Nightcap Hour 1: Arizona SPANKS Arkansas + Illinois MOVES PAST Houston + Iowa UPSETS Nebraska + Purdue SURVIVES SCARE vs Texas

20:13Shannon Sharpe:you don't normally see this many points in the third round game. You see this in a 1-16 matchup. You see this in a 2-15 matchup. But this is a 1-4 matchup. This is a sweet 16. You don't normally see this, Joe. You see this. Normally you see teams blowing out teams. Okay, Prairie View somehow make it. Or you saw what Florida did to a... Who was that they played, Joe? Was that on PV? Was that Prairie View? When?

20:45Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. We saw the score get out of hand like that. That's what we normally see in the first round when it's so, the talent level is so mismatched. Yeah. We don't normally get games like this. Not 109 to 88. Damn, hey, Uncle you put it on, huh? No, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, Ocho got a cheer. Ocho got a cheer. No, it's not me. Hey, listen, listen, it's like you got, It's like you got paper cuts and I'm just pointing out.

21:14Chad Johnson:No, again, we got to talk about the game. I understand that part. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah, it's a little sensitive. It's still early, but I will admit Arizona was a much better team. Like I said, man, the physicality that they played with, establishing their bigs from the start, Ocho, throwing that ball down low and them guys getting buckets, getting fouls. And, man, we just never could recruit from it. You know what I mean? Like, if our outside shots ain't falling, then it's going to be hard for us to stay in the game. I know we're a high-scoring team. We played against a great – Yeah, you had 88.

21:44Chad Johnson:Yeah, but we –

21:45Shannon Sharpe:You had 88, Joe, but the bad part about it is that you gave up 109.

21:49Chad Johnson:Yeah, I'm saying you can't compete like that. I mean, there's no resistance at 64 % from the field. When have y 'all ever heard of that, bro? You probably won't even hear that the rest of this tournament.

22:01Shannon Sharpe:Like I said, maybe in the first round when you get a 116 matchup. But you don't normally when you get this deep – because the teams are a little bit more matched. They're a little bit more evenly matched. Now, occasionally you get a Cinderella, but we don't get the Cinderellas like we used to get the Cinderellas, where we got George Mason getting all the way to the Final Four. And we got, what was that, Florida Atlantic, Florida Gulf Coast, that was a couple of years ago they made that deep run. Or you get Loyola Chicago making a deep run. I mean, we really haven't seen that type. I guess if Nebraska – excuse me, if Iowa makes it all the way to the, you know, the Final Four or something like that, you can say that's a Cinderella.

22:44Shannon Sharpe:But normally we get teams that we're not used to, you know, the mid – oh, Miami of Ohio many, many years ago. I think they took – what was that? They took – that was in 1990. I think they took UNLV. They ended up winning the championship and they took them – they ended up beating them, but they took them down to the wire. but this was a I mean I don't know if I've seen such a balance six guys in double figures all the guys I mean nobody missed more than four damn shots that's crazy Joe just imagine if you're on a team Joe y 'all get up y 'all get up that many shots and the most shots that one guy missed was four four yeah I told you it's like video game numbers in order for Arkansas to even have a chance tonight let's say there was nothing that they could do with Arizona on both ends of the court.

23:36That means their players would have to match what everybody from Arizona did. That means they would have to have a goddamn out-of-body experience from the two and from the three to even make it a goddamn game.

23:46Chad Johnson:Yeah.

23:48Shannon Sharpe:I don't even know if Acuff goes crazy and he gets 35, 40. I'm not so sure that even makes a difference because they couldn't get stops. So it doesn't matter. Once you fall behind, it doesn't do you any good to match bucket for bucket. because you're not making enough threes to dig into their twos that they're making. So that was the problem because Arizona would come down, get a bucket. Arizona come down, miss. Arizona go down, get another bucket. You come down, you miss, get another bucket. And the next thing you know, a four-point lead is a 10, is a 14, is a 19-point lead, 20-point lead. And you look it up, you're like, well, damn, how did this get out of hand?

24:26Chad Johnson:They played well. I thought they big, they came off the bench for Arizona. What's his name? Awaka? Yeah. He was a monster when he came in the game, man. Seven boards in 24 minutes, Joe. 14.6 for 10 on the floor from your bigs. That's what I'm saying. We needed at least one of our bigs to have pretty good numbers, just to be able to match. I mean, obviously, when you look at Arizona, when you really watch them play tonight, they were so much more physical than us, fellas. I mean, from the second chance points to just being a dog under the basket, they're big, so you almost had to double them because they were just scoring their will.

25:07Chad Johnson:You know what I mean?

25:09Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I mean, Del Osso comes off the bench. He plays 13 minutes, Joe. He has eight points. He's two or three from the floor, two or two from the free throw line, two or two from the three-point line. In 13 minutes, the guy gets eight points. A walker plays 24 minutes. He gets 14 points. Yeah.

25:29Chad Johnson:I mean, hey, I tip my hat to them, man. They came ready to play. They showed why they was the number one seed. And, man, they just kind of ran us out of the gym. You know, get kudos to my razor.

25:42Shannon Sharpe:Hey, Joe, you remember you used to go to the barbershop? Yeah. In the barbershop, they had that little strap. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Strap to the barbershop. They'd be straight to the - Yeah, they took that big old belt off and put it on Arkansas ass. That was it with Joe. Hey, Unc. Hey, Unc. Hey, Unc. Hey, Unc, can you hear me? Yeah. Woman pig.

26:10Chad Johnson:Hey, listen.

26:10Shannon Sharpe:Man, hey, Arizona eating bacon tonight.

26:14Chad Johnson:Eat bacon, crackless. I knew there was some guys - Hey, Pinky. Hey, pepperoni pizza free in Arizona. Listen, I knew there was some guys hating on my downfall. I knew y 'all were waiting for it. I already knew y 'all - Hey, Joe, you were doing all that popping. You were popping - I'm gonna do that, Joe. I'm gonna do that. Hey, I'm the king in all this stuff.

26:34Shannon Sharpe:You gotta learn to be humble. Hey, listen. Hey, listen. The chat had to gass him up, talking about King Iso. He got memes and everything. Everybody in the Discord, they calling him up. Listen, listen. Hey, King Iso, and still.

26:48Chad Johnson:Hey, hey, hey, I couldn't control the outcome, okay? I'm just the biggest supporter, biggest fan of my Razorbacks, all right? I can only do what I can do, fella.

26:58Shannon Sharpe:You can still support him. Yeah, you could. But they're just not going no further. Hey, honestly, I don't even think if Joe was back there, I don't even think they still would've came back to one that. Man, chill, bro. I'm just saying that's just the way Arizona dominated, Joe. It's not a slight -

27:13Chad Johnson:Ocho, I ain't going. I ain't going. I ain't going, partner. I'm just letting you know that right now. I don't know what you think this is. Yeah. What happened? I ain't going. I ain't going. He talking about if I was out there, we still with. Man, please. I ain't going. Yeah.

27:30Shannon Sharpe:I said bad. You said, Joe? I'm like, hey, Ocho, they're putting them up. I'm like, damn. I started feeling my butt, I said damn, it was like that, I thought I was getting my ass whipped. I was like, but damn, ooh, ooh, I'm okay, that's a dog. That's a dog.

27:48Hey, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, you brought it on yourself. They gave, oh Joe, oh Joe, oh Joe, it's all right.

27:53Chad Johnson:They gave us a good, they gave us a nice little whooping. They did, a nice, nice. They gave us a nice one, they gave us a nice one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they put pussy. Damn, all right.

28:03Shannon Sharpe:But you know what, all things being equal, Joe, you would rather lose like this than lose how Texas lost. And we're going to talk about that in a minute. But to lose, I mean, look, the thing is, that was just a better team. There ain't no way around it. Arkansas would have had to play their best, most complete game of the year, and A-Cuff would have needed to go for 40-plus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the only chance they had because, and hope they don't shoot like this. And even if he goes 40-plus, when you let the team shoot 64%, that means, well, damn, you got to get some stops at some point.

28:42Chad Johnson:You got to, man. And I'm sure Coach Kyle was talking to them boys before the game because I've been listening to all the interviews, and that's the first thing he was harping on was the, you know, being able to deal with their size, their defensive presence, and controlling tempo. We did none of that. Arizona came out the answer to the bell. From the start, I could kind of tell him, like, man, it just don't seem like, you know, we got that oomph that we need to really win this game. You know, Arizona just came out from the jump. Like I said, they was working through their bigs. Their bigs were kind of getting what they want, and I knew that it wasn't a good sign for us.

29:19Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. So, University of Arizona, the Wildcats, the number one seed. They get to move on. They're the number one seed in the West. They move on thanks to a 109-88 victory over Arkansas. Arkansas great season with their freshman of the year, SEC player of the year. Their season is over. Had a great season, 28-9. Kraken is built to make crypto simple. Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, and over 450 other assets in seconds. Fast account funding, fast withdrawals, and recurring buys if you want to stay on schedule. Simple, secure, and trusted for over 14 years. Download Kraken on the App Store or Google Play. That's K-R-A-K-E-N.

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32:59Shannon Sharpe:Their season ends. Arizona on to the Elite Eight. Illinois beat the Houston Cougars by the score of 65-55. The freshmen keep delivering for Illinois. Wagler and McCulloch are the first freshman teammates to each have double-doubles in the same NCAA tournament game since freshmen became available to play in 1972-73. You talk about 14-10 and 13-12. and they, you know, neither team shot the ball particularly well. But when you look at Houston, Joe, they shot two free throws all night.

33:40Chad Johnson:And win no game.

33:41Shannon Sharpe:The game would have been even more lopsided if Arizona couldn't have, the fighting Illini could have made that free throw. They're 12-21. Beat them on the glass. They beat them on the glass. Both teams shot 9 of 23 from the three. The Illini shot 43 % from the floor. Houston was worse, 22 of 64, 34 % from the floor. And we know the Cougars can turn the defense up. But in the process, they didn't really get anything cheap.

34:10Chad Johnson:Nah.

34:11Shannon Sharpe:They had to scrap for everything, and they couldn't buy a bucket. They couldn't buy a basket.

34:16Chad Johnson:They couldn't. I'm giving Illinois credit in this. They played hard. Yes. They guarded. They were tough defensively. It took Houston forever just to even score a bucket. Yeah. Yeah.

34:28Shannon Sharpe:Joe, I was looking at, I was like, hold on. Cause I had, I was going, trying to go back and forth and I'm looking, I'm like, damn, it's 15 minutes. It's five minutes already gone off the game and it's only 42. I'm like, what the hell? I said, they shooting in a peach back with a bowling ball. Cause I'm like, well, dang them. They made it ugly, huh? They made it real ugly. Illinois made it ugly.

34:51Chad Johnson:They did, bro. They did. They made it ugly. They were tough defensively, Arkin Ocho. And then they got, Illinois has got a lot of guys that can go off the bounce and they can score that ball and put pressure on you. I didn't think they played great, but they played good enough to win. Houston just played so bad at the wrong time that this 10-point victory for Illinois really should have probably been about 15, 20. Yes, absolutely. They looked terrible the whole night. I'm going to be honest with you. They had no type of chemistry, no flow, continuity, none of that coming in this game to where, you know, I thought Flemings would kind of get off to a good start, you know, kind of seize the moment.

35:34But none of that happened, bro.

35:36Chad Johnson:It was a super low-scoring game, and Illinois is –

35:40Shannon Sharpe:Stu Yarkovich looked good. He got – he had 13. How do we do lighting on prize picks? I don't think – I think somebody let us down. Would Brandon Smith let us down? because he needed 21 and a half, and I think he had 21.

35:56Chad Johnson:That's the boy from Purdue. Yeah.

35:59Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. I think for me, guys, if I'm Illinois coach, I'm like, look, guys, we did not shoot the ball well. We did not play a really good game, and we're moving on to the elite eight. Yeah. We got to feel good about where we are. We held that team to 55 points. But, Unc, you got to think about it, though. do you really tell your team that with the performance that you had tonight? Yes, because we can improve. You happen to get a win because the other team played so bad, but going forward, you're not seeing teams that are going to shoot this bad. They're not going to be that bad.

36:33Chad Johnson:Hey, Illinois' coach probably said telling his players, we're not going to shoot this bad. You know what I'm saying? That's what I'm saying. We ain't played no great game. We ain't played our best basketball, you know what I mean, against a top team like Houston. like they are two seeds like a lot of people had them pick to win it right i like illinois but i did not see them going i did not see them getting beaten i didn't you know i picked i i thought they

37:03Shannon Sharpe:i you know caught a couple of highlights of their game but man they guys who boy look here i mean they got about six or seven guys i can't pronounce their name they had to come from

37:19Shannon Sharpe:They had, they got brothers on the team. They got Timoslav Isevich, his brother Isevich, Storyakovich, Huberuchos. I'm like, damn, where y 'all get these guys from Illinois?

37:34Chad Johnson:And Storyakovich had been playing great the whole season. I can't believe he come off the bench. I thought he was starting. Yes, yes, yes.

37:41Shannon Sharpe:Illinois got a good team. And I think that's the thing. Look, that's the thing you do. I mean, we've all been a part of teams. We've won ball games. And the coach says, look, you never apologize for winning, but we know we can play much better than what we played. And so that tells you the room that we can improve because we beat this team, and this is not anywhere close to how well we can play.

38:08Chad Johnson:Absolutely. Absolutely. So if I'm Illinois, I'm feeling good about the next game. I mean, we played probably the toughest team, one of the toughest teams left in the tournament. Now we still get a chance to move on. We just got to tighten some stuff up and be better next game. But for the most part, Illinois has answered the bell, man. They answered the bell. Hey, who Illinois got to play next, Joe?

38:36Shannon Sharpe:Iowa.

38:41Shannon Sharpe:Big Ten.

38:44Chad Johnson:Oh, yeah, they both in the Big Ten, huh?

38:46Shannon Sharpe:Big Ten for a chance to go to the final five.

38:48Chad Johnson:I wonder what was the series like this year on them playing. They probably played twice, right? Probably two or three times. Yeah.

38:57Shannon Sharpe:And then, hell, you got Iowa State on the other side, and you got Michigan, and you got Purdue. Big Ten got to be feeling good about themselves. They're like, hey, y 'all looking at us at just a football program but they look at our basketball team.

39:08Chad Johnson:Yeah, Big Ten ball, they doing their thing. They said -

39:10Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, because you know, you think about Ohio State, you think of Michigan, you think of Penn State, you know, you think of big, you know, big football.

39:17Chad Johnson:Yeah.

39:17Shannon Sharpe:They're like, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. You know, we go, hey, it's time for us to shine too.

39:25Shannon Sharpe:I had Houston going far. I think I had Houston, oh yeah, I had Houston going to the final four. I did. I did. I did. Hey, how the bracket looks now? How the bracket's look now? Oh man, come on. Joe Cook. Huh? Joe Cook. Y 'all got me.

39:44Chad Johnson:I know Ocho probably cooked over that too. He will be tomorrow. Who, man?

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43:48Shannon Sharpe:You can't make this up all season long. Nebraska only said four players out. I will get some layup and one that really sealed the victory. I'm trying to figure out, Joe, out of a timeout, how does Fred Hoiberg, a guy that played the game, college game at an elite level, he's coached the game at an elite level, how does this happen? I don't know.

44:09Chad Johnson:How do you get out there? And don't notice you ain't got but four players out there, man. I'm saying, yeah, I put it on the coach, but it's players too. Like, I mean, it's a pivotal moment, man. We still got a chance. It was still 40-something, 46 seconds on the clock. You know what I mean? Like, you had plenty of time to get a stop and to come down and make something happen. I know they kicking themselves behind this, but I'm going to get Iowa credit, man. They were shooting a cover off that thing. I thought Nebraska shot the cover off of it, too. This was a good shooting game. These dudes play hard.

44:44Chad Johnson:Uncle Ocho, I thought they got great contribution. Iowa did from the bigs. They just know how to play make. They move the ball. They play the right way, getting good and wide open shots, playing for one another. And you love to see basketball when it's played like that, bro. You didn't know who was going to beat.

45:00Shannon Sharpe:Iowa did a great job of protecting the basketball also. They only had five turnovers. You're going to win a lot of games like that. They shot 52 % from the floor. They shot 43 % from the three. They only went to the free throw line. Like I said, it wasn't a whole lot of free throws. They went to the line 12 times. Nebraska went 11 times. It's kind of like out of a timeout. How do you get caught with too many men on the field to go out of a timeout in football? That's crazy. I'm like, bro. So I'm looking at basketball and I'm like, bro, how? How is this possible? Nervous. pressure, the situation, sometimes the lights when the light's too bright, you make mistakes like that, you're not thinking right.

45:45Overthinking it, analyzing it too much instead of just being stuck right in that moment in general. That's the only way something like that happens.

45:54Chad Johnson:Go ahead, Joe. To some extent, I think probably Horberg was probably too busy thinking about the next play, drawing up a play. But I just don't know how you I don't know how you didn't see it was four guys out there. This is really my first time, honestly. This is really my first time really watching Nebraska play in Iowa, too, in this tournament. They both look good. I think Iowa beating Florida has gave them momentum and confidence to feel like they can beat anybody. Yep. You know, don't pay attention to that nine seed they got. They ain't no AA. Hey, don't pay attention to that. Hey, them boys out there balling, man.

46:37Chad Johnson:They playing the right way. They playing the way basketball is supposed to be played, moving that ball, getting great shots. Mm-hmm. And great shots is exactly what they were doing. Hey, Joe and Unc, but only two people was in double figures out of the starters. Brother Sturz. For Nebraska? Right.

46:55Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, for the Hawkeyes.

46:56Chad Johnson:But you see them too. You see them too.

46:59Shannon Sharpe:The Hawkeyes had three guys in double figures, one starter and two backups. Two starters. Two starters and two backups. No, two starters and two backups. That's what I did. Well, they had four guys in double figures. I thought you was talking about Nebraska. Nebraska had two guys in double figures. No, I was saying two starters for all kinds. Oh, yeah. Double figures. But when you get that kind of production off the bench, think about it, Joe. Think about this. They got 38 points off the bench.

47:21Chad Johnson:Yeah, at a high percentage, too. It wasn't like them.

47:24Shannon Sharpe:They were just six or seven, six or 10. Their bench guys made seven of their 12. They made seven of their 12 threes. You getting that kind of production off the bench, hey, I'm laughing. Yeah. You get me in a college game, you give me 38 points off the bench, and you let them guys shoot like that for three, I'm going to win a lot of games. I'm going to win a lot of games. Oh, yeah.

47:46Chad Johnson:Oh, yeah.

47:47Shannon Sharpe:In college, I'm getting 38 points from my bench, and the guy shooting making seven threes, yeah, I'm going to win a lot of games. I am.

47:55Chad Johnson:Yeah. Yeah, and they guard too. It ain't just Ole when you come down here. Like, them dudes guarding too, Uncle Ocho. They ain't just out there offensively. Like, they playing great team defense, help position. Yeah. You know what I mean? Game rebound and we out.

48:14Shannon Sharpe:But I thought Iowa needed their bench tonight because they had three starters that gave them eight points. One starter played 14 minutes, gave them no points. Banks played 15 minutes, gave them two points. Kale Combs played 27 minutes, gave them six points. So, if they don't get that kind of production from their bench, they're losing the ball game.

48:34Chad Johnson:Oh, yeah.

48:34Shannon Sharpe:You can't have a starter play 14 minutes and give you no points. And another starter. So you got two starters that play 29 minutes and give you two points.

48:42Chad Johnson:Two points. You got to find a way.

48:44Shannon Sharpe:Three of your five starters give you eight points. You're losing that game unless you're starting. Your guys come in and they give you 16 and they give you 19 and then you get another three. A guy hits a three. I agree. So you get 38 points from your bench. Yeah, I agree. But contributions. Got to have. You got to have that. I mean, and, you know, look, it always happens like this in a tournament game. In tournaments, you always get – you always got to basically expect it and expect it because somebody going to pop up, Joe, that you least expect it and give you – oh, Joe, you know, give you one of those performances.

49:19Chad Johnson:Yeah. And that's – hey, look, that's what we needed for Arkansas. But anyway, I'm on to – Iowa was great. You know, you got to have, like Uncle said, you got to have contributions from guys who maybe you didn't necessarily think, you know, they were going to give you that much. You know what I mean? Like, you got some guys who will step up and play outside their bodies in this type of environment. It'll be great for you. And see, the thing is, it's like if you haven't played against a lot of these teams and you only get to play them in the tournament, you know, so trying to fill them out, it's kind of like boxing.

49:54Chad Johnson:You know, the first couple rounds, trying to fill you out, see what you got. It's like the first few minutes, I'm trying to fill you out, see what's going on. Then I can kind of make my move. But I think Iowa, man, they done found the remedy, bro. They play hard. Like I said, they beat the number one seed, which was Florida. Their confidence threw the roof. I think they think they can be there, anybody, Uncle Ocho. Yeah, absolutely. Once they beat Florida, then you got them two young bulls coming off the bench, playing like that, being that efficient, six for nine and one for six, six for 10, one for six for 11?

50:29You could damn near beat anybody.

50:31Shannon Sharpe:I think the biggest thing that has to happen, when you upset a higher seed, you can't be satisfied. A lot of times, you see these Cinderella's, they upset a number one seed or number two seed, they get satisfied. Iowa doesn't seem to be satisfied. It's like, okay, damn,

50:50Chad Johnson:we all here. Yeah. Yeah.

50:55Shannon Sharpe:You get your first basket. Joe, you get your first basket in the NBA. You're like, okay. Gee, man, that wasn't as hard as I thought it was. Y 'all going to let me my first time I touched a rock? Hey, I get the preseason game. Hey, the first ball they throw me. I catch a touchdown. I'm like, oh, oh.

51:17Shannon Sharpe:That's what, oh, okay. I'll do it right. Right, right. and you beat a team, you beat Florida when nobody gave you a chance, probably only people in the locker room that believed in you and your fan base. And you pull out that, just don't be, and we see this a lot in football too, Ojo. Sometimes a guy team get upset and they're like, oh man, we knocked off this team. And then you like, they go out there the next week, and they're in the league. And they're in the league. Yeah, it happened all the time. Nah, nah, don't be, don't be, be greedy. That's what I'm saying. You know, people are like, man, why you greedy?

51:50Shannon Sharpe:Hey, I want to win Mega Minion, Powerball, Cashflow, Cash 3, Fantasy 5. All of it. I'm trying to win. All of it. Every last one. Yeah. I need my coins. Hey, guys, you remember they used to send those flublishers clearing houses and they're talking about you can win four mistakes? You remember that? Hey, Joe, you take a picture with the check out in front, though? Yeah. Man, I remember that thing. They said, hey, you won a million dollars. I'm like, oh, I'm jumping. I'm happy. Man, please. Everybody got to talk about you want a million dollars. Hey, what is it? Lying, lying like. But don't think we didn't play Detroit and sit it in.

52:29Shannon Sharpe:Hello, hello. Cause you know, they used to, I don't even know, I don't know if they still even have that. But they used to announce the winners on television. Such and such won$1 million. Like, oh my goodness. What would it be like to win a million dollars? Especially back then though, huh? You know how much money that was back then? Man, what you talking about? man that that published it clear how they and uh uh y 'all remember uh the magazine uh i think it was a tv guy where you get like 13 cds for a penny yeah yeah what said yeah you get 13 uh eight tracks you get a cd you get regular yeah for a penny uh what was it columbia i think it was columbia chat what was it i don't remember that yeah Yeah.

53:15Shannon Sharpe:Y 'all don't remember you could get a record, you could get like 13 for a penny. Yeah, I remember.

53:25Shannon Sharpe:Hey, hold on. What was that? Hold on.

53:31Shannon Sharpe:I know I ain't losing my mind.

53:33Chad Johnson:Damn, man.

53:37Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I knew it was Columbia or something. And you could, hey, man, please. Why don't y 'all sign up for no more? Ah!

53:51Chad Johnson:Oh, man.

53:54Shannon Sharpe:But the hour moves on thanks to a 77-71 victory over Nebraska. Purdue, the best ball game of the night. Purdue beat Texas 79-77. Braden Smith's potential go-ahead shot was off the mark, but Trey, Kuffman, Wren was there Johnny on the spot and he tipped it in and they win by two points because they tipped it in with.7 seconds on the clock. The last second heave was no good. They shot 420 from the three-point line but all five of the starters scored in double figures led by Kuffman Wren 20 points leading the way. Look man hey Joe I don't know if you noticed this but the white off the bounce they were getting down

54:39Chad Johnson:Hey, Purdue got them all. Okay, Ocho. Purdue got, they guard play is immaculate, bro. Like, if they ain't - Both of them, pour your hand off Smith. If they ain't scoring, they making plays, bro. They putting pressure on you. Like, them dudes crafty is I don't know what. Like, watching them, I was like, man, I like these dudes here. But I thought they bigs were great, too. They just all around, man. They look like a great team. They looked like a well-oiled engine who was poised throughout the whole game and just applied pressure. I thought Texas gave them a great run. I like Mark.

55:15Shannon Sharpe:They gave them a great run. Texas played a heck of a ball game. They only had seven. I mean, Purdue had four turnovers. Texas had seven. Texas shot 52 % from the floor, 44 % from the three, 53%. They were terrible from the free throw line, and that probably didn't help them. but that number that number that number that number that number that lefty that boy got that joke is silky smooth he nice though he had 29 tonight yeah man that boy getting

55:46Chad Johnson:that chicken man that's a hey hey I'm talking about taking his time getting to his spots there's nothing they can do about that you know what I mean he just didn't he really didn't have a whole lot of help today but I thought they played well enough to win I mean they shot 52 % from the field you looking at Purdue they shot 48 I thought Texas was in the game you know they was able to make a late push I think if they could have got it to overtime I think they might have won it they got lucky to even get that close because when Buddy got that in one for Texas and tied the game up I said oui but I'm like bro

56:25Shannon Sharpe:stop this you doing this hey block the shot try something

56:31Chad Johnson:You know, the biggest glaring thing when I watch college basketball, it's the bigs and how they play post-defense, Ocho. They don't understand how to play post-defense. I think in college, I don't know if you can use an arm bar to put in his back. I think you kind of have to know hands, so that's why they always got their hands straight up like that.

56:54Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, you got to use your feet. Yeah, because they tell you just make him go up over the top. But when you've already bumped him with your lower half, it doesn't matter what you're doing on top.

57:03Chad Johnson:But what I'm saying is in the pros, it's a lot more physical. You can use an arm bar. You know what I'm saying? Like you can do all that. In college, it's like when a guy backing you down, you can't even give him no resistance. You have to just kind of take the bump and be able to resist it. You have to retreat. In order not to give ground. So I think that's the biggest glaring thing for me. When I watch these bigs play post-defense in the NCAA tournament, It's like, bro, you gotta give up, you gotta get way more resistance than that because these dudes gonna kill you.

57:34Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. Yeah, but I don't know how many of these guys gonna be playing in the NBA, Joe. They might be playing overseas. I know, man, I guess. Because the thing is, you know, like when you play the big down there, I mean, you can't just, just, okay, I'm just gonna have my hands up. You're gonna have 50 point triple doubles every night.

57:52Chad Johnson:That's what I'm trying.

57:53Shannon Sharpe:You saw Joel Embiid come back and we know what Embiid is when he's healthy. But any of them guys, you better offer some resistance because these guys go, look, the college game, because you know so much more. I mean, you're taught so much more, and you learn, you watch, you work on your craft when you're in. And because you have so many other things. Yo, I got study hall. I got weight lifted. I got this. I got that. When you're in the NBA, I just work on my craft. That's it. That's all I do. I ain't got no study hall. I ain't got no, I ain't got to go to no class. I ain't got no, my lift is, hey, I get, no, no.

58:29Shannon Sharpe:And so that's, a lot of times you see the improvement from guys once they get there and they get a singular focus. They get that tunnel vision and it just got locked in. And so this is all I got to do. This is it.

58:40Chad Johnson:Hey, it's some guys locked in right now that the tournament over with. They locked in on what their next move is going to be. And their next move is going to be their best move. You hear me?

58:50Shannon Sharpe:Hey, it got to be, Joe. I feel you might be talking about, you might be talking about Acab.

58:53Chad Johnson:Yeah, he comes in. It's over with. Y 'all know it's over with. That man ain't.

58:58Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, he was. I mean, a lot of these guys, man, after New Year, they don't be going to class. Nah.

59:03Chad Johnson:Well, I mean, when you done had the kind of season he done had, I mean, damn. I mean, you figure, you know, you want to take it as far as you can. You want to win an attorney. But, man, I don't want SEC. Oh, yeah, you hear now.

59:15Shannon Sharpe:I'm going to go as far as I can.

59:16Chad Johnson:Yeah, but I don't want SEC player of the year, SEC freshman of the year. I'm first team, all American. Man, please. What y 'all think I'm staying here for? I'm gone. I'm going to be a top seven pick. Top eight pick. Period. Hey. Oh, yeah. He definitely gone. For sure. Joe, you forget he got his own signature. Yeah, I'm waiting to see that. I'm going to definitely cop me up there, man. I appreciate Acuff and what he done. I ain't see this coming from him, you know, from no freshman.

59:43Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, he put Arkansas back on the map.

59:45Chad Johnson:Yeah, yeah, yeah. He got us right. He got us right. I appreciate him. Damn. Yeah. Damn, Joe.

59:52Shannon Sharpe:This was the best game of the night.

59:54Chad Johnson:Oh, the Texas and Purdue?

59:56Shannon Sharpe:Oh, yeah, it wasn't even close. It was back and forth, and it came down to – I mean, this is what March Madness is about. It came down to the last second.

1:00:03Chad Johnson:Yeah, yeah.

1:00:04Shannon Sharpe:Those other games were decided way, way – I mean, we just like – we probably should go ahead and go. Ain't no coming back. You know what I'm saying? Hey, hey, hey, hey, Ercho, you know in football, hey, did somebody get blown out? They going to another game. They, what they call that? What they call that? When they go to another game? You watching one game, it's a blowout. Oh, yeah, I know what you're talking about. Flex, yeah. We will go to a more competitive ball game.

1:00:37Chad Johnson:Hey, hey, that's it. But don't y 'all be surprised. Now, y 'all look up in Purdue. They in the final four. Purdue got a good chance, Uncle Ocho. Like I say, they got great guard play. They got some great bigs. They play together. Their continuity is unbelievable. The way they move the ball and get guys open shots. I like Purdue. Yeah.

1:00:58Shannon Sharpe:That two and three, that Brayden Smith and Fletcher Moyer. Yeah. Yeah.

1:01:04Chad Johnson:They out there getting money. Yeah.

1:01:08Shannon Sharpe:They did their thing. What you say, Ocho? I say tomorrow? We thought the day games were good, but tomorrow's straight and bold.

1:01:17Chad Johnson:They serious.

1:01:19Shannon Sharpe:Well, I hope tomorrow game, no, we got one good game tonight. I hope tomorrow's games are better than tonight's game.

1:01:26Chad Johnson:All four? Man, damn them games tomorrow. Man, damn. Oh, Joe. I ain't trying to all that. Been talking about some tomorrow games. Hey, Joe. Hey, Joe, you not excited for nothing? No, I really ain't, Ocho. If you just want me to keep it 100 with you, you know what I mean? I'm going to watch. No, don't keep it 100 with it, Joe. We got to be done. I know y 'all want me to keep it real, right? I'm going to keep it real with y 'all. I'm going to watch. And you know, just so happy we on night, I'm gonna talk about it, but I ain't like, you know. Right, right, right, hey, Joey, you know, UConn play tomorrow, you know?

1:01:57Michigan play tomorrow. No, Duke play tomorrow. St. John. Yeah, okay. I know it ain't Arkansas, but I'm saying we got some good basketball.

1:02:05Chad Johnson:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it'll be, it'll be. Look at Ocho. Yeah, I already know. Look at Ocho. You know, I know it in Arkansas. I ain't say nothing. See, I already know how you operate already, so I don't know. I'm on your side, Joe. No, you don't try to play both sides. I already know what's going on. I said, hey, look, who even got on here? I said, dang, how Ashley and Jordan have already got the boys in the hood, Ricky. Hey, Joe. Huh?

1:02:31Shannon Sharpe:I said, don't put that up there, man. Don't, don't, don't, don't do that.

1:02:35Chad Johnson:And then you're going to get on here and lie to me in my face. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't. Hey, Joe.

1:02:41Shannon Sharpe:Ash told me, because when I came downstairs, it took me a while to get downstairs. That old knee ain't what it used to be, Joe. So when I got down here, the first thing she said, look at IG. I said, what's on IG? So I didn't, I didn't, I ain't, I ain't no joke.

1:02:59Chad Johnson:I know Ocho was over there doing jumping, Jax. He was so happy. No, I'm not, Joe. I came on the show, Joe. I came on the show and showed nothing but respect. Even in loss, even in defeat, I still showed love. And I talked really good about y 'all, Joe. And I just said, A-Cuff did what he -

1:03:14Shannon Sharpe:Hey, Joe, you know what, Joe? Ocho been bagging on you, Joe, you know what I'm saying. Hey, go ahead. What we got for Joe to make Joe happy? Cheer him up. Whoopi. What? What's that? Me stepping. Yes, that's you stepping over Ocho, cause just what's gonna happen. Hey, that's me? Yeah, that's you. Look at, look at, look at, look at, Hey, that's not realistic.

1:03:43Chad Johnson:That's very realistic. That's very realistic. Oh no, hey Joe, hey Joe, let me tell you something Joe. That's not realistic. I don't care, court, hardwood, football field, that ain't realistic. That ain't gonna happen, especially not today. You hear me? Nah, I'm gonna have you feeling like this again when we play one on one. Now that's what it's not gonna do. I ain't going. After I get my fade, we play one on one. This is exactly how it's gonna go, partner. What kind of fade? What kind of fade? You talking about a haircut? Nah, I got these gloves, man, these hands. You, yeah, you, yeah. Okay, okay.

1:04:12I don't know how you gonna play one on one with two black eyes, Joe. I don't know how that gonna work, Joe. I don't understand.

1:04:20Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, but let me see what Ash was talking about because I was trying to get my - What the - I ain't see it either. Where's it on Instagram? You ain't see it on Joe? It's on Instagram? It's on IG. Let me go to Instagram real quick. Let me see what happened.

1:04:35Chad Johnson:Boy, look, I know y 'all are in the cocoon. I already -

1:04:42Hey, Joe, what are you taking off?

1:04:43Chad Johnson:Chill, chill, chill. Chill.

1:04:45Shannon Sharpe:Man, dude got that pump action. Hey, boy. You got them boys, hey, the boys scatter, Joe scatter it, man.

1:04:58Chad Johnson:Boy, they did us bad, they did us bad. They did us bad. Hey, that's on Twitter too or just Instagram? I told them to put that up there. It's all right. It's all right. Y 'all have y 'all fun with this. What Joe, I ain't make fun with Joe. Y 'all just gonna make it hard on yourself to whenever. But if y 'all wanna look.

1:05:27Chad Johnson:Hey, you all gonna make it hard on y 'all self. Joe got that 1980s, look at that Joe got that 1980s cut. He got them leopard pants shorts on, don't they? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, see this, I know this not realistic. If I got them leopard pants on, if I got them cheetah pants on, I'm not losing at nothing. Not with them on, them good luck. Man, please. Hey, hey, hey, hey, look at y 'all.

1:05:49Shannon Sharpe:Hey, y 'all look who in the front. I see it. Look who in the front, Joe.

1:05:53Chad Johnson:Are you the ref?

1:05:55Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I'm the real.

1:05:56Chad Johnson:And that happened in round two. You see that, Ocho? Yeah, that ain't realistic, Joe. That ain't realistic. What that is, wrestling? Nah, uh-uh. That might be a little, Nah, that's gotta be boxing. It gotta be boxing. But ain't nobody got no gloves on. He done tucked the gloves off. Yeah, it's over with. This foe trying to hip you up in everything, man.

1:06:22Shannon Sharpe:Hey, hey, look at these brackets. Look at these brackets. Now look at the brackets.

1:06:29Chad Johnson:Damn. I don't, I don't.

1:06:38Chad Johnson:You in first place? Don't do that, Joe. Take the surprise out your boys, damn, Joe. I'm saying, you got a lot of red up here. Hey, I do.

1:06:51Shannon Sharpe:Y 'all got more red though. No. Y 'all about to bleed out after the ball.

1:06:56Chad Johnson:What an Ocho guy? Man, Ocho ain't got nothing but red up there.

1:07:01Shannon Sharpe:Well, first of all, you and Ocho tied. Are we? Yes.

1:07:08Chad Johnson:I'm not the tied right, so. That's the only reason why we tied, because he picked a wild cat to eat a hog. That's it. He ain't, he ain't. He don't know. Yeah, hey. Hey, I didn't mind about mascots. Either way, you gonna come in last, Joe. That's all that matters. I still got more green than y 'all.

1:07:25Shannon Sharpe:Ojo, Ojo said he picked the wildcat to do the hog.

1:07:31Chad Johnson:That's the only eye he wore.

1:07:36Shannon Sharpe:Lord have mercy, this joker here.

1:07:39Chad Johnson:I can't believe this, man. I really can't, guys. Hey, it happened to the best of us, Joe. I know you had high hopes.

1:07:51Shannon Sharpe:Woo, check this out. After St. John's upset Kansas to punch their ticket to the Sweet 16, Rick Pitino didn't hold back, declaring the era of the Blue Blood programs is over. The Blue Bloods no longer control basketball any longer. There's no difference between Kentucky and North Carolina than Illinois and St. John's. There's no difference anymore. There's no difference between Michigan State, who's a Blue Blood, and the other teams from the conference from Mississippi. When they get going, it's all going to be the same. Joe, has NIL and the transfer portal, has it leveled the playing field? Because before the NIL, Indiana had no chance of doing what they did in football.

1:08:33Shannon Sharpe:16-0. So now it's made a lot of these programs. You see what Texas Tech was able to do. You see some of these other programs, Ocho, that were typically doormats. Yeah. And now all of a sudden, they're playing in the college football playoffs. Now all of a sudden, the teams that normally were there, And he said the Blue Bloods as we know them, the Kansas, the Kentuckys, the North Carolinas, and all these teams, it ain't normal. It ain't.

1:08:59Chad Johnson:It ain't. I agree with you. I think the playing field is so even nowadays, fellas. You know what I mean? That the Blue Bloods are really getting kicked out. When you think about it, you know, it's not like it was back in the day. Everybody wanted to go to Kansas, Duke, or Kentucky. It's not it. With college basketball being a professional sport now, it's different. You know, you got a lot of these cats, they going with a bag at it, just like anything else. You know what I mean? Yes. Now, they ain't going to come out and tell us they going, but come on now. Come on now. We know.

1:09:38Shannon Sharpe:Because think about it, guys. Before they was giving out them bags, the Bonds were going to North Carolina, Duke, Kansas, something better like that. a cuff going to one of those blue blood problems yeah yeah and the funny thing but now money is money hey his money's been over here at arkansas just like that money's been at duke north carolina yeah tucky it all it all spent the same and you know because say the same thing you have coach coming out saying this about basketball that the blue blood program no longer run college basketball hell didn't nick saber say the same thing about college football well this is when the playing feel as even now everybody we can go and get whoever we want yeah need some boosters or we need a little cash just a little change you know that's very enticing all you got to do is incentivize the better kids to come to your school now if you got enough money and all of a sudden you ain't got no control on that and they want it and they want they want they like capitalism but you see what they're trying to do to them college kids because a lot of kids they're getting that capitalism how How they looking, Ocho?

1:10:40Shannon Sharpe:You know what's going on. Hey. Now all of a sudden, we need to put control on this. Yeah. Oh, the portal, the portal. College coaches always have a portal open. Always. Yeah. Yeah. You see them coaches start leaving. When all of a sudden that NIL came to be and the money was going to be spread around, all of a sudden, you know what? I think the game has passed me by. You think? Now all of a sudden, you ain't the only one. Now ain't nobody care about no scat pack. Ain't nobody care about no hell cats, no demons. Yeah. Those guys say, hey, Texas say, we got Ferrari and Lambo. Yeah. Ohio State say, what you want?

1:11:22Shannon Sharpe:These other programs offer you money too. So guess what? We see these coaches start to dip. Coach K, then you saw Roy follow him out the door. Yeah. You saw Coach Saban. He's like, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. and win but don't don't do that and i think coach saban is the greatest college coach ever but we know what time it was hey now all of a sudden let's get a hold on this let these kids these kids no no no no colleges robbed these kids for so long a long time let them get about 15 20 years to get back then y 'all want to do something with it but now i don't do nothing with it now because you know why y 'all know why they want to do something with it now but i thought we love capitalism.

1:12:06Shannon Sharpe:America is the greatest country in the world because you can come from nothing and make something. Da-da.

1:12:17Shannon Sharpe:Hey. Hey. An American dream. Whoa, whoa. Now they tell you don't dream too big. Ah, nah. Let me get mine. No. These coaches been jumping and jumping. Now you want to cap it. You ain't put no cap on how much these college coaches make. Not in football, not in basketball. Now, I get it. Now, if you want to say, look here, man, I'm going to give you five years to play for. You shouldn't be 25, 26, 27, Ocho, playing college, no sport. Get your ass out and get a job, get a wife or get whatever, but you shouldn't be playing with no 18, 19, 20-year-olds. You shouldn't have no seven, eight years. Draw the line in some way.

1:13:02Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, we got to draw the line in some way now, Joe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We can't have no 26, 27-year-old playing damn college sports. I got to tell you, too, Unc. Go ahead, Ocho. Are there certain scenarios, Unc and Joe, certain situations, injuries, ACLs, or things? COVID messed it up. What COVID did, COVID knocked. So basically, now, and guess what, Ocho? Now kids can go to JUCO and they ain't even went to school. So you still got five years to play four in college.

1:13:31Chad Johnson:You can do two in JUCO and steal some props. Yes! And that ain't nothing. But it's schools out here, Uncle Ocho, like the University of Arkansas, to where when they get these casties, NIL money, they don't even tax it. It ain't even no tax on it. Yeah. What? Yes. Yes. It's some schools who giving out NIL money who don't even, who don't even take, you can't even collect tax from it. Hmm. These guys, hey, man. Hey, they getting it, man, by the boatload. You hear me? I'm trying to –

1:14:06Shannon Sharpe:And I ain't got no problem with it. I ain't either. I'm trying to get it. Because for the longest time, guys have always gotten money, but they didn't call it NIL. No. You know, from high school coaches or parents getting jobs at the university, mom getting a home or a car or getting a job or something. Yeah. I tell you what, you buy the car, I'm going to have this school here to put gas in it. If somebody bought the car, somebody else put gas in it, but I'm going over here because they bought my house. There you go. So I don't have a problem with it. I want these kids to make as much money as they possibly can because for the longest time, colleges have used their name, image, and likeness.

1:14:55Shannon Sharpe:And I don't have no problem with guys leaving because guess what? That college scholarship is for one year. College can get off a player after one year if they see fit. But now when the players got a little power and they can go somewhere else and get a little bit more money, oh, that ain't how you do business. How many coaches have released a player that he thought he had a four-year ride there? Oh, it's been plenty of time. Exactly. Yeah. So I'm going to guess what? I play good over here. Somebody – you paying me a million, somebody going to offer me two?

1:15:28Chad Johnson:Yeah, that's why. In college sports, they can say what they want, but there's never gonna be any loyalty in it when it comes down to these guys making money. They in it for making money. But it's a bit, I thought it was, hold on.

1:15:41Shannon Sharpe:You see what, Joe, you see what you just said? It's a business for them, but it's loyalty for us. Right, right, right. Drop y 'all, please. Hey, Joe, you know the funny thing about it too? Oh, you want us to be loyal while you doing business?

1:15:55Chad Johnson:Mm-hmm.

1:15:56Shannon Sharpe:We being loyal. Nah, it's a business. Guess what? I'm a business too. I'm incorporated. I'm an LLC. Hello. Yeah. And so I need to worry about my bottom line too. Like you worry about your bottom line, I need to worry about mine. So guess what? We both worry about our bottom line. What is in the best interest of you? What is in the best interest of me? If it works, it works. Because if it makes dollars, it makes sense. With a C and with an S.

1:16:26Chad Johnson:Come on. Which is why you got to recruit your players every year. You absolutely do. You absolutely do. No matter the relationship that you think y 'all may have a great relationship, you got to still recruit that guy, man. Because guess what?

1:16:42Shannon Sharpe:Don't you got to recruit your girl every day? You got to wake up every day, Joe, and kiss her and tell her how much you love her and how much you miss her. And when she gone for a little while, you say, baby, I missed you. I'm so glad that you in my life. You got to recruit. That's what you do in a relationship. That's how you stay together for an extended period of time, guys. You got to recruit the woman that you with. You got to recruit the man that you with. Somebody else trying to recruit her. Somebody else trying to recruit her. Hello. Get what? And get what? He got NIL dollars, too. Because the guy that you...

1:17:15Shannon Sharpe:If somebody see you... You know what, Joe? I'm going to leave you. Go ahead. Come on. Come on. I stepped in the water. The water was cold. It chilled my body. but not my soul. I stepped in the water. I said, Lord, Lord, have mercy on me. Because trust me about this. If somebody see yo with you, Joe, yo girl with you, yo girl with you, Ocho, guess what's coming? Another dude that got an NIL package. So you got to recruit her. Just like these crews got to recruit them. Because I stepped in the water. It was up to my knee. I said, Lord, Lord, have mercy on me. Y 'all ain't ready for real shopping.

1:17:57Shannon Sharpe:Y 'all ain't ready for real shopping. Because he asked you. You know in Malachi 3.8, he asked a rhetorical question. He said, will a man rob God? He already knows the answer. He said, yes. Theoretically, you can't rob God, but you can and tithe and offer it. He said, now, in 3.10, he said, now, if you believe in me, if you tithe and you offer, he said, I'll open up the windows of heaven and plow you out a blessing. you will not be able to receive. That's what the Bible teaches us. So if you don't recruit your girl, that relationship because the school and college and a player is a relationship.

1:18:39Shannon Sharpe:You don't recruit or somebody else recruit me.

1:18:41Chad Johnson:Hello. Damn. I like that.

1:18:44Shannon Sharpe:I like that.

1:18:45Chad Johnson:It's cold out here now, fella. Damn. Yeah. Hey, you know the funny thing about it, the game always gets cold. The game always been cold, but now we got jackets. Yeah, look, look, check him out, check him out. Huh?

1:19:02Shannon Sharpe:You know what I'm saying? Now we got jackets. We got the church, we got the doors of the churches open.

1:19:09Shannon Sharpe:Now you know what I'm saying? Hey, you know what I'm saying? Now look here now. We gonna play as the complexion played around. Now, God don't like noise. You know what I'm saying? That's what it's saying. God don't like noise, Joe. I don't like no noise.

1:19:22Chad Johnson:No, uh-uh. Hey, you know what? After hearing you preach, you are also a brother of the cloth with me. You are now anointed, huh? Yes, sir.

1:19:38Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I'll say, oh my goodness. But you know what? I think as you get older, you learn a lot more because, guys, you know, we weren't recruiting nobody. Hey, this is what it is. Stay if you want to. Leave if you want to. As you get older, you know, your boy ain't what he used to. You know, I got me a little cane. I don't get around. I don't move fast. I can't catch what I used to catch. You know what I'm saying? I can't catch what I used to catch. You know, you get what you can now. Yes, sir. Once upon a time is what I wanted. Now? You get what you can. Yeah, man. Hey, when you go fishing, I don't know if you, Joe, you up in deep sea fishing?

1:20:25Chad Johnson:No, I ain't been deep sea fishing.

1:20:28Shannon Sharpe:Sometimes when you go deep sea fishing, you looking to catch a particular type of fish. Come on now. You get to be my age, you can't get on a bike. You know what I'm saying? I catch catfish, I catch crappie, bass, walleye, pike. You know what I'm saying? Flounder, sheephead, rockfish. What's up? I like it, I like it. Whatever biting, whatever biting.

1:20:53Chad Johnson:It's a little different nowadays. You know what I'm saying? It's a little different.

1:21:00Shannon Sharpe:It is, it's absolutely, it's a lot different. Yeah, yeah. It's a lot different out there. But you got to. And these guys know their value. Get what you can get. Obviously, you want to go, you know, I think for the most part, 90 % of guys that go to college have aspirations of playing in the next level. Absolutely. Probably 10 % will. But in the process, if I can make me a couple of million dollars before I even get there, why not? Why not? The game is the game. They done played it a very long time. Yes. Pendulum has happened to shift now. And now with that pendulum shifting, now they want to control it.

1:21:41Oh, now they want to change the narrative. Well, hell, you done made, oh, you made billions off playing for years. Billions. Ain't nobody better than I. Ain't nobody said nothing. Nope. Oh, now the playing field is even. Oh. It's a problem.

1:21:59Shannon Sharpe:Come on, child. All that money y 'all done made off the backs of these college kids. Now it's a problem. They getting a little bit, they still, they could never, because the system that was in place, it was in place for 75 years. So it would need at least 75 years for them to catch up. Now they get a couple years. They get, what, four or five years of NIL money? Now all of a sudden it's an issue. Now all of a sudden.

1:22:20Chad Johnson:Oh, yeah, they're going to come up with something to where they're going to catch up. Of course they are. They're going to just continue to let this go on.

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