
28:08
Speaker 5: I heard someone in uh, one of one of our
28:11
Speaker 5: colleagues in Minneapolis. So you want people to care about
28:13
Speaker 5: the n i T, have Minnesota play Saint Thomas. The
28:16
Speaker 5: Fighting Tommy's were at the top of the Summit League.
28:19
Speaker 3: They weren't. They didn't.
28:19
Speaker 5: The record wasn't as pristine as Miami of Ohio. But
28:21
Speaker 5: then they got beat by North Dakota and the semifinals
28:24
Speaker 5: and the North Dakota ended up winning right in North
28:26
Speaker 5: Dakota state, So there was an upset there. But they
28:29
Speaker 5: were ahead of the league and they had the best
28:31
Speaker 5: record and stuff, and now they're not making it.
28:32
Speaker 2: I think the only other D one basketball team in
28:35
Speaker 2: the state of Minnesota.
28:37
Speaker 3: They might be huh, I think they might be. Yeah,
28:39
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think, but I believe you're correct. So
28:41
Speaker 3: that would be.
28:42
Speaker 5: And that's what the NIT creates. They look for stuff
28:44
Speaker 5: like that so lot. So yeah, that there you go.
28:46
Speaker 5: That's a pretty good first round match. It's not much
28:48
Speaker 5: funnest Soda against Thomas, not much. You're let down that
28:51
Speaker 5: you're there.
28:52
Speaker 2: I've heard stories about, you know, before our time that
28:54
Speaker 2: the n i T was just as important as the
28:55
Speaker 2: NCAA track in the day Al McGuire went to the
28:58
Speaker 2: n I t instead of going.
28:58
Speaker 3: To the NCV.
29:00
Speaker 5: Yeah, back in the prehistoric days. And there was a
29:03
Speaker 5: time when, yeah, we argued about this, you know, eight
29:06
Speaker 5: years ago, about what would you rather do if you're
29:08
Speaker 5: a coach. Would you rather win the NIT and get
29:10
Speaker 5: that development and the confidence and the juice playing a
29:12
Speaker 5: Madison square garden or get knocked out in Dayton before
29:15
Speaker 5: you're even on the actual bracket of sixty four? What's
29:18
Speaker 5: better for your program? And we got mixed reviews on
29:21
Speaker 5: that one.
29:23
Speaker 3: Steve Lapis, Steve, take me to Dayton.
29:26
Speaker 5: The posters want the tournament, they want the NCAA tournament'
29:29
Speaker 5: like yeah, but the development and the winning Like then the.
29:31
Speaker 3: Next year, what does that do for you?
29:32
Speaker 2: If you're a team like Marquette this year and they
29:34
Speaker 2: were happened, they happened to get to seventeen fifteen, it's
29:37
Speaker 2: probably better for them.
29:38
Speaker 3: They would never say it.
29:39
Speaker 2: You always want to go to the dance always, but
29:41
Speaker 2: going to getting maybe three or four extra games for
29:43
Speaker 2: those young guys would be invaluable.
29:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe, maybe not. I don't know.
29:46
Speaker 6: It depends on how you look at it. What is success?
29:48
Speaker 6: What is and yeah? What's valuable? Because you might lose
29:51
Speaker 6: those guys anyway these days, so I'm not really sure
29:53
Speaker 6: it matters anymore.
29:54
Speaker 3: You might as well just take your confidence.
29:56
Speaker 2: Man.
29:57
Speaker 3: Marquet's got mark endless.
29:58
Speaker 6: No money, yeah go there no football going to be
30:01
Speaker 6: playing anymore this year in the CBO.
30:03
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think so. The CBI costs money to enter.
30:06
Speaker 5: That's a losing proposition. Yeah, that's wild, all right? Anything
30:10
Speaker 5: else on the radar, Dolph, other than snow? Mcgeddon, How
30:12
Speaker 5: are we going to handle Monday here?
30:14
Speaker 2: And it's gonna be wild? They still don't. They can't
30:16
Speaker 2: put a finger on this thing. They said it could
30:17
Speaker 2: be a foot of snow in central Wisconsin around here, it's.
30:20
Speaker 3: Gonna be wind, it's gonna be rain, it's gonna be a.
30:22
Speaker 2: Lot of I don't know if it's gonna rain or snow. Yeah,
30:24
Speaker 2: and and snow, so God, who knows, I don't know.
30:27
Speaker 2: It's Wendy right now, is doing my walk This morning.
30:29
Speaker 2: I thought the roof was gonna come off this place.
30:30
Speaker 2: It was talking to me. It was groaning.
30:32
Speaker 5: Oh it's nuts, No, that was just Billy.
30:36
Speaker 3: I was sorry.
30:36
Speaker 5: I apologize Billy after his breakfast.
30:39
Speaker 3: Hey, who do you got tonight? USA? Or Canada?
30:42
Speaker 7: Dolf?
30:42
Speaker 2: Come on, Coagan went up against Michael Soroka, Usa, us.
30:47
Speaker 3: A crapping out Maple. Who do you got? We got Usa?
30:53
Speaker 3: We got?
30:53
Speaker 5: Well, I wouldn't have taken Italy and look what they did?
30:55
Speaker 5: All right, I'm on Italy this week. Yeah, who's Italy got?
30:58
Speaker 5: They got the Puerto Rico be Puerto Rico. Okay, Japan
31:01
Speaker 5: and Venezuela.
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Speaker 3: It's a good game.
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Speaker 2: You got to se William can frais in action, Panz
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Speaker 2: only day and and uh I assume Churio is playing
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Speaker 2: for Venezuela's there's.
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Speaker 3: Some good matchups. Dominican against Korea starts it all off.
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Speaker 3: Any chance to watch the Dominican Republic play baseball? I'm
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Speaker 3: taking always, Sam taking up every single time. And those
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Speaker 3: guys are a treat. What six to seven? All starts? Wait?
31:20
Speaker 3: Too much fun?
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Speaker 5: Hey, when we come back, brook Brighton is gonna Jonas,
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Speaker 5: we'll talk about that Storprider coming.
31:26
Speaker 3: The show gets brighter.
31:26
Speaker 5: Brook Brighton's gonna talk to us, try to steer her
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Speaker 5: away from Ohio State talk, but we will talk tout
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Speaker 5: our pal Brook Brighton from Spectrum News One. Next, it's
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Speaker 5: the Huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. We are huddled up
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Speaker 5: on a Friday in the good Land, Drew, Billy and
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Speaker 5: Arman bringing it to you state wide everywhere in the
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Speaker 5: iHeart apps, streaming live faith X and we welcome to
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Speaker 5: the program. Our friend, our returning champion is with us.
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Speaker 5: Brook Brighton from Spectrum News is One. Brooke, thanks for
32:01
Speaker 5: joining us. We know you're pretty busy today. You're stealing
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Speaker 5: a lot of the airtime from the conference basketball tournaments
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Speaker 5: and stuff.
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Speaker 3: You know, I know it's our.
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Speaker 4: Own march madness across the Badger State. When it comes
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Speaker 4: to weather this weekend, I do you're.
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Speaker 6: Giving us the bat two of the radar and everything
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Speaker 6: like that, and the time last I'm enjoying that.
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Speaker 3: I really am.
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Speaker 7: Oh good and I'm glad.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's already after this morning windy for today and
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Speaker 4: then just that winter storm.
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Speaker 3: So one of my one of my duties here that
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Speaker 3: a self appointed duties on the radio show as I
32:30
Speaker 3: go out and watch the sunrise during one of the
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Speaker 3: commercial breaks, so I go out and check out. Well,
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Speaker 3: thank you, Brooke, I appreciate NEI a little happiness Neil.
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Speaker 5: Look, that's because we're in a studio with no windows.
32:38
Speaker 5: We have to walk down to see see what's happening.
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Speaker 3: Right, and you waking up far earlier than us, you
32:44
Speaker 3: understand what that battle will be. I didn't even think
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Speaker 3: I was gonna be able to open the back door
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Speaker 3: again because of the wind tunnel we got going on here.
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Speaker 3: How much is this going to change what we could
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Speaker 3: see this weekend?
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Speaker 7: Well, the wind for today not changing anything. That's just
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Speaker 7: with desist. I'm moving through.
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Speaker 4: So the rest today wing us up to sixty miles
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Speaker 4: per hour. When I was walking into work this morning,
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Speaker 4: it felt like the wind was knocked out of me.
33:08
Speaker 4: I mean, that's how strong it is. You're just trying
33:09
Speaker 4: to stay upright walking outside.
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Speaker 7: So, but this is just part one. There's a lot
33:14
Speaker 7: more to come.
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Speaker 3: Oh Dan, what this is like?
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Speaker 5: The trilogy trilogy Part two and three looked like And
33:20
Speaker 5: this is one of those where it's hard enough to
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Speaker 5: do forecast and stuff, but there's a lot of variables
33:23
Speaker 5: in this system. And you're broadcasting you're a statewide Joe
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Speaker 5: as are week so you're broadcasting different parts like they're
33:29
Speaker 5: already getting snow up in Meryl and Wsaw and Central Wisconsin,
33:33
Speaker 5: according to our correspondence here.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we were showing off Ryan Lander Airport
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Speaker 4: this morning. There was just this one employee with this
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Speaker 4: small little snowblower trying to keep up with all the snow.
33:45
Speaker 4: It's whipping around, completely different conditions compared to southern wiscons
33:48
Speaker 4: which is pretty cloudy and overall quite aside from the
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Speaker 4: wind at the moment.
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, he is so my man was just
33:55
Speaker 3: out there with an Errands trying to clear off the
33:57
Speaker 3: runway so that they could get that jet up into
33:59
Speaker 3: the air.
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Speaker 7: You could just tell he's like, I love my life.
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Speaker 7: I love my life. Trying to get through that I.
34:05
Speaker 3: Love my What about your life?
34:07
Speaker 5: Brook Brighton joining a Spectrum News one weather, So what
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Speaker 5: about your life?
34:10
Speaker 3: This week? This is the high stakes.
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Speaker 5: Everybody wants to know what's gonna happen, and you don't
34:14
Speaker 5: really know for like when will you know and have
34:17
Speaker 5: a really good confident idea of what's gonna happen to
34:21
Speaker 5: us here, especially in the Milwaukee Madison the I ninety
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Speaker 5: four corridor on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Luckily, as we get closer to tomorrow night and
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Speaker 4: to Sunday, that's one we'll really get a good picture
34:32
Speaker 4: of what to expect. I was actually just working on
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Speaker 4: a snowfall forecast map just now. Northern Wisconsin getting a
34:41
Speaker 4: lot of snow. I'd say likely parts of northern Wisconsin
34:45
Speaker 4: will be seeing over a foot of snow.
34:47
Speaker 7: Now.
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Speaker 4: Southern Wisconsin, including the Greater Milwaukee area, a little bit
34:51
Speaker 4: of a different story as right now models are indicating
34:54
Speaker 4: that we could start off with more of rain and
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Speaker 4: wintry mix as been too early Sunday, which would limit snow.
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Speaker 4: But we are definitely going to be seeing snow Sunday
35:04
Speaker 4: night through Mondays, and that's going to impact our travel
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Speaker 4: plans during that time period.
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Speaker 3: How difficult was it when you get people sending you
35:11
Speaker 3: comments and different messages saying, Brook, my phone's telling me
35:15
Speaker 3: it's going to snow thirty nine inches of snow. What
35:18
Speaker 3: am I supposed to do with this? How what are
35:20
Speaker 3: we doing here? How frustrating is that for you? And
35:22
Speaker 3: you're like, hey, we're seven days out. Let me actually
35:25
Speaker 3: get some understanding. Then we'll get you the actual forecast
35:28
Speaker 3: in a couple of days.
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Speaker 4: My phone was blowing up all week long, and I
35:33
Speaker 4: appreciate their coming to me with kind of asking questions
35:37
Speaker 4: like this seems significant.
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Speaker 3: That's good, right, right, that's good.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. I love when they ask the questions.
35:44
Speaker 4: Then I'm here to say, calm down, We're going to
35:47
Speaker 4: monitor this.
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Speaker 7: I kind of compare it to March Madness.
35:50
Speaker 4: With the brackets seven days out, you kind of get
35:54
Speaker 4: an idea of what kind of track weather systems typically take,
35:59
Speaker 4: and as you get farther along into the tournament, you
36:01
Speaker 4: see which models or teams are performing well, and it
36:05
Speaker 4: is getting closer to the big dance, that final championship game.
36:09
Speaker 4: Like okay, I put all my marvels in on this
36:11
Speaker 4: team winning it all, or just saying what the snowfall
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Speaker 4: forecast is.
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Speaker 7: Going to be.
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Speaker 3: I like that. Brich just gave me some advice for
36:17
Speaker 3: the potto odomy sports. But that sounds like, well, that's
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Speaker 3: what I'm talking about, Brook. What gets your juices flowing
36:23
Speaker 3: more this morning?
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Speaker 5: This storm that's impending that you're trying to predict and
36:27
Speaker 5: nail down, or the fact that Ohio State's playing Michigan
36:29
Speaker 5: and basketball had four hours both.
36:32
Speaker 4: Are stressing me out to the max. I think I'm
36:35
Speaker 4: very focused on the water this weekend. I think help well,
36:39
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, March Madness is going to be
36:40
Speaker 4: my time to just cool off and destress.
36:43
Speaker 7: But no, it's not. That game is going to be stressful.
36:46
Speaker 7: And I know my brother who went to Michigan is
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Speaker 7: going to say, told.
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Speaker 3: You so, yeah, oh so you got in the family
36:53
Speaker 3: the school down south awesome.
36:56
Speaker 4: And then my mom went to Illinois. So we'll see
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Speaker 4: the Badgers game going on.
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Speaker 7: How that unfold?
37:03
Speaker 3: So how do you how do you work that into
37:05
Speaker 3: the forecast? Do you just like try to block out
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Speaker 3: the ms because they kind of start the most important
37:11
Speaker 3: cities that you're covering.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely hard to do. Definitely try to do
37:15
Speaker 4: that around football season. But hey, maybe for how to
37:18
Speaker 4: State Wednesday, we got to bring it back.
37:22
Speaker 5: All right, So Brooke, this is going to be one
37:23
Speaker 5: of those things where Saturday is going to be pretty
37:25
Speaker 5: clean and then we wait to see what happens on Sunday.
37:27
Speaker 5: How hard we're gonna get hit. We're gonna get hit
37:29
Speaker 5: in some way some former fashion. Is this the kind
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Speaker 5: of storm that we should go stock up on bottled
37:33
Speaker 5: water and toilet paper and necessities?
37:35
Speaker 3: Will we be seeing that?
37:38
Speaker 4: I think for southeastern Wisconsin you will be able to
37:41
Speaker 4: find time to get outdoors tomorrow. So that's great news
37:43
Speaker 4: for the Save Patrick Staye parades going on, and even
37:46
Speaker 4: with the rain and wintry mix to start early Sunday,
37:49
Speaker 4: you should be fine with travel plans.
37:51
Speaker 7: Overall.
37:52
Speaker 4: It's going to be Sunday night into Monday morning. If
37:54
Speaker 4: you can hold off on travel, I'd recommend doing so,
37:57
Speaker 4: just because snow coming down, windy conditions.
37:59
Speaker 7: Are turns of visibility is going to be low for
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Speaker 7: this event.
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Speaker 6: We had a question from a just man about the
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Speaker 6: Madison area. Is that much of the same you mentioned
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Speaker 6: the southern part of the state. I'm assuming there might
38:09
Speaker 6: be some differences, but generally similar.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's looking and trending like a similar forecast for
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Speaker 4: south central and southeastern Wisconsin. It's mainly going to be
38:18
Speaker 4: central in northern Wisconsin where it's definitely going to be
38:20
Speaker 4: consistent snowfall from Saturday evening through Monday, We're really going
38:24
Speaker 4: to be seeing some of the highest snow amounts near
38:26
Speaker 4: Walsaw and Ryan Lander.
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Speaker 5: All Right, so you're trying to decide what's going to
38:30
Speaker 5: happen in the next like forty eight hours, how about
38:33
Speaker 5: the next six weeks?
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Speaker 3: Is this winter's last gas let's go.
38:36
Speaker 5: That's what we're talking arm and Billy, like, run the
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Speaker 5: gas out of the snowblowers now and be confident that
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Speaker 5: this will be the last like major event we have
38:43
Speaker 5: to worry about.
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Speaker 7: Fingers crossed. I'm hoping so sure.
38:48
Speaker 4: We're still going to be seeing some chances for snow
38:50
Speaker 4: here and there leading into April, but it's looking like
38:54
Speaker 4: we're trending warmer into next week.
38:56
Speaker 7: Hopefully you get those spring like fibes back.
38:58
Speaker 3: That'd be awesome.
38:59
Speaker 5: And this is the I've talked about this before every
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Speaker 5: year during the state high school either boys or girls tournament,
39:03
Speaker 5: that's this last dumping and then a two days later
39:06
Speaker 5: it's going to be forty and the snow will disappear quickly,
39:09
Speaker 5: and then you're in the whole conundrum of de ice
39:10
Speaker 5: snow blow or just let nature take care of this,
39:13
Speaker 5: you know.
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Speaker 3: Well, and how does it not ever happen where this
39:17
Speaker 3: would happen on like Thursday night into Friday, where you
39:20
Speaker 3: would get the built in then snow day on day
39:23
Speaker 3: two of the NCAA tournament. See, we got to work
39:24
Speaker 3: with mother nature. We gotta get we gotta get her
39:27
Speaker 3: the schedule, Brooke, And then I think she would help
39:30
Speaker 3: us out a little bit more right, always accommodating from
39:32
Speaker 3: what I've read about her.
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Speaker 4: Well, I'm sure students would love if that would impact
39:36
Speaker 4: in March Manis tournaments so they could stay at home
39:38
Speaker 4: and watch all the games.
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Speaker 3: It would help me. It would have helped me out
39:41
Speaker 3: change a lot of different you know, attendance records back
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Speaker 3: in the day.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, absolutely so, all right, depending on where you are,
39:48
Speaker 5: it's just hunker down. But Sunday it's a Monday and
39:51
Speaker 5: we're here like as you are. We'll be working Monday
39:53
Speaker 5: at five am, so our commute could be a little
39:55
Speaker 5: bit of a white knuckle ride on on Monday morning.
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Speaker 4: Definitely allow extra time for that Monday morning commute across
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Speaker 4: the entire state because visibility is going to be low,
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Speaker 4: and I guarantee it's going to take a lot longer
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Speaker 4: than usual to get to wherever.
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Speaker 7: It is you need to go.
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Speaker 3: A lot of times we're out in front of the plows.
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Speaker 3: I was going to say, yeah, we're starting one of
40:13
Speaker 3: the courses, which kind of helps Brook. Did I see
40:15
Speaker 3: you over at Camp Randall Stadium? Are we are you?
40:18
Speaker 3: We got some cooking up here? What are we? What
40:20
Speaker 3: are we working on here. We got not yet ready
40:22
Speaker 3: to release yet I can.
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Speaker 7: Talk about it.
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Speaker 4: So we're having a severe Weather special come middle of April,
40:29
Speaker 4: and my topic is regarding the big events happening spring
40:32
Speaker 4: and summer months, like the concerts and football games of
40:35
Speaker 4: Camp Randall. Maybe talking to other big venues of what
40:39
Speaker 4: their severe weather safety plan is for concert goers and fants.
40:42
Speaker 3: That's awesome, all right, Wasn't there like they get tested
40:45
Speaker 3: that every once in a while too often?
40:47
Speaker 5: Didn't the Morgan Wallin show occur in a downpour with
40:50
Speaker 5: some thunder boomers and stuff.
40:52
Speaker 4: And that was the reason why we had to talk
40:54
Speaker 4: to Camp Randall the come on.
40:57
Speaker 3: I thought, That's what I thought, Brooke, Uh, will there
41:00
Speaker 3: be any do you just like silence all the notifications
41:03
Speaker 3: now for this weekend because everybody does want it. We
41:05
Speaker 3: appreciate you answering the call. Thank you very much, and
41:07
Speaker 3: we're we apologize. One of these times. We're gonna call
41:10
Speaker 3: you when it's gonna be like Sonny in seventy so
41:12
Speaker 3: you can give us a little bit.
41:12
Speaker 7: Of talk about sports. Yes, no, please reach out to me.
41:19
Speaker 7: I'm a weather nerd.
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Speaker 4: So I'll definitely be keeping up with this event. And
41:23
Speaker 4: want to keep everyone safe. Also, I'll be interested to
41:27
Speaker 4: see some of the snow reports and snow pictures that
41:30
Speaker 4: get from across the sea.
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Speaker 6: We'll get a lot, a lot of measurements. People love
41:34
Speaker 6: talking about that, and we love what. I got twelve
41:36
Speaker 6: inches in my backyard and I got.
41:38
Speaker 3: That a couple of inches. It's gonna be like a
41:41
Speaker 3: fish story.
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Speaker 1: Attend.
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Speaker 3: I had thirty one inches of snow. See my yard
41:44
Speaker 3: stick that I brought out here for it.
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Speaker 5: Brook, Thank you for joining us. Always a treat. We
41:48
Speaker 5: appreciate it, of course. Thanks and good luck to your
41:51
Speaker 5: buck guys against Michigan.
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Speaker 7: We shall see and go Badgers too.
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Speaker 3: All right, we will both be on the same team.
41:57
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