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The Dan Patrick Show

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The Dan Patrick Show

iHeartPodcasts and Dan Patrick Podcast Network

Comedy, Society & Culture, Sports

4.58.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Former NBA sharpshooter Wally Szczerbiak breaks down playing against MJ, Kobe, and LeBron, and discusses why Cooper Flagg shouldn't risk another year at Duke. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey discusses how the conference has become a basketball powerhouse, and shares how the transfer portal and NIL are reshaping the college sports scene. And MLB insider Tim Kurkjian breaks down the MLB season ahead on Opening Day, and shares why he's not quite ready to pencil in Shohei Ohtani for MVP.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.6

You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio.

0:09.1

He was the sixth overall pick by the Minnesota Timberwolves back in 1999.

0:14.4

He's Wally Zerbiak.

0:15.4

CBS Sports College Basketball Studio Analyst also works for the New York Knicks.

0:22.4

Good to talk to you again, Wally.

0:28.2

Do you have your Miami of Ohio sweatshirt on? Is that okay? All right, you're reping. I like that.

0:35.4

Reping, Ohio, baby. I know you went to Dayton. I went to Miami. We were rivals back in the day.

1:28.4

Dayton's got a good path. They just missed the tournament in Miami, lost two in their conference championship. So Travis Seals doing a great job. I'm excited about where the program is. If you didn't go to Miami, where were you going? Well, I wanted to go to St. John's, but they didn't recruit me. They had Felipe Lopez going there, so they didn't really give me an opportunity. I was a little under-recruited. Other schools I was looking at was Harvard, North Carolina State, Iowa, Sienna, that was another one. I really wanted to go to Duke, but again, didn't recruit me. Really wanted to play for Rick Petino, didn't recruit me. I really wanted to play in the Big East. So I ended up at Miami, played for great coaches. Sean Miller was an assistant. Fadmott was an assistant. Herb Seneca who's still coaching at Santa Clara doing a great job. He was the head coach. So I went to kind of the cradle of coaches, which Miami is known for in football. And also in college basketball, all those guys are thriving, so I got some great coaching for four years.

1:32.9

But would you have stayed there in the Transfer Portal NIL era?

1:33.9

No.

1:35.8

Absolutely not.

1:37.8

I just, I loved it.

1:39.1

It's an amazing school.

1:40.0

I got my degree.

1:41.1

I have great friends.

1:44.5

It's just an awesome campus, awesome place.

1:50.6

But in today's landscape, the way players from mid-majors are getting kind of taken away from small teams and going to the big schools, you look at a team like Florida, you know,

1:55.5

Walter Clayton Jr. from Iona, Elijah Martin from FAU, Will Richard transferred from a mid-major.

2:01.6

A lot of those top-tier teams, and we heard Bruce Pearl even said it, he said he loves to get

2:06.8

transfers that come from mid-majors that haven't had the glorious meals, pre-game meals,

2:12.7

have been driving the games back and forth on buses, which we used to do in Miami of Ohio

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