Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Published Mar 28, 2025, 6:15 AM

Mike Harmon and Dan Beyer (in for Jason) get you all up to date on one of the craziest sports day of the year.  WE react LIVE to one of the craziest finishes to an NBA game you’ll ever see. And Maryland’s head coach Kevin Willard holds a very weird press conference!

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It's the greatest day in sports history, hands down, cannot be defeated, won't be defeated, White Sox greater than Nets. I A Harmon.

Honestly, Mike, think that this puts when we have the argument of what is the best time of year? Like you, if you're a Spring fan, if you're if you're a March sort of vote, this is back pocket ammunition that September can never pull out and match.

Yeah.

In the end, I mean I still at a wall the wall football guy from the opening of the pregame shows through the end of any Hawaii game or however late we go deep into the night. But it's still just that I don't know. Opening day, my brother's taunting me by showing up on the south side of Chicago to watch what was a glorious victory over the Angels. I was showing you, Nikki Lopez, there's your trivia answer for twenty twenty five. Who will be the first position player to throw a pitch in a twenty twenty five game. It took game one for the Angels to break that seal.

Things are looking up because there's nowhere else to look up for the Angels.

Yeah, we take our victory laps where we can. White Sox. The over under for wins the lowest in fifty years, fifty three and a half, Dan Byer. So I'm gonna find my damn wins wherever I can't. Good, So we're celebrating here. Well, the other is my brothers were telling me this as they were walking. They got off the train, right off the l and they're getting ready to walk to the ball park. And for the last several years, rule of law really didn't exist. Right, So we've got street meat vendors, right, hot dog vendors with their little carts all over the place.

Whatever.

In Chicago, you had guys that were now just pulling up with the forty gallon coolers full of mini bottles of booze. And cans of beer and just selling them that it's the problem and nobody bought, but from a legality circumstance, right, it's one thing. You're in a tailgate. I guess there's a free exchange of food, beverage, whatever. So this was exaggerated. Hey, you just got off a long arduous l ride. Would you like a little bottle of teos to take into the ballpark? You know at six seven like these probably got for three years, probably made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling booze. Police were rousting them from their spot today ahead of the opening day.

Oh that's amazing.

There is the point where you're like, man, okay, where do we draw the line here?

What is it?

They're not harming anybody. It's just a couple of hot dogs out there on a grill. What are we really doing? That's where you draw the line. That is, as much as as I know, Frostburg is all for it. I do think that the police of Chicago figured out where you draw the line.

But you are watching the White Sox. You do need several models.

But that's where they're going to make their money, is that you're going to come in and drink and a life well and get some of those milkshakes right, because that's what they have every year, is the White Sox unveil some crazy ass milkshake that becomes the thing.

Last year it was the s'mores.

This dim it's like a birthday cake kind of thing for their anniversary and all that. It's it's the fantastic thing. Now we've had the discussion of street meets. Welcome in. It's the Jason Smith Show with me Mike Carmon, No Jason Smith. For the rest of the week. We don't have, you know, any Mets talk other than they lost, and we'll hear about, you know, that final grated bat from Juan Soto at least five times tonight because the Dodgers were victorious, the White Sox were victorious.

That's not so much.

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On the street.

Sure, with no certifications for food safety, a hanging from the Sure, this is a beef dog, correct, I get it.

I get it.

When you're on a sidewalk as well, it can be a safety hazard with cars pulling up blocking lanes.

I get it.

I trust me, I understand, I understand. And Mike, it may not be real meat, but those carts do smell really good.

They do really well.

Yeah, there's no question about.

It's the tough thing, right.

I appreciate the hustle, you know, me say industrious, you know kind of side of me of where can we find an angle? Where can we find a win? And certainly coming folks half staggering back to their cars or to the trains after sporting events and concerts has become a very lucrative business across these United States. So certainly there. So we have Opening Day Major League Baseball Part two. So we have that, and now we're looking at the fun and excitement of the NCAA tournament as we resume the Sweet sixteen, couple of games already in the books. If you had chalk moving forward, you're feeling pretty good. Arizona and Duke just underway. Duke two nothing. Arnie Spanier has already broken his television.

This is the the night man. Hey, Duke. I'll tell you what.

If there was ever a surprise that we could see from this weekend, this would be the biggest of them. If Houston loses to Purdue, which I don't think they're going to do, but you could say, well, heck produce playing in their backyard Kentucky and Tennessee Conference rivals, you know they're gonna play. The other side of the bracket. Ole Miss is playing some good basketball. I'm not sure how great things are from Michigan State, but that's a battle of two similar teams. But if there was craziness to happen, which we haven't had on this bracket, this would be the crazy option, and you'd have to think that Arizona at least can match up with Duke talent wise, do just maybe the better team and maybe the team that locks in defensively.

But boxing one on Cooper flag make your decisions nine and a half. Arnie Spanier is yelling something far more or nefarious given that Cooper Flag has already been injured. So you know, all of those kind of things. As I take the stink and genius to task here because he's been bugging me about Arizona Duke all day.

This well, I'll tell you, Mike, this is the Marquee that's at the Marquie window. They didn't start with this. They put it at the top of the hour, It's on CBS, it has.

The brand names.

Even with cal Perry and the undercard, you could say tonight against Texas Tech. It doesn't rise to the level of these Arizona's not a blue blood, but if you want to get knocking on the door, they're darn close to what.

We've got in the top of college basketball.

But that's it. We know their history, right, We've seen a lot of big teams and players come out. Certainly, you've got mouthpieces like Richard Jefferson out there, Luke Walton and going down the line, guys that have had some prominence as coaches, players, broadcasters, et cetera. So you know, you run with that. I'm just thinking of that team. Michael Wright and those guys that you had back in the day for loot.

Yeah, I'll tell you what what Tommy Lloyd's got going on, Like there's there is a definite correlation. And it's not that Mark Few has done a bad job, but Tommy Lloyd leaves and goes to Arizona and has success and maybe Gonzaga just isn't the Gonzaga that we had known for so long. This year really good end of the year. Unfortunately they ended up losing to Houston for the Bulldogs, but Tommy Lloyd is a big part of that. And now going to Arizona as a four seed, beating Oregon in that crazy game.

That they had in the second round.

But I mean, nobody's got Cooper Flag on their roster in college basketball. But you'd have to think that Arizona, with their talent and size at least has the ability to match up.

Match it up.

Nine and a half was the number coming into this one. We'll keep you apprized of that two games. As I said already in the book, you heard it from the update from Moncy Belanos at the top of the hour, Florida taking down Maryland. We need to talk about Maryland a lot of the quiet parts have been set out loud for the last couple of weeks from Willard from the departing ad. Now we'll expect I have to expect Willard to show up with a Villanova sweater on for his postgame press conference at this point after all of this. But they go down eighty seven seventy one pretty limply in this round with all of that swirling around saw as they were heading towards the arena that they were getting booze from some of these the folks in attendance there. I do my weekly hit in Baltimore, and I'd made the prediction and they're like, well, wait till some more of this stuff starts to fester. And then they texted me to kind of say, hey, give it forty eight hours, you're gonna have a very different opinion of where the school is headed. And sure enough, you started getting from the ad and then Willard decided, Hey, I'm going to tell you whatever whatever is on my mind in terms of jobs, and it's always been there, Dan and you and I chatted a little bit before we came on air, like all of this stuff, I'm not naive, right, everybody in the building knows what's going on. Coach is probably gonna leave a bunch of players at least are dipping their toes to see if there's not a big check somewhere else, or more playing time or all of those things. But it usually stayed hidden until you were defeated and out, and then we'd have the purge in this new and new world with the transfer portal, with money flowing, and with everybody everywhere seemingly a quote journalist. Yeah, and I call them ernalists anymore a lot. That's my that's my name for steven A. Well done right here ere in the one hundred million dollar bag and good autumn. But that jay for journalism left a long damn time ago. But we can talk about that a little bit. That was my best. You know, I'm gonna start getting serious like steven A.

But from Maryland.

If they pulled off a win today, it might have ranked as a top ten upset in NCAA tournament history, given all of the cesspool that it's become.

Yeah, they didn't have they just they didn't have the horses. They have five really good horses, but outside of that, it's tough to beat a full Florida team that people feel that when you're looking at a run to a Final four, run to a national championship, there's always a game that may be a hiccup. And we know that Florida had all they could handle it. More from Yukon and Danny Hurley. Danny Hurley told you so after the game last weekend. But it is the fact, Mike, of when your coach is talking about these things and this has become a distraction. It may not have been a distraction. Maryland doesn't have a bench floorid out score their bench something like twenty eighth to nothing. Tonight out rebounded them two to one. That is all that could be expected. It's just the point of it doesn't help when your coach is doing this stuff. I also have a difficult time in hearing the messaging and the messaging being something to the effect that I'm paraphrasing, but I think a lot of us heard. The sound bite was I can't believe we couldn't get an extra night in New York City for Christmas with my team. I would love to take my family to New York City for Christmas. That would be amazing. It's also really expensive. Okay, so if you're and you can take a train even if you want, whatever the case may be. You sound entitled. It sounds like it's too much. It's not like a Hey, so on, those parents couldn't make it to the game because they couldn't travel, so the school couldn't provided Remember those arguments years ago, absolutely, and we felt You're like, yeah, this system stinks. The system didn't stink when you're asking for nights in New York City, an extra night in New York City, by the way, to spend with your team and Christmas, and just like that messaging just rings hollow. And if that might that may be a bigger nil transfer portal, whatever deal you want to have in this arms race, we've gotten college sports. But it's just difficult to hear a message like that and then feel bad for a guy and then almost feel like he's holding his team hostage throughout the week.

They probably weren't going to beat.

Florida even and maybe even that's right, but still it just it didn't Shure didn't help keep him focused this week.

Well, and everybody's got to answer questions about it, right, All press availabilities of Hey, what's the messaging from coach? Sure the players are trying to do their best to be honest but while also not laying everything out that they've either heard or been told for that week period. And you know, all the other stuff is part of the growing pains, right, I've lamented it on air here and it's getting better. But you know, Smith being a Syracuse guy, me being a Northwestern guy like this seemed like a position as everything changed to be ripe for the picking for schools like that that have alumni bases as they are. You got you know, you can just read the Wikipedia pages. There's moneyed people like everywhere else, but usually they can get activated to a cause. Well, they didn't decide to do that right now. You see Andrew Luck trying to do whatever he is up at Stanford. First thing, getting rid of the football coach. But it's all about activating your alumni base to say, hey.

We need men.

How many commercials do you hear for the UCLA thing here in Los Angeles?

Right?

The Sons of Westwood or whatever. But like all of that is behind the scenes stuff, whether it's with the administration or because if that's the reason you're leading, guess what, you're gonna find another problem the next place you're gonna air them out to.

Yeah, exactly, only we're here three years.

Like, it's not like you were long, long suffering, trying to build something long term and just couldn't.

Get them on board.

Three years is a very short window of time, but it's accelerated by the way the game has changed. So you come off as nothing more than a cry day.

Yeah, no, you're you're one hundred percent right, and there's there's there's so many different layers to the comments as well. Listen, Derek Queen's going to the NBA, so like his his thoughts on everything on oh my gosh, his coach gonna leave.

It doesn't matter to him. He knows he's going to live to the next level.

But it's also just the point of the conversation of dealing with throughout the week of maybe there could be a focus on Florida and Merrily got a.

Bad draw anyway.

They were put up in Seattle for the first two rounds, then they got to play in San Francisco, so they just stayed out here on the West coast.

Damn if that guy doesn't travel Colorado State's play.

It's true, It's very true.

Is the dress black or blue.

The question that I then say, though, if I'm a Marilynd booster, is if I'm hearing Kevin Willard sit there and complain about all this stuff.

Why am I willing to open my pocketbook? Please leave?

Please leave, because you outing us as saying that we're cheap or there's not funds for it, or the administration or whoever. Fine, I mean, you put me in a bad spot because now if I give the money, it's not even like well received. It feels like it's expected. Just yeah, it's not a good look at all.

Difficult moments, but they go down and then we get some record breaking shooting. We'll break down that because you've got a scary squad breaking records tonight here as the Sweet sixteen gets underway at Dan Byron Fox, where you find Dan? Find me at Swollen Dome. You want to harass Smith because the Mets lost. Find him at how about a Fresca because he certainly tried to take his shots at me? You come at me now. I'm not gonna call myself the king like that other guy, but you know what you get tractor supplied. He knows that a winning season takes practice, teamwork in a can new attitude. Thankfully, when you have a neighbor like Tractor Supply, teamwork comes easy. Whether you're caring for pets, chickens, or a few acres. Our team members will help you succeed season after season. Tractor Supply for Life out here. Be sure to check out the Tractor Supply Fox Sports Radio Bracket Challenge at Fox sports Radio dot com. See our hosts are doing with their picks and who the top ranked listeners are. Listener with the best bracket at Fox sports Radio dot com will win a twenty five hundred dollars gift card. Detractors supply.

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Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with me Mike Carmon. No Jason Smith tonight in instead my guy Dan Byer. He and I do the I Watch Your Flex podcast, so you can find that wherever you download your audio. He's part of the Doug Gottlieb Show middays here Fox Sports Radio, part of the Cavino and Rich Show, and then on Sundays, we get to play for two hours noon to two Eastern time zone in the head. Yeah, that is right, you got it right there. You go at dan Byer on Fox where you find it. Buy me over at Swallendome. You want to get in on any myriad of topics the Sweet sixteen in the NCAA tournament, whether you're still heavily involved, or maybe you just put on a baseball cap a jersey and started walking around. I did you check for stirrups on any of the guys in the hallway.

Hey, Bursch was decked out.

He had the opening day Dodgers gold hat and the jersey. Shay had jersey and hat. Frostburg's got hat.

I don't. I you've got your white Sox.

I've got my green white Sox giveaway.

Haah, very very trendy. There are a lot of guys that can suit up right now. For the Dodgers, it just drove down the freeway.

Yeah, I'm just curious, man, if we did a cup check, I mean, have we gone full uniform or away?

It's Opening Day? You got to be in the spirit, right, I dig it. Except for the Dodgers, it's Game three that's true home opener.

But did you see it took? How many people didn't take to raise that flag?

What was it like?

Nine people pulling on that course?

What did you say, Mike, did you say you wanted to hear Tony's home run?

Here's the three two show HiT's this one turns he's carrying.

There's a kid Otani hold run.

Tom Hanks must have called it, Magic called it, and the Dogger fans are looking forward to seeing.

That for years to come. The league goes to two Otani second of the season, ESPN on the call five to four, your final Dodgers close it out a little threaten the ninth, but able to squash it with a foul out to Freddie Freeman ending.

At least the banner was right set up. That's a good point, Illinois found is half the battle.

Let's retire a guy his jersey, bring him back. You're was he there long enough to retire his jersey his whole other? But I guess you know, Kendall Gill's not walking through that door.

You should retire shorts, right if you're only there like two years for your shortsday. His shorts are hanging in the rafters. Because he was only here for a hot minute.

I kind of dig that. All right, We're nearly midway through the first half, Duke with a seventeen to sixteen lead on Arizona, Texas Tech Arkansas just underway the other game from earlier, Dan talking record breaking Alabama one hundred and thirteen to eighty eight, and the tail of the tape right an onslaught from three point range, an absolute barrage from Alabama. Get this overall, just two more made field goals and two more made free throws like, oh close, game great? No, they made nineteen more three point shots.

Most three point attempts in an NCAA tournament game ever by Alabama, most made threes by a team in a game. Marks Sears, when he had ten threes, was one shy of tying Jeff Fryar's all time mark of eleven threes in an NCAA tournament game. There was a point in the first half where it was going back and forth, and I just said to myself, you know, at some point Alabama's going to just start missing these shots. Maybe BYU is going to have an advantage. Uh No, I was completely wrong. They did not miss. They kept shooting they kept making and kept the Cougars basically at arms length for the entire second half.

You can't even say, all right, you got to close out whatever like this. This is circu shots. This is anywhere on the court. I mean shooting what forty nine percent sure three point range twenty five to fifty one. Let's hear the record breaker. I'm trying to paint the picture. These people are oooing and on at the dispatch.

Seers nails of three.

There's a new NCAA record for three pointers paid by a team in the tournament, twenty two of them for Alabama.

The great Scott Graham of Westwood one on the call, would go ten of sixteen from three point range, made only one other from inside the arc, finishing eleven of eighteen for the game. Talk about operational efficiency thirty four and eight, one of the stories of the college basketball We're started talking about transfers and impact players. You know something I sat down and did because you know, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but I did it for the coaches. Kind of looking at ten years, right and how quickly you turn things over. You've got nine of these coaches in the Sweet sixteen at their colleges three years or.

Fewer more than a half.

Right, So we know Willard's already leaving, so put the villain on the tag. We get to restart his start. But between Kevin young Shire, Willard Golden Calipari in his first year, yeah right, McCaslin of Texas Tech second year come to the other side of the bracket, Beards only in his second year at Ole Miss you got Mark Pope.

At Kentucky, Dusty Mayes he may and.

Then then we start getting into the and you got a fourth year guy and Tommy Lloyd outside of that, and then you're talking about the grizzled veterans like Painter and Izzo and Pearl that have been there forever. Just an interesting dichotomy. What we're talking about, the changing face and players and how the interchangeable parts and hey come into a new program and for some of these I joke with Aaron yesterday is you know, and we've talked about it a little bit. The trading card world where they've gone in and because of the change of rules, you can make cards of collegiate players, right. So it was a top set that came out and I was sorting the other day, it's like that guy's not at that school again, Like and I started doing the game, it's like more than half the guys weren't at school. And it's not because they're playing in the NBA, just they've moved.

There's a graphics circulating as well with the starting fives of each and it happened last year and it made its rounds this year. Perdue is the only team to have all five of their starters start at Purdue start their playing careers. Duke had I believe four out of their five starters, and it helps when they're freshmen, So like that kind of tilts the scales. But to your point, I think it's interesting because you do have Izzo and I don't care. Like I know that we've wanted college basketball to have names, and you and I grew up with names, but it wasn't like it wasn't about coaches back when we were still the coaches John Thompson, Jerry Tarkanian, Dean Smith, Bob Knight. You know, coach k was making a name for himself, like Denny Krummet at Louisville. Like that's that's all it.

Was for me in Chicago, right, Ray Meyer followed by his kid Joey and go on.

Down the line.

Right, those were all those guys, Gene Katy for a million years.

Absolutely, Yeah, you know Dale Brown at LSU for like they we knew the coaches and now Jim Behim at Syracuse, I'm your first name would have been out of Jason's mouth to that to that point.

But there still is that aspect.

But that was another domino of NIL and transfer portal is how long do these guys want to stay in these certain spots. And now you bring up Kevin Willard's point of like I'm not getting enough from my school. All right, Now you have coaches wanting to leave because they're not getting enough from say NIL or from the school at least in those sort of lines, not that the coach is getting an anil, but just it's it's such.

A changing time.

But I still think, like when you turn on the TV tomorrow, you're gonna watch Michigan State and you're gonna want to see is those teams playing And that's still a draw.

But a lot of it does go back to mobility on the coaching side as well. Right, It's we have that period in the NBA where guys were signing the two and ones. It feels like where a lot of coaches are anymore. Right, it's maybe a three year deal, and even if it says five, you're hoping to keep them beyond three.

Sure, and maybe they turn it.

Around right away if everything goes right, and we talk about the team's changing conferences, and obviously that that machine keeps rolling on towards super leagues or whatever super Liga comes to college buckets or whatever the case may be. But for coaches, it's just interesting because we still have some of those names, and I think that's where we get some of the warm and fuzzy like you and I talked about a little bit on Sunday, Right, we're suddenly Cali, Perry and Patino, who were always pointed out as everything that was kind of wrong in the old system of there's there's a bunch of stuff under the surface that you're trying to wait for the other shoe to drop. But now because they're familiar that we keep rolling with it.

Uh uh uh oh, Mike, did your bulls.

Just bulls just finished off? Have no idea what just happened? The sequence in the final twenty seconds of this game absolutely and absolute insanity.

So the Lakers were up at one point, what like thirteen points.

It was like one oh five ninety two or something like that.

One of those Reggie Miller moments against the Knicks happened a couple sequences ago, and then Josh Giddy from the logo.

For the win.

So it was one oh five ninety two Lakers with five twenty seven remaining in the game.

What a bad loss.

And down the stretch you get in the final twelve seconds two free throws from Austin Reeves to put the Lakers up four. Then you have a Patrick Williams three point shot, so one fifteen, one thirteen.

You have a steal off a.

Lebron James inbound that gets back out to Kobe White for a three. So now it's one sixteen, one to fifteen. Austin Reeves comes down and makes a layup just that fast, three point one seconds remaining, and then Josh Giddy from the logo and we're talking.

We're talking right eye moving right to left. So I don't think you had crossed mid court. We're in sound proof rooms in soundproof studios, and I heard two screams yeah, and one of the person doesn't even have a voice right now, So that's what's even more amazing.

So are you gonna do the update because that might have been the last of it right there, that might have.

Been tapping out Monty after my goodness.

Yeah, Josh Giddy pulls up from beyond half swords.

Austin Reeves makes the layup to go up. How much time is on the clockhead reach takes.

Point one seconds?

Actually three point one one after.

He yes, it was a quick layup, not even contested right on in and then three seconds and.

He had kind of turned his ankle earlier. The yes, he did had to be helped off. But wow, season sweep for your bull balls. Everything's turning up, har.

Might you might never have it. I mean that the White Sox are one to oh, the Mets are oh in one.

This is the Night of Harman. I am proclaiming it Knight of Harmon good a box of cards for him to open so he can pull one of one's.

You know what, we might dial up the local shop and see if they're ripping right now.

You're gonna pull that uh that card from Japan, the Otani with the guys whatever his name is.

Oh, that was insane. Yes, the cards have gotta be worth a million bucks, be worth well actually in the Japanese market, and might get to that.

So there you go.

I don't know, I'm not familiar, but I am intrigued with Otani, with the guy. What guy, I'll tell you what. The tea's had me hanging Frostburg. So it worked with the guy.

While during their trip to Japan, one of the things they did have a big tops slash Fanatics installation. Okay, so while they have Otani there and you've got a bunch of the Japanese legends, what better way to do a bunch of promotion by getting them to stand together sign some cards that will then be reinserted into packs in later products. And during that trip they also had a Japanese only like that started to hit the market, and there was a one of one h O tani Ichiro card that got pulled which is absolutely glorious, this gold finish autograph that is already into six figures, and didding did you figure out who it was? Frostburg?

No, but I do have that bull's final call.

We got that turn around. Let's go.

Six point one, gotta get him in the get it in the room. Oh time, that's what you do.

You they don't have a timeout? True, My god, dude, I don't think it's gonna count. Oh no from yesterday, blanket right away, Lakers TV on the call. But yeah, there you go. Everything coming up me for today? What do we need to do? Could be the best dinner ever?

Could be?

I mean, yeah, harmon, we might have to take this show into a car, plug in a comrades and go to Vegas.

Right now, let's go. We do the show.

It's been done before at Fox Sports Radio, so let's do it.

I have no doubt, Yes, Moncey said, I'm in. I don't need a voice for Vegas.

That's exactly what I'm ready for marriage.

I'll get you there for the second half of this Arkansas game.

I always tell the story, remember that Chiefs Rams game.

Remember that that that was, you know, fifty one to forty or whatever it was. I watched the first quarter at my father in lawt place in North Hollywood, about half a mile from Burbank Airport, boarded a flight, went to Las Vegas, landed, drove out to north Las Vegas and stopped at a famous Daves and watched the fourth quarter.

How about that?

Yeah, that game was so long, but it was so entertaining, and it gave the NFL network years and years of programming because if there was never anything on or happening, they're like, just put that chiefs Rams game on.

That was awesome. From a couple of years ago, from the Colorenio, Oh slap that back up.

All right, I think I found out it wasn't a it was. There were baseball legends certainly to be had, but it was the artist, right, Takashi Morikama.

There you go, h the guy? All right, so that was the guy. Okay, he's definitely a guy. Oh you were You had me intrigued, there you go.

So yeah, they will sign the card because they put together an insert set that he designed, et cetera. So there you go. Look for those at your card shop coming soon enough at Dan Byro on Fox. Where you find Dan find me over at Swollen Dome. Since we've got the voice has been re established, maybe awakened by that crazy ass Finish Bulls Lakers. It's Monsey Belanos. With everything going on in our sporting universe.

You know, if I lose my voice, it was totally worth it.

Those twelve seconds. Insane, We're insane.

When Kobe White hit the three, it was insane. And then when Austin Reeves had the easy layup, I was like, man, and oh.

No, did we get a still braun after the failed inbound back that it was someone else's fault.

And I'm just kidding.

I don't know what he did.

I'm just kidding.

I just say I question is, how far do you guys think Stephen Ay flew off his couch in his tighty white.

He can't wait for tomorrow, he can't. I'm in his head. I'm in his head. I forced that bad bad I mean.

Josh Josh Giddy wins it. He steals the ball, hits and like you said, Dan, it's beyond the half court line like he is on the other side. And he ended with a dribble double twenty five points, fourteen rebounds, eleven assists.

Bulls walk it off with that logo.

Shot one nineteen to one to seventeen against the Lakers. The Thunder pulled away in the fourth quarter and won one twenty five to one oh four against the Grizzlies. That sixty one wins for OKAC, which is a franchise record port. Nick Gallow their sideline reporter bombarded. They put a camera over him. They made him hold the camera as he's interviewing, like you know, they're a.

Big happy family over there.

So Nick Gallo literally they put a camera over him and made him hold it. Right now now in the NBA, two games going on, Rockets Jazz Houston up eighty five seventy eight late in the third. Early in the second, the Kings are on top of the Trailblazers forty.

To twenty nine.

We'll check in on those college hoop games you guys are talking about. Four seed Arizona had the early lead, but one seed Duke is now on top twenty eight to twenty five with six minutes to go in the first half. Cooper Flag seven points so far in the game. With ten minutes to go in the first half. Ten seed Arcus Arkansas on top of third seed Texas Tech eighteen to nine.

The games had already finished.

Two seed Alabama moving on in the NCAA Tournament after cruising past six seed BYU won thirteen to eighty eight. Mark Sears led the way thirty four points, eight assists, And you guys were talking about Bama setting the record for the most threes made in a game with twenty five. One seed Florida also moving on as a defeat four seed Maryland eighty seven to seventy one. And it is Opening Day in Major League Baseball. We've got some games going on right now. The Cubs have scored against the Diamondbacks. They're up three to one, bottom of the second inning, top of the third scoreless's and the Mariners Dodgers as the Tigers five to four. Show, Hey, Tany hit a home run? What else is new? Dels got hen Nani hit a three run homer in the win. The Padres outscored the Braves seven to four. The Astros top the Mets three to one. If you're wondering what Juan Soto did, he had a chance to be the hero and failed.

He went one for two with the single and a walk where it Jason Phillies defeated.

The National seven three and ten innings. Bryce Harper Kyle Schwarber both homered for the Phillies. The Red Sox had a five to two win over the Rangers, and the Marlins walked it off five four against the Pirates, and of course, the White Sox crushed the Angels eight to one.

Back to you guys that we all demand restitution because MLBtv did not work all day. Really, I did not get to watch my White Sox.

I'm gonna have the opportunity more.

I'm still getting text from the ballpark, obviously following a box score.

But it's like, come on, man.

Really smart of the schedule makers. No offense Mike to put Angels White Sox weekend one. People are going to show up anyway, right.

That's what I always argue with the NFL schedule and every ein Why are you giving me the marquee game. I've been waiting on it for six months. Give me Jaguars Titans every day?

What about subday night? I'm watching it. You're still gonna.

Launch absolutely, no question about it. Hey, we're here at the Tirack dot Com. Fox Sports Radio Studios coming up next. We were talking Vegas a little bit. Dan posited a question that I think deserves a little bit of a discussion here. Why Why at Dan Byron Fox where you find them on Twitter, find me over at Swollen Dome. We'll do that next here at Fox Sports Radio.

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Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with me and Mike Carmon. No Jason Tonight. Dan Byer my partner on the iwaunch Flex podcast. You hear me here at Fox Sports Radio, including our Sunday show nine to eleven Pacific. Hanging out watching the NCED DOUBLEA Tournament and has continues. Duke now a four point lead, thirty six thirty two, about three minutes left in the first half. Arkansas and Texas Tech very odd game, Dan, as we were talking about a little as the Bills got paid the four to five start from Arkansas beyond the arc, but then they were one of eleven inside.

Yeah, Texas Tech shot forty four threes in their opening run win against their first round win against UNC Wilmington. But they don't like to play with a lot of pace. Arkansas doesn't play with a ton of pace either, and coach Callus known to get his teams to play defense. But they they won some rock fights against Kansas. They they could have easily lost the Kansas game if if Kansas wouldn't have completely collapsed at the end of the game, and then we saw what happened with Saint John's. But Arkansas does make you play that way, and Texas Tech is having trouble. I told you during the break, Alabama and BYU was a fifty one to forty game at the half, and that could be the final of Arkansas and Texas Tech in the in the same night of the Sweet sixteen. So yeah, it's rock fight between those two teams. But I'll tell you Duke Arizona living up to the absolute hype. I'm not saying that I called it, Mike, because I don't want to call anything in the first half in a two point game, But if you're a Duke fan, this this was the game that could kind of scare you. Now, the final ten minutes is really where the hay is made, obviously, but you'll also have to wonder if Arizona's got the fire power to keep up. But if it's a close game, how does Duke respond, especially with the young stars.

That they have always about, you know, can you make them sweat? Because that's certainly something we haven't seen. Duke have to do a lot over the course of the year, a lot of blowouts, a lot of operations shut down in the final eight ten minutes of games. So when you're talking about young stars trying to carry you through, this is not a circumstance. If it is close in those waning minutes, to see how they respond to what Shier can get out of.

Them, it's it's it's gonna be I don't want to make it sound generic Mike and say it's going to be interesting. But the more Arizona hangs around now a tigh game at thirty six apiece at two thirty left, Yeah, this is gonna be the game of the night.

You know me, I love chaos. Go back to that Texas Tech stat line for a moment, five of twenty two from the field, one of ten from three point range.

They got a lot of guys that can shoot it as well. But it's just Mike, they don't necessarily need to get up and down with you. But Arkansas size and defensive pressure right now giving them headaches.

Guys looking for their union cards and the brick layers right now, forty two percent from the field, that's what Arkansas limited Tech.

We'll start to hit a couple of shots. Just how will Arkansas respond is the question?

That's it.

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It's crazy because I thought, Mike that the NBA, when Vegas had zero professional teams, that the NBA would be the first team to the first league to have a team there.

Remember they had the All Star Game there. It was a two thousand and four.

Yeah, that didn't go particularly well. There was a lot of extracurriculars that I think the league, and certainly with David Stern at the Helm at that point, and he wasn't looking for a speedy return.

And I give credit to the Golden Knights for developing what they have done, which I think made it even that much more of a viable option of being a team that great success. But also then you have a following around them. And honestly, the the NBA does need like a marquee, another marquee team in the Western Conference outside of the Lakers and Warriors. Like when you're talking marquee, if if they're not in the finals, maybe, I mean the Eastern Conference has the Celtics as the Knicks, as the seventy six ers.

When your bulls are good.

They're Hey Kobe is bringing them back.

Yeah, so there's there's Hey.

Frosts, He's going to try to kill me in the break.

But it's just it's I don't know where else you could go in the US if you were to put another team.

But it's just to me, like, why does Vegas now get everything? Yeah, I mean there's an excitement.

And Adam Silver addressed in a bit with with Seattle being part of it. We've talked about Nashville for a while as that. I mean, that's blown up that area and certainly the surrounding areas watching real esshae get gobbled up for sure.

And with Nashville you can even say, well, Memphis has a team, maybe that fits. But you know, now with baseball, like what you know is Portlan gonna get a team from Major League Baseball? What does Vegas end up getting everything? I just I don't know. I'm not a fan.

Because people spun it around a little bit, don't get their income taxes and you know, there's a lot of tax breaks to go out to hang out in the desert.

I get it.

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Welcome back into the tirerac dot Com, Fox Sports Radio Studios Jason Smith Show with Me, Mike Carmon, Dan Bayer in Jason Stead this evening. Dan and I see a lot of each other SDEE, I watch a Flex podcast. Episodes are up. The mock Draft, we'll have to go back into the lab and do a new one.

Since there's so much change.

You could go and wet your appetite a little bit of a five round mock draft that we did with our producer of the podcast, Ian Roddy, And obviously the Sunday Show nine to eleven West Coast time, noon to two Eastern watching Duke in Arizona, early second half, seven point game halftime in your other game with Arkansas thirty eight thirty one over Texas Tech, John Caliperry getting it Don Defense playing all the rage but the games that are being played right now, Dan, are getting pushed to the side very quickly by the story we already talked about a little bit tonight that is now like a flaming dumpster floating down a river.

It is on fire and on we're pouring the gasoline it because of the flamingness of it. I do want to say one quick thing about this Duke Arizona game, like this is a forty two all game, and then Duke three pointer flag three pointer at the buzzer, three point play like that up nine in this contest. It just happened so quick, just like Kevin Willard's combustible comments.

My old favorite word spurt ability. Yes, I think we got that into the lexicon a few years ago. So that's what we're looking at with this Duke squad. They come at you fast, all right, Kevin Weiller, we talked about it earlier. Ad going Willard presumed headed to Villanova. I want you to listen to this Clinton, Dan, because well, this is kind of interesting. Being asked in the postgame presser as Marilyn gets sent home in a resounding loss and being asked about his future. Here are his comments.

So I have not even No, I don't know what I'm doing. I would just be honest with you. I haven't talked to my agent. I haven't talked to my wife. I made a promise to this team that I was gonna just focus on this team, and that's all I've done. So I haven't talked to anybody. It's right now my biggest concerns.

In life right now.

You know, I don't know who my boss is going to be. It's the guy that brought me here, who I really liked and appreciative of him bringing me. The College Park is not here anymore, and I don't know who we're going to hire. And that's as in today's day and age, that worries me a little bit. Just to be I'm just being honest. My honesty got me in trouble im as well keep getting me in trouble. So this is going to be a family decision.

This is.

I love College Park, I love I love Maryland, you know, but there's when you're at this point in your career and you're looking at things. I have to take everything into consideration about what's going moving forward.

So every show this week, I seem to keep coming back to Billy Joel songs. It's been really kind of interesting because with the Calipari and Patino matchup, we had our scenes from an Italian restaurant, low hanging Fruit, take the joke move on. Yesterday we're talking about turning the lights back on with the some of the coaches that we've fallen back in love with, including the aforementioned Calipari, who we're watching tonight. Patino still the love affair with Izzo, right, the curmudgeon, elderly statesman, and some of these other guys. Today it's all about honesty. He used the word honesty repeatedly. And so it comes down to this for me. Either we're just waiting for ink to dry on something at Villanova now he mentioned Damon Evans, who is the ad who's left for SMU or Villanova after all of this, has decided to withdraw any of the contract terms they were looking at. Have told him the pound sand and now he really doesn't know what he's doing because there's nobody there to extend his job because he's more or less said he was leaving right in past interviews, and nobody in the town, in the city, in the state of Maryland wants him coming back.

It is. It is interesting, and I get that. You know, pride comes before the fall.

Is that the That's it.

When he was asked if he regrets anything that he had said over the last week or so, and he said no, not at all. I don't believe that. I believe that he does regret that he said it. I get it, Mike, but this isn't the NFL. The NFL, we look at head coaches and gms being paired up so much. Ads and head coaches in college sports. Yeah, to some extent, sure, but if Maryland wins at basketball, the AD is not making a move coming off of a bid to the Sweet sixteen after a successful season, you bring a new AD in there. Head by no means is saying I want to bring in my own guy. And I think he is trying to use that sort of situation of being like, well, I don't know who the AD is, and so it's kind of an unknown. If you win, and you win, if you're a football coach or a men's basketball coach, doesn't matter who the AD is, they're not getting rid of you. And so I feel that he's using this as an excuse to leave because he's already got the Villanova job. To your point, it is he feeling remorseful because they pulled it? I don't think so, because nobody else is out there. Ryan Odam's at Virginia, Richard Battino is now at Xavier. All these jobs are the candidates. The guys who you thought maybe could take that job, took those jobs because they knew Kevin Willard was going to Villanova. The only question now, maybe is who's the next coach at Maryland? Because I don't think that. I don't think that it's I don't think I think he's remorseful for any of a contract being pulled. I think he is remorseful and sounds that way, even though he doesn't want to verbally admit that. He wish he didn't say some of the things he said.

Because you're gonna have to really lay the groundwork at the next stop, right at Villanova. You're gonna have to play nice sandbox with everybody and walk on eggshells. You're not gonna be trying to pull power plays like he did in all these pressers about their accommodations and the New York Christmas trip and everything else. I only bring it up because he seems like a guy who's really on the edge.

And I get it.

You get emotional after a game, but you get a few minutes before you get in front of a blacrophone, you've addressed the team. Well, the team already knew this was all swirling, right, we talked about it earlier. This is not new, it's final. But that's the only thing, Like to bring up a potential is that there's already an acrimonious part to the next job, not necessarily that they pull it. I go to the extreme because he I mean, he got shaking and like even though he's trying to use and kind of put off, I don't know what I'm doing whatever else, Like, Okay, then what was the last couple of weeks, right right? What was all of that about? And now you've got you know, the AD to your point, you've won generally the AD no matter who they are, they're going to leave you alone. Yeah, this is this is it becomes a fight about resources, but not about your job.

Yeah, in the NFL, the GM is hired, the coach is already in place.

You don't win.

Guess what GM brings his own guy that we've seen that we've seen more GM and head coach pairings in the NFL. It just it doesn't necessarily work like that in college, and especially it doesn't work when you're one of the last sixteen teams playing in the NCAA tournament. Here here's the deal. I like Kevin Willard. Kevin Willard's been more than a decade at Seaton Hall. When you see certain coaches bouncing here, there and everywhere and maybe could have gotten other jobs. He was there for a while, so I don't think that he was looking to climb the ladder. I understand the frustrations that he may have, and I think there are a lot of proud programs that maybe aren't getting the nil sort of race and what is this wild West. I just don't know how you can say the things that you said again, just to talk to you and me. You and I both went to Big ten schools, yours more academically prestigious, but still football players are football players, right, And I would have done anything to trade my access as a student or the things that I got access to, to be an access to what football players back then got to, Like I would look at wow, jeez, look at they got the scooter to drive around campus and do this. They're going here, they're going there. We knew that there were perks. I think any student would love to live the life of a college football athlete back then. Now we've opened the door completely, Mike, where it's just everything is crazy. Now it's seeping into the coaches, you know, in terms of what is being provided to the school. And that's why I just keep going back to the extra night in New York City for Christmas. Everybody would love to spend one night in New York City for Christmas to complain about not getting an extra one, because that means that it's not a commitment to your program.

There may be other reasons.

Maybe the facility link, it's facilities, but there may be other reasons why your program may be legging behind others in your conference, but it's not because you couldn't spend one extra night in New York City. And that just that's to me is something that I would just be like, man, that just falls on deaf ears.

OK, if we're going to go down the road of complaining about access to whatever, it is, right, because we had mc cronin right beloved to some for us, he's just a great sound bite. UCLA. Look there on AM five to seventy LA Sports or LA affiliate here for Fox Sports Radio and mc cronan. We watched him throughout the year, right, fiery at the host, asking in postgame questions. Yeah, couldn't do that on Mars, right, I mean you had all these kinds of things. And then he's complaining about flights and naming, name checking airlines. I'm I gonna do that to them here, sure, but like all salty, it's like no, no, no. For USC and UCLA. That's been the most interesting thing about their arrival to the Big Ten is complaining about travel like.

Nobody did the math of where Maryland is located.

How about getting out to Happy Valley? Good luck? Right, unless you're getting air dropped in over the top of the stadium, that's a pain in the ass. But it's all book baked into the cake of we're joining the Big ten and this is what it gets us a huge TV contract. But guess what, our kids are gonna pay the price to a degree when it comes to traveling for road games. That's baked in. So then complaining about it every chance you got during a tournament, and then Cronin on the way out complaining about the flight.

It's like, no, complain about other things that are real.

If we're gonna go in front of a microphone, don't sound like an idiot complaining about not being able to see the holiday parade or go ice skating at Rockefeller Center or this. You didn't like the accommodations on the flight home because you didn't get a good snack or a good movie selection.

Shut up?

What coach seat on an airplane any airline is like, yeah, I love this? None, okay, none, right, I mean, but hey, if it's chartered, guess what nobody else is on it? Maybe you're not sitting there at gate twenty two B waiting to board with everybody else, because I don't think that's what UCLA was doing. And UCLA neither of the money is university in the Big ten, So surprise, surprise if they're struggling in the other factors of it. And that's what I think is a part of this is there are schools that were maybe making money hand over fish, but now you get into this wild West game of treating your players and treating different things, and you can't necessarily do it. And some coaches are scratching their head seeing other teams being able to do those things. Yeah, it's Rich, Mike, It's Rich good Frostburg.

What do you got.

Well, he used the word guys. He used the word like four or five times in that SoundBite. We heard the word was honest or honestly yep, or I'm being honest with you. I've watched enough interrogation shows to know he's lying through his teeth.

Sure, you can put up.

The Villanova press conferences tomorrow.

Yeah, but it's like watching him under the lights. I mean, I told you I was been rewatching the old NYPD Blue episodes. We've been joking about sip the witz and threatening guys with the needle under the hot spotlight in an interrogation room forever. But where we're at in college basketball and mirrors a lot of what we're talking about in Major League Baseball, in particular as it relates to the LA Dodgers, right, deferred payments and whatever. All this is on the books that your teams can do. Your owner and management group has just decided not to. Now with the Dodgers, you've got other all stars, You've got all sorts of amenities. You've got cash considerations for endorsements, whatever that may be larger than anyplace else but New York if you believe the two billion dollar more valuation that put on the Yankees over the Dodgers. But all of that to say, it's everybody gets the same revenue coming out of the TV and merchandise deals that are cut.

Now.

The ESPN thing is a whole other ball of wax here. But the idea is you're all getting a giant payment before any of your local revenues and whatever else. Some teams choose to reinvest it, some don't. In college sports, can you activate your alumni base, fan base, get allocation of resources greater than other commensurate Do you get enough intel from your recruits and people in the process of where are we lagging? Because I guarant damn Tee it wasn't because you didn't get the extra night and do you York or because you were flying on whatever spirit frontier, whatever it is. But like there's something else in the equation, go complain about that. If it's substantive and real enough, then it becomes a larger rallying point for schools that may be in the same boat versus these random one offs, and.

I'll just I'll tell you this. I think that there are schools that budget and figure out what they will need for nil and then are quick to realize when the market opens or when the market is And I think maybe Willard is somebody else said that the portal opened on the transfer portal opened on November fifth, the day after the first game of the season. The reality is is you think that you have X amount to play with, Well, it's X plus y because now, all of a sudden, all these other kids are.

Asking for more and more and more.

And so if you're Kevin Willard and you're not getting enough to even to bring players in, let alone the whole deal, then you're wondering if you're again bringing a knife to a gunfight.

You thought you had a small house repair and suddenly they've got to raise that whole side of the ex right, yere goes, Hey, you his there's no insulation here. You need insolation?

Yeah?

Million, Okay, Yeah, we're good for a million. Actually we need a million point five. We want the guys, we need

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