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Sean Miller.

Man, you talk about, he's not doubling down.

I don't even think he's tripling down. This dude is quadrupling down. I don't even think he's tripling down.

This dude is quadrupling down.

I don't even know how you can do it,

but he found a way to do just that.

The head coach over at Arizona,

I cannot believe he's still there to begin with. I can't believe that he's

coaching a college basketball team to begin with

with the story that broke recently that the FBI has wiretaps of him discussing a $100,000

payment for stud recruit DeAndre Aiton.

Yet you've got Sean Miller.

He comes out, full force, says, I'm innocent.

Didn't do it.

Don't believe it.

And just with these carefully crafted,

lawyered up phrases and sentences and, and people are just eating this up. They're like, I know it. I knew he was

innocent. Just listen to how forceful he was. Listen to one of the comments. And we're going to play

a handful of them tonight. We'll have some fun with this. Arizona head coach, Sean Miller,

just denying any wrongdoing.

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