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The Valenti Show

Can We Say That? | 3-30-26

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The guys do their weekly staple "Can We Say That?" segment, mainly surrounding the NCAA Tournament.

Transcript

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0:00.0

No better way to kick off the week. I adore this segment. It is, can we say that? Kenny,

0:08.5

let's solve the world's problems. Go ahead. Michael, welcome back. You know what? I'm going to start off with an easy thing for you.

0:17.7

And we kind of touched upon it earlier in the show. Yes, I think Renegade is going to win the Kentucky Derby with his smashing performance in

0:24.4

the Arkansas Derby.

0:25.2

It was a great performance.

0:26.9

Shut up.

0:27.6

Thank you for sharing that with me.

0:29.3

I know.

0:29.8

It was tremendous.

0:30.5

Go ahead.

0:31.9

Can we say that in order to make the final four and win a national title,

0:38.4

you need a first round NBA player or international player.

0:42.9

Yeah, I mean, the NBA part is far more important.

0:46.6

This is why MSU's not winning a second championship under Rizzo.

0:50.1

They don't have NBA talent.

0:51.3

They have really good college players.

0:52.9

Well, guess what happens when you run into NBA talent? You get Yaxled. You need NBA talent. When you think about it, it's why that lost the Syracuse in the tournament hurt because you had an NBA player. You had two. I'm going to leave that alone. I'll leave it alone. I'll leave it alone because it's too early in the week to anger you and mentioned mentioned Ben Carter's. You can't hurt me. We're good. 25 to 6. You can't hurt. Most definitely I feel like I do agree with Mike. The NBA talent is a little more important to it. But then at the same time as well, as much as people say, oh, get the NBA talent or allocate a lot of money. Look at the teams like, for example, Kentucky. You can shell out $10 million. It doesn't really equate to... Corbett, that's bad evaluations. I don't care about Kentucky falling on their ass because Mark Pope's an idiot. My point is, if you don't have NBA talent, you have no chance. If you do, it doesn't guarantee anything. But Corbyn, you know what I know. There's not a single player in this state team's NBA player. No, not what? By all means, I agree with that as well. I mean, U of M, MSU, in my opinion, were a little too fraudulent for that sole reason. I just think that when there are teams that are shelling out the money like a Kentucky with players who might not be first round or lottery pick caliber, but still on the cusp of

2:05.3

it necessarily, I don't think you'll equal to results as people think it would.

2:09.5

No, it's not a guarantee. But if you don't do it, you got no shot. Can we say that Yaxel

2:16.8

Lindeborg will be the best player that Michigan had in modern history?

2:22.5

I'm not going back to the Cazey days. I'm saying modern history.

2:26.9

No, no. He's an outstanding college player now that we're allowing 30-year-olds to play in college.

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