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Title Game Preview and Dodgers Must Be Stopped

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We size up a first-ever title game in a true home stadium and weigh Miami’s pass rush against Indiana’s precision, discipline, and road-warrior crowd. Then we pivot to MLB as the Dodgers build a cheat-code roster and argue for a real salary cap before checking the chaos in SEC hoops.

• Indiana’s rise under Curt Cignetti
• Miami's Home Field Advantage or Mendoza's?
• Ohio State as the shared benchmark between contenders
• Penalties and turnover margin as the hidden swing factors
• Why we lean Indiana in a tight, physical final
• Dodgers add Kyle Tucker to an All-Star core
• Salary cap and deferred money debate in MLB
• SEC basketball volatility and Georgia’s needed fixes

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This is Sports Takes with Nate Skates. No spin, just straight sports. Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Nate. On today's show, we'll talk about the national championship game on Monday night. Can the Hurricanes stop Indiana's fairy tale ending in Miami? We'll break down that game here today. And also, can anyone please stop the Dodgers? The Dodgers sign another big name free agent. We'll talk about that and some other free agent signings in Major League Baseball all today. Okay, well, here we are. We've made it all the way to the national championship game. The college football season comes down to one game. And would you have believed a couple years ago if I told you that Indiana and Miami would be the national championship game? I don't think most people would have believed that. I mean, chiefly is Indiana's turnaround. I mean, you're talking about a team who, up until this year, Indiana was the losingest program in all of college football. When Kurt Signetti took over the team, they were three and eight, worst team in the Big Ten. His very first year they go to the playoff. This year, they finally shed the title of biggest loser by improving their winning percentage, no longer being the losingest team. But now Indiana has a chance to go undefeated, which not very many teams have done, and win the national championship game. So what a turnaround. But I don't want to talk about that too much. Let's talk about some of these other storylines that maybe haven't been talked about as much. Indiana's going to play the Miami Hurricanes in Miami's home stadium. The Hurricanes have played in Hard Rock Stadium since 2008. This is the first time in the history of college football that a team will play in the national championship game in their own stadium. Now, uh, there hasn't been an actual national championship game throughout the entire history of college football. That's a relatively new invention. However, it has been decades of college football where that has not happened. There have been teams that have played the national championship game in their state. There has not been a team to play the national championship game in their own stadium like Miami will do Monday night. But Miami won't be the only ones with home field advantage Monday night. Fernando Mendoza, Heisman Trophy winning quarterback for Indiana, his childhood home is just one mile from Hard Rock Stadium. Mendoza says he grew up walking to Miami, playing sports at Miami's complex. So he is no stranger to Hard Rock Stadium, and the stories don't stop there. Mendoza's father, Fernando Mendoza Sr., played football at Christopher Columbus High School in Miami with the Hurricanes head coach, Mario Cristobal. Cristobal said the two haven't really kept in touch, but that Mendoza Sr. was an excellent football player. Well, uh the younger Fernando Mendoza was also a pretty excellent player in high school as well. He won a state championship at Cristobal's Christopher Columbus High School. But while many people believe this fairy tale ending for Mendoza in Indiana is nearly inevitable, considering their performance thus far, it could turn into a horror story due to Miami's elite defense, particularly its pass rush. So let's talk about the matchup. There's only one common opponent on these two teams' schedules. That's Ohio State. Miami beat the Buckeyes 24-14 in the second round of the playoff. Really, that score probably doesn't do the game justice. Ohio State got things going later on in the game. I wouldn't call it a blowout like a lot of people have called it, but 24-14 makes the game sound closer than it was. Miami physically dominated that game, especially in the first half, and were just too much for Ohio State. Indiana, however, squeaked by 13 to 10 after Ohio State missed a chip shot field goal in the Big Ten championship game. So Indiana's performance against Ohio State, while there were some amazing clutch plays by Mendoza and his receivers, uh, their performance against Ohio State was not anything like as impressive as Miami's. Miami did struggle big time to stop the Buckeyes wide receiver, Jeremiah Smith. There's not really a lot of shame in that, uh, but that's something to watch for. Miami probably had a tougher road to the national championship game. They beat Texas AM at College Station in the first round. Indiana did not play in the first round. Uh then Miami beat the second seeded Buckeyes, and they beat Ole Miss, who Ole Miss's only loss was to Georgia in Athens, then beat that same dogs team in the playoff. Indiana, meanwhile, crushed a three-loss Alabama team, then blew out Oregon. So I would say the slate that Miami faced was more difficult, both in the number of games and in the quality of opponents than Indiana faced. However, these two teams are playing at a level far above everyone else. These are two fantastic defenses, teams with strong running game, good quarterbacks, very good receivers. I would say that Miami's defense is probably a lot better than any Indiana has played so far. For example, when Miami matched up against the hailed Ohio State defense, they manhandled them. Going into that game, if you were listening to the show, I picked Ohio State to win that game very close because I didn't think Miami's offense would be able to move the ball on Ohio State's defense consistently. Well, the story of the game was not Ohio State's defense. The story of the game was Miami's defense. They were able to really slow down Ohio State's offense, and they did enough on, and Miami did enough on the offensive side of the ball to win the game. Against Ole Miss, Ole Miss was one of the best offenses in the country, far and away. Miami was able to slow down Ole Miss. They held the Rebels to two for 10 on third down. Miami controlled the ball for 41 minutes of the game, ran the ball more than 50 times for about 200 yards. And we talked about on the last show that if I had given you all these various stats, they managed to keep Ole Miss down to about 60 plays on offense. If I had told you they were going to be able to do that, you would have thought the margin of victory would have been 30 points in Miami's favor. It ended up being a very close game, came down to the wire, but Miami largely dominated that game. However, here's a problem for Miami in the Ole Miss game. Miami committed some very costly penalties. They had 10 penalties in that game, and that really aided Ole Miss in coming back. Miami has committed 105 penalties this season. Indiana, however, is one of the most disciplined teams in the country. They only had 55 penalties. If you were going to expect someone to shoot themselves in the foot on Monday night, it would probably be Miami. Indiana also has a much better turnover margin than Miami has. Now, Miami has turned the ball over a lot less the last several weeks as Carson Beck has done a lot better job not throwing interceptions. But one thing you have to think about in this game, we're saying Miami has home field advantage, and they do. However, it is probably not going to be that far-fetched that Indiana will have more fans at the game than Miami. Let's just be frank. Miami does not have great attendance at their games. The city of Miami is not known for its sports fandom. Indiana, however, those fans are frothing at the mouth for a national championship. They have been starved and they are diehard. Indiana swarmed on the Peach Bowl. There were way more hoosiers there than Oregon Duck fans. They will probably be willing to pay just about anything to get into this game. And the prices of the tickets at this game is through the roof. So that home field advantage for Miami might feel more like a home field advantage for Indiana. Now, both of these teams have just seemed like they would not be stopped on the way to the national championship game. I've heard people call them teams of destiny. With Miami, I knew Miami was a good team, but just about every game, I was like, ah, I think they'll lose close. And then against Ole Miss, I said, I'm not picking in this game because I'm not going to pick against Miami again. I don't want to pick against Ole Miss. I think it's going to be really close. It was. But back to that when I talked about the Miami-Ohio State game. I'm not making that mistake again. Indiana has a great defense. I am not going to say Indiana's defense is going to shut Miami down. With the weapons that Miami has, particularly Mark Fletcher at running back, Malachi Tony, Marion had a great game last game. I don't think Indiana is going to be able to stuff that offense. I don't think Miami is going to have a great day on offense because of the quality of opponent they're facing, but I think Miami will move the ball better than some people think. I I've been seeing people on social media say Miami won't even reach 10 points. I don't I think people are not giving Miami enough credit in this game. I do not think the margin between Indiana and Miami is as big as what some people think it is. But people are thinking that because of how well Indiana's playing right now. As well as Miami's playing, nobody's playing better than Indiana right now. They have played fantastic all season. They're the only undefeated team, and they have turned it up in the playoff. They are playing their best football far and away right now. So I think one question that we'll have to look at for this game is how much pressure will Miami get on the Heisman Trophy winner? In the first two games of the playoff, Miami had seven sacks against Marcel Reid and Texas AM. They had five sacks against Ohio State. And then in the last game against Ole Miss, they'd got pressure on Ole Miss. They were only able to get one sack on Trinidad Chambliss. Trinidad Chambliss is very hard to sack. It is very hard to sack the quarterback in an Ole Miss offense. They get the ball out of their hand really fast. Even if they do get pressure on Mendoza, which I expect them to get some, even though the Indiana offensive line is going to be one of the better offensive lines they will have played. Mendoza does exceptionally well under pressure. This was a narrative people tried to spin before the Alabama game that Mendoza was not good under pressure. First off, most quarterbacks are not as good under pressure as they are with a clean pocket. So it doesn't take a lot of great analysis to see that. However, Mendoza torched Alabama every time they blitzed. Mendoza has been a phenomenal player under pressure, whether that's pressure by the defense or pressure by the situation. Mendoza is not phased by anything. He's surgical. Mendoza is surgically efficient. 41 touchdowns, six interceptions, completes 73% of his passes. He's a very good runner. We talked about that on the last show. Okay, during his two college football playoff games against Alabama and Oregon, Mendoza has completed 86% of his passes, eight touchdowns, zero interceptions. He has played his best football over the last few games. That's what you want from your quarterback. If he's going to play his best football right now in the playoffs against the best teams that he's played all season, that bodes very well for Indiana, no matter how good Miami's defense is. For Miami, I think Mark Fletcher is going to do some damage. The guy is a hoss, and I think he's going to have a great game. I don't care how good the Indiana defense is. However, I don't think I don't know that Miami is going to be explosive enough to really score very much on this Indiana defense. We could see Fletcher wear them down. We could see Tony make some big plays. I like I said, I think Miami will do better than what most people are thinking. However, I don't know if it's going to be enough. Some people think Indiana's going to blow Miami out. I think that's wrong. Uh if Indiana truly is the unstoppable team, we've seen some of these teams in the past, they may blow Miami out. But even the best teams have difficult games. Indiana this season. Indiana needed a miracle comeback to beat a not great Penn State team. They only beat Ohio State by three points. We talked about that earlier. Not every game for Indiana has been a blowout. An example of this from another team is 2022 Georgia. I think 2022 Georgia was one of the more dominant teams in modern history. Georgia almost lost to Ohio State in the college football semifinal. Then they followed that up by having the largest margin of victory in postseason college football history until they broke it the next season, by a score of 65-7 against TCU. Okay, well, TCU had handled Michigan in the semifinal, the team who had dominated Ohio State at the end of their season. So what I'm saying is even if Indiana is the team that they appear to be, and the team that look people are saying that they are, that does not mean they're going to just roll over Miami. I think Miami is playing really well. We've talked about their defense. There's guys who are going to the NFL. There are guys who are going in the first round of the NFL. Miami is a very good team. I could see Miami winning the game because of the pass rush, because of the talented players like Keonta Scott. But there's just so much stacking in Indiana's favor. Indiana has a fantastic defense. They don't make errors, they run the ball well, and Mendoza's playing out of his mind. When a quarterback and his receivers are playing on that level, I made the Joe Burrow analogy a couple weeks ago about Trinidad Chamblers. It's almost impossible to beat them, no matter how good your defense is. If you watch that Oregon game, it it didn't matter. It didn't matter if Oregon was draped all over the receiver, didn't matter if they had good coverage. Fernando Mendoza was putting it exactly where it needed to be every time, and the receivers were catching it no matter how difficult the catch. If they are going to play like that, it doesn't matter how good your pass rushers are. It doesn't matter how good your corners are. Because if he's got enough time to throw, which for him doesn't mean much, Mendoza does not need a lot of time. If he can get a couple of seconds to release that ball, I don't know that there's that much you can do about it. I think Indiana's gonna win the game. I think Indiana will do enough. They are a good enough team with a singular focus on winning. And I think for man Fernando Mendoza is a special player. I think what Miami has done, specifically through this playoff, is very impressive. It is very impressive. I would say right now, going into the game, they've clearly proven that they are better than the other teams in the playoff bracket. The question is, will that be enough to beat Indiana? And we talked about the age advantage that Indiana has over a lot of other teams on the last episode. I think they're too mature, they're too locked in. I'm gonna take Indiana in this game. All right, transitioning to Major League Baseball. Dread it, run from it, destiny arrives all the same. The Los Angeles Dodgers, stop me if you've heard this before, signed another big name free agent. After they already bagged Edwin Diaz, the Dodgers signed who many have considered the top free agent this offseason in Kyle Tucker, former Cubs outfielder. Tucker started last season off very hot, cooled down a little bit following injuries, including a fractured finger, ended the season with a 266 average, 25 steals, 73 RBI, 22 home runs, 377 on base percentage, and an 841 OPS. Those numbers are actually down from what his last few years have been. This is a guy who can hit about 30 homers a year. Uh, he might have a 900 to 1,000 OPS. The guy's a good player. He's a very good player. I think they may have overpaid a little bit. Uh it was a down year last year for Tucker, who did make the all-star team due to that hot start. The contract is four years,$240 million, and as the Dodgers have figured out how to do,$30 million of that is deferred. That gives Tucker the largest average salary of any player in Major League Baseball. That's more than one Sotos contract. He also got a$64 million signing bonus. The Dodgers starting lineup will be, let me read you who these players are and some of their accomplishments. At Ketcher, Will Smith, who has been an all-star in each of his past three seasons. First base, Freddie Freeman, nine-time All-Star, 2020 MVP, 2024 World Series MVP, three-time silver slugger, gold glove winner. At second base, Tommy Edman, a gold glove winner, and a former NLCS MVP. Mookie Betts at shortstop, 2018 MVP, eight-time All-Star, seven time silver slugger, six time gold glover, 2018 batting champion. At third base, you've got Max Muncy, two time All-Star. In the outfield, you've got Teoscar Hernandez, two time All-Star, three time silver slugger. Outfield Andy Paez, Okay, he's new, just only been playing two seasons in Major League Baseball. He did not make the All-Star game last year. However, he did hit 272, 27 home runs, 86 RBI. He is one of the better outfielders in baseball. And Kyle Tucker, who is a four-time All-Star, gold glove winner, and two-time silver slugger. Oh, and at DH, they have maybe the best player of all time, Shohei Otani, four-time MVP, five-time All-Star, four-time silver slugger, NLCS MVP. To add to that, they have the best starting rotation in baseball. I saw an article yesterday. Do they have the best starting rotation in the history of baseball? They might have. And to add to the starting rotation, they've signed two of the biggest closers in two straight-off seasons. So here's your starting pitching stat. You've got Yamamoto, who was an all-star and World Series MVP last season, had a 2.49 ERA in 30 games. Tyler Glasnow, who was an all-star in 2024, Blake Snell, who has won the Cy Young in the AL in 2018 and in the NL in 2023, and Shohei Otani, who, when healthy, has perennially been one of baseball's best pitchers. They also have Emmett Sheehan, who had a 2.82 ERA last year, and Roki Sasaki, who was the number one prospect coming into last season. He struggled starting uh early last year, kind of found his groove in the bullpen. We'll see what happens with him. He's a very young player. You and you couple that with the high dollar relief pitchers. Have fun winning a seven-game series against that. This is why we need a salary cap. And to all of you who answer that with, well, the other teams should spend more. The Blue Jays and Mets, two teams who spend a lot of money, they tried to sign Kyle Tucker. He picked the Dodgers. The Mets offered$220 million with none of it deferred, and a larger signing bonus at$75 million. The Blue Jays, the details of that contract offer have not been released while I'm recording this, were offering a long-term contract, which, generally speaking, athletes are in more inclined to take long-term contracts. Tucker was not. If the Dodgers can pay as much or more than everyone else on every player, they already have the best talent. Players are going to keep signing there. You can hit the Dodgers with all the cap taxes or whatever you want. They have the money to pay it. Not all owners can spend the same amount of money. The Dodgers have already won two World Series in a row. They're going for three. If you are a fan of another team, do you think your team has any shot to beat the Dodgers in the playoffs? Let me say it this way. If I asked you right now, who do you think is most likely to win the World Series? The Dodgers or the other 29 teams, who would you pick? Should be a, oh well, 29 versus one team. Of course I'll take the 29. No, I don't think most people would do that. I wouldn't do that. If I had to tell you right now who I think is going to win the World Series, I'd say it's going to be the Dodgers. Who's going to beat them in a five or seven game series? Every single season, the Dodgers sign one of or multiple of the biggest free agents in the entire pool. The Dodgers now have eight players on their roster with contracts of over$100 million. The Phillies, Blue Jays, and Padres are all next with six players with contracts over$100 million. The Yankees and Giants have five. There are seven teams that have zero players with$100 million contracts. The Dodgers have eight. And the problem isn't just the Dodgers. You've got the Mets constantly spending more and more money. Oh, by the way, today they signed Bo Bichette to a three-year$126 million contract. They already have a shortstop, if you didn't know. They already have Francisco Lindor, who they shelled that over$300 million to a few years ago. They went ahead and signed another shortstop. I'm guessing because they didn't get somebody like Tucker that they wanted. Will Bichette play another position, second, third base? Will EDH? We'll see. You've got big spending cubs like big spending clubs like the Blue Jays spending, just keep trying to shell out money. The Cubs, the Cubs spend a lot of money. They signed Alex Bregman this offseason. The Phillies and Padres, they spend like they've got a mint somewhere in that facility. The Yankees, I mean, the Yankees always spend, which the Yankees are starting to get left behind by some of these teams. If MLB doesn't do something about this, it will just keep getting worse. You need a salary cap saying you cannot spend more than this. Full stop. We need to get rid of the deferred payments that would allow teams to skirt this salary cap. And yes, I know everybody's, oh, if we wouldn't have this problem if we had a salary floor. I agree we need a salary floor, but that is not the ultimate fix to this. The ultimate fix is a hard and fast salary cap and dealing with these deferred payments. I wholeheartedly agree we need a salary floor that will help this situation. Each team must spend this amount to have ownership of a team. But I talked about this when we talked about MLB free agency a couple weeks ago. This can't go on. Every single season, we cannot have the new biggest contract of all time. We somebody else cannot be the new highest paid player every season. And I know Kyle Tucker is not the highest paid player by full contract, but he is the highest paid average year. Something like that shouldn't happen every year. The Shohei Otani contract, the one Soto contract, it never stops. It just keeps increasing. And I don't want to bash Kyle Tucker, but I don't think Kyle Tucker is Shohei Otani and yet he's getting paid$60 million a year. If this continues to go on, average baseball fans will be shouldered with the cost. We talked about how a lot of MLB teams are not making a lot of money right now, if any. Your ticket prices are going to go up, your streaming prices are going to go up. And as we're facing a potential lockout next season, what's going to happen here? What the players want is for everyone to blame the owners and put pressure on the owners and just keep paying them more. That's what the players' union is going to do. They are not going to say, okay, fine, we'll take less money. That I just don't see that happening. They want you to villainize the owners. This has already taken place once. We remember when Tom Glavin was the face of the players in a strike, Tom Glavin has since said he regrets the way that they handled that and that they didn't really realize how the fans would look at the players in that situation. If these guys who are getting$500 million contracts, these guys who are getting paid$60 million a year, and I know not everybody makes that much money, but every player in Major League Baseball is making a lot of money compared to what your average fan is making. And that's fine. We're not all professional athletes. That's supply and demand. However, if these professional athletes who are making more and more money shut this thing down and lock us out and we don't have a baseball season, that is not a good look for the players. I don't know how fans will perceive that now. I know how I will perceive it. And I like some of these guys, and I think they're nice guys. I mean, there's there's nothing wrong with taking a big contract. But there comes a time when, whether you're a nice guy or not, enough money is enough money. And this is a sport. It is not just a business, it is a competition. And there it is not a fair playing field. There are salary cap in other sports. The NFL seems to just do just fine with a salary cap. And I don't know about all the ownership groups in the NFL, and I'm not going to break down how much each team can spend. However, who were the teams in the playoffs? I mean, you've got the Carolina Panthers teams like the Steelers. The Steelers are always in the playoffs. Are the Pirates in the playoffs every year? No. The Pirates are never in the playoffs. Having a salary cap allows teams in smaller markets with less wealthy ownership groups, who those two things go together in some ways, to compete. If you do not put a salary cap on this, we are going to have one team that dominates above everyone else, and four to seven teams underneath them that have a shot. It is going to reach a point where nobody else has a shot if we're not there already. I mean, the bottom seven to ten teams have no shot. Everybody knows they have no shot. And the fan bases are despondent because they go into every season knowing they're probably not even going to make the playoffs. And if they do, they're not going to be able to compete. I don't think it's good for baseball. I don't think it's good for the fans. It's certainly not good for having good competition. I don't want to see the Dodgers and their 10 Cy Young winners and their murderers row of$500 million players mow everyone down every year. And I know all those numbers are exaggerations, but it's to make a point. Snoozefest. I don't want to see that. And I'm fine with teams collecting talent. They the teams don't all have to be exactly the same, but we all need to be competing under the same rules. We all need to be competing in a realm of similar possibilities because it's a sport. And I don't blame the Dodgers. This is not the Dodgers' fault that they keep getting these guys, that they're spending this money, that they're doing the deferred payments. This is MLB and the players' union's fault. And some blame goes to some of these teams that won't spend. I've talked about the Marlins a couple times on the show. But if the if the rules are there to allow this, if the Braves did this, if the Braves had this kind of ownership group with this much money and they could sign all these guys, I'd probably be very happy for that. I'd love for the Braves to keep signing big free agents and spend a lot of money, and they have started to do that a little bit more. But so I'm not blaming the Dodgers. I'm blaming the way the sport is run right now. So that's what I've got to say about uh Major League Baseball today. Somebody help us out. I don't want to see the Mets and Dodgers and Phillies and Blue Jays buy their World Series rings, and the rest of us are sitting there wishing we had a chance. So now before we end the show, I want to talk just a little bit about SEC basketball as as we've been doing the last few weeks. I said on the last show, this is madness, and it just keeps getting more and more crazy. I mean, I got on the show the other day while I was recording and told you Tennessee had had a really bad week, and that I thought Texas AM currently looked like they were one of the top three teams in the SEC. After I finished recording, and I'm posting the episode, Tennessee beats Texas AM. And there's just, and I said Arkansas had had a bad week. Arkansas then won 108 to 74 over South Carolina. We talked about Vanderbilt probably being the best team in the SEC, or at least in the top three. I would still say they're clearly in the top three as of right now. They lost to Texas. They're no longer undefeated. So, and I said that um I thought Kentucky would relatively easily win over LSU. That was not an easy win over LSU. LSU got way out in front. Kentucky came all the way back, hit that big shot, won the game. Georgia. Georgia really dropped one against Ole Miss. And I'm not going to fully break down that game, but Georgia should have found a way to win that game. They were way ahead late in the game. Just let it get away. And Ole Miss really outplayed them down the stretch. I think Ole Miss is a lot better team than what their record suggests. They've had a good couple of games, last couple games here. So it's not that I think Georgia is a lot better team than Ole Miss. I'm, and that's why they should have won the game. What I'm saying is Georgia had the game. They had the game one. And, you know, Mike White talked about that they did not play good defense in that game. You had a little bit better offense, had better three-point shooting, looked more like the offense we had seen earlier in the season from Georgia. That was not good defense. This is something, and I've seen this on social media, and this is how I've been feeling. This has become a pattern with Georgia basketball teams, different coaches, different players, doesn't matter. When Georgia has a good team, they do well enough in non-conference that they get ranked in the 20s, low teens, and then they immediately lose. That's what they did this time. Got ranked. They got ranked, the highest ranking they'd had since 2003, immediately got dominated by Florida. Okay. Next rankings come out. You're still ranked at 21. And then you lose a home game to Ole Miss, who has one of the worst records in the SEC. Georgia has to wake up. And I think Mike White is a great coach. I love that Mike White is there. I think he's done a great job with the program. But this was supposed to be a year where you, okay, this team was going to take another step considering how well they had been playing and having the number one offense. And that Georgia should be, Georgia's goal shouldn't be go to the NCAA tournament. That was a that was the goal. It was a good goal. However, the goal needs to progress. I I'm not saying I think Georgia should win a national championship anytime soon. I'm sure that would be that would be great one day, but I I'm not even aiming at a national championship. That's not even what I'm asking for as a Georgia basketball fan. What I want to see is Georgia is Georgia win a tournament game. Preferably two, but what I'm aiming at is I want to see Georgia win a tournament game, and you for two days of the tournament get to have fun feeling like your team has a shot. So, and that to me, that should not be unrealistic, especially in a state like Georgia with as much basketball talent. You should be able to have a realistic goal of winning the first round of the NCAA tournament. And this team could totally do it. They're gonna have to play a whole lot better than what they've played the last few games. Because right now, this looks like a team that's gonna make the NCA tournament and be bounced opening weekend, and that be that. Gonna need some guys to get it turned around. Gonna need some more disciplined play, disciplined rebounding, disciplined defense. And I'll say again, I want to see more throwing it inside Tasanto Surreal. Thankfully, we got hot shooting threes, but I think the bread and butter needs to be surreal in the inside. Alright, so our next show will be on Tuesday. Obviously, that show will be a reaction to the national championship game. Breaking down some of the storylines there, breaking down and after that game, I'll give you my final rankings of who I of the college football teams. Also on Tuesday, we'll probably talk a little college basketball about over the weekend. And now that these big dominoes in MLB free agency are falling, we'll see if uh any other developments take place over the weekend. So that's all for this show. If you enjoyed it, please follow, subscribe, like it, share it with your friends. Enjoy the national championship game.