Hello and welcome to The Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Ralph Rousseau here again.

I'm back with Stuart Mandel and Bruce Feldman, my colleagues from The Athletic.

Bruce and Stu both recently put out their annual top 25 coaches right now.

We have started this tradition back actually when I had my own show.

When I was working for the Associated Press, I would bring these two numbskoles on and I would

pick at their lists and tell them how dumb

they were and especially stew.

And now this tradition has come to the audible because, hey, so have I.

So we will hit on those.

We will we will dig through both the top 25s in a little bit.

I hope you guys are ready to be to be to be chastised by me.

But first, real quick, it's March.

It's March madness, guys.

The brackets came out yesterday.

Well, actually here.

First of all, did you miss me?

I was gone for a week.

Did you miss me?

I don't feel like we left, even though you didn't do a podcast. You were still texting us about all the lovely sunsets and, you know, nice relaxation you were doing up there in Wine Country.

Also, Ralph, you were not really away because I'm looking at the site and you're covering

Rod Strickland.

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