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Controversy Over Last NCAA Inclusions and Exclusions
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3/17/2025
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Why don't we start with this last four in, last four out stuff.
00:05
And of course, the last four teams that are in the tournament, we have discussed a little
00:09
bit.
00:10
North Carolina, who's going to play the Dutch Oven and San Diego State in one of the play-in
00:16
games.
00:17
And then Texas and Xavier, who are in the other.
00:20
Of course, North Carolina is the team that everybody has the biggest problem with because
00:25
they were one and 12 in quad one games this year.
00:29
Their athletic director, Bubba Cunningham, was on the chair of the committee, and it's
00:33
now come out today that when they make the tournament, he gets an extra 110 grand in
00:39
his paycheck when that happens.
00:41
You gave off all the metrics before.
00:44
West Virginia has ridiculous amounts of quad one wins, especially some key ones on the
00:49
road.
00:50
I personally think Indiana had a better, and I was with you, I don't think Indiana deserved
00:53
to be in.
00:54
But I thought they had a better resume than North Carolina did going into this weekend.
01:01
That's not the team that I thought would bump Indiana from being in the big dance.
01:06
But we know how these things go, and sometimes there's more to it than just wins and losses.
01:12
There's other things at play.
01:14
Well, obviously, there's other things at play.
01:19
Corruption in the highest order is what's in play.
01:23
Let me tell you something.
01:24
I don't care what anybody thinks, and I know they look good in a couple games, but Texas
01:33
with 15 losses gets in.
01:35
I mean, what is next, 20 lost teams?
01:39
What is next?
01:40
How can you lose 15 games and get into the NCAA tournament?
01:46
How is that possible?
01:47
I'm sitting here admitting.
01:50
I'm like, Indiana was 19 and 12, whatever it was, and I said, they don't deserve to
01:55
be in.
01:56
And yet, we're allowing 15 lost teams in because they play in the SEC.
02:03
You know, that's some serious bullshack, is what it is.
02:07
It's absolute bullshack.
02:08
And the North Carolina, I'm not going to keep repeating myself.
02:12
They shouldn't be in the tournament.
02:14
And they are.
02:15
So, you know what's going to happen.
02:17
They're going to win.
02:18
They're going to win tomorrow against San Diego State.
02:21
And you know, I'm not going to be surprised at all if Texas wins.
02:27
And you know, these other, the thing that gets me is how, you know, and I wrote this
02:32
on, I told you, I wrote this on X.
02:35
They have screwed up Indiana basketball so bad, they paid the football coach $8 million.
02:41
That's how bad, $8 million a year for Cignetti.
02:45
Meanwhile, they can't hire a basketball coach to save their ass that's ever going to make
02:49
a matter again since Bob Knight won three national championships and the only undefeated
02:53
season in college basketball history, 32-0 in 1976.
02:58
They are no longer a blue blood.
03:00
They no longer matter.
03:02
And they have ruined Indiana basketball.
03:05
They really have.
03:06
And then what really gets me is that they stick their nose up to the NIT and any other
03:11
tournament that wants them.
03:13
Whereas like I come from the school of thought of, you know, I'm a baller.
03:18
I want to play ball.
03:19
I'm on that team.
03:20
I want to go play in the NIT or I want to go play in the tournament in Vegas, the crown
03:26
with the rest of the big 10 teams that are going there.
03:29
Like I want to go play ball, but, but Indiana turns their nose up to all these tournaments
03:34
every time.
03:35
If they don't get in the NCAAs, shut it down.
03:38
Their season's over.
03:39
They just pack it in.
03:40
And I think that's bullshack.
03:43
I guarantee you, everything I said about that administration and athletic department, I
03:49
said, they, these morons have ruined Indiana basketball.
03:53
Bob Knight is turning in his grave at what they have done to Indiana basketball.
04:00
It's embarrassing now.
04:02
Are they really?
04:03
I have to say this because I'm a jerk.
04:05
You're really, you're going to hire the Drake coach?
04:10
That's it?
04:11
You know what?
04:12
What is next?
04:13
You might as well hire me.
04:14
I could coach him on a bottle of rum.
04:17
Like what is happening here that, and now what did I hear today?
04:21
Mick Cronin's a favorite for the Villanova job, but Indiana doesn't want him.
04:25
Wow.
04:26
Oh my God.
04:27
Don't get me started.
04:29
Like I can't even, I listen, I'm going to, I'm going to take my Indiana sweatshirt out
04:33
in the backyard and burn it.
04:36
I'm glad my son didn't transfer to Indiana.
04:38
My daughter, you know what she said?
04:39
I said, where are you going to school?
04:40
And she goes, I wouldn't go to that hillbilly school if you paid me, she called it a hillbilly
04:45
school.
04:46
And let me tell you something, uh, West Virginia, they know about hillbillies too.
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