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today you are listening to the Dan Patrick show on FOX Sports Radio. I hope you had a great weekend, everybody. Gang's all here, ready to go. Probably the least productive week out of the year because you got to fill out your brackets and then you got to watch the games and, well, who wants to show up and work? And even if you show up for work, you still want to watch college basketball. We'll talk to Jay Billis a little later on. Bruce Pearl of cbs, he said quite a week or two. He'll join us coming up in about 15 minutes from now. Your phone call is always welcome, especially on Monday. Best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked, you didn't like. Operator Tyler sitting by at 8-77-3, DP show stat of the DAY is always brought to you by Panini America, official trading card of the program. Good morning, those watching on Peacock or the NBC Sports Network. First hour brought to you by Z. Kleiner revolutionary recliner designed by Flex Steel. And we use them all the time. And it's not surprising if I see a backroom guy falling asleep, not during the show, but after the show. And a healthy life starts with a healthy night's sleep. Visit z kleiner.com Dan Patrick today to find Z. Kleiner at a store near you. Play OF THE DAY Poll question STAT of the day all of that forthcoming Team USA over the Dominican Republic last night to advance to the finals coming up on Tuesday night. Alrighty. A lot of things to talk about with the tournament. I don't know if too many people or alumni are upset if their school didn't make it. Now you could say Oklahoma or Auburn, Stanford, like, you start to look at some of these schools and you say, well, are we going to get in? If we get in, where are we going to be? St. John's a five seed. And in fact, Rick Pino said, yeah, I kind of figured, you know, we did beat Connecticut. We blew out Connecticut, but we had these other losses. Here's something that you might not be aware of. These are the Power 4 teams that didn't make a bowl game. Their men's or women's basketball teams did not make the NCAA tournament. There's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. There's six schools. You didn't make a bowl game, which is really hard to do. Your football team didn't make a bowl game. And your men's and women's basketball teams didn't make the tournament, Auburn, Boston College, Florida State, Mississippi State, Rutgers and Stanford. So you're going 0 for 3. Your football team, your Men's and women's basketball teams. You didn't play in a bowl game and didn't make the tournament. And I guess I was a little surprised with Stanford because they're the only team with 20 or more wins overall and five or more wins against Quad 1 opponents. But Stanford did not make the tournament. A lot of talk about Miami of Ohio and they're going to have a home game. It's going to be in Dayton, the play in game. And we'll talk to Bruce Pearl. I don't know where he is now with Miami Ohio. He's all in on them. They did make the tournament. And his school, Auburn, his last school where his son took over for him, Auburn did not make it. But they were like 17 and 16 and I know tough schedule, but I don't think too many people are going. They should have been making the tournament there. But we'll talk to Bruce. And Auburn does not make the tournament. The current longest active streaks playing in the NCAA tournament. I mean, Michigan State has been there 28 consecutive years, Gonzaga 27. And then it dips down to Purdue at 11, Houston, Tennessee at eight, Kansas at seven. All right, Seaton, what's poll question for the first hour of the program?
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Co-host 1
Well, should we start with Bruce Pearl? No, that's a hot topic.
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Dan Patrick
Okay.
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Co-host 1
Bruce Pearl is more upset about.
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Dan Patrick
I don't think he's upset about Miami Ohio. I think he's upset that Auburn didn't get in. And coached by his son.
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Co-host 1
Correct? Yeah. I'm wondering if he's more upset that Auburn didn't get in or his son didn't get in.
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Dan Patrick
Oh, I would say that his son didn't get in.
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Co-host 1
Yeah, I would think so.
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Sports Promo Announcer
Right?
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Dan Patrick
Yeah. Yeah. Now I don't. I think he's still paid by Auburn. I think he's on their payroll. I saw a story, I don't know if CBS, like how often should you say that or should they have said that leading up to the tournament? Just because whatever he is saying now, Jay Billis is going to join us. And I know everybody says that he is pro Duke. He went to Duke. He probably tries his best to be objective. Bruce Pearl's not being objective. Bruce is basically saying, hey, I coached at Auburn, my son coaches at Auburn. We play in the SEC. And if Miami Ohio played in the SEC, they wouldn't have, you know, 17 wins like Auburn. And okay, it's a fair point, but they don't play in the sec. Not everybody can play in the sec. And I can't use that as you know, hey, you didn't play in the sec. Now if you want to do that for football, we can do it. Although, has the SEC become a basketball
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Co-host 3
conference on a Monday?
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Dan Patrick
I know. 905. I know, I know, I know. I had somebody with the NCAA bringing that up, kind of having fun with it, and I go, maybe, maybe, yeah, Seaton.
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Co-host 1
I think, you know, everybody has a bias when they're up there. You know, everybody is a little steered towards their alma mater. You know, I mean, is Jay Wright on still on Villanova's payroll? I'm pretty sure he is. He's not up there advocating for Villanova every day, and he's not up there saying, like, ah, my son needs to be in this tournament. He's not doing any of that, but he's still getting paid by Villanova, you know, so if we're going to be upset about people having a bias, then nobody's going to be allowed to be up there, really.
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Dan Patrick
But just tell me that you're, you're being paid by the school. If you're being paid by Auburn, then I think just let us know. I got, I think you got to have full transparency with something like that. I mean, Jay Billis doesn't hide that he went to Duke, and I know there, you know, there are other broadcasters. Jim Jackson doesn't hide that he went to Ohio State. But I mean, it's difficult to do. I, I did this a long, long time ago, but I did this because I have to have neutrality here. I have to be unbiased or the best that I can possibly be. Therefore, I'm not rooting for the Cincinnati Reds or Cincinnati Bengals. I'm rooting for the best story. But it's different. You know, Bruce Pearl's not rooting for the best stories, rooting for his son and Auburn. I'm just rooting for, hey, if Miami Ohio gets in and actually wins a game, or Auburn had got in and played Miami Ohio, which would have been wonderful. Yeah, Paulie.
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Co-host 3
So Bruce Pearl criticized Miami of Ohio last year, last week while they were still undefeated and they got a lot of headlines. But Miami Ohio's loss in the first run of the conference almost bore out what he said.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah, I don't know how good Miami Ohio is, but they're undefeated. Should they play a better non conference? Well, I don't know how many schools wanted to play them or it's a home and home and you know, that's tricky there. But you know, you're playing 31 games. You got to have a couple of quad one games there or win a couple of those games. By the way, does everybody know what quad one means? And quad two and quad three and quad. Because this is the week that you act like you know what you're talking about. Filling out your brackets here. Yes, Paulie.
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Co-host 3
Okay, Quadrant one, as the old school people call it. Quad one is the highest quality of wins and losses used by the selection committee to evaluate tournament resumes based on net rankings. Another thing, we know little about net rankings.
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Dan Patrick
So St. John's gets a five seed after winning the Big east over UConn. St. John's is 15th in the net rankings and just won the Big east regular season and tournament title. And they've won their last six. The part. The last part there. I always think that your seating is based on what you've done in the last month. And if I. And if I incorporate that, I'm surprised St. John's ended up with a five seed because you end up winning the regular season and the postseason in the Big east, and you've won six in a row. Here is St. John's head coach, Rick Patino.
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Sports Promo Announcer
Well, I thought we'd be a fifth seed. A couple guys in my set that thought it was possible to be a four seed, but they don't take into account how you're playing at the end of the year. The old days, like eight, 10 years ago, it counted. The last 10 games of the season is what they really looked at. They don't do that anymore. It's all metrics from the first game to the last game. The last game doesn't mean any more than the first. First game you play. And because the Big east was really weak from a net standpoint, like we lost to Providence, who I think is a damn good basketball team. They were a Quad 3 loss for us, so we got to get the Big east stronger.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah. I want to know what you've done in the last month of the season. If we want you playing your best at the best time of the year, the most important time of the year, it should be based or at least leaning in favor of what you do in the last five weeks of the season. And St. John's beating Connecticut the way they did, I thought that they'd be a little bit higher. The other seed, Vandy, is a five seed. They have beaten three quad one teams in. In the past week, Tennessee, twice, and then blew out number one, Florida, and they end up with a five seed. I was surprised at that as well. But for the most part, you know, you're just kind of surveying the landscape here. I always look for who is playing close to home. That's what I want to know. Gonzaga is going to be in Portland for the first two games. You know, just. That helps. I go back to when Syracuse was playing in Albany, back when they, you know, had Carmelo and they won the national title. Like, those kind of things, you know, those are sneaky, where you go, wait a minute here. Little home court advantage, kind of. Yes, Marvin.
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Co-host 2
The worst thing ever. If I was Michigan State or Iowa State in 2014, I would have been on fire. UConn was the seventh seed in the East Region. The East Regional finals were at the Garden. So wait, it's just a metro north train ride from Connecticut to New York and we're the seventh seed? I would have been furious.
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Dan Patrick
All right, we'll get phone calls coming up. Best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked, you didn't like. Any other poll questions, we. That's pretty specific. The Bruce Pearl poll question.
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Co-host 1
It really works in hour one. I can tell you that this one's maybe a little more. Has a little more. Some more legs. No major snubs in the NCAA tournament this year is a good thing or bad thing?
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Dan Patrick
I would say a bad thing because I kind of like when somebody's complaining a little bit. Although it's hard to complain when there's 68 teams. But you kind of like somebody who, you know, got jobbed a little. I mean, Stanford got jobbed, in my opinion, if I'm looking at resumes here. And I was, you know, somebody who used to work on the committee said, if you can do a blind taste test, like, that's the, the true example of that team should be in and that team should not. Instead, we attach the head coach, the school itself, the history of that basketball program. And sometimes it's not fair to those schools who don't get in. But when you get to 68, it's kind of hard to complain. But I, I do like somebody who, you want to say a pipe down over there, like Bruce Pearl and Auburn. Pipe down over there. Bruce. Yes, Todd. I was just checking the University of Missouri, which is in Columbia, that's not
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Bruce Pearl
too far from St. Louis.
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Dan Patrick
They get to play St. Louis, which is kind of weak against M. Florida plays in Tampa. Missouri will play Friday in St. Louis. And that feels like a little bit of an advantage.
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Co-host 1
St. Louis actually has, like, an incredible draw for local fans. Yeah, they have like, like Iowa State, Purdue, Missouri. I forget who else there's A couple of teams there where it's like, dang, like, this is going to be awesome. It's going to be all of these places, they all travel really well and they don't have to travel all that far.
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Dan Patrick
Kentucky, I think, is in that region.
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Co-host 1
Kentucky's in there.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah. Speaking of Kentucky, John Caliperi, Rick Patino, obviously at different schools, but watching Arkansas with Caliperi and that's a fun team, that's one of those where you kind of keep watching and then you realize they're a really good team and they might have the second best player in this tournament. Marvin, your thoughts?
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Co-host 2
There's acups one of those guys where it's like, I wish I would have watched him all season long because now I'm looking at him like, man, maybe I should have paid attention to Arkansas basketball because he wasn't, he was a five star recruit now, but he wasn't Kambooza or Dabanza from byu. But Calipari said he's the best point guard he's ever coached. I was like, man, you had Derrick Rose. I know, and said so that's saying a lot for this kid.
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Dan Patrick
And he, it was a kind of a slow burn because we were focusing on some of these other freshmen and all of a sudden he's one of those guys where you're watching a game to watch somebody else play and then you go, oh my God, like this kid, he is great.
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Co-host 3
Yes, Paul, I know there's a lot of great freshmen, but I think there's a lot of fifth year seniors on St. John's those guys look like grown men. Ah, it's an all beard team.
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Dan Patrick
There are certain teams where you go, how old are you? And, and it's really commonplace. I mean, Purdue, how, how long have they been there? Just feels like, you know, you're in your seventh year. They're grown men out there. But yeah, watching some of these teams, when they come out on the floor and I go, you know, and then they'll say, you know, Jimmy Lipper started here and then he transferred here and then he spent a year here and then this. So he's got four, four schools in the last four years. We'll talk to Billis about this. Also nil with basketball as opposed to football. Nil. And football gave us Indiana football. Can we get some big surprise in college basketball anymore? There's only a certain amount of money that they're spending. Might be 10 to 15 million dollars or where football, they're spending 40 million dollars if not more, but trying to get that feel good story or that story that you didn't expect. We get that in the beginning of the tournament. But it feels like it's going to be the usual suspects. You got, let me see, trying to think. You got Michigan, you got Duke. Trying to get my odds here. I thought I had it here somewhere. I need a, I need a secretary here to help me. Oh, here. They're here. There. I got them right here. Here. They're so Duke, Michigan, Arizona, Florida, Houston, Iowa State, Illinois, Yukon. So aside from Iowa State and Illinois, these are pretty much the blue bloods. Illinois has been a good story and Iowa State all season long and Yukon in there. But the best odds to win Duke plus 300 followed by Michigan, then my Arizona Wildcats, Florida, the defending national champs. Then it goes to Houston, Iowa State, Illinois and Connecticut. We'll get to your phone calls coming up. 877-3DP show when we return, CBS Sports analyst, former Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl back after this Dan Patrick Show Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show, weekdays at 9:00am Eastern, 6:00am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app. Hey, this is Jason McIntyre. Join me every weekday morning on my podcast, Straight fire with Jason McIntyre. This isn't your typical sports pod, pushing the same tired narratives down your throat every day. Straight Fire gives you honest opinions on all the biggest sports headlines, accurate stats to help you win big at the sportsbook, and all the best guesses. Do yourself a favor and listen to
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Dan Patrick
Got through the first 20 minutes of the show. Didn't even mention the Academy Awards last night. I told you Sean Penn was going to win. I just didn't know that he was going to win and not show up. But we'll recap that. But by the way, Kevin Frazier and Michelle Turner from Entertainment Tonight will join us a little bit later on. Get to your phone calls as we always do every Monday. Best and worst of the weekend. He's Bruce Pearl Turner and CBS Sports college basketball analyst, three time national coach of the year. And in case you didn't know, former Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl. What's bothering you today?
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Bruce Pearl
Coach the life is good, Dan. It's great to see you. My heart breaks for my son. But you know what? You got a chance to win your way in or lose your way out. And Auburn probably was just one more win away from dancing.
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Dan Patrick
How would you rate your week or the last 10 days or two weeks, let's say as an analyst?
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Bruce Pearl
That's a great question, Dan. I was a basketball coach, head coach for 30 years and been in basketball for 48 years. And so this analyst thing and being in the media is brand new. So I am a rookie at that, even though I'm 66 years old now. And sometimes you don't know how you're doing. I mean, when I used to play or used to coach, it was a scoreboard. I get, I get off and I'm like, I don't know, I don't know how I did. I imagine some people think I'm entertaining. I would imagine some think of people think I'm an idiot and but you never know whether you're winning or losing.
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Dan Patrick
But does somebody tell you, I mean, you got headlines. I don't know if you feel like that's part of your job.
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Bruce Pearl
No, I don't think it's part of my job. I think my job is to tell you what I think based on my years of experience. And I've never, as you know, Dan, I've never been politically correct. So I really don't worry about that stuff. And what I did learn, though is sometimes when you do give your opinion about something, you know, you can be it can be taken out of context or you can be taken a task. And I really don't mind either one of them. Right now I'm the ugly stepmother because I asked the question, are we looking for the 37 best teams or the 37 most deserving teams when it came to the at large? And so that because that way I became enemy number one again.
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Dan Patrick
Okay, how much of the story of Miami Ohio helped them get into the tournament?
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Bruce Pearl
I'd say about 95% and that's fine. There is a human element that exists in that room and it should exist. You don't just go by the metrics, you just don't go by the numbers, the math. You gotta have a little bit of a feel. And so as said, I said this from the very beginning. I would put them in the field. I would put them in the field. If you want to tell me, do they qualify based on these metrics? The answer is absolutely not. And it's interesting, Dan, last night I asked, when I was on cbs, I asked Chairman Gill, I said, okay, last two in, first two out. What were the metrics? That was sort of the defining factor for you? You know that's a fair question, right?
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Dan Patrick
Yeah.
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Bruce Pearl
And he said quality wins. Quality wins was. He said, I said, and I did not follow up out of respect. And these are things we could talk about the next day. Miami Ohio doesn't have a quality win. Oklahoma and Auburn, who were the last teams left out, have a half a dozen quality wins each. And so I think it sort of just added to the drama a little bit. But look, I'm happy they're in. They deserve to be in the field. It's what the Cinderellas are all about. And so I think we need to sort of adjust the metrics so we get more of these mid major teams in a tournament. But the way it's set up right now, you've got to make an exception.
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Dan Patrick
I thought Stanford had a better argument than Oklahoma and Auburn.
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Bruce Pearl
Coach, tell me why.
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Dan Patrick
Well, would they have five quad one victories? They had 20 plus wins. I mean, just start there. It feels like a pretty good resume, I agree.
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Bruce Pearl
No, it's a good resume. And one of the things I've said all along is I don't think anybody got screwed here. Nobody got screwed. I don't think it was anybody. Oh my God. Okay, how did this team get in or not get in? You can make an argument for Stanford. You can make an argument for
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Dan Patrick
if
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Bruce Pearl
they said to me if VCU didn't win their tournament, they were going to be out. And I would have made an argument for VCU. The argument for Auburn was they played 17 quad one games. 17. Miami Ohio played one quad two. I mean, it's very difficult when you talk about apples and oranges. Auburn beat St. John's who was the biggest champion. They beat Florida at Florida was the SEC regular season champion. They beat Arkansas by 20. Who was the SEC tournament champion. So when it came to quality wins, I thought that that was, that was something that could have pushed him over the top. They had the number four, strength of schedule. I'm not sure where Stanford's worst, and a lot of that has to do with intense.
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Dan Patrick
Can you look at Auburn objectively?
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Bruce Pearl
Yes, 100% can. Like, I think it's okay that Auburn and Oklahoma, for example, aren't in the field. I think it's okay. They should have won one more game. And so there's nobody complaining about it. But I pride myself on telling what I really think. Was I rooting for my son? Of course I was rooting for my son. People say, well, you got your son the job. No, I didn't get my son the job. My son played for me. My son was an assistant for me for 11 years. He was the Associated head coach. He was the defensive coordinator. Did I help him? Absolutely, I did. As a dad, of course I did.
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Dan Patrick
But you look at, are you paid by Auburn?
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Bruce Pearl
You know what? I'm in an ambassador's position. And not many Jewish guys would walk away from $30 million, but this one did. And who does that? My wife is like, honey, why couldn't you just stink for a couple years? Let him fire you and pay you $10 million to do what you're doing now. But no, you go ahead and quit. Leave all that on the table. Yeah, no, Dan, I, I, I, Objectivity for me, not an issue.
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Dan Patrick
Okay, But I don't know if you have to disclose that, that, hey, I'm still paid as an ambassador for Auburn. If it felt like you were kind of dinging Miami, Ohio because Auburn was going to be on the bubble. So that's the appearance, okay? That's, that's how a lot of people look. So the appearance of that, the optics didn't look good.
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Bruce Pearl
Well, that, that's, that's fair. And it certainly has a former Auburn basketball coach. What former coach or former athlete? You know, Charles Barkley roots for Auburn. He does, but Charles Barkley is always going to keep it real.
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Dan Patrick
And, and, but he was paid at Auburn, not after Auburn.
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Bruce Pearl
That's fair enough. Hey, hey, listen. What if I wasn't able to be objective, I wouldn't continue to be at Auburn. It's sort of the best of both worlds. I would give that up in a heartbeat if optics became such an issue that I couldn't be an analyst. You know, Jay Wright works, worked at Villanova for all those years. He still worked there and nobody questioned whether or not Jay Wright would have been objective.
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Dan Patrick
Are you retired as a coach?
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Bruce Pearl
Yeah, I am. I thought about. I thought about it. I got a few phone calls even this year. But then I had coach for 30 years and it was enough. We had a great run. And I do want to do some other things, as you know. You know, I'm a huge advocate for, for this country. I want to coach America. I'm being a Jewish American. I work really hard to bring Jews and Christians and Muslims together. Abraham is a father of all nations as a coach. I love to bring people together. Religion divides us and separates us. And of course I love my country and I also love my ancestral home in Israel. So those are the areas that I'm working in right now. And I think that in many ways I had the success I had in order to give me this platform. I want Jewish Americans to be this country's greatest patriots because this country saved us from the Holocaust and gave us this opportunity and we are hopefully making the most of it. That comes with a responsibility.
- [31:36]
Dan Patrick
Talking to Bruce Pearl, CBS Sports college basketball analyst, former Auburn head coach, best pro prospect in the tournament is who?
- [31:45]
Bruce Pearl
AJ Deban. I think both on and off the court. Dan, if you're going to invest in somebody that is going to be your number one pick and you want to build your franchise around that, I think the stuff both on and off the court, work ethic, all those things this year is a great draft. It'll be the best freshman in the history of the NBA draft this year. It is, it is talented top. It's very, very deep. I don't think you can go wrong. I love, I love several other players in there. I love. Boozer Peterson is an incredible talent. Caleb Wilson is amazing. The point guards. Yeah. Acuff is, is a great, great story. Kingston Fleming, it is absolutely, absolutely loaded. And that's why all these NBA teams are tanking, because they want to. They want to improve their position in the draft.
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Dan Patrick
When you see Patino still doing it, what do you think?
- [32:48]
Bruce Pearl
Amazing. Amazing.
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Dan Patrick
How does he have the energy though, Bruce? It feels like that's what leaves you first.
- [32:54]
Bruce Pearl
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, everybody ages differently. I think it's. I think my guess is it's his. His family and basketball are his two major passion interests. A little bit of horse racing. Dan. He was the best I ever went up against. He. He knew what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. He knew how to take it away. He's not Getting older. He's getting better. Tom Izzo is the same way. I mean, Tom Izzo is getting better. If it's. It's hard to believe. He has got. He has got good teams that he makes. He makes it a great team. And so I got Patino in St. John's making a little bit of run this year in my bracket. I think they're. I think Zubi Ejafor is terrific. They guard really, really well, and they're starting to shoot the basketball better.
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Dan Patrick
How many teams can win it?
- [33:48]
Bruce Pearl
I think there's certainly everybody that's on the one line can win it. I think Saint John's as a five. How does Saint John's. How are they a five? I mean, that's just like they're a three seed and my. How. How can UConn be a two and Saint John's be a five? I know it's the body of the work. And Saint John's wasn't playing great early in the season. I'd say there are seven or eight teams, I think that'll win it. I think it's gonna be a lot of chalk.
- [34:12]
Dan Patrick
Well, you know, we talked to different people about this, that it used to be the last 10 games of your schedule meant the most going into the tournament. And I don't think that's the case now. They look at your body of work. I don't care what you did in October, November. I care what you're doing now. And St. John's you. You win the regular season, you win the Biggies tournament, you won, what, six in a row? You blow out Yukon. I gotta factor that in.
- [34:40]
Bruce Pearl
Yeah. Dan, let me give you one something to think about. I agree. How, how. How you're playing lately is more important, but the schedule, because people are more interested in late February and early March. You notice how the best teams play against the best teams like crazy. That's because there are more eyeballs on college basketball after college football are over. So the last 10, I don't think is a great metrics just because of the toughness of the schedule for the best team. So. But if you're on, you know, so that would be just an issue. That's that. That's why I would not lean in that direction.
- [35:14]
Dan Patrick
Good to talk to you. Keep stirred it up.
- [35:17]
Bruce Pearl
Appreciate you, brother. Thank you always.
- [35:19]
Dan Patrick
That's Bruce Pearl, former coach of the year and now working for cbs. And Turner, if you're waiting for him to apologize, it ain't happening. Just. Just letting you know it's not happening. All Right. Best and worst of the weekend. Buddha leads us all. Buddha in San Francisco.
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Caller Buddha
What up, dp? Happy Monday, boys. Let's go, Fritz. Eh, what a great week in the sports. I mean, college. Who's peaking? Bruce Pearl crying about his son, WBC baseball. Steph calling himself out and his brother as the Rehab brothers. Hilarious, man. Best of the weekend, dp. It was amazing to watch the Players Championship at the TPC Sawgrass venue. I mean, it was, it was riveting. I mean, the Ludwig Oberg meltdown was like watching Amir Mordo at the local Muni and Cameron Young hanging in there and just piping the longest drive of the tournament on hole 18 under pressure was just sick. Props to him. He seems like a good ass dude. And bester Dan. I'm keeping it positive. Team USA in the wbc. Last night was super fun. I mean, these games are filled with passion, talent, competitive like matchups, and have been a joy to watch. And watching Will Smith frame that like that last pitch last night, the end of the game, I definitely chantered my inner like, jim, bam. I was like, man,
- [36:48]
Dan Patrick
thank you, Buddha. That was a bad call. That was a bad call. And for some reason we all thought that maybe they were using the automated balls and strikes. Paulie said he was watching the game, tapping his head like, hey, you got to review that and then realize they're not reviewing that. Yeah, Paul, I just assumed it was
- [37:11]
Co-host 3
in the biggest tournament in the world. I was pausing my celebration like, well, there's got to be a replay.
- [37:16]
Dan Patrick
Yeah, well, the doctor wishes there would have been a replay. Here is the last strike, the last call. Two, one, us. Rodriguez dancing at third. The three, two again.
- [37:31]
Bruce Pearl
Strike three. The U.S. advances. Peromo can't believe it. The pitch was below the zone, but the U.S. has defeated the Dominican Republic. They win tonight, 2 to 1, and they are heading to the finals to take on the winner of Italy and Benedict Venezuela tomorrow night.
- [37:52]
Dan Patrick
Okay, still a bad call. And certainly in that moment, although, you know, once we do the automated balls and strikes, could you imagine? That's the World Series. Let's say it's game seven, bottom of the ninth, and you got the tying run at third and all of a sudden you strike out. But then you go, wait, wait, wait, wait, you tap your helmet and then they have to review. Might take away a little bit of the drama of that, you know, last strike. You're running on the field, you're celebrating. It's like, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. I thought, you know, Japan losing was a big surprise. That was a big surprise. And Italy is not going away. Played well. They beat Puerto Rico. There were some tears in the back. Mario, the eyes and ears and the tears of the Dan Patrick show. Yes. Yeah, he is mopey, Dick. He was. He was all weepy. Yeah. And then Anthony, Anthony is back there with Mario. His, you know, he's Italian. So those two are having a hard time sitting next to each other today. Yeah.
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Co-host 3
Paulie, the Japan manager, he resigned after the loss.
- [39:10]
Dan Patrick
Man called it a career. Was he forced to resign?
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Co-host 3
I It appears that he chose to resign.
- [39:16]
Dan Patrick
Air quotes all right, how about we take a break? More phone calls coming up. Best and worst of the weekend. Jay Billis will join us coming up next hour. Fritz, he says he's stuck at an airport, so see if he can find a place in the lounge there to join us. We'll come back with our play of the day after this. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows@foxsportsradio.com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live.
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Co-host 3
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Podcast Announcer
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Clayton Eckerd
If I could press a button and rewind it all, I would.
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Podcast Announcer
But what happened to Clayton? After the show made even bigger headlines. It began as a one night stand and ended in a courtroom with Clayton at the center of a very strange paternity scandal.
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Dan Patrick
The media is here. This case has gone viral.
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Clayton Eckerd
The dating contract.
- [42:15]
Bruce Pearl
Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you.
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Dan Patrick
Police. Search warrant. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before.
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Podcast Announcer
I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trapped this season. An epic battle of he said, she said and the search for accountability in a sea of lies.
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Dan Patrick
I have done nothing except get pregnant by the Bachelor.
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Dan Patrick
Oh, my God. The play of the day. Play of the day. Check this out. The inbound to power up the right sideline against Simmons. Power will rise up right wing three for the tie.
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Sports Promo Announcer
Got it.
- [43:32]
Bruce Pearl
He made it with one second left inbound. Mullen throws it up.
- [43:37]
Dan Patrick
No.
- [43:38]
Bruce Pearl
Off the back of the rim and we will go to overtime.
- [43:44]
Dan Patrick
Oh, what a game. Penn making its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2018. That's your play of the day, brought to you by Liberty Mutual. Why pay full price when you can customize and save Switch to Liberty Mutual. They'll customize your auto and home insurance so you only pay for what you need. I didn't watch the Academy Awards. I was watching a lot of the college basketball selection shows and the analysis that follows after it. And then I realized that the show was on and they usually hand out like a best supporting right away, usually early. And then they make you late, wait till late to get the best picture, Best Actor. And I did mention this last week. I didn't know if there was going to be sort of a Timothy Chalamet fatigue going on, but Michael Jordan, Michael B. Jordan ends up winning. I don't think anybody's surprised there. I thought he was wonderful in that role. Yes.
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Co-host 1
He not only did Timothy Chalamet not win, but I think Marty supreme went.08 or. I don't think they. They were nominated in a lot of categories and didn't win any of them.
- [44:56]
Dan Patrick
Yeah. Paul Thomas Anderson, finally. Yeah. Pta. Yeah. I actually met him when I was doing Hubie Halloween with Sandler and because Maya Rudolph was in the movie and he was there on set and my son was like, you know, he. When he found out that PTA is there on set, he's like, dad, could you get a picture with pta? I said, pta goes, paul Thomas Anderson. They're like, okay, easy, Scorsese. Big deal. Yeah. So I got a picture and sent it to my son. He goes, how was he? How was he? I go, he was okay. I don't know if he knew who I was, but I got a picture with pta and then he ended up getting his Academy Award. Yes.
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Co-host 3
Paul, is the name Michael Jordan, the most successful name on earth. The basketball player considered probably the best of all time worldwide. Now, Michael B. Jordan, which he was saddled with that name early, is now best actor in Cruising in his career.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah. Well, was he named after Michael Jordan? I know his dad is Michael A. Jordan.
- [46:02]
Co-host 3
Right.
- [46:02]
Dan Patrick
Which I find awesome.
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Co-host 3
So he's not the second.
- [46:05]
Dan Patrick
So if Michael Jordan. Michael B. Jordan. Does he have Michael C. Jordan? If he has a son, I'm guessing Michael A. Michael B. Michael C. Academy Award. Good for him. Sinners was nominated for 16 awards, I think. I think it won four maybe, but. Yes. Yes, Todd, Everything I'm reading would suggest he was not named after the basketball player. It's what you said. Michael A. Jordan then became Michael B. Jordan. Okay. His dad was before Michael Jordan, I'm guessing. So maybe he's Michael A. Jordan. Did he add the A because of Michael Jordan?
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Co-host 3
Checking.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah. I don't know, but yeah, Sean Penn. I thought when I saw the movie, I said right away, it wasn't even over. And I said to my wife, I said, he's going to win the Academy Award. She goes, how do you know that? I said, he just is. And he wins. Is that his third Academy Award? Yes, Tom, that's what I see. Sean Penn. That's his third. So that puts him up with Nicholson. Tom Hanks.
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Co-host 3
Yeah. Sean Penn has two best actors, mystic river and Milk. And one best supporting for last night. One battle after another.
- [47:17]
Dan Patrick
Okay. Yeah. Seaton.
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Co-host 1
How much pressure, if you're Michael B. Jordan, after coming after Michael A. Jordan, to name your child Michael C. Jordan.
- [47:26]
Dan Patrick
Yeah. I think I say it's.
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Co-host 1
I mean, you have to.
- [47:30]
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
- [47:30]
Co-host 1
Michael C. Yeah.
- [47:31]
Dan Patrick
I hope, right? Yeah, I hope so. If you could. Okay. Harrison Ford. Tom Cruise. Neither's won an Academy Award. I think Cruz was nominated. Was he nominated for
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Co-host 3
Born on the Fourth of July?
- [47:50]
Dan Patrick
Okay. Was he a best supporting actor? I thought he got nominated for one other award.
- [47:58]
Co-host 1
Tom Cruise has an honorary Academy Award.
- [48:02]
Dan Patrick
No, no, no. That ain't it. No, sorry. Yeah. I'm not taking a. You know, an honorary sports Emmy. Yes. Todd, do you factor in.
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Co-host 2
For whose career would you want that
- [48:13]
Dan Patrick
he supposedly brought back movies and saved the industry after Covid? Well, I'm. I'm the only one who said that. I think there's others that may feel that way. Yeah. Okay. But you can be Harrison Ford or you could be Tom Cruise. I think I'm going to go Harrison Ford, especially because of Star wars being such a huge deal. I know the Mission Impossible is in Indiana Jones. Yeah, that's attractive.
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Co-host 1
That's.
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Bruce Pearl
He's in.
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Co-host 1
He's in the two of the three biggest. Or two of the biggest trilogies of all time.
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Dan Patrick
Who are you going to be? Satan, Harrison Ford or Tom Cruise?
- [48:44]
Co-host 1
I feel like there's a lot that comes with being Tom Cruise that I'm not really interested in.
- [48:47]
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
- [48:48]
Co-host 1
I'm happy to be really good at what I do and then be randomly anonymous. And then they have people like the big hubbub is like, he's got an earring. How old is he to wear an earring? I would rather deal with that kind of heat than, you know, Tom Cruise.
- [48:59]
Dan Patrick
But just. Just the filmography, not anything else. Just the films that you've been in, not the money that you've made, just the films you've been in. Marvin.
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Co-host 2
Harrison Ford was in the Fugitive, so I'm taking Harrison Ford.
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Dan Patrick
Okay. Todd. The Raiders of the Lost Ark movies. I just. I think it's definitely Harrison Ford. Yeah. And it feels like both play themselves in all of their movies. Right? I mean, Harrison Ford, it didn't feel like he ventured too far from being Harrison Ford. Tom at least had, you know, Tropic Thunder, where he was great in that movie. Yes.
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Co-host 1
Yeah. But he had to put on, like, a big fat suit to do that. That doesn't really count.
- [49:41]
Dan Patrick
Yeah. But for him, that's his De Niro moment.
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Co-host 1
He was very good in it.
- [49:44]
Dan Patrick
He was.
- [49:45]
Co-host 1
He was really a lot of fun. I think that a lot of the, like, air quote great actors that we have now kind of all play themselves like this. George Clooney ever really that different? No, not really. I mean, even Denzel. I love Denzel. He's never really that different. He's either the good guy Denzel or the bad guy Denzel, but it's basically still Denzel. I mean, all of the actors now of a certain age maybe are all
- [50:08]
Dan Patrick
kind of that same De Niro, Pacino.
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Co-host 1
They're always them.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah. Yeah. Paulie.
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Co-host 3
Harrison Ford had Witness. Blade Runner is a classic.
- [50:17]
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
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Co-host 3
Back in the day.
- [50:18]
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
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Co-host 3
And he's more variety for Harrison Ford.
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Dan Patrick
I think Witness is a great movie. He was great.
- [50:25]
Bruce Pearl
Yeah.
- [50:26]
Dan Patrick
John Book, Man.
- [50:28]
Co-host 1
I thought about that bathroom scene. Every time I ever went into a public bathroom, I was always like, oh, are there teeth in there?
- [50:35]
Co-host 3
Patriot Games for Harrison.
- [50:37]
Dan Patrick
I was in that. I went to that bathroom when I got into the Philadelphia train station just to go in there. Yeah, I know. And the silo scene with Danny Glover.
- [50:47]
Co-host 1
That silo scene is crazy. That's a crazy movie.
- [50:50]
Dan Patrick
I know.
- [50:50]
Co-host 3
Killed by Grain. Not common.
- [50:54]
Dan Patrick
Kelly McGillis was in that. She was great.
- [50:59]
Co-host 3
Amish hot.
- [51:00]
Dan Patrick
Oh, very Amish hot. Jay Billis. Make that segue. Jay Billis. He'll join us coming up from, I think, the Nashville airport. He's stuck. He's stuck with us. Hour two on the way after this.
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Podcast Announcer
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Dan Patrick
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