Uconn Head Coach Dan Hurley, Final Four Is Set, Who's Back Of The Week And More

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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take,

Speaker 1 the final four is set, and we have UConn head coach Dan Hurley on the pod.

Speaker 1 Great interview. He's the absolute best.

Speaker 1 A lot of fun talking to him. We talk about the weekend's games, starting with what we missed on Friday all the way up till Sunday.
We have some NBA stuff. We have who's back of the week.

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Speaker 1 Welcome to Part of My Take. Today is Monday, March 27th, and we have a final four,

Speaker 1 just as everyone expected. Yukon, Miami, San Diego State, and FAU.
That's right.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's the four most beautiful cities in North America. We've got Boca, Miami, San Diego, and Storrs, Connecticut.

Speaker 1 Love it.

Speaker 5 Paradise on Earth. Paradise.

Speaker 5 If you just tell me those four cities are playing in any sort of athletic event besides probably surfing, I would say, yeah, it's going to be Connecticut. Yeah.

Speaker 5 It's going to be the team for, it's going to be the tough team from a cold weather city that's going to do this one.

Speaker 1 The Big East. So we have it's crazy March Madness, crazy tournament.
I was joking before, but like

Speaker 1 all season long, all the talk was there's no really great team. There's a ton of parody.

Speaker 1 It's, you know, there's not this one team, maybe you could say Alabama, which we'll get to, that has risen above everyone else.

Speaker 1 And then we get to the tournament, everyone's like, can you believe this? Yeah, I can. It's crazy.
We have a nine seed, two, five seeds, and a four seed.

Speaker 1 Yukon is the highest seed remaining as a four seed.

Speaker 5 A lot of people out there really believed in Purdue. So let's not act like they weren't a great team going into the tournament.

Speaker 5 It is the first time in NCAA tournament history without a one-two or a three-seed, though.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 5 So even for a wild year, this is the wilderness year of all time.

Speaker 1 We didn't have a one-seed in the Elite Eight because Alabama and Houston both eliminated on Friday Friday night.

Speaker 1 We also have three teams that are going to their first Final Four and then going up against the team that will further cement themselves as the best team in the last 25 years.

Speaker 1 So in terms of multiple winners in the last 25 years, UConn has four. Duke and UNC both have three apiece.
This would be UConn's fifth if they could finish the deal.

Speaker 1 And then you have FAU, San Diego State, and Miami in their first ever Final Four.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it is justice for the Mountain West because we took the big steaming shit on them at the start of the tournament, which is totally realistic.

Speaker 1 People were like, you shit on them. You guys got eliminated in 10 hours.

Speaker 5 And we pumped up the Big East. We pumped up the Big 12.
And now it turns out that the Mountain West has more teams in the Final Four than the Big 12 does.

Speaker 5 And they have the exact same amount as the Big East.

Speaker 1 Yes, the Mountain West definitely gets to laugh. And also, the big one is the first ever Triple Crown, I believe, is Conference USA.
That's what they're attempting.

Speaker 1 So Charlotte won the CBI, of course. North Texas and UAB are still live in the NIT

Speaker 1 and FAU in the real tournament. So you have a chance for all, for the Conference USA to sweep the board.
Yeah, FAU.

Speaker 5 Shout out FAU. They're a fun team.
Every game that they play in, it's like, who was the team in the NBA playoffs? The T-Wolves last year? The Timberwolves?

Speaker 1 Yeah, they won the championship. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that was incredible. But it's like, there's something about FAU.
They kind of make every game fun. It doesn't matter who they're playing against.

Speaker 1 They are also like the perfect embodiment of how insane this tournament is because in the first game against Memphis,

Speaker 1 they were down with seven seconds left. They got a very favorable jump ball call.
It's a sliding doors moment, and they go all the way to the Final Four.

Speaker 1 Like, this tournament will drive you insane because those bounces can be the difference between a program-defining run and being bounced in the first round. It's nuts.

Speaker 1 And FAU, yeah, Dusty May, former Indiana,

Speaker 1 he was not a water boy. He was the

Speaker 5 student manager.

Speaker 1 Student manager. He's going to be on the show, I think, later this week.
Incredible story.

Speaker 5 Does this count as another title for Bobby Knight?

Speaker 1 Because I think Bobby Knight was big 10.

Speaker 5 Yeah, this is 100%. Bobby Knight was the head coach of that team.
He was. I wonder what tips he picked up from.
Yes, yes.

Speaker 1 We will ask him that.

Speaker 1 So let's talk about the games because we should start on Friday

Speaker 1 with Houston, you know, the team that a lot of people thought had the best chance being eliminated by Miami, got absolutely like trucked by him.

Speaker 1 I felt like that was one of those games where we were watching it and we're like, oh, maybe Houston will pull what they did against Auburn and just suffocate him in the second half. Never happened.

Speaker 1 And then Alabama, such a shame to see a guy like Nate Oates completely, completely botch that game with probably the most talented team he'll ever have in a horrific, hilarious fashion.

Speaker 1 Because I know there are a lot of people out there just rooting for the feel-good story of Alabama.

Speaker 5 It was bad. Brandon Miller had like a statistically improbable tournament.
I think he had the worst shooting performance of anybody that has ever played in the NCAA tournament.

Speaker 1 He was injured, so we should say that. He did have a groin injury.
But Nate Oates, I don't know what it's like, pick your poison.

Speaker 1 Fouling down two with 47 seconds left when you're one of the best defensive teams in the country, that was bad. Or how about

Speaker 1 when San Diego State went on a 12-0 run, refusing to call a timeout?

Speaker 1 Nate Oates, though, I mean, credit to him. He's on the golf course right now with two timeouts in his back pocket.
He ended the game with two timeouts.

Speaker 5 The fouling was really bad. Really?

Speaker 5 I think most people, even basketball, well, I know ball, but some people out there watching on TV were like,

Speaker 5 you know, I don't really understand this game, but even I, as a dumbass, understand that you don't foul in that situation. You shouldn't foul in that situation.

Speaker 5 But we should give credit to San Diego State. Oh, yeah.
San Diego State, they're a fun team.

Speaker 1 I think they were, I read that they were ranked in the top 10 in 2020 right when they canceled yeah when they canceled the nca tournament so this is their shot at redemption it also san diego state watching san diego state play they play incredible defense they're all over the boards they they are though one of those teams that anytime they go down like six or seven in a game you're like it's over they can't they can't how are they going to find these points to come back and they've been doing it and they're just they've they they haven't been rattled and uh it's been like every single game they've found themselves in spots like like we got to find offense, and they did it.

Speaker 5 Do you remember, I think it was like 2013, 2014, San Diego State was a part of the Big East for like a week.

Speaker 5 They were going to be during realignment. Yeah.
During football, I think.

Speaker 5 Realignment just makes everybody forget everything they know about geography. San Diego State was going to be part of the Big East.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't think it ever was official, but it was like one of those, this is the proposed. Yeah.
Yeah, and it made no sense to me. No geography.

Speaker 1 It would be like putting UCLA and USC in the Big Tent.

Speaker 5 That'd be dumb. Really dumb.
Stupid as shit.

Speaker 1 Very, very dumb. But yeah, San Diego State,

Speaker 1 incredible on Friday night against Alabama. Nate Oates has never been to.

Speaker 1 He beat Arizona with Buffalo in his first season in the tournament, and he's never beaten a team as a lower seed since. Or sorry,

Speaker 1 he's never beaten a

Speaker 1 team a higher seed, and he also, I think he's never beaten higher than an eight seed since as well.

Speaker 5 I think we have to ask the question, is Nate Oates on the hot seat right now?

Speaker 1 I mean, listen, we talk about guys choking. Poor Rick Barnes gets it all the time.
Yep.

Speaker 1 If you're a seven and a half point favorite, if you're the team that everyone is looking at, they had a dream setup in their bracket when everyone went down and they couldn't get to the Elite Eight.

Speaker 5 I'm officially putting Nate Oates on my hot seat. I agree.

Speaker 5 He's got turner. He goes at least one year without a murder to get off this hot seat.
And let's be honest.

Speaker 1 Let's just have an honest conversation with Alabama fans real quick.

Speaker 1 It's still football. You still have football.
Like, who cares?

Speaker 1 You still dominate football. Your football team will always be great.
Nick Saban's the greatest coach. Like, don't.

Speaker 1 I don't really like when football programs that are that elite are like, hey, let's give it a try being awesome at basketball, too.

Speaker 5 You can't do that. Same thing with Texas, except without all the recent success in football.
You're still a football school.

Speaker 1 Right, exactly.

Speaker 5 I do think that Sark would have been. He would have been secretly mad if the basketball program had won an NCAA championship.
Yeah. Before he got to do anything big in football.

Speaker 1 But that's the thing. Is like, if you're an Alabama fan, that game sucked.
Nate Oates did a terrible job coaching down the stretch, but you have Nick Saban.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you don't want to. Listen, this is time for Alabama fans to be scouring the message boards, doing the flight trackers, figuring out who you're recruiting.

Speaker 5 It's like Saban doesn't want to have to worry about. Saban probably wouldn't have gone to Houston for the Final Four, right? He's too busy recruiting.
Yeah. He's out there on the path right now.

Speaker 5 This is, or maybe he would have. Maybe that's your silver lining.
If you're a Bama fan, this gives Nick Saban more time. Three more days

Speaker 5 to recruit. Yes.
Good for you. You'll take that.
Yes.

Speaker 1 But yeah, so Friday night was the stunning no no one seeds in the elite eight we found that out friday night we go to saturday fau versus uh kansas state at the garden marquise noel the story of the tournament uh i thought they were gonna you know what when he passed up the three with like eight seconds left and made a perfect pass yep i was like that was it that was it and and credit to dusty may and fau because i think every single game they've been down like late in the fourth and they finished games so strong.

Speaker 1 And that's what they did on Saturday. But

Speaker 1 they basically watched the Michigan State game, and they're like, hey, why don't we let him shoot a little bit more than let him pass and just get easy layups all over the court?

Speaker 1 And he still had an incredible game, but it was clear that they're like, we'll let you shoot more often than not and not let you just throw dimes everywhere.

Speaker 5 He didn't take that bargain on the very last play. And I wish he had taken that last shot.

Speaker 5 That was his moment. That was his moment to become a god.
He's already a legend. He would have been a god.

Speaker 5 I still would officially like to offer marquise noel a position on the new zealand breakers yes as owners of the team let's give him a shot we'll give you a shot but just so you know marquise new zealand's a beautiful country we'll take you if you don't get an offer in the nba yeah and he's gonna have a great career no matter what ends up happening i would actually say that a lot of players that end up doing the thing where they go to europe and they play for 12 15 years and they bounce around europe all the time they might have a better life than a guy that makes it to the nba gets paid a shitload of money and maybe doesn't get you know doesn't sniff a championship maybe you're coming off the bench bench.

Speaker 5 You don't do so well in the NBA. You still have like that microscope under you all the time.
It gets, it's probably grueling with the travel schedule and all that shit.

Speaker 5 Going over and playing overseas in Europe or in New Zealand or Australia, that's probably a pretty good life. Yes.
So they've probably, he's probably going to be okay.

Speaker 5 I really wanted him to take that last shot. I did too.
Big Cat and I, this is a classic moment. Part of my take.

Speaker 5 We have this a lot where our brains sync up on cycles, like we're sorority sisters getting on the same period. When Marquise Noel threw that bounce pass between his legs, it was too good.

Speaker 5 It was too good of a pass.

Speaker 5 And he had another pass that happened maybe like 30, 45 seconds before that, where he hit a dude absolute dime. Yeah.

Speaker 5 And his teammate wasn't ready for it because they're like, there's no chance that he's going to be able to hit me with a pass from right here. He's too good at passing.

Speaker 5 Get him to the next level with better players. And then all of a sudden, they'll be able to step.
Their game will correspond to how fucking good Marquise Noel is at passing the ball.

Speaker 1 And I had a,

Speaker 1 when, when we both had that thought, and I treated it, I had a

Speaker 1 mini-win moment where someone was like, You mean the pass that he threw it to the guy who wasn't ready for it?

Speaker 1 And I went to reply to him being like, Hey, if you're playing with Marquise Noel, you have to always be ready for a pass. That's how good of a point guard he is.

Speaker 1 And the guy had deleted his tweet before I could reply. And I was like,

Speaker 1 You don't know ball. I was going to just dunk our ball.

Speaker 5 He preemptively knew that he was wrong.

Speaker 1 But it was clear, like

Speaker 1 Dussy May, I know that he, I think he went,

Speaker 1 he went seven for 18 against Michigan State. So he had 20 points, 19 assists.
He went 8 for 21 against FAU. He had 30 points, 12 assists.
So it was like, hey, we're going to let you shoot.

Speaker 1 We're going to give you a little room to shoot so that you don't just get all these insane passes on us.

Speaker 1 And it was a great game plan. Again, Marquise Noel was phenomenal, but

Speaker 1 it was unfortunate. And we also ran into the college, which happened on Saturday night as well.
The five fouls just suck in March Madness because Keontae Johnson had his fourth foul so early.

Speaker 5 And it was like, we want to see these guys play yeah that was tough he wanted to stay in the game and when he was playing defense I've never seen a guy do this just put both hands behind his back yeah and just move around he's like I'm not going to get called for a reach in I'm not going to get called for hitting somebody on the arm I'm going to put literally both hands behind my back look like a blocker in like co-ed uh flag football yeah or like one of those one of those uh tackling dummies yes that's the robot that just moves around no arms whatsoever true Timmy did that to start the game on Saturday night because he was like foul troubles the only thing that could be really a problem for us, even though it ended up everything was a problem for them.

Speaker 1 But he was basically playing with four fouls right from the whistle. The other part of this game at FAU is a really, really good team.
I think it's weird because

Speaker 1 they won their, we've talked about this. They were nine seed.
They won their conference tournament. So everyone's like, oh, it's just one of those other, you know, non-power conferences.

Speaker 1 They won their tournament. They're in here.
They would have made it as an at-large team. They're a really good team, and they've been playing really good ball.

Speaker 1 But Jerome Tang stole my heart going into the FAU locker room after the game and coaching him up and telling him how proud of him that he was.

Speaker 1 I just think that's the classiest move a coach could ever make.

Speaker 5 I thought it was really nice because sometimes after a game, a coach like that will stew in their own locker room.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 And to see a coach do that where he didn't even know the cameras were around. Right.
And he went in there. He didn't see the camera falling.
He did for the kids.

Speaker 5 He went in there because he's like, hey, I want to congratulate these guys. It's about them.
It's not about me. Right.

Speaker 5 Let's talk to these kids and make sure that we can give them a boost going forward. I hope you guys win it all.
It's so classy. What a great thing of him to say.
So, Coach T, great job.

Speaker 1 Hey, listen. All-time great.
I'll say it right now.

Speaker 1 You know, if my kids are ever good enough to play Division I basketball, they're not going to be.

Speaker 1 I would say I want them to play for a guy like Jerome Tang. That's a guy.

Speaker 5 Well, not just as player development, but to mold your son into a young man.

Speaker 1 Or actually, let me say this. I just want them to have a chance to play against Jerome Tang at some point because you know that Coach Jay will someday come in and coach the other locker.

Speaker 1 And it's just, that's what marches. Those type of moments where you see a coach being like, you know what, it's bigger than sports.
I'm going to go in.

Speaker 1 I'm going to talk to the opposition, congratulate them. Not make it about me, make it about them.
And

Speaker 1 I loved, love, love that moment.

Speaker 5 It's for the kids. Hank, did you see that?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I thought it was a little self-centered.

Speaker 6 That's weird. Just really selfish.

Speaker 5 Why? He was congratulating them on winning.

Speaker 1 He literally was being like, great job, guys. I'm so proud of what you did.

Speaker 6 I just think he was making a lot of moves, trying to make it all about himself.

Speaker 5 I was like, bringing in random people to pump the team in. You're so cynical, Hank.
This is why you don't know Ball because it's different at the college level where you're trying to.

Speaker 5 These are amateurs. You're helping young men.

Speaker 6 It should be about the other team, not about you.

Speaker 1 No, well, he did make it about the other team. He said, I want to go congratulate.

Speaker 5 By him walking into that locker room, he put the spotlight because he knew that people are going to talk about whatever Coach Jay,

Speaker 5 whatever Coach Jay does at the time, he knew that the spotlight was going to go off him and onto the kids that deserve it.

Speaker 1 You should have more coaches like this.

Speaker 5 Disagree.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
Well, again, you're embracing it. You have to nailed it.
You're a cynical, cold-hearted fuck.

Speaker 5 Shout out FAU, though. FAU, I love the Owls.
They're fun to watch.

Speaker 1 It's also fun to be able to

Speaker 1 tweet the Lane Kiffin picture.

Speaker 5 Oh, I was going to say. I'm so excited.

Speaker 5 They're doing it for Uncle Jr. Yeah.
He doesn't go down there enough. Yes.
You know, know, down to Boca. That's a fact.
But yeah, they're a fun team to watch.

Speaker 5 I think they're doing it for Flacco, the Central Park Owl. I think maybe there was some owl magic going on there.
I'll give Flacco a pizza party of dead rats. Yes.

Speaker 5 I'll do Pizza Rat.

Speaker 1 It'll be Pizza Rat.

Speaker 5 For Flacco, the Central Park Owl, if they win the Natty.

Speaker 1 No, they're fun to watch because they all can shoot. And

Speaker 1 yeah,

Speaker 1 this is not a fluke. I know that we want to do the Cinderella thing.

Speaker 1 I don't feel the same way about FAU as I did maybe at George Mason, who who Jim Laronega, I think it was 17 years to the day.

Speaker 5 Going back up against UConn.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that he took George Mason to the Final Four. He got Miami to the Final Four.

Speaker 5 Yeah, the George Mason center, I always forget his name. He had the biggest ass in America.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 And it was at the height of the Antonio Gates freakout of, wow, I can't believe this basketball player is now playing tight end. So he said, I'm going to try it for the NFL as a tight end.

Speaker 5 I think he ran like a 5-2-40.

Speaker 1 All right. Well,

Speaker 5 maybe not this guy.

Speaker 1 That also. Big ass, though.

Speaker 1 That game, the George Mason-UCon game, and we can say this now because UConn's back in the Final Four, that was the epitome of, like, you can tell the inner competitor of guys because Rudy Gay was like,

Speaker 1 he was built in a basketball factory of, like, this is what you want in a college basketball player. And that team had no soul.
They had no soul. And George Mason beating them was a very fun upset.

Speaker 1 But UConn. Absolutely whomped Gonzaga on Saturday night and ass-kicking.
Drew Timmy still has a year of eligibility. We should at least say that.

Speaker 5 He said that he wasn't going to come back. He said that.
To Gonzaga. Yeah, no, he said that he's done everything he needs to accomplish.

Speaker 5 He was there for four years, so he's out after the season, but he did not close the door on transferring.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And it also was such a crazy game because a buddy of

Speaker 1 mine texted me during the game. He was like, if you had told me like 10 years ago, Gonzaga would be playing Yukon,

Speaker 1 and I would be rooting for UConn as like the team that hasn't been there in a while and being sick of Gonzaga's shit. It is crazy because Gonzaga was the team that was in it every single year.

Speaker 1 UConn's been down for a while and now they're back up there. And Danny Hurley's got the boys.
We're going to talk to him in a minute.

Speaker 1 That team just fires on all cylinders. Like they just, when they get it going, when they get in transition, Sunogo, or as Charles Barkley was calling him, Sunoco,

Speaker 1 big man

Speaker 1 hitting threes, they do everything.

Speaker 1 They beat you every single way.

Speaker 5 He said after the game, he calls him the gas station because he can fill it up. Yeah.

Speaker 5 That's a great spin zone. Yeah, it was a great spin.
Charles Barkley just literally did not know that his name was Sunogo.

Speaker 1 I don't think people complain about Charles Barkley during March Madness, but if they do, I want you to go get hit by a bus because I want one guy who's sitting on the panel who not only hasn't watched college basketball, but also doesn't really care to like educate himself, just firing off takes.

Speaker 5 It's fun.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You have Jay Wright there to tell you about the game and like and teach you what's going on.
Charles Barkley's there to say Sunoco for a guy who's like one of the best players in the country.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I want Charles Barkley there just to have him making fun of Kenny Smith.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It

Speaker 1 works. It plays.
Okay.

Speaker 5 Don't mess with Charles Barkley could commentate on any sport. I don't care what it is.
They had him on,

Speaker 5 was it TNT for the NHL tonight? He was awesome on that. Yeah.
Just get him and Biz together, mixing it up, talking about their buttholes.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And his suit is ridiculous. His suit is, there was a side angle picture of his suit like fully flapped out.
He's just wearing a parachute. Yeah.
It's got so much fabric.

Speaker 5 I think all the kids out there need to go home and they need to watch old YouTube footage of Charles Barkley playing in the NBA and just be shocked at how athletic he was.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just look at him.

Speaker 5 Because right now he looks like a bowl of melted oatmeal. Yeah.
But dude was dunking on people. He was getting rebounds over everybody.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 He was an awesome player to watch, breaking backboards and shit.

Speaker 1 The short shorts at Auburn.

Speaker 5 Him and Thunder Dan Marley together. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. They were.
I don't think we talk about Kevin Johnson anymore.

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 1 No. Right.

Speaker 1 He's been erased from.

Speaker 5 I think Kevin Johnson.

Speaker 5 He was

Speaker 5 one of the mayors of Sacramento.

Speaker 1 That's one of those ones where it's like, ah, something happened, but I didn't read about it. Something.

Speaker 5 I think it was a lot of some things that happened. Yeah, something.

Speaker 1 Seventeen Johnson. Okay.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, UConn back in the Final Four. I'm expecting Husky Nation to be in droves in Houston because it is a team that has a storied past but had a dip where they haven't been able to be there.

Speaker 1 Because there was a while there. I mean, like I said, 99 to today, they have four titles.
No one else has four. There was a while there where it was like every year you knew UConn would be in the mix.

Speaker 1 You could plan your trips around it. Now they went through that dip.
Now they're back. I think it's going to be just all UConn fans.
Yeah, I mean. Like all UConn fans.

Speaker 5 But you could think about like the people in Boca.

Speaker 5 Are they going to make the trip? Because no, you're not going to leave Boca to go to Houston, Texas. Right.
Even though it's the first time, probably the only time you'll ever be in a Final Four. Yep.

Speaker 5 Miami, nope. Probably going to stay in Miami.
Nope. San Diego, why would you ever leave San Diego to do anything?

Speaker 1 Miami fans are probably going to stay there and just get angry about Mario Cristobal and whatever they think he's done wrong in the offseason.

Speaker 5 Yeah, in San Diego. It's all Yukon.

Speaker 5 There are a lot of teams where they plan these trips just to get out of their small college town. Right.

Speaker 5 And to be able to go somewhere where you don't have to put on a big, like the puffer jacket to go visit. So, yeah, it'll be all UConn fans down there.
Yes.

Speaker 5 If you see somebody that's wearing a San Diego State, any sort of shirt,

Speaker 5 jacket, any paraphernalia, chances are about 99% they're related to somebody involved with the program.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes.

Speaker 1 So Sia Gonzaga still falls short to the Final Four. They'll never get there.

Speaker 5 It's tough.

Speaker 1 It does feel like I'm sure they have some awesome recruits coming in, but Drew Timmy,

Speaker 1 I wasn't a personal fan, but you can't knock the guy for being an all-time college basketball player. Like, I think he went to the Sweet 16 every single year, at least,

Speaker 1 and he was just always there.

Speaker 1 He was just doing awesome moves in the post, and he even had one last moment where they were down 10, and he dunked, and he stared down the

Speaker 1 fans and did a little flex. It's like, dude, you're down 10.
But I kind of like that because he didn't change to his dying breath as a college basketball player. He didn't change who he was.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it goes back to to the game against Baylor where he did the mustache celebration. Yeah, how many were they down? Down 15?

Speaker 1 Yeah, something bad.

Speaker 5 That was bad. The crying sorority girl dancing.

Speaker 1 And yeah, he's a great college basketball player. I don't know where he'll probably play overseas somewhere.

Speaker 1 You saw it last night when they just didn't even have him on Sunogo from the start because they're like, this is not going to work.

Speaker 5 We know that that's not going to be a matchup anybody wants.

Speaker 1 But I will miss him because college basketball, as you get longer, you know, with the transfer portal and everything, not to be an old man yelling at clouds, clouds, but you don't have those same heels or villains on each program.

Speaker 1 So he's kind of a throwback where it's like every March you remember Drew Timmy, and it's fun to have those guys around.

Speaker 5 Speaking of players that your dads will love, not just Drew Timmy, but Golden on FAU. Oh, yeah.
His all-time dad love. Vladis love Golden.
He's the big fundamental.

Speaker 5 When he catches the ball in the paint, he keeps it high. Yeah.
Every single time.

Speaker 5 You can't steal the ball if it's up high against a big man. A lot of big men bring it down.
Texted my dad. I was like, you see how he keeps that ball high? Best in the country at keeping it high.

Speaker 1 He also is a great big man because there'll be like one or two times a game where he'll get caught in a pick and roll and his feet just won't work. And it's, but he's still like, he's, he's, he's not.

Speaker 1 He's athletic. Yeah, he's athletic, but it's you still need to have that happen every now and then.
Just be like, okay, he can't just totally dominate every single part.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's actually shocking watching Golden play, comparing him to Zach Eady. Obviously, Zach Eady is like a much bigger human being, but watching them run is, they couldn't couldn't be more

Speaker 5 dissimilar as athletes.

Speaker 1 It's those extra four inches, dude.

Speaker 5 Golden, when he runs, he looks like an athlete running. When Zach Eady runs, it looks like his feet weigh 70 pounds a piece.

Speaker 1 It's the extra four inches.

Speaker 1 Seven feet to seven four is significant.

Speaker 5 I've always been of the mindset that tall players are actually at a disadvantage against a normal-sized player like myself because it does take longer for their brain signal to go from their brain to their extremities than it would for me, and my body is just built way more efficiently.

Speaker 1 I just also assume any tall, super super tall NBA player just hates playing basketball. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because they're like, you play basketball, you're seven feet, and everything has to, like, running, practicing, living, being alive, it all has to kind of suck.

Speaker 5 I think most players over seven feet play basketball because the alternative is you walk around and everybody that you talk to asks you, do you play basketball? Where'd you play ball?

Speaker 5 Yeah, there was an article, I think, in the New York Times last week that was saying, stop asking tall people if they played basketball.

Speaker 5 I just want to say, I will never stop asking tall people if they play basketball. It's an excellent icebreaker.

Speaker 1 Yeah, if you're over seven feet and you're also very athletic looking, it's not, did you play basketball? It's where did you play ball? Yeah. And that's even worse.

Speaker 1 I would say it's the assumption that you played somewhere.

Speaker 5 I would have a business card if I was seven feet tall that just said I didn't play basketball and just handed people.

Speaker 1 Stop asking. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was actually really sick at soccer when I was 12. Hakeem Elijah.

Speaker 5 Yeah. He was a goalie.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 And Sunogo, we talked to Danny Hurley about this as well,

Speaker 1 doing all this while fasting all day. So he's been incredible.
Max, real quick, you hate UConn. I have a future on UConn.
It's the only one I have left. I don't want you to ruin this.

Speaker 1 So I'm asking you nicely, stay the fuck away.

Speaker 7 No, I just love the Big East.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 7 This is a Final Four.

Speaker 1 Now I understand why you hate this guy, Maggie.

Speaker 7 No, UConn is taking it for the Big East. And the

Speaker 7 conference as a whole, you hate them.

Speaker 5 You're such a bad actor, Max. Yeah, you hate them.

Speaker 1 What do you mean? Well, you're not. I love Big East.

Speaker 5 That's why people love Max is because when you see his freakouts, they're a million percent genuine. Max just lives in that rage, so people can smell you being a phony a mile away.

Speaker 7 No, this is this is

Speaker 7 I'm just wearing this on my sleeve. I'm really hoping for good things for the Big East.

Speaker 1 Okay. Joe Huskies.
Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. And then Sunday we had San Diego State Creighton,

Speaker 1 the game with a foul with a second left that everyone got very upset about. And I understand why they're upset because that's what sports are.

Speaker 1 The one thing, it did suck because you want to see a game like that go to overtime. It was funny.
And I even said this, like, shitty ending.

Speaker 1 It wasn't a great game before that. It was kind of a shitty ending for, like, it was a defensive battle, not a lot of shot making.
We've seen some great games this last weekend. That wasn't up there.

Speaker 1 But yeah, Creighton fans, you have every right to be upset. Like, I think that was, you, I think that was a foul.

Speaker 1 You can make the argument that ref shouldn't call it at the end of the game, but that's kind of hard to do.

Speaker 5 I think it's a foul, but it's a foul that happens all the time, and it's not called. So regardless of when it happens in a game, I'd say that foul is probably not called 50% of the time.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 It's like give or take, and then at the end, since it's just like a small push on the hip, I would be pissed off if I was Creighton.

Speaker 5 But on the other hand, you know, you just have to kind of live with the fact that it was, it's not like he didn't touch him. Yeah.
Even Creighton fans will admit, like, yeah, he touched them.

Speaker 5 And on a floater like that in the lane, it definitely affects your release and it affects your shot. It was a bad shot.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 The guy should have put forth a better shot, but it was definitely a foul. It's just not usually called.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And that was my take right away.
It was just like, shitty ending, but it was a foul. And I felt like, you ever seen that meme where someone's like,

Speaker 1 I... Like, I love waffles.
And then the first reply is like, why would you shit on pancakes like this? Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's what I felt like people being like how could you how could you ever say that that like they should never have called that you're fucking you're you're lying right now it's like i i admitted it was i do not want to see a game ended on the free throw line that sucks i did see though one person had a great idea mike greenberg's dumb rules if a foul is called in the last like 10 seconds uh and it can decide the game on free throw line you have to make both oh yeah true it's just like the you just you have to you have to go make both if it's a tie game.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you have to go make both to count. Yeah, otherwise it doesn't count.

Speaker 5 I don't hate that. Now, that has nothing to do with the fact that he missed the first one and then made the second one.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, no, that was, yeah, nothing to do with it.

Speaker 5 Nothing to do with they would have said that anyways.

Speaker 1 Also,

Speaker 1 our friend Tom Ferneli said that, because there is the argument, like, oh, you can't call that there, which I, if a foul happens, again, that might not have been called all the time, but if a foul happens and they call it, it's like, well, yeah, that was a foul.

Speaker 1 He was saying that in the last minute, there should just be no fouls and you can just assault everyone.

Speaker 5 Prison rules. I like that.

Speaker 1 And so then we do away with the, you can't call that at that time.

Speaker 5 Yeah, so that you can't call that. It's helpful because it does give Creighton some much-needed copium.
They get to cope on that, being like, you can't call that foul right there.

Speaker 5 And they get to point at that and be like, we would have made the final four. Refs fucked us over.

Speaker 1 It sucks for Creighton fans, right? But... At least you went away.
Like, if you lose as a fan, you at least want to take something with you that you can hold on to.

Speaker 1 Like, if you're a Gonzaga fan, I actually did see a couple people doing like game change when Timmy got his fourth foul. It's like, no, it didn't.

Speaker 1 They were getting wasted. Like if you get absolutely wasted in an Elite Eight game, you have to just walk away being like, we weren't very good.
Like we weren't on that level.

Speaker 1 If you lose like Creighton does, in 20 years from now,

Speaker 1 you can say that foul call and people at the bar would be like, yeah, that was bullshit. We would have gone all the way.
You basically get to become Uncle Rico for the rest of your life.

Speaker 5 You didn't lose to San Diego State and the Aztecs. You lost to the refs.

Speaker 1 Right, exactly.

Speaker 5 It's hard to beat a team and the refs in the same way.

Speaker 1 It's a great consolation prize to lose and have someone very obvious that you can blame.

Speaker 5 It's like the Eagles, they didn't lose the Super Bowl. The guy that put the grass down

Speaker 5 cost the Eagles.

Speaker 6 What did you think watching that game, Max?

Speaker 5 Good question.

Speaker 4 What, the Creighton game? Yeah.

Speaker 7 I was just rooting for the Big East.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 7 So, I mean, I was upset.

Speaker 7 You know, it's a.

Speaker 1 As someone who's had those calls called against him, do you think you can call that?

Speaker 7 Yeah, you know, it's a foul. So at the end of the game, sometimes you just need to call fouls.

Speaker 5 Well, you were also rooting for San Diego State based on 2013 when they were in the Big East for a week. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Correct. Also, yeah, so basically we have two teams.
We have two teams in the final four and the big East is back.

Speaker 5 That's right. Yeah, you you both your Big East teams in that game won.

Speaker 7 Correct. It was a win it was a win-win for the Big East.
Correct.

Speaker 1 Easy. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 No, but the Allen Ray

Speaker 7 Phantom travel in 2003 against UNC in the Sweet 16 still haunts me to this day.

Speaker 1 It's the exact same thing. But you get to carry those with you forever.
Yeah. And you get to say.
I still think about that team. Yeah.
Justin Swinslow was out of bounds.

Speaker 1 Like, you get to do these things forever.

Speaker 5 Miles Jack wasn't down.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 it really is the nicest constellation prize. It's tragic in the moment, but I think once you get away from it, a couple weeks away from it, you're like, you know what?

Speaker 1 This is nice that I have at least one thing to be angry about forever.

Speaker 5 This is more loser talk from us, but I would absolutely love it if the Commanders lost a Super Bowl based on a completely blown call.

Speaker 5 Fuck, I would love if the Commanders got called for a pass interference against the Rams like the Saints did and had the refs take away an opportunity to go to Sunday.

Speaker 5 I would count that as going to a Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 You get to just complain about it for the rest of your life. And that is, in some ways, better than a win.

Speaker 5 That's kind of our live. Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 Right. Exactly.
Except for Hank.

Speaker 1 And then Miami,

Speaker 1 all-time comeback. I mean, maybe not all-time in terms of the point differential, but in terms of the way the game looked, Texas was in cruise control.
They were up 13 with 10 minutes left.

Speaker 1 And then Miami just was like, let's do this.

Speaker 5 Carr got hurt. And I think he didn't come out of the game.

Speaker 1 And Jesu got hurt too on Friday.

Speaker 5 And Carr was obviously not himself when he got back in. That probably played an impact on the team.

Speaker 1 Because he was hot.

Speaker 1 He was very good.

Speaker 5 Was it Cunningham who missed a couple open threes in the second half? Yeah, it's tough for Texas. This is not going to be an easy one to get over.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But Jim Laronega, easy guy to root for. Coach L.

Speaker 5 Why don't we call him Coach Inye? Yeah, we should. Coach Inye back in the Final Four.
Did he dance after this game?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 He looked awesome. I'll say this

Speaker 5 for an old guy. Forget about even for an old guy.
Coach L's got sick moves. Yeah.
I wish I could dance like him right now. Yeah.
Yeah. And claps on the twos and the fours.
Yep.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 Miami also has a couple of great names with Isaiah Wong and then Wuga Poplar.

Speaker 1 They got some good names. They have a little bit of, you need those things, like the old coach, the storylines, never been there.

Speaker 1 They have, I'm not going to say they're Team of Destiny, but they got some shit going on. They got some shit going.

Speaker 5 They got some shit to them.

Speaker 1 And they're a good team. Very good team.

Speaker 5 Team of Destiny rankings. I can't include UConn because UConn, Destiny signs are pointing too strong at UConn.

Speaker 5 But when we talk about teams of Destiny, it's usually like the fucked-up small little stats. Like, why is this team going to? I would say

Speaker 5 FAU feels like a team of destiny.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Dusty May,

Speaker 1 like, they'll show him in the Indiana sweater standing behind Bob Knight.

Speaker 5 UConn's just going to win.

Speaker 1 UConn's just going to win.

Speaker 1 UConn's going to win.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're going to get in on this too? Here's what we need.

Speaker 5 We need somebody out there.

Speaker 1 I don't want UConn to win.

Speaker 6 I'm going to be honest, but I think they're going to win. Somebody out there needs to convince us.

Speaker 5 Convince us why another team is a team of destiny. Because I want to even halfway believe in another team, but right now it just seems like UConn is going to destroy everybody.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, that's the way they've been playing. They've been absolutely dominating.
Besides Rick Petinoz Iona in the first half, making every shot, UConn has been laying waste of teams.

Speaker 1 I think they've won by double digits every game.

Speaker 6 Yeah. I'm going to San Diego the week after the championship, so I'm rooming for San Diego State.
I think the city will be, it'll be cool to see the city on fire.

Speaker 1 Crazy.

Speaker 1 Go to the parade. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Can you imagine if Boca, what Boca would do if FAU won, it would just be like the mobility scooters. A parade of old people just driving around honking their horns with

Speaker 5 real high-pitched electronic beeps.

Speaker 1 We do have a history with FAU.

Speaker 5 We do. That's the site of the original Ponzi Scheme Awareness Bowl.

Speaker 5 The Wet the Beak Ponzi Scheme Awareness Bowl. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So we've always rode for Boca. We have.

Speaker 1 And Jake, yeah.

Speaker 5 Jake, Anthony Rizzo. He's from FAU.
Yes. Yes.
He's a winner. Yeah, he is.
Until he got to the Yankees.

Speaker 1 True. That's true.
They ruined him.

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Speaker 1 Should we just do who's back? Because I have some NBA stuff. We can just

Speaker 1 wove it in.

Speaker 5 Weave it in. We'll get into it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, who's back of the week?

Speaker 6 My who's back of the week is LeBron James.

Speaker 1 That was my who's back. Too small.
Too small.

Speaker 6 He came back. I played against the Bulls.
They lost. But I think the real story is just the fact that he came back afterwards.
He was quoted as saying

Speaker 6 his foot injury was actually a torn tendon, and the doctors said he healed from the injury faster than they've ever seen.

Speaker 5 That's incredible.

Speaker 6 Most normal men would not even be able to get back in the season. LeBron came back in a losing effort.

Speaker 1 Well, off the bench. Against Pap.

Speaker 5 Off the bench. He came off the bench.
Was that the first time in his career he's come off the bench?

Speaker 1 No, there's one other time they said.

Speaker 5 I would like to just implement a rule. You should not be allowed to do the chalk toss before you resolve the game if you come off the bench.

Speaker 5 Basically, you're just littering and you're polluting the air and you're making everybody around you cough.

Speaker 1 It also,

Speaker 1 people were saying it was not nice of Pat Bev to do the too small to a bench player because that is what's bench on bench. Yeah, that's true.
But it was awesome.

Speaker 1 He was doing this, he was holding his nose on the way out, too.

Speaker 6 Yeah, Pat Bev said on the Pat Bev show, Barcelona show, he said right after he got traded, he's like, We have two back-to-backs against the Lakers.

Speaker 6 I want to beat them and get them out of the playoffs. So

Speaker 1 he's one and oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 I love that Pat Bev hit him with a too small small off a fadeaway. Yeah.
So he did like a spin

Speaker 5 fadeaway, broke him down, and then before the ball even went in, he did the you're too small, you're too small, LeBron.

Speaker 6 Did you guys talk? I mean, Ron's on the yak with you, Bitcap. Did you talk about how viral the jersey swap with Pat Bev's mom was? Yeah.

Speaker 1 That and also. It went nuclear.

Speaker 6 Roan went to the Bulls Sixers game and he tried to do a jersey swap with Pat Bev, but they lost, so Pat Bev didn't want to do it.

Speaker 1 They lost by like 40.

Speaker 6 Yeah, and he did it with his mom instead, and the internet went nuts.

Speaker 5 A lot of people were looking at Pat Bev's mom on that one, on the quote tweets, making all sorts of comments about her figure. Yeah, which is why I say for the record,

Speaker 5 I didn't even notice that she had a dump that wouldn't quit.

Speaker 5 I didn't until I read the quote tweets. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Other people alerted you to it. Yeah, it's a bonk.
I didn't

Speaker 1 say anything.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's probably a bonk.

Speaker 5 She's a full-figured lady.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, they've been going viral.
They went viral too for Pep Bev saying he keeps his legs fresh, doesn't have sex on game days.

Speaker 5 I feel like

Speaker 1 that's just like an auto-viral story anytime an athlete says that.

Speaker 6 Yeah, the Jake Paul, unless he had the

Speaker 1 wet dream.

Speaker 5 The wet dream totally ruined him. Also, who's back is LeBron James lying?

Speaker 5 So that's back big time because Woge put out a report last Thursday, I think, saying that LeBron is targeting coming back for the final week of the season, might get a few games in, a few of the most important games of his career.

Speaker 5 And then LeBron replied to it and said, There wasn't an evaluation today. There hasn't been any target date for my return.
I'm just working around the clock every day, parentheses, three times a day.

Speaker 5 So embrace debate: is three times a day around the clock or is it three times a day?

Speaker 5 Because it doesn't sound like he's working around the clock. Yeah.
To give myself the best chance of coming back full strength, whenever that is. God bless y'all sources, face palm emoji.

Speaker 5 I speak for myself. So he said that there was no target date, things hadn't changed in terms of his timetable.

Speaker 5 And then four days later, he healed fat or three days later, healed faster than any man ever before in the history of sports has healed.

Speaker 1 He also thought he could come back and just beat the balls. Balls have been,

Speaker 1 they're on fire since the PepEv trade. They're ready to go.

Speaker 1 Looking at that ninth seed.

Speaker 1 Huge. Huge.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he, so one, two, three, four, five. He's got eight of the most, including today, eight of the most important games of his life.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Listen, LeBron James,

Speaker 5 the play-in game is better when LeBron James is in it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it would be great. It'd be great.

Speaker 6 I'm sure one of you guys has this as your family.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 But it'd be great if it was a Mavs Lakers play-in game.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.
Who's your who's back? Oh, yours was LeBron. LeBron Lying.
Yeah. So my who's back is Kyrie just laying waste in record time to another organization.

Speaker 1 He called out the fans, was basically like, if you want to criticize me,

Speaker 1 I'd love to see you try.

Speaker 1 Take a lot of hard work work and years to get as good as I am. True.
Good point, Kyrie. And then also, Luca came out and basically was like, I'm not having any fun anymore.

Speaker 6 He said, I used to have fun smiling on the court, but now it's just been frustrating.

Speaker 1 What changed? It's Luca.

Speaker 5 It's crazy. Is Luca going to leave the Mavs?

Speaker 1 He might after this.

Speaker 1 You're not going to re-sign Luca? I think he's.

Speaker 6 Well, they got rid of everyone for Kyrie.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 If I was Luca, I would think about leaving Dallas.

Speaker 1 It's really shocking,

Speaker 1 even though it's not. But still, for Kyrie, I thought they'd at least get to the playoffs and have it fall apart there.
To have it be these quotes this early.

Speaker 1 And if the playoffs started today, they would not be in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 They are

Speaker 1 outside of the playoffs. Twice.
Yeah, twice.

Speaker 5 Did you see also earlier today, Kyrie got a fan kicked out of the game? Oh.

Speaker 5 He pointed him out to the refs, walked the refs over from across the court to the guy, pointed at him, said, get this guy out of here. The The camera zoomed in on him, and the guy was like, What I do?

Speaker 5 He was wearing a Redskins hat, and he was wearing a DC night. He was a DC sports fan.
Oh, damn.

Speaker 1 I don't know why he was. Oh, I did see this at that time, but he got kicked out.

Speaker 5 And then there's, you can see the look on this guy's girlfriend or wife on her face that she's she's seen her boyfriend get kicked out of the game before.

Speaker 5 Yes, in the past, she's like, oh, we're going to do this again.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 Okay, honey, let's go.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's Kyrie.

Speaker 1 He does a great job of just making everyone hate him.

Speaker 5 It would be funny if Kyrie kicked him out of the game because he was wearing a Redskins hat.

Speaker 5 And that was offensive to Kyrie.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, I wouldn't put it past him. No.
I mean, I think his mom was

Speaker 1 Native American, yeah.

Speaker 5 That's why he does the sage rituals to like cleanse the bad spirits out. Right.
But yeah, it would be, he might have actually taken so much offense to the guy's hat that he kicked him out.

Speaker 5 He's out of here.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Luca, just poor Luca. I'm not having any fun.
I mean, Luca could also try not complaining about every call ever.

Speaker 5 You know what I would love if Luca pulled to James Harden and if he just got fat because he does fluctuate from time to time.

Speaker 1 He has the frame for it.

Speaker 5 I think that you give me a month with Luca training with him, I could get him up to 300 pounds easy. Easy.
Easy. And he would look hilarious.

Speaker 1 My other, who's back, is also NBA. Ben Simmons is out for the rest of the year.
Oh, okay. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Not really news.

Speaker 5 It's going to be scary.

Speaker 1 Not really news, but yeah, I'm very close, though, to like

Speaker 1 flipping and being like Ben Simmons, the king of like stealing money from teams. Yeah.
He's the floss god. Like he's he's getting, I looked it up.
He right now,

Speaker 1 because NBA contracts are guaranteed $203 million.

Speaker 1 He just doesn't play. Good for him.
Good for him. Yeah.

Speaker 5 I mean, if he was on my team, I would hate him. Yeah.
I would absolutely despise him.

Speaker 1 But at some point, you got to be like, you got $203 million for being, he was very good for a while. You know, I think he was first team all NBA one year.

Speaker 1 But since then, he just hasn't worked.

Speaker 5 Has anybody made more money than Ben Simmons Simmons for not working?

Speaker 5 I don't know. Nobody wants to work anymore.
That's the problem with that.

Speaker 1 We got to stop having NBA games played over Zoom. Yeah, this is...

Speaker 5 Bring him back to the office.

Speaker 5 This is classic Joe Biden. I blame him for the mentality.

Speaker 5 Max, do you still hate Ben Simmons, or do you like that he's doing this to a different team?

Speaker 1 I don't give a fuck.

Speaker 7 I don't want to think about Ben Simmons ever for the rest of my life.

Speaker 5 You definitely don't care, though.

Speaker 1 Because you were the reason why he has $203 million was the extension that he signed for

Speaker 7 five years 177 million i hate ben simmons with all with every being in my body and i hope that all bad things happen to him

Speaker 5 nice but in a way it's good that he's not playing now right because he's stealing money from somebody else yeah no it is nice to see that it it was like if he went on to another team and was an all-star and like a superstar that would be way worse than what's happening now isn't this the american dream though for for ben simmons yes like you come from overseas and you're like i want I want the American dream.

Speaker 5 I want to make a lot of money and I don't want to work very hard for it.

Speaker 1 Dated Kardashian.

Speaker 5 He's actually figured out the perfect life.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm saying. I flipped on him.

Speaker 1 I think I've flipped on him.

Speaker 5 He is, I think, all first-team money earner in America. Yeah.
When you compare it to the amount of work that he's actually done, he's a GOAT. Yeah, because

Speaker 1 there was a moment there where I was kind of mad just from a basketball standpoint. Like, this guy is so talented.
If he could just practice shooting basketballs, which shouldn't be hard.

Speaker 5 You're using the wrong hand.

Speaker 1 Yeah, using the wrong hand. But like, there was some, there was some of that.
But now I think I'm just down with him, just taking money from, and someone else will sign him.

Speaker 1 Like, he still is kind of a unicorn in terms of ability other than shooting.

Speaker 5 I would love it if the Lakers signed him.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I would love that.
Big-time asset. Billy, who's back?

Speaker 5 Kanye West.

Speaker 1 Oh. He's back.
Did you guys hear? Yeah. What did he do? He just said he's Jonah Hill, right? Yeah, he's back.

Speaker 5 Apparently, jonah hill uh made him not anti-semitic anymore oh because

Speaker 5 jump street maybe kyrie needs to watch jonah on jump street okay kanye watched like a mel brooks movie he watched blazing saddles he's like

Speaker 5 you know what the jews are all right yeah that's pretty funny very weird he watched just so he ripped through a few seasons of curb yeah yeah this i i like this show and then uh my other who's back is tampering turns out there's a guy going around for lamar his name's ken francis yeah yeah yeah we love this guy we did talk about it on on Friday's show.

Speaker 5 True. You weren't here for it, but that's that's understandable.
Perfect. Did you listen to Friday's show?

Speaker 5 What happened? You got to be very careful with your future here, Billy, because you were about.

Speaker 5 Was there a camera on Billy when he was trying to figure out whether or not to lie?

Speaker 5 That was an all-time moment,

Speaker 5 seeing the brain cells start to connect. Didn't let his mouth disagree.

Speaker 1 I have a question, Billy. What happened with the airport?

Speaker 1 Okay, well, tell us the lie of what happened. Okay, I'll tell you the lie of what happened with theirport.
Because what you told us was the first time.

Speaker 5 I tried to get into the airport and I got stopped because I was on no flight list. That's what happened.

Speaker 1 Oh. That's the lie.

Speaker 5 You should have been wearing your combat fatigue. Yes.

Speaker 1 Damn. Damn.
That sucks.

Speaker 5 Except they thought I was a terrorist.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you went to pick someone up at 8.30 and then never came back.

Speaker 8 Because their flight got delayed.

Speaker 1 Oh. You should have just told them Uber exists.

Speaker 1 That's a whole fix. That's the one thing that I'm talking about.
That was a debate

Speaker 1 that was

Speaker 1 going through the internet a couple times.

Speaker 5 I'm a promise to pick someone up at the airport guy, and then when it comes to happening, like, can't get out of it.

Speaker 1 I was just. Yeah, don't do that.

Speaker 9 People, like, there's certain people who expect you to pick them up.

Speaker 1 And guess what? Those people are wrong.

Speaker 5 Because those people don't understand New York airports compared to the airports that they go to.

Speaker 1 Agree. Yeah.
Agree.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Any other city, it's common courtesy. If you have a friend coming in or a relative, yeah, I'll pick you up from the airport.
It makes for a nice ride back.

Speaker 5 Sometimes they don't know about the Uber system, especially if they're like a parent or a grandparent. So you pick them up from the airport.

Speaker 5 In New York, it's borderline psychotic for somebody to volunteer to pick someone up from an airport.

Speaker 1 It's any big city, though. It's L.A., Chicago, Miami, Houston, like all these big cities.
Just get in an Uber.

Speaker 1 And people try to flip it and say, oh, you're a bad friend because you don't pick people up from the airport. No, no, no.

Speaker 1 I'm a great friend because I would never in a million years ask someone to pick me up from the airport. Yeah, it would not.

Speaker 5 The thought wouldn't cross my mind. Never.

Speaker 5 But on the other hand, if somebody's asking you, like, hey, can you pick, basically they're saying, instead of me paying an Uber fare, can you pay double an Uber fare?

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 5 To have somebody else drive you to pick me up.

Speaker 1 I will pay for someone else's Uber if they need it. Oh, easy, yes.

Speaker 1 But picking someone up from the airport and being like, let me just burn two hours of my day on fire, that's a psychotic move. And again, if you live in a smaller city and it's almost

Speaker 1 nice to go pick them up at the airport, totally fine. Different story.
In a big city,

Speaker 1 no, don't ever think about asking.

Speaker 5 But the thing is, a lot of people don't understand that.

Speaker 1 Just tell them,

Speaker 1 but it sounds like a be like, hey, you know what would be faster if you just got an Uber. Yeah.
And guess what?

Speaker 1 If you do that, I'll go to the, you know, I'll go to the liquor store and get us a bunch of beer or I'll make dinner or we'll be ready to go when you show up. That's the way to do it.

Speaker 1 Instead of whatever the fuck you did on Thursday.

Speaker 5 Well, the thing is, it just kept on getting delayed by 30 minutes. Right.
It was like 30 more minutes, 30 more minutes, 30 more minutes. And you're just there waiting.

Speaker 5 Like, well, I can't really leave now.

Speaker 6 They were getting delayed in the air?

Speaker 5 It was, it was at the time when they got up. We didn't hear from them because they were in the air.
And then by tracking, you realized that

Speaker 5 the plane was circling. Got it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 They're trying to burn off some fuel bars.

Speaker 1 Could have easily just taken an Uber.

Speaker 1 I'm mad for you.

Speaker 5 Yes. Yeah, Billy, we're not mad at you.

Speaker 1 No, I'm mad on behalf of you because you were just. Trust me, I was just getting fucked over the whole time.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 There's nothing you want to do more than work that night.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. Well, you know.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say on behalf of Billy Football, no one ever asked him to pick him up from the airport again.

Speaker 1 The answer is no. And if someone does ask you, feel free to tag me in.
And I'll be like, listen, on behalf of Billy, no.

Speaker 5 Get a fucking Uber. But yeah, Lamar has, he's got a fake agent that's reaching out, contacting people.
My question is, is Lamar Jackson a certified agent with the NFL PA for himself?

Speaker 5 Do you have to go through that process? Apparently, it only takes a couple days. I think if someone has a test, maybe.
Yeah, we could do it.

Speaker 1 I want to become an agent. You should, Billy.

Speaker 5 Actually, I'm going to apply. Yeah, do it.
That's my new project.

Speaker 1 Okay. It'll get done.
It will get done.

Speaker 5 Promise. That's what I usually say when I promise to do something.

Speaker 5 It'll get done.

Speaker 1 We also have, Billy, you're going to give us your recap of the tournament before the lottery ball. So we'll do that because maybe Jake will hop in and be able to do it.

Speaker 1 Jake's on the Mark Titus show right now. Oh, he won't?

Speaker 5 He already said no? I got a couple of storylines that I thought were important. Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 Well, let me do it then right now. Let's do it, Billy.
I want to hear from you.

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Speaker 1 Billy, your March Madness recap.

Speaker 1 Have you stayed hot? Are you still breaking Vegas?

Speaker 5 Vegas won.

Speaker 5 Oh, no. Vegas won.
But here's some important things to keep in mind about the tournament.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 The nerds at Princeton thought they were going to get Bam in the second round, the next round. So for the first of many times in their Finance Bro careers, they avoided the SEC by all costs.

Speaker 5 That's good, Billy.

Speaker 1 I like it. Hey, good, bad.
Beautiful. Beautiful.
Musk. Oh.

Speaker 1 Just a couple more. Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 Sorry.

Speaker 1 I wanted to applaud if that was the end, but it's not the end.

Speaker 5 Musk kept his shirt on because no one cares about your physique if the guy that beats you is husky.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's good. Okay.

Speaker 5 Also, Charles Barkley is going to have a whole lot more husky women to be upset with at the Final Four in Texas.

Speaker 5 Bama got beat because Brandon Miller wasn't dishoning it to his shooters like he usually does.

Speaker 1 Nice, nice.

Speaker 5 The heat is hot. Last one.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 The most well-known UMiami basketball players were not on the court as Miami upset Texas because the Cavender twins weren't there.

Speaker 1 Ah, good, Billy. Very good, Billy.
I forgot one easy one.

Speaker 1 It was a layup. Yeah, it was a layup.

Speaker 1 Reports out of Tuscaloosa, Nate Oates has suspended Brandon Miller for the rest of the year.

Speaker 1 That was used a lot on Twitter on Friday night.

Speaker 1 And like,

Speaker 1 they finally come down with a suspension. He's out for the rest of the year.

Speaker 5 Billy, who are the Cavanger Twins? They're actually playing right now against LSU. Yeah.
On the women's side. I thought,

Speaker 5 what about them? Well,

Speaker 5 they had the most following out of any U Miami basketball player.

Speaker 1 Got it.

Speaker 1 Got it. I love Kim.
You can't bonk me.

Speaker 5 They're an NIL

Speaker 5 success story.

Speaker 5 They were in the New York Times for their business prowess. Yeah.
So I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 Kim Mulkey rocks.

Speaker 1 Looking like Ric Flair the other night.

Speaker 5 She dresses like a drag queen.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's awesome. But she's toned down tonight.

Speaker 5 If I were a waiter and Kim Mulkey walked into my restaurant, she would get the best service I've ever given anybody in my life because I know that she's the type of person that would have like $20 and ones out on the table.

Speaker 5 And each time I was like 10 seconds late coming to her, she'd take another one off and put it in her pocket. So this is going to be y'all's tip.
Yes.

Speaker 1 I also, I think Brian Kelly is officially

Speaker 1 no longer like a northerner, Notre Dame guy because he was at the game Sweet 16 and he was wearing just an LSU

Speaker 1 pullover

Speaker 1 with short sleeves, which was just a terrible look. But I I was just thinking about it.

Speaker 1 If it was Notre Dame in the Sweet 16, women's Sweet 16, he'd be wearing some type of sweater, cardigan, something rice.

Speaker 5 Yeah, something nice.

Speaker 1 2-zip, yeah.

Speaker 1 He looked like he had just come from spring camp. Yeah, also.
So I think he's done it. I think he's now a Louisiana boy.

Speaker 5 Shout out to the Notre Dame athletic director that wrote an article. I think it was in the New York Times last week.
Yes.

Speaker 5 That was basically saying, name, image, and likeness is ruining college sports. Kingstay Kings.
I mean, if you're the Notre Dame athletic director, you're like,

Speaker 5 I can't stand all the money that's being made in college athletics. It was Jack Swarbik, yeah.

Speaker 5 This is ruining the sports and the amateurism that we love. Meanwhile, he's collecting probably $5 million a year, if not more.
Yes.

Speaker 1 I also, it was one of those things, too, where he wrote it, he got dunked on, and it was unfortunate because there were a couple points that were not terrible. Like,

Speaker 1 he was basically making the point that what does it serve a kid if they're just transferring to a new school every year and they do five years at all different schools?

Speaker 1 Like, that probably, that kid probably isn't being best served going forward. It's like, yeah, that might be a good point.
I still think the kids should be able to transfer.

Speaker 1 And he also had a point about how the schedules should work better for academics, like not making kids miss a half of a semester because they're on the road, they're traveling all over the place.

Speaker 1 Like, yeah, that's also a good point, but that's not how the internet works, Jack. No.
You wrote an article with the headline and we dunked on it.

Speaker 5 Yeah, but he also made a lot of bad points.

Speaker 1 No, No, he did. He did.
But there was a good one.

Speaker 5 I looked it up. He makes $3 million a year plus other university compensation.
So he's the highest-paid athletic director in the entire country.

Speaker 5 He's got a vested interest in making sure that students don't receive any of the financial benefits that the administration receives.

Speaker 1 No, I listened to him

Speaker 1 on Dan Wetzel and Pat Forty's podcast, which is a great podcast, but he... he said something about

Speaker 1 like Notre Dame staying independent. And he's like, yeah, we're never.

Speaker 1 All we need is money and to be on national television. And guess what? We're going to keep doing that.

Speaker 5 That's literally his job.

Speaker 1 He was just flexing on everyone. It was like, not going to happen.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 And he makes a valid point when he says that a degree from Notre Dame is worth a million dollars over the course of that student's entire post-athletic career. Yeah.
Once they enter the workforce.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's good to have a degree from Notre Dame. Absolutely.
But at the same time, it's like, wait, but it's also good for them to make money based off themselves while they're in college. Yes.

Speaker 5 And just let them do that. Yes.
There are going to be some evils where people transfer around, but guess what? Coaches do that shit all the time.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes. Also, Ross Dellinger's on that podcast.
I don't want to forget him. He's been a great addition.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 We got sidetracked with a bunch of stuff. Did you bet on this game, by the way, PFT, Miami LSU? I did not.

Speaker 5 I did not. This was not a Mr.
Women. Mr.
Women has been ice cold. Dr.
Women is

Speaker 5 Dr. Women has been reported to the board for numerous allegations of fraudulence.
But it's okay. It's all right.
It's a long tournament. I'm still breaking.
I'm still up. I'm still up.
Dr.

Speaker 5 Women is up.

Speaker 1 So just to recap,

Speaker 1 Billy's

Speaker 1 system went bankrupt.

Speaker 1 PFT's women's system went bankrupt. Yes.
And I was too much of a coward to do the system that I was going to do because I'm a fucking scaredy cat.

Speaker 5 My system's not bankrupt.

Speaker 1 We're doing well. We're doing well.

Speaker 5 It's not bankrupt. We just need to reevaluate some things.
And so we'll get back in the lab and figure things out. We should talk about fantasy baseball.

Speaker 1 Oh, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 5 So it's baseball season. That's my who's back, actually, is baseball.
Yes. Returning on Thursday, the big bass is I'm all in.
You guys know that. We're a big bass podcast.

Speaker 5 And we're going to be entering a fantasy baseball league, but we want to do it with an AWL that has an extra spot open in their league with their friends.

Speaker 1 So PFT and I will co-own a team.

Speaker 5 The Seam Hat Express.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Seam Hat Express.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, we want it. I haven't played fantasy baseball in a decade plus.

Speaker 1 Hearing you talk about it, you've incepted me.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 5 let's do it. I'm one of the best fantasy baseball governors in the world if you just take out the postseason.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so let's do it. So any AWL who has an extra spot in their league that's drafting the next few days, email

Speaker 1 Jake. Yeah, email Jake.
What's Jake's email?

Speaker 6 PMTIntern at Barcelonsports.com.

Speaker 1 PMT Intern at BarcelonaSports.com. Tell us what

Speaker 1 the history of the league because we don't want it. Don't make a league all of a sudden out of the blue and be like, here, join it.
We want the history of the league.

Speaker 5 Since screenshot over of past years. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And if you want to do,

Speaker 1 we also would be totally fine if you want to vote one of the current members out and give us that spot.

Speaker 5 Yeah, definitely. That would be the guy that lost last year.

Speaker 1 That would make it really fucked up and awesome for us.

Speaker 5 And we'll have some sort of prize for the winner. How about that?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Or the guy that won.
Or the guy that won. You guys can decide who's out.
If someone wants to vote out,

Speaker 1 I want a league that's been going on for a very long time, has some history, has some friendship, vote one of your friends out and let us in.

Speaker 5 Oh, and also the draft has to be when? A time that's convenient for us.

Speaker 1 It's like Monday

Speaker 1 between 8 and 9 p.m.,

Speaker 1 Tuesday between,

Speaker 1 I think Wisconsin plays in the NIT. I could do it.
I could do it. I could double screen it.
8 and 9 p.m. Wednesday between 8 and 9 p.m.
Okay.

Speaker 5 I'm going to get Corky to help us out with this draft, too.

Speaker 1 Pretty tight windows, but I'm sure someone can get it done. All right.
Let's get to our interview with Danny Hurley.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very special guest. It is head coach of the Connecticut Huskies.
Now in the final four, the man, the myth, the legend, Danny Hurley.

Speaker 1 Coach, thank you for joining us. I'm very excited.
Congratulations, first of all, on the final four. It is one of those things that the March Madness tournament's so hard to survive.
You know that.

Speaker 1 And getting to the final four is an accomplishment everyone should celebrate. I want to actually start, though, with last night.

Speaker 1 I don't know if you watch

Speaker 1 the broadcast back after or see any of it, but I have one moment. And I love you so much.
I love watching you on the sidelines. It was was 70, I think it was 73, 43 or 74.44.

Speaker 1 You're up 30 with four and a half minutes left, and they caught you on the sideline screaming, what the fuck are we doing here, guys? And the classic Danny Hurley scowl.

Speaker 1 People were saying, oh, it's for TV. No, it's not for TV, right? Like, that was, you were pissed off.

Speaker 8 Yeah. I mean, you know, standard is the standard.

Speaker 8 You're going to play every possession like it's the last possession right all the

Speaker 8 all the great all the great cliches uh

Speaker 8 all rolled up into one uh

Speaker 8 yeah i knew my son was coming in a game shortly and i and i really wanted him to score and i just i didn't like the rhythm of the offense uh

Speaker 8 up there i desperately desperately wanted him to score i i see it You know, it's funny too. The one from earlier in the year, I think, actually really hurt us during the season.

Speaker 8 I don't know if you remember that one where I referenced the clown.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, your scowl would put fear into anyone when you get that chin out.

Speaker 1 Is there nights when you're like, I just know I'm going to get teed up tonight? Like, even before the game starts, like, I'm not in a good mood and I just know how this is going to go?

Speaker 8 I know,

Speaker 8 like,

Speaker 8 earlier in my career, you know, they actually tell you like uh the morning of who the referees are

Speaker 8 you know you find out pretty early in the morning if you want to and when i used to when i used to check to see who was on the game like if i didn't like them or if i had a bad personal history with them that would set me off like hours before and then the rage would build and the fire would burn and so then i i what i've started doing recently is i just uh i wait till i get out there they actually put the papers on the doors too with the pick, the referee's name.

Speaker 8 And I just, like, as I'm going in and out of locker room, I'm trying to just block it and not see it.

Speaker 8 Because I know if I get certain guys, it just I have such a bad working relationship at this point. It's going to be hard to fix it in an intense two hours.

Speaker 1 That's hilarious.

Speaker 5 I read that you do aromatherapy and you're a very chill, like almost Zen guy when you get into the office.

Speaker 5 Do you think maybe you're too Zen, so you're bottling everything up and that way you step onto the court and it just explodes?

Speaker 8 Yeah, volcanic.

Speaker 8 Yeah, that's true. I mean, that,

Speaker 8 yeah, we only have a certain amount of willpower, right? And

Speaker 8 you got a great point, man. It's like, I think by the time it gets to like seven o'clock or eight o'clock at night, I guess just a lot of that, that shit, it just wears off.

Speaker 8 You know, the mindfulness, the zen,

Speaker 8 you know, when you smell the popcorn and you get to that fight or flight, I think I'm always going to choose fight.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I also read that you're a a cold shower guy. Is that true?

Speaker 8 Yeah, I like to go,

Speaker 8 you know, I like to go cold. I like to go hot, hot, cold, hot,

Speaker 8 and then maybe even go back cold again. You know, so I'll go sauna, 20 minutes, you know, a 10-minute ice-cold shower.
And then

Speaker 8 maybe if I still feel like I need to, you know, I'll maybe even go back in and repeat.

Speaker 8 Because I think it's critical that

Speaker 8 I'm at my best.

Speaker 8 I'm at my best for the squad. And,

Speaker 8 you know, there's a lot of science behind that, actually.

Speaker 1 I like it. I like it.

Speaker 1 So big picture.

Speaker 1 I mean, obviously everyone knows your dad, knows your brother. You have,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 rosen up through the ranks the hard way, high school, Wagner, URI to Connecticut.

Speaker 1 And I read a story last night that, you know, you guys were taking pictures on the court and eventually you were just like, we got to get out of here. Like, there's too many pictures.

Speaker 1 Are you allowing yourself a moment to be like, This is pretty cool, you know, my career and getting to this point? Obviously, unfinished business, but it's a hell of an accomplishment.

Speaker 1 And it's kind of like you guys, as a family, have cemented yourself as basketball royalty.

Speaker 8 I think that's hard, man. To be honest with you, it's hard for,

Speaker 8 I think it's just, it's hard

Speaker 8 for me and my brother in particular, but just even in our family, you know, my dad,

Speaker 8 you know, the patriarch of this basketball thing,

Speaker 8 you know, he just

Speaker 8 he was never satisfied. He was never really happy with,

Speaker 8 you know, how we were playing or how we were doing at school or,

Speaker 8 you know, what we were doing, you know, on the street or just how we were carrying ourselves. So like, just always had this voice in our heads that.

Speaker 8 you know, like that there's more to achieve.

Speaker 8 You know, obviously, you know, like the goalposts are always, are always moving for most people that strive for success.

Speaker 8 But I just think in our house, man, it was just so, so competitive from when we were little kids.

Speaker 8 You know, we've been around basketball, we've been around competition, and we've been around like striving since we were babies. And, you know, even today, I think it just wore off for me.

Speaker 8 And I'm just, you know, I'm just really starting to just get my mind wrapped around like

Speaker 8 you know, the Saturday game and,

Speaker 8 you know, the national championship.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 A few few weeks ago, or maybe it was a month ago, when you guys played Villanova and you gave the famous press conference afterwards, get your wins against us now.

Speaker 5 You better beat us now because we're coming. What did you see in this team? How did you know? Because I feel like that's not a speech that you would give.

Speaker 5 That's not a retort that you would give unless you were very confident that something was about to change with this team and you guys were going to get hot.

Speaker 8 Yeah, it was,

Speaker 8 you know, it was the beginning of year two.

Speaker 8 You You know, we had gotten our ass kicked by Villanova at the garden right before Christmas in year one.

Speaker 8 You know, and year one started off pretty good. You know, we beat Syracuse at the garden.
I had the chest bump thing with my player. I went viral on that.

Speaker 8 Felt like it was going to be a little bit of a magical joyride. And then Villanova, they just beat the hell out of us right before Christmas at the garden.
And it really ruined the holiday, man. And

Speaker 8 then we played him in the next year

Speaker 8 in Philly

Speaker 8 on the road. And it was like a tie game with two or three minutes to go.
And our talent level was still nowhere near the place that you needed to be in a place like UConn. I mean,

Speaker 8 you need NBA players running around on the court

Speaker 8 if you're going to do the things that Coach Calhoun did. And

Speaker 8 so, you know, I knew we had the talent coming into the program. I knew that like, you know, we had lost like that, that losing attitude and guys were learning how to work work hard.

Speaker 8 I just felt like we, you know, and then I obviously I believe in myself. You know, I believe in, you know, the, I believe in what my dad taught me in terms of how to be a successful coach.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And speaking of that, like your season has been interesting because you guys were red hot to start.
You kind of peaked a little bit early January, hit a little bit of a bump.

Speaker 1 And then, you know, obviously the March is when you want to be hot again. How, how, how did you do that? What was the message to get? Because, you know, a lot of teams will fall off and

Speaker 1 the doubts creeps in and it starts to spiral. You guys have been able to find that second peak that everyone kind of is after in the coaching world.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I mean, listen, any coach that tells you, yeah,

Speaker 8 I know how to get my team peaking at the absolute right time.

Speaker 8 You know, I think they're, you know, they're lying. You know, I think for me, it was more about,

Speaker 8 you know, the big East is, you know, the Big East is a brutal league.

Speaker 8 You know, when the schedule sets up and you end up like at Xavier, at Providence, Creighton at home, at Marquette, you know, you could find yourself

Speaker 8 in a death spiral. And then, you know, now you end up with St.
John's at home and

Speaker 8 you're not in a good way.

Speaker 8 And then you throw in a clunker and now the sky is falling.

Speaker 8 So, you know, I think the league is, you know, the league is like a, it's like a cage match every single night.

Speaker 8 But we built this team, i i think for uh for tournament play for with with the with an with a with an eye on on on being able to be successful against non-conference opponents where there's a little bit more freedom of movement the games are a little bit less physical uh and there's more of a premium on having like three-point shooting you know some guys that can light it up from three and then we got these two centers uh you know like that that could just dominate yeah i i also should say and i know you don't care about this but there was a little bit of my mush at play because i bet you guys to win the national title.

Speaker 1 And I think you lost like four out of the next five. So I apologize for that.

Speaker 1 Is that a future? Yeah, it was a future.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and UConn fans in January were like, you motherfucker, why'd you do this?

Speaker 1 So you didn't know that was happening, but that could have been part of the little slump.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I don't think

Speaker 8 it wasn't coincidental. It also might have been, you know, me at war with the reps too for, you know, probably a three to five game stretch, which probably didn't help matters.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. yeah.

Speaker 5 As you get ready to go down to Houston, how many, because you were running some incredible plays in the last couple of rounds of the tournament, how many new plays, brand new, brand spanking new plays are you going to install and practice this week?

Speaker 8 Yes, several.

Speaker 8 And PFT, I think what you try to do is

Speaker 8 you try to keep

Speaker 8 like the, you try to have a bunch of new wrinkles, obviously out of like the same type of formation, right?

Speaker 8 So stuff that we've been running where we've tried to get, you know, know jordan hawkins or or caraban caravan joey california trying to get these guys a three

Speaker 8 you know that out of that same formation maybe the wrinkle will be to get you know klingin you know the seven foot two

Speaker 8 you know uh you know stud like a

Speaker 8 a lob dunk or or or a duck in so we'll we'll try to like add some wrinkles and different things uh to kind of the formations so that um you know you you obviously uh have a chance to really confuse confuse the dude that's got the scout.

Speaker 5 What about for yourself? Because I saw there was

Speaker 5 after one of the games they had a couple weeks ago,

Speaker 5 Bill Murray was telling you to take your shirt off after the game in the crowd. And you shook him off.
It was very rude. You shook Bill Murray off.
Nobody does that.

Speaker 5 Have you told your team, like, if we win, if we get a national championship, tops off?

Speaker 8 Yeah, I just, I hadn't done, you know, I'm obviously bald and I've got like red dots on my head, but then I'm also, I've got back hair and I've done no manscaping at all, you know, because we're still, you know, Jersey Shore is still, you know, what, months away.

Speaker 8 Yeah. So there's no, right?

Speaker 8 So, yeah, I was just no

Speaker 8 position to pull a musk. It also, too, I got a lot of respect for musk.
I wasn't, I couldn't,

Speaker 8 you know, to troll him like that

Speaker 8 in that moment, I think. And then Bill Murray, he's like part of,

Speaker 8 like, I'm at like I'm at like christenings

Speaker 8 and like uh coaches meetings with him and we're scouting games together so i could just kind of say regular shit to him yeah yeah but

Speaker 5 i think you should dangle that out there though as a carrot for your team you win the national championship we're going streaking right across the board yeah i'll join

Speaker 8 extra incentive uh no nil uh No, no extra NIL incentives. Just, yeah, I'll go streak.
Let's go streaking.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You mentioned, obviously, Luke Murray is on your staff, one of your your top assistants. And this was the other thing that came out from last night.

Speaker 1 They showed the picture that you painted him after he took over as head coach for a game against Seton Hall that you guys lost.

Speaker 1 You're a terrible artist. You're a terrible artist.
That was like, I thought it was a joke. Like,

Speaker 1 that was like a five-year-old's drawing.

Speaker 1 Don't give me the scowl.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, what was the thought process behind the, did you, how quick, how long did it take for you to draw that?

Speaker 8 Yeah, it was,

Speaker 8 you know, what I did was I went on YouTube and I looked at like

Speaker 8 some like Bob Ross, you know, like someone like Bob Ross, his techniques, and I watched some of his shows while I had COVID. And

Speaker 8 so I was under the weather when I did that one too, not to make excuses, right? Great coaches, great athletes. They don't make excuses for their failures.
um but i just i i

Speaker 8 that's the level of my ability i i suck at it i i i've started like five or six of them and i've i'm embarrassed by them i've made one i've did a worse one than that i did a skyline of of new york for kamani young my associate head coach uh

Speaker 5 like a nighttime new york skyline so fucking bad i i i won't give it to him but i signed luke's too i signed that walker i know it's i mean hurt up to you yeah for for for at least having a picture taken of that because i wouldn't have even done that art is subjective it's in the eye of the beholder i'm sure luke absolutely loves that painting now i i saw the painting and i'm i'm still a little confused it is it a basketball court

Speaker 8 it was a basketball court first of all he was sad too you know he

Speaker 8 we lost at the buzzer and he coached great and he took the i mean he took the bullet for for for for me being out and I just felt like I needed to do something nice for him

Speaker 8 and we were sitting on win 15 I think or something

Speaker 8 so basically it was a basketball court with the with the Yukon red and blue with purple and yellow because purple and yellow feel like they're vibrant just uplifting colors not that he's a lakers fan or or i just and then i made little zebras like referees And I made a little stick man.

Speaker 8 If you really, I made a little stick man of him.

Speaker 8 And then I put the number of for the next win that we had coming up. But he cherishes it.

Speaker 1 I'll say this: if you guys win the title, and maybe even if you don't, I hope you do, but uh, maybe, maybe you can draw something for us.

Speaker 1 We'll frame it and put it in the studio and just be like, Yeah, that's a Danny Hurley original right there.

Speaker 8 Yes, yeah,

Speaker 8 we could auction it off.

Speaker 1 Yes, yeah, we'll auction it off.

Speaker 1 We'll match.

Speaker 8 I'll bring my shit with me. I'll bring my paint and my brushes and an easel and canvases to Houston in my spare time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I really do.

Speaker 1 We'll pose topless for you if you need us to. Yeah, it'll be like the Titanic.
We'll hold each other. Yeah, I'll have

Speaker 5 a necklace on. You can draw me like one of your French basketball courts.

Speaker 1 We're down for it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We're 100% in.

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Speaker 1 Thanks, Damian.

Speaker 1 You mentioned Joey California. This is one of those stupid fan things that we think about, that coaches probably don't think about.

Speaker 1 Did you have any talk to him before the Gonzaga and St. Mary's game? Because I went back and looked, and he was 0-18 against those teams when he was playing at San Diego.

Speaker 1 Were you like, hey, man, maybe you don't play tonight? Like, I don't know. Like, I mean, obviously, he's great.
He's been incredible all tournament. I love watching him play.

Speaker 1 But did you have any conversation with him being like, so I'm not going to ask you for advice on how to beat these teams?

Speaker 8 Was he 0-18?

Speaker 1 0-18. 0-18.

Speaker 8 Holy shit.

Speaker 1 Why did I even play him?

Speaker 8 No, so like when we recruited that kid, it was like there are other schools.

Speaker 8 Like, and this is where, like, when you, when you, I don't want to say, you know, choke,

Speaker 8 you know, in the, in, in the, you know, prior March performance, but the New Mexico State team was probably better,

Speaker 8 you know, better than a lot of people thought.

Speaker 8 You know, they, they, uh, and we didn't have a lot of shooting. And, you know, I just, you know, Joey,

Speaker 8 we recruited him. We told him, like, hey, you may not play here, man.
Like, we've got, we got Jordan Hawkins, you know, we got Andre Jackson. You know, we took this other transfer from East Carolina.

Speaker 8 You know,

Speaker 8 we got some guards, but, you know, if you're good enough to get on the court, like, we'll play you.

Speaker 8 You know, and, you know, this, and he could have went to like a lower level and and been guaranteed to play. But

Speaker 8 he had the guts and the courage to be like, no, I want to go to Yukon and I'm going to make you play me.

Speaker 8 So he's got this gunslinger's mentality

Speaker 8 and this little bit of this California coolness. And then I dubbed him Joey California because I've only known him for a short amount of time and I couldn't pronounce his last name.

Speaker 8 I didn't recruit him for a long time, but like three days. So all I just kept calling him Joey.
And And then when he got here, I just couldn't get his name right.

Speaker 8 So if I would have known he's 0118, I wouldn't have played him. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's, I mean, it's a crazy stat.
It is, it is a testament to your recruiting.

Speaker 1 I mean, you have three guys who are coming off the bench who are all transfers, and that's got to be a tough conversation to have with them.

Speaker 1 Being like, look, we don't have, you know, a lot of the transfer portal stuff now is you can guarantee a guy at the lower level that he's going to start.

Speaker 1 And you had to go into their living rooms and be like, you're not going to start, but you could be part of something special. Is that was that pretty much the message?

Speaker 8 Yeah, we,

Speaker 8 you know, we had

Speaker 8 like two high-level

Speaker 8 freshmen coming in with Klingon and Caravan.

Speaker 8 And then, you know, we knew that Andre Jackson and Jordan Hawkins could play like NBA draft picks. And then you had Sunogo, who was like, you know, Biggie's preseason player of the year.

Speaker 8 So, you know, the pitch to these guys was like,

Speaker 8 you know, getting empty numbers at a school that isn't going to sniff March, isn't going to do much for your career.

Speaker 8 You're better off

Speaker 8 being a seven, eight, nine-pointed game scorer on a team that could play for a national championship.

Speaker 8 You know, then go play in some

Speaker 8 middle to the bottom of the conference team that season's going to be over

Speaker 8 in the beginning of January, late December. Yeah.
You know, they bought in.

Speaker 8 You know, now we're in the exact position that we sold all these guys on.

Speaker 1 It's a great story. And it's great.
I mean, it's great recruiting because it is rare to see that, to have major contributors be transfer guys who are not getting the starters' minutes.

Speaker 5 Yeah, yeah. I love watching your brother coach, too.
He's a lot of fun to watch on the sidelines.

Speaker 5 If you were to give him truth serum, like the truth drug, do you think he's 100%,

Speaker 5 like 1,000%

Speaker 5 rooting for UConn in the Final Four? Or do you think there's 1% where he's like, this motherfucker better not get a championship before I do?

Speaker 8 No, he's

Speaker 8 a thousand. You know,

Speaker 8 he's a thousand. I don't, you know, there's definitely,

Speaker 8 you know, growing up, definitely sibling rivalry, like, you know, like, you know, trying to outperform and out-compete.

Speaker 8 And I didn't wear it out real well when I played in college when I was trying to chase him as a player, man.

Speaker 8 that that was a major, major problem for me. And I think, you know, him seeing,

Speaker 8 you know, me struggle so much at Seton Hall when, you know, when he's on the cover of Sports Illustrated and they win a national championship seventh pick, you know, playing against a dream team, you know, and I can't make a shot.

Speaker 8 And I'm, you know, and I'm getting booed at home games.

Speaker 8 You know, I think our relationship changed a lot. You know, like we became a lot more

Speaker 8 vulnerable with each other.

Speaker 8 like a lot more like in each other's corners, more as best friends.

Speaker 8 And a lot of that kind of sibling rivalry thing you know dissipated and then that time we spent together at wagner you know when he was like out of basketball and then i took that job coming straight out of high school um that time together like uh

Speaker 8 that that forged some type of like uh like partnership in this coaching thing and that would have that you got to get some footage of those games because we were you know

Speaker 8 uh

Speaker 8 imagine both of us together with the officials and just the the sideline antics, the shit we got away with there that you could never get away with because those games aren't on TV.

Speaker 8 Those are all in like Cam Corner back then.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. All right.
So we will, because we're such big fans of you, we will for free be your internet consultants going forward.

Speaker 1 Here's a tip with your brother, because I saw this floating around the internet.

Speaker 1 You took a picture with him last night, and everyone was like, oh, I wonder which brother lives in Arizona and which brother lives in Storrs, Connecticut, because of his tan.

Speaker 1 So we got to get, when you take a picture with him, make sure there's enough people in the middle that it's not so apparent because it was.

Speaker 1 He looks incredible with the tan and you've been in the winter all, all, you know, all winter.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I was like, I wanted to rub it to see if it was real or if it was spray. Yeah.
Parts looked maybe like it might have been a spray. I don't think that that was authentic.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Maybe we incorporated a tanning bed into the manscape situation. Yeah.

Speaker 5 You hit the sauna, aromatherapy, and and then tanning bed for 30 minutes.

Speaker 1 DJ Poly D.

Speaker 8 In the cold shower, I could get the hair off.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Right.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think you should keep going with what's working here. We don't want to mess up a good thing.

Speaker 1 I had another quote that was

Speaker 1 just vintage Danny Hurley. It happened last week.
So you, the story goes, Sunogo, who everyone has been watching just absolutely dominate, he's practicing Ramadan.

Speaker 1 And so he's not drinking any water or eating any food during the day. We said that I think we would just like, we wouldn't even be able to podcast if we did that.
So credit to him.

Speaker 1 But you didn't find out until like Ramana was starting. Like you had no idea and you didn't get any sleep that night, right?

Speaker 8 Yeah, no, I mean, none of these people on my staff. You know, we got all these people here.
I got athletic trainers, strength coaches, nutritionists, massage therapists.

Speaker 8 I mean, this is a big-time organization. Associate head coach, you know, general manager.

Speaker 8 And that one person told me that this guy wasn't going to eat or drink or couldn't drink anything during the game.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Like you do, like you're in a huddle, you're like everyone, you know, I've got my mushroom coffee that I drink by the scorer's table and I'm chasing that with a buy drink.

Speaker 8 So I'm plenty hydrated and caffeinated. And then these kids all got their whole thing going.
My wife told me at like midnight, she like, you know, what are you going to do with Adama tomorrow?

Speaker 8 And I'm like, what are you talking about? He's going to dominate. He's just dominated.
And said, well, he's fasting.

Speaker 8 And I was up the whole night until shoot around the next morning. And then I had a spiritual conversation with him because I didn't know if it worked the same way.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 With

Speaker 8 Christianity, where on the Sabbath, you know, like I still go and do, you know, even though we're not supposed to really work on the Sabbath, you know, if I've got a game on the Sabbath, I'm going to show up.

Speaker 8 So he,

Speaker 8 it's not the same thing.

Speaker 5 Yeah, no, the rules are pretty, they're hard and fast. You kids like sun up, sun down.

Speaker 1 And I think we all remember. And wiggle room.
Yeah. We all remember it as kids when Hakeem used to do it in the NBA Finals.
I think it was one year.

Speaker 1 And I was just like, and that was, you know, that's in June now. You're talking.
The sun doesn't go down till after the game, you know, halfway through the game. So it's, I mean, it's credit to him.

Speaker 1 It's an incredible feat.

Speaker 8 It is. I mean,

Speaker 8 the way that that guy performed, I tell you,

Speaker 8 that man is,

Speaker 8 you know, he's got a chance to cement himself here

Speaker 8 in terms of legacy.

Speaker 8 He's

Speaker 8 just in terms of production and first team all league and now with the Final Four. And he would have

Speaker 8 got a national championship under his belt.

Speaker 8 Now you're talking about moving into the pantheon of all-time great players at this program, especially with the fact that when this guy came in here, we suck.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 1 it's incredible. He's been around for all.

Speaker 5 Tell me a little bit more about the mushroom coffee that you drink.

Speaker 5 What goes on?

Speaker 8 Yeah, it's a company.

Speaker 8 I think it's a company

Speaker 8 from the Netherlands. And

Speaker 8 it's a coffee

Speaker 8 that's made out of a mushroom extract like lion's mane,

Speaker 8 cordyceps. So it gives you the same type of alert.

Speaker 8 intensity, maybe without the jitters that you would get from coffee sometimes. So my pregame thing, you know, it used to be back at St.
Benedict's,

Speaker 8 I would just crush a five-hour energy right like about five minutes before tip. And then it was just rocket shift time.
And I knew that wasn't sustainable. So

Speaker 8 I backed it off at Wagner

Speaker 8 to

Speaker 8 the Red Bulls, like the Red Bull

Speaker 8 one before the game, one at halftime.

Speaker 8 And then I just felt like maybe

Speaker 8 that that wasn't sustainable as well. So then I've just experimented with a lot of different things.
So now I go like about 90 minutes before game, I tip off, I go mushroom coffee with

Speaker 8 a little MCT brain octane,

Speaker 8 like

Speaker 8 into the coffee, you know, just to get that extra advantage over whoever I'm coaching against. And then during the game, I'll go in a bulletproof mentalist.

Speaker 8 blend with that buy drink, which I obviously have to take the cover off of it. That's that orange liquid that fans of other teams accuse me of drinking piss.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I've seen that around.

Speaker 5 Every time I see somebody drinking that colored liquid, I'm like, well, they're slamming piss.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's

Speaker 1 pissed again.

Speaker 5 I would drink piss if it meant I was going to a Final Four.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah, but it's not, it's not, though.

Speaker 1 So those people. It could be.

Speaker 12 It could be, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, that would be an ultimate mental game.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 You could play that with other coaches.

Speaker 5 If you just told everybody, like, the way I get so intense is I drink my own urine i bet there would be a couple coaches out there that would be like i'm gonna give that a shot i'm gonna try yeah that's a good idea i'm gonna drink it uh on saturday night i'm gonna take that first sip right by the other coach and i'm gonna make a face like i just drank

Speaker 1 that's mental mental warfare dominate them i love it i love it i'm up i'm up eight nothing yeah i'd be up eight nothing

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Speaker 1 So we're huge fans of you. We do want to do an in-person interview.
We still have to do that

Speaker 1 because, like I said, I've followed your career. You know, I was watching when you were coaching Fats Russell, which I still, that's all-time name at URI, all-time name.

Speaker 1 So we were lucky enough a couple years ago to come up to Connecticut and get to sit with Coach Calhoun for about two hours. Awesome interview.

Speaker 1 I'm curious, though,

Speaker 1 what's like the best piece of advice he's given you or something that he's told you about this program that you think back and you use all the time.

Speaker 8 Yeah, so a couple of things.

Speaker 8 We've asked coach like

Speaker 8 late in the year, right before we went to Albany, right before we went to Vegas, just to talk to the team. It's like

Speaker 8 obviously to have Coach or Geno Oriema around, I'd be a moron if I didn't take advantage of

Speaker 8 an opportunity to learn from these like legendary coaches. So like, you know, coaches had some spot-on messages for the boys about, you know, this is March.
You guys got to go do what UConn does.

Speaker 8 But I would say, like, my first couple of days on the job when I got to Yukon, I, because I loved Rhode Island. That last team with Fatz

Speaker 8 and E.C. Matthews and Jared Terrell, like, you know, beating Trey Young in Oklahoma first round of the tournament.
Like, that was a fun team, man. We won a lot of games.
And,

Speaker 8 you know, so I had this great team I loved to death. And I took that job at UConn and

Speaker 8 like, it was a disaster, man. I mean, like,

Speaker 8 like talent like the way these guys were were moving on campus like academics behavior it was so far away from like anything you could win with it's just everything was a mess.

Speaker 8 So he has an office in the building so maybe it was the day after the press conference and I've got like buyers remorse man. I'm like call my agent

Speaker 8 can I go back? you know can is it they explained the buyout and i said all right i i guess i'll just stay but then I walked over to coach's office and

Speaker 8 I started complaining like about the, you know, just how big the mountain was to climb, how messed up the program was. And he looked at me with a serious scowl.

Speaker 8 They called me an, you know, an effing baby. And get your head out of your ass.
Get your head out of your ass. This is UConn son.
You know, like,

Speaker 1 like he ripped me.

Speaker 8 Yeah. You know, he ripped my ass.
And

Speaker 8 since then, man, I've been shot out of a cannon, man. When the the goat, you know, when the goat tells you to get your head out of your ass, you get to work.

Speaker 1 That's incredible. It's like the scene from Godfather slapping him in the face, act like a man.

Speaker 8 Yeah, right behind him in his office. He's got like all his pictures and stuff.
And there's a picture of him throwing the first pitch out against the Red Sox after they won the natty.

Speaker 8 I don't know what year it was. And most people you see, they throw the first pitch out, right? It's just like

Speaker 8 he's got his arm back. His face is like straining.
He's striding full speed.

Speaker 1 I love it. I love it.
I hope also he, when you were talking about buyouts, he just was like, not a dime back because that would be great if he dropped that on you.

Speaker 8 He talks about business.

Speaker 1 Not a dime back is still one of my favorite quotes of all time. Well, coach, thank you so much for joining us.
It's been long overdue. We do have to do it in person.

Speaker 1 Best of luck in Houston. We'll be there rooting you on.
And yeah, we need that painting. We need a painting.

Speaker 5 We'll send you some pictures. We'll text you some pictures of us shirtless.

Speaker 6 And then

Speaker 5 you can go ahead and do what you will with them. You can't make me look any worse.

Speaker 1 So go for it.

Speaker 8 Portrait. I got you.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, best of luck, man.
We really appreciate it.

Speaker 8 Later, fellas. Appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 let's wrap up the show.

Speaker 1 Jake has entered in. He was on the titus show.
Jake, we want your thoughts. Give him to us.
Lay him on us. Everything.

Speaker 5 Open-ended.

Speaker 1 Oh, wild.

Speaker 5 How wild is this march?

Speaker 4 Yeah, a little bit different of a Final Four compared to last year. We had the Blue Blood Dream matchups, Duke, UNC, Kansas, and Villanova.
Now you have FAU, San Diego State, Miami. And UConn.

Speaker 4 So you still have the presence of a big-time program with UConn, but this is the Final Four of South Florida. Yeah.
A little biased in saying that, but it's true.

Speaker 4 FAU and Miami are about an hour-ish away from each other. And then San Diego State putting the Mountain Wests on their back after an ecosystem showing by everyone else in their league.

Speaker 5 Jake, did anybody, any national prognosticators, pick San Diego State to win that bracket?

Speaker 1 Did you? That region. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Did anyone have San Diego State and Purdue?

Speaker 1 Me, also. Oh, yeah.
There we go.

Speaker 1 I know ball. Yeah.

Speaker 4 By the way, Mini Fire Fest, I don't have a perfect region because I had Gonzaga beating UConn.

Speaker 1 Oh, come on.

Speaker 4 So, hang the banner. Perfect region through the Elite Eight.

Speaker 1 Okay. That means nothing.
It's a banner. In my mind.
No, that's not. No, not.
Not your mind.

Speaker 5 Jake, can you talk us out of UConn winning? How does UConn not win this Final Four?

Speaker 4 Because they haven't been in a close game yet, and Miami has been tremendous in crunch time.

Speaker 1 Wrong. Max is going to try to mush him, and he's doing a good job.

Speaker 4 But does my point make sense?

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, your point makes perfect sense. But let's be honest, Max is getting his fucking loser stink.

Speaker 5 His heart's not in it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're right, PFT. His heart is not in it.

Speaker 5 Yeah, this Max, you couldn't be able to do it.

Speaker 1 You're not. I love the Big East.
Okay.

Speaker 1 What's the wildest storyline?

Speaker 4 Wildest storyline. The South Florida thing is up there.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think the recruit, FAU, him being like the first recruit.

Speaker 1 Huh?

Speaker 1 The

Speaker 6 FAU coach, I believe, his first recruit was the guy that's the only senior on the team.

Speaker 4 Oh, wow. Yeah, Forest, I believe.
And he hit the four free throws

Speaker 1 down the stretch.

Speaker 6 That is pretty cool. So he got the job, and the first person he went to recruit was him, and now he's the only senior on the team.

Speaker 1 That's very cool. Yeah, that was.

Speaker 4 And he made the four free throws down the stretch against Kansas State to ice it. I know you guys are pulling for it.

Speaker 1 That's wild. There you go.

Speaker 4 That's a lot. That's a nice pull, Hank.

Speaker 1 Yeah, good pull. Very nice.
Good pull, Hank.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 4 shout out, Dusty May. Yeah.
What a story. 35 wins.

Speaker 4 San Diego State, obviously great.

Speaker 4 Coach Laron Aga, there was, I think Tracy Wolfson did a sideline hit in the Elite Eight at the very end, just calming his guys down, where he was saying, let me pull up the exact quote because I don't want to screw it.

Speaker 1 He seems like the most fun coach to play for.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he leans into the grandpa role.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right.

Speaker 4 And guys love him for that. We saw him dancing on Friday night after the Sweet 16.
Like,

Speaker 1 this is what it was. Sorry.
This is bad radio. That's okay.
That's okay, Jake. His words.
You did a great job, sweetie. His words.

Speaker 4 Where else would you rather be? Are you having any fun yet? In crunch time?

Speaker 1 In the huddle. That's cool.

Speaker 4 It's like, how could that? That's got to ease the nerve so much.

Speaker 1 That sucks if you lose.

Speaker 5 That reminds me of a little coach.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the coach is like, oh, he didn't fucking care. You're just like, how are you going to do that?

Speaker 4 That's why they got here in the first place.

Speaker 1 No, definitely.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the vibe that he has. I mean,

Speaker 1 it's a great testament how coaching can come in all shapes and forms because he's doing it one way.

Speaker 1 Danny Hurley, and they're playing against each other in the Final Four. That's wild.

Speaker 4 He's the most calm guy ever versus.

Speaker 1 He's drinking piss and caffeine on the sidelines to get himself. Mushroom-flavored piss.

Speaker 5 He's basically turning into

Speaker 5 The Last of Us before our very eyes.

Speaker 1 They should do a Marvel movie about the Hurley brothers, just the piss man.

Speaker 1 The Royal Just drink piss and they become the best coaches in the world.

Speaker 5 I'm going to give it a shot.

Speaker 1 You got to drink my own piss? I've done it once.

Speaker 5 Peace sterile.

Speaker 1 I know before Super Bowl weeks. But I was so drunk.

Speaker 5 But as a guy,

Speaker 5 you know that every guy has tried their own piss before, right?

Speaker 1 Listen,

Speaker 1 I drink my own piss at least once a month. It's supposed to help long-term health benefits.

Speaker 1 I haven't been sick yet.

Speaker 5 Yeah, so I drink pee, like, not all the time, but I'd say once a month. Yeah.
I'll take a big sip of my own piss, and it helps your body.

Speaker 5 It helps going through your digestive system because when you think about it, your lower digestive system gets a lot of piss going through it, but your upper doesn't really get the taste of that.

Speaker 1 Your lungs need piss.

Speaker 6 I actually inject, I pee into a cup, and then I inject it back into my dick.

Speaker 1 Oh, you go up.

Speaker 5 You go up over like a salmon.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because I sometimes will squirt a little

Speaker 6 twice distilled.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'll do a little ears and maybe a little snort so that my brain gets a little piss. Piss brain, you're operating on a different level.
I'm pretty sure that's what Joe Rogan does.

Speaker 5 No, it's a your your pee actually contains nootropics. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so it alerts you.

Speaker 5 It's like taking adder. No, no, no, no, no.
You know, when you take a lot of vitamins and supplements,

Speaker 5 they come out in pee a lot.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Well, you got to drink your pee to get the supplements back that you lose.

Speaker 5 So once a month, me and my buddies play piss pong. Yes.

Speaker 1 Just once. I'll do that too, Billy.
Yeah. It's a good point.
Like, if I go out to a really expensive meal,

Speaker 1 like, you're, like, let's say you spend $100 on a steak. You're just wasting it if you're not drinking your piss after.
Yeah, well, well, that's why you have to drink your piss.

Speaker 1 That way, you get all of the steak.

Speaker 5 Some people got mad at me when we were talking about not wiping our butts and how if you pee onto your own butt,

Speaker 1 they can clean it off. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 The added benefit is you also resorb some of that urine that goes in rectilinear. You can boof some.
Yeah, it's the best way to get it.

Speaker 1 You're boofing some piss.

Speaker 5 Right from the source. It's like your body becomes so efficient that if you pee into your own butt long enough, every time you piss, you just absorb everything.
You don't have any waste to create.

Speaker 1 Million dollar idea, I just thought of

Speaker 1 we should come out with

Speaker 1 piss-flavored vapes.

Speaker 5 That's good.

Speaker 1 I mean, I should be.

Speaker 1 This conversation, I was always a little ashamed of how much piss I was drinking, but this conversation, I feel like it's eye-opening that, like, all dudes drink their piss.

Speaker 1 Well, do any of you pee in your humidifiers?

Speaker 5 Yeah, all the time.

Speaker 1 Sprays across the time.

Speaker 1 I'll actually pee into the engine of my car, too. Makes it go way faster.

Speaker 5 Billy's right. Way way faster.
If you pee into the humidifier, you're basically basically just taking a gravity bong of your own pee every time you turn it on. Yeah.
Jake, do you drink your own pee?

Speaker 4 I think I did once by accident on a road trip when I was like 10.

Speaker 1 You should try because it's probably. You know what you actually should do? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Problem solved right now. You should start drinking Billy's dog's piss and then you won't be allergic anymore.
That's true. Yeah.
That's how you beat allergies.

Speaker 1 If you drink the piss of something, that's like if I ever see a snake, I'm not worried about getting bitten by it because I've drinking so many types of snake piss that it's not even a problem for me snakes snakes pee oh yeah yeah everything all the time everything piece so come on dude yeah I actually walk around on the street with my sleek my mouth wide open it's kind of a hole yeah just so I could I could maybe get lucky and have a bird piss on me well birds pee and poop out of the same hole yeah and I'll get some I'll catch some of my mouth and be like good now pigeons can't give me any diseases you know when a bird poops on you it's good luck yeah well if it's really good luck when you eat the poop yeah yeah Mel Kuiper hasn't peed for 28 years yeah that's why he had Jimmy Klaus.

Speaker 1 Neither is Hansen and Ceciliano. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, look at those guys.
Never. But yeah, I'm pretty sure Ciciliano pisses.
He tried to. Come on.

Speaker 1 He definitely pissed.

Speaker 5 I think he dipes up.

Speaker 1 Hansen doesn't because he's a man. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Anyways,

Speaker 4 storylines, you guys usually do your Super Bowl lists probably last year too.

Speaker 1 Not a long list this year. Yeah, give it to us, though.

Speaker 4 I mean, I think I already listed the main ones.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 4 Any others? Yukon, return to dominance, maybe. South Florida.

Speaker 5 San Diego.

Speaker 4 Nice weather.

Speaker 1 Three of the four. Yeah.
Plus Yukon. Yep.

Speaker 1 Got to be the weirdest mascots. Hurricane, Aztec.

Speaker 5 Aztec and a Husky. I kind of like the Aztecs.

Speaker 1 The Ibis. The Ibis is cool.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Sebastian, the Ibis.

Speaker 1 Hurricane probably beats all of them.

Speaker 5 Aztec? Yeah, Diaspora.

Speaker 1 No, owls don't die in a hurricane. Yeah, they just fly away.
Yeah. Actually, Owls probably.

Speaker 6 Probably where it is, too.

Speaker 5 I guess Houston's Hurricane Country.

Speaker 6 If it was somewhere like,

Speaker 1 you remember when JJ was

Speaker 6 Walter Payton Man of the Year, but if it was in Minnesota, a hurricane's not doing shit up there.

Speaker 1 That's true. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Owls, they probably know when a hurricane's coming before it even gets anywhere close to being close. Same with a Husky, though.
Fly away. Yeah, that's true.
But an owl can fly faster. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Aztec probably like, what the fuck is this? Global warming?

Speaker 5 Yeah, Aztec would

Speaker 5 just sacrifice another virgin. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, that's so those are storylines?

Speaker 4 Yeah. Can you guys think of anyone? Anything else? I'll think of more for Tuesday's Wednesday show.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 South Florida's dominant. And they won the D2 national title, Nova Southeastern.

Speaker 1 Oh, I watched that game. That was actually a really fun game.
It was like they were just going up and down the court.

Speaker 4 You have Miami, obviously Miami-Day. Nova Southeastern is in Broward County, which

Speaker 4 where I'm from. And then on top of Broward is Palm Beach County, which is where FAU is.

Speaker 5 Yeah. I would say that there's probably more per capita cocaine done in all four of these areas because you've got Miami, you've got Boca, you've got San Diego.
I'm guessing a lot of cocaine there.

Speaker 5 It's close to Mexico. Yeah.
And then also a lot of rich people in Connecticut doing blow. There you go.

Speaker 4 Shout out John.

Speaker 5 Shout out to John Skipper. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they can all just get together. Yeah.
You know, I mean, he's a cokehead.

Speaker 5 So shout out. But we say that with all the love in the world.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you, bro? Yeah. But.

Speaker 5 Let your freak flag fly.

Speaker 1 It wasn't the first time you bought Coke that you had a prostitute and Coke dealer extort you. Probably.
It doesn't happen on the first time. No, it doesn't happen on the first time all right uh

Speaker 1 numbers 23 69 hank have you ever gotten this no 18.

Speaker 5 i'm gonna go 17.

Speaker 1 ooh good one what did hank guess last friday you took 23 hank i did four plus five plus five plus nine

Speaker 1 nice seeds uh what did hank guess on friday

Speaker 1 oh friday i was

Speaker 1 two right two was the

Speaker 1 tried to guess three yeah he tried to guess three what did he guess on friday do you know what he guessed anyone i can listen back quickly if you give me 30 seconds.

Speaker 1 Okay, yeah, I'll give you 30 seconds.

Speaker 1 No problem.

Speaker 1 It was 88. Was it? Yeah.
For real? Yeah.

Speaker 4 Should I check him on that?

Speaker 1 Yeah, check him on that. I don't want him.

Speaker 7 I have 20. Memes has 12.

Speaker 1 12. Okay.
Memes.

Speaker 1 Why would you say fuck memes? It's on the room. This is just where'd you say he's going to be.
I mean, Max Homa has 25. John Fanta has 26.

Speaker 6 You guys are completely diluting.

Speaker 1 Does memes put 20 into the pod? 48. 48.
Oh, see?

Speaker 1 I'm happy that we checked. Yep.
This motherfucker, you tried to get me. You didn't.
48 is my number.

Speaker 5 Come on, 17.

Speaker 6 I'll retire.

Speaker 1 Don't want to do nothing. Oh, 17 just popped up.

Speaker 1 34.

Speaker 1 You weren't that close.

Speaker 6 I saw the three.

Speaker 1 You weren't that close. Walter Payton.

Speaker 5 Male bee's testicles explode after mating.

Speaker 1 Oh, you should have guessed Walter Payton after you forgot that J.J. Watt didn't save the city of Houston.

Speaker 1 That was such an easy guess, hey? Yeah, that was such an easy guess.

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