Pardon My Take - John Calipari To Arkansas, John Fanta Joins Us To Talk Final Four, Who’s Back And The Eclipse May End The World

Episode Date: April 8, 2024

Emergency breaking news to start the show as John Calipari goes to Arkansas leaving a vacancy at Kentucky (00:00:00-00:18:35). We then get to the rest of the show taped in the afternoon with a recap of the Final Four, South Carolina takes down Caitlin Clark and all the pitchers are getting Tommy John (00:18:35-00:41:52). Who’s back of the week including an end of the world via cyber hacking (00:41:52-00:52:03). John Fanta joins us from Arizona to get us pumped for an all time National Championship Game, Ed Cooley possibly resigning, windmill dunks on mini hoops and more (00:52:03-01:39:42). We finish the show talking about the lunar eclipse and a Monday reading (01:39:42-01:50:52).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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And then we'll take it higher. Oh, we're gonna rock it down to electric avenue. It's Part of My Take, presented by Marcellus Sports. Welcome to Part of My Take, presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. New customers can bet five bucks to get $150 instantly and bonus bets only at Draft King Sportsbook with Code Take. Today is Monday, April 8th. Breaking Moose. Coach John Calipari is the new head coach for the Arkansas Razorback. So we already recorded the full show. We went to Topgolf, had a great time,

video coming out soon. Hank did great. And we're sitting there at Topgolf and we see the news start to trickle in. Me and Big Cat didn't see the news right away. Hand up, we apologize for that, but we were playing excellent at Topgolf. Yeah, beating Hank at Topgolf. So we see the news and we're like, this can't be true. And then in a matter of seconds, it is true. Cal is going to Arkansas. Tyson Foods comes and saves the day for Arkansas. The chicken man. The chicken man. So I have a ton of thoughts. I mean, I don't know where we want to start. Let's start with this. I love college sports for these type of moments because we have

the Domino Meme. SMU goes to the ACC, is able to get Andy Enfield from USC. Musk goes from Arkansas to USC. And then Cal goes from Kentucky to Arkansas. So SMU going to ACC started this entire thing, and now Kentucky is looking for a new coach in what, 15 years? Yeah. And it's crazy. It is wild. So the first I heard of this, I was just shocked that Cal was allowed to negotiate with other

schools. Like they did him a favor by not firing him two weeks ago. Correct. And they had that big meeting and after that meeting was over Mitch the AD was like Cal's our coach we're gonna roll with him. And then apparently in his contract he has a clause where he's allowed to negotiate with other schools as long as he tells Kentucky about it. Right. It's like it's an open marriage contract. Correct. It's Will Smith and Jada Pinkett. And he, it's crazy that he did that. He basically did the, you can't fire me. I quit. Yeah. And so I was listening,

Matt Jones did a Twitter space and he explained it that Cal and his group were somehow shocked by the hate that Kentucky had had in the last like two months for Cal and how this season ended. He said that it surprised them and they didn't see that coming. And that's where the tide kind of shifted. And then you throw in the fact that Arkansas is giving him a ton of money and basically giving him a new lease where, yeah, next year he would have been the Kentucky head coach, but if they go out in the first round again, he's fired. So he, he, he gets a whole new contract.

He gets years to build Arkansas. It's a huge win for Arkansas. And I think it's actually a huge win for Kentucky. I agree. Kentucky fans like they wanted him gone two weeks ago. Not only that, but it's a huge win for Kentucky for a couple things. One, you don't have to pay him any money. So the part of the deal is that if Cal goes, there's no buyout for Arkansas to pay Kentucky, but there's also no money that Kentucky has to pay Cal. So you're free and clear that.

Two, all the boosters that had turned on Cal are going to be all the way back in and ready to write big checks for whatever coach they want. And three, this is the part that I think most Kentucky fans know, but the outside world doesn't and they try to roast Kentucky and be like, Oh, Kentucky's cooked. Kentucky is 1 billion times bigger than coach Cal. It's Kentucky basketball. Yeah. They've won eight national titles. Seven of them are without coach Cal. That's what I was saying earlier.

Like if you were to just list the best jobs in college basketball, Kentucky is right up there. Maybe number one, like Duke, Jake brought up Duke and I was like, I don't think so. Cause number one, like Duke, Jake brought up Duke. And I was like, I don't think so. Cause with Duke, it's like that's coach K. Yeah. It's a prestigious job, right? But in terms of like the system around the coach,

Kentucky is as good as it gets. So do you think that in that meeting where he didn't get fired, any possibility that they came to an understanding like, Hey, we don't want to pay your buyout. You want to leave. I'm going to say that I'm keeping you around as coach. You go off, you try to find a new job.

That way we're all happy. No, I think this probably surprised the fuck out of him. You think so? Yeah. I think this surprised the fuck out of him. I think because I think this wouldn't, this, this wouldn't have happened if, if Musk doesn't leave from Arkansas. Like that, like the dominoes started to go and then you have a specific job in Arkansas

that has the money. And Cal's also close with the chicken people. Right. So it's like this, this all kind of worked in a perfect sequential order where it's like everything fell into place that this specific job opened up that has this amount of money that has the boosters that back you. So like I said, like Cal has a new lease on life. Like he was, he was on the hot seat. We, well, we credit to us, we put him on the hot seat before anyone else and we were correct, but he was on the hot seat in Kentucky and he probably read the tea leaves and was like, unless I go to the final four, I'm basically gone no matter what. And then I'm looking

for a new job. Why not just take this new job right now that's giving me all the money and all my friends are the boosters and they all like, Arkansas has gotta be fucking thrilled. They're very happy, yeah. Right. Hogville.

It's crazy too. The best part is I love this when this happens in college sports too. The fact that Cal has to go back to Lexington next year. Yeah. Just makes this so, so, so great. It's like when Chris Beard had to go back to Lexington next year. Yeah. Just makes this so, so, so great. It's like when Chris Beard had to go back to Texas Tech. Yeah.

You get these rivalries and it's just, it makes it, it's why I love, I love college sports more than anything. It's good. If you're a Kentucky fan, you're, you're probably like a little bit happy that Cal is not going to be there. You wanted him gone, like we said. Yeah. But, but at the same time, you don't want him to, to go to an in-conference rival where you have to play them all the time. Like that's, but

it's going to create, it's a, it's a weird thing that they're going to have to deal with. And the timing of it is just crazy for it to happen the night before the national championship. Yep. Uh, and also the night after Nate Oates and the Crimson tide lose. Yes. So I, I, I, I get what you're saying. Like you don't want to have to go up against Cal, but I think, again, Kentucky is bigger than a coach. Yeah. And they're, like, they'll be fine

because they're going to get a great coach. And I do think the money that's going to come in now from a reinvigorated, like, fan base and booster base is going to put the next coach of Kentucky in an incredible spot to succeed. And, like, this marriage was always going to break up eventually. They just get to fast forward past a couple more painful years that Cal probably doesn't adapt and they probably have a bunch of lottery picks that don't win in the tournament. And now you get to fast forward and you're like, alright, we're on to the new one

who's probably going to want to be there for a very long time and build something in this new college basketball world. Yeah. And with, with him going to Arkansas, I just wonder if he's going to bring recruits with him. Like, is he going to, oh yeah, they're all guys, some guys that we're going to be, I can tell you. So that that'll add a whole new level of hate to Cal when he does have to go back to Lexington. You got to assume they're all gone. of hate to Cal when he does have to go back to Lexington. You got to assume they're all gone. Yeah. Then I made, I made like a wish list of just coaches that I hope they look at to hire. Number one for Kentucky, I think we can agree Rick Pitino.

Yes. Sometimes you got to go back to move forward. Send Rick home. He wants to go home. You heard him on part of my take. You would love to go to Kentucky. That clip will get played a million times if he goes to Kentucky. Yep. Then Jay Wright. Jay Wright would be fun getting back in the mix. I don't think he's going anywhere. I don't think he wants to coach college right now. Also, Rick Pitino,

the one problem with Rick Pitino is that you would then you'd have to figure out what you're going to do in six years. That's true. Yeah. To replace him. Yeah. Then Danny Hurley, they're going to call Danny Hurley. They're going to ask Danny Hurley. There's no reason for Danny Hurley to take this job except for a very big reason which is they would probably like double a salary I still think it would be 0% just in it and obviously with college coaches It's stupid to say something like 0% because we know that they all would move We've seen it a million times, but Danny Hurley is a Northeast guy. I Don't know what you could do as much as I said, you know, Kentucky's bigger than Cal. I don't know how much better

you can get than possibly winning two national championships in a row. And he is like if he wins tonight, like that his pro he gets whatever he wants, new contract, he gets everything. He's meant to the only thing they could throw just an obscene amount of cash at him I still would make him think about it. I don't like he's I don't think I would say no I don't I don't think that he would either but when this kind of money is involved you never know Kentucky has to at least make the call. They'll talk to him. Yes, they'll pick up the phone I hope they don't try to talk to him right now No, I hope they don't they're gonna like call him tomorrow. They're gonna call him before the game. Yeah, I hope he stays focused

Yeah, I don't think you would I don't think Danny would take the call. I don't either. I think he'd hang up on them. Uh, those are the big ones. Don staley. Well, Nate, you just have to, you just have to get the conversation going with Don staley. Yeah. Uh, about Nate Oats, Nate Oats. Well, no, we talked about Nate Oats or Nate Oats. Seems like he'd be a pretty good fit. Seems like the buyout would not really be an issue if they're paying a shitload of money Anyways, they're ready to write some checks and they don't have to pay Cal We when we talked to Matt Jones a couple weeks ago. He did say Scott Drew would be at the top of the list national championship coach close with the ad So he's got to be a call that's get gets made mark few. I have another one Mark few I'd say another one. Mark few. I'd say probably not.

You don't think they call. I don't think so. He hasn't won anything. Yeah. He hasn't even gone to a final ever. One call that I think they probably will make is my coach. I think they would probably try to get Billy Donovan. Yeah.

I think that would definitely be a call they make. So Billy Billy D back to the to college, uh, to college. But that, to me, I don't know with the whole, with the, with the way college basketball is now, I feel like it'd be crazy to go back to college if you have a pro job that you feel somewhat secure with. I would agree with that. Also Brad Stevens got a call. Gotta call him. Got to make Brad say no.

Jim Bayheim got a call. I think he's ready for new challenge. You got to call Jim Beheim to see if you if he'll give you Danny Hurley's number. Just be like, Hey, Jim, like I was expecting this phone call. It's like, No, actually, we just don't have Danny Hurley's number. We need that from you. Coach K. John Shire. Yeah. Kevin Keats, Kevin Keats. Hank, who you got? Danny Sprinkle. Danny Sprinkle. Make him go from Washington to Kentucky without ever coaching a game. What about a guy with

national championship experience? Kevin Olley. Oh yeah, good point. Ooh, Kevin Olley. Yes, good point. Great coach. Here's a crazy one that would not happen, but I just throw it out there because college sports can always shock us Shots must must to Kentucky He was just like alright, yeah, I mean they all fell a joke yeah And then you know what if your Cal you have to pick up the phone if USC calls

Yes, he's always wanted coach in LA. He was almost a Lakers coach 10 years ago. Or even Andy Enfield maybe goes back to USC and then Cal goes to SMU. They're in the ACC now musical chairs, big program. It's, it's great. It is shocking news. Like this is, we all thought that, I mean, we're going to talk to John Fanta in a minute and we, we brought up Cal to them and we're like, he, we talked about the hot seat and stuff. Now it already is outdated. It's the fastest an interview's ever been outdated in that specific topic. But yeah, it's crazy. I really do think Kentucky fans though should be happy because it was going to end sooner rather than later. And now you don't have to pay him any money. And now you have a bunch of boosters that are like, good, he's gone. Let's go get the best coach that we can find and we'll pay him all the money and we'll pay all the NIL and Kentucky will probably Kentucky will win a national title before Arkansas.

I'll do my, uh, what's the Cavs owners? Dan Gilbert. Yeah, personally guaranteed. did personally guarantee I would personally guarantee and I like Arkansas as school and I you know they have a tremendous history. I was actually watching 40 minutes of hell the documentary the other night Nolan. Yeah like awesome. It's a fucking passionate create Bud Walton arena is the best when it gets rocking but I just think Kentucky will be good. I think they'll be they'll be fine immediately. I'm gonna go one step further big cat. I'm gonna say the next coach at Kentucky will win a national championship. Yeah. Whoever you are, whoever you're about to hire right now, future national championship coach sign up. Yeah. What's the, what's the,

do you think Jerry Jones is just like, he's been so preoccupied with his own death and trying to win all the championships again, like spending all this crazy money. You think that factored into this. You think Jerry Jones was like, I got to get one in Arkansas too, before I die. Maybe so just just talk to coach Cal. Yeah, I wonder how much he cares that it that is a basketball that is a Cowboys hire. Yeah, bringing in a big party like this. Yeah, it's the

flashiest hire you can get the only thing flashier be is if Kentucky can get Jay, right? That would be the flashiest hire you can get. The only thing flasher be is if Kentucky can get Jay right. That would be the flashiest hire. Oh, what about Kyle Neptune? Get him. A lot of great coaches out there. Yeah, I it's gonna be fascinating how quickly you think it's gonna happen fast, right? I think it's probably gonna happen the next day or two. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you I don't think you can announce the hire the day of the national championship game. Can you? Yeah, you can. Because

it never when a rod did he announced his contract in the middle of the World Series? Yeah, that's a rod. He's different. That's true. Maybe a rod for the Kentucky job. I just feel like if you do it on the national championship day that that news gets overshadowed by the game later. Yeah, true. Yeah, don't wait a day. Yeah. But they've already made the calls. I think they're making calls. There's Mitch, which is a Mitch Barnard. Yeah, he's on the phone right now. Yeah, he's got to figure it out. And I mean, cows, years

of Kentucky, obviously the ending wasn't good. But he had an incredible run with a national title. Oh, the lights just went out. It's the eclipse. That's Undertaker. That's Cal saying, Oh, by the way, I have, let's quickly do this while the lights are out. Undertaker did come out. I also got Brandon Walker sent me spark notes for, uh, WrestleMania so that we can say we discussed it. Cody finished his story. It was no DQ and Roman had his cronies interfering. The Avengers assembled and one by one appeared to help Cody Culminating and seen an taker. I'm sorry, but the refs and wrestling suck. They do they suck. Oh, that's cool. Cody Rhodes did it Yeah, good job. I saw the rock kicked Logan Paul. I

Was fun. Oh, okay. Give him a kick right to the chest. He kicked him kicked him. Yeah wrestling I don't I didn't even see any highlights besides Jason Kelsey I wish they didn't do it during Final Four weekend because I probably would buy WrestleMania just to see the Pops. I love the Pops All right, anything else for Kentucky? I mean crazy crazy news. Like I said, we've already taped the full show So you're gonna hear us talk about Saturday night women's Everything and John Fanta's on and we did bring up, I wish we had gotten him after this right now. Here's thoughts. But yeah, big blue nation, you're going to be just fine. You're going to fucking you'll be just fine. Arkansas got a great hire. They're going to win games now. They're going to get big recruits. They're going to open up the coffers. College basketball's back.

Let's see John Fanta's comment. He's just reporting the news. Just the facts. Just the facts from him. Jake, did you have any thoughts? Oh no, no. He said the coaching carousel is undefeated. Undefeated. Also a fact. Undefeated. Yeah. I think it's crazy. Uh, Jack Olkey ended Calhari's career. Like that's another domino. Yeah. If they beat Oakland, he's probably sticking around. Yeah. Jack Olkey was the, yeah, you're right. If they, if they beat Oakland, they will get maybe to the sweet 16. There's not as much pressure. Jack Olke was the man who did it. But eventually three straight, three out of four years losing in North Texas,

St. Peters and Oakland. That's the shocking part that Cal didn't couldn't see the fan base being upset. Yeah. Here in Kentucky and you lose loose those teams in the tournament. Yeah the first round he had to have an idea 2021 that's Matt said that he Matt said that they were shocked by the animosity that the fan base had towards him Thought like he had you know done enough and built right for do lost in our Texas, but either way. Yeah, St. Peters and Oakland two out of three years. Oh, and Wikipedia's already updated. NADOS is the head coach at University of Kentucky.

That's good enough for me. Damn, I can't wait to see what happens. All right, let's kick it to ourselves. Rest of the show, great show. We talk Eclipse, we have John Fanta. We talk about everything that we saw on Saturday night. And we're down to two. The road ends here, PFT.

It does. Yeah. We got Purdue. We got UConn. We got Zach Eady. We got Klingon. We have an interview with Fanta. He shed light on this.

But it's the first time two seven-footers have been on the court on opposite teams in the modern era of the W-H-R. The biggest game ever. The biggest game ever. I don't think we've ever sat farther apart for a podcast. This is very awkward. Yeah, no, it's weird. It just started like shouting across the room to you. Yeah, no cans on or anything.

Yeah. Great job, Max. What's up, PFT? I'm doing pretty good. Yeah? What'd you say? You wanna do the podcast? What?

There's all that. Actually, we should start out by saying, are we sure Caitlin Clark is actually good? Ooh, bust actually, we should start out by saying, are we sure Caitlin Clark is actually good? Ooh, bust. Can't win the, can't win the big one. Yeah. That game was crazy. The championship game. Uh, shout out Don Staley for giving a shout out. Yep. No free shout out. You shout out on Staley. Shout out for giving Caitlin Clark a shout out. Appreciate that. Uh, yeah. South Carolina turns out really good at basketball. Yeah. Caitlin

Clark, maybe the best first quarter that she could possibly have. And then she was just out of gas by the end of it. And so South Carolina, they, did you know they've only lost three games in the last three years? Yeah. They're 109 and three. The only game they had lost in the last two years was the game to Iowa in the final four last year. Yeah. Wild. But Caitlin Clark is, uh, ends her college career going out with just everyone in the world hating her for some reason. I feel like so many people started to hate on her that it,

there was backlash to the backlash now where it's like Caitlin Clark is good. It's actually perfect because you have, you have the old heads, WNBA complaining about the young people being like, Oh, the kids today can't play like we used to play Bob Ryan being like, yeah, players are much better in my day. It's, I think that's just a natural thing in sports. We're just seeing it on the woman stage. Yeah, Diana Torosi I think wants to like assault Caitlin Clark. Yeah, she shows up to the WNBA But yeah, it was it was a weird like ending because she's obviously done so much for the women's game There were crazy ratings on Friday. I'm sure crazy ratings for today's game. What's your number? Oh, I got 20 mil. Exactly. Oh, I think it's gonna be less than that. I'm gonna say

1717 mil 17 mil. But yeah, it was weird. Like the hate that she was getting from all the WNBA players knew. Yes. But I guess they just don't like, you know, the young buck on the scene. I guess she attracts so much attention, but I want to see it expand. I want to see like female hockey players being like female basketball players are soft. They don't play like we play. Get it all the way there. Yeah. But yeah, so we're here in Arizona. We went to the game on Saturday. Uh, why don't we talk about the games? Purdue beats NC State. Uh, NC State played some of the worst basketball I've watched. Uh, not going to take away from

Purdue, Purdue, like, but I think if you told NC State fans before that game, Purdue only was going to score 63 points, they would have been like, oh, we have a real shot at this. Uh, Purdue's just too good. They, they, their defense was great. I also think and not making excuses as soon as Michael O'Connell, the point guard for NC State went down with that injury, their offense basically like was erased. Yeah, it was tough, especially the start of the second half. It seemed like neither team wanted to make a shot. Yeah. But there was, um, there was a moment when the game started where it was, it was DJ burns against Zach Eady for a little bit. And we're like, how's

this going to work out? DJ learned pretty quickly that you can't spin around Zach Eady. Yes, he's too wide. His arms go too learned pretty quickly that you can't spin around Zach Eady. Yes. He's too wide. His arms go too long. He did a couple of those spin moves, which gets you around almost anybody else in the game. And then he picks up his dribble, and he's like, oh shit, Zach Eady's here too.

Yes. He's on both sides of me. And Zach Eady scored 20 points, only two free throws. So shout out. I know that Purdue fans hate the discourse. That was, I mean, they were just, they were better than NC State and NC State, like what an insane run that, you know,

our guy Quigs was with us, diehard NC State fan. That is one of those things that if you're a sports fan, even though it didn't end well, you'll remember that run from the ACC championship all the way to the Final Four forever. You had a great tournament. The story of this game was NC State, make a mid-range jump shot, challenge impossible.

They just couldn't hit anything. And then, yeah, you're right. Edie did not get to the foul line a lot, but the two foul shots he had were the most upsetting foul shots, I think, in the history of basketball, because there was no whistle for the media timeout. So it was a double media timeout. Oh, wow.

So Edie goes up there. They come out of a media timeout. So it was a double media timeout. So Edie goes up there, he shoots, they come out of a media timeout, he shoots one foul shot, boom, media timeout again. You had one foul shot in between commercial breaks. It was disgusting for the sport, for the youngsters. Disgusting. But yeah, Purdue, I mean, I think they can absolutely, I know they're seven point dogs, but they have the best chance against UConn in terms of what they have on the floor, card play, Edie just being a monster. And I would have liked to see that,

the Michael O'Connell injury, the NC State run, he was the one who hit that three against Virginia. The offense running through him let them kind of play a little more free. And then he just, I feel like every single year at the final four, they do the video showing how cool it is that they painted this court and then someone gets injured right away. And that was like a phantom floor injury. He only ended up playing 12 minutes. I think Purdue wins no matter what,

but you could tell that their off NC State's offense was in a big funk after that. Yeah. It was like, anytime NC State made one three pointer, it was like, Oh, maybe they're back. Maybe they're all gonna go in. Yeah, it was never close. Also, we should I Zach Edie be like well played. He he revealed on Friday press conference to basically get everyone to be like, I actually feel bad for Zach Edie that the laws don't let him make money in the NIL because he's a Canadian, he's from Canada and he's on a green card. That's crazy. Zach Eady, I actually like him now a fan of you because you were right, you missed out on a lot of money. Oh a ton of money. Actually some student at

Purdue should marry him, become a citizen, then he makes all the money. Just like pay the girl $10,000, marry me. Okay. Now a millionaire. Yeah. Instantly. Yeah. But that's, that sucks for him. And when he, when he played it perfectly, cause I didn't know that until he said it on Friday. And then immediately everyone's like the discourse changes. Like, wait, Zach, he's getting screwed. I saw somebody said that there's a, there's like an NIL collective that might be able to give him money through a loophole. So he might be making some money, but

he's not making like official NIL money like anybody else. He would have been raking it in. He's having one of the best tournament runs of all time. Yeah. And he's been a star. He was a back to back national player of the year. Zach, you deserve some money. Yeah, I just it's always like, it can be frustrating at times watching him play. But just thinking about, okay, we get to watch Zach Giede go up against DJ burns. That was fun. Now we're like, okay,

we get to watch Zach Giede play against another seven footer. That's, I just like watching seven footers be matched up against other people playing basketball. Yeah. And let's enjoy this game because there I have, listen, I've said my things about Purdue. I, everyone knows where I stand. I've never said that Zach, he's not good at basketball. He's really good at basketball. I've noticed though. The new trend is, well, he's going to suck in the NBA. Who cares? Yeah, no one cares about like there's a lot of college players that I mean, we watch during

the halftime of the second game. They had the Olympic three on three game and Jim or for debt was playing and he was at least and I was like, this has got to be this like I know that he's playing in the Olympics but still Jim or for that probably didn't think this was how he's gonna get to a final for the the this guy's gonna stink in the NBA guys the same guy as the after taxes guy yeah same cut from the same yeah be like oh well he's making 20 million a year but really agents fees taxes probably clear in 10 such a good point it is the same person, same exact guy. Uh, so yeah, Purdue in the final. And then we had Yukon Bama played an almost perfect

half of basketball and the first half offensively. Yes. But they, they did everything they needed to do. They were shooting 70% from three and they were down four. And that's just how good Yukon is. And Yukon, like Dan Hurley said afterwards, they knew that Bama was going to make their threes. Their entire defensive strategy was just don't let them take 40 of them. And that's what they did. They ran them off the line. They were, they were switching on every, or they were fighting through screens, switching on everything when they needed to. It was defensively UConn,

like the stats show that Bama shot well, but they shot so many less threes than they wanted to shoot. And that was kind of the name of the game is like, you can make those, but you're not going to get to shoot 43. Yeah. And then UConn, UConn was just physically dominant on them later. They did the step on the throat, stomped on their throat. It felt like it was at 56, 56. It was 56, 56 with 12 minutes left. And then it was just all Yukon. And from that point on, it was like,

this is very obvious who's going to win this game. We did get one of the saddest moments, I think, in college basketball history, the NC State mascot. And the Yukon mascot hugging it out. The the two dogs. So you the Yukon mascots head came off, which was very weird to see. But it was I think everyone had a little tear in their eye watching that. Yeah, it was that was what that's what it's all about. Sportsmanship. Yeah, mascots. I have some crazy Yukon stats for you.

Yukon was the first to score 69 last night. They have now won 110 straight games where they reached 69 before their opponent. This is from No Escalators, who's a great follow. And then also UConn has won 18 consecutive neutral site games by double digits. It's insane. It's pretty impressive.

The St. John's, Pete St. John's, the Big East tournament by five. But that was semi-neutral because it was in New York. That's actually how it's like classified semi-neutral semi-neutral game, but it's pretty crazy. The run they've been on. They just have an answer to everything and I I honestly think that like produce scares me, but Yukon's guards are so much bigger than every other teams, especially. I mean, they're bigger than produce and like they play so physical and they rebound. So like even the guards rebound well and they just, they're just a well oiled machine. Like they never, they never flinch and they're always just like, we're going to run our stuff and it's going to beat you. Maybe it will

take a little bit of time. Alabama played them tougher than probably anyone's played them in the tournament since the Iona first half in the first round last year But that was yeah, I mean that's what you condos. They're just they're a machine How about cam Spencer just being able to rebound do everything I did have there's one tweet that made me laugh very hard last night Max was watching the game. He had a couple cocktails in him and he said if cam if cam Spencer played at Duke He would be the national devil i like that phrase yeah the national devil what do you mean by that he would just be them like the most hated duke guy i i agree that there's something about it he's very hateable face

he also crushed nova every time we played him i like him a lot i hate him so much yeah i think i think if colic played at Duke, he would be the national double. He's just a kid. He's like 2021 22. He also you can had all five starters and double digits. I feel like they do that every game. It's crazy. Yeah.

And they've got depth off the bench to they have they have every they're inevitable. And then Coach Charlie won the Naismith coach of the year award today. Yeah, I think that's a trick by college basketball to be like, okay, we're going to we're going to gas him up so hard. So he takes his foot off the pedal tomorrow. Yeah, it's classic's a trick by college basketball to be like, okay, we're gonna we're gonna gas him up so hard So he takes his foot off the pedal tomorrow. Yeah, it's classic NCAA going against coach and now they get an award for being the best coach Yeah, now they get sleep. Yep, they get their circadian rhythm. Well until the eclipse until the eclipse That's gonna fuck my lips is probably doing something against Hurley, too

We have just two awards for every because I think Kelvin Sampson won coach of of the year too. Oh yeah. Yeah. There's just two awards for everything. Solidate that. Make it, make it easy for us to understand. We're dumb. Yeah. I saw that. I saw that Hurley won that and I was like, wait, didn't we announce this a second ago? I think this was Naismith, whatever, whatever difference the Naismith award. Yeah. Kelvin Sampson won the Associated Press coach of the year. Okay. From the journos. Yeah. From the journos who don't know ball. That's a fact. If you can winds, are we ready to have the discussion that you con is ruining basketball? Well, too good. It's pretty crazy. If you can wins this game, they will have more national titles in

Indiana and Duke. They will be third all time. UCLA has 11 Kentucky has eight. You come would have six and all six would have been in the last 25 years. It's been a pretty good run. It's insane. And they also go, they've gone, this is their seventh Final Four, so there's only one time they've gone to a Final Four

that they haven't won at all. They've also never been to a championship game that they didn't win. I think you could make the argument that UConn basketball fans are probably the most spoiled sports fans in the world. Because not only you root for UConn, you probably root for the Celtics, Hank, you probably root for the Patriots, probably root for the Bruins. Maybe the Yankees?

You've had a really good run if you're a UConn fan. UConn's pretty split though. Like there's a, it's probably, I don't know, 60-40. Yeah, like Western Connecticut, they're in New York, they commute there, they fly there in their helicopters to trade stocks in the morning. Yeah, and it probably feels nice for the Mets fans that are UConn fans. Yeah, you deserve that. Yeah, you definitely deserve that.

But it's crazy the run they've been on, and yeah, they would be, I mean, to think that UConn could have more national titles than Duke in Indiana, and they've only done it in the last, since 99 was their first one. It's crazy, we gave them their blue blood last year. Yeah. Your blue, blue blood. Congrats. I don't know. Maybe I'm biased here because I liked Dan Hurley a lot. I've liked him for a very long time. And obviously I have money invested in

Yukon this year, but are they hateable to outside of the big East fans? I think they're, if they win this, they become annoying. Yeah. It's like these motherfuckers, they just reload again. They're not there.'re not there I was thinking about it because like Duke obviously is hateable for all the Duke reasons, but it's also because Duke is Always there like they always they go to a bunch of Final Fours all that stuff You can't just goes to Final Fours and wins them You know, I mean like the fact they've only been to seven and they've won sit They've won five going for their six on Monday night Like Duke goes there and is always in the mix

Like you can't even has had that they hit when they were in the AC or whatever the fuck it was called They were bad for a while like Duke's never really bad UNC is never really that bad Kansas like that's so I feel like the hateable Nature of them isn't all the way turned up because also they beat Duke sometimes. Yeah, that's true. Then everyone's 99 That's good. Duke was the Duke was like the best team ever to not win a championship. Yeah. And have they beaten any really, really likable teams on this run that they've been on on this run? Yeah. Like they there's not a lot of people rooting against them, right? And I feel like people don't watch as much Yukon as they would watch. Like you guys not shove down your throat on a national national scale yeah I mean they have a bias against them they have a bias against them so you don't get overload you don't get fatigue from them until the tournament and even when the tournament happens they have such big blowouts that people don't really watch that many of their games yeah so max this whole part of the show just make you sick to your stomach okay it's good

answer Jake how was the game from press row? We saw you in your suit. Oh, you were so pumped up for the wedgie. Oh, we saw, we were watching you take a picture of the wedgie. Yeah, it was awesome. A really cool experience. Thank you to the NCA for credentialing us. I'll be back tonight. Fuck the NCAA. Yeah. Your pieces of shit individually. I appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, but do fuck the NCAA because we don't like the uncivilized. But yeah. Yeah. But it was really cool. I got some good, uh, interviews afterwards. Got Hurley. He said that he'll do it all the time. He'll come on the show all the time. It means winning. I saw you ask the guy that shot the wedgie about the wedgie. He was overwhelmed by that question.

are. He was overwhelmed by that question. I don't, I did this last year with Marquis Noel. I think it was, they hate wedgies because they take it as such a thing of embarrassment. Yeah. Well, I think almost everyone hates wedges except you and I and Eagle and I and Eagle. He loves it too. How was he? Would you listen? I saw some highlights back, but oh, you got to go back and use bill for it. Yeah, because I was there, but uh, yeah, he's, he's the best Tim and Rafter. We have great chemistry, grand Hill, Tracy Wolfson had to use like a mini ladder that was for Zach. It was crazy watching. Yeah. Like she was basically at his belly button. Yeah. So, uh,

it was really cool and excited to run it back tonight. Yeah. So you got your picture to mid court. Yeah. That annual tradition. Yeah. It's, it picture to mid court. Yeah. That annual tradition. Yeah. It's it was nice to see. We were literally just watching you on press row. They did you guys dirty with the seats. I appreciate them. Yeah. But let's be honest. Like if I were those are shitty seats. They put you guys like behind the basket like all the way up. Yeah. We had some great access. Did you see Jim dance? I did.

It was weird seeing him in street clothes. What was he wearing? He was just wearing like a shirt and like a jacket. Fucking wild. Yeah. Have you ever seen him not wearing a full suit and tie? Yeah, they showed him in the Houston game. Yeah. He didn't go to the one that Tony Romo was at.

Yeah, that's right. It was Duke Houston, right? Yeah, he didn't go to that one. He wento was at. Yeah, that's right. It was Duke Houston, right? Yeah, he didn't go to that one. He went to the one before. That's really interesting. Very interesting. Because Romo was there. Romo was there.

And you would think that they'd be good friends. Correct. Not. They're not. Yeah. I would be a little bit weirded out not seeing a tie in gym dance. I'll give you that, Jake.

Yeah. I assume that gym dance sleeps and showers and assume. And we're not going to get the tie thing this year. Yeah. That's really sad. Do you think? Yeah. You think he was commentating the game as it was going on in his head? For sure. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Definitely. I saw Jay, right? Yeah. Yeah. He was right in front of us. What was the food like? Uh, food was good. It was a Mexican and then pretzels and then a bunch of sodas Was a bathroom situation like fine. Oh That's bad. That's saying fine is the worst thing you could say about pass fail pass. Did they have enough water? well You're trying to dry you out Jake they They do, the NCAA cups are bust. So you can't, you have to go back to the cooler.

Oh wow. And fill it. You can't take bottles. Disgusting. So I won't let a boy get wet. I have to go back like every media time out and fill up my water cup. And then you have to go to the bad,

the just fine bathrooms. Yeah. Damn. It's tough. I appreciate the NCAA credentials. Hank, how did you like the games? I had fun. Yeah?

Good time. I kind of, I was hoping for a close game, but excited for tonight. I know they weren't. I mean, the Bama Yukon game was close-ish. Yeah, it was tight. 12 minutes. And then Yukon was just, yeah.

Tonight does have the feeling of like, this could be an all-time classic. I hope it's close. We deserve, America deserves a close title game. I agree with that. I spoiled the last two years of the final four. We had Duke UNC coach K's last game and last year we had a buzzer beater. Oh yeah, we did have a bus. We forgot about that. It's kind of just water finds its level. I guess. Okay. What else we got? What else we want to talk about? I mean, all the pitchers are hurt.

Yeah, everyone's getting it. What did I tell Jeff Passon? Yeah. Give these guys preemptive Tommy John. It's very funny, though, because the story now is that the pitch clock is the culprit when it doesn't seem like the data backs that up at all. Because if you look at Tommy John's,

like the Tommy Don surgery rise, it's been on a steady rise the last like 10 years it might be the fact that guys are throwing like 102 miles per hour and guys are and guys are learning how to throw 90 miles an hour in high school and all their arms are fucked by the time they get to MLB but I don't think I don't think a 20 second verse 30 second delay in between pitches is gonna make guys arms fall off right but it is now this is like, it feels like strike while the iron's hot. They're trying to get it. They're trying to get the pitch clock gone because it's Shane Bieber, Strider. Yeah. Uh, everyone's all the good guys. I blame the uniforms.

I think uniforms probably agree with that. Right. Fanatics did it again. This is definitely fanatics. Blame it on them. Okay what else do we have from the Final Four? Anything else? I mean it was it's been a good it's been a good trip. I'm very excited. We have a bunch of Masters stuff coming up this week with Max and Brooks, a bunch of other people. Any other notes from the Final Four? No it's been fun. Oh what happened with Shohei's home run ball? The woman got sc and yes somebody got got scammed from it But did she make her money back? I don't know what she do she caught his first home run ball as a Dodger

And then she got a couple things and the story came out and she was like no they basically Like put me in a room and pressured me to give the ball back So I guess show he's just a bad guy all around no they always do that People are so bad at negotiating. You gotta listen to Ravel. Ravel always has like, whenever someone catches a big ball, he's like, first thing I would do is leave the stadium. You have an exit strategy. First plan. When you get in there, think about what you would do with that ball. Document it, leave the stadium, get in touch with the lawyer immediately.

I would just piss on it. Be like, no one going to want it if I peed all over it. That's a good strategy. I got this piss soaked ball rolling around. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think anything else besides this, like this has been, it's been Final Four weekend. WrestleMania happened. Yeah.

I didn't watch. I didn't either. I saw Jason Kelsey was there doing something. The Rock won. Maybe coming back. I didn't realize The Rock was a heel. Yeah, he went heel because everyone loves Cody Rhodes. So this has been like the last three months has been the Rock. Everyone's like, no,

not, not the Rock. Yeah. Our guy TJ had it up on press row and I was watching for a second. I was like, Oh my God. Wait, TJ was on it was credentialed. Yeah, because we were supposed to do the tightest show and tightest got sick. So we're going to do it tonight. Okay. Wait. So he was watching wrestling instead of the final four. No, he's multit multitasking Interesting. We'll have to look into the eight chills there. The Rock was mean to Philly too. What'd he say? What'd he say? He showed up late to an event I think he showed up like two hours late and like people are filming him like Motherfucking him because he showed up so late and he was like, sorry. I was just watching highlights of Jalen hurts lose in the playoffs Yeah, it's just weird seeing him as a bad guy

I've never thought I'd see that day I got I feel like him and John Cena were like the untouchables and they need it They need a local hero to come back and throw a big event. Oh I got a I got Who that I got a I got a I got a I got a headline for you Dodgers make peace with fans who caught Shohei Otani ball will review process. Okay. Sounds like they fucked up. So it sounds like they yeah they they took this woman into a room and then just

basically made her give up the ball. Yeah. She exchanged the ball for two signed hats, a signed ball, and a signed bat. An auction house told the athletic that the ball would be worth at least $100,000. Damn. Yep. By such Ravel. Yeah, 100% those people definitely buy it. And they're like show hey, it'd be funny if they bought it and then well, would it go up if he got suspended for life? Yeah, if that's his last home run, he'll ever hit only home run ball for the Dodgers. Yeah, that'd be worth a ton of another one though.

Uh, every this year he was, he looked pretty happy, you know, going to Wrigley with the sports book attached to it. Yeah, interesting. Yeah. He looked pretty happy. Uh, all right, let's do who's back of the week and then we'll get to John Fanta. Who's back the week is brought to you by our friends at Coors light Coors light, the most delicious beer out there from day-to-day annoyances to the big stuff life throws your way. It's easy to get worked up, but there's a better way,

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shouldn't cutters. I spoke with our we'll have them on later this year. I spoke with our good we'll have them on later this year, I spoke with our good friend Dan Herron, because I was like, what's going on? He's like, it's just like everyone's obsessed with philosophy, kind of what Jeff Passam was saying. Like everyone just looking at the numbers being like, you gotta throw 100, you gotta throw 100,

and arms are just getting pushed to this max at an early age and everyone's destroying their arms. Is it the sweeper? It might be the sweeper, because we didn't talk about the sweeper pitch until like five years ago. And now everyone's got a sweeper. Now Tommy John's up.

Arms aren't supposed to throw that. Maybe the eclipse has something to do with it. Yeah. Bring back the Greg Maddox's of the world. Yeah. The nerds. Yeah. Ninety two on the black gets him out. Location is just as good as is 100. My game. Yeah. Low 70s accuracy.

Low 70s. All Ephesus. And then my other who's back was the fourth dimension, but we'll get to that. Oh yeah. We'll talk about the eclipse. I'll give you another free who's back Hank. Angel Hernandez. Oh yeah. Had a great call today. Right down the middle. One of the, no, no, I was talking about the strike that he called. So the pitcher stepped off the mound. Yeah. And then stepped back back on didn't even look at the batter through a pitch. It was like two inches high. I called it a strike. Yeah Yeah, he's he's he I just like that. He yeah, I mean like Joe West retired

We needed a guy who can just make it all about himself Yeah, and I love how defensive he gets like he's never made a wrong call in his life. Yeah He's the best also the snow baseball rocked. Yeah. Pittsburgh. Yeah. That was awesome. That is good. I love snow baseball. Okay. PFT. My who's back of the week is pop punk. Oh, so exclusive announcement here. I think we're putting this public uh, later on in the day on Monday, but I'm excited about it. Really pumped. We're doing a summer concert mini tour this summer. It's the Pup Punk Off the Leash Pink Whitney tour and First date is in Chicago, right? Chicago May 31st

Joe's on weed and then in August we're going August 2nd Columbus at Scully's Saturday August 3rd Nashville at the Barstool Bar Friday August 30th in DC at Union Stage, and then Saturday, August 31st, Philly at Underground Arts. And so I know for at least the Chicago one, we're going to get some people from the office to come out and sing some songs with us. I've asked Big Cat if he can do it.

Max, I believe, is down to sing a song too. So Max, you have to figure out a song. If you want to do Shall to shallow I can play guitar can you get it down pat it's true he does have guitar down would you want to sing max I'm not I have to think about it first of the month nope I don't use tequila okay yeah be great that's well that's memes yeah that is memes beer we're sure ever probably to get him fired. Either that or Mr. Pear. At least the pens. I'll make memes come out on stage just to do acapella. Yeah.

All right. My Who's Back is the world ending. So PFT and I both got a text message from our friend Jersey Jerry on Saturday night during the games and it read, I suggest you take out all your money out of your bank and stop using credit cards for the next few months until I can give you the green light again. We will be under a cyber attack sooner rather than later. Just looking out. I'm in communication with a very important person for one of if not the biggest software companies in the world.

So sounds like we're fucked. Yeah, no. Jerry's got the inside Intel right now. I tried to get the actual company out of. Yeah, no, Jerry's got the inside Intel right now. I tried to get the actual company out of. Yeah. And he, I said, what company? This seems bad. He says, I can't say bro. He's a multimillionaire. I think wealthier than Dave. Oh yeah. I just can't say his name. I'm sorry. Take all your money out of the bank. I'm telling you, I, I don't, I think I trust Jerry.

Yeah. I mean, he gets a lot of his news from TikTok. I'd say all of it. Yeah, all of it. And he even sorts sources it that way saying, did you see that article on TikTok? And he did sit next to someone on a plane that told him this information. He also has been telling me for a while now that right before the election, they're going to shut down the banks and make everyone get a chip to take their money out. So yeah I think we're I think we're in trouble guys. I think this is a bad bad scene. I think we're in deep deep shit. I asked him to send me a link to some of

the theories that he's been reading and then he just sent me a screenshot of a text that he sent to Erica. Oh so that that was his link. Okay. Alright Jake. My Who's Back is Crazy Injuries. We had a wild finish on the PGA tour this week Akshay Bhatia, he made a putt on the 72nd hole to force a playoff and he fist pumps so hard He dislocated his shoulder. Oh, it's like Tony Finau popped it back in That's a base and one in a playoff and got his ticket to the Augusta Yeah, he was the last open spot in Augusta that he won. Holy shit. Yeah. So good for him. But yeah, it was very funny watching him.

It's such a, it's such a funny golfer nerd injury to just like, I've never celebrated in my life that hard. Wait, he, he didn't, he didn't like, did he pound somewhere? He just, he just, no, he just, just like did it himself. This was the final putt to force a playoff Oh, no That's that wasn't even that hard Jesus Once I'm excited for the master. Yeah, it's gonna be very incredible also excited for our mini golf tournament You want that real quick Hank? Yeah to two day four round mini golf tournament. It's gonna be live no editing necessary Wednesday all day and night Thursday after Masters coverage

Yeah, big field a lot of competition a lot of questions about how deep the holes are So we're gonna find out. Do you know the answer how deep the no I was it was a Jeff D Lowes the first thing he said to me was like how deep are these holes? I was like that's a fair question that I don't I don't know the answer to I think there's I think they're normal depth apparently it makes a difference what what depth the holes are yeah, it makes sense Okay, also shout out Billy for getting the enough signatures to be on the ballot. Yeah, Billy is Officially running for Congress now so credit to him. We still got to figure out this Jim Toe's hardcore common sense issue.

I think it's pretty simple. I think you just go mega common sense. Yeah, mega hardcore common sense. Yeah, common sense squared. Billy football. So much common sense, we're going to make you puke out common sense. Yeah, no, I think I am rooting for Billy now.

Oh, Billy should actually go on a like much publicized Ayahuasca trip, but not ayahuasca. It's just common sense. Yeah He's got a shaman who just gives him all the common sense and he pukes it out You should go on stage with a beer bong that just has common sense on the side Chugging he should he should boost some common sense. Yeah, he wants to really get it. Does he have any more interviews lined up? He did too. He did too on watching those on Thursday the second one that he did I realized Billy's got a chance to win the man is a natural politician at the end of the interview when he reached over shook the guy's hand Yeah, and his eyes he did the smile eyes that policy so creepy

Yeah, and I was like fuck Billy actually this, this might be what Billy was born to do. Yeah. I mean, he, he does bullshit with the best of them. So he's perfect. And I said it on Friday, but like word of state in American politics, I think Billy's actually a pretty good option. Yeah. I was scary to say, but I, I kind of believe it. I would agree with it. I still want to see what Jim Toe's hardcore common sense looks like. And then I'll fully endorse when Billy was first announcing this plan. We're like, wait, Billy, uh, don't you have to like live right there in that district? He's like, well, I lost my virginity there. So that's, that's a pretty good reason. Yeah, that's perfect. That's as good a reason as any. Yeah. Um, all right, let's get to John Fanta. We'll talk some more Monday night championship game. It's brought to you by our friends at game time Game times the exclusive ticketing partner bar stool sports. Did you know you can get tickets to Monday night's game? 173 bucks is the get-in price 173 bucks if you're trying to go I'm looking at the app right now also throw out there it is

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What was your speech? I loved it. Anything you do, I just love watching. What did you say? What did you say in the bowels of the stadium last night? It's theater, it's fate, it's destiny. This is what you sign up for when you start the marathon in November.

For the hardcore junkies who are sweating out a 38 and a half point dog in a by game, this is what they live for now on Monday night. They might've lived for that too, but we start the marathon in early November and you hope in this tournament of utter chaos that you get a good final. This isn't a good final. Yeah.

This isn't a good final. This is an all time final. This is the first time that we have multiple seven foot starters in a national championship game since Patrick Ewing versus Hakeem Olajuwon in 1984. Whoa. This is a title game 40 years in the making. Purdue fans have waited their entire lives for this moment.

For UConn fans, it's another year. Yeah, and then obviously the story of whoever ends up winning, you have maybe one of the best basketball teams ever if UConn can do it. Like the stretch that they've been on. And then Purdue trying to respond from getting bounced last year in the first round. Yeah, let's see the big picture, because I would say if Dan Hurley wins this, that's the best two years of a coach of all time, just because we haven't had a back-to-back since Florida. You obviously had back-to-backs earlier in college basketball history when guys stayed for a long time, but he will go, if he can win on Monday, he will go back-to-back after losing 75% of his points from the year before and changing over pretty much the whole entire roster. It's all time stuff.

You will have won each NCAA tournament game. If you win this game in commanding fashion, if they win this game in commanding fashion, which I do think is possible, I know a lot of people are saying one possession, two possession game. I hope we get there. But the reason why I'm skeptical is because we thought that we would have gotten there multiple times on this 11 game run over the last two NCA tournaments for UConn, and they have won 11 straight tournament games

by at least 13 points. It's crazy. 18 straight neutral site or away site, or neutral site games that they've won by double digits. It's crazy. And I thought Alabama, I'm talking with some UConn staff members earlier today, I'm like, so what'd you think?

And they're like, well, Alabama played even better than we thought they would play. They shot eight for 11 from three in the first half. Mark Sears didn't miss a shot, and they were still down by four. That's how scary good UConn is. And I just think not only would Dan Hurley complete the ultimate two-year run,

but in a sport that lost some of its biggest faces, if he wins the championship tomorrow, the idea that when people throw out Bill Self, or Tom I Issel or Mark Few, it's not that I'm not listening Hurley would put himself as the coaching face of college basketball. Yeah, I would agree with that 100% you couldn't make an argument against it what he's done has been it's been incredible Especially like you know like we said in this era. They just reloaded they got they got better So you can make the argument that this team They just reloaded. They got they got better. So you can make the argument that this this team

Actually put it that way this team against last year's you gone team. What's the spread on that game? Wow, I would say this team By three. Yeah. Yeah, it'd be tight But I think with this year's team To me Tristan Newton's level of consistency throughout the whole season makes me believe even more Newton Newton did not have a great year last year. You're in a good season. He's had a great season this year He's been so consistent It's like last year never ended when this you con season started and as you said They lose five of their top eight players from last year's team I think that when you combine that with Alex caravan being another another year older, with Stefan Kassel being a one and done

freshman who has now emerged, you can't just play off Kassel. No, they should. They tried. Yeah. They tried. Alabama tried that. He made them pay. He took that personally. He did. Yeah. I think the other thing is what makes me put this year's team as a slight favorite is that Cam Spencer is just insane. Yeah. He's a mini Hurley. He's a mini Hurley. He's wired differently. You know, I was talking to him about tomorrow. I said, so what will you do? I go, when you get 10 minutes back in the hotel room, like what app will you go on on your phone? And he goes, I'm gonna watch more film. Yeah. He goes, I'm gonna watch. Like, you're a player. This guy's in bed watching more film of Purdue.

Yeah, it's crazy. And his tenacity to the way he was getting rebounds. Yeah, just crazy. That guy doesn't quit. He is he is wired. It's as if Dan Hurley made a human out of his image and likeness. Yeah, besides his son, we made in reality. 42 and oh, by the way, when Andrew Hurley gets in a game, it's the probably the best known in the business right now. Incredible stats. Incredible stats.

You have put that out there. Yeah. We talked to him last week. We asked him, why don't you start? He needs to take a shot. Let your son take a shot. That's all I'm saying. All right.

And Donovan Klingon has been just insane. What he does, and that's why tomorrow night's going to be, or tonight is going to be so great, because it's Edie versus Kling. Now on the Purdue side, it's just as good a compelling story because you have a team that lost to a 16 seed last year, trying to get revenge for that. And also Purdue as a school, they are number one in NCAA basketball for wins in the tournament without a championship.

If they win this one, it's like everything gets erased and the Matt Painter and Zach Eadie and Zach Eadie goes down as one of the greatest college basketball players of all time. It's crazy how much, like how many, how many storylines are on both sides. Yes, a first national championship, all-time glory in West Lafayette and for the Big Ten. Yeah. We talk every year about the Big Ten and their title drought and we, and the Big Ten. Yeah. We talk every year about the Big Ten and their title drought and the Big Ten gets a bad rap as a result, but at the end of the day, you have to show it in hardware. You know, if UConn wins this championship, the Big East will have had four of the last eight

national championships. The ACC has two and the Big 12 has two, that's it. So for me, this is massive for Purdue because you do not know first off, you're never going to have a player like you've got inside. They don't make there's not a carbon copy. Purdue will figure out a way. Yeah, they actually do have a freshman or anything seven feet.

They have a lab. Matt Painter just he's got a thing for tall guys. Smart. I mean, he's Zach Eady. He's been discussed a million times. He is really fucking good at basketball and been dominant this run. Yes, he's been unbelievable. I just think in this current climate where everything changes in the off season,

I mean, it's utter ridiculousness. Right now, I'm doing a way too early top 25 for next season. I'm throwing darts at the wall because you just have to with some of the roster management. Who's your 19th team? Oh god. I think I've got UCLA. Okay that makes sense. I like Mick to bounce back. Okay. Cronin's not having too bad years. But not bounce back too much. No, 19. Miami's in the mix there too. BYU. I don't think Mark Pope's getting undersold headed into next season. You know, I've got more to come. More to come. Don't

want to give away the whole weight. Top 25. Connecticut. Okay. Smart. You know what? I also have that. I'm not getting fooled again. I'm not giving Hurley a chip on the shoulder this time. I'm putting the number one because someone's going to have to take it from you. Take that title. It's like the in the spirit of time. I'm putting the number one because someone's gonna have to take it from you. Take that title. It's like the, in the spirit of WrestleMania, it's like the belt. At this point now, Connecticut has that belt. And on Monday night, Purdue is coming with their briefcase and this is their chance.

This is their chance. Fanta rips off like four or five WWE promos of a podcast appearance. I love it every time. I think that this will be something that we remember. This clash of the titans and for Purdue, if Purdue wins this game, which I do not think that they will. But they absolutely can't, like it's not, They have the recipe that could potentially beat you come like every other team I've seen in you cons way. It's like they're Alabama last night. They had to shoot. They had to shoot 60% from three and they also had to shoot like 43. They only got

like 20 off because that was obviously what you cons plan was like pretty was the only team that has at least the, when you look at it, could match up with UConn. I think a lot of people want to say with UConn, well we'll make them shoot threes, and that's how we'll beat them. It's not just as simple as that. You've gotta have paint eliminators.

And Zach Eaddy is a paint eliminator, just like Donovan Klingon is on the other side. How this game gets called, it's Jeffrey- That's what I was gonna ask. Jeffrey Anderson, Roger Ayers, Terry Oglesby. All right, so what do we feel? Because my one concern is you go back to the last time we had a back-to-back champion,

and it was Odin versus Joakim Noah, and they both get fouls very early in the game, and it kind of ruined what should have been a similar classic game. Can we turn fouls off tomorrow? Can we maybe like let both big guys have seven fouls? I just I'm so nervous that that's gonna happen and and ruin what we want to be a great game. I'm really nervous about it. I do not want it. Us the sports fans, nobody wants this game getting decided by foul count.

I'm not even saying by free throws. Because look, if Edie gets hacked late in the game, or if Klingon gets hacked and it's a legit foul, and you're asking them to make two free throws, make your free throws, kids, then look, I get it. But please, for the love of all that is holy and all that is right, can we not, can we not be five minutes into the game and say, well now Donovan Klingon's gotta sit for the rest of all that is holy and all that is right. Can we not, can we not be five minutes into the game

and say, well now Donovan Klingon's gotta sit for the rest of the first half. It ruins the product. And it's like loose ball, like I don't want any, you know, fouls getting rebound, like let them get rebounds, let them do that stuff, let them get a little dirty in there. I get it, I agree with you, if you hack them going for a shot, that's fine.

None of the tiki-taka stuff. Like when DJ Burns committed that foul on the fast break last night. Right off the bat, and you're like, well, the game might be over by now. That was bad positioning by DJ Burns. Oh, yeah. No, he definitely committed a foul.

But at that point, every sports fan watching that was like, well, this game's probably over now. And the players don't want that. Because if I'm a player on the team, which I very much am not. Could be. Hurley could absolutely get a solid like three points, four rebounds out of John Fanta. I believe it.

Fanta checking in for the last 36 seconds of the game. St. Bernadette, Westlake, Ohio, most threes made in a single game in the Catholic Youth Organization. I made eight of them. Whoa, how many did you shoot? Again, St. Ray Fields, put them in a body bag, 28 points. How many did you shoot? Probably shot 13 that night Fields. Put them in a body bag. How many did you shoot? 28 points. How many did you shoot?

Probably shot 13 that night. OK, that's great. Eight for 13. That's great. Are you still wet? Can you still play? I saw a clip of you shooting at Providence. I can still shoot the basketball.

Yeah, we give you 30 shots. How many do you make? Right now, just going in blindly, I would probably say I could make 12. We got to get you in the office. Yeah, we got to get you in the Chicago office. I would love. I would happily come in and show off this shooting stroke. It is not a there's nothing patented about this No, I saw it was ugly, but it went in it doesn't it doesn't matter right?

They don't ask you how you got there. Yeah, if the Paul goes into the hoop, that's all that matters Yeah, how many not how yeah, so I could probably I anybody could play for Dan Hurley right now Yeah, you could check in and give me something. I give him a couple I did hack Zack Edie I probably actually would have to act I probably will stop that's that's the thing about about Yukon though So if if even Klingon gets in foul trouble early, what's his name Johnson pretty good defender, right? So he's the X factor in the game. Okay. I think we could come out of the game saying game. Okay, I think we could come out of the game saying, Samson Johnson is the man who emerged. That's why he's the Yukon's number one and John Fanta's top early to top 25.

Yeah, sometimes what happens is, you know, I'm gonna take it from the wrestling to a little bit superhero, like to set the series up for future episodes. Yeah, a new man wearing a cape comes out of nowhere. And it feels like Samson Johnson could be that type of guy in this game. You know why? He can run the floor, runs the floor like a deer. He can fly above the rim. He throws down some thunderous dunks. He leads UConn in dunks. Like he's got over 60 dunks on the season. This kid's had a massive year in that column. And I just think he causes a wrinkle.

That's the thing with UConn. They answer every single question. Yeah, I've been saying it from the start of the season, every single question that you can throw at them, they have a solution for. Because they can beat you any different way. Their guards are so much bigger than most teams guards, especially tomorrow or tonight.

And they, like you throw something at them, they're like, all right, we got this. We'll adjust. We can play this style. We can play this style. We play up. You want to play up tempo. We'll play up tempo. You want to play slow. We'll play slow. They'll play Manhattan head coach, John Gallagher. I had Manhattan's game against Yukon on Black Friday earlier this season. And ahead of the game, he said, you always knew playing Dan Hurley that you had to beat him in a bar fight if you were going to win. You always had to... You always knew you were in for a bar fight. He goes, now when you're facing Hurley, you've got to win a bar fight, but before that you have to go to the library and study tirelessly.

You've got to beat him in a textbook war win a bar fight, but before that you have to go to the library and study time. You've got to beat him in a textbook war and a bar fight. You know what it is? It's like watching chess boxing. You ever seen that? They go out there, they fight, then in between rounds they sit down, they play chess for five minutes. So what is Matt Painter doing? It's a great sport. I've never seen you played it. You would love, I've never played it, but I've watched it.

We could play that when you come to the office. Yeah. Okay. I never played a game of chess in my life. Have you boxed? Oh, really? I have boxed. Of course you have. I've never played a game of chess in my life. Have you boxed? Oh, really? I have boxed. Of course you have.

You've never played chess. You probably were Golden Gloves. The legend of Fanta. Look at that. Look at that. People were watching the podcast. Come on. Look at Fanta throw those things around.

This is going to be a boxing match on Monday night. All right, so what does Matt Painter do if he's got to go to the library? What is his solution? Wow. I would not reference what Brad Underwood's library visit was, because I'm trying to think of what you could do. Look- Brad Underwood was reading children's books, and then he came out and he was like, what's- It was tough. Don't just read Cam Jansen to get ready for a hard test. Remember Cam Jansen? Yes. I don't like pray, you know, but the Big East has the meatball prayers and hoops down as we talked about last year. I just, I think you've got to, you have to

say, how do I do something to get Hurley to blink? Like, I don't even know if, and I think some coaches would totally scoff at me, but you're telling me that, who's to say you're gonna stop a man to man every trip down? Nobody's been able to do that. Could you throw in a one, three, one? I'm not even saying you do it often. But you just make him be like, what's going on here?

You make him make an adjustment and hope he makes the wrong one. Steal a possession. Yes. In basketball, it's different from football. We know the big game and a football coach, a head coach, who does something totally unorthodox, and it comes back to bite them because they ran one fake punt or one thing that they haven't run all season long,

lifelong Browns fan here, I know the feeling, where you're like, where did that come from? That's not in the playbook. But in basketball, it's different. Like, you could try something for possession. It could go miserably wrong, and it's okay. You gave up a two or a three. I just wonder if Painter reaches into his bag

and does something totally unorthodox. I would watch the last two years of Yukon Craydon games. I'd watch Greg McDermott and how Craydon played. Yeah. What about what about Edie at the point? Get clinging away from the basket. Have Edie bring the ball up. The image. We're doing some crazy shit. Let's do some crazy shit. The crowd pop. The crowd pop of Purdue in buying the ball and Edie dribbling the ball before slowly like bounce the

ball six feet in the air. What if he's like the professor he starts going between his legs what if you learn something about him we never he got insulted at media availability on Sunday because someone said to him you know you're the traditional postman and how much do you just embrace that where the NBA the three of the best scorers, three in the MVP race are all big men, are all seven feet taller or larger. And how much do you think that that's, that you're sort of throwing back the clock? He goes, whoa, whoa. He goes, I could shoot the ball. He goes, watch me shoot free throws. He goes, I could shoot the three. He goes,

it's just what coach Painter asked me to do. Yeah, I believe it. I've been very, we've had the discussion ad nauseum. I don't love watching Purdue play basketball, but anyone who diminishes what Zach Eaddy's done on this run is stupid. Bold prediction for Monday night. Donovan Klingon makes a three. Is that coming from anywhere or just the back of your head? He's just fanting right now. I could see, I could see, I could see, no, it just came into my mind because it was a fantasy. Yeah. I just think Klingon has, has hit threes. Yeah. Not many, but I could see a high ball screen and instead of rolling, he slips back, make him respect it and makes, and

makes Edie pay for going all the way down there. I know what that could do. I want this to come through so bad. I could actually see Klingon taking the ball because going all the way down there. Oh, man. I know what that could do. I want this to come through so bad. I could actually see Klingen taking the ball, because he runs the court so well. He does. He can get up and down, like, send him on the fast break. He does. We're going to get back to Jon Fance in a second.

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And now here's more Fanta. The one interesting thing though with Klingon is he does come off the court a lot. Edie does not. Edie is crazy the amount of minutes he plays as a big man. So like those non-Klingon minutes are gonna be huge. That's why Samson Johnson is my key to the game. Yeah, that's why he's your X factor.

I think he could prove to be big. I think the one interesting dimension to this game as well is that both point guards are coming off off nights by their standards. Braden Smith is coming off of the worst game of his college career. And Tristan Newton has had two performances in a row that make you say, hmm, what's going on here?

He went three for nine from three. He was trying to find it. He was forcing the issue a little bit. Nothing wrong with that. But I want to see which point guard ends was forcing the issue a little bit. Nothing wrong with that but I want to see which point guard ends up having the upper hand in this. He had a tough first half especially too. He had

two backcourt violations. Maybe he should have had a third one in there. I think the logo was so big that the point guards couldn't see it. It was an issue all night. They made the logo bigger. And everyone found out he didn't see it. Yeah, it was an it was an issue all night. They made the logo big and everyone found out he didn't score because Charles Barkley. Yeah, that clip was tough. That was a tough moment for Chuck. But the other thing about Chuck is like Charles Barkley can do no wrong in our world. He is I was thinking about this. Is there a more liked on TV analyst in the sport. John Fanta. John Fanta, SVP, Charles Barkley.

It's an honor. Joe Buck. Those are the Mount Rushmore of most like guys right there. Booger Cam. Mobile. Stanford Steve. Well liked. Yeah, big time Stanford Steve, our guy.

I got some questions that aren't about tonight's game. Love it. Is Ed Cooley going to resign? I mean, there's a lot of chatter, Johnny. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, It was trending. Donnie Mexico and Lumpy Dumber do not count as reliable Twitter sources. You know Providence Twitter. They got you to windmill. They did get me to windmill. When is the vest? When did we get in the vest?

I've got to find a vest. Okay. I've got the AD, Steve Napolillo claims he's going to send me a vest. I hope they don't run small. Okay. All right. Vest can, you know, you order a vest online. That's a, could be a tough bigger guy purchase.

Yeah, that's true. Wait, wait, what's the vest vest a man that they have they want to wear the Kim English vest. So Kim English wore a vest They then loved the vest. Yeah, and now they made the ad put the vest online up for sale But purchases go to NIL Providence's NIL has like It's it's gone way up because these fans are just so out of control in a good way. Yeah in a good way I mean not in a good way of like putting a movement together that actually produced Public pieces like actual forms of media about Ed cool. He's not going anywhere. He's at Georgetown. I don't know Next year's a big year for those Hoyas. He's got us. I think there's a change There's not it's not non-zero that he could resign. Do we have... Here's my thing. Why don't,

why don't you just... like, so my only thing is, like, I don't, I'm not against... I think Providence's fan base is the wildest in college basketball. Like, the most passionate fan base right now. Right now, if I put power rankings together, they are. They, but you have a good coach in Kim English. Yeah, but I like it. There's nothing better than watching the guy that scorns you just watching him resign. You have to send a message to every coach that

comes through town in the future, like, don't leave. Yeah. You better not leave. We're going to gaslight you into resigning. There's a curse. While we gaslight you into resigning, we're going to have Fanta doing windmills. I did, too.

Yes. And I did a windmill I went off the wall. Yeah, someone said it really wasn't a real one. I'm like, well, I tried that was my That was one take I was not gonna try 15 25 takes It was literally that was that was I promise you if you went through my phone and looked through it That was the one take I did. Okay. Of the win though. So you're high on Georgetown next year. Do you have them in your top 25?

No, I'm not high on them. I think they'll be better. Well, they're gonna be looking for a new coach. There's only one, yeah, exactly. Right. I've just become a Providence Twitter troll in real life right now. Ed Cooley's not going anywhere.

Maybe. You're right. Okay, I'm just saying, it's not non-zero. It was non-zero, and then Providence Twitter got involved. And it's at least 1% chance he wakes up one day and he's like, shit, am I resigning? Who do you think George Sands should target if Ed Cooley does resign?

Good question, PFT. Good question. Good Lord. Kim English? Who's a big name out there? Yeah. Imagine if they got Ed Cooley to resign and then they took Kim English. See here's the thing you you've got the power that you could fire up the machine and say it because like when it when an opening when a coaching vacancy

opens and as we are taping Arkansas is looking for a coach. So like people put out names sometimes that are never gonna take the job. It's not gonna happen. But then it becomes a thing and names gets, I love when, this happens in the NFL all the time, like when a name just gets brought up and you're like there's no job, but the name's in there. So we can just start having fun with it.

Yeah, Connelly's Rice. Yeah, Connelly's Rice. It was, there's no chop, but the name's in there. So we could just start having fun with it. Condoleezza Rice. Yeah, Condoleezza Rice. It was, every time a quarterback. Please don't bring that up. Every time a quarterback would get hurt, it would be Brett Favre until like two years ago. My lowest point as a Browns fan, with all due respect, Condi, with all due respect,

was when I opened up Twitter and read the words that the Cleveland Browns are giving consideration to Condoleezza Rice. Yeah. And that was off Hugh Jackson? Yeah. It was at that point that I gave thought. The exact tweet was so funny too from Schefter.

Brown's interested in interviewing Condoleezza Rice for head coaching job. He got duped on that one big time. But still, the fact that there was like, it's kind of like the Ed Cooley thing. It was a non-zero chance that Condoleezza Rice would be your head coach. Yeah, I think it's actually very similar. Like you can't say that Condoleezza Rice had 0% chance, just like you can't say

there's a 0% chance Ed Cooley doesn't resign. It's exactly the same. There's a 0% chance. No, there's not a 0% chance. No chance there's a 0% chance. No, there's not a 0% chance. No chance there's a 0% chance. Speaking of Arkansas, what do you think about USC getting the Musk bus going down there? I feel like that's going to be a good spot for him.

Well, that makes USC basketball relevant. Makes it more relevant for me, the junkie, than Brawny James at USC, just being honest. Just because, like, Musk is going gonna win. He's going to win. He won at Nevada. He won at Arkansas. He's been to four Sweet 16s and three Elite 8s. He's a winner. The guy is, he's got a killer mindset. If things were on their course, like, the end of the Arkansas era, I do believe this, was more, it wasn't because of one bad year. Like coaches have a bad year throughout their careers. He had one bad year, he didn't get

relieved of his duties, he wasn't beating anything. I think with, if you look at Mus, he has a lot of staff changes. He's not the easiest guy to work for because he's wired a certain way. He's wired to go out and beat the tar out of the opponent. But in the same way, that's how he coaches internally in his building. I think he creates competition inside his building. He's going to make USC play with fire. USC, UCLA, and basketball will matter again in the Big 10.

Well, because it's Big 10. But I think USC, UCLA, because Musk is going to say, Trojans get, he's a uniter. He's a people, he's going to get people caring or thinking about basketball. Trojan fans right now. They haven't thought about I mean, they've struggled to fill up football on Saturdays. Now, Cronin versus Mus, two characters, two fiery guys, that's going to be that's going to be fun. Yeah, it is going to

be fun. I'm not the I hate conference realignment I hate college like we should celebrate stuff that's happening and think ahead I don't want the NCAA tournament change at all no no but I'm okay with with USC traveling to Ohio State on a Wednesday yeah absolutely what speaking of coaches is Luke Murray gonna get a job so soon? Well, I think he's... I want to know where Bill Murray's gonna end up. Right, where's he going? Yeah. I think for now, it's probably Groundhog Day in stores. Oh, that's great. But only because UConn keeps on making it this far when a lot of the vacancies get taken. But you never know, Luke's more than

ready to be a head coach as is Kimani Young. Kimani Young and Luke Murray are ready to be head coaches. And Tom Moore, who was at Quinnipiac and kind of combines the old with the new, he was with Jim Calhoun, now he's with Hurley. Hurley made Tom Moore a painting that's gone viral. Dan Picasso Hurley. I think that when you look at that staff, that's the other thing with you, Conn. Like Luke Murray should be a head coach. He is more than ready to be a head coach as is Kimani Young. But they keep going so deep into April. They're almost a

victim of their own success. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's bad for him. And so staying on the coaching, yeah, cows back for one more year. If they go out the way they've gone out, I would imagine it would be the end. Who would take that job? We had our friend Matt Jones on. He said it'd have to be a rock star.

Jay Wright comes to mind. It's not going to happen. Nate Oates? Could happen. Wow. Nate Oates could happen. What about the buyout? How ironclad are these buyouts?

Well, it depends on the internal language of the contract. Like, obviously. But I also think this whole notion that Kentucky couldn't pay the 34 mill. Yeah. They could make three phone calls. Yeah, there's always enough money. Also, have we all not set up payment plans?

Yeah. Figure it out. You can do installments. Bitcoin. Right. Whatever it is. You know, it's like, there's always a way to find money, especially when you're Kentucky. Right. How close do you think they actually came to firing them? I think close. And then in the meeting, they decided that the head coach for life will remain the head coach for life. I think that meeting was all kind of fake. Really? Yeah, I don't believe that. You think he cried?

In the meeting? Fake tears? Yeah, just to keep his job. Maybe, like, and emotional. I mean, Cal's very prideful. Yeah. He's very proud of what he's built. I think he thinks, like, if they had fired him, look you owe me 34 mil and oh I'm

gonna go somewhere else and I'll just win. I'll win more than program X has won in the past. Right. You know he's in a way what he built he built it up to such an unbelievable level that then he's a victim of his own. He's run its course. It's overdue. The package of ground meat expired in the grocery store. Now, can you find a way to change who's stocking your shelves? Yeah, via the transfer portal. You have got to go into the portal and buy the best players from the portal.

Buying the best 17-year-old does not matter anymore. Yeah, you need to supplant it. I mean you saw with with you con this year when they bring in a guy like cam spencer you gotta get old yeah and it's staring you in the face and also you know cow to answer your your buyout question I don't think I think there's always a way yeah I think there's always what TJ also burger at Iowa State his buyouts very high you know I want him at Wisconsin I like Greg Garbert I think there's always a way. TJ Alselberger at Iowa State, his buyout's very high. You know, I want him at Wisconsin. I like Greg Garber.

I want him. They'd have to really pay some money. I know. I'm probably going to have to pay some money. You're going to dish them out. I'm waiting for the day. If it's a guy like that, I might. Could you win some money on championship Monday night?

Yeah, I have a UConn future. It's $140,000. And what's that again? Uh, 14 to 1. For them to what? Win the championship. Wow, when did you play, Seth? December after they lost to Kansas. Yeah, I know ball.

You know ball. Well, we haven't won it yet, so... But you got it. I know ball to get there. You got it. What about your Eagles future the other year? Yeah, I know ball to get there. Oh, do you have an Eagles future?

A couple years ago. What about your Ravens? I had Yukon last year, too. What about your Ravens future? Well, I had UConn last year, PFT, if you're going to bring up all the bad ones. And we had UConn last year on this show. I had 10 to 1 on UConn last year. The start of the tournament, we talked.

And we said, who could do it? And we said Connecticut. Yeah. You have been on. This group's been on track on the college hoops front. Yeah, as soon as they lost to Kansas, I was like, this team is still really good. And they're well, they played like a C plus game and barely lost. Right. They barely lost. I watched the whole game and I was like, they're

they that was a road game, a true road game and they were in it and they played like crap. What happened that night too? Purdue lost at Northwestern. Oh yeah. Interesting. Hmm. It's interesting. They lost on the same night. Yeah. So give us give us the exact roadmap, the recipe because we are glazing you can pretty hard here. If you're a Purdue fan, you want to believe you want to believe you have a chance, right? So what would what would need to happen tonight for for Purdue to pull this off? Well, I do think that that Zach Edie getting Donovan Klingon and

foul trouble is huge. I also think that Braden Smith orchestrating the game, controlling the way the game's played is big. The tempo of the game, I think UConn may try to run on Purdue a little bit, and I think it's important that Smith just calms the waters. I think it's critical for Lance Jones to stay as hot as he's been. He was terrific in the semi-final. And I think Mason Gillis is an X factor to the game.

He's their do everything guy. He is. And he can shoot the three and I agree with you there. He's been very good from three and he missed a couple of shots against Tennessee that he has not missed for much of the season. You can't have a performance where you're sitting there saying he missed some shots that he normally has made throughout the season. You can't have a performance where you're saying, they're saying, he missed some shots

that he normally has made throughout the season. This is the national championship game. This is for all the marbles. You're not gonna win with a B game. You're not gonna win with a B plus game. This is an A game type of game. I do not think this is gonna be ugly. I think Saturday we had some ugliness.

Let's be honest, it was not the most thrilling final four Saturdays. But typically when you get a couple of duds, there's a reason for that. These two teams were destined to meet on this Monday night. If you're Purdue, if you are Purdue, this is your open window to look out to the sunlight and say, how do we find Golden Redemption? This is the Golden Redemption tour for the Purdue Boilermakers. And for that fan base, the player said, our fans have willed us to this point.

If you are a Purdue fan, I do not care if you don't have a voice for the next month. Matt Painter said he would lose to FDU again if it meant he could be fighting for a national championship. That's what it's all about. Hollywood couldn't write this. They'd throw you out. They'd shoot you in the mouth. Man. They would. Fanta, we saw a video of you before the game yesterday walking into the stadium. How far of a walk did you have? Two miles. That's crazy. I think I walked two miles

total because I stopped at a location near the stadium to do a pregame show but then I walked a little I had to walk all the way into the stadium. I got great steps in. There's nothing wrong with that. March is my best month of weight loss of the year. Whoa! Fun fact, just by steps. You should be eating basketball. Yeah, yeah. That's no, it's the truth. Yeah. I'm just feeding on hoops, baby. I don't eat anything, you know, I'm feeding on hoops. I love it. And cutting out drive-thrus. Yes. Yeah, I don't need it when I'm courtside. So, all right, what else we learned from the final four the meet-and-greets you go to the pump party? I? Waited in line forever, and I never got in so I went over to the I went over to the bar scene She's got Bosco. Oh what he had been able to I saw him at

Bottle blonde or whatever. Yeah, I saw Bosco in there. Yeah, he started talking to me about the portal He just starts doing a rant on Danny sprinkle I'm like What's that right? Yeah, he was making Bosco search firms. Yeah. Yeah You sound like you don't you sound like you're down on Bosco. No, no, no, I'm okay on Bosco I've always been like Bosco and I've always been, like, Bosco and I have always been in a pretty good spot. I mean, I call him by his real name, and we stayed friends. Yeah, that's true.

That's a big test. So I'd like to think that Rico and I are in good quarters. Well, it's hard, because you're obviously a reporter. He's a coach. So it's like having that tug and pull where it's like you're trying to get information out of a guy like Bosco who's on all these coaching staffs. He doesn't wanna give it all up.

Pull us up to bottle blonde. What is it? I think it's a tug and pull. Rub and tug? No, rub and tug, yeah. You're getting rubbed and tugged by Rico. Rico shows up and he's like, I'm doing media availability right now.

What do you want to talk about, Fante? Speaking of rubbing tugs, how was your appearance on Wake Up, Mincy? That was fascinating. You know, when I showed up to the waiting area for that show, I thought to myself, where are we gonna go in this 35 minutes? But he really, it was a real morning show. Like he made it. I was like,

this guy has been through a lot, uh, over the last year, all his own doing. Yeah. Right. Right. Not any circumstances that someone handed to him. He did this to himself live on the air. And it was a fascinating, uh, 40 minute discussion about college basketball. He asked some good questions. I didn't know if he had just woken up before the show started or what was going on, but that guy is one of a kind. Yeah, that's a good way to say it. So, all right, so what does Fanta's offseason look like? There is no offseason. Okay, but what do you, I mean, there's no offseason, but everyone gets a little, I

get a little sad after Championship Monday and it's just like, oh man, I love college hoops. What do you do in the months that aren't games being played? Well, I'll give you the first couple of weeks, but then I will give you my summer plan. Okay. Next week I'm going out to the Jordan Classic to call the games for Fox Sports.

So I'll call those, Cooper Flagg. I get to see him. I know you'll talk about him next season for a variety of reasons. There's a girls game as well. So I'll do that. I'll do that for Fox Sports next weekend. I then will go from Portland, Oregon.

I'll stop back to New Jersey briefly. And then I head to Detroit, Michigan for three straight nights of PBA and primetime So yeah, you will see me on the bowling circuit Monday Tuesday Wednesday of next week just on FS one. Oh, we we nice week Detroit We were gonna we're gonna be there for the draft for a little bit What's that like what's it like covering bowling it is a blast I love it I first off I work with Randy Peterson who's been doing PBA bowling for like 30 years

He is the ultimate like just your buddy. We'll go to the bar Have a beer talk about nothing having to do with anything, you know, just hang out The shows are fun. It's five players typically a show so you just get to know them as people we sit down with them and talk To them for 20 minutes. You can't you can't possibly you could but like for me we're making TV so I want to hear about these people what they do during the week when they're not bowling who they are as people because we're telling stories on the air yeah and some of these guys have fascinating backstories and fascinating second third businesses and then they do this again on the one

guy two months ago, he worked at a penitentiary and he bowled on the side and he made an event. Like, I'm like, what are we doing here? This is amazing. So I do enjoy doing the bowling. It's fun and I've got a couple shows here in the springtime that'll keep me busy,

along with some high school showcase events. I'll do the Jordan Brand Classic in Brooklyn. I'll do Peach Jam. But what do I do? I do a bunch of draft stuff, NBA draft stuff. What do I do in my downtime? Windmill dunks. Windmill dunks. Try to convince Ed Cooley that he shouldn't resign.

Yeah, I go down to Brick, New Jersey. Shout out down the shore. I go down down the shore with my wife and I love it. I love going down the Jersey Shore, Parker House. Yeah. I haven't been to DJ's in forever but but you know like that's that's right on my alley. I go to Yellow Brick Road Ice Cream in Brick New Jersey if you haven't been. Spanos for a pizza. It's living the life. Yeah that's good. You do any travel? You ever go on an exotic vacation? You said Jersey Shore.

Yeah. Well, we went to Italy for our honeymoon. We went to Italy. Yeah, that is exotic. Yeah. We went to Italy for our honeymoon. Pork roll or Taylor Ham? Taylor Ham.

Your Taylor Ham guy? Taylor Ham. Smart, me too. Love it. Yep. Went to Italy for the honeymoon. Didn't want to leave because of the pasta. Exotic travel.

I mean, I go to Cleveland every summer. That's, hey, Cleveland's on the up and up. Katelyn Clark was saying Cleveland is awesome. They got the clips tomorrow. They got the Guardians home opener. You just got to make people do a layover in Albany before they go to Cleveland every time. And they're like, this is right.

It's like when you go, like a real estate agent takes you to like a really shitty apartment and they take you to a little bit nicer apartment. You're go guards, baby. Yeah, my guards are hot Stephen vote. They're off to a seven and two start I just read the Colorado Rockies team. ERA is over eight. Yeah, good. They're bad. There's Your strategy with the A's I totally not Talk about it right now Tigers have the Tigers Tigers and then down six Tigers, Tigers. And then. They're down 6-0. And then. Really?

Oakland also mastered the art of losing games by one run. So that's been tough for us. Well, we might have to. Re-evaluate? No, I'm sticking to it. We're staying the course. Will you go to a Sacramento A's game? No, but we'll go to an Oakland A's game

if we find ourselves in Oakland this year. Yes. All fire. For maybe. But Cleveland, Puddin Bay, if you've never been, you two would love it. Yeah. You two would, I'll do a couple nights in Puddin Bay with my wife. You know, just yeah. No, nothing. I'm trying to think. Nothing too exotic. I don't have plans to go to another country. Right. But down the shore is more, I, you see a lot of characters,

got a lot of fun. I'll go up to Rhode Island for a weekend. I'll check out the Friar Faithful in Narragansett, or Newport. Yeah, you probably don't have to buy a beer in Rhode Island. Friartown takes good care. Federal Hill, it's just classic. That fan base is one of a kind.

By the way, I should have said off the top, congr on getting that right up in the New York Post up and coming What was the headline rising star? Yeah, Johnny unexpected. Yep. No, it was I'm very grateful to them Ryan glass people did the piece Yeah, we know him. Well, very very nice piece by him Ryan. Thank you I'm grateful, you know like real talk I by M Ryan thank you I'm grateful you know like real talk I am very lucky to do this for a living as I know you guys feel the same way and I'm really happy to cover college basketball I cover other things but you know I grew up on the west side of Cleveland and when you grow up in Cleveland, jokes aside, you live on the Browns, Indians now guardians, calves. And I'm just, I'm lucky enough and grateful enough

that I've got a supportive family. And then I had two parents who taught me two things. One, you can control being nice to people. And two, you can control how hard you work Might not be able to control a lot of other things in life In any industry you're gonna get picked over sometimes for another person to call a game Somebody once told me John only one person gets to play by play on a game I and Eagles worked his entire life

Yeah to call a game like he gets on Monday night and that's that's really cool and Really special for him and I'm happy for him because he's great at calling a game and he gets on Monday night. And that's really cool and really special for him, and I'm happy for him because he's great at calling a game and he's worked and earned this opportunity. I'm really grateful that people care enough to give a damn about what I have to say, and I appreciate you guys. We appreciate you, Johnny. Yeah, you're the best. All right, I got one last question. Rollback question. R-H-O-B-a-c-k dot com promo code take. 20% off your first purchase, q-z-s, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, everything, rowback dot com promo code take. Can you give us

one more wrestling promo for tonight's game? This is what we live for. Connecticut and Purdue. One from what they call the basketball capital of the world, Storrs. From the farmland where basketball is everything throughout the winter months. The other school out of West Lafayette. They have hoped and dreamed of this moment and now it is here. The Boilermakers have made their way to the desert with their eyes on the prize behind a T-Rex in Zach Eadie, who has dominated this sport in a level that we have not seen in quite some time. But on the other side is Kling Kong.

Donovan Klingon is ready to go. It's Purdue and UConn, the best two teams in college basketball all season long. Grab your popcorn. You don't wanna miss it. Oh, I'm ready. We gotta send that to CBS right now. I'm so pumped.

Ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. All right, so give me two final scores. UConn wins and then Purdue wins. What is the final score for each? We'll cut out whichever one is wrong. Well, the show comes out. Yeah, but then we'll retroact. Retroact. I was gonna say right. We'll just clip whatever whichever one you're wrong. We'll put out the one that's right. We swear. So, two scores. UConn 83. Uh huh. Purdue 70.

83. Okay. Okay, I like that. Purdue 78, UConn 75. Whoa! Fletcher Lawyer makes a game-winning 3. Whoa! Damn. Both would be incredible. Donovan Klingon over half three-pointer.

Hammer it responsibly. Yes. I don't even think they offer it. No, probably don't. No chance. No chance. And Dan Hurley cries. Yes. I don't even think they offer it. No, probably don't. No chance. And Dan Hurley cries. Win or lose? Yeah. Okay. So that's the that's the lock of the century, Dan Hurley. I would say I think he's a very emotional man. Yeah, he's easy. We love him. He's become a very good friend of the show. I love it. I love that You guys had a lot of coaches on throughout the recent weeks, which has been really cool.

The Coach Patino stuff was great. I'll also see Coach Patino at some point during the summer. Okay. Hopefully some sort of... Down the shore? And you got... Maybe Marenack or New York area, Long Island style. We need a trip to Chicago.

You need to get to Chicago so we can get Johnny Fanta getting wet. Listen, when we put that video out, just say Johnny Fanta gets wet. That's going to do numbies. I forgot to tell you, one other off-season activity. Maybe my first off-season activity, I'm seeing Joel at the garden.

Oh, nice. I thought you were going to say come to Chicago. Before it ends. That was literally the perfect time to be like, I'm coming to a Cubs game. Instead, you're like, another New York thing. I'll come to Chicago before it ends. That was literally the perfect time to be like, I'm coming to a Cubs game. Instead, you're like another New York thing. I'll come to Chicago. It's a, it's a new era of DePaul basketball with Chris Holtman. All I gotta do is win like three big East games and it'd be good. It's going to happen. Yeah. Holt. Last, last question. Kyle Neptune.

Big year. Okay. Big year. Okay. Big year. It's a big season here for coach Neptune and Villanova. And look, you already loaded up in the portal. Last year it obviously did not go correctly. They've got to take a hard look at things here and bounce back next season because you can't go a decade of making the NCAA tournament and making runs in the NCAA tournament, then miss it-to-back seasons it is time this coming year for

Villanova to get back to the big dance floor or else. Or else okay well Johnny Fanta you're the best we love you thank you so much for coming on. Thank you guys. Fanta was brought to you by Chevy as everyone knows this is a Chevy truck podcast. Chevy trucks are the greatest trucks ever built and our good friends over at Chevrolet have been a big part of the part of my take story. From the Silverado helping us dig the biggest hole ever dug in Ohio during grit week to Silverado partnering with us to give college fullbacks all the rightful recognition they deserve with a low man award to our nonstop cross-country trip from Connecticut to the big game in LA. Behind the wheel of a Chevy Silverado, Silverado has been part of it all. Chevy Silverado, longtime awesome partner of

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let's talk some Eclipse. I also have a Monday reading for us. we want to do that I'm pumped I'm pumped for the eclipse I'm very excited for the I'm not excited for the earth to end because apparently that's good that's gonna happen oh no like they're gonna take first they're gonna take out the cell phone service then they're gonna overload the electrical grid then the National Guard is moving in fuck we know what CERN the CERN the particle collider that's the fourth oh is moving in. Fuck. What do you know about CERN? The CERN, the particle collider. That's the fourth dimension. Oh is that the fourth dimension? So explain it to us Hank.

Well I've done some extensive research this morning while I was hungover laying in bed. Okay. Go on. CERN is like an Illuminati type company. Is it a company or is it? I think it's a company. I think the CERN. Let him cook. Let him cook. Let him cook.

And what it's a part of extensive research. It's a particle expander. Collider. Okay. And they're gonna apparently NASA's launching rockets at the same time as the eclipse. Huh? Huh? Interesting. They're turning CERN on the day of the eclipse. And I believe the research is they're trying to reach a fourth dimension where where's certain located there's one in Tennessee on the in the in the route fuck is this is that true from the from the research from the research is done right so what would you say the haters out there that that have said that the CERN particle collider actually got turned on in March and it's located in Europe I think there's multiple CERNs there's multiple CERN particle collider actually got turned on in March and it's located in Europe. I think there's multiple CERNs There's multiple CERNs. Okay, sir. Second, sir. I think there might be one in Chicago There's a certain Chicago. They're gonna turn that one on. I don't know I'm just glad that we're in Arizona. We're not gonna be we're not gonna be there for the eclipse

Our son's gonna be perfect. Yeah, my where isn't this where the aliens will show up? I think it's one of those things where where once the The moon covers the Sun. Mm-hmm when it comes back like we'll be in the fourth dimension fourth dimension Like everything will be different. That's earth for I know outside of the eclipse Yeah, and this you came to the conclusion when you were hung over and probably felt like shit and you're like, please someone take me away Okay, doesn't matter how I feel right? Cuz it's over on Tuesday anyway. Right.

It's interesting because they tell you, like, don't look at the eclipse. What are they trying to hide? What don't they want you to read? Why is national not NASA launching rockets same day? This would be a very new, interesting twist on my long sorted affairs of losing futures. Yeah. Having this just end right before the game. I'm going to call Jerry though. I think we're going to get in the same page. He probably futures. Yeah. Having this just end right before the game. I'm gonna call Jerry though,

I think we're gonna get in the same page. He probably knows. Call him right now, see what he has to say. He's probably, he hasn't slept I don't think. I've never understood why you can't look at an eclipse. Because- Well in the memory when Trump raw dogged it? Yeah it did.

That was awesome. Awesome. He gave the thumbs up. He raw dogged the shit out of that eclipse. Tougher than the sun, the fucking sun. Yo, we're recording PMT right now. You're live to tape. What do you what do you know about CERN? What do you know about CERN? Stern, C E R N CERN are two best minds are on this. C E R-R-N. Nothing.

Well, I don't know what CERN is. All right, well then ask him what about the Eclipse, how it's going to... What do you know about the Eclipse and the fourth dimension? I don't want to get into that. No, you got to get into it, Jer. I'm very overwhelmed, man. All right, well, I don't want to put too much on your plate, but I would look into CERN. No, no, no, no.

Give me the phone. There's somethingN. No, no, no, no, no. Give me the phone. There's something there. Jerry, Jerry, Jerry. I've been slept in about, it's probably going on now, 29 hours, 30 hours. OK, so what's the concern? It's a lot of things. I don't think anything with the eclipse

is going to really mess things up. I'm more concerned about a couple of months from now. What's really going to happen? Yeah. What is? Yeah. Well, cyber attacks. I mean, I'm talking to this one guy right now. You know, people that I don't want to get into it. No, no, you got to get into it. You got to get into it.

You got to get into it. Well, people think I'm going crazy. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. You are are it's fine. I met a guy on a plane Okay, and and it was bowling time ever flying first class. Okay people say I was in row 27 I would it was my first time ever in first class. I treated myself I sat next to next to a guy who was very very wealthy. We talked the whole entire flight. He's a higher end for a major, major software company. Okay.

And you know, we just became friendly and, you know, it was just texts back and forth, happy holidays, stuff like that. And then, you know, the other day he sent me that message and asked him to kind of get deeper for me. And he just pretty much said like, I know too much, but I don't at the same time. Which to me means he knows everything.

Yeah. It sounds like he doesn't want to scare you. Yeah, he doesn't want to scare you. Yeah, exactly. And like, you know, just stuff with the power grid. I mean, the power grid hasn't been updated in 75 years. I mean, 70, 75% of it is ancient. You know what I mean the power grid hasn't been updated in 75 years. I mean 70 75 percent of it is is Is ancient you know what I mean? It's so like so what do you think they're gonna do the power grid? I?

Think I think that's gonna come when they want when they when they want Joey in office Okay, all right when they're when they're backs against the wall, and they know that's when some will happen Yeah, Joe gets out to like an early lead in Wisconsin and the power to the vote, yeah, it goes down. Billion bunk building bunkers, I mean, it just gets deep down. Yeah. Yeah, this is, all right, so I would, my only recommendation is do not sleep. Because it seems like the-

I mean, we have to at some point. Yeah, but the more you don't sleep, the closer you get to the truth. You're actually right, honestly, about that because I've got like a lot more information It seems like the more you don't sleep, the closer you get to the truth. You're actually right, honestly, about that, because I've got a lot more information today. Yeah, so sleep is your enemy. They want you to go to sleep. When you go to sleep. And the reason I stopped answering PFT was

there was a part of me where I feel like when we were texting, the language seemed like he thought I was going crazy. No, I told you to get some sleep Yeah, I just wanted you to sleep Jerry. Yeah, he wants you to sleep Yeah, I don't want to give him too much info. Yeah, that's smart. That's he can't be trusted That's not true Okay, I just told Jerry try to get some sleep if she does go down tomorrow. You need to be rested I was trying to help you

Yeah, he's trying to get you to sleep. That's what he's he's probably part of the Illuminati He's like we got to get this guy to sleep. Don't sleep Honestly, Dan, I wouldn't doubt that. Yeah, I wouldn't either so so I'm giving you the correct advice. Do not sleep All right, okay, and Dave Erica answered me Dave didn't answer me. What did Erica say? She believes me a hundred percent. Okay. I showed Eric the messages. Okay. All right. Yeah. Okay. Jerry. All right. Don't get any sleep. All right. All right. Bye. I love that theory. Like when you go to sleep, that's when they

reprogram your right. Right. Yeah. Sounds like it's pretty serious. Yeah. So I hope to do this podcast later this week. Yeah. This might be the last episode ever. Damn. I would suck. Are you want your Monday reading real quick? Yeah. All this, uh, it's titled, I hate my homeowners association Facebook group. Uh, here's a message that a woman sent to the homeowners association. Just a gentle reminder to please close your windows when cooking meat. As a vegan runner, it is always hard for me. I try to go out running several nights a week around dinner time. When you are cooking with the windows open, the smell of meat can be quite overpowering.

Honestly, the odor is offensive. Please have empathy for your plant-based neighbors by closing the windows when cooking meat and only cooking vegetables if possible. I do not want to be a stereotype. That's way too late for that. So I won't go into detail on why cooking animals is offensive, but I encourage you to do your research and join the movement with others who are fighting back. I love I love these groups. They're the absolute best. Yeah, I was in one in Austin and people would get on there and they would go out onto the sidewalk and they'd take a picture because

there would be like a branch laying across and they'd be like, somebody should move this branch off the sidewalk and they'd share it to the Facebook group. This lady is, she's got a pair of balls on it. I mean, the homeowners association groups are like just like the, the seventh circle of hell and Just people professional complainers always end up ruling those where it's like whoever complains the most gets the most power Mm-hmm. I couldn't I I would be grilling on my like in the front lawn every single day after this I have a steak tree planted out front every so I would raise I would raise chickens and slaughter them Yeah, yeah

This this lady's crazy, but you can actually, in some states, get fined if your neighbors smell your cigarette smoke. Oh. That's a real thing. That's crazy. I never heard of that. I feel like your odors, that's your property. Yeah.

Like, if somebody's smelling your steak, that's actually theft. Right. They're stealing from you. Yeah, if you want to smell bad, you can smell bad. Yeah. I would complain about the lady running, stealing all my smells from my meat.

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I think that was Hank. 18. I'll go 71. 2. 2. Pick another number because it starts on 2. 22. OK. Memes, 3. pick another number because it starts it to it's like on to 22 okay memes three all right 69 oh wow race is 69 tomorrow Billy 11 Billy got it you con gets to

69 first and they win they'd be a hundred and eleven game straight yeah I've become obsessed with betting perfect scores who and when And when it hits, it's going to be amazing. Yeah. Phantus at 83.70 on Titus Show this morning, I said 83.71. It's almost like that. So which one are you going to go with, PFC? I think I got to go Phantus scores. Yeah, that's fair.

OK. All right, well, we'll see everyone on Wednesday. We have Max Holman, Brooks Koepka, Talking Masters, and we'll recap the National Championship game. Love you guys. Hey, don't leave on me Take me on I'll be gone You don't need me Leave us to sit

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