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Happy Thursday.

Jason Smith and Mike Harman in for Covino and Rich today as we get ready.

I always look at conference championship week, Mike Harmon, as the trial run

for next week, right? Like, okay, there's big games going on now and every, some teams are worried.

Are my, I'm getting off the bubble, getting in, but it's really, okay, this is kind of a trial run.

See, test bubble for next Thursday. What could I tell my bosses next Thursday and Friday? What kind of plans can I make or not? Like, this is like a nice little dry run where, hey, if possible, you watch the games during the day, but if not, it's okay because really it's about next week. Yeah, it's all just a question of, you know, how much value you want to get. It's a better value proposition getting out to Vegas this week before the

amateurs and the price spikes. So conference title week, save money on your hotels, better

availability for seating in the sports books and all of those things. See, I'm just saying

watching games on TV. You got everybody going to Vegas this week. Well, I'm also just trying to figure out it's also easier to probably come up with some lame-ass excuse about taking off versus next week when someone goes, yeah, it's the NCAA tournament. We'll see you at 930 for the normal weekly meeting. I know what I'll do. This week, you might be able to get away with it. I'll take off the week.

I'll take off the Sunday before the Super Bowl.

They won't see that coming.

And then I mean, I'll have to work during the Super Bowl, but I won't see that.

I'm trying to maximize enjoyment without having to get yourself potentially in a pickle.

Now, speaking of maximizing enjoyment, right? I feel like we've dodged a big

bullet here for the NCAA tournament, but there's still a big lesson to be learned.

Of course, the biggest story today, college basketball, Cooper Flagg, everybody's all-American,

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