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Everyone made it. It's a British one. He's almost over holiday season. You can just forget about anything that you planned on doing in 2019. That's the greatest part about an office job is the weeks in between Thanksgiving and New Year's, because you can just say, you know, it's that time of year. No one's in the office.

It's it's put on a sweater, eat a little too much, put on ten pounds, get a little drunk all the time, watch college basketball all the time, bowl games. I don't even know if there is a bowl season. It's the best this this month. You can be socially a little buzzed pretty much at all times. Like maybe there's an hour on Monday where you should probably try to sober up.

Yeah. Just so you get the holiday spirit just full. I'm just full.

I start this week from this week until January 1st. And really when I say January 1st, whenever the first Monday is late January 7th this year, I just stay full the whole time.

Oh, it's eggnog season. Just full. It's full. You know, it is. It's eggnog and seasonal food debate season. Mm hmm.

All right. So we got a big, big show for you. If you are listening and you have to work on Friday, we will tell you exactly when you can stop and, you know, have a little save a little something for yourself Friday. But we have the show from Northwestern. We have our good, good friend, Mark Titus. Awesome interview with him talking about college basketball.

Before we do that, though, Monday Night Football, Tom Brady, I now we do this a lot with this show where we throw out half baked ideas, half baked theories, and we don't really believe them. But whatever we just say, I'm starting to believe the theory that Tom Brady cannot play after eight p.m. at night.

I really do think I've been believing it. As the game goes on, he gets worse. That interception that he threw in the third quarter was that the first one down the middle of the field, the one where one in the first half?

I think that's the one where Brian Greece, he was like. And yeah, the issue on that was it looks like there was somebody that was standing by him. So he has a lot of sight, wasn't clean on it. Yeah. But there were there were the exact same interception twice in the same game and they looked like Jameis Winston interceptions.

This is also why, like Tom Brady, you know, he obviously is obsessed with football maniacally. So but man and the Bucs are still like, good, they're going to go to the playoffs. They're going to be fine ish. I don't know if they'll get to the Super Bowl. It feels like they feels like they have a team full of names and not like a football team. You don't I mean, they have some great players, but it is a cohesive football team.

It just sometimes it's looked bad against really good opponents, but they've got the Corvette's on the outside.

That's another thing that they kept saying was like they've got the athletes. I mean, there's no better trio of wide receivers in the NFL than Godwyn, Mike Evans and Antonio Brown. It just doesn't exist. Right. That's like a really good trio of guys. But there is a problem with Tom Brady and you don't have to look very far like Coach Aryan's was kind of treat him with kid gloves after was saying like he was taking responsibility and saying that those picks weren't Tom Brady's fault.

And it's like you want Bruce Arians to yell at you and call you a shithead. When he stops calling you shithead, that's when it becomes an issue. I don't understand the why. They're like Bruce Arians is a good coach. I was I'm not going to say great. He's a good coach. I think the QB whisperer thing is a little overrated. I think we I think we've talked about it put like it's a little bit easier to be a QB whisperer when you have Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Carson Palmer, like you go down the list.

It's like Jameis Winston by dropping like Andrew Luck, high draft picks. When you get the number one guy, Kelly Holcomb, being like, oh, QB whisperer.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, Peyton Manning, great. AP Manning was great. He's had some stinkers like in his time in Cleveland. He's had some bad guys, but yeah, he's had some very, very good quarterbacks. So my point though is like why?

I don't understand why Tampa Bay isn't playing more to Tom Brady's strengths.

And when you say Tom Brady's strengths, he's the greatest of all time at being precise at like, oh, you want it. You want to make us go eleven plays down the field. OK, we will fucking kill you by Tom Brady. Never missing a guy, always making the right throw, always make the right read instead of a it's Tom Brady. He's got, you know, Mike Evans and Antonio Brown. Let's so deep. Yeah. What.

Like that's never been his game. So why are they doing that. Because that's what Bruce does, I don't know. I don't think that we're even when they're in Arizona. Remember the years when Carson Palmer would get hurt and they'd have to dip into like their third and fourth string quarterbacks and just like roll whoever out there? I think it was like, was it Drew Henson you out there?

And started a couple of games for him.

It was a Virginia Tech guy. Shit. Oh, the tight end shit. Joe Logan Thomas there. Yeah.

So, I mean, that's what Bruce Arians does. He isn't really mold his playbook around whoever. He's just like this is a perfect playbook and if you can't complete these passes, then fuck you. So, yes, I agree with you. I think that they probably should alter their playbook a little bit. But also, I want to give credit to the Rams.

I want to give credit to Jared Goff. Oh, yes. They basically do good. They basically said, like, we're going to take away it's a good matchup for the Tampa Bay defense going up against the Rams offense because the Rams can run the ball, the Bucs can stop the run. I think they're like top five in the league. And then Jerry Goff goes out there and just throws like, what? Fifty two passes? It was all lit him up.

He's the Rams had a great game plan. And yet there that was a great game game plan by the Rams. Great game plan by Sean McVay.

Go ahead, Hank. Justin. Justin. Yes. Remember he played against us in the kickball. Yes. Never forgot. Took it way to shoot a cannon.

Took you took that. Not surprisingly. Where do we stand to search?

Where do we stand on the Rams uniforms from last night. The off off white the the parking lot, snow colored uniforms.

I'm not a fan. I know the Rams are a really good football team. I think I've been talking about the Rams, you know, being a team that I put a future on them to win the Super Bowl like three weeks ago.

I think they are a matchup problem for a lot of teams. I am just like. Do you think, Hank, do you think Tom Brady at some point because he's getting graded on the Tom Brady. Great. Great. You know, like people are saying, well, he's washed. Well, he's still a really good quarterback, but you expect him to be the greatest of all time. He's not that anymore.

Do you think they'll ever be a moment in the next year or two where he's like, maybe I should have just walked off after the Rams Super Bowl because he would have like walking off on a Super Bowl is an all time move.

And with six. Yeah, that's something that's in his DNA. Yeah, probably not.

You know, you don't get to where you are if you're Tom Brady, if you have that attitude.

But they're like the bus also. He can point at Peyton Manning, be like Peyton Manning walked off with a Super Bowl. I'm not Peyton Manning. I kept going back. I kept trying. I kept going back. Yeah.

What about I actually think the play of the game was the field goal at the very end of the first half when they got that long downfield completion. I tweet about this, but it's amazing because I hadn't really considered it that much earlier. But it's so impressive that they're able to get their entire offensive line to sprint like 35 yards down the field, get to the line of scrimmage and then stand totally still.

If that were me, if I just like, run a forty yard dash in football pads, my body's like shaking. There's no way that I can. I'm just the force of my breath is making me bob up and down and they get to the line, they hold in their puke for about three seconds.

They're able to snap the ball and spike it and then get a field goal. That's that's like to me it's way more impressive, the act of being able to get those big dudes to be able to do that than it is the actual completion downfield.

I agree. I agree. And so I the only other take I had coming from this game is I think this is I'm just saying this is going to be talked about in the media.

If the Bucs struggle, they're going to start saying that Antonio Brown, what you get on the field isn't worth what you what you lose in the locker room, because I know I don't fully believe that, but I do think there's a point where you might have too many weapons.

I think you brought Antonio Brown in too early. I think, like, you can't give him that much time. If you're going to bring a time bomb into your locker room, you bring it in as late as possible so it doesn't detonate in the middle of the season. Yeah, but yeah, you're right.

Like, they do have to spread the ball around a lot because they have so many weapons. But I don't know.

I feel like if you have Tom Brady, the whole aspect of why am I not getting as many catches gets a little bit diminished because you kind of have to trust the guy that's won so much.

Right. But, yeah, definitely, if you don't feed Antonio Brown enough now, he will be a problem. But I feel like Godwin and Evans and Gronk, those guys can manage if maybe their targets go down by like 10 percent or two percent.

I just want Scottie Miller to get back out there. Yeah, Scotty doesn't know Scotty does all.

But what about GPP making plays and shout out to Steve Levy for not talking about japes disintegrated hand.

Every time that he makes an interception, you know, he wants to very badly and he's made a lot of them in like the last three weeks when he tips the ball and he reaches up and you can see it's with the bad hand.

Yeah. And he gets one of the good fingers on it. Like, if that were me, if that were me, I would I would probably be fired of them. Good fingers. You have to talk about the explosion at some point, right?

Yes. The fireworks. Yes, you do. That was a big mess. How does he signal the start of the fourth quarter?

I think on the other hand. Or just the fist. Yeah. All right. So that was Monday Night Football. I don't really know. Yeah, I feel like the Bucs are a good team, but they are. I mean, you lost twice. The Saints, the Rams were the other team that you thought could match up well against them, you lost them at home. This will be a very interesting game on on. We will get to the Sunday slate after Titus and Fitzgerald, but against the Chiefs because like the Bucs are now in a spot where they can they can erase all the doubt by beating the chiefs or the Dow can really pile on by losing the chiefs and going into the bayou.

We can be in like, what hour?

And it's in the afternoon. It's when when Tom Brady is still loose that will still OK as long as it doesn't go to overtime. All right. Thanksgiving Day football. I would like to propose that.

I think I don't think they're allowing fans in Detroit, but I would love it if they would just put a couple fat guys dressed in pilgrim outfits to fall asleep in the third quarter just to make us feel like there's some normalcy.

Yeah, I agree with that. We need we need a little bit of ambiance in this.

Just a couple of fact, guys just dress ridiculously, kind of, you know, too many, too many bud lights and they're just half dozing off as the lions. I can't I feel like the lions. I don't know. I can't even get a read on them anymore. Like if Kenny Golladay is playing, I think maybe they'll win. And if he's not, they'll lose. I don't know. I feel like this team's fallen apart. I think they're going to lose no matter what.

I have one on Thanksgiving the past three years in a row, OK, they haven't won on Thanksgiving the past three years in a row. There is something nice, though, that's going to be you know, you're going to be sitting in the kitchen probably helping make some of the appetizers, put together a cheese plate, pour yourself a glass of white wine at ten, thirty, eleven, thirty in the morning.

And then you watch you turn on the TV and the lions are losing by seventeen points. Yeah. Before you have even sat down to eat.

I like how that feels, but it would be better if you had at least a couple of those fans in the stands. I actually have a proposal for for like Bill's nation and a lot of the teams that are looking like they might make the playoffs that haven't made the playoffs well, maybe even in danger of going to build a home, a home playoff game like in Buffalo Bills Mafia.

We've talked about how they should let those mafia and why don't they just they should turn. It's no longer Newera Stadium. Is it just Buffalo Bills stadium? They should just turn that field into a bubble right now. Yeah. And be like, we will admit, 50000 bills fans into the stands. As long as you promise not to leave between now and the first week of January and just coexist here, we'll have like a hospital set up in one of the end zones where we can treat you if you do get coronavirus.

But at the end of that, you know, month and a half long exposure, we know that everybody will be safe for the playoff game.

I think you get fifty thousand people right now. Did you are you had this idea a while ago? I thought it was just for the parking lot. There's no you laugh. You're getting thrown through tables.

I thought you had the idea for, like, SASE, you just have the die hard fans all get together in bubble before the season starts.

Yeah, you can have, like, bubbles in different city. I actually think it could work in Buffalo inside the physical stadium. Absolutely. Absolutely make it happen. But it would be great. It would be great. I'll do it. I'll do it with bills mafia.

I'll do it. I'll go up there. I'll live inside the stadium. If you make that happen.

Yes, it has to happen. What building or incentivize first we'll take the vaccine.

You get to hear the bills game as a test. Oh. What about the Russian vaccine. They're making it cheaper. Yes. Yeah, they're making a cheaper vaccine. Billy, you have to take that one.

The only other thing I had with the Lions game is road favorites are twelve and three on Thanksgiving. Playing the lions are cowboys and Texans are the favorite. So but I don't know. The NFL just feels like that league where Texans won last week, they beat the Patriots. Everyone's like, oh, don't forget about Sean Watson. And then you remember, they kind of suck.

Also, JJ Watt, hopefully he gets like player of the game so we can get some awesome quotes from him. Yeah.

And also he can be eating the turkey on the sidelines. Yes. You know, he really wants to do that. Bring back John Madden for this game. Yeah. Can we please get John Madden to role is to have him call Colin. All right. How are you feeling about Washington?

Why is John Madden, like, hidden from the world? Because he's like 100 years old. He's so old and he doesn't fly.

He hasn't made any public appearances. He has existed. I believe John Madden doesn't have the Internet. How old? Eighty four.

He's actually on. I'm pretty sure he's on like an NFL like Rules Committee where they just call him up every now and then. They're like, does this feel like football is like, no, they're like, OK, I swear.

I swear. I'm pretty sure to find it, Jake. I'm pretty sure he is. He is. Yeah. Well, they were like trying to read you pass interference. Yeah. That doesn't make sense. Yeah. It doesn't make sense on TV. He's like the final boss of rules.

I think he should be the commissioner. He should be the shadow commissioner right now.

Football philosopher. Yes. But for the Washington football team on Thanksgiving, I have something good for you. OK, I visualized this game. I visualized all of America making fun of Andy Dalton in the fourth quarter on Twitter. OK, all right.

That's good enough for me. Doesn't it feel like that fits the. Tony, I feel like that.

I just I keep going back to the RG three game in Dallas back in 2012, where he threw for like three hundred fifty yards and four touchdowns, just embarrassed the Cowboys, pulled their pants on national television. I am a little bit concerned about Mike McCarthy, who seems to have figured out the secret to coaching football in the NFL.

Which is to smash the shit out of watermelons with a sledgehammer. I don't know how it took him this long to to just wake up one day and be like, oh, I've got it. I haven't brought the watermelons out yet.

That to me should be illegal, that I lost my survivor leg on the Vikings. That's knowledge that I should have had beforehand because you can't smack. He knew that he had one watermelon to smash to get the most out of his team. And he was like, all right, let's go.

It's such a bizarre time to pick this. Like, why? Why are you doing that for the Vikings game? You should have done that four weeks ago. That should have been the Binda tanuki challenge.

I bet you they still made like Stephen Jones.

Clean it up. Oh, yes.

He just had his handkerchief, like it was always clean that as of twenty eighteen, John Madden announced that he is doing what every retiree dreams of, removing every last obligation from his schedule.

That's so awesome. But he had a great cameo on little giants. That's true. That was like forty years ago.

Emmitt Smith. Yeah. He was also. Yeah.

Also made a video game. Well he's actually you know, some shit video game programmer in world history. Yeah, it's true. Him and Mr. Nintendo.

But I, he coded that himself the first one. I keep going back and forth because every time I get a little bit of confidence in my Washington football team, that's when they break my heart. I'm starting to get optimism and they're going to I don't want to say it, but it feels like my heart's about to get broken again.

But ended up getting me out of Washington by seven. Yeah. And it ain't getting made fun of. All right.

And then last year, that would be Alex Smith. Yeah.

Winning a game on Thanksgiving in front of the world.

Andy Dalton is going to get made fun of on Thanksgiving Day.

I predict the winner of this game wins the NFC East. Oh, he's still got the Giants, goodish giants. They're going to beat the Bengals this week. So now they're going to be. I'm not sure.

They're not so sure. Ryan Finley. Not so fast, my friend. Come on. Come on. Sweet Ryan. Ryan Finley. Nice guy. Really nice. No Ravens. Steelers. The Ravens got the coco. The Steelers don't. The Steelers are going to kill.

Yeah, I we thought the Ravens had a chance Monday. It's no. On Monday. This was a back against the wall game. Just don't just please don't cancel this game. Stand up against the wall so we can shoot you. Please don't play. Cancel this game. It I think it's going to be played because it's on. So none of these games are on the same network. You got CBS, Fox and NBC. So one of these networks is going to bitch and moan if a game gets canceled, moved around.

And that's really ultimately what Roger Goodell cares about is making sure that the networks are happy and all that stuff, all the partners are happy.

So I think they're going to end up playing the game. I don't know who the Ravens are going to have playing running back besides Gus Gus, but maybe RG three, maybe maybe run like a do a wildcat type situation at some point during this game.

But with all the all the cocoa drama, I don't know, I lost this hill they were going to sell. That's it. That's Mt. Sinai.

Just Hill is kind of a name that you could do something just based on a name that feels like a name.

Yeah. Who's worth around. Here's a really good college running back. Yeah. Just to sell baby Justice Hill.

You're talking about the Steelers and we'll get into scenarios and tiebreakers a little later. But yes, they can clinch playoff spot today. The Steelers win Vegas and Miami loss. Let's go. I got my I got the Steelers.

Fifty five to one to win the Super Bowl. There you go. Need it. Bonus comes back of the week.

I forgot to mention this on Monday. The ESPN playoff machine is back. So I've spent a conservatively fifteen hours messing around with different playoff scenario.

So let me tell you, it's ready to go. Football teams making the playoffs. Fifteen percent of the time.

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Thank you, Bud Light Seltzer. Hank, my hot seat is the boys in the green couch to my right.

That would be Billy and Jake March. Billy, a listener, send us a video of fake news. Billy our fake news filtered using the same fact. So he used the EMU fact in the end of September 18th, and then he used the same fact at the end of the show the other day, that's almost on us, because that was only two months ago and we don't remember it.

I don't think it happened. That's I mean, Billy Billy is Billy plagiarizing his own fax is just I should have seen it coming. He's probably been doing it. He is Rick. Right? Yeah.

You you've run your entire career in the span of two years. He's Rick Riley. I've no idea.

She's also Billy. Somebody told me on the show a few times. Fellow big. Yeah.

Once someone was was suggesting that you get to have an entire record joke going on with your spreadsheet. Yeah. Yeah. We were happy to help with the cells in the spreadsheet. I have a better idea for the spreadsheet. You should throw it out.

First of all, you know what? I've heard so much about this guy that you should know from our accounting Twitter.

You all Sunday ruined my NFL Sunday, fighting it by coming up with a system that makes football not fun to watch.

You literally sat down and you said you're like a guy. Who do you got in this game? You're like, well, I have the Patriots. And then the Texans certainly knew, like, well, now I need the Texans. Like, it's not fun.

There's more it's like a choose your own adventure, you know. But your picture changes every two seconds. Exactly. No, it's not it's not fun. You had a miserable time watching it. I know I had a miserable time because all the gambling for the boy without attention span.

All I'm saying is if you want to make people take you seriously, print it out. It's red zone for Beth's hand it to us just changes all the time, handed to us in a hard format and then put those plastic sheets with a plastic spine on it.

You remember those that make your paper look ten times better in college.

It's such an easy you to do that with these sheets laminated. Yeah, yeah. These sheets just put the plastic sheets on either side with a plastic spine on the back and then it feels like an official document.

Then we'll take it seriously.

OK, and then Jake, any of that. So we have limited edition. These are collector's items, cereal boxes already in my flakes. They're going to be on sale. Black Friday. Yeah, breakfast. So if you're as you're watching right now, you can see them.

But it's like they're, you know, the custom pfft.

Big cat myself are on the front and on the back. There's a crossword puzzle.

Oh, word search words are not not crossword puzzle. There's a word search with a bunch of names that are relative to the show.

Bubblers on their football is on their Jarett AWOL. Kocho just no match. Jake. Jake got Jake got frozen out. You guys didn't make these words.

We did not make those words. We actually cleared. Yeah, we cleared them all. We're like, make sure Jake's on there.

I thought I was part of the family. I'm sorry, Jake Flakes. I'm sorry. You know what, though? There is a secret cake in that word search. Not you can get no cake is in the word search if you find the bonus cake, that that means you want that right now.

It's disappointing. I got really idea that is fucked up Jake. I'll I'll have it fixed.

There's a jazz let's backwards. I got an idea.

Let's take like three boxes and cross out the waffle on flakes and just put a J just trying to get they'll be limited edition and then whichever, whoever gets it.

Yeah there is, there's a cake on there. That's what I'll say it.

But why is the word clutch. Why did that make the cut over me. That was someone who doesn't listen to a podcast like clutch that this is not a segment at all.

No Larry six is on their call.

These guys like Sports Clutch, by the way, Larry, six people have asked how he's doing.

He's big. He's the biggest fucking gold watch that I've ever seen in my life. So Chank, he looks like he ate every other larible, haven't picked some.

He got to all that was like, yeah, why is he doing picks? He's bigger than the net. And it's like he's like, it's like a little goldfish where it's like, oh whatever. It's like borderline shark feels like animal abuse when you like trap him in the net.

Some things are bigger than sports. One of those things, Larry, maybe you have Larry do playoffs. Yeah. So we need an updated version of that box.

All right. What they have here on here in my heart.

Thank you. Means the most. Yeah. Hank, your weight. No, that was both of cool throws.

That was pretty good. Thanks. My hosses, Ryan Rosillo, recurring guest of the show. I was alerted to Ryan Mercilus podcast by a couple people.

I guess he does a show when he's not doing part. My take sometimes. Haven't had the opportunity to check it out, but someone sent me the relevant clip from the show and he was saying things like, there are some people out there in the media that don't actually know anything about football that keep saying that the Washington football team's past defense is number one in the NFL, using that as a yes.

Oh, they're good. And they're not. And he yelled he was he raised his voice at me and others in the media saying that we don't watch the games because it's teams that play us, that are beating us, that stop throwing the ball in the second half. Fair point. Our football team, fair point is number one in yards per game and passing. Well, Ryan, you don't watch the game film, Ryan, because we're also number five in yards per attempt.

How's that for you? That's a better start anymore. Number five, but, well, it's number five yards per attempt, meaning we're pretty good. Second of all, if you watch the games, you would know that we played a lot of teams that are in the game with us till the fourth quarter into the fourth quarter. So they do still run the ball in the second half. Ryan, we're beating the Cleveland Browns in the second half.

We were told we're close. We're close to winning against the Arizona Football Cardinals in the second half. Ryan, we played the Giants who just stink at passing the ball. So that's not really any indication of whether or not we were falling behind to them. All I'm saying is we're number five.

I think he got yards per attempt, I think. Not at all. Not at all. Look at the stats, Ryan.

He got you want you're taking Ryan's side in this? Well, the going from one to five when you say we're number one out of thirty two.

Yeah, I know, but that's not number one. Still pretty good. It is good. Still it's not good. Pass defense on number one.

And then my other hotseat is everybody who's falling asleep at night because the office is getting taken off Netflix.

I know, but this is like the tenth time that Netflix has just leaked a report saying that they're threatening to take the office off. They basically hold America hostage.

They're on the clock. They are on the clock now. They're going to the clock. They pretty much. But this happens all the time. They're like, if we don't get 50000 new subscribers by the end of the week, we're taking the office off.

Also, quick baby brought in the week alert Netflix. So Dave Chappelle, I guess, doesn't get royalties from Chappelle's Show. Netflix put Chappelle's Show on Netflix and Dave Chappelle complained is like, this is kind of bullshit. So Netflix just helped them out and was like, all right, we'll take it down because we have a good relationship with you. And so Dave Chappelle, thank them. LeBron James Brown. The week is Netflix. He tweeted Major shout out in salute to Netflix for looking out and being loyal to my dear friend Dave Chappelle means a lot.

Wow. Right. So Netflix is the big brother of the week. My co throne is Cornucopia is on score bugs. I love this week. You get you get the leaves falling, you get the cornucopia, a couple of squashes, maybe one turkey on one of the sides. This is the start of a festive score.

Bug weather while you're watching football. I like one fox did the Christmas lights for the time out.

Yeah, that was really nice to embrace debate.

What's your favorite updated score bug? Is it the Halloween one that has a pumpkin, the turkey cornucopia, one the Christmas lights or the one that's just plain snow for New Year's?

I like the Christmas lights, some of them Christmas lights. Oh yeah. I do like the call copy though. I love those. I love that as well. And the leaves.

I think Fox does the falling leaves. Yeah they do. Falling asleep. I like that. That's my favorite. That's my favorite. All right.

My hotseat is is this guy is who's Steve O'Rourke. Do you know who that is. Shut up, Steve. He was a guy from Jackass.

No, no.

I don't know if he's real or not, but the manager of Pink Floyd. What? Oh, no. That's a different Steve O'Rourke.

Yeah, no, he he's oh, he's a he's a doctor. Smart guy. He he has a Hall of Fame.

Journalists pay Manning's on the on the hot seat for Steve O'Rourke because he just had an all time take quake. This afternoon, Peyton Manning will get into the Hall of Fame, but he's not a Hall of Fame quarterback.

By my reckoning, you have to be indisputably the best player at your position for an extended period of time. And there was almost always someone better his entire career.

Speaker of truth. What is that?

I'm trying to say like where do you find I I got recruited in my time.

Shut up, Steve. This is his name.

So and then my cool throne is Dan Heron because Bill James online, who's got a very strange follow, those random Hall of Fame pulls and he put out Roger Clemens first inherited. Dan Heron won the poll. Wow. I might have retweeted it, but we do need Billy.

Well, we need the PowerPoint for Dan Herron's Hall of Fame because he's actually up for the Hall of Fame this year to present to them.

Yeah, so.

So throw out your stupid fucking betting spreadsheets that are make no sense and make a spreadsheets for Dan hÉireann. OK, Dan Heron is a Hall of Fame pitcher. Proved me wrong. OK, verbal meme. Billy football. I'll ask Mike the mike. What, like the bikes.

You're different. Yeah I know, but we're definitely to unload this on someone else. No, I'm not like the bike.

We have numbers guys here now you have the ability like I actually want a compelling argument. OK, right. Don't look at me.

I bet you he's got more National League wins than Roger Clemens.

Get the lowest yaara in the World Series that time. There you go. Boom. That's one of them. Also never used steroids. Boom. Probably if you did, they were really bad steroids because he threw like eighty nine miles per hour.

Yeah. Terrible. I believe. Hatsuko, my hotseat.

Normy. Oh, we don't. Yeah, I, I don't think he's kind of old news.

There's a new normal. Oh with a towel.

Yeah. So Greg Norman's innocent dog photo has an X rated twist was in Norman.

Yeah. This is one of those. Oh wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah he's. I wasn't sure what Greg Norman was, turnstyles old girlfriend. Yeah, so pretty willcock. Yeah, so he's got a hammer is just canceled.

I still think. Where's his hammer? I don't see it.

What? It's in his pants. The outline in his pants.

Oh dog cock. Yeah. Normy for a dog cock anyway.

Got it dude. He's ripped. Norma's cancelled. It's not like everybody in Australia over the age of 60 still has abs. Tony Meatball's among 15 mobsters busted in Philadelphia. I mean, that's if your name is Tony Meatball's like go to jail.

Who cares? You already won like that.

That press release was pretty funny. Was like, among others, Tony Meatball's and Joey Electric are going to prison.

Tony Meatball's. I mean, that's I mean, you're king. You're King of the block.

I mean, it's incredible there cause players at this point.

Yes, Tony Meatball's our culture has Jeff to do that on his periscope. I was like, do you hear the news about the meatballs? And he goes, we don't talk about that. But it's a tough morning. Yeah, tough more.

He's a fan of the Mafia. Bleep out his name, hack.

My duty to do cool down is mashed potato gravy volcanoes, huh? Mashed potato gravy volcanoes.

What are you going to do that. Yeah, I love doing that.

Oh I love my Thanksgiving. I knew my other cool throne. I don't I feel like the one food that always gets back on Thanksgiving table. Is this cranberry sauce. Yeah, I'm not a fan. I like it. Yeah. I'm going to say that it's fucking it's I eat it once a year. It's a nice little like, you know what, it's it's it's a lubricant for all the food.

It also destroys urinary tract infections, which is nice. Right. But I'd rather have a dirty dick than eat that shit.

So you're going to do a mashed potato volcano.

Yeah, it's the best way to have the gravy in one place and you dip your turkey into it.

What are you guys don't do that. I'm with it. Oh, are you building it yourself. Yeah. You got your mashed potatoes you're playing with. Make it. No, no, no.

It's actually saving the gravy. You make it into a bowl. Nacho volcano.

It's like a lagoon of gravy and the gravy doesn't get wasted on the plate.

And then you can dip your turkey like a sauce and you mix it up with the mash. Yet I've never done that and I'm going to do that. That is genius, Billy. Mashed potato, gravy volcano.

You said it so fast, I didn't know what the fuck you were talking. No, I actually I think that it's a pretty normal thing, but I've never I've never heard it call. Never done it. Mashed potato. Turkey Billiam it. Well then yeah sure. I'll send you a picture. Perfect.

I thank you Billy. I'm going to make a huge one that is actually a genius thing. Thank you. So you guys do cranberry. No, no. It's for candy as well. I agree.

I well guess what you bench to eighty five. Dude that was really pretty good.

Oh great. Great. Oh what.

No what. What. Make it no sure.

Logic Bears breaking Minnesota Badgers is a no go forward. They're disqualified. Whoo hoo. Well I mean we were disqualified. We lost. Our current guest, Tom Foreman retweeted it.

What who was it. Was it was it Minnesota or Wisconsin?

Wisconsin football and basketball beat right here. Nobody. Is it who's fault? Oh, I don't know.

I just do I have to get I'm basically asking, do I have to get in the front lines and be like, hey guys, don't covid shame it's pandemic or do I have to be like Minnesota, you fucking scumbags. How could you do this. I don't know. See how that works. That's just how my brains work. It's Minnesota, I think. Minnesota. All right, good. So scumbag's I'm going scumbag route.

Got it done.

Well, big cat looks that up. I have a bonus. Cool Thrown Fork man the shit out of Minnesota recurring blak of the year.

Blake Griffin is on the cool throne because he just got a new teammate named Anthony Lamb at the University of Vermont. So his greatest teammate ever. All right. So Pistons winning the championship just turned. Yep. OK, Don.

Yeah, I really wanted to fucking I wanted to skull fuck the gophers. They suck. They suck. Damn it, man. Fuck coronavirus man. I just wanna say. Oh, also. Yeah, you know what? Quick just quick side fire. Fast, quick change. Died today. Quick change. He died.

Oh yeah. That was tough. He died. He's dead because of coronaviruses. A quick change guy could change the halftime.

It's like he would go out and those were like the two fucking eat, have the curtain and she'd be like in seven different dresses. And how the hell this happened? Quick change.

He was the unsung hero that because I think a lot of times the lady that's doing the changing his wife gets gets more the credit for it.

But you could tell that he was he was real like brains behind the operation.

I got a funny story. I'll tell you guys off air about quick change. One time he dropped it and she came out new.

No, no, I can't say it, but but ah, I picked up especially on the day he died. I love quick change forever. It's not about quick change the story. I love quick change forever. Love quick change. Quick change. Fuck, man, it just sucks, everything sucks. All right, let's do Pat Fitzgerald, coach Pat Fitzgerald, and then we will get to our good friend Mark tidiest talk college basketball and catch up with him about everything.

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All right. We now welcome on very special guests for end of the program, recurring guests. It is Coach Pat Fitzgerald off of a, I don't know, decent win program defining win.

Wisconsin had three their top three receivers out announced right before the game. The refs also were Northwestern grads, but a good win nonetheless. No, I'm serious. It is Pat Fitzgerald, great coach. We want a coach on. He was going to surprise me on Sunday night and rub it in. But I think you don't realize I actually had a spin zone that you are the most disrespected coach in America.

I don't know about that man, but it's great to be out with you guys. It's trying to be a football guy. It's all I'm trying to do. I love it.

All right. So here's my take. Here was my rant. And you can you can tell me and I don't you can't go against your own fans, but great game on Saturday. Your defense was phenomenal. That was a full through and through Big Ten, nine punts in the third quarter.

Terrible football to watch, but I loved every second of it. I your fan base afterwards.

And it's really more people in the media. We're talking about how this was such a huge upset and this huge win. And I have to take the Pat Fitzgerald is a great coach and has a very good program and people should recognize that. And it's not Northwestern from years and years and years ago. They are a good program that is consistently good. And you are a great coach and people need to recognize that. So when you win games like that, it's actually kind of to be expected.

You guys have been in the mix in the Big Ten West. You won the Big Ten West two years ago. Start putting some respect on Pat Fitzgerald's name.

Well, I appreciate I appreciate the ranch in the support, but yeah, I mean, we just got to keep getting better. I mean, you're right, it wasn't a sexy game, but both teams ever to ridiculous defenses. And I think they played really well and proud of this group. I think they're very talented. I think this is maybe one of the more talented teams that I've had the privilege of coach top to bottom. And, you know, it's starting to show.

We got to still get a lot better as we go here in the last three weeks, but it's great to be where we're at and you know, we've got miles to go. Well, yeah, you have miles to go.

But I mean, I think it it's possible that you guys could win the Big Ten this year. It's not out of out of the realm of imagination. Now, obviously, you're taking one game at a time. So you have Michigan State and Minnesota than Illinois.

If you have to break glass in case of emergency and bring in one column to give the best pump up speech of all time before a game. I know sometimes you've had Mike Greenberg in the locker room. Are you going to go with with Greaney Ravell or Will or somebody our Rachel Nichols or the White Sox?

Dave White Sox.

Dave would have some juice now. I mean, you know, he would have some passion behind what he was saying.

There'll be some deep thoughts with some of the other Northwestern media mob that are absolutely outstanding. But I think they've all had their turn. They've already been a part of that. They've all done a terrific job. And I know they start to kind of get it a little crazy after we have some big wins. And I hope to continue to make be completely crazy. And, you know, I heard you're you're big into trolls.

I heard you like trolling people, so I don't know who told you that. Well, I think maybe if we could do something here with our great Medill School of Journalism, maybe we could have a little offshoot and you'd become the dean of trolls. What do you think about that?

Yeah, I'm into that. So I was thinking, I don't know if you guys do this at Medill. I know they lost their accreditation, so they probably do. But do they offer like a correspondence course where I could take one class there and then become an alum, a Northwestern alumni and bring me into the circle? Is that or I could start up the whole school. I have no problem doing that either.

Yeah, I think I would just skip and go right to becoming the dean of the school. I think you have a special special expertise there that you'd be able to really teach to the future journalists of America. I love it.

So the game against Wisconsin and more importantly, the fight in risk daviss, the comment that Joey Galloway made, basically talking that, you know, Wisconsin isn't sexy. They don't have a lot of athleticism. They have fighting daviss as a football coach. When a member of the media says something like that, are your eyes light up hot like did you bring that to your guys or do your guys hear that anyway? Because it was clear afterwards that you use that as a rallying cry.

And I actually think it was unfair that Joey Galloway did that to Wisconsin in the game is under protest.

Well, I don't think you're going to get anything for the protest. OK, won. And I know Joey and I know Reese well. They're both great guys. I didn't hear it. I didn't know it. Carrick McGowan, a wide receiver and kind of a group text to our Unity Council and said, what's this all about fighting this daviss? And so I think it kind of hit like wildfire into our locker room. And our guys had fun with it the next day at practice.

And I actually kind of got coached up a little bit by the guys, but they they had heard and so we just ran with it. I don't think it was a rallying cry. I think it was more to have some fun and, you know, just enjoy the heck out of it. And we had reached Come On and Zoome bomb the squad on Monday when we went over our players of the game and our highlights for the game. And, you know, you know, I think about some bombs.

I think about Coach Dugs coming out. I don't think we've lost since Doug gave a motivational speech this summer.

Oh, I know. I to turn it around. Yeah. Brought Northwestern back to eliminate. I did it to myself. That's tough. I did it to myself. No, but I just always those are I love the human element of sports and and seeing that. And it was very clear that the guys took that personally. And I guess maybe that's where the disrespect of you as a coach comes in, that you probably have to keep the element of like we are underdogs, we're not Ohio State, we're not Wisconsin, we're not Michigan.

We're not like these big time, you know, larger Big Ten schools. Do you like if you guys keep going with success, is there an element that you have to find a way to keep that edge of, hey, we're not a traditional powerhouse here?

Yeah, well, I think you said it right earlier. We've had really consistent success now, especially over the last five years. I think we're making progress to where we want to be in this league. And, you know, if you get to that point in this league, then that happens naturally for the the national audience in the way people feel. There are quite a few people out there that still remember Northwestern, maybe when we had tough records.

And last year, I think we took a step back from what people's opinions may be. But you can't you can't ride that roller coaster. I think our guys just had fun with it. They enjoyed the heck out of, you know, something that was maybe a little bit humorous, you know, Joey making fun of Reese and then our guys grabbed it and ran with it. I love that aspect of it, too. And, you know, if anybody's going to, you know, give you a chance for some bulletin board, why not have some fun with it?

Yeah, I love it.

And I saw a clip of you on the sidelines. I think it was at halftime when you were jogging into the locker room. I think that you're still the biggest dude on the northwestern sidelines. I think that you could kick all your all your team's ass. Like if they came at you one by one, I think you walk out of there the winner. Is there anybody on the team you think could beat you up now?

I think I'd be one man. I'd be a one. Hit one. I get one sucker punch in, I'd like know there's no way I could do that, but have a lot of fun. Overmanned Spanish you guys like. Oh, you like it? Yeah, I like it in the weight room and get in there a little bit. We talk some smack to each other, but now my, my my days of all that stuff are stuck in the 90s and we were neck rolls back then, so I didn't need a lot of padding if I was going to touch anymore.

Yeah, it's about to be spent on whether that's for sure. Do you think that it is an unfair advantage that Northwestern is allowed to have fans at their games? You guys had a packed house on Saturday. Is that is I mean, the rest of the big tent is not allowing fans.

You're beautiful. Yeah. I mean, it's it was great to have fans there. There's no question. I didn't I didn't know that covid was spreading in stadiums. I wasn't aware of that in the big tent country because I think it was only parents and family members of our staff.

Oh, I know. That was the regular crowd. My back. I knew you're going to go there. That's OK. You know, that's OK. Everybody's got jokes.

Is it? No. Though, is it? It is actually a real question. Like do that little joke and then a real question. How hard is it to get your team kind of up in some of these games where you're playing in front of no one and having that level of intensity that you want to reach on game day?

Yeah, Blake Gallagher said at this summer, our linebacker fifty one who was Big Ten player of the week this week, he called it BYOB. Bring your own juice, man. This is going to be like that a year that you got to bring your own juice. You got to show up, ready to go. And you know our guy, the home games, I think the home team has a bigger advantage this year because you got you know, you've only got seventy four on the road.

Most of those guys are probably in your rotation. Well, it looks like everybody at home has got to, like we call it, the juice box. You got a group of guys that are kind of bringing some bringing some juice and having some fun. And I definitely think the home team's in Italy, some big tent country, you know, with the small crowds and, ah, no crowds will be no crowd. We were told no family, no friends in Michigan State.

Same thing at Minnesota next week. So that makes it challenging. I know it's been a sell out at Camp Randall this year. Nobody to write.

That's actually interesting. I don't even think about that. Like the home when you have how many guys can you have on the sideline?

Like, it's like 100 just depends on what your roster cap is. You can have as many as you have in your roster.

So that would help because you have a bunch of guys kind of hype men that are there. Yeah. That the other side doesn't have any little loophole.

Just give us some more walkouts. Yeah.

Walk ons just like bring as many people as possible into the tent so that you can have more people in the stands.

Yes. Yes. I think big cat that can be another reason why we won last week. Yeah. No, listen, you guys were the better team. I'm a I'm a professional guy. I said it on Sunday. I think you're disrespected. You're one of the best coaches out there. You got your team playing great football. I what do you think about like when you look around college football, it is interesting. You see like Mississippi State, for example, they dress forty nine guys going to Georgia and they played really well.

So how like if when you have to deal with covid or maybe the other side has a couple of guys out, how do you deal with that, like game planning and getting ready, do you say, oh, they're missing these guys, we can change it up or do you just keep it going and whoever's out there is out there?

Well, the way things are right now, no one's reporting in advance who's on their their list of being out or in for the game. So it's really in game adjustments that you've got to look at where things are at and matchups and and things of that nature. At this point, we haven't seen what we thought we were going to see on tape and then something different on game day. So so far it's been that way, you know, but you think about the NFL, they only address, what, forty six guys for each game.

So, I mean, it's it's you had we did a bunch of research on that, getting ready for the season about how many guys we needed. Some leagues have a cap like you're down this amount of time in this amount of quarterbacks, you're not going to play the game the Big Ten and chose not to do that, which I thought was a good move. We want to try to play as many games as we can, and we're not limiting based on availability.

But we have had some teams that unfortunately have had to cancel and listen. You know, if I don't say anything else, that's funny, but I will say something serious. You know, we're so thankful for our medical providers that have helped us all get through this and those that are on the front lines right now, helping them in this pandemic is real. It's not going away. And those are the front lines, man. We lift you up, we think about you, we pray for you, and we're very thankful for you.

Yeah, well said. And we're happy that Big Ten football is being played. And I can watch nine punts in the third quarter.

Yeah, I think that's pretty sexy, man. No, it's hilarious.

Oh, it's it's I listen, I, I make fun of it from a place of love. When a game gets into a punt fest like like that game did you really are like all the can change this game is one penalty, one fifteen yard penalty, one punt return for not even a punt return for a touchdown.

I'm talking like a fifteen yard punt return and the game completely changes. Yeah no question.

It was one of those old school big ten games you know, and we found a way to get it done. But Wisconsin's an outstanding team don't you.

Don't you think they'll be back. I don't need you to do that. We'll be back. I don't need that coach. It's been a while since we've done this segment. But I actually I was in touch with a friend of mine who is a third grade teacher, Mrs. Joyce. She teaches third grade right outside Austin, Texas. And her class actually had a couple of questions for you. So they're pretty simple. You can give them one word answers if you want.

This is from Flynn. Flynn wants to know, Coach Fitzgerald, what's your favorite color purple. Purple. Do you like coaching offense or defense?

Better special teams? Oh, good answer.

And then the last question from Flynn. Would you coach the Bears? Hmm?

I'll coach the cats. I'm happy with the cats, so thanks very much. OK. But but Flynn also wants to know once the season's over and you guys have won a national championship at Northwestern and the Chicago Bears offer you ten million dollars a year, are you going to accept that offer to coach the Chicago Bears?

That's well, my good friend Matt Nagy's the head football coach of the Bears. I'm cheering for those guys big time here to get this thing going. We still make the playoffs.

Yeah, yeah. We got to beat the shot. A shot of the screen last night. In the hunt. In the hunt. We're in the hunt. We get it. You're saying there's a chance we got a chance to make it.

OK, so last question for Mrs. Flynn's choice of choice.

It was from Timmy.

He said, how much is too much money that you would just not be able to turn it down, turn the season around, man, that's going to win the Super Bowl up there.

Yeah, OK. Yep, yep. I like that. I like that answer. All right. Well, Coach, this has been awesome. We appreciate you as always. Stop cheating with the grass. Tell Alex that we say hello. Yes.

We actually have a project for him to maybe get back over 300 pounds on the bench press eventually.

Yep. Tell them tell the guys the team. Congrats for me. That was a great win. I was very, very I really do think you guys are a great team this year. And you were saying before we even went on the Zoome, that ethnos like already done, and that you'll see Ohio State and that's what he said before starting.

Yes. Like, all right. We got to Minnesota. Yeah, I saw the recording, but go on when I came out. So I'd like you to prove that if you don't like, that's smart and smart.

You don't want to.

Jeffrey Toobin said, yeah, good luck, good luck and great win. And you guys are a really good football team. And people need to start respecting Pat Fitzgerald more as a great football coach. I've we're good man.

I'm I'm more than. Thank you. Appreciate you guys, man. Happy Thanksgiving. Don't eat too much turkey. Oh, no, that's that's not even an issue.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Good luck with. Well, no, you don't need luck. Michigan State, Minnesota, Illinois. You already count those wins. So, yeah.

Good luck against Ohio State. You guys are the best. Okay. All right.

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Oh, OK. We now welcome on our very good friend. It is Thanksgiving we thought. Hmm. College basketball starting a little later than usual this year starts today. We're taping this on Tuesday, starts today on Wednesday. Who's one of our best friends in the whole world who knows? Basketball inside and out it is Ryan Rosillo. Welcome to the show, Ryan. No, it's Mark Titus, one of our best friends. You can find him on Tyson Tate podcast.

You can find him on Fox Sports. He was on my TV the other day.

He's everywhere.

Titus, great to see you, because it's been a long road to get back to relevancy is, as you pointed out to me many times over you, I, I want to not make this contentious because I have a feeling the direction we're going to take this.

But it's hard not to look back on these last eight months and think about you taunting the coronavirus gods.

Yeah, I will inject myself if if the NCAA tournament gets canceled. And I just felt like it was too much. Honestly, like I I'm a little bitter about it, because when we look back on the road that we just traveled, college basketball is really the only sport that sacrificed anything.

And that's where had the tournament cancelled, no one else did.

The NBA pretended they sacrificed, but then they spent so much time patting themselves on the back for coming up the bubble that it really wasn't a sacrifice in the end. So but whatever.

It's a good point. Yeah, it's a good point. We're here. Yeah, that was a regretful comment. We were we were just laughing beforehand. You would say that he didn't respect coronaviruses. I said it was overrated and overwrought and he went win on the road. Yeah. We called you a pussy for not flying out the Big East championship.

And then we find out it's like actually a big deal. You guys just shrug your shoulders. You go, oh, I guess we're wrong. Meanwhile, me and Rothstein are crying in the corner like Winry. Is our livelihood over now?

Yeah, it was a little dicey for. But I guess if you look back on it, there's a silver lining. It looks like you really decked out your home office there.

How long did that take you to hang up all those pictures in perfect level with like did you have to go with a shout out to Mrs. POIs on my eighth grade geometry teacher who go shout out, tell me all the angles and everything like that.

And listen, we're not going to get contentious. So this is the last I'll say. All right. But what you just said is true, you know, two hundred fifty thousand Americans dead. But the real loser here is Mark Titus, because the tournament got its coach K also and coach Coach K. Yeah, that's what you're saying.

Just to sum up your point, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's that's exactly what I'm saying. Got it. I just I see the future and in the future. I've said this to you both already. We fast forward to February. All the all you football people spend all winter coughing on each other and making this all worse. And then everyone takes stock of the pandemic after the Super Bowl is played, after a national championship crown and football.

And then we're like, hey, we should probably take this seriously. We should cancel sports. Right. Sports aren't that important. And we go through it again in college basketball's again, the only sport that's my I. I take offense to that.

I truly love college basketball. It is my favorite sport to gamble on. I would this feast week doesn't feel like feast week because I'm not watching, you know, Chaminade play Kansas at noon in Hawaii right now. So it's my favorite week. I'm excited that we'll e get back Kansas. You know what? Let's start there. Kansas, Gonzaga on Thanksgiving Day. Will this be the year the Gonzaga finally gets to a final four?

I think it might be. Gonzaga is going to be really good. I really do.

I didn't love Gonzaga last year. They had a decent team, but I really do like Gonzaga. They got a classic situation that I love in college basketball, which is trying to figure out who the best player on the team is. And this can only happen in college sports, like in the NBA. It's it's pretty obvious, you know, like the guys, I guess, like the era of super teams they argue over, like LeBron or Ed better.

But for the most part, like you kind of know it. But in college, they make arguments about like that guy is not the most talented, but he is the heart and soul. Therefore, he's the best. And then it's like, well, that guy is going to be the best draft picks and he's the best. And then it's like, well, this guy, you know, the whole offense runs through him. So he's the best.

That's Gonzaga this year. They have like four guys who are the best player.

And I love that because, yeah, you get these situations that you only get with college sports where you pretend like the guy who's, like, not that talented is actually the best player just because he dies on the floor.

In the case of Florida State, last year, actually their sixth best player ended up being the best player overall, right? Yeah.

So but Mark Few's, a great coach and what you just described, I think it is interesting when it happens in college basketball, I would assume they'll still be OK because unlike when Duke has this problem and Coach K just says, OK, everyone just take turns playing one on one basketball and well, right. Works. This will actually still work for Gonzaga.

Yes. Well, actually, so this is like a good problem. This is like yeah, Duke is were too good and Coach K loses and the press conference is and Kentucky does this ducal is actually Cal does this more than K does, but you almost complain about how you're too good.

You have too much time, too much. It's like these kids, it's hard to get through to them. They're so talented. I just don't know. There's only one ball. I can't really figure it out. That's not really good. ZAGG is a problem. Gonzaga, Gonzaga is a good.

Gonzaga is more like the Villanova team that won. Yes. In that regard where it's like. Yeah, like Jalen Brunson and Mackell Bridge is the best player on the team.

And then we are Amari Spellman.

Yeah. Sorry Spellman. Yeah we it even sends off the best. Yeah. That's like Gonzaga Field this year. What was the team, the Duke team with Luke Kennard when they that was literally they had four guys who are in the it was the worst basketball ever to watch a play.

That was Brandon Ingram. It was Grayson Allen. Luke Cannard.

I forget who the big guy was that year. And they just it might've been Wendell Carter. It might have been. Yeah, it was. And they just were like, yeah, we're all going to take turns and drive to the hoop.

Yeah. The Tzion team did that a little bit too berrett and Cam Redish was. Yes, we recruited. And he goes anywhere else other than Duke, and he's averaging 20 a game and he goes to Duke and he's like, am I allowed to shoot? I could I should shoot.

All right. Are we overdue on a Gonzaga cheating scandal? I feel like they've really skated on the radar as the program has become. You know, they haven't been really the plucky underdog for the last 10 years.

Something fishy is going on and wouldn't stop lying.

It might be it might be stocked in who knows?

I mean, it could be like I know there's some person in what's his name's underground apocalypse bunker at a more like I don't know what's going on, but like they're so far away from the East Coast media elites, the real journalists that I feel like it's easier to get away with cheating on the West Coast.

Here's what it is. I like where your head's at. Gonzaga recruits all the international guys.

And I think what they're doing is they are doing a money conversion and then they pay them and and loonie's or whatever it is the Canadians, are they actually loading up on a lot of Canadian talent?

And and I think when you do the conversions, it gets a lot like the FBI can't track that. They clear the trail, you know, like every other schools paying in dollar bills. Yeah. And you see the cash, you see the ATM transactions, you're like, that's illegal. I feel like Gonzaga is getting these international guys and it's just getting their money in the water is better now.

I'm on it. I'm on it. I famously, two to three years ago, I got way too high one night and thought I uncovered a point shaving scheme with Saint Mary's because they had a bunch of Australian guys. Yeah, yeah. I had I was going back in time looking at all the box scores because there was a weird situation where they fouled like upset, they fouled up seven like five different times to get the over. And I was like, these guys are cheating.

We watched like the replay of that. Yeah. And we were pausing it like I think the coaches look at the scoreboard right there isn't he.

I was like, yeah, it's interesting because I think that it's not against the law to just like go to a different country and be like, hey, I want to buy like five hundred thousand dollars worth of your money, but I think it's worth more.

So I'll give you one point five million American dollars for that because I value it more like although I don't know why you do it with the players that St Mary's gets, they're basically just like future partners for Bill Belichick.

The draft, the real the real Galaxy brain move is Bitcoin.

And I don't understand why college basketball programs haven't tapped into this.

I just feel like when we have a resurgence in Ivy League basketball, Ivy League has taken the year off. And that scares me because I think they're going to spend the year scheming. They're going to come up with something. They're going to come back in a big way. And I'm worried it's going to be Bitcoin. They're going to find a way to pay players using Bitcoin. It's untraceable.

That's all. That's all I really do. I like what about like got us started about cash up the official app of recruiting violation. Yeah.

And we say that that would be cool. A great sponsor. Yes.

They'll be very cool. All right. So yeah. Gonzaga, Kansas on Wednesday or Thursday is going to be awesome. You want you big tan, you want to talk a little bit because the big is loaded. It is truly loaded. Absolutely. All five starters returning for Iowa.

I am. We're going to talk about the Big Ten, but just tell me I my plan for early season betting in college basketball is just bet on the teams that have all their guys coming back, assuming there hasn't been a lot of practices and everything, right?

Yeah. Yeah, that seems to make a lot of sense. I would agree with that. Yeah. It's going to be it's an absolute shit show the practices and the teams that that have delays that have to go on hold for fourteen days or whatever.

So who knows. There are some schools that I can't even I think it was Georgia Tech said, I don't know if they're still doing this. It's hard to keep up with everything Georgia Tech said they were trying to practice with, like, no contact. And this is Josh Pastors. Big idea was like we're going to practice. So I don't know what there's playing horse usually understand. Yeah. Hoosiers practices out a ball.

I yeah.

They should move the three point line in four this year, only six back in the day. You could find old footage, I think it was the ACC did like an experimental three point line and the three point line like cuts, it's like barely above the free throw line. Yeah. No it a super you could see like this old footage of late. Yeah. Back in the eighties a guy's taken like sixteen footer due didn't even in the 90s.

Likely don't mean in the Yuko's UConn teams they would hit threes and it would basically be an extended free throw.

Yeah it was awesome. So right. So big ten.

So who are those teams like. Obviously Wisconsin.

They're bringing back lot of Baylor. Baylor I think is is a team. If we're talking like nationally, not in the Big Ten. Baylor brings back a ton of guys.

Quinson. He's coming back. Yeah. Yeah. Baylor. All right.

So tell me this, Baylor, because I basically early college basketball before I have a feel for all the teams.

Yeah. I just go on like what I assume every program is. And Baylor is a bunch of guys who are like six or eight who don't play basketball well, but can just like block every shot and are more talented athletically than every other team they are.

Now, I see where you're going that they are now like a three guard. They they are kind of a diet version of the Illinois the five Illinois team.

Oh, I love the Grigoris.

Yeah. Yeah. Like they have like three really good guards. Guard Well, there's one guy who was like the designated scorer, one guy is the designated assist man, one guy's a designated lockdown guy. That's just how they they operate. They play great defense. Baylor's going to be pretty good. I, I like that.

But we want to talk about the Big Ten. Yeah.

All right. Iowa can't play defense, but everyone's excited about Iowa because Luke Garza is very good.

He's good. Yeah. Iowa is Iowa is going to be the most fun team in the Big Ten. So everyone listening, that doesn't care and just wants to watch, like, good college basketball game or just sort of be entertaining. Iowa is going to try to score 100 points every single time they get on the floor.

They're going to give up ninety three, probably every single game.

Well, they're going to they're going to score hundred. Luka Garza is awesome. Which camp is awesome? A lot is being made about Bohanon, their point guard, who was a senior last year but was hurt again and then got to come back. He's like a seventh year senior at this point. He's had like two hip surgery. Iowa fans are really excited that he's coming back. I'm not really sure how effective he's going to be, but yeah, that's what I was like.

They might have the best offense in the country, but they have all the good teams.

They might have the worst defense, right? We do. Do the two eligibility rules apply? Is this year not count like it's in football?

No, I think I think you're right. Yeah. I think like my understanding is like guys can basically come back next year. So Brad Brad Brad Davison gets another year. He wouldn't be so mad at him next year.

I fucking love it. What about Michigan?

What about John Howard? I want to get excited about Michigan.

No, no. All right. That was our Michigan. Wait, no Michigan, but Michigan. What's going to be more disappointing?

Michigan's football season, Michigan's basketball season, Michigan's football season, Michigan football sucking power, the basketball program. I really think that's something. There's like something to that.

Like the worst the football program does. The more people shit on hardball by saying Michigan is a basketball school now, which is good because like you're saying that to shit on hardball. But what's happening is like a real life narrative is building into like Michigan really is about like a really good basketball school. So now John Howard, he has the number one recruiting class next year. Michigan is a year away, we'll put it that way. They have the number one recruiting class next year.

But I really do think like the worst the football program does, like the donors probably like are writing checks and they're like, do not give this to her. Like in the memo. It's like, do not play hardball with this. Please funnel this to the basketball program. It's like they get better the worse the football team gets.

Imani Bates, he's going to Michigan State next year. He's like three years away. Oh, I see.

He's one of those guys. So years every now and then you get a guy like. So Tony Sheffler, our friend, he coaches our high school basketball in Michigan. So he put me on pneumoniae beats like four years ago when he was like in seventh grade. So I feel like a hipster being. Like here he comes. Like I've been hearing about this guy.

He's a he's a junior. I think that's great. Like two years away, by the time he comes out, he'll probably go to the GOP anyway. Yeah, I feel like I've been watching highlights of him for a decade, so marked as an expert.

How have you been getting ready for the season? Do you get like your hands on practice film? Have you been watching, like, the real shiny stuff taken from the.

Well, this is a good the one silver lining about not having a tournament is we we can just speculate as to what would have happened. And so speculation is just running wild heading into the season where you can pretend like, you know, how many teams I said won the national title last year like Dayton I've given it to.

Yeah, we'll give it to UCLA. I've given it to Kansas. So going into this season, you you can kind of it's kind of a choose your own adventure. It's like Kansas is looking to build on the momentum of winning last year's national title and they're going to be good this year. Baylor, of course, was the best team in the country. Everybody knows that they were the best last year. So you just kind of like grab on to things like that and run with it.

Whereas usually, like Iowa is a great example. Maybe Iowa gets upset in the second round last year and then we're coming into this season and nobody's high on Iowa. Yeah, these guys are frauds. They're bombs. We saw it. We saw what happened in the second round when they were upset, but we didn't get a tournament. So now we're like, yeah, Iowa could be pretty good. I don't know. And that's just kind of it.

Yeah. You shrug your shoulders.

Wisconsin's playing their best basketball. That was actually probably the last sporting event I watched. Was Wisconsin winning the Big Ten title?

Was that the when was the first Wisconsin game you watch? Was it before or after that shot up?

Yeah, I watched too much college basketball. But one thing, nothing for my job. You know, you watch college, you'd be proud. What did you came you came on our show and you said fire.

Great guard. Oh yeah. No, there was because we lost to like, who'd we lose two. We lost to like New Mexico in that gentleman in Brooklyn.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm a I'm a reactionary fan.

Well, the last thing I remember was USC didn't not make the NCAA tournament last year so they could still win it this year. Yeah. True blue blood.

They could be back. True USC, Duke, Duke. People forget Duke was the very first team to say we are out of the tournament. Yeah, we are withdrawing from the NCAA tournament and Kansas followed right after. So there is that. Yeah.

When it comes to you and see though obviously they can't be as bad as they were last year. Right. That's just an aberration. They're going to they're going to be back. They're going to be a top 20 team. Yeah, they'll be they'll be pretty good. Yeah, they're going to be they're going to be they're not going to be like as good as Carolina wants to be, but they're definitely going to be much, much better than they were last year for sure.

Yeah, they've got they've got a lot of good recruits. And yeah, they were it was a mess last year. And Karl Anthony took a lot of the heat for that because he was like he became like the face of Carolina. But they really weren't good. They just weren't. Yeah.

I wish that with everything that's going on and how weird this year is that we could just slip in like Luke Maye should try to play again for Carolina this year, like no one would lynch everybody like oh yeah he's there.

Yeah. Yeah you're absolutely right. He's the type of dude that is probably still around Chapel Hill like practicing with the team anyway.

Right. Right. I'm just like oh OK. The Lukumi. All right. Well yeah. Well Lowitt we have to talk. I know that a lot of my followers and people who listen to the show are very, very excited about Illinois. Yeah. They are going to be very good. They are very good. They were very good last year.

Do they have enough, though, because we know the Big Ten hasn't won a title in fucking forever. Do they have enough to maybe go all the way?

I think Illinois is best suited for OK, I'm going to I'm going to do a thing where I cast a wide net so I can't be wrong.

I love it.

Wisconsin is best suited for the NCAA tournament in the sense that. I see Wisconsin go into an elite eight, that makes a lot of sense, let's go. Wisconsin is not Wisconsin is not going to get over the hump. Wisconsin could go on. It could be very good. They could Wisconsin could go undefeated this year and be a one seed and be in the final four.

And I bet in the house that they are not winning the national title. They just don't have the final push. Illinois is the team that is the most likely to win a national title, I think.

Now, having said that, they could flame out, but like the ceiling, if we're talking like ceilings and floors, Illinois has the highest ceiling. To me. They have the most athleticism. I think of all the good teams in the Big Ten. I don't think that's debatable.

When you look at like Iowa and Wisconsin, those are those are the two teams you're up against.

It's not that hard. They play defense. They got to Sumo's who's going to I think he's the best two way player in the country. He's going to be awesome. Cockburn's like like baby Shaq down on the low block. Yeah.

They have, they have a really, really good team. If you're in all this is definitely the best Illinois team. So five. Wow.

OK, I think Illinois is the team I'm the highest on in the Big Ten going into any time you can drop a baby Shaq in there, I'm all on board and everyone will see his name who doesn't watch college basketball be like this guy's name's Cockburn. Yeah. Yeah. That that is always a fun thing. Now, one last Big Ten question from a he's going to block us and never speak to us again or he already expects it and we're it's going to be fine.

We'll shit on him. How bad is Maryland going to be for Scott? Oh.

Oh yeah. Because he takes it very, very, very seriously. He takes it like Van Pelt is. He takes it too seriously. And the sense of like, if I'm Van Pelt, so if I'm in his shoes and I'm coming into this season, we just want the Big Ten. Last year, like Maryland has, has been the stepchild of the Big Ten. Right. Like it's it's the big we don't want them in the Big Ten.

No, we never it's never felt right then in Rutgers, get them out of here. But they finally win. Mark Turgeon was like a wrestling heel down the stretch. He's talking shit to all the other Big Ten coaches and press conferences. And I remember they won at Minnesota and it was like it was a big win. It kind of like secured the Big Ten title for them. And the very first quarter is like, coach, great win.

How do you know how do you feel right now? And he basically used the very first question. He used his time to basically just bitch about how he has to play. He had to travel from Maryland to Minnesota on a week night to play at nine p.m. TYP game was like, fuck the Big Ten office for doing this to us. Fuck all of you like that was their attitude. So what I'm saying is, if I'm R.S.V.P., I just appreciate last year I'm going into this year and I'm like, I don't care.

We did it. We pissed off the entire conference. We won a title we can share, but I don't feel like he's going to do that.

I feel like he's going to like the moment they start losing and you and I start joking about it. He's going to he's going to be very upset. Oh, I think.

Oh, yes. Always. I don't know.

I yeah, I actually appreciate it with him because he's he he just admits it like this is my thing. Like Maryland hoops is the thing I care about more than anything.

I actually think that's a healthy thing to pick one sport, one is one team and be like, here's all of my emotional energy and then not spread it out over multiple sports.

And he's like, this is it. If you make fun of Maryland, whoops, I will be mad. Even if I smile on your face, I will put you on a list and I will hate you forever.

It's true. It's true. We've traded Scott Van Pelt. I've traded just sending each other back pictures of like Wisconsin's Big Ten ring in Maryland's Big Ten ring because it was a share. And like, you can just argue about it forever.

I love the yeah. The two of you, like Wisconsin won the Big Ten because they had an easy schedule down the stretch. They were absolutely dog shit for most of the year. Guys like you were saying fire the coach. And then they went eight in a row. And like now Wisconsin fans are like, we did it. We're also with everyone back. Let's forget that.

Like, I hated this team for three fourths of the season. What about Maryland or Maryland?

Like limps down the stretch. They they should have won the Big Ten by like three games and they almost shot the whole thing away. But they want to it's it was it's a very weird situation for the two of you are like celebrating. But, you know, in the back of your minds, no, that was not a convincing oh. Was a share.

It was a share of a title. Michigan State, Maryland and Wisconsin. Yeah.

What about the best player to come out of the state of Wisconsin, possibly ever. Jalen Johnson. Right. But would you say the best Wisconsinite of all time? No.

What about the West Virginia snaggle? No. George McCabe. Right. What about Tyler Heroes from Wisconsin?

Yes, he is. He's a bucket. What is isn't is it Jordan McCabe? My saying is that who it is, West Virginia. Is he is he from Wisconsin? He is. Because I remember when we went to see Hugi there, like we just got your boy and they showed me and he had like an one. Oh yeah. That's right. Yeah. He was just passing the ball. Right. Yeah I, I didn't know I even had a boy but there we go.

Yeah. West Virginia is going to be. It was really. I know you guys love Huggins as much as I do. Yeah. Be awesome. They're not going to they're not doing the press Virginia thing though this year. So be prepared for that. But why not. Because they don't have Jevon Carter to piss everybody off.

He's another guy should come back. Yeah. Have you been, have you been in West for.

Jinyan seen Huggy Bear set up that he has a practice with the treadmill's right next to the court. I think I've just seen you guys talk about it. I think when you guys were there. That's the only time. Yeah. I've never been to practice there. I've been to the arena on game day. Yeah. The game there.

But yeah, if you if you have a minor fuckup and practices like the judge of college basketball, he'll put you immediately on the treadmill and just stand next to you and watch you run. And it's going like 12 miles an hour. And I've never been intimidated having somebody else watch me run before like I was when Huggins was watching us do wind sprints just with his arms folded, like I wanted to puke my guts up for the guy.

We did a preseason show for FS one where we got to interview Huggins and I. I've never been so nervous in my life talking to anybody. I, I because the whole time, like all you're trying to do, you're not even trying to interview him. You guys know this. You've talked to him, you guys you know.

Well, I was just trying to like I just want him to. My goal was that he gets done with the interview and then he turns his assistant is like, I like that guy. Yeah. That's friends with him. I want to be best friends with them. Like, that's what I want. But, you know, you're never going to do that. And you also know that, like, the one thing, Bob Huggins, if you really love Bob Huggins, you know this about Bob Huggins, is that the last thing that Bob Huggins wants to do is be interviewed by a dipshit like me.

Yeah. So it's like it's a it's a weird thing where it's like if I really cared about him, I would just not interview him at all. Be like, Thanks, coach, but I'm going to give you your free time.

That would be the move. Yeah. And then he's like, I like that punkt on the interview just for the satisfaction.

So can you can you break Hank's heart real quick and somewhat?

Duke is going to think, Duke, because I mean, their best player there bring him back are two white dudes, basically. I mean, I guess, Wendell, more accounts, but like it's Joey Baker. Matthew Hurt, like Duke does not have a great recruiting class.

I feel like I'll say this. Coach K was leading the charge to have every team make the NCAA tournament this year. I don't know if you guys saw that. That was like a proposal put out by the ACC coaches and Coach K threw his weight behind it. Yeah, and I don't think that was a coincidence. I think there is something to that. I think Coach K was like, yeah, these are weird times. We should have everyone make the turn.

The I just found I found the time were that interesting. Yeah. I had to win every game canceled.

You just be a win on the coach's record. Yeah, yeah, yes. It has nothing to do with the fact that I'm trying to run up the score here and every game I lose during a cold season should go to my assistant coach.

Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Called the bad back season.

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Titus, what about Rick Pitino? You mentioned this on on John Rosene show, but I think that there's some truth to it. Rick Pitino wants to delay the start of the season until basically after like the start of the NBA playoffs is the ideal point to start the season for.

Rick, do you think that he actually has a reason for asking for that or is he just doing it to get his name in the papers?

Yeah, that's a great question. I think the I actually support his idea.

If we would have come up with this idea a few months ago, because, again, I see the future. The future is we all look up after the Super Bowl and say, well, this is getting this pandemic's out of control again. Let's cancel everything and wait for the vaccines just around the corner. Are we sure we should be playing sports right now? Let's cancel everything. And the vaccine comes out like April 1st, right after the turn.

It would have been played. Don't do that. And then every other sports back. And then, like, I think that's where Pitino said that is like wait for the vaccine. But I like the idea. Theory.

I know you're a fan of my proposal. Fifty, which is. Yes. Wait, the final four is going to be in India this year, not even just because they announce they're playing the tournament when the. But it was scheduled to be in Indianapolis this year anyway, so have the Final Four during Memorial Day weekend. Double it up at the Indy 500 and create the greatest. What better way would there be to celebrate a vaccine and we can all get together again?

Yeah, it is indeed a vaccine, say, like April and or March or whatever it is. And then come Memorial Day weekend in Indianapolis, everyone descends. We set that city on fire with the final four.

And that's our great week right there. I hope it happens. And we can give all the credit to Dan Dakich for doing that. And Rick Pitino our to the moral heartbeat of America. What's what is.

So we only say nice things about Rick Pitino now or I personally only say nice things. I don't even know if I told you, but I do have a stalker.

Yeah, you told me. You told me he popped back up. Yeah. You guys went to the press conference that you had like a dicey situation where you're like, I kind of have to look over my shoulder because of.

Yeah, he popped back up. Some guy just randomly texted me and was like, hey, what do you even say? He said he made up a name.

It was like, I'm Rick Pitino, P.A. He's like, I can I can make your life a very sticky situation. Yeah. Watch your son. Yeah. He's like he's like we could do it the easy way. Like we want to bury the ax or something like that. Like it's not the easy way or the hard way that you're going to become very easy after fifteen seconds.

I don't I did not laugh at that joke and credit to the Iowa staff because I reached out to them and I was like, hey, does this guy exist in there? Like, nope. So Rick Pitino probably has no idea. It's not his fault.

There's just some crazy Rick Pitino fan who every time I say anything about him, text me and he's like, you're going to die.

But is Rick Pitino so how's Iowa going to be? And do you think like what's the timeline for Rick Pitino to be back in major college basketball? Maybe St. John's? I don't know.

But where how long will it take? Because we need him back in our lives?

Yeah, he's going to be back, by the way, because like he's talking about, this is his last stop. And he just wanted to he's excited to retire at Iona and all that kind of stuff.

But you guys remember you were there at his press conferences. How many times did you retire that summer? Yeah, how many how many interviews did he say where? This is my last interview. I'm doing this just for closure. And then two days later, he's on Dan Patrick show. He's like, This is my last interview, Dan. I'm doing it for closure. I'm retiring. I'll never coach again.

So he's saying that I own it. But, yeah, he's definitely this is this is a stepping stone for sure. He's just trying to get his way. And I think the place for him I'm calling my shot is going to be Boston College, who is Boston College is about to fire their coach. They were going to fire their coach last year, but then covid hit. They just got a new athletic director. His contract is kind of running up anyway.

Boston College is about to be open and it's a Catholic school I own is a Catholic school. Rick Pitino is a Catholic man.

It's it all lines of code for profit college will be old Big East, all Big East ties. Boston College has like, you know, they had the nineteen seventy nine point shaving scandal. They have a little checkered past themselves. So they'll get together and they'll be like, listen, bygones be bygones. You're reformed, we're reformed. Let's get together and give each other another chance.

What he said, I love I love how your mind's thinking on that one.

And thinking back to that press conference, I don't even remember what he was doing in that, like what the purpose of the press conference was. He was just giving a press conference to say, fuck, you know, not apologize.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like I'd like to welcome all the journalists here to tell them to suck my dick.

I just know that whenever and again, I'm not saying anything bad about Rick Pitino. I am I officially am not. But when you do a press conference at your lawyer's office, never a good start.

It's not like things are going well.

Do you remember that whole summer he kept invoking his brother in law who was killed in the 9/11. Yeah. Attack. And he kept doing is like a sympathy day because the the dorm that Lewisville that that the strippers were at, that caused the whole thing was named after his brother in law. So for some reason, he felt like what he would do, these, you know, people would ask him, like, Rick, you are you've lied throughout this whole process.

You cheated many times over and you finally got caught and fired for like, do you want to say you're sorry? He's like, my brother in law died in 9/11. And I think and you're like, what does that have to do?

You know, that was the reason why he couldn't be guilty, because never in a million years would he send hookers over to a building that had his dead brother. So, like, obviously, like, you can't you can't even look at him as a suspect.

And the craziest thing about Rick Pitino and this will be actually be in defense of Rick Pitino. I mean, he's obviously a phenomenal coach, but he's no crazier than any other major college coach. He just got caught with some of his grades.

This is why this is why Rick Pitino is pissed off about why he was fired, because, like, when the dust settled, I guess it hasn't completely settled yet. But the FBI whole situation where if you're not like in the nitty gritty of college basketball, you know, the FBI thing hit, you expect it like everybody to be fired, right. Rick Pitino is basically the only name that carries any weight that was fired over all of that.

And I think he's bitter about that and rightfully so. He's looking around. He's like, what? That like Sean Miller. Well, wait. Hello. Right. And I got fired. And he's the old he's the guy who can. Invented the game, too, so he's like, why does Wade get to keep his job and I don't get to keep mine? And I think he's just upset about it, which is why he's definitely going to get a power conference job.

He's definitely going to, like, make one last push where he's going to have a good team. That's the final four.

He's got to go to and be at Boston College. Got to go to a team that is practiced and tried and true, just ignoring scandals because they will go away like LSU was just like, yeah, all right. There might be stuff allegedly on tape, but if we just don't talk about it, we'll let him back on campus after we can.

And you've said this, Mark, and it is true, like the Rick Pitino got screwed. The NCAA is so hypocritical with everything they do. And the only reason they cared is because the FBI got involved and the NCAA looks the other way on everything because they have billions of dollars at risk. So if you are Rick Pitino, I think you do have kind of a fair gripe. Be like, yo, this was the deal. You guys look the other way.

I put out a good team. We all make a shitload of money. That's college basketball. Exactly.

That's that is this whole point of view. That's why all of his rhetoric is like I take full responsibility, but none of this is my fault, which like contradicts the idea of taking full risk, like he said. But it's kind of true to stuff, but it's kind of true. That's where he's coming from. He's like, I don't understand. This is the game. I played the game. We're all playing the same game. Why am I going down for this?

I don't understand. I'm very confused. But he'll be back. He'll definitely good.

If you go back and you watch that HBO mini series that came out, it was just like Christian.

The only reason why the coaches even got involved was because the FBI told the runners to get the coaches involved to try and trap them in it when they didn't have like there was no reason to be bringing them. They get paid. They get paid millions of dollars a year. They don't need twenty thousand dollars for, like, one guy to go to their school. So really, it comes down to like the FBI had a hard on for Rick Pitino at the end of the day.

And it's we're in fucking bizarro world that we find ourselves defending Rick Pitino this vociferously on a podcast. But I will continue to make fun of him. I will.

But the fact that. No, I will not. I have a major question for you.

Yep. Sister Jean still alive.

I are going to say, is Creighton going to be good this year?

Well, it creeps everyone off. Creighton is going to be great, is not going to be good this year. Creighton is going to be great this year. AOC, right? Yes. ACLC is AOC going to make the defense or.

OK, pick one of these two men majors Creighton at Loyola with what's his name, Cameron.

Cameron Crowe, the big guy. The condition.

Yeah. Yeah. Well if which team is going to be better between those two. Yeah definitely. Creighton of the mid major to watch out for the major markand excited about is UConn.

They get so mad that UConn is the only blue blooded major we have in college basketball.

I think that's that's why that's what's so unique about Xavier. You're simultaneously a blueblood, but also a major. You're the serious answer. I think Richmond is a team. A lot of people are excited about the great DEFAT. They bring a lot of guys back. That's that's the same as that's a reason to get excited about them. Don't ask me to name any of those guys. I just say they bring them back and then you guys not a long be like, oh, that sounds good.

Yeah, they're going to be pretty good. I think they're the favorites in the eighteen.

Yeah. I don't I don't know who they're are. A couple like Southern Conference teams like Furman and USC, Greensboro people are high on, but you know, whatever.

What is UConn going to be good. I fucking love Danny Hurley. I love love, love Danny Hurley. So they got this guy James Book Knight, who is not Kemba Walker is not Shabazz Napier.

But the team is going like if the team is going to be good, they're going to have to follow the Kemba Shabazz model of just like give the ball to this guy and everyone get the hell out of the way.

So I don't know how good they're going to be, but they're going to be UConn. They're going to feel like UConn. You know, like if they squeak into the tournament, it's going to feel like UConn because James book night is just going to have to average thirty a game and carry the team on his back, which is going to be all they need.

If they're going to be truly UConn, then they need a big guy who's like a little eliminated but has a few huge games, like a Josh Boone, who is the other guy you seem to beat was.

But Melinda Wavell was on some good teams.

You know, Jeff Griffin. No, Jeff Adrien. Jeff Adrien. Yeah. He was in that line where it's like every now and then they'd have a huge game like, oh, fuck, this guy's real. Yeah. Yeah.

Who was that on the the shit that I get the fourteen and it's been so long I get those teams.

It was a yoky was. Yeah. Yeah. The guys he was just like randomly during this they turn around and have like three good plays. Yes.

You've got to disappear your exam. Watch out for them. Yeah. I love Danny Hurley. I want him to do well because he is. He is. So I actually think we should probably know that I'm saying this out loud. We might be too late, but maybe for big play. Wait as you come back in the Big East. Yeah, they are. Yeah, they're back in the big this year. Yeah. We could do like over under for the season.

Technical fouls for Danny Hurley.

Mm. He's good for one every like three games, the Dan Hurley move, I call him, it's not going to happen, but it would be awesome is Sean Miller gets fired at Arizona and Indiana for the entire eurozone.

Yeah. Dan Hurley and Hurley. Hurley is interested in Arizona. Yeah. Wow. That's what I said. I have my fingers crossed it's not going to happen, but.

All right, so let's do a little PAC 12 and then we'll circle back and finish the ACC. There's another huge news.

We're just going to skip over Shaka Smart here. Oh, well, we talked about Kansas and Baylor, but yeah, Shaka Smart, he's got here PAC 12.

Do we care? Are they going to be like if we do the if we do the traditional stereotypes, the PAC 12, Washington will have three lottery picks and win four games. Oregon will be really, really good because their coach is awesome. UCLA will have a moment where everyone like is UCLA back?

And yeah, Arizona, Arizona will be good losing in the early days to be good.

But but Oregon will be good. But in a way, that kind of what you just did without even realizing it, where you don't know anyone's name, you don't know the coach. Like most people, I know the coach's name. They just know that Oregon's good. Maybe you're lucky if, you know Peyton Pritchard was the point guard there, but like, no one actually watches them.

You just know you're supposed to say they're good. And yeah, that seems to be what happens with Oregon. Oregon's going to be good.

So Arizona is going to suck there. They're going to be really bad. UCLA is going to be it's UCLA and Arizona State. I think in all seriousness, the PAC 12 will be worth watching for. The PAC 12 has been good, but I think they were good last year. But I think this is the first season, a long time going into the season. I'm actually excited to watch PAC 12 basketball in a very long time. They have a Stanford has a kid, a five star kids are Williams who played with Bronnie James and Dwayne Sun.

It was actually the best player on that team.

That's a fun little stat. Yeah. Yeah.

So Stanford's going to have like a five star. That's going to be good. Arizona State's loaded. They got they got five stars and Remy Martin's back. He's an all-American. UCLA brings their whole team back. They're kind of the Wisconsin to the West Coast.

We're like they got hot at the end of the year and they won this one on the PAC 12. So, yeah, give it to is going to be good. Good. I'm excited, but I love the you guys are big Cronan guys love MicroCon like you make fun of Mick Cronin a lot. But I don't understand how I got this reputation because you're a big Hollywood guy, you're a big West Coast guy and you lost you lost your roots in Ohio.

I just like LeBron James, myself and me.

We're the triumvirate of guys from Ohio that move to L.A. and yeah, I'll just try to I was just trying to find a way to invoke LeBron. That was really I mean, you do look good. I actually texted you. I texted Titus totally out of the blue like two months ago. And I was like, hey, bro, like, we don't do this enough with each other as like men. But you're looking good.

I appreciate you did. Look, I saw you I saw a picture you on on the beach. I was like, dude, you're skinny. Bulimia.

Bulimia is doing me well. Yeah. What where we are on the diet, we're about the and before we gave up till January 1st, we threw in the towel.

So there's there's a moment every November, early November where I'm like, am I going to try now? All right. Yeah.

And now, like even Thanksgiving week, I'm like, dude, it's Thanksgiving week. I mean, I will say twenty four.

At one point you said you were going to be like, I'm going to start doing this thing where it's you work out for an hour and a half.

Oh, seventy five hard. Seventy five hard is my new thing. It's every day for seventy five days straight. If you, if you, if you fuck up you have to restart, you have to work out for an hour and a half, you have to be on a diet, you have to drink a gallon of water and read ten pages of a book.

Jesus. And then you have to tweet about it and tell everybody that you did. I think that's probably a part of the seventy five hard diet to. Yeah.

Nobody does that diet without telling everybody else you're doing it right.

It's one of those things that you find this diet like late at night on a Saturday after watching too many sports and eating ice cream, you're like, all right, tomorrow. Seventy five. I haven't started yet because that's actually the hard part. It's so hard.

I haven't even started, you know, in all honesty, living in California.

It just it's it's I don't know. It's hard to find things that have gravy on them.

It's the weather's awesome person that sucks. Yeah. Yeah. The weather's always nice. So you kind of feel like you got to be in shape because you're like you can't hide it with sweats.

Right. So how much are you benching.

Yeah, 286. Oh that's pretty good. You six. That's your fucking Gisele's yuge. Yeah. Yeah.

That's, that's really impressive. No random take. No.

For a former college athlete that's really impressive to be able to. Eighty six to eight said I couldn't imagine. Benson even a pound lesson. No, I don't know what I was. Yeah.

You miss, you miss your what was the restaurant you took us to in August when we walked in?

That's where we go. Do we go to Nancy? Well, we walked in and I was like, let's go to this place, a great place, walk in, look to the right. And he's like, oh yeah, there's a framed picture of me here.

Oh, yeah, totally. I know. Varsity Club. Yeah, yeah, I like that, yeah, I need to do that, I need to I need to work that again. I get back to Columbus to make that happen. By the way, speaking, we brought up Billy Bench Press in Rosillo and all that shit. Oh no you didn't.

You said you got. Yeah. Coixet on the headphones.

Billy, I want to ask you guys. Should I. You guys know Rosillo better than me, should I? How do we are we worried about him at all? Because I keep seeing these videos that he's putting out with the ringer. And you came on your show and I everything you thought. You're making fun of my backdrop, having this this man looks like he's in a basement like no. And I'm just worried. I know he lives down in Manhattan Beach.

So I'm the California we're all we're all for like, you know, we're kind of buddies and all that. I'm the California guy. Like, should I worry about him? Should I go down to visit him? I don't know. I never know how to approach Forcillo.

I like what I was talking about with Hoggins earlier. Yeah, it's the same Stilo like I love the guy to death, but I also think that like the last thing he wants me to text him and say, what's up bro, you want to hang.

I think his backdrop in his room that yeah it looks like a dorm room.

I think that's just a response to a certain podcast he did like oh I'm trying to keep it nice and. Yeah, yeah, minimal. I'm a regular guy. Yeah. If you go, if you're in the next room, that's where you have like the original Warhols that hey it's got, it's got what is it.

What's the dude who has like the big bubble sculptures.

The Jeff something I the shit were the leeches Cleese's bubbles. We're so, we're so close. I'm looking I saw one down in Atlantic City really. Bubble sculptures.

Jeff the mouse had things. No. Jeff Koons. Jeff Koons. No, I'm thinking about the balloon animal. Yeah. The big balloon. Jeff Yeah. Yeah.

We don't know who's who's the other guy that does the glass artist.

It's absolutely true. That's what I was thinking.

Oh, that's a hot sauce. Tallulah is the hot sauce. Absolutely is. Yeah. He's got he's got original Tallulah's.

He actually has just he's got an overhead projector that just shows his own ass Wagner card on his projector screen on the wall at all times. So I kind of like art.

I think you should just hit him up. Brazil's one of those guys that every time I talk to him, it's like, man, I should talk to him more because, like, it's just I know he's like, oh, he's thinking about stuff better than everyone else.

That's kind of where he's always at.

I think the nicest thing you could do to Rosillo as a friend is just hit him up and be like, hey, man, you want to hang out sometime and let him reject you and he'll feel good, but that's as good as hanging out for him. All right. All right. I'll do it that way.

I just I feel like maybe, you know, the guy is a little bit of a loner already in the quarantine situation. Say I'm in California. We're still, like, very Shut-Down out here. So I just, you know, I worry about him and I don't know I don't know how to play it. I don't want him. I don't know if I'm supposed to reach out to him or not.

And I I don't know if he said this on the pod, but I might have said it. But he in the most personal thing ever, he built a gym in his in his garage, I think. And he when he was building it, he like got trapped behind it, trying to build it and like literally almost died from his squat rack, which would have been the greatest death of all time if Reinoso died because he got locked up behind his squat rack for seven days.

Oh, excuse me. It was like, yeah, for like the last twenty minutes have been stuck by my squad for this thing.

You should know what you should do. You should just find out where he's going to be shooting hoops one day, roll up and then like we're talkin let him get hot for a second. Yeah. Just warming up and then right before they pick teams go out there and start filling it up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just guard him and. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good call. Right. Shaka Smart. Give us some Texas talk.

He has a Texas five star recruit, Greg Brown. That's that's a local kid from Austin. It's it's the same thing every year with Texas.

It's like this has to be the year for Shaq. Yeah, he's got a good team, but they're actually, like, not that awesome. And they're in the big twelve, which is going to be loaded. I don't I think it's just going to be more the same.

Like he's going to do enough to give you to make you sort of believe that he could turn the corner at some point, but they're not going to turn the corner this year.

So, yeah, they're not he's going to be back next year. Yeah, he's I think he's going to be fired this year. They would go back and take Rick Barnes in a heartbeat, I think over the shock smart experiment.

They should just have Matthew McConaughey move his way down the bench over the course of the season until he's just coaching the team. I actually feel like Matthew McConaughey, just the power of his motivation and the talent that is assembled in Austin. He could probably be a better coach. And Shaka Smart.

Yeah, I, I don't disagree with that. I think you're right. I think yeah. That's, that's what if that's all really Texas needs is just kind of. Hey, does he, is he tight with the basketball.

Yes. Yes, yes. On the on the four times he's got this. Well I know he's always tight with football. I used to know if. Yeah. He's on the bench sometimes. The basketball.

Yeah. I like your I like your analysis of Texas. Essentially they will have a second half lead against Kansas and blowout and lose by five. Yeah.

And then and then I will be like a year from now I will be doing the exact same show we're doing now with a preview of next season. And you're like, Shaka, what do you think? And I'm like, Texas will be all right there, but I don't know. We'll see. Yeah. This is the year though. Yeah. Shaq has to show me this year or else he's gone. Yeah, it's the same thing I forgot.

We got we also talked SCC, my guy Musse I Arkansas baby. Come on, they're. I mean, obviously, it's Kentucky and Tennessee, right, but Arkansas is a good team and Isaiah Joe, like he was injured a couple a couple of games last year, they they weren't great last year. But I believe in moss more than probably like almost every coach in the league, because he just he does the thing with the transfers. He has a style and it works.

Nevada was so good when he was there. He's very funny.

He's a little corny, but he's self-aware. How corny he is. I don't I don't think they're going to be that good, but I don't think he's going to be that good. So that could work in their favor to where they could. I think Florida is going to be all right. We said Tennessee and Kentucky are the favorites, certainly. But yeah, after that, like, LSU could have a pretty good team, which like that is that is the villain situation that I think is brewing that I don't think America is really ready for is like.

Well, Wade, having a juggernaut at LSU. Yes.

Yeah. Because the thing is, like Bill Self is, you know, there's bad vibes of Bill Self in the FBI situation, but Bill Selfs kind of earned the right. He's like an old head. We've seen him before. We're familiar with him. And the same with K, like all these other guys. It's like it's a devil, you know, type situations. So you kind of, like, don't love what he's up to, but, you know, you're used to it.

We'll wait is the newcomer. And I think the idea of will we just like setting everything on fire? And you guys watch the documentary. I mean, like Sean Miller, his approach was like trying to be subtle and having fall guys and all that. And they said many times over way, always a gangster like he'll be on the phone straight out talking to these people, offering money left. Right. And the idea of always having a great team at LSU would would break the college like it would just break college basketball.

People would lose like the old heads that cover college basketball would be beside the forty would just be enraged. Right. And column after column like this is disgraceful. What LSU has done.

Tiger likes just snapping highlighters and Heaton's on television. I like that people don't talk enough about the SEC being the conference of coaches this year.

They get a lot of shine in football, but in basketball they've got our guys that got Buzz Williams, Tom Crean. Please tell me one ticket.

Please tell me one of those two guys is going to have a decent team this year. No.

Buzz Williams, I have a better team than Tom Crean, but yeah, Tom Crean already won this year.

He had the number one pick in the draft.

That's true. He should get that framed and put it behind him when he does interviews like Coach Caldonia is number one. Yes. Yeah, yeah. So obviously they have like Coach Cal, they've got just a shitload of great coaches in the barn.

Rick Barnes musclemen, Frank Martin, who said that he wishes that he was a football coach, which is the best quality that you can have in a basketball coach.

They got beat Howland's unless you see what the three Final Fours that UCLA is at Mississippi State now and he's kind of forgotten about. Definitely forgotten about.

Yeah, nobody even remembers that he's going to three straight final fours. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. Axi who's going to win it. Of Virginia, Virginia is going to win it over under 52 points a game for Virginia. They'll they'll be better than they. That's a great question. They'll be better than they were last year offensively. But yeah, they're not going to they're there. It's going to be the same old same old Virginia. But that's why they're going to win it. They're there. They're Duke is too young and too like Duke doesn't win.

They exist anymore anyway. They haven't won it in 10 years. True, Carolina is just not good enough. I don't think Florida states the other one. It's like basically those four. Virginia is by far the best team. So I think Virginia is going to win it.

But yeah, Virginia is just I can't get mad at Virginia because they play literally the same style as Wisconsin just there.

But yeah, I mean, it's it is one of those things where you you don't think you're fat until you see, like a picture of yourself. Yeah. That's when I watch Virginia basketball.

I'm like, oh, this is the team I root for. I get why people hate us.

Yeah, they're they're I don't know. I don't know really what else it's like they're going to be they're going to actually be good. And that's the other pressure. But like last year, Virginia wasn't that good by their standards. So I think there's a little delight in the idea of them not scoring a lot of points because you're like, yeah, they're not really a threat anyway.

They're going to. But but this year they're going to be good. They're good enough to win a national title, which would they be repeat champs if they won? They'd have to be.

I guess so. I don't know. I don't know.

I just want to back to back titles. I want them to play. We had the the all time moment, I think it was against Purdue maybe last year where the overunder was like ninety nine point five.

Yeah. And it's like how is this possible. And then you better, you know, it's electric.

Last year as a reminder, Virginia last year open the season. They held Syracuse to thirty four points.

Your job. That was the first game this year. Thirty four points.

I see. I see. I can't I can't I can't like, joke about those because there was that the Big Ten tournament game. I think it was Wisconsin, Penn State where I think it was like 60 points total scored.

Do you remember that game. I do remember that game, yeah. That was like the who was who were the best players on Wisconsin. I'm looking it up right now.

It was I think Wisconsin scored thirty two points. It was oh. Thirty six. Thirty three was the final. Yeah. Thirty six. Thirty two. Yeah.

Yeah. So what was that like twelve 2011. Eleven twelve. Oh my God. Taylor Battle was playing on Penn State.

Was I like Jordan Taylor and John Lewis. Yeah. John Moore. Josh Gasser cruiserweight. God damn it. So yeah I can't. I recused myself from the conversation about low scoring teams.

I'm going to give a back to back titles to UVA though if they win again, and only because I can count that for Washington, D.C. area championships.

Yeah. Johnson off.

It's like two and a half hours, three hours away. We'll take it however we can get it. Yeah, you want one thing that I picked up this year is a brand new team, Dixie State. Do you know where Dixie State is?

I don't. But if I guessed Connecticut, I would. Yeah, I. It feels like a Texas school. No, what I know I know Texas doesn't count as Dixie, but it just feels like Texas is always the answer.

It's in Utah, Tinashe. Oh, Dixie State is in Utah and there are brand new basketball program.

You've got to learn their mascot. Yeah. It's like Utah of. Yeah. Utah and the jazz. Yeah. That's a great, great, great callback. Yeah. What is their mascot. Oh the trailblazers or something. He's going to do a fox hit in like two seconds. Yeah.

So make sure you pick on the one to look out for Brandi.

I just like the idea of there being a brand new basketball team like they just get born.

Well, Tahltan states another one. I think they're in the same conference. Tarleton State is Billy Gillispie. Yes, that's what I'm saying. Billy Gillispie is the coach of Trailblazers, the trailblazers for Dixie State. Tarleton State ls catch what that I literally fucking called it. What? The Trailblazers. Yeah. You know, you had that. I said trailblazer. Yeah. Yeah. As you're looking it up you had it. I'll be out there. Yeah.

You get credit for that. Tarleton State. I love that. I might be a Tahltan State guy. Billy Gillespie. What a joke he is. All right. The final question's brought to you by CrossCountry Mortgage America's crazy good mortgage company. Go to Scullin's dotcom slash take to learn more about your future home buying experience or refinancing needs, equal housing opportunity. Any last big things I'm thinking about, like I want to give us a champion.

I owe a champion to to to win coronavirus uh, to the it also Gonzaga. I think Gonzaga beats Gonzaga beats a Big Ten team.

I just don't know which team it is. So Zagar finally does a college. Yeah, that's good. Our college basketball expert Mark Titus coming on and picking the number one team, one team in the country.

Fascinating. Yeah. With the best recruit in the country. Really. Oh, and there, uh, who's a dark horse?

I'll pick a team that's on the list.

If I had to pick an underrated team who might pick and I like this huge shit, none of them can go.

You can maybe. Maybe that's what's going to happen. Maybe it's like this is a weird season. This is going to be the dumbest season ever. Like games are getting canceled left and right. It is an absolute shit show. And I feel like maybe we get the tournament.

Just chaos is going to reign supreme and it just feels like you can't. That's when UConn wins and that's when UConn is at their best, is when chaos is thriving. And maybe that's what happens.

It's also good for all the all the players that are really good in practice but can't score in games. And their fans, they're like, this would have been your year to beat.

You probably would have won Player of the Year. You're absolutely right. I would have it. Oh, actually, that reminds me, before we let you go, one last question. Remind us again who is on your eight team?

What no, I want to know, do you want to do want to talk about the Cavs season this year, too, and hell, I'm a diehard Cavs fan and what oh, hey, how in all seriousness, how worried are you about LeBron getting six wins with modern medicine in the HGH he's doing?

I'm very worried. Yeah. And also stacking the teams and all that stuff. Yeah. So, yeah, skirting the salary cap. Basically cheating. Yeah, we're cheating. I think he could get six. All right. He's going to do whatever baby Brian.

He might be baby Braun himself is a resurgence here. We're big on the baby Brauns these days because he just every good player he's like that reminds me of myself. He just adopts T.K. Metcalf, baby. Bron Yeah. Tiki man. How many beat the shit.

The other the other question I had, how many guys you got working on the show now I feel like I haven't met. We got six people in the studio right now.

Yeah. Yeah. Jake and Billy. Billy has been looking at what I and researching obelisks for the last hour.

I only knew Jake is like the the fo Ravell. Yeah. Fake Rovell and I just I didn't know he's a college basketball, he's just basketball podcast's.

He's got a show called Bhishma. That's right. Yeah. You should go on about. Oh it's no the bench mob.

We're bench mob guys. You should go on the bench mob pop podcast. Yeah. I'm buying Jake Marshall stock.

Yes I think so. Yeah. Yeah I would love to. Come on. Are they treating you well Jake.

I don't want you to get Seante as a return. You see, I've done a lot for me.

No, he's Jake is Jake. He's like the perfect rising star in the college basketball and media business. He's a Syracuse grad from the journalism school I love, did play by play for Vermont for two years, you know, made his bones there now is calling Jenga.

And there's some context to it.

Jake, what is your what is your contract of work? And I went an hour. How are you? All right.

Cut.

As long as, you know, anyone need someone to call games freelance, we got it right.

Let's put that out there into the universe once again. We'll say Jake is looking to be a play by play voice of any basketball.

Oh, we should. We should you should call a game and I'll do I'm trying to call some games, too. I'm trying to be the color commentator. Let's do it. Let's let's do it. You have to plug that fox. Let's figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. We get Fox to do it. We'll do some like some big sky conference.

Oh you got some. I'm there. Are you going do any of these tournaments. Oh yeah.

So next week I'll be in Maui, Maui, North Carolina. I'm flying out Friday.

I'll be in Asheville all week. We've got to get tested every day, all that kind of stuff. So it'll actually be a good tournament.

It's not going to be you know, it's going to be the same, not Maui, not in the soft rims.

And oh, this just Carolina's in it. Not, isn't it? Texas Providence. You guys love it. Cool. Yeah, I forget Davidson's in it. You know, uh, I'm forgetting one, but yeah, it's, it's a program.

This is some of them. They should let the coaches still wear the Hawaiian shirts. Yeah. Nice know I just I don't care. That's in North Carolina. Oh that's what I'm wearing. All the coverage we're doing there. I'm wearing wearing my Hawaiian shirts and sunglasses and just pretend I'm in Hawaii.

Just promise me, because this will happen within I would say next three years Bastar will have a a feast week tournament. So you'll have to come to that. You have to.

I will definitely. Where would it be? Probably the middle of like Ohio. Are we on the call. Yeah. No, you Jake will be on.

No, you got to be right next to Michigan. Yeah. Get like the Caribbean a cash for Caribbean country that you can like just like that would be excited to have you like on the island that had the fire fast.

No, I think it's funnier. If we do it, we'll take over that island, we'll set up tents.

I think it's funny if we find a small gym in Indiana, Ohio, and we just we just totally treat it to like as biased as you can get where it's like, all right. It's the tournament is West Virginia and the worst. Yeah, seven teams we can find. West Virginia just gets like nine wins. And we just have them played back to back to back to back and huggy. All of a sudden you look up, it's November 24th and West Virginia is twelve.

You know, you should do it. You do it in Indiana high school gym. And then, yes, you win favor with all the Indiana people because they just love that you're doing the Hoosier hysteria. They should do that for the tournament.

Why aren't we playing a couple of games there? I think it's too small. I think it's like ten, ten ball.

The courts. The courts are shorter, but, you know, they have enough leeway. My dad was an athlete. My dad his entire life was it was a high school athletic director. And I'm telling you, he's retired now. But if my dad was still the athletic director the moment they make that announcement, my dad has been on the phone to the school board saying we've got to we've got to knock our gym.

Which are you telling me that that's seen Hoosiers is full of shit when they measured the know like some of the some of the courts in Hoosiers. Yeah. Like some of the courts in Indiana are not actually the same length.

No, no. It was it's high school to college. High school to college is different. OK, you're both right.

Oh yeah. Because it was. It was. Yeah that's right. Yeah. Of course I remember the hoop. Being 10 feet, like what, the length of the court, yes, the college court is 10 feet longer than an Indiana high school court. So Hoosiers was kind of lying to you? Yes, a little sociopath.

I'm not a doctor. I'm going to kill you. You're on the side of Hoosiers is kind of overrated, right? Oh, come on.

No, absolutely not crazy.

I watched it during quarantine and I know it hurt. And it hurt my soul that in the program I watched those two movies and I was like, no, not as good as I remember.

No Hoosiers is overrated in the same way Seinfeld is unfunny. And it's because every other sports movie that's come after it has tried to recreate Hoosiers tonight when you go back and watch it.

I like Hoosiers. I'm saying I watched it back and I was like, it might not have been like when anyone would ask you, what's your favorite sports movie?

Hoosiers. Hoosiers. Hoosiers. Yeah.

Like the Model T's not a great car in 2020 either, Dan. OK, all right. We have to respect its place in history that it invented an entire fucking genre of movie, which is like the underdog Sappi. I think it's the last scene that bothered me because they like they just didn't guard. Yeah, they like didn't she. It was like a righty and they just made him laugh.

You just don't like you don't like hickory style play. You made that clear. You don't like Virginia, you don't like Hickory Plain Stobaugh ball.

You want a hickory to shoot three and shit. What was that movie. Where was the guy and the girl playing pickup outside. And it had the most preposterous one on one scene of all time. You guys. What I'm talking about right was that was love and best.

Yeah. Love and basketball. Yeah. Big big cats because the basketball scene and Hoosiers doesn't match up to like that was poorly coached at the very you know, I'm just I watch Hoosiers the whole time and I was like, could you imagine like if you could just put Steph Curry in like 1950s Indiana.

He's just like they would actually burn him at the cross. They'd be like, well, maybe for like, well, now we're good. Yeah. But yeah, they would be like, he's a witch. Yeah. Yeah. The you watch the Bob Cousy highlights and you hear about how great of a player Bob Casey was. And this is highlights and he like dribbles behind his back wants. Yeah.

Everyone, just everyone just falls on the ground. They start shaking. Yeah. Oh.

All right. Well, Mark, thank you. It's always been fun. Everyone go listen to Titus and Tate. See him on Fox Sports. You also have a podcast with our friend Charlotte Wilder. You're everywhere, dude.

It's going well. I enjoy I enjoy Fox. Fox is treating me well. We launched the all series. I came on that. What was the last time I was on here? Right after the tournament was canceled. You guys just like basically had me on the back and said it's not your fault. Yeah, OK.

Yeah, but so we launched the podcast right before this season was was you know, we had this season. We did. And I was really down on the dumps. But everything's going well now and we're back so good. Everything's going great at Fox. I'm happy I'm living a California lifestyle. I don't see the last thing I have to report that is the California teens are nonexistent.

Right. New coronavirus has I think this might be this might be a journalistic assignment for Billy or something.

Bring Billy out here to bench with Rosillo and then find out what happened to the California teens because they're nowhere to be found. I drive around and they're nowhere. They they're I think they're all in the sweet California teens. Yeah. Yeah. There's all the tick talkers, like tick tock houses have taken them all gone.

Moftah, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I live kind of close to the beach and there used to be a ton of them just hanging out and skateboarding and shit. I don't know where they are. I don't know what happened to them. But covid has has done a number on them and they're only found. And I just I find that interesting. That's the report from out here. Yeah.

Rounded up by a bunch of the pizza gay people. Got them. Yeah. Yes, yes. All right, Titus, thanks so much. Man. Happy college basketball. Talk to you later.

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I'm mad not because Wisconsin. Minnesota got Kansas. Aren't you happy they lost now? Oh, that's good.

Yeah. No, if they won, if they had won, this would have been way worse. Great spin zones. Awesome man. Imagine how how disappointed you would be.

Imagine how pissed off you'd be at this virus.

Oh my God. But I know now I'm just mad at stupid people who are like can't go to the conference. It's like, dude, you lose Northwestern, you you can't go. They're not going to lose two of the last three.

I just like to console everyone is eligible for football. You're still eligible. Yeah. Yeah everyone is. So people are dumb. I want people to start reading the fucking rules once you probably.

Yeah. You'll play in a decent ball game I'm sure.

I don't care. I should watch more football, but I just want to congratulate you on personal growth.

Because you're not mad at Hank for this. No, I think no. I wouldn't ever be mad. Never mad at Hank. No, I would not be mad at him for this. For this. Yeah. I wouldn't be better off because he had nothing to do with this.

That maybe, Jake. Maybe what I do. You broke the news. Yeah. So you're on the fucking hot seat.

Learn for me the new computer. I'm just kidding. No, I appreciate that. I actually would rather learn it from you than all the people tweeting me being very mean online.

It's the holiday season. All right. Let's do a little Sunday preview. Big games, by the way, in college football, Iron Bowl. Alabama's going to fuck Auburn up the state have been thrown out there, which I'll share with you right now. Nick Saban is six and old all time against Auburn as fourteen or more point favorites.

So when he has them, he has them. I love the Iowa Nebraska game. It's my favorite color game of the year. And then Endi, Notre Dame versus USC is going to be awesome.

Yeah, that's another good uniform game. Right now. The uniform game shows Penn State, Michigan, which is going to be the toilet bowl. Well, it's going to be funny about that is it's going to look like the real thing. It's going to look awesome and it's probably going to be close. Correct. So you might walk out of this game thinking whoever wins is a good team. Don't fool yourself.

Don't do that. Right, right.

All right. Let's talk a little Sunday for NFL Raiders.

Falcons go. I like the Falcons. I like to this does feel like this.

This is the week of home dogs.

For me, this feels like a raiders. If you are going to be considered for real, you got to beat the Falcons. You've got to beat them convincingly, you know.

But I don't. I like the Falcons this week a lot. Yeah, I like a lot of these dogs to charges bills. I really actually kind of sucks not having Joshel in our life for a week.

Like, I missed them. I missed the bills. I missed them big time. I like the Bills. Yeah. Giants, Bengals pass. Giants are going to kill him.

I don't know if Giants. I don't know I'm OK with the Giants schedule.

Real quick, this is the ultimate game that that reminds me that I have no idea what's going on in the NFL because obviously the Giants should kill them, right? They will. Everyone thinks they're going to win. They will. I'm going to Zach. They will. All right. Giants Bengals is so. Yeah, they're going to know. They're going to kill them. They're going to kill Titans.

Colts, titans.

Yeah. Billy All right. There we go. Titans, Colts, Titans. I don't know the Colts. Good Titans got momentum. Are the Colts good? Their defense is good. I keep your offensive line is good when they're not being called for holy.

There's no chance that the refs come out and call as many holds as they did last week.

Yeah, it's just impossible. It's impossible for that point. Good point. Good point.

Yeah. I don't know if the the Colts I just can't like measure the Colts won the Super Bowl. I mean, they, they could we've talked about this. It could man up the chiefs. This is the part of the season to wear kind of socks when you get like two bad teams going against each other, like, what's the point? Panthers, Vikings. Like, what's the point? No point. No whatsoever.

What's point Kardos Patriots think, what's the point? Yeah, I think the Patriots are going to finish the stretch by going back and forth of like, oh, look at the Patriots. Oh, they stink. So they'll win this game. Yeah, I agree with that, that kind of deal.

I also think that Belichick is really good against teams that historically have sucked. Yes. I'm always going to look at the Cardinals franchises. Oh, they'll always stink. Yeah. There's no chance that they can beat Bill Belichick at home. Yes.

Yes. No, there's absolutely I mean, the Dolphins, Jets, next game, dolphins. I can't stop looking at the dolphins.

I mean, like, easy win, easy win and thinking like easy win. But they're not they're good. What is going to happen with Touya? What is going to happen to like you got to start Fitzy here for the revenge game factor.

Flores admitted that Tuart got benched because he sucked. So now what happens if two asks again, what's the altitude in New Jersey, in the Meadowlands Sea level? It's a swamp, right? So it might even be below sea level. Yes, it is this level.

That's where Jimmy Hoffa's bodies buried. You ask for the altitude. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're right.

Thank you. I was I was genuinely curious of what the Meadowlands altitude was. And you answered. So I'm going to go with you. I don't care if it's if it's to or if it's finci. It's the dolphins. Yeah, it's a dolphin.

That's actually a pretty good way to sum up how I feel about the Dolphins this season. Yeah, it doesn't matter who's playing quarterback, it's the Dolphins.

It's the I'm going with toss money for the Dolphins right now.

Oh, don't say that. You've got to make loud. You guys made an awkward, like dolphin sound on every show. No, it was it was dolphins getting water you to get up here.

Sucks because that would suck. Sounds like what kind of you who are you having sex with, Jake. You have sex with dolphins. No.

Addicted to dolphin fucking there is that guy.

Remember that guy. He fucked over the dolphin killed. So.

Yeah, well that's hard. All part of my take. You should know that, Billy. You're an animal guy. You're an animal fucker.

Well, well, he only knows, like three facts.

Did the dolphin kill itself or was his blowhole just structured for a prolonged period of time? No logit jumped out. I'm just saying they've come a long way podcast's compared to what they have. No, we like the dolphins now. Yes, we do like dolphins and brown jaguars. Is Minshew back?

I don't think so. This is another game. This is so the Raiders and the Browns have a you better win and win convincingly type of games. That that's the only way I'm gonna start being like, OK, these are teams that are going to make the playoffs and make noise.

OK, I'm looking up the Jacksonville weather forecast for this weekend. It's going to be thirty two degrees and sunny in Jacksonville. Thirty two. No, I'm just making that up.

Damn well know that happens every now and then everyone freaks out. The ten day weather forecast tells me that on Sunday it's going to be seventy three, but it's going to be rainy. So it might be fucked up weather. Yes. If it's fucked up weather then yes, the Browns are going to win.

And I just read that like all the Jacksonville Jaguars defensive staff all has Coco o the coco just keeps fucking following us around.

All right. Forty Niners Rams. This is a sneaky forty Niners game. All right. The Forty Niners, we put that team into the like it could happen was that the cat has like maybe, maybe, maybe forty Niners.

I'm never going to count out Shanahan.

Yeah, no.

And I and remember we had the fact from earlier this year that Kyle Shannon and Sean McVay are like best friends, but they don't speak football to each other because they're afraid that one of the other ones is going to steal their thoughts.

And this is a game where where McVeigh is going to think back and his photographic memory to all the weird stuff that Kyle's done to him in the past. But Kyle lives in the future. Yeah, I was going to be like, I'm going to do some new weird shit to him that he hasn't remembered yet.

Saints, Broncos. I'm excited for this game because I feel like John Elway is going to watch Taysom Hill and try to offer him 500 million dollars after this.

It's everything that he had wanted Tim Tebow to ever be. Taysom Hill is the version 2.0 of Tim Tebow. Yes, he's got he's better at running the football. He's a more accurate passer. He's more Christian than him because he's a Mormon, which is like, boom, I'm super Christian. I'm even stepping up on your virginity.

Yeah, I think the Taysom Hill is going to he's going to make a lot of people in Denver long for the days of Tim Tebow.

Yeah, I really think that John Elway is going to look at that back. I want that. Huh? I'll give him everything. Maybe kidnap them. Chiefs Box can be an awesome game. I have a stat for everyone who's trying to beat this game.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers first half overs are twenty one, four and one since last year. OK, first half overs. I'm going to take the bucks plus three.

I'm going to take the chiefs because the said I'm looking at has ninety percent of the public on the chiefs.

I don't know whether or not it's early. It's too early in the week, early week. And everyone is remembering what they saw last night. Yeah, I mean, it's not bad though.

I feel like I've seen the Bucs win 100 games this year in the four o'clock hour. That's yes. That's just what they do.

Just when afternoon games, not at night. And then finally, Andy Reid after Thanksgiving to. Yes, he's going to have some discomfort.

Abdominal bears, packers. I don't you said a couple of days ago that the Bears are going to win this game. Now, you can't backtrack on that.

No, I think I'll get I'll get up for it. I'll think they're going to win this game. When I wake up on Sunday morning. I just it's it's very sad and very apropos of the state of the Chicago Bears offense that they've released the line.

And we don't know who the Bears quarterback is. It could be literally could literally be Nick Foles, Michalowski or Tyler Break.

And Vegas is like they all suck. What happened to Deshaun Kizer? Know I saw it.

But anytime your team brings in Deshaun Kizer for work out that bad, that's a good sign that you should just kill yourself.

Yeah, it's bad. It's bad. It's bad. Everything sucks. Don't actually use the holidays. Don't actually do that.

Yeah, but that's how. Talk about that, is that those DaShawn? But how sad is that, that those three quarterbacks are like, yep, awesome, awesome. Yeah, I mean, is there any, like, little part of the back of your brain that's like what is a little look like?

I'm just saying I don't root for injuries, and that's all I'm saying.

OK, I agree with you. I also don't root for Shay. McClellan is somewhere that wants to put on the pads. He's more than welcome to come and put on the pads. Don't root for injuries on the record. I do not root for injuries.

I'm just saying they have to watch them. No one should come out of bears in primetime. Again, it's so painful. It's like no one wants to. Sure you don't even want to see. No, dude, I want them so embarrassing. I wish their games were it were at fucking 3:00 in the morning.

Yeah. Honestly I wish on pay per view just to opt in to subject yourself.

I wish you would wake up on Sunday morning break up. The bears played already. They haven't scored. OK, cool. Bye. That's it. That's it. They're just they're such a bad bad team. Bad franchise. Fuck man, it sucks. They're going to win on Sunday though. All right. Before we do guys on chicks and send you off to Thanksgiving, fuck you. Your boss right now who's listening to this walk. So here we go.

So turn it up. Walk on by. It is Friday, November twenty seventh. And everybody with a good family man of a boss or family woman of a boss is enjoying time with their loved ones. Not at fucking work.

Yeah. If your boss is such a fucking prick, we're in the middle of a pandemic and your fucking boss was like, hey, I'm going to make everyone come in on Friday after Thanksgiving. How about twenty twenty sucks so bad. Give the people one day off you motherfucking piece of shit boss. You know what sucks is that your boss is so incompetent that they need their employees to come in to save their ass and bail them out for not hitting their numbers in all of twenty twenty.

And they choose to make you do that on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Yes, that's just disgraceful.

Yes. You know what it is? It's un-American. Yeah. So hey buddy. You Yeah. Yeah. We're talking to you were literally talking to you.

You're the boss. Suck my dick. Go fuck yourself. All right. Extra credit for anyone else who send us a video of them actually playing it for their boss. Maybe their boss is also AWOL. Yeah. So, yeah, it would be great. I'd be funny if you're an AWOL, why aren't you giving your employees off. Yeah, but but if you if you're an AWOL who's just trying to you know, maybe you're maybe you are the cool boss.

Yeah. Maybe you're a Rockefeller. You're just really trying to squeeze the last dollar out of the capital.

Capitalism credit to you. Dude, that's actually a good move. And also sponsor. Sponsor part of my. Yeah. On the low. Good move. OK, now it also let's listen to listen to us motherfucker.

Now all employees turn your phones off real quick. Bosses only that are making your employees work. Give us some money to buy some merch.

Yeah. That actually was, you know, your boss move. You make those idiots work because you know what makes an awesome Christmas present? It's just been a little department. Take merchandise. Give me those. True Black Friday. Black Friday. Yeah. Awesome way to be good at business.

Mm hmm.

Well, that was I think the pope does, too, like like Instagram smashers, a big ass threatened to excommunicate from the perfect footies heart. Yeah. Perfect booty's. How about the NBA players meeting with the pope. Yeah. Teaching them how to learn all the tricks and trades.

Which ghostlike has got to go. Zero Dark Thirty. He got to have an Instagram account. Twenty three side of the Dems on that. All right, let's finish up. We got some guys on chicks.

Hey, Kat, comment hunk and William.

I have been dating this guy for a couple of months and after a date we were hooking up in his car. Nice. I ended up blowing him but didn't want to finish. I didn't want him to finish in my mouth. He said he was in pain because he almost came. But then and I wanted no part of it. So we proceeded to self complete in a grocery bag while I sat there silently. Is this normal? Our blue balls and things.

Sky stuff. Yeah. Jacket off into a Piggly Wiggly bag. Who among us has not had to do that? Yes.

Well, I mean driving either.

Just sitting there I hope he was driving and was like was like jacking off into a Walmart bag while driving an oversized condom. If you don't do it it falls off. So yeah you have to. Yeah.

Size. Would big cat fuck a turkey. Yes.

That's a good question from not a chick Billy. It is an animal. Yeah. Billy, you probably would. No I don't think so.

I got a question. This is a deep dive inside pets, mysteries, brains. Why don't we eat turkey eggs? Are there Turkey? Oh, yeah, they lay eggs and they're bigger than normal eggs, it's the perfect size for like one breakfast would be one turkey. They taste a little gamey.

So they I like to let them eat.

I know when you make a difference, you may have a different consistency here. You made that up. OK, that's fine. Good layers.

What do you mean? They don't they're not able to produce as much eggs. I still want to eat turkey eggs.

Hey, thick daddy. Hey, thick daddy. Cat, baby hunk. Leroy's best friend and Jake, long time listener. First time concern for my boyfriend. He recently got a new robot vacuum and continues to make obscene gestures and remarks regarding her ability to clean. My first concern was when he named it Red Velvet, his obsession over his favorite stripper name and continue to say, Oh, you're a dirty girl, aren't you? As it started to clean up our apartment for the first time after a couple of days of it cleaning our place, he stated he started to take care of it and clean it every day because her suck holes are so small and cute when they'll get tagged with the smallest load, he continuously says, Oh baby, you're so cute when you clean up that dust and you suck so well.

After hearing Billies talks about subadult hens and wanting to have sex with different animals, I've gained concern that my boyfriend is just as weird as him and wants to have robot sex with our vacuum. I keep a positive mind that he wouldn't want to have sex with a vacuum, but not once has he talked this dirty to me. I don't want to break up with him over this, but I do not know how to handle his attention about how weird, uncomfortable and honestly a little jealous.

This makes me feel.

It sounds like it looks a lot like a Legionnaire stadium, in which case I completely understand the fascination.

Just let let the guy do what he needs to do. What do you say this guy is screwed?

Because in one hundred years when robots become autonomous and start getting rights, then they're going look back to that moment and he can get like, fucked.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's true. I would say, like, they should be super nice to every robot. They'll figure it out because they'll remember watching that literally day of reckoning. Yes.

Shaft the robot, by the way, I think that there's a conspiracy theory out there for us to not eat turkey eggs because I'm reading I pulled up a website and it's like they have like seven reasons, which feels a little bit too much on thick here. Yeah, 16 to 17 pounds is a turkey egg. That's a big fucking egg. So it's like too big. There's no chance, like, the shells are really, really hard. Bowling ball.

That's what the average size of a turkey weight. No, that's a turkey. Yeah, that's a whole turkey. I was wrong on that. The they only have one hundred eggs a year, which is a third of how many chicken eggs. They also sit on their eggs a lot longer. So like they don't it's bred for chickens to just poop their eggs out, walk away. Yeah. Turkeys will fucking be territorial about their eggs. OK, so sit on those mothers.

It sounds to me like the most dangerous game, like it probably tastes better because it's so hard to get them right around. And then let's see, they're they're like they are right about he's right billies right about like the consistency in the weirdness of it. It's a little different. And then there's also feed concerns. So like what the turkey eats isn't cleared by the USDA. So you can eat the turkey itself but not the egg. Don't like I said, this guy's laying on thick.

Yeah. It sounds like this is was that written by a turkey turkey. Yes, by a big turkey.

You know it is. They use Obama.

No, they actually use so much to like fatten the turkeys up so they get big breasts. Yeah. A lot of more meat. Those sort of chemicals don't go through the cycle and then they end up in the egg and those chemicals are legal for us to eat.

OK, I actually was reading about this thing that they use to book the pigs because it might be a body-building agent. Yeah. And that's and it's illegal.

And all the other countries except the United States also meet its economy's thing where so turkey eggs are bigger. So it takes up more space like the entire operation takes up more space. They lay obviously less eggs over the year and then more meat from a ground turkey bird is much more valuable than an extra large Friday. Right. So to me, it just sounds like a problem of nobody's figured out how to how to get the eggs and make money off of it.

Well, because they don't lay enough. They may be late three hundred a year maybe, but they're like, hey, let's just keep making turkeys and killing those things. Now, I really want to eat turkey eggs because of everything this website has told me.

It sounds rare. It sounds dangerous. It sounds like like it's tough to get. It sounds like they've probably got more protein.

And Billy, because of the thickness of the game, minus ractopamine, ractopamine, OK, dangerous turkey eggs were on the omelets on turkey garments were on the menu of the famous Delmonico's restaurant, New York until the late eighteen hundreds.

We should be eating turkey eggs. Wow. But, Bill, you're right. Turkeys can't fuck because their breasts are too big.

They have only artificial insemination. Yeah. Wow. They're built. They're Vergence. They're a little nerd birds. All right. What else we got. Sorry, I just went down a really deep.

No, that's fascinating. Turkey.

Yeah, it's a turkey egg. Would cost like two or three dollars. Pop, which is obviously way too expensive for ostrich eggs. Yeah, those actually bang habari eggs.

Yeah, our last one, Big Kitty, Hank and Mr. Under thirty five. My boyfriend moved in with me and my family last May. Our bedroom is right next to the laundry room and every time my mom goes in there to do laundry, he wants to have sex. Is it a thing for guys who want to have sex, one when it's easy to get caught and two when their girlfriend's mom is around? I feel like he gets off on my mom's presence.

And that's low. Weird if you ask me.

I think he wants to fuck your mom. I think he wants to get caught. I know he wants I think he's been. Yeah, he's been watching the front page of you just he's been he's been liking Ted Cruz's tweets too much.

There's a whole generation of young males out there that I feel like are are too much into the stepfather's stepdaughter, a great stepmother. Agree that whole environment. Agreed, agreed, agreed. Big time. Agreed. All right. Is that our show? That is our show. So we are going to be off on Friday. We are going to be back, as always, on Monday for Sunday, you know, for football week twelve and have everyone have a great Thanksgiving I anything house.

Anything else.

Oh, numbers eight six nine eighteen. Happy Thanksgiving.

Eight to all of you. I don't think that's plugged in. Eighty one.

Eighty six. Eighty one. Eighty six. Oh, boy, oh, boy. Seventy two God, so I think this game sucks, we love you guys.

First timer, Denmark was going to kill all their mates because it might make a coronavirus vaccine, not work, because mix and also catch coronavirus and then the secretary and everything, they fired him. He stepped down because he was accused of killing all the minkes.

And it was a whole big thing.

Anyway, if they did do that, animal facts are dead.

Wait, you told me to research this last time. Can you still get a mink coat? Well, no, I'm thinking if they did it, Minkowski supercheap by one of them and then people from the warehouse and sell them. Describe a wonderful moment right then. Do you actually? But we have been for the best day of my life. I'll give you all my prizes. Let's go to Boasters. Let's go to David Buster's the first. Let's good, but we hope for the best day of my life.

I'll give you all my prizes. Let's go first. First, let's go to David. 13.