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So in the last couple of segments you heard from Dusty May, what really screams out to me from what Dusty was saying is that he got he has his guys back, whether it's the fact that he cannot stand that people try to call his players mercenaries, which is not what they are. It's what college basketball and college athletics are in 2026. There is a freedom of movement. But first of all, Will Cheddar's been here forever. Namari Burnett's been here for three years. Trey McKinney's a freshman from the in-state that chose Michigan because he's a smart kid. So, yeah, there is some player movement and some guys moving around. But that's, if you're not playing that game, you're behind. And you're probably looking like you're going to turn into the Clemson of college basketball. So there's the first part of it is that he doesn't like people calling his guy's names. No, Dostia will go out there. He'll listen to the heckling. He'll listen to the F-bombs. He doesn't care. He actually was laughing. He was chuckling about that, you know, leading up to the game on Friday night. But you call his guys mercenaries, and he's going to show you evidence that they are more bonded and they are closer together than the other side, which allegedly is the team built

organically and the way it's supposed to be done.

Which is, if you think that's the way it's supposed to be done, then keep doing that, please.

And you're not going to win a darn thing because that's not how college sports are anymore.

It's just not.

Whether you like it or not, things change.

And I know Tom iso is kind of turning into, if not already a dinosaur, but you have, it's like dabbo. Again, with Clemson, you either have to adapt or you have to be done and move on. And since Izzo is on the back end of his coaching arc, maybe it's his time for him to at the end of the year to say, you know what, I don't do it anymore.

I don't want him to go.

We love having around.

We definitely love having a guy who's a dinosaur that doesn't like to change at the times.

That's why coaches have coaching arcs.

The best coaches, the elite coaches,

there are very few of them that don't actually have coaching arcs

where they have the dip at the end. Very few.

He's definitely in the back end of his coaching arc,

but that's another conversation for another day.

Obviously, the mercenary thing definitely, you know,

bothers Dusty because his team is as, as he says,

bonded and together as they are.

But he also, you know, he had a conversation about player safety. There was a play where fears appeared to trip Yaxel. Is that beyond? Appeared? Or did trip Yaxel. It was an illusion, right? Right, right. I apologize. And then. No, that's what I don't mean to be. But I apologize.

No, you're good.

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