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Power Two Podcast: WBB Conference Tourney Predictions + 10 ACC Games for 2025
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It's March Madness! The College Women's Basketball Conference Tournaments are reaching their finale. DJ and Jordan predict who will win the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, and SEC conference tournaments in this episode. We also look ahead to the Ten Best ACC Conference games in 2025!
Recorded: 03/10/2025
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Transcript
Introduction and Weather Anecdotes
00:00:02
Speaker
What's good everybody? Welcome in into another episode of Land Grant Podcast Network's Power 2 Podcast. As always, i'm your host Jordan and I'm here with my co-host DJ. Yo, oh my goodness. You know what? Let me tell you.
00:00:14
Speaker
i am so excited that I do not own a dog right now. ah hu And that may seem random, but the weather outside is so frightful.
Challenges of Dog Ownership
00:00:24
Speaker
o You want me to walk a dog?
00:00:28
Speaker
You live in the south dog. People be doing it up here. I literally told my coworkers that having a dog was akin to being ah ah to being a cigarette smoker because both of them make you go out in the cold when you don't need to.
00:00:42
Speaker
For reasons. And they're like, what? was like, dog, it be fucking negative. That's early. We're not even at 60 seconds in and I'm cussing. yeah um ity It It was you.
00:00:57
Speaker
It'd be negative five degrees outside and that dog got to go out. Please. What? And it'd be 95 degrees and y'all be outside smoking your cigarettes. I'm not judging. You know, you, you do what you gotta do. I am. It's 2025.
00:01:10
Speaker
But yeah, but It was proven in the 80s that nicotine is bad for you. Yeah, but i yeah having a thought like, I'm like, I want to go to work. you I don't even want to go to the car. like I have six o'clock in the morning.
00:01:22
Speaker
Mm-mm.
00:01:25
Speaker
And don't let the dog be trying to be picky about where to go into the bathroom. You better figure it out. There were so many times when I did have a dog that I was ready to leave it outside. Like, this is not the time to be picky.
00:01:37
Speaker
This is not the time. It's cold. It's cold. But anyways, yes. um Hi, everybody. It's cold. I'm cold. um And I'm glad I don't have a dog.
00:01:49
Speaker
Listen, I will say...
00:01:52
Speaker
I do not like dog owners in New York. Oh my God. All of them. Yeah. They have no respect, bro. Oh, they take their dogs everywhere. Those people. Yes.
Racism and Systemic Issues
00:02:02
Speaker
But also I was walking home from work.
00:02:05
Speaker
I was walking to the train. Why did this person let their dog pee on somebody's bike? And it's just stuff like that all the time. Like they be peeing, they be letting them pee on like mailboxes, people, like just anything that's outside.
00:02:19
Speaker
And I'm like, you you know that that's someone's bite, right? Like you could have just like pulled the leash and found a tree. And found somewhere else. There's bushes and trees everywhere. but Especially like, right? Like I get it. We don't have to get into like the whole race thing. It's a little early for that. But like there are certain parts of New York where there are no trees for a reason.
Sports Update: Ohio State and Black Coaches
00:02:36
Speaker
But where I work, where I was, there are. There was places and you just, you let your dog pee on somebody's bike. And it just be stuff like, you just be walking down the street and it just be, just, just to her, literally sidewalk.
00:02:50
Speaker
And it's like, you chose to have clean up after your dog. You should also then clean up. And it's New York. So there are ah trash cans are press cans like there's trash cans everywhere. yeah So yeah, on top of the like, just bring them everywhere. Just like, why is your dog in, in, in, in target?
00:03:07
Speaker
Like, you know, why is your dog in target the basket? get But then also just like that. And I'm just like, I'm just, I'm, and it just, you just let your dog pee on somebody somebody's bike.
00:03:18
Speaker
And you could be like, that's the one person. No, it's not. I see stuff like that all the time. They just let their dog just anywhere, just people's, just anywhere. It's just, u anyways. Yes. I, I'm really more of like the, I'm sorry. If you take your dog with you everywhere, i specifically don't like you.
00:03:35
Speaker
That's weird. I don't care that that is your emotional support animal and you feel like you cannot do anything without it. Get stuff delivered. I don't know what to tell you, but stop for the love of God feeling. Cause and here's the thing. It's actually not, it's actually not the people who bring their dogs everywhere.
00:03:52
Speaker
It's the people who feel entitled. Right, like if you bring your dog and they say they can't be here, you get upset. You're upset. It's freaking half-priced books. You don't need your dog in half-priced books.
00:04:04
Speaker
Like, that's the biggest thing for me is like the people who feel like entitled and don't understand, oh, well, I don't see why I can't take my dog here, here, here, and here. There places, and the thing about it is, and I don't know if it's like this in New York, but I would imagine if it's like this down here, it's got to be like that up there.
00:04:17
Speaker
There are so many dog-friendly places. There are so many places, restaurants included, that have dog their dog friendly. They let you bring their dogs inside. They let you order off the menu for them.
00:04:29
Speaker
but is When it's nice outside, you can eat outside. You can eat outside. like because and because At one point, I had a small dog and there were plenty of places that I could take the dog. where it was we could There were some places where we could even sit inside with the dog, depending on like you know whatever. There's dog-themed restaurants. There's dog-themed coffee shops. There's dog-themed bookstores. There are so many places that you can take your freaking dogs.
00:04:54
Speaker
You don't have to take them everywhere. And I'm actually loving the businesses that are standing on business and saying like service animals only,
Significant NFL Contracts
00:05:01
Speaker
pets not allowed. Yes. Because what? And then people, my emotional support animal is a service animal. Your emotional support Chihuahua is not opening up the fridge for you and bringing you your water and your meds when you're about to have a seizure. That is what a so a service dog is. Okay.
00:05:17
Speaker
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. That's all.
00:05:25
Speaker
feel um i said say i feel like I'm usually the one that crashes out first thing on the podcast. Like no introduction. Welcome.
Women's College Basketball Praise
00:05:33
Speaker
Welcome. Welcome to the show. yeah Sorry, everybody. I do like dogs though. I really do. I'm sorry.
00:05:39
Speaker
I will not get into this on the podcast, but remind me to talk to you about something that I saw today on TikTok about the history of dogs in certain populations.
00:05:52
Speaker
and how everything is racist oh was about say is about get real racist in here i knew yeah that's why i'm not talking about it yeah um anyways so ah what a permeating concept shout out no no funny like and that's all i'll say i was talking to one of my friends and like and she was like but we were talking about something and she was like why she lives in louisiana and she's white she was which doesn't matter but it helped for the story but she was like um why is this versus this and i just top my head said racist it's like everything's racist and she's like is it and i like i don't know probably and then i googled it and it was and i was like i told you everything's racist like if you don't know if you don't like if two plus two is not equal in four
00:06:35
Speaker
It's because of racism. Right. You know, like they're like, there are a lot of things that just happen to just be like, if you're like, this doesn't make sense. Like, why is this like, how did that it's to racism, racism, sexism, misogyny, uh, you know, one of the is there of one of the, one of the, one of the isms.
00:06:51
Speaker
Um, yes. yes Which is why going to need to stop being so damn hateful. But anyway, yes. Welcome to Power 2 Podcast. Big bucks. Big Ohio State.
00:07:02
Speaker
Unfortunately, we did get smacked up by UCLA yesterday. Smacked up and down. And in other Ohio State news, Ohio State legend, emphasis on legend, area we Eddie George.
00:07:19
Speaker
is now the head coach at Bowling Green State University, another Ohio institution. And I love this for multiple reasons. One, because who who doesn't love Eddie George that that is an Ohio State fan?
00:07:32
Speaker
Right, right, right, right, right. Who doesn't love Eddie George? Eddie George is a great, like, and and and and the thing with Eddie George that that that is good, especially if you, like, care about Ohio State, every school has this where you have, like, legends who just, like, don't mess with the school.
00:07:47
Speaker
But it doesn't matter, especially in like public positions. like They just like never talk about it. And you're just like, that person went to that school? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Like, for example, how often does Tom Brady talk about Michigan?
00:08:00
Speaker
I'm not even saying he hates Michigan. LOL, he went to Michigan. um high point exactly. My point exactly. I'm not even saying he does. Gun my head, I could never tell you what college I have went to because I'm not a Tom Brady historian. Right.
00:08:13
Speaker
Totally fine. but But I'm just saying there are a lot of people who just don't talk, don't respect, like don't care about their programs, don't support. their're you know They're not sending no money. They're not showing up at games.
00:08:29
Speaker
and i understand that not everyone has to do that but eddie george big ohio state he comes but even while he was coaching he comes back and talks about the program he he answers questions about ohio state again even though he was coaching someone else like's like he's like in it like he very much like he's dialed in yeah loves his time there and everything him being in ohio was so much better um but also the other thing that i love outside of the ohio state portion of it Black coaches are getting hired. Period.
00:09:00
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Also, specifically, they're getting hired from HBCUs, which was not happening because there are a lot of really good coaches who have been at HBCUs for long For some years. And have won a bunch of Black national championships and all these things and never got considered.
00:09:17
Speaker
and i i do understand we do have to be honest that some of the people being hired also have a name right dion yes he coached there yes eddie yes he coached there but he's eddie right it's not just like yeah tom dick and harry but it is still happening which is again going to hopefully progress with everyone and you are going to see that yes these coaches can coach and they're actually probably better than a lot of others because of the lack of resources that they're dealing with like Like, no, no, this is this is absolutely no shade to um Tennessee State, but they don't have the resources that Bowling Green has just straight up.
00:09:57
Speaker
ah he was very good there so it's just yeah i'm very happy about this for multiple reasons um the ohio state of it the fact that like people were like why did he get hired there and he turned out to be good he got another job another black coach the hiring of ah but of coaches from the hbcus the higher levels like this is it's just all beautiful it's just all a wonderful thing to see um Miles Garrett signed an extension with the Cleveland Four $123.5 million guaranteed. That does make him the highest paid defensive
Spotlight on Women's Basketball Tournaments
00:10:27
Speaker
player in the history of the NFL, believe. It has but...
00:10:29
Speaker
four years ah hundred and twenty three point five million dollars guaranteed does that make him the that does make him the highest paid defensive player in the history of the nfl i believe it has to but um Yeah, it has to. I believe so. um Speaking of historical contracts, and because we didn't talk about it last week. I think it happened during this week. But obviously, Saquon Barkley now is going to be the highest paid running back in league history, which we should not be shocked by that. He deserves he deserves to be the highest paid running back in league history. So, you know, shout out to the guys getting their cash.
00:11:04
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Come on, Cash. For sure. Miles, i just need $20. You know what I'm saying? Just a cool little 20. Yeah, I'm a big fan of Miles. I do wish that he would join another franchise. Trade.
00:11:18
Speaker
Yeah. Yes. I'm tired of being on the Browns for sure. But also, International Women's Month.
00:11:27
Speaker
Guess who his agent is? Is it the same lady who's Jalen Hurts' his agent? Bingo. Shout out. I don't know why I don't know her name. I'm going to learn her name, sis. She's also a Delta.
00:11:38
Speaker
There we go. Nicole. Big Delta. Big DST. Period. Period. Big Elephant. Love it. She's also the president of, what is it? ah Clutch Sports? I believe. Is that what it's called? Clutch? i Yes.
00:11:52
Speaker
I do not know her title. She's the president, for sure. She's the president of something. that That's what I was going to say. Clutch Sports has like a million divisions. So, like, i don't know if she's the president. I don't know which division she is.
00:12:05
Speaker
But she has some big title, for sure. She is...
00:12:11
Speaker
maybe she's Maybe she is president of like the talent side of things. don't know. She's president of something. I don't know. They could be handing out titles, but whatever her title is, she deserves it because she is great.
00:12:23
Speaker
like She is very, very good. Yeah, pleasant president of football. Football, there we go. There we go. Because I'm like, she's president of football operations is her... I just know it's in Clutch. That's all I know. Y'all asking me too much information.
00:12:36
Speaker
But anyways, shout out Black men and women. And shout out to Clutch Sports because everyone thought it was a joke when it got started. And now it's huge. Look at where we are. Love to see it.
00:12:47
Speaker
plus um Okay. So what other news do we have? um Last thing, last piece of news. The Raiders trade for Geno Smith. Yes. Interesting.
00:13:00
Speaker
Because... um who is going to play quarterback for the Seahawks? Like,
00:13:09
Speaker
Good for Geno. I don't know. I guess. But ah DK Metcalf asked for a trade, and then they traded Geno. And I said, oh, y'all blowing it up. Got it. Got it. Like, y'all not trying to compete.
00:13:22
Speaker
At all. They won't admit to it, but clearly they're tanking for the 2026 NFL draft, which, again, in my humble opinion, is going to be going to be one of the best ones. Yeah. For quarterbacks in a long time, because the last couple have been made, in my opinion.
00:13:39
Speaker
Yeah. But yeah, that's it. Last news. good time Shout out to Gino. i don't know what the hell going on in Seattle. And I've never known really. I, I, I stay out of Seattle's business because
00:13:56
Speaker
yeah, I just, I just stay out of that business. I got to. mind the business that pays you exactly um all right well we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back to get into our two-minute drill which is women's college basketball and then to get into our power suite this week we are doing top five we need to change this we're doing acc conference games to watch there we go 25 season we shall be right back
00:14:26
Speaker
what's good everybody welcome back to the power to podcast we're here to talk about men's basketball um if y'all want to hear about men's y'all gotta go somewhere else child i do not know listen they know that they know that oh anyone who has been listening to me on any podcast know that i do not watch men's college basketball and i will die on the hill that men's college basketball is the worst iteration of basketball i i Like from high school up, right? Middle school basketball.
00:14:56
Speaker
The only thing worse is kindergarten basketball. That's the only thing worse. Middle school, like you're just doing that for the love of your kid. But at the AIDS group that AAU starts, and maybe you could, art no, no, AAU, they'd be dunking. AAU basketball is not real basketball.
00:15:09
Speaker
AAU basketball is different because it's like it's like showy basketball. it's like It's like basketball performance, if you will. Like, I hate to say it like that, but yeah.
00:15:20
Speaker
you know Especially if you include good players, right? Because of course, there's a lot of high schools where everyone's garbage and no one's not even playing D3. If you look at teams that have good players, if you rank men's, ah boys and girls high school, boys and girls at AU, the McDonald's All-American Tour, like that sort of stuff, men's and women's college, NBA, WNBA, I don't know if I'm missing a level. If you rank Olympics, right? FIBA, yeah. yeah feba All of that.
00:15:47
Speaker
If you just ranked all of it, In my opinion, men's college basketball the worst. Because why is it playing in halves? It's awesome. I just hate that. also just boring and uncreative. And I'm bored.
00:15:59
Speaker
And then you don't know anybody because they keep doing one and dones. And so everybody's in the NBA. And I don't know them then. And I don't know them now. And I don't know what's going on. People were screaming and yelling for Cooper Rush to play one more year. I'm like, that's ridiculous that Cooper Rush. How does he do that?
00:16:11
Speaker
Cooper Flag. To play one more year. That's ridiculous that you're che chanting that for a freshman because you know that he's going to enter the draft after only playing in college for one year. Like, you don't get to – know the players and know who they are. And I'm not saying they need to be in college for four years, like the WNBA. Cause I also don't like that either, but like, there's just no continuity. There's no way to get to know these players. The game itself is boring. I, a friend of mine, I'm putting him onto women's basketball. Cause he's always been a basketball fan, but he's always more so watched men's, but whenever me and him hang out, I'm watching women's basketball. Cause that's, there's so much women's basketball on right now between unrivaled athletes, athletes United,
00:16:52
Speaker
women's college, like there's a lot of women's basketball going on right now. And so he was watching from his lens. He's like, wow, like they huddle like after every play. And I was like, yeah, they huddle after every play. He was like, I've never seen that. I'm like, well, yeah, that's because women play basketball collaboratively. Women basketball together men play basketball play basketball at the same time. It's very different.
00:17:12
Speaker
Yeah. Very different. Especially now. And this is where AAU culture got in. And I won't get on my soapbox right now. But ah men's basketball, even at the NFL level, is very one-on-one based.
00:17:22
Speaker
Yeah. it's They play basketball at the same time. listen you That USC-Michigan game. Talk about team basketball. Michigan. hoopers hoopers first of all they three freshmen and they're all freshmen all-american did that outside of south carolina okay i don't even want to say good things about michigan and secondly they're playing an all-guard lineup and for three quarters they was busting usc's ass and the thing that i texted you
00:17:56
Speaker
yeah because I think this is almost always true in sports is they were playing one of their best games and Juju had four points and they were only up at two. And in my opinion, when that happens, you're almost guaranteed to lose.
00:18:08
Speaker
Cause like when you're playing one of the best games you've ever had and they're playing one of the worst games and you're only up by two at half, like, eventually she's gonna she's she's she's gonna do it yeah and she ended up with a 20 point double double so it's just like in the second half american dropped uh 25 and 12 or something like that but yeah it's just yeah it's the same thing with lsu and texas like lsu did not have pretty much any part of their big three Flaugé was out for the SEC tournament. She's not going to be back until the NCAA tournament.
Predictions for Women's Basketball Championships
00:18:42
Speaker
Anissa hurt her foot in the second or third quarter. And then Michaela Williams got in foul trouble by like the third quarter. And Texas was only up by one possession. i think the hot I think the biggest lead that Texas got at one point was seven points.
00:18:59
Speaker
LSU does not have their best players. Why are y'all playing the game of your life right now? what And mind you, at a certain point, and i I know a lot of people have been upset about michaella excuse me about Madison Booker from Texas getting SEC Player of the Year over Anissa Morrow.
00:19:14
Speaker
It makes so much sense why she did because she was Texas' entire offense. There was a point where they had 26 points and she had scored 20 them.
00:19:25
Speaker
She was their offense. yeah And y'all are still up playing the game of your lives against a severely crippled LSU. Like, please, South Carolina is going to smack that ass today.
00:19:37
Speaker
Yeah. I do wish that we could get another year of um Kiki and Juju. but Oh, my gosh. I know. It's so good. i know. I love Kiki and Juju so bad together. But anyways, we're we're all over the place.
00:19:50
Speaker
Today is championship Sunday. ah So that means by the end of the day to by the end of the day today, and by the time you guys are listening to this, there will be champions that will be declared for women's basketball and the men's championship week starts next week where they will go through all of their various tournaments.
00:20:07
Speaker
um If you guys are unaware, this at this point is for obviously who's going to win the conference, but it also does. If you are ranked, it does have significant effects on where you will end up in the NCAA tournament. tournament as well.
00:20:18
Speaker
So there's lots of stakes here. Even teams that have lost in these tournaments will still, some of them will still end up in the NCAA tournament. So it just depends um on a lot of different things, but we're only going to talk about the conferences that are covered. Sorry to, you know, the small ones, um, starting with ACC. Ha ha ha.
00:20:38
Speaker
Um, Duke and North Carolina state. They're playing right now. Actually. Um, North Carolina state is up 14. Um, um How do we feel? What do we think? I mean, it's it's kind of it's kind of hard because the game is playing and they're already up 12, but like I was going to pick NC State regardless.
00:20:56
Speaker
um I take they're my favorites for the championship. I was not going to go there. but Sorry. They are. They're my favorites for the championship. I see that. I can. I can.
00:21:07
Speaker
Listen, I'm not going to tell you you're wrong. You watch it more than I do. I'm just here for March Madness, but I do like them. I am a fan of them. And um what is their guard's name? Isaiah James. Love her.
00:21:18
Speaker
but That's the one from South Carolina, right? That transferred? No, she's been in North Carolina the entire time. Samaya, what's her last name? somaa Is she on NC State too, though?
00:21:31
Speaker
Yes. yeah Okay. okay yeah yeah I knew they had a guard who started their career at South Carolina because Dawn Staley still loves her. Dawn is like, there's no beef. like I'm glad that she's doing well. Yeah, because honestly, I don't know how Samaya, if I'm being honest, I don't know how she would have fit into Dawn's system the same way that she fits. Samaya, Samaya Rivers.
00:21:52
Speaker
I don't know how she fits into Dawn's system the way that she fits into NC State. Like, the tandem of her and Isaiah, that one-two punch, that's not the style of basketball that South Carolina plays. So I just don't see, like, how she would like The last couple of years, they've been very heavy on their bigs. Like their exactly. it's that It's all about the names of this year.
00:22:13
Speaker
This year it's, um, uh, what is, what position does shorty play? She plays their three, right? Who, uh, who's their best player right now? South Carolina. Yeah. there's several Malaysia for Wiley.
00:22:25
Speaker
Yeah. She plays me three. She's a guard. Yeah. She's like, yeah. you Yeah. She's a guard. This is, this is the first time that they're like best player in like, since like Asia, that their best player wasn't their five. They're big. But that's also not true because their best player is still five. They have two, they have a freshman. Her name is Joyce Edwards. She drops like 15 a game.
00:22:43
Speaker
And then they also have, I think Chloe is a junior. She might be a senior. Chloe is, but is she their best player? Like, that's what I'm saying. Not that they're not good. They're always going be. So, like, you don't think Malaysia is their best player?
00:22:55
Speaker
I think Malaysia is their best guard. i don't think I don't think she's their best player. I personally would argue that Khloe is the best player on that team. Okay. Because Khloe is the type that she gets going.
00:23:07
Speaker
She gets going. She dropped a triple-double last week. She dropped a double-double yesterday. she is When she's really in the zone, that girl is automatic. Plus, she crashes the board like nobody's business.
00:23:18
Speaker
She's very Angel Reese-esque. in that way so to me like there's not a lot of wins that south carolina gets without chloe kids all right well then yeah that makes the point even more because they they they go as their bigs go 100 100 yeah yes rivers is the one who transferred from uh south carolina yeah um so yeah we're both on nc state 1,000%. Like I said, NC State is my favorite to win the championship. They made it to the Final Four last year.
00:23:48
Speaker
ah They play with a chip on their shoulder because they're the one team that's in the top 10 and they don't hardly ever get spoken about unless they do something like beat Notre Dame, which they did two weeks ago. So I think that they're at a place – they're also at a place where the offense is just humming. They're playing together. Zoe Brooks, the sophomore, is doing amazing. Sanaya is doing amazing. Isaiah James, obviously, is doing really well because, you know, now, especially with Sanaya and Isaiah specifically, they are trying to affect their draft stock, right, because the WNBA draft is literally tomorrow.
00:24:17
Speaker
so Basically. Yeah. There's a little bit of that. I think both of them could be, you know, some late first rounders if they really, really go far. um Coaching is really good. They have a little bit of depth. I think that they really could go very far.
00:24:29
Speaker
I will say the one team that I do not think that they would be able to beat is South Carolina. But they would give them a good fight. I don't think they would beat USC either. i could i mean, they've already beat Notre Dame.
00:24:44
Speaker
i could see them beating Texas. I could see them beating... no people UConn would be hard, but I think I could see them beating UConn. I think USC would be hard.
00:24:55
Speaker
I think South Carolina would be, would be. Well, those two. I'm sorry. USC, the other USC. Both USC, but South Carolina is not USC unless you live in South Carolina. I don't care what anybody says. But I think the thing about it is like, and I hate to say it like this. Well, when we get to it, I'll i'll make this point when we get to it, but yeah, ACC, we are were saying NC state, since we're already talking about South Carolina and Texas, SEC,
00:25:17
Speaker
Oh my goodness. Okay, so you guys saw me crash out last week about this coin tossing nonsense um for the number one seed in the SEC tournament. I love when there is a form of poetic justice that occurs where now we get to watch Texas and South Carolina play head-to-head for the championship. Like, yeah you can't script that any better. Like, you really, really can't.
00:25:43
Speaker
Like... And especially the way that South Carolina got to the championship because they just meant they just smacked ass all the way there. They scored 93 points yesterday only after only making two threes. They scored 93 points.
00:25:56
Speaker
That's crazy.
00:25:59
Speaker
That's what – that is – That sounds like high school. Like like you like like you like you see like 105 to 17 and like, what happened? It's like, yeah, that no threes. They just like. it's just They just hooping. And i mean, Malaysia is having the season of her life. I love that for her.
00:26:16
Speaker
um But everybody is doing well. South Carolina, when they play together, they play their best basketball. When Raven, Tessa, Pow Pow, freaking Malaysia, Chloe or Joyce, when they are playing together, it is the best basketball.
00:26:32
Speaker
basketball period men's or women's it is the best basketball like big don staley it's don staley and they're the type of team if you blink and you walk away you go grab a soda real quick get some popcorn they're up by 17 like what happened yeah so have they uh all of the awards come out after the tournament right including no the awards already the awards have already come out who was the national coach of the year it was usc's coach right
College Basketball Awards
00:27:00
Speaker
I don't know who coach of the year is actually. So let me, so I can look it up. Cause I actually do not know. i don't know but they might have They might not have done the national awards. I think they did like the conference awards.
00:27:12
Speaker
i they might not have done the national ones. Hold on. The reason why I was asking is that I think that there's a chance that USC's coach wins coach of the year. Potentially. Especially like first game in the Big Ten. They only lost two games, but they beat Notre Dame. They beat UConn or whoever. like but No, maybe they lost to Notre Dame. doesn't matter. They beat two...
00:27:32
Speaker
really good teams that are going to go far in tournament and juju and all this stuff but like at the end of the day don staley is still the best coach like the best coach does not win coach of the year and i know they're going to be like oh they lost it's going to be games and it's like well yeah i know them losing games is crazy when they hadn't lost games in like 17 years but like yeah they're still but yeah you know yeah um They, the, the SEC awards have come out. And so that's been the big thing about. um
00:28:03
Speaker
Who won the year in SEC? That I do not know. I just know who won player of the year. Cause that's what everybody was talking about was the fact that Madison Booker won. um
00:28:15
Speaker
You know, you have to Google so many things, SEC coach the year, women's basketball. Cause if you just do basketball, it'll pull up men's as if we care. um Coach Schaefer was the coach of the year, which is the Texas coach.
00:28:30
Speaker
Okay. All right. I think there's a little bit of Texas bias going on, um but I'm not going to get into that. um Just like them having the number one seed makes no sense to me. I don't care.
00:28:41
Speaker
Anybody can fight me, but in the AP polls, Texas being number one over South Carolina, over even Notre Dame, even though they they're losing, but like,
00:28:53
Speaker
Also, like, i mean, again, i won't make i won't do too much of an opinion on this because i don't watch a lot, but I do know, like, usc The Big Ten is supposed to have roughly 12 teams get into the tournament, including four or so teams. That's going to be like top four seed. Like, i don't think it's going to work. If UCLA loses again, i don't think it'll work this way.
00:29:19
Speaker
But USC and UCLA will at least be one, two seeds. Ohio State. I think it's going to be three or three seed or four, something like that. Maryland is going to be three or four. um And then they also have the win over UConn and they have, did they beat Texas, but they lost another game.
00:29:37
Speaker
They beat USC. The USC won another big game um and lost one either way. It's just like, Is Texas?
00:29:50
Speaker
I don't know. Basketball is weird. And they do like the – I know they do like the quad wins and things like that, but I'm just like – There's a lot – I mean, technically, Texas is number one because they have – not because. They do have the best record. They're 29-2. So, like, yes, but, like, they've also – the two losses that they had were also pretty heavy losses. So, I just – I don't know.
00:30:10
Speaker
It doesn't matter. Anyways, winning the SEC, I'm not even trying to be funny. Texas does not have a chance. against South Carolina. South Carolina has come to the SEC championship six times.
00:30:23
Speaker
um At this point, SEC championship trophies are like family heirlooms at South Carolina. Like, they're just like, hey, here's another one. So, you know, no
UConn Women's Basketball Dominance
00:30:32
Speaker
T. But it would be really cool because Texas would obviously win the SEC for the first time in program history because it's the first time that Texas is in the SEC. So that's cool ah if they do win.
00:30:42
Speaker
Yeah. But I'm picking South Carolina. I'm with you on that. Period. um The only reason why we were talking about this conference is because of the University of Connecticut.
00:30:54
Speaker
So I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time here. But the Big East. Shock. Paige Beckers is the player of the year. Shock. Gina Ariema is the coach of the year. Anyway. Who knew?
00:31:05
Speaker
ah The one thing I will say about this is I think I love, like, I say this very rarely because there's very few players who, like, deserve it. But, like, LeBron shouldn't have to wait. Like, right? it's Like, Steph shouldn't have to wait. Just put him in the Hall of Fame. We know it's happening.
00:31:20
Speaker
No one cares. Tom Brady shouldn't have had to wait five years. Like, there's there's very, very few players that, like, this fits. But what it does, it's just like, come on, dog. Like, what are we talking about? So, like, I say this to say I love that UConn,
00:31:33
Speaker
put Paige in their Hall of Fame on senior night? Because, like, period. You're going to do it, so, like, why wait? Like, what do you mean? like like i Like, I'm very happy that, like, it took them a little bit to retire the jersey for whatever reason, but, like, that Asia statue, immediately.
00:31:50
Speaker
Why wait until she's 70? Just put it out there. Like, what do you mean? Like, you know what saying? so like, I love that they were just like, dog, like... Like here. You're going to be here. Why why are we playing around?
00:32:02
Speaker
Just... I agree. You know, i'm just like, i agree like it I get it. They're not going to change the Hall of Fame rules, but the second LeBron retires, Miami Cleveland and and the Lakers need to retire the Jersey.
00:32:15
Speaker
And personally, I'll say this once. I'll say it again. When LeBron retires 23, number 23,
00:32:21
Speaker
league wide because you are never going to have two players better yeah than LeBron and Michael Jordan. And i so just retire it. I agree.
00:32:32
Speaker
And put the Jersey's in every stadium because what are we doing? I am so behind that idea. It's ridiculous. I think that 23 has served her purpose, both on MJ and on LeBron.
00:32:47
Speaker
I don't want to see another player wear 23. I want to move on with our life. i It's kind of like with 32. No one's ever going to do 32 the way that Magic did 32. It is what it is. like I don't want to see people wearing 24, to be honest. like And I get that you can't do that for everyone. but You can't do it for everyone, but 23 You could do it for 23.
00:33:07
Speaker
it's It's the two top two. Two of the best. Like, very rarely does anyone argue that they're not one and two. There's going to be a perpetual argument of who is one and who is two, but they're one and two. They wore the same jerseys.
00:33:20
Speaker
Between the two of them, they have 10 championships and a million awards and all the records. Hundreds of thousands of points. and all yeah The culture and the in the the face of yeah and all this. It's just dog.
00:33:32
Speaker
Just... Number 23 needs to be. is we We're done. We're cutting it. Thank you so much for coming, everybody. Yeah, because it's been the basketball number for 30 years straight, basically. Really, 40, if you think about it. so Yeah, because the basketball 22 years. and Yeah, that's i was like, it's really 40. Yeah, yeah. yeah come I'm just like, we do it on the country. The league is like, what, 100 years old? the like Yeah, it's just about...
00:33:57
Speaker
30s they've started in the 30s I think it's been almost half the but they hit the league yeah the entire history of the league like come on let's time I I agree with with the wake because the thing about Paige Beckers and the reason why she's getting all these accolades now is because she did what she did technically in three years not four, not five, excuse me, because she lost two years from injury.
00:34:22
Speaker
So she's breaking records of UConn legends in less time than the UConn legends. put the jersey in the rafters like put put the statue up like do all the things she is obviously the projected number one pick in the wmba draft for obvious um reasons but what i love saw a mock draft that had her too and i said stop lying shut the like anyway look they had her two to shorty from notre dame whose name i can't think of hannah hidalgo no shoulder for uh olivia miles yes and i was like
00:34:54
Speaker
Stop it. Like like moses a dog, but stop it. Be serious. Come on. Like, come on. Well, I, when the draft gets closer, hopefully we'll be able to talk about it at least a little bit.
00:35:05
Speaker
I can see Olivia miles going first, but also at the same time. It's difficult with that because Olivia and page are both point guards essentially in Dallas needs a point guard. So they really do have their pick when it comes to that. But I think it's like also like kind of like a foregone conclusion at this point that Paige is the first round draft pick because she would have been, excuse me, first pick because she would have in the first pick last year or too. Yes.
00:35:27
Speaker
So um what I will say. We get it. It would have been Paige. Yes. What I will say about UConn though is they are obviously in a different position than they were last year where Paige basically had to put the team on her back and drag five players to, where did they get?
NCAA Tournament Analysis
00:35:40
Speaker
How far did they get? Elite eight, final four, whichever one. Final four.
00:35:44
Speaker
four No, Elite Eight. i don't know. i don't It doesn't matter. they were exist They were not healthy, and Paige still managed to get them by herself all the way down there. So the fact that they have AZ Fudd back, they have Sarah Strong, the best freshman in the country, they have two great guards who I really hate that I can't remember their names, but there's one girl, she can shoot the leather off that ball. like She is a walking bucket, and I can't think of her name. AZ Fudd is a guard, right?
00:36:11
Speaker
crazy fud yeah um i can't think of her name i'm talking about a different guard though um oh my gosh i know her name i don't know why can't think of her freaking name it's about to make me bad but they have they basically yukon is as complete as they have probably been since page started playing there so yeah they made it to the um elite eight and lost to um angel there we go Not by a lost angel. probably Which is insane that Angel was college last year.
00:36:43
Speaker
Ashlyn Shade. That's who I'm talking about. She's another guard who's amazing. But, yeah. With all of the things that have been happening, isn't it crazy that, like... Caitlyn, Angel, Rekia, like all of them were in college last year.
00:36:58
Speaker
Like it just doesn't feel like it's like, cause the W season has happened and then Unrivaled and all of them are everywhere and modeling and in fashion weeks and pocket and all this stuff. And it's just like this time last year, they were in college. like this job I can't imagine being them. Like, like I can't imagine being them. I'm tired.
00:37:18
Speaker
Just thinking about it. Like this is a year dog. Like, um, Yeah. I love that for them. But yes, UConn is obviously winning the Big East. Yes. Duh.
00:37:28
Speaker
As far as how the how far they make it in the tournament, I don't know. They're the only team, one of the only teams that smacked up South Carolina, and they smacked up South Carolina at home.
00:37:40
Speaker
So I don't know. I don't know. One of the things I love and one what this conversation is really about, at least for me, is to highlight the parity that exists in women's basketball that really has not existed before.
00:37:55
Speaker
Because all the teams that we're talking about also really do have a really actual chance at winning the championship, all of them, except for Villanova. don't even know Villanova's record. But UConn could win. South Texas could win. North Carolina could win. Texas could win. Like anybody could win.
00:38:08
Speaker
So, ah yeah, for sure UConn is winning the Big East. Moving on to to me, I think the biggest game of the day, besides Texas and South Carolina, the Big Ten, UCLA versus USC. Their third time playing in two weeks.
00:38:22
Speaker
Yes. Like, hello? um Okay. ah So Azaya James is being ah helped off the court. She is walking very, very gingerly. She's now being carried off the court, ladies and gentlemen. ae am extremely heartbroken in this moment.
00:38:43
Speaker
Yeah, that is tough. She's being carried off the court. Like, what?
00:38:54
Speaker
Okay, and these are the things that you hate to see, right, is is, you know, this is the penultimate moment of the season, and and you see the best players go down. I hated to see Anissa Morrow go down yesterday, and now we see Isaiah James not even being able to walk off the court. So um let's hope that at least it's not, like, horrible news. It's not season-ending news. um But to the Big Ten, UCLA and USC, what do we think?
00:39:20
Speaker
um Sorry, very quickly, and we'll go into this a little bit further. I just pulled it up. I think UConn is probably going to the final four based on the projection that I'm seeing. If they end up in the side of the bracket that they're being projected.
00:39:34
Speaker
Okay. great They're being projected in the side with West Virginia, Columbia, Kentucky, Liberty, Louisville, Oregon, UConn, and Albany. I think they they sweep through that. I think they get to the final four in that bracket. That is not one. i'd like That's not one of the harder ones, in my opinion, especially for the level of like how good um they are.
00:39:56
Speaker
Because, like for example, um USC is in there with Tennessee, Iowa, Duke, and LSU. like I think that's harder.
00:40:09
Speaker
Baylor is on that side as well. Texas is in there with Ohio State, Notre Dame, Um, Alabama. Yeah. So I think that would, we can, this is not for this show, but you just mentioned it. And so I think they open pretty far USC UCLA.
00:40:26
Speaker
I don't know. And the reason why I say, I don't know is because one thing that is true in sports, even in basketball is it's hard to beat the same team multiple times. And so I kind of wish that USC lost one of the regular season. I agree. Cause I feel like UCLA is going to win just because can you beat them three times?
00:40:43
Speaker
You know what saying? And like, I know the games haven't necessarily been close, but like, what does that matter? And so my heart is telling me USC and they're going to be like the third team ever to win back-to-back conference championships in two different conferences.
00:41:00
Speaker
but it's just hard to beat them three times and they're your rival but like kiki is balling and i i'm still gonna pick usc but i will i'm gonna hedge and say i would not be surprised if ucla does it because it's just hard it's hard to do it but i do think you as like
00:41:20
Speaker
USC is a bad matchup for UCLA, specifically in my opinion, because ah ah Lauren Betts, I believe is her name. yeah She plays like, um she plays like, um who's the, who's the guy from ah the French dude?
00:41:42
Speaker
No, wendy the older one. The older French dude? The one that wins all the people. Rudy Gobert. Yeah, she plays like Rudy Gobert and that she's almost always in drop coverage. Yes.
00:41:52
Speaker
you're going to play drop coverage against Juju? Yes, apparently. like Like, that's the thing. um like Like, they're very good. But the problem is... Juju will just kill you in the mid range. Like, like, that's the thing. Like this would also be a bad matchup if they had to play UConn because Paige would like that. Not every, like the mid range is not what it used to be. Not everyone can do it, but you were talking about one of the few guards that will pull up in the mid range for no reason with defense.
00:42:20
Speaker
And I was watching the Ohio state game and Ohio state was missing, but the only offense that they had was running motion where they would get their shooters in the mid range. they were just missing. I'm not missing.
00:42:30
Speaker
like Like, I'm sorry. So it's just like, it's hard. not missing and she's drawing fouls. She can draw a foul like nobody's business. yeah It's hard to beat the same team three times. But it's also, I think it's hard for UCLA to beat USC because your best player is essentially a non-factor on the defensive end because USC has two players for sure, but their best player can just...
00:42:57
Speaker
they like she can go 10 for 12 in the mid range if she's on. Yeah. Yeah. and then She doesn't have to. Yeah. So, yeah, I agree. I, I it's, it's difficult for me to pick UCLA, even though this is their third time playing, because it also just feels like the only thing that UCLA has is Lauren
Impact of Fatigue in Tournaments
00:43:14
Speaker
Betts. And I know that's not true. They have some pretty great guards, but a lot of times it feels like their game plan is centered around getting Lauren Betts the ball, which does create beautiful things.
00:43:24
Speaker
But yeah, In this particular instance, I also don't think the last two times that UCLA played USC, they game planned well enough for Juju. So unless they game unless they game plan differently and they're just throwing bodies at Juju all the time, I just don't know how they how they pull out the win when they haven't been able to do it.
00:43:42
Speaker
The other two times. And you're playing your third time in three days. So you're third time in three days. And you're just kind of hooping at this point. Exactly. This is all. ah Now, mind you, friends and fans, these are all fatigue games. OK, all of them are going to be like that because these these women have been playing all week. Right.
00:43:57
Speaker
So that's the other thing, too, is a lot of times, even when she's tired, she doesn't seem tired. Juju. So even when she's fatigued, she's still making her shots. She's still very effective.
00:44:10
Speaker
i don't ah i don't I think her fatigue um but more so affects her on the defensive end than it does on the offensive end. So that's i'm just like, I don't know, because even tired Juju is scary. and And not that she's not good or in shape or anything like that, but a big is a big.
00:44:25
Speaker
How does your big, who's also your best player, handle playing? Handle fatigue. Yeah. ah Truthfully, it's easier to to be to handle fatigue when you're a guard versus a big because of size and stamina and just like, you know, that's life. like i' And usage. Yeah, I'm not saying anything about her.
College Football Highlights
00:44:41
Speaker
And this is also true for USC, of course, right? You have to consider if how Kiki will handle fatigue, especially because she had to carry them yesterday.
00:44:49
Speaker
But the thing is... She played at Stanford with Cam Brink. Yeah. Like, no shade, but I'm just saying, like, Stanford went pretty far last season, too. Yeah.
00:45:01
Speaker
So, I think we're both on UFC. Yeah. USC. The last one, because we've been yapping for way too long about basketball now, 12. I have no idea. Baylor versus TCU.
00:45:15
Speaker
I also have no idea no idea, but my problem is, I'm not even going lie to you, Big 12 basketball is probably the one area, that's probably the basketball I've watched the least. um I know that TCU is doing really really well Haley Van Liff obviously won big 12 player of the year which is a big deal because a lot of people tried to say she was trash because she played on LSU last year and it didn't really work didn't use her at all they didn't use her well she didn't fit into Kim Mulkey's system and that's okay she fits into this system at TCU she's averaging 22 points a game for her last five games I mean the girl went to the Olympics like she's a high usage player she is
00:45:49
Speaker
and and in and with the star power on ah lsu but then also specifically being on lsu with angel still there who is and flaje and fought like but like angel flaje is taking the ball a lot of course but then angel's also the focus that just wasn't a good like yeah like she was good at louisville i think it was louisville and she was a little first yeah because She was, even if she's not the best player, the ball was in her hand. She's Chris Paul, right? Like Chris Paul does not play off ball. Like she was good. It's just a bad fit. It was just a bad fit. like it's bad But this is a very, this is a lesson in using the transfer portal to your advantage in the way of like,
00:46:29
Speaker
Find the team that fits because Haley could have also just been like, whatever, I'll just stay at LSU. But she made the decision to enter the transfer portal for a second time, which doesn't always work out for a lot of players. But she managed to work it to her advantage and find a system that she fit in because it's about so much more than just – because you don't want to play at the school you're at anymore. It's about more than just the coach. It's about more than just the team, the brand, the whatever.
00:46:52
Speaker
Because she also managed to transition to a team that gets spoken about just as much as LSU. So she didn't lose her national ah attention, if you will, by transferring either. She was able to kind of take that with her and then show like, I am a good player. I just wasn't in the right space.
00:47:11
Speaker
um So yeah, she won Big 12 Player of the Year. So I feel like, and then you also have Miss Misogyny, who I will not, um Name her But she does play at TCU She's been playing basketball for 700 years But for some reason she keeps putting her hands on folks And I just don't understand how You're allowed to keep playing a sport when you Are a domestic abuser, but whatever um They also have her, her and Haley Play pretty well together So I'm going to pick TCU um
00:47:42
Speaker
Because of Haley
00:47:45
Speaker
Yeah, I think I'm going to go. i like Haley, so, you know, I'm just going to go with that one too because yeah i'm I'm not even going to lie. Like, OK, so let's let's let's let's let's talk a little football.
00:47:58
Speaker
Let's knock this out ah because basketball is more prevalent, more relevant right now. So spend more time on that. We are going to go through our 10 games to watch.
00:48:09
Speaker
ah We'll alternate. These are not in any order. These are just kind of how we see them. um My first game, Notre Dame, Miami. um ah This is a big game because one, I think it's pretty early. i don't remember exactly how early, but I'm pretty sure early, like week one or two.
00:48:25
Speaker
If I was thought would have written this down but I didn't care to um But also like I want to know if Notre is going to be good again Same People damn you do this thing all the time where they're like you were good last year so you're going good And yes they were young and they're bringing some people back But like that doesn't mean anything It's in week one Okay, i knew as I knew it was early. Yeah, it's Sunday, August 31st.
00:48:48
Speaker
And it's a Sunday game? Yeah, 7.30 p.m. ABC. It's a primetime game. I love college football. Anyways, Monday, Miami. And also, I just love to hate on Miami. But again, for some reason, people think Miami is going to be good. So I think this is going to be a – it's one of those games where, like, I don't think it's as big as certain – like, it's not as big as Ohio State, Texas, where, like – Right, right. I know both of these teams are going to be good and this is going to be a banger. I think this game going to be a banger no matter what, but I think it could kind of tell, like if Notre Dame rolls, it's like, okay, Miami's ass again, Notre Dame, but it like, Notre Dame-Miami.
00:49:24
Speaker
um I also have a Miami game chosen as well. I'm not going to lie to you. ah I think we picked we picked a lot of Miami. Clearly, we we want to see Miami. um My game is obviously, and I have to i have to pull this one up, SMU-Miami.
00:49:39
Speaker
um I think this was a matchup that I craved last year, so I'm very excited to have it this year. um It is a pretty big game on the SMU side. I'm not allowed to publicly say what it's for, but most people will probably, if you look at the date, you'll realize what data um I'm excited because I feel like we had some ACC matchups last year, but we didn't have like the ACC matchups in my opinion, except for when we played Clemson.
00:50:06
Speaker
This to me is like, the ACC team to play, you know? um And SMU Miami is fairly towards the middle of the season. So that's going to be a really good gauge of like where SMU is at.
00:50:18
Speaker
If we can come out and we can really like play Miami and play Miami well and beat Miami um in that sort of situation. so Yeah. um I have Clemson SMU because we wanted 10 games. I never want to talk about Clemson, but it is a game. Okay. Well, it's a rematch of the ACC championship. So there's that.
00:50:42
Speaker
Jesus. It's a game that exists. It's a game that we are playing. Yes. We are playing Clemson. I do believe we played Clemson before we play Miami, if I'm not mistaken. So, um,
00:50:53
Speaker
You know, shout out to SMU. I mean, we are going we were going head first into the ACC ah ah football this year. So, yeah, we'll see.
00:51:05
Speaker
Oh, it's my turn. yeah um I chose Miami again, but I really, really more so I was choosing it for Louisville. um Louisville, Miami. It just sounds interesting. forty five forty two telling you right now.
00:51:17
Speaker
It's going to be close. it's I'm not even talking about close. I'm talking about shootout. Oh, there will be no defense played whatsoever. Yeah, yeah. I'm telling you right There will be no defense whatsoever.
00:51:31
Speaker
but But, um yeah, I chose it just because Louisville looked pretty good last year. um They were a tougher matchup for us on the SMU side. Like, we almost didn't win that game.
00:51:42
Speaker
So, I would like to see it. Yeah, and also they um transferred in Miller Moss. And here's the thing. I'm going to say something that people are going to think is crazy.
00:51:56
Speaker
Which you usually do. I think Jeff Brom is a better quarterback coach than Lincoln Riley.
00:52:04
Speaker
Yes, Lincoln Riley has the Heisman winners. Yes, Lincoln Riley has the first round picks. Yes, Lincoln Riley is the better recruiter.
00:52:15
Speaker
but So then how is he not the better coach? Oh, okay. Making your players better. especially making your players who don't come to you as first round draft picks. I was just about to say that. Yes. I hear what you're saying. Yeah. with milllan moss Because Miller Moss was in a first round draft. Needs to be developed.
00:52:35
Speaker
Yeah. Whereas not to bring the Ohio state into it, Ohio state turned a a six round draft pick into like a second round draft pick. Yeah. Jeff Brom turned a random quarterback that nobody had heard of at Purdue into a draft pick who has started games in the NFL.
00:52:53
Speaker
ah He's not going to be in a long-term NFL starter, but he started games for the Raiders. You know I'm saying? like So like if Miller Moss has any chance of being a good quarterback, I think he's going to be better with Jeff Brom than he was with Lincoln Marley. I think he's going to say it.
00:53:08
Speaker
No, I get that because I do think that there's a different, I do think sometimes we falsely attribute success to the coaches when it really is like the players were
ACC Football and Quarterback Transfers
00:53:16
Speaker
just that good. You know what I mean? So I can see what you mean by like, there's a difference between like, you should be able in theory to coach the best of the best.
00:53:24
Speaker
That's, They're the best of the best. But when you're getting guys who actually need development, who actually need attention, who actually need time, who actually need real coaching, to me, that's the that's the measurement.
00:53:36
Speaker
So I see what you mean. The best coaching job Ryan Day did wasn't CJ Stroud. Yeah. saying that CJ Stroud wasn't CJ Stroud, like expected to be that when he came to college, but he was underrated.
00:53:47
Speaker
The best job Brian Day did was Will Howard. Right. Because who was Will Howard before? CJ Stroud. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Like the best job that he did was Kyle McCord.
00:53:58
Speaker
Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, those are the ones that you point, you don't point to Justin Fields. Like, that's dumb, right? Like you... Like the best ah yeah best job that that was done at Bama was Mac Jones. They turned Mac Jones to a first round pig.
00:54:14
Speaker
It's not Bryce. Bryce was always going to be good. you like That's what I'm saying. And Lincoln doesn't have that. Lincoln does not have, i.e. Spencer Rattler. if you are If you do not come to Lincoln Riley as a first-round pick, he doesn't know what to do.
00:54:26
Speaker
So, yeah Miller Moss, not amazing, but he did show some things. Jeff Brom is low-key one of the best quarterback coaches in the country. This is going to be a good game. And I would then like to take this into my Louisville pick because Louisville Pitt Yeah.
00:54:44
Speaker
ah over five million min so and pi quarterback well like I Like should have written his name down. Oh, I didn't need to. I knew I was going to remember it. Eli Holstein. oh dog like like i don't know i don't know if y'all watched pit last year i did um love one was a very high draft a very high recruit for bama and then bama went with jaylen milro and eli said i'm out of here thank you it and was instantly good like a sophomore and no he wasn't great yes he made mistakes but he was a like like yeah
00:55:16
Speaker
My thing is, and I said this once and I'll say it again, if he keeps developing, and I don't know if he will, because Pitt sometimes does weird things. Eli is a guy who, especially if he doesn't come out this year, could easily be ah number um but for a number one draft I'm not saying like he's going to be that, right? Like, that's not what I'm saying.
00:55:36
Speaker
But when you look at what they want, the height, the arm, the running, but like these things, if he continues to progress, he can put himself in that conversation. And one hundred even though he's going to be draft eligible after this year, I really hope he stays another year, like three years as a starter.
00:55:53
Speaker
But like, It's going to be Eli Holstein versus Miller Moss. like we space All of the ACC this year is going to be points. like that's like That's what it is. It's going to be the old Big 12. It's going to be like, where's the defense? i think There will be no defense on it from anywhere.
00:56:09
Speaker
I think that's an a great that's a great segue into my pick because my next pi pick also includes Pitt. um Because characters we're just good like that we literally, this is not on purpose.
00:56:20
Speaker
My next pick is also Pitt is Pitt versus Florida state. Now my eyes are just on Florida state in general, because of what I mentioned previous on the previous episode about Florida state, having just a historic downfall.
00:56:32
Speaker
So Florida State is in the hot seat. Florida State is in a space where you need to prove yourself. You need to come back and be who we feel like you're supposed to be at this point. When it comes to Pitt, I mean, Pitt was the one team. And if y'all listen, and y'all heard me talk about how Pitt was a team that I was genuinely worried about, worried about when it came to ah When SMU played them, we just happened to come out and sort of smack them in the mouth early and they just didn't catch up with us. But Pitt was rolling over every opponent before they came and played us.
00:57:00
Speaker
So I'm very, very interested to see a Pitt who I think Pitt and Florida State play a little bit later in the season, if I'm not mistaken. I think they play a little bit later. I think they're like week seven or something like that.
00:57:14
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, wow. I guess that right off the top of my head. Oh, my gosh. Give me roses. They're week seven. So we would have seen a little bit of what these teams look like by then. Maybe one of them or both of them might be ranked by then. Who knows?
00:57:25
Speaker
So that's going a fun one. Yes. um I didn't realize that we did this, but we did do this. ah My next one also includes Pitt.
00:57:38
Speaker
Do we just care about Pitt? I think so. i guess so. I don't know why, I guess. Isaiah James is back in the game, by the way. Isaiah James is back in the game. She is running. She's setting a screen.
00:57:49
Speaker
She is playing basketball again, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you. Please keep going. Yes. ah Where am I doing?
00:57:59
Speaker
Is this the long clock? literally said it was this class. Okay, now that I'm lying to me. ah Sorry. So um anyways, I'm looking for something because there's a through line here that I'm trying to find and I'm not finding it. And so I think while you look for it, I will also say that I saw Myles Garrett back to the original point.
00:58:17
Speaker
He's not just the highest paid defensive player. He's the highest play paid non quarterback player in the NFL now. Yes. Ever. Period.
00:58:28
Speaker
Well deserved. I honestly love that for him. I became a fan ever since he smacked old boy upside the head with his helmet.
00:58:36
Speaker
Because like, what is wrong with you? Don't be talking to me crazy. Ah, I was right. Sometimes I know things. Thank you for filling in that time. You are so welcome. So...
00:58:47
Speaker
We were just talking about Eli Holstein. These rest are not calling anything. No. hu Eli Holstein was a quarterback who was committed to Alabama. Do you know who was also quarterback committed to Alabama?
00:58:59
Speaker
I'll tell you. His name is Dylan Lonergan. Okay, great, because don't know. Do you know when he was committed Alabama? 2023. Do you know when Eli Holstein was committed to Alabama? Also 2023. three who you know what Alabama decided to do?
00:59:11
Speaker
They decided play a running back. Thank you. Okay, you be locked in. We be locked in. You know what saying? Because I watched Eli Holsting last year, and I said he's better than Jalen Milro.
00:59:21
Speaker
That's a quarterback. He's better than Jalen Milro. I don't know if Dylan is also going to be better than Jalen Milro. I can't speak to that, but I hope he is because I think it'd be hilarious, and I never do this because I root for every Black quarterback, would hilarious.
00:59:35
Speaker
for Alabama to have two first round draft picks and to not play either of them for Jalen Milrow. Like that would be, because i don't like Alabama. That would just be one more chef's kiss. Beautiful. Either way.
00:59:47
Speaker
They're playing each other. ah Yes. He transferred to Boston College because he was recruited to Alabama by Boston College's head coach. Boston College's quarterback, that connection. he If he lives up to his recruiting, which we don't know, right? He may be bad. like You never know with these players.
01:00:04
Speaker
But if he lives up to his recruiting, he's going to be one of the better quarterbacks that Boston College has had. And he's going to be there for two or three years. I also just like, I think like Boston College is interesting because they're one of those programs that's like,
01:00:17
Speaker
on the border being good and they're like right there. Yeah, yeah, they are. um And again, both quarterbacks in the 2023 class who went to Alabama to compete against each other. Neither one got the job. Now they're transferring to ACC schools and maybe they're good.
01:00:35
Speaker
Maybe they're not. And becoming leaders there as well. Another really, really good usage of the transfer portal, in my opinion, is like, I'm not the biggest fan of like, okay, I didn't get plenty of time here. I'm leaving. But I'm not going lie. If you are at one of these big name schools and you do not immediately sort of enter into the lineup and you go through your freshman year maybe your sophomore year i'm not opposed to saying i'm going to transfer to a smaller school or not a smaller school but a different market but but in these cases it is smaller school they went from alabama to yeah yeah college but but i'm saying like i'm going to transfer somewhere to get to get if because i don't think this is the case for every player but if you are elite enough to where you know you would be a starter somewhere else
01:01:15
Speaker
go I would do that. I would do that. Because there's cause especially now with these blue blood type schools, you really if you don't have success from the jump there, then you're waiting until your junior or senior year to even have your chance.
01:01:29
Speaker
I'm not doing that. I'm transferring.
01:01:33
Speaker
It does. That's true. The quarterback is a place that I would stay. The problem with both of these guys, though, is Dylan – I mean, Eli was good. Obviously, we saw that last year. He probably felt that he was better than Jalen. He didn't get the job, so we'd have to understand that.
01:01:46
Speaker
Eli stayed two years, but for – George – Jesus Christ. Alabama, insert school in the South, that Alabama just brought in a recruit who as a freshman may win the job.
01:01:58
Speaker
So Eli is both like, I haven't played in two years and you bring in a guy who may be better than me. Like it's time. It's time. Yeah. Wide receiver, you know, depending on who you are, like if you're, you know, of a certain caliber and you're not getting in, but like, again, that also depends on where you're at. Cause if you're a wide receiver at Ohio state, I would sit because you know you're going to be first round draft pick.
01:02:20
Speaker
like It all depends. It does all depend. But I'm saying like, I love using the transfer portal in this way of like, okay, I'm not playing at Bama. Thank you so much. I'm gonna go ahead and go find something else to do.
01:02:33
Speaker
and Because like, realistically,
01:02:37
Speaker
Who's to say that the the set that the success that Dylan and Eli are going to have at these other two schools would have even been possible for them and them? And not at the same time because they're the same age.
01:02:48
Speaker
Eli's definitely – yeah, it wouldn't be – Eli's definitely – You know what I mean? would have I just really do genuinely think he's a good quarterback. And I think that Alabama's coach is – I mean, he he did good things with Michael Penix. I think he runs a good ah offense, and I think that he is – I won't call him a quarterback whisperer, but I think he's pretty good with quarterbacks. I think Alabama would have been really good if they played Eli. But a lot of people get into this thing where you have an incumbent, especially as a new coach. And so you don't want to upset that.
01:03:16
Speaker
And I'm sorry. i watched Eli. I don't believe that if that was an open competition, he doesn't beat out Jalen. I don't think it was an open competition. I think he knew it wasn't an open competition. So he left.
01:03:31
Speaker
Dylan, I don't know. I haven't seen him play. I won't speak to him, but like we've seen a full year of Eli. I think he was instantly better than Jalen. So it'll be fun. Yeah. It'll be fun. Um, well, another Louisville game is on my list.
01:03:45
Speaker
Um, and that is shock Louisville SMU. Um, this is not an SMU podcast, obviously, but el Louisville was a challenge, um, for us last year. So I just want to see what that looks like, uh, coming into play.
01:04:00
Speaker
This is one of the only teams that we're playing back to back years, uh, years-wise, excuse me. So we do have the immediate comparison of last year. We played at Louisville. This year, I do believe they play ah at SMU.
01:04:12
Speaker
um So I'm very interested just to see what that looks like for a second year. Yeah. ah My last one, and this is an under-the-radar one, Duke-Cow.
01:04:23
Speaker
And you're like, why Duke-Cow? Well, first of all, because watch football, and i don't want to pick all the ranked games, but also, I think it's going to be interesting.
01:04:34
Speaker
Devin Brown. transferred from Ohio State to Cal we'll see if Devin Brown's good like this will be his chance I don't think he was Ohio State good but he could very well be Cal good and I think that you know there's some argument maybe that Ohio State didn't always give him the chance but I I watched him play in person so like I have an opinion on him that I don't think everyone has because like I watched him play in person but that doesn't matter Devin Brown and yeah I've seen him person, so.
01:05:01
Speaker
Well, my thing is just like, I did see him in person, but also I was at the angle where like I was directly behind him. And the best way to watch a quarterback play is to be behind them so you can see the field and you can see things. What they see. yes And also he always throws high.
01:05:16
Speaker
So like, but again, you're talking about transferring to another level, getting your chance. He's been in Ohio state system and coached by Ryan day for three years. Like, and I like him. I have no ill will against the kid. Like we just said, this is the kind of transfer that we support.
01:05:30
Speaker
And for some reason, Jaden ah decided to stay. And so he's going to be one of the best running backs in the country. So I just think that they're going to be fun. And du got Darian Mensah from Tulane, who was just a very, very, very, wow. I didn't know he transferred. think that's to be a good game.
01:05:49
Speaker
Duke, Kyle. What is so funny is there's a three line. I also picked a Duke game. You guys, we really don't plan this. um I also picked a Duke game. I picked Duke and Clemson.
01:06:03
Speaker
um And I picked it for a similar reason. I felt like it was just going to fun matchup to watch. It's going be all offense um again. But i felt like Duke is one of those teams too. I feel like that's like they're having this success. They're kind of climbing up the ranks as far as their football program is concerned. And so just kind of seeing like where Duke is at up against a team like Clemson who, I mean, Clemson beat us and we ran through the ACC.
01:06:28
Speaker
Clemson. You
Music Scene: JID and Cardi B
01:06:29
Speaker
know what I'm saying? Clemson clemson got their spot ah in the playoffs. So just see how they match up, how they stack up against Clemson, but also just Duke in general. I think I just have my eye on Duke in general.
01:06:40
Speaker
So I did not know that they got Darian Mensah. So I'm really excited yeah about that. so Because I loved Darian Mensah and Tulane. I always thought he was bigger than Tulane. Like no shade. I always thought he was bigger than Tulane. So I love this for him.
01:06:53
Speaker
Now he's at Duke. Yeah. All right. That's it. Those are our 10 games. period all Yeah, we're probably going to be right. You should listen to us. We're good at this. ah To wrap up the show, our two minute warning.
01:07:05
Speaker
Mine is going to be very quick. JID, aka J-I-D, aka the best rapper on Dreamville, is supposedly releasing a new album. He had an album listening party.
01:07:17
Speaker
That's all I have to say, because I found out he was dropping a new album yesterday. Don't know the name, don't know when it's coming out, don't know anything about it, but I love Jid. I think he's one of the better rappers in the game, and I'm very excited for this new album.
01:07:30
Speaker
And I was very much like, obviously music comes out all the time, but the the women rappers and artists are like killing it. R&B is finally coming back. you got Oh my gosh, yes. We got Teddy Swims.
01:07:41
Speaker
Coco Jones. give me I said Coco, but yeah. I didn't hear you, sorry. Givion stopped tap dancing, so his music is good again. um So, sorry. Sorry.
01:07:53
Speaker
But ah last year was crazy for music, especially for like my taste. You had Vince, you had Schoolboy, had Kendrick. Oh, Kendrick. I can't stop listening to GNX. Like, who is going to drop in 2025? We got everything we wanted.
01:08:07
Speaker
And here comes Jid. So. um I will say there's one thing that at me personally, I still have not gotten what I wanted. Okay. And it's now about to be seven years since invasion of privacy was released.
01:08:24
Speaker
Cardi? Yes. So that lady owes me an album. And she keep dropping features and going on tour. Cardi, what are you doing? Dropping features and literally outdoing whoever she's featured. Whoever song she's featured on, she's outdoing them. Okay?
01:08:40
Speaker
Every single song. I'm sorry. What song is it? It's a meg it's a Megan Glover-La song. I loved it by itself. But when they put Cardi on there. Yes. yeah Yes. Yes. Bitch, please. Don't nobody want to be ya.
01:08:51
Speaker
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. hold on, I'm sorry. I was quote unquote forced because I like Megan and I love Glorilla to go to Megan's concert and they brought out Cardi and they did that song live. And I said, oh my God, she God is a woman. less yeah my toast white Like Matthew McConaughey, like, please give me an album. That's all I want Cardi.
01:09:16
Speaker
I don't care. And here's the thing you you're going through it with offset. You're going through it. That music is about to be so good. Yeah. It's about to be so good. It's about to be so good. It's about to be so good because she's going to talk about how she's a kick-ass mom. how she She is literally running fashion right now. She is running the rap game and these niggas can't keep up and that's why she had to drop his ass. I swear the music is about to be so good because she also says that she doesn't like making music when she doesn't have nothing going on.
01:09:42
Speaker
Well, you got it You got stuff going on. We get it. You was happy. Give me the new breakup anthem. Give it to me. was happy. You dropping your babies. You being a good guy. Yes. If it's up, then it's stuck. No.
01:09:54
Speaker
Now, talk your shit. Talk your shit and give me a new, be careful, give me a new breakup anthem. Please. Also,
Criticism of NBA/WNBA Social Media
01:10:03
Speaker
just saying, sorry Megan, Glow, and Cardi on the same stage.
01:10:07
Speaker
ah you could have You could have taken me then. like i would I would love to die right there. Oh, my gosh. i ah i just i just There's so much that I need.
01:10:19
Speaker
I was even talking to my best the other day, and I was like, I'm being greedy because I want more music from Megan. She gave us two projects last year. And I'm being greedy. like I want more. Like, I can't be greedy, but yes, R&B is coming back, and i'm very excited about that.
01:10:33
Speaker
I'm going to keep my two-minute warning quick because I will crash out if I don't. I just would like to come in on here and say, because it's happening right now, um I don't like NBA Centel and WNBA Centel, the Twitter accounts.
01:10:51
Speaker
Um, because, and they've done this with a few athletes. They've done this with a few people where they have misquoted them or they have made up quotes or they have said that an athlete has said or done something that they have not done.
01:11:02
Speaker
And NBA Centel has been on my list for a while because they have been releasing fake news about the Mavericks. especially post-Luka trade. They've been releasing fake news talking about they've banned Luka's jerseys from the stadium. That never happened. They were talking about fake news, talking about how they were giving everybody refunds. That did not happen.
01:11:18
Speaker
Like, I just don't like that. And basically what has happened now is there have been several Twitter accounts and YouTube accounts that have come out and said that Angel Reese threatened to sit out the WNBA season if she does not get paid the same salary as an NBA player.
01:11:35
Speaker
That lady never said that. She did not say that. She did not say that. If you listen to Angel Reese's podcast, which I do, she was talking to Dijanae Carrington and Dijanae Carrington said she has been in the meetings for the CBA and that there is a very high level, a high potential that if the CBA does not turn out the way that they want it to, they will sit out, which is something that has happened in every professional sports league, might I add.
01:12:04
Speaker
It would not be ridiculous for anybody in the WNBA to sit out if they don't get what they're asking for. Let's start there because the NBA players have done it. and MLB players have done it. NFL players have done it.
01:12:17
Speaker
That is a very normal thing. But to say that she said that she was threatening to sit out because she wants an NBA salary, she never she never said that. And it creates a space for people to be hateful. And people already have this level of vitriol for Angel that is so much higher than they have for any other player, all because she she pissed off the great white Hope.
01:12:42
Speaker
And it's getting ridiculous that people have been sending her hate for the last two and three days because they think that she said something that she did not say. I can't get into why you're sending her hate for wanting to get paid more because they deserve to get paid more. I can't even get into
WNBA Growth and Revenue Sharing
01:12:58
Speaker
that right now.
01:12:59
Speaker
there's There's people who are doing far less who get paid more than WNBA players, but that's not the point. Also, it's hard to go to back to the WNBA when Unrivaled has been here for two weeks and you're getting triple your salary. $200,000 per person. If they win a championship, they get $50,000 per person.
01:13:17
Speaker
They have money to blow. Even the trainers are getting $10,000 bonuses from Icy Hot. like They have money to throw at these people. So, yes, if the WNBA is going to reach the heights that we know that it's reaching because they're already talking about expansion, we already got, what, up to 16, 17 teams already? It's 16.
01:13:35
Speaker
But the the rumor is that they're going to, first of all, technically they haven't announced the 16th. It's just been rumored that it's Cleveland. So we don't know how many they're going to announce, but it has also been rumored that they listened to me. Of course they didn't. They just smartened up that they are going to go past 16, that this round was good enough as I expected, because I heard about 12 really good bids that they are going to select.
01:13:58
Speaker
I don't know which number. i still think 20, probably just going to go to 18, but they're going to announce multiple whenever they do announce. like Exactly. And the WNBA is growing at the time that it's supposed to be growing. Again, it's a young league.
01:14:09
Speaker
it's This will be its 30th season, I believe. if not 30, then 29. But this is it's growing exactly when it's supposed to grow. And I'm just going to keep it a B. And I don't give a flying fuck who you attribute the growth to. I actually don't care.
01:14:22
Speaker
I don't care if you think it's Caitlyn. I don't care if you think it's Asia. I don't care if you think it's Angel. It doesn't matter. They're growing. They're making millions of dollars and signing millions of dollars contracts for distribution, for media, for sponsorship and all these other things.
01:14:34
Speaker
The players deserve more money. Period. And for the people who, um to wrap this up before we're here for another hour, the and I don't know that, I didn't watch that episode, so I don't know that this is what they said specifically, but I do know that everyone has said this who's had a voice to talk about it.
01:14:51
Speaker
The biggest difference between the WNBA and the NBA, the NBA, is thank you. It's the revenue share. It is not just that they make less money. The thing is when the NBA, right. So like just tie it to the NBA and the NFL, right.
01:15:08
Speaker
Contracts in those leagues continually rise because they get a certain amount of the revenue and in their collective bargaining, there is a, like, there's a certain amount of money, a certain percentage that has to go to player contracts.
01:15:20
Speaker
yeah So in the same likeness where in 50 years, the NFL's media contract got cut in half. The players will lose money because the salary cap is lower because it's tied to the revenue that they're making.
01:15:32
Speaker
That is not the case in the WNBA. So as currently constituted, as the WNBA is getting their largest contracts ever, they have no obligation to to pay the players more.
01:15:46
Speaker
And that is not about to work. share because What happens in all the other leagues, then this year and five years and 10 years and 30 years, as the league keeps making more money,
01:15:57
Speaker
the players will make more money where eventually no, for various reasons, they won't be signing a hundred million dollar contract, but in 10 years, in 15 years and whatever, it could be, it could be, um, typical for your Juju, right. Who will be in the league in 10 years to have a $5 million dollars deal because the league has a $200 million dollars TV media contract where yes, the NBA is 5 billion, right. It's not going to be that, but,
01:16:22
Speaker
But also the NBA is 50 years older. God damn it. Once the whats the league's revenue and and they're getting a $500 million dollars contract, now, yes, Juju, Paige, Kaitlin, those players are making a five, six, $7 million. dollars And the league minimum, instead of being $60,000, the league minimum is now $200,000. That is what they're asking for. They're asking for revenue share, which is the basis of all of the other leagues.
01:16:50
Speaker
And the other thing too, a lot of people don't realize when it comes to this too, is the WNBA is also the only league that does not stand on its own. It is owned by the and NBA. So there has also been a lot of chatter about the fact that the NBA almost might have too much equity at this point in the WNBA because the revenue sharing also, there's there's levels to that when it comes to the NBA and the percentages and how all that stuff works.
01:17:18
Speaker
So, There's a lot, there's a ways to go, right, to raise the salaries of this woman for a lot of different reasons. But what we're not going to do, and I think what a lot of the players are indicating, is what we're not going to do is just grow, grow, grow, grow. grow And the only people's bottom line who gets bigger is the league and it's nobody else.
01:17:36
Speaker
That's the main point, is we're going to grow together. The players
Support for Angel Reese and Women's Sports
01:17:40
Speaker
are going to reap the benefits just as much as the league is, period. And again, I just want to just give the context too, if you're not going to go and watch the episode, the conversation wasn't even about that.
01:17:50
Speaker
It was a side conversation. It was they were just chit chatting about I can't exactly remember, but they were just chit chatting about how ah the new CBA was coming out. This is this and this. And it wasn't a topic on the show. It wasn't they sat there and talked about it for 15, 20 minutes.
01:18:05
Speaker
D.J. just said, yeah, I've been in the meetings is getting real. And Angel said, I heard that we might that people might sit out. And D.J. was like, yeah, people might sit out. And then they moved on. That was the conversation. And people were like, Angel says she's going to sit out if she doesn't make 3 million.
01:18:19
Speaker
She didn't say that. oh She did not say that. They literally just, she was like, I heard people going sit out. And Dijon was like, yeah, probably. which is also a conversation that has been had.
01:18:30
Speaker
Even Chanae, not Chanae, even Nneka has talked about how the Players Association is not playing with the WNBA this season. no And they will sit their asses out. They've been talking about that.
01:18:41
Speaker
They've been saying that. now they have an arrival to go to on top of going overseas. They have even more leverage. They have even more leverage. So this has been a conversation this whole time that we could be looking at a lockout. We could 100% be looking at a lockout.
01:18:55
Speaker
if they don't get what they want. Like I've said this weeks ago, but people have been adding in their own extra sauce. And the biggest thing I'm getting at is the hate against Angel Reese is getting really, really weird. It's getting really, really sinister. It's getting really disgusting.
01:19:08
Speaker
And it's just not, it's just not fair to that young woman. It's not fair when all she's trying to do is elevate women's basketball. And she's just trying to create a path and she's just trying to follow but in the footsteps of the women that she looked up to. It's not fair to treat her this way. Every time she says something that you don't agree with, even though this, in this case, she didn't even but like, if she does say something you don't agree with, that's not necessarily to be sending her death threats and to be hateful and to say, she doesn't deserve anything. And all the things that I've seen people say, it's just disgusting. Yeah.
01:19:39
Speaker
Well, that was not short, but had to get it off your chest. i just I'm tired everybody. I'm tired of the i'm tired of people hating on Black women. I'm tired of it. Big facts.
01:19:50
Speaker
As always, stop hating on Black women. Watch women's basketball. Everyone watch women's sports. We will catch you next week.