Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Bandell.

Join, as always, by Bruce Feldman.

We're going to talk a little some of the news, including the latest developments in the NICO, UCLA situation. But, you know, we're

excited about our guests today. Fran Brown was, I think I admitted on this podcast when he was

hired, I didn't know who he was. Now I definitely do. He won 10 games in his first season.

But Bruce, he is so candid.

I mean, I'm not sure we've had an interview with a coach that was so little coach speak.

Yeah, I think, you know, as the audience will hear, you know, he's from Camden, New Jersey.

He is really proud of his roots and the coaches who poured into him.

And I think what you're, what you get is somebody who's very authentic.

And you'll hear that.

And I think, look, he, as you said, like, he hit the ground running there.

And it's players respond to it. And I think it look, as you said, like, he hit the ground running there and it's players respond to it.

And I think it's, you know, I know from you talking about it, it was I felt like it kind of blew you away.

It did.

Well, we had, and only, it didn't blow me away because of this.

So we booked this a couple weeks ago.

And in between, he raised a lot of eyebrows.

He went on the radio there in Syracuse last week and kind of went off about their star receiver who went in the portal.

And just flat out said, like the guy asked for too much money.

He made a reference to $2 million.

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