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Welcome in, Final Four and Senra. Podcast is what I'm calling this bear. I got a bunch of things written down I want to ask you about. I do want to check in.

Miami Hurricane Nation, that close. Water run. The first half of that game was absolutely incredible after watching some of the other things, i.e. going over Houston the day before.

But are we good? We're ramping up? Yeah, no. We'll bring the ball season.

We're good. It was a hell of a run and it was something you and I had talked about. I thought the winner of that USC Miami game could very easily find themselves in the eight just because of the having the weakest truth in there in Auburn and a situation in the Sweet 16 with the Week 3 or Iowa State or coach without a team without a hand coach. They made me look good in that regard.

I was like, I'm not going to be a fan of the first half. I was kind of sitting there and I'm like, you know, more and Miller but on the bench basically the entire time with El Trouble and they're up six. And then of course the flip side of that was Kansas is like three of eight from the free throw line and hadn't made a three point yet. So you knew the run was coming and they just unfortunately had no answers for it.

But am I disappointed? Yeah, I'm disappointed but I'm not like tragic like I was, say with the year they got beat by Tulsa and would have been playing North Carolina with I think was a really good team. I say to it felt like the repeat of the 98 in 2010 AFC a year. So they again were in the third quarter of the Carlton third quarter and that absolutely struck in the second half.

So it had that feeling doing. No, we're good. Alright. Not be worth it.

I need to do a little bit more. I need to do some more Masters homework this week. I need to do some baseball homework this week. And I think early next week maybe we can do a baseball.

Bring forecast. Yeah. Bring for exactly there we go. Here's what we got in the Masters.

Here's some baseball bets. And we'll go from there staying on the topic of how we feeling. I gotta ask you Kentucky. Marie Perdue.

like who's hurting the most? The easy answer is Kentucky, but at least St. Peter's made some reason that game. It's got to be Purdue.

Okay. Even though, and now you're getting all the blue blood talk about this final forward Kentucky's not there. That's where I think the piling on has been a little too much. Like Kentucky people had a rough couple of weeks.

They don't need this stuff. People just going after him. So I do feel bad, but go ahead. You're you're going to say Purdue.

You know, I think it's Purdue mainly because eating was terrible. Like the decision making on some of the shot selection was terrible. And Jay and I, you look like he might have been shaving points without before he was playing him. They were so tentative.

Like when Savannah bitches like the only guy willing to take shots. Yeah. Like that's a problem. But yeah, it's got to be what?

It's St. Peter's shooting like 33% from the field and one. I mean, it's ridiculous. So I mean, I get the Kentucky answer, but I think it's Purdue just knowing that you're in the sweet 16 and you got 15C and you can't beat them.

Unreal. Unreal stuff. Credit to St. Peter's.

And I will say, I just, the St. Peter's deal is pre-I opening to me of just how they handled it. Because you brought up Laronaga. And that's the one that I keep going back to.

I have another side of this also. But like Laronaga, when they made that run, he did everything and had the best time doing it. Whereas it felt like St. Peter's had this thing.

Like we're holding back. We're not letting anybody in. We are who we are. We're tough.

We're Northeast kids. And I just felt like it really caught up to them when they need to be their best. Because it felt like they were tight against Carolina. Even with the Holloway interview, he was like, we'll be all right.

And they're just asking, hey, what do you think you're going to do it? Well, we'll be all right. No, you're not. We've done.

So it was just one of those things. And I will say, I mentioned this on Scott's spot earlier this week. It's really hard to be out in public and rooting against Cinderella. Being in some investment situations with teams that we're playing the Murray game, I'll go back to.

I thought they got a brutal whistle in the first half. And then Purdue just having a future. And knowing what's at stake in a Calcutta pool, we could talk about later that I'm in. Not being brash or a root, I'll believe it.

But just the idea that Cinderella carries in the people they drag along with them that find the root of form is just incredible. And it's the place you only get in the NCAA tournament. So I just thought that was different in years past where I thought Mason and VCU handle things differently than St. Peter's.

They made a rowing city on the map for sure. And hopefully they'll have more season ticket holders in the next year after averaging 530 fans. Exactly. That's what I hope happens here now.

I hope that the community comes out and supports them a little bit better than what they had. But for whatever coach will be there next year, because she can hollow away one might be. Yeah, I mean, I thought it'd be done all right. There was talks it was done on his drive back.

But yeah, we'll wait and see on that one. Let's get into it. First game, Nova, Kansas, four and a half. I see the number 133 over under.

Is that what you're saying? Yeah. So what exactly was the first half number? Because that's what I want to get into.

Probably 66 or some of them. I was going to say, if you could get 67 maybe, I like that. Because of the idea of the final four, the idea with the arena is going to be like, I know they, I mean, I've shocked that all these teams are already there. I thought that was pretty surprising.

And I think that's too. Ooh, all right. That's different then. Because I was banking on a first half under.

No one would feel no one was capable of. No one what Kansas was against Miami. And now they're going to get the totally different aspect of things. Like Miami wanted to go and coach.

Let's run faster and Kansas ended up running a lot faster in the second half. But that first half, step for step, they were with them. The game of runs was incredible. And now you get a total contrast of Villanova.

And I know people are going to talk about the lack of depth and losing more. And I get it. He's a great player. But as far as fatigue and being able to play, I mean, Archie D'Ocken will spare some minutes in the first step.

I'll probably play a little bit more. I think he had played four against Houston. But with the TV timeout and everything, as long as they stay out of foul trouble, I'm not worried about Villanova's fatigue. I'm really not.

And I'm not having a problem taking them. I think they will keep this at close. On them contesting Kansas threes, which I thought caught up at Miami where they run and jump in and try those traps and give them Kansas the open threes. I think Villanova will be a lot smarter and safer defensively.

And that's why I think those threes will be contested for Kansas. So I look at Villanova. I look at that under. I'll still say first half under.

And I look at Villanova plus the points in that first game. I'm looking for every reason to bet Villanova here. I'm hoping it goes to five. I'm going to wait it out.

I don't think it's going to go to four or three and a half. It's the most before five. But I'm looking for every reason to bet Villanova in this game. More as a master.

I probably would have picked Villanova when this title amongst this group before had more been there. But I do think, like you said, losing him is the productivity of losing him is a big deal. It's not the depth. It's not the bench.

I just said, you're getting three and a half minute TV time out, so whatever they are now, the pace of this game will not be as fast. So I am with you there. And you still need to remember too. I think there's a bit of a recency bias here that the thing that everybody that happened most recently was what Kansas did to Miami in the second half of that game.

And that's fine. I mean, the Kansas is good. It's really good. But at the same time, this is still a team that against Creighton was one made three point shot away from being in big trouble against a team that will, by the way, play five or six guys.

And Creighton. And then in the next round, they let Providence right back in the game, a team that they had beaten Handley. And then they kind of fell asleep with the wheel problems came back and that game that tied, I believe. So it's not like the Kansas that we saw second half of Miami.

Here's the Kansas we've seen throughout the season. And the entire point of it. Great point. So I think the people remember Miami, but you also got to remember what happened for R2.

That's all I I respect the hell out of J right and his ability to come up with some kind of game plan here to figure out, slow them down. And they blown this game out before they blew them out a couple of years ago when they had a great team that won the title. I don't think that'll happen again. I'd like to see like a biggest lead prop in this game.

I think Suckam usually puts those up. I can't see this game getting out of hand either way. I'm curious what the number might be for biggest lead. Like would it be like 10 or 11 somewhere around there?

Maybe like I don't think this game is it gets out of control when the C team going big run and get a big. But I am I am I am looking for every reason to go over. Hopefully a better number than we have now. And here's what I think.

I think Kansas will be the public play. No one like you said, the the recent division we have of last things we saw. But you're going to get the money just because of how successful they've been and going back and look at these numbers are for no and tournament in this tournament against the spread in since 2016. They're 23 outright 19 and four against the spread in the United States.

So there's plenty of Nova backers out there that are not going to get off the wagon, especially with them as a dog. So that that's pretty interesting to me. A couple of the player props I got there. I think Caleb Daniels is a guy to look at because of his athleticism and his ability to create his own shot.

His point total is at 12 and a half. I look at him Gillespie's 14 and a half. He's going to have to be a guy that scores more. Yeah, that's why I think in his over like his three three pointers is one and a half.

I would look at that over because he's going to take more than he's usually taken. You could bet that and a little motivation he is from the Orleans. I think he's going to play his butt off. And if he ever got that follow dunk against Houston, I think the place would come down.

That was incredible where he came from in that game. But that's when I look at that game, a couple of the Kansas Summer, Abaji 16 and a half points. Remy Martin, 11 and a half. I feel like people will bet the over on that a lot.

What do you think about the Abaji number? He passed up a lot of looks. That's what he does though. I thought he's why interview wise.

He's one of the most mature players you're going to hear from. And I noticed that earlier in the year. And that's what I thought you've seen from Kansas this year is this isn't his most talented team. No, close.

When you go back and look at the title team with the Morris wins in Chalmers, guys like that. But Abaji has all the goods. And that's what I love about him. He does it for some.

He makes a play that which really opened it up where he misses the breakaway layup, taps the ball back and bounds, goes to the corner, hits an open three against Miami. That's the stuff that he's capable of. When I feel like Villanot is ability to switch on and off, I would lean towards the under 16 and a half on Abaji. Just because he's that guy, he's not going to force anything.

And they might have better options when they get into their motion offense and create switches which Villanot loves to do. I would agree with that. This is a three point props to Abaji over one and a half, three pointers minus one 90. Wow, big juice there.

Yeah, Remy Martin over one and a half plus 175. And Gillespie is over two and a half plus 115. That might be. No, I think he's three, hold shit.

I would think so. I know Kansas is great. I just love how many guys they have in the back court to defend. And you saw that against Miami.

What else in this game, anything? I'm trying to stick away. I'm going to go Villanot and first half under. I will stick to it even though that is a low number.

Just going off the basis of shooting in a dome for the first time, which is different. I do love the Elite Aids being in mostly NBA arenas. Yes, absolutely. Even though the underrs are absolutely killing it, sweet 16 and Elite Aids.

Is Carolina game go over? I'm trying to think. I don't know. I will admit something here.

I turned it off and put on the power. Agreed. So once it was funny, because before that game, we're going back and forth like that. And he puts it, what time, how much time on the clock when the money line gets taken off the board?

And I said, that probably the under four. And I think I got the 3-18 when I got to that timeout and there was no more money line. So that was laughing at that. And then I had to just watch and make sure Scottie Shefford didn't throw up all over himself.

We'll be over over because he almost did. Oh, what was he doing on 13? I know. Why are you hitting driver trying to go for the green?

All you need to do is have a hole and you just you're cutting DJ's legs out. You need to win the hole and basically give him the hole. And all the momentum. That shot he hit on 16 and then he missed the eagle putt.

And then the tee shot on 17 was fantastic. So good for him for bouncing back and winning. I can't wait for next week. I mean, if the big man's coming in to look out, that's going to be, can we get Tiger Woods, Harry Higgs?

That's what I want if he plays at the Masters. That would be great. Well, I think you and the Call Man should send a note into Mr. Ridley and Mr.

Ethan. And see if you guys can work on that. We will work on that. That's actually something, though, that I'm glad you hit.

I guess we were talking a little bit about this on Daily Wager last night. I think there's going to be a mad rush, like if he does play, to like, bet him to miss the color or something. But I wouldn't do that. I'd be careful because I think yesterday's trip was basically, OK, am I going to embarrass myself if I play?

And if he plays, it means that he's not going to embarrass himself. He feels like he can walk the course and do OK. And they're probably about 20 people. I'm going to say is a conservative guess in the field based on the exemptions and the qualifiers for this field that have no shot of making the cut.

So he's got a buffer there of a bunch of guys below him that are going to kind of raise him up. Like if he plays, it wouldn't surprise me if he finished top 30 or something. He was, of course, like back and forth. But he's not going to win.

And I think the way you want to expose the market or try and beat the market would probably better is look at what the head to heads are, look at what is fitting, finishing position, what is what is stories, maybe what is opening around by round scores. That's where you're going to be. Not betting that he will make the cut. No.

I think that would probably be a bad bet of the place. Do you know off the top of your head what the average number is to make the cut there? Is it that high of a variance every year? Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Because you're looking at it. It seems like change the cut line too. Yeah. I think it's like 10 shots and ties.

It's either 10 shots and ties or like top 50 in top 50 in those within 10 shots. I totally forgot what they changed to do. But whatever since then, you're getting like if there are 90, 96 people in the field, 98 people in the field, like 70 people in the bank would make it the cut. So like it's a very, very low.

Even par will make the cut, right? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, see that's the whole thing. You can probably be plus one and make the cut.

That's where I think he's coming in. When you're saying non-embarrassed himself, like he's got a field like he could shoot par. That's what I would think for his mindset and knowing the person that he is. So definitely keep your eyes open there for a little master's look ahead stuff as all those numbers will be flying in.

Before we move on, I would like to mention there's a new SV pod out. Scott and I ran through all the results from the Elite A. Looking ahead to the final four, all that comes with it. He was at the last time Carolina played Duke.

We take that from what he learned in that watching and look ahead to this one. So all that in the new SV pod, follow SV pod wherever you listen to your podcast. All right, let's get to it. It's the second game.

It's the one everybody's talking about. Carolina, Duke is four. They were 11 and 1-2 at the game of Cameron and got white in the second half, especially in the last 10 minutes. We all watched it.

We all knew what happened. And I get it here. You could say what you want to me, with me being a Duke fan. But I've been on Carolina in this tournament.

I have a very high investment of both these games. I've been Villanova and Carolina in a pool. I'm in. So there's that I have going for me.

But here's the deal I will say. And I think you really saw it against Arkansas, which really disappointed me. I don't want to say that it gave up, but it's sort of like they threw the towel in the last seven minutes. It was just done.

They had no answer for the zone. I don't know if they were happy with the whistle they were getting. But Carolina already seen Mark Williams and Duke twice, I think is a huge factor. And now you've got another week to prepare for that zone.

Now you can put Baycott in the middle of it. You can put Manic in the middle of it. You can put Love in the middle of it to get that ball moving around it. And Manic's a guy that I have circled.

I didn't do it. And I should have before this week 16 to win Most Outstanding Player. My question is, has the tournament Most Outstanding Player ever been thrown out of a game for a bad elbow losing 10 minutes? Because that's where I was.

I think I saw a number before the sweet 16. He was like 66 to one to win tournament Most Outstanding Player. And that's the guy, because when you watch him and how quick his release is, I say all the time, every time he shoots it, I feel like it's going in. The arc he has on the ball, the form, the quick release, the rotation, everything looks so good.

And he's going to get open looks against Duke. He got him against in Durham. And he missed somebody, he also made some. And to me, he's going to take him.

Manic is over two and a half threes plus 100. So that's even money. I would jump on that. I think he's going to be the guy that scores for Carolina.

And I know love has been incredible. I just don't see him being able to make the shots he did against UCLA again. At the rate he did, I mean, he'll make some free shots. He was a couple of the other in time for the reason that he knocked down, for sure.

But the other thing was bare every time they needed him. Like what he made, like they absolutely needed, because that's what UCLA does, is just grind you down and that makes you work on the other end. And for them to keep it within one, take the lead by one, I kept the pressure on UCLA that made them uncomfortable. But going back to Carolina, I look at Manic, his points are, let's see.

16 and a half. 16 and a half. I like that over. I mean, going back, I had college hoops guys go back and look at this because it feels like this Duke Carolina game, just being watching it every year forever.

The number lately has been around 150, the total. And since 2017, 18, those two games, I'm going down the list here, got in 2017, the first time I played over on it was 168. This is the third lowest. In 2021, it was 147.

And here's the other thing. It's gone over the last six times they've played. Did you know? And now you got neutral site.

And in 2018, 19, it was covered. I believe that was Barclays. I was at that one. That was the last one to go under.

That was 164 and a half. But this one's right around. Was it 150, right? This 151 is what I saw.

OK. Now, I kind of like the under here. You do. I do.

I think the way Duke has played defensively, the last couple of games, bodes well. And you pointed out the way they just seem like they just lit the stamp in that game, in that Cameron game. And it just kind of got out of control. I don't think obviously that's going to happen again.

Yeah. I think the way I don't think Duke wants to get into it, we're going up and down the floor and let Carolina fire all those threes and knocks them down. I think this is a slower pace game. And I think the way Williams has developed in the paint as a rebounder and shop locker, he's been great.

The way Roaches played, he's been amazing. I do expect the best of the most impressive team to turn. And yeah, I keep like 70. You're looking at 76.75.

He's basically what we're really. What 77, 74, 78, 74 is kind of what the line is suggesting. I think that's a pretty high scoring game based on what I expect. A piece of look, I like Duke in this game.

I do. But basically you're looking at what was the number in Cameron when they first played 11, 11 and 1 half. And I know obviously that was higher because there was so much interest in the building and they were going to make that. Make high, but that really didn't mean anything.

Exactly. But now you're basically getting seven points off based on what we thought a month ago. Yeah, I don't know. Not even a month ago.

Yeah. I'd be I like Duke in this game as much as I would love to see my guy, you'd be get to the national title game. And I'm not being like reverse psychology here with you and all. There is a part of me that just kind of feels like, all right, this is the way it's going to happen.

That way, this is how it's going to end in fine. But I think the way Duke is played, the physicality they shown, the emotion, the maturity that I mean coming back from against Michigan State when it looked like they were done in the Texas Tech. Was it was 68, 62? What Texas Tech led to get to six?

And then they completely just shut them down. The rest of the game and then the Arkansas game was never a game. So I like the way Duke is played. And I think they take care of this is everything.

Yeah, it's going to be interesting. Maybe another first half under because that would be what? 75. That's a lot right.

151. You're looking at 75. 76. Some of you somewhere around there, right?

Yeah. I see. No, a little lower, actually, 71. Boy, David's first final four parents, obviously as a coach, coach is making their final four debuts are 71 and 1 against the spread and national semis in the last 10 years.

Carolina 71 against the spread in their last eight games. Last games I mentioned have last six have gone over in this match up and Caroline has covered eight of the last 10 against Duke. So there's plenty there. I do, like I said, the familiarity that Caroline has had, and I'm not saying Caroline Arkansas and Tech and Michigan State were in awe of Duke in any way, but I just thought the because everybody forgets also Griffin went crazy in the game at Chapel Hill.

He probably played his best game before the game against Arkansas and you really saw Duke being able to put the ball in the basket against Caroline. Like Carolina has that in their head and it's gone against that and has been able to now get another week to see everything different. Duke has done schematically with a lot more offensive sets. They've shown since that game of Cameron.

So that's why I feel like Caroline is a great player. Moneyline, everything. I think they're five to one. On the one side I saw to win the title, but I know going ahead myself with the being a Duke fan, I'll have Caroline to win the title and they'll beat Duke to put me in my misery and then lose the title game.

So that's I have a little fear and thrown down on that one, but I do love everything about Carolina coming in the game. I just the free willingness they have on offense. Like we talked about the team's struggle to get to say Peters Caroline is just what we're going to do. Go ahead and stop it.

We'll get the ball inside. We'll make open shots. That's what you have to do when you're playing against those underdogs and I just feel like that confidence they're playing is so dark. And Duke has been as confident as anyone also.

But I like I said, the familiarity and the idea of CNN twice already makes me think Caroline is the side there. Yeah, I would love to see either Carolina or Villanor wins. I did pick up some North Carolina at 21 to win the title. During tournament and I played Villanor over at 29 to 1 prior to the tournament to win because I had I had Tennessee.

I had UCLA and I was just looking for another another team that wasn't one of the obvious teams that people were betting. So I played Villanor over 29 to 1, 20, 80. Well, if it's North Carolina and Nova in the title game, your boy here is going to be having a good time down the world because we got some financial backing that would make things a lot better. I'll just say that.

Yeah, hopefully at least one of them will win. Give me a shot. I mean, we've got one. It's kind of like all I needed was one.

I needed Gonzaga or Texas Tech to win. And I basically would have been able to name my profit on a final four future that I would have played. That was a ridiculous price. And I got to just money line the crap out of Kansas on that Sunday or money line the opt-off of Texas Tech, Oregon, Zaga and Beto can would have been fine.

But it didn't happen, but we moved on. By the way, by the way, the last two April Masters, I just went back and looked what we were talking for you over me to cut. Did you know? Wow.

You don't think Tiger, if Tiger doesn't think you can go in there and shoot 7273, I'd be just going to depend on it. I'll be having a play 15 months. It's a very very hilly course. It's a tough course to walk.

You know, you know, you know, you got to produce this podcast or I don't know if you remember him or not. Yeah. I forgot his name already. So kidding.

But he actually tweeted out something very interesting. And I kind of liked the thought. He thinks that maybe Tiger is just going to go play the part three with Charlie. And that'll be it.

All right. So maybe Travis has a point. I've seen game spreads on the women's games. I haven't seen championship numbers.

Stanford, you guys will pick them. South Carolina is eight. I was hoping to see you to win the title. I don't have any of those.

Draft games doesn't have them either. And draft games doesn't have them. Because I was going to look at draft games. The middle of the triangle.

Sugar House doesn't have them up yet either. I mean, let me see if that does. The Connecticut will be a little bit different too. Oh, yeah.

I'm on the Lady Huskies. Boy, Lady Huskies here. Or just shoot none of the Huskies. It's just the Huskies.

Yeah, the only game I have here in Connecticut is South Carolina minus seven and a half over Louisville. Oh, so that's down. Oh, I see you caught minus one and a half now. And I don't see any women's final four when the title.

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Visit EDC.ca for more. What else we got? NBA playoffs right around the corner, Stanley Cup. It's a big week for him.

For a lot. Well, yeah, I need LeBron to play three more games. And when he once he hits a magic number, then just strike the sound. You feel good about him playing three more games?

Yes, I do. Absolutely. I don't think he couldn't care less. I don't think about the potential of making the playoffs and making the playoffs.

When I was listening to a win-worse, he was on V-7 last week. And he basically said it. That LeBron wants the scoring title. That really matters to him.

He said, like LeBron will never publicly admit it. But I know he wants it. And as soon as Wendy said that, I went out and found a nice plus money price on LeBron to win the scoring title. I had already had Lakers under 36 and a half.

Adjusted wins in the bank, which that is going to be good. I thought I was trending downward with the Sixers to win the division. The injury with the Celtics kind of helps my cause a little bit. Even though Joel and V is like how you don't slam that ball last night, when you go up soft, you get thrown back extra by Janice.

That hurt, but we're only a half game back. You have the Pistons twice and you got the Pacers twice. So I'm not going to play for the Sixers division title. I'm going to play plus 450 on the Nuggets to win the division.

So thank you Clippers for helping me last night with that. That was always good. We'll be collecting the large minus price that I laid with the Grizzlies very soon as well. What going on?

Tyler deserves coach for me, but I know he's not going to get it. OK, I can. Yeah, I'm good. What he's done with that team is incredible.

And then the other elephant in the room now is like, how do I play myself into a profit with the with the Jarrin Jackson defensive player of the year bet that I have? It's a guy that 120. He's probably not going to win. But like, I mean, how many guys can you bet to get yourself a profit?

And like, you can't bet smart, go bare, Janice. And I think I'm missing some and bad. You can't bet all four of them because then you're really cutting your profit out. Yes, I don't get them.

I don't think bands played enough. And that's what people who I've spoken to kind of think like they think BAM hasn't played enough. And they think that the people that the voters don't want to vote for go bare because the Jazz Afrolets. So like, in this, I mean, like, can John, as when is it?

Marty, that's like Marcus, smart, I think it's taken a lot of money all of a sudden, dude, because people are looking for to bet anybody, pick anybody vote for anybody other than BAM and go bare. So I got a week or so to figure that out. I'm going to you got a big week or so. I do have a big week in the lab, get the databases out.

You know, there'll be a lot of a lot of over the watch calculators in pleasure. I do want to point out one thing that I felt really sorry for, especially watching the any other night and also being tied to one of their teams programs in the College World Series to see what happened there. But I'm sorry NC State sports fans. The girls game the other night, I understand it was in Bridgeport.

The college football team not playing their bowl game with being canceled that day and having NC State at 41, the winning college World Series and being the winners bracket and one game up and get sent home on a bus is something that I can't imagine having to do for those guys. So I think about investing in some NC State gear and having to wear it to show my love for that fan base because I love the craziness of them. And I can't imagine how frustrated it's been to watch their teams the last 12 months. It's brutal.

I'm sorry. And that's all I could say. I don't know what else to say to the Wolfpack people. Yeah.

I thought about it. I saw that tweet. I just don't get the, like, why are you? Why are you forcing?

Just make your kind of ones to make them the ones you will actually go to a bigger arena somewhere else and don't allow you to play home games from the first and second round and the sweet 16 elite. I mean, I get it. You want the attendance. You want to make sure people are going to be in the stands and I get that part of it.

But you're telling me that you played the sweet 16 and elite eight in Greensboro. Not even while you wouldn't get grad sport. It's bad. They got a close reach up.

Wasn't great. Was not great. Anything else before we go? I felt draft.

You look at anything NFL draft. Well, the only thing I still refuse to believe that eight and hundreds is going to go number one. Like, okay. Like what do you think of a nail?

I think it's going to be Neil or a phone. Like, like, I play, I play both of them and plus money and just take, take whatever scalp you can get. Like, can Robinson, yeah, you franchise them and whatever, but you still wasn't a highly, like, graded out guy. Don't you want to bring in competition or someone to help your your franchise quarterback out and then probably I thought the price is long gone, but it's gotten worse.

But I look at, I look at Garrett Wilson to be the number one receiver. I can't see Drake on the beginning of the first receiver off the board, coming off of the injury that he had. And then have you seen it? Have you seen a quarterback number supposed to get three, three and a half or something?

Under, under whatever. Well, I like what I'm saying, if it's three, three feels like very pushy. We're going to get three and a half minus four 50. Yeah.

You know, like that. I'm shocked. It was like, I think whether we agree, whether we really should, I think we can both agree that pick it and Malik well, it's going to go in the first round. And then you're going to get two of the rest two of corral, no, witter, strong.

And I'm missing someone else. I think how are you going to do two of those? No, I can't see it. I don't.

The key is when is the first one go? You know, I just don't think anybody's going to trade up at the top 15 to take one. That's two. Yeah.

So I'm with you on that under quarterbacks. The Hutchinson thing is is is we're up. The one that's really crazy is Thibodeau because now that people are diving in on the film and you see every single interview he's doing, I don't feel like he's helping his cause and thing. So I'm interested to see where he falls to.

There's going to be teams that obviously don't have an ability to pass on him when he gets, if it does get low enough, but he's the one I think is the wild card and this whole thing, because when you look at him and Hutchinson, I don't think there's even a conversation of no one's going to get in the field. I'm not saying Hutchinson's superstar. Wow. But you know what you're going to get.

So that's something I want to, I'm definitely going forward. So the other guy, I don't, I think I think he's going to be a great pro. I think he might be someone that maybe he falls a little bit, maybe Gardner goes ahead of him, but I think people just need to forget everything about the last two years that I was you. Remember what he was a freshman and dynamic player that he was the last two years were complete Dumpster Fire in Baton Rouge, totally saved himself with the draft and the pros.

It's fine. And I think he's going to have a fantastic career. You want to see him and Judge Jersey. I would love to see him in the.

Really? I would love to see him. More than Kyle Hamilton. Yes.

Oh, I can't agree with you there, but we'll see. That's why you pay those people and where is it? Is it silly? Still Hofstra?

No, they're in a four part, they're in four, four in Park, New Jersey. OK. I think it's technically the name of the, what happened to the Islanders this year? They just never recovered from having a brutal start.

They'd be bringing it back to Bridgeport. They had an open invite to play the first 10 home games at Bridgeport. They didn't want to do that. We're brutal.

So they've actually since like the hell, the hell start, they've actually put together a really good season, but it's just too, too little, too late. They were far behind the far behind where they needed to be. So far behind the sticks, as I like to say, football terms and good. OK, a couple of questions.

Yes. Do you believe in the Easter conference, everybody could go to the Stanley Cup, besides the capitals? Besides the cap like winning the capitals. I feel like the everyone, all the analysts are saying, everybody's a contender for the companies except the capitals, which I don't understand.

Why would you say that? Rock the red goalie. I hate the goalie. The goalie situation.

Yeah, they also got some pretty damn good scores in there. I don't think anyone could. I don't think I could. Yeah, OK.

And I hope it's the team from from some of us for a couple of reasons. But that's going to be it's going to be hot. Have you real quick in the best pro tournament there is. And then I have a final question from a listener.

You talked about making your own sauce food, your chef in the kitchen. As the bear, make his own salad dressing. We have the only time I make my own salad dressing is if we have like good seasons, something like that. But I'm not in there.

You're blaming on the wife if there's no seasons in the kitchen. The turf all. No, no, no, no. I do.

No, let's let's put that in the bud right there. I do the food shopping. She handled she handles target and Walmart and home goods and pier one and all of that stuff. I handled the groceries.

All right. So yeah, I usually usually we have some some like balsamic vinegar that we brought back from from Italy that we have got some flavoured olive oils that we mix in. All right. But we're usually I'm usually rotating.

I have the between like the Kins like like balsamic vinaigrette. I have the hidden valley wench in there every now and then I'll feel like maybe a little a little gorgonzola on our salad depending on what it is. We got some good honey mustard as well. But yeah, so I'm not in there though with like a bottom milk and the anneuro god and the chives and sharn it together.

That's kind of where I dwell on it. Yeah, like a good season packet. I will. I'll prep.

Yeah. We're having like a lot of people over. Yeah, then I'll get good seasons out and pre dress the salad and mix them all together. Does your apron say the bear on it?

I don't have any. Oh, all right. I don't have any. Okay.

I wear a lot of sauce on my shirt when I'm cooking, which is fine. I treat that as it's lovely. That's usually the sign that I need to turn it down just a little bit. A little bit.

You don't want to you don't want the sauce to burn. Okay. Again, no, no way for the bear. Got a lot of cooking for you.

All right. Very good. All right. I am on Villanova first half under and Villanova game Carolina Moneyline.

And I think first half under in that second game also, bear. We got to do pre masters next week, right? Yeah, we got to do premasters next week and we got to do some baseball. All right.

I mean, home run, home run prices, stuff like that. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to wait on Villanova and hope I can get a better number and I'll bet on over that link.

All righty. We will chat next week. Good luck to everybody out there. Bear.

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