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Um, I had the invite I just I can't I got a couple meetings on
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flights like Wednesday to get to Portland.
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Are you folks doing Galen? Klaviyo, Scott Caulfield joining
you here? As we are getting our heads
wrapped around what we just witnessed on CBS Sports and
talking about Indiana's. Draw in the bracket.
We've got some some live stuff going on here as we don't
normally do live stuff. That's more.
The, the items that are Brethren over it assembly called do, but
Scott. We had to talk about this and we
had to talk about a quickly Indiana back in the NCAA
tournament field for the first time since 2016.
I think perhaps not the way that we had talked ourselves into it
here. Over the course of the last
several days or couple of days at least, but they are back in
the field. That's kind of the big item to
start things off with and I guess, let's just start off.
First off. I getting your initial reaction.
We had to wait a while to see Indiana pop up.
We finally see Indiana pop up. And your thought was what?
Yeah, it's like six years and 28 minutes to see us back in the
field. I mean, two main thoughts.
Is that one. I guess we had to win that
Illinois game. Looking back.
I guess that Illinois win was a very important.
Secondly, you know, we're you and I have been talking and
like, you know, LSU was our kind of our Dream, your dream matchup
and I like that. And then like they started, you
know, you kind of knew like, alright, the next bracket came
up. It's like the 611 in Milwaukee,
I'm like, oh, this be nice, is the LSU's there.
I'm like, all right. This is this is showing nice and
it's like, no, that's not going to be for us and then it's like,
all right. I'll tell my wife.
I were either another 11 or were a play in.
Like it's just, it's those twos or route.
Like we're not in, you know, Michigan gets a just a
phenomenal draw where it's like a four-hour drive for them to
come back to India, but know, for us.
It looks like we're playing Tuesday in Dayton and then
Thursday, in Portland. So that's a bit of a flight for
the The Hoosiers. I'm assuming like, I know we
haven't been looking at bracket stuff for a long time like but
it's like there's not a good cbs's website is garbage.
Like ESPN has like two can somebody has get the full
bracket up somewhere. It's like but anyway, not going
to complain. We're in the tournament.
You know, let's win a game. It is funny.
I saw Trace Jackson. Davis is like, you know, just
respected thing on Instagram, which is nice, but it's also
like you had multiple chances to not be disrespected but I like
everything. The draw, except for the Dayton
to Portland. Forty eight-hour, trip, and then
playing st. Mary's kind of on their home
turf like that. All of that sucks.
But this is better than a 90. Well, it is.
I mean, we'll break down a couple of things, and if you
folks have questions and you're watching this live, go ahead and
write in on Twitter, will grab your questions.
Well, answer them. You know, my, I guess my overall
thoughts on this, my last bracket I did.
Deanna is a 10 and, and yet, you know, I'd had them as an 11
right before that. So, this was right in that
range. And, you know, the way that the
bracketing works, it's kind of it's weird when you get down to
it, in terms of how teams get placed in two different spots.
You know, Mike feature e asked a question on Twitter.
What are the odds that the committee originally at IU in
Michigan and each other's spot, but then realized I, you would
be playing in India as an 11 seed and panic into switching.
Just those two. I don't think that happened.
I think what actually We happened was that I, you was the
first of the four teams in Dayton, and that was entirely
because Davidson lost to Richmond.
The second team in Dayton was Notre-Dame, but Indiana in order
to in couldn't rematch because they've already played once this
year. So, they ended up dropping
Indiana down to the 12 seed, play in game, putting the
luckiest Rutgers, right? Because you can't play Rutgers.
So the only combination that worked.
There was Indiana playing against Wyoming in the L've and
Notre Dame against Rutgers in the 11.
Although one could ask people couldn't you just like, move
Wyoming up to the 11 and give it Indiana that but who knows at
this point, but even they need apples thing.
Is an interesting one. I don't know what Indiana, you
know, if they would have gotten a chance.
I doubt they would have gotten a chance to play an indie because
that's something that the committee does try to avoid, you
know, overall looking at the seating in the way that all of
this shook out. It's essentially what I thought
was going to happen across the Bored, I did have Texas A&M in
the field instead of Rutgers, but it was very easily.
You could have said that Rutgers was going to get in.
We just a big question was how much was the NCAA selection
committee going to favor? Big wins on your resume.
How much was the committee going to favor doing?
Well in conference tournaments, it kind of seems like they
didn't Focus very much on conference tournaments at all.
Which again as we've seen with this committee.
This is why this is such a complicated thing.
They constantly switch what they focus on year-in and year-out.
You know, we've seen here's your early All Conference tournament
next. I'll be all Conference
tournament results. Well, I think you could make the
argument that like, I was a one seed Virginia Tech.
I don't know why they're seated, even as high as they are.
If what you're going off of his regular season, because Virginia
Tech did not have a better regular season than Indiana.
Miami did not have a better regular season.
And then Indiana unless just being a part of the Atlantic
Coast Conference is automatically, you know, a key
to a better season. It probably is given the way
that the committee acts on these things.
But overall, I think that this is about where Indiana was at.
It's a damn good thing. They beat Illinois on Friday
because it looks pretty. Clear that just beating Michigan
wasn't going to be enough. And you know, I mean certainly I
think you could quibble with some of the spots and and you
know, if Indiana is in the first play in game and not matched up
against Notre Dame or Rutgers, then we're looking at them as an
11 seed as opposed to a 12 seed. But look, as we talked about
before the Big Ten Tournament started.
I don't think Indiana has any room for complaints simply
because this was the bed that they made.
If they'd beaten Iowa. I think they're clearly out of
the first four. Maybe not as far as we thought
that they would be. Maybe they're only an 11 seed.
Maybe they top out of this hen, you know, but but overall, look,
you're still in the field. If you're Indiana, you've got a
chip on your shoulder now because you got dropped into the
play-in game despite playing like one of the better teams in
the college basketball. The last couple of days and
you're matched up against a team that I think you can beat.
And we'll talk about the matchup here in a minute.
I wanted to get to a couple of other questions from Twitter.
Do you have any other thoughts or questions?
Scott? No dumb dumb.
Dumb question, but I'll pretend like, I'm asking for for the
people. Not myself.
I know we can't play Rutgers because we're in the same
conference. As them is.
The reason we can't play Notre Dame because we've already
played them this year. Like is that the other
well-placed achieve already played until the sweet 16?
The the committee really tries to avoid first round or second
round rematches of regular season games.
And so that's really what it comes down to is that they now
that that's not to say that they haven't had those happen, but
it, they do try to avoid it if at all possible, so I do think
Indiana Got a little bit screwed in terms of being in the 512 sub
bracket play in as opposed to the 611.
I don't know I guess this is where I don't understand the
committee's attraction to Notre Dame.
They did nothing and they lost Indiana head-to-head.
They won 15 games in a terrible. Atlantic Coast Conference.
I really don't understand what on Earth they did to Warrant
being ahead of either Indiana or Wyoming.
Frankly, when it came to at large is But that's sometimes
how the cookie crumbles with these things.
And this always leads back to kind of produce screwing Us by
not being good. Is that, I think Petrie's
comment is, is interesting, and probably right about the
Michigan, playing an Indian that could have been our spot, you
know, but Purdue mess this up because of Purdue would have had
the season they should have had they would have been a one seed
and they would have taken that Indiana Indianapolis region off
the table. And then maybe we wouldn't have
had a region issue because it does.
We have no room to complain, but it does feel like of all the
teams left. We were fighting all of these
battles were like, you can't place us here.
We can't play these. Like we had a reason we couldn't
be in this in like 4 of the spots.
You might be should have been slotted in.
Now. I will say this, you know, when
you, when you look at the overall setup of this, this
draw. Yeah.
I kind of like it for Indiana. I'm not gonna lie, you know, you
look at the Wyoming. Wyoming has had an interesting
season to say the least. They were a contending team in
the Mountain West. West Conference, they ended up
not winning the Mountain West Conference.
They were twenty four and seven on the season.
They haven't, you know, some good wins in conference, but
they really didn't do very much outside of conference.
I think their best out of conference win.
God. I mean, you look at their
schedule. I mean, they beat Northern, Iowa
on a neutral floor, 71, to, 69. They got obliterated by Arizona.
They lost on a neutral floor, to a pretty bad Stanford team.
They did a lot of work in conference.
But this is, this is a Wyoming team, frankly, that when you
look at their numbers is just not that tremendously
impressive. Overall.
They their 54th and Ken palm and offense, their 66th and defense.
I think they're 58th overall after the events of today.
If you go to Eric Haslam's website has Le metrics.com,
where he does, like a essentially, a temple free
preview Indiana's already rated to win this game by five points.
And, and who knows what the actual line will be on it.
But you look at that Wyoming's roster and what they bring to
the table. They they don't have an
overwhelming amount of size. They're really inexperienced
Team. All things considered.
They have Hunter Maldonado, who's a senior who's played,
just an insane amount of minutes this year.
And is a pretty good interior scorer and then they've got a
guy in drag Jeffries who plays a lot of minutes but doesn't
really contribute that much all things considered offensively
and then they just got a bunch of sophomore.
That that make up the vast majority of the rest of their
roster. I think if you were trying to
draw up an opponent for Indiana to play in the first round, this
is the type of opponent. You would want a team.
That is not overwhelmingly good offensively.
A team that is certainly not going to out athletic you or out
sighs you. And I think Indiana right now,
when I look at this, I'm like this is this is a pretty good
matchup. Like if you want to, the whole
purpose is to get out there and get started on the right foot in
the NCAA tournament. You know, you've got what 100
miles from here to Dayton Wyoming, a good eye, you crowd.
It's like a negative 1 and a half hours.
Yeah. Wyoming's got a flight.
They have to take the games on Tuesday, almost certainly,
because Indiana is going to be playing in that in that Thursday
game in Portland. Excuse me.
Yeah, important. So they put the dates on the TV
show, but yet it's still like, TBA on everything.
You see, it's like that call ways.
It could be Wednesday, Friday. I'm assuming it's gonna be one
of those two Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday, Friday.
I'm assuming, they'll confirm that.
Night some point, right? And then, you know, like you
don't want to get too far ahead. Although we can do that because,
you know, I was always love it. When podcasts are like, well, we
know we don't look too far ahead.
He's like, guys, you're not in the locker room.
You're talking about basketball, just go ahead and get ahead of
yourselves. So we're going to go ahead and
get ahead of ourselves. If Indiana were to be Wyoming.
I really like that match up with st.
Mary's to the fact of the matter is, this is another game where
you go to the has a mess, Haslem metrics website.
Sorry, and it's a game in. Indiana is right there in
competition with like after after the events of today.
It's almost a dead heat. It's basically a 6261 game and
you know, st. Mary's again, another team that
is their impressive but they're mostly impressive on the
defensive end. They do not have a particularly
great offense. You look at most of their games,
they play a really slow tempo. We're talking like, Wisconsin.
Justin Virginia level slow tempo, and again, another team
that doesn't have a tremendously exciting overall resume.
Yes, they beat Gonzaga at home. They beat Oregon in order to aim
on neutral floors. I mean Indiana's obviously, done
the latter. They want at Utah State, it's,
you know, so it's a it's a good team and it's a more experienced
team. They've got four seniors that
get a significant number of minutes on That roster.
But again, if you're going to draw up an opponent for Indiana
to play in a 512 game, st. Mary's would would have been
probably the one I would have wanted to play out of all the
potential five seeds. Just because, again, not a team
that's going to out Talent you and a team.
I think that Indiana, and their specific types of things that
they do matches up pretty well against them.
As far as, you know, what you would want to get out of a
tournament game, like there. They do have some size.
But no more than say like a Purdue does and probably not
nearly as Activists Purdue does. Yeah.
And then just, you know, on my brand getting super far ahead,
if you look at Akron UCLA as the matchup after that, would mean
besides the fact that you know, hope filled apparel just
released UCLA stuff, like everyone take a breath like buy
it, but maybe hold it and don't wear it until after Sunday.
As I was just talking about the last part of it.
I was great stuff and then we have no, no, really animosity of
UCLA. Now we do, what are your
thoughts on the me? I'm just looking at their
numbers. You like 10, 10?
In the net rank for 3 against top 25 teams.
Well averaging 76 points a game. It's like, does that?
That looks a little bit but I want you to the four line, any
of those teams are tough. I'm not excited about UCLA.
That's a, that's a I mean, I'm not excited about having to play
UCLA. That's a really good team.
That's, that's a team with a lot of talent.
It's a team that is is athletic and long and you know, really
varied in terms of what they do. They're very good offensively.
They're very good defensively. You know, the one question I
would have about them that I think will be interesting, is
you know, how are they going to fare in a good game away from
home? Because they just don't have
that many of those on their resume.
I mean, they lost, really, I would say probably all four of
the road games against really good competition or all three, I
guess in, in the Pac-12. They know they've got some good
scalps on their resume. They Going over early on, in the
season. They won at Marquette.
They beat Arizona at home, but that's that's gonna be a tough
one. It's interesting though, because
I just I don't think I lost you there for a second.
Scott, you're back again. I don't think that it's a bridge
too far for this. Indiana team, the way that
they're playing right now. And again, I think it'll just be
interesting to see how it plays out, but I don't hate the draw
overall for Anna. I mean, I think that all things
considered what you're looking at here is it's weird to think.
Oh, that Indiana, my place three West Coast teams or Western.
I know. Wyoming's.
Not on the west coast there in the Mountain Time Zone, but you
know, more or less than here. Yeah.
Sometimes on anything west of the Mississippi, might as well
be, you know, next to the Pacific Ocean, but it, I think
all three of the teams that Indiana could potentially be
playing. Here are all teams.
Indiana can compete with, like there's They haven't seen
already better from any of those teams in the Big Ten and now,
it's just a matter of how does this Indiana team adapt to the
travel to the, you know, the Newfound pressure, although I
don't know how much pressure there is in terms of being a
playing game team, essentially, anything after the first game is
going to be considered kind of gravy.
So maybe that ends up helping Indiana.
I'm not sure. But yeah, overall I like this.
I like where Indiana's at and one would hope that they'll be
able to take. Take this and utilize it in a
way that's going to be positive for them.
We've already got some players Xavier Johnson, just just
tweeted something along the lines of they'll pay for this in
response to where Indiana got put in the field, which that's
tremendous. That's exactly the attitude we
want. And I'd like to note the playing
game is not such an awful place to be.
You know, we've seen, we saw UCLA last year, come out of the
play-in game and make it to the final four.
We saw VCU do this a decade ago, I think.
Iowa from not mistaken was in the play-in game and got to the
Sweet 16 one year. So, you know, I've had some
people texting me saying all they should you know decline the
bid this is embarrassing. It's like it's what that's all
wild grapes everybody. Let's remember who we are and
where we are. But on the other hand, on the
other side of things you're in the tournament, you have an
extra game to play and you're playing in your first game.
I think a demonstrable weaker team than you that if you come
in and play and you don't take them for granted.
I mean you're To play hard, you're going to have to take
them seriously, but if you come out and do that now you have the
advantage of getting some juice back in your legs.
And being like, okay. We just, we won this game.
We got to go win another game. I like for this particular IU
team, the way that they responded in the Big Ten
Tournament. I like what that potential
attitudinal adjustment might do for them.
Last time. We were one, see we played in
Dayton and that's how close the spot is.
Like, it's going to be 90 10 Dayton to Wyoming fans.
I Just say for any but part of the reason I dropped, I hit the
wrong button on my browser. But part of anybody's looking to
go to Portland, slim picket on flights on Southwest.
Just letting you know, it looks very there's no flight back on
Sunday. So this is the, is it we call
this the Foster Farms Bowl syndrome, right?
Well, yeah. And I'm looking at Eugene,
Eugene is not ideal either. So getting there, at least for
me on Southwest is going to be tough.
I might just go to Dayton instead, and then root of far to
say, if anybody goes to Dayton and then drives to Portland.
We will have you on as it? Yes.
Yes.
We will absolutely bring you on in that circumstance.
Hopefully, while you're driving, I think that would be ideal.
I do think the j-horror. He's probably already doing it.
Like he's probably this is so very likely.
I would say, you know, Indiana is going to play the late game
on Tuesday, and then that would lead them to playing probably
the last game on Thursday, if they win on Tuesday.
And so I will say this, I think the this is one of things I hate
about the selection committee. You got a lot of different
spots. You can put those playing games
to stick both the at-large playing games in situations,
where they got to play in Dayton and then fly to the West Coast,
because one of them is in Portland, that's the Indiana,
Wyoming, when and Notre Dame Rutgers is routing into San
Diego. I mean, it's like, what what are
we doing here? This is like, there were so many
other sites that you could have sent them to Buffalo, Pittsburgh
Milwaukee, new Mill, Fort Worth just a lot of Travel but you'll
get a Michigan has no no. The the Iowa State Iowa.
State's have a walkie. Like why couldn't you just flip
Iowa State put them in Portland right?
Their first game because it's going to be a trip for them to
get there and then let us do like datin to Milwaukee.
That's a like you're already on a thing.
If you're the last game on Thursday on sorry, on Tuesday
night. You can't just get on a red-eye
and fly to Portland. If your eye you like you
probably fly out first thing Wednesday morning.
It's just it's a there's no good answer getting there.
Yeah. So I did want to kind of follow
up on this. So just just to just to clarify
for everybody, according to the official seed list.
Indiana was not the last team in, but Indiana was the second
to last team in which again, I think is wild.
Here's here's how it broke down from a seating perspective.
So, going from the bottom of the at large pool up in order to aim
was 47, this can't be right because they've Virginia Tech at
46 and then, Indiana 45, Rutgers, 44, Wyoming, 43,
Michigan, 42, you know, I guess this is, this is where the NCAA
selection committee. Does some odd things sometimes?
Because according to this, Indiana should absolutely be an
11 seed. So, I think our, our original
idea was correct. So they ended up actually.
Just shoving. Indiana down a seed line for no
particular. Good reason.
And yeah, and again, I think my intuition was correct.
It was supposed to be Indiana, Notre Dame.
So for they elevated in order Dame and drop Wyoming down
because they couldn't Elevate Indiana to play against run.
The we beat Notre Dame on a neutral site.
And so, you end up with a, the, the roll out here.
I'll me at large is was Davidson, Iowa, State, Michigan,
Wyoming Rutgers, Indiana Notre Dame and I defy any of you who,
Bracketology plug those into your list and try to have it,
make any sense whatsoever. And I promise you that it won't.
But anyway, I think that that's that's really the main things to
talk about here. We didn't want to go too long.
Scott's got to eat dinner, but Scott overall.
You know, Indiana back again, back in the field.
Anybody who says, we can we turn down a bit as like that's that's
Bonkers. Like, that is, that is nuts.
Do I have another quote? I mean, I'll talk for a sec
later questions on Twitter want to get to those?
But no, it's we're back in like this is the way you want to be
in. And by the way, this is not like
the first four when it was, you know, five ten years ago when it
first started like this is part of the tournament now, you know,
you're in the tournament, it counts as a tournament win.
It may not feel as much. Just like the Thursday Friday
games, but you can still get there like get away in get
there. And then you have a tournament
win and I you know, I like the idea of this team now having a
real chip on their shoulder and honestly, they seem to play a
little bit better with that there.
They went into, they went into India, obviously, with something
and, you know, hopefully, they can take this and carry it over
and, you know, we'll see you. But yes, and you're in the
tournament. This is what you want to do when
it comes down to it. It's not Like we remember.
Oh, like they were, you know, three years ago, who were the
teams in the playing game? Do they really count?
Like there? They were in the tournament this
Council tournament if Woodson makes it next year, as a one
seed. He's now has made a tournament
two years in a row. Like this is the first year of
hopefully, a long streak and this year counts and no one is
going to look at an asterisk of like, well, that was a play in
year. You know, we're in.
That was the goal. You made it.
And like you said, now, let's just go win some games.
Like, you win two games and no one's going to remember, like,
oh, the play-in game, we shouldn't have done that.
Got a question from Steve Rocco here.
Does playing in Dayton allow the team to maintain momentum.
I think to some degree. Perhaps.
I mean, I'm not sure if it would have mattered that much but you
always like to have a little bit of extra rest, especially since
you got to play an extra game now, you know, but I do think
that I you comes out of the overall experience playing as
well as they did in the Big Ten Tournament kind of getting
screwed a little bit here in the draw.
Or being able to turn around, have a couple of good days of
practice, probably starting like tonight, maybe and then getting
on a bus or a private plane and heading over to Dayton and being
able to do everything out there. You know, I think all those
things combined. Yeah, probably do lead to
Indiana, maybe being able to maintain momentum a bit more,
maybe more so than Wyoming who of course, lost to Boise State
in the Mountain, West Conference tournament and that game
happened on Friday. So, you know, they've Cooling.
Their heels for an extra day. Why am I didn't have much
momentum also coming into this like, you know, they've lost
what, five of their last nine, and they've lost three of their
last five. And, you know, and one of those
games was an overtime win against Fresno State and the
other one was a three-point win on a neutral floor.
Was it wasn't technically neutral because it was against
UNLV in Las Vegas. So I do think Indiana comes in
with more momentum and I do think playing earlier might end
up helping them to capitalize on that a bit more but But as
always, we'll have to see how things play out.
And exactly what, you know how Indiana responds.
Like, there's been times when Indiana, we thought had a lot of
momentum and was going to be able to Galvanize themselves and
then just didn't happen. So, in this case, I am curious
to see what occurs with the Hoosiers on this from, but
overall. I think the scenario is a
positive one. Last thing.
I want to say, just no matter how this tournament run goes,
you know, this this kind of this chip on the shoulder thing and
you'll momentum. I do hope that this does take
this team into next season because, you know, in the end
they have no one to blame but themselves are kind of being in
this spot where. Yeah, they kind of got.
They didn't get the best seed they could have gotten but you
be, you know, you beat Northwestern, you win one of
those Wisconsin games. You be truckers.
We're not having this discussion where it were an eight seed.
And so I do hope that this, you know, across the board from the,
you know, athletic department to the coaching staff, the players,
like the athletic department in the coaching staff realized.
Like, we can't have a Frank non-conference schedule next
year that has to change. And then from the players like
look this like this starts from day one and every game is
important. We can't take the brake off like
that. Intensity you saw in the
tournament. I do hope that this does roll
over to next season where we start off hot and you get kind
of guys like Xavier Johnson, them coming back and you again.
This is where you instill in this team, like look, we can't F
around like this is this is what ends up getting a screwed in
March. We can't F around the November.
December January. We got a schedule better.
We got to win those games. We can't take games off if we're
up by 15. We got a slit their throat
because I remember what happened six months ago.
We didn't do that and then we got job by the term.
It's like, I do think this is a moment that could push forward a
lot of good things even toward next year.
Yeah. No, I think all of that is
correct. And one of those things that
this is a necessary step perhaps in trying to build a program up.
Yes. And look, I mean, ultimately,
the gamble paid off? They played as a soft schedule
with the That was going to bring them together enough that they
would be able to make up for it in the Big Ten and make the NCAA
tournament. Well, guess what?
That all happened. And so now you got to build off
of this. And even if they go out in the
first game against Wyoming, they can at least say we've been
there, they can have the experience, and they've got
something to build on going into next season, and I do think that
that is important for the trajectory of the program.
So anyway, we are going to go ahead.
And sign off and we're going to leave it to our friends over at
assembly call. They've got a big show tonight
that you should all watch, probably around 9:00.
We will have not just the men's draw information, but the
woman's draw information. Very strong chance that the IU
Women's Basketball team is going to be hosting either as a four
seed, maybe a three seed, if things break just right.
And so, they'll have all the info on all of those matchups.
They'll have a much deeper, dive into Indiana's.
Up versus Wyoming. I'm certain that Ryan Phillips
has a lot of things to say on that front that you'll want to
hear. And so be sure to check them out
Scott and I will be somewhat quiet here over the next few
days is we've got some vacation plans, not together, my God.
No, but yeah. Hey Shania might be going to
Dayton. So will I see but but will will
pop in occasionally to talk about what's going on with this
IU team. And hopefully, you know, if
things go On Tuesday, we might really get a podcast and on
Wednesday or Thursday morning to talk more about things.
So stick with us on that front. We Appreciate You tuning in
again, Indiana in the 12 seed, playing game is they take on the
Wyoming Cowboys and Dayton time to be determined.
We should find out soon. Hopefully, you all have a great
time and enjoy this. Like, don't worry about the
seating. Don't worry about the location.
Enjoy. The fact.
Indiana is in the NCAA tournament.
It's been far too long. Any final thoughts?
Got no. No.
I just I'm throwing my hands up. Like I know what this is.
Not easy to coordinate but it's like you're you're a two billion
dollar product. You have a national TV show.
Like can you have the dates and times ready to go?
Like, just watch the show back an hour?
Like it's wild. It's been the brackets been out
for over an hour and we still don't really know what day or
time we're playing. Like again.
I'm not saying this is easy. But I also if you gave me two
billion dollars of Revenue, I could probably figure out how to
get it all done on a timely manner.
It'd be nice. Be nice.
Maybe just push it back a half hour.
Like if it's that hard to hit the six o'clock.
They just go to 7:00. 7:00 is fine.
Like take the extra time. Like do some calculus.
I don't know. Whatever.
Anyway, thanks. Scott is always in.
Thanks to all you folks for joining us as well.
We got this in under 30 minutes. That might be the biggest upset
of the entire weekend. Bring back the Bison.
So long, everybody.