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0:00Yo Pots, check out Meet Mitch in Leewood for award-winning barbecue outstanding atmosphere in your destination to watch every March madness game. With over 20 flat screen TVs, Meet Mitch has you covered for the entire tournament. Meet Mitch, East of 95th in the Ranch Mart North Shopping Center. Second half of the program begins right now. We're going around the country two minutes at a time talking to the people covering the stories where they are happening. We're going to hit exotic locales. We're planning on at least like Phoenix, like Atlanta, but we begin in Houston, Texas, Matt Thomas, Sports Talk 790, and the voice of the Houston Rockets joins us here in the program. Man, how are you, sir? Wait a minute. We are the concrete jungle of the United States. That's not nice. Come on now. Is that right concrete jungle of the United States? Is that the the mind? Do they have that on T-shirts in Houston? Yes, we're selling them an eBay for a very cheap amount. Buy them when you can. Okay. Okay. That's we are. We have no ocean. We actually went on about 70 miles away. It's not bad. You're not

1:00too far from it. You have the heat and humidity of the ocean. Yes, and we don't the scoop. No, so that's very nice. Yeah, that is a good part of it. All right, Kelvin Samson, number two seed Houston Cougars lay waste to the Idaho vandals. I think they are 78 47 last night. They've got Texas A&M next. Where are we confidence-wise on Houston making a run back to a championship game? We're excited, obviously. It's a different basketball team. It's led by Kingston Flummings. They're very talented. One year freshman, one and done player. He'll be probably a top five pick. He's been fantastic running the things. Milo's Uzan has been a very talented guard as well, kind of taking a backseat to him because the fact that Flummings is so good. Manual Sharp, who had done fortunately a very dubious end to his last season with a double dribble late in the championship game against Flora, is hitting threes like left and right. Low post game has been good. They should not have any problem. I don't think with A&M tomorrow, but ultimately it will come down to maybe a rematch of

2:01last year's championship game in Houston. If Florida and Houston meet in a one two-stop regional final week from the Saturday. Yeah, where do we sit? What's been the fallout from the where a poor program comment from Kelvin Samson? How was it met and has anything changed since he made those comments? Nothing has changed. He's had to flatly adjust what he said. The reality is this. He's one of the best quipsters in perhaps in college basketball and college athletics history. And so if you bat 99 times out of 100 with great things and great quotes that are funny things, sometimes you say one or two things that maybe are a little off putting to some, it's not going to make a difference. We're a terrific program. I'm going to love myself. I'm not offended by it. I get it. And we do have challenges being in a city where we are spread out by so many other schools, A&M, Texas, TCU, Baylor, Texas Tech that have a large alumni basis in our own city. And so he just kind of just was basically saying, hey, if we're going to stay with the big boys and being this big 12 and remain a competitive team and

3:04play the likes of Kansas and Arizona on a regular basis for championships, we need cash. And that's the reality because we're going to lose probably at least two players for a Christian act and the flumming to the NBA draft come up this off season. Yeah. All right. So that'll be interesting to see where that goes. And so far he's been able to reload it. We'll see if he's able to reload it after this year. And we'll see where they end up finishing off. But we were just talking about how like look at some point. This is three straight years at Kelvin Samson in Houston. I've been looking down at Kansas and Bill Self. It's one of the things we've talked about this week that's at stake for the J-OX is they need to win. They need to try to go further than a Houston. Because right now they're consistently finishing third to Houston and Arizona. And that's how where Kansas fans are used to be. And do they take great pleasure? And the fact that Kansas is looking up at Houston now for three straight years? I don't know. The reality is this and I'm thinking it's a long but I'm going to speak on behalf of coach Samson. The big 12 is just filthy. It just is. And there was a three game losing streak in the mix between Iowa State, Kansas,

4:06and Arizona that happened about a month ago. The reality is I don't think that we think in the heat isn't anything different. He respects the hell out of them. Obviously all the years of him coaching and oh you going to fog out on was not funny there. It's been not a lot of success up there. But the tournament's been good. So no, I don't think it's a we got to be better than Kansas. I think it's got to be we got to stay where we want to be. And that's seriously a team that goes to the final four on a regular basis. All right. What's the latest with Kevin Durant and him getting along with his teammates? I mean, not just this shouldn't be shocking to anyone. There always seems to be some drama that comes with him. Everybody's still on board with making that deal to get him. I am. I mean, the rocket's last year lost the Golden State Warriors because, unfortunately, we just couldn't find anybody that could put the ball in the basket late in the game as a clutch score. And for all the things that have been going on right now, I mean, the rockets are 4 and 5 this month. And, you know, obviously all like how about about the burner stuff was interesting. He still puts the ball in the hoop. He's still between the elbows,

5:07free throw under free throw line is about as effective as it gets. The turnover counts been high, but it's always been high for Kevin for his awesome. He's been throughout his NBA career. He is the guy that can still you can put the responsibility of scoring on your shoulders and he comes through. He has 51 points away from becoming the fifth all-time lady scoring the NBA. He's still shooting at a almost 50-40-90 clip. He's 37 years old. So it's not been a great month. It's not been a great calendar turn for the rockets. I think again, if there's anybody that doesn't worry about the social media streets, it's probably Kevin Durant. So, but the reality is the lakers are playing out of their mind. Denver has beaten us up pretty badly, so it's San Antonio. And we're kind of settling into the fact that maybe you're going to be on the road for the first round of the playoffs. The Astros already down Josh Haydart now and Obliq injury for Bennett Suza, the bullpen, a question mark getting ready to start the regular season. Not plenty of arms. Caleb Orts out there helping the you know, and among others have been trying to help out. And he's moved on, but I mean, you still have Brian O'Brien,

6:09who's going to be an effective eighth inning guy. You've got other, you know, this Astros pitching rotation is fairly deep with so-called 3, 4, 5 guys that you could have a couple of guys that normally start games could coming out of the bullpen spits irrigate. He could do that as well. I'm not overly concerned. And the reality is if you follow baseball friendly good time, how many people really started season going, oh man, I can't wait for our bullpen to come through and help us out. And this team is going to be depending on largely a starting pitching, which has been very good so far in the spring. And ultimately, what they're going to do with the outfield. And I'm going to share a very talented Jordan Alvarez plays in the outfield. If indeed you are congested with as many offensive players you are in the infield, because at this point, they still have ESAC parettis. This will be a trade target all off season. It has not been traded. Jeremy Pania heard himself in spring training. He may not start the season on the active roster because of a finger injury. So, yeah, to be honest, on a scale of 1-10, my worry about the middle elite core of the assures is that about a 3. Okay. And then a scale of 1-10 on the off season of the Houston Texans.

7:13A deal that either some people love or some people hate in trading for David Montgomery. It seems like there's no in-between on that one. They get Braden Smith along the offensive line. One of your extension for Daniel Hunter. Re-Blankenship, safety brought in. What do we give the grade for the off season for the Texans so far? Yeah, they also got wide teller away from Cleveland. Look, it's about CJ. And I, you know, Montgomery, I like. I don't love. I think maybe his best days are behind him, but the reality is, Nick Chubb's best days were behind him last year and didn't do much. Woody Marx is going to be a good secondary guy at the ASP. The Rockets, excuse me, the Texans, the United States, RB1. It's the close thing they're going to get. They weren't going to get me in the spending world with some other guys out there. They have to rebuild the offensive line. And ultimately, they have to worry about two key contract thoughts. One about Will Anderson. No doubt it's going to get his big money. The big question is going to be, is CJ struggling to get his money this year or next year? And if he doesn't get it this year, do they have to prove it? I don't know how to get that money next year.

8:14Better offensive line. We'll give CJ some credit. Better running game. We'll give him less opportunities to have to worry about throwing on second and nine. I just don't hope to him. Montgomery is going to be the guy that is going to all the sudden because of the fact that he had just a great touchdown success. That kind of humor gives him Detroit. He's going to the exact same thing here in Houston. All right. Great stuff. We always appreciate the time at Thomas in Houston, Texas. Thank you so much. Have yourself a great weekend. You as well, colony time. Way too much to roll. With Luke Lapinski, Arizona sports 98 seven in Phoenix, Arizona. Luke, how are you, sir? I'm good. How are you doing? Doing well. Popular team. In fact, I think they're probably the most popular pick to win at all. The Arizona Wildcats. Do you agree with that? Yeah, I feel like it's either this again, and there was some frustration among Wildcats fans that they felt like maybe they should have got number one seed over Duke with the injuries. I also think they probably got the easiest region when you look at it. I mean,

9:15I think I think Arkansas would be top. That's really good. You look at Duke's region. I know they were the number one overall seed, but they have a lot more lot more competition in that region. So I think it'll be U of A or Michigan, and you know, I guess they would they would meet before the final, but those feel like the two teams right now. Is there pressure on this team? I know it's pretty yearly in Tommy Lloyd's 10 year, but it's, you know, they are the last team, everyone. There's the last team west of Kansas to win a national championship. And that's been a while in 1997. Is there pressure on them or, you know, if they make the final four, everyone's going to be okay and just recognize that you don't win it every year, but they're going to be good enough. They're going to get it eventually. No, I think there's pressure now because you're talking about, you know, a team that hasn't even been to the final four and basically a quarter century. And, you know, if you talk to Wildcat fans, they consider their team a blue blood program, and they're always good. So you can understand why they feel that way a little bit, but you got to get to the final four more than once every 25 years to be, you know, considered with the teams like Kansas and Kentucky and Duke and Yukon and,

10:21you know, teams that are actually going there and winning every few years or at least competing. So that's not on Tommy Lloyd, you know, most of that's on Sean Miller, really. But I think the fan base, you know, they they would consider themselves a blue blood program. But when you don't make the final four very often, nobody else considers you one. And this is maybe the best team they've had this century. So I think I think they know this is their chance to finally break back through. Yeah. Okay. All right. We'll see. Do you have them winning it all in your bracket? I do, but I really think it's a toss up between them and Michigan. And I do, I mean, look, everybody thinks there were three three potentially great teams with Duke as well. But I just, you can't lose your big man and your, you and your guard. And we already saw that a little bit yesterday. And I don't even know what Duke's going to do. You know, you can't count them out. And maybe they go on a run and they're dangerous, too. But I think it's you of air Michigan, for sure. Yeah. I'm just feeling that way. All right. Arizona State fires Bobby Hurley. Byron Scott says he's interested. Who's the right guy for the job? Who who's the popular

11:21name that's out there? You know, this is a this is a lot tougher than when when they moved on from her med where there was definitely a groundswell to bring in Kenny Dillingham. Like that, that was the name. And then it worked. And it's worked really well for you when it came to football. With basketball, it's a little bit different. You know, Byron Scott's an interesting name for sure. Randy Bendis name has been brought up. But it feels like this is a lot more of a wide open search because, you know, Bobby Hurley had been here for over a decade. He's not like they had made deep tournament runs by any means. But, you know, he they did a lot under him that they hadn't done before. And so, or at least hadn't done in, you know, 20, 30 years before. So, it's this this is a huge tire for for Graham Rossini and the Arizona State athletic department because they've got football going in the right direction. They've got women's basketball going in the right direction with Molly Miller now. Like they've they've built a lot that they got to get men's basketball, right? Kyler Murray is not going to be the problem for the Arizona Cardinals anymore. He's gone to Minnesota. So, what do we think about Gardner Menshu being a part of the competition

12:26for the quarterback spot? Yeah, that one I think surprised a lot of people. But it the name itself surprised a lot of people just because you had been hearing Jimmy Garoppolo or maybe a couple other names. Not really necessarily any better than Gardner Menshu. I think the I think the the real question for this team now is do they do they take a swing in like the third round of the draft on one of these quarterbacks like Drew Aller or Carson Vacker whoever if you know one of them's there in the third round that was supposed to be a first round pick that August and then the season played out in Cape Club. Nick, a bunch of these guys dropped off over the course of the season. Do they take a swing in the third round? You know with with no real commitment if it doesn't work out and they can still go after somebody in 2027 if they're, you know, at the bottom of the league again or do they really just ride this out which Kobe for set in Gardner Menshu and just kind of hold your breath for 2027. I know that they they don't want to be in a position where they're committed to any quarterback pass this up like season for obvious reasons. Yeah, are they, you know, flat out just admitting like we're not going to be good this year. We're thinking long term.

13:31I see where it gets tough is if your money awesome for us to GM, I don't know that you have a year that you can just burn, you know, I mean it's I think most people here look at his drafts classes so far and there's certainly some promise in there and the other guys that maybe have struggled with some more because of injury than anything else. And so I think I don't think everybody was really shocked that he kept his job when Jonathan Ganon looked like go but at the same time, you know, there's more pressure on him now than there was a year ago, I would say. I don't know that he can afford to just burn a year and then you're also burning a year of Marvin Harris from junior. You're burning a year of Tremac rides prime. You're burning another year of boot of Acre. So it's tough because you can't you can't just openly do that, but you're also in a division with San Francisco and Seattle and the Rams and you don't have a quarterback right now. Yeah, that'll be interesting. Tell me about where we are with the son's ownership, suing each other and, you know, basically stating that the owner is using the the organization as his own slush fund to buy things. How does this play out ultimately?

14:32I that stuff is always who knows, right? I mean, that's the stuff that's just sort of plays off off the court. You figure it'll just kind of work itself out and who knows behind the scenes. I would assume it's a shame, you know, just because things have been going really well with the son's season and you know, with with Matt ish be it taken over a couple years ago, that was that was something son's fans have been asking for for a while was for a new owner to come in and be willing to spend money and do all this and that and care only about winning and then he comes in and does that and ends up leading to them actually not winning until they make some move this off season. Now, if it doesn't, they're not supposed to be good and they are winning. So I'm sure the son's and their fans rather focus on what's going on on the floor, but yeah, there's always always seems to be a distraction, huh? Luke Lapinski in Arizona in Phoenix, Arizona. Great stuff as always, buddy. By the way, I'm going to be out there in Scottsdale next week. Can't wait for it to be a hundred degrees. I've got 100 right now. Oh God bless you. Luke Lapinski, great

15:32stuff, buddy. We appreciate it. Have a great weekend. All right, you too. Thank you. Chris Domino, 680, the fan in Atlanta, Georgia is next. Chris, how are you, my friend? I'm doing well, friend. How are you? Better than Georgia, 102, 77. They get their doors blown off against St. Louis. What happened there? Well, I know that I must believe in again. I, L, E, or because that was always like one of those guys I've been doing this long enough where I think I refer to the 18 to 22 year olds as kids. Be careful. You know, they're not pros. Well, I went all in today. Got list for the capital G UC LESS. So I must now be a firm believer that I'm entitled to really say stuff like that. And I don't do it all. I'm not a banger necessarily. Now, but you had half time and you came out and you gave up an 18-0 run. And you know, they had 80 points with 10 minutes. They could have pushed them to 120 if they wanted to. And it wasn't even a matter of calling off the dogs. 66 points in the paint. It's embarrassing.

16:34And you, you've got blown out by guns out the last year in the first five minutes. The first five minutes of the second half was the worst basketball I've ever seen. When you consider it to one and done and you had half time to figure out if we have to get back in this game, we better find a way. Physicality, intelligence, all of it because you had to get back in that game. You gave up an 18-0 run in less than five minutes. So I'm sorry. I know what it was. I'll give Mike White the coach credit. He said, I'm acceptable. No effort. This wasn't this was. He was really honest about it. And I thought for a second that might take my thumb off, but it didn't. Even when he was done, I said, okay, good. He knows it, but it was still a gutless effort. Yeah, the run was 23-0 if you span half time with it, right? Like, I mean, it was, it was a rough go for the bulldogs. All right, we'll see what White does to try to reload next year. How about Georgia Tech, the higher Troy head coach Scott Cross? Fine prospect, right? But is that where Georgia Tech is? They're in the prospect hiring business? Yeah, yeah. So it's funny.

17:36Somebody told me it was early as Tuesday and again, I don't really feel the need, but I trusted them. And I said, okay, I know that not only is he on the radar, but this could be happening. $2 million, five-year deal. You're now in. And I know this. We have Bruce Perlon today. Well, I thought for a second, you might have thrown his hand into the ring a little bit earlier. I spoke to him about the job last week, but it's an eight to 12 million dollar talent investment plus whatever you pay the coach. So I'm not telling you they went cheap. They went with a guy who absolutely is arrow up and cross arrows up. You know, his resume reads the right way. The price was right. And we've always said, you know, what's what's terrible about the tech program? And I've been here long enough and I saw Bobby Crammins and I saw the final four in 2004. I saw all that stuff. For 20 years, your relevance has been your only relevance in basketball has been can you believe how bad they are for how long? And that's been your relevance. So it's over, like they got a really nice building. When I tell you it's less than half empty, they've got to do something. I don't know if Cross is a name that will absolutely get the student section buzzing and

18:41all those things. But at the end of the day, you probably got to win. And while he has a five-year window and while he's going to have to do a lot of work, if you want to create something around here, it's a good hire. Everybody will say it's a good hire. But how many does he keep in state? What is he doing to transfer portal? And in a world where if you have three, you should be able to compete at a higher level than they have, he's got to go get three. And we'll find out if he can do that. He is a grinder and he understands that this is a step up and those are all good things. But eventually he's going to have to find players, but he needs the money to do it. And it's about eight to 12 million dollars in investment now. And Georgia Tech has got to do it. They're just going to be doing this for the next handful of years. Yeah. No, I mean, it's been a while, right? I mean, like 20 years. Yeah. I mean, it's had a minute. And he wanted to know, listen, I don't I don't like to do this. It's a very nice man. He's very upbeat. He's very enthusiastic. But at his press conference, when he got hired, he was like, yeah, they basically have told me, why not going to win for five years around here? We're starting from below below. I was like,

19:43well, you know, this is what we're going to do. And I have one moment, one, one tournament, one an ACC championship, but it won away pretty quickly. So yeah, it's legitimately 20 years since anything close to success has been sustained. Yeah. All right. We'll see what they're able to get done to to the rescue. I don't have to pay him much because the dolphin zone so much money. But what he would it's it's clearly like I'll see if I like you, you see if you like me. And then we'll go from here or no, is he purely a backup? Well, I don't think he's purely a backup because Michael penance is not healthy. You know, he's QBI QBI entering. I don't know if he's QB1, QB1 and a half, QB2, but he's QB entered until he comes back. Now, here's the thing. I know why you got him. You got him because it was 1.3 million. You got him because the back of his football card says a couple of years ago, he put up decent numbers. So let the games begin. For me, the most interesting thing about Stofansky and his group, let's just say they started the starting line all this first. And my panics is cleared. Let the games begin because I don't think they should hand the job to anybody. Michael penance included. I don't care where he was drafted.

20:44This group didn't do it. He's hurt a lot. He missed five seasons. He had two with five surgeries and five football seasons and eight. I'm not relying on that. The problem with two is one crack to his noggin and the idea that people told him, some beg him to please retire. You're one shot away from whatever it might be. You're still living in that. You're old enough. You remember the game operation, right? Yep. The wacky doctor's game. Yeah, yeah, right. My smart ass moment was I asked, you know, the AI to tell me what's the quarterback situation in Atlanta. And I printed out that thing. And I started marking and circling where both of these guys have been hurt. And I circled injuries. And then I squared surgeries. And it's horrifying to look at to his head. He had an ankle, certainly everything in my own panics. I was like, if we were playing operation, nobody would win. Like I couldn't find a healthy part of any of their bodies. I swear to God, two fractured fingers, broken ribs, two ankles, two knees, two shoulders and a head into

21:48a, that you go literally from head to toe. It is not, it's precarious at best from both talent and from injury. Not a great place to be. I know it's only March, but it just sort of feels like, oh, God, this has a really good chance to not go well. Well, that was almost like a Christmas Carol, you know, four concussions, three knees, two fingers and an ankle to you. I'm telling you, I had to look, there was one elbow that I think actually came out on skates in my charting of the injuries of the two quarterbacks on this right side. That's, that is, I mean, you got two guys and neither one of them will be healthy and ready to go. So I guess maybe next week we'll have you on a healthy body parts. So when you couldn't have enough healthy body parts between the two of them to make a guy that you wouldn't worry about. Yeah, we'll have to, you know, have you on next week and talk about the third string quarterback, the guy who will start the most games for the, for the five. I already laid money with a guy in my office. I said, somebody whose name we don't know will start two games for the five wins this year.

22:53Chris sale is set to start the opener. The, the royals by the way, taking on the Atlanta Braves in that game. Yeah, looking forward to that and that going next Friday, a week from today. Chris sales ready to go. Is any other pitcher for the Braves? How dire is the pitching with all the injuries they've had? Um, dire no, not great, but not dire. Look, striders, the guy that has to be, you know, people bitch about rice elder, uh, rice elder, I can't believe you didn't get somebody better than rice elder. Okay, rice elder is not going to be the reason you do or don't go to the postseason. The offense is going to be the reason you do or don't go to the postseason. The back end of the bullpen, every bit as much as the starters, because what a starter's now, you know, there's five innings, six innings. We've given the, the, the greatest data boy. It's almost statue building time with the guys go six innings. So I believe it's a bullpen in the offense, which was bad last year. It's got to be better. There are a lot of guys who have to be better on the offensive side. It's not about rice elder. If Lopez is healthy, uh, if strider is good, it's a sort of precarious ish, but what staff is really set in stone. You know, like you,

23:58you break camp and look at us, we have five guys that we, and you know, you know, if you have, if you have five, you have two, if you have ten, you have three, three and a half. So it's not great to be down numbers, but if these guys are relatively healthy, and the bullpen stays healthy and doesn't get overworked, and your offense just does what it's capable of doing, you can take some of the pressure off the staff. And strider is big. I will look at strider much more than even three, four, five, but strider has to be a guy who consistently. If you're playing a series, especially against good team, if you don't have a one, two punch, it is a little bit easier for that whoever it is you're playing, especially a good offensive team to have the day. I will tell you this about Chris L. The shame of this is now he signed for this year, he's got an option for next year. He's been as good as each man, but he hasn't grown a pitch in a post season in two years. And I'm going to feel sort of robbed of maybe seeing if this guy has old man magic in October, because you got to get to October, and he's got to be standing up in October to really get one of those starts. Does Ronald Akuna carry forward his WBC into a big season? Should

25:03us fantasy players be spending whatever it takes or drafting as early as we have to to get Ronald Akuna? I kind of think so. I kind of think so. Look, the thing that I knew about him, they went to World Series in 2021 and he's not a part of it. When people asked me, what do you think the world baseball classic means? So I said, everything. This guy did not have a stage. He did not have a World Series stage. He's got an MVP, he got a 47 year and his name is known. He did not have a stage. That's why this was important for him. And whether you like the emotion, whether you don't like the emotion, him coming into this year, now knowing that taste of to win and really win, it's nothing but good news. You know, he ran in the winter ball. He had a bunch of stolen bases. I think that wants to be part of his game again. But I love the idea that he's tasted what it like, what it, what it feels like to win because he hadn't had that. And I do think he, he's got the potential to be the guy who leads the scene. I don't know if I like him hitting lead off. I don't really care about the old look at me and my lead off hit her hits home runs.

26:03I've seen other guys do that. I think you've got to be a run producer. And if the guys hit Nate and I don't do anything for him, I'm going to feel like there's going to be a lot of meat left on the bone again the year. So we'll see. I think Walt Weiss is more flexible than moving him. If that happens, protect one and two, let him hit third. But he is going to start the year hitting lead off. He is going to be exciting. He is going to be emotional. And now again, that he's won. I think he wants to, with three years left on his deal at a total of 54 million dollars. Like there is a chance that he's as good a bargain as there is in the game if he stays healthy. I think he wants to play like a $400 million player. There's never any meat left on the bone when we talk to you, Chris. That is shiny. It is, we have, we have, we have consumed it all. You're the man. We appreciate it, Chris. Domino in Atlanta. Have yourself a great weekend, my friend. Yeah, let me know. Can you do anything next week? What's what your guys in? We'll do it. We will do it. Thank you, buddy. Man, take care. All right, friends. Appreciate it. All right. The law of Fetadelic attestant end of the hour answer. L.I.U. and Akron both now,

27:03O and eight all time in the NCAA tournament. Those teams were both lost today. What team has played the most games without a win? They are O and 10. This particular team. There's somebody who's O and 10 on the tournament. But they're obviously not a major because Nebraska was the only major without O win. His team was in the tournament two years ago, three years ago and four years ago. So three straight years and they didn't win. Smaller league. No big east either, right? Like, correct. Okay. This team would be in. Yeah, give me a, give me a conference because otherwise I'm throwing lob in a grenade. Currently in the Mountain West. Currently in the Mountain West. Yeah, I think they've, well, they are right now. I don't know what they were before that. Maybe in the Pac-12 next year. I don't know. Okay. Um, O and 10. Well, Utah State's won. Mm-hmm. Boise's won. Oh, go Boise. Boise State. Cause you turned your head. Yeah. And I can read you. Don't

28:07play cards. They have. Well, that was intentional. I was giving you a little bit. I tried O and played it on man. Boise's O in 10. Yeah. Losses in 76, 88, 93, 94, 08, 13, 15, 22, 23, and 24. Do they have a blue court? No, they have that funky blue. Uh, they have one of the first teams to have the color inside the arc. I remember I've seen it enough times because that was the court in which UCLA beat Missouri on the Thai Sydney play. Oh, really? It was going down that blue and orange lane. By the way, somebody noted L.I.U. lost to Arizona. Somebody very brilliant said, um, Arizona won the iced tea. Best iced tea. Match up Long Island in Arizona. I was like, that's pretty good. Oh, that's pretty good. I don't know who thought of that. I would think the Long Island iced tea would win, uh, yeah, adamantly for one group. Yes. Most, most people, um, something else

29:12I saw. Uh, that was great. We've, we've all heard of, you know, Robbie Avila and his amazing run. A number of nicknames have been given for him. Cream Abdul Jabbar, that type of thing. One I had not heard before last night. Kevin McPale. That's pretty good. It's strong. Except for it. It's not like Kevin McAle was bronze. No. No, but I do get it. You know, uh, Larry Nerd, Larry Blurred, milk Chamberlain was pretty good. I thought that's my favorite. Yeah. Kevin McPale is pretty nice. Milk Chamberlain. Chamberlain. Kevin McPale. And they're, they, they moved, moved on last night. Yeah. Well, slew, yeah. Slew formerly in the end of state, but where he was at. Slew is, uh, are they better than Mizzou? Probably, uh, this this year's team might be like as a program. I,

30:15here, let me ask you this. If Mizzou offered the slew coach the job, would he take it? Would you leave slew for Mizzou? If they offered him money, I think you probably would. Well, if you offered him, yeah, I think that that's, I mean, you're not asking to donate his time. I mean, I offered him the right amount. I don't think he'd say, oh, I'm definitely stepping out. Look, he's going to get a big job off. That's what that slew is trying to keep him. Yeah. But they're, they're going to give him a big offer. Uh, or I mean, he's, he's going to, they're slew is going to give him more money, but somebody's going to offer him a lot of money because their jobs open and they're, he's one of the top two candidates. Yeah. And him and the Utah State Coach. And so, like if you threw big money at him, you know, what it takes, comparable money to whatever, you know, somebody else is going to put at him. Would he take the gig? I'm not certain because in it, it isn't just about Mizzou because one of the things I was,

31:17I think people occasionally, if the money's the same, would you, would you personally rather coach it slew or Missouri? I think I'd rather because I think we assume Mizzou is going to pay more than slew. But let's say they're going to pay the same, which is a better job. For the same money, it might be slew, but I mean, that's where you get into where I give you're a young person, you're thinking about winning national championships. If you're an old person, you're thinking about how can I maximize the revenue? How can I have the highest quality of life? You have the best chance of pleasing everybody, being loved and getting more contracts if you stay at slew. You have a better chance to win a national championship if you're at Mizzou. The question is, you know, do you believe should anybody believe that they're so good in today's day and age, or is it all about well? You know, I mean, the, the, the, the actual real answer when I put that question to you is, well, which one's giving me more money for the roster? Yeah. Who has a higher payroll? Probably Mizzou. And you would think it'd be Mizzou. Yeah. So therefore, if you want to win a national

32:21championship, Mizzou is the better spot. But that, that, that I think ignores a key element in what I think I think is often lost these conversations for Jason sure, sure, it's I think it seems Jason shirts. It isn't whether what I would either be at Saint Louis or Missouri because it's can I get if I stay at Saint Louis? Can I get a better job than Missouri? Next year, it isn't just comparing him to Mizzou. It's, yeah, that's a better job than this. But if I stay here, I can get an even better job than that the next time around. I was wondering about what's the, it's comparing Mizzou to the other job he thinks he can get to, to more, yeah, streamline what what I was initially trying to think. I don't think it's ever in a situation like that. It's ever a place you're out of the place you could go. You, you better be really good if you think you can just sit back and when you're going to have to turn your roster over again, like everybody seems to have to do. And you feel like,

33:21yeah, we can have a season like this. And I'm going to have those offers. Like that's great that you think like, okay, I'll get a better offer next year. But are you going to warrant the better offer? Are you going to be fit the line? Might be. But it's, whether you, it's an accurate assessment is to me, someone irrelevant, it's does he think that he could be totally wrong in thinking that. Most coaches think I'm, I'm, I'm going to keep winning. He probably would think he can get a better job than Mizzou if he's kicking, but it's slow. I mean, because, but he's like, well, Missouri is about as good as I can get. If I don't take this Mizzou job now, this, I'm not going to get that shot again. I don't know if any coach in that level probably thinks that way. So, and I would hope if you're Missouri, you wouldn't think he's the Mizzou's the best job this guy can get. You want a guy who is really good. You want a guy who can take you to someplace you haven't been before. And I'm not sure a guy who thinks Mizzou's is peak has the ability, has the, the approach,

34:27it would take to get Missouri to become another better program. Does slew being in state put pressure and winning the way they did put pressure on Missouri? Or are they not even on the radar? I think it puts some pressure. Yeah. I don't think you want to be sitting on the, on the, but is it any more pressure? Is it any more pressure than high point winning? I mean, yes, it shows that you can win at other places, but does the fact that they're in St. Louis? Does it put more on? I think it probably does, but appreciably more? Not not much, but a little bit. It's not insignificant. If you lose in St. Louis, and you're, you lose in a city where the other, you know, you're in your home state and you lose in that city and the team that's in that city. Yeah. It's a smaller conference is playing on Sunday and you're playing on Saturday and you're not playing on Sunday. That's not, it's not a great look. Yeah. Not fatal, but it's not good. We'll find out more about how the Tigers do in a little bit. All right. Let's think of break. We'll come back. You listen to the program. All right. Welcome back. Coming up next hour. We're going to talk to Kevin Harlan. We're going to talk

35:27to Pep Fernandez. He is the voice of the Cal Baptist Lancers. So looking forward to that. We're going to get some things you need to know as well. Nebraska finally got to win. Yep. Long time play by play announcer. Yep. Kent Pavellka. Yeah. Begin broadcasting in Nebraska basketball in 1974. The year Richard Nixon resigned. Except for 10 years, he's been the play by play man for Nebraska. 41 years. Yesterday, he finally got to call an NCAA tournament victory. Here's how it sounded. Three seconds, two seconds, one second left to go and there's the horn. There's the game. Nebraska's first NCAA win. It's all over all the years going home from conference tournaments setting in front of the television and the egg in the pit of your stomach wishing you could be there and then getting to the NCAA once in a while and not winning.

36:30All that's history now. You don't have to go home and watch and and dream. Watch and dream. And now you can watch and dream and listen on Saturday. See if the Oscars can do this again. How about that, boys? How about that? 41 years. Wow. The only sad part of that is that the late Greg Sharp wasn't around to be because he did a lot of those games too. So yeah. Yeah, that's a moment. 41 years. 1974, he was doing games. I was eight. I'll be 60 in July. How many absolute dogs is that guy called a lot? I mean, that that's a lot. That may be the most meaningful win for someone ever. Oh, and I'll post a video. The video of him. You can see the emotions face. Just amazing. That's awesome. That's what it's all about. Great moment here in the tournament. We'll get you the need to know Kevin Harlan coming up next. All right, St. Louis's 25 point win over

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