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04/13/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning with Wisconsin and welcome to the huddle. I'm
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Speaker 2: On one ready cut me quick. You look at this play.
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Speaker 1: What we're trying to get is a you here and
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Speaker 1: I see you here and to try to run this
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Speaker 1: play in.
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Speaker 2: The hole's let's go on to keep me try what
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Speaker 2: play be right all the way outside? Why left?
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Speaker 5: Thanks three ninety sick bag be here, see park, he's
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Speaker 5: not long enough.
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Speaker 2: I watching to be party of professional. It's a great
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Speaker 2: professional out there and playing this ball game like I
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Speaker 2: know you can play it.
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Speaker 1: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, this man's been out all night.
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Speaker 4: Armand sorry, don't say we're ready.
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 6: Welcome aboard. It's the Monday edition of the Huddle. Drew Wilson,
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Speaker 6: Bill Schmid and that gentleman, armand sorry, and back from
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Speaker 6: the desert, back from vacations.
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Speaker 2: Up, guys, that's happening. Great to have you back, my friend.
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Speaker 7: Well ready to be back. Guy's great to see both
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Speaker 7: your smiling faces this morning. And uh yeah, it's just
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Speaker 7: you know, another what weekend up turmoil in the sports landscape.
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Speaker 7: So I guess it's a fitting that I'm back here
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Speaker 7: for it.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, less than an ideal weekend, however, Drew, I definitely
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Speaker 5: thought of a couple of different pranks, so we could
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Speaker 5: have pulled on Arman.
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Speaker 2: But it was nice.
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Speaker 5: It was nice to see that Kia parked right back
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Speaker 5: into his company MVP parking spot right out front, and
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Speaker 5: knowing that we were we were in good company here.
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Speaker 2: This morning, exactly.
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Speaker 6: It's it's great knowing that Armon is going to be
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Speaker 6: pushing the buttons today. He's back with us until he
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Speaker 6: leaves again at the end.
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Speaker 2: Of the week. Yeah. Yeah, the way it's been going
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Speaker 2: this month.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, here I thought we are approaching low tide
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Speaker 6: on the sports calendar. Our Masters is over, College Basketball
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Speaker 6: Final four over a distant memory, Buck Season over. Finally
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Speaker 6: still like you know, a week leading into the draft,
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Speaker 6: we still got a buffer zone. Although we can start
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Speaker 6: talking more draft this week. It's like, all right, what's
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Speaker 6: gonna happen? And then lo and behold the sports God said,
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Speaker 6: oh I got something for you. Doc Rivers out, Chris
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Speaker 6: McIntosh out burs with a five game losing streak to
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Speaker 6: sweat through. Right now, our cup running over. We got
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Speaker 6: all kinds of stuff to talk about today.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's wild to think that all of a sudden,
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Speaker 5: the middle of April weekend could feel like a mid
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Speaker 5: October weekend with the amount that we would come in
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Speaker 5: on a Monday morning with to discuss. Sure, there's no
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Speaker 5: coverage breaks that allow a touchdown to break down into
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Speaker 5: a Packers or Badger's game, but good lord, the amount
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Speaker 5: that just happened and transpired. I mean, let's be honest,
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Speaker 5: over the last thirty six forty eight hours, you clump
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Speaker 5: in the fact that you had one nothing lead in
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Speaker 5: just dominating the national title game for the men's hockey
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Speaker 5: team that people started to get a little captivated with
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Speaker 5: at the UW and then just no fault and losing
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Speaker 5: to a Denver program. It's an absolute wagon, but in
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Speaker 5: that fashion, it's a tough one. And then they put
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Speaker 5: up the full numbers drew of the Doc Rivers era
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Speaker 5: of Milwaukee Bucks basketball, and I didn't anticipate that Jason
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Speaker 5: Kidds numbers were potentially gonna look.
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Speaker 2: Better, right, I did.
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Speaker 5: Ninety eight and one oh four, a missed playoffs to
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Speaker 5: end it, and a pair of first round exits. It's
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Speaker 5: how you follow up the thirty or forty game run
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Speaker 5: from Adrian Griffin and then the Mike Budenolezer era. It
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Speaker 5: is a a lot to discuss and a lot of change,
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Speaker 5: especially after thirty four finally talked in front of some
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Speaker 5: cameras last night.
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Speaker 7: And and two hundred games, I mean is a lot
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Speaker 7: of games. For some reason, it just didn't feel I
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Speaker 7: guess it felt a lot worse when I saw that.
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Speaker 7: When I saw that overall record, I'm like, boy, you
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Speaker 7: know it wasn't, as you know, bad overall record wise,
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Speaker 7: as I thought a lot of it was that early year,
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Speaker 7: first year.
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Speaker 2: But as we know, it's just not wins and losses
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Speaker 2: that have judged.
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Speaker 7: We're gonna be judging this Bucks team, right guys, I
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Speaker 7: mean over the last few years, the window, whatever you
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Speaker 7: feel about it was there or wasn't, and that's the
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Speaker 7: way we were gonna judge it. And yeah, it's been
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Speaker 7: it's been colossally bad this year, so it sure has
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Speaker 7: felt worse. And then lot what somebody asked me on Twitter,
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Speaker 7: all right, now that the game's over, well the seasons over,
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Speaker 7: how quick can we fired Doc?
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Speaker 2: And it was only two minutes later. I was like, well,
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Speaker 2: there you go. I was in the drafts.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, fired resigning. Do we get language?
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Speaker 2: Just I think it was the way that I saw and.
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Speaker 6: Uh, he's gonna get paid, Well that was the that
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Speaker 6: was the funny that was going to happen.
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Speaker 2: So he's like he'll be a consultant.
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Speaker 5: And I think I couldn't remember which one it was.
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Speaker 5: I think it was Seams did point in there drew
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Speaker 5: his eight figure salary, so he ain't given a dime
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Speaker 5: of it back, which is the other which is the
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Speaker 5: other part of the Jim Calhoun not a dimeback.
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Speaker 2: Hey, now the Bucks will only be paying two NBA.
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Speaker 5: Coaches, Right, We're getting better here, Billy moving in the
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Speaker 5: right direction that way, and then into a are they
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Speaker 5: done paying Griff?
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Speaker 2: I believe they're done paying Griffin? Okay, because that was
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Speaker 2: after this season, Because I do so.
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Speaker 5: I think at the end of this year they'll be
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Speaker 5: done paying So then they'll be Griffin. So next year,
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Speaker 5: in the era of change, you only paid two coaches
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Speaker 5: one you know, potentially still pulling all the strings.
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Speaker 2: We don't necessarily know.
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Speaker 5: But the way that all of the reporting has started
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Speaker 5: to leak out sounds like Doc had a lot of
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Speaker 5: control from that ownership group. It sounds like he had
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Speaker 5: a lot of say in what was going on in
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Speaker 5: transpiring and opens up even a lot more tough questions
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Speaker 5: for one Doc Rivers before he walks into the Hall
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Speaker 5: of Fame coming up next year.
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Speaker 7: And I think it opens up questions in a lot
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Speaker 7: of ways, and we'll get into it. But you know,
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Speaker 7: John Horse, I mean, there seems to be a question
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Speaker 7: of how much control he really had, or how much
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Speaker 7: say he had, or how much his voice was being
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Speaker 7: swayed by seemingly Doc who was just the seemingly.
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Speaker 2: Like the czar of basketball.
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Speaker 7: Basically there, and you know what's gonna happen now next?
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Speaker 2: Is he gonna still have a big voice?
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Speaker 7: All the Bucks fans that were kind of wishing for
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Speaker 7: his departure and waiting for this, I guess, sort of
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Speaker 7: like the Macintosh thing, fans waiting for something else to
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Speaker 7: happen or hoping for a change. What kind of change
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Speaker 7: will you get? I think still that's the question looming
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Speaker 7: for me in the sole situation. Who's the next Bucks coach?
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Speaker 7: Who do you want?
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Speaker 2: Well? Darv Right, Darvin? I mean what people keep saying.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, in house, sure, but I don't know that I'd
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Speaker 5: be that upset with Darvin Ham. I would like them
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Speaker 5: to cast a wide net. I'm gonna I'm not even
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Speaker 5: gonna act like I know all of the people that
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Speaker 5: should be available for it, right, because I guess I
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Speaker 5: can't say that I knew my man Darko was a
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Speaker 5: candidate for an NBA job in Toronto. I've loved what
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Speaker 5: he's done with the Raptors. The tough thing is they've
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Speaker 5: had a couple of guys in the house over the
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Speaker 5: last three years Drew that have gone on, Yeah and
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Speaker 5: ben really successful NBA coaches. Now it works out when
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Speaker 5: you get con K Nipple to break the NBA three
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Speaker 5: point record and in your second year being a head
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Speaker 5: coach for Charles Lee. But they've had some really talented
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Speaker 5: guys leave and maybe it's a Taylor Jenkins who's out there.
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Speaker 2: Who was here before.
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Speaker 5: But if you're not going to be coaching Giannis, I
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Speaker 5: don't know that it matters at all if you've had
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Speaker 5: ties to this organization before Drew, because it is uh in.
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Speaker 5: The biggest thing is because of how Giannis has described
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Speaker 5: and he's exactly right, it isn't the same organization that
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Speaker 5: he's got work gone.
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Speaker 6: This is a rebuild to the Studs, total total tear down.
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Speaker 6: One of the names, Sam Cassell, interesting name, he's a
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Speaker 6: rising star and he would be hilarious. Has history in Milwaukee.
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Speaker 5: He's been a lead assistant for a lot of years,
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Speaker 5: he's regarded as like a lot of chance. He's like,
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Speaker 5: you know, next, Yeah, it seems like in that realm
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Speaker 5: where he was going to get a chance very soon.
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Speaker 6: Guy Jordan Ott who's with Phoenix and Johnny Bryant with
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Speaker 6: the calves that are the assistant guys, uh that are
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Speaker 6: getting some some run.
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Speaker 7: There is this a chance now because of the changing
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Speaker 7: landscape in college where you might think you'd take a
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Speaker 7: chance on a big college coach that's tired of the
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Speaker 7: situations and anyway.
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Speaker 6: And then yeah, Rondo has been around Milwaukee a little
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Speaker 6: bit helping out.
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Speaker 2: John Rondo has been a guy in name well in
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Speaker 2: that Bucks interviewed Becky Hammond.
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Speaker 5: I was gonna say, I could see a Becky Hammond
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Speaker 5: being being interesting. Wasn't Don Staley's name. Didn't it start
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Speaker 5: to seep in to a couple of searches last, Like,
9:02
Speaker 5: I think everything's going to be on the table for him,
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Speaker 5: And I don't ryots.
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Speaker 7: The most hilarious thing interesting. Terry Sya would be funny
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Speaker 7: and he's a good coach.
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Speaker 6: What if they had gone with Terry Stotts in the
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Speaker 6: first cycle and he had Dame and honest, I mean.
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Speaker 2: Completely different consideration right now.
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Speaker 5: Well, and that's where I mean we we tend to
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Speaker 5: look and just encapsulate the Griffin part in his run
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Speaker 5: as the record that they had when they let him go.
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Speaker 5: You forget that that was what after he coached one
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Speaker 5: game that the situation seeped out or was that before
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Speaker 5: the season even started, Like was going to be your
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Speaker 5: most seasoned veteran assistant to be able to help with and.
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Speaker 2: He bailed like it was all It all.
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Speaker 5: Started right there, and you mentioned the name right there
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Speaker 5: of Damian Lillard where a lot of this ends up
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Speaker 5: stemming from that deal.
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Speaker 2: And it is crazy to think.
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Speaker 5: And the irony wasn't long stun me last night when
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Speaker 5: I'm looking at the entire twenty teams that are going
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Speaker 5: to be playing postseason basketball and the Portland Trailblazers are
10:08
Speaker 5: in there, I know, how did the.
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Speaker 2: Bucks not win forty four games? Right? It's like, how
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Speaker 2: did you? Well?
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Speaker 5: I mean, uh, this when he said, yeah, pretty disappointed
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Speaker 5: at all of you. It was pretty bad. It's terrible.
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Speaker 7: I think you say that, Drew, and it's true because
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Speaker 7: maybe been so used to winning, at least with having
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Speaker 7: certain guys, but when you have be honest you felt
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Speaker 7: like that's an automatic forty some wins, but we didn't
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Speaker 7: have you, Honest most of the year in body or
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Speaker 7: in mind.
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Speaker 2: I don't know either way. And I feel like the
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Speaker 2: town around them was just not good at all.
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Speaker 7: I mean, there are some nights here at the end
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Speaker 7: of the year where you're like, I can't believe these
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Speaker 7: guys are on an NBA roster, at least some of them,
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Speaker 7: at least it does feel that way a little bit.
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Speaker 2: So how they not win?
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Speaker 7: I understand that, I kind of agree, but it sort
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Speaker 7: of feels like, man, early in the year when you started,
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Speaker 7: like you know, when the Gary trends of the world
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Speaker 7: and Tory and Prince and all these things didn't work
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Speaker 7: out or got hurt, and you're like, man, this really
11:01
Speaker 7: isn't going to be working well, is it. And if
11:03
Speaker 7: Johannis can't stay healthy. There were just issues all year.
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Speaker 7: So it's been kind of a nightmare season for the Bucks,
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Speaker 7: especially the last month for Bucks fans, just wanting it
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Speaker 7: to end because you didn't want to hear any more,
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Speaker 7: you know, of the next episode of As the Honest
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Speaker 7: turns with the organization.
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Speaker 2: We'll just get ready for that. And it's not going
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Speaker 2: to change. I get that you're ready for that, whether
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Speaker 2: what's happening in his future will always be the case.
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Speaker 7: But the whole we're pursuing the league because I can't
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Speaker 7: play in all that situation.
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Speaker 6: Oh man, Then it begs the question how attractive is
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Speaker 6: the Bucks job? Like, right now you got to hire
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Speaker 6: a coach and then he'll find out if you honest
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Speaker 6: is going to be in the in the mix or not?
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Speaker 2: Is that a chilling effect? Does that make?
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Speaker 6: I mean, if Taylor Jenkins, you want a gig, right, Yeah, you.
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Speaker 2: Want an NBA gig? Right, it's one to thirty.
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Speaker 5: Now, the interesting thing is if you're trying to lure
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Speaker 5: somebody out of college, then maybe you'd want a little
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Speaker 5: bit more certainty. I actually don't think that's a bad
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Speaker 5: idea when you think of how young the team's probably
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Speaker 5: going to be, but with all the assets that they
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Speaker 5: end up going and getting.
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Speaker 2: But Drew, I got it.
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Speaker 5: I got a sneaking suspicion that the new coach is
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Speaker 5: going to have a pretty clear idea if he'sa have
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Speaker 5: be honest or not? Right, Like, I think that's pretty
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Speaker 5: set in stone. It would then depend on who you
12:11
Speaker 5: would be able to potentially help decide that you're gonna
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Speaker 5: go and pick who you're gonna be able to. Maybe
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Speaker 5: you have some rosters, say here from John Horsse who
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Speaker 5: just continues to be around and just got extended, but
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Speaker 5: it doesn't sound like he had full unilateral control over
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Speaker 5: what was potentially happening. If you listen to some of
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Speaker 5: those shops reports that it's just I think it's attractive
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Speaker 5: because it's an NBA job, but I'll have to see
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Speaker 5: all of them that are available. If you can rank
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Speaker 5: it one through four, one through five, I do struggle
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Speaker 5: to think it's going to be at the top of
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Speaker 5: any list, so that it would behoove them to strike early,
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Speaker 5: I would think, and you know, if they're gonna give
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Speaker 5: it to Darwin Ham make the move.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's why I think they had that graphic pend up.
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Speaker 5: That's why they had that one holstered up more than
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Speaker 5: what was that the twenty nineteen Eastern Conference finals when
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Speaker 5: the first Jannis potentially wandering eye story happened, and that's
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Speaker 5: when he got up and left the press conference. When
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Speaker 5: Malik Andrews asked him a question, we got the Chris Middleton.
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Speaker 2: Meme of.
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Speaker 7: Adversity the question, what was the question planning the road?
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Speaker 5: So that one they had ready for about two weeks.
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Speaker 5: They might have had this one ready for two months.
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Speaker 5: They might have had this one prepared when everybody was
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Speaker 5: asking us our friend Pete waking up early with the set,
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Speaker 5: it was well past time for Doc to get the
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Speaker 5: acts horrendous three seasons. They might have been planning this
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Speaker 5: for quite some time and they knew the string was
13:33
Speaker 5: gonna have to get run out, and now all of
13:34
Speaker 5: a sudden we've reached the deadline here on April thirteenth.
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Speaker 7: But if this wasn't planning, like you said, in a
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Speaker 7: mutual type decision, then how much has really changed? And
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Speaker 7: then the next question is who's really calling the shots
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Speaker 7: ownership wise? Right? I mean, is it Jimmy Haslm? Is
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Speaker 7: it the governorship? Is it all those type of things?
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Speaker 7: And if it is Jimmy Haslam, is it going to
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Speaker 7: become We're now Jimmy Haslm's team and Jimmy has to
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Speaker 7: get Jimmy's guys in and are we gonna be run well?
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Speaker 7: Because it seems like even though you know Wes is
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Speaker 7: still there the whole lasry Eden's ownership, you know trust
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Speaker 7: is not going to be the same anymore. It's it's
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Speaker 7: it's increasing control for Jimmy Haslam. And and if he's
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Speaker 7: making the decisions, how much power does he want this
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Speaker 7: situation besides just being the governor or being the owner.
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Speaker 7: Does he want to make more basketball decisions? Does he
14:20
Speaker 7: want to have his guys in there for better or
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Speaker 7: for worse? I think that's still kind of a lingering,
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Speaker 7: unanswered kind of cloud of a question that no one
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Speaker 7: really knows because we don't see Jimmy Haslam.
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Speaker 5: It seems like, yeah, and this is also gonna interestingly
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Speaker 5: now we've talked about Darvin Ham. Dave Yeager, also on
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Speaker 5: that staff, is a former head coach. Like, I wonder
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Speaker 5: how much politicking behind the scenes you're gonna start seeing
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Speaker 5: and we'll start seeing how what the fractures were going
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Speaker 5: on in that locker room.
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Speaker 2: Apparently it was like a funeral.
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Speaker 5: Charles Barkley had some takes on what the Milwaukee Bucks
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Speaker 5: locker room was, Like we can play those coming up
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Speaker 5: a little bit later on. But there's that there's a
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Speaker 5: thought as to you have to be able to get
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Speaker 5: some kind of a shock. It seems like they want
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Speaker 5: to have somewhat of a splash. I don't know that
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Speaker 5: there's that guy out here, other than maybe, if you
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Speaker 5: know it's gonna be a turbulent couple of years, maybe
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Speaker 5: Sam Cassell, a former player, does give you a little
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Speaker 5: bit of good will, Drew. I don't know if they're
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Speaker 5: hiring in that sense, but with with the lack of
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Speaker 5: control over your first round pick, with the lack of assets,
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Speaker 5: it is a tough sell to be giving to whatever
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Speaker 5: and whoever the top head coaching candidate ends up being.
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Speaker 7: You're saying we might be coming up to a Kean
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Speaker 7: dueling like Goodwill type of year where it's like, oh,
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Speaker 7: we have a local guy and this is the fun
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Speaker 7: local team, but we might not be winning this year.
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Speaker 7: Is that what you're saying, Billy? Is that the future
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Speaker 7: that's upon us. It might be a couple of years,
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Speaker 7: a couple of years where we hire Sam because it's
15:43
Speaker 7: a name, or Koran Butler, for instance, a heat assistant
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Speaker 7: for six years.
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Speaker 2: Local. Do I like that local guy? I mean, I
15:49
Speaker 2: don't know, but maybe that isn't.
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Speaker 7: England gold Controls school man. You know, one of those
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Speaker 7: type of guys you know, So.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, the thing is, though the coach is just like
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Speaker 6: the Bucks have ninety nine problems. The coach is one
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Speaker 6: is one. It's just it's a bigger It ain't number one.
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Speaker 6: It ain't number one. No, it's like that's they have
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Speaker 6: other issues like you know, stretching, Dame Salary and Son
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Speaker 6: and Miles Turner and just the lack of youth and
16:16
Speaker 6: length and guys that can play the wing.
16:19
Speaker 2: I love they got some pieces.
16:23
Speaker 6: Darry Byrd is their all time leading single season three
16:26
Speaker 6: point guy now after yesterday.
16:27
Speaker 2: It's amazing. But yeah, that's true.
16:29
Speaker 6: We'll say that for game balls and catching balls, which
16:31
Speaker 6: is coming up soon.
16:33
Speaker 2: I mean, you do have guys that you think of, Okay,
16:34
Speaker 2: maybe you can.
16:35
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know if Rollins is a guy you
16:36
Speaker 6: can build around. That's gonna be the key question.
16:40
Speaker 2: That's the thing. It was so dysfunctional this year.
16:41
Speaker 6: It's such garbage time that it was it's hard to tell,
16:45
Speaker 6: you know. I mean, the Kuzma experiment did.
16:47
Speaker 2: And that's where it clearly drew.
16:49
Speaker 5: The The amount of in and out on on Giannis
16:52
Speaker 5: was difficult to know because when it was clear in
16:57
Speaker 5: his frustrations that he vented rather publicly, uh, when he
17:00
Speaker 5: came back a couple of times, being like, well, I
17:02
Speaker 5: don't know what I don't know what I'm doing here.
17:03
Speaker 2: I don't know whither giving me the ball.
17:05
Speaker 5: For the majority of the time, as you mentioned, it
17:06
Speaker 5: was such losing ball and losing time that it was
17:10
Speaker 5: let me make sure I get mine, and then when
17:13
Speaker 5: the big fellow comes back, there was still some possessiveness
17:16
Speaker 5: over that, and that's that's kind of set more from
17:18
Speaker 5: the top. But Giannis last night when asked, you're gonna
17:21
Speaker 5: be back with the Milwaukee Bucks, it's.
17:22
Speaker 2: A very good question. I don't know. It's not up
17:25
Speaker 2: to me. We'll see. It's not up to me, we'll see.
17:30
Speaker 7: And he's been consistent with that line now for how long,
17:32
Speaker 7: to the point where he's trying to make the point
17:34
Speaker 7: where it's like, hey, maybe it's not my decision.
17:36
Speaker 2: You guys all assume it's will yannistay or not. And
17:39
Speaker 2: he won't. He can't trade himself. He can't trade himself.
17:43
Speaker 2: But he could say I'm going to sign the extension
17:45
Speaker 2: and stay I want to build here.
17:46
Speaker 5: Yeah, or you could end it that way, or you
17:49
Speaker 5: could very well do what everyone else does in the
17:51
Speaker 5: league and say, excuse me, I would like to go
17:53
Speaker 5: play somewhere else, but make it public and say what
17:56
Speaker 5: you want.
17:57
Speaker 6: To his point though, and it's formality because I really
18:00
Speaker 6: can't give him the contract EXTENTI to October.
18:02
Speaker 2: He's like, it hasn't been offered yet.
18:03
Speaker 6: This is all fiction, so you know it's not a
18:06
Speaker 6: consideration yet.
18:07
Speaker 2: Is there any world? Is there any world where he
18:09
Speaker 2: wouldn't be offered it? Though?
18:11
Speaker 6: I think that's I don't think so either, But I
18:13
Speaker 6: mean they laid it out with Ramona Shelbourne, right, They said,
18:16
Speaker 6: he's either going to sign the extension or we're trading it, or.
18:18
Speaker 2: We're trading him one of two things.
18:19
Speaker 5: Now, the interesting one would be Arman if all of
18:22
Speaker 5: a sudden, like right at the end, it was the
18:24
Speaker 5: language was different, that it wasn't technically one something.
18:27
Speaker 7: Like that where he could perceive it as I wasn't
18:29
Speaker 7: offered the deal and you'd be getting.
18:31
Speaker 5: Real messy one one or two days before the first game,
18:35
Speaker 5: right because October first is when Drew pointed out right
18:38
Speaker 5: like that that's the day that the offer can officially
18:41
Speaker 5: be in the hands of his agents. And they read
18:43
Speaker 5: this over and say, ah, this is no good, this
18:46
Speaker 5: is not what we agreed to. This is not the
18:48
Speaker 5: standardized language that we're getting here in a super Max deal,
18:51
Speaker 5: so maybe the varying degrees of it would be. And
18:55
Speaker 5: then again, then you really really get into a toxic
18:58
Speaker 5: situation because you got a guy who is going to
19:01
Speaker 5: be right at the end of the line of his
19:04
Speaker 5: last off season under your control, going into eighty two games,
19:08
Speaker 5: and you're you're hoping that somebody is desperate enough to
19:11
Speaker 5: go and shell out and sell out everything that they
19:15
Speaker 5: have when they've already depleted those assets and built a
19:17
Speaker 5: team that they like. Now we start watching the NBA
19:20
Speaker 5: playoffs to start seeing what teams with a bunch of
19:22
Speaker 5: assets get bounced out.
19:24
Speaker 2: And a moralizing fashion.
19:27
Speaker 5: So now you need to hope for a lot of
19:28
Speaker 5: three one blown leads in series and a lot of
19:31
Speaker 5: ownership groups to say we're a Giannis away.
19:34
Speaker 6: Mister three to one just stepped away from coaching the
19:37
Speaker 6: side lauch emotional damage.
19:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, man, well, I'm is this a victory?
19:50
Speaker 2: Really quick? Before the break? Is this a victory?
19:52
Speaker 7: Lab for Cham's Like that's part of Pete had this comment,
19:55
Speaker 7: so he's accurate, Like you know.
19:57
Speaker 2: They had the little back and forth is that stuff
20:01
Speaker 2: with the Knicks.
20:01
Speaker 6: Janness basically confirmed that there were smoke there and it
20:04
Speaker 6: was true, and you've been denying it all this time,
20:06
Speaker 6: and now it was like, yeah, we tried to get
20:08
Speaker 6: to New York.
20:08
Speaker 2: And see that's the part of this.
20:10
Speaker 5: It can all be changed if one guy tells you
20:14
Speaker 5: what he truly is feeling.
20:16
Speaker 2: And we haven't wanted to be the bad guy.
20:18
Speaker 6: And now arm and you were gone when this started percolating,
20:22
Speaker 6: right and you were weighing in and taking some strays.
20:25
Speaker 6: You know, Elbaldo was getting after you because you're such
20:27
Speaker 6: a cock eye optimist. You're such a Billy Mumphrey of
20:29
Speaker 6: a fan I am. Maybe that's it's taken Arma in
20:33
Speaker 6: to realize. Uh, you know, buddy, the elf left the building.
20:36
Speaker 6: He's not here anymore.
20:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is gone.
20:41
Speaker 6: Many things are true, though, and the thing is is
20:43
Speaker 6: honest like everybody else. Sure, but I will say this,
20:46
Speaker 6: Giannis has been exceedingly consistent in his belief. He has
20:51
Speaker 6: said throughout his time, going back to the time you said,
20:55
Speaker 6: Billy an Eastern Conference finals, mm hmm. He wants to
20:57
Speaker 6: stay in Milwaukee, and he wants to play for a
21:00
Speaker 6: team that can compete for a championship. At present, those
21:03
Speaker 6: two things seem to be in conflict because it doesn't
21:05
Speaker 6: seem like the Bucks are ready or even close to
21:08
Speaker 6: even thinking about, you know, a four seed less playing
21:12
Speaker 6: for a championship, and that's the problem. But so he
21:16
Speaker 6: has not changed. That has always been his stance. The
21:21
Speaker 6: Bucks have changed and the paradigm has changed the whole
21:24
Speaker 6: the chessboard has changed, but he has not changed.
21:26
Speaker 2: So I think he's being consistent.
21:29
Speaker 7: Right, I would agree, and that was kind of one
21:31
Speaker 7: of my original points on this side.
21:33
Speaker 2: But he's also And Brett Favre played the country Bumpkin
21:38
Speaker 2: for years.
21:38
Speaker 6: I spent time yapping in the microphone Brett Favre, would
21:41
Speaker 6: you know the barns on fire? Here come the trucks,
21:44
Speaker 6: and Brett favor the guy who kicked over the lantern
21:46
Speaker 6: in the in the hey Baale set those.
21:48
Speaker 2: Guys going, what are those guys doing here? What happened?
21:50
Speaker 2: What are you guys doing it? What's going on? Why
21:52
Speaker 2: is this going on? What happened? Dude? Come on?
21:55
Speaker 6: So, yes, it's an evolution. We've seen it before, we've
21:58
Speaker 6: lived it before. Sketch popcorn ready. I just have a
22:02
Speaker 6: feeling the Bucks though if you honestly, the new coach
22:06
Speaker 6: isn't gonna sell tickets, and they're gonna be back down
22:09
Speaker 6: to the hard ohs.
22:10
Speaker 2: That were there.
22:11
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, right in the age before you honest, get
22:14
Speaker 6: your hard NBA fans who love the league and will
22:19
Speaker 6: file and they love the Bucks and they'll follow it.
22:21
Speaker 2: And for the bandwagons left the building.
22:24
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're gonna be seeing drew a lot more of
22:26
Speaker 5: the advertisements that I grew up with, which was come
22:29
Speaker 5: see Kobe in the Lakers, Come see.
22:32
Speaker 2: Comes see Luca the Lakers. Come to see Anthony Edwards.
22:36
Speaker 2: Get your free James Hard and Beard for the first
22:42
Speaker 2: kissed me off.
22:44
Speaker 6: We are Oh boy, we are off and running with
22:46
Speaker 6: the Monday edition of The Huddle.
22:48
Speaker 2: So much to get to today.
22:49
Speaker 6: As unshocking as the Doc Rivers news was yesterday, I
22:53
Speaker 6: was pretty shocked when I heard Chris McIntosh is no
22:55
Speaker 6: longer going to be the athletic director of Wisconsin. We're
22:57
Speaker 6: going to talk about that talk. We'll get a Brewers
22:59
Speaker 6: report for Hunter Bombguard. He's going to join us live today.
23:02
Speaker 6: We'll share some thoughts about Phil Garner's passing. It was
23:07
Speaker 6: not unexpected, but still quite sad. A tough day yesterday
23:10
Speaker 6: to get that news. We'll talk about all that and
23:12
Speaker 6: more and it's game balls and kicks to the balls today,
23:15
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23:45
Speaker 6: of you. So the Doc Rivers news, I knew it
23:49
Speaker 6: was coming, figured it would be today at the latest
23:52
Speaker 6: Bucks need a new coach. The fact that the Badgers
23:55
Speaker 6: need a new ad ready was a bit.
23:57
Speaker 5: Of a what that rattles the cages yesterday when I
24:01
Speaker 5: saw that message come through.
24:02
Speaker 6: So that one comes through, Chris McIntosh goes now, I
24:06
Speaker 6: was thinking about this in the aftermath as it shook out,
24:09
Speaker 6: and we had a little text thread going with the
24:10
Speaker 6: boys arm and back in it.
24:12
Speaker 2: Arma loves being back in the mix.
24:14
Speaker 6: I thought today we would spend all day thinking about,
24:16
Speaker 6: like how where armand found the cheapest shrimp cocktail.
24:19
Speaker 2: Oh, he's got that stuff ready. He just realized that.
24:22
Speaker 2: Then we have all this breaking news.
24:24
Speaker 6: We found out Max leaving right after the men's hockey
24:27
Speaker 6: team goes to the Frozen Four loses the championship game.
24:29
Speaker 6: Women won a title mm HM women's basketball, research and
24:33
Speaker 6: women's volleyball. Solid football is a disaster, and they're trying
24:40
Speaker 6: to get out of it.
24:40
Speaker 2: They're trying.
24:41
Speaker 6: They just got to had a huge win with the
24:42
Speaker 6: legislature and Governor ever signing a bill to give them
24:45
Speaker 6: some more cash to help them try to keep up
24:47
Speaker 6: with the Joneses. But him leaving and going to the
24:50
Speaker 6: Big ten network is interesting on a number of levels.
24:52
Speaker 6: But I was thinking about this and it's like, I
24:53
Speaker 6: think Armor might have mentioned it mentioning with some other buddies.
24:57
Speaker 6: Being an a d might be one of the worst
25:00
Speaker 6: jobs in sports. It was at one time, it was
25:02
Speaker 6: like one of the best jobs.
25:03
Speaker 2: It used to be a cushy retirement.
25:05
Speaker 6: Now all you're doing is shaking people down for cash
25:08
Speaker 6: and taking the strays and catching the strays of a
25:12
Speaker 6: system that is completely run amok. So It's like, who
25:17
Speaker 6: I mean that talk about a temp job. You can
25:20
Speaker 6: go from first to worst, worst to first, Like the
25:23
Speaker 6: pressure has never been you know, quick turnarounds. The pressure
25:26
Speaker 6: has never been more intense. That you can buy players,
25:29
Speaker 6: that you can look at what uh you know what.
25:31
Speaker 2: We just saw in the n Yeah what did they win?
25:36
Speaker 2: Eight games?
25:36
Speaker 8: One?
25:37
Speaker 6: And two years later they're cutting down the net and
25:39
Speaker 6: hanging a banner. So that is now a rough job.
25:42
Speaker 6: And Mac seemed like he had weathered a bunch of
25:45
Speaker 6: storms and here he is leaving. And then I couldn't help.
25:48
Speaker 6: But you got to pull back and say bigger picture, Chancellor,
25:52
Speaker 6: university president and ad all out in a span of
25:55
Speaker 6: a couple of months.
25:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, all within four months. What are we looking at? Like?
26:00
Speaker 2: Is there are they all getting out ahead of something?
26:02
Speaker 6: Is like it makes you the reporter in you goes, okay,
26:05
Speaker 6: are these how are these tied together?
26:07
Speaker 2: These departures that is going on.
26:09
Speaker 5: The part of pulling back and looking at three of
26:12
Speaker 5: the most significant people departing the system well and the
26:16
Speaker 5: biggest university in the system, makes you really really question
26:20
Speaker 5: what the conversation is and if there could potentially be
26:23
Speaker 5: more to it.
26:24
Speaker 2: But to the ad role.
26:27
Speaker 5: I struggle to say that it's fully not the job
26:29
Speaker 5: that he anticipated taking because I think in the timing
26:33
Speaker 5: of it, when he gets selected, this was all forecasted,
26:37
Speaker 5: This was all down the pike. It might have changed
26:41
Speaker 5: significantly year in month by month that he's been in
26:44
Speaker 5: the role, but this was part of the reason why
26:47
Speaker 5: Barry Elvers got out. Why there were a lot of
26:48
Speaker 5: guys that were done with it, not only the fact
26:50
Speaker 5: that Mary was done being the athletic director and wanted
26:54
Speaker 5: to give it to somebody that he and felt like
26:56
Speaker 5: he was in really really good hands. I think we
26:57
Speaker 5: all did at the time. And there's parts of the
27:02
Speaker 5: athletic department that you mentioned, Drew that are in really.
27:05
Speaker 2: Really good standing. I mean, women's basketball might have the
27:08
Speaker 2: most successful year they've had in a decade.
27:10
Speaker 7: That must have been no doubt that could have been
27:12
Speaker 7: I mean all respect to Manzaki, that could have been
27:14
Speaker 7: his best hire.
27:15
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, program that has underachieved for years. It's
27:18
Speaker 6: always been flabbergasting because volleyball is so strong there and
27:21
Speaker 6: there's a good pipeline of talent in the state, Like,
27:24
Speaker 6: why is it so bad?
27:24
Speaker 5: It's been horrible for years? It's been horrible for years.
27:26
Speaker 5: And also now there was some uh, you know, there
27:29
Speaker 5: was some issues with the previous coach trade. When he's
27:31
Speaker 5: on from that one you mentioned Mike case things. He's
27:34
Speaker 5: in the fine frozen four a couple of years after
27:36
Speaker 5: getting hired, and the one that leads all of it
27:41
Speaker 5: is the one that he was supposed to have the
27:45
Speaker 5: most vested interest and understanding of which was football and
27:49
Speaker 5: when the football will suffer the rest of the university
27:54
Speaker 5: marketing wise, a lot of time does. I don't have
27:57
Speaker 5: the numbers in front of me, but I would love
27:59
Speaker 5: to know what the application numbers and what the spike
28:03
Speaker 5: was for IU after they go and win the national
28:05
Speaker 5: title or with University of Michigan.
28:07
Speaker 2: There's aways gonna be a lot of people, but same deal.
28:09
Speaker 5: People want to be about winning, People want to be
28:10
Speaker 5: around that, people like seeing that. People don't necessarily love
28:14
Speaker 5: to see four and eight on the Big ten plus
28:16
Speaker 5: every couple of weeks. So it's the best marketing arm
28:19
Speaker 5: for university. It really is, and there's a reason why
28:21
Speaker 5: it gets the most money. And now it's potentially being
28:23
Speaker 5: funded with some more dollars that they come from taxpayers.
28:27
Speaker 5: But I think knowing what the job is and all
28:33
Speaker 5: of the change around. It might have been one of
28:35
Speaker 5: those where Chris Magintosh kind of knew he would be
28:38
Speaker 5: on some un level footing with the success and the
28:41
Speaker 5: lack thereof of the fickle hire that that could be
28:44
Speaker 5: getting out in front of it.
28:46
Speaker 2: You're also going to have no new friends.
28:48
Speaker 5: You don't want to necessarily have new friends in that
28:51
Speaker 5: position because they want to hire their friends, They want
28:54
Speaker 5: to hire their people, and you being the holdover is generally.
28:59
Speaker 2: A tough spot to be in.
29:00
Speaker 6: A friend of mine put something into the social media universe.
29:03
Speaker 6: He has a candidate in mind, Mark Murphy. Wow, there
29:08
Speaker 6: he is the name Mark Murphy for a d of
29:12
Speaker 6: the Badgers. Listen, he wants to grind that much and
29:15
Speaker 6: shake trees. And I was gonna say what I'm saying,
29:18
Speaker 6: it's not a good job anymore.
29:19
Speaker 5: How about it was the ad job he used to
29:21
Speaker 5: have it at Northwestern, No question he'd be interested.
29:25
Speaker 7: Is basically a three hundred and sixty five day year
29:28
Speaker 7: job to shake down money trees, to feed the never
29:31
Speaker 7: ending beast of getting an al money.
29:32
Speaker 2: It won't ever stop.
29:34
Speaker 6: You need job, you need an administrator type. But then
29:37
Speaker 6: you also need the front man, and it's hard to find.
29:41
Speaker 6: So you almost said for in some ways, you have
29:43
Speaker 6: to look at this as a two person higher. Throw
29:46
Speaker 6: JJ Watt in there as the guys program, and then
29:49
Speaker 6: have somebody do the actual business stuff, and that JJ
29:52
Speaker 6: show up at the outings and let him be. The
29:55
Speaker 6: programs have been doing that now, Joe Thomas or Andrew
29:58
Speaker 6: Lux of the world did that.
29:59
Speaker 2: I'm gonna yeah.
30:00
Speaker 7: If I joke to you, Billy, the marketing is the
30:02
Speaker 7: way way to be that guy. Like yeah, and in
30:04
Speaker 7: some ways, you know, unofficially, but officially you need that
30:07
Speaker 7: kind of figurehead to bring in the donors and then
30:09
Speaker 7: the rest, you know, the scheduling and all the actual.
30:11
Speaker 2: Work to be done by an ad. I don't know,
30:13
Speaker 2: it just seems like that's the way it is now.
30:15
Speaker 7: And if it's a job where like you said, maybe
30:17
Speaker 7: get out ahead of the posse, or if it's not
30:19
Speaker 7: that enjoyable anyway, it's like, oh, I'm gonna just it's
30:22
Speaker 7: It reminds me of a referee wanting to go to
30:25
Speaker 7: a network and saying, you know what, I don't want
30:27
Speaker 7: to actually referee anymore. I'm just gonna be this consultant
30:29
Speaker 7: on network. Make it easy, no more pressure, the job
30:32
Speaker 7: going way more money, more money. Go on TV every
30:34
Speaker 7: now and then and say I think it was a
30:36
Speaker 7: good call. We'll see what they say. You know, it
30:38
Speaker 7: just seems like that type of thing now where it
30:40
Speaker 7: was like, yeah, the hires when you look at him,
30:42
Speaker 7: we're not that bad when you talk about women's basketball
30:45
Speaker 7: and men talking except for of course, the biggest, one
30:48
Speaker 7: of the most important one, which is football. And this
30:50
Speaker 7: will always be the case, and it'll always be the
30:52
Speaker 7: case no matter how good the other programs are.
30:53
Speaker 2: Football's got to succeed.
30:55
Speaker 6: So Mike Lucas weighed in, Oh, I saw that one
31:00
Speaker 6: thing like running away from the challenge of getting the
31:01
Speaker 6: UW football program back on track.
31:03
Speaker 2: Wasn't it the goal?
31:04
Speaker 6: He didn't have Paul Chris back, he didn't have Jim
31:07
Speaker 6: Leonard's back, and you can't say that he's had Luke
31:09
Speaker 6: Fickles back, not with such such a consequential season ahead.
31:14
Speaker 2: Well, I wonder how you felt about coach. I'm I'm
31:17
Speaker 2: as well. You know, it's a little bit like Cam
31:19
Speaker 2: Thomas taking shots at Doc Revers.
31:21
Speaker 5: But still, you know, well, in the lack of funding
31:26
Speaker 5: to start with, what was a part of it. Now,
31:28
Speaker 5: I do believe that they're getting close to being able
31:31
Speaker 5: to keep up with some of the jones and getting
31:33
Speaker 5: back into the graces where you're supposed to be. But again,
31:37
Speaker 5: when when your football team had the lack of success
31:40
Speaker 5: that it did over the last two years, a lot
31:42
Speaker 5: of those money trees that Arman you mentioned can be really,
31:45
Speaker 5: really difficult to shake down. They can be hard to
31:48
Speaker 5: have conversations with. I think that there's more to the
31:53
Speaker 5: role that he's taking with the Big Ten, where it's
31:57
Speaker 5: the other part of it, like I don't necessarily know
32:00
Speaker 5: how much of As much as I do love playing
32:02
Speaker 5: conspiracy guy, I love putting the tinfoil hat on and
32:05
Speaker 5: knowing everything that could be around the corner, just around
32:07
Speaker 5: the river bend. What are we gonna actually see here
32:09
Speaker 5: at the UW. There's a big part of me of
32:12
Speaker 5: how the conversation starts. This might be a better job
32:15
Speaker 5: that he's gonna go take. Right, He's gonna be working
32:17
Speaker 5: directly under Tony Patiti. He's gonna be telling everybody else
32:21
Speaker 5: how they should be doing there.
32:23
Speaker 2: It's kind of a consultant.
32:25
Speaker 5: That's kind and I've often dreamed of the days that
32:28
Speaker 5: I can be a consultant. Consultant where you get paid
32:32
Speaker 5: to tell somebody what they're doing wrong and if they
32:35
Speaker 5: don't do it.
32:36
Speaker 2: That's their fault. Yeah, I'm still getting paid.
32:38
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, his former boss and mentor. I am the
32:42
Speaker 6: search committee Barry Alvarez. Did Barry help him land this
32:46
Speaker 6: gig with the Big ten network?
32:48
Speaker 2: I bet it doesn't, doesn't or doesn't.
32:50
Speaker 6: Now you're in a situation like the Bucks will have
32:52
Speaker 6: a coach sooner than later? When will Wisconsin have an
32:56
Speaker 6: a d Because they need a chancellor and a president
32:58
Speaker 6: and those are kind of, in terms of academics a
33:01
Speaker 6: little bit more important, and they're the people who would
33:03
Speaker 6: hire the ad.
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Speaker 5: Well, and then they need a UW system president and
33:06
Speaker 5: that person probably has to get hired before all of
33:08
Speaker 5: them do.
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Speaker 2: Right, let's start there.
33:11
Speaker 5: I mean, like, and we I know that we've gotten
33:14
Speaker 5: some little bits of it, but there's more better reporting
33:18
Speaker 5: on it than I know of exactly why he was
33:21
Speaker 5: forced to resign and then or asked to resign and
33:24
Speaker 5: then fired.
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Speaker 2: So like, there's there's a lot there.
33:26
Speaker 5: There's a lot to still be excited about because Colton
33:30
Speaker 5: Joseph throwing the football all right, so I am still
33:33
Speaker 5: once the games start getting played in August gonna be
33:36
Speaker 5: so fired up. And we got the boys on the
33:37
Speaker 5: field already coming up eight forty five today for more springball.
33:41
Speaker 5: Nick Bruzowitz was doing a snowy practice report the other
33:44
Speaker 5: day about that come on sweet three three minute and
33:46
Speaker 5: I think it was forty eight second video that they
33:49
Speaker 5: like energy from Nick Bruzwitz.
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Speaker 2: So the games are going to continue to roll on.
33:54
Speaker 5: And if you thought it was an important year for
33:57
Speaker 5: Luke Fickl, just the temperature sure on that seat did
34:01
Speaker 5: just turn.
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Speaker 2: Up even more.
34:03
Speaker 5: I don't know how much hotter it could have been,
34:05
Speaker 5: but it is warm again, and it continues to when
34:09
Speaker 5: there's going to be a lot of new sheriffs in time.
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Speaker 7: Guys, let me see about these numbers, right, it's not
34:12
Speaker 7: important football is. We already know that, right. Ninety percent
34:15
Speaker 7: of the athletic department is funded by it. In twenty
34:17
Speaker 7: four to twenty five, football made the university seventy two
34:20
Speaker 7: point one million, Men's basketball seven point four million, so
34:24
Speaker 7: a tenth of it, but still very successful. All other
34:26
Speaker 7: sports combined men and women lost seventy five million. So
34:29
Speaker 7: there's just an indication of how important it is for
34:32
Speaker 7: the UW to have football be successful. I ever goes
34:36
Speaker 7: without saying obviously, but with all these things we're talking about, Chancellor,
34:39
Speaker 7: university president, obviously, the ad. You know a lot of
34:43
Speaker 7: people just wondering that any of these things to help
34:45
Speaker 7: us go waiting for it next year, which is I
34:48
Speaker 7: think kind of like maybe the best case scenario. So
34:52
Speaker 7: it's it's it's a lot to sift through right now
34:55
Speaker 7: for the University Wisconsin, for Badger fans. In the midst
34:59
Speaker 7: of you almost had the ad take a farewell on
35:02
Speaker 7: a national championship for hockey that is still a very
35:06
Speaker 7: very important sport at the u W, as we know,
35:08
Speaker 7: they were a hair away from doing it. So it's
35:10
Speaker 7: such a unique position to be in a unique mix
35:13
Speaker 7: and what success and failure is is kind of harder
35:15
Speaker 7: to find a lot of times. But I know a
35:17
Speaker 7: lot of my friends that are Badger fans were I'm
35:20
Speaker 7: welcoming this news. Yeah, I tap my Badger alumbuddies for
35:24
Speaker 7: some you know, some reaction. They were all pretty excited.
35:27
Speaker 7: So who knows what to expect.
35:28
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you can put the team in
35:29
Speaker 2: over there.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, when we come back well, the other big
35:33
Speaker 6: story of the Brewers and their rough weekend stumbling around
35:37
Speaker 6: now with a yellich injury hobblin. We'll have a Hunter
35:40
Speaker 6: bombguard's report when we come back, and then we'll fire
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Speaker 6: up the game Balls and Kicks the Balls machine. Remember
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Speaker 6: eight seven seven seven nine, seventy year ticket to the
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Speaker 6: nicol a lot. I'm talking text line on a Game
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Speaker 6: Balls and Kicks the Balls Monday. You're in the Huddle,
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Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Monday edition of the Huddle, Fox
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Speaker 6: Sports Radio Wisconsin continues Drew Wilsome, Bill Schmid, armand Sorryan
36:05
Speaker 6: back from Vegas.
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Speaker 2: Back in the chair. He's hot and cold.
36:09
Speaker 6: We will be uh doing game Balls and Kicks to
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Speaker 6: the balls in about thirteen minutes.
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Speaker 2: I got some holes up, a lot of good ones.
36:16
Speaker 2: Today we will a lot of kicks.
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Speaker 6: I'm sure we will be giving game balls to David
36:20
Speaker 6: Gasper and Hunter bombgrat for holding down the fort. Well, Yes,
36:23
Speaker 6: armand was gone fantastic. It takes a village, Billy, and
36:25
Speaker 6: I need adult supervision at all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt.
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Speaker 7: I know Dave did Hunter and you know in the
36:30
Speaker 7: past and sometimes it's been luddy, So yeah, I appreciate
36:33
Speaker 7: everybody helping out.
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Speaker 5: And also I think I think there needs to be
36:37
Speaker 5: an early game ball to the HR department here at
36:40
Speaker 5: iHeartMedia for being able to flood our MVP armand sorry
36:43
Speaker 5: with some incredible.
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Speaker 2: Amount of vacation.
36:45
Speaker 5: Well we get some more in here, Let's do some more.
36:47
Speaker 5: That's what I'm talking about. I'm proud of them. That's
36:49
Speaker 5: great work. By then, well it's about time they've realized
36:52
Speaker 5: your superstar MVP efforts.
36:54
Speaker 2: Well, listen, I don't want to be one.
36:56
Speaker 7: Billy always like Billy always likes a joke about it's
36:59
Speaker 7: a radio trais. Guys like to talk about the vacasion
37:01
Speaker 7: they're going to take and whatever. So I've tried not
37:03
Speaker 7: to do much bring that up because you don't wants.
37:06
Speaker 2: To hear about it.
37:06
Speaker 7: But however, you know, we all are entitled to a
37:09
Speaker 7: certain amount off days, and I haven't taken him for
37:11
Speaker 7: a while, so and you earned I'm certain I've sort
37:14
Speaker 7: of it. Just so happens they've all been packed in
37:16
Speaker 7: this month. And Drew mentioned a couple more at the
37:19
Speaker 7: end of the week, because.
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Speaker 2: A couple more at the end of the week. Yeah,
37:22
Speaker 2: because I yeah, I yes, yes, Friday it's just Friday.
37:27
Speaker 7: Okay, this one, it's a I guess you'd say it stay,
37:32
Speaker 7: but I stay casy. But a confluence of events at
37:35
Speaker 7: home have caused me to have to stay home and ketch.
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Speaker 2: Care for my young daughter.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, no problem. Oh I'm excited for it. Don't get
37:43
Speaker 7: me wrong for that part, to get to spend some time.
37:45
Speaker 6: But I know you're past this already, both of you guys.
37:48
Speaker 6: But you just a word of the wise. Anybody with
37:51
Speaker 6: who has kids or has kids on the horizon, never
37:53
Speaker 6: refer to taking care of your own child.
37:55
Speaker 2: This babysitting. No, I never do that. You got call,
37:58
Speaker 2: I got call. Bring the hell hath no fury, No,
38:03
Speaker 2: it's I'm sorry. Am I supposed to pay you to?
38:06
Speaker 2: You're not babysitting. You are what you're doing. Do you
38:09
Speaker 2: charge an hour for the babysitting?
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Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, don't ever refer to you being babysitting
38:15
Speaker 6: your own child.
38:15
Speaker 7: I did learn that lesson early on. You never refer
38:19
Speaker 7: that it's a get to thing. Now, Billy, I liked it.
38:21
Speaker 7: I would like to think I did a little work
38:23
Speaker 7: on my trip, but I know I could have done more.
38:25
Speaker 7: But I did a little work on my trip.
38:26
Speaker 2: That's true. I was a video report right.
38:29
Speaker 5: All of a sudden, I start seeing some pictures drew
38:31
Speaker 5: outside of Team Obile arena, and I'm like, oh my god,
38:33
Speaker 5: Armand Armand's getting us some sound for the Frozen four.
38:36
Speaker 5: He's going to the games, putting a shirt on and going.
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Speaker 2: To the game. I have at Hawaiian shirt on.
38:41
Speaker 5: Came right from the pool and said, no, just some
38:44
Speaker 5: some digital assets.
38:45
Speaker 2: We'll take all of them. We'll take all.
38:47
Speaker 6: You know who works hard for us and never takes
38:48
Speaker 6: a vacation, our buddy Hunter, Hunter Bombguard has a Brewer's
38:52
Speaker 6: recap for us. From a disappointing end to a disappointing weekend,
38:56
Speaker 6: let's take it away Hunter.
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Speaker 2: Thanks guys.
38:59
Speaker 4: It was not a great weekend at the ballpark for
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Speaker 4: the Milwaukee Brewers. They get swept by the Washington Nationals.
39:03
Speaker 4: They've now lost five in a row for the first
39:05
Speaker 4: time since June of twenty twenty three. And to make matters,
39:08
Speaker 4: where is Christian Yelich left with left hamstring tightness on
39:12
Speaker 4: Sunday afternoon, left after just two at bats. Spurs manager
39:16
Speaker 4: Pat Murphy provided an update.
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Speaker 8: We're most likely going to get some bad news on Yelich. Yeah,
39:21
Speaker 8: I felt a little twinge in his hamstring and we're
39:24
Speaker 8: getting it imaged right now. There is some fluid in there,
39:28
Speaker 8: so you know, it's wait and see. He wanted to
39:32
Speaker 8: stay in the game, but like you know, just like
39:35
Speaker 8: everything else, we just got to be careful of these guys.
39:37
Speaker 8: This in April or in April. What's the date, April twelfth,
39:42
Speaker 8: April twelfth. You know, we've got a lot of injuries.
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Speaker 4: So it's waiting to see on yelly. Meanwhile, Brewer is
39:48
Speaker 4: trying to bounce back tomorrow night against the Blue Jays.
39:51
Speaker 4: Bryce Terraing, who had a two homer game on Sunday afternoon,
39:54
Speaker 4: says he still trusts the guys in the room.
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Speaker 3: Well, wolves, fun, we'll figure it out. We got a
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Speaker 3: really good, really good team though when we play our
40:04
Speaker 3: game are hard to beat, so we know that it's
40:07
Speaker 3: just understanding each individual guy to trust each other and
40:11
Speaker 3: trust themselves.
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Speaker 4: Brewers, now eight and seven on the year, try to
40:15
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40:32
Speaker 2: Thank you, Hunter. There we go.
40:33
Speaker 5: Hunter out stand he was not wrong. It was not
40:37
Speaker 5: a great weekend at the ballpark, not only from the
40:41
Speaker 5: might have been in the merchandise stands, might have been
40:43
Speaker 5: for the Wisco Jerseys. You get swept three games by
40:46
Speaker 5: the Nationals, the team that last year. Correct me if
40:49
Speaker 5: I'm wrong. I think they came back in won all
40:51
Speaker 5: three of those games at home.
40:53
Speaker 2: They were apart maybe of.
40:54
Speaker 5: The fourteen game winning streak, they had some great moments
40:58
Speaker 5: against the Nats at American Family Field last year. And
41:01
Speaker 5: it does feel like quickly drew baseball will slap you
41:05
Speaker 5: in the face and all of a sudden, what was
41:07
Speaker 5: the super special no four game losing streaks? Yeah, a
41:10
Speaker 5: couple of years ago. Well now you got a five gamer,
41:12
Speaker 5: five gamer. But hey, you're eight and seven, and you
41:15
Speaker 5: were eight and seven a year ago and you won
41:17
Speaker 5: ninety seven games.
41:18
Speaker 2: Eight and seven with a five game loose.
41:22
Speaker 7: That's a that's a compliment the way you started like, okay,
41:25
Speaker 7: well you just stayed a losing streak to stay eight
41:27
Speaker 7: and seven, and the fact that you haven't had a
41:29
Speaker 7: losing streak like that in a couple of years, that's
41:31
Speaker 7: an amazing feeding in of itself. So, at the risk
41:34
Speaker 7: of sounding way too positive, I think there's a lot
41:36
Speaker 7: to celebrate in that regard when you start to think
41:38
Speaker 7: about it. Also, we always joke about Bryce Terrang being,
41:41
Speaker 7: you know, way too even keel, never up, never down. Now,
41:43
Speaker 7: this is the time you want a guy that's never
41:45
Speaker 7: down right there, This is the time you wanted Bryce Terrang.
41:48
Speaker 2: Not just because we're doing the plate obviously.
41:50
Speaker 6: And you have to factor in the Brewers were already
41:52
Speaker 6: up against it without Vaughan and Churio, and now with
41:55
Speaker 6: Yelich probably headed for the IL. Three or your top
41:58
Speaker 6: five hitters in the lineup are out, good luck, We
42:02
Speaker 6: forget about that next man up. And baseball is such
42:04
Speaker 6: a day to day grind they play every day that
42:06
Speaker 6: you don't you know, you forget you you memory hold
42:09
Speaker 6: those injuries like, well.
42:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, when Jackson, by the way, they're.
42:13
Speaker 6: Gonna get Quinn Priester back at some point, like he
42:15
Speaker 6: was one of their best starters.
42:17
Speaker 2: Ok.
42:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, when when our guy Paul Wagner is sitting in
42:21
Speaker 5: between Andrew Vaughn and Jackson Churio on a Sunday afternoon,
42:24
Speaker 5: signing autographs with a long line, with a long line.
42:28
Speaker 5: My wife didn't want to go in that line. She
42:29
Speaker 5: wanted to go into the Jackson Cheria line and wait
42:31
Speaker 5: for nothing.
42:32
Speaker 2: Like, let's go Leggs, come on right there, perfect. I
42:34
Speaker 2: can't understand why.
42:35
Speaker 5: Instead when when those guys are signing autographs on a
42:38
Speaker 5: Sunday and not hitting first and third in the lineup. Yeah,
42:41
Speaker 5: it's gonna be a tough one. I hear bad news.
42:44
Speaker 5: They say, don't speculate on injuries. Well, Sportstock Radio speculates
42:47
Speaker 5: on everything that sounds like four to six at least
42:50
Speaker 5: right that weeks that's gonna be. That's a long hill
42:54
Speaker 5: to toe if you're not gonna get those guys back soon.
42:57
Speaker 6: Firing up the game balls and kicks the balls machine,
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Speaker 6: get them to us.
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Speaker 2: You're hanging out in the huddle. On Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin,