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Speaking of Sweet Home Alabama, how far do the Crimson Tide get in?

They got some distractions going on, right? Uh-huh. I think they're going to get beat by Texas Tech. I think they'll beat Hofstra, but I'm telling you. And I know Texas Tech is down their best player. But I just think the world of the way Texas Tech has coached. I watched them pretty deep last year in the tournament.

And like they're just one of those teams. I've always said it's kind of like Brad Stevens teams. They just always know where the loose balls are. They're very well coached. But we'll see what happens with that. Joining us now on the Java House Cold Brew Coffee guest line. He is the wide receiver of the Indianapolis Colts. and we got all, we all as a city collectively got ourselves worked up into a tizzy over whether or not we would be able to

continue to say that about Alec Pierce. But it almost feels like there was never any doubt about

it. He joins us on the program now. Alec, other than, you know, probably wealthier than last time we talked, how are you?

Good. How are you? You know what? I can't complain. And the, you know what? I take that back.

Now, I'm not going to say that I'm going to complain about this, but if you could have drawn this out

just a couple more days, it would have given us that

much more to talk about for a couple days, right? Because we were talking about this all the

time. And I know you've addressed this perhaps, but I want to get right to this. And that is,

was there any doubt in your mind about this? I mean, how much, when you got the deal with the

Colts and that was announced, was that as much about Alec Pierce wanted to be in Indianapolis

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