Utah State is a sneaky mid-major dark horse to watch in the NCAA tournament
If you want a sneaky team, if they get in, and that's a sneaky mid-major, would be Utah State... Sneaky good team. Good coach, a lot of shooters, and a good young big man.
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View episodeJosh Rosen should be eligible for Rookie of the Year in 2019
Josh Rosen or maybe Kyler Murray throwing a rookie connection. Yes, Rosen is absolutely, he should be eligible for Rookie of the Year next year.
John Elway has figured out that his draft mistakes were caused by quarterbacks being too young
So I think Elway's figured it out. So he's learned from his mistakes. He's getting all these tall quarterbacks that aren't very good, but the problem is he's drafting them. So he's had such a terrible record in the draft that he's figured out that the problem is that they were too young.
You cannot actively tank in the NFL because players won't buy in
I actually think the NFL, you can't really actively tank. You can't say before the season we are trying to lose because it's such a hard league to stay in for the players. And if the players know that, it's all going to fall apart very quickly.
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View profileThe Big 12 tournament at the Sprint Center is the best post-season college conference tournament
I think it's the best post-season college conference tournament because you always know it's Kansas City. It's always Sprint Center. Pretty easy for a lot of the school's fans to get here.
Kansas lacks the cohesiveness of Kansas State and Texas Tech heading into the Big 12 tournament
They're starting four freshmen right now... they don't have the cohesiveness, I think, that K-State and Texas Tech have going into this tournament this week.
Zion Williamson is the closest thing to LSU-era Shaquille O'Neal in terms of physical dominance
I've never seen anything like him. The closest thing I can remember to Zion is when Shaq played at LSU. And not in terms of how good a player he is, but just the cartoon character nature of this kid's physical dominance.