The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: The Data Freaks

Episode Date: January 31, 2024

Are the Knicks title contenders, and, if so, does Stugotz care? Also, Stugotz is outraged by Jason Kidd's Luka Doncic take, but he's not as outraged as Mad Dog is about analytics. Then, LeBron takes to Twitter in the middle of the night and Stugotz calls him out, and we have a new segment with remarkable imaging from Yeti Blanc: The Most Wrong Person of the Week. Plus, Iowa Correspondent Lucy Rohden provides a sad update, and the Kayshon Boutte may be the best gambler of all-time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to DraftKings Network. Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBatard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries

if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face and the habitual liar. One of the things that Kendrick Perkins said, Stu Gott, is send Jimmy Butler to a team that can win the championship.

And when people say that, just a team that can win the championship. That number this year is five. And keep in mind, I have to push the Knicks out, even though it might be the best Knicks team we've seen in 25 years. I have to push the Knicks out even though it might be the best Knicks team we've seen in 25 years. I have to push the Knicks out because in that sport I don't wanna be a four seed when I know

that the top three seeds, when I know Philadelphia, Boston, and Milwaukee, when they feel better than I am as a team, I get worried and I think most people listening to this, even though the Knicks have been 13 and two since those trades and look really good they are pounding people yes uh... i don't believe that even delusional nick fan expects to get through the

gauntlet of milwaukee philadelphia and boston you don't feel like you might be hopeful hopeful but you don't think you can actually win the championship you can hope but you don't think it's a realistic possibility, and your team is very good. Very good, they've won H-Trade, they've won nine of 10, even with Brandel out with a separated shoulder, they still won a couple of games since then. I have no delusions that the Knicks are going to make it

or win an NBA title in large part because the Celtics, Bucks and Sixers are so good. So those are the three teams. Who are the other teams in the West? Like you have the Clippers, you have Denver, and that's about it, right? I mean, the Thunder, the Thunder also really got there. You think the Thunder can win the NBA title?

I mean, look, I think that their chances are better than the Knicks. I would put the Thunder, I would put the Thunder in the conversation. Obviously they've got to learn, they've got to do the stuff Sacramento's doing, but they are overwhelmingly good, and don't forget Minnesota.

Don't throw Minnesota out either. They've been just as good as everybody in the league this year. And Phoenix. I mean, Phoenix has a shot. Okay, but the Knicks aren't in that group is what I'm saying, and you just don't want to be a four seat. I mean, the Heat made it to the finals last year, being in that same spot. No one gave them a chance before and doesn't seeing the heat do it maybe give you, I mean.

No. Okay. No. Has a force seat ever won the title? I think a five seat as Elijah won, won a title. 1969 Boston Celtics were the only force seat in NBA history to win a title. My point is, Stu gots, it's no disparagement of the Knicks. It's just

an odd purgatory. It's the best the Knicks have been, but it's a weird purgatory to be in when you know in your conference there are three teams better than you, so now you've got to maybe win one home playoff series, and now you're playing Game 7s on the road against teams that are better than you. And it's just a lot of teams trip before they get there, but the Knicks fans should have more reason for enthusiasm now than they have since like the Allen Houston teams and LaTroll Spreewell teams. This team is better than anything Carmelo played for and Amari Stademi are played for. You just gave me this weird moment where I just saw the dolphins in everything you're

talking about. Best team in 20 years but still not good enough to beat the good teams in their conference but Chris I answered that quickly to your question of you can't see the next the heat just did it because only because of the teams ahead of them like I just can't see the next as good as they played I cannot see them beating Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown or Yannis and Damian Lillard. I just can't see it. I hope they get far. I hope they get to the second or third round. That'd be great.

I can't see it making. I cannot see that team. Led by Jaylen Brunson and Julius Randall making it to the NBA finals. I just can't. It's early in the season still. Well, it's not. It's early that you're not paying attention.

It's football season. So you're not fully paying attention give you like the next time my attention Yeah, give you two to three weeks of uninterrupted attention to basketball And you will convince yourself that the Knicks will go on a run All right What is it about Jalen Brunson that I just don't buy him as like a number one small yeah, and it's the lefty thing too Well, I like a lefty I do there's just something there He's great a lot of people are mad that Damien Lillard is in the all-star game and not him he

Nick's fans should be mad that guy has exceeded every expectation every single expectation there was I think he caught everyone Off-guard with how he played last postseason after catching everyone off-guard with the way he played all regular season. Last year clearly and obviously a leader who didn't need Luca to be a special kind of great. Speaking of Luca, did you hear what Jason Kidd had to say about Luca? What a joke. Well tell the people first before you go just hold on, slow down, hold on. Let's do Jeopardy. Give the take and then we say what is Jason kid? Lucy and he has to be kidding Lucy. All right, Stu gots You're like a puppy that starts to run on on on a tile floor Yeah, all four of its feet are moving. I was getting to well But yeah, you were gonna say what a joke what he said was before you said what he said what a joke though

Okay, but Lucy would you care to guess? Do you know what this take is that Stugats is objecting to? I do not and I do not have a good guess which defeats the purpose of you asking me. Sorry about that. I mean he can't be serious. Okay, what did he say? What he has said is that Luca is better than Dirk Nowitzki. That's not the part that I thought that's not the part I thought you would object to and on the same tier as Michael Jordan and LeBron James. Yeah he's not. First off LeBron's not on Michael's tier. Luke is not on anyone's tier okay. Wait a minute. But what do you mean he's not on anyone's tier? What tier is he on? He doesn't get to be on anyone's tier. He's not the greatest Maverick of all time. He is not to be mentioned in the same sentence as LeBron or Michael

Jordan. LeBron should not be in the same sentence as Michael. What if the sentence is, Luca shouldn't be in the same sentence as LeBron? That's the only sentence he belongs in when it relates to those two. Okay. This is a tough take on the on the heels of him having the greatest shooting performance of all time. I don't care. I don't care. Stu, this is a tough take on the heels of him having the greatest shooting performance of all time. Since Luca shot a true shooting percentage of 90% with 73 points, that's the best ever. Will Chamberlain with second with 73% in 1963? No three-pointers.

Win a playoff series, go to the finals, win a ring, do something. You cannot be top five. You get, Tony, you cannot be a top five maverick and better than Dirk. Dirk is a Hall of Famer, first ballot Hall of Famer, he's not better than Dirk. He's better than Dirk. Dirk won a title.

Dirk won a title. JJ and Horan won a title. Dirk won a title. Oh, he brought out one of his big guns on you, Tony. Stand down. You can't do it. Dirk won a title. He's not even in my top five mavericks of all time.

I have that list by the way. Thank you, I was hoping this is where we were going. What? Stand down Tony. He just walked into the general's house and took a shit. Luca does skate on most criticism. Like when's the pressure gonna, like he's been playing what for four or five years now?

Has he gone to a conference final? It's not four or five years yet. It's been like three or four though, right? We started asking him about it. He's been anointed for a while now. I'm just saying, when's the pressure get on him of like, hey, win something? Right, LeBron had that pressure year three.

He's been on the map since 2018. Billy, please. That's four or something. No, he was. That's six. Come on. Come on. It hasn't been four or five years.

How many games was he playing in 2018? Don't cheat with your little. Numbers never lie, Dan. Also, Dirk averaged 26, nine, and three in the NBA finals. Dirk created an entire shot. He invented a shot. Amin Alhassan, he's the first person

of that size playing that way. Maybe even. Gar-Sch Schmidt would like a word. Garnet? OK, close enough. Luca, back in 2018, played 32 minutes a game, averaged 21.2 points. I mean. When's the noise going to start, Dan?

All right. Amin Elhassan will be here in a second. We don't need him. We're having a good conversation. Amin Elhassan will come in. Amin Elhassan will come in serving a punishment from the righteous gemstones, I am told. And I look forward to getting his expertise on this

instead of you and I gas-bagging, because I'm startled by how outraged you are about this. I do like, and this has been quite the surprise, somewhere Stugatz's sports takery has gotten reinvigorated because he did this with Joe Maurer in the Hall of Fame last week and now he's getting outraged by comments again. I've missed my friend. He's just he's been he's been he's been the numb you know the pandemic took a lot out of him the dead the little cross Chicago's below freezing every time he flies, but he's thawed now, he's come out of hibernation.

It wasn't a comment, it was a joke, I mean seriously. You said it was a joke that what Jason- And a bad one. You guys have to understand what's happening here. Jeez. My old partner rumbles to life. Jason Kidd exists only as a thing to say, this guy is slightly as good as this

guy and then Stu Gatz pulls out the bazookas, drops to a couple of knees in his back baby. He's here to stay. He gets back in the bedroom but he does the same sexual move over and over again. It's just like yeah this guy that's playing today, he's nothing compared to the guy from ten years ago. It's my wife's chief criticism. Yeah. And mine, both your marriages suffer from the same, from the same particular affliction,

boring sex. And he wants, you have to understand, one of the things that's reinvigorating God bless football award winning God bless football Stugs and uh... still got to use the star of the proceedings around here is that he wants to be mad dog rousseau he's always wanted to be mad dog rousseau and this is the way that still got stages and this is the way when talking about analytics that chris mad dog rousseau ages you could have been in a situation where you'd be playing in a Super Bowl

Super Bowl and those poor fans in Michigan this ruins their year I listen I shouldn't say that because you'll probably get over it But you tell me right out you tell me right now if you are a Lions fan You tell me right now for the next month when they get this game playing everything else the month of February What are you gonna be thinking about beating Baker Mayfield or the fuck out the night or it's done the rights? My god almighty Pay attention Campbell Jesus, I mean, it's just me excuse me. This is ridiculous And I know we like you Dan.'re a nice guy you represent the city

of Detroit blue collar tough all we get all the nonsense but manage the game properly you have a chair I understand it's a long field go 240 yards but your kickers good you have a very you got a chance to go back up by three scores and you go for it on fourth down and then all the dopes on Twitter are backing you up that both the the the data freaks Who wouldn't know lump body for Paul Brown? Never heard of Graham Kenny Stabler Madden wouldn't know if they fell on them They do football via math.

That's not how you do football. Oh my God, what a loss. That's a masterclass in sports radio right there. I mean, God Almighty classic. We are not worthy. You wouldn't know Paul Brown from Vince Lombardi. Never heard of autograph. Do you love that Dan Campbell unintentionally

became the patron saint of analytics when he's never once looked at those? It's so good. I love his apology for saying Jesus. Cut for me when he gets going and starts stammering so I could play with that sound in the next segment. It's a dead to rights. He, he is a magician and I don't understand how his battery doesn't ever go to empty.

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This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugas. In the middle of the night, 2.30 in the morning is the middle of the night, right? It's not the morning, it's the middle of the night. Yeah. LeBron James, put it on the pole, Juju, at Lebatar Show, 2.30 a.m., middle of the night or middle of the morning? Hmm, I feel like mid morning.

I might be a hundred percent. Yeah, no, I feel like mid morning is like, you know, 10 o'clock. I just, a.m. is morning, a.m. is morning. Hmm. I feel like I might be a hundred percent. Yeah. No, I feel like mid morning is like, you know, 10 o'clock. Just AM is morning. AM is morning. Is it not? I think for, for what Dan's talking about, 4 AM is when it's not last night anymore. It's early morning. Like if I'm way, you have a 4 AM for a flight at the morning. When does the morning end at noon? Like 3 59. Oh no,

I get what you're saying in the back end. Yeah. 11 59. So mid morning is roughly the morning ends at 11 5959. Oh, no, I get what you're saying. On the back end, yeah, at 11.59. So, mid-morning is roughly like 10. The morning ends at 11.59 p.m.? No, no, a.m. A.m. Yeah. In the middle of the morning last night, LeBron James tweeted an hourglass. I love that.

I love it. What does he mean by that? What do you think he means by that? I know what he means. Time's running out. The Super Bowl's getting a lot of attention and he wants to still be in the news. Can he just sleep? I just sleep.

Sleep, enjoy a Sunday night dinner with a family, do anything, enough of this. And wait a minute, it said 230, is that mean that's your 230? So he's on the west coast. No, they were in Atlanta. Oh, that's 230. And then they're going to Boston. So they were probably about to hop on a bird or they were on a bird and he was bored

and he was like, watch this gang. Mm-hmm. And then he puts it on. A single emoji of controversy. It's interesting. Someone asked me, a friend of mine asked me, if the Knicks could get LeBron James next year, would you want him?

And I said no. You're a liar. Now the window is closed. Shut up. He's a looter and a riot. I'm serious. I know he's putting up great numbers. My boy Cook.

There's no one on that team. There is absolutely nobody on that team. Anthony Davis is playing all the games and is still very good. I understand the team's not very good because LeBron's not as good as he used to be. I don't want to deal with LeBron at the age of 39, 40, 41. You had your chance to come to the Knicks.

It's not like he's floating the idea out there. A friend asked me. So I don't know why I'm blasting him. I just don't want him anymore because the second you get him, you know what you get? In the middle of the morning, okay? You get, you know, some sort of, hey, clock is ticking.

I don't want to deal with the clock is ticking. I want Jalen Brunson to be Jalen Brunson. I want Randall to be Randall. It's not a ticking clock, it's an hourglass. I don't like it, whatever it clock is ticking. I want Jalen Brunson to be Jalen Brunson. It's not a ticking clock. I want Randall to be Randall. It's an hourglass. Yeah, I don't like it, whatever it is. It's a different emotion. It's a measurement of time. That it is.

Right. It is. I don't want a measurement of time. Okay. I want Brunson to be Brunson. I want Thibodeau to be Thibodeau. I don't want LeBron coming in thinking he can get rid of Thibodeau.

We can't, okay? He's done a great job. He has turned the Knicks around. I do not want LeBron jade Don't want him You don't want a measurement of time, but you're gonna be with flavor flavor at the Super Bowl who's famous for his measurement of time He's allowing me to stay in his house another another take on the heels of LeBron having 36 and 20 I don't care each 57 is also coming off a championship Stugatz

If somebody in season the last Coming off of championships, two guts. Did they win? All the end season. The last championship that anybody played for. If somebody has one of these hour glasses or minute glasses on their desk, and they use it in a real way, like when someone walks in. All right, let's have a conversation.

All right, let's flip this. I want to punch you in the face if you have one of those. Nobody does that. There are people out there. People with corner. A lot of people with corner offices. You walk into a corner office They flip over the it's probably like a minute two minutes and they go all right your time starts here

Yeah, what do you got but dad don't you think like you're 39 the act has gotten old like you have an opt-in next year A player opt-in at 51 million dollars if you the Lakers you're like all right if he opts in great if he opts out great Wind horse is saying that it's not a certainty that he will come back. And last night, the hourglass, or yesterday morning, this morning, hey, whatever, mid morning. Can you design an hourglass for a specific time? Because we could do one for our segment lengths.

Like, could we do one for 12 minutes and 30 seconds? And then we flip it over at the start of a segment and we end when it's about to be. How many grains of sand would be 12 minutes and 20 seconds? then we flip it over at the start of a segment and we end when it's about to... How many grains of sand would be 12 minutes and 20 seconds? That's for you to find out about. Well how big is the sand? How fine is it? Chris Cody, can you get for me please the sound of Mad Dog stammering.

Where was this in his hysteria? He is rage filled. He doesn't understand. It's one of the funniest things, Stugatz. I've seen happen in sports and you and Cody bring it to life every Tuesday being vigilantly against information Being a hanker Lee it's more fun just to yell out I don't care I know it's it's one of the greatest things I've seen in sports too Too much. Just rage about, I don't, that's it. I'm tapped out on information.

Not one more, so more, I will get mad at you. I've got this file, it's got auto-gram in it, I have enough information. That's the amount of information my brain can carry. And so here's a mad dog getting mad. Oh, the dopes on Twitter are backing you up. The data freaks who wouldn't know Never heard of Graham

Kenny Stabler Madden would know if they fell out of Madden fell on you you would know you would know They do football via math. that's not how you do football. Oh my god what a loss. This is so good Dan and Stugatz because we're probably gonna talk to him next week at Radio Row right so like this is very good for like note taking so you know exactly what to set him off with like I already the data fridge I have just written down mention an abacus who wouldn't know the body for Paul Brown stables never heard of Graham Kenny Stabler Madden wouldn't know him if they fell out of him!

Put it on the pole, Juju. Would you know if a dead John Madden fell on you? He's wrong about that one, but the others he's dead on. Oh my God, what? Would you recognize a dead John Madden if he fell on you? Boom! He fell on you. Boom. Oh my God. Again, just so that you know,

because that's $10,000 a show on first take and it's a second job. And underpaid. No doubt. And underpaid. Aggressively against information. He stopped gathering information in 1974 with Daryl LaMonica, and that's where the whole thing ended.

Dope's on Twitter, we're backing you up. The, the, the, the data freaks. The data freaks. Ha ha ha. You freaks. Hell yeah. Who's the freakiest data guy out there? Huh.

Just getting dirty with it He's been using some of those same names since since then that's right since inventing sports radio Put a picture up of autograph so that people can see what's happening here. Oh, yeah, I Wouldn't know it said autographers Graham or is it LaMonica? The data fix. It's Otto Graham again in the days of no face masks. At least he got the Kenny Stapler. Chris Cody, one of the staples around here

of us doing this is us getting things spectacularly wrong. I said that Tom Brady was in decline eight years before he retired. Stugatz is rivaling me with his recent Mahomes take-ery to be more wrong somehow than I was. Both of us, deadly wrong on two of the greatest quarterbacks anyone has ever seen. I have asked Chris Cody to put together a

segment that is just you're wrong, the most wrong person of the week, and he's gotten some imaging. It takes weeks around here to get anything done. We finally got some imaging. Can you guys help me pick which you like best? Yeah, we have a bunch of these here. I'm gonna play the first one here. here. I'm gonna the world how awful your take was and you are the world. Lovely a little slower, a bit of a mood killer but lovely. No long. You want something a little more little more little more something to it You're wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong I hear his loins. I hear his loins are singing. It's not him.

That started in his nether region. Nothing brings our listeners more joy than us being that wrong. And now we have one for when Greg Cody is wrong. You're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong. Oh, you're so wrong, you're so wrong. So the leader in the clubhouse this week is, this is the. For me, this is just like, we, this is going to be the leader in the clubhouse until we hear something better.

We are debuting the segment and this right now is our first ballot hall of famer. And I remember, I think the wrestlers name, the champion wrestler, Anthony Robles, he won a heavy division with one leg. And it was the sports center play of the day, because you had to beat the play of the day for like the whole year, because good luck beating that. All right, good luck beating this, people. Go ahead, Andy Reid. I dare you to go 14 and two and allow Alex Smith to leave Arrowhead Stadium to leave Kansas City.

Go ahead, I dare you, because of Patrick Mahomes. Because you think you could turn Patrick Mahomes into something that Alex Smith is not. Alex Smith is a very good quarterback. The audacity. First off, to do this to Alex Smith, who's been very good and loyal to Andy Reed and won him a lot of football games,

to dangle Patrick Mahomes out there because Andy Reed thinks he's some sort of quarterback whisperer, which he is not, by the way, he is not because if he was Alex Smith would be better than he's been the last few years. So I put, I dare. Wow. There was, I mean that's a record for Contra. It's on Andy Reed.

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You're going on a lovely cruise. Exactly. Maybe we'll throw them over. My wife will throw them overboard. I would assume. She's nicking with her new husband. This is the done levitar show with his two gods Baby Brought that one out. I

Picture yet. He's sort of like the Bradley Cooper Leonard Bernstein character in the opera. He's just hanging microphone. He's so happy by how wrong we are that the bottom half under his ass comes to life and just births a volcano of song. Baby! That trailing. Baby! That's really that's really that starts in the floor it's like a pitching motion someone who throws a

hundred and forty miles an hour like it comes through his bottom we've got to get to the Iowa correspondent like no others to guts we are cornering the market everywhere in the universe in Iowa news. No one in sports covers it better than we do nationally. Give her the imaging when Chris Cody tried to grab something from his loins. Lucy Rodine, Iowa correspondent. It's pretty good! It is! It's just not Chris! That's all good! It is! It's just not great!

That's all natural. It is! It is! Luceiro D. Iowa Correspondent. I love it! What news do we have in the Godforsaken Iowa football program? We have bad news, Dan. What? Normally, I try to be upbeat, I try to be positive, I try to be lovely.

Not today. Because after three months, Iowa hired an offensive coordinator. And they hired one who got fired for being really bad at offense. Oh no, oh no. They hired Tim Lester, former Western Michigan head coach, who was fired after his offense finished 124th nationally.

Yeah, which is tough, but I believe Iowa was 129th, so we are moving up on the list. Wow, that's like almost how you'd write it in fiction. Yeah, it's my rock bottom, and I thought my rock bottom was three weeks ago when we asked Paul Chris, hey, you want to be the offensive coordinator? And he was like, no, thank you.

I would rather be an offensive analyst at Texas than get paid a crack ton more money to work for Kirk Ferrance. And Kirk did this championship Sunday on purpose. To hide it. To hide it. And I think he's doing all this despite us to say, you know what?

You don't like my kid, I'm gonna find someone worse. So we miss Brian. It is awful. It is so miserable that we waited three months and this is the best you got. The former offensive coordinator at Syracuse who broke some stupid record of playing the entire season under the same snap cadence the entire season.

Every single play. And he's in charge of my offense now. Dan, I can't live like this anymore. Lucy, if I hear what you're saying, it sounds like the under's back. And the worst part? We are back. Chris was the first person I thought of.

He's gonna be so happy by this news because we're never gonna score points ever. And I'm gonna be miserable. And you know who I blame? I blame my ancestors because when they immigrated to the United States they went to Iowa. They could have gone to Georgia or something. I'd be a lot happier.

It's their fault. This is a great deal of family resentment that you have. Also they changed her last name. It was like a very normal last name and then they went with Rodine and it's like they didn't even think that I would potentially be on sports You know TV one day that was really rude too. What was it before?

It was supposed to be like Johnson like that was the name they had and they were like no, let's switch it up Let's I like your name better. I gotta be honest. It's so gross. Lucy Rodine, Iowa correspondent. It's just bad. It's just so bad. Kirk is trying to ruin my life. I do like your theory of Kirk Farrance at the end of his career sort of bitterly showing everyone who's boss by with spite showing people that he will not get better at offense.

You will miss his son. You want me to score? No. No, not going to do it. I will rebel against my own customer and fan base. I'm going to do this with defense. Watch me. The weekend before, he interviewed

with the Duke offensive coordinator, Kevin Johns. And I was so excited about that hire. All the Iowa fans were really pumped about that. Kirk saw it and was like, ah, nah. They like him too much. We need someone they're going to hate. I was waiting for you to get in to talk about the story of Stugach, you've seen this.

You could turn that music down, thank you. We were talking before about how surprised I am just to see a Super Bowl in Vegas. That's not something I could have imagined. You know, the way that Gadel talked about gambling back then and it's just all been normalized. Well, legalized. Normalized and legalized, not everywhere, right?

Half the states still don't have gambling, but one of the things that you have to be vigilant against, you got, is competition of holics, wanting competition away from what they do, and some of them going overboard in a way that's addictive and dangerous and the LSU player that I recently read about the number of bets that he made in 13 months suggests a giant gambling problem and not a lot of

Care with how you have to cover this stuff up if you don't want to get caught because more people are watching more than ever before. One, I won't describe it as a problem because he wracked in money. That guy was making so much. So K. Sean Boutet, former LSU wide receiver, placed almost 9,000 bets during his time at LSU, including, oh, so here we go. Not $9,000 worth of bets.

9,000 bets is crazy. It's in like 13 months, correct? Yes, so his total deposit was $132,000. He won over $500,000 and he only bet on himself several times. I have a question here about the math because we're talking about 9,000 bets in a span of 13 months. That's 692 bets a month.

Yeah, that's Mike Ryan level. Yeah, whose pics are he following? Cause I need to get on that. His own, himself. Well, he should become a tout. I feel like if we're gonna normalize this, you should be allowed to bet your own overs. 100%.

We tell athletes all the time to bet on yourself, and then when they actually do it, we get so mad. We get so angry at them. You can't bet the unders though. Unless you go to Iowa. Unless you go to Iowa. No, it's not a little sketchy. Unders a little sketchy.

And there will be some team problems involved. Well alligator arms up the middle. Oh, I know what you're doing. You can't do the unders, but the overs you will also cause some team problems if your other wide receiver also has a gambling problem. And he's betting his own overs. And then maybe you start to wonder if the quarterback is in on this, you know.

That's correct. He's cutting them in, hey, just get me over six catches, we're good, you know. You've now identified the problem. That is correct. That is the problem and it's going to be very difficult to police. We are going to catch some of these people because, again, his cover-up was flawed. His disguise was not great. Yes, he got caught because his username was Kshambhute1.

So just his name and a number and they caught him pretty fast. It's actually the perfect crime because you put it as Kshambhute1 and you're like, that wasn't me. My name is public record. Somebody because you put it as K. Shambhute one you're like that wasn't me some like my name is public record Somebody could have done it. I'm that stupid you can't call something the perfect crime when the person has been caught well He didn't do it right He won a lot of money. I think he did that's the problem. He won a ton of money over. He's like whoa Who is that put it on the pole, please? Can you call something the perfect crime if the architect of it was caught?

But what? Yeah, but it was a reprocessing. Unless, unless that was part of the crime. Think of Ocean's 11. Danny Ocean gets caught at the end. He goes to jail. But does he? But that was part of it.

Does he have professional prospects or did he now just become a tout? Did he now, now if I'm a company in Vegas I'm bringing him out for the Super Bowl and I'm like I've got a guy you're not gonna believe his numbers documented What a great commercial He started with a hundred thousand dollars he bet on himself He won half a million I He bet on himself. He won half a million. I think somebody needs to get behind that

and make it even more normal. I wanted to ask Lucy about something positive in Iowa because Iowa, their women's basketball team is playing at Northwestern tonight. And my daughter attends Northwestern and she can't get a ticket. Now she eventually got one because I purchased it for her, okay, but she can't get a ticket now she eventually got one because I purchased it for okay but she could not get a ticket I went online last night to get tickets for this game it's sold

out the tickets in the secondary market are ridiculous like I can the economy that Caitlyn Clark so that's I don't think you correct me if I'm wrong here Lucy I do not believe that there are many tickets like this that are this hard to get in sports right now for Regular season games anywhere anywhere across sports crazy maybe in Europe maybe with soccer And you know probably playoff games football playoff games But I don't imagine a regular season ticket of any kind looks like this one does. So Iowa 32 games in the regular season, they have sold out 30 of those games. It is impossible to get tickets to see Caitlin Clark on the higher end of the spectrum. People were paying thousands and thousands of dollars just to go see her on the road at Northwestern, at Ohio State.

She has become such like a valuable, just like her own little market, and I love it. She is amazing what she's doing for the game and she's bringing all these people in. When Iowa played Ohio State and they lost and I heard my feelings really bad, and one of the cool things you saw was when they panned over the crowd,

you saw the parents in Ohio State t-shirts and all their kids were wearing Caitlin Clark stuff. And it was just so cool and I love her so much and I'm so happy people are paying to see her. Iowa correspondent. Jesus Christ! If I may for a second, Stugatz, because we have now lived long enough,

it's pretty cool, right? We started the show talking about the threat of little girls and women to a politically divided America that Taylor Swift represents too well the strength as states try to govern women's bodies. America that Taylor Swift represents too well the strength as you know states try to govern women's bodies to have seen what women's basketball has mushroom clouded into where the streaming services are all gonna want contents to God's and you got South Carolina and LSU out doing Celtics heat because this is

such a hot pop culture thing thing. The women were ahead of the men on the social causes during George Floyd. The women have had it harder than the men at every turn during the pandemic. They're walking into weight rooms that are wildly ill-equipped for what it is that they're actually birthing in terms of money and economy to watch now money and economy to watch now mushroom in front of us all what's going to be staff against subpoena in a three point competition where we're going to do battle of the sexes modernized style with the nb a which is supported the w nb a better than men have supported women almost

anywhere because that the the n the NBA birth that league has supported that league at a loss to create what now is in front of you which is a pipeline of dreamers who say I want to be Caitlyn Clark and the lines are out the door it really has been over the last 15 years to see America go backward one way where you're legislating women's bodies over here but to see sports rise up over here in a way that will demand money and power soon stu gotz because there they're now all underpaid katlyn clark is keeping together an economy

here and isn't making enough even though she's very well paid she's worth she like lebron is worth more than the entire economy and city of rebirth that she has brought around her it's crazy to watch