Marvin (3:33)

We got a couple up there right now. We also have sort of curating people's suggestions. What word better describes the tournament other than madness so far, the leader in the clubhouse on that one is March Meh ness. Okay, that's pretty good. I don't know that we're going to be able to beat that. We also have March blandness, which is sort of along the toddler line of things, but March madness.

Dan Patrick (3:56)

Okay, it's pretty good. All right.

Marvin (3:58)

Pretty good. We also have up there. Hold please.

Dan Patrick (4:03)

Hold please. Okay. By the way, DraftKings has the odds to win the tournament. It's Duke, Florida, Houston, Auburn and then Tennessee is a distant fifth on that list. Yes.

Marvin (4:17)

NCAA tournament is better with more underdogs or heavyweights. Right now, 68% of the audience saying underdogs.

Dan Patrick (4:26)

Yeah, I think you like them now. I think you like them in the Sweet 16 and the Elite 8. You like @ least one. It's just hard to look at John Calipari in Arkansas and go, they're the feel good story or the underdog story of this tournament. I'm going to ask John if he feels like an underdog because all those years at Kentucky, that wasn't a feel good story or an underdog story. 8773 DP show email address dp@danpatrick.com Twitter handle @DP show so all four number one seeds survive reach the Sweet 16. That's the second consecutive year. And as mentioned with the SEC also, we don't have any team that seeded 11 or lower reaching the Sweet 16. That's just the fifth time that's happened since the tournament expanded to 64 teams. There's been a lot of talk about a couple things. You know, there's probably been more talk about the NIL transfer portal and expanding the tournament than maybe the tournament itself. Like, we're not really seeing any headlines. UConn lost, but, you know, I think people thought they were going to lose to Florida. St. John's getting bounced. That was certainly a big story in the New York area, the east coast area, with Rick Patino. You know, now we're looking at, you know, Houston and Auburn, Duke and Florida, but it feels like this expansion, like it's kind of lingering. And I was talking to a NCAA source over the weekend, and he said you were on. You know, what you said on Friday is what's going to happen, and that is the first four is going to be expanded. You'll probably have maybe eight more teams, and you'll have, you know, a couple of different first four sites. They're not going to mess with the seating. He wanted to, you know, make sure that I emphasize that the 1 through 16, keeping those seeds, that's really important for the tournament. March Madness, because we. We got caught up in a 16 beating. A one like that always comes up every single year. They like that. The question is, how many teams are you going to add and when are you going to add them? It's just like with the playoffs with college football. I knew that once they went from four to 12, they weren't going to stay at 12 because there's so much money at stake. And now you can get more teams. More bowl games mean more things. There's more money for everybody. And that's why expansion will happen. Maybe not this next year, but the year after that. Go from 12 to 14. But they won't stop there because they look at the March Madness model, and you can't have that many teams being in a playoff. But, you know, college basketball, everybody is in the playoffs. Everybody can qualify. It's. You start eliminating, you know, you get eliminated in, you know, October, November, December, January. It's. You get teams that get knocked out along the way. It's just, we do it officially with March Madness, but everybody gets a chance. All of these Division 1 schools, you get an opportunity. You win your conference, you get to go to the tournament. So you have the playoffs going on. It's just not, you know, a designated month with March Madness. Stat of the Day is always brought to you by Panini America, the official Trading cards of the program and everything's on sale@danpatrick.com Great deals there. Everything is under $20. Make sure you take us up on that offer while you're there. Sign up for the newsletter. It was a good weekend. College basketball. I mean, you had some high end basketball. You had the one surprise, you know, with Maryland winning at the buzzer. Was it a travel? Would you have called it a travel? Yes.

Marvin (8:19)

Yeah. Just quickly on Kentucky. It's kind of interesting how like somebody just tweeted this at us that maybe Kentucky and Coach Cal are better without each other.

Dan Patrick (8:29)

Yes, yes, they are.

Marvin (8:30)

That's, that's so interesting.

Dan Patrick (8:31)

They are. I'm looking at The Kentucky roster. 22 years of age. 22 years of age. 22. 22. 23. 23. That's not a John Caliper roster. But I think Coach Cal had taken them as far as he was going to take them. Mark Pope played at Kentucky. They brought him in. Really good coach. And it's just a different philosophy. Yeah.

Marvin (8:53)

See that roster is also called the Good Luck. Next year.

Dan Patrick (8:58)

I think they'll better enjoy.

Marvin (9:00)

This one because next year is going to be a whole new team. Let's see how that goes.

Dan Patrick (9:03)

They'll be okay. They're going to be okay.

Marvin (9:06)

Pie to the face.

Dan Patrick (9:07)

Yeah. Luke and Kentucky. Oh, does Kentucky make the tournament next year? Is that what you're saying?

Marvin (9:12)

Let's go. Pie to the face. Apparently everybody from there makes the tournament. So we're going to have to see do they get out of the first round?

Dan Patrick (9:17)

Maybe Luke and Kentucky. Hi, Luke. What's on your mind? Hey, good morning. First time, long time, 165 7, but hardening still. So my best of the weekend and worst of the weekend best was the Arkansas win over St. John's showcasing resilience and just refusal to quit. The worst was really the vitriolic reactions from Kentucky fans who are die hard and really being upset with John Caliperi's early tournament success since leaving uk. It was disappointing. Yeah. Kentucky fan. Now I can't speak for everybody, but certainly felt like Kentucky was ready to move on from John. John realized this. He got a good friend, big booster at Arkansas and it was, you know what? I have to win every single year. That's, that's Kentucky basketball. And now, not that Arkansas doesn't expect greatness because they've had some great coaches, you know, when, when you go down through history and some great ones. Muscleman was really good. You know, 40 minutes of hell. I mean they've, they've Had Nolan Richardson. I mean, they've had and had really good players there. It's just weird that Kentucky's in the tournament. Kentucky is in the sweet 16, but you're still living vicariously through John Calipari. It's best for both. You needed a separation here, and both benefited. You know, keep in mind, when Arkansas went 0 and 5, I'm sure Kentucky fans were like, yeah, okay, let's see how good a coach you are. And maybe John has to. You know, he's reinventing himself as a better coach. He was a great recruiter. Great. But when you get to the tournament, you got a coach, and I don't think he did great jobs there. When you're bowing out early. Now, that's on the coach, too. Yeah, Paulie.

Paulie (11:17)

We always joke on this show that whenever somebody. Someone says they've parted ways. Well, that's never true if someone fires someone or someone quits. The Calipari situation was perfect. He saw the writing on the wall his last two years at Kentucky. 22 and 12, 23 and 10. Didn't advance deep. And he said, okay, let's save everyone an awkward situation, move on, take a new job. And it worked out great for everybody.

Dan Patrick (11:40)

Auburn, Houston, Florida, Duke, all advance. Connecticut gets dropped. St. John's Wisconsin also out. And Xavier's coach is no longer Xavier's coach. Sean Miller is bolting for Texas. Lucas in Texas. Hi, Luke. What's on your mind today? Hey, Dan.

Todd (11:58)

Good morning.

Dan Patrick (11:59)

Good morning.

Todd (12:00)

Best and worst of the weekend.

Dan Patrick (12:02)

I have to say, my worst would.

Todd (12:05)

Be, you know, my.

Dan Patrick (12:06)

One of my final four picks going a little pasta premature out of there. So thank you, St. John's and, yep, never good. But I will say my best. Although this might also be the worst. It makes me a terrible dad. I'm not sure. My kids, they're young, they're just kind of getting to, you know, watch games and whatnot. And they have the habit of always picking the team when a game would come on. They were rooting for the team that was winning. And so I was trying to say, well, you need to stick with a team.

Todd (12:34)

Root for them the whole game. So we started one game fresh.

Dan Patrick (12:37)

We said, there's no. We don't know the score we're going to pick. And our whole family picked. And I was the only one that picked against them. That game happened to be. My entire family picked Colorado State, and I picked Maryland.

Todd (12:49)

So am I a good dad or.

Dan Patrick (12:50)

Bad dad for celebrating being the only one to win that game? It's a teaching moment. There, Lucas. I mean, these kids got to learn. You got to learn. Heartbreak, heartache. I always wonder, you know, I joke about it, but when you're a parent and somebody is probably passed down, maybe from your father, this is the team you root for. Like, not. You know, it's not a question. It's that. That's who you root for. I mean, imagine being a parent and they hand it down to you that you're a Jets fan, and then you're going to do that to your child. And I always joke about maybe the authorities need to come in. Like, you need to have sports authorities that come in and say, hey, hey, Mike, don't do that to little Tommy here. Don't make him a Jets fan. Let him. Let him pick his own team. But I was never handed a team. I think I remember watching the Cleveland Browns where I grew up in Ohio. They were on every Sunday, so that was my team. And then I moved to Cincinnati, and then the Bengals were there, and then I was a Bengals fan. Like, I didn't. I didn't care, but I was there in Cincinnati, so. But it's not like I didn't go, golly, you gave me the Bengals. And the Bengals were really bad for a long time, but it's not like I was. I don't know. Felt like my dad said, you're. No, you're going to be. I went from a Browns fan. They won a lot. And then I'm a Bengals fan. You know, maybe it's like, you can root for whoever you want. Yeah, Paul.

Paulie (14:22)

There must be such a natural pressure on children to root for their dad's team, to hang out with them and spend time with them, and you just want to hang out. You don't really care about the wins or losses, and then you develop into a real sports fan who. Who cries and gets upset.

Dan Patrick (14:36)

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Todd (15:08)

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No, it was.

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Todd (21:37)

It's happened before, but people don't seem to remember it like this is not the first time we've had a tournament quite like this. It's happened many times before. But you know, in this age of facile interpretation, we're going to immediately blame nil in the transfer portal because we didn't have a mid major breakthrough. We didn't have as many buzzer beaters as one can remember in another year. But you know, you go back to 2008, all four number one seeds made it to the final four in San Antonio and so what are we to take from that or seven years ago we had the same number of major conference teams, breakthrough versus mid majors. What are we to Take from that, you know, one, one data point does not make a trend. And if we have this five years in a row or five out of six, then I think we can talk about it. But right now it's just, it's just another year.

Dan Patrick (22:32)

Was that traveling at the end of the Maryland game?

Todd (22:35)

I didn't think so when I looked at it live, as you know, you know, you get two steps after you complete the gather and, and it looked fine to me. But if we're going to look at it like the Zapruder film, like what I always look at when I hear officials or supervisors talk about a call afterwards and basically justify it and say, okay, this was the right call, given this circumstance, what I always ask him is, all right, if it had been called the other way, would you say that was a bad call? And I think if it were a call to travel, all of the supervisors and people who are on television critiquing the officials, former officials, they would have justified the call as a travel too. It's one of those, it's one of those calls.

Dan Patrick (23:25)

But then we would have had an underdog with Colorado State making the Sweet 16, which leads me to, Is Arkansas a feel good story? Are they an underdog?

Todd (23:38)

Not really. I mean, and that's sort of the thing when you talk about double digit seeds. Like last year we had a double digit seed make the Final Four in NC State. You really think an ACC team is an underdog or a Cinderella? It depends on your definition of it. Arkansas, if they were healthy all year long, they would not have been a 10C. They weren't healthy. So I think what Cal Perry has done is frankly amazing. They're, they're, they've been absent their leading score at du. Thero, who transferred in with Cal from, from Kentucky. Boogie Flan, their hotshot freshman who was their leading scorer until about two months ago when he injured his hand, just came back. He's only played like one or two games. It's remarkable. And they've played better over the last 10 or 11 games just to make the tournament. And, and for them to have to give up 28 offensive rebounds and, and only make two threes against Saint John's and win. I, I, I'm still stunned by that. It's, it's kind of a refuse to lose back to UMass Calipari that we're seeing.

Dan Patrick (24:42)

I was curious about Rick Patino. He got a little sharp with a reporter saying why was RJ Lewis on the bench the last five minutes? And Rick was saying, you're you know, basically baiting me here. But why was the biggest player of the year, even though he was struggling shooting, he's still your best player? Why was he on the bench, you know, for those final five minutes?

Todd (25:05)

I mean, he was clearly in a funk and. And he couldn't make a shot and was not playing well. So I don't know exactly what Rick's reasoning was. My issue watching the game was I was like, why are you not throwing the ball inside to Zubie Edgar form like he's killing these guys and you can't make a perimeter shot. They really haven't done that all year. And it was pretty clear it wasn't going to magically appear in the last five minutes. But, you know, Arkansas had some significant foul trouble. So on Amir B, six fouled out with, I don't know, six, seven minutes to go, and Jonas Adu had four fouls, like go into the. Go into him and. And let him bowl his way to the basket. 23 points, and he was so hard to stop. But, you know, my. My coaching place in the hall of Fame has not been secured at.

Dan Patrick (25:54)

Rick says can. Should Danny Hurley change?

Todd (26:01)

Well, he should change some things. Yeah. I think the way he comports himself on the sideline should change. And I think some of the things that he says after a game, you know, like what we saw in the hallway, was that a huge deal? No. But is it. Is it what you should do? I think the answer is no, too. And look, I get it that the response is, well, that's just who he is. I tend to think that's an excuse for bad behavior. It's not a crime. It's not a big deal. So on one hand you go, well, we don't have any characters in the game anymore, and he is clearly a character. But. But would it be so bad if he was just kind of superstitious and this crazy competitor and wears, like, superhero socks and all that stuff and we cut out the other stuff? I mean, yeah, I think that would be okay. I don't know that the way he talks to officials actually benefits him. I know the officials don't care for it, because when I was critical of Danny early in the year, that was probably the first time in my lifetime officials were like, hey, keep going. Usually they don't like what I say.

Dan Patrick (27:10)

Yeah, but Bob Knight couldn't change. Coach K probably didn't change. I mean, these guys are who they are. At some point, that's who they're going to be. Doesn't mean. I mean, it was the end of the detriment of Bob Knight. You know, Coach K was a fiery guy. I don't know if Danny Hurley can change. I just. I don't. He's been this way since he was at Wagner in Rhode Island. And it's not like, hey, we're the bullies on the block. I'm going to dictate what college basketball is all about. Feels like he was this way a long time ago.

Todd (27:44)

Oh, I'm not. I'm not arguing that, and I'm not saying that maybe he can't change. If he can't, then, you know, then don't worry about it. But I would think maturity would be helpful in these situations. Like, I just don't believe. Like, and I used to talk to Night about this, like, when he would. When he would embarrass a reporter because I saw him at clinics when a unprepared, lazy coach would ask him a stupid question, and he would educate that coach and be very somewhat what I would call empathetic, I guess. Then a reporter asked him a question that he thought was a stupid question, and he would embarrass the reporter. And I said, I was with him one time at Texas Tech, and I said, why, why do you do that? Like, why don't you? Just like, this guy was probably covering a state fair and then a high school football game, then he's got to come cover you. Like, why don't you help him out and educate him? He goes, I've gone to I' too deep into Mike. I can't. I just can't. And I was like, yeah, you can. And he just. He didn't want to. And. And, you know, with the one thing that I think is interesting about coaches is they love to talk about accountability, and rightfully so. Accountability is important, but. But they make excuses with regard to themselves at times. And kind of what you hear from Danny, some of it is reasons, and then other parts are excuses. And my thing would be just get rid of the excuses and make the. Make the. If you're saying I shouldn't have done this, then stop doing it. You know, that that's okay. Like, we can. We can do that. He can still be fiery in a competitor. Like, one of the things about Coach K. And look, every coach, every player, you're going to cross the line at some point. It's competitive. I get it. But, man, after games, it was pretty rare where he. He wasn't a good loser. It's pretty damn rare. Like, he. He comported himself Pretty darn well. And, And I always admired that about him. Win or lose, after the game, he. He had empathy.

Dan Patrick (29:46)

I asked Danny Hurley about not taking the Laker job, and I'm paraphrasing. He said, I, I'm not mature enough. I got it. I gotta mature. So I, like he's aware. I just think he gets in. And I always find it ironic when coaches like, you know, you gotta comport yourself. You gotta, you gotta stay in the moment. You know, don't go crazy, you know, you know, all the. And then coaches go crazy. I never understood that Knight wanted discipline out of you, but he couldn't get discipline out of himself.

Todd (30:14)

Exactly. And that's sort of what I was talking about on the accountability point. You know, you. Sometimes you think about, you know, Will Ferrell in old school and not, what was it? Old school, when he's, when he's saying we gotta keep our composure. Kind of losing his mind. But look, coaches do that. But, but I think, I think they can do better and, and they should strive to do better and quit making excuses when they don't.

Dan Patrick (30:38)

Good to talk to you. We didn't even get to transfer portal month. We didn't get to Nil. Maybe next week we'll hold off and talk about that and I. Transfer portal starts today. Jay. Crazy.

Todd (30:49)

The coaches portal has been open.

Dan Patrick (30:51)

I know.

Todd (30:52)

And nobody's calling for guardrails. It's unbelievable. Coaches under contract are getting poached. They're, they, they, they have no loyalty. But nobody says that. It's. It's only for the players. We have to worry about that.

Dan Patrick (31:05)

Thank you, Jay.

Todd (31:06)

Thank you.

Dan Patrick (31:07)

Jay Billis of the Mothership, College basketball analyst there for a long, long time. All right, some phone calls coming up. Tom in New York. Hi, Tom. Best and worst of the weekend. Hey, Dan. Thanks. I. My best of the weekend is my New Mexico Lobos beating Marquette on Friday night. That was pretty exciting win. We haven't won for first round in the tournament for 12 years. And then my worst of the weekend was the Michigan State game. And I'm an official. I kind of, I like to be just open minded, but it just felt like there were a lot of ticky chat calls that really put us in a bad position and just kind of took the game out of our hands last night. Yeah, I mean, it happens. You know, this is where officials need to get together and regroup during games just to kind of do, you know, take inventory of how we're calling this game. What are we seeing in this game? How do we need to call it differently because sometimes you'll go into a game and go, that team, they are a physical team, or this team's a finesse team, then it changes. But I do think you have to the. And maybe they do, but I think officials need to talk about this, of what they're seeing. Because if you just let all three officials just be individuals, I think that's where it can be dangerous from the standpoint of what are we calling and not calling, when are we calling it, how are we calling it? Because all you want is as a coach and a player, tell me how you're going to call this and stay with that and I'll be fine with that. It's when all of a sudden you go, wait a minute, you let, you let them do that, you know, in the first half. Now we can't do that. That's what I think. That's when coaches go apoplectic. How about we go around the room? Best and worst of the weekend Todd, I'll start with you.

Seton O'Connor (33:16)

Best of the weekend in women's college hoops Saturday, Oklahoma Sooners had an NCAA tournament single game record 72 rebounds in defeating Florida Gulf Coast University 8158 in the first round. 72 boards. Love it. Worst of the weekend my bracket, St. John's losing an Arkansas Saturday tournament bracket totally destroyed. Had the Red Storm going all the way to the title game and beating Duke. So I am very done.

Dan Patrick (33:38)

You're done. So you know to have 72 rebounds, you have to have 72 misses. So you can say, well that is incredible. They had 72 rebounds. But that is horrible that there were 72 rebounds to be had. Seaton O'Connor best and worst My best.

Marvin (33:53)

Of the weekend or a team called the Oakland Roots. Their soccer team. They play USL championship. They play in the Coliseum now there, which is a gigantic venue. They had over 26,000 people show up to their home opener, which is a massive crowd for a team like that. Best part is at the 24th minute they gave a standing ovation for the full minute for the number 24 for Ricky Henderson, which is great. Everybody stood up. All 26,000 gave him a standing ovation, which I'm sure Ricky would appreciate.

Dan Patrick (34:20)

Ricky B. Ricky.

Marvin (34:21)

Pretty great gesture. Worst of the weekend is everything related to the U.S. men's National Team.

Dan Patrick (34:28)

Marvin. Best and worst Best of the weekend Caleb love from Arizona. 29 points, nine rebounds. He's a North Carolina transfer in his next game In a Sweet 16 is against Duke, so hopefully they can pull something off. Worst of the weekend, man. St. John's the shooting 21 for 75. And for you math majors out there, that's 28% from the field. Paul, Best and worst of the weekend.

Paulie (34:52)

Best of the weekend. The job Mark Pope is doing down at Kentucky, first time really watching them this year, they look really good. The worst, I am going to give it to Sean Miller of Xavier. It was his first coaching job. 04 to 09, did very well. He took the Arizona job, you know, a dream job, as he called it. He was there for quite a while and then it went bad and they let him go. And there's some baggage around it. Xavier in 2022 takes him back. The program is good. It's a quality basketball program. You know that program, Dan. They've always been good and he can make them even better. And now he's bolting to Texas. What's wrong with having a career like Mark Few of Gonzaga? Mark Few stayed at Gonzaga for decades. He always wins 25 games. He's a almost a household name. And he's going to go to the Basketball hall of Fame if he's not already in it. And he gets to the tournament all the time. Why not stay, be novel?

Dan Patrick (35:40)

Well, I think he lives up to his last name. He's one of the few who stays. You know, these guys are. They bounce around, bounce around, bounce around, bounce around to get to a head coaching job. And then it doesn't stop there. It's very rare when somebody goes, you know what? I'm happy here. I like what I'm doing here. It's. Coaches cannot complain about the transfer portal. They cannot. And that's what Jay was saying. Coaches can do it. Yes.

Marvin (36:11)

It was crazy, too. Like, a lot of times a jump like that comes with a gigantic raise or something. You're like, man, for that kind of money, you got to do that. I don't think this was the case. I don't think about the same money.

Dan Patrick (36:21)

Yeah.

Marvin (36:22)

I mean, unless I'm reading it wrong, I could. It's very possible I'm reading this wrong. But to me, it looks like he got a bump of about $500,000, which for the normal person is a fortune. Right. But when you're talking about 4.5 versus.

Dan Patrick (36:36)

5, okay, there's probably a lot of incentives in there. You get to the tournament, you get to sweet 16, probably, stuff like that. Has anyone had a worse year, perception wise, than Danny Hurley now? No crimes or anything. It's just him as a basketball coach, him on the floor. But perception wise, it Feels like everybody's, you know, kind of piling on here. A lot of columns on this, and you need to change. Can you change? Yes.

Marvin (37:06)

I get it. I get that. Because I know I'm definitely somebody over the last several years who've been like, man, this dude needs to chill out. What are you doing? We all do impressions of him. We make his faces and stuff like that, but at least he owns it to some degree. I. I get the sense that he's very well aware of how crazy he is.

Dan Patrick (37:26)

Well, his wife has to say hun, like. Right. I would think that she would be the. The sounding board that you have. I just don't know if he can now you have to want to. I don't know. Does he want to change? Has he bought into this is who I am. He saying, I'm. I'm the coach. I'm the. I'm the face of college basketball. Sometimes you buy into what people portray you as. Yeah, pulling.

Paulie (37:56)

You said last hour he's been doing this back at Bryant in Rhode Island.

Dan Patrick (37:59)

No, Wagner.

Paulie (38:00)

Wagner, yeah. Once he starts winning and getting national attention, it's almost a green light to be himself more so and yell and scream and be on 60 Minutes. Like, all his behavior for the past 20 years as a coach, you win two titles, it's open season to do what you want.

Dan Patrick (38:16)

But I would say perception wise, without doing anything illegal, getting arrested for anything. Who had a worse year, perception wise? LeBron. Everything that happened with his son, bringing his son in, you know, a Nepo baby, lot of crit, a lot of criticism there with LeBron that had to do with his son. The run in with Stephen A. Smith, and he didn't do anything other than he wanted his son to play on the team. And now you get. Yeah, I mean, Stephen A. Was backtracking. Now he says that he knew that Bronnie could play. Like, there are a lot of analysts who are all of a sudden saying, bronnie can play. I knew he could play. I don't remember hearing anybody say, I just said, you got to stay one more year or stay in the G League. But just because he got toasted by Tyrese Maxey didn't mean he couldn't play. It was, he shouldn't have been out there. But, you know, J.J. redick had to put him out there because they needed a guard to go out there and play early in the game. So he gets roasted. So what? I mean, Tyrese Maxey is a great player. Now all of a sudden, he can't play. He Just needs to play, that's all. Let him play. Let the kid be a kid. Yes, Eaton.

Marvin (39:35)

It's a good comparison, too, because Dan Hurley, a guy who made it by himself.

Dan Patrick (39:47)

Yeah. Yeah. It's like everybody now. I knew Bronnie could play. I just. I think.

Marvin (39:52)

I think the one example of, like, focusing in on LeBron James and his son while ignoring the thousands of other cases of kids who are in semi similar situations. I don't know.

Dan Patrick (40:05)

I think what LeBron James and his wife have done has been remarkable. Absolutely. LeBron growing up in a single parent household, and he has made. Made himself a billionaire and raising good kids, at least from the outside looking in. And you got your son on the team. Okay. Like, there's worse things that dads do. What did your dad do? Oh, you put a cigarette out on my hand. What'd your dad do? Hey, got me a job with the Lakers. Man, you had to. You suffered. What are we doing?

Paulie (40:42)

Call the authorities.

Dan Patrick (40:43)

Yes, call. Yeah, they wanted to call the authorities. Well, this is child abuse, what you're doing. Don't have him out there with Tyrese Maxey. Yes. Marvin. And now I'm thinking to myself, when people say, oh, he took a job away from somebody. If you're fighting with Bronnie James for a spot, you're exactly where you need to be in the G League. Because if you're that good, you're not fighting with Bronnie James for a spot on the Lakers. Yeah. And I don't know if he's still going to be in the NBA when LeBron retires. I hope he is. I hope he shows that he can play. He was the 55th player taken for a reason, and he's playing like he's the 55th player in the draft. Yeah.

Paulie (41:22)

Paul, if LeBron put his son on the Wizards, then I'd have some problems.

Dan Patrick (41:25)

That is when I have a problem.

Paulie (41:26)

No, dad.

Dan Patrick (41:27)

No.

Paulie (41:28)

You said I could play.

Dan Patrick (41:29)

I'm giving you a timeout. You're going to the Wizard League.

Todd (41:35)

Please.

Dan Patrick (41:36)

Mommy's gonna send me the Wizards to stay in college. Yeah. And if you continue to act up, I'm sending you to Charlotte. All right, you take a break. Got more phone calls. You want to be like Jordan Poole? Oh, man, he got punched and he got traded. Yeah. Yeah. All right, let me take a break. We'll get some more phone calls coming up. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show, weekdays at 9am Eastern, 6am Pacific, on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Paulie (42:08)

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Dan Patrick (42:10)

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Dan Patrick (42:23)

Where were you in bikinis in the snow? Montana. Okay. She flew out and joined you guys.

Paulie (42:28)

Isn't it cold?

Dan Patrick (42:29)

No, it was.

Marvin (42:30)

We.

Dan Patrick (42:30)

Well, yeah. Bikinis in the snow. We risk getting hypothermia for those photos.

Paulie (42:34)

Wow.

Dan Patrick (42:34)

They were sick, though.

Paulie (42:35)

I don't get bikinis in the snow.

Todd (42:38)

Just like an aesthetic.

Dan Patrick (42:39)

Yeah.

Paulie (42:40)

If him and I did that, if we did like Speedos in the snow.

Dan Patrick (42:45)

You guys would be like, dude, bags in the snow would be. I would be like, let's see it.

Marvin (42:50)

Come on.

Dan Patrick (42:52)

I would not complain to do stuff like that. He's like, no.

Todd (42:56)

That's going to be the name of this podcast episode.

Dan Patrick (42:58)

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Dan Patrick (43:00)

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Paulie (43:03)

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Paulie (48:28)

Yes, Paul, Tiger posted it 15 hours ago. Quote, Love is in the air. He should have stopped right there.

Dan Patrick (48:37)

What is going on?

Paulie (48:38)

Love is in the air. And life is better with you by my side. We look forward to our journey through life together. At this time, we would appreciate privacy for all those close to our hearts. He tweeted that out to 7 million people asking for privacy.

Dan Patrick (48:52)

And this is Donald Jr. Donald Trump Jr. S ex wife.

Paulie (48:57)

I didn't know when I looked at it who she was. Yeah, but I assumed it was an engagement post because life is better with you by my side. That sounds like an engagement announcement and I don't think it is. Lt Gray.

Dan Patrick (49:10)

Let me, let me put this on social media, but please respect my privacy.

Seton O'Connor (49:13)

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Dan Patrick (49:20)

It's had 19 million views.

Paulie (49:22)

Yeah.

Dan Patrick (49:22)

Yeah. Please respect our privacy.

Paulie (49:25)

Give us some peace.

Marvin (49:26)

For the last time, I don't want to talk about this.

Paulie (49:29)

Not actual sound.

Dan Patrick (49:29)

Dude, what is that your Tiger impersonation?

Marvin (49:33)

I need to hit the ball better.

Dan Patrick (49:38)

That's not bad.

Marvin (49:38)

He's. He always gives a. A long, like, breath pause in his sentences. He'll say, well, first of all, I need to hit the ball better. That's my ball. Striking today is not great.

Seton O'Connor (49:56)

That is very solid Tiger Wizard.

Dan Patrick (49:58)

I love it. My. My glutes didn't fire today.

Paulie (50:02)

Yeah, Paul Tiger did two pictures with his new girlfriend. One Standing against a wall, just a casual photo. And the other one is laying in a hammock with his glasses and Tiger woods hat on, in case you didn't know who he was. Who's the person who gets assigned this photography project?

Dan Patrick (50:17)

Maybe Tiger's daughter.

Marvin (50:20)

Come here. Take a picture of us laying down here, acting like we're sleeping.

Dan Patrick (50:23)

Thanks. Like we're in love. Well, he's got sunglasses on. Marvin saw the picture. Marvin goes, tiger, come join us. Shave your, shave your head. What's, what's left? Shave it off, man. Whenever he finishes a round and he takes his hat off. Oh my gosh. Tiger, come home.

Seton O'Connor (50:40)

Join us, please.

Dan Patrick (50:42)

It's clean over here. Come on, man. Yeah, I was watching some of the golf this weekend and guys would take off their hats, so from their like eyes down, they're really tan. And then they have this four inch gap their forehead and it looks like a five head. It's just white. Yes. Seaton.

Marvin (51:01)

Do golf reporters also get that?

Dan Patrick (51:05)

Probably.

Marvin (51:06)

I mean, I would imagine if you're out, you know, you're walking the course, you're doing whatever, you're doing all the same stuff that they do. Do you also get that same tan?

Dan Patrick (51:12)

A lot of golf reporters don't go out on the course. They stay inside. They watch on tv. All they're there is really to watch, you know, the press conferences to get, you know, their interviews there. You don't normally go out walking around because it's hard to follow every. Unless you're following just one player or one, you know, group, you're not walking, you know, around a golf course.

Paulie (51:36)

Yeah, Paulie, we call that two tone. Look, the Stuart sinks.

Dan Patrick (51:39)

Yeah, Stewart sink.

Paulie (51:40)

The top half of your head looks like you've been vacationing in Antarctica. And the bottom half is the opposite.

Dan Patrick (51:45)

Newton in Virginia. Hi, Newton. What's on your mind? Hey, Dan. Really appreciate you taking the call. So a couple of quick ones. One is, these things are kind of connected the way that I see it. I met Jay Billis and I sell commercial and residential real estate here in Richmond. And Jay was nice enough to be one of the speakers at an event for commercial real estate that Virginia Commonwealth University put on. And the thing that was really impressive about Jay is that he is genuine. The exact guy that you talk to is the same guy that I talk to is the same guy that's on TV every time we see him. And I think that one of the reasons that he is as popular as he is is because he is genuine and people love it when you're genuine. They don't, they, they don't like seeing through your bs. Yeah, well, thank you for the story there. Yeah, I've known Jay long, long time. Right after he graduated from Duke. Think I remember I wasn't around him then, but then certainly with the mothership. And very, very knowledgeable. Always enjoyed talking with any. And he has strong opinions too, which I love. Let's see. How about Kurt? Kurt and Washington. Hi, Kurt. Hey, how's it going? Thanks for taking my call. Yeah. Dan patrick, above average show six two but below average. 180. I have two best from the weekend. One, my Wisconsin Badgers women's hockey team winning their national championship. And Mark Johnson actually raising, actually asking the team who wanted to take the penalty shot at the end of regulation. And then the same woman actually winning in overtime. And my second best is a shout out to some real good dudes and coaching staff up in Alaska. My Colony Knights girls basketball team winning the championship. It's a group of guys that have been dedicated, working hard, spending a lot of time coaching. And actually the coaching staff helped coach both the boys and girls. All right, well, thank you, Kurt. John Calipari will join us coming up. Bill Simmons will stop by as well. Final hour in this Monday, right after this.

Paulie (54:15)

I was always around it.

Dan Patrick (54:17)

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Paulie (55:30)

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Marvin (55:46)

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