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Portions of this show are recorded. Strap in.

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and be prepared. Room for error is much slimmer

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in basketball. You lose one player and it changes

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your entire team. It's not like that in football.

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It's just not. It's not. Interesting guests.

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Kelly Graves, Mike Parker, Coach Mark Waskowski,

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Noah Eagle, Melissa Lombardi, Kenyon Barnard,

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Jonathan Stewart. Sharp opinions. Dana Altman

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probably earned a pass for a down year after

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almost 20 years. of what he's done for Oregon

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basketball. And some smiles. Guys, I was stuck

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in a car wash. Sounds like an R. Kelly song.

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It's not an R. Kelly song. It's Danny Havel.

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I can't remember, and I've been doing this for

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longer than you've been alive, which is really

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horrible that I have to say that, but it's the

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truth. Justin Grossweiner. It's like the saying

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in Alaska, that you don't have to be faster than

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the bear. You just have to be faster than your

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friend. Danny and Justin starts now on Fox Sports

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Eugene and Fox Sports Newport. Hello, neighbors,

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and welcome high atop the Delta Tri, the Crystal

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Palace, Fox Sports Eugene, Fox Sports Newport,

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live from the Bigfoot Beverage Studios. Hello,

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friends. Yes, daddy's back. The Danny and Justin

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Radio Program, the fastest 60 minutes in sports.

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You can follow us on Twitter and Blue Sky Danny

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and Justin. Also, wherever you podcast or get

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your music, whatever platform you're on, Danny

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and Justin, we are there. Archive of the show

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will be up right after we're done. Kelly Graves

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is going to be on the program. We're going to

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get his first impressions of the eight seed for

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Oregon. Meh. Thought they should have been a

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7. 8, not great. But I just made a little rhyme

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there. 8, not great. But they're going to take

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on Virginia Tech in the first round. He has every

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single channel except for the ACC network. So

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he's getting a school on the Hokies. We'll get

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his impressions on the program today. We'll hear

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from Oregon football after their spring practice.

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Another one, we'll hear from the newly minted

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offensive coordinator, Drew Merringer, and others.

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And our thoughts are good, bad, and ugly. Results

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from Big Bats, a packed show as always. As I

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said, I'm back. No more basketball. Basketball's

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done. But it's still going to be a short week

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because we are the home for NCAA Basketball March

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Madness. So we'll be off the air Thursday and

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Friday, so you just get us today, tomorrow, and

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Wednesday. I am Doc. I'm Danny. Right over there.

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He's my tag team partner. And he just had a birthday.

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It's Baby J, Justin Grossweiner. What a boy.

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Well, I aged a whole year over the weekend. That's

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how that works. So now you're 23 years old. No.

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31. 31. Babe in the woods. It's a weird year.

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It's an interesting year. It's not as world changing

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as 30 was, I think. But it's still in that stage

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of, I think that. People that are my age, they

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lean one way or the other. They're way younger

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than their age or they're way older than their

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age. And I'm in the way younger than my age intersection,

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I think. Did you get to go outside and get some

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liquids? Not liquid sunshine. Regular sunshine.

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Not today. Holy smokes. A little bit today, yeah.

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Beautiful today. Yeah, it's going to be in the

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70s, which is awesome. Took Bella for a walk

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with my wife, which I will try and do before

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I come in. It's one of those little calming,

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relaxing things. It was just as warm outside

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as it was inside for the first time in a long

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time. First time, long time. It was 68 degrees

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outside when we left around noontime in Santa

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Clara, and it was 68 inside. It's perpetually

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cold in my place. It was 63 inside. Do you keep

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your meat outside your refrigerator, just lay

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it on the counter or whatever? No. It just doesn't

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have good insulation or something. So what did

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you do for your birthday? I watched the World

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Baseball Classic with my mom up in Portland.

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I think that's going to come up in this program

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today. It definitely will. And I had some good

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barbecue up at Matt's Barbecue, I think I've

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mentioned before. Shout out to Matt's. I ran

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into my old friend who I worked with when I was

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working up in Portland, who actually works at

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Matt's now. Okay, I was going to say, don't you

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run into this guy almost every time you go up

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to Portland? No, I haven't seen him in a while.

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My friend Greg. Shout out to Greg. He's a great

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guy. He was someone that trained me when I was

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a young prep chef working for Stella Tucker.

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It's funny because I was about the age of our

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interns were. A little bit younger than them.

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Slightly younger than them. You should have met

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me at that time. That was a whole other ball

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of energy at that point. You were a wild man?

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Yeah. You were crazy? No. I'm very innocent.

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I could never see you as being nuts. I'm really

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not. On my 21st birthday, all of the people I

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worked with, because they took me out for my

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birthday, they all were shocked with how little

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I drank. Because I just had like two, three beers.

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I was smoking Mr. Salty pretzel sticks on my

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21st birthday. Trying to get a drag off of a

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pretzel. That's how bad it got. That's funny.

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I'm just a pretty chill guy. Didn't have to go

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overboard or anything like that. So we just had

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a chill night. So you didn't miss me that much

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though. You mean this weekend or last week? No,

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last week. I was gone. The second week in a row,

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I was gone Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. You didn't

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miss me that much this week. What do you mean?

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Are you talking about this? I think this is this

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insecurity that you have. I don't have an insecurity.

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I just found it revealing as I was listening

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to you talking to my buddy Chris Burkhardt from

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the OSA and Blazer Network. I mean, this guy

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does everything. Social media for the OSA. I

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know. We talked for like 30 minutes. He's a great

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guy and so much information. Man, this guy's

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got it locked in. But, yeah, you started out

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with, yeah, you know what? It's okay when Danny's

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gone because I get to talk about stuff I want

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to talk about. So I'm just going to ask you on

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the air. We're going to do a little therapeutic

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session here. Do you need to have more involvement

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in what the topics are for the program? No. I'm

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fine with it if you are. No. You don't have to

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defend yourself, but just tell me. I like having

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my own shows because I can talk about what I

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want. But I also like you having. having you

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on the show much better because it makes it easier

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for me it's easier for me working with somebody

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else because i blabber well and i blab too and

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we blab together so it's great but yeah i like

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i like doing my own thing on my own shows but

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it's also harder it's also a harder thing to

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sit here and talk to myself basically so i like

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having you and mems on so kids out there we're

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not fighting it's just brothers you know older

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brother younger brother Just talking for a second.

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I'm going with that. I'm not saying like dad

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and son or anything else, even though you are

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younger than my oldest boy. So I just say you

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could be my son. That's kind of what I was thinking.

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Every time I bring it up. Brothers is fine. You

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know, thank God I'm not on television. People,

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I think when they listen to me, they think I'm

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younger than I am. And that's what I hope. That's

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what the joy of radio is. I think if they met

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you, they would think you're younger than you

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are, too. I think you come across— Well, that's

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very nice of you to say. Yeah, I know. You don't

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come across as— You're sucking up to me right

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now. No, just the truth. My mom is like that

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as well, and my grandma even, too. Our family

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is just like me. I'm like that. If you met me,

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you would think I was 25 or 24. In the DNA. I

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don't know. And so I think I have a good eye

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for it. I think you don't come across as your

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age. I think you come across as 5 to 10 years

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younger. Oh, I like that. Being in the 50s would

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be fine with me. I mean, that's when I finally

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hit my stride. Okay. So what are we going to

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talk about today, Baby J? We've got softball.

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A lot to talk about over the weekend. Baseball.

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We've got a tournament -bound Oregon women's

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team on the basketball side. Men's basketball

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is over there. A lot of baseball to talk about.

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Beavers. Eric Segura shined again this weekend

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as the Beavers sweep. San Diego this weekend.

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I've got some issues. You want to do good, bad,

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and ugly before we get to Kelly? Let's do good,

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bad, and ugly. We like doing this over the weekend.

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We're going to tell you the results of big bats

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later on in the program. We'll do that in the

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last segment. But we like on Mondays to talk

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about the good, the bad, and the ugly from the

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weekend. So I am going to start with our good,

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bad, and the ugly. Now, you know what? Why don't

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you start with the good, bad, and the ugly? Okay.

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And I will start off. With Wayne Tinkle. My good.

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This is great. This is not just good. This is

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great. And this is why everybody likes Wayne

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Tinkle. Because he took out a half -page ad in

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the Sunday Oregonian to thank Oregon State fans

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for the experience and to wish the new head basketball

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coach, Justin Joyner, good luck. Classy. Classy,

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classy. All the way through. And you know who

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he didn't thank in that little slow game? Probably

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Scott Barnes. No, not probably. He did not thank.

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He thanked Bob DeCarolis, who hired him. Traitor

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Bob hired Wayne Tinkle, and he thanked him, but

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not Scott Barnes. That tells you all you need

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to know about Coach Tinkle. He still took the

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high road. He did. He did absolutely take the

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high road. But omission. Omission tells you a

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lot. All right. My good is it just came out a

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little bit ago. And you know more about this

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than I do. And we're hopefully going to get Ryan

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Clark on the program before the short week is

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over. Oregon quarterback Dante Moore has revealed

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he has struggled with mental health issues associated

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with the pressures of major college football.

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In an interview with Clark, it published today,

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he wrote a letter to Governor Tina Koke. this

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month, which he disclosed his struggles with

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depression. He asked the governor, Kotek, to

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support mental health services in the state.

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He says he's struggled deeply with his expectations.

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And the reason this is good, shine a light. We

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have reported on too many stories, CTE aside,

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with the pressure of athletes to perform. and

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how it's turned them sideways. And so good on

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Dante Moore for shining a light on this. I completely

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agree. And any athlete that wants to talk about

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these issues, I think it's a great thing because

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every single person, even you listening to this

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right now. have probably struggled with mental

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health issues, whether people want to admit it

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or not, or they want to call it that. That's

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the label they want to put it. People struggle

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with things. And so anytime you have an athlete,

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and particularly one that is as cerebral as Dante,

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and as articulate as Dante talking about it,

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I think it's a great thing. And he's using his

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platform for good. Yep. And that's what I love

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about it. So there's my good for the weekend.

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All right. Well, that was your good. So I'm going

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to go to the bad now. And so my bad, and this

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is pretty bad. It's not ugly, but it's bad. Oh,

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we're going to get to ugly. We're going to get

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to ugly in a second. Texas A &M football team,

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they took out all the dumbbells under 40 pounds

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from the weight room. And I think that is so

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stupid. I cannot believe a real football program

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actually does this. I bet you it's performative.

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I bet you it's just for the cameras because that

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makes no sense at all. You are going to have

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athletes using weights that are potentially 20.

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30 pounds more than they should just for ego.

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Like you're not taking a shortcut. You're just

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being stupid. Why would you do that? It doesn't

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make any sense to me. No, no physical trainer

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would ever tell you to do that. It's just this

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macho man sort of attitude. I just think it's

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real. I don't know. I hate it. Deep in the heart

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of Texas. All right. My bad from the weekend

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is what is going on with the WBIT? If they want

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to be a relevant tournament, you do not put in.

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A 13 -17 team. And by the way, that's the matchup

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that Oregon State gets. They seed them. There's

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four different pods. Everybody plays on the supposedly

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higher seed home court, except Oregon State,

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who just, and I think they got jobbed by the

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tournament selection committee not getting into

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the NCAA tournament. They are now going to play

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Wisconsin, who is actually the number three seed

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in that region. But they get to play Wisconsin

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at Gill Coliseum. Shame on the WBIT for ranking

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Wisconsin number three with a 13 -17 record.

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The only team in the WBIT that has a losing record,

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and it's not even close. The next closest? Missouri.

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No, pardon me. Well, Missouri at 16 and 16. Texas

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A &M is 14 and 12. Nobody else has a losing record.

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Well, pardon me. I just found another one. Georgia

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Tech at 14 and 18. They snuck out in the woodwork.

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Yeah, they snuck in all the power four teams,

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basically, that have losing records as those

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seeds. It's ridiculous. Yeah. Have some relevancy.

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Have some pride. Yeah. Okay, there's my bad.

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All right. And our ugly is so ugly that we have

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the same ugly. We have the same ugly. really

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bad go ahead is brutal yeah he said gerardo perdomo

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yesterday last out of the world baseball classic

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semi -final strikes out looking against us yeah

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strikes out looking to mason miller on a called

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third strike that was so low It is inexcusable.

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Should never happen. Is there no ABS in the World

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Baseball Classic? No, there is not in the World

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Baseball Classic. There should be. I completely

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agree. And honestly, that was my first reaction

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was, this is why we're putting this in. It's

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because if you end a game like this, it just

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feels bad. Why not in a tournament like this,

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use ABS? It's been proven in the minor leagues

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and proven in spring training that it works.

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And they're going to use it during the season.

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That's why they're doing it. It doesn't really

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make sense to me why they weren't using it in

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this tournament. But it doesn't mean that Dominican

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Republic was going to win. We used to want to

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see a game end like this. And to me, it's such

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a shame because I think that this tournament.

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The last time, remember the way that it ended

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with Shohei Otani striking out Mike Trout? The

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ends of games can be this very iconic thing that

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will draw people back, and this is one of those

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ones where it's like, man, that really sucked.

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It really sucked. It didn't quite ruin my birthday

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or anything like that, but man, watching this

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game was a pretty good game, but man, the ending

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was really, really bad. It was ugly. And it's

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the game we love, so that's why we're so upset

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about it. We're verklempt. All right. So there

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you go. Good, bad, and ugly for the weekend,

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Danny and Justin. By the way, speaking of ugly

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as well, I went 2 -3 again this weekend in Big

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Bets. Brian, congratulations. You won Big Bets

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4 -1. Good job. We got him in there, too. He

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was right at the end there. Right at the end.

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And I think, has Brian played before with us?

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I don't think so. I don't think so. Good for

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you, Brian. And that was the last week of Big

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Bets. Yes, for this cycle. Which means I lose.

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Okay, but I do also want to say that Goose still

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has to pay off his big bet. He does. We talked

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about this. I also want to say that I played

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it really fair because I had your picks beforehand,

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and I knew exactly what record I needed to basically

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win against you. So did you win opposite picks

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of me? I won opposite picks of you at least three

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games. And you went three and two. Yes, so it

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came down to the Houston game between us. The

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Planet Houston? Screw Houston. Who did they beat

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again? Kansas. Kansas, that's right. And every

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bit of my Wildcat fandom, Kansas State, was like,

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don't say the Jayhawks. And yet, there I was.

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But, you know, I was probably tired. Was tired

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of the Darren Peters and stuff. I just didn't

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know he was going to play. I knew he was going

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to play, but it's like, is he really going to

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play? Oh, goodness grace. All right. Waiting

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in the wings. We've got the big kahuna. Kelly

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Graves is going to join us. Let's talk a little

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Va Tech Oregon basketball. Yeah, baby. March

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Madness is upon us. We will head deep into the

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heart of Texas in Austin for Oregon, and Virginia

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Tech will talk to the man, see what he knows

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about the Hokies when we come back on the Danny

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Justice. and radio program. Congratulations again

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to Brian who won our big bets this weekend. We're

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going to draw for the big suite for the NCAA

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championship game down at Coquille Casino Resort.

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And Brian, your name is in there and you get

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extra entries because you beat the brain trust.

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Listen, you went four and one, buddy. That's

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pretty good. I went two and three. I'm the big

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loser this session. Justin, nice job finishing

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second. And Goose, he bolted out of the gate,

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and he took first. Well, you know the old saying

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is, yeah, I know. Going first, you're last. Thanks.

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I thought you were going to do the bear thing

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again. Let's head on over to the Oregon Man Colleges

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hotline at 541 -343 -5673 and welcome in our

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good friend, the head coach. of your Oregon Ducks

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women's basketball team. Number eight seed they

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take on Virginia Tech on Friday. It's the big

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kahuna, Kelly Graves. Coach, how are you? Hey,

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pretty good, guys. Pretty good. What was the

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contest? So every week we play, we pick five

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games. And it's just straight up and down. You

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don't bet the spread or whatever. And then whoever

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has the best record wins. We call it big bets.

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So we involve the listeners. Yeah, you remember

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that. I thought it was some kind of a trivia

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deal, and I was going to say, try me out. Let's

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go. But you're doing, like, calling games because

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we're not allowed to do that. I know that. That's

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why we don't ask you to come in and do it. Otherwise,

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you could be our celebrity picker. But, no, that's

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not going to work for you. We're not going to

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get you in trouble. No, absolutely not. Coach.

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We had kind of had you slated as a 7 seed. Can

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I talk about seeding first? Because, I mean,

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what's done is done. You're an 8 seed, 8 -9,

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not the best matchup because then you've got

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the number one seed next if they win through.

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But that's the next game. You've got to concentrate

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on this game. But I guess we can start there.

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There is a competitive advantage of being either

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a 7 or a 10 versus 8 -9, right? Well, not really.

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I mean, it's pretty close. You know, most tens

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are going to be pretty much, you know, you're

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splitting hairs between nines and tens and sevens

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and eights. You know, sometimes the ones are

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significantly better than the twos. But, you

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know, if we were a seven and happened to win

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the first game, okay, then where are you at?

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You're at, you know, LSU. You know, you're at

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some pretty good teams there as well. So, you

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know, they would have kept us away from Iowa

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and Michigan, I would think. So I don't know.

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I've never, you know, as a coach, I think I've

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won 10 games now as a double -digit seed. Right.

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And, you know, we've gone to Elite 8s as a 10.

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We've gone to Elite 8s as an 11. So I don't think

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it really matters. I think it's who you play,

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you know, what the matchup is, and then how you

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play. I mean, this time of year, you better play

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well because everybody's good, you know, and

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you got to bring it. So that's what I'm more

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concerned with. I've never focused on seeds.

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All right. That's good to know. Like you said,

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it is what it is. What's done is done. So no

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sense in, you know. crying about it or anything

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right so you don't have as long of a trip this

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time instead of going all the way to the east

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coast you go to texas and austin so this matchup

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against virginia tech first of all let's focus

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on your team how's the health how's mia jacobs

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how's everybody getting themselves ready for

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this first round matchup Well, Mia's not going

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to be 100 % for the rest of the year. She actually

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will require surgery. She's just kind of fighting

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through it and working her way through it. She's

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never been to an NCAA tournament, so I know she

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really wants to play. And even Mia, not 100%,

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is still a pretty good basketball player. But

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she's kind of the same. But everybody else is

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relatively healthy, you know, as healthy as you

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can be at this time of year. Nobody's 100%. But,

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yeah, but I feel pretty good. That certainly

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won't be an issue with us. And, Coach, I just

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want to rewind a little bit here before we move

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forward. End of the season against Washington

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wasn't the way you wanted to end it, but then

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the Big Ten tournament, I felt like you guys

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did pretty well. Against Purdue, it was a good

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game. Maryland was one that could have gone either

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way, played really well and won that game. And

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then against Michigan, honestly, that game was

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really, really close until the second half. So

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how do you feel about the way your team played

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in that tournament? Oh, yeah, kind of typical.

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You know, we play well, and when we play well,

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we're a pretty good team, and we've proven that.

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in multiple games throughout the year, and sometimes

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we just become really offensively challenged,

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and that's where we've struggled. I think defensively

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we've been a little bit more consistent throughout

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the year, but just offense comes and goes, and

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I guess that's why we're an eighth seed. We're

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just one of those teams that you don't always

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know what you're going to get, and we're young.

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And that's part of it. And, you know, and we've,

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you know, I like my team. I like them a lot.

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Yeah, we like them too. That's kind of been our

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issue this year. You know, and we have obviously

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some really good players, and we have a good

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depth, and we've had different players step up

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in different games, which you'll love because

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this time of year it's that X factor. Obviously,

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your star's got to play well, but it's that X

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factor that I think sometimes wins for you in

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the tournament. And we've had a whole bunch of

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different ones. We just can't always count on

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all five of our... kids that play the bulk of

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the minutes to have great games. So that's the

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only reason why I hesitate. But I love my group.

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My goodness, look where we're at. We have a chance

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to compete. It's the only team in Oregon, men

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or women, that's in the field. That's crazy to

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me. You can follow the big kahuna, Kelly Graves,

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at GoDucksKG on Twitter. He joins us on the Danny

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and Justin radio program. So, Coach, I want to

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start with that youth, but you can turn that

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into advantage because they don't know what they

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don't know. a sprint. And I know you as a coaching

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staff, well experienced with you and Jody and

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the rest, is you've taken teams through this

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many, many times. And so what is the discussion

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and what is the mindset that you try and relay

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to your young team going into this? And I'll

00:23:06.230 --> 00:23:07.549
just leave it open for you. I'm not going to

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try and put any pre -thoughts in your head because

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you've already got it. But it is now a sprint.

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It's not the marathon of the season's over with

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and now it's the sprint. Yeah, it's a one -and

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-done mentality, and thank goodness we've been

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in that situation now a couple of games in the

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Big Ten tournament. I think you really accentuate

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or play up the importance in your preparation.

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I think once the game starts, I think you've

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got to coach it and treat it the same as any

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other game, in my opinion. If you make too much

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of it. then I think sometimes your team gets

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tight. And like you said, we've had really good

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success in postseason, and I think part of it

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is, yeah, we treat every game the same. If you

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listen to my pregame speeches, they're not any

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different when we're playing Washington or UCLA

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or Texas Southern. It's the same. We try to keep

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it consistent. But we've been playing up ever

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since we got done in the Big Ten that we've got

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to amp it up now. It's the NCAA tournament. It's

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a one and done. So in our preparation, we really

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try to make sure our kids are focused and intentional

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on everything that we're doing. But I think then

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you relax, you know, once that preparation is

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done and now you're ready for the game and now

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you just say, hey, you guys, you know, let's

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go out and get it done. And the good thing is

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if we play a good game, you know, it's not like

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we're playing a one seed now. where we're going

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to have to play really, really well, and they

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might have to be off their game, this game is

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going to come down to who plays the best that

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night. Right. Because we're both pretty even,

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obviously. That's why one's an eight and one's

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a nine. So, I don't know. I think there's a certain

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formula to it, and this is kind of what we've

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done. Somebody else might be completely different,

00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:03.940
but we've always had that mentality. We don't

00:25:03.940 --> 00:25:07.519
get uptight. You know, we don't get the kids.

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off their game and psyched out because of how

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we're acting as coaches. And this Virginia Tech

00:25:15.289 --> 00:25:17.369
team, one thing that was interesting to me about

00:25:17.369 --> 00:25:18.730
them, and I'd love your thoughts on just them

00:25:18.730 --> 00:25:20.670
as a team, but particularly Mackenzie Nelson,

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who seems like she's more of this traditional

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point guard than some of the scoring guards I

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think you see nowadays. But what's the challenge

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of playing a really more traditional point guard

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that's going to get the team into the offense

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more than looking to score herself? But she can

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at times. Yeah, well, she's kind of a jet airplane,

00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:40.099
you guys. She gets out in the open court. She's

00:25:40.099 --> 00:25:45.359
hard to catch. So we can't let her loose. Yeah,

00:25:45.579 --> 00:25:48.319
she makes great decisions. There's no question

00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:51.480
who's in control of that offense. Now, her usage

00:25:51.480 --> 00:25:54.599
rate isn't as much as Carly Wenzel, who is their

00:25:54.599 --> 00:25:58.400
leading scorer. But she just is a real calming

00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:00.759
effect at that point guard. And if she has any

00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:03.200
kind of a lane, she'll attack it and get to the

00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:06.160
rim. So, yeah, she's definitely going to be a

00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:08.480
challenge. They're good in transition, you guys.

00:26:08.660 --> 00:26:12.619
They really get out and go. And that part is

00:26:12.619 --> 00:26:14.420
going to be, I think, the toughest for us to

00:26:14.420 --> 00:26:17.720
handle. And she's certainly the catalyst there.

00:26:17.900 --> 00:26:20.059
So where do you see your advantage, though, Coach,

00:26:20.180 --> 00:26:26.440
with your athletes? Well, I think they have good

00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:29.940
length. Both of us have good length. You know,

00:26:29.940 --> 00:26:32.420
good depth, different players that can score

00:26:32.420 --> 00:26:36.380
on any given night. I really like our inside

00:26:36.380 --> 00:26:40.960
overall. They're not huge. They're really athletic.

00:26:42.039 --> 00:26:45.519
And they don't always have five players on the

00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:49.059
court that can score. And we've done pretty well

00:26:49.059 --> 00:26:51.460
against teams like that because our kids really,

00:26:51.619 --> 00:26:53.660
you know, I've got an awesome coaching staff,

00:26:53.700 --> 00:26:55.819
as you guys well know. Oh, yeah. And they do

00:26:55.819 --> 00:26:59.099
a great job. of preparing and putting together

00:26:59.099 --> 00:27:01.740
an awesome game plan. And our kids are really

00:27:01.740 --> 00:27:04.220
pretty good at following a game plan. So when

00:27:04.220 --> 00:27:07.180
teams don't have five players on the court that

00:27:07.180 --> 00:27:10.680
can score, we can really lock in on those advantages.

00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:14.799
But the honest truth is I didn't know much about

00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:17.420
them. I looked at their numbers, and I'm going,

00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:19.519
well, yeah, you know, we've got this and this

00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:21.420
and this. And then after watching them, you guys,

00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:26.279
they're really good. They are really good. and

00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:29.960
better than they show on paper. That's why sometimes

00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:35.680
the statistical analysis and all this data, it

00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:38.039
doesn't matter. You just got to put eyes on them,

00:27:38.059 --> 00:27:40.799
and these guys can play. Head Coach Kelly Graves

00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:42.559
joining us on the Oregon Man Clinics Hotline

00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:46.440
at 541 -343 -5673 as we break down Virginia Tech

00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:49.319
Oregon Friday. It's going to be early out here

00:27:49.319 --> 00:27:51.460
on the left coast as the kids will be down in

00:27:51.460 --> 00:27:53.279
Austin, Texas, playing in the first round of

00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:57.420
the NCAA tournament. So, Coach, adversity is

00:27:57.420 --> 00:27:59.619
going to come, and it's come throughout the season

00:27:59.619 --> 00:28:01.619
in different ways, whether it's an injury, whether

00:28:01.619 --> 00:28:05.559
it's being down by 15 and coming back and playing

00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:09.380
tough. So talk to us about how your team has

00:28:09.380 --> 00:28:12.259
dealt with that adversity and what they've learned

00:28:12.259 --> 00:28:14.059
and what you've learned about your team through

00:28:14.059 --> 00:28:17.000
that this season. Well, what I've learned is

00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:19.160
we're never out of a game. I don't care what

00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:22.420
the score is and how much time is left. Our kids

00:28:22.420 --> 00:28:26.420
are resilient. They find a way. That's also been

00:28:26.420 --> 00:28:28.920
one of our issues, fellas, for up and down in

00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:31.920
that regard, you know, where we can go on great

00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:35.759
runs and give up great runs. But I really like

00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:38.619
my team in that, you know, we're the stronger

00:28:38.619 --> 00:28:40.779
of the two conferences. I mean, they took sixth.

00:28:41.210 --> 00:28:43.329
and we're 12 -6 in their conference. We were

00:28:43.329 --> 00:28:46.569
8 -10 in ours and took 11th, yet we got the higher

00:28:46.569 --> 00:28:49.710
seed. So it just shows you how strong and with

00:28:49.710 --> 00:28:52.950
12 teams in the NCAA tournament from the Big

00:28:52.950 --> 00:28:55.309
Ten, I mean, it's the number one conference.

00:28:55.410 --> 00:28:58.890
So our kids have seen everything. We've obviously

00:28:58.890 --> 00:29:02.809
gone against great talent, awesome teams, excellent

00:29:02.809 --> 00:29:05.559
coaching. So I think we're going to be prepared.

00:29:05.680 --> 00:29:08.319
I've told them several times, the Big Ten will

00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:12.559
have us prepared for whatever we see. And I think

00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:14.579
there's some confidence that you can take from

00:29:14.579 --> 00:29:17.579
that. And we've shown that we can play really

00:29:17.579 --> 00:29:19.779
good basketball. We've played with everybody

00:29:19.779 --> 00:29:22.680
outside of two or three opponents like Ohio State

00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:25.660
and UCLA that just kind of knows, and Iowa to

00:29:25.660 --> 00:29:27.799
some degree, they were just better than us on

00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:30.000
those nights. Not much we could have done. But

00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:34.660
everybody, every other game, we were in. So,

00:29:34.660 --> 00:29:37.700
yeah, we'll use that. And we have nine that were

00:29:37.700 --> 00:29:41.640
on the team last year that won a game in the

00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:43.900
NCAA tournament and gave Duke everything they

00:29:43.900 --> 00:29:46.619
could handle right to the end. So they've seen

00:29:46.619 --> 00:29:49.380
some success, and they understand. And, you know,

00:29:49.460 --> 00:29:52.180
Katie Fiso had an amazing NCAA tournament last

00:29:52.180 --> 00:29:55.920
year. And you talk about how the Big Ten has

00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:58.039
prepared you, and I think we asked you a little

00:29:58.039 --> 00:29:59.539
bit about this last year as well, but you've

00:29:59.539 --> 00:30:01.700
had a couple seasons now in the Big Ten. Could

00:30:01.700 --> 00:30:04.940
you compare it to the Pac -12? Is it similar

00:30:04.940 --> 00:30:08.180
or is it deeper in the Pac -12? How would you

00:30:08.180 --> 00:30:10.200
compare those two conferences? Well, the Pac

00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:11.920
-12, when we were in it the last seven or eight

00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:16.579
years, was the best conference in the country.

00:30:16.740 --> 00:30:19.119
And look at the four teams that went to the Big

00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:21.720
Ten from the Pac -12. We've all four made the

00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:25.559
NCAA tournament. Both years. Right. We've had

00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:29.319
three combined number one seeds, and everybody

00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:32.579
won games in last year's NCAA tournament. So

00:30:32.579 --> 00:30:36.900
those four teams, as opposed to the men's side,

00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:39.299
you know, I don't think the Big Ten has gotten

00:30:39.299 --> 00:30:42.339
a ton better because of the addition of the four

00:30:42.339 --> 00:30:44.599
Pac -12 schools. It certainly has in women's

00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:48.819
basketball. And, you know, so we've been playing

00:30:48.819 --> 00:30:52.500
against the best of the best, you know. Since

00:30:52.500 --> 00:30:55.400
I got here, we've had the best conference, and

00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:59.079
we still have the best conference. I'm really

00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:01.460
looking forward to this, you guys. This is a

00:31:01.460 --> 00:31:04.420
good group I've had to coach. They're great kids.

00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:06.640
They get along. They work hard. You've seen them.

00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:09.940
The energy with which they play and the enthusiasm.

00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:13.579
I'm just happy that we're in the field regardless

00:31:13.579 --> 00:31:15.819
of where we're seated, and we've got a chance.

00:31:16.519 --> 00:31:18.380
That's all you can ask for. That's right, as

00:31:18.380 --> 00:31:20.039
long as there's still time on the clock. Right,

00:31:20.119 --> 00:31:24.460
Coach? Yeah, yeah. And we're good enough to go

00:31:24.460 --> 00:31:28.400
in and win games. I mean, we really are. But

00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:30.799
we have to play well. We're also good enough

00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:34.380
to, you know, not. We're not quite good enough.

00:31:34.460 --> 00:31:35.980
You know, it's just one of those things. But

00:31:35.980 --> 00:31:38.279
we're there, and I'm really excited. And I think

00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:40.299
our kids are really, really excited. The last

00:31:40.299 --> 00:31:42.359
couple days in practice, you can tell they've

00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:45.460
started to up their intensity, their focus, and

00:31:45.460 --> 00:31:48.799
their enthusiasm in practice. That's a good sign.

00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:50.740
Yeah, absolutely. Coach Kelly Graves joining

00:31:50.740 --> 00:31:52.380
us on the Danny and Justin radio program. Just

00:31:52.380 --> 00:31:53.839
a couple more questions for you, Coach, and we're

00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:57.099
going to let you go. You had talked about the

00:31:57.099 --> 00:31:59.119
X factor, and I always love, as a broadcaster

00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:00.759
as well, you can always take a look at the star

00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:03.819
line and go, you know, Ahisa Tute and Katie Fiso

00:32:03.819 --> 00:32:07.279
and, you know, Sophia Bell and on and on. But

00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:09.660
then it's like the Sarah Rambuses of the world

00:32:09.660 --> 00:32:13.859
or, you know, Philly, you know, Philippa Tilly

00:32:13.859 --> 00:32:17.160
out there. They can step up with big minutes

00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:19.059
that don't necessarily show up on the stat sheet

00:32:19.059 --> 00:32:21.500
sometimes. And you always find the teams that

00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:24.240
get themselves deep in these runs in turnovers.

00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:26.880
We'll always have players that do that. And I

00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:28.619
don't necessarily need you to single out those

00:32:28.619 --> 00:32:30.779
things just to validate that that's kind of from

00:32:30.779 --> 00:32:33.180
a coaching perspective. You need those type of

00:32:33.180 --> 00:32:36.079
minutes from players that maybe other teams would

00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:40.460
overlook. Yes, there's no question about it.

00:32:40.460 --> 00:32:43.740
And I look at some of our biggest wins this year

00:32:43.740 --> 00:32:46.799
where we had kind of that X -factor player step

00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:50.480
up. You know, our first win at Maryland. Sophia

00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:52.960
Bell hits three threes right in a row in the

00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:55.299
fourth quarter that turn the game. You know,

00:32:55.299 --> 00:32:58.019
she's kind of seen as a, you know, our primary

00:32:58.019 --> 00:33:01.000
defender, right? And what you get out of her

00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:03.000
offensively is always a bonus. And boom, boom,

00:33:03.059 --> 00:33:05.700
boom, she hits three. We win that game. Avery

00:33:05.700 --> 00:33:08.779
Kane against Maryland in the Big Ten tournament.

00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:11.740
She comes in and hits a bunch of threes, including,

00:33:12.039 --> 00:33:14.799
you know, kind of the game winner. You know,

00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:18.990
Ari Long has spiked. Estera Tujina. You know,

00:33:19.009 --> 00:33:21.650
we had a bunch of different players outside of

00:33:21.650 --> 00:33:24.690
Mia, Heath, and Katie who at different times

00:33:24.690 --> 00:33:27.210
step up. Sarah Rambis has had a couple of 20

00:33:27.210 --> 00:33:29.609
-point games for us when we really needed it.

00:33:29.650 --> 00:33:32.170
So that's, as a coach, that's a real blessing.

00:33:33.130 --> 00:33:35.589
Now, the other side of that is we're not always

00:33:35.589 --> 00:33:39.289
as consistent as we need to be. But the bottom

00:33:39.289 --> 00:33:41.750
line is we've got to defend, you guys. We've

00:33:41.750 --> 00:33:44.190
got to make some threes. That's been our bread

00:33:44.190 --> 00:33:47.710
and butter. And, you know, your stars have just

00:33:47.710 --> 00:33:51.190
kind of got to come to play, and we know that

00:33:51.190 --> 00:33:53.250
there is going to be somebody that steps up and

00:33:53.250 --> 00:33:55.430
has a big game. I look at Amina Muhammad last

00:33:55.430 --> 00:33:57.750
year in our win against Vanderbilt the first

00:33:57.750 --> 00:34:01.730
round. She gets a key offensive rebound on a

00:34:01.730 --> 00:34:06.210
free throw that wins the game for us. And so

00:34:06.210 --> 00:34:08.190
those are the little things. It may not be a

00:34:08.190 --> 00:34:10.929
whole game like you said, but just, you know,

00:34:10.949 --> 00:34:13.090
a couple of possessions here or there, they make

00:34:13.090 --> 00:34:15.599
game -winning plays. And that's what we need.

00:34:15.699 --> 00:34:18.380
And I'm confident that somebody on our team is

00:34:18.380 --> 00:34:21.500
going to step up and be that person or persons.

00:34:21.860 --> 00:34:24.119
Well, we'll be watching for our coach. Last question.

00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:26.480
And you've been doing this for a couple of years,

00:34:26.579 --> 00:34:29.039
and so I know you can speak from experience.

00:34:29.500 --> 00:34:32.019
And is there somewhat of a message to especially

00:34:32.019 --> 00:34:33.619
some of these younger players, and you do have

00:34:33.619 --> 00:34:36.639
a very young team, is to, yes, you're there to

00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:39.159
do a job. You're there on business. You want

00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:41.420
to win. You want to keep moving on. But then

00:34:41.420 --> 00:34:43.280
the other side of it is to kind of soak it in

00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:45.519
and enjoy the moment. I know it's hard for you

00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:47.920
as a coaching staff because you're always thinking

00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:49.579
about what's going on in the game and what we've

00:34:49.579 --> 00:34:51.159
got a game plan for and the next game that's

00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:52.260
coming up. We've got to make sure we've got our

00:34:52.260 --> 00:34:54.860
scout set and all that. But then sit back and

00:34:54.860 --> 00:34:58.679
enjoy the moments that you have. And these are

00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:01.179
fleeting. And so I know that's kind of a message

00:35:01.179 --> 00:35:04.820
you bring them, isn't it? No question, you guys.

00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:09.380
That's a very astute point. Yes, they have to

00:35:09.380 --> 00:35:12.539
enjoy it. It can't be all business, and we can't

00:35:12.539 --> 00:35:15.800
get them up tight. Teams play better, and sometimes

00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:17.719
as a coach, this has been one of my weaknesses.

00:35:17.860 --> 00:35:21.039
I can get our team wound up, too wound sometimes.

00:35:21.860 --> 00:35:25.159
I need to just relax. I give myself mental notes

00:35:25.159 --> 00:35:28.139
every game, sometimes physical notes on a piece

00:35:28.139 --> 00:35:30.400
of paper that I have to look at. Just relax,

00:35:30.579 --> 00:35:32.860
coach. Team plays better when you're just relaxed

00:35:32.860 --> 00:35:37.710
and calm. And that's what you have to do. And

00:35:37.710 --> 00:35:40.170
I think if you were there and around the team

00:35:40.170 --> 00:35:45.289
during our Elite Eight and Final Four runs, we

00:35:45.289 --> 00:35:48.190
were loose. Loose as a goose. Yeah. And we had

00:35:48.190 --> 00:35:52.250
fun. And that's what we need to do again. Especially

00:35:52.250 --> 00:35:54.869
since we're young. They don't have a lot of experience

00:35:54.869 --> 00:35:57.769
in this kind of tournament. Right. So we just

00:35:57.769 --> 00:36:02.099
got to relax, have some fun. And let the chips

00:36:02.099 --> 00:36:04.139
fall where they may. All right, Coach. Best of

00:36:04.139 --> 00:36:07.320
luck to you. Put the clubs away because you're

00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:09.059
not going to need them for at least three, four,

00:36:09.059 --> 00:36:11.559
five weeks, hopefully. All right? Well, I sure

00:36:11.559 --> 00:36:13.380
hope so. I was actually thinking of running out

00:36:13.380 --> 00:36:15.699
and at least hitting some balls today. I have

00:36:15.699 --> 00:36:19.170
a 540 tee time. I don't know. It's the last one

00:36:19.170 --> 00:36:21.869
of the day. Oh, you can get nine in. Oh, yeah,

00:36:22.070 --> 00:36:23.670
you'll get nine in. That's a great way. If that

00:36:23.670 --> 00:36:26.510
helps you relax, absolutely. There you go. Right?

00:36:26.630 --> 00:36:29.630
Well, okay, I've seen four Virginia Tech games.

00:36:29.750 --> 00:36:32.090
I've got three more to watch tonight. Okay. We

00:36:32.090 --> 00:36:35.710
just broke down all their possessions with the

00:36:35.710 --> 00:36:39.369
staff for the last two hours. I think I've probably

00:36:39.369 --> 00:36:42.730
seen enough to have a good idea. So I think two

00:36:42.730 --> 00:36:46.809
hours on the courses. It's appropriate. I think

00:36:46.809 --> 00:36:50.369
so as well. And make sure, do not read too much

00:36:50.369 --> 00:36:53.650
break. Okay? That's all I'll tell you. Oh, good

00:36:53.650 --> 00:36:56.349
knowledge. Good knowledge. All right, Coach.

00:36:56.429 --> 00:36:58.429
Well, putting for me is a crap shoot anyway.

00:36:59.309 --> 00:37:01.630
But I'll take your advice. All right, Coach.

00:37:01.730 --> 00:37:03.650
Hey, have a great time there. We'll be following,

00:37:03.730 --> 00:37:06.309
watching, and hopefully have you on with a couple

00:37:06.309 --> 00:37:09.030
of wins. Okay? Okay, fellas. Yep, appreciate

00:37:09.030 --> 00:37:12.190
it. We'll call. Hopefully, let's talk in Texas,

00:37:12.489 --> 00:37:14.570
okay? Absolutely. You bet. All right. Thanks,

00:37:14.710 --> 00:37:16.710
Coach. Take care. We'll see you. Thanks. There

00:37:16.710 --> 00:37:20.030
he goes, the great Big Kahuna, Kelly Graves,

00:37:20.050 --> 00:37:23.420
the head man for the flock. As Oregon women's

00:37:23.420 --> 00:37:25.599
basketball takes on Virginia Tech, opening round

00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:28.960
of the NCAA tournament down in Texas, in Austin.

00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:32.239
It'll be a home floor for Texas if they can get

00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:35.559
past the first -round game. Let's just talk about

00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:37.559
Virginia Tech. We can talk about them a little

00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:39.280
bit more as we go through. All right, so when

00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:42.300
we come back, a little audio from Oregon spring

00:37:42.300 --> 00:37:45.199
football. Merringer and Hampton, yep. Drew Merringer

00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:47.800
and Chris Hampton. We'll talk about softball

00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:50.300
as well, baseball, big weekends. We've already

00:37:50.300 --> 00:37:53.340
talked about. Oregon State getting hosed on the

00:37:53.340 --> 00:37:56.179
women's side of things in basketball, but Oregon

00:37:56.179 --> 00:37:59.739
State as well. Big weekend on the diamond. Talk

00:37:59.739 --> 00:38:01.460
about all of that as we race to the finish on

00:38:01.460 --> 00:38:06.719
the Danny and Justin radio program. Your home

00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:11.800
for the NCAA tournament is right here. Fox Sports,

00:38:11.940 --> 00:38:17.789
Eugene Fox Sports, Newport. as we will have Westwood

00:38:17.789 --> 00:38:20.170
One's coverage. So that means the next couple

00:38:20.170 --> 00:38:22.730
of weeks, we're going to be off on Thursday and

00:38:22.730 --> 00:38:24.570
Friday because you'll be listening to basketball

00:38:24.570 --> 00:38:27.570
play -by -play, which I absolutely love. Had

00:38:27.570 --> 00:38:30.210
a great time calling the OSAA tournament, 5A.

00:38:31.329 --> 00:38:33.650
And by the way, I want to give a quick shout

00:38:33.650 --> 00:38:36.210
-out. Marist in the 4A ranks, the boys win the

00:38:36.210 --> 00:38:38.150
state championship. First time since the early

00:38:38.150 --> 00:38:40.329
2000s when Corey Anderson was coaching them.

00:38:41.210 --> 00:38:44.909
And all -tournament team for the boys. And it

00:38:44.909 --> 00:38:48.449
was led by Johnny Lombardi, Melissa's son, the

00:38:48.449 --> 00:38:53.030
senior from Marist. Pretty cool. Arvai King,

00:38:53.170 --> 00:38:57.530
also a junior, made second team. And for Springfield

00:38:57.530 --> 00:39:02.190
girls, they finished second. West Albany wins

00:39:02.190 --> 00:39:04.550
a state championship in 5A girls basketball for

00:39:04.550 --> 00:39:07.329
the first time in 70 years, which was awesome.

00:39:08.210 --> 00:39:12.099
And then... And by the way, Noari Felipe, just

00:39:12.099 --> 00:39:14.280
a freshman, she made the first team all tournament

00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:16.940
for Springfield. Saylor Hall, a junior, they're

00:39:16.940 --> 00:39:20.440
both coming back, made second team. And Springfield

00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:23.579
won the sportsmanship trophy. But they finished

00:39:23.579 --> 00:39:27.460
second. And then our good friend, Blaine Liberatore

00:39:27.460 --> 00:39:29.800
and the Thurston Colts, they grabbed fourth place.

00:39:30.340 --> 00:39:32.460
Tough loss on the opening day to Summit. Then

00:39:32.460 --> 00:39:34.420
they came back through the consolation bracket

00:39:34.420 --> 00:39:37.039
and took fourth place hardware. So good for them

00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:39.980
in Blaine Liberatore's squad. So there you go.

00:39:40.900 --> 00:39:43.239
Let's see. Oh, yeah. And by the way, Lucas Labonte

00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:45.739
made first team all tournament from Thurston.

00:39:46.219 --> 00:39:50.719
So there you go. Okay. Spring practice continuing

00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:53.559
for Oregon. Oregon State as well up in Corvallis.

00:39:54.059 --> 00:39:56.820
They had a morning workout this past week. Second

00:39:56.820 --> 00:39:59.320
practice in three days. It's also the last for

00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:00.639
a couple of weeks. Spring game is going to be

00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:03.940
April 25th. New offensive defensive coordinators.

00:40:04.340 --> 00:40:06.300
Defensive coordinator Chris Hampton, who is the

00:40:06.300 --> 00:40:09.750
assistant. or the co -defensive coordinator last

00:40:09.750 --> 00:40:13.170
year with Tosh LaPoi, and then co -offensive

00:40:13.170 --> 00:40:15.010
coordinator Drew Merringer, who now takes over

00:40:15.010 --> 00:40:18.170
for Will Stein, both met with the media. They

00:40:18.170 --> 00:40:20.309
did. And were you in that one as well? No, I

00:40:20.309 --> 00:40:22.110
wasn't at this one. This was on Saturday. You

00:40:22.110 --> 00:40:23.630
made an appearance, by the way. I did make an

00:40:23.630 --> 00:40:26.190
appearance. On Dan Lanning's. On Dan Lanning's,

00:40:26.190 --> 00:40:28.070
yes. Was that Thursday or Friday? I think it

00:40:28.070 --> 00:40:29.610
was Thursday because that was when I did my solo

00:40:29.610 --> 00:40:32.039
show. which was fun. He was wearing sunglasses.

00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:34.719
Did you see that? Oh, yeah. He's very cool. He's

00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:36.440
always cool. He made sure to say at the end that

00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:38.360
he wasn't going to be cool, and it was just an

00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:40.440
eye procedure. But he said at the end, he didn't

00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:42.199
preface anything with it. It was totally cool.

00:40:42.420 --> 00:40:46.639
No, I know. He was cool, is the thing. He can't

00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:48.920
help himself. I know, I know. Okay, yeah, so

00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:51.320
I wasn't at this one in particular, but it was

00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:54.019
interesting hearing from Drew Merringer and Chris

00:40:54.019 --> 00:40:56.119
Hampton for the first time, I believe, right?

00:40:56.440 --> 00:40:58.920
Right, as offensive and defensive coordinators.

00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:02.400
I think an interesting topic is the idea of each

00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:04.960
of these coaches have been a part of this defense

00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:07.539
and or offense, but haven't had the reins yet.

00:41:07.619 --> 00:41:11.500
And so you've been a part of this team with a

00:41:11.500 --> 00:41:13.840
great offense and a great defense. What is your

00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:15.480
own stamp going to be like on that? So we're

00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:16.599
going to go through the questions. They're both

00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:18.179
asked this. So we'll go through Drew Merringer

00:41:18.179 --> 00:41:20.039
first. And what's it like taking over this offense,

00:41:20.139 --> 00:41:22.280
but putting your stamp on it? You know, people

00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:24.659
ask you, like, what's your favorite play? Right.

00:41:24.739 --> 00:41:26.699
And I was like, whatever is going to score, you

00:41:26.699 --> 00:41:29.119
know, like whatever we need to do in that particular

00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:34.760
moment. Do we I think that one of the great things

00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:37.300
that we had with Will here previously is we saw

00:41:37.300 --> 00:41:39.840
the game very similarly, not completely similar

00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:42.139
or not completely alike, but very similarly.

00:41:42.219 --> 00:41:45.179
And I think, you know, I was asked a question

00:41:45.179 --> 00:41:50.559
about Will last fall camp, you know, and. it

00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:52.099
was like, what do we think the offense is going

00:41:52.099 --> 00:41:54.699
to look like? And I think Will would tell you

00:41:54.699 --> 00:41:56.760
the same thing. It's, you know, every offense

00:41:56.760 --> 00:41:58.619
every year is going to be a little bit different.

00:41:59.139 --> 00:42:02.539
And regardless of who's calling plays or it's

00:42:02.539 --> 00:42:05.019
just the faces that are on the offense are going

00:42:05.019 --> 00:42:06.460
to be a little bit different. And the skills

00:42:06.460 --> 00:42:08.159
that you have on there, there's going to be some

00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:09.960
guys that are a year older and a little bit better.

00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:11.619
There's going to be some new guys that show up.

00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:13.139
There's going to be some young guys that need

00:42:13.139 --> 00:42:15.760
to play for you. What can they do? And how can

00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:18.679
we put them in a position to be successful? So

00:42:18.679 --> 00:42:20.679
I think that's kind of what you'd expect is that

00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:22.260
it's a little bit different of an offense every

00:42:22.260 --> 00:42:23.840
year and that you're going to put guys in a position

00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:26.139
to succeed. I think Chris Hampton, do you want

00:42:26.139 --> 00:42:27.679
to add something there? No, I was just going

00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:30.880
to say that it's, I think there's concern on

00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:33.079
both sides. It's like, you know, but both these

00:42:33.079 --> 00:42:35.619
guys have been. deeply entrenched with offensive

00:42:35.619 --> 00:42:37.780
play calling or defensive play calling. Chris

00:42:37.780 --> 00:42:40.000
Hampton was a defensive coordinator before he

00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:42.380
came to Oregon. But it's like out of the shadow

00:42:42.380 --> 00:42:44.280
of what the success has been with Oregon, it's

00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:46.119
like what is going to be the next step now, and

00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:47.780
how are they going to put their own spin on it?

00:42:47.900 --> 00:42:50.619
And Dane Lane talked about it when I was there

00:42:50.619 --> 00:42:53.500
on Thursday, was, hey, these guys have called

00:42:53.500 --> 00:42:55.599
plays in practice. It's not the first time they're

00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:57.400
ever going to call plays for their respective

00:42:57.400 --> 00:43:00.199
offense or defense. So Chris Hampton, his response,

00:43:00.460 --> 00:43:03.130
I liked it. It was a little bit different. Yeah,

00:43:03.150 --> 00:43:04.590
I think we can get better. You know, I think

00:43:04.590 --> 00:43:06.849
we can obviously grow, right? We haven't got

00:43:06.849 --> 00:43:09.329
to where we want to go. We've been good on defense.

00:43:09.489 --> 00:43:10.869
We want to be elite. We want to be the best.

00:43:10.969 --> 00:43:13.849
We haven't been the best. We've been pretty good.

00:43:13.929 --> 00:43:16.010
So, I think there's room for growth for sure.

00:43:16.469 --> 00:43:18.590
So, putting my stamp on it is really not about

00:43:18.590 --> 00:43:21.639
me. In my opinion, it's just about tapping into

00:43:21.639 --> 00:43:23.300
the players and putting the players in position

00:43:23.300 --> 00:43:25.820
and evaluating our talent and how can I utilize

00:43:25.820 --> 00:43:27.719
our talent and put guys in the right position

00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:29.900
to make plays and how can we make the complex

00:43:29.900 --> 00:43:32.519
simple, do the things that put our best players

00:43:32.519 --> 00:43:34.880
in the field to do what they're good and go make

00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:37.440
plays. You know, I love Chris Hampton. I love

00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:39.820
that. I got to meet him a couple of times and

00:43:39.820 --> 00:43:44.019
got to talk to him, and I am impressed by his

00:43:44.019 --> 00:43:46.539
intelligence about the game. But I do have to

00:43:46.539 --> 00:43:48.400
say, when I listen to that and I hear him talk,

00:43:49.050 --> 00:43:52.969
He sounds like Kevin Hart to me. Come on, man.

00:43:53.150 --> 00:43:55.210
He sounds like Kevin Hart to me. Come on, listen.

00:43:55.269 --> 00:43:57.610
I love it. Do we have another quote from Coach

00:43:57.610 --> 00:43:59.329
Hampton? Yeah, we do. We have him talking about

00:43:59.329 --> 00:44:02.110
what the adjustment's like going from co -defensive

00:44:02.110 --> 00:44:05.030
coordinator and kind of running things, but now

00:44:05.030 --> 00:44:08.510
he's managing people. No, and no disrespect by

00:44:08.510 --> 00:44:11.269
saying he sounds like Kevin Hart because he does.

00:44:11.489 --> 00:44:13.429
Listen. All right. No, it's not a whole lot.

00:44:13.469 --> 00:44:15.010
You know, the biggest thing is just organizing

00:44:15.010 --> 00:44:17.510
the staff and organizing the unit meetings and

00:44:17.510 --> 00:44:20.389
the install calendar. So just organizing the

00:44:20.389 --> 00:44:21.989
day -to -day operations with the players and

00:44:21.989 --> 00:44:23.949
the coaches. And other than that, I'm still coaching

00:44:23.949 --> 00:44:25.570
the position, still working with my guys, and

00:44:25.570 --> 00:44:28.809
just got a few more obligations, I guess. Now,

00:44:28.849 --> 00:44:32.869
you got to understand that Coach Hamp was dealing

00:44:32.869 --> 00:44:35.969
with the back end of that defense as well. And

00:44:35.969 --> 00:44:39.530
that was a core and a group that's going to have

00:44:39.530 --> 00:44:42.099
a lot of turnover. But they got a couple of kids

00:44:42.099 --> 00:44:45.300
coming in as transfers that are going to elevate,

00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:47.219
again, that defense to the point where it needs

00:44:47.219 --> 00:44:48.519
to be. And they're going to need all those pieces.

00:44:48.880 --> 00:44:51.440
Line's pretty well set. But then that linebacker

00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:54.199
and back end need to step up. Yeah, absolutely.

00:44:54.260 --> 00:44:58.000
And I think especially that cornerback and safety

00:44:58.000 --> 00:44:59.840
room, there's a lot of young guys that we saw

00:44:59.840 --> 00:45:02.460
last year. We kind of know what we're going to

00:45:02.460 --> 00:45:03.860
see from those guys. What we're going to get.

00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:06.440
I think that there are concerns, and Chris Hampton

00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:08.719
had some addressing of concerns about the linebackers.

00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:10.659
I know a lot of guys are really worried about,

00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:12.380
you know, the inside linebackers. You know, we

00:45:12.380 --> 00:45:15.219
lost Bryce, and Bryce was a fantastic player.

00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:17.559
Bryce started with me at safety when I first

00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:18.719
got here, and then we ended up moving him down

00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:20.900
to linebacker. But Bryce walked on the team,

00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:23.599
you know, and became Bryce Boettcher. You know,

00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:27.780
so if you were to ask anyone in 2024 preseason

00:45:27.780 --> 00:45:29.320
about Bryce Boettcher, nobody would have said

00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:30.960
Bryce Boettcher would have been Bryce Boettcher.

00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:33.920
He became Bryce Betcher. So Gavin Nix has to

00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:36.860
become Gavin Nix. You know, so is Dylan Williams.

00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:38.420
He has to become Dylan Williams where everyone

00:45:38.420 --> 00:45:40.139
knows his name. He becomes a household name.

00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:43.840
You know, and Brayden Platt. You know, so we've

00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:45.420
got a bunch of guys that can fill that role.

00:45:45.699 --> 00:45:47.159
I think they have a lot of talent. They have

00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:50.639
a lot of ability. Now it's just their time. And

00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:53.019
so just going to the other side. Drew Merringer

00:45:53.019 --> 00:45:55.219
talks about the offensive line where there are

00:45:55.219 --> 00:45:56.860
a lot of concerns that people have about the

00:45:56.860 --> 00:45:58.579
offensive line. And I want people to listen to

00:45:58.579 --> 00:46:00.840
who he brings up very early on in this conversation

00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:04.300
about who he trusts and guys that he thinks can

00:46:04.300 --> 00:46:06.400
develop in the offensive line. I don't think

00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:09.420
it's any secret that our league has done an unbelievable

00:46:09.420 --> 00:46:12.539
job with those guys. I mean, three times in a

00:46:12.539 --> 00:46:15.440
row, Joe Moore, Joe Moore, word semifinalists.

00:46:15.900 --> 00:46:18.099
And it's not because it's just five guys that

00:46:18.099 --> 00:46:21.909
are out there. Right. You look and we start the

00:46:21.909 --> 00:46:24.429
SC game and Fox Crater starts that left tackle

00:46:24.429 --> 00:46:27.929
for us. How many snaps has Fox played up until

00:46:27.929 --> 00:46:31.750
that point? Not a ton. How does he play in that

00:46:31.750 --> 00:46:34.349
game? He plays pretty well. I think that we're

00:46:34.349 --> 00:46:36.389
at a point where we have a lot of good young

00:46:36.389 --> 00:46:38.510
players in that position that have grown and

00:46:38.510 --> 00:46:40.989
developed and worked hard and they're ready to

00:46:40.989 --> 00:46:44.980
take a step. Who are those guys going to be?

00:46:45.579 --> 00:46:48.599
I'm not sure yet. We'll see. It's going to be

00:46:48.599 --> 00:46:52.739
very competitive at that position. So, again,

00:46:52.900 --> 00:46:55.559
April 25th, spring game. And are we going to

00:46:55.559 --> 00:46:56.760
see enough in the spring? No, we're not going

00:46:56.760 --> 00:46:58.340
to see anything in the spring game. So don't

00:46:58.340 --> 00:47:00.400
get all, you know, just go out and hopefully

00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:02.880
it'll be a sunny day. Bring some cans for food

00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:05.340
for Lane County and have a good time with your

00:47:05.340 --> 00:47:06.880
fellow Duck fans that are going to be out there

00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:08.579
at the spring game. Can I say what I want to

00:47:08.579 --> 00:47:11.130
see? Sure. I think it's interesting to see. It's

00:47:11.130 --> 00:47:13.110
like the get -off -the -bus stuff. It's like

00:47:13.110 --> 00:47:15.010
you're not going to basically get any scheme

00:47:15.010 --> 00:47:18.210
stuff, but you're going to see how people look

00:47:18.210 --> 00:47:19.909
on the field. We saw Dylan Gresham last year.

00:47:19.969 --> 00:47:24.369
We saw De 'Corey Moore. Don't forget when Tez

00:47:24.369 --> 00:47:26.130
played in the spring game for the first time,

00:47:26.150 --> 00:47:28.250
when he had transferred in. That was immediately

00:47:28.250 --> 00:47:30.969
like, oh, boy, that guy's fast. I'm not going

00:47:30.969 --> 00:47:32.889
to not have fun at the game. Just don't expect

00:47:32.889 --> 00:47:35.989
it. Hit your expectation level a little bit lower.

00:47:36.050 --> 00:47:38.690
It's a spring game. All right. Real quick. So,

00:47:38.690 --> 00:47:41.690
nice sweep over the weekend for Ducks softball.

00:47:42.250 --> 00:47:44.510
as they had a walk -off win on Sunday. They're

00:47:44.510 --> 00:47:48.090
now 21 -7 overall, 3 -0 in the Big Ten. They

00:47:48.090 --> 00:47:49.909
sweep their first Big Ten series of the season.

00:47:50.010 --> 00:47:51.530
Penn State, not a bad team, by the way. No, they're

00:47:51.530 --> 00:47:55.269
not. They're 19 -9 now. That's with three losses.

00:47:55.449 --> 00:47:59.190
Two of those were to Tennessee, number one Tennessee.

00:47:59.769 --> 00:48:03.789
And wow, Mark Boszkowski's team, hello. Back

00:48:03.789 --> 00:48:06.389
-to -back series wins and their first sweep.

00:48:06.690 --> 00:48:11.559
They're now 5 -1 in the Big Ten. and they get

00:48:11.559 --> 00:48:15.639
a 7 -6 win over Indiana. They trailed 6 -1 before

00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:17.619
rallying for six runs over the final four innings.

00:48:17.719 --> 00:48:20.159
Angel Lyatt, we're going to be talking about

00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:23.639
this kid with Maddox Maloney as well. Bottom

00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:25.880
of the ninth inning, 7 -6 win at PK Park. Sweet

00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:28.559
for the Ducks. They're now 17 -3, 5 -1 in the

00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:31.500
Big Ten. So good on them. And then Oregon State,

00:48:31.679 --> 00:48:35.380
men, they end up with a sweep over San Diego.

00:48:35.400 --> 00:48:40.750
They win 10 -3 on Sunday. Oh, a joke. I got fired

00:48:40.750 --> 00:48:42.650
from the bank today. A woman asked me to check

00:48:42.650 --> 00:48:45.789
her balance, so I pushed her. Dad jokes! You

00:48:45.789 --> 00:48:50.130
and I got to do a bracket for basketball. We'll

00:48:50.130 --> 00:48:51.769
get Goose involved in it as well. Just have a

00:48:51.769 --> 00:48:53.690
little fun on the air. What do you call a man

00:48:53.690 --> 00:48:56.090
wearing a rug on his head? What do you call a

00:48:56.090 --> 00:48:59.130
man wearing a rug on his head? Something toupee?

00:48:59.250 --> 00:49:03.099
No, you call him Matt. Call him Matt. Okay. Like

00:49:03.099 --> 00:49:04.900
a man on his head. It's got a rug on his head.

00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:08.260
It's a Matt. Oh, man. That's a fine name. Yes,

00:49:08.260 --> 00:49:11.320
it is. Hey, Hogan. How you doing out there, buddy?

00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:15.039
It's Matt Hogan. Everybody knows Matt. All right.

00:49:15.059 --> 00:49:17.099
I'm back in the chair. Can't you tell? For Baby

00:49:17.099 --> 00:49:19.300
J, I'm Doc. Thanks for tuning in, friends. God

00:49:19.300 --> 00:49:20.820
bless. Be well. Put a smile on your face. Someone

00:49:20.820 --> 00:49:23.099
else says they deserve it. So do you. Back tomorrow

00:49:23.099 --> 00:49:26.219
with the program. Back in 23 hours. Peace.