Don't expand March Madness, it's perfect as is + Why Kentucky might be stuck with Calipari
College Football Enquirer
Yahoo Sports
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde kick off the podcast by reacting to the instant classic and finish between Houston and Texas A&M in the second round of March Madness. All three share their biggest takeaways from the first weekend of the tournament including Purdue's dominance so far and Kentucky's collapse against Oakland.
The trio then discusses why the tournament is perfect as it is and does not need any further expansion. Dellenger reiterates the desire the power four conferences have to do so anyways. Dellenger explains how conference realignment and expansion are the crux for these conferences wanting more access into the tournament. Wetzel shares an idea from college basketball analyst Fran Fraschilla on how expanding the tournament could work and still be fair to mid-majors.
After the break, Wetzel shares his amusement and deep dive on Grand Canyon University. Wetzel can't determine if he wants to buy literal stock in Grand Canyon University or if the whole thing is a farce, including the fans that went to the actual games this weekend.
The three then deliberate on the future of John Calipari at Kentucky after yet another embarrassing performance in March Madness. Forde explains why firing Calipari, who signed a life-time contract, is easier said than done. The trio also react to FAU's former head coach Dusty May taking the Michigan job. Forde explains how May's decision to go to Ann Arbor has Louisville almost starting from square one again to find their new head basketball coach.
The trio ends the pod with a 'Say Something Nice' segment and a people's court on a dad who might win 'Father of the Year' in 2024.
1:30 - First weekend of March Madness takeaways: Houston survives classic, Oakland captures nation, chalky bracket
17:00 - Don't fix, tweak, expand March Madness... it's not broken, it's perfect
32:05 - Dan is enthralled with Grand Canyon University's stock and fans
40:55 - Coaching news: What does Kentucky do with Calipari? Michigan lands May
51:24 - 'Say Something Nice' segment: March Madness edition
59:00 - People's Court: Father of the year or not?
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | On today's show, presented by Prime Video, Houston wins a crazy one. |
| 0:06.8 | The legend of Oakland You, please don't change this channel. |
| 0:10.3 | We say something nice and a homework issue in Ohio. |
| 0:15.0 | Time now for the college basketball |
| 0:18.0 | Inquirer with Dan Wetzel. |
| 0:22.0 | This is America's Tortum. It doesn't belong to you. It doesn't even belong to the NCA. It belongs to all of us. |
| 0:28.5 | Ross Galenger. |
| 0:30.5 | This is the, I think I saw this is the, maybe the second most chockiest you know in the last decade or so as far as the average |
| 0:37.0 | seeds making it to the second weekend. I think it's 3.3 |
| 0:40.4 | It's chalky in here Dan. And S.I's Pat Forting! |
| 0:47.0 | From 2015 when Kentucky is 38 no and lost the final 4 till now. It's diminishing returns. Nobody's happy. Everybody's |
| 0:54.7 | tired of Cal's act, but they don't know what to do about it. Here's Pat, Russ, |
| 0:59.9 | and Dan. All right, welcome the pod presented by Prime Video. |
| 1:07.2 | It was four days, I guess six, |
| 1:10.0 | because we were watching and laughing at Virginia and stuff, but four days of March Madness and they lived up to it. |
| 1:20.8 | Favorites move on, first time in a while that we've had all the ones and two seeds |
| 1:26.1 | made it. I really thought like about the two to three seed it wouldn't matter between that and |
| 1:31.6 | like 12 or 14. didn't really pan out but so |
| 1:35.8 | committee plenty of reasons to bash them they did a pretty good job seating the |
| 1:39.3 | top teams a lot of impressive performances but a lot of good upsets crazy shots buzzer beaters unexpected results |
| 1:47.9 | humiliating defeats all the things we want crying band members |
| 2:01.2 | absurdity crying band members, absurdities, folk heroes. I heard that Yale was too cheap to bring their bands to Spokane. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Yahoo Sports, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Yahoo Sports and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.