00:00The diversity with the Big Ten of different schools kind of getting involved in all of this.
00:04If I were to ask you who the top five athletic programs are in the Big Ten, would you be
00:11able to name them and feel confident about that?
00:14You know, I kind of I'll give you, you know what I'm going to do?
00:17I'll go through and kind of give you a better answer later because I would like to cross all the
00:22programs.
00:22But if I was doing it off the top of my head, I would say Ohio State, Michigan.
00:30Like because I my mind gravitates towards, you know, men's basketball and football first.
00:36So the high state of Michigan would be to I'd say if Michigan State gets their football program together under
00:42Pat, they could be one of those.
00:44I mean, because basketball is steady with them.
00:49And then you get into some weird ones because it's like, do I say UCLA and USC and go with
00:56two West Coast schools?
00:57Or, you know, Nebraska's got a lot of sports that do well that maybe I know they want to be
01:03better in football, but they're good at volleyball.
01:05They're good at wrestling. They're good at men's basketball. They're good at baseball and softball.
01:09So they would probably be one of my answers. And my leaving out in Oregon has a lot of resources
01:15and money, you know, that I know they get the most attention for football.
01:20But, you know, who am I missing? You tell me. I think those are the ones that jump off, jump
01:24out at the top of my head.
01:26Well, you're missing a couple, man. I mean, I put out a tweet. I was I was hoping it helped
01:29me a little bit.
01:30I I had like a little Mount Rushmore Big Ten and I put Indiana in Penn State.
01:35I was more focused towards football, of course. And then I gave Penn State their flowers for wrestling.
01:40But that that's who I had. I was hoping maybe say a couple. I think I said. Did I not
01:44say Penn State?
01:45I would say Penn State. OK, I'll say Penn State. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for cleaning up for
01:50me there.
01:51And Indiana, I mean, they do have. I know they some I saw a podcast yesterday or a reel.
01:58It said, do you think Indiana would trade their football national title for Dusty May and a basketball national title?
02:05And that's a tough one for them. I still think the answer is no, because I think once you get
02:10the football national title, the prestige, the money, the things that come from football are huge.
02:16But that is the definition of a basketball school with Assembly Hall and the tradition that they had.
02:22So I'm wondering if the answer to that question. I don't live in Bloomington, so I would need people in
02:28Indiana to tell me what the answer is.
02:29It's it's it's really a great question, because I'm with you, Bill, you probably would have said yes to Dusty
02:35May before they won football.
02:37But once you want it and I think that you realize like what that means and just everything that comes
02:44with it and what it does for your athletic department.
02:47I think that that probably and probably the cash that they have moving forward now.
02:52And now you can say, OK, we've won. Yeah, we want a handful of basketball titles, but now we've got
02:56football to go with it.
02:57I think that experiencing it might change it a little bit.
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