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00:00Like the course, he's a legendary scribe from the sporting news is very popular with that and then it transcends into basketball. He is on Fox Sports doing college rack and he's completely on the tank for the big 10 network and the Indiana Hoosiers.
00:15As you can see on that network on multiple occasions throughout the season.
00:20I did mention earlier Mike that Saturday is one of those days where it's just awful. There's no football. Thank God for college basketball because what's worse than no football like waiting for Sunday is torturous.
00:34And then when you wait another two weeks for the Super Bowl, it's even worse. But let's start with Ohio State last night winning the Natty. You talked about how legitimate they are. They were like a pro football team throughout this playoff tournament.
00:51They were phenomenal throughout this thing. Just dominant. They had they had a great team. Obviously in the Michigan game, they did not deliver their best effort. They were much too reluctant to attacking that game.
01:05Jeremiah Smith didn't get enough activity at four wide receivers last night in the championship game. Catch difficult, significant passes. And that was just the White House.
01:17And then two running backs who were both extraordinary. It was an excellent college football team. And I just I'm amazed, Scott, what I discovered on the Internet in the last week or so when I've been praising the expansion to 12 teams and especially the addition of the automatic bids to the conference champions.
01:42There's this realm of people out there. I don't know how big it is, Scott. It could be pretty small. But this community of people that I'll call college football truthers that believe it was better when you only could get into the tournament if you got voted on. I mean, it's really true.
01:57They're all upset that that Ohio State didn't get punished enough for losing to Michigan in the closing regular season game. They thought that they should have been. I don't know. Maybe should have been their football program should have been shut down or something.
02:12Because if you had any connection at all to Columbus, to Ohio State, friends there or even the ability to access the Internet, you realize how consequential even without getting eliminated from the playoff, how consequential that loss was.
02:30There were people who wanted to fire Ryan Day because they lost that game. And now six weeks later, two months later, he's a national champion.
02:40I mean, he's 181 percent of his games. He's standing next to Newt Rockne all time. All he does is win. They're perennial. They will be there again next year. They will be in every playoff literally from now moving forward.
02:55They are always good, whether you like it or not. I will say this. Their fans are obsessed idiots. They are never satisfied. They're a bunch of drunk haggards that complain when they they win a national championship and they're still not happy.
03:12They're never happy. They remind me of Kentucky basketball fans. They remind me of Indiana basketball fans. They're almost like Steeler fans. They actually think that they should win the Super Bowl every year and nothing else matters. And you can't deny it. The guy won the national championship. I can guarantee you he's going nowhere.
03:34Let's talk about the Dodgers signings. They have signed every single player in Major League Baseball roster. I think baseball is just broken and I don't know where we're going to see it repaired in my lifetime. And it's a shame because it's the first sport I fell in love with.
03:53It was a very important sport to me all the way through. It was my first job covering the Pittsburgh Pirates for the Greensburg Tribune Review back in 1982. I didn't really take to being a baseball beat writer, but I still love the sport. But it's not a competition anymore, Scott.
04:11It's not about smarter, better, faster, stronger, whatever. It's about richer. And that's all it is. And the baseball zealots pretend that it's not. But if you look at the teams that are in the final four of the of the NFL this week, Philly, big market, absolutely.
04:31Kansas City, no, not a big market. Buffalo, that's definitely not a big market. That's what you're seeing. The difference between those two in baseball, it's it was like one, one, two, 30 were the four final four teams in terms of their market size.
04:47If you see that in football, it's an anomaly. In football, it's about how smart you are in the NFL. It's about who makes the best moves, how they spend their money the best. And everybody does well. In baseball, they absolutely cheese on the rookies, the guys who haven't made it to arbitration yet.
05:07They squeeze them. They squeeze their entire teams that are squeezed on payroll because they can because there's no salary floor as well as no salary cap. Baseball is broken. If people want to love it, good for them. But it's just it's just no longer the sport that it ought to be.
05:26Let's look at Mike D'Courcy's bracketology now. He has his brackets out for the NCAA tournament already, just like Lennarty and Palm. He's now competing with these people. And Jerry has told me on a number of occasions that he wants to fist fight you.
05:45But I have not been able to arrange that ball yet in the boxing lexicon. But let's see who you like. I know you don't like Indiana. It sounds to me like they're going to fire Woodson. And I'm not sure that's the greatest idea. Who are they going to get to coach their 15th coach since Bob Knight? They're not making the tournament. Let's talk about who it is. Give me your, you know, brackets like in the simplest form.
06:10Well, the simplest form is Alabama became a one seed over the weekend with their terrific victory at Kentucky against Kentucky. That was that was an enormous victory, a great win. And it didn't knock Kentucky off the two line. I still kept them there, but they joined.
06:30The Tide joined their good friends from Auburn, Duke as well, and Iowa State, even though they lost again, they hung on. There aren't any other two seeds beyond Alabama that are saying we've got to be in. Marquette might have, except they lost as well over the weekend to Xavier. So those are your four number one seeds.
06:50I think one of the interesting things, Scott, is how desperately last night I looked for a 68 team effectively, the last team in. It's nearly impossible. They're talking about expanding this bracket to 72 or 76. There are not 72 or 76 teams that are worthy of being in the NCAA tournament. There aren't now and there won't be by mid-March.
07:15It's just it's a preposterous conceit. You know, the funny thing is, the whole idea was that Greg Sankey was worried because they expanded to 16 teams in the SEC that they wouldn't get enough. And I think I have 12 now. And I think the last time Paul did it, he had 13. So it's a ridiculous conceit. It really is. There's no need to expand it.
07:37The big conferences, the ones that are the best, the Big Ten, the SEC, they're going to get all the bids they can use. And everybody else is just going to have to fight for what's left. They think the irony, of course, is that in the Atlantic 10 and some other leagues, they think, well, if we expand it, there'll be more for us. Nope, there won't be more for you. It'll just be more for the SEC. So don't ruin the event by expanding to 72 or 68.
08:02It's not even ruining the event. It ruins this. It ruins this season because anybody that can bounce a ball three times without knocking it off their foot will get into a 76 or 72 or 76 team tournament.
08:15I agree. Your twos are Marquette, Kentucky, Purdue, and Tennessee. Your threes are Oregon, Florida, Kansas, and Michigan State. Your fours are Houston, Illinois, Memphis, and Ole Miss. I'll tell you what, I watched that Illinois team beat the hell out of Indiana. I saw them lose at the Breslin by a bucket. I think they're really tough.
08:35They're really good. Yakashona, their freshman point guard, so talented, fouled out, did not play well in that Michigan State game. They're not the same team without him. The fifth foul was a silly foul. He had a couple of tough ones called on him. And when I say silly, he should not have committed it. I mean, not a silly call on the ref, but silly foul by him. But he's a freshman. Got to learn from that. But he's a phenomenal playmaker. And when he's out there, Illinois is really tough to deal with.
09:03Yeah, I am loving the college basketball scene. I'm glad you're putting out a bracketology. We'll keep looking at it every time you're on here. Hopefully the games are just going to keep getting better and better, as you know they will. Mike, good to see you. Thanks.