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BT unleashed. All right, so we, we've got a
lot to do. We got to jam a lot into a
little bit of a little bit of time here.
Not a whole lot of time. Probably as short a show as I
can muster up. I've got to get out to St.
John's even earlier than usual to to film the TV show with
Rick. Hopefully Rick is in a good
mood. He's always in a good mood,
obviously at the St. John's dismantled by UConn.
I mean that that was one of the that was the worst game that
I've ever seen St. John's play.
I think in my life, like honestly, it was it was that
bad. I'll I'll contextualize and I'll
get into that in a minute. But there were a couple of
things breaking one in the NFL. First up, though, hey, we got a
little breaking news. Get it up on the screen there.
J Rod, I've told you this that this is right on the the cusp of
happening. Yep, we've got the second BT and
Sal live show. It is officially locked in April
2nd. It's out East Long Island,
Wantagh, Mulcahy's, which is a great spot.
I used to go to Mulcahy's a lot. I mean that was a massive party
place for me. I spent a lot of time in college
on on Long Island, played a lot of baseball out there.
Mitchell Field, Eisenhower played a lot of golf out there
as well. So I know Mulcahy's really well.
They've changed the venue and it's become bit of more of a
concert venue. I know the Frances has done a
lot of shows out there as well. This is going to be an absolute
blast. The ticket information is going
to drop a little later today. So I know that you guys want
access to that and want the information.
I'll obviously link it up for you.
I'll link it up on all the social obviously here on BT
Unleashed, on the YouTube show, on the YouTube channel.
But we've been, we've been scurrying behind the scenes to
find the date that works for me, to find a date that works for
Sal, to find the date that works for us, to find the venue that's
able to accommodate the date that works for us.
And there is a special guest which will be announced.
Now, I can't divulge too much here.
If our, I don't want to say our first choice because we don't
get them. I don't want to, you know, make
it seem like, oh, we're settling for the second choice and offend
that person. Either way, it's going to have
massive star power. Let me just say this though,
because it's not done and we should find out about that
today. But if it is the guest that we
have been chasing for a while, it's going to blow your minds.
It is going to absolutely blow your collective mind.
So I'm pumped up. I know Sal, he's on the beach
now. We went on a little vacation, so
we were texting. He's fired up as well.
BT and Sal live 2 point O out east.
Hey, Long Island. Now you got to stand up.
Now you got to represent. Now you got to show us what you
have because you were clamoring for this when we did the first
show. You can get us down there.
J Rod. Thank you, buddy.
By the way, do we don't we, we look like we look like such
Dicks in that pic. I don't know how else to say it.
We we do. We wait to put it back up.
I mean, look at it like, what are we going for there?
I don't even know what that pictures from.
I mean, we really just look like a couple that want to be tough
guys like, like Dicks like we do.
You know it's funny though. The classic fan photo shoot
pictures. J Rod, you're right.
It is from Wfans for sure. We never posed for that picture.
That was not a picture that we actually took.
So I, I, I don't know, but it's funny every time we see that
those of you who, those of you who don't, you know, the trolls
on social media all look at these tough guys, all look at
these wannabe posers and gangsters.
No, I, I don't think I'm a tough guy.
I, I'm certainly not a wannabe gangster.
I'm just doing a show and an image was created and I can't
wait to get out there and it's going to be absolutely wild.
So Mulcahey's April 2nd, OK, that's the first order of
business. Up next now this just broke and
I'm still trying to get the details right before we went on
the air. Let's slap this bad boy up
there. We got the edit.
Now the NFL new year, the calendar has not even started
yet and The Jets, The Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, the Mooji,
little Mooji, the Mooji LED jets are beginning to make things
happen. They shipped out sauce.
They shipped out obviously Quinn and Williams and now as per
Schefter and others trade, we got to trade.
The Jets are shipping defensive and Jermaine Johnson to the
Titans. Obviously Robert Sala very
familiar with him with Jermaine coached him up coached him well
too in exchange for defensive tackle to Vondre sweat for
sources. As I said, this can't be made
official until the start of the new year, which is obviously in
early March year. So so there you go.
So listen, I'm, I'm I don't know, it's not a home run.
I think it's one of those trades that could work out for both
teams. I I like Jermaine Johnson.
I hate it when he got hurt. It's a tough injury for that
position. You know, that burst of that
acceleration. He should be fine.
He is young. I know he rehabbed like a beast.
I know Rodgers helped him with that, with his Achilles guy.
And remember the story about he gave him the, the the private
jet Rodgers did. So, you know, when when they
drafted Jermaine Johnson, I really thought and and I saw the
early flashes, I'm like, man, they they crushed it with this
pic and then he got hurt and then, you know, he was
intermittently effective. I get it.
I get it in this regard. You know, you're getting to the
point where when he was drafted, where he was drafted the
contract and the money that he was about to make.
You know, is that really what you want to do for somebody who
is is good and at times impactful, but also at times
invisible and also not necessarily fully back from the
Achilles rupture? So I do like it for The Jets.
I understand why Tennessee would do this familiarity from Salva,
as I said, now, now the player The Jets get back that the
finances matter and the position of the defensive line matters.
And also, you know, just to stretch this out briefly before
I get to Saint John's, is that it?
It now does open up an ability for The Jets to do something in
the draft that maybe they wanted to do, but maybe couldn't
justify with with with with an extra defensive end on on the
roster. I I still don't know if The Jets
are going to go defense, defense in around one at 2 and 16.
If they go defense and then and then offense, they're definitely
not going to put it this way. They're not going offense,
offense. There is a good chance they go
defense, defense, and there's also obviously a good chance
they go defense, offense. And they will not go offense
defense like they will not take an offensive player at #2
because there's no quarterback. They don't need an offensive
lineman there. Nobody projects that high.
It will be a reach. So I've always thought that
this, this, this Jets draft, particularly in the first round,
will be centered on defense. And this gives me even more
reason to believe that that's exactly what they're going to
do. So the player they get back is a
run stuffer. He's a big, he's a big man, he's
a good player. He's not going to get you many
sacks. He's not going to get you a
total push up the middle little in terms of pressures, but he is
going to stifle the run, which has been very problematic for
The Jets for a couple of years now.
I like it. You know, again, I'm not going
to go over the top nuts about this.
I, I definitely like it more than I don't there.
Sometimes a trade happens and you're confused.
I'm not confused by this at all. The Jets didn't view Jermaine
Johnson and you know where he is in his career, what he's put on
film already, you know, a fairly debilitating injury.
They didn't view him as somebody they want to invest upwards of
$20 million, which is what that position commands when you start
looking at transition tags and you take the the average
salaries and all that stuff. So they're resetting the
finances they've got about. And again, this fluctuates and I
hit this a little bit yesterday with the effective cap space,
but they have so just in terms of cap space, not effective for
now, just pure cap space. Jets have the third or fourth
most depending upon, you know, which outlet spoke track and
some others. It's not, it's not perfect, it's
not to the dime, but it's in the neighborhood.
The Jets are between, you know, $72 million and 80 ish
$1,000,000. I think it's probably going to
be short of 80, although this this will change it a bit
because the player they're getting back is a going into
year 3 and he was a second round pick, not a first round pick
like Jermaine Johnson. So he doesn't carry that big
first round price tag, which which is fairly exorbitant for a
team that's trying to, you know, shuffle the deck here and become
competitive and do some good stuff.
So what I think that they will do now, like if I'm The Jets and
I've got a, a pure run stuffer and he is very good at that,
very good like that I love, I'm on the record.
I, I know it seems like it's a bit of a reach for some.
I'm a, I'm a little reluctant to take Reese from Ohio State at #2
that's just me. I'm not sitting here, you know,
saying I'm watching every single Snap on film like these scouts
do. But I watch Ohio State, you
know, I, I know people who cover him.
I know people in the NFLI follow these mocks.
I do my homework. My eyes tell me I like him, but
I don't love him. I love Caleb Downs.
You know that I love him too. I'm the giants take him to five.
That's that's a home run for the giants.
Horrible already talked about that.
So I just say that because with this, even without the trade,
you know, I do think The Jets would focus on defense here.
But now that they've got a run stuffer and now that they delete
an edge rusher, well, now it makes more sense.
I don't, you know, and you can certainly take, you know, Ruben
Baines has dropped a little bit in terms of perception.
He's not going to. There was a point, certainly
after the national championship game where he was projected, you
know, a lot of people had him too.
And and I'm like, wow, the way he looked, I was kind of OK with
it as well. You know, people have cooled on
him just a little bit. I think he's probably closer to
10 than he is 2 right now. So I mean, is it a Caleb Downs?
Is it is it the kid from Texas Tech who a lot of who people
think are more ready and is more polished than some of these
other edge rushers right now, which I tend to agree with by
the way. I don't know the absolute
answer. But what I love about this and
this is just more evidence that Darren Mooji is not messing
around. As long as Woody can keep his
grubby fingerprints off this product and stay away.
Let the big boys let the football people handle these
decisions. Just shut up and get lost and
just, you know, cut the checks and make the powder and just get
out of our way and let what appears to be a true modern
football GM do his job. Well, you know where I stand on
this. I think given the the resources
that The Jets have the two first round, there's this year, the
three next year, I really think a lot of cap space.
And in terms of effective cap space, by the way, it's right
around 50, five, $56 million, which is just the difference
when, when you apply the expected draft picks that you
bring in the retention of current free agents that could
lead the building that you elect not to free agents that are on
other teams or were on other teams that you were preparing to
bring in. So the effective cap space is
basically it. It's, it's a more workable
number. It's a more accurate number.
Anyway, there's some football stuff for you.
I do like it. I like it a lot.
I, I don't, again, I'm not going over the top for a run stuffer.
It's not like, you know, you get, you know, like when Dallas
made that ridiculous trade with Green Bay.
You're right. It's not that kind of trade,
obviously, but it is a good solid trade.
And The Jets have been pushed around in the trenches too much
on defense and it's got to stop. And this is a good way to start
stopping it. I like it.
OK, Now, St. John's, wow, that was, I was
going to say that that was the word I think I did say at the
top of the show and I and I mean it, but I'm going to take it a
step further. I said that was the worst St.
John's game that I've ever seen. And that counts a lot of
basketball. Now, you know, maybe there was a
game or two that I'm just not recollecting.
But in terms of like the moment and the magnitude and the juice
and the hype and the buzz, the, the, the complete no show by
Saint John's last night was about as mystifying a thing as
I've ever seen. And to take it a step further,
not only was it was it the worst Saint John's game I've ever
seen, it really may have been the worst college basketball
game that I've ever seen. It was that bad.
It was it was insanely inept Saint John's.
They were they were that bad. Now, after the game, this what
winners do this what leaders do. This was Rick Pitino after the
game. And I'll tell you why he's doing
this. I don't agree with Rick.
I'm going to read it for you. I don't agree with what he's
saying here. Quote.
All right, It's all on me. It is all on me.
I'm very disappointed in our performance offensively,
especially sharing the ball, moving the ball.
It's all on me. But we got to get ready for
Villanova that Saturday, by the way, at the Garden.
We're still playing for a league championship.
Doesn't matter if you lose by 1 or 40.
League championship is still at stake.
Obviously, we've got to make our corrections and we've got to
move on now. This is not on Rick Pitino at
all. You can get that down, Jay.
He can say it and I appreciate him saying that.
And there's probably elements that, you know, being the coach
that he is and the, the, you know, the, the attention to
detail and the elements of preparation, He's saying, wow, I
didn't have them ready. OK.
What he's really doing is deflecting, you know, and, and
bringing it upon himself, which what leaders and winners do.
And he he's protecting his team because right now St.
John's went from one of the best stories in college basketball,
winning thirteen straight, their longest winning streak since
8485. You're talking Mullin, Walter
Berry. I mean, it's been that long.
Of course, Louis Carter, second the great Louis.
Rest in peace, coach. I, I don't, I don't agree with
Rick and I don't agree with Rick because when the game started
and I said to my son immediately, I mean, by the way,
let me tell you the way we watch the game, this was ridiculous.
So I didn't do the game. I'm doing the game Saturday at
the Garden. I'm doing the Tuesday game
against Georgetown and then I'm doing the regular season finale
at Seton Hall on Friday, March 6th.
I didn't do the game last night when the schedules come out, I
was still working at WFAN and there's just certain Rd. trips I
can't make. So I wasn't doing the game.
And what do we have? Yes, we had we had baseball
practice from 4:30 to 6:00. OK.
And then for for the team that I coached, the travel team, then
he had hitting lesson at 7 and it was all the books for a while
because it's it's been for a couple of months we've been in
this routine. I'm like, oh man, God.
And the hitting lessons an hour from 7 to 8.
The game started at 7:00. So I drop them off right?
I'm in the car and I'm doing work right.
The BT and South stuff, the announcement that was getting
ready to drop. So we're working on the flyer
button and some stuff up. Had some work to do.
I, I, I have not done this in a while.
I did not look at a score. I did not.
I kept the radio on, on music in my car while he was hitting.
I took his phone, all right, because he gets the alerts.
I'm constantly hear that. That's a ridiculous ESPN alert,
you know. Oh, and he tells me like the
minor league moves of the Yankees.
I'm like, I know, I know or I don't really care.
So he gets all these alerts, right?
I said, give me a phone. I said, so when you get out,
you, you're not going to look at the score, say oh, that Saint
John's up by 13. Oh, that Saint John's doesn't
look good. I want to get home without
knowing what's going on. And we did.
And then of course when we get home, it takes 3 minutes to
figure out how to fix the freaking stupid Peacock app,
which I can't stand. And we didn't see.
This will bother me. We did our checkpoints
yesterday. My wife who's better at this
stuff and because it's all like her, her passwords and her QR
code with the phone. So in my office where I am now,
I've got obviously have ATV on the on the wall there.
So I just thought kind of mistakenly that if we and I, I
guess we had Peacock, but we hadn't used it in a while.
I don't even know. So I'm like, listen, I've got to
take it to practice. And then she had, she took my
daughter somewhere. We're going to be running
around. Help me out with this, get this
thing ready. So when I walk in the door at
8:15, it's St. John's UConn time.
Anyway, we do it in my office and we're all buttoned up.
It's all said. She's zapping the phone.
All the stupid passcodes good got Peacock right.
But I'm not going to watch the game in my office.
I'm going to watch the game in the family.
But the fireplace on make a night of it, right?
All the big TV, the 60 inch you're hanging over the
fireplace, not this little shit TV that I've got.
So anyway, we come home. I'll Peacock all you got to do
it again. I'm like we did it in my office.
Why is it not working on the big TV?
Like I'm thinking if you have one app, it's transferable.
Anyway, so we finally get the game going and it was absolutely
atrocious. And I remember saying to my son,
and I'm talking in the first minute of the game, first minute
of the game. I said they're not ready.
To play I have never seen, well, never is a ridiculous word.
I have not seen a Rick Pitino team right with Saint John's
look so jittery and so I'll equipped for the moment and
skittish and out of whack. Like even when they were just
making perimeter passes just to begin, just to begin the
initiation of the offense. I'm talking about the early
stages right before they get into their backdoor cuts and
their screens and stuff. Guys were fumble in the ball
like what is going on? I thought the shot selection was
really bad. I thought the weak side defense,
the rotations were awful. They allowed UCONN's big to get
early DS. Good player, very good.
And and and St. John's played him very well when
they beat him last time at the Garden, he took over from the
get go. The kid Mullins, you know, hit a
once he hit Mullins, hit a corner freshman hit a hit a
quarter three right in front of the UConn bench kind of falling
out of bounds. I'm like, that's a wrap.
They're not winning this game. And by the way, it's OK that
they didn't win the game. Now the optics of the game are
are really awful. But this goes back to what I
said about Rick, who is taking ownership of the game.
He's just doing that because he's been around the block and
he understands how this works. St.
John's confidence was at it was sky high, 13 straight wins
moving up in the rankings. There's a thought, hey, maybe a
four seed, get some regional home cooking for the first
round, in the second round, the NCAA tournament.
That's out the window. I don't think St.
John's has any chance now to get a four seed.
Things definitely changed last night.
There's no doubt they changed metrically, although they didn't
really drop in the NET rankings, which is surprising to me.
You going into the game, UConn was 10, I believe they moved up
to 9. And like, St.
John's was either 23 or 24 and they're still 23.
It was a road game. I know they got blasted.
I know they scored two field goals in the second-half.
Wow. I know they went 17 minutes and
24 seconds without a basket, which is incomprehensible.
But it's one game. It's one game.
So I'm not here to make excuses like that was a jarring loss,
which is why Rick said what he said and did what he did.
It was a short press conference, didn't even go to the podium.
He hit the reporters outside the locker room for a minute or two.
I'm sure he went in. I'm sure he blasted them.
And now it's back to the lab. And now you got to now you got
to get cooking. Because what's changed here for
St. John's is like you look at some
of the early these season games that they had.
We've talked about this when we do Saint John specific stuff
here on the show, like whether it was Alabama or Iowa State or,
or the Auburn game, which was a very bad loss.
And Kentucky when they were up and then they just kind of
collapsed there. Those were games and the
Providence game, of course, on January 3rd, which was the last
game that they had won or, or, or lost before last night.
That is definitely a quad three loss.
And it I actually think it fluctuated.
I know it did. I don't know if it stays there
to a quad for loss, which hurts Saint John's numbers.
So in a in in a big macro picture here, you know, St.
John's was pretty much on the five line with upside right now.
And I checked some of the bracketology like the bracket
matrix, but not all were updated.
Whatever. But I know enough to tell you
what I think is going to happen. So here's what's going to
happen. All right, Saint John's, even if
they. Went out and and beat Villanova.
That's going to be a tough game. You know, Willard's team is
starting to peek and Willard's a good coach.
And I think there was there was a sense within the Saint John's
fan base like, oh, it's a given. If we could just beat UConn up
in not up in Hartford. It wasn't in stores, but
environment was insane. Husky fans.
They they took the challenge from Danny Hurley.
Wow. And by the way, how about Dan?
And this is the gamesmanship of it and a bomb.
Patino. I'm pissed and I know he was why
I shouldn't say no, he was I would be pissed.
I'll ask him today when I see him in two hours.
But when you you're up 30 and with 5 minutes to go in the
game, you challenge a call that is all gamesmanship.
That is all. Danny Hurley getting out the big
needle and sticking it and not liking the fact that until last
night Rick Pitino and St. John's absolutely owned EU Conn
Huskies. Now that's over.
Now, it doesn't mean that if they meet up in the tournament
in the Big East that I don't think St.
John's can win. I do.
I also didn't think that St. John's was was absolutely better
than UConn, even though they beat UConn at the Garden.
Now you prefer more like a 5 or 6 point loss.
OK, You know, take it off the chin a little bit.
You knew that Hurley would have them wired.
The place was folded at the mouth from the opening.
From the opening introductions, that place was on fire.
Real. That was a tough venue to play
in. I was just really take it and
you prefer to lose by a couple of points.
Optically it looks better. Metrically, it probably measures
out a bit better, but as long as St.
John's wins the rest of these games, it's not going to really
matter outside of perception, which doesn't mean that much
when you get to the NCAA Tournament.
I mean, think about it last Listen, we very well might have
the converse this year where last year St.
John's was a two seed. They beat Omaha, you know, one
of these small teams, all due respect, you know, love that
they got there. Good for them, fun for the small
schools to get there. I mean, if you would have lost
that game, it would have been a colossal disaster.
So St. John's won and then they did not
play well against Arkansas Calipari's team at all, which is
and it's a different, you know, fiscal presentation strength and
speed and length ratio in the SEC that it is in the Big East.
The Big East is, you know, historically little, little more
burly, a little tougher. And the SEC is a little
bouncier, a little thinner, a little more explosive there.
You know, they're more length on the wings and certainly in the
front court. So what Rick did smartly was he
said, all right, I got to make sure we're more battle tested
from when we get to March. So it's it, it's not, you know,
we don't have a disadvantage based on the matchups.
And he learned his lesson against Arkansas last year.
And St. John's really played poorly in
that game. RJ Lewis was lost, was chucking
up shots, got benched. We know the story.
And I, I say this because I, I know that the emotions are high
and last night was colossally disappointing.
I'm not going to lie to you like that's the last thing that I
expected. If you would have told me, Hey,
everything, if you could liquidize everything in like the
house, the four O 1K, the stocks, the the the kids college
funds, right, Well, I would have left that alone, God forbid, but
everything that I can leverage financially and I was able.
And I say this kind of because I would never do this, but I if I
if I had to, I, I know which choice I would take if I could
take every penny that I have right and there was a bed
available before the game last night.
Hey BT everything that you have put it on the table, you know
straight up -110 with no, no crazy juice dot -110 and you can
bet yes or no that St. John's will score 40 points or,
or or more. I know what I'm doing.
Or you can bet yes or no that St.
John's will go almost 18 minutes without a field goal.
Here, take all my money, I know what I'm doing.
Or St. John's will score a grand total,
make a grand total of 2 field goals in the second here.
Let's go. Let's bet.
I mean, it's just one of those wacky occurrences, man.
Now, it doesn't mean that the matchups that like that's maybe
that's a bit of a foreshadow for a Big East tournament matchup
that all right, you could extrapolate a little bit more
from last night than the first game and say, hey, maybe the
Huskies are better. And by the way, the Huskies very
well might be better. They've got multiple pros on
that team. Caravan's going to be a pro.
Their big is going to be a crow, a pro who knows what Mullins,
you know, turns into with, you know, a year or two in the
weight room with that stroke. I mean, kid could shoot the heck
out of it. They're they're they're good.
And by the way, Danny Hurley's a multiple time and NCAA champion.
So they didn't just lose, no disrespect to Wagner.
They didn't just lose to Marist. They lost to UConn at UConn.
But God, that was alarmingly gross.
Gross. So it really comes down to a
couple of things here and independent.
Now you can either believe this or not, I really, it doesn't
matter. Independent of my affiliation,
my long standing affiliation with the university and
everybody wants, everybody knows I want to see St.
John's do well. Obviously independent of that, I
could flush that down the chute because I'm looking at the
camera and saying that that was the worst St.
John's game that I've ever seen. So I'm not pulling any punches
there. It was absolutely hideous.
But now once you get past that, because that's pretty basic
stuff based on the numbers I just gave you, the real
questions are this. Do you trust the character of
this team? And my answer is yes, because I
will go to the end of the earth believing that I might
ultimately be proven wrong. But I will take that leap of
faith in the character of Zubi Ejafour and Dylan Mitchell and
Bryce Hopkins and Ziah Sellers and all those players.
Now, you know, I will say this one play when I talk about the
pros, even though, as Rick has said, they are pros because
they're getting paid, I'm still going to differentiate between
talking about The Jets losing 30 to 3 on a Monday or the
immediate reaction after a game versus college students.
Even though they get paid. I'm going to parse it a little
differently and I'm going to present it a little bit
differently, but I still have to keep it real, all right.
And the the profound disappointment that I have with
Ian Jackson this year is is almost impossible to describe.
You know, he is so careless with the ball.
It's ridiculous. And there's a reason why Rick
Pitino doesn't trust him. Now, Rick's not going to come
out and say I don't trust Ian Jackson.
But if you look at the majority of these games, certainly the
last 10 or so, maybe a little bit less than that.
But seven or eight, maybe 9, where Dylan Darling, who also
would everybody played poorly last night, including him.
Where Dylan Darling has gotten the lion's share of the minutes
late and asserted himself and made big shots and been on the
court in in in clutch moments. Whether it's seat in the hole
with the steal, you know, when he picks somebody's pocket, made
a layup, whether it's banging a big triple out of Xavier,
whether it's, you know, obviously making big plays.
And the Big Bells award was named after him up in Providence
after the scuffle when when Bryce Hopkins got fouled.
And it was basically a fight. Like Dylan Darling is is the
point guard of of this team. And Sellers can run a little bit
and Jackson's going to get some minutes.
But he's just so. And that's not why they lost
last night. But this is a bigger picture
discussion. I just expected a whole heck of
a lot more from this young man coming from Carolina.
I think he was a 38th recruit in the country.
I know we got big money to go to Saint John's, big expectations.
Just hasn't gotten it done. He just hasn't.
And while Bryce Hopkins was kind of little bit less than early in
the year and now he is, you know, rediscovered his game and
and really a last night aside and played very well.
Ian Jackson just really hasn't had a continuous run of really
good explosive basketball. Like when Saint Johns and I saw
him play at North Carolina a couple times and a local kid so
familiar with them and I thought really St.
John's was getting a future pro, that that's what I thought they
were getting. He just hasn't delivered the way
we thought that he would. Doesn't mean he can't perk up at
some point. That's been a disappointment.
Last night was astoundingly bad and and now is that unfortunate?
I really do have to wrap this up quick, quick today, man.
I can keep going, but I just can't.
So they were basically thought to be a five seed before last
night. Build it up.
Let's get this up on the board as well.
Give me the standings first if you can.
Let's get a look at the standings here.
Look at that. Kind of nice that that unleashed
logo looks good there. Who made that?
I did All right. So obviously UConn and St.
John's, the top building over third Saturday.
Seton Hall, scrappy, tough, but not tournament worthy at this
point. Nobody else even really worthy
of Speaking of. It's a very down year, which is
part of the reason why despite winning thirteen straight games,
St. John's really never jumped
higher than 15 or higher than 23 in the NET rankings because the
math wasn't there. The Big East stinks this year
based on how we usually evaluate the Big East.
OK, so it's a two team race for the top and it's 3 teams in the
go dancing. And now we get a look at the
remaining schedule for St. John's and I'll tell you what
could happen if things go very well.
Let's get that schedule up there.
J Rob, please, the schedule for St.
John's. Thank you.
Oh, nice red background. Look at that, Poppin.
Very good. There were five seed.
Let's say Saint John's goes 3 and O and they get to the if
they go 3 and O, they'll they'll be in the conference sheet.
They'll they'll be the one of the two seed, right Or they know
they'd be the one seed based on the tiebreaker.
So you'd have to think that they would get at least to the Big
East to Saturday for the championship.
Let's say they go 3 and O and they lose to U Conn in the
championship. Well, you know, I think based on
last night, they should drop definitely to a six seed and I
think there'll be some people who have him in that 710
matchup. And I understand that.
I I do, you know, because if you were five and not even the top
five seed, but middle to the, you know, and some spots of six
seed, you're going to drop. You have to.
So if they go 3 and O and they do what I said that they would,
they if they do do this and they lose to the Huskies in the
championship, they might have a chance and U Conn doesn't lose a
game the rest of the way. They will have a chance to maybe
get back to that five seat. I think A4 seat is off the
table. I do now if they lose to
Villanova, now you're talking about a dip.
Now you start to talk about the 8-9 game beginning to come into
play. I think that's on the table.
I mean, it would take a ridiculous, colossal, epic
proportion meltdown to lose to Georgetown, who's just terrible.
So they'll win that game. And listen, Seton Hall is going
to be a tough game. Holloway's boys are scrappy.
I've got a lot of respect for Shaheen and I know Rick Pitino
does as well. So I listen, I think, I think
they'll go 3 and O if they beat Villanova, they will.
If they lose to Villanova, you know, now things change a lot.
I would just say this before I go understand that, you know,
last night was one game and just like if you win by 40, it
doesn't necessarily ensure that you're going to win the next
game. It's about preparation, it's
about character, it's about heart, it's about depth, it's
about talent. Now, St.
John's has all of those things they've got, and I've documented
this many times. Not doing it now.
I don't have time. They've got to me the greatest
coach in the history of college basketball.
I know that Wooden's there and coach K all due respect to them,
they're amazing. But the reason quickly why I
think it's Rick is because Rick has shown great adaptability.
You know, Wooden, no transfer portal, you know, no NIL coach
K1 spot. The ability to just go
somewhere, elevate to an incredibly high level speaks to
an incredibly transferable, transcendent coaching acumen and
talent that Rick Pitino has shown.
So I for my money, and I was saying this before Rick came St.
John's, I remember talking about this with Tiki when we had Rick
on when he was wrote his book and he was basically shipped out
to Greece because nobody wanted him.
I've thought about, I've thought about Rick this way for a long
time. So there's no doubt, although I
would not want to be a St. John's player today or tomorrow,
they are going to be, well maybe not tomorrow because the game
Saturday, he is going to run them into the ground today.
It's going to be uncomfortable and it should be because St.
John's did not show up. They didn't just lose, they
didn't show up. And that's confounding and
that's unacceptable. And that's up to the coach to
fix. And I believe that he will.
And once the coach sets the tone and the message trickles into
the players, now it's up to the young men in that locker room,
starting with Zubi, who I also have incredible faith in based
on his character and his talent to get this thing right.
So an awful performance, an incredibly confounding
performance and a a very jarring loss that has many of you
rethinking what they could be. But just remember last year, two
seed lot of us are thinking final four.
They lost the Arkansas bang didn't even make the Sweet 16.
Maybe it's a different script this year.
I remember saying before the year started like there's no way
St. John's is going 31 and five
again this year. They're just not and they're and
they're not. They already have 6 losses and
they're probably not going to get to 31 wins unless they were
to like, you know, get to the Elite 8, whatever it might be,
which they could, but they won't have 5 losses is my point.
And you know, I know that this is corny and almost contrived,
but it really doesn't matter where you start.
It's what you what you look like, what it's really time to
go. And now it's a different level
of time to go. You got to go Saturday night
against Villanova. You got to just suffocate them
and snatch their soul and they are not going to lay down.
Willow's a hell of a coach and they got some boulders who are
tough matchups for Saint John's. So as long as Saint John's is
dialed in emotionally, which I know they will be, dialed in
schematically, which I know they will be, and they just play
better, which I believe they will, St.
John's will be fine. Better than fine.
But wow, last night, Wolf, I'm good.
Hopefully Rick's in a good mood when I get there.
Oh man. All right, got to get rolling
here one more time. Get it up on the screen.
The breaking news. BT and Sal live 2 point O.
Let's see that corny. Look at those two guys.
Look at those two meatheads. Those two want to be tough guys.
Look at those two idiots. Hey, listen, place to get a sell
out. I can promise you that just like
the last one did. You have demanded a BT and Sal
live 2 point O. It's coming April 2nd.
We'll have a couple of Yankee met games in the bag.
So you know, me and Sal will be able to get after it in that
regard. I'll know today, hopefully about
the special guest. If it comes to fruition.
It's going to blow your mind, trust me.
Either way, me and Sal up on a stage, drinking your hand.
Drinking our hands as well. No rules.
Do whatever we want. It's going to be a night to
remember. Cannot wait.
So that is official. I'll get out the link for the
tickets. Make sure you guys go out there
and represent because you were clamoring not only for the
second show, for another live show, but Long Island.
Hey, come out east. Come.
Hey, it's Sal's hometown. I know if it was in Brooklyn
that I would sell it out. All right, Sal, your Long Island
people better show up, buddy. You're from Long Island,
Ronkonkoma, right? And I got roots out there as
well, having played a lot of baseball out there.
As I told you, you know, Mitchell Field, Eisenhower Park,
all the golf courses, you know, God, I must have left a million
golf balls out there out east. So the plan is to have an
amazing night and that is now official.
So I got to run up, I got to take a quick shower.
I got a suit up, got to get out to Saint John's, record the Red
Storm report with The Jets trade.
I like it. I get it.
I understand it. I believe in Muji.
Have an awesome rest of your day.
Hey, I know it's short. I know you guys wanted more.
I apologize. I really do have to bounce like
it. Subscribe it, get that traction
going, get the comments going. J Rod, I couldn't even really
pull you in today, but let's see.
I can't have a show without J Rod's face.
Where's J Rod's? Where's the mug?
There he is. Look at him.
Look at J. What's up, Dustin?
Chill, chill J, Rod and hizzy. How's it going I?
Know you're juiced. About the show, you were telling
me your parents are going to come out to that, right?
Yes, Sir, Dude. Very excited.
You know everyone's going to meet.
I mean, I don't even know if I've ever met you in person
before. You have not.
I yeah, I really. Don't think so.
So. Well, listen, you know we're
going to. Pull you up on stage too,
Hopefully Bada Booms is there. Yeah, that would be.
So much fun. What if?
What if I build? The steel cage and you and Bada
booms start swinging on it. I don't.
You don't look like much of A fighter though.
I don't, Yeah. I can't.
I think I'm more of like a Gandhi type.
We need some more world, but you know what?
Maybe him and I, we could do a WWE reenactment.
I don't know. Who knows?
We'll figure it out. Man, listen, it's all good not
to cut you off. Let me roll like and subscribe.
Do you think that salute to J Rod as well, BT unleashed fam.
I appreciate you guys. I appreciate you understanding
that I got to go out to St. John's now back tomorrow with 10
also tomorrow and it's up there just going, you know, search
through the YouTube channel my all time Mets lineup post 1980.
All right, I saw bench getting a couple knocks yesterday out
there in right field for the Mets ease.
So I will drop that tomorrow. So almost baseball season got a
roll. 10 AM tomorrow. Peace.