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02/19/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 2: Why left Banks three ninety sick bag be Inn see punk,
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Speaker 5: It's a great professional out there and playing this ball
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Speaker 5: game like I know you can play it.
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Speaker 1: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid. Oh my god, this
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Speaker 1: man's been out all night. Armand sorry don't get skins,
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Speaker 3: And it's the final hour of the huddle on this
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Speaker 3: Thursday morning, February nineteen. Thanks for waking up with us,
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Speaker 3: whether you're in Milwaukee or Madison. Drew and Billy are out.
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Speaker 3: Armand is still here, but Hunter Bomguard Andrew Ludwig in
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Speaker 3: for the guys this morning. As we discuss the hold
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Speaker 3: period of topics so far, we've talked, yeah, for sure, Olympics,
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Speaker 3: of course, the women's hockey team going for the United
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Speaker 3: States going for the gold medal today against Canada. That's
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Speaker 3: a twelve ten start. Jordan Stole's going for another gold medal.
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Speaker 3: That's at nine point thirty this morning. The men's hockey
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Speaker 3: team getting a win over Sweden, so they are going
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Speaker 3: to be playing in the semi finals. That is coming
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Speaker 3: up tomorrow. So we've talked some Olympics. Also talked about
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Speaker 3: Doug gottlie being suspended by the Horizon League for one
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Speaker 3: game for his criticism of the referees. We've discussed Pat
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Speaker 3: Murphy's really just speech that'll fire you up to start
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Speaker 3: spring training as their first game for the Brewers coming
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Speaker 3: up on Saturday. They've been doing workouts in Arizona throughout
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Speaker 3: the week. And then of course we talked with Scott Dolphin.
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Speaker 3: The Summerfest lineup is out for very exciting those music fans,
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Speaker 3: those Summerfest fans. We found out at the time that
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Speaker 3: it was coming out, it was coming out.
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Speaker 1: Love right exactly. I knew it is today and then
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I just Scott when I would not have
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Speaker 1: expected that early. So I'm glad.
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Speaker 5: I'm glad it happened right when we were on. So yeah,
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Speaker 5: talking about Doug gottlieb as well. Can you imagine a
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Speaker 5: sports radio guys got a show suspension every time they
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Speaker 5: criticize an official, We'd.
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Speaker 1: Never have anybody on the air, we'd never be.
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Speaker 5: Working, we'd be stacking up those suspension days incredibly. So yeah,
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Speaker 5: a lot going on already today, thanks to everyone that's
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Speaker 5: been jumping in with us over the air. Of course
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Speaker 5: Fox Sports nine twenty Milwaukee or ten seventy if you're
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Speaker 1: We're here.
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Speaker 5: You know, you can see us in all of our
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Speaker 5: our glory in the early morning glory and we have
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Speaker 5: we have been the four and four. Given Luddy a
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Speaker 5: shout out. Let's figure it out, Luddymber, you're figuring out days.
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Speaker 5: Good to see what the boys this morning. Nice to
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Speaker 5: get those shout outs as well. Boss Dobbler, who as
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Speaker 5: you guys. If you guys been following the Dobbler saga,
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Speaker 5: he just was Dobbler and then and he's evolved into
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Speaker 5: Boss Dobbler with he was criticizing arm promotion. He asked
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Speaker 5: about Marquette. We didn't mention Marquette yet they didn't. It
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Speaker 5: was unfortunate last night and five SURFD to Saint John's.
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Speaker 5: They were fighting, very good game performance. I thought they
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Speaker 5: were down at half eight or ten whatever it was.
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Speaker 5: Came back to the lead in the second half, couldn't
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Speaker 5: unfortunately finish it off, lost by six. It was close
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Speaker 5: near the down the stretch. He said he couldn't find
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Speaker 5: him on the tube last night. I think they were
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Speaker 5: on TNT, TNT, they were on Turner last night. I
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Speaker 5: was at the arena obviously hosting admirals at the same time,
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Speaker 5: so I wasn't able to watch. But some bright spots
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Speaker 5: though for Marquette in this, you know, in this season
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Speaker 5: of struggle.
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Speaker 1: Was this the season? Was this the type of season
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Speaker 1: you expected? I didn't.
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Speaker 5: I expected. I did expect kind of a what's the
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Speaker 5: right word here? I expected sort of a down cycransition year,
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Speaker 5: that transition year, because they were losing so many good
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Speaker 5: seniors from that have been with the team, so many
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Speaker 5: stalwarts from great teams, so there was going to be
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Speaker 5: a reset in that sense. There were, you know, a
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Speaker 5: couple hold over ved Terrans, Ben Gold Chase Ross, So
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Speaker 5: I guess I was hopeful that they'd be a little
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Speaker 5: bit better than this one. Didn't expect them to struggle
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Speaker 5: this much. I think what hurt Marquette early on is
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Speaker 5: they caught a lot of close losses if you remember,
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Speaker 5: you know, and and they kind of set the momentum
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Speaker 5: for the year, and they've just struggled since then. But
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Speaker 5: they've been looking better I've thought, and showing growth the
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Speaker 5: last few weeks.
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Speaker 1: So last night was another good example.
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Speaker 5: Couldn't get the win unfortunately, but they've had some better
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Speaker 5: performances but bright spots. Nigel James Junior, the freshman, has
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Speaker 5: been fantastic. He had a top ten sports in our
5:31
Speaker 5: top ten players to last night with an incredible, incredible
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Speaker 5: athletic layup he was. He was defying gravity a little
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Speaker 5: bit with the nice up and under his scoop. So
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Speaker 5: he's been a lot of fun to watch. There have
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Speaker 5: been some bright spots with him and Adrian Stevens, the
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Speaker 5: other guard, so definitely some bright spots with the future
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Speaker 5: of market can hang on to in this era. So
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Speaker 5: it's been kind of a downcycle season, but I think
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Speaker 5: they're showing some growth here in February, so that you're
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Speaker 5: just trying to hang on to some positives for the
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Speaker 5: Marque Goldenage this year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the biggest thing that I've seen here in
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Speaker 3: the last week or so out of Marquette is the
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Speaker 3: story that sounds like Shaka is going to be more
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Speaker 3: open to that transfer portal.
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Speaker 1: That's the big thing.
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Speaker 5: This was enough to be This was a Discovery year
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Speaker 5: right guys for Marquette, because Shaka had famously kind of
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Speaker 5: been the one guy to rebuke the transfer portal era
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Speaker 5: in terms of he's like, you know what, we're gonna
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Speaker 5: recruit the old way. We're gonna see how it works.
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Speaker 5: We're gonna trust our guys, we're gonna develop our guys.
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Speaker 5: We're gonna take care of our guys in terms of nil,
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Speaker 5: but we're not gonna be doing the portal thing.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately.
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Speaker 5: I always say this, Everyone loves everyone loves the principle,
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Speaker 5: Everyone loves the standards.
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Speaker 1: Everyone loves principles and sports.
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Speaker 5: Until your team stops winning and then it's like how
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Speaker 5: much can we put up with losing? And as we
6:44
Speaker 5: know in college sports, guys, patience is gonna wear thin
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Speaker 5: now on fan bases if you don't win a hurry
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Speaker 5: because it's a new era, it's a portal era. So
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Speaker 5: Marquettes kind of said, hey, look we're open for business.
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Speaker 5: And I'd take credit to them, Shaka and Broker and
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Speaker 5: all the Mark Mike Broker and all the guys there
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Speaker 5: on Twelfth and Wells that are saying, look here here's
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Speaker 5: the thing. We wanted to do it this way. We
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Speaker 5: wanted to do it the old school way. We wanted
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Speaker 5: to develop our program, our players. We thought we'd like
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Speaker 5: to win that way, and we thought if we could,
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Speaker 5: our fans would appreciate it. Yeah, and I think all
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Speaker 5: those things are true, but they have not. Unfortunately, once
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Speaker 5: that great group of seniors, you know, Kolea, cam Jones,
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Speaker 5: Stevie Mitchell. Oh, so all those guys, oh Max migrated
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Speaker 5: onto the NBA are different spots.
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Speaker 1: David Joplin.
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Speaker 5: Of course, the Brookfield Native after such a great group
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Speaker 5: of guys, that's a unit that's always going to sustain,
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Speaker 5: kind of came through.
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Speaker 1: They haven't been able to kind of replennge.
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Speaker 5: So it's like it's one of those situations where it's like, Okay,
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Speaker 5: well we're gonna try now because we want to make
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Speaker 5: sure we put a great product in the court and
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Speaker 5: win for our fans. So you have to give him
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Speaker 5: credit for kind of pivoting and doing the about phase.
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Speaker 6: Do you remember when Luke Fickle took over, It was
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Speaker 6: a similar sentiment. At that point, you know, we're not
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Speaker 6: going to be the people that live in the portal.
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Speaker 6: We're going to grow and develop this thing. A year
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Speaker 6: or two later, he basically said no, I'm sorry, I
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Speaker 6: was wrong without saying I'm wrong. And I think that
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Speaker 6: this is probably where Shaka and Marquett's at. But it's
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Speaker 6: easier to probably retain and do it at the basketball
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Speaker 6: level there's less dudes on a team. But yeah, in
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Speaker 6: this era, though, how do you how do you sustain it?
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Speaker 2: How do you not?
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Speaker 5: If winning is important enough to you, you have to
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Speaker 5: try and find a way. Because I think the other
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Speaker 5: thing was the intentions were noble. I think they think
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Speaker 5: they thought this is the right way to run a program.
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Speaker 5: We want to try and do that. And when it worked,
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Speaker 5: it was great.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: Markett had had had a nice unit obviously.
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Speaker 5: Group of guys, but once they matriculated, it was like,
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Speaker 5: can this sustain now the discovery period starts? Where where
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Speaker 5: what will happen now after these guys graduate and they've struggled?
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Speaker 1: So, you know, that's the thing.
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Speaker 5: Everybody wants a standard and a and a you know,
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Speaker 5: program principle, but everybody wants to win. And that's the
8:51
Speaker 5: reality of it. When you keep score. As long as
8:53
Speaker 5: we keep score, winning is going to be important. And uh,
8:56
Speaker 5: we'll only take loose for so long, I guess. So
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Speaker 5: we'll see how that. We'll see how things go. Now
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Speaker 5: it's uncharted territory. Guys in college sports, as you know,
9:03
Speaker 5: Lu and Hunters.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I got out of college sports, college basketball, college football,
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Speaker 6: player coaching d one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: In twenty twenty, the transfer portal was becoming a thing.
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Speaker 6: And year after I think it was a year three
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Speaker 6: at that point, and it had doubled the amount of
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Speaker 6: kids at that point, and so you saw that that
9:18
Speaker 6: thing was taking off. You had heard the rumblings of
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Speaker 6: NIL And I remember joking with a coach who had
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Speaker 6: been a former player. I said, coach G, if you
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Speaker 6: would have had endorsements, which places in town would you have?
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Speaker 6: You know, sure, it's not even close to that. It's
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Speaker 6: just dudes getting money to go play. It's not coach
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Speaker 6: Bureaunick or coach G at the time. He's coached G now,
9:38
Speaker 6: but he was Galen Bureaunick the player at the time.
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Speaker 6: He wouldn't have had flag staff Toyota, you know, like
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Speaker 6: it would have just been it would just would have been.
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Speaker 1: A check to coach G from the collective lake. I'm
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Speaker 1: so glad I'm not a part of it.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I got my taste of college sports from
9:52
Speaker 6: twenty sixteen to twenty twenty college football and college basketball.
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Speaker 6: And I didn't have to deal with the BS of this.
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Speaker 6: I mean, it's something that it of ruined it for me.
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Speaker 6: That's one that I think that's why you're seeing fans.
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Speaker 6: You're seeing a guy like Jeff Haffley who obviously was
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Speaker 6: gonna rise, but he goes to the NFL right to
10:08
Speaker 6: be defensive coordinated after he was leading a program in
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Speaker 6: Boston College. And obviously he was talented enough to then
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Speaker 6: rise quickly in the NFL and get to a head
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Speaker 6: coach of the Dolphins. Now, but you just saw the
10:17
Speaker 6: Northern Illinois head coach take a job with the Seattle
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Speaker 6: Seahawks as an assistant.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so and and so he's over there. Now
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Speaker 3: you're seeing that a little more and more. And Kelly
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Speaker 3: right giving up being a head coach.
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Speaker 1: To go to OC. We just had the story about
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Speaker 1: the Northern Illinois. He doesn't like, he doesn't he doesn't
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Speaker 1: like recruiting. That's a story.
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Speaker 3: I'm blanking that Billy had this story. Thomas Hammock. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
10:40
Speaker 3: did you mention, Yeah, going back to the Yeah, So
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Speaker 3: it's like it's you're seeing that more and more because
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Speaker 3: it's just the the landscape in college is changing. I mean,
10:48
Speaker 3: speaking of Doug Gottlieb, he was he was talking to
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Speaker 3: the media yesterday and told a story about how he
10:55
Speaker 3: was He called a player during the summer during the
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Speaker 3: off season, one of his players, I think a senior
11:00
Speaker 3: it's coming back to be a senior, and he called
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Speaker 3: him and said, hey, hey, where are you. He's like,
11:05
Speaker 3: I am at a Brewer game and he's like, well,
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Speaker 3: you just uh. He was at a Burger game with
11:08
Speaker 3: his dad and he said, well, tell dad, you'll pay
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Speaker 3: for the ticket. And he's like what, And Doug's like, well,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna pay you this much this coming year this,
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Speaker 3: and guys like I just want to win. I don't really,
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Speaker 3: I don't care about that if you need that money
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Speaker 3: to go pay someone else. But he's literally like, I
11:23
Speaker 3: mean that's how this this is working. It's like a
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Speaker 3: coach can call a player and say, hey, I got
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Speaker 3: some extra money for you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, It's like, let's let's be honest.
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Speaker 6: Though this was happening in college basketball specifically before this,
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Speaker 6: now the coaches are just going okay, now I can
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Speaker 6: legally just make these phone calls as opposed to and
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Speaker 6: drop off the cash at some Walmart and Tucson, Arizona.
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Speaker 5: Wasn't at me at the lower levels though, the mid
11:48
Speaker 5: major level of lower because like, yes, okay, but you
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Speaker 5: think of it. At the high major level, there's big
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Speaker 5: time boosters pay under the table. I don't think everyone
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Speaker 5: was doing it, luddy. I'm just saying I don't think
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Speaker 5: everyone was doing it where.
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Speaker 1: Now everyone as everyone was not.
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Speaker 5: Now everyone has to find money like to pay now
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Speaker 5: you have to.
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Speaker 6: And I think that's why some coaches, even though they
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Speaker 6: don't have a great record, are staying at colleges because
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Speaker 6: they're able to go into boosters and go, hey, can
12:17
Speaker 6: I get a check for fifty grand? And they give
12:18
Speaker 6: him seventy five grand, you know what I mean? And
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Speaker 6: that's maybe why they're they have a losing record and
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Speaker 6: they've still been a coach for him.
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Speaker 5: I do think it's interesting, though, how coaches will continue
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Speaker 5: to motivate players. Once upon a time, the currency wasn't money,
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Speaker 5: it was playing time right in a lot of ways,
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Speaker 5: like how much time do you have to offer me?
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Speaker 5: When guys are getting recruited? It's like how many seniors
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Speaker 5: are graduating. How much playing time is there? And that's
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Speaker 5: how a lot of programs that didn't have the same
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Speaker 5: reputation would get good recruits is they had playing time
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Speaker 5: to offer.
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Speaker 1: We can make you a starter right away, right, well,
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Speaker 1: think about this. Now you have one thing to hold
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Speaker 1: over their head that you never had before. Money.
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Speaker 6: Okay, if you're not gonna do what I'm gonna do,
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Speaker 6: sit down on the bench. This is a business now,
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Speaker 6: a business more than it is school. But now let's
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Speaker 6: be honest, but now it really is. But then it
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Speaker 6: becomes one. And how do they get paid? If they're
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Speaker 6: paid up front, you don't have that power. But I
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Speaker 6: get your point.
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Speaker 1: Once the season starts.
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Speaker 5: The season starts, sure, but once you if if the
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Speaker 5: money's in the bank of.
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Speaker 3: That player, yeah, what's the motivation for him to I
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Speaker 3: don't know if he's paid the day before the season
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Speaker 3: that's or how much. We have no idea of any
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Speaker 3: of this. Uh so hopefully we will.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's just an interesting time in college, fascinating.
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Speaker 6: But it wasn't supposed to take off like this, Like
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Speaker 6: the nil thing was supposed to be me going in
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Speaker 6: as a as a football player, right to get or
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Speaker 6: that's I remember Graham Mertz he was kind of doing that,
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Speaker 6: and he he was the quarterback when nil became a thing,
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Speaker 6: and he had his own he has merch line and everything.
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Speaker 1: Merch merch. That's what it's supposed That's what it was
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Speaker 1: supposed to be.
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Speaker 6: But instantly people realize, oh, I can just give this
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Speaker 6: guy a check or cash for twenty grand and nobody
13:48
Speaker 6: really needs to know about it.
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Speaker 5: But don't you think we were a naive to think
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Speaker 5: that wasn't going to happen. Unfortunately, I agree with you though, that's.
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Speaker 1: What it was supposed to be. It was supposed to be.
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Speaker 5: Can you get money for doing a shampoo commercial or
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Speaker 5: even just do an autograph?
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Speaker 2: Siting right.
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Speaker 6: It was the point where like the Ohio State people
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Speaker 6: get exactly Yeah, as the director of basketball ops, I
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Speaker 6: love the idea of being able to get the rest
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Speaker 6: of the coaches endorsements. So like if it would have
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Speaker 6: been as you know, to help out as with the
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Speaker 6: players and all this, but no, I don't need to
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Speaker 6: be just the guy that's handing off the money. And yeah,
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Speaker 6: because when it comes to recruiting now it's like, okay,
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Speaker 6: do you have twenty grand?
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Speaker 1: That's it nope, okay, sorry, move on to the next school.
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Speaker 1: Way easy to recruit, I think.
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Speaker 5: Instead of you coming up, going up to the backup
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Speaker 5: you got the money, the backup lineman and said, hey,
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Speaker 5: I got you, uh, I got you. Autgrass sign this
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Speaker 5: Saturday at a butcher shop. You got to go there
14:32
Speaker 5: at noon, you know, be there and you're gonna get fired.
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Speaker 3: And that's the tough part about it is it's less
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Speaker 3: about going into a living room and convincing the player
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Speaker 3: to come play for you.
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Speaker 1: It's like, it's more about the number. What's the number?
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Speaker 5: And let me tell you about my program and our
14:45
Speaker 5: academics in all right weight room.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I got to go to school right exactly.
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Speaker 3: Kansas can on the talking text line, I just can't
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Speaker 3: wait to watch you guys build this back up.
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Speaker 1: I wake up earlier just to listen. Thank you, Kansas.
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Speaker 3: Where we go, can Ken? Let's go Benny and Merton Luddy,
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Speaker 3: let's go. Have missed you my guy? Yeah, I don't
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Speaker 3: know Benny out.
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Speaker 1: There in Merton. You miss Benny, And I'm sure a lot.
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Speaker 1: It's funny to see he's got new chickens coming up.
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Speaker 1: You know, he does like the chicken branding.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's cool to go through the text and
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Speaker 6: see some of the old names.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, absolutely it is. They're out there and they
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Speaker 1: miss you, Luddy, they miss you.
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Speaker 5: So you had been in the four and four obviously
15:27
Speaker 5: giving you a shot out as well. We've had some
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Speaker 5: great texts obviously this morning as well, we had Brian.
15:33
Speaker 5: Good morning, gentlemen. I love the show waking up here
15:35
Speaker 5: in Fort Myers, Florida. Now hold on, Brian, are you
15:38
Speaker 5: hanging out with uh?
15:40
Speaker 1: With Bill Schmid?
15:41
Speaker 3: I think he has different Brian's been a listener for
15:43
Speaker 3: a while. Yeah, a different deal. You know what kind
15:46
Speaker 3: of makes sense now why Fort Myers was.
15:49
Speaker 5: You know when they came out with the ratings for
15:51
Speaker 5: the Olympics and local rickets, it was like Fort Myers, Minneapolis, Milwaukee.
15:55
Speaker 5: It kind of makes sense now because I guess all
15:57
Speaker 5: the wise continents.
16:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, those were the top three markets of most watched
16:02
Speaker 3: Winter Olympics, halfway through Fort Myers, Minneapolis, milwak.
16:06
Speaker 1: So it makes sense when you think about that way.
16:07
Speaker 5: He said, it's nice to get Wisconsin sports updated and
16:09
Speaker 5: stories from you all.
16:10
Speaker 1: Proud market dad as well.
16:12
Speaker 5: Doctor Gorman graduated this making Grass your family plans and
16:15
Speaker 5: I don't like you though, because that picture of you
16:17
Speaker 5: in a pool with some palm trees makes me very jealous.
16:19
Speaker 5: Looks very like you. Yeah, it does, it does. Yes,
16:23
Speaker 5: this would have been the time, and it's kind of
16:25
Speaker 5: funny to think about that. So it's pretty good looking
16:28
Speaker 5: at it's want to make sure we didn't miss any
16:30
Speaker 5: other text this morning? Oh yes, this is from Thomas.
16:33
Speaker 5: Good morning guys. Thank you very much.
16:35
Speaker 1: Miss Thomas's call. You can go back and listen. Want
16:37
Speaker 1: to miss that?
16:38
Speaker 3: No, you can again. You can listen to any hour
16:40
Speaker 3: on the iHeartRadio app, search the Huddle, or watch.
16:43
Speaker 1: On YouTube as well.
16:44
Speaker 6: Sorry, Hunter, I was just going to say, clear your
16:45
Speaker 6: schedule for the hunt. For the Thomas conversation, it's quite
16:48
Speaker 6: a long one.
16:48
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it u. We had many a point from.
16:52
Speaker 6: You brought up one hundred and ten percent. I don't
16:53
Speaker 6: believe in that, Thomas, respectfully. I don't get where you're
16:56
Speaker 6: getting the other ten percent? Am I stealing it from
16:58
Speaker 6: arm and then he's only.
16:59
Speaker 3: Going ninety I just then you're preventing your teammate from
17:02
Speaker 3: living up to their potential. If you're going one hundred
17:04
Speaker 3: and ten percent, that's a good point.
17:06
Speaker 1: Yeah right, well that's exactly true.
17:08
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, you literally can't take away percentages
17:11
Speaker 5: from somebody if it's a zero some percentage. I have
17:14
Speaker 5: a question. I have a really quick Yeah, I'm a
17:18
Speaker 5: really Wayne's next, Yeah, before we get to have a
17:22
Speaker 5: quick question for both you guys on this new event
17:24
Speaker 5: that we're watching in.
17:25
Speaker 1: The Olympics, the SCHEMOCHEMO.
17:27
Speaker 5: Now you're going up the hill on the cross country,
17:29
Speaker 5: you're going upstairs in your boots taking this, and you're
17:32
Speaker 5: going back down with like now, obviously you're excited to
17:36
Speaker 5: win your Olympic champion, your gold medalist. I see them
17:39
Speaker 5: crying at the finish line. This can't be something you
17:42
Speaker 5: can truly say you grew up dreaming of though, because
17:45
Speaker 5: the sport didn't really exist.
17:46
Speaker 1: When you're growing up.
17:48
Speaker 5: You're right, so obviously the chance do you think they're
17:50
Speaker 5: more just excited, Well, I found a way to get
17:53
Speaker 5: a gold medal, cause probably you didn't dreaming about this,
17:57
Speaker 5: but you grew updreaming about being a gold medalist.
17:58
Speaker 1: I bet yeah.
17:59
Speaker 3: And and honestly, you know, who knows if if they
18:03
Speaker 3: really did grow up dreaming of this or or a
18:06
Speaker 3: gold medal. Maybe in the last you know, seven years,
18:08
Speaker 3: they realized, oh, this this thing could be, this could
18:11
Speaker 3: be headed to the Olympics at some point. If I
18:13
Speaker 3: put in some work here, maybe I could be one
18:15
Speaker 3: of the first ones to win a gold medal. And
18:18
Speaker 3: then I'm making history. That's it, and that's you know.
18:20
Speaker 3: And the one thing you got to say is like,
18:22
Speaker 3: this is what the Olympic ideal is all about.
18:24
Speaker 2: Right.
18:24
Speaker 5: Obviously all these athletes know each other because they've competed
18:27
Speaker 5: in this kind of nich sport all year, right, so
18:29
Speaker 5: they're all hugging each other at the finish line. They're
18:31
Speaker 5: obviously having fun out there in the snow. They've enjoyed
18:33
Speaker 5: the race, congratulating winners. This is what sportsmanship, competition, the fraternalism,
18:39
Speaker 5: this is what the Olympic ideal is all about. So
18:41
Speaker 5: I'm enjoying watching this eternalism the brotherhood in that sense.
18:45
Speaker 1: Is that the right tournament? I forget if that's a word,
18:48
Speaker 1: that's the perfect use of it.
18:49
Speaker 3: Well, I think Brian and Madison also happy to hear
18:52
Speaker 3: Luddy again, So we appreciate everyone eight seven, seven, seven,
18:55
Speaker 3: nine to four one nine seven three. Coming up next,
18:58
Speaker 3: Wayne Lairvie makes his huddle debut. We're going to talk
19:01
Speaker 3: to him about all the Packers news. Of course, first
19:03
Speaker 3: question is going to be about rich Pasacia. You know,
19:06
Speaker 3: Wayne Larvie like Rich Pisacia, both Yankees fans. Yeah, and
19:10
Speaker 3: I know they've had conversations and I'm very interested to
19:12
Speaker 3: see what he says about Rich Pisachia stepping down. We'll
19:15
Speaker 3: get to that next. This is the Huddle on Fox
19:18
Speaker 3: Sports Radio Wisconsin. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Drew and Billy
19:27
Speaker 3: are out today. Billy he'll be back tomorrow. Drew will
19:29
Speaker 3: be back on Monday. So it's Hunter Bombguard Andrew ludwigian
19:33
Speaker 3: Arman where he usually is, and joining us now. The
19:36
Speaker 3: voice of the Green Bay Packers making his huddle debut.
19:39
Speaker 3: It is Wayne Larvy. Wayne, great to have you on
19:42
Speaker 3: and great to talk to you this morning.
19:44
Speaker 2: Yeah. Great to be with you guys. Except it's a
19:46
Speaker 2: little earlier than usual, isn't it.
19:48
Speaker 5: It's a little a little earlier than usual, but we
19:50
Speaker 5: try to give you at least a paltable time to
19:52
Speaker 5: come out, Wayne, really quick before we get into the
19:54
Speaker 5: important stuff. You've got to be loving this time of
19:56
Speaker 5: year watching the Olympics.
19:58
Speaker 1: I know you love the ski. This has got just
20:00
Speaker 1: a joy for you to watch.
20:02
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean to see those skiers compete the
20:05
Speaker 2: way they do. And the thing I would point out
20:08
Speaker 2: to somebody who's not a skier, watch how they ski.
20:10
Speaker 2: They ski on the edge of their skis, not on
20:13
Speaker 2: the ski, the skis rarely on the ground flat. They're
20:16
Speaker 2: on the edge of those skis and they are phenomenal.
20:19
Speaker 2: Michaelo shifferin yees outstanding. She was locked in yesterday and
20:24
Speaker 2: that looked to me to be a fairly tough course
20:26
Speaker 2: for them. I don't know specifically if it was, but
20:29
Speaker 2: it looked like a pretty tough course, and you know,
20:32
Speaker 2: she handled it beautifully and you know, was overwhelming. And
20:35
Speaker 2: the way she won that race.
20:36
Speaker 5: They said, to her margin of victory was only a
20:39
Speaker 5: second and a half. So to the naked eye the
20:41
Speaker 5: casuals ever might not seem like a lot, but it
20:43
Speaker 5: was more than the last like.
20:45
Speaker 1: Six combined really and like margin.
20:48
Speaker 5: So the way she handles the slalom right, it almost
20:51
Speaker 5: seems impossible to do what she can do right on
20:53
Speaker 5: the slalom.
20:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, and remember that margin is like a major blowout.
20:58
Speaker 2: That's like a forty point blowout in college basketball or
21:00
Speaker 2: something like that. So that analogy hopefully gives you an
21:03
Speaker 2: idea of how good she was and is the one
21:07
Speaker 2: thing I noticed about her. She's wonderful. Man, what a
21:10
Speaker 2: great interview. But my goodness, they sent Tara Banks down
21:14
Speaker 2: there to interview her right after the race, and poor Michaela.
21:17
Speaker 2: She barely She hadn't even processed what had happened. She
21:20
Speaker 2: had so many thoughts running through her mind. She was
21:23
Speaker 2: much better after a couple of cocktails later on, when
21:25
Speaker 2: Mike Tarico interviewed her. Always that night, she was much better.
21:29
Speaker 5: But they warm up and they can move their face again,
21:31
Speaker 5: right in a shower and everything.
21:33
Speaker 1: That's always better. Yeah, one percent.
21:36
Speaker 3: Let's uh want to talk a little Packers obviously here,
21:38
Speaker 3: Wayne and I want to start with the news that
21:40
Speaker 3: came down this week, and it wasn't necessarily expected news,
21:43
Speaker 3: especially because we're, you know, getting towards two weeks after
21:47
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. Now rich Pisaci steps down and special
21:50
Speaker 3: teams coordinator of the Green Bay Packers. What it was
21:52
Speaker 3: your initial reaction to that news.
21:55
Speaker 2: Not totally surprised because last year at this time he
21:58
Speaker 2: told Matt Lafleur that he was thinking about stepping down
22:00
Speaker 2: that he had failed Matt as coach of the Special Teams.
22:05
Speaker 2: Matt convinced him otherwise, brought him back for this year
22:08
Speaker 2: and was fully I think the whole organization was intending
22:11
Speaker 2: to have coach Basacia on for this season again. But
22:16
Speaker 2: you know, I think Richie took a deep dive into
22:18
Speaker 2: it and felt that this was time for him to leave.
22:22
Speaker 2: I'm not close to him. I don't know what his
22:25
Speaker 2: thinking is, but I know he's a very earnest individual.
22:27
Speaker 2: He gave it a lot of thought. And so it
22:29
Speaker 2: comes like, well, thirty eight days after the season. This
22:32
Speaker 2: is not ideal for Matt and the staff to try
22:35
Speaker 2: to find a good special teams coach because there have
22:38
Speaker 2: been so many openings, so many coaches have gone places
22:41
Speaker 2: that it's kind of like what Matt Schneidman and others
22:43
Speaker 2: have written in the media that you know, all of
22:46
Speaker 2: the good ones you know about are pretty much gone.
22:49
Speaker 5: Yeah, indeed, Wayne, And you know there I mentioned yesterday
22:52
Speaker 5: that a lot of fans were frustrated about the Special Teams.
22:55
Speaker 5: Obviously for many years for good reason, they've cast the
22:59
Speaker 5: Packers a lot of important games and they've been a
23:02
Speaker 5: lower ranked unit but to a man, it seemed like
23:05
Speaker 5: every player and coach just loves rich Passacia. So the
23:09
Speaker 5: divergence of opinion on him with people in the know
23:12
Speaker 5: close to him in football and fans because of his
23:15
Speaker 5: unit was just so so different.
23:17
Speaker 2: I would say, tremendously different from the fans as far
23:21
Speaker 2: as they're how they feel about rich Pasacia and the organization.
23:24
Speaker 2: The organization felt very strongly about him in a positive way.
23:28
Speaker 2: The media, you know, not quite like the fans obviously,
23:32
Speaker 2: but the media was probably saying in many of what
23:35
Speaker 2: I read that were saying, hey, probably have to make
23:37
Speaker 2: a move. It's special teams, that kind of thing. But
23:40
Speaker 2: the organization didn't feel that way. The coaching staff didn't
23:42
Speaker 2: feel that way. The players certainly didn't feel that way.
23:45
Speaker 2: So this is a pretty good loss, there's no doubt
23:47
Speaker 2: about that. But and I think what Man is probably
23:50
Speaker 2: gonna end up doing is going with a young special
23:52
Speaker 2: teams coach. He'll fire the best he can, either in
23:55
Speaker 2: the NFL or maybe in the college ranks, but that's
23:58
Speaker 2: where you're going now, and who knows, maybe they hire
24:01
Speaker 2: the next superstar at that position.
24:04
Speaker 6: Hey, Wayne, good to chat with you here. Romeo Dobs
24:07
Speaker 6: he may or may not be back in Green Bay.
24:09
Speaker 6: He led the Packers and receiving yards and touchdowns. If
24:11
Speaker 6: he's not back, are the Packers okay going into twenty
24:14
Speaker 6: twenty six without replacing him in free agency or the draft.
24:19
Speaker 2: I think they'll always try to get a receiver in
24:21
Speaker 2: the draft if they can, But I do think they're
24:24
Speaker 2: pretty well stocked. Romeo did a heck of a job.
24:26
Speaker 2: He had a hell of a season, he really did.
24:28
Speaker 2: But I think the organization they're probably ready to move on.
24:32
Speaker 2: That's just my guess from the outside, thirty thousand feet
24:34
Speaker 2: away looking in, it certainly looks that way. Yeah.
24:37
Speaker 3: I want to also ask one more thing about Rich
24:40
Speaker 3: It didn't necessarily indicate in his statement that he is
24:44
Speaker 3: going to retire. Do you see him coaching again somewhere else?
24:49
Speaker 3: Maybe not this year because the cycle's basically done the
24:52
Speaker 3: late but what do you see for his future?
24:54
Speaker 2: Do you think? Yeah? You know? I mean he's a
24:57
Speaker 2: lifelong coach. I think that what he probably was doing
25:00
Speaker 2: what any of us would do, and that is, don't
25:03
Speaker 2: totally close the door until you're sure you want to
25:05
Speaker 2: go through it, sure you know, And so I think
25:08
Speaker 2: that's where he's at and like a lot of these
25:10
Speaker 2: guys who are lifers, they get tired, they get disappointed,
25:14
Speaker 2: they feel like they should do better or whatever. Then
25:16
Speaker 2: they take some time off and then they feel the
25:18
Speaker 2: itch to return. And so it wouldn't surprise me at
25:21
Speaker 2: all he returned, not to the Packers, but somewhere. Yeah.
25:25
Speaker 5: Wayne, And we didn't get a chance to talk to
25:26
Speaker 5: you at the after the Super Bowl. Were you surprised
25:29
Speaker 5: by any result? What'd you think of the entire Super
25:32
Speaker 5: Bowl and the fact that the Seattle Seahawks are the
25:34
Speaker 5: NFL champions this year. It's kind of hard to believe,
25:36
Speaker 5: but it was a wide open year and they were
25:38
Speaker 5: as good as any team that had a chance to
25:40
Speaker 5: win it, right, There was no dominant team this year.
25:42
Speaker 2: Yeah. I thought in the playoffs the two defenses, the
25:45
Speaker 2: two best defenses were Seattle and New England, and Seattle
25:48
Speaker 2: probably buy a wide margin. I thought the game would
25:52
Speaker 2: go under, and it did go under the line, just barely,
25:55
Speaker 2: but it went under, and you know, I knew the
25:58
Speaker 2: offenses would struggle a little bit again those defenses. Drake
26:01
Speaker 2: May had a rough run in the postseason, and the
26:04
Speaker 2: Patriots caught a couple of breaks. Okay, they caught up
26:07
Speaker 2: call what the Chargers, and they did a heck of
26:10
Speaker 2: a job defensively against them. But then they got a
26:13
Speaker 2: bad Houston team. By bad, I mean that quarterback was
26:16
Speaker 2: totally messed up by the time he got to New England,
26:18
Speaker 2: and it played really bad the Monday night before in
26:20
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and the Patriots just terrorized him. Then in Denver,
26:24
Speaker 2: the weather came in and actually helped New England. The
26:26
Speaker 2: Patriots had a slim lead in that game, the weather
26:30
Speaker 2: came in, nobody could do anything with the weather, and
26:33
Speaker 2: New England was able to get to the championship game,
26:36
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. So kudos to them. They won the
26:38
Speaker 2: games they had to win. They played one of the
26:40
Speaker 2: softest schedules regular season in the history of the league.
26:43
Speaker 2: But nonetheless you got to give them a lot of credit. Seattle, though,
26:46
Speaker 2: just a well built machine. Is John Schneider is the
26:50
Speaker 2: star off of the ron Wolf ron Wolf personnel Tree,
26:55
Speaker 2: ron Wolf and Ted Thompson Tree, you know what I mean.
26:58
Speaker 2: Of all the guys that have come off that and
27:00
Speaker 2: a lot of really good guys come off that tree,
27:02
Speaker 2: he is far and away to start, and you know
27:04
Speaker 2: he's going to be number two before too long.
27:07
Speaker 5: Elliott w I was gonna say, Junior, yeah, just will
27:11
Speaker 5: be the one. So he's got things started there in
27:14
Speaker 5: New England, no doubt. But you mentioned the schedule, and
27:17
Speaker 5: I think it's fair to say they did benefit from
27:19
Speaker 5: that and some good fortune.
27:21
Speaker 1: But that's just the way it is now.
27:22
Speaker 5: I don't know, you know, the prognostications for next year
27:25
Speaker 5: across the league. It's always interesting because we've seen the
27:28
Speaker 5: trend of so much, you know, transient movement up and
27:31
Speaker 5: down in terms of results and standings. Do you see
27:34
Speaker 5: any you know, any bold predictions on teams that can
27:38
Speaker 5: take a jump or teams that are going to take
27:39
Speaker 5: a step back, because we know there's always gonna be
27:41
Speaker 5: something like that.
27:42
Speaker 1: Progress isn't linear in this league.
27:43
Speaker 2: Wayne, Yeah, you know, I would think that Patriots might
27:47
Speaker 2: take a little step back. There's still being contention for
27:50
Speaker 2: their division, that type of thing. But they're gonna play
27:52
Speaker 2: much tougher schedule this time around, and people kind of
27:55
Speaker 2: figured them out a little bit. Now. They did a
27:58
Speaker 2: great job of remodeling their team and basically a year
28:01
Speaker 2: they had tremendous amount of cap space, They had good
28:05
Speaker 2: draft choices and you know, draft choices are fine. You
28:08
Speaker 2: can have all the draft choices you want, but tell
28:10
Speaker 2: me who you're picking. Tell me if you hit on
28:12
Speaker 2: those draft choices or not. And Elliott hit on a
28:14
Speaker 2: lot of those New England draft choices over the last
28:16
Speaker 2: two years. It'll be harder to maintain. And I go
28:19
Speaker 2: back to where were we a year ago at this time.
28:21
Speaker 2: Who was the hot team the Washington command Yeah, yeah,
28:24
Speaker 2: understand something. You know, they won't come from last into
28:27
Speaker 2: the playoffs and upset the Lions in Detroit. But this
28:31
Speaker 2: following year, you know, it's so hard to predict armin
28:34
Speaker 2: at this stage. I think it's hard to predict during
28:36
Speaker 2: the summer after free agency, you just don't know how
28:38
Speaker 2: these teams are going to come together.
28:40
Speaker 6: Well yeah, and then the Packers trade for Micah Parsons
28:42
Speaker 6: a week before the season starts.
28:44
Speaker 1: On that stuff, you don't stay healthy either, guys.
28:47
Speaker 2: You know, right, you don't know, And that's such a
28:49
Speaker 2: big part of it. It's an unfortunate fact. But my
28:53
Speaker 2: oldest son feels that way about the NFL. He's kind
28:56
Speaker 2: of lukewarm on it. Why because it's all about injuries,
28:58
Speaker 2: you know, and it really is. And boy, going down
29:01
Speaker 2: the stretch this season. Maybe it was just me with
29:03
Speaker 2: the Packers, but I'm sitting here saying, Wow, we can
29:06
Speaker 2: barely get the seventeen games. How are we going to
29:09
Speaker 2: get to eighteen? You know what I mean? How are
29:10
Speaker 2: you going to get that far? These teams are so
29:13
Speaker 2: banged up and everything. We saw several amount of two
29:16
Speaker 2: exhibition games in the end, teams having clinch playoffers. They've
29:20
Speaker 2: got a long injury list. They're trying to get people healthy.
29:23
Speaker 2: They're not playing anybody, you know. I just wonder how
29:25
Speaker 2: weeks sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen are going to look in
29:28
Speaker 2: the future if we go to the eighteen game schedule.
29:31
Speaker 3: I want to before we get to the game you
29:34
Speaker 3: called for college basketball at w Milwaukee on Sunday, which
29:37
Speaker 3: has since been in the news. We'll get to that
29:39
Speaker 3: in a moment. However, I do want to ask you
29:41
Speaker 3: about the Jonathan Gannon higher. What is your thought on
29:44
Speaker 3: him as a defensive coordinator for the Packers.
29:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's very creative. That was his mo in Philadelphia.
29:51
Speaker 2: I felt very creative in terms of disguising coverages and
29:54
Speaker 2: things like that. And I think the Packers now we
29:56
Speaker 2: don't know what they're going to be like at cornerback. Okay,
29:59
Speaker 2: going forward, we hopefully, you know, Goodie's probably got plans
30:03
Speaker 2: to bring some people in that kind of thing. We'll see,
30:05
Speaker 2: we'll see where they go. But I think that disguising
30:08
Speaker 2: coverages can help, especially when you don't have, you know,
30:12
Speaker 2: frontline guys like Sauce Gardener or Gonzales and people like
30:16
Speaker 2: that covering out there on your corner. So I think
30:19
Speaker 2: he might be able to help those corners a little bit.
30:21
Speaker 1: Wayne.
30:22
Speaker 6: These guys are going to ask you about Doug Gottlieb.
30:23
Speaker 6: I don't really care because I'm aw Amlam and WM
30:26
Speaker 6: won the game on Sunday, so that's all that really matters.
30:28
Speaker 1: How was the view from your seat calling it on
30:30
Speaker 1: ESPN Plus.
30:32
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it was a fairly physical game, I thought,
30:34
Speaker 2: And you know, we were away from where coach Gottlieb
30:39
Speaker 2: was called for that technical foul. We speculate, we didn't know.
30:42
Speaker 2: I mean, we figured he must have said something, must
30:44
Speaker 2: have said something, because the tea came right away. Yeah,
30:48
Speaker 2: and you know, but there were several calls that were
30:50
Speaker 2: little nickel dimers in that game, and a couple of
30:53
Speaker 2: them didn't go Green Bay's way. But it was a
30:56
Speaker 2: hard fought ballgame, great ball game between two teams that
31:00
Speaker 2: are going to be rivals as long as East coaching
31:02
Speaker 2: staffs stay in place, and who knows how long that
31:04
Speaker 2: will be, but hopefully it'll be for a while. But
31:07
Speaker 2: this is really good for Wisconsin. I talked to obviously,
31:10
Speaker 2: Bart Lundy. I talked to Doug, whom I've worked with
31:13
Speaker 2: on air doing games with couples media over the years,
31:17
Speaker 2: so you know they both feel the same way. Hey,
31:20
Speaker 2: this would be great for Wisconsin basketball because we know
31:23
Speaker 2: about Marquette, we know about Wisconsin. But boy, if you
31:26
Speaker 2: could bring these teams up to a point, wouldn't it
31:28
Speaker 2: be great if these programs were to the point where
31:31
Speaker 2: you could take a holiday tournament. If Fiser for put
31:34
Speaker 2: the four of them in there and let's go. I
31:36
Speaker 2: think it's great. You'll do a little round robinsup type
31:39
Speaker 2: of thing. I think it'd be great for basketball in Wisconsin.
31:42
Speaker 2: And basketball is great. You know, we're getting a lot
31:44
Speaker 2: of Division IE players, yes, NBA players coming out of Wisconsin.
31:48
Speaker 2: So the ground is fertile, there's no doubt about that.
31:51
Speaker 2: Let's plant some crops.
31:53
Speaker 3: No, yeah, absolutely, you also you were calling Michigan Purdue
31:57
Speaker 3: the other night as well. Your thoughts, I guess overall,
32:01
Speaker 3: in the Big Ten and kind of college basketball as
32:03
Speaker 3: a whole, we're getting towards March Madness, which is a
32:05
Speaker 3: great time of year, and I'm sure that it had
32:09
Speaker 3: to be an awesome atmosphere.
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Speaker 2: Oh it's Purdue, It's Mackie Arena, the Manhouse that is Mackie,
32:14
Speaker 2: and it's just phenomenal. It's a great atmosphere for a game. Unfortunately,
32:18
Speaker 2: we didn't get the game we were hoping for, you
32:21
Speaker 2: know it, wasp and tucking. You could expect either team
32:23
Speaker 2: was playing very well in the first half. Then Michigan
32:25
Speaker 2: goes on a sixteen oh run, sixteen oh run, and
32:29
Speaker 2: Purdue never got closer than I believe eight or nine points. Yeah,
32:32
Speaker 2: and the rest of the way, Michigan is so good, guys.
32:35
Speaker 2: I studied them hard. I study Purdue produce real good too.
32:38
Speaker 2: They were the preseason number one of the nation. Michigan
32:41
Speaker 2: is now number one of the nation. So it was
32:43
Speaker 2: a great matchup in that regard. They'll see each other again,
32:46
Speaker 2: perhaps in the Big Ten tournament, maybe even the NCAA
32:48
Speaker 2: at some point. But Michigan right now. To me, guys,
32:51
Speaker 2: that's the best team in the country and the best
32:53
Speaker 2: league in the country. Though, is the Big Twelve.
32:55
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would agree with you on the Big Twelve,
32:57
Speaker 5: but I think the Big Ten's also deep. But it's
33:00
Speaker 5: true that, you know, it's interesting in this portal era
33:03
Speaker 5: how good certain teams can be.
33:04
Speaker 1: And I think you're seeing that.
33:06
Speaker 5: The real high end now of some teams that are
33:08
Speaker 5: putting these all star teams together. And the Big Ten's
33:10
Speaker 5: one of those conferences were Money's there. Purdue's inn a
33:13
Speaker 5: kind of the traditional way, but you have Illinois kind
33:15
Speaker 5: of changing their rosterol every year. But Michigan has put
33:18
Speaker 5: together incredible and incredible outfit and this is the new
33:20
Speaker 5: era we're in with the portal era.
33:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is. Marquette and Purdue being exceptions to that,
33:26
Speaker 2: and both schools have been very successful at what they
33:28
Speaker 2: do and they have great coaches, both of Marquette and Purdue,
33:32
Speaker 2: but they're the ones that are kind of the outliers.
33:34
Speaker 2: Perdue added one player of significant, Oscar Kluff from one
33:38
Speaker 2: of the Dakotas, I believe South Dakota and North Dakota State,
33:41
Speaker 2: whatever it was, might have been South Dakota State. I'm
33:43
Speaker 2: not sure I get the two messed up all the time,
33:46
Speaker 2: and Tumder Kraft kills me any rate. You know they
33:51
Speaker 2: are really though, your decisions in the portal are not
33:55
Speaker 2: unlike what we talk about it this time of year
33:57
Speaker 2: in the NFL with general managers. Yeah, you have to
33:59
Speaker 2: make the right okay, now, unlike you know, you make
34:03
Speaker 2: a choice out of player for a year. So let's
34:06
Speaker 2: say you bring in that player like when Kansas brought
34:08
Speaker 2: in Store from Wisconsin. He didn't fit what they did
34:11
Speaker 2: at Kansas. Yeah, he needed all his hands. Kansas is
34:14
Speaker 2: a motion offense. Bill self requires you to play some defense.
34:19
Speaker 2: He didn't do either one of those things. It was
34:21
Speaker 2: a terrible hire in the portal for Bill Self and company.
34:24
Speaker 2: And now the kids playing somewhere else. I think his
34:26
Speaker 2: fifth or sixth school. So that's the lay of the land.
34:30
Speaker 2: The difference between what the GM and the pro side
34:33
Speaker 2: of pro football has to deal with is Okay, he
34:35
Speaker 2: brings in this free agent, signs a multi year deal.
34:38
Speaker 2: In many respects, you're kind of stuck with that guy
34:40
Speaker 2: at least for two years, whereas in the college ranks
34:42
Speaker 2: doesn't work out boom, that guy's out of there. You
34:44
Speaker 2: bring in somebody else. Good point.
34:46
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
34:46
Speaker 3: Wait, it's always great to get your thoughts not only
34:48
Speaker 3: on Packers, but also college basketball and everything going on
34:51
Speaker 3: in the world Olympics. To enjoy the rest of the Olympics.
34:54
Speaker 3: And I'm sure we'll have you on the show again soon.
34:57
Speaker 2: All right, guys, A lot going on in Green Bay
34:59
Speaker 2: this off season, has no doubt about that. And by
35:01
Speaker 2: the way, anyone who thinks they're just rolling it back,
35:04
Speaker 2: that's not the case. Two new coordinators on that staff,
35:07
Speaker 2: and I guarantee you there's gonna be some player movement interesting.
35:10
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, well, we'll get you back again soon.
35:13
Speaker 3: That is Wayne Lairvy, voice of the Packers, joining us
35:15
Speaker 3: here on the huddle, and we will be right back
35:17
Speaker 3: on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin three today, Hunter Bomguard, Andrew
35:23
Speaker 3: Ludwig armand sorry and Drew will be back on Monday.
35:25
Speaker 3: Billy back tomorrow. We welcome in now Dan Durban, one
35:29
Speaker 3: of the owners of the Wisconsin Fishing Expo. That's coming
35:32
Speaker 3: back to Madison, So listen up those listening on ten
35:35
Speaker 3: seventy in Madison. It's coming to the Allied Alliant Energy
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Speaker 3: Center at the Exhibition Hall February twenty seventh through March first,
35:44
Speaker 3: and joining us now is Dan Durban to talk all
35:46
Speaker 3: about it. Dan, appreciate the time this morning. I want
35:48
Speaker 3: to ask first, just give us a little overview of
35:51
Speaker 3: what people can expect at the Wisconsin Fishing Expo when
35:55
Speaker 3: they come here in about a week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, thanks so much for having me on. And I
36:00
Speaker 4: guess one thing I could say is it's all fishing.
36:03
Speaker 4: You know, you're not going to find gutter guards or
36:06
Speaker 4: you know, ring cleaners or anything like that. You know,
36:09
Speaker 4: nothing wrong with that stuff, but very we curate the
36:12
Speaker 4: show to make sure it's all fishing and that's what
36:15
Speaker 4: you're going to get. And it's been growing every year.
36:18
Speaker 4: My you know, say for the COVID year. But we're
36:20
Speaker 4: up to about three hundred and sixty booths, one hundred
36:24
Speaker 4: different boats from just about every manufacturer, so we every
36:28
Speaker 4: inch of that line. Energy Centers is just chuck full
36:32
Speaker 4: of the vendors and baits and and everything you can
36:34
Speaker 4: think of in the fishing space.
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Speaker 5: That's pretty cool, Dan, This has been an interesting week,
36:38
Speaker 5: unseasonably warm all week, a lot of melting going on,
36:40
Speaker 5: and obviously this is usually ice fishing season. But has
36:43
Speaker 5: that been throwing some things off? Is that the chatter
36:45
Speaker 5: amongst the fishing group.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we had some of our best ice
36:50
Speaker 4: ever until just like you said, about a week ago,
36:54
Speaker 4: the big huge event Battle on Bago. I mean that
36:57
Speaker 4: draws I think twenty thousand anglers a year. They just
37:00
Speaker 4: called that off soup some empathy towards them, But we'll
37:04
Speaker 4: probably have a lot more people coming to our show
37:06
Speaker 4: as well now. But yeah, no, and also we get
37:11
Speaker 4: better attendance when Ie gets a little shaky in the
37:15
Speaker 4: Madison area because that that whole chain is just it's
37:18
Speaker 4: just a wonderful area to fish and some of the
37:21
Speaker 4: best pan fishing in the Midwest for sure.
37:23
Speaker 6: Hey, I'm going to pass us expo along to my
37:26
Speaker 6: cousin Matt. He's a huge fishman. He takes his kids
37:28
Speaker 6: fishing all the time. Is there anything for any young
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Speaker 6: anglers to do at the expo this year? At the
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Speaker 6: Align Energy.
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Speaker 4: Center, Oh yeah, we're super family focused. There's kids casting competitions.
37:41
Speaker 4: We have a couple of different seminars that are specifically
37:44
Speaker 4: for kids, and once they kind of graduate through the seminar,
37:47
Speaker 4: they get a free ron in real combo. We have
37:49
Speaker 4: a trout pon and our trollpon is different like they've
37:53
Speaker 4: they've some of the other shows had, but we actually
37:55
Speaker 4: tag our trout some of them so they can actually
37:58
Speaker 4: ant catching the fish. It's the enterprize there. We've got
38:02
Speaker 4: mental races, balloon animalist people that ties a balloons, and
38:09
Speaker 4: almost all of the three. Once you get in there,
38:11
Speaker 4: we got some bumper boats. There's a small fee for that,
38:13
Speaker 4: so tons of tons of stuff for kids.
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Speaker 1: It's awesome.
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Speaker 3: You can go to Wi Fishingexpo dot com for more
38:20
Speaker 3: information or to purchase tickets. One of the things you
38:22
Speaker 3: brought up there was the seminars. Talk a little bit
38:25
Speaker 3: about the speakers you have for the expo this year.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're over twenty five speakers and it's really kind
38:31
Speaker 4: of a who's who list of anyone from local you know,
38:36
Speaker 4: kind of studs that are really good at the Madison
38:38
Speaker 4: chain like Duffy Cough and Jerry Constable and a bunch
38:43
Speaker 4: of others, but then all the way to your superstars
38:46
Speaker 4: like Jimmy Houston, which I don't know if you're a
38:48
Speaker 4: bass guy or gal, but it's like he's like the
38:51
Speaker 4: Brett favor of the of the fishing where he just
38:55
Speaker 4: doesn't take strange pictures, but he's really awesome and the
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Speaker 4: angler and very family friendly again too so. And the
39:04
Speaker 4: thing is the multiple species is what is key. Is
39:07
Speaker 4: that every day, whether you're panning, panfish, angler, muskie, bass, walley,
39:13
Speaker 4: you know we're going to have at least one seminar
39:16
Speaker 4: that will suit your needs. But I always encourage people
39:18
Speaker 4: to to go ahead and sit in on a multi species,
39:21
Speaker 4: you know, don't be completely vertical. I used to just
39:24
Speaker 4: be stuck on bass myself, that's.
39:25
Speaker 2: All I would fish for.
39:26
Speaker 4: But now I'm more of a target of opportunity type
39:30
Speaker 4: of angler. So if the bass are inviting, maybe the perch.
39:33
Speaker 2: Are or maybe the walley are.
39:34
Speaker 4: So get to know some of these other seminars and
39:37
Speaker 4: these other species, and you just open up the game
39:40
Speaker 4: so you don't have to fish for something when it's lousy.
39:42
Speaker 4: You can you can adapt and go catch what's biting totally.
39:45
Speaker 3: Dan Durban, one of the owners of the Wisconsin Fishing Expo,
39:48
Speaker 3: taking place February twenty seven through March first at the
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Speaker 3: Exhibition Hall at the Alliance Energy Center in Madison. Runs
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Speaker 3: Friday one to eight pm Saturday nine to six Sunday nine.
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Speaker 3: The three tickets are twelve dollars at the door with
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Speaker 3: a two dollars discount for veterans presenting a form of
40:03
Speaker 3: military ID. Kids twelve and under are free and really
40:07
Speaker 3: appreciate the time. Dan, and I'm sure a lot of
40:10
Speaker 3: our listeners will be out and seeing you come February
40:13
Speaker 3: twenty seventh.
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Speaker 4: Okay, thank you so much for having us and take care.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Dan, you too.
40:18
Speaker 3: That is again Dan Durbin from the Wisconsin Fishing Expo
40:22
Speaker 3: joining us here this morning. Well, we are about two
40:24
Speaker 3: minutes away from wrapping up the Huddle on this Thursday. Billy,
40:27
Speaker 3: you'll be back tomorrow.
40:28
Speaker 4: I know.
40:29
Speaker 1: We got even more texts coming in that they're happy
40:31
Speaker 1: to hear Luddy so much. Luddy, you get a big
40:33
Speaker 1: fan base out there, which I enjoy.
40:35
Speaker 5: You have to sneak in the still awaken, bake happy, Yes, yes,
40:38
Speaker 5: cold Huddle for twenty percent and shipping obviously as well.
40:42
Speaker 5: Now there's there's a lot of different stories. I don't
40:45
Speaker 5: know if you had anything to qualify no, but for
40:47
Speaker 5: me it's just you know, we've done the Gully thing.
40:50
Speaker 1: Mick cron has been going off this week. Now have
40:51
Speaker 1: time to play the auditor you can find on the internet.
40:53
Speaker 1: He went off on that.
40:54
Speaker 5: I think Mick Cronin asking are you raising your voice
40:56
Speaker 5: at me? Has got to be up there right totally.
40:58
Speaker 5: He went off on a reporter and yeah, it's just
41:01
Speaker 5: he's come on, bluddy, what did you have it? Just
41:04
Speaker 5: the Mit Croner, He just bugs me.
41:06
Speaker 6: It gets to the point where it's the point where, dude,
41:08
Speaker 6: you've been doing this for too long and that the
41:10
Speaker 6: stick is up, get over it, right right, That's that's
41:13
Speaker 6: exactly it.
41:14
Speaker 3: Appreciate everybody tuning in, Maggie in Georgia, appreciate the kind
41:19
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41:24
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41:25
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41:29
Speaker 5: It couldn't be more right upon that. I mean, could
41:31
Speaker 5: you said it better than that? That's incredibly true.
41:33
Speaker 1: So number one for a reason.
41:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right right he If you missed Wayne Lairvie's
41:39
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41:41
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41:45
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41:47
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41:49
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41:52
Speaker 3: us and it was just a blast this morning. This
41:53
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41:55
Speaker 1: Now I can get out and go day drink and
41:56
Speaker 1: watch some women talking.
41:57
Speaker 3: There you go, Jordan's oles in nine thirty go USA
42:01
Speaker 3: Women's hockey coming up at twelve ten tomorrow. Billy, you'll
42:04
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42:06
Speaker 3: of course, and we'll have you on a Friday. Mount
42:08
Speaker 3: Lape is slated to join us. Thanks so much for listening.
42:11
Speaker 3: This has been the huddle. There's Andrew Ludwig, there's armand Surren.
42:14
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