Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. It's Monday during the off season,

which means it's time for another mailbag Monday. As always, sincerely appreciate everyone who spent

the time to send in questions. Got some good ones from Discord. Always get a bunch of great ones

from our email. We're just going to be doing these every single week. And so I'm going to solicit

questions, but also if you just want to send them in,, athletic football show at gmail.com, we will be checking that email periodically.

We'll be cycling through it. And so do not hesitate if you have one mind and you want us to

answer it because we will be doing these every single Monday all throughout the offseason only

with a couple exceptions. Another great set of questions, great set of conversations with me, Dave, Derek,

and our producer Michael Bella reading the questions.

So let's get to it right now.

It's another mailbag Monday here on the athletic football show.

And after a week away, Bellers back to read the questions.

I was very uncomfortable last week.

It's like throwing with your left hand.

You know, there was something about it that just made me feel a little bit icky.

So I'm glad you're back to help shepherd us through this.

I'm glad I'm back to.

I missed last week because I always try to take off the first weekend of the NCAA tournament. And so I did that.

And I was instantly sad with Wisconsin playing the fourth game, like fourth game of the day on Thursday and being the only one of the top five seats that lost in the first round. So maybe this is like the mailbag gods telling me that I should be here for all mailbag episodes going forward. It's been a good tournament, though. I mean, it's been an entertaining tournament for the most part. Super entertaining. It's been great. I do not, I do not bemoan the lack of upsets. We've had a lot of very fun second sweet 16 games. It's been a great year, a great tourney other than my guys going down in the first time. I'm going to say, not to be a jerk, Beller, but like the whole big 10 is in the elite eight and Wisconsin, you know, we don't need to talk about it. I'm sorry. Am I upset that of the three teams that have

already qualified as we're sitting here recording this for the elite eight that Wisconsin went four

and one against them in the regular season with three of those wins coming outside of Madison?

No, I'm not upset about that at all. In fact, I think we should just get to the show. So let's do it.

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