Hello beautiful people and welcome to our humble the boat the Thunderdown on this Saint Patty's madness Monday March empty 2025 this program starts now That's right a lot from Ireland way back in the day who eliminated all the snakes from Ireland We celebrate the shit out of him today. Happy Saint Patrick's Day to everybody on Earth Obviously, it's a holiday that is supposed to revolve around having a good time celebrating life and maybe having a booze cocktail or two Right a little green beer maybe some of a little green tree half the time of your life and in memory of not only Saint Patrick But your Irish friends who like to enjoy the shit out of life Now I'm not saying life is always good for the Irish folks have been a very blue-collar crew since the very beginning And if you look at the history of what the Irish have done for the United States of America I think people would have a lot more respect for what the Irish have done and what they've built and who they fought for and how they fought for This particular country but on this Saint Patrick's Day always say use cilantro and we hope you all get a chance to enjoy life for a little bit in In honor of your Irish brother now with that being said we decide to stay in the blue-collar jeans And we have two Italians on today, okay through the greatest Italians in sports history Coach is out of Michigan State greatness icon obviously for the Spartans will be joining us in the next hour and The godfather of New York coach patino of st. John's Johnny's the rise of red storm on vice is currently electrifying He'll be joining us about 19 minutes or so and then it's well 40 We'll have the commissioner of the SEC great. Thank you.
Okay. He's got 14 teams in the in the tournament Nobody's bought that's a record in the history of the turning how many teams did they have like 10 years ago like six or something Like that for maybe then he got eight then you're down to six and post-covid You start looking at the numbers of how much the SEC has invested in basketball now They have a record 14 teams in the NCAA tournament Which is obviously record can't wait to talk to thank you about that and let him know everybody's pissed Yeah, everybody's miss no league is good enough to have 14 teams in the tournament is what people are saying on the internet and around the world But also most people saying West Virginia screwed West Virginia v Mountain years now listen has it been the highest of highest for the mountain years ever last five ten years in sports Our rifle team is one other national championship boom. How you don't keep moving our gymnastics team I believe in the top 40 program on earth There's other sports that are obviously soccer team dominating both men's and women's so you talk about sports that west Virginia There's been a lot of success But it demands basketball men's football there hasn't been you know the national moment for a while and I think that was held against us That's the reason now there's a lot of future conversation about him maybe leaving West Virginia which sucks completely because he and his son You know came into West Virginia in the city in the state in the university really love these two You know they're saying he's gonna leave I'm hoping he doesn't I'm hoping that he has a little bit of an axagrand because how they Season ended but they held against us that his son his boy got hurt his boy got hurt whenever which rods introductory press conference happened That was two months ago three months ago and they're used that against him for going into the tournament now with that being said in football Obviously Florida State was on like their fourth string quarterback third string quarterback That'll happen like the last games of the year like boom bang pow everything happened This has been like a long time this kid hasn't been playing and in a hundred and eleven of these so-called uh bracketologists specials people you get it Yep, West Virginia was in the tournament now would have been a high seating obviously We should have played a lot better throughout the season and I certainly had a little bit of a a get back a setback And we didn't do well in the big 12 tournament either lost very early But in a hundred and eleven of these so-called experts brackets we were in West Virginia was in first time ever a team has been in all 111 bracket colleges brackets and didn't make the tournament so obviously they're holding something against West Virginia that is just another chip on the Shoulder obviously it's bullshit. We don't love it.
We don't like it play better You're indefinitely but nonetheless West Virginia will be back okay West Virginia will be back on top in all the big sports and it starts with the football program Well, that's our next fall. We're not sure. Will that be in the next two years? I believe it and it's West Virginia basketball team obviously had a great year this year not good enough I had a good year this year not a great year this year in the conversation to make the top 68 You know, you can't be getting too upset now entire thing.
Well, that being said, what should you get through and you know who benefited from others? Who's that University of North Carolina who I think we're all starting to hate? I guess we're all starting to hate University of North Carolina. I think so Is this just because of what happened so rid of this the athletic director of UNC ball Cunningham Obviously his name came up because I think he wasn't the biggest fan of Mac Brown my crown was the head coach's football team What is bubble one versus what is the chance?
There's what what Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob's name has been you know through the tablets and the headlines We shall say especially whenever you're the athletic director of a program is steam program like University of North Carolina Especially in a Tar Heel blue with Jordan and everything that going on people are gonna talk about bubble cutting him especially when your name is That's not a very normal athletic director name. Yeah, Bob a common shots down in North Carolina Well everybody saying Bob a dick called shot Bob a was the head of the selection committee chair Whatever the hell it is and he also gets a hundred four thousand or bonus if North Carolina Which makes it in turn Bob has made a lot of money. Okay, Bob has made a lot of money But a hundred four thousand dollars check coming around that's not a bad thing to take place It's hard not to automatically say well this seems to be a little bit contrived doesn't it the last team in that got in over I think there's multiple teams that are not necessarily through Indiana the second team out now once again play better I'm pissed off about it too who who who who who who jares are a basketball place now granted signet He's gonna play in great football as well could be a fantastic sport university not making tournaments sucks But UNC makes it over them and they have a gripe as well obviously West Virginia's pissed and Bob is sitting up there Chair the whole thing in a hundred four thousand dollar bonus because it's hard not to be like you cook the books Hmm. Hey, Bob.
I've met some bubbles before they weren't above cooking the books. Okay, and I know you are probably a fantastic Catholic director Congratulations on getting bill belly check down. That's a big play They've also said that you guys are all in obviously football wise That was a part of bill belly check out in there So I shouldn't there's some good that you have done and I'm sure you are respected by a lot of North Carolina people But I tell you what we think at West Virginia We think this crooked son of a bitch one in there and he said he wasn't in the room North Carolina was being talked about okay We're in a room in West Virginia we can talk about getting North Carolina get brought up in West Virginia Talk about because if it doesn't doesn't then I don't think you guys are doing your job properly so none less Talking about 64 to 68 here. Oh, there's automatic bids of teams like everybody's mad North Carolina's gonna get in then I saw same people on CBS Sports that are upset about it say they're gonna beat So like you're not supposed to be in turn but also about the probably win their first round not saying that's guaranteed I'm saying that's been the chatter so there's madness already begun in March and people wasn't doing unhappy No, I don't know people of India.
I don't know and that happens to be a large part of my road decks So I got a lot of protection of people saying you you're gonna be covered tomorrow and because you just means one making these decisions You think ESPN wants Bob Cunningham to look good. That's what you think. Why do you think that is the case? Why do you think they want to put over the ACC now over everybody else when I thought all they want to do is put over the SEC Well, I do want to put over the US.
That's why I got 14 teams. That's okay. Oh, we pissed at. Yeah, I was pissed at Thank you.
Oh, we pissed at ESPN. Oh, we pissed the bubble. Are we pissed at the committee? I'll get to the bottom of it because fuck everybody now that being said go Johnny's go Johnny Red Storms coming Saint John's team won the biggest.
Hey, who was the team that won the last couple big use and what did they go on to do? Let's go to the talks table at Boston Connor happy Saint Patty's who won the biggest past couple years? I'll be you con and happy Saint Patty's day to you too. Thank you.
Thank you and then you can't do what? I believe if memory serves me right and granted in Saint Patrick's day So yeah, we've been making fun of Italian's drink beers all morning, but okay, I believe they went on to win every single game By ten plus points on their way to back to back national titles. So is that what Saint John's gonna do? We shall chat with patino here about coach patino in about 12 minutes or so.
I know there's some people in the back They're saying big East or I'm sorry big ten. I got a chance to go down and watch her big ten basketball something Michigan back on top That's a big ten fans. You guys fired your coach allegedly you guys are gonna take West Virginia's coach bring him back to Iowa I hope you don't do that obviously the guys know him some special there's supposed to be a mountain here But he's gonna come everybody will get this is always gonna happen. You know that whole conversation big ten basketball though Michigan State's the team we're gonna hope you're Michigan gonna be able to construct because I watch this Michigan State team win our lose the Wisconsin With my own eyes obviously got studs everywhere Jay Richards get his a he's a real guy Atkins a kins what's his name?
Atkins. Yes, Atkins. He has a swap four feet I mean 15 feet in front of me probably he was flying through the air. You got coaches Oh, obviously be joining us next hour.
He's Michigan's they can be able to run a Wisconsin team beat him and then Was once obviously lose the Michigan Michigan great. I think early then they got a little bit of a downtime now They're back being great. How's the big ten gonna fare in this entire thing? I think Michigan State will be pretty solid, but you talk about you know Just how everyone perceives I mean Michigan wins the you know the conference tournament and they're so they're playing their best ball year They get five seat in the tournament.
So it's kind of like yeah It's only be Wisconsin twice to beat somebody else wise right and they got seen it lower than those people What the hell is this election committee doing everybody's mad about you and see over West Virginia, Indiana? There's a lot of other issues everybody saying about this election committee as well exactly But a lot of teams in the big ten I think Foxy would test this not only is this probably a down year for the big ten But you got a team like Michigan State who should be there their talented They have one of the best coaches but teams like Wisconsin like they're one of those teams where if they shoot the ball Well, they might score you know 90 points and could beat anybody and if they don't like their defense is unbelievable But we're looking at I mean the big ten championship in the first half I think it was like you know 29 to 26 bad basketball you get a lot of that in the big ten So it's one of those things where a lot of these teams if they shoot well They can beat anybody but if they're not shooting well like they could they could get beat by 30 by anybody And that's kind of a problem with the big ten I think big 12 didn't get as many teams represented I saw their commission came out and spoke a little bit obviously the ACC is having a down year for the ACC So all eyes around the SEC which we'll talk to Senki here in about 30 minutes or so to get his thoughts and opinions on The amount of people saying SEC's bullshit now quickly one half of the hammer dad Cowboys AP tone with his suite Well, you're on Happy St. Patty's to you as well who's the odds on favorite the winner's entire thing and what are some lines that we should keep an eye on? That would be the Duke Blue Devils They are the odds on favorite even without Cooper flag right now They assume he's gonna play here at some point but they are your odds on flavor Our favorite and then you got the two big dogs Florida and Auburn at the top of the SEC obviously we talked about the SEC How many teams they have they are just littered with favorites up there to win the tournament But as of right now Duke is your favorite and then you know the SEC teams and you know Houston teams like that that are But then of course your guys you guys Johnny's thank you one of the favorite Florida I watch them against Tennessee this weekend got a chance to watch all the championship games You know it's fun to kind of like dive in back in the basketball and it was watching at 14 very good Early enjoyed it.
I have more say college past all year Yeah, Tennessee teams very good as well and then getting chance to watch Michigan State Wisconsin number nine for Wisconsin Like skin kid. I didn't know his name killed us Scott gun It was real It was like I got real excited to get back into the Madison March and speaking of Madison March last thing here as we wrap up Pete Damless reporting the West Virginia politicians plan to announce action against the NCAA and tournament selection committee later today Tied to WV snub worth noting there that now Governor Patrick Morris He was the attorney general in the state who successfully challenged the NCAA transferals if you remember that was because like People are getting paid so like you're taking away employment opportunities by only one transfer happening if you recall this at the beginning of the NIO patch more morcy was the attorney general now He is governor one in November follow up this is him replying to it. Yep today I'm joined West Virginia attorney general and I announced actions against the National Corrupt Athletic Association I live stream at 1 p.m. Right here on X governor patch Morris.
You said listen I want to do this as an AG I did now I'm governor. So I got a little bit more say I'm sick and tired What's going on TNC double a good luck over there? I don't know if they'll be ever turning a few days Why not by me maybe what should he get some turning and maybe because all this momentum that they're gonna be able to run What I do like that the state's like no This is both yeah, we're not gonna do we're gonna need some answers Okay, you're not your chance or reach Davis who did a great job in his interview You're gonna have to be answering in court law, bro Okay, who said what what time can we get a transcript of what happened in those meetings? Hey Bobby said you weren't in there when North Carolina's being discussed that's interesting because the notes that I see here You're eating a muffin in the corner of the room whoa whoa, that's what he's rather in willing to do former suit Oh, he's ready for this dude excited for all that the madness is already begun before the game starting that is a magical thing Now let's go to the NFL massive deals were done over the weekend T.Hagan's to March ace highest paid congrats of them We'll talk more about that in matter of moments, but at the DB position There was a signing that ruffled the entire numbers of every salary cap across the NFL Derek Stingley jr Of the Houston Texans signed for 30 mil a year This comes a few days after JC Horn of the Carolina Panther sign for 25 mil a year There was a convo about maybe the DB market being down now We're seeing 89 million guaranteed over three years for an absolute stallion and Derek Stingley jr Ball Hawk joining us now everything DB good DB bad dehos darius J Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo Yes, you look fantastic.
Where are you at? Okay, so we can tell everybody We are back in New Orleans where we work for the Super Bowl Obviously, but now we're here for huge volleyball tournament for my daughter Shout out to you gave her some great tips to play a new position this weekend outside hitter She's usually libero the back line of defense and now she's up near that net So all they've been kicking ass having a great time out here a lot of uh, I feel like I'm kind of a bum because I'm not in the st Patty spirit a lot of green out here big st Patty's down here. It was not aware of that what's your problem? The coach said they had some shit for us.
I haven't got a chance to see the coach yet So once I get into the convention Hopefully I don't get pinched before before she gets it to me listen all you gotta do is happy sink patties with a D You understand it more than anybody. Okay, we know you're very busy. Shout to your daughter by the way I thought it was awesome. She should they send a lot of floater huh?
Serves a lot of flatter everybody floating Ah, not everybody depends on who you run into some of these teams Look you got teams from Cali, Texas, Alabama, Northern Florida, so you run it to some of these It's the difference. It's a level so I've been that team that was a lighter level team But we've definitely ran into some dogs where it's one player that just controls the game every time it gets to the left side Yeah, I got And the video you sent me shot to Maya she had a great pass then she got out. Oh, I boom bang pal It was beautiful to watch. Uh, anyways, I love it good.
Dadding volleyball is great sport played nice Well, it is love the sport. It was probably my favorite sport. I played in high school I think probably because there was really no pressure on what was gonna happen You know there was no thought of like am I gonna do this for a professional because I just I just do it, but I love it is a great sport. Okay, let's get to the DB's get paid JC Horn 25 mill a year Less than a week ago now Derek stingley jr getting 40 mill a year 89 million guaranteed Why do you think Derek stingley was the guy to take this big jump in to pay for DB's and how do you feel about the deals that are kind of Unfolding now first of all talk about good daddy.
All these guys football is in their blood You talk about second third even fourth generation was thing Lee his grand papier great grand papier was a new England patriot All SEC guys all first rounders all guys living up to the building but uh, Derek stingley jr He's just he's a little different even as talented as I LSU 2019 team was a lot of people that you talked to in that builder around that program said And this is the guy this is probably the best guy on the roster and he's lived up to outside of injuries I kind of played him throughout his college career and early on his NFL career But he's been healthy and he hit his stride last year been the first team all pro five interceptions Play all 17 games. He could do everything. He could play off. He could play man You can leave him on an island.
He can come up and tackle but his ball skills I think separate him from the pack patrick sartan jr Defe as a player to your phenomenal technician can do everything as well jason horn wants to get another guy who if he stays healthy He'll continue to be one of the best DB's in the league But Derek stingley jr him and patrick sartan right there 1A1b as far as best cornerbacks in the league go Okay, so we looked up the numbers jaylin ramsi I think has the third highest average for per year in jaylin We've seen him doing us a long time, you know, we should have jax and ville we should have jax bill la now He's in miami obviously that's a very long great career We would say that the next generation of DB's corners were in a very good spot. Yeah, we are in a great spot right now The queen on Mitchell the world even cooper digine will see what he does Lead the way for the exciting whites, but yeah, these guys there they're doing their thing and it's still a bit So why gaff you just saw jamai chase get his bag. He's getting 40 40 plus a year and now with Derek stingley jr Really really completely reset in the corner back market getting 30 million a year So it's still a wide gap there But these guys are valuable especially when you can travel when you can follow that number one receiver to the left or to the right side of the Defense with the guy we got our promonee and indian out who's gonna be doing that following number one is that kind of changed the defense It gives the defense a coordinate a little bit more freedom when it comes to taking the other guys Around the field, but yeah, we're in a good spot right now as long as that continues to trim north for those top cornerbacks That's big time for the whole position group as a whole. All right.
Well, good luck down there to your daughter I hope hope they give you some green you know for a good. Yeah, I guess I got to watch my six a lot Everybody else got green on Just not Well, yeah, I get on pay. I go board. All right.
Good luck out there. We appreciate you joining us. Congrats to the corners ladies and gentlemen Darias J but it was cool. He was cool.
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She's good. She's good at offense seems like those tournaments He's really enjoying the shit out of that's good dad now. Ladies and gentlemen, join us. Okay You want to talk about that?
How about a godfather? Uh-huh? Okay, how about uh going back to New York and turning the police upside down in in doing so Having a documentary shot about the season and uh just delivering gems seemingly every single time that he speaks Only coach in the history to take six different teams to the NCAA tournament the biggest coach of the year from the st John John, ladies and gentlemen, coach rickety How are you? Bye, son?
I'm great. Thank you. Hey, happy st. Patrick's day Uh, I know you can't wear any green because of the school colors and everything like that But just know that we're celebrating the hell out of you and the johnny's over here while we're drinking some uh green beer such Let's talk about this season and coach first of all you're electrifying every clip that comes out from you speaking to your team Is wonderful the one that I enjoyed most that made me feel like I was back in the locker room Is whenever you were pissed off of your guys for when adversity struck that they continued to like kind of collapse You said who where were you raised that you have such a weak mentality when you dig in like the motivation that you were given to these guys Obviously struck home.
They come out and crush in the second half Is that like your life motto that you're putting into your players like how do you develop what messages you want to send at the time? Is that just your beliefs and how you have got here and honestly, uh, I fucking love listening to you coach and i've never played basketball day in my life Well, thank you. I think it revolves around the structure of your team this team is a hardworking team But they counted misses too much. We're not a great shooting team We rely on perseverance a very strong defensive work ethic And if we miss two or three we deflate and and I keep telling them you keep shooting you move the basketball you take open shots You never deflate you just get onto the next play and we had a tendency early in the year because we're all new to each other of deflating So I got him out of that.
Uh, we got it. We went out at halftime of that game. We won it in the big east final We were down three at halftime. We came back out.
We went we got down 15 early down three at halftime one at by 15 So it's it's just a matter of dealing with adversity. I never ever Wonder about dealing with adversity with my team. I've always concerned myself with dealing with success with every team. I've ever coached Success is so much more difficult to deal with than adversity You get comfortable you win the big east title obviously and I saw you talk to the team and to the press about it and obviously you're incredibly proud You talk some shit which seemingly is classic uh coach patino and that all but what is the message to the team after you win the big east title?
Because obviously there is a comfortability about having a successful season that comes with winning a title and now your most important basketball happens So how do you keep everybody kind of grounded? Well, we broke down the season from the beginning in three phases Phase one was to try and have the best biggie schedule a season that you could possibly have try to win it Get any nc double a then you play three games and we tried to mimic these because we have very little nc double Experience on his team only two players have played in the nc double a and one did not play zu biacha four I always had a great year did not play so we took the big east turn and said okay This is the first round nc double a second game is the second round third game and so on and we put a lot of pressure in each game to survive In advance so we did that now phase three is you're playing against teams You've never seen before and probably if you're lucky enough to get by the first round then you played a tough as seven ten match up There isn't a country. Yeah, the next round is what everybody's talking about because could be a couple of legends on that note Anthony de julio Yeah, coach. I know it's one game at a time and say you get by omaha And then it's either bill self or coach cow Do you like in that second round potentially going against a future hall of fame coach in those guys where you you kind of know who their teams Are who their teams well be versus a coach that you've never gone against and you don't know their style?
You know it doesn't come down every coach in the nc double is going to be really prepared They both bill and john know exactly what not to do because they've been it many times The other coach may not have been there and they're not familiar with the nc double a but these two guys are hall of fame coaches They know what not to do the teams will be well prepared. They're going to have great talent Certainly so we're super excited to be in the tournament st. John's right now We've turned the corner. We built the culture and now we just got to take it to another level in the next few years We hope to build it to a new level.
I love what you're doing love the excitement around the city I don't get to New York as often as I should you know, it's a beautiful town beautiful city Seth Greenberg told us that you're just dominating the york post back pages just patina patina patina And then I saw your quote about being from here and how the st. John's is representing the entire city I assume that's a massive piece of the recruiting pitch right to build back st. John's I think more than anything else think about this at kentucky We went to two championship games and we would never invited it onto the tonight show with jimmy found here We win the big east we're on the tonight show with jimmy found So as you know, New York's the media capital of the world the financial capital of the world And if you win everything is exaggerated if you lose everything it's exaggerated so you better win Yeah, well, I think you're doing just that it feels like that's the only thing you do uh speaking of winning how'd you'll ever do against quarter jameson I have two beers There's a little fat little journalism here. I was looking for a jameson's commercial.
They didn't hit me Yeah, yeah, hold on. It's on your way. You know, they're not going on right now. It's saying patty's they're underwater Don't probably catch up later this week.
Ties a question for you coach nil is obviously changed the way college basketball is in a big way And it's still early on but how have you noticed like your booster support and nil compared to maybe what it would have been at like a kentucky or a louisville? I know micropoles just came out and basically said like hey anything coach needs he's gonna get moving forward So how is that whole situation been at st. john's? Obviously when in a big east turn it doesn't hurt either So obviously micropoli along with other boosters have been great for st.
john's but everything's gonna change next year So we've adapted to the to the nil s2 is now it's gonna change it's gonna go the revenue sharing by the schools At each school gets 22 million football will dominate the pool because they have more players So here's the luxury we have along with the other 10 big East members The we don't have football so the revenue sharing will come more into basketball We will have more money in basketball than all the football programs So we we've got a lucky break along those lines and revenue sharing will really help the big east coach You know your journey back here to the spotlight is a beautiful one And you know, we live in indian appellis. We're not that far away from your previous homes when that ended how it ended Was that and you gave that adversity speech to your team? Was there ever a doubt that you were gonna get back to this moment? Not that you've done with iona You know, but like now you are back to being in the spotlight being talked about as a go-to-guend Everybody you know, like did you ever have a doubt that that was gonna take place or is this always the vision to get back to the top?
Well, the nc double enforcement step is is I won't call them corrupt. I will call them inept And the reason I say that is it takes them five years to decide your faith So whether you're guilty or innocent doesn't matter. It's gonna take them five years to judge you So after five years I get exonerated. Well now i'm over in greece coaching a legendary program punnet tonight goes and to be perfectly honest with you I thought it was gonna end my career in your league, which wasn't bad by the way.
I was visiting my scowsing petersburg Madrid Tel Aviv I visited places that never experienced ponitonichos is like the blossom Celtics of europe So it was a wonderful thing for me. I learned an awful lot of age 65 being over there So I thought that was the end for me then I went back to coach ioni university where we lucky enough to go to nc double eight Two out of three years and that was very exciting and I wouldn't have moved from my own Just saying john's as a local team and I got a chance to move over to here Okay, so expected to maybe stay over there in greaser in your league and has opportunities continue to arise and I did you get a new I don't want to say perspective or love or hunger after the five-year exoneration to reprove like everybody can eat shit Basically a lot of things are said about your coach a lot of things I think a lot of people say about it's great. You're having a redemption I really don't believe in the word redemption because those who judge you really don't know the facts They really don't know either way innocent or guilty don't know it And so you take obviously if something went wrong you're ahead of the team You have to be responsible for all actions that go on So obviously things would be the incorrect way I suffered the consequences left a great job at the university a little And I talked to my team. I didn't hang my head.
I took off a grease didn't know one person My wife and family did not go with me. I arrived in Athens, Greece Not knowing a person the entire arena at halftime when I walked out. There's a cloud of smoke Everybody smoking in the arena. I was smoking to death And if I did anything good over there, I said to the prime minister, listen, you got to stop smoking in restaurants.
You got to stop And we got that past they don't smoke in restaurants anymore. I'll smoke in So that was a great thing the experience of coaching ponot tonight goes was about as enjoyable as anything I've ever done in coaching And like I said just early alluded to I learned so much the euro league is like the golden state warriors with 35 year olds Who didn't make it in the NBA? They didn't had a pass cut move and the offenses were brilliant So you're a greek lobbyist One of the goats and the only guy to ever take six different teams in the tournament Now you talked about the three years with iona we actually have a little year question for you conner has one Yeah, coach usually doesn't take three years Obviously you mentioned with st. John's this being your second year and things already kind of turning around and then there's a graphic That we have and it was basically every single school you've been at the year before they were obviously not very good And then by the second year of the rick patino coaching tenure They are unbelievable and you've been to the tournament obviously the first coach ever to win the conference tournament with five plus teams I believe um, what would you say is kind of the coach rick patino culture that gets instilled that kind of hits home For so many of the players year too.
Is it the guys you bring in after that first year or is it the guys that are kind of already They're understanding how you want them to play basketball Well, let's look at it this way you're taking over a program uh, kentucky was on probation uh, the next one 21 games the Loval was down and out providence was dead last place since the inception of the big east So they're all falling on hard times you come in you don't have enough time to recruit So the first year is just building a culture of hard work building a culture where everyone plays with unbelievable passion And in the second year you bring in your own players you've established the culture and now you're ready to go And then from that point on now you've built the culture now you have the reputation to bring in even better players And now you've built a strong program so it's all pretty much been the same Uh, but the one thing I can tell you is this one Of all of them means the most to me along with the next because the other programs We went into the madness of where god and loval went back to back big east championships And I was so proud of the guys and one team won the national championship But this is doing it the same way but you're doing it where you grew up eight streets from madness of square god And this is your home that people all talk like you when I was in loval and and lexington nobody sounded like me Yeah, you said the word prepared the way you said it earlier and everybody was like the hell was this guy Saying around here, uh all the people in New York seemingly rallying around you i was in madness where garden last monday What a place on 20 000 somewhere in there. I mean it was glorious coach Yeah, the big east semi final and the big east final with all st. john's fans Uh, it just brought back memories of when I was coaching unfortunately I coached against luke on a second Um who was a hundred this year and passed away But I would coaching against luke providence versus st john's remembered coach against roly messamino john tomson senior Jim bayheim pj calissimo all the jim calhoun all these great coaches in the big east at that time It was a wonderful experience for a young coach. Okay.
So let's talk about that in conferences I went to west rajin was in the big east obviously Absolutely legendary run in the football world and still running in the basketball world The sec now is having a moment here in college hoops Do you pay attention to all that is there something or a reason you would point to other than just nil and maybe the sec Investing more at these schools. Why do you think the sec is having this record breaking type season? Well, obviously they have they have more teams than just about anyone the big 12 big 10 now They've all expanded with the big east has not expanded I've been trying to get them to expand out for two years I think that even combining like coach k said the acc with the big east and basketball would be a wonderful thing So larger is better certainly but the sec I can tell you right now from every team that i've watched they are unbelievable Every team you're talking florida, tennessee, mississippi mississippi state arkansas I'm leaving out Incredible Also great veteran coaches, you know, they're all good you pick your point. Who do you like better?
The nade oats or bruce pearl who do you like better john caliperi muckbo You know they're all great and they're veteran coaches who again know what not to do as well as what to do So the sec has maybe the best combination of coaches who have had wonderful experience But so does the big 12 and so does the big 10 the big east right now has a lot of young coaches including myself Hey, you look younger than ever that lotion routine must be the real deal you Italians got something special in there Paisons got to figure it out big east acc would be absolutely but that would be great basketball Holy shit, I think it's necessary to combat all the people combining their conferences We need something to although we had five teams out of 11 make the tournament That's great, but we need something to make it even better and i've always believed if it's not broken and you're successful Break it and make it better because other people know Because other people will you're right other people who have either uh different motive or more money will come in and try to change what is working That's been since the beginning of time in all businesses speaking of business your business the film who you said whatever time you watch SCC for a tournament. What do you do? How far out are you watching film and preparing your team? Is it game by game?
Like how do you prepare the johnny's right? I think what i've always done is defensively We will prepare to do everything to go against omah's offense But offensively in the next three days you prepare for the weekend So let's say that um, it's not true, but let's say that all can simply to match up zone So in the next three days we got to prepare for can just auginson oma ha offensively So we don't go into one day prep offensively going against defenses. You haven't seen but defensively we just focusing on omah Okay. Hey, thanks for that insight now.
I feel like a genius. Uh, you know, they were preparing for this defense for the last four FOD days You know, that's what i'm gonna sound like an asshole whenever i act like i know what i'm talking about when i don't you certainly do though And you're the lobbyist in greese i assume you'll be a great lobbyist at the big east office big east You see would be awesome. That'd be the best best most that would be the best conference tournament in msd obviously Oh my Do you remember the pitch noggle game with um against low in two two thousand thirteen You're uh two thousand five yeah brother pit snuggle in i uh, maybe four to five just like you a couple of beers maybe quarter james Four to five pitchers at club z afterwards. Yeah, I remember that snuggle was a thing We were playing basically two three zone because we only had seven players and the seventh player had a stress factor So he couldn't practice so we were just playing flat two three zone We went out there and they made i believe it was 13 or some incredible number of threes at half time We cut it from 18 to 13.
We went up at half time. We had about 10 minutes We took all the chairs they run a prince in offense with their great coach And we're going over at half time man to man, which we hadn't played the whole season Trying to defend the back door offense and the guys were so brilliant. We wanted in over time Okay, but we changed our entire season defensively in a half time moving the chairs That's good coach. Yeah, it sounds like you know what the fuck you're doing And um happy you did that uh beeline was obviously the coach that one was a tremendous coach gansy Beeline pit snuggle trying to think of that there was a genie on that team His son was great.
Yeah, pat. Yeah, pat was and gansy was a dog dog. That's what it was great. That's great.
And so you Move chairs at half time and caught them in the man. You're an ass. Of course We got a great time to more get down. Go to we got a great time.
We appreciate you. Good luck the rest away You don't need to know this and add any extra motivation con or ny are Heavy on the johnny. Especially since what she didn't got screwed heavy on your team. Uh, can't wait to watch you Thanks for having me guys.
Ladies and gentlemen, the godfather All right half time changes the time. Yeah, they were prepared It comes down to that preparation. Yeah I don't know But yeah, I don't have enough of the new york accent But as soon as he said prepare it on the thing that i'm like, oh he gets back home too I said that she just dialled up a thousand. He's the king back there and uh watching them win this weekend Was cool.
That was a cool thing to kind of watch him do scare me a little bit You know especially because the Bet that we placed on them to win it all but then the information was immediately put you come on anyone you win you You got a good squad you got a good squad. I like that he's like hey guys. We're gonna miss shots We can't shoot. Yeah, all right.
So you guys get upset. You can't shoot. I know you can't shoot So whenever you miss let's let's just actually don't reason why we're shooting us you guys have some fun That's uh, that's good mindset. All how you frame things.
I bet you patino It sounds like from watching his vise show every message he's delivered I'm like I like the way this guy talks in frames things That's all coaching is how do you frame something in somebody's mind to either drive them or bring out the absolute best in them And the way he delivers his message like that the mental toughness speech that he gave about adversity and battling and digging in Like it was awesome to see him kind of deliver that and I the boys obviously listened and reacted in the second half Well, you said too like you know, you got in power these guys He said a lot of the guys on this team like don't have any NCAA tournament experience Which like we've seen when you have like teams with older back courts and guys who have played in the tournament before like that really matters But it's also a good thing they won the big Eastern because with the uh selection committee who knows they lose that They might be looking at like an eight-seater and nine-seater. Yeah, well, that's uh, that leads perfectly into this selection committee seemingly like one conference more Well, it's not all about record-breaking 14 teams in the dance. Join us now the commissioner of the south-eastern conference ladies and gentlemen Great psychic Doing Greg didn't know you wanted into the selection committee's office and paid them all off I didn't know that's what we were doing in March Greg No, that's that's earned man. I can go through the record if you want 89% of our non-conference games.
I'll go through all the data for you that informs it No, Greg That's why we love you because we think you not only represent your conference in a fashion that has all your schools thankful But you have a lot of pride in the SEC So whenever I see the reaction that I saw whenever 14 teams were selected on the internet I couldn't wait to chit chat with you going into this particular I guess SEC conference tournament then into the selection Sunday everybody talks about how great the SEC was this year the SEC The SEC is the SEC's year now granted that's media fodder and people say that that is what it is But why do you think the SEC was so good a basketball this year? Is it investment is a commitment? What do you think it is that really transition from you guys having four to six to eight teams in the tournament each year to now to 14 Commission We had to learn some hard lessons We spent a lot of years with three or four teams being in and that was it and I think all of those words you used are part of it I'll start with coaching Every one of our 16 coaches has been in the NCAA tournament with one team at least as a head coach I think six of them have been to the final four a lot of depth and a lot of experience there's a commitment We have new arenas and facilities trying to manage through this new era of name image and likeness in the transfer portal Perhaps we've been a bit ahead But I don't know that it really matters if you're great at like name image and lightness if you don't have the right leadership in place And I'll really start there and go back 10 years ago We needed new expectations for how we perform on the men's basketball side because we succeeded in everything else Quite candidly, but we didn't even meet our own expectations and men's basketball And that's what's different today is we're we're functioning in men's basketball like we do in women's basketball or baseball softball football gymnastics, I mean you got through the golf I should yeah yeah yeah all of them yeah men's handwinds He's what he was talking about you guys take a lot of pride in how your sports do and you know the conversation about the basketball We need to get better in the men's basketball for the dance I think a couple years back the big 10 had a shit ton of teams I don't remember these 10 something maybe stuff. Yeah, maybe 12 and then first round or second round not great Like the big 10 ended up not performing as well didn't have 14 teams Which is obviously record breaking number but had a lot it was supposed to be the big 10 year And then got in and it was almost like upset after upset Do you think your teams are built for the tournament to go on a big run and how will you be shit talking throughout all this if your teams do well Will there be a tweet oh or are you just gonna idly watch your squads go out there and compete?
Well I'm talking seasons behind us and pat last monday I sent a memo to our coaches to say hey, whatever wherever you're seated wherever your sights Set whatever your opponent just focus and so we want to stay focused as a group So i'm gonna own that as well now there is a level of pride and I think there's a level of pride in the league Really cool set of text messages from coaches Yesterday who gained access we got in maybe as 8 9 10 seeds and it's a grind for those guys and I said back to them I'm proud for all of us. I'm proud of what we do on the women's basketball side You know we've got every one of our 16 universities represented on either the men's or women's side. I think that stands alone Um, we've got two number one seeds on the men's side two number one seed on the women's side I think as we go forward there's a chance for upset sure when you're when you're like 8 9 10 11 You know losing is not an upset Yeah The level of competition this year in our league and winning almost 90 percent of our non-conference games Bunch of those against high level teams and then playing through the grind of our conference schedule on the men's side and women's side means You're prepared for just about anything Now we have to go meet the moment you have to go meet the moment and that's the question that comes up and that the records are clean We're all undefeated at this point and then week to week game to game you have to make your way through Six games over three weeks to see you in national champion. We'll be every time you answer I just think to myself.
I wish this guy was commissioner of whatever league I had, you know You might have pride investment everything you go to all these games you talk to all these people and you're not scared to be like Yeah, our conference we're better than you it's sports like we are that is our goal that is our mission not only academically But we like to play well on the on the athletic side of this all I loved what you chat in I think there's a lot of hate because of you know for a long time during football season the SEC SEC SEC was a big thing for ESPN Obviously ESPN has deals with the ACC they have deals with the big East I think they have deals with the SEC They got deals with a lot of people but no it's SEC SPM like the fact that you're even on my show right now People are gonna say that I'm in on the SEC SPM. It's like well if the big 10 had this many teams in there We got to do on your two by zone say happy same patties like it's just a conversation You've been very good to us, but I think the SEC just gets a lot of disrespect because the amount of shine in light on The sports teams from down there. Do you agree with that or do you try to not pay attention? Well, I I hear the noise I'll tell you one thing about the Southeastern Conference.
We are not uninteresting right and I think people Want to watch they want to be in conversation about that which is interesting and whether it's 14 men's teams 10 women's teams You know you go back when I threw out the Sesame Street quoted game day last December About one of these things is not not like the other like I can only use that once I can't use it over and over Um people may interpret that as arrogance I think that's really defining who we are who we've become how we want to function we want to be unique And I use with Pete Tamlin article the word unicorn because we're unicorn lead just The historical success it hasn't happened in over 40 years in men's basketball at the college level The kind of non-conference success the kind of high level competition And I'll just say from our fan standpoint to be in Nashville for the last week. You can hear my voice I've got the post tournament um congestion Of course that's the around that feel that environment that intensity That that's really unique and special and credit to what happens on our campuses and our communities Sometimes that might be a little bit over the top, but it's what makes us special I think Yeah, and go back to your point about the early history of those SEC schools I think saben talked about how you know there's no professional sports and any of these places So the universities were the sports teams they were the ones representing the entire state the city everything like that So generations and generations. I'm not saying it's not like that like oh high estate Penn state Michigan you go through the big organs like they're here places that have massive fan base And I'm not saying that is just in the SEC, but it feels like it's everywhere in the SEC It is like this is what we will live and die with and the sports teams obviously are supported in a massive level Now on that note you did a little bit of this with texas in oklahoma now coach patino just brought it up literally 15 minutes go go ahead Come in yeah commission when it comes to conference expansion do you talk to other commissioners about the benefits? Do they ask you hey, you know, how did you go about it?
What is that process like because pat mentioned you know coach rick patino has been kind of lobbying to the big east about bringing in more teams Maybe something with the ACC and is that something you touch other commissioners about or is it more so you know if the right teams come along? That's when certain conferences should consider adding teams in If you want to shut a meeting down ask me to talk to my colleagues about expansion and you will watch them Run to the corners of the room like all of a sudden me talking about expansion is like uh front page headlines what's going on So uh not a lot. I really look at our expansion with oklahoma in texas Again, I said this last week like if if you want to go someplace and challenge yourself academically challenge yourself at the highest level of athletic competition And not spend hours upon hours on an airplane. This is the place to be We can get from one side to the other pretty efficiently and in the last three weeks I've been on 14 of 16 of our campuses and I can make that happen much like our teams for in-person meetings When I think about expansion, I've always thought about something that's connected to who we are and oklahoma in texas really represented that great universities Within a geographic footprint, you know, oklahoma contiguous state relationships around the big eight the big 12 days Um high level expectations for their athletics programs Um across the board and that's who we are and that's why it fits and that's probably driven other decisions We obviously we're kind of early in this current round a movement But you know the bottom line is if I roll into a meeting and say hey, let's talk about expansion It goes quiet really quickly well you should tell ac and big east and behind forces for basketball come on you should you should that would be That would be a little bit of a little bit of a You don't want that 14 to get touched on 14 number getting in the attorney obviously Could be dancing tone as a question for you just mentioned something about it Yeah, I can make sure you just talk about being on 14 of the 16 campuses and being in Nashville And we've been with you at the national championship stuff We know you like going to the games with 24 teams in between the men's and women's tournament Can you just tell everyone like hey, there's too many teams that I'm just gonna stay home and watch these And no, I'm not I'm gonna go so I'll tell you a long time ago.
I'll tell you the rick patino thing in 1986 I thought it was gonna be a high school basketball coach in upstate New York He was speaking in a coaching clinic when he was at Providence It was the year that Billy Donovan was a senior they went to the final four so like october 86 He spoke for three hours and it was ready just like went by in 10 minutes And so you go back to like the 21 year old me who was going to coaching clinics trying to figure out a coach basketball You go to go and experience first and second round games in this role is a moment I cherish And appreciate so this week my plan is to be at games and lexington and Raleigh I'll see five of our teams between those two places bounce back and forth on the men's side next week We actually right across the street here in Birmingham hosts the women's sweet 16 and elite eight Hopefully have a bunch of our teams there so I'll split my time that way and then coming to the final four You know, you don't know what happens, but I really really love to be figuring out how to bounce back and forth between tampons San Antonio's gonna be on a bunch of san Antonio because I have a bunch of teams in those men's and women's final four of them Buddy the whole world is open you guys have nobody Yeah, the whole world I'm saying it's crazy because in your mind It's like hey, we gotta go here now We gotta go now we're in there and the SEC probably feels as if there is like a Us against roman touty all the time But it got especially with a record breaking number of teams You know a record breaking number of teams getting in there after west Virginia gets absolutely hosed absolutely hosed Commission, I don't know how you can change it but you need to okay you need to change everything that happened west Virginia Maybe less any SEC something about something about something about that That makes people nervous when you start saying I was gonna put you on the selection committee that could fix it as well So you got two ways you can go there hell yeah, and it seems like I might watch more college basketball than people that are in there And I watch next to none Don't laugh don't laugh don't laugh commish can't be laughing at that I'm not I smiled some and I self corrected so that people wouldn't interpret anything from that facial reaction smart That's a good play. That's why you're the best commission last question here speaking of your conference go ahead time Yeah, commish so obviously we're coming off a national championship with a big 10 wins in football And then you have a record breaking season in basketball Do you think it would be fair to say that it's kind of trending towards the SEC becoming a basketball conference I know it's you know, it's different down here and all that kind of stuff But do you think that narrative will get started all after you have a season like this? First I'm thrown by the Iowa gear in front of you and not on you for the first time that we've ever been together Going through some tough times right now Like the reconfigure Everything like that's the one who threw in gymnastics. I think we've got one two and three in gymnastics nationally right now Baseball one in softball Um, you know, I haven't checked the golf and tennis rankings, but we got to close there was a point a couple weeks ago Where we had 14 teams or 14 sports in competition and we have the number one ranked team and 12 of sports That's what we want to be and when we go through this change We talk a lot about opportunities across the board we want to be great and everything and I think we can do that Now we're going to go through changes We deal with name and likeness payments and this revenue sharing stuff out of a legal settlement of its proof But that doesn't change our aspirations All right We have a heart out here in like 90 seconds Usain 12 out of 14 sports currently being played out of SEC schools in a more than a real team Is that good?
I don't know everybody can keep getting mad. We just they committed to sports down there Which is why I think a lot of us who understand what's going on down there have such appreciation respect for it quickly They'll use mention that their revenue sharing that's going to go through we all just assume I mean that's been the conversation basically for the last six months Well, we have a responsibility to prepare but that's up to a judge not to me Okay, but everybody is acting as if it's going to go through right They should so far as the behavior I understand they're preparing for that reality But again Whether a settlement is finalized is up to the court and to the judge in the courtroom not not to me All right, so let's hope that it goes through Let's hope that judge goes hammer on some regulations on college sports going forward We appreciate you so much. Good luck the next few weeks with your conference Thanks guys. Good to be with you.
Be well. Hey that Nashville voice is sounding fantastic We've all heard it ladies and gentlemen Greg Sankey We became a fan of Greg Sankey during covid which a lot's coming out now I'm learning if you're just to scan some things like some new article New articles coming out just big publication Yeah, I think so A publication that's potentially anyways well learning and we all need to remember it for the future But remember there were some conferences that were saying we're not playing football not playing football I'm playing football. Sankey came out and said We're playing football. Okay.
I don't know what everybody else doing playing football And some schools were trying to get to the SEC and all of a sudden kind of forced everybody else's hand To continue to play football. That's when we met. Thank you guys. It's got this guy loves ball And he's always been good to us people are hoping his schools lose he's saying I don't think that's case Hey sports fans the ESPN app has all of ESPN all in one place The ESPN app is your home to thousands of live events ESPN shows and originals across every ESPN network in service And now you can check if you already have ESPN unlimited as part of your TV package for no additional calls Visit activate.espn.com to learn how to access your account Or sign up then start streaming in the ESPN app It's all of the ESPN all in one place Sign up or activate now A This day is happening currently and obviously uh we hope you all have a moment To take a breath and enjoy your life and cheers to your irish You know family compadres brethren you named it just a slouchy to forget about the worries and the bad times And have a good time in the name of the fine irish folks the toxic table is here at boss of connor nutteyschmidt Conman likes to sing in the green jacket on this thing patty's day alongside the kingle Yeah, it's one of those days that you look for it So you all saw my Tim Robinson t-shirt on just kind of my favorite one that I have it's just one of those things that reminds First day of school show right there.
Yeah, exactly It is kind of first day of school shirt and you wear that on st. patty's day as an irish And you want to have your best fit you want to be doing everything you can to enjoy the day to the fullest And that's what we've been doing. I mentioned in the first hour We've been you know drinking ganai and making fun of them and there's nothing more fun than doing something like that on a day like today I believe it is ganai or ganai Excuse me. I'm not a hard front door.
That's how we were saying we're saying ganai in Ireland so I figured we got You know what I'm saying I believe Plural goodness yeah we have a good time in Ireland by the way I hope everybody's having a good time as we do No, definitely are on a day like today. I hope they are we have a blast over there I don't know what's going on over there today. I guess my algorithm I guess my name is Patrick McAfee. They're like you're gonna want to see this bub And I'm like, okay, I hope it all gets figured out obviously We can't wait to get back there the more events that Ireland hosts the more opportunities for us to go over there So every time we get a chance to you know say do we want to go to Ireland everybody in here goes out Yeah, we would like good Ireland islands a fun time They took care of us mightily and obviously there's another college football game on the Iowa State is in that game There's an NFL game obviously happening over there a lot of things taking place in Ireland We will enjoy it as we will enjoy the Irish today one half of the hammer Cowboys AP Tony's here joining us live from an addict in Ohio ladies and gentlemen He's a college football national champion a router cup winner ladies and gentlemen Good night.
Hey, happy patties day America. That's what I connor told me this morning. So I strap my green sweatshirt on yet It's a big day here. I live in Dublin Ohio.
So stay Patrick's days I was a big day a lot of drunk whites rolling around tonight. I can't wait to see the photos or the roll out Happy St. Patty's to you bubb and it's a it's a glorious day, you know, maybe maybe a little shamrock maybe a little lucky You know didn't you lucky AJ over a week? Who's that?
I heard you a little bit upset huh? West Virginia, Indiana and Oh, hi state. You need to start speaking up to pal. You have a platform Obviously, you're the former president of Ohio a high state got screwed this entire thing as well about yeah They did I think it's a high state when they dropped their first game in the big 10th I think everyone kind of knew their chances were very slim to get in now West Virginia felt like they got even ripped off even more than The Ohio State team so I guess we just had a couple days to prepare for this we dropped our first game in the big 12 Well, I don't want you guys were thinking after that by no we saw how state fans thought we missed our opportunity We missed our chance here our quad water record so good So good so good so good so good so good what do we got quad one quad two quad three and four four four is what if we go to make decisions?
If it's the first quarter of force quad because you and see wanting to all of us on the good quad games West Virginia undefeated good quad games. Maybe one loss So you tell me how that works out. Oh, I know how they got running the whole thing is getting 104 racks If he's seen gets in and all of a sudden he said he leaves the room. Okay, Bubba.
Okay, bubba I would like a little bit of no that I understand he is a man of honor I would assume some people say that to go him understand he's probably a phenomenal athletic director And I would hope that my athletic director would be in a room where it happened making moves through trying to get my school in there That's why I'm saying run Baker. Hey, we need to get you in the room where it happened rent Handshake and maybe a little bit of moving and rattling and saying you're next year Maybe we shake your hand if your hands located maybe still on your wrist or anywhere else, you know Or if you need us to shake rattling roll will be able to do that run Baker Obviously said he was devastated for the team this point for the team touch the race It was potentially not gonna be the coach of Mountaineers much longer with the rumors Well, it's not around you guys you're the same rumors as I will see up that and Drake said coach as well But apparently his buyout is pretty hefty so I don't know if that is but that is yes that he is linked to Iowa heavily Okay, so I mean that's what's happening in West Virginia. Um, so yeah, it's a bummer But we have to pick another team now. What's your name?
He said no to all tournaments by the way? We said no to all respect and I t there's another one. No, we're not doing I mean maybe but also my because You know, it all be speculation that the coach who was a guy seemingly good for West Virginia He's boy good for West Virginia and then we get him and then all of a sudden he's gone It's just like that's a heartbreak that is uh, that's a heartbreak especially if we're supposed to be in turn here or not So con man and I uh kind of put our wagon on the st. John's Johnny horse Even more so after talking to patino in the last hour what a legend of a man now granted that could change here in about 14 minutes Whatever coach is though michan state joins us.
We might uh we might latch our wagon elsewhere But since Ohio state is not in what is the team that you were potentially pulling? I don't think yeah I guess we picked a chance of pretty much. What team are you latching? No one seats?
Yeah, no one seats. No one seats. Okay. No one seats.
When I was a kid whenever I thought of racker I always had to go in no matter what I grew up big dude basketball. Stay with you got to okay We need somebody to present to con his particular program. Give me do okay. So you got to all right uh town.
Who you going on? I like what they did okay. North Carolina now fair what they do tone well they potentially you know their way Is this the first time anything like this has happened this blatant? Yeah, so the stats that are coming out are interesting like West Virginia in I don't know if it's a real stat and I don't know who is the 111 people There was 111 bracket colleges or something that fill out their projected brackets I don't know if it's media or pundits or experts or whoever it is This is the first time ever that all 111 had one team in and then they don't go in so uh not even one out of 111 experts Thought that west Virginia was not going to be in there and it's all because the quad one shit The quad one record the quad two record all the points some of the wins and yada yada yada Now granted they exited early from the big 12 tournaments.
That was probably held against them The phrase got hurt like months ago. They held that against them too. It's like Okay, a lot of basketball has been played since that's a place But yeah, a lot of people are saying this is the first time the history of basketball is happening even though Every single year we're talking 64 to 68 here and people are upset about who didn't get in Which reminds us whenever we're talking 12 team playoff for football They can make this thing a hundred team playoff and 101 102 are going to be pissed about not having the opportunity I changed my name either. You're a great one decision.
Yes, so you go with Bruce Earl and Auburn I like the way he talks about his guards. He talked about his guard in a fashion said they were tough now He said it differently and obviously there were some on here and they're like, okay, it's saying that Well, it's the real world everybody else was like, yeah, it's probably all about sports teams and we're finally getting actual sports coverage Okay, this is actually what it sounds like whenever a coach is talking to yeah, but I don't like the way it sounds Well, that's on you. We're just telling you how it actually goes as opposed to everything else You saw his his point car was like, yeah, absolutely And Bruce just kept rolling he said it and then just kept rolling they had to stop him almost and be like do you know what you? What are we talking about?
That's where he's watching different Guys we get down to pick you out this is the car. I'm not the boys here I'm like the boys in this entire thing you right? I mean, I'll bring it certainly have a squat Tennessee look good Florida look great So I what's even you picking because your team doesn't even have a coach right now I'm a roll of Drake I'm gonna stick with Iowa the state of Iowa and I'm gonna go with Drake Bulldogs You know a lot of you know, 29 and three a lot of people said they got job getting in 11 seat as well Okay, so we have our teams now that we're picking I would like to showcase another one of the small schools that got in for the first time ever And I guess the way people are talking about it down in Carolina the school is a good time Oh, yeah When high point university the big style champs got announced into the bracket their place one. Hey, look at this video.
Hey, Jay That's awesome. I mean that's what's all about That's what's all about they packed that whole fucking arena out Justin because they already knew because they were champs and they're automatically in It's like let's just go find out where we're gonna be and then also let's go bizzerkin let the world know how appreciative and pumped we are About this. I hope I point those well up to go on a magical run strictly because of the way they were rolled into my life Which is them getting announced they're seating in the tournament. Yeah I don't know like how much if you guys know a lot about high point or not The only thing I knew like high point was where my wife goes there for a big interior design like thing twice a year And now here in their college there is gigantic for like CEOs and big-time business school and networking everything I don't know what you guys if that's true or not So what we heard I think common is a little bit more so he'll go here in a second What I heard from a lot of people is they have a good time down there I heard it is a good time very nice very nice and you get set up for life If you do if you do the right thing when you go to school there's right here Good time university from what I heard yeah people are talking about like not a lot of people make it You know because good timing so much is what I heard yeah AJ kind of just said you know if you do the right thing they're set up for good But that's about 1% of the student body that does the right thing I believe they have a couple pools on campus.
Well you can just go outdoor pool I guess you got to pull in the middle of campus like a go shoot the shit just hanging out there I actually did I know a guy took him eight years to graduate and he didn't regret one of those years Even though it did cost him about you know half a million dollars to get through to get through his time there But most people who end up at high point if they're not from you know warm climates They don't last at high point they have to go back up north go back to the cold and actually go to school somewhere Which I believe is why they have like an 80% acceptance rate like it's like you don't even need to take like the ACT or the SAT or the SAT to get in there. It's not you know like so I'm way off my bad. I'm way off on this school there. Yeah.
Yeah. A lot of things that I'm complete opposite about one person told me that's the problem I'm doing I didn't check I didn't check this person I went and told me all this information like oh that's pretty cool man. That's great Because I saw the video and I'm like I love this place holy hell I love this place so I come in here this morning Another coastal leaders Bruce News and people that potentially went down to high point that we started looking into it I think I think there was comparisons to self-harm and Institute of Technology which I love I absolutely love that But the way they reacted to the seating it's like that looks like a place I would love to go to and I'm just gonna be even more people Now, what did you learn in more of your research about? Like I said, you know, I it must be because they like to have a good time down there If you're letting 80% of the people who you know want to go to your school in a lot of people are dropping out So I think it's very very easy to get in there Which isn't necessarily a bad thing It's kind of a come-one-come-all situation and guess what if you can't hack it here at least you know great story to tell after a year or two We hope I don't know what their football team if they have a football team But we hope they have a massive football game someday and with love come do shoulder Oh, yeah, well love come to high point just because the energy that is seemingly around that university Let's pivot away from the madness with dabbel back in about seven minutes or so when Michigan State icon coach is oh joins us Let's talk about the NFL most specifically Cincinnati Ohio They get your Marches and T Higgins's deals done So Marches becomes the highest paid non-quarter back in the history of the NFL 40 point through five a year You see if Miles Garrett's gonna get 40 I'll get a little bit more than that He certainly did and T Higgins becomes the highest paid number two wide out in the history of the NFL both over a hundred million dollars Now granted the Super Bowl champions have paid two wide outs at a very high high clip They also paid a quarterback a high number They've now paid they're running back at a high number and they were able to win the Super Bowl now They're a lot of young dogs on the defense They were able to build up an offensive line become the best any NFL and go on a run What is this D or these deal say to you AJ and what is most important now for the Bengals to get back into the relevancy of a Super Bowl?
They're gonna be able to score. They're gonna be able to light it up I think if they hit on a couple key pieces welcome back to bangles. Is that how you're feeling is that is that how Ohio feels? Yeah, I think I mean this is like a I feel like this is a turning point for the bangles as a franchise organization What do you think of when people think of the bangles they think oh they're family run they're cheap They want to spend money.
They're not gonna do this But we we know we've talked about the indoor facility they have now And I didn't think there was a chance that they're gonna sign both these guys I thought they were going only going to be able to find a way to get your mark done But I believe what rap sheet last week said it's definitely possible that they're gonna get both these guys done and now They're talking about you know, they're ongoing talks with Trey Henderson. They get Trey back as well Yeah, we're this like turning the pages in the new bangles organization before we dive into Trey Henderson For these two dudes congratulations And to your point about Cincinnati bangles spending money to the bangles fans. Congratulations This is a fantastic time to be a bangles fan You got a quarterback from Ohio. He's got his peaches that he absolutely loves and your team's investing and doing business You talk about that indoor facility also sold the naming rights in stadium for the first time in the history So it's like welcome welcome to the Cincinnati bangles.
I'm excited to see if it works out now with Trey Henderson There's been a lot of different reports a lot of other I believe Diana Rossini tweeted sources say Cincinnati is working to retain Trey Henderson in discussions around going between two sides The bangles are attempting to do what many in the league thought difficult and keep in pay all three of their stars and Jeremy Fowler Put out a tweet this morning that was basically alluding the same thing about the pieces that would have to fall in place for a deal With Trey Henderson to take place. I that feels difficult. That feels like a really difficult That feels like a very tough move at this particular case Especially what the market is for a sack king like player hopefully we'll be able to learn more over the next few days But this one feels very difficult So I understand that they've said that they were gonna sign T in Jamar and T even put out a cap thing and then they get the deal Done and understand they said they're gonna sign Trey Henderson as well But in the modern world this one feels like it's gonna be difficult to get done just because he's coming off his best season He's the best in the league and this potentially last time deal is gonna happen for so that that'll be impra if Duke does this You're talking about magician with his entire thing and obviously report for him Yeah, it just doesn't seem possible like with if you look at Max Crossley What he get 91 and a half million guaranteed and then Miles Garrett got you know 110 million guaranteed I forget if that numbers correct But it was north of 100 million and both those guys didn't have the year that Trey Henderson didn't it sure trades You know 30 31 but then there's reports about you know teams from GM's that they're calling in the asking price for Trey is impossible Impossible to meet yeah, so it does feel like one of those situations where unfortunately for Trey Henderson He's about to bite the hey, this is how Cincinnati does business bullet No, no, it's a nice new business We know how that works and the T and Jamar thing is incredible the fact that they could get that done is awesome But you know you posted something on X last night And it was just a question you know is this style of ball is pouring 125 million dollars in cap hit between your quarterback and two wide receivers Is this you know a way to get back to the Super Bowl? Yeah, there is can sincey make it back to the Super Bowl and I think if we've learned anything from the past two Super Bowls No, there's the answer and I know it stinks for since he goes paid to guys They paid a quarterback for a hundred million less than what the Cincinnati Bengals just did I got one up with the salary cap they go up absolutely But the thing is to you know the Eagles have those very pivotal positions on defense locked in with the draft and Cincinnati Can you know absolutely draft guys?
I saw a report that was kind of mind-blowing and that was that the Bengals are really gonna have to nail their draft picks on defense Which holy shit? I didn't think of that maybe they do that and then they're fine And it doesn't really matter but the thing with the Eagles is they did nail their draft picks all of them at the most important positions The D line in the corners, so it's one of those situations and you know the the Chiefs even and the Rams going back to the Super Bowl from the 2023 season Like that was a ground in pound like hey, we're gonna beat you up We're gonna hold on to the ball to be you know possession versus what Cincinnati seems to be fixing to do Which is still electrifying football like that it is cool to watch and throw it all over the yard and a lot of fancy teams are gonna have their players He goes to have the best offense line in football boom That's a whole other conversation about when we start comparing the team Well, they paid to have a super spade to quarterback even paid running back It's like they have a best offense line in ball they lose Jason Kelsey still has best offense line prepared That is a massive ordeal like in can Joey Beach stay upright if you can the offense can go now How you gonna stop the other team and are you gonna be able to give your defense enough rest? I don't know I'm excited to see their vision, you know cuz obviously Duke is a good football mine They were in a Super Bowl just a few years ago. So can they re replicate that we shall see?
Yeah, if I'm a bagels fan I'm spinning like this cuz I've watched terrible offensive football over the last however many years I think it's it's easier to get better quicker on the defensive side So if you are gonna pay aside, I think the right side to pay is offense So cuz you're not gonna like it's just the Eagles win from 26th In 2023 in defense they get a new DC Which the bangles are gonna do and as long as you hit on your first two draft picks and they're incredible corners You know and they turn out to be great and you're off your defensive line youngins. They're playing well, too You know you get pretty good on defense pretty quickly. Okay, so congrats in a bangles and today's boys try Hendrickson I don't want to be a bear on negative news, but that feels That feels like that's gonna be tough that feels like that's gonna be tough only one year left on his deal This from Jeremy Fowler few things keep him on his bangles try to extend tranction up ticking talks occurred late last week before the Higgins Chase started to get locked in there's definitely trade interest But the bangles have not shown any year in a city only okay, we've heard the same thing this one ever be a new money issue currently Oh, it's 16 million in 2025 so even a since he offers two years 60 million that makes three for 76 This dynamic is a factor Yeah, cuz 90 just became 90 something became number for Max just few weeks ago So, you know, how would they be able to do it Duke was able to get it done with the water severs So hopefully you'll be able to do a trade but that seems unlikely, but if it is unlikely, how come they won't Let him go get retained some trade talks. Yeah, well, I mean So they're negotiating through the media as well.
I would imagine they want to get there going to deal him They want you to hey come come on it. Tell us a few first round picks or something. Yeah, I yeah Yeah, that's why I think that's potentially what has been happening, you know, hey, you want to manage this week We need a four four ones. We're not gonna do that.
Oh, we gotta pay him to okay What DK go for DK make up a different position. Yeah, okay, why everybody wants a first and something? And then all of a sudden reality. Yeah, and it's like Sure, and then some guys go for an absurd.
Oh, yeah, you are exactly what you're worth And you are you're worth is what somebody's willing to give and that is just kind of how it all works out congrats I'm doing your speaking of work. Hi, spade corner 30 mil a year. He's getting from the Houston Texans This is obviously a massive signing for corners as a whole we had D but on in the first hour He's currently at his daughter's volleyball tournament down New Orleans. Good luck He said that they run into some teams that got some higher from different states, but they're gonna battle just like this dude Absolutely, but you know, he brought up how injuries early kind of slowed down But then whatever he was 100% healthy.
He's become exactly what they projected for him to become cacerio didn't want to lose him Cacario paid on me shit ton of money and he becomes the third I guess multi generational player to get broken off at the DB position Sertane obviously gets paid a shit ton of money JC Horn gets paid a shit ton of money now Derek stingley junior gets paid a shit ton of money and Jalen Ramsey rounds out like the top four in DB pay How do you feel about the signing AJ and what were your thoughts? I'm either on reading I was surprised with the number I was very surprised it was 30 a year present credit pump for Derek and his family Yeah, I guess you surprised by the number but with this salary cap going up in the salary some of these dudes are getting I'm not not shocked by it But I do but said the best I mean when you have a guy that can line up outside He can follow the best receiver and you can trust him and you feel very very good about that It opens up your whole playbook as a defensive coordinator So yeah, I give him credit for for getting this thing done Who knows what a corner is gonna get two years from now? So good for them good for Derek sting the junior if you can cover guys and you can rush the pastor defensively you are going to get paid That's for sure. Okay, so I don't want to you know, I puff the size too much because you know I'm a badass So why would I want to do that about what the future potential looks like but now we're getting back to running a lot, you know Being able to man on the outside is gonna be vital So we go back now to the dural Rivas tight days, you know, whenever people are just locking people down So you can commit more to the box because it feels like the box is gonna become more important with prevalence of running coming back into football So if you've got a guy, I think you're gonna keep a guy and that means those prices should go There's gonna be a high end and then there's gonna be a young group That's what there's gonna be I don't think there's gonna be any more middle ground at corner You know, we're gonna move into safety or nickel or something like that I think with how you're gonna have to commit to the run game and I might be talking completely out of pocket I am a doofus But without you're gonna have to commit to the run game I think they're gonna want to have guys that can I so I think that is gonna be a We're the guy that I said we're gonna pay him or we're looking for somebody that can do it I think that's potentially the next step agent.
You would know football better than me your early thoughts on my hypothesis I like that and think about like just think defensively if you were a coach and you do know every team you play has Whoever there are number one receivers and absolute monster He's a complete stud a lot of teams now up to sometimes three guys like that So if you always have one lockdown cover corner that you feel great about that you can take their best player away At least limit that explosives Yeah, it really opens up everything else you can do and like you said You're it is a cool time You know, I thought that we are getting back some physical downhill football when it really matters And if you ever do not like that that that you feel good about it Just makes your job that much easier as a play goal Revis is literally just all right, you know They were playing they were playing 10 on 9 or 10 on 8 or whatever, you know on that defense because it was just Revis is gonna do Revis and then we all can now play football like that is a weapon You know like Rex Ryan obviously understood that Bill Belichick obviously understood that and I'm not saying that there's gonna be just A real Revis is falling out of trees, but it's like everybody's gonna be looking for that now, especially It's back. Yeah, yeah Because you'd be like well, why would skill positions get paid well because they need to counter so that we can send more meat and more men At these running backs that are fast strong and bigger than they've ever been in the past Yeah, it's not just running back down, you know every single word back like it was 10 on 9 when Revis was there But it's not that now, you know every single QB is moving around Especially the young ones that are coming into the league like you saw what Jayden Daniels did I'm not saying anybody else is gonna be able to do you know that but just looking at the QB's that are you know projected in the first round Now Shador, Cam War, Jackson Dart like when we pull up their highlights, they're running they're moving around all over the place So like even that aspect of it makes you think like okay Well, you're having those man guys on the outside and then to AJ's point about you know him getting paid He's gonna be 24 in June That's a three-year extension like think about when he's 28 being able to re-up again And you know who knows where the league will be at that it might already be turned back to you know throwing the ball over the boys Alright, let's go back to the madness that is March ladies and gentlemen It is an absolute honor to be joined by this icon from Michigan State He became the head coach up there in 1995 Eight final four appearances the national championship obviously an absolute stud in a piezot that is led Michigan State in a way That has every Spartan fan around the globe saying that's our guy legend go the best love Tommy's oh so much That's a box. You have no idea Evan Foxx actually put a photo of he and coach Izzo into the group this morning when he was 10 years old Wow 2005 Michigan State basketball camp right there ladies and gentlemen the men from that photo alongside Evan Foxx coach Thomas Well, I know your show is a little different than most but I think you guys were drinking on the show I don't know that's that's a little bit too much for me I'm I don't deserve that but I do it is an honor to be on your show I think I know my buddy Mary Euchie just talked to you the other day and I've been a long time together, so this is great. I'm a football guy at heart I actually like football more than basketball, okay?
Why your teams are so damn tough, you know and why we have so much appreciation and that's what I was telling coach Mary Euchie and he said obviously he grew up with you in Michigan has watched this one tries to sport as much as possible says He comes every big 10 JP chips as he's trying to get to a couple games this year that a historic Let's talk about that now You've been breaking a lot of people's records as you've continued to go here with Michigan State and every record the passes Do you try to celebrate? Do you try to think back? Do you reminisce is there nostalgia? How do you handle all the shit that's kind of coming with this stage of your career at Michigan State?
You know Mary she came in for Indiana game I was supposed to break Bob's record then and we lost at home So he wasn't invited back for a month, you know I got rid of him But you know what those those kind of records aren't as important to me because that just means you stay somewhere a long time I think the records that are important to me are the banners that hang in the rings you get and the things that'll last you know Records are made to be broken banners are made to stay forever 11 time big 10 season champions obviously and you say just because the records happens because you stay somewhere a long time That's very rare man, especially nowadays coach. They'll get rid of people they will can people they'll move on Fran Just got moved on in Iowa. I think a lot of people assumed he'd probably be there for a long time But everybody in Michigan State loves you from the football people to every single fan It's like you embrace everything that is Michigan State What does that mean to you and what is Michigan State to those that maybe don't understand? What are the type of people what is the type of culture that you try to have with your team?
Well, we're kind of the blue-collar institution in this state and damn proud of it by the way, but you know Nick Saban and I started together as assistants then we started together as head coaches and kind of had similar philosophies and You know what I've enjoyed about Michigan State. They've been good to me. I think I've been decent to them and you know the blue color And this is what I like, you know, it's a multi there's many different kinds of people here and Multicultural in a lot of ways and you know, we are what we are and the most part You know, I'm really proud of what we are mark the Antonio came here and we went to a final four They went to a final four in the same year Those are exciting times when you can do things like that Yeah, Foxy still remembers get all boozed up I was in college when that happened coach So I went to both the final four and ending app was watch your team and I watched the football team as well one of the greatest years of my entire life Yeah, I see we love you for that man. We love you I know you're the legend Actually has a question for you coach.
Okay, coach January February is oh is an absolute real thing I've watched it my entire life and I just need to know from your perspective What's the secret sauce? How do you do it? Is it just a combination of the entire season coming together and finally you're getting hot at the right time? Or do you actually right now at this time crank practice up do anything different?
I need to know because I've watched it so many times in my life Well these last couple years there was no March then because it was January February and things weren't as good But the most part guys we have had some luck in March March I said God put March on the planet for basketball coaches and it's been good to me But I think it's a combination of things and the players I think we try to after the first couple years year four we're in the final four year five We want it and I kind of learned then that this is the new standard Nothing else will be accepted and you got to build towards it You know and you don't want to be so good in December and then not very good You don't want to burn guys out So we kind of had a philosophy and at the same time I'm the luckiest guy in America why Michigan State from Magic Johnson, Mattine, Cleave, Steve Smith, you know, Dremon Green Those guys are all calling back now this week and making sure they're threatening our guys to be very blunt and honest about it They've threatened them and that works better than the coach doing anything Hey the standard's the standard okay We will rip those jerseys off of your backs Yeah, you don't show up I got respect for that when the alumni buys in especially when you've been around that long It's easier to sell to the team. I would assume go ahead AJ Coach you mentioned that you like football better than basketball What is it about football that you love so much and do you ever uh You know incorporate some kind of football drills bring the pads in not the guys around a little bit of practice Well, I can tell you the funny story now you probably heard it But in 2000 when we Or 2001 when we won the national champion we went to three final fours and we went to Ohio State And we lost the rebound battle for the first time and I think 18 games And I I said then I I got back I told my equipment man call save and tell him I need 12 sets of gear At practice tomorrow. We play a game called the war game. It's a rebounding drill So we had practice.
I was mad. I brought out the pads All the players, you know the six nine guys are winning what the hell is a pad So mateen cleaves was teaching guys how to button their chin straps. He was loving it I was mad. I wanted to be a grind drill.
They started having so much fun for 15 minutes We beat the hell out of each other and nobody got hurt now if I did that today I probably get sued so I don't do that as much anymore But that was fun and you know what I had zach randoff. I had some guys that got after it And uh, that's why we went to three straight final fours. Okay, so hold on. I know you can't do the drill now But let's go back in time.
We're on what with pads are we on wrestling matt? Can you take me through the drill house? Just are we just we're just what are we? Oklahoma drills?
What's going on? Of course, Oklahoma drills I know that one too, but five guys line up under the basket five guys at the three point line Boom we hit each other and whoever gets the ball gets the ball and it was all on hardwood It was a football team on hardwood. It was somebody called my team that at the final four that year Is that's not the ball team on hardwood and he was right? But it wasn't a national championship.
So it wasn't all that bad. No, we didn't get the pads back out We didn't get the pads back out. It sounds like uh, I like that you have a tough team I like that you have a tough team. I like that that's part of your culture the blue collar and it came out on senior night One guy was ready to fight two people go ahead con man.
Yeah coach As a football guy clearly you were pretty pawned about Trey Hollman kind of throwing down at mid court when michigan decided to You know, basically do the exact wrong thing There's actually cut up footage of them not standing there for any free throws until then It became a little bit of a scene And then after the game of course you gave the speech and kind of gave Trey that honor as a junior to kiss the logo at mid court Which is reserved for seniors only when a moment like this happens Is this something you're showing every recruit like hey you're coming to michigan state? This is the kind of guy we want being able to throw down for your teammates and how proud were you when you know Just watching from the sideline after the dust settled like wow i try all means an absolute junkyard dog And we got to love that Well, first of all time out, you know, I wasn't proud of it I got to do my job and I didn't even know what happened But you got to flash back to the fab five sitting with their butt on that thing rubbing it on it There was a lot of things people don't know when you've been here 30 years You know, I was actually here 40 because I was here as an assistant So there was a lot more to it. I talked to my players about it But I don't condone anything that is that crazy. I'm not that crazy and I didn't condone it But I uh, I felt like after I heard what happened after I saw the voice stuff There was a lot more to it than you would the average person would know so uh I just wanted to make sure they know everybody's got a tradition Can you imagine guys you you guys you played football both of you Can you imagine the banner at michigan that they touch every time they come out if our football team stood under it and didn't let them do it There'd be a hundred thousand fans fighting.
So, you know, that's just the way it is I got it and uh, I think all of us respected and appreciate the way you handled it with your player Now michigan people are gonna be there just standing here Well, you want them to do is always gonna be an out, but I do appreciate the robbery, you know, like that only happens in a rivalry Yeah, it's weird. Oh, it's never their fault either, but you know You neither here nor there coach don't laugh You know One thing that a rivalry, you know, like john be on your sta asked me, you know, I one day I said well you gotta hate your rivals, you know, you you can respect them. It can't like them Do you like your wife's ex boyfriend? I mean, it's illegal to do that Uh Respect respect.
He's like die as a question for you coach coach being another big 10 guy I've watched enough of your teams over the course of my life to know that you're not exactly, you know about the bullshit Um, everyone these days is kind of talking about how much kids have changed from you know, maybe 20 25 years ago How much has like your coaching philosophy changed over the course of your career and like how different is it coaching kids now? Then it maybe was when you had those teams with mataean cleaves and moped and guys like that Oh, those guys were firefighters, you know, I mean, I mean it has changed But I used to football term all the time, you know When when things change and you got all these different offenses and defenses and at the end of the day You still gotta be able to block tackle and not turn the ball over, you know and and in basketball You still have to be able to defend and rebound the win on the road and and not turn the ball over So I think I changed some unfortunately, I think I'm getting back to the my old self Your show maybe brings it to to fact you you say and do what you want on this You're not politically correct all the time. Whoa and I would be considered not a politically correct guy all the time But uh, I think if you spend time with your players, they know your coaching them to win championships You want them to be pros you want to they want to do these things that 1% of the world does But they think everybody should just be able to do it by patting you on the back and nice job buddy You just missed in shots in a row. That's great, you know You ever remember the old cliche is they don't care what you know until they know that you care like obviously Yeah, oh really Yeah, I got it upside it fell down but I keep it on my desk all the time because you're right about that It is true.
I'm gonna make sure I get in here. Oh, no. Oh, no, this is the 20 years difference thing too You know, it's got a half face. You need a slide.
You're right. I think am I right? There you go That better smack the wood slide. Yeah, yeah Perfect.
You nailed it. You nailed it. Oh the other right. I got it.
Yeah, the um That's a cliche for a reason though like what people see on tv of the biggest game I'll coach and play you're interacting. They don't see the actual hundreds of hours beforehand to get to know that person Are you got to view as all them like your kids? You know your like coaches say that's like the thing Like I went on my kids do this so I'm not gonna let my players do this Is that how your relationship is with the boys on the team? Has it been that way throughout the entirety of you had to evolve?
You know, my two kids are now 30 and 25 and I unfortunately I have to admit I spent more time with my players than I did my kids And that's not always fair That's the reality of coaching as I think every football basketball coach and probably other sports too But that is the reality of it I try to bring my family in with my team because you don't get enough family time unless you do that But uh, hell yeah, you look at them, uh, you know, you want them to be successful You want them to be great. You want them to win championships? You want them to you know, have a life after basketball I mean really our job is to make the next 70 years better than the first 20 It's getting harder to do because holding people accountable and things is you know, people look at that as illegal nowadays I think it's coming back. I think it's coming back stay strong.
I think it's coming back Uh for the good of everybody by the way for the good of everybody If everybody's a lot to make money while and earn money for what they do and what they bring sweet If you're also able to evolve and become men, you know going forward in women in sports That would be great for society as a whole. I think it's coming back. Tony has the last question for your coaches. Oh Yeah, coach kind of around that around the family and the 20 years difference and being able to coach guys harder Is it easier when you have Jason Richardson kid?
Jason Richardson on the team Are you allowed to coach him a little harder because he is the son of a professional athlete And they kind of just come in with an idea of the work and the ethic and all that that you have to come in to be successful You know, jase has been a treat he was not only raised by his father who was 14 years in a league and won You know championship 2.04 national championship here and all the things he accomplished But his mother's a coach too. She coached him So he's getting it from all sides and he has been an easy kid to coach because you know He expects more of himself than I expected of him and that's that's pretty cool when that happens So yeah, Jason has helped him when Jason was here with Matina. No those guys man It was it was a little crazier back then but uh, it was fun too And it's an honor that he put let his son come play for me after 25 years for your team to go on a run What do they have to do coach? What is the like what is your main thing here for your squad?
Yeah, we gotta get a little better with our three-point shooting that's been a weakness all year, but We've defended we've rebounded we've ran good. We shot free throws. We got to the line Um, you gotta be good enough to be great and then lucky enough to win in this tournament because there's always a Cinderella out there Or there's always an upset waiting, you know, unlike your guys sport football usually the bigger stronger better team wins We gotta put that damn orange thing in that hoop and some nights no matter how good a play you run It just doesn't get there and so that's why I say you gotta be a little lucky too But I like the fact that our defense travels and uh, we'll see what it can do for us Alright coach. Well good luck and uh, hopefully it's nine final fours for you in all the smarties foxy Everything you say them on the way out coach.
Thanks for everything you're the man you're the man you're the go Can't wait to watch you guys win the title this year and and and go green You go go white. Hell yeah, that was a big moment We appreciate you coach. Ladies and gentlemen, Tommy zu Need you gonna go white back to Yeah, I thought you weren't gonna do it. Yeah.
No, thank you. You lob that one up for me. Yeah. Well, also I thought we're I thought we're gonna miss the entire what's the entire thing here the entire thing is go green go white We got the photo of it if 10 year old me would only know what she's aggressive you foxy As I mean, he grew up in the Lansing area.
He literally is god like actually foxy is loved Michigan state Yeah, loudly proudly through a lot and ride or die and when you play basketball from the Lansing area every single coach You ever have tries to be Thomas. Oh, and it means you know it means you run in a lot your physical The rebounding all that yelled at all the time and obviously not a mr. Tom. Do they really do they do they do they do they?
Oh, he's known for his raspy voice because he's yelling all the past me now So my voice he did have a raspy voice. Yeah, it was fantastic My voice gets like I wonder if I lose it and I never know if there's gonna be a voice there So like I'll go to speak which is tough whenever you're a professional speaker You know not knowing if you're gonna have it so once in a while you'll travel to a different octave because you know You know, it's there. Yeah, you know, it's there So whenever he did the rival race and go all the way up and I'm like oh, I wonder if he was battling there Didn't know if the voice was gonna be these basketball coaches some of them him very much though Oh, definitely had they won Saturday and played yesterday? Probably would I know yeah, it feels like all the most successful ones Calipari patino like all the ones that actually go they get oh, yeah Last year I think it was last year right foxy where he was ripping a kid on the sideline was it two years ago?
That was it for a three point? I'm trying to as he brought it up like everyone smile get after a guy and I'm always politically correct I remember him on a sideline people killing people killing people so mad and two years ago might have been two yeah, yeah Yeah, as he was saying I was like oh, yeah, I do you get fucking after someone yes. I like that though I like go to town really coach you have to a basketball basketball I have to like you gotta be on every second because if you have one one laps like yeah Can't go to run you're done. Did you see the player that his I think was Michigan is gumfellow and he decided to pick up his gum off Floor he got back up easy layup.
Oh Scrutel who's coaching at mr. First year there right dusty may first year at Michigan wins the big 10 I think he's the first coach ever to win the big ten tournament in his first year as the head coach I believe he's right here yesterday. I was trying to keep up with all the news and learn as much as I possibly could I had it over CBS sports network data show on for a long time I appreciate them they were on for like three hours afterwards breaking down every single team I was trying to learn everything I possibly could yeah It was hard to find information out there from any other networks CBS was seemingly on it We appreciate them doing that biggest story of the day is what oh the fucking brackets out Okay, who are these teams? Do we learn about them?
CBS did that for us so shout out to them and shout for spending a day with him also yesterday AJ kind of saw this the players have like a four-hour range of a thunder lightning down there in Jacksonville Rory McElroy was he gonna blow it after such a long wait We're gonna tie in with a man named spawn then they slept on it overnight spawn Probably not a lot Rory knew he was gonna be saying patties whenever you woke up in the morning and had an opportunity to win his 28th PGA tour Topi at ship Rory very early very quickly Is that was dominance over spawn first hole would end up getting a birdie with a beautiful drive and a beautiful chip in a wonderful Pot he would be minus one through the first hole of a three hole aggregate battle and He didn't have much competition spawn spawn lasted about one shot on 18 and the first hole He sprayed it into the rough couldn't even see the ball then he gets the 17 a second hole He puts one in a water as expected he was plus three through two holes against Rory McElroy And Rory just coasted to a dub in a three hole extra playoff this morning down at the players in Jacksonville And uh, I'll tell you it was pretty obvious was gonna happen literally from the first swing of spawn and that's like the experience That's uh understanding and I think it's a little bit of the Irish understanding the same patties day needed a Rory dub AJ from the beginning of this week where Rory was grabbing phones of collegiate golfers to now be in the champion on a Monday with the longest players in a long time How do you feel for the state of golf? I watched yesterday and would have watched if there was no delay and did watch after the delay I enjoy the golf is back. Yes, but I think this venue makes it awesome I'm seeing the island green then the winds picked up on the weekend like these guys make it look too easy No, that's the problem like they're shooting these crazy scores when it's blowing crazy wind it doesn't matter They just find a way to continue to score But yeah, I felt like when you've you watched spawn if you had drained that birdie putt on 18 on sunday night to win it all But he goes home. He wins it when he left that thing like an in short you felt like all right Yeah, it's been a good run bud.
It's gonna be a tough for you to win this three hole playoff tomorrow Yeah, he's gonna have to eat dinner on this he's gonna have to lay down on this him and his brain and his pillow tonight I can have a lot of chat about yeah, I'm supposed to win this thing tomorrow morning three best holes in my life Very difficult every 16 17 18 seem scary as hell to play as well. Yeah, our closer which I respect out of the way the whole TPC saw grasses constructed in it all um I put out a tweet to say, you know, it's saying patties like Rory has no chance of losing this It really did feel that way like even from their warm up to them showing up to getting to the first hole It all felt like Rory was comfortable and spawn was not and that is what the game of yeah, and Rory even said I think Rory coming into it knew that I think he said hey, this is after he won He said this is the fourth time I have won on st. patty's day and now Rory joins jack tiger and scottie chefler as the only players in history of golf To win multiple players and multiple Major championships, so yeah, it's quite a group to be a part of congratulations to Rory Mcallroy obviously A beautiful day for the Irish lad and now the next turn of what starts tomorrow He's white grind, but he won four and a half million dollars I believe today at the players and anyone back to what's that I thought it was more five and I think the tweet I saw said four and a half million because jac was like 50,000 or something whenever he won way back in the day and how much Golf has kind of evolved in change. Yeah, and spawn got like 2.2 7 5 million like both are still going on very happy You knew that last time he was laying down exactly what's the app?
Exempting to a lot of big tournaments to the rest of you're still like changing second place finish for certainly is let's do another NFL deal that happened over the weekend Maki Bechtin is signed with the Chargers to play guard two-year 20 million bucks Congrats maki goes from being a bust out of the Jets at tackle There's the statlin university in philadelphia moves down to guard becomes a dominant interior offense alignment wins the super bowl and now signs a two-year 20 million Dollar deal on a gym hardball team so congrats maki They're gonna love him over there. I think from everything we heard and once her gets his hands on maki in that weight room The sky is the limit for o maki in that offensive line. Yeah, we've talked about the silver bells club with kalil mac you know using those 200 pound dumbbells I assume maki Bechtin might have some of that in his future as well Ladies and gentlemen before we wrap up here on ESPN on the st. Paddy's madness monday, March 17th 2025 Happy st.
Paddy's day to all of you who would we be if we didn't bring in our favorite Irishman ladies and gentlemen from the ww shameless Hold on Yeah All right Hey, thank you Irish people Remember Okay That was chocolate milk obviously never took actual beer on I would never do that. He's gonna go in We will continue this program on youtube ESPN plus Disney plus and tik tok live the March madness stuff is so Spectacular because it's a sport we rarely pay attention on this particular program And then it injects itself into our life and it takes over and I can't thank the college hoops committee enough or community enough For a kind of building to this moment and from what I've heard the SEC is about to walk right through this thing or what a st John's Johnny's makes some magic. How about some teams out of the big 12 that maybe got in over top of wish We're genuinely gonna do the thing big 10 grand and pound football are you gonna be able to go or maybe a Cinderella story that won their conference Championship for an automatic bid who's gonna turn their school into a place that every basketball fan on earth knows about who's gonna change their enrollment from one To maybe triple their size in one magical moment to a shining moment just a few weeks from now That's what March madness is all about so from us some college basketball slantia happy st Patty's day. We'll see you tomorrow.
Goodbye. I think rough. Yeah. I was gonna say do we change it to 153 Yeah You start to finish really Tim actually went to a beer garden this week shut her down obviously shit right?
Yeah, what's calf You tell me you tell me what's he racing people in the street? You know my dad's not like a boozer like a big boozer at all But like Saint Patrick's they just becomes like it has like he's good for a long time squat in a picnic table with everyone sitting on it Yeah, that's what happens. Oh, we're drinking it off. Yeah, he's back like he's John Cena with the AA speaking up Oh tonight Monday night raw in Brussels John Cena returns from what I've been told oh he'll see in a sec I wanna be there.
Yeah, it's like a nine-hour flight stuff with the day job But I do know Michael Cole and the boys will be absolutely crushing it We will watch along in awe at the greatness happy Saint Patty's to all of you and I already said goodbye once I'm not doing it again Okay, we'll continue this digitally and we'll see you tomorrow Oh Great We should want the black yeah And people can just read all the shit that's on the screen still sport center after us. I don't know if we should think Pride this or not up. Yeah, yeah, yeah good show though. We like the people that host that show They like us as well, which is very cool with them and I think he's doing good.
So if we were just leave 90 seconds dead or Good point, which we would not want to do to them. No ever there are others I'm joking. It's another year around son world or we're more with or down. Mm-hmm.
That works. Yeah, yeah All right, ladies and gentlemen Here's the you here's the dream. Here's the us from the whole damn team. Can't thank you enough for wearing a green happy Saint Patty's so I'm sure everybody Hey, hey, J's wearing a green hoodie.
You know, it's a big day It is Saint Patrick's day. We hope you were all enjoying the hell out of it or at least mentally having a moment of happiness and enjoyment You know, oh because you're I was family and friends, you know, decided to make this a holiday way back I actually got a chance to celebrate Saint Patrick's day in Ireland one time And you know everybody says like well, it's not the same America is in Ireland America ruined America ruined it They were very boosted up on Saint Patrick's day in Ireland where I was but they did it like the night before I was in this like smaller town They did the night before into the morning had a parade through the town and then it was kind of over after the break everybody like kind of called it quits I don't know if that town is like every town but that was town I was in and You're pretty exhausted at the end of it, but you're definitely pretty banged up too in the parade is obviously fun and go through the entire Time everybody shit face and then you're kind of done for the afternoon So I think it did celebrate it over there I assume it is different than over here because over here It's just a lot of people saying we can get hammered because the Irish are having a day today and that's okay, too We currently have a live camera on the temple bar in Dublin Ireland Slantia to all parties enjoying themselves love the lighting love the lighting love the shamrocks I love that we walk through that area and certainly remember all of it. You know that is the That's best for AJ. We can't wait to get back over the beautiful double ain't that accurate double?
It's pretty awesome and it was my first time ever getting to step foot over there Yeah, the people it's everything's about the people like obviously the old history tradition everything about it But the people are people are all like shames which look at shames. He's like the nicest most fun dude to get Overbear I said this at the beginning nice. It's until not, you know, that's the thing I said this in a good way obviously but also if you want some Come get some you know that is I said that at the beginning of the show that like You know we're having a couple of Italians on the show today and his own patino And it's like the Italian and the Irish you do the research are like the Azer of blue color what in the same blue bullets. These are blue colored blue bloods here the Irish any Italian So it is a I think it's a very similar group of humans and whenever we got over there not scared shit talk You know not scared shit talk with the blue color community which we all come from one So I think that's why we adapted so easily over there But just willing to have a good time to like yeah, if it's what you want to do let's do it live music everywhere You know I had a I can't wait to get back.
Oh so I can always do it differently. It's not what you mean Why well we're gonna make sure that the audience can hear our show so that our show isn't just me chucking beers to a crowd of a couple hundred Irish lads sure we're packed into JR mons over there having a good old time Which I would recommend all these people that we just saw a double go to JR mons It is a great Bob stories great time good people, but it was back to know we could hear us You know everybody's being quiet these Irish lads are like a power ever friend of here Yeah, trying to get fucked up and you're kind of come on live we can't hear what you say we can't hear you So that's when the beer check and start it was like here's to do here we go Thanks for coming out, you know, I can't hear what we're saying. Let's go do that and then one thing I think it's 10 12 and dance for Mrs. Save it.
Yeah, obviously a lot Talk to the local America football coach. Yeah, he was awesome Good time and I got a chance to meet everybody that was out about and he felt like and saw a lot of different places And it was good time I can I legitimately can't wait to get back and have you seen patters everybody over there and in the United States Recreating what we did you know over there either today or yesterday or Saturday a lot of people out there saying Patrick's They celebrate over the weekend obviously so you know congrats everybody surviving or thriving currently on this thing Patrick's a AJ Yeah, remind me I was walking with shameless when I got separated from the pack or walk the shame is somewhere that night after the show and we're just Walk in the other people everywhere and all of a sudden he's like, oh, hey There any goes in hugs as good as a jimim my sister and his sister was right there Standing outside some some like the awesome building that they were at and I never asked him like hey Did you know shit? Did you just randomly walk like I hope you guys worked this out if not? This is awesome.
We hug her matter was great Then we just kept moving and she went her direction as well I'm like she I never got to ask James like did you guys talk before this and to shame is call everybody that he knows just Yeah, is that is that what's my brother? My brother's right. I mean She was the greatest. Yeah, the man.
He is so much fun him on that flight over there Oh, just the whole court, you know, his seat was at the perfect spot as he was just pouring we delayed our trip 45 minutes Strictly because shame is trying to find proper mugs that he did proper Guinness mugs from a proper pub because I finally found a But you know gave ago put over some bar. We've never heard of it here. Oh, my god He's great. That's great bar and then Paulie over there in Jersey.
I assume that it's my brother. I'm surprising. Yeah, yeah Alright, let's talk about some news have you seen factors everybody and congrats to Tim surviving another one. You know, that's good news Kind of boy calf.
Yeah straight to calf. I'm not a hundred percent. He said they last week just kind of leaked into the weekend That's all I'm when but that's not true. Yeah, he's doing calf raises over here on the steps in the Walk in he was over there.
I got workers thing. What happened straight my calf? When did you do that last week? Oh really was it St Patrick's a celebration on Saturday?
No What do you think why is he lying? Yeah, it was last week, you know, it was hurt. I'm like alright Tim He needs to get better because what he's doing in his weight remodeling basis is awesome. Have you seen this?
Yeah, I believe it I'm telling him he can get on some science You know like his age there's a lot of things, you know that if you wanted to get like all the way back like he's like doing I'm not doing it. I'm like, okay, okay, okay, you know, help maybe with this calf or something. I'll need it Alright, shout them actually happy St. Patrick's day to him some football news.
We haven't chatted about Cooper cup We officially get some numbers three years 45 million dollar dealing total and I don't think I fully understood the significance of him going back to Seattle I guess he's from outside of Seattle obviously played college in that state and he talked about you know I haven't Washington back across his chest and then the letter and then like the response of the people the the boys coming home You know, it's like that is really what they're selling and in a time where the Seattle Seahawks are potentially losing fans that they can Definitely regain but they've certainly lost interest of some of their fan base some of the 12s have certainly seemingly not had as much optimism What's going on with the Seahawks and they had in the past especially moving on from peak care moving on his new era other teams Are actually taken over the stadium in prime time games never happened in the history of my understanding of the Seattle Seahawks Bring the hometown kid back especially one that has been loved as it appears as Cooper cup isn't Washington good move business wise Also, get Sam Donald a weapon good move football lies. I like this a lot for the Seattle Seahawks AJ I think it makes sense on all it's obviously Cooper gets to come home and everyone all the fans there with that But they need him like they need Cooper cup to step in day one and be the man and be a stud for Sam Donald So it's gonna be hugely that whole receiver room But yeah Cooper cup like you like we've said a million times out here went healthy as one of the best receivers any other questions How long can he stay healthy and I think There was a report that the Seahawks can get out of the same Donald deal I think Florio reported the Seahawks can get out of the same Donald contract after one year 37 and a half million dollars So I don't know exactly how that all comes to be the structure allows us to escape the contract after one year in 37 and a half million Wow, it's generally frowned upon for teams the scrap contracts when the guarantee flips from injury only to fool in the early days of the Waiver period That's what the Raiders did with their car in 2023 the goodness for players that it gives him a head start on free agency by more than a month if the Seahawks pick up the second year The Donald contract at 27 and a half million. It's a two-year 65 million dollar deal That's an average of 32 and a half million per year Okay, so it's a one-year deal with a two-year option by the team coming up next year 37 and a half million this year Then a two-year option Team side after the season ends before free agency period opens up So I wonder why that was the structure that Sam Donald agreed to how much was he being offered at other places? And is this another opportunity for him to bet on himself and play great ball while making good money?
Yeah, I know the thing talked about in the article and just about the contract was how you know towards the end of the year If Seattle isn't having a good year, it would be a situation where he might get benched because of his injury guarantee for next season So just like what happened to our car Just like what happened to our car and Dan Jones is really referenced with the giant just this past season because that's exactly what happened With them. That's why they bench him so they want to pay me So the deal is you're not our Dan Johnson air car You are not in our next year planes, so we're not paying you any next year's money right now And you might injure yourself walking down the steps. You know what they said Derek are right? Hmm-hmm.
Are we out? Get out of here turn his fall ball. You can't get in but he goes from start a starter for however many years not 10 Whatever it was from the transition from over to Las Vegas as well. Hey, he goes from starter starter starter and then yeah You're not allowed in the building.
How about that? We'll get your shit Okay, not your locker because we don't want you know on the bag So you're not getting hurt here if we haven't made this point clear enough you will not be around and we will move forward And then he's come out and been like, you know, I wish it was a little different Yeah, I wish I could say goodbye. I don't know people in the time I don't think he's anything negative if I recall I talked to him at the pro ball afterwards and I asked him about it And he was just said all the right things did all the right things he ends up with the saints They give him a big deal. He's a starter coming up next year, but that was an interesting situation The angle Jones is different because they want to keep them around.
They just want them to do yes Like defensive practice quality. Yeah, you're gonna be all over here. No, it's not good to defense Thank you, then we gotta maybe play it. We don't want to do that Remember so let's not do too much good stuff and then he asked for his release ends up with the Vikings now with the Indianapolis Gold so those contracts are so many interesting little things because a precedent that has happened, you know anytime something's happened in the past People lean on that and that's why everything happened for a first time So they have important well and like you said like it really does make you want to whether what other offers he got because like when you Really dive into this like this isn't that I mean granted, you know Gives him another opportunity to kind of like prove himself But for what he did you would I mean that this really isn't that much security like there is a chance You know they're a new team their offensive line isn't as good as Minnesota's was he's gonna have you know I mean Cooper cup but then in jig whether losing to those receivers like there is a scenario where you could see he doesn't have a Great year and he does get benched at the end of the year and there's a chance he goes on in balls Yeah, and then you know everything activates only team decision is an interesting forfeiture You know like after this year, it's like team decides whether or not they want to implement or imply the next to in What's the word like activate active?
Whatever there's a word somewhere in point. No, no what? In still institute the next two years of the deal in pale. They want to years of This deal they can do that that's interesting because you would think you would at least want a little bit of say there I don't know how often this takes place.
I don't well Sam thought on offer by Minnesota Yeah, that's what I mean was he offered by minnesota was he offered by the Steelers was he offered? Okay, so it's like West Coastman Someone must have been similar situations though similar like there's tears to contracts, you know Some people have you know it might look like a five-year deal But it's really a two-year deal and then it's like year by year the team has a decision after that but if you're an owner if you're a GM You would like every player in the roster to have a contract They get to make a decision if you if you live up to it and you earn it Yeah, well we'll pick it up on the next league year and you go have another year under your belt But yeah, this is definitely a team friendly situation Yeah, because they're negotiating at this year's prices But Sally Cap's gonna go up and potential value is gonna go up and you're stuck in it whether you like it or not. It's not yeah That's good a Schneider's driving a good business up. Oh, yeah in Vegas Like Vegas was tied to darnell, but you could kind of make the assumption They picked you know Smith over him because they ended up trading for him and gave something up instead of going after darnell But with Washington we do kind of remember it's no income It's just like Florida you're kind of getting that entire great tax benefits in the state of Washington Not watching DC, but in state of Washington.
You have great I wonder because remember they came out and said you know Smith was offered the same deal Yes, I wonder if it was this type of deal and you know is like probably that's no because they said 35 to 40 Mm-hmm. This is 37 and a half. That would be right in between 35 to 40 So now we know a little bit more about why Gino opted basically to be traded out of Seattle and turned down their deal Probably because of that. Yeah, that is probably the reason why that's okay.
Okay, so she had to be improving being there for a few years You know everything's starting to come together isn't start everything starting to focus. Yeah, but what the hell's going on with Aaron Rogers I saw him playing flag football this weekend looks like he could still spin it Mm-hmm. He was he was then fluff wooded just like it's right here flat footer. Didn't you move boom bang pal touchdown?
Look at this boom bang pal out out running back. Thank you touch down feeding Hold on. What did you hear from Aaron about the flag football tournament? And obviously does this every year and the reason why I know that is because normally when he's at this it does become news because There's something that has to be done and it's for charity.
It's given back. He's done. He's done this every year He's been on our particular program. I don't know how many years going back I don't know if you want this year on if Josh's team want there's a little bit of shit talk Which we love but NFL quarterbacks former NFL quarterbacks take a team and then they play an actual tournament and then they raise money It's a beautiful event and every time Aaron's at it.
There's a conversation happening around him What have you heard about the tournament and what have you heard Aaron's gonna do AJ just tell us? I mean honestly, I wish I knew I wish I knew what was taking so long to really do it like for real I got questions as well from my side So I don't know what the what the deadline might be I don't know when a decision would come and I don't really know What's going on behind the scenes, but what yeah, like what could be holding up now and when doesn't happen? You tell that's the those are the questions that those are the questions. Yeah, this is this one.
I don't know for real This one. I don't know what's happened for real. I'm confused. Okay, so as the days have moved into at least a week You know, there's never been any indicator that Aaron was gonna give an answer There's never been anything from Aaron's team that says he's making a decision There's been nothing from Aaron Rodgers about him playing ball again Like there is literally nothing and there's been cities that have gone through full cycles This guy's gonna be our quarterback all the way to fuck this guy.
I'm sick of this guy He didn't want to be our quarterback and it's like yes, I think he's just kind of waited on the beach Mm-hmm with a blanket around it with obviously wired headphones a beautiful son with a sunset with all that sucks on this continent United States of the Sun and he's contemplating wondering trying to figure out the life that he's Aaron And there's obviously a blood moon Last week the views are obviously Spectacular out there. So there's all that going on as well So it's a fascinating dilemma because there's reports that came out now that said the Minnesota Vikings are trying to figure out What the fuck they want to do and Aaron's allowing them the opportunity to figure out what they want to do I've been told nothing. I've asked I certainly have a day certainly hasn't asked a decent amount That's my friend. I'm not gonna fuck it.
Hey the Vikings said anything though If the Viking said anything like hey JJ's our guy nothing has been said by the Minnesota Vikings Which also leads to the mystery of it all I believe sheft or said on the sheft or podcast last week that nothing is indicated that the Vikings and Aaron Rogers Are there is that something that was said he may have said that I know that yeah He indicated because I know I asked him like hey Is it a possibility this was a couple weeks ago But is it a possibility that the Vikings decide that he wants to go there and he said he supposed he supposed it is a possibility But nothing he has heard would suggest that they have any interest in a Rogers And we're seeing now we're seeing he has had a lot of posts and once again every situation is fluent You know especially with Aaron and you're talking about a goat But basically every situation especially whenever it's business a free agency I mean look at the Milton situation everything is pretty fluid So there's been multiple different you know reports But I believe we're seeing last week put out a post I was like the Minnesota Vikings are trying to figure out what they want to do in the future and Aaron is willing to give them the Opportunity to figure out what they want to do that was the first time really that it was reported We had hypothesized about Aaron going to the Minnesota Vikings a lot just like hey They need a quarterback or they don't and JJ McCarthy But they might need a quarterback and with way they're built they're built to win right the fuck now and Aaron Rogers might not be able to Run like he was able to run 10 years ago He can still move and he can still spin it and in that offense if you can spin it I think you're in an okay spot with Kevin O'Connell So is that a real thing now we sit and wait and see and once again Aaron has said absolutely nothing I think Aaron's still trying to figure it all out as well or maybe he's just wrapped I know I know less than anybody age. I know it's more than anybody which is what everybody's understand for sure Which in this situation is basically nothing Okay, basically Thank you to see keep tickers becoming a thing talk about the shows. Oh really I have not yeah Shout out seeking I like that. Okay, that's a good play nobody was ever on the ticker seeking it out Let's go business.
Let's go move on a screen shout to the seek you ticker and shout out to seek you as a whole The greatest ticket buying platform on planet earth and AJ Over 28 million downloads assuming some year 29 million out because this is our month ago So maybe especially now so many events ago too so many live events It's fucking 40 degrees outside it is I'm bubbly I start looking at houses in Puerto Rico Yeah, yeah, I don't know where they're at exactly I want to take my daughter on an ice troll outside home for the weekend. It's good. Let's go outside It's fucking 40 degrees where 30 how is it? Why is it so cold?
It was just 70 degrees This is the fifth winter we have had in this spring cycle. I'm done with it in Puerto Rico He's a born up to a party. I saw a same thing on my phone on my weather app son of a bitch I'm fucking goin. I just want to talk to my daughter.
I can't there's 50. I know our wins and two degrees. Okay, okay Jesus fucking Christ Yes, pretty windy very windy so windy so so people were scared of death in Ohio People thought like it was gonna be one of those storms like you got getting your getting your basement hunker down like all that neighbors House dock off through through garage. That's a big dog through Through the like the doctor.
I don't know what's called foxy girl, but like the house Yeah, the boat house garage. Oh god. They leave it up in the winter. Yeah, yeah, yeah That's what I've learned in this entire thing is I was surprised by it and they're like now.
I shouldn't have been there It's like well, it's in the fucking garage now. I've never seen anything like waves these waves that are hitting oh boy Unbelievable looks like a fucking Pacific Ocean. That's real chop when I guess I windy Yeah, I was unbelievable and in a light effect. I guess the wind because there's nothing stopping just it seems really picks up Oh, yeah, this world.
I think we're here to train I'm a whole of his life life for me right now. Bor Rico sure and if I was gonna go to live on there I used to get amen. Hey, they're ready to go. Yeah, can we get the Sun though?
No, can't get the Sun okay with the warm Uh-huh, which I still don't understand how that works. Okay, never will I'm not getting into it. Which part I could be so fucking sunny and it's you know, like what's where the atmosphere of the book? Okay, all right, can we fucking change it?
You know what we are actually it's like, okay, all right I would just like nice weather grew up in Pittsburgh want to more in town live in Indiana sure I think Indiana's the windiest place, you know I think it is one of the windiest place at least obviously there's tornado alley and everything over there which sucks that is Tornadoes come through here to it is crazy thing. It's always windy here all every day is windy everything never stops the wind never what's the greatest Maybe durability and conditioning out of anything is the wind in Indianapolis in the end it never wavers It is always windy in there whenever it's cold as shit. It's just like we get Arctic storms Blowing through town and I thought it was not I thought it turns out that little prick roundhog might even write. Yeah, I don't like it We're not even at that time yet.
What do you mean? It's so great. It's always great in Indiana. That's the worst part for me.
Yeah, you see Pittsburgh brother I mean, that's even way more great. I don't know how we're born in the dark. Yeah, exactly more rain days I don't remember what year was one of the years when I was living there Yeah, maybe maybe all of them. There was definitely one of the years where I was like Jesus Christ feels like a rain Every day, you know more rain days in Seattle because every time I see out of my rain so much.
It's like go check Yeah, I don't know if it's the other way haven't been having lived there in a while But there was a time that I assume it's saying rain all the time now granted There's a toughness comes from that, you know whenever you go outside and get smacked in the mouth with cold wet the worst the worst combination In what cold wet right in the face. There's a toughness that comes with that But yeah rain in a Morgan town fucking I mean, it's you know, you're doing this one here and then out here So I almost quit. I'm a sound go to Rico. I didn't though.
I still need all four seasons I need that in my life. I'm getting close. Yeah, I'm getting close. I'm getting soft.
I mean at this point, you know When you have a set we have a 75 77 degree day on Friday, and you can't you can't turn that in there were tornado warnings on Friday night Yeah, it's gonna happen again here. Exactly put down on Saturday I mean you got it you got turned the goddamn heat on in your house. It's ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, because you don't it's 50 degrees I wake up in the morning and it's yeah, 52 degrees in my living room.
Well, I listen We know it can be worse. We understand that we're just saying we're done with it Yeah, we're done with it says I need some accordingly now we did look up obviously Pittsburgh received slightly more rainfall annually than Seattle Yeah, so you know right as all the time Seattle not all the time I'll tell you what because it can rain more than time and it does in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania So this is stage of my life. I never thought I get to I'm almost done with it I'm almost done with it. I used to talk shit on the you know super good weather I said you did too.
I just you did this guy. Yeah, I don't understand why people will spend like three or four months down Of Florida in winter. I do understand well here you have to spend seven months because you never know Yeah, when it's coming back easy come easy go easy today something new you don't know it's about the warm Let's go let's go let's go It doesn't matter how warm it is outside. No, it's all cold inside.
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Yeah, might be giddable Okay, might be giddable Where they are might be right they might be get a little crazy promos coming up Yeah, maybe some zany promos defined print but definitely do that sure but that maybe some late movement yeah, you know Maybe some right maybe some late movement. I haven't kept I'm kept up with college basketball But some of these sports books a little later than the others some sports books much more comfortable with their shit in making decisions Other people following decisions that are being made in places So let's remember that as we attack this March Madness if you're a gambling that maybe we got an opportunity We have not done any of us being a bit March management So we do not know and you only find out in real time you only find out when the bullets are flying So let's keep lying on that because some people are creating the lines and some people are watching others And it's like people can get got yumpy who you like in this turn Who is your your team at destiny? So I was on Alabama, but Grant Nelson their big man He's getting imaging done on his leg today if he's all that changes things. I actually like Tennessee Okay, Tennessee played Florida.
Well, lost him obviously in the SEC Championship, but that SEC turn it was a grind Yeah, it was a tough all season they got him they don't call us stop. Did you hear? Thank you AJC spoke about the SEC team he said there's currently 14 sports being played at one point in the last couple weeks There's 14 sports being played 12 of them had an SEC team at number one So yeah, people are mad about 14 teams in the tournament. Well, we do that every fucking sport And it's he didn't say that exactly but kind of they got a lot of pride down there in their sports and it's paying off Especially if you look at the current dance.
No, I love how second came on instantly he talks about I can go through each one I'll go through each team and tell you exactly all their their quad wins or whatever When we start using the whole quad situation that's your that feels like this year. Yeah, they know you talk about it They didn't use because West Virginia lot of quads we had ATVs out of the fucking barn. No and you and see what is a quad one victory? That's good teams.
I think it's like who decides a good team rank Wwb gun Zagat when they were ranked third in the goddamn country Ken Palmer, right? That's the rankings So what that is they don't use them anymore. I would assume there's 300 some D1 basketball schools You know you divide that by four and you figure out the quads. Yeah, and Chris Anderson Martin your journalist This guy was only last night.
This guy was only he's one of found hundred four thousand dollar bonus to believe me Chris Anderson was like fuck this shit basically all night He's what I was reading from Chris Chris Anderson have me fired up. I was one of the Chris Anderson. No, I appreciate his work His new diligence this one He said listen his very first team left out of the NCAA tournament team Obviously WV had six quad one victories this season the last three teams in UNC Xavier member them and say if five quad wins combined That's what one wins combined. So what happened?
You tell us a day That's why the governor of West Virginia is currently doing a press conference with an actual national corrupt athletic association Banner in front of him at the press conference. He said I want information I want the notes from the meeting I want to know who was where when what happened that is why I'm doing this today Well, and I think that's why so many people are as pissed as they are because like you said like if you want to eliminate This whole thing then you just got to be a little bit better and you'll get in but agree But Joe Lunardi who's you know the godfather of Bracketology Yeah, very tough the book top of it a hold of although we did look at his rights and you know, maybe there is something that could be done there Oh, yeah, it's booking for it. Yeah, exactly. I get him next year for two weeks after But he like you know, he typically gets you know Like 98 or 99% of the teams correctly in the field in their seat He had West Virginia as like an eight seat It wasn't like you know one of the last four in one of the elevens in the play in game So everyone assumed that they were like comfortably and not not even anywhere near like really on the bubble So when it comes to comes out that they're the first team out of the tournament It's kind of like well, how do you go from being you know like in like that?
52 51 spot at large to completely miss in the tournament It just doesn't make sense and then there's other teams that are pissed that are in the turny Like there's a lot of people about to see me like well How is this the how is this to see like we're in the turn? So I guess there's always gonna be something that you can be grudge or whatever but it feels like this year There's a lot of people just being like this bullshit because it's not just West Virginia people You know a lot of West Virginia people saying this is bullshit for West Virginia now UNC being one of the schools that's always on top and the best what has been historically and also bubble Cunningham the athletic Director's being ahead of the selection committee being a part of it people don't love whenever they feel like they're being Boozled, you know, especially if it's a big name especially in West Virginia the school that I don't want to say gets Little to no respect but gets little to no respect is getting the butt end of it easy to create Maybe face heel here in this particular story, but it's not just this situation There's a lot of situations in the seating where people are like was it what was the thought that Michigan what was Michigan? Yeah, I've seen you know, and they just won the big ten like what are we what are we talking about? So I think what the governor of West Virginia saying is we just a little Little transverse sure it's a nice information here.
I like these doing it good for him. I'm guys doing that He was saying dude. We had him on the show remember he was the attorney general We had him on the show. Oh, yes.
Yeah, he was he was pushing for what's that called Employment now. Yeah, I think it was an employment world You know is they weren't letting people transfer and then he was like well If they're able to make a million dollars over here and they're not able to hear aren't you kind of like breaking labor laws? Yeah, like some labor laws aren't you kind of withholding? Well, whatever it is he took him the court and won and then that's kind of kind of start the tree I'm a sort of the whole the whole damn thing and that whole thing So he's not scared to go after in suit like actually go about it He's been in there before and he is that's former attorney general So he's a suit so like that is kind of his mo especially when he feels like his state his being bamboozled Rauled with the painters they on the podium national corrupt athletic association.
I mean, that's a great touch. That's cool Let people know exactly where you stand Confused Right here if you don't hear me today see me today. Hey, we're in this fucking country Sickness right here guy here feels the same way we're together don't need to say anything else What's your name is being turned if they're able to turn this way to be a boy? Yeah, I have I talked to Jimmy seafood John That's not a problem.
That's the name of the team that I'm sorry and makes that up Greece Manadakis believe it doesn't mean that least a great show. What's Minadakis? I guess it's last day. Okay.
Yeah, I'm okay This up please John Minadakis. I believe it is mine was funny. Okay. You don't think he's a minute docus not really M-I-N-A-D-A-K-I-S Boom I'm in a docus, okay, okay, uh, Dreeclad who owns Jimmy's famous seafood over there in Baltimore fantastic crab kicks They did start a few things though, you know like those cicadas that came out of the ground for the first time in 40 years You remember them oh yeah, humming and buzzing they had a cicada parade Yeah, they're there and by the other ones it started the entire thing people were talking Well now we got a little bit more information.
What was the thing that you heard it from that well? There's a little bit of convo about you know COVID-18 no no New York Times so they came from the lab we can China they've got a school that was covered 19 Okay, sorry, we're talking about COVID-18 nonetheless Jimmy's famous seafood is a great place with great people with great food You're gonna have to pass some of the things that they've done. Yeah every time I get a blast Super nice we did it. He's a really new bar deck area should be a shit hole with Kinda old school not shit or old sorry.
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That's good news because there's good chefs. You just said yeah I'm in a docus. Yeah talk about the minute this could be a minute doc. I said you have a minute I guess this No, it's docus ever if these are the brothers right here Okay, the one on the left John huge UNC fan, okay die hard you and see fit So he put out a smart ass tweet to me.
You know, oh, sorry guys didn't get in you know and I told him they need to acknowledge the fuckery In forfeit their spot to the West Virginia Mount years do what's right for college basketball Great do what's right for the future UNC says they love college ball They're one of the staples and pillars of college ball do what's right forfeit your spot and call West Virginia and say guess what you're in and Also, give us all your junk warm-ups. Yep We want all the things Jordan stuff send it all to me. I'll do that right Docus I don't think he responded. I don't know if he's thinking about it But it is it's one of those things where this might make this thing to you know I'm mentally they're playing against San Diego State and San Diego State the CBS people like got you and see the San Diego State just just a 20 minute thing about it Do not deserve I think that's sad they're gonna make this week 16 That was an interesting little dilemma.
I think everybody was having but that's a matter of smart sure I'm gonna tell out here money my raw starts in like 20 minutes I think on Netflix Can't wait to watch you know with watch bomb the mat here, but this day Under today again, they're in Brussels John caught van damn. You can show up three so no knows who knows you never know what's gonna happen with John Clovin damn but on this day after a selection with the thing with the thing with the poem at the holla I was gonna be very very difficult very very appreciative of everybody at the WWE basically saying like hey, you know and I'm gonna hate watching it to be honest with you because I'm you know I need to wear a headset in here while we watch it. Yeah. I'm fucking getting in college sure Yeah practice call it Yeah, he's getting close here giving close here throwing some gems it can get wired up So you can at least drop a few things you want him to say I never know what he's wired to cuz you know He's deaf so he's got the he's got his hearing aid things inside of his head like his implants Then he's got another headphone on top of that which is what I'm hearing and everybody's hearing but his ear things can Bluetooth the other stuff So like you could be talking to him one time and he there no way Hey, because his actual ears are just on a video That's on his phone and he's just completely checked out like the biggest noise canceling operation of all time You know because he needs those things here But then everyone's gonna be like one year and they'll take you off his ear and then put you on a speaker It's like but then he has the headphones on the outside there So I think I could maybe hack into one of those ears if I really wanted to I'm just gonna take in the entertainment entertainment That is Michael Cole.
Hell yeah, so we are not either though. We're on a road to WrestleMania. Yeah, yeah close. I'm on the way I'm close Never again never again.
Okay. We're gonna get out of here Let's go enjoy that and then we'll be back tomorrow We'll be off Thursday Friday for the turnie in our March Madness and yeah, it's a wonderful time to be alive We can't thank you enough big night out. It's gonna be cool big night out It's gonna be really cool thing else will be really cool. So about what hour hour ten minutes 92 minutes 92 minutes Second-air market available.
I do believe much which I don't love but I mean it was kind of expected don't love There's no way there's no way to stop that is there. Nah, I don't know a lot of artists have tried You know artists figured out to have a swift physical angle. I think there's a couple comedians I have a good business playing around it. It's not easy.
I don't know how you do it special. It's how good these you know Take it Scoupers or yeah, it's gonna be as good as this you get a ticket a promise will be worth it You know there's some of those take a price is absurd I would not spend that for anything but I promise it would be worth the price of admission I'm gonna try my best and I think the show is packed shows packed. Oh, yeah And people are now brainstorming because even more so because they saw the reaction Mm-hmm. So now I think people are understanding.
Oh, this is actually a thing You know cuz it wasn't really real until okay now. This is an actual thing that's gonna have to happen So then now everybody that said yeah, man started like saying oh I could also and it's like oh all of a sudden show I'm getting a little bit better all of a sudden everything starting like even what I'm saying is the people are gonna be part of the show Are giving like I think they were very excited about the reaction and what the possibilities are here So I think it's like a brainstorming starting to happen even more well So it's coming together really really well really really all the technical aspects have been completed which is a big deal Yeah, those have to be tested though. Yeah, those all have to be tested stage hilarious It's part of the show though. Mm-hmm stages part of the show.
Yeah, there's some big things that are part of the show But I don't have to be built so whenever I'm pitching what I would like it to be built like hilarious condos And I appreciate these people for taking me serious whatever I'm saying the things I'm saying need Need it to be able to smoke one side. I need to be able to have smoke about one side Because we don't know if we're gonna need we can definitely do smoke on one side should we do smoke maybe on both sides though in an alternate Yes, good idea. Yes, that would be good lighting needed to be able to be Specific we need to like to be able to be specific. Okay, wait, wait, just need it to be you know I mean I need to be able to be need to be able to like okay, so we can set up so we can bump bump bump bump bump Anytime right I'm like yes, that is exactly what I'm talking about and that's like the WWE people You know like whatever you're working with like the greatest on earth and things.
It's like I think it's gonna be a quite Well, I do believe it's gonna be streamed where at though Where at though. Yeah, how will that go? Well, the setup be will be free of course Nobody's enough to pay to watch our shit But if you're in that building you're gonna get a chance to experience a show of a lifetime and potentially walk out of there With a much bigger bank account over a million bucks being given away in the arena now granted That's a loose and ticket just to begin with because you potentially walk in there. Holy shit I think a lot of people are wondering what that means.
It's like it's gonna be sweet I think it's gonna be a pretty electric environment and Shout out to the vitamins and I've gotten me to this place where it's like we can do all this yeah And hopefully you know to show the people talk about for a long time and can't thank you all enough for the love on it now It's get the fuck out of here March Madness cooking and if I'll off season cooking the road to WrestleMania on fire And tomorrow we'll be back be a friend something nice about change in life. We're in this thing together Happy Saint Patty's everybody have a Saint Patty's Day enjoy the hell out of it. Shout to the Irish Don and the Romans Patrick was Roman okay, of course did you hear that yeah, that's why we had to attend coaches on cuz we wanted to you know Italian lion Who would have thought it's all I'm saying a name substitute a for no line without telling you think you ruin NASA You should Google that story Have a great day Patrick's day you know for you kill Jesus And we're tired All right, we appreciate it have a Saint Patrick's day unified We're gonna sing together. It's a good time team on me team on three actually team on me slontcha on three one two three So goodbye