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January 26, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, welcome back.
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Speaker 8: it to you. This is Robert sesstin cease glad filling
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Speaker 8: in for Chip. Chip doesn't work once it gets gets
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Speaker 3: So here I am.
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Speaker 8: I'm glad to be joined by a lot of folks
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Speaker 8: to help carry me through the two hours. Alex Miller,
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Speaker 8: You know, Rusty Burson.
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Speaker 3: That was Brandy Burlson for the first three years. This season,
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Speaker 3: move men, so and working the board.
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Speaker 8: I'm so bad. I need two people because Trey and
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Speaker 8: Caleb are working the board and Jet's falling asleep because
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Speaker 8: no one calls them. So six ninth is he married?
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Speaker 8: Does he need to get phone calls? We don't know.
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Speaker 8: Six nine three eleven fifty pound eleven fifty You want
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Speaker 8: us to change the subject in whatever guys talk about
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Speaker 8: bucket ball, you think about hiring whether they had a
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Speaker 8: chance to look at other coaches? You think now, And
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Speaker 8: because I'm thinking about this, because I'm working on a
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Speaker 8: column about you know, when you look at what Indiana
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Speaker 8: did by hiring Signetti, And of course I'm a big
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Speaker 8: Signetti fan because he's I up boy. But you think
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Speaker 8: about hiring or not hiring and him could have hired
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Speaker 8: Urban Meyer. In two thousand and three, they hired Dennis
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Speaker 8: Franconi and and him.
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Speaker 3: That didn't work out very well.
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Speaker 6: You talk about you're right, hey, hey might have had
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Speaker 6: a title though.
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Speaker 8: We will might have had a lot of things, a
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Speaker 8: lot of things.
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Speaker 6: I think.
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Speaker 9: I think you can put a lot of truth serve
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Speaker 9: in some aggies now as they tell you some crazy
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Speaker 9: things what they do to win a championship in football.
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Speaker 3: Well, the sad thing is that I was really excited
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Speaker 3: about coach fran I really was, and because I thought
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Speaker 3: he had done a good job at TCU and good
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Speaker 3: job at Alabama before I met Mike McKenzie. And Mike
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Speaker 3: McKenzie was his PR guy.
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Speaker 9: When I was seven years old. My dad comes home.
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Speaker 9: Seven years old, dad comes home on my birthday. It's
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Speaker 9: got this present. It's a coach fran signed football.
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Speaker 6: I don't know where it is.
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Speaker 9: I'm sure I have it somewhere. It should uh, it
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Speaker 9: should probably just be an ebenezer of sorts.
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Speaker 6: But man, what a thing. I thought it was the
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Speaker 6: coolest thing.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 8: Getting back, you think about howson I'm sure ain't other
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Speaker 8: options other than hiring Bucky. And you think about and
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Speaker 8: I know it's only one year, but it's hard not
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Speaker 8: to think, Gosh, this guy's doing this in this short
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Speaker 8: of time with the hand he was dealt.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to go out on a limb because this
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Speaker 3: is not something that I'm usually a proponent of. I
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Speaker 3: was not a proponent of giving fran and extension, and
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Speaker 3: I was not I thought that was someone ex extension,
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Speaker 3: certainly not you know, I almost called him Dumbo, but yeah,
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Speaker 3: I meant Jimbo and uh but and him to due
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Speaker 3: whatever it takes to lock Bucky up for the long term,
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Speaker 3: because and M lucked into this. They lucked into a
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Speaker 3: brilliant young coach who was only going to get better
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Speaker 3: and better. And I've said before, I really believe this
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Speaker 3: is probably the worst season we'll see from Bucky. Once
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Speaker 3: he gets this thing going with his own guys with
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Speaker 3: a full you know, recruiting allotment, I mean, it's gonna
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Speaker 3: be even better and better and better.
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Speaker 9: I remember back in April, after Buzz left, you know,
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Speaker 9: Covernman's Basketball and putting together a list of coaches that
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Speaker 9: A might go after, and like Bucky didn't. Bucky wasn't
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Speaker 9: even on the list.
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Speaker 8: Right, And who wasn't you remember who's some of the
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Speaker 8: names you know I put.
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Speaker 9: I put like Grant McCasland. I thought he was kind
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Speaker 9: of you know, if Anon was gonna swing big. He
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Speaker 9: was a guy that you know, I didn't know if
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Speaker 9: he would actually consider coming to a but you know,
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Speaker 9: you make a call, right, had Chris Beard on the list,
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Speaker 9: and he was definitely a player in that whole process.
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Speaker 9: I think I think I even had Chris Jan's on
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Speaker 9: the list maybe you know, he he he's done pretty
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Speaker 9: well Assissippi State. I realized they're not having that great
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Speaker 9: of a season, but you know, had some great job.
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Speaker 9: I'm trying to remember who was, like, you know, from
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Speaker 9: like kind of a.
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Speaker 6: Mid major level.
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Speaker 9: Whoever, whoever was there was a hot team last last
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Speaker 9: March that was kind of in the mid South region.
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Speaker 6: Anyway, Bucky went on the list.
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Speaker 9: A couple of days go by, uh and you know,
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Speaker 9: the Chris Beard stuff starts falling apart, and I get
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Speaker 9: a text from a high school friend, childhood friend who
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Speaker 9: actually went to Samford.
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Speaker 6: Oh wow, And he texts me and.
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Speaker 9: He's like, hey, so do you think aem would consider
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Speaker 9: going after Bucky McMillan, And I'm like, who, yeah, yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 9: And I'm like, and I'm trying to think. I'm like, Okay, Samford, Oh,
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Speaker 9: they almost beat Kansas in that NCAA Tournament game last year,
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Speaker 9: and I'm thinking, like, and so I did a little research,
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Speaker 9: and I'm like, I text him back.
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Speaker 6: I'm like, I mean, I don't know, like, that is
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Speaker 6: not a name that I have thought of or heard of.
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Speaker 9: In this whole process. And he's like, well, somebody just
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Speaker 9: mentioned it to me, so you might look into it,
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Speaker 9: and lo and behold, here we are. He knew something.
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Speaker 3: You know, a lot of people have been down on
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Speaker 3: Trev Alberts, but I mean, he made this higher and
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Speaker 3: this is maybe, I mean, one of those things you
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Speaker 3: can hires. To be fair, I said the exact same
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Speaker 3: thing when they announced Bucky McMillan's head coach. Who really
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Speaker 3: what I mean, He's got no Texas tithes that we
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Speaker 3: know of, And I'm just but one of the things
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Speaker 3: that he did so incredibly well is surround himself with
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Speaker 3: guys who knew all about it. Mitch Cole has I've
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Speaker 3: been told by Billy Kennedy that Mitch Cole is the
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Speaker 3: single best coach he's ever had at teaching basketball. Now
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Speaker 3: that you almost don't think about that anymore. You think
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Speaker 3: about it. Is he a good recruiter, you know all this,
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Speaker 3: but just in terms of teaching the game, and then
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Speaker 3: Kyle Keller, who had head coached experience and who'd been here,
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Speaker 3: Frank Haith who's had been a head coach and who
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Speaker 3: has been here, so you know exactly, Darby is huge.
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Speaker 3: That's a huge addition and it's so good to not
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Speaker 3: see him in that burnal or is it that that
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Speaker 3: drove me crazy last year? But I just think that
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Speaker 3: Mitch was on his staff at Samford, and I think
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Speaker 3: what Mitch told me before Seas started is like he
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Speaker 3: was man. I told Bucky, if you have any opportunity
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Speaker 3: to go to an m you really need to do it.
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Speaker 3: And unlike Mark Turgen, unlike maybe anybody but Billy Kennedy,
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Speaker 3: this is a place where he has fully embraced it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he is already out there and he already
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Speaker 3: he has those kids doing the war him after you know,
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Speaker 3: they have no idea what the words are. But I
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Speaker 3: listened to Ryland after the game. He's like, yeah, I
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Speaker 3: did like The twelfth Man when I played at Alabama.
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Speaker 3: You know, it came in here and they beat us,
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Speaker 3: he said, But I mean, really, he is just raving
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Speaker 3: about the atmosphere on Saturday, and it wasn't surprisingly good crowd.
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Speaker 3: If they fill that place up like they used to,
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Speaker 3: like when Billy Clyde was rolling and even Billy Kennedy,
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Speaker 3: you know that conference championship year when they played Kentucky
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Speaker 3: filled that thing up like.
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Speaker 6: They got fifteen thousand when they played LSU. Yeah, he
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Speaker 6: was sitting in the aisle exactly.
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Speaker 3: And so I really believe. You know, people go, ah,
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Speaker 3: I and M doesn't support basketball. Well, you're right to
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Speaker 3: a degree. They still need to do everything to that arena.
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Speaker 3: They need to blow it up and you put sweets
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Speaker 3: in there, but they do come out if you're winning.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, but you're absolutely one hundred percent correct. Rust to you.
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Speaker 8: But my question to you guys would be, I've been here,
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Speaker 8: and I knew when Kentucky came knocked on Gillespie's door,
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Speaker 8: he couldn't say no. Even though Gillespie was a great
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Speaker 8: fit for A and M. For a lot of reasons,
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Speaker 8: he didn't have to go out. He mustn't necessarily so
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Speaker 8: well known in the public. But because he won and
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Speaker 8: the way he won, everybody jumped on Billy Clyde. Everybody
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Speaker 8: loved Billy Clyde, and then you know, Kentucky took him away.
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Speaker 8: And of course he was better off coaching the way
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Speaker 8: he coached here than the way he didn't work up
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Speaker 8: there with those people he coached. But my point being
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Speaker 8: is what does A and M have to do if
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Speaker 8: Bucky does make the Sweet sixteen this year and make
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Speaker 8: the Lead.
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Speaker 3: Eight next year? But how do they You give him
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Speaker 3: the extension and you make this his home?
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Speaker 8: But does can they get the new stadium? Can they
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Speaker 8: say you're gonna get a new arena? Who's in charge
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Speaker 8: of that? Because when you get out and see what
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Speaker 8: Texas has, and we know there's more taj Mahals out
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Speaker 8: there like that, and people who have a basketball history,
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Speaker 8: which A and M doesn't have, what do you have
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Speaker 8: to do to protect them? Because you want a guy
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Speaker 8: like getting back to Signetti, there's nowhere he has to
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Speaker 8: go right now. He built his own legend. Nobody can
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Speaker 8: say like, hey, come to Alabama, come to albert he
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Speaker 8: goes I won the national championship here in Indiana. We're
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Speaker 8: gonna we're gonna build a better field. What does A
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Speaker 8: and M and ken A and M do that? Because
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Speaker 8: when you go to read areena, I don't care. I
10:57
Speaker 8: can remember when g Rolly White was a good place
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Speaker 8: to go if they're playing Texas and it was sold
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Speaker 8: out or Arkansas. If you're in a basketball arena, I
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Speaker 8: don't care what it is and it's sold out.
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Speaker 3: We're talking in the nineteen sixties when it was a
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Speaker 3: really good arena though.
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Speaker 8: I mean, but that's my point is atmosphere. Yeah, the
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Speaker 8: atmosphere is atmosphere. My point being is how do you
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Speaker 8: get a new atmosphere to match what the coach might do?
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Speaker 9: Alex, Look, this comes down to me. It's just first
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Speaker 9: and foremost about getting guys right, and Fatam can find
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Speaker 9: a way to get the guys a lot of it's
11:34
Speaker 9: going to take care of itself.
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Speaker 10: Uh.
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Speaker 9: This is probably not the most talented roster that Ain'tem
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Speaker 9: could get and look at what they're doing with it.
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Speaker 9: I mean, what what could have what could Bucky have
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Speaker 9: done maybe potentially had he had the full transfer portal
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Speaker 9: window to work with last year and so yes, new
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Speaker 9: arena would be great. Adding suites would be great. I'm
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Speaker 9: curious what the feasibility of that is in the current
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Speaker 9: state of college athletics right now. Capital projects, they're.
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Speaker 3: The reality is is A and m's got to look
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Speaker 3: at basketball, especially men's basketball, as one of your potential
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Speaker 3: revenue generating sports. You've poured money into a softball state,
12:23
Speaker 3: no offense to softball day. You've poured money into a
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Speaker 3: softball state. You pour money into a track facility that
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Speaker 3: brings you zero revenue. Yeah, and so you got to
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Speaker 3: take this is A and M. Okay, you got the
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Speaker 3: right guy. Now we really need to explore building arena,
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Speaker 3: another arena, or expanding this somehow, some way, renovating like
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Speaker 3: cayle Feld.
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Speaker 5: Cayle Field.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they tore down basically, but I don't know how
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Speaker 3: if you can do that. But I mean the practice
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Speaker 3: facilities and the coaches off those were great.
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Speaker 6: They're really nice.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so they put money in there. They just
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Speaker 3: kind of make that more fan friendly. Again. You look
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Speaker 3: around and Baylor has built a brand new arena off
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Speaker 3: of campus. TCU has totally redone.
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Speaker 6: That thing is so nice. I went there for volleyball
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Speaker 6: this last fall.
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Speaker 3: It looks nice.
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Speaker 6: It is nice. I can even Moody.
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Speaker 3: Coliseum has has gone under I mean really great improvements.
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Speaker 3: And then Texas got in an arena tex Tech. Even
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Speaker 3: it's a little older, but it's still taz mahall out
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Speaker 3: there's huge. Oh yeah. And so Houston look at what
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Speaker 3: they've done. So I've said all along that A and
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Speaker 3: M has probably the worst basketball facility of all the
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Speaker 3: power for schools in the state of Texas, right, I mean,
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Speaker 3: Baylor is so much better, and that actually built a
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Speaker 3: smaller arena, but it's so much more intimate. And of
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Speaker 3: course Bay there's one NASS Championship text text into the
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Speaker 3: NASH Championship. So I think, to your point, if ANEM
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Speaker 3: gets the right guys, they can Bucky can build it,
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Speaker 3: invest in him, invest in the basketball program.
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Speaker 8: Well, you guys touched on something because I watched a
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Speaker 8: little basketball this Saturday. I watched actually acting game on TV.
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Speaker 8: It's too early for me after being up all night Friday,
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Speaker 8: got noon kickoff. I'm sorry, you know, Tip, But my
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Speaker 8: point being is Baylor's having a bad year. I mean,
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Speaker 8: obviously Drew's done a great job. While there has facility,
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Speaker 8: and you need more than that. You need more than
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Speaker 8: the facility. You need the coach to recruit the people.
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Speaker 8: Because Baylor TCU swept them this year. I watched that game.
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Speaker 8: I go, wow, this Baylor team is not and I
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Speaker 8: know everybody is injuries. It's amazing for a sport to
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Speaker 8: place five at a time. How many teams are strapped
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Speaker 8: by injuries.
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Speaker 3: You just don't think about that that He's don't like
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Speaker 3: to hear this, but the premier game in state was
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Speaker 3: tex Tech and Houston on Saturday.
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yes, it was a good game.
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Speaker 3: It was a very good It was a very.
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Speaker 5: Good game to watch.
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Speaker 3: But those are two teams that I mean, I think
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Speaker 3: Texas four seed right now is where Lard has got them.
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Speaker 3: And then Houston, I mean, what they've done over the
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Speaker 3: past five years is pretty incredible. They done everything but
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Speaker 3: win the national title.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's not like I feel that they need that
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Speaker 8: arena next year or the falling year. But if Bucky
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Speaker 8: does what we think he will, you need to start
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Speaker 8: preparing to say, like, hey, there's nowhere you have to go, Bucky.
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Speaker 8: Everything is here.
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Speaker 3: That you you don't have to spend any more money
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Speaker 3: on Calfield right exactly, exactly, exactly. It is the taj
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Speaker 3: mahal right now exactly. So't that doesn't need to go, shouldn't.
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Speaker 3: They've already they've already got players in baseball. Okay, fine,
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Speaker 3: you know baseball has been in the college world and
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Speaker 3: I do too, And so I think the next project
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Speaker 3: has to be men's basket.
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Speaker 8: When you consider men's basketball is number two, and it
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Speaker 8: keeps rising because it's just too good a sport.
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Speaker 9: Well not to mention, okay, and them just won a
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Speaker 9: championship in volleyball, and and volleyball is such a.
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Speaker 6: Fast growing sport.
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Speaker 9: I mean, I went to so many matches this year
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Speaker 9: and as the season progressed, like you know, they're drawing
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Speaker 9: five six thousand people to a volleyball back.
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Speaker 3: I got hooked when they played Texas. The atmosphere was incredible.
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Speaker 6: It was amazing.
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Speaker 9: And now and now that they've won a title and
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Speaker 9: Jamie has Bill and got the gathering that he's got
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Speaker 9: and by the way, he's recruiting like crazy. Uh, they
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Speaker 9: keep They're gonna keep this train.
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Speaker 3: We bring up a great point because it's not just
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Speaker 3: the men's basketball team, because quite frankly, they're probably gonna
16:39
Speaker 3: be looking at a new coach in women's basketball fairly soon.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they they're just not getting it done over there.
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Speaker 3: So in order to you know, really attract the next
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Speaker 3: one and then to support, you know, a national championship
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Speaker 3: volleyball program followed by you know or in the lead
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Speaker 3: being a basketball program that is exceeding all expectations in
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Speaker 3: a year where we didn't think anything. I mean I thought,
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Speaker 3: can they get three wins? Can they get four wins?
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Speaker 3: If we do, can they get to the n T?
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Speaker 3: And now I'm going can they get to twelve or
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Speaker 3: thirteen wins in the conference play?
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Speaker 8: You know, it's like, should they be ranked right now?
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Speaker 8: When you look you mentioned Texas, they're behind obviously Texas
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Speaker 8: Tech and Houston when you look at the rankings, But
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Speaker 8: the sec you guys touched on it, the top, the
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Speaker 8: top is not that invincible. I mean you would like
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Speaker 8: they should have beaten Texas. Tennessee and I watched that
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Speaker 8: Tennessee Alabama game Saturday night. That was that was a
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Speaker 8: pretty good game to watch too. But my point being
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Speaker 8: is should they be ranked or what well they were ranked?
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Speaker 8: If they beat Georgia.
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Speaker 9: I think they'll definitely be ranked if they beat Georgia.
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Speaker 9: I think it's okay that they're not ranked at this point,
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Speaker 9: because look, they need to get they need to get
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Speaker 9: a really and Auburn was a good feather at the
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Speaker 9: cat that was there, No doubt Auburn was a good
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Speaker 9: feather in the cap.
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Speaker 6: But you get one more.
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Speaker 9: Okay, you're starting to prove yourself that that wasn't just
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Speaker 9: a one off fluke. And because they couldn't get the
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Speaker 9: shot off in time, you actually won the game.
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Speaker 3: Well, and I think the key point here is you
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Speaker 3: haven't been beaten a ranked team, so now you have
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Speaker 3: an opportunity to go beat a ranked team.
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Speaker 10: Man.
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Speaker 3: I like the fact that they got a week to go,
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Speaker 3: you know, get ready for the rankings. Well okay, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 3: but they did. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't bother me. They
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Speaker 3: are a ranked team, as far as it does not
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Speaker 3: bother me that A and M's not ranked. I was
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Speaker 3: looking at lenardes uh and they got Leonard's got A
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Speaker 3: and M. A is a nine seed right now, moving on,
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Speaker 3: I'm thinking you give me any seed this year. I'm thrilled.
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Speaker 8: I don't care.
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Speaker 3: You know, normally, when you're you know, no, A and
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Speaker 3: M is gonna be in the tournament fairly earlier. I
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Speaker 3: don't want that eight nine seed, but I'll take that
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Speaker 3: eight nine seed.
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Speaker 9: You know, I go, this is how I viewed football
18:57
Speaker 9: because you know, back in our October November and everybody's.
19:01
Speaker 6: Like, why is Ainem third? Why is Indiana one? Well
19:04
Speaker 6: it kind of makes sense when yeah, okay, well fair enough.
19:09
Speaker 8: I had A and MR ahead of Indiana there for
19:11
Speaker 8: a while ago I was smart.
19:13
Speaker 9: But my point is like, there was a lot of
19:15
Speaker 9: griping about A and M be at number three, and
19:18
Speaker 9: every time somebody bring that up to me, I'd just
19:20
Speaker 9: be like, look, AIM just needs to keep winning.
19:22
Speaker 6: If they keep winning, it's gonna take care of itself.
19:25
Speaker 9: If A and M goes thirteen to Oine, when's the SEC,
19:28
Speaker 9: it's gonna be hard to keep them no worse than
19:30
Speaker 9: number two. And they might they probably have a case
19:32
Speaker 9: to be number one. And look it didn't work out.
19:34
Speaker 9: They lost to Texas. They're still in the top ten.
19:37
Speaker 9: But my point being AM just needs to keep winning
19:40
Speaker 9: and keeping on the right side of that of that
19:44
Speaker 9: win of that win column.
19:45
Speaker 3: I was upset that miss Ole, miss was ranked ahead
19:48
Speaker 3: of A and M in the final poll, but now
19:50
Speaker 3: look back it is like I probably deserve it.
19:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's imagine how that goes once this plays out.
19:54
Speaker 8: I'm with you because I kept saying, oh, miss, that's
19:57
Speaker 8: such your week schedule. I kept saying. Then I watched
19:59
Speaker 8: them in the playoffs without kiffing like a holy cow.
20:01
Speaker 5: This is really a good team.
20:03
Speaker 8: Uh, you know this, It does affect you, guys.
20:07
Speaker 5: I don't know.
20:08
Speaker 8: I always did this when Gary and his heyday, we
20:11
Speaker 8: already looked at what spots you might go to, because
20:14
Speaker 8: where you might be where you want to I always.
20:18
Speaker 5: Look where do you want to be?
20:19
Speaker 9: If you ask anyone on the A and men's basketball beat,
20:23
Speaker 9: they will tell you that I have been campaigning or
20:26
Speaker 9: San Diego the last two weeks.
20:28
Speaker 5: I like San Diego. I like the holiday bawl that
20:31
Speaker 5: went there several times.
20:33
Speaker 9: My top my top choices are this. Uh, san Diego
20:36
Speaker 9: is one. Oklahoma City is probably number two, especially well
20:40
Speaker 9: because you can drive. You can drive, it's easy to
20:42
Speaker 9: get to in Oklahoma City. It's fun down there, you know,
20:46
Speaker 9: like it's well, I would.
20:47
Speaker 5: Like that I could go with you.
20:48
Speaker 3: That don't mean even I'm all for Oklahoma City. I
20:51
Speaker 3: would drive up there, you know, Dartie's got him in
20:54
Speaker 3: Greenville right now, that means nothing.
20:56
Speaker 6: Right, it means not fine. I've been there before. It's okay,
21:00
Speaker 6: Tampa's on the list.
21:02
Speaker 3: I remember the first year Gillespie had him, and then
21:05
Speaker 3: Jacksonville was fun and that you know, obviously, yeah, and
21:11
Speaker 3: then to beat Syracuse, right, to beat Syracuse, should have
21:15
Speaker 3: beaten l s U if not for a you know,
21:18
Speaker 3: half court three pointer, but not that I still remember
21:21
Speaker 3: it anyway, And then you know, the next year they
21:25
Speaker 3: went out to Kentucky and they played in Lexton and
21:28
Speaker 3: got to Sweet sixteen, where they played in San Antonio.
21:32
Speaker 3: I don't care where it is. I just want to
21:34
Speaker 3: see this team in the in n C Double A
21:36
Speaker 3: tournament and then see how Bucky can recruit not just
21:40
Speaker 3: the fresh not just the freshman, but also the portal.
21:43
Speaker 3: Having said, look, this is what we did in about
21:46
Speaker 3: a week.
21:47
Speaker 9: This is all we had, there is a there is
21:50
Speaker 9: a scenario where AIM could play their first two games
21:53
Speaker 9: in Oklahoma City and be in the Houston region.
21:56
Speaker 5: Oh wow.
21:57
Speaker 6: In my thought, my thought is this, uh.
22:00
Speaker 3: You already got them win going Sweet sixteen.
22:02
Speaker 6: Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no no no, We're not.
22:06
Speaker 9: But my point is this is that if ANAM can
22:09
Speaker 9: get to nca tournament and they have a decent seed,
22:14
Speaker 9: they're going to be a really hard team to beat
22:16
Speaker 9: just because of the way that they play. That is
22:19
Speaker 9: that is a really hard system to prepare for on
22:22
Speaker 9: short notice. And what do we know about the NSABLY tournament.
22:27
Speaker 9: It is all about matchups. If you get the right draw,
22:31
Speaker 9: you can do some real damage. And this is a
22:33
Speaker 9: system that's set up for tournament basketball to succeed. And
22:37
Speaker 9: if AAM can get there and get an advantageous draw,
22:40
Speaker 9: lookout world, they might be busting some brackets.
22:42
Speaker 6: I'm just saying.
22:43
Speaker 8: I'm just saying I want you guys to think of
22:46
Speaker 8: this when we come back, because I don't want to
22:50
Speaker 8: say you haven't been around, Alex, You've been around a
22:53
Speaker 8: shorter time. But Rusty definitely a basketball pro when it comes.
22:58
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23:01
Speaker 8: My answer is for you guys, think is we always
23:04
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23:14
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23:16
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23:19
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Speaker 5: Okay, welcome back.
27:00
Speaker 8: It was a beautiful to Chippy Howard's show. I'm filling
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Speaker 8: in for Chip, Robert Custer and le Glad you could
27:07
Speaker 8: join me. We got a full house we've got Alex Miller,
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Speaker 8: a coworker at the Eagle. We got Rusty Burson from Merrimount.
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Speaker 8: We've got Trey and Caleb making sure that I'm not
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Speaker 8: talking into nothing even though I'm saying nothing. And we've
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Speaker 8: got yet still waiting for that first call of the night.
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Speaker 8: Six nine, three eleven fifty pounds eleven fifty. He's getting
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Speaker 8: a little loud snoring, but that's okay. We'll go ahead
27:31
Speaker 8: and all ar above him. When I went to the break,
27:34
Speaker 8: if you're just joining us, my question was Buckey Ball
27:37
Speaker 8: Brian College Station. Hit is embracing Bucking ball and it's
27:41
Speaker 8: only going to get better, I believe it and grow.
27:44
Speaker 8: So my question to these guys who've seen a lot
27:47
Speaker 8: of games of Buckey ball and seen a lot of
27:49
Speaker 8: bad basketball in their time in Brian College Station, what
27:53
Speaker 8: makes Bucky Ball successful? And we'll lead off with the
27:57
Speaker 8: younger guy, Alex. So I'll let Rusty Beck clean up.
28:00
Speaker 8: So we'll let Alex go first.
28:02
Speaker 9: Well, so after the game on Saturday, one of the
28:05
Speaker 9: one of the younger reporters, not me, asked, Bucky, you know,
28:10
Speaker 9: you guys are down fourteen to seven. What is it
28:12
Speaker 9: about your team, that you guys can come back from
28:15
Speaker 9: that and just take over a game basically. And Bucky
28:18
Speaker 9: first thing he said was we shoot. They shoot, and
28:22
Speaker 9: they can shoot in droves.
28:23
Speaker 6: Shoot.
28:24
Speaker 9: I mean, think about Zach Klements, the guy was seven
28:26
Speaker 9: of eight from three, has a career day, and.
28:31
Speaker 6: They just they just make buckets.
28:33
Speaker 9: I mean Ruben Dimingez, that guy can make a three
28:35
Speaker 9: at any point. And look, they they make shots. They
28:41
Speaker 9: don't have to be the number one team in the
28:43
Speaker 9: country in offensive rebounding to put up a fight on offense.
28:46
Speaker 6: They don't because they can shoot.
28:48
Speaker 9: And when you can do that, and their defense is
28:52
Speaker 9: just getting so much better. Think about the way that
28:55
Speaker 9: they've trapped and pressed in the last few games. I
28:57
Speaker 9: mean Mississippi State, they just quit in the second half.
29:01
Speaker 9: South Carolina was pretty dang close to getting there before
29:04
Speaker 9: they went on that little run. But even though they
29:06
Speaker 9: went on that run, it didn't even matter because AEM
29:08
Speaker 9: was up by thirty something and so a m's ability
29:12
Speaker 9: to shoot well and they're improving so.
29:15
Speaker 6: Much on defense lately. That to me.
29:18
Speaker 9: Bucky promised us one main thing when he had his
29:21
Speaker 9: little introductory press conference when he was hired. He promised
29:25
Speaker 9: that watching basketball under him was gonna be fun. And
29:28
Speaker 9: it's fun to watch. I don't care who you are.
29:31
Speaker 9: It's fun. It's chaotic. Sometimes it gives me a little
29:35
Speaker 9: bit of whiplash. I'm sure I'm not the only one
29:37
Speaker 9: who feels that, but man, they're a fun team to watch.
29:43
Speaker 6: And not to mention too. I really thought at some point, I.
29:48
Speaker 9: Thought early in the season, I thought, Okay, at some point,
29:51
Speaker 9: Aiam's gonna get it clicking, and it's just a matter
29:54
Speaker 9: of how quick can they get things to click.
29:56
Speaker 6: Well, they've gotten things to click.
29:59
Speaker 9: And you've seen lately is you've got kind of this
30:02
Speaker 9: goulage of a team with guys from all over the
30:05
Speaker 9: country that are coming in this first year and it really.
30:09
Speaker 6: Just bought in.
30:10
Speaker 9: And that sounds like coach speak, but you listen to
30:14
Speaker 9: the way they talk about things from November to now
30:17
Speaker 9: we're in late January, like they've bought in, they've assimilated,
30:21
Speaker 9: and they figured it out. And that to me is
30:24
Speaker 9: why Bucky ball is working in a in a way.
30:28
Speaker 3: So I think, having watched this basketball program for decades,
30:35
Speaker 3: I think that there's been some times when anem had
30:39
Speaker 3: some really good basketball team Billy Clyde Gillespie put together
30:43
Speaker 3: some really good basketball teams. But that first year you
30:46
Speaker 3: may determine it. It was ugly basketball. I mean there
30:49
Speaker 3: was just all defense, in your face defense, half court defense,
30:54
Speaker 3: as close to, you know, unbreakable as you could. It
30:58
Speaker 3: was Manda Man defense. But go back. I mean the
31:02
Speaker 3: shot that everybody remembers that was forty six. The five
31:04
Speaker 3: was forty six forty three, right, So there's no offense there, right.
31:09
Speaker 3: And then with buzz Man, those teams played such great defense,
31:13
Speaker 3: but there was no offensive plan whatsoever. And now I
31:18
Speaker 3: see this bucket ball and I'm like, okay, so that
31:20
Speaker 3: they're pressing, they don't ever stop the pressing, which has
31:26
Speaker 3: turned into some ten second calls, some five second calls. Yeah,
31:31
Speaker 3: they've given up some easy baskets on the press, but
31:33
Speaker 3: they're not going to change that. What I love most
31:36
Speaker 3: about bucket ball is how they share the basketball and
31:40
Speaker 3: they've gotten better and better and better passing the ball.
31:43
Speaker 3: And it reminds me a little bit. Now people aren't
31:49
Speaker 3: going to a lot of people won't relate, but A
31:51
Speaker 3: and M had a very athletic team in nineteen seventy
31:56
Speaker 3: nine to eighty and they had incredible athletes. Now there
32:00
Speaker 3: wasn't a shot clock back there, there wasn't a three
32:02
Speaker 3: point line back there, but it was so much fun
32:06
Speaker 3: and because you had guys like Ren Wright and Vernon
32:10
Speaker 3: Smith and David Britton and then you know Dave Goff
32:13
Speaker 3: at the point guard, and they were and they were
32:16
Speaker 3: so athletic, and the ball moved so quickly. Now they also,
32:20
Speaker 3: again without a three point or shot clock, you could
32:24
Speaker 3: also slow it down against A and M, and a
32:27
Speaker 3: lot of teams tried to do that, like they didn't
32:28
Speaker 3: want to have the ball well in this era where
32:32
Speaker 3: there isn't three point line, you know, it's just up
32:35
Speaker 3: and down, up and down. And these guys are in
32:37
Speaker 3: such incredible shape. I can only imagine like the off
32:43
Speaker 3: season conditioning, and a M is just in better shape.
32:47
Speaker 3: And I find myself going, oh man, you know this,
32:50
Speaker 3: this first half wasn't as good as I hope, but
32:53
Speaker 3: they wear your butt down and in the second half
32:57
Speaker 3: a lot of times they've just had war left in
33:00
Speaker 3: the tank.
33:01
Speaker 8: You know, Rusty. I was trying to think, of course,
33:05
Speaker 8: I've been here. When I got here, Shelby Metcalf was
33:08
Speaker 8: the coach, so I think of all the coaches since
33:10
Speaker 8: and I was trying and I can't remember. Did you
33:15
Speaker 8: know after sixteen seventeen games, what was everybody jacked up
33:19
Speaker 8: about Billy Gillespie? I don't remember. I know at some
33:22
Speaker 8: point we got jacked up, but I don't know if
33:24
Speaker 8: it happened so quickly it happened.
33:27
Speaker 3: They got really excited, including myself. Is that when they
33:31
Speaker 3: went to Kansas for the very first time, they almost
33:35
Speaker 3: beat Kansas and we were like, wow, okay, and then
33:40
Speaker 3: you know, they ended up winning some home games that
33:44
Speaker 3: no one ever expected, and they we were all so
33:47
Speaker 3: excited about going to the n T, right, I mean
33:50
Speaker 3: sold the place out. It sold out. My kids wore
33:54
Speaker 3: the stupid n T T shirts for years.
33:56
Speaker 6: I've got one of those somewhere.
33:58
Speaker 5: We all brought it with your friend friend football.
34:02
Speaker 3: But yeah, people were excited, and you know, but there
34:06
Speaker 3: were times that like, oh god, even the very best
34:10
Speaker 3: season A and him had. You know, when they beat
34:12
Speaker 3: Kansas and they beat Texas back to back within a
34:15
Speaker 3: forty eight hour period, they could they didn't beat Texas
34:18
Speaker 3: Tech in either game because you know what, Billy Clyde
34:21
Speaker 3: was too dang stubborn to go into his own, he
34:25
Speaker 3: wouldn't do it. And Bobby Knight like, Okay, here's what
34:28
Speaker 3: we're gonna do. If you're not gonna go into his zone,
34:30
Speaker 3: Like Bucky's not afraid to go into his own. You know,
34:33
Speaker 3: he'll he'll, he'll be Yeah, he does. He does a
34:37
Speaker 3: great job of switching it up. And you can't play
34:41
Speaker 3: zone against him, Like I guarantee you. South Carolina started
34:45
Speaker 3: playing that little zone in the second half, and like
34:48
Speaker 3: I was sitting with another buddy and we're just like
34:51
Speaker 3: they're just tearing a and him to shoot a three
34:53
Speaker 3: and and M's gonna take it.
34:55
Speaker 8: You know.
34:55
Speaker 3: And and I just think that the combined athleticism and
35:01
Speaker 3: you know, just the hustle. I look at every game
35:04
Speaker 3: and I'm going, how's and I'm gonna get a rebound.
35:06
Speaker 3: And yet they out rebounded these teams that you know
35:10
Speaker 3: by ten fifteen because it's just hustle and its effort,
35:13
Speaker 3: and they are in superior shape.
35:17
Speaker 6: Twenty games end of the season.
35:18
Speaker 9: You see why, and fought so hard to get Rason.
35:23
Speaker 9: I try to think about what this team would be
35:26
Speaker 9: if they didn't have him.
35:27
Speaker 6: He is the MVP, yeah, no.
35:29
Speaker 9: Questions, as no doubt, and especially with Thembaco out. I mean,
35:35
Speaker 9: just what he has done, just energy wise and production wise,
35:41
Speaker 9: it's immeasurable.
35:43
Speaker 3: He plays at least five six inches taller than he
35:46
Speaker 3: actually is six' five and a quarter.
35:48
Speaker 8: Inch, well you know you're.
35:50
Speaker 3: Right hook shot they's. GOT i mean it's unstoppable really
35:55
Speaker 3: because you can't block.
35:57
Speaker 9: It the way that he shut Down texas's centers in
36:02
Speaker 9: the second half was remarkable and did some really good
36:07
Speaker 9: things Against Mississippi. State may not have had his best
36:10
Speaker 9: game Against South, carolina.
36:12
Speaker 6: But the guy just continues to produce and produce.
36:16
Speaker 3: Well and maybe that's what was so impressive About South
36:19
Speaker 3: carolina is that when you look down the stat, sheet
36:23
Speaker 3: it Wasn't AG's best, game and it Wasn't dominga is
36:27
Speaker 3: just going off on, threes and it wasn't Necessarily rilin
36:30
Speaker 3: going off on. Threes it was, like, Okay Zach clemens
36:34
Speaker 3: and then all the other Guys pop you, know And.
36:38
Speaker 3: JAKARI i mean that. Guy people don't talk about him.
36:43
Speaker 3: Enough that guy has such a presence and.
36:45
Speaker 9: The like eight point seven, ASSISTS i mean he, yeah
36:48
Speaker 9: he's leading the sec and assists to turn over eh,
36:50
Speaker 9: show and you don't Playing cleveland, basketball.
36:52
Speaker 3: And he just keeps everything under, control. RIGHT i don't,
36:56
Speaker 3: Know it's just a fun team to. Watch you hit on, It.
36:59
Speaker 8: RUSTY i remember those two N I t games whenever
37:02
Speaker 8: somebody came from one of The pennsylvania, schools AND i
37:05
Speaker 8: remember we were all jacked up for N I t
37:08
Speaker 8: games because you, know you're, Right gillespie took.
37:10
Speaker 3: OFF i remember listening to the ball.
37:15
Speaker 8: Game, yeah like so. Excited but then you're, right because
37:19
Speaker 8: the started this. YEAR i can REMEMBER i was, going,
37:22
Speaker 8: UH i was listening to the. Game we're watching the
37:24
Speaker 8: game at the. Office and THEN i had to go
37:26
Speaker 8: BY hgb and picked something up and they blew THAT smu,
37:30
Speaker 8: game And i'm, thinking you, know and of course at that,
37:32
Speaker 8: POINT i THINK i only seen one. GAME i, go you,
37:34
Speaker 8: know just It's bucky. Ball you know they're not gonna
37:37
Speaker 8: they're gonna be okay this year maybe or, whatever so
37:40
Speaker 8: no need to be. Excitement but then all of a
37:42
Speaker 8: sudden they, started you, know like The auburn, game the
37:45
Speaker 8: games at, home you win at, home big to win at,
37:47
Speaker 8: home and then suddenly it's just taken. Off and it's just.
37:51
Speaker 8: Amazing if you go out and watch them PLAY i
37:55
Speaker 8: said before The oklahoma, Game oh my, gosh you go
37:58
Speaker 8: out and see the way they, play you'll come. Back
38:01
Speaker 8: it's not like and it's not that like they were.
38:03
Speaker 8: Bad they were good under, buzz but they weren't good
38:05
Speaker 8: to watch at times because they'd, win, ugly couldn't shoot and.
38:09
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38:12
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38:20
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38:22
Speaker 8: Says bucket ball reminds me Of Mike, Leach texas, Football
38:27
Speaker 8: Texas tech. Football fun to, watch hard to. Defend that's
38:30
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38:34
Speaker 8: uh you know, sports we're having fun here for two
38:39
Speaker 8: hours if nobody else. Is and you, know sports is
38:42
Speaker 8: supposed to be about. Fun it's supposed to be about
38:44
Speaker 8: oh you live and die on on the. Games it's.
38:48
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38:52
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38:55
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38:57
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39:00
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39:04
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39:06
Speaker 8: to The College College World series that, year runner up Under,
39:10
Speaker 8: schlopster that was pretty.
39:11
Speaker 5: Fun that was a lot of. Fun you went to the.
39:13
Speaker 9: Ballpark, yeah That Oregon Super regional games were pretty pretty,
39:17
Speaker 9: life a lot of.
39:17
Speaker 8: Fun you got.
39:18
Speaker 5: Out it's.
39:18
Speaker 3: Entertainment, well the other thing about this team is that
39:22
Speaker 3: guys THAT i didn't really think much of early in the,
39:25
Speaker 3: year think Like Ali diva. MAN i love watching that.
39:29
Speaker 3: KID i, mean he just like brings such energy and
39:32
Speaker 3: he's a great. Defender and you, know the only disappointment
39:36
Speaker 3: has Been. FREDERICO i mean he's just almost non. Existent
39:40
Speaker 3: BUT i like the Way bucky subs him in for
39:44
Speaker 3: defense all the. Time so he wants to get ag
39:48
Speaker 3: out as much as possible in the defensive, end one
39:51
Speaker 3: to protect him from, files two to give him a
39:53
Speaker 3: little bit of a, breather and so he SUBSTITUTES i,
39:58
Speaker 3: mean very very. FREELY i think If frederico could do
40:02
Speaker 3: something and, DEVELOP i have right now have more hope In.
40:05
Speaker 3: Vincent and you know the way he played Against, texas
40:08
Speaker 3: you know they one by. Four he has two monster,
40:10
Speaker 3: donks SO i hope that he continues to evolve because
40:16
Speaker 3: he does have big time. Athleticism we answer your.
40:19
Speaker 8: Question you answered. It i'm sure the listeners loved. It
40:23
Speaker 8: and here's the deal is it's like a great year in. Football,
40:27
Speaker 8: yes when you look AT a AND m lost To,
40:29
Speaker 8: miami but you could make a case say almost came.
40:32
Speaker 8: Close they could have gone a little bit. Further women's
40:34
Speaker 8: basketball Is rusty alluded, to AND i see every day they're.
40:39
Speaker 8: Struggling they're not going to probably make the. Postseason but
40:42
Speaker 8: it's nice to have basketball because you Need march madness
40:46
Speaker 8: to bridge the spring sports from. Football and right now
40:51
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40:53
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Speaker 3: IS i had another thought About Bucky. BALL i don't,
42:57
Speaker 3: Know i'm sure you've seen, it but they had these
43:00
Speaker 3: little videos they produce and on social, media AND i
43:04
Speaker 3: love the video they produced about we pressed right from the.
43:09
Speaker 3: Start and so they had one of the one of
43:12
Speaker 3: the assistants pull up in the parking lot and two
43:15
Speaker 3: guys jump on him and start pressing.
43:18
Speaker 5: That's.
43:19
Speaker 3: Good and my wife sent that to. Him that's, good
43:22
Speaker 3: and she, Goes i'm so glad these kids are having
43:24
Speaker 3: fun as opposed to getting a philosophy lesson every. Day
43:29
Speaker 3: And i'm, like, yeah that's That's, bucky. Y'all AND i
43:33
Speaker 3: just they're having. Fun and you can, tell or like.
43:37
Speaker 5: The people covering her have.
43:38
Speaker 3: Fun it's so much. Fun, obviously when you know they
43:42
Speaker 3: Beat auburn And bucky gets on the. Plane he does that.
43:45
Speaker 3: Video he, goes you, know don't be a second, late
43:49
Speaker 3: because even if you're a millisecond, late it doesn't. Count
43:52
Speaker 3: and it was talking about The auburn, game, right and
43:55
Speaker 3: somebody said to, ME.
43:56
Speaker 8: I, go you want to coach to have a little
43:57
Speaker 8: bit of fun and content because it's.
43:59
Speaker 5: Sport you're gonna. Win you're gonna, Win you're gonna, win
44:01
Speaker 5: you're gonna.
44:02
Speaker 3: Lose you enjoy all those. Guys haven't you talked about
44:04
Speaker 3: the riland, Quote, yeah they're having fun about you, know shutting.
44:08
Speaker 6: Down fortunately.
44:09
Speaker 8: Not you, know here's here's here's about. Sports we watched
44:13
Speaker 8: all these millionaire. Coaches these players now are getting, paid
44:16
Speaker 8: which they should and some of them good good. Money
44:19
Speaker 8: but still gets back to winning and. Losing you know you,
44:22
Speaker 8: winning are you losing? It it's all about the excitement and.
44:26
Speaker 8: SPORTS i get you a, defeat the thrill of.
44:29
Speaker 3: Victory and they're not. PERFECT i mean and buzzes players
44:33
Speaker 3: got on the floor very quickly, too and they. Hustled
44:37
Speaker 3: it's like it seems like there's there's more to. IT
44:41
Speaker 3: i was sitting on the floor in that game when
44:44
Speaker 3: ag comes bareling towards, me you, know and he like
44:47
Speaker 3: ends up on the floor And i'm, like, oh thank
44:49
Speaker 3: god he didn't run me, over you, know because that
44:53
Speaker 3: is a big. GUY i do not want to get
44:55
Speaker 3: run over by Ag.
44:56
Speaker 8: You guys are gonna earn your keep since you're getting paid.
44:59
Speaker 8: Nothing here's the. Deal we got another text in appreciate.
45:02
Speaker 5: People.
45:03
Speaker 8: Listen this is From mike And. Edmund.
45:05
Speaker 5: OKLAHOMA i, guess, okay, Okay.
45:08
Speaker 8: Oklahoma, yeah Exactly do you think that bucket ball is
45:12
Speaker 8: similar to The Billy tubbs system AT oweu in the?
45:16
Speaker 8: Eighties constant defense in great? Shooting thanks for, acknowledge, Acknowledging
45:22
Speaker 8: kentz felt the nineteen Eighty aggie basketball team lost to
45:26
Speaker 8: eventual national Champ louisville in double. Overtime with a three point,
45:30
Speaker 8: shot three point and shot, clock they would have won it.
45:34
Speaker 3: All, YEAH i think you're exactly. Right AND i still
45:36
Speaker 3: go back to a really, bad, bad bad call in
45:39
Speaker 3: That louisville. GAME i, mean there's no, way at LEAST
45:43
Speaker 3: i don't forget. That you, remember and, yeah that team
45:47
Speaker 3: could have won the national. Championship AND i wonder how
45:50
Speaker 3: different that team would, be or how DIFFERENT a AND
45:54
Speaker 3: m basketball would have been had they won The National
45:56
Speaker 3: championship Because louisville did go.
45:58
Speaker 6: On or even just go to the final.
45:59
Speaker 3: Four that's you, know we were talking about that team
46:03
Speaker 3: because they didn't have a shot. Clock and when they
46:05
Speaker 3: Played North carolina up In, denton that like the first
46:09
Speaker 3: two rounds were In. Denton that's how far the N
46:11
Speaker 3: C Double tournament's, come, Right so they Played North.
46:14
Speaker 15: Carolina And, denton and, Yeah North carolina won the tap
46:20
Speaker 15: in overtime and they held the ball like four corners
46:24
Speaker 15: and him didn't get a.
46:25
Speaker 3: Shot and so the big key was and won the
46:29
Speaker 3: tap in the second ot and it ain't him ran
46:32
Speaker 3: away from them BECAUSE i mean they scored early and
46:34
Speaker 3: then you, know they Shut North carolina down and it
46:37
Speaker 3: became a real basketball, game AND i think for the
46:39
Speaker 3: longest time it was the largest victory in overtime for
46:44
Speaker 3: any team in the N C Doublea. Tournament but, yeah
46:46
Speaker 3: those teams were. Fun they were, athletic and this team
46:50
Speaker 3: is so much. FUN i don't. Know IF i don't,
46:53
Speaker 3: KNOW i don't Remember Billy tubbs, ENOUGH i.
46:56
Speaker 8: DO i do appreciate the note because WHEN i got,
46:58
Speaker 8: IT i do. Remember Billy tubbs was a huge, name
47:00
Speaker 8: getting up and down he was he Liked lamar to he, Was, YES.
47:05
Speaker 3: I remember Him lamar BECAUSE i was, like, man this
47:08
Speaker 3: Is lamar is making.
47:09
Speaker 8: NOTES i remember, him, great great basketball. Coach good, Text.
47:14
Speaker 8: MIKE i appreciate. It i'm, thinking, like forgot all About Billy.
47:17
Speaker 8: Tubbs Billy tubbs was a name and he did.
47:19
Speaker 3: It like you, said it's it's a little like BECAUSE
47:22
Speaker 3: i can SAY i Remember Nolan richardson in the forty
47:25
Speaker 3: minutes a, hell and so it's a little bit like.
47:28
Speaker 3: That But adam doesn't have the talent. Yet if they
47:33
Speaker 3: get that, talent this could be forty minutes of absolute
47:37
Speaker 3: hell for. Opponents AND i think that you, know THE
47:40
Speaker 3: am fans who have always appreciated defense over Cayle, field
47:46
Speaker 3: they're starting to appreciate the defense.
47:49
Speaker 6: Here, well they love that About buzz and they love
47:52
Speaker 6: that About Billy. Clyde, right everybody loved the.
47:55
Speaker 9: Defense everybody loves it when he forced a shot clock
47:57
Speaker 9: violation right.
48:00
Speaker 6: To your point about what would have happened If aanem
48:03
Speaker 6: won a.
48:03
Speaker 9: National, championship, right it just makes me, think, Like, Okay
48:06
Speaker 9: bucky comes from the state Of. Alabama think about the
48:10
Speaker 9: state Of alabama basketball ten years, Ago alabama And. Auburn
48:15
Speaker 9: those were games that you expected to, win right, like
48:18
Speaker 9: they were not. Competitive and Then auburn brings In Bruce Pearl,
48:23
Speaker 9: alabama they Get. NATO's they've each been to The Final
48:26
Speaker 9: four in the last five seven. Years auburn's been to
48:30
Speaker 9: two of. THEM i Think Jake weeks can fact check,
48:32
Speaker 9: me but my point is basketball is a big deal
48:36
Speaker 9: in the state Of. Alabama now you look at the
48:39
Speaker 9: renaissance of basketball here In texas over the last ten
48:42
Speaker 9: fifteen years With tech In houston And. Baylor it started With.
48:46
Speaker 9: Baylor baylor was really stinking. Good you could probably argue
48:50
Speaker 9: basketball is pretty good Under Rick barnes and, it but
48:53
Speaker 9: there was a loll there where basketball is not very
48:55
Speaker 9: good here in the state Of, texas and it's kind
48:57
Speaker 9: of reinvented. Itself AND a And m's kind of the
49:00
Speaker 9: last team to get going among the big. Schools and
49:03
Speaker 9: what would a run to A final four do for
49:05
Speaker 9: a sport like men's. Basketball when we talk about a
49:09
Speaker 9: needs the, support aem, needs you, know the. Backing think
49:12
Speaker 9: about what volleyball is, doing, Right, yeah you, know it's
49:15
Speaker 9: just stuff stuff like.
49:16
Speaker 6: That that's WHAT i think, Of is it gonna happen this.
49:19
Speaker 6: YEAR i don't, know but.
49:21
Speaker 3: It's probably not gonna happen this year because the talent
49:25
Speaker 3: gap is gonna eventually catch up with them once they
49:28
Speaker 3: get into the. Tournament but it can happen With. Bucky
49:34
Speaker 3: this style of play is so unique that and you
49:38
Speaker 3: mentioned it's great for THE ncaa. Tournament it's hard to
49:40
Speaker 3: prepare FOR a AND m and so, Yeah i'm really
49:43
Speaker 3: excited about can they make the tournament this? Year? Yes they.
49:47
Speaker 3: Can if they, do Is i'm gonna. CELEBRATE i, mean
49:51
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a, fantastic fantastic first year For bucky
49:56
Speaker 3: and The Sky's limott.
49:58
Speaker 8: Hit on a few. Things somebody actually text me on
50:01
Speaker 8: my phone tried to get in through. This wanted to
50:03
Speaker 8: know Where texas AND a AND m finished in the
50:07
Speaker 8: FINAL cfp. Rankings THE Cfp final rankings were the one
50:11
Speaker 8: before everything. Happened SO a AND m ended up where
50:14
Speaker 8: they were at number uh, seven number. Seven talk About, Polly,
50:19
Speaker 8: no he said THE cfp but he but as far
50:22
Speaker 8: AS Ap final poll and The Coaches Final, poll Your
50:26
Speaker 8: texas teams tech IN Ap tech, SEVEN a AND m,
50:30
Speaker 8: eight uh In texas.
50:32
Speaker 5: Twelve the coaches Had tech.
50:35
Speaker 8: SEVEN a AND m eight And texas, thirteen AND i
50:40
Speaker 8: kind of agreed with. Those i'm AN ap, voter AND
50:43
Speaker 8: i Had tech right ahead OF a AND, m AND
50:45
Speaker 8: i Had texas AFTER a AND.
50:47
Speaker 3: M seems to me like A m finished football season six,
50:50
Speaker 3: months doesn't it doesn't?
50:51
Speaker 8: It it seems a couple of things before we. Go
50:55
Speaker 8: you guys excited about The Super matchups matchup you've, gone are?
51:00
Speaker 8: Indifferent no? Team so what about you know you feel?
51:04
Speaker 8: About you?
51:04
Speaker 3: KNOW i could care. LESS i tried to watch both
51:08
Speaker 3: of those games yesterday AND i ended up flipping both of.
51:13
Speaker 3: THEM i was, like, OH i just you, KNOW i
51:16
Speaker 3: Guess i'm rooting for The. Seahawks for one reason is
51:20
Speaker 3: that my good Friend Jacob green played The, seahawks and you,
51:25
Speaker 3: know his son in, Law bread played for The, seahawks
51:29
Speaker 3: and so he's still tied very much to The seattle,
51:33
Speaker 3: community does a huge charitable golf tournament every year up In. Seattle,
51:38
Speaker 3: so for no other reason THAN i.
51:42
Speaker 16: Did we have to see The patriots. Again, Jeez i'm
51:46
Speaker 16: luckily they're all New. PATRIOTS i will say that it's
51:48
Speaker 16: not the old. Guard what about college football playoff is
51:52
Speaker 16: de signed to stay with twelve teams for another year
51:55
Speaker 16: and not going to. Sixteen what'sch you guys' thoughts?
51:58
Speaker 3: On oh, WAY i wanted to Hear alex About Super.
52:00
Speaker 8: Bowl, Okay i'm, Sorry i'm.
52:01
Speaker 9: SORRY i just hope both teams have. FUN i have
52:06
Speaker 9: a shirt that says. That but, NOW, CFP i, mean
52:10
Speaker 9: twelve is better than twenty, four, right, YES i, mean, Look,
52:15
Speaker 9: miami they made a run as a ten. Seed it's
52:18
Speaker 9: gonna be interesting now that all of the power conferences
52:22
Speaker 9: that they get an automatic qualifier and the name gets.
52:25
Speaker 6: In it'd have Been.
52:27
Speaker 9: Duke it would have Been Notre dame at, Ten duke at,
52:30
Speaker 9: eleven and THEN i Guess tulane at. Twelve but, yeah,
52:39
Speaker 9: sixteen to, me sixteen would be. Alright the thing about the, playoff,
52:44
Speaker 9: Though they've got to do something with the.
52:46
Speaker 6: Calendar it is.
52:48
Speaker 9: Ridiculous you look at the next couple of, years like
52:51
Speaker 9: next year's.
52:52
Speaker 6: Game championship, game it's like On january twenty. Fifth that's.
52:55
Speaker 3: Insane SO i gave this a lot of. Thought and
52:59
Speaker 3: IF i was, charge And i'm not gonna be in,
53:01
Speaker 3: CHARGE i would BE i would sixteen. TEAMS i would
53:04
Speaker 3: eliminate all conference, championships so you would start the playoff
53:08
Speaker 3: and the weekend of the conference. Championships all sixteen teams
53:13
Speaker 3: would play at opening. WEEKEND i would also do away
53:16
Speaker 3: with all of the minor bowl games And i'd play
53:20
Speaker 3: them in the first of the, year so THE Ala
53:23
Speaker 3: mobile would be played as based on teams last.
53:27
Speaker 5: Year THE Ala.
53:28
Speaker 3: Mobile would select. You you would play the, opener all
53:31
Speaker 3: the guys would. Play The altomobile would still make. Money
53:34
Speaker 3: he'd probably be a much bigger attendance than there. Is
53:37
Speaker 3: you could plan to go travel, right you go To Texas.
53:40
Speaker 3: Bowl you can still have these bowl, games but you
53:42
Speaker 3: do it in the neutral, site so you take away
53:44
Speaker 3: all those other neutral site, games and then all the
53:48
Speaker 3: players are participating in those preseason bowl. GAMES i think
53:53
Speaker 3: that would.
53:54
Speaker 8: Work.
53:55
Speaker 3: Now there's no one's going to make. Me the college footballs,
53:57
Speaker 3: are BUT i like to see the all sixteen teams
54:01
Speaker 3: play all the games because the boys are one and
54:05
Speaker 3: seven in two. Years in the, end it is the
54:07
Speaker 3: only team that's gotten a boy that there's.
54:09
Speaker 8: ONE i would love sixteen. Teams i'm against twenty. FOUR
54:14
Speaker 8: i wish they would do in sixteen because it's so
54:16
Speaker 8: much fun having twelve the last two years because they
54:18
Speaker 8: got it, right they tweaked the first, year and because
54:22
Speaker 8: the seating wasn't, right they'll tweak it. Again SO i
54:25
Speaker 8: don't really it.
54:26
Speaker 3: Wasn't right this year to have right two of the
54:29
Speaker 3: non power.
54:29
Speaker 8: Forward, yeah that's not. RIGHT i. Don't you got to
54:32
Speaker 8: do away with. That that's WHY i like going to.
54:34
Speaker 8: SIXTEEN i like going to. Sixteen you can have one
54:37
Speaker 8: or two bad ones in.
54:39
Speaker 9: There i'm okay with them still keeping the group of
54:42
Speaker 9: five spot, though because if, look if not every team
54:46
Speaker 9: has access to the, championship then The Power conferences they
54:50
Speaker 9: just need to break off.
54:51
Speaker 6: And do their own.
54:52
Speaker 9: Thing if AND i get, it it's a long shot
54:55
Speaker 9: only one of them gets, in but, hey you still
54:57
Speaker 9: get a, shot and that's the way it should be
55:00
Speaker 9: in my.
55:00
Speaker 8: Opinion, okay, Guys Nolan richardson had his forty minutes of.
55:04
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55:09
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