The Duke Hate Is Still Strong, Plus Jay Bilas on the UConn & Hurley Difference, Arizona vs. Michigan & Some NBA Draft Talk

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“Which I think he will win a national championship.”

I went back to the final four last year. We had Shire on to ask him about the Houston lost that was in the final four obviously yesterday against you con was to go to the final four. And they couldn't inbound the ball and I was like kind of not trepidacious about it, but I was kind of like, hey can we talk about what happened. They were up 67 61 last year and it was like under 40 seconds left. I think sharp hits the three like 33 seconds left and they still have their issues. And so when you see them lose on Molyn's three yesterday, this incredible historic comeback by Yukon that will get to here.

The joy. The joy that everyone else feels in the sports world. I don't know that there's anything like it. There may not be anything that has a higher approval rating in the sports world than Duke losing in the tournament. That feels significant. It hasn't even been 24 hours.

It's all anybody is talking about. There's like I just a little bit more spirit in each person's step. You're watching guys on TV that do this job. And obviously if they have no affiliation with Duke, it's like everybody just enjoys it. It's going to be brutal.

Brutal to know that everyone is so happy with your sadness.

I'm never going to run for president case you were wondering.

I don't think it's for me.

But I think about how difficult it is to get everyone to agree on stuff.

A lot of stuff too that seems like hey, wouldn't everybody just sort of agree on that. You can even look at like voting. And then you can look at like what the public wants and then what happens with our leaders and you're like, Hey, I thought everybody wanted this. I like to think of different things.

Like if you said, hey, no more $7 bottle of water stuff at the airport. Like that's done cheaper water at the airport. Could we do that? Who would be against it? And maybe big water obviously be the one. But you'd have to figure that one out.

I just don't understand why there's this just understood tariff that we're paying.

“As soon as we walk through security or it's like, how much of those air buds?”

Like I don't think that's it says it's on sale.

I think that sale prices actually like still $50 higher than if I just bought it at the store or online. Like no, no, these are the new ones. I don't even think they're the new ones. Two waters 14 bucks. No, you sports travel before high school.

That might be something everybody could get on board with. We got to do something for the parents, folks. They're losing their weekends to force rates. I'm worried about it. Although you could argue people are getting divorced because it's just more efficient to have two households.

Just to get the kids to their games on the weekends.

So yeah, actually we still get along great.

We're in love. But if you got three kids and they're all traveling for soccer. And it just made more sense. Like, you know, she's an hour and a half away. I'm down here.

We're just the commute times cut down. I may never know my son. But daughter soccer, we've got it covered. I think universal health care makes a lot of sense. But yet there's opposition because it costs who's actually paying for it.

That kind of stuff. Fraud's had a weird year. Feel like people will you just be like, hey, do you like fraud? Like no. Now it's like, hey, do you like fraud?

Well, who doesn't like fraud? Well, maybe I do like fraud a little bit more. So Duke losing has a very high approval rate. I don't know that anybody that's bummed out about everyone seems to enjoy it. And if we just keep it to sports, not being political.

The Yankees were that for a long time, but they've been replaced by the Dodgers. Maybe the paths were that in the NFL. So if you went like total number of NFL fans or baseball fans, baseball's just on the rise right now. Maybe we get some math here where it's like, hey, there's actually more, but there's actually more Yankees fans that are rooting for it that are rooting for Duke basketball. If you did an NBA, well, there's just too many likeers or Celtics fans if you wanted to point to them as being the enemy.

And that's kind of like it's own cool little coastal thing. But I just don't know that there's anything quite like do because it's a small little school in North Carolina. It was 6,500 undergraduates. 87% of them are from out of the state. The grad school numbers are a lot bigger. I've been to, I've been to both places when we did a live show in Chapel Hill for UNC. You know, it's UNC feels like it's part of the town.

You know, Chapel Hill, UNC, it's the same thing that it's just all connected. This is beautiful, cool, little, going back in time.

“Here we go. It's just walking around and being like, this is, this is what the 50s must have been like in the best way possible.”

Madison has a little bit of that as well. And then I was like, I want to go check out Duke and people are like, why do you want to check out Duke? I'm like, well, I'm here. I want to see Duke. She's like, it's over there. Like, okay, they were like a fended, getting them around a car, shoot over 15, not even 20 minutes away. You just take a turn off of a road. And then you drive up. You're like, the fuck is this? Is this Harry Potter set?

And walking around and it's its own little thing. And I'm not even upset about this. This isn't, I hated Duke going way back 86404. I was like, hey, can I check out maybe like a facility, you know, ESPN anything we can do? And it was like, no, like, are you serious? Duke wouldn't be Duke without ESPN. That's fine. I don't, hey, there's some guy outside who says he's, you know, so that's fine. That's nothing to do with it.

But look, I was jealous of Duke back in the day. I thought the kids were just, look, I'll say it, you know, you watch the broadcast, regular season game, the other teams guys inbounding. And the kids are behind them and they're waving their fingers, you know, they just get a basketball t-shirt like two weeks ago. And I'm like, look at these fucking nerds.

“I'm sorry, I'm sorry that I felt that way, but that's how I felt.”

That's what I felt when I saw them on TV, knowing that I was like, yeah, they're probably going to be more successful than me.

Your guy on your team that you're rooting for, you just knew he was going to get hit with that third foul in the first half.

You're like, great. So now he's not going to play the next eight minutes of this or they can't bring him back in and then he's going to get four. What in reality coach K, just was better at coaching his team on fouls. He was like, they were better at attacking guys that were in foul trouble. Like they would make it more of a priority. They were just smarter at coaching fouls.

Whether it was them avoiding them or whatever. I also had this weird theory back probably 20 years ago where I felt like the offensive foul. The charge, the emphasis on the charge was directly related to Duke because K and everybody knew that the rest are just bad at calling it. So if you just kept taking charges and flopping at all the Shane Badi, I should. I mean, look, there's a lot of backlog here.

I'm not new here, all right. But I would say, and I brought this up before that I've pivoted a bit. I love Shire. I started for that Zion team, just because I want to keep watching Zion. I don't have any hate in my heart. The audience knows this. I'm a, just a very happy person day today.

“I think everybody realizes that, but this was just an unbelievable reminder for them to lose in this fashion that there is nothing else in sports.”

That the sports world celebrates more collectively when it really doesn't even have anything to do with them. They can have nothing to do with it watching that team lose in the tournament. Makes the sports world happy. The game, a couple of minutes on that little history lesson for you.

Twenty six twenty one nine twelve to go on the first half.

Five minutes later, it's forty to twenty one. I didn't know, I felt like you kind of was on twenty one for two straight days. You kind of didn't score their twenty second point until four thirteen left in the first half. Forty four twenty nine at the half. The largest half time lead blown by a number one seed in tournament history.

And also, a lot of people forget about this redemption for the other late nurse shot. The late nurse shot against Kentucky is more recent. But there was one against Yukon in the regional final. That was after Tate George and hit the shot against Clemson where it's Duke Yukon in overtime in 1990. Now this season, unless you want to go with the NIT championship before this, but the 1990 season put Yukon on the map.

Yukon basketball became Yukon basketball in 1990.

“And there were signs, but they were preseason I think unranked.”

They won the Big East title, they won the Big East tournament. They were the number one seed in this region. Duke was the number three seed. Yukon is up seventy eight seventy seven. They get a stop.

A misjumper and Alah Abdul Nabi put back that missed. Yukon's got the ball. They're trying to run clock and they do the classic thing that so many of these college teams do. They prioritize burning clock over actually getting a good look. They get a terrible look in the corner.

They'd had two different options where they could have gone earlier. And they wasted the entire position. Hurley's bringing the ball up. Tate George almost intercepts a pass ahead. The ball's knocked out of bounds in front of Duke's bench.

2.6 seconds left. Latener to imbald. But Yukon does not assign a defender to Latener on the imbald. So they're going to play five against four. Latener just throws it to Hurley who then throws it right back to Latener.

“I think it was Hurley, you may not have been.”

And Latener coming in from out of bounds. Double pumps which I don't think even needed to do. Swishes it. Duke goes on to the final four. Duke later in that final four.

Lost a unit of E 103 73 in the championship game. Yukon despite the 90 season putting them on the map.

And I think it was their first tournament.

Appearance. E 99. Yukon didn't make the final four. Their first final four until nine years later. But once they got to the final four.

They usually win it. This is their eighth. The previous seven. They've won six titles. They're last lost in the final four.

2009 in Michigan State. They have now won 18 straight games in the sweet 16 range or later. And yesterday they did it by being Duke. With a freshman hitting a three who said after the game, he wanted to get the ball to somebody else who had made one.

Caravan throws it back to him. And that shot will live on. It's not going to be Latener Kentucky. But it will be something you will. And of course he will.

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“I think John Shire was right and saying it wasn't just that one play at the end.”

He's right. But it's not about one play until it gets down to one play. Duke didn't do what they're trained to do.

When I was at Duke a million years ago playing for Coach K,

we did a drill called four coach passing drill every day. They still do it today. It's that kind of drill where it's a, it's a, it's a press drill. And the deal is when you catch the ball, you're going back to the ball.

You catch it and get on two feet and then you catch and face the defense. Coach K and John Shire say catch and face every time in that. And when Kaden Boozer caught the ball, there's nothing wrong with him looking up court to pitch it ahead. But what he didn't do was catch face the defense assess it and then make whatever play was available,

including holding it if that was required. He caught it and then immediately kind of turned while he was catching it and then dribbled it and then jumped into the air to make the pass. And that's exactly what they're trained not to do. So that's under pressure and he's a freshman.

And that's kind of one of the issues that you deal with coaching Duke now is there's no memory bank for these players because they haven't been in these situations

So you're having to redo everything year by year.

So the Houston game last year and the final four had no effect on this team because hardly any of those players were there. They were on the floor. So it's all essentially new to them. So maybe you're going to have to look at this objectively. Take a step back and say okay, you know, there's a trend here.

Like Duke's last four losses including that Houston game. They've had double digit leads and lost them.

“So do you have to do they do game situations and practice?”

Do you have to do more of that? You know, with with a young team when your team's new. So there's no memory of that for these players. They weren't there. And maybe Malik Brown was there.

But I'm not he wasn't even in the game at the end. And last year against Houston, one of the things that I thought cost Duke was they weren't in close games during the year.

So they didn't have that.

They weren't conditioned to that. And this year, they were in more close games. So they did have the Carolina game, the Texas Tech game to draw in and their memory bank. But like Ryan, I think this, I think this is true. Like the last play when Alex Cariband.

So they, you kind of guessed the deflection off the Caden Booser pass. Braille and Mullins was the one that crawled the ball. He pitched ahead to Cariband. Like Cariband could have shot that ball. But he's a mature champion mindset winner.

It with a lot in his memory bank. And he made an extraordinary play to pitch it back to Mullins for the step-in shot. And if you watch Mullins in high school, he made a lot of those. You know, his range is unbelievable. That's not unusual for him to make a shot out there.

And but that sort of plays under pressure. You expect that more from a senior like Cariband. And Duke has chosen to go with these Uber talented freshmen. And you're going to have a situation like that. And they got, they got beat.

But one of the things like, I really do believe this. Like John Shire was right in his post game press conference. That it wasn't just about that one play. There were a number of turnovers that went for touchdowns. You know, with a minute to go, Duke was up for.

And Cameron Booser turned it over trying to drive it. And he just let it go. And then you kind of get to three. And it's that also one point game. But so all those plays led up to the last play.

“But still, they were, and what difference are make with a Duke made the comeback?”

Or, or you con made it? You still have to process that last play. And you con did and Duke didn't. It's a great point out Cariband. Because I'm 99% of the college kids are letting that fly.

They're not passing it to somebody else. They're not passing it back to a freshman. And even Mullins had a great common after. Just like I was trying to get to somebody else. Because I hadn't hit anything all day long.

So, um, not the Cariband was on fire. I mean, he didn't hit one of his threes until late. That was the only one that he made.

There's always a conversation about culture.

And it's like a really easy thing to say. But like, hey, we, we want a culture here. And it's, it's just hard. It's hard to make it up. You know, unless, unless you have those people.

And clearly with you con, you know, it's easy to have an expectation of winning. Once you start winning titles like they have under Hurley. But do you notice that? Or, you know, I just don't feel like many teams win that game unless there's a belief. Yeah.

And coming up with that belief is not just something you can put on a t-shirt.

“And it's actually, I think, a really short list of whether it's professional sports teams or college programs and football or basketball.”

That have a culture where there's like we still are in the fight. And to me, the Huskys are they pit of me that yesterday? Yeah. And I think the culture you're talking about is Danny Hurley, his practices are high stress environments. Same's true of Kelvin Samson.

I think it's true of John Shire, too. You know, Duke's been unfortunate. And a number of ways with, they've had some of these things back to back. I mean, he could look back over Coach Gaze career. I mean, he's coughed up leads, too.

But for John, it's been unfortunate that the way they've come, you know, causes the unreasonable out there to start, you know, saying, okay, can't win the ball all this nonsense. That doesn't mean you don't, like we talked about before, you don't take a step back and assess things to say, "Do we need to plan for this or make some changes or in how we prepare?" That's, I think that's fair game and true.

But, you know, Danny's program, like, in their practices, man, those things, the games are way easier than their practices. And they're in high stress situations all the time. So they, and their, and those guys are older. You know, like Braille and Mullins is a freshman, but he's round a bunch of older players. And it just sort of depends on your philosophy and the players you can get.

Like, Duke's got a lot of these one and done guys. You can't argue overall with the results. I mean, I, I, I'm not, I think this is right.

And nobody does that.

It's just they haven't finished it off the way they wanted to.

So you got to lead eight and final four, which most, most places would put a banner up. You know, Duke doesn't do that. And, and so you're, you're going to, in that seat, you're going to get an extraordinary amount of praise when you win. And you're going to get extraordinary amount of criticism when you lose. And that's the job.

It may not be right. It may not be fair. But that's the way it is. I want to look ahead of the final four, just because of the matchups that we have here. And, you know, if you go back to late November, it's at MSG.

You can't put it on Illinois. Illinois, to me is a completely different team. Well, I could play 14 minutes in that game. Took only three shots. And is anybody who's watched a Illinois run?

Like, and you start thinking about matchups as you go. All right, you know, terrace read has been on this absolute tear here. He's gone. He's got to a level where I'm like, do I have to start thinking about him as a pro prospect now? Even though the NBA hates the post games.

So I don't know how many of these touches. I just who'd actually get in the NBA, but like that went from.

“I don't need to do the tape on him to like, he might actually be somebody you have to think about it a little bit now.”

But whether it's Illinois's growth and also, I think the versatility of all the size that they can throw with them. I wasn't shocked to see Illinois actually favorable when the number came out this morning. No, because there are arguably the best offensive team in college basketball. They have a bunch of Eastern European players that have pro experience. So they're very, very skilled.

They can spread the floor and they can shoot it from all five spots with the lineups they put out there. And I agree with you. They're a different team than they were earlier in the season. I don't think earlier in the season they defended at a high level. They rebound.

They're good offensive rebounding team. They've got positional size and wobgler.

I think Keaton wobgler, like I've never heard of him in high school.

And that's a little bit unusual for me because I do follow that, not like I used to. I used to be out on the road a lot more during the summer. But, you know, like he reminds me of Tyre's Halibur. Like I think that's the comp for him is Haliburton. They play very much the same where it's hard to speed him up.

And you can say, well, look that low release point on a shot. That's the same thing Haliburton had, but they make it at such a high rate. He's legit. He's the real deal. Then Kyle and Boswell, who transferred in from Arizona,

having him back healthy, he's been a difference maker. Because he can play the point, he's really strong. Good defender, all that stuff. So, they're fully capable of winning this thing.

“And how many times have we seen where one side of the bracket were gone?”

That's the championship game. Like, kind of reminds you of 83 for the older folks in the crowd, like me. That was my freshman year in college. And yet, Elijah wanted Drexler and Houston going against the doctors. The dunk at Louisville and everybody.

And then on the other side of the bracket, it was Georgia. And NC State, and NC State winds up being Georgia when they had firm fliming and Terry Fair and those guys. And NC State winds up winning the whole thing. Like, who would have imagined that?

And, you know, this year's kind of could be setting up that way. Because that's an unbelievable heavyweight fight on one side of the bracket with Michigan and Arizona. I look, I love Arizona. I'm late to it as you know.

You know, so I start watching some of the games. I start watching some of the games. I start watching the conference tournament games. And I just felt like, you know, when you're first watching Arizona, you're having a hard time keeping track of, like,

wait, who? This guy's awesome now too.

“And so, when I think about that matchup with Michigan, like,”

I didn't like their guards as much, but I think their guards have been a lot better. And Leninborg essentially can play outside. Like, whatever you want to say about Leninborg, like, the rebounding, he's turned into, like, a perimeter player. His passing was outstanding.

Throughout, I feel like the entire tournament here. So there's, I'm not like, hey, I'm giving Michigan a chance. Any sane person gives Michigan a chance. Maybe they win this game. But do you look at that?

And I'm asking you kind of like to go back to my original thoughts.

Like, I always felt like Arizona is back court on top of their front court.

Would be an advantage over everybody. I don't know that the gap is there as much as I thought it was between Arizona and Michigan at the back court. The way those guys have played and what Leninborg's been able to do. Yeah, I honestly, I don't think there's any gap.

I think those are the two best teams. And have been throughout the course of the season. Like Arizona is this old school, you know, issuing the, you know, three point line as the way to play. They don't shoot a lot of frees.

What they do is pound the ball inside. And, you know, they're going to get downhill and get to the rim. And they're, they're an outstanding offensive rebounding team as well. But they, they do their damage from the free throw line. Like on the season and in all these games,

they make more free throws than their opponents even attempt. And as you know, the free throw line's the most efficient place on a basketball floor of score. So they play it a little bit of a different way. But Michigan's got another year.

Like, lender board last year was at UAB. And so last season there were two players in the country that led their team. And scoring, rebounding assists, steals and blocks. It was Cooper Flag at Duke and Yaxle, lender board at UAB. And yet hardly anybody outside of the basketball literary that have their noses burying this all the time.

Even Duke Lee was. And that's one of the really cool things in my view about the transfer portal. As a guy like lender board is, is one of the great players in the country. And nobody really knew about it. He goes to a bigger stage than everybody knows his name.

And they should because he's going to play in the NBA for a long time. But that other gear that Michigan has, like, they can go on these 20 to two runs. And really the only game where I thought, you know, the elastos Wisconsin, where Wisconsin had 15 freeze because they can kind of invert. Their big guys can shoot it.

That was a three point barrage in that game. Like unusual. But the only game I felt like they got out of character was Duke when they played in Washington,

like they never seemed to get to their second action in a possession.

You know, it's almost, I don't want to say they were playing hero ball. But they were always taking the first action. And that was so unlike them. And I kind of thought if they, if they played Duke again, Michigan would win. And we will never know now.

But that's going to be an unbelievable game. It has the chance to be one of the great games. And, you know, look, Illinois UConn's going to be fantastic. And you got to, like, I know Illinois's favorite. I favor UConn in that game.

Why?

“Well, I think they've got a level of toughness about them.”

And, you know, I mean, I use this term and I hesitate a little bit. But even though some of these guys didn't play on their championship teams, I think there's a championship DNA that they have. And there's crazy belief that even when they were down, I think Tracy Wilson had this great report out of a huddle.

Midway through the second half when it looked pretty dire. And she reported that something to the effect of, you know, Danny Hurley was telling his team like, hey, that the momentum's turned. Like, this is right here for us, you know, that kind of thing. And I think his players believe that.

And they even win, you know, they missed a few open threes down the stretch before they hit those last few. And, you know, they missed a few free throws and stuff like that.

Where you kind of hang your head and they never did.

And there's something to that that championship belief that I think they have. And this is the first time deal for Illinois. I'm not saying they'll be glad to be here because I don't think they will.

“But there's the expectation that Yukon has that I think is a very real thing.”

And when I watch Yukon, I, I almost feel like I watched them on offense differently than I watch other teams. Because I know that whatever the first actions are aren't really what they're doing. And, you know, I think Illinois could do because I think their defense is so much improved from beginning of the year.

But it must be kind of maddening to hope that your kids are going to have the patience to continue to defend the set where it's like, hey, they're going to run these like. Two curls one after another, like wide receiver routes in the middle of the pain. But, you know, look, if there's a look, they'll make the play. But that's not really what the play is.

The play's actually over here. So when I watch Yukon on offense, I find myself going like, don't get caught ball watching. Like, don't let all the eye candy get in the way because what it's really about is they're going to get somebody else out over here and they'll run it longer. They'll run it deeper to the shot clock.

Uh, you know, when I watch them are hurtly stuff, I go, I wonder if, you know, I don't know that you ever really wanted the liquor shop, but I'm thinking to myself, like, I wonder if you could get NBA players to actually run this stuff, or that they would just be like, hey, I don't feel like screen screens, like six times on the same possession.

We're so good. We're just going to make the shot. So they are, and I'm not trying to discredit anybody else, but they're just, they just feel like there's a different level of

“commitment that you need to have with them defensively because it's going to keep going.”

Like, you have to stay locked in whatever it is that they're doing. Yeah, that's really perceptive. And I think you're exactly right. Like, you can operate like a European protein on offense. You know, they play like almost like a fee by style.

And Luke Murray, who's one of the top assistants for Danny Hurley, that that's a lot of his influence over the years of watching what's going on internationally in basketball and using those. And he's done, and I think Danny's done an extraordinary job. Like, they, they do that over and over again.

And they're going to, they're going to get an opening at some point. And they don't hesitate to pull the trigger on these shots. But that, those actions you're talking about,

we're ultimately what got, that's what got Cariband,

that three after the Cameron Booser turnover with about a minute to go.

Like, you know, Duke defended well.

I don't want to take anything away from, but, but, you know,

“honestly, they missed a bunch of open shots throughout the course of the game.”

But they hit them down the stretch because they're just relentless and running their stuff. And they took advantage of some matchup advantages. They have, like, they had disadvantages on matchups defensively. But they had advantages offensively.

And then they took advantage of it. And look, they could have lost that game. Like, I don't know what the percentages on that Mullen shot were. They certainly, certainly wasn't great. So certainly he could have missed that.

We wouldn't be talking about this. But just that relentless nature of their offense is going to put you in some bad positions. And, and you're right, like, they're initial actions, not what they're, not what they're looking for.

They may take it, but they're looking for the other stuff.

And, and it's second, third, fourth action that's going to get you.

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Okay. So we'll run it through him in tight spots. We're totally fine. Like we don't have to go to the big 12 players the year and Bradley to run the offense.

But if we want to do that, maybe we'll get him in a switch. And he's so good at creating contact. He's probably going to get a good look. The Krivas is a nice option. Car Chankov, who I think has this ability to start his lay-up release earlier than anyone ever intense.

He's got this lean that no one on defense ever seems to like a just for. Like he's into his lay-up sooner than you ever'd expect. And then you got co-op he hit turnaround on a seven foot four guy. A walk it comes in. It looks like he's the strongest human being in college basketball.

And even Dilar so, you know, he's had moments where I've watched him be like he looks like they're best offensive player. What is it take to beat Arizona with all of that depth? It takes tremendous physicality and strength and the discipline to play that way without fouling. And that's really hard to do because with all that physicality that Arizona brings,

you're going to have to put him on the foul line.

“You know, you're going to pile up fouls and that's what they rely upon.”

And your point on Toby Awaka and Anthony Dilar so it was really good. Like those guys were starters last year. Both of them started like 30 games. And they agreed to come off the bench this year. And earlier this season, around the time,

what was the time that Arizona lost back to back games. They lost on the road to Kansas. And if the tournament were played at Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas is a win the championship. But it wasn't. So they lost a game.

They could have won. But they lost. And then they came back. And I was there for their lost Texas tech. So they lose to Texas tech.

And Colopete got hurt. And, and so, you know, Anthony Dilar so had to start. He had like two straight games at 20, where he scored 22 points.

And Awaka plays about 20 minutes a game.

He averages 10 rebounds a game in 20 minutes. Man, dude fills up a doorway. You know, he transferred in from Tennessee. And he was willing to come off the bench. Like he's an unbelievable mature leader in doing that same.

Hey, man, these freshmen are great. Let them start. I'll come off the bench. I'll play whenever you want. And he not only accepts it, he embraces it.

So it's going to be a task for Michigan. Like Arizona's bulkier than Michigan. You know, crevices bulkier than a Dimara.

You know, more as Johnson's big and strong.

So he acts a lendaborg. So they're not hurting for strength.

“But I think the strength of Arizona's going to be the biggest challenge.”

You know, they're their physicality that way. But Michigan play, they can play more on the perimeter. So they'll have more three point threats. And we'll see what wins. But, you know, any shot that goes up.

That's when the fight's going to start. Because you're going to have all those physical bodies going. Going after each other. You know, I think Michigan is probably more versatile overall. And maybe a little bit more athletic, but only a little bit.

But like I picked Arizona to win at the beginning.

Who cares? None of that matters because it doesn't affect anything. But it's hard not to not to favor Michigan in the game. Do you know he would pick number one if you had the number one pick? No. I would probably lean toward AJ Debasa because of his positional size and length.

Peterson is the most fluid score I can remember in college since Durant. And they're really different. But he didn't play this year the same way. And I know the injuries and all that stuff. The cramping and the hamstring and illness contributed to how he played differently than high school.

You know, over the last 10 games or whatever was he was playing 32 minutes of games. So all this stuff about him not wanting to play was nonsense. But the fact that it wasn't what we expected does put an odd feeling in the back of your head. That it's hard to get rid of. But after seeing him in high school, like he's the real thing.

And you don't want to miss on that, but at the same time. Devon's offers stuff that you know in going to miss.

“And the hard one, I think, is going to be Cameron Booser because he's so productive and so good.”

He's just not this crazy athlete that you would like to see. And then the other thing, Ryan, that I'm going to have a hard time with. And I don't have to make a pick, so it doesn't matter. I'm going to say, uh, dairy's a cup of junior at Arkansas is the real deal. Like that guy, I'm a little bit surprised that he's not talked about more as a number one pick option.

But whoever gets him is getting a killer. And, uh, I mean, you know, the average, like 24 game in SEC games. It's still six and a half assists. He was the only guy. Only player to lead that league and scoring an assists. That's marriage, didn't.

And that's saying something like he is legit. This draft reminds me a little bit of O3. I don't know that the players are going to be as good as LeBron and Carmelo and Dwayne Wade. Chris Bosch and all that. But, but it it offers a tantalizing array of talent and then a depth of young players that I just can't remember.

They're going to be there. They're going to be 18 to 20 freshmen drafted in this draft that they all come out. Yeah, the A cuff thing.

“I think there's even a conversation about Fleming's, you know, from teams.”

And I don't think it's the tournament gamer and like that. But I think the A cuff has thickness. You know, I mean, that you look at it and you go exactly like I know exactly what this is supposed to look like. Yeah, even if Fleming's probably has a little bit more control of the game. He's just not going to be as a physically as imposing as a cuff.

And then I think Caleb Wilson is still in the conversation here. Not not for number one, it's just, you know, in in this group of seven, this group of seven or eight guys. Because that you're right about Wilson because of that ridiculous upside. Like you watch and play and then watch him in practice and he does some things where you're going. Well, that doesn't look like a fluid smart move to make.

And then he just punches it on somebody out of nowhere. Yeah. Yeah, he's ridiculous. And I think he's just kind of scratching the surface. But that's the the difficulty is, you know, and this is is you're trying to you're trying to see where it's going to be.

Because where it is now that I don't really matter, these guys are 19 years old. And you're trying to project him out to where they're going to be. And, you know, when I was when I was younger coming out of college. You know, you drafted a 22 year old and you're going, hey, he's rookie with a lot to learn.

Well, we know what we know who he is like really. When did that become a thing. But these younger guys have proven that man, the runway is unbelievable. You're going to miss on some of them. Then they're not going to pan out to what you think they're going to be. But the runway for some of these guys is ridiculous.

And they're going to get bigger stronger and better. But bounces the one that you're going, man, it's kind of hard. Like he's Johnny Bravo. He fits the suit and he's got all the upside that the other guys have. And then something. I want to do something a little different here to close this out.

And I think you'll enjoy this. No, it's maybe won't.

“I think you and I are alike in the sense that when you have something different,”

then you immediately equate the results to what is now different. You know, because it's just very simple. I've used this a much smaller less important example. But I left the espiong started doing shows. It's like, oh, he's different now.

I leave again. Always different. The show's been the same fucking show.

All right. But it's just easy for people to like go, hey, something is now different. So now I'll say that this is why this is happening. So in college football with the NIL and transfer portal, the SEC doesn't win national championships.

Big 10 wins three in a row here. I'd add that I think at some point the big 10 had to put together a bit of a run in the SEC. It wasn't going to win every single year, but I'd also point to other things and say some of that SEC dominance where they were destroy some of these teams in the old games and the out of conference stuff early on.

“Like those results aren't really happening the last couple of years.”

So then it's immediately pointed to, well, look, now that everyone can pay, which I always get a kick out of my here certain coaches say it from non SEC schools where I'm like, okay. It's like, look at this shift. There is parity throughout college football. And it's directly related to the NIL and transfer portal.

After the first week in the tournament with four teams all being one season,

the final four last year and the path that we were on until Florida got bounced out. But it took a mulling shot and that had to be three one seeds in the final four. And it's not like Illinois is in a powerhouse here. We had the same changes with different results pointing to less parity. And I was reading about how in college basketball.

It's like, well, now with the NIL and the transfer portal, all of these top programs are just going to be that much more loaded up. There are two completely different outcomes with the same origin. And now I know it'll happen because nobody ever wants to admit that they're wrong about anything. Media members would just say, well, football is completely different than basketball.

And like, maybe maybe you have me there. But I can't help but think that in general, people are falling into the habit of what are the results. Okay, now I'll tell you what if something is different, I will use what is different to now tell you these are the results that we're getting.

When it may just be sometimes the results. Yeah, it's like out of the post-tock propped or hawk thing. You know, after it, therefore, because of it. So three years ago. That was smarter and quicker. Yeah, three years ago in basketball.

We had Florida, Atlantic and San Diego State make the final four. And San Diego State made the championship game. And the narrative after that final four was NIL has made the world flat. Now anybody can win the big shots and I can dominate anymore. Two years later, all four number one seeds make it.

Not the first time that's happened, it happened in 2008, way before NIL.

So it wasn't unprecedented, unusual but not unprecedented. Then everybody said, Cinderella's debt, mid-Majors can't win anymore. And so this year, I mean, look what it took to beat Santa Clara. And we had other teams that won in the first weekend. We just didn't get like a fairly Dickinson win against the 16er.

We didn't have the same Peter's run to the elite eight or something like that, which people think they're entitled to every year. And my view what NIL has done is it has spread talent out more certainly across the majors, where you have Vanderbilt who's more competitive than they might have been in the past.

“In football, does anybody believe that Indiana would win a national championship pre NIL?”

Maybe they would have. Maybe as they hired Signetti 15 years ago, they would have won 14 years ago. Maybe that happens. I don't know. I doubt that.

No, I think that's a really good example of the NIL. Right, I doubt that. So people have to ask themselves, what do you want? And because what people say they want isn't what their decisions reveal that they want. In other words, people say, I love Cinderella.

Then Cinderella makes the final four and the ratings go way down. And they say, oh, I hate this for number one seeds and they have the highest ratings ever.

Like college football and college basketball ratings have shot through the roof of the last few years.

We've had our highest rated years ever. So what does that tell us? Like that tells us people are voting with their viewing. And they do like it. But that's true.

That's been true forever. People say I'd love to see the Pittsburgh Pirates make the world series. They make it in the ratings are crap. And the Dodgers and Yankees play in the ratings is through the roof. Like, so what does that mean? It means more people are interested with the brand names.

And so we're going to get a great final four out of this because we got brand names. We had one of the greatest ones ever last year with brand names. So I don't know what people want, but I know that they've voted with their viewing. But this is what drives me crazy a little bit, Ryan. I spoke out on it last week, like, you know, the coaches say one thing.

They don't like, and I all, they don't like the movement of players. They don't like the players having choice. They don't like them having money and all that stuff. They say they do, but they really don't. And they're really vocal about it.

So a player transfers and it's what about loyalty. What about commitment? Nobody wants to go through adversity. And there's tampering and poaching.

“Well, what about the tampering and poaching with coaches?”

Like, people don't think that LSU tampered with little weight. And one of my favorites was Brian Hodgson at USF, who's a great dude in a great coach. And I do not begrudge the coaches their opportunities. I'm not saying they shouldn't be allowed to go.

But that would never happen in the NFL, the NBA.

You'd have to get permission and all that stuff. You don't have to do that in college. But Brian Hodgson was waving his finger to everybody saying, stay away from my players. And almost a threatening manner. Stay away from my players.

No tampering with my players. Well, it wasn't stay away from me because he left skid marks on USF to go to Providence. So it was okay if he gets tampered with, but not the players. And this double standard and contradiction to the point of hypocrisy makes me laugh. Like, why can't the players better themselves?

Like, we mentioned what the actual lender board, when he was at UAV. If you want them to stay, then sign them to multi-year contracts where they got biased just like the coaches do. And have that be bargained for at arms length. But the NCAA won't allow that. So then they go up to Congress.

All these administrators, the NCAA are up Congress. And they should be embarrassed by this. They're up at Congress saying, this is unsustainable. You know, the players making this amount of money. It's unsustainable.

Now, one of them said, we need to get coaches contracts in line. And these biodes are ridiculous.

Like, what are we talking about at LSU? Like, $70, $80 million in biodes.

They've been paying with Lane Kiffin and Will Wade and the like and firing their coaches and all that. It's funny how they can find the money when it's going into their pockets. But when it's supposed to go to the players, then we've got an unsustainable problem. Like, those two things are not compatible. And if Congress wants to come in and say, hey, okay, we're going to limit players.

Then you better limit coaches too, because you can't do it both ways with straight things. Yeah, the coaches, they just become less and less. Like, it's hard to have sympathy. Like, I understand it's a hard of job now because of the portal because of the NIH. I understand all that stuff.

“But it's like, do you want to start doing a chart graph of salaries?”

Yeah. Like, you're going to start looking at that over the last 20 years. You're being compensated in a way that no one would have ever projected. Right. And that's fine because they have great value.

Like, I'm not arguing their value, but don't tell me. Like, when they complain about how much a roster is costing them. They're coaching staff costs more. Like, they're paying more to their coaches. Like, tell me that there's any offensive coordinator out there in football.

That's worth more than a great quarterback. One, and tell me that an assistant coach in basketball is worth more than a great player. They're not. And so we're in an era now where the players can be compensated. They still don't get anywhere near their value.

And nowhere near it. They're still restricted due to the house settlement. But we've got, we're still clutching our pearls over this being professional. It's been professional forever. There's no difference between a media rights contract for the NCAA.

And a media rights contract for the NFL of the NBA. Zero difference. And people will tell me all the time.

“Like, well, why don't you quit your job if you don't like it?”

Like, ESPN's the problem. They're the ones that they could fix this. No, we can't. Media rights, you know, media companies buy the rights to broadcast. We don't tell the NFL what to pay their players.

We don't tell the NBA what to pay. That's their business. And we don't tell the NCAA what to do. That's their business. We buy media rights.

So we, what we make is totally separate from what other people make.

That's totally different.

“Do you think you would quit your job to make a point, though, to get back at the guy?”

Well, in the future. I laugh when people say that. I understand the point as, as though they're some sort of hypocrisy. But what I would say is, you know, as an American citizen. If you complain about government policy.

If you don't like government tax policy or immigrant, whatever it is. Pick a policy. So we have to leave the country if we want to complain. Like that makes no sense. And if you look at my position, I've advocated for the players over the years.

You could argue that hurts me. Like the players now can do commercials. So, you know, you turn on the TV and you're watching NCAA Tournament game. They go to commercial. And you see, you see Camard Booser and Caden Booser on state farm commercials.

Before an IL, those commercials went to media members.

They would get clowns like me or other broadcasters to do those. Because they weren't allowed to get the players. So you could argue that it's against my interest to advocate for the players. Because some of that money might have been going on my pocket. Now why did hire me?

I would never know. But they used to. You got a good run. But that's, but that's a great point. Like we had a great run.

But the players deserve it.

“And if we can't compete in the marketplace with the players, then too bad.”

Do the best, man. That was awesome. Let's catch up before the draft. All right, Jay. Love through any time.

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I'm fine. [laughs] It's why you got to watch the video. Uh, just, just, Ryan just showed up. Today I'm going to announce what the sling on.

Just tap and bill us and Kevin the comments. Like, is he wearing a, like, let's go in on here with the shoulder. I'm like, I don't know. Hasn't told me about it. So, what's up?

Uh, it's Louis Vuitton's summer line for that. And I'm just breaking in, uh, one of those bags that could fit a pair of binoculars and maybe some credit cards in it. Smart. It's for Euro of you.

Well, it was just an Portugal. By the way, the Portugal pod should be coming out soon.

“I think we're just waiting till after the tournament's done.”

Maybe that little dead period of last week in the NBA before the playoffs. That's scheduling. That's great. It's great move. Yeah, because sometimes when I get it done, I'm like,

Ooh, let's get it out immediately. And then I'm like, you know, let's, uh, I mean, we could wait until the summer. You want them to summer arrive. I don't know if it's going to be summer right.

Yeah, so I've got to swing on. It's precautionary. Um, changed up the lifting routine a little bit. I was really proud of it the last few weeks. I'm like, you got to be in here last days.

Focus more on the movie tie. Less lifting days. Because a lot of the days, like, I don't want to work in an office. But I'm noticing things where it's like you are home. way too much. So that's why that's all just bounce, you know, all to be like, "I gotta go somewhere for a few days." Right? So I miss going to work like a DSPN. I actually can tell you that I liked getting up, getting the day started, going in the office, prepping and interacting with people. I liked it. I never, my worst-day DSPN really wasn't ever that bad.

You know, because I would try to have like an adult moment if you were going through something like, "Hey, man, think about what you're doing today. This is pretty good. This is pretty good."

But I would go to the gym just way more than I probably needed to because it feels like just, "Yeah, right. And you guys know how I'm as soon as we're done with the ads and I'm taping everything." It's like, "All right, I want to get to the gym and put myself through something physically so that I also know."

“Yeah, I think it's usually, I gotta get the fuck out of here. I think that's usually what the lie.”

Yeah, you're gonna get the fuck out of here. Boys have heard that one a lot. Yeah. So, I've been lifting less and I've been getting stronger because I'm not going as much, which is actually pretty normal. And so your boy was really feeling himself the last couple weeks. And I was like, "What if I tried this amount and what if I did this?" And what if I tried this? So I've been hanging plates off of my waist and doing pull-ups. And yesterday, I was doing a wide grip pull-up thing with a plate dangling between my legs.

And on the third one up, I felt this awful pack by something, my right arm, my right chest on here.

So, I'm just gonna mobilize for seven to ten days and then we'll be back in attack modes here soon. I think that's honestly one of the coolest things you can do in the gym. Like, the thing that's already harder for most people and then we're just throwing a plate there. I think that's probably one of the coolest things you can do. So, I thought you were going to say, "Get hurt." No, no, no, no.

Nothing like getting hurt with the gym. I thought you'd say, "I just think the pull-up, the extra hard pull-up is one of the one of the coolest things that's going on inside those four walls." But that's just me. Well, I didn't, I did a few, and then I was like, "I'm just gonna throw a plate on," and I was like, "I'm gonna throw a bigger

“plate on." When I was like, "You dickhead, you should just incremental." You know, I've been”

better at this than I've got an older. Like, "Hey, you're gonna do huge incline dumbbells today. Start at 30." Rep out another 10 to 30. Slowly, slowly get into this. I stretched like crazy now, and that was something I hadn't tried in a long time, and at the very top was like, haven't ever felt that before. That's gonna suck. And here we are. You're, um, right going through the handed, it's like, "Cool." You're going through like a little

George Kittle phase here where we're just, we're just getting hurt left and right. You know, we've got the torn calf. We're, do we tear the pack? Do we get a confirmed diagnosis on that? Like, you're going through all these like football injuries, but you're, without the football part of it.

Well, it's good for the show, because when we have guests on it, like, "Hey, I've never

tried to tear your calf." Yeah. It's true. Yeah. You know what, yeah. It is true. All right, you ever tear your pack? Yeah. I'm about turning around times. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think it's, um,

“I don't think it's that bad. I think I'm gonna be, I think I'm gonna be fine, but I'm also”

100% saying that to convince myself that it's going to be fine. Well, I think it's gonna be fine, too. Thanks, Scott. Good to hear. How are you doing? Doing good to Johnny shirt down through up the master's thing? Just, you know, we're just moving forward. How's season of they core in the background? It's just, it's how look forward to it. I was just what I changed on around the horse back in the day. When I changes those, I was like, I think we'll just keep this going. We'll

see if there's anything else we got a slot in there. Yeah, it's, uh, I'm just looking forward to the

good things. Two pretty cool posties and for me, um, two, two kind of bummer losses, but, you know, they're still cool. Terrific basketball. The watch, the Duke thing was unbelievable. Um, yeah. It was good. It was nice talking to you guys on, uh, on game day. That was cool. Enjoy that. That's right. Kyle, Kyle did FaceTime. I was at my sister's house, and I did pick up. You saw my, you saw my, my daughter more than what's up. Yeah, I was really nice. Yeah,

you're hanging out watching the game, what's fun? My buddy kept there. My buddy kept talking about his, well, Ryan called me pre, and I think we said we were going to check it in half time when I really sure. My buddy was in there glued to his phone talking about the nicks, and, uh, I think I smacked the cigarette out of his mouth when we were outside just I was like, I, it needs to end. It has to stop. Uh, because he was just like, oh, fuck with the,

he's just cat's not scoring enough for whoever was playing, and I just, I lost right at the end there, but, uh, we apologized. I moved on. I sensed cool down. A lot of, a lot of good perspective was game that day. I ordered some more Saint John's gear, including one piece for Kyle, and I, I knew as soon as I ordered it, I said they're going to live. You ordered it in game? Oh my god. No, I didn't order it in game. I ordered days before. Oh, okay. Actually had it open,

and then went, they're going to lose. Don't order it. Close out of it. And then was like, I want to get something. I want to get this. I want to get something for Kyle. And then, I'm like, they're going to lose. Were we rooting for Yukon? I was. I'm, you know, I was. That's,

And I was like, actually, I used to do it, even as a little kid. I would want all the

big East teams tonight. I thought that was the rule to keep going through the tournament. And what are going to mean for the ACC teams? And he was like, he looked at me and was like, no, you didn't. Like, okay, I didn't. Anything ever, too. I love that. I made it up. No, you didn't. It's like, no one's ever done this. I'm like, what are you talking about? I did it all the time. And he was like, no, you didn't. I was like, okay, coming up next.

“Well, you know, when I have a lot of Johnny's gear that I think Translate really well to summer,”

I probably leave the Patriot stuff until about September. But yeah, I think I'll be, I'll be right there. I mean, it's still where the John, yeah, the John, I mean, it's a great season. Yeah, we're not going in our heads. Yeah, but Tina, I just didn't need to sign a huge deal. So I did it. Good. Yeah. Yeah. But what's the succession plan? I don't know. No. All right. Nice. This is a me Meals here. 26 years old, 510, 165, Max bench. That's going to be mine for about a month.

170 squat. Oh, wait. Wait, he's 165. Max bench is 170 squat is 300. Okay. Is that it? One second. 10 Simmons with finishing ability. Helen Keller shoots a better three ball.

Just had a kid. It's incredible. I don't Keller jokes for 26 year old.

Old soul. Still got it. Yeah. Really is. That material slayed it recess in 83. Well, I will say that's late in no six, too. So I mean, it's just it's a perpetual thing. Yeah. Didn't know about the staying power her. I admit this email will sound slightly self-righteous and snooty, but I'm having a really difficult time connecting with the 70 plus age group right now. Between family members and church, I have a ton of interactions with that age and literally all they

have in their arsenals. How's your job going? Or were you working these days? I understand their whole lives revolve around work, but I literally say the same thing every time it's going well, or same job is last time. It's the least interesting card of basically everyone's lives, and it's a question with no dynamics. Wow. This guy needs some depth. I'm going to step to him. I want to know what a job is. Yeah. Do I need a suck it up and see this is a feeble attempt at further

connection paired with completely different stages of life? What are some tips for how I can make them feel better about social interactions, but not make me want to leave the conversation 10 seconds in thanks. Ask him how much they paid for their house. I'd love to do in that show. I would like to complain about it and then just you know, accept it and then you've got 25 minutes. Well, I'll keep going. I love hearing old people complain about shit. You know, I bought that in 1972.

My grandmother will be $29,000. My grandma was like, you know, we borrowed $500 from one

“bank and put it in another, and that's how we got our house loan. I'm like, I think that's”

fraud and $500. I can't get shit done anymore. She's just like, you know, you should. I see you with a

coffee shouldn't be drinking coffees because you know, you're never going to get out. It's like,

and we just, I hear this $500 from one bank to another. She could get a loan and like, you know, 1950, you know, it's like, all right. But she loves telling that story. If you like, like, you know what I'm telling you, Kyle, I think you're on to something. Even if you don't care or believe it, and you know, we're talking that steers towards something they did where they seem smart. They love telling you those stories. They love telling them, eat it out. They're fresh.

Every time they tell them, yeah. Just like cars, these cars today, they're not built like they used to. Boom, there's 20 minutes. There you go. Yeah. I worked at Radio Shack for 42 years. I put up my pension. You want to know what my pension is? I do. I do sir. He's just sitting there and he's so proud of himself. That might be a conversation starter or a fancer. It's so easy. Yeah, it's so easy. What do you got Steve? Well, it's just like, what do you bring into the table? Like, maybe you're not

that interesting. Maybe these people don't want to talk to you. If you're saying, if you're

“dropping good when somebody asks you a life update question, you know, maybe you should be doing better, too.”

Like, you could bring, like, have topics ready for the next time around. You know, it doesn't have to be, you know, going with the boomer question, or 21 question with the boomer. But like, I don't know, like, what do you want to talk about? Talk about it with that person. If they don't either interact with you, then maybe that's their problem. But it sounds like you're not really bringing much of the table here either. Think about investing in silver. What do you think

about that? It's not even much about gold coins. We've seen the price of nickel lately. Harry, how long you had that right? Yes. Yes. This is perfect. Hey, you know, Harry's had this right for 21 years. You know, you don't work to find an anvil. You know, that's some people don't think about anymore. Right. I saw some guy in Instagram finding the anvil. He was like so far

Yeah. No, I'm like using it. Yeah. I do like the general question though of like,

“I think the answer ends up becoming that you have to adjust what your expectations are here,”

man. It's likely going to be topics that you don't care about. Like, welcome to talking to people that are a lot older. Maybe drop a hell in the hell with you. You know, you got to match their game. Yeah. You have to. Yeah. I think the respectful way to do it is if you don't like it, just be nice during it. I don't know. I just, I don't know. I don't want to sit here and make it sound like anybody north of a certain number has nothing to bring the table that's all

that interesting. But you just start to notice it. You'll notice it more and more as you get older. The close people around you, the family members around you. They're playing the hits. They're playing the hits every fucking time. I think everybody eventually kind of evolves into like, I know what this

“room is going to be. I know what the questions are going to be. I know that I've already answered these”

things before, but this is all that really going to care about. And it's probably up to you to kind of meet them in the middle as opposed to them. Like, you unlocking or hacking your way into like in depth conversation that you weren't expected. Yeah. Break out a yellow photo album. They'll love that shit. Go on. Go on the root seller for Eastern. You know, just have that shit in the living room. That's good. And the other thing you're, your right old folks are not shy about what they

got minutes on. Like, they're not, like, you know, you just have to pay attention. They're not shy about it. You will know immediately about that baseball pitch clock. All right. We have a lot of followups on the baby stuff. We're going to wait. We're going to wait on those. That's all right. That's fine with me. I don't see any people disagree. Yeah, fun. I don't care. But my issue with the heat is that sorority was actually trying like sorority's options the best version of it. And

sorority's world. That's where everybody's looking out for each other. Right. It's not a bunch of mercenaries. But people, people do not like it. Yeah. I just took away that sorority comes from a solid family.

“That's just, that's what I took away from that whole email. That's how I felt. Yeah, I'm like that.”

Just answer. They're super lined. You know, sorority's never going to be emailing into some show.

Go on. This could terror me and my sister apart. All right. Six to dad bought 225 with another one of the way. No gym stats. But try to hit the office gym three, four times a week for the perk midday and door fence. Good for you. This guy and you're getting out of the office. This one's mostly for Kyle. Master's practice round patron who wears it proudly. Shugging away the daily ground grind when my focus was disrupted by the slightly longer vibration. Only an email notification

you provide on the iPhone. Never have been a guy to keep a high number of unreds in my gym. Gmail thumbnail. So I wasted no time in opening the email. You have notifications on every email you can't. That seems insanely. But maybe if you're in that world, you know, you're just going to lock in. All right. So what might as well be not safe for work for a new-ish dad sitting at his nine to five on a summer day. Congratulations. Your ticket application was selected. Whoa.

26 masters. They did it the right way. Yeah. Immediately thought it was spam. But upon a deeper look of the email address that came from. I thought it was safe to click the link. Q Holy Balls. Again, it's real. I've got four tickets to the masters Wednesday practice round. Yeah. My golf watching wife are golf, obsessed, couple friends are heading to Augusta. Here's the question. What's the play on a practice round day? How much should we budget for the pro shop? Do we everything on

the menu or there's some must-haves or stayaways? Would you want or would you go watch the

par three contests? Any general thoughts for first-time patron are appreciated from all of you guys

added context flying into Columbia, South Carolina and running an Airbnb there. I've heard a gust is not worth staying in for the price of quality rentals. I love the show. Sure, answer yes. Right. Do it all. I mean, do it feels right. It's like going back in time when you go there. I mean, travel, meet at the meet at the big tree at three o'clock. It's fucking awesome. I mean, you lose your

is the gift shop. So I guess you just got a, it's like going to Vegas. Like how much are we prepared to

“lose? And honestly, if you lose more than you thought, you can get by on the Pomenos sandwiches or”

whatever. Like it's all, if it's like 10 bucks, you can eat the old dates. It's unbelievable. I mean,

nothing's really incredible, but it's incredible where you're at. And it's incredible that you can just

like not think up, you don't have to game plan food. You just pop in one of those little shops and you and you go out, you leave after paying $10 for, you know, sick cups. You get to take home and I just say, yes, there's really not much to think about other than like, how many people do I have to get shit for outside of yourself? Because I, I, I think I let my dad down a little bit. Because I got, I, I got about to shirts and this was 2018 Kyle. So still very much in the bus zone. So I mean,

let him down. What's, I just like I went there and I wanted to get him a bunch of master shit and I think he got like a different repair tool and a visor that I then decided to keep for myself. So he has a sick master's different repair tool and a ball marker. But yeah, that is disappointing. It is not. Yeah, listen and advice. But if it's right. Did you tell him you were going to hook him up to? No, it's going to be a surprise. So I just had to live with like this is one 20th of the surprise I had

planned. So while how many things did you buy yourself? This shirt behind me, a pink, like T-shirt, that was pretty sick. Got a rough oil stain on it that I'll, I still wear it in the house, but it's really not an outside shirt anymore. And I have a sick master's visor. But again, that was like, that was it for me. I was like tapped out for the rest of the trip, you know what I mean? So

“and you brought him a divot repair tool and a sick. And I mean, honestly, a really nice ball”

marker that clips onto that. What was his react? What did his face look like when he got the divot repair thing? Oh, yeah, look at that. Oh, you'll look at that. You'll take my cop. Get your finances together, son. Look at that. It's such a great response. Look at that. All right, guys. I'm trying to be vulnerable here. I, how old were you? I mean, I get 20, 2018. So you have 24, I think.

25, I don't know. He was disappointed, but he wasn't shocked. He wasn't shocked. No, no way. No way. No way. That sucks, too, because caught like the thoughts that this is, this is a great glimpse of Kyle, though. Like the thought is there. You know, he wanted to do something great.

And, you know, wasn't all the way there. It's all right. I've never gotten him a shirt since

from the masters. I mean, yeah, I don't really, I mean, I think you can buy stuff online. But I think, I mean, the whole thing about the shop is they got exclusive shit. No, yeah, you've got to get it from there. Wednesday's awesome. So I don't only want to, is telling you, is he saying like he only has Wednesday, then he doesn't have Thursday fryer or anything like that? I think that's

“how I think that's how that lottery works. I check it right here. So, right. So, there's a lot of”

people who tell you like Wednesdays about as much fun as it gets. So, I don't have, I've went Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. My thing that I couldn't believe is that if you just roll around once everybody has their seats, you can just sit in their seats. And then if they grab the cap on the shoulder, you're like, oh, yeah, I'm back. Nobody wants to make any trouble there. You know, they expect that their seats are going to be filled by people they don't know when they're not there,

because it's totally understood that once you come back, you get your seats back because they found a way to set them up whenever that whole thing starts at whole process. The no-phone thing is awesome, because you check for your phone like a weirdo and think it's gone like the

first 30 minutes. It's just like this spashing thing. And then it's just this absolute,

like oasis of comfort of like, oh, that's right. None of us have them. This is great. Trying to find dudes that you split up with is like a fun little game and you know, is a fun little game. Yeah. Yeah. So, the shop is chaos though, right? Yeah. I don't know if there's more than one shop at the one that I went to was absolutely. I was like, all right, I'm just going to budget an hour and a half to wait. That's towards the entrance. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I don't even remember

if I bought any things. Really? Wow. And there's a weird move. Three to 18. That's not true. But then I realized I'm like, I don't think I have anything. Sounds like my dad made up there and you did. So, I mean, I don't really know what we're talking about. Paul Marker. I don't know if that's true or not, though. Oh, like, but I'm kind of running through

because it's it's sick though because it's one of those things like, I don't I don't I don't

“want to compare it to like veterans or maybe it's like when you have the same car as someone else,”

like somebody might actually stop and be like, oh, yeah, do you go? And then and then you're like, oh, yeah, what, yeah, like it's if you see that little that little logo, like it's sort of real, it's it. I listen. I don't want it to be that, but like I'm trying to think of something that it's like, but dudes are probably like that. I've stopped dudes couple in me and there's a guy at a bar with the little logo. I'm like, yeah, when you go. And I, I upset that I don't get that

for my dad, where you can be like, oh, yeah, my son went because nobody's going to notice that little marker. That was the whole point. You know, my stuff. That sucks, though, because it's like if he's playing golf and somebody's like, hey, how'd you get that? Like, oh, so I'm going to find me. Like, that's really cool. What else do you get you? All right, you're filing on. Well, hey, listen, I still enter that lottery every year, so. Wait, what's the, what's the food,

though? Like, is the Pimento? I love the terrible. It's a barbecue chicken. It's not terrible, Ryan's just a bit of a studio when it comes to what you actually eat when you're out places, but the barbecue chickens find, um, there's like a ham or like, there's like a regular, they're saying, which is that you'd like make when you're going to go to the beach or something, you know, for the, for a day. There's like a bunch of different ones. The chicken one's good,

“but I think it's cold, isn't it? I don't know what time we're getting the sauce on it. The peach ice cream”

thing is awesome. Great. There's like little moons there for five bucks in a cup that you can

just keep. I collected like a million of them. I got to keep more than now. I got to keep

too. Somebody, somebody needed them. Look, I don't list right now, savory tomato pie. That might be a new one. I don't think that was there when I was there. I went with Joe house and he made me get all the sandwiches. So that's back when we did that food podcast. So we had to go back to the house and he was like, we're going to make, we're going to put the Pimento with some just like, there's a photo of me, like standing around all those guys holding a bag full of sandwiches that

we're going to go bring back for like a food thing later. We're just trying to mix all the sandwiches together. So that was the end of that day. I was just walking around with a bag full of,

“you know, $2 sandwiches. Wait, did you walk around with a snake of masters cups all day long?”

I, I did, I had a bunch. I had a bunch. You beers? That was the tax though. That was the tax. And the cups are now gone. I got, hey, I still have one. Should've told you that that. I had so many cups. I still have one. Honestly worth it. I carry cups all day if I go again. I got to finish because I'm going to cowhert show and they're going to call me 700 times on the face time thing. So we'll leave that in thanks to Kevin, thanks to Tom, thanks to Judy, thanks to Kyle.

And thanks to Jay Billis for dropping some canolic on us there at the end. As always, and we will be back

with a good 10 minutes to recap all of who he may have to do a minute or two on that magic first quarter against the rafters. My god. There's nothing to say anymore, but they make they may end up in Vegas and they'll be another expansion team in Kansas City. I just go away. This is going that's being a little extreme. Please subscribe or I'm going to show a show, parts to a sports. [BLANK_AUDIO]