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From My Perspective
ESPN Bets Big On Women’s Sports And NBA Reform
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Women’s sports get Sunday prime time on ESPN, and we unpack what that means for growth, pay, and visibility while weighing WNBA CBA risks. Then we pivot to NBA All-Star effort, anti-tanking fixes, and a sharp look at college hoops, NIL accountability, and March storylines.
• ESPN shifts summer Sundays to WNBA and NWSL
• why prime time habits matter for ratings and sponsors
• WNBA CBA tensions, lockout risks, and player benefits
• NBA All-Star effort vs format and world pride
• anti-tanking proposals and freezing lottery odds
• college star availability and draft stock pressure
• coach criticism in NIL era and fair accountability
• undefeated mid-major pressure and Sweet 16 ceilings
• Louisville form, women’s bracket stakes, and home seeds
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to another episode of From My Perspective. I'm your boy DI coming to you live. Thank you guys again for joining us for another episode. Go ahead and hit that like button. Hit that subscribe button while you guys are at it. Like I keep saying, and the numbers have yet to change. Still 6% of you guys that have not subscribed to the podcast. Don't know why y'all not subscribed, but please subscribe. We will greatly appreciate it. Go ahead, link that, hit that link in the bio. We have merch. Support a local black business. Black History Month is not over. I know y'all not talking about it as much, but it's still Black History Month, and we appreciate you. But again, I'm your boy Dion. And y'all know I'm joined by the man the myth, the legend himself, Captain Hater Q. How you doing on this fine day?
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Guest Ray Joins For Big News
SPEAKER_02But uh we are not alone today. We have a very special guest. I want to say she's not just a friend of the pod, but she is family to the pod, as we have Miss Ray, Q's sister. How you doing?
SPEAKER_01Hello, how are y'all?
ESPN Makes Summer Sundays Women’s Day
SPEAKER_02How are you? I'm doing great. Uh, we've asked Miss Ray to join us for very breaking news that was announced earlier today about women's sports. So, starting, I believe, what this? Is it this summer, Q? Yes, this summer. Sundays during the summer has been usually baseball. Baseball has either been kicked to the curved and slashed moved to the NBC. They're going on the lockout. That is another conversation for another day. Me and Q will talk about that another day. But no more baseball on Sundays in the summers. It's gonna be women's sports. It's gonna be the WNBA and the National Women's Soccer League on Sunday. So that is great. So you can basically call Sunday's Women's Day. Women's Sunday sports day, which seems exciting and it puts the women in a prime time slot. Everybody knows Sundays is where it's, especially, you know, NFL, they're on Sundays, that's why they make their money. There's no NFL in the summer, but we're gonna have women's sports. I'm gonna start out with our special guest, Ray, who's obviously a woman, and how she feels about this great breaking news that women will now own Sundays in the summer.
SPEAKER_01I I'm very excited about it. It's it's something to look forward to to uh watch. It's something to grow, it it gives it promotes motivation um for future athletes. Um it's inspiring. I think it's a good thing. Um I don't think that it's going to negatively impact anything. I think it's gonna inspire growth. And what I mean that when I mean by that is we see now that is more money in women's sports, or they see they see that it's more money in uh women's sports and more people are getting into it. So I feel like that, you know, hey, the more money that they make, the more money that the professionals should be able to make eventually. I can't say that they're gonna make it this summer, like it's starting, but hopefully it's moving in the right direction for women as a whole.
SPEAKER_02So go ahead, Q, go ahead.
SPEAKER_03Uh everyone says June 23rd. I just looked it up. Uh I forget that quick. June 21st, sorry. Uh so the first the first initial, it's gonna be over now weeks during the summertime. It's gonna be uh June 21st. It starts with the WNBA. I think it is an excellent idea for ESPN to capitalize on two things: the growth of women's sports and also already having that time slot of Sunday night. Because so many people used to go into ESPN for that time slot because of baseball. So you already gonna have people that's naturally just gonna be, I'm gonna click on ESPN and see what they got on Sunday nights. Then it also gets the growth opportunity for women's sports to have more eyeballs on the platform and on the network. On on not the network, but because of the network, they have more eyes on the platform and on their games and help grow, especially like the women's soccer, because we have seen the WNBA's growth has been like crazy over the past, let's say, two, three years. But women's soccer, it I don't can't speak for y'all, and y'all can answer this. But it's for me, it feels like the women's the National Women's Soccer League, it just came out of nowhere. Not out of I knew that they played, but the the the coverage on TV feels like it just came out of nowhere and it just boom blossomed. And you would think they would have capitalized before because you know, women's uh women's soccer in the Olympics for the US has always been our strong two for us.
SPEAKER_02Exactly. Winning, winning is the reason why they've been compared to the men's national soccer team, they've been head and shoulders better in competition with the world, what that competition is. The men, they've been so so, they haven't been that great. But the women have been, in terms of the world and the other countries, they've been top five for like the past 10 years.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and it may I think I thought maybe what the growth of that maybe have would come quicker, but obviously it did not. But I feel like it really popped on TV because WNBA's been on TV for years. You go watch that, but the soccer, I feel like I I, at least me personally, I have I started seeing it a lot more last year and a little bit the year before. Get getting a deal with ESBN is gonna grow the women's national soccer league, you know what I mean? So I think this is a great opportunity. I think it's a great thing for women's sports. Everybody know, me and Deion watch WNBA. So it's of course it's a good thing for us as well. I did watch the women's soccer when Louisville was in the playoffs. It also helps Dell. Louisville got a soccer team. So it gives us something to root for, you know what I mean? But yeah, I think it's great.
WNBA CBA Fears And Lockout Risks
SPEAKER_02Uh I agree. Uh the only issue, talk about look negative, and I want you guys' perspective on it, is the WNBA CBA. There's still an ongoing back and forth. And we talked, we said about baseball. We know they're going into a lockout. I think with the CBA, it is trending towards it, looks like there's a potential lockout in the WNBA. It won't be this season, it'll be the following season if there is one. But I believe you guys can tell me if I'm wrong, but a lockout is absolutely the worst thing possible for the WNBA at this point in time, where you're just starting to hit your stride, just hitting some momentum. You probably hit a little bit of a wall because you know Caitlin Clark got hurt. His um, and so some of these star players is the stars have diminished a little bit, but you're still on the rise and you cannot have a season loss. I know we have Unrivaled, it's not doing the numbers as the WNBA games. It probably should, especially with those one-on-one battles that they had, which was very excellent, but you can't have a lockout. And Ray, I want your perspective. Like, how would you feel like if the WNBA has a lockout over this? Obviously, they're trying to figure out revenue. You think how will that affect them, especially considering they just got they got a day locked down, they got Sundays locked down. You think how how would you see that?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I agree with you. Uh, if they don't get it together, I don't think that they can afford to lose a season. I agree with you. Um, it's kind of scary to me. And the reason why I say that is I understand where the players are coming from, and I hear the you know, the the owners. Um, however, with this deal with ESPN, you can see them making more money because of this more uh visibility that they're having. So I agree with you, they can't afford it, but I'm hoping that they look at it differently. Things are changing, you know. Um people are recognizing it more, people are going to the games, and they are participating in the games and they're you know, cheering. Yeah, Caitlin Clark got hurt, and some other people got hurt, but if we look at it, it's new people coming gonna come out. Yeah, and their careers is on the line. Where are they gonna go? If they if if that we have this, if things don't come to a head, I mean, don't come to an agreement. We have freshmen, well not freshmen's um senior girls who are gonna come out as rookies. They may get, like you said, Dion, if they they play this year, they might not be able to play. Their contracts ain't so flipped. Uh they have their contracts haven't been, huh? What are you trying to say? Sufficient or no, they're solidified. Yes, solidified. Their contracts haven't been so I still can't say it, so it doesn't matter. But with that being said, I I I do agree with you. I don't think the WMBA can afford it. I hope that they don't go on a lockout. Um, I enjoy watching it. Um, and plus during the summer. It's not no summer.
SPEAKER_03Nothing. Honestly, it might not be a season this year. Because the players might be like, nah, we just we it's basically like a walkout. So it's a strong possibility. The season's supposed to start in May. It's a strong possibility there won't even be a season this year.
SPEAKER_01That's scary.
Player Pay, Perks, And Sustainability
SPEAKER_03So to me, it's the same thing with baseball, in the sense of neither one of them can afford actually afford a lockout, because the growth and the popularity, especially for baseball in the sense of the popularity is coming back, WNBA because the because the popularity is beginning, neither one of them could actually afford a lockout. Because this is this is capital, this is the capital time for y'all. This is a prime time for y'all, because both of y'all, both of these leagues have grown in amazement over the past couple years. Baseball with the rules changes, WN NBA, like my sister said, with with your Caitlin Clark, yeah, Angel Reese, your page buckets, angel, Asia Wilson is winning MVPs are here. You know what I'm saying? If you think about it, Asia Wilson probably, if you did a top 25 of the last 25 years, Asia Wilson will be in that list because of all the accolades and stuff she has done. So I don't think neither Lee can afford it. I think I hope it's kind of so you never want to be the person to tell the players like, hey, y'all asking for too much. And it's also hard with the WNBA because of the fact the NBA owns for like 40 something percent of it. So they trying the the players is asking for revenue, and then the NBA is asking for getting revenue, so then you're trying to survive with the little middle part for the league, it's it's difficult, you know what I'm saying? I hope that an agreement can be worked out because the players deserve a raise. The players deserve a race, but I also do they not only do they deserve a re a race, they also deserve all of the extras that come with it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03The travel, the food, the the um the housing and all of that, whatever the case may be. They deserve all of that. I just don't want them to ask so much that they end up shooting themselves in the foot, and then the you know what I'm saying, the the money that they asking for actually end up bankrupting or the season gets lost. I would hate that, then all the momentum goes away. So then you're setting yourself up for failure for the next negotiation because the TV contracts ain't gonna be as good because they're gonna be like, well, we lost money on this season.
NBA All-Star Weekend Recap
SPEAKER_02You know. And Gagimani, it these are it's billionaires that own these teams. These billionaires ain't gonna lose sleep over a couple thousand dollars that they're gonna lose. But them players, they'll probably lose a lot more sleep. But we will see what happens. Like, Sundays can be very exciting, looks like it'll be very exciting if the women have their sports, especially WBA, the National Women's Soccer League. I'm looking forward to Sundays now because I don't be doing nothing on Sundays. I wake up, go to church, come home, do absolutely nothing. My outside activities are for Friday and Saturday night. Sundays is just a little relaxation, and now I got something to relax and watch. So I'm looking forward to Sundays going forward. Uh, but uh Ray, you got anything else to say or anything you want to promote before we let you go?
SPEAKER_01Uh I yes, I do. I have a little podcast myself. It's called Hope Please. I said what I said. So if you all get a chance to check us out, we are on podcast platforms near you.
SPEAKER_02Well, thank you again for joining us. Thank you for giving us your perspective on women's locking in the day of Sundays this summer. I sister. Uh speaking of professional sports, we gotta slide over to the NBA ranks. A couple things before we know we can talk about it real quickly. All-star weekend happened. Uh, I actually from the highlights I saw from the conversations on Twitter, it was a success outside the dunk contest. The dunk contest was horrible. Um, Matt McClung, he actually tweeted out the dunks he would have done if he was in it, and he would have won by a landslide. I don't know. Did you not see those? You see how I turned my air like, oh, okay. I'm gonna send those to you. Uh, but yeah, he would have won by a landslide if he had done those dunks. But my question to you, Q though, they did the whole old heads, world, young stars. Devin Buck was on the young stars, and he was in the league when Kobe was in the league, which is crazy. But, and then the winner of the Rise of Star Challenge or whatever. It was it was a success. They played, and that's what people have wanted. But since they now have showed you they play are willing to compete, shout out to Wimby, shout out to MM. Those is the main two that was competing. Do you think can we just go back to East versus West, or are you wanna you could with this one?
SPEAKER_03East versus West, it does, it doesn't work. Okay, it's not going to work. Uh, I ain't gonna lie. I sit here, I didn't watch the all-star game. Sunday I watched the they do the recaps online, I mean on YouTube. So I sat and watched the recaps of that, and I I wanted I said that to address something. Last week we had a conversation about Devin Donovan Mitchell or Devin Booker, who's the better shooter. And you took Devin Booker, and I was like, nah, it's Devin Donovan Mitchell. I think the Louville hominess homer in me got out because then I watched the three-point contest, and I was like, why did I say that? Like it's clearly Devin Booker, it's clearly Devin Booker's clearly the better shooter. So I did the same thing with the all-star game. I just I watched the recap, and part of me feels like, damn, I wish I had a watch that live because it looked like it was something. But I think it looked like it was something because Wimby made it something. Because Wimby's like, I'm gonna come out here and play. I'm coming out here to play basketball, so we're gonna play. I'm trying to win. But I don't I like the format. I just don't know if all the international people players are healthy. Don't you turn into a blowout?
SPEAKER_02That that was the surprise I think because people expecting oh, the world got the even without SGA, people like, oh, the world gonna dominate. They got Wimby, they got Jokic, they got Luca. I think Luca was hurt, right? He didn't play Luca didn't play. I think he played a little bit, him and Joker played a little bit, but then they didn't play the game. Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, Jamal Murray. If like if they was going 100%, I still think the world is the best team. Like, come on, you know, we did Giannis, he didn't play if they play seriously, but the world didn't even win a game, which is surprising to me. But I'm I'm kind of with you. Like, I don't I don't need the East versus West, but I would like them to go back a little bit where they basically, it's the the 30 or what the 24 people that made the all-star game. You get the two leading voters and have them guys pick a team, make it feel like a more of a pickup game, a competitive pickup game. Like, I like that when they did that.
SPEAKER_03But they didn't try. That's the point of the problem. I guess maybe Whippy's here now, so people actually gonna try because they know Whipy's, but I don't they did that and it did it didn't work. Everybody, they were scoring 200 points, damn there.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but I I agree. My thing is they showed me that they're they're they're willing to try. Um I would prefer that format than this one, right? Especially if they're gonna try. That's the biggest thing. Are y'all gonna try? If y'all gonna try, I don't think I don't think the form, I don't think necessarily the format of the all-star game was the issue. It's that they wasn't trying. And um uh Marie, Maria Rose, Jason Rose daughter, she brought up a very valid point on Twitter. She said, the reason why the All-Star game died is because a sicko, there was no sicko in the game no more. You had Michael Jordan, a competitive sicko, he's gonna compete. Then you had Kobe Brunt, a competitive sicko, he's gonna compete. You didn't have one of them sicko's. Now maybe it looks like we got one in Wimby and maybe Ant-Man if he wants to be. I just think that's the issue. Like, are y'all gonna try? If y'all gonna try with rather that format instead of this four teams, we're bringing up a rookie-sized sophomore team. We got we uh picking up world people because so many people got hurt. They got just bring in random people that was somewhat all-stars, but not really all-stars.
SPEAKER_03Whoa, who wasn't really an all-star that was on that world team? Because hold on. Because I feel like every everybody wasn't all-star.
Formats, Effort, And Competitive Fire
SPEAKER_02I think I think they I think it's just they just picking up random, it felt like they was picking up random people because they had to make sure to align with the world and then the OGs. They weren't picking up people because they was good. They was like, you fit this mode what we're looking for, so we're gonna pick you, pick you up because such and such player was hurt. Okay.
SPEAKER_03Um I don't know if I necessarily, okay. I give I'm trying to pull up the team now, and it's like, I feel like everybody owner, okay, Norman Powell. Norman Powell was at it, and he wasn't, he's not a world. Okay, cool. But even then, I think he was an all-star, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but I understand your point that it was Siccos in the game. And I think Anthony Ellers is getting he got pushed to be that because Wimby is gonna if Wimby's gonna take it seriously, like, ah, hold on. You ain't gonna play me, and Anthony Ellis is like it. Like, if we joked around, cool, we come at her joke around. But if you're gonna get serious, then I get serious. So then it turns everybody else to get serious. Um, I won't ask you this because I saw this on Facebook. And it talked about Kevin, Kevin Garnett said that it was a moment between LeBron and Kobe when Kobe was defending LeBron with the ball, and Kobe slapped the floor and was like, come on, it's me, it's what everybody wants. It's me versus you. Let's go. And LeBron passed, LeBron took a couple dribbles, then he passed out. Of course, the player that he was passing to was, you know, semi-open. So he, you know, LeBron. He won't, he, he's a playmate, he's a playmate. Yeah, he's a playmate. He wants to win. He's well, I'm gonna win the game instead of go mano. Kevin Garnet said, of course, you know, him and LeBron got history. He said that was when the all-star game started to decline. Carmelo Anthony responded and was like, basically said, you can't blame, you can't blame that as the only reason. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? That might have something to do with it. That was the that was the time, and maybe if uh LeBron had took the all-star game more serious, then maybe other players would, but LeBron's gonna get the hate for everything.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Do you think that has something to do with it? Because you know me, I blame. I don't, it's not just LeBron, but it's everybody in that era of I blame them for the dunk contest going away, it's failing. Do you think he him and his peers of that era have some blame on the all-star game going away, going downhill?
SPEAKER_02I guess I I would say it's I think it's because like I said, people looked up to Jordan during his era, he was the guy. We follow his lead. He's the face of the NBA. Kobe, you know, people like to argue LeBron was the face of the NBA since he got to the league. But Kobe was probably the face of the NBA to probably at least 2010, 2012-ish range. That's probably when the trip to LeBron happened. But still, people look to Kobe as the leader. When Kobe left, I'm sure LeBron, I don't think, I don't think LeBron's a competitive guy. You gotta be a competitive guy to make it to the NBA. But the competitive nature that uh Michael Jordan and Kobe got is different than Kobe. He, y'all just know there was a clip with Tracy McGrady and Kobe where they was talking about them working on stuff in one-on-ones, and somebody asked uh who won. And Tracy McGrady's like, we want to keep him tracking. Kobe Lichton's like, I was keeping track of who won, so of the score. So that's a different competitiveness. And I don't think LeBron has it. I think when he, especially after he's been there a million times, there was a point where I'm just here to enjoy myself. It's a nice little weekend, and then I guess people probably follow suit. Let's enjoy myself and have a nice little weekend, have some fun, not go too crazy, keep my body right for the stretch run. Kobe was like, man, I'm just trying to win this game. We battling. So I think that's probably why it changed. I can't say necessarily that play is the reason, but maybe people looked at it like, damn, they ain't LeBron didn't go at him. Shit, I was with him, and then people probably realized, you know what? You know, he's right, it's the all-star game.
SPEAKER_03I think that's what it is. I think LeBron has a big picture. He looks at everything in the big picture sense, and he looks at it as versus the all-star game. We just heard have a good time. When it gets to the finals, I'll turn it on. Yeah. And Kobe is once I cross the court, once I cross, once I get in this in bell line, oh girl, if it's an all-star game. Nah, oh, we're playing pickup ball and met it uh at the rooker. Hey, you know what it is. So yeah, no, I agree with you. I think that is the point. But I'll, you know, I ain't the biggest LeBron fan, but I'm also not like a LeBron hater, so I don't want to push it off all on LeBron. I think that really is the people of his era. Is that's their fault that the All-Star game got to the point to where it is. And it just had it has not gotten opportunity to get better. I think I think the so me, I do want to say this. I do think the world sense, the world versus US sense of it, I think the world people will take more pride in it than the US. Because you you see them with their country. Dudes are barely making rotations in the NBA, then it's Schruder. Man, it got tracked 15,000 times in the past two years. When he gets to play for Germany, he looked like Mike. Yep. So players like that. So I feel like if they represent their representation country, even though they playing for the world, I feel like they represent their country. I think they're gonna play harder.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So I don't know if we go back, because you talked about doing like pickup stats. I don't know if we go back to that, we're gonna get the same energy.
Anti-Tanking Rules On The Table
SPEAKER_02Okay, I get it. I see what you mean. But uh, I don't know. We'll see what the format is next year. Uh Adam Silver has been trying to figure out a lot of different things, speaking of a lot of different things, and the people, speaking of teams that are not trying to compete, looks like we got some new rules coming down the pipeline. We talked about it last week. Uh, we we gave our perspective on things they could do. One was get rid of the draft, one was basically start start uh giving these lottery teams bonuses for winning once they're out of playoff contention. But we have a list of things that the GMs and the competition committee talked about that what looks like they're going into effect next season. They're calling these the anti-tanking rules. I'm gonna go through the list real quick. First round picks can be protected only top four or top 14 plus. Lottery odds freezes at the trade deadline or a later date. So, in other words, a trade deadline, whatever your lottery position is, you stick with it. Probably be, I think it'll be a little bit of a later date. I don't think they're gonna do that at the trade deadline. Uh no longer allowing a team to pick top four in consecutive years or after consecutive bottom three finishes. I think that's a big one right there. Because a lot of these teams try to be bad a couple years in a row so they can grab a couple good players in a row. I think that one's gonna affect a lot of people the most. This one basically same thing teams can't pick top four four the year after making the conference finals, which is interesting.
SPEAKER_03I want you know I got something to say about that one. Interesting.
SPEAKER_02Uh lottery eyes advocated based on two-year records, which is another interesting aspect, but that uh we won't really see that playing effect until 2028. Lottery extended to include all playing teams and flattened eyes for all lottery teams. Basically, means everybody gets everybody gets a better eyes. If you're in that top worst top 14, you basically got number 14 basically has similar eyes to get the number one pick as the worst team. So those are the lists. It looks like there's going to be the new rules called end time taking rules. Which one of these rules you want to talk about the most?
SPEAKER_03The first one, obviously, that I feel like affects my team, uh, is you can't make the conference finals. You can't pick top four a year after making the conference finals. So look at it from my paces this year. Miles turned on the left. We had uh Tyrese Halliburton gets injured. We're in the finals. So obviously, we made the conference finals. We have a bunch, not only do Tyrese get hurt, we have a bunch of other injuries where half our only person who has not got hurt was Pascal Siato. But they didn't say him, obviously, because the rest. Why are you punishing us? Or why would you punish a team? Let me not say us, so it don't be too personal. Why would you punish a team if they have a bunch of injuries? We didn't choose to go down this path. Fortune made us go down this path and we we had to adjust. I don't that one I don't agree with. Cause I don't think I don't I don't really feel like the same thing kind of happened with the Spurs. David Robinson got hurt, they was god awful who they looked up on Tim Duncan. If my best player gets hurt, my team's going to be bad. So why can't I get I don't want to say the reward, but this was a natural thing, why can't I get what's actually was naturally coming to me? So I don't I disagree with that one. And then of course, the other one is I agree with the protection rules. What? Yeah, just make it listen, make it top four protected, and then if you don't get it, if we don't get the top four, let them have it. Yep. I don't uh or to me it's like top four. I would be cool with like a top four or top ten than lottery, especially because they're gonna add new teams, so the lottery's gonna get bigger. So I would say like a top four or top ten than lottery. I think that's more firm, but I do I agree with this rule. I agree with most of them, except except for the conference final.
SPEAKER_02Well, the one that I'm interested to see how it plays out, which I think is the one that'll definitely get rid of tanking the most, is lottery odds freezes at a certain point. Now they said trade deadline, trade deadline, obviously, it just happened, which means you what that means the lottery odds will be set February, February.
SPEAKER_0320-some game. It must have been like 28 games, well, yeah.
SPEAKER_02I guess that now you then you put a game number on it, it doesn't sound as egregious.
SPEAKER_03Because it's not like you when you think the all-star break, sometimes you think that's the halfway point as much as it's as we're gonna say best thing with the NBA, it's never the halfway halfway point, it's closer to the quarter point. The season's almost three-fourths over by the time they have an all-star break.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so and you and the trade deadline is usually right before the all-star break. So I guess uh it makes a little bit more sense. I think that gets rid of because teams really don't, most teams, you know, that's some teams that go into the season, we tanking. Most teams, they don't really start tanking until the trade deadline. That's okay. We see where it's going. Let's go ahead and get off some of these good players, bring in some, like I said last week, some players that are 8 to 12 men on the bench, give them some minutes, let them develop. We're probably gonna lose because 8 to 12, the eight men at the 12th men on the bench shouldn't be getting meaningful minutes in NBA games. They're they're good. They're not worth getting 15 plus minutes in basketball games, just calling Spain's pack. So I think that'd help out a lot because if the odds is frozen at the trade deadline shoe, I might as well try to win.
SPEAKER_03The play in people, if you if my life, if my eyes is frozen at the all-star break, let's say I was fifth at the time, but then again, my injured player comeback. Oh, we're gonna try we're gonna try and make the play in because we still go, because we still eyes is gonna be the same. Yep. So I might as well go ahead and go for it. Because like today, or was it? I think no, it wasn't today, it was yesterday. So bonus for Sacramento. Oh, he got shut down for the season. Yep, and then what 10-15 minutes later, yeah, Zach Loving, he had a season a season ended surgery too. Okay, y'all, y'all thinking hard as all y'all can get. I'm trying to figure out when y'all gonna let Domarda Rosen either walk or say he hurt.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_03So I'm like that.
Freezing Lottery Odds And Incentives
SPEAKER_02So it's very, very, I think these rules will help. That conference final one is gonna bite someone in the butt. Obviously, it's not gonna affect the Pacers this year, but it's gonna be another year where teammates could the college finals player gets hurt, and they like you're an Indiana Pacers fan. You knew this season wasn't gonna be a great one coming this year. Yeah, it's over. So that's gonna happen again. Now it might not, it's not gonna happen a lot. Usually, if you're a college finals, make it to the college finals, you're probably gonna be good the following year. And the Pacers would have been probably the favorite in the East, if not top three in the East, if it wasn't for the Hallida Braden injury. Even if Miles Turner had left, I would have said the Pacers is top four in the East. Even without Miles Turner with Halliburton. He's that good. He's that much of a playmaker, he makes people around him that much better. But without him, and the other injuries y'all got, it's tough.
SPEAKER_03Well, I was just sitting down there watching basketball. I was watching the Pacing game before I came up here. There's a bunch of two-way contract dudes on the team right now. And Nim Hart and Need Smith, they playing. But they ain't playing if that makes sense. Like they played, they played a couple minutes in the first quarter, then they went to the bench and ain't come back till towards the end of the second quarter. Hell, matter of fact, we was damn near at the end of the second, and Nimhart still hadn't came back in since the first quarter. So it's like, hey, we're gonna play y'all, but we not gonna play y'all.
SPEAKER_02They're giving that eighth, ninth, tenth, eleven, and twelfth man a whole lot of minutes. Man, so but um I like the rules except for the no, I kind of agree with you with the college, but that thing that's gonna be it's gonna be a once in a while thing that happens. That's not gonna happen a lot, but it's definitely a once in a while thing that that's gonna affect somebody. But we gotta talk about college basketball. We have not been talking about college basketball that much, but it's that time of year. We're getting towards the end of February. March is here. Y'all know what happens in March? March madness. We got conference tournaments coming up, then we got the big tournament coming up. But before we talk about games, there's two things specifically that we need to talk about. First off, um, Darren Patterson. We've talked about him as a top three pick, maybe even the one pick. He's been getting a lot of hate, and I'm just gonna say, from our perspective, it seems rightfully deserved about his availability. Last game he played, he played 18 minutes, was balling too. Uh last six games I thought was a funniest start I saw. He has the last six games, he has a hundred points and three assists. He's getting straight buckets. He ain't he ain't passing that rock that much. But nonetheless, last game, he hit a three right in front of Coach Bill Self. A Hall of Fame coach, might I add, for the Kansas J-Hunts. He hit a three, turned the coach self and said, Yeah, go ahead, get me up out here. Now, I'm not necessarily aware like why he went out and didn't come back in. Now, I've heard some things already. He's had some hamstring injuries. He's missed a lot of games, 11 games, I believe, maybe more, but it's been flu, it's been cramps. But it's gotten to the point where his draft stock is about to start taking a hit. He's been he was a top three guy, maybe even number one. It was him, AJ, and Boozer. Those are those are the three guys. He might play himself out of the top five from our perspective if this stuff comes up. But I think it depends on what he tells these people in these interviews, because they're gonna ask about why you're missing all these games. But how are you feeling about Patterson missing all these games and basically telling taking himself out of a game multiple times?
SPEAKER_03I don't think he's gonna fall out of the top five. I think he will fall out of the number one. If you if you look in at the two, if the between AJ and Pat, well, the bancer and Patterson, I'm gonna go with the bancer because in fact I know he's gonna play. I don't think he's gonna fall his play himself out of the top five per se, but I do agree with the simple fact he's gonna he's gonna drop play his, he's doing pulling himself out of number one overall contention. So the thing, right? Like it's what they done played 24 or 25 games and he'd miss, he done missed 10, and but and he pulled himself out of two in the like first half pulled out. So he ain't even played the second half, so we're gonna get into it a little bit later, but once you start getting paid, yeah, your job is to play. You ain't especially on when you're that level of player, we could quit the facade of you going to class.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you ain't going to class.
SPEAKER_03The fifth man on the roster, he still gotta go to class. And we talking about Kansas. The fifth man in Kansas still he got he still gotta go to class a little bit. A little bit. You ain't gotta go to class.
SPEAKER_02You just kicking it on campus. Only time you gotta go to class, you just gotta close class that first semester. Well, that's the semester, you don't gotta go to class.
SPEAKER_03You don't gotta go. And you only going for the first couple of days. You put it just so you can say you was an attendee. Yep. You ain't really good, you don't really have to go to class, you ain't gonna class. But you know, he's turning into Kawhi Leonard. He's the college version of Kawhi Leonard. I play when I want to. You when I'm here, we so much better because that's how great of a player that I am. But it y'all go, y'all go off me. And I necessarily I don't know if that's the case with Kawhi or Patterson, but that's what it comes off as. We gonna I do it when I want to. I'll play when I want to. I play when I feel it. I'll wait. Is that a little uh I ain't gonna play? My hand hurt a little bit. Yeah, nah, I'm gonna take the day off. My head hurt. I'm gonna take the day off. And I don't wanna I don't want to bag on him too much because he's still a young kid. But what again, you get paid millions of dollars, you your job is to play basketball. It's a bad, it's a bad look for a person who's trying to make more millions of dollars, and then do it at Kansas. If he was doing this at let's say Texas Tech, no shade to Texas Tech. Y'all done had a history of basketball, especially here recently, but you know, I mean, it's Texas Tech compared to Kansas. You don't do that at a blue blood, you looking at Bill Self saying, Now take me out.
College Hoops Stars And Availability
SPEAKER_02That's Bill Self, a Hall of Fame coach. Hall of Fame go, he has a national championship on his resume. And you look at him like, yeah, go and go take me out, big dog.
SPEAKER_03Why my thing is, if you want to do that, why go to Kansas? Why not go to Texas Tech or Oklahoma State or somewhere where it's like you could be the center of attention, like you, and it's not gonna look as bad. You doing this at Kansas. Y'all could potentially win a national championship, and this is where you do that at? Um again, but this goes back to the conversation we was having earlier about competitiveness. If I'm healthy and I'm competitive, Kobe would have played Kobe's gonna play in them games. Yeah, hell, I didn't think LeBron's gonna play in them games, even if the rose was reverse. Yep. LeBron comes out after LeBron was gonna still play in them games. This is a different level, like I said, it's Kawhi Leonard.
SPEAKER_02Yep, it's not a good look, it's not it's not a good look at all, but uh something else that's not a good look. Um, Jerome Tang. Uh, I know this guy because he was when Lou was looking for a coach, he was one of the names that was flooded around. But unfortunately, Jerome Tang, he is now in the unemployment line as he was fired by his team in the Kansas State, the J Hawk, Kansas State J, uh, not Kansas State Wildcats. He was fired at this team was struggling. They were one and ten in the Big 12. Big 12 is a crazy dominant. It's probably the best basketball conference this season. Yeah, yeah. Crazy dominant. But he was fired, and he was fired with calls. In other words, they fired him and said, hey, we still, we're not gonna pay you the rest of your contract. Neil Jerome Tang, he is going to get La Lawyer, he's gonna fight it, and I do believe he is going to get his money because that cause is not really cause. But basically, he criticized this team. I listened, I listened to the quote, I read the quote, and I still didn't understand why they fired him for cause. If you were to find one to say, yeah, we gotta fire him because we struggling, which was true, they're struggling, yeah, but they was looking for a way to not pay that money. They're gonna have to pay that money. But I'm sure you heard the quote, but I'm gonna say it's a longer quote, but his specifically with the part that people said got him fired. After a 29-point loss to Cincinnati, he said, players do not deserve to wear this uniform. It should, you should take pride in wearing this purple. Few of these players will return, and he was, and I'm pissed and embarrassed for the school. So again, he basically criticized his own players, saying they plan they're embarrassing a lot of these players, they're gonna be here next year. He also did say he's gonna get work on fixing it. He didn't get the opportunity, he's not gonna get the opportunity to fix it because he got fired. But he criticized his players. Now, what, let's say what, I don't know, NIL started what 2021 around that time. So let's we can go, let's go 10 years ago. You really necessarily couldn't necessarily criticize these college players. Now they would get criticized a little bit, but not to a crazy extent because they wasn't getting paid. It was amateur athletes. Now that they're getting paid, do you feel like they should be warranted a little bit more criticism? Because I I've noticed it. A lot of players have been criticized. A player for Lua, but he's gotten criticized for his injury and lack thereof being for he did come out and was a little bit more open about his injury after a while, but people was criticizing him because they didn't know, like, well, are you hurt or are you not hurt? We're paying you this money. We want to see production. You think these college players should get deserve a little bit more criticism?
SPEAKER_03Okay. First, I think the firing is kind of they already wanted to fire him. Yeah, they just didn't want to pay the money, but they're gonna have to. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? You already wanted to fire him, so okay, that's that's it is what it is. And then I so I had to listen to it twice. Because the first time I just was like, ah, he wowing. He probably shouldn't have said that, but he wowing. Then the second time I listened to it, I was like, Me Cronin at UCLA, he do this like once a year.
SPEAKER_02He literally just ejected his own one of his own players last game.
SPEAKER_03It's like once a year, he gets he rides his players. It's part of hard culture. I didn't think I didn't think it was that egregious. Was it wow? Yes, I didn't think it was that egregious where you suspend him, then y'all fire him a couple days later. I just I feel like he has a state. If you want to fire him, just fire him. Like you said, y'all not winning that. Y'all not winning that. Y'all, y'all want to pay him his money. Everybody knows that. So The players should be able the players deserve to be criticized. Why? Because not all of these dudes is freshman, they like 17 and 18. Some of them's in their 20s and they grown adults and they're getting money. And even if you making again, we go back to uh Patterson or Peterson. You making two million, three million dollars at an 18-year-old to play basketball. Once you start getting paid, I can criticize you at your job you're doing. Because when I was 17 working at Kmart, I got criticized for the if I wasn't doing my job well enough. Once you start earn, once you start earning a check, it opens you up to criticism. Now, I think it's levels to criticism. I think we shouldn't go all out like we go at LeBron, but I do think they do deserve, they're open to criticism. Once you start getting paid, you're open to criticism.
Coaching, NIL Money, And Criticism
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I agree, man. And honestly, they're on the national spotlight, they they've gotten criticism. Like we we criticize Anthony Davis, John Wall, Russ Smith, basically when they had off games. Mostly it's mostly gonna come from the fan level. Yeah. But I mean it's criticism. They're not as long as you're they're not disrespectful in any way, shape, or form. Maybe Jerome Tane was a little disrespectful. I don't necessarily, I don't know. When I listened to it and watched it, I was like, okay, criticize the thing. I as an athlete, I didn't find nothing wrong with it. I was like, okay, Chris, I see his team's been struggling. He's Chris Holland, he's upset. Now I think the part where he said, he said some will some won't be here next year. Maybe that was a little rough. Dion said it later. But that's my that's my that was about to say, but Dion said that. He said that at his first press conference. He's like, some of y'all might as well go ahead and hit that portal because I'm bringing Louis luggage.
SPEAKER_03So Dion said it at the press conference. So his introductory press conference. He had been here for a minute and he got the he showing pride for the school. I feel like he knew he was getting fired too. But he was showing pride for the school. We really letting that. I don't. I think it's wild, but I don't think it's like fire.
SPEAKER_02I don't think I don't think it's fire either. Like when I like when I heard he got fired, I just assumed he's fired because they was bad. They had a couple bass seats. Then they said they try to fire him with calls. I listened to the quote. Like, oh I mean, it sounds like he was just upset with his team. He wasn't disrespectful. He just worst thing he worst thing he said was, some of you players won't be here. And then he he took the side. I think the last question he took was, How did you feel about the fans wearing paper bags? He's like, shit, I don't blame him. I will wear I'll wear a paper bag on my head too. And then he just got up and left. So maybe the AD felt like you, you, you poo-pooing on our school. We can't have that. You gotta always uplift our school. He's showing pride in the school. He's showing that he he cares about y'all. The players just been playing bad. Now, back to the criticism. Like, it's a different criticism. Say you're a coach and the GM gives you your team. Jerome Tang, he had picked these players.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's a good point. That is a good point.
SPEAKER_02Obviously, he deserves some criticism as well for picking these players for failure to allogate your funds. Well, you didn't pick the right players. This is gonna happen. You don't pick the wrong players sometimes.
SPEAKER_03I was gonna say, yeah, that's a great point. You you went to the grocery store to get the agreements for this meal. Now, did you think that you thought some of the agreements was gonna hit a little harder than they did? And they have it, but I can't he couldn't predict that. But I do want to read this quote from uh Andy Kennedy, the UAB head coach. He said, These are scholarship players that are making more money than most people in this room. Is it too much to ask for you to make a layup? We're in Bozoland. They um they missed 12 or 22 layup attempts versus Tulane.
SPEAKER_02Layup is Ellen Richard stuff. I I definitely agree. If I'm paying you some money, you gotta hit me up, you gotta hit a layup, dog.
SPEAKER_00You gotta hit a layup, dog. You gotta hit a layup.
SPEAKER_02Now I know free free throws can be a lot of mental stuff. I'm I I free throws maybe a little different category, but you definitely gotta hit a layup. You definitely got my grandma can hit a layup. You know, you might not be able to hit a contested layup, but she can hit a layup.
SPEAKER_03She can hit a layup. Nah, I'll be missing layups in the corner sometimes. Anyway, go ahead, my bitch.
SPEAKER_02But if I'm paying you, I expect you to be able to hit a layup, a contested layup by two. Please and thank you. Especially if I'm paying you a couple million dollars. There's a reason why we don't see many missed layups in the NBA. They're getting paid.
SPEAKER_03I was watching a butt, I was watching a bunch of missed layups before I gave my bread, so just saying, Washington. We was playing the Wizards. We both teams was missing some layups. I ain't gonna lie. Both teams are tanking, though. True. And Nee Smith missed a bunch of open threes, but that's not a that's not a layup. I'm talking about butt open three.
SPEAKER_02Right. All right. Uh enough of the negative side of college basketball. But I was trying to do the wrong thing, you're gonna get your money, dog. If you you hire a halfway decent lawyer, you're gonna get your money. So get your money, man. But uh ACC, uh, the conference tournaments is coming up, but they we're like two weeks away. Yeah, obviously, we're at the big tournament. Are you excited about March Madness this year? As I am, because I don't know why, but this year I'm more excited. I'm more excited than I was last year, and definitely I've been in the past because Lil was got off in the past. But how you how you feeling?
SPEAKER_03I think that plays a part in it for us. We're more excited because our team is going to be in March Madness. I think that plays a major role in it, the excitement for us, but also this outstanding class of freshmen, along with more senior players, it's make it's making give college basketball the old feel. I feel uh it's a lot of great talent. So I'm more I'm really I'm really excited for March Madness. We is this Saturday is a great matchup. You got Duke versus Michigan, and then you got um, I forgot the other one. This Saturday, but it's another, it's a top four matchup as well for um on this Saturday too. So it's a but it I'm it's a bunch of great games, and I like the fact that Duke and Michigan played an out-of-conference game later in the season, like Louisville did versus Baylor. You hope Baylor would have been a little bit better if he was Louisville, but that wasn't the case. But yeah, no, I'm I'm really excited about it. I gotta find this top four matchup because it's just gonna just gonna drive me crazy.
SPEAKER_02Uh the plan of four this year is in Indianapolis, right down the road from us. I'm not going because I know them tickets are crazy, but uh I may uh I may go up early Friday or Saturday in the morning, check out check out the festivities because they know they always have festivities there, but I'm excited about it. It's gonna be good. Uh I'm expecting Louisville to meet at least make it to the Sweet 16. After that, I don't know. I got I got enough faith in us to make it to Sweet 16.
SPEAKER_03Houston, Arizona. That's the other top four matchup. Uh it was gonna bother me. It's gonna bother me. But you got Duke and Michigan, like you said, the Big 12 is crazy this year. You got Houston and Arizona, which are, you know, Arizona had lost two games last week, but they still a solid team. So you know, I mean, I'm I'm excited about watching that game. And I haven't been like a non-movable game, I haven't been excited about watch watching a college basketball in a couple years. So to have two group two marquee matchups on the same day, I'm excited to see it.
March Matchups And Tournament Buzz
SPEAKER_02Uh uh, so before we got here, I gotta ask you, honestly, we talk a lot about Louvre, we talk a lot about these other teams. There's a team out there that's still undefeated. Uh, I don't know if you've watched them much. How far do you think they can do it? They they undefeated. I college football, uh college basketball is a little bit different than college football from our perspective, in terms of going undefeated. That it rarely happens. It rarely happens. Kentucky was the last one that had the chance to do it. But they are 26-0. Do you have do you see some type of Cinderella? Maybe. I mean, I can I can possibly see them making it to the tournament undefeated. I personally, if I'm a fan or a coach, I personally wouldn't want to make it to the tournament undefeated. Because that put adds that much more pressure on every game. It's already one to go home, but damn, we ain't lost the game all season. Then we got that added pressure. But they're they're 26 now. How do you think they will fare in the postseason?
SPEAKER_03Okay, in the postseason, I see them getting I'm gonna say they're gonna get to sweet 16. Yeah, I'm I'm gonna say round of 32, but I'm gonna be generous. I'm gonna say you're sweet 16. But you I think we differ because I don't think they're gonna go undefeated going into the tournament.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_03I think they're going to lose somewhere in their conference tournament. But I think they get an at-large bid because they went undefeated for so far.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. They definitely deserve. If they don't win their conference, I'll they're in the Mac. Mac is usually a one-team, maybe a two-team bid. But uh is an L Way tournament. They'll definitely get in. Y'all went on going undefeated in college basketball, extremely hard. You have one off night, you lose a game. It's tough. Yeah. They don't, I don't, I don't honestly, I don't think they win that conference, they don't have to win that conference to go in, but I think they will. I just think that added pressure. I mean, even if even you're at a lower level program, being undefeated through the season and you making it to the tournament, that's just more pressure. Now, I bet I don't think too many people's gonna have them win their winning it all in their bracket outside of people that live in Miami of Ohio.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and even then, but they're gonna have two brackets, but yeah.
SPEAKER_02So, but we'll see. But I'm excited. Should be exciting college basketball season. Coming down the home stretch of the NBA season. Soon we're gonna be talking about the WNBA. Their draft will be coming up here soon of the women's basketball. Louisville has been on the hitter, they've lost a game or two, but they've been hot, they've been consistently a top 10 team. I'm excited about that. How do you feel about Louisville this year?
SPEAKER_03So every time I and I've been to a couple games, we're on a game Sunday. But every time I watch them, they spank it teams. To the point of where it's the fourth part, I'm looking at my son like, uh, all right, because we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna go ahead and roll him out or it's it's it's he's like, why are we? I said, Well, it's 20 points. As a matter of fact, the other game was 30-something points. I said, it it's it's been over. I've just stayed a little bit longer to support the team, but we're gonna go ahead and beat this traffic. So uh I'm excited about Louisville. The thing I want, this is the thing I want. I want Louis to get either a one or a two seed so we can have home games at the Young Center. Because I've been to tournament games at the Young Center for the women. I want I'm doing if they get it, I'm going this year. Go ahead and book it now. I'm going to the Friday and the Saturday, or the Saturday and the Monday, whatever it is. You know what I mean? I'm in there. So that's what I want. I want them to continue to win it. I want them to at least make the conference finals, or if not, win the conference at the tournament. Because I even looked at them tickets down there too, and I was like, whoa. Whoa. And I gotta take the draft too. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02But uh, basketball is gonna be exciting. Uh, unfortunately, we don't have Juju in tournament this year, or Juju playing this year, but we're expecting a lot of big things from next year. Can't wait to see her. But basketball as a whole, it's exciting. High school basketball seating up, college basketball coming to Marshmallows, NBA basketball coming down the home church. Basketball is basketball season. It's y'all time to shine. Football's gone. We do got some UFL coming up. I'll expect to go to a couple UFL games. We'll see. But thank you guys for joining us for another episode of From Our Perspective. I'm your boy Dion. Thank you again. Go ahead, like, subscribe, hit that link in the bio, and buy some merch. It's still black history, support a black businesses. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Uh I had a rant that I wanted to say. I forgot the rant. I'm sorry, guys. I had it. I had on the it was either about WWE and this and these ticket prices. Stupid. Prices is stupid. Or it was about the MLB and this lockout. I can't remember which one it was. I wanted a rant maybe next week. But appreciate you guys again. I'm your boy Dion Q. Go ahead and take us home.
Mid-Majors, Pressure, And Upsets
SPEAKER_03Real quick, I got a rant that I would like to go home because you mentioned the Mac earlier. Sacramento State is going to be joining the Mac. Sacramento, that's in California, is going to be joining the Mid-American Conference. Why? I understand I can okay. I don't agree with Stanford and Cal, but I understand Stanford and Cal because these ACC programs, the TV contracts, the money, all of that is going to make up for you. They could afford to travel. I don't agree for as far as the Olympic sports or whatever the case may be, but I get that. You want to be on the FBS level that bad that you won't you gonna fly to the mid-American conference, and not only that, you ain't gonna get no TV revenue. You gonna pay the team, you gonna pay the other teams to fly to you. Imagine it's football only, so that makes it somewhat better, but still the Mac they play the match, they play in the middle of the week. You playing in the you gotta you gotta fly from California to Buffalo, New York, or UMass. A lot of homework getting done on the airplane. That don't even Dion, that doesn't that doesn't make sense. I don't understand Mountain West had no interest in Sacramento State. Why not? Like just if I'm the NCAA and the Chancellor, uh no Chancellor, another word, but the president of the SCAA. If I'm seeing this, I'm gonna call the Mountain West conference and be like, look, y'all gotta take that. We're not we're not doing this. We just not. I also don't understand why northern Illinois is always looking for a bigot chair. So now y'all gonna go play, y'all gonna go play in the Mountain West. Take y'all butts back to the Mac and play Western Michigan. There's no reason for y'all to be going to play Utah. The Mac the Mac took an L. The Mid America Conference took an L when they stopped playing right after game day at one o'clock. When y'all start agreeing to play during the week, y'all fell down here. Y'all used to be the first games that came on at one o'clock at the ESPN. That should still be the case. People hated that though. So what? They don't need to be playing on Tuesday and Wednesday. I understand Thursday and Friday, but Tuesday and Wednesday?
SPEAKER_02From what I've seen, people hated that we just got all hyped up for this top five college college football matchup is playing at uh 8 o'clock, and then we gotta watch these two Mac teams. Now they disrespect the Mac. I enjoy watching the Mac. Now I like it. I don't necessarily hate it on Tuesdays because I'm a consumer.
SPEAKER_03But if I was a player, a coach, I would hate it. I was gonna say, for the player and the coach's standpoint of it, come on, what are we doing? Me personally, yeah, I'm cool. It didn't give me something, it gives me something to watch on TV. I got to watch West Kentucky a lot this year because they played on Tuesday and Wednesday. So it's not even just the Mac now, even Conference USA is playing on Tuesday and Wednesday. What are we doing? What are we doing? Tuesday? The president of the SCAA tournament needs to get a hold of, listen, this is not what we're going to do. If you're in the west coast, you need to play other like area teams. You need to play teams in your geographical area. If you're in the east, or are you in the south? I get it. Like Texas could be in every conference because it's like right there in the middle. So I understand Texas, but it's no reason for Sacramento State to be in the Middle American conference playing playing Ohio in west eastern Michigan. Ball state. Why is Sacramento State coming to Indiana to play? Why they going to Michigan on the regular? It don't make no dang on sense. Shout out to um North Dakota State. They f they finally come to FBS after all them years of the FCS. I'm done with my rant. You already know the vibes. It's your boy, Mr. Bear. Okay, I can't say your name up on the spot. Might not put you tomorrow.