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The Valenti Show

Michigan & MSU Basketball Fans Answer The Question(s) At Hand

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Valenti and Rico take a few of your calls on Michigan + MSU basketball.

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0:00.0

All right, good news. I didn't spill anything else during the break.

0:03.1

Let's get right to the people. I've managed to clean up my work area.

0:07.2

It was a total disaster. All right. I'm just awaiting Kenny to have a drop me.

0:12.4

I'm sure that'll be tremendous. We'll go to Matt 971. Matt, how are you doing?

0:17.6

Matt, how are you, buddy?

0:19.9

I'm doing good, man.

0:21.3

So, for me, I'm more angry because other coaches are doing the modern approach and

0:29.0

as I was stuck in the past.

0:30.9

And my message for him is the time is now, old man.

0:34.2

All right, take advantage of the NIL.

0:36.7

You don't, don't be stubborn.

0:38.7

I'm just, I'm happy for you of them, you know, I'm rooting for them here in Tennessee.

0:44.8

So I had to deal with those idiots yesterday thinking that they were going to win the game.

0:48.8

Rick Barnes looked, Rick Barnes looked like he was in another dimension about 10 minutes into the game. That was his oblique face. Rick Barnes looked like he was in another dimension about 10 minutes into the game.

0:55.4

That was his ugly face.

0:57.6

Rick Barnes looked like your iPad over there.

1:02.6

This is my joke thought, because I was listening this morning to the radio to cookies

1:08.1

and Jansen, and they were talking about scandals, and, you know, that's why you have won because I got all these scandals. In my head, my thought was, well, we need Izzo to get a scandal. Let's send some hookers to his room or something. Okay. All right. All right, Matt, will you please? Come on. My goodness. That went south quickly. Just, you know, I mean, just, well, I'd say cheat, but there is no cheating. I mean, what's tampering? There is no tampering. Push the boundaries. I think what you want to see is doing it. And that's why you said it, and I said it, I thought this was a sweet 16 team. Now, if you could do anything past that, it'd be a bonus. Great. Next year, now you got the money. So now, Tom, it's because you're cheap and you don't want to spend it. And that's a you problem. That's not a school problem. That's not a, well, we can't be like the Kentucky's and the Dukes and these other teams. Yeah, you got scratched that big, gigantic check. I think the other thing you're seeing with this Final Four is I think there's a statement on, I think Illinois is very interesting, I think Arizona's interesting, and I think Michigan is interesting. Okay, you can keep Yukon. They're just a machine. Yukon has become the gold standard of college basketball.

2:19.3

Just hear me on this, because I think you'll agree.

2:22.2

With Michigan, it's elite identification, evaluation, and portal.

2:26.3

Fine. Illinois and Arizona are very similar in this regard.

2:29.4

And like Tommy Lloyd, like, people don't understand it's like Tommy Lloyd put Gonzaga basketball on the map.

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