Welcome back to the three-man-weave college basketball podcast. The boys took a week off. We're back here to talk about coaching hires. A little bit of a strange topic, I'll admit, Matthew, Jimithee. But frankly, guys, we're running out of ideas. You know, we're in preview season mode right now. I don't say that. God, you're really taking a big dump on our podcast before we even get started. I'm not. The podcast has reached its last end. Kai's like basically writing the eulogy here. No, we're going to be here. We're not going anywhere. When we're 70, we'll be still hunkered around our dumbass microphones talking about nonsense called college basketball stuff. So no, we are here to stay. These are the dregs of the basketball season. We have all our podcast episodes for September prepared and ready to go. Just during

this time, it's kind of like, okay, what should we talk about? Well, the answer is guys out there,

folks out there. There was like 57ish coaches hired this season. Ish. You don't know the exact

number. We're going to do some grades, tops, bottoms. Before you do that, Jim, how are you? You wearing your Milwaukee Bucks championship hat? We know you're very excited about this. Yeah, just got a fresh batch of gear in, got another on the way. I think I'm just going to buy more every week until I die or until I go broke. But anything with the Larry O'Brien T trophy or the word champion on it is being purchased right now. And yeah, the glow is still going. I don't care that it was two or three weeks ago at this point. I'm a happy, happy man. I know it gets you for your birthday now. Yep. Oh, good call. Kai. Very good. I'm not good birthday. So I appreciate if you would remind me when that's coming up so we can collab on a potential gift for Jim. But Jim, my initial question, the collectibles like the Wheaties box and like the, the, the Bud Light bottles. Do we have any of those cliche things coming in or is it more just clothing swag? Just curious to get a sense of your inventory here. Mostly clothing. I think I want to get

the journal Sentinel, Milwaukee paper covered from that day. Got to frame that stuff. Yep,

frame that puppy. There were a couple niche items that I looked at, did not buy, but they're not

going anywhere, so they might still get purchased. Let me guess. The headline was, go buck wild.

That's not bad. I don't think that was it. Wasn't it? I like your heads out. That's very good, Matthew. Okay. Let's get started with the show. Jay Pity. He does our music. He's cool guy. 3MW underscore CBB is our Twitter handle. You're going to want to check out the Twitter handle because that is where we announce every single preview of our top 40 countdown, which is underway.

3-man dashweave.com is where you can see those lovely articles.

It's 25% of the way through. Yes. We released number 31 today on Wednesday, August 4th, 30s tomorrow, 29. That's how numbers work.

And it's been going good so far, guys. I will say, the Reddit community always makes me...

Hold on. Jim said 40? What the dude?

Jim's written 40 previous.

So deflating. I just banged out too today. I'm like, oh, I'm going to catch or I'm going to come within a stone's throw Jim. It's like, no, we still got the old six preview lead on me. Yeah. The Reddit community guys, they like to point out very specific things in our articles. It always makes me laugh. You should do a power rankings of top five like comment responses. That would be a good podcast. People read competitively. They like want to be right. They want to be smarter than the writer. So they're like, all right, which little thing can I gripe about? Yep. Yes. The podcast you're listening to. Please subscribe to it. iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, doesn't matter matter we're at your podcast we are likely on

that platform and we have one new review today uh we appreciate reviews guys five stars are awesome

and good segue to this one the title of this review from j C wadner is I'm sorry for that time

I accidentally gave you a four star review it's's a great title. So this is nice.

This is like a making up for it, I guess, was four star. He said about a month ago, he gave our

podcast to four star. It was a dark time as TCU was overhauling its roster. He took his anger out

on us, he says. He apologizes and hopes this five star review can be an olive branch going forward. With that being said, conference realignment, what are your thoughts of Texas Tech Baylor and TCU possibly joined the PAC 12? Would you rather have teams from the AAC join the Big 12? Thanks, boys. My opinion, guys, I'd rather have American teams join the Big 12. Jim, thoughts.

Yeah, I think I agree.

Although, first of all, don't take the anger out on us. Kai and I have been beating the TCU drum. Yeah, go for a lot season. Matt's over there, you know, taking a, he's not happy with him. I'm a K-State guy, he says, but whatever. came around. Didn't I, I think I just closed behind the scenes that you guys were right.

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