So this is of course primarily a football podcast but with spring training upon us I'm going to use a baseball analogy to get us into basketball talk.

We are making a call to the bullpen. Mark Brennan is coming on. Sean, you were going to take a back seat for the first segment because we were going to dive into Penn State Hoopes.

You're okay?

I'm perfectly fine with that.

Okay. Because you seem a little upset.

It's like I'm trying to get the ball from you and you're kind of shaking me off and like

stamping your cleat and then you're going to head to the dugout regardless because that's how this has worked

for over a hundred years.

Okay.

Baseball analogies are great.

All right.

Everybody loves them.

I think, I'm trying to remember we had you on soon after we

emerged. It must have been what middle of November. When was the last time we came on the

podmark? Yeah, I think it was the middle of November and Sean you shouldn't

feel bad. I mean Penn State obviously in the middle of an

NIT run as most people know I'm the dean of all NIT writers I believe I've covered

more NIT games than anybody else.

So, Sean, you're great at the recruiting stuff.

When it comes to the NIT, it's one thing that I can take some credit for.

Yeah, and this is, you know, we always like to go a little bit behind the scenes for our listeners.

We appreciate here, but you know, I will tip my chair back physically, crack open a cold one when

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