Saying 'anyone could coach that team' because they have talent is the dumbest argument in sports
That's the dumbest argument in all of sports. The NBA coaches, like, they did it with Spoelstra. They still do it with Phil Jackson... Well, Phil Jackson had MJ. Well, Phil Jackson had Kobe and Shaq. Well, yeah, and if you try to, like, get everyone to get along... these guys don't get along. They don't play well together just because you have the best player.
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Mine [Mount Rushmore] is establishing the run game. Love when a team establishes the run game. Just run, run, run, run, run. Because then you get that play-action pass and the cameraman misses. It opens things up. ... Everything starts with establishing the run. That's just a fact.
The first game of the World Cup is the only one everyone genuinely gets up for
That's the one soccer game that everybody gets up for is the first one. And then after that, the novelty kind of dies off. I would say that the championship game is a little bit more fatigue. So, like, everyone's had a month of soccer already. If they're not one of your two teams in the finals, you're like, eh, I can take it or leave it.
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Duke not winning the national title would be the most consequential sports story of all time
I think it would be the biggest sports story of all time. If Duke did not win the national title this year. All time. I think all time story... Duke not winning at all this year would be the biggest, the most consequential sports story of all time. Not our lifetimes of all time.
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Tommy Lloyd being a Mark Few disciple, even though Arizona is really, really, really good. Yeah. I'm just like, that guy's getting choke in March.