Who Will The Bigger NFL Star Be? (Hour 3)

Day number two of the NCAA tournament.

Some people will say oh no it's really day number four because you had Tuesday and Wednesday. Those people I don't like to associate myself with them because the NCAA tournament for me doesn't really start in terms of our interest until the first Thursday of the NCAA tournament. So day number two of the NCAA tournament is underway and Stu give me my sounder please. Bailer earlier today 75-72 over Mississippi State. We had an upset alert and it is a final as you know by now. Number 12 Colorado State taking care of business against number five Memphis 78 to 70. Iowa State rolled Lipscomb in a 3-4 team matchup 82 to 55. It was close four point game at the half between Alabama and Robert Morris. It was even close in the second half but Alabama did pull away late defeating Robert Morris 90 to 81 and we have four games in action right now. Grand Canyon just underway with 12-22 to go in the first half and they are trailing Maryland by two. It's 9-7 in favor of Maryland. Ole Miss at the half they are crushing UNC 44 to 26.

Chris Beard continues to be one of the best coaches in the country. Vanderbilt 10-7 matchup 13-34 remaining in the first half it's 39-31 and Duke blowing out Mount Saint Mary's 84 to 46 with 344 remaining in this contest and if you are a Cooper Flag fam well 14.6 to 12 in this one from the field and had seven rebounds and four assists had a thunderous slam early stuck the tongue out so it looks like he's okay coming off the ankle injury. So that's our March Madness update.

Nothing really crazy in terms of signature moments so far still to come as we will tip off the evening window at 6 50 p.m eastern time. Florida North Fork steak 7 10. You do have Kentucky and Troy that's a 3 14. Marquette New Mexico.

Shock is smart. Richard Patino that's a 7 10 matchup at 7 25 p.m eastern time. You have Arizona and Akron in the 4 13 game at 7 35 p.m eastern time.

Good coaching matchup here. Porter Moser against Danny Hurley that's an 8 9 matchup. Huskies the 8 seed. Oklahoma is the 9 seed that's at 9 25 p.m eastern time. Illinois Xavier at 9 45.

Michigan State Brian at 10 p.m eastern and then Oregon and Liberty Liberty Liberty Liberty in a 5 12 coming up at 10 10 p.m eastern time. Samter asked me a very good question today before the start of the show. And Samter give me the way that you you meant it when you said who's going to be the bigger star in the NFL is it Travis Hunter and Chidor Sanders and how you classified stardom in your opinion. So I'm not necessarily talking about who's going to be the better player. It's more like who's going to be more impactful on the league. Who are we going to be talking about more? Who's going to be more interesting? Who's going to you know and talking about them because they're interesting or talking about them because they have a good podcast or talking about them because they're the best player in the league talking about them because they're winning Super Bowl. Just who are we going to be talking about? Who are we going to be looking back and saying man that guy was great. That guy was interesting. That guy was who we had to talk about.

So there's multiple ways then to break it down. Who do I think is the better player? Travis Hunter or Chidor Sanders? I think pound for pound the pound the better player is Travis Hunter. Now in terms of marketing and personality you know Travis Hunter is kind of like an old soul.

Where Chidor Sanders I think if his play could meet it which is the big if he could be a mega star off the field. He's got a million dollar smile. He's got a confidence to him. He's got a bravado to him. You know some dope said oh it's brash and arrogance. I think it's fun.

I think it's an alpha type of personality which is a good thing. And also the position even though Hunter can do something both ways quarterbacks went out. So the position for Chidor Sanders is more important. But without knowing where Chidor goes right. Because like who would have thought Bo Nix would have had the rookie season that he had is Bo Nix having that rookie season if he doesn't have Sean Payton.

Probably not. So like there's some guys I think you could plug in anywhere and they could be stars. Jayden Daniels I think you get plugged in anywhere. But look at Caleb Williams. He's supposed to be all that was in a bad situation last year where they had some talent but the coaching staff was such a disaster. And Caleb Williams did not have a great season last year.

So I'm still going to go Hunter over Chidor because Hunter to me is a great player. Now is his body going to be able to hold up. How is the league going to use him because I don't think they're going to play him as much as Coach Prime did on both sides of the ball. I do believe most teams are going to say and I know this is differentiated but I do think a lot of teams are going to say corner first then 17 plays or so a game on the 15 plays or so a game on the offensive side of the ball will you'll be like in the role of a gadget player you know special packages for you like a third down a third wide receiver even though you could be a lot better than a third wide receiver on a depth chart.

But what Travis does is so unique and for Chidor I don't know what the ceiling is. I think he could be good. I don't know if he could be great. I don't know if he could be elite. I do think the better talent does win out and Travis obviously being a Heisman Trophy winner is also right.

Another feather in his cap and so much national notoriety where it should door pops off. I do think the answer that is Chidor Sanders but I'm not confident in saying that Chidor is going to pop off. But I think Chidor will be good. You know who Chidor could kind of remind me like I don't think anyone's ever said this Baker Mayfield where Baker had such a big personality and that has rubbed some people the wrong way. And I understand it didn't initially work out for Baker even though he did win a playoff game in Cleveland but they quickly disposed of him.

And Baker now has found his rhythm but in a place that's usually kind of irrelevant right. You know Tampa Bay it's not this big national media market. I know people in Tampa Bay won't like that. Now they've been successful. They've won two Super Bowls right.

We saw one with Brad Johnson and John Gruden and all those great defensive players and we saw them won one with Tommy Brady. But I do think there's some similarities in Baker and Chidor where I don't know if either will ever be elite. Baker has done a great job the last two years but it's all about fit for those guys. But if they play well you know the personality of Baker. And even though Baker has a big personality I think Chidor has a bigger personality.

So I do think there's some similarities in what those two quarterbacks could be. Obviously Baker ended up being a number one overall pick but that they catch a lot of people by surprise. And Baker was originally a walk on all the transferring to Chidor had you know first went to Jackson State then Colorado. Sonic he played for a big time program. Now Baker eventually did play for Oklahoma which is a mega program and won a Heisman Trophy. But I do think that those two players are I'm not saying in play style but just the way that we talk about them are similar and how they're they're pretty good and both be in the alpha. But you know Chidor going to be able to find that success quickly or is it going to have to be bouncing around until you end up finding that right situation.

So let's continue off of this. Give me a few players here Samter or you're going to ask me who's going to be the bigger star in the NFL. All right well let's go to a position that we don't talk about that much the tight end. Who do you think is going to be the bigger star Ty Warren or Colston Loveland. Tyler Warren.

I think Tyler Warren's the better player. Colston Loveland to me and I know Michigan didn't throw the ball this past year a lot and he got injured towards you know the end of the season. I thought Colston Loveland was going to be great.

In college I just saw Colston Loveland be good. Tyler Warren was the best offensive player for Penn State last year and they had two excellent running backs. Drew Aller I know he didn't play great up against Notre Dame.

He was God awful but Drew Aller is a good quarterback in college football and emphasis the word good not very good not great not a lead. Tyler Warren was really the first person you thought of at the offensive side of the ball and also how they use them down like you know something to those direct snaps that Travis Kelce. That's what they do to Tyler Warren at Penn State and I think he's more than just a tight end.

I just seen more out of Tyler Warren at a high level compared to Colston Loveland so I'll rock and roll with Tyler Warren. All right now we know you love this guy Ashton Genti clearly the best running back or Amari Hampton. So Amari and Hampton is someone to me that we had Mack Brown on and Mack Brown who coached Ricky Williams said he's the most talented running back he's ever coached. Amari Hampton that's what he said in the off season.

I even said hey coach you're coach Ricky Williams like what are we doing here and Mack still doubled and tripled down on it. Amari and Hampton last year was a better running back catching the ball out of the backfield like what he did catching the ball out of the backfield Genti had some injuries you know we had Dirk Kutter on they didn't want to get Genti the ball for whatever the reasons were. I've seen enough though from Genti in pass protection and also going back to not this last year but the year before it where he did catch the football more where I just think Genti even though Amari and Hampton looked like a more well-rounded back last year Genti is the more explosive and he's the better player and I'm not concerned with him catching the ball out of the backfield I just think it was the situation he was in last year. So I will I think Amari and Hampton should be a first round pick and I don't think the gap is as big as others but I do think Ashton Genti will be the bigger star so I'll go Ashton Genti. All right now how about the duo of the Georgia Edgerushers Michael Williams or Jalen Carter?

Oh that's a good question. At first I was thinking Jalen Pierce from Tennessee but I've been seeing him dropping slightly. You mean Jalen Walker you mean right?

I'm sorry. Did you say Jalen Carter? I meant Jalen Walker. Yeah I'm gonna go Jalen Walker. Michael Williams you know we talked about this the other day I think it was Jeremiah who had him falling to to 29th in the draft which I don't think he's gonna fall that far and you know it's kind of weird when these Georgia Edgerushers are there like Trayvon Walker you know they were sold on him being the number one pick based off potential I'm like oh I saw him wear an Aiden Hutchinson right like I thought Hutchinson I even thought Kayvon Thibodeau should have been picked before Trayvon Walker so Aiden Hutchinson his age well Kayvon Thibodeau not so much but I think Jalen Walker is is the person here that has the higher ceiling so I will end up going him instead of Mikel Williams. All right let's go to the receivers Emeka Ibuka or Chatura McMillan out of Arizona. I think Ibuka's underrated if he doesn't go in the first round I think that's a mistake I do think he'll end up going the first round like 23-24. He's a very good wide receiver there's just so many great wide receivers at Penn State like look at it he's been there I know he's been there for for more than just this but just the last two years with Jeremiah Smith and then also Marvin Harrison Jr. and I thought Marvin Harrison Jr. right was a great wide receiver prospect and then some and now one year in we just saw what Jeremiah Smith just did so Ibuka though at one time was supposed to be like that guy at Ohio State he had a wonderful career with the Buckeyes don't get me wrong so I do think Ibuka is underrated but McMillan to me I think has more number one wide receiver star potential than Ibuka like I think Ibuka has been in that role where he could look like a one and yes he had two guys that were there that were clearly number one so maybe he's better than what the way that he's getting talked about but I think we'll see flashes of him being a number one and then other games where he's a two I think he kind of grades like at that one and a half where McMillan you know I know it hasn't always proven to be true what the projections are and this has changed a little bit but for most of the year he's been projected as a top 10 pick in this draft so I think there's a higher ceiling with McMillan so I'll go ahead now let's go to the quarterbacks forget about Cam and Chidor let's move back a little bit we've had a lot of conflicting opinions about who the number three quarterback is Jackson Dart or Jalen Milro who do you think is the bigger star I don't like either and that's not an answer well I know the other like I wouldn't I've said this before I wouldn't use a first round pick on either but if you're asking me who has bigger star potential it's Jalen Milro and Jalen Milro gave us a moment this year up against Georgia now unfortunately that was the peak for Jalen Milro and Milro's one of these guys when he's on lights out but he's not on enough and when he's off it is way down here for Jackson Dart Christopher Maddog Russo used to say compiler like he's a compiler he played in a great system he's a good player but what was the memorable moments from his from his year this past year he very good stats when you look at Jackson Dart but even in the Ole Miss game where they beat Georgia they won that game because of the offense they won the game because of the defense because of the defense and I know they missed the field goal at the end but that game was not good up against Kentucky and the Florida game multiple opportunities and he was awful so Milro is not the better thrower of the football but he's a bigger quarterback we know what he could do running the football if he could just find some consistency in his game I do think Milro has the ability to be a bigger star like Dart to me doesn't have star potential he could just be like a guy that hangs around the league it is good you know it's solid it's fine you know very like I'm not I'm I this could be disrespectful to Derek Carr because I think Derek Carr is a better player than Jackson Dart but I think Jackson Dart could be very Derek Carr-ish it's like he could do worse but you can do a lot better and maybe there's one year where he puts it all together where you're like oh that's a star quarterback but all the other guys is like yeah all right he's just there he's racking up stacks you know stats and that's about it so I think Milro has a higher ceiling and I think he has the ability to be a bigger star even though both those players I don't believe are gonna are gonna be quarterbacks in this league that we're gonna be sitting here saying that they're very good for a long period of time if at any time at all all right so the last one we go a little bit farther down on the quarterback list we had Aaron Murray on the other day who was telling us kind of a grouping of quarterbacks kind of towards the back end middle of the draft what about Quinn Ewers or Kyle McCord now Kyle McCord got ran out of town at Ohio State and I know people say that's unfair I didn't think it was unfair um now you could question at the time did you think Will Howard was that big of an upgrade that's different conversation Will Howard ended up winning a national championship could Kyle McCord have done what Will Howard did this year at Ohio State I do believe he could have but I was always saying hey I thought Ohio State was gonna get Cam Ward in the transfer portal last year that was where my my mind was was that McCord had a very good season at Syracuse Quinn Ewers though the last two years at Texas all this guy has done is won he's brought Texas back now we've always been thinking oh arch Manning right and just get to arch to get to arch to get to arch Quinn Ewers won a big 12 championship and in the first year in the SEC they were in the championship game and we saw Texas get to the college football playoff two years in a row so do I think Quinn Ewers has been as respected as he should for what he's accomplished no um do I think Quinn Ewers gonna be a great pro quarterback no do I think Kyle McCord's gonna be a great pro quarterback no because at the big spot Kyle McCord didn't live up to the hype Quinn Ewers has been more than good in the big spot of Texas so if you ask me who has the potentially a bigger star I think it's Quinn Ewers over Kyle McCord that would just be me all righty Zach Gilp show infinity sports network real quickly I saw Mel Kiper came out with this latest mock draft Cam Ward number one to Tennessee Abdul Carter number two to Cleveland so he has the brownies here we go brownies here we go passing up on Chadore Sanders and teaming up Myles Garrett with Abdul Carter oh talk about a nightmare one-two punch Chadore Sanders to the Giants three Travis Hunter to the Patriots four Mason Graham to the Jaguars five Ashton Genti to Stu's Raiders in at number six this is following our draft from yesterday to a tee right now through the first six picks oh my god you're right yeah because I took Cam Ward then you took Abdul Carter then I said Chadore Sanders then you said Travis Hunter and then I did pick Mason Graham then you did go Ashton Genti oh my god it and I I had the seventh pick right yeah you had the odds yeah and I'm pretty sure I took Tyler Warren you did so that was Tyler Warren seven Jalen Walker eight to the Panthers do you remember hold on I have it right here yeah we had Jalen Walker eight to the Panthers that's great did Mel Kiper cheat off our paper might have he really might have well here's where it does not end up uh grading out the way that that we did he had Jackson Dart going to the Saints nine okay we did not have that you yuck yuck yuck yuck we had uh Jahad Campbell and then we had the Bears taking Will Campbell he has the Bears going uh Mike L Williams so look at that disparity Mike L Williams going 10 Daniel Jeremiah had him going like I think 26 or something like that would Jackson Dart nine to the Saints be more of a shocker than than Bo Nix to the Broncos last year um I think the better question is is it more of a shock of Michael Penix Jr. eight to the Falcons yeah because Bo Nix I was don't get me wrong right I was very surprised that Bo Nix went 12 but Sean Payton fell in love with him you know what you always realize this a day or two before the draft Adam Schefter writes an article that for some reason no one reads it because it's not on ESPN in terms of like him talking about it but someone aggregates it and he was talking about this belief that Bo Nix could go to the Broncos and then that for some reason went all over the place after it happened um I would say the and and it was also so much stuff with Michael Penix Jr. too in that reporting I thought the Michael Penix Jr. was a bigger shock just because they had Kirk Cousins like the Broncos if you would have told me three weeks before the three days before the draft that Bo Nix would have been the total overall pickup but it said what are you smoking don't get me wrong but at least the Broncos needed a quarterback at the time Falcons didn't need a quarterback I think for me Penix like to your point Penix was more shocking because the team he went to but I think we all expected him to go top 10. um I thought top 15 because the injuries we all kind of thought the the latest he would go would be 12 to the Broncos so so we all kind of expect and Bo Nix felt like a late first maybe early second round kind of guy yeah so I agree with you that the thought with with Bo Nix was second round like late first Michael Penix I thought there was a chance he'd get to the 20s just because of the injury history right um but it was shocking because of the team not because of the number him going eight wasn't shocking the Falcons were shocking even in a bad quarterback draft class if if Jackson Dart goes ninth overall it's more shocking than Michael Penix Jr. and it's more shocking than Bo Nix wow all right wow he shouldn't go ninth I agree who at the end of the college football season said that Jackson Dart was gonna be the ninth overall pick in the draft who even said he was gonna be the third quarterback in this draft class nonsense the guy was not a great quarterback this year you look back at Jackson Dart once again the game up against Georgia they won was one because of their defense on Ole Miss I don't miss the field goal again up against Kentucky but the offense was crap that day and also you look at the Florida game how many chances they have to win at the end Billy Napier his job was like dunzo I know the 18 came out and said oh yeah we're gonna bring it back blah blah blah but people are so down in Billy Napier and Jackson Dart had multiple opportunities and beat that Florida team so you got to show me something more I know his stats are good you know a lot of quarterback stats could be good in lane Kiffin's offense but I'm sorry Jackson Dart being the ninth overall pick in the draft if Mel Kuiper's right on that you know I'll slam my head into a wall like I get that in writing no no that's not me saying like oh I'll do a show in my underwear or something like I'm literally gonna slam my head into a wall because like it just doesn't make any sense to me I'll be irate and I'll just be just furious because it's like what are you doing the Saints haven't had a quarterback since Drew Brees and that's the big move you're gonna make that's the big move hey maybe Kellen Moore is a quarterback genius maybe it is all right let's take a time out second show infinity sports network all righty day two of the NCAA tournament finals so far Baylor taking care of business up against Mississippi State that's 75-72 these are all finals Colorado State as a 12-seat upsets Memphis 78 to 70 Iowa State thump Linscombe 82 to 55 Alabama 90 to 81 winners over Robert Morris and welcome back Cooper Flag he played well looked good in a 93 to 49 victory for the Dukies up against Mount St. Mary's and we have three games still in play right now before you get to the night window Maryland up 39 to 22 up against Grand Canyon Ole Miss blowing out North Carolina 52 to 32 and with 243 to go you have St. Mary's and you have St. Mary's and you have Vanderbilt 53 to 50 now I may need some assistance from the other side of the glass and I hate to do this the remote for the TVs is over there I need someone to get the remote because St. Mary's Vanderbilt is coming down to the wire and there's 243 left and this is on TruTV now finding TruTV we make this joke all throughout the years is a disaster so I need to just make sure that we get that channel on TruTV because we got 243 left and we got St. Mary's and Vanderbilt in a 7-10 game and St. Mary's is up by 353 to 50 so this is always the fun part trying to find TruTV as we did have UNC and Ole Miss was on but that game is a blowout right now so always time for a comeback oh stop it it's a 20-point game you know it's not I've seen crazier things against Duke I've seen crazier things happen but with that being said not today and thank you Santa and a boy spider attaboy don't get it but anyway the the takes about Hubert Davis after this one are going to be interesting to me because going into this tournament the UNC fan was down on Hubert Davis and everyone's attacking right UNC for getting in so there's a little rallying cry they blow out San Diego State and I said after that one how they emphatically just beat down San Diego State I wondered if they're going to be able to recreate that up against Ole Miss where they could go win another game and we all know how excellent coach Ole Miss is by Chris Beard and now this is a 53 to 34 game of 1535 to play the Hubert Davis run so far replacing Roy Williams they get to the championship game in year one should have won it you could argue they did not though then you're number two you miss the NCAA tournament then you're number three you're the regular season champions in the ACC which I think a lot of people forget about and they end up losing in the sweet 16 now they were a number one seed so you lose in the sweet 16 they got upset by Alabama's good team they're number four number four seed Alabama and then this year a lot of people feel like you didn't belong in the NCAA tournament but you got in like I'll be real did I think that you could make a case for somebody else over UNC yes we talked about that did I think putting UNC in was like the bloody murder that people were trying to make it out to be no I did not I would have put some but I would have put West Virginia in over UNC but I was not right about UNC getting in but if UNC doesn't come back here I feel like we go when we had Roy Williams on and Roy Williams right it was his choice to get Hubert Davis as the coach and he came on and he made a passionate plea to UNC fans how why Hubert Davis is still the right guy I think the people that were questioning him then are still going to be questioning him you know they beat you know in the first four they blew out San Diego State all right there's a lie you know no one knew what they were talking about but if you don't you know find the way to come on back here and at least make this a respectable game and even so I still think there's a lot of people that and deservedly so we're going to continue to doubt Hubert Davis but you know he's not going anywhere for now now if they miss the tournament next year it could be a different conversation and we saw right Kyle Neptune get three years at Villanova never made the NCAA tournament and he got acts and that was deservedly so I don't think that Hubert Davis should be fired yet but he does enter next year with a lot of attention and a lot of pressure on him it's gonna be fascinating to see what he's gonna end up doing for your boys at Chapel Hill we'll see I don't I think there's still you know a good rope for him I don't I definitely think maybe that's that's a poor choice of words but uh I unleash yeah I didn't want to use that one either um but I you know look I don't think he's going anywhere um you know obviously the extension you know these things can obviously change but he's Carolina they don't like to make changes down there uh they like to give people a long long run they like to be patient the other question is again if not him then who and I don't know who that person is right now um you know so look I'm okay with Hubert Davis I do think he's a good coach I think the biggest criticism right now is roster management this year uh they did not put together a good team they're some of the transfers they took in were not did not live up to expectations he has a very small team and one that does not shoot the ball well also when we get into the the coaching cycle uh John Fanta by the way everything he said so far with us earlier in the week he has been spot on you could tell he was not believing in Chris Collins being the next head coach I never bought that of Villanova I thought it made sense for Collins and I could see why he wanted it and I could see why Nova would be interested especially with his ties to the Philadelphia area but uh he's going to be staying at at Northwestern on you know a new contract and Fanta also said that he he thought that Ryan Odom would get either Virginia or Villanova well according to Pete Thamel this came out about a half hour ago VCU coach Ryan Odom has emerged as the target for Virginia job and a deal is expected to come together in the upcoming days sources tell him and Jeff Borzello he left VCU Utah State and UMBC to the NCAA tournament he led excuse me VCU Utah State and UMBC to the NCAA tournament in his career so that's what we got cooking in that front in the coaching world and St. Mary's and Vanderbilt could we get a little buzzer beater here you gotta gotta hit the free throws so this is 58 to 56 with 27.7 seconds remaining in this game and St. Mary's just missed the front end of two shots so we will see if they hit here and you would hope so but I know so oh you are you have the tracker that's up there like what you know fun don't ruin the result here yes all right as Zach knows uh you know Nostradamus right there uh 59 56 and now there's going to be a timeout with 27.7 seconds remaining in the ball game so you have potential uh well 27.7 you can still go for two and then foul and get the ball back we'll see if they end up taking a three-point shot here but we got a good one maybe coming down to the wire with a little fun ending Carolina's down to 15. uh-oh here come the Tar Heels here come the Tar Heels plenty of time plenty of time plenty of time 20 points is not insurmountable in college basketball 15 with 13.25 left yeah what are you doing your update right now they get up they get they get a little hot the way they can play defense I've seen it before yeah and I as I said I'm a fan of Hubert Davis let me tell you Ack is gonna be peacocking around here if UNC comes on back and wins this game and defeats uh Ole Miss we'll come on back with a news brief here's with the latest infinity sports network sports flash the Ackman Rich Ackerman all righty it's time to answer ask the pro's question of the day and it's brought to you by O'Reilly auto parts Trent in Knoxville says Zach I heard you had Cade Phillips on the other day and he admitted the team is fueled by some of the outside noise and attention about Rick Barnes never winning a national championship up until this point who is a coach without a national championship that you would like to see win one this year you could submit a question by tweeting at INF SportsCenter at Zach Elbe's and hashtag ask the pros think rally auto parts for all your car care needs get guaranteed low prices and excellent customer service from the professional parts people at a rally auto parts rally auto parts um for me it's Bruce Pearl I would love to see Bruce Pearl win a national championship I think there's a good chance they get upset at that tomorrow up against Crayton in that 9-1 matchup but I would really like to see Bruce Pearl win a national championship all righty without further ado I'll talk about Freddie I do let's time to update you some of the biggest stories the world of sports with some audio we get to a news brief right now time for your daily news brief we get you caught up on the rumors reports and reconnaissance from the day in sports Saint Mary's did hold on 59 to 56 so they beat Vanderbilt you have Ole Miss and UNC 10.02 to go Ole Miss up 61 to 48 and at the half Maryland up 42 to 28 up against Grand Canyon let's start off with Bruce Pearl we're just talking about him and Auburn plays Crayton tomorrow here is Bruce Pearl on facing the Blue Jays we won't beat Crayton if we play like we did tonight no but we know we can play better we know we can tighten things up and that's the product that's the thing about the tournament um so hopefully we can learn and you know they're very pleased with the win you know we're they're only at the end of the day on Saturday they're gonna be 32 teams left and Auburn's still one of them let's get to Will Wade he was on the field of 68 and obviously the NC State job was not a distraction to his players yesterday as McNeese got their first ever program victory in the NCAA tournament here was Will Wade when he was asked was the NC State job and taking that job ever considered a distraction to the players we talked about it I mean we were in practice when all that happened you guys know I mean look you interview for a job and then your attorneys deal with their attorneys it's not like I'm talking to people every day we're honest I mean shoot half the kids are recruited hey look the goal is to go power five after this year and some of you guys can go with me and some you got you know I mean so we all know what's up and I mean our guys this was great for them they got they have a lot of schools in their DMs tonight too looking to pick them up them that's the thing too you know I would I like it to come out after the tournament sure did it impact them absolutely not but how many of these schools end up contacting these players throughout the season as well so I can't crush like we talked about DeVries right with West Virginia how Indiana was contacting him throughout the season it just it's the nature of the business that's what it is Kevin Willard could be on the move from Maryland even though Maryland's up right now 42 to 38 up against Grand Canyon what would it take for you to stay with Maryland coach I need to see fundamental changes done I want this program to be great I want to be the best in the country I want to win a national championship but there's things that need to change first and foremost I need to make sure that we are where we are with NIL and rev share is not where we've been with NIL in the past two years we've been one of the worst if not lowest in the NIL in the last two years I also have to make a fundamental change where I can do the things that I want to do with my my program you know I wanted to spend an extra night in New York this year to celebrate Christmas with my team and I was told that we can't do that because it's too expensive huh I don't know how we can be a top tier program and I can't spend one extra night in New York because it's too expensive that sounds like a coach who by the way said that before his opening round the NCAA tournament that is either using his platform to actually spark change or a coach who has one foot in one foot out and the only thing that is keeping that foot in is that he is still coaching a team that is a good team that could go on a run here in the NCAA tournament Zubi Agifor of the St. John's this is a weird thing I saw this last I was watching this this is a weird encounter with the media and it's on the media not on Zubi I like Zubi but why doesn't he seem happy after a win Zubi usually after a win like when we're talking to you you seem very upbeat you do not seem upbeat tonight are you a psychologist now you don't seem as upbeat as usual is is there a reason for that tell me your girlfriend broke up did you give him a psychological thing tell me no girl issues but uh anybody have any prozac out there what a weird question a kid just played a game he's probably tired so he's not like smiling every second you don't seem that happy come on what are we doing here is Rick Pitino on facing John Calipari you'll see that match up tomorrow is that a chess match you enjoy the the planning to go against each other given how many times I don't go against coaches we go against teams he's got a he doesn't have to worry about me my jump shot's long gone so uh he's got he's got to prepare for our team we've got to prepare for his players he's preparing for our players so we uh John and I don't play one-on-one anymore all righty so you know Pitino who usually gives you something really doesn't give you anything right there uh Kelvin Sampson so Sampter I must have missed this I know some people say Gonzaga I say Gonzaga I don't know what's the the correct pronunciation of it but he's actually livid about this so it is Gonzaga you call them the Zags right not the Zogs so I say Gonzaga but I hear some people say Gonzaga right and Illinois not Illinois yeah and it's Oregon not Oregon right but it's Gonzaga that's why you call them the Zags and well you'll hear what Kelvin Sampson does here now do you go Nevada or Nevada I go Nevada I think it's Nevada what about the fruit that's also a color the fruit that's also I don't know you're orange or orange oh orange Florida or Florida Florida interesting you want a dad joke here let's go what did Mississippi sip a mini soda boo what did Delaware oh come on this is a Rhode Island I don't know a New Jersey nah there it is all right uh here is Kelvin Sampson upset about the wrong pronunciation of Gonzaga didn't you try to get a game with Gonzaga in 2021 Gonzaga I was always burns me up when people say that it's like calling me Kevin my name is not Kevin my mother used to say people would see my name and say hey Kevin and she would say don't don't let people call you Kevin your name is Kelvin make sure they pronounce your name right so that's why I'm oh my antennas go up with that same with Gonzaga they were our neighbors it's and it's not Spokane and it's not Gonzaga it's Gonzaga and it's Spokane you know what I'm agreeing with coach Kelvin Sampson not Kevin Sampson because someone was tweeting the network account yesterday a few tweets and said would someone please tell Zach Gill it's a sports talk show he talks about everything but sports I had to turn it off and switch over to Fox Sports or ESPN first off I don't know what they talk about on the Zach Gill show on the Zach Gelb show do we sometimes do a little non-sports talk yeah but I would say for 95% of the show it's sports so maybe you use a q-tip and maybe you clean out those ears a little bit and sometimes people say q-tips aren't good so maybe a little extra soap in the shower and you open up that earwax you get that earwax out because how could you be critical of the show when you can't even get the host's name right so the Zach Gill show the Zach Gill show where we don't talk sports on the infinity sports network so I'm with Kelvin Sampson there all righty uh I think that's it yeah I'm good I'm going on that let's end on that note I like to end the show that way and go off into the weekend on a note like that all righty enjoy the rest of the games tonight you still have two that are ongoing a bunch more to tip off coming up in about 50 minutes from now Maryland 42 Grand Canyon 28 and with 7 36 to go here come the tar heels it's a 13 point game 63 to 50 uh but Ole Miss is still up we'll see if Chris Beard and his team can hold off unc smoke show yeah oh you thought that was a smoke show they're not smoking them anymore but you thinking that smoking was smoked show was was very funny uh did give me a good chuckle today uh big thanks to Cade Phillips from Tennessee for joining us big thanks to Sue big thanks to Sampson big thanks to Ack and most importantly big thanks to each and every one of you for tuning in to the program we'll be back on Monday recap all the craziness from the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament right here at 3 p.m eastern noon pacific time on the Zach Gelb show on the infinity sports network and it's the Zach Gelb show not Gil Gelb where we talk sports for 95 percent of the time have a good weekend everybody we out bye-bye peace