Club Shay Shay - Best of March Madness Part 1: Blue Blood programs ARE DEAD, Unc & Iso Joe TEAR UP their brackets after Arizona & Illinois advance

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

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The Blue Bloods no longer control basketball any longer. There's no difference between Kentucky, North Carolina, than Illinois, St. John's. There's no difference anymore. There's no difference between Michigan State, who's at Blue Blood and the other teams from the conference from Mississippi. When they get going, it's all going to be the same. Joe, has NIL at the transfer portal, has it leveled the playing field?

Because before the NIL, Indiana had no chance of doing what they did in football, 16 and 0. So now it's made a lot of these programs, you see what Texas Tech was able to do. You see some of these other program, Ocho, that were typically doormats. Yeah. And now all of a sudden,

they're playing in the college football playoffs. Now all of a sudden, the teams that normally were there, and he said the Blue Bloods, as we know them, the Kansas, the Kentuckies, the North Carolinas and all these teams.

Nah. It ain't. It ain't. I agree with you. I think the playing field is so even nowadays, you know what I mean? that the Blue Bloods are really getting kicked out. When you think about it, you know, it's not like it was back in the day.

Everybody wanted to go to Kansas, Duke or Kentucky. It's not it. With college basketball being a professional sport now, it's different. You know, you got a lot of these cats, they're going with a bag at, just like anything else, you know what I mean? Yes. Now, they ain't going to come out and tell us they're going, but come on now. Come on now.

We know. We know. It's a joke. Because think about it, guys. Before they was giving it, them back, the bonds are going to North Carolina, Duke, Kansas, something better like that. A-cuff going to one of those blue-blood's problems.

Yeah. And a funny thing about it. But now, money is money. Hey, his money spent over here, Arkansas, just like that money spent at Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky. It all spent the same. And you know, if the coach say the same thing,

you have Coach coming out saying this about basketball that the Blue Blood Program no longer run college basketball. Hell, didn't Nick Saber say the same thing about college football? Well, this is when the playing field is even. Now, everybody, we can go and get whoever we want to. Yeah. Need some boosters.

Oh, we need to look cash, just a little change. You know, that's Barry and Tyson. All you got to do is incentivize the better kids to come to your school. Now, if you got enough money. And all of a sudden, you ain't got no control on that. And they want it, and they want to, they like capitalism. But you see what they're trying to do to them college kids

because a lot of the kids are getting that capitalism, how are they looking at them? You know what's going on? Hey. Now all of a sudden, we need to put a, we need to put control on this. Yeah.

Oh, the portal, the portal. College coaches always have a portal open. Always. Yeah. Yeah. You see them coaches start leaving. Hey, hey, when all of a sudden that NIL came to,

came to be and the money was going to be spread around, all of a sudden, you know what? I think the game is passed me by. You think? Now all of a sudden, you ain't the only one. Now ain't nobody cares about no scat pack. No ain't about no hell cast, no demons.

Yeah. You guys say, hey, Texas said, we got Ferrari and Lambo. Yeah. Ohio says, what you want? These other programs offer money too. So guess what? We see these coaches start to deal. Coach Kay, then you saw Roy follow him out the door?

Yeah. You saw Coach Saving? He'd say, nah. No, no, no, no, no, no. We ever, don't, don't do that. And I think Coach Sabin is the greatest college coach ever. But we know what time it was. Hey, hey, yeah.

Now all of a sudden, let's get a hold on this. Let these kids, these kids, no, no, no, no. Colleges robbed these kids for so long. Long time. Let them get about 15, 20 years of get back. Then y'all want to do something with it. But now, no, I don't do nothing with it now. Because you know why?

Y'all know why they want to do something with it now. But I thought we love capitalism. America is the greatest country in the world because you can come from nothing and make something. That I. Hey, hey, an American dream. Whoa, whoa, now they're telling you, they don't dream too big.

Ah, no, let me get mine. No, these coaches been jumping and jumping. Now you want to. You ain't put no cap on how much these college coaches make. Not in football, not in basketball. Now, now I get it. Now, if you want to say, look here, man, I'm going to give you five years to play for. And you shouldn't be 25, 26, 27, Ocho playing college, no sport.

Right. Get your ass out and get a job, get a wife or get whatever, but you shouldn't be playing with no 18, 19, 20 year olds. You shouldn't have no seven, eight years. Go out the line at something. We got to draw the line somewhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We can't have no 26, 27-year-old playing damn college sports. I got to go ahead, Ocho.

Are there certain scenarios, like Uncle Joe, certain situations, injuries, ACLs or things? COVID messed it up. What COVID did, COVID not until basically not, and guess what, Ocho? Now cats can go to Juco and there ain't even went to school. So you still got four years to play four in college. You can do two in Jukech.

and still. Yes, and that ain't nothing. But it's schools out here, Uncle Ocho, like the University of Arkansas, to where when they get these castes, this NIL money, they don't even tax it. It ain't even no tax on it. Yeah.

What? Yes. Yes. It's some schools who give an NIL money who don't even, who don't even take, you can't even collect tax from it. These guys, hey, man.

Hey, they, they, they, they, they, getting it man by the boatload. You hear me? I'm trying to, hey. And I ain't got no problem. I ain't either. I'm trying to get it. Because for the longest time,

they've always, guys have always gotten money, but they didn't call it NIL. No. You know, you know, from high school coaches or parents getting jobs at the university,

a mom getting a home or car, or getting a job or something. Yeah. Yeah. I tell you what, you buy the car, I'm gonna have this school here to put gas in it. If somebody bought the car, somebody will put gas in it,

but I'm going over here because they bought my house. There you go. So I don't have a problem with it. I want these kids to make as much money as they possibly can. Because for the longest time colleges have used their name, image, and likeness. And I don't have no problem with guys leaving.

Because guess what? That college scholarship is for one year. College can get off a player after one year if they see fit. But now when the players got a little power and they can go somewhere else and get a little bit more money, oh, daddy, how you do business?

How many coaches have released a player that he thought he had a four-year ride there? Oh, it's been plenty of time. Exactly. Yeah. So I'm going to guess what? I play good over here. You paying me a million?

Somebody go off of me two? Yeah, that's why in college sports, they can say what they want, but it's never gonna be any loyalty in it, when it comes down to these guys making money. They're in it for making money. But it's a bit, I thought it was, hold on, you see what it, Joe, you see what you just said?

It's a business for them, but it's loyalty for us. Job, please. Hey, Joe, it's a funny thing about it. Oh, you want us to be loyal. While you doing business, we being loyal. Now, it's a business. Guess what? I'm a business too. I'm incorporated. I'm an LL. L.A.

Hello. Yeah. And so I need to worry, I need to worry about my bottom line too. Like you worry about your bottom line. I need to worry about mine. So guess what? We both worried about our bottom line. What is in the best interest of you? What is in the best interest to me? If it works, it works. Because if it makes dollars, it makes sense. With a seat and with an interest.

Come on. Which is why you got to recruit your players every year. You absolutely do. You absolutely do. No matter the relationship, you think y'all might have a great relationship, you got to still recruit that guy, man. Because guess what?

Don't you got to recruit your girl every day? You got to wake up every day, Joe, and kiss her and tell her how much you love her and how much you miss her. And when she's gone for a little while, you say, baby, I missed you. I'm so glad that you in my life. You got to recruit. That's what you do in a relationship.

That's how you stay together for an extended part. You got to recruit the woman that you win. You got to recruit the man that you win. Somebody else trying to recruit her. Somebody else. Hello. Hello. Get what?

And get what? He got NIL dollars too. Cause the guy that you, if somebody see you, you know what, Joe? I'm gonna leave. Go ahead. Now, come on, come on. Let's get in the water.

The water was cold. It chilled my body, but not my soul. I stepped in the water. I can, Lord, Lord, have mercy. on me because trust me about this if somebody see yo with you Joe your girl with you your girl with you what you oh Joe guess what's coming another dude they got an N IL package yeah so you got to recruit her mm just like these crews got to them and I stepped in the water it was up to my knee I said Lord Lord have mercy on me

yeah y'all you see y'all ain't ready for real shop y'all ain't right to run because God he asked you know in Malikau 3-8 he asked a rhetorical question he say will a man rob God he already knows the answer he said yes theoretically you can't rob God but you can and tie that and offer he said now in 310 he says now if you believe in me if you tithe and you offer he says I'll open up the windows of heaven and plow you out of blessing you will not be able to receive that's what the Bible teaches us. So if you don't recruit your girl, that relationship, because of school and college and a player is a relationship.

Mm-hmm. You don't recruit or somebody else recruiting. Hello. Damn. I like that. I like that. It's cold out here now, fella. Yeah.

Yeah. Hey, you know the funny thing about it doing up? The game always been cold. You just got. The game always been cold, but you know, now we got jacket. Yeah, look, look, check him out. Check him out. Huh?

You know what I'm saying? Now we got jackets. We got the church. We have the door that the church is open. Now, you know what I'm saying? Hey, intro, now you know what I'm saying? I look here now. We're going to play out the complexion played around.

Now, God don't like noise. You know what I'm saying? That would say to say, God don't like noise, Joe. Like no noise. No, uh-uh. Hey. Hey, you know what? After hearing you preach,

you are also a brother of the cloth with me. You are you are now anointed. Yes. Yeah, I'll say, oh, my goodness. But you know what? I think as you get older, you learn a lot more. Because, you know,

we weren't recruiting nobody. Hey, this is what it is. Stay if you want to. Leave if you want to. As you get older, you know, your boy, what he used to? You know, I got me a little cane. I go get around, I'll move, man.

So, you know what I can't catch when I used to catch. You know what I used to catch? You know, guys, I can't catch what I used to catch. Yeah. You know, you get what you can now. Yes, sir. Once upon a time is what I wanted. Now?

You get what you can. Yeah, man. When you go fishing, you're like, I don't know if, Joe, you have been deep sea fishing. No, I ain't been deep sea fishing. Sometimes when you get, you get, you. go deep sea fishing, you looking to catch a particular kind of a fish. Come on that. You get to be my age.

You get to be my age. You know what I'm saying? I catch catfish. I catch crappy, bass, walleye, pike. You know what I'm saying? Flounder sheep head rock fish. That's all. Yes, all.

I'm just saying. I'm just keeping in one thousand with y'all. I like it. I like it. Whatever biting. It's a little different nowadays. You know what I'm saying? It's a little different.

It is. It's a lot different. Yeah. It's a lot different out there. But you got to. And these guys know their value. Get what you can get. Obviously, you want to go, you know, I think for the most part, 90% of guys that go to college have aspirations of playing in the next level. Absolutely. Probably 10% will. But in the process, if I can make me a couple of million dollars before I even get there.

Why not? Why not? The game is the game. They didn't play it a very long time. Yes. Pendulum has happened to shift now. And now with that pendulum shifting, now they want to control it.

Oh, now they want to change the narrative. Well, hell, you didn't make, or even they made billions off playing the life in a couple of years. Billions. Ain't nobody bad at the eye. Ain't nobody said nothing. Nope. Oh, now the, now the playing field is even.

Oh. It's a problem. Come on, child. All that money y'all don't made off the backs of these college kids. Now it's a problem. They're getting a little bit. They still, they can never. Because the system that was in place, it was in place for 75 years.

So it would need at least 75 years for them to catch up. Now they get a couple years. They get what, four or five years of NIL money. Now all of a sudden it's an issue. Now all of a sudden. Oh, yeah. They're going to come up with something to what they're going to catch. Of course they are.

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You're talking about 14 and 10 and 13 and 12, and they, you know, neither team shot. the ball particularly well. Now, but when you look at Houston, Joe, they shot two free throws all night. And win no game. The game would have been even more lopsided. If Arizona could have, fighting a line, I could have made that free throw.

They're 12 or 21. Beat them on the glass. They beat them on the glass. Both teams shot 9 of 23 from the three. The Illinois shot 43% from the floor. Houston was worse. 22 of 64. 34% from the floor.

And we know the Cougars can turn the defense up. But in the process, they didn't really get anything cheap. Nah. They had the scrap for everything, and they couldn't, they couldn't, they couldn't, they couldn't, they couldn't, they couldn't, they couldn't. I'm giving Illinois credit in this. They, they played hard, they guarded, they were tough, defensively.

Okay, Ocho, it took Houston forever just to even score a bucket. Yeah. Joe, I was looking at it. I was like, hold on, because I had, I was going, trying to go back and forth. And I'm looking, I'm like, damn, it's 15 minutes, it's five minutes already gone out the game and it's only 402. I'm like, what the hell? Hey, I said, they're shooting in a peach bag here with a bowling ball.

Because I'm like, with Daigle. They made it ugly, I'm. They made it really ugly. Illinois made it ugly. They did, bro. They did. They made it ugly. They were tough defensively, Archa Ocho. And then they got, Illinois's got a lot of guys that can go off the bounce

and they can score that ball and put pressure on you. I didn't think they played great, but they played good enough to win. Houston just played so bad at the wrong time that this 10-point victory for Illinois is really should have probably been about 15-20. Yes, absolutely. They looked terrible the whole night. I'm going to be honest with you. They had no type of chemistry, no flow continuity, none of that coming in this game to where, you know,

I thought Flemmas would kind of get off to a good start, you know, kind of seized the moment, but none of that happened, bro. It was a super low-scoring game in Illinois. Steve Yonka-Bitch looked good. He got, he had 13. How do we do light on prize picks?

I don't think, I think somebody, I think somebody let us down. Was it Brandon Smith let us down? Because he needed 21 and a half and I think he had 21. That's the boy from Purdue. Yeah. Yeah.

I think for me, guys, If I'm Illinois coach, I'm like, look, guys, we did not shoot the ball well. We did not, we did not play a really good game and we're moving on to the elite eight. Yeah. Yeah. We got to feel good about where we are. We held that team to 55 points. But you got to think about it, though.

Do you really tell your team that with the performance that you had tonight? You happen to get a win because the other team plays so bad, but going forward, you're not seeing teams. They're going to shoot this bad. They're not going to be. Hey, Illinois's coach probably telling his players, we're not going to shoot this bad.

You know what I'm saying? That's what I'm saying. We played, we didn't play no great game. We can play our best basketball. You know what I mean? Against our top team like Houston, like they are two seats.

Like a lot of people had them pick to win it. Right. I like Illinois, but I did not see them going. I did not see them getting beaten. I didn't. You know, I picked,

I thought there, I caught a couple of highlights of their game. But man, they guys, who, boy, look here. I mean, they got about six and seven guys. I can't pronounce their name. They had to come from overseas. They had to, they got brothers on the team. They got, uh, uh, uh, Timoslav Isovic, uh, his brother,

Isovic, Stoyakovich, uh, Huber Ruchos. I, like, damn, what y'all getting these guys from. Hey, and Stoyakovich had been playing great the whole season. I can't believe he'd come off the bench. I thought he was starting. Yes. Yes.

Illinois got a good team. And I think that's the thing. Look, that's the thing you do. I mean, we've all been a part of teams. We've won ball games. And the coach says, look, you never apologize for winning. But we know we can play much better than what we played. And so that tells you the room that we can prove.

Because we beat this team, and this is not anywhere close to how will we can play. Absolutely. Absolutely. So if I'm Illinois, I'm feeling good about the next game. I mean, we played probably the toughest team, one of the toughest teams left in the tournament. Now we still get a chance to move on. We just got to tighten some stuff up and be better than next game. But for the most part, Illinois answered the bell, man.

They answered the bell. They answered the bell. Hey, who Illinois got to play next, Joe? Iowa Big Ten Oh yeah They both in the Big Ten Huh

Big Ten for a chance to go to the final I wonder what was a series like this year On them playing They probably played twice right Probably two or three times Yeah And then hell you got Iowa stayed on the other side

And you got Michigan And you got Purdue Big Ten got to be feeling good about themselves They're like hey Y'all looking at us in just a football program But they look at our basketball team. Yeah, Big Ten ball. They're doing their thing.

They're doing their thing. Yeah, because you know, when you think about Ohio State, you think of Michigan, you think of Penn State, you know, you think of, you know, you think football. Yeah, like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

You know, we go, hey, it's time, it's time for us to shine, too. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I had Houston going far. I think I had Houston. Oh, yeah, I had Houston going to the final four. Yeah. I did. I did.

Hey, how the bracket looks at that? Oh, man, come on. Joe Cook. Huh? Joe Cook. Y'all got to be. I know Ocho probably cooked over that, too. No, not.

He will be tomorrow. Yeah, who you got? Yes. Hey, I should be in first right now. Nah, I'm not sure about that, Ocho. Yeah, I'm definitely, I'm, I guarantee that. I mean, we get to that point, but I'm just saying I know I'm in the meeting back.

We'll get there a minute. All right. But the Illinois, they move on to the Elite 8 face to a 65-55 victory over the Houston Cougars. They advance. Iowa is headed to the Elite 8 after 7771 victory over Nebraska. This one was all offense, 26 combined three-point of minimal whistles and defense. Well, hey, take a choice.

You can't make this up all season long. Nebraska only said four players out, I will get some layup and one that really sealed the victory. I'm trying to figure out, Joe, out of a timeout. How does Fred Hoyberg, a guy that played the game, college game at an elite level, he's coached the game at an elite level? How does this happen? I don't know how you get out there and don't notice you ain't got but four players out there,

man. I'm saying, yeah, it's on the coach, but it's players too. like I mean it's a pivotal moment man we still got a chance it was still 40 something 46 seconds on the clock you know what I mean like you had plenty of time to get a stop and to come down and make something happen I know they kicking their self behind this but I'm gonna get Iowa credit man they were shooting a cover off that thing I thought Nebraska shot the cover off of it too this was a good shooting game these dudes play hard uncle Ocho I thought they got great contribution Iowa

from the bigs. They just know how to play, make. They move the ball. They play the right way, getting good and wide open shots, playing for one another. And you love to see basketball when it's played like that, bro.

You didn't know who's going to be. I would do a great job of protecting the basketball also. They only had five pro-overs. You're going to win a lot of games. You're going to win a lot of games like that. They shot 52% from the floor. They shot 43% from the three. They only shot the,

they only went to the free throw line. Like I said, it wasn't a whole lot of free throws. They went to the line 12 times. Nebraska won 11 times. times. But like, it's kind of like, like, out of a timeout, how do you,

how do you get caught with two men on the field or go out of a timeout? Yeah, football. That's crazy. I'm like, bro. So I'm looking at basketball. I'm like, bro, how? How is this possible? Nervous, pressure, the situation. Sometimes the lights and lights too bright, you make mistakes like that. You're not thinking right.

Overthinking it, analyzing it too much, instead of just being stuck right in that moment in general. I agree. That's the only way something like that happened. I agree with Joe. I agree with some extent. I think probably Horberg was probably too busy thinking about the next play. Uncle Ojo drawing up a play.

But I just don't know how you don't, I don't know how you ain't see it. You ain't have a four guys out there. This is really my first time, honestly. This is really my first time really watching Nebraska play. And Iowa, too, in this tournament. They both look good. I think Iowa beating Florida has gave them momentum and confidence to feel like they can beat anybody.

Yep. You know, don't pay attention to that nine seed they got. They ain't know they, hey, don't pay attention to that. Hey, them boys out there balling, man. They're playing the right way. They're playing the way basketball is supposed to be played. Moving that ball, getting great shots. Mm-hmm.

And great shots is exactly what they were doing. on eight and Joe and Unk, but only two people was in double figures out of the starters. Brother, brother, brother, for Nebraska. Right.

Yeah, for the Hawkeyes. But they, you see them too. You see them too. The Hawkeyes had three guys in double figures. One starter and two backup. Two starters.

Two starters and two back up. No, two starters and two backup. That's what I did. They had four guys in double figures. I thought you were talking about Nebraska. Nebraska had two guys. I said,

I said, now, I was saying two starters for all guys. Oh, yeah. Double figures. But when you get that kind of a number figures. off the bitch. Think about it. Joe,

think about this. They got 38 points off the beach. Yeah, at a high percentage, too. It wasn't like them. They were just six or seven, six or ten. Their bitch, their bitch guys made seven, seven of their 12th.

They made seven of the 12 threes. You getting that kind of production off the bench. Hey, I'm laughing. Yeah. You get me in a college game, you give me 38 points off the bitch, and you let them guys shoot like that for three.

I'm going to win a lot of games. I'm going to win a lot of games. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. In college, I'm getting 38 points from my bench, and the guy's shooting, except making 7-3, yeah, I'm going to win a lot of games. I am.

Yeah. Yeah, and they guard, too. I would ain't, it ain't just O'Le when you come down here. Like, them dudes guard and too, Uncle Ocho. They ain't just out there offensively. Like, they're playing great team, defense, help position. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Gang rebound, and we out. But I thought Iowa needed their bench tonight because they had three starters that gave them eight points. One starter played 14 minutes, gave them no points. Banks played 15 minutes, gave them two points. K.L. Colms gave him 20, played 27 men, gave them six points. So they need, if they don't get that kind of reduction from their bench, they're losing their ball game.

Oh, yeah. You can't have a starter play 14 minutes and get you no points. And another spot, so you got two starters that play 29 minutes. Yeah, you get two points. Two points. You got to find a way. Three of your five starters, three of your five, starters give you eight points you're losing that game unless you're starting you guys come in

and they give you 16 and they give you 19 and then you get another three a guy hits a three i agree so you get 38 points from your bench i agree but contributions got to have you got to have that i mean and you know look it always happens like this in a tournament game in tournaments you always get you always got to basically expect it unexpected because somebody going to pop up joe that you least expect it. Yeah. And give you and give you, you know, give you one of those performances. Yeah. Yeah. And that's,

hey, look, that's what we needed for Arkansas. But anyway, I'm on to, I was great. You know, you got to have, like, like Uncle said, you got to have contribution from guys who maybe you didn't necessarily think, you know, they were going to give you that much.

You know what I mean? Like, you know, you got some guys who will step up and play outside their bodies in this type of environment. It'll be great for you. And see, the thing is, it's like if you haven't played against a lot of these teams and you only get to play them in the tournament, you know, so trying to fill them out, it's kind of like boxing. You know, the first couple rounds, trying to fill you out, see what you got. It's like the first few minutes. I'm trying to fill you out, see what's going on. Then I can

kind of make my move. But I think I will, man, they have found the remedy, bro. They play hard. Like I said, they beat the number one seed, which was Florida. They're confident through the roof. I think they think they can be there anybody, Uncle Ojo. Yeah, absolutely. Shoot. Once they beat Florida, then you got two young bulls coming off the bench, you know, playing like that, being at a fishing,

six for nine and one for six, what, six for ten, one for six for six for eleven. Yeah, you can damn there be anybody. I think the biggest thing, a biggest thing that has to happen. When you upset a higher seed, you can't be satisfied. A lot of times, you know, you see these Cinderella

they upset us a number one seed or number two see they get satisfied. Florida, I mean, uh, Iowa doesn't seem to be satisfied. It's like, okay. We, damn. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You get your first basket. Joe, you get your first basket in the NBA. You're like, okay. Gee, man, that wasn't as hard as I thought it would. Y'all gonna let me my first, my first time I touched the rock. Hey, I get the preseason game. Hey, the first ball they throw me. I catch a touchdown.

That's okay, I'm doing it right, right. And you beat a team, you beat Florida, when nobody gave you a chance, probably only people in the locker room that believed in your fan base. Yeah. And you pull out that, just don't be, and we see this a lot in football too, oh Joe.

Sometimes the guy, team get upset and they're like, oh man, we knocked up this team. And then you're like, they go out there the next week Yeah, it happened all the time. Nah, nah, don't be, don't be, be greedy. That's what I'm saying. You know, people like, man, why are you greedy? Hey, I want to win mega million,

powerball, cash flow, cash three, fantasy five. Hey, all of it. I'm trying to win. All of it. Every last one. Yeah. I need my coins. Hey, guys, you remember they used to send those

flublishers clearing houses and they're talking about you can win. Oh, yeah, yeah. You remember that? Hey, Joe, you take a picture with the check Yeah, yeah. Man, I remember that thing, they said a thing, you want a million dollars.

I'm like, oh, I'm jumping, I'm happy. Man, please. Everybody had got to talk about you want a million dollars. Hey, what it is? Lying, line, like. But don't think we didn't play to try and said it in. Hello, hello. Cause you know, they used to,

I don't even know, I don't know if they still even have that, but they used to announce the winners on television, such as such one, one million dollars. Like, oh my goodness, what would it be like to win a million? especially back then though uh you know how much money that was back yeah what you're talking about man that that public's clear how they and uh uh y'all remember the uh the maga i think it was a tv guy would you get like 13 CDs for a penny yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you get 13 uh oh eight trash you get uh cd you get yeah for a penny uh uh what was it columbia i think

It was Columbia. Chad, what was it? I don't remember that. Yeah. Y'all don't remember you could get a record. You get like 13 more piti. Yeah, I don't know. Ready for a different take on Formula One?

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13 or 27 attempts. Alabama, hey, Alabama held on as long as that could. Field Yon Jr., LeBaron Field Yon Jr., hey, that's what I'm talking about game change. You need guys who can get to that chicken, Ocho, who can get

to that, who got a bag. Hey, man, we need, if you a score, yeah, perfect. We need you to get some buckets. The rest of us, we can do the dirty word. One more guy to come along with it. He needed one more guy because Michigan had too many guys. You can figure they got 33 points on their big.

They missing 20. So he needed one. He needed another guy. You know, they missing 20 points of game, you know. Oh, yeah, yeah,

I forgot. I mean. He hurt. He hurt. Your guy tried to be free. Hello. Yeah, but if they had him,

they definitely, they probably would have really had a chance. They definitely had a chance. Yeah. But I ain't know, I ain't know, I ain't know feel y'all was not that nice. You know, you see Clint. You saw.

see highlights of them and stuff like that. No, he could, he could. Yeah, yeah, I got a chance to watch Alabama play a few times because they're in the SEC, obviously, playing against my razorback. So they got some guys who can go, who, you know, and they got some some tough, gritty guys, too. They got some tough gritty guys, so they,

they're pretty good. You know, people look at Alabama, and people just think Alabama football. Yeah. But Alabama used to have basketball. What you're talking about? I mean, you, you know, they had Orii, prewell, McNewell. They, they, they, they,

They had free and spring with Alabama? Before them, they had... Free with Alabama? Yeah. And they had Gerald Wallace. I played with Gerald Wallace. I don't know. Before then, that's before your time.

They had Bobby Lee hurt. They had Ines-Watley. Oh, they had come guys. They had some dogs. Some boy raised down deep in the south. Hey, proud of him getting hurt, Antonio McDice. McDice?

I play with McDice, oh. I'm talking about him. You were talking about 6'10 and can leave the building. He's like that, Ocho. I'm talking about- He can jump like that. Oh, my goodness. Head time.

That boy can fly. That boy can fly. Before he hurt that knee? Oh, he was, hey. Because I was in Denver when he got there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was at, Brian Stills came there, Lafonso Ellis.

I was there when Jalen Rose got there, all of them, DeKinebethambe Mutumbo, all of them. Rodney Rogers, Melo. So, hey, McDice? Ooh, Lord, have mercy. Man, before he hurt that knee, he was something to deal with. Yeah, he wasn't nothing to play with. That boy would say it.

No, yeah, Ojo, he would like that. But Bamma has some hoopas, though. They normally keep some hoopas though. They, they, they might not, obviously, you know, we know what the football side, what the football program does. But basketball-wise, they rarely ever slouches now. They normally keep some pretty good guys over there. Yeah, I ain't, I know that.

I think Alabama football, it overshadowed. They so goddamn. It does. It does. It does. It does. It does. It's just like Michigan football.

Michigan has some players. Yeah. Yeah. Don't slip on Michigan basketball players. But Michigan, that's a football school. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, people just talk about the Fab Five, but, hey, man,

when they had Glenn Rice and meals and all those guys, they had some guys. Yeah. Now, they have some guys. They had some guys. But the number one seed so far, other than Florida, advanced, who does Michigan play next? Hey, you see.

Oh, they play Tennessee. You see Michigan got a lot of juniors and seniors too. Yeah. Hey, they got experience that they are banking on, but they got guys playing well. The one thing that I noticed about their bigs, man, they can pass. I'm going to tell you y'all something, man.

In today's game, if you got any young hoopers is out there listening, chat, y'all, hear me out. Man, having a great IQ for the game, knowing how to pass, knowing how to play the right way, that'll get you a long way, bro. Michigan got some guys. He does.

I'm talking about them back-dough passes when you got them guys playing over-aggressive. Yeah. Sitting and rolling for your bids, and they can play, mate, they take a lot of pressure off your guards for guys who really can't get by their man like that. Right, right, right. You know what I mean?

You got different ways to get open to exploit the game and manipulate in so many different ways when you're big as versatile like that. That's why Yolk is so special, man. Look at Yolkid. Yeah. Oh, you see what he had? You saw it. No, what he had?

He had what? He had what? He had what? He had 13, 14, and 12. Yo, hey, he playing it in our face right now. Yeah, I know that, right? playing our face. Yeah. We, hey, y'all think he don't hear the chatter

about who should be MVP. He always going to be in it, but the man is a triple double. Yeah, for sure. I think, you know what it is, Joe, give me a guy that has IQ, be it football, basketball, baseball, because a lot of times, oh, Joe, we play with guys.

Do it robotic. You say, hey, bro, this is right 10 to 12. Where the guy's standing right there, you're going to run behind. Dumb, don't run behind it. The quarterback ain't going to throw you the damn ball. You run behind it. Find the DB, cut in front of him.

Man, you know what, hey, I saw, bro. Hey, IQ, making you. Boy, I can't, son, I hate to tell you this. But if dynamite your brains, you couldn't blow your nose. Come on. Hey, hey, uh, and Joe, the better your IQ, especially when it comes to the game of football, obviously I'm sure basketball is the same way,

where you can see what's going to happen before it happens or knowing what's going to happen, actually before it happened to be two steps ahead of everybody else. at times, at times, I could just speak from me playing receiver joke. Yeah. It's always two or three steps ahead of the person in front of me. Right.

Two and three steps ahead of the safety because I understand what you have to do and I know where you're going to be. So understand how to manipulate what's in front of me and give the illusion that I'm doing something that I'm really not going to do. Yeah. I can get the spot I need to get to as fast to tell.

I understand it. You know what I mean? I think, yes. I think you may, I think you may even have to have that ambassador. more than you do in football. Especially if you got the ball in hand, huh? I don't know.

Well, because the floor, if things have to understand floor spacing. You know what I mean? I think that's the biggest key, especially these young guys who really don't know how to play the game. You know, they don't understand floor spacing and getting deep corner, getting out your man away. You know, you got a guy operating. You're standing right next to him, cut.

You know, a lot of these cats got to learn, Ocho, because they all growing up with the ball in their hand, and when they don't have it in their hand, they just look like statues out there. They don't know what the hell to do. Yeah. And you know, Uncle Joe, you know what they always say. When it comes to sports, the game, especially once you get to the highest level,

the game is 90% mental. Hello. It's only 10% physical in the middle. So now it all comes to how much you know up here. How can you see the game and see things before they actually happen? Yeah. Always having a plan. If plan they don't go right, how fast can you, can you reenact?

It happened with plan B. Yeah. Being able to adjust on the fly. Yeah. I mean, it's, oh, it's. That's what makes me so upset, Ocho, is that, and we talk about this all the time, I say, Ocho, he got help to the inside.

Why would he get beat outside when he know he got help inside? If you got help outside, why would you get beat inside? That's what kills me. You see the guy. You see that safety coming down. If you see the safety coming down, what do you think the man on top of your head going to do? He's going inside.

The safety's coming down because now he has outside contained. Bro, how you get beat on that? Man, I ain't. What you mean? You didn't know. Did you watch film? They did it on film 10 times. But every time, but give me your phone right quick.

Let me see how many the phone numbers you got in the last, the last five days. You got that. You wrote all them down. But you don't remedy down. Please. See, Joe, that's why I couldn't coach, man. It drove me crazy that we go over stuff and they show up on film. They're going to give you this look.

It's just like Spags. We already know if Spag gets you, if Spags feel threatened, he's coming with me. Right, sure. Blitz, you know that. It's coming. Why is it in a situation that we've gone over and over and over and over? you F it up.

Hey, I know exactly what you mean, boy. Man, you know, it's sharp. It ain't okay. It is not okay. Stop telling me that it's okay. It ain't. Yeah. Hey, bro, how,

and you mean to tell me, so let me get this straight. You can't remember one damn play, but you quick to tell me, I got $1,300 on the SAT. I got a, I got a, I got a 30 on this ACT. I can't tell who took the, test with you.

Your SAT must have been just shapes. What, what, what is this a square, a rectangle or a circle? Cause ain't no way at hell. You can't remember this, but you got a four 13, 1400 SAT. Shit. Oh.

That's, that's why I, I just, I just don't have the patience. I just, I don't, I try. I just don't because. If I can get it, and I know when I got there, I didn't know nothing. I ain't know nothing about no over, no under. I didn't know nothing. I didn't know but no coverages. I ain't no two. I ain't know no one. I ain't no six. I ain't no quarters. I ain't no seven.

I ain't no eight. I ain't know nothing. And for me to pick it up and to be able to flourish in it. Lord, have mercy. I get mad every time I think about somebody to them heft up a coverage. Hey, Joe, I ain't had no choice but to get it, Joe. I ain't had no choice. Hey, none of us had a choice, old Joe. Hey, I talked too much. I talk too much.

shit not to get it, Joe. Yeah, oh yeah. Oh, yeah. I had to be on top of my game. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because if you don't talk people out of their game, you're talking, you worried about me, you got the flat, here you carry me up the seam,

yeah, nothing to that they shot me running, he got 15, your black ass supposed to be in the flat. Why are you worried about me up the scene? Oh, man. But you ain't, they would rather, they would rather shut you down on Joe, blowing assignment, saying you ain't catching no past as opposed,

you got the flag, you got a hook. Ain't standing there? Yeah. I just, man. I'd be thinking about stuff like, Lord, have mercy. I said, Lord, you could have, I said, I wouldn't admire Lord if you took a little bit of talent and gave me more patience.

He gave me all talent, no patience. You know, I can see you, I can still see you coaching for some reason. Coach. No, that man, coach. Hey, even though, Joe, even though he say I don't have the patience for it,

but I understand it what he could do, especially with his structure and discipline when it comes to playing, whatever sport it may be, whether it's football, whether it's basketball, but being that he knows both really well, I can see coach,

especially at the highest level, you get somebody like that in the building, man, stop playing. Because it's hard, oh, Joe, I mean, it's hard to develop this level of discipline if you're not already disciplined. No, that's what that's what you're done.

That's got that's what that's got, I mean, you're like, I mean, it's just like, it's obsessive. I mean, it's a, I don't know, I don't know if I want somebody as disciplined as I was, Ocho, because it ain't, it ain't healthy. And the thing is that it drives you crazy because everything, my grandfather, it had to be right. And so I always tried to do everything because there ain't no, he didn't, like, if you, it wasn't, no good job. I remember he told me and my brother to watch the truck.

He gave us a dollar. No, he gave us $2. He gave us like $3.50. I got a dollar because I just watched the tires. My brother was in charge of washing the truck, the body, dried it off and do all that stuff. We were going to house and run the car house. Papa, Papa, we're done.

He come out there and look at it. He looked at me. He used to be a spanking standing side by side. He looked at the truck, he looked at me and spank it. He looked at the truck, he looked at me and spake him. He said, uh, anything is better than nothing, but you two fellas real close to nothing. I look at, I look at what day, though.

I thought we did a good, oh, Joe, I thought we did a good job. Hey, eh, eh. Hey, you know what, I need you, I need my brother's knee. my brother's, my sister don't like when we tell the story. But that joke was hard. He was hard on. Yeah. There was, there was, there was, there was no excuses. He didn't, he didn't tolerate excuses.

He did not. Damn. Either get it. I'm like, I'm like, and I'm, I'm, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, we been spake and speaking, he'd be, be speaking walking up, he's like, we're real close to me. Yeah, that's what he said. Hey, hey, listen.

So I couldn't, I couldn't do it, Oach, I couldn't do it. It took a lot because, you know, when you have kids, you have to develop a certain level of the patience. I'm talking about patience to the up to degree. Because like, like went in the bed, they gave you to you about two years old, maybe two and a half three. Boy, if you was four years old,

let alone five, six, seven, and peeing in the bed. They were teasing. They were teasing. Teasing. Boy, Barton Porter shut down. on your ass. Mary Porter goes shut down on your ass. Oh, hell

no. Like, you know, kids have a problem where they, you know, they wet the bed. It's a lot of things. Like, a lot of this stuff like you had, boy, they beat that up at you. They beat that up at you. All that, all those, what kids have now, talking about, you know, he got

ADHD, yeah, yeah, yeah, he got this, and you know, oh. Hey, listen, Joe back in them days, you know, it wasn't no ADHD. ADID. You were just stupid. That's it. You were stupid. You were. Yeah. You were stupid.

Yeah. They tell you, guess what? They tear your ass up and all of a sudden, you're like, damn, I could do this homework so good. Oh, four plus four. Eight times four, 32. Oh, I can do my whole work. Well, with Barney and Mary shut down on your ass, I can read.

I'm like, damn, this shit's just so easy. Boy, you know, a whipping solved everything in the side. Everything. You got them. Hey, you, hey. Hey, grandma. Hey, I'll be telling this story. We're going to go.

My grandmother used to have a say, like my aunt and they were coming to house and, you know, they wouldn't speak because my grandfather was big in that. You couldn't walk in this house and not speak. But you know how women, I mean, they're teenage girls, you know, they might be on their cycle or whatever. And they walk in the house and it wouldn't say anything to him. My grandfather said, if there's something on your mind you want to be there? No, sir.

Hey, hey, y'all, Joe, Joe, I'm telling you, y'all need to get with my brother. Boy, boy, did they play that. All that coming in the house and all that sucking your teeth and slamming the doors. No, when you walk into the house, yes, sir, if, hey, good morning, good morning, good afternoon, good night, blow the other case, maybe. But don't you walk in that man, house, and those, boy. Hey, man, y'all, when I was in elementary, bro, we were still, you still getting paddles. You get paddled.

Yes. We had paddles where I was in high school. You could get paddle to high school. I know when I was in elementary, you could get a paddle. I went to the office one time, Ms. Goshen, boy, she gave me, she hit me three times with that paddle. You got that paddle, Joe? One time. One time.

That's all it took, huh? Three times. She hit me three times with that paddle, boy. Hey, hey, never again. Three. Boy, did y'all got out life? I mean, I remember my homeboy told the teacher her breath thing. She got that joke about 35.

He probably deserved. Hey, I ain't, nah, nah. He told me, he told me what? Her breast thing. Hold on, hold on. Now, so he got 35 legs for the teacher. I know he got something when he got home. Nah, they, no.

Hey, I was, I was just surprised. He, he lasted long in school by the long as skip in the military. You know, skipping, he skipped the military. Got you got you. No, they want to be. Damn. I mean, once you get to a certain age, I was like, I don't really expect. I mean, if a guy missing 15, 20, 30 days

and the second, third, fourth, and fifth grade, as soon as he get big enough, it's a wrap. I mean, we rode by the rolling dice, so I like, they ain't, they ain't coming. If you rolling dice at 730 in the morning, what's your chance of you coming to school, Joe? What's the chance on your kid? It ain't, it ain't none.

I got you. Okay. Well, hey, the boy. hustle. There it is. Tennessee beat Iowa State 76.62. The balls pulled away in the second half because of their superior size, physicality and toughness,

as Iowa State seemed to crack without start forward, Joshua Jefferson. Rick Barnes and the balls are back to their third consecutive elite eight. We'll have a chance to reach the final four for the first time in team history. Wow. I am happy for Tennessee. Another SEC blood. Another team. Yep, they got some young guys.

guys, they got the freshman that meant who will be a lottery pick this year, Arcan Ocho, but the rest of these guys are juniors, seniors. They got a, I think they got another freshman or two coming out of the bench, but for the most part, they got the, they got the upperclassmen doing the dirty work while the young guys, you know, doing all the scoring, you know what I mean? And this was surprising to me. It was surprising because I were led by two guards that's a senior. You know, obviously I thought both of them played well, but.

Tennessee too much, bro. They got some bruises under their basket, man. They got out rebounding, Iowa State, by 21. You get out rebounding by that. I'm surprised the score wasn't more lopsided. Think about it if you get out rebounding by 21. They had 16 offensive rebounds. Shot 51% from the field.

For the first time since 2001. the Arizona Wildcats are headed back to the final four. The top-seeded Wildcats punched their ticket with a 79-64 win over the number two Purdue boilermakers, setting a school record for wins in the season. 36 in the process. The Wildcats would take their 13-game winning street to Indianapolis where they'll play the winner of Sunday's game,

Michigan and Tennessee. Against the veteran Purdue team, Arizona was led by its talented freshman. Braden Burry's 14. Can you say his last name? Carton, no call. 18 and Corpete had 20 combined for 52 to up phase, up phase on the biggest stage in their young careers. I was a little word in the first half though, Joe.

But boy, these jokes came out in the second half. I don't know. What kind of adjustments they made at halftime, Uncle Joe? Nah. They, hey, they coach told them, look, y'all going to mess around and we're going to be looking back on this game, talking about, man, we should be still playing. That's what he told.

told me, y'all need to come out with a little sense of urgency in this second half because in that second half, Uncle Ocho, the two freshmen, matter of fact, the three freshmen, the guy number eight, I can't tell his name neither. But Cole P and Burris, they turned it up in the second half. I thought Cole P really got into his, he got into a rhythm. The big boy, he got into a rhythm and he was going at them big that Purdue got. That's why Purdue was able to hang into the game. And that's why when you're seeing Arizona play against Arkansas, we kind of thin and frail down

Now we got guys who can play on the perimeter, but we ain't really got enough girth to deal with them big guys. Purdue had that. Purdue had some big that was going at them. They was offensive rebounding. They was making it tough for Arizona. I just thought in the second half, Arizona,

everything kind of slowed down for them freshmen because all three of those guys freshman, number eight is a freshman. Koch, eight a freshman. Burry's a freshman. His name, Cartonhoe. Huh? Karchenikov. Kachunikov.

Kachchenko. Kachinkov. He's nice, bro. He's nice. Great in transition can shoot the three. He played fearless, get to the bucket. He didn't make no three tonight, but for the most part, he's been a great energy source for those guys, man.

They play well together. They got some great, some good bigs mixed in with these freshmen who kind of doing some heavy lifting, Uncle Ocho. But they're deep. They player the year was the point guard, bro. Yeah. I don't even know if he was a leading score on the team. Maybe he was, but I didn't think he was the best player in the Big 12.

just me personally. But collectively as a team, I don't really see nobody beating Arizona. I ain't going to lie. It's going to be interesting to see what Michigan does with Tennessee tomorrow. We'll see what Yukon and Duke does. That's going to be a good one, boy. Yeah. But Arizona look good. They look good. Four guys play. Had four guys in double figures. They did because, hey, Purdue is a disciplined team, Arkansas and Ocho. They ain't, you know, they ain't going to typically beat themselves. They had a few turnovers here and there, but for the most part, they play the right way.

They play through their bigs, they point guards, play, make, score. I mean, it was a tough game. Like you said, in that first half, Unk, I thought Purdue was going to run away with that thing. Yep, I did too. It was on locked in that second half, fellas. They came out that second half, it was like, ooh, damn. They started, hey, they started letting them threes go.

They started crashing the boards and getting the second chance opportunity. I'm like, okay. Yeah. And you see, once they got it. the lead pretty soon you ain't see number tail lights no everybody pitching in doing something they they're a great team collectively bro they're going to be tough to be i ain't going to lie they're going to be tough to be illinois going to their first final forces 2005 when they were led by darren williams college team in college basketball figured out to use their size to an advantage

the third seed elina outscored the ninth seeded iowa 40 to 12 in the paint and out rebounded them 38 to 21. Whoever says size doesn't matter. L.A. Illinois got that big 71 Jr., they got down there, that big boy in the paint playing around these perimeter guards that they got who can score. You know, Keegan Wagner,

he's going to be a lottery pick. Okay, Ocho, when this year's draft. Oh, he got busy today, Joe. Yeah, that's another freshman. That's another freshman. stepping up, making plays, playing huge. Guess who else stepped up, Joe? Who?

Sto Yonka, bitch. There you go. Yeah. You know what? He might come out too, okay, Ojo. He might. Junior. He played well.

He played well to that. I mean, super efficient. You know, we look at his dad because his dad was such a great three-point shooter. He could do it. But this boy, he'll get to the rack. Okay, Ojo, he ain't even shoot no three tonight. No, he was seven.

Yeah, he had 17 points. He was seven for nine. Yeah. He did that off. did off the bench too, Unkin Joe. He's been doing that all year, though. I ain't going to lie to you. I don't see Illinois play a few times. He's been doing that all year.

He's been doing that all year. Illinois's got a great chance. Yeah, you got them big boys in the paint who know how to play and ain't going to take no bull drive down there. You got you a few guards who can get to that chicken. Yeah. And you got a chance. Hey, you got a chance.

Hey, the line up, man. They look, hey, they look good. I will hung around as long as they could. Yeah, they did. They really needed their guards to, like, play above their head. Yeah. Yeah. Sturts played well.

I mean, I mean, he did what he did. He does what he normally does. He does, he did what he was supposed to do. Yeah. And, hell, I don't think, I don't think he's been off the court. I think he's played all 40 minutes damn in all games. Yeah. Yeah, nah, he did.

Shit he had to. What we, what we're saving you for? Yeah, you're going to have a whole week of rest. win. Hey. But yeah, they guards. They gots. They had to get something from your guards, bro. At this juncture, you know, the tournament, you got to have some guys who you can lean on perimeter-wise, but you also need some good bigs, you know, who gritty tough and can get you some chippies around the basket. Right. Illinois's ready, man. They're ready for the next round, fellas. They might be, who they got next? They don't play Arizona, do they? No. Yeah, we got it.

either way that's going to be hell either way whoever they got to play out of them two is going to be held what? Man Yeah because they honestly yeah Yeah And then the winner of

Who's the out here at the bottom Iowa State in Michigan Ocho you had Arizona win You got Arizona winning Go ahead Hey hey hey hey hey Hey you know my bracket

My bracket's still intact baby I told you Hey, hey, I ain't going to lie to you, Ojo. You do for a win, bro. You do for one. Come on, don't do you do for one. Don't do me like that, Joe. Don't do me like that, Joe.

You do for one. You do for one. What we're talking about? Look at my bracket, Joe. Huh? What we're talking about? This is what I do, Joe. So you need, you need.

Hey, Joe, you might have played the game of basketball, but when they come to pick and winners, that's what I do, Joe. I've been a winner all my life. See, that's why we can't never let it win. What are you talking about? I don't know who works, Ocho or Joe. What? Come on, man.

Come on. I don't brag. I don't brag. Y'all don't make fun of me. Talk about I picked mascots. Man, hollied by him. He don't brag about him. You did.

He just got through gloating. Talking about he don't do that. I don't do animals. Hey, he picked all animals. He got the wildcats. He got huckies. If you got an animal in your name, that's Ocho T.

That's what he did. That's what he did. See, how y'all know some of the things y'all don't say hurt me? How you know it don't hurt me? inside. Dang, your bragging, busted too, huh?

Oh, yeah, my breaking. I'm done. I'm done. Hey, y'all need to just follow my lead from now on. Your Ocho still got

Michigan. Hold on, but if Arizona lose their next game, I mean, what is? It's just a three-way tight-ins, huh?

Nah, because he got Duke. He still got Duke. He got Duke going to the final four and he got Arizona going to the final four. Hey, hey, hey.

So if one is going to go to the final four is open. What you're talking about, boy? Hey, matter of fact, you know what I'm going to do, Joe? What's you going to do? I'm going to play a lotto, and I know I'm going to guess the right numbers. And whatever I win, I'm going to split it with y'all. You would do that? Yeah, for y'all?

Yeah. Joe, you still got, oh, Joe, if Michigan, if Michigan goes, you need, you need what you call, but you basically, you need him to get knocked out. You only got one chance. He got two. chances. What I need? You got a hope, you got a hope, uh, you got to hope, uh, you got to hope Duke in Arizona

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