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Thursday May 5, 2026 it is Thursday already the great arm and sorry and we'll join us today

Here on the Zavecast as we are in the month of March and senior nights across the country are happening on the college basketball landscape

I came across a stat. I won't even dignify with the wind up of start of the day

Because it's cut us sobering

Do you know how many seniors were honored this week in the S E C?

Why the mighty southeastern conference

Of the S E C honoring seniors who had been with the program their entire

career and we're now out of allege eligibility

Take a guess how many seniors in the southeastern conference across the board all the teams

All the players how many had done the full run from freshman to senior to that's it

Good luck in life. It was great having you

The answer is one i kid you not one senior

Fit that criteria nation wide according to somebody who did the legwork on this and the research

There's only 22

In the power for conferences now. This is not counting the conferences and the leagues below power four

But of the power for conferences only 22 players

Had completed that journey

This is an absolute disaster and an indictment on the game that has become really a transfer portal

N I L money money money money money money money hellscape

And I don't think j billis gives a shit about it or if he does he ain't saying

Because all he has been doing is banging the drum gotta pay these players gotta pay these players. It's a multi-billion dollar industry. Well

Now look what's happening

At the same time

Louisville

Made their books public

And said look we're we're gonna crash

financially we're gonna crash

We cannot sustain this and they laid it all out in a very long

Sort of report that said we're spending this much on so and so we're losing this much

We're losing this much we've we've drawn down what had been like a 34 million dollar reserve

Down to about three million dollars and just a couple of years

Not sustainable

Also, there are programs being cut left and right across the country to try to save pennies here save pennies there to feed

The beast to feed the monster that cannot be slayed

And before you scream. That's the engine AA. They're like a leadership

They lose in court all the time and the way the judges have ruled on antitrust law

The NCAA is not just their hands are not just tied

They are hog tied and shackled right now. They can't do anything

To put this toothpaste back in the tube

Because you see the format

Was the product in so many ways in college basketball think about it like this the format of the sport was as follows

School A recruits high school stand out xyz

They sign with the school

It is hard for them to leave

Because you have to sit out a full year

So transfers while they happen were relatively minimal

Player then fights his way through playing time injuries coaching changes

Ups and downs they grind their way through it hopefully stick with it

And at the end of that journey they become a senior and they get honored on senior night

And then they're better equipped to deal with something called life because only a tiny percentage of power for D1

Excuse me basketball players will go on to play in the NBA

And being prepared for life is something that is worth far more than whatever NIL

You're gonna scoop up now your agent is gonna take a huge cut of your friends and family are gonna start going

Me me me me me grabbing at it and you're gonna let's be honest blow it on some shit

You're gonna be like

Steve Martin in his stand-up routine saying yeah, I got rich once and I

bought first sinks and electric dog polishes

Then after a pause he said and I wasted some of that money too

So

This is the landscape we're currently navigating one

high school

Drafted or one high school recruited senior that lasted the whole program through in the SEC

Of course, it's not just the men the women's side is almost as messed up. It's just nobody's really paying attention

for example

I had no idea that Tennessee

And their vaunted women's program that Pat summit built into a monster

Was weezing so badly had no idea. I don't really follow the women's game

Well, not only are they weezing badly, but this story caught my attention on ESPN.com

Kaya win leaves lady vols says senior day

Quote breaking point. I'm like what?

Breaking point what happens? What happened did they did they do something really horrible tour

On senior night. Did they really embarrass her somehow

So I dug into the story this one written by line by Michael Vopel

So it's an actual human being not a bot not AI

He writes Kaya win a reserve guard on the women's basketball program at Tennessee said Tuesday

She's leaving the program calling what she felt was a slight on senior day over the weekend

The breaking point quote unquote

The vols lost their regular season finale sunday to Vanderbilt 87 to 77

At Thompson bowling arena massive by the way arena

It's larger than rupt for a reason when they built it. They're like how many seats does rupt have yeah, let's add a hundred more

And by the way, they used to pack that for the women

When herself did not play in the game she appeared in just nine games this year after missing all of 2024

2025 because of an Achilles injury

The Tennessee native had spent five years of the program. Okay. I'm gonna guess that she was even with a fully intact Achilles

Still just a backup guard and coming off that injury. I'm gonna guess she was even less effective

So it's not surprising that she only got to play nine games

Miswin went to social media to air her grievance. Oh boy. Here we go

This decision was not made lightly or instantly she wrote

For the past five years I have given my all for Tennessee and have not regretted doing so

Obviously in my last two seasons of the team have been less than ideal for many reasons

But the one night I was most looking forward to was senior night

As someone who has never started a career game

I was hoping to start in my last appearance at Thompson bowling

That obviously did not happen

By the way

If they did decide to start her

It would have been the token start like all right

Here's our seniors are gonna start first whistle time out bring them out

Okay, like I've seen that happen as a thing

I don't know how much it really means per se

Whatever she said that did not happen

And then to be asked she wrote

To check into the game with 15 seconds left while losing

Was not how I wanted to spend my final moments

In that arena after five years

Although that was not the sole reason it was the breaking point for me

I have the utmost love and respect for my teammates and this program and I wish everyone

Nothing but the best

Okay, um first things first

The first thing that comes to my head is the classic internet crack of

This is not an airport. You do not need to announce your departure

She also says she doesn't regret any of it. Of course the season's almost over

So why she leaving now?

Out of regret anger is she wanting more plank. I mean it's too late. She careers done

Also, if I could summarize

Life doesn't give you what you wanted

Experience unlocked

That's all it is

Life often doesn't work out the way you want

It often is unfair

And the other people around you that you want to get validation from or appreciation from like your head coach

Many times I don't want to say

Most often but many times those people do not give a shit about you

Or if in the back of their head like yeah, I should give Kaya a start here. She's been a good good soldier

But I'm trying to win games right now. I'm struggling. I'm gonna get fired

Because Vanderbilt is the best women's team in the state. They rolled us at our place

Tennessee coach Kim Caldwell has not made an announcement about wins departure

Well, what why should she the seasons like over she was a backup guard

What statement

Senior senator senior center Jersey wolf and barger. Oh, what a name by the way Jersey J.E.R. S.E. Y

wolf and barger

Who appeared in 18 18 games the season also did not play in sundays

Senior night game

She transferred to Tennessee after two years at Arkansas and one year at LSU

Tennessee's other seniors

Janaya Barker, Naya Robertson and Z spearmen have started multiple games this season including sunday

Okay, find whatever

The lady balls of the six seed in this week's SEC tournament in Greenville, South Kekalaga

In Thursday second round they'll face Alabama Missouri the winner of Alabama versus Missouri now here's the key

Two paragraphs. You ready

And I can't believe this is at the end of the story

Tennessee 16 and 12 eight Nate and the league has struggled since late January when it was upset at home by miss city state

Oh the horror

It is lost nine of its past 11 games including the past six hmm

Hold on a second

9 of 11

six in a row and you didn't start a backup guard who's coming off on Achilles on senior night as a coach who's worried about getting fired

I think I saw the mystery

That stretch included a 30 point loss at Yukon and a program worst 43 point loss at South Carolina

God

Help them

The might Tennessee lady balls are in a bad spot. They're down bad

I mean, I'm old enough to remember when Yukon Tennessee was hey, I don't even watch women's basketball

But I got to watch this because because Gina or Yama and Pat summit are boom boom boom going at it

And I'm gonna tune in

30 to Yukon

43 to Don Staley, it's up. Oh my god

After falling to the gamecocks

Coach Caldwell said and get this

This was not the loss on senior night, but after losing to the gamecocks by 43 quote

We had a lot of quit in us tonight

When you're not comfortable and things don't go our way

I have a team that'll just quit on you

And you can't do that in big games

Wow

Well, and now their backup guard Kaya win has proven the coach to be correct that she quit

I just wonder

She talked this over with is with her parents Kaya win and did they say look?

I know you're upset. I know you think I poured my heart and soul into the program. Where's a little bit of recognition

The reality in life is people oftentimes don't appreciate your contributions or don't have you in front of their mind about anything

They have themselves in their own front of mine. That's it

They don't give a shit

If I was Kaya's dad, I would say look

This may feel good on Instagram for one night. You'll get a lot of likes people go you go go go where to go

But you know what you can't undo it

Do you really want to go out this way you say you had a great time you said that it was a valuable experience your five years at Tennessee

You got an education free education college education

You met a lot of people you got to travel with the team

There's two games left maybe one

You really want to go out this way like why

What's what good is that gonna do?

Stick it out finish it finish it with you know full

Marks and if you feel like at that point you need to spill something on social media for clicks likes retweets

Admiration etc. Then I guess you do what you do

But you started this thing finish it right. That's what I would advise

Doesn't mean if she was my daughter she'd listen to me, but it's just interesting

So speaking of senior nights a tweet from an account at skins hoops 86

Said we used to have real senior nights

Now I feel bad because the college basketball team's social media folks

I've got a stretch to make hype videos for one-year renta players and guys who are on their third school

And are never coming back to the school or caring about the current institution

Probably don't even know where the good burrito joint is on campus or off campus

They're like yeah, I'm here for a hot minute because I got paid 200 grand

Through the NIL portal and now I'm out

The ACC network retweeted Marcus Paige Carolina Tarhill

Well, I don't remember

But he gave a speech on senior night that was enough to bring Roy Williams

to tears

When I first got here

I thought I was going to play behind Kennel Marshall five or six minutes a game

Spot minutes and kind of develop become you know a better player over over the four years

But um he left and you kind of handed me the keys

To the program and to the team and you know you probably had more confidence in me than I did at that time and

A lot of people were down on me as a freshman, but

The one thing you did is you always believed in me now you always told me I believe in you son

You're gonna make shots. You're gonna do fine. You're gonna be a great player

And that you just believed in me and I can't thank you enough for that because

That allowed me to be confident person myself and help me grow as a person

Roy is just losing it right now

And I know the most important thing um, I know my mom's gonna appreciate this is uh

I've started taking note of the thought of the day every day in practice

Um because you know, it's a lot of words of wisdom and I know one day

I'm not gonna be able to walk through this tunnel and and meet with you at the beginning of practice every day

And I've tried to be every every every bit the player you do want me to be

But you've made me a better man and that's the most important thing

I'm 10 times better man than when I was a guy here, so thank you

Thank you

That is incredible stuff right there

That is where the whole enterprise was so valuable valuable

To young men

And to the whole thing the format was the product and it's been utterly obliterated

Maybe it was gonna be obliterated anyway

Because the money and the interest from television was too great and it was gonna wash over

Everything and wipe it out

Maybe the courts eventually once lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit have been filed

Would have broken the same way against the NCAA and force them to change

Maybe

But I know this those who should have spoken up and spoken out

for the true value of the system and the format of college sports

We're not only silent

But they are advocating for the money men because they themselves were getting the most money

Millions of dollars to broadcast the games on television the television networks and entities saying we'll pay more for it

We'll pay more for it. This is crucial for our business. Oh, and by the way

So I don't look like a hypocrite. Let's say pay the players

Well, we're paying the players now

And they're hoppin here and hoppin there and hoppin here and hoppin there

They go to the portal they disappear in the port half the half the portal vaporizes

Like water in a puddle on a hot pavement

And the guys that do jump around what do they have left

What do they expect next

They go try to find a job in the real world and they get an offer for

$68,000 a year and they got a report to an office five days a week and they go what

I was making too fitty

Hoopin in college

NIL baby I'm gonna work for 68 grand

In the office five days a week

Tough deal

But that's where we are

I don't make the reality. I just comment on it

Comment up arm and sorry and we'll join us next. We've got

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Metallic at tickets a Vegas ATM fee that I do not believe

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Just because the NFL season is now firmly in the rearview mirror does not mean the betting season is oh

There is still plenty of opportunities to put a little something something on the games

No matter what tickles your fancy. There is still plenty of action to wet your appetite

But just remember where you bet is every bit is important if not more so than what you're betting on

That's why I tell my friends to go to my bookie dot AG

My bookie has been ahead of the game for years now and why does that matter?

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We are counting down the days till zeb Vegas 2026. It is going to be epic. However

I sent you a receipt that I saw on the internet which may or may not be real

You can never tell these days right with purports to show an ATM surcharge fee at aria of 48

Dollars

Do you believe that is real?

You know that when I do

Because we've always heard biggest surcharge is that biggest ATMs were real so

Or high so this is not one that

Well, it was often eight hundred dollar withdrawal right

Should matter how much it's more

10 I agree I agree

What's the largest ATM surcharge or withdrawal fee you've ever paid yourself

I'm not even close to that I think a few dollars three dollars now I didn't do this

But I know people that certain establishments and certain bachelor parties

They peel off like an eight or ten dollar deal, you know, well, I'm smart enough

Just like I'd be smart enough not to go to Vegas and have to use the ATM

That's your own problem your own stupidity if you or or even worse if you take an extra trip to the ATM in Vegas

Then we might have a bigger problem where you're you're betting more than you should but you should know better than that

So you're saying you should plan to never have to go to the ATM in Vegas

Do you know how small the percentage of gamblers that applies to

The responsible types that bring only the stack of cash that they're prepared to lose and once they're done

They're done that I have no I don't have much sympathy for some of them

They can't prepare themselves like a five-year-old

I mean, I have to get my daughter snacks ready for her because she's 19 months old and she can't do it herself

Okay, no, I'll tell you what I mean if you don't know no now. I will say this

We took a family trip

Family I say family Laura and her sister and his and her sisters

Husband and her brother and his wife the six of us went last summer and we trip

Yeah, I guess you're right. I make it sound like I brought my kids no

We took a trip and Laura's

Sister I want to say couldn't believe you couldn't use a crit now. She's a full-gen

Low millennial maybe Gen Z couldn't believe you couldn't use a credit saying you wouldn't mean you have to have cash

Because in this world. It's a cashless world. I'm like we're going to a casino

You can't I mean now you could maybe in the future

Put your card in you wanted to gamble with credit card money

Just didn't I couldn't believe that you couldn't use a card for whatever you needed to use this swiper

Swipe your credit card at the blackjack table

They're using some slots are now being developed where they're using that which is dangerous technology

I understand that there's some I think I saw this story that there's some slots that allow you to connect a bank account

Yeah, that's bad a debit card because that is cash that's not credit

Holy shit

You got to know your own you have to know your own

vices and if you if you can't protect yourself from yourself

You're you're in a you might be in a world of hurt if you can't you know one of fun stops because you know

I'm not gonna care about you. I mean they're gonna say they do but you know better figure it out, but yeah

No the ATM fees there

Listen, you can get any fee you want in Vegas now these days you know

There's no limit to the gouging for sure. Okay. Well, we'll we'll see we should probably stop by Arya and just test it and say

I'd like to withdraw. I'd like to withdraw 20 dollars

And then see what it takes. Yeah, I would assume it can't I think the 48 dollars must have been a percentage like you said

Of a certain withdrawal because they're not gonna charge you a 48 bucks on 20 dollars with draw

Although somebody would be dumb enough and drunk enough to go. Ah well, it is what it is

Well, I'm going for AT I'm I'm going full day of rams. You know, I don't use eight times anymore at all wow

Okay, are you a ramsy disciple?

I don't know if I'm full disciple, but I like the content because you know, I'm a frugal. I'm a money saver

Oh ramsy's great. Yeah, it's good stuff, but um

But I I don't use them mostly because I think we need cash less than ever

That's part of it. We do need cash less than ever and every institution the government businesses are trying to

Basically eliminate cash because it's bad for them. They get no data out of it

There's breakage people put in their pockets. It's also dirty

And you know, it's a it's an inefficient way of transferring

money

But it's great for surveillance. It's great for restricting people's rights

And so the ability to still pay cash for things is a freedom issue

That's

And sometimes you can save you know, obviously they don't have the surcharge and you can self-regulate better what you're spending

But as you know, it's also a little it's also about

Like like experience, right? I mean that there is more of an enjoyment in winning cash

At a sportsbook than there is just adding a number on my phone. I for me ability

I've talked about the bill like I want to win the cash like it's more exciting

Because when you were a kid, you dreamt of the day where you might be able to have your own hundred dollar bill in your hand

Yeah, not just see a number change on a phone app. It's just not the same experience. So

It's a reckoning for a place like Vegas, which was historically always as you know, Zayba cash town

Oh, yeah, you know and cash is king

So it still isn't that regard

But even now a lot of the gamblers will will pay ahead with a marker to the casino sure

You know, no, I don't gamble that much. I really don't but the one that grew they have markers

You remember the iconic movie casino, right? Yep, and when there's the narrator voiceover of Ace Rothstein

Explaining how Vegas works about there's people account the money as people who watch the people

Who are watching the money who are counting the money as that montage is rolling what kind of money are they showing

coins

coins usually dollar coins because that was the currency of Vegas and they would put them in big trays

And they'd haul them into the armored cars and that's the way it was

While we're talking money and outrageous amounts I have a unique Wednesday problem for Zayba Vegas

I'm coming out Wednesday

Thursday night is our first night sweet 16 night. When are you coming out Thursday morning?

Wednesday night also

Flat was cheaper. So where are you staying Wednesday night Luxor?

Yes, sir Luxor at what rate?

Um

It was a comp rate. Well, it was the same rate. I got I got a book. I booked them. I booked as soon as we set this up

So months again. I had you know Luxorx caliber the lowest to MGM properties and with my players

Level which is not high, but I have the MGM credit card which automatically puts me in pearls

So I have all my little ways. I don't gamble much but

During the week you can often get a comp rate for those hotels, which I did

I only have to pay taxes and resort fees and then my Friday night is the only one that's a little bit higher

Okay

By the way, here I am I should obscure them around this

I don't have my wallet, but yeah, yeah, so I'm a I'm a nubby silver MGM guy

But that said

My guy my guy Ryan McElwee who has been great hooking me up with his

You know, he's gotten comp rooms from MGM. So he's letting me use one of them comps

He had locked down

Three of the four nights

But was waiting on the fourth night because the rates were a bit high

Turns out the fourth night was the Wednesday, which is the first of the four nights

And

Unbeknownst to him Wednesdays sold out underneath him

Wow, there's no rooms at MGM wow

The entire town on Wednesday night the 25th is through the roof

Park MGM

Is almost five hundred dollars for Wednesday night

You look at Vegas.com hotels. You'll see it. I'm checking. I'm checking my

Side right now. That's crazy right now. There's a reason according to my guy

Rhino

It's Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga has a concert that night and it is completely

Disfigured the market. So now

Yeah, there's a nasty spike on that Wednesday night. Yeah, I got a scramble for a bed

On Wednesday night

Well, I got good news and bad news for you

Yeah, the good news is you I think you'll find one

The bad news is it might not be the property you want and the other bad news is I got a king

So I don't have two queens and you're not staying with me

Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

You can switch that to two queens

I could shack up with you for one night. We could do it. I just have to give it's available

Come on armen do I'm not against the idea. We just have to see I will spiff you

I will spiff you a hundred bucks

Yes, I will pay for the armen second bed rate hundred bucks

At the sucks or and we will film some of the most hilarious content ever in the hotel that I hate yet you love

Luxor

Uh, that's you know what I'm I just gotta make sure they have a queen available in the tower

I only stay in the tower. I don't stay in the pyramid

Yeah, because the pyramid sucks you have to drive you if this go in the stupid inclinators and they're very

On each corner of the stupid thing

Well, and I you know

There have been times in my life where I've struggled with vertigo situations. Oh really not real bad

But enough to make me uncomfortable on those elevators enough for me to tell them

I have a medical condition in which I had to use the tower

Because you don't have the right to book into the tower alone you have to prove a medical you can

Know you can do it, but for some reason it doesn't show up sometimes on the site

Um, or if it does sometimes it shows up as a higher rate and then usually if you call they can match it

But sometimes not uh, no, listen if you want to I'll definitely call and try and get too queen

It's just a matter of if the rooms available at this point. All right, two queens

Listen, we're not in college anymore. I'm not doing two to two of beds. Sorry brother

Well, no, I didn't ask for that. I would not do that either. I know no home

Let's go ahead you get two beds. I'm in there with the by the way, I'll be in there for one hot second

Oh, I don't care is it I don't care about that. I'm

I'm what's happy to hang out with you. I know what's happening is Thursday morning

I'm waking up at ass crack old playing golf. Yeah playing golf teeth balls in the air at 6.50 a.m. at Bally high

And then by the time we're done that I got to go get my stuff and check in at mgm grand then we've got

The pre-sweet 16 podcast show out there and then the popper shot that'll be at three in the afternoon

So it's gonna go quick. Yeah, all right you know the the thing is

About getting up early in Vegas is if you're coming from the east. Usually it's not too bad the first day

Because you're up early, right? I mean for right your body clock is a little bit more adjusted

So so you say 6.50, but really it for you. It's 9.50 9.50, right?

Okay, let's talk college basketball the first thing I want to write by you is

This court that the big 12 is gonna use for their tournament

So the team mobile center. I think it's in it's Philip 66 sponsors the tournament

Team mobile center. This is no cloma city, right? This is where the thunder play I believe

And I have a glass court that has led technology underneath where with a flip of a button a touch of an iPad. They can change the

You know sort of logos and the paint on the cord

To look like any team they want they can also put ads on the court

And of course era we have major

Corporation sponsoring this event windex

Perfect sponsor is one of the main corporate entities behind this glass court

Where does arm and sorry and stand on glass

Courts

It's in a it's a bomb. It's an abomination to the game

Okay, oh come on. This is like the NBA cup courts

First of all, it's hard for the viewer to watch

Second of all if it wasn't hard if which is not enjoyable to watch nobody wants to watch basketball like this

This is something that it's gimmicky

Obviously, it's just to sell ads and I'm not even convinced that the

Court is correct for like gameplay. We're used to hardwood floors

So how do I know that this is a proper court with proper ball bouncing that I'll see a proper game

How do I know like

That's like saying we're gonna play with rubber rims instead of iron, you know

Right

T-mobile is in Kansas City not in open city

You should have at the least for a basketball game you should have a wood court

Listen

It's it's you remember the fish that say Pittsburgh you probably remember that

Evagely yes, that really weird movie with all the psychedelic right

basketball

That's what this looks like. How can there nobody can sit there and tell me boy as a basketball fan

I enjoy this nobody

Yeah, well it does

Lead to the thought of if class led courts become standard

In major arenas

Okay, you have to you have to start to get your head around where this could be going

If it becomes standard then you have an a whole new ability

To create elements of game rules that never existed like a light up

three-point shot

I've said this would be an interesting feature

And the only way to do it is a light up court where you can put LEDs

And the three-pointer lights up somebody I said do this after

You've had three stops in a row on defense somebody said to me arm and this is just like NBA jams

Where you three

Yeah, but that was a video game

For kids we don't also try and say let's make the world like Zelda and go and have to live our life that like

I don't know it. I just think like real

Sports and basketball fans don't want this so it's a gimmick. Say if you know that yeah, you can make yeah

What did it take an NBA jam

To get to unlock I guess whatever it was that they made three straight made field goals without the other team making one meant you're on fire

And what did that mean after that it meant it was really easy to make baskets almost every shot will go in and the ball would would be flaming

all over the place

So you wanted to get you wanted to get

On fire let's go you wanted to get on fire because it'd be really easy to score then you know

Is this music at y'all

You know

Uh, I don't know. I would imagine it was huge in your unit incredibly you can play at the arcade now

What I was a what I was a bucks the bucks had the worst team red low-hoss and

Blue Edwards. Yeah, I'm gonna say who who are the bucks? There was Brad low-house and blue

Blue Edwards, and that was one when the the night the bucks won the world championship. I was in five serve

And

That kept running through my mind that kept running through my mind

What a great deal to get to go to that game. How did that happen?

It was amazing because of you. Thank you and mr. Darryl

Yes, I've always told you I appreciate. No, I'm just giving you shit

I mean look at this game right here. It was awesome. This was the height of sports

Video game entertainment as a kid you wanted to play it in the arcade

But then the chance when I had the super intendo the chance to get this game

I got it for Christmas. I'll never forget I was in my gram and grandpa's house

It was one of the most exciting things that ever happened

It was so exciting. We could play

You could get better. Have you while you played a the modern

NBA games on either Xbox

Well on PlayStation or PlayStation 5 because I'd imagine both the graphics and

The gameplay has come a long way. Oh everything better though. Is it fun to

Actually play everything's better, but what you said is interesting

I mean it can be just as fun to play old games

It doesn't mean your entertainment has to be a different level of factors just because of the technology is

I played two games stuff those games are fun to I haven't been a video gamer for a while though

I'm not I'm not one of these guys that keeps up with gaming. I haven't had a system for a long time

Since I I last had a roommate 10 years ago and he had a bunch of games when we played that was probably the last time I played consistently

Yeah, well when I was in college my roommate and I Scott Lawrence had a running series of

NH not NHL hockey. He was not second, but it was

Nintendo hockey where they had fat guy medium

And we had a running we had a running series that we kept a ledger on a written piece of paper

The sponsor and the date and who won and

The the rivalry got so intense at times that I

Hate to admit this

Turned off the game and anger as I was getting drilled by my boy Lawrence. Yeah, I'm like

No, that's sort of losing right there, but that's what we weren't sort of losing it

It led it led to a roommate fight where we didn't talk to each other for a couple of days as I was

Similarly, I had a good friend of Marquette

my friend grand lord y'all give him a shout out

good friend for a long time

And the new madden just came out this is oh five the new madden just came out where you could do a season

And and there would be think there would be different features like like media newspapers would report on your team and stuff like that

And we both had a season going and we kept talking it was a similar deal to that

But for some reason little fake madden newspapers said I kept saying I had turmoil within my team

And we didn't understand we didn't understand why I was like a big running joke

So it's a good memory you brought up there with my buddy

That is funny right there

So else we're in college basketball

Did you see that bill self got ejected last night for their game at Arizona state?

My favorite thing about that was the Arizona state

Go ahead. Yeah, I was gonna say so you saw this

Yeah, it's fantastic

The Arizona state game ops guy was on his game last night. Here's the video of it

Because as self is walking slowly

Out of the arena after being ejected, which is pretty rare

I don't know how many times bill self who's pretty mild mannered

Uh gets ejected from games. It's not like he's bob huggins or something like that as he's walking into the tunnel

That the Arizona state game ops guy fires the steam cannons around the entrance

As he is ejected hearing

Ah

He met the moment

We only had a little time to think about is that I will have an opportunity here to make this great

And he met the moment that guy did

I do it. I do it. Shall I hit the thing?

And there he is just okay and there he go

And you know, it sounds silly to say but this was the first half

If the game wasn't over and this was a big win fairs on say it sounds silly to say

But that extra juice for the crowd might have helped us team win that night

You never know right hey game ops guy should be honored

You imagine you know the the famous clip of a bob night throwing the chair, you know

Right and then there was another one where he went in the 90s

Got tossed at assembly hall and was yelling at I think it's 10 Valentine the ref

He did a blow-by he kind of did a blow-by he took a specific route on the blow-by right oh my god

It was like a low pass of a fighter a flyby where he feared

And he made sure to get real close without touching him as a way to intimidate him

Can you imagine if they would have fired something off while that was happening

Speaking I know we're gonna talk about officials. So hold on so speaking of officials the guy who ejected

Bill self is named is Doug sermons s-i-r-m-o-n-s

And he is a pretty well-respected official

I don't know exactly how we're well-respected. I've got a buddy Ron Thomas who knows every ref

all the details

He will fire off on the group chat to us arman details about certain referees calling certain games

Like he's you know Dustin Hoffman and rainman. It's absurd how much he knows and he's so into it

This guy's good this guy's a phony this guy's a show pony etc etc

I think Doug sermons is pretty well regarded however

He works every fucking night. Yeah, and travels all

Over the place

To the point where people are saying hold on a second

How do we know we're getting a well-balanced well-rested not pissed off because he's on his ninth game in nine days

referee ejecting coaches in a crucial

League game like we had last night. Here's Doug sermons schedule. Look at this thing. Wow

Nine straight nights. He refereed games from Tucson, Arizona

To college park, Maryland, Evanston, Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, West Lafayette, Boulder, Colorado, Waco, Texas, Lawrence, Kansas, Fort Worth, Texas as well

Wow

First of all at the brutal schedule

So you don't know how rest of these guys are right not rested

I don't know what rest of they are not armen and I've said long of long said the best

Efficienting job is college basketball and any sport because you have the opportunity to work so many nights

And obviously these guys want to work as much as they can to get as much money as they can because they can you know get a per game

Whatever they can travel and and honestly

It's a problem for college basketball because they don't have much choice because of how many games have to be officiated

I mean there might there's three hundred and sixty five division one team's aim and any week

There might be five hundred plus D one games you need refs for all these games

Sure, I mean and so if you're a good one in demand you're gonna be hired by

Desperate, you know, A.D.'s and people that are looking at schedule refs

So there isn't much choice you either have more refs which make them worse

You have refs that are forced to take more rest, but then again, how do you fill the spots?

I would argue that having Doug Sermon's

Ref your game is still probably better than some junior guy who's trying to make his bones and thinks he's hot shit

And writing hard calling too many calls etc

Dan Dockich outkick

Said here's a dirty little secret in college hoops referees get paid different by the league the Mac will pay refs

2,000 to 2500 per game. It's a lot of money by the way

Think about that

If you work if you work ten nights in a row

I know, but you know what to get to the two to grand a night you have to ref so many girls

JV games at high school at literally twelve dollars a game and and and and you do it every day

It's like punching a clock driving a truck. They don't care. Right. I mean I don't care, but so Mac the Mac pays two grand a

2500 per game says dockich the big 10 though pays

2800 to

4200 per game so in other words the the lowest big 10 pay according to dockich is more than a Mac game

He then says who do you think refs want to keep happy the Mac coach or the big 10 coach

It's an easy answer when Mac teams go to big 10 arenas the fucking is legendary

And I got a nasty call from the bosses at ESPN for saying this on the air the big 10 commissioner Jim Delaney was also pissed that I expose this

True

Yeah, I don't believe it. I thought this was silly when I first saw it and but Dan dockich is the king of bad hot takes

I think it's an absurd notion to think that these guys are bending over backwards to try and help big 10 teams

I think it's more likely big 10 teams are a lot better than Mac teams

But I know he coach a ball state and that's that's what he wants to do and he want do you really think this is true that this much of

I know

It's true arm. Oh, no, come on. Why here's why well because

You think there's a grand conspiracy and there's memos and there's plans in place. It's just a matter of

Who's gonna get the whistle on a given night? Who's gonna get a few more calls? Who's going to be allowed to body players a bit more

How is it gonna play out

When I was a much younger man arm in that head still some hair on my head and I wore a thinner man's pants

I was the play by play vase voice of the UC Santa Barbara gouchos. I know I found some stuff on YouTube

I'm sure you did of you doing that the the the the coaches show the coaches show

Yeah, I put that up there on YouTube. It's right. That was you. Yeah. Yeah, so I did the games and one year

UC Santa Barbara from the mighty big west conference and the same mighty with all sarcasm because it was not mighty

We got a home and home with Texas

Now that's big time shit a home and home

Absolutely, you know, even though Texas in the early 90s was not what it is now basketball wise

They were still only given a shit about pretty much

Good ball

But Texas is Texas

But we got a home at home. We actually dragged Texas to our court

That's bad work by the Texas AD

Well, they needed a pair of games. I guess yes. So here's a deal. So the the game at UCSB they beat us

But it was pretty much even game

We were turned the favor the next year. I'm on the team flight. I'm going down there. I'm court side

Uh call in the game and let me tell you the calls that I saw with my own eyes and the fucking bias

From the southwest conference is what it was at the time the southwest conference officials who we had to agree to let them use because that was part of the deal

It was

Egregious armen

Well, I know this does happen the

The bad call that's really happened. Yeah, the big 10 will get a heavier whistle or a lighter whistle

Have you want to look at it if they're playing a smaller conference now this goes back to the whole

You know argument about Miami, Ohio as they cruise towards what could be a epic conundrum if they lose in their conference tournament this week

Dockage says the Mac is perceived as a soft touch hoops league

So then why are big 10 schools so damn afraid of legit home and home series the schools are close the travel is easy

Don't give me the net quad one or quad four bullshit

Big 10 schools have been ducking the Mac for you. This is just but I'm sorry dockage is stupid on this one

Okay, I want to hear your response to that

Well, first of all, I don't accept this premise that they're ducking Mac schools

They just don't want to give a one-in-one to a school with the value isn't there. Okay, the value is not there

A Mac school shouldn't get a one-in-one with Michigan fair as you get a four-in-one at best or something right

I'm thinking about they say they don't want to schedule them

I don't think it's they they don't want a schedule and but the terms might not be on their on their end

However

There is a problem with if you're too good of a mid major. It's hard to get a game with a high major

But you can't tell me they couldn't have scheduled a little bit better now

I don't know only only the AD's truly know that process and how hard they tried to schedule it

I mean the Miami will help with three division two teams in the non-conference did they have to do that?

We don't know there are other teams that are playing high majors

They just have to be willing to go there and play

Miami knows if they go play Michigan

They're going to lose and they go play a lot of say they're going to lose

That doesn't necessarily mean they can't get in that large bit

But it means it's going to be it's going to be harder. So they they they like this

They got a bunch of wins and most importantly they got a home gate. They got a home gate for their team for their games

Yeah, that's what this is also about so

He's saying if Miami loses armen, are you going to pound the table for them to get in?

Well, it's a good question and writing is interesting

I'm not in you. Yes, I know

Well, I think it's interesting about this is they won again last night against Toledo by two

So they're giving it the sports gods are giving us exactly what we wanted because if Miami would have lost any of these close games

This would be an over-conversation

I know we wouldn't be able to talk about it

But they keep winning these close games against really bad teams

That giving us this opportunity to say still should they be in Miami's 30-0 and I'm telling you right now

If the NCA they have a problem from hell on their hands. I said it last week

If the NCA adheres to the standards that they set forth when giving that when the committee gets together

They should not be an at-large team when they will have one loss. This is assuming they lose a game, right?

So that the bad level you can tell Miami shorts are getting really tight right now because of the narrow wins

You can tell they're like oh, oh shit. Don't slip up here

But they love it because well, that's true

But they also like this because they can be a martyr for college basketball and now they want to be a martyr

They want to be in the dance

martyrdom only goes so far there there there as somebody who called an NIT game one year for UCSB

It's the most depressing tournament in the world because you know you're not at the dance

The crowd is half full if that at your arena your own ad might not have wanted to take the game itself

Because it's just kind of not worth it, but they are you

So that's what Miami wants. We'll see what happens. I think I think if they go like 32 and one

I think they'll the committee will put them in Dayton because they don't want the smoke. I really do

I think they'll do it, but I'm telling you

It's not it's not just narrative to say Miami's

Out of conference numbers and all this stuff is bad. It really is

They really have really terrible numbers in the out of conference the lowest Ken Pond team ever to make an at-large

Was 2016 when tempo was 95 right now my amulio is 89th. So

We'll see it's happened

Lost is gonna damage their numbers though, and that's the scenario we're talking about so we don't know what it's gonna be

Did you see Lanardi clapping back on Bruce Pearl

About the Auburn thing

So here's what Lanardi said quote. I try to avoid debates without clear right or wrong answers

But Bruce Pearl's argument against Miami as an at-large team requires context

Well, I'll talk about a soft rebuke

First high-major status aside

We have no idea whether Auburn is the better basketball team second Miami has won

Four more true road games than Auburn has even played

And road teams and men's college basketball win less than care to take a guess arm in what percentage of road wins

In do I'll say I'll say 30 percent 33 percent they win less than a third of the time

Finally in the modern history of the NCAA tournament

Great mid majors

Which maybe Miami is maybe they're a fraud

But great mid majors have won

Almost twice as many games as

Middling high majors

despite fewer bids and weaker seating

boom

That's a mic drop from one Jolana. Yeah good stuff. I mean nuanced

Take with information to back it up. I like it although one thing I'd say is

How much a team will or won't win in the tournament shouldn't matter

It should be based on your body of work to get in you know like that

That shouldn't prove that you were worthy or not. I don't believe I never I'd never believed in that

I mean you don't think tournament success validates the fact like hey

Nobody thought St. Peter's was any good and look at how far they went

Holy shit Loyola of Chicago is actually in the final four maybe a little bit

But those are basically high variance results

So I don't think they tell us much because it's like these are these are coin flip games that could have these are anecdotal results

Right you're judge on a body of work on a bid being deserved or not

And I think at that point the decisions been made the process is already done

So you can't you can't look at a result afterward and say it's 2020 hides

I don't believe in that but I get why some people do it's a lot

Intuitive and logical for some to think that way

But I just don't that being said he makes other good points

But Miami isn't playing anybody if Auburn played Miami schedule. They might blow those teams out. We don't know

That's good fun debate for sure

Our internet crapped out so we're going to wrap it from here. I'll just say in closing arm and our next big

Mission will be to get metallic at tickets at the sphere. I'm sure you're aware of just how

Observed it has been trying to get them. Oh, yeah, the online queue to buy the tickets reaching 500

Thousand people long they added eight more shows prices through the roof

And people are bitching about it and complaining and I'm like do you not understand basic supply and demand?

Right, that's it. That's what it is and the reality is if that much demand is there they're going to have more shows

They want to make their money. So no, I don't think I'll be emptying three or four more months worth of mortgage for one ticket

To see the remains the skeletal remains of Metallica

Exactly, but this is like the era's tour

For the adult men the era's tour for the adult men who got hit in the shorts by taking their daughters

And their friends to, you know, Taylor Swift they're now like well

I'm going to be irresponsible going to see a band. I like island. This is them saying this get bailous thing now. It's my turn

This is my turn

All right arm always a joy my friend work on that two queen setup at the Luxor unlock a three hundred dollars for you

To push out under the felt will have a grand time. All right, sounds good

You

Let's end on this the TGL the tomorrow golf league or the giant indoor simulator league starring PGA tour pros who are scooping up an extra

Couple million dollars some of the top guys to play in this thing

Had its best moment ever

Last night as Tom Kim of Jupiter golf links that would be Tiger's team clad in all red

shirts, although they're different makes and models and even shades of red which

Triggers me to go back to church from yesterday the not only to the different colorways of the shoes on the NBA players trigger me

But this also triggers me you're like okay, so you're a team in the TGL

You need team shirts. You need to pick a team shirt same colors same make

Same manufacturer, but okay, whatever

Tom Kim

playing for Jupiter

Tiger Woods not playing, but he is captaining so he's out there part of it

Throws the hammer down. They've got to win their match to make the playoffs the hammer is like a multiplier for points

par three and Tom Kim does this

Yeah, they play music at the TGL just like the live tour

So tough

Now this is going to be gone. This is going to be really good

Matthew Barry calling it for ESPN Matthew Barry has been a

enthusiastic height man for the endeavor and I don't blame him for that guys trying to advance his career

Kim going crazy

Jumping chest bumps between the players Tiger with a giant bear hug. It's like easy easy guys still coming back from his Achilles

Kisner doing whatever Kisner does these days. Homa. It's part of the team

Okay, so there it was um

Let's see most of TGL's ratings come from any match involving Tiger's team

Because it's Tiger. He's the guy that moves the needle. He has the needle

And they need to win one more match to

In the advance to the finals and they're down to their last shot basically

These are all simulators. These are all computers running this

If they wanted

To to put their finger on the scale their thumb on the scale if they wanted to just say hey, let's give Tom Kim all one here

I mean, what would stop him from doing it? Who's gonna audit them from doing it? They could just say well

Nobody's gonna know

Hitting into a simulator screen where exactly the ball is going what spin raid its distance its angle

I mean, it's totally

plausible

I didn't say likely I said

plausible you just don't know

Of course

Marty Smith the SPN

Said this was one of the coolest moments I've seen

Someone to clown TGL talk all you want this shit was electric

I guess

I guess if you're there and you're making a paycheck to announce for it and you're talking to the players

Of course you're gonna get hyped up

Into the moment

Someone else tweeted and it could have been a bot

I've watched countless tour events majors and writer cups over the years and I've never seen a celebration as big as this

Sim ace

Where does this rank amongst the greatest shots of all time?

Okay

I said behind Woody Austin's punch out from the trees on 15 at harbor town to save double on a trunk slam friday

But ahead of billiandraids bladed bunker shot that hit the stick and drop for a par at heartford

greatest shot

In golf history

Again, I'm probably responding to a bot on this so the jokes on me

But I just couldn't resist

Hey, if you like the TGL if it's fun

Go ahead watch it

But let's not get carried away people and also can you please fix the shirt situation

You're one team one brand of shirt one color of shirt

And the pants can be optional, but yeah, well not optional you need to wear pants

My point is you can wear

Perhaps your own brand of pants long as the color matches

But the shirts need to be one color

Thanks for listening make sure to rate and review of you have a second

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With the pop a shot machine the sportsbook just steps away

Beer food gonna be a grand time watching the sweet 16 together as a group and then going out to the Vegas sign for a big group photo

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