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Set 2: VCU's Historic Upset (w/ Phil Martelli Jr.) · Stugotz and Company

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: It is to goat to Cup, but he presented by
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  Speaker 1: FanDuel and the FanDuel sportsbook, Phil Martelly.
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: Junior is going to join us.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: The VCU head coach. I did not do this to punish.
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: Taylor mike Ya. I did it so Taylor.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Can thank the VCU coach because he doesn't like Ubert Davis.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: I mean about that.
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  Speaker 1: VCU comes back on the first day of March, and yes,
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: yesterday was the first day of March.
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: I don't care what anyone tells me. I put it
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  Speaker 2: on the pole.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor was yesterday, the first day of March. Bob, Caroline
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: is up nineteen in that game. I am laughing at
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: Taylor because he's been blasting Ubert Davis, and I'm thinking
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: Ubert Davis is going to take this target team on
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: a run through the NCAA tournament. But not so fast,
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: my friends, Taylor put us there. What was going on
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: with you?
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: So everybody is doing this victory lap when Caroline is
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: up nineteen points at halftime, and I say, hey, guys,
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: buck Lynn, because I've watched this Carolina team, I know
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: what's about to come right. VCU starts Klawn Back, starts
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: Klawn back and I'm like, okay, this is this is
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: just a predictable ending now, and I'm watching this game
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: in the final seven forty four of game time, in
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  Speaker 3: a game that went to overtime, yep, Carolina did not
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  Speaker 3: make a single field goal. No, they did not make
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  Speaker 3: a single field goal. They scored only three points in overtime.
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  Speaker 3: And people are coming today and saying, oh, well, Hubert
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: Davis has to get another year because he didn't have
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: Caleb Wilson. We need a top five pick as North
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  Speaker 3: Carolina to beat a school from the A ten.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently you do.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, Wait a minute, So are you going to
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: thank Phil Martelli Junior, as dad was a legendary coach
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: I know is dead very very well.
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to.
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: Thank him for knocking off the North Carolina and Ubert Davis?
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: Are you upset with him? So it's conflicted.
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  Speaker 3: I'm upset because I want North Carolina to win, but
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  Speaker 3: I also I'm not entirely sure that like this is
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: the move that's gonna get North Carolina off Hubert Davis.
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  Speaker 3: It kind of seems like they've dug their heels and
• 2:18
  Speaker 3: giving Hubert Davis more time. But at the same time,
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: you're watching this and being like, how much more time
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  Speaker 3: do you need?
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  Speaker 2: This was a big body blow.
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  Speaker 4: This was a battle you have to lose in order
• 2:30
  Speaker 4: to lose the war or win the war. But it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't only that North Carolina loss, because I mean that's bad.
• 2:38
  Speaker 4: You know, it's a big upset. That was some of
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  Speaker 4: the ugliest basketball I've ever watched in my life. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there wasn't a score in the first like three and
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  Speaker 4: a half minutes of overtime where everything is like so
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  Speaker 4: compounded and nobody could score.
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  Speaker 2: March so stupe.
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  Speaker 3: The nineteen points. It's the largest comeback ever in the
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  Speaker 3: first round of the NCAA tournament. And then this is
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  Speaker 3: this is where Hubert Davis needs to get up in
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  Speaker 3: his postgame press conference and to say, hand up, I'll
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  Speaker 3: take accountability. This was a bad performance, the problem and
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  Speaker 3: why my frustration has grown with Hubert Davis.
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  Speaker 2: He refuses to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Ask what went wrong for North Carolina in the second
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  Speaker 3: half against VCU, Hubert Davis said, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: Shots just didn't fall?
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  Speaker 1: It's a maker, miss league Taylor. I mean, you're falling
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  Speaker 1: in the first half of it.
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  Speaker 3: Just because you miss a shot doesn't mean something is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Right, people were criticizing all of them, right, every shot,
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: put it on the poll. If you miss every shot
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  Speaker 1: is something off. How about people criticizing Hubert Davis and
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: the Carolina team for not being in good enough shape?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: See that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, VCU ran a side of the gym.
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  Speaker 2: They did. My problem. My problem.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, a Martelli led team, they can run, they can
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  Speaker 1: play for days.
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  Speaker 2: I am telling you I know the Martelli's.
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: The Martelli's will go out on a concrete basketball court
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  Speaker 1: and they will play you and fight you to the death. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that team is in shape, I promise you.
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  Speaker 3: My bigger problem with Hubert Davis is just STU, Where
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  Speaker 3: would you consider the North Carolina job in the landscape
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  Speaker 3: of college basketball?
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  Speaker 2: Top five job, top five easily.
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  Speaker 3: And Hubert Davis if every coach suddenly became available in
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  Speaker 3: a weird world where every coach's contract got erased, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think a single school in the top forty would
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  Speaker 3: even give Hubert Davis a call.
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  Speaker 2: Put it on the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Would VC you give Hubert Davis an opening head coaching job?
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  Speaker 2: They have their guy.
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  Speaker 3: And then the other defense. Oh, Hubert Davis made a
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  Speaker 3: Final four in twenty twenty two. Look at some of
• 4:58
  Speaker 3: the teams that have made final fource since twenty twenty two.
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jim Laernega, who.
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  Speaker 3: Just basically quit Miami, was like, I'm not the guy
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  Speaker 3: for this job anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Keats from NC State, who even n C State
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  Speaker 3: was like, hey, Kevin Keats, thanks, thanks for making that
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  Speaker 3: Final four for us, but you're kind of not that
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  Speaker 3: good of a coach.
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  Speaker 2: We have to find somebody new.
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  Speaker 3: But no, Hubert Davis, he's untouchable as a Carolina guy.
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  Speaker 1: You said yesterday you were preparing yourself for the loss
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  Speaker 1: of ECU.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like you prepared yourself well.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was so predictable. I didn't even let
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  Speaker 3: myself get excited. When they were up nineteen. People are
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  Speaker 3: texting me, Oh, Carolina ninety eight point seven win probability.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, you want to see one point three percent
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  Speaker 3: right now?
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  Speaker 1: You're about to Yeah, Taylor knows when you have Yubert
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  Speaker 1: Davis up to nineteen in the second.
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  Speaker 2: Half, you have them right where you want them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, is that essentially what you're saying. Yeah, they
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: were up nineteen, Taylor nineteen points against the team from
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  Speaker 1: the A dead.
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  Speaker 2: This is part of a bigger problem.
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  Speaker 4: When like Hubert Davis is a North Carolina guy, you
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  Speaker 4: shouldn't hire guys that were like great for your school
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  Speaker 4: or your program before, because it makes it that much
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  Speaker 4: harder to get rid of them. You should only hire
• 6:21
  Speaker 4: people from your rival. This way, you're like, no, I'll
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  Speaker 4: easily fire that guy.
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  Speaker 2: Right, hire a Duke guy?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, like Duke right, Penny orway essentially right, ridd my guy?
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  Speaker 2: How easy is it is to fire him? Today?
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  Speaker 4: You lost and you went to Duke get out?
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  Speaker 1: But do you know how badly Carolina fans would revolt
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  Speaker 1: at the notion of them signing a Duke guy to
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  Speaker 1: be their head coach.
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  Speaker 2: They would like it? Am I wrong?
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  Speaker 5: Taylor?
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  Speaker 3: No, it would never have to get to that. But
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  Speaker 3: we don't have to keep hiring people in the family
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  Speaker 3: like right now. When I say Hubert David needs to
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: be replaced, the first question is always, well, who are
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  Speaker 3: you going to replace them with?
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  Speaker 2: Top that job? There's whatever you want, whoever you want.
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  Speaker 2: It's the top five job. I mean, Patina would leave
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  Speaker 2: for it.
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  Speaker 3: There are about twenty head coaches in college basketball that
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  Speaker 3: would have to tell me no before I even start
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  Speaker 3: to panic. Before I even have some doubt in my mind,
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  Speaker 3: and I see some Carolina fans who, again, the family
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  Speaker 3: hires have been a problem for Carolina in the past,
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  Speaker 3: and it's again a problem where I'm seeing people saying like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: if you get rid of Hubert Davis, why not hire
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  Speaker 3: Wes Miller who played at Carolina and just got fired
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  Speaker 3: from Cincinnati, or hired Jerry Stackhouse who got fired from Vanderbilt.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, guys, everybody, take a deep breath right now, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and remember how we got here.
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  Speaker 1: M hm, yes, yeah, with Dean Yeah, Roy Williams. There
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  Speaker 1: are listen, it's a top five job, and there are
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  Speaker 1: guys who are coaching right now, big names. You're right, Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: if you opened that job up to just about anyone,
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  Speaker 1: the resumes that are going to come across your desk
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  Speaker 1: to be the next next head coach at the University
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  Speaker 1: of North Carolina, a storied program of blue blood I
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  Speaker 1: mean they are It would be absurd the amount of
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  Speaker 1: interest that that job would Gardner, Hell, they opened up
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  Speaker 1: their football job at Belichick came there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that. Yeah that was a disaster too, Yeah
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  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm serious, Like, guys like I'm not certain Danny
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: Hurley would sit down with his agent and at least contemplation,
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  Speaker 1: I leave Yukon for North Carolina. Seriously, that's how big
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  Speaker 1: of a job it is. I mean, Mike, you are
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  Speaker 1: you disagreeing?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 4: I mean he didn't take the Lakers job, so I
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  Speaker 4: have a hard time thinking.
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  Speaker 2: And he's going to go to North Carolina. Wants to
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: coach Luca.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, Lebron, they're so good now. Coach of
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: the Year, Lebron James. I'll put it on then put
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: it on the Bowl handler should Lebron James be the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Coach of the Year, Lebron would consider Carolina. NBA
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  Speaker 1: coaches would consider Carolina. I'm just telling you, like Rick
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  Speaker 1: Patino slam dunk, if you're like, hey, the job is
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  Speaker 1: open to anyone, anyone, come get it. Rick Patina would
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: leave Saint John so quickly if he knew that North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina was going to hire.
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  Speaker 2: Him to be the next head coach.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor, you agree with that, right, It's just a bigger
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  Speaker 1: and better job.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you know you can't spell coach Cow without Carolina.
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: Steve Belichick.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: Maybe Cow would definitely leave Arkansas Steve, It's why you
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: were still there.
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  Speaker 2: It's the unknown part of Bill's contract.
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  Speaker 1: If the basketball coach gets fired, Steve is his replacements.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Taylor, I'm sorry, but I'm not because
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  Speaker 1: this is it's what's best.
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  Speaker 2: For the ship.
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  Speaker 3: The part that makes it a compounding problem, too, is
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: that Duke is lapping North Carolina right now, like Stu.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you watched.
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  Speaker 3: The uh A couple of a couple of days ago
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  Speaker 3: when they were in the A Tournament, when North Carolina
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  Speaker 3: lost to Clemson, they had a look aheadline. If North
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: Carolina played Duke in the semi finals of the ACC Tournament,
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  Speaker 3: Duke would have been an eighteen and a half point
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  Speaker 3: favorite over North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus, they're supposed to be equals.
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  Speaker 3: Just for context, I think Miami of Ohio is an
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: eleven and a half point underdog today against Tennessee. So
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  Speaker 3: Caroline's almost double that against Duke on a neutral court.
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Yesterday is what March was all about. I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out if it was a good
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  Speaker 1: day or a bad day for you. I guess it's
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: a bad day. You lost, and you know your coach
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: is coming back again. The coach that you don't want
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: coaching your team is still going to be back for
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  Speaker 1: another year. But man, was that a great opening day
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  Speaker 1: of the NCAA tournament.
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: That's what it's all about. It's why we love it.
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: It's why we.
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: Don't pay attention to the entire regular season and start
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: paying attention in March.
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, single elimination, nothing like it. Let's get to the.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: Polls before we get to Phil Moore, Telly Junior. No
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  Speaker 1: radio today, We're just doing the pods. We will have
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: Robert Parrish the chief later on. I'm excited for that
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: and Bill Barnwell. But since we're not going to be
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: on radio and not going to have the ability to
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: update the polls live, we will do it here on
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  Speaker 1: the pod.
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: So Taylor take it away.
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: Should the MLB replace its regular season with more World
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: Baseball Classic?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? No, no brainer. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Seventy one percent of the audience said yes, yep. This
• 12:14
  Speaker 3: one comes courtesy of when we had Tate Fraser on,
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: does Mark Few have something up his sleeve for Tomay?
• 12:20
  Speaker 4: Lady?
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: As Gonzagaa played? Yet did they play? They want? Yes?
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: They won? Zaga won last night. Yeah, they survived and advanced.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sixty one percent of the audience said yes, Mark,
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: few guys have something up his sleeve.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: All right, right, next pole question, If a.
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: Nolan McLean Eduardo Rodriguez pitching matchup doesn't get you excited,
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  Speaker 3: check your pulse.
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  Speaker 2: Matchup kind of delivered it did. Yeah, they were great,
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  Speaker 2: big spots, both of them. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Fifty seven percent of the audio audience said yes. Have
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: the five hundred loudest moments in Lone Depot Park history
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: all have been the Baseball Classic and none from the Marlins.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that better come back.
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  Speaker 3: Not one hundred percent, but as close as we've come
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  Speaker 3: this week. Ninety four percent of the audience yes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, six percent tell me the event you've been
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: to at Loan Depot Park that was louder than that.
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  Speaker 2: There is no dopes.
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: This one comes courtesy of having Mike Gollick on this
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  Speaker 3: week and something Steve Gott said, can you ever say
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: poor Max Crosby when he's making thirty five and a
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  Speaker 3: half million dollars a year?
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  Speaker 2: I felt terrible for him. I mean I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Eighty six percent of the audience said no, he could
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  Speaker 3: wipe those tears away with a few hundred dollars bills.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: They're right?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, will we forget Bryce Harper's home run by
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: next week?
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  Speaker 2: Already forgotten? That means what HAPs to mark? What home
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  Speaker 2: run did he hit? Was it a big one?
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  Speaker 3: Ninety two percent of the audience said yes, all right,
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  Speaker 3: and will be opening days?
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  Speaker 2: Kind of sneaking up on us. It's Wednesday, it is,
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  Speaker 2: It's Wednesday. When was that World Baseball Classic Final? When
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: was that?
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  Speaker 1: Because we said by next week, I think I feel
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: like we've already forgotten about it.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: It was again, I think it was Monday.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: It was like forty eight Tuesday, Tuesday forgotten?
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: Oh god, this one comes when.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: We had Salakata on stop letting map manage baseball games?
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: Yep, I've been saying that for years. Yes, thank you
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  Speaker 2: need Moore gut.
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  Speaker 3: Seventy eight percent of the audience said yes, yeah. Are
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: we making batting cages like we used to?
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: I believe that was your claim.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike, if you wanted to take your son to
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: a batting cage, what's the closest batting cage to you?
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  Speaker 4: So here's that there's private like batting cage clubs where
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  Speaker 4: you can like.
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  Speaker 2: That sign it.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's not like you can just go and put
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  Speaker 4: a coin in the machine and you get Yeah no,
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  Speaker 4: that's probably at least forty minutes away, jez.
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  Speaker 1: But it's still But when you get there, is it
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  Speaker 1: is it like.
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  Speaker 2: It used to be?
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  Speaker 3: Or no?
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  Speaker 2: I mean yeah, you.
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: Know it's those gross yellow balls that you hit it
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: and it goes into the little thing and it carries
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  Speaker 4: all the way back and one pitch will be two
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: hundred miles an hour at your head and the next
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  Speaker 4: one bounces.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what a pitching machine is all about. Man.
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  Speaker 2: You never know where it's gonna go.
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  Speaker 4: And I just stand right outside and go, come on,
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  Speaker 4: put your keep your head in there.
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  Speaker 1: They have batting cage clubs now, I mean, Jesus, enough
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: of the couch. Yeah yeah, yeah, they have golf simulator
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  Speaker 1: clubs now.
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  Speaker 2: It's annoying, all of it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, this goes back to do me a favor. Stop
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  Speaker 4: with the fund raising. I already paid two hundred dollars
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  Speaker 4: to be part of this club. You don't now need
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: me to contribute to a lotto basket so that I
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  Speaker 4: can buy raffle.
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  Speaker 2: Tickets for it. Understood? Yeah, alright, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Ninety percent of the audience said, no, we're not making
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  Speaker 3: batting cages like we used to. If you went to
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  Speaker 3: USA's clubhouse at Lone Depot Park right now, when you
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: find all those silver.
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  Speaker 1: Medals just sitting there in a little bott on the corner.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: If I could name a Marlin's player, I'd say one
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  Speaker 4: is in his locker, but I can't.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Jeff Conine's still there, Ahn, mister Marlin.
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  Speaker 3: Eighty one percent of the audience said yes. This one
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  Speaker 3: comes also courtesy of Salacato when he was talking about
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: how bad Mark de Rosa's interview was with the Mets.
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  Speaker 3: When you say I don't want to rip the guy,
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  Speaker 3: does that mean you're just about to rip the guy?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he did. He said I don't want to rip
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  Speaker 2: the guy.
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  Speaker 1: I said, yeah, but you're about ripped the guy, and
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: he ripped the guy.
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  Speaker 2: Of course. That's undred percent right.
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  Speaker 3: As close as we've come this week. Ninety seven percent
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  Speaker 3: of the audience said yes, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, we'll take it. That's consensus.
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  Speaker 3: And then the final poll question this week, if you
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: put Austin Reeves on a sixteen seed, now, would they
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: win the NCAA Tournament. This one comes courtesy of think
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: about It Thursday.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that segment that you created that you're very
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: proud of because you're counter programming a national show with
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: a local show down here on five sixty in Miami.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, this one is close.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: I think Austin Reeves was the perfect person to get
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: a litmus test on Yes, fifty four percent of the
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: audience said yes, Austin Reeves would be cutting down.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Netso really, I mean, Jesus, have they seen VCU?
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Those are the false.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Bill Martelly Junior, the head coach of VCU, will join
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: us coming up next. It was an upset for the
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Agies yesterday. It was in large bar because Taylor, our
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: executive producer, went to North Carolina. Carolina was up nineteen,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: but VCU came storming back in. They advance in the
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: NCAA tournament, and their coach nice enough to join us.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Phil Mortelly Junior. I have known his dad for a
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: very long time. I'm super happy for this family. I
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: told him right before we started. After you beat Carolina,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: you should get out of the NBC.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Suites and get into a four seasons hotel. Good morning
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: to your coach.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah we're still here. Well, we stick to our roots.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: You know, we're still at that EMBSC suites. But it's
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: been good to us.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Watch.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: I'm a you know, I come from places like Bryant,
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: where I was like, what's the cheapest rate? Okay, yeah,
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: you're staying at that place, Like I don't know if
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: we can stay here, and.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: Like, no, that's keep his right to your thing.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah I do.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: I do, see Taylor give me that evil eye, like
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: this freaking guy right, Like, I keep seeing that.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: It is a little distracting, but.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: It's fair Carolina helmet right beyond you.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, said it was a great upset. I am
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: upset today. I called the a D and I said,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: I want Martelly next season at Carolina.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: That's making Martelly's happy where he is.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: He's very happy where I am.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: I'm at a great place, a great university, right, you know,
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: that's that's that's it. I would like to have to
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: sit down with Belichick though, I would like to sit
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: there and pick his brain, you know, because obviously the
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: amount of games that guy's won. But yes, I'm at
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: a great place. Carolina is a great university, obviously a
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: great program. But I am very fortunate to be at VCU.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: It is an incredible university and with great leadership. So
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: I'm thankful to all of them.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: If Taylor was being honest, he would tell you, Belichick
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: about you.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Win some of those games at North Carolina.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I get that, I understand that.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I understand mikey A had a great idea if you win,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: if you beat North Carolina and your VCU, you should
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: get to take their hotel rooms.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: How about that.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Offered some awkward encounters.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: I think one team's getting off the bus with their bags,
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: the others getting.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: On with their bags.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: Yes, I don't know where they stayed. They must have
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: been right down here. I'll tell you this. I like Greenville,
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: South Carolina. What a great place, great little city, great
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: little town. You know, we're right downtown here. It's a
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: good spot. It's a good spot.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: It's a very nice spot. Underrated spot. Yes, what do
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: you tell your kids? I'm wondering when you're down nineteen
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: first round of the NCAA Tournament, is there a moment?
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: What do you say to your kids?
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: How do you keep them going and moving forward and
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: inspiring a comeback like the one they had last night.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Well, they've been really resilient from the get go, and
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: the story I keep telling is our second game of
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: the year. We played Utah State. Utah State's in an
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: eight nine game today. Really good team. They had done
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: what we did, you know, what we wanted to do.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Last year.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: They had a new coach, won a million games, went
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: to the nca tournament. They had a group that came back,
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: so they were going to be really good. So the
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: second game of the year, it was a Friday night,
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: that first Friday in November, November seventh. I think maybe
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: we went and played them on the neutral floor in Texas,
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: and same type of deal. We went down early in
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: the second half. We got down seventeen, maybe even a
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: little bit later. It might have been like with ten
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: or eleven minutes left, and we stormed all the way back,
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: tied the game, had a chance to win.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: They wanted on the last possession, and obviously disappointed to lose.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: But I walked out and I was like, man, this
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: group's got something, and you know, we battle We tested
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: ourselves all the way through. We were battle tested from
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: the get go, and you know, played a really tough
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: non conference to be able to win these types of games.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: We had that happen in a couple of times throughout
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: the season where like we got down and there was
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: never a oh my god, what's going to happen?
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Especially the second game of the year. Right, it's easy
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: to go like, all right, new coach, like what's he doing?
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: And he didn't play me, I didn't play not if
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: this guy did that guy whatever, And they never did that.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: And it was the same last night. You could feel it.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: They were just like, we just needed to make the
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: next play, you know, whether it was offensive defense, just
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: make the next play, you know, and just let it
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: snowball from there.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Is there a point in that game where you don't.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Say it outwardly, but are you thinking, man, this is
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: how the season's going to end? Or can a head
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: coach nothing like that at any moment of any game?
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I really didn't think like that.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: I just I kept thinking, like, what's the what haven't
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: we tried that we can we can go to We
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: went to our three smaller guards, you know, our wings
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: were they were battling the defensive end, but couldn't get
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: anything going on the offensive end.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: We went to the three smaller guards just to give
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: them a different look and see if that was something
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: that would kind of shake things up, and it did.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: You know, I was worried about our rebounding, but those
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: guys were in there a rebound and then once they rebounded,
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: we were able to get out and play in the
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: open floor, which is where we're really good. So yeah,
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: it was always just like, all right, what else can
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: we do? Can do we try something different, Try something
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: different defensively, try something different on offense, a different lineup.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: It really was just that all the way through.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Coach is a former broadcasting student.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: I got to ask you about that moment on the
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: podium you had with the student broadcast, and can you
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: tell us a little bit about that.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they really are awesome and I've done that a
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: couple of times. I'm glad that they got that on
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: the national stage. You know, they there's a number of them.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: There's there's three young guys that they pretty much come
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: to every weekly press conference. I mean those are like
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: eleven o'clock on Monday and Tuesday. I don't know when
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: they go to class, And I've never asked them that question.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: They don't.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: They're there every time. They're there every time.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Yes, those saying three guys they drove to Davidson when
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: we had the huge snowstorms coming up and down the
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: East coast. They drove and I was like, after the game,
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: I'm like you, like, where are you guys staying tonight?
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: Like you're not driving back? I'm like, you can't drive back. Fortunately,
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: they did have a place to stay. I mean they've
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: flown out the different places again on their own dime.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: You know, they are doing it on their own dome.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: So great.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: He's a young lady and another another young man from
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: the newspaper that. Uh, they've been to a bunch of
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: practices covering our guys writing stories. So I'm really happy
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: that they get to experience this and be part of this.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: And you know, somebody somewhere, whether it's radio, whether it's TV,
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: whether it's thinkers, whatever, they're going to hire those kids
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: and they're going to be really thankful they did, because
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: they are they are thoughtful, they are genuine.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Uh, they are thorough with.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: What they do and I'm really grateful for what they
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: do for us.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Tonight they should say in Youbert Davis's room, how about that?
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I mean I did say he did say that he
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: wasn't even thinking it. That was me. It was my
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: dumb joke. Yes, no, not you.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: You are a humble advancer and c double a jornament.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I am wondering here as the as the son of
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: a legendary coach when you were born at Phil Martelly
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: is his name. But when you're born and you get
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: to a certain age and realize I'm Phil Martelly junior, Like,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: what age did you know you were going to be
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: a head coach because of the name and the heritage
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and and because of what your dad did well?
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: When I was in uh, probably somewhere around seventh grade,
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: you know, like anybody, I wanted to I wanted to
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: play in the NBA, right, So I wanted to play
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: in the NBA. Got to seventh grade, you start looking around.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: I'm like, I don't see a whole lot of unathletic
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: you know, five eleven white guys. John Stocktram was kind
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: of the only one. So does then you start going like,
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: what's my backup plan here? And ironically, the two things
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: that I wanted to do. I loved sports talk radio.
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: I loved w IP in Philadelphia Nice listened to that religiously.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: So I either wanted to do that or I wanted
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: to coach. And coaching went out pretty quick after that.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: From that point on, I started any chance I had.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: When I wasn't playing.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: You know, when I was in high school, I was
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: helping coach my my grade school cyo team. You know,
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: when I was in college, I was coaching you know,
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: the local high school summer league, the Sunny Hill League,
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: which every Philadelphia basketball player played in, the Narvith Basketball League,
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: which every Philadelphia basketball player. I was coaching those legs,
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: and yeah, I loved it from the get go.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: And now I'm on the other side.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: My sixteen year old Philip Stephen, he is like he
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: knows more than I do. Like there's most of the
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: time he tells me things and I'm like, yeah, I
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: already knew that.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: And then I'm like looking at my phone, like.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: Right, like know that, and he sees things and you know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: he's still playing, but you know he's already talking about
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: when he's done, he wants to coach. He wants to coach.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: So you know, it's really cool to see that and
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: kind of pass that along. It's it's in our blood.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm you know, we're a basketball family. My
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: wife played and coach. She played in the Division III
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: National championship game her senior year.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Her dad's a long time high school coach up in Connecticut.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: Like, you know, her and I met working in a basketball camp,
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: you know, so that's just who we are, and.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Right, so I'm guessing she was the least impressed of
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: everyone you had in the audience last night in terms
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: of family, right, Yeah.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: Her and my mom, I mean the two of them.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: She played, So Megan played in the Division three national championship.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: Game her senior year. They lost at the Buzzer.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: My mom played on those EMACI a lot of teams
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: that won three straight national championships in the seventies. And
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: actually she had sent me something before the game yesterday
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: was fifty six days to the I'm sorry, fifty four
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: years to the day of their first national championship, their
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: first of three. So yeah, anytime, you know, my dad
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: went to the sweet sixteen, the lead eight. You know,
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: we went a tournament game. Both of them are looking
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: at us like this is cute and all, but you understand,
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: like we went to the national championship.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Right, What was the embrace like with dad after the game.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, it was so awesome.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, again, being being on that side so many times
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: and watching you do it.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you from his side, it's better watching you
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: do it than doing it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I lived that with my daughter. Yes, yes, I
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: get that.
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: And you can feel it and to see the pride
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: and the joy in his eyes, you know.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: And I actually didn't see it till very recently had it.
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: My brother is my associate head coach, my brother Jimmy,
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: and so he's on our staff, and they had a
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: huge embrace, you know, tears in their eyes.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: It's just really cool.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Coach, How does your game plan kind of go out
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: the window when somebody like Terrence Hill Junior off the
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: bench scores thirty four and he is just anything he
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: throws up is seemingly going in.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: We've had that a number of times this year with Terrence.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: You know, he's just one of those guys. You know
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: that is that is part of the game plan. It's
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: not the whole game plan, but it is part of
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: the game plan. What I say all the time is this,
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: I want to get hoopers and I want to let
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: them hoop. I don't want to turn them into robots.
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: I'm not trying to get them into like cyborgs. Right,
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: I'm not a scientist. I don't know anything about that.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: I don't you know. I want to get hoopers. I
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: want to let them hoop, and he's a hooper. And
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: you know, at that point time, it's just all right,
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: he's got it going. We got to get the ball
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: in his hands in the right spots, you know, and
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: trust he's going to make the right play because he's
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: done that. He started the year he was shooting the
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: ball at like a ridiculous pace, so it became like shooter, shooter, shooter,
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: and everybody's trying to run him off the three point line. Well,
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: then he's able to score around the rim, and then
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: it was like, all right, he's a scorer. We got
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: to get the ball of his hands. And then he
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: turns into you know, having games of seven, eight, nine assists,
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: no turnovers, and you're like, the dude's just a player,
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: and I trust him, and he trusts me that I'm
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: going to put him in the right spots and I
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: trust that he's gonna you know, he's going to make
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: the right play.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: If it's for him, he'll get the shot.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: If it's he comes off and there's two guys on him,
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: he's going to make the right play and get somebody
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: else's shot.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: You chose wisely by choosing coaching. But if you want
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the offseason, I know it's a year round job, but
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: if you want to get some sports radio.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: When you I mean, we will offer you a job
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, it's what I listened to when I'm dropping
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: the kids off. My wife always says, or my daughter
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: will always say, like, can we listen to some music?
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: Like that?
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: Should always say that to my wife, like can you
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: bring the school? Dad's always listening to bullying sports radio,
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: like it's not boring. I'm like, I'm listening to all
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: of it. I'm here for all.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but to them it's dreadful.
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, what's better, Like, let's let's debate let's debate
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: the NFL schedule in may you know, talking about like
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: you know, scrutinize the NFL like it's just awesome. I mean,
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: sports are great. They give us these moments. What could
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: be better than that?
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I feel like, you know us, I mean, did you
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: also want Patula fired?
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: I don't want to see any coach fired, right, I
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: mean obviously it was what it was. It's just amazing
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: to me though, and it is. It's Philadelphia. It's why
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: I love Philadelphia. Now I will say that I like
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: the Eagles, I love the Phillies. I like the Eagles,
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: but I love the Phillies.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: It's a baseball town, it is, Yeah, I mean I.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: Love the Phillies. Like I am, like, like I checked
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: the spring training scores.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Why, But I do like my sports man, my eight year.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: Old he's got the bug.
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: My eight year old mate, he's saying to me the
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: one day, like last week, he's like his dad, Phillies
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: gonna stink their their spring training record is horrible.
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: I was like, all right, I feel like I've raised
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: you well.
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: But at the same time, like, right, come on, dude,
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: like you're eight, Like, just be excited about Bryce Harper.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Uh, well you were. You all jacked up with that
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: home run in the World Baseball.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: Send it to send it to him. The next morning
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: we were here in the embassy. Is the beautiful MBSC.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Suite of course.
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: Yes, When Nate woke up, that was the first thing
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: I showed him. I said, yeah, I said, Harper hit
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: a home run last night. I said, they lost, but
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: he hit a home run, right.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: I was impressed with Aaron Nolan in the World Baseball Classic.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: I think he has a bounce back year this year.
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: That I mean, we need that. We need that big time, Yeah,
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: big time. He's right, Sanchez is the monster. You know,
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: Romero is really good. Like you know, if if you
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: get Nola on the bounce back, Wheeler comes back healthy
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: hopefully you know those four guys that that's a hell
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: offul lineup for there.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: It was bullshit though, right that Team Italy was all
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: born in the United States.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, what are we doing here? Come?
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: It's the whole thing's crazy now, I mean, that's well,
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: we see that in uh, we've seen that in the Olympics,
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: in basketball a little bit. I mean Joe he played
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: for Team USA the last Olympics, you know what I mean.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: Like it's like kim.
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: Oaiswall played for the USA back in whatever it was
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: ninety six.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Like right, Right's it's weird.
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I guess there's a lot of really
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: good Italian baseball players.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: Like I love baseball. I can. I wasn't a good hitter.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: I wasn't a great hitter. I was an okay hitter.
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: I could bunt, though, so if they needed a bunner,
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: I'd gladly put on Italy's colors and go out there
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: and try to bunt against one of these guys.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: You were great to get that guy from first a second.
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: Just just trying to lay one pay out and get
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: it over and feel like I did something.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Where are you on, Nick Sirianti and we'll get you
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: out of here in a second.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: Oh, I mean, come on that guy again.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: Like that's why Philadelphia's crazy, right, Like you look at
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: that record and you go everybody else in the country
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: is like, wait a second, you're winning ten, eleven, twelve,
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: thirteen games, but it's like everything's the biggest controversy.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: In the world, right. I mean, that dude is just
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: a winner. He's found a way to win.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: He's got that bravado out about him that that definitely
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: plays well in Philadelphia.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Just won the Super Bowl, right, like we're yea whatever the.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: Like, and we're talking about like is his job? Like
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: come on, what are we doing? Right?
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: What is crazy?
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: Because you know, being down in Richmond, I walked by
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: the TV and all the national media.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: That's all they're talking about too, is like Eagles and what's.
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: What's the what's the problem. They're dysfunctional and like they
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: just won seven in a row.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Like that Sports Radio though, Man, I mean, that's it,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: that's that's that's where we're at.
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: And they are certainly a lightning bolt for that. But now, Sirianni,
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: that dude, I think he's a great coach. He's doing
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: great things in Philadelphia. I hope you know, my my,
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: my brethren in the City of Brotherly Love understand, like
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: they did the same thing Andy Reid.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: Like all that dude dude did was win. Like he's
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: a great coach.
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: He's one of the best, if not the best, all
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: the time, won a million games. And it was like, well,
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: he's you know not doesn't do this well, it doesn't
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: do that, Like come on, give me a break, Like
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: winning is winning?
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, tell her? You see where I'm going here.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: So we had Ryan Howard on the other day, and
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: next time we have Ryan Howard booked.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: I want you to in buy Philmore Telly Junior on
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: to help us conduct the interview and get that.
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: Would that be cool for you to you kidding?
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: That would be awesome. I'm I'm in touch. I was
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: just just texting back and forth. Tom mccarthur, who's the
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: Phillies played by Stuff? Tom did Saint Joe's stuff way back.
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: So we've known Tom forever. So he's where I get
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: my real inside stuff. I'm like, all right, are we
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: good right now?
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: Is everybody goody? Anything? Phillies related on men?
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: Like, I'm not gonna lie, Like, we're looking at the schedule,
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: my kids looking schedule, Like all right, so when we
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: have a little break like beginning of August, they're home
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: for a couple of games. Like what games can we
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: get to? I'm all in on that. I'm all in
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: on the Phils.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I know you you're not here just to win one game.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: You want to win the whole damn tournament. So how
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: do you protect your team? Like, what do you tell
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: you your team after the game? Hey, nice win, but
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: we did win a national championship last night. What's the
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: message to the team will be forward?
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, We've been talking really down the stretch here about
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: focus and refocus, right like, focus on what do we
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: have coming up here? So through all these games, even
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: back to the middle of February, right like, focus on
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: what we need to do in this game, block out
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: all the extra noise, and then once those games were over,
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: it was refocused.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: We did that with the.
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: Conference tournament, right we won, you know, we win in
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: the quarterfinals and we're walking through the hall, you know,
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: the you know, go to the locker room, and I'm
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: yelling to them up ahead, refocus, refocus, and then I
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: hear them saying it amongst themselves, right, And.
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: So it's really that.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: So yes, just that, and.
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: We talk about numbers. So right now we're just talking
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: about number two. You know, how do we get number two?
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: You know, and just being ready with whatever it takes,
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: and you know, not getting caught up in you know,
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: all these people that want to tell you they love
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: you right now, the same people that, you know, if
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: you had lost last night, would be telling you how
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: much you suck, right like. So you know, we just
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: try to keep it consistent, keep it even, keep everything
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: as normal as possible.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: I begged them, I begged them. I beg them.
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: I'm sure they didn't really listen, but I beg them, like,
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: put your phones down and go to sleep.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: Last night, yeah, you know, and.
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: That's more of a do as I say, not as
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: I do, because I was not I.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: Was not asleep. I was sitting on this computer watching film.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: But that's my job. That's my role in this team.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: To do that, you had to be on one.
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: Yes, their role is go get sleep. Hopefully they've done that.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: So great.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: You want to send Taylor some VCU gear so next time,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: next time you come on. He doesn't have a Carolina
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: football outlet.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: Our football team hasn't lost in like eighty years now.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: We don't have a football team.
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: But we also don't have a Hall of Fame coach.
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: But yeah, if I can find a VCU helmet or something,
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: we'll send it. We'll send something.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Along anything you can find, Taylor. Is this it? Guys?
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Are we done here? We're We're rooting for VCU the
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: rest of the way. This is our team, right. Oh yeah,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: I'm a VCU guy. I mean, I don't care. Went
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: to Clark University, so speaking of Brian College.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, the NBC's such a Northeast guy.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Hey man, we appreciate it. I'm happy for you. I'm
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: happy for the entire family.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: It looked like they were just as excited, if not
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: more excited than you were because you still have work
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: to do. They were just excited that you got the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: win last night. But congratulations to you, man. It's a
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: great story and good luck to you guys moving forward
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: here in the tournament.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: Appreciate you guys. Thank you,