Hour 3 - Playoff Seeding, Dan Hurley

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I think that's what they should do. After the wildcard round. Just recede. Be fair to the teams that played well during the regular season and your record should count. Now, I know it's not balanced with who you're facing in your division, and the NFC West may play the AFC East. I understand all of that, but I still think if you had thirteen wins but you're not hosting a playoff game and you're hosting somebody who had ten wins or they're hosting you, I don't think that's right. But the

Hey Darren, thanks for getting the call. I was just calling to see in all of sports, has there.

Been anything coaching wise as dominant as Gino and what he's done. And it may not be fair to judge across all sports, but just so impressive. I don't know if we'll really see anything like it ever.

Again, well, you've had and you have to go back in sports what John Wooden did, what ten titles, twelve years, what Red Arbach and the Celtics did as well. But yeah, modern day and even Gino addressed this that he has players who stay there for three four years. Nobody's transferring. He lost one player, what is it, Deleadon and she was a Hall of Fame player and she went to Delaware, but she went to Yukon and she was a wonderful player, but she didn't want to for whatever reason. She was

Yeah, poling, he's won twelve of the last thirty NCAA tournaments. That's nutty, twelve of thirty.

But he's been in twenty four final fours, twenty four uh Lucas in Texas. Hi, Luke, what's on your mind today? Hey d Ay, good morning, Good morning.

Say on a weekend like this, there's nothing but best. I have a best of the weekend, and who had.

The best weekend?

In that hour one pole question. My best of the weekend has to be Houston and Duke Q Town as one of your day has to refer to it just a great game. I thought it was so telling that Helvin Sampson said when they made this three pointer to make it a three point deficit, that's when they knew

Confetti from the women's team.

So you know, life is life is good for one of our one of our day nets.

So I'm gonna I'm gonna throw him up, all right, Well, thank you, Lucas. Would you have rather had the men win a national championship? Go three pete or that the women win a national championship again?

Marvin taking the women because page it never won. And like you said, it's been nine years. That's a long time. That's the longest drought for Yukon. It's a long time since Gino's first national championship from his last championship so yesterday, that was the longest drought of his career since he started winning national championships.

Here is Cooper Flagg, the Duke forward, talking about his final season.

I mean, it was an incredible season, incredible people, incredible relationships that I'm going to have for the rest of my life.

Didn't and the way we wanted to, but still an incredible year.

And then here's his coach, John Shier on what happened.

Well, it's hard to process still.

And you know, I thought our guys did an incredible job the whole game, and you know, I thought we had some good looks didn't finish. You have to give Houston a ton of credit. And then still even with that, you know we have the lead and with under a minute ago, and I couldn't be more proud.

I'm not I'm not about to hang our head. I mean, this is part of it.

You got to you gotta handle the wins and you got to handle the losses too. And in a moment like this, you know we're this close, and you know we felt we were the best team. The best team tonight was Houston.

You're up six with a little over thirty seconds to go with the ball and you're Duke. That's collapse, that's claps. But you can say, if you look at this a forced collapse because Houston, there's only so much they can do. If Duke doesn't turn the ball over, If Duke makes their shots, if they hit a free throw, then it doesn't it doesn't matter what Houston does. It takes two to collapse, two to tango. It takes two to collapse. We'll talk to Dan Hurley, the men's coach, coming up

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That's North Luica, no worse, but the best was my utskin. It's really cool to see that being able to witness history. I wasn't old enough to seecrets get the time, so getting lots of that sharing it with my kids was pretty cool. And a stat around that the lowly Buffalo Sabers are tied with the Jets for the longest active playoff drought and since the last time the Sabers had made the playoffs, Ovechkin had scored four hundred and ninety four.

Of its goal.

Staut of the Day brought to you by Benini America, the official trading cards to the Dan Patrick Schew who knew the Sabers were going to be catching strays today with Alex Ovechkin Terry in Rochester, Hi, Terry, what's on your mind?

How are you doing today?

Darren Good Terry?

Long time I wanted to I've been one to say this, man, I couldn't. This is the first time I've been on this year. Man that that Minnesota record was a perfect example of what I've been talking about. I don't think you should, you know, really, you know, have a home field game if you're the division winner. But I would say it is if you have three to four, we can make it three. If you got three more wins than the division winner, you should have to go to

So we go to their house.

What do you think, Dan Well, I'm okay with receding, I am, But then we talked about that with college football, it's tougher with college football with the playoffs. To reced I think they got to take out the automatic qualifiers, the aqs, and let's just go buy record instead of you won the Big Twelve or you won the Mountain West. You should not get an automatic berth into the second round. But with the NFL playoffs, I'm fine with that. You want to reseed it great, you win your division, how

Yes, pulling while the NFL is making tweaks to the playoffs. Would you guys be in favor of this? And I have not seen it pose or suggested a team with a losing record cannot play in the playoffs. If you have a losing record, you don't qualify for the playoffs. Would you guys be in favor of that?

No?

Really, no, it doesn't happen often. Twenty ten Seattle. I think fourteen. It's happened like five times the past fifteen years.

I don't think you should host a playoff game if you win your division and you have a losing record.

Yes, yes, marm, because that means you would have to get rid of divisions. What good is it being a division champion if you can't get into the playoffs.

Yeah, yeah, but receding it, I'm fine with that. I don't have an issue with that. Eddie in New York, hy Eddie, what's on your mind today?

A five eleven, two, twenty five, first time, longtime big fan. So I'm calling about the dynasty gino Oriema twelve championships in thirty years, Penn State Wrestling twelve championships in fifteen years. Cale Sanderson.

All right, well, thank you, Eddie. Yeah, it's different. I mean, it's a secondary sport. They're really good at it. There's five schools that are really good at it. It feels like year in and year out, kind of decade in and out where you know you're gonna have Oklahoma State is always good and Penn State's always good, and I always always good. Uh, but yeah, there's there's a few more schools involved with this that are playing at a high

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More of your phone calls coming up eight seven to seven three DP show email address dpat Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at dpshow. Twenty twenty six March Madness title odds according to DraftKings next year Duke Houston Yukon BYU and Purdue. He's the head coach for the men's team at Connecticut, two time defending national champs. At least until tomorrow or late tonight. Dan Hurley joining us on the program. Good to talk to you again, coach, did you watch the games? The semi final games?

I did, unlike uh, you know, unlike after the twenty two season where you know where where we had that first round exit and I ignored the rest of the tournament. Uh. I, I've watched as many of the games as as I possibly could since we've been eliminated.

You lose to Florida second round, But do you take any solace with the fact that Florida is here playing for a national championship?

Yeah, I do.

I think it's a Uh, it's more honorable that, you know, kind of at the run we've been on, uh, you know where where we kind of fell at the hands of uh, you know, of a championship level team that's, you know, one game away from experiencing the championship glory. So yeah, I mean if we would have lost to like a lower seeded team or a team that, you know, it was not of the the championship caliber, I guess, uh, it feels more honorable. Uh you know, have a one

Know, to have it all uh, you know, to have it all.

End at the hands of of the Gators, There's there's probably some honor in that.

How do you explain what happened with Duke and Houston at the end of that game.

I mean, I mean, I can't you know, imagine, you know, just kind of well, no, I can't imagine you know what what John and his.

Staff and those players are feeling.

I mean, it felt like, you know that they were the best team, you know, the best team in the country this year. I think their roster, the way they put it together was, uh, it was meticulous.

I think the.

Quality at both ends of the court, you know, was they were playing basketball at an incredibly high level, you know, with high level NBA players, But just the fact that they were not in enough close games, I think, you know, I think the fact that they dominated so much throughout conference play, I think, you know, the separation between them and the other teams and their conference really hurt them.

Afforded them more opportunities, and I think that came back to haunt them.

I brought this up a long time ago. I brought it up. Subsequently, you go back to you and l V when you and LV blew out Duke, your brother's team, and then that following year and we thought they were invincible. And I remember talking about you want to see a team play a close game. You just want to have

Yeah, I think you know some of the I would say the situational things that you experience in a you know, with that true game pressure, you know, and and you know, Duke goes in as the favorite, just kind of like we were last year, where you know, we're playing at such a high level. They had, uh, you know, dominated the first you know, four rounds of the tournament. Obviously, the Arizona game ended up being an eight point game or an eight point win. But you know, at times in

And you know, for us.

Last year, we weren't very good in close games, you know, the games during the course of the year. I don't think we were great in one possession games the last two years. But there was a window I think for duking that game to keep that game double figures, keep that game twelve fourteen, back down to ten, get it back up to fifteen, you know, but they just they stop scoring.

The difference in coaching a freshman and coaching a junior, what's the biggest difference.

I just think, you know, repetitions, game experiences, you know, just having been in those positions you know before, you know, more practices under their belt, more uh, you know, more life experiences. You know, just you know a little bit more you know maturity a little more. Uh, you know,

Grizzled talking to Dan Hurley, You're still the reigning national champs at least for twelve more hours.

That's why I got.

I'm wearing it today, Dan, I'm wearing it.

Uh. There's a trophy behind you. There's a pair of shoes on top of that trophy. Whose shoes are those?

Oh? J R. Smith? Uh? You know j R. Swish?

That was my first great player that played for me at at say Benleix and uh the first I went to the NBA out of high school, so was Uh.

That was his rookie year shoe with the hornets.

Okay, any other memorabilia that might surprise us?

Uh, I got, Well, I think a lot of people like the underwear over Those are my underwear. Not many men have their underwear on a plaque in their office.

Uh. Obviously the gladiator health that explains a lot.

About me right there, the lion head behind it.

You haven't gotten in trouble in a while have you.

No, I've I've got a lot of self aware. Well I don't have a lot of self I have enough.

I have enough self awareness and situational awareness that I skipped San Antonio, and uh I decided not to parade myself around the final four and to uh, you know, to take a break, to let people have a little bit of a break.

For me, and then uh, you know, just to you know, reflect on the.

Year, the run we've been on, and uh, obviously, uh it was the first real chance Dan I've had really since we were eliminated for the tournament twenty two, you know, through to that Florida loss in the tournament.

You know, your lot, my life's been a whirlwind.

Uh of some incredible moments and and some moments that uh you know are art is uh arnest art is great.

But I remember when you turned down the Lakers and we talked and you said you weren't mature enough yet for a job like that. Your words, Yeah, all right, how do you mature?

Like?

What do you what do you what are are you doing anything to mature?

You know that That's a tough one.

I think Number one, I'll say this, A lot of I feel like, the biggest mistake I made this year was not being able to uh, you know, put together uh and develop a championship team. You know, I when I look at this year for me, you know that that's the thing that I regret the most is that I wasn't able to uh, you know, to put together

It's called relentlessness.

You know, I've been called relentless the past two years, even though I've been experiencing the same types of interactions with fans and officials. You know, this year it's been called, uh, you know, immature, It's been called a lot of things because you know, my team isn't on top. I haven't changed a whole lot that way.

If you had a little earpiece and your wife was allowed to talk to you on the sideline during a game. How do you think that would go.

I think that I'd be here stop shut up.

Yeah, I mean I would say that from a I think that my relationships with officials. Now you know the Florida You know the Florida post game. I regret that one greatly. You know that that was I There was literally one play call.

Uh.

There was one drive to the rim that I felt, if we clearly got fouled on, that would have kept that game in a two possession game. That was just it was ringing in my mind. And it wasn't like multiple calls I felt were miss dan. It was just this one play, uh that I could not get out of my mind as I was heading through that tunnel and as I saw the Baylor players. I deeply regret that. I mean we we we missed a lot of open shots.

That one I regret deeply. I didn't believe.

That, and then that was embarrassing when I look at other ones that were, you know, embarrassing that I'm the best coach in the country. That was embarrassing. I wish somebody could have stopped me from having that moment.

A lot of some of the fan interactions.

I've got to get somebody I think that maybe could just walk me on and off the court. Maybe like college football has those guys that walk the coach to the other coach and then just get them off the court. Maybe I need to get somebody that could just when the game ends, just get me on and.

Off the court.

Because I don't think that my in game coaching I want to change a lot because we've been really successful.

But what is it about officials?

Though I don't think it's as bad as it's made out to be. I I've watched these other officials, and listen, I've earned you, earn your reputation.

You know.

I'm definitely a tough coach to officiate because I'm very demanding, uh And I value every single possession in the game because I know how important they are, you know. And and but I've also modeled myself after maybe an older, you know, generation of coaches. You know, I'm just an intense coach, and I think I'm intense in a very

Well you're like your dad, though you would.

Hate my father, I mean everyone and my dad.

I know. I like being around your dad socially. When he puts his teeth in and he you know, you know, we we have a conversation. I enjoyed being around him. We were I don't know what we were watching, like, I don't know, some sitcom or not even a sitcom, is some cop show. When I went to his apartment in Jersey City, and I'm going, it seems really nice. He's just a nice guy. Then you hear these horror stories about how demanding your dad was.

Yeah, well, I mean, Dan, you know, it's like you've got to be able to separate the competitor, you know, the combatants.

But could you coach like this like you are right now? No, you couldn't. Just be like, it.

Doesn't line up with our play style. It doesn't lie okay, with the intensity that we play with. It doesn't. It doesn't line up with how we attack the offensive. Glass or you know how hard we played defensively. And it's not just me, it's our whole bench. I mean, we leave the country in warnings from officials to have everyone sit down. I mean everyone on my bench is like out of pocket, like I'm it's it's just we're an emotional program. We're a passionate program. And I don't think

When do you walk down the hall to congratulate Geno?

I guess I'm gonna wait for him, maybe to sober up. I mean I wouldn't remember.

I talked to him last hour.

How did he look?

He looked like a million bucks, hair was calmed. I mean he looked like Gino.

I mean he he he.

I mean, we we text, we talk, you know, we were texting before you know, all of his games and and I mean he he saved my season from completely unraveling in November. So I owe a lot to Gino. And what did he do?

I mean, right when we.

Got back from Maui as as I as I had erupted like a volcano in Maui and and come back to try to pick the pieces up.

I was in a bad, bad place. I was coaching, angry, I was coaching frustrated.

You know, I knew I didn't have deep down, I knew, you know, I didn't have a team that could compete for a championship. And I was trying to come to grips with that, and and he helped kind of talk me through, you know, like if all you're in this for is to win championships, and and like if that's the only joy that you get from coaching, you've become basically a monster.

How's the transfer portal by the way.

Oh my god, Yeah, I mean like no one is I mean when I that Monday, when when you come to the realization that like literally no one is on your team, you know, like that Monday, Because even if you're not in the portal, because it's now a lot of it is being conducted by agents, you know, so even if you're not in the portal, you're you're you're in the portal because schools now, you know, they they reach out for the agent and you know, the these

We you know, it's it's a mess how many players are officially on your roster.

I think right now I could sit here and say that we definitely have eight players on our team, you know, and we could have as many as ten. I think, you know, maybe two potentially or are are undecided whether that's you know, going to the NBA. Obviously, Alice Caraban's got to make a decision what he wants to do with this last year, you know, I'd imagine he'll be deciding at some point soon here, maybe this week, and then you know, then we have another player who's you know, deciding.

So we're excited about that.

If you need help and filling out the roster like practicing, just let me know. Wait, don't laugh like that.

We're used to deep.

When you get used to deep runs, Dan, I feel like I gotta do better.

You do.

Good to talk to you. Thank you, coach. That's Dan Hurley, eleven hours that he's still the defending national champs. Two time defending national champs. All right, we'll take a break. Last call for phone calls, What we learn, what's in store tomorrow? After this, be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAPP. Last call for phone calls, What we learn,

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Hey, Dad's second time callers. So I just wanted to talk about how I also suffer from affliction just like you. But I think we need to give a voice and the outlet to all of us. I think there's more of us out there than we realized.

But I also.

Enjoy watching sub five hundred and be a basketball on a Tuesday night, and so it's called on it. She's my watch and family. But I think we need a voice, and I have a T shirt idea. I need some help workshopping with the dnets, but something along the lines of you know, I watched sub five hundred basketball Tuesday or bad basketball? Watch is anonymous something like that.

Yeah, but I'm not anonymous. I'm proud to be somebody you know that I did watch. I watched G League basketball? Was it live last night? Marvin? It was okay because it was playoff basketball at its best, the Ociola Magic and you had the Main Celtics formerly the Main Red Clause. Yes, and I was watching that as if I'm watching March Madness and it was great.

Yes.

Time, Well, the Main Celtics played for Boston.

These are the other Celtics.

Thank you, Todd, Yes, Maine Celtics, thank you, thank you. Would you prefer G.

League teams to be affiliated with NBA teams like they are like a minor league system, or to be completely independent?

It doesn't matter. I'm still gonna watch and it doesn't matter. I made it sad. It really was sad.

It's not.

It's not sad. You just love the game. I do love the game. I just I always feel like, if I'm not watching, is anybody else watching? And they deserve to be watched because I would want somebody to watch me if I was playing, And something like that, Yes, marm.

It gets weird when you're watching high school basketball and your wife's like, you got to pick up a hobby or something.

This is my hobby.

I want to watch the Boozer twins.

I know, and now are they both going to duke or just one?

They're both going to do okay losing the final four.

Next year if they look good, they are good in that All Star game, Todd, what did I learn?

Marvin reminds us those not watching the other Celtics and Magic last night the G League playoff, it just means more.

Thanks for the phone calls, emails, tweets, they all around support. We'll try to do better tomorrow. Have a great day, everybody,