310: ‘Russian Nesting Doll Code’, With Jason Snell
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
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🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 152 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good sir. How are you doing? Good. I wasn't really that very optimistic about Drexel's |
| 0:07.8 | chance. The amount of 16 cc is hard. Yeah, and they deserve to be a 16 cc. I think that |
| 0:15.9 | there's a very good chance that the Drexel University Dragons of 2020, the 2020-2021 |
| 0:24.0 | season, this team that got their ass kicked today by Illinois, could still go down in NCAA |
| 0:31.9 | tournament history as the team to reach the tournament with the fewest wins. Yeah, that's |
| 0:40.9 | a good point. They were a shortened season, right? They were perhaps the most shortened |
| 0:46.2 | season of any team in NCAA, in the NCAA. They were 12 and 7. So they only won 12 games. |
| 0:54.0 | Including the conference tournament games that got them into the tournament. Yeah, I was going |
| 0:59.9 | to say that at the very least, even if you were a terrible team, if you won your conference tournament, |
| 1:04.6 | you'd still need to win a handful of games to do that. I looked at the bracket and I didn't |
| 1:11.9 | look at the play in games, the ones the teams who played yesterday, but I don't think any of them |
| 1:16.0 | would do it. There were a couple of other teams that had like 14 wins, but Drexel with 12 was by, |
| 1:21.6 | you know, two games fewer than that. And I can't, you know, I think there's a very high likelihood, |
| 1:27.4 | knock on wood, fingers crossed, that we won't have another pandemic like this going forward. And |
| 1:33.8 | there's no feasible way that any other team with 12 wins could possibly make the tournament. |
| 1:40.9 | Unless they, unless it was a team with, you know, two wins, then somehow ran the table, |
| 1:45.5 | which seems in their conference tournament, seems almost impossible entirely impossible. |
| 1:50.2 | Right. I guess if you had like a superstar player, like a future Michael Jordan, LeBron James, |
| 1:56.6 | caliber player who was injured or otherwise ineligible for your regular season. And they came back. |
| 2:06.5 | Yeah, break them out for the tournament for the tournament. And then you run the table. So yeah, |
| 2:10.6 | I guess that's possible, but that it's it's it's highly unlikely. Yeah, because I don't think it's |
| 2:15.1 | ever happened before. Well, I am hopeful that one day mile in the modern will also receive a 16 seed. |
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