Transcript

03/16/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 2: I'm all for someone huddling. If you have something to.
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Speaker 1: Say right into it's time to wake up and talk
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Speaker 1: about the teams you love.
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Speaker 2: Nobody work with the guys you love. It's just about
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Speaker 2: getting the group together. I need you, you need me today.
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Speaker 2: Let's keep touching each other.
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Speaker 3: Let's make sure we feel each other. Let's make sure we.
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Speaker 4: Smell each other for a half.
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Speaker 1: Watch us on YouTube, Facebook and act.
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Speaker 2: You need fifteen or twenty huddles to pour away with
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Speaker 2: a number of cameras.
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Speaker 3: Take the cameras off the field, and if you.
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Speaker 1: Noble now gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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Speaker 1: What's less loot we think? We watch stick on one
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Speaker 1: ready to learn from what if it looks like man covered,
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Speaker 1: I'll check, I'll go you under get you gotta cutt
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Speaker 1: and prack now cutting prat run ride eighteen Bob on
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Speaker 1: one ready, cut me quick.
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Speaker 2: You'll look at this play.
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Speaker 4: What we're trying to get is a seal here and
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Speaker 4: a seal here, and to try.
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Speaker 3: To run this play in the alley.
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Speaker 2: Let's all all, let's do our two check from doing
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Speaker 2: what you're doing.
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Speaker 3: And make it play be right all the way outside.
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Speaker 5: Why left bank three ninety thick bag be he see
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Speaker 5: palk is not long.
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Speaker 1: Enough for it?
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Speaker 2: Watching it to be party of professional.
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Speaker 3: It's a great profession.
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Speaker 4: Go out there and play this ball game like I
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Speaker 4: know you can play it.
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Speaker 1: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, this man's been out all nine.
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Speaker 1: Armand sorry, shun.
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Speaker 3: Ready.
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 3: That's right, ready to dominate on a blizzardy Monday in
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Speaker 3: the good Land. It's the huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin,
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Speaker 3: broadcasting live on nine twenty Milwaukee, ten seventy medisine everywhere
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Speaker 3: in the iHeart app streaming live for you early risers
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Speaker 3: and insomniacs YouTube, Facebook and ex Drew Wilson, Bill Schmid,
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Speaker 3: armand sorry and I Drew. I am at the home
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Speaker 3: office today. I whipped out, brought the broadcast equipment home
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Speaker 3: and I just wanted to stay up late and watch baseball.
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Speaker 3: And I know what the roads are doing out there.
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Speaker 3: It is a little bit bit's a little bit dicey
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Speaker 3: throughout the area. And I gotta say, boys, it looks
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Speaker 3: like the blizzard might be good for our business. Much
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Speaker 3: like the weather people on TV. Our streaming numbers are
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Speaker 3: higher than they usually are. There. You go, everybody's home, right,
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Speaker 3: I know, Buddy's locked in, and you know, you knew
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Speaker 3: going in. It used to be you had to wake
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Speaker 3: up and watch TV or you know, listen to the
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Speaker 3: When I listening to w tm J for the school closing.
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Speaker 4: Came in, Grafted, Greendale, Come on, green Field open, Come
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Speaker 4: on kidding.
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Speaker 2: My mom was so excited.
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Speaker 4: You know, yes, you're going to Gated today.
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Speaker 5: Well maybe one more time. Maybe we just wait like
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Speaker 5: ten more minutes. They might change it. They might change it,
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Speaker 5: they might put it in, and.
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Speaker 3: They just for schools closed across the area throughout the state.
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Speaker 3: Here in the southeastern part of the of the state,
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Speaker 3: we got it way way easier than our friends in
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Speaker 3: the Fox Valley in the middle of the state. And
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Speaker 3: Mike and Merrill that Wassa area got pounded starting on
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Speaker 3: got run, they got.
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Speaker 2: Roughed, they got they got roughed.
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Speaker 3: Friday it started and uh the girls tournament went off
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Speaker 3: apparently without a hitch, but it you know, that was
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Speaker 3: kind of dodging the blizzard there.
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Speaker 5: I think they were probably just inside of getting the
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Speaker 5: announcements Drew Like, like you had started saying last week
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Speaker 5: that they had probably just got Craig Council's celebration on
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Speaker 5: a sweet video of count celebrating the game winner for
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Speaker 5: for Whitefish Bay. I think they got all of those
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Speaker 5: games in just in the nick of time before it
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Speaker 5: started rolling through. But yeah, like our friend Dobbler was saying,
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Speaker 5: I told you guys, who wasn't gonna be that bad.
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Speaker 5: It was not as bad for us, but it's been.
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Speaker 5: It's brutal for some and we appreciate everybody enjoying now.
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Speaker 5: We also appreciate our friend Dobbler down in Georgia. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: talking trash because let us here, but.
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Speaker 2: I also let letting us know what he's got.
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Speaker 5: He's got tornado watch coming up on top of a
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Speaker 5: severe thunderstorm warning rolling through. So hey man, weather is
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Speaker 5: everybody's favorite weather and brackets this week will be everyone's
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Speaker 5: favorite topic d jure.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is we hope Winter's last gasp. We've
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Speaker 3: talked about it this time of year. It just seems
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Speaker 3: like you get this last dumping and then it's it
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Speaker 3: doesn't last very long because it'd be forty five by
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Speaker 3: the middle of the week. Hopefully, right around tournament time.
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Speaker 3: And oh baby, tournament time is upon us. We've got
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Speaker 3: the World Baseball Classic. Has been a nice little time filler,
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Speaker 3: and watching these games played at high level. Baseball at
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Speaker 3: a high level remains really good and it's fun to
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Speaker 3: watch these games. It'll be fun to watch the next
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Speaker 3: two tonight. You got Italy and Venezuela, and then the
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Speaker 3: winner of that game plays the US on Tuesday in
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Speaker 3: the finale, and then we're on to opening day. But
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Speaker 3: the tournament is upon us. Badgers are a five seed,
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Speaker 3: they're head of the Portland playing that brunch ball game.
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Speaker 3: How do we feel about that? They have? What a
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Speaker 3: twelve fifty start right before one o'clock in Portland against
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Speaker 3: High Point.
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Speaker 2: Can I be honest with you, nothing better? Nothing better?
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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, no, I in team media starts
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Speaker 3: with me for guys who are done at eight am.
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Speaker 5: Dude, got plenty of time to pre game, and last
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Speaker 5: night I just kind of like threw it out there
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Speaker 5: right when you know people know more than you. I
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Speaker 5: just like to loft the idea out there, like our
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Speaker 5: friend game, just throwing it out there, just see what happens.
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Speaker 5: Butcher gave a grin when he said, yeah, I think
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Speaker 5: they might be the late game, and I almost might pay.
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Speaker 5: You've got to be kidding me, really, can we? And
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Speaker 5: they start us up with the first game early slate,
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Speaker 5: And again there's certain teams that would be uh with
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Speaker 5: less mental fortitude uh and intestinal toughness, I'd be a
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Speaker 5: little bit more concerned about starting in that quiet different gym.
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Speaker 5: But drew these boys anytime, any place, anywhere with that backcourt.
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Speaker 2: I'm excited to see this game. I'm right away.
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Speaker 3: I am as well. And for people who think they
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Speaker 3: got hosed or they shouldn't have gotten sent to Portland,
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Speaker 3: get over yourself. I don't think that's a big deal,
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Speaker 3: that's absurd. Being a five seed I think is actually
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Speaker 3: pretty appropriate given the way they rank, and.
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Speaker 2: Very appropriate they belong there.
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Speaker 4: Maybe a six, but you you know that five or
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Speaker 4: six was appropriate at the risk of not being a homer.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I couldn't believe when some people were saying that.
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Speaker 4: I think that's just the default. That's that's my point.
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Speaker 4: So I guess there's no risk of being But I mean,
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Speaker 4: I think that's just some people's default response.
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Speaker 2: We got screwed again.
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Speaker 4: Really, how can you tell me why you got screwed,
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Speaker 4: how you got screwed, and how you been getting screwed
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Speaker 4: all the years, all the years you played Milwaukee, Like,
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Speaker 4: come on, I couldn't believe that. I'm sorry, I had
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Speaker 4: to say. And I could not believe when I saw that.
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Speaker 3: Because are they mad that Illinois is a three?
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Speaker 4: Illinois should be up there? It should be a three?
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Speaker 4: I mean, so it's like, you know, not beat him twice? Yeah,
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Speaker 4: your profile is what it is though, it's the body
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Speaker 4: of work, so.
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Speaker 3: It totally is. And I thought that was appropriate. I
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Speaker 3: don't think they got screwed by being set to Portland.
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Speaker 3: And maybe people are mad that, you know, people with
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Speaker 3: real jobs unlike us, who are going to be free
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Speaker 3: to watch that game on Thursday and all the games
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Speaker 3: on Thursday, Like you know, come on, if you're a
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Speaker 3: true fan, you take Thursday off, right, That's yeah.
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Speaker 5: And I had to question my buddy Tyler, who who
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Speaker 5: got his last week? He went in on last Thursday,
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Speaker 5: and I was like, brother, did you just misread the calendar?
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Speaker 3: Totally?
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Speaker 2: What a what a bad what a bad job to.
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Speaker 5: Swing and miss swallow Swallow for the entire week and
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Speaker 5: not even on the right time.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's his his frozen piece will be back
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Speaker 3: in the freezer by the time of the tip. Maybe
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Speaker 3: he's maybe they're.
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Speaker 5: Gonna cook him by the time that fires up, right,
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Speaker 5: I mean, that's gonna end up in a bowl of chili.
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Speaker 4: Before that, whenever the doctors that used to do like
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Speaker 4: the two day special, it was like vizectomy and the
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Speaker 4: free pizza or something for like a special for the
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Speaker 4: tournament or whatever, and.
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Speaker 3: That was the thing. It definitely is a thing, all right.
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Speaker 3: So eight seven seven, seven nine, it's game balls and
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Speaker 3: Kicks to the Balls Monday. We do this as a
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Speaker 3: ritual and it should be very fertile territory today for
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Speaker 3: game balls and kicks to the balls. You know the drill.
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Speaker 3: You're standing in the locker room and it is a
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Speaker 3: victorious scene surrounded by folks in sports underwear towels of
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Speaker 3: your choice, of your fantasies, and you get to award
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Speaker 3: a game ball for a job well done today on
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Speaker 3: the huddle. This is a game ball.
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Speaker 2: That was Billy mentioned him before. That was TJ.
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Speaker 4: Power, the new Hero of penn And when the Quakers
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Speaker 4: dreams were realized, when they had an absolutely incredibly improbable
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Speaker 4: comeback against Yale in the last ten seconds of the
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Speaker 4: IVY League Final. If you haven't seen it, back and
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Speaker 4: watch it. TJ Power hit the two big threes and
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Speaker 4: the game tying when that was the one that sent
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Speaker 4: it to overtime where they eventually won. Uh to to
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Speaker 4: crush the dreams of the Ale Bulldogs who really should
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Speaker 4: have won that well, and they.
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Speaker 5: Almost got crushed themselves because my man almost hit a
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Speaker 5: seventy foot time expired that it off the back iron.
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Speaker 2: That was a great way to start. Let me tell
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Speaker 2: you something.
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Speaker 4: I know a lot of people probably didn't watch it,
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Speaker 4: but especially if you maybe if you had a little
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Speaker 4: investment on it. What a great way to start the
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Speaker 4: day at eleven am to figure out if you did
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Speaker 4: have the ESPN log in and all those things correct.
9:29
Speaker 4: That was a really great game to start the day yesterday.
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Speaker 4: So on the deuce, but if you have the so
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Speaker 4: if you have plus only, you don't get that game.
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Speaker 4: It's kind of a weird deal. But yes, awesome, awesome, Yes.
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Speaker 3: Side the flip side of a game ball today it
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Speaker 3: would be a kick to the huevos to someone who
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Speaker 3: needs to improve their performance, they need to step up
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Speaker 3: their game. They need to do better. Here's a kick
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Speaker 3: to the balls today on the.
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Speaker 2: I'll send you a tax back, all right.
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Speaker 4: So there's a longer version of that. If you watch
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Speaker 4: the selection show. CBI was supposed to give Iowas I
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Speaker 4: think it was Iowa State a visual of them getting
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Speaker 4: selected so they could cheer, but they were getting a
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Speaker 4: delayed feet I guess so because of that, they were
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Speaker 4: not seeing themselves on the screen and it didn't work
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Speaker 4: out well, So that was a failing.
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Speaker 2: He was the longer version.
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Speaker 3: Here comes.
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Speaker 2: That's all right, the ball guys give him the news.
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Speaker 2: We'll move on.
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Speaker 3: I'll send you a tax back.
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Speaker 2: Very a little sorry, awkward situation this is That was.
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Speaker 3: Interesting and I love that you did that, Armin, because
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Speaker 3: as I was watching that unfold, I was I actually
10:32
Speaker 3: thought about drafting our pal Andrew Ludwig uh to appear
10:36
Speaker 3: on today's show. But I don't think he's He probably
10:39
Speaker 3: just got home.
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Speaker 2: I was going to say, yeah, he just got home
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Speaker 2: from this.
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Speaker 3: Single guy lived off Brady Street. Yeah he's you know,
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Speaker 3: he was at the Bucks game yesterday, so he's probably
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Speaker 3: out with his friends after that. But uh A lotty
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Speaker 3: worked in operations for Northern Arizona University in basketball operations,
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Speaker 3: and he's been you know, he worked in a football
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Speaker 3: so he steeped in college sports. And I was wondering.
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Speaker 3: First of all, we all watched the Selection Sunday show,
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Speaker 3: and I should give a game ball to CBS because
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Speaker 3: it was less shlocky and way down than previous versions.
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Speaker 3: It was streamlined, They had the little panel discussion to start,
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Speaker 3: and then they just got to the picks, right. I
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Speaker 3: think they that's the way it should be. Maybe somehere,
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Speaker 3: somebody channeled their inner Greg Gumbele and the show itself
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Speaker 3: was to me palatable. So game ball to CBS, because
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Speaker 3: how can how can you screw up a show that
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Speaker 3: everybody wants to watch, But they've done it in the
11:26
Speaker 3: past where they've made it like a pain in the
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Speaker 3: ass to slog through and get get to the picks right, shows.
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Speaker 4: The brackets, right, they tried taking the two hours or
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Speaker 4: whatever was Yeah, that was the That was horrible.
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Speaker 2: So they streamlined.
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Speaker 3: It and it was a little better. But watching those cutaways, right,
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Speaker 3: and they didn't show Wisconsin at all, right because the
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Speaker 3: Badgers knew they were in or whatever, but watching the
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Speaker 3: team's cut the cutaways, uh, that that instance, with the
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Speaker 3: delay and the latency and stuff, I figured that would
11:55
Speaker 3: always happen, so if they had to tap dance and
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Speaker 3: talk and then show the team reacting. But then I'm
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Speaker 3: thinking to myself, wait a minute, do I really think
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Speaker 3: that everybody finds out about the brackets when they're announced?
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Speaker 3: Don't they ops people who have to book hotels and
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Speaker 3: buses and all that stuff, don't they get a little
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Speaker 3: heads up?
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Speaker 2: I was at email.
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Speaker 3: I always thought so too. And then it's like, so
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Speaker 3: then in those moments in these cutaways, because you had
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Speaker 3: that team that was sitting there watching and it was
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Speaker 3: like they didn't react and didn't react, and then they
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Speaker 3: cut to a team and as soon as their name
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Speaker 3: flashed up and was mentioned, the team was going nuts.
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Speaker 3: So I'm like, oh, they cue them, or they tell them,
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Speaker 3: or there's some kind of dummy signal or something that
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Speaker 3: they're watching where they're told who they're gonna play, right,
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Speaker 3: and those things could be pre taped or whatever. So
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Speaker 3: they're they're jock. They're messing with us, right. That presentation
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Speaker 3: is not as what it seems.
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Speaker 5: Well, And I mean, listen, as somebody that loves the
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Speaker 5: NFL draft, me me criticizing a show that's just reading
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Speaker 5: names is kind of hard, but I just like I'll
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Speaker 5: get the PDF bracket. I feel a lot better about it.
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Speaker 5: The interesting part for the celebration Drew, I always thought
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Speaker 5: it was just like the one camera man who when
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Speaker 5: he's flashing it on the twelve year old kids as
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Speaker 5: they're trying to get themselves on the JumboTron, just starts
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Speaker 5: throwing the hand up in the air.
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Speaker 2: Come on, come on, come on, come on, we need
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Speaker 2: to get that guy with a little bit quicker director.
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Speaker 5: I imagine the ops people had a heads up in
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Speaker 5: the past, but I actually don't know if you could
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Speaker 5: now right like I think with the with the ever
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Speaker 5: changing society that we have and the instant gratification we want, man,
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Speaker 5: some intern in the ops department is putting that out,
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Speaker 5: Like I think if you're trying to get up on
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Speaker 5: the graphics department and the Twitter sphere is way too
13:43
Speaker 5: early in the basketball department, somebody is slipping it up.
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Speaker 5: So I think now they might actually go to reading
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Speaker 5: it live. Whereas you know in yesteryear, where it was
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Speaker 5: a lot tougher and slower to get information out, they
13:57
Speaker 5: definitely were getting a little bit of a heads up.
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Speaker 2: And now I think leaks are too, even.
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Speaker 3: If it's even if it's like a minute or two
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Speaker 3: minutes or something, but it seems like it's cooked in
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Speaker 3: a in some ways to me. Well, you might be right,
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Speaker 3: because there were times when I covered games years ago,
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Speaker 3: and I don't know if they still do this. I
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Speaker 3: don't think so. But it used to be like, let's
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Speaker 3: say you're at an ALE playoff game or something I'm watching.
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Speaker 3: I'd be watching, say, you know, Cleveland's playing Boston and
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Speaker 3: we're at Jacob's Field Progressive Field, and the place is
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Speaker 3: going nuts and stuff, and then you're settling in and
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Speaker 3: it's getting before the first pitch, and they would come
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Speaker 3: on the PA and say, hey, we're about to be joined,
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Speaker 3: but they were prompting the people to go nuts for
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Speaker 3: the live shot. Yeah on Fox, like we're about to
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Speaker 3: be joined on the national television, say hello to the
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Speaker 3: national television audience, and we live from Cleveland. And they
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Speaker 3: would prompt people to go nuts, so that when they
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Speaker 3: hit the air, people were going crazy, waving in their
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Speaker 3: towels around and going insane. So it was a little
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Speaker 3: bit cooked for TV.
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we gotta get we gotta get Armin on
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Speaker 5: the mic like you've had an Admirals game saying all right,
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Speaker 5: fellas we go live fifteen seconds, all right, your best
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Speaker 5: fifteen seconds coming coaching in there.
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Speaker 3: From what I've seen that happen.
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Speaker 4: From what I was reading that that the way they've
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Speaker 4: set this up usually is for the teams to get
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Speaker 4: a closed circuit feed from CBS, so they get the.
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Speaker 2: Live reaction, live announcement.
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Speaker 4: I now, remember we're only talking about a few teams here,
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Speaker 4: because except for the few Bubble teams, everybody else knows
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Speaker 4: they're in, so they're not they're gonna announced at some point.
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Speaker 4: It's the excitement for the teams that get the automatic
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Speaker 4: bid to see their name in the lights. I think
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Speaker 4: it's just too genuine of a reaction for them. I
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Speaker 4: don't believe that they don't.
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Speaker 3: I know they they don't know it. But I'm saying
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Speaker 3: that's not necessarily But I'm saying what I'm saying is
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Speaker 3: it's not necessarily live. Right, So for instance, let's to
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Speaker 3: do that if they're reacting in real time and they
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Speaker 3: know that they're on, or they're getting a feed that
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Speaker 3: shows them there.
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Speaker 2: You're supposed to get a close circuit feed. And I always.
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Speaker 3: Because you've seen it. If you talk to a buddy
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Speaker 3: and you're watching your TV and you you have a
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Speaker 3: YouTube TV and someone else has cable, it's like, what, man,
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Speaker 3: You're ten to fifteen seconds ahead right right, So that
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Speaker 3: latency this and to get the instant reaction. And I'm
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Speaker 3: not saying it's not a real reaction. They're reacting in
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Speaker 3: real time, but it's flashing up on their screen before
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Speaker 3: it's broadcast national, is what I'm saying. Now.
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Speaker 5: That would be smarter that way. Yeah, yep, and that
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Speaker 5: with Drew that would be smart. So what I'm what
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Speaker 5: I'm hearing is Iowa State, get off YouTube TV. What
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Speaker 5: we're what were we doing watching it on the app
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Speaker 5: five second delay?
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Speaker 4: It's definitely definitely some ops kid that you're right or
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Speaker 4: into or manager.
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Speaker 5: Here he would you guys just shut the heck up
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Speaker 5: about it. I'm sorry, that's not the live that's not
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Speaker 5: the right one. That's not the live one. You're just
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Speaker 5: watching TV now. So that that's how that went down.
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Speaker 5: But it was kind of funny in the moment when
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Speaker 5: it was like all waiting for the reaction and then
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Speaker 5: it just makes it look like they're totally unimpressed about
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Speaker 5: what's going totally.
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Speaker 3: It makes it make the Yeah, they're just sitting there
16:50
Speaker 3: watching the sh.
16:50
Speaker 2: And that's happened before, and it is kind of funny.
16:53
Speaker 3: Now, arm and somebody's gonna come out of some of
16:55
Speaker 3: your mu brothers because they've had those parties, those watch
16:58
Speaker 3: parties at the what's it the app? Yes, yes, where
17:01
Speaker 3: they were.
17:02
Speaker 4: Then they went to the All I think eventually, but
17:05
Speaker 4: they at the Mecca too. They were having because it
17:09
Speaker 4: was a better visual. Like the ANX was an underused
17:12
Speaker 4: thing that a lot of kids don't go to, but
17:14
Speaker 4: it is there so and then that was like the
17:16
Speaker 4: official campus place.
17:17
Speaker 3: So here I am being a shill. I'm going to
17:19
Speaker 3: keep with the theme. Game Balls and Kicks of the
17:20
Speaker 3: Boss gave a game ball to CBS for the show.
17:23
Speaker 3: Game ball to the selection committee because I mean, it's
17:26
Speaker 3: an impossible job, right, and let's give them one.
17:29
Speaker 2: How about that job?
17:32
Speaker 3: Now, it's a bunch of guys in the room and
17:34
Speaker 3: they figured it out and they come up with the result.
17:36
Speaker 3: And if you're on the bubble, it sucks, you know.
17:40
Speaker 3: I will we'll get into the Auburn thing on a
17:43
Speaker 3: little bit. But Miami, Ohio gets in, They're playing in Dayton. Perfect.
17:47
Speaker 3: That's how it should be. Show to me, that's why
17:49
Speaker 3: Dayton was invented, like to put teams like them in.
17:52
Speaker 3: And there are a couple of teams that didn't get
17:53
Speaker 3: in that have a legit claim, right, But the selection
17:56
Speaker 3: committee does a pretty good job. Which does the better
17:59
Speaker 3: job the NCAA Basketball Tournament selection committee or the college
18:02
Speaker 3: football Playoff selection committee and which is more transparent and
18:07
Speaker 3: open about their process?
18:08
Speaker 5: Well, so the second part would be the college football one,
18:12
Speaker 5: because they talk about it every week, now, Drew, some
18:15
Speaker 5: of us that love college football are saying, how about
18:17
Speaker 5: we don't do that, Maybe we don't have Buddy put
18:20
Speaker 5: his foot in his mouth every single week and then
18:23
Speaker 5: give teams that don't get put in ammunition to bitch
18:27
Speaker 5: and moan, like Notre Dame this year against Miami, where
18:30
Speaker 5: they were ahead of them the entire year and then
18:32
Speaker 5: all of a sudden right at the end, they get
18:33
Speaker 5: flip flopped in. The college basketball committee has such a
18:38
Speaker 5: more difficult task because I think so many of these
18:40
Speaker 5: teams are so similar, right, Like, I mean, it is
18:43
Speaker 5: Oklahoma much different than SMU. I don't really think so
18:48
Speaker 5: probably not right, like they're one or two ticks different
18:51
Speaker 5: Indiana or Miami of Ohio. It will happen. But the
18:55
Speaker 5: transparency definitely football. The accuracy I'd like to say football,
19:01
Speaker 5: but I mean, listen, when we have two different group
19:03
Speaker 5: of five teams in, I can't give you that leg
19:05
Speaker 5: up this year. So kudo's to college basketball. They enjoyed
19:09
Speaker 5: putting in the Cinderella, but if they wouldn't have put
19:11
Speaker 5: in the additional two lane and James Madison, people would
19:14
Speaker 5: have been upset.
19:15
Speaker 4: I agree, And I think the thing is they've been
19:17
Speaker 4: doing it longer, so the process has been more refined
19:19
Speaker 4: over the years. It's still kind of a brave new
19:21
Speaker 4: world for college football in terms of the playoffs and
19:23
Speaker 4: how you know, the expansion and how they select teams.
19:25
Speaker 4: So you're right, Billy, college basketball's job is a little
19:28
Speaker 4: tougher just because there are so many teams that are
19:31
Speaker 4: in the same grouping you had have different resumes, so
19:34
Speaker 4: you're splitting hairs between their resumes based on so many
19:37
Speaker 4: different things, and therefore there's never any utopian, easy right answer.
19:41
Speaker 4: We try and create these metrics like net ranking or
19:44
Speaker 4: you know, can Pom team rank. We try and create
19:46
Speaker 4: these things to try and rank them as accurately as possible,
19:49
Speaker 4: knowing everything is you know, unequal, But it's really hard
19:52
Speaker 4: to do that.
19:53
Speaker 2: So they did a pretty good job.
19:54
Speaker 4: It was also a little easier for college basketball, is yere,
19:56
Speaker 4: because it was an incredibly soft bubble. I don't think
19:59
Speaker 4: anyone had a p album with Auburn, you know, not
20:01
Speaker 4: making it and Miami making the Dayton Rush.
20:04
Speaker 3: Okay, so certainly d.
20:05
Speaker 4: Bruce Pearl because as we know, he's on the payroll.
20:07
Speaker 4: That's dog.
20:09
Speaker 3: Who cares about that is he got his son, you know,
20:12
Speaker 3: he got his son the job. And now they did
20:15
Speaker 3: beat some good teams, but they were what seventeen and sixteen,
20:18
Speaker 3: and they faltered down the stretch. That's an easy omission
20:21
Speaker 3: to me.
20:22
Speaker 2: No one feels bad for them, nobody, No.
20:24
Speaker 3: One outside of Auburn, right yeah, outside of their fan base,
20:27
Speaker 3: no one feels bad. It's not an atrocity that they're
20:29
Speaker 3: not in given their record and the way they finished
20:31
Speaker 3: the season and what they lose to Mississippi at home
20:34
Speaker 3: at the in the end of the season, which was
20:36
Speaker 3: like a death blow. That game ended up being a
20:38
Speaker 3: swing game, and it's always you can always point to
20:40
Speaker 3: one game, but you had to have my I think
20:42
Speaker 3: you had to have Miami of Ohio in I thought.
20:45
Speaker 3: I'm with you that that league gets to this year,
20:48
Speaker 3: and that's what the to me, that's what the play
20:50
Speaker 3: in game gives you, is that you know that flexibility
20:53
Speaker 3: to get teams like that, and so kudos to them.
20:55
Speaker 3: They did a pretty good job. Now Badger's playing high Point.
20:58
Speaker 3: Kick to the balls to people who are bitching about that,
21:01
Speaker 3: I mean.
21:02
Speaker 2: I'll send you a tax back.
21:03
Speaker 3: I don't think the Badgers got hosed. I don't think
21:05
Speaker 3: it's bad. And anybody who's afraid of high Point if
21:08
Speaker 3: you can't beat freaking high Point, I'm sorry. Like the
21:11
Speaker 3: Badgers are in the season, like, yes, I think it's
21:14
Speaker 3: legit for the Badgers to say it's second weekend or bust,
21:17
Speaker 3: isn't it.
21:18
Speaker 5: I mean they need to be playing against Arizona in
21:20
Speaker 5: the second weekend.
21:20
Speaker 4: I'm with you on that one. It's been too long
21:22
Speaker 4: for them. I think they're good enough to do it.
21:25
Speaker 4: Like Arkansas won't be easy, no doubt high Point one
21:28
Speaker 4: thirty games is year, but you're right they should beat them.
21:30
Speaker 3: Hih Point didn't pay anybody above Quad two. I'm with you.
21:32
Speaker 4: It's the Miami. It's the whole Miami situation.
21:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, if they didn't play anybody, and it's like you
21:37
Speaker 3: should be now High Point I talked about earlier. They're
21:40
Speaker 3: like the planned community of universities because they've been around
21:44
Speaker 3: for a while, but it was about fifteen twenty years
21:46
Speaker 3: ago somebody who went there decided to start spending some
21:50
Speaker 3: money and they said, we're going to go after you know.
21:52
Speaker 3: Then when they moved to Division one like they and
21:55
Speaker 3: they put in like state of the art facilities. They
21:57
Speaker 3: still don't have football because they don't have one hundred
21:59
Speaker 3: million line around right now to build a stadium.
22:01
Speaker 2: Crazy on that, but they're looking into it. Yeah, and
22:04
Speaker 2: they'll have one.
22:04
Speaker 5: And Drew they walked so GC you can run?
22:09
Speaker 2: Is that fair?
22:10
Speaker 5: Like Grand Canyon Universe looked at the model and they're like, hey,
22:13
Speaker 5: we like that. We want to be the sports small
22:15
Speaker 5: school that everybody goes to. And they're doing it out
22:18
Speaker 5: West and it's gonna be a lot of fun to
22:20
Speaker 5: be able to witness. I'm just excited for everybody's upset bracket,
22:24
Speaker 5: for everybody's chalk bracket. I'm kick to the balls for
22:29
Speaker 5: people that do eighty four different brackets.
22:31
Speaker 3: We'll move.
22:33
Speaker 5: This is today where you start seeing everybody rip through
22:36
Speaker 5: forty eight different versions.
22:38
Speaker 2: My wife one of those people.
22:39
Speaker 5: She said, could you print me off some brackets because
22:41
Speaker 5: I want to do like eight or ten. Why so
22:44
Speaker 5: then you can at the end of the day say, well,
22:46
Speaker 5: I had that one right up, on that one right too.
22:48
Speaker 5: I'm sixteen for sixteen across my twelve brackets here today.
22:51
Speaker 3: It's pretty wild. When we come back, our buddy Scott
22:54
Speaker 3: Dolphin's going to join the party. It's our halftime report
22:57
Speaker 3: show's flying by on a blizzardy Monday in the good Land.
23:00
Speaker 3: Glad that you're hanging out in the huddle. Fox Sports
23:02
Speaker 3: Radio Wisconsin. Of the Huddle continues Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, Drew,
23:27
Speaker 3: Billy and Arman bring it to you. I'm Drew. I'm
23:29
Speaker 3: from the home office. The boys are at work today.
23:31
Speaker 3: Not so much that I was afraid of the snow,
23:32
Speaker 3: as I wanted to stay up late and watch the
23:35
Speaker 3: World Baseball Classic. Mission accomplished. I'm with you guys in spirit,
23:39
Speaker 3: and Scott Dolphin, our halftime correspondent, has joined us from
23:42
Speaker 3: the country station down the hall. Now, Dolph, I have
23:45
Speaker 3: to ask, because you and your buddies go out and
23:46
Speaker 3: do things. You're an active group of pals. You're you're
23:49
Speaker 3: the koozy gang at Shank Hall. Uh, what's the what's
23:53
Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament tradition for you and your band of
23:56
Speaker 3: merry men?
23:57
Speaker 2: The first two days we always get together.
24:00
Speaker 6: You know, there's actually a group I want to say,
24:02
Speaker 6: it's probably pushing thirty people now that gets together and
24:06
Speaker 6: we kind of take over a bar and we hang
24:09
Speaker 6: out and you know, a lot of food, a couple
24:11
Speaker 6: of beers. I usually go home after the first session
24:14
Speaker 6: on Thursday because I was working on Friday. But then
24:16
Speaker 6: I'll stay later on Friday night, and then some of
24:18
Speaker 6: the guys still get together on Saturday Sunday.
24:20
Speaker 2: I can't do.
24:21
Speaker 5: I was gonna say Saturday and Sunday a little harder core.
24:23
Speaker 5: And also the game times are bad on Sunday, Saturday
24:26
Speaker 5: and Sunday. They need to have more games during the
24:28
Speaker 5: day to allow for the darty, because that's why we're
24:31
Speaker 5: all here for the NCAA tournament.
24:33
Speaker 4: They used to, I feel like, and it's just totally
24:35
Speaker 4: changed now with the way they want to put him
24:36
Speaker 4: in the game for TV and stretch out the calendar
24:38
Speaker 4: and stretch it everything out.
24:39
Speaker 6: And you have those West coast markets. You know, you
24:41
Speaker 6: got Badgers are in Portland and then you got San Diego.
24:44
Speaker 6: So what Badger's tippet is it ten fifty on Thursday morning?
24:49
Speaker 2: Yet breakfast Ball?
24:51
Speaker 6: Yeah, breakfast Ball out out in the Pacific Northwest, so
24:54
Speaker 6: that probably has something to do with it. But yeah,
24:57
Speaker 6: Thursday and Friday is enough for me. I get my
24:58
Speaker 6: fill of food.
25:00
Speaker 5: So same bar that we've been taking over for a while.
25:02
Speaker 5: Orm Okay, I didn't know if you guys just like decided, Hey,
25:05
Speaker 5: we're gonna take this spot over this year, and sorry everybody,
25:09
Speaker 5: we're clearing this one out.
25:10
Speaker 2: We name you've done so much.
25:11
Speaker 4: Your names are on there already reserved for Scott Dolphin.
25:14
Speaker 6: No, no, no, my name doesn't come up. To be
25:17
Speaker 6: honest with you, No, we just kind of it's just
25:19
Speaker 6: a group effort and one guy usually gets the bunch
25:22
Speaker 6: of tables reserved and we show up.
25:24
Speaker 2: There's a lot of wings and fish fries on Friday,
25:26
Speaker 2: and you're doing life right, man.
25:27
Speaker 4: Like, I don't want to make this sign a call
25:29
Speaker 4: you old, but I hope, I hope my connections stay
25:31
Speaker 4: as strong through the years as your I mean, that's
25:34
Speaker 4: what it's about, is being together in person, connecting with
25:37
Speaker 4: each other.
25:37
Speaker 2: So I hope in my.
25:38
Speaker 4: Yesterday well that's the wrong way to say it, but
25:41
Speaker 4: oh my, because you're not an old guy. But you know,
25:45
Speaker 4: get my point. Has been a long time, yeah, right, Billy,
25:48
Speaker 4: and hopefully through the years and whatever.
25:51
Speaker 2: I trying to think.
25:52
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm trying to make a point that it's pretty
25:56
Speaker 5: Scott Dolphin Memorial Thursday, and.
25:58
Speaker 2: I know I'm we don't have this anymore. It's dwindling
26:02
Speaker 2: more and more. Society.
26:03
Speaker 4: It feels like Morzo's good. It's hard to get together.
26:05
Speaker 4: You guys making a point you're together in person. It's
26:08
Speaker 4: a connection for life, man.
26:09
Speaker 6: True man, you know, especially for a long time, you know,
26:13
Speaker 6: ever since you know, a lot of us had kids,
26:14
Speaker 6: and kids got older and the kids left old or yes,
26:17
Speaker 6: and now we got plenty of We've got plenty of
26:19
Speaker 6: pre time, free time on us. Yeah, what is it
26:21
Speaker 6: like in Landslide? Children get older and I'm getting older too.
26:25
Speaker 7: I don't want to do by the way I play
26:29
Speaker 7: that Now I'm gonna do that the Badger's and high
26:31
Speaker 7: point that game twelve fifty tip our time ten to
26:33
Speaker 7: fifty in Portland airs on TBS, and you've got Brad Nessler,
26:37
Speaker 7: Wally Zerbiak, and Jared Greenberg on the call.
26:40
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I already saw it was a Clark kellogg
26:42
Speaker 6: is calling high points going to win this one. I
26:45
Speaker 6: haven't seen one minute of high point basketball. But they
26:47
Speaker 6: have thirty wins and fourteen wins in a row, so
26:49
Speaker 6: I guess you can't take a life.
26:51
Speaker 3: Yeah a game. Last year they lost by Purdue in
26:53
Speaker 3: the first round by like eight.
26:54
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, yeah, they are a close one.
26:56
Speaker 5: Listen, this is not I appreciate the folks that will
26:59
Speaker 5: dive deep into the ball swing movement that high point delivers,
27:03
Speaker 5: and they're offensive sets that they're gonna rip through. I'm
27:07
Speaker 5: just gonna go as point blank and obymous as possible
27:09
Speaker 5: Wisconsin losing this game. Like when you start looking at
27:12
Speaker 5: a backcourt that is as ferocious right now as Boyd
27:15
Speaker 5: and Blackwell, I'll take them against just about anybody and
27:19
Speaker 5: it doesn't matter who they're gonna line up again.
27:21
Speaker 3: And Nolan Winter. Now here's the thing though with the Badgers,
27:24
Speaker 3: and we've said this all year. If they're not hitting
27:26
Speaker 3: the threes, it can get ugly quick, and they can
27:29
Speaker 3: lose to anybody. If they shoot fifteen percent from three,
27:33
Speaker 3: it could be ugly. But I think in the in
27:36
Speaker 3: the grand scheme, if they play this game one hundred times,
27:38
Speaker 3: Wisconsin wins, what ninety five?
27:39
Speaker 2: I would say around that margin.
27:42
Speaker 6: So you guys don't look at the infamous twelve to
27:44
Speaker 6: five matchup and shutter not anymore.
27:47
Speaker 3: No, it used to be, and it's it's it's more
27:50
Speaker 3: of a isn't it more of a legend now than nothing?
27:52
Speaker 3: I mean, the five usually wins.
27:54
Speaker 4: Usually the five has always won, but it was the
27:56
Speaker 4: most likely upset I think is the way people looked
27:59
Speaker 4: at it. And there were years where really held strong
28:00
Speaker 4: percentage wise, it's there. I just don't know if in
28:02
Speaker 4: recent history when the new Portal era kills are going
28:05
Speaker 4: to hold.
28:05
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, when you don't have Freak, when you don't.
28:07
Speaker 5: Have top two picks playing at that twelve seed, right,
28:11
Speaker 5: like when you don't have job in the Racers running through.
28:14
Speaker 4: When you don't draw John Moran. Yeah, but some about.
28:16
Speaker 5: Our games Madison, right, and and they blitzed the Badgers
28:20
Speaker 5: a couple of years ago, so it absolutely can happen.
28:23
Speaker 2: But it does feel like the transfer portal.
28:26
Speaker 5: Let's be honest, it's the payment, right and the John
28:28
Speaker 5: Gallipari is talking about it with Porter Moser yesterday. He's like, uh,
28:32
Speaker 5: you know, coaches can win games, universities and administrations win championships.
28:36
Speaker 5: And I think you're seeing a lot of administrations say
28:38
Speaker 5: we ain't losing too a big South team, so let's
28:41
Speaker 5: figure out how much cash we need to throw.
28:42
Speaker 6: And I think those schools are in trouble in the
28:43
Speaker 6: long term, not right away. You're still gonna see a
28:45
Speaker 6: lot of upsets this year in the tournament. But you're right,
28:48
Speaker 6: I mean, those those schools can't compete when it comes
28:50
Speaker 6: to nil.
28:51
Speaker 2: With the power comp you.
28:52
Speaker 4: Did ask, uh how many times it went out of
28:54
Speaker 4: one hundred, The ESPN matchup predictor has Wisconsin seventy six percent,
28:59
Speaker 4: So they think High Point would win more times than that.
29:01
Speaker 4: Out of who knows what that means and who knows
29:04
Speaker 4: how accurate that is?
29:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, neutral floor tournament jitters, you know, it's kind of.
29:08
Speaker 5: Yeah, well in three point variants, I mean, we're we're
29:11
Speaker 5: We're an hour and thirty four minutes into the day
29:14
Speaker 5: after the brackets were released and I'm the first one
29:17
Speaker 5: to say three point variants when Arman's been waiting to
29:20
Speaker 5: talk about it all year. Like, so one, I'm kind
29:23
Speaker 5: of surprised that you didn't play the hits. I don't
29:26
Speaker 5: like you to play the hits. Yeah, but there there's
29:28
Speaker 5: a spot where you mentioned Winter Drew, like the only
29:31
Speaker 5: basketball The thing that I know about how high point
29:34
Speaker 5: is what their their best scorer is. The tallest score
29:37
Speaker 5: is about six seven six six eight, Like, so they're
29:40
Speaker 5: a little bit smaller of a team and to be
29:41
Speaker 5: able to get your bigs rolling. Seeing Aussie shoots weight
29:45
Speaker 5: and uh it was Saturday. I don't know that you
29:48
Speaker 5: didn't think that Rap's gonna have another one like that. Yeah,
29:50
Speaker 5: but your size should be uh should be overpowering.
29:53
Speaker 6: I would think so in this one. I mean then
29:55
Speaker 6: things get more difficult in the next round. But yeah,
29:58
Speaker 6: like Drew said, I mean, they they'll go as far
30:00
Speaker 6: as they're three point shooting. I know that the dynamic
30:03
Speaker 6: guard duo is awesome, but they got to shoot the
30:06
Speaker 6: threes to.
30:07
Speaker 2: Be able to go deeper.
30:08
Speaker 6: That's what they do, and we saw it against a
30:10
Speaker 6: really good team in Michigan. They shot the lights out
30:12
Speaker 6: and it's still just wasn't quite enough against the top seed.
30:15
Speaker 6: But yeah, you shoot threes, I can see them going
30:18
Speaker 6: to the sweet sixteen minimum.
30:19
Speaker 4: This is not the Badgers. This is not your dad's
30:22
Speaker 4: Badgers for sure. I mean they like to get up
30:24
Speaker 4: and down. We have known this for a couple of
30:25
Speaker 4: years now. Shooting threes and making a high amount is
30:28
Speaker 4: what they do.
30:28
Speaker 2: Well. High Point?
30:30
Speaker 4: Does that you mentioned the ninety nine number ninety nine
30:34
Speaker 4: and everyone's saying this is going to be this year's
30:36
Speaker 4: Jack Gelki or whatever it is.
30:37
Speaker 5: The Only thing is he doesn't have the blocky head
30:39
Speaker 5: like Golkie had, which I thought was maybe part of
30:42
Speaker 5: the legend.
30:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like it looks like heads.
30:46
Speaker 5: Yes, he looked like a video game character out there playing.
30:49
Speaker 2: It looked like NBA ninety eight. Shoot from any I
30:54
Speaker 2: will say this he does. This is number ninety nine.
30:57
Speaker 2: High Point. He does have the perfect name.
30:59
Speaker 4: When you think of you know, when you think of
31:01
Speaker 4: a private Liberal arts North Carolina school, Chase Johnston is
31:04
Speaker 4: the guy. I mean he's going right at Johnston and
31:07
Speaker 4: when he's going right to that, you know, uh quarterzip
31:10
Speaker 4: or vest at the financial services almost he's there.
31:15
Speaker 3: You go.
31:15
Speaker 4: You can make that joke there, you guys going right
31:17
Speaker 4: to thrive in financial or one of these great places
31:19
Speaker 4: is gonna have a great career in finance or something
31:21
Speaker 4: like that.
31:22
Speaker 2: Chase Justin.
31:23
Speaker 6: I also noticed they're just high Point now. Weren't they
31:25
Speaker 6: forever unc high Point?
31:27
Speaker 2: Are they? I don't I don't think so.
31:29
Speaker 3: High Point University when they started to upgrade their athletics
31:32
Speaker 3: like fifteen years ago, they put a lot of money
31:35
Speaker 3: in to become this destination sports magnet school. And it's
31:38
Speaker 3: like they don't have football but the softball and they
31:41
Speaker 3: have like state of the art kind of facilities, like
31:45
Speaker 3: even though they're kind of smaller, like they're on campus
31:47
Speaker 3: arenas like forty five hundred seats.
31:49
Speaker 2: I think that.
31:50
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's like they put in the cash they
31:53
Speaker 3: they wanted to be known for sports.
31:55
Speaker 6: I would love to see that for u WM, you know.
31:58
Speaker 6: I mean, Klochee Center is great, but maybe up great
32:00
Speaker 6: enough to make it a destination for students to show
32:04
Speaker 6: up regularly instead.
32:05
Speaker 2: Of having to go downtown arena and arena. You know,
32:10
Speaker 2: it would it would make such a big difference when
32:12
Speaker 2: it comes.
32:12
Speaker 4: I think when they had their run twenty years ago,
32:14
Speaker 4: when Bruce was here and they've been the run. That
32:16
Speaker 4: would have been the time to start shaking the money
32:17
Speaker 4: trees down.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I guess so.
32:19
Speaker 3: By the way, speaking of Bruce Pearl, what are our
32:22
Speaker 3: thoughts there? We're predisposed to like him, A lot of
32:24
Speaker 3: the country doesn't like him. He obviously he was stumping
32:28
Speaker 3: for his son, and he stepped in it with the
32:31
Speaker 3: Miami of Ohio thing. Then he had to backtrack, and
32:32
Speaker 3: then he was happy Miami made it, but his son
32:34
Speaker 3: got left out, and he was mad about Auburn not
32:36
Speaker 3: making it.
32:37
Speaker 2: And then he SMU shouldn't have been it, right.
32:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, So where are we? Because I would have probably
32:42
Speaker 3: given him a kick to the huevos on this game
32:44
Speaker 3: Balls and kicks to the balls Monday. But it's hard
32:46
Speaker 3: to kick a guy in the balls for wanting, you know,
32:48
Speaker 3: his son to succeed. I'll send you a text back
32:52
Speaker 3: his former school to move on. So where are you,
32:54
Speaker 3: guys with him? With you?
32:56
Speaker 2: An? I would have given him a kick to the
32:58
Speaker 2: balls too.
32:59
Speaker 6: Yeah, come on, everybody knows why you're campaigning, you know,
33:03
Speaker 6: And I get it. And Auburn had what they had
33:05
Speaker 6: three or four big time.
33:07
Speaker 5: A lot of games that they could have won, right Like,
33:09
Speaker 5: they had a lot of games as well in that SEC.
33:12
Speaker 6: Getting They beat Florida, they beat Purdue, I think. So
33:15
Speaker 6: they beat some really good teams.
33:17
Speaker 3: They beat like four teams that are pretty pretty good.
33:19
Speaker 2: But you also had what fifteen or sixteen losses?
33:22
Speaker 3: Yes, they were seventeen and sixteen, I think. Yeah.
33:24
Speaker 6: So no, no, they don't. They don't belong in. And
33:28
Speaker 6: I said Friday, I didn't think Miami belonged in. God
33:30
Speaker 6: bless him. They got in.
33:31
Speaker 2: Were they the second last team to get in something
33:33
Speaker 2: like that?
33:34
Speaker 5: Yeah, And frankly I would have I give Bruce the
33:37
Speaker 5: kick to the wavos more for being wishy washy with
33:42
Speaker 5: it right, like a week and a half ago, he
33:44
Speaker 5: started backtracking it. No, that's when you double down that, right,
33:48
Speaker 5: you started losing and now you get in eight three.
33:52
Speaker 2: No, I gotta double this all right?
33:54
Speaker 1: Yeah?
33:54
Speaker 5: Sure, my boys just lost to I don't know, Mississippi.
33:58
Speaker 5: Now listen, AJ store and they took themselves run and
34:02
Speaker 5: trying to make the turn.
34:03
Speaker 6: I thought they were gonna be He was unstoppable in
34:05
Speaker 6: that game. It was just give the ball to AJ
34:07
Speaker 6: and get the hell out of the way. It was awesome.
34:09
Speaker 6: So I like other teams also dropped that game. But
34:12
Speaker 6: more than anything, just double down on it, don't backtrack. Yeah,
34:15
Speaker 6: I want my kid in the tournament.
34:17
Speaker 5: Yeah, I still get two hundred thousand for if they
34:19
Speaker 5: make the NZ double A tournament.
34:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, they should be in. Don't be wishy.
34:22
Speaker 4: Was totally agree, Totally agree. That's the biggest is you
34:24
Speaker 4: say with your chest and don't back down. And Bruce
34:27
Speaker 4: Pool's always said what people wanted to hear. He's a
34:29
Speaker 4: good coach, but let's be honest, he's been He's been
34:32
Speaker 4: a snake oil self marketer for all these twenty years.
34:34
Speaker 4: And now we know who the real villain was twenty
34:36
Speaker 4: years ago in Milwaukee. Now we know everyone wanted to
34:39
Speaker 4: say it was the guy across the street. Now we
34:41
Speaker 4: know what was going on.
34:41
Speaker 5: I mean, college basketball coaches are always right.
34:45
Speaker 2: So has no clothes, The emperor has no clothes. He
34:49
Speaker 2: he's had that career.
34:51
Speaker 6: If you ever see the points shaving thirty for thirty
34:53
Speaker 6: on Boston Calls, absolutely he was the BC Eagle for
34:57
Speaker 6: that time and they they they're interview when he was
34:59
Speaker 6: at Iowa while he was recording. Yeah, yeah, so I mean, yeah,
35:06
Speaker 6: Bruce has had a checker pass.
35:08
Speaker 5: But boy can he coach? So wait are we saying
35:10
Speaker 5: that Bruce Pearl a little?
35:13
Speaker 3: Uh?
35:13
Speaker 5: What am I missing the guy from Michigan, the the
35:17
Speaker 5: the young man that was filming and going and selling
35:19
Speaker 5: Connor Stallion's Connor Stallions.
35:21
Speaker 2: In basketball here. Yeah, well that's a good point.
35:24
Speaker 6: Yeah, he wasn't dressing incognito, but he was getting people.
35:28
Speaker 2: I think it was it was a Thoms Yeah, was audio.
35:33
Speaker 3: They were getting offered money by cars.
35:37
Speaker 4: Okay, right? Is that my too early?
35:40
Speaker 2: And doctor Tom Davis was it?
35:42
Speaker 3: That's right because Bruce was at Iowa then and then
35:44
Speaker 3: he ended up at Southern Indiana and then u W
35:47
Speaker 3: Milwaukee and the Tennessee and like the rest is history.
35:50
Speaker 2: That makes sense. I remember when he was Bill this happened.
35:52
Speaker 6: The U i C coach refused to shake his hands
35:55
Speaker 6: because that guy was the top assistant.
35:58
Speaker 3: Hated each other in the time.
35:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, trying as well.
36:01
Speaker 3: Give me.
36:02
Speaker 2: It wasn't a John Cheney situation. Collins, I think, yeah,
36:04
Speaker 2: give me Collins.
36:05
Speaker 3: I think, yeah. So the tournament committee did it right.
36:09
Speaker 3: This wasn't a crowded bubble this year, so there weren't
36:11
Speaker 3: that many tough dimisions on that front. But the tough
36:13
Speaker 3: thing I think is balancing out the regions. And I
36:15
Speaker 3: think they did that as well too, because you look
36:17
Speaker 3: people that, well, look at what Duke's gonna have to do. Well,
36:20
Speaker 3: Duke is Duke. They're a number one seed.
36:21
Speaker 2: I mean, they're on TV more than leave it to
36:23
Speaker 2: Beaver exactly.
36:24
Speaker 3: So where where's the indignity there?
36:27
Speaker 4: Right?
36:27
Speaker 3: I think they did a pretty good job this year
36:29
Speaker 3: balancing out the brackets and the regions.
36:32
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess, you know, listening to all the talking
36:34
Speaker 6: as last night, I guess if you had to pick
36:36
Speaker 6: one that's soft quote end quote, would be South the South,
36:39
Speaker 6: maybe as Florida's your number one seed.
36:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, used and stuff, Billy.
36:42
Speaker 4: You know, Kelvin knows his way around the tournament, and
36:44
Speaker 4: one of those years he's gonna break through.
36:46
Speaker 2: He needs to.
36:47
Speaker 5: One of these years he needs to. Guys, I do
36:48
Speaker 5: already have my first pick dialed in. I will be
36:51
Speaker 5: taking the ten seeded UCF Golden Knights against the UCLA
36:55
Speaker 5: Bruins because that game is in the Eastern time zone.
36:57
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Mat cron is gonna be bitching and moaning
36:59
Speaker 2: all league. There's no way they're winning that game.
37:02
Speaker 6: You see, is that the team with the two or
37:03
Speaker 6: is it USF that has the two kids from UWM
37:06
Speaker 6: Really good players too that were at UWM last year
37:09
Speaker 6: that played for one of those directional Florida school.
37:11
Speaker 5: I'm being completely honest, off, I have no clue. However,
37:14
Speaker 5: I do know the USF coach. Uh, They're gonna play
37:17
Speaker 5: in Buffalo, New York. His dad's got dementia, is gonna
37:19
Speaker 5: be able to watch him be a head coach for
37:21
Speaker 5: the first time in college sports?
37:23
Speaker 2: Is the goods right?
37:24
Speaker 3: That's a good story. That's a good story. Yeah. If
37:28
Speaker 3: if u c l A wins, they're gonna end up
37:30
Speaker 3: facing Yukon and that'll be a pretty good game with
37:32
Speaker 3: But uh, Billy, I got a text immediately from my boy,
37:35
Speaker 3: Johnny Vegas, big UCLA fan. He's like, they never win
37:38
Speaker 3: east of Denver, so they like he thinks they're gonna lose.
37:42
Speaker 3: So he's on your team. Load up against the Bruins.
37:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel a lot better with Johnny's on my side.
37:47
Speaker 2: I know you Ruins better than anybody on that one.
37:50
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's better betting against his team either than Johnny Vegas.
37:53
Speaker 5: That's true that that dude wins every single time he
37:57
Speaker 5: fades the Ruins.
37:58
Speaker 4: Also, SMU, that's it's a nice easy first pick right there.
38:02
Speaker 4: So if anybody wants one.
38:05
Speaker 2: Eight hundred favorite, I love that one. They're getting the
38:08
Speaker 2: bye week, they're getting Miami.
38:09
Speaker 3: So yes, yes, fantastic. Hey Dolph, thanks for popping in.
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Speaker 3: You're a gamer. You're in the studio here, I am
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Speaker 6: Drew, We'll see you tomorrow. Hey, I'm not here tomorrow.
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Speaker 6: We're doing Saint Patrick's Day. Our show is at Kelly's
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Speaker 5: So when does do we take a car bomb right
38:27
Speaker 5: away when you start? Or how does the how do
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Speaker 5: the green Beers go down?
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow?
38:31
Speaker 6: We ease in with maybe a Guinness, you know, Okay,
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Speaker 6: car bomb towards the end of the show.
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Speaker 5: But uh, the tough one here, big hero was welcome though,
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Speaker 5: to the plow drivers through our state of Wisconsin here today,
40:19
Speaker 5: I mean, they are doing a tremendous, tremendous job clearing
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Speaker 5: their roads up here and allowing us to move around.
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Speaker 3: They're getting help from I know that in my neighborhood,
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Speaker 5: Smart well and also too. I've always wondered, and I
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Speaker 5: didn't realize that it was against the law when I
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Speaker 5: was young.
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Speaker 2: I was like, I didn't know that.
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Speaker 5: I thought they were just visual anties. The guys that
40:42
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Speaker 5: plow on the front of the I thought they were
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Speaker 5: just going out here and just clearing space just because
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Speaker 5: they wanted to. I didn't realize that you were going
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Speaker 5: to get a ticket if you did it on an
40:52
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Speaker 5: this guy is about the cause. We're getting everybody out
40:57
Speaker 5: here to help us out. But plow drivers, great work
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Speaker 4: And I'll be honest, like, being out there with those
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Speaker 4: early with just us and the plow drivers, it makes
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Speaker 5: Then the aforementioned Auburn University they put out a uh,
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42:14
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Speaker 5: So they're not backing out. They're not Notre Dame in
42:20
Speaker 5: this thing where they just said, you know what, we're
42:22
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42:24
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42:27
Speaker 5: in this NIT. We're Notre Dame. We got standards. I'm
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42:33
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42:39
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Speaker 3: I think it's Vegas.
42:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was MSc for a while. The Nine movie.
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