Club Shay Shay - Nightcap Hour 1: Arizona SPANKS Arkansas + Illinois MOVES PAST Houston + Iowa UPSETS Nebraska + Purdue SURVIVES SCARE vs Texas

Episode Date: March 27, 2026

Shannon Sharpe, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson and Iso Joe Johnson react to Arizona beating Iso Joe’s Arkansas Razorbacks, Illinois beats the Houston Cougars to go to the Elite 8, and Iowa upsets Nebraska to advance to the Elite 8 and much more! Subscribe to Nightcap presented by PrizePicks so you don’t miss out on any new drops! Download the PrizePicks app today and use code SHANNON to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/NI... 6:35 - Arizona beat Arkansas26:54 - Illinois beat Houston34:20 - Iowa beat Nebraska44:58 - Purdue beat Texas56:50 - Bracket Updates (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Wow, wow, wow. I'm shocked by this for them to get beat like this. Joe, I mean, they just could not stop them. They could not. They got offensive rebound. after offense and rebound, which was footback, second chance points. They got whatever they wanted, however they wanted. They were in the lane.

I mean, they shot, Joe, Arizona shot 64% from the floor. They shot 63% from the three point line. I'm surprised it wasn't the 30 or 40 point blowout. When you allow somebody to make six out of 10 shots from the field, and then another six out of 10 shots from the three point line, you're going to get beat badly. And this game wasn't even close. A-Cup did all he could to try to keep him in it,

but it wasn't nearly enough. This game was basically over, probably the first two minutes of the second half. It was over. Joe, what did you see? What didn't Arkansas do or what did Arizona do to make Arkansas look as bad as they did tonight? Okay, Ocho, I'm going to give Arizona they credit.

I thought they played great tonight. They were a lot more physical than us tonight. I thought their bigs came ready. to play. Cole Pete. I can't even pronounce the other guys named the big boy number eight. Yeah.

Number 13. Credice. He was a monster down there. Their bigs did what they were supposed to do. They did all the dirty work. They shot high percentage from the field. And like you say, you can't be nobody letting them shoot

64% from the field, 63% from three. Yeah, it was supposed to be a 20-some point blowout. You know what I mean? Yep. And they went to the line 39 times, Joe. They went to the line 39. They were just a lot more physical than us.

We're guarding heavy, we're perimeter heavy as far as the scoring. And we just, our biz, they had to play great against these guys, man. And we just came up short, man. We got beat by a much better team. Much better team. Go ahead, Ocho. Now we're going to say everything, everything went right for Arizona tonight. Obviously, I know we play around a lot, you know, I was hoping.

I was hoping Arkansas. I had won. So, Joe, you come on here, a little happy tonight. But obviously, you know, watching that game and seeing the way they dominated in every aspect of the game, it was kind of weird today. I mean, A-Cup did all he could do, but, I mean, he was overpower. Everybody on Arizona, you know, their damn little start was in double figures. Yeah, they had seven guys almost in double figures.

Yeah, yeah. And when you shoot that efficient, you know, from the field and be able to do anything you want, you know, an open play, I call it open play. and in transition and getting on the boards, you know, it's going to be a long night for everybody. Joe, when you look. Hey, Joe, you see how respectful I am? I ain't even making fun of you.

You know what, Ocho, let it just leave it along. We say, what you got? What you got? Let it let it go. Let it go. Hey, too soon. It's too soon. It's too soon.

It's played too early, man. Damn. Joe, when you look at the numbers, man. I mean, the guy was four or six, eight of 11, six or nine. seven of 11, four, eight, six of ten, two or three. I mean, there's no, even in an open practice, if you tried to shoot this number, you couldn't shoot it, let alone when guys are out there trying to defend you.

I mean, it was like they got layup, they got, I mean, they got whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, however they wanted. I was surprised with how little a resistance that Arkansas put up. Yeah, no, no, he right, Ocho. I was thinking the same thing because coming into the game, all I've been hearing is that, you know, Arizona going to overpower. You know, they're a much better team.

I just thought we were answer the bell, bro. I thought we would come out and try to lay our stamp down early. Early on in the game, Arizona got up to a great start, and we never recovered from that. Hey, guys, I'm having a little technical difficulties on my end, so I'm going to have to click out of Zoom. So Ocho, you and Joe continue the conversation until we get whatever is going on resolved on my end.

So sorry, Chad, for the inconvenience, but Ocho and Joe is going to take it over from here until we get resolved on my end what needs to get taken care of. All right. Joe. Hey, Joe, I mean, y'all boys did what they could, man. They got damn, listen, that goddamn A-Cuff made look good.

He played 37 minutes. Bray had 28 points, huh? Yeah, yeah. He had 20 points, what, six for 19 from? Eight for 19. I thought he played good, Ocho. I just thought. You know, for us to be the wildcast, we was going to need a collective effort from everybody, bro.

You know what I'm saying? We can't put it on A-Cup to come out and score 30 every night. I ain't saying he can't do it. You know, obviously he can. But if he can pull some guys along with him, it ain't necessarily got to be the points, but just play hard, compete at the highest level. This winner go home, bro. You know what I mean? Like, I just, I didn't see us putting up this type of effort.

I didn't think that, you know, we didn't protect the, paint. I thought those doze were a lot more physical than us, which ultimately led to them kind of running away with this thing. But I'm going to tell you something, man, Arizona got a bunch of guys who can score the ball, bro. They wasn't lacking in

no position. I'm talking about from the wing position they had guys going off the dribble, making plays, creating opportunities for themselves and for their teammates. And then their bigs just crashing the glass, keeping balls alive, putbacks. That's why they all shot such a high percentage. I mean, honestly, bro, it's 64%.

cent, Ocho, you're never going, you're not going to win no games, bro. Hey, that's crazy. Honestly, that's almost like video game numbers. That's almost like video game number. Hell, you're playing goddamn 2K, you expect your percentage and, you know, to look like that, you know, being able to shoot efficient as you're hitting in the green. But obviously it comes down to one, Joe. You know, I'm not bad.

It all come down to want to, especially when you play teams that are much bettered you in certain areas and you have a team that's coming out and shooting the fishing like that, then your will to want to do everything like crash the boards. you know, being able to beat them in transition. Second Chan points off the goddamn glass. It comes down, you know, when you kind of outmatch and you, you know, their physicalities a little bit more than yours.

So, I mean, I mean, I don't know what to say. I'm trying to have, trying to find some good words to keep you, you kind of in good spirits. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know it's tough. I know it's too soon like you did say, so I'm just, I'm just let you go ahead. Well, you know what, after really looking at it,

They didn't really, they didn't just, they ain't like kill us on the glass. It was 28 to 30 on the glass. Assists 13 and 19 their way. You know, I wasn't like they just, you know, like they just manhound. They just shot such a great percentage from the, you just kept taking the ball out of the net. Huh? You just kept taking the ball out of the net. We just couldn't get no stop.

We had no resistance defensively, which led to them getting so many easy buckets. And like I was telling, Ocho, They got so many dudes who can go off the bouncing who can score the basketball. It wasn't just the two freshmen buries and Cole Pete. You know, it was them other guys, too, man, who were putting pressure on the rim, putting pressure, getting into the teeth eye defense, and caused a havoc. I just thought we didn't come and play with the resistance that we needed to be able to beat a team like Arizona.

But you know what, Joe, when you go back and look at it, Arizona at one point in time was ranked number one. They're 35 and two. It's not an accident. that they're the number one C. It's not an accident that they got 35 wins. I think sometimes we lose side of that because we've been looking at Duke all year long.

We've been looking at Michigan. And we forgot that Arizona was number one for an extended period of time. And I didn't, hadn't played, I saw a little bit of them, but hadn't really played a whole lot of attention to them. But having to watch this game, boy, they can beat anybody.

I'm talking about, like you said, they got guys that can go after the bounce. They got guys can shoot it. They got guys can put pressure on you. They pass the ball and they paint. They are, they are, yes. Yeah, they're a physical team that can play through contact. So, I mean, maybe I didn't give Arizona the credit that they, that they deserve.

And you're like, you're right. I mean, you said the NCAA tournament is a guard, is a guard tournament. Arizona got down good guards. Yeah. But they got big also. Yeah. And if you look. And when you allow a team to shoot 64, 64% and 60%.

and 63% from the two point line and then 63% from the 34% from the 2, 663% from the 3. Yeah, not beating them. You're not. The only thing that saved them is that they didn't put up a whole bunch of threes. Can you imagine you let's just say they're probably not going to shoot 63% if they get on up their numbers. Say they shoot in the teams.

Yeah. But you can't let a team shoot 64%. It's going to be damn there impossible for you to beat them. If you let a team shoot 64% unless you grow crazy from the three point line. But because they didn't, you guys were only five or 23 from the three, Joe, and you couldn't put up any resistance, like you said. And even in the second half, when you guys tried to come out and trap, before you know it, the lead was 19.

I mean, they tried, a cow tried to trap him. He tried to get the ball out of the guy's hands, but he's going to guess what? Two passes, lay up. One pass, don't. And you're not going to, you're not going to look at it. Arizona, I was impressed with Arizona. This is, this might be one of the most impressive games. that I've seen thus far in the tournament.

I mean, this probably one of the most, if not the most points they probably didn't put up in an NCAA tournament. Yeah. I think when you really look at it, like I was telling Ocho, they didn't really outplay, like kill us on the glass or, you know, we had a whole bunch of turnovers. Bro, they were just efficient. They're not a high-volume three-point shooting team. They haven't been. They play inside out. They just got some guys on the perimeter who can get to it.

if need be. You know what I mean? Arkansas, we're a guard, heavy, and we rely on our perimeter scoring. And outside of A-Cuff, you know, I thought Thomas played solid tonight, Richmond played solid. We just need to bring other guys along.

We needed our bigs, our four and our five, man, Ewing, and Brazil. We needed them to be, we needed them to play over their head tonight. And we didn't get that kind of performance, so, you know, Arizona. I don't prevails, man. They move on.

Yeah. You don't normally see this many points in the third round game. You see this in a 116 matchup. Right. You see this in a 2-15 matchup, but this is a 1-4 matchup. This is a sweet 16. You don't normally see this, Joe. You see this, normally you see Duton, the team blowing our team.

Okay, prayer views somehow make it. Or you saw what Florida did to, who is that they played, Joe? Was that prayer of you? When? Yeah. We saw the score. We saw the score get out of hand like that. That's what we normally see in the first round when it's so,

the talent level is so mismatched. Yeah. We don't normally get games like this. Not a hundred and nine to 88. Damn. Hey, Uncle you put on it on. No, no, no. Yeah, yeah.

Ocho got a cheer. Ocho got a cheer. No, it's not me. Hey, listen, listen, it's like you got, it's like you got paper cuts and uncted it's pouring. No, again, we got to talk about the game. I understand that part. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah, it's a little sensitive.

It's still early, but I will admit, Arizona was a much better team. Like I said, man, the physicality that they play with, establishing their bigs from the start, okay, Ocho, throwing that ball down low and them guys getting buckets, getting files. And, man, we just never could recruit from it. You know what I mean? Like, if our outside shots ain't falling, then it's going to be hard for us to stand in.

I know we're a high-scoring team. We played against a great. Yeah, you had 88. Yeah, boy. You had 88, Joe, but the bad part about it that you gave up 109. That's well, I'm saying, you can't compete like that. I mean, that's no resistance.

It's 64% from the field. When have y'all ever heard of that, bro? You probably won't even hear that, you know, the rest of this tournament. Maybe, like I said, maybe in the first round when you got a 1-16 matchup, but you don't normally, when you get this deep, because the teams are a little bit more match,

They're a little bit more evenly matched. Now, occasionally you get a Cinderella, but we don't get the Cinderella like we used to get the Cinderella where we get the Cinderella where we got George Mason, getting all the way to the Final Four, and we got, what was that, Florida Atlantic, Florida Gulf Coast, that was a couple of years ago, they made that big run,

or you get Loyola, Chicago, making a deep run. I mean, we really haven't seen that type. I guess, I guess of Nebraska, excuse me, If Iowa makes it all way to the, you know, the Final Four or something like that, you can say that's a Cinderella. But normally we get teams that we're not used to, you know, the mid or Miami of Ohio many, many years ago. I think they took, what was that?

They took, that was in 1990. I think they took UNLV, they ended up winning the championship. And they took them, they ended up beating them, but they took them down to the wire. But this was a, I mean, I don't know if I've seen such a balance, six guys and double figures. all the guys, I mean, nobody missed more than four damn shots.

That's crazy. Joe, just imagine if you're on a team, Joe. Y'all get up, y'all get up that many shots and you all, and the most shots that one got missed was four. Four, yeah. Man.

I told you, it's like video game numbers. In order for Arkansas even have a chance tonight, let's say there was nothing that they could do with Arizona on both ends of the court. That means their players would have to match with everybody from Arizona. Arizona did, that mean they would have to have a goddamn out of body experience, you know, from the two and from the three to even make it a goddamn game. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, I think I don't even know if A-Cuff goes crazy and he gets 35, 40. I'm not so sure that even makes a difference because they couldn't get stops. So it doesn't matter. Once you fall behind, it doesn't do you any good to match bucket for bucket because you're not, you're not creating, and you're not making enough threes to dig into their twos that they're making. So that was the problem because Arizona would come down, get a bucket. Arizona come down, miss. Arizona go down and get another bucket. You come down, you miss, get another bucket.

And the next thing, you know, a four-point lead is a 10, is a 14, is a 19-point lead, 20-point lead. And you look it up, you're like, well, damn, how did this get so, how did this get out of hand? They played, they played. They played well. I thought they big, they came off the bench for Arizona. What's his name, a walker? Yeah. He was a monster when he came in the game.

man. Seven boards in 24 minutes, Joe. 14.6 for 10 on the floor from your beat. That's what I'm saying. Like we needed, we needed at least one of our bigs to, you know, just to be able to match. I mean, obviously, when you look at Arizona and when you really watch them play tonight, they were so much more physical than us fellas. I mean, from the second chance points to just being a dog under the basket, they're bigs, you almost had to double them because they were just scoring at will, you know what I mean. Yeah, I mean,

also comes off the bench. He plays 13 minutes, Joe. He has eight points. He's two or three from the floor, two or two from the free throw line, two or two from the three-point line. In 13 minutes, the guy gets eight points.

A Walker plays 24 minutes. He gets 14 points. Yeah. I mean, I tip my hat to him, man. They came ready to play. They showed why they was the number one seed. And,

man, They just kind of ran us out of the gym. I, you know, get kudos suit to my razor. They did. They did, but, hey, ain't nothing. Hey, what that strap in? Hey, Joe, you, you go, oh, Joe, you used to go to the barbershop. Yeah.

In the barber chair, they had that little strap. Yeah, they be straight to the, you know, and they're sharp to the raise on it. Yeah, they took that big old belt off and put them on Arkansas all ass. That what they would win, Joe. Hey, hey, aunt, hey, unc. Hey, unc. Hey, Unk, can you hear me?

Yeah. A woman pig. Hey, listen. Bad, Arizona eating bacon tonight. He's baking, crackless. I knew some guys. Hey, pig.

Hey, pepperoni pizza free in Arizona. I knew some guys hating on my downfall. I know y'all wait for it. I already knew y'all. Hey, Joe, you were doing all that popping. You were popping. I'm going to do that. I'm the king and all this stuff.

You got to learn to be humble. Hey, listen. Hey, listen. The chat had to gas him up. Talk about King Isso. He got memes and everything. Everybody in the discord, they call it about. Hey, King Iso and steal.

Hey, hey, I can't, I couldn't control the outcome, okay? I'm just the biggest supporter, biggest fan of my raising backs, all right? I can only do what I could do, fella. You can still support him. Yeah, you could. But they're just not going no further. Hey, honestly, I don't even think if Joe was in fact there, I don't even think they still would have a king back on that.

Man, chill, bro. Chill. I'm just saying that's just the way Arizona dominated, Joe. It's not a slight. Oh, Cho, I ain't going. I ain't going. I ain't going, partner. I'm just letting you know that right now.

I don't know what you think this is. Yeah. I ain't going. I ain't going. He's talking about if I was out there. We still with, man, please. I ain't going. Yeah.

I said, man. You said, Joe? I was like, hey, oh, Joe. They put them up, I'm like, damn. I started feeling my butt. I said, damn, they just like that. I thought I was getting my ass with him. Oh, ooh.

Oh, I'm okay. That's a lot. Hey, hey. Hey. Hey, Joe, Joe, Joe, you brought it on yourself. They gave, oh, Joe. Oh, Joe, it's all right. They gave us a good, they gave us a nice little whoopper.

It did. A nice. They gave us a nice one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They put a pussy. Damn. Oh, I, no. But you know what?

all things being equal Joe, I think you would rather lose like this than lose how Texas loss. And we're going to talk about that at a minute. But to lose to, I mean, look, the thing is that was just a better team. There ain't no way around it. Arkansas would have had to play their best, most complete game of the year. And A-Cuff would have needed to go for 40 plus. Yeah.

Yeah. That was the only chance they had because. and hope they don't shoot like this. And even if he goes 40 plus, when you let the team shoot 64% that means, well, damn, you got to get some stops at some point. You got to, man.

And I'm sure Coach Cal was talking to them boys before the game because I've been listening to all the interviews, and that's the first thing he was harping on was being able to deal with their size, the defensive presence, and controlling tempo. We did none of that.

Arizona came out to answer the bill. From the start, I can kind of tell, like, man, it just don't seem like, you know, we got that oomph that we need to really win this game. You know, Arizona just came out from the jump. Like I said, he was working through their bigs. The big was kind of getting what they want, and I knew that it wasn't a good sign for us.

Yeah. So University of Arizona, the Wildcast, the number one seat, they get to move on. They're the number one seat in the west. They move on thanks to a 109-88 victory over Arkansas. Arkansas, great season with their freshman of the year, SEC player of the year. Their season is over, had a great season, 28-9.

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65, 55, the freshmen keep delivering for Illinois. Wagler and McColovic are the first freshman teammates to each have double doubles in the same NCAA tournament game since freshmen became available to play in 1972, 73. You talk about 14 and 10 and 13 and 12. And they, you know, neither team shot the ball particularly well. 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 Alina, 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 buy a bucket. They couldn't, they couldn't. I'm giving Illinois credit in this. They played hard, they guarded.

They were tough, defensively. Ocho, it took Houston forever just to even score a bucket. Joe, I was looking at it. I was like, hold on, because I was going, trying to go back and forth. And I'm looking, I'm like, thank you. 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 back in with a bowling ball.

Because I'm like, with Daigle. They made it ugly, huh? They made it real ugly. Illinois made it ugly. They did, bro. They did. They made it ugly. They were tough defensively, Arkansas and Ocho.

And then they got, uh, 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 did. 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.

I thought Houston, 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 Flimmers would kind of get off to a good start, you know, kind of seized the moment. None of that happened, bro. It was a super low-scoring game and Illinois.

Steve Yonka-Bin look 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. Would the 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 that. Hey, Illinois is coach. and tell him 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. Neither.

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 beat. He was doing.

I didn't. You know, I picked, I thought there, you know, 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. They had to come from overseas. They had to. They got brothers on the team.

They got, uh, uh, Timoslav, Isovic, his brother, Isovic, Stoyakovich,

uh, Huber Ruchos. I, like, damn, what y'all get 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.

Yeah. 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 improve. Because we beat. this team and this is not 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 play 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 did. 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 fall 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 look at us in just a football program, but they look at our basketball team.

Yeah, big team 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 a big, you know, football. Yeah, like, no, no, 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. You did it? 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. 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 guarantee that. I mean, we'll get to that point, but I'm just saying I know I'm in the Cleveland 9. 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. I'm Luke Wilson. Join me each week for Film Never Lies. Since retiring from the NFL, I've had a lot of my mind, and now got my own show. So if you're tired of lazy takes, if you want honest conversations, join us each week.

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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 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 know that you ain't got before players out there,

man. I'm saying, yeah, it's on the, I put it 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're 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 played hard, Uncle Ocho. I thought they got great contribution in Iowa, there 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 turnovers.

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, they weren't a whole lot of free throws.

They went to the line 12 times. Nebraska went 11 times. But like, it's kind of like, like, out of a timeout, how do you get caught with two many 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.

That's the only way something like that happened. Go ahead, Joe. I think probably Horberg was probably too busy thinking about the next play, Anka Ojo, drawing up a play. but I just don't know how you don't know how you ain't see you have but 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 play in the right way. They're playing the way basketball is supposed to be played. Moving their ball, getting great shots. Mm-hmm. And great, great shots is exactly what they were doing. Hey, Joe and Unk, but only two people was in double figures out of the starters. Brother, brother, brother, for the Nebraska. Right?

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

That's what I did. They had four guys in double figures. I thought you were talking about Nebraska. The brassian had two guys. I said, I was saying two starters for all guys. Oh, yeah. Double figures.

When you get that kind of production off the bitch, think about it. Joe, think about this. They got 38 points off the bill. Yeah. At a high percentage, too. It wasn't like them. They were charged.

Six or seven, six or ten. Their bitch guys made seven, seven of their 12, 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 bench, 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 bitch, and the guy's shooting,

except making seven three, yeah, I'm going to win a lot of games. I am. Yeah. Oh, yeah, and, and they go out two hours. It ain't, They ain't just O'Le when you come down here. Like them dudes guarding 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 him two points. Kale Combs gave him 20, play 27 men, gave him 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 and 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 start. 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.

Yeah, I agree. But contributions. 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 and unexpected. Because somebody going to pop up, Joe, that you least expect it. Yeah.

And give you, and give you, oh, Joe, you don't 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 my own to, I was great. You know, you got to have, like, like, say, 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 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 feel you out, see what's going on.

I can kind of make my move, but I think Iowa, man, they found the remedy, bro. They play hard. Like I said, they beat the number one seed, which was Florida. Yeah. They're confident through the roof. I think they think they can be there,

anybody, Uncle, Ocho. Yeah, absolutely. Shoot, once they beat Florida, then you got two young bulls coming off the bench, you know, playing like that, being out of fishing, six for nine and one for six, what, six for ten, one for six for eleven? Yeah, you can damn there to be anybody.

I think the biggest thing, a biggest thing that has to happen. When you upset a higher seat, you can't be satisfied. A lot of times, you know, you see these Cinderella, they upset a number one seed or number two seed. They get satisfied. Florida, I mean, our hour doesn't seem to be satisfied. They're like, okay. Damn.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You get your first basket. Joe, you get your first basket in the NBA. You're like, okay. Gee, bad. That wasn't as hard as I thought it would.

Y'all going to let me my first time I touched the rock. Hey, I get the preseason game. Hey, the first ball they throw me. I killed a touchdown. I'm like, oh, oh. That's what, oh, 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 you in your fan base. and you pull out that, just don't be, and we see this a lot in football too, Ojo. 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 are like, man, why are you greedy? Hey, I want to win mega million, powerball, cash four, 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 for your states? Remember that? Hey, Joe, you take a picture with the check at the front of

Yeah. Man, I remember that thing, they said the 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.

Lant, land, like. But don't think we didn't play to try and sit it in. Hello, hello. Because you know, 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 and such one, one million dollars. Like, oh my goodness, what would it be like to win a million dollars?

Especially back then though, huh? You know how much money that was back then? Man, what you're talking about? Man, that public was clear. And, uh, uh, y'all remember the magazine, uh, I think it was a TV guy. Would you get like 13 CDs for a penny? Yeah, yeah. What?

Yeah, you get 13, eight tracks, you get a CD, you get a record, yeah, for a penny. What was it? Columbia?

I think it was Columbia. Chad, what was it? I remember that. Yeah. Y'all don't remember you could get, you could get a record, you get like 13 for a penny.

Yeah, I don't remember. Hey, well, hold on. What was that? Hold on. I know I ain't losing it. in my mind.

Damn, man. Yeah, yeah, okay. I do it with Columbia or something, and you can, hey, man, please. Everybody don't you all sign up for the boy. Oh, man. But an hour moves on based to a 7771 victory over Nebraska.

Purdue, the best ball game other night, Purdue beat Texas, 79, 77, Braden Smith potential go-ahead shot was off the mark. But Trey Cuffman, Renn was there, Johnny on the spot, and he tipped it in, and they win by two points because they tipped it in with 0.7 seconds on the clock. The last second, heave was no good. They shot 420 from the three-point line,

but all five of the starter scored in double figures, led by Kaufman Rins, 20 points leading the way. Look, man, hey, Joe, I don't know if you noticed this. but the white off the bounds boy they'll get down they were getting down hey Purdue Purdue got them all

okay Ocho Purdue Purdue got they guard place is immaculent bro like if they ain't both up boy your and off Smith

they ain't scoring they making plays bro they putting pressure on you like them like them do's crafty is I don't know what like watching them I was like man

I like these dudes yeah but I thought they bigs were great too they just all around man, they looked like a great team. They looked like a well-oil-oan engine who was poised throughout the whole game and just applied pressure. I thought Texas gave them a great run.

I like Mark. They gave a great run. Texas played a heck of a ball game. They only had so. I mean, Purdue had four turnovers. Texas had seven. Texas shot 52% from the floor, 44% from the three. 53% they were terrible from the free throw line and that probably didn't help them.

But that number, that number, that number, Traybord, that left it. That boy got, boy, that joke is filthy. He's nice, the uncle. He had 29 tonight. Yeah, man, that joke. That boy getting to that chicken, man. That's a, hey, hey, I'm talking about taking his time, getting to his spots.

There's nothing they can do about that. You know what I mean? He just didn't, he really didn't have a whole lot of help today. But I thought they played well enough to win. No. I mean, they shot 52% from the field. You're looking at Purdue. They shot 48.

I thought, I thought, I thought, I thought Texas was in the game. You know, they was able to make, they was able to make a late push. I think if they could have got it to overtime, I think they might have won it. Yeah. Yeah. They got lucky. They got lucky to even get, get that close because when buddy got that end won for Texas and tied the game up, I said, whee, but. But I'm like, bro, bro, stop this.

You doing this to man, you know, hey, block the shot. Try something. You know what you. You don't make contact with it. The biggest glaring thing when I watch college basketball, it's the big how they play post-defense. Okay, Ocho. They don't understand how to play post-defense.

I think in college, I don't know if you can use an arm bar to put in his back. I think you kind of have to no hands. So that's why they always got their hands straight up like that. Yeah, you got your feet. Yeah, because they tell me, just make him go up over the top. But when you've already bumped them with your lower half, it doesn't matter what you're doing up top. But what I'm saying is in the pros, it's a lot more physical.

You can use an arm bar. Oh, you know what I'm saying? Like, you can do all that. In college, it's like when a guy backing you down, you can't even give me no resistance. You have to just kind of take the bump and be able to resist it. You have to retreat. In order not to give ground. So I think that's the biggest glaring thing for me.

When I watch these bigs play post-defense in the NCAA tournament, it's like, bro, you got to give up, you got to get way more resistance than that. because these dudes going to kill you. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't know how many of these guys going to be playing in the NBA, Joe. They might be playing overseas. I know, man.

I guess. Because the thing is, you know, like when you play the big down there, I mean, you can't just, okay, I'm going to have my hands up. Yogurt you have 50-point triple doubles every night. That's what I'm trying. You saw Joel and B.

Come back and we know what Embed is when he's healthy. But any of them guys, you better have offered some resistance because these guys go, look, the college game because you know so much more. I mean, you're taught so much more and you learn, you watch, you work on your craft when you're in,

and because you have so many other things, yo, I got study hall, I got weight lifted, I got this, I got that. When you're in the NBA, I just work on my craft. That's it.

That's all I do. I ain't got no study hall. I ain't got no, I ain't got to go to a class. I ain't got no, my lift and say, I get, no, no. And so that's, a lot of times, you see the,

improvement from guys once they get there and they get a singular focus. They get that tunnel vision and it's just got locked in. And so this is all I got to do. This is. Hey, there's some guys locked in right now that the tournament over with. They locked in on what their next move going to be. And their next move going to be their best move. You hear me?

Hey, it got to be. I feel you might be talking about you might be talking about a. Oh, yeah, he comes in. Yeah, it's over with. Y'all know it's old with. And man, hey. Yeah, he was, I mean, a lot of these guys guys, man, after the new year, they don't be going to class.

Nah, well, I mean, when you had the kind of season, he'd have had Uncle Ocho. I mean, damn, I mean, you figure, you know, you want to take it as far as you can. You want to win the attorney, but, man, I don't want SEC. Oh, yeah, you're here now. I'm going to go as far as I can. Yeah, but I don't want SEC player of the year, SEC freshman of the year. I'm first team, all-American, man, please, which I think I'm staying for. I'm gone.

I'm going. I'm going to be a top seven pick, top eight pick, period. Hey. Oh, yeah, he definitely's done for sure. Joe, you forget he got his own signature. Yeah, I'm waiting to see that thing. I'm going to definitely cop me up, man. I appreciate A-cup and what he's done.

I ain't see this coming from him, you know, from no freshman. Yeah, he put Arkansas back on the map. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He got us right. He got us right. I appreciate him. Damn. Yeah.

Damn, Joe. This was the best game of the night. Oh, the Texas and Purdue? It was, it was. Oh, yeah, it wasn't in close. It was back and forth. And it came down to, I mean, this is what Marks Magist is about. It came down to the last second.

Yeah. Those other games were decided way, way, I mean, we just like, we probably should go ahead and go. Ain't nothing back. Hey, hey, hey, hey, Andrew, you doing football. Hey, did somebody get blown out? They are going to another game. They, they, what do they call that?

What do they call that? When they go to another game, you're watching one game. It's a blowout. Oh, yeah, I know what you're talking about. Flex, yeah. We will go to a more competitive ball game. Hey, hey, that, but don't y'all be surprised. Now, y'all look up and Purdue, they end the final four.

Purdue got a good chance, okay, Ocho. Like I say, they got great guard play. They got some great big. They play together. Their continuity is unbelievable. The way they move the ball and get guys open shots. I like Purdue. Yeah.

That two and three. That Brainsmith and Fletcher lawyer. Yeah. Yeah. They are there getting money. Yeah. They did the thing. Do what you say, what you say?

I say tomorrow? We thought the day games were good. But tomorrow's straight. Oh, yeah. They're serious. Well, I hope tomorrow again. No, we got one good game tonight. I hope tomorrow's games are better than tonight's game.

All four. Man, damn them games tomorrow. Yeah. I'm out of that. Okay, Ocho, I ain't trying to hear that. Been talking about something about it tomorrow. Hey, Joe, you're not excited for nothing to- No, I'm not.

No, I really ain't, Ocho, if you just want me to keep it 100 with you, you know what I'm gonna watch. No, don't keep it 100 with a Joe. We got to know. Y'all know y'all want me keep it real, right? I'm gonna keep it real with y'all. I'm gonna watch it, you know, just so happy we on Nike. I'm gonna talk about it, but I ain't, right, right, right.

Hey, Joe, hey, you know, Yukon, you can play tomorrow, you know, Michigan, Duke, Duke, St. John. St. John. Yeah, okay. I know it ain't Arkansas, but I'm saying we got some good basketball.

Yeah, yeah, it'll be, it'll be. Look at Ocho J. Yeah, I already know. I already. You know, I didn't know. I didn't say not. I didn't.

See, I already know how you're on operator already. So I don't. I'm on your side, Joe. Don't try to play both sides. I already know what going on. I said,

Hey, look, who even got on here? I said, dang, how Ashley and Jordan them already got the boys in the hood, Ricky.

Hey, Hey, Joe, I said, don't, don't put that up there, man. Don't, don't, don't, don't do that. And then you're gonna get on here and lie to me in my face. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't. Hey, Joe.

I just told me, because when I came downstairs, it takes me a while to get downstairs, an old knee ain't what it used to be, Joe. So when I got down here, the first thing she said, look at IG. I said, what's on IG? So I didn't, I didn't, I ain't, I ain't, no, Joe. I know, I know, I know,

jumping, Jacks, he was so happy. No, I'm not, Joe. I came on the show, Joe. I came on the show and showed nothing but respect, even in loss, even in defeat. I still show love and I talk really good about y'all, Joe. And I just said, A-Cuff, did what he came. Hey, Joe, you know what, Joe? Ocho and Ocho been bagging on you, Joe, you know what I'm saying, hey, go here. What we got for Joe to make Joe happy?

Cheer him up. Whoopin. What's there? Me, step it. Yes, that's you sipping a mocho because just what's going to happen. Hey, that's me? Yeah, that's you. Look at art.

Look at all. Hey, that's not realistic, though. That's very realistic. That's very realistic. Oh, no. Hey, Joe, let me tell you something, Joe. That's not realistic. I don't care.

Court, hardwood, football field. That ain't realistic. That ain't going to happen, especially not the date. You hit it? Now, I'm going to have you feeling like this again when we play one-on-one. Now, that's what you're not going to go. I ain't going. After I get my fade, we play one-on-one.

This is exactly how it's going to go, partner. What kind of fade? What kind of fade? You're talking about a haircut? No, I got these gloves, man, these hands. Yeah, you, yeah. Okay, okay. I don't know how you're going to play one-on-one with two black eyes, Joe.

I don't know how that's going to work, Joe. I don't want to understand. Yeah, but let me see what, let me see what, what ad was talking about because I was, I was trying to get my, uh, what? I ain't, I ain't, I ain't see it either. You ain't seen it, Joe, Joe? It's on Instagram.

Let me go to Instagram real quick. Let me see what happened. Boy, look, I know y'all ain't cocoops. All right. Hey, Joe, what are you taking off? Hey, chill, chill, Joe. Chill, Joe. You got that pump action.

Hey. Boy. Yeah, the boy, hey, the boy scatter. Joe scattering, man. Boy, they did us bad. They did us bad. They did us bad. Hey, that's on Twitter, too, or just Instagram?

I told them, don't put that up there. That's all right. It's all right. Y'all hear y'all, hey, y'all have y'all for it with this. What, Joe? I ain't made, I ain't making fun of you. Y'all, y'all just going to make it hard on yourself to when that. But if y'all, if y'all want to look at.

Hey, hey, you are an uncle. Make it hard on y'all. Joe got that 1980s. Look at that Joe got that 1980s. He got them leopard prints on it. Hey, hey, hey, see, this is how I know this is not realistic. If I got them leopard pants on, if I got them cheater pants on, I'm not losing it nothing, not with them on them good luck.

Man, please. Hey, hey, hey, hey, look at y'all. Hey, y'all look who in front. I see it. Look who in front, Joe. Are you the, you the rest? Yeah, I'm real. And that happened in round two.

You see there, Ocho? Yeah, that ain't realistic. That ain't realistic. What that is, wrestling? Nah, uh-uh. That might be a little, no, that's got to be boxing. You got to be boxing.

But you ain't nobody got no gloves on. He doesn't tuck the gloves on. Yeah, it's old wet. What folk trying to hip you up in the air day, man. Hey, hey, look at these brackets. Look at these brackets. Now, look at the brackets. Damn.

You in first place? Don't do that. Take the surprise at your boys. Damn, Joe. I'm saying, you got a lot of red up here. Hey, I do. Y'all got more red, though. No.

Y'all about to bleed out after the ball. Or Ocho guy. Oh, Ocho ain't got nothing but red up there. Where? First of all, you and Ocho Ty. Are we? Yes. I'm not the time.

That's the only reason why we tied because he picked a wild cat to eat a hog. That's it. In the end? You don't know. Hey. Hey. Hey, I did mind by mascots.

Either way, you're going to come and laugh, Joe. That's all that. I said I got more greenie out. Ojo, Ojo said he picked the wild cat to eat the hog. That's all. That's the only how he was. Lord, I'll burn this, Joker here.

I can't believe this, man. I really can't, guys. Hey, it happened to the best of it, Joe. I know you had high hopes. Ooh, check this out. At the St. John's upset Kansas to punch their ticket to the Sweet 16. Rick Petino didn't hold back, declaring the era of the Blue Blood programs is over.

The Blue Bloods no longer control basketball any longer. There's no difference between Kentucky, North Carolina, that Illinois is 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 and 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 programs, Ocho, that were typically doormats. Yeah. And now all of a sudden, they're playing in the college football players. 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. No, it ain't. It ain't. I agree with you. I think the playing field is, So even nowadays, fellas. 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 go on 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, before they was giving out 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, or Kentucky. It all spent the same. And you know, if you co-s 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. Need some boosters or we need to little 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, 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. 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 going to be spread around. all of a sudden, you know what, I think the game has passed me by, you think? Now all of a sudden, you ain't the only one. Now ain't nobody cares, nobody, 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 Say, Hey, hey, nah, nah, nah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't, don't do that. And I think Coach Saban 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.

College has 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. Cause 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 tell you, they don't dream too big. Ah, no, let me get mine. No, these coaches been jumping and jumping.

Now you want to cast. You ain't put no cap on how much these college coaches make not in football not in basketball now now Now I get it now you want to say look here man I'm gonna give you five years to play foe And you shouldn't be 25 26 27 a cho playing college no sport right get your ass out get a job get a wife or get whatever but you shouldn't be playing with no 18 19 20 year olds I'm you shouldn't have no seven eight years draw the line and something we got to draw the line

in some way we can't have no 26 27 year old playing damn college sports I got a question to Uncle Joe are there certain scenarios hey Uncle Joe

certain situations injuries ACLs or things COVID you messed it up what COVID did COVID not so basically not now and guess what Ocho

now kids can go to Juco and there ain't even witness to so you still got four five years to play four in college. You can do two in Juko 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 in 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're getting it, man, by the boatload. You hear me? I'm trying to, hey. And I ain't got no problem with it. I ain't either.

I'm trying to get it. Because for the longest time, guys have always gotten money, but they didn't call it NIL. No. You know, you, from high school coaches of parents getting jobs at the university, a mom getting a home or a car or getting a job or something you know yeah i tell you what

you buy the car i'm going to have this school here to put gas in it if somebody bought the car somebody else but i'm going over here because they bought them all my house there you go so 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 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 going to offer me too? Yeah, that's why in college sports, they can say what they want, but there's never going to be any loyalty in it

when it comes down to these guys making money. They end up for making money. But it's a bit, I thought it was, hold on, you see what it, Joe, you see what you just saying? It's a business for them, but it's largely for us. Right, right, right. Job, please. Hey, Joe, what's the funny thing about it.

Oh, you won't. 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 L.A. Hello.

Yeah. And so 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?

Let me. If it works, if it works, works because if it makes dollars it makes sense with a C and with a C Hey come on which is why you got to recruit your players every year you absolutely do you absolutely do no matter no no matter the relationship that you think y'all may 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 it and how much you miss her and when she

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're doing in a relationship. That's how you stay together for an extended period of time, guys. You got to recruit the woman that you win. You got to recruit the man that you win. Somebody else trying to recruit him. Somebody else. Hello. A lot of recruiter. Hello. Get what. And get what? He got NIL too. Because the guy that you, if somebody see you, well, let me let you know what, Joe, I'm going on. Go on here. Now, come on.

Come on. Come on. I stepped in the water. The water was cold. It chilled my body, but not my soul. I stepped in the water. I said, 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's coming? Another dude they got an NIL package. Yeah. So you got to recruit her. Mm. Just like these crews got to recruit them. And I stepped in the water.

It was up to my need. I said, Lord, Lord, have mercy on me. Yeah, y'all ain't ready for real. Y'all ain't ready for them. Because he asked you, you know in Malikah 3-8, he asked a rhetorical question. He said, will a man rob God? He already knows the answer.

He said, yes. theoretically you can't rob God, but you can and tie it and offer it. 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 blow 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 a school and college and a player is a relationship. You don't recruit or somebody else recruit me. Hello. Damn.

I like that. I like that. It's cold out here now, fellow. Yeah. Yeah, hey, you know the funny thing about it's doing up? The game always been cold. You just got, the game always been cold, but, you know, now we got jackets. 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 now anointed. Huh? Yes. So. 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 are you used to? You know, I got me a little cane. I go get around. I don't move, man. So, you know what I can't catch what I used to catch.

You know what I'm saying? You know what I can't 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, hey, when you go fishing, I don't know if you, Joe, you have been deep sea fishing. I ain't been deep sea fishing. Sometimes when you go deep sea fishing, you're looking to catch a particular kind of fish. Come on that. You get to be my age, you catch a little bit. You know what I'm saying? I catch catfish, I catch crappy, bass, walleye, pike, you know what I'm saying? Flounder, sheephead, rock, bitch.

That's up, yes. Seacobbac, I'm just saying, I'm just keeping up one towel with y'all. I like it. I like it. Whatever bite, whatever bite. It's a little different nowadays. It's a little different. It's a little different. It is. It's a lot different. It's a lot different out there. But you got to. And these guys, 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 then made, or even they made billions off playing life in a couple of years. Billions. Ain't nobody better the eye. Ain't nobody said nothing. Nope. Oh, now the plan feel is even.

Oh. It's a problem. Come on, child. All that money y'all don't make 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? all of a sudden it's an issue. Now all of a sudden. Oh, yeah. They're going to come up with something

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