00:00let's get to the college game here coach what's been the biggest surprise for you so far
00:05in the early part of the college basketball season who surprised you the most i mean
00:09you know you could throw virginia maybe in there i know the normal names that was the first name
00:13that that was the first name that popped in mind uh illinois's offensive production
00:21is uh really changing i think there's a bigger thing dan i'm i there's two things really that
00:28jump to me one is the scheduling you know like there's very few nights uh if any we've only been
00:40at this for over over a week now but uh every night there's a game that you're like wow right
00:48florida state florida uh all all of these teams taking on uh games now is that a by
00:58product of an expanded ncaa tournament where they don't feel the threat uh of being excluded if
01:06they lose one of these early games that's one and that's to be celebrated the scheduling is to be
01:14celebrated uh my son's team at vcu went to memphis and when i heard about it in the summer i
01:20was like
01:20wow like are you sure second game of the year that's the way to go i don't overstep in that
01:26area
01:26but man was it a terrific terrific game uh that's one the other side is uh and i say this
01:36with
01:37was with a great deal of trepidation uh some of these games are empty indiana syracuse played last
01:47night in an nba arena 17 000 and they announced 5 000 people are we at a point where we've
01:57started
01:57too early that there's an over saturation right like and i i mean this somewhat tongue-in-cheek like
02:07are the indiana people like well we have a big football game coming up saturday whoever they play
02:13like you're the defending national champs you're gonna have a big game every saturday i am concerned
02:18uh that we are so we're starting so early and we're playing so many more games but look around
02:27i mean in philadelphia dan in the great greatest building in the greatest building that there is for
02:35college basketball penn's palestra they had two single games on sunday richmond temple played in
02:43front of 1200 people wow penn state pit played in front of 2 000 people
02:51um i i do have a concern i uh and and i don't want to be you know and i'm
02:57i'm not an alarmist i don't
02:59want it's not a nine alarm flop uh fire at this point but it is something to watch oregon state
03:06called out their their state fan base oh uh miami of ohio coming off a 30 in one year last
03:12year
03:12called out their fan base uh man i i just hope that's not where we where it's just elite and
03:23even
03:23i even i'm not sure are these elite games going to draw uh when they're at neutral sites coach are
03:32you a fan of the 76 expansion for the game for the teams i mean because what you're what you're
03:38saying
03:39right now is like they're diluting the product right now so you're not a fan of what we're seeing
03:43with 76 teams now being no i don't i i don't like it uh and and there's a myriad of
03:50reasons dan for me
03:52it would be i think selection sunday to thursday's opening games college basketball dominated the
04:05landscape in a crowded sports landscape dominated because monday 24 hours for 24 hours monday 24 hours
04:17tuesday there was arguments over the 69th team there was arguments over seating and then the ball goes
04:25in the air for the first four and now it's all basketball all the time well now that's gone teams
04:33are going to get selected six o'clock on sunday night and then you have people sprinting all over
04:38so you don't diffuse people's attention because now it's my team in that area that's one two
04:49the the idea that the regular season is going to be minimized now and that the 11th place team in
05:01the sec knows they're getting in if they have a 500 record they're getting in um because the numbers
05:08are they're not tricked the numbers are the numbers if you if you play this level of schedule
05:13you're going to have power numbers and the selections are really a numeric study um
05:21i think that the the expansion did do this the outlier will no longer be an outlier so you will
05:29not
05:30get into the end of last season if everybody remembers back and there was a while miami of ohio
05:36is not going to make the tournament and you're like yeah that that i'm i'm joe public that doesn't make
05:45any sense to me right they played the schedule that was in front of them they won every game
05:50and you're telling me they're not going to get a chance
