00:00The not-so-good fate of R.J. Choppy is Bobby is projecting an early call.
00:06It's a very early call.
00:07Early call projection that R.J. Choppy is going to lose the morning show competition
00:13and host Solo at 5.30 in the morning.
00:17We've seen it in the middle of the night. These votes come in.
00:20We don't believe him. We don't believe him.
00:23Yeah, it's not going to happen. Look, P.P.'s still going to lose.
00:26He's going to do it again because I really just need Michigan to beat Arizona
00:32and I need Tennessee to beat Iowa State.
00:34And I'm not even sure I need Tennessee to beat Iowa State.
00:37I just need – all I need is Michigan to beat Arizona.
00:41And it would help if Arizona were to lose.
00:44Who do they play? They play Purdue. That would help too.
00:47If Arizona loses to Purdue and Michigan makes the final, it's over, P.P.
00:52It's over. It's over for Peyton Phillip Russell.
00:56He is going to go back and he is going to do the show from 5.30 to 6.00
01:02again by himself.
01:02And if it's me, you know, we're going to have some fun with it.
01:05We'll have some fun with it, man.
01:08All right, so that's Choppy.
01:09It looks like he's down to Chop versus Pey-Pey.
01:11And I'm definitely in the clear.
01:13You're in the clear.
01:14Roberto's in the clear as well.
01:15Yeah, Bobby seems to be in the clear too because he had a hell of a day.
01:18I've got to hand it to him. I'm going to say this because he's not here.
01:21He needed Houston to lose.
01:23Yeah, he won Illinois.
01:26He won Arizona.
01:28And he won Purdue.
01:29He had a 3-0 day.
01:31He didn't even factor into the other one because he had Florida and Vandy in that Nebraska-Iowa game.
01:37But he had nine points yesterday.
01:40I mean, that's a commanding day.
01:42All right, Arizona looks freaking dominant.
01:46I've changed them to my national champs, even though I ended up picking Duke.
01:50But what I really want to focus on is Darius Acuff.
01:54G-bag, head on Ari Temkin.
01:56A lot of these draft projections sitting there and looking at Acuff as a top six player.
02:01The Mavs are six in terms of draft position right now.
02:06Sixth worst record in the league.
02:08Acuff last night, 28 points, 8 of 19 from the field, 11 of 14 from the line.
02:15What did you see from him last night?
02:17Did you not need to see anything else in order to be happy with him?
02:21As a Dallas Maverick, Tolos need you on the Phanteks.
02:24And really the big Maverick question that a lot of people have is,
02:26do you want him here to take the ball out of Cooper Flagg's hands even more?
02:34Or do you want Coop to have a little bit of that Jason Kidd experiment from the beginning of the
02:39season?
02:40He has the ball at the end of these shot clocks.
02:43He's in control of the offense.
02:45Or are you fine with someone like Acuff coming into the backcourt to take touches?
02:49It's a tough one because I like, I love point guards.
02:56I love guys that can command the half court.
03:00The NBA isn't really a half court game in that sense.
03:04It's an isolation game in that sense.
03:08Maybe it's trending the other way.
03:09Who knows?
03:10You tell me I have a guy that handles the basketball and can control the game,
03:15I'm going to want that.
03:17Do I want the ball out of Cooper's hands?
03:20No, not necessarily.
03:21I also think that Cooper's the kind of guy that doesn't necessarily need the basketball to be great.
03:26Some guys have to have it in their hands at all times.
03:30Like Harden really needs the ball, right?
03:33So I think he can make it work.
03:35I think he can make it work with those two.
03:37Would he be my first choice?
03:38I mean, no.
03:39I think if you were to tell me that they got A.J.
03:43Well, after A.J.
03:44If they had the overall number one pick, they're not taking Acuff.
03:46No.
03:46You know, they're going to take A.J., they're going to take Peterson, or Cam Boozer.
03:50But if you're at four, would you still take Peterson over Acuff and Boozer?
03:57Yeah.
03:59Yeah, I think the upside is there.
04:02The upside for Peterson is there.
04:05Boozer's kind of a high floor, low ceiling.
04:09I think Boozer is Al Horford, which I'm fine with.
04:12But not at one.
04:14Not at one.
04:16Acuff.
04:17Caleb Wilson?
04:18Flemings?
04:19What about Flemings?
04:21Well, Kingston Flemings is fantastic, and he's great defensively.
04:24I think Acuff is just so much more built to withstand than an 82-game season.
04:32You know, Kingston's a little bit smaller.
04:33You know, Acuff is – I mean, Acuff's got man strength.
04:36Flemings, Wagler, Acuff.
04:39So, Wagler – Wagler's at Illinois.
04:42Illinois.
04:45I don't love him.
04:46I don't love him.
04:48I don't – I think he's going to be a fine – he's fine.
04:51I don't love him.
04:52Of all the guys we've talked about, Acuff, A.J., Peterson, Boozer, Caleb Wilson,
05:04you know, Wagler's my least favorite, least favorite of the bunch.
05:08He's more in that, you know, he's in that Nate Ament tier for me where it's like,
05:13all right, you'll get a decent player, but I don't think – I don't think he's
05:18anything special.
05:19I think he's too – they're both too tiny for me, too skinny.
05:23The Texas Longhorns, of course, getting their heart ripped out with the last
05:28second tip in from the guy who was pushing them around all night long.
05:33Part of that had to do with foul trouble from the Longhorns big, but Trey
05:37Kaufman-Wren tips in the Miss Braden-Smith shot, and Texas, great year,
05:44comes to an end.
05:45Heartbreaking, heartbreaking way to lose, and we have seen, like, the 11 seeds,
05:49when they get to this point, they usually – I was going to say they usually win
05:52this game because they don't.
05:54They only win it about 35% of the time.
05:55But by far, by far, the seed that is a double-digit seed that has made the Elite
06:028 the most in the last 20 years is the 11.
06:06By far.
06:07And they were going to be all – they were all set.
06:10They had this – I mean, I don't want to say they had the game.
06:13They were right there with a chance to win this game.
06:15You had a tie game very, very late.
06:19You had a chance to win.
06:20You had a chance to win.
06:21And Mark was the guy you could – Treymon, you could go to.
06:25He's your hot hand.
06:26The entire night.
06:27The entire night.
06:28And Swain had the and-one while fouling out Clough with 12 seconds left.
06:33Yep.
06:34Hey, Volkatitis hit both free throws.
06:36Yeah.
06:36I thought it was meant to be that.
06:38That and-one, I was like, oh, my God, they're going to do it.
06:41Now, I did not want overtime, to be honest with you, because I had Texas plus the 7.5,
06:45and I was like, all right, what I don't want is Purdue to go on a 10-2 run in
06:49overtime and me lose by a hook.
06:51The way that they scheduled these games also backfired on us.
06:56We were for this, and it totally backfired.
06:59This was awful.
07:01It was awful.
07:02It started off great.
07:03I thought we had a 30-minute difference to start.
07:05Yeah, it was like 24 minutes or whatever.
07:07So I want to go to halftime of the Texas game,
07:10and then I want, like, five or six minutes left of the Iowa-Nebraska game.
07:17Well, because of officiating and everything else that happened last night
07:20and these calls taking forever to go ahead and get decided,
07:25these games were kind of running parallel to each other.
07:28They were running parallel.
07:29They really were.
07:31It was like there's no reason that these games should have ended at the same time.
07:35Forget that.
07:36Where Iowa-Nebraska ends before.
07:37Like, I felt like I had to go back and do way too much homework that I should have
07:41to figure out what happened in Iowa-Nebraska.
07:43You had 32 fouls in the Texas-Purdue game.
07:51You had 21 in Iowa-Nebraska.
07:53You had 35 free throws in the Texas game.
07:58You had 23 in Iowa-Nebraska.
08:01That's going to cut into some time right there.
08:02But the Texas game also had the worst, slowest turtle referee reviewers I've ever seen.
08:08And they went to the review about 18 times.
08:10Good gosh.
08:11You know, and they always do it at the most inopportune times.
08:13It kills the flow.
08:15That allowed the Nebraska game to catch up.
08:16Yeah, and this is an interesting discussion for referee replay or anti-referee play, is would
08:27you rather get it right or the flow of the game be there?
08:30You know, like, and getting it right also doesn't have to take four minutes.
08:35That's my point.
08:36That's my thing.
08:37It's like, all right, that went out of bounds on that person.
08:39That's a flagrant one.
08:41That's a flagrant one on vocatitis.
08:44Let's move forward.
08:45Let's go.
08:47Can we just limit the amount of times you can see the same replay?
08:51Like, if you're looking at the same replay 15 times and you still can't figure it out,
08:56just go with the call in the field, man.
08:57I've always been a proponent of replay, but the one replay call that does bug me where
09:01I'm just like, let's just go with what we think that makes the most sense is now with
09:04the ball going out of bounds off of the other person's hand, like towards the end.
09:08Like, if the ball goes this way out of bounds, I want the ball to stay this way.
09:13You know what I mean?
09:14Versus then we go and see, like, the little slight fingernail, and that's where, even
09:19though it is technically right.
09:20You got to slow it down frame to frame, man.
09:22Now, these games are important, and I get it.
09:24I understand.
09:25Coaches' lives and livelihoods are on the line.
09:27Players will never get an opportunity like this again.
09:29I understand, but, I mean, if you see a replay five times from the same angle and you don't
09:37know still, then go wherever it calls to the floor.
09:41877-881-1053.
09:42What is the status of your bracket?
09:45On the Franklin Franco text line, Sean and RJ on 103 of the fan, and then Rick Pitino announcing
09:52that the Blue Bloods are dead.
09:54Blue Bloods are dead.
09:55And, you know, because he's like, there's no more.
09:58Tell me who a Blue Blood is.
09:59Because Kentucky and Carolina jobs are great jobs, but are they really Blue Bloods anymore?
10:04I mean, yes, they are.
10:06They are technically, but if you were to look at the Blue Bloods in all of sports, all of
10:12sports, do they even exist?
10:16You know, like, what jobs today don't look like they would be as appealing as they were
10:2430 years ago?
10:25Yeah.
10:26You know, I don't feel like...
10:28Like the Cowboy job.
10:29I don't know if the Cowboy job has the same cachet.
10:31You could make a great living coaching Arizona.
10:35You know, not every move you make...
10:37Brian Schottenheimer, every move he makes is dissected on first take on Monday morning.
10:44Every single decision.
10:46That doesn't happen in Jacksonville.
10:48You know, like, do you want the aggravation?
10:51Being a Blue Blood used to mean that was the only way you could make money.
10:54Well, it's like...
10:55They were the only ones on TV.
10:56It's like J.J. Reddick's the Lakers coach, you know?
10:58Like, when Phil took that over, it's like, all right, that's a job for, like, Phil Jackson.
11:02And then...
11:03I'm not trying to crap on J.J., but it's like...
11:06And then in the NBA, the players are the coaches anyway.
11:09Yeah.
11:11And in college, I mean, you see guys staying at smaller schools.
11:15Yeah.
11:15The Bama coach is saying no.
11:17Now, maybe he's negotiating.
11:19Yeah.
11:19But Oates is saying no to Carolina already.
11:22Yeah, right.
11:23Maybe he's negotiating.
11:23My guy, Clark Lee at Vanderbilt.
11:25There is no...
11:27There's no world.
11:29There's nobody...
11:30Three years ago, nobody in the history of the world could have envisioned the Vanderbilt coach
11:36saying no to Florida and the Indiana coach saying no to anybody.
11:41Yeah.
11:41Kurt Zignetti ain't leaving Indiana.
11:43Clark Lee ain't leaving Vanderbilt.
11:45The Vanderbilt coach would have left for Arkansas.
11:49He would have.
11:51Now, there's not a chance.
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