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03/02/26 - Hour 3 · 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 say.
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Speaker 1: Right into It's time to wake up and talk about
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Speaker 1: the teams you love. Nobody nobody with the guys you love.
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Speaker 1: It's just about getting the group together.
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Speaker 2: make sure we smell each.
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Speaker 1: Other for a watch us on YouTube, Facebook and act.
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Speaker 3: You need fifteen or twenty huddles to pour away with
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Speaker 4: Take the cameras off the field and their pino.
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Speaker 1: Now gather around because it's time to huddle up. West Leftlott.
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Speaker 4: We think we watch tick on one ready.
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Speaker 4: Cutting me krap.
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Speaker 5: You'll look at this play.
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Speaker 4: What we're trying to get is a seal you here
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Speaker 1: God yeah, and they can play be right all the
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Speaker 4: and playing this ball game like I know you can
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Speaker 4: play it.
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Speaker 6: On the game Balls and Kicks the Balls Monday. It
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Speaker 6: is a beautiful Monday to deliver some game balls and
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Speaker 6: kicks to the balls.
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Speaker 4: True. And now that baseball is into.
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Speaker 6: Full full spring training swing, more and more reports coming down,
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Speaker 6: more and more visuals and interviews. We're officially into the
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Speaker 6: month of March, which is gonna start making a case.
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Speaker 6: I know it's always one of our friend Armen Sorry,
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Speaker 6: in his favorite debates the best sports months of the year.
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Speaker 6: March is like, now fully taken Opening Day. March got
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Speaker 6: themselves a win where they usually didn't have Opening Day.
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Speaker 6: That's gonna be a tough one for them to lose
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Speaker 6: out on that.
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Speaker 3: It really it cut the legs off of April, Opening
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Speaker 3: Day and the Masters and then the Final Four.
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Speaker 4: Usually this is March. This is March. We're here, guys.
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Speaker 4: I'm excited. I do love March, as you guys know.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, little comms basketball, And you're right, Billy, when you
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Speaker 5: throw Opening Day in there, all right, now we got it.
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Speaker 5: Now we got a winner. Now we got a jackpop.
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Speaker 5: You know that's a tough one to beat. Now listen
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Speaker 5: the Final Four Monday, that being Opening Day. You want
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Speaker 5: to talk about a long day, pretty good king day.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a pretty good king Day, pretty good Tuesday
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Speaker 6: to try to take off of work.
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Speaker 3: If you remember that fateful day when the Brewers got
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Speaker 3: crushed and then the Badgers lost a Duke. Oh tough,
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Speaker 3: I was like, this is gonna be the greatest day
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Speaker 3: ever double kick to the NAT.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Was that the game?
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Speaker 6: No, it wasn't the game where they played the Rockies
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Speaker 6: and lost like eleven and a half. It was it
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Speaker 6: was that same thing because it was they played Colorado.
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Speaker 5: It was an epic morning when all of a sudden,
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Speaker 5: my buddies and Iowa did plan on going to class
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Speaker 5: that morning, did plan on actually going to class that day.
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Speaker 6: And they're like, wait, it is Opening Day, and then
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Speaker 6: we know that we're going to drink tonight, so we
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Speaker 6: might as well just go to the game.
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Speaker 4: Oh damn, I guess that is a good decision.
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Speaker 5: I remember that was a tough one because we had
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Speaker 5: work to do here for Opening Day. I I can't
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Speaker 5: remember if I was at the stadium and I had
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Speaker 5: to be here that night to produce the Badger game,
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Speaker 5: you know, so I had like a one hour or
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Speaker 5: two hour open time to do nothing. So I was
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Speaker 5: like walking around Dunham's or something like that. And that's
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Speaker 5: that's what I remember about that day. I know it
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Speaker 5: sounds weird, but that's where you started your mallwalks. Maybe
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Speaker 5: I remember I want the guns is still around, But
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Speaker 5: my my memory is like, wow, this is not a
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Speaker 5: good omen for the night, and I just you know,
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Speaker 5: then you had that second half where you know that's
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Speaker 5: one you'll always remember.
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Speaker 4: Unfortunately, you know, that's just say, oh, what could have been,
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Speaker 4: what could have been? Get us your game balls and kicks.
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Speaker 3: I got a game ball for a guy that I
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Speaker 3: was unaware of until just the weekend, for a guy
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Speaker 3: named Dane Moore. Dane Moore covers the Timberwolves, and he
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Speaker 3: posted a video of Anthony Edwards and expressing his frustration
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Speaker 3: about getting double teamed constantly by the Denver Nuggets.
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Speaker 4: Anytime Ant's got a microphone in front and aunt.
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Speaker 3: Then, as part of his like lengthy answer, he said,
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Speaker 3: I'm not mad at all. At the end of the day,
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Speaker 3: my four is better than their three. We're playing four
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Speaker 3: on three.
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Speaker 5: Oh.
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Speaker 4: I like that all right, And that was the entirety
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Speaker 4: of it.
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Speaker 3: He's the frustration with the way they're putting two on him,
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Speaker 3: taking away his opportunity to score, forcing him to get
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Speaker 3: off the ball. So then there's a tweet a reply
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Speaker 3: to his tweet from the ESPN assignment desk. Hello, Dane,
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Speaker 3: please see your DMS for a message from us. Dane replied,
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Speaker 3: quote tweeting that you do not have permission to use it,
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Speaker 3: as I've told you numerous times, and DMS, you shouldn't
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Speaker 3: have laid off all those reporters if you wanted locker
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Speaker 3: room context. Now, this guy he chose not to get amplified,
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Speaker 3: and they would have run the clip on yes me,
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Speaker 3: and he would have had his name on it.
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Speaker 4: He said, Nah, I don't want that. Took a stand.
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Speaker 4: I don't know Daint Moore. I'm not familiar with his work.
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Speaker 3: I don't follow his work on the Timberwolves for a
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Speaker 3: follow now and I give him a game ball on
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Speaker 3: the huddle.
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Speaker 5: Oh that is phenomenal, Dame Wore Productions. That is a
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Speaker 5: great dunk, and that is tremendous and that might have
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Speaker 5: given him better run anyway.
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Speaker 3: He's got like fifty nine thousand followers. He's doing Okay,
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Speaker 3: you know he's doing. But yeah, man, that is Ah,
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Speaker 3: that's a bold moves.
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Speaker 6: A lot of people that'd be like the thrill of
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Speaker 6: their careers to have the credit to on a sports center,
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Speaker 6: you know well. And the thought that you're just going
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Speaker 6: to throw it in there and you should don't have
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Speaker 6: permission to use it unbelievable. I've also love that, he said,
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Speaker 6: as I've told you numerous times. So he hit him
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Speaker 6: with a saban right there in the middle of the
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Speaker 6: as and it's gonna be no, So quit asking I
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Speaker 6: ain't doing it. I there's there's too many situations where
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Speaker 6: they are just going to skate by with with free advertising,
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Speaker 6: free publicity, because you're right for a lot, especially when
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Speaker 6: you're your own company, you own your own company, you're
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Speaker 6: always generally gonna take that bump.
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Speaker 4: I love that one. That's awesome.
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Speaker 3: Game ball to timing and the schedule that permitted Janis
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Speaker 3: and Thanasis and to Janis's boys to attend the elimination chamber.
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Speaker 4: That was phenomenal. Dude.
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Speaker 6: Once once I noticed where he was, you couldn't stop
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Speaker 6: seeing him, could you imagine? Now, kick to the balls
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Speaker 6: to whoever showed up and they thought they had the
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Speaker 6: best seat in the house, second row, right behind the
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Speaker 6: announcer's desk, behind Thanasis.
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Speaker 4: Now that's a kick that comment. But he was drew.
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Speaker 5: He was having so much fun that all of a
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Speaker 5: sudden the table got like taken apart right in front
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Speaker 5: of him.
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Speaker 6: He picked up the boy, like puts him up on
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Speaker 6: the barricade. The security guy's like, hey, hey, kid, can't
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Speaker 6: be there. That's a little too close to his action,
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Speaker 6: Like he'll be fine, don't worry about He'll be fine.
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Speaker 6: He gets a little bit of splatter out it. It'll
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Speaker 6: be okay. But when they did the.
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Speaker 3: Graphic and stuff identifying him, they didn't even bother with
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Speaker 3: the Nassis like they, oh he's a he could have
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Speaker 3: at least mentioned, could.
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Speaker 4: Have showed it. Yeah, Instead, Michael Cole, the announcers just like.
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Speaker 5: Please come to the Knicks, please come to the next
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Speaker 5: I did like the thumbs down. Giannis is full in
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Speaker 5: on the boo, full in on the you boo me
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Speaker 5: I bow you back, and I love that.
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Speaker 4: At the United Center.
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Speaker 5: How about a game ball to Drew Olsen here today
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Speaker 5: because he's got the Duke Rufus shirt out.
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Speaker 4: That is a phenomenal one of them Milwaukee.
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Speaker 6: IM a legend in the in the bill, in the
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Speaker 6: city and for the state and four mixed martial arts
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Speaker 6: and one lost way way too soon. I saw that
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Speaker 6: and that fired me up on this Monday, no doubt.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. He was in the old studio with Sergio Pettis
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Speaker 4: and Jor Meershart.
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Speaker 5: One of the coolest, coolest, most kind of would you
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Speaker 5: say understated is kind of like for somebody that did
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Speaker 5: so much for a sport, a giant, so many people,
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Speaker 5: the cradle of coaching, just the humble guy that you'd
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Speaker 5: ever meet.
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Speaker 4: And we lost him far far too so doubt he's
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Speaker 4: missed every day, no question about it. Great dude.
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Speaker 3: Game Ball two and this you know a lot of
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Speaker 3: people uh bitch about it. It's uh, it's quite common.
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Speaker 3: But a game ball Saturday Night Live, they had Connor Story,
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Speaker 3: the star of heated rivalry host and then he brings
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Speaker 3: out the four Olympians straight by two men and two women,
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Speaker 3: and they handled that very well. I give him thumbs up,
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Speaker 3: and also I give thumbs up to all the opening
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Speaker 3: monologue and for all four of them for like loving
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Speaker 3: to tone down the fact of like, yeah, we all
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Speaker 3: really hate each other, that we would all just hang
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Speaker 3: on the cafeterias and chop it up and wait for
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Speaker 3: our buses to party together. Hillary Knight that's her second
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Speaker 3: time on SNL, the first Crow women's pro athlete to
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Speaker 3: be on twice, and then on the at the end
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Speaker 3: at the end of the show when they do the
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Speaker 3: hugs and stuff and the farewell.
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Speaker 4: Uh, the ladies were wearing.
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Speaker 3: Their pro jerseys to get to bring awareness to their
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Speaker 3: pro teams, not the h not the US.
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Speaker 6: Well In Maller was on McAfee and they were trying
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Speaker 6: to identify some more of it. Again, all due respect,
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Speaker 6: don't know a ton about the Professional Women's Hockey League,
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Speaker 6: but shim Ray DK his girlfriend plays for the Seattle
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Speaker 6: team as well, and some heavy hitters in that league,
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Speaker 6: like from some of the highlights that you were that
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Speaker 6: I was able to tap into on a YouTube cutoff
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Speaker 6: or cut up. You want to watch some intensity, there
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Speaker 6: are some physicality rolling through that league. So any kind
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Speaker 6: of bump, there's another one. You want to talk about,
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Speaker 6: the girl of the hockey. Maybe it's not as much
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Speaker 6: in the NHL. First time I've heard about the Professional
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Speaker 6: Women's Hockey League, it might already be getting the bump.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're definitely that angle of it as well.
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Speaker 5: Definitely all right, we got one on the YouTube comments
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Speaker 5: Boss Sobdlers says game balled Harry Kane scoring a brace
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Speaker 5: against Dortmund and needing to own That is, needing only
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Speaker 5: eleven goals and ten last ten matches to break the
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Speaker 5: Bundesliga season scoring record of forty one goals. So bost
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Speaker 5: Appler is on top of it. So what eleven goals
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Speaker 5: in the last ten matches to break the record. That's
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Speaker 5: still a lot of goals, but hey, it's.
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Speaker 6: Pretty that means that at the Potawatami Sportsbook, Harry Kane,
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Speaker 6: anytime goal scoring, it might be the propt to be
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Speaker 6: firing yourself in there for game ball. To Stacey Dale's
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Speaker 6: in the midst of all the in the midst of
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Speaker 6: all the combine coverage that you're gonna see and Rich Eisen,
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Speaker 6: Daniel Jeremiah do a phenomenal job talking about all the
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Speaker 6: x's and o's and charton to where this guy's going
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Speaker 6: and then kind of whispering it through and saying, well,
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Speaker 6: Jared Daniel, what do you think about this guy's prospects
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Speaker 6: of going from round four to round three? Stacy Dales
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Speaker 6: makes you actually enjoy the stories of the athletes that
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Speaker 6: are running at the Combine. As much as I love
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Speaker 6: the NFL, the sick twisted love affair I have with
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Speaker 6: the National Football League guys running forties and three cone
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Speaker 6: drills is a very very difficult watch. For the long,
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Speaker 6: long run that the Combine runs through. Stacey did a
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Speaker 6: phenomenal job of bringing up the human stories, especially the
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Speaker 6: young man the running back who was brought to tears
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Speaker 6: right after he beat the record or ran the fastest one,
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Speaker 6: the Arkansas running back Washington just tears in his eyes
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Speaker 6: and overcome with a ton of emotion, talking about how
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Speaker 6: long he's dreamt of this moment to be able to
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Speaker 6: run him run his way into a different level of football,
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Speaker 6: drew and into another opportunity. But without Stacy telling you
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Speaker 6: the actual story of who these guys are running in
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Speaker 6: cutoffs and shorts, it definitely doesn't do much for you,
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Speaker 6: no doubt. Ye gotta have some context. Very worthy game
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Speaker 6: ball on that one, eight seven, seven three. This might
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Speaker 6: be a game ball for five sir form. I'll let
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Speaker 6: you you in. On the music side, you'd be a
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Speaker 6: let me know. Eric Clapton announces the new United States
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Speaker 6: tour dates. He's coming to five sur form.
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Speaker 4: Let's go hand Come on now, I've seen him in
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Speaker 4: concert before. Hell of a player. What do you think
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Speaker 4: of the new location down there, Landmark Live, Union Live
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Speaker 4: Drew your music guy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't think we needed that, we needed something
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Speaker 3: in that space. I don't think we needed another music
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Speaker 3: venue because I'm very happy with the array of the
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Speaker 3: Milwaukee Theater four thousand with seats.
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Speaker 4: That's the big one.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you got the Turner Hall and the Papst
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Speaker 3: and the riverside. I think it's a little overkilled, little yeah.
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Speaker 3: I would have liked to have seen a different use
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Speaker 3: of that. I would have rather seen that space go
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Speaker 3: and become like the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame or
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Speaker 3: something like, you know, something cool, an attraction like that.
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Speaker 5: Could have been your your statue park that you've been wanting.
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Speaker 5: The MVP Park would have been park. Maybe a little
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Speaker 5: you know, little memorable statue where I got engaged to Lara,
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Speaker 5: a little statue that's on there, a little historical marker
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Speaker 5: and a little bit of you know, Bradley Center, you know,
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Speaker 5: yea thank you or whatever, because we gotta keep the
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Speaker 5: memory of the Bradley Center.
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Speaker 6: A yeah, And it would have been nice to still
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Speaker 6: be able to go and stand, knowing in around the
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Speaker 6: spot of gravel I was standing on to watch Game six.
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Speaker 4: Sure exactly right?
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Speaker 5: That was yeah.
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Speaker 1: I heard.
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Speaker 4: I heard a lot of ideas.
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Speaker 6: I heard that there was gonna be a lot of
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Speaker 6: different five star hotels that we're gonna go right there
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Speaker 6: be okay, and then a lot of when they stopped
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Speaker 6: talking about tearing down Panther Arena in the Milwaukee Theater,
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Speaker 6: please right like, just don't do that. Build something there
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Speaker 6: that we can use. And then but yeah, Landmark Credit Union.
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Speaker 5: Right, I heard its supposed to get more labination shows.
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Speaker 4: So there's no seats.
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Speaker 3: Told me there are seats upstairs at that venue. It's
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Speaker 3: kind of like the Sylvian Madison.
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Speaker 6: Okay, or kind of like the Rave right in their
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Speaker 6: big room. And then you have some spots. I haven't
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Speaker 6: been there.
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Speaker 3: Yet, but sure, I'll probably go to a show there
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Speaker 3: eventually if there's one that trips my trigger. But we
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Speaker 3: got a lot of good music venues. Wild Cat Mark
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Speaker 3: has a kick to the balls for us to Shane Lowry, Oh.
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Speaker 4: God, we didn't get a shot up.
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Speaker 3: First time in his career he ever had back to
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Speaker 3: back double bogies in a PGA tournament. He blew a
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Speaker 3: three shot lead after it was sixteen at sixteen.
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Speaker 6: At sixteen and I saw a breakdown of his odds drew.
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Speaker 6: He was like minus two thousand to win, so you
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Speaker 6: would have had to put two thousand dollars down to
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Speaker 6: win one hundred back for him to win it at
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Speaker 6: that moment. After that hole, he was plus twenty two hundreds.
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Speaker 6: There after the next hole, after seventeen, he was plus
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Speaker 6: twenty two hundred because he went from up three strokes
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Speaker 6: to down two so quickly, because uh, Nico the guy
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Speaker 6: behind him just started blitzing, firing in birdies left and right,
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Speaker 6: and uh he hit the one shot with the end
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Speaker 6: of the drink and the glove just right to the forehead.
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Speaker 6: There had been just about every single golfer felt like
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Speaker 6: they had resonated more with Shane Lowry in that moment,
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Speaker 6: maybe than ever before.
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Speaker 5: They said, Damn, maybe I shouldn't have gotten that extra
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Speaker 5: double Vikuesota, maybe I shouldn't have game been extra one
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Speaker 5: on fifteen because the aiming fluid just turned to a
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Speaker 5: different level.
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Speaker 6: That was a tough one to be able to watch
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Speaker 6: that collapse. Yet to watch that collapse, yeahhh, my goodness.
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Speaker 6: On the good side of it, how about a game
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Speaker 6: ball to Tyler Redick once again.
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna let that fly.
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Speaker 6: First driver in the history of the NASCAR Cup Series
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Speaker 6: to win the first three races of the year, completely
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Speaker 6: eliminating the Bobcats and Hornets.
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Speaker 4: For Michael Jordan's ownership record, and a.
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Speaker 5: Game ball for ESPN and for the Jordan people, and
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Speaker 5: for anyone that wanted to either repurpose Jordan highlights or
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Speaker 5: play Jordan stuff, Oh my god, or talk about Jordan.
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Speaker 5: This is a big win for all of them, a
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Speaker 5: game ball for all of them, because this is their
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Speaker 5: chance to get Jordan back in your public sphere, right,
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Speaker 5: And I.
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Speaker 4: Know you're not gonna necessarily be like you're gonna be
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Speaker 4: a little president game ball to Michael Jordan. I'm gonna
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Speaker 4: let that fly, okay, because.
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Speaker 6: He's done a phenomenal job in all the interviews as well,
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Speaker 6: Like because understandably so, brother, you're Michael Jordan's all right,
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Speaker 6: you're here.
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Speaker 4: You are going to be the main attraction.
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Speaker 6: I thought he's done a phenomenal job of trying to
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Speaker 6: like push off some of the attention, but also not
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Speaker 6: being a jag about it, right, Like, hey man, I
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Speaker 6: do need to represent this.
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Speaker 4: I kind of own the car. I own the whole team.
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Speaker 6: I want you to be celebrating Tyler because of what
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Speaker 6: he's doing. I want you to be celebrating this whole group.
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Speaker 6: I want to go and have fun with the kid
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Speaker 6: because he's hilarious and a phenomenal story as the Tyler
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Speaker 6: REDICKX youngster with his perseverance and triumph over all the
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Speaker 6: health issues, that he had to start his life, like,
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Speaker 6: we want to be celebrating this, but I do understand
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Speaker 6: you're gonna put a microphone in my face the entire time.
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Speaker 6: He's handled all those interviews with really, really a lot
16:22
Speaker 6: of class.
16:22
Speaker 5: Yeah, and to that man at kicking the balls to NBC,
16:26
Speaker 5: because Fox has gotten more interviews than they.
16:28
Speaker 4: Have with Michael Jordan.
16:31
Speaker 5: They were supposed to have this big Michael Jordan feature
16:33
Speaker 5: and that's a big kick to the balls. That was
16:35
Speaker 5: a big load up. That's a big pile of nothing.
16:37
Speaker 5: And Fox has gotten more sound with him than NBC has.
16:40
Speaker 5: A NBC I want to say, you know, I guess
16:43
Speaker 5: I'll do this too. They're doing the retro broadcast NBA
16:46
Speaker 5: and NBC bringing back you know, Costas and Ortello, which
16:50
Speaker 5: is kind of cool, I think a moder shot. But
16:53
Speaker 5: Peter Vessy was angry he wasn't part of it. Kick
16:56
Speaker 5: to the balls of Peter VESSI sorry, Peter. You know
16:58
Speaker 5: you weren't that big of a part of it, and
17:00
Speaker 5: when you were, no one liked you anyway. And guess what,
17:02
Speaker 5: maybe this is Maybe the fact that you're complaining about
17:05
Speaker 5: something else is the actual throwback experience to NBN NBC.
17:09
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I don't remember anyone liking Peter Bessie and
17:12
Speaker 5: he was complaining on Twitter bots get.
17:14
Speaker 3: I remember there was a at some event it was
17:17
Speaker 3: there was a pickup hoops game, you know how they
17:18
Speaker 3: played hoops at the Combine. They used to every year
17:20
Speaker 3: and like gms would play and whiters and stuff, and
17:24
Speaker 3: we used to have our our hoops games at spring
17:27
Speaker 3: training back in the day. Tim kirkchin hell of a
17:29
Speaker 3: point guard by the way, Ken Maccha played. He was
17:31
Speaker 3: Ken Macha was manager of the A. Sandy Alderson played.
17:37
Speaker 4: Ball man. He's about five five five five, but he's
17:39
Speaker 4: all of a hooper man. He was a little he
17:41
Speaker 4: was a little muggsy boguesish. Yeah, damn.
17:44
Speaker 3: Timmy had some game we used to play and we
17:46
Speaker 3: go sweat it out. Yeah, yeah, I'm super excited after that.
17:49
Speaker 3: But there was a media game somewhere, and I remember
17:52
Speaker 3: there was this guy named Jerie Longman who was a
17:54
Speaker 3: writer I think in Philly, and uh, Vessie and him
17:57
Speaker 3: got in a fight. I think Vessie punched him. Everybody
18:00
Speaker 3: was hoping that they both lose because I don't think
18:02
Speaker 3: anybody liked either one like, I hope they both lose
18:05
Speaker 3: knock each other out.
18:06
Speaker 6: Yeah, pavement, So Vessie was like the sideline guy here
18:10
Speaker 6: or what was a studio.
18:12
Speaker 3: He's a long time NBA guy out of New York,
18:15
Speaker 3: wrote for the Post, I think, and he was just
18:18
Speaker 3: a long time and then he was in one of
18:21
Speaker 3: the og Insidersky transitioned from print to Okay TV.
18:25
Speaker 5: And he would usually a little I don't know, his
18:28
Speaker 5: stuff was a little more dramatic sometimes or you'd get
18:31
Speaker 5: the inside stuff and then he'd be like the angry
18:33
Speaker 5: malcoon tent and old people call him a basketball florio.
18:37
Speaker 5: That's what you're sounding like somewhat.
18:39
Speaker 3: But yeah, he also, yeah, he had a thing and
18:42
Speaker 3: he now he's become you know, the old guys were
18:45
Speaker 3: better and Bob Coosey was better and playing today and
18:49
Speaker 3: blah blah blah.
18:50
Speaker 6: I do love that because again, hand raised in air,
18:52
Speaker 6: I probably should have never heard of him before, so
18:55
Speaker 6: like for him to be complaining.
18:56
Speaker 4: That he wasn't a part of it was an original.
18:58
Speaker 3: Yeah on the panel back in those back in Armine's
19:02
Speaker 3: heyday of the NBA on NBC with Costas opens it
19:05
Speaker 3: and you know cost was doing play by play too.
19:07
Speaker 4: Costa said the studio.
19:09
Speaker 6: Show take his well and you know a Madra shot
19:13
Speaker 6: is one of the great crossover broadcasters that any athlete has. Ever,
19:18
Speaker 6: that's a great point for somebody that again just knew
19:21
Speaker 6: him from the NBA when I found out that he
19:23
Speaker 6: was a football player, Bobby Moore and kind of like.
19:26
Speaker 4: One of the best football players around at the time
19:28
Speaker 4: that he was Bobby Moore. Yeah, and I'm like, whoa, Okay,
19:32
Speaker 4: I he got it engaged.
19:34
Speaker 3: To in one of Armor's favorite shows, The Cosby Show
19:36
Speaker 3: before it goes Yes, smirch, but Felicia aers for shod
19:40
Speaker 3: you know he got engaged her live on the thing
19:42
Speaker 3: then he or then he like, I don't know, or
19:45
Speaker 3: they announced the engagement.
19:46
Speaker 4: They might have announced. I remember they were there.
19:49
Speaker 5: I remember bloopers though where well now it looks bad
19:53
Speaker 5: Bill Cosby, but always in Bloopers when they're doing a scene,
19:56
Speaker 5: would like drop a line about a mod or something
19:58
Speaker 5: to play crack up.
20:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, but anyway.
20:01
Speaker 5: Peter Vessie's also in twenty twenty called ESPN stupid for
20:04
Speaker 5: leaving him out of the Last Dance. ESPN Films and
20:07
Speaker 5: Netflix ten episode docu series were we waiting to hear
20:10
Speaker 5: that much from you, Peter, I don't really think so. Quote.
20:12
Speaker 4: ESPN never called me about the last dance either.
20:14
Speaker 5: Bessie told the Boston Globe, it's absolutely amazing to me
20:16
Speaker 5: that they could be that stupid. I had so many
20:18
Speaker 5: inside stories that are printed that they're not even gonna
20:20
Speaker 5: address it.
20:20
Speaker 4: It's amazing. So he really thinks highly of me, definitely
20:23
Speaker 4: thinks himself president of his own. He was a combat
20:26
Speaker 4: that's awesome.
20:27
Speaker 5: He was like the combative type reporter that wasn't able
20:29
Speaker 5: to get I think he had a moment with Carmelon.
20:31
Speaker 4: I'll try and look it up.
20:32
Speaker 3: Just a lot of those guys, and everybody talks about
20:34
Speaker 3: the New York media and some of those guys, you
20:36
Speaker 3: know how you can tactically ask a question and get
20:39
Speaker 3: a worthwhile answer the way our buddy Jason Wildy does
20:42
Speaker 3: very well in ninety seconds.
20:45
Speaker 4: But you can do that.
20:45
Speaker 3: But then there are some guys, and I've been at
20:47
Speaker 3: press conferences with guys it's almost like I'm asking this
20:50
Speaker 3: because I want this guy to take a swing at
20:51
Speaker 3: me so I can retire.
20:52
Speaker 4: Jim Gray type stuff in a way.
20:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, not even what Jim Gray was, But there's even
20:56
Speaker 3: guys that more in your face and overt than that.
20:59
Speaker 6: I would thought Jim Gray wanted just to ask you
21:01
Speaker 6: the question, just to tell everybody how good of friends.
21:03
Speaker 3: We were, Like, I'm gonna ask you, Amra Shod. I mean,
21:11
Speaker 3: you know he knew what Michael Jordan had for breakfast,
21:15
Speaker 3: Well that was that was his meal ticket.
21:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, And when I first saw him, I was like,
21:19
Speaker 6: wait a second, why does everybody why does everybody love
21:22
Speaker 6: him so much? Then again, former athlete, I guess it,
21:24
Speaker 6: like it made some sense. That's if he doesn't do
21:27
Speaker 6: what he did. I don't know that Nate Berlisson is
21:29
Speaker 6: able to go and uh like he's getting the studio
21:32
Speaker 6: gig now with NBC for uh CBS for the NCAA tournament.
21:36
Speaker 4: Like you start seeing some cross blend. That's a hell
21:39
Speaker 4: of a crossover. Saw Dungee is no longer going to
21:41
Speaker 4: be on the Sunday Night Football Show.
21:43
Speaker 6: Apparently they're trying to make a make a run at
21:45
Speaker 6: Mike Tomlin, Cam Hayward or Aaron Rodgers.
21:49
Speaker 4: The guys on site, not in studio. They're changing the
21:52
Speaker 4: dynamics of the show. Everybody's trying to be like game
21:54
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21:56
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22:25
Speaker 3: Next we'll talk about the trip to the West Coast
22:27
Speaker 3: and what lies. I had two regular season games left
22:31
Speaker 3: for the Badgers. Let's get it on a Monday. It's
22:33
Speaker 3: the Huddle. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Rolling along the Monday
22:46
Speaker 3: edition of the Huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin nine to twenty,
22:48
Speaker 3: Milwaukee ten seventy Madison. Matt Lapey, Voice of the Badger
22:51
Speaker 3: is going to join us momentarily. But game balls and
22:54
Speaker 3: kicks of the balls, we can't let this one slide again.
22:57
Speaker 4: It was our fault.
22:58
Speaker 3: Kick to the balls to us for not mentioning this
22:59
Speaker 3: on Friday, but game ball to the Atlanta Hawks. Oh god, yes,
23:04
Speaker 3: I haven't written Right City Night celebrating the first ever,
23:08
Speaker 3: I think collaboration between a major pro sports team and
23:12
Speaker 3: a strip club.
23:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're pretty safe on saying that's the
23:15
Speaker 4: first one true. I think that.
23:16
Speaker 6: I think that's pretty safely in Atlanta, and and only
23:18
Speaker 6: against the Orlando Magic I guess right.
23:20
Speaker 4: Like it just it definitely fits.
23:22
Speaker 3: Makes me think of Lou Williams and Lemon Pepper barbecue
23:25
Speaker 3: and all that stuff.
23:26
Speaker 6: And also Fernando Mendoza posted a picture of the Music
23:30
Speaker 6: City wing box the night before they played in the
23:33
Speaker 6: semi final, and people were like, Holy Kyle, this guy's
23:35
Speaker 6: so ready to be a Raider. Yeah, it's never been
23:38
Speaker 6: more ready to be a Las Vegas Raider. If he's
23:40
Speaker 6: eating at Magic City night before a semi final game.
23:42
Speaker 3: That's Hawks tickets not exactly in demand, far from but
23:47
Speaker 3: they've seen a spike on the secondary market for this
23:50
Speaker 3: game as there.
23:52
Speaker 4: It's just it's just wild. I heard Zion Williamson wanted
23:55
Speaker 4: to be there. I think everyone it's it's funny he's
23:58
Speaker 4: flying in and off night to go there. It's funny
24:00
Speaker 4: player's favorite promotion see it.
24:03
Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, I mean, I do think we're a
24:05
Speaker 6: little bit further away from that happening at the big
24:06
Speaker 6: ten level. Now, that would if the if all of
24:08
Speaker 6: a sudden we really start going in those collabse and
24:11
Speaker 6: then we've completely.
24:12
Speaker 4: Sold off to the cash.
24:13
Speaker 3: In the press release, the Hawks referred to Magic City
24:16
Speaker 3: as an iconic cultural institution.
24:20
Speaker 4: That's some good wordplay right there. I would say that's
24:22
Speaker 4: a lot of culture going on.
24:24
Speaker 3: Game ball to the Hawks, good work for Magic City
24:27
Speaker 3: night and kick to the balls to us for not
24:29
Speaker 3: noticing it and remembering to do it.
24:31
Speaker 4: We knew it, but we didn't talk about it. Hey,
24:35
Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen, join us now.
24:36
Speaker 3: The Voice of the Badgers back from the West Coast
24:38
Speaker 3: trip from the Pacific Northwest.
24:40
Speaker 4: Tarpal Matt Leapey, Matt, Well to the program. How you
24:43
Speaker 4: doing doing well, guys?
24:45
Speaker 2: A couple of days late, I didn't want to wake
24:47
Speaker 2: up the next door neighbor and whatever hotel we were
24:50
Speaker 2: at in Seattle, so you just want here we are?
24:52
Speaker 4: You didn't want to pull, not worries. You don't want
24:55
Speaker 4: to pull Bill Schmid.
24:56
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, at the condo, and you didn't want to
24:58
Speaker 5: pull amid over at the cond into complex.
25:00
Speaker 4: Good work, Matt, Proud of you. Good work.
25:02
Speaker 3: Task all right, So Matt Badgers, this was the Dickens trip,
25:06
Speaker 3: you know, best of times, worst of times. Awful game
25:09
Speaker 3: at Oregon, A pretty nice game. I think Braden Carrington
25:12
Speaker 3: just hit another three while we were talking.
25:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, three threes in the last three minutes to get
25:19
Speaker 2: his record. So yeah, it was let's just say he
25:22
Speaker 2: wasn't shy, a lot of heat checks down down the stretch.
25:26
Speaker 2: But you know, like, good for him. He's having his
25:29
Speaker 2: best year as a college player. You know, they brought
25:32
Speaker 2: him in in part because they thought he could help
25:35
Speaker 2: on the defensive end of the floor. They didn't know
25:38
Speaker 2: that he had this kind of shooting ability. He had
25:40
Speaker 2: seven threes in the game at Minnesota, which was a
25:42
Speaker 2: really big game for him, having been a Gopher for
25:45
Speaker 2: two years before he went to Tulsa. So yeah, they
25:48
Speaker 2: you know, it wasn't the prettiest game on Saturday, but
25:51
Speaker 2: they did what they had to do and they didn't
25:53
Speaker 2: let one loss become two they played very poorly in Oregon. It's,
25:57
Speaker 2: you know, by the analytics, the worst loss of the year,
26:01
Speaker 2: even though that's still a Quad two game, but it
26:03
Speaker 2: was still the worst loss of the season for Wisconsin.
26:06
Speaker 2: And to come back and play considerably better on Debtla
26:10
Speaker 2: Shrimp Day.
26:11
Speaker 4: I was gonna say it was pretty cool.
26:13
Speaker 5: That was they didn't let the palpable energy of Debtla
26:15
Speaker 5: Shrimp night, uh because what he got, you know, they
26:19
Speaker 5: they retired as Jersey and everything like that, So that
26:21
Speaker 5: was pretty cool. But uh, yeah, he did his best
26:24
Speaker 5: Debtla Shrimp impersonation because Detloft could stroke it from beyond
26:27
Speaker 5: long distance.
26:28
Speaker 4: Yeah he did.
26:29
Speaker 2: And sitting right across from us, right across from Butcher
26:33
Speaker 2: and I at the courtside seats at the opposite end
26:35
Speaker 2: where Gary Payton.
26:36
Speaker 4: And Sean Kemp. Oh cool.
26:37
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if anybody was impersonating the glove
26:41
Speaker 2: out there defensively, but it was there like the old
26:46
Speaker 2: Sonics were gathered together.
26:48
Speaker 4: So that's pretty cool.
26:50
Speaker 5: Somewhere George Carl was there trying to make a bad
26:52
Speaker 5: trade and tell somebody a story and not be interested.
26:58
Speaker 5: I idally have some fond memories, but it seems like
27:02
Speaker 5: nobody like George Garl anymore. George, Well, I'm just okay,
27:07
Speaker 5: can we make a different joke? Okay, somewhere he was there.
27:09
Speaker 5: We're not proud, but that didn't match. Yeah, your first
27:14
Speaker 5: round was proud of you.
27:15
Speaker 3: So, Matt, we were talking about this last week. Is
27:17
Speaker 3: twenty wins still the magic number in college basketball? Does
27:20
Speaker 3: it still have meeting? Badgers have done it a lot,
27:22
Speaker 3: Greg guards done at eight times. Is it still recognized
27:25
Speaker 3: as a number? Is it something that's just kind of
27:27
Speaker 3: washed down the river these guys.
27:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting you ask. I think with a lot
27:31
Speaker 2: of people it's probably more the latter. But because when
27:33
Speaker 2: we had Greg go on after the game, I said, look, man,
27:35
Speaker 2: I don't know if twenty wins gets the run that
27:36
Speaker 2: it used to because you're guaranteed thirty two games next year,
27:40
Speaker 2: movie thirty three, your thirty one regular season at least
27:43
Speaker 2: one conference tournament game. But the fact that they've done
27:46
Speaker 2: it five years in a row, I mean their gap
27:49
Speaker 2: year was the n what three years ago now? They
27:54
Speaker 2: ended up they went on a run, and you got
27:56
Speaker 2: to the to the semis of that. That means you've
27:59
Speaker 2: avoid that really tough year, right, and you could still
28:03
Speaker 2: be decent depending on your schedule and circumstances, and not
28:07
Speaker 2: get the twenties. So I still think it's a thing, Drew.
28:10
Speaker 2: But clearly in the world the people who cover college basketball,
28:16
Speaker 2: it doesn't get the run that it once did because
28:18
Speaker 2: you do play a few more games now. But I
28:20
Speaker 2: still think I still think it's something to be It's
28:24
Speaker 2: not a standing ovation. You've got to give it at
28:25
Speaker 2: least a polite round of a play. Just sign a consistency.
28:28
Speaker 3: The expanded league and everything, it would seem like one
28:31
Speaker 3: of the first marks, right, Yeah, I mean I still
28:35
Speaker 3: think it carries some weight. I mean it might not
28:36
Speaker 3: in term of real armins ken palm might be more
28:39
Speaker 3: important nowadays than.
28:42
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say it's still a benchmark. It doesn't
28:44
Speaker 5: tell the whole story, but it's part of the story.
28:46
Speaker 5: And and you know, I think the measure of a
28:48
Speaker 5: program is the consistency of a program. You know, the
28:51
Speaker 5: floors and the ceilings, you know. So when you mentioned that,
28:54
Speaker 5: when that, when that's the low the gap year, that
28:56
Speaker 5: means you have a pretty good program going.
28:57
Speaker 4: So twenty losses is not a good let me tell you.
29:00
Speaker 4: So wins a lot said it very nicely. I wasn't
29:04
Speaker 4: going to be as nice. He said. They've avoided the
29:06
Speaker 4: marquette twenty twenty six.
29:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, apparently, so it's now, as you mentioned, not all
29:13
Speaker 5: twenty all wins are created equal in Division one.
29:15
Speaker 4: Miami Mahia is fighting that battle right now.
29:17
Speaker 5: But definitely a measure of consistency when you do it
29:20
Speaker 5: in the league that the Badgers have done.
29:21
Speaker 2: In Yeah, I think so. And you've got teams you
29:25
Speaker 2: got to you know, two or three teams. I think
29:27
Speaker 2: you can make a legitimate argument that could maybe win
29:29
Speaker 2: the national championship.
29:30
Speaker 4: And when you have.
29:31
Speaker 2: Eighteen teams, you know you're going to have some bad
29:34
Speaker 2: teams two or bad years. But one thing that's been interesting,
29:37
Speaker 2: and it's not the first year that we've seen this,
29:40
Speaker 2: but we're seeing it. I mean, obviously we saw Oregon
29:42
Speaker 2: play pretty well against Wisconsin, which did not play well
29:45
Speaker 2: last Wednesday. You know, Penn State beats Iowa's that's a
29:50
Speaker 2: big time game. Minnesota. They're basically playing six guys and
29:53
Speaker 2: you know, they get a big win over the weekend.
29:55
Speaker 2: So even the schools at the bottom are near the
29:58
Speaker 2: bottom of the of the conference standing are still having
30:01
Speaker 2: their moments. So so yeah, I do think I agree
30:05
Speaker 2: with you, Drew. I think twenty wins does it needs
30:07
Speaker 2: to be recognized for what they've been able to do.
30:10
Speaker 2: If your worst year in a stretch of time is
30:13
Speaker 2: eighteen or nineteen wins in the moment, that gets fans all,
30:17
Speaker 2: you know, upset to you know, media will say or
30:21
Speaker 2: write things, but I do think it says something about
30:24
Speaker 2: the consistency of this program. It's kind of like it's
30:26
Speaker 2: like the Brewers, You're always you have a shot, have
30:30
Speaker 2: a shot, and now you know. The final judgment is
30:33
Speaker 2: season play, no matter what sport we're talking about, but
30:36
Speaker 2: maybe none more so than this because college basketball, it is.
30:40
Speaker 2: Be honest, a lot of people start to pay attention
30:43
Speaker 2: right about now.
30:44
Speaker 3: I hate I'm not going to take any credit for this,
30:47
Speaker 3: but I did think looking at the last four games
30:48
Speaker 3: on the Badgery schedule, like they're due for one clunker.
30:51
Speaker 4: You called that one.
30:52
Speaker 3: It was al right, I called it last week, and
30:54
Speaker 3: it's maybe good that they got out of the way
30:55
Speaker 3: the first one. Now, as long as you don't step
30:57
Speaker 3: back against Maryland, you play decent against Purdue.
31:00
Speaker 4: Was that a well time loss?
31:01
Speaker 3: That refocusing loss before the Big Ten tournament, just to
31:04
Speaker 3: get now that we're into March, was that in any way,
31:07
Speaker 3: is there I'm looking for a silver lining in the
31:09
Speaker 3: performance in Oregon?
31:10
Speaker 2: Yeah?
31:11
Speaker 4: Probably.
31:11
Speaker 2: I don't know if you'd ever get a coach to
31:13
Speaker 2: admit it, but it is one of those these guys
31:15
Speaker 2: are you know, there was wasn't much atmosphere at Oregon,
31:18
Speaker 2: and there wasn't much atmosphere at Ohio State and they
31:20
Speaker 2: played there a couple of weeks ago, And it seems
31:23
Speaker 2: like this is an over simplistic way of describing it,
31:27
Speaker 2: but you have guys on this team. The they liked
31:29
Speaker 2: the buzz in the building even when they were against you. Oh,
31:32
Speaker 2: Michigan was packed, Illinois was packed on the road. They
31:35
Speaker 2: played really well there. So it is It's probably not
31:38
Speaker 2: the worst thing in the world, Drew. I mean, they
31:40
Speaker 2: get a reminder and Greg has been saying this for
31:44
Speaker 2: throughout really most of the year. When they're right, they
31:48
Speaker 2: have proven they can play with anybody. When they're not right,
31:51
Speaker 2: they're vulnerable against anybody. And that was really illustrated. Uh
31:55
Speaker 2: in the game against Oregon. You know they were a
31:57
Speaker 2: team Oregon's team, doesn't you dwell very well? But it
31:59
Speaker 2: did against Wisconsin. I think Wisconsin made it easy for
32:03
Speaker 2: them at times live ball turnovers, especially in the second half.
32:06
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's probably never hurts to get humbled. And
32:10
Speaker 2: now you just hope they can stay right, you know,
32:12
Speaker 2: this week and then whatever, you know, next week, whatever
32:15
Speaker 2: happens to the Big ten Tournament. I mean, obviously you're
32:18
Speaker 2: in it, you want to win it, but we all
32:20
Speaker 2: know where the final judgement come. So so hopefully that's
32:23
Speaker 2: their bad loss.
32:24
Speaker 4: They flush it, they move well.
32:26
Speaker 6: You mentioned it too, like when you are looking for
32:28
Speaker 6: the atmosphere the Big time tournament could be, it could
32:30
Speaker 6: be a great atmosphere in there. You don't necessarily know
32:32
Speaker 6: what it's going to be like when you play in
32:35
Speaker 6: that spot and in that moment, but to be able
32:38
Speaker 6: to research, you know, recalibrate your expectation then subtle suddenly
32:44
Speaker 6: flip it to that place seemed kind of hostile at Washington.
32:48
Speaker 6: It was live that Oregon Field did have a very
32:50
Speaker 6: much eleven am at Ryan Field to it. Like I
32:53
Speaker 6: don't know if it was just the I don't know
32:54
Speaker 6: if it's just the visuals of the court, but it
32:56
Speaker 6: looked like tall grass that they were trying to plot through.
33:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, there wasn't a whole lot. It wasn't a whole
33:02
Speaker 2: lot of juice in the building that that night. I mean,
33:04
Speaker 2: they're struggling. They won what four games in the Big Ten.
33:08
Speaker 2: They weren't retiring anybody's jersey. Washington hasn't drawn that well.
33:12
Speaker 2: But it was pretty close. It looked pretty close to full.
33:15
Speaker 2: And it's a ninety two hundred seed. It's a it's
33:17
Speaker 2: an older place. It kind of reminds me of the
33:19
Speaker 2: UW field House in some ways. I mean, it's just
33:23
Speaker 2: it's a good gym. It's a good basketball gym. And
33:25
Speaker 2: I think the fact that they were retiring Debtl Shrek's
33:28
Speaker 2: number twenty two, and you had some star power in
33:31
Speaker 2: the building and they were given away towels, you know,
33:33
Speaker 2: always always worked, So it was it was pretty good
33:37
Speaker 2: for a team that's just not very good and it
33:39
Speaker 2: has been hit hard by injury. They're still trying to
33:43
Speaker 2: find their way under their second year head coach Danny Sprinkle.
33:47
Speaker 4: But yeah, there was a little bit more in there.
33:49
Speaker 2: And another thing that I think guys too, that's probably
33:52
Speaker 2: not the worst thing. Nick Boyd got a tech. There
33:55
Speaker 2: was a double technical assessed pretty early in the game,
33:57
Speaker 2: there was some rpin' nick well, chirp now and then
34:01
Speaker 2: it's just his nature. And while we both thought, but
34:04
Speaker 2: you and I both thought they probably didn't need to
34:06
Speaker 2: issue a double tech there, it's probably not a bad
34:08
Speaker 2: idea that there was one. Another lesson learned to a
34:11
Speaker 2: specific player. And he's got experience, he's been to a
34:14
Speaker 2: Final four. But when you get into the NCAA tournament,
34:17
Speaker 2: you're going to get crews who don't know you, and
34:19
Speaker 2: you're going to get some who maybe give you a
34:21
Speaker 2: lot of leeway, and you're going to get others who don't.
34:24
Speaker 2: I mean, case in point was that second round game
34:26
Speaker 2: that was contemplated against BYU last year, or maybe the
34:29
Speaker 2: most egregious technical foul win against BYU. There was a
34:32
Speaker 2: BYU player called for a foul. The guy looks up
34:35
Speaker 2: at the video screen for the replay, he sees the
34:37
Speaker 2: replay and he just throws his hands out. He gets
34:40
Speaker 2: a little animated and boom he gets hit with the technical.
34:43
Speaker 2: That was a bit of a ref show, but it is.
34:45
Speaker 2: It's a lesson like, be careful what you might get
34:49
Speaker 2: away with in February when you get into the middle
34:52
Speaker 2: and the third week of March, that ain't gonna happen.
34:55
Speaker 4: So now you know it's March for the refs too, right,
34:59
Speaker 4: it's March for the ref too.
35:00
Speaker 5: They've been waiting for this game all year long, and
35:03
Speaker 5: whether you want to admit it or not, they want
35:05
Speaker 5: to be a part of the game, and they will.
35:07
Speaker 4: They will be more juiced up a lot.
35:09
Speaker 6: You're right some and sadly, I know it seems like no,
35:12
Speaker 6: maybe I'm just listening too much brand Underwood, but it
35:14
Speaker 6: does seem like the variance of officials and scheduling. Now,
35:17
Speaker 6: maybe it locks in once you get to the tournament
35:20
Speaker 6: time and you are obviously going to get more of
35:22
Speaker 6: the all star crews. But Matt that that is a
35:24
Speaker 6: case where all of a sudden, You're right, there's gonna
35:25
Speaker 6: be a lot of variance as to who has seen
35:27
Speaker 6: you play.
35:28
Speaker 2: You see you see coaches all year go well, outside
35:32
Speaker 2: of the coaching box, nothing's called in the tournament. You
35:36
Speaker 2: could have one foot outside and you could get a
35:38
Speaker 2: crew that'll hit you with it. That's just the very
35:41
Speaker 2: close to the letter of the laws. It's not I
35:44
Speaker 2: don't say this as a as a criticism, really, it's
35:47
Speaker 2: just it's pot luck, you know the kind of crew
35:51
Speaker 2: you're going to get and how closely a game is
35:53
Speaker 2: going to be called owt Some you can you can
35:55
Speaker 2: bludgeon each other, you know, but and others little nickel
35:59
Speaker 2: dimers are called throughout the course of the game, and
36:02
Speaker 2: taunting and you know, technical flavorant fouls are officiated much
36:06
Speaker 2: more close closely. So it's it'll be interesting you know
36:10
Speaker 2: that that again, I just think Nick getting that technical there.
36:14
Speaker 2: It ended up being no big deal either way, didn't
36:16
Speaker 2: affect the game, like, okay, here's a reminder you might
36:21
Speaker 2: you don't know what you're going to get in terms
36:23
Speaker 2: of the whistle once you get into the postseason. So
36:26
Speaker 2: it is it's his nature to talk. That's he's he's
36:29
Speaker 2: a good dude. He's been a terrific player for Wisconsin.
36:32
Speaker 2: But that's just one example of many. I think that
36:36
Speaker 2: not just talking, but just physical play this, that or
36:39
Speaker 2: the other that the players throughout the country. Now you've
36:41
Speaker 2: got to be aware of because you're not quite sure
36:44
Speaker 2: what kind of a crew you're going to get in
36:45
Speaker 2: the tournament.
36:46
Speaker 4: That's a good point.
36:47
Speaker 3: That is on the way out, Matt should Billy go
36:49
Speaker 3: to the window and bet on a big breakout game
36:51
Speaker 3: from John Blackwell, there's a guy who's due. He's a
36:54
Speaker 3: good player and it's time for him to heat up again.
36:56
Speaker 3: Is that Is that in the cards this week?
36:58
Speaker 4: You think?
36:59
Speaker 5: I think so yeah.
37:01
Speaker 2: He's been been a quiet last couple of games for him.
37:05
Speaker 2: We all know how good he can be, how good
37:07
Speaker 2: he is, So yeah, I think the I think the
37:10
Speaker 2: little mini slump is about to come to an end.
37:12
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got I got a good feeling about that one.
37:14
Speaker 6: That one feels like one that's de take into It
37:17
Speaker 6: was like a Billy bett Well to me listen. Also
37:19
Speaker 6: been on last couple of days at the Marcus Majestic
37:22
Speaker 6: Theater here in Brookfield. I got to see a road
37:24
Speaker 6: at night last week. We named Jerrell Moore the next
37:27
Speaker 6: Day Superhero the Week with current Electric Matt I've never
37:30
Speaker 6: been more inspired by a young man than Jarrell Moore
37:32
Speaker 6: during that piece, and also more scared of somebody I
37:35
Speaker 6: never met before my entire life. Damn. Stu Jackson was
37:38
Speaker 6: a hell of a cat that that first that that
37:40
Speaker 6: first meeting that they have of the team meeting. I
37:42
Speaker 6: think a lot of folks that have been around sports
37:44
Speaker 6: can can level with a meeting like that, when one guy,
37:48
Speaker 6: you know, the teammate that's gonna ask the question. I
37:50
Speaker 6: love that Howard still had to ask a question.
37:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, Stu.
37:53
Speaker 2: Stuve's never going to win the Warm and Fuzzy Award.
37:56
Speaker 2: But I think he was the perfect I think he's
37:59
Speaker 2: underrated in the history of Wisconsin basketball. He was only
38:02
Speaker 2: here two years. But he wasn't afraid to shake things up.
38:06
Speaker 5: You know.
38:08
Speaker 2: He actually wanted people to dress up the fieldhouse a
38:11
Speaker 2: little bit, maybe fix the broken windows in the building,
38:14
Speaker 2: uh there, you know, maybe maybe put a coat of
38:16
Speaker 2: paint on some you know, a lot of chipped wood
38:19
Speaker 2: in that place. So and in addition to putting together
38:22
Speaker 2: a team that finally made the NCAA tournament, So there
38:26
Speaker 2: was It is a funny story that in the first meeting,
38:29
Speaker 2: when Howard was suggesting that they schedule a little tougher
38:32
Speaker 2: in the non conference even if you don't, you get
38:34
Speaker 2: lose a few more games. And but yeah, but Jirell Man,
38:38
Speaker 2: Girell's unbelievable. He'll walk into a room. Well, we did
38:43
Speaker 2: the premiere a couple of weeks ago. He was the
38:45
Speaker 2: best dressed guy there, just like his dad always is,
38:47
Speaker 2: you know, you can see the coaching attire with Howard
38:51
Speaker 2: when he was on the staff, and he speaks. He's
38:54
Speaker 2: a sophomore. He's a sophomore at Edgewood University here in Madison.
38:58
Speaker 2: So but he wants to be like his father. And
39:01
Speaker 2: as we told him a couple of weeks ago, or
39:03
Speaker 2: we told him multiple times, I say, you're well on
39:05
Speaker 2: your way to do it.
39:06
Speaker 5: Well.
39:07
Speaker 4: It is a great kit, just absolutely unbelievable. Matt, thanks
39:10
Speaker 4: for getting up early with us.
39:11
Speaker 3: Have a great week, enjoy the ceremony of pomping circumstances
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Speaker 2: It's already here, all right, boys, take care of every
39:18
Speaker 2: good week.
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