January 8, 2025 • 18 mins
Rob & Ben with UConn's AD talk everything UConn to start the New Year
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh, let's just start with when when you're not watching
Yukon sports, do you do you have any sports in particular,
you like in any teams around here that you've kind
of attached yourself to.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I don't want to get myself in trouble like some
unmentioned player on our football team after our win in
in Boston. But you know, my wife is from Buffalo,
and so she grew up a major sports fan of
all of the Buffalo teams there. So you know, I
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typically find myself being in a room with you know,
the Bills or the Sabers on television. So you know,
the Bills are an unbelievably fun team to watch right
now because Josh Allen is just an amazing, gifted football player,
and so that's that's probably it. But I don't. I
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don't have a many rooting interest outside of Yukon.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Man, So you're playing the fans.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I did this when I was in North Carolina, David,
I would not tell anybody if I was for Duke
or North Carolina. I would ride that fence all the
way until they try to push me off.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But you're the man at this, you know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, it's hey, listen, I've got to be a Bills
fan or I might not be welcome home, so you know,
And like I said, I mean, it's it's one thing
to try to be a fan of a team, but
when they're not very good, it's even harder. So you
have to have a real interest. But I enjoy you know,
the games that Buffalo and Kansas City play are just
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you know, there every time they get together, it's an
epic battle right now because of the two quarterbacks. So
it's really fun to watch. But I don't, I honestly
do not watch professional sports very often.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
What goes on in the athletic director world during this
college football playoffs semi final, Like, I'm sure there's a
lot of eyeballs on now, and you know different ways
that you watch games, But is there like a general
consensus meeting after this NFL or BENFL college football season
is over to kind of reconvene and see what we
can do right, what we can do wrong as athletic departments.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'm sure there will be I think then the reality
is most of that conversation is happening amongst the P
four commissioners and so you know, the SEC, the Big
ten kind of seem to be driving most of the
narrative these days, and you know, at least competitive standpoint,
it's hard to argue with that. I think the challenge
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that college athletics has always faced is, you know, the
NFL believes in parody. You know, I'm not sure Dibbs,
you could you could respond better on the baseball side
of it, But the NFL believes in parody. They think
it's good for the sport, it's good for fans, and
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ultimately that's good for the financial aspect of what they're
trying to accomplish. And so college athletics has never been
in the parody. You know, it's everyone's kind of out
for themselves, and so I think it's going to be
a really interesting conversation. I think while the seeding is
obviously kind of not played out in the way that
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it was set up because none of the higher seeds
have advanced, you know, questions should be asked. You know,
was it a detriment to have a week off? I'm
not sure that you'll be able to answer that question,
you know, with enough data after this year, this first year,
but it certainly seemed to impact them because if you
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look in the previous years when there were four teams,
the top two seeds didn't have buys. They just played,
and the top two seeds seem to always win. So
I think there's going to be need for conversation. But
you've already heard people talking about, you know, should conference
champions be given a bye? I think those are all
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worthy questions to be asking, and you know, ultimately, you
know who's making the decisions. Ultimately will will depend on
what those outcomes are.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Talking to David Benedict, the athletic director of the University
of Connecticut, No, listen, baseball loves parody, but they also
have like ten teams that spend the most money every year.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
God, Yankees, if we can do that again, everyone would
love it.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
But I have a logistics question for you.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Since the you know, there's some of these teams are
playing like four extra games this year. Who's paying for
their travel, who's paying for their hotel rooms? Things like that?
Does that come out of the school or does that
come out of the NCAA.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Well, actually, you know gives it's a It's an interesting question,
and I'm not sure most of the casual fans know this,
but you know, none of the postseason revenues associate with football,
whether it just be the bowl games and or now
the College Football Playoff, none of that runs through the NCUBA. None,
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zero zero. And so that's one of the big, you know,
kind of talking points relative to basketball coaches, is all
the basketball money that comes from the tournament does run
through the NCUBA, and that really funds the entire operation
of Division one, Division two, Division three, everything, championship staffing,
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the whole kit and kaboodle, as they used to say.
And so you know, the basketball coaches sit back and say, well,
wait a second, the football new is outside of it,
and somehow that gets directly siphoned back to the schools
and the conferences. And yet the majority of the money,
seventy five percent of it is coming off the top
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of the basketball tournament. Wow, and that's going to subsidize
everything else.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I did not know that, no idea. Hey, it's always
good to learn, because you know me, I always ask
like those nitty gritty questions because I'm always almost got
to pay food.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
You're not the only one I love going down this
rabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
This comes through, and trust me, the College Football Playoff
is generating enough money that they are paying for the
additional games and the operational costs of those things, because
you know, the typical bowl model is that you know,
the bull money outside of the CFP, there's a there's
a negotiated amount that comes to your conference. So if
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you're affiliated with a bowl, they're going to give your
conference X amount of dollars, and then if you're representing
your conference in that bowl, they then give you a
certain amount of money that will cover not necessarily all
of your travel and operation costs associated with the bowl game,
but certainly a large part of it. They've gotten away
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from this whole idea that, oh, you got to sell
so many tickets. They just pay you a certain amount
of money and that's that's ultimately what your conference gets,
and then the conference dictates how much they spread that around.
The College Football Playoff is different. They're just they're not
necessarily sending that money to the conference. They're just paying
for the costs of that school to go play in
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the game.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
We had a home game at Stores. It was dubbed
the Rivalry of forty four. Is that what Bob Joyce
was trying to.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
For I love that most of my life.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Providence came to stores. The crowd was awesome.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Come back fashion know Liam McNeely, but I love how
the boys were spinning in the second half. What did
you think of that game over the weekend on Sunday
for the men.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, I think, you know, it's hey, our women are
going to have to go through the same thing with
and have been going through some of the same things
with injuries. And if we think back, you know to
last year, even the year before, you know, it seems
like we've had one of these injuries. Knock on wood.
You know, hopefully that's that's all we have. But you know,
last year Klingon went down I think after Seaton Hall,
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which was our first conference game last year, where he
twisted his ankle and was out for a little while.
So look, it's going to require other kids to step up.
And you know, Hassan certainly stepped it up in the
second half. Terras Reid had an unbelievable second half. But
you know, we're going to need more consistency from other
people to replace what Liam was given us. And look,
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I still think we have a ton of you know, upside,
you know, for this team. I don't I don't think
we've come close to playing our best basketball on both
ends of the court. I think we show flashes, but
you know, we've got, you know, a ton of talent
out there and they're still learning how to play together.
But you know, the crowd was great in the second half.
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You know, we obviously, you know, I'm sure coach alluded
to this. We we could have played better on the
on the defensive end of the court the first half.
But you know, one of the things that I've noticed
that because of the type of offense that that coach
you know runs, you know, it it asks for a
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lot of movement, and we run a lot of sets
that that require people to really extend themselves defensively to
be able to defend this. And there are certain teams
and I think Providence was one of them, that they
get into the clutching, the grabbing, doing everything they can,
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which most of the time is fouling people or at
least in what I think is a foul to to
restrict that movement to stop us from executing offensively. And
I think I was telling someone if if Alex Caravan
was wearing a like a teraror Way jersey, the jersey
he wouldn't have been wearing it all game because they
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just kept grabbing him to restrict his ability to move
and come off screams and so you know, it's something
that we just got to continue to work through. But
hopefully the officials will do a good job of not
allowing teams to guard us that way because I don't
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I don't think that that is the appropriate way to play.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And I'm sure you heard what Dan Hurley said, which
is what we talk about with Jim Moore and the
football with which the fans are an important part of winning.
And you know, Dan Hurley was talking about there's gonna
be a lot of close Big East games and we
need the fans locked in for forty minutes because it's
a huge advantage.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Again, Gamble is a great place for us to play.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But I'm from here and we're not like a duke
North Carolina and some of these other places where the
people go mental. We're more like we sit on our
hands and wait for something spectacular to happen. So is
there any way to try to change the culture with
kind of our older fan base and get these people
louder at these games?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, Dibbs, I wish there was a magic bullet on
that I think on campus, it certainly stems from the students.
I think that's one of our challenges with being downtown
is you don't have the student attendance in the same numbers,
and so it's harder for them to impact the game,
especially in a much bigger building. But we've got to
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get the students going earlier. And to your point, you know,
we can't as a fan base wait for the team
to necessarily drive and spark the environment. We need as
a fan base to help our team sometimes spark you know,
a run and bring energy to venue. And so we certainly,
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you know, saw that if you were if you were
at the game, you know, there was no doubt that
the fans were kind of waiting for the team to
do something versus you know, trying to basically help the
team do something. And so we've got to work on
that and continue to ask our fan base to bring
the energy, and especially our students, because they can really
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impact the environment in a way that not you know,
Connor or music or videos. The students can can bring
an electricity that really nothing else can emulate.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Shout out game day, Connor. We'll look into the legalities
of electric shockers and seats all over the age certain
age tear away Jersey's a great idea too. I think
you should work on that. I think that's a great idea.
Here's an idea I don't like. I don't know how
you feel about it. I'm putting it on the shelf
of Manford's Golden bat for right now. But five year
eligibility has been kicked around this week and other athletic
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departments and across the NCAA.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
What are your thoughts on that.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I think, in certain under certain parameters, I think it's
one hundred percent the right thing to do. And so
what are the parameters. The parameters would be no more waivers.
And so the challenges is you got all these unique situations,
whether it's an injury, whether it's you know, some other
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difficult situation that crops up, and you're asking all of
these individuals to weigh these different waivers. And you know,
as we've seen it never, you know, these things just
don't fold up. And so I think we should get
to the place where it's you have five years and
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that's it. Where right now you have four years of eligibility,
but you can do it within five And you know,
Ben take football, For example, football, you can play in
four games now and still be a red shirt.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Oh yeah, in that way.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And so it's like all of that stuff, whether it's
waivers or whether it's you're monitoring you know how many
games an individual that requires a tremendous amount of administrative work.
If we get to a place where we say everyone's
got five years, it will eliminate so much work and
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documentation you wouldn't even believe it. And so it'll just
make everything easier. And hey, look for the kid that
gets injured, it's like, hey, it's unfortunate that you got injured,
but we're giving everyone an extra year. If you get
to play all five, great. If you get to play
in four, hey that's unfortunate. There are going to be
some kids that graduate in four years and say, well, hey,
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I'm not going to come back and play an extra
year when I'm just paying to go to school to
have an extra season. And so I don't know that
everyone would use it, but I think it's the right
thing to do. It would make everything more streamlined, and
I think it would eliminate this nonsense with waivers and
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all these other things that crop up that is very
hard to administrate across the entire division. And so here
it is you get five years. And you know, now
with the junior college piece, which I played, you know,
two years at a junior college before I went to
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my four year institution. You know, I'm not going back
and asking for extra eligibility, but I think it's an
interesting concept. And look in the Northeast, we have tons
of prep schools. I would ask the question, like, what
is the difference between a prep school extra year where
a kid says, hey, I'm not ready, I'm going to
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go play a year of prep school, which is really
like a fifth year of high school. And some of
these prep schools are really good. Like what's the difference
between that and going to junior college. I'm not sure
there is a difference relative to you're not in the
NC double A. You're going to try to give yourself
a chance to develop more before you go play in
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an NC double A environment. And so all of this
stuff needs to get worked through. But I think from
an NC double A standpoint, we should just say it's
five years.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Well, I'm coming from a place of jealousy like you
had be one more year for me.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I think I can give you a couple of punt returns.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Div's got three years then, I mean, yeah, you can
close out some games for you at the end.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Of you get that arm ready to pull you in. Man,
we'll go submit a waiver tomorrow for you.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Oh my goodness. As always, David. Great to catch up
with you, and we'll talk to you next week, sir.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Likewise, guys, have a great one.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Awesome ye, thank you, there're awesome stuff.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Yeah that was great.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, hopefully I didn't blow your mind with all that.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I love watching Div's face.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
I love what people that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
You'll be thinking a lot different about March madn. That's
when it goes Yeah, no, there you go.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Think about that. Seventy five percent of the money goes
to pay for everything. This is where I don't want
to get into conspiracy theories here, but understand this, and
this is why if you don't appreciate why I'm thinking
long term about what conference we should be a part of,
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understand that if if some private equity group wanted to,
they could go to the SEC, the ACC, the Big twelve,
and the Big ten and say, hey, you probably get
about twenty five million a year as a Conference from
the NCAA tournament. We will give you one hundred and
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twenty five million a year. We'll get for your top
six teams.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
And their names are Amazon and Netflix.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And so do you think they're going to say.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
No, exactly exactly and they're.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Go play in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Mm hmmm, mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
It's crazy.
Uh, let's just start with when when you're not watching
Yukon sports, do you do you have any sports in particular,
you like in any teams around here that you've kind
of attached yourself to.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I don't want to get myself in trouble like some
unmentioned player on our football team after our win in
in Boston. But you know, my wife is from Buffalo,
and so she grew up a major sports fan of
all of the Buffalo teams there. So you know, I
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typically find myself being in a room with you know,
the Bills or the Sabers on television. So you know,
the Bills are an unbelievably fun team to watch right
now because Josh Allen is just an amazing, gifted football player,
and so that's that's probably it. But I don't. I
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don't have a many rooting interest outside of Yukon.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Man, So you're playing the fans.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I did this when I was in North Carolina, David,
I would not tell anybody if I was for Duke
or North Carolina. I would ride that fence all the
way until they try to push me off.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But you're the man at this, you know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, it's hey, listen, I've got to be a Bills
fan or I might not be welcome home, so you know,
And like I said, I mean, it's it's one thing
to try to be a fan of a team, but
when they're not very good, it's even harder. So you
have to have a real interest. But I enjoy you know,
the games that Buffalo and Kansas City play are just
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you know, there every time they get together, it's an
epic battle right now because of the two quarterbacks. So
it's really fun to watch. But I don't, I honestly
do not watch professional sports very often.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
What goes on in the athletic director world during this
college football playoffs semi final, Like, I'm sure there's a
lot of eyeballs on now, and you know different ways
that you watch games, But is there like a general
consensus meeting after this NFL or BENFL college football season
is over to kind of reconvene and see what we
can do right, what we can do wrong as athletic departments.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'm sure there will be I think then the reality
is most of that conversation is happening amongst the P
four commissioners and so you know, the SEC, the Big
ten kind of seem to be driving most of the
narrative these days, and you know, at least competitive standpoint,
it's hard to argue with that. I think the challenge
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that college athletics has always faced is, you know, the
NFL believes in parody. You know, I'm not sure Dibbs,
you could you could respond better on the baseball side
of it, But the NFL believes in parody. They think
it's good for the sport, it's good for fans, and
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ultimately that's good for the financial aspect of what they're
trying to accomplish. And so college athletics has never been
in the parody. You know, it's everyone's kind of out
for themselves, and so I think it's going to be
a really interesting conversation. I think while the seeding is
obviously kind of not played out in the way that
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it was set up because none of the higher seeds
have advanced, you know, questions should be asked. You know,
was it a detriment to have a week off? I'm
not sure that you'll be able to answer that question,
you know, with enough data after this year, this first year,
but it certainly seemed to impact them because if you
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look in the previous years when there were four teams,
the top two seeds didn't have buys. They just played,
and the top two seeds seem to always win. So
I think there's going to be need for conversation. But
you've already heard people talking about, you know, should conference
champions be given a bye? I think those are all
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worthy questions to be asking, and you know, ultimately, you
know who's making the decisions. Ultimately will will depend on
what those outcomes are.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Talking to David Benedict, the athletic director of the University
of Connecticut, No, listen, baseball loves parody, but they also
have like ten teams that spend the most money every year.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
God, Yankees, if we can do that again, everyone would
love it.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
But I have a logistics question for you.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Since the you know, there's some of these teams are
playing like four extra games this year. Who's paying for
their travel, who's paying for their hotel rooms? Things like that?
Does that come out of the school or does that
come out of the NCAA.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Well, actually, you know gives it's a It's an interesting question,
and I'm not sure most of the casual fans know this,
but you know, none of the postseason revenues associate with football,
whether it just be the bowl games and or now
the College Football Playoff, none of that runs through the NCUBA. None,
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zero zero. And so that's one of the big, you know,
kind of talking points relative to basketball coaches, is all
the basketball money that comes from the tournament does run
through the NCUBA, and that really funds the entire operation
of Division one, Division two, Division three, everything, championship staffing,
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the whole kit and kaboodle, as they used to say.
And so you know, the basketball coaches sit back and say, well,
wait a second, the football new is outside of it,
and somehow that gets directly siphoned back to the schools
and the conferences. And yet the majority of the money,
seventy five percent of it is coming off the top
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of the basketball tournament. Wow, and that's going to subsidize
everything else.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I did not know that, no idea. Hey, it's always
good to learn, because you know me, I always ask
like those nitty gritty questions because I'm always almost got
to pay food.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
You're not the only one I love going down this
rabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
This comes through, and trust me, the College Football Playoff
is generating enough money that they are paying for the
additional games and the operational costs of those things, because
you know, the typical bowl model is that you know,
the bull money outside of the CFP, there's a there's
a negotiated amount that comes to your conference. So if
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you're affiliated with a bowl, they're going to give your
conference X amount of dollars, and then if you're representing
your conference in that bowl, they then give you a
certain amount of money that will cover not necessarily all
of your travel and operation costs associated with the bowl game,
but certainly a large part of it. They've gotten away
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from this whole idea that, oh, you got to sell
so many tickets. They just pay you a certain amount
of money and that's that's ultimately what your conference gets,
and then the conference dictates how much they spread that around.
The College Football Playoff is different. They're just they're not
necessarily sending that money to the conference. They're just paying
for the costs of that school to go play in
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the game.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
We had a home game at Stores. It was dubbed
the Rivalry of forty four. Is that what Bob Joyce
was trying to.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
For I love that most of my life.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Providence came to stores. The crowd was awesome.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Come back fashion know Liam McNeely, but I love how
the boys were spinning in the second half. What did
you think of that game over the weekend on Sunday
for the men.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, I think, you know, it's hey, our women are
going to have to go through the same thing with
and have been going through some of the same things
with injuries. And if we think back, you know to
last year, even the year before, you know, it seems
like we've had one of these injuries. Knock on wood.
You know, hopefully that's that's all we have. But you know,
last year Klingon went down I think after Seaton Hall,
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which was our first conference game last year, where he
twisted his ankle and was out for a little while.
So look, it's going to require other kids to step up.
And you know, Hassan certainly stepped it up in the
second half. Terras Reid had an unbelievable second half. But
you know, we're going to need more consistency from other
people to replace what Liam was given us. And look,
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I still think we have a ton of you know, upside,
you know, for this team. I don't I don't think
we've come close to playing our best basketball on both
ends of the court. I think we show flashes, but
you know, we've got, you know, a ton of talent
out there and they're still learning how to play together.
But you know, the crowd was great in the second half.
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You know, we obviously, you know, I'm sure coach alluded
to this. We we could have played better on the
on the defensive end of the court the first half.
But you know, one of the things that I've noticed
that because of the type of offense that that coach
you know runs, you know, it it asks for a
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lot of movement, and we run a lot of sets
that that require people to really extend themselves defensively to
be able to defend this. And there are certain teams
and I think Providence was one of them, that they
get into the clutching, the grabbing, doing everything they can,
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which most of the time is fouling people or at
least in what I think is a foul to to
restrict that movement to stop us from executing offensively. And
I think I was telling someone if if Alex Caravan
was wearing a like a teraror Way jersey, the jersey
he wouldn't have been wearing it all game because they
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just kept grabbing him to restrict his ability to move
and come off screams and so you know, it's something
that we just got to continue to work through. But
hopefully the officials will do a good job of not
allowing teams to guard us that way because I don't
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I don't think that that is the appropriate way to play.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And I'm sure you heard what Dan Hurley said, which
is what we talk about with Jim Moore and the
football with which the fans are an important part of winning.
And you know, Dan Hurley was talking about there's gonna
be a lot of close Big East games and we
need the fans locked in for forty minutes because it's
a huge advantage.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Again, Gamble is a great place for us to play.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But I'm from here and we're not like a duke
North Carolina and some of these other places where the
people go mental. We're more like we sit on our
hands and wait for something spectacular to happen. So is
there any way to try to change the culture with
kind of our older fan base and get these people
louder at these games?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, Dibbs, I wish there was a magic bullet on
that I think on campus, it certainly stems from the students.
I think that's one of our challenges with being downtown
is you don't have the student attendance in the same numbers,
and so it's harder for them to impact the game,
especially in a much bigger building. But we've got to
(11:32):
get the students going earlier. And to your point, you know,
we can't as a fan base wait for the team
to necessarily drive and spark the environment. We need as
a fan base to help our team sometimes spark you know,
a run and bring energy to venue. And so we certainly,
(11:58):
you know, saw that if you were if you were
at the game, you know, there was no doubt that
the fans were kind of waiting for the team to
do something versus you know, trying to basically help the
team do something. And so we've got to work on
that and continue to ask our fan base to bring
the energy, and especially our students, because they can really
(12:21):
impact the environment in a way that not you know,
Connor or music or videos. The students can can bring
an electricity that really nothing else can emulate.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Shout out game day, Connor. We'll look into the legalities
of electric shockers and seats all over the age certain
age tear away Jersey's a great idea too. I think
you should work on that. I think that's a great idea.
Here's an idea I don't like. I don't know how
you feel about it. I'm putting it on the shelf
of Manford's Golden bat for right now. But five year
eligibility has been kicked around this week and other athletic
(12:56):
departments and across the NCAA.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
What are your thoughts on that.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I think, in certain under certain parameters, I think it's
one hundred percent the right thing to do. And so
what are the parameters. The parameters would be no more waivers.
And so the challenges is you got all these unique situations,
whether it's an injury, whether it's you know, some other
(13:21):
difficult situation that crops up, and you're asking all of
these individuals to weigh these different waivers. And you know,
as we've seen it never, you know, these things just
don't fold up. And so I think we should get
to the place where it's you have five years and
(13:41):
that's it. Where right now you have four years of eligibility,
but you can do it within five And you know,
Ben take football, For example, football, you can play in
four games now and still be a red shirt.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Oh yeah, in that way.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And so it's like all of that stuff, whether it's
waivers or whether it's you're monitoring you know how many
games an individual that requires a tremendous amount of administrative work.
If we get to a place where we say everyone's
got five years, it will eliminate so much work and
(14:20):
documentation you wouldn't even believe it. And so it'll just
make everything easier. And hey, look for the kid that
gets injured, it's like, hey, it's unfortunate that you got injured,
but we're giving everyone an extra year. If you get
to play all five, great. If you get to play
in four, hey that's unfortunate. There are going to be
some kids that graduate in four years and say, well, hey,
(14:44):
I'm not going to come back and play an extra
year when I'm just paying to go to school to
have an extra season. And so I don't know that
everyone would use it, but I think it's the right
thing to do. It would make everything more streamlined, and
I think it would eliminate this nonsense with waivers and
(15:04):
all these other things that crop up that is very
hard to administrate across the entire division. And so here
it is you get five years. And you know, now
with the junior college piece, which I played, you know,
two years at a junior college before I went to
(15:25):
my four year institution. You know, I'm not going back
and asking for extra eligibility, but I think it's an
interesting concept. And look in the Northeast, we have tons
of prep schools. I would ask the question, like, what
is the difference between a prep school extra year where
a kid says, hey, I'm not ready, I'm going to
(15:46):
go play a year of prep school, which is really
like a fifth year of high school. And some of
these prep schools are really good. Like what's the difference
between that and going to junior college. I'm not sure
there is a difference relative to you're not in the
NC double A. You're going to try to give yourself
a chance to develop more before you go play in
(16:08):
an NC double A environment. And so all of this
stuff needs to get worked through. But I think from
an NC double A standpoint, we should just say it's
five years.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Well, I'm coming from a place of jealousy like you
had be one more year for me.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I think I can give you a couple of punt returns.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Div's got three years then, I mean, yeah, you can
close out some games for you at the end.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Of you get that arm ready to pull you in. Man,
we'll go submit a waiver tomorrow for you.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Oh my goodness. As always, David. Great to catch up
with you, and we'll talk to you next week, sir.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Likewise, guys, have a great one.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Awesome ye, thank you, there're awesome stuff.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Yeah that was great.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, hopefully I didn't blow your mind with all that.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I love watching Div's face.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
I love what people that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
You'll be thinking a lot different about March madn. That's
when it goes Yeah, no, there you go.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Think about that. Seventy five percent of the money goes
to pay for everything. This is where I don't want
to get into conspiracy theories here, but understand this, and
this is why if you don't appreciate why I'm thinking
long term about what conference we should be a part of,
(17:19):
understand that if if some private equity group wanted to,
they could go to the SEC, the ACC, the Big twelve,
and the Big ten and say, hey, you probably get
about twenty five million a year as a Conference from
the NCAA tournament. We will give you one hundred and
(17:42):
twenty five million a year. We'll get for your top
six teams.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
And their names are Amazon and Netflix.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And so do you think they're going to say.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
No, exactly exactly and they're.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Go play in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Mm hmmm, mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
It's crazy.
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