Discussing College Sports Latest with Mike DeCourcy

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00:00All right.

00:05It's always my favorite part of the week when I got Mike to course he on the legendary writer

00:09from the sporting news.

00:10He's also on the take for the Big Ten on Fox Sports and the Big Ten network.

00:15And I just will say this.

00:17I don't really want to talk about it because it makes me angry.

00:20But I watched Indiana play in the Bahamas and I thought they were soft as a cinnamon

00:25roll.

00:26They don't rebound.

00:27They can't shoot.

00:28They don't hustle.

00:29I mean, to tell you, like Louisville beat their ass, Gonzaga beat their ass.

00:34I mean, they barely beat Providence.

00:36I was thoroughly unimpressed with the Indiana basketball.

00:41Thank God their football team is going to be in the playoff.

00:43So it's a fallout from rivalry week in college football.

00:48And there were fights galore, Mike, all over the country in these big games as these kids

00:55lost their minds after the games were over and players were trying to plant flags and

01:00do devious things.

01:01And then the fists were flying.

01:02And then cops were pepper spraying coaches and players like, what is happening to the

01:07world we live in, Mike?

01:09Scott, I will say this about what happened in those games.

01:15If you if you if you're Michigan and you're coming in at six and five and you're playing

01:21a Ohio State team that is literally two points from being undefeated and playing at home

01:27and play this whole season to get to this day.

01:30And you take that afternoon from them.

01:33You beat them on the field of play.

01:35There's nothing else to be done beyond that.

01:38Planting a flag.

01:39What is that?

01:40I compared it.

01:41I compare it to winning an Oscar and then joining the cast of of Real Housewives of

01:48Beverly Hills.

01:49I mean, you've already won the best thing you can do in performing.

01:52And now you're going to do this, Chuck.

01:55I mean, honestly, it really is.

01:58So what do you think?

01:59Like I said earlier, I don't remember what the game was.

02:04Mafia might remember, but there was a college basketball game this year already where the

02:07students stormed the floor and they beat a team that was ranked 13th.

02:13And I was like, you got to storm the floor when you win a top five game.

02:18You shouldn't be allowed to storm the floor when you beat a 13th ranked team, because

02:23first of all, the polls don't matter unless you're in the top five.

02:27And basically, then you're one of the powers of college sports when you're 13th or 18th

02:32or 25th.

02:33You don't matter.

02:36There's a sliding scale on that.

02:37If you're DePaul and you beat anybody that can bounce a basketball and you haven't done

02:42that in like 20 years, I'd say if you're if you're DePaul, do you remember McGuire?

02:49Do you remember when McGuire played there, the teams that they had there, when the old

02:55man was coaching there, not his son Joey, but when the old man was coaching there, when

03:00you and I were young, Mike, DePaul was great in basketball.

03:04They could always like went on a run in the tournament and lost.

03:08They could never get over the hump, but they were always a power.

03:12They were.

03:13They did get to the final four in 79.

03:15It's just everybody forgets that because Magic and Bird were there.

03:20But it had been a power.

03:22And even Joey had some great years before things petered out a little bit at the end

03:27of his career.

03:28Great man, Joey Meyer.

03:29We just lost him not long ago, but it has been really fallow for a long period of time.

03:36And Chris Holtman has it going now.

03:38So if they want to storm the floor, if they beat somebody in the Big East, go for it.

03:44A&M was 13 and they lost and the kids stormed the floor.

03:50I thought it was embarrassing.

03:51I have to tell you, though, Mike, you got to admit that the Arizona State mascot did

03:56land a haymaker on the Arizona mascot.

03:59That was quite a punch.

04:00I had nothing to do with players either.

04:02I really don't have a problem.

04:03It's the mascots.

04:04I spent as much time at as I did the Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight.

04:09Scott, I didn't see any of it.

04:11I didn't watch that either.

04:13Mike, you and I are on the same page.

04:14I call that a highlight sports event.

04:17Like most UFC cards, they have one every weekend.

04:19All I need to do is see the highlights to bullshack my way through MMA news on this

04:25show.

04:26I don't care.

04:27What do you think of the Steelers and their performance in the jungle and what Wilson

04:32has meant to them in that big day he had, 4-14 and three tutties?

04:36They look like a complete football team to me.

04:39For my money, it's the Bills and Steelers that are the ones that have a shot at the

04:43Chiefs.

04:44Exactly.

04:45I think they played terrifically.

04:47I think their performance on defense is being underrated, Scott.

04:52You go into that game against the best offense in the NFL right now.

04:56The Bengals are so dangerous with the football in their hands.

05:00You give up a pick six, so that's seven of the points.

05:03Then you're up at one point, 44-21, I think it was.

05:09You give up a couple of late touchdowns that the Steelers clearly were playing for.

05:15They basically said, go ahead and score.

05:18Just don't score too fast.

05:19They probably let them score a little bit more quickly than they wanted to.

05:22In the end, it was exactly the game the Steelers wanted to play.

05:28Because the yardage was big and the point total was big, people are looking at that

05:32as a struggle from the defense.

05:35They created three turnovers and scored on one of them, Scott.

05:38It was a defensive masterclass against the best offense in the league.

05:41I think it's just a continuation of what the Steelers have done on that side of the ball.

05:46Not an interruption.

05:47UCF was the team that beat A&M.

05:53Here's the deal, Mike.

05:54I'm going to the Bengals game, which is January 5th.

05:57It's their last home game.

05:58I'm going with my son.

05:59I'm going to fly in and see the last game.

06:02I tried to pull off the Christmas Day Chiefs game, and my wife, 34C, said she'd sleep with

06:07all of my friends while I was gone if I missed Christmas Day at the house.

06:11So then, today, the Steelers gave me my last chance to buy playoff tickets email.

06:19So I opened it up, and I was going through the motions to pay for it and do it.

06:24I always do it.

06:25But this year, when I got the email the first time around, it was just tons of money.

06:31I'm like, they never play a home game.

06:33They always end up on the road, and they lose.

06:34So I'm not falling for this.

06:36Then they win all these games.

06:37Now they're going to play at home.

06:38So I'm buying the game the following week.

06:41So I'm going to go the 5th, and then they would play in the Divisional Semi at home.

06:48As it stands now, they're getting a home game.

06:50And if they somehow win that, and let's say, I think they'll only play one home game.

06:56I don't know about you, but I'm going to go back-to-back weeks in the freezing cold

07:00of Pittsburgh, January 5th, and then January 12th, whatever it is, I'm going to be freezing

07:05cold, boots, long johns, winter jackets, gloves, whiskey, the whole deal, Mike.

07:13Sounds great.

07:14Absolutely.

07:15Hopefully, it works out like that, that the schedule plays out like that, and they get

07:21a chance to play at home.

07:22Remember, this was also the week when the Steelers got to nine wins, which means no

07:28losing seasons under Mike Tomlin, no losing seasons since 2003.

07:33Scott, New York Jets have had nine consecutive losing seasons.

07:39The Steelers haven't had one since 21 years.

07:44The Steelers' non-losing streak is now old enough to drink.

07:50It's 21 years.

07:53People around Pittsburgh think that's not a big deal.

07:56You live that long and never have to go through a losing season?

08:00It's amazing.

08:02It's vastly underrated, especially by the louder portions of the fan base, but not by

08:07everybody.

08:08How does Michigan do tonight at the Cole, and how does Kentucky do at Little John?

08:13You said in an article over the holidays that the Kansas Center's dirty.

08:19I did say that.

08:20I said he made a dirty play, and that he's made too many consistently out-of-bounds plays,

08:28and Kansas will not get to where they want to go if this doesn't get curtailed.

08:33It's time for him to grow up and play basketball and stop acting as a villain, Hunter Dickinson.

08:39He's better than that.

08:42I think Michigan has a great chance to really pressure Wisconsin, even though it's at Wisconsin.

08:49I think they're going to do well there.

08:52This is going to be the first time Kentucky's really been guarded.

08:54I think they have too much offense for Clemson, but Clemson's an excellent defensive team.

09:00They're going to make it hard.

09:02It's one of the fascinating games of the night.

09:04I'm going to take a stab with them.

09:07Little John, they're 7-1.

09:08They're playing at home.

09:09It's going to be raucous.

09:10You already know, Mike, that teams don't win on the road in the Big Ten.

09:13You're going to have to eat that hoagie the next time I see you.

09:16Great stuff as always, Mike.

09:17Have a great week.

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