Now let's get this party started. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. What up? Welcome in this is the Herd. Wherever you may be and however you may be making this part of your day, thanks so much. I'm Doug Gottlieb in for Colin Cowherd on a Friday. Hi. Think. I think the 90s were awesome. I do, I do. I, I, I think the 90s for us. And it's weird because when we were in the 90s, there's a lot of us are like, weren't the 80s better? You know, And I'm watching last night as Alabama beats byu. And I, I do understand, by the way, that statistically, if you look, you could not, you could find very little fault with how BYU played, right? If you're just waking up or you're watching major league baseball or you went to a baseball game last night, you didn't watch the NCAA tournament, let me tell you what BYU did. Okay, so BYU, 46% from the field, 80 from 80 from the line. And they got the line 20 times. They only turned it over 11 times. Now they were 6 of 30 from three point range, which is 20%. That's, that's not good enough. They had 13 offensive rebounds, which is outstanding. So they actually took one less free throw, but six more shots. Six more shots. Alabama took 66 shots. BYU took 72. Alabama was 35 of 66. That's a better percentage on fewer shots. They made 35 field goals. BYU made 33 field goals. Bama was 18 of 21 from line. BYU is 16 of 20 from the line. So it's just those as raw stats. You would go, okay, you made 18 free throws, that's two more points. You made 35 field goals. That's four more points. It was a close game. Alabama beat BYU 113 to 88. Let me repeat. They beat Alabama. Alabama beat BYU despite having more turnovers and taking only one more free throw, making two more free throws, making two more field goals. They beat them 113 to 88. And it wasn't that close. And obviously, if you like three point shots, Nate Oates, who, you know a little more than a decade ago was a high school coach at Romulus High School in, in Detroit, Michigan, then went on to be an assistant with Bobby Hurley at, at Buffalo after joining Danny Hurley at Rhode island. And then he took over at Buffalo, now he's at Alabama. And they went to the final four last year and they look like a final 14. They look like no one's beaten them last night. And Mark Sears, who's a fifth year Senior Mark Sears, who started his career, he's from Alabama from Muscle Shoals. He went to Ohio U his first two years. And again this is why the mid majors don't feel like they compete. Because Mark Sears probably wasn't good enough to play at Alabama early on. Goes and plays and has it, remains confident. Like that's a big thing, right? You go to the right level, you can play right away, you maintain your confidence. He's 10 of 16 from 3 point range. Amazing, amazing. And they end up winning 113.88. But I just, I find it really interesting that even though I love growing up in the 90s like I do, like I have nothing bad to say about my childhood but I can tell you that it's way more efficient to have a cell phone or have a smartphone where you don't have to have a computer or even those old Nokia phones or remember when you had a pay phone. Like you want to talk about inefficient. We were, I took my son last week after doing the Herd. You guys know this. I took my son to Six Flags Magic Mountain. This is his birthday. It's kind of our yearly tradition and we were getting ready to go on Scream. Scream. By the way, underrated of the roller coasters. It's kind of right in the front of the park. It's blue and red and it's not as highly touted as some others. But Stream is an outstanding roller coaster. Outstanding. Anyway, we're in line and it says, you know that you have to place your beepers and cell phones and jewelry into some little box so that you don't lose it on Stream. And my son turns to me and he says, what is a beeper? I was like, well, or maybe I said pager. Well, what's a pager? I was like, what's a beeper? What's a beeper? I was like, oh my God, you have no idea. So what a beeper is. And there's lots of people that are nodding their head like how do you not know a beeper? Like well he's 16 years old. Like I understand it blew off people's in the Middle east because if you know about that IDF story is really Defense force story and what they did with Hezbollah a couple months ago. It's pretty amazing. But then even then you had to explain what a beeper was or a pager is. So in order for someone to get ahold of you. And it started really with doctors. Yes. And drug dealers. If you watch the Wire, you could page Somebody, and then you would page them with a number to call them back. Then you'd have to go find a payphone and either find coins for that payphone or call collect, where they'd either have to say, you have a call from Doug Gottlieb, or have a call from, Hey, 714-768-2020. Call me back. Right. At which time they would then have to call, listen, to pick it up, listen, and then call you back, unless they got it on their. Their answer machine. Now, we just call you, or in. The most efficient way to get somebody to call them back at the most appropriate time is you text somebody. Call me when you have a chance. Right. The point is that I love my childhood, but we become way more efficient with our time. Isn't that the thing that. That Covid showed us? Yes. People are going back to work, and it is important to have the human interaction. But a lot of these jobs we can do from home. And if you do it from home, are there some things that you lack? Sure. But you know what you don't have? You don't have traffic. You just sit down at your desk, and you open up your laptop, and you can still face to face. You just press zoom, which we didn't even know existed before COVID or whatever other, you know, teams, whatever other device. The point is that not all efficiency is perfect. And you do need some sort of kind of human warmth and human touch and human interaction. Fact. No question. And it's not an all or nothing thing. You don't just shoot layups, free throws, or threes. But mostly. Why? Because you're trying to be more efficient. You're trying to be more efficient. In no world, in no other place, are we trying to become less efficient. Is there. Can anyone think of a job like, hey, let's be less efficient than. I mean, you're gonna go fly on a plane. What do you. Do you have the app. You know, you download the app, you type in the thing, you get a boarding pass. Otherwise, you got to go to check in, and then if you get. Get your bag, then you got to go over to the bag drop thing. Then they put the sticker on it, then they go get the bag, then you get the printed off ticket, and then you go through. Or you can just print out your boarding pass. By the way, clear is awesome. I should get some nil for clear. Go through clear. Never check a bag. Right to your app, right to the plane, get on and go. You know, I mean, look, I don't know if it's more or less expensive to get, you know, to use an app based ride, but the only difference between it and a taxi is you press the button. You don't have to tell them the address. You don't have to tell my thing. You just walk, get in your car and go. And everyone I know, don't you time it out. When I land at home, I want, I got my Uber waiting there just like, or just like I'm some big baller with a car service. And then as I'm on my way home, I usually use like a doordash or Uber eats, whatever. So I have food waiting for me as soon as I get home. Why it's all about efficiency. I don't want to cook and clean. It's not just the work. It's like it's such an inefficient thing. Time is money. Let's save time. Let's use more time to check in on people we care about or to sleep or to take care of yourself. Well, I don't understand why people fight the efficiency of sport. And I guess it's because we yearn for the older stuff. We, it makes, it makes us, our time feel more relevant even how you buy records. There was a place called the warehouse. Shout out to the warehouse on Chapman Avenue, right? Album would come out and a lot of times you would go and get a single. Then if you remember again, this is child of the 90s, but I think it started in the late 80s, right? You had the high speed dubbing. High speed dubbing. So you take a cassette tape and then if you want to stop after each song, you had to start and stop. Or you just kind of record it, make your own mixtape. You fast forward until the spot and then you high speed dub so it would be faster. Why was it high speed dub? Because it was more efficient. And then we went from cassette tapes to CDs, right? And now that once we got to the real reason that we had, you know, that Apple Music became so big is you didn't have to buy a whole album. You didn't have to buy a whole album, right? Just download the song you want, preview the other songs. You don't like it, don't download it, pay one fee. It's all inefficiency. And yet Alabama takes 53. Like, oh, this is just what basketball has become. And you mean more efficient. You mean smarter, not harder. You do know it's actually easier to rebound when you have five guys outside the three point line, don't you? That's what people don't really understand. If you post up, it's a less efficient shot, right? And when you shoot the ball in the post, if it's not a surefire layup, you're shooting the ball over an extended hand. And then in order to get the rebound, you have to go through that same guy's body. Whereas if you're spread outside five guys outside the three point line and the shot goes up, you can beeline for the basketball and get offensive rebounds. Because it's really hard when your man is in the lane to box you out when you got a five step running start. Apparently baseball, especially basketball and football are the only three things in life that people want to be less efficient. No, no, no. Mid range shots. Where are the post ups? Go back and watch those games. The players were great and they played to a role that was established. I have no doubt in my mind, okay, that Larry Bird would be right in any conversation. The greatest three point shooter of all time. Just like Steph Curry. Had it been encouraged back in the day. How do I know that? Because when he had to, when they had the three point shooting contest, he won. And it wasn't that hard. And he is a better 10 times the rebounder of Dirk Nowitzki and ever bit the score inside of Nikola Jokic. He was amazing. But that's not how the sport was played. But we found ways to be, to work smarter, not harder in all aspects of life. And yet people in basketball, people in baseball, people in football want it done the old way. That's dumb. That's dumb. It's, it's honestly not unlike. I heard Bill Maher say this, right? We want manufacturing jobs back in the United States. Who's gonna do that? Right? Robots will do it, not human beings. Because human beings go to school now to be more efficient, to develop apps, to develop things that are, that are digitally based. Work smarter, not harder. Yet for some reason we have this loving, enjoyable view of our childhood. Like it was better. Do you know why we established these rules in the NBA where you can't hand check? Because it was awful to watch. It was terrible. But it's like we want to bite off our hand to spider face and tell people it's wrong. When last night. I can't think of one moment where I thought Alabama, hey, why don't you guys stop shooting? The reason start shooting mid range shots. Doug Gottlieb in for calling. This is the herd. Wait till you hear what Mick Cronin said yesterday in regards to recap it for you and react to it. Next in the Herd Be sure to.
Colin Cowherd (21:17)
Him 100 some college games, then let him go to the NBA. But those days, you know, then it's Magic Johnson. It's. Yeah, you know, it's Larry Bird. It's whatever. I mean, he's that good, guys. Yeah, no, he's. He's incredible. I think in some ways, Nil has saved college basketball. And in some ways, people say it's the transfer portal. It's not the transfer portal. Okay, That's. It's a very easy one. And again, maybe I'm. Maybe I'm one of those guys that's like correcting you and it doesn't need to be corrected. The transfer portal is nothing more than you put yourself in the old school days. You just have to go in to see your coach. You could do it by going to see in compliance, but you're supposed to go to see your coach, say, hey, coach, I want to transfer. The coach had to release you if you didn't want to be. If they didn't want to release you, which was weird because you don't want to be there. But if they didn't release you, which is very, very rare. You could still ask compliance or athletes athletic director, appeal to the nca. But usually you go in, you ask to be released and you can sign anywhere. Anywhere except for in conference. That used to be the rule. And if you, you're in conference you had to sit two years, whereas if you sat out of conference, you had to sit a year. The only exceptions to that were if you graduated on. If you graduated and you still had eligibility and the school you went to didn't have a certain major, you could find that major elsewhere. In other words, grad students got to transfer. And I actually have no problem with that rule. Right. If you've been somewhere for long enough to get a college degree, like that's the whole point of this thing and you want to go to grad school, fine, you should be able to leave. But what's hurt college sports is not the transfer portal. It's that you don't have to sit out a year the free and clear. I can go different school, different year, whatever. What, what holds me back from transferring. And let me destroy a little bit of a narrative that is such a false narrative. Since Jay Bilis has pretty much ruined college sports with his ideas of paying athletes no repercussions for transfers, let's also tell you that he's ruined a narrative and made it something that is absolutely, positively. He's done what social media does to so many problems. And I actually like and respect Jay, but he's been on this, he's been on this trail, marching down this trail for 20 years. And congrats, Jay, you've done it. Okay. I don't think it was with the intent of making Duke into a superpower, but that's what's ended up happening. This is end up happening. And if his thing is, hey, you know what I've done is I've created all this wealth for players. Yeah. But the reality is most of these guys, even there's, there's, I don't know how many, maybe 75 to. Nah, probably more, probably 300 high earners, well into six figure earners in college basketball. But some reason they've gotten these agents are getting 20% and it's created an artificial market where when they get done with college, then what if you get done with college and you've played five years and your last couple years you make a whole bunch of money and then you try and go and play overseas where they don't really value young players and you have to earn it, you're going to go from say you made $500,000, and then you go and play pro B in Italy, or you go and play second division in Spain, you might crack 100 grand. You go from playing college basketball and making $500,000, and now sudden like, hey, your first job as a true professional, you'll make a buck 25, which is a damn good job, especially maybe a two in Italy, and your salary can go up. You just like, why would I make less money? Because that's how real world works, bud. But one of the narratives is college coaches constantly leaving. They're in the transfer. The transfer portal for coaches never, never, never closes. Right. Okay, cool. In the acc. In the ACC of Florida State's coach retired. NC State's coach was fired. Miami's coach retired. Right. None of those coaches left their current job. I'm just. I just want to make sure here I got it right with. Yeah, nobody left their current job. Okay? So that's one of the five biggest conferences in the Big 12. In the Big 12, none of those coaches. Utah, they fired their coach before the season was over. West Virginia's coach did leave and went to Indiana, a job that was open because the Indiana head coach was retiring. So I've just gone through two conferences, and basically, again, the. The Big 12 was Big 12, 16 teams, something like that. If there are four major conferences or five major conferences, you're talking about five or so of the. Of the coaches moving places from one to another during an off season. And most times. Most times. Most times it's because somebody was fired. And most times it's like Richard Patino who joined us earlier. He was in Mexico for four years. Entire college basketball rosters are wiped out. In my league, there's a guy named Andy Tool, and he's a friend of mine, okay? They finished with the third worst record in the league two years ago. Last year, they built up, and they won the Horizon League, and they won the Horizon League tournament. And his top four players have already gotten to the portal. Congratulations on building up a juggernaut. They're all gone now. You got to go do it again. It's such a bullcrap narrative that coaches just leave. By the way, when a coach leaves, there's a buyout the. The seat I occupy. The reason it became open late in. In the middle of May, when the portal had been open for two months and had already been, you know, purged, was because Sundance Wicks is from Wyoming, and Jeff Linder, who was going to be under pressure and probably his last year, he's gone and he's an amazing offensive coach at Texas Tech. Part of that team that just won last night. And my school, even though he's like well heck, he was only there for a year and they're all better. No they're not. It was a $700,000 buyout. Help balance our books. If you want to start having $700,000 buyouts for coaches, for players, by all means you can move. Schools at our level would be more than happy to have huge buyouts. Why not? You want to move, should be a buyout. By the way, that's what happens in the real world if Greg Tuohy is our esteemed producer. Greg, you know this. You've been in the radio radio business. If I've left places, if you leave, you have a non compete.
