PMS 2.0 1313 - John Calipari, Maryland Freshman Phenom Derik Queen, Dick Vitale, & Darius Butler

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our Humble the Bone, the Thunderdome, on this Are You Serious? Tuesday, March 25th, 2025. This program starts now.
Sports! Are fantastic, and today we get a chance to talk about a lot of them. Now, obviously, March Madness is still taking place with the Sweet 16 tipping off on Thursday.
We'll have Coach Calipari of the Arkansas, you know, Woo Pig Suey! Fine folks over there in Arkansas. I've had a lot of Arkansasians tell me.
Nailed it. That's how it goes.
That's it. I think that's what they are.
That's it. Tell me that we are disgrace to the woo pig sueyes whenever we do it on this particular program i'd like to let you know we think we're crushing it so uh the next time we get out to arkansas which will hopefully be sooner than later obviously you've been out there for a couple boozing evenings and a golf event and they have a legendary alumni over there if you think about you know jerry jones walmart john daly you're talking about a lot of people that are in on sports over there.
If you think about, you know, Jerry Jones, Walmart, John Daly.

You're talking about a lot of people that are in on sports over there.

So next time we go out there, maybe we'll learn the Woo Pig Suey thing a little bit better.

But Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Paisan, John Calipari will be joining us in about 14 minutes or so.

Cannot wait to chat about their next round.

You know, this is another team he's led to the Sweet 16.

And he's saying that this feels like his most fulfilling and most gratifying because of how they started.

Remember, 0-5 in the SEC to begin the season.

See you next time. You know, this is another team he's led to the Sweet 16, and he's saying that this feels like his most fulfilling and most gratifying because of how they started.
Remember, 0-5 in the SEC to begin the season. 0% chance to make the tournament whenever they were talking about the beginning of this Arkansas Razorback squad.
And instead, what do they do? Ah, they make it to the Sweet 16 because that's what Calipari does. He's been in 24 of these 32 March Madness tournaments, and the guy's experience is obviously fantastic, and his team on the defensive side, always going to strap it down.
And they certainly did against the St. John's team that wasn't able to shoot.
That's what everybody said. And then obviously Kansas, with the incredible history that they have and the amount of success itself has had, it's been a Hall of Fame coach role thus far for Cal.
Why does he think his team is still rolling? We'll chat with him about that. And then at 12.45 Eastern, we'll have Derek Queen of Maryland, who is from Baltimore.
Don't know if you knew that. And, you know, there was an opportunity to potentially have a game-winner down one.
Three seconds, 3.6 seconds left in a game. Coach Kevin Willard of the Maryland Terrapins says to his team, who wants the ball? That guy says, give me a motherfucking ball.
And then, some people said he traveled. I don't know.
You know, could have had a nice little late dribble. He's six foot ten, so I think those steps are very, very long.
Whatever the case, they did not call it. He puts it up and touches with the basketball gods.
Big fundamental Tim Duncan watched that thing and said, great work, young lad. He is a freshman, the Big Ten Freshman of the Year.
He will be joining us in about 43 minutes or so. Can't wait to chat with him.
He's awesome. Not only in the give me the ball moment, not only doing this, and this had to feel so good after he scores in his entire team.
He's jumping around him. But his press conferences, just talking like he's a professional.
And we did a little research on this guy. He played for a team in Florida last year.
It's called the Mount Verde Academy with Cooper Flagg and Liam McWhite guy. Yeah, exactly.
Him, Liam McWhite guy, and Cooper Flagg were part of the starting five. That would have been an awesome show to watch.
I would have loved to have been able to see them play high school hoops. I assume they beat everybody by at least 50 points per game.
But I wonder, you know, these guys have just been treated and acting like perfect. They move like Cooper Flagg moves from Maine to Florida to go.
He moves from Maryland down to Florida to go. It's like these guys have just been treated in acting like perfect they move like cooper flag moves from maine to florida to go he moves from maryland down to florida to go it's like these guys have been living like professional athletes for the last few years i know basketball has been like this for a long time because they're like recruiting teenagers in the basketball world shoe companies have been doing it for a long time agents obviously get in there but now with the way the nil is and the way college is they're like professionals already and uh this kid kid still has braces.
That's how young he still has braces. Cooper Flagg, I think, could be getting ready to go to prom because he reclassified.
These dudes seemingly at a younger age, much more mature whenever it comes to handling yourself. Cannot wait to chat with Derek Queen.
Then the second hour, ladies and gentlemen, Dick Vitale will be joining us. What? Baby! It's unbelievable! It is going to be absurd.
We'll also potentially have some NFL guests in the second hour. We shall see what comes together.
You are the greatest people on earth for allowing us to do this for a living. I was in Scotland last night, woke up here in Indiana this morning, and I'll tell you what, it is a great day to chit-chat about sports.
So much going on. We have pro days.
We have storylines developing. We have draft conversation.
draft conversation we have free agency chatter still who's gonna be the quarterback of the pittsburgh steelers and the new york giants and jj mccarthy was on up and adams this morning with k adams on fan duel uh tv and he said the vikings have not told him he's the number one guy yet so what is going on everywhere we shall uh do our bullshit through it all the toxic tables here at boston connor and at ty Schmidt con man uh new england patriots mike vrabel joined uh don't at me with dan dockage uh that's right we have not got a chance to hear much of that but you guys in a great spot with way the mock drafts are going sitting there at number four yeah i feel fantastic especially when elliot wolf comes out basically the pseudo gm i believe he is still the director of player personnel and says hey look last last year we kind of drafted on what do we need the most. This year we're drafting based on best available.
So you feel great hearing things of that nature. You feel great because Mike Vrabel is also leading the way but also who knows.
You can't win any games in April in the draft but maybe we can. They're saying number one is locked up.
Let's go to 9-year NFL vet Darius J. Butler.
Daniel Jeremiah said that. I think Rappaport said that.
Everybody who said that Cam Ward is going to be the number one overall pick. Congrats to Cam.
Minus 700 is a massive favorite. That seems like everybody kind of understands it.
Then he has his pro day yesterday. Shows out completely and I think he even says to the Tennessee Titans people like, hey, I'm going to solidify this thing today.
What did you see from that pro day yesterday and how much should we be judging from pro days you know what pro day is not a big deal i think dj said it yesterday for this guy for cam ward is pretty much a proof of life he just needed to show up hold that day's newspaper and show that he was alive but uh he came out there and did uh heard him speak afterwards he said pretty much a bunch of their miami stuff you know running plays game, game-like reps. We knew who he is.
Yeah, three-step, five-step, under center, moving from the pocket, things we typically see from the pro days. We all remember the Zach Wilson when he flew up the boards.
But this guy, he's been a dominant competitor everywhere. He's been watching his pro day again.
It made me heartbroken again as a U.N. fan.
How the hell did we at least get into the 12-team playoff? The record-breaking season that he had at U.N. and what this offense did.
So, yeah, Cam Ward, he did what a ton of people expect him to do. Yeah, it's pretty much lockdown and he would be that number one pick.
Yeah, his collegiate career is obviously one that it should be chatted about a lot. Started at Incarnate Ward.
Then he goes to Washington State. And then the NIL and the transfer portal allow him an opportunity to introduce himself to a bigger part of the world.
Not that he didn't at Washington State. Obviously, we knew of him at Washington State and what they went through.
And once again, we'd like to reiterate the fact we had no idea at the time that Washington State was not going to end up in a conference. I apologize.
That's naivety out of me. I didn't know that there was that type of ineptitude at certain leadership positions because what Washington State was building up there was awesome.
Same with the Oregon State. There was a lot of great happening.
So whenever the Pac-12 disappears, and with the transfer portal, and the NIL, him getting an opportunity to go to the U, flip their entire thing, and then get primetime push. We all kind of get introduced to them.
I think it was a great play and that's one of the uh upsides i think of the transfer portal in the nil especially for players i think last year uh correct me if i'm wrong didn't he put his name like you said put his name in the draft and then came back i think it was between um and florida state maybe so you're talking about coming back and really betting on yourself and now becoming we all assume the number one pick in nfl draft like that's's impressive. You're talking about Florida State and Miami.
Florida State gets DJ Uwe Unglele out of Oregon State. Miami gets Cam Ward out of Washington State.
And there's two different outcomes. Oh, yeah.
Two different outcomes there. Not that it's DJ Uwe Unglele's fault, but it did not work whenever he went to Florida State at all.
It worked whenever Cam went down to Miami. This throw, when I first saw a tweet, somebody said, 82 yards.
This dude's standing on his own six, throws it to the other 10 or whatever the case is. Then I found out, wait, there's no 50-yard line.
There's no 40s. Yeah, we had 10, 20, 30, 20, 10.
Yeah, it's not. You know, some people watch that video.
They're like, that guy's throwing for the five, the other 10. Holy shit, which is definitely worthy of the the combo i think it's like 54 yards rolling across your body fade away which is still a dime yeah absolute time and he had a lot of time uh to get it there hey we've talked about this off air here this morning uh-huh Restrepo's people should have been doing everything they possibly could to either get a false narrative out there about an injury of some sort or just say, let them just watch the film.
Just let them watch the film. Don't need to run.
Even in the pro day there, look good, great catch, have a couple of sideline things. Allegedly, this guy ran a 4.8 and a 4.76 or something, 4.72 or something like that.

And then that led to a tweet, obviously, from he and many others going,

you know, it's all about how fast you run track.

This is football.

Come on.

This is football.

We looked it up.

It is football.

There's not a lot of wide receivers in the NFL that are running 4.8s that are going to get open. Now, with that being said, this guy's the all-time leading receiver in the history of the University of Miami.
University of Miami has a lot of history. You start rattling through the names of the wide receivers that have played in Miami.
You think to yourself, wow, this guy has the most yards out of any of them. And obviously, he was a massive piece of this Miami team last year.
He and cam ward were spectacular and obviously whenever you're able to find holes in defenses that is certainly something that is an upside for a wide receiver 4-8 though at a pro day because you know at the pro day they can even get the numbers out a little bit faster because he's scattered stopwatch that's tough that's tough i didn't like seeing that at all because i love watching him play football and now i think to myself like yeah somebody's going to get him in hopefully somebody brings him into a building they will and when he gets into the building hopefully his football speed is still what we saw whenever he was at college because in the nfl you know uh the third corner so a lot of people are saying put him in slot uh that those guys are getting paid now $25, $30 million. They're pretty good.
And those guys, if you can get open and run good routes, so can they. They can as well.
And they're saying he's more quick than fast. How much should we look into a 4'8", 40, potentially, 4'7", something, 40 at a wide receiver position? And what are your thoughts about what he's going to be at the NFL? And can he play at the NFL at that speed? I mean, thoughts number one on Restrepo, you know, being a South Florida kid, it's kind of like how Queen said, you have that confidence when you leave South Florida as a football player, just like he does from Baltimore to DMV.
Hey, if I can make it here, I can make it anywhere. Thrive to South Florida as a high schooler.
Obviously thrived at UM to break all those records. So we know without a doubt this kid can play football at a high, high level.
Now, it's a crapshoot when you go into the draft. And all the evaluators, the decision makers, they take this into consideration, the measurables.
So running a 4'8 and not being a big guy definitely doesn't help the process for him. So he definitely lost some money, I would say.
We always say, hey, people earned some money. Go into the combine, run the four or two.
People didn't expect that. Had great tape.
He definitely made some money. So I would say he lost some money on the front end.
But if he gets into a building, which I think he still will get drafted, I think he'll still have an opportunity. And I think, honestly, he'll still make plays.
I really believe in guys that are productive on every level. If they get to the next level, they're going to continue to be productive.
But it is important for him to get in the right system because the thing about the nfl your windows you get them but they close really really quickly especially when you're not fast so being able to get open and have a quarterback that can put the ball right on him he can definitely be successful in the next level good luck brother okay pulling for you we have uh there's been some other you know slower 40 times documented during the draft cycle uh hunter renfro, 4-5-9. Now, once again, it's not a 4-8.
Larry Fitzgerald, 4-6-3. Once again, not a 4-8.
But Larry Fitzgerald played like 14 years. Yeah.
6-4. Huge one.
Monster, man. Kenan Allen, 4-7-1.
Now, this came after he tore his PCL, I believe, during the season. So, they're saying he wasn't fully healthy whenever he ran his 4-7-1.
And Jarvis Landry is the easiest comp everybody was making because he ran a 4-7-7 at the combine. I guess he got hurt during that.
And then his pro day, he would follow up and run a 4-5-1. So, it's like seeing a 4-8 number is not normal.
Like, that is not something that is normal. But also, what Restrepo was able to do at Miami was not normal either.
Maybe the football just kind of does its thing for him, and I'm pulling for him. He's a football player, and I love the part of him that is the competitor.
Hey, I'm going to go out here and compete. I'm going to go out here and run this time.
Whatever it is, I'm going to run it. I'm going to go and do it.
If I was his representative, if I was his big brother, shit, if I was his little brother, mom, dad, don't go out there and put a 4-7, 4-8 on wax. Just don't do it.
Let him assume. You know, sometimes you just don't run.
Hey, tweak the hammy. Tweak the something.
You know, something that we expect to recover in a couple weeks. Yeah, that didn't get out there.
Put the tape on. Put the damn tape on.
Watch number seven play. We know he can play football.
Sorry, I can't. I can do routes with Cam.
I don't think I'll be able to. Yeah, what about it? The explosion to get out there.
I got a little bit of a tight. You know, this thing out here.
This. IT bin.
Yeah, IT bin. A little bit, a little bit, a little bit.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that today. If I run, it's going to be slow.
It's going to be slow. I want to do that.
Obviously, you guys don't want me to do that. Because the amount of plays he made.
Absurd. But this comes into the full combine draft process now.
Slow 40s are talked about. fast 40s talked about yeah very slow 40s talked about if you just run like in the window not a conversation just kind of keep it moving like somebody said who was we don't even remember who the guy was said he was going to break the record um at combine right no because he ran an okay one he ran like a 4-4 instead of a 4-2 something but it's like he's in the window he's He's good.
There it is, Isaiah Bond, a Texas guy. Golden ends up running the fast one too.
They were saying they were going to get 4-2 or whatever. They didn't, but they ran in the window, so not a conversation anymore.
If you don't hit the window, it's like conversation all of a sudden. By people that don't matter.
Like we don't matter. People on the internet don't matter.
If somebody thinks he can make plays, bring him into a building. He's going to have the opportunity to do that.
We're pulling for it. Another one that kind of popped up was Welker and he ran a 4-6-5 and obviously Wes Welker, everyone, he's one of the most successful slot guys ever, you could argue.
But for Restrepo, you're talking about systems, like maybe this was planned. Maybe he said, you know what? Tennessee Titans, who am I the best wide receiver with? Cam Ward.
So if I just run super slow, I'll go undrafted, and then guess where I'm going? I'm going to Tennessee to pull my best friend Cam Ward, my brother, who we won a lot of games with at UMiami. You never know.
Maybe that's the case. And if it is one of those situations, maybe Cam Ward also said to Borgonzie and the boys, like, hey, Restrepo's going to run like shit today.
So you guys are going to be able to get him in the sixth, seventh the sixth seventh round if you want there is a chance too with the way we've seen that in northfield built maybe their 40 is actually 41 and a half yard you know it might be a little bit longer because it's 10 20 30 30 20 10 you know maybe the individual yardage is a little bit longer as well it's pivot away from pro days uh good luck to xavier you're great at miami we hope you continue to do your thing in the NFL. Same with Cam.
Congrats on having a great day. And I like the way he talked afterwards.
He was chit-chatting about like, yeah, for my teammates, basically. Like, all 32 teams were here to watch my teammates, which I'm very pumped about and thankful for.
And he was talking about going under center, play action. He was like, there's a lot of shit that I didn't get a chance to showcase that I want to let people know that I do.
And it seems like he did. Love his mentality.
Love everything about it. Good luck to him in Tennessee.
Great. Coming to the AFC South.
Let's go to college basketball, shall we? To a GOAT. Ladies and gentlemen, he currently has 59 NCAA tournament wins, most by an active coach.
Wow. That's a lot of wins.
Yeah. A ton.
There's coaches that don't have that many wins in a regular season. This is in tournament time.
24 of the 32 tournaments have seen this man's name and face all over it. Out of Moontownship outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Ladies and gentlemen, the head coach for Arkansas, John Calipari. How are we doing, Paisan? I'm doing good.
We're still playing. we're 16 out of 16 deep 16 but we're still playing okay so let's talk about it there hasn't been as many upsets this year you know there hasn't been like a cinderella story your team is the one that's being talked about and obviously i think as somebody who is a casual college ball fan anytime a a Calipari coach team is in a tournament, it's normally going to be this team's going to win.
This team's going to do well. Now you're like the underdog.
Now you're like the Cinderella. Now you've got people like, hey, it's Arkansas.
Let's go, Arkansas, for the good of it all. How have you been using that with your team? Have you acknowledged that? And how do the boys feel about where they are right now? We're the underdog.
We know it. But, Pat, you're just too young.
When I was at UMass and when I was at Memphis, we were always the underdog. And you kind of like it.
You want them to play free and loose. But, again, this tournament, you're right, there weren't a whole lot of upsets.

And so people are all still alive.

The good news, you're an athlete.

You guys, you've got to get in the ring.

You've got to step the ropes, and you've got to get in.

And we be in the ring.

And let's see what happens.

Now, Texas Tech, whoo, are they good?

They talk about shooting threes, but they also can post the ball.

They also play ISO basketball.

They break you down on the dribble.

I'm watching like, you know, what are you going to try to take away?

Well-coached team.

I mean, they deserve all the accolades they're getting. Really good players that make plays.
So we know it's going to be a hard game for us. But I tell you, we'll show up and let's see how we do.
That'll be on Thursday, Sweet 16 for Arkansas taking on Texas Tech. How long have you started watching film on them? Did you do it before? I don't remember if you told us you're looking ahead or not i when we got on the plane after we won that game against st john's i said we got a three-hour trip give me some tape and i watched two halves and i said don't know because i got to get in a different frame of mind.
They didn't miss any shots.

I'm like, what?

I don't want to watch any more of this because I have to get to where we got a chance. So, yeah, I did watch it on the way home.
And I've watched some. I like to watch their last five games.
because the last five gives you an indication of how they're playing now.

You go and try to do something in December, November.

Who gives a shit?

As you would say, who gives a shit?

It doesn't matter. And then the last thing, and I'm kind of, am I breaking this with you, Pat? Come on.
Aduthiero is available. Okay.
Come on. Okay.
He is available. Now, I played Boogie, who was available, 15, 18 minutes.
But he helped us win the game. Huge.
Huge. He made the steal plays he made the assist now ado it's a different deal because we need his toughness in his athleticism the most he'll play 12 12 minutes maybe 15 maybe i doubt but it'll be but you got to prepare now because we're a different team.

Finally, we've got a full roster.

Yeah, I was about to say, you're getting deeper.

You're getting deeper of a bench as you're getting deeper into the tournament.

That has to be a good feeling,

especially as other teams are going the other direction, right?

Well, that and the fact that we had foul trouble against St. John's.

My big guy fouled, and I told him, look, I'm leaving you in don't foul and he fouled i said what what are you doing he said i did foul i you can't foul in those situations now i can't play you in the whole hat but and then the other guy files out big z who's playing better thank god because we need him um but now you got you don't have to go to a four-man zone like two three guys like okay let's play a diamond zone we only got four guys so it's um it's still look and everybody wondered, how will he affect the team, Boogie?

And I said, Boogie came in to me, and I told you last time we were on,

and came in and said, I don't want to hurt this team.

You just tell me how you want me to play because we're playing good.

And I said, listen, you're going to play off the ball instead of on the ball.

Make plays, and I need you to defend and come up with steals.

I don't know how much you'll play, but be ready.

I'll have the same talk with Adou.

Adou wanted to play.

The only reason he's playing is he said, I'm playing.

I want to help this team.

Okay, so let's talk about that.

You talk about his toughness and quickness, and you said the same thing to Boogie. He was our leading scorer, our leading rebounder.
Okay, so let's talk about it. Everybody's chatting about how Patino's team had no offense.
These guys have no offense. I feel like a Calipari team, defense is the thing, right? I mean, that is kind of your animal.
That is kind of what gets better throughout the season. How do you feel about your team's current state of defense? And do you think you have a chance to go on a real run here? You say you got to step into the ring and fight, but do you think you have the pillars to have a championship team? All the 16 coaches know we're all 2-0.
No matter what you did all season, we're now 2-0. You have a chance.
We're going to have to defend like crazy crazy let me tell you what else i saw on the tape when i watched texas tech their offensive rebounds are not to stick it back in the basket they offensive rebound to kick it out and get a three their transition offense to get threes really as good as I've seen. This will be a hard game.

But three their transition offense to get threes really as good as i've seen this will be a hard game but i like my team i like my players i even let them drench me after the games which i look oh yeah i look at them don't you do that to me and after this game i said bring it on bring it on, boys. Bring it on.
Look, it's rewarding. I've been doing this a long time.
And we've had some ridiculous – we won 38 straight one year. We won a national title.
This has been as rewarding as any season I've coached. I can remember busting through at UMass and busting through at Memphis and what we did in a stretch at Kentucky.

But we were dead to rights.

We were thrown in the coffin.

They pushed the top down.

But they didn't nail him.

They said, ah, he can't get out. Don't even worry about the nails.
And I'm not talking just me. I'm talking our team.
They counted our team out. And so I came in with the shirt because I didn't want to get my suit wet.
Yeah, smart. So I told him, go ahead.
Very paisan of you saying, hey, listen, don't touch the suit, boys. Okay, we got a good sport coat on here.
We got a good button down. Don't you touch it.
But the shirt, you do your thing. And I heard you say this was the most rewarding.
And last time we talked to you, you chatted about the 0-5 start. And you know how you felt like everybody was kind of like, hold on, even yourself.
And with how it ended, you know, at the last stop, obviously, we don't have to bring up that. But you had great times, great times.
And then on the way out, I think everybody was kind of ready for a fresh start.

You go out there, starts terribly.

Now you get a chance to get back to the Sweet 16.

I just did some, I got some stats here.

This will be your 16th Sweet 16 game.

Do you know what his record is

in the first 15 Sweet 16 games that he's been in?

What's that?

12-3.

2-1 at UMass, 3-1 at Memphis, 7-1 at Kentucky. Feels like you do A-OK in the Sweet 16.
Excited to watch you do it with this one. But you talk about it being rewarding personally as well, I assume, because you talked about the coffee with the team.
But at the end of Kentucky there, you were this guy. I just, look, it was great for me and great for Kentucky.
They're doing great. You know, we put 16, 15, this is my 16th year in the SEC, 15 years, my heart and soul.
You see my daughter, my wife, they're into this just like I am. And we gave everything we had, but it was time.
It it was time now someone could go in and match what we did over that period of time i wish him well i'm in another situation and i'm at peace i'm at peace with what went on i'm not being revengeful i went into kentucky we won that game i was humble about it i'm not like trying to beat them because they did this. None of that.
I'm about these kids. And my job right now is to stay locked in.
I'm not listening, reading. I don't care.
He's the worst. He can't.
He, okay, I agree with you. Can we get on to something more important, which is I got to coach these kids.
That's awesome. And you know what? What they've done, I owe that to them.
What they've done this year, they could have let go and given up the rope and given up on me. They didn't give up on each other or the staff.
And my staff was unbelievable through this because they could have

scattered and they didn't.

They just kept working and now we're there.

But Texas

Tech is real.

Yeah, they are. They are.

They absolutely are. We concur completely.

Sweet 16. Everybody's going to be great, especially

this year. You were being talked about

as the underdog team because you knock out number two

ranked St. John's.
On that note,

Connor has a question for you. Yeah, Coach, how was

the interaction with Patino after the game? Was it like a Michael Jordan, Larry Bird situation, or was it more so like a very jovial, good to see, you know, good luck the rest of the way type of thing? Before the game or after? After. After or both, unless you guys talked a little shit.
After some juice. Look, after the game, he said, good luck in the rest of the tournament.
I wish you well. And now there was, look, I knew it's heartbreaking when you lose at this time of the year.
So I thought it was a gracious, you know, and I was trying to say, look, if they made a couple shots, they beat us.

So it wasn't like we just bowled them over.

But, you know, he had an unbelievable year with his team and it's heartbreaking.

So he was good after.

Yeah.

How about beforehand?

I saw some shit.

I saw some shit.

I don't know enough about it because I'm college basketball.

You two, obviously, in Kentucky, there's a lot in that conversation and rivalry, but obviously incredibly Italian. I saw like sit-downs of you guys together, what, like 20 years ago? Yeah, 96.
Yeah, 30 years ago. And then obviously deep relationship because you guys have been in the same.
How is the relationship with you and Patino and other legends amongst the sport? Yeah, there well young paisans there you this thing is so competitive it's not like old school when i was with ted owens at kansas and larry brown they would have dinner the night before with the opposing coach they would have breakfast with the guy we're ours are peace brother see ya and it's just different yeah there's so much more i don't know i don't want to say what's more at stake but you know and then rick was at louisville i was at kentucky yeah we weren't going to be friends with it was like that game was like life and death in the state. And I tried to play it down, but it was life and death in the state.
And so I've always respected him. I've watched what he does and how he does it.
And, you know, everywhere he's been, you know, even the last where he was in Greece and then he was in Iona, he gets it going. He's at St.
John's. He gets it going.
So, you know, you have to respect it, especially the number of years he's been doing it. I wonder if he said he liked my coat, by the way.
There are other guys that were hitting me. They didn't like my coat.
I don't give a shit if you like my coat. But it's nice to hear from Patina.
He has a little extra sauce. You know you paisans.
He has a little extra sauce with how he dresses as well. That's a good person to get a compliment from.
And hopefully one day, who knows if either of you are ever going to retire from this, you guys are able to have a little Sunday gravy. You know, a little gabagool, a little bashoot together.
You know, able to kind of look back on the times of two Italians doing great things for the obvious sport of college basketball. D-Bot has a question for you about now.
Yeah, kind of on that note, I think Coach Pitino talked about not even recruiting high school kids or something along those lines. Like the team building philosophy.
Obviously, you've been doing it for a long, long time. I remember some of your great teams, a lot of the one and and done guys but how much has your philosophy changed when it comes to team building when you have to pretty much put this whole roster together and go on this run and when do you kind of feel like you guys become that unit so that's a great question here here's what i would tell you you're gonna have to look up the year it was either 15 or 16 we were in the national championship game

you know how many freshmen i started that year hold on is this when you missed all those free

throws off no that was that was when we were that was memphis i'm talking kentucky i started five

freshmen that's not going to happen again because too many players are staying too long so now i am

Thank you. I started five freshmen.
That's not going to happen again because too many players are staying too long. So now I am still recruiting the best freshmen in the country.
It's in my DNA to help them and their families and put it together. But I got to get some returners and I got to get a couple transfers to go we signed a couple now we're looking to sign one more um and they will be a big they'll be the big part of what we do yeah we'll have hopefully three four come back and we'll have a couple transfers couple big kids anybody that wants to get better wants wants to be trained, wants to be a part of something special, wants to be made to be uncomfortable so you can learn to be comfortable, be in the best shape of your life, and be on a team with other really good players.
You want to go somewhere to be the only player? That's like going in a gym, and you're by far the best player in the gym. You in the wrong gym yeah don't go to la fitness in the gym yeah i got dumped on twice yeah so agreed okay so on that note uh talk about recruiting and everything we we're having derrick queen join us here in like 15 minutes good unbelievable unbelievable so he's always been good.
He can pass.

He's got guard skills.

Okay, so let's talk about that.

We saw his high school team down in Montverdeci,

and I don't know enough about high school basketball is what I'm learning.

Him, McWhiteguy from UConn, and Cooper Flagg,

were all in the same high school academy team.

Is that how it works?

These academies are kind of recruiting?

Some, but it's starting to move out because you know why nil in high school yeah yeah yeah absolutely so you're not getting six guys at one school right now so now if your high school prep school is not able to help them with nil you're probably not going to get as many kids so i think that will kind of the same that like i said with us and i used to recruit six seven eight freshmen can't do it yeah most you can get now or three to four well hopefully um you know college basketball only continues to get better and better because of all this the nfl i think is getting is getting, or I'm sorry, college football, I think is getting better because of Transfer Portal and NIL. Do you think same thing for college hoops or not? Because you didn't even have a team last year.
The only thing I said I was really disappointed in, and it's happened, there are kids in the United States that are freshmen that deserve scholarships to college. Their 7-800 eight hundred will not get scholarships and they're good enough but we're all waiting for transfers so now that is what disappoints me the most and part of the reason i won't change i just can't do as many um you know there are kids i had a friend of mine call my son's a division one player he doesn't even have the offer because everybody's waiting for this trance how many of my guys are coming back how many transfers can i get i may only have one or two scholarships for a freshman that's happening in football too do you think there has to be something with the calendar because like the end the football calendar people are talking about how there was a transfer window in the middle of the playoff okay which obviously caused a scene which i think you guys are dealing with currently right now and then there's a spring transfer window that is in the middle of some people's spring ball for football and it's like it is there's a lot like with that entirety of like scholarship transfer windows when people are leaving when coaches find out who they have sounds like in basketball it's pretty problematic as well with the way the calendar is set up.
It is. And here's the other thing.
There are a lot of kids that are going to put their name in the portal thinking I'm going to make money. And they got nothing.
They're not getting a scholarship. There are nothing left.
And there are many of us that if you put your name in the portal, I'd probably say to go now if you're going to do it i'll see you and we'll i because you pour in so much to these young people if they're not coming back with the loving each other what is this one way and so you would probably say to me i'd be hurt it hurt my heart you're putting your name in the portal instead of coming and yeah but i just want to see and maybe i'll come back well no no it's not how that works and so um you know we got again great kids that were raised right, you know, their family duan wagner that's dj's dad played for me carter knox his brother played for me billy richmond his dad played for me even aiden's father played for me so you know like I said, these are good people that wanted their kid here. And it was hard.
And I am hard. I'm Italian.
I'm loud. I'm not going to sit.
Hi, you're okay. Just, you know, I mean, I get aggressive.
I can't help myself. Yeah, you're from Western Pennsylvania and you're Italian.
We understand completely. We understand completely how it goes.
And obviously, you've been able to bring out the best in a lot of people. And the fact that family members are saying you should go play for that, I think that is the biggest compliment that any of your ex-players could show for you.
But I'll tell you what, that does say you're an old-ass, brother. You're an old-ass man.
But that olive oil making you look young. Speaking of, Anthony DiGiulio has a question for you.
Yeah, Coach, speaking of being old, I'm getting'm getting old so i go to bed most nights before 10 09 eastern when your game is going to tip off thursday now obviously the players are kids do you guys have to do anything different for a late tip on thursday well it's not late we're in san francisco so for us it's anybody watching on the East Coast, you're going to have to stay up. But for us, it's anybody watching on the East Coast, you're going to have to stay up.

But for us, it's fine. The game that's a hard one, noon.
Hard game, noon. Because at that time,

whoever shows up is probably winning the game. And even in this, they'll be excited,

but eight minutes in, there's someone will let go of the road. So noon is a tough one.
I don't

Thank you. game.
Even in this, they'll be excited, but eight minutes in, someone will let go of the road. Noon is a tough one.
I don't care how late. Now, I'll be honest, because Pat, what'd you say I was? Old? No, no.
Italian. Handsome.
Successful. Old.
Yeah, there's a lot of things. Joe, I don't like coaching at 10 p.m.
I'm normally in bed by 9.30, 10 o'clock. Yeah, all of us.
Hey, but this is madness. This is madness.
You know it better than anybody. On that note, Ty has a question for you.
Yeah, Coach, I know how every round is basically its own tournament in and of itself, but when you get to the second weekend like this and you have two great wins against Kansas and St. John's, is there any kind of residual momentum that you guys are still playing with even though several days of passing your kind on to the next phase of the tournament? Anything in the past doesn't matter.
My record does not matter. The other guy can be 2-0 in his history and go in and win by 30.
it does not matter now what I've said is we're in a tournament with Florida Maryland Texas Tech and us that's all we're looking at we're in that tournament now all we're worried about is Texas Tech we know how good they are how well they're coached how they shoot how they drive how they post i mean i'm looking at them like i had to literally put it down i'm not and they weren't highlights it was the game i was watching so yeah you've got to stay focused now and our practices i just want them spirited so that they're in that fret not one guy better act like i'm tired or i'm cool today i'm gonna cook no cool you get slapped it's like you walk in the ring you think you're cool be cool when you get punched in the forehead how about that punch yeah now you're not cool anymore you better protect yourself and be spirited about what you're doing i don't want anybody being fucking cool out here okay i don't need it okay i don't need it you see the same texas tech team that i watch i try to watch it on the flight home after we beat st john's motherfuckers are too good i said turn this off i'm in a good mood right now i don't need to be getting a bad new coach we can't thank you enough for joining us man good luck on thursday thank you for taking time and uh we can't wait to see your boys and congrats on a dude coming back i guess it's first game since uh february 22nd is what rostean just reported so let's go thanks guys no problem appreciate you hey good luck to the boys tell him to be spirited you playing music He's gone. I thought it was an exit.

I thought so too. I didn't know when.

He was so locked in. He was trying to find the exit.

Yeah, the mouse.

Where do I go? Leave.

Hey! Alright.

Those are the best.

I'll be on a Zoom and the leave button won't pop up

for whatever reason.

It's like, oh no, now the awkward sit here

with whoever else is having a sitting problem that I'm having. Let me out of here as quick as trying to hang up a call and you just can't hit that and then you can stay on too you know that every once in a while zoom will stay on on your phone when you leave the thing and then it's like oh wait i'm still on this thing holy what just you know why i need to get out of here what's that we know who made zoom sports pope i don't know ccp there's chances to ccp you remember sports pope oh yeah you bet he pretty much did invent it yeah he said on our show he did zoom's gonna be huge this was before this was before you know covid really a lot of interesting stuff coming out about.
Yeah, before COVID, Mike Francesa. Yep.
The sports pope. The goat.
Of sports. Him and Russo, I guess, created yelling at each other for sports and very passionate.
I'm not from New York, so I didn't know them until I watched the documentary and I was like, these guys are awesome. And uh sports pub they used to stay on for like

six hours just taking calls you're an idiot hang up just for six hours straight and you're talking about absolute beast so we had him on the program and asked a few questions and i don't know who did somebody know it might have been ty like yeah i know you're uh an investor or whatever like anything you're looking at and he goes a couple things and he says zoom and what else i forget i I can't remember.

I think the other one may have not fair as well.

Yeah, but he did.

He was a happy one. like anything you're looking at and he goes a couple things and he says zoom and what else i forget i can't remember i think the other one may have uh not fair as well yeah but he did he was

ahead of the zoom train the zoom's gonna be huge it's gonna be big so take it for what it's worth

and then covid happens and everybody boom zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom i'd be careful

with these phones though man add people in group chat group call what is that can't on accident

that was a big i wonder if that was one of those group texts that you have to click and then go into like a note section, you know? Yep, sure. I'll assume with that one.
A shared iPod link. I assume reading that first like 10 lines, and then it has like a little arrow.
Do you want to continue? It's got to be a joke. Yeah, I do.
What the hell is going on? That was that was a wild piece of information yeah you can understand how the names could get mixed up you assume that you know the you know one of the names was some sort of guard and then the other was exactly like that that's exactly why a lot of times i'm flying back from scotland and uh what a time over there shout out to glasgow awesome shout out to glasgow. Active city.
The sun was shining. Every local person I said, I'm like, wow, what a beautiful day.
Don't get used to it. You know, they gave me a full on.
I legitimately was the, I walked around for four hours. A lot of people walking around.
I was the only person with sunglasses on. Okay? Because I don't think they sell them.
They probably don't own them. And the only, there was people that had.
Transition that had um transition lenses transition lenses so i saw a couple of those but it was i was like 15 20 minutes into the walk and i'm like oh nobody has sunglasses like literally nobody has sunglasses on and it was like perfect sun and uh you know maybe some vitamins had carried over you know from the sure the the flight or whatever and i was like nobody's wearing sunglasses this This is very interesting. So I literally had like a 45 minute deep thought

while I was walking around about could i find sunglasses right now if i had to i don't think it's even a thing because it's very abnormal i guess for it to be such a perfect day but it was city active clean uh people are very kind they speak the same language as us but i'll tell you tough i couldn't understand yeah they get rolling there and it's a hot that that that that that that's what it sounds like and i'm like where we speak in the same language i think we are and then every once in a while you hear something and a big laugh out of the group and i felt like really left out of a couple different things but i i would i'd recommend glasgow quick flight you know quick in and out only four hour time good, as opposed to like a six or a seven-hour that can happen. Yeah, similar to Ireland as far as travel goes.
It feels like, where did you get the kilt? Because the fit was fantastic. Oh, you're talking about McGregor and McDuff? The kings of kilt makers? Yeah, that was a big deal.
Clean look. Hey, thank you.
I felt pretty solid about it. Might be the best one.
Yeah, I had to wear the Air Forces, you know, but McGgregor and mcduff was the place and i i did not know i mean i guess we should expect this in scotland but like this is a really happening spot there was like 10 people that worked there they were acting as if they were like bartenders but they were kilt tenders and people were coming in and out just trying to rent everything like they try to rent them for big events and everything. They gave me all my

measurements. They sent it to a warehouse.
I rented

it for an evening. That thing there is called a

spa. I don't want to get it wrong, but

this thing is part of your family.

Scottish belt buckle.

Oh, yeah. It's a knife.

It's a knife? Yeah, I had a knife

in my right sock there. Just in case.

Somebody comes.

I'm going to the calf, to the knife yep to the throat you should shake palm to the top boom bang boom now granted there's a chance that thing slices my calf so i thought there was a little bit maybe uh an interesting design flaw in it all but they said i just gotta be an athlete basically and i get that thing and then boom you know i could kill somebody so yeah i was ready to go war the air forces were ready yeah clean they were they were they were ready to go you know i probably first time there's a good tie too yeah i couldn't tie it michael cole had to tie it obviously but uh i'm sure he's great it was very professional evening i felt good over there and scottish people were very welcoming uh joining us now speaking of welcoming we'd like to welcome this absolute dog onto the program uh just learned of him that's on me should have learned about him a long time he's from baltimore we know that because he was asked why he's so confident in big moments he said i'm from baltimore which shout out to baltimore being a city where somebody can say that we all understand absolutely he is from baltimore obviously had the game winner for maryland the other evening after being asked by his coach who wants the ball He said and we quote give me the motherfucking ball. Ladies and gentlemen, Derek Queen How you doing brother? I'm doing good.
How about you? Good. Let's go back to that huddle that moment Did I just describe it exactly how it went? Is that is this been overblown or is that actually how this goes? And how often has coach willard said who wants the ball who needs the ball uh he don't ask that often but uh you you said it right word for word okay okay because we didn't know because he said uh in the quote it was mf we didn't know if you added the in at the end you know we didn't know if it was just motherfuck ball and then that sounds a little bit different sounds like you're a're a little bit nervous.
But instead, we obviously flowed with us. Let's talk about this Maryland team.
Obviously, you're Big Ten Freshman of the Year. Willard's been there for a few years now, has made the tournament two out of three years.
Whenever you get recruited to come back to Maryland and everything takes place, is this the vision? Is this what Terrapins are possible? And when did you know this team had a shot to make a run in the tournament? So this was my vision of doing, like, what I dreamed of. And I figured when we had a shot, probably first game of the season or second game of the season where we really, like, came together, like, we all came here to win, do something.
something i mean it's kind of like a whole new

team from last year when they didn't make the tournament and coach willard just like like got us like an oil machine like um put us together and got us working well together you're a baltimore kid coming back to maryland obviously having this massive moment how's it been going back home because we know you went to high school down in florida you and mcwhite guy from from UConn and Cooper Flagg.

We're all on the same team.

I assume you guys won by 50 every single game going back to Maryland though how has it been I mean it's been great like a lot of family members friends get to see me uh campus campus been great like uh like they really love the basketball players they uh showed me a lot of love uh They always give me words for encouragement, and they also tell me that I'm one of their favorites. Well, yeah, you're 6'10".
You move like a point guard, and you just hit a game winner fresh out of Baltimore. Let's talk about Coach Willard a little bit there because you said he brings the best out of you.
You did a press conference afterwards, and I want to let you know the way you handled things was as if you're like a 50 year old man okay i just want to let you know how mature you are here's a question about why uh do you guys respond so well to coach and then your answer willard's someone who basketball players uh listen to and what has he meant to you guys in the short time he's been with you? First, he do pay us the money. And then so we got to listen to him and we all trust him because he's like a player coach.
And then he want nothing but the best for us and he just, he coaches hard, he talked to us other than basketball, he's just always there and just want us to win okay so that answer obviously awesome just like every time you've been on a microphone it seems like you give great quotes but i think it's a great sense of where you guys are at nowadays in college ball you spoke basically like hey he's like the guy paying us we are working for him is that the mindset that you've had and do you think whenever you go

to florida for high school does that kind of like prepare you to be uh i don't want to say a professional but a professional uh whenever it comes to all of this including a lot of money a lot of spotlight a lot of possibility a lot of potential distractions as well have you felt like a more mature uh than maybe most people your age because of the experiences Oh, yes, I went to Melvira for three years by myself and obviously with my team. But I had to start washing my clothes by myself, had to start kind of cooking by myself.
I had to do a lot of stuff by myself. So that just really opened my mind up and got me ready for ready for college and then coach Willard like I said like he understands me because he know like he understands my personality and stuff like that was a joke but it's like also being for real but coach Willard he understands me because I like to joke around I like to show my personality and he's always there like he always like laugh with me.
He makes jokes, too. And I think I also bring out the happy or the funniness out of him, too.
Hell, yeah. Great relationship.
Nice tag team for Maryland currently. Having a 6'10 point guard forward would be – that'd make me happy if I was coach.
But also got to coach your ass, too. You're still young.
A lot of things that happen. D-Butt has a question for you, Derek.
Yeah, Derek, you talked about being in high school and that stacked roster, the whole squad. I want to know what those ones were like after practice, what that competitiveness was like.
How hard was it? I know you said this was a dream you had. How hard was it to when it came to push came to shove to choose Maryland over all the other top programs in the country? So practice every day like it was competitive a lot of drills like even in sprints like everybody wanted to win sprints uh and then like five on five like here coach Boyle switched the teams up and it'd be like uh like different players it was it was six it was 16 years so he'll try to split three and three or sometimes four and two and put us with the younger guys.
But we always competed every day because we always wanted to win. Of course, bragging rights, mess with each other in the locker room.
And then coming back to Maryland, I came on an unofficial visit a day after my birthday. And then I think they played Coppin State, and I was like, this is where I wanted to be.
And then I waited until like February, I think 21st, to commit. But I always knew like for two months that I was wanting to come back to Maryland.
Hell yeah. Hometown kid coming back doing his thing.
Jimmy's, you ever have any Jimmy's famous seafood crab cakes or anything? Yes, I actually have a meal with them. You have a meal like a Derrick Queen meal?

Yeah, it's like a meal prep.

Oh, shit.

Genius.

Jamie, he's these guys.

He's a pro.

These guys are the greatest.

So you're having crab cakes every day of your – this guy's life.

I'll go back to Maryland for that as well.

Ty has a question for you.

Yeah, Derrick, obviously being Big Ten freshman of the year and first team all Big Ten, you're one of the dudes. But how important has it been leaning on the upperclassmen throughout the season just kind of them helping you kind of go throughout your first full season of college basketball? So, like at the beginning of the season and even the beginning of Big Ten play, like, I had my struggles.
And then, like, it wasn't really me leaning to them because I'm still the youngest on the team, even though I got first team and Big Ten freshmen. Like, they just want me to succeed.
And they just want, like, obviously, like, they want what's best for the team. And they always push me.
And they helped me grown and mature too by uh by walking me through things giving me the steps uh talking me through college and then um just always been there and like being big brothers to me how come they said you traveled on that i don't know like i just i just don't like understand how they trap like how I travel. I just took regular two steps.
Yeah, I agree. I mean, the refs saw the same thing we're seeing as well.
Ridiculous. Yeah, people will find anything complaining about it.
That's right. Yeah, they don't know ball.
They don't know ball. They don't know ball.
They have no idea. And you know what? You got a problem? Why don't you go one-on-one with Derek? We'll have ball to decide.
Tone has a question for you. Yeah, Derek, the long-s long sleeve look is awesome.
I love it. It's very, very, very, very, very swaggy.
It is very swaggy. Have you always done that? Or when did you start doing it? No, I started doing it this year again, but I always wore it like occasionally when I had like baggy long sleeves.
But when I was on the UA circuit and circuit and when i went to mount verd like they always

had like compression tight and then i didn't really uh want to wear those and then and then

uh merlin they gave me like a like a baggy one yeah yeah they gave you a 7x baggy uh so you're

610 is that accurate yes how heavy like 250 245 and you're 18 or 19 how old are you

Thank you. uh so you're 6 10 is that accurate yes how heavy like 250 245 and you're 18 or 19 how old are you i'm 20 20 years old wait a minute how so montverde you were there for three years you were there for three years and then you come to maryland uh so you're still 20 years old we should i should have done more research that is 100 on me but're still going to get even, I mean, do you see your body still kind of transforming in shaping into what it's going to be? Yes, because my strength coach, he always showed me pictures, and he called me, he'd be calling me honey buns, and like, and like, Reese's Cup.
So I, like, I have to, I gotta go through that every day, and he just showed me pictures often. Alright, well hey, don't be fat because you can be something amazing for sports and your mentality, your humility, your personality, and your ability are all things that are going to make us want to watch forever.
So thank you for the time and good luck the rest of the way. Thank you.
Thanks for having me. No standard two steps there that was standard two steps regular two steps standard ready for the nba nba ready you can go show some love to uh i'm from baltimore that's why if you go to md.nil.store this is currently available uh i assume there's gonna be more quote uh t-shirts coming out dare queen your brain is an awesome one brother we can't wait to watch you ladies and gentlemen dare queen thank you man thank you 20 years old jesus christ should have got that one right what's that all about well at least press schools now you know it's like you can graduate from high school and they they still you know, you do like a postgraduate year and it's crazy.

20 years.

And also they're probably paying them in high school too.

I mean, the amount of money you're probably making in the entirety.

Go ahead.

Yeah, like what Cal was saying.

But that's like the opposite of the reclassify.

Like Cooper 5 goes down.

Some guys go, you know, the opposite way, go up and kind of do the entire thing. That's old school, you know, football.

Football dads.

Oh, my kid back.

He's going to be a 20-year-old senior.

Five years of high school is casual, man. A lot of people do it.
Yeah, okay. Up in the New England area, I heard.
That's a common thing, okay, man? Yeah, that's what I heard. My family was trying to get me in school as early as possible.
Would have been cool to be the older guy in the last seven. It was.
It was the younger guy in the club. It was very cool, especially in college.
She turned 21 before everybody else. He's 20 years old, 6'10", having this moment that he's having right now.
I can't wait for him to be on the Pacers. He's going to be a great Indiana Pacer.
I don't know about that. He had Hoosiers in his, I think, Final Four basketball team.
Really? I know he chose Maryland, but I believe the Hoosiers won. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he doesn't want to come to Indiana anymore because a lot of people in Indiana were saying, hey, best thing that's ever happened was Derek Queen not coming.
Well, that was...

I can't believe that.

That's what I saw.

That was double D.

You're going to think lost shots out there.

He's happy with DeVries, as he should be.

McCollum's already drafted or recruiting for Iowa.

West Virginia still doesn't have a head coach, but on the other side, we'll have Dick Vitale.

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The Talks to the Table is here at Boston Conner and at Ty Schmidt.

Ty Schmidt, how are you feeling?

Feeling pretty darn good.

You mentioned it there before the break.

Ben McCollum was already just hitting the recruiting trail, hitting it hard,

getting guys to transfer into Iowa, which they need because everyone on the roster pretty much transferred after they lost Fran McCaffrey. So we got to get going right now.
This man needs to shave his head. I love it.
I think he should let it recede even more and just leave like a little widow's peak there at the top. Maybe Hulk Hogan it.
That's not a bad idea. He Hulk Hogan's it.
We're in the Final Four next year. Brother.
Yeah, well said. Now he has all the players from Drake transferring.
Pretty much. Right to Iowa.
Good players. Good players.
Just like DeVries is getting all the players that he knows transferring to Indiana. That's kind of how it works now.
Yeah, West Virginia doesn't even have a coach. So, I'm sure Wren will figure it.
Come on, Wren. He's figuring it out.
He's working on it. Is he? Have you heard from him about it? I saw him.
Good luck text. He said, thank you.
It was good. It was a good interaction.
Now, do I think I can potentially help a little bit, you know, if we have some questions and some things maybe, you know, I think. But it's all good.
Ren will get to the bottom of it. He's a basketball guy.
He was a basketball guy. He's the one who hired DeVries.
Hey, everybody, bell of the ball. Remember, Ren Baker found him and got him to West Virginia before anywhere else.
He'll figure it out. Not your NFL vet, Darius J.
Butler is here. Your coach, who I'm a big fan of, is going to do a self-reflection time.
Maybe even ayahuasca. He didn't say that, but the answer he was giving me was like, wait, is this a reflect, a refresh, and a reset for Dan Hurley? Because I hope we don't get anybody new.
I hope we get Dan Hurley even more next year. I'm not buying it.
Rapoport wants it. You heard him.
Yeah, but they're cheaters.

They're doing an investigation in UConn.

What are they investigating?

I don't know.

Threatening lines.

Don't make me ruin your life.

I just saw a break.

I will.

I will.

I'll ruin it.

The whole reputation.

I just saw an investigation in UConn.

So I didn't see this until later.

I got a DM from the guy that had the video,

and he said,

there's a lot more to the story.

And I was like,

this sounds fake.

I'm not looking into this.

Also,

I'm good on a plane to Scotland.

I'm going to go ahead and get it. I got a DM from the guy that had the video and he said, there's a lot more to the story.
And I was like, this sounds fake.

I'm not looking into this.

Also, I'm good on a plane to Scotland.

So I didn't even... Gotta go.

Just kept it moving.

Was there a threat, Steve?

Well, the follow-up to the story, I guess,

was that the Connecticut SID said,

oh, that's cute.

Delete it.

Now.

Delete it.

I'm going to ruin your life.

Is that how it went?

Is this mob land happening up there?

I respect it. We stand up for our coaches.

I want that same coach to come back.

The evolution has been from Daniel

to Danny to Dan.

We would like to remain Dan.

I do appreciate

SID coming out going,

you're going to take that down. That was his picture on the left, right, SID? I think.
Maybe we just call him Coach D now. Maybe he's going to become cool.
To be clear, old buddy, I'm being told, fan of the program. So no, we just found that out.
Obviously, there is reason why we're like, kind of a cool move. I think it's kind of awesome.

Basically, our Big Dom.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, but Big Dom would have had that thing eliminated.

Yeah.

You're right.

He's learned.

There's levels to it all.

I do appreciate his entire job as the brand and the image of the UConn Huskies basketball team

and having to work alongside Dan Hurley,

who is not like the others.

You know, he does not operate like anybody else and in a spotlight because they win. So he's having to put out a lot of fire.
He's passionate. So what? Well, why did he tell the ref he's the best coach in the league and he better turn around and look him in the eyes? Because he is.
Okay? Next question. He's handling things like he's a press secretary at the White House with Dan Hurley and the way it all goes.
So that video comes out, and immediately he's like, we're back at it.

You, Don, now.

Now, the way he responded to it was awesome, too, though.

You know, like after that came out, he's like, yeah, you know,

some reporter's standing where he shouldn't be.

There's no reason he should be there.

And it should be about Coach walking off with his seniors arm in arm.

Instead, this guy's doing it.

Now we're all talking about, you know, how pissed off Coach is.

It's not right. It's not right.
And I don't think it is right. is right i do like he's like uh standing in a place definitely not supposed to be there trespassing okay so anybody could just break into places they're not supposed to be take their phone out and all of a sudden it's a journalist okay i don't think so next question moves on i uh i enjoy it i like the journalist who said hey yeah what was he doing standing there he shouldn't be great access he might have went to the bathroom you never you know there's uh i've been caught in those situations before i think we all have actually whenever we're at a stadium or an arena and the nearest bathroom from wherever we are is up one of the bombs or up like a tunnel and then you go and you come out and oh shit everybody's coming i am not supposed to be here right now.
So there might have been somebody that, like, stopped him, too, as he was coming back from somewhere. Like, not now.
Team's coming in. And then he just, it's a pretty cool view.
I didn't know I was going to be here. Gold.
Yeah. Always pissed off.
Gold. Gold.
Send it. Tunnel not sacred.
Yeah. No, not anymore.
Nothing is. Not anymore.
The locker room's not even sacred anymore. I mean, that's real.
It's ridiculous. You get, what, a 10, 15-minute cool-down period before we're supposed to be in front of cameras? That journalist, I mean, he needs to face the music.
Okay. He's from UConn.
Obviously, that is how he feels. For me, for the journalist, great get.
Okay? And for UConn, love the response. Yeah, absolutely.
Okay, so now we move forward. Everyone wins.
Yeah now we move forward I can't wait to see what that I like Dan Hurley acting like that like I do because that's who he is and obviously his team responds I don't love the immediate reaction whenever somebody doesn't act how everybody wants them to act at their position it's just like ooh bad we hate it it's like no this is just how this could be as well you've seen the same, this is how this could go at this position is just like, ooh, bad, we hate it. It's like, no, this is just how this could be as well.
You've seen the same. This is how this could go at this position.
Now, not saying everybody should be like that. Not everybody will be like that.
But there are humans like that in sports and in competitive worlds. And it's just like with Sirianni.
Like when Sirianni was talking his shit walking out of a stadium, like I'm like, okay, that is not normal for a head coach. But Sirianianni obviously has the boys rallied around him and his job is to get the boys to rally and play their best and lead them to a dub so if these people are winning i don't think there is like any grinds to be like that ain't right now if they're losing and acting like that it's like clown show yeah get them the hell out and this is who basketball coaches have always been.
You know, Jim Calhoun, Bobby Knight, like a lot of the great ones. Like, they're more so a part of the action even more than like football.
Coach football, you know, they got a lot to handle here. These guys are right at the score.
Sometimes on the court. So, Kim Mulkey and LSU, like all these coaches, they have their different personalities and they're a part of the game and that's how they get their teams going.
And sometimes it boils over to, you know, right after the game when tensions and emotions are high. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, one half of the hammer.
Done. Cowboys, AP tone.
Trends for March Madness thus far as we look ahead to the Sweet 16 and as we look ahead to our conversation with Dick Vitale. So obviously the money line for the underdogs hasn't been great.
You know, our good friend Boston Connor bets on the money line for all the underdogs in that, what was it, 14 and whatever it was? Yeah, it was bad. It was 13 and 44 money lines for underdogs, including the playing game, so don't do that.
But as far as against the spread goes, 28 and 24 were the favorites against the spread. So, I average, about 500 for that.
The under was 28 and 24 as well against the number there. As far as the underdogs winning, not so much, but the underdogs, 28 and 24 were the favorites against the spread and then 28 and 24 to the under as well.
The ball's too inflated. Did you hear about this? I did hear about it yesterday.

I thought it was a joke.

That's real shit.

The players are saying that this feels like this is an issue.

I can see it.

It sucks when the ball is dribbling.

Obviously, bouncing out of the room, that does suck.

I didn't know that was a real thing, though.

Yeah, they're saying it was a real thing.

Let's go to the NFL and talk about something that's very real.

TomBraid.com, the 199 newsletter.

Of course.

He's a writer now. He has seven total posts.
Okay. The seventh one being the most notable publicly because he said there was a natural tension after 20 years together with Bill Belichick and the way the Patriots were looking to go and the way they were kind of going.
So this kind of is just a little bit more of a stamp of yeah there was some stuff that was happening maybe behind the scenes 20 years two alphas two of the goats uh working alongside of each other that's a long relationship yeah you know people live with their parents you know before they go to school or before they leave for 18 years think about the relationship with your parents think about how that could potentially go with your siblings for that long 20 years becoming the greats of all time next to each other. There could be some differing of opinion.
There could be some differing of what the future looks like. Bill Belichick has to look out for the Patriots.
Tom Brady's got to look out for the Patriots and also Tom Brady. And then obviously you've got Kraft in there trying to navigate the waters.
He's had the last few years, so that would have been three years. They they had success during that time together as well which is also a wonderful part of this entire story oh yeah big time they won the super bowl in 2018 with the 13-3 victory which was an exhilarating game against the rams and mcveigh's first super bowl but i mean when you think about just the team construction as well like you talk about how sometimes you know the offense and the defense are damn near two separate teams at points and you can think you know with mahomes and andy reed like hey both offensive guys obviously the credit goes to you know the offense a lot of the time like with the new england dynasty because it was so much brady on one side with you know whoever was the oc and then bill and the defense on the other you can see where where just even credit getting given to certain sides of the ball because early on it was Bill, Bill, Bill because Brady wasn't the guy.
Pick 1-9. 1-9.
Those first three Super Bowls, the dynasty, you think about like Brewski and Richard Seymour and Vrabel, obviously, in those kind of teams wasn't so much about Brady. Brady was kind of almost in the purdy situation.
Then towards the end, it became much more Tom Brady.

Bill can't do it without Tom.

Brady's the reason they're winning all those games.

So the natural tension does make sense,

and the Jimmy G drafting a lot of people point to.

But the fact that they were still able to win,

and who knows when it started, because 16, they won the Super Bowl as well.

17, they went to the Super Bowl, lost against the Eagles and the Nick Foles,

Philly-Philly play.

And then the Rams Super Bowl, they still won.

So, sure, there might have been tension.

Yeah, there was tension.

Three straight Super Bowls were going to win two of them in the entirety of it.

Obviously, you're in that building with both of them as a second-round pick

for the New England Patriots. What is your thoughts on it? Natural attention, I think, was Tom saying, yes, that's going to exist, let alone being together for 20 years.
It's normal. Anytime something like this comes from the greatest player in the game, obviously it's going to be a big deal, especially on March 25th.
But I can't think of any great player that stayed into a place anywhere near 20 years that didn't have some type of natural tension. And you talk about Bill, he wore both hats as far as the GM and the head coach.
And Tom always gave a team-friendly deal. Yeah, I mean, literally any player that I could think, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, LeBron, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, at some point in their career, there was some bumps.
Aaron Rodgers, there's been some bumps in the road with other people. Wade-O even.
Wayne got traded, right? Wayne was in a couple. Like everybody.
Like you mentioned, it's a marriage. It's a long-term relationship.
You're going to have some ups and downs. You're going to have some natural tension.
So I don't think it's a big deal. I kind of just mentioned they were winning.
So if this was the opposite way and they were losing and we're at the bottom of the barrel, it would be a different ball game. But I don't think this is a big deal.
But I can't wait for the next 199. Yeah, eight is coming around.
Well, in a lot of those instances with those other guys, like the player always wins out because like very seldom is it like a guy plays with the same coach for 20 years. Like how many coaches did Kobe have? You know, even MJ went through like a couple different guys like brady is really like the only one where it's like it was him and belichick pretty much the entire time and i don't think that will ever happen again yeah different relationship whenever you're 22 versus whenever you're 35 yeah 36 37 and i i do appreciate i think we all do that he's come out and been like yeah because they both all been like we love each other which you will by the way once you you kind of separate you know the heart grows fonder if you will and then you look back and it's like a lot of great things were accomplished but in the moment there was probably a lot of gripes from both of them about how things were going and then obviously you get away you say all the good stuff but this is the first time where we've really heard him say like yeah there was some it's like we all expected it all knew that that was reality.
And now we know from the 199 newsletter, he's a blogger now? I guess so. Added to the resume.
Love that. You can do it all.
You see him. He might be doing it on a typewriter.
Yeah, definitely. Jammed.
Fuck. There's actually probably a better chance he's norah linking it oh straight from brain to paper i mean there is a chance i had no idea this existed until this one this is the seventh one writing takes a long time i'm not gonna get into it what's that i told you guys a couple weeks ago i learned about the uh oh yeah talk to text that's crazy game changer really smart phone other things it's getting dumber which needs to be talked about you know with timmy apple like something's going on here where my smartphone's getting dumber don't think that should be how this whole thing goes but for that whole bubba bubba yeah i mean that makes life a lot easier you have the new update or new phone just i have the newest phone i haven't done the whole song and dance.
I got to turn off some second. I'm tired of Apple intelligence summarizing my emails.
Just emails. The whole thing.
Playground on the playground yet? What's that? The playground? I haven't. No.
Get on the playground. Have some fun out there.
What? What the hell are you talking about? There's a playground app. It's an AI picture app.
It's fun. It's a good time.
Oh, so they're Grok. So they have a Grok? I don't know.
I don't know. Chat GPT? I don't know.
I've never used those things. Grok is actually pretty talented.
Grok is pretty talented. Well, this iteration.
We're on like Grok 3. Yeah.
He's amazing. And it always has beta next to it.
It is Grok 3.0 beta. So that means they're testing Grok 3.0?

Correct.

Well, they did that to Grok 2.0 the entire time.

So then we got to 3.0.

We're still testing.

Always getting better.

Are we ever going to not be in the beta stage of Grok or any of these AIs?

Grok may be just the beta stage in general,

and then they might change it to like Brock or something.

Alpha.

Yeah, Alpha.

Exactly.

And then that's just the new AI.

I just don't agree with Grock.

I'm a big green guy, but I

hate Tesla. You sound pretty red

right now. I'm a big AI

guy, but I hate Grock. Okay.

All right. You love news,

but... Yeah, I hate Twitter.

Yeah, it is. Yeah, it's a

wild thing. That's what happens when you

only listen to OAN. Last story.

The world

right now is in a wild spot. Yeah.

There are some people that

Thank you. wild thing.
That's what happens when you only listen to OAN. Last story.
The world right now is in a wild spot. Yeah.
There are some people that I mean, you're talking about just way and have never heard the other side, I don't think. That's why those people should just watch sports.
Bingo. Come to our world.
Come to where we live. Watch the games on Thursday and Friday.
Might change your fucking life. What do these people do that don't watch sports? I'm learning now.
It's like, oh, they're just. Yeah.
This is it. They're cementing themselves into more of I'm a better person than you are.
Yeah. And I appreciate their passion.
Okay? Everybody's saving the world, it seems like. Everybody has the right idea for how the world needs to be and I respect it.
And everybody, you know who I'm talking about. And it's's like uh i appreciate your passion but boy don't get lost in there come up come on in to watch some sports yeah yeah dive into a conspiracy look look into the pyramid no there's a lot of those what we're saying is stay here we come over the sports those things all kind of get into the entire what is going on Holy shit.
We got a lot of time about that yesterday all day. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now.

Need to wait.

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, joining us now.

He knows. trying to get into the entire, what is going on? Holy shit.
We got a lot of time about that yesterday all day. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now.

Need to wait.

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, joining us now.

He knows.

When we talk about sports, we talk about come enjoy sports,

come enjoy competitions, come enjoy moments that are magical,

that can only be created from a moment having to change the course

of not only people but entire schools.

A guy who has voiced over a lot of those moments of our childhood and not only ours potentially your parents childhood as well 41 years he's been working at ESPN baby ladies and gentlemen the voice of basketball college basketball he's in pro and college basketball halls of fame dick vit doing, Dick? Well, I'll tell you one thing, Pat. 45 years I've completed at ESPN.
45! Okay? Okay. I am honored.
I finally got a call for Pat McAfee to be on his unbelievable show, man! That's incredible! Dickie, Dickie, we would have had you on day one if we knew this was even possible the fact that you have blessed us with your presence especially during march madness we are grateful for especially with everything you've been through over the last few years you're inspirational you're a badass and uh we appreciate the hell out of your commitment to sport for all of our entertainment for over the better half of five seconds guys. I'm talking to all you football, unbelievable fanatics, football guys talking basketball.
I think it hurts you guys talking hoops. I think you'd rather talk football.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Now, that is valid, yes.
That is certainly true. But there are times where basketball takes over the zeitgeist, and this is certainly one of them.
We just talked to Cal. Obviously, Arkansas is like the underdog Cinderella story this year.
Calipari is the team that everybody's pulling for to go on a run with all the high-ranking teams surviving. What is your takeaway on this year's March Madness, Dickie V? How should we be viewing this? You know, Pat, it's Chalk City.
I mean, there's no doubt about it. I mean, 13 of the teams there.
I've been to the final four. You got eight of them that have already won national titles.
It's all Chalk City and it's all new. You know why.
The NIL, man, the schools that are paying big time cash. It's all about that.
And we got chaos going on. I'll share this with you, Pat, you and your guys.
They just opened up the transfer portal, which I think is a joke. I think it's absurd to have the transfer portal during the heart of March Madness.
I think that's crazy. It's ludicrous.
You ready for this? Only one day. About 1,000 kids are in the portal.
1,000. It is total wacky what's going on.
the question is right away the question is very simple when it gets talked to some coach about transit what about my cash man how much am i getting yeah did you ever think you'd see this path going on it's a better free agency than the pros have because in this case you're free at least in the pros you got a contract yeah i think they got to think about a contract i think they think about you know the kids deserve money i have no problem with that but the bottom line is this chaotic movement no stability yeah it's happening in football too diggy v obviously we're seeing that they had a transfer portal in the middle of the playoffs uh transfer window in the middle of the playoffs as well and And there was actually players that were in the playoff, 12-team playoff. This is what you work for.
There was players in the playoff that were like, I'm leaving, I'm leaving. It's like, how is this what's right? I think they're going to figure that out, though.
How much of the chatter has been done for college hoops? College football, obviously, we live with that all fall. We got a ruling coming this month or whatever on what the future is going to look like for RevShare did a lot of that with football talk how much that's happening in college basketball you think and is there guard rails on the horizon for how it's all run well i i just tell you this bet i just think that there's so much chaos the wild west into collegiate sports it really is and i i just think that somewhere there's no rules and regulations there's none zero do what you want do anything you want and the big schools i'll tell you what else happening you don't see any cinderellas you're not going to see many cinderellas anymore because it's all the schools that can pay the big dollars the sec has seven teams seven teams in the final four why Why? Because the SEC has gotten teams.
Seven teams in the final four.

Why? Because the SEC has gotten with the times. The ACC hasn't gotten with the times.
So they got one team, Duke. Duke gets it.
Duke has the dollars. They have the unbelievable talent level.
But I'm telling you, Pat, something's got to be done because, you know, you hate to see the little guy rubbed out. The other problem with with the transfer portal if you're a good player I'm gonna make Pat McAfee dream dream he's a jump shooter dream school.
So they're taking all the stars away to develop the mid-American schools from the actual mid-major schools. Yeah, so that's going to take away.
You just got to hope that a team is able to build, you know, and everybody stay true. And hopefully the madness will remain in the March tournament because Calipari being the underdog Cinderella story is certainly something out there at Arkansas, but they're one of those SEC teams you talked about.

Greg Sankey came on the show and was like,

hey, we told the schools,

our men's basketball has to get better.

So they did a concerted effort to invest in it,

and to your point, it has worked for them.

Will everybody else? We shall see. D-Bott has a question for you, Dickie.

Yes, sir, Dickie V.

First of all, absolute honor.

I'm a UConn Husky.

You've called some of our biggest games from our national championships, so an honor. But you've been on the air for so long and being iconic on the mic.
I want to know, how did some of these, your most iconic sayings come about? Were they practiced in the mirror the night before and they just come out live? PTP or diaper dandy? Like, when did these come about? How did they come about? You know what, really? a lot of it man. I steal Notes letters suggestions.
I use them. I get credit not to be serious It's just I always when I start on the tv I make believe i'm talking to my buddies at home and I just talk to my heart you guys do that You talk to me a heart why you connect so's why you connect so well with everybody.
Because you're regular. You're down there shooting the breeze.
I've never looked at the red light where the red light has intimidated me. And I've always had fun doing it.
The only thing that's intimidated me is having five major vocal cord cancer surgeries and all that stuff. Pat, I'd like to get a little help here.
I'm trying to raise money for kids battling cancer. Pat, it means so much to me, especially after what I went through.
I want you to notice the first live interview I've done in three years. Doctors have put me on unbelievable, unbelievable voice rest stuff.
Like I said, I had five major vocal cord surgeries. I'm just honored and thrilled and always moved to tears that I've been talking because about a year ago i went eight like i think it was eight weeks i couldn't talk not one word write everything down and so i made that recovery but going through what i went through i can't imagine a mom and dad with little kids going through what i'm 85 years old man i got the energy of a 20 year old but i'm 85 and i'll tell you this pat no child should ever go through what i did in terms of the scans the blood work constant always to the doctor's office uh doing chemo six months i did radiation 65 treatments no child should do that so my goal is to raise money through the v foundation for kids battling cancer so far i'm so proud of this probably in my whole career i'm in i don't know multiple hall of fames and all that jazz but my my my real part of me is so excited about to tell you this.
We have raised MindGala 92.8 million dollars

Let's go! part of me is so excited about to tell you this we have raised my gala 92.8 million dollars and this year we're going to go over the 100 million mark because we're honoring people like mike strahan we're honoring people like grant hill and all these stars and with calipari and we have a great event there it is right there we have a great event it's held down in uh sarasota the ritz carlton anybody wants information they call 941-350-0580 but the best thing that you can do is donate donate at dick what you gotta do is go to dickfytale.com it's the as can be dickvitel.com you can donate it goes to the b foundation and you might save someone you love i get passionate about this because i've been back i spoke at several funerals for kids and it just tears my heart out yeah tears my heart out yeah and it's not just Obviously, it's the entire family, the anxiety alongside all of the appointments. We're honored that this is the first interview you've done in three years and thankful for it.
And also inspired by your mission. I will obviously donate and help out with the gala.
We will continue to promote your mission to helping out families of kids battling through cancer. And let's talk about the vocal cord surgery so they told you no talking so I've thought about this before as somebody who is a professional speaker I'll lose my voice at the end of like football season I'll go through and I won't have my voice I won't know like that's my biggest fear whenever we're on a microphone is that I'll have something and I have no idea if it's gonna if it's gonna make any sound i have no idea if my voice is gonna be able to create it because i'm hoarse i've been yelling and i'm a very loud person to begin with but for you i assume you've gone through times of going hoarse and losing your voice when you're told you can't speak as a professional orator i mean what is the initial reaction and that that had to be mentally that That'd be very difficult you know what bat i was telling my uh my friend the other day i go to a game like i recently did seven games i was so glad to do that was like the best medicine in the world but it's so difficult when you're going to do a game and you're my position because of my vocal cord problems instead of thinking about the strategy of the games and all i'm thinking about what happens if my voice breaks down right now during the middle of the game but what and i shouldn't be thinking like that but the bottom line is that's what you live with and and the strategy i could do in my sleep you know talk of basketball you know people write oh my god he hasn't missed a beat well you know just like you talking football or whatever i could talk that basketball in my sleep and to say this before i wrap up here my final four are still alive michigan state and florida looking at a board here in my house michigan state florida south and west in one semi-final duke and houston in the other when it's all setting up duke and florida and when it's said to cut the nets down and they're going to scream and yell i get this all the time and i laugh about it that was like dukey vital not dicky vital he loves duke well what's there not to like about you know this pat think about why they're good they're the only team in the nation The only team that is in a situation Where there's a draw the only team that was in this situation where they're top five in the nation or offensively and Defensively efficiency when you put selling both those areas you got chance to win and then they got the best player in the land.
And no doubt about it. I mean, Flagg is under, Proctor's been on fire.
Has Proctor shooting a jumper? He's been on fire. But the kid, when you talk about certainly Flagg, he is so special.
He makes those things happen because his presence on the floor creates spacing for guys like Proctor to get free, to shoot the three. So he's one of those guys, like I guess in football you have them as well, but he's one of those guys, his presence makes everybody better.
Oh yes, absolutely. And also I think he reclassified, he's supposed to be a senior in high school.
He's special, special talent. And that coach down there, I'm learning more about White Mike over there in Chicago

and his basketball playing career.

It feels like they got it right, just like the basketball gods did

whenever they blessed us with you for the better half of the last five decades.

We appreciate the hell out of you, Dickie.

Well, I'll tell you this.

I'm hurt for one thing, though.

The best linebacker in the history of Ohio State football is not on on the show aj where's aj he's on spring break he's got another spring break yeah ohio that's what we're learning aj did i say it right you're the best linebacker in football you told me to say it yeah classic all right we appreciate the hell out of you ladies and gentlemen i'll tell you a lesson from you how you connect, man. You obviously connect, and that connection you made, I would love to have my cash register.
Go ding-a-ling-ding. You know it, baby! You're the man.
Ladies and gentlemen, Dickie Vitale. Yay, Dickie Vitale.
What a legend. That's awesome.
The GOAT. Yeah, we put in a request for him a few weeks ago, and we got this big, long response that was like, want to come on the show, love the show, love you guys, love everything about your program, but strict doctor's orders, not allowed to talk right now.
And we're like, damn, didn't know it was like that. And then we learned more and it's like he's on like uh like right there we probably took uh too many uh of the things throughout the entire process but imagine being dicky vitel yeah like speaker loudspeaker animated speaker and then being told can't yeah like think about it gatherings yeah yeah he loves to hold in court shoot the breeze he said like he loves doing that just talk with the guys, you know, do the entire thing and then they're like, yeah, by about it, gatherings, yeah.
Him just holding court on you. Shoot the breeze, he said.
Like, he loves doing that. Just talk with the guys, you know, do the entire thing.
And then they're like, yeah, by the way, not only are you going to have to battle cancer here and very serious and go through all these treatments, you're not going to be allowed to speak. Like, mentally, that would be a wild thing.
But obviously, Dickie Vitale has done exactly what he's always done with everything, which is just commit fully. $92.9 million.
Crazy. That's crazy, yeah.
That's unbelievable. That is absolutely unbelievable.
Baby, are you serious? How about him saying, I jack other people's shit. They'll write me letters and they'll have stuff in there.
Ooh, I like that. That's good.
I'm going to use that. But on a serious note, it kind of drops into the other stuff.
Shout out to him. And if you can help raise money, I assume this would be a fantastic place to do it.
I mean, $100 million, that's a great legacy to have. Shout out to him and shout out to the V Foundation continuing to raise some money.
Let's talk a little bit about NFL hoops. Oh, we should say in college hoops.
Juju. Yeah.
That was tough. That's like her and Paige are the two that are carrying women's college hoops right now.
Obviously, we saw the clips from this past weekend where she was chatting with Jaden Daniels and Jaden Daniels' mom throughout certain times. I think Jaden Daniels, I don't know.
I was following on the internet and then i watched it then i checked back in later i thought jayden daniel's as mom was in between them to start then she left and they were sitting next to each other it was being reported and once again i do not know i do not know which one is real because you know timing of it all but there's a chance you know she actually go up and left yeah you know and then jayden and juju sat next to you. Somebody would have to correct us on that whole thing, but you're talking about a power duo here.
Yeah. You know, just sharing secrets.
Just sharing secrets about competing and life in the spotlight. And there's Jaden Daniels' mom.
We saw her whenever we were at Radio Road, the Super Bowl. I think she said she would come on the show and tell us the real.
She did. So we were sending a request for Jayden Daniels' mom.
But Juju, one of the superstars of women's college hoops, tears her ACL. That is absolutely devastating.
That sucks. Yeah, that sucks.
She's probably the face right now of women's college basketball. Her along with Paige, who Paige has suffered some devastating injuries as well while at UConn because she was kind of at the top of that level as well but Juju I mean she's awesome unbelievable business she's doing off the court as well I know on the court on pace to be uh to score the most points in women's college basketball history I think she broke uh Caitlin's two-year mark so she was definitely sophomore yeah so she I mean, she cooks.
And her game is nasty and aesthetically pleasing as well.

So hopefully she gets a quick, strong recovery, man,

because she's awesome to watch play basketball.

Godspeed to Juju.

And also, I guess West Virginia women's basketball team got hosed

down in North Carolina.

I'll tell you what, they gave the Tar Heels everything they could handle.

Yeah, but I heard the refs were playing for Bubba's team.

Oh, UNC keeps – They don't say. Again, they don't say.
That's what I read. That's what I read.
What was the score? The close? It was like 67. North Carolina won because the refs wanted them to.
About 11, I think. It wasn't that close.
Well, of course. How many refs were on the court? Three? Two? Three? Three.
The foul discrepancies. Playing eight on five.
You've got to be kidding me. What, eight North Carolina? Is West Virginia taking into the hole? Sweet 16? Was that Sweet 16? Round of 32.
Yeah, that's close. Women's college basketball, round of 32? Yeah, 58-47.
You go look at some of those other scores. 58-47.
It's a barn burner. There was a double overtime game last night.
Maryland and Bama, I was watching. Yeah, now that's a barn burner.
And I saw one of the girls for Bama drop 45 points. And they lost.
That was a high scoring game. Bet on everything, women's college hoops as well? Yeah, the spreads are tough the first couple rounds.
I believe Texas in the first game was minus 48 and a half. How do we feel? Okay, which is tough.
What are you problem? What's your problem? That's what I'm saying. It's like these games, trust me.
Been at UConn for four years. Like you knew the first, you know, couple rounds.
Like USC won 71-25 in the first game. And then obviously West Virginia keeps it close alongside UNC and the refs obviously doing their thing.
I asked about the gambling because I've seen the commercials. We've all seen the commercials.
Yeah, it's crazy. About the college player prop bets.
I feel like that's a big push. I think Charlie Baker, who's president of the NCAA, he was in here.
And I think he said that's something that he's really trying to get behind. The college player props are obviously problematic for professional athletes.
But they're professional athletes. For the college kids, they're professional athletes too, or they're not professional athletes.
It's an interesting world that we're in right now, because do we view college athletes as professional athletes, or do we still view them as college kids? I think we should still view them as college age kids because

they're 18 19 20 years old obviously you're still trained like figuring out who the hell you are as a person then can still go through things still feel things especially nowadays with the social media world but i guess the prop bets are the ones that really get people the most animated yeah you know the team will win but old buddy did not have uh 10 rebounds old buddy did not have 17 and a half points.

So he has 17, didn't have 17

or didn't have 18 to beat 17 and a half. Maybe he even has a triple-double.
Has 17, goes for 10, and then let's say 11 boards or something like that. And he'll get terrible things said because he didn't go over on his points.
Obviously, this is something that is going to happen in professional sports, but I think the college world, they're really trying to get rid of those. I think they are really, really, really trying to get rid of that.
Yeah, not even every state has the prop bets for college. I know in Ohio, you can't bet props for college games.
Indiana, I think you can. So I assume those commercials we were seeing, too, were specific to Indiana.
Like lobbying. Yeah, for a while, when you were here, you couldn't even bet on Purdue or Indiana.
Right. I think you can.
So I assume those commercials we were seeing too were specific to Indiana. Like lobbying.
Yeah. For a while when you were here you couldn't even bet on Purdue or Indiana.
I think it's still that way. I saw it in Connecticut too.
Yeah I think the states are still like that. I think like Illinois you can't.
Jersey. Yeah Jersey you can't bet on a few.
The prop bets themselves though they're thinking about kind of getting real. I don't think there's a need for the prop bets in college.
There's enough options. I agree.
This guy hosts a show called Hammer, which is a daily sports gambling show. And, you know, let's go to the other half of the Hammer.
Cowboys, Bubba Gumpino. Gumpy, how many player props are you doing in college ball? I don't do player props.
Just bet the games. Okay, are you saying that just because you have no idea what's going to happen each night? Yeah, I'd just rather ride and die with the team.
I'm not a big player prop guy myself. I don't know many people that are really diving into the college props that much.
So I assume it's other college kids? It's probably college kids probably doing it, getting into gambling their first couple years of gambling. They know, they've seen, we understand a little bit more.
And obviously, if you think you think you haven't figured out that is going to be what you gamble on and to play your prop bets it's you know easy to there's some bets that seem like pretty easy especially if you know a team but it is it does feel like the other side of it is pretty heavy and uh with how much they're pushing against it feels like there is a big effort to kind of get rid of those prop bets and i don't know know what the reaction will be, but I assume everybody will be okay with it. Not that we've seen much of it in like the recent, you know, like the last really since it got super popular.
But not only like kids getting a lot of shit on Twitter, but I assume they're also thinking like this is much more susceptible for like games getting fixed and stuff like that. You know, because we just saw it in the NBA with that Jonte Porter, I think that was his name.
If that starts creeping into college basketball, even in the slightest where it's like four and a half rebounds or points or something like that, like you were saying, a college kid who maybe isn't getting as much NIL money as he thinks he should be getting like that would be a very easy way to be like okay

i'm supposed to score you know my over under is 14 and a half tonight like i can score 12 you know and just i can produce on defense yeah exactly i still have a good game but not too good of a game and we're not saying most athletes are thinking like no all you need is one or two and then obviously everything goes down so i'm okay with the push i i think uh that'll be something that I'll probably get passed in most places, I think.

I agree.

I think so.

What's his name last week, tonight? John Oliver. John Oliver ran a clip of Tyrese Halliburton talking about the player props on his show, from our show, where Halliburton was like, yeah, I'll still get somebody telling me that I didn't do enough for them or whatever.
It's like in pros. Won't be me.
I love Taylor. How the birds play a prop, lock.
Nine assists, locked. He's what? I don't know how many games straight he's had.
He's had 11 assists, one turnover, I think, last night. He's unbelievable.
Yeah, he's amazing. As hard as you can be.
He's got so much moxie, too. And he's a good friend of the program.
He's talking a lot of shit against the Nets. It was awesome.
I don't know if you saw that clip. No.
Also, whoever does the trash talk leak is so good at it. I don't know how, but they can turn up the sound of the players, and you can actually hear them talking shit.
But he was talking to this guy that was kind of, I don't know if he was bad-mouthing Matherin at the free throw line, Benedict Matherin, but it was towards the end of the game. And Matherin kind of went to give the guy on the Nets a handshake, just screwing with him.
And then Tyrese and him went back and forth, and Tyrese got him real good. But again, whoever is doing these NBA mic'd-up leagues keep going because they also did the Carl Anthony Towns and Draymond Green one, and that one was uh pure comedy so are they using like the dark knight uh you know that when old buddy goes down in the basement and they have that entire board with the supercomputer and they have all the sounds they're like we can do that is there like some ai that's just taking everybody's cell phone and every camera that is in there and piecing together the audio because how are they turning because i'll I'll watch the videos and they'll have the audio somehow turned up.
I'm like, where are they getting this microphone from? Are they just gathering all of the microphones and doing it? But you're right. We are getting clips of people talking that were definitely not on the live broadcast.
No. And then somehow hearing them much clearer than you would think.
And then all of a sudden I go, is that fake? Is that fake or is that real? And then you got people saying, no, it's real. Every different arena, to your point, how are they? I don't know.
I think I want to say it's league pass because with the NBA league pass, you can use so many different camera angles. You can click on specific ones.
Typically, they don't go to commercial break, so you're just getting a legitimate look at the stadium camera, and sometimes that is where. Just a hard cam? Yeah, a hard cam, but sometimes even during timeouts, they're zoomed in on huddles and you can kind of see stuff.
I also thought AI, of course, this is bullshit, but then when you watch Tyrese and them talking, it's, oh no, this is exactly what they are saying to each other. It is so cool, but I think it's the league path.
The lip readers are also cool on the internet. I really appreciate them.
You know, deaf people have been able to read lips for a while. On the internet it's like, certified deaf lip reader here.
This is what they're saying. It's awesome.
It's incredible. I always go right into it.
They have to. I'm looking at the lips.
I can see how that's being said. It was like the entire thing last year with Harry Styles spitting on Chris Pine

when he showed up at the Oscars thing or the premiere of the movie or whatever.

28 years old, been lip-reading for 27 these years.

You can see it.

I know exactly what's being said here.

Speaking about what's being said, Texas has their Pro Day Day.

Good luck to all the boys down there.

We're in Pro Day season right now. For everybody, except for anybody that's in the Big 12, I guess.
What is that? They got a combine. I don't like that that's happening.
But whatever the case, shout out to DJ and the boys for covering that. Quinn Ewers today is obviously a big story.
Golden down there. Bond down there.
A lot of superstars on this team. Speed is kind of the story of a Sark offense.
Quinn Ewers can do a lot of good for himself today, Tone? Or what is the conversation around this Texas Pro Day? Yeah, Quinn's fascinating because of coming into this year, after last year, I mean, he took the semifinals, he threw for 300 in basically every playoff game that he's basically ever been in. But coming into the season, he was like bonafide guaranteed first round pick.
And, the report comes out that he played the season with a torn oblique after he got hurt, and he kind of dropped down some boards. But it'll be interesting because him throwing at these pro days is actually important because, you know, you saw the last season and then how he threw this year was much different.
So I think this one's big for him. Yeah, Golden ran the 4-2-9 at the don't know if he's gonna run bond ran a 439 but because he said he was gonna break the record people thought you know not a great time so we'll see if he runs and then Gunnar Helm the tight end who I don't almost snapped his ankle doing the 40 and then chose to run it and then you know didn't have a great time in the drills and stuff like that because of his ankle so yeah there's a big pro day down in day down in Texas.
Yeah, the corner, too, on the top corner. I think he was the top corner on DJ's board.
I think he had him at 11. Barron, interested to see what he does.
But, yeah, I think this is a huge day for Quinn because of what you mentioned, playing through that injury. So I know a lot of people want to see really how much juice does he have on his arm and his throwing motion and how that will look on pro day.
So this will be a big day for him. This will be a moving day for Quinn, I think.
Sark is just going to create NFL guys down there. Oh, yeah.
Factory. Dickie V just talked about the amount of money that some schools have and everything like that.
They have, like, three different, like, funds or something like that. That's why they were talking about it being hard to coach at Texas.
They're like, it's not easy to coach at Texas because there's a lot of hands in the pot. Like, there's a lot of chefs in the kitchen because a lot of people are giving money.
A lot of people have ideas. There's a board of trustees.
They chat about all the bad things that could potentially come with coaching at Texas. And it's always everybody else that has a piece of it.
But if you're able to rally all those people and get on the same page, it's like you've got a lot of access to a lot of different things. Coaching staffs as well, I think they're going to have, like, one of the largest coaching staffs in America.
That's just becoming, like, a new thing. And then players, they're able to get whoever they want.
And if you get offered to Texas, like, still holds value, obviously. The name Texas and brand name of Texas is always going to be huge.
But the way they take care of the facilities, everything about them is a team that if they have the proper backing, which they do, it's sustainable greatness for a long, long time. They're going to have a lot of NFL guys coming out of Texas.
Yeah, big time. And you mentioned it.
As long as you can get the players, the top tier talent. And when we watch Ohio State go on their run, I feel like this was the only team that can kind of compete with them pound for pound.
Obviously, Ohio State went on and beat them by a couple scores, made some big plays down the stretch. But this team from top to bottom is that we saw the combine too.
Obviously, their tape is one thing, but then for them to go out there and put the numbers up that they did. I'm excited to see what the future holds with old Arch taking the helm as well.
Exactly. I believe it wasn't leaked officially, but people are already speculating that Jeremiah Smith, Ryan Williams, and Arch Manning are the cover of the next video game for the college football.
I saw they upped that money. They doubled it or whatever.
They went to $1,000. $1,200.
The game made over a billion so think what you want. Everybody was mad about Arch Manning not signing the deal.
They're like, Arch Manning, the only player is that. You think the Manning family is like, yeah, you give us $500? I don't think so.
Okay, a lot of people are going to be using old Arch Manning, even if he's backing up Quinn yours, because he is a dog. Arch Manning is about to be a guy.
He's on a game this year, right? Yeah, he was on a game. Maybe it was just number 16.
I don't know. I think he did come to an agreement.
I thought he was still in the game. But anybody that was trying to make that look as a bad thing, I thought it was an awesome.
I was on a complete opposite inspection. I'm like, hell yeah.
EA Sports is about to learn quickly. Like, yeah, you're not just fucking.
Okay. $200? $600? Okay.
I don't think we haven't worked our asses off for generations. Okay.
For a $600, let's get in there. part of now everything they're building that's an easy sell too you got the money you got every all the resources and also we got a quarterback named arch manning that you have seen literally grow up in front of your eyes he's gonna be a guy too especially just waiting too you know like i had a source during the season sure i think you can say sis with the way I said that sentence.
Reach out to me and say like, hey, we're okay with Arch. Like, we're okay with this whole development thing.
We do not expect him to just be bum, bum, bum, bum, bum right in there. That was the decision they made going into Texas, knowing everything they were going to know.
Then Quinn gets hurt, Arch goes in. That could real loud especially with arch winning and stuff like that now he made some mistakes obviously they're picking apart like well he didn't do this well it's like this guy's first fucking second game in this entire thing did well yeah then quinn goes back in quinn has struggles later still nothing just like understand the process of it and when he gets in there he's going to be experienced he's going to be comfortable he's going to know the offense and they're going to have dogs all around him which goes back to the conversation we're talking about right now well in the entire thing of when he did go in it wasn't as if it like the guys didn't like him like we talked about with will howard like he's doing dancing with dances with other guys the lineman after he's throwing touchdowns or turning around and celebrating with him like clearly he's also just a football guy normal dude dude.
One of the boys. One of the dudes.
Yeah, exactly. So even that aspect of it, do you think having all the Mannings around will also be a massive benefit for Texas football? Or what do you think? Yeah, I think so.
Obviously, I think it's good to have the Mannings around, especially whenever they do the Manning Academy. Yes.
And the whole family's been doing that for however long down there.

In Louisiana, I think the biggest thing is the money gets your players.

But what players does it get?

Well, it gets the guys that run very fast 40s, right?

Because they go to these Nike camps and they get these times.

It's like all the big recruits that you're paying out of high school at least

are guys that can jump high, run fast, and are projected to be incredible athletes.

So when you think about NFL draft picks,

it's always like the guys that are just like incredible. I think Texas is about to have a pipeline, the more we think about it here.
With the resources that they have, with what they've already shown in the last couple years, speed, speed, speed is what they're looking for. Sark Offense is looking for that, feeding that.
I think they're becoming a pipeline. You talk about the defensive side.
That freshman of the year, last year, to beat out Jeremiah Smith. Ed Rudd.
Simmons? Simmons, yeah. That's what money gets you, though, is the freak athlete.
And then you have the coaches, and then also them been in the SEC, because now you know you're going to be competing in the best conference in football, even though Big Ten did their thing last year. I was going to say it wasn't last year.
I think the SEC is the best conference in football, so that's also a top-to-bottom pitch. Hey, now, with that being said, talking about resources and money, a lot of teams up north have the resources and money for football.
I think that is a genuine conversation that's happening behind the scenes. We should ask Sankey about that next time.
Like, hey, Sankey, are you worried about all the yuppies up north who create all the CEOs, all the suits, basically? I'm not saying there isn't great business schools in the south. I haven't done enough research on that.
Arkansas, though, you just mentioned the Walmarts. Boom, they got money.
Jerry. They got people.
You need to have a few of those people at your school. You need it.
Up there in the north, all these big, they got a lot of money people that are around michigan michigan recruited one yeah they recruited maybe the richest uh so i would like to let the world know that for west virginia i am currently recruiting billionaires okay okay because it feels like that's the game you're going to need west virginia doesn't have a lot of them coming out west virginia university got kendrick yeah great to see him taking a picture of a rod He's in. Okay.
That helps. Need him.
Yeah, need him all the way in. Need him in.
Need it. Brother, we love you.
Okay? We love you. We need you all the way in in that particular game.
But like Penn State, I don't want to bring it up every time we talk about this, but literally direct messaging from their school is we can afford anybody and anything at any sport we got it and they they put a seven they're doing a 700 million dollar um re-model of the stadium they got that cash brother like that like let alone building a roster they're talking about a 700 million dollar just re-model of state like we didn't make this place yeah yeah yeah boom boom boom boom i'll tell you what you donate get access to a speakeasy right down here. You can have your own little parking spot, walk in here, got a place to go to the bathroom and a drink during the game.
$10 million a year. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
No problem. Bang, bang, bang, bang.
They're just able to, they're not the only ones. Oregon's able to do the same thing.
Big Ten at the top has more cash than the SEC at the top. Yes, definitely.
Oregon, Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State. A lot of money.
A lot of money. And a lot of people ready to give.
And like, hey, this is the game now. Deal.
We're all the way. Money won't be an issue, but Penn State, every one of them programs were you gotta see it to believe it.
Yeah. You know, he's gotta see it to believe it.
Even like A&M. Texas A&M for years.
All the money. Oh, they got all the money, all the resources.
Jimbo's making, but like never could really get over that. Hump, Oregon has, you know, gotten there close.
But the teams that we know have done, like even Texas. Texas have been there before.
So we can kind of visualize that. We can see them being a dominant program.
So I got some of these other programs. I got to see them.
Well, and they're not in a conference, but that's why I like Notre Dame this year. It feels like it turned a corner.
They got 12,700 employees. Yeah, well, bingo.
I can't imagine how many employees Texas has. They said they were the number one company voted on, I guess, by 200,000 employees across the U.S.
Wow. Status.
Number one employer of 2025, Notre Dame.

That's from Boardroom. I saw something about innovative companies from them, too.

They put the Catholics up there at number one, brother.

Mm-hmm.

You know? Yeah, but I mean, once you

start releasing...

I thought I was a pretty good employer. Weren't we a pretty good

employer? Did you guys do any votes?

They didn't ask.

That's what you guys would say, though.

That's what you guys would say. I wouldn't put

Thank you. you start releasing I thought I was a pretty good employer weren't we a pretty good employer did you guys do any votes they didn't ask that's what you guys would say though that's what you guys would say I wouldn't put Notre Dame at number one that's for damn sure yeah and also isn't Delta having a bunch of planes blow up whoa whoa allegedly that's not allegedly not allegedly whatever the case congrats to all these companies you're really doing it yeah that N, that NVIDIA logo looks interesting, too.
They're doing great up there. What's wrong with the logo? I don't know.
Why don't you tell me? Just check it out. I have to go on.
NVIDIA, they're worth $100 trillion or something like that. Yeah, yeah.
Google, remember, they had little sleeping pods. I saw that.
They did. They had those sleeping pods.
In and out, inexpensive burgers. Right.
Yeah, but they're the best in the world. That keeps the employees happy.
Trader Joe's. 45 seconds.
Hell yeah. Real deal.
I love you. Alright, we will continue on YouTube, ESPN+, Disney+, and TikTok Live, which is the exact same place, other than ESPN+, and Disney+, that Big Night Out will be.
We will see you tomorrow here on ESPN. Goodbye.
Okay. Yeah, I announced that last night.
Should have done a little bigger announcement. Did you know you were announced last night? We decided four minutes before.
Cole was like, what am I supposed to say here? I'm like, what are you saying? He goes, I'm saying, bah, bah, bah, sell it, and bah, bah, bah. And then, do you want to, what are you going to say? I was like, like we should just say i'm streaming it i don't think that's been announced yet all right literally 35 seconds later kind of comes together you know it was uh it was kind of uh forced announcement uh rushed announcement i'll say not forced a rushed announcement both that being said yeah youtube tiktok live nx didn't know you know because didn't know if there was going to be a want to go see it.
You know, once there was a want to be in the arena, which I appreciate, and then I saw the reaction, it was like, all right, we should do a streaming version of this particular program. And WWE will be, you know, cameraing, rigging, setting up, and we'll be, yeah, it should be a good little program.
I think it's going to be a pretty good little program. There will also be giveaways for those watching at home, okay? Obviously, those will happen via the X platform, you know, because it's the easiest way to search things, find things, and respond in real time.
I know there's other platforms that people love. I can appreciate whatever your reasoning is.
But on X for giveaways, it's the easiest for us. Because search hashtag.
We can find literally the time that it's mentioned. And if you mess up the hashtag, it's on you.
So you got to do the entire thing. So we'll be doing giveaways throughout the entire evening to those watching at home.
And it should be a wonderful Wednesday night over there in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Those friends, are those their actual silhouettes?

Those are not their actual silhouettes.

Those are bland silhouettes.

And also, I don't know if that's the proper amount of people that will be there that evening.

Okay.

Keep guessing.

I was about to start making some guesses.

There's a lot of people guessing on the internet.

I do appreciate that.

Those people guessing things on the internet have led to some uncomfortable conversations between me and people. I'm coming? Is this real? That'd be cool.
I guess I could make it work. Quick turnaround.
It's a cool position to be in where people do want to actually be on the show, which I thought would be the complete opposite. So I've got a couple of text messages.
Hey, I've got my mentions. What am I doing? Is there something to...
This will be fun. It's like, I don't think so.
Well, why not? There might be an excellent. Would that be cool? But it's been a lot of...
That's going to be fucking cool, man. Oh, yeah.
That's going to be really cool. The people that I'm working with at the WWE to piece the in-production shit together, because they obviously do arena shows around the world.
They are showcasing that. It's been a lot of fun, because it feels like they're actually pumped up about it as well.
And I don't know if that's just strictly because they want me to feel good about it, or if they actually are pumped, but it feels like they are genuinely pumped up. And the amount of ideas that are being pitched

now, not only by the WWE

and the production folks, but also

the people that have been

booked for said show. There is a lot

of positive energy going around.

Too much, maybe.

No such thing.

There's positive energy? Yeah, you're right,

because the universe responds to positive.

That's right. Go Mana.
It is, Oos. It is.
You see that Oos, because the universe responds to positive. That's right.
Go, Mano.

It is, Oos.

It is.

You see that Oos-Klahoma drill? I did.

That was cool.

That was wild.

See, I mean, I didn't know rugby's doing the Oklahoma drill.

But I'll tell you what, George Foster, 72, good follow.

Former teammate of mine, offensive lineman in the NFL for a while.

He is a good follow.

And I'll tell you what, the Oos-Klahoma drill,

I don't know if they're doing this in rugby or if this is

every day happening, but what a collision.

Thought the ball carrier lost.

Turns out he ended up winning.

They had him in the first half, you see.

And then in the second half, he flipped that

entire thing around. What a collision with

no pads on, no helmet.

Gotta drive your feet on contact.

True. Can't stop your feet.

Gotta drive your feet on contact.

Isn't it E equals MC squared? I assume there was a math equation happening in old buddy's head as he was running at him. If I hit him clean and leave my feet, there's no way this guy stays standing.
And at the beginning, he was right. Yeah.
That sternum was collapsing a little bit. But then Us just responded, nope, put his foot in the ground and runs him over.
What a collision, Ty Schmidt. I mean, both those guys should be dead.
Realistically, both of those guys should be dead. And I'm guessing that we didn't get the footage, but they probably popped back up and did this like 15, 16 more times.
Especially with that crowd around you. How could you feel anything with that amount of people, especially under the lights? What a night.
And thank you to them for doing that. There's other magical videos circling around the internet.
Did you see Luka hit this shot? Oh my god. Luka Doncic from the corner from the vol.
I believe those are called volms in arenas. You take a vol to go back to wherever you need to go.
Before he heads back to the locker room, Luka Doncic, who has a million trick shots in his arsenal, hits that. I don't know how that goes in.
Okay, I put that one out there, and I go, what the fuck is this or something like that. I forget my actual tweet about it.
It ended up getting like six million. A lot of people felt the same exact way because the physics of that, I don't think that is supposed to – how high you have to shoot that to be able to come down.
It's a mortar. With how close it is.
And then also skips off the front, it still goes in. It's like, he has that bounce shot.
He has off the jumbotron shot. Luca, you could tell, just grew up throwing a ball at a hoop his entire life.
This shot, unbelievable. I mean, these guys obviously do it for, you know, this is what they do for doing all their life.
So they got trick shots out the ass. But this is crazy.
I mean, this is like a flop shot. Like, right over.
That's a flop shot. That's, like, unbelievable.
We saw with some other guys doing it, too. But this Luka, this is something you would expect.
If I had to pick a guy who can make a guy like this, a shot like this would be Luka and probably two other guys. The thing about Luka is whenever you do that, you have to say, wow, the hoop looks big tonight.
You know, you got 20 in the first quarter after making it. How could you not? After you make that, it's like everything's falling.
Lethal Shooter got to do it. Lethal Shooter will be able to put it off.
Let's see if he understands that. Lethal Shooter will be able to put a bottle in the hoop and he'll throw a gummy somehow over it.
I understand it. Somehow that fucker will drop right in there.
You know who I don't believe and never will anymore? A great shooter in history. Steph Curry from one bomb all the way to the opposite end of the court.
Remember, we saw a Sports Illustrated video a few years back where Steph Curry made five full court shots in a row. Then they told us it was just green screen.
He wouldn't be able to do that before a game oh can't fake that one wow good i lost my mind i said holy steph curry's a guy that didn't go in what saw it other are you shooting me there's multiple other angles it didn't go in yeah look all right didn't go that's not set's fault didn't go. Now, they clap for him.
Yeah. Okay? So he's just got to kind of take that and kind of move, I guess? Yeah.
Oh, you think he knows it didn't go in? Huh? You think he knows it didn't go in? Yeah. He's Steph Curry.
I mean, that's what... No, watch his reaction after this shot.
He puts his fingers up just so close. I almost made that.
Okay, so you think he was trying to tell the crowd, I didn't do it. Exactly.
But the internet didn't understand that. I was forced this on my algo saying, look what Steph just did.
Wait for it. Oh, yeah, he shook his head.
Look at that guy. So close right there.
So close. Okay, okay.
Okay, so we shouldn't leave Steph for this. I apologize.
Yeah, we do apologize we do apologize all right okay not steph's fault internet's fault for sure for telling us it was it was definitely because we go from luca to this i'm like these dudes need to these dudes need to go on thor yeah okay i don't know what all trick shots they got in their bag but this is an unbelievable thing so it's not steph's fault sports illustrated thingrated thing. That was his fault.
That can't be happening.

Very makeable. I think he would have been

able to make...

Especially after watching that.

He read the curve.

And where he was in the Sports Illustrated video, he wasn't

in a VOM. He was in front of the net.

There it is.

It's like, okay, now I definitely believe

he could do this, but I never would if he did. Yeah, like why wouldn't Steph be able to do this? Of course he can.
Yeah, maybe we're not the demo. What do you mean? I mean, because when we were kids, there were some commercials that completely captivated us.
The LeBron. Yeah, LeBron.
Mike Vick, I'm throwing the... Was that T.O.
or... Andre Johnson.
Andre Johnson. Michael Vick.
I thought those were real. Okay.
This is real. Nobody could convince me otherwise.
Mason Crosby kicking the bell tower. Yeah.
That was awesome. Yeah.
There are some great ones. I mentioned it there.
Beckham hitting the garbage cans. Do you remember that out there on the beach? Yep.
I thought, yeah, he could probably do that. Yeah.
I thought, yeah, David Beckham could do that. That one? I thought, yeah, Steph could do that.
Was it Ronaldinho off the goalpost?

Yeah, like the volleys. Tom Brady

just did one in the jugs machine. Well, you could tell

all of his are fake. Dan Marino

throwing it from the boat.

That one was real.

Let's not go

too far. Dan Marino

was fucking real. Yeah, I know.

That's what I'm saying. Vic actually

threw that football out of the stadium.

I believed it.

At the time, I thought he did.

The coolest one was the NBA.

Which one?

The Jingle Bells one where they actually shot all those balls.

Oh, you're talking about the eight hoops?

The eight hoops, yeah.

You're saying that wasn't real?

That was fun.

Yeah, that was fun to see them kind of all get on the same page like that.

That's good to see teamwork.

I like that type of stuff.

Speaking of, LeBron James will be on the show probably tomorrow. What? Okay.
Probably tomorrow. Holy shit.
That's insane. None of us really fully...
No, it's going to happen. I believe it when I see it.
That's the big thing. When I see that it is currently happening...
It would be so cool if it was to happen. We'd be very pumped about it yes but a lot of things seemingly have to fall into place here and uh we're hoping that it does yeah we're hoping that our our show is not based downtown indianapolis no so we are just hoping that that information has been it's within the vicinity i've been told it has vicinity is a good way to say.
I mean, we got vicinity. Same state.

Get a workout in. I mean, why not do the

shoot around here? It's a little bit of a drive, though.

He's used to it, though. L.A.

Oh, it's way short in L.A.

I mean, it's going to take

20, 25, 30 minutes to get there. No big deal.

You're used to it. I wanted to make sure

that that message was said to him because I don't need

him to land and then get told what it is.

I'm not doing that. Yeah, true.
So I just would like it to be told. Smart.
Hey, did you relay the message? Yep, they said he does know. I'm like, that's what it is right now though.
Like you guys Google the map now, what it will be at that time. Yeah, it'll be all right.
He's in. It's all right.
Can't wait to talk to you, Bronco. King James, LeBron James.
There's some good songs going on going around the internet. What's that? LeBron James.
Oh, man. The LeBron James There's some good songs going on Going around the internet What's that? LeBron James Oh man, the LeBron James mixes Someone did One we listened to was Hey There Delilah You know that song? Yeah And someone did Hey There LeBron I mean, there are these mixes of songs going around in there Are they saying LA City or New York City? What's the next line to be honest i don't remember specifically i do or it's like what's it like being the goat or something like that okay so we're completely it was just saying la city okay sweet so i hadn't heard it but sounds like i it's a tick tock thing i understand it now yeah bingo tick tock's wacky man zany we're on We're on there a lot.
A lot of people get their information from our TikTok, I guess. Oh, yeah.
Nice. I find that out when I'm out and about.
That's an interesting little piece of information. I'll say it every time.
They're the most positive community out there at all, social media platforms. So they're real.
So positive. Yeah.
So positive. They're very nice.
They're real. Shout out to TikTok.
Oh, yeah. Her daughter's one of them.
Your daughter, big TikToker? Yeah. Her friend group, like, huge TikTokers.
They dance? Yeah, but not as much. That kind of gets annoying.
Why? You got to understand that they're kids. So, you know, I'm going to practice.
I'm sitting on the sideline, and they're over there, you know, five minutes before practice, and they're... Lock in! Something to do.
Yeah, I just got I just got to relax. Hey, we're on TikTok.
Relax. Okay.
I'm going to ban it from the locker room. You can be on TikTok.
You just can't dance on TikTok. That's what Rich Roderick is.
Yeah. I know they're going to be on it, so I can't just ban the app.
I wish I could. Fuck, I wish I could.
They just can't fucking dance on the app. You see? They can fucking open it, but when they open it,

I better not see them in fucking tights in our locker room dancing.

Okay?

Hard edge?

What's hard edge about you fucking in your Spanx dancing around on TikTok?

That was Rich Rod's message to the team.

Good mess.

Made sense.

Great mess.

And you.

Delete the app.

I really do wonder how these kids feel going from Neil Brown to Rich Rodriguez.

I mean, there's a reason.

I'm sure Neil had a similar message.

Yeah, okay.

So many people onto the portal.

I would like to see the numbers on West Virginia.

I mean, I couldn't imagine. We went from Rich Rodriguez to Bill Stewart, rest in peace, who's a legend.

But with Bill Stewart came a new strength coach who's still there.

Mike Joseph is a great dude.

But just the entire culture was very different than what it was with Rich Rod.

Rich Rod is like, hey, we're on time.

We're working our asses off.

And we're just – we are.

You are all in.

This is all the time.

This is what we are.

And then everything else is like, you know, like it's just just a little bit different. Like, everybody's culture is a little bit different.
From what I got to experience briefly with Neil Brown's culture and what we know about Neil, Neil represented West Virginia with a lot of class. And I think he was an incredibly nice guy.
Was giving credit to the other coach all the time. You know, credit to this team, credit to was very respectful like i do appreciate that but i think they had a a different culture than what rich rod would have and uh i wonder now after one spring especially with that transfer portal thing available like what guys are going to do you know because i assume there's an easier way that they've already like maybe experienced like hey it doesn't have to be you know so i do wonder about that but are we at a time now where people are understanding where uh you're it's good to be held accountable whenever you're trying to become like an adult like it's good to be coached it's good to go really hard it's good to do these things like i think at the beginning of transfer portal was like you and transfer.
You're mean, transfer, all those things. He just talked about 700 guys in the portal or whatever it is in the entire thing.
I think at the beginning of the portal, there was a lot of that. I wonder if we're getting to a point now where maybe there's a little bit more like, hey, got to go through a little bit of adversity.
I hope so. I hope so, too.
Need it. You need it.
You hear a lot of the coaches talk about, I'm sure players probably talk talk about it amongst themselves. So many people going to the portal and just get left high and dry.
And then I feel very, very bad for the high school kids where they don't have the same opportunity that we had when we were coming out. So if you are in a spot where you can't compete, you got a coach who cares about the program, cares about your development.
Obviously, every situation is different and unique in its own. But as a general statement, I would say, you know, grind it out, man.
You're going to have some adversity. You may have to get in the play.
Life is going to have some. Yeah, and take the hard coach or whatever it is.
Most coaches have an open-door policy. I'm sure Rich Rock was like this when you guys were there, to go in there and ask him, hey, what can I do better? What do I need to do better? What do I need to do to get the playing time that I want?

And most coaches will be real with you because, shit,

you got options now anyway.

So have that man-to-man conversation, woman-to-woman conversation, depending on whatever program you're in, and, you know, get it done

and fight through some adversity.

There's an open-door policy over there,

but he also will open a door for you to get in there a couple times.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, those are good convos.

I've heard five different fucking stories from last night. They all start at your fucking house.
It was a duplex, you know. I was in bed, whatever, yeah.
Well, yeah, it was your house. Yeah, I was in my house.
I was there. I was at my house.
How come everybody's saying? I don't know what you want me to say. We were gathering.
We had a camaraderie chemistry building cookout yesterday. I guess that's where everybody started at.
You know where you're going to start each day for the next week? Fucking stairs. 6 a.m.
I'm fucking sick of it. All right.
Okay, I'm going to get the fuck out of here. How'd it go in there? Terrible.
6 a.m. stairs tomorrow.
Oh, yeah, yeah. That's how everybody reacted.
That's how I started the season. Was it a basketball gym? Stairs? No, no.
It was the football stadium. Ooh.
Yeah, 6 a.m. That was the beginning of the season because this is after training camp, you see? Yeah, we had 6 a.m.
That was our punishment, too. Yeah, yeah.
That was no fun. That was no fun at all.
Sandbags, too. I didn't have that.
Because we had to run because our stadium was off campus, but the old stadium was still on campus, Memorial Field, much shorter stadium, so it wasn't high enough. 60-pound sandbags.
Jeez. So, yeah.
Yeah, you guys did have that lower. Yeah, because no one cared.
Well, the old stadium. Whoa.
And then we built the new one that was filled every Saturday. The house that Dono built at Orlowski Field.
The house that Orlowski built, exactly. And then, you know, got ranked for the first time, played on ESPN a bunch, went to BCS Bowl.
Who'd you play on ESPN all the time? You guys, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Cincy. Louisville, even? Louisville, a lot of bangers.

They didn't have a great time playing at WWE.

You know, they were ahead of the game.

You know, that tricky shit with Pat White.

Unstoppable.

The environment just running like it was this.

Pat White and Steve Slayton were unstoppable.

Yeah, that shit was some video game shit.

For like a year and a half, two years, it was just like unstoppable. And then Pat gets hurt.
I have a terrible first quarter. We don't play well.
And now it's like Rich moves on to Michigan. And then that whole era just got like forgot about.
Like don't even talk about it. Ended bad.
We don't want to hear about it. And I'm just like, God damn.
Like I understand that it ended bad, but I think we should talk about Pat White and Steve Slayton a little bit more. Because what Pat was able to do there is just, he won five straight bowl games, including the senior bowl, obviously.
Like, one of the best leaders of all time. And whenever he was on a football field, it felt like he was going to score every time he got the ball.
And if not him, somebody else was. And we were obviously running the fucking, you know, option zone or whatever.
You get it. RPO, I guess they call it now.
But you had Owen Schmidt, who is 250 pounds, whatever it was, hand cleaning like 400 pounds, just like an absolute monster. He's either taking the dive or Steve Slayton's getting the pitch or Pat White's going to cut it and go.
And it was like, it was unstoppable. It wasn't.
Because it was something you only saw maybe once, twice a year. And nobody else had a Pat White than Steve Slayton.
And Darius Raynaud we had. And Raynaud out there.
And they went on to get Devine and all these other athletes. So, yeah, it was.
It was. But, I mean, Big East.
Pat White murdered a guy against UConn. Fucking murdered a guy.
Yeah, it was illegal.. He would have been kicked out of the game.
It was Bush League. But those Big East days were some good days.
Shady McCoy, that crew of Pittsburgh, Ray Rice, Brian Leonard at Rutgers, Kenny Britt. I think I just got Shady's number.
Yeah, Brian Kelly, Cincinnati. What's Shady's on? The facility? What's it called? The facility.
Yeah, I think he is on the facility. I just got his number.
I just got connected with him. I don't think I've – I haven't talked to him in a long time.
Yeah, he was great. Yeah.
I mean, just fucking – Yeah. Donald Brown, obviously, can't go out and mention him.
First round draft pick. 2,000 yards back.
Indianapolis Colts. First round pick, I believe, from UConn.
Wow. Good dude.
You guys stopped giving him the ball against us this senior year.

He had a fumble in the first half, and then the second half you guys didn't give him the ball.

We won.

But, like, it feels like if you would have given him the ball, he had something going.

He had something.

He was our offense.

Yeah, he certainly was.

And he was awesome.

He ran, like, perfect form running.

He was a good dude.

That was like we played Calvin Johnson and Roman Reigns in the Gator Bowl, and they didn't throw to Calvin Johnson in the whole second half. It was awesome.
It was like we were so happy and thankful they didn't do that. It was just like I was – I didn't fully – I wasn't like a – I feel like my football IQ, good.
Not great next to everybody else. But at the time, it was very limited.
I was just like a football fan at the time. And, boy, you'd see some teams do some stuff, and's like, they got this guy, we don't.
Did they not see number 21 out there? Before we played him, my coach was like, if I was Georgia Tech, I would throw the ball to 21 50 times. Live with the result.
The first time I lined up against Calvin, you see him on tape, but when he stood across from me, it was like his fucking hands were scraping the ground while he stood in his stance And then he was faster than anybody else in the field the shit he did like even on the video game Like it was like he was a video game out there in real life thing ready was Reggie ball the quarterback Was it Taylor Bennett the lefty? I think it was better Oh lefty white, dude. Yes, okay.
I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. Okay.
Rage your ball is a super athletic number one righty.

Yeah.

He'll need one of those two.

To try our choices.

Is this a Yukon hit?

Is this a Yukon hit right here?

Okay.

Oh, come on.

Let's relive this.

I think this is on Thursday night.

Steve Slayton gets the pitch.

Owen Schmidt murders somebody.

Somebody fills the gap.

Crackback coming.

Boom.

Oh, I remember that.

That's Matt White and then a horse caller, obviously. Horse caller.
That was me diving in there late. Extra 15, hopefully we got there.
Hopefully I got a half a tackle. Yeah, that was our quarterback, though.
That was our quarterback just getting up. Yeah, that's Bush League.
Here's a nice slow-mo. Look at the Montlady and Maniacs getting after it.
Obviously, good times back there. There's a – here it is.
How old are we? Hey, look at the – anytime I look at old highlights, it's like, wow.

It's amazing how much technology has changed.

Bang.

Dead.

See ya.

That's about white football, baby.

I loved it.

That's about white football.

I wasn't loved it.

Good effort, Butch.

Great effort, yeah.

Taking away the touchdown.

Oh, there's the dive with Owen Schmidt.

Yeah, I mean, just classic.

Literally what we did there.

Pitch, cutback.

Now we're running either a dive or a pitch. It's not fun.
Boom! Boom! Took out two. If you're a good man, get one.
If you're a great, get two. That's about what I did.
Dana Dulles. Big East was probably Thursday Night Football too.
Those shoulder pads too. That was before the NFL was on Thursday.
So our numbers on Thursday night were absurd. And it was a spectacle.
And then on the sideline was Rich Rodriguez. Give me the fuck.
We got some coaches, too. Rich Rod, I think Wanstead was at a pit.
And Brian Kelly, Cincinnati. Petrino.
Petrino at Louisville. It was either Wanstead or the – what was his name? Wanstead was there? He went to Stanford after.
I can't remember his name.

Big East was awesome.

Shaw.

Howland.

No, that's basketball.

Ben Howland.

Jamie Dixon.

Yeah.

Also basketball.

Big East was great.

It was.

Good days.

It was an honor to be a part of it.

Good run, gentlemen.

It was an honor.

It was a good run.

Louisville was really good at that time.

Yeah, Brian Brom. Brian Brom.

Mike Bush. Yeah, he was a fucking tank.
There was a good run. Louisville was really good at that time.
Yeah, Brian Brom. Harry Douglas.
Mike Bush. Yeah, he was a fucking tank.
There was a Bush chant the one game we played where he came out. He just broke his leg.
So he was on crutches, and I think it was a Thursday night game. We always played on Thursday night.
Before Mike, it was always like a Thursday night game. He came out.
That entire place was chanted for him. I had to feel so cool.
He was so big.

Yeah.

And who was the – we just talked about it.

D Tackle, the kid who was super young.

Nigerian name.

Yeah.

Mbobio Koye.

Yeah.

I think his other one.

He was young, probably like 17 when he first hit that scene.

He was just picking dudes up.

Yeah, 16, 17.

I think he went to the league like 19, 20 or something crazy like that. Who else was there? Tight end? Barnage? Gary Barnage? Tight end.
I remember Harry. Kelsey was in Cincy.
Same with Jason. Kelsey was in Cincy.
Harry Douglas, you were going to say? Yeah, I think I saw him run by me one time on my return. He spit in your face, didn't he, D-Buck? Yeah.
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Sports! Great work yesterday by Ian Rappaport. The baby Rappaport.
Appreciate you doing that rap sheet. He took a victory lap on the insiders.
I don't know if you saw that. Talked about how much he crushed it.
And I agree. It was an honor to chit-chat with him from Scotland.
Obviously, last night's Monday Night Rollover in Glasgow was insane. Did you see John Cena? cena crazy what's he doing he's calling he's he's saying you're horrible people i know he's saying you're horrible people yeah it's over for john then he talks about that kid like just buried him yet again and he said you guys cheered for me burying that kid you're terrible people you shot profanities your child is your terrible people he's just letting these people know and i saw some kids in the crowd over there in Glasgow who, what did we do? Say, hey, John.
And John Cena said, what did you do? Not enough. And that was an uncomfortable situation out there.
I'm going to say, D. Butch, nine-year NFL vet, Darius J.
Butler, I was uncomfortable listening to John Cena and talking to the crowd like him. I was, too.
And I was sitting about two seats down right over in the Thunderdome, the think tank, from D-Bone, and he was shouting profanity at John Cena. Really? He was going along with the champ? Oh, yeah.
So everything that Cena was saying, he was saying it right to him. So it was good to see exactly who he was talking to.
And I'm going to stand on what I said last week. They deserve it.
Who? Everybody that John Cena was talking about. Damn right.
All of them. In every universe that D-Bone's in, he deserves it.

Okay, I don't love that about D-Bone.

I don't think D-Bone loves it either, but D-Bone's been a supporter of John Cena since the beginning.

Since the very beginning.

We're talking wearing the headband on the head.

And wearing wristband on his bicep. You can't see me, Joe? It wasn't funny.
It was, though. It was funny.
Look, that is D-Bone right there. He is that kid.
He was once that kid. That's how long John Cena has been doing it.
And D-Bone was heartbroken. And I saw a little boy over here boy over here to my right last night who very obviously was being told to boo Cena, but he didn't want to.
He's a sweet boy. He didn't want to do it.
Tearing him apart? He was. He was tearing him apart when Cena was doing.
Yeah, legit. It was bad.
Who was telling him to boo? You could tell people around him. People around him were like, we don't like him.
That's how Scotland rolls? I don't think it's just Scotland. I think it's WWE Universe right now.
I think there's some people that when that music gets, you know, it all goes. National reaction is John Cena's here, and then people have to be reminded.
We don't like this guy anymore. He don't like us.
He sold out. He said some terrible things.
He has sold out. He sold out.
He sold out to big corporate fat cats. He sold out to China.
He sold out to many, many things. And it feels like now, John, the clock's ticking.
And I'm glad his time is up. Now, with that being said, D-Bone has purchased the newest shirt, fresh off of last night's promo.
John Cena said he's going to win the title. Then he's going to retire.
4XL? Yeah. Obviously, 4X is alarming.

Holy fuck, man. Bone, Bone, come on, Bone.

Some vegetables.

I walked out there.

He was eating fortune cookies.

He wasn't even taking the paper out of it.

He was just housing fortune cookies.

He had four to five of them,

which means he ordered enough

for the Chinese food company

to think that this was a four to five person meal

because they try to give as many fortune cookies

to as many people they think are going to be eating.

So we need to watch this, D-Bone.

I saw him eat four.

He's not going to be eating so we need to watch this d-bone i saw him eat four he might have been given six how many orders did this guy i want number two i want a ten i want a 38 and then they're like well this gotta be a hundred people yeah how many and then he's just eating them d-bone good lord tell me he got chinese again? Did he know yesterday? He got Chinese yesterday as well. After a sturdy breakfast.
T-Bone, enough. You're going to die.
Okay? Take care of yourself. I know you're...
Huh? They shrink. Okay.
The shirts shrink. Oh, so he...
I mean, we know. We can't say it.
You know what?

You might be onto something there.

All right.

Good call, D-Bone. All right.

We're happy to see you're not 4X on your way to 5, is what he's saying.

It also doesn't help you got to wash it 100 times when you're spilling mustard all over

and all that kind of stuff every single time you wear it.

So, you know, most people are washing that thing, what, two, three times a month.

D-Bone's got to wash it, you know, four or five times a week.

Is this D-Bone's first place at work? It feels like we – I believe he worked for the Kane County Cougars, which is a ball team. What was he doing from home? I think he was doing a lot of remote stuff.
Freelance, yeah. I assume he said, like, hey, if I can't come in and get at least 10 hot dogs from the concession stand every single day, I'm not working for you guys.
That's part of the contract. Yeah.
And he's got to watch it too because boy, does he smell bad right now. He's sweating like a greased pig, man.
D-bone? Yeah. Does he know that? D-bone? I was watching last week when he came and stood there.
That was rude. What D-bone? What Connor was saying? Walk him out of my shoes, bud.
Okay? You'd be sitting over here, you'd be saying P.U. just like me.
No. Yeah.
No, that wouldn't even do it justice. D-Bone, take care of yourself.
Okay? We love you, D-Bone. Graveyards yawn when he's rolling by.
Okay? That's when you know. That's when you know.
Boy, oh boy, we got a shite-smelling fatso on our heads. That's not true.
D-Bone, that is not true. We don't agree with that.
But I will say, D-Bone, you're really good at what you do. You got great energy in here.
We need you to live. Yeah.
Okay? You're way too young. Yeah, we love you.
For these things to be being said about you. Okay? You get to 30.
You know, you get a kid. You get married.
Then you let yourself go. Those things happen.
Fine. Right now, can't be can't be happening d-bone his national champion jersey is hanging in the locker right now bone or sorry d-buds gasped yesterday he said that's how that's how the size you used to be no those are tight jerseys listen we don't need to be making this guy is a big guy right now he's living he's retired athlete national champ yeah you're right you must say football player i have not seen yeah you haven't.
How long has it been hanging in there? Maybe I've seen it. I always thought it was a replica.
That's his actual? Yeah, I believe that's his actual. And I know he's retired, but, you know, you hope for like a FANICA retirement, not a – I don't want to bury the person that I was about to.
Smart. That's very nice of you to do that.
And let's continue to lift up, D-Bone. D-Bone.
Well, eight or ten of us can lift him up. All right.
Maybe as a team. Uso's a bet.
Jimmy and Jay. That was positive.
That was great to see. That was really great to see.
It was. It was.
Connor just showed me who he was going to refer to. It was good to see Jimmy and Jay Uso.
I'm happy you didn't do that. Me too.
Okay, very kind of you. Nobody ever talks about those moments.
No. No moments no no they don't yeah everybody always talks about when we maybe too much how about whenever we choose not to yeah we're straight that's very nice of us very kind of us we're adults so are you uh jimmy and jay last night was great to see yeah how about motivational speech from big jim as well he said what is this he slipped right in front of me go what was he doing go through his reeling then he's going to spear he slips right in front of me it's like what are you jay just spear the fucking guy yeah what do we you know and uh going through obviously attack from a blind side which we don't like yeet uh the whole place obviously scotland was eating 10 900 plus eating alongside of them and i'm very thankful we didn't do last week's uh 10 minute yeet they did remember that oh yeah we're watching here from the thunderdome and the entire netflix uh commercial break which is also international uh they're watching through

the entire time just yeeting for 10 minutes straight that's i'm happy that didn't happen

i wouldn't have made it yeah especially in my uh kilt obviously but yeah okay and grayson waller

aussie lad calls himself an aussie icon him and austin are uh they it feels like they could they

have the they're strapping young they have the they have everything just right here. It's all right here.
When are they going to flip the switch? When are they going to become professional odds? When are they going to take it to the next level? We all wait, but we know the Usos are going to be in the Hall of Fame. It was great to watch them work in Scotland.
One half of the hammer. Cowboys AP tone is here.
Cam Ward tone uh did a little chat yet again this time with uh rich eisen about aaron rogers potentially coming to the pittsburgh stews remember there was a quote uh cam hayward say you want to be a steward you don't and then obviously that was aggregated and taken out and cam was like i'm just like i'm literally just saying that he clarified a little bit with rich eisen here it is. You know, it's funny.
Everybody gave me crap.

They said I called him out.

I don't think I really called him out.

I just said I was not going to go on a darkness retreat to recruit him.

If he wants to be a stealer, he can be a stealer.

Right.

That's the pitch.

I just want to win games and play good football.

In all seriousness, and I will give you the floor on this,

guy signs, you got a

problem. Anybody who signs,

I welcome to the team.

I don't have an

ego and think like we can't

win with a guy. I get excited for a team.

You bring a guy on

like that, he's got a good knowledge

of the game, and I think he can

only help. You're 15, man.

You want to talk about how things have changed for the Steelers? Trading a draft choice, A, for B, a wide receiver, and C, giving him the contract that they gave DK Metcalf. If I told you that over the first few years of the Steelers, you'd say, what team is this again, right? You know, I think we're in a state of, you know, urgency.
We have a lot of guys that, like myself, that in the latter stages of their career, and we all want to win. It's not just enough to win a playoff game, which we haven't won in a couple years, and there's a bad taste in our mouth because of that.
Yeah, and that's why you're talking about an urgency with a bunch of, you know, OGs that might be looking at the clock on the wall a little bit here. To be honest, that's why Rodgers is kind of a fit there, if you think about it, right? I mean, like, I don't know how much time he considers in his head that he does have left, but it would be similar to what you might be thinking, Cam, you know, and others on the team.
That's kind of why it sounds like it's a fit. So, with all that being said, shout out to Rich Eisen, by the way.
Him dropping OGs casually. Pretty sweet of that.
And, you know, the editor there making Cam's head the entire screen. I understand different sizes, especially for TikTok or a reel.
Cam Hayward does have a gigantic head. It's actually a part of the reason why he's so damn good.
It's in his family. His dad's name was Ironhead.
So, him being years in certified hall of famer i think everybody says yinzer legend him talking about the state of urgency i saw as soon as he said that to rich you nodded your head as a yes and also him saying i wasn't calling out aaron roger i'm just saying like hey you either want to be here or you don't which i think is what aaron's potentially trying to figure out right now i've not talked to aaron how'd you take away from what cam just said and how do you feel about where the state of the steelers is right now i couldn't agree more with with what rich and cam were but we're both saying and yeah i mean cam's been there for 15 years tj's been there for a long time mink has been there for a long time there last year they were the highest paid defense in the nfl and not only the team are they getting antsy this the fan base is getting super antsy uh it's at a loud yeah loud it at a boiling point, to be honest, if it keeps continuing like this. But, no, I agree with everything they said.
And Cam, his original comments, I had no problem with, you know, because I think the longer that it goes on, I worry that Aaron is not going to be a stealer, and I do want him to be a stealer. You know, they had the meeting, the six-hour meeting on Friday, which everyone said went well.
Rap said everything went well. Your sources said everything went well.
Not sure what the hold-up is at this point. Well, everybody assumed my source was Aaron.
I don't know. You just said sources, so I didn't know.
We know people in Pittsburgh. I reached out.
But a lot of people said it wasn't positive. Everyone said that he was great in the building.
Everyone met him. They said he was great.
So, yeah, let's get a name on a dotted line, and let's play some football. Yeah, and I do wonder.
Like you said, the longer it goes, the less likely you feel like he's going to be a Pittsburgh Steeler, especially after a six-hour visit. It's like I do wonder what all he's contemplating.
The Aaron Rodgers brain, though, does operate in that fashion, especially first time ever being a free agent, I think. Yes.
First time ever in his life he's been a free agent. Also, certified career, like Mount Rushmore.
Legacy built. Football, yeah.
Rich. Just became philanthropist of the year.
That's right. And Cali.
Yeah. Oh, wow.
You know, for giving back to everything. Yeah.
Like, I think everything he's accomplished would already say, like, hey, you've done good. You know, and you can just literally ride into the sunset.
And if that sunset is you actually hopping on a ship and trying to get to the sun or to the moon. Yeah.
Whatever. Either or.
You could go do all of those things. I do wonder what, and obviously, he and I have not chatted throughout this entire thing i assume he's talked to aj honestly i assume that there has been some sort of chatter with aj has aj brought it up probably not i mean that is classic aj hawk football but what do you think is all going through his mind and have the more you've thought about him with the steelers where do you kind of sit at now nine year nfl uh the more i think about it the more i see it happening honestly you don't want it if you especially if you're a Stiller fan, you don't want it lingering.
But the more I see it happening, and if not going into the draft, once the draft hits, I feel like that's where I kind of give up hope and start looking at, hey, Jackson Dart or Quinn maybe, depending on how it's program. I do wonder if they – You start kind of mind shifting there, but you talked about all the things and the accolades.
Like, if those guys, if they come back, you know, it they always want more so i'm sure aaron rogers want to go more you're going to a place that is built they have pieces where they can win uh right now and that is a place that is a program where getting to the playoffs winning a division those things aren't good enough you want to compete and win for a title and it's been a long time uh since they've done that so up there i saw uh one of bullet points said money was not discussed during the six hours it was already agreed to allegedly so the money's already there's already been like so the money's not an issue the money's not an issue allegedly money has already been like yep that'll be enough we got it and they say yeah we'll give it to us so like now granted getting down into the nitty-gritty when's everything guaranteed and what the bonuses look like that's a whole another conversation but allegedly there's already been contract in parameters that both sides have said that's good back to what you said though uh that was a very good point about once the draft then we'll kind of pay attention i do wonder if there has been a draft deadline by both sides yeah like i do wonder if the steelers are like if you could give us a heads up before you know the draft that'd be great because we'd obviously be looking at who our future's going to be. We already got Mason Rudolph.
We'd be looking at the draft. Or if there's a date before the draft where they're like, if we don't know by this point, we'd like to dive into more draft.
I just wonder if there is a deadline because deadlines are the things that obviously draw decisions from people in the entirety of it all. I wonder what the years are.
Because let's say instead of just a one-year, he does a two-year. And you would kind of assume almost already like, hey, we're going to draft a QB.
We want you to be the QB this year, maybe next year. But no matter what, this isn't going to be a four-year deal.
They need a quarterback. And maybe, I don't know what the 2026 draft class looks like.
Yeah, so maybe they're already looking there as well. But you would think if, for instance, a Will Howard, which we haven't really brought up since the Combine, or another guy that might be in that second or third round that's available there, like Quinn Ewers, that they might be thinking, hey, we're going to take this guy either way.
But if it's a two-year deal, would that shock you? Would more than one year kind of be? I think they would definitely put multiple years strictly for the summer cap gymnastics thing. And who knows how many voided years on the back.
Who knows what the game is that Mr. Omar Khan, the Khan artist, does, the general manager, and Aaron Rodgers' representatives in this entire thing put the deal together.
But Giants allegedly still in, too. And from what we've heard, he hasn't traveled to New York, right? Yeah, and Jameis, I feel like that doesn't change it at all.
That's interesting to me. Well, Ian Rappaport said that contract says he's a backup contract.
That's what he said. I wonder if that's the Mason Rudolph thing as well, right? Everybody just kind of assumes.
Yeah, Mason got similar money as well. But, no, I don't think – whether Aaron comes or not, I don't think it should change whether they take a quarterback or not.
Because, I mean, like we said, Aaron's 40, 41, whatever it is. He's not going to be there a long time.
If you want to take a quarterback this year where you're picking at, I don't think they should probably start this year anyway. So I don't think it should affect.
Or if you want to go and, you know, maybe – because they got a bunch of comp picks coming after, you know, Dan Moore goes for $50 million, Justin Fields goes for $30 million. They got comp picks coming next year, and the draft is in Pittsburgh.
So if you want to, you know, bongrel a couple of threes and go up to number one or number two and get the quarterback. White Pittsburgh going far.
In your city. Could you imagine the Yinsers? There has been a trade.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have traded for the number one overall pick. That place would go upside down, no matter who got drafted.
Yeah, whether Arch stays or not, because he'll be a starter for one year. Nico could come out.
Drew Aller could progress again. There's a lot of quarterbacks coming out next year.
Yeah, so maybe Mason and Aaron this year, and then what happens next year we shall see and figure out. But I'm excited to figure out when he's going to make the decision and what is the deciding factor.
What is the moment? Not only the moment, but right now, what is the... I thought it was the Vikings for a while.
I think we all did. Because I think he wanted potentially a clearer picture of who...
What is all an option right now? Still kind of do. What? What's that? With the Vikings.
No. You think there's still an option? I still kind of do, yeah.
A little bit. Really? Didn't Pellicero come out and say no? He's not? Oh, I forget what the report was.
Yeah, the report was that the Vikings said. They haven't said that, but they're going with J.J.
McCarthy. Is what Tom Pellicero reported.
Correct. And J.J.
said to K they haven't told him that. Yeah, they have not told him that.
Yeah, they have not told him that. And I think he said he liked that as well.
Been a competitor going there and earning it, which I respect. Me too.
So who knows? We will certainly ask him if we get the opportunity to. And hopefully the Pittsburgh Steelers or the New York Giants or the Minnesota Vikings.
I'm just saying. I mean, I'm reading now what's on that graphic because, you know, during this time it's so much bullshit floating around.
But I'm not seeing anything like they're definitely out on Aaron Rodgers. But you heard from JJ that he's not been told he's the guy.
Yeah, and then I see not pursuing Aaron Rodgers at this time, that kind of reeks of like, well, right now we don't like Aaron, but tomorrow we might. But again, you know, if Pellicero said it.
No, hey, listen, I appreciate the fact that you're like, let's not rule out anything at this exact time, especially as, you know, continue to do research, continue to figure things out, continue to talk to each other, continue to learn about each other, which I think was a big part of that trip to Pittsburgh, which is like, let's learn about how this would potentially go. Because maybe he didn't do that last time, you know, with the Jets.
Remember, they flew out to him. Yeah, I don't think he did.

I don't think he went over and didn't. He got the heroes

welcome when he first showed up, but that was

like, after it was a done deal, like, hey, you're

going to be the Jets quarterback. He's already

said that he loves the city of Pittsburgh. He respects

the city of Pittsburgh. I think he just wanted to know what

the building was probably like, and I assume they wanted to know

what this dude was like in person as

well. Well, and you talked about it yesterday.
I believe you mentioned

it yesterday, that Steelers, Brass, Omar, Mike Tomlin, they did not go to Michigan's Pro Day. And there's a lot of guys at that point where Kenneth Grant or Will Johnson who are definitely on their board.
So I think it was big that they did not go to their Pro Day to meet with Aaron. I wonder if anybody in Pittsburgh has told Aaron Rodgers that Kenny Wood's back.
Have you heard? Have you heard? Well, I've seen it. Have you heard? Have you heard the news? I've heard.
Kennywood is all the way back. They were up for sale, weren't they? Guess what? They sold.
And guess who bought it? Record time. A fucking amusement park family.
Oh, yeah, that's right. So they're coming in, and they're doing it.
And Kennywood has so much opportunity to be the greatest amusement park on earth yet again. And I say that because if you do recall in the past, Kennywood was right there at the top.
Rollercoaster Enthusiast said Kennywood at 1, maybe 1A behind Disney World. Now, very close.
What was that? What was the publication? Rollercoaster Enthusiast. Number one roller coaster.
Enthusiasm. Never heard of it, bud.
Not much of a roller coaster guy then, are you? Yeah. How about Coaster Heads? I don't know if you've heard about that.
Does Florida even have roller coasters? Yeah. They got the biggest in the world.
That's Orlando. That's pretty good.
I was there. I was there a couple weeks later.
It's not the biggest in the world. They didn't have the potato patch, which was certainly something, which Kennywood does have.
So maybe score one for the black and yellow here. But basically everything else, Disney World did seemingly have more of what Kennywood had.
I didn't expect that. More than that.
I didn't go to Disney World. Disney World was not an amusement park.
I only went to Kennywood. What is it? Disney World.
They're in their own category. Universe.
Yeah. Yeah, you're right.
It's a universe. Kennywood's a big with Six Flags and some other bullshit.
We can gimmick this Kennywood thing. They sold.
For as long as we want. None of you guys have been to Kennywood in 10 plus years.
And also, yeah, Kennywood might be better now because they sold, because whatever was running, whether it's the Kenny family or the Wood family, either family that was running it, now that they've given up the reins, it makes more sense. It'll be decent.
Just please, please, please, before we go any further, the Attractions Group podcast has a message about Kennywood, please. Ricky Spacuzza, Kennywood's general manager.
I know you're all excited to see the steel curtain return, and I'm excited for you to tackle this record-setting coaster. In addition to what work you might have seen during the Phantom Fall Fest and Holiday Lights last year, we've had columns delivered this offseason.
Hell yeah. They're currently going up all around me.
These new columns will help ensure that the steel curtain is around and ready to thrill riders for many years to come. See that steel factoring about the interaction on this tweet? Our maintenance team is going to add the two trains back to the track and test runs will begin.
Fuck yeah. They'll move that right over.
You might even see work in testing of the coaster during your first visits this spring. Over the past few months, I've seen this project come to life, and the wait is almost over.
So get ready to go upside down nine times on Pennsylvania's... Nine times.
Whoop-de-woos. Can't wait to announce an opening date soon.
Stay tuned. Thank you, Mr.
Spicazza. Ricky Spicazza.
They got good Paisan out there running that thing. You see that? Nine whoop-de-woos? You know what opening day is? Huh? You know what opening day is? When is it? April 12th.
So if you want to stick around a couple days, I'll see you there, bro. Wait a minute.
Maybe we can make a few phone calls, see if we can get in there a little couple days earlier. Holy shit.
You want to talk about whoop-de-woos? Wait, so you're going to test out whoop-de-woos? You guys are going to? Okay. I'll get on...
You're going to test them up? Yeah. Okay.
Have fun. Oh, now, whoop-de-boos.
Have fun, Joey. Sign the forms.
What are you talking about? Wait till I get... Phantom's Revenge, Steel Curtain, you name it.
Exterminator. Exterminator's inside.
Oh, buddy. Come on, brother.
Kennywood's all the way back. You heard of Mr.
Ricky there? Mr. Ricky was talking about it.
Maybe Connor can go to kiddie land and ride the teacups. Oh, and maybe the swings.
I like the swings and the teacups. I'm fine with that.
Well, I'll say this. Best swings in the country because the music selection during the swings is great.
Black and yellow. Renegade nonstop.
Yeah. Over and over again.
Good vibe. Nelly.
And also you get a chance to see a steel mill. You see that in the background? There's a reminder of all the hard work that has been done to make sure that this place is what it is.
They sell it. Reinvest in it.
Kennywood's back. Just know that.
If you get a chance to stop by, you should definitely go and support it. And go to the potato patch.
Get some fries and cheese. Okay.
And then walk out of there and say, this is the best fucking fries I've ever had in my life. There you go.
And that's all you need. Maybe Noah's Ark stopped by.
I'm glad they're still bringing it. Because I was sure that family bought it.
I'm just going to tear that shit down. What? They're not still bringing it.
What? I mean, I thought they're still bringing it. They're not still bringing it.
Speaking of go-karts, there are bumper carts there. And you can go get after it.
And they all go very fast. From the up and up.
I don't like the swing one, but they got one of the swing ones.

If I do remember correctly, the same family who owns Adventureland in Des Moines, Iowa,

which might be the best amusement park in the country, I believe they did by Kennywood.

So it makes sense.

Coaster Heads never ranked you guys.

It's back on the up and up.

That's good to know.

What's your place called in Des Moines?

Adventureland.

That's a fake name.

That doesn't sound real.

It's not.

Kennywood's a fake name. That's Kenny's Woods.
Yeah, it's not even the fucking family doesn't even know it anymore. Well, certainly, Kennywood has grown into not just a family thing.
Wasn't the movie Adventureland filmed where? Kennywood. Oh, that's a good story.
Because Adventureland was about a scary zombie apocalypse, and that is exactly what they filmed in that dump. Okay.
I'm not gonna go that far. Boom.'t do that he wasn't that was disgusting kennywood is not a dump yeah yeah it is in adventure land jesse eisenberg same guy no that's fucking that's mark yeah yeah that's a big deal i'm cold anyways i can't wait to take us to kennywood's how many rise did he show all of them yeah there's only two oh okay no there's two headliners brother come on yeah i can't wait to take us to Kenny Woods.
How many rides did he show? All of them. There's only two.
Oh, okay.

No, there's two headliners, brother.

Come on.

Can't wait to see it. No, because the steel curtain was...

The detail on the steel curtain is pretty sweet.

Football?

The football laces on the...

See that?

That's neat.

I do like that.

I do like that.

I'm guessing that was Spacuzzer.

Can we run that video once again?

Please start from the beginning where he says his name.

They don't even put a graphic up his name.

That worries me. But that's the talking group.
Sp's the name of the podcast? Talking Coasters. You're not even that locked in.
Group Coasters. We're getting word here that Exterminator's final run is 2025, and then they're going to knock it down and build a bigger one.
I like that move. I like that move.
These coasters are going to be great in 10 years, huh? No, overnight. This is Pittsburgh.
What do you think this is, bud? Oh, we need some steel to build it. Okay, we'll fucking go down by the river.
We'll see. Also, whatever bullshit Ty was trying to sell, the other company already owned that park.
They sold it to. Yeah, because they hated your place.
Nah, it's way better than Kennywood. You guys would know if you've seen it, if you've been there.
Do we have this guy's podcast again? He's looking. Oh, we lost it.
It's gone.

I think we're going to see that.

That thing's gone.

That pisses me off, I will say.

I'll open my phone, and my

natural reaction is just to hit an update, and I'll

see a tweet that I'm like, ooh,

and it's gone forever. Never going to

find it. Same on IG.

I'll be watching a video, and

maybe I'll scroll out of it by accident, and I'll try and find it again it's gone gone forever you got no shot it's gone i am happy that instagram seemingly has stopped putting things at the top of the page that drop you into live things yes do you remember when they were doing that yeah whenever a live would pop up and it was the entire top of the screen where you would be resetting it and then all of a sudden there's one one fucking live viewer in this. And who is it? Me.
And by the way, the person that's streaming knows that you're here. Oh, hey! Stick around! Give me the fuck up.
I'm so sorry. Good to see you.
All right. There was like four or five of those.
I'm like, hey, Zuck, can we fucking knock it off? I get we want people to go in there. But that is a very pivotal part of the screen here you know and you're dropping me into this whole thing feels like social media is really figuring it all out isn't it oh yeah it is group text was tough i mute most of them i think they were hoping one guy did yeah no doubt he was in there you do gotta you know, if people get new phone numbers, sending the old phone numbers, that scares me.
Like I have to check, is this like new, insert name new, or is it insert name newest? Yeah. Or insert name new, new, newest.
You know, always have to check that. Accidentally putting somebody into a group text, not good.
The worst. Not good, because now everybody's got their number exposed.
If you're going to send war plans, I don't know if that's the way to do it. No chance.
It's got to be an email. At least put it in a Dropbox.
Yeah. Or make one big long video that's impossible to text.
Bingo. Or have a pass.
Why is that happening? I have no idea. Yeah, it's terrible.
It's gotten so much worse. Back in the day, I could send you three, four, five, six minute video, no problem.
Now you can't even do two minute video. Can't do it.
They want people to airdrop. They're pushing airdrop.
I know, but airdrop's not always possible. Yeah.
It's not always feasible. I know.
It's iCloud link. That's what they're pushing.
They're pushing iCloud link and then people's iClouds get full. So you can't send that video.
Then guess what you got to do you gotta pay for more icloud gotta buy more yeah i looked at the number of photos and videos that i have the other day on the flight because i like put i started putting things into albums sure sure i like that yeah it was a cool thing making playlists yeah it's a cool thing i'm putting photos into albums you know so i i i feel like they're forcing us to do that with the way they just way they all just sit there. Yeah.
The number of photos and images that I have on there is absurd. A lot.
It is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very big number. I assume you pay a lot for iCloud every month.
Now I'm kind of curious. It's a huge number.
I don't even know if I want to say it with how big it is. Oh, wow.
Yeah. Huge number.
Yeah. 27,300 items.
You're at 27,000? Yeah. Okay.
That that's pretty good numbers it's pretty good numbers yeah 100 000 in there 97 000 yeah there you go i'm like what and then voice memos do you remember when i would send you an open uh voice memo open every single day for the podcast or for the show yeah all those are in there i was scrolling through my voice voice memos because there's like, I have some things like some comedy story concepts that I thought of that I put in my voice memo just over the years that I've created, thought of and had in curator or whatever. So I'm scrolling back through my voice memos.
Obviously, none of them have a name. They just have numbers.
I'm like, well, this one's two and a half minutes long let's see what this is and it's hello beautiful people it's like golly and then i go the next one same exact same exact same exact i'm like how many of these fucking things and i go through the day it was like a hundred something straight of me just sending these voice moments that are still just sitting on my phone they have to be eating up something somewhere i have no idea they exist definitely space and then all the i mean missed text messages of them, never going to be able to find them. Where are they? No chance.
How come I can't just get rid of those, Tim? They're in the cloud. Yeah, they're in the cloud somewhere.
That's why I've reset my iCloud. I switched my iClouds in 2020, I believe.
How good of a play is that? It was great, but I mean, it's already, you already build it back up. But if you haven't ever, if you've never done that, then yeah.
Mys are only from one year, though. Where are your pre-2020? On my old laptop as a backup.
Okay, I was going to say, if you're going to do that, back it all up because it will erase everything. Yeah, but what do you need pre-2020? That's what I'm saying.
Kids. All the numbers.
Memories. Yeah, memories, man.
Family. I didn't have memories back then.
But all the numbers that you have have, you know, like think about all the numbers you use to accrue over time that you just don't use anymore. Yeah, so I have like the one year for the techs.
I scrolled all the way back to the beginning. I don't know where these 38 are.
I literally went all the way. This is how much time I've had on planes, obviously, whenever you're doing this, because I'm sick of looking at this number.
I'm like, where the fuck is it? I don't know where they are. where they are you gotta start deleting what just no there should be an update where it's just like mark all is red bingo yeah because like you can do with emails yeah and on emails at least you can hit that lower left button to show unread right and then like even if you can't find it they'll pop up some bullshit that second email down that you definitely saw yeah but they marked as unread and you can easily get

rid of it it's like this text one i don't know how you beat the game i don't know how you beat it it used to be bigger and then i responded to a bunch of people like six months later i'm like hey sorry i missed this i'm so sorry like a birthday response because i'm trying to get rid of the number and i don't want to be an asshole and then now there's just 38 i don't know if it's a new update but you can definitely click read all i I just did it. Where? So in the upper left right next to the text button, there's those three dots.
No, I don't have those three dots. Yeah, it's update then.
Upper left. So I can just get rid of those? Sorry, upper right, upper right, upper right.
That's my fault. Yeah, upper left is edit still, right? There it is.
Yeah, he's right. So it's the new update? No, I don't have the new one.
The three dots, you hit select messages. I don't have it.
I don't fucking have it. Of course I don't.
This fucking thing. I'm so sick of it.
It is under edit. It's under edit, too.
If you click on edit, you can select messages. I can filter by red messages.
Oh, yeah. Read all.
So if you click edit, select messages. Oh, my gosh.
Zero! Thank you. Thank you in the back.
Great work. Oh, my gosh.
Apple jeans. If you're watching and I haven't responded to a text message, I'm so sorry.
It's never coming. Never coming.
It's never coming. Got it done.
Did it. Oh, my gosh.
What a day. I used to have to do math.
Okay, 37 is a new text now today.

That sucks.

38 means one new text.

And then I have like 47 sitting there.

I'm like, am I opening up to nine new text messages here?

Is this potentially a new number?

We just beat the game.

Thank you, Tim.

Hey, Tim, thank you.

Great work, Tim.

We knew you'd be thinking of that, Tim Apple.

Thank you for doing that.

Would have been cool I'd make that shot with Dickie V. Definitely.
Yeah v definitely yeah instead i missed it he was on top of it he was yeah stop looking at the ball coach classic coach how long so many follow-up questions how long do you think they're doing like the reps thing on records? Forever. Yeah, is that forever? Probably.
Did we just take up like four days worth of time? No, because he just did the ACC tournament for basketball. Yeah, I mean, I would assume after that maybe he probably has to go an extended period without really talking.
But he was doing the games like them, you know, being very demonstrative and like yelling, being excited and everything. It's not like it really changed how he called the game.
Yeah. Like last week I bet is when he wasn't doing rested up.
Yeah. It is nice to go for a while without talking, you know, as professional talkers, it is nice to just kind of, but then every time, I wonder, is it still there? You know, that's a, that's a wild, weird place to be.
You know, when you have no idea if anything's going to come out. Like, I wonder if that entire convo, he was wondering if it was going to drop out like he said he was during the games.
Scary. Yeah.
Especially because if you like, you know, any of that, that's not good. And it's no, you know, it's no monotone.
It's juice.

All the time.

We appreciate you, Dickie V.

Hell yeah, Dickie.

Shout out to Coach Calipari,

Derek Queen, and shout out to all

you for allowing us to do this for a living.

We will, yeah,

I think LeBron James is going to be on the show

tomorrow.

Pretty cool. Yeah, I'd say.

Hell yeah. LeBron James.

LeBron James.

It's going to be on the show tomorrow. Pretty cool.
Yeah, I'd say. Hell yeah.
LeBron James? LeBron James. He's going to be on the program? That's crazy to think about.
Insane. Let's have a little fun with the King.
Amen. Let's learn about LeBron James.
Let's peel back the onion a little bit and not do an interview, but have a conversation with him. I like that.

Okay?

Every podcast host ever.

I don't want to do interviews.

I want to do conversations.

I want to learn about you as a person, not as your profession.

Good mindset.

Good goal.

Hopefully we are able to do that with LeBron.

And I can't wait to learn about this guy.

How is he in such good shape at this age?

How has he been able to kind of navigate the waters of being one of the most famous people on earth since he's like a teenager? How has he been able to navigate coming from nothing, having everything at a very young age? Remember that Humber was a massive story when we got in high school, obviously. Signs a massive deal.
I think he was supposed to go with one company. His mom tells him to go listen to another company.
And Ike ends up signing him. He's rich since he's rich since he's put all of his friends on.
You know? And family. I can't wait to chat with him.
All right. We'll be back tomorrow.
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