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

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On today's Pardon My Take, the final four is set, and we have UConn head coach Dan Hurley on the pod. Great interview.
He's the absolute best. 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. We have the lottery ball.
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Today is Monday, March 27th, and we have a final four, just as everyone expected.

UConn, Miami, San Diego State, and FAU. That's right.
Yeah, it's the four most beautiful cities in North America. We've got Boca, Miami, San Diego, and Storrs, Connecticut.
Love it. Paradise on Earth.
Paradise. 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.

It's going to be the tough team from a cold-weather city

that's going to do this one.

Yes, the Big East.

So we have – it's crazy March Madness, crazy tournament.

I was joking before, but all season long,

all the talk was there's no really great team.

There's a ton of parity.

There's not this one team, maybe you could say Alabama, which we'll get to, that has risen above everyone else. 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.
UConn is the highest seed remaining as a four seed. 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. It is the first time in NCAA tournament history without a 1-2 or a 3 seed, though.
Yes. So even for a wild year, this is the wilderest year of all time.
We didn't have a 1 seed in the Elite Eight because Alabama and Houston both eliminated on Friday night. We also have three teams that are going to their first Final Four and then going up against a team that will further cement themselves

as the best team in the last 25 years.

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.

And then you have FAU, San Diego State, and Miami

in their first ever Final Four.

Yeah, it is justice for the Mountain West because we took a big steaming shit on them at the start of the tournament. Which was totally realistic.
People were like, you shit on them. You guys got eliminated in 10 hours last year.
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. And they have the exact same amount as the Big East.
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.
So Charlotte won the CBI. Of course.
North Texas and UAB are still alive in the NIT and FAU in the real tournament. So you have a chance for all, for the Conference USA to sweep the board.
Yeah. FAU.
Shout out to 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? Yeah, they won the championship. 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. They are also like the perfect embodiment of how insane this tournament is because in the first game against Memphis, 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.
Like this tournament will drive you insane because those bounces can be the difference between like a program defining run and being bounced in the first round. It's nuts.
And FAU, yeah, Dusty May, former Indiana. He was not a water boy.
He was a student manager. Student manager.
He's going to be on the show, I think, later this week. Incredible story.
Does this count as another title for Bobby Knight? Because I think Bobby Knight was the head coach of that team. He was.
I wonder what tips he picked up from him. Yes, yes.
We will ask him that. So let's talk about the games because we should start on Friday with Houston, you know, the team that a lot

of people thought had the best chance being eliminated by Miami got absolutely like truck

by him.

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.

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. Because I know there are a lot of people out there just rooting for the feel-good story of Alabama this year.
It was bad. Brandon Miller had a statistically improbable tournament.
I think he had the worst shooting performance of anybody that has ever played in the NCAA tournament. He was injured, so we should say that.
He did have a groin injury. But Nate Oates, I don't know.
It's like pick your poison. 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 when San Diego State went on a 12-0 run, refusing to call a timeout. 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.
The fouling was really bad. Really bad.
I think most people, even basketball, I know ball, but some people out there watching on TV were like, 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.
But we should give credit to San Diego State. Oh, yeah.
San Diego State, they're a fun team. They, I think they were, I read that they were ranked in the top 10 in 2020, right? When they canceled the NCAA tournament.
So this is their shot at redemption. And also, San Diego State, watching San Diego State play, they play incredible defense.
They're all over the boards. They are, though, one of those teams that any time they go down like six or seven in a game, you're like, it's over.
They can't. How are they going to find these points to come back? And they've been doing it.
They're strong. They haven't been rattled, and it's been like every single game they've found themselves in spots like we got to find offense and they did it do you remember i think it was like 2013 2014 san diego state was a part of the big east for like a week they were they were going to be during realignment yeah during football i think they were realignment just makes everybody forget everything they know about geography san diego state was going to be part of the Big East 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 no sense no geographical it would be like putting UCLA and USC in the Big Ten that'd be dumb really dumb stupid as shit very very dumb but yeah San Diego State uh incredible on Friday night against Alabama Nate Oates has never been to, he's, 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, he's never been, he's never beaten a lower team, a higher seed. And he also, I think it's, he's never beaten higher than an eight seed since as well.
I think we have to ask the question, is Nate Oates on the hot seat right now? I mean, listen, talk about guys choking. Poor Rick Barnes gets it all the time.
Yep. 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.
I'm officially putting Nate Oates on my hot seat. I agree.
He's got to go at least one year without a murder to get off this hot seat. And let's be honest.
Let's just have an honest conversation with Alabama fans real quick. It's still football.
You still have football. Like, who cares? You still dominate football.
Your football team will always be great. Nick Saban's the greatest coach.
I don't really when when football programs that are that elite are like hey

let's give it a try being awesome at basketball too you can't do that same thing with texas except

without all the recent success in football right you're still a football school right exactly 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 but that's the thing is like if

you're an alabama fan that game sucked nateates did a terrible job coaching down the stretch. But you have Nick Saban.
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.
Saban probably wouldn't have gone to Houston for the Final Four, right? He's too busy recruiting. He's out there on the path right now 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 more time to recruit yes good for you you'll take that yes but yeah so Friday night was uh 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. I thought they were going to, you know what? When he passed up the three with like eight seconds left and made a perfect pass.
I was like, that was it. That was it.
And credit to Dusty May and FAU because I think every single game they've been down like late in the fourth and they finish games so strong. And that's what they did on Saturday.
But 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? 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 and take that bargain on the very last play i wish he had taken that last shot that was no that was his moment that was his moment to become a god he's already a legend he would have been a god i still would officially like to offer marquise noel position on the new zealand breakers yes as owners of the team let's give him a shot though we'll give you a shot but just so you know marquise Zealand's a beautiful country. We'll take you if you don't get an offer in the NBA.
Yeah. And he's going to 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 get you know doesn't sniff a championship maybe you're coming off the bench 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 going over and playing overseas in europe or in new zealand or australia that's probably a pretty good life yes so they probably he's probably going to be okay i really wanted him to to take that last shot. I did too.
Big Cat and I, this is a classic moment, part of my take. 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.
It was too good of a pass. And he had another pass that happened maybe like 30, 45 seconds before that where he hit a dude absolute dime 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. 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. And I had a when when we both had that thought and i treated it i had a a mini win moment where someone was like you mean the pass that he threw it to the guy who wasn't ready for it 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 card he is and the guy had deleted his tweet before i could reply and i was like yes here we go you don't was gonna just dunk on you preemptively knew that he was wrong but it was clear like dussey may i know that he i think he went uh he went seven for 18 against michigan state so he had 20 points 19 assists he went eight for 21 against fau he had 30 points 12 assists so it was like hey we're gonna let you shoot we're gonna give you a little room to shoot so that you don't just get all these insane passes on us.
And it was a great game plan. Again, Marquise Noel was phenomenal, but 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, 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 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. You look like a blocker in like co-ed uh flag football yeah or like one of those one of those uh tackling dummies yeah 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 problem for us even though it ended up everything was a problem for them 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 they won their – we've talked about this.
They were a nine seed. They won their conference tournament.
So everyone's like, oh, it's just one of those other, you know, non-power conferences. 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. 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.
I just think that's the classiest move a coach could ever make. I thought it was really nice because sometimes after a game, a coach like that will stew in their own locker room.
Yeah. And to see a coach do that where he didn't even know the cameras were around.
Right. He went in there.
He didn't see the camera falling for the kids. 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. Let's talk to these kids and make sure that we can, we can give them a boost going forward.
I hope you guys win it all. That's so classy.
What a great thing of him to say. So, Coach T, great job.
Hey, listen. All-time great.
I'll say it right now. You know, if my kids are ever good enough to play Division I basketball, they're not going to be.
I would say I want them to play for a guy like Jerome Tang. That's a guy.
Well, not just as player development, but to mold your son into a young man. 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. 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. I'm going to talk to the opposition, congratulate them, them.
Not make it about me. Make it about them.
And I loved, love, loved that moment. It's for the kids.
Hank, did you see that? Yeah, I thought I was a little self-centered. That's weird.
Just really selfish. Why? He was congratulating them on winning.
He literally was being like, great job, guys. I'm so proud of what you did.
I just think he was making a lot of moves trying to make it all about himself. I bringing in random people to pump the team up you're so cynical Hank this is why you don't know ball because it's it's it's different at the college level where you're trying to these are amateurs you're helping young men yeah okay it should be about the other team not about you no well what he did make it about the other team he said I want to go congratulate by him walking into that locker room he put the spotlight because spotlight because he knew that people are going to talk about whatever Coach J does at the time.
He knew that the spotlight was going to go off him and onto the kids that deserve it. We should have more coaches like this.
Disagree. Okay.
All right. Well, again, you have to get nailed it.
You're a cynical, cold-hearted fuck. Shout out FAU, though.
FAU, I love the Owls. They're fun to watch.
It's also fun to be able to tweet the Lane Kiffin picture. Oh, I was going to say.
I'm excited. They're doing it for Uncle Junior.
He doesn't go down there enough. Yes, that's true.
Down to Boca. That's a fact.
But, yeah, they're a fun team to watch. 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. I'll do pizza rat.
It'll be pizza rat for Flacco, the Central Park Owl, if they win the Natty. No, they're fun to watch because they all can shoot.
And, yeah, this is not a fluke. I know that we want to do the Cinderella thing.
I don't feel the same way about FAU as I did maybe a George Mason, who Jim Laranega, I think it was 17 years to the day. Going back up against UConn.
Yeah, that he took George Mason to the Final Four. He got Miami to the Final Four.
Yeah, the George Mason Center, I always forget his name. He had the biggest asset in America.
Yeah. 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. I think he ran like a 5-2-40.
All right. Well, maybe not this guy.
Big ass, though. That game, the George Mason-Yukon game, and we can say this now because Yukon'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, 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. But UConn absolutely whomped Gonzaga on Saturday night, ass kicking Drew Timmy is still has a year of eligibility we should at least say that he said that he wasn't going to come back he said that to Gonzaga yeah no he's he said that uh he's done everything he needs to accomplish he was there for four years so he's out after the season but he did not close the door on transferring yeah and it also was such a crazy game because a buddy of mine texted me during the game, he was like, if you had told me like 10 years ago Gonzaga would be playing UConn 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.
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 he 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 uh big man hitting threes they do everything. They beat you every single way.
He said after the game he calls him the gas station because he can fill it up. Yeah.
Which is a great spin zone. Yeah, it was a great spin zone.
Charles Barkley just literally did not know that his name was Sunoco. 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 it's fun yeah you have jay right 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 yeah i want i want charles barkley there just to have him making fun of kenny smith yeah exactly it works it's like okay don't mess with charles barkley could commentate on any sport i don't care what it is they had him on on uh was it tnt for the nhl tonight he was awesome on that yeah just get him and biz together mixing it up talk about their buttholes yeah and his suit is ridiculous his suit is uh there was a side angle picture of his suit like fully flapped out he's just wearing a parachute yeah it's it's got so much fabric all 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 yeah just look at him right now he looks right now he looks like a bowl of melted oatmeal.
Yeah. But dude was dunking on people.
He was getting rebounds over everybody. Yeah.
He was an awesome player to watch, breaking backboards and shit. The short shorts at Auburn.
Him and Thunder Dan Marley together. Yeah.
Yeah. They were – I don't think we talk about Kevin Johnson anymore.
No. No.
He's been erased from – I think Kevin Johnson, one of the he was one of the mayors of Sacramento.

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

I think something.

I think it was a lot of some things that.

Yeah, some things.

OK, 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 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 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 all uconn fans but you could think about like the people in boca 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 uh miami nope probably gonna stay in miami no san

diego why would you ever leave san diego to do anything miami fans are probably gonna stay there and just get angry about mario cristobal and whatever he they think he's done wrong yeah in the off season yeah it's all you can that's there are a lot of teams where they plan these trips just to get out of their small college town right 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 Yukon fans down there. Yes.
If, if you see somebody that's wearing a San Diego state, if any sort of shirt jacket, any paraphernalia chances are about 99% they're related to somebody involved with the program. Yes.
Yes. So see a Gonzaga still short to the Final Four.
They'll never get there. It's tough.
It does feel like, I'm sure they have some awesome recruits coming in, but Drew Timmy, I wasn't a personal fan, but you can't knock the guy for being an all-time college basketball player. I think he went to the Sweet 16 every single year at least, and he was just always there.
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 fans and did a little flex. It was 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.
Yeah. It goes back to the game against Baylor where he did the mustache celebration.
How many were they down? Down 15? Something bad. That was bad.
The crying sorority girl dancing. And, yeah, he's a great college basketball.
I don't know where. He'll probably play overseas somewhere.
You saw it last night when they just didn't even have him on Sunogo from the start because they were like, this not gonna work we know we know that that's not gonna be a matchup yes but i i will miss him because he college basketball as you get longer you know with the transfer portal and everything not to be an old man yelling at clouds but like you don't have those same heels or villains on each program 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. Speaking of players that your dads will love, not just Drew Timmy, but Golden on FAU.
Oh, yeah. His all-time dad loves.
Vladislav Golden. He's the big fundamental.
When he catches the ball in the paint, he keeps it high every single time. He 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 are keeping it high. 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.
But he's still like he's not. He's athletic.
Yeah, he's athletic. But you still need to have that happen every now and then.
Just be like, okay, he can't just totally dominate every single part of this game.

Yeah, it's shocking watching Golden play, comparing him to Zach Eadie.

Obviously, Zach Eadie is a much bigger human being,

but watching them run, they couldn't be more dissimilar as athletes.

It's those extra four inches, dude.

Golden, when he runs, he looks like an athlete running. When Zach Eadie runs, it looks like his feet weigh 70 pounds apiece.
It's those extra four inches dude gold golden when he runs he looks like an athlete yeah when zach edie runs it looks like his feet weighs 70 pounds a piece it's the extra four inches seven seven feet to seven four is significant i've always been to the mindset that tall players are actually at a disadvantage against a normal size 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's just built way more efficiently i just also assume any tall super tall nba player just hates playing basketball yeah 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 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? 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. I just want to say, I will never stop asking tall people if they play basketball.
It's an excellent icebreaker. 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.
And that's even worse. It's the assumption that you played somewhere.
I would have a business card if I was seven feet tall that just said I didn't play basketball. I just handed it to people.
Stop asking. Yeah.
I was actually really sick at soccer when I was 12. Hakeem Olajuwon.
Yeah. He was a goalie.
Yes. Yes.
And Sonogo, we talked to Danny Hurley about this as well, 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.
So I'm asking you nicely. Stay the fuck away.
No, I just love the Big East. Okay.
This is a Final Four.

Now I understand why you hate this guy, Hank.

No, UConn is taking it for the Big East and the conference as a whole.

You hate them.

You're such a bad actor, Max.

Yeah, you hate them.

What do you mean?

I love the Big East.

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. No, this is – I'm just wearing this on my sleeve.
I'm really hoping for good things for the Big East. Go Huskies.
Okay. All right.
And then Sunday we had San Diego State Creighton. The game with a foul with a second left that everyone got very upset about uh and i understand why they're upset because that's what sports are uh it was the one 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 uh 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 but yeah i creighton fans you have every right to be upset like i think that was you i think that was a foul 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.
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.

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.

But on the other hand, you just have to kind of live with the fact

that it's not like he didn't touch him. Even Creighton fans will admit like yeah he touched him and on a floater like that in the lane it definitely affects your release and it affects your shot it's a bad shot yeah the guy should have uh put forth a better shot but it was definitely a foul it's just not usually called yeah and I that was my take right away it was just like shitty ending, it was a foul and i felt like you ever seen that meme where someone's like uh i like i love waffles and then the first reply is like why would you shit on pancakes like this yeah that's what i felt like 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 it's just like the you just you have to have to go make both.
If it's a tie game. Yeah, you have to go make both to count.
Yeah. Otherwise, it doesn't count.
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.
Yeah, no, no, that was, yeah, nothing to do with it. Nothing to do with it.
They would have said that anyway, so he didn't get to break both of them. Our friend Tom Frinelli said that, because there is the argument, like, oh, you can't call that there, which if a foul happens again, that might not have been called all the time.

But if a foul happens and they call, it's like, well, yeah, that was a foul.

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

Prison rules.

I like it.

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

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, and they get to point at that and be like, we would have made the Final Four.
Refs fucked us over. 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. 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. 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.
If you lose like Creighton does, in 20 years from now, 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. You didn't lose to San Diego state in the Aztecs.
You lost to the refs. Right.
Exactly. It's hard to beat a team and the refs in the same.
It's a great, it's a great consolation prize to lose and have some someone

very obvious that you can right it's like the eagles they didn't lose the super bowl the guy that put the grass down correct cost the eagles what do you think watching that game max good question what the creighton game yeah i was just rooting for the big east right so so i mean i i was upset um you know's... As someone who's had those calls called against him, do you think you can call that? Yeah, you know, it's a foul.
So, at the end of the game, sometimes you just need to call fouls. Well, you were also rooting for San Diego State based on 2013 when they were in the Big East for a week.
Yeah. Correct.
Also, yeah, so basically we have two teams. We have two teams in the Final Four, and the Big East is back.
That's right. Yeah, you both your Big East teams in that game won.
Correct. It was a win-win for the Big East.
Win-win. Easy.
Yeah. Yeah.
No, but the Alan Ray phantom travel in, like, 2003 against UNC in the Sweet 16 still haunts me to this day. It's the exact you get to carry those with you forever yeah and you get to say i still think about that team yeah justice swinslow was out of bounds like you get to do these things forever miles jack wasn't down yeah it's it's it really is the nicest consolation prize it's tragic in the moment but i think once you get away from it a couple weeks, you're like, you know what? This is nice that I have at least one thing to be angry about forever.
This is more loser talk from us, but I would absolutely love it if the Commanders lost the Super Bowl based on a completely blown quote. 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 it.
I would count that as going to a Super Bowl. You get to just complain about it for the rest of your life.
And that is in some ways better than a win. That's kind of our lives.
Yeah, right. Right.
Exactly. Except for Hank.
And then Miami 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, and then Miami just was like, let's do this. Carr got hurt, and I think he didn't come out of the game except for a couple seconds.
And DeSue got hurt, too, on Friday. And Carr was obviously not himself when he got back in.
That probably played an impact. Because he was hot.
He was very good. 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, but Jim Laredega.
Easy guy to root for, Coach L. Why don't we call him Coach Inye? We should.
Coach Inye, back in the Final Four. Did he dance after this game? I don't know.
He looked awesome on Friday. Forget about even for an old guy.
Coach L's got sick moves. Yeah.
I wish I could dance like him right now. Yeah.
He claps on the twos and the fours. Yep.
And Miami also has a couple of great names with Isaiah Wong and then Wooga Poplar. They got some good names.
They have a little bit of... You need things like the old coach the storylines never been there they get they have i'm not gonna say their team of destiny but they got some shit got some shit going they got some shit to and they're a good team very good team team of destiny rankings i can't include yukon because yukon destiny signs are pointing too strong at yukon but when we talk about teams of destiny it's usually usually like the fucked up small little stats.
Like, why is this team going to... I would say...
FAU feels like a team of destiny. Yeah.
Dusty May. Like, they'll show him in the, you know, Indiana sweater standing behind Bob Knight.
UConn's just going to win. UConn's just going to win.
UConn's going to win. I hope.
Oh, you're going to get in on this too? Here's what we need. We need somebody out there.
I don't want UConn to win. I'm going to be honest, but I think they're going to.
Somebody out there needs to convince us. I don't like UConn.
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.
Yeah, I mean, that's the way they've been playing. They've been absolutely dominating.
Besides Rick Pitino's Iona in the first half making every shot. UConn is going to destroy everybody.
Yeah, I mean, that's the way they've been playing. They've been absolutely dominating.
Besides Rick Pitino's Iona in the first half making every shot, UConn has been laying waste of teams. I think they've won by double digits every game.
Yeah. I'm going to San Diego the week after the championship, so I'm rooting for San Diego State.
I think the city will be cool to see the city on fire. Go to the parade.
Can you imagine what Boca would do if FAU won? It would just be like the mobility scooters. Yeah.
A parade of old people just driving around honking their horns. Like real high-pitched electronic beeps.
We do have a history with FAU. We do.
That's the site of the original Ponzi Scheme Awareness Bowl. The Wet the Beak Ponzi Scheme Awareness Bowl.
Yeah. So we've always rode for Boca.
We have. Yeah.
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Should we just do who's back? Because I have some NBA stuff. We can just, Yeah.
Wove it in. Weave it in.
We'll get into it. Yeah.
Okay. Who's back of the week? My who's back of the week is LeBron James.
That was my who's back. Too small.
Too small. He came back.
He 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 his foot injury was actually a torn tendon, and the doctor said he healed from the injury faster than they've ever seen.
That's incredible. Most normal men would not even be able to get back in the season.
LeBron came back in a losing effort. Well, off the bench.
Against Pat Bev. Off the bench.
He came off the bench. Was that the first time in his career he's come off the bench? No, there's one other time they said.
I would like to just implement a rule.

You should not be allowed to do the chalk toss before you check into the game

if you come off the bench.

Basically, you're littering and you're polluting the air

and you're making everybody around you cough.

It also, people were saying it was not nice at Pat Bev

to do the too small to a bench player because that is.

Let's bench on bench. Yeah, that's true.
But it was awesome. He was doing this.
He was holding his nose on the way out too. Yeah, Pat Bev said on the Pat Bev show, Barstool show, he said right after he got traded, he's like, we have two back-to-backs against the Lakers.
I want to beat them and get them out of the playoffs. So he's 1-0.
Yeah. I love that Pat Bev hit him with a too small off a fadeaway.
Yeah. So he did like a spin move fadeaway.
Broke him down. And then before the ball even went in, he did the you're too small.
You're too small, LeBron. Did you guys talk? I mean, Roan's on the act with you, Big Cap.
Did you talk about how viral the jersey swap with Pat Bev's mom was? Yeah. That and also...
It went nuclear. 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.

They lost by like 40. Yeah, and he did it with his

mom instead, and the internet went nuts.

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.

I just want to say for the record, I didn't

even notice that

she had a dump that wouldn't quit.

I didn't until I read the quote tweets. Yeah.
Other people alerted you to it yeah it's a bonk i didn't i didn't say anything yeah it's probably a bonk she's she's a full-figured lady yeah no they've been going viral they went viral too for pep saying he uh keeps his legs fresh doesn't have sex on game days yeah i feel like that's that's just like-viral story any time an athlete says that. Yeah, he had the Jake Paul.
Yeah, he had the wet dream. Ruined him.
Also, who's back is LeBron James lying. So that's back big time because Woj 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.

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.

So embrace debate is three times a day around the clock,

or is it three times a day?

Because it doesn't sound like he's working around the clock. To give myself the best chance of coming back full strength whenever that is.
God bless y'all sources. Facepalm emoji.
I speak for myself. So he said that there was no target date.
Things hadn't changed in terms of his timetable. And then four days later, he healed fat or three days later.
He'll faster than any man ever before in the history of

sports has healed he also thought he could come back and just beat the balls balls have been they're they're on fire since the papo trade ready to go uh looking at that ninth seat huge huge uh yeah he so one two three four he's got eight of the most including today eight of the most important games of his life.

Yeah.

Listen, LeBron James, the play-in game is better when LeBron James is in it. Yeah.
Yeah, it would be fun. It'd be great.
I'm sure one of you guys has this as your who's back. Oh, yeah, I do.
But it'd be great if it was a Mavs-Lakers play-in game. 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.
He called out the fans. Was basically like, if you want to criticize me, I'd love to see you try.
Take a lot of hard work and years to get as good as I am. True.
Good point, Kyrie. And then also, Luka came out and basically was like, I'm not having any fun anymore.
He said, I used to have fun, smiling on the court, but now it's just been frustrating. What changed, Luka? It's crazy.
Is Luka going to leave the Mavs? He might after this. I don't think so.
Are they not going to re-sign Luka? Well, they got rid of everyone for Kyrie. Yeah.
If I was Luka, I would think about leaving Dallas. It's really shocking, 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.
And if the playoffs started today, they would not be in the playoffs they are lost of the hornets outside of the playoffs twice yeah twice did you see also earlier today kairi got a fan kicked out of the game oh he pointed him out to the 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 camera zoomed in on him and the guy was like what i do he was wearing a redskins hat and he was wearing a uh dc night he's a dc sports fan oh damn i don't know why he was oh i did see this yes but he got kicked out 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 yes in the past she's like oh we're going to do this again yes yeah okay honey Let's go yeah it's uh kairi he does a great job of just making everyone hate him it would be funny if kairi kicked him out of the game because he was wearing a redskins hat and that was offensive to kairi yeah yeah i i mean i wouldn't put it past him no i mean he i think his mom was native american yeah so yeah that's why he does the sage ritual yeah right, right. To cleanse the bad spirits out.
Right. But yeah, he might have actually taken so much offense to the guy's hat that he kicked him out.
He's out of here. Yeah, Luka.
Just poor Luka. I'm not having any fun.
I mean, Luka could also try not complaining about every call ever. You know what I would love? If Luka pulled a James Harden and if he just got fat.
Because he does fluctuate from time to time. He has the frame for it.

I think that you give me a month with Luka training with him,

I could get him up to 300 pounds easy.

Easy.

And he would look hilarious.

My other who's back is also NBA.

Ben Simmons is out for the rest of the year.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Not really news.

It's going to be scary.

Not really news, but I'm very close, though,

to flipping and being like, Ben Simmons, the king of, like, stealing money from teams. Yeah.
He's the floss god. Like, he's getting – I looked it up.
He – right now, because NBA contracts are guaranteed $203 million. He just doesn't play.
Good for him. Good for him.
Yeah. I mean, if he was on my team, I would hate hate him yeah i would absolutely despise but at some point you gotta be like you got 203 million dollars for being he was very good for a while you know i think he was first team all nba one year uh but since then he just hasn't worked has anybody made more money than ben simmons for not working i don't know nobody anymore.
That's the problem with America. We got to stop having NBA games played over Zoom.
Bring them back to the office. This is classic Joe Biden.
I blame him for the mentality. Guy takes us.
Max, do you still hate Ben Simmons or do you like that he's doing this to a different team? I don't give a fuck. I don't want to think about Ben Simmons ever for the rest of my life.
You definitely don't care, though. Because you were the reason why he has $203 million was the extension that he signed for five years, $177 million.
I hate Ben Simmons with every being in my body, and I hope that all bad things happen to him. 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 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 Ben Simmons? Yes. Like you come from overseas and you're like, I want the American dream.
I want to make a lot of money, and I don't want to work very hard for it.

Dana Kardashian.

He's actually figured out the perfect life.

That's what I'm saying.

I've flipped on him.

I think I've flipped on him.

He is, I think, all first team money earner in America.

When you compare it to the amount of work that he's actually done, he's a goat.

Yeah, because 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.

or moment there I was kind of mad just from a basketball standpoint like this guy's so talented if he could just practice shooting basketballs which shouldn't be hard we're just you're you're using the wrong hand 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 like he still is kind of a unicorn in terms of like ability other than shooting I would love it if the lakers signed him yeah i would love that big time asset uh billy you're who's back kanye west 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 apparently jonah hill uh made him not anti-semitic anymore. Oh, congrats.
He watched 21 Jump Street. Maybe Kyrie needs to watch 21 Jump Street.
Okay. Kanye watched like a Mel Brooks movie.
He watched Blazing Saddles. He's like, you know what? The Jews are all right.
Yeah. That's pretty funny.
Very weird. He ripped through a few seasons of Curb.
Yeah. Yeah, I like this show.
And then my other who's back is Tampering. Turns out there's a guy going around for Lamar.
His name's Ken Francis. Yeah.
Yeah. We love this guy.
We did talk about it on Friday's show. True.
You weren't here for it, but that's understandable. Perfect.
Did you listen to Friday's show? What happened? Be very careful with your answer here, Billy. Billy.
Because you were about. Was there a camera on Billy when he was trying to figure out whether or not to lie? That was that was an all-time moment seeing the brain cells start to connect and then his mouth disagree i have a question billy what happened with the airport um okay well tell us the lie of what happened okay i'll tell you the lie what happened because what you told us i tried i tried to get into the airport and i got stopped uh because i was on no fly list that's what happened.
That's the lie. You should have been wearing your combat fatigue.
Yes. Damn.
That sucks. They thought I was a terrorist.
Yeah, you went to pick someone up at 830 and then never came back. Because their flight got delayed.
Oh. You should have just told them Uber exists.
That's the one thing that people... That was a debate that was going through the internet a couple weeks ago.
I'm a promise to pick someone up at the airport guy, and then when it comes to happening, can't get out of it. Yeah, don't do that.
There's certain people who expect you to pick them up at the airport. Yeah, and guess what? Those people are wrong.
Because those people don't understand New York airports compared to the airports that they agree. Yeah, any other city.
It's common courtesy. If you have a friend coming in or relative, yeah, I'll pick you up from the airport.
It makes for a nice ride back. 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 in New York. It's borderline psychotic for somebody to volunteer to pick someone up from an airport it's any big city though it's la chicago miami houston like all these big cities just get in an uber 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 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 the thought wouldn't cross my mind 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 right to have somebody else drive you to pick me up i will pay for someone else's uber if they need it oh easy yes like but 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 like a smaller city and it's almost you know nice to go pick them up at the airport totally fine different story in a big city no no don't ever think about asking but the thing is a lot of people don't understand that.
Just tell them. And it sounds like a total cop-out.
Be like, hey, you know what would be faster if you just got an Uber? Yeah. And guess what? If you do that, I'll go to the liquor store and get us a bunch of beer.
I'll make dinner. Or we'll be ready to go when you show up.
That's the way to do it. Instead of whatever the fuck you did on Thursday.
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 like, well, I can't really leave now. They're getting delayed in the air? It was at the time when they got off.
We didn't hear from them because they were in the air, and then by tracking you realized that. They were circling.
The plane was circling. Got it.
Yeah. They're trying to burn off some fuel.
Could have easily just taken an Uber. I'm mad for you.
Yes. Yeah Billy we're not mad at you.
No I'm mad on behalf of you because you were just being I was just getting fucked over the whole time. Yeah there's nothing you want to do more than work that night.
Yeah exactly. We know.
I'm going to say on behalf of Billy Football no one ever asked him to pick him up from the airport again he's 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 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 NFLPA for himself? Do you have to go through that process? Apparently, it only takes a couple days. We could do it.
I think it's a test, maybe. Yeah, we could do it.
I want to become an agent. You should, Billy.
Actually, I want to apply. Yeah, do it.
That's my new project. Okay.
It'll get done. It will get done.
Promised. That's what I usually say when I promise to do something.
It'll get done.

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.

Jake's on the Mark Titus show right now.

Oh, he won't?

He already said no?

I got a couple of storylines that I thought were important.

Okay, all right.

Well, let me do it then right now.

Let's do it, Billy.

I want to hear from you.

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Have you stayed hot? Are you still breaking Vegas? Vegas won. Oh, no.
Vegas won. But here's some important things to keep in mind about the tournament.
Okay. The nerds at Princeton thought they were going to get Bama in the second round, the next round.
So for the first of many times in their finance broke careers, avoided the SEC by all costs. That's good, Billy.
I like that. Beautiful.
Beautiful. Oh.
There's a couple more. Oh, okay.

Sorry.

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

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

Oh, that's good.

Okay.

Also, Charles Barkley is going to have a whole lot more Husky women

to be upset with at the Final Four in Texas.

Bama got beat because Brandon Miller wasn't dishing it to his shooters like he usually does. Ah, nice, nice.
The heat is hot. Last one.
Okay. The most well-known U Miami basketball players were not on the court as Miami upset Texas because the Cavender twins weren't there.
Ah, good, Billy. Very good, Billy.
You forgot one easy one. There was a layup?

Yeah, there was a layup.

Reports out of

Tuscaloosa, Nate Oates has suspended

Brandon Miller for the rest of the year.

I was used a lot on Twitter on

Friday night.

They finally come down with a suspension.

He's out for the rest of the year. Billy, who are the

Cavender twins? They're actually playing right now

against LSU. Yeah.
On the women's side.

What about them?

They had the most

Thank you. They're an NIL success story.
Mm-hmm. They were in the New York Times for their business prowess.
Yeah. So I don't know what you're talking about.
Kim Mulkey rocks. Looking like Ric Flair the other night.
She dresses like a drag queen. Yeah, it's awesome.
She's toned down tonight. 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 in ones out on the table. 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. I also, I think Brian Kelly is officially no longer like a northerner, Notre Dame guy because he was at the game Sweet 16 and he was wearing just an LSU pullover with short sleeves, which was just a terrible look.
But I was just thinking about it. If it was Notre Dame in the Sweet 16, women's Sweet 16, he'd be wearing some type of sweater, cardigan.
Something nice. Yeah, he looked like he had just come from spring camp.
So I think he's done it. I think he's now a Louisiana boy.
Shout out to the Notre Dame athletic director that wrote an article. I think it was in the New York Times last week.
Yes. That was basically saying name, image, and likeness is ruining college sports.
Kings stay kings. I mean, if you're the Notre Dame athletic director, you're like, I can't stand all the money that's being made in college athletics.
It was Jack Swarbrick, yeah. This is ruining the sports and the amateurism that we love.
Meanwhile, he's collecting probably $5 million a year, if not more. Yes.
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. 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.
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. and he also had a point about uh 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 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 yeah but he also made a lot of bad points no he did he did but there was a couple good ones i looked up he makes three million dollars a year uh plus other university compensation yeah so he's the highest paid athletic director in the entire country he's got a vested interest in making sure that students don't receive any of the financial benefits that the administration receives no i i listened to him um on uh dan wetzel and pat 40's podcast which is a great podcast, but he said something about Notre Dame staying independent, and he's like, yeah, we're never.
All we need is money and to be on national television, and guess what? We're going to keep doing that. That's literally his job.
He was just flexing on everyone. It's like, not going to happen.
Yeah, 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. 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.
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. Yes.
Yes. Also, Ross Dellinger is on that podcast.
I don't want to forget him. He's been a great addition.
Okay. We got sidetracked with a bunch of stuff.
Did you bet on this game, by the way, PFT, Miami, LSU? I did not. Is there a system plan? I did not.
This was not a Mr. Women.
Mr. Women has been ice cold.
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.
women is up so just to recap uh billy's uh system went bankrupt uh pft's women's system went bankrupt and i was too much of a coward to do the system that I going to do because I'm a fucking scaredy cat. My system's not bankrupt.
We're doing well. We're doing well.
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 fancy baseball.
Oh, yes, yes, yes. So it's baseball season.
That's my who's back, actually, is baseball. Yes.
Returning on Thursday. The big base is I'm all in.
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Yeah, the Seamhead Express. So, yeah, we won it i i haven't played fantasy baseball in a decade plus hearing you talk about it you've incepted me uh so i'm one of the best i'm one of the best fantasy baseball governors in the world if you just take out the postseason yeah so let's do it so any awl who has an extra spot in their league that's drafting in the next few days, email Jake.
Yeah.

Email Jake. What's Jake's email? PMT intern at BarstowSports.com.
PMT intern at BarstowSports.com. Tell us what, you know, the history of the league.
Because we don't want to, 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.
Send screenshot over of past years. Yeah.
And if you want to do, we also would be totally fine if you want to vote one of the current members out and give us that spot. Yeah, definitely.
Maybe the guy that lost last year. That would make it really fucked up and awesome for us.
And we'll have some sort of prize for the winner. How about that? Yeah.

Or the guy that won.

Or the guy that won.

You guys can decide who's out. If someone wants to vote out, 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 in Linuson.
Oh, and also the draft has to be when? A time that's convenient for us it's like monday between 8 and 9 p.m tuesday between i think wisconsin plays in the niti i could do i could do i could i could double screen it 8 and 9 p.m wednesday between 8 and 9 p.m okay i'm gonna get i'm gonna get quirky to help us draft, too. Pretty tight windows, but I'm sure someone can get it done.
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I'm very excited. Congratulations, first of all, on the final four.
It is one of those things that the March Madness tournament is so hard to survive. You know that.
And getting to the final four is an accomplishment everyone should celebrate. I want to actually start, though, with last night um i don't know if you watch your the the broadcast back after or see any of it but i have one moment and i love i love you so much i love watching you on the sidelines it was uh 70 uh i think it was 73 43 or 74 44 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 um people were saying oh it's for tv no it's not for tv right like that was you were pissed off yeah I mean you know standard is the standard uh we're to play every possession like it's the last possession, right? All the great cliches all rolled into one.
I knew my son was coming in a game shortly, and I really wanted him to score. And I just didn't like the rhythm of the offense.
Up 30. I desperately, desperately wanted him to score.
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. I don't know if you remember that one where I referenced the clown.
Yes. Yes.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, your scowl would put fear into anyone when you get that chin out. 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.
I know like earlier in my career, they actually tell you, like, the morning of who the referees are. You know, you find out pretty early in the morning if you want to.
And 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 hours before and then the rage would build and the fire would burn and so then I what I've started doing recently is I just I wait till I get out there they actually put the papers on the doors too with the pick the referee's name and I just like as I'm going in at a locker room I'm trying to just not see it. Because I know if I get certain guys, it's just I have such a bad working relationship at this point.
This can be hard to fix it in an intense two hours. That's hilarious.
I read that you do aromatherapy and you're a very chill, like almost zen guy when you get into the office. 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? Yeah, volcanic.
Yeah, that's true. I mean, yeah, we only have a certain amount of willpower, right? And you got a great point, man.
It's like I think by the time it gets to like 7 o'clock or 8 o'clock at night, I guess just a lot of that shit, it just wears off, you know, the mindfulness, the Zen, you know, when you smell the popcorn, and you get to that fight or flight, I think I'm always gonna choose fight. Yeah, I also read that you're a cold shower guy.
Is that true? Yeah, I'd like to go. You know, I like to go cold, I like to go hot, hot, cold, hot, 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 maybe if I still feel like I need to, you know, I'll maybe even go back in and repeat. Because I think it's critical that I'm at my best.
I'm at my best for the squad. And, you know, there's a lot of science behind that, actually.
I like it. I like it.
So big picture. I mean, obviously everyone knows your dad, knows your brother.
You have, you know, rosen up through the ranks the hard way, high school, Wagner, URI to Connecticut. 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. 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.
And it's kind of like you guys as a family have cemented yourself as basketball royalty. I think that's hard, man, to be honest with you.
It's hard for, I think it's just, it's hard, you know, for me and my brother in particular, but it just, even in our family, you know, my dad, you know, the patriarch of this basketball thing, you know, he just, he was never satisfied. He was never really happy with, you know, how we were playing or how we were doing in school or, 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, you know, like that there's more to achieve. You know, obviously, like the goalposts are always moving for most people that strive for success.
But I just think in our house, man, it was just so competitive from when we were little kids. You've been around basketball.
We've been around competition. And we've been around striving since we were babies.
And even today, I think it just wore off for me. And I'm just really starting to just get my mind wrapped around the Saturday game and the national championship.
Yeah. Yeah.
A few weeks ago, or maybe it was a month ago when you guys played Villanova and you gave the, the famous press conference afterwards, get your wins in against us. Now 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, that's not a speech that you would give. 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.
Yeah, it was the beginning of year two. We had gotten our ass kicked by Villanova at the Garden right before Christmas in year one.
And year one started off pretty good. We beat Syracuse at the Garden.
I had the chest bump thing with my player. I went viral on that.
Felt like it was going to be a little bit of a magical joyride. And then Villanova, they beat the hell out of us right before Christmas at the Garden.
And it really ruined the holiday, man. And we played them the next year in Philly 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, you need NBA players running around on the court if you're going to do the things that Coach Calhoun did.
So, you know, I knew we had the talent coming into the program. I knew that, like, you know, we had lost, like, that losing attitude and guys were learning how to work hard.
I just felt like we, you know, and then obviously I believe in myself. You know, I believe in, you know, I believe in what my dad taught me in terms of how to be a successful coach.
Yeah, and speaking of that, 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, and then obviously March is when you want to be hot again.
How did you do that? What was the message to get – because a lot of teams will fall off and the doubt 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.
Yeah, I mean, listen, any coach that tells you, yeah, I know how to get my team peaking at the absolute right time. You know, I think they're lying.
You know, I think for me it was more about, you know, the Big East is a brutal league. You know, when the schedule sets up and you end up like at Xavier, at Providence, Creighton at home, at Marquette, you could find yourself in a death spiral.
And then now you end up with St. John's at home, and you're not in a good way.
And then you throw in a clunker, and now the sky is falling. So I think the league is like a cage match every single night.
But we built this team, I think, for tournament play with an eye 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.
And it's more of a premium on having like three-point shooting. You 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 i think you lost like four out of the next five so i apologize for that um is that future yeah it was a future yeah and uconn fans in january were like you motherfucker why'd you do this like so so you you didn't know that was happening but that could have been part of the the little slump yeah i don't think it was uh it wasn't coincidental it also might have been you know me at war with the reps too for, for probably a three- to five-game stretch,

which probably didn't help matters.

Yeah, yeah.

As you get ready to go down to Houston, how many – because you were running some incredible plays in the last couple rounds of the tournament. How many new plays, brand-spanking-new plays, are you going to install in practice this week? Yeah, several.
You know, and PFT, I think what you try to do is um you know you you try to keep

uh like the you try to have a bunch of new wrinkles obviously added like the same type

of formation right so stuff that we've been running where we've tried to get you know jordan hawkins or or caravan caravan joey california trying to get these guys a three you know out of that same formation maybe the wrinkle will be to get you know clinging you know the seven foot

you caravan joey california trying to get these guys a three you know out of that same formation maybe the wrinkle will be to get you know clinging you know the seven foot two you know uh you know stud like a a lob dunk or or or duck in so we'll we'll try to like add some wrinkles and different things uh to kind of the formations so that, you know,

you obviously have a chance to really confuse the dude that's got the scout.

Yes.

What about for yourself?

Because I saw there was after one of the games they had a couple weeks ago,

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.

Have you told your team, like, if we win, if we get a national championship tops off yeah i just i hadn't done uh you know i'm obviously bald and uh 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 your Jersey Shore is still, you know, months away. Yeah.

So there's no, right?

So. no manscaping at all you know because we're still your jersey shore is still you know what months away yeah so there's no right so yeah i was just no imposition to pull a muss it also i got a lot of respect for musk i wasn't i couldn't you know to troll him like that uh in that moment i think and then bill murray he's like part of uh like part of – like I'm at like christenings and like coaches meetings with him and we're scouting games together.
So I can just kind of say regular shit to him. Yeah, that's great.
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'll join the extra incentive uh no nil uh no no extra nil incentive just yeah I'll go streak let's go streaking yeah you you mentioned uh obviously Luke Murray's on your staff one of your top assistants and uh this was the other thing that came out from last night uh 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 uh you're a terrible artist you're a terrible artist that was like i thought it was a joke like you you that was like a five-year-old strong don't give me the scowl yeah i mean what was, what was the thought process behind the, did you, how quick, how long did it take for you to draw that? It was, you know, I, what I did was I went on YouTube and I looked at like 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 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.

But I just, I, that's the level of my ability.

I suck at it.

I've started like five or six of them and I'm embarrassed by them I've made one I did a worse one than that I did a skyline of New York for Kamani Young my associate head coach like a night time New York skyline it's fucking bad. I won't give it to him.

But I signed Luke's too.

I signed the autograph.

I mean, credit to you 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 saw the painting, and I'm still a little confused.

Is it a basketball court? It was a basketball court he first of all he was sad too you know he yeah he we lost at the buzzer and he coached great and he took the i mean he took the bullet for for for me being out and i just felt like i i needed to do something nice for him um And we were sitting on win 15, I think, or something. So basically it was a basketball court 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. And then I made little zebras like referees, and I made a little stick man.
I made a little stick man of him, and then I put the number for the next win that we had coming up. He cherishes it.
I'll say this. If you guys win the title, and maybe even if you don't, I hope you do, but maybe you can draw something for us us we'll frame it and put it in the studio and just be like yeah that's a danny hurley original right there yes yeah i mean we could auction it off yes yeah we'll auction off we'll match i'll bring my shit with me i'll bring my paint and my my my brushes and my an easel and can canvases to houston on my spare time yeah i really do work on we'll post topless for you if you need us to yeah it'll be like the titanic we'll hold each other yeah i'll have a uh i'll have a necklace on you can draw me like one of your french basketball courts we're down for it yeah we're 100 in we're gonna get back to coach dan hurley in a second.
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Was he 0-18?

0-18.

0-18.

Holy shit.

Why did I even play him?

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

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

choke, you know, in your prior March performance, but the New Mexico State team was probably better, you know, better than a lot of people thought, you know, and we didn't have a lot of shooting. And, you know, I just, you know, Joey, we recruited him.
We told him, like, hey, you may not play here, man. Like, we've got Jordan Hawkins.

You know, we've got Andre Jackson.

You know, we took this other transfer from East Carolina.

You know, we got some guards.

But, you know, if you're good enough to get on the court, like, we'll play you.

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

But, like, you know, he had the guts and the courage to be like, no like no i want to go to yukon and i'm going to make you play me um and you know so like he's got this gunslingers mentality um and uh this little bit of this like california you know coolness and then i dubbed him joey california because like i've only known him for a short amount of time and i couldn't pronounce his last name yeah like you know I didn't recruit him for a long time but like three days so all I just kept calling him Joey and then when he got here I just I couldn't get his name right it's I would have known he's 0 and 18 I wouldn't have played him yeah yeah it's I mean it's a crazy stat it is it is a testament to your recruiting 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 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 and you had to go into their living rooms and be like you're not going to start but you can be part of something special is that was that pretty much the message yeah we um you know we We had like two high-level freshmen coming in with Klingon and Caravan. And then we knew that Andre Jackson and Jordan Hawkins could play like NBA draft picks.
And then you had Sunogo, who was like Big E's preseason player of the year. So, you know, guys was like getting empty numbers at a school that isn't going to sniff March, isn't going to do much for your career.
You're better off being a 7, 8, 9-point-a-game scorer on a team that could play for a national championship. Then go play in some to the bottom of the conference team that season's going to be over and in the beginning of january late december yeah uh you know they bought in and and um you know now we're in the exact position that we sold all these guys on it's a great story and it's great i mean it's great recruiting because it is it is rare to that, to have major contributors be transfer guys who are not getting the starters' minutes.

Yeah, yeah.

I love watching your brother coach, too.

He's a lot of fun to watch on the sidelines.

If you were to give him truth serum, like the truth drug,

do you think he's 100%, like 1,000% 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? No, he's a thousand. You know, he's a thousand.
I don't – you know, there's definitely – you know, growing up, definitely sibling rivalry, like, you know, like, you know, trying to outperform and outcompete. And I didn't wear that real well when I played in college, when I was trying to chase him as a player, man, that, that, that was a major, major problem for me.
And I think, you know, him seeing, you know, me struggle so much at Seton Hall when, you know, when, when he the cover of Sports Illustrated and win a national championship, seventh pick, you know, playing against a dream team, you know, and I can't make a shot. And I'm, you know, I'm getting booed at home games.
You know, I think our relationship changed a lot. You know, like we became a lot more like vulnerable with each other um like a lot more like in each other's corners more as best friends 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.
That time together, like, that forged some type of, like, partnership in this coaching thing. And you've got to get some footage of those games because we were, you know, imagine both of us together with the officials, just the sideline antics, the shit we got away with there that you could never get away with because those games aren't on tv those are all like camcorder back then yeah yeah i all right so we we will uh because i'm we're such big fans of you we will for free be your internet consultants going forward um here's a tip with your brother because i saw this floating around the internet 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 stores connecticut because of his tan 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 he's he looks incredible with the tan and uh you've been in the winter all you know all winter yeah i i was, I wanted to rub it to see if it was real or if it was spray.
Some parts looked maybe like it might have been a spray. I don't think that that was authentic.
Maybe we incorporate a tanning bed into the manscape situation. You hit the sauna, aromatherapy, and then tanning bed for 30 minutes.
DJ Pauly D. In the cold shower, I could get the hair off.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

I think you should keep going with what's working here.

We don't want to mess up a good thing.

I had another quote that was just vintage Danny Hurley.

It happened last week.

So you, the story goes, Sanogo, who everyone has been watching,

just absolutely dominate, he's practicing Ramadan. And so he's not drinking any water or uh 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 could if we did that so credit to him but you didn't find out until like ramadan was starting like you you had no idea you didn't get any sleep that night right yeah no i, none of these people on my staff.
We got all these people here. I got athletic trainers, strength coaches, nutritionists, massage therapists.
I mean, this is a big-time organization. Associate head coach, general manager.
And that one person told me this guy wasn't going to eat or drink or couldn't drink anything during the game yeah like you do like you're in a huddle 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 so i i'm plenty hydrated and caffeinated and then these kids all got you know their whole thing going my wife told me at like midnight she like you know what are you going to do with Adama tomorrow?

And I'm like, what are you talking about? He's going to dominate. He's dominated.
And she said, well, he's fasting. 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. Yeah.
With 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. So he, it's not the same thing.
Yeah. No, no, the rules are pretty, they're hard and fast.
Yeah. It's like sun up, sun down.
And I think we all – No 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.
And I was just like – and that was – you know, that's in June now you're talking. The sun doesn't go down until after the game, you know, halfway through the game.
So, I mean, it's credit to him. It's an incredible feat.
It is. I mean, the way that guy performed, I'll tell you, you know, that man is, you know, he's got a chance to cement himself here in terms of legacy.
You know, he's, you know, just in terms of production and first team all league and now with the Final Four and, you know, he would get national championship under his belt now you're talking about you know moving into the pantheon of all

time great players uh at this program especially with the fact that like when this guy came in here we we suck yeah yeah it's it's it's incredible he's been around for all of it tell me a little bit more about the the mushroom coffee that you drink what's what goes yeah so it's uh yeah it a company. I think it's a company from the Netherlands.
And it's a coffee that's made out of mushroom extract like lion's mane, cordyceps. So it gives you the same type of alert in 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, I would just crush a five-hour energy right, like, about five minutes before tip.
And then it was just rocket ship time. And I knew that wasn't sustainable.

So I backed it off at Wagner to to the Red Bulls, like the Red Bull won one before the game won at halftime. And then I just felt like maybe 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 a little MCT brain octane like 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 blend with that buy drink, which obviously I have to take the cover off of it.
That's that orange liquid that fans of other teams accuse me of drinking piss. Yeah, yeah.
I've seen that around. Every time I see somebody drinking that color liquid, I'm like, well, they're slamming piss.
Yeah, there you go. Just piss again.
I would drink piss if it meant i was going to a final four yeah yeah yeah but it's not it's not though so those people it could be it could be though yeah i mean that would be an ultimate mental game yeah you could play that with with other coaches 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 I'm going to give that a shot. I'm going to try.
That's a good idea. I'm going to drink it on Saturday night.
I'm going to take that first sip right by the other coach, and I'm going to make a face like I just drank it. That's mental warfare.
Dominate him. I love it.
I love it. I'm up 8-0.
I'd be up 8-0. Part of war.
Absolutely. All right.
Well, Coach well coach this has been awesome i have one last question uh it's a roback question r-h-o-b-a-c-k dot com use code take for 20 off your first purchase q-zips polos hoodies joggers everything at roback.com uh so we're huge fans of you we do want to do an in-person interview we still have to do that um because i 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 uh at uri all time name so we 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 um i'm curious though what what uh what's like the best piece of advice he's given you or something that he's told you about this program that, you know, you think back and you use all the time? Yeah, so a couple things. He's, you know, we've asked Coach, like, late in the year, right before we went to Albany, right before we went to Vegas, just to talk to the team team you know it's like um obviously to to have you know coach or gino or em around i'd be a moron if i didn't take advantage of you know 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.
But I would say, like, my first couple days on the job when I got to UConn, because I loved Rhode Island. That last team with Fats 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, you know, so I had this great great team i loved to death and i took that job at uconn and and like it was a disaster man i mean like 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 uh it's just everything was a mess so he has an office in the building so maybe it was the day after the press conference and i've got like buyer's remorse man i'm like call my agent can you know 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 I started complaining about just how big the mountain was to climb, how messed up the program was. And he looked at me with a serious scowl.
They called me an effing baby. And get your head out of your ass.
This is UConn, son. that's like he ripped me yeah you know he ripped my ass and uh and since then man i've been shot out of a cannon man when the goat you know when the goat tells you to get your head out of your ass you you get to work that's incredible it's like the scene from godfather slapping him in the face act like a man 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 i don't know what year it was and most people you see they throw the first pitch out right it's just like he's got his arm back his face is like straining he's striding full speed 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 he's he talks about business and not a dime back is still my one of my favorite quotes of all time well coach thank you so much for joining us has been long been long overdue.
We do have to do it in person.

Best of luck in Houston.

We'll be there rooting you on.

And, yeah, we need that painting.

We need a painting.

We'll send you some pictures.

We'll text you some pictures of us shirtless.

And then you can go ahead and do what you will with them.

You can't make me look any worse.

So go for it.

Portrait.

I got you. All right.
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Okay, let's wrap up the show. Jake has entered in.
He was on the Titus show. Jake, we want your thoughts.
Give them to us. Lay them on us.
Everything. Open-ended.
How wild is this March? Yeah. A little bit different of a final four compared to last year.
We had the blue blood dream matchups to QNC, Kansas and Villanova. Now you have FAU, San Diego state, Miami and Yukon.
So. 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.
FAU and Miami are about an hour-ish away from each other. And then San Diego State putting the Mountain West on their back after an exposure showing by everyone else in their league.
Jake, did anybody, any national prognosticators pick San Diego State to win that bracket? Did you? That region. Oh, yeah.
Did anyone have San Diego State and Purdue? Me, also. Oh, yeah, there we go.
One of one. I know ball.
Yeah. By the way, mini-fire fest.
I don't have a perfect region because I had Gonzaga beating UConn. Oh, come on.
So hang the banner, perfect region through the Elite Eight.

Okay, that means nothing.

It's a banner in my mind.

No, that's nothing.

Jake, can you talk us out of UConn winning?

How does UConn not win this Final Four?

Because they haven't been in a close game yet,

and Miami has been tremendous in crunch time. Wrong.
Max is going to try to mush him, and he's doing a good job. But does my point make sense? Yeah, no, your point makes perfect sense, but let's be honest.
Max is getting his fucking loser stink. His heart's not in it.
Yeah, you're right, PFT. His heart is not in it.
Yeah, Max, you couldn't do this. He's, you're not.
I the big east okay uh what's the wildest storyline wildest storyline the south florida thing is up there yeah i think the recruit fau him being like the first recruit huh the fau coach i believe his first recruit was the guy that's the only senior on the team. Oh, wow.
Yeah, Forrest, I believe. And he hit the four free throws down the stretch.
That is pretty cool. He got the job, and the first person he went to recruit was him, and now he's the only senior on the team.
That's very cool. Yeah, that was.
And he made the four free throws down the stretch against Kansas State to ice it. I know you guys are pulling for no one.
That's wild. There you go.
That's a nice pull, Hank. Yeah.
Good pull. Very nice.
Good pull, Hank. Yeah.
I mean, shout out Dusty May. Yeah.
What a story. 35 wins.
San Diego State, obviously great. Coach Laranega, 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 want to screw it he seems like the most fun coach to play for yeah he leans into the grandpa role yeah right and guys love him for that we saw him dancing on friday night after the sweet 16 like uh this is what it was sorry this is bad radio that's okay that's okay jake uh his words great job sweet his words where else would you rather be are you having any fun yet in crunch time in the huddle that's yeah it's like how could that's got to ease the nerves so much that sucks if you lose that reminds me of a little league coach yeah the coach is like oh he didn't fucking care he's here in the first place.
No, definitely. That culture.
Yeah, the vibe that he has. I mean, it's a great testament how coaching can come in all shapes and forms because he's doing it one way.
Danny Hurley, and they're playing against each other in the Final Four. That's wild.
Like, the most calm guy ever versus. He's drinking piss and caffeine on the sidelines just to get himself amped up.
Mushroom-flavored piss. Yeah.
He's basically turning into the last of us. Yeah.
Before our very eyes. Yeah.
Yeah. So they should do a Marvel movie about the early brothers.
Just the piss man. Piss.
Piss. Right.
Just drink piss and they become the best coaches in the world. Yeah.
I'm going to say I'm going to give it a shot. You drink my own piss.
I've done it once. He's sterile.
I know before Super Bowl week. But that's because that was because I was drunk.
Big Cat, as a guy, you know that every guy has tried their own piss before, right? Yeah, you got to. Listen, I drink my own piss at least once a month.
It's supposed to help long-term health benefits. I haven't been sick yet.
Yeah, so I drink pee, 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. 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.
Your lungs need piss. I actually inject.
I pee into a cup, and then I inject it back into my dick. Oh, you go up.
You go up over like a salmon. Yeah, because I sometimes will squirt a little piece in my ears.
It's kind of like twice distilled. 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.
No, your pee actually contains nootropics. And so it alerts.
Oh, well, it's like taking Adderall. No, no, no, no, no.
You know, when you take a lot of vitamins and supplements. Yeah.
They come out of pee a lot. Yeah.
Well, you got to drink your pee to get the supplements back that you lose. Yes.
So once a month, me and my buddies play piss pong. Yes.
Just once. I'll do that too, Billy.
Yeah. It's a good point.
Like if I go out to a really expensive meal. Oh, yeah.
Like you're like, let's say you you spend $100 on a steak. You're just wasting it if you're not drinking your piss after.
Yeah. Well, that's why.
You have to drink your piss. That way you get all of the steak.
Some people got mad at me when we were talking about not wiping our butts and how if you pee onto your own butt. Oh, the self-caday.
They can clean it off. Yeah, yeah.
The added benefit is you also resorb some of that urine. Yeah.
It goes in rectally. You boof some.
Yeah.ofing some piss 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 and you don't have any waste to create a billion dollar idea I just thought of we should come out with piss flavored vapes. That's good.
I mean, I should be 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. Well, do any of you pee in your humidifiers? Yeah.
So it sprays across all the time. I'll actually pee into the engine of my car to makes it go go go way fast billy's right if you pee into the humidifier you're basically just taking a gravity bong of your own pee every time you turn it on yeah yeah do you drink your own pee uh i think i did once by accident on like a road trip when i was like 10 you should try because it's probably you know what you actually should do yeah 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.
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 pee.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Everything pee all the time everything pees so come on dude

yeah i actually walk around on the street with my leak my mouth wide open it's got 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 claus either as siciliano yeah yeah yeah look at those guys never um but yeah i'm pretty sure siciliano pisses he tried to come on he definitely pissed i think he dipes up hanson doesn't because he's a man. Yeah.
Anyways, storylines. You guys usually do your Super Bowl list probably last year, too.
Not a long list this year. Yeah, give it to us, though.
I mean, I think I already listed the main ones. Okay.
Okay. Any others? UConn, return to dominance, maybe.
South Florida. San Diego.
Nice weather. Three of the four.
Yeah. Plus UConn.
Yep. Got to be the weirdest mascots.
Hurricane, owl, Aztec, and a husky. I kind of like the ibis.
The ibis is cool. Yeah, Sebastian.
The ibis. Hurricane probably beats all of them.
Aztec? Yeah. Owls don't die in a hurricane.
Yeah, they just fly away. Yeah.

Actually, owls probably- Depends where it is, too.

I guess Houston's hurricane country.

If it was somewhere like-

Wow, hey.

I know, I know, I know.

Do you not remember when JJ was saved the city?

No, I know, I know.

Walter Payton, man of the year.

But if it was in Minnesota, a hurricane's not doing shit up there.

That's true.

Yeah.

Owls, they probably know when a hurricane's coming before it even gets anywhere close

to being close.

Same with a husky, though. Just fly away.
Yeah, that's true. But an owl can fly faster.
Yeah. Aztec would probably be like, what the fuck is this? Global warming? Yeah, Aztec would just sacrifice another virgin.
Yeah. All right, so those are storylines? Yeah.
Can you guys think of anything else? I'll think of more for Wednesday's show. Okay.
Yeah, South Florida is dominant. And they won the D2 national title, Nova Southeastern.
Oh, I watched that game. That was actually a really fun game.
It was like they were just going up and down the court. You have Miami, obviously Miami-Dade.
Nova Southeastern is in Broward County, which is where I'm from. And then on top of Broward is Palm Beach County, which is where FAU is.
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. It's close to Mexico.
And then also a lot of rich people in Connecticut doing blow. Shout out John Skipper.
Yeah, they can all just get together. He's a co-kid.
So shout out. But we say that with all the love in the world.
Yeah. Do you, bro? Yeah.
But let your freak flag fly. It wasn't the first time you bought coke that you had a prostitute and coke dealer extort you.
Probably not. It doesn't happen on the first time.
It doesn't happen on the first time. All right.
Numbers. 23.
69. Hank, have you ever gotten this? No.
18. I'm going to go 17.
Ooh, good one. What did Hank guess last Friday? You took 23, Hank? I did.
4 plus 5 plus 5 plus 9. Mmm.
Nice. What did Hank guess on Friday? Oh, Friday I wasn't here.
It was 2, right? 2 was the correct answer. That's right.
He tried to guess 3. 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. Okay, yeah, I'll give you 30 seconds.
No problem. No problem.
It was 88. Was it? Yeah.
For real? Yeah. Should I check him on that? Yeah, check him on that.
I don't want him to lie. I have 20.
Memes has 12. 12.
Okay. Why would you say fuck memes?

It's on the room.

This is just weird.

I mean, Max Homa has 25.

John Fanta has 26.

I know.

You guys are completely diluting the league.

Does memes put 20 into the pot?

48.

48.

Oh, see?

Liar.

I'm happy that we checked.

Yep.

This motherfucker, you tried to get me.

You didn't.

48 is my number.

Come on, 17. I'll retire.
You don't want to do that, Hank. Oh, 17.
Just pop. 34.
You weren't that close. I saw the three.
You weren't that close. Walter Payton.
Male beast testicles explode after mating.

Oh, you should have guessed Walter Payton after you forgot that J.J. Watt didn't save the city of Houston.

That was such an easy guess, Hank.

Yeah, that was such an easy guess.

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Take care. Thank you.
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