The Final Ryde | Barstool Pick Em - Semi Final Preview

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All right, I got it now, but now I got extra people on it, but that's fine. What are you, what, what's up with the, uh, what's up with the vest? Is that, no, is that a sweater vest? No, it's a one, it's a one piece. It's a one piece, but it's, it's the way it's cut. Looks like a vest. Yeah. It's a one piece. That's all fabric. Got it. What is it for oral Roberts? I kind of like oral Roberts. Yeah. Okay. Okay. How, how, how are the holidays? How's everything? Good. Yeah. Good. You know, chaotic, but good. Okay. Everything's good with, with everything. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What was that pause? I'm being, I'm being, I don't know. I don't have anything planned Bosco. I'm not. There's no, I got nothing planned. No. Yeah. Uh, yeah. We got to get a new piece of paper. That's all. I know. I mean, Dave's got a million things on. Do you decide what we're at Dave or no. Okay. Did you ever reach out to him? No. That was the, you're supposed to call. He never reached out. Yeah. Remember he, Dave said, he's like, if you don't call, I'm not going to do anything. Correct. And I didn't do anything. All right. I also respected you were pretty busy. And no, no, it was actually like, I haven't traveled since mid December. It's actually the, so, because I know you forget generally, like I don't celebrate Christmas. So it was a very, it's the first time I could relax in a bit. Now I'm back in the grind. Like I'm traveling. Uh, I, are you going to, is there a birthday party? No, I can't make it. What? Why? What do you got? We couldn't swing that weekend. And then we have a wet, as it turns out, my wife has two girls who are having an engagement party and you're going to an engagement party for the one night. Yeah. We couldn't get my people to watch my roommates for three straight nights. So yeah, there was, it's heartbreaking, but we couldn't make it work. Isn't that the birthday party you said you were going to destroy? Yes. Yes. In a, in a fit of rage as a joke. Yes. Yes. So is that, is it partially like you don't want to be seen there? No. It's like, I re no, when the sprinklers come on at the, Oh, it's say it again. Why can't you go? It's difficult to get somebody to watch your roommates. That's cold for babysitter. A little bit. Yeah. So you can't get a babysitter for what? It would be leaving on Friday back Monday. I mean, it's over the weekend reached out a couple of months ago. The people that usually help us out, they got stuff going on. You had two months to find a babysitter. Couldn't do it. We couldn't make it work. Yeah, no, you listen, you can't go to everything. You can't go to everything. Like, what do you, it's, this is leisure. Like you can't go to everything. Yeah. I would like to go. I think I'm not, I'm going to be out then because I was feeling guilty and I have so much going on and I don't want to go, but I know he really wants to be a goal. I thought it's like, Oh, Boston was gone. I may not go now. I know. One's going. Well, Dave, you got to also like, if boss was not going, like I said, there might be some, some malfeasance land. No, there's no, no feces. Hold on. Getting back to the thing. I read, I read the whole receipt and there was basically like, all right, whatever you decide, like Hank, are you going to, is there a birthday? No. Oh, okay. So yeah, no one's going. I, I, I cannot go. And then you were like, all right. I don't know. He's guilting me. Like something fierce. God's throwing. It's like, I just read that, uh, Tiger Woods is throwing like a, we're here. Tiger Woods throwing like a party at the breaker. A 300 person party with a throws themselves. Who, what phone men throw themselves? Birthday parties, like sweet 16 parties for yourselves. I've never heard of it. Uh, go ahead, Hank. I know what you're going to say. DP 40. That wasn't me. That was Gaz and Lewis. True. I was the last one who wanted to do that. That was a paid sponsored event. Fair. All right. So Rico, what, what, what's the issue here? No, there's no issue. It's just, I read out the receipt and was basically like, oh, I'm going to do this. You're like, Hey, I don't have a number. Like you're fair. You're back to your contract. Dave said, whatever you don't call me, I'm not going to care. I'm not going to do anything. Okay. All right. I've said this a million times. I've absolutely no fear of you going somewhere else. You can't go anywhere else. You're I'm never going to fire you. So I don't understand what, what is what? Is there a new number for 2026? That's what I'm asking. Well, I, I, I think you have. I think you had to propose. So I'd be like, no way, but like, you're already making a lot. I did. Well, this is deja vu. We're going around the same thing. What's your number? You haven't given it to me. I'd say 4%. Okay. So I could do the math on them. Right. That, I mean, that's, that's, that's as simple as where we were. Like it was not a, but you never followed up. Agreed. All right. That's, that's fair. But yeah, it was a miscommunication of how we, we kind of left it off, but I don't think anyone was miscommunicated. I have no interest in chasing down all the people on month to month contracts to, to like, to, to deal with them. I mean, year to year contracts. Oh, okay. Yeah. What not month to month, year to year. Okay. That was my question. Yeah. It's a pain in the ass. I actually have to talk to you, Dave, sometime this week, but I'm, I'm waiting to collect all of the things at once. So I don't have to, it's a pain. I just ignore it. You call me, I deal with it. Yeah. And I didn't want to call you like four times and be like, Oh, this person and this person. So now I'm listening to the people in that category. The hard truth are people that I have zero fear that they're leaving. They're lifers. So it's like, if you're not a lifer, obviously we pay a lot of attention to the contracts because they're, they're, they're out there. They're trying to get deals. They're getting other offers. We have what I call the circus, which are lifers. And I, they're never going anywhere and that's great, but I'm not laying up at night on new year's Eve, watching the Dick Clark show, waiting for the ball to drop. You're like, Oh, I got to redo Bosco's contract. I'm going to wake up and he's going to be at fucking bleacher report. No, I'm not worried about that. Agreed. And nobody said that nobody, but there, yeah, there's a formality to it. All right. It's the new year. Like, yeah, you're not, but, but why you Dan's right. I said, I think I, verbatim I'm like, I'm not reaching out to you. If you reach out to me, I'll have the conversation. I'm not going to hang up on you, but you didn't reach out to me. All right, cool. I respect it. That's again, that's my apologies, my miscommunication, my screw up. But I also knew again, like, it wasn't going to bother you over the thing I said, what I was going to say, it was never going to be a back and forth. I don't believe that part of it. Like that you care about bothering me over what thing, like over the holiday break. No, I don't believe that. You would have just, you knew he wasn't doing anything for the, it is he's mentioned how it's a point of contention doing all these contracts. Like, yeah, there was like 15 days of holidays. all right all right all right i i if he doesn't believe it that's fine that's what i was i just wasn't so what so what are you gonna do are you gonna actually are you gonna are you gonna call him or text him after this yeah i'll pick up the phone quickly i mean this is kind of basically the same yeah it's the same it's kind of the same thing it's basically that's it yeah but like this is this is pick them so i would if i were you i would send a text at the very least being like here's four percent here's the number i'm hoping to get this maybe i'll tell you go fuck yourself maybe i'll say you know i'm in i'm in the giving mood for the new season i don't know but i would follow up i think you're i think you're so into you know cosplaying as a basketball coach you wanted to be recruited you wanted to be winded on by dave you wanted dave to reach out to you i'm always going to be a victim of my sins i i think i've turned the corner i think i've changed my ways that also had nothing to do with what i was saying you just went into like repeat mode there yeah you're not a victim of your sins you you're you're you're not you just went into autopilot i don't follow i was well you're not being treated any differently than anybody else yeah and i was making i was making a joke that you wanted dave to like pick up the phone and call you and then you just started going i'll be a victim of my sins yeah in the past i can't do that what i did with big t what i did i wasn't talking about any of that i was just saying because back in the day i used to do that like when as soon as it ended i'd be flipping out like oh i'm fucking a free yeah but you're not getting treated any differently so you're not a victim of your you're not being paid like you're not being punished for being a psychopath who tried to commit murder a couple times no my point is when he says oh you want to be recruited that's a victim of my sins in the past of things i used to do when i was a difficult pain in the ass and this and that which i've definitely tried to shed trying to shed that but i also think you did want to be recruited a little okay well that's your opinion dan well i mean it was so clear that all you had to do is text or call dave in the last three weeks okay so i screwed up there it's okay not my first not my last listen up here my wife and i are always getting 10k steps a day and what do i need bombas summer's here and we're living for all the outdoors from runs in the park to beach days backyard barbecues even my walks every single day bombas makes your comfiest summer staples so you can make the most out of all your summer plans they've got a whole line of pro level sports specific socks for golf yoga the gym and socks for every kind of runner what i love about bombas is not only do they keep my legs feeling fresh after a long flight when i go to italy even on my honeymoon they also look amazing and come in vibrant summer 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gotta go uh do not disturb mode thought it was the no dave what happened was riggs reached out to mincy and offered him to stay with him and then oh we lost him no i'm here i'm trying to get into do not disturb mode but i think when i do that i'm gonna lose you guys for a brief minute oh go to mincy and i'm gonna lose you guys for a brief minute oh go to mincy and i'm gonna lose you maybe go to sleep uh yeah sleep is it that's what i do but now it's like it's a little bit off you keep swiping yourself out yeah all right i'll just go with it um riggs called mincy it was like hey you could stay at my house and then wanton don called biz as a joke being like hey mincy needs a place to stay and then mincy saw biz's backyard and was like oh i want to stay at so now he's splitting it up date one day at both places yeah it's crazy barstool scottsdale yeah he's doing an event there right did you see yeah he came he came in because because he i've told him i told him from the beginning of this entire thing i was like not one dime of barstool's money is going to pay for any of what this trip is for you i was right we're going to we're going to pay for tate's flight there and back and not a single dime is going towards the end of the trip the mincy fund and he still will try to figure out ways so he came in on on sunday for the stream and was like hey did you hear about the party we're doing at barstool scottsdale i said mincy stop right now i know what you're doing you're trying to get me to pay for this and then like like the next day he was like what if lucas comes in videotapes uh tate for barstool after dark and i was like i know what you're doing mincy he has this little smirk every time because he comes up with these ideas well i just hope he's not self-aware that's my opinion i'm not self-aware am i that and i don't think he is but like i don't think he is either and also i had i had uh tate and viva la stool block mincy on twitter so he can't see the tweets that tate's putting up that's good yeah he can't see the tweets i don't i do not think he's self-aware at all the way he talks maybe like a tiny bit what do you think hank he's gotta be seeing these tweets a little but but like for the most part this is how he moves i know that's true like him walking on the phone he spends all day on the phone like he had he's been offered i don't know like a hundred tickets to this game and he keeps like wheeling and dealing like someone offered him free tickets up top he's like no i don't want those i'll find better than like he's so i don't i think this is how he operates he also rarely gets the tickets yeah yeah what do you mean i love mincy we're we're we're pals he loves widespread panic i went to a show with him in new york a bunch of us did uh kind of fan not really couldn't couldn't care too much last year he talked about widespread panic coming in june probably for eight months like he would just come up to me and talk to me about this concert we gotta go i'm like sure sure sure when it comes up we'll go when it came up i had friends in town i was like hey can you get us those tickets he's like yeah no problem could just could not could not get the tickets oh yeah i mean i feel like that happens where it's like he talks about stuff so much for so long and he's so sure about it you're like oh the tickets are a sure thing i don't know but they're just not you like you think mincy's getting free tickets to anything to give like none of it he talked to me about the show for eight months like he would just come up to me in february and i don't all thought yeah i also get it i know the drummer i know the manager like they're gonna come to the office it's gonna be i'm like great awesome like mincy doesn't make nothing like hanks rich like well we'll get a bunch of broke just buy tickets like i don't understand this ticket thing at all well i mean i i told mincy i was like dude you make money you could get a hotel and he's like wow i got mexico coming up and all this stuff did you see though the reason why i don't think he's not he's he is not self-aware yet did you see the text of him like he immediately the minute he was got biz in the mix he started texting people for tickets and throwing biz's name yeah that yes i just that's the most like mincy thing possible but um it's quite something we'll see how it goes uh bosco are you coming are you coming for for streams are you doing any streams with us championship weekend for sure okay great okay great and are you uh how's house call going great pft today later today uh am i on next week yeah we uh okay never mind no no no i mean we're bad we're very bad with planning i request i asked to go on the show yeah we're very no you're in you're very we're very bad with planning with guests we want to get coach uh obviously he's got something going on this week so with a couple left yeah who's coach coach gruden all right so i'm out i'm out no you're not out you're not out you're not out it's fine you're not out we're very bad planning the guests yeah if you want to do next week you're in for divisionals that's great sets us up actually hooks us up that's perfect um how you feel about the nfl dave going into the playoffs i i think we can win the super bowl i think we can be done on sunday i i think it's wide open there's no quarterback i'd rather have than our guy um so i i'm excited i'm excited i'm nervous i i i think anybody can come out of the fc i think anyone can win the super bowl i'm very excited it's crazy how wide open i hate the monday night game hate it hate it i agree with why playoff should be done on sunday like it rapid you lose a day yeah i don't like i like it i'm uh i'm thinking about going on saturday night with eddie i i'm wait i'm just getting gearing up for like a torture what do you think on what i said i said the whole season's a loss if you guys lose people have been i said i'll wake up barcelona kind of went viral a little bit with people discussing whether the whole season is is a bust if you lose the backers the whole season is not a bust the way you look at the season is tainted that's what i've said from the like everything's on the rise ben johnson kill williams been great so it's like the way i would explain it is you if if my outlook for the future will not change but i will look back at this season and be like well fuck that was nothing nothing changed in this season i said it was like the um to a lesser extent the guardians tigers when the guardians caught the tigers this year and won the central then immediately lost them in the playoffs you can't go around being like remember when we fucking came back and won this you lost them in the playoffs yeah but i to me that's none of it's just a rivalry the backer like guardians tigers who fucking care i'm saying like you can't say you can't if you lose to your to to your division rival in the playoffs you can't be like well we won the north yeah but it's oh see i think outside of this i think you almost can't but it it's it's this is such a bitter rivalry i agree with that too if you got if you had this great of a season you win the north you do what you did williams takes a step up you lose to anybody else yeah you'd be like that sucks we lost in the wild card but like all right good things to build on like we'll see how it goes you lose to the packers it's like oh mother fuck it changes the whole no the shape it's it's basically the difference between like oh the tides have actually shifted like the bears are actually taking they won the north and they beat the packers or it's oh it's the same as it's and it's the packers aren't like some old team on the down where it's like oh they're coming down and it's the last you're both young up-and-coming teams in college football back the desmond uh damon williams yeah i i have no problem with what he's doing none like i i it's a scumbag move to sign four days and then lane kiffin who's a scumbag signs you and sam levitt's there and you announce during a funeral of another athlete yeah not the best optics but the world college football is in nil the difference between four and six million is a shit ton of money that's like a huge gap for a kid your family whatever nobody's loyal to anybody there's no loyalty in this sport right now at all i don't know that really ever has been but the ncaa created this mess eventually they're gonna have to fix it um but i like people trashing him if you're not in his shoes like this is the it is a rock rough dirty gross sport right now and nobody should be held to higher standards if you four to six million that's not 4.1 million that's a fucking shit ton difference so hey i'm never a kid for doing that yeah like it sucks the world eventually schools are gonna have to step up and maybe they do like you can't force the kid to play at washington you may be able to be like you signed a contract you can't leave i'm not sure and you're gonna sit out like that's what would happen in pro sports but i don't like there's no loyalty so i don't get why anyone thinks suddenly there is loyalty it's crazy well let me ask you this though have you seen what's going on in oregon this kid jayden lamar's running back is transferring he just announced days before the the semi-final oregon's running back room is decimated this kid had a cup he had the longest reception i think last week with texas tech he can play a little bit they're down at two running backs maybe three was jeff schwartz was was tweeting the first off you're on the cusp of a national championship like the calendar is fucked up the kid shouldn't leave because you're on the cusp of a national championship i mean lane different agreed yeah last year he's fucked up too but this kid the my point is this yeah it's days before a national championship that's like what more do you want out of college but money changes everything but also this if the if the room is so decimated he's gonna get carries he could play a little bit you can showcase yourself in a final four which he's gonna do what he's gonna do and potentially a championship the yeah but dan the price would go up that's what he's gonna get carried no he should like have confidence in yourself there's no better time to showcase yourself no he he should what i bet you he's probably doing in having a conversation right now is just pay me for these next two games and i'll stay i'll stay on the team for the next two games the course is calling and your chevy equinox can take on whatever the day throws at you stylish and ready for anything equinox handles your commute weekend trips and even those last minute tea times easily load up your clubs and gear with plenty of cargo space plus hidden storage under the rear floor to keep things neat and with a big standout touch screen the equinox puts all your tech right where you need it bold and confident equinox looks just as good on the road as it does down the back roads from the first drive to the final putt equinox is built to do more so you can focus on the game honestly i don't know where we're getting to the point what would prevent the kid from just transferring week to week the way we're going like what is to stop somebody like hey my quarterback went down got hurt i'm gonna go pluck a different one what is the difference if a kid can do what williams is doing right it which he signed the thing and he's like oh i got a better offer what would stop someone mid-season from just being like see you they just offered me i i don't know that there's any difference no they do make you sit you can't they don't know who they don't make you sit in c they don't you can't play in season you're saying oh yeah that part i i think it's dave no you have to you have to actually enroll in the school which is stupid you can't just go why can't they do that quickly i don't know i i think you have to enroll in the school at a certain time yeah i think you have to enroll in the school at a certain time yeah i think you have to enroll in the school at a certain time yeah it's all stupid but but you're right like there are it does feel like we're getting to a point where you could everyone's so scared of a lawsuit that it doesn't it doesn't feel like any of it matters i uh and then you're gonna get people gonna be like oh washington you're suing this kid he's a kid a teenager you're not letting him play so i don't know but the whole thing's fucked and it's all the ncaa's fault but i boy listen i some people may not do it some people some kids may not be like oh i'll stay for the rest of my life stay for four even though i got offered six i bet most would go that's a huge fucking difference yeah and you have people like that kid the kentucky nebraska kid people were killing the nebraska kid yeah he didn't even sign he just said he was gonna go and then he went to kentucky it's like okay he didn't sign who the fuck cares yeah it's a dirty game the calendar is fucked too because now you got indiana miami ole miss and oregon a little bit penalized for getting this far that the transfer portal starts there's all the other indiana supposed to be trying to win that nah that's that's that it's opposite no i mean they're i'm just being honest rica like indiana you think indiana is not killing it in the transfer portal because they got basically they and they can basically say look we're in the fucking we just we just housed bama yeah that's one way to look at it i agree i do think it's still fucked up there's still games going on these guys are supposed to be reviewing film working for the game and the clock well there's different people doing my my main point to this was you can't single out anybody in this era from lane kiffin to this damon williams it dirty it's all dirty nobody's dirty in a weird way the dirt is up front it's it's pretty clear whoever pays the most gets it there's no loyalty and honestly like a lot of these kids who fucking knows what their future is like go get as much money as you can yeah it is it is the wild wild west college basketball's in a fucking shit show too we got guys playing nba games or or in dress it's a no no one's played nba games they were in summer leagues they got drafted the whole thing is a fucking disaster i got one quick question for rico yeah is the is the minnesota daycare kid a rider rico uh i know he did yeah potentially like yeah he's got to do lord i saw that wait what happened unbelievable you can see this dan the kid who the kid who broke like nick shirley the kid who broke the or has been credited with like exposing the minnesota somalia like health kit the daycare scam he also ran a scam on nadoo and made nadoo think he was auditioning for an italian movie with jerry and marty mush and they were like had nadoo thinking he was auditioning for a part like goodfellas oh my god i kind of vaguely remember this now there's like a zoom call he's having to do go through the lines yes so he's a little bit he's a rider by proxy for sure i love that yeah he's a rider by proxy for sure i love that yeah i love that i love that i love that i got a rider now on my hands huh this detmer guy my is a rider who yeah i wasn't missing qb coach i wasn't out like i wasn't gonna out my guys yeah he got in touch with you well i i knew it from the last time when we were at colorado i mean at utah yeah what he reached out to you directly no i just okay but somebody got somebody's number you got whittingham's cell phone number and when i asked how did you get this number a rider gave you that number listen this thing works in mysterious ways yeah i want to know that he's got a mole on his staff i didn't even want that cell phone number whatever what do you think of the coach good high him it's great i'd be happy unbelievable higher i could i didn't expect it at all did you expect that at all i mean i didn't once he left you heard his name had come up a little bit uh i i don't know how long they knew they had him he says pretty quick from after when he left utah but no they a lot of their guys are not coming back and they got a great coat so i'm excited we're wearing great for all the going on michigan's in great shape yeah they uh the the ohio state fans were mad at me dave because i actually don't know if you use i did you even use this no i saw it i think michigan broke ohio state again it is true they put all their marbles in their game And then they lose their next two. It sucks that I had to like – but like I just – it popped in my head and I was like there is a kernel of truth in the fact that Ryan Day put so much into this game that the minute he won it, he was just like – Yeah, he took their foot off the pedal. I also am lobbying for there to be an asterisk next to that game. I don't even think it should count. You can't win a football game, and I didn't realize it going in, what was going on with the Michigan head coach. You have no chance when he's like an inch away from being in a straitjacket. I mean, he's fucking the assistant. It's falling apart. He's holding butter knives. Oh, we weren't focused for a game, you think? We didn't have coaching? So I – great, Ryan Day beat Michigan when we had no head coach, no plan, no nothing, total disarray. Like Ohio State's a joke. That's what they are. I said that was my other angle is that Ryan Day, like imagine, beat Michigan. I spent all this time trying to beat this guy, and I lost to him last year, and then it comes to find out that he's just been coaching with like a boner the whole time. Yeah, serious. That's got to fuck you up a little bit. The whole team was in turmoil. They may never win again. And Ohio State's such Ohio State that D-End, he's like, we know what happens when you play them 100 times. We win 99 in Miami. They're just losers. And he gets outcoached every big game, every big game. That was – That was – that one was shocking. I thought the – the Indiana-Bama-Rose Bowl was one of those moments where I did put a lot of money on it, and I wish I had just put like – I wish I put everything, like everything we have responsibly because I was so confident going into that game. When I talked to you, though, you said you were going to maybe double it down on Georgia. Did you do that? I split half on Georgia, half on over. So I basically washed out on that one. All fucking year, I was like, Georgia sucks, and I fucking hit them big. They tricked me. Now, I don't know. I don't know if they were a victim of the break. The only team that came out was Indiana. Georgia looked like they hadn't played in a couple weeks. But no, that's not true, though. They were winning at half. They were up nine at half. Yeah, yeah. They just – they just made mistakes at the end, like not running the ball on goal line, having that blitz, that, you know, man coverage on the outside with Chambliss. Like, they just had crazy – and, you know, Frazier gets hurt, so that obviously – that obviously changes it. They can't run the ball as well. But I just feel like they just had – and Chambliss is just insane. He's just playing out of his mind. He's like – he's impossible to bring down. Some of those plays are nuts. All right, let's go. That'll be interesting to see because Miami's going to get pressure instantly, and it's just whether he can run around like he did the other game. Like, I was more impressed with Reuben Bain than I was with anybody, like, I've watched all season. I agree, but the other thing was, like, when Ohio State – when Ohio State started going tempo, they did start to get a little gas, and you know Ole Miss is going to do that all game. So, it's a fascinating matchup. All right, let's talk about the games. What makes the Papa John's Ultimate Pepperoni Pizza ultimate? The proof is in the pepperoni and loads of it, with no artificial colors, corn syrup, or MSG. The Ultimate Pepperoni Pizza, now only $12.99 for a limited time. By the way, Pat Hill's standings looks like I'm going to win. I'm up 15th. 51.3%. Today's 50.5%. Rico, your comeback effort fell short. You ended with 45%. Bob Diaco's standings, you and Ivo are tied. So, I think you guys have to – you guys both have to give a semifinal pick, and if it's still tied, you both have to give a finals pick. I love it. Yeah, I'd love to take home that. Okay, so can you get that pick from him, Jack? Do you have one? Okay. All right, let's talk the games. So, we have Miami Ole Miss to start on Thursday night. Ole Miss is – Ole Miss is plus 3.5, over-unders 52.5. What are you – are you going Miami? You going – you riding with Danny Boy Kane, Dave? Yeah, I – yes, I'm taking Miami. They're hot. I just am not sold on the SEC at all. But my confidence is not high. I don't love the game. I mean, I love to watch the game. I think it's going to be a great game to watch. I'm going to take Miami, but I don't have strong conviction. So, I'm going to take the over 52.5. Because I think of the tempo thing I mentioned, that they're going to – Ole Miss is going to try to run tempo on Miami to neutralize that defensive line. I wanted to take Ole Miss because I thought – like, I still don't really trust Carson Beck. I think Miami's very, very good. But I can't take him because it keeps nagging me that Ole Miss – like, how many coaches do they have? And this is also the first time they have to play in the playoffs now that's not a rematch. Yeah. So, they played Tulane. They played Georgia. Now it's Miami. Miami full new prep. And I don't – I just don't know how many guys – how many guys are there doing prep. Did you see, by the way, Joe Judge's quote about adversity? That was nuts. Yes. So good. He said, I used to live next to Aaron Hernandez. So, this is nothing. Good perspective. So, I'm taking the over in this game. Rico. I really like the under. Okay. Miami's defense obviously held A&M to 89 yards rushing. There was a shitload of wind in that game. Yeah. I mean, you can't – you can't – still 45 on Ohio State. That was okay. Like, you can't run on them. They forced Reed to two interceptions, saying the two interceptions. I like the defense here. I think Ole Miss is going to, yeah, run that tempo. But, I trust Miami's defense. I think Miami's going to try and set it up with the run. Beck, you always worry about those big interceptions. You know, he's had his problems. He's been okay down the stretch here. Pittsburgh A&M and Ohio State, he's got a five to one ratio. But, you – USF, he threw two. Louisville threw four. SMU, he threw two. In the big games, he's very up and down. You always worry about that with them. I think they're going to lean on the run more and kind of slow it down. I like the under here, the 52. I really do. Okay. All right. Next game. Oregon, Indiana. Let's see. Right now, the updated line. Three and a half. Is it three and a half or is it four? Total 46 and a half is what I'm seeing. Three and a half and over under 47 and a half. Okay. I had written down four. So, three and a half. 47 and a half. Indiana is so fucking good, man. They're so good. And Cignetti's the man. I actually – Dave, you know what? I kind of – I made the analogy. They're similar in not like apples to apples, but the Michigan team two years ago who just did everything correctly. They did not make mistakes. They tackled correct – You know what I mean? Like where it's just – The level of coaching on this Indiana team right now I think is so high where they're just – They're just always in this right place. They always get like – You know, on first down, they always make sure they have a positive play. They're just so well coached. And they were a buzzsaw against Alabama. So, I don't really want to go against them, but I do think it's hard knowing that these teams played each other already. Yeah, so – And Lanning's a hell of a coach. I like Oregon. I think this will come down to the wire. I think it's a – They're both well coached, but the psychological advantage, of losing, and I don't put it on the coaches, I just think when you lose to a team, it helps you so much in the rematch because you know they already beat you. They're both very good teams. I thought Indiana would smash Bama. They did. I think this game is an absolute coin flip. I'll take Oregon. Pasco? Talked about it with Oregon's running back room. It's a fucking disaster. Down to two or three guys. The problem is Oregon's obviously got to throw it. They had 81 runs. They had 118 rushing yards against Indiana in that game. Neither team – Indiana only had 111. I think teams are going to have to air it out, so to speak. The defenses are very good. You worry about Moore, four interceptions in his last four games, and two in the first matchup against Indiana. So if we're going to be throwing the ball, just can't fucking turn it over. And he's had a propensity to turn it over – I don't know if that's the right word – to turn it over in the last couple of games. I worry about that a little bit. I like Lanning in the rematch. I really like – I have already – Oregon to win the whole thing. I'm very worried about it with the running backs. I'm leaning Oregon with the Ducks. I'd like them back in the championship game. I do think the rematch to Dave's point helps. Cignetti's a hell of a coach. Mendoza's awesome. He doesn't turn it over in the big games. Oregon's got to figure out a way to establish the run. I like the Ducks. I'll be rooting for the Ducks. I think the rematch favors them here. It's going to be very, very close. I'll go with the Ducks. And if not for those turnovers, I think they win that game because Indiana had to pick six, right, in a big spot? No, Oregon. They picked six. Sorry. All right. Indiana had a big – I'm sorry. Oregon had a big turnover to kind of – Oregon had a turnover where Indiana picked them off to seal it in a really bad spot. That's what it was. So you just can't turn it over. Moore's turning it over too much. You can't turn it over. What? Moore threw a bad pick to Indiana, I feel like, in that game. It was a long time ago, but it was – Mendoza threw a pick six. Mendoza definitely threw a pick six. And then they came back and scored. Everyone's like, you know, oh, he's got guts. He shook it off. I think Moore's two picks in those games were very bad as well. Well, a pick is never good. Never good, but it was in a – No, that's not true. I guess if you throw a pick at the end of a half – Like a fourth down, arm punt kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, and they catch it. It's like a punt. Yeah. You can have a good pick. I don't remember his interceptions. The pick six is clearly – Definitely. That was the Rick six. I kind of like – That's one of my – let's say your admirable traits, Bosco. Like when you get something so clearly written wrong like and you're building your entire point on something that is just wrong you don't really slow down when you get pointed out that it's wrong you just plow through and continue making your point and just really don't shift it even that much right like the uh and he he doesn't he can he's he's basically he's water he can he can just flow over anything where it's like the entire uh what the last two years dave all we've heard is rick patino is a terrible hire for st john's because they don't have anyone coming after him and then kyle whittingham who's 66 gets hired at michigan he's like great hire incredible hire different sport yeah but yeah but but i think both are great hires like i'm consistent i don't think age matters really dan it's it's apples and oranges michigan has facilities michigan has a base michigan's won titles michigan knows what they're doing they're going there st john's been irrelevant for years but what does that have to do with like rick patino maybe not coaching in five years from now because kyle whittingham will probably i would i would imagine kyle whittingham will not be michigan's coach if you want to give me over under five and a half years i'll take the under i think you have great five years that when he's gonna be 70 that when the next rick patino might be able to overcome all that shit within five years the next guy is not going to be rick patino and still has to battle all that shit you know what i'm saying what if rick patino builds it up they're building i keep practicing this and that the place is going to be fucking empty on wednesday nights again in january fucking dummies i called those guys out like it was dummies your hatred for st john's is great unless it's very simple unless they hire one of my guys who is could be anybody chris mullen nah well it's my guy for sure but yeah i don't think he's coming back but yeah i mean they hire one of my guys and then and they embrace us and we build it back up i'd love nothing more than for us to watch st john's and be like oh my god i don't think he's coming back i don't think he's you're kind of like you're kind of like a mini mincey and like i i i'm not gonna talk to you unless you give me tickets but if you give me tickets i'm in no i don't not really tickets okay well i mean tickets jumpsuits what's the difference i guess yeah but i mean i'm truth i form a bond with these people though these are become friends with these guys okay uh i'm gonna take the over in this game 47 and a half i'm excited for this game it's gonna be uh we'll see what the i mean the the the danny boy kane we tried dave hardest negotiation ever yeah austin said he had like 13 phone calls with danny boy to try to put that together maybe for the national championship we'll see uh which is in miami that'll be something miami and miami i know it'll also be something if it's miami oregon with crystal ball yeah yeah true true for what it's worth on draft kings the look headlines uh oregon and indiana are favored against miami and old miss whoever comes out of that shocker yeah okay plugging the pals just plugging the pals yeah i will say the lines i'll say the lines i think miami matches up better with indiana because uh mendoza's not as mobile so maybe that pass rush you can get home versus them and create like they did with saying but what time is it by the way i gotta get going you still got you guys like three minutes i mean it's it's almost it's almost 10 it's not 10 yet indiana minus eight and a half against old miss indiana minus five and a half against miami oregon minus one and a half against miami oregon minus four and a half against old miss good job bosco okay there we go all right uh mortals i'm gonna go over the old miss uh the old miss miami game 52 and a half hank i gotta go old miss mincy okay old miss plus three and a half zoopy there's really no reason for us to do whatever we'll keep doing miami all right uh under old miss miami and then ebo has miami minus three and a half is his okay dave i'll go uh oregon but i mean by the both games are kind of coin flips to me yeah by the way this is the last pick them so we'll release the if if bosco and ebo tie again we'll just release it on the twitter tweet it great season boys great season a lot of fun a lot of highs a lot of lows really came out hot out of the gate i'd like to look back at the uh did you see they're on like it still kind of blows my mind i'll be watching an nfl game and there'll be a commercial and it will wake up i know that it'll be nidoo it'll be bosco like yelling at nidoo like what the hell do people think is this pick him that was all right bosco send us off with your mortal it's so hard for me because if the championship on the line you should ride with you guys with the ducks i really really like that under with miami old miss but fuck it championship on the line ride with you guys i'm going with oregon plus the points but i with that said i really really like that under miami old miss okay i like that over even more now all right i'll see you guys later what what what are you giving see you dave have fun what are you giving that face for bosco uh no i've been pretty good with the big ones work hard and hydrate hard with body armor flash iv whether you're working in extreme heat or powering through a long shift body armor flash iv delivers a lot of heat and delivers faster longer lasting hydration with more than 2 000 milligrams of electrolytes vitamins b and c and zinc coconut water and no artificial sweeteners flavors or dyes body armor flash iv keeps you performing at your best get body armor flash iv at your local 7-eleven yeah i mean i mean i i didn't win rider of the year so i don't have to be obligated who did win rider of the year no we never announced what do you mean announce it right now i i don't know it's it's jr it's it's 26 i just assumed i didn't get anything in the mail i didn't get any alerts i didn't get anything so i was like all right i guess i tried my hardest to win rider of the year i i didn't win it so it's one of those things it's one of those things you know in your heart dan you think you want it i do you want it so everyone can say that no hank can't say it no no no no no no no no no no no i am if it's if the criteria is if it's in your heart then yeah i am that's we're going off that if that's the criteria 100 when are you moving to chicago you might not accept it now but in like three years you'll be like you know what hank was right over the year three years ago that's that's the game i play all right fine then i'm not worried about big picture i'm worried about big i'm worried about i'm worried i am you're worried about rico and the big picture and not and not poking him i'm you're just a poker when did i poke this episode that's all you do i didn't poke at all you put you started the whole poking two episodes ago no yeah you did that was the big episode poke what do you mean when you did the numbers what numbers the numbers of like the of everything the social and everything you started reading the text advertisers yeah advertisers yeah i was in his corner i was trying to have his back uh this is like i'm brand safe when are we moving no yeah of course when you when you're moving let's go i'm a noble guy by the way rico thank you for putting me under them we need you to get great shoes hey bleep that out we gotta know they're they're in he's paid yeah we're boys paid yes okay then they are great shoes wait that got official i think so that's what i'm hearing who knows do you go up to the sales team and just like ask them random questions in the middle of the day like hey what are you hearing about this is my name getting floated around no because like how would you how do you say that's what i'm hearing because like i i don't well i've had when they plus that's nick mulcahy oh that's all right that makes sense because i was just saying like there's no way not even a sales like i don't even i i have people i i should know this stuff and i don't like go out and seek it i'll just be told when i need to be told that we're doing something but rico's like that's what i'm hearing like you're so you're just texting mulcahy and asking him for buzz no it's not mulcahy it's you know what a victim of your sins so jackie wants to throw that out there who is it release your sword don't be don't pout about it i mean jack you have conversations with people of like yeah and they hey this is put that or people again people have come up to you hey that we're talking to these guys it might get deal with sales guy comes up to you and say hey we're thinking about closing noble like what do you think about this hey bosco can i bounce something off you real quick is it a fellow island boy they said you've been thrown around in the mix you're in that package like you know keep doing what you're doing yeah okay like that's whatever here's what it is man oh sorry i i wanted to ask do you think dave's gonna win this race oh fuck we should ask him i don't know i don't even understand the race i gotta call him right now so no no no no jesus christ don't call him well yeah he's he's on it's a good time he's in transit no but he literally do you listen to anything that anyone says he said text me the number all right just text it to him he said if you if you're smart you will text me what you want he said text it to him right now say that am i making that up he said text me the number and i'll i'll do the math and get back to you right don't call him right now text it to him right now you just had two weeks to call him but you didn't do it and you didn't do it you're waiting till you know that he has to go to a he has a tea time and you're gonna call him when he's rushing to get to the tea time call him on hole one how is yeah but he doesn't he's he's telegraphed this for you he's told you what to do agreed the car the car is the it's free time to talk that's when i pick up the phone a lot i think you text it to him right now and then call him immediately and be like did you see my text yeah see this guy's rider of the year this guy's a rider of the year get the fuck out of here i'm at least telling you what you i haven't been listening to when dave tells you what to do every time all right we just text them all what'd you did you text him yeah okay oh fuck what i text him double what do you mean texting him double like double my own number what what what like i doubled it like you added like you meant to send a couple of zeros you send 40 yeah you asked for a 40 percent raise all right that's all right so we're good i just uh does he text it back why'd you text you're a dick just ass face i texted dave hey dave did you see rico's text just want to make sure you're on it just ask it see like but again though like listen whatever there's a lot of like you don't got it that's a chop you know that's a chop you know he doesn't give a fuck about that but part of it though was hey you can't be a fucking asshole you're not painting the ass very good you've been great you've been great but you still love to throw around you're like oh you want to be recruited where the fuck am i going we tried that once before she ran me out of town well because because you you did you did date the the recruiting comment comes from the fact that dave could not have been more clear on what you should how you should proceed and then you just didn't do any of it so that only leads me to believe i think you're a smart guy i i think you i think you can follow directions so my would you rather the other alternative here is that you're just dumb because i don't talk to you like you're dumb i don't like that i rather have aids exactly exactly so which one do you want yeah but in in truthfulness like i'm not a lot like i when he said it i read the receipt he goes all right that's a great speech fucking i don't know if it got you a dime more i'm gonna run the numbers and like we'll see what's going on so like at that point and then you reach back out you become like no you're not listening you're not listening there's a clip where he literally said he said it on this podcast he said you need to call me i'm not going to reach out to you he's on our twitter exactly he said exactly if you do not contact me i will do nothing yes he said this exactly word for word he said that this is where i don't want i don't want to okay so i'd rather accuse you of wanting to be recruited free t-shirt at a dance pile if you figure it out and give us the full layout i'm 99 sure that he said all that then i went to the receipt where he was still that was the statement that stayed that was you needed you never gave him a number with the receipt do you know how many part of my plan was not i didn't really have a number so you want so you wanted i just said you no i just said whatever you think's fair like if you think there's a little bump you do that you that's it that's fair you realize from dave's point of view because i deal with this with you with people here like when someone walks in my office and they're like hey whatever you think is like okay for me no give me a fucking number you don't negotiate like that you don't say oh yeah i'll just float it out like you have to say a number then i can say a number back and then you're good right but we've gone through so much of that hostile negotiations that i truthfully was ready to be like whatever number he puts on that paper i'm gonna be okay with but i think you get that like that was a change you're saying the whatever number because you're hoping that he'll just say a number that's way bigger than what you actually want that's the only way that's the only reasoning that someone does what what you're you're saying you're doing like the only reason someone walks into negotiation says why don't you make the first offer is because you're hoping that it's so much more money that you never even thought about asking for okay and if you think that's true maybe but i will say also he says he's a pretty fair guy so he wouldn't just be throwing around a crazy nut like if he throws out that number he thinks i earned it so then at that point it would be unfair dan for him to throw out that number me be like holy shit this is fucking awesome and then make me come back over the top again like tony with ralph like you already got a pot like and then more no you don't do that if he says it he's not he knows the market he's not gonna overpay whatever he says is fair so if he came with that number i'd be like okay yeah so you think that way i'm you see my way as well i think it's pretty level-headed no no i i don't think anyone in the world sees it no i rico i'm telling you the truth i see your way don't think hank does not he's not even listening right now there's a late charge from the nine horse coming back no one in the no one no one no one operates the way that what you're suggesting no one no office no no boss ever says hey come in ask for a raise but you you don't have to give a number you can just say i i want a raise and i just yeah it's accurate and i want you to say the number first boss so you gotta say it and you said it so you're good yeah i mean i was also playing safe too in the sense of like if he didn't think i got a raise there is no pat it's like you like i will i listen what wait say that part again if when we when we got to that tipping point last week and he was like hey it's probably flat there wasn't gonna be any pouting i'd be like okay like i i truthfully believed you do what you do you let the scoreboard take care of itself there's no more back and forth there's no more pouting like i'm i've been pretty confident in my ways of how it's going to take care of itself and we'll see how it goes so i don't know whatever whatever you're good yeah i'm i'm doing well okay great i think i'm going back on the juice though oh okay wait yeah i really do yeah why it's kind of been unsustainable he went off he went off the juice and couldn't even get more than four percent what's the point no it's not that it's just become unsustainable that's true everyone's like you gotta get off the juice you're you know and he did and he'd be delivered and it's like yeah like what percentage is being off the juice worth yeah i just i think it's like i gotta yeah i think i gotta get back on i think you should do whatever is best for your mentals so if you gotta get back on the juice get back on the juice yeah it's become it's that's not fine it's a fine line yeah i agree i agree i'm holding it together but it's uh it's a fine line as a rider as a potential rider of the year 2025 i need i need the boss man mentally there because what people forget is like i'm still able to control it when i want i was on the juice last year for the tournament had an unbelievable run yeah this year i should did you know nico harrison in uh in san antonio it's crazy ditch me at dinner ditch jack at dinner unbelievable run i'm excited for marsh madness rico i can't wait can't wait all right i'll see you all right great year thanks everybody for listening to pickle year love doing the show with you rico seriously love doing the show with you okay you don't want to say anything back i love you too it's been a great year it's been a great year