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Graydon Prescott 0:17
Hey everybody, and welcome to another episode of sports prep live, sports prep live, where we unbox the bike and talk excellence in athletics.

Graydon Prescott 0:35
What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of sports prep live. I'm your host, graden Prescott, and today we have a lot to talk about. Kb is here with me, yes, and we have NCAA Tournament, and want a weekend a famous golfer. And there's also some stuff that's more central. So because we always find ourselves tight for time, yes, in this 30 minute time. Yes, you have to start with what's going on at UNLV, and our biggest fear has come true. We've been talking about it for the past, what two months now. Yes, we have. And you just knew the way this guy was playing, the writing was on the wall. Draw Gibbs law horn has entered the transfer portal, or Dre, or dreven, he's entered the transfer portal, right? Gibbs Lawhorn is leaving UNLV. It was very predictable.

K.B. 1:31
Men's Basketball, yeah, running, right. You could

Graydon Prescott 1:32
see it happening. He averaged 21 points a game this year. He was all mountain west. He spent his first two years at Illinois. He was a high energy player, but he wasn't, you know, he never really got a starting opportunity, nothing like that. And then he came to UNLV right to play for coach. Passenger had a

Graydon Prescott 1:52
rough start to the season, I would say, rocky or start to the season. And then he just broke out. Yes, once 2026 man, did he start? Come on, strong. After the after the turn of the year, he just broke out. He was playing like an All American. He really was. We saw it

K.B. 2:07
early. Yeah, we saw this early.

Graydon Prescott 2:09
Multiple games over 3530 points. Yes, games over 40 points. He probably had nine or 1030, point games. I mean, he just played outstanding, but UNLV continued to be a team that it was essentially win, one lose, one win, right, right, a 500 level team, and after a shorter postseason that they would have hoped for, went to the NIT, went to the NIT got bounced in the second round. Right? He is out the door,

K.B. 2:39
and I am sorry to say we are not the least bit surprised. It is unfortunate. It is but, but we saw it

Graydon Prescott 2:48
coming, yeah. And to be fair, at least to him, he's making the right decision for himself, yeah, yeah. Now as a as a UNLV supporter, it sucks, yeah, you want him to stay here, right, right? But he played at a level that anywhere he wants to go, he'll be a starter.

K.B. 3:07
He got some calls. Yeah, he definitely got some calls. I'm sure he has representation. He probably he didn't have to field the calls himself, whether it was the parents or whether it was an agent. People came the phone was ringing even before the season

Graydon Prescott 3:22
expired. Them tampering. Yeah,

K.B. 3:24
it was, there is just, there's, there's no doubt about it, and that you hate to see that happen. There's a lot of movement in the transport portal right now. There's, I think there's a bill that was just introduced by Tommy Tuberville, Senator out of Alabama, who used to be a coach at Alabama and Auburn and a couple of other places. I believe so, and I don't know that the the bill that he's put on the floor is necessarily fair to the athletes. I think you know, just the from what I've read, just a quick perusal of it, it is a bill that would limit college playing years to five years consecutive. The clock starts when you enter college and you get one, basically free transfer, and then you cannot transfer again after that. If you do, you sit out a year. So a really onerous bill, I don't know that it's going to get passed, because really, this is all about the coaches, and he comes from those ranks. It's all about preserving the coaches and handcuffing to a certain degree, the players and player movement. They feel like they're too free to move around. So there is a bill coming again. I don't know if it's going to get a vote. And if it gets a vote, and if it gets a vote, I don't know that it's going to become law, but they're being aggressive about this. So he's doing it at the right time. There's, there's a lot of mobility and a lot of flexibility for him to make this move now, especially if that that bill is to become law, and it could happen, but I don't think it will. But yes, a big law. For you and LV, hopefully through the recruiting, you know, I need, I we do not at all blame Coach Pastner for this. He just got here. He's got to have time to stand this team up. He's got to have time to recruit. I mean, you know, I remember seeing him at some of the high school games just last season, right? Like he was out there looking for talent. But you know, have to, you have to stand your team up. You have to stand your personnel up, and you have to give them the opportunity to kind of put their stamp on this team. But that's going to take a few years. Yeah, and I think Dre just felt like those are a few years that I don't have, and he's got to strike while the iron is hot. It is unfortunate. We hate to see it happen. But as you said, we've been talking about this for probably six episodes now. Yeah, it was, it was gonna happen. The writing was on the wall. Outstanding Young man. Sorry to see him go. Hopefully we'll get some people in here to buttress the team, but it is a huge loss.

Graydon Prescott 5:56
Yeah, to the to the program, absolutely. Now, moving on quickly off on a different tangent. Then we'll get back to basketball. There was a golf legend, LT grade,

K.B. 6:09
a golf legend by the name of Eldrick, got in his fourth car related like come on incident in the past, on 15 to 17 years, I think since 2009 2009 he ran into a fire hydrant outside of his house, had to get taken to the hospital. His wife beat in the windows with a driver right then 2017

Graydon Prescott 6:32
he gets the DUI in Florida. He fell asleep at the wheel, got pulled over, got arrested, then there was that famous mug shot that everyone in the world was seen. Then in 2021 going 87 in a 45 in LA, yes in LA, and rolled over his car six times. Broke pretty much, really, lost his his leg, yeah, and his life, Yep, yeah. Broke pretty much every, every bone in his right leg, extensive damage to the left as well, damage to the right ankle. And then now another rollover crash. This one, of course, not as thankfully for him, not as serious. He was able to climb himself out. There were no injuries reported,

K.B. 7:21
but he was speeding, trying to overtake

Graydon Prescott 7:23
a truck. Yeah, he was speeding.

K.B. 7:25
There was another car on a two lane road, opposite lanes or opposite directions, and he's trying to overtake a truck. And the gentleman in the work truck had seen him, you know, like, like, wow, this guy's being really aggressive. Didn't know who it was, obviously. And Tiger goes to overtake the truck, and then another car is oncoming in the lane that he's using to overtake the truck, because it was a two lane road, and he just squeezes in to get back in front of the truck, but not enough, because as he was veering right to get back in front of the truck, he didn't go far enough up and his tail, the tail of his vehicle, was clipped by the truck, leading to the rollover. As you mentioned, he did take a sobriety test in blue, 0.00 Good job title. However, yeah, the officers at the scene still believed he was impaired in some way, shape or form. So when he got to the station, as you mentioned, he did get arrested. When he got to the station, they wanted to him

Graydon Prescott 8:27
to take a urine test. Well, he got arrested because he refused to take the urine Right,

K.B. 8:31
right, which was smart, by the way, yeah, if you, if you below zero, you've done your job in terms of being cooperative anything after that, they've got to prove it so legally, what he did was shrewd. It was smart. Yes, however, as a a golf legend, as an icon, as a public figure like Dude, where are you taking us

Graydon Prescott 8:56
with this? He's at the point now where he's dating a woman by the name of Vanessa Trump. Yes, and, of course, related to Donald

K.B. 9:06
Trump. Donald Trump, Junior ex

Graydon Prescott 9:08
wife, yeah, through marriage related to Donald Trump. And Donald Trump told his grandkids Kai Trump, who was committed to Miami for golf, right? A golfer and their brother, they can't they are not allowed to be in the car. Yes, with Tiger. This was before, before this accident. Yeah, Donald Trump had, the President told his grand kids that they're not allowed to be in the car with someone who may very well. He likes that. He likes

K.B. 9:35
Tiger a lot, but he also knows, yeah, who Tiger is. And that's a problem in and of itself, you know. And this goes back to any public figure who I think after a while, becomes so insular and not doing anything that you would normally equate with that level of public notoriety. Eight, like, usually, you know, like, even with, you know, say Steph Curry. You know, he's not a golfer, but he has golf clinics. He's out there teaching kids to golf, bringing them into the sport, right? Minority kids, bringing them into the sport on tour. Of course, he does his basketball camps each year. And so he's giving back LeBron, James the promise school. And what he's doing, outstanding ambassador for the sport, paying college for kids who graduate from the promise school. Everybody, everybody who graduates, he's underwriting their college education. So and when you're doing stuff like that, right, when you when you live outside of yourself, when you're not so self absorbed, it gives you purpose. It gives you. It gives your life meaning and that, and it humbles you in a good way, right? So you do feel a sense of responsibility. You do feel an obligation to those people that are kind of in your circle, if you will, those people that are relying on you, those people that are looking up to you. Tiger doesn't have that anymore. And you know, from the time that he was on, I don't know if you will remember this, or if you came by this, you're a big golf guy, so maybe you have he was on years and years and years ago Oprah Winfrey Show, and she asked him what race he was, what race he considers himself.

Graydon Prescott 11:18
Yeah, he did something crazy,

K.B. 11:21
like publication like, like, come on, that's just ridiculous. And from that moment on, I knew, Okay, there's something a little off here, and that has been demonstrated in the life choices that he has made. He was at the apex of his career when he started messing around with porn stars and and in every way,

Graydon Prescott 11:46
well, any, any, really, anyone that you know, like he wasn't just limited to porn stars. Yes, yes, correct, correct, or grocery store management halls, Yeah, crazy. Which, which makes it worse,

K.B. 12:01
absolutely, at the same time, yeah,

Graydon Prescott 12:05
at the height of his power, yeah. And he

K.B. 12:06
was married right to Ellen, and so she was pregnant, correct?

Graydon Prescott 12:11
Second child on the way. So, like,

K.B. 12:12
you know, just to be that self absorbed, and I did, I used to look up to Tiger. Tiger is has become a pathetic human being. I am going to keep it a buck what he's done on the golf course when he was younger, unbelievable. But as a human being, this guy could not be more self absorbed, and it is a tragedy. It's a tragedy to see. It's a travesty. It's it's embarrassing, and I don't even know if he's had his wake up moment, I know there's been interventions, and the friends now are saying, you know, WTF? Like, what are you doing? Like, this is beyond embarrassing. So hopefully, you know, I don't know what it obviously, he wasn't inebriated, but he was impaired in some way, shape or form. He did not take in your analysis. That was smart, legally, it's going to be hard for them to prove that he was under the influence of something else. They have to prove that. That's going to be difficult. So they're going to have to drop that charge of DUI, reckless driving. All of that. They can do that. But the DUI try, which is driving under the influence, it doesn't necessarily have to be alcohol that that I predict, is going to be dropped so smart, but at the same time, does it just encourage him to keep on, keeping on, because he's finding a way to get away with things? It's an embarrassing story all the way around. It really is. It is,

Graydon Prescott 13:35
yeah, I don't really have much to say to or about Tiger. It's just this is a cycle that it's repeated itself since, yes, I was an infant. Like, it's just a career defined by excellence and then incredible and disappointing recklessness. Like, that's really what it's come down to,

K.B. 13:54
it, you know? And there's, I hate to say this, but there are racial connotations to this, right? You get compared to Jack and the career that Jack put together, or you get compared to Arnold, right? And these guys that didn't seem to have a hint of scandal around them, especially,

Graydon Prescott 14:14
especially Jack, especially Jack, yeah, who most? I mean, I think most modern people would say Tigers the greatest golfer of all time. But the stuff that Jack Nicklaus has done for, like, the betterment of not only the golf community, but like people as a whole, sure, sure the Jack Nicklaus Foundation, absolutely, designing courses for everyone. And like, not only making these exclusive courses that nobody can play, correct? The memorial tournament, the proceedings going to, you know, all sorts of different charities, his own charity, right? Like all of this stuff that Jack and Barb Nicholas have done. Barb being, you know, his wife, his wife, yes, they've really cemented their legacy as just, not only, you know, a great golfer, he has, like. See is not only a great golfer, but their legacy, and it's just good people, right? Tiger, on the other hand, has not lived up to that at all. He's actually failed miserably. He has, he has, now he he tried to get off to a good start with his dad, with the with the tiger.

K.B. 15:17
And I think his dad was a great guy. He really was, yeah, senior,

Graydon Prescott 15:21
but he really flew off the rails. When? When Eldrick? When he died? When Earl died? Yes, when Earl died? Tiger just flew off the wood, right? Flew off the rails, and he hasn't gotten back on since. And you know, his mother passed away, correct, last year, and I'm sure she would have just been disappointed to see where tigers at. Now, sure, of course, of course, she would be disappointed by everything that's happened in the past. But now it's just like, Really, dude, you haven't learned

K.B. 15:49
anything, and those hits would and those are serious hits. You lose your parents, right? Yeah. I mean, Tiger is a relatively young man, so

Graydon Prescott 15:57
to lose was, he's 50 years old. Now I'm talking

K.B. 16:00
about what at the passing

Graydon Prescott 16:01
of his Yeah, he was, he was what, 2930 when his

K.B. 16:05
dad died. So, but that, that speaks to the point, if there is meaning in other areas of your life that becomes easier to absorb. It's never easy, but easier to absorb, right? Because you have these things that keep you going. You have these things that you know you want to be there for, right?

Graydon Prescott 16:25
And I don't think, and I think you'll echo this sentiment, I don't think swinging a golf club better than anyone ever has. That's not institutes me.

K.B. 16:32
Yeah, that's not it's not it. I mean that that is your thing. That's how you you became one of the most recognizable athletes in the world and and one of the greatest that the sport has ever known, and that's going to be there for a long time, but as a person, my goodness, my you almost couldn't get any worse. Yeah, absolutely, it's really unfortunate. And, and again, when you look at someone like Jack and the career, the the long career that he had, and just not a hint of scandals, just a great dude. It breaks my heart to see that there are those that have said, Okay, well, this is typical. This is about what we expected of him or of them, right? Yeah. And that that part is really disturbing for me, and I hate that he doesn't have an appreciation for that.

Graydon Prescott 17:19
Yeah. It's great. Impressed guy here on Sports prep live, and we've gotten to discuss the transfer portal and the unfortunate transfer of Drake Gibbs law horn, and also the unfortunate behavior of Mr. Tiger Woods, but now, but that's not the biggest story this week. For the last 12 minutes of the segment, we get to talk about March Madness. Let's just get let's just get the simple stuff out of the way. Yes, women, yeah, the women's bracket. UConn did their thing. UCLA kind of had a little bit of a nail biter with soup. They were down eight at halftime, but they played like the Bruins have all year in the second half, correct? They're in the Final Four. All is well in the women's world, last two games are tonight. Yeah, Texas

K.B. 18:01
plays Michigan. Texas plays Michigan in South Carolina.

Graydon Prescott 18:04
TCU, yes, South Carolina is going to win. Texas is probably shout out to Olivia. So it'll be the number one seeds in the final forest. Everyone predicted, right? Texas, South Carolina, UConn, UCLA, that'll probably be the result. And that's the easy part. Now, don't see anybody beating you. Yeah. Now, easy part on the men's side, you almost got the Cinderella story right when you said Iowa State, even though they're not a real Cinderella, Iowa, the Cinderella made it all the way to the Elite Eight. Yes, incredible run for the Hawkeyes. Unfortunately, the ninth seeded Hawkeyes fell to just a better basketball Illinois, Illinois, they're the better team.

K.B. 18:43
Big rivalry between those, Illinois

Graydon Prescott 18:45
is the better team this year. They've been better all year. They won the game. I would have loved to have seen Iowa win. Illinois won. No big deal Michigan, or Yeah, Michigan did what they were supposed to do against Alabama. I thought Alabama would have put up a little bit more of a closer fight, sure. I mean, one guy had half their points. That's not going to do

K.B. 19:06
it, right? That's never a good,

Graydon Prescott 19:07
good sign. Yeah, Michigan won, no big deal. They're the one seed Arizona, no big deal. They're a one seed. They dominated. Just dominated Arkansas

K.B. 19:16
in the turn. And then we're gonna get to it. I know you're building up to it. And I say, Arizona, there's a one seed for the tournament.

Graydon Prescott 19:23
Yeah, Arizona, not the one seed for the tournament, for the tournament. They probably should have been the way they played this show. And I will say on this show, I did say I thought Arizona would win the championship for the sole reason that I didn't want to pick the team that I would have picked had they not choked last year against Houston, and I'm talking about the team that just choked this year. They did Duke. They did and I would have picked Duke to win this tournament, but, but I sat right here in this chair, and you sat right there, and I said, Something is telling me that they might have a repeat of last year, and I can't pick them to win this tournament. I. Said that. I said that, and they were up by 19. They were up by 1916

K.B. 20:05
at halftime. Yes, they were and they were amongst the company of teams that were up at least 15 at halftime, or at least 15 in the game, right of the teams that have played a game where they were up at least 15, vying for a trip to the Final Four. The score or the the record for those teams that were up at least 15, I think, is 134 Well, it was before yesterday, 134 and zero. No team in the Elite Eight. Yeah, in the history of the NCAA had lost a game when they were up at least 15 points, to say nothing of 19, at least 15 points. Every team that has been in that position, their collective record prior to yesterday was 134 and zero. And then this happened, absolutely

Graydon Prescott 21:01
and then this happened. I have a lot of things to say about this happening. First of all, Stephen A Smith, on first take, said that Duke's coach, John Shire. John Shire. It wasn't he failed as a coach for this game, but he said, Oh, he's been fantastic over the last couple of years, and he has a record of like, 130 some. And 30 something and 20 something, and he's just been an outstanding coach for them. They've made it to a few Elite Eights. He's been to a Final Four. He's just been since. No, no, they need to fire him. Okay, I won't go down and, no, I'm going that far. They need to go by your him. They were other regions. They were up by eight with less than a minute left against Houston last year, and they lost in the elite Cooper flag and with con canople,

K.B. 21:48
two guys that are vying for

Graydon Prescott 21:50
it, rook the two guys, there's nobody else in the Hummers. It's Cooper flag and con canople, 5149

K.B. 21:57
and you lose,

Graydon Prescott 21:58
and you lose the Houston game, two players on that Houston team last year. I'll tell you, you can't, but Houston won the game right against Duke, the Duke that was hailed to be one of the greatest teams of all time, a Duke team that looked so dominant that like 64% of brackets picked them to win the championship. They were like 37 and one. Yes, this Duke team was incredible. This year's Duke team, not quite as incredible, but still dominant. Dominant team. Absolutely. Their top player has been absolutely sensational. He's probably going to win every player of the year award. Yes, that's Cameron boozer. They got the twin Caden boozer. He didn't really do anything all year, and we're going to get to him. Caleb Foster has just been solid all year.

K.B. 22:44
I have a problem with Caleb foster not being on the floor at the time of this really egregious miscue by Caden Boozer, yeah, Caden is a freshman, and pardon me, Caden is a freshman and a good basketball player. He's not his brother, but he is a good basketball player, but in terms of basketball IQ, he's not Caleb Foster. Caleb is a seasoned collegiate player. He has shown it. He's been out with an ankle injury. He came back the game before this one, he was instrumental in them winning that game came up really big, making great decisions, good ball protection, really great, great floor general. And he's not on the floor in this moment. He's a good

Graydon Prescott 23:30
free throw shooter. He's actually, he's a horrible free throw shooter.

K.B. 23:34
He's solid. 51 55% Oh, that is not good. He's a horrible, he's not good. That could be the reason that he was not on the floor,

Graydon Prescott 23:40
however, but you can, you can play well. He makes good decisions. But look, here's the thing, you can play with a 55% free throw shooter being on the car. And he only played 14 minutes last night. He didn't score, but it's inexcusable that he wasn't in the game. And here's why, Caleb Foster is experienced, right? Caleb Foster is calm under pressure. He's not a good free throw shooter. He's a good decision maker. Yes, yes. There is no way on God's green earth that a he would have tried to throw an overhead pass in that situation. You don't even have to dribble. Yeah, that's mistake number one. He dribble, dribble, dribble, and then try to throw an overhead pass, because the double team comes. First of all. You let the double team get to you, then they're done. You're trapped at half court. Nothing you can really do. But Caleb Foster, even if he would have made mistake number one, dribbling into the trap, mistake number two, picking the ball up when you get into the trap, he would have called a timeout, right?

K.B. 24:31
Because they had an available call. And not only that, they did not have to advance the ball past half court. There wasn't that much time on the clock, so all the way around the decisions that were made, especially by Caden, and he took it hard, like, look, I will give him this. He took it like a soldier. And even though John came out and said, You know, it's not one play, this was a culmination of all the decisions that were made in the game. It's never down to one play. No, it. It kind of was, yeah,

Graydon Prescott 25:01
it kind of was, now, to be fair, they choked a 19 point lead. That's coaching, by the way, and I respect, and I respect, I look John Shire to me is he's a good coach, but he's not a Duke level coach. You know what I mean, like, not yet. He's not yet. And that's

K.B. 25:16
why I say, I don't think that he deserves to be fired, but, but I don't know. I will say

Graydon Prescott 25:21
this because he was DAN HURLEY is not old, right, right? DAN HURLEY outstanding coach. I think DAN HURLEY is one of the best, brilliant and and he's won two national championships already. He's been at UConn for a relatively short amount of time. I think DAN HURLEY is one of the greatest coaches in the history of college basketball. He's just got started, yes, just getting stuck. DAN HURLEY is so good that he had like 25 NBA teams calling, right? He's that good. He's stayed at UConn Coach.

K.B. 25:49
And this is where I this is where I do hold John Shire accountable. I know they've won a lot of games, but that has to do with a lot of the talent that you have on the floor, right? I can coach them to victories in the most of the games that they have, right? They have 90 whether they winning 95% of their game. So that's talent. But what last night was about was coaching. What last season was about was coaching, and where are you in the moments where talent isn't enough because the other team has just as much talent as you do, or just a hair below you, but there's better decisions being made from the coaching box. And I think that's what happened last night. There were better decisions being made from the coaching box, as Yukon was just applying pressure and pressure and pressure and pressure. And some of the decisions, I think right. I think and John Shire did

Graydon Prescott 26:39
not make. I think the big difference between John Shire and Duke's legendary former coach, Coach, yes, John Shire, when he has a lead, gets complacent, and he I believe, just by observing, watching the games, I think he thinks that once they get a 1519, 20 point lead, his talent that he has On the court is going to get them the rest. Get them the rest of the way. Yeah, that's not how that gets complacent. When you're coaching against Houston or when you're coaching against UConn with DAN HURLEY at the Elm right? You can't get complete because DAN HURLEY say, in his mind, the game's not over until he's lying dead, like that's DAN HURLEY. He will do everything to win. They're tenacious.

K.B. 27:25
I mean, he's tenacious, and his team and they have his personality,

Graydon Prescott 27:29
one of the most fascinating things in the world to me is watching DAN HURLEY coach a practice, not a game, a practice. I mean, it's, he's like a drill sergeant military. Yeah, that's how his practice, because you play the way you practice. And Yukon has won two of the last three national championships. They might win one. That is right. There you go. They could win

K.B. 27:50
one this year. Very well win it. So, yeah, John got out coached. I think, I

Graydon Prescott 27:54
think they'll make it, and then it's going to be a toss up between, because I think they're going to beat Illinois. I really, I do. I do. I agree. I think they'll take care of business. Against Illinois, I expect Arizona to beat Michigan. No, that'd be a good one, but I would expect, here's why I say

K.B. 28:09
I don't think he should be fired. I mean, Coach K was at Duke for what, 47 years, somewhere in there. He's got five national championships, right? Five. So I want to be fair. Want to be fair to John, but I also want to hold him accountable. Coach K way should have one, if, if not two national championships.

Graydon Prescott 28:25
But Coach K wasn't collapsing in epic fashion like this. Like when Coach K lost, he got beat the whole game, yeah? When Coach K

K.B. 28:34
lost, there weren't a lot of 19

Graydon Prescott 28:37
or eight Yeah. When Coach K lost, it wasn't necessarily a coaching error, right, right? It could have been a decision made by somebody else. It could have made it could have been a player missing a shot. It could have been anything. But you rarely saw Coach K lose, and you say he just got out coached. This is back to back years now where we've seen John Shire lose, and it is glaringly obvious that he got out coached because his team was vastly I'm not talking a little bit. I'm not talking equi talent. No, Duke is vastly more talented than this year's Yukon team. This isn't the Yukon team with Donovan Klingon and Stefan castle and the whole crew. This is a different Yukon team. They are vastly more talented, but they didn't win because DAN HURLEY is a vastly more superior coach. That's all I have to say on the matter. Thank you everybody for tuning into this episode of sports prep live. It's a big one, and next week we're going to have March Madness recaps and a whole lot more. I'm great impressed. God. Everybody will see you all next week, right back here on Sports prep live. Thank you for tuning in to this episode of sports prep live. I'm Graydon Prescott, and don't forget to catch all of our episodes on Apple Spotify or wherever you get your podcast, and be sure to follow us on Instagram or Twitter at sports prep live. Thank you.

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