3/6/24 - The Mo Egger Show

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No one covers the Bengals like ESPN
fifteen to thirty, Cincinnati's sports station.
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Hey, what's up. Good afternoon
on Malegger. This is ESPN fifteen thirty.
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Thank you for listening today. I
hope we're having a marvelous Wednesday afternoon.
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Rick Brooring is going to be on
this show in forty minutes to talk
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XU and NKU basketball. We love
having Rick on. He joins us every
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Wednesday. It's March. Sayor plays
its last big East road game tonight.
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NKU starts a Horizon League tournament play
tomorrow on the road against Wright State.
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So Rick on all those things and
so much more coming up in forty minutes.
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Reds are playing two games this afternoon, one against the Brewers, another
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against the Padres. I will do
my very best to keep you up to
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date with both and more tight end
talk because there's something that I want from
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the Bengals tight end position. And
Joey Vado is posting memes on social media
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again. We have a key question
to ask lots of questions about last night's
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Bearcat game. Here's the first one. How do you foul a three point
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shooter four times and a half?
That's my basic question. Sorry for yelling.
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You should have heard the higher volume
version of that last night in my
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living room. A painful gut punch
for all intents and purposes. Season ending
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loss for UC last night. And
yes there is one more home game to
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go against West Virginia on Saturday,
and yes they will play in the Big
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twelve tournament, and yes postseason play
is still a possibility. Maybe U SEE
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is in the NIT, and if
they are, I hope they make a
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run. But if you are like
many of us and you went into last
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night thinking, okay, the door
is still open to the NCAA tournament,
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They're going to have to do a
lot of work, a lot of heavy
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lifting. It's going to be an
uphill battle. Right. Well, the
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loss last night extinguished, it feels
like for good those hopes, and those
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hopes were extinguished in scruciatingly familiar fashion. Another close loss, this one in
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overtime, Another game that could could
have been had, Another game where u
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SE was way too complicit in its
own demise. Where do you want to
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start? They get off to a
blistering start, right They made what eight
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of their first nine shots. It
was great, ball movement was awesome.
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They were getting good looks, they
could do whatever they wanted on offense,
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and you knew that wasn't gonna sustain, right, you knew they weren't gonna
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shoot that well. It's impossible,
would have been like a college basketball record
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had they shot eighty seven point five
percent of whatever it was that the first
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few minutes. But you're building a
lead, and yet you know, you
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know the other team at home is
gonna make a run. So let's let's
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do everything we can to build the
biggest possible lead before the other team gets
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going offensively. And during that stretch
where they could have pushed the lead to
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I don't know, maybe as many
as twenty points, maybe even more.
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During that stretch, u se started
turning the ball over a bunch. The
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final turnover total wasn't completely unforgivable.
They got better at taking care of the
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ball in the second half, but
there was a stretch of time where while
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they were making shots, they weren't
extending their lead to the extent they could
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have while Oklahoma couldn't get anything going
offensively because the Bearcats could not take care
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of the basketball. How many times
have we talked about that being a thing
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this season, Whether it be on
this show or other outlets. The starters
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shoot four for twenty five from behind
the arc. Gisel James went two for
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four. He came off the bench. The starters four for twenty five.
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You see as a team six for
twenty nine. That's twenty point seven percent
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from behind the arc. Now,
they've had games whe they've shot well from
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three Wes Miller talked back in November
about how good of an outside shooting team
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he thought this was going to be. And even good outside shooting teams have
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bad performances from behind the arc.
But how many times this year have we
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talked about UC shooting poorly from behind
the arc? They lose last night,
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and in part because of the bad
shooting, at least from behind the arc.
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They lose because they allow Oklahoma to
shoot thirty four free throws. Now,
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I don't think that officiating crew was
great last night. There were some
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missed calls. I'm an adult,
so I accept that those things are going
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to happen. I thought Gisel James
got hit and should have gone to the
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free throw line on Cincinnati's second to
last possession. But you put a team
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at the free throw line thirty four
times that's not bad officiating, it's bad
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defense. It's playing without intelligence.
And I legitimately don't know if you could
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find this. I briefly tried to
look this up this morning. They put
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Oklahoma at the free throw line for
three shots four times in the second half.
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In the history of college basketball,
hell, in the history of college
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basketball men and women, Hell,
in the history of organized basketball. How
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many times has a team gone to
the free throw line for three shots four
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times and a half It happened last
night. There were so many times where
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it felt like, you know,
cats are winning, cats are kind of
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in control. There maybe a stop
and a score and a stop and a
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score away from corralling the game,
being in control, not icing it,
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not being able to just you know, kill thirty seconds every time, but
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being in control of the game in
every single time, every single time,
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they would commit a foul four times
in the second half with a dude shooting
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a three. Twice the foul was
committed by the same player staggering. Just
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so we could talk about how unlucky
they are, we can talk about how
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their snake bit and we could focus
in on who didn't play last night,
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if you want to do that,
and you can yell and scream about officiating,
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Buddy, how about you not shooting, not foul a guy shooting a
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three, and if you do it, make it be an isolated thing,
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not the sort of thing that happens
four times that happened last night. Just
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staggering and so missed a couple of
miss a free throw at the end of
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regulation, dis HEAs Bandeigo, which
I had to be honest with you,
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when he went to the free throw
line, I'm like, buddy, just
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give me one. Okay. Free
Throw shooting has become at times this season
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and an issue. The Cats overall
were pretty good last night, They're not
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good at getting to the free throw
line. They shot just eleven. But
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how many times this year have we
talked about bad free throw shooting? And
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bad free throw shooting isn't just a
high percentage, but it's making them when
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you have to have them. Ziz
Bandego is in a spot where you make
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two very good chance win the game. He makes one, they go to
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overtime, they lose. It felt
like a similar script. It felt like
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a series of recurring themes. And
the frustrating thing for me is those things
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are indicative of a team that didn't
improve. We've said often the Bearcats are
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close, and I think they're close. I think they're I think they're this
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close to being able to break through, and maybe with similar collection of guys
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a year from now, we're talking
about how the payoff from all the pain
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of being close was a team that
one year from now is streaking toward the
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NCAA tournament. Maybe that's the case, and I hope it is, but
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for now it looks and feels and
sounds a lot like a team that hasn't
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improved because we're still talking about how
close they are. That is tip of
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the iceberg frustration. If you're a
fan, that is maddening and that doesn't
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bode well for how people are going
to look at the head coach. Here's
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Wes Miller with Dan and Terry after
the game last night. It's the difference
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in the game tonight. Yeah,
we couldn't. I thought we played a
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game, we put ourselves in position
to win on the road game we know
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we needed to win, and then
we just couldn't get the stops down the
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stretch. That's the truth of it. Yeah, we're hurting in there.
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Yeah, what's going on in the
locker room. I'm hurting all of us.
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That hurt. I know no other
way to say. You obviously,
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coach not following three point shooters.
It happened four times in the second half.
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It's got to be incredibly frustrating when
you do that, and obviously then
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the opponent takes advantage. Yeah,
it was very frustration, and you know,
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like we're in We're in March,
aren't we. So we had a
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problem found three point shooters all year. So it's not a problem with our
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team on the year, but we
had a problem down the stretch tonight finish
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in possessions, and a lot of
them were really good defensive possessions. Uh
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Wes on a seven hundred WLW with
Dan and Terry last night with a circus
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music in the background, he sounds
exasperated. If you're a Bearcat fan,
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I'm not sure how you're not exasperated. Look, man, I've talked a
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lot this season about how they're they're
they've been really good at standing to toe
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with Big twelve teams. I've talked
a lot about this season about how at
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various points it's felt like, despite
some losses, it's been a successful year.
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And I have felt that way,
and there's a part of me that
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still feels a lot of those same
things. But I don't think this team
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got better. It's March. Last
night was March fifth. March fifth,
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and you could say, well,
you know, shooting guys shooting three point
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shooters or fouling three point shooters wasn't
a recurring theme all season long. But
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shrinking the margin for error has been, and basketball iq has been, and
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not being able to close out games
has been, and not being able to
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extend leads has been, and not
taking care of the ball has been,
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and not making free throws has been, And so the themes have been the
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same, even if the specifics may
be changed from game to game. That
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is reflective of a team that did
improve, or if it did, it
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didn't improve enough. And so as
we talk about what's next, I think
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that hovers over the conversation now,
doesn't it? This team, I think
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easily the best of the last four
that you see is put on the floor,
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which goes back to John Brannon's final
season in the most difficult league that
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any of those teams have played in. It didn't really get better, and
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if it had, then a lot
of the things that we're still talking about
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would be things we haven't talked about
in weeks, including how close they are.
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You are welcome to chime in.
I don't have a specific question.
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All I can do is tell you
how I feel more than any other team
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when it comes to UC basketball,
it sometimes takes the form of a long
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winded rant, and I apologize if
that's what that sounded like, but that's
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where we are. Five one,
three, seven, four nine, fifteen
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thirty eight six six, seven oh
two three seven seven six, And the
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you know, the conversation, whether
it's today or next week or whenever you
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see is done playing, is very
quickly going to turn to well, how
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are things going to be better next
year? And things might be better next
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year. I things damn well better
be better next year. But regardless of
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how things are next year, I
think there's something inescapable about the climate that
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next year is going to play out
within. We'll get to that next on
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We uh, we're gonna have at least
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one poll question, maybe two.
We had a couple yesterday and was fun.
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We had a lot of fun yesterday. I asked kind of an open
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ended question on Twitter, which is
not something we've done during the show in
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a while, about our guy,
the NFL prospect who doesn't believe in space,
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well as for the sports equivalent of
the guy who doesn't believe in things
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like outer space. And I enjoyed
reading the responses to those. Also later
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on in the show, five thirty
three, I believe, Yes, five
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thirty three, we're giving away tickets
to go see Kevin Hart at the Andrew
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J. Brady Music Center Kevin Hart, and you're also if you win the
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tickets, you're welcome to take tearin
too that show, which is either going
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to be on the sixteenth or seventeenth
of March. The sixteenth show is sold
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out. There are tickets available for
the show in the seventeenth, but you
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can win them here at five thirty
three. Also, Rick Buring, later
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on, we're monitoring the Reds.
They're playing two games won against the Padres,
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one against the Brewers, Graham Asscraft
is starting one. Brandon Williamson the
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next season, like you see loses
last night, Okay, turn the page,
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what's next? Right? Like that's
I don't know that anybody's watching Saturday
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thinking about stuff like bracketology and bubble
Watch, And I don't think that that's
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gonna happen early next week in Kansas
City in the Big Twelve tournament. They're
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gonna have to go on quite a
tear in that event, which you know,
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let's be honest, just you've watched
them all season long, doesn't seem
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likely. They haven't won consecutive games
in two months. They haven't won consecutive
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games in the Big Twelve all season
long, And so now there's very much
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a hyper focus on what's next year
going to be, Like what's the composition
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of the roster? Are there players
who are going to leave? Are there
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players who are going to leave and
maybe leave not entirely on their own volition?
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Who are they going to bring in? Who from this year's team gets
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better? I certainly think it's fair
to say, okay, you're two of
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the Big Twelve. The standard can't
be that you just stood total till with
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Big twelve teams, like the idea
is to get to the NCAA tournaments.
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You see basketball, which for the
better part of three decades was an NCAA
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tournament mainstay, And maybe that happens, And there are a lot of reasons
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to think that it maybe could happen, or should happen, or will happen.
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But I think what's undeniable is next
season is going to play out under
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a climate unlike any we've seen in
quite a while. Because I certainly detect
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it, I feel it, I
share it, I hear it. There's
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going to be incredible fan in patience. And I'm not saying that impatience is
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undeserved. Part of the impatience is
based on look at it been, you
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know before Wescott here, Cincinnati didn't
make the tournament in twenty twenty one,
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There was no tournament in twenty twenty
you see. May have made it that
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year, may not have made it
that year. Well, we'll obviously never
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know. But fan impatience is going
to be a year four for the coach
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and it's you know, gonna be
another year lapsed since the Bearcats last played
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in an NCAA tournament, which obviously
most recently occurred when mc cronin was still
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the coach, which is now a
half decade ago, and so this is
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undeniable. This doesn't mean that anybody
is or should be on the hot seat,
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although you can certainly find people who
believe that Seed should be very hot.
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But next season is going to be
interesting because I'm not sure since twenty
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eleven the vibe of just fan impatience. Now, there are different types of
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college basketball fans, and don't take
this the wrong way, but they are.
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They're rank and file fans like you
and I. And then they're fans
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who can, well they could do
something about things they don't like because of
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either the power they wield, were
the nil dollars they control, or their
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willingness to pay for a buyout.
There are, in very plain terms,
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there are fans who matter more than
others. Most of us don't matter that
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much, let's be honest. There
are a handful who matter a whole lot.
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How impatient are they, I don't
know, but I do know just
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the environment, the vibe impatient man. And by the way, it's not
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just in patience with not making the
NCAA tournament. If if you're a Xavier
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fan, Please don't get mad at
me for saying this, but there's in
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patience with U See losing to Xavier. They haven't beaten Xavier since well Mick
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Cronin's last year, you see.
And so the environment or the climate,
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whichever word you want to use.
Next season is going to be one of
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just external pressure and I think less
patience with hearing about how close they are
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and a lot less patience with well, you know what, golly g they
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they could have won that game but
didn't, but they were closed like that's
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that Stuff's not gonna fly next season. Next season is gonna be based on
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are are the appropriate results being achieved? And that's in the regular season before
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they play a Big twelve team.
It's gonna be in the Big twelve,
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and it's gonna be obviously measured by
how well does U See make the NCAA
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tournament and to a degree maybe even
do they win once they get there.
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So, you know, I think
of next season and there's the roster ins
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and outs and the makeup of the
team and all of that, and what
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the coaching staff is going to look
like if there any change is there,
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and I all of those things will
play out frankly in the very early stages
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of the offseason. But but once
games start to happen in November of next
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year, I think it's gonna sound
and feel a lot different than it has
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in in quite a while, just
in terms of how this team is consumed
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and how this team is talked about. And that's just merely a reflection to
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the fact that it has been a
while, through a couple of different coaches,
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it has been a while since you
see basketball really felt like it mattered
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nationally. Be honest, being on
the bubble here or there doesn't feel like
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it matters all that much nationally,
and impatience is growing. I get the
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sense that in recent weeks it has
come to a head, and I don't
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think it's going to cool off between
now in November, and even if there
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are roster improvements, to me,
that's just only going to amplify the expectation
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that gets added to an incredible climate
of impatience. Your phone calls are coming
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up five point three, seven,
four nine, fifteen thirty eight six six
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seven zho two three seven seven six. We talked a lot yesterday about the
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old tight ends that the Bengals had
that are looking for jobs, and a
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lot of folks want to see the
Bengals go get one of those tight ends.
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I want one thing at tight end, one thing only look is that
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coming up in just a bit.
Updates on the Reds, Rick Brewing,
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some pole questions, a lot to
get to between now and six. It's
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three thirty on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati
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dot Com. Reds are playing a
couple of games split squad action, as
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we say, down there in Arizona
on the road against the San Diego Padres.
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Graham Ashcraft on the mount in this
one, he gave up a run
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of the first, but the Reds
do have a two to one lead over
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San Diego. Tyler Stevenson with a
two run homer in the top of the
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first inning. In Goodyear. Today, the Reds are playing the Brewers.
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That game is through two winnings Milwaukee
as a one nothing lead. Brandon Williamson
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on the mound for Cincinnati Milwaukee tagged
him for a run in the top of
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the first inning. We are twenty
two days away from opening Day and our
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opening day broadcast at Smoke Justice in
Covington. College basketball tonight. Xavier in
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a big East action taking on Butler
tonight in Indianapolis. That game at seven
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thirty this evening. You will hear
it live on seven hundred WLW. Musketeers
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obviously coming off the come from behind
victory over Georgetown, a terrific performance by
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des Claude. XU has won two
straight games. First matchup against Butler,
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Xavier played well. Won that game
by fourteen points at the Cintas Center.
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Also tonight on ESPN fifteen thirty,
Kentucky battling Vanderbilt. It saw mock draft
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Rob Dillingham. Rob Dillingham might be
my favorite player in college basketball this year.
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Mocked as the number three or number
as a third, the number three
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overall pick. I could not have
said that more clumsily. Who cares?
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Tonight They're playing Vanderbilt nine o'clock.
Also this evening, Indiana battles Michigan.
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You can find on the iHeartRadio app.
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Grill. If you missed Paul Danner
Junior yesterday on a whole bunch of Bengals
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issues, you can listen to yesterday's
conversation. We talked mostly about free agency,
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a little tiny bit on Joe Mixon, not so much on t Higgins,
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but a lot of free agency options
and possibilities of places like right tackle,
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safety and cornerback and defensive tackle.
It's going to be a really interesting
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next few weeks, and so Paul
and I tried to set the stage.
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He far more better than me on
a yesterday's show. And again, if
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you missed it, go listen to
it now iHeartRadio app or the podcast page
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of ESPN fifteen third. Let's talk
to folks who have been waiting on hold
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very patiently, PJ and Mason.
You're on ESPN fifteen thirty. How are
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you good? No? How are
you? I'm all right? What's up?
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So? I watched about half of
the first half last night on television,
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and I put Dan and Terry on
the radio when I got in bed,
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and Terry kept on saying this team
should be up twenty and then all
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of a sudden the lead is ten, the leads eight, the lead's four,
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and then it of you know,
comes in. I think they go
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into halftime with a one point lead, and I thought, here we go
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again. It's going to kind of
be the same script. And I just
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feel like that team. As much
as I like that team and I like
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Wes, they just don't have those
go to guys offensively that can put their
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foot on somebody's throat and seize the
moment and put the game out of reach
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correct And you know, when you're
on the road in the Big twelve,
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you got to be able to do
that. And you know, and I
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think my greater fear is and I
know you've talked about this on the show
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before, with the culture of nil
UH and the environment. You know,
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the teams that in the universities that
had the most money are going to get
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the best coaches and the best players
and keep the best players. And that's
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my real fear going forward is that, you know, are the days of
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you seeing Xavier going to the tournament
on a regular basis over? And And
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you know, I love UC.
I love Xavier too. I love local
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college basketball, and that that's my
bigger fear is that it's hard to build
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a culture culture now and keep players. And if you don't have the money,
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you know you're going to be you're
going to be in that hope we
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can get a couple of three star
recruits in and you know, see what
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happens. And so you know that. That's just kind of my pulse on
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things. Yeah, no, it's
it's all well put PJ, thank you.
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I I can't I can't disagree with
with any of that. First of
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all, As for the game last
night, it was got to got to
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eighteen to five at one point,
and I'm thinking, if they can just
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go in up ten at the half
and think about that, right, you
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know, you're up thirteen eight nine
minutes into the game, and the thinking
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should be, holy crap, can
they go in up seventeen eighteen nineteen points
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at halftime? And if so,
it's certainly not impossible for the other team
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to come back, but you feel
pretty damn good and instead you're simply hoping,
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look, let's just try to go
in up ten, right. That
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would mean you didn't totally melt down. There is just an inability of times
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to take advantage of what the other
team can't do, and an inability to
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stretch leads and an inability you know, you go back to the first time
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they play at Oklahoma. The Sooners
didn't score in the first four minutes and
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two or three seconds, the first
under, the first time out, the
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first media time out of the game. Right, Oklahoma had zero points,
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Bearcats were up four. And you
just watched that, and you go,
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this is going to catch up to
them. At halftime last night it was
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twenty eight to twenty seven. No, we're near indicative of how much first
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ruch they dominated the game. But
while Oklahoma was farting around on offense,
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Cincinnati was turning it over and keeping
the Sooners in the game. And you
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knew at some point you knew that
was going to catch up to him in
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terms of, you know, sustaining
success and building a culture. You know,
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it's it's really tough, man.
I mean, folks, folks don't
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want to hear it, like,
Okay, West has to do a better
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job recruiting. Okay, Well,
it's going to need the money to go
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buy the players. And let's just
call it that, right, let's be
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adults about it. We're paying and
buying players. I like it, don't
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I like the players getting paid.
But but I understand it creates challenges,
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especially at a place that you know, might might not have the resources of
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some of the schools that it's trying
to compete with. You know, the
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whole conversation about other days of UC
and Xavier making the tournament every single year
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over you know, I've I did
this on Monday Night on seven hundred WLW,
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and I'll use UC as a primary
example, but I think you could
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fold Xavier into the conversation. Before
nil in the portal. There was a
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stretch of twenty nine years where UC
made the tournament twenty three of them,
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fourteen straight from ninety two through two
thousand and five, and then nine straight
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from twenty eleven through twenty nineteen.
Twenty three years. That's really damn good,
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and I think for a lot of
folks it was taken for granted going
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to the tournament every single year in
those twenty three years. Twenty of those
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years, you see was either in
the Great Midwest Conference USA or the American
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Athletic Conference. Now, when the
Big East blew up and you see ended
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up leaving it. The Bearcats had
made the NCAA's three consecutive times, but
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they were going every year in leagues
that were nowhere close to the best in
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the sport. Xavier joins the Big
East. Musketeers make it in the first
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five years, including once as a
two seed and once as a one seed,
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and the Big East has been great
for XU and the Big East during
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that time, gave us a couple
of national champions in two Villanova teams.
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Don't get mad at me for saying
this, that Big East, not the
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old Big East, and I would
say not the Big East now. The
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majority of that stretch when Xavier was
an NCAA perennial came when they were playing
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in leagues that aren't as good as
the league that Xavier is in right now.
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So consider that, first, those
schools are in just better, more
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competitive leagues than they've ever been,
where it's going to be more difficult to
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go to the tournament every single year. Then you add to it stuff like
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the portal and n I l like
you watch Gigsel James right now. Gigsel
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James was terrific last night and came
close to being a go to guy or
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a guy that could close the games
they've had all season long. If you're
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a bear Cat, fan. You're
looking at him going, Okay, well
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he's not an NBA guy, but
is somebody gonna throw coin at him and
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he's just gonna jump instantly. Like
that's the climate that this that this sport
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is in, that that that this
these coaches have to work within. But
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but you know what, that's that's
the job right now. Like it just
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it is. I heard J Billis
said this, say this a week or
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so ago, when when coaches are
complaining about the portal and nil, they're
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just making excuses. This is the
job. You either choose the job or
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you choose to go find another profession, you know, Like but people who
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just constantly complain about their jobs.
For me, it goes in one and
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out the other. You're making excuses. And so this is the climate.
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It's not changing. We're not getting
rid of the portal and we're not getting
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rid of at IL, nor should
we. So it's it's going to be
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a test for some of these coaches, and it's going to be a test
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for you know, certain levels of
college basketball. It is. But but
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you know what, if you decide
you can't compete in this environment, you
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shouldn't have moved to the big twelve. And if you decide you can't compete
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in this environment, then you should
go do something else. But it's a
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challenge. I'll certainly grant you that, uh, Dan, Sam and Mike
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plus room for five one, three, seven, four nine, fifteen,
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thirty eight sixty six, seven oh
two three seven seven six. I did
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read the Jason Williams piece on John
Brandon. I thought there was an interesting
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quote in that story. We'll get
to that in the four o'clock hour as
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well the latest from Arizona and what
I want from the Bengals tight end position.
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But first, Rick Broring joins us
to talk x U and n KU
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next ESPN fifteen thirty. Which players
will come love it? Which players will
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go? All? Right? Here
at least us to look at the free
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agent frenzy brought to you by plumb
tight plumbing, heating, cooling and dreams
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and Cincinnati asphalt. No, here's
Moegger. Despite getting the terrific season out
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of Trey Hendrickson, the Bengals pass
rush in twenty twenty three left a lot
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to be desired. Cincinnati finished in
the middle of the pack in sacks to
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put more pressure on quarterbacks. In
twenty twenty four. Cincinnati will need more
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production from Joseph Osai and last year's
first round pick, edge rusher Miles Murphy,
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but the Bengals could look to free
agency to add some veteran depth on
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the end of the defensive line.
For more on the free agent French you
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keep it here on ESPN fifteen thirty, the official home of the Bengals Adres
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And they're losing the other game one
nothing that's to the Brewers. You have
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a question, I have an answer. I have questions for Rick Boring Musketeer
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Report dot com and also color analyst
on the NKU radio broadcast. You'll hear
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them tomorrow night as the Norse gets
set to take on Wright State in a
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rematch of a game this past weekend. That game up north in Fairborne and
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the quarterfinal round of the Horizon League
Tournament. He is also part of the
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Skinny Podcast, and he's on Twitter
at Rick Broing Xavier getting set to take
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on Butler in the aftermath of their
come from behind win over Georgetown in DC
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on Saturday night. Hi, Rick, No, it's March that it is
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and I'm happy, are you?
Likewise? Nothing better? Nothing better?
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When March comes around, people start
looking at different websites that project bracket projections.
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Right, are you familiar with the
Barking Crow The Barking Crow? I
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am not, but the Barking Crow
Bracketology. The Barkingcrow dot com is a
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bracketology website devoted specifically and solely to
the NIT. The Barking Crow is who
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is your favorite bracketologist? I know
you hate Joel Nardi. Who is your
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favorite bracketologist? Well, it's very
simple. It's twenty twenty four. We
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have the bracket matrix where they take
all of the bracketology, put them all
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together and give you like an average
of everything, and it makes it obviously
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the best solution of the problems.
I don't know why anyone cites anything but
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that, Okay, I couldn't agree
more, but I was just for the
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sake of the audience trying to use
an example. So it could be Jerry
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Palm, or it could be Mike
de COURSI. These guys are NCAA tournament
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bracketologists. The Barking Crow is the
bracketology website for the NIT. The Barking
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Crow has Xavier as a four seed
in the NIT. Do you think the
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Musketeers will accept an nit birth if
they don't win the Biggiest tournament. Well,
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I'm looking at the Barkingcrow dot com
right now as we speak MO,
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and it appears that these articles are
written by a guy. And I don't
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know if this is real name,
but he goes by the pen name at
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least if not Joe Stuinardi. Kack
of a coincidence if that's his real name,
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I'm not kidding you. Oh,
I know, I'm looking at it
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right now. It's one of my
favorite websites. Yeah, you might want
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to check the viruses on your computer
after after you get off of their furst
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Barking Crow merchandise. You can buy
a Barking Crow T shirt. I think
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that might be a scam as well. Do not give them your credit card
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number. I would not recommend that. But back to your original question,
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I would say, if I'm one
of those teams, be it Xavier or
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Cincinnati, the climate of college basketball
has changed significantly, and if you're not
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in a position where you're pretty sure
about what your roster is going to look
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like next year, or you're in
the NCAA tournament, you're having a really
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successful year already, then I don't
see how you can do anything but take
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all your focus and put it on
the transfer portal. And the transfer portal
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opens up the day after selection Sunday
on that Monday. I don't know why
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you would waste your time with a
meaningless tournament like the NIT that's losing meaning
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by the day with the way they're
handling its new directions. So if it's
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me, I would not accept.
I can't tell you what Zavier will do.
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Yeah, so you sort of want
the direction I was hoping to go
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in, because you're right in this
day and age, and for what it's
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worth, if you haven't gone to
the Barkingcrow dot com, they also have
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uc as a two seed right now, and the Barking Crow updates every single
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day, so these are up to
the minute projections. But in this climate,
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I thought this last year, you
see won a couple of games in
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the NIIT and I thought to myself, that's nice, but oh boy,
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it'd be kind of cool if we
can get a jumpstart on what's going on
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next year, right, And so
you know, I wanted them to win.
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I expected the coaches to try to
win, I expected the players to
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try to win. But for me, at least there was a genuine sense
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of like, all right, portal
time, let's go. And I've really
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got to think if you're Sean Miller
and his staff, if you're anybody sort
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of positioned in a similar set of
circumstances, that, boy, the benefits
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of being able to get a jump
start on what's next outweigh playing more basketball
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games and a tournament that doesn't any
doesn't come close to having the prestige that
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it used to, no doubt.
And I think you know, a lot
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of fans may look at that and
say, well, can't the coaches do
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both? Can't they prepare them their
team or really not do much preparing,
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but just get ready for a couple
of games that you're going to play in
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a tournament while also looking at the
transfer portal. And the answer is,
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yeah, I think they can.
But here's one of the other factors that
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you don't know, Mo. There
might be someone on your team that you're
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expecting back for next year that as
soon as your season ends is going to
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enter the portal and you're not ready
for it. So like if you delay
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that by a week or two,
you just cost yourself two more weeks in
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the transfer portal that you could have
been searching for a replacement for that guy.
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And I mean, you'd like to
think you have a good feel for
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what your players are going to do. But this day and age with nil
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and you have to give them what
they expect for the following season. I
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think everything is up in the air, and it's best to just get all
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your ducks in a row and get
to the transfer portal as quickly as possible.
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I was thrilled for des Claude on
Saturday. That is a Georgetown team
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that they've now struggled to beat twice, came back and beat him here back
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in January, and then on a
night where it felt like they had no
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answers for Georgetown, they come back
and win, and they do it in
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large part because they shot forty six
free throws. But des Claude was awesome.
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This has been a season where he's
been talked about a bunch and sometimes
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sometimes fairly criticized, sometimes as his
usual unfairly maligned. I thought it was
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awesome for for him to have the
game that he had against the Hoyas.
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Yeah, it was. I mean, he played really well and he's taken
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a lot of unfair criticism, and
I think, you know, we've talked
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about him a lot, even on
these segments that we've done, and I
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feel like I've tried to stay pretty
consistent throughout the year of saying Desmond Claude
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is a good player who's having a
good sophomore season. He's made a nice
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jump from his freshman year. He's
also in a lot of games he hasn't
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been enough for what Xavier needed to
win those games. He hasn't made that
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jump to start them in the Big
East, to put them over a top
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on a team that has no front
court production and some other deficiencies. So,
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I mean, there can be multiple
things that are true about des Claude.
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And you know, unfortunately, in
this day and age, it's like
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Desmond Claude was ready to be shipped
off to another team a week ago,
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and then he scored thirty six points
against Georgetown, and now the people who
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are backing him are dunk you know
on those people that wanted to ship them
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off, And it's like, guys, I mean, in reality, this
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was Desmond club playing a bit differently
than he has in a lot of games.
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He was thirteen of nineteen from two
point range. He only attempted one
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three pointer. I think the fact
that he wasn't settling for as many tough
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jump shots, and he was being
very forceful about attacking the basket, which
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is something his critics have been arguing
for and wanting him to do more of,
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was a big reason he scored thirty
six points and had such a great
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second half. So, you know, I think there's a lot more nuance
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to the desk Cloud conversation than has
been allowed for online for most of the
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year. All Right, nku's at
wright stage. They lose to the Raiders
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on Saturday, handicapped their chances in
the Horizon League tournament. Well, I
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think the Horizon League tournament is so
wide open. First of all, I
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kind of got laughed at last week
when I was doing an interview and I
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said, I think there are eight
teams with a legitimate chance of winning the
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thing. And when I say legitimate, I mean they'd win it, and
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I wouldn't be completely shocked by it. Now, I think that, you
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know, the top four five seeds
are the teams with the best chance of
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winning. But as you saw in
the first nights of the tournament that it
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was all chalk. I mean because
the top eight are very clear. In
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this team, there are bottom three, and then the other eight have been
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beating up on each other a bit
throughout the year. So I think nk
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Used chances are probably not quite as
good as the teams at the very top
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because they've suffered so much injuries,
with so so many injuries, with Sam
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Vincent going down for the year,
and right now they've been playing without their
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starting center key and a teaser.
Right now, he is day to day.
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They've been holding him out in hopes
that he might be ready for the
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riise In League tournament. I have
no idea if they'll be playing in tomorrow
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night's game or not, but if
he is, that's obviously a big boost
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for the Norse and that would help
their chances of making a run in the
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Risen League tournament. But to answer
your question, not very well, I'd
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say I wouldn't make them the favorite, but they're not far off that top
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two teams I was, so it
wouldn't be far fetch to suggest they could
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win this event. Again, I
would think so, And actually I was
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talking to another Division one coach who
actually isn't in the Horizon League. It
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was just interested in the tournament,
and he was texing me. You was
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saying, whoever wins the game on
Thursday at Wright State, whether it's NKU
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or Wright State, in his opinion, becomes the favorite to win the conference
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tournament. And the biggest reason for
that is because both of those teams have
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been here. They've they've been to
Indianapolis for the semi finals and finals pretty
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much every year of the last four
seasons, five seasons, whatever it's been.
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And you know, they have the
comfortability and the experience factor that makes
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the difference this time of the year. And there's other teams that are in
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that position and buying for those spots
have not been there yet, and they're
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doing it with a new cast of
characters and in some cases new coaches.
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Are the semifinals and finals still at
that dump and Indy Oh, it's it's
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horrendous. Yeah, farmer's life,
Colise, it's the worst. It's on
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the State Fair rounds. Does would
your son the Barking Crow merchandise site.
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They have children's where I we're not
buying my son an it stuff, mo,
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please, it's not n T stuff. It's for the website. The
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Barking Crow. I'll buy it.
I never got you a baby shower gift.
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Maybe I'll buy it for him.
Why don't you put him in an
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argyle sweater, vest, bow tie
and some thick rimmed glasses so he just
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gets beat up at school? I
mean put him me in N bracketology merchandise.
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Come on, how years away from
going to school, he's gonna be
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fine. Well, I don't want
him to get beat up in the sandbox
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either, Fair Concern, have a
great call tomorrow man. Thanks so much.
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Thank you, though, Rick Browing
Musketeer Report dot com and one more
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time. The website if you're interested
in N bracketology is the Barking Crow dot
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com. Four o'clock, ESPN fifteen
thirty. I'm Christine Leacy. Even though
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quarterback Russell Wilson doesn't officially become a
free agent until after his release once the
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new league year starts next Wednesday,
Denver has given him permission to begin speaking
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a meeting with other teams in their
home cities, reports the ESPN's Adam Schefter.
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Wilson's role at his next stop will
be very different, ESPN NFL analyst
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Lewis Riddick. He's a stop gap
starter, is what he is right.
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Now. Look, he's a mid
level starter. Could he be a top
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half thrower in terms of two BR
completion percentage above expectation passer rating, Yeah,
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he could be a top half meaning
sixteen or higher. Yeah, he
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think he could be. Is he
gonna still be that guy who is going
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to be a consistent top ten thrower
in all advanced metrics? No, he's
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not gonna be. As the Bills
make moves to get under this salary cap,
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they are releasing a key member of
their defense, captain safety Jordan Poyer.
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He and safety Micah Hyde, mainstays
in Buffalo's secondary since signing there in
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twenty seventeen, started ninety three games
together in that span. Hyde said to
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become a free agent next week.
He is considering retirement. Commanders reached a
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one year deal with Zach Ertz filling
in need at tight end. Ty's your
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residents super Bowl chap Chris Kennedy coming
on Thursday. I'll tell you the one
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free agent that your team's side if
they want to be serious Super Bowl contenders.
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It's on Sports. We're like six
am Eastern right here on ESPN Radio,
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ESPN two and ESPN You Hey,
what's up good afternoons. My name
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is Moagar. This is ESPN fifteen
thirty. Appreciate you listening today. I
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believe, Yes, we are are. We're guest free the rest of the
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day. That leaves plenty of time
for you and I. I just sent
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out a poll question on Twitter at
Moegar thanks to our friends at Baxleat Tractor.
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Reds are playing a couple of games. Two games right now. They're
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on the road against the Padres.
Tyler Stevenson is homeward, Stuart Fairchild is
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homeward, Edwin Christian and kronasi on
Strand has homeward for the Reds. That's
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three. That's three players each hitting
their second home run of the Cactus League
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season and behind Graham Ashcraft at Red's
lead five to two as they bet in
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the top of the fourth inning.
In the other game, they're in Goodyear,
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they trail the Brewers by a score
of one nothing. Brandon Williamson for
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pretty solid innings, gave up a
run, struck out for Brent Souter on
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the mound. Now for Cincinnati,
I want to spend a few minutes on
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a few different things. There's there's
Matthew Berry writing about Joe Mixon, which
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is trending right now on the aforementioned
app Twitter. There's there's Joe Evado,
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who he can't stop talking about because
he keeps sending out memes. And there's
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an article, a piece in The
Inquiry Today by Jason Williams. I think
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this actually came out last night,
and it's about John Brandon, the former
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UC and NKU head coach who wants
back in the game. And I certainly
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don't think there's any reason why John
Brandon should he not pursue a coach and
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I don't see any reason why he
shouldn't be considered for a coaching gig,
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and I hope he gets one.
But there's there's a there's a piece in
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there that I think is is kind
of interesting. Uh, And we're gonna
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get to that coming up in about
twenty five minutes. Before we do any
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of that, we are going to
violate the rules of sports talk radio and
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do the first segment of the hour
by taking phone calls five one, three,
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seven, four, nine, fifteen
thirty. We've been heavy on college
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basketball today in the aftermath of last
night's UCE loss, which felt so painfully
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familiar and which was so painfully familiar. It wasn't just how it felt,
614
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that was the way the game was
played. I'm willing to bet this.
615
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And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I you would have to do
616
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an amount of research that I'm too
lazy to do. I would be willing
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to bet. Let's just say,
I won't even go in the history of
618
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men's college basketball, just say this
century, there hasn't been a team that
619
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has gone to the free throw line
for three free throws four times in a
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half of one game. I'm I'm
gonna go out. I'm not even going
621
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out on a limb. I've been
watching college basketball for for forty years.
622
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I have never seen that happen.
I don't know that I've seen a team
623
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go to the free throw line for
three free throws three times and a half.
624
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I'm not sure I've seen it happen
three times in a game, much
625
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less four, and like not even
like one happened in the first minute of
626
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the half, and the other happened
in the last minute of the half.
627
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That all happened like within ten minutes
of each other, and they were all
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good calls, my numbingly bad like
that. That's the game right there.
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There are lots of other stuff that
happened. Obviously, overtime played out the
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way it did. The turnovers in
the first half, that's the game.
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We can't go back in time,
and so you have no way of proving
632
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me wrong. But if, hell
if they don't commit two of those fouls,
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they win the game. Frustrating beyond
belief. Let's see here, Dan,
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You're on ESPN fifteen thirty. What's
up, Hey, Mo, it's
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been a while. Good thing.
I gotta get drive home from work.
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Hey, So, you know,
I have a question for you. Did
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you do the Houston game? Were
you in Houston when they played? Uh?
638
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No, I was not. So. Something I noticed about this team
639
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is a lot of their scoring I
feel like is created off of creativity,
640
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either on fast breaks kind of down
low, you know, freebounds or day
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to day or jal you know,
crossing somebody up and you know, making
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ad range jumper. I feel like
their offense is very stagnant, and you
643
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know, they just passed the ball
around the three point line. And I've
644
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been saying that for games now,
like for a while. And uh,
645
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Terry Nelson, I was we was
on the way to take my boy to
646
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his game. He had a late
night game that day that night, and
647
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Terry Nelson took the words right out
of my mouth. He says, I
648
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:19.039
don't understand this offense. Uh,
they just like seem to pass it around
649
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the three point line. Houston does
the same thing, but they're doing like
650
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uh you know, satin screens and
courls and and all this other stuff.
651
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And uh that that says a lot
to me coaching wise. That if if
652
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a guy like me, a average
viewer, you know, uh, seeing
653
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that and then I hear it from
a guy that played the game, Uh,
654
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that tells me a lot of things
about what I think the coaches of
655
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the coaching ability. And then I
want I wanted to talk about that.
656
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And then uh, you know I
seen something. Uh it was like last
657
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week about his buyout. His buyout
for like next year twenty twenty five is
658
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like thirteen million. So as a
university that I think has become a football
659
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school here recently, but we're traditionally
historically like a top ten, top fifteen
660
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basketball program. Where do you put
your marbles? Where's the bread going?
661
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Is it going to football or is
it going to basketball? Because I don't
662
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think they can do both with the
nil and I get tired of fans.
663
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You see fans in particular talking about, well, he needs to get his
664
00:49:34.679 --> 00:49:37.320
players, he needs trying to get
his players. But to me, that's
665
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not a thing anymore. In the
days of the transfer portal and college basketball
666
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is different than college football. You
can have income and freshmen that play right
667
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away. You see Jesus names if
you get these top ten topic. I
668
00:49:54.519 --> 00:49:59.360
know he was in the running for
Isaiah Kyller. He went to USC that
669
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had the guy out of Fort Wayne, the center they were trying to get.
670
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I think he committed to Kansas that
these guys are game changers, that
671
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you can get them. Uh.
But I'm not really sold on West.
672
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He spent ten years at UH was
that UNC Greensboro, and I think he
673
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had like a five seventy, like
a five seventy winning percentage in those ten
674
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years. I know everybody says,
well, he took over a bad program.
675
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I don't know. I'm not I'm
not a West Miller guy. Maybe,
676
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but he's got to make the tournament
next year. Like you said,
677
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all hack's going to break loose.
Yeah. So so there's there's a lot
678
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there that you gave me. Let
me. Let me start with the buy
679
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on part. If you wanted to
buy out West Miller before March thirty first
680
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of this year, it would cost
fifteen point six million dollars. Yeah,
681
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that's the university don't have that money. I mean they probably do, but
682
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that's just crazy amount, you know, I think. I mean, do
683
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you do you want what do you
want to if you had fifteen point six
684
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million dollars, how do you want
to spend it? You want to paying
685
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a guy to not coach? Or
do you want to spend it elsewhere?
686
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So if that's the road, you
know, if you want to go,
687
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well, wait a minute, we'll
do it in a year. Okay,
688
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If you buy him out before March
thirty first, twenty twenty five, that's
689
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thirteen million dollars, it's less than
fifteen point six It's it's still a pretty
690
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:19.320
hefty nut. So, you know, any discussion about moving on from the
691
00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:22.920
coach is gonna have to include talk
of how you gonna how you're gonna buy
692
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him out, what are you gonna
do, where are you gonna get the
693
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:27.400
money, and what are you gonna
take from if you're gonna pay the money.
694
00:51:28.719 --> 00:51:30.760
I've said this about football and basketball
coaches. I think it's never been
695
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:36.480
more difficult to be in year one, whether you're a first time head coach
696
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:38.320
or a guy who's on his fifth
job, I think it's never been more
697
00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:43.599
difficult. I also think it's never
been easier to get things turned around quickly
698
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because of the portal and nil.
It's why I think there's some heat on
699
00:51:47.039 --> 00:51:51.760
Scott Sadderfield this year, right like
I gave him the biggest pass in the
700
00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:54.480
world for what happened this past season, because I think it's never been more
701
00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:58.480
difficult to come into a new place, and then you add to it the
702
00:51:58.519 --> 00:52:01.599
more difficult league. But we're not
doing four or five year plans anymore in
703
00:52:01.639 --> 00:52:06.679
this sport, so get it turned
around quickly. And I think with like,
704
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I think that this program is in
a better place today than it was
705
00:52:08.800 --> 00:52:13.800
when Wes Miller took the job.
I think he has added stability that was
706
00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:16.840
badly, badly needed. But at
some point your results have to show.
707
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I don't know that you have to
I don't know that you have to have
708
00:52:20.559 --> 00:52:23.199
success in one sport at the expense
of the other. But if you are
709
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going to make it an either or
proposition, I think every school in a
710
00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:30.480
Power five league with one or two
exceptions is going to say we're going to
711
00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:37.159
put our marbles in football because that
drives the bus in college sports because there
712
00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:39.880
are greater money making opportunities in that
sports. I am not of the belief
713
00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:44.719
that that would have to come at
the expense of basketball, but I do
714
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think having success in both has never
been more difficult at a place like UC
715
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because I do think the nil dollars
are somewhat limited. Yeah, so,
716
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I mean, I don't know.
I listen to the STARLI know. I
717
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think you said, like you you
feel like they have not gotten better throughout
718
00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:07.559
the season, and I think that's
the goal of the season, is to
719
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:10.360
get better than what you were at
the beginning. I just feel like they've
720
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sailed or stalled out or uh,
you know, they haven't gotten better.
721
00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:24.079
And I believe that comes down to
coaching. And one, I mean,
722
00:53:24.079 --> 00:53:28.280
we can't change what's happened, you
know with the higher. But like I
723
00:53:28.320 --> 00:53:34.039
feel like you see with this higher
and and maybe I'm jumping the gun that's
724
00:53:34.079 --> 00:53:38.159
got Saturday Field higher, Like you
got to go out like you like U
725
00:53:38.239 --> 00:53:42.159
c o A before they went and
got Cron and they were trying to get
726
00:53:42.199 --> 00:53:45.920
somebody that was known a Jamie Dixon
when he was at what TCU or pitt.
727
00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:53.239
Uh they were trying to get uh
they guy like from Tennessee. Who's
728
00:53:53.280 --> 00:54:00.239
the guy Rick Barnes. If you're
if you're a top ten perennial program,
729
00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:06.000
you got to go and get somebody
established. And that's the thing I have
730
00:54:06.119 --> 00:54:10.119
issues with is the brain and higher
Uh yeah, but I mean what's but
731
00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:14.119
but what? But what is?
What does established mean? Like? What
732
00:54:14.119 --> 00:54:19.480
what is what is a coaching where? Like was was Natoates established with NATO's
733
00:54:19.480 --> 00:54:22.440
team this year? Can't play defense? Was Natoates established? When the SEC
734
00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:25.719
last year? It came from Buffalo? I like what you're saying, but
735
00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:30.039
it was Chris Was Chris Mack established? He had never been a head coach
736
00:54:30.119 --> 00:54:35.400
before he went to Xavier. I
mean, you know, so like being
737
00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:38.079
established, I don't know, you
know there there have been a lot of
738
00:54:38.360 --> 00:54:42.320
quote established coaches going to you know, take a step up or make a
739
00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:45.119
lateral move and and fail. I
don't think it has to be I mean,
740
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first of all, an established coach, somebody like Jamie Dixon is going
741
00:54:49.239 --> 00:54:52.559
to cost a lot more money than
you see was paying college basketball coaches at
742
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:55.880
the time. Now things have changed. Wes Miller is being paid like a
743
00:54:55.880 --> 00:55:00.760
Big twelve coach. But I don't
think. I mean, look at UC's
744
00:55:00.800 --> 00:55:05.960
last two coaches that had success.
Bob Huggins came from Akron McK cronin came
745
00:55:05.960 --> 00:55:07.880
from Murray State. Well, I
mean they had been head coaches, but
746
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would you say they were established at
major programs? The answer is no,
747
00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:15.519
Dan, thank you. Yeah,
yeah, And you know I would say
748
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this about the offense. I mean, I thought offensively, they moved the
749
00:55:19.159 --> 00:55:23.280
ball great last night. There have
been times, a lot of times this
750
00:55:23.400 --> 00:55:28.360
year where what Dan said feels like
it's the case where a lot of thrawing
751
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:30.400
around the perimeter and they don't go
inside out as much as they should.
752
00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:36.599
Their bigs aren't great passers. But
I thought last night, I put this
753
00:55:36.679 --> 00:55:38.920
on Twitter. I think at some
point early in the second half, when
754
00:55:38.960 --> 00:55:44.599
they weren't turning it over, they
got great looks. That's the thing about
755
00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:49.639
last night. They shot twenty one
percent from behind the arc, maybe with
756
00:55:49.719 --> 00:55:52.880
one or two exceptions, it felt
like every single look was open. Now,
757
00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:57.559
some of those were a little bit
early in the shot clock, or
758
00:55:57.639 --> 00:56:00.760
maybe taken by a guy that you
would hope would get the to the rim.
759
00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:05.000
But they were good open looks.
They were you know, not late
760
00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:07.519
in the shot clock heaves. And
I have felt like offensively this year,
761
00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:13.960
that's that's I have felt like their
their biggest issue, aside from at times
762
00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:17.239
just there being an abundance of turnovers, has been the inability to make open
763
00:56:17.239 --> 00:56:22.159
shots. So when you're getting open
shots, I think the offense is working.
764
00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:30.000
Last night, I thought the offense
worked. But if you're ready to
765
00:56:30.039 --> 00:56:35.719
turn the page, it's like it
I hear from in every sport, Well,
766
00:56:36.039 --> 00:56:37.880
get a new coach? All right, how much money you kicking in?
767
00:56:38.440 --> 00:56:43.840
So if the answer to last night
is get a new coach, uh,
768
00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:46.519
we we're gonna have to get a
pretty big bucket to raise fifteen point
769
00:56:46.599 --> 00:56:54.199
six million dollars. It is nineteen
minutes after four o'clock. Quick thing here
770
00:56:54.239 --> 00:57:00.440
on the the Joe Mixon trending thing
today plus what we're looking for from a
771
00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:06.440
tight end and uh interesting quote from
John Brannon all coming up on ESPN fifteen
772
00:57:06.519 --> 00:57:10.880
thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. I have
a Twitter Paul question. Thanks to our
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00:57:10.880 --> 00:57:16.079
friends at Backsla Tractor, backslatractor dot
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774
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775
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grass this morning. I might be
mowing the lawn this weekend. But but
776
00:57:24.920 --> 00:57:28.920
you know, I went to baxslettractor, so I'm good to go before we
777
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get to spring. You know,
don't You don't want to be stuck with,
778
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Oh my god, I gotta cut
my grass? What do I do?
779
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Go to the backslattractor now and go
to Twitter and answer our poll question.
780
00:57:37.559 --> 00:57:40.360
It's it's about Joey Vado and his
memes about wishing the team would sign
781
00:57:40.440 --> 00:57:45.920
him. Are they a funny or
be sad? Right now? Fifty five
782
00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:49.440
percent of you say funny. I
agree. We'll spend some time on that
783
00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:54.639
a little bit later on. We
were having fun yesterday with the Bengals tight
784
00:57:54.719 --> 00:58:00.400
end topic. Bengals need tight ends
and plural right, need multiple tight ends.
785
00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:02.880
They don't have any right now under
contract. C j Uzama gets cut,
786
00:58:04.840 --> 00:58:08.360
Hayden Hurst gets cut. Guys who
are good players here. I'm I'm
787
00:58:08.360 --> 00:58:14.440
not that. I'm I'm not that
interested in either now. I'm also not
788
00:58:14.519 --> 00:58:17.840
gonna like go pick it outside of
the venue formerly known as Paul Brown Stadium.
789
00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:22.199
If if they sign one of those
guys, they need depth. You
790
00:58:22.239 --> 00:58:25.320
know, at face value, there's
nothing wrong with taking a flyer on on
791
00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:30.119
one of those players. They have
history in the organization, they know the
792
00:58:30.119 --> 00:58:34.159
the offense. There's chemistry with Joe
Burrow that you could tap into, and
793
00:58:34.239 --> 00:58:37.159
so you need multiple tight ends.
Chances are either guy, either one of
794
00:58:37.159 --> 00:58:44.239
those guys would be inexpensive, and
so I'm not excited about either. But
795
00:58:44.519 --> 00:58:46.719
I'm not gonna beat him up.
If they sign either guy, that's that's
796
00:58:46.760 --> 00:58:52.239
fine. I think it would be
interesting if cj Usama went to the Jets
797
00:58:52.280 --> 00:58:59.239
from the Tennessee Titans. Would people
be excited about him? If if Hayden
798
00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:02.599
Hurst had I had a quality season
two years ago with the Miami Dolphins,
799
00:59:02.599 --> 00:59:07.760
would people here be excited about him? Like we I have a former boss
800
00:59:07.800 --> 00:59:09.159
who used to say this all the
time. People don't know what they like.
801
00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:13.119
They like what they know, and
we know Hayden Hurst and we know
802
00:59:13.480 --> 00:59:17.000
cj Uzama. Here's what I know
about the Bengals tight end position. I
803
00:59:17.039 --> 00:59:22.920
want a guy who's an answer.
Like I look at the final four teams
804
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:27.719
playing in the NFL this past season. Those teams had answers at tight end.
805
00:59:27.320 --> 00:59:30.639
The Ravens had an answer at tight
end when their primary answer at tight
806
00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:36.840
end got hurt because I think Isaiah
likely is better than Mark Andrews. Now,
807
00:59:36.920 --> 00:59:38.400
you know, maybe you're not going
to go get a Travis Kelcey.
808
00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:45.000
Those dudes are unicorns. But I'm
I'm thirsting for like a legitimate answer at
809
00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:49.400
that. And by answer, I
don't mean somebody who is going to be,
810
00:59:49.480 --> 00:59:52.920
you know, catching ninety passes a
year, although that would be fine.
811
00:59:52.239 --> 00:59:55.760
I'm looking like, let's can we
stop talking about this position, which,
812
00:59:55.840 --> 01:00:00.960
let's be honest, we have been
talking about four ever. I mean,
813
01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:08.239
they used a one on Tyler Eifert
in twenty thirteen and that unfortunately really
814
01:00:08.239 --> 01:00:12.400
didn't work out. He had the
one really good year and he just couldn't
815
01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:15.039
stay healthy well prior to that.
For how many years had we been talking
816
01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:20.719
about looking for an answer at tight
end? I mean legitimately, I mean,
817
01:00:20.840 --> 01:00:24.320
as in my adult life. It
feels like the two things we've been
818
01:00:24.360 --> 01:00:30.920
looking for most are a Red's leadoff
hitter and a Bengals tight end. And
819
01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:35.679
so what they've done in recent years
is they've they've tried stopgaps and with different
820
01:00:35.679 --> 01:00:40.480
degrees of success. Hayden Hurst was
a good stop gap. IRV Smith,
821
01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:45.199
No, was not a good stop
gap. I'm looking for an answer.
822
01:00:46.000 --> 01:00:51.559
I want somebody at the top of
the depth chart who builds chemistry with Joe
823
01:00:51.639 --> 01:00:55.119
Burrow year one, and then continues
to build it year two, and then
824
01:00:55.199 --> 01:01:00.800
continues to build it year three and
becomes an integral part of this offense.
825
01:01:01.559 --> 01:01:06.079
Because of his athletic profile, he
can do more than And I know those
826
01:01:06.079 --> 01:01:09.000
guys don't grow on trees, but
you had a draft class last year full
827
01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:13.239
of them, and most evaluators liked
the tight ends in this class. I'm
828
01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:17.679
not saying he got to take one
at eighteen, but I'd like for it
829
01:01:17.920 --> 01:01:22.920
like I want if it's let's say
it's Hayden Hurst. I want him to
830
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:27.480
be an ancillary piece, a cute
story, a bit of a footnote,
831
01:01:28.239 --> 01:01:34.840
and if future backup tight end yep. I just I know. I talked
832
01:01:34.880 --> 01:01:37.800
about this a little bit yesterday.
I will forever wonder how this team's offense
833
01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:42.920
could have looked this year had they
drafted a tight end and last year's draft,
834
01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:46.800
and how would we be talking about
the composition of the offense in twenty
835
01:01:46.880 --> 01:01:52.079
twenty four with a tight end going
into year two that they took in the
836
01:01:52.079 --> 01:01:55.480
twenty twenty three draft. So you
know, if you like cuteness, if
837
01:01:55.519 --> 01:02:00.039
you like fun stories, bring back
CJ, bring back hate. Those guys
838
01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:06.039
aren't answers. Those guys are stop
gaps. Those guys are good culture guys.
839
01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:10.119
Those guys are you know, they're
nice pieces, and you need nice
840
01:02:10.119 --> 01:02:14.360
pieces on a football team. SOMJ. Pen Ryan was a nice piece.
841
01:02:14.400 --> 01:02:16.920
Still trying to figure out how to
replace him. I want an answer.
842
01:02:19.039 --> 01:02:22.039
I want a guy at the top
of the depth chart. I want an
843
01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:27.239
answer to the tight end position for
the next four to five years. And
844
01:02:27.519 --> 01:02:30.800
if you get that guy, gotta
be honest with you. Rest of those
845
01:02:30.840 --> 01:02:34.960
tight ends dime a dozen. Uh. Thanks to those who have been waiting
846
01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:37.239
on hold. Your phone calls are
coming up. Five point three seven four
847
01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:42.360
nine, fifteen thirty eight six six
seven two three seven seven six. Also
848
01:02:42.440 --> 01:02:45.119
our friend Matt Barry at NBC who's
at the combine. He he hears that
849
01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:51.119
Joe Mixon is gonna be released.
I don't really have anywhere else to go
850
01:02:51.199 --> 01:02:53.920
with that, because, to be
honest, maybe should have happened a year
851
01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:59.920
ago. Uh, but maybe I
can manufacture something out of that too.
852
01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:04.960
We have the Joey Vado question to
talk about and John Brandon's quote the piece
853
01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:08.639
that Jason Williams Road I think is
a pretty damn interesting. We'll spend some
854
01:03:08.679 --> 01:03:13.440
time on that too, plus sports
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855
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dot com. Red's getting long ones
from Tyler Stevenson, Christian and Karnassi,
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01:03:29.960 --> 01:03:34.039
you own Strand and Stuart Fairchild,
each clubbing their second home runs of the
859
01:03:34.320 --> 01:03:37.440
spring. Cincinnati leads the Padres Reds
of the Road team in that one,
860
01:03:37.559 --> 01:03:40.519
six' to two. Padres batting
in the bottom of the fifth inning two
861
01:03:40.599 --> 01:03:45.400
and two thirds from Graham Ashcraft gave
up two runs and a couple of hits.
862
01:03:46.039 --> 01:03:50.440
Other pair of other pair, other
group of Reds players are playing in
863
01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:54.039
Goodyear today against the Brewers and they're
being shut out to nothing. Milwaukee.
864
01:03:54.079 --> 01:03:58.840
Brandon Williamson went four and gave up
a run. Brent Souiter two winnings.
865
01:03:58.840 --> 01:04:02.760
He gave up a run Cincinnati has
so far been held to three hits,
866
01:04:03.519 --> 01:04:08.760
and Jake Frayley has two of them. What else do we have? College
867
01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:13.360
basketball? Tonight Xavier on the road
against Butler. Musketeers won the game here
868
01:04:13.679 --> 01:04:16.519
by seventeen points. Tonight's tip seven
thirty. Here we are at live on
869
01:04:16.559 --> 01:04:19.880
a seven hundred WLW. I gotta
hit the button to clear my throat.
870
01:04:19.920 --> 01:04:25.599
You're gonna hear silence for just a
second. Don't go anywhere. See that
871
01:04:25.719 --> 01:04:31.239
beat me clearing my throat directly into
the microphone. All better now, UK
872
01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:36.039
basketball on ESPN fifteen thirty. Tonight, Wildcats are playing well, at least
873
01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:41.480
on the offensive end. Nine o'clock
against Veddabelt pregame at seven thirty. Also
874
01:04:41.519 --> 01:04:45.719
this evening, Indiana taking on Michigan. I saw for a second Kenny Payne
875
01:04:45.800 --> 01:04:51.440
was trending, and I thought maybe
that the inevitable has arrived. But that
876
01:04:51.599 --> 01:05:00.159
is not the case for the basketball
program at the University of Louisville. Are
877
01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:03.679
away from five o'clock. I do
want to spend a few minutes on the
878
01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:09.000
John Brandon piece that Jason Williams rope
will do that in a second, But
879
01:05:09.679 --> 01:05:12.920
because he's been waiting patiently, and
I like to reward patients. Sam and
880
01:05:13.000 --> 01:05:16.800
Independence. You're on ESPN fifteen thirty. Hey Mo, you're you're lucky.
881
01:05:16.840 --> 01:05:24.239
I was waiting at the DMV.
Were they friendly? They were just took
882
01:05:24.280 --> 01:05:27.840
an hour to have a sticker put
on my drind repine. That sounds about
883
01:05:27.840 --> 01:05:32.800
part for the course. Yeah,
they're fine, though. I know we've
884
01:05:32.800 --> 01:05:38.760
we've kind of moved on now.
But back to you said earlier that you
885
01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:42.719
bet it's never happened three times and
a half that a three at four times
886
01:05:42.719 --> 01:05:45.880
three point shooters that fell, Yeah, four time, three or more.
887
01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:50.159
I was at a Xavier game many
years ago where Terrell Holloway was filed three
888
01:05:50.239 --> 01:05:56.599
times on threes shooting. I think
it was Rhode Island. This was many
889
01:05:56.679 --> 01:06:00.960
years ago, and Rhode Island foiled
him three times in the act of shooting
890
01:06:00.960 --> 01:06:06.719
a three. Hmm. If you
saw it, if you said you saw
891
01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:10.320
it, I will I will take
your word for it. I have never
892
01:06:10.400 --> 01:06:15.599
seen that happen four times. I
it was at least three. I don't
893
01:06:15.639 --> 01:06:16.559
know if it was in the same
half. But in the course of the
894
01:06:16.559 --> 01:06:19.920
game, Treell Halloway shot a three. The guy tried to close out and
895
01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:26.159
end up bowling him over Wow three
times? Damn back when and this would
896
01:06:26.239 --> 01:06:30.039
to date myself. This is when
Xavier obviously they're playing Rhode Island. This
897
01:06:30.079 --> 01:06:38.599
was when when they were in the
Atlantic ten. Yeah, but overall,
898
01:06:39.199 --> 01:06:45.880
my question is this or I guess
my question? Now hang on a second,
899
01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:48.599
to hang on a second, because
we have the beauty of the internet.
900
01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:54.440
Sam all right, so too,
Holloway did play four games against Rhode
901
01:06:54.440 --> 01:06:58.639
Island. Uh. In those four
games, the most number of free throws
902
01:06:58.679 --> 01:07:05.679
he ever attempted was eight. Oh
so perhaps I would perhaps I'm I'm aged
903
01:07:05.679 --> 01:07:12.480
and wrong. Maybe maybe he maybe
he got fouled twice behind the arc and
904
01:07:12.519 --> 01:07:18.840
then one time he was just inside
an attempt to the grand This was years
905
01:07:18.880 --> 01:07:26.239
ago. I was at that answer. I I I could have swarmed.
906
01:07:27.480 --> 01:07:31.519
But anyway, my question is is
this. I'm not a UC fan,
907
01:07:31.559 --> 01:07:39.039
but you know I do want them
to do well if I when you look
908
01:07:39.039 --> 01:07:45.039
at UC season, I think there
is success and failure. I think my
909
01:07:45.199 --> 01:07:48.679
expectation for them this year was that
they'd go to the Big Twelve and they
910
01:07:48.679 --> 01:07:54.000
would just get crushed by a bunch
of good teams every game. And that
911
01:07:54.039 --> 01:08:00.559
didn't happen. Do you think that
if you had one more year in the
912
01:08:00.599 --> 01:08:08.559
American Conference with this team that this
is, you know, a locked up
913
01:08:09.119 --> 01:08:12.480
at this point, guaranteed tournament team. Uh well, I think they would
914
01:08:12.519 --> 01:08:16.079
have had to have scheduled more difficult
put together a more difficult non conference schedule.
915
01:08:16.640 --> 01:08:20.720
I don't know, you know,
I mean they they they their non
916
01:08:20.800 --> 01:08:25.119
league schedule wasn't great, and metrics
would tell you as much. Now,
917
01:08:25.239 --> 01:08:27.760
you know, you would expect Xavier
to be better. It's not a bad
918
01:08:27.840 --> 01:08:30.920
loss losing there, but you know, it ended up not being a very
919
01:08:30.920 --> 01:08:33.000
good Xavier team. It was a
good dating team. They did play Georgia
920
01:08:33.039 --> 01:08:36.600
Tech, but their their non league
schedule wasn't very good, and so I
921
01:08:36.720 --> 01:08:41.359
wonder. You know, the thing
about the American Athletic Conference is there were
922
01:08:41.399 --> 01:08:45.000
so many land mines, so many
times where you would slip up, and
923
01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:47.319
it just it cost you. Right
where in the Big twelve, you go
924
01:08:47.399 --> 01:08:51.199
on the road, play poorly and
it's just you don't you don't have it
925
01:08:51.279 --> 01:08:54.840
that night, you lose, it
doesn't cost you because you're for the most
926
01:08:54.840 --> 01:08:58.439
part not losing to a team that
has bad metrics. West Virginia would be
927
01:08:58.479 --> 01:09:01.159
a little bit of an outlier.
But in the American Athletic Conference, you
928
01:09:01.199 --> 01:09:03.920
know, you have one of those
nights where it just doesn't work and the
929
01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:06.920
other team plays well and you lose
on the road, and then you look
930
01:09:06.920 --> 01:09:11.319
at their net ranking and it's in
the two hundreds. That can sink you.
931
01:09:11.319 --> 01:09:15.279
You know, Cincinnati in twenty seventeen
had a great year. I think
932
01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:17.800
lost two games all season in the
American Athletic Conference, got to the NCAA
933
01:09:17.840 --> 01:09:20.439
Tournament. They were a seven seed. So if they were in the AAC
934
01:09:20.680 --> 01:09:24.640
this year, do I think this
team would have been fine in that league?
935
01:09:24.840 --> 01:09:27.000
Yeah? Do I do? I
think they would have won it.
936
01:09:27.640 --> 01:09:30.159
USF might have had something to say
about that, I guess, but they
937
01:09:30.159 --> 01:09:35.079
would have had to have scheduled more, put together a more difficult schedule.
938
01:09:35.479 --> 01:09:40.680
So I'm gonna guess the answer is
yes, But I have a hard time
939
01:09:40.720 --> 01:09:47.600
saying for sure. Okay, But
and then overall I think the issue is
940
01:09:47.720 --> 01:09:51.439
I again, I'm not a UC
fan, but I do know a lot.
941
01:09:51.479 --> 01:09:57.159
If you I members of my family
who are big UC fans and contribute
942
01:09:57.800 --> 01:10:06.479
decent amounts of money to NIL reactives, can they contribute more? We can
943
01:10:06.600 --> 01:10:12.560
try on, We'll do well.
We can pull together for you. But
944
01:10:13.600 --> 01:10:19.760
at the same time, the idea
that I'm not saying anyone's saying this outside
945
01:10:19.800 --> 01:10:24.079
of you know, people just being
mad on Twitter. The idea that you
946
01:10:24.159 --> 01:10:27.920
see is gonna pay fifteen point seven
million dollars for Wes Miller not to coach
947
01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:38.159
them next year is really silly.
It's but and that's and you know,
948
01:10:38.199 --> 01:10:41.199
I do think next year, if
if this is the same position you season
949
01:10:41.439 --> 01:10:44.399
next year, there'll be a harder
question to ask in a harder conversation to
950
01:10:44.439 --> 01:10:50.600
have. But at the same time
it Niel gets talked a lot about in
951
01:10:50.680 --> 01:10:56.039
the transfer portal. I know Saban
had a piece today out in the media
952
01:10:56.039 --> 01:11:00.600
where he assailed it as being the
death of college sports and why he quit.
953
01:11:00.800 --> 01:11:04.279
But it's here to stay, whether
people like it or not. But
954
01:11:04.479 --> 01:11:10.439
I I think there needs to be
an acceptance. And again I think it's
955
01:11:10.479 --> 01:11:14.319
just people on Twitter, you see, and I guess Zager will put them
956
01:11:14.319 --> 01:11:18.000
in this conversation. They're not going
to have the access to nil big collectives
957
01:11:18.039 --> 01:11:20.239
the way Ohio State and Kentucky do. That's just the way. It is,
958
01:11:20.319 --> 01:11:24.319
no question, And I also think
if if you if you are watching
959
01:11:24.359 --> 01:11:28.600
this program and you think that the
remedy for what ills it is a coaching
960
01:11:28.680 --> 01:11:32.159
change. My response to that would
be Okay, Then when when you decide
961
01:11:32.199 --> 01:11:38.439
to start a new with a new
coach, there's a greater chance than ever
962
01:11:38.520 --> 01:11:41.880
before that that he is going to
have to start from almost ground zero.
963
01:11:42.680 --> 01:11:45.720
Uh. You know, we saw
it when when Wes Miller, you know,
964
01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:47.039
to a degree, we saw when
John Branda got the job, right,
965
01:11:47.079 --> 01:11:49.880
I mean players left and he had
to cobble together. Now, he
966
01:11:49.960 --> 01:11:54.920
got the job late because Mick it
took forever for UCLA to hire a coach,
967
01:11:55.239 --> 01:11:58.800
was after the National Championship game,
so but still they had to cobble
968
01:11:58.840 --> 01:12:01.119
together a staff, cobbled together a
roster. Wes kind of the same thing
969
01:12:01.159 --> 01:12:05.159
two years later, although that also
played out kind of late. Now with
970
01:12:05.239 --> 01:12:09.079
the portal, new guy comes in, who knows what he's going to walk
971
01:12:09.119 --> 01:12:11.439
into, and you could say,
well, he can hit the portal and
972
01:12:11.479 --> 01:12:14.880
hit the ground running. Yeah,
but he's doing so at the same time
973
01:12:14.880 --> 01:12:16.840
that he's trying to put together a
staff and he's trying to get his his
974
01:12:16.920 --> 01:12:21.560
bearings. And so if if you
want a new coach, you know there's
975
01:12:21.760 --> 01:12:26.079
you could hope that it's a situation
like Xavier last year, where Sean Miller
976
01:12:26.119 --> 01:12:29.920
walks into a situation where there's good
stability and he brings in a transfer like
977
01:12:29.960 --> 01:12:31.680
a sou Le boom. But then
look at what happened this year, right,
978
01:12:32.279 --> 01:12:34.319
at some point, there's going to
be a bit of a step back.
979
01:12:34.840 --> 01:12:39.319
I don't know if you are.
If you are approaching this from the
980
01:12:39.319 --> 01:12:44.560
standpoint of pay the fifteen million dollars
for a new coach, which financially doesn't
981
01:12:44.600 --> 01:12:47.399
strike me as realistic, you are
accepting that next year we're going to take
982
01:12:47.439 --> 01:12:51.520
a step back before we can maybe
take a step forward from where we are.
983
01:12:53.000 --> 01:12:57.439
And maybe that's what you want,
but I think a coaching change in
984
01:12:57.479 --> 01:13:00.840
this climate means you are almost in
variably going to take a step back.
985
01:13:02.199 --> 01:13:05.319
And so you know, there might
be people who not along and say yeah,
986
01:13:05.399 --> 01:13:10.880
let's do that, but you know, at the very least Wes Miller
987
01:13:10.880 --> 01:13:14.920
has achieved some stability. And if
you want to reward that after coaching one
988
01:13:14.960 --> 01:13:17.720
season in the Big Twelve by punting
him away, all right, fine.
989
01:13:17.760 --> 01:13:20.359
I don't know what the ramifications long
term for that are going to be.
990
01:13:20.399 --> 01:13:26.840
I'm not sure how desirable the job
becomes. Then but all right, fine,
991
01:13:27.399 --> 01:13:30.600
but as we said when Mick lost, when Mick left, it'll be
992
01:13:30.600 --> 01:13:33.720
careful what you wish for, because
you know it's all right, we're stable,
993
01:13:33.880 --> 01:13:38.880
and then there's instability, and instability
means what we've watched the last few
994
01:13:38.960 --> 01:13:42.640
years. I think you are signing
up for more of that. The moment
995
01:13:42.680 --> 01:13:45.960
you tell Wes to go away,
yeah, there's going to be a step
996
01:13:45.960 --> 01:13:47.520
back. I mean, even when
coaching changes have to happen. I guess
997
01:13:47.560 --> 01:13:51.199
the example would be Marvin had to
go. In twenty eighteen, they brought
998
01:13:51.199 --> 01:13:56.520
in Zach Taylor. The Bengals were
just beyond horrendous. In twenty nineteen they
999
01:13:56.560 --> 01:14:03.359
went to and fourteen. Yeah.
Yeah, And then the question I would
1000
01:14:03.359 --> 01:14:09.520
have for these people if if it's
not Wes Miller, I don't know who
1001
01:14:09.560 --> 01:14:13.960
you hire to prevent you from not
from from being bad. Next year you
1002
01:14:13.960 --> 01:14:17.479
bring in let's say Anthony Grant from
Dayton, for example, He's he's going
1003
01:14:17.560 --> 01:14:21.119
to come into a conference. I
think Dayton's still in the A ten,
1004
01:14:21.279 --> 01:14:26.840
right, correct, Uh, He's
going from the A ten to the big
1005
01:14:26.920 --> 01:14:30.920
twelve. You can't you couldn't expect
him to me to hit the portal and
1006
01:14:30.960 --> 01:14:39.800
get starters and get you know,
o ESPN one hundred recruits one who you
1007
01:14:39.840 --> 01:14:42.800
know, we're going to play at
Kentucky or Indiana or Duke. You're going
1008
01:14:42.840 --> 01:14:47.520
to start looking at U. See
it's just it's it's not the way it
1009
01:14:47.600 --> 01:14:53.560
is at UC. This isn't Bob
Huggins coming in and then well you know,
1010
01:14:53.880 --> 01:14:57.600
suddenly Nick van Exell and Kenny Martin
show up. Yeah, yeah,
1011
01:14:57.800 --> 01:15:02.760
and and that that may happen,
but you got to figure out whey to
1012
01:15:02.800 --> 01:15:06.000
pay Kendyan Martin and Nick van Exel. Right, yeah, I just do
1013
01:15:06.239 --> 01:15:13.560
question now from them is going to
be uh how again. I'm quoting David
1014
01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:18.560
in USA Today earlier this morning.
The question for crews have now is how
1015
01:15:18.640 --> 01:15:23.159
much playing time am I guaranteed?
And what's the biggest nildal I can get
1016
01:15:23.159 --> 01:15:25.880
out of you? Yeah, and
that's Sam, thank you for the call.
1017
01:15:26.159 --> 01:15:29.079
You may hate that, but that's
that's where we are. And you
1018
01:15:29.119 --> 01:15:30.159
know there are coaches who are going
to decide I don't want to do this
1019
01:15:30.159 --> 01:15:34.279
anymore. And I'm sure there might
be a situation where now somebody in college
1020
01:15:34.359 --> 01:15:38.760
basketball decides to go be an assistant
in the NBA, similar to maybe what
1021
01:15:38.760 --> 01:15:43.199
we're seeing in college football these this
is the landscape, you know. Matt
1022
01:15:43.279 --> 01:15:45.960
Ruhle, the coach at Nebraska during
the season the college football season this year,
1023
01:15:46.399 --> 01:15:50.520
took some heat because of the press
conference he told everybody what a new
1024
01:15:50.600 --> 01:15:57.680
starting quarterback was going to cost,
and people got mad at him. Now,
1025
01:15:58.359 --> 01:16:01.920
I do think when you hear coaches
complain about nil, what they're doing
1026
01:16:02.000 --> 01:16:04.840
is making excuses. I didn't think
Matt rule was doing that. What he
1027
01:16:04.880 --> 01:16:08.720
was saying is like, yeah,
we we could use a quarterback up great
1028
01:16:08.760 --> 01:16:11.199
on paraphrasing him, here, here's
what it's gonna cost. And I think
1029
01:16:11.239 --> 01:16:14.079
he talked about like it's gonna cost
three four million bucks and people got mad
1030
01:16:14.079 --> 01:16:15.479
at it him, and it's like
he's just telling you how it is.
1031
01:16:15.640 --> 01:16:19.079
Like this is, UC wants to
win consistently in the Big twelve. They
1032
01:16:19.119 --> 01:16:24.520
need NBA players. Call it what
it is, Okay, UC wants to
1033
01:16:24.560 --> 01:16:29.439
win consistently in the Big twelve in
basketball, they need NBA guys. What
1034
01:16:29.479 --> 01:16:34.319
do you think NBA players are gonna
cost? I don't care who the coach
1035
01:16:34.439 --> 01:16:44.960
is. What do you think NBA
players are going to cost? And like
1036
01:16:45.000 --> 01:16:47.239
the thing is, I don't have
the answer but I know they're gonna cost
1037
01:16:47.239 --> 01:16:53.159
a lot, So yeah, do
you increase your likelihood of getting them if
1038
01:16:53.199 --> 01:16:56.720
you move on from the coach?
Like I think, if there's one lesson
1039
01:16:56.720 --> 01:17:00.439
we've learned from I know I've said
this a thousand times, right, you
1040
01:17:00.520 --> 01:17:03.520
had basically two coaches for thirty years, Insane's stability. Then he had two
1041
01:17:03.560 --> 01:17:10.159
coaching changes in two years, and
instability is ruled today. At the very
1042
01:17:10.239 --> 01:17:14.920
least. You might be upset with
Wes Miller. They have finally achieved stability.
1043
01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:18.119
You go replace him, and I'm
telling you what will be instability and
1044
01:17:18.239 --> 01:17:21.279
chaos. And maybe that's what you
want because you think there's going to be
1045
01:17:21.319 --> 01:17:27.960
a better long term payoff. But
that's coming. Good God, Luke Fickle
1046
01:17:28.079 --> 01:17:32.119
ran a great program at you see
two years ago, a billion draft choices,
1047
01:17:32.600 --> 01:17:38.479
back to back undefeated seasons, a
coaching change later, you might not
1048
01:17:38.560 --> 01:17:41.560
be sold on Scott Sadderfield. I
don't think there are many coaches who could
1049
01:17:41.560 --> 01:17:45.239
have done any better. Look around
the country. Dion Sanders was the Sportsman
1050
01:17:45.279 --> 01:17:47.600
of the Year, finished below five
hundred. I think in all of college
1051
01:17:47.600 --> 01:17:50.680
football this year, two coaches in
their first year at their new place had
1052
01:17:50.680 --> 01:17:57.199
a winning record. It just usually
a coaching change, whether the guy leaves
1053
01:17:57.279 --> 01:18:00.479
or you fire him. In this
day and age, it is going to
1054
01:18:00.560 --> 01:18:06.520
lead to short term chaos. Chaos
is not good. This leads us to
1055
01:18:06.560 --> 01:18:11.079
the Brandon quote, which I am
going to get to because I've been teasing
1056
01:18:11.079 --> 01:18:14.880
it all afternoon. We'll do it
next. ESPN fifteen thirty paid for by
1057
01:18:14.920 --> 01:18:17.399
Health Choice Helpline llc Haawks. Last
night, Jalen Brunson didn't play, but
1058
01:18:17.439 --> 01:18:23.640
I think we dodged a bullet with
him having a knee injury that nothing more
1059
01:18:23.680 --> 01:18:27.840
than a bruise. See this guy
asked questions. I'm always ready with an
1060
01:18:27.880 --> 01:18:31.199
answer. Jason Williams did this show
earlier this week, which was nice of
1061
01:18:31.279 --> 01:18:35.520
him. He is the lead sports
columnist for the Cincinnati inquad leads for He's
1062
01:18:35.560 --> 01:18:40.239
the only columnist for the Inquirer in
Cincinnatia dot com. I'm old enough to
1063
01:18:40.239 --> 01:18:43.600
remember when they had two. Maybe
I'll see if they want me to be
1064
01:18:43.640 --> 01:18:50.399
the second. Probably don't anyway.
Jason has a feature on John Brannon.
1065
01:18:50.600 --> 01:18:55.760
John obviously the former NKU and UC
head coach who had just two seasons in
1066
01:18:55.760 --> 01:18:59.640
Clifton. They were weird. I
think that's the word that best applies.
1067
01:19:00.199 --> 01:19:03.640
Know that we need to relitigate that. But he's talked about wanting back in
1068
01:19:03.680 --> 01:19:08.640
the game, hopes to be a
college head coach again. I am hopeful
1069
01:19:08.680 --> 01:19:10.960
for that for him, because I
think John Brandon is a good guy.
1070
01:19:13.079 --> 01:19:15.279
As to why it didn't work out, it, you see, there's still
1071
01:19:15.399 --> 01:19:20.720
so much that is weird about that
that it's really not worth diving into.
1072
01:19:20.800 --> 01:19:28.000
But it's interesting. I read this
early this morning and late last night.
1073
01:19:28.039 --> 01:19:30.319
A friend of mine said to me, we were going back and forth about
1074
01:19:30.319 --> 01:19:34.399
the Bearcat game, and she said, all those years under Mick I took
1075
01:19:34.479 --> 01:19:40.199
for granted. And you know,
we talked about this five years ago.
1076
01:19:40.319 --> 01:19:43.800
When you know, you see,
lost mixed last year in the first round
1077
01:19:43.800 --> 01:19:46.920
of the NCAA tournament. It had
at that point been seven years since they
1078
01:19:46.920 --> 01:19:51.520
had made the second weekend, and
there was frustration and understandable frustration. But
1079
01:19:53.520 --> 01:19:58.119
I remember when we were dealing with
the will he won't he will they won't
1080
01:19:58.119 --> 01:20:00.960
they drama of whether or not Mick
was going to leave uc to go to
1081
01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:04.359
UCLA. There were a lot of
people who were ready for a new coach,
1082
01:20:04.439 --> 01:20:06.760
ready for Mick to go appreciative of
the work that he had done,
1083
01:20:06.760 --> 01:20:12.119
but ready for someone else. And
I remember at the time, using many
1084
01:20:12.159 --> 01:20:15.359
many segments on this show kind of
saying something to the effect of, like,
1085
01:20:15.399 --> 01:20:17.840
you know, don't take for granted
what it takes to go to the
1086
01:20:17.960 --> 01:20:23.439
NCAA tournament every single year. It's
hard. It's hard to go every single
1087
01:20:23.520 --> 01:20:29.279
year. Don't be so hyper focused
on well, the new guy's got to
1088
01:20:29.319 --> 01:20:31.640
get to the sweet sixteen. They
got to put language in his contract that
1089
01:20:31.760 --> 01:20:35.199
pays him just forgetting to the sweet
sixteen. Don't be so focused on that
1090
01:20:35.199 --> 01:20:38.800
that you lose sid of how hard
it is just to be in a position
1091
01:20:38.880 --> 01:20:44.000
to get to the sweet sixteen.
And then that turned into well, they
1092
01:20:44.079 --> 01:20:47.079
you know, they need somebody who's
different, they need a culture change.
1093
01:20:47.439 --> 01:20:55.159
And I remember at times on this
show going why like, Okay, if
1094
01:20:55.159 --> 01:20:58.479
he leaves, find a good head
coach, and the new head coach is
1095
01:20:58.479 --> 01:21:00.279
going to put his own stamp on
the program and do some things differently.
1096
01:21:00.319 --> 01:21:04.720
And that's fine and to a degree
maybe welcome, But why are we looking
1097
01:21:04.720 --> 01:21:10.640
for somebody different? And then I
remember when John took over, which I
1098
01:21:10.760 --> 01:21:16.359
was a proponent of, it felt
like whether it be from John specifically or
1099
01:21:16.520 --> 01:21:21.119
some that he was working for,
Like there was this almost need to brand
1100
01:21:21.159 --> 01:21:27.880
the program as it's going to be
different than it was with the previous coach.
1101
01:21:29.119 --> 01:21:31.680
And I often raised my hand and
said, previous coach wasn't perfect,
1102
01:21:31.720 --> 01:21:38.399
but kind of had you in the
hunt every year. You just won consecutive
1103
01:21:38.399 --> 01:21:45.680
conference tournament championships and there were two
seed just last year. I played for
1104
01:21:45.760 --> 01:21:50.279
conference titles in the tournament every year
recently had a first round pick. Like
1105
01:21:51.359 --> 01:21:55.520
you know that second weekend thing is
that that hangs over the program, But
1106
01:21:55.800 --> 01:21:58.920
the rest of it's pretty damn good, pretty damn consistent, Right, Do
1107
01:21:59.000 --> 01:22:02.560
we really need to change everything?
So I'm reading this piece on John Brandon
1108
01:22:02.600 --> 01:22:08.159
today and again like I'm I root
for John to get a job as a
1109
01:22:08.199 --> 01:22:12.600
college coach. Was really good to
me when he was at NKU and good
1110
01:22:12.600 --> 01:22:15.600
to us when he was at UC
and it didn't work out, And I'm
1111
01:22:15.600 --> 01:22:18.159
not sure that it was the worst
thing in the world to move on from
1112
01:22:18.199 --> 01:22:21.479
him at UC, but I'm rooting
for him to get back in the game
1113
01:22:21.479 --> 01:22:27.680
and I want him to have success. He was asked about mistakes, mistakes
1114
01:22:27.680 --> 01:22:31.239
that he looks back on, and
I thought this quote was interesting quote with
1115
01:22:31.399 --> 01:22:35.520
UC specifically, I came in preaching
a new culture and a different way of
1116
01:22:35.560 --> 01:22:42.479
doing things, and the guy I
followed went to nine straight NCAA tournaments.
1117
01:22:42.840 --> 01:22:46.399
The culture didn't need to change.
And then he says, and then the
1118
01:22:46.439 --> 01:22:51.880
COVID thing changed a lot of things. But I think that's interesting. Not
1119
01:22:53.000 --> 01:22:57.439
that we have to go back and
rehash everything that went down five years ago,
1120
01:22:57.479 --> 01:23:00.760
four years ago, and three years
ago, but I think that's interesting.
1121
01:23:01.399 --> 01:23:05.920
So I guess the lesson there is, you know, it's it's one
1122
01:23:05.960 --> 01:23:13.359
thing too to be to want this
one thing about your program to change,
1123
01:23:13.439 --> 01:23:15.800
right, And so with with Mick, it was, God, I just
1124
01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:19.000
wish they could get to the second
weekend occasionally, right, tired of losing
1125
01:23:19.039 --> 01:23:23.000
in the first or second round,
especially the way they did the last two
1126
01:23:23.000 --> 01:23:27.800
where they blew big leads. But
does does that mean you have to blow
1127
01:23:27.840 --> 01:23:31.159
everything else up? Like everything else? Meaning God, we have we have
1128
01:23:31.159 --> 01:23:36.079
players who stay, we have stability
with the roster every single year. We've
1129
01:23:36.079 --> 01:23:39.800
got good dudes. We've got guys
who are winning conference Player of the Year
1130
01:23:39.840 --> 01:23:43.439
awards. We have we're in the
tournament every year, we're winning, you
1131
01:23:43.479 --> 01:23:48.760
know, competing for conference championships,
won a couple winning conference tournaments? Was
1132
01:23:48.800 --> 01:23:55.800
there really a need to wipe the
canvas clean and start from a blank slate?
1133
01:23:57.319 --> 01:24:00.920
And five years ago it felt like
that's all anybody wanted to do.
1134
01:24:01.119 --> 01:24:04.640
And now here we are, five
years later, and there are a lot
1135
01:24:04.640 --> 01:24:09.560
of folks, perhaps understandably so,
saying, God, you know what,
1136
01:24:10.239 --> 01:24:15.800
things really weren't that bad back then. And all I can say to that
1137
01:24:15.960 --> 01:24:19.640
is, I share the frustration with
how things went last night. I understand
1138
01:24:19.680 --> 01:24:27.479
the impatience, but I told you
so. And now John Brandon saying the
1139
01:24:27.479 --> 01:24:30.119
same thing. Five point three seven
four nine, fifteen thirty. It's five
1140
01:24:30.159 --> 01:24:39.479
o'clock on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports
Station. This is Sports Center. I'm
1141
01:24:39.560 --> 01:24:43.000
Christine Leacy. The Bills released multiple
veterans as they work to get under the
1142
01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:45.840
salary cap, safety Jordan Poyer,
quarterback Trey White, and center Mitch Morris,
1143
01:24:45.880 --> 01:24:49.880
among others. Today's cuts opened up
about thirty seven million dollars in cap
1144
01:24:49.920 --> 01:24:54.000
space. The Commanders filled the need
at tight end. They agreed on one
1145
01:24:54.039 --> 01:24:57.680
year deal with veterans zach Ertz.
The Broncos have given soon to be released
1146
01:24:57.760 --> 01:25:01.680
quarterback Russell Wilson permission to immediate begins
speaking and meeting with other teams in their
1147
01:25:01.680 --> 01:25:05.439
home cities. According to ESPN's Adam
Schefter, Wilson will be cut after the
1148
01:25:05.439 --> 01:25:10.359
new league your starts next Wednesday,
and the timing of his free agency a
1149
01:25:10.439 --> 01:25:14.920
bit of a problem for him,
explains On Sportsman Like co host Chris Canty.
1150
01:25:15.239 --> 01:25:18.119
At this point, all of these
other teams have bigger fish that they're
1151
01:25:18.159 --> 01:25:23.119
trying to find. There are other
quarterbacks that they believe are better options that
1152
01:25:23.199 --> 01:25:26.600
they're going after. Now. They're
not going to all land the quarterback that's
1153
01:25:26.640 --> 01:25:30.119
at the top of their wish list, and so Russell Wilson then would become
1154
01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:32.279
I don't even want to say priority, but a more viable option. At
1155
01:25:32.319 --> 01:25:35.079
that stage of it, it's not
going to happen fast for Russell Wilson.
1156
01:25:35.239 --> 01:25:38.960
Center. Come on, Malawa Wash
the top big man in the twenty twenty
1157
01:25:39.000 --> 01:25:42.560
four class, committed to Duke.
He's from the NBA Academy in Africa in
1158
01:25:42.680 --> 01:25:47.439
Senegal. Hey, you's your residents
super Bowl Chap Chris Kenny coming on Thursday.
1159
01:25:47.439 --> 01:25:50.039
I'll tell you the one free agent
that your team should sign if they
1160
01:25:50.079 --> 01:25:54.479
want to be serious. Super Bowl
contenders. It's unsports for like six am
1161
01:25:54.520 --> 01:26:04.319
Eastern right here on ESPN Radio,
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1162
01:26:04.439 --> 01:26:10.800
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01:26:31.079 --> 01:26:38.840
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1169
01:26:38.880 --> 01:26:41.039
All right, here we go.
It's a six half for five.
1170
01:26:41.119 --> 01:26:45.520
I'm Mulegger. This is ESPN fifteen
thirty. Appreciate you listening. Hopefully you're
1171
01:26:45.520 --> 01:26:51.840
having a fruitful Wednesday. I just
won five bucks for my friend for using
1172
01:26:51.880 --> 01:26:56.319
the word fruitful. Here you go, pay up. Uh. We've been
1173
01:26:56.600 --> 01:27:01.159
kind of heavy on UC basketball in
the aftermath of last night. I hated
1174
01:27:01.159 --> 01:27:04.079
to throw cold water over my guy
who said, you know, I saw
1175
01:27:04.199 --> 01:27:08.520
too Holloway when he was a Xavier. He was he got found three times
1176
01:27:08.520 --> 01:27:11.840
from behind the ark you see last
night. If you didn't see the game,
1177
01:27:13.079 --> 01:27:16.239
congratulations. Uh. There are a
lot of reasons why the Bearcats lost.
1178
01:27:16.840 --> 01:27:21.920
But in the second half they sent
Oklahoma players to the free throw line
1179
01:27:21.960 --> 01:27:28.199
for three free throws four times.
This all happened in the second half.
1180
01:27:29.920 --> 01:27:33.000
It twenty five years from now.
If you say to me, Mo the
1181
01:27:33.039 --> 01:27:38.279
Oklahoma game, you're one of the
Big twelve, what I will spit right
1182
01:27:38.319 --> 01:27:42.359
back at you is, oh,
yeah, the game where they sent Oklahoma
1183
01:27:42.439 --> 01:27:46.840
to the free throw line for three
free throws on four different occasions. I'm
1184
01:27:46.920 --> 01:27:51.399
going to I'm just somebody who has
a lot of time and better resources can
1185
01:27:51.439 --> 01:27:58.319
look this up. I'm going to
guarantee that has never happened in the same
1186
01:27:58.439 --> 01:28:02.800
game. Maybe I will allow for
the possibility that in the millions of basketball
1187
01:28:02.840 --> 01:28:06.079
games that have been played at the
collegiate level, at some point it happened
1188
01:28:06.119 --> 01:28:12.600
where one team got three free throws
four times in a game. This happened
1189
01:28:12.640 --> 01:28:16.439
in one half last night. There's
no way in hell that's ever happened before.
1190
01:28:16.520 --> 01:28:23.800
More on a frustrating night that felt
like very much the tip of the
1191
01:28:23.840 --> 01:28:28.840
iceberg for the Bearcats last night.
Here in in just a bit, Reds
1192
01:28:28.880 --> 01:28:31.239
are playing a couple of games today, and you know we pledged to keep
1193
01:28:31.239 --> 01:28:36.359
you updated with what's happening in the
Cactus League. Reds are playing the Padres.
1194
01:28:36.680 --> 01:28:40.720
The Reds are the road team in
this game at six' two Cincinnati.
1195
01:28:41.760 --> 01:28:45.479
They're hitting in the top of the
seventh inning. Tyler Stevenson, Stewart
1196
01:28:45.479 --> 01:28:50.479
Fairchild, and Christian Incarnacion Strand have
gone deep. Stevenson's second homer of the
1197
01:28:50.479 --> 01:28:58.760
spring, same for Fairchild and Cees. Stevenson has a couple of hits be
1198
01:28:58.880 --> 01:29:02.079
something of Tyler Stevens and made the
All Star team as a catcher. Like
1199
01:29:02.399 --> 01:29:09.000
you probably can't find this anywhere,
but if if we were to like lay
1200
01:29:09.119 --> 01:29:13.840
odds, who's the Reds most likely
All Star Uh could be Eli de la
1201
01:29:13.920 --> 01:29:16.920
Cruz, could be Haunter Green,
it could be Matt McClean. I mean,
1202
01:29:16.920 --> 01:29:23.720
it could be any number of guys, right alexis tas the I think
1203
01:29:23.760 --> 01:29:27.760
you'd get insane value on Tyler Stevenson. And I know he was bad last
1204
01:29:27.840 --> 01:29:30.199
year. Two years ago, we
were talking about him as like the face
1205
01:29:30.239 --> 01:29:33.319
of the franchise, the guy who
was the foundational piece. He had one
1206
01:29:33.359 --> 01:29:38.760
bad year. He's a year removed
from a broken collar bone, and now
1207
01:29:38.760 --> 01:29:40.800
he's just going to be catching,
which I don't think is a bad thing
1208
01:29:40.800 --> 01:29:46.039
at all. I'm I'm just I'm
not saying it's going to happen. I'm
1209
01:29:46.039 --> 01:29:49.520
saying if I could ba, if
I could find somebody to take my money
1210
01:29:49.520 --> 01:29:54.560
on this, the value would be
insane, which means if it happened,
1211
01:29:54.560 --> 01:30:00.000
the payoff would be good. Joey
Vado is he's still looking for a big
1212
01:30:00.079 --> 01:30:03.159
league job, and we'll see if
he ends up getting one. I don't
1213
01:30:03.159 --> 01:30:06.680
know. Blake Snell's also looking for
a big league job. Jady Martinez is
1214
01:30:06.680 --> 01:30:11.760
still looking for a big league job. Jeordan Montgomery is still looking for a
1215
01:30:11.760 --> 01:30:14.640
big league job. Those players maybe
not so much. Jad Martinez, he's
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01:30:14.680 --> 01:30:16.920
thirty six, but he had thirty
three homers last year. Those other guys
1217
01:30:16.920 --> 01:30:20.720
in their prime, Joey not so
much. I'm rooting for him to get
1218
01:30:20.720 --> 01:30:26.479
a job in baseball as a player
because I don't want last year to be
1219
01:30:26.520 --> 01:30:29.399
the last chapter. But I'm okay
with it not being with the Reds.
1220
01:30:29.439 --> 01:30:31.439
Anyway, Joey on his social media
is having a lot of fun with himself
1221
01:30:32.159 --> 01:30:38.199
and having a lot of fun with
his followers. And you know he's threatened
1222
01:30:38.279 --> 01:30:43.279
to, like, you know,
take all the shopping cards out and put
1223
01:30:43.319 --> 01:30:45.479
them all over the parking lot.
And I guess he took a picture of
1224
01:30:45.520 --> 01:30:51.319
a shopping cart and a bathtub and
he's recreated the meme of Keanu Reeves sitting
1225
01:30:51.319 --> 01:31:00.199
at a bench looking forlorn and I've
asked the pole question at Moeger. Thanks
1226
01:31:00.239 --> 01:31:05.159
to our friends of backslattractor Joey Vado's
memes, or as Bryce Harper would call
1227
01:31:05.159 --> 01:31:12.279
them, memes, Joey Vado's memes
about him not having a gig? Are
1228
01:31:12.319 --> 01:31:17.640
they funny or sad? Fifty two
point three percent say funny. I agree
1229
01:31:17.680 --> 01:31:25.479
with funny because here's why I am
a big fan of people who can make
1230
01:31:25.560 --> 01:31:30.239
fun of themselves. And if there
is a quality that I think is missing
1231
01:31:30.279 --> 01:31:34.880
from humanity, aside from just general
civility and acceptance of beliefs that you don't
1232
01:31:34.920 --> 01:31:42.279
share, maybe number three on the
list is the inability or more likely unwillingness
1233
01:31:42.800 --> 01:31:45.560
for people to make fun of themselves. I mean, how many people do
1234
01:31:45.640 --> 01:31:50.079
you know, really can not just
make fun of themselves but can take a
1235
01:31:50.199 --> 01:31:58.960
little ribbing, Right, Joe Evado, who has accomplished more than most people
1236
01:31:59.039 --> 01:32:02.720
walking on the face of the earth, is making fun of himself, and
1237
01:32:02.800 --> 01:32:06.680
I think there's something admirable about that. Now, I don't know how long
1238
01:32:06.760 --> 01:32:12.000
this is gonna go. Let's say
Joey never plays baseball again. Uh,
1239
01:32:12.359 --> 01:32:14.960
I don't Is he gonna be doing
this like two three years from now?
1240
01:32:15.000 --> 01:32:16.520
Like, what's what's the cutoff point
where he's like, all right, I
1241
01:32:16.960 --> 01:32:21.279
gotta I gotta use my social media
for something other than expressing the fact that
1242
01:32:21.319 --> 01:32:25.600
I want to keep playing. So
if he's still doing this, if he's
1243
01:32:25.600 --> 01:32:28.920
still doing this in a few months, okay, might not hit quite as
1244
01:32:29.319 --> 01:32:32.319
hard, But I I like it. I like it when I mean,
1245
01:32:32.399 --> 01:32:36.359
here's a guy who's gonna be in
Cooperstown. I think one day this dude
1246
01:32:36.359 --> 01:32:40.199
has had a trump. Even if
you don't think that's the case, I
1247
01:32:40.199 --> 01:32:42.199
think you're wrong. But but you
know what, it comes down to the
1248
01:32:42.239 --> 01:32:45.520
acceptance of other people's beliefs. But
even if you don't think that dude's had
1249
01:32:45.560 --> 01:32:51.720
a hell of a career, right, Like every single baseball player in a
1250
01:32:51.720 --> 01:32:56.720
big league camp should pray to God
they have a career close to as good
1251
01:32:56.720 --> 01:33:02.079
as Joey Vados. Uh. And
yet you know, he's having a good
1252
01:33:02.079 --> 01:33:04.920
time with the fact that nobody wants
to sign him. He's kind of being
1253
01:33:04.960 --> 01:33:12.399
self effacing and he's gone on in
other venues kind of made the point that
1254
01:33:12.439 --> 01:33:15.239
he thinks he could still play,
that he thinks he still has value.
1255
01:33:15.720 --> 01:33:18.560
But I think he's taking what I'm
sure for him is a tough situation,
1256
01:33:18.640 --> 01:33:23.319
and I don't think anybody is being
asked to feel sorry for joe Evado.
1257
01:33:23.359 --> 01:33:26.399
Nobody should feel sorry for Joey Vado. Athletes at the end of the road
1258
01:33:26.439 --> 01:33:31.439
and then they got to move on. Oftentimes it happens without their them signing
1259
01:33:31.479 --> 01:33:36.119
off on it. But he but
he's having fun with what I'm sure is
1260
01:33:36.159 --> 01:33:42.800
not easy. Like I'm sure for
a guy who has spent every March in
1261
01:33:42.880 --> 01:33:47.640
a in a camp somewhere since he
was in high school, I'm sure not
1262
01:33:47.680 --> 01:33:53.520
having a team to play for is
at the most mildest, is a bit
1263
01:33:53.560 --> 01:33:57.119
of an adjustment, and I'm sure
at worst it's quite sad. And so
1264
01:33:57.840 --> 01:34:00.520
he's letting us in a little bit, which a lot of people don't do.
1265
01:34:00.159 --> 01:34:02.680
But he's also having some fun with
it, and I think in the
1266
01:34:02.680 --> 01:34:09.119
process he's kind of making fun of
himself. And I think those qualities are
1267
01:34:09.239 --> 01:34:14.000
very human. You know, when
Joey first not even when he first got
1268
01:34:14.039 --> 01:34:17.319
here, but when he first kind
of burst on the scene, this is
1269
01:34:17.359 --> 01:34:19.840
like nine as one of the best
hitters in the sport, and then he
1270
01:34:19.880 --> 01:34:25.239
was the MVP in twenty ten and
got snubbed initially as an All Star that
1271
01:34:25.359 --> 01:34:30.039
year. There were a lot of
folks myself included, who looked at Joey
1272
01:34:30.039 --> 01:34:32.279
and said, well, he's a
good player, but I wish he'd let
1273
01:34:32.359 --> 01:34:35.000
us know more about him. And
I'm sure that wasn't easy given some of
1274
01:34:35.039 --> 01:34:40.600
the stuff going on in his personal
life. But as time went on,
1275
01:34:41.479 --> 01:34:43.800
you know, you started to see
a little bit more of his personality,
1276
01:34:43.840 --> 01:34:45.760
and I think that's been a lot
of fun and I think more than any
1277
01:34:45.800 --> 01:34:50.479
point in him his time in the
public realm, he's kind of letting us
1278
01:34:50.520 --> 01:34:54.000
in man, and I think that's
cool. But he's doing it in a
1279
01:34:54.039 --> 01:34:57.000
fun way, and he's doing it
away that's kind of poking fun on himself,
1280
01:34:58.319 --> 01:35:00.880
and I wish we had more people
who are willing to do, Like,
1281
01:35:00.880 --> 01:35:04.399
how many people you genuinely know can
legitimately make fun of themselves like folks.
1282
01:35:04.640 --> 01:35:09.239
People don't do that. I've used
word folks a lot today. I
1283
01:35:09.279 --> 01:35:14.600
could make fun of myself for that. So I'm voting funny. Nearly half
1284
01:35:14.600 --> 01:35:19.000
of you say sad. I couldn't
use the word pathetic, but I don't
1285
01:35:19.039 --> 01:35:23.359
think it's remotely pathetic. It might
make you sad. If you're a Joe
1286
01:35:23.399 --> 01:35:27.920
Evado fan, it might make you
sad, Like there's always something about if
1287
01:35:27.920 --> 01:35:30.119
you're younger than me, Joe Evado
might be an athlete of your youth,
1288
01:35:31.079 --> 01:35:33.520
and so, like, you know, you get to a point in life
1289
01:35:33.520 --> 01:35:39.119
where like the icons of your youth
start to retire, and then you get
1290
01:35:39.159 --> 01:35:41.319
to a point where the icons of
your youth start to die. That's a
1291
01:35:41.319 --> 01:35:44.319
different conversation, and it's sad when
they do. And so maybe that's where
1292
01:35:44.319 --> 01:35:47.359
you're coming from when you vote.
But I think it's funny, and I
1293
01:35:47.359 --> 01:35:51.640
think it's human, and I hope
there's if he's out of the game for
1294
01:35:51.680 --> 01:35:55.600
a while, I hope there's a
little bit more of it. I would
1295
01:35:55.680 --> 01:36:00.079
keep the bit going for years and
years and years. I don't know that
1296
01:36:00.119 --> 01:36:02.760
most people will want that, but
my vote is funny. You can vote
1297
01:36:02.840 --> 01:36:12.359
now at Moeger thanks to Baxla Tractor. Last night's game in Norman was agonizing
1298
01:36:13.479 --> 01:36:17.199
and frustrating, but worst of all
was something else. I'll tell you what
1299
01:36:17.239 --> 01:36:23.479
it is next on ESPN fifteen thirty. Yeah, I nearly forgot. We're
1300
01:36:23.520 --> 01:36:28.119
giving away more Kevin Hart tickets in
just about fifteen minutes. He's coming to
1301
01:36:28.159 --> 01:36:33.319
the Andrew Brady Music Center Downtown at
the Banks on March sixteenth and seventeenth.
1302
01:36:33.560 --> 01:36:42.680
You can get your tickets now at
Ticketmaster, or you can win tickets excuse
1303
01:36:42.720 --> 01:36:48.399
me here. And yesterday we had
a little game and we tried to see
1304
01:36:48.399 --> 01:36:54.640
if any of are you guys listening
knew more about Kevin Hart than Tarren Bland
1305
01:36:54.840 --> 01:36:58.239
and the answer was no, so
we still awarded a winner. Today,
1306
01:36:58.279 --> 01:37:01.840
we're going to play a sligh different
game. I'm not entirely sure what it
1307
01:37:01.880 --> 01:37:04.560
is, but we'll get to that
in a bit. But if you want
1308
01:37:04.560 --> 01:37:09.760
to go see Kevin Hart, you're
gonna want to be here at five thirty
1309
01:37:09.800 --> 01:37:14.600
five, and you could even I
don't know when when do we start soliciting
1310
01:37:14.600 --> 01:37:16.520
phone calls for our contest, not
not now. We don't make you wait
1311
01:37:16.600 --> 01:37:19.479
on hold for twelve minutes, but
soon five won, three, seven,
1312
01:37:19.520 --> 01:37:24.039
four nine, Get your phone out
now, get ready, and when I
1313
01:37:24.079 --> 01:37:29.199
tell you to call, hit the
button because we're going to need again two
1314
01:37:29.239 --> 01:37:33.960
contestants. Let's see here the poll
questions at muwager. Go ahead and vote
1315
01:37:34.920 --> 01:37:42.920
the Bearcat game. We you know
the word that came to mind, the
1316
01:37:42.920 --> 01:37:45.439
word that comes to mind more than
anything else. Familiar, right, it
1317
01:37:45.600 --> 01:37:51.199
just it just it followed a familiar
script. No two basketball games are the
1318
01:37:51.279 --> 01:37:57.199
same. But boy, moments of
really goodness. The first eight to ten
1319
01:37:57.239 --> 01:38:00.840
minutes of that game last night.
From an offensive perspective, it wasn't just
1320
01:38:00.880 --> 01:38:02.760
that you see was shooting well,
which they were. They moved the ball,
1321
01:38:02.880 --> 01:38:06.439
they found shooters, The ball went
in and out, it went side
1322
01:38:06.479 --> 01:38:12.119
to side, and they built an
eighteen to five lead. But at no
1323
01:38:12.159 --> 01:38:16.199
point did you feel like they're about
to take off and go because this team
1324
01:38:16.239 --> 01:38:21.319
is not reliable, as they demonstrated
in the first half when they had a
1325
01:38:21.439 --> 01:38:28.720
chance to really extend the lead.
While Oklahoma was like they were in the
1326
01:38:28.760 --> 01:38:31.079
first game against U see, trying
to figure things out offensively, the Bearcats
1327
01:38:31.159 --> 01:38:38.000
turned it over a bunch so as
Oklahoma was at least getting some time to
1328
01:38:38.039 --> 01:38:41.560
come back, and then when they
started to cut into that lead, you
1329
01:38:41.720 --> 01:38:46.720
see shooting percentage remained high because they
weren't getting shots off because again they have
1330
01:38:46.760 --> 01:38:51.479
a hard time taking care of the
basketball. Maddening. But a theme of
1331
01:38:51.520 --> 01:38:56.600
the season, theme of the first
game against Oklahoma, or a couple one
1332
01:38:56.640 --> 01:39:00.319
of them was bad free throw shooting. Now, percentage wise, you see
1333
01:39:00.319 --> 01:39:02.880
was fine last night at the free
throw line. They went nine of eleven.
1334
01:39:02.960 --> 01:39:09.000
That'll that percentage will work. But
in critical situations this year we've seen
1335
01:39:09.039 --> 01:39:12.199
the Bearcats struggle at the free throw
line as these Bandego is not a great
1336
01:39:12.199 --> 01:39:14.399
free throw shooter, so I will
be the first to admit that when he
1337
01:39:14.439 --> 01:39:17.760
went to the line with a few
seconds to go down a point, I'm
1338
01:39:17.840 --> 01:39:21.439
not that greedy bud. He just
make one of two, and he did,
1339
01:39:23.159 --> 01:39:26.439
But if he makes both, pretty
damn good chance they win the game.
1340
01:39:27.600 --> 01:39:32.439
Outside shooting, and like outside shooting
can be inconsistent even for teams that
1341
01:39:32.479 --> 01:39:36.880
are good outside shooting teams. But
we heard Wes say often early in the
1342
01:39:36.920 --> 01:39:40.239
season, I think this is going
to be a good outside shooting team,
1343
01:39:40.279 --> 01:39:43.079
and they've had games where they have
shot it well from the outside, but
1344
01:39:44.119 --> 01:39:46.880
boy, it's felt like more often
than not, the shooting percentages aren't there,
1345
01:39:47.720 --> 01:39:53.920
and the ability to make open shots
from outside the arc not there either.
1346
01:39:54.039 --> 01:39:57.399
That was the case last night.
You see starters from behind the arc
1347
01:39:58.159 --> 01:40:02.600
shot four of twenty five. Not
good. As a team, they go
1348
01:40:02.760 --> 01:40:09.800
six for twenty nine, twenty one
percent. And again I thought the overwhelming
1349
01:40:09.840 --> 01:40:13.399
majority. I thought there were maybe
a handful of shots that weren't great looks.
1350
01:40:14.760 --> 01:40:17.840
I thought most of the shots they
missed were very good looks and came
1351
01:40:17.920 --> 01:40:24.880
within the framework of the offense.
There's the low basketball IQ stuff. I
1352
01:40:24.920 --> 01:40:29.279
know, I've ranson and raved about
this all day long. You can't.
1353
01:40:29.600 --> 01:40:31.159
I don't know that there's anything in
the sport that The two things in the
1354
01:40:31.159 --> 01:40:34.560
sport that drive me nuts most.
Number one, when a guy catches a
1355
01:40:34.600 --> 01:40:39.159
pass and his foot is out of
bounds. Number two, fouling a three
1356
01:40:39.199 --> 01:40:43.119
point shooter. Okay, it happens. It can't happen four times, and
1357
01:40:43.159 --> 01:40:46.039
it wasn't just those fouls. Look. I know people love to beat up
1358
01:40:46.039 --> 01:40:50.119
on the rafts, and I do
think Gigsel James on the second to last
1359
01:40:50.119 --> 01:40:55.479
possession of overtime, he dribbles into
the defense. I don't really think that's
1360
01:40:55.479 --> 01:40:58.600
what they were looking for. But
fine, Gigsel was good last night.
1361
01:40:59.079 --> 01:41:00.960
I thought there was enough contact to
blow the whistle. It didn't happen.
1362
01:41:01.000 --> 01:41:03.399
But the fouls that you see committed, I gotta be honest with you,
1363
01:41:03.920 --> 01:41:10.520
I thought those were all legit calls. Some of my favorite players in the
1364
01:41:10.560 --> 01:41:14.079
history of this program, Gary clark
Man. Gary Clark was a great defensive
1365
01:41:14.079 --> 01:41:17.560
player. Dude didn't foul. Sean
Kilpatrick wasn't a great defensive player, but
1366
01:41:17.600 --> 01:41:23.640
he would play thirty seven minutes because
he didn't get in foul trouble. Playing
1367
01:41:23.640 --> 01:41:29.560
good defense means don't foul. There
were so many times last night where it
1368
01:41:29.640 --> 01:41:33.079
felt like they were on the verge
of really being in control of the game.
1369
01:41:34.239 --> 01:41:39.359
A stop and a score at a
stop they can never get to stop.
1370
01:41:40.039 --> 01:41:44.319
Not because anybody in Oklahoma, who
by the way, was playing without
1371
01:41:44.319 --> 01:41:48.279
his leading score was doing anything superlative
on offense. It was because the Bearcats
1372
01:41:48.680 --> 01:41:54.800
kept fouling them. And so the
word that comes to mind. You can
1373
01:41:54.840 --> 01:41:59.840
say frustrating, and you say disappointing. You said maddening to me. Familiar.
1374
01:42:00.279 --> 01:42:09.119
This has been a season of just
gut punch losses where the team has
1375
01:42:09.239 --> 01:42:12.840
shrunken its margin for error. And
this isn't to discredit what the other team
1376
01:42:12.880 --> 01:42:18.199
has done to win, but it
felt familiar. It felt like, well,
1377
01:42:19.319 --> 01:42:27.319
some of the losses we saw the
Bearcats suffer back in January. And
1378
01:42:27.399 --> 01:42:32.920
when a loss in March feels familiar
to so many that occurred weeks ago,
1379
01:42:33.960 --> 01:42:41.319
that is reflective of an overall lack
of improvement, and that's hard to accept.
1380
01:42:45.159 --> 01:42:49.840
That's just really hard to accept and
is at least to a degree reflective
1381
01:42:49.880 --> 01:42:55.319
of the people who run the program. Sorry, I look, you might
1382
01:42:55.359 --> 01:42:58.880
say some of those individual players reached
their limits, and yeah they were shorthanded
1383
01:42:58.960 --> 01:43:05.880
last night. Novak, CJ.
Frederick, Come on. And that to
1384
01:43:05.920 --> 01:43:11.640
me is the most damning thing about
what happened last night, is it?
1385
01:43:12.319 --> 01:43:15.119
It bolsters the argument they've lost four
out of five to end the season.
1386
01:43:15.279 --> 01:43:17.239
I know they have one more game
on Saturday, and I hope they win
1387
01:43:17.279 --> 01:43:23.239
it, but it bolsters, it
bolsters the argument that this team never really
1388
01:43:23.279 --> 01:43:27.560
improved. And if you make that
argument, you've got ammunition to use against
1389
01:43:27.840 --> 01:43:33.439
the head coach. If you just
convinced that he's not the guy, and
1390
01:43:33.520 --> 01:43:35.800
multiple things can be true. Man. You know, you could say,
1391
01:43:35.840 --> 01:43:39.159
well, they've they've done a great
job of fitting into the Big twelve,
1392
01:43:39.159 --> 01:43:41.800
and I keep using the term stand
toe to toe, and they have,
1393
01:43:43.119 --> 01:43:47.680
and there have been some really good
things about this season, but there also
1394
01:43:47.760 --> 01:43:54.319
have been so many games where they
were a play away from winning and didn't.
1395
01:43:54.880 --> 01:43:57.920
And when they didn't, we talked
about how close they were. I
1396
01:43:57.960 --> 01:44:01.079
remember doing this early in the big
schedule. Boy, they're close, They're
1397
01:44:01.119 --> 01:44:06.760
close. I believed it, I
believe it now. But close in January
1398
01:44:08.600 --> 01:44:15.000
is a lot different than close in
March five point thirty on ESPN fifteen thirty.
1399
01:44:15.239 --> 01:44:16.840
All right, let's let's do something
more fun than that. Let's give
1400
01:44:16.840 --> 01:44:23.680
away Kevin Hart tickets Arran. We're
looking for two two contestants. Two contestants.
1401
01:44:23.720 --> 01:44:26.760
Now do we are we going to
tell people how we're gonna play this
1402
01:44:26.880 --> 01:44:29.680
game, what the game is,
how it's gonna work, or we're just
1403
01:44:29.720 --> 01:44:31.920
gonna solicit two contestants. Let's get
two contesting and then we'll tell them once
1404
01:44:31.960 --> 01:44:35.319
we get hurt. We're looking for
people who are big Kevin Hart. Like,
1405
01:44:35.359 --> 01:44:38.840
if you're not a Kevin Hart fan, you don't want the tickets anyway.
1406
01:44:39.000 --> 01:44:45.079
So we're looking for two contestants who
are big Kevin Hart fans. Correct,
1407
01:44:45.680 --> 01:44:47.520
correct, And we're actually going to
go to the show. And I'll
1408
01:44:47.560 --> 01:44:49.399
be flexible because we don't know what
day of this is is. Yeah,
1409
01:44:49.439 --> 01:44:51.880
we don't, so we still don't
know if we have tickets for Saturday or
1410
01:44:51.880 --> 01:44:55.880
Sunday. Yeah. No, And
you have to want to go to the
1411
01:44:55.880 --> 01:44:59.199
show. This has happened. I've
noticed this in my career where people win
1412
01:44:59.279 --> 01:45:02.560
tickets to stuff and then like a
day later, if I can't usually I
1413
01:45:02.640 --> 01:45:05.560
can't go, Well, then what
did you play the game for? So
1414
01:45:05.960 --> 01:45:10.439
before you pick up the phone and
before you call us, before you try
1415
01:45:10.439 --> 01:45:13.880
to win tickets, ask yourself self, do I want to go to that
1416
01:45:13.920 --> 01:45:16.960
show? Self? Can I go
to that show? Or if you win
1417
01:45:17.000 --> 01:45:18.840
the tickets and you don't want to
go to the show, are you going
1418
01:45:18.880 --> 01:45:23.439
to give them to somebody? So? Uh, five one, three,
1419
01:45:23.520 --> 01:45:26.640
seven, four, nine, fifteen
thirty is our phone number. We're looking
1420
01:45:26.640 --> 01:45:31.000
for a pair of contestants who will
play it's a different game than yesterday.
1421
01:45:31.079 --> 01:45:36.039
This is well, we'll explain.
I don't think it's his. I don't
1422
01:45:36.039 --> 01:45:40.520
know if yesterday's game was that difficult. Uh, but but I think it's
1423
01:45:41.359 --> 01:45:44.760
a little less challenging than yesterday's game. Five win three seven four nine,
1424
01:45:44.800 --> 01:45:49.039
fifteen thirty. Kevin Hart uh is
coming to the Andrew Brady Andrew J.
1425
01:45:49.199 --> 01:45:55.079
Brady Music Center, not Andrew F. Brady Andrew J. Brady Music Center.
1426
01:45:55.640 --> 01:45:58.000
And that's gonna be Saint Patrick's Day
weekend. So if you want to
1427
01:45:58.039 --> 01:46:00.479
win tickets, you want to play
our game five three seven nine, fifteen
1428
01:46:00.600 --> 01:46:05.600
thirty. Good luck, Sports Headlines
next DESPN fifteen thirty. Appropriate that you
1429
01:46:05.640 --> 01:46:10.800
played that, because we're about to
have a contest. But first, sports
1430
01:46:10.840 --> 01:46:16.680
Headlines a service of Kelsey Chevrolet home
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1431
01:46:16.680 --> 01:46:23.199
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kelseyschev dot Com. Reds are playing a
1432
01:46:23.439 --> 01:46:28.279
pair of games this afternoon. The
first one, oh not the first one.
1433
01:46:28.319 --> 01:46:30.560
They both started at the same time. Look they play, they're playing
1434
01:46:30.600 --> 01:46:33.640
the Padres now they're on the verge
of closing out that game. In fact,
1435
01:46:33.640 --> 01:46:39.680
it is just gone final, Cincinnati
six' to two winners over the
1436
01:46:40.439 --> 01:46:46.239
Friars. Red's got some homers today. Stevenson and Carnassi on strand Fairchild,
1437
01:46:46.239 --> 01:46:50.720
three innings from Graham Ashcraft, Carson
Spires awesome, four innings struck out five
1438
01:46:51.600 --> 01:46:56.760
and a six to two victory.
The other game, Red's playing the Milwaukee
1439
01:46:56.880 --> 01:47:00.239
Brewers this afternoon. This game is
in Goodyear, Bring Home of the Reds.
1440
01:47:00.279 --> 01:47:05.119
Two nothing. The final Reds lost
that particular ballgame, so by my
1441
01:47:05.279 --> 01:47:11.159
math, they are now five and
six in the If you're is anybody keeping
1442
01:47:11.319 --> 01:47:15.800
track of that Red's lost. There
weren't many highlights offensively, obviously. Brandon
1443
01:47:15.800 --> 01:47:20.680
Williamson started when four innings give up, run struck out for Brent Souter,
1444
01:47:20.720 --> 01:47:27.000
a couple of innings and there you
go. College basketball tonight, Xavier is
1445
01:47:27.159 --> 01:47:30.439
at Butler seven thirty. Excuse me
your tip off? The game is live
1446
01:47:30.479 --> 01:47:36.199
on seven hundred WLWXU a winner in
the first matchup between those two schools.
1447
01:47:36.880 --> 01:47:44.399
Also tonight on ESPN fifteen thirty,
it's Kentucky battling Vanderbilt. Pregame show there
1448
01:47:44.520 --> 01:47:47.960
starts at seven thirty, tip off
at nine o'clock. Also this evening,
1449
01:47:48.039 --> 01:47:54.680
the Indiana Hoosiers take on Michigan,
and I think that would be it for
1450
01:47:54.840 --> 01:47:59.439
your local sports headlines. If I
am not mistaken, and I am not
1451
01:48:00.199 --> 01:48:03.439
all right, it's time Kevin Hart
ticket. Kevin Hart's coming to the Andrew
1452
01:48:03.760 --> 01:48:08.079
J. Brady Music Center. By
the way, is there a show that
1453
01:48:08.119 --> 01:48:13.840
gives away tickets that does a better
job of doing the required plug than we
1454
01:48:13.880 --> 01:48:19.640
do? Probably not Andrew J.
Brady Music Center. This is Saint Patrick's
1455
01:48:19.720 --> 01:48:24.680
Day weekend, So you got Saint
Patty's Day. It's a big college basketball
1456
01:48:24.720 --> 01:48:28.159
weekend. Although are any of our
team's going to be playing that weekend?
1457
01:48:28.239 --> 01:48:32.319
Possibly? You never know, Kentucky
might Kentucky co win the SEC? We
1458
01:48:32.359 --> 01:48:38.960
claim in Kentucky we carry the games
like that. Saturday is the final of
1459
01:48:39.000 --> 01:48:44.000
the Big Eiaest Tournament and the Big
twelve Tournament. Come on, So Kentucky
1460
01:48:44.039 --> 01:48:46.039
might be playing that week and that
would be semi final Saturday in the SEC.
1461
01:48:47.760 --> 01:48:50.840
All right, well, anyway,
Kevin Hart's coming to the Andrew Brady
1462
01:48:50.920 --> 01:48:56.199
Music Center. Who are contestants?
Tarn We're gonna go with Pat and Ron?
1463
01:48:56.359 --> 01:48:59.039
Pat and Ron? Are we doing
the whole coin flip thing again?
1464
01:48:59.119 --> 01:49:00.520
We are? All right? Can
you put Pat and wrong? I can't
1465
01:49:00.560 --> 01:49:06.760
put multiple calls? We have Pat
Hi Pat, and then we hey,
1466
01:49:06.800 --> 01:49:12.800
and then we got Ron. How's
it going pretty good? Pretty good.
1467
01:49:13.640 --> 01:49:15.520
Oh, sure, no problem.
You guys are are Kevin Hart fans.
1468
01:49:15.560 --> 01:49:18.960
Now we're gonna we're gonna play a
little game here, uh, And we're
1469
01:49:19.000 --> 01:49:23.680
gonna have one person play and the
other person sit and do nothing. And
1470
01:49:23.720 --> 01:49:26.479
if the person who is playing wins, they go to Kevin Hart. And
1471
01:49:26.520 --> 01:49:30.000
if the person who's playing doesn't win, and the person who is doing nothing
1472
01:49:30.399 --> 01:49:32.319
is going to see Kevin Hart.
Tern. Did I explain that successfully?
1473
01:49:32.760 --> 01:49:36.039
Yes? You did? Okay?
Are we letting who? We letting pick
1474
01:49:36.199 --> 01:49:41.239
who plays and who sids? So
we're flipping a coin again. It's a
1475
01:49:41.319 --> 01:49:47.079
virtual coin flip. Now have we
validated the accuracy of this? All right?
1476
01:49:47.399 --> 01:49:51.520
Who's who is calling the coin?
Who's calling it heads or tails?
1477
01:49:51.960 --> 01:49:55.159
Now? How do I know which
one's pat? Which one's wrong? They
1478
01:49:55.159 --> 01:49:58.840
both sound the same, I got, all right, pat call it heads
1479
01:49:58.920 --> 01:50:01.880
or tails. We're gonna call tales, all right, tales never fails,
1480
01:50:02.239 --> 01:50:08.880
Arran, flip the virtual coin,
virtual tales, it's virtual tail tale,
1481
01:50:09.279 --> 01:50:12.600
it's heads? Okay? Can I
can I just can I hear that again?
1482
01:50:12.680 --> 01:50:15.560
Can I hear the flipping of the
coin again? Wow? That is
1483
01:50:15.640 --> 01:50:18.920
all right? So? So who's
our person here? So we let we
1484
01:50:19.000 --> 01:50:26.039
let lost track of my own contest. Ron, do you want to play?
1485
01:50:26.119 --> 01:50:30.079
You want to sit and do nothing? All right? Ron's gonna play.
1486
01:50:30.079 --> 01:50:32.039
All right, So here's what we're
gonna do. Now. Ron's gonna
1487
01:50:32.079 --> 01:50:35.439
play. If Ron wins, He's
going to Kevin Hart. Pat's gonna do
1488
01:50:35.479 --> 01:50:41.239
nothing. If Ron doesn't do this
correctly, and god knows, can you
1489
01:50:41.239 --> 01:50:44.520
blame him? If I've confused him? Uh, then Pat's gonna go see
1490
01:50:44.800 --> 01:50:47.239
Kevin Hart. Tarn. Explain what
we're gonna do here. Explain to Ron
1491
01:50:47.319 --> 01:50:50.199
and frankly me, how we're gonna
give away these tickets? What game we're
1492
01:50:50.199 --> 01:50:54.159
gonna be playing. Basically, we're
just playing two truths and a lie about
1493
01:50:54.199 --> 01:50:58.680
Kevin Hart's life. Two truths and
a lie about Kevin Heart's life. And
1494
01:50:58.680 --> 01:51:01.640
and Ron here has to pick which
the lie is correct correct? Okay,
1495
01:51:02.119 --> 01:51:06.159
very simple? And you're Terren's a
big Kevin Hart fans. You've come up
1496
01:51:06.159 --> 01:51:11.000
with the three statements, two of
which are truths, one of which is
1497
01:51:11.000 --> 01:51:15.359
a lie. Correct correct? All
right? Read for me statement about Kevin
1498
01:51:15.359 --> 01:51:18.319
Hart number one, number one.
He has an alter ego name Chocolate Drop.
1499
01:51:18.800 --> 01:51:23.439
He hasn't yes, Okay, well
wait, doesn't he have to wait
1500
01:51:23.520 --> 01:51:27.159
till you read them all tarn Yes, okay, So Rod Hank tight alright,
1501
01:51:27.279 --> 01:51:29.800
all right, see, well we
know what he we know what he
1502
01:51:29.800 --> 01:51:32.239
thinks. One of the truths is
all right, give me statement. His
1503
01:51:32.399 --> 01:51:38.000
name's his nicknames Chocolate Drop, Wow, I give the Okay, I might
1504
01:51:38.039 --> 01:51:41.479
want to know more about that.
Give me give me statement number two.
1505
01:51:41.720 --> 01:51:45.760
Statement number two. Kevin Hart is
the owner of a vodka brand, of
1506
01:51:45.760 --> 01:51:47.600
a vodka brand. Okay, Kevin
Hart is the owner of a vodka brand.
1507
01:51:47.600 --> 01:51:51.760
Give me statement number three. And
Kevin Hart is a four time celebrity
1508
01:51:51.840 --> 01:51:57.199
MVP, four time like in the
NBA Celebrity Game. Correct, four time
1509
01:51:57.399 --> 01:52:00.199
MVP of the Celebrity Game at the
NBA All Star Weekend. All right,
1510
01:52:00.319 --> 01:52:04.880
Ron, can you tell us which
of those three statements is not a truth?
1511
01:52:08.199 --> 01:52:13.720
I do know that he did win
the All Star Game movie pH I
1512
01:52:13.800 --> 01:52:18.800
know he has a record, the
records for most I don't shoot Okay,
1513
01:52:18.880 --> 01:52:21.039
So I do know he got that. And then the other one was he
1514
01:52:21.560 --> 01:52:27.800
said does he own a he said
a vodka vodka brand? My goodness,
1515
01:52:29.239 --> 01:52:33.399
I want to say, Okay,
so is it? Is it? Because
1516
01:52:33.439 --> 01:52:39.880
I've seen him in a vodka commercial
for something I think, Okay, Okay,
1517
01:52:40.039 --> 01:52:43.399
I think I think he had tequila
or vodka. Tequila or vodka.
1518
01:52:43.479 --> 01:52:45.319
Okay, I think it's a big
thing, is tequila. I guess that's
1519
01:52:45.359 --> 01:52:48.560
what people are investing in a lot
of So I would think that he does
1520
01:52:48.600 --> 01:52:53.359
not have a vodka. I know
it's alcohol, but I want to say
1521
01:52:53.359 --> 01:52:59.119
it's tequila shot. Are you sure? Are you sure? I've seen him
1522
01:52:59.159 --> 01:53:00.960
in commercials, but I know,
like a big thing, like even the
1523
01:53:01.039 --> 01:53:06.920
Rock final answer. Now, yeah, yes, he does not own voc
1524
01:53:08.079 --> 01:53:11.680
I'm gonna say he owns tequila.
Okay, So you're saying statement number twoe
1525
01:53:11.880 --> 01:53:15.680
number two is the lie? Correct? All right, Tarn give me the
1526
01:53:15.760 --> 01:53:18.920
verdict. Ron is correct. Ron
is correct. Do you have any have
1527
01:53:18.960 --> 01:53:23.239
any winter noise? I didn't have
to have an All right, Well,
1528
01:53:23.279 --> 01:53:27.840
okay, well here's what we're gonna
Congratulations to Ron. I put I successfully
1529
01:53:27.840 --> 01:53:31.720
put Ron on hold. Congratulations to
Ron. Are condolences to Pat. But
1530
01:53:32.359 --> 01:53:38.640
we are going to give away more
tickets tomorrow and Friday. Now we are
1531
01:53:38.760 --> 01:53:41.640
we are figured with the game tomorrow. He is correct. I think tomorrow
1532
01:53:41.960 --> 01:53:46.560
is going to be know your celebrity
kevins Yah, know your celebrity Kevins and
1533
01:53:46.640 --> 01:53:51.880
Friday, I really want to play
Guess the foot. Got two pairs Friday,
1534
01:53:53.000 --> 01:53:56.119
right, We have two pairs Friday. We didn't give one more because
1535
01:53:56.119 --> 01:53:58.560
I wasn't here Monday, and we
have one pair of Day. So we
1536
01:53:58.600 --> 01:54:03.000
have two pair on Friday. So
like we have three pairs, I can
1537
01:54:03.159 --> 01:54:06.439
use one pair to play Guess the
foot, right of course? Okay,
1538
01:54:06.479 --> 01:54:12.399
and then tomorrow is gonna be Know
your celebrity Kevin's. Are there enough famous
1539
01:54:12.399 --> 01:54:15.119
people with the last name of Heart. You got Mary Hart, you got
1540
01:54:15.159 --> 01:54:20.199
Brett Hitman Hart, Owen Hart,
Owen Hart, you got former US president
1541
01:54:20.520 --> 01:54:25.359
presidential candidate Gary Hart, you got
Nick's Josh Hart, Josh Hart of the
1542
01:54:25.439 --> 01:54:31.600
nixt best rebounding guard in the league. Know your hearts, your hearts all
1543
01:54:31.720 --> 01:54:35.399
right? Anyway, Congratulations to a
Ron Ron. Feel free to take pat
1544
01:54:35.439 --> 01:54:39.000
to Kevin Hart. Whatever night it
is, you know he's coming to the
1545
01:54:39.239 --> 01:54:46.600
Andrew Brady Andrew Jay Brady Music Center, Saint Patrick's Day weekend the sixteenth and
1546
01:54:46.640 --> 01:54:51.600
seventeenth. Get your tickets now,
wherever you get your tickets, They're on
1547
01:54:51.640 --> 01:54:57.279
ticket Master. I went to Ticketmaster. I'm taking my daughter to Disney on
1548
01:54:57.359 --> 01:55:02.800
ice. Ticketmaster night Disney on ice. All right, it is fourteen away
1549
01:55:02.840 --> 01:55:10.479
from six. This is ESPN fifteen
thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Find that guy
1550
01:55:10.680 --> 01:55:15.760
every time he asks about the DL
nine minutes away from six o'clock. Don't
1551
01:55:15.760 --> 01:55:18.319
forget. We have a UK basketball
on ESPN fifteen thirty pre game. It's
1552
01:55:18.359 --> 01:55:26.119
seven thirty. Wildcats the largest variance
of any team in the field this year.
1553
01:55:26.319 --> 01:55:30.399
They could they could storm through four
games and get to the Final four
1554
01:55:30.600 --> 01:55:35.119
and just hammer people offensively and nobody
would be surprised. They could give up
1555
01:55:35.119 --> 01:55:39.840
two hundred and five points to a
lower seeded team in round one and nobody
1556
01:55:39.880 --> 01:55:43.399
would be surprised. Anyway, they
play Vanderbilt tonight at nine o'clock. Fine,
1557
01:55:43.439 --> 01:55:45.760
note real quick, are you rooting
for Kentucky next week? Like I
1558
01:55:45.840 --> 01:55:48.319
am? Yeah, okay, yeah, we need the fifth seed. I
1559
01:55:48.359 --> 01:55:53.520
did the research. We need them
to get to five seed. Why are
1560
01:55:53.600 --> 01:55:57.239
we going to disclose why we're rooting
for them? I think people would know
1561
01:55:57.279 --> 01:56:00.239
that that day when it happens.
But we need them to get the five
1562
01:56:00.279 --> 01:56:02.920
seed. Correct, Yes, rooting
for the five seed for the Wildcats.
1563
01:56:05.600 --> 01:56:09.560
How much time do we have,
Taren? You got a three minutes?
1564
01:56:09.960 --> 01:56:14.800
Mike? You got two and a
half minutes go. No, I've got
1565
01:56:14.800 --> 01:56:18.479
the most palpable example of how difficult
it is to hit a baseball, and
1566
01:56:18.520 --> 01:56:24.239
I'll get to that in one minute. Okay, I'm following your lead with
1567
01:56:24.319 --> 01:56:28.479
teasers, even though you have the
power to get rid of my teaser with
1568
01:56:28.560 --> 01:56:32.560
a push of a button, don't
you, Caren. I had a paying
1569
01:56:32.600 --> 01:56:40.600
forward experience about twenty minutes ago at
Route's grocery store in Oceanside for twenty seven
1570
01:56:40.680 --> 01:56:45.640
dollars and thirty three cents, and
listen says this. I asked about five
1571
01:56:45.680 --> 01:56:51.199
different guys, three of them two
yeah, three, two and a half.
1572
01:56:51.560 --> 01:56:55.640
We're, you know, looking like
times are tough a little bit so.
1573
01:56:56.359 --> 01:56:59.359
But I asked five different guys,
one woman and four guys if they
1574
01:56:59.359 --> 01:57:02.439
had ever heard a low Egger show. Oh yeah, sure. They looked
1575
01:57:02.439 --> 01:57:05.159
at me like I said, you
haven't heard of the mow Ager show.
1576
01:57:05.199 --> 01:57:09.399
It's a paying forward show. It's
all over the country, you know.
1577
01:57:09.479 --> 01:57:13.439
It's it's funny. I go to
family gatherings and I ask people the same
1578
01:57:13.479 --> 01:57:17.479
thing and they look at me the
same way. Oh that's real. Bit
1579
01:57:18.119 --> 01:57:20.680
Okay, quick question. I got
a lot of stuff I wanted to get
1580
01:57:20.680 --> 01:57:26.880
to as usual, but I'll just
wait. You've been watching the Bearcats for
1581
01:57:26.880 --> 01:57:30.880
forty years. I've been watching them
since fifty nine. But I got to
1582
01:57:30.920 --> 01:57:34.359
ask you this question. When you
were at the super Bowl with the ice
1583
01:57:34.520 --> 01:57:42.319
chest, was there a tenth I've
got a really great artist friend in Cincinnati,
1584
01:57:42.399 --> 01:57:46.319
I mean, really talented artist friend, and he's done some sketches for
1585
01:57:46.359 --> 01:57:51.439
me over the years that are pretty
cool, like my parents and my dog
1586
01:57:51.640 --> 01:57:57.239
and stuff like that. So paint
me a quick picture. You're sitting by
1587
01:57:57.279 --> 01:58:00.520
the ice chest, it's a hot
day, You're you're at the beach in
1588
01:58:00.600 --> 01:58:05.279
San Monica, right, I was
on was on Third Street? On third
1589
01:58:05.319 --> 01:58:10.800
Street? Okay, was there a
tent over your head? No, which
1590
01:58:10.880 --> 01:58:14.399
made me worry that the equipment was
going to overheat because it was really hot.
1591
01:58:15.479 --> 01:58:18.520
So you were surrounded by transmitting equipment. Well not really, I mean
1592
01:58:18.800 --> 01:58:24.279
the the equipment fits fit into a
like a small carrying case, a small
1593
01:58:24.319 --> 01:58:29.760
suitcase. But there is a concern
that if that stuff overheats, then it
1594
01:58:29.800 --> 01:58:34.399
doesn't work. So I had I
had no tent, so you just looked
1595
01:58:34.479 --> 01:58:41.960
like some guys sitting there by.
Yeah, I literally I looked the first
1596
01:58:42.199 --> 01:58:46.039
hour that I broadcast. I literally
sat on the curb and then somebody brought
1597
01:58:46.079 --> 01:58:49.720
over to like stools, one for
me to sit in, one for me
1598
01:58:49.800 --> 01:58:54.920
to put my equipment in. But
that was it. Yeah, the next
1599
01:58:54.960 --> 01:58:57.479
to an ice chest. And the
reason I was next to an ice chest
1600
01:58:57.520 --> 01:59:00.560
is the ice chest was plugged into
something and I used the other were outlet
1601
01:59:00.600 --> 01:59:03.880
to plug in a search protector and
get the equipment plugged in. That's what
1602
01:59:03.960 --> 01:59:06.840
it was. That's what it was. That was Okay, Well, I'm
1603
01:59:06.880 --> 01:59:11.039
working on something. It might be
a real kind of a neat present for
1604
01:59:11.119 --> 01:59:15.279
you, and I could drop off. But this example of how hard it
1605
01:59:15.359 --> 01:59:18.520
is to hit a baseball. Now
you agree that hitting a baseball is harder
1606
01:59:18.560 --> 01:59:23.039
than shooting a basketball or catching a
football? Am I correct? Uh?
1607
01:59:23.199 --> 01:59:26.119
Yes, but I think those other
things are quite difficult too. But go
1608
01:59:26.119 --> 01:59:30.880
ahead. We got forty five seconds, okay, So if you take your
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keys out of your pocket, hold
them at your waist, drop them to
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the floor, that's how long a
hitter has to see up down this,
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that, sideways wherever. That is
the most palpable example I can think of
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for people to do at home.
I'm going to borrow that and use that
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time and again during the season.
Mike, have a great night you too.
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Well, all right, see you
man, We have to go.
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I think tomorrow we have kindred d
Saint Paul being from MLS season Pass to
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02:00:00.319 --> 02:00:05.600
talk FC Cincinnati, Chad Brendle's gonna
be with us, and more more injury
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02:00:05.640 --> 02:00:09.760
updates on the Reds to get to
as well. We are pretty much done.
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Uh, you could listen to anything
you might have missed except yesterday's show
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02:00:14.800 --> 02:00:18.840
because Terran didn't podcasted at the iHeartRadio
app and uh on the podcast page of
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02:00:19.039 --> 02:00:25.319
ESPN fifteen thirty dot com and uh, that's the service of long neck Sports
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02:00:25.359 --> 02:00:31.319
grill. I'm sorry, I really
thought I did. That's all right,
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02:00:31.640 --> 02:00:34.279
sent the clip and everything you did. The clip look great, man.
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02:00:34.319 --> 02:00:38.239
You were awesome podcast Paul, which
is the best part of the show.
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02:00:38.279 --> 02:00:40.600
So we have to go. Have
a great night back tomorrow, thanks to
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Arran, Thanks to you. See
ESPN fifteen thirty