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It is the JR Sport Brief show on CBS Sports Radio. I hope you had a tremendous Monday. I hope you had a tremendous weekend. I hope you enjoyed the first day of spring, and if you didn't, I'm sorry. There's nothing else I can do about any of that but say I'm sorry.

I know this much. I'm going to be here with you for the next four hours. This is when I get started. 10 p.m. Eastern Time, 7 p.m. Pacific. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. I'm being joined by super producer and host, Dave Shepherd.

He is holding it down in New York City. I'm sure you had a full weekend of basketball, okay? We got the sweet 16. It's finally set for the end of this week. In just a matter of days, we've gone from, well, damn it, in a week, we've gone from 68 teams, now down to 16.

It's fast as hell, ain't it? We have some players who are thrilled. We have players who are mad. We have angry coaches. We have happy coaches, and then we're going to have a whole mix of it as we kind of march towards the final four in April down in Houston, Texas. So you got a few more weeks of miserable players and happy coaches and happy coaches and just a mix of it all. And so we got a busy show here with you or for you over the next four hours. We're going to look at some of the games that took place over the weekend. We're going to look ahead, and we will have plenty of time to look ahead. The rest of this week, we don't have the matchups starting off for the sweet 16 until Thursday and Friday.

And then we've had plenty of other news, not necessarily directly related to the tournament. Rick Pitino has a new job. To the shock and surprise of absolutely no one, Rick Pitino is going just a little bit further south from New Rochelle. He is going to Queens, New York, where he is the new head coach of St. John's. It was only a few weeks ago that we learned that Patrick Ewing got the boot from Georgetown, and Georgetown already has a new head coach. His name is Ed Cooley, snatching him up from Providence. And speaking of people not being happy, there's a few members of the student body who aren't thrilled that Ed Cooley is moving from one conference team to another one in Washington, D.C. Tom Izzo, is he flying under the radar?

I don't think so. I think he's dropped enough tears for everyone to realize that he is still here. Bill Self is done. Speaking of not being done in other sports, Cam Newton actually posted a message a couple of hours ago. He's trying to get back into the NFL. Brandon Cooks has been traded or was traded over the weekend. He's now a Dallas Cowboy. What does this mean for Odell? Lamar Jackson, his name is popping up frequently. I'm sitting here in the studio.

John Marant is sitting on the bench in Memphis right now as the Mavericks take on the Grizzlies. It's just a busy day with a lot to do and a lot to discuss. If you want to talk to us, it's simple. 855-212-4CBS.

That's 855-212-4CBS. JR Sportbrief everywhere on social media. Shep, how are you this evening? I'm doing well.

Thank you for asking, JR. I know it's spring. The weather doesn't agree, but other than that, I'm doing okay. How are you, my friend? I'm good, man. Thank you. Rain, sleet. What's the other stupid stuff they say?

The mailman, what does he do? Hail is certainly in that conversation. To me, this is mid-February today in New York City. It's 35, 36 degrees. Well, we're on planet Earth.

You just got to go outside and figure it out. But you know what, the weather's not quite as cold as Rick Pitino's coaching career. We ain't talking about Rick Pitino right now, Shep.

You're jumping a gun. I ask you how you're doing. You're telling me about Rick Pitino. Not interested. Care about you, Shep, okay?

I appreciate that, JR. No problem. We don't give a damn about Rick Pitino. Just about how you're doing. But anyway, we're going to get to Rick Pitino later on in the show. But let's just get this out the way. There's a lot of basketball games over the damn weekend, and some better than others. There was so much basketball.

I don't remember every single thing that I watched. But there were a few things that stood out to me as we marched towards the Sweet 16. Unfortunately, or fortunately for me, a lot of it has to do with a microphone. A lot of it has to do with the post-game press conferences where you have players saying wild things. Where you have coaches upset. We have buzzer beaters. We have some colorful language. We have players who have felt offended.

How about this? Yesterday, you might have seen it, Gonzaga the Zags, they beat TCU. Eight straight Sweet 16 appearances. Mark Few has been lighting it up, and it's pretty easy to do when you have a 50-year-old basketball player like Drew Timmy. He had 28 points. TCU beat Arizona State, and I guess their fans were feeling it a whole hell of a lot.

And next up for the Zags is going to be UCLA. But before we got there, and what was a close game, Drew Timmy had some big blocks. He had some big shots. And afterwards, he pretty much said on social media, and I don't know why Drew Timmy is so into social media in the middle of the tournament, but he said he saw a lot of the comments made by TCU fans. He found them to be quite insulting for a university that's supposed to rear highly intelligent individuals. Drew Timmy said as much. He ain't a fan of all the trash talk, and he paid attention to it. Well, I saw some nice things on the internet before, you know, maybe taking some shots at us, me and our program.

So, throw a lighter fluid in the fire if you wish. I mean, I thought TCU is a highly educated school, and they, you know, didn't sound so smart with their comments pregame. So, you know. Ouch, okay. And not everybody can be Gonzaga, I guess. Well, I would think that he would. Well, if it's going to take social media to motivate you, whatever.

Wherever you find a motivation, go ahead and get it. He's not the only one that gave an interesting post-game conversation. There's no John Calipari. He's gone. He's cooked again.

Ain't that nice? Kansas State smacked them, got them out of here 75 to 69 for whatever reason. I don't know if this was a dig, but it was certainly John Calipari who could have done better. Deciding to call Marquis Noel, who happens to be 5'8", called him just like a little kid. That little kid lit his ass up, especially at the end of the game, dropping 23 points in the second half. Keontae Johnson of Kansas State having a big game as well. Well, I guess Calipari, he wasn't thrilled with it? Listen to him insult another basketball player. We did a pretty good job on Johnson and he makes that three and the little kid makes the three.

How he'd make a deep three, we miss a couple and all of a sudden it gets out of hand. The little kid? The little kid is that? I wish the little kid responded. I don't think he'd be out of bounds if he decided to respond. What if he called him just an old loser that he just eliminated? Well, watch your mouth, John Calipari. You don't gotta call him. The little kid makes it.

That's not nice. The little kid. Anyway, he's going to have a lot of opportunity to watch that little kid, Calipari will, because that little kid is heading out to New York City, Madison Square Garden, where Kansas State is going to take on Michigan State and we are exposed one more time to Tom Izzo trying to win his first national championship in about 23 years. He was over the moon, just he's always emotional, but we know Michigan State unfortunately having to deal with that shooting.

This has been even more emotional than usual. Tyson Walker from New York City will be going back home. He got busy. This is going to be the 15th trip to the Sweet 16 under Tom Izzo as Michigan State knocked off Marquette 69 to 60 and Drew Timmy kind of ticked off after the game. Trash talk. He wasn't happy about it. You just heard from somebody pretty miserable, John Calipari.

Gotta call people little kids. Sure, not nice. I want you to listen to someone who was actually in a good mood. Coach Tom Izzo looking forward to heading to New York City with his star, Tyson Walker.

Take a listen to this from CBS. Coach, what's bringing you to tears right now? Yeah, it's been a long year, but really proud of those guys. They hung in there. Shaka's got a hell of a team.

He does a hell of a job. We just finally made some plays. You know, our defense got a little better again. We made some plays. I'm just happy for our guys. You, I know you want to watch them celebrate, but I have to ask about Tyson Walker. You go into the transfer portal and get a kid from New York City.

How tough was he tonight? Well, we're going home and the first, I tell them two things. You get me there. I want a cab ride and one of them big slices of pizza. So that's what Tyson owes me.

He can pay for it with his NIL money. You had one day to prepare for the best team in the big East. What did you know about your group that knew you could get to the sweet 16? My assistants did a hell of a job. You know, I think that's what happens. You know, kids were focused, did a hell of a job. Everybody had some fun doing it. I just can't tell you how excited I am for them. Thanks, Jamie.

Thanks coach. Why the hell does Tom Izzo want a cab ride? This is just, why is this man speaking like he's never been in New York City? Like he's never been in a cab. Has he never been in a cab? Why would he want to get in a cab? What, there's nothing exciting about getting in a cab in New York City.

All of your senses might be, let's just say poked and prodded for all the wrong reasons, maybe a sense of smell. There's nothing exciting about a cab. I'm sure Tom Izzo is going to have no reason to get in the cab. And if he wants pizza, he could pay $1.50 for a decent slice.

I don't know. I guess Tom Izzo has had to deal with a lot this season. I'll let him go to New York City Madison Square Garden and enjoy his cab and his big slice of pizza. He's thrilled.

Let's see if he's happy at the end of the week. Michigan State moving on, going to take on Kansas State. I'm actually going to take Michigan State in that one.

And then back to people who are pretty miserable. Florida Atlantic University, they're moving on and they're beating the other Cinderella. Fairleigh Dickinson, he had a little school in New Jersey. They lost 78 to 70. This game was pretty much over at the end, and we saw probably too much celebrating by Florida Atlantic. We saw maybe too much excitement. We saw dunks and people flying around and we saw an unnecessary dunk when the game was pretty much done and out of hand.

Tobin Anderson representing Fairleigh Dickinson. He spoke to Turner Sports after the game and he wasn't happy afterwards, especially with all that high flying. Martin's going to come in and miss the jam and some boos from the fans. He shouldn't do that. Tobin Anderson's upset. He is upset at mid-court.

Wow. Dusty May looks like he's apologizing. He knows that Martin should not have done that.

Yeah, that is not right. When you don't foul, you're calling it off. Yeah, the call via Turner Sports. Tobin Anderson ticked off with Dusty May. Dusty May, after the game, he told everybody.

He's like, yeah, I'm sorry my guy got out of hand. And then he's ready to go and take on Tennessee, which he pretty much said is going to be an aggressive style of game. So much so that he probably should study a little bit of rugby. Listen to Dusty May. We're going to study Australian rugby rules and get ready for the Vols.

Oh, okay. Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes, he kind of gave his own joke and he's just like, okay, well, sure, I like, I like rugby. So it'll be a physical matchup. Look, I'm here for all the trash talk. I'm here for angry Drew Timmy mad at social media. I'm here for Dusty May, who we spoke to last week. I'm here for Dusty May talking about how physical of a matchup he's going to have against Tennessee. I'm here for just sad, angry John Calipari all the time.

And I'm here for over emotional with good reason. Tom Izzo. March Madness is here.

I told you, we went from 64 games and have already, or 64 teams, 68 teams, and I've already narrowed it down to 16. We even got a Princeton squad in the Sweet 16. Princeton. Should they be studying books?

Shouldn't they be writing a gigantic thesis right now? They're out here playing basketball. I'm ready for the basketball to get back going on Thursday, Friday, Michigan State and Kansas, Arkansas at UConn, Florida Atlantic in Tennessee, Gonzaga, UCLA. You move on to Friday, Alabama and San Diego State. We got Houston. Sasser came back with no problem. He said, I felt a twinge in my groin.

He kept on playing. They're going to take on Miami. Princeton going to try to stay alive and go to the elite eight against Creighton. We got Texas and Xavier.

Next thing you know, we're going to blink. We're going to be down to eight teams. I know the weather outside sucks, probably depending on where you live.

I know it's the first day of spring and the madness is upon us. I hope you enjoyed all the basketball. A vast majority of the games are done, but now we're getting to the best of the best. And we got a whole lot to discuss here over the next several days.

It's the JR Sport Reef Show on CBS Sports Radio. We're going to take a break. And when we come back, how about this? This man got eliminated, but he already found a new home.

Can't really be too much of a shock. His name is Rick Pitino. You want to holler at us?

It's simple. 855-212-4CBS. We're going to talk some more college hoops. We're going to talk about John Morant. We'll get into Cam Newton, Pitino, Ed Cooley, Final Four, more Kansas, Bill South.

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That's 855-212-4227. It's the JR Sport Brief Show on CBS Sports Radio. 68 teams. We started off with 68 teams in the NCAA tournament last Tuesday. We now got a sweet 16.

After this past weekend's slater games, we got 16 teams. Some of the larger ones, they're not here anymore. They're done. They're cooked.

Maybe we didn't even see them in the tournament at all. Kentucky is gone. John Calipari is just crying. He's calling people small and little, little kids. Getting beat by five for they little kids. Whoa.

Just be respectful out there. There's no Duke. Duke lost to Tennessee on Saturday. There's no Duke. North Carolina didn't even make it in. Man, we got Princeton here.

We got Florida Atlantic. Good luck finding them on a map. Can you find them without Google?

Probably not. In a few seconds, I'm going to tell you about somebody else who got the boot, but he already found a new job. His name is Rick Pitino. We'll get to him momentarily. 855-212-4CBS.

That's 855-212-4CBS. Let's go to Charlotte and talk to Timmy. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. What's up, Timmy? JR, love your show.

Thanks for everything, man. Certainly. I'm a little heartbroken because they talk about the Blue Bloods not being in it. I got a daughter that's actually going to go out to Kansas next year, and they got knocked off. Purdue gets knocked off. But I think for a lot of people, I think for a lot of people, I think for the non-diehard basketball fan, I think it's great for the sport to see all these different teams coming out of nowhere. The Fairleigh Dickinson's, the FAU's, the Princeton's, teams that are getting knocked off that you didn't even really know about making a present. I think there's a lot of electricity.

I think maybe, possibly, we're going to see someone that's not a one or a two in their region end up going to the Final Four and making the finals, maybe winning it. I just think it's really good for the sport. I agree with you.

It's nice to spread the wealth per se. Thank you, Timmy, for calling from Charlotte. You said your daughter is going to Kansas? She is. She's a senior.

She's going to be going out to Kansas, yeah. Beautiful. Congratulations to her and you as well, Timmy. Thank you, sir.

No problem. Thank you for calling from Charlotte. No, it's nice to see the wealth get spread out.

I don't care, you know, what level of sport or what sport it is. It's always nice to see another team get a chance. And for the smaller schools, this is a boon for them.

You think about a team, Florida Atlantic, ain't nobody knew who the hell they were last week. The enrollment is probably going to go up. They're going to get some more money off of this. It's good for everybody.

Let me tell you something. Duke ain't hurting. North Carolina ain't hurting. None of these gigantic schools are hurting.

And so for another squad or a team to end up with, I don't know, a couple of hundred dollars extra, sometimes that's more than their whole budget for the entire season. And so when we have Florida Atlantic versus Tennessee, yeah, people are going to expect Tennessee to wipe the floor with them. But let's see what Florida Atlantic can do. We want to see how far some of these smaller schools can hang in there. Good luck to Florida Atlantic. Good luck to Coach May.

Let's see what they can do. 855-212-4CBS. Alex, he's here from Tuscaloosa. You're on CBS Sports Radio.

What's up, Alex? Hey, yeah. I just kind of want to talk about, like, I know y'all are just talking about smaller schools, but obviously, Tuscaloosa, big Alabama guy. Like, these guys were picked to, or preseasoned to finish fifth in the SEC. And now they're sitting over here, number one overall seed with quite possibly the easiest route to the Final Four.

Yeah, correct. They've taken on San Diego State. So maybe everybody who called me from last week about San Diego State can relax. It's not a matter of us talking about the smaller schools.

It's an appreciation that the wealth is being spread out. There's no doubt that Alabama stands a chance to win the championship, and there's going to be a lot of people who expect for them to shut San Diego State up. I say enjoy the ride. Oh, yeah, no. As an Alabama fan, I'm terrified of San Diego State.

Well, why? Because that's the toughest team that y'all have seen up until now? That defense is stifling, and all we need is a bad three night, and all of a sudden we're sitting back in Tuscaloosa watching the Elite Eight pick a cow. So on Friday night, you're going to be sweating bullets?

100 percent. Okay, call me after the game, win or lose. You're going to be drinking? Are you a student? I'm a student. Okay, yeah, don't drink.

If you're old enough still, don't drink. Okay, Alex, enjoy the game. Yes, sir.

Okay, thank you, Alex, for calling from Tuscaloosa. Man, I wouldn't be sweating no damn bullets. You got an NBA prospect out there, the one that runs around with Mr.

Arm Security. Don't worry about him. Anyway, we spoke to Dusty. Hey, Shep, when did we talk to Dusty, man? On Friday night? We did, sir, yes. We spoke to him. I was going to, see, I don't want to follow in the footsteps of John Calipari.

I was going to call him the the little school man, but that would be not nice. Florida Atlantic is going to take on Tennessee. I just told you, Tennessee is is predicted to wipe the floor with Florida Atlantic. I also just told you that Florida Atlantic, FAU, they just beat Fairleigh Dickinson, but before they did that, we got to go back to, as Shep said, this past Friday. They started off here. They wasted no time with even getting the Tigers out the way. Memphis. Penny Hardaway wasn't a happy individual, and we spoke to head coach Dusty May, and I said, man, why the hell y'all got so much confidence?

This is what Dusty May told us. Listen, the unique thing about this team is when we do anything related to the game, whether it's film, weights, practice, walkthroughs, they have great focus and attention to detail. They really value the details of the game because it helps them win, and you know, outside of practice, sometimes, you know, as an older coach, you know, as an older adult and a coach, you may be worried they're on social media too much or they're doing this too much or whatever the case. Yeah, social media, he needs to talk.

They didn't have nothing to do with him. He needs to tell Drew Timmy to stay off of social media, but whatever's going to motivate you and I guess keep you pushing. Congratulations to Florida Atlantic. Let's see if they can keep the magic on going throughout the course of the tournament, knocking off the Tigers, knocking off Fairleigh Dickinson, but now having a much bigger challenge in taking on Tennessee.

Good luck. I say good luck to the Owls. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on CBS Sports Radio.

We're going to take a break. Dusty May and the Owls in Tennessee, they aren't the only individuals or teams heading out to New York City. Rick Pitino is leaving Westchester County. He is leaving New Rochelle and the Iona Gales to Queens, New York City. He's going to coach St. John's and then Ed Cooley from Providence.

He has a new job as well. We're going to talk about it. Pitino, Cooley.

We'll get to them on the other side of the break. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. JR, every time I get into an Uber, I always turn the Uber drivers onto your show.

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Speaking of making ends meet, I don't think the next two gentlemen that we're going to discuss will necessarily have that problem. And I can't wait to, even at the top of the hour, get more in depth to some of the things going on near and around our nation's capital as the Washington commanders. Looks like they're getting closer to having a new owner not named Daniel Snyder. There's a new head coach for Georgetown basketball in DC. But I told you before the break that Rick Pitino is going to be moving on. Rick Pitino decided to say a no thank you to the Iona Gales. And now Rick Pitino will be coaching St. John's University. This is, this is tough to even, even think about knowing that Rick Pitino's status years ago was at somewhere like Louisville.

And I don't want to say he's had to take a step back, but he has. Going out to Europe and coaching Greece and coming back to New Rochelle, New York and coaching Iona. And now he's going to be moving on to St. John's. Last week, Iona, they lost to Yukon. They got smacked. They were able to hang in there. They're pretty, pretty close throughout the first half of the game and going through halftime.

And then Yukon ran away with things, beating them by, by more than 20 here. And after that particular game, Rick Pitino spoke to the media and he was asked, hey, was this your last game coaching Iona? What's going on? This was Rick Pitino's answer. I know this is a delicate question after the game, but is this your last game coaching at Iona?

I really don't have an answer to it. And to be honest with you, I have no idea if it is or isn't because I've focused everything on this game. Try and develop a plan to beat Connecticut. And they just physically dominated us on the glass and in the low post. And it really taught me a lesson of what you need to compete at this level. And we didn't, we didn't have the front court that can compete at this level.

So it taught me a lot of what Iona needs in the future. Oh, okay. All right.

Okay. Uh, so that was on Friday. On Saturday, there were already reports that Rick Pitino was speaking to the folks at St. John's. Like what he, he just automatically changed his mind, like in, in a 24 hour span. Or we led the belief that he just, he woke up and had an epiphany that things were going to be better at St. John's.

Come on now. Rick Pitino is following the money. Rick Pitino is following the money and we don't know the financial structure, but you can bet your ass that Rick Pitino is making major bank at St. John's university much more money than he made at Iona.

This is the first step. And if Rick Pitino was to have any type of success here at St. John's university of which it's been reported, he has a six year deal. You can bet your ass that Rick Pitino will be out the door at the first chance or opportunity. Is it going to take a few years for, you know, Rick Pitino to find success at St. John's?

It may take two years, maybe three, and then he going to be gone. This is the same Rick Pitino that said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to, I want to coach until I'm 80.

I might not get the chance, but I want to coach until I'm 80. Rick Pitino is a basketball lifer. In a lot of cases, Rick Pitino has also been out for himself.

It doesn't matter where he's bounced around at. It could have been on the Knicks bench and could have been at Kentucky. It could have been with the Celtics. And speaking of Providence, we'll talk about Providence and Ed Cooley shortly, or even Louisville, Panathinaikos, the Greek national team. Rick Pitino has coaching skills and will travel. The last time we saw him coach at a, a major is with Louisville. And we know what happened there.

And if you don't remember, just, just a little bit of a, of a sex scandal, just his subordinates, you know, maybe trying to woo potential players and talents and recruits with, you know, sexual favors at, via brothels and all types of other ridiculousness. And his victories and his wins, his title from 2013, they've, they've been vacated. And Rick Pitino got the boot. And so St. John's, this is good for them. They're going to be relevant in basketball in New York City again. No one has talked about St. John's in years. They brought in Chris Mullen.

Nobody cared. St. John's hasn't been worth a damn since I don't even know if Ron Artest would be appropriate. We can go back to Mark Jackson.

We could throw Mullen back in there. Rick Pitino is, he's going to make noise just because he's around and just because he's in town. And for a guy from New York City who had to go coach in Westchester County, right up the road, he's going to be back. Congratulations to Rick Pitino. I hope that his students and his staff in New York City, I certainly hope that they find no trouble. There's a lot of it in New York City to find. And Rick Pitino, hopefully he can keep his nose clean, or at least I should say, just, just maintain his staff.

Make sure that they don't get in trouble. And this is also terrible news, depending on who you ask. Mike Anderson, the man that Rick Pitino will be replacing, he started the job in 2019.

St. John's has had a winning record. They have not found the ultimate success here. And so in order to bring Pitino in, Mike Anderson had to get the boot. They had to fire him. And they said that they have fired him with cause. He's saying, y'all fired me on some nonsense.

You owe me my $11 million. St. John's University telling Mike Anderson, this is why we fired you. You failed to create and support an environment that strongly encourages student athletes to meet all university academic requirements. It also went on to say, he failed to do his duties in a manner that reflected positively on St. John's University and that he brought serious discredit to the school. Mike Anderson says that's a lie.

I don't agree with that. He said they fired me without merit. He will be aggressively defending his contractual right through an arbitration process.

Okay. Hey Shep, you think you're gonna get some of that money? He better, JR.

I mean, listen, you said it yourself. I understand he didn't lead him to the, you know, the promised land, but he's the last coach in like 50 years at St. John's to actually have four winning seasons in a row. Lou Karnasaka, you gotta go back that far.

Yeah. I mean, Mike Jarvis had a decent run. Even he didn't do that. His wins were vacated for God's sake. So they owe him better than that, JR. 100% agree with you on that.

Yeah, I don't think he getting 11. You see, but this is the dirty part about all of this. It's terrible. Well, it's that everybody wants to keep their nose above water. It's like one dirty thing begets the next. So Rick Pitino, we knew from day one, going back to Iona, he was not trying to, you know, end his career as a coach in Iona. It was a stepping stone. He has now stepped over from Iona to St. John's.

And the minute that St. John's can go ahead and hire Rick Pitino, they boot their current their current coach, Mike Anderson, who wasn't doing a crap job. Did he have the success that they want to? Hell no, but he had winning seasons. It's not like this guy was out there being Patrick Ewing.

Sorry, Patrick Ewing. And so Mike Anderson gets fired. St. John's University doesn't want to pay him the money.

And so they say that the student athletes sucked with the books. And so he gets fired. Pitino comes in. Pitino will probably have some type of success over the next few years. Pitino will leave St. John's high and dry. And Rick Pitino will go back to the Midwest or something like that to make money. And St. John's will be in the same position. I think I summarized that. I don't know how many years it's going to take for us to get there, but I mean, damn. And by the way, these are the same coaches who swear up and down every year at every chance and every opportunity that they do this for the students, right?

Hell no, they do this for themselves first. Rick Pitino actually went on social media. Yeah, Rick Pitino can use a computer or at least somebody did it for him. He says, I'm not sad it ended at Iona.

I'm not sad it I'm so grateful it happened to my players the last three years. All I can say is, you know how much I love you. Do these, do these damn players love Rick Pitino? Maybe they do. Maybe they appreciate. Do they love him?

Does he love them? This is all, it's all a business. I get that. No, we got Tom Izzo talking about, oh yeah, well, when we get to New York city, I want to get in a cab and I want to have pizza and Tyson Walker can pay for it with his NIL money. Oh, well, I know it's a little bit of a joke, but Tom Izzo been caking and making money now for the better part of 20, 25 years, he could pay for it. 6 million a year.

Excuse me. Well, he can buy all the pizza in the world. Yeah, we've got to dip into, to Tyson Walker's paycheck.

This is the funny business. It's a hard knock life out here. It doesn't matter who you are or who you coach or where you're at.

It's tough. You know, another coach who ended up moving today or officially move is Ed Cooley. This man goes from Providence where he's coached for about more than a decade now, 12 years, he's been running the Friars.

Ironically, I just saw Chris Dunn on the television here in the studio and Ed Cooley's had success. Seven NCAA tournaments over the last nine years, all 12 years, he's from Providence and now he's going to the enemy. Ed Cooley is going to replace Patrick Ewing at Georgetown. It's going to be the first dude that has had nothing to do with John Thompson to lead this team since John Thompson took over in a damn, what is it, got to be the 70s?

1972, I believe. Yeah. Oh my God. And now you bringing in Ed Cooley from a conference rival and even the fans up there, even the fans in Providence, there was a television station that interviewed student athletes who I'm pretty sure can't remember what took place yesterday, let alone when Ed Cooley took over 12 years ago. And they asked, ABC 6 in Providence spoke to students, some were happy, some were sad that Ed Cooley was moving on.

Take a listen to this. All I can remember is coach Cooley, like coach Cooley is the face of Providence College, the face of Providence Friars, even beyond basketball, like he's in all our ads, all our commercials. I'm a Cooley guy through and through, but if he leaves here, that's, it's a wound that's tough to heal. What happened to us? We together, family Friars.

Benedict Arnold. Yeah. Oh my God. And they're joking. I get it.

I understand. He's moving from Providence and he's going to now lead Georgetown. It's not like he decided to move cross country. He's still going to be coaching in the big East. He's going to be on the opposite bench now. And I can't imagine that any of the fans, when he goes back to Providence, they're not going to chant Benedict Arnold at them. They're going to cheer this man. They're going to give him a round of applause. They're going to give him a big thank you for the success that he's had there over the past several years. I mean, last year Providence was in the sweet 16.

Okay. I know they lost to Kentucky this year. At least Kentucky lost in return, but Ed Cooley, he did a solid job for them over the past 12 years. And he will be readily embraced at Georgetown where Patrick Ewing couldn't win a game to save his life. Where Patrick Ewing almost lost 30 consecutive games against opponents in the big East. Where Patrick Ewing over the last two years had a record of 13 and 50. I'm sorry, Patrick Ewing. You might be one of the greatest basketball players ever in college.

You might be one of the best basketball players the NBA has ever seen, at least from a center position. Big man. But when it came down to coaching, sorry, Patrick, you got a raw deal. Maybe Ed Cooley can have more success down in Washington, DC. It's the Cher R Sport Reshow here on CBS Sports Radio. We got so much more to do. Speaking of DC, the commanders, hopefully they're fondly sold.

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