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- 0:01Speaker 1: Yep.
- 0:01Speaker 2: Inside I want to kill myself. We are on Own
- 0:06Speaker 2: seven run over the last two days after tonight.
- 0:08Speaker 1: It was just complete bullshit.
- 0:10Speaker 2: So that's that's I'm gonna start off this show horrible
- 0:13Speaker 2: Sunday one and five.
- 0:15Speaker 1: I don't even know what to tell you about that.
- 0:17Speaker 1: I just don't want to do this anymore. I have
- 0:19Speaker 1: never seen anything like this. Man with the slump continuing.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Two straight losses, not a good day at all. Own four,
- 0:28Speaker 1: I have not had a good season.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Man with wookends the slump that I'm on, and the
- 0:35Speaker 2: slump continues.
- 0:37Speaker 1: I've reached into peak. Actually, I'm going to burn my
- 0:41Speaker 1: browins hat Man, I don't know what is going on
- 0:43Speaker 1: with the bruins our chap? Is that what it is?
- 0:47Speaker 1: I don't even know it's it's March ninth, I think
- 0:50Speaker 1: who even knows?
- 0:51Speaker 2: Man, I don't know what day it is anymore. I
- 0:53Speaker 2: don't even know what day it is anymore. Man, back
- 0:55Speaker 2: with you after the worst day that I could possibly have,
- 0:59Speaker 2: Back with you as I always am until I die,
- 1:03Speaker 2: at least oh and two. Yesterday and yesterday it did
- 1:07Speaker 2: not go well for me.
- 1:08Speaker 1: Own five.
- 1:09Speaker 2: The worst month that I've ever had in my eighteen
- 1:12Speaker 2: years doing this.
- 1:13Speaker 1: I don't know what to even tell you about this anymore.
- 1:15Speaker 2: To the slumps, the slump discontinuous, the slump continues.
- 1:20Speaker 1: Somebody fucking kill me, please.
- 1:23Speaker 2: I don't even know what I should do at this
- 1:25Speaker 2: point other than potentially.
- 1:27Speaker 1: End it all.
- 1:33Speaker 2: What's up, everybody, It's towed back with you, Toads sol
- 1:36Speaker 2: Sports Wednesday, December thirtieth. Uh, you know we're we're grinding.
- 1:43Speaker 2: We're not doing too well right now. I would say
- 1:46Speaker 2: one one in one is what I did on the
- 1:48Speaker 2: show yesterday, which you know it is a loss. The
- 1:52Speaker 2: Lipscomb game that did not get there, just that was
- 1:56Speaker 2: a loss.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Nothing really misleading about it.
- 1:59Speaker 2: It was just, yeah, what else could I say about it?
- 2:02Speaker 1: They didn't get there.
- 2:04Speaker 2: Easy win with Right State, even if you laid the points,
- 2:06Speaker 2: Right State got you win there.
- 2:08Speaker 1: Easy win from them.
- 2:10Speaker 2: And then the Dallas Mavericks game I founded at three
- 2:16Speaker 2: during the show.
- 2:16Speaker 1: It was a three, so three wound up being a push.
- 2:20Speaker 1: Dallas had some chances at the end. Man they were
- 2:22Speaker 1: losing that game.
- 2:23Speaker 2: They came back, they had it tied in the final
- 2:26Speaker 2: minutes of the game, could have potentially won the game
- 2:29Speaker 2: out right and instead, they lost by exactly three, so
- 2:32Speaker 2: it was a push given the number was the three
- 2:37Speaker 2: on the show.
- 2:37Speaker 1: That's what I found it at.
- 2:39Speaker 2: So not the greatest day, but whatever we move on
- 2:44Speaker 2: today is a smaller board. I am gonna have two plays.
- 2:48Speaker 2: I am skipping NHL at NBA completely today.
- 2:52Speaker 1: They're both small boards. I don't like them at all.
- 2:55Speaker 2: I will have one basketball play and I almost didn't
- 2:58Speaker 2: have any, and I.
- 2:59Speaker 1: Will have a College Bowl play.
- 3:01Speaker 2: So I don't know how strong these really are, but
- 3:03Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it. Jeffrey, what's up? Thanks for hanging out, Charles,
- 3:07Speaker 2: what's up? Thanks for hanging out?
- 3:09Speaker 1: All right? College basketball, man, conference play is starting. Some
- 3:16Speaker 1: of these big.
- 3:17Speaker 2: Conferences are getting underway today in the conference play, so
- 3:20Speaker 2: there are some some interesting games today.
- 3:23Speaker 1: We do have a non.
- 3:25Speaker 2: Conference game at one pm here between Vermont and Princeton,
- 3:29Speaker 2: so these teams not starting conference play yet. Apparently with
- 3:33Speaker 2: Vermont they're coming up a loss to Iona. Iona is
- 3:37Speaker 2: a decent team man on like as far as mid
- 3:40Speaker 2: majors go. It broke a loss street for Vermont, so
- 3:44Speaker 2: they have had time off. Though these teams haven't played
- 3:48Speaker 2: for the most parts. It's before Christmas.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Although that's not the case in the game that I'm
- 3:52Speaker 1: gonna have a play on. Though Vermont.
- 3:55Speaker 2: You could argue that maybe they'll be hung over a
- 3:57Speaker 2: little bit after that. But Princeton just played a tough
- 3:59Speaker 2: game as well. There an underdog against Temple, who I
- 4:04Speaker 2: think that was a game Princeton got up for him. Man,
- 4:06Speaker 2: I mean, it's Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Whatever, Princeton got up
- 4:09Speaker 2: for it, they fell just short. I'm not gonna say
- 4:11Speaker 2: they're gonna overlook Vermont because Vermont has been pretty much
- 4:15Speaker 2: the team it's won of this conference that they're in
- 4:17Speaker 2: most of the time recently, except I don't believe they
- 4:20Speaker 2: won it last year. But I just have to stay
- 4:23Speaker 2: away from this completely. Vermont is a three and a
- 4:25Speaker 2: half point road favorite here. For what it's worth, I
- 4:28Speaker 2: think all these games are actually at the team's home
- 4:32Speaker 2: sites at this point, they're not really in neutral site
- 4:34Speaker 2: games now.
- 4:36Speaker 1: It's a low total, though, so with a total of.
- 4:39Speaker 2: One hundred and thirty eight and a half, it almost
- 4:41Speaker 2: seems kind of tempting to look towards taking the points
- 4:44Speaker 2: in a game like that. I don't really have an
- 4:45Speaker 2: opinion on it. I just you know, it's a game
- 4:49Speaker 2: that's up early. You can watch it on ESPN Plus
- 4:52Speaker 2: if you really want to. Yeah, we have some other
- 4:57Speaker 2: conference games going on here. Mac is underwaye Southland, the
- 5:00Speaker 2: Mountain West is underway here. Howard and Northwestern I found
- 5:06Speaker 2: to be of interest if we wanted to talk about
- 5:07Speaker 2: any of these other games, I guess I will, But
- 5:09Speaker 2: I don't really have an opinion at all on really
- 5:11Speaker 2: any of these Howard and Northwestern.
- 5:14Speaker 1: This is on Big Ten Network.
- 5:16Speaker 2: Oh boy, the Big Ten Network getting a lot of
- 5:18Speaker 2: these ugly games early because the Big Ten still hasn't
- 5:22Speaker 2: begun official.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Conference play yet. Howard is terrible.
- 5:26Speaker 2: Howard is also in a bad spot because Howard just
- 5:29Speaker 2: pulled off a pretty ridiculous upset.
- 5:31Speaker 1: Of UNC Wilmington.
- 5:33Speaker 2: Howard had to have been a big underdog in that game,
- 5:35Speaker 2: and like definitely double digits. They were a monster underdog
- 5:40Speaker 2: in this game, without question. They won the game outright.
- 5:43Speaker 2: It must have been just a really, really off game
- 5:46Speaker 2: for UNC Wilmington. So in that respect, you got to
- 5:49Speaker 2: the kind of think that Howard is going to be
- 5:51Speaker 2: in a bit of a letdown spot after that. I
- 5:53Speaker 2: believe they've had a bunch of time off as well.
- 5:55Speaker 2: So that could disrupt this momentum that they have right now. Yeah,
- 5:59Speaker 2: they went into this holiday period ten days off on
- 6:02Speaker 2: a five game win streak, cause I think that's bad.
- 6:04Speaker 1: It might hurt their momentum.
- 6:07Speaker 2: They will probably get up for playing a Big Ten team, though,
- 6:09Speaker 2: and that's kind of my hesitation with it, other than
- 6:12Speaker 2: the fact that I also don't like the spot the
- 6:13Speaker 2: Northwestern is in either, as they just played a close
- 6:16Speaker 2: game against Butler, a Big East team, it seems to
- 6:19Speaker 2: be kind of on the way back up, and Northwestern
- 6:21Speaker 2: starts official Big Ten play next with Minnesota, so it
- 6:25Speaker 2: is kind of a sandwich spot that on Northwestern is in.
- 6:28Speaker 1: So I can't do it, although usually in a game
- 6:32Speaker 1: like this.
- 6:32Speaker 2: I actually do tend to lean towards fading the team
- 6:36Speaker 2: that pulled off the monster outlier upsets. So that would
- 6:39Speaker 2: mean laying the points with Northwestern in this one, but
- 6:42Speaker 2: with a total in the mid one forties, you know,
- 6:45Speaker 2: I mean, and the spot the Northwestern, and I'm still
- 6:48Speaker 2: not very keen on that idea, although if you forced
- 6:52Speaker 2: me to pick, that probably would be what I would do.
- 6:54Speaker 2: I'd probably lay it with Northwestern, but I don't like
- 6:57Speaker 2: the game at all.
- 6:59Speaker 1: All but in and South Carolina Albany.
- 7:01Speaker 2: As I believe I mentioned yesterday, they're coming off a
- 7:04Speaker 2: pretty tough.
- 7:05Speaker 1: Game against Cornell.
- 7:07Speaker 2: You know, Cornell, I think they considered to be a
- 7:08Speaker 2: big brother to them in upstate New York. That was
- 7:11Speaker 2: a big game. Now they gotta go to South Carolina. Obviously,
- 7:14Speaker 2: it's not gonna be easy to do that. Sure, they
- 7:17Speaker 2: should get up for a game against South Carolina. I
- 7:20Speaker 2: don't know if they're gonna be able to handle them,
- 7:22Speaker 2: but of course South Carolina is gonna be a huge
- 7:24Speaker 2: favorite here.
- 7:25Speaker 1: This is six pm Eastern SEC Network.
- 7:28Speaker 2: South Carolina just had an easy win over in state
- 7:30Speaker 2: little brother South Carolina State, but they do have a
- 7:33Speaker 2: potential look ahead to Vandy. So South Carolina starts SEC
- 7:39Speaker 2: play with a bang, facing maybe the best team in
- 7:42Speaker 2: the SEC right now. Is weird as that sounds. Vandy
- 7:45Speaker 2: playing really well right now. So I'm not gonna do
- 7:49Speaker 2: anything with this game. South Carolina is down from twenty
- 7:52Speaker 2: to nineteen here total one hundred and forty.
- 7:55Speaker 1: Seven and a half.
- 7:57Speaker 2: You know, in that one, maybe it makes sense to
- 8:00Speaker 2: kind of look towards taking the points that I believe
- 8:02Speaker 2: South Carolina does play really slow.
- 8:05Speaker 1: That has been their mo recently.
- 8:07Speaker 2: Yeah, they play pretty slow and they're better defensively than offensively,
- 8:11Speaker 2: So they are the kind of team that you kind
- 8:13Speaker 2: of want to fade when they're a big favorite. But
- 8:15Speaker 2: I don't really have a whole lot else to mention
- 8:18Speaker 2: about that. As we get into the night slate, we
- 8:20Speaker 2: do actually have some big conference games getting underway. The
- 8:24Speaker 2: ACC is starting conference playing Garrett's team, North Carolina, number
- 8:30Speaker 2: twelve in the country facing Florida State, who really is
- 8:34Speaker 2: not that good man. Ken Bom has Florida State outside
- 8:37Speaker 2: of the top one hundred.
- 8:39Speaker 1: They're pretty bad man.
- 8:40Speaker 2: North Carolina probably not actually the twelfth best team in
- 8:43Speaker 2: the country, but they're pretty good. Ken Bum has them
- 8:47Speaker 2: at twenty two. They're probably gonna be a tournament team
- 8:50Speaker 2: again this year.
- 8:51Speaker 1: North Carolina. You know they're on their way back up.
- 8:54Speaker 2: Both teams will show up for this game, I believe,
- 8:56Speaker 2: But if that's the case, I think you probably gotta
- 8:59Speaker 2: lay the points Wrth Carolina. North Carolina coming off an
- 9:03Speaker 2: easy win over East Carolina. So North Carolina did not
- 9:07Speaker 2: have any sort of look ahead there or sandwich spot
- 9:12Speaker 2: really is kind of what they were in there because
- 9:13Speaker 2: they played Ohio State the game before that, they did
- 9:16Speaker 2: not lose focus at all.
- 9:17Speaker 1: They won easily.
- 9:19Speaker 2: They've had eight days off, which could disrupt this winning momentum.
- 9:22Speaker 2: That is I guess the one concern with them. Florida
- 9:25Speaker 2: State did go into their break with two wins in
- 9:28Speaker 2: a row as well, though, so that could disrupt their
- 9:30Speaker 2: momentum as well, and they have to start conference play
- 9:33Speaker 2: with UNC and Duke right away with their first two games.
- 9:36Speaker 2: Good luck out to Florida State there. I believe I
- 9:39Speaker 2: would lean to North Carolina here. It is also interesting
- 9:42Speaker 2: in North Carolina actually plays slower paced this year, which
- 9:46Speaker 2: I'm not used to because they've been a faster based
- 9:48Speaker 2: team recently, and Florida State plays really fast. So if
- 9:53Speaker 2: North Carolina is gonna slow them down, it actually might
- 9:56Speaker 2: frustrate Florida State, and it actually might be a good
- 9:58Speaker 2: thing for North Carolina. Although if you're laying points, you
- 10:01Speaker 2: kind of want to a more uptempo game, which this
- 10:04Speaker 2: may not be a one, but I would still lay
- 10:06Speaker 2: it if I was going to play it. Eighty six
- 10:08Speaker 2: percent of the tickets, ninety nine percent of the cash
- 10:10Speaker 2: on UNC, They're up to a fifteen point favor from
- 10:14Speaker 2: thirteen and a half total is high at one hundred
- 10:17Speaker 2: and sixty three. I mean you kind of have to
- 10:18Speaker 2: do that with how fast Florida State plays, which, by
- 10:22Speaker 2: the way, I do not like these teams to play
- 10:24Speaker 2: ludicrous tempos ludicrous speed like Florida State does. So that's
- 10:31Speaker 2: those are my thoughts on that, Tyson.
- 10:33Speaker 1: What's up man? Thanks for hanging out all right?
- 10:37Speaker 2: We have There is some Atlantic ten action getting underway
- 10:40Speaker 2: today as well and American Conference action.
- 10:43Speaker 1: I mean, I don't find these games that.
- 10:44Speaker 2: Interesting, though some of these Power Conference games are interesting.
- 10:47Speaker 2: I think once we get into the big like Power
- 10:50Speaker 2: Conference slates. I'm not going to talk about all the
- 10:52Speaker 2: Power Conference games, but we do have seed In Hall
- 10:54Speaker 2: and Marquette is kind of an interesting one.
- 10:56Speaker 1: This is at Marquette, so.
- 10:58Speaker 2: It's a little bit of a weird travel spot for
- 11:00Speaker 2: Seaton Hall to have to go to Milwaukee. Seaton Hall
- 11:04Speaker 2: has been I think better than anybody expected this year.
- 11:07Speaker 2: They're a decent team this year.
- 11:09Speaker 1: How good I don't really know.
- 11:10Speaker 2: I think Ken Bomb probably barely has them in the
- 11:13Speaker 2: top fifty. If even that, let me see Seaton Hall. Yeah,
- 11:18Speaker 2: they're barely in the top fifty. They're way better defensively
- 11:21Speaker 2: than offensively. They're a slow paced team, which is what
- 11:24Speaker 2: we're used to out of Seaton Hall Marquette. They just
- 11:28Speaker 2: have not been playing well. Man, They're below five hundred.
- 11:30Speaker 2: It's bad enough that Seton Hall was actually a road
- 11:33Speaker 2: favorite in this game, but do they really deserve to be.
- 11:36Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I'm not so sure. I think
- 11:39Speaker 2: maybe we got to rein it in a little bit
- 11:42Speaker 2: with Seaton Hall.
- 11:42Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at.
- 11:43Speaker 2: Their schedule, it's not that impressive. They have a win
- 11:46Speaker 2: over NC State, which was pretty good. They beat Kansas
- 11:49Speaker 2: State on the road, that's pretty good. Other than that,
- 11:52Speaker 2: they don't really have much impressive going on here. And
- 11:54Speaker 2: they lost to us Seal. That was a close game.
- 11:56Speaker 2: I believe that was in Hawaii, so those neutral site
- 11:59Speaker 2: games can be a little bit weird as well. I
- 12:01Speaker 2: think USC might have been down their best player as well.
- 12:04Speaker 2: Set In Hall did just lose to Villanova in a
- 12:07Speaker 2: close game between two teams that like to go very,
- 12:10Speaker 2: very slow. That was a tough game.
- 12:13Speaker 3: Though.
- 12:13Speaker 2: Now they're coming off of that and having to go
- 12:14Speaker 2: on the road, and they do have Creighton next, so
- 12:17Speaker 2: this it almost looks kind of SANDWICHI with how bad
- 12:20Speaker 2: Marquette's record is, Like Villanova and Creighton are teams that
- 12:23Speaker 2: you might actually put more focus into right now than
- 12:26Speaker 2: than Marquette, who's literally at the bottom of the conference
- 12:29Speaker 2: right now. Although I don't think Marquette is actually the
- 12:32Speaker 2: worst team in the conference. I still think they're better
- 12:34Speaker 2: than De Paul. They're probably better than Georgetown, Providence, Xavier.
- 12:39Speaker 2: Even maybe Xavier is really not that good, but that's
- 12:42Speaker 2: a little bit beside the point. I think Setenhall might
- 12:45Speaker 2: actually have a tendency to overlook Marquette in this one.
- 12:48Speaker 2: Marquette still looking for their first conference win. They just
- 12:51Speaker 2: got embarrassed by Creighton on the road. Creighton's not that bad, though,
- 12:55Speaker 2: Marquette losing by twenty one. Now they're back at home.
- 12:58Speaker 2: I expect Marquette to show up in this one. Man,
- 13:00Speaker 2: and you're talking about again a Seaton Hall team that's
- 13:03Speaker 2: bad offensively, they play slow. Marquette is actually probably the
- 13:08Speaker 2: better offensive team, even though ken Bom has pretty bad
- 13:11Speaker 2: outside of the top one hundred.
- 13:13Speaker 1: Here, let me see, Actually I think I'm wrong.
- 13:16Speaker 2: I think Marquette is actually bad enough that they're not
- 13:19Speaker 2: even the better offensive team. But they do play faster,
- 13:22Speaker 2: and ken Bom hasn't been like the bottom fifteen in luck,
- 13:25Speaker 2: and they face a fairly difficult schedule.
- 13:27Speaker 1: So he does say that Marquette is a little bit
- 13:30Speaker 1: better than.
- 13:30Speaker 2: What this awful record looks like, and given that they
- 13:33Speaker 2: might be able to speed the tempo up a little bit,
- 13:35Speaker 2: throw Seaton Hall out of the game that they want
- 13:38Speaker 2: to play. Seaton Hall still not a good offense, not
- 13:41Speaker 2: really a team I want to lay points with on
- 13:43Speaker 2: the road. I would take the points with Marquette if
- 13:45Speaker 2: I was gonna do it. They're a two point dog
- 13:47Speaker 2: right now. Sixty seven percent of tickets eighty two percent
- 13:50Speaker 2: of the cash on Marquette, so some of the money
- 13:54Speaker 2: might actually be on the Marquette side in that one.
- 13:57Speaker 2: Those are my thoughts on that driving mode on Tesla's
- 14:01Speaker 2: I think it's a Spaceball's reference.
- 14:03Speaker 1: I believe, isn't it. That's the one of the speeds
- 14:07Speaker 1: that they could set.
- 14:08Speaker 2: The RV two in Spaceballs. I should know, but it's
- 14:11Speaker 2: been a long time for me. Milwaukee and Wisconsin, it's
- 14:15Speaker 2: kind of weird. I talked about Milwaukee yesterday and I
- 14:18Speaker 2: was correct about them beating IPFW after IPFW pulled off
- 14:22Speaker 2: a pretty ridiculous upset of in state Big Brother Notre Dame.
- 14:27Speaker 2: But I was worried that Milwaukee had a look ahead
- 14:30Speaker 2: to Wisconsin today. So Milwaukee played yesterday, is what I'm saying.
- 14:37Speaker 2: So now Milwaukee, they did win easily yesterday as well,
- 14:40Speaker 2: so I was correct about that game.
- 14:43Speaker 1: Worried about the look ahead.
- 14:44Speaker 2: It didn't matter to them yesterday apparently, But now they're
- 14:47Speaker 2: on a back to back and they got to go
- 14:48Speaker 2: to Wisconsin, and I think this was constant team. They
- 14:52Speaker 2: might come into this game not overlooking anybody because they've
- 14:55Speaker 2: just been bad recently. Man, they did get a win
- 14:58Speaker 2: against Central Michigan, not present, but they beat them. Wisconsin,
- 15:02Speaker 2: I believe, is still undefeated at home. At the very
- 15:04Speaker 2: least it's seven to zero. There is the potential they
- 15:08Speaker 2: still look ahead, maybe though, because they do a Purdue
- 15:11Speaker 2: on deck that is a big game. But I think
- 15:14Speaker 2: in this game it's probably Wisconsin lay it or leave
- 15:18Speaker 2: it alone, even though normally I would say Milwaukee would
- 15:22Speaker 2: have a tendency to get up for a game like
- 15:23Speaker 2: this in state little brother, big Brother situation. I just
- 15:27Speaker 2: don't like the fact that they played yesterday and played
- 15:30Speaker 2: well eighty percent of the tickets ninety six percent of
- 15:33Speaker 2: the cash on Milwaukee, though Wisconsin is a twenty one
- 15:36Speaker 2: and a half point favorite.
- 15:37Speaker 1: And remember, this is a Wisconsin team.
- 15:39Speaker 2: That does play fast, where they used to not play
- 15:42Speaker 2: that fast, but now they do play somewhat faster than
- 15:46Speaker 2: what we're used to from Wisconsin.
- 15:48Speaker 1: If you're old like I am.
- 15:50Speaker 2: And you remember Wisconsin. Even up until a few years ago,
- 15:52Speaker 2: Wisconsin was a slow paced, like really efficient offense team,
- 15:57Speaker 2: kind of like Purdue is right now. Wisconsin has complete
- 16:00Speaker 2: changed to being a faster tempo team and doesn't seem
- 16:03Speaker 2: to be doing that well for them. To be honest,
- 16:06Speaker 2: we do have pitt at Miami. I really don't think
- 16:09Speaker 2: pitt is very good man Pitt Yeah, they're above five hundred.
- 16:12Speaker 2: They just massacred Penn State and that was a win
- 16:15Speaker 2: for us. On the show, Penn State was coming up
- 16:17Speaker 2: that really really big performance where they almost beat in
- 16:20Speaker 2: Michigan State, I believe, so.
- 16:22Speaker 1: I thought that was a really bad spot for Penn State.
- 16:25Speaker 2: Pittsburgh looked way better than they probably really are in
- 16:28Speaker 2: that game. Now they're gonna go on the road to Miami.
- 16:30Speaker 2: Pittsburgh has been pretty bad on the road so far.
- 16:33Speaker 2: They lost seventy one to forty nine at West Virginia,
- 16:36Speaker 2: who is not even good, and then they lost on
- 16:39Speaker 2: the road up by eighteen.
- 16:41Speaker 1: To Villanova as well.
- 16:42Speaker 2: So Pitt has not fared well going on the road.
- 16:45Speaker 2: They gotta go to this upstart Miami team. This Miami
- 16:48Speaker 2: team is looking like they might actually make it back
- 16:50Speaker 2: to the tournament this year if they keep trending this way.
- 16:53Speaker 2: We don't know exactly how good they really are, but
- 16:55Speaker 2: ken Bum has them somewhere in like the thirties right
- 16:58Speaker 2: now in his rankings, which is not bad at all. Now,
- 17:01Speaker 2: you do have to worry about them losing their momentum
- 17:03Speaker 2: because they went into the Holidays with six wins in
- 17:06Speaker 2: a row. But conference home opener, you gotta figure they're
- 17:10Speaker 2: gonna show up. I don't trust Pitt whatsoever. I think
- 17:13Speaker 2: the line does look kind of big to the public eye.
- 17:17Speaker 2: Oh my god, Pit, Miami, Miami's been down for a while.
- 17:20Speaker 2: You're laying double digits with Miami. I know Miami does
- 17:24Speaker 2: have the better record, though, but they are the better team.
- 17:27Speaker 2: I would probably lay it if I was gonna play
- 17:29Speaker 2: it ten point favorite here, But Pitts I mean, the
- 17:33Speaker 2: total is not high at one hundred and forty five
- 17:35Speaker 2: and a half, so I don't know.
- 17:36Speaker 1: I don't love that one either.
- 17:39Speaker 2: Wisconsin ruined Kentucky's perfect season a while ago in the tournament.
- 17:42Speaker 1: You're a Kentucky fan, Kyle, all right.
- 17:46Speaker 2: I've not really been much of a fan of Kentucky.
- 17:48Speaker 2: I'm not a fan of John cal Parry when he
- 17:51Speaker 2: was there right for a while.
- 17:52Speaker 1: I don't know. I just have never really been.
- 17:54Speaker 2: A fan of Kentucky anyway, though I tend to root
- 17:57Speaker 2: against most of the blue Bloods. I get kind of
- 18:00Speaker 2: sick of them. But yes, Wisconsin, I don't even remember.
- 18:06Speaker 2: Oh no, I do remember that that was a Final
- 18:09Speaker 2: four game, wasn't it.
- 18:10Speaker 1: That was in.
- 18:12Speaker 2: Twenty fifteen, I believe because I remember watching some of
- 18:18Speaker 2: that game from my hotel. I was in Portland, Maine
- 18:21Speaker 2: at the time, after my sister and brother in law
- 18:25Speaker 2: kidnapped me and didn't tell me where we were going.
- 18:29Speaker 1: We wound up in Maine and we went to.
- 18:31Speaker 2: A live Prices Right Tour event, which was not hosted
- 18:37Speaker 2: by Drew Carry or Bob Barker. It was a touring
- 18:42Speaker 2: version of the Price Is Right that was hosted by
- 18:45Speaker 2: what the hell was that dude's name? He was the
- 18:47Speaker 2: host of WHAMI, which was the press You're luck that
- 18:50Speaker 2: came back and like the early to mid two thousands,
- 18:57Speaker 2: something Newton I want to say, I don't I forget yeah,
- 19:01Speaker 2: something Newton, I forget Todd Newton.
- 19:03Speaker 1: I think it was SA he was the host of it. Yeah.
- 19:06Speaker 2: Yeah, I did not wind up getting called up onto
- 19:09Speaker 2: stage though. I guess I wasn't crazy enough during the
- 19:12Speaker 2: when they do the interviews of the interview in line, oh,
- 19:15Speaker 2: you know, to determine whether they think you're crazy enough
- 19:18Speaker 2: to put you up on stage.
- 19:20Speaker 1: Somehow I wasn't crazy enough. I don't know why.
- 19:23Speaker 2: And it was a birthday celebration for me, so double whammy.
- 19:28Speaker 2: I don't know why they didn't put me up on
- 19:29Speaker 2: stage here. But yeah, I believe that was the twenty
- 19:31Speaker 2: fifteen tournament because I was watching that game when I
- 19:35Speaker 2: was in Portland at that point.
- 19:38Speaker 1: Wisconsin has tall players on their bench.
- 19:40Speaker 2: I mean maybe they're maybe they're just not good. Yeah,
- 19:45Speaker 2: Final four John Walls freshman year.
- 19:50Speaker 1: Well, I got even.
- 19:50Speaker 2: I got pissed up during that year as well, because
- 19:53Speaker 2: they think Duke won the championship against Wisconsin. If I'm
- 19:56Speaker 2: not mistakens, I'm not a fan of that whatsoever.
- 20:00Speaker 1: I'll probably take Kentucky over Duke Man.
- 20:03Speaker 2: Duke can't stand him, so yeah, although I think it
- 20:08Speaker 2: was that was one of those years where everybody was
- 20:10Speaker 2: picking Kentucky to win the whole thing, right, So I'm
- 20:13Speaker 2: pretty sure I faded Kentucky in my bracket. I don't
- 20:15Speaker 2: think I picked Duke though, Garrett tough day yesterday, that's
- 20:21Speaker 2: not good man with the props you mean.
- 20:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah.
- 20:28Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes it happens. Man Miami Miami Ohio and Bowling
- 20:32Speaker 2: Green the other Miami, the Ben Roethlisberger Miami. This is
- 20:38Speaker 2: a really interesting game where people are gonna look at this,
- 20:42Speaker 2: Oh my god, Miami Ohio was undefeated at thirteen and
- 20:44Speaker 2: oh and Bowling Green is a five and a half
- 20:47Speaker 2: point favored in this game. Like, if the public is
- 20:51Speaker 2: gonna look at this, they're only gonna play Miami Ohio. Like,
- 20:53Speaker 2: how could you not play an undefeated team getting five
- 20:57Speaker 2: and a half points. Well, this is where I think
- 20:59Speaker 2: my Miami Ohio They're undefeated season. Speaking of undefeated seasons
- 21:03Speaker 2: coming to an end. Nice segue there. I think that's
- 21:07Speaker 2: what's gonna happen here with Miami Ohio Bowling Green. Even
- 21:10Speaker 2: though they're ten and three, they're facing more difficult schedule.
- 21:13Speaker 2: Man Bowling Green losses close losses at.
- 21:16Speaker 1: David's against William and Mary. Those teams are not that bad.
- 21:20Speaker 2: Utah Valley is actually not a bad team either, and
- 21:24Speaker 2: then Bowling Green does have this weird win at Kansas State.
- 21:28Speaker 2: So I mean, not the most difficult schedule, but Miami
- 21:30Speaker 2: Ohio is faced I think an even weaker schedule than that,
- 21:33Speaker 2: and I think this is where it comes to an end.
- 21:35Speaker 2: Man ken Bomb has Bowling Green as the better team here.
- 21:39Speaker 2: I'm gonna not disagree with that. I'll agree with that,
- 21:42Speaker 2: but you are losing a little bit of value at
- 21:44Speaker 2: this point because I think the professional.
- 21:46Speaker 1: Money is pouring in on Bowling Green right now.
- 21:48Speaker 2: They're up from three and a half to six, seventy
- 21:51Speaker 2: three percent of the tickets ninety eight percent of the
- 21:53Speaker 2: cash on Bowling Green. If I was gonna play it,
- 21:56Speaker 2: I would lay it Man, and I was close to
- 21:58Speaker 2: making this a play, but the six is just getting
- 22:01Speaker 2: a little bit out of control. I think ken Bom
- 22:03Speaker 2: probably has this set about four or five for Bowling Green. Here,
- 22:07Speaker 2: he does have Bowling Green as the better team. I
- 22:10Speaker 2: don't disagree. Miami Ohio might be one of the most
- 22:12Speaker 2: overrated teams right now just because of the undefeated record.
- 22:15Speaker 2: Ken Bum has them as having the third weakest schedule
- 22:18Speaker 2: in the entire the entirety of Division One. He has
- 22:22Speaker 2: them outside of the top one hundred. He has them
- 22:24Speaker 2: not even the top team in the MAC. So yeah,
- 22:27Speaker 2: I think this is where it comes to an end.
- 22:28Speaker 1: Man.
- 22:29Speaker 2: He actually has Bowling Green right here, five ranking spots
- 22:32Speaker 2: higher than them. He's got Miami Ohio is one of
- 22:36Speaker 2: those teams that's way better on offense the defense.
- 22:38Speaker 1: And you know I like defense.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Bowling Green is better defensively than offensively. Now, I don't
- 22:44Speaker 2: love laying points though with a team that's more defense oriented,
- 22:48Speaker 2: which is what you have to do with Bowling Green.
- 22:49Speaker 1: Here. Bowling Green, they face a fairly week.
- 22:52Speaker 2: Schedule as well, like I said, but not as weak
- 22:54Speaker 2: as Miami Ohios. And yeah, luck index Bowling Green has
- 22:59Speaker 2: actually been one one of the most unlucky teams in
- 23:01Speaker 2: the country at three twentieth then walk out of three
- 23:05Speaker 2: sixty five or whatever, where Miami Ohio is at sixty two.
- 23:08Speaker 2: So Ken, Mom's telling you Miami, Ohio is overperformed a bit,
- 23:12Speaker 2: and Bowling Green is kind of underperformed, so all that,
- 23:16Speaker 2: you know, being thrown into the mix and whatever.
- 23:18Speaker 1: I would lay the points here.
- 23:21Speaker 2: You know, Bowling Green might make a nice moneyline parlay
- 23:24Speaker 2: piece because I think they will win the game.
- 23:26Speaker 1: Covering is a little bit of a different story, but yeah,
- 23:31Speaker 1: I would lay it if I was gonna play the game.
- 23:33Speaker 2: And yeah, a moneyline parlay might make sense if you
- 23:35Speaker 2: find another another favorite to link them in with, although
- 23:40Speaker 2: you know me, I don't like parlays, so but you know,
- 23:43Speaker 2: if I happen to mention another small favorite that I
- 23:46Speaker 2: like here, which I don't know if I even do,
- 23:47Speaker 2: but you know, yeah, Mama said they'd be days like this.
- 23:53Speaker 2: Did be days like this, Mam Mama sin Yes.
- 23:57Speaker 1: I already talked about the tire heels.
- 23:59Speaker 2: I apologize you missed it, Garrett, although I didn't have
- 24:02Speaker 2: much to say, but I would lean towards laying the
- 24:04Speaker 2: points with them against what I think is a pretty
- 24:07Speaker 2: bad Florida State team. And I don't really see a
- 24:10Speaker 2: situational angle in that game. All right, some of these
- 24:14Speaker 2: other games, I mean, Tennessee gets South Carolina State here
- 24:18Speaker 2: SEC network. Tennessee does start SEC playing next with Arkansas,
- 24:23Speaker 2: so potentially a look ahead spider. South Carolina State is
- 24:27Speaker 2: just awful though, and they aren't coming off playing South
- 24:30Speaker 2: Carolina or they're in state, big brother. They lost by
- 24:33Speaker 2: twenty five. Maybe that was a cover for South Carolina State.
- 24:37Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I mean, they are bad, dude.
- 24:40Speaker 2: They're one of the probably bottom twenty teams or so
- 24:42Speaker 2: in all of college of basketball, all of D one.
- 24:44Speaker 2: Tennessee is a forty five and a half point favorite.
- 24:48Speaker 2: I just there's no way that you can lay forty
- 24:50Speaker 2: five and a half man with Tennessee, a team that
- 24:53Speaker 2: really kind of struggles offensively at times, and the totals
- 24:57Speaker 2: low one hundred and forty seven and a half.
- 24:59Speaker 1: That's yeah, a situation where it's just so ugly.
- 25:02Speaker 2: But I think you gotta take the points of South
- 25:04Speaker 2: Carolina State and that when or just passed. I think
- 25:06Speaker 2: the line is just too high. It's a crazy high line.
- 25:09Speaker 2: Tennessee can obliterate them and still not cover. You know,
- 25:13Speaker 2: they don't really have that much of an incentive to
- 25:15Speaker 2: do it anyway, Yes, sir, Yeah, I'm talking about them
- 25:19Speaker 2: in chronological order. For the most part, it was that
- 25:22Speaker 2: first ACC game up. Yeah, Daniel Powder, you had a bad.
- 25:27Speaker 1: Day, you take it one down, you send a sad
- 25:31Speaker 1: song just to turn it around. Yeah. A bunch of
- 25:35Speaker 1: huge lines.
- 25:36Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of them landed really really close to
- 25:38Speaker 2: the number, including Penn State.
- 25:40Speaker 1: I noticed.
- 25:41Speaker 2: I think Penn State missed on the cover by like
- 25:43Speaker 2: a half point, depending on what number you got. New
- 25:47Speaker 2: Hampshire is playing Nebraska here on the Big Ten network.
- 25:50Speaker 2: Nebraska ranked thirteenth in the country. I do not think
- 25:53Speaker 2: they're the thirteenth best team. They're undefeated. The rankings makers,
- 25:57Speaker 2: you know they love shit like that. Ken bum as
- 25:59Speaker 2: Nebraska twenty third in the country. They're definitely good. Shout
- 26:03Speaker 2: out to Nate I believe is our resident Nebraska fan here. Dude,
- 26:08Speaker 2: I forget who's who at this point, Man Nebraska. If
- 26:12Speaker 2: you look at this game, they might have a look
- 26:13Speaker 2: ahead spot. I mean, they play Michigan State coming up
- 26:16Speaker 2: soon to resume Big Ten play.
- 26:18Speaker 1: That's gonna be a huge game for them. They might just.
- 26:20Speaker 2: Completely overlook this really bad New Hampshire team. New Hampshire
- 26:25Speaker 2: winless on the road, though Nebraska undefeated at home.
- 26:28Speaker 1: New Hampshire just played actually pretty.
- 26:30Speaker 2: Respectably against the Saint Louis team that I think Saint
- 26:33Speaker 2: Louis is good enough that they might get an at
- 26:35Speaker 2: large bid this year, which is my hope because I
- 26:38Speaker 2: want to finally see Robbie Avila in the tournament.
- 26:41Speaker 1: Man.
- 26:41Speaker 2: I was pissed when Indiana State lost to Drake the
- 26:45Speaker 2: other year and didn't make it in.
- 26:46Speaker 1: We want Kreem Abdul Jabbar in the tournament. Baby.
- 26:50Speaker 2: Saint Louis might do it this year. You might get
- 26:52Speaker 2: a multi bid Atlantic ten this year. Man, definitely possible.
- 26:56Speaker 2: But New Hampshire played fairly well at Saint Louis, only
- 26:59Speaker 2: losing by four. Team now they got to turn around,
- 27:01Speaker 2: they got to play Nebraska. I think they have had
- 27:03Speaker 2: a break in between the two games though, Yeah, nine
- 27:07Speaker 2: days off, so actually kind of weird. They were out
- 27:09Speaker 2: at Saint Louis and they went back for the holidays,
- 27:12Speaker 2: I assume, and back home and now they're going back
- 27:14Speaker 2: out to the Midwest agendto playing Nebraska.
- 27:16Speaker 1: Very very weird. But I would still probably take the.
- 27:20Speaker 2: Points in the in this game if I was gonna
- 27:22Speaker 2: do it, But I don't want to really trust New
- 27:25Speaker 2: Hampshire but Nebraska does have that major look. I had
- 27:28Speaker 2: spot twenty nine and a half is the line right now.
- 27:30Speaker 2: It's down from thirty and a half low total of
- 27:32Speaker 2: one hundred and forty five.
- 27:35Speaker 1: Yeah. Sc State is one of the worst. Yeah five teams.
- 27:38Speaker 2: Apparently they're really really bad. Tony Bruno used to play
- 27:45Speaker 2: Daniel Powder. It's a lame song, but I mean I
- 27:48Speaker 2: might be able to do a ukulele cover of it.
- 27:51Speaker 2: Maybe I've done it in the past, I don't know.
- 27:53Speaker 2: ACC play continues at nine pm Eastern, and this.
- 27:57Speaker 1: Is it's so bizarre to see. This is an ACC game.
- 28:00Speaker 1: And number sixteen.
- 28:01Speaker 2: Louisville, who I think is a legit team right now.
- 28:04Speaker 2: They seem to be on the way up.
- 28:05Speaker 1: Last year, I.
- 28:06Speaker 2: Believe didn't they get a Did they get a win
- 28:08Speaker 2: last year against Duke No?
- 28:10Speaker 1: I think Clemson did. Louisville. They're on the way up.
- 28:14Speaker 1: They're good.
- 28:15Speaker 2: They're probably ranked about appropriately. Where's ken Bum have them at?
- 28:19Speaker 2: He's got them thirteenth. Weird that they have to go
- 28:23Speaker 2: out to California, but they did have to do it
- 28:25Speaker 2: last year at the very least, so this is not
- 28:27Speaker 2: the first year with these California teams.
- 28:29Speaker 1: In the ACC. Now.
- 28:31Speaker 2: The other thing about California here is that they're not
- 28:33Speaker 2: as good as their record looks. They look really awesome
- 28:36Speaker 2: at twelve and one. Louisville's laying a lot of points
- 28:38Speaker 2: on the road here, which I think the public actually
- 28:41Speaker 2: might have a tendency to think there's value grabbing the
- 28:43Speaker 2: points with a Cal team.
- 28:45Speaker 1: It's twelve and one.
- 28:46Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm getting eight and a half at
- 28:48Speaker 2: home here. It's one of those games where maybe the
- 28:51Speaker 2: public thinks that they're smart. Oh my god, I'll take
- 28:53Speaker 2: the underdog in this one, fading the ranked team for once,
- 28:57Speaker 2: And I actually think that might be the wrong approach,
- 29:00Speaker 2: because I think Cal is nowhere near as good as
- 29:02Speaker 2: their record makes them look.
- 29:03Speaker 1: Louis of them.
- 29:04Speaker 2: They beat Montana on their last game whatever. They're taking
- 29:07Speaker 2: this road trip out here. They got to face Cal
- 29:09Speaker 2: and Stanford, which I think actually both teams are not
- 29:12Speaker 2: as good as their records look right now, but starting
- 29:14Speaker 2: the road trip, I think they actually might show focus here,
- 29:16Speaker 2: although I do worry that it's a late night game.
- 29:19Speaker 2: You know, I talk about it, these teams that are
- 29:21Speaker 2: from the East, that I have to go all the
- 29:23Speaker 2: way out to the Pacific Coast play the late night
- 29:25Speaker 2: It isn't good for their biological clock, so I will
- 29:28Speaker 2: say that. But again, Cal not as good as the
- 29:31Speaker 2: record looks. They haven't lost since losing early on to
- 29:35Speaker 2: Kansas State. But if you look at their record their
- 29:37Speaker 2: resume here, they do have a good win against UCLA,
- 29:41Speaker 2: but you know that's an in state, little big brother situation.
- 29:44Speaker 2: Cal always steps it up for UCLA. The rest of
- 29:48Speaker 2: their resume is totally unimpressive. I mean, Kansas State's not
- 29:51Speaker 2: even really that good. Cal lost to them on the road,
- 29:54Speaker 2: and then other than that, these wins are extremely unimpressive
- 29:57Speaker 2: for CAL. The only other Power Conference team they played
- 29:59Speaker 2: was ut They beat them at home by seven. Utah
- 30:02Speaker 2: is not good, So yeah, Cal, I'm not buying cal Man.
- 30:08Speaker 2: Louisville is much much better than CAL, so I think
- 30:10Speaker 2: CAL might have a hard time handling them in this game.
- 30:13Speaker 1: The only thing they have going.
- 30:14Speaker 2: For them is is the time zone. Louisville is up
- 30:19Speaker 2: to an eight and a half point favorite from seven. Actually,
- 30:21Speaker 2: fifty three percent of the cash on them, sixty nine
- 30:24Speaker 2: percent of the tickets are on CAL.
- 30:27Speaker 1: But yeah, it looks like a pros versus.
- 30:29Speaker 2: Joe scenario setting up here where the Joe's are trying
- 30:33Speaker 2: to be smart and failing to do so by taking
- 30:36Speaker 2: cal It looks like here, Oh, give me the team
- 30:38Speaker 2: with the better record getting points.
- 30:41Speaker 1: The real money seems to be on Louisville.
- 30:43Speaker 2: I'm not gonna disagree with it, but it's not you know,
- 30:46Speaker 2: it's definitely not my favorite. No, I did not go
- 30:50Speaker 2: out to lunch. I'm being healthy, man, I just had
- 30:56Speaker 2: a Factor at home. I didn't even want to go
- 30:58Speaker 2: out in the rain. Fact should sponsor me. By the way,
- 31:02Speaker 2: the for the single male podcaster, man factor.
- 31:06Speaker 1: Is the way to go.
- 31:07Speaker 2: You get easy, you know, quick microwaveable meals that are
- 31:11Speaker 2: chef prepared that only lasts for about a week or two.
- 31:14Speaker 1: Good ingredients factor, Baby all right.
- 31:19Speaker 2: Mountain West continues, though we have Nevada in Colorado states
- 31:23Speaker 2: one of the better Mountain West games today. I think
- 31:25Speaker 2: it's an interesting one because Nevada is at nine and
- 31:28Speaker 2: three here. They just had a win over a Boise
- 31:30Speaker 2: State that was pretty convincing by fifteen here. But coming
- 31:35Speaker 2: off to that win, I'm not so sure, man. I
- 31:36Speaker 2: still think Nevada is a bit down this year.
- 31:38Speaker 1: That was a nice win. For them.
- 31:40Speaker 2: Maybe they're gonna be in a little bit of a
- 31:41Speaker 2: letdown spot here. They only have one, excuse me, two
- 31:45Speaker 2: true road games this year. One was a loss at
- 31:48Speaker 2: Santa Clara. Santa Clara is actually pretty legit this year,
- 31:51Speaker 2: and they did lose or excuse me, they one at
- 31:53Speaker 2: Washington State. But Washington State's really not very good this year,
- 31:58Speaker 2: which I'm gonna I'm gonna mention them in a bit.
- 32:00Speaker 2: Colorado State just got obliterated by Utah State and that
- 32:03Speaker 2: did end a win streak for them. I know Colorado
- 32:06Speaker 2: State is not as good this year. They won the
- 32:08Speaker 2: Mountain West last year when they got really really hot
- 32:11Speaker 2: and won and then they made it to the second
- 32:13Speaker 2: round of the tournament as well because they caught Memphis
- 32:16Speaker 2: in the first round, which I loved Colorado State in
- 32:19Speaker 2: that game.
- 32:20Speaker 1: It was one of my plays on the show. I
- 32:22Speaker 1: gave out Colorado State as a future to win the Mountain.
- 32:25Speaker 2: West last year as well. So I was keen in
- 32:28Speaker 2: on Colorado State last year. But Colorado State coming off
- 32:34Speaker 2: this loss, yeah, it could end their losing momentum and
- 32:36Speaker 2: hanging them over. But I think it's more likely that
- 32:38Speaker 2: they're just gonna be really really angry man, and this
- 32:41Speaker 2: is their conference home opener, losing one hundred to fifty
- 32:44Speaker 2: eight to anybody's bad. Utah State, I believe is the
- 32:47Speaker 2: best team in the Mountain West this year though right
- 32:50Speaker 2: now at least, so no shame in losing to them
- 32:53Speaker 2: on the road, but just losing by that many points,
- 32:56Speaker 2: by forty two, that is disgusting.
- 32:58Speaker 1: With Nevada coming off looking really really good.
- 33:02Speaker 2: The only way that I could look at this game
- 33:04Speaker 2: is to lay it with Colorado State. They're laying three
- 33:07Speaker 2: and a half. It is a low total though of
- 33:08Speaker 2: one hundred and forty three, but yeah, it's one of
- 33:12Speaker 2: those spots where I think you just you just fade
- 33:15Speaker 2: the recency bias, man, and in both directions, it puts
- 33:18Speaker 2: you on Colorado State in that one.
- 33:20Speaker 1: So that's what I would do in that game.
- 33:24Speaker 2: And then an alternative alternatively, of course, Utah State off
- 33:28Speaker 2: of that ridiculous win is going to Fresno, but they
- 33:31Speaker 2: don't have anything up next. San Jose State not really
- 33:33Speaker 2: a look ahead spot for Utah State, but taking the
- 33:37Speaker 2: points with Fresno kind of makes sense in that one
- 33:38Speaker 2: because Utah State just looked way too good in that game.
- 33:42Speaker 2: Even though yes, they are again probably the best seam
- 33:44Speaker 2: in this conference. They're laying thirteen and a half on
- 33:47Speaker 2: the road. Fresno probably won't. They probably won't be a
- 33:50Speaker 2: total pushover in this game. Fifty percent of the tickets
- 33:53Speaker 2: again on Utah State, excuse me, sixty three percent of
- 33:57Speaker 2: the cash on Fresno. All right, Butler had Creighton interesting
- 34:04Speaker 2: one Big East Fox Sports nine pm. Butler, they look
- 34:08Speaker 2: pretty good right now, man, Creighton. Their record doesn't look
- 34:11Speaker 2: as good, although Creighton's undefeated in the Big East. Right now,
- 34:14Speaker 2: Butler is one and one. But of course Butler lost
- 34:17Speaker 2: on the road to Yukon. I mean, no shame in that, Butler.
- 34:21Speaker 2: Their other win was not impressive, though they barely got
- 34:25Speaker 2: by Providence at home. That's not great for Butler. Now
- 34:28Speaker 2: Butler's got to go out to Omaha.
- 34:30Speaker 1: And play Creighton.
- 34:32Speaker 2: Seems kind of a difficult spot to me, man for
- 34:35Speaker 2: Butler here, even though you know, these teams have been
- 34:37Speaker 2: in the Big East for a while now. But Creighton's
- 34:40Speaker 2: laying five and a half points here, and they're an
- 34:42Speaker 2: eight and five team against a ten to three team.
- 34:44Speaker 2: So I think the public is gonna be misled by
- 34:47Speaker 2: that line. It's another one of those lines where it
- 34:49Speaker 2: looks weird, like, why is the team.
- 34:50Speaker 1: With the worst record favored? Right?
- 34:53Speaker 2: The odds makers are telling you Creighton's actually the slightly
- 34:56Speaker 2: better team here. Ken Bom has it that way as well.
- 34:58Speaker 2: I'm not gonna disagree with it. Creighton, Yeah, they're two
- 35:02Speaker 2: and zero conference, but they beat Xavier and Marquette, and
- 35:05Speaker 2: we know both of those teams are really down this year,
- 35:07Speaker 2: but they handle their business. They beat them both. They're
- 35:10Speaker 2: gonna show up for this game at home. You know,
- 35:13Speaker 2: if I was gonna play it, I would lean towards
- 35:15Speaker 2: Creighton in that one. Where is Creighton on the board here,
- 35:19Speaker 2: let me see where are they.
- 35:21Speaker 1: They're in omah Hia.
- 35:22Speaker 2: It looks like the money is actually disagreeing with that,
- 35:25Speaker 2: but we'll see what happens by nine pm.
- 35:27Speaker 1: But I would lay the.
- 35:28Speaker 2: Points in this one if I was gonna play it, seventy
- 35:30Speaker 2: percent of the ticket, sixty eight percent of the cash
- 35:32Speaker 2: on Creighton. They are up to a five and a
- 35:34Speaker 2: half point favorite. Like I said, with Juice, actually a
- 35:38Speaker 2: Notre Dame Stanford. I forget what the name of this
- 35:41Speaker 2: rivalry is in college football. It's a big rivalry I
- 35:46Speaker 2: don't know if is Stanford. They're not a Catholic school, right,
- 35:49Speaker 2: they don't have that. Maybe actually maybe they are. I
- 35:51Speaker 2: don't know, do they have that in California. I don't
- 35:54Speaker 2: know if this is one of the Catholic rivalries or not.
- 35:57Speaker 2: I know Notre Dame's rivals are BC because they're the
- 35:59Speaker 2: two Catholic schools USC.
- 36:01Speaker 1: For the Golden chal Alien.
- 36:02Speaker 2: Then whatever the Stanford rivalry is, it's a rivalry game. Technically,
- 36:07Speaker 2: Notre Dame's having to go out to California here, you know,
- 36:12Speaker 2: again for an easterly team going out west could be
- 36:14Speaker 2: a little bit difficult to do, having to play a
- 36:16Speaker 2: late night game. But Notre Dame is off that embarrassing
- 36:19Speaker 2: loss I mentioned yesterday IPFW. They're an okay Horizon team
- 36:23Speaker 2: and they really stepped up their game against in state
- 36:26Speaker 2: big brother Notre Dame.
- 36:28Speaker 1: Notre Dame took that loss. Now they're going out on
- 36:30Speaker 1: the road.
- 36:32Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like it should be kind of a
- 36:34Speaker 2: bounce back spot for Notre Dame here. But Stanford's coming
- 36:38Speaker 2: off kind of a weak performance as well against north Ridge.
- 36:41Speaker 2: And that was the game the other day, that was
- 36:43Speaker 2: that one Division one game that we had on the
- 36:46Speaker 2: board the other day when Division one basketball resumed, and
- 36:50Speaker 2: I was correct about taking the points with north Ridge,
- 36:52Speaker 2: even though it wasn't a play. It was kind of
- 36:54Speaker 2: a sandwich spot with Stanford having come off the game
- 36:57Speaker 2: against Colorado, they'd gone into the break. I think they
- 37:00Speaker 2: overlooked Northridge, and Northridge got up for an in state
- 37:04Speaker 2: big brother situation there, So Stanford they're staying in California. Yeah,
- 37:10Speaker 2: arguably they have a look at to Louisville, but I
- 37:12Speaker 2: don't really think they're gonna overlook.
- 37:13Speaker 1: Notre Dame here. Man.
- 37:14Speaker 2: Both teams are coming off bad performances. Factor in the
- 37:17Speaker 2: fact that Notre Dame's gonna go out on the road here.
- 37:20Speaker 2: I kind of like Stanford in this one, although they're
- 37:22Speaker 2: already up from three to six, so some of the
- 37:25Speaker 2: money agreed with that, and the line is a little
- 37:28Speaker 2: bit high for my liking at this point at six.
- 37:31Speaker 2: I think the true line should probably be somewhere in
- 37:34Speaker 2: the middle between those two numbers. I forget what ken
- 37:37Speaker 2: Bom had the number at. By the way, ken Bom
- 37:40Speaker 2: I shouldn't give out all his secrets on the show Man,
- 37:43Speaker 2: I would recommend paying for ken Bam I mean, he's
- 37:45Speaker 2: been doing it for decades. At this point, he is
- 37:49Speaker 2: still the analytics guy. I know you got your other guys,
- 37:52Speaker 2: Bart Torvik, Evan May. They all do really good work.
- 37:55Speaker 2: But Ken Bom, for all of his info, he's the og.
- 37:58Speaker 2: It's like thirty bucks a.
- 38:00Speaker 1: Year, so it's almost nothing.
- 38:01Speaker 2: It used to be less than that too, but you know, inflation,
- 38:05Speaker 2: it's definitely worth it to get all of his info.
- 38:07Speaker 2: I use his I use his site every day for
- 38:10Speaker 2: college basketball. So Sanford is not religious. That figures because
- 38:15Speaker 2: it's in uh. But but their nickname is the Cardinal Man.
- 38:20Speaker 2: Although it's I know, it's the color cardinal red. It
- 38:24Speaker 2: makes them sound maybe that's why, because they sound Catholic,
- 38:27Speaker 2: the Cardinal Uh. But yes, California, they're all atheist heathens
- 38:34Speaker 2: out there.
- 38:35Speaker 1: All right.
- 38:39Speaker 2: If you want me to talk about any of these
- 38:40Speaker 2: other games, I will. A lot of these other games
- 38:41Speaker 2: are not really that interesting. West Coast Conference plays underway
- 38:47Speaker 2: here San Francisco, and Oregon State is a little bit interesting.
- 38:50Speaker 2: Oregon State, I think, is a team. It still draws
- 38:52Speaker 2: teams focus because they used to be in the Pac twelve,
- 38:55Speaker 2: so they still kind of have that name around them.
- 38:57Speaker 2: So does Washington State. San Francisco is like a pretty
- 39:02Speaker 2: legit team this year that they're pretty good in the
- 39:04Speaker 2: West Coast Conference. They played a fairly difficult schedule so far.
- 39:08Speaker 2: They're coming off that win at Seattle where I said
- 39:11Speaker 2: I like San Francisco in that game. I believe that
- 39:14Speaker 2: was pretty recent, like a couple of days ago. Oregon
- 39:17Speaker 2: State does look a little down this year. They're coming
- 39:19Speaker 2: off getting annihilated by Santa Clara. Though Santa Clara is good,
- 39:23Speaker 2: but that is an embarrassing loss, and with San Francisco
- 39:26Speaker 2: coming off a pretty solid win there, I do think
- 39:29Speaker 2: Oregon State is the way to lean in this game,
- 39:32Speaker 2: even though it might look odd that they're an underdog
- 39:34Speaker 2: at home, but.
- 39:36Speaker 1: The money looks like it agrees.
- 39:37Speaker 2: With me on that San Francisco is down from five
- 39:39Speaker 2: and a half to four and a half, sixty percent
- 39:41Speaker 2: of the tickets on them, but sixty percent of the
- 39:43Speaker 2: cash on Oregon State.
- 39:44Speaker 1: That's probably the way that I would play it.
- 39:46Speaker 2: It is still somewhat difficult to play in Corvallis, especially
- 39:50Speaker 2: for teams like San Francisco that have only played there
- 39:52Speaker 2: like probably once, you know, like so far since Oregon
- 39:58Speaker 2: State has joined the West Coast maybe twice.
- 40:01Speaker 1: I don't know how many years have they been here.
- 40:02Speaker 1: I don't even remember.
- 40:03Speaker 2: And actually Washington State is at Seattle, so Washington State's
- 40:07Speaker 2: having to travel from Eastern Washington too, western Washington. Because
- 40:11Speaker 2: Washington State is in eastern Washington, they're traveling across the
- 40:14Speaker 2: state to play Seattle. Washington State coming up barely getting
- 40:18Speaker 2: by Portland. Not an impressive win there, so you know,
- 40:23Speaker 2: but they might actually play better in this one. Seattle's
- 40:26Speaker 2: actually been pretty good. Seattle has moved over to this conference,
- 40:30Speaker 2: the West Coast Conference from the Whack, and they're looking
- 40:32Speaker 2: pretty good. They're coming up a pretty difficult game though,
- 40:35Speaker 2: that game that I mentioned against San Francisco which also
- 40:38Speaker 2: ended a long win streak for them for Seattle. San
- 40:41Speaker 2: Francisco is a fairly solid team, and Seattle does have
- 40:44Speaker 2: Gonzaga next, so it almost actually looks like a bad spot,
- 40:48Speaker 2: even though you think Seattle would get up for a
- 40:50Speaker 2: game against Washington State, because it's still like an in
- 40:53Speaker 2: state little big brother situation. So I don't want to
- 40:56Speaker 2: completely write Seattle off. But their next two games are
- 40:58Speaker 2: Gonzaga on Saint Man and as far as the conference
- 41:01Speaker 2: Dynamics are concerned. Yeah, this game is surrounded by three
- 41:05Speaker 2: better teams in the conference, and literally the three top
- 41:08Speaker 2: teams in the conference.
- 41:10Speaker 1: So I don't love Seattle in this spot.
- 41:12Speaker 2: They're up to a five and a half point favorite,
- 41:14Speaker 2: sixty nine percent of the cash on them, fifty percent
- 41:16Speaker 2: of the tickets around Washington State.
- 41:19Speaker 1: But I don't know.
- 41:21Speaker 2: I kind of lean against Seattle and that one, to
- 41:23Speaker 2: some extent, total is not that high at one forty five.
- 41:27Speaker 1: Zach, what's up man? Thanks for hanging out, multi talented.
- 41:30Speaker 2: I have a few at least, all right, and then
- 41:35Speaker 2: where's my play? My play is in here somewhere. Oh yeah,
- 41:40Speaker 2: all right, best bets? We do have one in college basketball.
- 41:45Speaker 2: I'm being selective, man, But I also just don't see
- 41:48Speaker 2: anything that good. We're gonna take the points with Pacific
- 41:51Speaker 2: here against Loyal and Marymount. First of all, I think
- 41:55Speaker 2: this game should be pretty low scoring. You got two
- 41:57Speaker 2: teams that focus on deepfense more than all offense, and
- 42:00Speaker 2: the total is low at one hundred and thirty seven,
- 42:02Speaker 2: so it's more conducive to taking points here. I know
- 42:06Speaker 2: the lines moved up a little bit on Loyal and Marrymount,
- 42:08Speaker 2: but I think this is a spot where you want
- 42:10Speaker 2: to fade them. Loyal and Marymount's coming out of a
- 42:12Speaker 2: really tough game at home against Saint Mary's. That was
- 42:15Speaker 2: a big game for Loyal and Marry Mount. Man Saint Mary's.
- 42:18Speaker 2: We know they're one of the upper rachel on teams
- 42:21Speaker 2: in this West Coast Conference. It's them and Gonzaga and
- 42:23Speaker 2: then everybody else is a step behind them. You know,
- 42:27Speaker 2: Loyal and Marrymount almost pulled off the upset. It was
- 42:30Speaker 2: a big game for them. The game was close almost
- 42:33Speaker 2: all the way down the stretch. It was like a
- 42:35Speaker 2: tied game. It was within one possession. Actually yeah, it
- 42:37Speaker 2: was literally tied in the final minute I believe of
- 42:40Speaker 2: the game. So huge game for Loyal and Marry Mount.
- 42:43Speaker 2: I mentioned I liked the idea of taking the points
- 42:45Speaker 2: with them in that game, and they did cover, but
- 42:47Speaker 2: they lost the game, really really brutal loss there. Now
- 42:51Speaker 2: they get this Pacific team that even though Pacific is
- 42:54Speaker 2: nine to five, they haven't won in the conference yet.
- 42:57Speaker 2: They're I think still they're under the radar because they're
- 42:59Speaker 2: just not really considered to be that good of a
- 43:01Speaker 2: team in this conference. But this year Pacific is actually
- 43:04Speaker 2: a little bit better than they usually are. And Leola
- 43:08Speaker 2: Marymount does have Washington State, Gonzaga, San Francisco, Santa Clara,
- 43:12Speaker 2: and Oregon State all up.
- 43:14Speaker 1: In their next five games.
- 43:15Speaker 2: And I actually think all of those are games that
- 43:17Speaker 2: are bigger just because they're the former pac twelve teams
- 43:21Speaker 2: that just get that name recognition and the actual other
- 43:24Speaker 2: upper teams in the conference. So I think this is
- 43:27Speaker 2: a game where they overlook their opponent. Man, And for Pacific,
- 43:31Speaker 2: I like how the sets up for Pacific because they
- 43:33Speaker 2: just had a really really ugly double digit loss to
- 43:38Speaker 2: open conference play at San Diego, and San Diego is
- 43:41Speaker 2: not that good. Pacific was a road favorite in that game,
- 43:44Speaker 2: a slight road favorite, and they went down there.
- 43:46Speaker 1: They lost the game outright. And if you look at.
- 43:48Speaker 2: What happened in this game, Pacific dominated the rebounding battle,
- 43:52Speaker 2: which is good because that's the more predictive and predictable
- 43:55Speaker 2: stat They won the rebounding battle by double digits, so
- 43:58Speaker 2: it's like, well, how the hell did they lose?
- 44:00Speaker 1: Well, this is why.
- 44:02Speaker 2: Turnovers twenty one turnovers from Pacific. They were minus thirteen
- 44:06Speaker 2: in turnovers. That's something you can clean up, man, you know,
- 44:09Speaker 2: it's mental, it's disciplined. So that was really the main
- 44:13Speaker 2: reason why they lost the game. And then they also
- 44:15Speaker 2: got screwed in the free throw.
- 44:16Speaker 1: Apartment as well. The foul shooting.
- 44:19Speaker 2: San Diego got to the line twice as many times
- 44:22Speaker 2: as Pacific did, so looking like some biased reffing there.
- 44:25Speaker 2: And then the three point shooting was also a crazy outlier,
- 44:28Speaker 2: where San Diego was plus eight and three pointers as well,
- 44:32Speaker 2: forty from three, Pacific only eighteen percent. Those are both
- 44:37Speaker 2: outliers as well. Even though San Diego didn't even shoot
- 44:39Speaker 2: well from the floor at all, they just hit a
- 44:42Speaker 2: ton of their threes and that was basically it, even
- 44:44Speaker 2: though Pacific actually had more possessions in the game. So Pacific,
- 44:49Speaker 2: they weren't a bounce back spot here. That was an
- 44:51Speaker 2: ugly loss to an inferior team. Again, digging into the statue,
- 44:56Speaker 2: there were a bunch of outliers in that game, so Pacific.
- 44:59Speaker 2: To me, it's my favorite play on the board in
- 45:02Speaker 2: college of basketball, and we're gonna do it.
- 45:03Speaker 1: We're gonna take the points.
- 45:07Speaker 2: Loyola, Yeah, Saint Mary's and Santa Clara are the Catholic no,
- 45:12Speaker 2: like I think Loyola is Jesuit, right, and then I
- 45:15Speaker 2: don't know what the other teams are. I think there's
- 45:18Speaker 2: some other denominations. They're Christian colleges, but they're not Catholic.
- 45:22Speaker 2: I don't believe.
- 45:23Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know anything anymore.
- 45:25Speaker 2: Man, Well, Jesuit is Catholic, right, So I guess it's
- 45:30Speaker 2: a subset of of Catholicism.
- 45:33Speaker 1: So I get, yeah, I don't know. Maybe you're right.
- 45:34Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 45:35Speaker 2: I'm not Catholic, man, I apologize. I don't know all
- 45:38Speaker 2: the different subsets of Catholicism. I'm I'm I'm a I'm
- 45:42Speaker 2: a bad ignorant New England Congregational Protestant here man, all right,
- 45:49Speaker 2: and then we do have a good game. Uh, the
- 45:51Speaker 2: late game, the degenerate special people gonna be trying to
- 45:55Speaker 2: get some of their money back. On New Mexico Boise
- 45:57Speaker 2: State at eleven pm on Fox Sports.
- 46:00Speaker 1: This is an interesting one.
- 46:01Speaker 2: It's a clash of styles because New Mexico likes to
- 46:03Speaker 2: go fast, Boise State likes to go slow.
- 46:07Speaker 1: Boise probably will be.
- 46:08Speaker 2: Able to slow the game down because it is at
- 46:10Speaker 2: home for them.
- 46:12Speaker 1: So I think Boise he does have the upper hand.
- 46:14Speaker 2: As far as that's concerned, the public is gonna have
- 46:17Speaker 2: a tendency to want to grab New Mexico because they
- 46:19Speaker 2: have the better record. They are only two losses on
- 46:21Speaker 2: the season here, they're at only two losses. Boise, he's
- 46:25Speaker 2: a five and a half point favorite here even though
- 46:28Speaker 2: they're eight and four. But the oddsmakers are telling you
- 46:31Speaker 2: Boise is actually the better team here. And Boise, as
- 46:34Speaker 2: I mentioned, is coming off just I don't know what
- 46:37Speaker 2: happened to them in that game they lost at Nevad.
- 46:39Speaker 2: I mean, Reno is a tough place to play. Well,
- 46:40Speaker 2: you can kind of see what happened in this game.
- 46:42Speaker 2: Boise had been on a nice run, beating Butler on
- 46:45Speaker 2: the road, very nice win there, beating Ducane who's not
- 46:48Speaker 2: really that bad, and then beating Saint Mary's. That is
- 46:51Speaker 2: a very good win for Boise state there. So coming
- 46:53Speaker 2: off that run having to go to Reno, they got caught.
- 46:57Speaker 1: Man.
- 46:58Speaker 2: Reno's not easy to play in. The VAD is usually
- 47:00Speaker 2: pretty good there. Uh So I think Boise bounces back
- 47:03Speaker 2: here at home. Uh they'll be able to slow it
- 47:06Speaker 2: down and frustrate New Mexico.
- 47:07Speaker 1: And I just don't think New Mexico is as good
- 47:09Speaker 1: as their record looks.
- 47:10Speaker 2: They do have a couple of nice wins in here
- 47:12Speaker 2: against Santa Clara of VCU. They're coming up an easy
- 47:16Speaker 2: win over San Jose State. But if I was gonna
- 47:18Speaker 2: play it, I think I would lay it with Boise State,
- 47:20Speaker 2: although I know laying points of the slow down team
- 47:23Speaker 2: is not exactly great. But ninety six percent of the
- 47:26Speaker 2: cash on them fifty percent of the tickets evenly split though,
- 47:29Speaker 2: so the actual money seems to agree on that one
- 47:32Speaker 2: with Boise So that's the way that I would look
- 47:34Speaker 2: at that game. Charles, the Jesuits, they're all maled. You
- 47:39Speaker 2: have to be a male to be a Jesuit.
- 47:40Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know anything about Jesuits. Man.
- 47:44Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the NHL here. Uh okay, Yeah.
- 47:54Speaker 2: The Branch Davidians were not We're not a cult.
- 47:56Speaker 1: There were not a cult.
- 47:57Speaker 2: They are you a Jesuit, Jeffrey, No? Oh, yeah, Branch Davidians.
- 48:01Speaker 2: They were not a cult yet, dude, they got massacred
- 48:04Speaker 2: by the government.
- 48:04Speaker 3: Man.
- 48:05Speaker 2: The Branch Davidians were innocent and the government murdered all
- 48:08Speaker 2: of them.
- 48:08Speaker 1: Man, their dogs.
- 48:09Speaker 2: It's just disgusting. And all the propaganda around it just ridiculous.
- 48:13Speaker 2: It was during the nineties when the government was having
- 48:16Speaker 2: to quash the radical right wing element in the United States.
- 48:21Speaker 1: It's ridiculous.
- 48:23Speaker 2: All right, hockey, we have New Jersey in Toronto was
- 48:25Speaker 2: the first game up. I do not like this hockey board.
- 48:27Speaker 2: As I already talked about, my New Jersey is coming
- 48:30Speaker 2: of a nice win over or excuse me, n excuse me,
- 48:32Speaker 2: a big performance my apologies against Washington.
- 48:35Speaker 1: They lost the game four to three. For some reason
- 48:38Speaker 1: I thought they won.
- 48:38Speaker 2: They lost in overtime to Washington, so I think that
- 48:43Speaker 2: might have a little bit of a hangover effector although yes,
- 48:45Speaker 2: they are starting a road trip, I don't think they're.
- 48:48Speaker 1: Gonna overlook Toronto.
- 48:49Speaker 2: They have Columbus next, so I do think Toronto is
- 48:52Speaker 2: the bigger of these two games on the road trip here.
- 48:54Speaker 2: But trying to bounce back from a tough game where
- 48:57Speaker 2: you almost beat Washington maybe not that easy to do.
- 49:00Speaker 2: So Toronto, they just went to Detroit. They're playing a
- 49:04Speaker 2: third game in four days with going with a trip
- 49:06Speaker 2: to Detroit in the middle there they lost in overtime.
- 49:09Speaker 2: That's gonna be difficult for them to bounce back from
- 49:11Speaker 2: as well. So what are you do in that game?
- 49:14Speaker 2: I don't know, man, New Jersey's up for minus one
- 49:16Speaker 2: fifteen of minus one twenty two on the money line,
- 49:19Speaker 2: sixty percent of the tickets, sixty four percent of the
- 49:21Speaker 2: cash on Toronto. So the money seems to be somewhat
- 49:25Speaker 2: indicating to be buying back on the Toronto side as
- 49:28Speaker 2: the home dog. Maybe it's just more of a value thing,
- 49:33Speaker 2: like just seeing Toronto as a home underdog.
- 49:34Speaker 1: Maybe there is a little bit of value there.
- 49:36Speaker 2: But I see nothing as far as the side that
- 49:38Speaker 2: I want to get involved in. All boys, Catholic high
- 49:43Speaker 2: school or Jesuits. Yeah, I don't know if that if
- 49:46Speaker 2: that's like a requirement or what.
- 49:47Speaker 1: I have no idea.
- 49:49Speaker 2: Zach Wall You're a Devil's fans, and I know that
- 49:51Speaker 2: I have no idea. Man, I don't know anything anymore.
- 49:55Speaker 2: I don't know anything.
- 49:58Speaker 3: So that's the Devil, buddy, or if you met anybody there.
- 50:13Speaker 2: And there's your Catholic priest in there as well. Montreal
- 50:18Speaker 2: at Florida this is another interesting one. These teams are
- 50:21Speaker 2: both playing pretty well. Montreal they're coming off a shootout
- 50:26Speaker 2: loss at Tampa Bay though that's difficult. That's gonna be
- 50:29Speaker 2: difficult for them to bounce back from. They do play
- 50:31Speaker 2: Carolina on the road in two days. But are they
- 50:35Speaker 2: really gonna overlook Florida though? I kind of don't really
- 50:38Speaker 2: think so, although it will be difficult to, you know,
- 50:41Speaker 2: put in a huge effort like this two games in
- 50:43Speaker 2: a row like this, so uh, in that respect, yeah,
- 50:46Speaker 2: they might start getting a little bit tired. Florida just
- 50:49Speaker 2: had a nice win as well over Washington yesterday. They're
- 50:53Speaker 2: staying at home, but they're on the back to back
- 50:55Speaker 2: and they do have the Winter Classic on Friday, so
- 50:58Speaker 2: maybe a little bit of a look ahead just because
- 50:59Speaker 2: that's a big game. It's nationally televised whatever. It's on, TNT, HBO, Max,
- 51:05Speaker 2: True TV. Very very odd to me that that game's
- 51:08Speaker 2: at night, because that game is an outdoor game in
- 51:11Speaker 2: a stadium, so it'll be kind of cool. I guess,
- 51:14Speaker 2: not literally and figuratively, I guess, you know, the stadium
- 51:18Speaker 2: is gonna be lit up and whatever. I think it's
- 51:19Speaker 2: probably at Yankee Stadium, I'm guessing.
- 51:22Speaker 1: Let me see. No, it's in Miami. That is bizarre, dude.
- 51:26Speaker 1: How can they have an outdoor hockey game in Miami.
- 51:29Speaker 2: Isn't it gonna be like sixty degrees there? That doesn't
- 51:32Speaker 2: make any sense. The Winter Classic is always outdoors in
- 51:36Speaker 2: like New York, you know. I think Boston's done it before,
- 51:40Speaker 2: Like it's usually in like Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park.
- 51:42Speaker 1: I don't we'll talk about it then. I don't know
- 51:44Speaker 1: what's going on.
- 51:44Speaker 2: I think it's been in Chicago as well. I have
- 51:47Speaker 2: no idea what's going on with that. The ice is
- 51:49Speaker 2: gonna melt if they try to do it outside there,
- 51:52Speaker 2: don't don't ask me, man, I don't know what's going
- 51:54Speaker 2: on with that, but it is the Winter Classic. Whatever
- 51:57Speaker 2: they're doing with it, maybe they're doing something really stupid,
- 52:00Speaker 2: been in laying with it now, But it's usually an
- 52:03Speaker 2: outdoor afternoon game, and it's usually pretty fun, and the
- 52:06Speaker 2: uniforms are usually pretty ridiculous.
- 52:08Speaker 1: Whatever. Maybe that's a look ahead. I don't know.
- 52:12Speaker 2: I think both teams are kind of in bad spots.
- 52:14Speaker 2: The money is indicating on Montreal. For what it's worth,
- 52:16Speaker 2: Florida is down for minus one forty two to minus
- 52:19Speaker 2: one thirty eighty percent of the tickets on Florida, sixty
- 52:22Speaker 2: one percent of the casual in Montreal.
- 52:24Speaker 1: I don't really agree.
- 52:26Speaker 2: With that though, Like Montreal, I think is coming off
- 52:29Speaker 2: the tougher game. Although yeah, I did mention Florida is
- 52:32Speaker 2: in a look ahead spot, but it is still the
- 52:34Speaker 2: Rangers who they're playing in the Winter Classics.
- 52:37Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 52:37Speaker 2: I think it's a bigger look ahead spot for the Rangers,
- 52:40Speaker 2: but who aren't playing today, by the way, I don't know, man.
- 52:46Speaker 2: I mean I actually think the over is the play
- 52:50Speaker 2: in this game because both teams, I think, are in
- 52:52Speaker 2: spots where they might just not have focus, they might
- 52:55Speaker 2: be worried, they might be tired as well. So again,
- 52:58Speaker 2: I think it requires focus and it requires energy to
- 53:02Speaker 2: play deffense, so I think that the defense will potentially
- 53:05Speaker 2: lapse in this game. Seventy eight percent of tickets on
- 53:08Speaker 2: the over, ninety six percent of the cash on the over.
- 53:13Speaker 2: But yeah, Jeffrey, I mean you you just seem to
- 53:16Speaker 2: blindly take unders though, man, I mean, like they're you
- 53:19Speaker 2: got to pick the spots to play them. And in hockey,
- 53:22Speaker 2: there are very few spots where I actually like the unders.
- 53:26Speaker 2: They're trucking in ice and snow. I think you're joking.
- 53:29Speaker 2: I assume there's no way you guys are lying to me, right,
- 53:35Speaker 2: I know you're not lying about Dustin Wolf. Yeah, six
- 53:38Speaker 2: and ohero in his last six home starts interesting?
- 53:43Speaker 1: So yeah, Wolf, Wait is he? Is he the goaltender?
- 53:45Speaker 1: Is he on Toronto? Now? I don't even know where
- 53:47Speaker 1: he is now? Is that? Where is that? What's going on?
- 53:50Speaker 3: So?
- 53:50Speaker 1: Wait, they're really no, they're really doing that? There's no way.
- 53:56Speaker 2: Yes, dios meo l diablo. Oh the Devils were founded
- 54:02Speaker 2: in Kansas City.
- 54:03Speaker 1: Really, that's bizarre.
- 54:05Speaker 2: I thought they were just founded in New Jersey just
- 54:08Speaker 2: as a kind of fuck you to the New York
- 54:11Speaker 2: City people. I have no idea, dude. That's yeah odd
- 54:15Speaker 2: to me. All right, Jeffrey like Montreal in that when
- 54:18Speaker 2: the money seems to agree with that, I kind of don't.
- 54:21Speaker 2: But a wolf is still on the Why are you
- 54:23Speaker 2: talking about the flames? I don't want to talk about
- 54:26Speaker 2: the fucking flames. The Bruins are fucking shit. The Bruins
- 54:29Speaker 2: definitely should have won that game. Flyers are starting ears
- 54:34Speaker 2: and yeah whatever, I mean, he's not a great goaltender.
- 54:38Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought you guys are joking.
- 54:41Speaker 2: All right, we got Carolina and Pittsburgh here, Carolina coming
- 54:47Speaker 2: off beating the Rangers, which was a home win against
- 54:51Speaker 2: the Rangers. The Rangers didn't play well on the road.
- 54:54Speaker 2: For well, they played well, they just lost in overtime,
- 54:56Speaker 2: so I guess the Rangers still continued playing fairly well
- 54:59Speaker 2: in road. I guess it was an overtime win for
- 55:01Speaker 2: Carolina yesterday. And now they have a single game road
- 55:05Speaker 2: trip to Pittsburgh, and up next they got Montreal, then Colorado,
- 55:09Speaker 2: and then New Jersey. Then Dallas could be a spot
- 55:12Speaker 2: where maybe they overlooked their opponent in this one man.
- 55:15Speaker 2: Pittsburgh haven't been playing as well, but they did get
- 55:19Speaker 2: that win over Chicago, and I don't think they're gonna
- 55:21Speaker 2: be over confident. Though usually I don't like to be
- 55:23Speaker 2: on teams that just won by four goals.
- 55:26Speaker 1: That was a win for us on the show.
- 55:28Speaker 2: They're returning over from a road trip, which normally I
- 55:31Speaker 2: don't love, but well, it wasn't really a road trip.
- 55:33Speaker 2: It was only a single road game after the holiday break,
- 55:36Speaker 2: so not really a road trip return. Pittsburgh's not gonna
- 55:39Speaker 2: overlook Carolina at home, so I think if you're gonna
- 55:42Speaker 2: play it, Pittsburgh money line underdog is the way to
- 55:45Speaker 2: play this game. Carolina done for minus one thirty minus
- 55:49Speaker 2: one twenty seven eighty three percent of the tickets, ninety
- 55:52Speaker 2: nine percent of the cash, and then probably not accurate,
- 55:54Speaker 2: but there'll be a public side.
- 55:58Speaker 1: Yes, I like.
- 55:58Speaker 2: Pittsburgh as well in that one, all right, not a
- 56:03Speaker 2: play for me, I mean you could make you can
- 56:06Speaker 2: make the argument. It's a sandwich spot though. Islanders the
- 56:11Speaker 2: other New York team at Chicago. The Islanders did just
- 56:14Speaker 2: lose that Columbus.
- 56:16Speaker 1: Now they're going to Chicago.
- 56:18Speaker 2: It looks like it's kind of a bounce back spot
- 56:20Speaker 2: for both teams here.
- 56:21Speaker 1: Both teams didn't play well in their last game Chicago.
- 56:24Speaker 2: Of course, they were coming up that huge shootout win
- 56:26Speaker 2: over Dallas and then on a back to back they
- 56:30Speaker 2: lost to Pittsburgh.
- 56:31Speaker 1: We had that win on the show. Like I said,
- 56:34Speaker 1: they do have Dallas and Washington up next.
- 56:36Speaker 2: But I don't really see Chicago overlooking an opponent after
- 56:39Speaker 2: they lost this badly at home. I think they're gonna
- 56:41Speaker 2: try to show up and get a win in this one.
- 56:44Speaker 2: The Islanders of the road favored here. They're a public
- 56:47Speaker 2: side though they're Denver mints one forty five the minus
- 56:49Speaker 2: one thirty five seventy eight percent of tickets ninety nine
- 56:52Speaker 2: percent of the cash.
- 56:53Speaker 1: Again, doubt that that's accurate. I'd probably lead to Chicago as.
- 56:58Speaker 2: The money line dog in that one. They're coming off
- 57:00Speaker 2: the uglier game, but I don't want to touch it.
- 57:04Speaker 2: And then Philadelphia at Vancouver. Philadelphia, I guess with Arson
- 57:08Speaker 2: and that he's not very good. Philadelphia is coming off
- 57:13Speaker 2: an ugly loss to Seattle, though, so you gotta think
- 57:16Speaker 2: that they probably are gonna be in bounced back mode
- 57:19Speaker 2: after that. They only played Calgary tomorrow, so that's not
- 57:21Speaker 2: really a look ahead, even though you said that it
- 57:24Speaker 2: is because of Ladhar But I just don't really think
- 57:26Speaker 2: they give a shit.
- 57:28Speaker 1: Calgary is awful.
- 57:30Speaker 2: Vancouver just beat that same Seattle team, which I believe
- 57:33Speaker 2: we had do we haven't win, No, we didn't have
- 57:34Speaker 2: a win on that.
- 57:35Speaker 1: That was yesterday. I don't remember what my lean was
- 57:38Speaker 1: in that game. I might have. Was I right or
- 57:40Speaker 1: wrong on that one? I don't remember.
- 57:41Speaker 2: But Vancouver is now on a back to back. The
- 57:45Speaker 2: public might look at this and say, oh my god,
- 57:46Speaker 2: Vancouver just beat Seattle, who just beat Philadelphia. So this
- 57:50Speaker 2: looks kind of easy to play Vancouver in this game.
- 57:53Speaker 2: Although Philadelphia does have the better record, so maybe they
- 57:55Speaker 2: won't do that. But Vancouver had that weird single game
- 57:59Speaker 2: trip to Seattle. They're coming back home. I know it's
- 58:01Speaker 2: not a huge trip from Vancouver to Seattle, but still
- 58:04Speaker 2: third game in four days now with traveling between them.
- 58:09Speaker 2: I think it's Philadelphia or passing this one. Philadelphia looks
- 58:13Speaker 2: like they are taking some of the money through up
- 58:15Speaker 2: from minus one twenty to minus one thirty eighty six
- 58:18Speaker 2: percent of tickets ninety three percent of the cash on them.
- 58:21Speaker 2: They might be a public side, but I agree with
- 58:23Speaker 2: Philadelphia in that one. Tackets Toche, how.
- 58:30Speaker 1: Do you pronounce his name? I don't even know. He's
- 58:32Speaker 1: returning to his uh to his old team, which which
- 58:35Speaker 1: team is even on? I don't even know. I don't
- 58:38Speaker 1: know what we're talking about.
- 58:39Speaker 2: But I again, if it's a situation where he's already
- 58:43Speaker 2: played against his former team before, then I don't think
- 58:46Speaker 2: it matters really at all. Okay, we have NBA here
- 58:53Speaker 2: a few games today in the NBA Philadelphia at Memphis,
- 58:56Speaker 2: Philadelphia at Memphis here, Philadelphia. They're coming off getting blown
- 59:02Speaker 2: out by Oklahoma City on the road.
- 59:04Speaker 1: No surprise there.
- 59:06Speaker 2: I think Oklahoma City was kind of in an angry
- 59:09Speaker 2: mood after that loss to San Antonio. So I said,
- 59:12Speaker 2: Oklahoma City made sense in that game. I think that
- 59:14Speaker 2: was that game. Now Philadelphia, obviously you gotta watch who's
- 59:18Speaker 2: playing and who's not because Embiid gets rested a lot
- 59:21Speaker 2: because his knee is totally jacked up and will never
- 59:23Speaker 2: be good again. His knee will never be good again.
- 59:27Speaker 2: Paul George seems to be playing for the most part,
- 59:30Speaker 2: although I don't know Philadelphia. I mean, it's definitely a
- 59:33Speaker 2: step down and class from okay See to Memphis here
- 59:37Speaker 2: though obviously Memphis just lost at Washington though, so that
- 59:41Speaker 2: you think you gotta think they're gonna be a little
- 59:43Speaker 2: bit angry after that.
- 59:44Speaker 1: That's a bad loss at Washington.
- 59:46Speaker 2: But they do have the Lakers up two games in
- 59:49Speaker 2: a row on Friday and Sunday, so maybe a little
- 59:53Speaker 2: bit of a look at it here from Memphis, although
- 59:55Speaker 2: this is gonna be a national TV game NBC and Peacock,
- 59:59Speaker 2: so maybe they will up for it. Tough game to
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: figure out. It looks like yeah, Embiid as usual, game
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: time decision. Philadelphia, looks like basically everybody else will play,
- 1:00:09Speaker 2: except we know Oubray has been out for a while,
- 1:00:12Speaker 2: so he's not going to be playing. Callwell Pope is
- 1:00:15Speaker 2: out for a Memphis. I don't know if any of
- 1:00:17Speaker 2: these other guys on the injury report are as impactful.
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: I don't know how impactful Callwell Pope is at this
- 1:00:23Speaker 2: point either. Don't know what Morant's status is either. I
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: think he's been back, though I think he is playing.
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: Uh yeah, this game. I mean again, I'm not gonna
- 1:00:33Speaker 2: touch this game. But the money is coming in on
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: the Sixers for what it's worth, maybe because the Grizzlies
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: are kind of in that look ahead spot, whereas I
- 1:00:40Speaker 2: think both teams are in bounced back spots. But with
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: the Grizzlies having that look ahead spot, maybe that is
- 1:00:45Speaker 2: kind of the deciding factor.
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: Sixers are a one point road favorite.
- 1:00:50Speaker 2: Sixty eight percent of the tickets eighty nine percent of
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: the cash on the Sixers.
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: I won't really disagree with the market in that one.
- 1:00:56Speaker 2: Don't really have much of an opinion at all. He's
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: a Flyers coach, he used to coach the Knoxy. Yeah,
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: but how long ago was that? If they've played Vancouver
- 1:01:08Speaker 2: since then, then I don't think it matters at all.
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: Yes, one, two, three, four, five six ers, ten nine.
- 1:01:18Speaker 2: Eight, seventy six ers. Shout out to nephelum Edy. Yes,
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: Edie is a uh yeah, he is a giant.
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: He's still hurt, though. I think is any orsy back now,
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: I don't, I don't I do. I don't even know.
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: I'm not paying enough attention.
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: To the Grizzlies. Next time I decide that they're in
- 1:01:34Speaker 2: a spot where I want to play them, I probably
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: should look. But the Predators and I don't know. I
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: still laugh at them. They've never played really all right.
- 1:01:47Speaker 2: Maybe maybe there's something there. I don't know, so I
- 1:01:52Speaker 2: don't know either way. I think the spot is a
- 1:01:54Speaker 2: it's a Flyers spot in that game. My Boston Celtics
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: are at Utah. Here, the Celtics are coming off of
- 1:02:01Speaker 2: a loss at Portland. I think they're gonna bounce back.
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: I mean, their mo under Joe Mizzoula usually is after
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: they lose as a favorite, they bounce back and they
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: play well in the next game. Yeah, they're going into
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: elevation here, but they really Again I talked about how
- 1:02:15Speaker 2: this road trip is just full of weak teams. The
- 1:02:18Speaker 2: Celtics better not lose this road trip man either. One
- 1:02:21Speaker 2: on one so far on the road trip. I expect
- 1:02:24Speaker 2: them to bounce back here, and I think it's a
- 1:02:25Speaker 2: bad spot for Utah. Utah just beat San Antonio and Detroit.
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: They beat Detroit on the road, or excuse Detroit at home,
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: and then they went on the road and they beat
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: San Antonio, which I think they caught San Antonio at
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: a good time. Though san Antonio had come.
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: Off the sweep of OKC and they had Cleveland next,
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: so that was a pretty bad spot. Although I was
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: just worried about Utah coming off beating Detroit, but they
- 1:02:50Speaker 2: caught san Antonio at a really good time to catch them.
- 1:02:53Speaker 2: So Utah probably not as good as they looked in
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: that game. They've had a couple of days off, which
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: might not help them. It might disrupt their momentum. They're
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: coming back home from San Antonio and they have to
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: go right back out on the road to face the
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: Clippers though, So my worry here is that usually you're
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: gonna show up for a game against the Celtics, and
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: that would be my one concern here. But I do
- 1:03:14Speaker 2: like the Celtics in this game. All the money seems
- 1:03:16Speaker 2: to agree. They're laying eight points on the road, sixty
- 1:03:19Speaker 2: five percent of tickets, ninety four percent of the cash
- 1:03:21Speaker 2: on the Celtics.
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: I would lay it with the Celtics. This is maybe
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: the strongest opinion that I have in the NBA.
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: Celtics or pass for sure in this one. Can't be
- 1:03:31Speaker 2: afraid to lay points as a road favorite in the NBA.
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: You lean Jazz, absolutely not.
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: How could you lean Jazz when they just won at
- 1:03:40Speaker 2: the Spurs. I mean they're in like a very very
- 1:03:43Speaker 2: obvious massive letdown spot and the Celtics are coming off
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: a loss. So no, I don't agree with that at all.
- 1:03:50Speaker 2: I think if you're gonna play any game in the
- 1:03:52Speaker 2: NBA today, it would be My opinion is the Celtics
- 1:03:55Speaker 2: are the strongest lean on the on the NBA board today.
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: And you know I usually know the Celtics. I mean
- 1:04:03Speaker 2: they're they're my lover. Cleveland beat the Spurs by heaving
- 1:04:07Speaker 2: up shots. Okay, so what does that? What does that mean?
- 1:04:11Speaker 2: It means that the Spurs, it means that that Jazz
- 1:04:13Speaker 2: game against the Spurs is less impressive. Then Nope, disagree completely.
- 1:04:20Speaker 2: Celtics are passed. The money is agreeing with me on
- 1:04:22Speaker 2: that as well. I like, what's the argument for the
- 1:04:25Speaker 2: Jazz in the game. I want to know again, they
- 1:04:28Speaker 2: just they pulled off back to back huge wins, huge
- 1:04:31Speaker 2: upset wins, back to back with travel now not on
- 1:04:36Speaker 2: a back to back as far as they haven't played yesterday.
- 1:04:38Speaker 2: I mean, but the Celtics, dude, I know how the
- 1:04:40Speaker 2: Celtics operate coming off of a loss like that. They
- 1:04:43Speaker 2: bounce back. No, dude, fuck yahoo, fuck MGM. Their numbers
- 1:04:50Speaker 2: are absolutely not accurate at all. The play clearly the
- 1:04:54Speaker 2: scheduling spot is a Celtics spot. You're dude, You're like
- 1:04:58Speaker 2: forcing me to give out a play on the Celtic.
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: I'm not gonna quite do it, but yeah, it would be.
- 1:05:02Speaker 2: Celtics are passed. Pistons at Lakers. Pistons came down to
- 1:05:07Speaker 2: LA and they must have been looking ahead or something
- 1:05:09Speaker 2: because they had a horrible game against the Clippers. I
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: think they were looking ahead. I think the Pistons are
- 1:05:15Speaker 2: gonna show up in this game. The Lakers. They just
- 1:05:18Speaker 2: beat Sacramento. I know that's a whatever game.
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: They're not gonna overlook Detroit here. Detroit is favored on
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: the road here.
- 1:05:25Speaker 2: But remember the Lakers are shorthanded right now, They're without
- 1:05:28Speaker 2: both Reeves and Hachi Mora here, which is definitely a
- 1:05:32Speaker 2: concern because it's basically the Luca Show at this point,
- 1:05:35Speaker 2: and that's really not enough for the Lakers. I mean,
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: Lebron might be playing, but he's old as hell.
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: Pistons a flipped from one and a half dog to
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: a two and a half way favorite here, probably some
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: of it due to the injuries and whatever. Eighty one
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: percent of the cash on the Pistons fifty seven percent
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: of tickets on the Lakers.
- 1:05:52Speaker 2: I agree with the market in that one as well.
- 1:05:54Speaker 2: It's Pistons are passing that game in my opinion, their
- 1:05:59Speaker 2: loss in their previous game, it was just way, way worse.
- 1:06:01Speaker 2: In my opinion, both teams are staying in LA after
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: the previous game for that one. Lakers, they're just too
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: shorthanded right now, man, And I think it looks weird
- 1:06:11Speaker 2: to have the Lakers being a home dog. So even
- 1:06:14Speaker 2: though the Pistons do have the better record, and again
- 1:06:16Speaker 2: I don't think the Pistons are quite as good as
- 1:06:18Speaker 2: the record looks, but they're good. Sacramento is coming off
- 1:06:22Speaker 2: that loss to LA. Now they're playing the other LA.
- 1:06:25Speaker 2: They're playing the Clippers. Step down in class. But they
- 1:06:27Speaker 2: do play the Celtics next, so.
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: They're in the what do you want to call that?
- 1:06:33Speaker 2: The cross country the biggest rivalry in NBA history?
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: Sandwich here? Is that what you want to call it?
- 1:06:40Speaker 2: Between the Lakers and the Celtics here, But they lost
- 1:06:44Speaker 2: bad to the Lakers, so I don't think they're gonna
- 1:06:46Speaker 2: be really in a sandwich spot. And I don't think
- 1:06:49Speaker 2: Sacramento is in a position to overlook anybody right now.
- 1:06:51Speaker 2: And of course the Clippers just beat the Lakers Houston
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: and then Portland somehow in a sandwich spot. We lost
- 1:06:58Speaker 2: on that one on the show, and then they beat Detroit.
- 1:07:02Speaker 2: The Clippers look at a completely different team right now,
- 1:07:04Speaker 2: but at some point they're gonna have a letdown, and
- 1:07:07Speaker 2: maybe it comes here. So I don't want anything to
- 1:07:10Speaker 2: do with the Clippers off of that run of games
- 1:07:12Speaker 2: man blowing out Detroit like that. Uh, they have Utah
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: next and then Boston Golden State, New York.
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: If Utah wasn't in the way there.
- 1:07:20Speaker 2: I'd be saying this is a sandwich spot, and maybe
- 1:07:22Speaker 2: I'd be on board, but I think it's Kings or
- 1:07:25Speaker 2: passing this one. Clippers down from eleven and a half
- 1:07:27Speaker 2: to ten, seventy four percent of tickets, seventy six percent of.
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: The cash on the Clippers. Yeah, it's Kings are pass
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: lean Kings.
- 1:07:37Speaker 2: Well you also you also lean the Jazz though, so
- 1:07:41Speaker 2: do I give a shit? The Celtics haven't been scoring
- 1:07:43Speaker 2: that much that the Celtics. This is what they do.
- 1:07:46Speaker 2: They play defense, they they look for good shots. I
- 1:07:51Speaker 2: mean yeah, they take a lot of threes too, so
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: sometimes they do score more. But I'm telling you right now, dude,
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: I know exactly how the Celtics operate.
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: They're in a bounce back.
- 1:07:59Speaker 2: But you is any horrendous spot in that game unless
- 1:08:03Speaker 2: you think they're gonna put in a monster effort three
- 1:08:06Speaker 2: games in a row like that, I think the Celtics
- 1:08:09Speaker 2: win that game by twenty points. To be honest, dirty sock,
- 1:08:14Speaker 2: what's up man? Thanks for hanging out. I think it's
- 1:08:17Speaker 2: like a very very clear handicap that it's Celtics are
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: passing that game.
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: All right, I am gonna give out one of the
- 1:08:22Speaker 1: bowls here in this one.
- 1:08:25Speaker 2: We got three bowl games here. First game up is
- 1:08:28Speaker 2: at two pm, so I thought it was new and
- 1:08:31Speaker 2: it's not. We have three bowl games here tomorrow By
- 1:08:33Speaker 2: the way, New Year's Eve, we got more bowls that
- 1:08:36Speaker 2: there are five bowl games I think between the playoff
- 1:08:40Speaker 2: bowl game Playoffs and the or maybe there's only one
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: playoff game tomorrow, but there are.
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: Five bowls tomorrow. First bowl game.
- 1:08:48Speaker 2: Is the Independence Bowl, which is the Radiance Technologies Independence
- 1:08:53Speaker 2: Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana. It's Coastal Carolina and Louisiana Tech
- 1:08:58Speaker 2: now Louisiana Tech.
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: They're playing close.
- 1:09:01Speaker 2: To home, so you know their crowd's gonna show up
- 1:09:03Speaker 2: for this game. And I don't really think it's a
- 1:09:05Speaker 2: bad spot for Louisian Attack. Like a lot of times
- 1:09:07Speaker 2: they'll talk about how sometimes these bowl teams they don't
- 1:09:11Speaker 2: play well when they don't get to go to like
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: a cool destination, you know what I mean, Like they
- 1:09:15Speaker 2: won't get excited for it. But for Louisiana Attack, I
- 1:09:17Speaker 2: think they will because they were in a bowl last year,
- 1:09:21Speaker 2: but they lost the bowl pretty badly and they actually
- 1:09:24Speaker 2: haven't won a bowls. They were in this bowl last
- 1:09:26Speaker 2: year and they lost. They actually might want to redeem themselves.
- 1:09:29Speaker 2: They lost to Army. That was a tough draw for them.
- 1:09:32Speaker 2: I mean, we saw what Army looked like the other day, Army.
- 1:09:35Speaker 2: These service academies are tough to prepare for him. Bowls man,
- 1:09:38Speaker 2: that's just the way that it is. Louisianattack. They hadn't
- 1:09:41Speaker 2: been in a bowl prior to that for a few years,
- 1:09:43Speaker 2: and they have not won a bowl since they No,
- 1:09:47Speaker 2: I believe.
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: It was this bowl they won at some point.
- 1:09:50Speaker 2: Yeah, here it is when it was the walk Ons
- 1:09:53Speaker 2: Independence Bowl in twenty nineteen. They beat Miami fourteen to not.
- 1:09:57Speaker 2: They probably a very disappointed Miami team that year, I imagine.
- 1:10:01Speaker 1: But yeah, Louisiana Tech.
- 1:10:02Speaker 2: That's the last time they won a bowl in their
- 1:10:05Speaker 2: program's history six years ago. So I actually think they
- 1:10:08Speaker 2: are going to show up in this game. I think
- 1:10:10Speaker 2: they're going to want to get this game. And Louisiana
- 1:10:13Speaker 2: Tech played tough down the stretch. They won their last
- 1:10:16Speaker 2: two games against Liberty in Missouri State, so they were
- 1:10:19Speaker 2: already Bowl eligible.
- 1:10:20Speaker 1: They didn't let up.
- 1:10:21Speaker 2: They were not going to be able to make the
- 1:10:22Speaker 2: conference championships. So that tells me something. Even though I
- 1:10:25Speaker 2: usually talk about how momentum gets stopped when you have
- 1:10:28Speaker 2: a lot of time off, but sometimes these bowl teams, man,
- 1:10:32Speaker 2: like when they looked good down the stretch that kind
- 1:10:34Speaker 2: of tells you they still want to play hard.
- 1:10:37Speaker 1: So I think Louisiana Tech should win this game. Now.
- 1:10:40Speaker 2: Coastal Carolina, I was talking about how they were not
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: as good as they looked all season. They had a
- 1:10:45Speaker 2: good record, and then they really had a sharp decline
- 1:10:48Speaker 2: down the stretch, including losing horribly to South Carolina in
- 1:10:52Speaker 2: what I thought was a horrible spot for South Carolina
- 1:10:55Speaker 2: after they blew that game against Texas A and M.
- 1:10:58Speaker 1: We took a loss on that game on the show
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: with Coastal horrible.
- 1:11:03Speaker 2: So Coastal they didn't show up at all in their
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: last couple of games, and they got obliterated by Jamu
- 1:11:08Speaker 2: in the final game because at that point they couldn't
- 1:11:10Speaker 2: win the Sun Belt or they couldn't get into the
- 1:11:12Speaker 2: Sun Belt Championship whatever anymore.
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: For a while, it looked like.
- 1:11:15Speaker 2: They were potentially gonna be able to beat James if
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: they were gonna be able to beat James Madison in
- 1:11:20Speaker 2: that game, which they weren't gonna do that anyway, but
- 1:11:22Speaker 2: there was the potential that if they won that game,
- 1:11:25Speaker 2: they were gonna get into the Sun Belt Championship, which
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: was ridiculous. That was never gonna happen. But they just
- 1:11:31Speaker 2: looked like they weren't even interested at all down the stretch,
- 1:11:34Speaker 2: which I don't like. And also that is carrying over
- 1:11:37Speaker 2: into what's going on with the transfer portal here is
- 1:11:40Speaker 2: Coastal Carolina. They got some guys in the transfer portal here.
- 1:11:44Speaker 2: Their head coach got fired. And you know, I do
- 1:11:48Speaker 2: talk a lot about when a coach gets fired, it
- 1:11:50Speaker 2: will like spark the team, but I don't think that's
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: the case. When they fire the coach after the season
- 1:11:55Speaker 2: is over and it was a bad season and now
- 1:11:57Speaker 2: they're going into a bowl, their defensive ward ordinator will
- 1:12:00Speaker 2: be their head coach here.
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: And it is weird because this defensive.
- 1:12:04Speaker 2: Coordinator, I believe, was the defensive coordinator for Louisiana Tech
- 1:12:09Speaker 2: last year. I'm pretty sure, so he does know something
- 1:12:13Speaker 2: about what Louisiana Tech's defense tries to do. But is
- 1:12:16Speaker 2: that inside information enough I don't know. Maybe LA Tech
- 1:12:19Speaker 2: has changed some of their schemes this year as well.
- 1:12:22Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna be enough. I think it's
- 1:12:24Speaker 2: a bad situation for Coastal Carolina. Man, they got guys
- 1:12:27Speaker 2: that don't want to play in this game. They got
- 1:12:29Speaker 2: some injuries. The quarterback is injured as well Collier, although
- 1:12:33Speaker 2: the quarterback that came in and played in his place,
- 1:12:37Speaker 2: he'll be playing in this Bowl game, I imagine, which
- 1:12:39Speaker 2: is Hudson. He played a few games this year, so whatever.
- 1:12:43Speaker 2: But this Coastal offense is just very, very bad anyway.
- 1:12:48Speaker 2: I just don't know if they're gonna be able to
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: keep bop man. This is a game where if Coastal
- 1:12:53Speaker 2: Carolina falls behind, they don't really have a lot of
- 1:12:55Speaker 2: comeback potential either because they can't throw the ball, regardless
- 1:12:59Speaker 2: of which quarterback it is. So I don't like it.
- 1:13:01Speaker 2: In Louisiana Tech, they have a few guys in the
- 1:13:04Speaker 2: transfer portal, but we don't know if these guys are
- 1:13:07Speaker 2: actually opting out. They're not listed as opt outs. They're
- 1:13:09Speaker 2: in the transfer portal. But sometimes these guys that are
- 1:13:12Speaker 2: in the transfer portal will play. It seems like they're
- 1:13:15Speaker 2: mostly gonna have their guys playing. And our guy man Kukock,
- 1:13:19Speaker 2: who got us cover against LSU, I believe earlier this
- 1:13:22Speaker 2: year it was yeah, I think it was against LSU, right, Yeah.
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: The ku kak Klan is what we were in when
- 1:13:30Speaker 2: he played in that game. He was in and out
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: as the started quarterback this year for them, but he's
- 1:13:35Speaker 2: playing in this game for them.
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: So we'll see what.
- 1:13:38Speaker 2: He's not a great quarterback, but Louisiana tack they have
- 1:13:41Speaker 2: a decent deepfense. I think they can run the football
- 1:13:43Speaker 2: a little bit. So it looks like there are other quarterbacks.
- 1:13:46Speaker 2: One of them is injured Baker and Bullock has entered
- 1:13:49Speaker 2: the transfer portal, so it.
- 1:13:52Speaker 1: Seems like it'll be Koukock. But he has experience.
- 1:13:55Speaker 2: I mean again, he was the one who played against LSU,
- 1:13:57Speaker 2: so he has experienced playing way better teams than Coastal
- 1:14:02Speaker 2: this game. I mean, there's a reason why Louisiana texts
- 1:14:04Speaker 2: a ten point favorite. As I just already mentioned all
- 1:14:07Speaker 2: those things. They're up from seven to ten. Here seventy
- 1:14:10Speaker 2: nine percent of tickets and cash on them. They're public,
- 1:14:13Speaker 2: and you could argue maybe the line is just a
- 1:14:15Speaker 2: little bit too high, but I really don't see much
- 1:14:17Speaker 2: of an argument for Coastal in this game.
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: The total is low.
- 1:14:21Speaker 2: I mean, maybe the best argument is probably that the
- 1:14:24Speaker 2: total is low, or that the line is just over
- 1:14:27Speaker 2: adjusted somewhat, but it's not really adjusted that much. Fifty
- 1:14:31Speaker 2: eight percent of the tickets on the over and fifty
- 1:14:33Speaker 2: percent of the cash on the over.
- 1:14:34Speaker 1: So the money is so many indicating on an under here.
- 1:14:36Speaker 2: But a lot of that has to do with the
- 1:14:38Speaker 2: fact that Coastal just can't score, so you know, I mean,
- 1:14:42Speaker 2: this could be one of those games like Yesterday's Bowl
- 1:14:44Speaker 2: game where it wasn't a high scoring game but Georgia
- 1:14:47Speaker 2: Southern still covered. Anyway, in this game, I have no
- 1:14:51Speaker 2: interest in taking the points. I think I would lay
- 1:14:54Speaker 2: it or just leave the game alone.
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: So that's what I.
- 1:14:57Speaker 2: Would do in that one, the Gumbo Bowl. They need
- 1:15:03Speaker 2: a Gumbo company. Yea Radiance Technology is a military country.
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: That's bad. Yeah, that's why, dude, they're fighting for our independence. Man. Yeah. Whatever.
- 1:15:13Speaker 2: But the game being in shrieved for I think also
- 1:15:16Speaker 2: means again you're gonna get Louisiana Tech fans showing up.
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: And I think again, it seems like they're gonna want
- 1:15:21Speaker 2: to win this Bowl because they haven't won a Bowl
- 1:15:23Speaker 2: for a while. Coastal has been in bowls recently. I
- 1:15:25Speaker 2: don't remember when their last Bowl win was, though, I
- 1:15:28Speaker 2: think they've lost their most recent bulls, so I don't
- 1:15:31Speaker 2: know Ange. I don't even know where Age is right now. Man,
- 1:15:36Speaker 2: he knows how to beat the Celtics from within by
- 1:15:38Speaker 2: being a terrible GM if that's what you mean. Kup coach,
- 1:15:44Speaker 2: where's he at now? I remember watching him play for
- 1:15:46Speaker 2: the Bulls back in the day. Yeah, the Pallenteer Bowl.
- 1:15:50Speaker 2: There probably will be one eventually. All Right, My next
- 1:15:53Speaker 2: game up is gonna be my other best bet here. Man,
- 1:15:56Speaker 2: This is one that I had my eye on for
- 1:15:57Speaker 2: a while, and the number has actually gone back up
- 1:15:59Speaker 2: a little bit, So let's do it.
- 1:16:02Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because the public is.
- 1:16:04Speaker 2: Coming in on the Tennessee side, but we're gonna fade
- 1:16:07Speaker 2: and we're gonna take Illinois plus three and a half.
- 1:16:10Speaker 2: Hopefully there is still three and a half's out there.
- 1:16:12Speaker 1: It might be three.
- 1:16:15Speaker 2: You might be able to wait, although I don't know, man,
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: because Tennessee is gonna be public, and if the public
- 1:16:20Speaker 2: wants to play a bowl game here today, this is
- 1:16:24Speaker 2: gonna be one of the games they're gonna have their
- 1:16:25Speaker 2: eye on, and they're gonna come in on the Tennessee side.
- 1:16:28Speaker 2: Tennessee is down from five and a half to three
- 1:16:30Speaker 2: three and a half here the line was actually down
- 1:16:32Speaker 2: as low as like one one and a half like
- 1:16:35Speaker 2: within this week, so something has moved the line back
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: up a little bit.
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: Uh.
- 1:16:39Speaker 2: There might be some Tennessee guys that seem like they
- 1:16:41Speaker 2: weren't gonna play that are actually playing now, But I
- 1:16:45Speaker 2: still just don't really see it.
- 1:16:46Speaker 1: I'm gonna explain in a minute. But I like Illinois.
- 1:16:49Speaker 2: Uh sixty two percent of the tickets on Tennessee and
- 1:16:51Speaker 2: only fifty three percent of the cash on them, So
- 1:16:55Speaker 2: the money is agreeing with the Illinois side, at least
- 1:16:58Speaker 2: for now in this one. Now, both these teams are
- 1:17:01Speaker 2: bad defensively. I know Tennessee is the better team. I
- 1:17:05Speaker 2: know they're in the SEC, but that's why the public's
- 1:17:07Speaker 2: gonna be all over Tennessee. But Tennessee did not have
- 1:17:09Speaker 2: a good deepfense this year, man, And do you want
- 1:17:13Speaker 2: to trust a bad deepfense laying points? Usually I would
- 1:17:17Speaker 2: say no, even though I know Illinois defense is also bad.
- 1:17:20Speaker 2: Illinois has the more experienced team here, man, So if
- 1:17:23Speaker 2: you look at the opt outs here, more of the
- 1:17:26Speaker 2: opt outs are on the Tennessee side. They got some
- 1:17:28Speaker 2: guys in the transfer portal. One of their backup running
- 1:17:31Speaker 2: backs doesn't really matter too much, but one of their
- 1:17:34Speaker 2: more heavily played secondary guys Boo Carter is in the
- 1:17:37Speaker 2: transfer portal. We don't know if those guys are gonna
- 1:17:39Speaker 2: play one of their better wide receivers in the transfer
- 1:17:42Speaker 2: port They actually have a lot of guys on their
- 1:17:43Speaker 2: depfense in the in the opt out list here, So
- 1:17:47Speaker 2: an already weak Tennessee deepfense looks like it's gonna be
- 1:17:50Speaker 2: even weaker in this game. Josh Hipel is saying he
- 1:17:54Speaker 2: doesn't think there're gonna be any other opt outs, but whatever,
- 1:17:57Speaker 2: And do you really trust Josh Hipel, I actually don't.
- 1:18:00Speaker 2: I actually am gonna I'm gonna trust Brett Beelama more
- 1:18:03Speaker 2: than Josh HiPE Blowyer because Bielam I'm pretty sure he's
- 1:18:05Speaker 2: the coach for Illinois here.
- 1:18:07Speaker 1: So yeah, so I actually think Beilama is actually the
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: better Bowl coach, so I'm gonna put my stock in
- 1:18:14Speaker 1: him as well here. But yeah, Tennessee does have some
- 1:18:18Speaker 1: other guys that might opt out on both sides of
- 1:18:21Speaker 1: the ball. Whatever. To me, it seems like Tennessee is
- 1:18:23Speaker 1: the more disinterested team. And really the crux of this
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: handicap is what did Tennessee do last year? They made
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: the playoffs, right, and they kind of got embarrassed in
- 1:18:33Speaker 1: the playoffs against Ohio State. But you know, that was
- 1:18:35Speaker 1: Tennessee's goal again coming into this year, basically playoff or
- 1:18:39Speaker 1: busts for Tennessee then wanted a shot to play in
- 1:18:42Speaker 1: the playoffs again this year. They looked like they might
- 1:18:45Speaker 1: be able to do it still.
- 1:18:46Speaker 2: Because they were still a two loss SEC team until
- 1:18:48Speaker 2: fairly deep into the season when they took a third
- 1:18:51Speaker 2: loss and then it was all over them and it
- 1:18:54Speaker 2: was a close loss I think against I don't know
- 1:18:56Speaker 2: who it was.
- 1:18:57Speaker 1: I forget Oklahom.
- 1:19:00Speaker 2: Oh my guess is what that game was because they
- 1:19:02Speaker 2: had only lost to Georgia and Alabama prior to that,
- 1:19:04Speaker 2: so I think their playoff hopes are actually still alive
- 1:19:07Speaker 2: until that loss. But then they kind of looked disinterested
- 1:19:10Speaker 2: in their last game, losing pretty bad to Vandy, And
- 1:19:13Speaker 2: to me, I thought it was a game where they
- 1:19:15Speaker 2: might want to show up because Vandy had kind of
- 1:19:17Speaker 2: overtaken Tennessee as the better team in Tennessee, and I
- 1:19:20Speaker 2: thought Tennessee wouldn't want to let that stand. But they
- 1:19:23Speaker 2: had a really bad game against Vandy in that one. Tennessee,
- 1:19:26Speaker 2: I just don't really see them being interested here, man, Like,
- 1:19:29Speaker 2: how excited are they going to be to play? I
- 1:19:31Speaker 2: forgot to mention this bowl is the Liberty Mutual Music
- 1:19:34Speaker 2: City Bowl.
- 1:19:36Speaker 1: They used to be the.
- 1:19:37Speaker 2: Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl, so they are. They've
- 1:19:40Speaker 2: traded banks Man different Big Bank, now Liberty Mutual. But
- 1:19:46Speaker 2: how excited do you think Tennessee is gonna be when
- 1:19:48Speaker 2: they had playoff asspirations all year? They made the playoffs
- 1:19:51Speaker 2: last year in the first year of the playoffs. Now
- 1:19:54Speaker 2: they're playing not only are they playing in a kind
- 1:19:56Speaker 2: of lower tier bowl game here, but they're playing Yeah,
- 1:19:59Speaker 2: they get to play a Big ten team, but it's
- 1:20:01Speaker 2: a Big ten team that didn't look very good this year,
- 1:20:03Speaker 2: and Tennessee is playing in Nashville. I mean, how excited
- 1:20:07Speaker 2: are they gonna be when they get to go what
- 1:20:08Speaker 2: like an hour away from How far away is it
- 1:20:11Speaker 2: from campus for them from Knoxville? I don't even know
- 1:20:13Speaker 2: is Tennessee in Knoxville? I forget whatever. Maybe it's more
- 1:20:16Speaker 2: than an hour, but whatever. Like, I don't see Tennessee
- 1:20:20Speaker 2: being that excited man about not even having.
- 1:20:22Speaker 1: A destination bowl.
- 1:20:23Speaker 2: They get to play in Nashville here, I mean, yeah,
- 1:20:26Speaker 2: they get to play in the Titans stadium.
- 1:20:27Speaker 1: But I don't see them being excited men for Illinois.
- 1:20:31Speaker 2: This looks really similar to last year where Illinois had
- 1:20:34Speaker 2: a similar season to last year where they were kind
- 1:20:36Speaker 2: of overrated coming into the season. They had an okay season.
- 1:20:40Speaker 2: Pretty much knew that were gonna make the playoffs or
- 1:20:42Speaker 2: anything like that. I don't even think they expected to.
- 1:20:46Speaker 2: Illinois finished with a decent win over Northwestern, so I
- 1:20:49Speaker 2: know that's kind of a rivalry between those Chicago areas schools,
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: but they still showed up for the game. They bounced
- 1:20:55Speaker 2: back after a horrendous loss to Wisconsin. But Illinois very
- 1:20:59Speaker 2: similar last year and what did they do. They want
- 1:21:01Speaker 2: to be in a bowl that was a similar bowl
- 1:21:03Speaker 2: to this one last year and they won it against
- 1:21:06Speaker 2: an SEC team against South Carolina. So this seems to
- 1:21:10Speaker 2: be kind of a game like that where Illinois is
- 1:21:12Speaker 2: gonna show up like they did last year. It seems
- 1:21:14Speaker 2: like Beelama coaches them in these games to want to win.
- 1:21:18Speaker 2: And Illinois has fewer opt outs here right now as
- 1:21:21Speaker 2: far as the stands, they have one opt out that's
- 1:21:23Speaker 2: definitive on both sides, and they do have maybe a
- 1:21:26Speaker 2: few other guys that might be potential opt outs. Their
- 1:21:29Speaker 2: quarterback alt Meyer is playing, and he is a very
- 1:21:32Speaker 2: experienced quarterback, so the experience is definitely on Illinois side.
- 1:21:36Speaker 2: Illinois came into this year with one of the most
- 1:21:39Speaker 2: experienced rosters in all of college football. Alt Meyer was
- 1:21:42Speaker 2: in He was the quarterback in that bowl last year,
- 1:21:44Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure. So he's got a lot of experience
- 1:21:47Speaker 2: playing in bowls like this.
- 1:21:49Speaker 1: So I think that's good. And that's about it. Man.
- 1:21:51Speaker 2: To me, it's again, you have to gauge motivation almost
- 1:21:55Speaker 2: entirely in these bowl games. The public's gonna want Tennessee here.
- 1:21:59Speaker 1: I do not. I think it's Illinois in this one. Man.
- 1:22:03Speaker 2: I see Tennessee being disinterested, not making the playoffs after
- 1:22:07Speaker 2: doing it last year, not getting to go really anywhere,
- 1:22:10Speaker 2: staying in the state of Tennessee doesn't look good. Man,
- 1:22:14Speaker 2: Illinois is the play in that one. So that is
- 1:22:17Speaker 2: my opinion there. It's three hours, all right. Tennessee is
- 1:22:21Speaker 2: a little bit bigger than I thought, a little bit
- 1:22:23Speaker 2: bigger length wise than I thought. The Jazz want to nailed.
- 1:22:27Speaker 2: Oh so the Jazz one at the Celtics. You mean
- 1:22:30Speaker 2: you mean the Celtics are in a revenge spot here
- 1:22:32Speaker 2: as well, or the Celtics might be able to make
- 1:22:34Speaker 2: adjustments after they lost at home to the Jazz. Is
- 1:22:38Speaker 2: that what you're saying? Yeah, that game has Celtics written
- 1:22:40Speaker 2: all over it. Man, the Celtics are gonna win that
- 1:22:43Speaker 2: game by margin. Yes, Age is the Jazz GM Yeah,
- 1:22:50Speaker 2: well he kind of sucks.
- 1:22:53Speaker 1: What dude, No, it was a chick. I don't know.
- 1:22:57Speaker 1: That chick was just pissed.
- 1:22:58Speaker 2: I have no idea, dude, I don't know. I just
- 1:23:01Speaker 2: made a comment that I thought was kind of funny
- 1:23:03Speaker 2: and it was true.
- 1:23:05Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 1:23:05Speaker 2: I'm basically like, oh, you Midwesterners think you can deal
- 1:23:09Speaker 2: with the snow or whatever. We can deal with the
- 1:23:10Speaker 2: snow as well in New England here, and I don't
- 1:23:13Speaker 2: need I've never had snow tires on my vehicle, don't
- 1:23:16Speaker 2: need them.
- 1:23:17Speaker 1: I just plowed through that shit, I do. I know.
- 1:23:20Speaker 2: I drive a Bronco now, but uh the well, a
- 1:23:23Speaker 2: smaller Bronco. But the dude, I was plowing through like
- 1:23:28Speaker 2: ridiculous snow banks with a Ford Focus.
- 1:23:30Speaker 1: Man. That wasn't even that new of a car either,
- 1:23:35Speaker 1: So yes, thank you.
- 1:23:38Speaker 2: That shit is intimidated buy me, man, that's what it is,
- 1:23:41Speaker 2: all right, And then we do have the final bowl
- 1:23:43Speaker 2: game today is the Valero Alamo Bowl. This has been
- 1:23:46Speaker 2: Valero for a long time. I think there probably because.
- 1:23:50Speaker 1: It's big Oil.
- 1:23:51Speaker 2: Big Oil of course is gonna be the sponsor for
- 1:23:54Speaker 2: a bowl in Texas.
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: This is gonna be an indoor bowl.
- 1:23:57Speaker 2: It's in San Antonio obviously, at the Alamo, the Alamo Dome,
- 1:24:02Speaker 2: the Alamo Bowl. It's number sixteen USC and TCU. The
- 1:24:07Speaker 2: public is likely to come in on USC in this game,
- 1:24:09Speaker 2: and I think differently about this game as well. I
- 1:24:12Speaker 2: kind of like TCU in this one, although TCU did
- 1:24:16Speaker 2: win a bowl last year, so I know it's not
- 1:24:18Speaker 2: really exciting necessarily for either team.
- 1:24:20Speaker 1: I'm not like I wouldn't think to be in this bowl.
- 1:24:23Speaker 2: Although TCU, I think last year when they made a bowl,
- 1:24:26Speaker 2: they hadn't been to a bowl for a long time,
- 1:24:28Speaker 2: but they for at least a few years.
- 1:24:30Speaker 1: I think it basically since.
- 1:24:31Speaker 2: They were really overrated and they made the playoffs that year.
- 1:24:34Speaker 2: I think they'd kind of been a non bowl team
- 1:24:37Speaker 2: for a while. So last year their bowl meant something
- 1:24:39Speaker 2: and they won the ball. They were excited this year
- 1:24:42Speaker 2: maybe a little bit less so, but the crowd's going
- 1:24:45Speaker 2: to show up for a game in San Antonio because
- 1:24:47Speaker 2: they're playing in Texas. And I think USC might be
- 1:24:50Speaker 2: the more disappointed team out of the two year because
- 1:24:53Speaker 2: TCU obviously didn't have any really high.
- 1:24:55Speaker 1: Aspirations this year, whereas USC, they.
- 1:24:59Speaker 2: Kind of expected to a playoff team this year just
- 1:25:01Speaker 2: because that's who USC is. Man, it's basically like shot
- 1:25:06Speaker 2: at the championship or bust, and USC debatably was kind
- 1:25:10Speaker 2: of still in the mix there as a two loss
- 1:25:11Speaker 2: team up until they lost to Oregon really late in
- 1:25:14Speaker 2: the season, which pretty much completely busted up their hopes.
- 1:25:17Speaker 2: So I do think USC is gonna be the more
- 1:25:19Speaker 2: disappointed team here. I'm not sure how you know fully
- 1:25:24Speaker 2: focused they're gonna be in this game for USC. They
- 1:25:26Speaker 2: definitely have a bunch of guys opting out here for USC,
- 1:25:29Speaker 2: as expected in a game like this, so some of
- 1:25:32Speaker 2: their guys are gonna be gone, including numerous guys on
- 1:25:34Speaker 2: their offense. And USC this year was all offense pretty much.
- 1:25:38Speaker 2: Their defense wasn't very good. They had one of the
- 1:25:40Speaker 2: best offenses, but their offense.
- 1:25:42Speaker 1: Is taking a hit here.
- 1:25:44Speaker 2: It looks like their quarterback Myeva, whatever.
- 1:25:47Speaker 1: His name is, will play in this one.
- 1:25:49Speaker 2: This is his first season with USC. He's gonna be
- 1:25:53Speaker 2: playing next.
- 1:25:53Speaker 1: Year for USC.
- 1:25:54Speaker 2: It looks like as well, even though I thought this
- 1:25:56Speaker 2: guy had been in college football for like four years already.
- 1:25:59Speaker 2: Though because I remember being at UNLV, I'm pretty sure.
- 1:26:02Speaker 2: So I don't know, but he'll play in this game.
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: He is an experienced quarterback at the very least. USC
- 1:26:09Speaker 2: does have a lot of guys on the injury report
- 1:26:11Speaker 2: as well. They have some guys that declare for the
- 1:26:13Speaker 2: draft but have not officially opted out, and we don't
- 1:26:16Speaker 2: know if they're gonna play or not. And then their
- 1:26:19Speaker 2: defensive coordinator is leaving. He's taken the DC job at
- 1:26:23Speaker 2: Penn State. So how much does that matter when USC's
- 1:26:27Speaker 2: defense was already bad. I don't know, but to me,
- 1:26:29Speaker 2: it seems like the defense is gonna be pretty lacking
- 1:26:32Speaker 2: in this game for USC. For TCU, Josh Hoover, their
- 1:26:38Speaker 2: quarterback is in the transfer portal. Seems like he is
- 1:26:42Speaker 2: not gonna play in this game. And their quarterback is
- 1:26:44Speaker 2: gonna be Ken Seals. Who the hell is Ken Seals?
- 1:26:48Speaker 1: Well, if you look at if you look up who
- 1:26:49Speaker 1: he is, he actually has a lot of experience. He's
- 1:26:52Speaker 1: actually an upper classman, and he actually played on multiple
- 1:26:55Speaker 1: SEC teams and he played a decent amount in the SEC.
- 1:26:59Speaker 1: I think he played for Vandy before Pavia came over there,
- 1:27:03Speaker 1: so he's an older dude for college player, but he's experienced.
- 1:27:07Speaker 1: So I don't think TCU is gonna have a massive
- 1:27:10Speaker 1: drop off offensively if they go with seals here. He's
- 1:27:13Speaker 1: at least a.
- 1:27:13Speaker 2: Quarterback that has a lot of games under like a
- 1:27:16Speaker 2: decent amount of games under his belt. TCU does have
- 1:27:19Speaker 2: some opt outs as well, not as many as USC.
- 1:27:22Speaker 1: Though. It seems like Hoover is probably gonna be going
- 1:27:25Speaker 1: to South Carolina because the offensive coordinator Briles, went to
- 1:27:29Speaker 1: South Carolina and apparently Hoover's brother is a baseball player
- 1:27:35Speaker 1: for South Carolina, so interesting, it seems likely he's going
- 1:27:38Speaker 1: to South Carolina, so it will be Hoover taking over
- 1:27:41Speaker 1: for Sellers. I guess as the QB.
- 1:27:43Speaker 2: At South Carolina, coach Sonny Dyke said he thinks everybody
- 1:27:48Speaker 2: is gonna play, even though they have guys opting out,
- 1:27:51Speaker 2: So this guy seems like maybe he's a little bit delusional.
- 1:27:54Speaker 2: But all that being said, I do still think that. Yeah,
- 1:28:00Speaker 2: I do kind of think that that USC is gonna
- 1:28:04Speaker 2: still be the more disappointed team here and the more
- 1:28:07Speaker 2: unfocused team in this one. It seems like the tight
- 1:28:10Speaker 2: end coach by the way, is taking over the offensive
- 1:28:12Speaker 2: play calling duties for TCU here, although I guess it'll
- 1:28:16Speaker 2: be they'll they'll be calling plays as a team on
- 1:28:20Speaker 2: offense here. Now, I don't know how much of a
- 1:28:23Speaker 2: hit that's gonna deliver to the offense. USC is down
- 1:28:26Speaker 2: from six and a half to five and a half,
- 1:28:27Speaker 2: so some of the money is agreeing with TCU. Again,
- 1:28:30Speaker 2: I don't disagree with TCU here, Obviously, I would take
- 1:28:33Speaker 2: the points if I was gonna play it. Fifty nine
- 1:28:35Speaker 2: percent of the tickets, fifty eight percent of the cash
- 1:28:37Speaker 2: on USC. The total drop the fifty six still decently
- 1:28:42Speaker 2: high total seventy six percent of tickets, eighty seven percent
- 1:28:44Speaker 2: of the cash on the over. I don't hate the
- 1:28:47Speaker 2: over in this one. I mean, USC they're known for
- 1:28:50Speaker 2: more offense than defense. We don't know what their offense
- 1:28:52Speaker 2: is gonna really look like in this game, but losely
- 1:28:54Speaker 2: their quarterback will be there. Their defense seems like it
- 1:28:57Speaker 2: might be even worse than it usually was in the season,
- 1:29:00Speaker 2: so I could see points definitely being put up in
- 1:29:03Speaker 2: this game. And it's on the fast track and a dome,
- 1:29:06Speaker 2: So I don't disagree with an over in that one.
- 1:29:10Speaker 2: And also I don't disagree with an over in the
- 1:29:12Speaker 2: Tennessee Illinois game either.
- 1:29:13Speaker 1: I mean, you're looking at two.
- 1:29:15Speaker 2: Lackluster defenses in that game, and the total is high
- 1:29:18Speaker 2: for a reason.
- 1:29:18Speaker 1: It's sixty one and a half.
- 1:29:19Speaker 2: I know I don't usually love taking points to the
- 1:29:21Speaker 2: high total, but that one's all about motivation. Again, I
- 1:29:25Speaker 2: like Illinois, but sixty six percent ticket seventy two percent
- 1:29:28Speaker 2: of the cash on the over, I don't disagree with
- 1:29:30Speaker 2: an over in that game either, And I don't really
- 1:29:33Speaker 2: have a good feel for the total in the in
- 1:29:36Speaker 2: that first game, the Independence Bowl, though the money seems
- 1:29:40Speaker 2: to be indicatting under. Like I said, in that one,
- 1:29:43Speaker 2: I don't really have too much of a reason to
- 1:29:44Speaker 2: disagree with an under in that one.
- 1:29:47Speaker 1: That's gonna do it, man.
- 1:29:48Speaker 2: Once again, my only plays today, we only have a
- 1:29:50Speaker 2: couple of them today, Pacific and College of Basketball plus
- 1:29:54Speaker 2: the points, and Illinois in the Music City Bowl plus
- 1:29:58Speaker 2: the points. That's gonna do it, man, Yes, it's a
- 1:30:02Speaker 2: Bronco sport. Yes, yes, it was a chick. The Celtics
- 1:30:10Speaker 2: playing some jazz. Dude, the Celtics, the way that they
- 1:30:13Speaker 2: play is like music.
- 1:30:14Speaker 1: To my ears. Man.
- 1:30:15Speaker 2: So uh yes, you only get ice in North Carolina, Dude.
- 1:30:21Speaker 2: Whenever it like snows even slightly. Uh like that far south,
- 1:30:25Speaker 2: like it's chaos and nobody knows how to drive.
- 1:30:27Speaker 1: It's crazy. And I'm up here, I'm like, oh, we
- 1:30:30Speaker 1: only got a foot of snow whatever I'm driving.
- 1:30:33Speaker 2: Yeah, there's gonna be an a Pack Bowl as well,
- 1:30:37Speaker 2: the Warriors one. I agreed with that one as well yesterday. Yeah.
- 1:30:42Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:30:42Speaker 2: Palenteer, well, Palenteer is gonna sponsor. It's gonna be the
- 1:30:46Speaker 2: Surveillance Bowl, the Mass Surveillance Bowl sponsored by Palenteer. QB
- 1:30:54Speaker 2: sneaks yeh because they because they they get over the
- 1:30:57Speaker 2: line by a nose.
- 1:30:59Speaker 1: Uh yeah. The flip why did the coin disappear? What?
- 1:31:02Speaker 2: We don't know if it was heads or tails in
- 1:31:04Speaker 2: the Apac Bowl, the bulls are hard to bet. I'm
- 1:31:07Speaker 2: three and one so far right now, which I got
- 1:31:09Speaker 2: lucky on the San Diego State one. But you know,
- 1:31:12Speaker 2: I mean, I've done okay in the Bowls in the past,
- 1:31:14Speaker 2: but it's a totally different thing with the transfer portals now,
- 1:31:17Speaker 2: it's definitely been more difficult. I think I won last
- 1:31:20Speaker 2: year between the Bowls and the playoffs, but it wasn't
- 1:31:22Speaker 2: by a lot. This year, I'm three and one including
- 1:31:26Speaker 2: the playoff game, which was an easier handicap for me.
- 1:31:28Speaker 2: I will have one playoff game in a couple of
- 1:31:31Speaker 2: days as well. So yeah, everybody, Yeah, it's gonna just
- 1:31:35Speaker 2: be all lawyer the Lawyer Bowl. It's gonna be sponsored
- 1:31:38Speaker 2: by some law firm, the law Firm Bowl.
- 1:31:42Speaker 1: Yes, Ben Jarvis green Ellis.
- 1:31:44Speaker 2: Will be the uh, the the like professional athlete, that's
- 1:31:49Speaker 2: the face of it. If you're Celtics, make them a play.
- 1:31:53Speaker 2: I won't, But you guys can come back to me
- 1:31:55Speaker 2: and tell me how right I was about that. When
- 1:31:57Speaker 2: they win by by a margin, Yeah, they're to clip
- 1:32:00Speaker 2: the coins. Yeah, thank you guys, thanks for hanging out again.
- 1:32:06Speaker 2: But yeah, if you guys remember Ben Jarvis green Ellis,
- 1:32:08Speaker 2: who was known for never fumbling the football pretty much
- 1:32:11Speaker 2: as a New England Patriot running back, but his nickname
- 1:32:15Speaker 2: was the law Firm because his name was so ridiculous.
- 1:32:18Speaker 2: All right, that's gonna do it. I appreciate it.
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- 1:33:26Speaker 2: That is on YouTube for now, we probably need to
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- 1:33:35Speaker 2: it is our Comedy Loser nomination panel podcast, so you
- 1:33:40Speaker 2: can check that out as well. Yes, I'm a spicy Italian.
- 1:33:43Speaker 2: I take after my mom for sure and her mom
- 1:33:46Speaker 2: the spicy Italians, big Italian Catholic family there as well,
- 1:33:51Speaker 2: So lots of Italians on that side of the family.
- 1:33:53Speaker 2: Man and good food, so that's that's a nice benefit
- 1:33:57Speaker 2: there as well.
- 1:33:58Speaker 1: A lot a lot of wine drinking from some of them,
- 1:34:01Speaker 1: even though my mom is a non alcoholic because her
- 1:34:04Speaker 1: father was was an alcoholic.
- 1:34:07Speaker 2: But there's a lot of wine drinkers on that side
- 1:34:09Speaker 2: of the family, and a lot of good Italian food,
- 1:34:11Speaker 2: and a lot of a lot of I don't know what,
- 1:34:15Speaker 2: should have a lot of huge personalities on that side
- 1:34:19Speaker 2: of the family.
- 1:34:19Speaker 1: Let's just say. Even some of the people that married into.
- 1:34:22Speaker 2: That side of the family, some of whom are also Italian,
- 1:34:26Speaker 2: A lot of them are kind of crazy.
- 1:34:28Speaker 1: Yes, that's gonna do it. Peace for now, guys, I'll
- 1:34:32Speaker 1: be back yeah tomorrow.
- 1:34:34Speaker 2: I gotta look and see how many college basketball games,
- 1:34:36Speaker 2: because again some of these once once conference play starts.
- 1:34:39Speaker 2: I think I have to do night games for whatever
- 1:34:42Speaker 2: it is, either Tuesday or Wednesday, whichever one is the
- 1:34:44Speaker 2: big midweek day.
- 1:34:46Speaker 1: I probably need to start doing it at night. But
- 1:34:48Speaker 1: I'll figure it out.
- 1:34:50Speaker 2: Tons of an gestures, yes both, Yeah, vulgar and not
- 1:34:55Speaker 2: so vulgar. Yes, talking with hands and flipping everybody off,
- 1:34:58Speaker 2: all of it happens. Yeah, there's afternoon in NHL. That's right,
- 1:35:02Speaker 2: because it's Yeah, it's New Year's Eve, so there's a
- 1:35:05Speaker 2: lot going on Tomorrow. There are more Bowls as well,
- 1:35:07Speaker 2: and then one of the playoff games is tomorrow night.
- 1:35:09Speaker 2: I forget if it's the one that I like or
- 1:35:11Speaker 2: I don't think it is.
- 1:35:12Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's the Ohio State Miami game.
- 1:35:15Speaker 2: I think it's tomorrow. I don't really have a great
- 1:35:17Speaker 2: feel on that game. I think Ohio State wins, but
- 1:35:21Speaker 2: I don't really have a great feel for the game. Otherwise,
- 1:35:24Speaker 2: that's gonna do it for now. Peace for now.