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Me and big cat didn't see the news right away. Hand up. We apologize for that. But we were. We're playing excellent at Topgolf.

Yeah.

Beating Hank at Topgolf. So we see the news, and we're like, this can't be true. And then in a matter of seconds, it is true. Cal is going to Arkansas. Tyson Foods comes and saves the day for Arkansas.

Chicken man.

The chicken man. So I have a ton of thoughts. I mean, I don't know where we want to start.

I. It.

Let's start with this. I love college sports for these type of moments because we have the domino meme. Sm, you goes to the acC, is able to get Andy and Enfield from USC. Musk goes from Arkansas to USC, and then Cal goes from Kentucky to Arkansas. So, sm, you going to ACC started this entire thing, and now Kentucky is looking for a new coach in what, 15 years?

Yeah.

And it's crazy.

It is wild. So, the first I heard of this, I was just shocked that. That Cal was allowed to negotiate with other schools. Like, they did him a favor by not firing him two weeks ago.

Correct.

And they had that big meeting. And after that meeting was over, Mitch, the ad was like, cal's our coach.

We're gonna roll with him.

And then apparently in his contract, he has a clause where he's allowed to negotiate with other schools as long as he tells Kentucky about it.

Right.

It's like, it's an open marriage contract. It's Will Smith and Jada Pinkett.

And he. It's crazy that he did that. He basically did the, you can't fire me. I quit.

Yeah.

And so I was listening Matt Jones at a Twitter space, and he explained it, that Cal and his group were somehow shocked by the hate that Kentucky had had in the last, like, two months for Cal and how this season ended. He said that it surprised them and they didn't see that coming, and that's where the tide kind of shifted. And, and then you throw in the fact that Arkansas is giving him a ton of money and basically giving him a new lease where, yeah, next year he would have been the Kentucky head coach, but if they go out in the first round again, he's fired. So he, he gets a whole new contract. He gets years to build Arkansas. It's a huge win for Arkansas, and I think it's actually a huge win for Kentucky. I agree.

Kentucky fans, like, they wanted him gone two weeks ago.

Not only that, but it's a huge win for Kentucky for a couple things. One, you don't have to pay him any money. So the part of the deal is that if Cal goes, there's no buyout for Arkansas to pay Kentucky, but there's also no money that Kentucky has to pay Cal. So you're free and clear that to all the boosters that had turned on Cal are going to be all the way back in and ready to write big checks for whatever coach they want. And three, this is the part that, like, I think most Kentucky fans know, but the outside world doesn't, and they try to roast Kentucky and be like, oh, Kentucky's cooked. Kentucky is 1 billion times bigger than coach cal. It's Kentucky basketball. Won eight national titles. Seven of them are without coach Cal.

That's what I was saying earlier. Like, if you were to just list the best jobs in college basketball, Kentucky is right up there, maybe number one, like Duke. Jake brought up Duke, and I was.

Like, I don't think so.

Cause with Duke, it's like, that's coach k. Yeah, it's a prestigious job.

Right.

But in terms of, like, the system around the coach, Kentucky's as good as it gets. So do you think that in that meeting where he didn't get fired, any possibility that they came to an understanding, like, hey, we don't want to pay your buyout. You want to leave, I'm going to say that I'm keeping you around as coach. You go off, you try to find a new job.

That way we're all happy. No, I think this probably surprised the.

Fuck out of him.

You think so?

Yeah, I think this surprised the fuck out of him. I think, because I think this wouldn't, this, this wouldn't have happened. If Musk doesn't leave from Arkansas like that, like, the dominoes started to go, and then you have a specific job in Arkansas that has the money, and.

Cal is also close with the chicken people.

Right. So it's like this, this all kind of worked in a perfect sequential order where it's like everything fell into place that this specific job opened up that has this amount of money, that has the boosters that back you. So, like I said, like, cal has a new lease on life. Like, he was, he was on the hot seat. We will, we credit to us. We put him on the hot seat before anyone else, and we were correct. But he was on the hot seat in Kentucky, and he probably read the tea leaves and was like, unless I go to the final four, I'm basically gone no matter what. And then I'm looking for a new job. Why not just take this new job right now that's giving me all the money and all my friends are the boosters and they all like, can. Arkansas has got to be fucking thrilled.

They're very happy.

Yeah.

Right.

Hogville.

It's crazy, too. The best part is, I love this when this happens in college sports, too. The fact that Cal has to go back to Lexington next year.

Yeah.

Just makes this so, so, so great. It's like when Chris Beard had to go back to Texas Tech.

Yeah.

You get these rivalries, and it's just, it makes it, it's why I love, I love college sports more than anything. It's good.

If you're a Kentucky fan, you're. You're probably, like, a little bit happy that Cal is not going to be there. You wanted him gone like we said. Yeah, but, but at the same time, you don't want him to go to an in conference rival where you have to play him all the time. Like, that's.

But it's going to create, it's a.

It'S a weird thing that they're going to have to deal with, and the timing of it is just crazy for it to happen the night before the national championship.

Yep.

And also the night after Nate Oates and the Crimson Tide lose.

Yes.

So I I get what you're saying. Like, you don't want to have to go up against Cal. But I think, again, Kentucky is bigger than a coach.

Yeah.

And they're like, they'll be fine because they're going to get a great coach. And I do think the money that's going to come in now from a reinvigorated, like, fan base and booster base is going to put the next coach of Kentucky in an incredible spot to succeed. And like, this was, this marriage was always going to break up eventually. They just get to fast forward past a couple more painful years that Cal probably doesn't adapt and they probably have a bunch of lottery picks that don't win in the tournament. And now you get to fast forward and you're like, all right, we're onto the new one who's probably going to want to be there for a very long time and build something in this new college basketball world.

Yeah.

And with, with him going to Arkansas, I just wonder if he's going to.

Bring recruits with him.

Like, is he going to.

Oh, yeah.

They're all gone.

Some guys that we're going to be, I can say so that that'll add a whole new level of hate to Cal when he does have to go back to Lexington.

You got to assume they're all gone.

Yeah.

Then I made, I made, like, a wish list of just coaches that I hope they look at to hire number one for Kentucky. I think we can agree. Rick Pitino.

Yes. Sometimes you got to go back to move forward.

Send Rick home. He wants to go home. You heard him on part of my take. He would love to go to Kentucky.

That clip will get played a million times if he goes to Kentucky.

Yup.

Then Jay Wright. Jay Wright would be fun. Get him back in the mix.

I don't think he's going anywhere.

I don't think he wants to coach college right now.

Also, Rick Pitino. The one problem with Rick Pitino is that you would. Then you'd have to figure out what you're going to do in six years.

That's true.

Yeah.

To replace him. Then Danny Hurley, they're going to call Danny Hurley. They're going to ask Danny Hurley. There's no reason for Danny Hurley to take this job except for a very big reason, which is they would probably, like, double his salary.

I still think it would be 0% just in. Obviously, with college coaches, it's stupid to say something like 0% because we know that they all would move. We've seen it a million times. But Danny Hurley is a northeast guy. I don't know what you could do as much as I said, you know, Kentucky's bigger than Cal. I don't know how much better you can get than possibly winning two national championships in a row. And he is like, if he wins tonight like that, his pro, he gets whatever he wants, new contract. He gets everything he's meant to.

The only they could throw just an obscene amount of cash at him. I still would make him think about it.

I don't like, he's. I don't think I would say no.

I don't. I don't think that he would either. But when this kind of money is involved, you never know.

Kentucky has to at least make the call.

They'll talk to him.

Yes.

They'll pick up the phone.

I hope they don't try to talk to him right now.

No, I hope they don't. They're going to, like, call him tomorrow. They're going to call him before the game.

Yeah.

I hope he stays focused.

Yeah, I don't think you would. I don't think Danny would take the call.

I don't either.

I think he'd hang up on him. Those are the big ones. Don Staley.

Well, NATO's have to.

Just have to get the conversation going. Don Staley.

Yeah.

About NATO.

NATO. Well, no, we talked about NATO. NATO. Seems like he'd be a pretty good fit. Seems like the buyout would not really be an issue if they're paying a shitload of money anyways. They're ready to write some checks and.

They don't have to pay Cal. We, when we talked to Matt Jones a couple weeks ago, he did say Scott Drew would be at the top of the list, national championship. Coach close with the ad. So he's got to be a call that gets made.

Mark few.

I have another one. Mark few. I'd say probably not.

You don't take the call?

I don't think so. He hasn't won anything.

Yeah.

He hasn't even gone to a final ever. One call that I think they probably will make is my coach. I think they would probably try to get Billy Donovan. Yeah, I think that would. That would definitely be a call they make.

Mm hmm.

So Billy. Billy D. Back to the, to, to college. But that, to me, I don't know, with the halt, with the, with the way college basketball is now, I feel like it'd be crazy to go back to college if you have a pro job that you feel somewhat secure with.

I would agree with that. Also, Brad Stevens got a call.

Gotta call him.

Got to make Brad say no.

Jim Boeheim gotta call him.

Think he's ready for new challenge.

You got to call Jim Boeheim to see if you, if he'll give you Danny Hurley's number.

Mm hmm.

Like I was expecting this phone call. It's like, no, actually we just don't have Danny Hurley's number. We need that from you, coach K John Shire.

Yeah. Kevin Keats.

Kevin Keith. Hank who you got?

Dennis Sprinkle.

Danny Spring will make him, make him.

Go from Washington to Kentucky without ever coaching a game.

What about a guy with national championship experience? Kevin Ollie.

Oh yeah, good point. Ooh, Kevin Ollie. Yes, good point. Great point. Here's a crazy one. That would not happen. But I just throw it out there because college sports can always shock us.

Shots.

Must, must to Kentucky.

What if bus just did. He was just like, all right.

Yeah.

I mean they all Belichick.

Yeah.

And then, you know what, if you're Cal, you have to pick up the, if USC calls.

Yes, yes. He's always want to coach in LA.

He was almost a Lakers coach ten years ago.

Yeah.

Or even Andy Enfield maybe goes back to USC and then Cal goes to SMU. They're in the ACC now.

Musical chairs, big program.

It's, it's crazy. It is shocking news like this is, we all thought that, I mean, we're going to talk to Jon Fanta in a minute and we, we brought up Cal to him and we're like, we talked about the hot seat and stuff. Now it already is outdated. It's the fastest an interview has ever been outdated in that specific topic. But yeah, it's crazy. I really do think Kentucky fans, though should be happy because it was going to end sooner rather than later. And now you don't have to pay him any money and now you have a bunch of boosters that are like good, do things gone. Let's go get the best coach that we can find and we'll pay him all the money and we'll pay all the nil and Kentucky will probably, Kentucky will win a national title before Arkansas.

I do.

I'll do my, well, what's best? The Cavs owners, Daniel. Yeah. Personally guarantee. I personally guarantee and I like Arkansas as school and I, you know, they have a tremendous history. I was actually watching 40 minutes of hell, the documentary the other night with Nolan.

Yeah.

Like awesome. It's a fucking passionate crate. Bud Walton arena is the best when it gets rocking. But I just think Kentucky will be good. I think they'll be, they'll be fine. Immediately.

I'm going to go one step further, big cat. I'm going to say the next coach at Kentucky will win a national championship.

Yeah.

Whoever you are, whoever you're about to.

Hire right now, future national championship coach, sign up.

Yeah.

What's the.

What's the.

Do you think Jerry Jones is just, like, he's been so preoccupied with his own death and trying to win all the championships he can, like, spending all this crazy money? You think that factored into this? You think Jerry Jones was like, I got to get one in Arkansas, too, before I die, so just. Just talk to coach Cal.

Yeah.

I wonder how much he cares. That is a basketball.

That is a cowboys higher.

Yeah.

Bringing in Cal fire like this.

Yeah. Yeah.

It's the flashiest hire you can get. The only thing flasher be is if Kentucky can get Jay Wright.

Mm hmm.

That would be the flashiest hire. Oh, what about Kyle Neptune?

Get him a lot of great coaches out there.

Yeah, I. It's going to be fascinating how quickly you think it's got to happen fast, right?

I think it's probably going to happen the next day or two.

Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, you. I don't think you can announce the hire the day of the national championship game, can you?

Yeah, you can, because remember when a rod did, he announced his contract in the middle of the World Series.

Yeah, but that's a rod. He's different.

That's true. Maybe a rod for the Kentucky job.

I just feel like if you do it on the national championship day, that that news gets overshadowed by the game later.

Yeah, true. Yeah, they'll wait a day. Yeah, but they've already made the calls.

I think they're making calls. There's Mitchell, which is a Mitch Barnard.

Yeah, he's on the phone right now.

Yeah, yeah.

He's got to figure it out. And I mean, cows. Years of Kentucky. Obviously, the ending wasn't good, but he had an incredible run with a national title. Oh, the lights just went out as the eclipse. That's Undertaker Cal, by the way.

I have.

Let's quickly do this while the lights are out. Undertaker did come out. I also got. Brandon Walker sent me spark notes for WrestleMania so that we can say we discussed it. Cody finished his story. It was no DQ. And Roman had his cronies interfering. The Avengers, assembled in one by one, appeared to help Cody, culminating in Cena and taker.

I'm sorry, but the reps in wrestling suck.

They do.

They suck. Oh, that's cool. Cody Rhodes did it.

Yeah.

Good job. I saw the rock kicked Logan Paul. That was fun.

Oh, okay.

Give him a kick right to the chest.

He kicked him.

Kicked them.

Yeah.

Wrestling.

I don't.

I didn't even see any of the highlights besides Jason. Kelsey.

I wish they didn't do it during final four weekend. Cause I probably would buy WrestleMania just to see the pops. I love the pops. All right, anything else for Kentucky? I mean, crazy, crazy news. Like I said, we've already taped the full show. So you're going to hear us talk about Saturday night, women's everything and Jon Fantas on. And we. We did bring up. I wish we had gotten him after this. Right now, here's thoughts. But, yeah, big blue nation, you're gonna be just fine. You're gonna fucking. You'll be just fine. Arkansas got a great hire. They're gonna win games now. They're gonna get big recruits. They're gonna open up the. The coffers. College basketball's back.

Let's see Jon Fantas comment. He's just reporting the news.

Just the facts. Just the fact.

Just the facts from him.

Jake, did you have any?

No. No.

He said the coaching carousel is undefeated.

Undefeated.

Also a fact.

Undefeated.

Yeah.

I think it's crazy. Jack Goalkee ended Cali's career. Like that's another domino.

Yeah.

If they beat Oakland, he's probably sticking around.

Yeah.

Jack Colkey was the. Yeah, you're right.

If they.

If they beat Oakland, they will get maybe to the Sweet 16. There's not as much pressure. Jack Goalkee was the man who did it.

But eventually, three straight, three out of four years, losing to North Texas, St. Peters and Oakland.

That's the shocking part that Cal didn't, couldn't see the fan base being upset.

Yeah.

Here, Kentucky.

And you lose to those teams in the tournament in the first round.

He had to have an idea.

2021.

That's.

Matt said that he. Matt said that they were shocked by the animosity that the fan base had towards him. Like he had, you know, done enough and built.

Sorry, Purdue lost north Texas, but either way. Yeah, St. Peters and Oakland, two out of three years.

Oh, and Wikipedia has already updated. Oates is the head coach at university in Kentucky.

That's good enough for me.

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Pft.

It does.

Yeah.

We got Purdue. We got UConn, we got Zach eady, we got Klingon. We have an interview with Fanta. He shed light on this, but it's the first time two seven footers have been on the court on opposite teams in the modern era of NCAA. The biggest game ever.

The biggest game ever. I don't think we've ever sat farther apart for a podcast. This is very awkward.

Yeah, no, it's. It's weird.

It just started, like, shouting across the room to you.

Yeah, no cans on or anything. Great job, Max.

What's up? Pft, I'm doing pretty good.

Yeah.

What'd you say?

You want to. You want to. Do.

You want to do the podcast? What? There's all that. Actually, we should start out by saying.

Are we sure Caitlin Clark is actually good?

Ooh, bust.

Can't win the big one.

Yeah.

That game was crazy. The championship game. Shout out, Don Staley for giving a shout out.

Yup.

No free shout out.

Shout out, Don Staley. Shout out for giving Caitlin Clark a shout out.

Appreciate that. Yeah. South Carolina turns out really good at basketball.

Yeah.

Caitlin Clark, maybe the best first quarter that she could possibly have. And then she was just out of.

Gas by the end of it and the game.

So, South Carolina did you know they've only lost three games in the last three years?

Yeah, they.

They're 109 and three.

The only game they had lost in the last two years was the game to Iowa in the final four last year.

Yeah.

Wild.

But Caitlin Clark is. Ends her college career going out with just everyone in the world hating her for some reason or having it.

I feel like so many people started to hate on her that there was backlash. The backlash now where it's like, Caitlin Clark is good. It's actually perfect because you have. You have the old heads. WNBA complaining about the young people being like, oh, the kids, they can't play like we used to play. Bob Ryan being like, yeah, players are much better in my day. I think that's just a natural thing in sports. We're just seeing it on the woman's stage.

Yeah.

Diana Taurasi. I think wants to, like, assault Caitlin Clark.

Yeah.

She shows up to the WNBA, but, yeah, it was. It was a weird, like, ending. Cause she's obviously done so much for the women's game. There were crazy ratings on Friday, I'm sure. Crazy ratings for today's game.

What's your number? Oh, I got 20 mil, exactly.

Oh, I think it's gonna be less than that. I'm gonna say 1717 mil, 17 mil. But, yeah, it was weird. Like, the hate that she was getting from all the WNBA players knew.

Yes.

But I guess they just don't, like, you know, the young buck on the scene, I guess.

She attracts so much attention. But I want to see it expand. I want to see, like, female hockey players being like, female basketball players are soft shit. They don't. They don't play like we play.

Get it all the way there.

Yeah, but, yeah.

So we're here in Arizona. We went to the game on Saturday. Why don't we talk about the games? Purdue beats NC State. NC State played some of the worst basketball I've watched. Nothing to take away from Purdue. Purdue, like. But I think if you told NC State fans before that game, Purdue only was going to score 63 points, they would have been like, oh, we have a real shot at this. Purdue is just too good.

They. They.

Their defense was great, I also think. And not making excuses, as soon as Michael O'Connell, the point guard for NC State, went down with that injury, their offense basically, like, was erased.

Yeah, it was tough, especially the start of the second half, it seemed like neither team wanted to make a shot. Yeah, there was a moment when the game started where it was. It was DJ burns against Zack Eady for a little bit, and we're like, how's this going to work out? DJ learned pretty quickly that you can't spin around Zack e d. Yes. He's too wide. His arms go too long. He did a couple of those spin moves which get you around almost anybody else in the game, and then he picks up his dribble, and he's like, oh, shit, zack Edie's here, too.

Yes.

Both sides of me and Zack Ed.

Scored 20 points, only two free throws. So shout out. I know that Purdue fans hate the discourse that was. I mean, they were just. They were better than NC State and NC State. Like, what an insane run that, you know, our guy Quiggs was.

Was with us.

Diehard NC State fan. That is one of those things that, if you're a sports fan, even though it didn't end well, you'll remember that run from the ACC championship all the way to the final four forever.

You had a great tournament. The story of this game was like, NC State make a mid range jump shot challenge impossible. Yeah, they just couldn't hit anything. And then. Yeah, you're right. Ed did not get to the foul line a lot, but the two foul shots he had were the most upsetting foul shots, I think, in the history of basketball, because there was no whistle for the media timeout. So it was a double media timeout.

Oh, wow.

So Edie goes up there, he shoots. They come out of a media timeout. He shoots one foul shot.

Boom.

Media timeout again. You had one foul shot in between commercial breaks.

Disgusting.

It was disgusting for the sport, for the youngsters.

Disgusting. But yeah, Purdue, I mean, I think they can absolutely. I know they're seven point dogs, but they have. They have the best chance against UConn in terms of what they have, like on the floor card play. Ed just being a monster. And I do. I would have liked to see that. The Michael O'Connell injury, like the NC State run, he was the one who hit that three against Virginia. The offense running through him, let them kind of play a little more free. And then he just. I feel like every single year at the final four, they do the video showing how cool it is that they painted this court and then someone gets injured right away.

Yeah.

And that was like a phantom floor injury. He only ended up playing twelve minutes. I think Purdue wins no matter what, but you could tell that they're off. NC State's offense was in a big funk after that.

Yeah.

It was like anytime NC State made one three pointer, it was like, oh, maybe they're back. Maybe they're all going to go in. But it was never close.

Also, we should I, Zack Ed, be like, well played.

He.

He revealed on Friday, press conference to basically get everyone to be like, I actually feel bad for Zack Edie that the laws don't let him make money in the nil because he's a Canadian. He's from Canada and he's on a green card. That's crazy. Zack Edie, I actually like him now. A fan of you because you were right. You missed out on a lot of money.

A ton of money, actually.

Some.

Some student at Purdue should marry him, become a citizen.

Yeah.

Then he makes all the money. Just like pay, pay the girl $10,000, marry me. Okay. Now a millionaire.

Yeah.

Instantly.

Yeah.

But that's. That sucks for him. And when he. When he played it perfectly, cuz I didn't know that until he said it on Friday, and then immediately, everyone's like, the discourse changes. Like, wait, Zaki is getting screwed.

I saw somebody said that there's a. There's like an nil collective that might be able to give him money through a loophole. So he might be making some money, but he's not making, like, official nil money.

Anybody else would've been raking it in. He's having one of the best tournament runs of all time.

Yeah.

And he's been a star. He was a back to back national player of the year. Zack Edie, you deserve some money.

Yeah, I just. It's always like, it can be frustrating at times watching him play, but just thinking about, okay, we get to watch Zack Eddy go up against DJ Burns. That was fun.

Yeah.

Now we're like, okay, we get to watch Zack Ed play against another seven footer.

That's.

I just like watching seven footers be matched up against other people playing basketball.

Yes.

And let's enjoy this game because they're. I've. Listen, I've said my things about Purdue.

I.

Everyone knows where I stand. I've never said that. Zack, he's not good at basketball. He's really good at basketball. I've noticed, though, the new trend is, well, he's going to suck in the NBA. Who cares?

Yeah, no one cares about, like, there's.

A lot of college players that, I mean, we watch during the halftime of the second game, they had the Olympic three on three game, and Jim Refurdett was playing it.

Yeah, he was elite.

And I was like, this has got to be this. Like, I know that he's playing in the Olympics, but still, Jimmer Fredette probably didn't think this was how he's going to get to a final four.

This guy's going to stink in the NBA. Guy is the same guy as the after taxes guy.

Yeah.

Same cut from the same.

Yeah.

Be like, oh, well, he's making 20 million a year, but agents fees, taxes, probably clearing ten. Such a good point.

It is.

Same person, same exact guy. So, yeah, Purdue in the final, and then we had UConn. Bama played an almost perfect half of basketball in the first half. Offensively, yes, but they. They did everything they needed to do. They were shooting 70% from three and they were down four. And that's just how good UConn is. And UConn, like Dan Hurley said afterwards, they knew that Bama was going to make their threes. Their entire defensive strategy was just don't let them take 40 of them. And that's what they did. They ran them off the line. They were. They were switching on every or. They were fighting through screens, switching on everything when they needed to. It was defensively Yukon. Like, the stats show that Bama shot well, but they shot so many less threes than they wanted to shoot. And that was kind of the name of the game is like, you can make those, but you're not going to get to shoot 43s.

Yeah.

And then Uconn. UConn was just physically dominant on them. Later, he did the step on the throat, stomped on their throat. It felt like, what was it?

56? 56. It was 56, 50. 612 minutes left.

And then.

And then it was just all UConn. And from that point on, it was like, this is very obvious who's going to win this game.

It did.

We did get one of the saddest moments, I think, in college basketball history. The NC State mascot and UConn mascot hugging it out the, the two dogs, except the UConn mascots head came off, which was very weird to see, but it was. I think everyone had a little tear in their eye watching that.

Yeah, it was. That was what. That's what it's all about. Sportsmanship.

Yeah.

Mascots, I have some crazy UConn stats for you. UConn was the first to score 69 last night. They have now won 110 straight games where they reach 69 before their opponent. This is from no escalators, who's a great follow. And then also, UConn has won 18 consecutive neutral site games by double digits. It's insane. It's pretty. The St. John's, they beat St. John's, the Big east tournament, by five, but that was semi neutral because it was in New York.

That.

That's actually how it's, like, classified, semi neutral, semi neutral game. But it's pretty crazy, the run they've been on. They just have an answer to everything. And I. I honestly think that, like, Purdue scares me. But UConn's guards are so much bigger than every other teams, especially. I mean, they're bigger than Purdue's and, like, they play so physical and they rebound, so, like, even the guards rebound well. And they just, they're just a well oiled machine. Like, they never, they never flinch and they're always just like, we're going to run our stuff and it's going to beat you. Maybe it will take a little bit of time. Alabama played them tougher than probably anyone's played them in the tournament since the Iona first half in the first round last year, but that was. Yeah, I mean, that's what Yukon does. They're just. They're a machine.

How about Cam Spencer just being able to rebound, do everything I did have? There's one tweet that made me laugh very hard last night. Max was watching the game. He had a couple cocktails in him, and he said if Cam. If Cam Spencer played at Duke, he would be the national devil. I like that phrase. Yeah, the national devil. What do you mean by that? He would just be them.

Like, the most hated Duke guy. I agree. He is very hateable face. He also crushed Nova every time we played him. I like him a lot.

I hate him so much.

Yeah.

I think. I think if Colick played it, Duke, he would be the national devil.

He's just a kid. He's like 20, 21, 22. He also. You can't had all five starters in double digits. I feel like they do that every game. It's crazy.

Yeah.

And they've got depth off the bench, too.

They have everything.

They're inevitable. And then coach Hurley won the Naismith coach of the year award today.

Yep.

I think that's a trick by college basketball to be like, okay, we're gonna. We're gonna gas him up so hard so he takes his foot off the pedal tomorrow.

Yeah.

It's classic NCAA going against coach, and now they give him an award for being the best coach.

Yeah.

Now they get sleep.

Yep.

They get their circadian rhythm.

Well, until the eclipse.

Until the eclipse. That's gonna fuck.

Is probably doing something against Hurley, too.

We have just two awards for every. Cause I. Kelvin Sampson won coach of the year, too.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

There's just two awards for everything.

Make it. Make it easy for us to understand we're dumb.

Yeah, I saw that. I saw that Hurley won that, and I was like, wait, didn't we announce this a second ago?

I think this was Naismith. Whatever. Whatever difference. The Naismith award.

Yeah.

Kelvin Sampson won the Associated Press coach of the year.

Okay.

From the journos.

Yeah, from the journos who don't know ball.

Mm hmm.

That's a fact.

If UConn wins, are we ready to have the discussion that UConn is ruining basketball?

Well, they're too good. It's pretty crazy. If UConn wins this game, they will have more national titles than Indiana and Duke. They will be third all time. UCLA has eleven. Kentucky has eight. UConn would have six, and all six would have been in the last 25 years.

It's been a pretty good run.

It's insane. And they also go. They've gone. This is their 7th final four, so there's only one time they've gone to a final four that they haven't won at all. They've also never been to a championship game that they didn't win.

I think you could make the argument that UConn basketball fans are probably the most spoiled sports fans in the world, because not only you root for UConn, you probably root for the Celtics, Hank. You probably root for the Patriots. Probably root for the Bruins.

Maybe the Yankees.

You've had a really good run if you're a UConn fan.

UConn's pretty split, though.

Like, there's a.

It's.

It's probably, I don't know, 60 40.

Yeah.

Like, western Connecticut. They're New York. They commute there. They fly there in their helicopters to trade stocks in the morning.

Yeah.

And it probably feels nice for the Mets fans that are UConn fans.

Yeah, you deserve that.

Yeah.

You definitely deserve that. But it's crazy, the run they've been on and.

Yeah, they.

They would be. I mean, to think that UConn could have more national titles than Duke in Indiana, and they've only done it in the last, since 99 was their first one.

It's crazy. We gave them their blue blood last year.

Yeah, your blue, blue blood. Congrats. I don't know. Maybe I'm biased here because I like Dan Hurley a lot. I've liked him for a very long time, and obviously, I have money invested in UConn this year, but are they hateable to outside of the big east fans?

I think they're. If they win this, they become annoying.

Yeah.

It's like these motherfuckers, they just reload again.

They're not. They're. I was. I was thinking about it because, like, Duke obviously, is hateable for all the Duke reasons, but it's also because Duke is always there. Like, they always. They go to a bunch of final fours, all that stuff. UConn just goes to final fours and wins them.

You know what I mean?

Like, the fact they've only been to seven and they've won. They've won five going for their six on Monday night. Like, Duke goes there and is always in the mix. Like, UConn even has had that they had when they were in the AC or whatever the fuck it was called. They were bad for a while. Like, Duke's never really bad. UnC's never really that bad. Kansas. Like, that's. So I feel like, the hateable nature of them isn't all the way turned.

Up because also, they beat Duke sometimes.

Yeah, that's true.

Then everyone's 99.

That was good.

Duke was the. Duke was, like, the best team ever to win, not win a championship.

Yeah. And have.

Have they beaten any really, really likable teams on this run that they've been on.

On this run?

Yeah.

Like, they.

There's not a lot of people rooting against him.

Right.

And I feel like people don't watch as much UConn as they would watch. Like, UConn's not shoved down your throat on a national scale.

Yeah. I mean, they have a bias against them.

They have a bias against them. So you don't get overload, you don't get fatigue from them until the tournament. And even when the tournament happens, they have such big blowouts that people don't really watch that many of their games.

Yeah.

So, Max, this whole part of the show just make you sick to your stomach. Okay.

It's. Good answer.

Jake, how was the game from press row? We saw you in your suit.

Oh, you were so pumped.

Oh, we saw. We were watching you take a picture of the Wedgie.

Yeah, it was awesome. Really cool experience. Thank you, the NCA, for credentialing us. I'll be back tonight.

Fuck the NCAA.

Yeah.

You're pieces of shit individually. I. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But. But do fuck the NCAA because we don't like the NCBA.

But, yeah.

Yeah, it was really cool. Got some good interviews afterwards. Got Hurley. Yeah, he said that he'll do it all the time. Yeah, he'll come on the show all the time.

It means winning.

Yup.

I saw you asked the guy that shot the wedgie about the wedgie.

Yeah.

Doctor.

He was overwhelmed by that question.

I don't.

I did this last year with Marquis Noel. I think it was.

They hate wedgies because they take it.

As such a thing of embarrassment.

Yeah, well, I think almost everyone hates Wedgie's except you. An iron eagle and I needle.

He loves it, too.

How was he? Would you listen?

I saw some highlights back, but.

Oh, you got to go back. And he was built for it.

Yeah.

Because I was there, but, yeah, he's the best. Tim and raftery have great chemistry. Grand Hill Tracy Wolfson had to use, like, a mini ladder that was.

Didn't for Zack Edie, and it was crazy watching.

Yeah.

Like, she was basically at his belly button.

Yeah.

So it was really cool and excited to run it back tonight.

Yeah.

You got your picture, too, in mid court.

Yeah, that annual tradition.

Yeah, it's. It was nice to see. We were literally just watching you on press row. They did you guys dirty with the seats.

I appreciate them giving speaker three.

Yeah, but let's be honest. Like, if I were. Those were shitty seats. They put you guys, like, behind the basket, like, all the way up.

Yeah, but we got some great access.

Did you see Jim Nance?

I did.

It was weird seeing him in street clothes.

What was he wearing?

He's just wearing, like, a shirt and, like, a jacket.

Fucking wild.

Yeah.

Like, have you ever seen him not.

Wearing a full suit and time?

Yeah, they showed him in the hue. The Houston game. Yeah, that. He didn't go. He didn't go to the one that Tony Romo was at.

Yeah, that's right. It was Duke Houston.

Right.

Yeah, go to that one. He went to the one before.

That's really interesting.

Very interesting.

Because Romo was there, Roma was there. You would think that they'd be good friends.

Correct? Not.

Huh.

They're not.

Yeah.

I would be a little bit weirded out not seeing a tie in gymnast, I'll give you that.

Jake.

Yeah.

Like, I assume the gym dance sleeps and showers in this, and we're not.

Gonna get the tithe thing this year.

Yeah.

It's really sad. Do you think?

Yeah.

You think he was commentating the game as it was going on in his head?

For sure, yeah, maybe.

Yeah, definitely.

I saw Jay Wright.

Yeah? Yeah.

He was right in front of us.

Was the food like, uh.

Food was good. It was mexican. And then pretzels and then a bunch of sodas.

Was a bathroom situation?

Like, fine.

Oh, that's bad.

That's.

Saying fine is the worst thing you.

Could say about it.

Pass. Fail. Pass.

Did they have enough water?

Well, they're trying to dry you out, Jake.

They do that.

Cops are bustling, so you can't. You have to go back to the cooler.

Oh, wow.

Fill it.

Mmm.

Bottles disgust every media time out and fill up my.

And then you have to go to the bad. The. Just fine bathrooms.

Yeah.

Damn, it's tough. Hank, how'd you like the games?

I'd. Fun. Yeah. Good time?

I kind of.

I was.

I was hoping for a close game, but.

Yeah.

Excited for tonight.

I know they weren't. I mean, the Bama Yukon game was close ish.

Yeah.

It was twelve minutes, and then Yukon was just.

Yeah.

Tonight does have the feeling of, like, this could be an all time classic.

I hope it's. I hope it's close.

We need.

We deserve. America deserves a close title game.

I agree with that.

Spoiled the last two years of the final four. We had Duke UNC coach K's last game and last year we had a buzzer beater.

Oh, yeah, we did have a buster beater.

San Diego State. We did.

We forgot about that.

It's kind of just water finds its level, I guess.

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Okay, what else we got? What else do we want to talk about? I mean, all the pitchers are hurt.

Yeah.

Everyone's getting. What did I tell Jeff Passon?

Yeah, give these guys preemptive. Tommy John the, it's very funny, though, because the, the story now is that the pitch clock is the culprit when it doesn't seem like the data backs.

That up at all.

Because if you look at Tommy John's like the Tommy John surgery rise, it's been on a steady rise the last like ten years.

It might be the fact that guys are throwing like 102 guys and guys.

Are learning how to throw 90 miles an hour in high school and all their arms are fucked by the time they get to MLB.

But I don't think, I don't think a 22nd verse 32nd delay in between pitches is going to make guys arms fall off.

Right. But it is like, now this is like, it feels like strike while the iron's hot. They're trying to get it. They're trying to get the pitch clock gone because you had Shane Bieber strider.

Yeah.

Everyone's all the good guys.

I blame the uniforms. I think uniforms probably, right.

Fanatics did it again.

This is definitely fanatics. Blame it on them.

Okay, what else do we have from the final four? Anything else? I mean, it was, it's been a good, it's been a good trip. I'm very excited. We have a bunch of master stuff coming up this week with Max and Brooks, a bunch of other people. Any other notes from the final four?

No, it's been fun.

Oh, show. What happened with show hay's home run ball?

The woman. Oh yeah.

Scammed.

Yeah, somebody got scammed from it. But did she make her money back?

I don't know.

What'd she do?

She caught his first home run ball as a dodger. And then she got a couple things and the story came out and she was like, no. They basically like put me in a room and pressured me to give the ball back. So I guess Shohei is just a bad guy all around.

No, they always do that. People are so bad at negotiating.

You gotta. You gotta listen to revel. Revelle always has a.

Has.

Like, whenever someone catches a big ball, he's like, first thing I would do is leave the stadium.

You have an exit strategy. First plan. When you get in there, think about what you would do with that ball.

Document it, leave the stadium.

Get.

Get in touch with the lawyer immediately.

I would just piss on it, be like, no one's gonna want it if I peed all over it. That's soaked ball rolling around.

Yeah. Yeah.

I don't think anything else besides this. Like, this has been. It's been final four week and WrestleMania happened.

Yeah, I didn't watch.

I didn't either.

I saw Jason. Kelsey was there doing something.

The rock won.

Maybe coming back.

I didn't realize the rock was a heel.

Yeah, he went heel. Cause everyone loves Cody Rhodes. So this has been like, the last three months has been the rock. Everyone's like, no, not. Not the rock.

Yeah, our guy TJ had it up on press row, and I was watching for a second. I was like, oh, my God.

I didn't really.

TJ was on. Was credentialed.

Yeah, because we were supposed to do the Titus show, and Titus got sick. So we're gonna do it tonight.

Okay.

Wait, so he was watching wrestling instead of the final four?

No, he's multitasking.

Interesting. We'll have to look into the credentials there. The rock was mean to Philly too.

What do you say?

What do you say?

He showed up late to an event?

I think he showed up, like, 2 hours late.

And, like, people are filming him, like, motherfucking him because he showed up so late, and he was like, sorry, I.

Was just watching highlights of Jalen Hurts lose in the playoffs.

Weird seeing him as a bad guy. I never thought I'd see that day.

I got.

I feel like him and John Cena were like the untouchables and, you know.

They need a local hero to come back and throw a big event.

Oh, I got a, I got a, I got a, I got a headline for you. Dodgers make peace with fans who caught Shohei Otani ball. Were will review process.

Okay.

Sounds like they fucked up.

So it sounds like. Yeah, they took this woman into a room and then just basically made her give up the ball.

Yeah.

She exchanged the ball for two signed hats, a signed ball and a signed bat. An auction house told the Athletic that the ball would be worth at least $100,000.

Damn. Yep.

Who buys that shit?

Revelle?

Yeah.

100%. Those people definitely buy it. And they're like, show. Hey, it'd be funny if they bought it.

And then.

Well, would it go up if he got suspended for life?

Yeah.

If that's his last home run ever hit.

Only home run ball for the Dodgers.

Yeah.

That'd be worth a ton of another one, though. Every this year.

He was.

He looked pretty happy, you know, going to Wrigley with the sports book attached to it.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Yeah.

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Week was Tom and John. Sorry, would you want to.

What do you want to say about it? You as a former pitcher.

It's back. Yeah, you gotta. We gotta watch out for the sliders.

I.

Too many cutters.

I spoke with our. We'll have them on later this year. I spoke with our good friend Dan Herron. Cause I was like, what's going on? He's like, it's just like everyone's obsessed with velocity. Kind of what Jeff Passon was saying. Like, everyone just looking at the numbers, being like, you gotta throw 100. You gotta throw 100. And arms are just getting pushed to this max at an early age, and everyone's destroying their. Is it the sweeper?

It might be the sweeper cause we didn't talk about the sweeper pitch until, like, five years ago. And now everyone's got a sweeper now. Tommy John's up.

Arms aren't supposed to throw that.

Maybe the eclipse has something to do with it, too.

Yeah.

Bring back the Greg Maddox's of the world.

Yeah.

The nerds.

Yeah.

92 on the black gets him out.

Location is just as good as 100.

My game.

Yeah.

Low seventies accuracy.

Low seventies.

All efuses.

And then my other who's back was the fourth dimension.

But we'll.

We'll get to that.

Oh, yeah.

We'll talk about the eclipse.

I'll give you another free. Who's back, Hank? Angel Hernandez.

Oh, yeah.

Had a great call today. Right down the middle one of the.

No, no.

I was talking about the strike that he called. So the pitcher stepped off the mound.

Yeah.

And then stepped back on. Didn't even look at the batter through a pitch. It was like two inches high. Called it a strike.

Yeah. Yeah, he's. He's. He.

I just like that he.

Yeah.

I mean, like, Joe west retired. We needed a guy who can just make it all about himself.

That's him.

And I love how defensive he gets. Like he's never made a wrong call in his life. Yeah, he's the best.

Also, the snow baseball rocked in Pittsburgh.

Yeah.

That was awesome.

That is good.

I love snow baseball. Okay, pft.

My who's back of the week is pup punk. Oh, so exclusive announcement here. I think we're putting this public later on in the day on Monday, but I'm excited about it. Really pumped. We're doing a summer concert mini tour this summer. It's the pup punk off the leash. Pink Whitney tour. And first date is in Chicago.

Right?

Chicago, May 31, Joe's on weed. And then in August, we're going August 2, Columbus at Scully's. Saturday, August 3, Nashville at the barstool bar. Friday, August 30 in DC at Union stage. And then Saturday, August 31, Philly at Underground arts. And so I know for at least the Chicago one, we're going to get some people from the office to come out, sing some songs with us. I've asked big cat if he can do it. Max, I believe, is down to sing a song too. So, Max, you have to figure out a song if you want to do shallow.

I can play guitar.

Can you? You have a down pat?

He does have guitar down.

What would you want to sing, Max?

I don't know.

I have to think about it.

First of the month.

Nope. I want to do tequila.

Okay. Yeah.

Be great.

That's.

Well, that's memes.

Yeah.

That is memes.

Beer.

Worst show ever. Probably gonna get him fired. Mister Pear, make memes come out on stage.

Just do acapella.

Yeah.

All right. My who's back is the world ending. So, PFt and I both got a text message from our friend Jersey Jerry on Saturday night during the games. And it reads, I suggest you take out all your money out of your bank and stop using credit cards for the next few months until I can give you the green light again. We will be under a cyber attack sooner rather than later. Just looking out. I'm in communication with a very important person for one of, if not the biggest software companies in the world. So. Sounds like we're fucked.

Yeah, no, Jerry's got the inside intel right now. I tried to get the actual company out of them.

Yeah.

And he. I said, what company? This seems bad. He says, I can't say, bro. He's a multimillionaire, I think. Wealthier than Dave.

Oh, yeah.

I just can't say his name. I'm sorry. Take all your money out of the bank. I'm telling you, I don't. I think I trust Jerry.

Yeah.

I mean, he gets a lot of his news from tick tock, I'd say.

All of it.

Yeah, all of it. And he even sorts sources it that way, saying, did you see that article on TikTok? And he did sit next to someone on a plane that told him this information. He also has been telling me for a while now that right before the election, they're going to shut down the banks and make everyone get a chip to take their money out. So, yeah, I think we're. I think we're in trouble, guys. I think this is a bad, bad scene.

I think we're in deep, deep shit. I asked him to send me a link to some of the theories that he's been reading, and then he just sent me a screenshot of a text that he sent to Erica.

Oh.

So that. That was his link.

Okay. All right. Cheek.

My who's back is crazy injuries. We had a wild finish on the PGA Tour this week. Akshay Batia. He made a putt on the 72nd hole to force a playoff, and he fist pumped so hard, he dislocated his shoulder.

Oh, it's like Tony fee now popped it back in.

That's a baseball.

And won in a playoff. And got his ticket to Augusta.

Yeah.

It was the last open spot in Augusta that he won't.

Holy shit.

So good for him. But, yeah, it was very funny watching him.

It's such a.

It's such a funny golfer nerd injury to just like, I've never celebrated my life that hard.

Wait, he didn't. He didn't, like, did he pound somewhere? He just.

He just.

No, he just, like, did it himself. This is the final putt to force a playoff.

Oh, no.

Just popped out like that.

That wasn't even that hard.

Jesus.

But he won.

I'm excited for the Masters.

Yeah, it's going to be incredible.

Also excited for our mini golf tournament. You want to plug that real quick, Hank?

Yeah. To two day, four round mini golf tournament. It's going to be live. No editing necessary. Wednesday all day and night. Thursday after masters coverage.

Yeah.

Big field. A lot of competition. A lot of questions about how deep the holes are. So we're gonna find out.

Do you know the answer to how deep.

No. I was. It was a Jeff D. Lowe is. The first thing he said to me was like, how deep are these holes? I was like, that's a fair question that I don't. I don't know the answer to. I think they're.

That's such a. Jeff.

Yeah, we think they're normal depth.

Apparently, it makes a difference what. What depth the holes are.

Yeah, it makes sense.

Okay.

Also, shout out Billy for getting the. Enough signatures to be on the ballot.

Yeah.

Billy is officially running for Congress now, so credit to him.

We still gotta figure out this jim toes hardcore common sense issue.

I think it's pretty simple. I think you just. You go, mega common sense.

Yeah, mega hardcore common sense.

Yeah, common sense squared, Billy.

So much common sense, we're gonna make you puke out common sense.

Yeah.

No, I'm. I think I am rooting for Billy now.

Oh.

Billy should actually go on a, like, much publicized ayahuasca trip, but not ayahuasca. It's just common sense.

Yeah.

He's got a shaman who just gives him all the common sense, and he pukes it out.

Should go on stage with a beer bong. That just has common sense on the side.

Just chugging.

He should.

He should boost some common sense.

Yeah.

If he wants to really get it.

Does he have any more interviews lined up?

He did, too. He did two on watching those on Thursday. The second one that he did, I realized Billy's got a chance to win. The man is a natural politician. At the end of the interview, when he reached over, shook the guy's hand.

Yeah.

And his eyes. He did the smile. Eyes that politicians.

So creepy.

Yeah.

And I was like, fuck Billy. Actually, this is, this might be what Billy was born to do.

Yeah.

I mean, he, he does bullshit with the best of them, so he's perfect. And I said it on Friday, but, like, word of state in american politics, I think Billy's actually a pretty good option. Yeah, I was scary to say, but I kind of believe it. I would agree with close to Endor. I still want to see what Jim toe's hardcore common sense looks like, and then I'll fully endorse.

When Billy was first announcing this plan, we're like, wait, Billy, uh, don't you have to, like, live right there in that district? He's like, well, I lost my virginity there, so that's, that's a pretty good reason.

Yeah, that's perfect.

That's as good a reason as any.

Yeah.

All right, let's get to Jon Fanta. We'll talk some more Monday night championship game. It's brought to you by our friends at game time. Game time is the exclusive ticketing partner, barstool Sports. Did you know you can get tickets to Monday night's game? $173 is the get in price. $173 if you're trying to go, I'm looking at the app right now. Also throw out. There it is, baseball season. Oh, Jake's got to go pee. It's baseball season. If you're trying to go to a Cubs game, you can maybe go to Saturday's Cubs game. Coming up on 420 against the Marlins. Some really good prices out there. $20. Get in, have a nice, you know, oh, $45 to get into the bleachers. That's a, that's, that would be my advice to you. Do it on the game time app. Shouldn't have to worry when you buy tickets to your next big event. Game time is a fast and easy way to buy tickets to all sports, music, comedy, and theater events near you. They have flash deals for sudden discounts, zone deals for when you're feeling flexible. And their lowest price guarantee means that if you can find the same seats for less anywhere else, game time will credit you 110% of the difference.

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What did you say?

What did you say in the bowels of the stadium last night?

It's theater. It's fate. It's destiny. This is what you sign up for when you start the marathon in November. For the hardcore junkies who are sweating out 38 and a half point dog in a by game, this is what they live for now on Monday night. Yeah, they might have lived for that, too, but we start the marathon in early November, and you hope in this tournament of utter chaos, that you get a good final. Yeah, this isn't a good final. This is an all time final. This is the first time that we have multiple seven foot starters in a national championship game since Patrick Ewing versus Hakeem Olajuwon in 1984.

Whoa.

This is a title game 40 years in the making. Purdue fans have waited their entire lives for this moment. For UConn fans, it's another year.

Yeah. Yeah.

And then obviously, the story of whoever ends up winning. You have maybe one of the best basketball teams ever. If UConn can do it, like the stretch that they've been on, and then Purdue trying to respond from. From getting bounced last year in the first round.

Yeah.

Let's do the big picture. Cause I would say if Dan Hurley wins this, yes. That's the best two years of a coach of all time. Just because we haven't had a back to back since Florida. You obviously had back to backs earlier in college basketball history when guys stayed for a long time. But he will go. If he can win on Monday, he will go back to back after losing 75% of his points from the year before and changing over pretty much the whole entire roster.

It's all time stuff. You will have won each NCAA tournament game if you win this game in commanding fashion.

Yep.

If they win this game in commanding fashion, which I do think is possible. I know a lot of people are saying, one possession, two possession game. I hope we get there. But the reason why I'm skeptical is because we thought that we would have gotten there multiple times on this eleven game run over the last two NCAA tournaments for UConn, and they have won eleven straight tournament games by at least 13 points.

1818 straight. Neutral site or away site or neutral site games that they've won by double digits.

It's crazy. And I thought Alabama, talking with some UConn staff members earlier today, I'm like, so what'd you think? And they're like, well, Alabama played even better than we thought they would play. Play. They shot eight for eleven from three in the first half. Mark Sears didn't miss a shot, and they were still down by four. That's how scary good UConn is. And I just think not only would Dan Hurley complete the ultimate two year run, but in a sport that lost some of its biggest faces, if he wins the championship tomorrow, the idea that when people throw out Bill self or Tom is or Mark few, it's not that. I'm not listening. Hurley would put himself as the coaching face of college basketball.

Yeah, I would agree with that 100%. You couldn't make an argument against it. What he's done has been. It's been incredible. Especially, like, you know, like we said, in this era, they just reloaded. They got, they got better. So you can make the argument that this, this team actually put it that way. This team against last year's UConn team, what's the spread on that game?

Wow. I would say this team by three.

Yeah. Yeah.

It'd be tight. But I think with this year's team, to me, Tristan newton's level of consistency throughout the whole season makes me believe even more. Newton. Newton did not have a great year last year. He had a good season. He's had a great season this year. He's been so consistent. It's like last year never ended when this UConn season started. And as you said, they lose five of their top eight players from last year's team, I think that when you combine that with Alex Caribbean being another year older, with Stefan Castle being a one and done freshman who has now emerged. You can't just play off Castle. No, they should try. Yeah, they try. Alabama tried that. He made them pay. He took that personally.

He did. Yeah.

I think the other thing is what makes me put this year's team as a slight favorite is that Cam Spencer is just insane. He's a mini Hurley. He's a mini Hurley. He has wired. He's wired differently. You know, I was talking to him about tomorrow. I said, so what will you do? I go, when you get ten minutes back in the hotel room, like, what app will you go on on your phone? And he goes, I'm gonna watch more film.

Yeah.

He goes, like, you're a player.

You're in bed.

This guy's in bed watching more film of Purdue.

It's crazy.

And his tenacity, too, the way he was getting rebounds.

Just crazy.

That guy doesn't quit.

He is. He is wired. It's as if Dan Hurley made a human out of his image and likeness. Besides his son, who he made in reality, 42.

And, oh, by the way, when Andrew Hurley gets in a game, it's the.

Best, probably the best known the business right now. You have put that out there.

Yeah, we talked to him last week. We asked him, why don't you start?

He needs to take a shot. Let your son take a shot.

That's all I'm saying. So.

All right, so. And Donovan Klingon has been just insane, like, what he does. And that's why tomorrow night's gonna be, or tonight is gonna be so great, because Edie versus Klingon now on the Purdue side, it's just as good a compelling story because you have a team that lost to a 16 seed last year trying to, you know, get revenge for that. And also, Purdue as a school, they are number one in the. In NCAA basketball for wins in the tournament without a championship. If they win this one, it's like everything gets erased. And the Matt painter and Zach Edie and Zack Ed goes down as one of the greatest college basketball players of all time. It's crazy how much, like, how many, how many storylines are on both sides.

Yes.

A first national championship, all time glory in West Lafayette and for the Big Ten. Yeah, we talk every year about the Big Ten and their title drought and we. And the Big Ten gets a bad rap as a result. But at the end of the day, you have to show it in hardware. You know, if UConn wins this championship, the Big east will have had four of the last eight national championships. The ACC has two and the big twelve has two. That's it. So for me, this is massive for Purdue because you do not know, first off, you're never going to have a player like you've got inside. They don't make. There's not a carbon copy.

Purdue will figure out a way.

They actually do have a freshman, I think 7ft Matt painter just. He's got a thing for tall guys. It is smart. I mean, he's Zach eating. He's been discussed a million times. He is really fucking good at basketball and been dominant this run.

Yes, he's been unbelievable. I just think in this current climate where everything changes in the offseason, I mean, it's utter ridiculousness right now. I'm doing a way too early top 25 for next season. I'm throwing darts at the wall because you just have to with some of the roster managers.

Your 19th team.

Oh, God.

I think I've got UCLA.

Okay, that makes sense. I like.

I like Mick to bounce back.

Okay.

Cronin's not having to bail, but not.

Bounce back too much.

19. Miami's in the mix there, too. BYU. I don't think Mark Pope's getting undersold. Head into next season. You know, I've got more to come. More to come. Don't want to give away the whole way too early. Connecticut.

Okay, smart.

You know, I also have. I'm not getting fooled again. I'm not giving Hurley a chip on the shoulder.

Yeah.

This time I'm putting the number one because someone's gonna have to take it from you. Take that title. It's like the. In the spirit of WrestleMania, it's like the belt.

Yeah.

At this point now, Connecticut has that belt. And on Monday night, Purdue is coming with their briefcase. And this is their chance.

This is their rips off, like, four or five WWE promos of podcast appearance. I love it. Every time.

I think that this will be something that we remember.

Yeah.

This clash of the Titans. And for Purdue, if Purdue wins this game, which I do not think that.

They will, but they absolutely can't. Like, they cannot it. They have the recipe that could potentially beat Yukon. Like every other team I've seen on Uconn's way. It's like they're Alabama. Last night, they had to shoot. They had to shoot 60% from three, and they also had to shoot, like, 43s. They only got like 20 off because that was obviously what UConn's plan was like. Purdue is the only team that has at least the. When you look at it, could match up with UConn.

I think a lot of people want to say, with UConn, we'll. We'll make them shoot threes, and that's how we'll beat them. It's not just as simple as that. You've got to have paint eliminators, and Zack Eady is a paint eliminator, just like Donovan Klingon is on the other side. How this game gets called. It's Jeff.

That's what I was going to ask.

Jeffrey Anderson, Roger Ayers, Terry Ogles.

All right, so what do we feel? Because my one concern is, you go back to the last time we had a back to back champion, and it was Odin versus Joachim Noah, and they both get fouls very early in the game. And it kind of ruined what should have been a similar classic game. Can we turn fouls off tomorrow? Can we maybe, like, let both big guys have seven fouls? I just. I'm so nervous that that's going to happen and ruin what we want to be a great game.

I'm really nervous about it. I do not want it. Sport, the US, the sports fans, nobody wants this game getting decided by foul count. I'm not even saying by free throws, because, look, if Edie gets hacked late in the game or if clinging attacks, and it's a legit foul and you're asking them to make two free throws, make your free throws, kids. Then, then, look, I get it. But please, for the love of all that is holy and all that is right, can we not. Can we not be five minutes into the game and say, well, now Donovan Klingon's got to sit for the rest of the first ten? It ruins the product.

It's like loose ball. Like, I don't want any, you know, fouls getting rebound. Like, let them get rebounds. Let them do that stuff. Let them get a little dirty in there. I get. I agree with you. If you hack them going for. For a shot, that's fine. None of the ticky tacks like when.

DJ Burns committed that foul on the fast break last night right off the bat, and you're like, well, the game. The game was.

That was bad positioning by DJ.

Oh, yeah.

No, he definitely committed a foul. But at that point, every sports fan watching that was like, well, this game's.

Probably over now, and the players don't want that.

Right?

Because if I'm a player on the team, which I very much am not.

But if I, Hurley, could absolutely get a solid, like, three points, four rebounds out of John Fanta. I believe it.

Fanta checking in for the last 36.

Seconds of the game.

St. Bernadette, Westlake, Ohio most threes made in a single game in the Catholic Youth organization. I made eight of them.

Whoa.

How many did you shoot?

St. Ray Fields put them in a body bag. 28 points.

How many shoot?

Probably shot 13 that night. Okay, that's great.

Are you still wet?

Can you still play? I saw a clip of you shooting at providence.

I can still shoot the basketball.

Yeah, we give you 30 shots. How many you make right now?

Like, just. Just going in blindly, I would probably say I can make twelve.

We got to get you in the office.

I would love. I would happily come in and show off this shooting stroke. It is not a. There's nothing patented about this.

No, I've saw it. It was ugly, but it went in.

It doesn't. Yeah, it doesn't matter.

Right. They don't ask you how you got there.

Yeah.

If the paw goes into the hoop, that's all that matters.

How many, not how.

Yeah.

So I could probably, I. Anybody could play for Dan Hurley right now.

Yeah.

You could check in and give something.

I give him a couple. I hack Zack Edie. I probably actually wouldn't probably be able to stop.

That's, that's the thing about, about UConn, though. So if, if even Klingon gets in foul trouble early, what's his name? Johnson. Pretty good defender. Right.

So he's the x factor of the game.

Okay.

Oh, I think we could come out of the game saying Samson Johnson is the man who emerged.

That's why UConn's number one in Jon Fantas. Top early two, top 25.

Yeah.

Sometimes what happens is, you know, I'm going to take it from the wrestling to a little bit superhero like to set the series up for future episodes. A new man wearing a cape comes out of nowhere and it feels like Samson Johnson could be that type of guy in this game. You know why? He can run the floor. Runs the floor like a deer.

Yep.

He can fly above the rim. He throws down some thunderous dunks. He leads Yukon and dunks like he's got over 60 dunks on the season. This kid said a massive year in that column, and I just think he causes a wrinkle. That's the, that's the thing with UConn. They answer every single question.

Yeah, I've been saying it from the start of the season. Every single question that you can throw at them, they have a solution for. Cause they, they can beat you any different way. Their guards are so much bigger than most teams guards, especially tomorrow or tonight, and they, like, you throw something at them, they're like, all right, we got this. We'll adjust. We can play this style. We can play this style. We play up. You want to play up tempo, we'll play up tempo. You want to play slow, we'll play slow.

They'll play Manhattan. Head coach John Gallagher. I had Manhattan's game against UConn on Black Friday earlier this season and ahead of the game, he said, you always knew playing Dan Hurley that you had to beat him in a bar fight if you were going to win. You always had to. You always knew you were in for a bar fight. He goes, now, when you're facing Hurley, you've got to win a bar fight. But before that, you have to go to the library and study tirelessly. You've got to beat him in a textbook war and a bar fight.

You know what it is?

It's like watching chess boxing. You ever seen that? They go out there, they fight, then in between rounds, they sit down, they.

Play chess for five minutes. So what is Matt Painter doing?

It's a great sport.

Have you played it?

I've never played it, but I've watched it.

We could play that one. You could come to the office.

Yeah.

I never played a game of chess in my life.

Have you bought?

Really?

I have boxed.

You probably were golden gloves. Look at that. People are watching podcasts. Look at Fanta. Throw those things around.

It's just gonna be a boxing match on Monday.

What does Matt painter do? If he's got to go to the. If he's got to go library, what is his solution?

Wow. I would not reference what Brad Underwood's library visit was because I don't think, I'm trying to think of what you could do.

Look, Brad Underwood was reading, like, children's books, and then he came out and.

He was like, tough. Don't just read Cam Janssen to get ready for a hard test. Remember Cam Janssen? I don't, like, pray, you know, but the big east has the meatball prayers and hoops down. As we talked about last year, I just, I think you've got to, you have to say, how do I do something to get Hurley to blink? Like, I don't even know if. And I think some coaches would totally scoff at me, but you're telling me that, who's to say you're going to stop him? Man to man, every trip down, nobody's been able to do that. Could you throw in a one, three one? I'm not even saying you do it.

Often, but you just make him be like, what's going on here?

Pause.

You make him make an adjustment.

And hopefully, yes, it's, in basketball, it's different from football. Like, we all, we know the big game. And a football coach of head coach who does something totally unorthodox and it comes back to bite them because they ran one fake punt or one thing that they haven't run all season long, life long Browns fan here. I know the feeling where you're like, where did that come from? That's not in the playbook, but in basketball, it's different. Like, you could try something for possession. It could go miserably wrong, and it's okay. You gave up a two or a three I just wonder if painter reaches into his bag and does something totally unorthodox. I would watch. I would watch the last two years of UConn Kraden games. I'd watch Greg McDermott and how Crayden played Yukon.

What about Ed at the point get clinging away from the basket, have Edie bring the ball up the image. We're doing some crazy shit. Let's do some crazy.

The crowd pop. The crowd pop of Purdue in buying the ball and Ed dribbling the ball up the floor slowly like bouncing the.

Ball 6ft in the air. What if. What if he's like the professor?

He starts going between his legs.

What if he could do.

We learned something about him. We never. He got insulted at media availability on Sunday because someone said to him, you know, you're the traditional postman and how much do you just embrace that? Where the NBA, the three of the best scorers, three in the MVP race are all big men, are all 7ft taller or larger than. And how much do you think that that's that, you know, you're sort of throwing back the clock. He goes, whoa, whoa. He goes, I can shoot the ball. He goes, watch me shoot free throws. He goes, I could shoot the three. He goes, it's just what coach painter asked me to do.

Yeah, I believe it. I've been very. We've had the discussion ad nauseam. I don't love watching Purdue play basketball, but anyone who diminishes what Zack eady's done on this run is stupid.

Bold prediction for Monday night.

Okay.

Donovan Klingon makes a three.

Oh, is that coming from anywhere or.

Just the back of your head? He's just fancying right now.

I could see. I could see. I could see. No, it just came into my mind because that's fancying.

It was a fanta fantasy.

Yeah.

I just think Klingon has. Has hit threes.

Yeah.

Not many, but I could see a high ball screen and instead of rolling, he slips back. Make him respect it and makes. And makes Edie pay for going all the way down there.

Oh, man.

I know what that could do.

I want this to come so bad.

I could actually see clearly sling and taking the ball. Cause he runs the court so well. He get up and down like send him on the fast break.

He does.

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Interesting thing though with clinging is he. He does come off the court a lot. Ed is not. Edie is. Edie is crazy. The amount of minutes he plays as a big man. So like, those non clinging minutes are going to be huge.

That's why Samson Johnson is my key to the game. I think he could prove to be big. I think the one interesting dimension to this game as well is that both point guards are coming off off nights by their standards. Braden Smith is coming off of the worst game of his college career and Tristan Newton has had two performances in a row that make you say, hmm, what's going on here? He went three for nine from three. He was trying to find it. He was forcing the issue a little bit. Nothing wrong with that. But I want to see which point guard ends up having the upper hand in this gray.

And Smith, he had a tough first half especially too. He had two back court violations. Maybe he should have had a third one in there. I think the logo was so big that the point guards couldn't see it. It was an issue all night. They made the logo bigger and everyone.

Found out he didn't score, because Charles Barkley. Yeah, that clip was tough.

That was a tough moment for Chuck. But the other. The thing about Chuck is, like, Charles Barkley can do no wrong in our world. I was thinking about this. Is there a more liked on tv analyst in the sport?

John Fantasy. John Fanta.

John Fanta, SVP. Charles.

Charles Barkley. It's an honor.

Joe Buck. Those are the Mount Rushmore of most.

Like guys right there. Booger Cam mobile.

Yeah, the boomer mobile.

Stanford Steve. Well liked.

Yeah, big time Stanford Steve, our guy. I got some questions that aren't about tonight's game.

Love it.

Is Ed Cooley going to resign? I mean, there's a lot of chatter, Johnny.

No, there's a lot.

I've seen a lot.

No, no, no.

Very good source. People on Twitter, a lot of people I respect on Twitter have been talking about the resignation. It was a hashtag.

It was trending.

It was Donny Mexico and lumpy dumper do not count as reliable Twitter sources.

You know, Providence Twitter, they got you to windmill.

They did get me to windmill.

When are we getting the vest?

I've got to find a vest. Okay, I've got the ad. Steve Napolillo claims he's going to send me a vest. I hope they don't run small.

Okay. All right.

But vests can, you know, you order a vest online, that could be a tough, bigger guy purchase.

Yeah, that's.

Wait, what's the vest demand that they have?

They want him to wear the king english vest.

So Kim English wore a vest. They then love the vest, and now they made the ad, put the vest online. Up for sale. Purchases go to nil. Providence's nil has, like, it's. It's gone way up because these fans are just so out of control. But in a good way.

Yeah, in a good way.

I mean, not in a good way of, like, putting a movement together that actually produced public pieces, like, actual forms of media about Ed. Cool. He's not going anywhere. He's at Georgetown. He's got a boatload of nil. Next year's a big year for those Hoyas. He's got us.

I think there's a chance it's not non zero that he could resign.

Do we have.

Here's my thing. Why don't. Why don't you, like. So my only thing is, like, I don't. I'm not against. I think Providence's fan base is the wildest in college basketball. Like, the most passionate fan base right now. Right now, if I put power rankings together, they are they. But you have a good coach and Kim English.

Yeah, but I, like, there's nothing better than watching your. The guy that scorned you, just watching him resign.

You have to send a message to every coach that comes through town in the future. Like, don't leave.

Yeah, you better not leave. We're going to gaslight you into resigning while we gaslighting you to resigning. We're going to have Fanta doing windmills.

I did do. Yes. And I did a windmill. I went off the wall.

Yeah.

Someone said it really wasn't a real one. I'm like, well, I tried. That was my. That was one take. I was not going to try 1525 takes. It was literally. That was. That was. I promise you, if you went through my phone and looked. Look through it. That was the one take I did. Okay, so we're of the window.

So you're high on Georgetown next, or do you have them in your top 25?

No, I'm not high on them. I think they'll be. They're going to be better for a new. There's only one. Yeah, exactly. Right.

I've just become a Providence Twitter troll in real life right now.

Ed Cooley's not going anywhere.

Maybe you fright. Okay. I'm just saying it's not non zero. It was. It was non zero. And then Providence Twitter got involved, and it's at least 1% chance he wakes up one day. He's like, shit, am I resigning?

Who do you think Georgetown should target if Ed Cooley does?

Good question, p. Good question.

Good lord.

English. Who's a big name out there?

Yeah.

Imagine if they got Cooley to resign and then they took.

See, here's the thing.

You.

You've got the power that you could fire up the machine and say. Cause like, when an opening, when a coaching vacancy opens, and as we are taping, Arkansas's looking for a coach.

Yep.

So, like, people put out names sometimes that. That are never gonna take the job.

There's just.

It's not gonna happen. But then it becomes a thing, and names gets. I love when this happens in the NFL. All the times, like, when a name just gets brought up and you're like, there's no chop, but the name's in there having fun with the rice.

It was.

Every time a quarterback.

Don't bring that up.

Every time a quarterback would get hurt, it would be Brett Favre. Until, like, two years ago, my lowest.

Point as a Browns fan, with all due respect, Condi, with all due respect, was when I opened up Twitter and read the words that the Cleveland Browns are giving consideration to Condoleezza Rice for their head. And that was off Hugh Jackson. Yeah, it was at that point that I gave thought.

Yeah.

The exact tweet was so funny, too. From, from Schefter Brown's interested in. For head coaching job. It's. He got, he got duped on that one big time. But still, the fact that there was like. It's kind of like the Ed Cooley thing. It was a non zero chance Condoleezza.

Rice would be your head coach. Yeah, I think it's actually very similar. Like, you can't say that Condoleezza Royce had 0% chance, just like you could. You can't say there's a 0% chance Ed Cooley doesn't resign. It's exactly the same.

There's a 0% chance.

No, there's not a 0% chance. No, no chance. There's a 0% chance. Speaking of Arkansas, what do you think about.

What do you think about USC getting the must bust going down there? I feel like that's going to be a good spot for him.

Well, that, that makes USC basketball relevant.

Yeah.

Makes it more relevant for me, the junkie, than Bronny James at USC. Just being honest, just because, like, musk is going to win. He's going to win. He won at Nevada, he won at Arkansas. He's been to four sweet sixteen s and three elite eights. He's, he's a winner. The guy is. He's got a killer mindset. Things run their course, like the end of the Arkansas era. I do believe this was more. It wasn't because of one bad year. Like, coaches have a bad year throughout their, throughout their careers. He had one bad year. He didn't get relieved of his duties. He wasn't beating anything. I think with. If you look at musk, he has a lot of staff changes. He's not the easiest guy to work for because he's wired a certain way. He's wired to go out and beat the tar out of the opponent. But in the same way, that's how he coaches internally in his building, I think he creates competition inside his building. He's going to make USC play with fire. USC, UCLA and basketball will matter again in the big Ten. But, but I think USC, UCLA, because bus is going to say trojan fans, you're going to.

He's a uniter, he's a people. He's going to get people caring or thinking about basketball. Trojan fans right now, they haven't thought about, I mean, they've struggled to fill up football on Saturdays. Now Cronin versus Musk. Two characters, two fiery guys. That's going to be, that's going to be fun. It is going to be fun. I'm not the, I hate conference realignment. I hate college. Like, we should celebrate stuff that's happening and think ahead. I don't want the NCAA tournament changed at all.

No, no, it's.

But I'm okay with, with USC traveling to Ohio State on a Wednesday night.

Yeah, absolutely. What, speaking of coaches, is Luke Murray going to get a job soon?

Well, I think he want to know.

Where Bill Murray's going to end up.

Right? Where's he going? Yeah, I think, I think for now it's probably Groundhog day in stores. Oh, that's good. But only because UConn keeps on making it this far. Right when a lot of the vacancies get taken. But you never know. Luke's more than ready to be a head coach, as is Kymani Young. Kymani Young and Luke Murray are ready to be head coaches. And Tom Moore, who was at Quinnipiac and kind of combines the old with the new. He was with Jim Cow, who now he's with Hurley. Hurley made tom Moore a painting that's gone viral. Dan picasso Hurley. I think that when you look at that staff, that's the other thing with UConn. Like, Luke Murray should be a head coach. He is more than ready to be a head coach, as is kimoni young. But they keep going so deep into April, they're almost a victim of their own success.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's bad for him.

And so staying on the coaching cows back for one more year.

Mm hmm.

If they go out the way they've gone out, I would imagine it would be the end.

Right.

Who would take that job we had our friend Matt Jones on? He said it'd have to be a rock star. Jay Wright comes to mind.

It's not going to happen. Nate oats could happen.

Wow.

Nate oats could happen.

What about the buyout? How ironclad are these buyouts?

Well, it depends the internal language of the contract, like, obviously. But, but I also think this whole notion that Kentucky couldn't pay the 34 mil, there's always phone calls.

Yeah.

There's always enough money. Also, have we all not set up payment plans? Yeah, like, figure it out. You can do installments, bitcoin. Right. Whatever it is, you know, it's like, there's always a way to find money, especially when you're Kentucky.

Right.

How close do you think they actually came to firing them, I think. Close. And then in the meeting, they decided that the head coach for life will remain the head coach for life.

I think that meeting was all kind of fake.

Really.

Straight.

Yeah.

I don't believe that he cried in the meeting. Fake tears.

Yeah.

Just to keep his job, maybe like an emotional. I mean, Cal's very prideful.

Yeah.

He's very proud of what he's built. I think he thinks, like, if they had fired him. Look, you owe me 34 mil, and, oh, I'm gonna go somewhere else, and I'll just win. I'll win more than program x has won in the past.

Right.

You know, he's, in a way, what he built. He built it up to such an unbelievable level that then he's a victim of his. He's run its. Run its course. It's overdue. Like the package of ground meat expired in the grocery store right now. Can you find a way to change who's stocking your shelves? Yeah. Via the transfer portal. Like, you're. You have got to go into the portal and buy the best players from the portal.

Right.

Buying the best 17 year old does not matter anymore.

Right.

Yeah.

You need to supplant it with. I mean, you saw with. With UConn this year, when they bring in a guy like Cam Spencer, you gotta get old.

Yeah.

And it's staring you in the face. And also, you know, Cal, to answer your buyout question, I don't think. I think there's always a way. Yeah, I think there's always a way. TJ, also burger at Iowa State. His piles very high.

You know, I want him at Wisconsin. I like Greg Gard, but I want him.

They'd have to really pay some money.

I know.

I'm gonna. That's.

I'm probably gonna have to pay some money.

You're gonna dish them out.

I'm waiting for the day. If it's the right. If it's a guy like that, I might.

Do you have. Could you win some money on championship Monday night?

Yeah, I have a Yukon future to win. $140,000.

And what's that again? 14 to one for them. To what?

Win the championship.

Wow.

Why did you place that December after.

They lost to Kansas. Yeah, I know ball.

You know ball.

Well, we haven't won it yet, so. But you got no ball to get there.

You got.

What about your eagles future?

The other.

I know future years ago. What about UConn last year?

What about your ravens future?

Well, I had UConn last year.

Pft.

If you're gonna just bring up all the bad ones.

And we had you on this show.

I had ten to one on Yukon.

Last year, the start of the tournament. We talked and we said who could do it. We said Connecticut.

Yeah.

You have been on. This group's been on track.

Yeah.

On the college hoops front.

Yes.

Soon as they lost to Kansas, I was like, this team is still really good. And they're.

Well, they played like a c plus game and barely lost.

Right.

They barely lost.

I watched the whole game and I was like, there they was a road. Get a true road game and they were in it and they played like crap.

What happened that night, too? Purdue lost at Northwestern.

Oh, yeah.

Interesting.

Hmm.

It's interesting. They lost on the same night.

So give us, give us the exact roadmap, the recipe, because we are glazing Yukon pretty hard here. If you're Purdue fan, you want to believe. You want to believe you have a chance. Right? So what would, what would need to happen tonight for Purdue to pull this off?

Well, I do think that, that Zack Ed getting Donovan Klingon and foul trouble is huge. I also think that Braden Smith orchestrating the game, controlling the way the game's played is big. You know, the tempo of the game. I think UConn may try to run on Purdue a little bit, and I think it's important that Smith just calms the waters. I think it's critical for Lance Jones to stay as hot as he, as he's been. He was terrific in the, in the semifinal, and I think Mason Gillis is an x factor to the game.

He's, he is. He's their do everything guy.

He is.

He can shoot the three. And that, I agree with you there.

He's been very good from three, and he missed a couple of shots against Tennessee that he has not missed for much of the season. You can't have a performance where you're sitting there saying he missed some shots that he normally has made throughout the season. This is the national championship game. This is for all the marbles. You're not going to win with a b game. You're not going to win with, with a b game. This is an a game type of game. I do not think this is going to be ugly. I think Saturday we had some ugliness. Let's be honest. It was not the most thrilling final four Saturday.

No.

But typically when you get a couple of duds, there's a reason for that. These two teams were destined to meet on this Monday night. If you're Purdue again, if you are Purdue. This is your open window to look out to the sunlight and say, how do we find golden redemption?

Golden.

This is the golden redemption for the Purdue Boilermakers and for that fan base. The player said. Our fans have willed us to this point. If you are a purdue fan, I do not care if you don't have a voice. For the next month, Matt painter said he would lose to FDU again if it meant he could be fighting for a national championship.

So it's all about Hollywood.

Couldn't write this.

No.

They'd throw you out. They'd shoot you in the mouth, man.

They would. Fanta, we saw.

We saw a video of you before the game yesterday walking into the stadium. How far of a walk did you have?

2 miles.

That's crazy.

I think I walked 2 miles total because I stopped at a location near the stadium to do a pregame show, but then I walked. I had to walk all the way into the stadium. I got great steps in. There's nothing wrong with that. March is my best month of weight loss of the year.

Whoa.

Fun fact. Just by steps.

Basketball.

Yeah. Yeah, that's. No, it's the truth.

Yeah.

I'm just feeding on hoops, baby. I don't eat anything, you know, I'm feeding on hoops.

I love it.

And cutting out drive thrus.

Yes.

I don't need it when I'm court side, so.

All right, so what else. What else we learned from the final four, the meet and greets. Did you go to the pump party?

I waited in line forever, and I never got in. So I went over to the. I went over to the bar scene.

And should have called Bosco.

Oh, what he had been able to. I saw him at bottle blonde or whatever. I saw Bosco in there.

Yeah.

He started talking to me about the portal.

Your eyes glazed over.

He just starts doing a rant on Danny's sprinkle. I'm like, dude. Oh, he's helping him put his right.

Yeah.

He was making Bosco search firms.

Yeah. Yeah.

You sound like you don't.

You sound like you're down on. On Bosco right now.

No, no, no. I'm okay on Bosco. I've always been like Bosco, and I have always been in a pretty good spot.

Good spot.

I mean, I call him by his real name, and he. We stayed friends.

Yeah, that's true.

So, you know, I'd like to think that Rico and I are in good quarters.

Yeah, well, he's. It's. It's hard because you're obviously a reporter. He's a coach. So it's like having that, you know, tug and pull where it's like you're trying to get information out of a guy like Bosco who's on all these coaching staffs, you know, he doesn't give it all up, shows up to bottle. What is it?

I think it's a tugging.

Tug and pull.

Yeah.

Rub and tug.

No rubbing tug.

Yeah.

You get rubbed and tugged by Rico. Rico shows up and he's like, you.

Know, I'm doing media availability right now. What do you want to talk about? Speaking of robin tugs, how was your appearance on wake up Mincey?

That was fascinating. You know, when I showed up to the waiting area for that show, I thought to myself, where are we gonna go in this 35 minutes? But he really, it was a real morning show. Like, he made it. I was like, this guy has been through a lot over the last few years.

Oh, they're all his own doing.

Yeah.

Right. Not any circumstances that someone handed to him. He did this to himself live on the air. And it was a fascinating 40 minutes discussion about college basketball. He asked some good questions. He, I didn't know if he had just woken up before the show started or what was going on, but that guy is one of a kind.

Yeah, that's a good way to say it. So. All right, so what, what does fantas offseason look like?

There is no off season.

Okay. But what do you, I mean, there's no off season, but everyone gets a little, I get a little sad after championship Monday and it's just like, oh, man, I love college hoops. What do you, what do you do in the, in the months that aren't games being played?

Well, I'll give you the first couple weeks, but I will give you my, my summer plan.

Okay.

Next week I'm going out to the Jordan classic to call the games for Fox Sports. So I'll call those Cooper flag. I get to see him. I know you'll talk about him next season.

Yep.

For a variety of reasons. There's a girls game as well. So I'll do that. I'll do that for Fox Sports next weekend. I then will go from Portland, Oregon, I'll stop back to New Jersey briefly, and then I head to Detroit, Michigan for three straight nights of PBA and primetime on weeknights. So yeah, you will see me on the bowling circuit Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of next week just on fs one week night sports Detroit.

We're going to be there for the draft for a little bit.

I'm going to issue.

What's that like? What's it like covering bowling?

It is a blast. I love it. I, first off, I work with Randy Peterson, who's been doing PBA bowling for like 30 years. He is the ultimate. Like just your buddy. We'll go to the bar, have a beer, talk about nothing having to do with anything. You know, just hang out. The shows are fun. It's five players typically a show, so you just get to know them as people. We sit down with them and talk to them for 20 minutes. You can't possibly. I mean, you could, but like, for me, we're making tv. So I want to hear about these people, what they do during the week when they're not bowling, who they are as people, because we're telling stories on the air and some of these guys have fascinating backstories and fascinating 2nd, 3rd businesses. And then they do this. The one guy, two months ago, he worked at a penitentiary and he bowled on the side and he made an event like, I'm like, what are we doing here? This is amazing. So I loved, I do enjoy doing the bowling. It's fun. And I've got a couple shows here in the springtime that'll keep me busy along with some high school showcase events.

Okay, I'll do the Jordan brand classic in Brooklyn. I'll do Peachtan. But what do I do? I do a bunch of draft stuff, NBA draft stuff.

I do.

What do I do in my downtime?

Windmill dunks.

Windmill dunks.

Try to convince Ed Cooley that he shouldn't resign.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

I go down to brick, New Jersey, shout out down the shore. I go down, down the shore with my wife. And I love it. I love going down the Jersey Shore Parker house. I haven't been to dj's in forever, but. But you know, like that's, that's right on my alley. I go to yellow Brick road, ice cream and brick, New Jersey. If you haven't been spanos for a pizza, it's living the life.

Yeah, that's good. You do any travel? You ever go on an exotic vacation?

He said Jersey Shore.

Well, we went to Italy. We went to. Yeah, that is exotic. Yeah, we went to Italy for our honeymoon.

Pork roll or Taylor ham?

Taylor ham.

Your Taylor ham guy.

Taylor ham.

Smart.

Me too.

Love it.

Yep. Went to Italy for the honeymoon. Didn't want to leave because of the pasta. Exotic travel. I mean, I go to Cleveland every summer.

That's.

Cleveland's on the up and up. Caitlin Clark was saying Cleveland time is awesome. They got the clips tomorrow. They got the guardians home opener.

You just got to make people do a layover in Albany before they go to Cleveland. And they're like this. This rock.

It's like.

It's like when you go, like, a real estate agent takes you to, like, a really shitty apartment, and they take you to a little bit nicer apartment. Wow.

Go, guards, baby. My guards are hot. Stephen, vote. They're off to a seven and two start. I just read the Colorado Rockies team era is over. Eight.

Good.

There's your strategy with the A's.

I totally knock on talk about it right now.

Tigers have the tigers. Tigers. And then down 60.

And then.

Really, Oakland also mastered the art of losing games by one run.

Yeah.

So that's been tough for us.

What?

We might have to reevaluate. No, no, I'm sticking to course.

Will you go to a Sacramento A's game?

No, but we'll go.

We will go to an Oakland A's game if we find ourselves in Oakland this year.

Yes.

Firm, maybe.

But Cleveland put in bay. If you've never been to. Would love it.

Yeah.

You two would. I'll do a couple nights in Puddin Bay with my wife. You know, just. Yeah. No, nothing. I'm trying to think. Nothing too exotic. I don't have plans to go to another country.

Right.

But down the shore is more. I. You see a lot of characters, got a lot of fun. Like, I'll go up to Rhode island for a weekend.

Nice.

I'll check out the. The friar faithful in narragansett. Or, you know, one Newport.

Yeah, you probably don't have to buy a beer in Rhode island.

Friar town takes good care. Federal Hill.

Yeah.

It's just classic. That fan base is one of a.

Kind, by the way. I should have said off the top. Congrats on getting that write up in the New York Post.

Up and coming.

What was the high headline? Rising star.

Yeah. Unexpected. Yeah. No, it was. I'm very grateful to them. Ryan Glass Beagle did the piece.

We know him well.

Very, very nice piece by him, Ryan. Thank you. Um, I'm grateful, you know, like, real talk. I am very lucky to do this for a living, as I know you guys feel the same way. And I'm really happy to cover college basketball. I cover other things. But, you know, I grew up on the west side of Cleveland, and when you grow up in Cleveland, jokes aside, you live on the browns, Indians now, guardians, calves. And I'm just. I'm lucky enough and grateful enough that I've got a supportive family and that I had two parents who taught me two things. One, you can control being nice to people, and two, you can control how hard you work. You might not be able to control a lot of other things in life. In any industry, you're gonna get picked over sometimes for another person to call a game. Somebody once told me, John, only one person gets to play by play on a game. Iron Eagle's worked his entire life to call a game like he gets on Monday night. And that's. That's really cool and really special for him. And I'm happy for him because he's great at calling a game, and he's.

He's worked and earned this opportunity. I'm really grateful that people care enough to give a damn about what I have to say. And I appreciate you guys.

We appreciate you, Johnny.

Yeah.

You're the best. All right, I got one last question. Roback question rho back.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Cus polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, everything. Roback.com comma promo code take. Can you give us one more wrestling promo for tonight's game?

This is what we live for. Connecticut and Purdue, one from what they call the basketball capital of the world stores from the farmland where basketball is everything throughout the winter months. The other school out of west Lafayette, they have hoped and dreamed of this moment, and now it is here. The boilermakers have made their way to the desert with their eyes on the prize behind a T Rex in Zac Eady, who has dominated this sport in a level that we have not seen in quite some time. But on the other side is Kling Kong. Donovan Klingon is ready to go. It's Purdue and UConn, the best two teams in college basketball all season long. Grab your popcorn. You don't want to miss it.

I'm ready. We got send that to CB's right now. I'm so pumped.

All right.

All right, so give me two final scores. UConn wins, and then Purdue wins. What is the final score for each?

We'll cut out whichever one is wrong.

Well, the show comes out.

Yeah.

Retroactively, I was gonna say.

Right clip.

Whatever. Whichever one. You're right. We'll put out the one that's right. We swear.

So, two scores.

UConn 83, purdue 73 70.

Okay. Okay.

I like that.

Purdue 78, Uconn 75.

Whoa. Okay.

Fletcher lawyer makes a game winning three.

Whoa.

Damn. Both would be incredible. Donovan Klingon over half. Three pointer. Hammer it responsibly.

Yes.

I don't even think they offer it.

No, probably don't.

No chance. No chance.

And Dan Hurley cries, win or lose.

Yeah.

Okay. So that's the. That's the lock of the century, Dan, I would say.

I think he's a very emotional man.

Yeah, he's.

We love him. He's become a very good friend of the show.

I love it. I love that you guys had a lot of coaches on throughout the recent weeks, which has been really cool. The coach Pitino stuff was great.

Yeah.

I'll also see coach Pitino at some point during the summer.

Okay.

Hopefully some sort of down the shore, and you got maybe, you know, New York area, long island style.

We need a trip to Chicago. You need to get to Chicago so we can get Johnny Fanta getting wet. That's what we're gonna listen when we put that video out. Just a Johnny Fanta gets wet. Numbies.

I forgot to tell you. One other offseason activity, maybe my first offseason activity, I'm seeing Joel at the Garden.

Oh, nice.

I thought you were gonna say, come.

To Chicago before it ends.

That was literally the time to be like, I'm coming to a Cubs game. Instead, you're like another New York thing.

I'll come to Chicago. It's a new era of DePaul basketball with Chris Holtman leading.

All I gotta do is win, like, three big east games, and it'd be good.

It's going to happen. Yeah.

Oh, last. Last question, Kyle. Neptune.

Big year.

Okay, big year.

It's a big season here for coach Neptune and Villanova. And look, you already loaded up in the portal. It obvious last year, it obviously did not go correctly. They've got to take a hard look at things here and bounce back next season, because you can't go a decade of making the NCAA tournament and making runs in the NCAA tournament, then miss it back to back seasons. It is time this upcoming year for Villanova to get back to the big dance floor. Or else.

Or else. Okay, well, Johnny Fanta, you're the best. We love you. Thank you so much for coming on.

Thank you, guys.

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Okay, let's wrap up the show. We got eclipse. The eclipse. Talk some eclipse. I also have a Monday reading for us.

Okay.

We want to do that. I'm pumped.

I'm pumped for the eclipse.

I'm very, very pumped for the.

I'm not excited for the earth to end because apparently that's good. That's gonna happen.

Oh, no.

Like, they're gonna take. First they're gonna take out the cell phone service, then they're gonna overload the electrical grid. Then the National Guard is moving in.

Fuck.

What do you know about CERN?

The CERN, the particle collider.

That's the four oh. Is that the fourth dimension? So explain it to us, Hank.

Well, I've done some extensive research this morning while I was hungover, laying in bed.

Okay, go on.

CERN is like an illuminati type company.

Is that company or.

I think it's a company.

I think the CERN.

Let him cook. Let him cook.

Let him cook. And what?

It's a part on extensive research.

It's a particle expander collider.

Okay.

And they're gonna. Apparently NASA's launching rockets at the same time as the eclipse.

Huh. Huh.

Interesting.

They're turning cern on the day of the eclipse. And I believe the research is they're trying to reach a fourth dimension.

Where. Where's CERN located?

There's one in Tennessee on the, in the, in the route.

Fuck is this.

Is that true?

From the, from the research.

From the research he's done.

So what would you say to the haters out there that, that have said that the CERN particle collider actually got turned on in March and it's located in Europe?

I think there's multiple cerns.

There's multiple cerns. Okay, sir, second cern.

I think there might be one in Chicago.

There's a certain Chicago.

They're gonna turn that one on.

I don't know.

I'm just glad that we're in Arizona. We're not gonna be, we're not gonna be there for the eclipse. Our son's gonna be perfect.

Yeah.

My, isn't this where the aliens will show up?

I think it's one of those things where once the, the moon covers the sun.

Mm hmm.

When it comes back, like, we'll be in the fourth dimension.

Fourth dimension.

Like, everything will be different. That's earth side of the eclipse.

Yeah.

And this, you came to the conclusion when you were hungover and probably felt like shit and you're like, please, someone take me away.

Yeah.

It doesn't matter how I feel.

Right.

Because it's over on Tuesday anyway.

Right.

It's interesting because they tell you, like, don't look at the eclipse. What are they trying to hide? What don't they want you to read?

Why is national not NASA launching rockets? Same day?

This would be a very new, interesting twist on my long sorted affairs of losing futures.

Yeah.

Having this just end right before the game.

I'm going to call Jerry, though. I think we got to get on the same page.

He probably knows.

Yeah.

Call him right now, see what he has to say. He's probably, he hasn't slept, I don't think.

I've never understood why you can't look at an eclipse because, well, the memory.

Trump raw dogged it.

Gave the thumbs up.

He raw dogged the show out of that.

Tougher than the sun. The fucking sun, you know?

Yo, we're recording PMT right now. You're live to take. What do you, what do you know about CERN? What do you know about Cern stern? See our end? Cern.

Our two best minds are on this.

C e r. And nothing.

I don't know what's in asking. What about the clips? How it's gonna, what do you know.

About the eclipse and the fourth dimension.

Where I don't want to get, I.

Don'T, I don't want to get into, no, you got to get into it, jer.

I'm very overwhelmed, man.

All right.

Well, I don't want to, I don't want to, you know, put too much on your plate, but I would, I would look in the cern.

No, no, no.

There's something. If there's something there.

Jerry, Jerry, Jerry.

Probably going on now. 29 hours. 30 hours.

Okay.

So what, what, what's, what's the concern?

Oh, it's a lot of things. Like, I don't think the, I don't think the eclipse, I don't think anything with the eclipse is gonna really mess things up. I'm more concerned about a couple months from now, what's really gonna happen.

Yeah.

What is?

Yeah, well, cyber attacks. I mean, I'm talking to this one guy right now. You know, people.

No, no. You got to get into it. You got to get into it. You got to get into it.

Well, people think I'm going crazy.

Yeah, yeah, that's fine. That's fine. You are. It's fine.

I met a guy on a plane.

Okay.

And bowen time ever flying first class.

Okay.

People say I was in row 27. I would. It was my first time ever in first class. I treated myself. I sat next to. Next to a guy who was very, very wealthy. We talked the whole entire flight. He's a higher end for a major, major software company, and.

Okay.

And, you know, we just became friendly and, you know, just text back and forth, happy holiday, stuff like that. And then, you know, the other day, sent me that message and asked him to kind of get deeper for me. And he just pretty much said, like, I know too much, but I don't, at the same time, which. Which, to me, means he knows everything.

Yeah, it sounds like he doesn't want to scare you.

Yeah, he doesn't want to scare you.

Yeah, exactly. And, like, you know, just stuff with the power grids. I mean, the power grid hasn't been updated in 75 years. I mean, 70. 75% of it is. Is ancient. You know what I mean?

It's so, like. So what do you think they're gonna do, the power grid?

I think. I think that's gonna come when they want.

When they.

When they want Joey in office.

Okay. All right.

When they're.

When their backs against the wall and they know that's when some will happen.

Yeah.

Joe gets out to, like, an early lead in Wisconsin.

Then the power to the votes.

Yeah.

It goes down building bunkers.

I mean, it just gets deep.

Yeah.

Cern.

Yeah.

This is.

All right.

So I would. My only recommendation is do not sleep. Seems like. Yeah, but the more you don't sleep, the closer you get to the truth.

You're actually right, honestly about that, because I like a lot more information today.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So sleep is your enemy. They want you to go to sleep.

When you go to sleep.

And the reason I stopped answering PFt was there was a part of me where I. I feel like when we were Texan, the language seemed like he thought I was going crazy.

No, I just.

I told you to get some sleep.

Yeah, he.

I just wanted you to sleep, Jerry.

Yeah.

He wants you to sleep.

Yeah.

I don't want to give him too much info.

Yeah, that's smart.

That's.

He can't be trusted.

That's not true.

Okay, Jerry, I just told Jerry, try to get some sleep.

If Shick does go down tomorrow, you need to be rested. I was trying to help you pretty much.

Man, Jerry, you're going crazy.

Yeah.

He's trying to get you to sleep. That's what he's. He's probably part of the Illuminati. He's like, we got to get this guy to sleep. Don't sleep.

Honestly, Dan, I wouldn't doubt that.

Yeah, I wouldn't either.

So.

So I'm giving you the correct advice. Do not sleep.

All right.

Okay.

And Dave. Erica answered me. Dave didn't answer me.

What did Erica say?

She.

She believes me 100%.

Okay.

I showed Eric the messages.

Okay. All right.

Yeah.

Okay, Jerry. All right. Don't get any sleep. All right, bye.

I love that theory. Like, when you go to sleep, that's when they reprogram your mind, right?

Sounds like it's pretty serious.

Yeah.

So I hope to do this podcast later this week. Yeah, this might be the last episode ever.

Damn, I would suck. Are you want your Monday reading real quick?

Yes.

All this. It's titled I hate my homeowners association Facebook group. Here's a message that a woman sent to the homeowners association. Just a gentle reminder to please close your windows when cooking meat. As a vegan runner, it is always hard for me. I try to go out running several nights a week around dinner time. When you are cooking with the windows open, the smell of meat can be quite overpowering. Honestly, the odor is offensive. Please have empathy for your plant based neighbors by closing the windows when cooking meat and only cooking vegetables if possible. I do not want to be a stereotype that's way too late for that. So I won't go into detail on why cooking animals is offensive, but I encourage you to do your research and join the movement with others who are fighting back. I love.

I love these groups. They're the absolute best.

Yeah.

I was in one in Austin, and people would get on there, and they would go out onto the sidewalk, and they'd take a picture because there would be, like, a branch laying across, and they'd be like, somebody should move this branch off the sidewalk, and they'd share it to the Facebook group. This lady is. She's got a pair of balls on her.

She.

I mean, homeowners association groups are like, just like the 7th circle of hell. And just people. Professional complainers always end up ruling those where it's like, whoever complains the most gets the most power.

Mm hmm.

I couldn't.

I I would be grilling on my, like, in the front lawn every single day after this.

Have a steak tree planted out front every single day.

I would raise.

I would raise chickens and slaughter them.

Yeah. Yeah.

This, uh. This lady's crazy, but you can actually, in some states, get fined if your neighbors smell your cigarette smoke. Oh, that's a real thing.

That's crazy. I never heard of that.

I feel like your odors. That's your property.

Yeah.

Like, if somebody's smelling your steak, that's actually theft.

Right?

They're stealing from you.

Yeah.

If you want to smell bad, you can smell bad.

Yeah.

I would complain about the lady running, stealing all my smells from my meat.

Yeah.

Those are free. Those aren't free.

No.

Yeah.

Pay up. Do we have. Is anyone in the office right now, or.

No.

For lottery ball? No. All right, we'll just do. What should we do?

We forgot number generator.

Number generator. All right, here we go.

This is Mickey Mouse, though.

Yeah.

No one wants to win this. All right. Number generator. Numbers 820.

Oh, yeah.

I think that was Hank.

18.

I'll go 71.

Two.

Pick another number, because it starts at two. It's, like, on 222. Okay.

Memes.

Three. All right. 69.

Oh, wow.

Race is 69 tomorrow, Billy. 11th, Billy.

Got it.

If you con gets the 69 first and they win, they'd be 111 games straight.

Yeah.

I've become obsessed with betting perfect scores.

Ooh.

And when it hits, it's going to be amazing.

Yeah.

Fantasy at 83 70 on Titus show this morning. I said 83 71.

Okay, so which one are you going to go with?

I think I got to go. Fantasy scores.

Yeah, that's fair.

All right, we'll see everyone on Wednesday. We have Max Holman, Brooks Koepka talking masters, and we'll recap the national championship.

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