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Venezuela wins the WBC! They can't believe it! Earlier on the show, NFL network analyst Daniel Jeremiah, CBS sports broadcaster Ion Eagle, coming up, ESPN women's basketball analyst Andrea Carter. And now, it's Rich Isen. Hour number three of the Rich Hisen Show is on the air.
This is going to be a lot of fun. I got a top 10 power rankings list that is going to be a blast. Andrea Carter is going to join us. We'll talk women's, men's march madness with the ESPN star and rising star. And we just had I and Eagle on this program.
Daniel Jeremiah, an hour number one, surprised us with a top 10 dogs of the NFL draft. That was awesome. Didn't see that coming. He brought the first power rankings to the list to the show. We just.
We just had a a review of um Of Rory McElroy's hand-picked menu and wines. To pair with his menu for the Masters Champions dinner, which is going to be coming up in a couple of weeks' time. Yep, buddy. I mean, and you said he's got to foot the bill for it. Yeah.
So, how many champions show up? It's like 25 to 30, right?
Okay, so last year, I looked at last year's picture. There were 33, including the chairman, but no Tiger Woods.
Okay.
So you got to figure Tiger's back to series talking about maybe playing. And then Rory.
So we're looking at 33 to 35 guys. He's got to foot the bill. And so he's got sliders on the menu for his appetizer. They're elk sliders. And I said, why has he got to go gamey?
And apparently, Terzo in Iowa called in and then hung up. To say that elk is not gamey. It doesn't taste gamey, and it's actually lean and healthy for you. Yeah, I've heard that.
Okay.
And buying some elk burgers.
So it's the other red meat? Is that what it is? The other other. Yeah.
The other. Is that what it is? And then you were asking about his wine choices. The wine choices, yeah. And how expensive they are.
I need you to break it.
Well, apparently, we have a somali on line one. Oh, no. Austin in Napa Valley, of course, what do you got for me, Austin? What do you got? What's going on, boys?
Good to talk. Saw him and a former chef, classically trained here in Napa Valley. And this menu is just over the top and super, super decadent. He's clearly an edophile. And certainly fighting back against the Irish culinary reputation.
I've got the first of all, and also this is probably close to a hundred thousand dollar meal. That's what I was going to ask you. I was going to ask you how much it would be with the wines and the food, and how many but for dinner for 30 to 35, the 100 grand out of his pocket, you think, Austin? I'd say that's pretty dang safe for 25 people. I mean, to your point, Betard Montroché, that's the most expensive burgundy, white burgundy you can buy.
Chateau Yuquen is the most expensive dessert wine in the world. Uh, you know, these two Bordeaux, properly aged, they're collector's wines for sure. And then the actual food menu, I thought it was really well put together because it nods several different people of recognition. Obviously, the peach with Georgia, awesome, you know, that everybody likes to do shrimp tempura. And yeah, the elk is terrific too.
Kind of going back to him, starting to eat a little healthier meat. That's probably one of the healthier meats you can eat, really lean carpaccio with foie gras, foie gras. I mean, come on, it's illegal in our state, you know, Rich. Yeah, so it's a pretty cool thing. And yeah, wow, you can't go wrong.
So, yeah, just an A-plus menu, and I would die to be at this dinner. They're gonna have a great night. All right, and the price tag on the wine? What do you got? That's going to take up the majority of the budget.
I mean, that's probably $70K worth. I mean, and I don't know. And you guys mentioned it, it seems like you didn't realize, but Augusta has one of the top five wine lists in all the countries. They do. Do they really?
Come on. Deep. Yeah, I'm actually going to be there. In July, and I'm looking forward to going kind of dig down there and see if I can find a treat or two. They're pretty impressive.
What do you mean, dig? Hold on a second. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. Rich wants a bottle. Wait a minute.
Oh, Rich, I've already you and Brock when bottles for my winery up together. Yes, I remember that, Austin. Thank you. And Austin has a refresher pack. I'll put it in a refresher pack.
But I don't want to. I imagine their wine room is like their entire situation. It's like Fight Club. You're not supposed to really talk about it. What can you tell me?
I might be stepping out of my boundary on that one. Yeah, I know, because I would love, like, I'd love to know where is it like underneath Butler Cabin? Like, where do they keep it? Yeah.
Like, where are you? Yeah.
Oh. It's under the ninth cycle. Underneath the butler cabinet.
So I would drill down. Rich, I know you have a very powerful friend, so the next time you're at Gusta, make sure you get a tour of the wine table. I would go in there. I would drill down there like it's Ocean 14. You know what I mean?
Like have you seriously have Vampelt or Nance conduct their interviews, and while they're not looking. I go drill down underneath that. Butler Cabin, I'd get into that wine room and I would just go for it, man. That would be incredible.
Well, I've got to go to you, Jim was the calling, and definitely in that. By the way, his wine is excellent, Austin. It really is the calling. Absolutely.
Okay.
Thank you, Austin. Thank you for this. Thank you for that very important. Um work. By our Is he the official Somalia of the Rich Islands?
No doubt. I remember when he called in and sent us an issue. I say he has the job. We have no other Somalia. Rich Isaiah Consulting.
Somalia. 100k meal.
Well, 70 grand is the wine. 70 grand on the wine. I mean, same. Remember this morning I said, what is that? Like $600 a plate?
And you all looked at me like we laughed. I laughed at you. The food's a joke. 30 grand? I can pay for that.
Wine? I mean, how many cases do you got to get and import? You didn't bring it in.
Well, I imagine John Rahm and Phil and DeJ and those guys.
Well, that's one way to get back at Rory if you've got a beef with him. It's like... Crack open another one of them bottles, man. Yeah, just have a little taste. Open up one more bottle, a little taste, and you just leave the rest.
That's a way to get back at Rory. If you got beef or elk. Or elk, I was going to say, or elk. You got to get your elk. That was an awesome call.
That was great. See, we round out our stories here with some experts calling in. That's how we do.
So, I saw this headline the other day. Winhorse says this, according to his source, is going to happen: expansion, NBA expansion, two more franchises. to give them 32, right? That would match the number of franchises the National Football League has. And the two spots that apparently are on the radar screens and getting franchises.
One of them getting back. Seattle. That would be amazing. and the other one is Las Vegas. And um We know Seattle is going to be the Supersonics.
I would sure hope so. How is it not? How would it not be? I don't think so. I would sure hope.
Okay.
Didn't the Oklahoma City folks leave it all there, right? Didn't they just. Yeah, much like how Cleveland got the Browns back, I would say. Right, and then the Ravens, you know. The Ravens let them have all that.
And their history. And Baltimore had the Colts just, you know, the Colts kept their history there too, right? Yeah.
Or their. Logos Vegas, different stories.
Now we're wide open.
So I've decided to help. Because I'm a giver. I'm a helper. Rich eyes in consulting.
Sometimes we're consulted.
Sometimes we just add our two cents when not being asked about it. This is one of those situations. I have a power ranking here on this Wednesday. of potential Las Vegas NBA team names hit it. Mm-hmm.
This is my colour rankings.
Now, top 10, if you will, power ranking the 10 potential Las Vegas NBA nicknames when they create this new franchise, okay? And you can't go Las Vegas. Aces that's taken. By the WNBA friend. Bacon.
Great name. You know, if you get two aces in your. Uh no limit hold'em. They're called pocket rockets, but the rockets are taken. And if you go ACEs, what's the next strongest And kings.
It's already taken. You know what I mean? Hey.
So I'm going to discard the cards.
Okay.
Because you can't go Las Vegas shoes. Kinko Las Vegas cut cards, you know what I mean? Like it just. It doesn't make sense. No jokers?
No, you know what I mean? You can't.
Well, there is one in Denver. Right.
So you gotta, you gotta, you gotta discard, I discarded the cards.
Okay.
Number 10. On my POW rankings list of potential Las Vegas NBA team names. The Las Vegas Newtons. By the way, I was going to suggest that. Las Vegas Newtons.
I really like that name. And the only, it's 10, is the only issue. Obviously, it's for Wayne. Of course. But.
Someone might think it's uh a fig cookie, you know what I mean? But Outside of that, I'm just giving a nod to the Las Vegas Newtons. I like that one. For Wayne. I like that one.
All right. Number nine. This is cut. The Las Vegas Strips. Ah.
Okay, the problem is, though, is.
Well, you know, when the cheerleaders get out there, it could be a little bit difficult to virtue signal here. You know what I mean? Okay, but there's a strip. Do you call the players the strippers? You know what I mean?
Like, it'd be true. It'd be a problem. Yeah, okay, yeah. That's why it's low on the list. But the last biggest strip, to use the Steve Harvey way of putting it.
Okay.
It's rife with problems. That's why it's low on the list. Of course. Crazy girls. Number eight.
This is where you suggested earlier when I was teasing this segment, putting roulettes.
Okay, the roulette wheels here. I like that. Instead, I went with a more, I think. Broadly used gaming device, the Las Vegas slots. Ooh, slots.
Okay, the Las Vegas slots at eight.
Okay.
A little close to something else. Understood. Las Vegas slot machine. Right.
Yes, I get it.
Someone's gonna definitely make a mistake. If you wanna just say Las Vegas Bandits. Could do that there, but so it's somewhere in the realm. Number seven. On the list, what do you call the highest of rollers coming into Las Vegas?
Whales, baby. The Las Vegas whales, number seven, because they always get accommodated. They always get preferential treatment. Scott Foster would love the Las Vegas whales. Hey, now.
Because he'll give them preferential treatment. All the pops. Unless. It's Chris Paul. Chris Paul comes out of retirement for the Las Vegas whales.
Then we got a problem with this whole analogy. The Las Vegas whales. I like it. I don't think a whale's represented. There's a whaleers.
Okay.
Whaleers? Number six. Number six, the Las Vegas Buffets. Oh, because they're always open. That is true.
They're always served.
Okay, come on, come all. The Las Vegas buffets. I love a good buffet. Who doesn't? Maybe.
You know what I mean? Caesar's palace. Let's go. Grab a train, go see the Las Vegas buffets. And then bring in.
Sneak in some Ziploc bags and take some home with you. Yeah.
That's how useful. I mean, that's one way to do it. Wow. Back in the day.
Now. Get to the top five. This is now the nitty-gritty now. This is serious. You know how the NBA has not one, not two, not three?
But four. Teams that use the singular non-plural nickname heat, jazz, magic, thunder. You're defending champions. Here's the first one. I have two of them on the list in the top five.
Number five: the Las Vegas Evil. Ooh. But you spell it like evil. Oh, I liked it. All right.
And the halftime shows for the Las Vegas Evil are going to be lit. All right. Yeah, we'll throw a frisbee to a dog, but it's got to be over a fountain. No Red Panda. Oh, no, Red Panda has no.
You know what I mean? No, Red Panda. Spinning plates on top of unicycles and all. Get out of here. Red Panda sets her plates on fire.
Okay.
The Las Vegas Evil, red, white, and blue is the team colors. You can go a lot of places with that. You've really put some thought into that. Please.
So then you don't just show up. I show out. You can call the dancers the Knievels. Number four. Number four.
We're back to the plurals here. Think of the giveaways for the Las Vegas Tarks. Tarks, towels for everybody, and let's suck on them. Jerry has got to be honored in this way. Jerry Tarkanian will be the Inspiration.
for this franchise and you could pay everyone over the cap. Who cares about any cat? Aprons? What the hell are those? Yeah.
Just dip them in water and suck on them. Him and out. Las Vegas tarts. Torx towels. Yeah, think about it: the giveaways.
Yep. Number three, speaking to people who need to be honored. You know, this is gonna be on the list. The Las Vegas Greens, because Mo Green created this town. He created this town, and you don't come back into the NBA, you don't go into this town, if you're the NBA, and talk to a man like that.
Does he finally get a sign? There will be. Did he get a sign? And one thing he's finally get for a platform. He's going to get a team name.
Statue. And by the way, every section. When you go to a game at the Las Vegas Greens. Everyone will be able to get a drink at the table. He makes short of that where everyone's a little bit.
Two at a time. No cocktail? Oh, okay. Does anybody get slapped around? Number two.
That's the question. Number two. Number two, potential Las Vegas team nicknames. That's accurate. Of my power rankings.
This one. We're back to the singular, non-plural. The Las Vegas house. Because the house always wins. How is it not number one?
Number one. The house always wins. The house always wins. Come on, that's on billboards with everything. We don't just give you the nickname, we give you the logo, we give you the marketing, slogan, everything.
The house always wins. You know why it's not number one? Because there's only one number one. Oh, I know. The Las Vegas Carrot Tops.
Stop it. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. They're at the top of this list. Oh, the blue men.
The Las Vegas carrot tops. Oh, come on. Come on now. The blue men. It'll be tough to play, you know, Dre.
Yeah, you gotta get ready for the game. You just throw on your uniform.
Now you gotta get blue paint. You know? You'll also give the refs an opportunity to show if your foot's out of bounds or not. You leave this big, big old blue footprint. You know what I mean?
I didn't touch him. Carrot top! Paint all over his arm. Carrot top. Everybody.
Aaron Top. And that's my power rankings of potential Las Vegas NBA. That's funny. New franchise team names. It's tough.
I almost thought about Las Vegas jackpots. No rap pack? Oh. I mean, because then there's men, but then people and there's rats. You don't want anything about rats.
Tigers? Pizza Rats. You know, the Tigers, you'd have two of them. The Oceans? I almost went Las Vegas Maulers, but that's too soon.
It's too soon. It's too soon. The Las Vegas Oceans 12. It's too, it just doesn't matter. I'm glad that Newton's was on the list because Newton's strips, slots, whales, buffets, evil.
Evil. Tarks Green's house. Carrot tops. My favorite. I think the house.
My favorites are house and whale and the whales. House. Yeah.
Whales. House. House and whales. You just want to be a whale. One day.
In the worst way. Who wouldn't want to be a whale? In the worst way. Who wouldn't want to be all the free agents? I think that's all I want in life.
You know what I mean? When you're a member of the whales, you get room food and beverage, RF and B. Just get picked up at the airport and every time. Every time. Oh, yeah.
Oh, come on. Lemo, waiting. You don't see anything but the inside of the most fancy cars and rooms. Oh. And you play baccarat all night?
All night. Oh. Just sit there. Private room. Oh, my God.
Well done. Thank you. That was great. I appreciate it. That was great.
I want to go to Vegas right now. I want to go right now. Tonight. All right. We'll take a break.
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How are you doing? I am great. Happy to be here. This is like the best time of year for me.
So between the tournament, between Reese's, everything is going exactly how I need. Yes, it's like candy and the candy of the tournament. It's like mixing milk, chocolate, and peanut butter, quite frankly. Perfect. The perfect combination.
It is exactly that. Before we get to the campaign, how do you feel the Women's March Madness bracket played out? Do you think it's fair? Do you think it's unfair? What do you think?
What you think? Yeah, the brackets are interesting. What I know the committee runs into are the bracketing principles. I'll be interested to see if these ever change because what the committee runs into is there are certain rules that say you can't have a team from the same conference, you can't have two teams from the same conference face each other in the first or second round. They really try to keep those conference matchups until later in the tournament, which sounds great as a concept.
But when you have conferences that have 10 or 12 teams in the tournament, you start to run into moving teams around and they're not in their true seated position with the S curve.
So, like when I look at UCLA, for example, in this season's bracket, they're facing LSU, they're facing Duke. Those are the best, that's the best two and three seed facing UCLA.
So, UCLA's path is pretty difficult, but it's just because of the way teams have to be moved around by the bracketing. Principles.
So it's, you know, it's interesting, but to me, I love this bracket. One of my favorite things that I love is that. If the one seeds all make it to the final four, the matchups would be different than what we had last season.
So, UConn would potentially face South Carolina in the final four, and Texas would potentially face UCLA in the final four.
So, those matchups would be different than what we had last year, which for me, that's exciting.
Well, you mentioned how LSU is the two-seed in UCLA's bracket. My alma mater is the two-seed in Texas's, Vanderbilt in UConn's, and Iowa in South Carolina's. Which two seed do you think? could potentially upset the apple cart. In this program, I'm trying to think of the two-seed in South Carolina's region.
Is Iowa? Is Iowa? Vanderbilt and UConn. Van Bill with UConn, LSU CLA, Michigan, Texas. That's you know.
I like That's hard. I would maybe go LSU or Michigan. Michigan is a tough team. The discipline that they play with offensively, how they play defensively. I mean, they've got three sophomores that are phenomenal scorers.
The issue is, I don't know if they have the size to compete with Texas. I mean, Texas is such a big team. They can dominate the glass. LSU, their guards are phenomenal. They're so much fun to watch.
But again, Lauren Betts at her size. You have Sienna Betts, who's 6'4 coming off the bench. You know, to me I would I would maybe go with if I had to choose out of the two seats. Maybe give Michigan a chance against Texas.
Well, I mean, Michigan and UConn played an excellent game, a barn burner, early on in the season. UCLA went into Ann Arbor and took care of business there. And Silas Swords is an outstanding basketball player. Silas is incredible. You know, her freshman year, when she came on the scene and played South Carolina and just played with so much confidence, I was like, who is this kid?
But it shows that she played a very high level of basketball before she got to college.
So she's fun to watch. Mila Holloway, Olivia Olson, those players. To me, are very tough. I enjoy watching Michigan play. Yeah, me too.
But I'm biased when it comes down to that. I have Andrea Carter here on the Rich Eisen show.
So, do you have in your bracket all four one seeds advancing? I do. I do have all four one seeds, which hasn't happened that often, as often as people think it has. I wanna say one of our researchers told me it's only happened four times, but I do have all of them. Advancing to the final four.
I will say I like Tennessee's bracket. I like the region that they're in. I like their shot of at least. Redeeming the way that their season ended. I don't have Tennessee all the way to the Final Four, but I think if they can use what they went through, the gauntlet of a schedule in February, if they can use that to pull together, and I do think they can win a few games in this tournament, which I was excited when I saw that.
Not as an analyst, as a former lady Volv. Of course. That may be happening.
Well, I want to get to something on that before we move on.
So, who do you have cutting down the nets? I've got Connecticut winning it all. I do. I have them going back to back. That'll be 13 for them, Andre.
I know. And I was actually looking at the numbers.
So it's. Let me. What was it? 24 Final Fours, 12 national championships, six undefeated seasons for Geno and UConn. And I just have all of those going up by one, which is, yeah, it just speaks to the excellence of that program.
But when I think about UConn, and I know a lot of people have talked about how they're not battle tested this season, I've watched UConn's practices and I actually just spent some time here with Brianna Stewart at the Reese's Campaign. And she talks about how Gino battle tests them every day. And we were watching UConn shoot around and practice before their game against Louisville. We covered that game, and the amount of times that he blew his whistle, made him stop down, made him restart, and the way that the players just handled it and rolled with it. Whatever he said, good or bad, they were like, okay, next play, okay, let's move on.
And they were ready to go, which I feel like is how they handle adversity in the games.
So to me, What Gino puts them through, but also how difficult I imagine Sarah Strong is to game plan against because of her versatility. Plus, the pieces around her, the shooting of AZ Fudd, and just everyone really knowing their roles and them having such a system on both ends. I have you fund going all the way. Andrea Carter here on The Rich Eisen Show. Did Gino ever try to recruit you?
Or no? I was recruited to Yukon, but Shea Ralph. Actually, she recruited me to Connecticut. It's actually a funny story. When she got the job at Vanderbilt, I was covering football at the time.
I had a Vanderbilt football game, but I went to watch women's practice. And I was talking to Shea Ralph, and she was like, I was like, hey, I'm Andrea Carter. And she was like, oh, I remember recruiting you. She was on her way to watch my state championship game when I was in high school. She said she got snowed out, her flight didn't take off.
So she missed the game. I won the state championship and I committed to Tennessee the next day. And that was just a funny story that she told me. But I loved. Connecticut and Tennessee were by far the top two schools for me.
I ended up going with Tennessee. I committed at a young age. It was the perfect distance from home and had my heart for a while. What's your favorite Pat Summit story? Sure.
Favorite is hard, but honestly, the one that just always comes to my mind when I think about Pat.
So, my first call with Pat, I was, it was the fall of my freshman year, and we had a phone call, and I was so nervous. I had to call her. She couldn't call me just because of recruiting rules. And so, I'm so young. And when I used to get nervous, I would start to cry.
Like, my eye, I would just get so anxious.
So, I'm in tears calling Pat on the phone. And she answers, and I say, Hey, Coach Summit, it's Andrea Carter. And she said, Hey, player Andrea, you can call me Pat. And just sort of immediately brought me, you know, brought herself down to my level and just was like, call me Pat, and just made it so comfortable when I was already more nervous than you could ever imagine to talk to her on the phone. She also gave me her autograph when I was young.
She was at a tournament recruiting, and my teammates forced me to go say hi to her. And she was just so kind and wasn't recruiting me at the time, probably didn't even know who I was. But those things to me stand out when I just think about Pat and obviously Pat, Deja Charles, Furlow, we miss them both so much. And yeah, Pat was great. I have a lot of good memories with her, but they're more.
The Person that she was than the coach that she was. And I'm very thankful for that. What do you think she would think of the state of the women's game today? Andrea. You know That's hard to say.
I would hope that she would like the competitiveness and the skill across the board, and how talented these women are, and how much these women are being paid and moving the needle, and how brands are investing in the women's game. She did so much to grow the women's game. And I think the amount of eyes and attention that these women get, rightfully so, for how talented and good that they are, I think that that would be something she would be really proud of because it's something that she helped build. Would she have a podcast now? Probably, probably.
The Pat Summit show?
Something like that.
Okay.
You already mentioned Breonna Stewart's name. Tyrese Halliburton and Richard Jefferson also are the, I guess, the starting four. For the everything happens for a Reese's March Madness campaign. What's this about? Yeah, you know, the idea behind it is there's no perfect brackets.
Like every bracket busts. And this year, this season, if you fill out a bracket and your bracket busts, you can send in your busted bracket into Reese's with the hashtag for Reese's sweeps. And you have the chance to win Reese's, which is great, but also a chance to win tickets to the men's or women's Final Four in championship game.
So just the idea that there's no perfect brackets. Fill yours out to the best of your ability. It can be heartbreaking when your bracket busts, but there's also a little bit of a reward if your bracket busts this season. Thanks to Reese. Could you imagine you want to win this Reese's Prize and it's the first time your bracket doesn't bust?
That would really suck. You know what I mean? Of all the years to get a perfect bracket. My goodness. And so every back, every bracket busts for a Reese's.com is how you get.
You can enter for this competition, right? You got a men's bracket you want to talk about here. Andre. I do. I have a men's bracket.
That one sometimes, because I, you know, I cover the women's tournament and I dive so deep in truly thinking about the teams. I know I cover men's college basketball all season long up until tournament time. And then I get to solely focus on the women. But for me, sometimes with the men's bracket, I like to go with my heart. Like, that's where I think about, you know, ooh, we could potentially get Petino against Coach Cow or this superstar freshman against this superstar freshman.
And so my bracket, I'm obviously like Tennessee is going to go all the way. I have a little more fun with my men's bracket and going with my heart, going with my gut, going with big storylines that, you know, we would all love to see.
So that's that's really how I fill out my men's bracket, if I'm being completely honest. I would just love UConn to play UCLA in the round of 32 just to see if both guys, both coaches get ejected by yelling at each other. You know what I mean? Those are that's the type of stuff I'm talking about. Good TV.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know what I mean? You know, Hurley and Cronin, maybe they eject each other. You know what I mean? Yes, yes. That might be the most.
Um I don't want to say the word emotional, but I don't think either of them would mind that because they're so passionate and fired up. Like that would be the matchup.
So you have Tennessee winning at all, cutting down the nets in the middle? Yeah, I do. Go balls, baby.
Okay.
Well, I hope you don't mind me saying, since that's Michigan's. They're in Michigan's. Both the men and women are in Michigan's side of the bracket. Yeah, what is up with this? Pitting us against each other.
We actually should. Do you want to have a little side moment? Maybe we can involve Reese's in a little side bet between me and you. I just, uh, I just don't. I'm up for that.
I'm absolutely. On the women's side, though, you've got to go into Ann Arbor and come out with that win. That's. the difference on that front And then on the other front, you've got to make the elite eight. For that to take on my school.
If I remember correctly, we could potentially see Virginia weaving Tennessee, if I'm thinking about the bracket right. Yep. Tennessee could potentially have to go through, and that's Sweet 16 would be Virginia, Tennessee, if it's chalk. Um Now, actually, that's around a 32 if it's chalk. If it's chalk if it if you go non-chalk there, you'd probably have to take on either Iowa State or Kentucky.
Yeah.
To take on Michigan.
So listen, I know this is the first time you've been on this show, so I'm sorry to do this, but it's school pride here with Tennessee having to go into Ann Arbor to take on the women. And Tennessee having to get through all of that to take on Michigan in the Elite Eight. Based on your campaign for coming on here, I think you might have the. Better chance of having a busted bracket than me. And getting the Reese's, if you don't mind me saying, Andrea.
I still win, although my Tennessee heart would be broken. I'd get more orange and more reward with Reese's.
So at least there's orange involved for me, no matter what takes place. Just know this that if these matchups happen, you'll hear from me. We have the same representation, so I know where to find you. And just know that if your bracket busts for Reese's, you get Reese's and you also get to sing Rocky Top for me.
So there we go. Oh. Okay.
So what do you so you have to sing The Victor's and Reese's For me, right? Is that what you got? There we go.
Okay.
I like it. This is for both the men and women. Is that what you're saying? Correct. Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's do it. I look forward to the next time you're on the show, which is probably on Monday. What it looks like. Start researching the lyrics for Rocky Top. I'll send them to you, actually.
Thank you. I'll have Ryan get Rocky Top to you. We have sounds good. I look forward to that. In the meantime, I appreciate you coming on here and chopping it up.
Thanks, Andrea. Thanks for having me. Andrea Carter, right here on the Rich Eisen Show, getting set to sing the victors while eating Oresis.
Well, there ain't no phone calls on Rocky Top. For what I'm told. The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast. Back here on the Rich Eisen Show, everybody, 844-204-Rich is the number to dial right here on the program. Let's take another phone call here.
David in Ohio wants to chime in. What's up, David? Hey, what's up, Rich? I got a comment on the uh Masters dinner that Rory came up with. I think he's missing.
I think he's missing one important. Neil, and that's Rory macaroni and cheese. Hey, I like it. Maclroni and cheese.
Okay.
I like it. Wow. Macaroni.
Okay.
Okay.
But I just thank you, David. It's a very Burmanism way of looking at it. I like it. How about our friend? There he goes.
How about our friend Austin saying it's going to be a six-figure dinner? That's a six-figure dinner. I mean, that guy would know. 70K just for the wine alone. That is.
Somebody sent out on our feed as well. Bubble Watson had. Basic he had he had Caesar salad. Chicken and a dessert, and that's it. That's really simple.
That's weak. I don't know if that's true or not. You never know what's real or not anymore, but. I'll find it. You know?
Yeah.
Bubba Watson in 2013, Caesar salad, grilled chicken breast, green beans, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, cornbread, confetti cake. That's it. Done. Confetti cake. That's you.
That's me. Yeah, Brock. What would be your menu? Oh, I have no idea. And you said it was just like Tiger Woods.
Tiger Woods kept it super basic with cheeseburgers and I think tenders, but gotta gotta do a steak. Gotta do some sort of fish option for the for those who uh don't. You know, don't do the red meat. I love a Caesar salad. I love chicken parm.
Gotta go cake and ice cream for dessert. Let's go. You know what pops up every now and then in my timeline was the interview I guess Tiger Woods did with Curtis Strange from When he was like a teenager, and Curtis scoffed at his notion for wanting to win every tournament. Like, sort of, like, that's cute, young man. But welcome to the tour.
And then, oh my God. Then he schools everybody. I think that was before maybe his first start. Is that one of the most freezing cold interviews that can ever be? Yeah.
Repeated. He basically laughed at Tiger. Yeah, for saying, look, I'm going to try to win every week. And Tiger's like, I come from a place where I want to win every week. Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, and basically said, some second place is not bad every now and then. He goes, no, I want to win. And guess what he did? Win. I cringe watching that video over and over again whenever I see it.
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Let's go back to the phone lines. Blake in Michigan. That's line two, Mike. Line two. What's up, Blake?
Hey, how's it going guys? What up, man? What's happening? Cracking. Hey, I wanted to talk about uh The Miami, Ohio Redhawks.
Nice. And I got good news for you. I don't think you're going to have to sing Rocky Top. I think they win tonight. I think that they beat Tennessee in the first round.
I got them in the Sweet 16. I was curious what your guys' thoughts were on Miami. Going from the first four to the Sweet 16, that's a very Syracuse thing to do, as we keep on pointing out, right? Sure, we did. Didn't they do that one year?
We did do that one year, yep. It's not, it doesn't happen too often. They got a chip for sure. I would listen, Blake. I would hope so.
I really would. You know, I'm up for MACTICTION, number one. Number two, Boy, they they are They're going to have a lot. looking at them just like the you know, with all due respect, the James Madison Um, entry into the college football playoffs, right? You know what I mean?
Absolutely.
Where everyone's looking at, like, what are you doing here? What are you going to do with your opportunity when there's some supposed blue blood sitting there waiting? You know? Absolutely.
I think that that offense is just unmatched. I think that they're going to. Common firing tonight. and uh make a run. Yeah.
I'm from up here in Upper Michigan. You know, I'm from where Tom Izzo is from.
So, Iron Mountain. Yeah, I'm in Iron Mountain right now watching the show. Oh, say how to Mariuchi's Jersey number for me. Dooper. I sure will.
And I also want to give a quick shout out to my dad. He watches your show every day. It was his birthday yesterday. I'm sure he's going to see this clip. I'll be ecstatic.
Thanks. Thanks for your time. What's your dad's name? Yeah.
What's your dad's birthday, Mark? Happy birthday, Mark. Oh, very good. I like it. They're in Iron Mountain, Michigan.
And uh Upper Peninsula Yeah. If Miami of Ohio does not perform well, It'll be All in on anybody else, like Indiana's of the world, Bruce Pearl be sitting there angry like somebody's woke. You know? Let's go back to the phone lines here. Matt in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
What's up, Matt? Matt. Hey, what's going on, Rich? What's going on, man? Nothing.
My question is about the Philadelphia Evils. Earlier in the year, you told us to relax. And I'm just wondering when is the time to stop relaxing? When do we kind of get the. Oh, my God.
The pressure is kind of building up, I feel like, you know? Pressure. You won it two years ago. What are you talking about? I understand that.
Matt, hold on a second. Do you hear what Stoutland said about he wasn't asked about the running game? You hear all this stuff about A.J. Brown? Oh, shitty.
Doesn't Matt sound young enough to make our guy Jake sound like Wilfred Brimley? How old are you, Matt? Young. 31. 31.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Listen, Matt, you've seen. Three Super Bowls in your lifetime. Two of them wins. You know? So, I'm not saying you should settle.
That's wrong of me to say here. But bottom line is, you. You're going into this draft knowing. that your guy knows how to draft. And you go into this summer knowing That your team has a great chance to win a division and catch fire, go on a run and win it all again.
I mean, how many thanks to the call, Matt? Tell me how many teams are in that position. Where they know their general manager knows how to draft. with the draft choices that they have. and be aggressive and smart about being aggressive to win now.
with a team that can win now. Let's name the teams. Rams. Rams are one of them right off the top of my head. 49ers or another, right?
49ers. Um although, you know, nine is f Haters will be like, Well, aren't they the ones who drafted Trey Lance years ago. Um Chiefs. Chiefs are another one. But do you you think the Chiefs can win it all, though?
Right? It seems like they're in that position every year. New England's one of them, again. Elliot's did a good job the last couple of years. Ravens fans feel this way, I think.
Packers? I think so. Right? Do you Cowboys fans feel that way? No.
All right. Don't believe in the grocery shopper and don't think you can win at all. I mean, winning it. I'm so tired.
Okay, got it. Seattle does now. Seattle does.
So we've named six teams, right? The Eagles are one of 'em. Correct? Mm chargers? We got to see it to believe it, right?
Yeah, no. Are we saying the thing? Where the fans go, like, we have a chance to win it because we've seen it and we know it. And our general manager is going to draft well and supplement everything that we have right now to win it and do it. Mm.
A literal handful of teams, maybe. You're barely hitting the secondhand. Yeah, honestly. Yeah.
So, Eagles fans, that's why I tell them to relax. I tell them to relax. Let them be miserable. Who cares? I know that's how you feel.
I know that's how you feel about it. Lots of us feel like that. But trust the process and know that you've got a chance.
Now, you know, you can't say that in Philly Ray. Can it fall? I know that. You cannot say that. I shouldn't say that.
All right. Trust and Howie, and also know that the team two years ago won it all, two years before that, almost won it all. And what? four or five years before that did win it all. Are the bears creeping into that conversation?
Oof.
Well, I think Rich, don't you think once you know you have the quarterback, it kind of just makes you feel understood. You know, right. And if the Eagles fans deep down feel like they still don't have the quarterback, that's so. It's crazy. I think they believe that, yeah.
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