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DAILY CLONE: Why the cinderella story still matters, a rant with Jake Brend

Cyclone Fanatic Podcast Network

Chris Williams

Sports, News, Sports News

4.7874 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

On Wednesday's Daily Clone presented by Fareway Meat & Grocery, Jake Brend addresses Fox analysts Joel Klatt's comments about wanting to get rid of the cinderella story. Brend rants why everyone deserves a seat at the table and why that's good for college athletics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome into the Northwest Bank Studios. I'm Jake Brand here with the Daily Clone on a Wednesday presented by Fairway Meat and Grocery.

1:07.3

I'm about to do something a little different than I normally do. I'm going to rant, but before I rant, I'm going to add some context.

1:14.8

Fox's Joel Klatte, one of the biggest voices of college football, went on a podcast called

1:20.0

The Next Round, and essentially said he doesn't care about Cinderella, and he doesn't care

1:25.5

about the fans.

1:26.8

I'll just let him speak for himself.

1:29.1

We're not looking for a Cinderella. Nobody cares in football about James Madison or,

1:33.9

you know, the equivalent of George Mason going, didn't George Mason go to the final four or something

1:38.0

like that? Nobody cares in football about that. We don't want Cinderella's. We want the best

1:43.3

teams playing each other at the end.

1:45.2

In fact, hot take, I mean, like the hottest of all takes that I've ever had in my entire life.

1:51.8

The NCAA basketball tournament is a joke. It's the dumbest tournament and the least fair tournament in all of sports.

1:59.6

We go and we put teams at odd times on neutral sites in a one game affair.

2:05.6

Like, that doesn't crown a true champion.

2:08.6

We're not doing anything that tells us who's the best team over the course of the entire season.

2:15.6

You know, like if anything, the NCAA basketball tournament

2:18.4

should act exactly like the old World Cup,

2:21.3

which we should have groups.

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