00:00Biggest story, and it was even yesterday, where UCLA, the women's team in college basketball,
00:07dominated the South Carolina women, so congrats to the Bruins ladies, who are now national
00:12champions.
00:13I'm a big Dawn Staley guy.
00:14First one ever.
00:16Is that right?
00:16Yeah, the men, how many times they've won for them to get their first one.
00:19Oh, so great.
00:20Congratulations.
00:21I like the team dancing afterwards, their celebration.
00:24Look, I'm a big Dawn Staley guy.
00:26I always have been.
00:27You know, I'm the guy, you may remember, that broke the story that the Knicks interviewed
00:30here before they hired Mike Brown.
00:32I did that on Fox.
00:32Everyone's like, what are you talking about?
00:34I go, that's my girl, Dawn Staley.
00:36Love Dawn Staley.
00:37She confirmed it later.
00:38Yeah.
00:39She did confirm that she was interviewed.
00:41She was the only woman interviewed, and I would have loved Dawn Staley.
00:45Now, I don't know.
00:45I always think, like, you know, when you're a Dan Hurley, a Dawn Staley type of college
00:53coach, I'm not sure if that works at the NBA level with paid adult men, but she's obviously
00:59a wonderful head coach.
01:00But the story is, after South Carolina put the beat down on Gina Auriemma's squad in the
01:06Final Four to get to that championship game, they had words.
01:10Yeah.
01:10Now, don't forget, UConn knocked them out last year in the championship game.
01:14They are the two best coaches, I think, in college basketball in the women's game.
01:18But as they were going to the handshake line afterwards, they got into it.
01:23And I got to be honest with you.
01:25This was all on Gina Auriemma.
01:27It was.
01:28And he claimed afterwards that he was upset that before the game, she didn't shake his
01:33hand the way coaches do in the tournament.
01:36And it's not a rule, but it's something that does happen right before first tip.
01:41Both coaches meet at midcourt on the sideline, and they either hug or shake hands, dap each
01:47other up, whatever it is.
01:48And he claimed afterwards, before he apologized, that she didn't shake hands with him, which
01:55is customary.
01:56Well, the problem with that is there's video of it, of her walking to midcourt and shaking
02:03his hand.
02:03Then she went and shook hands with his entire staff.
02:06Yes, yes.
02:06His entire staff.
02:08Now, here's the other thing that bothers me, or as my dear friend Lil Wayne said, Gino
02:12a hoe.
02:13He did say that a lot.
02:15Gino a hoe.
02:16And he's right.
02:17Yeah.
02:17Because the apology, which was warranted, and I guess you get some of the credit for
02:22owning that you were a horse's ass, and you owed them an apology, and owed her an apology.
02:29But when he apologized, I'm not sure if you noticed this or not.
02:31I know I did.
02:32I noticed it.
02:33So you were on the same page here.
02:35Uh-huh.
02:35He never said her name.
02:36Right.
02:38Unbelievable.
02:38That's the woman that deserves the apology.
02:41But who are you apologizing to?
02:42The proxy of South Carolina deserves it, yes.
02:45But you didn't say the woman's name.
02:47Exactly.
02:48You wronged her.
02:49You know you were wrong.
02:50And you're not even mad at Dawn Stanley.
02:52He was mad about a bunch of things.
02:53Some of it rightfully so.
02:55Three calls, yes.
02:56The 6.30 a.m.
02:57practices before a night game, absolutely fair things to complain about.
03:01But you're not mad at Dawn Stanley.
03:03You were being a sore loser, and you took it out on Dawn Stanley.
03:06And you don't apologize directly to Dawn Stanley.
03:09Now, at the end of the day, is it a big deal?
03:11No, it's not.
03:11At the end of the day, the big deal is that South Carolina got revenge off of last year's
03:16tournament expert, and beat the snot out of UConn.
03:19They dominated.
03:20UConn was 38-0.
03:22Yeah.
03:22They've won like 55 consecutive games.
03:25This is an upset.
03:26As good as South Carolina is.
03:28It was an upset.
03:28And they're a number one seed.
03:29And she has resurrected that program, and it's one of the top coaches, and it's one of
03:33the top programs, even though they lose $7 million a year, which is crazy to me.
03:38Some people are saying that that's funny, Mike.
03:40You saw the story, though.
03:41I absolutely saw the story.
03:42But, yeah, Gino Auriemma kind of showed his true colors.
03:46And here's the thing that bothers me the most about it, and that is he was a poor loser.
03:52Yep.
03:52And what bothers me about that with Gino Auriemma is that's the same guy that when UConn is
04:00up 30 in the fourth quarter, because they play quarters in the women's game, when he's
04:05up by 30 or 40, and it's a mismatch, and the opponent's got no chance, that dude never
04:12takes his foot off the gas.
04:14That guy doesn't play the 10th, 11th, 12th woman on his team.
04:19He keeps his starters in the game and tries to win by 60.
04:24So, finally, somebody showed up.
04:27And it was good enough to beat UConn.
04:29And what did he do?
04:31He wanted to take his ball and go home, because he couldn't handle losing.
04:35And I love that about what South Carolina did.
04:39They exposed him for the bully and sore sport that he is.
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