Pardon My Take - Uconn Coach Dan Hurley, Final 4 Is Set, The World Stays Mad About Zach Edey And DJ Burns Is An American Hero

Episode Date: April 1, 2024

The Final Four is set and DJ Burns saves the world from Duke (00:00:00-00:12:41). Zach Edey was introduced to a brand new fan base and Tennessee outside of Dalton Knecht cost them a trip to the Final Four (00:12:41-00:23:39). Uconn is an absolute wagon and we decide what Alabama fans would give up in Football for a title in basketball (00:23:39-00:37:57). Rashee Rice is running from the police and LSU vs Iowa Monday Night (00:37:57-00:47:10) . Who's back of the week including Bryce Harper jumping into the dugout and Beyonce saves Country Music (00:47:10-00:58:09). Uconn Head Coach Dan Hurley joins the show to talk about Uconn's dominant run thus far, new things to get mad at, why he doesn't give Andrew Hurley more minutes, and tons more (00:58:09-01:26:55). We finish with a serious conversation about the Philadelphia Phillies raising a banner for an NLCS loss (01:26:55-01:36:30).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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Not. April fools. That's a good one. Ha ha. No, we in a final four. Not. April Fools! That's a good one. Ha ha! No, we have our final four set. And boys. Hank is devastated with Duke getting bounced. So so upset.

It broke my heart to see how upset you were. Actually Hank, you didn't really get mad until you bet on Duke live. Yeah, no. Then you got mad. It was the perfect Henry Lockwood moment where like he hasn't cared about Duke all year. He's admitted this and then in the second half he decided to bet them live and Duke gave us the worst second half Imaginable just couldn't score the basketball which is an important part of the game And DJ Burns was your daddy all second half and then you actually were upset

So you found your way to be upset about this loss, which I like I I'm glad that you're mad because if you were just like, whatever, and you didn't actually care at all, I'd be upset by that. Yeah. Yeah, it was a horrible game. I mean, they shot, I think 19 for like 75. What are you doing with your shoes? What do you mean? Are you trying to be a fashion guy? What are your shoes? What are those shoes? Is he trying to be a fashion guy? What are you talking about? I know we gotta talk about the fire always had the best shoes and I know we got I always I always rest the night actually think he gives a run for the money with best shoes

I drop when he drops his many when I got to many things. I got the kamikazes Are you trying to be a fashion guy rocks? I've had these shoes for like a year I know we have to talk about the final Four, but I have to talk about these shoes first. I've always been a fashion guy. I'm so fashion. Those look like shoes you would wear when you want to think that you're wearing golf shoes. This is a nice Easter outfit. Oh, you get dressed up for Easter? Interesting. Yeah. Interesting. Is that why you're wearing Carolina blue today? I don't know what you're doing with those shoes, but I'm on to you. What? I mean, like this, these are literally just white shoes. Yeah, but something about it. They're not like regular white shoes. They're like fashion guy white shoes

They're Instagram ad white here the here are the shoes you wear if you're going to work But you want to wear shoes, but you have to dress up. That's what he's wearing What are you looking at? I kind of look at the name Prada. I can see it's Prada. Yeah, those are fancy Those are Prada shoes. No free ads. no free. Yeah, no free ads, but a dude who just stole it gave these to me Yeah, it's a man by the machine sure yeah, sorry the vending machine shirt your devil's lost on on Easter Yeah, actually very sacrilegious in your part to be cheering for them, but DJ burns is the fucking man. Yes I love him. Thank us on behalf of America The fucking man. Yes. I love him. Thank us on behalf of America

Thank you. Everyone in America should thank DJ burns for beating Duke. Oh, we're just being awesome and it is funny It's like the the Drake meme when we just got done watching Zack Edie and we're like no and we watched DJ burns Yeah, yes. Yeah, fuck. Yes. He and he was wearing his eighth grade bully shoes I think they were James Harden's but it was like a Hue of green that just didn't match anything else on the court. Spinning on everyone. Just looking awesome. His touch is so nice. It basically came down to could DJ Burns score more points than got scored on him? And the answer was yes. I would also, could he score more points than got scored on him and also limit his fouls to four or less

Yes, because and for the last like seven minutes of the game DJ burns would just stand with his arms straight up He wouldn't even try to contest just go right out. He's just be like, I'm just standing in the pain I'm gonna put my hands up in the air and try to avoid me if you can please often Yes, and we could talk about the totality of the final four. We're gonna go through each game But like this NC State run Everyone's heard it. You know they were down or they were tied with Louisville in the first round of the ACC tournament I actually have a clip. This is the team that's playing in the final four. This is From the game they played against Louisville 19 days ago

This celebration right here? I don't know why anybody that's got the recent history of these guys are celebrating. That's Jim Bayheim 19 days ago. The team is playing in the final four now credit to Jim Bayheim. He did actually pick them to go to the final four in his bracket. He got, he was three for four. He had Yukon, Purdue and NC state, but the NC state team was tied with five minutes left to Louisville in the first game of the ACC tournament. They were a buzzer beater, three pointer away from none of this ever happening. And actually even more,

cause everyone's like, Oh yeah, the buzzer beater when Virginia didn't foul up three, the crazier part about the whole thing that gets lost in the shuffle is the guy who was shooting the free throw for Virginia, Isaac McNeely was an 87% free throw shooter and not once this entire season had he had missed two free throws in a game. He had already missed one in that game. He missed the second one. So the first time all season, he missed two free throws in a game and that let NC State get the buzzer beater over time start of what is the most insane run. Well, so he bricked the foul shot. NC State goes down to the court. They

don't foul. They get a three off banks it in barely banks in to not, not even like a good looking bank. Yeah. Goes to overtime. NC State goes on. And then yeah, they just, I think they just started believing that they could do it because they, they wouldn't, they beat Duke, they beat UNC, they beat Duke again. And now like you can't, you can't tell me that they beat Marquette. They're actually just a good team. Yeah. They're a good team. And, and uh, the other DJ on the team. Awesome. So they're a good combination. And then they've got a Diarra who's just eating up rebounds and fasting for Rama. Yes. At the same time, which now I'm

starting to think that you should have somebody on your team that is a practicing Muslim that fasts during NCAA tournament games, because now this is two years in a row with Sunogo from last year, and Hakeem did it back in the NBA days. There's something to it. They're crazy. They have the most losses for a Final Four team ever. 14 losses on the season, and they're in the Final Four as an 11th seed. I mean, it's just fun to watch. Like, DJ Burns, I don't know how anyone watches that game and isn't like, this is my favorite, it's got to be your favorite player.

Like he was spinning, the soft touch, like he doesn't even really jump. There was a couple times where he boxed out but he wasn't even really boxing out, he kind of was just holding someone off and then grabbed it with his other hand. He's also the best dude ever. Do you see that clip of him taking pictures with security after? Yep. Best dude ever. Owns vending machines.

Owns vending machines. NC State is America's team. They took down Duke and justice for Jamal Shedd, who got hurt in that Houston game because Houston would have whooped Duke's ass Yeah, Houston was definitely the better team I think the only way that you can defend against DJ Burns Maybe maybe Edie will be able to do it just because it's huge and has long arms Well, we can get to that in a second. Yeah

though if you're not a giant the only way that you can defend them is some of that Duke tried to do one time tonight that Never went back to it where you just back away from him as he's putting that pull the chair, you pull the chair out and then he gets out of control. That's the only way that you can stop him because you can't push back against him. You're not going to out muscle him. He's going to hit you with his back or shoulder and get like two feet of separation right as the time that he's spinning around with a hook shot and you can't do anything about it. His finish is so soft and listen, like disappointing end for Duke. They were, they should have won that game. There were seven and a half point favorites, but John Shire, how would

he have known that DJ burns was good? You, you can't, you can't prepare for, he's never had to prepare for a guy like that. No. So you know, maybe he should have had someone besides Phil, Phil Powski in on DJ burns who followed out with 10 minutes left in the game. And you know what? Not only did, did NC State defeat Duke, but they also beat the refs. There was a moment. There's a moment when America said, OK, here we go again. Hank's part of America where barely they they they blew the whistle because the ball hit the shot clock went out of bounds. It was a Phil Powsky shot. Yeah.

That went out of through it at the shot. He threw it out about he tried to take the shot clock down. Yeah. And they said out on NC state, NC state's coach just basically put his hands up and was like, what are you doing? What are you talking about? Teed them up. That right there felt like things were about to end for NC state. Yeah. You, it's hard to beat the refs and Duke at the same time. It's very rarely done. Well, it was an eight, it was an eight point lead. And then it took it for the two technical file

shots. It was a six point lead. And lead and they were like and Duke has the ball like this is gonna be a four-point game Yeah sucks, but NC State outlasted them was the better team shout out to Middlebrooks so sad for Duke Danny Cannell's nephew Yeah, I was the most try-hard guy out there, which I love I was I was only slightly upset on NC State winning for one reason one one reason only, I would have just loved to hear Danny Cannell's take on getting beaten by a guy that wears nail polish. Yeah. That would have been right in his mouth. I would never root for that.

He would have done three weeks in a row of content about how men should not wear nail polish. Also, it would have been nice if Middlebrooks had gone to an SEC school, because that would have also been a nice wrinkle for Danny to have to root for an SEC school. For the SEC, yeah. But he had the shirt Middlebrooks what was his name Ben Ben Middlebrooks uncle. Yeah, just so everyone was clear. We should sell those shirts Yeah, we said just anyone can buy Ben Middlebrooks uncle shirts. Yeah, he becomes a where's Waldo of like who's his actual uncle

Yeah, he's America's nephew. Yeah, but yeah NC State incredible story. So this final four I feel like has it all I know that You know the the final four that when we had all the Blue Bloods was incredible and the ratings were crazy. But this Final Four has the true Cinderella. They have Purdue and the most polarizing player in college basketball and Zach Eaddy because you either are a Purdue fan and love him or you're the rest of America and hate him. They have the freight train of Yukon and then they have Alabama which Alabama as much as I am not a NATO fan they are fun to watch when they get going and they're absolute flame throwers and it's their first final four. So you have two teams that have haven't been I think 83 for NC State 80 for Purdue first

time for Bama and then the repeat you you know, the, the national champs from last year. Redemption for Purdue. Redemption for losing seed. Yeah. Using last year. And the crazy part of it is that amongst those four teams, I feel like Yukon is the team that anyone without a dog in the fight is going to root for. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's pretty crazy. Sorry, sorry, sorry. And since you NC State is America's team. I forgot about NC State. I can admit that. Yeah. So let's talk about the Purdue-Tennessee game. Because boy, did people, it gives me so much joy watching other fan bases have to watch Zach Eaddy and then I feel less crazy because I've had to watch it for four years and it's

like they join the fray and the screenshots come out and the anger comes out. Everyone's like, how do they call this a foul? Zack Edie didn't have a foul called on him for the first 30 minutes of the game But with all that said Tennessee I know Tennessee fans are mad and You could be mad at Zack Edie. I think you probably should be more mad about everyone not named Dalton Connect I think you can be mad about both things at the same time. I think you'd be furious about Zach Edie and how the refs call him.

And I think that you can also be like, it would be nice if Ziegler had made one three point shot. They went. So Dalton connect was a 14 for 31 and the rest of the team or sorry, he was 17 for 31. Wait, what was his final stat line? He scored 31 points, More than half of his 37. 37 points. So 14 of 31, six of fall from three. 14 and 31. The rest of the team went 10 for 31. Yeah. I'd say that that would probably be more why you lost than Zach Edie and how

he was officiated. And I am, I'm, I got dangerously close. If Duke had won that game, I would have been, uh, like I might've gotten an ED jersey and watched Purdue play Duke and been like at the forefront of saying like those aren't those, those are all fouls. You can't do that to Zach Edie. I would have been number one like proponent of Zach Edie for one single game. Zach Edie makes everyone so angry and I understand why because I've had to go through it myself. He also is getting to a point where like people are just diminishing that he's just not good at basketball and he's very good at basketball.

He is good at basketball for sure. Like he has gotten a whole lot better at basketball. When I first saw him play, I think two years ago is when I started watching him. He was just, he didn't look like he liked being out there. Didn't look like he had any fire. Didn't look like he knew what he was doing. He was just kind of out there, didn't look like he had any fire, didn't look like he knew what he was doing. He was just kind of out there moving slowly. I always would say that it's like there's a tiny little person controlling the big robot inside of him. That's like thinking,

okay, move your left leg, right leg, left leg, right hand. And now it's like he is a smooth basketball player for his size at times. Right. He's not like super quick or anything, but he does. He hasn't proved a whole lot. And if you're Tennessee, you can be mad at the way the refs call him, but also just Zach Eady being there has a big effect on every single thing that you do. And it makes you uncomfortable. Like Zakaya Ziegler, whenever he would drive to the paint, you could tell he was like a second slow either deciding whether to pass or shoot because he was thinking there's a giant in the paint somewhere. That's just going to swap me if I do this wrong. Yeah, he's like always in the back of your head if you're playing against

He causes hesitation he causes like shots that you normally wouldn't love a lot of mid-range shots because you don't want to go to the rim and Got in, you know produce defense and same with Yukon with Donovan Klingon they know that they've got a guy behind him so they can play more pressure up top and run you off the three point line and get you into those shots that are low percentage shots and get you into a spot where you're shooting 10 for 31 as a team. I think most Purdue fans have reached this point and I hope they have where Purdue fans should just say fuck off to everyone else. Stop trying to make everyone, stop trying to tell us that it's something it's not.

Like, Zach Eaddy's really good at basketball. Purdue's really good, a really good team. Really, really good basketball team. It's not enjoyable to watch, and that's okay to have that opinion, to be like, I don't like watching a foul fest. I don't like watching a guy, you know, stand in the paint and be able to just turn around

and put the ball in the basket. Purdue fans should just be like, that's okay because we win. You know what I mean? Like there is, it's at a point where it's like, uh, to, to quote our good friend, Jay Billis, agree to disagree. Like you, you guys have your team, they play a certain brand that is winning basketball. It's getting you to the final four. Most of America doesn't enjoy this experience.

It's okay. I think you're being a little disingenuous there, BK. But that's, like, Purdue fans trying to tell us that it's something it's not is where it's like the disconnect becomes. Like, you could just have to put up your hand and be like, yeah, I understand. People probably don't want to watch it, but guess what? We're winning, so fuck off. Yeah, you don't have to worry about what people think about your score. Right.

You don't have to worry. You don't have to prove it to us. You don't have to get your dub stamp by anybody else. No. To be like, okay, this was really when you guys are in the Final Four. Yeah don't have to worry. You don't have to prove it to us. You don't have to get your dub stamp by anybody else. No. To be like, okay, this was really when you guys are in the final four. Yeah, they're really good. And they made the way they are. And they suck to watch. They suck to watch. Do you see after the game, Zach Edie cutting down the nets, did not need a ladder. Yeah. He just stood next to it. I said they should have called a foul on the ladder

because it looked like it was impeding his way up the net, but he was just standing on his own two feet, reaching up in the air, clipping down the net. And I just saw everyone across America saw that and thought the same thing. Like, if I was this guy's size, I would also be in the Final Four. Might not be true, but it's also for somebody that's on the shorter side, it's fun to think about.

It's a nice, like, soothing balm that you can put on the burn of having to grow up being shorter than normal is just saying, oh, if I was just a foot taller, I would be better than everyone at sports. No, he's- So I encourage people to do that. He's put in a ton of work, he's gotten a lot better,

but it's not a fun watch. Hank actually has joined the Purdue Hate crew. It's not a fun watch. Not fun at all. Yeah, but it works for them. So like, if I had Zach Eaddy on my team, I would just be like, fuck everyone, that's just the way it goes.

Yeah, but can't, I mean, imagine the national championship, how much you're gonna be rooting against them and hate watching of course And I I unfortunately think that DJ burns probably already got his first foul in the game on Saturday Getting off the bus like there he's he's gonna be out of that game so fast. It's gonna. Yeah, it's gonna suck He's not great defensively to begin with right and he does like to foul He gets in harm's way a lot But then what are they gonna do you can Danny Cannell's nephew might be the the try-hard answer to America needs Just just beat the fuck out of Jackie. Yeah, just try extra hard. Yeah, just be really annoying Yeah, ask Danny for some good quotes Just have just record everything that Danny Cannell says between now and the game and then just repeat that to him verbatim during the game

To annoy him. Yeah, just doesn't want to play. There's one other thing about DJ Burns. Everybody in America thinks that he should play football. Huh. Why? He's good at basketball. Who said that? Just everyone is like, no, but I know that when we interviewed him, when we were like, you know, do you think of like playing basketball, like your football player playing basketball?

Oh yeah, he does that a few times. But I've seen, I've seen lots of people be like,, oh this guy should actually try to play left tackle in the NFL Oh, I haven't seen that because I mean he his touch is so good. Yeah, I want him to keep playing basketball Yeah, it would be a disaster. Yeah, he's not a football player. No, he's the perfect big man basketball. Exactly Let's just watch let's just enjoy DJ burns for what he is Although I do get do understand the sentiment that the NFL is king. And so you have to be like, you see good athlete, oh, he should play football. Because there was a while where anytime there was a good basketball player, they would want

to try out for the NFL to be a tight end. Yeah. Like who's the guy on George Mason? I don't remember that. You remember that guy? I haven't seen the DJ Burns should play football take. Oh, I know that he's it's every does plays that make him look like he's a football player But yeah, I love watching him play just let the man play basketball But whoever the George Mason guy was I remember he tried out like thing of Mo Ali Cox from VCU No, no, no No, I'm thinking about the George Mason player from from the 2006

For yeah, so he tried out for the NFL and they clocked him to 40. I think he ran like a five four 40 yard dash time. They're like, okay, yeah, maybe this whole NFL player, NBA college basketball players, John Lewis for everybody. John Lewis signed a free agent contract with New York Giants. John Lewis. That was who you're thinking of. I just looked it up 2006. Yeah, no, I think DJ Burns is right where he needs to be. All right, so Tennessee fans though, like that was disappointing, but I really do think it's really the rest of your team not named Dalton Connect kind of let you down. All you had to do is hit a few shots that weren't Dalton

Connect shots and he was so good, But it just, you can't like produce one of those teams that you can't make mistakes against them because they they all their guards are older. They they they're just smart with what they like they have a system. They know exactly what's going to work. They spam the same play. And if they're hitting their threes to it's just like lights out that happened on Friday night when Gonzaga was in that game. And then you looked up and it was like nope Gonzaga's done. Absolutely cook. I'm gonna say something nice about Zack Eadie though. After the game when they interviewed him and he was talking about people that doubt him he started screaming and I think he dropped

the f-bomb. He was like we're fucking here. He showed some emotion. I hate him less after watching that. He also said he had a boner when they were someone was holding a One of his teammates was holding a camera phone and being like we made it we made it final four how we feel Yeah, he's like I have a boner probably for the first time in his life Yeah, she was that big you got so much blood elsewhere in your body. Yeah, so that I mean listen He's averaging 30 and 16. He had 40 and 16 today It's insane what he's been doing this tournament run. Not a fun watch, but credit to Zach Eady because he's good at basketball. And now we have people

also policing the paint touches and how long he's camped out. Like if you watch him play, his footwork has gotten so much better and his defense has gotten so much better. He's getting in and out of the paint to reset his time. Like he, you can be upset about how they officiate him. Everything else is kind of stupid to be like, he's not good. Yeah. He actually does work. He doesn't stand perfectly still the entire time, but still if you're NC state, you want, you want that discussion to happen. Yeah. You want the refs to be hearing that all week so that way they're at least looking at him. Yeah. Play gets. Yeah. Yeah, by the way, before we talk about Saturday's game, sorry, Game Time, our guy Quigs, who's one of our best employees at Barstool,

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minute tickets, the lowest price guarantee. Okay, let's start with this podcast knowing ball better than any podcast in the world. Clemson was eliminated. Never had a shot. We know ball never had a shot. We know ball. Yeah, Alabama, the great Alabama experiment has hacked basketball. It's fun to watch if you are sicko. Yeah, Rico has just ruined Alabama for me because NATO should be a story that we're like, I mean, it is cool. Like when they're like 11 years ago, he was a math teacher and now he's going to the final four and you saw Alabama on Saturday night to when, when they get hot from three, they can be the best team in the country. Like that's just a fact and Clemson kind of hit the regression monster

and we know ball. Yeah, so if you're shooting like 50% or slightly less than 50%, if those backdoor cuts are working at like a moderate pace, if you're Clemson, you're still not going to be able to beat Alabama if they're shooting the ball well. Right.

That's just a fact. It's just math. That's where the math teacher thing comes in. Yeah, the math teacher thing comes in strong because they went 45% from three and they were just, it felt like they were hitting big shot after big shot. I also think that Alabama and maybe people will say this is crazy, but if you have as much football success as Alabama does, you can't like, no one can in their right mind be like, I'm rooting for Alabama unless you're obviously an Alabama fan, but in which

case enjoy this, enjoy the hell out of this. But like the regular sports fans in the world, it's just too close to everything Nick Saban did and how much you dominated in football. You can't also have basketball. If you're an Alabama just sports fan, so you root for Alabama football and you root for Alabama basketball,

probably to a significantly lesser extent than you root for the football team, what's the conversion rate? Like what would you trade an NCAA championship for in basketball in football, like an SEC title? I don't think so. I think less. You think less? Just a win, just an iron ball win. I think maybe even less than that. When at home against LSU. maybe maybe home win against LSU equals national championship basketball. I mean, there will be some Alabama basketball fans that will say that we're crazy for this, but I think that if you pulled the entire Alabama fan base, I mean, football just is king there. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not talking about the diehard Alabama basketball. Yeah. In which like if you are one, obviously, and even if you're not, even if you're just an Alabama fan,

this is an awesome time. Enjoy it. But I'm trying to figure out what the actual, what the average member of the fan base would trade this title for. Win against Georgia? Oh, win against Georgia. I think that's two, two in a row, two times. That might be.

That might be. But yeah, they just have, there's something about having it all and they have it all. They do. The fact that they got, they had a team in the college football playoff, they have a team in the final four. A lot of Michigan State fans reminding everyone they're the only other team who's done that. Oh yeah, of course. They went to the college football playoff. But yeah, they have it all. And Nate Oates is a great story in the fact that the, what was it, 11 years ago, math teacher to have this rise this quick and be

in a spot where he's in the final four in the top of the college basketball landscape it's crazy yeah and to make Alabama fans care about basketball they've never been to a final four they'd only been to one elite eight before you know Friday or Thursday yeah so basketball school maybe and Clemson I Clemson kind of the similar like I don't I don't feel that bad you guys have dabble is gonna figure it out dabble will be I don't feel that bad you guys have Tabo's gonna figure it out. Dabo will be I don't know who do you think would win a national championship first? mmm Clemson or Alabama Sabing gone I Think dabble still there probably Alabama. Shout out our guy see who Kim tracker. He was down bad

Yeah, there's a rough weekend for see who Kim tracker said 50 likes and I asked the flight attendant for two sodas when he was at An airport. He just thought he just stopped giving me updates on see Kim. He tied for 17th. That's a good finish this week Yeah, but he stopped giving me updates on C. Will Kim because he was too depressed about Clemson losing I expect more out of my trackers masters next week big week big week for him Yeah, but he is he is our favorite tracker because no other tracker in the world. Can you get? 22 feet for Eagle birdie birdie and we're minus seven in the same timeline as all caps. There's no goddamn motherfucking way that's a foul flopping fucking pussies. I hope Rico stubs his toe for five months straight.

He's just, the man does it all. Yeah. Truth be told, I was rooting for Clemson. I was too because I mean, I definitely was. I was, I was rooting for Clemson because I wanted to be so wrong about Clemson. I wanted Clemson to win the national champion. We, I think we would have won ratio of the year. Yeah. Like it would have been one of the greatest graphics for this show ever to have the Clemson graphic thrown back in our face. But unfortunately for the people at home, we do know ball. Yeah. We know too much ball. We do. We do. It sucks. It's a blessing and a curse because we have to tell

people the truth about us knowing ball and then they want to say you're crazy, Clemson could win it all. No, they couldn't. I expect an apology for anyone who quote tweeted that graphic. Everyone. Be nice. Everyone that did it. How many quote tweets does it have on it right now probably like 200 It would be nice I would like to see 200 people reaching up in like I apologize for quote to our bad turns out Everyone that did that should be old takes exposed. Yeah, every single one of them and just just a simple tweet us saying YKB You know ball. Mm-hmm. That's all I want but yeah, they're gonna run up against an entirely different animal and Yukon and it is it is

Like live by the jump shot die by the jump shot Yeah, if they if they can make 40 what'd you say 46% they were 45% 45 if they can make 45% of the three-point Shots they can win. Yeah the only other problem for Alabama is they take twos at the rim and threes and Twos at the rim with Donovan Klingon is an impossible feat to do because we saw it with Yukon versus Illinois and Yukon had a 30 to nothing run against Illinois in an elite eight Illinois offense that has been playing lights out and had an incredible season.

That was one of the craziest things to watch ever where it just, it would, it spanned two halves, cause it was 23-23, the first half ended 29-23, and then it just kept on happening, where it was, UConn would score, and UConn wasn't even playing well on Saturday. So we made fun of UVA when this happened to them earlier, in the playing game. Yeah.

And a similar thing happened, except the difference is, this is in the elite eight. So you're a good team. Illinois is a really good team. Very good team. Offensively, what were they like? Top five in the nation? They were, I mean, they had three guys who were very, very good offensively. This is number one versus number two, I think. Yeah. Was it number one versus number two? So they were in... They were in share. It was out of this world for all the games up until this point. The Illini are a great, great team. And then they scored, I think they went 55 minutes of real time without scoring a basket. It was nuts. Without making a shot.

Yeah, because it's spanned half time. In Klingon, he was, in his first 17 minutes on the floor, Illinois scored four points. In his first 17 minutes on the floor, they scored four points. They went 0 for 9 on field goal attempts that were contested by him. It was actually over 19. Oh, for 19. Over 19. Over 19.

He affects everything. And Brad Underwood, the minute he got hired in Illinois, I was like, that's a problem. He's a really really good coach with one of the most regrettable sound bites slash coaching strategies of all time when they got him in the first half and he was like if he blocks a hundred shots he blocks a hundred shots he didn't block a hundred shots but it felt like he was blocking a hundred shots because every shot at the rim was fucked up by Donovan Klingon and they just kept on saying we're gonna go after him and it kept on resulting in zero points and then points on the other side of the floor and the craziest stat from this Yukon game and how goddamn good they are

because I've been saying it like they have a they have a solution to every problem that's that's given to them Yukon didn't even play well they shot 17.6% from three. Like imagine if they had hit a couple of threes, because when you say a 30-0 run, you think this team just got nuclear from three and it just avalanche. No, no, no. That's not anything that happened. They could not shoot from outside on Saturday and they still absolutely curb stomped Illinois.

It was bad. The game was over after that. You can't come back from a 30 to nothing run. No, it's impossible It was it was crazy and it was also like the loudest crowd I mean that that was that's Bill Murray though It was insane how loud it was for Yukon and they are they're just some monster they the closest game They've tournament game they've played in the ten games that they've won in a row here Was a 13-point victory over Miami in the Final games that they've won in a row here was a 13 point victory over Miami in the final four. And you know what's crazy is we have a possibility,

depending on what happens tonight on the women's bracket, but there is a possibility of getting Yukon against NC State in the finals in both tournaments. That would be incredible. That would rock. What an afternoon for NC State fans. Yeah. Back to back. They were six, seven point underdogs in both games. You know what? They deserve it. NC State fans deserve it. Back to back. They were, they were six, seven point underdogs in both games. You know what? They deserve it. NC State fans deserve it. It's been a long time. Remember when

we did Mount Rushmore mid Mount Rushmore and we're like NC State football. You remember when, uh, yeah. And I stand by that, by the way. But, um, was it like 2020 was four years ago during COVID where the, uh, college baseball world series, didn't they get like disqualified or something? Oh yes. They'd like six players test positive Yeah, and they couldn't even play. Yes, and they were really good that yeah, they got screwed NC State you deserve this Yeah, you don't let anyone don't it. We're gonna bring up the most losses in Final four history just cuz we have to that's cool the step but don't let don't let the haters get you down No, you earned this NC State. It's been incredible. But yeah't let the haters get you down. No. You earned this NC State.

It's been incredible. But yeah, UConn is an absolute wagon. I don't, I mean, if they can finish the job, because they have to finish the job to be in this conversation, but if they finish the job this upcoming weekend and Monday, they have to go in the conversation of best college basketball teams of all time.

Yeah. Like it has to be said. I know that there's UCLA teams that won like five straight years without losing a game. You had the Florida back to backs, the Duke year, late near years, but this team and the fact that it's like, you know, there's some guys from last year,

but there's a lot of new guys too. It's crazy. Danny Hurley, who we have coming up on the show, is a master motivator. It's a piss drinking motivator. Yeah. Okay. So final four set.

I'm excited. Also, he didn't let his son shoot again. Yeah. At the end of the game. And we're gonna kill him. We're gonna talk to him about that in a little bit. But just let Andrew take a shot. Are you guys excited for the final four now?

I feel like this is- Yeah. Especially after last year, which was a weird final four because we had all those upsets and we had, you know, uh, San Diego state in, in FAU and it was a weird tournament. This feels like we're back to order restore where it's like you have two teams that were Purdue and Yukon were the two best teams all year. And then you have two great stories, uh, matching up against them. Yeah. I mean, I, I like it set up this way because we all have one Cinderella to focus all of our Cinderella energy on. There were too many Cinderella's last year.

Not enough stepmothers. I'm very excited. I am a little concerned for you and Dave. You guys have big futures both on UConn and it seems too easy at this point, which it never is. Yeah, no. And NC State has big time

team of destiny vibes. Yeah. I mean, I bet you con in December, right after the loss of Kansas at 14 to one. And I said before we started taping that if you come with the national championship, I will only have had a bad March. So I need them to win the national championship. I do. So I'm excited. But that that Yeah, no, it does. That happens. That will be. Well, what if they just keep rolling? It seems like they should. Yeah, I don't think I don't think Danny Hurley is the kind of coach that's going to let him take a game off. The one thing

that makes me nervous is Alabama does have the one like if they just go nuclear from three, they can beat any like they have that in them. The ability to beat any team any given night because of their three point shooting. And every guy shoots. And that's a problem. But trying to find futures here. Like what are the team futures? I think Yukon minus 195, Purdue plus 205, NC State and Alabama both 16 to 1 yeah and she said was 35 to 1 this morning pretty crazy pretty good and the elite 8 the vending machine baby

no one thought no thought NC State was be able to beat Duke your dookies so sad I did moments made event time though it's made event Friday night I became made event Friday night I became a like lay fraud Mickey Mouse reply guy for a while on Friday night. Oh, on Duke? Because that's Shed. That's bullshit. Yeah. Houston was going to beat him.

So I replied to Duke's final score graphic and I was like Duke's Mickey Mouse run. And that got coached up a million times. And I also was trying to get Duke fans to vacate the win, which I would have done if I were a Duke fan in that moment. Jamal Shed is, you know, he's going to finish as a finalist for national player of the year. He goes out. I vacate that win because I have sportsmanship

and I actually root for guys to not get injured unlike Duke fans. Yeah, it's sad. It's sad. Houston wouldn't want, they probably wouldn't win the national championship. Yeah. That's what I'm going to say. Maybe I'll get a refund too. Yeah.

What's worse, being a Mickey Mouse LeFraud reply guy Houston wouldn't won, they probably wouldn't won the national championship. Yeah. That's what I'm going to say. Maybe I'll get a refund too. Yeah. What's worse, being a Mickey Mouse LaFrod reply guy or being a LMA00000 reply guy? I mean, sometimes things are just funny. Yeah. Sometimes. No, but when you're doing the LMAO, like making fun of the person that said that. Like not agreeing, not actually thinking it was funny.

Oh. But so Big Cat, if you had done the here's Duke's Mickey Mouse Yeah, run and then at the and then ended it with LMA oh like laughing at your own joke Yeah, yeah, Duke I think that makes a little bit yeah That makes it worse as long as you don't level up into that guy then you're good listen I I enjoyed my time as a Mickey Mouse Lafrod guy It was kind of fun to just step into that world

Because then you have to copy and paste it and be ready to just post it on anyone who posts Yeah, like instantly it's got to be the first thing like Adam Schefter tweets that the Giants just signed a backup kicker You got to be like Duke's fraud run. You gotta have here it is. You have like 60 different notifications. Yeah. Yeah Speaking of Adam Schefter, should we talk for a second about Rashid Rice just being on the run? Yeah. So he got into, he was driving a car that was in a really bad accident, I guess. The old Lance Briggs, or he then left his car and was like, I don't know where it is. I was going to say he's like a coach's son on that team. Yeah. But what, what, what's the latest? Is he still gone? I don't know.

I don't know. I don't think he's been apprehended. That's very bizarre. They haven't caught him yet. But good news for the chiefs, he signed a Welsh rugby star. So I guess you're receiving Corby Fawn. Did anyone, no one died, right? I don't think so. Okay. I think it was a serious accident. A woman was injured and her kid was in the car. Okay. I mean, bad, very bad. I just saw a lot of people being like, the chiefs are done now. They're cooked. I'm sure Rashid Rice will probably still play. I don't know. Depending on how injured people are, depending on what he did. You probably shouldn't leave the scene of an accident like that.

I would say not. Probably not. PFT, have you been studying for the bar? Yeah, I have, Jay. Because according to Justina Anderson, she says Rashid Rice has retained counsel. Okay. Oh, so he got a lawyer He's a lawyer. Yeah, well, that's a smart move. You should always shut the fuck up when you're talking to police They're asking you questions. It's because they don't know the answer All right, I just love shut the fuck up. I see those guys were six minutes ago. Yeah, okay

That's a weird story though. It's a very strange story. So is a I'm looking at some of the pictures of the crash site Yeah, it doesn't look good was not good. I'm gonna confirm not good. Mm-hmm. She runs a dashcam video, too Yeah of him of him crashing turn yourself in she rice Do it. All right. What else is going on in the sports world before we do who's back? Anything? Oh, there's that yokich pass MLB. Yeah, I saw the Yocuich pass. I saw the Lucas shot. Yeah, look at that. Look, I did a scoop, like bear almost a three pointer from like 20 feet out. Yocuich also said that he was late to his press conference tonight because he was watching DJ Burns game respect game. Yeah. Big men respect big man. I like women's

game tonight. Huge women's game tonight. Yeah. This one's going to get people angry. Oh, also Kim Mulkey. Not that bad. Yeah. So the hit piece on Kim Mulkey dropped. It turns out it was just a profile of Kim Mulkey. It was just like, she's an asshole. Yeah.

Which anyone who's a very successful coach in college sports or pro sports, you could write it and be like, yeah, it turns out they're kind of an asshole. Yeah. They're very demanding. Some players don't like them because they're so demanding They can be a dick and they can go too far. I actually think it's a beautiful moment and Just equality in America when I can look at Kim. Mulk and be like she is a dick. Yeah, she's a dickhead She's a dickhead definition of a dickhead and I want to know how much more views this article got because Kim Mulk he did like two press conferences about about it probably a decent probably I went and looked

I looked for it. Yeah, do who you guys rooting for in LSU verse, Iowa? I think I'm rooting for I want Caitlin Clark to get a championship or to get to a championship As you got to a championship last year. I want her to get to another one and I want her Probably to win. So I think I'm gonna take Iowa okay Hank what's the spread? I think it's like one and a half Let's just pick the game. I think I'm kind of rooting for LSU because it makes people so mad Kailin Clark makes people mad she makes people really mad too, but I think that like that would make people I Mean really really mad if I will if Kim. Olkey won a national championship people be furious which would be another one Yeah, another one. She's won a shit. Yeah, but I mean really really mad if I will if Kim Olkey won a national championship people be furious which would be another one

Yeah, another one. She's won a shit. Yeah, but I mean like now in the wake of the article come Yeah, I guess maybe I'm rooting for Iowa because I think South Carolina is gonna beat in either of them So yeah, you know what? I would get the revenge and get back to the Final Four and it would make the Final Four more fun Because Caitlin Clark be good for the sport. Yeah. And I do like watching Caitlin Clark play. There was a very funny moment today when in the Elite Eight game, the three point lines were different distances in the college game. One was like the old women's distance and one was the new women's distance.

And they didn't know they played, I think, five games on that court before somebody. And that's the way that's way worse than like it wasn't even an official that saw it. You know who saw it? It was a dude that's way worse than like it wasn't even an official that saw it You know who saw it. It was a dude that was up in the 300 level Well, why didn't a guy they that's not on the officials to measure the three-point line But if a guy that's just sitting up in the 300 level notices it and he had to yell at somebody on the sidelines Texted that person sent them a picture that he took on his own camera from the upper deck and then they had to go measure It's crazy.

The fact that they played five games there and no one said anything is bad. It's bad. Very bad. And I feel like we could have probably been making money off. We definitely could have been. What would have happened if they went to overtime? It's good question, Jake. I don't know. Play half court. Do like two, two 30 minute, two and a half minute periods.

Yeah. Yeah. So they switch. Play one on one. Yeah. I don't know. But that was big three, big three. That was very bad. like two 30 minute two and a half minute periods yeah yeah so they switch play one-on-one yeah I don't know but that was big three big three it that was very bad yeah we got some brawls and baseball yeah and by brawls I mean benches clearing and bullpen catchers that's my favorite when the bullpen catchers get involved yeah cuz they do this little trot out of the bullpen you look like penguins they're so happy that they get to see sunlight. Yeah, the Mets are already a disaster because they got one hit on opening day. They've lost all three games and then they also threw Reese Hoskins on Saturday after

I think he was already 4 for 4 and was like total, just unanimous Bush league. Everyone like, why would you do this after he's 4 for 4? I think their manager already got suspended. Yeah that's tough. Yeah so there was the Brewers and Mets with the benches clearing and then the Blu-rays and Jays also had the benches clear. It's good to get a starter. What's that? The Blu-ray. Yeah the Blu-rays. Yeah the Blu-rays did it. Also I'd just like to be the first to congratulate Jake's New York Yankees on winning the World Series. Yeah.

Four game sweep in Houston. Congrats, Jake. Juan Soto got his pinstripes. New era, yep. Juan Soto today. Offense and defense. Actually, this whole weekend, Juan Soto has been incredible. And it's just like, it goes to show you when you play in San Diego, it's too nice.

You can't be that good at, you can't be locked in at sports if you're in San Diego. But you go to New York, your day kind of sucks a little bit just getting around. The only thing you care about again is sports and one so it was probably, I don't know, one of the best players in the game and he's so fun to watch. I'm so pissed off I don't get to root for him for his entire career. Yeah, Yankees have won it all. Congrats. Congrats Yankees. Congrats Yankees.

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Go to 12 as a man as a man go to 12 never open another man's calendar go to 12 PFT move on This is bad. Maybe you it's like not be able to get a jar of pasta sauce open. I pushed it in I Pushed it in we can't do anything No that 11. I give it to me. I'll get it open any farther Try to get 11. Oh, no You can't get can't be done. I got 11 no problem. I got skinny little fingers Oh, I fucking man handled it because I'm a man a little Kayla upset city yours upset city I'm since a open the thing yeah

Upset city, yeah Wow if you had in your bracket a calendar beating PFT you got the upset correct Thank you the chill calendar. That was tough. It's tough. It was a hard thing to open It's hard thing to open. All right, Hank your who's back of the week. My who's back of the week is Bryce Harper Yes. Yeah, I it was either game one or game two Bryce Harper was playing first base they had a foul ball he went flying over to try and catch the ball went too fast and then basically cartwheeled head first into the dugout looked pretty serious and then the funniest part of the video was that the ball landed probably 10 yards behind him right

in the right right in play it like that the net. Oh yeah you know nothing. You're really dumb. You know nothing. No because I've seen a lot of people saying this is like it clearly hit the net. That makes more sense because that that oh you thought video without context of it hitting the net was a lot funnier where it looked like he was just he just over ran it. Yeah and it is funny to think that but also the ball. I watched the video without thinking about it. I saw it. It's funny. I saw it Hank and the ball is but also the ball watch the video without thinking about it I saw funny I saw it Hank and the ball is very clearly going like towards the field of play as it falls down or wind and like backspin hit the net You saw it hit the net. I'm gonna know I just knew the minute I watched it

I was like that clearly bounced off the net It's way funnier if you think that it didn't hit the net though I I haven't seen a video where it hits the net no, but have you I used my brain and I said he's running directly to the dugout and then the ball is coming at a weird angle down off what is probably the net right there. Backspin. No, when the net winds not real. The net. The net is still far away from where he made the catch. Yeah, but it, but like it misjudged where the catcher, I also think it might've, I at first I actually thought it hit well, if it's far enough to hit the net that he still didn't need to be going that hard towards the dugout. At first I thought maybe it hit the net and then hit the top

of the dugout and bounced up. Like if the net is that far away from the dugout railing where he barreled into, did he really need to be a competitor already if he was excited about opening weekend Let him be let him try and play he didn't I was he because the load management Well that he did not play today. That's correct, but it'll be back in the lineup tomorrow You know what I'm gonna agree with Hank on this because I haven't seen the ball hit the net we don't know okay fine It is of whole area. Yeah, I didn't it didn't hit the net Bryce Harper just misjudged it didn't and then the ball No, no, no, let's not let Hank know this without being an idiot. I'm watching this the ball Have you seen it hit the net max this hit the net the spin on where brought it back it hit the net

Yeah, I don't think you guys are accounting like if you hit if you hit the ball a certain way It's gonna be you know back spinning in the air, but that would make it actually go further It was top spinning. Yeah, hit the world's first tops not inclusive if we're doing the review. Yeah, so no video evidence. Yeah You guys say these things as fact No, I'm on your side now. It didn't hit the net. He's an idiot. Oh Great job Max. Yeah Who who's back the week for you PFT? My Who's back of the week for you, PFT? My who's back of the week is country music.

Oh. Country music, because Beyonce put out a country album. Yes. And I finished listening to it. She's done it again. Bangers. Bangers. Bangers only.

She single-handedly saved country music. Well, in this fair, how much of this is just because the song she has with Miley is the best song I'd say 95% It is a great song. It's a really good song. It's warranted. Uh, I'm just gonna say I think Miley outperforms on her own album Yeah, yeah, I think Miley Cyrus brought country music back Yeah, people are having the debate because Miley Cyrus also covered Jolene a few years ago. Way better. Beyoncé's Jolene sucks. Oh, she covered it on this album? She did, and it's a skip. Oh. It's a big skip.

It's a skip. It's not good. Well, everything's a skip for you except probably the Miley song. True, yeah. Well, 16 Carriages is pretty good too. But I did see, there was an article that was written in the New York Post about how Beyoncé saved a dying genre, which is very funny funny just because you're making everybody upset. This is like when Travis Kelce got credit for the fade?

Yeah when Taylor Swift got credit for doing the heart thing. Which by the way I'd like to see Taylor Swift try to make a country album. I don't think she can. Max is still trying to find a hit the net. I don't think he can. I don't think he hit the net. I didn't look at the net trying to find it hit the net. I don't think he can I don't think They have a watch watch when it lands it didn't hit the net yeah, no no I didn't I don't see the ball hit the net I just don't hit the floor the dugout at first, but yeah, I think max you're wrong. It didn't you can see the way Whatever yeah, I'm not gonna take this bait. Yeah, also the

What the fact? We're not if we are doing this if we are doing this if you really were to slow this down frame by frame He he didn't need if you saw it hit the net. Why did he fall into the dugout? Mmm, like good. Why did he keep going? And Hank if you slow it down yeah make it go frame by frame the ball goes back and to the left Yeah, you can see it. Look at that. It's going to the left. I don't think it hit the net either way We we still like Bryce Harper. We want him on the show, but it didn't hit the net But is that the end of your who's back? Well, yeah, I mean country music was dead

Nobody listened to country music in a beyond state showdown and now people listen to country music again. So congrats to country. It never hit the net. My Who's Back of the Week is the commercial we all end up hating because we watch it so much during March Madness and unfortunately- Game time. No, that one rocks. I didn't even know that we taped. PFT and I, if people were probably seeing we've been on, I think TVS has run it. When we taped that, we didn't know that was gonna be a real commercial No, so that was a commercial that me and ron taped like two years ago Yeah, and it was like a pre-roll for Barstool Sports videos

And then I got a text from one of our producers saying hey, we want to remake that video. Can you do it? Here's when ron's gonna be in town and I was like, yeah I don't know why we're redoing this but yeah, let's do it and then big cat was here ron was not here so big cats like sure I guess I'll do this like ad well Rob begged me cuz I was like he was like ron can't make it and I know I annoy you and I was like no Rob you don't know me, but I'll do it and so we do this and then like a week two weeks later Yeah, it's apparently a commercial. That's on TV. Which is crazy, but that one doesn't annoy people hopefully The SGA shade Shay Gildish, Gildish Alexander and Chet Holmgren commercial is horrific. And those are two of the most

fun young players in the NBA. And I don't know who told them to do that, but that was a big mistake because I hate them now. It's way, way better than Paul Mistinet. Oh, that one's good. I like that one. I know. I love it too. I just like, I love the look on Biz's face when Whitney hits him with that one. Yeah. That's in my other, my other who's back is Cooper flag because, uh, every single, every single time Duke loses, everyone's like, you sure Cooper flag wants to go there? And it's awesome because he's getting hated before he even shows up. Main event, main event. That's his nickname. Yeah. I like that nickname. Listen, I was a Cooper flag guy. Unfortunately, he didn't take my deal

of a super mega NIL offer from Stella blue coffee to go to anywhere but Duke. I wasn't even offering him to try to go to Wisconsin. I'm realistic. I was like, go anywhere but Duke and I'll give you the super mega max NIL deal. Oh wait, is his nickname the main event but it's MAI in E. Yes. That's cool. I liked that. Yeah. Hank, don't make PFT feel stupid. It made me feel dumb. He couldn't even open up a calendar.

You couldn't open that calendar. The 11th. You have body by the calendar. All right, Jake, who's your, who's back? Worst thing that's ever happened on the 11th day of a month. My who's back of the week is spring football. It's back.

Yeah. UFL. Yeah. We have 64 yard field goal. Yeah. I don't know if you guys saw that. I didn't watch, I watched the highlight of the kick. I saw the highlight of the kick.

We had a fake field goal from former Steelers, punter Brad Wing. Yeah, that was cool. He threw like a 40 yard pass. I think he's more LSU, but yeah. I like they do, they did embrace a content creator and let him be a kicker and he actually kicks in games Which I thought was cool. Wait what destroying who's that? He was like he was a He's one of those kids back in the day is a few years ago where he had a YouTube channel

He was gonna play in college, but then they didn't let him play because he had a YouTube channel He was like fuck it. I'm just gonna. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember that guy. And he's with Faze Clan. He does streams and stuff. But he's super athletic, obviously. And he kicks for one of the teams. And he kicked off, kicked field goal. He's an actual kicker. He did well.

Yeah, well, you deserve that shot. This is a Mickey Mouse league. This is a fraud bubble league. And the real XFL in 2020 did not do that because they cared about football. I'm I've never been more confident in my take that spring football. I just don't care.

I feel very good about that because I've every every few years they try to pop one up and be like you should care. I respect the sports calendar more than anything. This is March Madness. This is gonna be Masters. It's gonna be NBA and NHL playoffs. Football is king. I love football more than anything, This is March Madness. This is going to be Masters. This is going to be NBA and NHL playoffs. Football is king. I love football more than anything, but not spring football. I liked the XFL in 2020. It felt like that was on the right path until COVID.

Because there were a lot of people in the stands, at least for those games. Yeah, but I just was still, I still wasn't, I remember when it was happening and it was March Madness. Yeah, no, I know you're not. You're definitely not. But I think that one had a chance of maybe lasting a few years this one. I don't know probably not yeah I feel confident in my take okay. Let's do our interview with Dan Hurley great interview as always with coach Pft you got a couple ads before we get to our interview before we get to Dan Hurley He's being brought to you by Topgolf. That's right. It's golf. It's not golf. It's Topgolf If you've never heard of them they have all the stuff to make them legit golf. They've got balls, clubs, turf, even a ball picker, upper cart thing, but they're very much not golf too.

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coach. First of all, congratulations. Your team is a monster and so much fun to watch. I want to start with Saturday night from your perspective, a 30 run in an elite eight game. Uh, what was going through your mind when that was happening? Cause that was insane to watch. Really, man, just the way I'm wired, I'm probably in my mind just like thinking next possession, you know, like just cause I'm, you know, just I'm so, you know, maniacally kind of locked into the game, but you know but it was weird just looking up at the scoreboard and we got off to a good start.

It's 23-23. You look up a couple more times and then it's 53-23. It was crazy. And to do that against that team, the way they've been playing, it was crazy. It was so fast and so impressive that even people in the stands, Larry David included, was yelling at you to stop coaching. He told you stop coaching, you're done coaching for today. Did you hear Larry David yelling at you?

No, I didn't know he was over there. And everyone told me about it after. And I'm like a Larry David type of character, like as a coach, you know, I got all, you know, weird idiosyncrasies. And I say whatever I feel like saying. And it's a lot of times it's ignorant. You know, I would have thought he'd be on my side. You know, I would have thought he would be for me and not, not against me. And I don't think there can't be a connection to the university at Illinois at Champaign, right? No, I think he was just there

as a fan, but yeah, you, I think he hated me. Yeah. He hated my style. He hated the way I went about coaching. He said shame on you. Did you feel shame? I have felt shame at different points of this year. Mostly after being threatened by fans in opposing arenas and then them trying to play a I got you moment with me and videoing me and trying to present me as some type of a monster. Yeah, we've had your back the whole way when any of those videos pop up and you are kind of a Larry David like character. I mean you drink the, you drink the piss before every game, you know, you're, you're going crazy on the sideline. How is that going by the way? The mushroom tea, we'll call it mushroom tea.

We know what you're drinking. Yeah. Uh, you know, it's all it's all being effective for me, you know, the cocktail that I've got over there. Everything I'm doing pre, you know, pre game in the back, I have actually a setup before I even get out onto the arena court. I've thought about maybe, you know, letting CBS in on that. I've got like all these different, you know, sprays, aroma therapy, lavender spray, a peppermint spray, a peppermint halo. I have some holy water back there. I got a nice little setup, you know, right around the eight to five minute mark spritzing that gets me in a good place. Gets me smelling fresh too. Yeah, I like that. Yeah. Yeah. We can tell you look like you smell

good on TV. Yeah, sure. That's a fact. I like the one quote that you had where you said that your, your fan base is noxious as shit on social media. So you do have somebody that monitors what's going on on Twitter, on Instagram, and do actually show people's posts in your team meetings? Yeah, we do. We do it all the time. Sometimes in recruiting too, if there's things that we could use to show potential recruits that they'd be making a mistake by going to another school.

Based on some things we've seen on social, we'll share that too there. But yeah, Luke Murray, he does a lot of just fueling the fire, poking the bear, so to speak. You got to have some different type of fuel that you run on. Because it's a long season and you you gotta obviously be on your toes, especially when you're playing in single elimination tournament, we don't even get the luxury of best of five, best of best of seven. So you, you, you gotta be on edge. Yeah. So about that, you found motivation in very different ways this year, uh, cause you guys are so good. Has there ever been a moment where your team's like, all right, coach, like you're, you're not

actually mad about this specifically the tip time that you, uh, use this motivation for Thursday night when you're like, Oh, we're first tip. Okay. Shows disrespect. Cause I was watching that and I was like, I liked it. Coach early is doing this, but he can't actually be mad about this. Kenny. Yeah. Um,. I mean, they, they expect it and they're, um, they're almost aware before I come in of, of, of where I'm going. Uh, you know, these kids, you know, cling in and, you know, my, my, the, my, my, uh, you know, my new addition here, my, uh, you know, my camp Spencer who, you know, who also, um, you know, he's a mini me on the court. Yeah.

So, um, yeah, you know, I think for us, it's like, we've won a lot. Look at what we've done since Teddy Allen, uh, knocked us out of the tournament there, you know, and that brutal rock fight and, and Buffalo, um, we've dominated and we've, we've put guys in the NBA. Uh, we've won all the championships. Now we're, we're in the final four. We're going to have more guys in the lottery this year. Um, you know, I think we do got to edge to us.

So we don't get talked about enough. Our season hasn't been covered, uh, in my mind and the national media enough. Uh, you know, this is a team that's done historic stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if we were at Duke or Kentucky or Kansas, they would lead sports center with it and it would be the biggest story in sports. But yeah, because we're in stores, Connecticut and you know, uh, you know, we're just a little grimier there. Yeah. I love the chip on your shoulders. So I actually bring up cam Spencer. I had a question about him. Uh, the story goes that he stays in, uh, hotel rooms on the road with caravan and he yells at him before every game in the hotel room.

What, at what point did you find out or figure out the cam Spencer was a mini you and also a psycho? Yeah, I knew he was a psycho. Um, I,, on the visit, you had a pretty good sense because like brother Pat, you know, dad Bruce and Donna, you know, they're, they're, they're all like, I mean, they have the absolute same worldview, all of them. And it's like, you know, go hard or shut the, you know what up. And he's, you know, there's some weird connections to both his parents were born in Jersey City, you know, where I grew up, right. I think his mom went to the grammar school I went to. And then, and then they also lived in

Rhode Island for a little bit. You know, so there's some weird connections there. But the, you know, he's cursing, you know, I think you know, he curses a lot. He smashes and kicks the ball He he punches the basket He could just miss is like a free throw on like a side basket and he'll just go into his like straight Tourette's, you know and So our language is actually in the way we carry ourselves is I think it's going to button up, clean up after he leaves. Yeah. Yeah.

You guys, you guys are one in the same. That's nice to have like you on the court every single time. Yeah. It's on the floor. Yeah. That's good stuff. Yeah. Did you figure out what you're going to use for motivation this week going into, I mean,

I know you already talked about the national media not talking about Yukon enough, but is there anything with the setup of the tournament that you've found so far where it seems like they're out to get you? Because if you don't have some, I've got, I've got a couple of you. I do too. I brought some for you. Yeah. Okay. So the first, oh, you do have some, I was just going to say, you know, it's, it's just, it's far. Yeah. Yeah. That's the first one on my way. Can you go way too far? Yeah, Alabama has a much shorter trip. You have to travel so much further than Alabama, which means that, and you guys haven't really

spend much time on a plane, you're going to have to be on a plane. It could be a Boeing. You don't want any extra minutes in the air. It's far. I like it. It's just far. The second one I had was how you feed off online hatred.

You love seeing people talking shit to you. And Alabama actually has the 47th lowest broadband rate. And I think they're the 46th lowest internet availability for all the states. So there's not as much stuff for you to use for motivation there. Yes. So the fan base is not going to do it for me? Well, I got one. I got one for you. Is what you're saying. Yeah I got one. I'm saying there's not enough internet in Alabama for you to talk shit.

Yeah I got one though for you. I found someone found enough internet. Here's one. Someone tweeted fuck it we're beating Yukon and you can't convince me otherwise. That was actually from the Barstool Alabama account. Barstool Alabama. Barstool Alabama said that. How many followers do they have? Did a lot of people hear that?

Yeah, they had 160,000 views on the tweet. Cause that matters a lot in terms of how angry you get over what somebody said. You know, if there's a, you know, if they don't, uh, if the avatar is like an egg or it's like a person that doesn't exist and it's like a fake name that those people they don't get to me but anyone has the courage to go like their actual face with their actual name and maybe where they work when they when they when they trash me that gets to me yeah you know the bot or whatever the you know whatever the the fake person shit the wizard of oz I don't care what the guy says behind the curtain.

Yeah, that's I mean, it's so this is just a message anyone if you want to get noticed by Coach Hurley, put a name on it, put a name on it in a face on the real person, you should have to show a driver. You should have to do a Twitter to you should I think you should have to have some type of ID. Yeah, you know, like you should only be allowed to have one account and everything that you say, you know, it should not, it should be no anonymous on there. Let everyone back up their words. Yeah. Especially nudes in bio. Yeah. Which is just all the tweets now. It's just every tweet it's under there. It's great. More coach Hurley in a second. He's brought to you by proper 12 Irish whiskey. Pick up a bottle, try it for yourself.

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I did on senior day. Did you win? We, well, I didn't end up starting him, but I met with him. We talked it through. We talked it through because the fans love him at UConn. Because he's not like an entitled asshole whose dad's the coach and the whole thing. He's like a humble kid. He's a funny kid. He just does his thing.

I went to him before seeing you guys and said, listen, these people, you know, you fooled them. They take care, you know, they're really behind you. And, uh, you know, they celebrate you all the time, but if I start you, you play like shit and we lose this game and blow the big East regular season, that whole thing shifts. Um, and he didn't want to risk it. So we, you know, he just he cleaned it up at the end. Yeah, I mean, my biggest qualm with your coaching recently has been that you have not let him shoot at the yeah, you're on the sidelines. He's your son. Now I know, I know what you're thinking, you want to be classy, you don't want to run

the score up, I get that that side of it. But I would imagine that your dad would take more enjoyment of seeing him making a shot in that situation than anybody else. And one day he might be a coach and you're going to want to see your grandson hit a shot in a game like that. So you got to teach him, you got to let him in and be like, okay, you're going to get one shot here. Yeah. And you know what? My dad is probably a better dad than me because he let me I think it was maybe my sophomore year I subbed my brother out county championship you know we were up you know 100 and he subbed me out at the end and I hit a half court bank shot at the buzzer

I think to win by 63 or whatever but we found that with Andrew and these games that, uh, we have, uh, he's been dribbling the ball out though. Yeah. You know, like he's, and he's racking up assists and rebounds and then, uh, yeah. So he's showing that he's all all around player, not, not just a shooter. Yeah. I mean, the fact that he's gotten into every single tournament game in, in this two year run is, is pretty awesome. I mean, that's, he's clearly a big piece of the success. 41 and Oh, you can't 41 and Oh, when he's in the game is pretty insane. 41 and Oh, and he's got the COVID year eligibility. Oh yeah. So he's, you know, he's squeezing me hard now. And I yell, you know, he's obviously got tremendous leverage with the, with the portal. Yeah. And I'm sure that he, he, he could talk to his mom and, and probably probably

get you to show some leniency that way. I mean, he's the closer you gotta, you gotta have some respect for the closer. Yeah. He's the closer at Ted's campus here. That's where, that's where all the madness goes on in stores. Uh, I had a real basketball question for you real quick. Um, first of all, Donovan Klingon, unbelievable. You also don't get enough credit for, uh, having his nickname, which should get more people should be talking about it. You call him Kling Kong, which is awesome. Uh, but in a basketball perspective, watching him grow, you know, last year you had the injuries this year. He's been unbelievable. Uh, Saturday night he was just an absolute force. What is it? You know, what have you seen from his

progression and also what does he do defensively that helps the entire team? Cause I feel like he makes everything go, whether it be perimeter defense or shots at the rim, everything goes through him. Yeah. You know what? The thing that's unique about, about Dottie. Then is, is, uh, you know, really a couple of things. I mean, he's seven to, you know, plus, you know, probably, you know, closer to seven three, but, and, um, you know, once he got back from the, uh, from the injuries, we just, we wouldn't let him back on the court till he got his weight down into the two fifties. You know, he probably came into the season like a little bit too heavy. These guys,

with NIL and everything, they got it pretty good. So probably just came in a little bit heavy. But it's just rare that you see somebody that size moving around the court the way he does. With our offense, that moves a lot. Our defense moves a lot. We attack the glass. We run in transition. So we ask him to move around a lot. And I know that's what the NBA loves about him. Plus, he's like sometimes the big guys, especially the really tall ones, they don't have a lot of pop.

They don't have a lot of personality. They don't love to play. Somebody made him play because they were tall. They don't like when people ask him how tall they are all the time. They just start to, you know, kind of turtle up a little bit in their shell. But he's like, you know, this dude is like alive. He's up at 5 a.m. If the weather was nice enough, he'd be he'd fish from five to seven. You know, get in the gym, get in the gym, wouldn't go to bed till you know, 2 a.m. and then he's back up at five. Like this dude is alive. So he's got this incredible energy about him. So he's gonna be a, you know, we're the, or his, his,

his games are numbered here, obviously at Yukon. So we want to make the most of it. Yeah. He's, he's so much fun to watch. And it's just a great story because it's like, you know, even, even last year he could have gone to the NBA draft after last year's run. He probably, you know, set, sat down with you and you were like, Hey, we can, we can show more of your game and progress you to a point where you feel even more confident. I, that's what I love about college basketball and what we kind of miss sometimes. Yeah. I mean, it's like, he's not gonna be in the NBA, you know, and he knows it and you can make some money in NIL and do real well.

So it's not like, you know, you could still, you know, if you're a popular player and an excellent player, I mean, you could, these guys are gonna be making close to what the rookies are making, you know, in college at some point soon anyway. But the guy, he loves Connecticut, he's from here, he always dreamed of playing here. He's got a chance to, if we win this thing this week, he's got a chance to stake his claim to

being the greatest UConn player. If he he gets to comes a lottery pick, he's one to big East deal done it done at all. But I think he just likes loves being on like a, a real team. Cause you know, once you get to the NBA, um, you know, things change. It's a grown man world and like, you know, the locker room and the commitment to, you know, I, I don't want to go. No, I mean, you're right though. No, you're right. And I read an article where you talked about it.

It's like, look, there's, it's hard for a lot of these guys because you know, the money's there and you can go to the NBA, but your goal is to make a lot of these guys get to a point where they can have long NBA careers, not just get drafted and make money, right? But you want these guys to be in the NBA for 10, 15 years. And I think that honesty is great. James book night, you know, he was a few remember him from a couple of years back that COVID

year. I mean, he was, I mean, six, five, like the perfect modern basketball, NBA, you know, just that guy was a freak, man. The athleticism, the scoring, and he dropped 40 on Creighton during a regular season as a sophomore. And at the end of his sophomore year, he was a lottery pick. I probably deep down inside knew he wasn't ready for that world, but, you know, I didn't see my obligation in that situation to say, hey, listen, you may need some more time on a college campus. You're not ready for that world.

And I think James, maybe not going to an organization that would hold them accountable like we did at UConn. He probably needed to go to a more buttoned up place like Miami Heat or something like that where they're running a tight shift. But you know, moving forward with these guys, if I think they're making a mistake and I think they need more time in college, I'm going to tell them I should have a book. Yeah, yeah. You can has a pretty cool opportunity in front of them. You're going to a final four. Obviously the women's team could be in the final four to

are you do you talk to Gino during the tournament? And are you guys checking in with each other? And like how have you thought? Have you guys talked about how cool that would be to both be in the Final Fours at the same time? Yeah, I talked to Gino all the time. Whether it's stopping over there and seeing them or, you know, or him, you know, just dropping a call or a text, you know, either way, the guy is like, you know, the smartest guy. I mean, just like, just a super brilliant guy. And he's been great to me from the start, you know, it's awkward for me with him and coach because they obviously don't, you know, they don't see eye to eye,

coach because they obviously don't see eye to eye. I'm a coach Calhoun. So I've got to kind of try to not let either guy see me too buddied up to the other one or else that could cause some friction. But what Gino's done, man, is they got like six scholarship players there in the elite eight and page backers. Uh, yeah, obviously, um, you know, just to see her play, it's amazing. And, uh, you know, I know that she, you know, the queen wants her thrown back and I know she's going to go hard for it, uh, you know, tomorrow night. Yeah. Yeah. I mean the, the, the run that both the men's and women's team is on is, is awesome. And there's nothing better. And I love that you call them coach. Like Calhoun is still coach. How many guys do you call coach? EJ, um, my college coach, I call my dad,

my dad, I don't even know if I ever called him. I don't, I don't think I ever said anything. I don't think I ever said coach or dad during those high school years with my father. Um, coach Blaney. Yeah, just my college coaches really. And then those two, they're giants man. Coach Calhoun, he'll be in practice this week. He'll talk to the boys and he'll give them a proper send off. He'll bring them in a circle. He'll rip a couple of guys he doesn't like the way they're playing. He'll rip them and then he'll tell them like, you know, it ain't enough. Basically. Yeah. It ain't enough, man. You got to pick your shit

up. Yeah. Um, all right. So I got one last question. This has been awesome as always coach. Uh, it's a rollback question. R H O B A C K.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, roll K dot com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, rowback.com promo code take. It's actually not a question. It's a statement. I don't know. So this run has been incredible. You've, you've, you know, we still got two games left, not looking ahead, but it's been an incredible run. I want you to know though, probably the most incredible part of this run is max our producer, who's a diehard Villanova fan. You've taken all the fight out of him. You've taken all the fight out

of him. He let you remember when you came into the studio last year and we were like, that's the guy who bet against you every single game this year. He's like, he's just laying down. He just doesn't care. He can't, he can't fight in. I heard. Yeah. I listened to it. I listened to it. It was, it made me sad. Yeah. Very sad. Just, um, that, that, that segment that you guys did after that Marquette game, where he was, he's a broken man and broken fan, you know, and it was just sad. Yeah.

Yeah. You never want to see that for, from your, you know, there's no feeling like loving your team and believing in your team. And for a man to have that, you know, ripped from his feeling like loving your team and believing in your team. And for a man to have that ripped from his hands, it's just, it's sad. It's really sad. Max, it's so sad. I mean that like, when you think about it, think things that have happened in Max's life that are just like the worst is, is he just has to go back to your speech when you lost

to Villanova and then you better get us now because we're coming. Like that was the start of the end of Max's life. Max. Hey, Max, I would say this in Max's defense. I mean, those nine conference wins and tremendous, you know, what hurts them though is, is, you know, the, those big five games are, are just brutal games to have on your schedule. Yeah. Coming in sixth in the big five is tough. Well, they're tough games because they're

the Super Bowl of all those low to mid majors. And for Villanova, when you're playing Carolina in the non-conference and all these big games, and then you're getting ready for the Big East. It's not as circled on your calendar and they're neutral or they're in weird places and it's just I wonder if you asked those guys whether they like having those big five games on their schedule. That's a tough question.

Max, is this making you like reignite your hatred a little bit? The fact that you've been a rival is Like they're there and having you on the head On the head for the past two years. It's just what it is what it is I will say I haven't I haven't bet on Yukon one time this tournament, but I haven't bet again I haven't been against them once I just know you're gonna win and I can't I can't root for you. There's nothing you can do about it But but at least I'm not rooting against you like I was last year. Yeah. Last year you were

against. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. He bet against you every single game. He's like they can't do it. Dan Hurley doesn't can't coach. I didn't say that. I said all these things that I didn't say that. I kept on saying by the way. So you've been standing flip it flipped. It just went on flip. you killed him this year I think game after the biggie's tournament this year when Villanova got balanced. I think he just gave up all hope Yeah, he also got up baseball season He got up rare he got up big for that Saturday night game when Villanova came to to Connecticut He was like this is the start of of the run for Villa. Yeah that kind of just extinct

Well, we got you guys coming off a loss. That was bullshit. Yeah. Yeah. He was so mad that you lost to Creighton because he's like, no, we needed this. But he, so one thing about max and I want to actually want your take. Um, my last, last question, because you have been standing up for your league, which I love that, you know, the biggie should have had more than three teams in the tournament. Max has the take that it's actually anti-Italian discrimination because the big East is an Italian league. Do you, do you agree with that? I, uh, I, uh, I never put that together. I had a lot of conspiracies as to why it was happening. Yeah. But not, not, not the Italian thing. It has more to do with, you know, not having, you know, big time football or whoever. You know, the weird thing is too, is, you know, in that, in that room, there's,

you know, with all those committee members, when the, when the representative from your league, when they are talking about teams in your league, that person's not allowed to stay in the room. So I guess what you got to learn, we've got to learn the art of is like, I guess have had to destroy these other conferences when you are in the room. Right. Yeah. Right. Because they refuse you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got to, you can't, you can't fight for your teams. You can't say a word about your teams, but you, uh, but you do have the ability though, um, to, to crush the other people. Yeah. And what channel do you guys play your games on in the Big East? What network is that? Yeah. We're Fox. What network is the NCAA tournament

on? Just thinking. It's been on CBS or unless you're the defending national champs that have had a historic season and won almost everything, you know, then you're a true TV. Yeah, yeah, interesting. Or playing at two o'clock on Friday instead of prime time, which, you know, like you, honestly, you know, we, you know, whether we're able to finish this thing off and have the great week and deliver, you know, like historic level stuff with a completely new team.

Just when you've done what we've done, you deserve those prime time slots. You deserve the attention that comes with all the success these guys have achieved. That's all. Now, if we come up short on Saturday or Monday, if we get through Saturday and people want to go at me for talking and being confident and believing in the team and talking a lot of shit, then they'll have that moment. But I turn my notifications off, so I won't hear shit anyway. Yes, there you go.

So yeah, look into that Italian discrimination thing. It goes deeper deeper. I think Max is onto something. Big East is Italian league. That's he, he, he, he max max max as soon as I'm done with this season, man, uh, I'm on that. I need that. I need someone from the inside. Yeah. Well coach, thank you so much. Uh, we appreciate it. Best of luck. I'm rooting for you guys. Maybe because I put a future on you after you lost to Kansas. Cause I was like, this team's good on the anti max in the room. Uh, but yeah, good luck. And, uh, anytime you're in Chicago, next time you're here, we've got to have you come out. Cause we've got a full basketball court. You gotta just scream at us through some drills. Yeah. I would love to do that. I mean, was

coach Patino, was he in studio? Yeah, he was in studio. Yeah. So we got to do it. Yeah. I get, I got to get back in studio. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, best of luck coach. We'll be watching on a Saturday night, the late game, some respect the late game on Saturday night, uh, coach Dan Hurley congrats and let's go win two more. Let's go. Let's do it. Coach Hurley 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 the rightful recognition they deserve

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Okay, let's wrap up the show. We forgot one very important topic that we need to bring up. And I I'm not taking this lightly because we actually need to have a discussion about this. The Philadelphia Phillies hung a banner for losing the World Series. The town that doesn't hang banners. It wasn't the World Series. Oh,, they didn't lose. Oh, they lost the NLCS. Oh my God, my ears get huge. So they didn't even hang the banner for the series. They hung a banner for a year to just

celebrate a good year. This is coming from our good, good friend, Max, who has claimed that we don't care about banners for losing years we don't hang banners for losing years they hung a banner for a year when they choked in the NLCS and lost game six and seven at the bank so Max why is this flag a different color? I don't get that. I don't want to talk about this. Oh no, I have to have a serious- you thought you were going to get through the whole show. You guys didn't talk about it.

I was happy you did not talk about it. You can pull up the text I sent to Hank and PFT right before we stepped in the studio. I said, let's not bring it up till the end to make him think that we just missed it. Because you thought in your sick little head, we would miss this. Well, we talked about baseball. I was like, all right, nice. Yeah. We did that on purpose. Hank was like, I'm going to do who's back Bryce Harper. You think we can get through without bringing up? I was like, yes, we'll avoid it because we have to have a serious discussion about the city of Philadelphia hanging up banner for a year

that they lost in the NLCS max. It's probably going to confuse some people too. Oh, I was confused. There's probably some older people in the stadium being like, what year is it? Oh, it's 2023. I'm confused right now because there's, there's other flags out there. Some are blue. I did. What is blue flag?

Like the dark blue. I think the dark blue means lost the world series. Oh, that, that makes sense. And then the white means won the World Series Oh, and then the sky blue that they hung up means lost in the almost lost the world's almost They didn't even win the division there were like they won nothing. They got I don't know what like you hung a wild card banner Which is in? Insane like that needs to be taken down Immediately there was a part of me that they won today, they lost the first two games.

There was a part of me that I wanted them to lose every single game that that flag was up. So that something had to be done for it to be taken down. I thought that they would never win as long as that flag was up. It can't be up. It can't be up. That flag can't be there. It has to be like an opening series thing and then they'll take it down by... Oh, what? To celebrate the year that we're in? Yeah, but it was a fun year, Max. Like, you guys made the playoffs.

Yeah, you beat the Braves. This is the most pathetic thing. It's the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. You thought it was Photoshopped. No, I knew it wasn't Photoshopped. You thought though in your head, you were like thought it was photoshopped. No, I knew it wasn't photo. You thought though in your head you're like maybe it is So what so as the as the mayor of Philadelphia who claims that we don't hang banners for losing seasons What where do we go from here? Everything that you stood for is gone Today are we gonna give our rings for this to oh, they probably should

What would the ring be three to lead in the NLCS? NLCS participant. Which is what they did in the World Series. National League finalist. Yeah. Like the Colts banner. I don't know. You're no different from the Colts. Yeah. You are the Colts. You're the Indianapolis Colts. Yeah. I don't know what you want me to say. Like I'm not fighting, like you guys are, this is- It's a direct reflection on you. I'm on your side. But this is representative of you. This is your city. This is what you believe in. I might go to Citizens Bank Park, scale that poll and take it down myself. Now we gotta see that happen. I'll pay

your bail. I'll pay your bail. You would probably get cheered. There would probably be raucous applause in the stands for Max. Have you gotten an answer on what is going on with this thing? No, I have no, like I know nothing. I want it down so badly. This is such a bad banner, I could see it affecting other sports in that city. Yeah. Yeah. Big time. You need to cut this off now. Big Dom needs to take that banner down. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I don't know, I don't get it. It makes no sense. I don't know what they're celebrating. I don't know why that could. The Philadelphia that I know. There's zero reason for that to be happening. I'm sure there's Philly's fans that are like, yes, thank you.

No. Now we can remember. Zero, zero. Now we can remember the time Max got in overalls and pigtails and screamed at everyone. The people of Philadelphia that I know, that I love, the diehard weirdos that love these teams, they would not let this stand. They would have already done something about it. This is your call, Phil. They're just happy to be there. I refuse to believe this is real. If it is real, it's quite sad.

Quite sad, Max. I don't know what to say. It needs to be down. I need, like, the people of Philadelphia to rally behind everyone and just say that, like, we need some sort of protest so that this banner gets taken. This flag gets taken down. Were you- what Hank was just saying, it sounds like they like the flag. No, that's incorrect. Were you- were people as outraged as you were?

Yes. Okay. Pug, you're a Philly fan. He's not he's a eagles fan That's it. Oh, you're only Eagles fan. Yeah What is he? Not Philly's not Philly's pug okay, but pug with this this stands this will probably infect the Eagles This will infect the Eagles for sure I believe her behavior loser behavior. It's gonna infect the 76ers. Yup. They probably won't even win a playoff series. I actually will say it right now. They're not gonna win a playoff series.

You know what? It's infected the Flyers already. Yeah. The Flyers, they lost their playoff spot to the Capitals. They lost the Blackhawks? Maybe? that's right I don't know they got you know I watched like my first two Flyers games yeah and is it any coincidence that this all started happen after this flag went up next thing you know Nova won't even make the tournament no come on all right come on that's fine all right that is our show I think we're gonna do a baseball preview on Wednesday earlier than ever. Love it. We got a special guest do a baseball preview and the boys are off to Phoenix slash Glendale flash slash Scottsdale slash Mesa hill slash all that for the final four and then it's

Masters week boys and then it's Masters, and then we're kicking into high gear This is we're turning the corner on like I love how the sports calendar works where you get March Madness And then you just look up and it's like all like 16 playoff games on a night on a weekend on a Saturday and Sunday That's two weeks of my sports calendar year. I think really I Love the the first round of NHL and Really? I love the first round of NHL and NBA playoffs. Well, I mean NHL wasn't two weeks for you last year. Yeah, but just as a sports fan, we don't have to talk about me specifically. Okay, that wasn't about you.

No, for me I'm not worried until the conference championships. Okay. But every night having meaningful games is the best. It is nice. This is going to be the most intense Celtics run. Yeah. Yeah, it's you gotta win it all actually If you're if your city has two teams if you have a team in the NBA playoffs and the NHL playoffs those weeks are just Chaos for you. It's so fun. It's the best. Yeah. No, I don't I don't have anything. I don't have anything Bulls are gonna be in a plane. Fucking.

Bulls, bulls, sixers, Celtics is looking pretty. The Bulls would have to win two. And then play the Celtics? Yeah, they'd have to win two games against playing team teams. Like the Sixers. Right, they're not gonna win two games. All right, numbers. 40. Eight. Three. 20. Like the sixers right they're not gonna win two games all right numbers forty eight

Three twenty actually like your number should be two No second place I'll get it. Oh, I'll be too. I'll go to I'll go to can I change my number to today? Okay, I can change mine to 11. Okay, and maybe 23. Let's just start Sounded like 21 Savage there, Shane. 74. Love you guys. 74. Talking away, though I don't know what to do. I'm just gonna keep going.

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